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Karen's avatar

Thank you for being so direct, so succinct and so unassailable. Whenever I make comments about Trump failing as a Putin asset and having to fear retribution from crazy Vlad most of all, people roll their eyes and sigh.

You hate him so much, they say, you are letting your imagination get away from you. And these people are fairly sophisticated and well read. I’ve stopped arguing.

But friends, he is not the only American politician to spend copious amount of time in Russia during the 1980s when Putin and other up and coming KGB agents were developing assets in America. And they didn’t recruit solely from one particular party or spectre of society. They didn’t target just businessman or just small-town politicians with stars in their eyes or media or athletes or entertainers. They looked for future influencers. Look around my babies, and stop acting like I am the one with my head up my ass.

The ones with big mouths and empty eyes. The ones with sudden wealth they try to hide. Look for real estate empires in the name of family members. Look for an effort to drive the Chevy sedan around town while garaging the Maserati.

Be aware of those who seem to go out of their way to dress like bums and eschew any outward sign of success, leaving the good jewelry home with mama or tucked away in a safe deposit box.

These people are among us. They are in Congress. Their fat insouciant faces and roaring maws appear in the TV box we incessantly watch during Covid isolation. We pay good money during healthier times to see some of them perform artistry. Some of them have settled into careers in law enforcement and government. Some of them are teaching at your state college.

Think of who our CIA would have recruited from Russia: what professions and agencies would have given them a leg up in Russia? Who would have helped them undercut communist influence and bring down a nation?

Putin and his merry band of crazy makers did the exact same thing here. Look around. Don’t be paranoid and don’t start pointing accusing fingers. Yet.

But when they become so obvious about their mission and so direct about their game that they incite and launch a ragtag army of zealots to our capital to massacre those who stand in their way of their efforts to overthrow democracy, call them for what they are: Putin pansies. Insurrectionists. Traitors.

Get some balls about you! We need to weed them out and protect with every ounce of our heart, nerve and brawn, what is most precious and unique about being an American.

And stop rolling your eyes at me: they could freeze like that and you’d be stuck star-gazing forever.

You’re welcome. 💕

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Maureen A. Donnelly's avatar

Thanks Greg. Sorry for the dump here, but I'm achy and feeling punk after my second moderna dose. I do not understand the institutional denial involved in all things Trump. The party, the media, the petty BS about the Democrats while they let Republicans get away with: her 75000 buck purse, phucking the birthday of their beloved Baby Geezus, separating families, caging kids, were they selling them too? Remember Acosta was in charge when all that phuckery got going. Deripaska set up an aluminum plant in Mitch's and Rand's back yard--he was sanctioned for the Crimea phuckery. Maybe people with dicks are just more vulnerable to kompromot. Eight congress people went to Russia on the Fourth of July--all poles and Kay Granger from Texas. Trump rubbed an Arab Orb. They said nothing about Jamal. They say nothing about the Big Lie. The media picked on his phucking watch? I want all the data. All the info. I'm sick as phuck of being treated like a third grader. What are they all so afraid of? We will find out that an international crime ring runs everything? Glad I never brought a child into this mess. Nero's fiddling will seem generous alongside all of the GOP action. I read the Swan piece about the fear and loathing meeting in the White House. #GovernmentOfPutin indeed. Nancy was right as the rain when she pointed out that all paths pervert to Putin. Comey can go phuck himself. His false equivalencies and lack of real vision from his perch as the head of the nation's police force got us into this tarbaby of a mess. Like Nelly sang #MustBeTheMoney. I cringe as I try to imagine just how deep the rot goes. Then lets focus on the Opus Dei BS running rampant on the top court in the land. Everybody gets their panties in a bunch when a President is a lic, but nobody says boo when Six of Nine on the court are. Talk about some crazy corrupt phuck . . .

again. thanks. thanks for the venue to go on about my thoughts. Being old in the midst of this shitstorm has made me add a chapter in my "Letters to my 15 Year Old Self"

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