The Q Anon Phenomenon .

The Q Anon Phenomenon .

 One phrase that gets bandied about a lot on #Qanon threads is “Follow the white rabbit,” referring to the turn of phrase used in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and the 1999 film The Matrix, which has been mined for allusions by Trump supporters since he launched his campaign back in 2015.

If there is anything crazier than the Deep State , (1)>>more crazier is Q Anon. Q Anon reminds  of me of a bad psychic , its followers swallow every cryptic message as if it were from GOD. Its so easily to mislead a bunch of people these days because of social media . There is also secret  combination at work, you have the left wing media trying to pick up on anything regarding Russia -Trump if any connection , it goes in cycles regardless of lack of evidence, next you have the right wing media trying to rationalize Trump's irrationality . In between is the vast underground network via internet of alternative information , again regardless if it were genuine , its still " information" & protected free speech . Now free speech is under attack on social media like Twitter , Facebook now because people , trolls etc posting "fake" or hurtful speech that seems to offend so many groups , its almost impossible to censor all of it .  In the Q Anon  messages written in a telegraphic, cryptic style, Q called on Americans to rally behind Trump as he planned a counteraction against forces that would investigate him and remove him from office. Some QAnon followers believe Trump himself inspired their movement with a comment he made last October at a photo session with military leaders. On 28 October 2017, “Q” emerged from the primordial swamp of the internet on the message board 4chan. In a thread called (2)>> “Calm Before the Storm", and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, (2.2)>>Robert Mueller, the Clintons and other stuff. The mystery of Q ? I suspect "its" not he or she , but some kind of government misinformation plant . (2.3)>>If you can figure out Q , its cryptic messages like this :

Q once posted in entirety:
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As a rule, Facebook does not ban conspiracy theories, or misinformation, from its website. Conspiracy theories create order out of chaos, attempting to make sense of events that don’t make sense. And researchers have found that fact-based arguments against them only serve to reinforce them in the minds of believers. Facebook is only one of the platforms where the conspiracy has been spreading. But it’s a particularly powerful one, bringing far-fetched musings into the mainstream.

Q Sources .

Tuesday night's Trump rally in Tampa as the letter (3)>> “Q” was frequently displayed at the Florida State Fairgrounds.One guy was seen holding up a cut-out "Q." Another sign proclaimed: "We Are Q,” and many attendees were spotted wearing "Q" T-shirts.The “Anon” part comes from Q’s readers, who decipher Q’s “clues” on message boards and build outlandish interpretations. Posters named “Q” have been instigating unfounded theories on social networks including 4Chan, 8Chan, and Reddit.Any reader interested in the particularities of the Q soup is directed to this concise summary. Suffice it to say that Q Anon has a wide enough following to deliver millions of views on YouTube. In April 2018, an app called “QDrops” was among the 10 most downloaded paid iOS apps in the Apple Store, according to an NBC report that cited an analytics site.The Qanon.pub site was created in March 2018 and has quickly established an audience of over seven million visits a month, according to the web analytics company SimilarWeb.

Conspiracy Buffs unite !

A man holds a 'Q' sign while waiting
to enter a Pennsylvania rally with President Trump.

