Steve A. Stone
The Slow Coup, Part 26
The Russia thing
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By Steve A. Stone
September 25, 2025

Originally written on June 29, 2017

Dear Friends & Patriots,

Did you see the rally in DC last night? It was something, wasn't it? I was impressed, though I might have liked a bit more focus on the founding and First Principles. That emphasis can't be overdone.

I hope all of you find ways to demonstrate your patriotism and love for our nation. America truly is the first among all nations, and in many ways it has been from its first days. We started out as a great nation, struggled many decades to achieve and become even greater.

Now we're considered by most estimations the greatest, but we should not pat ourselves on our collective backs. We have huge problems to solve if our nation is to survive, much less thrive. We have great social divisions, driven by the acceptance of a competing social, governmental, and economic philosophy. If we are to truly grow and thrive again we must recapture the spirit and mechanisms of those ideas that got us here. We have to reject those ideas that are in opposition to our founding principles. We need a renewed emphasis on the ideas expressed in our Declaration of Independence if we are to remain independent.

Progressives have been working mightily for a very long time to bind our nation to others in ways that diminish our freedom as a nation as well as our freedom as individuals. It's decades past time to reject all such shackles and allow us to once again be free and sovereign Americans, not just members of one collective or another. America was founded to do just that – reject the ties that bind and limit the freedom of others.

Make America Great Again. Rise up and say “NO!” to anything that limits America and us as individuals. Take back America and take back your own freedom.

In Liberty,

Steve

29 June 2017

I’m going to admit to a guilty pleasure. No, not the truth that I love to have ice cream every single night. Most of you might think that’s unhealthy, but some of you might be envious, too. No, not that guilty pleasure, but another one most of you won’t share. I love watching Ancient Aliens on the History Channel. It intrigues me. Sometimes it even fascinates me. I find myself admiring one thing about the production that might not be noticed by most viewers. The on-camera speaker, whoever it is and whatever the topic is, will often lead off with statements like, “What if it’s true that . . . ? “ or “If Ancient Alien investigations can be believed . . . .” or “Is it possible that . . . ?” Those lead-in statements are the disclaimers needed to push their wild and sometimes crazy theories on us with plausible deniability. They don’t assert most of their presentation is true. In fact with their lead-ins they put the blame on you if you accept the information that follows to any degree at all. They just announce the speculation then jump right into the lake of speculation they create. The viewer is the one who actually does the swimming, assuming he or she goes along. It’s a great way to present conspiracy theory in an honest way. Who can say if the on-camera person believes what they’re presenting or not? It could all be a joke. Today’s discussion is sort of like those you’ll see and hear on Ancient Aliens.

You all must be as sick and tired of hearing about “the Russia thing” as I am. It’s been a 100% phony news story from the start. At least, we tend to think of it that way, but maybe we were a bit hasty. Maybe there is a “there, there” after all.

New information has surfaced that indicates President Obama was informed by the intelligence community of Russian meddling in our election process as early as June 2016. The intelligence notifications supposedly included information that Vladimir Putin himself was materially involved in efforts to steer the 2016 presidential election in an “anyone but Hillary” direction. Why is this news? Because no one wanted to talk about it. President Obama didn’t.

In October President Obama was responding to reporters’ questions regarding the potential of mischief in the election process. He completely dismissed the idea and stated unequivocally that no such thing had ever been proven to happen, nor was there anything he knew of that would indicate it was happening then. He went further and indicated that the American election system was so decentralized it was impossible to effectively interfere with it. He obviously sought to reassure the American voters the election could not be stolen – by anyone.

The day after the election of Donald Trump a curious thing happened. All of a sudden we were confronted with Democratic Party assertions that Russian interference and possible collusion by the Trump campaign was responsible for the loss by Hillary Clinton. The term “hacking” was used in press releases and by on-camera pontificators for days on end. Doesn’t all that make one curious now that you know more of the truth? Doesn’t it make you wonder what games were afoot and just how many were and are in play?

I have thoughts about this. I’m quite certain I’m not the only one who connects dots on this story the way I do, but I haven’t heard or read anything yet that parallels my own evaluation.

