Sure, Trump is an idiot, but do you get the sense that someone else is running the country?
My vote, very clearly, is for Vladimir Putin. The seemingly insane things that Trump is doing work well in Russia, where the media is in that madman's control and that there is not much opportunity for widespread exposure. Things are so surreal now that this can't just be chalked up to sheer idiocy. It's almost if Russia is "advising" Trump on these things that seem so mad, not just for big issues but also on day-to-day responses to things, since these have worked for decades in Russia.
While our media is not the greatest, there is undoubtedly far more freedom here than in Russia. If there was really a free press in Russia, I am sure that the everyday Russian would think that Putin is as mad as a hatter as our beloved leader.
If so, it's proof positive that both Trump and Putin aren't very bright dudes. Trump's in way over his head, and Putin is just a vicious fiend who is fine with causing people to be pushed out windows, shot by snipers, and poisoned with radioactive substances.
Luckily, things seem to be unraveling for Putin as well as our Dear Leader.
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"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
“Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton”
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agency’s Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia University’s roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agency’s legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
“The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican,” he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for — and got — Bush’s backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
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