NP: Bellingcat

[Mark Kohut]

It's always Chinatown.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 6:22 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Ok how about this?  Russiagate was a huge waste of time and money
> directing the US public away from the real case against a dangerous
> despotic president engaged in blatant nepotism, bribery( emoluments
> violations) ,tax violations,   lying to the public,  cruel and unusual
> punishment of asylum seekers, abuse of the constitution and collusion in
> the rape of the planet. Russiagate's largest effect was to demonstrate that
> the democratic party, as led by one of the most hated and talentless
> politiicians in my lifetime, was willing to pay blatant liars who are
> currently being prosecuted as the entire shit show disintegrates into the
> embarrassing and obvious fact that America’s problems are not in Russia but
> right  here. The idependendent lead investigator and one time hero and
> champion of the russiagaters found no collusion; not that he found no
> possibility of criminally indictable offense, but no colluson with Putin or
> other Russians.
>
> I personally feel I don’t have to engage with people who call others
> assholes or other pathetic ad hominem non-arguments. Throw them emails in
> the trash and say whatever you want. Or just focus on the Pynchon material.
>
> Here on the american mainstream home front a man in the tornado zone found
> a photo of an elderly lady with a name on it. He put a photo of the picture
> online and it was someone's grandmother from 130 miles away and they got in
> touch with him,  and because the mail is down  and he was so happy to do
> some small kindness he is going to deliver it to them. This is so typical
> of so many americans and the kind of people that are all around us. I don’t
> think our issues are an expression of human nature but some obvious
> imbalance in power that has us headed the wrong way. So much heartbreak,
> whole towns flattened.  What do we do? What do I do?
>
> > On Dec 14, 2021, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Eckhardt via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
> >
> > "Russiagate Was Not a Hoax"
> >
> > OK. That is settled then.
> >
> > I take the opportunity to bow out of this conversation with Bussis all
> > around: Thank you, David Morris, who called me an "asshole" "worse than
> > an asshole" and "stupid" for no reason at all. Thank you, Allen Ruch,
> > for fraternizing with Morris after that as if nothing had happened.
> > Thank you, Mark Kohut, for once again calling me stupid.
> >
> > Back To BE. Sorry Joseph and Michael. I very much appreciate the work
> > you are putting in and will try to do my best to contribute a comment
> > every now and then.
> >
> >
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