Q NOTES # 1252: Apples and Eyes

 It's being reported on several webpages that the waste of shit, Donald Phlopp, boasted in an interview on Fox Business that he is (was) the apple of Putin's eye. Frankly, there's never been any doubt that Putin thoroughly enjoyed having a so-called American  precedent (sic) completely under his control, and anxious to destroy the United States in exchange for occasional warm smiles from his Big Daddy. On the other hand, Phlopp is probably overestimating the degree to which bragging about this shit will win the hearts of any voters other than the lowest layer of MAGA mooks.

Assets and Agents

There's no disagreement among Americans who follow the news carefully that Donnie Slump has devoted his so-called precedence (sic) to implementing policies that are favorable to Russia. Evidence has been available since 2016, and more pieces of the puzzle are turning up nearly every day.

The question this afternoon is whether Slump is more accurately identified as a Russian agent or a Russian asset. In the jargon of international espionage, agents are people who are specifically recruited and groomed, then directed to carry out activities ordered by an intelligence service, while assets are persons or things that an intelligence service is able to use to its advantage (even without the asset's direct knowledge).

Based on things as they stand today, I'm pretty sure that Slump started as a Russian asset years ago, but since the 201 election, has been working up to agent status. None of the things Slump is doing are considered fortunate coincidences by Putin.

Quid pro quo

From Hullabaloo:

"The consensus is that Trump "impulsively" told Erdogan to go ahead and invade Syria and said the U.S. would not object. (Since Turkey has 50 American nuclear bomb sites on its territory, Erdogan probably figured Trump wouldn't say such a thing if he didn't mean it.) It's also possible that Trump wanted to keep Turkey happy since he has two Trump Towers in Istanbul and several other active business ventures that require Erdogan's cooperation. But it's impossible to ignore the fact that while every single Trump foreign policy bungle can be attributed to his ignorance, narcissism or corruption, for some reason they always seem to accrue to the benefit of Vladimir Putin."

Yeah, it's almost like there's some kind of secret agreement or plan. Every time Donnie Dingleberry makes a move in foreign policy, the United States gets weaker and Russia gets stronger. That's really weird...

The Chain of Command

Vladimir Putin has control of Donnie Strunz, and Strunz has control of at least 80 percent of (R) voters, including total control of at least 1/4 of them. As long as Strunz can influence that many (R) voters, he can control the (R)s in Congress. Once all the dots are connected, it's accurate to say that Russia (under Putin) now indirectly controls the federal government of the United States. Virtually everything Strunz does is intended to satisfy the Russian government, as today's headlines confirm.

Right in Front of Us

Joe Conason has written the story that every journalist should be writing for every media source for the next 12 months. Most people in the United States are in agreement that Donnie Phartz is probably the worst so-called precedent (sic) in history, but most of us chalk it up to his complete lack of qualifications for the position, or his corruption, or the fact that he's some kind of mental case.

We need to be taking a closer look at what he's actually accomplishing with this constant destructive behavior, and ask ourselves one question: Aren't the results of this chaos exactly what Vladimir Putin would be getting if all his wishes were being granted? This might be written off as a really weird coincidence if Russia hadn't interfered in the last election to ensure that Phartz won, if Phartz hadn't been ass-deep in shady deals with Russia for years, and if Phartz wasn't behaving exactly the way he'd be expected to behave if he was controlled by Putin and the Russian government. Has Phartz done anything that Putin wouldn't do if he was personally in charge of the executive branch of this government?

Sometimes the truth is hiding in plain sight, but we just refuse to accept it.

Love and Happiness

Ignorant Republican assholes who adore Donny Stink Eye and constantly rationalize his rotten behavior are insisting he isn't a stinking racist pig. He's just showing how much he loves America.

If this how is how that repulsive degenerate shows his love, imagine what the hate looks like. Or maybe it's better if we don't.

The person who's getting the most enjoyment from this goddamned dumpster fire is Donny's boss, Vladimir Putin. Every fucking dream of defeating America is coming true, and Donny's easily the best investment Putin ever made.

The bigger picture

Wouldn't it be funny if Vladimir Putin had a grand scheme to make Russia the dominant world power, and Donny Stink Eye was a big part of it?

No, it wouldn't be funny.

Charles B. Pierce @ ESQUIRE explains why "Change and die" may be replaced by "Change or die" if the (D)'s are serious about beating Donny Stink Eye next year.

Karma

Sen. Kamala Harris confirms what we already suspected about stinking turd Mitch McConnell.

I hope that rotten bastard eventually experiences a special kind of retribution for the crap he's been pulling for the last 10 years. He has zero redeeming qualities, just like Stink Eye, and he's an enemy of the United States, also like Stink Eye. This world will be a better place to live when both are out of the picture.

TWO OF A KIND

Perspective: Seth Abramson

This is really the only question that matters right now. What Donnie Hump, Booger Barr, and Rudy Kazootie tell the media is totally irrelevant, since not a word of what they say is true. I recommend instead this review by Seth Abramson regarding five things the media are getting wrong in their reporting about the release of the Mueller report this week. Hint: This isn't the end of anything.

Added 12:48 AM Thursday: Rick Wilson @ The Daily Beast for future reading

Spy vs Sap

Apparently the choice comes down to this, and we'll have to decide which of the alternatives is worse:

• Is the Orange Piss Stain a willing Russian asset/agent, or
• are the Piss Stain mobsters just a bunch of fucking assholes who can be used by the Russians at any time to do anything?

That's a sorry choice to have to make.

Heather Digby Parton discusses this dilemma at Hullabaloo.

