For the Trump team the play is now: distract from disastrous economic and foreign policy by instructing your "fixer" to play the role one last time. Serve your master and release the tapes! Amazing that, as we learn more about Russian influence in our collective political sphere, Cohen (through his lawyer) releases a tape with a recording so ambiguous that both the extreme left and paranoid right claim that it proves their point/s.
Pay no attention to the meeting with Putin or the admission that Russia acted as a bad international agent in our political lives...they didn't, they did, they didn't again, they did but in the favor of the Dems. Trump's constantly changing allegiances stems from the fact that he's a single puppet being used by so many ill-intentioned puppeteers. What, I've said too much? Change the subject!!! Russian spy who slept with ugly NRA members caught? RELEASE THE TAPE and watch the media swarm all over it for days using every word in Webster's dictionary and saying nothing.
Butina, like communism, is just a red herring.
While this administration dismantles our education system, our environmental restrictions (see: clean air, endangered species list, reclamation of national monuments for profiteering), puts money back into the pockets of the filthy rich while condemning our national debt to drop like school child hit by an AR-15 round, the media is frothing over the fact that our President paid $250,000 to get laid twice! Great businessman indeed! #notnews #bankruptethics (see: Atlantic City, NJ)
Look, how many American born traveling abroad were captured by an oppressive nation that then claimed they were spies? Working in full view of anyone caring to pay attention, Butina does qualify as acting suspiciously, more because of her ability to win both games: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Six Degrees of Vladimir Putin in three or less connections. Still, she wasn't hiding! Anything! Have at her CNN, MSNBC, WashPo...and while you're distracted let's really eff things up.
Enter Betsy DeVos stage right. She's wearing a coordinated business skirt-suit and her traditional wireframe glasses. She walks to the podium in the center of the stage and begins speaking in a whisper:
BETSY [muttering]: "students taken advantage of by colleges will no longer be able to find loan relief from the Federal Government..."
MEDIA [collectively]: "SPEAK UP!"
BETSY: "Release the footage of my boat."
MEDIA: "Hey, look what they did to Betsy's boat! Our top story tonight, billionaire Betsy DeVos may find herself in an insurance pickle as someone undocked her $40 million yacht which then sustained...wait for it...you're not going to believe it, between $5,000 and $10,000 in damages."
MEDIA: "RUN THIS ON ALL CHANNELS FOR 10 HOURS STRAIGHT!!!"
End scene, except it's not.
I'm not saying that stories about how Trump campaign funds were used as hush money for exotic dancers and playmates aren't peripherally important. What I am saying is that Cohen, Daniels, McDougal, Butina are nothing better than media fodder. Ask Clinton. Ask JFK. While infidelity sells, it's hardly the most important story about what our President and his administration are doing to this country, and it makes the progenitor of these slight-of-hand stories seem, to quote Ray Stantz, Ghostbuster, 1984, "either the architect [of these distracting news stories] was a certified genius, or an authentic whacko!"
All of the above is to say: stay focused on attacks of actual policy that impact our citizenry (Farmers, this is you!) Make no mistake, the 24hr "news" headlines are being used, on purpose or inadvertently, to distract us from real policy change and legislation meant to promote the agenda of our puppet-in-chief, who, with all the hands up there, is bound to get ripped a new one...eventually. Paging Dr. Mueller...Dr. Mueller, it's time for a political caputque abscisum.
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