Rachel Maddow, Poisoner of Minds

     Last night on MSNBC, Russia hysteria peddler Rachel Maddow did a story about Ukraine, a country in focus now among anti-Trump news media overpaid professionals.  To any observant news consumer, the graphic behind Maddow's head, a stylized illustration of the White House backgrounded by the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag, should seem familiar as a propaganda method employed by one of the most deceitful sellout American journalists.
     From the shock of Trump's election in November 2016 until Special Counsel Mueller's July 2019 Congressional testimony not confirming Russiagate, Maddow and her on-camera MSNBC colleagues labored daily and nightly to convince their viewers of the president's supposed connections to Russian authorities meddling in the U.S. election process, a criminal activity done extensively, in actuality, by Republican and Democratic players behind the scenes for many decades.
     Congress in 2015 allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address that body with the goal of convincing American lawmakers to knock down President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.  When it comes to allowing foreign leaders to directly influence U.S. policies in such a naked way, members of Congress have demonstrated they have no principles.  Obama got his way on Iran, fortunately, but Netanyahu had only to wait for Trump, the president who will soon send thousands of U.S. troops to "defend" Saudi Arabia after its oil infrastructure was attacked, allegedly, by Iran.
     Who has more influence on U.S. elections and foreign policy?  Vladimir Putin?  Or Netanyahu and the Likud Party?  A forbidden topic, as was easily seen when Congresswoman Omar (Democrat, Minnesota) tweeted that "It's the Benjamins, baby!" meaning the influence AIPAC buys, causing, among other things, apparently free-minded lawmakers to say the sentence, "Israel has the right to defend herself," over and over again, neglecting to mention that every country has that right, including Yemen, from where the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil production probably originated, using Iranian weaponry, just as Saudi warplanes come from the United States.
     Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's highest-rated propagandist (although with a significant dip in those numbers after Mueller failed to confirm her nutcase theories) seems to have switched her keen lying mind to UKRAINE.  President Trump in a phone call with that nation's leader asked about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who received thousands of dollars from a natural gas company while his father was vice president.  Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to not look into his son's dealings with the company, threatening to withhold a U.S. aid package.
     Okay, Joe Biden is crooked.  That doesn't surprise me.  Mainstream news media ignores Biden's controversial policy positions and decisions, but focuses on Trump's attempt at casual opposition research, causing some on cable news to demand impeachment.  Trump's sending thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia (a prelude to war with Iran, possibly) doesn't bother these same out of touch idiots any more than when Obama drone-struck the innocent sixteen year old son of an AQAP propagandist, defending his homicidal act by blaming the son for his father's actions.  Murder is fine when you're a world leader, but trying to dig up dirt on a political opponent who may run against you next year is a violation of decorum, even though Hillary Clinton did opposition research about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's dealings with Ukraine.
     These shenanigans, so typical of high-level leaders on this planet, have nothing to do with the concerns of ordinary people.  The world is on a downward spiral regarding the rapidly changing climate.  Not even the Democrats and anti-Trump Neoconservatives, the pathetic so-called #Resistance, demonstrate any real concern about the world's likely fate, if something productive isn't done very soon.  Instead, "He shouldn't be discussing Joe Biden with a foreign leader on the phone," is supposed to make me mad.
     If, like Rachel Maddow, I made thirty thousand a day, would I get so used to swallowing my principles it becomes fun to put on a performance five nights a week, babbling conspiracy theories about Putin's skill as a puppet master, his dastardliness in meddling in Ukraine, never talking about how the Obama administration (including Biden) overthrew that nation's legitimately elected government in 2014, an act causing Russia's moves in Eastern Ukraine?
     "Earning" her thirty thousand per episode, Maddow now makes up shit about Ukraine and Trump, an image of the White House against a background of the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag, while ignoring that it would be more relevant to have a Saudi flag in its place, or an Israeli one.  Those two countries, though, are recipients of massive U.S. military aid.  Comcast, MSNBC's parent company, receives significant support from the military industrial complex.
     Trump's alleged threat to Ukraine to withhold a military aid package, supposedly because he's so friendly with Putin, strikes Democratic politicians and "liberal" pundits on MSNBC and CNN as yet another outrageous impeachable offense.
     Why?  Putin!  Putin!  But really, the money!  The money frothing from the arms industry benefitting the corporation paying Maddow's ridiculously huge salary.  Imagine getting paid 11 million dollars a year to lie to the American people five nights a week, as she did with Russiagate.
     Like those in the wretched journalistic class of contemporary mainstream news, Rachel Maddow will someday, in histories written about these times, be regarded with the same disgust as Senator Joseph McCarthy.

                                                                               Vic Neptune