{"id":181030,"date":"2016-10-22T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/22\/this-is-some-quality-trolling\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:11:00","slug":"this-is-some-quality-trolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/22\/this-is-some-quality-trolling\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Some Quality Trolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russia wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/10\/21\/amid-rigged-election-charges-russia-wants-to-monitor-us-vote.html\">send monitors to to observe the US elections<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump&#8217;s claims of a &#8220;rigged&#8221; presidential election, Russia sought to send monitors to U.S. polling stations for the Nov. 8 vote, Russian media revealed Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The bid was sharply rebuffed by the State Department, and one state election official threatened criminal action if Russian monitors showed up, according to state-controlled Izvestia daily and broadcaster RT. <\/p>\n<p>State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner called the Russian effort a &#8220;PR stunt&#8221; and denied that the United States blocked Russian diplomats from observing the election. <\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, who received a request to allow Russian monitors, called it a &#8220;propaganda ploy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve allowed observers from overseas in the past from other countries, never from Russia,&#8221; Meg Casper said. She added that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security also &#8220;told us not to do this.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is world class trolling, as evidenced by the stupid and self destructive response from the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>The best trolls say something that seems eminently reasonable that triggers a conflict and makes the targets look like complete stooges.<\/p>\n<p>Well played, Vladimir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia wants to send monitors to to observe the US elections: In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump&#8217;s claims of a &#8220;rigged&#8221; presidential election, Russia sought to send monitors to U.S. polling stations for the Nov. 8 vote, Russian media revealed Thursday. The bid was sharply rebuffed by the State &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[808,815,809,930,902],"class_list":["post-181030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-foreign-relations","tag-russia","tag-trolling","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}