Billions of dollars to buy the presidency was chump change to apartheid Clyde...

That's the only quibble I have. The billions he lost on Twitter were definitely contribution in kind.

...the world's oldest democracy. And it did not begin with the last election. It began in earnest with the election of 2016. "Russia, Russia, Russia" was no hoax. It was real.

Russian phoning in bomb threats on Election Day at Dem precincts was just a tiny fraction of Putin's handiwork
to steal the election for Trump.

Putin will want payment in full from Trump.

And sometimes even conspiracy theories have validity.

and none of those three had any involvement at all.

None of them are responsible for the Heritage Foundation, or the Federalist Society, or the fuckery from the Koch brothers, or Rupert Murdoch, or Rush Limbaugh, Clear Channel, Supreme Court appointments from Nixon through both Bushes, and I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg. They were simply there to take advantage of everything those people and organizations have accomplished in our society over the past several decades. If none of them existed it would be a different group of people, but we would probably be in substantially the same place. Maybe not in the lap of a russian dictator, but who knows.

This is just a spontaneous rant. Please don't take it too seriously.

...this move is geo-political and international in scope, far beyond local or national politics.

Are Republicans beginning to see how they have been used?

It gives one a little hope that they did not shut down the government as Trump wanted. Did someone pass them some secret intelligence?