Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
At this point, I’m hoping Donald Trump just resigns or is recalled so I can quit having to hear about the election I was tired of already one year before it happened and am still hearing about non-stop going on a year after it happened. Since, however, he’s still president, the Left and its media machine are still doggedly covering Hillary Clinton’s desperate search for a way to assuage hurt feelings.
Ironically, Clinton’s latest “strategy” for explaining away her election loss is markedly similar to the strategy that cost her the election to begin with: insulting the electorate.
According to reporting by CNN and others, people who didn’t vote for Clinton might not have done so because they are so amazingly stupid as to have fallen for the laughably-asinine Facebook posts a Russian “troll farm with ties to the Russian government” produced and paid to have featured on Facebook. The St. Petersburg troll farm had the nicely innocuous name of “Internet Research Agency.”
The House Intelligence Committee has released a sampling of the dastardly ads so far and is expected to release the rest. I’m assuming here, possibly incorrectly, that the ones they released yesterday were supposed to be the most alarming.
“A Russian-run page entitled ‘Donald Trump America’ called for ‘disqualification and removal of Hillary Clinton from the presidential ballot’… The ad was targeted at people who had expressed interest in Donald Trump or his son Donald Trump Jr. on Facebook and ran for three days at the start of August 2016. It was shown in Facebook users’ feeds almost 35,000 times and was clicked on 6,000 times. The ad was paid for in Russian rubles, and cost about $240 based on the current exchange rate,” CNN reported.
If you don’t know there’s no such thing as a petition to remove one of the two main-party candidates from the ballot, your vote probably shouldn’t count anyway.
“The Internet Research Agency ran several pages designed to look like they were part of the Black Lives Matter movement. One ad encouraging Facebook users to like one of those pages, ‘Black Matters.’ The ad featured pictures of African-American people shot by police, and contained the message, ‘Join us because we care.’
According to data released by the House Intelligence Committee, the troll group spent more than $2,500 in 2015 and 2016, paid in rubles, promoting this ad. It was targeted to places around the U.S., including Ferguson, Missouri, the place where one of the people featured in the ad, Michael Brown, lived and died,” CNN reported while omitting some helpful, relevant background information; such as the fact Clinton nearly doubled Trump’s vote-count in St. Louis County (where Ferguson is) while Trump won the whole state by a wide margin.
Then, CNN reported that the same Russian troll farm promoted a real Hillary Clinton campaign event: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims,” that was held July 9, 2016 outside the White House. Also according to CNN, the aforementioned “Black Matters” group began promoting a “Trump is not my President” rally early in the morning on election day. The rally was to take place at Union Square. I’m not sure how those ads were meant to support Donald Trump, and ostensibly neither does CNN as the news outlet didn’t elaborate further before going on to mention the headliner, the one they’d been saving for last.
“On October 19th, 2016, a meme appearing to show Satan and Jesus Christ arm wrestling was posted on the Russian page ‘Army of Jesus.’ The post accompanying the image read in part, ‘Hillary is a Satan.. And even though Donald Trump isn’t a saint by any means, he’s at least an honest man and he cares deeply for this country. My vote goes for him!’” CNN reported.
Damn! In a nation that nominally identifies as roughly 80 percent Christian, that must have been the slam-dunk; the ad that won the election for Hillary Clinton, right?
“The ad was targeted at people in the U.S. who had expressed interest in conservative commentators including Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and also those who expressed an interest in Christianity, Jesus, and ‘Conservatism in the United States.’
According to the committee, the equivalent of only $1 was spent on the ad, generating 71 impressions and 14 interactions.”
Oh, so, no then; that ad was the least-effective out of all of them.
Now, we can pretend that ham-fisted Facebook ads are what doomed Hillary Clinton’s election hopes even though the numbers reported yesterday don’t add up to nearly enough votes to make a difference; or we can be realistic here for once.
Objectively, Donald Trump was the second-worst candidate for any political office ever when he ran in 2016; meaning what it takes to lose to him is fairly obvious. How does one get to be the worst candidate in the history of American politics?
Hillary Clinton reached that rarefied pinnacle on September 9, 2016 when she called half of Trump’s supporters – roughly a quarter of the American electorate, give or take – “deplorable.” Sure, her audience and the Left in general cheered – they cheered so loudly they missed the deafening silence real Americans greeted her comment with.
That Hillary is convinced of her own righteousness was hard enough for the average American to handle coming from such a corrupt windbag as herself, they simply weren’t going to tolerate her adding insult to her incessant haughtiness. And so, they didn’t vote for her – in droves. And, ever since – nearly a year, a hilarious book, and several expensive and pointless investigations later – she’s been looking everywhere but inward for a scapegoat. In so doing, her media cronies have come full circle – they’re insulting the American voter again by suggesting we’re so stupid that we were misled by lame Russian ads into disliking the least-likable candidate to ever run for any office anywhere.
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