In what was perhaps Hillary Clinton’s cringiest attempt to prove she wasn’t a living robot during the 2016 election, the former secretary of state referenced the Pokemon Go craze that was sweeping the nation. “I don’t know who created Pokémon Go, but I’m trying to figure out how we get them to have ‘Pokemon-Go-to the polls.”
The “joke” is worse when listened to:
Well, thanks to CNN, we now know that the Russians used Pokemon Go to get people to the polls…or something. Seriously, the anti-Trump network thinks Russia hacked the election through Pokemon Go.
Yesterday CNN ran a story with the headline “Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort.”
Yes, an exclusive story on Pokemon!
Hilariously, it was left-wing causes that were being influenced by this effort. To summarize their report:
- “One Russian-linked campaign posing as part of the Black Lives Matter movement called ‘Don’t Shoot Us’ used Pokémon Go and even contacted some reporters in an effort to exploit racial tensions and sow discord among Americans.”
- Russians “used these platforms to highlight incidents of alleged police brutality, with what may have been the dual goal of galvanizing African Americans to protest and encouraging other Americans to view black activism as a rising threat.”
- A “Don’t Shoot Us” contest “directed readers to go to find and train Pokémon near locations where alleged incidents of police brutality had taken place. Users were instructed to give their Pokémon names corresponding with those of the victims. A post promoting the contest showed a Pokémon named ‘Eric Garner,’ for the African-American man who died after being put in a chokehold by a New York Police Department officer.”
How sinister! Hillary tried to used Pokemon Go as a gag to get people to the polls. But some Russians actually used the app to…get people infuriated with Black Lives Matter by promoting social justice causes? What?
This seems like a stretch. What is CNN saying about our country when they claim our voters were persuaded by Pokemon Go? Nothing good, that’s for sure.
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