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Ohhh -- they are going to be so disappointed when it comes time for the real "locking up" to take place. Observe:
We've reached the "lock her up" portion of CPAC pic.twitter.com/H0tYM40LYF— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) February 22, 2018
[h/t: https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/lock-her-chants-break-out-cpac-just ]
Btw dear readers-- do you know where Drumpf got the idea for the "lock her up" shtick? It came from Paul Manafort - Drumpf's former campaign manager - and a guy who is now under indictment for all kinds of dirty, criminal foreign money shenanigans in Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian ratfucking in the 2016 presidential election.
Manafort used that very same "lock her up" tactic while working as a paid advisor to the former Putin friendly Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 Ukraine presidential election. Yanukovych used it as a political rally cry to his supporters, in that presidential campaign, against an opposing, female reform candidate named Yulia Tymoshenko who was more aligned with NATO and western interests.
And you know what happened dear readers? Yanukovych won the election. And Viktor Yanukovych did jail his opponent - on Trumped up, kangaroo court charges. The Russians then went on to annex The Crimea and the region is now an east/west powderkeg that could blow up at any moment.
But that's not the best part of that story. Want to know what became the fate of Putin's little buddy Yanukovych? He was deposed (as in mobs with pitchforks and torches deposed) from power by his own Ukrainian people in their 2014 Revolution. Viktor Yanukovych is now living in exile in Russia, having been granted Russian citizenship by a "secret decree" of Vladimir Putin. Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from prison, and completely exonerated with all charges dismissed.
Following along here? Ok.
So - Paul Manafort played a key, paid role in a bid to assist a right wing, Russian friendly political candidate take control of his country's government and then cozy up to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. In that role, Manafort colluded with his client, Yanukovych, to smear the reputation of an opposition party presidential candidate, Yulia Tymoshenko, which ultimately resulted in her false imprisonment.
The Gadfly is trying to paint a fairly lucid picture here for you folks.
Knowing that background now -- are not the similarities between the Ukrainian "lock her up" history and what has occurred, and is occurring, right now here in this country, eerily alike - huh? A loud mouth, right wing, authoritarian bully and Vladimir Putin butt boy smears and slanders his woman political opponent and riles up his goons to elect him to power - power which he then actually uses to "lock her up."
Sounds pretty fucking similar to The Gadfly, and whoever believes that it's all just a coincidence, you're much too mistrustful of your own cynical instincts.
And no - as The Gadfly has alluded to on numerous occasions, The Gadfly is not, nor ever has been, a lock step supporter of Hillary Clinton and yet even if he were, it does nothing to change the facts about Paul Manafort's history in Ukranian politics and the similarities which that history has that are relevant to what is happening here, right now, in American politics.
And as far as that video in the Tweet above goes, clearly, by virtue of the enthusiastic "lock her up" chanting and cheering at the CPAC Convention, quite a few of our fellow citizens apparently would not mind seeing the same sequence of Paul Manafort orchestrated events occur here in The United States of America as have occurred in the Ukraine.
To which The Gadfly would respond -- Fuck them. Nothing more. Nothing less.
All that The Gadfly has to say is that if regular karma is a bitch, then the kind of karma that these democracy-hating people have coming to them is is going to be a Mueller mean bitch!
----TFG
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