They said they respect our privacy, remember that? I dont believe everything they say since then

 

I think that it's obvious that someone out there is trying to heighten the tension between the US and Russia before Trump takes office. Why you may ask? There's a plethora of possible answers and honestly I don't know. It sure is fun to see all of the media spin fall through though.

 

Russia probably hacked 2014. And 2012. And 2010. And 2008. And 2006.

America hacks them too. If you honestly believe every modern country isn't spying on every other modern country, you are an idiot. A couple years ago the US was caught wiretapping Germany: our ally. Now, whether it swung the election is another thing, and there is no way it did. Elections are too hard to corrupt.

 

I just see it as a ploy to blame everyone else because the election didn't go their way, it was a subterfuge to throw a tantrum and point fingers, etc IMHO.

 

Shit's about to hit the fan

 

If Hillary had won then they would say everything is legit. They just dont like the Trump and want to get rid of him with stuff like this. The FBI and CIA are on her site and after all that stuff that happend nobody should trust anything that they say. Especially after they protected Hillary when she got their emails with secret information leaked and got never in legal trouble for that.

 

I think that an inside source hacked the dnc, but that the Russians hacked Podesta's emails.

Not that they think Trump will change foreign policy in their favor, but to deligitimize US democracy.

 

Eh nobody's gonna get super political when an admin's around ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

I find it incredibly entertaining to read Democrats posting about the so-called "rigged" election or the election hacks. It's funny, because they spent the better half of last year telling Trump that the election can't be rigged and that the election system is impervious to manipulation, which we all know is patently untrue, but that's besides the point.

As for the question posed, no, I don't think the Russians hacked the vote, and contrary to what you might read online, there is no evidence to support that they have. In fact, intelligence agencies are in agreement that no vote stuffing occurred. What did happen was a series of leaks that put the DNC and their candidate in a negative light, which is hardly hacking the election, it's merely delivering on Democrat's promise of a transparent establishment, except by an uninvited third-party. American intelligence agencies base their suspicions on what they call "past behaviour", not actual logs confirming cyber espionage - if they had those, it would be an international incident and a war would be declared at this point. There is no hard evidence that Russia was in any way involved in the leaks, and the source of the leaks, Wikileaks, repeatedly denied their involvement - as a non-partisan rogue news agency they have no business in steering elections either way, they merely expose secret documents that they believe the public should see.

What actually happened this election is a hard 180 degree turn. With groups like BLM around causing civil unrest by, basically, enacting acts of terror on American soil that remain unaddressed and a politically correct gestapo doing whatever it can to stifle political dissent by branding people as racists, sexists, misogynists and every other -ist in the book, or the now more popular umbrella term "alt-right" the establishment has alienated its core voting base. People are sick of being called names for merely associating with the right-wing, and I even know a couple of cases of Democrats who voted Trump specifically because the previous government has made their everyday life markedly worse. People want actual change, not just progressive ideas on a paper plate because you can't eat those. I'll admit that Clinton won the popular vote, however one look at the map will tell you exactly why the institution or the electoral college exists and why their decision was to go with Trump. The little slice of America between the two coasts can't be ruled by the handful of densely populated states on each coast - those states are nothing alike. The majority of states voted Trump, and it is only fair that he became president.

If you think that the Wikileaks unfairly leaked information that either changed people's mind on faint pretenses or simply convinced them not to vote, do note that the biased media had their own campaign against the other candidate. This election was very much the establishment versus the anti-establishment, and the latter won.

The premise is that by hacking DNC servers and releasing "misinformation" through Wikileaks they've skewed public opinion against Hillary, costing her the election. Of course that premise is stupid, but that's the idea.

 

I don't come to GBAtemp to discuss politics and I wish this wasn't on the front page pretending to be 'news'.

Every now and then GBAtemp has some garbage 'news' posts and this is one of them.

Can we keep the politics nonsense away from the front page? Thank you.