The ongoing Russia-gate psy-op is demonstrating Mark Twain’s adage that: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”

For the national-security-state, deep state, Blob, Russia-gate is literally the gift that keeps on giving, with the suspiciously well timed death in prison of Aleksei Navalny being just the latest twist in the ongoing psy-op. For instance, the New York Times, immediately blamed Trump by not condemning Putin.

Thanks to tying Russia to Donald Trump, the Blob was able to accomplish the impossible feat of turning liberals into raving cold warriors all because of their rabid Trump/Derangement/Syndrome (TDS). The repetition of Russia-gate that connected Trump and Putin, has conditioned liberals to believe that Vladimir Putin wants to revive the Russian Empire and invaded Ukraine because it “is a country that for decades has enjoyed freedom and democracy and the right to choose its own destiny”, among other tall tales.

According to the new and improved Russia-gate, (now with 30% more whitening power), Putin whacked Navalny in prison just because he’s the personification of evil, even as it would serve no purpose and moreover provide the West a propaganda coup. Likewise, all the good little liberals still believe that Trump was only elected due to the virulent racism of the MAGA deplorables and is in no way related to the off-shoring of American manufacturing and unchecked immigration that have provided liberals with cheap electronics, fattened stock portfolios and affordable nannies, gardeners and maids.

Sigh.

All of this proves once again that the main difference between our propaganda infused world and the fictional dystopias in novels like 1984 is that Winston Smith knew he existed in an open air gulag, whereas in America everyone believes themselves free. We imagine that we cultivate our very own ideas, worldview and political identities on our own, when in reality these belief systems have been “manufactured” by the planet’s most sophisticated propaganda machine.

In the early 20th century Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays began his work showing that the American public can be steered into the proper channels through mass-scale psychological manipulation, and Russia-gate is proof of the ongoing sophistication of such efforts.

That the deep state, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious. They are losing the war in Ukraine, and have been condemned throughout the world for their fulsome support for Israeli genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Like the previous Russia-gate lies, this ongoing one, coinciding with Navalny’s death, is timed to divert the public’s attention from key ongoing matters.

What’s ironic is that, thanks to the Herculean efforts of the corporate media to obscure and obfuscate, Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger are just now reporting all of the sordid details of the original Russia-gate psy-op. We now know that the CIA and the FBI, along with the Department of Justice, were weaponized to attack and try to destroy Donald Trump. 

Heads should roll, or at least careers should abort. But the greater its blunders, the stronger the Blob’s solidarity. And, yes, the corporate media is an integral part of the Blob. They have a story, and they will stick to it, hence the latest propaganda blitz. The Blob learned through decades of strategic blunders that if everyone closes ranks and sticks to the same story, its members will largely survive with their careers intact. The career trajectories of the policy makers and pundits who advocated for the invasion of Iraq exemplify this dynamic.

While the Blob’s blunders are so comprehensive that there is no short-term fix to the damage that the United States will suffer as a consequence, they have succeeded in at least one thing. Thanks to the ongoing Russia-gate psy-op, liberals will go on supporting the Biden Administration, while believing any sort of story about the sheer evilness of Russia and Putin because they have been irreparably linked to the Orange monster of their nightmares.

While the torrent of lies may convince gullible liberals, they are losing resonance in a world that is rapidly moving on from American rule, accelerated by the globe’s rejection of U.S. policy on Ukraine and Gaza. Gone are the days of governments and populations who accept at face value what the United States says about itself and about them. 

Update: “Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy on Trump Campaign” [RealClearPolitics]. “The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries…. This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate. The alleged operation against Trump and his associates, which predates the official start of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, is a stark example of political weaponization of intelligence…. The narrative that has been pushed for years, that the investigation into Trump’s campaign began with an Australian tip about a boastful Trump aide, now appears to be a cover for a more extensive and coordinated effort to undermine Trump. If reports are accurate, British intelligence began targeting Trump on behalf of American intelligence agencies as early as 2015, long before the official narrative claims. The implications of this are profound. It suggests an unprecedented level of collusion between U.S. intelligence agencies and their foreign counterparts to influence the outcome of an American presidential election. The use of foreign intelligence to circumvent American laws and surveillance limitations represents a grave threat to our nation’s sovereignty and the principles of democracy.”