Trump’s most recent rally, in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday night, was unusual even by his standards, with a sudden proliferation of attendees wearing T-shirts and signs touting the QAnon conspiracy theory. While “Q” adherents have been on prominent display at earlier rallies, the group achieved critical mass in Florida, triggering a slew of mainstream media coverage. Broadly speaking, it's actually less of a conspiracy theory, and more of an environment [ thank you Donald Trump]  that welcomes conspiratorial thinking. (3)>>Trump inability to keep his mouth shut , his wild random tweets is creating a new media of Misinformation is being weaponized at an alarming scale, not just by crackpots, but by intelligence services of rival nations. [ Russia , China for example , yeas the United States media ] Sometimes followers of Q just look for signs that he exists. A popular Rosetta Stone they use is to look for uses of the number 17 (the letter Q’s placement in the alphabet). So when Alabama’s football team presented Mr. Trump with a jersey with the number 17, it was taken as coded signaling of Q’s influence. (The team was visiting the White House as the champions of the 2017 college football season and had presented President Barack Obama with a jersey bearing the number 15 when it visited after winning a championship in 2015.)The same way anything travels these days: through any online platform out there. If you look, you can see the seeds of Q pretty much everywhere. For believers, Q moved from 4chan to the even more obscure 8chan. From there, Q -- or users pretending to be Q -- posted cryptic messages about shadowy forces and posited what they thought were the true stories behind real-world events. If you really want to follow along, this exhaustive guide covers the initial flurry of QAnon activity.     The Q community has a great number of media personality followers , examples like Roseanne Barr became an apparent devotee, and in March her public theorizing morphed into a string of bizarre, racist tweets that led to the cancellation of her hit TV show.Alex Jones and his InfoWars conspiracy hub were initially friendly with the QAnon community, with InfoWars personality Jerome Corsi regularly sitting for hours-long dissections of QAnon clues. But when Q denounced outlets looking to make a profit from the clues, InfoWars rapidly turned on QAnon’s followers. In the climactic falling out, Jones declared that a QAnon-supported vigilante effort in Arizona was actually a deep-state “honey pot.”  While there have been an increasing number of mainstream news articles debunking QAnon, the worldwide interest in QAnon’s posts has been rapidly increasing due to mounting evidence that President Trump’s White House is secretly behind the disclosures.Q Anon is perfect for Trump followers, they obviously have believed and will believe anything, no matter how much it looks and smells like fiction (excuse me alternate facts). For Q Anon supporters, it’s not about who or where the “information” is coming from, it’s about what and why.

NOTES AND COMMETS : 

(1)>>more crazier is Q Anon.  President Trump's tweets are crazier and zanier than Q Anon's messages . While trying to decipher what Q posts is pandemonium .I have yet to see brought up, is that Q was a creation of 4chan. Does that set off any alarm bells for these plebes? Has anyone heard of "Anonymous"? They were all self-described “followers of Q,” an anonymous person or group of people who claim to be privy to government secrets. That supposedly classified information has been revealed on the 4chan and 8chan message boards and spread around mainstream internet platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Q has attracted people — the exact number is hard to know — eager to consume his “bread crumbs,” or new details in a sprawling web of conspiracy theories.(2)>> “Calm Before the Storm”. I am sure that the coming storm was the Stormy Daniels scandal , it be  seriously funny if Trump "alluded" to his martial problems , his one night stand with a porn star , the big pay off  to "stormy" .  But for conspiracy theorists on Reddit, already primed to believe in code words and secrets and, well, conspiracies, “the Storm” soon became the most important “movement” of the Trump era.  Gander, Kashmira (January 15, 2018). "What is The Storm? Conspiracy theory that mysterious White House official leaks secrets"  (2.2)>>Robert Mueller, the Clintons and other stuff. Rather, Mueller was appointed by Trump to investigate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other top Democrats, like former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. According to posts written by "Q" — dubbed "breadcrumbs" by the theory's followers — even Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is a target of Mueller's so-called investigation.What are these foes of Trump being "investigated" for? There are numerous accusations floating around the QAnon world. Some suggest Clinton and Obama are in cahoots with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Others suggest they, along with Hollywood figures and other world leaders, are participants in a global pedophile ring."Q" suggests all these figures are secretly wearing location-tracking ankle monitors, so their whereabouts can be monitored at all times, and that they'll all be sent to prison very soon in an event the theory's followers call "the storm." (3)>>Trump inability to keep his mouth shut. The central claim of the #QAnon conspiracy theory is that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has filed thousands of sealed indictments against Democratic leaders, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy elites.All are guilty of a variety of misdeeds affiliation with the “deep state,” and/or intent to harm the president and his administration. And when the time is right, Trump will order the indictments unsealed, prompting a massive wave of arrests, with the accused tried in the field and sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention. (2.3)>>If you can figure out Q , its cryptic messages like this. “Q” has offered an endless buffet of tantalizing clues to “what’s really happening.” Many take the form of cryptic nuggets such as “future proves past” or “learn to read the map” or “Godfather III.” Others are in some kind of code, with abbreviations like “DNC -> (SR 187) (MS-13) -> DWS”, which accuses former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz of hiring notorious gang MS-13 to murder DNC staffer Seth Rich.(3)>> “Q”. On June 28, 2018, a Time magazine article listed the anonymous "Q" among the 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2018. Counting more than 130,000 related discussion videos on YouTube, Time cited the wide range of this conspiracy theory and its more prominent followers and spreading news coverage.

