At least we’re useful idiots. This Ivy League educated, pompous, two-faced, egotistical, lying, lib whore, douchebag, idiot, fuckwad, is an example of everything that has gone wrong in America. His warped Keynesian mindset represents the establishment and is the reason the country has $20 trillion of debt, $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities, and blacks in far worse economic conditions than in 1965 when his glorious Great Society was implemented by a racist lib president. The fact this worthless piece of shit is one of the NYT prized writers explains why they are going bankrupt.
Useful Idiots Galore
On Wednesday an editorial in The Times described Donald Trump as a “useful idiot” serving Russian interests. That may not be exactly right. After all, useful idiots are supposed to be unaware of how they’re being used, but Mr. Trump probably knows very well how much he owes to Vladimir Putin. Remember, he once openly appealed to the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Still, the general picture of a president-elect who owes his position in part to intervention by a foreign power, and shows every sign of being prepared to use U.S. policy to reward that power, is accurate.
But let’s be honest: Mr. Trump is by no means the only useful idiot in this story. As recent reporting by The Times makes clear, bad guys couldn’t have hacked the U.S. election without a lot of help, both from U.S. politicians and from the news media.
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Let me explain what I mean by saying that bad guys hacked the election. I’m not talking about some kind of wild conspiracy theory. I’m talking about the obvious effect of two factors on voting: the steady drumbeat of Russia-contrived leaks about Democrats, and only Democrats, and the dramatic, totally unjustified last-minute intervention by the F.B.I., which appears to have become a highly partisan institution, with distinct alt-right sympathies.
Does anyone really doubt that these factors moved swing-state ballots by at least 1 percent? If they did, they made the difference in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — and therefore handed Mr. Trump the election, even though he received almost three million fewer total votes. Yes, the election was hacked.
By the way, people who respond to this observation by talking about mistakes in Clinton campaign strategy are missing the point, and continuing their useful idiocy. All campaigns make mistakes. Since when do these mistakes excuse subversion of an election by a foreign power and a rogue domestic law enforcement agency?
So why did the subversion work?
It’s important to realize that the postelection C.I.A. declaration that Russia had intervened on behalf of the Trump campaign was a confirmation, not a revelation (although we’ve now learned that Mr. Putin was personally involved in the effort).
The pro-Putin tilt of Mr. Trump and his advisers was obvious months before the election — I wrote about it in July. By midsummer the close relationship between WikiLeaks and Russian intelligence was also obvious, as was the site’s growing alignment with white nationalists.
Did Republican politicians, so big on flag waving and impugning their rivals’ patriotism, reject this foreign aid to their cause? No, they didn’t. In fact, as far as I can tell, no major Republican figure was even willing to criticize Mr. Trump when he directly asked Russia to hack Mrs. Clinton.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. It has long been obvious — except, apparently, to the news media — that the modern G.O.P. is a radical institution that is ready to violate democratic norms in the pursuit of power. Why should the norm of not accepting foreign assistance be any different?
The bigger surprise was the behavior of the news media, and I don’t mean fake news; I mean big, prestigious organizations. Leaked emails, which everyone knew were probably the product of Russian hacking, were breathlessly reported as shocking revelations, even when they mostly revealed nothing more than the fact that Democrats are people.
Meanwhile, the news media dutifully played up the Clinton server story, which never involved any evidence of wrongdoing, but merged in the public mind into the perception of a vast “email” scandal when there was nothing there.
And then there was the Comey letter. The F.B.I. literally found nothing at all. But the letter dominated front pages and TV coverage, and that coverage — by news organizations that surely knew that they were being used as political weapons — was almost certainly decisive on Election Day.
So as I said, there were a lot of useful idiots this year, and they made the election hack a success.
Now what? If we’re going to have any hope of redemption, people will have to stop letting themselves be used the way they were in 2016. And the first step is to admit the awful reality of what just happened.
That means not trying to change the subject to campaign strategy, which is a legitimate topic but has no bearing on the question of electoral subversion. It means not making excuses for news coverage that empowered that subversion.
And it means not acting as if this was a normal election whose result gives the winner any kind of a mandate, or indeed any legitimacy beyond the bare legal requirements. It might be more comfortable to pretend that things are O.K., that American democracy isn’t on the edge. But that would be taking useful idiocy to the next level.
Krugman, the epitomy of why people did not vote for his candidate. He is part of the problem but is yet too ignorant and blind to see. An elitist snob that is out of touch. Whether Trump turns out to be a good, or bad president is to be seen. Last time I checked, Krugman could not see the future.
Why are you being so kind to this jew POS a##hole?
What a Surprise! Piece of shit leads with a Jew comment. The only one his pea brain ever makes.
How is this not fake news? It appears in the NYT. It is full of obvious falsehoods, remarkably stupid opinion, and distortions. Clearly the NYT is a useful idiot and a stooge of the criminal cabal that has run this country for the last eight years.
If they continue to use the word “hack” when they mean “leak” eventually people will come to believe the narrative.
A huge part of their success over the past half century is “redefining” words to fit the narrative.
