The whispers, the shouts, the laughter and cries, the careful manipulation hiding the puppeteers lies

This article will discuss political topics. While these are my own opinions and I do not expect you to believe them if such topics are not a mental beverage of which you would choose to partake, then you may wish to stop now. This will deal with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Russia, Wikileaks, Impeachment, and other offshoots related to that.

Why am I writing this? I still have people I think a lot of that are frequently sending anti-Trump articles, and emails that they find funny. Early on this may have been occasionally amusing. Yet it is increasingly becoming more like a person telling you a "Why the chicken crossed the road" joke when the news is so saturated with the same type of jokes that they long ago lost their punch. In fact, they make me a little sad. Sometimes that is sad for my friend(s), other times it is sad for our nation, and other times it is sad for the world. These are my personal feelings. They do not mean anyone else should or should not feel this way.

Let's step back in time many months before the 2016 elections were over in November 2016. Let's look back way before that. In fact, in my case you can go back before the 2016 election cycle even began. I did my research into candidates. This included Hillary Clinton which is someone along with Bill Clinton that I used to like. In fact if you go far enough back you'll find cases of me saying "He managed to balance the budget even while they are dragging him through the news over an issue that as far as I am concerned is between his wife and him. It's not like tons of presidents didn't have mistresses, some of who lived in the white house. It is not as though some quite loved like JFK were known to be quite the philanderer. So why impeach over the Monica Lewinsky thing?" The answer would usually go to "Perjury before congress OVER the Monica Lewinsky thing." So, I actually liked Bill Clinton and thought the entire situation was incredibly stupid.

Many years later Hillary is running for office. I think that having a woman in office would be pretty cool. Yet I am about equality so I will not choose a person based upon their gender. If a woman gets in that is like a bonus achievement, but it has nothing to do with why I'd elect someone. It simply would be a first. So just as I try to do with any candidate I started doing my research.

My opinion of the Clintons began to change. My view of the entire Monica Lewinsky perspective I provided above did not change. That was nothing. There ends up being so much corruption, death, and manipulation tied to the Clintons (some of it exclusively Bill, some of it both of them, and some exclusively Hillary) that I had to shake my head in disbelief. Yes, it was hard to believe. I kept researching. It did not clear. The more I researched I just kept stumbling across more corruption.

By the time 2016 election cycle began I said that "Hillary will win" as I was fairly certain she was tapped to win. I expected the propaganda arm of the government known as the media to come out praising her, bashing enemies, and doing appropriate blocking and misdirection where they could. This has always worked for them in the past. The media part did happen. They were especially fond of bashing Donald Trump. His words and phrases gave them plenty of fuel with which to attack him and ridicule him. In fact some of the things he said made me think back to some of the hilarious bloopers from Vice President Dan Quayle outtakes. They were often amusing. The problem was there was SO MUCH OF IT. The media just couldn't seem to get enough. The news was consumed by it. It seemed a lot more than I traditionally see the person the media doesn't want to get would receive. This even made me wonder if they were happy if Trump or Clinton won, as I've seen cases where that seemed to be the case as well. I no longer think that is the case.

The DNC leaks and particularly the John Podesta emails were leaked to Wikileaks. They were particularly damaging to Hillary's campaign as they showed that the DNC was colluding to nominate Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders(and more). They were not letting the DNC delegates solely decide as is supposed to be the case. They were manipulating it to make sure it was Hillary who was chosen and they were in close communication with Hillary's campaign to do it. The revelation of these emails hurt Hillary's campaign a significant amount. There were now Bernie supporters who left the DNC and didn't vote. There were Bernie supporters who voted for Trump. There were Bernie supporters who voted for third party. This was a chunk of DNC voters that who suddenly did not support the DNC's "nominee". A considerable amount of why this may have occurred can be blamed upon those emails.

This is an interesting and sickening chance to observe a propaganda engine in full swing and what they did has been normal for leaks for some time now. Instead of focusing on the actual crimes and corruption that were revealed they began to focus on the source. The leaker was spun as the bad guy/gal for reporting criminal activity. This is becoming the new norm. Reporting a crime makes you the criminal if your target has good connections. The media went to town as expected spinning exactly this.

