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There is no such information which, stored on a server to which a Russian hacker gained unauthorized access, would afford the holder of such information the capacity to turn losing a state's electoral votes into winning it.

There is nothing to be found here; it is not only an unethical smear job, it is a patently stupid one at that. Much like most of the critiques made by leftists and their media. I'm honestly shocked that people as intelligent as WWII strategy and tactics gamers would be so gullible as to trot to the tune of the leftist media on these sorts of matters . . . but then, we have been literally drowning in their rhetoric from almost every available source for decades, so I suppose it is inevitable that even the most skeptical objectivists would be somewhat vulnerable.

Me personally, up through about 9 months ago, I had very luke warm feelings about Trump and found him merely "unsettling." My hopes were on Rand Paul, the most professional, intelligent, rational, businesslike and meritorious of any of them as far as I can tell.

But he didn't get the nomination. I allowed myself to learn more about Trump and I was a bit surprised by what I realized: there seems to be a method to his madness. He's a showman yes, but he is a successful one and a deal maker on top of that. His estimated worth is in the $2 billion ballpark, and he has been in that slice of humanity for decades, and despite having suffered more than one very serious financial setback (I believe he or one or more of his corporate entities underwent bankruptcy at one point?).

Someone who can amass that much wealth, and hold on to it for decades is necessarily more smart than lucky. Maybe it isn't Obama, "I'm a Harvard elite who understands the world better than you schmucks, so shutup and let me tell you how it is gonna be . . ." But Trump does seem to have common sense and that is a big part of his appeal to the ~HALF the country who came out in favor of him. It is the main reason I've come around in favor of him too, and plan to vote for him in 2020 as long as he stays pretty much exactly on the course he is on . . . I didn't vote this last time, but that was just laziness really . . .

I suspect that similar social processes are in motion in Europe as the ones which led to this shocking 2016 Presidential election result. Many people are tired of "the elites" (meaning, established political parties, the lionshare of mass media outlets, the majority of intelligentsia and celebrity who opine on social topics, a significant fraction of legal activists and the overwhelming majority of NGO/activist culture[s]) hypocritical preaching. Many are also tired of corporations which enjoy the benefits of trading on a U.S. based exchange, and/or U.S. based headquarters, which nonetheless offshore large or even majority fractions of their operations and employment. Many are also tired of various special interests groups who enjoy double standards and unwarranted special privileges. The oppressive nature of "political correctness" up through November 2016 and the increasingly clear signs that social justice warriors like Obama, and the Democratic Party are absolutely delusional when it comes to issues of race, class, gender, and related identity topics and how they relate to equality and opportunity.

When I find the rare criticism of Trump which does not rely on one of the tired old cliche's that reflect the leftists' party-line as synthesized in something like the things just described, I find it tremendously refreshing and invigorating. No leader should be regarded as infallible and the whole point of democracy is that leadership is (as far as national security and sound justice allows) transparent. In today's climate of online discussion, we, the people of Earth stand to actually make a difference by engaging in rational discourse about our leaders and the patterns unfolding in our nations.

But 99% of anything about Trump fits into two neat categories: 1. Praise (some warranted, some defensive, some mindless, some pure trolling). 2. Hysterical, seething, apoplectic outrage.

In my opinion, "the left" and the media outlets that can be beneficially considered to be part of "the left" are completely off-the-rails as far as doing anything helpful or useful for themselves or anyone else. They are so incensed and self-righteously indignant when it comes to Trump, they are literally incapable of thinking, much less developing a cogent strategy for how to assail him and achieve their primary goal of reinstating the leftist elite establishment to its rightful role as supreme social engineer of America and all of Western civilization.

Here we have one of the most remarkable elections in American history. A wealthy, controversial non-politician who managed to win an election without sanctioning (and if he is to believed, without any outside financial assistance) by ANY of the existing powers in the U.S. Presidential election campaign scene: Neither of the two dominant parties, none of the major industries, and not media. To the extent Trump had support 18 months ago, it was from "fringe" elements within the society not from any of the "establishments."

Trump was such an outsider/underdog, that he was not even taken seriously by anyone until, apparently, it was too late for them to develop proper counters to his appeal.

How did he win? By promising to "fix" everything that a large fraction of Americans regard as being "broken" and which both of the established elite parties (as well as media and other well-ensconced groups such as unions, corporations, etc.) had helped to build and had a vested interest in maintaining. You'll note, Republicans are still smarting from the licking they took from Trump as well, and it is curious to me how quickly some commentators have slipped into talking and apparently thinking about Trump as if he is "just another Republican."

He has managed a "hostile takeover" of their party, and some might recognize that the future of their party will be made or broken based on how well they follow his lead, but that is not the same thing as him "being a Republican."

Rather than an audible pause of amazed puzzlement on the part of mass media and some serious introspection and chin-scratching to try to cotton what the hell just happened, what do we see? More of the very same lip-smacking, innuendo-churning, propagandist poop; in sum, "they" (the left and the media and the SJW movement as a whole) have redoubled the very habitus which one might reasonable hypothesize were THE CAUSES for their historical downfall last November.

Across the United States as a whole, and taking into consideration elected seats at all levels of governance, the Democratic party now enjoys proportionally less presence in American government than at any time since the 1920s.

I really don't think Trump or his proponents need to worry; the opposition are doing a great job of committing suicide all by themselves.