The Trussia Narrative That Won't Die; Plastic Straw Ban Rooted In A Faulty Premise; Media? What, Media?

Russia, Trump, Trump, Russia. That's all the DNC is obsessed with. Trussia this and Trussia that.

How can anyone not believe Russia hacked and meddled?! the seals shout!

The more they scream 'Traitor' the more I smell projection on their part.

Just follow your gut and nose. The whole stinky story should have left a skeptical stench by now.

Despite all the hollering over collusion, hollow indictments, hearsay passing off as 'proof' and unsubstantiated claims of meddling in an election, they have yet to produce a single, concrete, irrefutable piece of evidence something happened. Worse, it all always seems to point back to one thing: It originated within the DNC ranks. Which, perhaps is why they're working so hard at lying to the public - to protect their own sorry, corrupted asses. The deep state is, well, deep it looks like.

In the meantime, they're undermining not just a fairly elected official, they're completely dismantling any semblance of reasonable and responsible journalism. They're riling up people and angling for war with Russia over lies. Then again, deception (ie faulty premises) is what gets shit done among progressives (more on this in a second).

The sad spectacle is all of their doing. All of it. It's less about principles and more about principals. 

Here are some articles, if anything, to bring some balance to a most unbalanced episode in current American politics driven by the progressive Democrat party of the United States.

-A while back I linked to articles on Tech Dirt and Wired! basically saying the same thing here about the email hacks (leaks are not hacks by the way) and servers. It's technical stuff but the point is it doesn't jive with the Mueller/DNC narrative. 

-I mentioned a leak is not a hack. 

"...Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity — including two “alumni” who were former National Security Agency technical directors — have long since concluded that Julian Assange did not acquire what he called the “emails related to Hillary Clinton” via a “hack” by the Russians or anyone else. They found, rather, that he got them from someone with physical access to Democratic National Committee computers who copied the material onto an external storage device — probably a thumb drive. In December 2016 VIPS e xplained this in some detail in an open Memorandum to President Barack Obama..."

Of course, no-one is bothering to ask when Obama knew about the possibility of Russian 'hacking', why then did he not move to do anything about it? I'll let you decide as he gallivants around Africa saying nothing of value. As a digression, I doubt he'll mention anything about the vile barbarity criminal acts against humanity perpetuated blacks against white farmers there. That douche Trevor Noah - who has the smug audacity to call America racist despite what's going on in his shithole country - didn't, so I don't expect this fairy figment of the imagination Obama to do anything of substance (Eritrea-Ethiopia signalled for peace under Trump; not Obama) where true principles are concerned. I digress.

-Speaking of meddling, it's pretty rich the left suddenly care (like they do about deficits now) given, well, it's pretty much been happening for a long time. Obama's foreign policy wasn't just an incompetent, aimless mess; it was dangerous. But Trump is right about Russia. Just like he's right about Europe.

And people recognize this.



From Libertarian Nation.

-I alluded to traitorous activity up top. Here's why.

They say (the fools that is), Trump loves dictators. They lacking, of course, any self-awareness of their dear leader Obama who seemed to cozy up to dictators a little too comfortably. 

"...President Obama seems uncomfortable with democracy promotion for two reasons. First, he wants to distance himself from President George W. Bush’s agenda, a significant plank of which was democracy promotion. Second, I think he is a product of a certain liberal worldview that believes the U.S.’s and West’s past sins, such as slavery and the Crusades, disqualify them from pushing their values abroad, as doing so implies that the U.S.-led West’s model is superior..."

“...For the first year I put it down to ABB, Anything But Bush—Bush did it, so it was bad,” Kramer told me. “But seven years on that doesn’t explain it anymore. He’s the president who’s shown the least interest in democracy and human rights since Richard Nixon. It’s sad. For someone who constantly extols his past as a community organizer, this is pretty unexplainable.”

They just think they'll win and it will all go away. Ends justifying the means and all that. Meanwhile, Rome burns.

"...In a different media environment, these revelations would have been front-page news, but have largely been ignored by the U.S. media, which Nunes views as working to oppose Trump at all costs. 

"If the shoe was on the other foot, and this is what's so bad and so corrupt about the media, and why I'm so worried about the future of our country, because without a free and fair and open media we have a major problem in this country," Nunes said. "The media is what we count on to bring the transparency to government. There's no possible way that if George W. Bush had done this to [former President Brack] Obama this town would have been on fire."

As if it isn't already apparent to keen observers certain media outlets are feeding its clients a bunch of bunk here are a couple.

Think of it. CNN has it's own controversies page on Wikipedia. An organization that isn't exactly unsympathetic to liberal/progressivism.

I especially like this one because it's typical of progressives to suddenly not be feminists when conservative women are involved:

"On October 22, 2014, CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello reported on the audio release of Bristol Palin being assaulted by a man at a get-together in Alaska. Costello laughed and called it "quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across." She was instantly criticized for making fun of a woman who was being physically abused by a man she didn't know, as well as for being a hypocrite after recently calling for ESPN to suspend Stephen A. Smith after comments he made about women during the Ray Ricecontroversy. Costello eventually apologized in a statement to Politico, stating: "Over the past few days, I have been roundly criticized for joking about a brawl involving the Palin family. In retrospect, I deserve such criticism and would like to apologize."

The NYT for its part has been committing so many errors, it's a marvel its 'paper of record' brand still persists and is perceived as a positive.

You know things are a tad askew and astray when Vanity Fair drops some smack on your sorry ass.

There's so much more where that came from. Just google 'New York Times errors' or some word configuration.  They chose to cut the copy editor faction and now they must face the tune that comes with it.

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And last but not least. From the people "who fucking love science" comes....

Ban the Plastic straws movement because virtue signalling.



If you support the plastic straw ban, you're an idiot.

A gullible idiot.

Sorry.

*Update. The city of Santa Barbara decided to criminalize using straws.

This is where 'I fucking love science' crowd have accomplished. They've criminalized behaviour for something that will have ZERO impact on the environment.