For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Washington Post was tipped off by a high ranking official (a term not used lightly – more on that in a second) that a secret CIA assessment was conducted and found that Russia did indeed interfere with our US election – not for the purpose of just casting doubt on our system – but for the sole purpose of electing Donald Trump. Some have tried to allege that this is fabricated news, but here’s now we know it is not: back in late September, President Obama received this intelligence but thought if he were to give it to the American people, it would look partisan. He instead decided to have the intelligence agencies brief the “Gang of 12” or, a group of the twelve senior ranking congress men and women, so they could put out the information to the American people in a bipartisan fashion. The hope was that they would expose Russia’s interference and denounce any further attempt to sabotage our election system.
While Democrats said yes and some Republicans said yes, most notably Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said no. He refused.
Let’s say for a second he didn’t trust the intelligence. Let’s say he didn’t trust all seventeen security agencies about this information. Let’s say that.
But we also need to take into consideration that after the election, McConnell’s wife, Elaine Cho, was given a cabinet position.
This doesn’t even touch on the fact that America’s security agencies are almost certain (see: they won’t confirm it outright) that WikiLeaks was acting as a proxy for Russia and the FSB (their CIA) for a long time now, which explains why WikiLeaks has not gone after Russia with the same tenacity they’ve gone after the rest of the world with for years. They’re certain that Russia also hacked the RNC but sat on the information (and remember: WikiLeaks said the information on Donald Trump wasn’t “interesting” enough to leak).
And now Donald Trump has filled his cabinet with people who are not just alt-right they are billionaires with ties to the Kremlin and friends of Putin. I know this website doesn’t really give a shit about Eastern Europe, but realize that for people living beyond Germany and living in the Balkans, this is terrifying stuff. This is a return to the Cold War, and while I am no fan of America throwing itself into everyone’s backyard nor do I glorify Reagan (i fucking do not like Reagan), consider a return to the Cold War where Russia is left to invade countries at their leisure. We saw it with Georgia in 2008. We saw it with Crimea.
This is happening right now and if you don’t think Donald Trump isn’t Putin’s handpicked puppet, boy have I got news for you.
I misspoke when I said we have gone 24 hours without a Trump twitter controversy. This one’s less likely to start a war, though in some ways it’s more disturbing.
So, at around 8:00am this morning, Trump fired off a tweet which suggested he was going to take the contract for Air Force One away from Boeing. When I say ‘suggested,’ what I mean is that the tweet ended with the words, “Cancel order!” Boeing’s stock began dropping.
Evidently, Trump read this article, got pissed off, and decided to punish Boeing because its CEO dared to oppose him. I’ve figured out, incidentally, why Trump is so addicted to Twitter. It provides him with an instant gratification that he cannot obtain in any other way. He thinks it, he tweets it, he basks in the attention. The attention is what’s important to him, not the consequences. No wonder “Trump’s Unpredictable Style Unnerves Corporate America.”
All right. Let me see how succinctly I can explain why, in a capitalist economy, when you are the incoming or actual President of the United States, Words Have Consequences, and why even those of us who kind of hate corporate America share some of their unnerved-ness.
If the CIA and this reporting is to be believed, the GOP-lead Senate deliberately ignored this information from the CIA to gain power. Someone needs to act BEFORE the Electoral College meets on Dec 19th.
So far Lindsay Graham is the only Republican to speak up in outrage. And the only Democrat to make waves has been Harry Reid (who is retiring). The GOP’s reaction is understandable. Trump’s reaction has been as scary as everything else he has done, but 100% understandable. But the Dems? Pure cowardice, as usual. Obama himself needs to do something about this, because any investigation will end on Jan 20th.
And YOU reading this need to make serious waves. Our highest Intelligence agency has claimed this election was stolen. Trump WILL get away with this if we don’t take to the streets, IMMEDIATELY. Call someone. Write something. None of this is politics as normal! People need to be jailed for this.This is the literal definition of influence from a foreign government, and exactly what the Electoral College was made to stop.
Angela Merkel just said she’ll offer Donald Trump cooperation, on the basis that he respects people’s dignity no matter the place of birth, colour of their skin, beliefs, their sex, sexuality or their political convictions.
So….I guess germany and the us just broke up?
Merkel basically said “Cut your racist and sexist bullshit and then maybe I’ll talk to you”.
She’s doing more than that. In the German original she speaks of the Würde des Menschen – The dignity of man. That’s the first line of the German constitution:
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar- The dignity of man is inviolable.
She’s literally throwing the book at him and reminding him she’ll only work with him on the terms of the constitution.
I mean, I disagree with her on quite a few things, but I’m very happy with her response.
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