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Another former officer speaks up

GOP congressman says he can’t support Trump: ‘I’m an American before I’m a Republican’

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A letter that says it all

Here’s a link to a Washington Post opinion piece that says it all.  It’s a letter written by Captain Humayun Khan’s brigade commander in Iraq, now a retired Major General:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-capt-khans-commander-in-iraq-the-khan-family-is-our-family/2016/08/03/9a4c0e4e-598f-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html

 

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Burning the GOP to the ground

Trump’s still waging his scorched earth against the GOP.  At some point Republican leaders should catch on that Trump’s a total fraud, and his actions are helping Hillary.   He sets up these media firestorms deliberately, so that the media hunts down Republican leaders, shoves a microphone in their faces, to stage these hostage videos of the GOP held hostage by the “Insurgent”.  The questions the reporters ask are always the same, “Do you support Donald Trump’s position on whatever crazy, vile, and or offensive thing Trump has just spewed?”  And then the next question is “Do you still support Donald Trump?”  These hostage videos are meant to make the Republican leaders look like amoral a-holes like Trump or hypocrites for supporting such an amoral a-hole as Trump.

Trump has been the center of attention since last Saturday when he attacked the Gold Star father, who spoke at the Democratic Convention last week.  Trump attacked the Gold Star mother who did not speak, but just stood beside her husband.  Trump deliberately creates these reality TV dramas to stay the center of attention in the news and after a few days, he claims it was all a big misunderstanding.  A week or so later, Trump always declares the media was lying and he never said that.  Trump is like Hillary, he can lie through and about anything, without batting an eye.  They both have this disconcerting trait of an extreme sociopath, where a reporter can show them a video of them saying something and both of them will look straight at the reporter and say that they never said that.  It takes a special kind of pathological liar to keep lying, even when shown a video proving they said something.

However,  the Republican leaders continue to have their credibility whittled away by these hostage videos.  This is what the “GOP Insurgency” was all about and Trump wants to make sure no Republican leaders, who won’t kiss his butt, are left standing.  His scorched earth continues unabated.

During the past day Trump started alleging that he is sure the election in November will be rigged against him.  Republicans leaders should be worried, because that is Trump preparing to jump ship before November and leave the GOP hanging.   Whether that was his plan all along or it’s an escape route to avoid a crushing defeat, who knows, but Trump will bail,  just like he bailed on the debates when Cruz and Rubio made him look like the imbecilic clown, he is. Trump will not stick around until November if his polls numbers continue to dive and he continues to come under fire from all sides.  His campaign remains a chaotic mess, because Trump is in charge and there is no other calm head or hand to grab the steering wheel from him, to avoid  this train wreck.

If Trump does bail, he will rail about how the Republicans treated him so badly and unfairly….   you can count on that.

This is the most corrupt presidential election in American history.

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Amen, General Dempsey!

“Military leaders do not belong at political conventions”

Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin E.Dempsey, penned an important reminder to retired generals. In the Washington Post, he writes:

“The military is not a political prize. Politicians should take the advice of senior military leaders but keep them off the stage. The American people should not wonder where their military leaders draw the line between military advice and political preference. And our nation’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines should not wonder about the political leanings and motivations of their leaders.”

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Geesh, Russian active measures….

I’m just shocked, I tell you, lol….

It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

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The Pieces of the Media Messaging Puzzle

wp-1469896090617.jpgAbove:  A few of my books.  See, I do read more than historical romance novels and decorating books;-)

The following is just another long repeat of my dissection of the Clinton mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy, which Trump “borrowed” to wage his “GOP Insurgent” primary campaign.

The reason Trump broke out of the pack was because he used the borrowed Clinton-style mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy.

That strategy is a sophisticated INFORMATION WARFARE strategy introduced into American politics by the Clinton political operatives.

The mass media saturation strategy was developed by far-left Alinskyite Marxists.  The messaging wall required for mass media saturation to succeed requires the active collusion of the mass media NEWS outlets to facilitate it, by actively and relentlessly repeating the messages of the political candidate or activists using this “buzz word, catchphrase spin (talking points messaging). Mass media saturation INFORMATION WARFARE requires mass media collusion to succeed.  This strategy can NOT succeed without mass media messaging dominance to CONTROL (“win”) the 24/7 news cycle (or as the Clinton team dubbed it – the spin cycle).