California Burning .

California is burning with a combination
of Climate , Arson and the
first culprit Controlled Burning .
& Perhaps
something a little more
sinister .

California is burning up . AND its not the work of Nature alone. IF you combine our State Government yearly policies of Controlled Burning every year , expect fires to burn all year round . Every year we are seeing more and more fires that are getting larger and larger, devastating communities. California is also burning money estimated close to a 1 trillion dollars  . While it has not enough resources to contain the fires , or rebuilding the homes of those devastated by the fires. (1)>>Though seasonal wildfires are a natural occurrence in the Golden State, humans are making them worse and more dangerous every step of the way.And California’s fires are just the latest unfolding tragedy in what has already been an epic fire season across the United States as a whole, with more than 9.2 million acres burned and smoke choking many parts of the West. All this smoke in the air is resealing more C02 in the atmosphere . (2)>>There seems to be an escalation in fires burning out of control in the state , most of the western part of the United States .As we know, for the past few months wildfires have been burning throughout California destroying wildlife, homes and mountainsides. Some “Scientists” believe this is caused by “climate change”. But few actually are aware of the truth; these fires  are being set on purpose. You can't just blame the climate. The truth is there has to be wide spread "organized" arson going on . Besides the occasional faulty utility company like  PG&E fire last year Cal Fire officials said they found no evidence the utility violated state laws in the largest of the four fires investigated —

Here is a picture of a Fire Tornado .
Its really bizarre . 

the La Porte fire, which burned more than 8,400 acres last fall. In the La Porte fire, officials said a tree branch fell on PG&E power lines, initially igniting the blaze, but did not assign responsibility to the utility. The fires are widely spread around California— from Fallbrook to San Diego— and the aftermath of these disasters are leaving people confused. This evidence points to these fires starting sporadically and randomly. How do fires just hop over miles of California wilderness?  There is another sad problem , while I agree that our Firefighters risk their lives , they are not equiped to handle fires like this , after watching several videos of the Firefighters setting fire to other dry brush on order to "contain"[ called  Controlled Burning]  the fire at air temperatures of 110 F . This for me was the real problem why the fire was spreading , our  Firefighters were helping the fire expand into areas that the fire would not have reached had not our responders were setting fire to other dry brush several miles from the actual fire ! Its Really the worst thing a Firefighter can do. With 80 percent of U.S. forests and rangelands moderately or severely degraded, and with climate change making the situation worse, something needs to be done.In places where it’s not safe to let naturally ignited wildfires burn, that “something” is often called  controlled burning. One hundred years of fire suppression is partly to blame. 
California Fires are "stranger than fiction",  but are too real...

"MANY MANY people saw electrical flashes that made no thunder in the perfectly clear blue sky, and worse, some people even saw small blue sparks everywhere in the air around them." 

UFOs , Laser weapons are a new theory
behind the fires . The UFOs are
our Lockheed Martin Drones.

 There has been some odd ball explanations of how some of the fires are set If this was an actual fire started by natural causes the damage done to houses would have been a lot less destructive. Most of the evidence seemed very suspicious , can't be  it was not natural causes. Usually, when you look back at homes and buildings that have been through a fire, there is still some of the structure still standing. However, when homeowners came back to their houses, they were burnt to the ground, nothing was standing, just big piles of ash. Even cars were so burnt that glass and the metal of the cars were melted. To reduce everything into a pile of ashes the fires  had to be burning over 2000 degrees. First to clear something up – the manner in which the cars burned was normal. But there are some instances with what went on , it maybe just something else . We all heard of "spontaneous combustion" . Its vary easy too for a dry field of grass during a hot spell to self ignite .  Cars left on parking lots for instance have tanks full of fuel that will ignite , explode like a domino effect .For a number of years their has been (3)>>a conspiracy theory that Laser weapons are involved , “Even the head of Cal Fire for the state said on CNN he had no idea what started the over 60 strikes that came out of nowhere in the middle of the night without warning. Sudden, unexplainable winds kicked up to 60-70mph, blue flashes and sparks were seen above by many, including me. Cars were torched, yet trees untouched. the car tire rubber and glass were nowhere to be found and homes were reduced to unrecognizable rubble. Glass and rubber take thousands of degrees to melt which means these fires generated there own direct heat, like a directed energy butane torch, except they are using directed energy LASER technology to pulse the plasma clouds, stir the wind for energy and release up to a trillion watts of laser power at any one source. As crazy as this theory is a lot of people like myself believe that its a little more than the warm weather . If you believe the conventional theory that it is  too early to know if climate change is directly responsible for all of these conditions in California over the past several years. But studies, including one led by Dr. Williams, have shown that human-induced global warming contributed to the drought that gripped the state beginning in 2012.

