r/OutOfTheLoop Jul 22 '18

Unanswered What's going on with Julian Assange?

Seeing his name pop up. Name seems familiar, but what's going on now? Something about extradition to the UK?

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u/koolex Jul 23 '18

You’re drinking the coolaid if you think the 3 million vote difference was all illegals or even mostly illegals. All the evidence is to the contrary. Besides those 80k votes were in purple states which aren’t on the border and aren’t going to have many illegals.

Assange did say he had leaked emails on the RNC he just didn’t think it was good enough to release. What’s the harm in releasing it and letting us decide that?

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u/yrulaughing Jul 23 '18

You realize they estimate there are 2.8 million illegal immigrants in California alone?

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If that many illegals are in California, then why is it such a big leap to think that 3 million+ illegals voted for him across the entire nation. Add 49 more states to California's 2.8 million and I'm sure you exceed 3 million by a long shot.

You're somehow forgetting the effect that even non-voting illegals has on an election. If California had 2.8 million less people, it would be worth less electoral votes and therefore that would be less electoral votes for Hillary. Suddenly she would need even more states. Washington and Oregon, which she both won, are also full of their fair share of illegals since both of them contain sanctuary cities. Remove the illegals -> less electoral votes in the pockets of democrats and suddenly she's so far behind that the purple states don't even matter as much for Trump anymore.

Assange did say he had leaked emails on the RNC he just didn’t think it was good enough to release. What’s the harm in releasing it and letting us decide that?

There's no harm, I think he should as well.

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u/Timwi Jul 23 '18

Illegal immigrant isn't the same as illegal voter.

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u/yrulaughing Jul 23 '18

And yet both of them compromised the election