Incredulous Musings on a Buttered Bandersnatch * * * * * * (the Russians STILL aren't coming)

my dear American-identifying fellow earthlings, enough already
with the 'traitor' stuff!  don't you realize how the dead disrupters
coming into office will use that?  kindly refrain from channeling
McCarthy, and bandying about propaganda for the military monster
long enough to consider the following points that, strangely enough,
are being obscured by the media:

the CIA has YET to supply ANY actual evidence, and their own former
agents are laughing at them.  don't you remember the 'absolute proof'
that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people (which turned out to
be the Turkish president - he that spits knives at the Kurds - scheming
with the ISIS terrorists we and our allies insist on supporting)?  can it
be possible that you've already forgotten where we left all those
invisible weapons of mass destruction?

and for Pete's freakin' sake, it was a LEAK, not a hack!  Julian Assange,
who's actually EARNED a reputation for honesty, and the former ambassador
who received the infamous emails, have both repeatedly stated that the leak
came from within Hillary's camp.  of COURSE the Russians picked up on this.
they're only trying to keep up with us (we, the name-calling pots who spy on
ALL of CREATION, who warped our constitution to 'protect' ourselves, wrote
the book on Cyber Warfare, and have interfered in COUNTLESS elections,
not to mention murdering several Democratically elected presidents, while
crushing the dubious reflection of our "beacon", over and over again).

and even if the Russians were responsible for bringing the leaks to our
attention, so what?  do you really believe that the swing voters experienced
burning bush epiphanies and switched to the Great Strumpet because they
actually read the Podesta emails and became incensed at Hillary's contempt
for Democracy?  and if this unreported, miraculous event occurred, and
these elusive, wide-awake Americans actually reacted, for the first time
in decades, to their leaders betraying them, what then?

the revealing illumination lurking beneath the cries of "treason" is that
someone provided the American People with proof that Wall Street
paid Hillary several small fortunes to privately assure them that she'd
been lying to to us all along, as well as a confirmation that our guesses
were correct, her apparatchiks had indeed stolen the nomination from
Bernie.  would you rather this information had been kept from us?

is that how Democracy works for you?

while the bipartisan gang of unquestioned, unelected Regime-Changers
have made it abundantly clear that Putin is in their sites, the Party
that isn't actually Democratic has broken all its mirrors.  so this
motley band of professional deflectors of everyone else's attention,
along with the usual mis-informants at the Times and the Post
(taking a break from calling the independent voices they haven't
drowned yet "fake news"), and a little last minute help in the
form of a parting slight of projection by our 'Transparency President',
have hit on a way to kill three bedraggled, embarrassing birds with a
single ricocheting stone:

thwarting the anticipated thaw in Cold War II,
shirking the dismal failure of the recent electoral circus,
and diverting and funneling our frail attempts
to focus flighty attention on the blatant internal threats
to our (exceptionally apparent) Democracy
SOMEWHERE the bloody hell ELSE.

- Evan Hawthorn, the 31st of December, 2016