 Who helps those devastated by the fires?

The devastating fires  leaves homeowners  in an uneasy position: deal with controlled burns or move. As anxious as it makes residents, forestry say the burns may be the only way to avoid a worse catastrophe. So far the weakest problem with our own Government is that it can't help the people . Even worse the Insurance Companies are playing games.  Lots of money is on the line, tens of thousands of dollars for most families.  Some say six figures are in limbo, at the mercy of their memories and a line-by-line inventory.Right after the fires, California insurance regulators did ask insurance companies to settle claims without an inventory. But the state didn't limit them to paying 75 percent. In fact, in a December notice, some companies for paying up to 100 percent. He asked all companies to do the same, but he couldn't demand it. Insurance  does not have the legal authority to require 100 percent payouts after a disaster.California already had a housing crisis long before the fires started. With strict environmental rules and local politics that can discourage new housing development, the state’s pace of new construction has fallen far short of the state’s population growth. Sill there even not enough money to cover insurance claims  Right now the state of California faces a budgetary uncertainty with a 12 billion dollar price tag [ see http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2018/release013-18.cfm ].

additional Notice: 

 We really should think about the people who lost their homes , put ourselves in their place ,  and while what I write on this post please some of it is just speculation on how these fires may have been caused . Conspiracy or not I am not trying to scare anyone , but I want to get people to think about why they happened . While climate change is a word I would like to use more , rather not its cousin "global warming" . The devastating fires do contribute to air pollution , unhealthy air , which does in fact contribute to health issues .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Though seasonal wildfires are a natural occurrence in the Golden State. I believe all the fires are suspiciously set . A lot of it has to be arson , we can't also not put out the assumption that the State Government is involved in some of these fires . Here is a bit of past for example Remember Terry Barton? She set the largest wildfire in Colorado State history a few years ago. First, she said it was a campfire, that she didn't get out completely.Then, when questioned, she said, she accidentally set them "burning letters" from her ex. And this is what most people know to this day.But, what most people don't know is, Terry Barton was still lying. Come to find out, she set these on purpose. No reason is ever given.One lady died in this fire. Terry Barton received a 12 yr sentence, with no restitution ordered. However, the case was recently appealed, and dropped, because "the original judge was biased".During the same time that Terry Barton was setting these fires, Arizona's largest wildfire in history, which burned 400,000 acres, and 400 homes, was also deliberately set by anotherFederally paid firefighter!!!(2)>>There seems to be an escalation in fires burning out of control in the state , most of the western part of the United States .California has seen almost double the average number of fires so far this year, with 1,351 fires documented in California as of May 10, compared with an average of 711 for that time period, The Weather Channel reported. About 77 percent of the state is classified as in extreme drought . As predicted, 2017 was one of the most destructive dry seasons in California’s history. Statewide, wildfires across resulted in more than $10 billion in damage and 44 dead, and countless stories of survival. (3)>>a conspiracy theory that Laser weapons are involved .There’s something unusual about the wildfires in Southern California in the last three months of 2017. The unprecedented scale of the devastation, together with certain anomalies observed during the fires and unexplained damage patterns, have prompted the widespread proliferation of conspiracy theories about the cause.Watch the video for full details of the unexplained anomalies and what conclusion we can draw from them.[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhHOMU-IhHA   ]Who would test out such a weapon on American neighbourhoods? That’s much harder to elucidate and we can only speculate. New weapon platforms do need to be tested, and some have pointed the finger of suspicion at the US military. Despite interesting theories about the domestic agenda it might serve, it seems unlikely. Russia, China, are also natural suspects . The use of Drones for starting these fires is more plausible than an energy weapon . I found this video that raises another troubling aspect of mini-drones are weapons [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78jCq-PY2oQ]

Obama : The Come Back Kid.

