In the first section we read about Paul Manafort, the Agalarovs, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Konstantin Kilimnik, and Trump’s “kompramat” meeting with Miss Moscow, which was not as titillating as you’d expect from a le Carré novel: Even Jimmy Carter’s revelation that he had lust in his heart for other women cared enough about reader prurience to embed the article inside the slick pages of Playboy, where you can more readily empathize with his male gaze and tortured self-confession. The Report is broken up into two main sections, one that reports on Counterintelligence concerns, and the other that reviews Executive decisions that came to play in the scandal. Reader-response theory says we bring page texts to life, like GE and their goodness, but, geez, James, John le Carré? And you don’t even mention the Deep State. Actually, the Report reads as flat as generic people on yellow legal pad paper. The Senate report is filled with such rich details, shedding new light on the wide cast of characters surrounding both Trump and Putin, and the end result is an engrossing tale of modern intelligence - and of lust, avarice, squalid opportunism, and incompetence - worthy of John le Carré…It has brought the Trump-Russia story to life.
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Well, over at The Intercept ol’ James Risen, finally released from the shock corridor called the New York Times, where he’d won that Pulitzer he craved, and proceeded to solve a murder upon transfer to a new asylum, but at a cost, it seems, was now at work likening the recently released Senate Report on the investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election to a John le Carré novel. Now the Reagan Democrats were trickling down on the scraggly “hippies” left over from the 60s, and not even knowing it, high on I-beams, they were so far above the folky Left now. Sigh.Īnd back home, in the 80s, political conmen had convinced the blue collar bees to join Reagan’s self-immolation of democracy, and turn on (no, not that way) the Left, who had always, in theory and platitudes (End Welfare As We Know It, Hope and Change to fist-pumpin’ Mandela music), had their backs.
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It’s difficult for Lefties (real ones) to know what to do in these situations, as they’re loose, linguistic, and work themselves up to strike back at the Right-Wing bullies calling the shots, stealing the game plans, like the cheating Patriots, and end up in court, all hoo-haa, slapping their tormentors with horsefeathers, earnest Marxists up against Romulus and Remus from the social Darwinian set, with predictable results: They get stalked, locked in and barrel-laughed at, until, finally, linguistics failing them, the Lefties are at each other’s throats.īeginning in the 80s we really needed a lift from the Lefties, but by the time the decade was over, Gorbachev’s Wall was down in Berlin, and keychained as souvenirs (still available on eBay), the neo-Gold Rush East was on, Moscow fell to Mickey D’s in the spring of X and Buffoon installed as president the Chinese, looking on, with their long game face, heaved Mao for Money and, instead of a self-defeating arms race with the US Opioid Warriors beat them at their own game, so that Americans may soon be heaving Das Kapital for Communitarianism (see “democratic socialism”). Usually, the needs of the MIC amounts to illicit money-making. Not necessarily malignant, the Deep State does complicate the open workings of government by privileging the needs of corporations and the military over democratically expressed desires (such as a modernization of the social safety net to include universal health insurance, free tuition and loan forgiveness). In the US, we often refer to this State as the Military-Industrial-Complex (MIC), after Ike’s farewell speech in 1960, in which he references the expression. “By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.”Īuthor and former British spy, a rightwing fave, is regarded as the coiner of the expression Deep State - what he described as “the invisible labyrinth of power” outside of government that actually controls the operations of a nation’s background machinations.