Suddenly we had the Russian Narrative. It was the Russians who did it to influence our elections. I found this laughable and hypocritical at the time when I realized how many foreign elections we as a nation are known to interfere with. Yet, let us set that aside. I did not even doubt that Russia and many other nations likely manipulated our elections in some way, via statements, or working through corporations they have indicated they would like to see the election go one way or the other. In fact I'd be very surprised if this is not the normal way things occur with every election.

I remember back then saying it made very little sense and that based upon the information I'd read that I thought Seth Rich was the most probable source. Many if not all of you hopefully know who he is now. If not then this part of my blog is an important part.

Seth Rich was a DNC staffer who was involved with IT among other things. His name really came into the news not long after the leaks, but a bit before the actual election was over. He was shot twice in the back of the head in New York while he was supposedly walking to his girl friend's house. It was billed as a robbery, but nothing was stolen. Wikileaks also offered a reward of $20,000 for any information on the Seth Rich murder. They would not state he was their source because they have a steadfast rule to never reveal their sources. Yet, when historically have the ever offered a reward for something like this? They haven't.

To me that seemed to indicate Seth was likely the source of the DNC leaks as he was well positioned to make these leaks possible. Wikileaks offered a reward for information concerning his death. His death is strange like so many deaths tied to the Clintons. There are cases in the past where a death related to them was ruled as a suicide and the guy shot himself in the head TWICE. So after researching Clinton the alarm bells were ringing. I played mental scenarios and to me Seth Rich seemed the most plausible source for the leak. I even said so back then and may even have said so in some discussions here on Steemit.

It has since been revealed by a private investigator looking into his death that not only was Seth in communication with Wikileaks, but the NYC Police were told to STAND DOWN on this investigation. That makes me wonder if a former New York Senator had anything to do with the stand down order. (aka Hillary Clinton)

The election eventually finally happens. I watched it unfold that night. When I went to sleep around 1:30am Mountain Time (UTC -7) that night Trump had gotten enough electoral college votes to win. He was also ahead by over a million in the popular vote (I believe my memory serves me correctly) but the population count vote tallies were not yet in for California, and Hawaii. Both of those electoral college votes had been awarded to Hillary already, but they were still waiting on the actual tallies. I can tell you that I had been expecting some dirty activity and I did speak with people on that day around the nation, and read some things that seemed to indicate there were some questionable things going on. They were not in the benefit of Trump though.

I did not vote for Trump. I did not vote for Hillary. I voted third party wherever I had that choice. I expected Hillary to win. She did not. I began trying to explain this in my mind.

However, unlike the media and many other people I wasn't in pure meltdown mode. I didn't want Hillary to win, but I expected her to for a number of reasons which I do not need to go into here. It didn't turn out that way, even with the some of the dirty things that seemed to go on during that day that could help her. So what happened? For me it was a combination of a few things. 1) DNC leaked emails and how they impacted Bernie supporters, 2) The Trump bashing was so extreme before the election that it may have become even blatantly obvious to people that don't normally notice that the media was trying to choose who they should elect for them, some of these people may not have liked that. 3) A lot of people were tired of business as usual as it is clear business as usual just gets you the same things. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect things to be different. It might actually be different, but that is planning for the exception rather than what is probable. Trump seemed to be different. He was brash enough I often thought he might be a plant that the things he says are so scary that he causes people to panic vote for Hillary. There may have been some of that, but really it didn't seem to work out.

It seemed like the propaganda arm that has dominated our politics had failed for the first time in my living memory. This I could at least view as a victory as I do not like seeing people dance to the puppet masters lies and manipulations.

It was obvious for a few days the propaganda agencies were in full on panic mode. They didn't really have a clue what to do. Then the Russian Narrative was born and used.

The DNC leak was blamed on Russians. They would even say that agencies were investigating and had proof. No such proof ever manifested. They were spinning the Russians interfering in our elections which as I said before was laughable and hypocritical. They even began associating Russia with Wikileaks even though Wikileaks is not associated with any Nation. Later Hillary herself would even use the phrase "Russian Wikileaks".

