tomorrow. what then? are you hearing, david? two things, kate. first, i think back on barbara s good reporting there, it s really interesting to think about where the administration s priorities are here. in the president s mind, it was not worth keeping troops in place to protect the kurds. it wasn t worth keeping them in place to keep the kurds acting as essentially jail wardens for isis. it wasn t worth there to keep forces from coming into the area but it might be worth it to protect oil made vulnerable by the previous decision. it takes you to where the president s priorities are and how much they were or were not looking down the line at the predictable results of the president s decision. the cease-fire is not really a cease-fire. it is in the minds of the turks
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an upstanding young man. that is not something that hillary clinton ever said. both the quote was fake and the story was fake, but, boy, did that circulate in the lead-up to the 2016 election. as did so many other of these false stories that were designed to freak people out and/or drive people toward one of two candidates in the general election. during our 2016 election there were a lot of foreign entities. there were russian government propaganda entities but also hidden authorship entities like bots and patrols that literally created untrue news stories out of thin air, stories that were designed to exploit and exacerbate existing divisions in the united states to turn americans against each other, to turn people generally toward the trump worldview, especially enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn t worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible barbarism to make you feel like we we
enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn t worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible bar barrism to make you feel like we were at the end of the line in terms of human beings being able to live alongside one another. when we came to understand what russia did in the 2016 election, those made-up false stories designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn t the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easily and specifically and conveniently applied to that phenomenon, the phrase fake
senator who has stuck his neck out the most. yeah. this is a big tell. and, gene, it s hard for them to brea to preach deep state when all of this was done by the book, following the whistleblower statute, with an ig, an inspector general s report, the inspector general appointed by donald trump, and every part of the process was followed and open to the letter of the law until the attorney general of the united states who is involved in the controversy decided to go deep state with it. right. and try to bury it. so the deep state shenanigans are totally it s a the interesting thing about nancy pelosi is she did think for a long time that politically it was a loser, that impeachment was a loser. she didn t want to do it, it wasn t worth the time, let s just beat him in 2020. you know, i think i once wrote that she was not going to