Rare species of banshee spotted in DC.
For months America and the rest of the world have been bombarded with hysterical claims from sore-loser Democrats, GOP Never-Trumpers, and their media shills that Donald Trump only won the 2016 election thanks to the hidden hand of that Mephistopheles of contemporary geopolitics, Vladimir Putin. Never mind that no evidence of any collusion between the Russians and anyone on the Trump team has been found, despite millions of dollars spent by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and several Congressional committees.
With the growing sense that there's no collusion to be found,
the narrative lately had shifted towards a new story: maybe what the Russians were
really doing was planting discord among Americans to exacerbate our social problems and destroy our faith in our democratic institutions. So, for a measly few hundred thousand dollars' worth of social media ads (many of them appearing after the election) on Facebook, Twitter, etc., Russian interests (we are never told who, exactly) aimed to "
sow chaos and create divisions among Americans" -
evidently in general, without any link to Trump or even particularly to help him. Among the favorite topics for socially divisive ads were left-leaning memes about Black Lives Matter and the environmental hazards of fracking, as well "
a range of right-wing causes associated with Donald Trump's campaign," such as gun rights and illegal immigration. (Regarding the latter, let's not forget that, while remaining an unreconstructed KGB commie, Putin is also a
tiki-torch wielding Grand Dragon of the
global Alt-Right white nationalist movement. He's another Stalin and "
literally Hitler" at the same time.) If not for dastardly Russian meddling, we would have no social problems at all, and everybody would be holding hands
singing Kumabaya.
Comment: The only value to these recent "Clinton Russiagate" reports (aside from pure
schadenfreude) is that they reveal standard operating procedure in DC. No one should be shocked. The only shocking thing is how relatively
clean Trump and his campaign were. But that's not important; the only thing that matters is making sure everyone knows that Russia is the root of all problems, everywhere, at any time, past, present and future. Capiche?
Comment: Here is the speech by Xi: