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Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump
April 08, 2018, 05:16 PM
stoic-oneInside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump
I'm trying to determine if Rolling Stone is being serious, or just trolling...
Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump
https://www.rollingstone.com/p...-elect-trump-w518587quote:
As part of Putin's "active measures," Hall says, Russia has attempted to influence right-wing and populist factions abroad, preaching unity around social conservatism: "'We're both religious-based countries – we have the Orthodox Church that's a big deal for us.' " The Russians, Hall believes, "made a natural transition in the United States to the NRA"; over time Putin became determined to exploit the American gun lobby "and decided Mr. Torshin is going to be the guy to do it for him."
April 08, 2018, 05:20 PM
BamaJeepsterLOL...Talk about desperate!
Right comrades??
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- John Adams April 08, 2018, 05:21 PM
ZSMICHAELRolling Stone always has had an agenda. Russia is capable of most anything. Putin just likes to present himself as more cultured and refined than Joe Stalin. The first question of every Russian leader is what is in it for Russia?
April 08, 2018, 05:27 PM
egregoreThat's pretty implausible, to say the least.
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke April 08, 2018, 05:29 PM
trapper189I need to buy more shares in ALCOA as a hedge against the increase in the price of tin foil.
April 08, 2018, 05:30 PM
mbinkyI stopped at Rolling Stone.
April 08, 2018, 05:30 PM
WaterburyBobBut of course, comrade!
Heston is short for Hestonov. Why do you think he was a 5-term NRA President?
Just more of the never-ending left-wing propaganda to try to discredit gun owners, the NRA and conservatives.
"If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards
April 08, 2018, 05:35 PM
corsairRidiculous. While I don't discount any Russian involvement in the election, the idea that they were in favor of one candidate over the other, shows the authors poor understanding of subversion. Rolling Stone is desperately trying to connect the dots...any dots, where there's individuals and organizations that are inherently conservative, who've had any dealings with Russia in the past.
April 08, 2018, 06:50 PM
Il Cattivo
Does anyone actually read Rolling Stone anymore?
April 08, 2018, 09:25 PM
airsoft guySuddenly Russia is a real concern, a threat to us and our way of life, but when Romney said so he was just some old dinosaur channeling the 1980s.
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Originally posted by Will938:
If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
April 08, 2018, 09:34 PM
CooksterOh, yes, this dovetails beautifully with Adam Schifferbrains' bold statement / assertion not too long ago (2/5/18) that -
“Apparently the Russians are very big fans of our Second Amendment. They don’t particularly want a Second Amendment of their own, but they’re really glad that we have one. The Russians would be thrilled if we were doing nothing but killing each other every day, and sadly we are.”
Adam Schiff: Russians Promoted 2nd Amendment so Americans Would ‘Kill Each Other’__________
__________
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
April 08, 2018, 09:45 PM
nhtagmemberreally?
if the Russians wanted Donald to win, why did they give Clinton so much money?
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
April 08, 2018, 09:49 PM
StramboHa,
Reminds me of the point in a movie with a lot of twists and turns where the bad guy (who previously had the good guys all fooled) says something that sounds plausible to him, but the good guys know is absurd and it gives them away.
Infiltrate the NRA
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TigerDorequote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
I stopped at Rolling Stone.
Exactly
April 08, 2018, 09:53 PM
signewtquote:
Does anyone actually read Rolling Stone anymore?
the last issue ever in my hands was about 1985 or so.....about the same time SNL lost touch with my own sense of humor.......
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April 08, 2018, 10:11 PM
mr kablammoSo stupid and phantastic that only unreasoning hatred can make it believable.
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April 08, 2018, 11:05 PM
JALLENI wouldn’t be surprised to find the pesky Ruskeys infiltrating the Boy Scouts either.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown April 08, 2018, 11:09 PM
radiomanGuys, I think its an April Fool's spoof article.
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April 08, 2018, 11:26 PM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Rolling Stone always has had an agenda. Russia is capable of most anything. Putin just likes to present himself as more cultured and refined than Joe Stalin. The first question of every Russian leader is what is in it for Russia?
It isn't difficult to be more cultured and refined than Joe Stalin, IMHO.
quote:
Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Does anyone actually read Rolling Stone anymore?
Well, I, for one, never did.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth April 08, 2018, 11:48 PM
RightwireGiven the recent anti-NRA movement, I bet plenty of people will believe this trash
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