John Kennedy Is the Latest Dupe Of the Russian Disinformation Party
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing, Daily Kos, November 25, 2019
During the impeachment hearings last week, I kind of wanted Fiona Hill to float down from the ceiling after the lunch break like Mary Poppins and spank the ever-living crap out of Gym Jordan and Devin Nunes.
Or maybe give them a royal death glare and intone, “We are not amused.”
Or morph into the first female James Bond and dispatch them like the thuggish Oddjobs they are.
But she did one better. She rebuked them in no uncertain terms:
Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.
In other words, Donald Trump’s bonkers conspiracy theories — which were apparently spoon-fed to him by Vladimir Putin and which are not only patently false but also literally impossible — are just as legitimate as the conclusions of the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus.
That’s where we are now.
My “opinion” that syphilis can be cured with clove and gummy bear sandwiches is just as valid as your “opinion” that it can’t.
So let’s not listen to experts. What do they know, really?
This is government-by-conspiracy-theory. This is the country we live in now. And the obsequious weaklings in the GOP are fully buying in.
Gee, this kind of thing has always worked out in the past, right? What could possibly go wrong?
conservative Southern politicians used to claim civil rights protestors were doing the work of Communists in the Kremlin
now they parrot fabricated Kremlin propaganda for political benefit days after Fiona Hill identified it as fabricated Kremlin propaganda w/crystalline clarity https://t.co/HtYXrqe5ui
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 25, 2019
And Colombian Drug Lords killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman and we had to let OJ go so he could spend his life trying to catch them. Humans love to believe incredible stories as much as we hate to think analytically. It defines our species better than any nonsense about tool use.
The entire history of our species is driven by specious argument and motivated faith. Faith is a mental disease
I rather liked him, and even he turned into a political Trumpkin.