It is a form of mass media brainwashing and antithetical to American free speech principles!  To succeed this strategy requires MEDIA COLLUSION.

It can NOT work without that media collusion.

Here are the components:

  • Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.
  • Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.
  • Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls)

Only Democrats had successfully used this strategy before Trump, because the liberal media never before gave BILLIONS of dollars in free media for one GOP candidate, to run a “GOP Insurgency” for 8 months straight on all three cable news networks nor did the mass media cable networks ever collude or facilitate in the mass media messaging for any Republican candidate or cause.

Just as the Wikileaks leak has exposed the MEDIA COLLUSION between the DNC and the media to rig the system against Sanders, that SAME media collusion exists between the Potemkin Trump campaign (or the Clinton operatives who were in the shadows masterminding this charade) and the media.

Those electronic trails exist!!!

This mass media saturation requires constant messaging coordination between political operatives and the media facilitators to keep the SPIN cycle moving. Trump’s “win, win, win” is exactly like Carville’s “sex, sex, sex” during impeachment. I feel sure Trump’s MEDIA COLLUSION will be exposed before November.

And the scorched earth part of the strategy is really just the mass media saturation strategy on steroids, replete with endless character assassinations (low-energy Jeb, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, etc.) and a take no prisoners attitude.

Here’s an example of how mass media saturation plays out:

During the Benghazi hearing, Hillary sailed through that hearing and the Dems on the committee never wavered from their talking points.:

“This hearing is a right-wing witch hunt” and

“This is costing the American taxpayers $4.7 million.”

A few of those Dems, to include Congressman Cummings, groveled so shamelessly, that’s it’s obvious they wanted to secure enough Clinton brownie points to merit consideration for cabinet posts in her administration.

Every dem on that committee did what Trump has done for 10 months – repeated the same short talking points for 11 hours straight. They did not deviate. Then the media and some high-profile big name peeps did interviews to dismiss the Republicans and then the news media declared Hillary won and the polling got driven home that she “won”. You can’t break through mass media saturation. It creates a messaging wall – those talking points are what gets driven home. That is the only thing most people remember – it is mass media brainwashing! Watch any dem on TV – they repeat their talking points as often as they can and they circulate these talking points to a virtual army of media folks – TV, print media, online, they even have hordes of them on comment threads, they were on those Excite politics message boards back in 1998. The liberal media colludes to facilitate it.

The use of polling to manufacture opinions cascades drives the polling toward the desired outcome.  The media facilitates this with relentlessly repeating the manufactured polls and on any issue or candidate, the media hypes the polling that bolsters the issue or candidate they are trying to propel ahead.  The media colludes in many ways with this mass media saturation strategy, but through decades of presenting polls as if they are a legitimate representation of the “will of the people”, the American people have been conditioned to accept polling data as sacrosanct.  Polls are just the opinions of a very small number of Americans and can be easily manipulated by both the sampling groups and how the questions are worded or even by how certain words are emphasized while asking the question.

Pundits and journalists saying something like, “Trump is leading in all the polls, don’t you need to support your leader?” to other Republican candidates in the primary helped foster this aura of legitimacy about poll numbers.  The media and political operatives also often use polls number to marginalize and silence opposing viewpoints.  For instance on a topic like gay marriage, where aggressive mass media saturation was used to mainstream that, media pundits or journalists will cast questions to someone who is opposed to gay marriage like, “Well, 65% of Americans support gay marriage, so isn’t your view out of the mainstream?”  This type of questioning casts the person with the opposing view as a fringe kook.  It works very effectively to silence dissent and to strong-arm compliance to the manufactured “public opinion”.

This same strategy is how Bill Clinton survived impeachment, where the scorched earth trashed anyone connected with the impeachment and then the Clinton mouthpieces were out there selling manufactured polling, to create the impression that the American people supported Bill Clinton and that the impeachment was just a “vast, right-wing witch hunt.”  In recent years the “hate speech” tactic has also been hyped in manufactured polling, to silence dissent.  Most Americans don’t want to be cast as bigots, racists or haters, so any poll presenting a liberal cause as over 50% of Americans support that view, is spun to cast anyone who disagrees as all three wrapped into one.

