Propagandized silliness — Russians and the National Rifle Association

14 January 2019

For the Establishment, it's never too late to continue beating a dead horse

Should we enjoy being led around by our sheepy noses?

Today . . .

We're back on the subject of Russians trying to "create as much chaos in our democracy as possible."

That according to former CIA operative, Steve Hall, as reported by the Daily Beast.

Hall came to his conclusion this way:

Alexander Torshin, the Russian central bank official who spent years aggressively courting NRA leaders, briefed the Kremlin on his efforts and recommended they participate, according to [a US intelligence] report.

Torshin suggested that Russian officials use the NRA to reach out to politically active Americans.

Torshin, then a deputy governor at Russia’s central bank, noted the gun rights group’s influence in U.S. politics. He told the Kremlin about his contacts in the NRA, including conversations and meetings in the United States, and suggested that Kremlin officials scrutinize how some people affiliated with the group viewed relations between the U.S. and Russia.

The report notes that Russian officials discussed having their embassy in Washington participate in the work of courting the NRA. Kremlin officials also discussed preparations for NRA members’ upcoming trip to Moscow.

Torshin recommended that someone from President Vladimir Putin’s executive office, meaning the group of people who support his day-to-day activities, meet with the group.

“My assessment of what was happening with Torshin and Butina and the NRA was that the Russians decided, a good period of time before 2016, to run an influence operation here in the U.S. with a couple of different goals,” said Steve Hall, who spent 30 years in the CIA and oversaw its Russia operations.

“The obvious goal was the one the intelligence community assessed back in 2016, which was to help Donald Trump win and increase the likelihood that Hillary Clinton would lose. In addition, they wanted to create as much chaos in our democracy as possible.”

Let's inject — an obvious bit of common sense

The NRA's membership is among the most volubly patriotic in the United States.

The idea that Russians were going to convince gun-toting "conservatives" to advocate for the Russian Federation — and counter to obvious American national interests — is idiotic.

Yet the Deep State and its propaganda arm, the Lamestream, will not let the alleged (and obviously misdirected) Russian idiocy go.

Note also that the United States violently intrudes into other nation's affairs on a regular basis. That repeated illegality never comes up in mainstream reporting.

Russians, we can conclude, are just bad. They must be opposed, no matter what they advocate — even if their self-advocacy is in an obvious effort to diminish the threat of war by building intercontinental relationships built on similar interests.

Consider — too — the Deep State's recently renewed "dead horse" assault on the President

Three days ago, the New York Times renewed its long-running, Deep State-inspired, assault on The Donald's legitimacy:

In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security.

Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.

The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Think about the main thrust of this Times' report

The New York Rag is essentially suggesting that President Trump may be a Russian operative or flunky, just because the FBI allegedly opened an investigation of him.

As Vox pointed out, there is nothing especially new in this — other than that someone has now conveniently leaked the idea that the investigation was supposedly "official".

The Times' motive?

Inferably, trashing the President. With no new substantive facts to back the smear up.

When "ya ain't got shit" — double down on destructive innuendo. Rotting horse or not.

Do you think that . . .

. . . an American president, working with an alleged adversary nation, would be allowed to stay in office for two years after his election and alleged suspicions first arose?

Does anyone sane conclude that:

the FBI,

special counsel Robert Mueller

and

American intelligence, generally —

are so inept, that they would not have discovered anti-American behavior in the Oval Office by now?

This "Putin's Bitch" fantasy has survived too long.

I have little doubt that

Arguable financial illegalities probably occurred somewhere in the Administration, as I hypothesized when the smear began.

The Deep State's malicious spy-provocateur seeding is different. The Times, as well as the rest of our propagandizing corporate Lamestream, knows it.

The moral? — The entire American Establishment is psychedelically corrupt

It plays with our minds for profit.

Truth has pretty much vanished from the USA scene.

Welcome to Orwell.

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Propagandized silliness — Russians and the National Rifle Association