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He missed the most important reason: the alternative media has made hash of virtually every MSM anti-russian claim. Fewer and fewer believe the MSM about anything anymore. We don't want to be told lies about WMDs, food pyramids, climate change or how Stalin was a man of the people. The gig is up. Die already.
The New Cold War Flops
Poll shows anti-Russia campaign had little effect
by Justin Raimondo
August 23, 2018
Has there ever been a country so vilified as Russia, a leader so demonized as Vladimir Putin?
It makes me dizzy just to think of all the crimes that have been laid at that particular doorstep. I could spend the rest of this column simply listing them, from the deaths of numerous Russian journalists to the extinction of Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions – that and so much more! The omnipotent Russian President has apparently poisoned so many Russian expatriates in Britain that the streets are awash in polonium, novichok, and god knows what else. Why, it only took a few thousand bucks spent on some Facebook ads that practically no one saw to steal the presidential election from the rightful winner. Vlad the Bad is the all-powerful villain at the center of so many sinister conspiracies that it’s hard to keep track of them.
The anti-Russian campaign that the media has been hyping ever since Trump took office isn’t anything new. Those of us born during the cold war years – the first cold war, that is – remember all too well the atmosphere of hysteria and unreason that prevailed in those days. The fear of Communist agents under every bed was exploited by the War Party to no end – no good end, that is – and one would’ve thought that the collapse of communism and the end of the cold war would put a stop to it.
No such luck. It started in 2003, when the neocons declared war on Russia for Putin’s refusal to sign on to the Iraq war. Richard Perle led the charge, demanding Russia’s expulsion from the G-8.
The hate-on-Russia campaign has been ongoing ever since that time, only increasing in intensity and changing as to the details over the years. The main instrument of this effort has been the “mainstream” media, which, like the “intelligence community,” has now begun openly acting in a coordinated manner, an activist component of the anti-Trump popular front. The Russia-gate hoax is the central narrative of the NeverTrumpers, and hatred of Russia is therefore central to the emerging ideology of #TheResistance – a trend that does not bode well for the future of what was once known as American liberalism.
What does bode well for the country, however, is the fact that the American people aren’t buying the new cold war. After all those years of frenetic propaganda, a new Gallup poll shows that nearly 60% of the American people prefer diplomacy over confrontation with Russia:
“In an era of increasingly tense U.S.-Russian relations marked by allegations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections, Americans believe it is more important to try to continue efforts to improve relations between the countries (58%), rather than taking strong diplomatic and economic steps against Russia (36%).”
Every fifty years or so the War Party migrates to the other side of the political spectrum, and this poll shows that the switching of partisan polarities is well underway. The majority of Democrats – 51% — say it’s more important to impose sanctions and take other hostile actions against Russia than to engage in diplomacy, while a whopping 74% of Republicans take the opposite view of diplomacy over confrontation. The Trumpification of the GOP means a less interventionist Republican electorate, as I’ve been saying for many months. This poll confirms it: the Republicans (in general!) are the party of peace.
The good news doesn’t end there. The really great news is that the Democrats are badly split, with a significant minority choosing diplomacy over sanctions. The clincher is that the independents are with the peaceniks in the GOP: diplomacy, they say, is better than conflict.
The Great American Peace Consensus has spoken! If the Democrats run with this Russia-gate nonsense in 2020 they will lose, bigtime. There’s no way they’re going to sell the American people on a cheap remake of “Red Dawn.”
Oh yes, the good news just keeps coming:
“Just 9% of Republicans agree that Russians interfered and changed the outcome of the election. Rather, the majority of Republicans, 58%, believe Russia interfered but it did not change the outcome. Nearly one in three Republicans reject the idea that Russia interfered.”
On the other hand, the Democrats swallow the Russia-gate myth whole: 78% believe it, despite the lack of publicly available evidence.
What this means is that most Democrats are not only epistemologically challenged but they are also more likely to believe authority figures unquestioningly, whereas Republicans are more prone to freethinking – although there are still a few deadheads among them.
We haven’t heard much about this particular poll, and the reason ought to be clear enough: it illustrates the waning power of the “mainstream” media, underscoring their pathetic weakness even when they act in concert. And if you think their coordinated editorials against Trump the other day was the first instance of their consolidation into a political bloc then you haven’t been paying attention. They’ve been peddling this anti-Russian conspiracy narrative for years – and now to see that it has had almost no effect on the majority of ordinary Americans must be so humiliating. All that effort – for nothing! The American people have far more sense than the political class that purports to rule over them, and that includes the media.
Our journalists are extra sensitive these days, responsive to every slight, both real and imagined, precisely because they sense their own impending irrelevance. Do you wonder why it’s the journalists who scream the loudest in favor of censoring alternative voices like Alex Jones? They hate the competition and would love to stamp it out: Jones’s kookiness gives them the perfect foil and pretext.