Catman Krugman does this with such ham-fisted obloquy it is almost satirical.
Isn’t it interesting that all the screeching and hand wringing about the messages being revealed ignores their corrupt and perverted content. As others have stated, it matters not who discovered and revealed this crap but what it tells us about the perps.
This piece would be funny if it weren’t meant to be serious. I just love how he had to throw in “white nationalists” for good measure.
Like y’all said above, Krugman et.al. is completely out of touch with not only reality, but also how Real, Regular folks live. We have had enough of their ilk, their laws and rules and their arrogance. The toll has been our money, our homes, our livelihoods while they arrogantly look down their noses and tell us everything is just peachy.
A few people may have been swayed by the Comey’s shenanigans, but every Trump voter I know had their minds made up well before that. People in my military town know exactly what’s legal and illegal without the help of the FBI.
Besides, NO ONE is denying the CONTENT of the emails, except the Krugmans of the world, which makes me wonder if he runs in the same sick circles.
These unhinged leftists have absolutely NO sense of humor. Trump never directly asked Russia to hack the hag’s servers. What he said was in jest. Most rational people got that. Further, who in their right mind doesn’t KNOW that Russia spies us non-stop, and we spy on them just the same.
Yes, “white nationalists” was about all that was missing from that piece. It’s funny how nationalism is such a dirty word nowadays. As though wanting to keep America from being overrun by third worlders is the thought crime of the century. Id love to hear from krugman et al if there is a limit to the amount of immigration they would be willing to cram down our throats. There are 100 million plus africans that aren’t able to feed themselves, should we just bring all of them in? Can a few of them stay at Paul’s house? I realize the point of all this is to dilute the white vote by creating new and more compliant “Americans”, but eventually even krugman’s ivory tower is going to get overrun.
To paraphrase and outline strategy this piece.
Start with Ad homenim Attacks.
Then go to Unsubstantiated Claims.
Deflect and Dismiss the Content of Emails.
Blame Vlad for Playing a Dirty Game of Pool.
Lecture to An Easily duped Underclass.
Moan about Legitimacy.
Be Unmagnanimous in Defeat.
And this is supposed to be one of the great economic sages of our times. I am ceaselessly amazed at lengths this waterboy goes to in his never ending quest to carry it for George Soros.
You lost Paul. Deal with it!
Threatening to burn the house to ground now makes you complicit and party to the actions of people who are acting like 2 year children who don’t get their way.
But please keep holding your breath Paul. In the meantime the grown-ups are working to take charge. Fix what you have broken.
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This is an all out declaration of war.
Hacked or not hacked ? Putin did or did not ? One fact is clear getting the Clinton political war machine muzzled neutered and silenced hopefully for good is good for the country ! How these two despicable people ever crawled out of Arkansas and be elavated to the whitehouse and dam near got the worst of the worst Hillary , the real brains behind shitkicker Bill in the Oval Office is unbelievable . Never has there ever been a more corrupt group of people in control of so much of the government , it is impossible that it happened by chance ! Just the number of deaths associated with Clinton involvement and the legal scandals that follow them everywhere . You cannot make this shit up and always the Ragin Cajun with his comment “ain’t nothing there” and there never is “BULL SHIT” ! Nothing is ever prosecuted against the Clinton’s the way the rest of the average people would have been because the law enforcement including the FBI stop looking and in many cases the law enforcement become compromised ! The attorney general meets privately with the husband of a suspect under investigation and poof nothing there ? As my dad would say to me when I was a young mischevious boy :”I wasn’t born 40 years old boy” . If Putin did turn the election to Trump we should offer him a medal ! Perhaps a new Harley and a case of Gentleman Jack !
The new narrative by the progressives is delusional at best and completely phuqing insane at worse. I believe they want war!
They want war. When they take to equating Hitler with Trump and Trump in cahoots with Putin one knows instinctively that things are getting serious.
Modern Liberals are just another branch on same tree.
No different than
Khmer Rouge
Maoists
National Socalists
Bolsheviks
Communists
Marxists
Their solution when they don’t get their way is the same.
Burn it to ground while blaming someone else for starting the fire.
The hitler comparisons crack me up. Calling a president hitler is a self disproving statement. If any of these people actually thought that trump was going to be another hitler, they’d shut the fuck up about it because they’d know they’d be getting a visit from the goon squad as soon as trump took office. Since they feel free to endlessly accuse him of being Hitler, they are proving themselves to be nothing but peddlers of cheap hyperbole. You didn’t see anyone writing op-eds about how terrible Hitler was going to be in 1940s Germany because everyone knew that was a death sentence.
They do want it and are likely to get it, depending on how things go tomorrow and then on the 6th and 20th of January.
Be ready for whatever comes down, you won’t get a second chance at it when it does.
Leaving aside the fact the NYT would be bankrupt if not for the richest man in Mexico bankrolling it Salinas, much like Bezos ‘s Washington Post.
When the leaking or pouring of information about foreign involvement in the Clinton Foundation starts comming out with respect to US foreign policy , what song will he be singing then?
It’s high time we start to recognize as theses Marxist do, and stop brushing these idiots aside, for they know that their policies can not be achieved through free speech.
