Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion

As the Snowden documents and David Sanger’s great new book and other books make plain, and as U.S. officials are wont to brag, the U.S. intelligence services break into computers and computer networks abroad at an astounding rate, certainly on a greater scale than any other intelligence service in the world.  Every one of these intrusions in another country violates that country’s criminal laws prohibiting unauthorized computer access and damage, no less than the Russian violations of U.S. laws outlined in Mueller’s indictment

It is no response to say that the United States doesn’t meddle in foreign elections, because it has in the past—at least as recently as Bill Clinton’s intervention in the Russian presidential election of 1996 and possibly as recently as the Hillary Clinton State Department’s alleged intervention in Russia’s 2011 legislative elections. And during the Cold War the United States intervened in numerous foreign elections, more than twice as often as the Soviet Union. Intelligence history expert Loch Johnson told Scott Shane that the 2016 Russia electoral interference is “the cyber-age version of standard United States practice for decades, whenever American officials were worried about a foreign vote.”  The CIA’s former chief of Russia operations, Steven L. Hall, told Shane: “If you ask an intelligence officer, did the Russians break the rules or do something bizarre, the answer is no, not at all.” Hall added that “the United States ‘absolutely’ has carried out such election influence operations historically, and I hope we keep doing it.”

LawfareUncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Russia Indictment 2.0 and Trump’s Press Conference With Putin

Nothing gets the phony “Resistance,” corporate media and neocons more hysterical than when Trump isn’t belligerent enough while meeting with foreign leaders abroad. While the pearl clutching was intense during the North Korea summit, the reoccurring, systematic outrage spectacle was taken to entirely new levels of stupidity and hyperbole during yesterday’s meeting with Putin in Finland.

The clown parade really got going after compulsive liar and former head of the CIA under Barack Obama, John Brennan, accused Trump of treason on Twitter — which resistance drones dutifully retweeted, liked and permanently enshrined within the gospel of Russiagate.

Some people hate Trump so intensely they’re willing to take the word of a professional liar and manipulator as scripture. In fact, Brennan is so uniquely skilled at the dark art of deception, Trevor Timm, executive direction of the Freedom of the Press foundation described him in the following manner in a must read 2014 article: “this is the type of spy who apologizes even though he’s not sorry, who lies because he doesn’t like to tell the truth.” The article also refers to him as “the most talented liar in Washington.” This is the sort of hero the phony “resistance” is rallying around. No thank you.

It wasn’t just Brennan, of course. The mental disorder colloquially known as Trump Derangement Syndrome is widely distributed throughout society at this point. Baseless accusations of treason were thrown around casually by all sorts of TDS sufferers, including sitting members of Congress. To see the extent of the disease, take a look at the show put on by Democratic Congressman from Washington state, Rep. Adam Smith.

Via The Hill:

“At every turn of his trip to Europe, President Trump has followed a script that parallels Moscow’s plan to weaken and divide America’s allies and partners and undermine democratic values. There is an extensive factual record suggesting that President Trump’s campaign and the Russians conspired to influence our election for President Trump,” Smith, a top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in an official statement.

“Now Trump is trying to cover it up. There is no sugar coating this. It is hard to see President Trump siding with Vladimir Putin over our own intelligence community and our criminal investigators as anything other than treason.”

Those are some serious accusations. He must surely have a strong argument to support such proclamations, right? Wrong. Turns out it was all show, pure politics.

In an interview with The Seattle Times, Smith expanded on his “treason” comment, saying Trump legally did not commit treason but has committed other impeachable offenses. 

“Treason might have been a little bit of hyperbole,” Smith told The Seattle Times. “There is no question in my mind that the United States has the need to begin an impeachment investigation.”

It says a lot that the resistance itself doesn’t even believe its own nonsense. They’re just using hyperbolic and dangerous language to make people crazy and feed more TDS.

Here’s yet another example of a wild-eyed Democratic Congressman sounding utterly bloodthirsty and unhinged. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee is openly saying the U.S. is at war with Russia.

From The Hill:

“No question about it,” Cohen told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on “Rising” when asked whether the Russian hacking and propaganda effort constituted an act of war.

“It was a foreign interference with our basic Democratic values. The underpinnings of Democratic society is elections, and free elections, and they invaded our country,” he continued. 

Cohen went on to say that the U.S. should have countered with a cyber attack on Russia. 

