Interesting. Thanks John.

I see that the thing about Putin calling Trump “brilliant” comes up in that article too. I saw an interview with a native Russian speaker, and I think that may have been on Fareed Zakaria’s show too, and she said that “brilliant” as in “intelligent” was an incorrect translation of the word Putin used. The word he used was more akin to “flashy”.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-election-meddling-and-when-did-everyone-start-using-term

There’s a Vox YouTube video from 2016 about how Hillary Clinton would govern. It’s pretty good. It doesn’t speak to her qualifications enough, and it’s clearly partly about mollifying Bernie voters, but it’s worth a watch. It’ll be a few hours before I’m on a device where I can easily add a link, but it should be easy enough to find.

I commented on that article by Jonathan Chait, but it somehow did not appear.
It confirms my worst fears about the Trump presidency. It also gives quite some information I was not even aware of. Thanks for the link, Jenny.
I deem it beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Trump is the ‘Russian candidate’ (albeit without implants), that he will continue to carry out Mr Putin’s agenda, and that the ‘free world’ is doomed if he cannot be stopped. I think there is no way the importance of this can be overestimated. Mr Trump is a kind of Yanukovich, but the US is, contrary to Ukraine, a superpower.
Since there is no serious counter to the Russian interference in the US elections, I also fear that the ‘Blue Tsunami’ in November will not happen, or rather, will be smothered. Whichever way we look at it, the West, the ‘free world’ (that’s you and me), is very likely toast.

“If Trump is Putin’s puppet, who cares? Still better than Hillary.” Unbelievably, that is an attitude I’ve actually seen in many comment sections on, say, The Hill or Politico.
I wonder if Trumpists are really posting that, or if it is just Russian trolls. It is difficult -impossible for me- to distinguish.
I mean, a traitor who destroys the Western alliance, and hence the US as a world power, better than Ms Clinton? How warped can one get?

Please….border

Yes, I think we had our chance to do something way back when this first started but we did not have the stomach for it. It is amazing that the people of that area of the world have so little regard for life or decency. Another thing that is pretty clear about the U.S. They have joined most of the rest of the world in the do nothing category. Heck, we separate families at the boarder and think nothing of it.

I think you’ve got it right here. And I think Putin is super-imperialist.

This Syria thing is really, really bad! I saw some stuff on Twitter, including a clip from Maddow’s show. Un-effing-believable!

As of this morning, there is an attempt on the table for the Feds to preempt California’s Clean Air Act.

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