for the establishment Dems. Not only does it exonerate their past behavior, but it offers up a convenient excuse on why they'll give Trump a pass, and why progressive policies will never become law.

They will stab us in the back, and offer Russia as the excuse.

from hypothesis to theory.

WTF are they thinking?

Go Biden, Sniff the Dream. If that doesn't work, we can go to Article V because "democracy" will have clearly failed because Drumpfenfear.

more than the Centrist Dems, though they are obviously still on board with Russiagate because it allows them not to promote actual alternatives to Trump's policies in either domestic or foreign policy.

Besides, at this point there is a core cult following who expect more Russiagate crap and MsNBC will continue to pander to that audience, which has greater wealth, less concerned about the poors, and is more likely to get their fake news from Cable TV. Maddow and Friends (and CNN to a lesser extent) have no choice really, they pushed all their chips to the center of the table 2 years ago.

They'll never give it up. This CT fits too many needs for the corporate media, Centrists, Neocons, Neolibs and the MIC. Why else do the Dems keep voting for these monstrous defense budgets? It's what their donors and friends in the Deep State want, after all, a bogeyman enemy to justify these absurd and dangerous expenditures. And it keeps the gravy train of donations flowing, allowing them to give mere lip service to progressive policies that would threaten the profits of Wall Street, Big Oil, Defense contractors and of course all the budgets of the Pentagon and Intelligence Community.

Lamenting that any interesting challenge in disrupting the vote has been completely removed from his job, Russian operative Pavel Artemyev reportedly expressed disappointment Friday that gerrymandering has taken all the fun out of hacking the 2020 election. “I really thought it would be a huge thrill trying to dismantle the U.S. democratic system, but it looks like all the work has already been done,” said Artemyev, who claimed that any excitement he once had about diminishing Americans’ faith in their democracy quickly disappeared upon the realization that elected U.S. officials had tirelessly toiled to suppress voters with discriminatory and partisan-rigged district maps. “I got into this because I wanted to make a difference, only to hack the Florida rolls and find out most of the African American voters have already been purged. It kind of sucks because there’s no way my work could be as substantive as polling-place closures, malfunctioning equipment, and laws that allow election officials to reject ballots without standards or repercussions. I’m basically getting paid to do nothing.” At press time, Artemyev had settled on creating and spreading false news stories about Sharia Law in the U.S. only to discover dozens of American publications already doing that as well.

Between the GOP's extreme gerrymandering, the democrats putting two voting machines in democratic districts so that people have to wait in lines up to all day and the other many ways people have difficulty with voting how could posting a few ads do more damage to the voting system? During the last primary we saw people saying that they had been kicked off the voting rolls and had their party affiliation changed, but sure let's blame Russia for Hillary's loss. And even after someone admitted that she did those things she was never charged for it. In Florida one of the people running was in charge of voting and there were many shenanigans exposed and yet he didn't have to step down.

How many state election websites did the Dems get their hands on in 2016? And what happened to all those reports during 2016 about the manipulations of voter information cards?