Mueller v McConnell
During his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Mueller reaffirmed the fact that the Russians had targeted all 50 states and successfully interfered with and disrupted the Presidential election in 2016. He warned that the Russians were continuing with the activity and are prepared to do it again in 2020…
Within hours of the close of the Mueller hearing, Senate Majority Leader, McConnell blocked legislation that would strengthen the security of the electoral process in America. His rationale for doing so is that the proposed legislation is an element of a Democratic partisan conspiracy theory….
WTF!!!
07/26/2019 @ 12:51 pm
You cannot really be surprised.
07/26/2019 @ 1:55 pm
Not an expression of surprise, but of complete and utter disgust….
07/26/2019 @ 3:08 pm
What I find amazing is that the Senate JUST passed a bill making hacking of voting systems a federal crime! (how that got past Comrade McConnell is beyond me).
It still needs to get passed by the House and be signed by Trump. That it is not currently a Federal crime is mind boggling.
07/27/2019 @ 5:18 am
Someone must have convinced McConnell that, since black voters are the key constituency in the swing states, it’s the perfect way to prosecute and persecute black people with cell phones and laptops…
They can accuse black people of hacking into everything from attempts at voter suppression, gerrymandering, and using technology to commit voter fraud…..
07/27/2019 @ 7:47 am
My guess is that the optics of opposing it were deemed too dangerous as reaction accumulated to what he was doing.
07/26/2019 @ 4:04 pm
No WTF here. Russians favor Republicans. So do insecure polling places. If you haven’t figured out by now that McConnell favors power over democracy by a very wide margin, you haven’t been watching.
07/27/2019 @ 5:08 am
As I said WTF here = Complete , total, and absolute disgust with McConnell….
07/26/2019 @ 5:19 pm
It would seem that protection of the US voting systems value is intuitive. Since McConnell blocked the vote on the recent bill protecting the election, people in government, national media, and voters like us who follow such things are perplexed. It seems that McConnell wants “cyber intrusions”, etc.
Maybe we are way, way off. Maybe we are asking the wrong question.You’re all smart people. Convince me that the following questions are not behind what is occurring, because I really do not want to believe it.
Who says the United States must exist? Who wants or needs the United States to exist?
Here is what is status quo already. 1. After Citizens United, any amount of money can be used to influence elections and opinion. 2. With the recent decision by the USSC on Gerrymandering, the legislature can select its constituency, rather than the electorate selecting its representatives. Voters are essentially removed from the equation. Two oceans and some borrowed technology made the US a superpower in the middle of the last century. The oceans as barriers to invasion is now obsolete. War no longer requires massive industrial capacity. Just as a factory can change location for greater profit margin, so can national allegiance vis a vis regulation and cost of living.
So, if global money can control US elections, voters cannot control govt or money, and technology has eliminated all geographic boundaries, isn’t the US already gone? Why should it exist, given the current circumstances, nostalgia?
07/27/2019 @ 5:07 am
That’s sort of a nihilistic approach, don’t ya think?
07/27/2019 @ 6:06 am
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
The GOP has been a nihilism cult since Reagan
07/26/2019 @ 6:04 pm
I can’t approach the sophistication of Bitey’s analysis but there’s this: As He Blocks Election Security Bills, McConnell Takes Checks from Voting Machine Lobbyists
“The bills McConnell is blocking would subject the voting machine vendors to new cybersecurity regulations and could reduce their overall sales to states.”
https://tinyurl.com/yxo6t4yp
It’s from a publication I’m not familiar with, called “Sludge,” that seems like it could be legit based on my quick research.
https://medium.com/@readsludge/about-sludge-a-newsroom-on-civil-e8e4d3904885