Backing Up

There seems to be an assumption that there's only a single copy of Mueller's massive investigation report, and that Booger Barr has it. Here's the thought that crossed my mind last night: Suppose there are numerous backup copies in the possession of people who are calmly watching Booger until he passes off a phony alternate version to Congress. That would open up interesting possibilities.

Predictable Denials

For god's sake, does anyone believe that any Russian is ever going to admit the 2016 election was stolen for Donnie Zeppo, and that Russians did the stealing? Reporting that Donnie or some Russian asshole denies being involved in a criminal conspiracy is a waste of time and effort.

The plot thickens?

Oh, shit. This can't be good news for Donald Dumpster, can it?

There's probably only one question you need to answer to figure this one out:

If Vladimir Putin had the President of the United States under his control, what kinds of things would he expect the President to do? 

Then write down which of those things Donald Dumpster has done since taking office, or is doing now.

Then, for good measure, take a close look at any suspicious behavior.

I've seen numerous reports online regarding Russian television broadcasts featuring open discussion of Donald's success in carrying out his assigned agenda in the United States. Usually I've written it off as Russian media trolling the US, but now I'm accepting the possibility that they're serious.

Deeper than we thought, for sure

Question answered @ Daily Kos: How deep are the ties between Russia and the GOP?

Updated 9:24 PM Monday 23 July: I only recently finished reading the material I needed to read in order to comprehend the reality of what's happening in the United States. Now that I'm able to place events in the proper context, I can completely understand why Donnie Hump needs to do things like this enemies list bullshit. His problem is that there already too many people who (a) haven't pledged their loyalty to him, and (b) also understand what's happening. The media still haven't come to grips with the fact that this is about much more than Russia "meddling" in an election.

Donnie Hump states that he gave up nothing to Putin during his man-on-man with Vladimir in Helsinki. That's comforting, since Donnie's never lied to us.

Compromised?

Digby @ Hullabaloo wrote a good summary of Donnie's latest weekly adventure.

Oh, hell yeah... let's protect Russia's constitutional right of free speech by allowing the NRA to conceal all the Russian "donations" that passed through en route to the GOP.

They say you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, but Donnie the Hump's so fucking stupid, that's what he tried to do today. For some reason, the fat bastard, whose biggest success in this world was playing a smart person on a TV reality show, still doesn't really understand the concept of electronic media. He thinks he can stand in front of cameras and microphones and say any shit that happens to drift through his diseased mind, and within 24 hours, deny saying what millions of people around the world heard him say WHILE HE WAS SAYING IT.

Donnie owes his political survival to a bunch of mental defectives who enthusiastically accept whatever he tells them as the word of god. But his eventual downfall will probably be caused by his refusal to believe that most of the world's people are much more intelligent than his fan club members.

Update 1:22 AM Wednesday: More @ Crooks and Liars re: Donnie the Hump, the Russians, the NRA, and lots of money. Of course, the money.

Louie Gohmert makes me shake my head and mutter my favorite 12-letter obscenity again. His head is so far up Donnie the Hump's ass, he can see through Donnie's eyeballs.

A good assortment of related odds-and-ends at All Hat No Cattle

Coincidence?

I've bookmarked an article in New York Magazine by Jonathan Chait, interesting reading for those of us who think The Big Orange Hemorrhoid is up to his double chins in collusion and criminal conspiracy with the Russians.

With a few exceptions, the national media have treated the idea that Putin controls Donnie as too strange to be true, and keep trying (as always) to narrow discussion down to the easiest explanation, which is summarized as "The persuasive evidence of crimes we're seeing is probably an assortment of weird coincidences."

Question of the day: What would the Republican Party happily trade to ensure they'd never lose another presidential election? Think about it.

Is this the face of someone who has earned any trust at all?

Owned by Russians

If you see something that's pro-Donnie Uranus on the Internet, there's a high probability that Russians put it there.

The only votes that matter

Mitch McConnell has been acting like a guy who knows he can't lose. It started in 2016 when he locked down the Supreme Court vacancy created by Fat Tony Scalia's death until it could be filled in 2017 by a Republican president. If I didn't know better, I might think the Russians are now in control of American elections.

More from Kos on a related topic: Donnie Placenta's involvement in the laundry business (money, that is).

Money Talks...

Link to The Dallas Morning News on Russian money pouring into the hands of Republicans. Eventually, the rest of the American news media will start covering this.

Washington Monthly: How Fox News could end the so-called precedent's (sic) term tomorrow (not that they will).

Update 9:08 PM 8 January: It's always entertaining to watch Republicans like Steve Bannon belly-crawling through pools of their own diarrhea. 

In 2018...

Nasty Man and the rest of the Republicans in Washington are making it clear they just don't care about the majority of Americans anymore. Everything they've done during the last eleven months or so has been intended to please about 34 percent of the country: the 4 percent who are worth at least a few million, and the 30 percent who will follow Nasty Man anywhere he decides to take them. The other 66 percent of us can fuck off if we don't like it.

Since all of those Republicans (other than Nasty Man himself and some cabinet members) are professional politicians, the probable explanation for what they're doing is that

• they know they can't possibly lose in 2018 (i.e., the elections are fixed), or
• they know they can't possibly win in 2018 regardless of what they do. 

Meanwhile, the evidence just keeps piling up.

And we're getting another painful lesson about the danger in letting all the big decisions be made exclusively by worthless GOP assholes.

A reason to smile: Former Green Party nominee Jill Stein may soon be under the microscope of the Russia investigation. If the votes that went to her had gone to Hillary Clinton instead, we wouldn't be up to our necks in shit today. Knowing what we know now, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Russia was supporting her campaign.