What About Russia?

Good news!  The President didn't commit treason!  Neither did anyone who works for him, or anyone who knows him.  I didn't commit treason.  You didn't commit treason.  According to the Mueller Report, "no American" conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.

That's what this was about, according to the Democrats and the media, who were almost entirely wrong.  But that's not what this was about.

The title of the Mueller Report is not "Trump-Russia Collusion Inquiry".  The title is "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election". 

Did Russia interfere in our election?  It seems that the entire establishment agrees that the answer is yes.  I don't trust the establishment, but I trust Russia far less, so let's just assume that this is true.  If Russia is doing these things, shouldn't that be the focus?

But for the Democrats and the media, this insidious psychological operation launched by our century-long Slavic adversaries is less important than their hatred for Trump.

Let's imagine an alternative:  What if Hillary Clinton were President right now?

Collusion!

By definition, Putin did not know who would win the election, and all active and passive observers of American politics would have been insane to bet on Trump winning, up to and including election night. 

There is zero evidence that Russia directly changed a single vote via hacking or any other means; their campaign against us was apparently psychological, mostly low-level trolling on social media.

In other words, whatever intervention Russia carried out in "swaying" the election was over, by definition, when the polls closed on election night.  So what if Hillary had won?

The Russian interference still would have happened exactly the same way.   Would there have been an investigation?  Maybe.

Would the investigation have been called, by the Democrats and the media, "The Clinton-Russia Collusion" investigation?  Uh, no.

The "Trump-Russia Collusion" investigation was called so because Trump won.  Democrats are more offended by losing an election than they are by Russia interfering in that very election, but directly changing no votes in the process.

By the way, the idea that we are mortally offended by the very thought that any foreign nation would interfere in another nation's elections is...

So where do we go from here?  Where we should go is to a place where the Democrats and/or the media say something like the following:  We do not like President Trump.  We wish he hadn't won.  We hope he loses next time.  But he did not conspire with a foreign adversary to steal the election.  That's not a thing that happened. 

But that, of course, is not going to happen.  Instead, "collusion" will be cast aside (although surely still dredged out occasionally) in favor of "obstruction".  This process has already begun.

"Why is Trump so angry about this investigation?"  "Why is Trump telling people that he wants this investigation to go away?"  "Why is he publicly stating, over and over, that he is innocent?"  "Aren't those things a guilty person would do????"

Take a moment to consider how Stalinist this is.  We can't prove anything, but since we know he's guilty, let's not waste our time.  If he denies his guilt, that's evidence of his guilt.  If he is angry at being falsely accused and slandered in public, that's evidence of his guilt. 

If he were so innocent, why would he defend himself against lies and innuendo?  And even if he is innocent, he obstructed "justice" by proclaiming himself innocent of a crime he was innocent of.   Burn him!!

Any person who does not accept these things is, in my opinion, not being intellectually honest:

1)  The Russian government has, for 100 years, been dominated by only TEN envious, paranoid killers who have long been an active and passive threat to the United States.  They tried, in their own pathetic and impotent way, to interfere in the 2016 elections.

2) There is zero evidence that their pathetic flailing played ANY role AT ALL in said election.

3)  We should retaliate against countries that try to undermine us like this.

4)  We should not falsely accuse our fellow Americans of treason, regardless of politics, after these events.

5)  This is basically what happened here: Russia tried to screw with us.  It had no effect, because Russia sucks at most things.  Zero Americans helped them. 

Trump won, and it had nothing at all do with anything Russia did.  Then the Democrats and the media leveled a profoundly serious charge against the President that has been proven false.

The people who are mad about the very happy finding of this report (our President is not a traitor) will not let this go.  Before, they could argue that this was an innocent mistake, although their motives were never innocent.

Those people are now the equivalent of O.J. Simpson vowing to devote his life to finding "the real killers".

I think I just saw Russia-Trump collusion in the sand trap on hole 15!!!

If this investigation were actually about what its title explicitly stated, we would have specific details about what Russia did in 2016, with the help of precisely zero Americans, and what we can do in the future to prevent Russia from continuing this behavior. 

Has there been any of that today?  No.  And you know who's really excited about this maniacal infighting about a non-event which is dividing us and distracting us from the actual story here?  This guy:

Is Putin actually so smart that he realized that he could set this country against itself, its own legal precepts, its own institutions, its own standards of evidence, by convincing certain Americans that people who disagreed with them were traitors even when there was no evidence of it?  I hope not.  But that seems to be the case.  Clever kill, Vlad.  Clever kill.