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Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com)
Secret service agents rushed Donald Trump off a stage in Nevada Saturday night, CNN reports. "A scuffle could be seen breaking out in the audience, but it was not immediately clear what happened... Secret Service and police tactical units rushed in to detain a man [who] was then rushed by a throng of police officers, Secret Service agents and SWAT officers armed with assault rifles to a side room... A law enforcement official told CNN no weapon was discovered. The GOP nominee was apparently unharmed and returned to the stage minutes later to finish his speech." Meanwhile, an anonymous reader writes:
"All but two U.S. states have accepted help from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to probe and scan voter registration and election systems for vulnerabilities, a department official told Reuters." Ohio is relying on the National Guard's cyber protection unit, while Arizona says they've held discussions with the FBI, DHS and state-level agents on cyber security. But in addition, "U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News."
American officials believe Russian hacking efforts will continue through 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal. "By hacking and dumping emails, Russia is trying 'to denigrate the American electoral system, to make it look chaotic, make it look manipulable, make it look subject to intrusion, cheating and vulnerable so you can't trust it...to make us look no better than the Russian electoral system,'" said one senior White House official. Russia is also expected to extend their efforts toward elections in Europe.
American officials believe Russian hacking efforts will continue through 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal. "By hacking and dumping emails, Russia is trying 'to denigrate the American electoral system, to make it look chaotic, make it look manipulable, make it look subject to intrusion, cheating and vulnerable so you can't trust it...to make us look no better than the Russian electoral system,'" said one senior White House official. Russia is also expected to extend their efforts toward elections in Europe.
It doesn't help that someone shouted "gun" when the protester stood up with a sign.
A Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement that an "unidentified individual" shouted "gun" in the audience, though no weapon was found after a "thorough search."
Since at least in the Netherlands (and presumably in the rest of Europe) we don't use electronic voting and we require voter ID.
In your dreams. 538 has him at 35% probability of winning as I write this;
And that's only naively counting the electoral college. You think they are going to let Trump-the-Pussygrabber onto the highest seat in the land? Not likely. How many Republican party luminaries have already stated "country over party" and refused to back Trump? This many! This election is the perfect excuse for the electors to vote their consciences. If they need tom which is doubtful.
And then there's a disparity in the women's vote: currently standing near 50% in favor of Clinton.
There's no way Trump can win. None. You're just fooling yourself. Enjoy it while you can, because come Wednesday morning, we'll have a woman in the white house. And Washington will go on just as it always has, Republicans blocking every bit of progress they can, democrats fumbling around in a non-unified manner, and idiots like the tea partiers throwing monkey wrenches in everywhere they can, and all the while the lobbyists will be proffering handfuls of money to everyone in sigh, the president not fulfilling a plugged nickle's worth of the promises made on the campaign trail.
You come back here Wednesday, you'll see I called it exactly. If you can find this post after the load of butt-hurt moderation falls on it, lol
... that said "Republicans Against Trump", and then some unidentified asshole yelled "gun!" and the crowd went wild - hope they find the asshole that yelled "Fire in a crowded theater" just for the hell of it, and hang his ass.
The reason that asshole yelled gun is because Trump regularly sicks his crowd on protesters (and the media), and has even directly endorsed violence against protesters. In this clip two of his supporters "took action" against a protester (if you jump to 4:00 it sounds like that includes punches) and Trump's reaction was to bring them on stage to thank and honour them.
The guy who yelled gun probably probably thought Trump would congratulate him on the clever idea, and I'm not sure he was wrong.
That's one of the ways authoritarians work, they don't need to do their own dirty work, they rely on their supporters for that. They just need to make sure their supporters know they're safe to break the rules in going after the enemy. And one thing Trump is pretty consistent on is not acting to restrain the extremists in his base.
By contrast here's how a proper president handles a protester.
I stole this Sig
Followed by FBI and AG announcing charges for treason, obstruction of justice, illegal firing of government employees of White House Travel Office, conflict of interest and using public office to direct White House Travel Office contract to friends who performed the same function when they were in Governor's Mansion, theft of government property, and pay-to-play with Clinton "Charity"
Oh, and since she supported enabling private US citizens to sue a foreign Government for 9/11, the Osama Bin Laden family is suing Clinton for murdering him on foreign soil. Careful what you think is good for us, because others will do the same thing -- this is the failed policy and actions that have been a pillar of the Clinton's careers.
Obama is encouraging illegals to vote in our election. I love the part about voter fraud being extremely rare. What a laugh. Ever been to Chicago?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Some things I find disturbing:
"By hacking and dumping emails, Russia is trying 'to denigrate the American electoral system, to make it look chaotic, make it look manipulable, make it look subject to intrusion, cheating and vulnerable so you can't trust it...to make us look no better than the Russian electoral system,'" said one senior White House official. Russia is also expected to extend their efforts toward elections in Europe..."
Let me get this straight.
Even IF Russia was dumping Emails, and let me be clear...they are not...all of these Emails have been verified by FBI sources. Which, means, the democratic party has voters who do not care if their candidate is a treasonous criminal, the are voting for Hillary anyway.
Secondly:
"U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News."
This is an act of war. Not on a goat herding nation that can't fight back. These VERY DESPERATE OLIGARCHS are trying to start a distraction from their criminal activities, and provoke a NUCLEAR POWER, that could wipe out the eastern seaboard in about 20 minutes.
No Russia is not Iraq, far from it.
These people kicked Napoleans ass, Hitlers ass while European fags cowered in their boots and some, Like the French surrenderd without even a fight in World War 2.
All of this activity by the US government is TREASON, they have no right to start a war without full authorization from Congress let alone attack another country either cyber or physically wise.
One more thing.
These Executive orders effectively has made the President a king. These have to be immediately reversed an stopped.
No individual branch of goverment has that sort of authority except congress with a majority vote of 2/3rds.
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.