Adversity & The ASSet

The luxury of choosing ones' adversity is a lark. The myth begins as a child, and children soon learn the brutal consequences of actions which seem to come at them automatically, by tangent. These things which seem out of our control appear "Unfair", and unexpected. We feel slighted "So unfair",  is what we call it, when we get mono, break a wrist, or chip a tooth. Later we surrender into a false faith that we can avoid most bad outcomes, through our clever cunning, or savvy. When, most children (and one childlike president/king) loses, he blames everyone for unexpected outcomes. Losers who feel wronged begin begging others to come to their aid. Pleading how unjust things are. Throwing a tantrum, revolting -- Hosting an insurrection. That we have the sovereignty to control for life's pitfalls, is broadly false. We do not. Reactive vs Proactive outlines the tacit territory of Karma, perhaps, wherein very few humans admit they do not control their path, but wish to remain on the "Good Side" of fate, as "Shit just happens". So we adjust, or we whine, complain, riot, blame others, and then we adjust.  But the new administration is not proactive.  They are guessing, and then correcting for mistakes, which is unsurprising.  What then happens when your whole flat earth tilts like a pizza sliding from a plate? What do we do about everything breaking all at once? We begin the blame game...  Enter the ASSet.  The douchebag in chief, with his Prime Minister Musk are breaking america quickly.  Adolescent DOGiEs brandish laptops like a bosses kid may hold an empty clip-board. Moving fast and breaking things, and then back-pedaling discovering they have NO clue how things actually operate. These ASSets have been hard at work destroying america from within.  What is the reason?  To curb spending?, to Save Money?, To get attention?, To land-grab the ashes? To be contrarian?, or... to create chaotic distractions from far more frightening agendas, like invading Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. 

Is This Asshole really an Asset of the Russian Government? Is the Kremlin using our doughy fungible dolt-in-chief  to destabilize nearly all american institutions, and markets, to weaken it's government,  and to further erode what was once a "Western" bulwark against Communism, Fascism, and Feudalism. Trump is perhaps the first and ( I hope),  the only american president to ever have become a full fledged traitor, a foreign ASSet, and a really-really bad reality TV actor working to undermine the United States Of America simply to curry favor with Kremlin friends writ large, (if, unwittingly).
Whatever your personal perspective, even 'the far right' know that he has been compromised.
What then is the expected outcome of making an enemy of Zelensky? [Well, he didn't help Trump win an election, by hanging Clinton & Biden out to dry], and he has a conscience, so he is a threat.
What is the best outcome from alienating EU leaders, and america's most essential allies & trading partners? What is the best that can come from exiting entrenched trade agreements, NAFTA, The UN, and by making enemies of China, Canada, and Mexico?  Tariffs are a tax on everyone. Except those not trading, (e.g. Russia), and those with 'fuck-you' money. 
Is Fentanyl trafficking an adequate pretext to making enemies of nearly every close american  ally and trade partners?  Is making everything 25-35 % more expensive beneficial to his constituents?  Compromised ASSet.

Blindly lobbing darts at bad policy scribbled onto post-its, Is the best we can do in Washington today.

It is very clear that shock and awe are intended diversions, from real accomplishment, and  actual work.  But the DOGiE dumpster fire which decapitated the formerly functional juggernaut of American Sovereignty, and governance, is strategically aligned with dismantlement from within.  Collaterally 100,000 americans will lose their jobs and livelihood almost immediately. Somewhat ironically they voted for him. Even those who lose Medicare, and Medicaid voted for this. While globally millions more suffer  for lack of US aid. So, who stands to benefit from "Draining the Swamp", tilting the entire table, and pissing off nearly everyone? 
Who would be on the winning end of every current political move made by the ASSet?

(sigh)       

...Russia alone -- 

And current capitulation to Russia comes without getting anything in return, except perhaps a bromantic chest bump.  This smells an awful lot like, "...Hey thanks Dr. Death for tipping my election".  It doesn't take a Democratic Think-Tank to discover a few truths. This imbalance being one of them, and the other being -- Democrats biggest failing seems to be calling a spade a spade.  Calling out Dictators, Indicting Fascists, even offing it's enemies, before they burn the place down,  And... always acting like the "adult" in the room, (which is now a circus) while the world crumbles, are a few of these failings.   And... don't get me started on Special Council investigations, and whistleblowing.  He should have been indicted so many times, my head spins thinking about it.