Trump called them the “enemy of the people,” but that’s letting them off easy. Our media is the enemy of reality, and the servitor of entrenched Power. They’ve inverted their job description: instead of reporting the facts they are intent on hiding them. That’s why alternative media are growing by leaps and bounds, while the legacy media is on its last legs.
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Excellent post! Long read but worth every word written. Thank you. There is a social media revolution taking place. msm no longer controls the narrative and they can't accept it. The days of Lyin Dan Rather etc feeding the public lies with no one to call them on it are over.
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THE NEW NORMAL
https://claytoonz.com/2018/08/23/the-new-normal/
The term “new normal” has been used a lot since Donald Trump entered the White House. As each day introduces us to a fresh new Hell, we focus on certain aspects while glossing over others that we would not have accepted two years ago.
Donald Trump admitted he paid off a porn star and a Playmate and he’s claiming it wasn’t illegal. What a heavy confession, but while we’re focusing on the stupidity of his statement, we’re overlooking other aspects.
Aspects like, he cheated on his wife. We impeached a guy once for receiving oral sex.
He lied. He said he never slept with the women, yet he paid them off. He said he didn’t know anything about the payments, but a tape has emerged of him discussing one of them. Now, he’s giving us all the details as he sees it. We impeached a guy once for lying.
He paid for their silence about the affairs so it wouldn’t hurt his chances of winning the election. That alone wouldn’t be illegal, but making a donation to your campaign and hiding it is. Just a few years ago, it wouldn’t have mattered if it was legal. We wouldn’t have accepted it merely because it’s wrong.
He compared the porn star to his daughter right before he had sex with her. Are we at a point now where that’s normal and not at all icky?
Trump’s lawyer who paid off the mistresses has flipped on Trump. Trump now says “flipping” should be illegal. He’s not arguing against the crimes, and even praised freshly-minted felon Paul Manafort. He’s arguing against capturing bad guys. The president of the United States is acting like a mob boss. Is that part of the new normal?
A president without ethics, morals, or principles is the new normal. A president who puts Russia before NATO and the United States is the new normal. A president who lies daily is the new normal. A president who doesn’t understand or comprehend anything is the new normal.
Now, when the president is caught, ensnared, tangled, or complicit, it’s not even normal to present a rational defense, and sometimes, not any defense. No, the new normal is to deflect and engage in “whataboutism,” which is another term created after Trump entered the White House.
What is “whataboutism?” You’ve seen it. You’ve seen it on Facebook. You’ve seen it on Fox News. You’ve even seen it on CNN and MSNBC anytime they’ve had a Trump supporter on. An example is; Trump broke the law….but what about her emails? Obviously, you don’t have to be good at it. Lord knows it doesn’t even take intelligence. The new normal doesn’t not include reason or being rational.
The new normal includes chanting “drain the swamp” at Trump rallies while Trump is engaged in criminal behavior and defending money launderers and tax evaders. Not to mention the first two Republican congressmen to endorse Trump were indicted this month. The new normal is chanting “lock her up” at that rally while five Trump associates are on their way to prison.
The new normal is crucifying a Democrat for saying America isn’t great, while overlooking the fact that was literally in Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
The new normal is being proud that a tape of the president saying the N-word hasn’t been released yet, while overlooking the fact that the existence of such a tape is a very real possibility.
I catch myself overlooking details that would have enraged me two years ago. I remind myself to keep my eyes open when something new hits. I can’t allow that to happen. The new normal is dangerous.
It’s dangerous when the new normal includes oppression, government sanctioned racism, and restrictions on the press. It’s dangerous when it includes putting one man above law and a cult of personality over the nation. The new normal is dangerous when an entire political party refuses to hold one man accountable out of political fear.
The new normal is most dangerous when it simply becomes the normal.
https://claytoonz.com/2018/08/23/the-new-normal/
The term “new normal” has been used a lot since Donald Trump entered the White House. As each day introduces us to a fresh new Hell, we focus on certain aspects while glossing over others that we would not have accepted two years ago.
Donald Trump admitted he paid off a porn star and a Playmate and he’s claiming it wasn’t illegal. What a heavy confession, but while we’re focusing on the stupidity of his statement, we’re overlooking other aspects.
Aspects like, he cheated on his wife. We impeached a guy once for receiving oral sex.
He lied. He said he never slept with the women, yet he paid them off. He said he didn’t know anything about the payments, but a tape has emerged of him discussing one of them. Now, he’s giving us all the details as he sees it. We impeached a guy once for lying.
He paid for their silence about the affairs so it wouldn’t hurt his chances of winning the election. That alone wouldn’t be illegal, but making a donation to your campaign and hiding it is. Just a few years ago, it wouldn’t have mattered if it was legal. We wouldn’t have accepted it merely because it’s wrong.
