tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post3906000167460029206..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Russophobia Made SimpleKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-65938006387848465772016-12-16T12:50:47.611-05:002016-12-16T12:50:47.611-05:00The media-induced Putin hysteria will end abruptly...The media-induced Putin hysteria will end abruptly on December 19th after the Electoral College meets - Mission Unaccomplished. <br /><br />annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-61849654054648879152016-12-16T10:38:42.207-05:002016-12-16T10:38:42.207-05:00Thanks, readers, for your kind and supportive word...Thanks, readers, for your kind and supportive words.<br /><br />One lining on the storm-cloud: as ScottW says, the Dems are imploding, or at least still stuck in the denial stage of their grief. Perhaps a new leftist party will emerge from the ashes. I simply can't see Red Scare Redux lasting much longer. These things come in waves or cycles. But it's very unusualthat it's the Dems who are attacking from the right and calling for what amounts to censorship.<br /><br />Re Krugman: I hardly read his drivel any more, let alone comment on it, but I happened to awaken in the pre-dawn hours today because I was freezing to death and got up to crank up the heat and get another blankie. So by then I was wide awake enough at 4 a.m. to skim the Times. Krugman really seems to have a galloping case of OCD. Judging from the other comments, the Russophobia campaign seems to working on the readership very well, but I was still heartened to see a few other free-thinking standouts in the mix.<br /><br />Full disclosure: I have a Russian background on my paternal grandfather's side. Actually Russian-German, because my ancestors were evangelical refugees from Worms whom Catherine the Great allowed to settle in her country to farm. Unlike the serfs, they were allowed to stay independent and remained unassimilated re culture for centuries, until one of the tsars made them subject to the draft -- and they went back to Germany for awhile before many emigrated to America in the late 19th century.<br /><br />Putin is basically just another neoliberal kleptocrat who likes to wheel and deal and schmooze with multinationals. It all got started with Reagan and Thatcher and then Clinton and Blair continued the enablement of the Russian oligarchy. But you'd never know this if Krugman was your only source of info.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-36436346137499404732016-12-16T08:44:37.046-05:002016-12-16T08:44:37.046-05:00I came to your brilliant column after choking on K...I came to your brilliant column after choking on Krugman's awful rant today. Read your column aloud to my wife who remarked it should go viral. But sadly, the Dems are brain dead along with Dr. K. They will continue losing while condemning the people who oppose them as idiots. They are all "useful idiots" as Dr. K called Trump, but just have different benefactors. Keep up the great work and know it is appreciated by those of us who enjoying thinking.ScottWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-9220898320756121762016-12-15T16:33:10.581-05:002016-12-15T16:33:10.581-05:00annenigma--
And that is, indeed, the sad, sick tr...annenigma--<br /><br />And that is, indeed, the sad, sick truth about Hillary: SHE.NEVER.QUITS.<br /><br />Even though a large segment of the country--including many of those who voted for her with "a clothespin on their nose"--had hoped they had seen the last of her on the morning of November 10, 2016.<br /><br />Now I guess that I'll have to wait until sometime on the evening of December 19 to be absolutely certain that a holly stake has FINALLY been driven through the heart of Clinton, Inc.-- <i> figuratively speaking, of course, </i> in case the NSA or the FBI are listening in--and a bulb of garlic has been stuffed in "its" mouth as "it" is laid to rest--or eternal damnation--in "its" coffin.<br /><br />Please, God, let that be the END of them!<br /><br />Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-29146930474924668252016-12-15T13:26:29.962-05:002016-12-15T13:26:29.962-05:00Great article, even though I am a climate denier. ...Great article, even though I am a climate denier. I also don't believe Hillary got 2.6 million more votes -- the snowflakes are just stuffing the late ballots to ease their pain. I can picture them crying in their California precincts, ripping apart or changing Trump ballots in anger ... .<br /><br />Jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-8727503206432848572016-12-15T10:53:52.536-05:002016-12-15T10:53:52.536-05:00Thanks for another great post, Karen.
