Okay, so there’s this new book coming out that explains …
In two hundred and twenty-four pages of extremely dry prose, with four appendixes of charts and graphs and fifty-four pages of footnotes, Jamieson makes a strong case that, in 2016, “Russian masterminds” pulled off a technological and political coup. Moreover, she concludes, the American media “inadvertently helped them achieve their goals.”
I spent the whole damn morning reading this article in the New Yorker. Yeah, I read the whole thing and it scares the beejesus out of me. I know the term “Russian masterminds” sounds like something you’d hear on shortwave radio, but damn, y’all, this is the science part of political science.
You might want to at least skim over it and see that the Russians didn’t have to hack the voter files. They hacked voter minds. And they did it the way we teach people to canvass voters. Nothing helps get out voters better than being contacted by someone people identify with or know personally.
Remember how weird it was when Mark Zuckerberg suddenly started touring the country and dropping hints that he’s running for president last summer? Zuckerberg has the keys to the kingdom and is likely to have proof of any coordination between the White House and the Russians. My theory: Zuckerberg knows how it works and had a sudden brief thought that he could get elected president by using Facebook.
I need to go read something funny because I am creeped-out by this.
UPDATE:
Okay, I found it.
It made me laugh. Russian teevee is defending the size of Trump’s … uh, little hands.
More fun stuff here.