Here’s a short bio on how I came to be studying mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy:

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Above: I found this when I was a teenager.  It is one of my prize possessions.  I was with my parents looking in an old shed behind an old house, that was slated to be torn down for a new road to go through.  This report, along with learning how to play a game, called Diplomacy, with a group of boys after school, fueled my interest in military strategy.

I have been studying the Clinton “spin” since it first entered American politics and I have been studying propaganda techniques, with an emphasis on Soviet and Eastern bloc propaganda since 1980, when I was a young solider.

It took me several years in the 90s to figure out the polling data kabuki part of the strategy.  Systems analysis has always been something I do, long before I even knew it was called “systems analysis”.  I like to break down systems (mechanical, political, living, etc.) into parts and then I like to figure out how the parts work together to make the system work.  I like to figure out the flaws in systems too.  I suppose that’s why I became so interested in military strategy in my teens, because I believe that is the pinnacle of strategic-thinking.  In my opinion, it surpasses political and geopolitical strategy as far as organization goes.

This mass media saturation strategy has distinctive parts to it and it can be proven with electronic evidence on the messaging coordination, just like the Wikileaks leak exposed the DNC and media collusion.  Sure, Trump is very talented at reading the mood of the people and he has a con man’s knack for selling people anything, but this strategy relies on mass media messaging collusion and the polling kabuki to create an impenetrable messaging wall.  The relentless repetition across large swaths of the media “battlefield” assures it will dominate.

There’s plenty of information on how opinion cascades work to move public opinion via repetition messaging and polling data. Cass Sunstein has written about it – he’s into social engineering using mass media manipulation (“nudging” the American people into the “proper” views). Here’s a link to a Stella Morobito link where she gives a simple explanation on how opinion cascades work and they do work – it’s how gay marriage and global warming were mainstreamed:

http://stellamorabito.net/2016…

I wrote about this back in 1998 on the Excite message boards, where Clinton operatives descended like Genghis Khan’s horde to silence opposing views. I know how far they will go to silence opposing views.  My Messages of mhere story, albeit snarky and written in that annoying third person, is the truth.  All of the people mentioned exist in real life.  I used the user name “mhere” on the Excite message boards.

Only Sanders and Cruz made any dent against the mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy and they did it by grassroots campaigning – not with mass media campaigning.  As Trump and the media have hyped how many millions Jeb’s campaign spent on ads and got nowhere, they don’t mention the BILLIONS of dollars in free media and 24/7 NEWS cycle control the media GAVE  to Trump.  Paid ads can NOT compete with a candidate who has 24/7 NEWS cycle control in the mass media, replete with relentless repetition of messaging and manufactured opinion polls.

Liberal CNN and MSNBC gave Trump 24/7 coverage for 8 months to run his “GOP Insurgency”, but in late February they switched to Clinton scorched earth, where there was about a week and half of “Trump the fascist” incidents, which led up to that Chicago rally, where Soros paid mobs were waiting. Trump cancelled that rally, but after that CNN and MSNBC stopped giving Trump the 24/7 megaphone.

FOX has stayed all-in for Trump. Liberal news networks don’t “give” Republicans 24/7 news cycle control and they sure don’t give them that for 8 months straight. It was a set-up to throw the GOP primary into chaos.

Here’s the sequence of events when  CNN and MSNBC made the switch to Clinton scorched earth in late February:

Here’s the timeline on those Trump fascist memes:

February 28, 2016 – Trump retweets a Mussolini quote and refuses to denounce David Duke on a Sunday talk show.

March 3, 2016 – GOP debate where Trump defends Mussolini quote and doubles down on his committing war crimes to defeat ISIS.

March 5, 2016 – Trump does a staged raised arm pledge rally where the Nuremberg imagery smacked you in the face. He read a prepared card with that pledge. I’d love to know who came up with that pledge rally idea and if it was Trump, did anyone try to dissuade him.

