Putin Didn't Do It

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Putin Didn't Do It
> Date: July 15, 2017 at 8:50:26 AM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
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> [Note:  This item comes from friend Robert Berger.  DLH]
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> Putin Didn’t Do It
> By Dave Pell
> Jul 13 2017
> <https://medium.com/@davepell/putin-didnt-do-it-7265b327125e>
>
> The Don Jr email exchange with his Russian-connected friends could very well be the ever-expanding crack that 
> crumbles the Trump house of lies. But while the brash stupidity of the exchange may have been surprising, the 
> content, by this point, was not. And neither is anything else about the Trumps’ performance as First Family.
>
> Everyone knew Trump was a con man who bent the rules and mixed with society’s dregs. People still voted for him. And 
> many still love the Trumps. Putin didn’t do that.
>
> No one can accuse Trump of being different as an elected official than he was during the campaign. In fact, his 
> consistency in this regard could be unprecedented. As he has done since Jan 20, campaign Donald lowered the 
> discourse, lied, offended, and slammed parents with a series of unwanted teachable moments. He was sexist, racist, 
> and generally terrible. And more than 60 million people looked at that and said, yeah … Him! Putin didn’t do that.
>
> Putin didn’t convince us to turn the Internet’s promise of a networked future into a nonstop rage-fest in which we 
> all sling mud (and worse) at each other from our paranoid, self-righteous silos of homogeneity.
>
> 217 members of the House voted for a historically hateful health care bill that would cut my taxes while ripping 
> coverage out of the hands of 24 million Americans. Guess who wasn’t one of those 217 people? Putin.
>
> Putin didn't spend the last couple decades furthering his own political fortunes by humoring mouth-breathing 
> imbeciles who want to teach evolution as a theory and who deny climate change and think science is part of the 
> liberal elite’s plot to pull one over them.
>
> I don’t remember Putin coming up with the disgusting Birther campaign that cut a few decades off the Civil Rights 
> progress we thought we had made. He also didn't see Trump use that sick, prejudiced, anti-American garbage as a 
> launching off point for a campaign filled with similar lies, xenophobia, and racist dog whistles — and then decide to 
> vote for the guy.
>
> Putin didn't create the tribal nature of our politics that has become so desperate that we’ll continue to root for 
> our team members, regardless of what they do. Collusion with the Russians? That’s bad, but not as bad as those 
> Democrats. Go team go!
>
> Putin didn’t turn cable news into a series of idiotic panelists faux-fighting so we’d have something to throw 
> handfuls of popcorn at after the evening’s last WWE match was over.
>
> When, in a single month, Trump partnered with the Saudis against terrorism, tried to partner with the Russians 
> against cyber attacks, and sent his son-in-law to create peace in the Middle East, Putin wasn't the one who sat back 
> on his couch and thought, “Hey, he’s really starting to look pretty presidential.”
>
> Guess who came up with the idea of banning people from several countries from entering the US even though no one who 
> had come from any of those countries had committed any terrorist acts? Better yet. Guess who didn’t? (Hint: Putin.)
>
> Putin didn’t pull America out of the climate treaty. Putin didn’t cede America’s leadership role in Europe. And that 
> fake news and hacking? Yeah, he did all that. But none of it would have had any chance of working if we didn’t have 
> millions of silly, hateful voters that were susceptible to believing all the nonsensical bullshit.
>
> [snip]
>
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