While we spend billions on defense, Russia shows us how to take down an enemy without firing...

[Yavin4]

a shot or assembling an army. Find a dullard. Run him for the highest office using race and bigotry. Hack a server. And Voila! You now have control of your enemy. Amazing when you think about it.

This is some Tywin Lannister / Red Wedding strategy. End a war by writing a letter.

[dalton99a]

1. Yep.

[shanny]

2. Makes the DoD even more of an obscenity, doesn't it?

[elleng]

3. DoD + McConnell.

[shanny]

5. True. Lots of obscenities around these days.

I wonder if we will survive it. If we do, I'm thinking there are going to be a lot of overdue changes getting done.

[elleng]

6. Changes MUST get done, for U.S. to survive.

Question: What happens with Senate/repugs, do they see the light, or wait to be kicked out a'la revolution?

[shanny]

9. I think most are too far gone to "see the light."

Like tRump they have painted themselves into the corner. With his very able assistance* they have demonstrated what complete and utter assholes they are and I don't think their party will recover from that. Rebranding ain't gonna do it this time.


*the only thing he has ever been good at

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, we are spending tons of money on Maginot Devices of the last centrury

[keithbvadu2]

7. Ballots not bullets.

Ballots not bullets.

[Golden Raisin]

8. I am a child of the Cold War which the Russians

have now won, as you correctly point out, without firing a single bullet or dropping a single bomb, atomic or otherwise. A puppet installed in the Oval Office spreading dissension and chaos 24/7. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and all the others laughing and toasting vodka shots from that great dacha in the sky.

[delisen]

10. Donald Trump-a kind of Trojan Horse