I would imagine that you believe that her campaign did not pay for the Steele Dossier and start the whole Russia Hoax machine?
So much bullshit there it's hard to know where to start unpacking it.
First, the only “Russia hoax" was the hoax that Putin's Russia was ever a first rank global power and not just a stagnant petro-kleptocracy that happened to inherit a nuclear arsenal. In the middle of last decade there was a coordinated series of Russian propaganda and disinformation attacks using hacked data against free world institutions. Some of these were coordinated through public statements by Putin’s vassals ("Russia, if you're listening..."), and others likely went through through various quislings (Farange, Le Pen, Manafort/Stone,
Strache, and so on) or their underlings. Russia's attacks were initially very successful in advancing Russia's goals of creating/exposing fractures in the free world: Brexit, propulsion of Putin's boy into our White House. However, the free world developed countermeasures to these attacks, and the potency of the Russian assault began to fade starting with the French election before last, where
Russian leaks of hacked data and attempts to lever French election laws for maximum damage failed to provide much boost for Putin's girl over Macron. Thankfully, Putin's girl again lost to President Macron last week, though it is damn scary that such a wretched monster could get 40+ % of the vote shortly after her patron launched war in Europe.
Second, the Steele dossier is a sideshow, not the start of American knowledge of Russia's propaganda and disinformation offensive against the free world, or central to it. I believe official US counterintelligence investigations started after one of Putin's boy's half-wit pipsqueaks (don't remember the name -I believe it sounded Greek though) bragged to some Australians while drinking, and Australian intelligence warned their US counterparts.
Third, the origin of the Steele dossier begins with Republican operatives and the GOP primary. I don't remember if it was Sen. Rubio's official campaign, or someone close to him. Regardless, I think it would be consistent to lump it in to Russia's general "flood the zone with poop" offense. Remember, the primary Russian objective was to create chaos in the free world. I'm also not aware of anything in said dossier being actually disproven, though it's also peripheral enough to the actual story of Russia's attacks on the free world that hasn’t really worth my time to follow.
We'll see what happens with the Durham investigations.
Yes, we will. For example,
CONFIRMED: JOHN DURHAM HAS WITHHELD DISCOVERY THAT DOJ ALREADY DISPROVED HIS CLAIMS OF POLITICAL MALICE
What an embarrassing farce!
On one level, I do feel for Hillary. Her time to be president was ideally 2008, but that was taken away from her by the DNC.
I love all these conspiracy theories that just happen to delegitimize achievements by people of color... It was we pesky voters who preferred the Senator and constitutional law scholar from Illinois over Sen. Clinton in 2008. Even in 2016 there was
a lot of antipathy towards Secretary Clinton's campaign. It's mostly the contrast against her opponent that has led to her current glow. I think if she had faced off against a patriotic American in 2016, she would've lost badly and would not have her current reputation.
Stacey Abrams disagreed with the election results. I will take your word on the local circumstances of high jinks before the election.
Don't. Verify the facts instead. Here's a good start:
2019 [edit] Georgia Purge Removes Nearly 309,000 Voter Registrations.
The banning of books in recent times has been quite the obsession and practice by the left more than conservatives. That's no surprise though, it's Year Zero thinking.
That's an odd perspective - I'd like to see you defend it.
In my lifetime at least, knowledge has constantly been fighting to beat back the barbarians at the gates: white supremacists and christian KKKrusaders. When I was a middle schooler the barbarians forced taxpayers such as my parents where we lived at the time (Cobb County, GA) to pay for printing and installation of stickers in biology textbooks that evolution was "just a theory" (not that these creatures were smart enough to know what “theory” means, but anyway), were constantly battling to prevent any meaningful sex ed, and so on. They are continuing today with attacks on education regarding the nature of institutions, non-mythological history texts, sexuality, and so on. It should be quite embarrassing for them to be so stupid. And self-evident that keeping the population as stupid as possible is a sad attempt to keep their power
As for CRT, I think Terry does a good job here not defining it. He is insisting its not taught in Virginia, so is it bad?
Gov. McAullffe's answer is accurate and appropriate for his position, though I think he was a little too mild in his pushback. I don't know if he even has a JD, but regardless his actual career path has been "political operative" not "legal scholar." Why the hell should he try to define an academic legal theory when chances are he's unfamiliar with the formative texts?
More importantly, the disgusting racists who have latched onto “CRT” as their favorite new dogwhistle have certainly not engaged with the academic legal writings either. Braying "CRT!" in the current political context is nothing but shorthand for "I'm a white supremacist!"