March 10, 2016 – Michelle Fields claims she was strong-armed by Lewandowski leaving a press briefing. I have wondered if he was a handy Clinton middleman, because it sure seemed like he was set-up as the thug in that Michelle Fields controversy. I watched that video over and over and did not see him grab her arm where the bruises were and I believe she sounded very deceptive in interviews.

The Trump controversy builds. And then he walked into the home of wacko leftist central, Chicago.  The timeline suggests that  Trump was duped into setting up his own bonfire and lighting it, before he was tossed into it by the left-wing mob.

March 12, 2016 – Leftist ground zero, Chicago, Trump faces massive organized leftist mobs and cancels his rally.

Those protests in Chicago were staged and funded by leftists – and Soros very likely played a large role.  This riot in San Jose is just part of that continued staged agitation propaganda to try to incite violent clashes with Trump supporters.  I still wonder who in Trump’s campaign egged him on with this strong-man themed garbage?  Was that pledge rally a Trump brain storm or was Trump sold on it?   Soros and other far-left groups are likely funding, organizing and staging these riots and street clashes, but who in Trump’s campaign came up with these strong-man talking points in the first place???   That’s what I would like to know, because it sure looks like he was massively set-up.  When he did that pledge rally, where the liberal press was primed with making that Nuremberg rally comparison immediately, almost like they had received some talking points.  Was there MEDIA COLLUSION and if so, with whom???

Note:   CNN banned key Trump mouthpiece, Roger Stone in late February and MSNBC banned Stone in April, rather extreme measures to silence Trump’s former campaign manager.  Oddly, enough CNN immediately hired Corey Lewandowski, in June,  when he was fired as the Trump campaign manager, which certainly makes me wonder if Lewandowski was a Clinton mole in the Potemkin Trump campaign all along.

FOX News opened shop to fuel the right-wing cable news venue to counter the liberal news in America.  FOX News has gone all-in to promote the Trump “GOP Insurgency”.   Why FOX is all-in for Trump is an open question.  The American CEO of FOX News, Roger Ailes, was fired on the very same day as Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, with the news reporting that Rupert Murdoch would be running FOX News for now.  Very strange coincidence with that timing, in light of this unprecedented mass media collusion to promote the GOP Insurgent.

The mass media also colludes to aid and abet other leftist political objectives.  Hostile foreign intelligence agencies engage in active measures – some have stayed active to destroy America from within for many decades.  The Chinese and Russian intelligence services operate robust efforts to fuel anti-American beliefs within America, in all of our institutions, particularly in our mass media and educational system.  Soros funds much on the left – to include BLM. Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states have funded the spread of Wahhabism in black communities, and black colleges, since the late 1970s.   The Obama collusion with the black grievance purveyors, like Al Sharpton, are working to incite racial tensions, to use as cover, to implement their political agenda, like federal control of policing and implementation of draconian speech codes.  Even, American allies operate efforts to influence the mass media in America.

The mass media saturation strategy was developed by far-left Alinskyite Marxists. Once again,  the messaging wall required for mass media saturation to succeed requires the active collusion of the mass media NEWS outlets to facilitate it, by actively and relentlessly repeating the messages of the political candidate or activists using this “buzz word, catchphrase spin. Mass media saturation INFORMATION WARFARE requires mass media collusion to succeed.  This strategy can NOT succeed without mass media messaging dominance to CONTROL (“win”) the 24/7 news cycle (or as the Clinton team dubbed it – the spin cycle).

THIS ENTIRE 2016 ELECTION HAS BEEN RIGGED!

In the end there, we have  Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy perfectly executed…. Bernie the kook on the left, Trump the kook on the right and the middle path to the White House cleared for Hillary,

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The Little Woman in White

My love of American history began in elementary school and all through grade school I loved to sign out, not only fictional stories from the school library, but also biographies of great Americans.  In 1975, I was a teenager when the American bicentennial craze took hold in America, leading up to July 4, 1976.

Along with patriotic fervor and a renewed interest in American history, the American feminist movement had revved into high gear too, leading to the push for “herstory”.

Merriam-Webster defines “herstory” as “history considered or presented from a feminist viewpoint or with special attention to the experience of women” and lists the first known use as 1970.