And then t...Thanks for another great post, Karen. <br /><br />And then there's this: 'WikiLeaks Figure Says ‘Disgusted’ Democrat Leaked Clinton Campaign Emails'<br /><br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/14/craig-murray-says-source-of-hillary-clinton-campai/<br /><br />Murray claims it was an insider LEAK, not a hack by Russia. If I had to take a guess on a leaker, I'd go with someone in Bill's orbit such as his longtime sidekick, Doug Band, but it could be anyone. Where there's politics, there's treachery. <br /><br />And the secret homebrew server that no one was ever supposed to know about until a FOIA lawsuit forced it into the open? If it wasn't Bill's idea, he certainly didn't prevent her from using his server or successfully advise her against it. Strangely, neither did Obama. Anyway, if Hillary had gone to Wisconsin to campaign instead of taking her tin cup to Barbra Steisand's house to beg for even more money, she would have had a chance of winning the electoral votes game - the only game that counts. <br /><br />And that popular vote she won? How 'popular' was Hillary with those 2.5 million, and perhaps a whole lot more, who voted for her with a clothespin on their nose or from media-hyped fear of Trump? Hillary even ran a nuclear bomb ad against Trump, ala Barry Goldwater. Popular votes hardly translate into popularity, especially when it comes to the notorious HRC.<br /><br />Does the MSM and their Democratic conspirators actually believe that after what they did to Bernie, then how they reported as fact that Trump was un-electable, and after Wikileaks proved they're in cahoots, that we're now going to start believing that Hillary isn't behind this Russia fear-mongering based only on anonymous, evidence-free leaks from the State Dept's partner-in-crime, the CIA? When the media doesn't show skepticism but the public does, you know they're up to no good. A lot of powerful people desperately want Hillary back in the game. <br /><br />Hillary Clinton has never had a life outside of politics. To my knowledge she has no hobbies or outside interests, no leisure activities except fundraising. Even now she's throwing expensive parties to 'thank' her major donors to keep the money flowing. Power is an addiction and Hillary, like Obama, prefers to operate in secret and behind the scenes. I'm sure she'll do all she can to delegitimize and undermine the Trump administration. The Clinton cabal have the dark art of politics down to a science, as in Psy-Ops. <br /><br />If we know anything for certain about Hillary, it's that SHE.NEVER.QUITS. <br /><br /><br /><br /> annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-84347871042166315342016-12-14T18:25:03.645-05:002016-12-14T18:25:03.645-05:00Karen—
Thank your for your excellent article on “...Karen—<br /><br />Thank your for your excellent article on “Russophobia Simplified,” along with the companion articles that you suggested from <i> consortiumnews </i> and <i> counterpunch. </i><br /><br />The “Russian diversion” on the part of Hilliary-o-crats is truly amazing. <br /><br />Having failed to convince the American public that the election was “stolen” from the Queen by (1) FBI Director James Comey, (2) serious miscounts in Wisconsin, Michigan or Pennsylvania, (3) a popular vote that matters not at all in an Electoral-College system, and (4) God-Knows-What-All-Else-explanations, the Russkis now become the favorite scapegoat to explain how the Empress lost her coronation.<br /><br />WHO CARES? <br /><br />The very most that the DNC “hacks” exposed—if “hacks” they were indeed, and whether by the Russkis or someone else—were that the DNC itself was incredibly corrupt and biased toward the Queen from the start and dedicated to destroying Bernie Sanders. Truth hurts, but it’s still truth, <br /><br />That seems to be totally lost in the Democratic “reanalysis.” <i> Quelle surprise, </i> when much more palatable explanations—excuse me, “excuses”—are still readily at hand, <i> viz. </i> imagined Ruski intervention.<br /><br />I think that I’m getting tired of listening to Hillary-o-cratic whining.Zeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-2481733121709096182016-12-14T11:43:54.556-05:002016-12-14T11:43:54.556-05:00Thanks, Jay.
For a truly epic take-down of the Ru...Thanks, Jay.<br /><br />For a truly epic take-down of the Russophobic hypocrisy, read the excellent Robert Parry's latest:<br /><br />https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/13/hypocrisy-behind-the-russian-election-frenzy/<br /><br />Also, the also-excellent Andrew Cockburn's list of questions for conscientious objector electors to ask the CIA:<br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/14/questions-for-the-electors-on-russian-hacking/<br /><br />I especially appreciated his observation that if James Comey was so instrumental in electing Trump, why isn't he being investigated as a traitor or Russian spy himself?Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-20894093519723529242016-12-14T11:12:50.680-05:002016-12-14T11:12:50.680-05:00Thanks for this article, Karen. Most readers who ...Thanks for this article, Karen. Most readers who come here no doubt suspect in a general or inchoate way how phony the new Russian scare is. It is being whipped up for a variety of reasons by a variety of elites. But in your analysis posted yesterday you pull together more detail and put it into a shape that puts a sharper edge on our understanding.<br /><br />Where else yesterday were we able to read an informed and rounded view of what's really going on with this Russian business, which is tied in to the election business, which is linked to the war profiteers and which is all owing to the nuts running around waving their supposed mandates in complete disregard to the likelihood of the next big extinction? "Alice in Wonderland" was never this much fun.<br /><br />Last night the readership of Sardonicky held a secret meeting at an undisclosed site. (Yes, we have our little conspiracies, too.) We have decided to nominate you for the next Annual Howard Zinn Prize. I have to run to an appointment right now, but other readers will probably fill you in about the speech you have to give to collect the prize, when and where the black tie event takes place, etc., etc.<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-56789863261413520322016-12-14T00:34:04.865-05:002016-12-14T00:34:04.865-05:00Are you telling us that the USA is not all about p...Are you telling us that the USA is not all about promoting peace and democracy around the world? Gasp!<br /><br />The real irony in all this, is to contrast the imagined fears of Russia and China with the actual behavior of the United States over the last 25+ years. There is no country on the planet that can match us for dealing out death and destruction. Our specialty is to attack a country, wreck it, then throw up our hands and blame the citizens of the wrecked country. Meanwhile the arms shipments keep flowing.voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.com