Even some Plist 'skeptics' have liked Charlie Pierce, I think? In Which Moby Dick is invoked.

[David Morris]

Money Quote:

"It is now perfectly plausible to believe that we are preparing to
inaugurate a president so fundamentally a creature of a corrupt money power
that even Russian kleptocrats believe his greed is his greatest weakness.
(The salacious gossipy stuff aside, the wanderings of Trump confidantes
like Paul Manafort and Carter Page through the thieves paradise on the
Volga is the really dangerous element here. In fact, the salacious gossipy
stuff is a kind of foul camouflage to what may be an unprecedented sellout
of an American election.) It is now perfectly plausible to believe that the
president-elect may, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, have debts no
honest man can pay, and that he may owe them to a man who is a ruthless
autocrat even by historical Russian standards, which are considerable."

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52203/
> donald-trump-russia-allegations/
>
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