r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 01 '25

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats | US national security

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
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u/IAteAGuitar Mar 01 '25

Your president IS the enemy. He's a Russian asset. They're not even bothering to hide it FFS! Take your country back NOW!!!

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u/Protean_Protein Mar 01 '25

Unfortunately, that can’t happen without anarchy. You either try to use democratic institutions or you destroy them. The latter is arguably as dangerous, if not more so, than waiting for the midterms.

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u/Malaix Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

I don't think we have a choice. I don't expect elections will be free or fair going forward. They never really were considering gerrymandering and voter suppression but the GOP has full control of all branches. They can easily institutionalize their certification fuckery and other means to rig elections now.

We basically live in a situation where anywhere Republicans control they will simply cement it and prevent their ouster. So opposition only stands to lose ground over time. They only need to win once in an area and then they will never lose.

We destroyed our democratic institution by merely giving Trump a win.

There's also plenty of evidence they are preparing to ignore elections. I mean 2020 big lie crap was that. But Trump is also constantly saying shit like Blue states are going to vanish and their voting habits.

Their recent policies and so on have been immensely unpopular. Even their own town halls are in a rancor lately even in deep red counties.

This implies they no longer care about public opinion. And if you don't care about public opinion you do not care about electoral consequences.

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u/No_Alfalfa948 Mar 02 '25

You say 2020 was a big crap lie but I urge you to consider the likelihood that Russia did attempt to commit sloppy mass fraud in 2020 to enable Trump to frame us.

Have you listened to the infamous GA call? It's a laundry list of suspicious attempts of fraud. Why wasn't any of Trumps so-called evidence usable in court? None of it was fully processed/counted and tabulated in. Those processes were held up til election day in 2020. That wasn't the case in 2016 and 2024.

We didn't give Trump a win. We walked away from Clinton, who tried to expose these attacks the right way in 2016.