{"id":18883,"date":"2016-12-29T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2016-12-29T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:12:16","slug":"this-inquiring-mind-wants-to-know-what-did-russians-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18883","title":{"rendered":"This inquiring mind wants to know: What did Russians do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18884\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t doubt that Russian geeks hacked into our nation&#8217;s computer grid somehow and did <em>something<\/em> to influence the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the president-elect, I am inclined to believe the analyses put forth by some of the best intelligence minds on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>What I remain unclear about, though, is the nature of what the geeks did. What did they do &#8212; and I need a precise, detailed\u00a0 explanation &#8212; to possibly tilt the election in Donald J. Trump&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>* Did they put out fake messages that threatened voters in heavily Democratic precincts, decreasing voter turnout?<\/p>\n<p>* Or, did they somehow make ballots cast for Hillary Clinton be logged as votes for Trump?<\/p>\n<p>* Did the Russians float fake news stories about Hillary, telling voters that she is the child of Satan and that a vote for her would be a vote to send the nation straight on the express track to hell?<\/p>\n<p>President Obama vows retaliation against the Russians. It could come as early as Thursday, according to some <em>actual<\/em> news reports.<\/p>\n<p>But this inquiring mind &#8212; the one in my noggin &#8212; is anxious to the max to know what precisely the Russians might have done to influence our vote. Was it decisive?<\/p>\n<p>Did we actually elect the wrong person as our next president?<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; wait!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t doubt that Russian geeks hacked into our nation&#8217;s computer grid somehow and did something to influence the U.S. presidential election. Unlike the president-elect, I am inclined to believe the analyses put forth by some of the best intelligence minds on the planet. What I remain unclear about, though, is the nature of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This inquiring mind wants to know: What did Russians do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[540,1424,2139,6736,5125],"class_list":["post-18883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-russian-hackers","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18885,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions\/18885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}