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K “America has engaged in rampant election interference throughout the world for a very long time. That is where Americans get the expression that something is ‘as American as apple pie and election interference’. It is who we are.”
J “America does not just interfere in elections, if the democratic process in a country lawfully produces an inconvenient outcome, America overthrows the government or assassinates the winner.”
K “America is the beacon for the world and the city on the hill.”
J “On some level, Americans should be proud that the Russians are emulating us. They know a good thing when they see it. And they are again stealing good things from us without a word of thanks.”
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K “Russia appears to have given ammo cans of money to the National Rifle Association (NRA) to flood American voters with vile and evil propaganda.”
J “Seems that the NRA subjected every NRA member to a steady flow of pro-Trumpi and anti-Clintoni propaganda each and every week and most days in the months before the election.”
K “That Russian influence must be what has gotten the Republicans in such a tither. They don’t like being in bed with the Commies.”
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J “I still don’t trust the Russians. They are up to no good.”
K “Who is up to yes good?”
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K “Keep in mind that the First Amendment limits government interference with speech and other forms of expression. America and Americans have trouble with that truth when they don’t like someone’s speech. Were the Russians engaging in anything nastier than the antics of the DNC and the RNC, the two divisions of the War and Wall Street Party? No. Did they have any greater impact than all the Dark Money that flooded the election courtesy of Citizens Disunited? Not by a long shot.”
J “I still don’t trust the Russians. They are up to no good.”
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J “Collusion is a different animal. When Americans work in concert with Russian operatives, we should all be concerned and ask questions.”
K “Republicans may not adore Trumpi, but he is now the meal ticket and the money machine for them. They have circled the wagons. And something about the Clinton Global Initiative does not ring true.”
J “Republicans are anxious that Trumpi’s decades of money laundering for the Russians in real estate deals may not play well among good hearted Americans. Trumpi’s deals violate enough federal laws to put him away in government-sponsored housing for two lifetimes.”
K “Except that we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law.”
J “There is that problem.”
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[See the e-commentary on the efficacy of the sanctions against Russia titled “World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law.
You cannot get out of bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code. In fact, and as a matter of law, you cannot stay in bed in the morning without violating some section of title 18 of the United States Code, the federal criminal code. In practice, the United States is a system of men not laws because men and women opt from the panoply of laws that punish all behavior and decide who is and who is not imprisoned.
There is no law. There is only ideology.
Boycott the NRA
Boycott the National Rifle Association
DNC = RNC = WWP
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