My WTF is that the first time I've seen anyone with an internet presence suggest that Putin and Russians generally were pro-Trump because he (unlike Clinton) might actually lift the economic sanctions was in a Sargon post-election video that was mostly just ranting about how SJWs are still choosing ideology over reality (with a side dash of them being the end-product of KGB cultural subversion efforts back in the '50s). And that sub-set of ideologically blinkered right-wing fans of his continuing to be totally unaware of the stupendous irony of their interpretation of the anti-leftwing-authoritarian left's actions and ideas, but that should go without saying.
Which, uh, frankly makes a lot of sense (the economic concerns), and I'm sort of kicking myself for just buying the bullshit without thinking too hard. On arms-length reflection the "Trump is Putin's puppet oh and all those whistleblowers are ebul Russian cats-paws" narrative sounds like the paranoid love-child Ian Fleming and Tom Clancy would create in the back room of a West German bar. Like, holy shit, for all that a certain set of Clinton supporters like to complain about unconscious bias, they sure didn't mind trying to exploit the Cold War era tacit assumptions. Not that it's necessarily true, but it's a lot more reasonable than that fucking spy thriller they were selling. I guess we aren't in the most bizarre timeline after all, since there's no super-secret-agent infiltrating Trump Tower right now. Also explains why they pushed the "Bernie is unelectable cuz he's a commie" line so hard.
Just trying to sort out all the propaganda after the fact is a clusterfuck that I'm not certain I want to bother with, especially because all sides are continuing to churn it out like they're being paid to do i-oh, wait.
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