Mr. Krugman, right this way for your shower! No need to hang up your clothes. We will take care of them.
The libs just can’t get over it. How could this have happened? They had an iron clad strategy:
1. Big Money to bankroll the operation, in the pocket with a wink and a promise of more of the same.
2. Promises for even more free shit for the massive FSA voting block.
3. Celebrity Stars, including Krugman, to suck up the gullible wannabes, another huge voting block.
4. The MSM, already entrenched, an essential part of the club.
Favors for the above have to come from somewhere, so paying for all this, in the libs script, falls to the moral, conservative, working middle class. Which is pretty big, but hopefully had been sufficiently reduced by the constant drumbeat of marginalization over the last few decades.
Why didn’t Hillary go to the middle states? She and her kind rightfully see them as the opposition. God and guns. Said another way, morality and self responsibility. Like Krugmans article, the dems believed their own lies.
If people like Krugman started disappearing from their homes in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, would you be horrified . . . or relieved?
Horrified. It would show things became not better, but worse.
I would be torn.
If you want to hear this smarmy sawed off little prick get refuted weekly and shown to be the partisan hack he was born to be check this out:
http://contrakrugman.com/
“…Ivy League educated, pompous, two-faced, egotistical, lying, lib whore, douchebag, idiot, fuckwad…”
Nice string of expletives. I am truly impressed.
Admins foreword to this posting pretty much says all that needs to be said. However, I wish he would stop tempering his adjectives.
One of the most impressive outcomes of the 2016 Presidential race is not even the election of Donald Trump, but just how immune the ordinary Americans have become to the manipulations by the ruling elite.
I won’t be surprised one bit if anti-Russian histeria by the MSM results in rising popularity of Russia among the American public.
Funny you should say that if anti-Russian hysteria by the MSM results in rising popularity of Russia among the American public. My opinion of Russia is getting more favorable all the time and I just realized it. Thanks.
At first I thought this post was an attempt at humor but then I realized that this moron was serious. Wow!
Jack Lovett says:
December 18, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Why are you being so kind to this jew POS a##hole?
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Now why would you bring his Jewishness into the equation? Either it matters or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t matter then you are resorting to a cheap shot at the least and ethno-racism at most.
On the other hand if it matters that Krugman is a Jew, then it matters a lot. If Krugman is using his Ivy League and media positions to preach treason (and other poisons) to Americans BECAUSE he is a Jew then that implies that lots of other Jews in powerful positions agree with him and use their wealth and influence to promote and reward others with similar views (as well as punish those who don’t).
I think that if (a big if) Americans ever wake up to this occurrence, Jews in this country, are in a for a world of hurt. If I were Jewish, I would begin distancing myself as much as possible from them.
Well actually, if you pay attention to the so-called Alt Right, many of them are doing that already.
Thanks Admin,
Mr. K. is a most unattractive man in every possible way.
Maybe he will choke on a chicken bone?
I disagree with the view that the left is so disappointed they are acting like two year old having tantrums. I wish it was just that.
The determination to have control of this country is what is driving this insanity. They had made so much progress, had even managed to off a Supreme Court justice and no telling how many other threats to their efforts, and now this: Trump and his supporters whacked their collective ass. I really believe they will not quit until there is complete chaos. I fear that the ultimate question is how will the military respond?
I love this title! “The Era of the Pajama Boy Is Over January 20th, and the Alpha Males Are Back’
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/12/18/gorka-era-pajama-boy-january-20th-alpha-males-back/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Big Injun Chief , Krugman is a lying Jew piece of shit.He writes for the New York Jewish Banking Establishment which are hostile to all Americans including Injuns in Oklahoma .They lie to us all the fucking time.
Big Injun Chief in the clouds who seems to have drink one to many beers today.May your head hurt tomorrow as a punishment for your degenerate behavior.
BB you shit for brains – yes Krugman is a lying piece of shit. When you throw the “Jew” in there is when I object. There are plenty of white lying pieces of shit. But do you ever say “he is a lying white piece of shit”? No. So go fuck yourself until you preface all comments about lying pieces of shit with their race and ethnicity.
I am a retired Air Force intelligence officer and Russian linguist who served during the Cold War. I appreciate the irony shown by the libs in making Russians the bad guys now when during the Cold War they were denigrating us for fighting it. That being said, I am relying on two pieces of information to determine that this Russian story is blatant BS:
1) when the Congressional subcommittee asked for a briefing after the report had been leaked to a friendly venue (NYT), the FBI, CIA, NSA, and ODNI refused to do so. I understood that to mean that they had no real information to brief and that any briefing would expose them to public ridicule.
2) Julian Assange says this was leaked by a disgusted Democrat Bernie Bro, and did not come from the Russians. Wikileaks has a perfect 10 year record of getting it right. The alphabet agencies do not.
I am alarmed at how this “story” is spreading. The libs create a lie about the election/Russian hack with unsupported statements and then all others, including the President and his Press Secretary, then quote those statements as if they were fact. This is perfect Russian propaganda ops but dangerous at this point in our Republic.