GOLF: Trump's trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort line his pockets with taxpayer dollars. The direct expenses to haul his immense corpus down there are of course enormous. But the Secret Service and staff stay in rooms, eat food, buy drinks, ride in golf carts, and wrack up "ancillary costs" paid for by you and me. For every round Trumputin bogeys, our millions flow to his bottom line.
ELECTION THEFT: Of course, the US itself has flipped scores of national elections around the world since the 1890s. That would include Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, when the CIA illegally installed the drunken Mafioso idiot Boris Yeltsin. Trumputin is our imperial vulture come home to roost.
But did the Russians actually strip our voter rolls and flip our electronic vote counts?
The bottom line: they could have. Our electoral system is ridiculously vulnerable, and won't be much better come this fall's midterms.
Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Kris Kobach, J. Kenneth Blackwell, and their fellow American fixers have done such dirty work for years. The 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were stolen by "domestic terrorists" a surely as Russians intervened in 2016.
Thus far, Mueller's investigations confirm that Putin's mobsters meant to put their very own money launderer right here in the White House. Their exact impact on his election remains to be seen. But there was some. And he is an underworld nightmare come true.
Corporate Democrats, of course, love to tag Putin with Hillary's absurdly avoidable loss. They're thrilled to trash Bernie and the Greens while re-casting the Russians as the Cold War USSR. They are the ultimate fake "opposition" party, utterly void of fresh ideas, social commitment, and the slightest shred of grassroots democratic charisma.
Through it all, only one thing is certain: our elections can be flipped and stripped by virtually anybody -- Russians, Republicans, Democrats, the Kochs, the alt-right, free-lance hackers, that 400-pounder in Trump's NJ basement ... you name it.
Until we have universal automatic voter registration with transparent, well-protected voter rolls, and universal hand-counted paper ballots, our electoral system is a bad joke.
And only Trump and Putin will be laughing. For them, the one "principle" of government is to guarantee that the Manchurian Mobster and Team Trumputin can continue to suck up the cash from our stripped and flipped electoral Laundromat.
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