“A cyber attack that made Russian society valueless. They could have gone into Russian banks, Russian government. Our cyber abilities are such that we could have attacked them with a cyber attack that would have crippled Russia,” he said. 

This is a very sick individual.

While the above is incredibly twisted, it’s become increasingly clear that Russiagate has become something akin to a religion. It’s adherents have become so attached to the story that Trump’s “wholly in the pocket of Putin,” they’re increasingly lobbing serious and baseless accusations against people who fail to acquiesce to their dogma. I was a victim of this back in November 2016 when I was falsely slandered in The Washington Post’s ludicrous and now infamous PropOrNot article.

More recently, we’ve seen MSNBC pundit Malcom Nance (ex-military/intelligence) call Glenn Greenwald a Russian agent (without evidence of course), followed by “journalist” David Corn calling Rand Paul a “traitor” for stating indisputable facts.

Calling someone a traitor for stating obvious facts that threaten the hysteria you’re trying to cultivate is a prime example of how this whole thing has turned into some creepy D.C. establishment religion. If these people have such a solid case and the facts are on their side, there’s no need to resort to such demented craziness. It does nothing other than promote societal insanity and push the unconvinced away.

It’s because of stuff like this that we’re no longer able to have a real conversation about anything in this contry (many Trump cheerleaders employ the same tactics) . This is a deadly thing for any society and will be explored in Part 2.

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27 thoughts on “Lunatic Politics (Part 1) – Russiagate is a Religion”

  1. The entire “Russiagate” phenomenon is the most ludicrous (like, full plaid) thing they’ve subjected us to thus far.

    Who gives a shit how or by whom the malfeasance of one of the candidates was exposed?

    In my opinion, whoever hacked the DNC did us a solid…

    And if you don’t like Trump, then blame the DNC… they should have nominated a different candidate… like Bernie… oh wait, they already screwed him over.

    Such hypocrisy…

    And here’s a news flash:

    Trump and Putin control 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons… who in their right mind would take issue with those two men talking as often and openly as possible????

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  2. I tell people that TDS cuts both ways, that in addition to the crazy people who think Trump is evil incarnate, there are other crazies that believe he’s always playing 9D chess and is perhaps the most brilliant man in history. The hyperbole is way out of control in both directions.

    That said, I have no problem with Trump talking to Putin. The reactions merely highlight that we’re a nation of people who despise each other and we’ll probably come to blows in the coming years. No country can function well with this level of animosity.

    Saddest of all, this Trump/Putin stuff has nothing to do with our most pressing issue, the central bankers. No matter how nicely we start treating each other, the wealth redistribution to an ever smaller clique of individuals at the very top will torpedo our society anyway. Ugh.

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  3. The TDS promoters are not stupid… they’re getting their marching orders from ‘somewhere’. And that ‘somewhere’ is exceedingly cunning, has a purpose, and are acting quite desperate. I’m guessing Bernie really scared them.

    I must be the only one old enough to remember the Saddam Hussein ‘hysteria’ that preceded the Iraq War… Repubs demanding and Dems ‘caving’… although I think the ‘somewhere’ were/are pulling both R/D strings… money will do that. This is such an obvious replay, it is hilarious!

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    • Great point, One of the most important aspects. Living in a country that still thinks Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy does not give me much optimism. I wish we could put it all on a white board like they do in those murder mysteries and work through it . The exercise in itself would be a revelation. That is sort of what I am trying to convey below.. I have more on Medium under CMW if this does not make sense initially.

  4. What is our most valuable asset as individuals; to be able to see the reality (truth) of a matter, to act and speak in regards to our beliefs? Is this not central to our humanity? What does this make liars, anti-humanity? What I just said sounds good in theory, in reality though as I see it; humanity is at war with itself. It is offensive and defensive. Lies are part of the Jungle, like the foliage. We cannot put an end to liars or expect justice for those who abuse our humanity. We can though change the environment. The real issue is that human logic is abused by the needs and wants of individuals. Human logic is not in a position of authority. Human logic is a neglected pet, If we change the environment from a transient, here today gone tomorrow world ruled by individuals competing against one another to a world where human logic is esteemed, elevated and preserved. A world and environment where perspectives are captured and stored and refined though a collective intelligence. Then we will no longer have the need to report on the liar and scum of the week . The effort we expend writing like this will actually be productive and count for something. Not that it doesn’t . It is just very slow going.. We are walking when we could be driving.

