Appropriate bath time reading (tagged book) and bath bomb (Lush‘s Madame President 2019) usage today. For some strange reason, I thought a bath might cool me down as it‘s like an oven in the U.K. today and I‘ve done nothing but sweat.
so-so#Booked2019 (Spring #SocialMedia Focus)
We waited a looooong time for this. Ultimately, it confirmed what many knew about the slimy underbelly of our social media's role in the U.S. 2016 election (and beyond) and other creepy U.S./Russia connections/deceptions. Unfortunately, not many clear conclusions drawn yet. *sigh*
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For those of you that were interested, but weren‘t sure you wanted to read it...it‘s available free from Audible now too!
#NonfictionMatters
#Nonfiction2019
This was so invasive! After all this came out, if Trump & spokespeople had said something like, “wow, the Russians really tried to influence our election, and we (almost) got sucked in as they dangled multiple baits in front of us....thank goodness they failed there. Let‘s organize now to protect our country & elections going forward.”
Instead on the Sunday news shows it was: we have to investigate the investigators who tried to frame us! 😕
That‘s very interesting, maybe in some ways it explains the Sanders fanatics a bit more too, those I‘ve seen referred to as “Bernie Bros”. They were also targeted to hate Clinton and think Trump was a better second choice to her, and feed a stream of how the DNC/Clinton machine treated them unfairly, and/or highlighted and expounded on any unfairness because they didn‘t want those voters returning to the Dem nominee, which was Clinton.
Hey, if these posts are annoying anyone, just let me know and I‘ll put them behind a spoiler tag or just keep them to myself.
It‘s so weird posting these here, since Litsy is a bit of a safe space for a lot of us, especially from political turmoil....and although I‘m reading this report like it‘s a Doris Kearns Goodwin or Bob Woodward novel, I know it may be very annoying for some people to see in their feed.
Please just let me know.
That Appendix is redacted! Of course....
BUT because it is in outline form, it is numbered! Besides the cases we know of that are unredacted, (ie Manafort, Flynn, Comey, Stone, etc) there appear to be 12 redacted cases referred to the appropriate law enforcement authorities that we currently do NOT know about.
“Given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.”
Geez, I‘m still at the beginning of this thing, but I have to put it down every few pages from sheer frustration.
That doesn‘t even sound like they were “cleared” cleared of conspiring to me... insufficient evidence to charge is very different from found innocent.
Reading this makes me think we need to subpoena some people, compel them to testify, and hold them in contempt if they lie!😱
This is what drives me crazy about this whole thing, no matter what your party or political beliefs, every America should be outraged at any interference and be demanding we take steps to safeguard the next election. Instead one party‘s been so bent on denying the whole thing ever happened, just in case their guy was in any way implicated, that any commission on preventing future interference has been completely stymied.
Redactions in the Table of Contents at the beginning.... interesting. What are the ongoing matters?
Roger Stone would be my guess 🧐
Apparently the downloaded report has one review on Goodreads already (according to Twitter)....😂
Downloaded!!!
Anybody else going to read this, or is it just me?
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