He compared the porn star to his daughter right before he had sex with her. Are we at a point now where that’s normal and not at all icky?
Trump’s lawyer who paid off the mistresses has flipped on Trump. Trump now says “flipping” should be illegal. He’s not arguing against the crimes, and even praised freshly-minted felon Paul Manafort. He’s arguing against capturing bad guys. The president of the United States is acting like a mob boss. Is that part of the new normal?
A president without ethics, morals, or principles is the new normal. A president who puts Russia before NATO and the United States is the new normal. A president who lies daily is the new normal. A president who doesn’t understand or comprehend anything is the new normal.
Now, when the president is caught, ensnared, tangled, or complicit, it’s not even normal to present a rational defense, and sometimes, not any defense. No, the new normal is to deflect and engage in “whataboutism,” which is another term created after Trump entered the White House.
What is “whataboutism?” You’ve seen it. You’ve seen it on Facebook. You’ve seen it on Fox News. You’ve even seen it on CNN and MSNBC anytime they’ve had a Trump supporter on. An example is; Trump broke the law….but what about her emails? Obviously, you don’t have to be good at it. Lord knows it doesn’t even take intelligence. The new normal doesn’t not include reason or being rational.
The new normal includes chanting “drain the swamp” at Trump rallies while Trump is engaged in criminal behavior and defending money launderers and tax evaders. Not to mention the first two Republican congressmen to endorse Trump were indicted this month. The new normal is chanting “lock her up” at that rally while five Trump associates are on their way to prison.
The new normal is crucifying a Democrat for saying America isn’t great, while overlooking the fact that was literally in Donald Trump’s campaign slogan.
The new normal is being proud that a tape of the president saying the N-word hasn’t been released yet, while overlooking the fact that the existence of such a tape is a very real possibility.
I catch myself overlooking details that would have enraged me two years ago. I remind myself to keep my eyes open when something new hits. I can’t allow that to happen. The new normal is dangerous.
It’s dangerous when the new normal includes oppression, government sanctioned racism, and restrictions on the press. It’s dangerous when it includes putting one man above law and a cult of personality over the nation. The new normal is dangerous when an entire political party refuses to hold one man accountable out of political fear.
The new normal is most dangerous when it simply becomes the normal.
All the adults left the building some time ago. Adults don’t stay where the rules say that the 2-year-old is in charge and will make all the final decisions.
And so this is going to be awful. Not that it hasn’t been awful so far, but it will get worse. That was foreordained on election day, or on electoral college day if there is any consolation in that distinction. A Trump presidency was never going to end well. The only variable with the Trump reckoning is that the later, the worse.
How do we know? History is not always a reliable guide to the future, but with some people it is. Character might not be destiny, but character tells you what to expect. With Trump there is a long and lurid trail of failure to look back on. The only one who has escaped unrepentant is you-know-who. He has stayed one step ahead of the reckoning with bankruptcy laws, new suckers, new scams and an army of lawyers and fixers.
And it’s always all or nothing for Trump. He bets big, because he always assumes that somebody else will get stuck with the tab. And now it’s us. The United States made perhaps its worst bet ever when it bet on Trump and his ludicrous promise that he and only he could fix everything with his special blend of simple-mindedness and ruthlessness. We got the simple-mindedness all right, but we have yet to plumb the depths of his ruthlessness.
Trump will not go quietly, no matter how bad it gets for the nation. He will double down and down again, daring everyone to take him on after it is clear that he is holding the nation hostage. Nice country you have here, be a shame if something happened to it.
Trump has to be the hero or bust, and it doesn’t matter what gets busted. Everyone has let him get away with this until now. It was the Republicans’ job to apply the checks and balances that the Constitution gave them to keep someone like him in line. But they decided to throw in with him, in exchange for their shameful tax cuts for the rich.
It’s now up to the rest of us, whoever is left, to bring him to justice, however bad he is willing to make it, and then deal with the wreckage.
And there is concern among Trump's advisers, said a fourth source, that he could still have an emotional meltdown over the crisis.
For now, though, Trump's aides are going about their work as usual, said a White House official. On Wednesday, for example, they helped the president prepare, as they often do, for a Fox News interview. He ended the on-air back-and-forth by joking with the anchor, the official said.
"There are no normal days here," the White House official said Wednesday. "Yesterday was more abnormal than usual. But the republic is still standing."
"I am sure they are spooked. You would be spooked," Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a close Trump ally, said of the internal reaction to Cohen and Manafort. He said he is certain the president didn't commit any crimes but acknowledged the White House would prefer to be on offense politically.
"You would rather be reading about the West Virginia Senate race this morning and that kind of stuff, not this," he said.
Republicans outside the White House say this could be a political turning point for Trump and the GOP.
"Cohen’s admissions are an earthquake in Trump world,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor. “It gigantically complicates him running for re-election.”
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