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    • Logic, like Common Sense, is a rare phenomenon these days… I saw a shirt I should have bought that stated “Common sense is so rare these days it should be considered a Super Power.”

  5. All principled journalists have long since been weeded out of the western media, leaving only soulless careerists who follow their marching orders to get ahead. This has been made obvious by the lockstep orchestration of content by every major outlet. Truly, Trump must represent an existential threat to the ruling Corporatocracy to warrant their mouth-foaming, repeated attacks. All that is required is a provocative headline or a baseless, authoritative claim to stampede the emotion-driven herd at will. But the herd is growing weary and wary, and one day soon may trample those who thought to control it.

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    • Perfectly put..”Truly, Trump must represent an existential threat to the ruling Corporatocracy to warrant their mouth-foaming, repeated attacks.” : ) Oh, and my point about ‘somewhere’ is that these plutos are NOT lunatics! They’ve hired the best brains available.. for social /media manipulation (see Edward Bernays et al), not to mention demonic financial ‘market’ thievery, and political corruption. Times, they are a’changin.

    • I’m right with you, Nancy. How often do we see writers comment on how this or that policy is stupid, crazy, or doesn’t make any sense. No!! There is always a reason things are the way they are: someone near the top of the social pyramid is benefiting financially at the expense of those near the bottom.

  6. I am amazed at how many otherwise intelligent people are buying into the Russiagate narrative (especially so close in time to the invasion of Iraq because of WMDs). It just emphasizes for me how powerful the propaganda machines truly are and the fact that the human mind, in its penchant for reducing cognitive dissonance, filters information in order to fit into preconceived notions.

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    • They don’t believe it. That’s the point! None of them do. Its like pastors who do not believe in God but preach every week because its their job. These people have their interests, and its certainly nothing to do with the voters’ choice.

  7. Even in the midst of this complete bizarro world madness there is a bipartisan effort (supported by Trump) to have Pence convince Ecuador to turn over Julian Assange to the teabags so that he can be extradited to the US. (Of course, the teabags will probably make sure he dies from a sudden illness or something of the sort before that happens).

    https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/07/16/war-assange-war-press-freedom

    That tells you all you need to know.

    The real powers that be know that this is a perfect time to use the Dialectic to present a “solution” that both sides (thesis vs. anti-thesis) can agree on.

    Next “solution” up to bat, Trump asks Putin for Snowden, and Putin delivers.

    As my father always told me; “Pay no attention to what they say. Just watch what they do.”

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    • That’s nonsense.

      Assange and Wikileaks is still active. Snowden is dormant. Nobody with anything to reveal would touch him with a 10-foot pole.

      The only motivation for his extradition would be revenge or to set an example. Trump doesn’t give a shit what Snowden did on Obama’s watch, nor does he feel the need to vindicate an intelligence community that hasn’t done him any favors.

      What would Trump possibly have to gain from excoriating Snowden? He’d look like a tyrant with no recompense.

      And what would Putin gain from reversing his years-old decision to harbor Snowden?

    • I always wondered if Snowden was a plant. I have to ask myself is the N.S.A. really capable of monitoring every conversation on the planet or are they simply trying to give everyone the impression that they can.

    • The NSA is working on it. They follow “Moore’s law”, which is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. This means, the NSA’s massive data center built in Utah will, in a predictable period of time, have the capability to record, store, and analyze three billion phone calls per day, plus all e-mail and other electronic transmissions. From these, behavioral profiles can be build — a Chinese style dangan file for every red-blooded American boy and girl.

  8. And a key “fix” to prevent Russian “cyber attacks” on our election process, would be to go back to paper ballots. Americans obsess about tech advancements, and refuse to “go back” even though such advances are easy to corrupt, and do not “save time”.

    Plus, the American political establishment, and the defense and security culture is so bloody narcissistic and competitive.. Look at what they are doing to Maria Butina. Its astonishing – she joins the NRA, talks to Congressmen, bingo!! Arrest her!! She’s a spy!!

