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peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:26 PM Mar 2018

Good Overview Thread On What We're Witnessing in Real Time

Confused about all these different threads we're suddenly being exposed to--Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Spectrum Health--and connecting the dots. I found this tweet thread pretty clear:




We were attacked in 2016, even before that from the info coming in now. The attacks continue to this day. And the Trumpster et al are right in the middle of it.

Click on the tweet and drop down to the second entry, then show thread. It's all there in its gruesome glory.

And this is just the beginning of the revelations. Whoosh!
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Good Overview Thread On What We're Witnessing in Real Time (Original Post) peggysue2 Mar 2018 OP
Thanks, peggysue - I came upon this thread this morning, and have learned to look for the Leghorn21 Mar 2018 #1
Oh, thanks for that Leghorn peggysue2 Mar 2018 #4
If a thread IS unrolled, it will be somewhere at the end of someones numbered thread...thats Leghorn21 Mar 2018 #5
Got it. peggysue2 Mar 2018 #6
Mahalo, Leghorn! Cha Mar 2018 #10
Howdy, Cha! Leghorn21 Mar 2018 #14
Spectrum Health Sanity Claws Mar 2018 #2
Spectrum Health peggysue2 Mar 2018 #7
Spectrum Health was able to get names, addresses using the now common online health records. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2018 #9
Why does this MIB guy mikeysnot Mar 2018 #3
Because Bernie did split the vote peggysue2 Mar 2018 #8
It was breached by the Sanders' campaign. ???????????? mikeysnot Apr 2018 #15
Luck had nothing to do with it peggysue2 Apr 2018 #16
Mahalo for this Important info, Peggysue! Cha Mar 2018 #11
Hey Cha! peggysue2 Mar 2018 #12
I hope so..! Cha Mar 2018 #13

Leghorn21

(13,522 posts)
1. Thanks, peggysue - I came upon this thread this morning, and have learned to look for the
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:31 PM
Mar 2018

“unrolled” thread thingie - so here’s the link to what you posted:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976079706549313536.html

Again, thank you for posting!

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
4. Oh, thanks for that Leghorn
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:58 PM
Mar 2018

Yes, makes it easier.

I'll have to poke around and find that 'unroll thread' function.

Leghorn21

(13,522 posts)
5. If a thread IS unrolled, it will be somewhere at the end of someones numbered thread...thats
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:03 PM
Mar 2018

all I’ve figured out about them so far...and not all threads get unrolled...but it’s helpful when they are!!

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
6. Got it.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:13 PM
Mar 2018

I'll have to start looking for that indication. I've only just learned how to post a tweet without all the gobbelty-gook code at the top and bottom.

Small steps

Sanity Claws

(21,840 posts)
2. Spectrum Health
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:50 PM
Mar 2018

I wonder what kind of records came from Spectrum Health. Medical records of some kind? Possible HIPAA violation?

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
7. Spectrum Health
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:16 PM
Mar 2018

provided names, email addresses and home addresses. And who knows what else? But the DeVos family owns the company. Tangled, tangled webs.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
9. Spectrum Health was able to get names, addresses using the now common online health records.
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 01:43 AM
Mar 2018

As part of the health care laws, patient records have to be online.
any health care or insurance company can now legally access your medical info.

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
3. Why does this MIB guy
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:52 PM
Mar 2018

insist that Bernie was splitting the vote in Election 2016? He wasn't even on the ballot.

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
8. Because Bernie did split the vote
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 06:11 PM
Mar 2018

Certainly during the primary and the spill over during the 2016 GE. If you recall, Hillary's data was breached during the primary. It was breached by the Sanders' campaign.

This is not to raise hackles or replay the 2016 election but to realize that Dems and Dem-leaning Indies were played from all sides. Stein's votes also ultimately ended up helping the Trumpster, particularly in those electoral states where The Donald won by razor thin margins. And, of course, there's a photo of Stein sharing dinner with Mike Flynn, several oligarchs and Putin himself.

Coincidence? I doubt it. Btw, what happened to all those donated funds to Stein's organization to recount the vote?? How much recounting actually was done?

Pissing off and/or suppressing voters who would have likely voted for Clinton is how they influenced the electorate leading up to Election Day, hacking people's minds with disinformation, stirring as much suspicion and hatred as possible with bullshit narratives that were amplified by Russian bots and trolls on social media, then micro-targeted with voter's information illegally obtained. All this with the helping hands of American co-consprators with lots of tainted money and a win-at-all-cost mentality. Bannon wanted a tool to change America into his own image. These are the tool(s) coming back to bite these weasels in the ass. As for the Russians? They wanted the sanctions lifted and sow as much chaos as possible in the US and across Western democracies. Because . . . it works for them and their money-laundering, mobbed up oligarchs.

Bottom line? We were all played. Badly.

This is the beginning, methinks, of the Great Unravelling. Pieces of the puzzle, the intricate plan to defraud our electoral system.

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