Doesn't it all make sense now?
How a socialist was able to press the Democrat for the Democratic nomination?(1)
How a first-timer, a Clown, who had been a Democrat, and an Independent, was able to best more than a dozen Republicans for the Republican nomination? (2)
How that Clown became president?
Didn't it feel weird in the beginning? What? Bernie Sanders? What? Donald Trump? Yes, it felt very weird. What is going on?
It all makes sense now. The Russian attack on America began at least as early as 2014. Putin released his stealth twitter bombers...
...just as surely as an earlier generation of Russians had released its air force.
Putin's attack was to destroy the American democracy, to sow the seeds of his authoritarian, racist nationalism in soil he knew was fertile for it.(3) And to his gleeful surprise(4) a hideous orange plant with all the right genetic characteristics(5) burst through the soil, took root, and planted the Russian flag.
Now? Doesn't it all make sense now? Hasn't it all made sense since the summer of 2016? It has. The hiring of Manafort, the use of Page, the use and hiring of Flynn, of Bannon, so many I've forgotten all of them, the weird un-American sounding campaign rhetoric, the warning that summer that Trump was "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,"(6) the compliments by Putin, the compliments of Putin by Trump, the business interests(7) we knew all of that.
We, the public, know more now, certainly, Don, Jr.'s meeting with Russian agents, Trump writing the cover-up statement, Kushner's business interests, his vulnerability (background check stalled, will never be cleared. Trump will give him top secret security clearance anyhow), the firings, the firing of James Comey in particular, the resignations, indictments, the refusal to extend the Russia sanctions, the denial, the stone-walling and name-calling of the Mueller investigation, so much more I have forgotten all of it (Was Kushner at the Trump Tower meeting?), but my God, we knew enough back then, and my God, hasn't all we know now been so predictable? It has. It is decidedly not "weird"(8) that Trump denies it all with frantic rhetoric. He knows he's toast, he knows he is illegitimate.(9)
What we know now, President Obama knew then, when we didn't know all. And Obama knew what was at stake, "The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders.The fate of the world is teetering", but did not tell us until six days before the catastrophe, when the cake was already baked.(10) The fate of the republic rested upon Barack Obama's shoulders, not ours, he swore an oath that he would "to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He didn't.
The Making of the President, 2016, The Making of a Clown, The Un-Making of America.
1. "Sanders’s 2016 campaign — along with Trump’s — was named in Friday’s indictment as one that the Russian nationals used to sow discord in the election system and buoy criticism of then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton." Feel_the_Burn:Sanders_Used
2. "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html
3. The Authoritarian Personality, Theodore W. Adorno (1950). "'F scale' (F for fascist). The personality type...can be defined by nine traits...These traits include conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intellectualism, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy, power and "toughness", destructiveness and cynicism, projectivity, and exaggerated concerns over sex.".American_Authoritarian_Personality.
4. Russians_Toast_Trump's_Victory
5. "Trump's personality] traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the rule of law." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html
6. "Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions consistent with Russian, not American, interests — endorsing Russian espionage against the United States, supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and giving a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States. In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation." Unwitting_Russian_Agent_Trump
7. Donald Trump, Jr."the executive vice president of Development and Acquisitions for the Trump Organization," in 2008: "In Russia, I really prefer Moscow [for high end real estate investment] over all cities in the world...Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." https://www.eturbonews.com/9788/executive-talk-donald-trump-jr-bullish-russia-and-few-emerging-ma
8. "Sanders went on to call Trump’s continued opposition to the Russia investigation “one of the weirdest things in modern American history.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-collusion-again-tweets-sparks-concerns-among-lawmakers-n849181
9. “The president has been very adamant to say that he didn’t collude. He’s very frustrated that people seem to accuse the fact that the only reason he’s president is because of some sort of Russian collusion. But I would say the clear message here is Russia did mean to interfere in our election.”-Senator James Lankford, R-Oklahoma.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-collusion-again-tweets-sparks-concerns-among-lawmakers-n849181
10. Fate_of_the_Republic
How a socialist was able to press the Democrat for the Democratic nomination?(1)
How a first-timer, a Clown, who had been a Democrat, and an Independent, was able to best more than a dozen Republicans for the Republican nomination? (2)
How that Clown became president?
