The Kremlin KKKandidate - From Putin, With Love?...

It's well documented that Putin & his oligarch network runs stealth efforts on behalf of politicians who rail against the European Union and want to push away from NATO.
And why wouldn't they?

Putin has been a patron of the fascists like Golden Dawn in Greece, Ataka in Bulgaria, and Jobbik in Hungary. Russian banks financed the campaign of fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen in France.
In a speech at the Brookings Institution Joe Biden noted: “President Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated, to create cracks in the European body politic which he and his oligarch circle can then exploit.”

Ruptures that will likely multiply after Brexit—a campaign Russia’s many propaganda organs bombastically promoted.

While the destruction of Europe is quite a grandiose objective; so is the weakening of the United States. Until recently, Putin's oligarch network has only focused glancing attention on US elections.

Then along came the barking Tangerine Twitler.
If the Oligarchs could design their perfect patsy, it would look exactly like Trump.
 He celebrated the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU.
 He denounces NATO.
He spits on long time allies.
He praises dictators.
He preaches division.
He wants to build walls, not tear them down.
And he is also a great admirer of Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s devotion to the Russian president has been portrayed in the news as a buffoonish enthusiasm for a fellow macho strongman.  But Trump’s statements of praise are something closer to slavish devotion. In 2007, he praised Putin for “rebuilding Russia.” A year later he added, “He does his work well. Much better than our Bush.” When Putin ripped America in a New York Times op-ed in 2013, Trump called it “a masterpiece.” Despite ample evidence, Trump denies that Putin has assassinated his opponents, “In the event that such killings have transpired, they can be forgiven: At least he’s a leader.” And not just any old head of state: “I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he’s getting an A.”

Many of Trump's ties to Russian Banks owned by Putin's network of oligarchs are known.
When the American banks stopped loaning him money because of his habit of intentionally declaring bankruptcies to get out of paying labor & creditors, he was bailed out by the Russian banks, owned by Putin's inner circle.  And why wouldn’t the Russians offer him the same furtive assistance they’ve lavished on Le Pen, Berlusconi, and the rest? Russian propaganda went full throttle for Trump, using its Russia Today apparatus to hail the courage of Trump’s foreign policy. (Sample headline: “Trump Sparks NATO Debate: ‘NATO Obsolete’) Russian intelligence services hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers, purloining its opposition research files on Trump and just about everything else it could find. They also wormed their way into the computers of the Clinton Foundation, a breach reported by Bloomberg. And though it may be a mere coincidence, Trump’s inner circle is populated with advisers and operatives who have long careers advancing the interests of the Kremlin.
There is certainty that a foreign power that wishes ill upon the United States attached itself to a major presidential campaign.

Donald Trump’s interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there’s extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev’s efforts to charm the American public. On his legendary trip to Washington and New York, the Soviet in chief left the confines of his limousine and security cordon to glad-hand with the American people. Donald Trump suggested to reporters that the Soviet leader would be making his way to Trump Tower, a crucial station on his journey to capitalism. This was, in fact, a self-aggrandizing fabrication that Trump himself planted in the tabloids, but it was a convincing lie. A year earlier, Trump had traveled to Russia to attempt to develop luxury hotels in Moscow and Leningrad to feed the regime’s new appetite for Western business.  Newsweek reported this story.
Trump reveled in the newspaper stories that reported Gorbachev’s forthcoming visit to his HQ as fact. But he never expected his fake story to become reality. He must have been gobsmacked when he received word that Gorbachev wanted to pay a spontaneous visit to Trump Tower.
The skyscraper’s namesake rushed down from his penthouse office to pay obeisance.
From the video, we can see the blotched head of Gorbachev emerge from his car.
Trump and his retinue push through the crowd.
 “Great, great honor,” the mogul says as he pumps the hand of the Soviet supremo.
But one of Trump’s many vulnerabilities is that he doesn’t vet his people, whether it’s business partners, or the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
 As it turns out, this Gorbachev wasn’t really the Soviet leader but an impersonator called Ronald Knapp. Trump was lavishing praise on the winner of a look-alike contest.
The con man was easily conned by a prankster.
Now he's dealing with far more accomplished "pranksters", and the future of the US, as well as our allies and partners hangs in the balance.

