Posted on 10/20/2017 2:30:37 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You dont have to strain your imaginationall you have to do is watch Thursdays White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trumps phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson. The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.
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Masha Gessen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014, and became a staff writer in 2017. Gessen is the author of nine books, including The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2017; and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Gessen has written about Russia, autocracy, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times. On a parallel track, Gessen has been a science journalist, writing about aids, medical genetics, and mathematics; famously, Gessen was dismissed as editor of the Russian popular-science magazine Vokrug Sveta for refusing to send a reporter to observe Putin hang-gliding with the Siberian cranes. Gessen is a visiting professor at Amherst College and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, a Nieman Fellowship, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. After more than twenty years as a journalist and editor in Moscow, Gessen has been living in New York since 2013.
Reading List: Masha Gessen recommends Rachel Avivs The Trauma of Facing Deportation, about refugee children in Sweden.
Perhaps they all just just shut up and issue retractions now that the whole thing has been proven beyond a doubt to be FAKE NEWS and a complete LIE by the Cowboy FL Congressbitch.
“Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You dont have to strain your imagination”
I imagine every liberal drop dead in front of me.
I suspect strongly that Masha is the same ethnicity as Frederica so I’m sure there is no rationality on exhibit here.
I was about to shrink this down but hit enter instead. Sorry
Oops, I take that back - she is a concentration camp survivor.
I volunteer for the all-night machine gun pit at RFK Stadium.
Born in Moscow
Doesn’t make her anymore rational.
Oh for crying out loud.
A father shares what must be an almost unimaginable grief over the death of his Son, and this asshole says that it is like a military coup.
Nope.
I think that does it.
He wins the Dumbass Of The Year Award.
He might even get The Lifetime Achievement Award For Dumbassery.
After Mathis cleans the trash out of the military and restores its discipline then we will see about a coup, not before.
As ugly as Nasser to me.
I wouldn’t mind a right wing military coup at this point. We are a dangerously divided nation.
Yet another ugly lesbian heard from (yes, it’s female)
Hey!
Masha!
Get some meatballs to go with those spaghetti arms!
Ironically, some of her ideological fellow-travelers wish for a military coup.
As opposed to the Communist Coup under Obama?
Stereotype fulfillment proved by photograph = 100%.
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