Barack Obama may be the only
logical choice in reshaping
the fledging Democratic
party .

In Politics there are always "rumors" . While the biggest one I heard is that Obama (1)>>"might be looking into 2020" However. One cannot say that Obama is thinking of a third term. In fact, it is doubtful that even he himself could say at this point if he wants it. But if he were thinking about it, he would be acting as he is, and as Roosevelt did: Deny any such intention, but at the same time ensure that no strong Democratic candidate emerges, and keep the personal political machine intact.  Obama has been quietly re-entering Democratic politics, asserting his role as presidential kingmaker ahead of the 2020 election. While Obama has steered clear of the upcoming midterms, Politico reports that he has met with at least nine possible Democratic presidential candidates in recent months, including the nominal democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders, former Massachusetts governor and close friend Deval Patrick, and financial-reform crusader Elizabeth Warren, among others.  For the (2)>>Democratic Party as a whole , while the midterms look a "bit" rosy , not as bright as I thought . The Democrats are in fact in  trouble , their list of potential front runners even for 2020 are a bunch of nobodies except for  Sanders . With a political party , its a game . You need to have someone that is widely known. If the Democrats would pull a Republican curb ball by throwing in a mega superstar into the race it would not surprise me . The biggest question I have is,  can another woman run again on the Democratic ticket ? Mrs. Clinton has exhausted any chance for 2020 return . So where is the New Democratic generation?  The Constitution limits the Presidency to two consecutive four-year terms of office.  Then again.............
Obama could come back .

    In January, before he had officially entered office, Trump confirmed he would run again in the 2020 presidential election. The US President said he had decided ‘Keep America Great’ would be his 2020 reelection campaign slogan and on January 20, 2017, he filed a form with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) declaring his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential election. For the next two years the Democrats have to get themselves back on track . The Republican party controls Congress , the Supreme Court as well .  Trump is setting up a lot of Damage for the Democrats before November . The Democrats have a lot of work to do , their not so Progressive enough right now . This issue here for example is immigration , the separation of children from parents of illegals an issue that Democrats felt so strongly about now seem to have their hands tied up . They can't do anything about anything . So could Mr. Obama motivate the party back from that slumber ? Way back in 2016 (3)>>majority of Democrats would have canceled the 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if it meant President Obama could serve another term, a new poll found.Data provided to The Hill by the conservative polling outlet WPA Research found that 67 percent of Democrats would take a third term for Obama over a potential Clinton administration. Only 28 percent said they’re ready to move on from the Obama White House, while 6 percent are undecided. So what can Mr. Obama besides just giving speeches ? For generations, Americans and politicians veered away from the concept of a third-term President. Washington had set an unofficial precedent in 1796 when he decided several months before the election not to seek a third term. What I know is that Obama has consulted with a range of people, from current and former advisers to historians, about how he should conduct himself in his post-presidency, doing much of his thinking during long days on the golf course throughout his Hawaiian vacation. Obama will have to remain more immersed in politics than he’d planned, it remains a mystery what that role will now look like. Certainly he’ll be asked to help rebuild the Democratic Party. For the Democrats , Obama is a strong voice of opposition . For the next decade , perhaps past 2020 AD he might just become revolutionary .

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(1)>>"might be looking into 2020" .  He has served two full terms. Once you have done that, you can never be President again, no matter how many years pass since you have left office. It also does not matter whether your two terms are consecutive or not. Theoretically, a president could serve one four year term, step down, and then come back and win a second four year term 20 years later, and at the end of that second term, would be ineligible to run again. All that matters is the total number of years you have been president, not when those years occurred.  Unless we have some government catastrophe However. (2)>>Democratic Party as a whole , while the midterms look a "bit" rosy . Progressive candidates would be winning at a historic clip in Democratic House primaries so far in the 2018 midterm elections, according to new research released,  1,600 House and Senate candidates across nearly 600 Democratic primary elections. They found that this year an unprecedented number of self-identified progressive candidates are running for office: 280 nonincumbents in House primaries in the 31 states that have held primaries so far, up from a mere 60 in 2014.They are winning more than ever too: 81 progressives have either won those Democratic House primaries or advanced to a runoff so far in 2018, versus just 24 six years ago and 31 in 2016. But as a whole party the Democrats still face a battle. (3)>>majority of Democrats would have canceled the 2016 presidential election . Yes they are still trying , like me they have not accepted the fact that Hillary lost.The Mueller investigation pretty much as I see it is not a legit "investigation" , its more political mudslinging and dirt digging on Trump , basically trying to de-legitimatize the fact they he won . Its 2018 , the majority of the Democrats just can't get out of the same trap that trapped the Republican party which was the idea that Obama was born in another country . If you remember its on the similar lines of the "birther movement" which tried to make Obama not a legitimate American in order for him  NOT to be President of the United States .  For Trump this is the conspiracy that it was the Russians who meddled , helped him win . Its the same metaphoric insanity . 

