Comments on: Life Imitates Art Department. https://habitablezone.com/2017/02/16/life-imitates-art-department/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:45:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2017/02/16/life-imitates-art-department/#comment-38380 Robert Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:08:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=62176#comment-38380 If you blended <i>Dr. Strangelove</i> with <i>Seven Days in May</i>, you might have something: A story about a military coup not over a policy disagreement, but to remove a deranged President. Both movies, BTW, predate the 25th Amendment. I'm not sure how much influence the Russians have over Trump, and the full Manchurian Candidate scenario seems pretty much out of the question. But the Russians getting some kind of hold over Trump during one of his trips to Russia, sure, absolutely. Russians have always loved their secret police and informing on each other, and according to "Red Web", a book I'm in the middle of and will have more to say about later, the <strike>KGB</strike>FSB has made the transition to a 21st century surveillance state with its traditional brutal elan. If you enter the Russian sphere of interest, all your communications <i>will</i> be monitored, and your digital devices <i>will</i> be penetrated. And for why? For one, apparently the FSB loves their <i>kompromat</i> as much as always, and their massive panopticon gives them piles of raw material. Did Trump go to Russia? Yup. So is he compromised? Yup. QED. If you blended Dr. Strangelove with Seven Days in May, you might have something: A story about a military coup not over a policy disagreement, but to remove a deranged President. Both movies, BTW, predate the 25th Amendment.

I’m not sure how much influence the Russians have over Trump, and the full Manchurian Candidate scenario seems pretty much out of the question. But the Russians getting some kind of hold over Trump during one of his trips to Russia, sure, absolutely. Russians have always loved their secret police and informing on each other, and according to “Red Web”, a book I’m in the middle of and will have more to say about later, the KGBFSB has made the transition to a 21st century surveillance state with its traditional brutal elan. If you enter the Russian sphere of interest, all your communications will be monitored, and your digital devices will be penetrated. And for why? For one, apparently the FSB loves their kompromat as much as always, and their massive panopticon gives them piles of raw material. Did Trump go to Russia? Yup. So is he compromised? Yup. QED.

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