And that my friends, abridged as it may be; tells you all you really need to know about this mango Mussolini. That was merely the first instance of Trump carelessly sucking up to Russian power in the hopes of personal gain.

Fuckface Von Clownstick

You can rest assured, there will be plenty of unscrupulous details uncovered via the Mueller investigation. Money laundering, corruption on the grandest scale, and fraud are already obvious.
But none of this is the point of this writing today.
No, this isn't about Russians meddling.
The real issue, the one we ought to be up in arms about has nothing to do with one nation or another.
It has nothing to do with borders on a political map.
The real truth is that this is a class war.
The billionaire oligarchs against everyone else.
America has over time become less democratic and more oligarchic.
The gutting of protections against monopolies, the destruction of labor organization protections, the use of capital to override and overturn laws in favor of the obscenely wealthy...there's a privileged class and there's "the "inferior" who are not billionaires
 The "unnecessary eaters" as they were called in Weimar Germany by Trump's "many good people".
(sarcasm off)

This isn't about Russians, it's about oligarchs -- Birds Of A Feather.
If you think the Fanta Fascist is on YOUR side, unless you own a few Senators and travel in a personal Lear Jet, you likely attended Trump University and are a moron.
What do the Oligarchs want?
From The Kochs and Mercers, to the Kozitsyns, Potanins, and Melnichenkos...they all want one thing. The end of liberal democracies.
They have grown bored and tired with the inconvenience of going through the motions of pretending all you "unnecessary eaters" out there have political voices...the expenses of buying legislatures off.
Beyond your value as an organ donor when their livers are shot, you are less than nothing.

Putin is estimated to be the richest man in the world.
Like Trump, he hides the details.
(Trump's a halfwit who is hiding his debts and money laundering...make no comparison...he wasn't in the oligarch club...he wants in ).
This isn't about the country of Russia, it's about the wealthy going after the last crumbs on earth...yours. 

Face Facts : Democracy is out of the political equation, It’s been out of the equation for some time

Aghast at the churning subversion of political norms, the majority of Americans are witnessing institutions crumbling in the hands of a fetid, foul mouthed, flagrant liar in the role of   "Leader of the Free World". We stand, gape-jawed, as state legislators, following the president’s lead, refuse to condemn neo-Nazis, and children are taken from parents... sent to internment camps.
Meanwhile, nothing that Trump says or does seems to affect the loyalty of his base. Scandal after scandal, his approval rate hasn’t significantly budged. Forty percent of the population is consistently thrilled by Trump’s minority rules edicts. Whether it's anti-abortion, anti-gay, or anti-immigration policies, his supporters think he’s doing the Lord’s work!  As for that democracy thing, "good riddance. We never liked it anyways."

What a government claims itself to be, and how it operates, are not necessarily the same thing. Russia calls itself a democratic republic and recently“re-elected” Putin, but it functions as an oligarchic dictatorship. The National Socialist German Workers Party—the Nazi Party—was neither socialist nor pro-worker’s rights in any sense. It was fascist, supporting the merger of corporate interests with genocidal authoritarianism. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—North Korea—is neither a democracy or a republic. It is a dynastic dictatorship.
 In terms of political organization, despite the lofty words of the founders; the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic. It is an oligarchy.

If it walks like a dictator, quacks like a dictator, and holds the codes to a nuclear arsenal, it's a dictator.

In a true democracy, a fully enfranchised citizenry decides an election directly, with laws being enacted through a majority vote. In a republic, citizens elect representatives who vote on their behalf. But “voting on their behalf,” does not necessarily mean “voting according to their wishes.” Once in office, elected officials are not bound to faithfully represent the majority views of their constituents nor even the best interests of the nation, nor what benefits humanity. Decisions are "guided" by monied interests. So much so that corruption is routine and institutionalized. Want some law to benefit yourself, it only takes money going to the right place, and it's all perfectly legal.


The Native councils of Alaska unanimously opposed opening the Arctic Circle for oil drilling, protesting that it will damage the environment and irrevocably destroy their way of life. Alaska’s senior senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski, voted against their objections, clearing the way for theTrump administration to enact a law that opens the area for drilling.

Similarly, the tax reform bill of 2017 was historically unpopular, with less than 25 percent of all voters supporting it. In the end, because Republicans control the House, Senate, and Oval Office, a few dozen men overruled the wishes of 200 million Americans, and passed a bill that exacerbates an already catastrophic income inequality , while openly benefiting the extremely wealthy.

