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There’s no doubt that Trump welcomed Russian assistance. He recently said he’d pretty much do it all over again.
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So because we wanted Bernie (and we had to fight for more debates - waahhh!) it was okay for a foreign power to hack our elections and okay for the crony stealing oligarch with the bonesaw friends to work with a warmongering, dissident killing Rus - because Hillary is too capitalist, unlike the guy selling the White House block by block and taking his daughter to State meetings to hawk her shitty clothing accessries business and pretend she knows fuckall about world politics.
So Trump's campaign manager was funneling polling stats through Kilimnik yo help the Russians hack specifically WI-PA-MI-MN (ok, they missed by 25,000 votes on the latter), and Trump's chosen NSA chief was still pulling deals with Turkey and others (including trying to get a US resident renditioned to another country to get whacked - why does that sound familiar?), but Hillary Hillary Hillary Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi herhe emails emails emails!!!
Bunch of fucking fellow traveller little snakes.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 11:33am
PS - since Obama was Hillary's boss for keeping the troops in Afghanistan, surging in Iraq, doing the NATO overflights in Libya that helped overthrow Qaddafi, keeping prisoners in Gitmo, doing drone attacks (and much of this comes under SecDef, not SoS), helping arm Saudis to attack Yemen, why didn't you guys push a coup against Obama instead of waiting to steal the election from Hillary?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 11:59am
I'm sure they did. And for every president before that during the existence of Counterpunch. They basically have like 25 writers write the same article over and over again. The meme, the only real meme over there is summarized this time right here:
Just switch "RussiaGate" for "War on Terror" or whatever.... whoever is in the White House from either party is a "creeping fascist" so you wouldn't have to change that.
In The Narrative, the U.S. is in charge of the world and their two-party system is an evil charade, so any other system is preferable as a potential alternative, it can be like Putin or Idi Amin or whatever, one can find some saving grace or raison d'etre when they've all got to deal with the U.S. hegemon.
It's actually quite a conservative view of the world, because in it, there are certain principle beliefs and they never change. You are just teaching the new generation the bible.And someday the savior will come back.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:17pm
Here is the “Hillary Hillary Hillary” I found in the article .
I can see how that got your blood boiling. It is not fawning praise of your fallen hero.
Do you see that as an attack on Hillary? I see it as calling one of the attacks on the Hillary campaign controlled DNC “nonsense”. Do you ever notice glaring nonsense when you spout it? Then there is this:
There’s no doubt Russia that tried various things (hacking, dumping, social media-campaigning and more) to help Trump win in 2016. (And, contrary to Trump in Helsinki, why wouldn’t it have? Given Hillary Clinton and Trump’s divergent positions on Russia, it would have been Russian-nationalist realpolitik malpractice for Moscow not to have tried. The operation also matched the Kremlin’s project of advancing the neo-fascistic right across the West)
Another indictment of Trump and Russia, not of Saint Hillary. Yes, these three examples I found are all taken out of context of their appearance in the article whereas your mean-minded screed completely ignores the article. Try reading the article for comprehension rather than for an excuse to attack.
by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:28pm
Maybe you've just lost your ability to read, or you just skim, or something, who knows.
Etc. etc. Of course the links within the article point to more of the same:
So how fucking stupid do you think I am, you asshole? Yes, your piece was an apologist piece of shit as usual and always, in this case for hacking & election theft because she apparently wasn't progressive enough, in other cases other rather putrid Putinesque goals.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 3:24pm
Paul Street consumes a good portion of the cake he would like to have when he adds the following to the list of what "Russiagate" is diverting our tiny minds from focusing upon: "denying Congress’s power to investigate and oversee the executive branch."
As has to repeated to every passing Bannonite who talks about the topic, the Special Counsel Investigation was not specifically about Trump per se but the expansion of Presidential power on display when the investigation of Russian influence was being drowned in a bathtub. As Mueller had to repeat slowly while using small words on TV, the whole matter of any investigation done by the Deep State is ultimately the responsibility of an entirely different branch of Government.
This elemental quality puts Street's remark that," fake-progressive legitimacy on the repressive and imperial National Security State and its vast intelligence apparatus" into its proper context.
The only people in the present shit show who are taking the "security state" out of the context of the three branches of government are the Nunes, Jordans, and Barrs who are expanding the power of the presidency even at the expense of the institutions they purportedly incarnate.
by moat on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:03pm
As is usual, your comment needs a little digestion, at least by me. And, as is also usual, I expect to find it worth the effort. Thanks for responding on point.
by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:40pm
I appreciate the appreciation.
Put a another way, what I am trying to say is that it is important to separate a Constitutional crisis from other things.
Now it is true that various agents make more or less of particular issues to declare that emergency is underway or not.
I look at the Street article from that point of view. His points do not take the Constitutional matter as the first and most important one to consider.
Whatever validity may pertain to his observations after failing that measure is inconsequential.
by moat on Wed, 07/03/2019 - 9:13pm
Trump obstructed justice, but the biggest complaints in the article seem to focus on Democrats.
If the country doesn’t care about Russiagate, the country is already lost.
If the county doesn’t care about concentration camps, the country is already gone.
The argument that the country doesn’t care supports the idea that the country has grown fat and lazy.
Alabama sets the standard by charging a pregnant woman who got shot with murder.
SCOTUS now allows politicians to pick their voters.
These attacks on democracy are not hidden away, the fact that the country is not up in arms is due to an uninvolved citizenry, not Rob Reiner. The only response to Trump is to resist. Russiagate is part of the Resistance.
Gessen on Russiagate
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dream-of-a-sudden-magi...
Where was Gessen when people are pointing to Trump bashing our allies, making friends with dictators, supporting, racists, etc?
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:22pm