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Putin's Revenge
Jul. 25th, 2018 04:18 am“Donald Trump is Putin's revenge for America's egregious interference in Russia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ~Nebris
Ok, first things first. The Soviet Union really was an 'evil empire'. [so is the US, but that's a story for another time] Gulags. Purges. Targeted mass starvation. State Terror as a daily diet. All the old Bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, the whole fucking lot of them, were ruthless murdering sons of bitches. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, et al were only marginally better. And Vladimir Putin is a product of that system...
When the whole gaddam shithouse fell in on itself in '91, the system was so hollowed out it could not even orchestrate a simple coup to save itself....
Ok, I wrote the above a few days ago, and frankly, all this shit is exhausting me. I'm just gonna link to a 1994 LA Times article on how we fucked over Russia [HERE] and another relating the end results [HERE], treating them as a defeated enemy, which they were TBH, but because of our endless need to Subvert and Dominate, we created a Versailles Treaty paradigm and now it has come back to bite us on the ass....
...and then days passed since I wrote that because it's hot and I'm tired...
So, I'll try to be brief. First, the Russians knew two things about Trump up front. One, that he and his crew are a bunch of third rate grifters and con artists who are not all that bright. And two, that he was not serious about winning the election, that it was just a 'branding exercise' on his part and a way to gain some influence in GOP party politics for future financial gain.
"Donald Trump is a patsy." ~Nebris
What I am now suspecting that what the Russians did is hack some voting machines in the three states that put Trump over the top via the Electoral Collage, giving him just enough to in fact 'put him over the top'. I'll point out that because A: the GOP had already engaged in all manner of voter suppression in said states [including highly hackable voting machines] and B: the DNC/Clinton campaign had arrogantly 'taken those states for granted' [plus the Bernie thing], such an op would be fairly easy to slide under the radar.
And in doing so, they now have him trapped. I said just the other day, “Us Nu Yawkas have known that Trump was mobbed up for decades, but the rubes in the sticks are fucking clueless..as usual.” I do not think that even The Donald is so fucking stupid to actually want to become President when he has sooooo much dirty laundry. [also, it's far more work than he really wants to do]
But now he is...and Putin has him by the nuts...and us, too really. And he is squeezing as long and as hard as he can.
Dishonorable Mention goes to US Corporations for gutting our economy and dumbing down our education system, thereby creating an electorate angry and stupid enough to get tricked in this fashion.
Ok, first things first. The Soviet Union really was an 'evil empire'. [so is the US, but that's a story for another time] Gulags. Purges. Targeted mass starvation. State Terror as a daily diet. All the old Bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, the whole fucking lot of them, were ruthless murdering sons of bitches. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, et al were only marginally better. And Vladimir Putin is a product of that system...
When the whole gaddam shithouse fell in on itself in '91, the system was so hollowed out it could not even orchestrate a simple coup to save itself....
Ok, I wrote the above a few days ago, and frankly, all this shit is exhausting me. I'm just gonna link to a 1994 LA Times article on how we fucked over Russia [HERE] and another relating the end results [HERE], treating them as a defeated enemy, which they were TBH, but because of our endless need to Subvert and Dominate, we created a Versailles Treaty paradigm and now it has come back to bite us on the ass....
...and then days passed since I wrote that because it's hot and I'm tired...
So, I'll try to be brief. First, the Russians knew two things about Trump up front. One, that he and his crew are a bunch of third rate grifters and con artists who are not all that bright. And two, that he was not serious about winning the election, that it was just a 'branding exercise' on his part and a way to gain some influence in GOP party politics for future financial gain.
"Donald Trump is a patsy." ~Nebris
What I am now suspecting that what the Russians did is hack some voting machines in the three states that put Trump over the top via the Electoral Collage, giving him just enough to in fact 'put him over the top'. I'll point out that because A: the GOP had already engaged in all manner of voter suppression in said states [including highly hackable voting machines] and B: the DNC/Clinton campaign had arrogantly 'taken those states for granted' [plus the Bernie thing], such an op would be fairly easy to slide under the radar.
And in doing so, they now have him trapped. I said just the other day, “Us Nu Yawkas have known that Trump was mobbed up for decades, but the rubes in the sticks are fucking clueless..as usual.” I do not think that even The Donald is so fucking stupid to actually want to become President when he has sooooo much dirty laundry. [also, it's far more work than he really wants to do]
But now he is...and Putin has him by the nuts...and us, too really. And he is squeezing as long and as hard as he can.
Dishonorable Mention goes to US Corporations for gutting our economy and dumbing down our education system, thereby creating an electorate angry and stupid enough to get tricked in this fashion.
