Truth Is A Kremlin Talking Point by Caitlin Johnstone!
(2019-10-17 at 02:10:54 )

Truth Is A Kremlin Talking Point by Caitlin Johnstone

In response to a statement during the Democratic primary debates by presidential candidate Andrew Yang that both Russia and the United States have engaged in election interference, liberal pundit Molly McKew tweeted, "I now retract any vaguely nice thing I ever said about Mr. Yang knowing technology things because he answered the question on Mr. Putin with moral equivalency and a Kremlin talking point."

If you are in the mood for some depressing amusement, just type the words "Kremlin talking point" without quotation marks into Twitters search engine and scroll through all the results which come up.

Just keep on scrolling and observe how this label, "Kremlin talking point", gets bleated by mainstream empire loyalists to dismiss subjects ranging from the rigging of Democratic primaries to criticism of United States regime change wars to endless United States warmongering to concerns about new cold war escalations to disliking John McCain to criticism of Nancy Pelosi.

Any criticism of the status quo which cannot be labeled false or misleading gets labeled a "talking point" of Russia-Putin-the Kremlin by those who support and defend the status quo of United States-centralized imperialist world hegemony.

Mr. Yangs statement about United States intervention in foreign elections is indisputably true, of course. Both alternative and mainstream media outlets have thoroughly documented the fact that the United States governments own data shows them to have interfered in scores of foreign elections, far more than any other nation on earth.

This includes an interference in Russias elections in the nineties that was so brazen they made a Hollywood movie about it. Former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey openly admitted on Fox News last year that the United States still interferes in foreign elections to this very day.

These are not conspiracy theories. These are not even secrets. These are facts. But because they are inconvenient facts, they get labeled "Kremlin talking points" by those whose job it is to defend the status quo.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was also branded with the accusation of voicing "Kremlin talking points" for remarks she made during last nights debate. In her case those "talking points" consisted of the indisputable fact that the bloodshed in Syria can be blamed on United States politicians from both parties, and the indisputable fact that the United States has armed extremist militias in that nation with the goal of effecting regime change.

"Literally a Kremlin talking point, but whatever," tweeted #Resistance pundit Leah McElrath in response to Ms Gabbards debate comments.

"It is a fact that the Russian talking point for years has been that the United States arms al-Qaeda in Syria. Tulsi Gabbard just said it on national television," tweeted journalist Scott Stedman.

"How odd to listen to Tulsi Gabbard mouthing Syrian and Russian talking points on the Democratic debate stage..sorry but no one thinks United States troops withdrawn by Donald Trump were there as part of a -regime change war- by the United States," tweeted Susan Glasser of CNN and The New Yorker.

So the establishment narrative managers now have an official three-word debunk of any criticism of the establishment which employs them, which applies even when that criticism is fully based in facts and reality. Facts are a Kremlin talking point, and anyone who believes them is Russian. Facts are Russian. Truth is Russian. Skepticism is Russian. Asking questions is Russian. Dissent is Russian. Revolution is Russian.

So let us all get Russian then, baby. Let us all fill our heads with objectively true Kremlin talking points and Cossack dance our way to a fact-based relationship with reality.

Get as Russian as possible.

Get aggressively Russian.

Get offensively Russian.

Get so Russian it hurts.

Get so Russian it curls Louise Menschs hair.

If they are going to start telling us that truth is Russian, then the only appropriate thing to say in response is dasvidaniya.

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