Most relevant bit starts at 6:30.
My issue with that is that the Russiagate nonsense is not helping to put any of them in check. It is primarily serving as (a) camouflage for establishment Dem corruption, and (b) a weapon against the left.
The Russiagate investigations are not actually restraining or threatening either Trump or Putin in any meaningful way.
We can’t get there until the myth of the magical honky is finally put to rest. “If only we had a biznissman/if only we had a dick 'tater.”
*Point being, both these scumbags thrive only when they control the vertical and the horizontal. Putin thinks because he came up as a spook that he’s super-competent, but because he’s surrounded himself for decades with rich and credentialled dim bulbs like Rump, he can’t get their stink off himself.
Because the magic honky myth is Putin’s brand, he and his ilk will always be stumbling around new revelations of cruelty and venality. When The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous turns forever into Gilbert Gottfried telling “The Aristocrats”, complete with incest and body-painting with poo, then maybe we’ll get past having to pay lip-service to the culture of pearl-clutching deference they’ve created.
Next level pedant: most bottled water is barely filtered tap water.
Smashing Rumpubilia might be the only real economic stimulus we get for a while that isn’t just another of Rump’s insider-trading scams using global trade markets.
https://twitter.com/ayacharlatan/status/1023236881461534720?s=21
https://twitter.com/ayacharlatan/status/1023238762661404673?s=21
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