R e l a x M a n..., because this too is not impeachable, Trump vis a vis Putin have convinced, [nay brainwashed],  idiotic constituents that their moron is "working" in their best interests.  We The People, (damaged & slightly more-smarter) all know HE has no plan. ZERO.  He has never had a plan of his own, except to be popular.  To get "LIKES". The chasm between being popular and being liked is as wide as our country.  The thing of it is, that many a charlatan, con man, and ASSet, operate under beliefs which remain sufficiently unclear to themselves, as they form excuses for what goes wrong. Reentering the "Blame-Game" -- Reactive is what we are. Humans adjust the thermostat when we feel chilled.  Reacting to bad news, tragedy, and to criticism, as if betrayed by the unexpected... all the while believing that our reactions are some sort of preemptive expert strategy.  That we are in control, is largely myth, but as we just fumble with the remote control (perhaps) something a bit less lame appears on our screen, and we feel vindicated by our expertise.  The whole Trumpian movement runs like this... Chaos, Trade wars, Tarriffs, one day, rescinded the next when that shitty plan fails -- Try something new. Blindly lobbing darts at bad policy which we've scribbled onto post-its, This is the best we can do in Washington today.  Pin the blame on the Donkey, while the left convenes to bury woke, and polish it's appeal. But the real motivations are perhaps far less insidious than we could know. Because at it's core -- American idiocrasy is constantly blindsiding it's citizens by what they cannot see, which is just how good they had it before the wrecking ball took their quiet comfort away.  The greatest generation simply wont let go of white sovereign supremacy, and re-invents a new scape-goat every day. Especially when things go sour, and Trump is their Mouthpiece.

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So, why is it so difficult to see that Trump is a Russian Asset?, Perhaps because it would mean that we were wrong, and ineffective. Compromised for certain. Call it what you will. That we couldn't see it coming, is "unfair adversity".  BUT, in truth he couldn't really know either. This is of course the key to creating an effective ASSet. They first need to be rather dim.  Brainwashed by hubris,  self importance, and the desire to be  a strong man dictator himself, is all the motivation a weak person needs to drink Commie Kool-Aid. All effective cults and religions for that matter, promise nirvana, which you only get when you are dead, so you cannot actually fact check it, can you?  Let the charlatan believe that he is sooo smart that THIS could never happen to him, as was his last administration.  But NOW, TODAY the U.S. is on a disastrous trajectory.  The showman promises that trick with the table cloth, but where everything tumbles. Wait... Which pill did I swallow?

The President of the United States is a Compromised Russian Asset, and everyone is pretending that it is fine.
Say what you will about conspiracy Theories... Or How Bonkers the Right or the Left appear. The World is on edge because of one man and his patsy Donald J Trump, and this is entirely unsurprising. Find yourself a popular, if unlikable celebrity has-been, and promise them billions.  Tell them they can plant a Trump-Tower Man-Phallus directly off Red Square. Allow them to believe they wield unfettered power and popularity, and how do you think they will behave? This is of course safe-guarded by their limited survival.  The last man standing will not be Donald J.

A political lifetime ago The Guardian and many other credible news sources tried to properly decipher the Kremlin Papers, and the Steele Dossier, to reveal what they were at their core.  These purported to improve relations, and cooperation between a ruthless dictator, and a doughy dottering insecure sociopath. But they are a doctrine for takeover.  A means to plant an asset and a flag upon the american capital. Donald J. is the mouthpiece for Russia. He is a Mole. He is a Kremlin Asset.

What follows are cogent adult fact based reporting on america's traitorous ASSet.

