BLAKE HOUNSHELL, Editor in Chief of POLITICO Magazine - Politico
Stephan: This excellent essay parallels my own thinking except I was never a skeptic. As regular readers know I have thought from the get-go of Trump becoming a politician that having been through multiple bankruptcies, and having to turn to the Russians for money, he was under some obligation to Putin and the oligarchs. His behavior, to me, made that perfectly clear. I found it to be further confirmed by his absolute resistance to releasing his tax returns. And of course there is more, so much more, and Blake Hounsell lays it out and makes the case. The November election can be our way of responding. It requires that everyone vote. To quote fivethirtyeight, "Registered voters who didn't vote on Election Day in November were more Democratic-leaning than the registered voters who turned out." We need something like 78% of Democratic voters to vote to overcome the negative effects of gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Trump and Putin
Credit: CNN
When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor, I mistyped.
What I meant to write was that I wasn’t skeptical.
Last week’s events have nullified my previous skepticism. To recap: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein revealed indictments against 12 Russians for the hacks of the Democratic National Committee, and we learned that Russian hackers went after Hillary Clinton’s private office for the first time on the very day Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” At the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump attacked a close European ally—Germany—and generally questioned the value of the alliance. Next, he visited the United Kingdom and trashed Prime Minister Theresa May. Then, in Helsinki, he met with Vladimir Putin privately for two hours, with no U.S. officials present other than a translator. After this suspicious meeting, he sang the Russian strongman’s praises at […]
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MARK FRAUENFELDER, - boingboing
Stephan: I think it is important that those of us who believe the function of society is to foster wellbeing should be aware of what the christofascist intellectuals are saying and writing. If you find this outrageous and scary, I think you should. These people are racist, fear-filled, angry, and convinced of their superiority. And they are dangerous because even if they don't personally do any acting out they legitimize the impulses of the weak-minded violence prone White men who do.
Michael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer says it is “quite near time” to kill American citizens who oppose Trump.
Scheuer is a former senior CIA official and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Imperial Hubris. In a now-deleted blog post (cached version here) Scheuer singles out “Strzok, Comey, McCabe, Page, and Rosenstein; worshipers of tyranny, like the Democratic members of Congress, the Clintons, the FBI, and the Obamas; apparent traitors like Brennan, Hayden, and Clapper; all of the mainstream media; and the tens of thousands of government-admitted-and-protected, violent, criminal, and illegal immigrants.” He looks forward to the “sheer, nay, utter joy and satisfaction to be derived from beholding great piles of dead U.S.-citizen tyrants is not one that will be missed if Trump does not soon do the necessary to save the republic.”
As this week’s end, it seems likely that it is quite near time for killing those involved in the multiple and clearly delineated attempts to stage a coup d’état against the legitimately elected Trump government and thereby kill our republic.
Finally, this week saw a significant […]
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