Here is my thought: what if they found something to blackmail Trump with? They keep talking about the Russians blackmailing us, but what if they are blackmailing Trump right now? In addition to the opposition of the Republicans, the Democrats, and the media, this will make it nearly impossible to accomplish anything.
What if they further have incriminating evidence against nearly every member of Congress? It is hardly a stretch. We have the capability of seeing and hearing nearly everything, and it would be a rare individual who never in their life did something they would not want on the front page of a paper.
This might be why, other than his congenital commitment to principle. Rand Paul continues to be one of the only ones willing to ask hard questions, and to pursue conservative causes honestly.
Certainly I think Trump has done things we still don’t know about that would make for, shall we say, an unusually busy news day. At the same time, the people who put him in office (I do think Trump won the vote honestly, although I also think hacking the election is something that is current project of US intelligence) GET that this system is broken, and getting every year worse, and trending to the end of US sovereignty. We would–and have–forgiven nearly anything. If framed as political blackmail, I think truth telling might well work, particularly when combined with criminal charges against those responsible.
And let us assume that Obama was the illegal immigrant, here on a long-expired Indonesian student visa, an ardent homosexual, and son of Frank Marshall Davis. Do you not think that they had him by the balls, even if he was in any event inclined to their cause?
Ponder carefully a largely unsupervised intelligence apparatus capable of gathering instantly a nearly unlimited quantity of highly personal data on any human being on the planet who has spent any time in our networked world.
Do the math.
In my view, our future depends on honest patriots–honest idealists and visionaries–within our system. Part of my writing, here, is trying to build support for alternative futures, other than a global totalitarian state framed as our friend and family.
All of us have been poisoned by a system which teaches us to distrust our best ideas, to distrust our instincts, and to elevate a vapid niceness to a God we place on high, to be used as needed by the psychopaths among us to render us defenseless, and helpless.