How many DUers gnashing their teeth are Russian trolls?

[maxrandb]

Fuck man! This is like a football team getting a first down and the opponents just roll over and say; "see?"

This report isn't even the first quarter.

It's the same God damned shit from 2016.

Someone would post some shit and people here would lose their minds with defeatism.

That was a large contributor to why 75,000 people in 3 States didn't bother to vote..

Donnie Shit for Brains campaign manager and personal lawyer are either in or going to Federal prison.

The investigation of this prick is just starting.

Don't get discouraged. If anything, GET ANGRY and more determined.

Do you think the right sat around wringing their hands when Benghazi turned out to be a big fat nothing.

Not one fucking person connected to Benghazi was even fucking indicted, and they treated it like a fucking victory.

This is a VICTORY!

Stop trying to depress Dem votes.

[demmiblue]

1. Probably close to none (probably none).

Relax.

[womanofthehills]

29. Disagree - some are attacking good Democrats

Like Claude Taylor and Brian Krassenstein.

[Celerity]

45. I am not freaking out (I want to see the actual report), I am certainly not Russian, but

Claude Taylor is a Louise Mensch compatriot who pushes disinfo and bogus claptrap.

Lurid Trump allegations made by Louise Mensch and co-writer came from hoaxer
Mensch and Claude Taylor tweeted details of criminal inquires that didn’t exist

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/trump-tweets-hoax-louise-mensch-claude-taylor


Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia
Why liberal conspiracy theories are flourishing in the age of Trump.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/19/15561842/trump-russia-louise-mensch

[blm]

2. No shit. They're outing themselves with every loud, faux sob.

Dumb@sses.

[Codeine]

3. Assuming they're Russian trolls

is as stupid as the histrionics they’re guilty of.

[Yonnie3]

4. ...

[demmiblue]

10. Yep.

Some people here turn it up to 11 on a regular basis. I worry about their blood pressure.

[Kingofalldems]

5. GOP trolls.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Most are established DUers.

But DU does have a penchant, collectively, for unnecessarily freaking out.

[OnDoutside]

9. It is worrying though, that the report is going to be a damp squib.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Do you know what's in it? I don't.

And anyhow, there are plenty of other investigations that are likely to blow up nicely.

[OnDoutside]

15. We know there are no more indictments coming from Mueller...

That's the killer for me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. That doesn't mean there won't be other indictments from other prosecutors.

[OnDoutside]

57. It doesn't, that's true, however we have been told two things....

Firstly that he will not refer to anyone HE isn't going to indict.

Secondly, there are no more indictments coming from Mueller.

How can this report explain what went on, if he's not going to name names ? For example, Eric Prince, the Mercers, the NRA/Butina, Bannon, Jared, the pesky Trump kids etc, all not indicted by him, yet up to their oxters in what went on in the 2016 campaign.

I just hope that Mueller has crafted this report so that it gets past Barr, but I do feel quite deflated at the moment.

[Generic Brad]

39. Sez who?

An unnamed DOJ source? Rudy Giuliani? An anonymous White House source?

[OnDoutside]

56. DOJ official, Michael.

[Codeine]

13. You guys put too much faith

in something that was never what you thought it would be. Trump will be gone when we beat him, or when he finishes his second term. No report or indictment or conviction after impeachment are going to save us; we need to beat him at the ballot box and stop praying for a magic bullet.

Nothing changed today. He was President this morning, he’ll be President this week, and he’ll be President next year. Those facts wouldn’t have changed if the report came yesterday, today, or a year from now. It was always going to leave Trump personally unscathed.

[OnDoutside]

14. Impeachment wasn't an interest of mine, I too want him

beaten at the ballot box. The disappointing thing is the lack of indictments.

[Raine]

18. Exactly

that was a fantasy, the reality is 2020..

[certainot]

44. bullshit. global warming means he has to go and we know he's not fit and committed crimes

that would have precluded any dem from winning or continuing. we know that.

he needs to go - the only reason he's still there is the left's orgs are too music-centric to recognize they're getting their asses kicked by 1500 now putin-coordinated radio stations

americans need to get into the streets big time until the whole report is made public - or maybe change the name of the country to bendoverstan

[Codeine]

47. Goodness. Switch to decaf, man.

[certainot]

51. like i said, if trump runs and wins we will be living in bendoverstan

[Demonaut]

22. they can still be wrong or might be centrists

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. "Centrists" (whatever that means) are still Democrats.

[Demonaut]

26. but they don't think uniformly, no one does, we all have bias

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. That doesn't mean they're pro-Trump trolls, which is a bridge too far

and violates DU's TOS.

[Demonaut]

28. I'm not saying they are russian trolls, I'm saying they could be wrong

[ancianita]

48. Yep.

[Drunken Irishman]

32. We heard the exact same thing in 2016...

I remember I made a post after the Comey Letter dropped suggesting we were at a fork in the road with the campaign and that it was NOT certain Hillary would win. I was dismissed as an alarmist and that there was no way Trump could ever win. No. Way.

Except he did.

I didn't think he'd win. I posted as much in that thread. But I still got blowback from people who said I was being too negative.

[Devil Child]

7. I'm leaning towards none

Unless their account creation date says 3-22-19 or something like that.

[Socal31]

30. The circular firing squad should be temporary, I believe.

Back to 2020 for me.

[mopinko]

8. good time to update those ignore lists.

it's no fun for them if no one takes the bait.
no money, either.

