October 27, 2018 John Cassidy The New Yorker

October 27, 2018

John Cassidy

The New Yorker

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RE: A conspiracy so large that maybe “None Dare Call It Treason”?

Hoppy,

Speaking of “defamatory conspiracy theories”, shouldn’t mention be made of the United States allowing munition to be put on the R.M.S. Lusitania or FDR encouraging PAN-AM, our “unofficial” official airline, to open air strips on islands sure to piss off the Japs or his ordering the Pacific fleet to leave San Diego and bivouac at Pearl Harbor 2,500 miles close to Tokyo or the Truman administration approving the MacArthur Inchon landing “knowing” it would fail and they could fire his ass for incompetence rather than insubordination or the phony Gulf of Tonkin incident that enabled LBJ to be the 3^rd President – and would you believe they were all Democrats? – in 48 years to break his promise not to send American boys to fight in foreign wars that led to 58,000 names on a wall in DC or the CIA killing Adlai Stevenson in London or Nixon planning to cancel the election or GHWB flying to Paris on a borrowed SR71 to put the kibosh on Carter’s plan to get the hostages out by the 1980 election or Bush 43 blowing up the WTC so he could protect his family’s interest in a still not built Afghanistan transiting gas pipe line or a “clean and articulate” Black man with no experience in the real world other than being a street hustler could “calm the seas and cool the earth” and Trump using good Russian vodka, ermine, and the wiles of Boris the KGB gigolo convinced Hillary to stay out of Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin and getting Paul Krugman to make a perpetual public horse’s ass of himself?

As Victor McLaglen said in “Fort Apache”, “We have a day’s work ahead of us”. Get to it. Watch out for the slippery slope on the grassy knoll, you ohmadahn.

Kevin Smith