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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:56 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > March 20, 2017 > > *This is what the Trump Russia nonsense is REALLY all about *By Nick > Sorrentino > > The Democrats just can’t believe that they lost. And most of all they just > can’t believe they lost to Donald Trump. The guy was a clown in their eyes. > He was who they wanted to run against. Hillary Clinton was going to be the > first woman president. It had been decreed. It was to be. Hillary was to be > coronated and with this coronation would come elevated status for the > Clinton hangers on. The people in the think tanks. The people in the media > who lavished Hillary with praise. The generally left of center (both > Republican and Democrat) lobbyists who were ready to do brisk business on K > Street. Times looked good indeed for the permanent political class. Flyover > country was flyover country, an afterthought at best in the brave new > post-Obama world. Times had changed. The “clingers” had been relegated to > the margins. The political class looked to entrench itself in Versailles on > the Potomac even more deeply. > > With Hillary as president the message would be loud and clear. The > planners, the political class, the banks, the folks in the corners of the > Northeast and wedged up against the Pacific were in control. This is the > way it was. America as it had been was finished. > > Funny thing is there were and are more “clingers,” deplorables,” whatever > derisive term you choose, than the Dems understood. What they didn’t get > also is that for each outed “deplorable” with a Trump sticker on his/her > truck there were probably 2 or more Trump voters driving around the suburbs > quietly taking their kids to soccer practice and girl scouts. > > The Dems did not understand the great swathe of the country that really > could not stand president Obama and who longed for ACTUAL change. (And it > wasn’t racism that motivated the dislike for Obama, despite what many Obama > supporters seriously believe(d).) For middle America the country seemed to > be declining steadily with each passing year. It was obvious. It was > concerning. And a Hillary presidency would have been the Thelma and Louise > moment for America in their minds as she took the (former) American dream > right over the cliff with a smile on her face. > > But the great unwashed wrestled the wheel away from Hillary at the last > moment and Ms. Clinton lost. The cliff, in the eyes of a great many, had > been averted. > > And Clinton, the dream candidate, the feminist candidate, lost to the big > male buffoon. *She lost*. And it stung. It stung so bad. Hillary was > going to “make history.” She’d show all those Obama haters. But then – > failure. > > The Dems woke up to find that the Senate (which they thought was within > reach) had stayed in Republican hands, that the Scalia seat on the Supreme > Court would likely be filled with a constitutionalist who could tilt the > court down a constitutionalist route for a long time, the House had stayed > Republican, and that most of the states were now controlled by Republicans. > The Democrats found themselves suddenly, essentially, a regional party. A > coastal, urban party. They had been vanquished. And what is worse is that > they had been vanquished by a “pu–y grabbing” yahoo. > > Man it stung. It stung so deep. The caricature of the anti-Hillary had > BEATEN Hillary. And now he’d be president even though thanks to Cali > Hillary had gotten the “popular vote.” Damn it stung. So close. So close. > Only to come up short in a race that should have been a guaranteed win. > Pain. > > First there was the refusal to acknowledge what had happened. Then as > reality forced its way into the brains of the defeated the Russian > narrative was concocted as a psychological salve and a means to keep > something, anything alive for the Dems. > > See, it was the Russians who swayed the election. That had to be it. How > could the buffoon possibly have defeated Hillary – who was great of course > and everything the political class wanted – without help from the devil > himself? It wasn’t possible. The dumb part of America had been duped by the > grand Russian chess master. Those leaks – all of which appear to be real by > the way and which show massive corruption within the Democratic Party – > worked to Trump’s benefit. There must be a secret alliance between Putin > and Trump. And THAT is the reason Hillary lost. > > Basically the (party) Democrats are pissed that their secrets were exposed > and the American people became hip to what was going on. People like John > Podesta looked shady and ridiculous. And to quote the movie producer in the > Godfather, “A man like (Podesta) can’t afford to look ridiculous!!!” > > Consider the fundamental concern here for the (party) Democrats. They > believe that Russians had something to do with the Wikileaks leaks which > exposed the party’s corruption on a broad and deep scale. They are mad that > this information was given to potential voters. They are mad that the truth > got out. > > Again, think about that. > > They are mad that people didn’t vote for Hillary because the public saw > directly that she (and the Democratic machine) was corrupt. > > It’s not like the “Russians” conjured some false narrative (I am looking > at you George Soros) and made stuff up from whole cloth even if it was them > who did the leaking. Let’s not forget Hillary had a private server in her > house that was left exposed and that Ms. Clinton and the Democrats tried to > cover this up. Remember that? Remember when people said that foreign > players might have been able to access Ms. Clinton’s information and that > Ms. Clinton’s actions constituted a massive lapse in judgement at the very > very very least. Well maybe her information was compromised – because of > her failings. > > Fundamentally the reason Hillary lost was not because of any Russian > boogeymen. It was because she was a dishonest and poor candidate and much > of America sniffed this out. They didn’t trust her. They didn’t like her. > And they didn’t trust her or like *so much* that they gave the presidency > to *Donald Trump*. Would this have happened without Wikileaks leaking the > details of Clinton’s corruption? > > Perhaps not. And that is why the Dems continue the Russia line. They are > mad that they were found out. That the light was shone on them at an > inopportune time. That their masks were peeled back in the middle of an > effort to sell the American public on a conjured image. White suit and all. > > Again, the (party) Democrats aren’t mad that *lies* were spread. They are > mad that the TRUTH was spread. > > Clinton failed doubly from the political class’s perspective. She lost. > But she also let someone outside of the official Washington club in. Trump > is rich. He is in plenty of clubs. But he wasn’t invited to Washington. > Instead Trump came in Al Czervik style and took over the joint. Judge > Smails is not impressed. > > And this is why there must *must* be some smoking gun. Some reason for > why the Universe and the American electorate handed the Democrats a big fat > steaming heap of loser pie. Because otherwise, well, it just doesn’t all > make sense. It would be like, shock, the Democrats were and are on the > wrong the side of history. (Not that the Republicans are on the right > side.) If that was true then that pain that came with Trump’s election > might be just too much. > > So – Russians. Russians. Russians. Because you know the American people > actually found out what was going on with Hillary. And that just isn’t fair. > > http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2017/03/this-is-what-the- > trump-russia-nonsense-is-really-all-about/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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