Recall that I sent out warnings as early as late 2015 that the Democrats had their own plan to steal the election? Recall that I informed everyone that the two principle manufacturers of election machines in the country were contributors to the DNC and Democrat causes, and the software creators for those machines were also known contributors to the DNC and Democrat causes? If you do recall those warnings, then you must wonder how I could be so wrong. If the Democrats had the election in the bag, how could Hillary not win? My thought is if the Russians had not been interfering at some level the Democrats’ plan would have gone forward and Hillary would indeed be the President today. But the Russians did interfere at some level and Donald Trump won. What do you think is up with that? What was going on?

President Obama kept quiet about the Russian involvement he’d been warned about. He made sure his staff and all who knew kept quiet as well. I’m sure now he’d say he did so because he believed talking about it would inflame the populace and cause a different kind of interference. Today Obama says the Russians were interfering in Trump’s behalf, but based on Hillary’s own statements that it was a personal thing between her and Putin, I’m of the mind the Russians might have had only one interest – working to ensure Hillary didn’t succeed. I’m thinking Obama understood that, so that makes the central question even more demanding of an answer: Why did he remain quiet?

I heard one media personality speculate that Obama secretly wanted Hillary to lose and keeping quiet about the Russian interference would abet that desire. That speculation has no legs. Mine is better!

Think of this. If Russian attempts at interference were known there would have been a great outcry for an investigation as early as last June. If I’m right that the DNC had its own plan in play, how could they withstand any real investigation? So, the administration clamped down on the whole Russian interference report and Obama waited until October to do anything at all. Then, what did he do? He told Putin, “Now, cut that out!” (shades of Flip Wilson!) and he quietly notified the 50 Secretaries of State in each state of the potential of Russian interference in their process. Nothing else, and no call for an investigation. The Democrats had at least four months to execute a “cleanup” effort. With less than a month before Election Day President Obama managed to unburden himself of his knowledge, but did so when there was no time for anyone to do any kind of meaningful investigation. I’m quite certain the “fixers” were busy everywhere those four months, undoing whatever they’d put into place and wiping all the fingerprints off everything – with cloths!

Today my thought is the senior Democrats are all living in fear. They are terrorized by the thought that there’s someone in their midst who might talk. They fear their cleanup wasn’t perfect. They fear the entire story will come out.

All of this ties directly to the DNC hacking episode, where there’s some certainty the Russians were the culprit. When the FBI and NSA offered to do a forensic examination of a server to determine who was hacking and to evaluate the degree of penetration of system defenses and the response was, “No, thank you,” one has to wonder why. What’s being hidden? Did that server contain evidence of the DNC’s own planning and execution of their vote fraud operations? I doubt we’ll ever know. But, there was some reason the DNC refused to allow anyone to examine their servers. I doubt it had anything to do with their donor lists.

I understand I sound a bit like Alex Jones. Everything fits together, but this is a puzzle that can’t be assembled without some hard evidence. I believe that evidence exists. Too many people would have to die to keep this scandal a secret. That means someday someone will start talking. They just need to be incentivized to do so.

If the Justice Department decides to do an in-depth investigation, which I hear may be already started, they may yet find the truth and let us know just how near our country came to being completely hijacked. But, one thing I believe you can take to the bank; it won’t be the Russians who were doing the hijacking.

We all know this, don’t we?

© Steve A. Stone

 

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Steve A. Stone

Steve A. Stone is and always will be a Texan, though he's lived outside that great state for all but 3 years since 1970, remembering it as it was, not as it is. He currently resides in Lower Alabama with a large herd of furry dependents, who all appear to be registered Democrats. Steve retired from the U.S. Coast Guard reserves in 2011, after serving over 22 years in uniform over the span of four decades. His service included duty on two U.S. Navy attack submarines, and one Navy and two U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Units. He is now retired after working as a senior civil servant for the U.S. Navy for over 31 years. Steve is a member of the Alabama Minority GOP and Common Sense Campaign. He is also a life member of SUBVETS, Inc., the Submarine League, and the NRA. In 2018, Steve has written and published 10 books.

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