​The person to ‘weaken’ America: what the Kremlin papers said about Trump. This article is more than 3 years old Documents appear to show how Russian intelligence worked to install their preferred candidate as president
Papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh
Thu 15 Jul 2021 13.05 EDT
In January 2016, America was coming to terms with what had previously seemed incredible. Barring an unforeseen event, Donald J Trump was on course to become the Republican party’s presidential candidate. Some welcomed this giddy prospect, while others in the Republican establishment recoiled in horror.
The man himself oozed confidence. “I have a feeling it’s going to work out, actually,” he told his rival Ted Cruz, at a Fox News debate. By 22 January, the polls had Trump well ahead, as a snowstorm nudged towards Washington.
Trump’s astonishing and confounding rise had not gone unnoticed in Russia. Unbeknown to the US public, his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch with the office of the Kremlin press secretary. Cohen had begged for help in building a luxury hotel in Moscow – a decades-long Trump dream.

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

Read moreMeanwhile, Trump had said flattering things about Vladimir Putin, a person talked about by some leading US politicians as a cold-eyed KGB killer. “Wouldn’t it be great if we got along with Russia,” Trump would muse.
That he was the Kremlin’s preferred candidate is not in doubt. What has been a source of endless conjecture is the lengths Russia was prepared to go to to help Trump win. The Guardian has spent months seeking to verify the authenticity of papers that may provide an answer to this question.
Our investigation has revealed that western intelligence agencies have known about the papers – and have been examining them – for some time.
Independent experts approached by the Guardian have also confirmed they are consistent with the Kremlin’s thinking and chain of command.
Their fascination in material that appears to have come from within the heart of the Kremlin is easy to understand.
The papers suggest that as Trump surged ahead, a group of analysts inside the Russian administration were putting the final touches on a secret paper.
The title of the document was bland enough: “Report on strengthening the state and stabilising the position of Russia under conditions of external economic constraint.”
Its contents were not.
The document describes how Putin’s expert department was urging a multi-layered plan to interfere in the race for the White House. The goal: to “destabilise” America.
One candidate above all might help bring this about, the experts confidently believed – the “mentally unstable”, impulsive” and “unbalanced” Trump.
This plan was presented as being entirely defensive. The Obama administration had inflicted damage on the Russian economy by imposing sanctions. Living standards were falling, regional elites were unhappy and the sugar rush from Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea had worn off, the report said. Potential domestic political dangers lay ahead.
The sensible course from Moscow’s perspective, it said, was to enact measures that would “pressure” America to ease off – by dropping anti-Russian sanctions, or softening them.
The paper seems to have set off a flurry of activity in the Kremlin.
The documents indicate that on 14 January Vladimir Symonenko, the expert department chief, shared a three-page summary.
“At the moment the Russian Federation finds itself in a predicament. American measures continue to be felt in all areas of public life,” it starts. Next, Putin ordered the head of his foreign policy directorate, Alexander Manzhosin, to arrange an urgent meeting of the national security council, Russia’s top decision-making body. At some point over the next few days Putin appears to have read the document himself.
By 22 January, other security council members had had a chance to digest its contents. The early part dealt with Russia’s economy. The secret American measures were contained in a special section beginning on page 14.
The report seemed to confirm what Trump would later deny: that Putin’s spy agencies had gathered compromising material on him, possibly stretching back to Soviet KGB times.
Trump’s personal flaws were so extensive – also featuring an “inferiority complex” – that he was the perfect person to feed divisions and to weaken America’s negotiating position.
The unflattering assessment of Trump’s personality was based on evidence, the paper said, derived from observation of his behaviour during trips to Russia.
Trump visited communist Moscow and Leningrad in summer 1987 following an invitation from the Soviet envoy in New York. Trump returned in the 1990s, and early 2000s, seeking business deals, and flew in for the 2013 Miss Universe beauty contest, when he stayed in Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. Putin’s FSB agency had spy cameras in guest rooms, and a full-time officer on the premises, the Senate intelligence committee later found.
