{"id":79306,"date":"2018-05-08T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79306"},"modified":"2018-05-08T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:39:44","slug":"democrats-and-the-evil-russian-facebook-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79306","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and the evil Russian Facebook Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/house-dems-reportedly-plan-release-062306668.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>, Democrats are still blubbering over Russian-financed ads that were on Facebook two years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawmakers released redacted copies of some of the advertisements last year that focused on immigration, same-sex marriage and gun control. Facebook later said more than 126 million people potentially saw the ads purchased by the Russians. <\/p>\n<p>Schiff\u2019s efforts come just a weeks after Republicans on the Intelligence Committee released a 250-page report that said they had uncovered no evidence of collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know Democrats are trying to convince themselves that it wasn&#8217;t their policies or their candidates that lost them the 2016 elections, but this is just more useless bullshit that wastes our time and our money. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/news\/Russian-Facebook-Ads-From-2016-Election-Released-Nov-2017-44208415\">Popsugar<\/a> has the graphics from some of the ads;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California Senator Dianne Feinstein said during the hearings, &#8220;What we&#8217;re talking about is a cataclysmic change. What we&#8217;re talking about is the beginning of cyberwarfare. What we&#8217;re talking about is a major foreign power with sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election and sow conflict and discontent all over this country. We are not going to go away, gentlemen. And this is a very big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From where we stand, with nearly 126 million Americans having seen these downright inflammatory posts and not having thought anything of it \u2014 well, we really couldn&#8217;t agree more. And perhaps being able to put some tangible imagery behind the amorphous idea of Russian meddling will make us all think twice before we scroll past an image such as the ones ahead on any of our social feeds ever again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what? Seriously. There are Americans  who never logged on to Facebook and still voted against Democrats. How do you dummies explain that? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess that Russian-sponsored ads had no effect on the election, compared to effect that Hillary Clinton had on the loss. She was a terrible choice as a candidate and she had a terrible platform. Period.<\/p>\n<p>This is just so much mental masturbation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Huffington Post, Democrats are still blubbering over Russian-financed ads that were on Facebook &hellip; <a title=\"Democrats and the evil Russian Facebook Ads\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79306\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats and the evil Russian Facebook Ads<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}