This Looks Interesting

 

It has taken everything I have to NOT write another bitchy little post about the people who seem to have voted for Trump with all the intentionality and forethought of someone getting lotto scratchers at the gas stations, and while something deeply petty in me would love to go over the hapless folks whose web searches looked like "what is the ACA?"; "student loan forgiveness reversed?"; or "how to change my vote"--I can't. 

Sometimes things will just have to play out for people to really see what is happening. 

But in line with long-standing "Strangely Blogged" TrumpWorld traditions--this looks interesting. It seems like RU comms has gone to "everyone knows what we did and everyone knows what is expected of him."  Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that maybe Trump could wind up like JFK. Nothing threatening there, right?

Anyway, US intelligence was pretty quick this year letting us know about the podcaster payoffs and Russian-based bomb threats to voting sites. It feels like this year they were a little more--I dunno--in our face about it?  So are they just doing a little "friendly "propaganda? Or are they really implying that the incoming president is well and truly held by the short and curlies? 

I know a lot of intelligence professionals before the election thought for sure Trump was a unique national security threat.  But, like newspaper endorsements--things like that only sink through to an electorate that even reads. (Oh--I looped back to that again, didn't I?)