Trump - Putin summit. Opinion(s).

Trump's Summit with Putin
is embarrassingly important
to American interests regardless
Russian meddling Hype.

 Its no coincidence that (1)>>Helsinki was chosen for the Trump - Putin summit . Right now tensions between Russia and America have returned back to the "cold war" .  The Helsinki move may have reflected where almost 50 years ago the Helsinki Accord was signed . In reality seeing how relations deteriorated between the two nations , how it came about , comes down to these things . So why was the relationship in decline, anyway? A big report (pdf)  from the Congressional Research Service does a nice job detailing the tempestuous back-and-forth between the (1.2)>>United States and Russia since 2009. Here are some of the big milestones — and points of contention — in the relationship.     There is no endemic reason for Russian-U.S. relations to be as tense as they have become over the past several years. Th is situation is largely due, on one side, to mishandling of Russian affairs by both the Clinton,  Bush and Obama administrations, and on the other by the obvious manipulation of anti-Americanism for domestic gain by the Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev administrations in Russia. Unfortunately, this means that only unilateral U.S. action can undermine the cynical policies of the Russian leadership and restore dynamism to the Russian-U.S. relationship. While I can write that of a hopeful reset with Russia , even with all the Russo-phobia here in America. (2)>>STILL what Trump said in front of Putin is absolutely  embarrassing .  I would like to say is that the President should have kept his mouth shut . He should have spoken more about the summit with Putin , rather than answering to the wolverines of the press  regarding meddling .  Trump's "honest gullibility" with the press is hurting him more than ever .  Trump made many mistakes later by flip flopping on the "intelligence" report  about alleged Russian meddling.So this whole summit was a shock to many. Trump's "praise" for Putin , while that in the slightest rings of controversy    , (3)>>so the cry of Treason began ring .
STRONG AND POWERFUL.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he had addressed Russia's interference in the U.S. 2016 election during his talks with Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader was "extremely strong" in his denials."I have president Putin, he just said it's not Russia. I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be," President Trump said, standing at podium side-by-side with the Russian president during a joint press conference Putin in Helsinki, Finland, ABC News reports. He continued: “So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” The "Strong and Powerful" words sounds to me like a hidden Message of some kind . Plus Trump's nervousness is evident ,  lack of preparation is part of what worries administration officials who say the president rarely reads his briefing book that details the issues that may come up in meetings with world leaders. I think Donald Trump is good for gaffs , but while he claims the meeting with Putin was great , there was a lack of professionalism that Trump has a problem with . Strangely enough Vladimir Putin seemed to give a long handshake to Trump.   There was some hope that Trump would recede a bit into the background and that he would empower his staff — particularly [Mike] Pompeo, [John] Bolton, and [James] Mattis — to roll up their sleeves and see if they could accomplish something diplomatically with the Russians.Trump's comments, at a joint news conference after summit talks with Putin, drew heavy criticism back in the U.S., including from prominent Republicans. Sen. John McCain was most outspoken, declaring that Trump made a "conscious choice to defend a tyrant" and achieved "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory." Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said Trump made the U.S. "look like a pushover." Trump said he and Putin "spent a great deal of time" discussing allegations of Russian election meddling as they met for several hours Monday. But Trump declined the opportunity to denounce Putin for the interference efforts, which U.S. intelligence agencies insist did occur, including hacking of Democratic emails, the subject of last week's indictment of 12 Russians.
Media Going Crazy .
The reaction in the United States was immediate and visceral among fellow Republicans and usual Trump critics. On a day when he faced pressure from critics, allied countries and even his own staff to take a tough line, Trump said not a single critical word about Moscow on any of the issues that have brought relations between the two powers to the lowest ebb since the Cold War. The Media barrage freaked out calling treason. While the media may be going crazy over this , (4)>>this summit is vary important , it HAS TO HAPPEN REGARDLESS WHO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS !& IT MATTERS . It seems obvious that our Congress can't get grip on reality of why we should talk to  Russia , yet our government is going crazy with more useless  “Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions,” Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, among a handful of red-state Democrats for whom criticizing Trump is potentially risky business, said when asked what lawmakers should do after the president’s Putin summit stumble. He described as “damaging” Trump’s dismissing of U.S. intelligence agencies on foreign soil while standing beside a man members of both parties and intel officials consider Russia  U.S. adversary. While the media freak out is going on the point of this summit is being dragged down political lines harking back to the McCarthy era dark side.

