This tweet by Pelosi from May '17 is an illustration of how months after the 2016 election, leading Dems were still sowing doubt about the integrity of the election just as they did after FL 2000. This rhetoric paved the way for the other side to do the same.
There was no feigned outrage over this and dozens of similar unconfirmed, unproven, and discredited claims by the Dems. No cancellation of social media accounts; no deletion of privately-owned apps from the app stores; no personal attacks on Pelosi's staff for supporting her lies; no ousting of Democrats from government and private industry committees,...
Those that can see into the echo chamber are floored at the stupidity and hypocrisy of those in it who cannot see out.
Pelosi was referring to the confirmation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Several agencies had already confirmed it. A few months later, consensus.
Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, tells NBC's Lester Holt there is no dissent among U.S. spy agencies that Russia meddled in the election.
Now, besides being disingenuous about Pelosi noting a foreign nation interfering in our election, and not about wholly unproven voting fraud that amounts to sore loser whining, would you say you agree, or disagree, with 14 intelligence agencies who say that Russian interfered with the 2016 election? Good time to play the Derp State card, if you have that up your sleeve.
This false equivalency doesn't even come close. After Hillary conceded and Trump was sworn in, not to mention that US intelligence backed this up. Just throwing anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks reeks of desperation.
Except Hillary conceded the election and Nancy Pelosi didn't
Jan 13, 2021, 3:33 PM
incite a seditious riot after holding a rally about how the election was stolen. It was essentially virtue signaling. Can you tell the difference? Do you see how the Joint Chiefs didn't have to make a statement about sedition and insurrection after Nancy's tweet?
Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans. This is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for and I’m sorry that we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country.
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But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.
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Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power and we don’t just respect that, we cherish it. It also enshrines other things; the rule of law, the principle that we are all equal in rights and dignity, freedom of worship and expression. We respect and cherish these values too and we must defend them.
Why would Russia interfere in 2016 but not 2020? Were they scared of a Hillary Presidency but consider Trump and Biden a coin toss when it comes to favorability? Did they think Trump was their boy in 2016 but he let them down over 4 years so they didn't care if he lost round 2? Us being dead set on them pulling strings in 2016 but 2020 being completely clean is just logically incongruent. Either they didn't mess with 2016 as much as is reported or they messed with 2020 a lot more than reported, but they just didn't decide to get out of the world affair manipulation game after 2016.
Explains some of the differences between 2016 and 2020. I can't think of a single fake news story this cycle, but in 2016 they were popping up on P&R all the time.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
- Jonathan Swift
1) There's an upside to horribile polling accuracy---it made the Russians believe it was a lost cause. 2) If Trump was a Russian buttboi, apparently he was so bad at it that they didn't care if he won. 3) I'm not going to call 100% BS or anything, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but I have a really, really hard time believing that Time magazine has a (former) Russian Senior Intelligence officer in Moscow on speed dial who gives them all kinds of Russian intel, completely uncolored or untainted by what Mother Russia wants to go out. Feels like the guy would be dead within a week.
Maybe we cyber-fought them more in 2020 vs 2016. Maybe social media platforms were better prepared for them. Maybe since they were so obvious and exposed after 2016, they changed tactics/strategy. Maybe Trump admin clamped down on them in secret.
However, whatever happened, or didn't happen, in 2020 doesn't really change the topic at hand.