The report appears to confirm Trump was being watched, though no dates or locations are given.“Considering certain events that took place during his stay on Russian Federation territory (Appendix 5 – personal characteristics Donald J Trump, paragraph 5), it is urgently necessary to use all means to promote his election to the post of President of the United States,” it says.
The allegation that the Russians had kompromat on Trump would haunt his four years in the White House. True or false, his flattering treatment of Putin was one riddle of his chaotic presidency.
The papers seen by the Guardian suggest that after the security council meeting Putin set up a special inter-departmental commission headed by his close ally Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister. Shoigu was in overall command of the operation to influence the 2016 US election. GRU military intelligence, SVR foreign intelligence and the FSB were all told to prepare immediate practical steps to help accomplish the report’s preferred scenario – a Trump victory.
This certainly came at a time of internal spy agency tensions.
The SVR’s then chief, Mikhail Fradkov, was regarded as a weak figure. In 2010, the FBI arrested 10 of Fradkov’s undercover sleeper agents in America. The scandal badly damaged his authority. The GRU and FSB harboured scarcely concealed ambitions to take over the SVR’s functions abroad. Meanwhile, the GRU’s director, Igor Sergun, died two weeks before the meeting, apparently while undercover in the Middle East.
By spring 2016, the commission chiefs appear to have overcome their institutional rivalry to work harmoniously together. A team of GRU cyber-hackers moved into an anonymous glass tower in north-west Moscow. They worked closely with GRU colleagues based in a downtown building.
The first phishing email was sent on 19 March to John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
More followed. As the report correctly envisaged, these stolen and dumped emails became a “media virus” – infecting and weakening the Democratic campaign, and reaching millions of American voters via Facebook and Twitter.
By autumn, President Obama was convinced Putin had personally approved the hacking operation, which Clinton believes cost her the presidency. In October 2016, Obama remonstrated with his Russian counterpart in a phone call, telling Putin his election meddling was “an act of war”. The 2019 report by special counsel Robert Mueller called the Kremlin’s operation “sweeping and systematic”. In 2020, the bipartisan Senate intelligence committee said it was “aggressive and multi-faceted”.
The committee detailed multiple interactions between individuals linked to the Russian government and Trump’s inner circle. The GRU spy Konstantin Kilimnik held clandestine meetings with Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort supplied Kilimnik with private polling and other data. The pair communicated using encrypted messages and shared email drafts.
And what of the report’s claim that Putin would be able to exploit Trump’s weaknesses in “clandestine fashion” during bilateral discussions?
Something along these lines took place during their notorious 2018 summit in Helsinki. Asked at a joint press conference to condemn Kremlin hacking and dumping, Trump endorsed Putin’s assertion that Moscow had not interfered – a claim at odds with the findings of all 14 US intelligence agencies. After a backlash at home, and amid speculation the Russians were somehow blackmailing the president, Trump said he misspoke.
Putin has repeatedly denied claims he interferes in US politics. Western governments don’t believe him. According to US intelligence officials, Moscow sought to influence the 2020 election by spreading “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” against Joe Biden. Last year, Russian state hackers penetrated numerous federal US institutions, in a massive cyber-attack.
Little is really known about how decision-making works at the top of the Kremlin. The apparent leaked papers seen by the Guardian appear to suggest the bureaucratic paper trail is more considerable than you might think. The security council – the Sovbez in Russian – has increasingly come to resemble the Politburo, the Soviet Union’s powerful executive committee. At the top is a small, like-minded group of individuals, led by a preeminent figure.
For the moment, Putin’s regime looks impregnable, despite mass street protests in January following the arrest and jailing of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, poisoned in 2020 in a special FSB operation. As unrest grows, further leaks seem possible. The lesson comes from history. When the USSR collapsed 30 years ago, KGB files were opened and long-buried secrets fell out.
Trump did not initially respond to a request for comment.
Later, Liz Harrington, his spokesperson, issued a statement on his behalf.
“This is disgusting. It’s fake news, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA was fake news. It’s just the Radical Left crazies doing whatever they can to demean everybody on the right.
“It’s fiction, and nobody was tougher on Russia than me, including on the pipeline, and sanctions. At the same time we got along with Russia. Russia respected us, China respected us, Iran respected us, North Korea respected us."
“And the world was a much safer place than it is now with mentally unstable leadership.”