The Slate Gabfest Gang - This is what passes for 'informed opinion' on the left in current day USA - 'honey-badger' partisans
It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World... and a security state that will do
whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia.
Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called "Resistance" has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration - the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touted "seventeen security agencies" who supposedly ginned up the Russian Meddling story on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Movements that affect to be revolutionary don't usually turn to the secret police and their equivalents for aid and comfort.
The Resistance pulled out all the stops last week in its shrieking denunciation of the Nunes Memo, and the various complaints had one thing in common: a complete lack of interest in the facts of the matter, in particular the shenanigans in the upper ranks of the FBI. Give a listen, for instance, to last
Thursday's Slate's Political Gabfest with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon, the three honey-badgers of Resistance Radio (like the fabled honey-badgers of the veldt,
they don't give a shit about any obstacles in their pursuit of their quarry: Trump). They've even been able to one-up Nassim Taleb's defined category of "intellectuals-yet-idiots" to intellectuals-yet-useful-idiots.
Comment: If one considers that financial markets - like the stock market - are nearly all manipulated and subject to changes by those with the knowledge, power and will to do so, it is interesting to consider the timing of this event. By all accounts, the Deep State narrative on 'Russian collusion' is coming apart at the seams. Considering the moneyed and political interests involved - and who have much to lose here - it's possible that this crash was timed to distract from all that's coming now. At the same time, as the author says, this bubble has been waiting to burst for quite a while now, so who knows.