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(1)>>Helsinki.The Helsinki Accords were primarily an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe. The accords were signed by all the countries of Europe (except Albania, which became a signatory in September 1991) and by the United States and Canada. The agreement recognized the inviolability of the post-World War II frontiers in Europe and pledged the 35 signatory nations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to cooperate in economic, scientific, humanitarian, and other areas. There are echoes of the past in the choice of venue for the Trump-Putin meeting. Finland’s capital has played a historic role in relations between the United States and Russia (or the ex-Soviet Union).In 1975 it staged a summit between US President Gerald Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, with many other countries also present. The resulting Helsinki Accords came to represent “détente” between communist East and capitalist West at the height of the Cold War.Fast-forward 15 years, and with the Iron Curtain now dismantled, George H.W. Bush met Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki in 1990 — shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union.Then, in the new so-called “end of history” era, the city also staged a meeting between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in 1997.In one sense, Helsinki represents neutral territory for the Putin-Trump meeting as Finland is not part of NATO. The choice of venue is also practical: Donald Trump will already be in Europe following the NATO summit and a visit to Britain, while Vladimir Putin will be in Moscow the previous day for the football World Cup final.(1.2)>>United States and Russia since 2009. In Obama’s first summit with Putin in July 2009, Obama sat meekly as Putin delivered an hour-long lecture about how US-Russian relations had gone down the drain.As Daniel Greenfield noted at Frontpage magazine , in succeeding years, Obama capitulated to Putin on anti-missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, on Ukraine, Georgia and Crimea. Obama gave Putin free rein in Syria and supported Russia’s alliance with Iran on its nuclear program and its efforts to save the Assad regime. He permitted Russian entities linked to the Kremlin to purchase a quarter of American uranium. And of course, Obama made no effort to end Russian expansion , or the accusation of 2016 meddling .    (2)>>STILL what Trump said in front of Putin is absolutely  embarrassing . Donald Trump like I said he is own self incrimination,   its getting unreal . Trump presidency came to a head with the Washington Post revelation that his couldn’t keep his mouth shut in front of two top Russian officials. He actually bragged to these guys, telling them “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day.”What I don't understand is how he's playing into the media's hands , while being asked a questions from a press reporter right in front of Putin . Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is golden . Next flip flopping that "maybe Russia did" , Cause and effect. Action, reaction. Trump just couldn't keep his mouth shut -- he just couldn't keep his stubby little thumbs away from Twitter -- " No Collusion -witch hunt "--(3)>>so the cry of Treason began ring .Trump tried to strike a balance. He spoke respectfully of both Putin’s denials and the US intelligence community’s accusation. It wasn’t a particularly coherent position. It was a clumsy attempt to preserve the agreements he and Putin reached during their meeting.And it was blindingly obviously not treason. From the hind sight the press gave Trump another flub . (4)>>this summit is vary important. There could be clear benefits from improved communication between the U.S. and Russia: both sides should want to avoid the tensions and expense of an arms race, whether involving nuclear, cyber or space weapons. Both sides should also want to eliminate the proliferation of these weapons. Both sides want to avoid accidents or miscalculations that could lead to military confrontations. A range of issues should be discussed with the Russians, but the aggression against Ukraine and the consequent sanctions make these negotiations nearly impossible for now. The summit could agree that the Ukraine issue would be discussed in the United Nations Security Council where a solution involving a U.N. peacekeeping force and an interim international administration for Donbas could be agreed. Discussions of the other important issues could then begin.