DMF: For 2 years a completely absurd set of allegations presented as fact has dominated the airwaves and paralyzed the executive branch, specifically that the President of the United States of America was 1) a compromised tool of Moscow (New York Times November 29, 2018), 2) had colluded with Russia as a candidate (January 26, 2019), and 3) was an agent of Kremlin (NY Times article January 11, 2019). These falsehoods flashed before our eyes in newspapers, television news shows, social media one-minute stories, and in the political weaponized entertainment industry though numerous Saturday Night Live skits and countless hecklings by late night comedy hosts. Had these stories been classified as paid political advertisements and not “journalism” or “entertainment,” the onslaught of Trump-Russia smears would have represented an unprecedented multi-billion dollar negative ad campaign that would have even strained Michael Bloomberg’s wallet. But peddled as “news” these narratives hearkened back to the propaganda sheets of Pravda and the unintentionally hilarious articles on the North Korean news website.
The investigation into Trump and members of his business and political world has turned up more incriminating evidence on his bureaucratic adversaries in the “deep state resistance” and the governmental institutions, that they’ve turned into a Maginot Line with the guns pointed down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Beltway swamp creatures have been exposed as partisan fraudsters, but what about the national press who have compensated them for promulgating their slanders? more here
Well, the media has convinced me that Donald Trump is a Russian dupe. But extrinsic evidence indicates that Trump is an incredibly inept Russian dupe. Our economy is doing very well – better than Russia’s. Trump is trying to crack down on illegal entry into the U.S., which would make it harder for Russian to bring in spies and terrorists intent on wreaking havoc. He’s rebuilding the military. I could go on, but you get the picture – Trump is doing a terrible job at being a Russian dupe.
The other thing that troubles me is that our paragons of patriotism, the Democrat party, is actually doing a pretty good job at rooting for and aiding the Russkies. We have Democrat socialists who want to import Soviet Union style government into this country. Democrats have been pretty successful Balkanizing the US and pitting victim group against victim group and everyone against white males. They want to take all of the money and they want to take all of the guns. It’s hard telling what else our Democrats could do – aside from actually invading Canada and Mexico and then giving those countries to Russia – to aid Putin.
Thank God for CNN and our late night comedians – examining facts is very confusing with the Russian collusion narrative. I need these talking head analysts and Stephen Colbert to convince me to put my head back in my ass instead of looking at things as they really are.
If the Executive branch has been “paralyzed” as stated above for the last two years, Good God, what would they have accomplished were that not the case?
Wyatt, you magnificent poltroon! You employed the word “extrinsic” properly in a discourse (or rant) which I’ve not seen done in over a decade. You erudite motherphuckers make my day with shit like this!
Most just resort to base profanity of which I’ll have no truck.
I now read Diogenes every day, thanks to her links here.
BTW, Lowell. I went to a grade school named Lowell, and besides learning from Wyatt (and many others here), I think I’m back at Lowell every time I read your comments, too. Lowell. (This is not snark!)
I can’t imagine anyone naming a grade school ‘Lowell’, much as I’m puzzled by my own name. I do know of whence it originated however. Lowell Thomas, who was some sort of talking head who did News or something like it in the late 50’s. Seems my mother was either impressed or enamored of him, I’ve always been reticent to inquire.
My middle name, which I’ll not disclose here, was the given name of the family doctor who also served to birth me. That is something I’m quite unsettled about. Either my share cropper mom was easily impressed by two men of some education and skills, one far removed, the other at the bedside of the birth of my three previous siblings,and then… I got his name as part of mine.
Oh well, we all got here somehow, and I personally am glad of it.
The Democrat party, allied with its willing accomplices known as the mainstream media and the tech giants respectively, is the largest, best funded and best-organized terror supporting organization in the world!
Smashing thread! I quite enjoy this repartee! I am sufficiently sophonsified.
Claudia, if perhaps I participated in engendering in you some small measure of pleasure, just know, your Sunday Morning critter thread has repaid that in spades. In advance.
Thank you for what you do for all of us here.
There’s leftist propaganda, and then there’s reporting of facts.
‘Journalism’ is a scam to legitimize leftist propaganda.
I got nuthin nearly as esoteric, but here’s my interpretation of the media for the past 2 1/2 years:
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Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion, Collusion…
We can’t quite say ‘paralyzed,’ but we can say sabotaged.
Thank God for Donald Trump:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/
Lowell, You’ve got us all a twitter … Poltroon??
I had to go to the wonder of the Internet for: Did You Know?
Noun
When you get down to synonyms, a “poltroon” is just a “chicken.” Barnyard chickens are fowl that have long been noted for timidity, and the name “chicken” has been applied to human cowards since the 17th century. “Poltroon” has been used for wimps and cravens for even longer, since the early 16th century at least. And if you remember that chickens are dubbed “poultry,” you may guess that the birds and the cowards are linked by etymology as well as synonymy. English picked up “poltroon” from Middle French, which in turn got it from Old Italian poltrone, meaning “coward.” The Italian term has been traced to the Latin pullus, a root that is also an ancestor of “pullet” (a young hen) and “poultry.”
Magnificent!
Jack, my usage of the word is confined to one narrow definition, that of dastardliness. Wyatt has hung the soiled underpants of the democrats and the MSM right under their own noses.