I remember reading about women of the American Revolution, where their deeds were greatly exaggerated and possibly complete fabrications,  in my opinion, and the feminist movement seemed determined to conjure up unknown Amazon-warrior females, throughout history, whom somehow the evil male patriarchy had deliberately erased from history.

Having been a soldier a short time in my youth and having seen and experienced just a few of the grueling physical requirements for combat troops, the truth is, by human nature, women do NOT possess the upper-body strength to compete with men in ground combat skills.   That’s one of those hard facts that feminists prefer to pretend is just discrimination against women, while at the same time they accept that in sports competitions men and women differ in peak performance outcomes.  Getting women into every traditional position of power held by men continues to be the feminist quest.

Last night served as one of those pivotal feminist moments, which Hillary Clinton, with her nomination for president, touts as breaking through one of the last remaining “glass ceilings”.

Hillary represents the victory of HERstory over fact-based history.

So, here she is, the smartest woman in the world, a feminist icon, ostensibly the most talented woman in American politics ever and her handlers tried to sell her as June Cleaver….

The great irony last night was that while she envisions being the “first” female President as her destiny, to try and sell her to the American people, her handlers sent her daughter out there with a hokey speech about what a doting mother she was, devoting time to family dinners, trips to the library, writing personal notes to her daughter every day (yeah right).  Heck, she sounded like a stay-at-home Mom…   Even Bill Clinton resorted to a hokey story about Hillary on her knees putting liner in the drawers for Chelsea’s clothes, while getting Chelsea settled at college.

As a cynic when it comes to the Clintons, I suspect these “family stories” are about as real as Hillary being under sniper fire in Bosnia.

Does anyone believe any of that from this power-driven woman, who has devoted every waking moment to her own quest for political power for 40 years???

This was as bad as her 1992 pretty in pink interview: https://www.c-span.org/video/?56307-1/whitewater-investigation

Turning her into a traditional stay-at-home-mom personality was their desperate gambit to try to “humanize”  and soften her image from the money-grubbing, coattail-clinging, power-grasping harpy that she really is and that America knows too well.

Next thing you know, they’ll be whispering to the press that power-hungry Hillary is so misunderstood and really, she’s a wonderfully doting grandmother, who secretly loves to bake cookies for Charlotte…

 

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America’s Best Hope

Here’s a run-down of this Hillary versus Trump match-up.

I have been saying since last Fall that Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy was in play – Bernie the kook on the left, Trump the kook on the right, with the path up the middle cleared for Hillary to march to the White House.  She spent almost a year trying to reinvent herself and conjure up this grandmotherly, Ms love and kindness shtick, beginning with soft soap late night TV appearances and daytime talk shows geared toward women.

I believe that somewhere in that Potemkin Trump campaign there were Clinton sewer rats scurrying in the dark corners.  I wondered for a long time whether Trump was in cahoots with the Clintons or a massive dupe.  I believe he was a dupe.  I suspect that Lewandowski was a go-between between Clinton operatives and Trump. Stone was pushed out last August, but then by late Feb. Stone and some GOP friends of Trump convinced Trump to hire Stone’s old business partner, Manafort.  After several skirmishes, Lewandowski left the Trump campaign and was immediately hired by CNN.

The thing about Trump is that while he is a total ignoramus on policy, he is a genius at self-promotion and he has the highly attuned ability of a con man to read his marks.

I believe that Hillary and Trump are two sides of the same extreme personality disorder.  He wants the presidency as a combination of the ultimate vanity purchase and a belief that only he can “make America great again”.  She believes being the FIRST female President of the United States is her destiny.  She has believed this probably since her early teens and every move she has made in her life has been geared toward that end.  Trump has dabbled with the thought of being President for decades, but it hasn’t been his all-consuming quest.  And beyond that, Hillary has already gone “very far” beyond the bounds of decency and the law to stay on track to achieve her destiny.  I think she would do just about anything at this point, to win, but I think Trump still has some moral boundaries and a family who keeps trying to pull him back.  Hillary has Bill, who owes her big time for saving him over and over.   He is going all-out to strong-arm all the Dems and do whatever is necessary

Just from a female perspective, and having known a few women like Hillary, my prediction is that Hillary will win in November.

