Lalo Alcaraz for February 14, 2017

Please if there is a congressional representative with any ethics left. Investigate the connection between the White house and the Russians.

Mr. B – They are becoming well known as the Neo Silent Majority.

To Mdavis: You’ve just posted another flat-out lie. Are you trying to get a job at the White House, or are you already gainfully employed with the Kremlin?

With the bugging and the intercepts and the spying and the assassinations of political enemies, they sure as shooting aren’t what I would call jolly chums.

@ELTRIPP: No. Wrong. While you go pick up that paycheck the Kremlin has waiting for you, let’s engage in some facts to counter that propaganda, shall we?

• Putin and his regime directly interfered in the 2016 US Presidential election, as corroborated by intelligence services not just here but by other countries’ services as well. Michael Flynn’s resignation is just one piece of that house of cards beginning to collapse.

• Putin is a murderer, a dictator, and fundamentally anti-democratic. It’s not surprising he was a high-ranking officer in the KGB.

• Putin has invaded the Ukraine and continues to push a war there. He is also directly threatening other countries in Europe.

• Putin has just deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles that violate our arms treaties with Russia. He is the one who is pushing for a restart of the Cold War.

• Putin is desperately propping up the murderous Assad regime in Syria, and did so even before Islamist elements joined the fight against him.

For all these reasons, and a ton more, we can quite easily say that Vladimir Putin is, in fact, an enemy of the people and Constitution of the United States of America. By collaborating with him, Trump and his cronies have gone full Benedict Arnold on all of us.

But hey, we’re killers too, so it’s all ok!

Let’s see those tax returns.

Notgonnahappen, unfortunately. Unless there’s a leak, and they will deny the accuracy, and the trumpistas would never accept it anyway.

Democrats are planning a big anti trump protest on tax day.

To interventor: The Russians have been spying on the US for at least 100 years. Does that mean Aldritch Ames didn’t collude with the KGB? Your argument makes zero logical sense. It is more and more clear that the Trump campaign and Putin regime did collude, and this is coming from multiple intelligence services including our own. Trump is an un-American traitor, plain and simple.

The collusion comes from the Trump campaign talking to Putin’s government about using hacked information against the Clinton campaign. Heck, there’s a good chance that Putin wouldn’t have backed Trump with his intelligence services if he had thought Trump actually had a realistic chance of winning—a miscalculation on Putin’s part, apparently. There’s a good chance that Putin simply wanted to sow confusion and cast a bad light on US democracy. He succeeded spectacularly at that.

The details about how competent with email Podesta was sounds a lot like the defense for a violent mugger trying to argue that the person they beat to death shouldn’t have been walking down that alleyway. Aside from it being a lesson in being more careful about one’s electronic security, it’s no defense at all. It’s also worse than a defense for Trump, who retains his unsecured Android phone that isn’t even supported by software updates any more.

TL;DR: Your argument lacks logic and does nothing to dispel the fact that Trump and his campaign did, indeed, collude with Putin’s government.

Where have you gone, Lalo Alcaraz?