Bassist_Diver wrote:Also, WHY THE FUCK IS NOBODY RAISING HOLY HELL OVER THE FACT THAT THE MUELLER SUMMARY FLAT OUT CONFIRMS RUSSIA INTERFERED IN OUR ELECTION?! Stop moping about there not being any evidence to impeach Trump, put on your big boy and girl pants, and do your jobs to prevent Russia from pulling this shit again! Because I can promise you they are still actively hacking our systems and working on how to fuck with us next year.
/former federal employee who was hacked by Russia twice (and China and DPRK once a piece) in my first year working for the agency.
This is where the line gets muddy - "actively hacking our systems" makes it sound like they were changing vote totals. They weren't. The threats to our democracy are, and always have been, internal. Voter suppression, the Electoral College itself, the capital class.
The Russians bought a bunch of Facebook ads for stupid people and had a negligible effect on the outcome of the election. Even the DNC hacks amounted to little: if not for Anthony Weiner via Huma Abedin's laptop, there would have been no Comey letter that actually swung the election.
Election influence is the way of the world - we've done it across the globe from Italy to Chile to Venezuela to Russia itself. The solutions are political, not legal or foreign policy-related.