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credit: K. Siers, Charlotte Observer
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It is clear that the GOP is sticking with Brand X come hell or insurrection. What choice do they really have? The Q-Anon lady? The Missouri boy leader of the Sedition Caucus in the Senate? That is why the GOP House Minority Leader went to the 'anti-pope' in Palm Beach for marching orders this week.
Democrats should better use their Senate majority by passing fiscal legislation through the reconciliation process. Non-budget related items such as immigration reform and minimum federal election standards will take alteration of the filibuster rule that requires sixty votes to pass legislation. The structure of the Senate preserves minority rights without the rule, which was an ad hoc creation of Vice President and traitor, Aaron Burr. California’s 39 million residents get two senators in Washington--the same as Wyoming’s 579,000! As the state of play stands [see below], Democrats can muster no more than a handful of conservatives to support their progressive agenda. Joe may see himself as the 'great unifier' and inside-the-beltway player, but the divide between progressives and reactionaries has become too deep and wide for one mortal to cross, or even for a regular guy who drives a boss '67 Stingray. Warnock and Ossoff are not wrong--Democrats must deliver. (Biden to Georgia voters: checks "out the door immediately")
Meanwhile™ a new book publishes explosive allegations by a former KGB operative, Yuri Shvets, that American Fascist, Donald Trump, was cultivated as an espionage asset by the KGB for four decades! Shvets compared him to the infamous "Cambridge Five" who were recruited as students and who later rose to the top ranks of British civil service where they spied for the Soviets. Shvets was a KGB major who worked under cover in the United States as a foreign correspondent for TASS, the Soviet news agency (1985-87). He is now a US citizen and lives in Virginia. Killer first came to the attention of the Soviet spy service in 1977 when he married Czech model Ivanka, his first wife. He bought 200 television sets for his newly opened Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue. Shvets says Kislin was controlled by the KGB, and as an agency talent spotter, he identified Trump as a potential asset. In 1987 Trump and Ivanka visited the Soviet Union where the agency conducted a "charm offensive" in which Trump was encouraged to go into politics and was fed KGB talking points. The KGB had also conducted a personality analysis of Trump, so the agency was equipped to ingratiate itself with the American business promoter who is susceptible to flattery and is vulnerable psychologically. According to Shvets he was "the perfect target" for so-called KGB "active measures".
Shortly after Trump returned to the US, he began exploring entry into national politics, holding a rally in New Hampshire and taking a full page ad out in the New York times addressing allegedly weak US foreign policy. He asked why the US should be paying for the defense of NATO members that do not afford to defend themselves. The KGB in Moscow celebrated this ad as the fruit of a successful cultivation of their new asset. Center for American Progress Action Fund found the Trump campaign and transition team had at least 272 known contacts and at least 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives prior and during the 2016 election. The fact that Trump was actually elevated to the White House in 2016 was an unprecedented achievement in the eyes of Kremlin leaders. What happened next in the KGB's campaign to make Trump an asset is now, unfortunately for the Republic,history.
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Wackydoodle asks: Is that the USS Kumbaya?
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