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August 5, 2020

Guys, guys! He INSISTS Putin Did Not Interfere in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election!

And by "he" I mean noted historian ( ) Oliver Stone.

"Jesus Christ, do you think everybody in the country has to believe this Russian election stuff?" Stone asked. "Do you think we all have to agree? Does anybody have any ability to dissent from an opinion? Is it a fact that that happened? I mean, if you talk to a lot of the intelligent people in the cyber community — and I have because I did a film about Edward Snowden [2016's Snowden] — they will tell you that it was not a hack, it was a steal, it was an inside job [referring to the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which were then leaked ahead of the 2016 Democratic National Convention]."

Stone continued, "And [the now-incarcerated WikiLeaks founder] Julian Assange has been good on his word ever since he started; he's been an authentic person. I admire him deeply. To say that he was in collusion with the Russians and all this is part of some kind of crazy fiction that has happened to this country. You probably believe it. You have no choice but to believe it."

When, in response, it was stated that the U.S. intelligence community has uniformly concluded that Putin interfered in the election, Stone protested, "Not uniformly, no! Their original statement was 'a high degree of confidence' or something like that, and it was taken from three agencies, not from the 17 that they claim. In fact, you could go back into the intelligence community and you will find dissenters if they're honest. This has been misrepresented. I've talked to a lot of experts on this."

His theory regarding the DNC hack: "The FBI did not do its job. They should have gotten the original system — got back into the DNC computer — but they didn't give it. They gave it to a private company, CrowdStrike, that was on their payroll. So the whole thing is crooked from the inside. It feels like the JFK case again. It wasn't planned, it was developed that way. But it certainly was developed from inside. Sore losers, I would call it. And, by the way, I don't have any— Trump has done things that are horrifying to me." (The CrowdStrike theory has been discredited.)


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oliver-stone-insists-putin-did-not-interfere-2016-us-presidential-election-1305471

I bolded the funniest parts to me.

"I admire Julian Assange deeply. He's been an authentic person."
"I've talked to a lot of experts on this."
"It feels like the JFK case again."

And my favorite of all...

"You probably believe it. You have no choice but to believe it."

Unlike the rest of us "sheeple", Oliver Stone knows The Truth!
July 30, 2020

People are dying for Trump. That is not normal. That is horrifying.

This virus doesn't care whether you think it's a hoax or not. This virus doesn't care whether you're a Trump cultist or not. Herman Cain is dead. Great job, COVID deniers.

Will they ever learn? Will they ever break free of the cult they've built around this deeply pathological narcissist, con man, and rapist who proudly takes the dirty, bloodied money of Putin, the Saudis, the Mafia, and other criminals, oligarchs, and autocrats around the world?

I wish I could say this wasn't a rhetorical question. I'm afraid that pretty much all of those still in the Cult of Trump are too far gone to help. The rest of us must help ourselves and each other, our country, our world.

November can't come soon enough. There are many more of us than there are of them. VOTE!

July 25, 2020

Thank you DU. We're all in this together, I hope.

This is a crazy, crazy time, and things are scary. Focus on what matters, and WHO matters. And focus on what you and others around you can do.

I say this all for myself as much as anyone, probably more so.

Hang in there, everyone!

July 21, 2020

What if all of the non-FOX/OANN TV news media just stopped giving Trump or his cronies any airtime?

Trump and his administration are in ongoing violation of the constitutional duties of the President of the United States, and are abusing their power on a daily basis. We all know this.

They’re not holding up THEIR end of the bargain: why, then, should they be rewarded for their criminality and unconstitutional actions with any airtime?

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