[FakeNoose]

12. I'm celebrating and so should we all

Thank you Robert Mueller, on a job well done!

[Brother Buzz]

17. I agree, so let's talk football. I love the new color of the Cleveland Browns helmet

they went from "10-year old traffic cone" orange to "new traffic cone" orange.

[Codeine]

20. Jadon Sancho might be going to ManU.

100million pounds.

[Brother Buzz]

33. In MLB news Underpants made the Texas Rangers roster and will play opening day!

Say Hunter Pence five times quickly and you'll learn how he got his nickname, and why we loved him as a Giant.


Veteran OF Hunter Pence Set to Start Season With Hometown Rangers

Veteran outfielder Hunter Pence is set to start the season with his hometown Texas Rangers after going to spring training on a minor league contract.

Manager Chris Woodward told Pence on Thursday that he will be on the 25-man roster as the team's fourth outfielder when the Rangers open the regular season at home next Thursday against the Chicago Cubs.

That means slimmed-down 24-year-old outfielder Willie Calhoun will start the season at Triple-A Nashville.

Pence, a three-time All-Star who turns 36 on April 13, is a .280 career hitter in 12 big league seasons with Houston, Philadelphia and San Francisco. He was part of two World Series championships with the Giants.

[Codeine]

34. Underpants!

That is deeelightful.

[malaise]

19. You win the internets for the day

Beware of bots amd trolls

[aikoaiko]

21. There is no need to call DUers Russian trolls.

[Codeine]

24. Agreed. They're acting like hair-on-fire idiots

but that’s because some DUers are, well. . . they’re just hair-on-fire idiots, to be honest. They’re good people on the right side who sometimes flip out like toddlers up way past their bedtime, but they’re not trolls, and people should back the fuck off on that shit.

[womanofthehills]

31. Maybe not, but I'm sure there are some secret Republicans

[Demonaut]

25. I agree, some say it's long time duers but many have fairly recent join dates

I don't want to imply that new people are suspect, it's more to be aware we do get trolls, russian or otherwise, I remember the crash we had on election day.

[KPN]

35. I kinda doubt whether what went on here at DU had

much if anything to do with the 75,000 people who didn’t vote in PA, MI and MN — assuming those are the States you meant.

National political outcomes don’t revolve around DU.

[Pepsidog]

36. I wish it were not so but "No More Indictments" is all we need to know. Everything else will be

swept away. 2 months from now the Russia Probe will be a footnote in history and we have all been screwed. And if anyone thinks people with this opinion is a Republican or Russian troll well you are wrong. I am a deeply, incredibly saddened member of the Democratic Party and deeply ashamed of my country.

[milestogo]

37. I just got back from trout fishing with Vladimir Putin.

[Codeine]

38. So that's what the kids are calling it nowadays. nt

[rickyhall]

40. I have no expectations so I won't be disappointed.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

41. Think about it from a troll farm perspective

It's like any business that has a busy season..... April 15 for tax season, black Friday for retailers, etc....

Methinks that this is that situation for the troll farms. The report is fresh off the press. This is an All Hands situation.

Keep an open mind but also realize not everyone is here in good faith. That's a tricky thing about the internet...... What I posted here, on this forum, is just text. I could be Barack Obama, a python script, Jill Wine Banks, a staunch Leaver from Sunderland, or none of the above! The internet is a beautiful magical thing, but ohmygod it's a nuclear weapon and not everyone realizes that.

[yaesu]

42. oh brother

its getting to the point where anyone who disagrees with someone is a russian agent.

[Codeine]

49. "Oh brother"? Don't you mean "comrade", comrade?

Welcome to the All-Hysteria Channel.

[certainot]

43. dems need to be skeptical. nixon didn't have 1500 coordinated radio stations blowing in

his sails, attacking his critics, and making excuses for him

not to mention the possibility that the russians hacked bob barr's porn sites or got pictures of him with boys in one of the trump hotels.

but thanks to the incredible stupidity of the left and dem orgs ignoring talk radio for 30 years the chances for the trump crime family to stretch this out and force major compromises if way high.

one thing that's on our side is regardless of and maybe in spite of the use of those radio stations to get a bunch of the original investigating agents fired there are a lot of patriotic others that don't want to get punked by trump and putin

but i have no confidence that these fucking republicans and their kremlin helpers can't obstruct this to hell, and will arrange for some national emergencies to help them

[Jakes Progress]

46. How many who do OPs trashing other DUers concerns are trolls?

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You wanna be a pollyanna? Go ahead. Bet you were sure that all those crybabies who worried that trump would be president were trolls too.

If you have to have a party in order to get you to vote, then party on. Some are not motivated by blind glee but by reasoned fear.

Don't dismiss your fellow DUers. It is not cool.

[ancianita]

50. Nope. Not cool.

[Demsrule86]

52. None are trolls.

[Initech]

53. No, I'm from Southern California.

[GulfCoast66]

54. There are no Russian Trolls here.

But there a ton of people, perhaps a majority on DU who put their hopes on some report to sink Trump. Some of us realize that even if the report concludes that Trump and Russia were working in tandem, it changes nothing. Cause trump supporters don’t care. They would be glad for Russia help at defeating Democrats.

We either win elections or we don’t. That’s all that matters

[Devil Child]

55. +1 GulfCoast66

Spot on description as I see it.