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  9. My question is what are our options in dealing with this mess? I got my internet connection in 1999 and started reading about the bad guys on Rense and the Kitco metals page. That was almost 20 years ago and what has really changed? This article was well written and the comments have been good. In a week or month though it will be on to something new. My solution is a Collective Intelligence. I hope you will see my blog on Medium or Steemit under CMW and let me know where I am wrong. My real hope would be that we could incorporate in some rudimentary fashion some of the attributes of a C.I. here on this site. Will we comment vertically for the rest of our lives? Is there possibly something more we could do? Do our comments have to be unorganized, transitory and repetitive?

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  10. Bigger question: How did a former CPUSA member, who proudly voted ans stumped for Gus Hall in 1976, EVER get on a track that led him to become CIA director?

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  11. ‘While the above is incredibly twisted, it’s become increasingly clear that Russiagate has become something akin to a religion…’

    in this instance, i think ‘cult’ is far more appropriate than ‘religion’ – it’s much more a derangement system than a belief system…

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  12. @ Nightnthebox

    What is “nonsense”?

    “Assange and Wikileaks is still active.”

    Wikileaks is still active, but Assange is completely inactive with no phone or internet access. So the Brits and the US want Assange so they can make an example of him and remove any chance of him getting back at the helm of Wikileaks.

    “What would Trump possibly have to gain from excoriating Snowden?”

    “Snowden is a spy who has caused great damage to the U.S. A spy in the old days, when our country was respected and strong, would be executed”

    – Donald Trump

    “And what would Putin gain from reversing his years-old decision to harbor Snowden?”

    Putin could care less about Snowden. At this point Snowden is an aging bargaining chip that he might as well use before his sell by date expires.

    So if Putin hands over Snowden to Trump, at Trump’s request (which for all we know was discussed Monday), it would shove all of the people like Brennan and all of the other self-serving statists screaming about treason, back on their heels.

    Think about it. There’s no way that group can put a negative spin on Putin handing over Snowden to Trump. As a bonus, it makes Barry and Clinton look bad.

    If I were Edward Snowden, I’d be looking very hard for an escape hatch right about now.

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    • Like you said yourself, Gen-o: forget what they say, watch what the do.

      And I wholeheartedly disagree with your estimation of Snowden’s shelf-life, my friend.

      Uncle Putin’s continued unmolested (at least publicly) asylum of the Ginger-Ninja is a big flashing VACANCY sign that says:

      “Got Shit? Come to Mother Russia. We’ll leave the light on!”

      Plus his survival is a testimony to Russia’s resolve and effectiveness. Don’t think for a second that our intel community wouldn’t have murdered his ass by now, executive orders or not, if they’d had a semi-decent shot at maintaining their sacred plausible deniability.

      No, Snowden is pure “Mudd in the eye” to spooks across the world… A giant neon laughing middle finger.

      And it makes Putin look like a humanitarian…the Grorious Defender of Truth… The Protector of Virgin Disclosure… Patron Saint of Leaky Spooks everywhere.

  13. I would posit that both Assange and Snowden have held back some VERY damaging info, which would be triggered for massive public release in the event they are captured or killed by the Deep State/Zionist/Bilderberg/Rothschild cabal. Perhaps the names and exploits of every US/NATO spy and deep cover operative sent to “rest of the world” world gov’ts that the US$ system depends on. The high-placed Grima Wormtongues of the world which may have taken years to infiltrate various gov’ts exposed and eliminated in a matter of days.

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  14. I hope you’re right. But after that presser on Monday, and the subsequent maniacal over the top reaction, Putin handing over Snowden to Trump would be a perfectly ripe and juicy “STFU spooks” peach for Vlad to present to Donny boy.

    Couple that with the strong possibility that Pence successfully persuades Ecuador to give up Assange, and it’s a one-two knockdown punch to the top spooks by Trump. They’re on the mat trying to get up for the count.

    We shall see.

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    • I think Assange may still have some leverage. He’s hinted that he’s sitting on some heavy stuff that he’s held back as an insurance policy, to go public were he to be taken into custody (assuming he’s actually still alive).

      That could be pure bullshit, of course.

      But Assange is a sharp guy and if anyone could pull it off, it’d be him.

  15. The real religion is Secular Socialism, whose deity is government, this is just a minor sect. The other sects are the Church of Warming, Feminism, Race, Sexual Orientation, War, etc. To the main religion Obama was the Messiah and Trump is the antichrist

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  16. Excellent article and great comments. Thanks. I think I got a good twist about all these Russiagate’s craziness, These Russiagaters are just a bunch of scoundrels.

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