Supreme Court ends Trump’s Fraud, Russia launches the Most Sophisticated Cyber Attack Ever
By: Brian Kean
Tags: Politics, Election 2020, Trump, Russia, Perspective

It is no coincidence that they were able to do it again. It almost seems this was the moment they were waiting for. Likely known as “Operation: Post-Election Chaos,” the Russian operatives threw all they had at our online security infrastructure and a lot stuck — probably too much. The best minds say it could be years before we understand the extent of the damage done.

The attack was “the day you prepare against,” said Sarah Bloom Raskin, the deputy Treasury secretary during the Obama administration.(Hacked)

America has again been weakened, and rather substantially, thanks to the very dangerous games Republicans — led by Trump — play with the play thing they call America. Tossing their favorite toy off the roof, into the pool, leaving it out on the busy street and ultimately pouring gasoline all over and tossing lit matches at it will eventually lead to its destruction — this is what the so-called GOP does non-stop, day after day, year after year. If you tell me they don’t want to ruin the toy, I will laugh in your face — LOF as opposed to LOL.

Knee-deep in chaos, we are too distracted to notice how they push their radical agenda against democracy. This agenda was responsible for the same policies that nearly bore fruit in the recent election. The dear-leader, along with many of his foxified drones, still hints at the violence to come.

The Hit

I don’t do conspiracy theories but knowing what we suspect about Trump and his debt to President Putin, I am creatively-endowed enough to see the play. Moscow directs Trump to foment chaos and hint at rebellion should he lose the election. Anyone in Washington will tell you that the most vulnerable time in terms of national security is during the transition phase, when handing the keys of government over from one administration to the incoming administration.

These vulnerabilities exist even during the smoothest of transitions but the shit-show created by Trump and his minions led to a perfect storm. They not only left the barn door open but hung huge, well-lit exit signs all the while running announcements shouting cold, warm, warmer, warmer, hot, hotter — right there, got it!

The hack was one of the most brazen ever in our history. It was not a coincidence that it was launched against the United States now. Trump and the incompetent political hacks running the nation are not only incapable of protecting the United States, it is an honor to which they simply do not aspire. In chaos, there is power. In chaos, norms can be shredded and power seized. Where Trump failed at damaging America, he has permitted our enemies to do so furthering the chaos, only unseen to most.

The nuances of Trump’s treachery are things that his followers will never grasp. Fox News and Newscorp will not be on the air for months exploding the airwaves with tales of how vulnerable this president has made us — they will let this hack pass, ignoring it pretty much the way that Mike Pompeo did.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deflected the question with generalities, saying that there had “been a consistent effort of the Russians to try and get into American servers, not only those of government agencies, but of businesses. We see this even more strongly from the Chinese Communist Party, from the North Koreans, as well.” (Hacked)

Fox News has already switched to the new narrative about how a Biden presidency will surrender America to China. On air lunatics are gathering now like a bunch of unhooded Klansmen waiting for the signal to “hood up” and light the cross. Pondering with the nervous concern just how much damage the Chinese connections to Joe Biden will cause, has already become the new rightwing paranoia; the new fear-laden lie to be relentlessly mongered.

The Signal

Again, it is no coincidence that the most sophisticated attack against the most intensely defended computer networks happened when it did. The Supreme Court has just very publicly chastised Trump’s attempts to steal the election and then the wheels of the hack clicked into motion.

Somewhere under the graying skies of St. Petersburg, Russia, a clunky Soviet-made landline phone burst to life. The on-duty hacker, let’s call him Sasha, picked the receiver. Sipping on sweet tea with a chunk of lemon bobbing just beneath the surface, Sasha clears his throat and says in the typical Russian subdued way: Allo. A greeting void of the usual rising intonation suggesting polite wonder at who might be calling becomes more of affirmation. Yes, this call is distracting him from a more important article about the local soccer team.

It’s time, the unseen voice says. He no longer has any chance of winning.

Understood. Sasha pops out for one last cigarette before his task will burn the passing hours like a piece of flash paper. Hour and days will vanish. Until the hack is complete, he won’t look up. Returning, he presses enter and it begins: SolarWinds, the US Department of Treasury, the Department of Defense, the State Department. The icons of American power topple.

And Trump flies overhead Washington, DC in a helicopter promising to continue to fight for America, to make America it great.

The hack settles in and information flows out of the ship of state just below the waterline. America’s iceberg, however, still has another five more weeks before it begins to melt — how much more damage will Donald Trump and the Republicans in charge do before they recede back to Fox, Breitbart and the intellectually dank holes out of which they crawled?