Didn't it feel weird in the beginning? What? Bernie Sanders? What? Donald Trump? Yes, it felt very weird. What is going on?
It all makes sense now. The Russian attack on America began at least as early as 2014. Putin released his stealth twitter bombers...
...just as surely as an earlier generation of Russians had released its air force.
Putin's attack was to destroy the American democracy, to sow the seeds of his authoritarian, racist nationalism in soil he knew was fertile for it.(3) And to his gleeful surprise(4) a hideous orange plant with all the right genetic characteristics(5) burst through the soil, took root, and planted the Russian flag.
Now? Doesn't it all make sense now? Hasn't it all made sense since the summer of 2016? It has. The hiring of Manafort, the use of Page, the use and hiring of Flynn, of Bannon, so many I've forgotten all of them, the weird un-American sounding campaign rhetoric, the warning that summer that Trump was "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,"(6) the compliments by Putin, the compliments of Putin by Trump, the business interests(7) we knew all of that.
We, the public, know more now, certainly, Don, Jr.'s meeting with Russian agents, Trump writing the cover-up statement, Kushner's business interests, his vulnerability (background check stalled, will never be cleared. Trump will give him top secret security clearance anyhow), the firings, the firing of James Comey in particular, the resignations, indictments, the refusal to extend the Russia sanctions, the denial, the stone-walling and name-calling of the Mueller investigation, so much more I have forgotten all of it (Was Kushner at the Trump Tower meeting?), but my God, we knew enough back then, and my God, hasn't all we know now been so predictable? It has. It is decidedly not "weird"(8) that Trump denies it all with frantic rhetoric. He knows he's toast, he knows he is illegitimate.(9)
What we know now, President Obama knew then, when we didn't know all. And Obama knew what was at stake, "The fate of the republic rests on your shoulders.The fate of the world is teetering", but did not tell us until six days before the catastrophe, when the cake was already baked.(10) The fate of the republic rested upon Barack Obama's shoulders, not ours, he swore an oath that he would "to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He didn't.
The Making of the President, 2016, The Making of a Clown, The Un-Making of America.
1. "Sanders’s 2016 campaign — along with Trump’s — was named in Friday’s indictment as one that the Russian nationals used to sow discord in the election system and buoy criticism of then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton." Feel_the_Burn:Sanders_Used
2. "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries. Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html
3. The Authoritarian Personality, Theodore W. Adorno (1950). "'F scale' (F for fascist). The personality type...can be defined by nine traits...These traits include conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intellectualism, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy, power and "toughness", destructiveness and cynicism, projectivity, and exaggerated concerns over sex.".American_Authoritarian_Personality.
4. Russians_Toast_Trump's_Victory
5. "Trump's personality] traits include his obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, his tendency to make decisions based on intuition, his refusal to change his views based on new information, his routine carelessness with the facts, his unwillingness to listen to others and his lack of respect for the rule of law." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/campaign-stops/i-ran-the-cia-now-im-endorsing-hillary-clinton.html
6. "Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions consistent with Russian, not American, interests — endorsing Russian espionage against the United States, supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and giving a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States. In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation." Unwitting_Russian_Agent_Trump
7. Donald Trump, Jr."the executive vice president of Development and Acquisitions for the Trump Organization," in 2008: "In Russia, I really prefer Moscow [for high end real estate investment] over all cities in the world...Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." https://www.eturbonews.com/9788/executive-talk-donald-trump-jr-bullish-russia-and-few-emerging-ma
8. "Sanders went on to call Trump’s continued opposition to the Russia investigation “one of the weirdest things in modern American history.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-collusion-again-tweets-sparks-concerns-among-lawmakers-n849181
9. “The president has been very adamant to say that he didn’t collude. He’s very frustrated that people seem to accuse the fact that the only reason he’s president is because of some sort of Russian collusion. But I would say the clear message here is Russia did mean to interfere in our election.”-Senator James Lankford, R-Oklahoma.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-denies-collusion-again-tweets-sparks-concerns-among-lawmakers-n849181
10. Fate_of_the_Republic
