Finally something worth reading.
This site has become unbearable. [MENTION=3085]Red[/MENTION], please delete your existence. [MENTION=146]DutchJazzer[/MENTION] at least provides a little comedy.
I was a little ahead of the curve. I realized early that Russian interference in our election was likely happening. I started a thread to that effect in July, 2016, while some folks wanted to play ostrich about it. I stated it would be the most important story to emerge from the 2016 election, in fact. It took longer then I expected, but I was 100% correct. It became the biggest story to emerge from the election. If we didn't have our own history of interfering in the politics of other nation states, I might have been able to toss in a little more moral outrage to boot.
Nonetheless, it is my country as much as yours, as I see it, and I did not appreciate seeing Putin attacking our sovereignty as a nation. As I put it at the time, my exact words, "Hillary is our bitch, stay out of our elections". I didn't like it then, I don't like it now, and I expect them to continue to pull that crap, and I won't like it in 2018 and 2020, either.
I saw things more clearly than you might have seen things. I pointed out that the only change made to the Republican platform was a clause on the Ukraine that was favorable to Putin's position. That was most likely the work of Paul Manafort, and I stated that as well. And I will be proven correct on that score too, when all is said and done.
I brought the whole thing up because I wanted to alert as many people as possible to what was happening. I did not create the story, or create the mess the Tweeter-in-Chief eventually found himself in. I don't think alerting my fellow Americans to what a foreign power was doing to us is a bad thing at all. Hate me all you want, but I started those threads to help open people's eyes.
I can see why some people would be sick of hearing it from me, but I was ahead of the curve on all of this, and when I saw what was happening, I said something. Now, if I have somehow ruined this forum as a result, that isn't something that would please me. I still regard myself as an outsider here, and I would not be happy if I've made this forum worse because I registered here.
But, if you're suggesting with your comment that I kill myself, sorry, but I'm hoping to stick around long enough to see how this plays out. The forum topics dealing with Trump are just a microcosm of the country itself right now. But I'll think about cooling it. In the meantime, let Trump delete his Twitter account. I don't like the guy, but his worse enemy is Donald Trump.