The U.S. is an oligarchy.

Under these conditions, the hollowing-out of the federal government is proceeding as planned.
Trump is no mastermind, but the journalistic interpretation of what is happening is consistently backwards, and that the “chaos” they speak of in the White House is, rather, the symptom of power being consolidated.

On some pathetic level, a Trump presidency makes sense, he an individual who rose to prominence because he embodied the unconscious truth of a particular moment.
The particular truth of our time is horribly ugly.

By logic, Trump should not be standing at all. And yet, there he IS.
Enabled by his father’s wealth to buy his way to prestige.
Enabled by banks to get out of unprecedented numbers of bankruptcies.
Enabled by the tax code to avoid paying taxes for at least 18 years.
Enabled by misogyny to repeatedly humiliate and assault women without consequence.
Enabled by credulity and ignorance to con the masses.
Those same masses—and the moguls of conservative media propaganda, who profit handsomely from despair—now want to see the world burn, and they want an insider to light the torch.
That’s Trump. Who better to understand the systemic moral failures of capitalism than the opportunist who has taken advantage of them for all 70 years of his existence?

Around the world, people WANT the economy to go to hell.
They WANT the cities to fall.
They WANT the catharsis of chaos.
The resentment is misguided and inchoate and will only hurt the meek, the poor, the huddled praised by the Psalms because theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. But this earth, not so much.

And so Trump won,* precisely because he doesn’t represent "We the People".
Inside a republic of consumers—this being the inevitable outcome of late-stage capitalism—he represents corporations-as-people, and dollar bills are the only votes that count.
The consequences of his administration are easy to predict.
It’s neofeudalism, where wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of very few, and the disempowered grovel for crumbs.
There will be no more professional class, no bourgeoisie or educated “elites,” who are bothersome because they challenge theocratic hierarchies from within.
This cratering is already quite visible in Kansas and Oklahoma, where Republican-controlled governments have bankrupted their states, wreaking havoc among ordinary citizens who no longer have funds for public schools, repairing roads, or other public works. Make no mistake, these social disasters are not side effects of “pro-business” tax laws, but the obvious purpose of policies that favor a structural system enabling the wealthy oligarchy to gather more and more power.

The U.S. is an oligarchy.

* The caveat to Trump’s win, of course, is election meddling by Russia, which, among other things, used American social media to manipulate voters. Specifically, via Facebook, a firm called Cambridge Analytica accessed the private data of more than 50 million users, and used it to help elect Trump. “Facebook has styled itself as a neutral platform for information,” reporter Megha Rajagopalan wrote earlier this year. “But its role in spreading propaganda and fake news, as well as its relationship with government, shows how easily that neutrality can be exploited by autocrats.”
She was writing about Cambodia, but could easily have been written about many other countries including the U.S.

Back in 2010, The New Yorker ran a profile of Zuckerberg, who had a revealing exchange with another student. He told his friend that he had personal information on thousands of students at Harvard College thanks to his control of Facebook. Astonished, his friend asked “What?! How’d you manage that one?” Zuckerberg messaged back: “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They trust me. Dumb fucks.”
Consider that Mark Zuckerberg is the fifth wealthiest person in the world, and Putin is rumored to be No. 1. Eliminate the nationalist frameworks, and suddenly it becomes obvious that the world’s wealthy want  foxes to run the henhouse. Between fanning the flames of division, planting ridiculous fake news stories that spread virally on social media, elections are rigged via gerrymandering, voter-suppresion -ID laws, & dark money
Despite losing by nearly 4 million votes, Trump won the election.
This is an Oligarchy.
It's not Russia per se that is meddling in elections, it's an international group of oligarchs.
The people who already own most everything.
It's not enough...it never is.
They want the EU to fail, they want more direct control of nation's governments.
They want organizations like the United Nations to disappear.
Dictatorships, you see, are orderly while democracies are messy and harder to control.
They've grown tired of the effort it takes to keep up the illusion of even a pseudo-democracy.

Why do you suppose the oligarchy hates collective bargaining and unions so much?
Yes, sure they seek to get labor as cheap as possible, but it's more than that. It's an obsession.
The Kochs, Mercers, DeVos & Murdochs of the world are organized against you.
And it's an advantage they want kept for themselves...they don't want YOU organized.