Hillary will stealthily break every law necessary to win.  The Democratic party, which is a huge organized crime syndicate and every power of the executive branch of our government will go toward assuring she wins.  The media is overwhelmingly liberal and will carry her messaging.

Trump will bluster and make alarming statements, which will feed Hillary’s narrative that he is dangerous, and the GOP, felled by the “GOP Insurgent”, is in disarray.

And what I believe is the best hope for America is NEITHER Hillary nor Trump.

I believe America’s best hope is for the WHOLESALE PUBLIC CORRUPTION to be fully exposed to the American people!

#NeverTrump&NeverHillary
#NoMoreScorchedEarth
#SayNoToPublicCorruption


A few old LB posts:

A triangulation theory?

The Woman’s Way of War

Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy advances

Hillary’s perfect triangulation strategy advances

 

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An American Love Story (barf)

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“I have read your Declaration and Constitution, and although at first I found the former personally injurious,  I came to see that these are lucid and perfect documents, and that if you return to them  as faithfully as they have served  you since the beginning, they will not fail you.

You have neglected them, and are unclear about the duties of a citizen and what comes by right.  You seem to have forgotten the ancient battles in which you prevailed, and, more importantly, those that you merely survived.  You seem to have forgotten that your original principles arose in a land that was carpeted with virgin stands of trees, and that the principles by which you lived — immaterial and bright, ever enduring — grew up just as strong and fresh.  Return to them.  They are waiting for you, as are reserves of honour as vast as the stands of trees that once spread without end.”

“Freddy and Fredericka” p. 498, a funny, modern fairy tale about British royalty sent to live a year in America…. having to make it on their own, written by Mark Helprin

The only thing more sickening than watching Bill Clinton create this mythical love story, that sweeps the arc of mid-70s radicalism to 2016 wholesale public corruption, is watching the media hype this tripe.

“I met a girl.”….

Indeed, then he met many, many girls….

Especially women buy into the Clinton “love story” fable.  Especially women buy into Hillary as the “smartest woman in the world” too.  The man speaking last night was the man whose coattails she rode to power.  On her own, and without a constant coterie of handlers and fixers, she’s really a total loser and incompetent.

Her sloppiness is right in your face, from her Libya debacle to running her State Department business through a home-brew server, with virtually no security.  She obviously jeopardized national security and as soon as her “deleted” emails start getting leaked, that FACT will be indisputable.  Any competent state intelligence agency, which might exclude America’s,  has all of her email traffic from her unsecured, home-brew email server.

Yet, her coronation continues apace.

I’ve mentioned before, that I believe Bill Clinton is probably the smartest political strategist in America today.  He’s also an excellent orator.  When he’s on message, he can sell you anything.

Last night he was selling the Clinton love story….  and Hillary, the greatest woman in America.

Great….

From years of working in a store, I can tell you that you can take any piece of junk and sell it.  The easiest way to sell junk is to mark it down, throw it in a shopping cart, stick a sign on the cart and roll it to the front of the store, where all the customers pass by it.  Like magic, it sells.

Last night, Bill Clinton rolled the Hillary shopping cart to the front of the store.

With the puffed up, pampered Prince of New York, The Donald, and above the law, Queen Hillary, this election year may be the greatest farce in American history.

Yep, a Shakespearean comedy to rival, “As You Like It”….. “All the world’s a stage.”or maybe, “A fool, a fool!  I met a fool in the forest.” fits better….

 

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Does anyone remember Soviet disinformation campaigns?

Here’s an interesting piece by Humberto Fontovo: “Trump Spreads KGB-Hatched Disinformation Meme about JFK’s Assassination”.  The first paragraph sets the stage for how clueless all Americans now are about hostile foreign intelligence operations inside the United States:

“There was a day when sensible Americans (i.e. right-wingers) promptly pigeonholed people who accused “right-wingers!” (especially the most hardline, anti-communist and dastardly among them: Cuban-exiles!) of assassinating President Kennedy on the kook Left. In that day, such commie-like rantings might have also placed you on J. Edgar Hoover’s watch-list.”

 

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