They would hint that part of their evidence was that the hacker used a Cyrillic keyboard that a Russian would use and that they could tell by looking at the code. They never provided this proof either, they just hinted it exists. I actually wrote a few articles about the Russian hacker angle because it was pretty stupid and I posted them here on Steemit.

Recently the Vault 7 leaks have been coming from Wikileaks and they have been some huge bombshells. Among them were programs by the CIA to do false flag attacks using keyboards of various types to blame the actions on other nations. You can find this information in the Vault 7 leaks or articles related to them if you wish to look.

It was sometime after this that I first heard people and read people calling for the Impeachment of Donald Trump. He hadn't even been sworn into office yet, and all he had were WORDS and CABINET PICKS. He actually hadn't done any actions yet so he had performed no impeachable offenses. That didn't stop the propaganda engine from giving these statements more attention than they should have.

A little later the narrative on Russia flipped to Michael Flynn. He had some phone conversations AFTER the election with Russians. The media went to town on him, though this type of thing occurs frequently among administrations. Michael Flynn would actually resign. So the propaganda found a victim. YAY it's working again. Blood is in the water and the sharks had learned that they were still able to control the narrative. They may have failed on the election, but now they are going to show they still have the power and they are not going to let their failure in November stand. Trump must be removed, and then this can be spun in the future versions of History as a victory for the media (aka propaganda works).

Trump as the character he is has a tendency to say some things that give the media a lot of ammunition. I've seen some comic strips and such that even I find amusing. However, the amount of Trump bashing is truly unprecedented in my memory. I've never seen an elected president receive this focused a media blitz. There is so much of it that the humor that may be in it no longer is that amusing. It's like someone telling you the same joke repeatedly and expecting you to laugh. Furthermore, some of it is an obvious attack hidden behind the guise of supposed comedy. Obviously some people find it amusing. I do not. I do not like the idea of propaganda so controlling the narrative. The Nazis used it effectively on the Germans and we've taken it so much beyond what they knew how to do. Propaganda winning is not a good thing in my mind regardless of their agenda.

The nation lacks good journalism these days. Virtually every piece (including this one you now read) is full of bias and opinions. Often they are spun as facts. Speculation is not a fact. It could be a possibility, but it is not a fact. What I write here is my speculations.

Recently the Russian Narrative has taken another spin and the calls for impeachment are all over the place. Trump revealed some information about terrorists and potential laptop bombs to the Russians. Apparently sharing something like this was a huge violation, though it was not. Similar information is shared by presidents regularly and is not illegal. Yet, let's put this into perspective. The Washington Post is the news agency that released the article that started this latest frenzy. Sadly this was not new news or even secret. Many news outlets had been writing about this throughout April and May. This means Trump did not even tell the Russians something that hadn't already said in public news outlets. The people though take the propaganda bait and run with it, without researching it, thinking about it, etc.

The phrase "Tell a lie big enough, often enough and it becomes the truth" comes to mind as it is a belief and tenant of propaganda. This is what I see happening. I also see it working, and that is what bothers me.

I don't particularly like that I often find myself defending Trump. Yet when I see people reacting to lies I kind of feel the need to point out the lies. The fact that it is Trump the lies are about is irrelevant. Is it okay to lie about some people, but not others? Is it okay for some people to commit crimes, but not others?

This is why I don't find most supposed comical pieces about Trump as comedy anymore. To me I just see propaganda. I see my fellow citizens reacting and drinking that kool aid. They are also spreading this mental plague from person to person. They are laughing about the mental strings that the puppeteer is attaching to them. They are gladly performing the actions the puppeteer would like. This is why I find myself defending Trump, and it has nothing to do with it being Trump himself.

The news is flooded with him. If the news were flooded with someone else and it was lies and propaganda then I would be defending them as well. My defense of Trump has nothing to do with ideological agreement/disagreement. It is me trying to fight the propaganda. It is me shouting "Look at those strings!"

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