Now that I've had coffee and looked at the comments, what do you think the chances are that Donald Trump ever heard of the Open Skies Treaty or the two specialized planes that were used to keep an eye on the Putin regime's military activities as an early warning of their moving on the countries that border Russia?
I think it is virtually a certainty that if you gave him a Hollywood dreamed up "truth serum" and forced Donald Trump to tell you everything he knew about the Open Skies Treaty or the two planes that his regime ordered destroyed to make compliance with our obligations under that treaty impossible, he would be unable to tell you anything about it because like everything else done under him, he's too lazy to have learned about it.
What Trump's regime is doing, as described by Rachel Maddow is certainly being directed by Putin's regime, as so many things that Trump's regime has done, there is no other conceivable motive for that being done. And either Trump is doing Putin's bidding knowingly - which I don't believe for the reason given above - or those who are part of his regime are knowingly doing it with the greatest likelihood that they know they are doing what Putin wants them to do on the general principle that they know Trump is his agent and that what that petulant, truculent 75 year old baby-man would instruct them to do if he knew what his sponsor wants is exactly what they did. I would include the recent James Comey figure of Mark Esper in that, seeing that he knowingly was a part of the early stages of making sure that a likely Biden administration would want to honor not only the treaty obligations Trump was illegally pulling out of but that that extremely important activity could not be easily resumed. If I were in the Biden DoJ, I'd get Esper on record as to why he did what he did and at whose bidding he did it. He just might want to save his own ass.
When the Roberts court was opening up our elections under Citizens United, they were warned that they were opening the American government up to the direct influence of foreign powers, governments, but they chose to interpret the dangerously general First Amendment in order to leave us vulnerable to that influence as earlier courts had left us at the mercy of domestic and as corrupt billionaires and millionaires - Putin being just a more successful gangster of the kind who such rich people typically are. There is a direct line from the language of the First Amendment to the gutting of clean-elections laws WHICH WERE ADOPTED BY BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS STARTING AFTER THE CORRUPTION OF NIXON IN WATERGATE WAS EXPOSED AS A FACT and Trump's regime, not only Trump but those who he and Republican-fascists in the McConnell Senate have put into positions where they could do these things and, after some of the same species of law-breaking by Trump was fully exposed and proved, kept them there to do exactly what they are doing now.
It all comes back to the desire of corrupt "justices" on the Supreme Court to enable their party to win elections through lying and to steal elections through the manipulation of the Electoral College, softening up the country by having the mass media feed a susceptible percentage of the electorate complete lies such as those repeated by Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani, Sydney (or "Sidney" wish they'd make up their minds which it is) Powell and the rest of those who should be disbarred if not indicted.
It really all does come back to the permission given by the Supreme Court for the mass media to lie with impunity and that is a direct consequence of the inadequate language of the First Amendment of the Constitution adopted in the far, far from democratically elected First Congress. The more I've looked into the actual record of how the Constitution was written, ratified and the early years under it, the seedier and more anti-democratic it obviously was. There is no more metaphysical legtimacy to it than any currently rigged election in the most benighted place in the country today. And thanks in no small part to the Rehnquist and Roberts courts, there are more of those today than there were when the Voting Rights Act was in actual operation.
THAT is how we have a presidency which is being run by the dictator of Russia as a Republican administration. Our Supreme Court knowingly, under warning that that's what they were doing, opened up to that corruption.
That Bill of Rights as well as much of the rest of the anti-democratic Constitution written by some entirely sleazy characters (slave owners are uniformly that) is dangerous to a modern democracy, it shouldn't be an object of reverence, it should be replaced by one that not only protects but promotes egalitarian democracy and its protection from its active and way too successful enemies. I'm for knocking the fucking founders off of their plinths along with the Confederates. It will have to be done sooner or later if this democracy thing is to long endure and not perish from the Earth.
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