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[–]naples 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You know it's funny but one of my buddies asked me to do some analysis behind the 2016 election shortly after it happened. He mostly couldn't figure out how it happened.

My take on it was that the Israeli lobby plus the energy lobby plus the law enforcement lobby outmaneuvered the combination of the China lobby plus the education lobby plus the pharma lobby.

People just really refuse to look at it that way.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was social media that swung the election to Trump. Legitimate, credentialed journalists got caught lying again and again, and their lies were splashed across the world for everyone to plainly see. Moreover the right had many, many solid arguments as to why the left were on the wrong track and we needed an outsider to tell Washington DC "you're fired." What we didn't expect was just how powerless our elected government really was in the face of the unelected government's crushing, illegitimate power.

So obviously afterwards the solution was to cancel free speech so this could never happen again.

[–]Noam_Chomsky 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My take on it was that the Israeli lobby plus the energy lobby plus the law enforcement lobby outmaneuvered the combination of the China lobby plus the education lobby plus the pharma lobby.

They called it Russia gate, because they couldn't call it Israel gate.

Redacted FBI document hints at Israeli efforts to help Trump in 2016 campaign - Times of Israel

How did the Democrats know?
It's highly probable that the Democrats rigged the election, as well.
Israel rigged it better.