Muh Russian Trolls

So aside by the Russiahoax nonsense about Trump colluding with muh Putin so that muh Russia could take over America and bring back the Soviet Union except this time over the entire planet and also this time it would be a Nazi Soviet Union or something, there was also the scourge of muh Russian trolls.

And guess what! As anyone who could rub two brain cells together could tell, muh Russian trolls were also irrelevant to the 2016 election,

A recent study from Duke University appears to support former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's February 2018 announcement that Russian internet trolls did not affect the outcome of the 2016 US election - a campaign which the New York Times described as "the Pearl Harbor of the social media age."

Researchers analyzed the "6 distinctive measures of political attitudes and behaviors" of 1,239 Republican and Democratic Twitter users from late 2017 over a one-month period.

Lead researcher Chris Bail notes that while "many studies have analyzed the content and strategy of these campaigns," hardly anyone has looked at their actual impact.

​By combining a massive data set released by Twitter in the wake of the 2016 US election with their own data from a late-2017 study, the team found that Russian efforts had "no significant effects," and that people who interacted with troll accounts were "primarily those who are already highly polarized."

Who would have thought that the $100,000 worth of Facebook ads for Black Lives Matter and other random political causes that Russia paid for wouldn't have a noticeable effect in an election that cost well over $1 billion. 

And now this! 

Reality is coming unglued now that blatantly obvious facts are being validated by academic studies. Whatever will we do???