Two articles caught my attention this morning. The first one in USA Today posits that Donald “Trump is the most unpopular president in more than 70 years. Sorry, MAGA.” The second one recycles the old rumor “Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB?”. Can you imagine the miserable lives these people live? Decades after Trump’s media star ascended, they are still caught up in fevered dream agitprop.

EJ Montini is described by his paper (unironically) as wryly observing the foibles of Arizona and the United States for three decades. Wryly? Really? From the USA Today article on how unpopular Trump is:

Where is co-president Elon Musk and his snotnosed band of pubescent hackers when Donald Trump needs them?

Wry? Right? Sounds like someone got bullied in elementary school by the brainiacs. You can call them the “snotnosed band of pubescent hackers”, they still are smarter than you are. More:

You’d have thought that with all the whiz-bang computer skills Musk claims his nerd bros possess, they’d have been able to weasel their way into the data collection systems of some big-time pollsters and jack up the numbers for the co-commander in chief.

But I guess not.

Because it ain’t good news.

According to the most recent Gallup poll, Trump is the least popular president in more than 70 years.

Or, as the company put it on its website: “Trump’s job approval rating is 15 points below the historical average for all other elected presidents in mid-February since 1953.”

Gee, EJ. Tell us all that you know nothing at all polling and weighting and statistics without coming right out with it. It’s all in the follow up and how you order the questions. The following video is EJ wryly reenacting a die in six years ago. The name of the video is “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard”. This is based on the showbiz adage https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/26/comedy-is-hard/, which makes a heckuva lot more sense.

Highly related to the wry thinking of EJ is the “Red in every bed” thinking of The Hill. Writer Alexander Motyl is sure that Trump is a Puppet of the Russians. Give it up, fools. Democrats and Never Trumpers will never give up their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They revel in it. The Trump KGB Recruitment rumor has been around for a while. Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was alive and well and in her early 70’s in 1987. If she even suspected her son went to Russia for any reason other to make money, she would have taken him out herself. Scottish mothers are tough. Mrs. Trump loved America. Trump recruited by the KGB? Fie, you foolish muckrakers. From the article:

The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate mogul first visited Moscow.

The allegation would, if true, be a bombshell. Mussayev provides no documentary evidence —but then how could he? He alleged that Trump’s file is in Vladimir Putin’s hands.

This rumor, flat out lie, has been around for a while. From Snopes:

The idea that former U.S. President Donald Trump was somehow compromised by the Russian government is not a new one. His single term was clouded by the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to help Trump win.

These accusations got new legs with the Jan. 26, 2021, publication of the book “American Kompromat” by journalist Craig Unger. In the book, Unger cites ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets in making the case that Trump’s relationship with the Russian government started decades before he became president.
Shvets spoke to The Guardian in an interview published on Jan. 29, 2021, and made a number of allegations stemming from his time working for the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency under what was then the Soviet Union, including that Russian intelligence gained an interest in Trump as far back as 1977, viewing Trump as an exploitable target.

“The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery,” Shvets told the Guardian. Around the first time Trump considered running for president, in 1987, and after visiting Moscow with his first wife Ivana, he purchased full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, expressing perspectives similar to ones he later espoused while president — namely disparaging key U.S. alliances aimed at holding Russian geopolitical power in check.

“Extremely vulnerable intellectually and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery”. Oh my, where have I heard that from?? This sounds like misinformation that some three letter agency might use to try to set Trump up. They try so hard to foment dissent.

Russian newspaper editor explains how Putin made Trump his puppet: "The Kremlin considers Trump a stupid, unstrategic politician. Putin is confident that he can manipulate Trump to his advantage, and he should be. Trump is a useful idiot to them."#Maddow https://t.co/PExrwvVKbR pic.twitter.com/qqlTV54bmB

— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) July 16, 2018

Sell it somewhere else, fools. Kompromat is old news and y’all are a bore. We woke up to your sad spin during Covid. We don’t want to play again.

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