^ The CIA’s voter intelligence assessment

A former CIA operative is running for president to stop Donald Trump

By [VICE News embedded, de facto CIA writer] Olivia Becker

August 8, 2016 | 4:33 pm

Anti-Trump Republicans have proved, yet again, that they are nothing if not determined [to elect Hillary]…

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Vice News and the CIA should be sued for libeling the American voters intelligence (except they might win, perhaps the theme of a future satire.) Ok, this will be short and sweet. Per the VICE article title, the CIA guy (once CIA, always CIA) is running as an ‘independent’ Republican to stop Trump. Oh, except he’s actually running to stop Hillary:

“McMullin’s campaign could signal an effort by Republicans to stop Clinton from taking Utah in November. McMullin is a Utah native, a graduate of Brigham Young University, and a Mormon. Trump is polling badly in the Mormon-dominated state and many Republicans fear that they could lose a longtime stronghold altogether”

So, let’s suppose “former CIA operative” Evan McMullin wins Utah to stop Hillary, er, that is Trump. Now, in the case of a McMullin victory, do the math; he can’t  give Utah’s electoral votes to either candidate and come off as clean, so he drops the traditionally secure Utah Republican vote into an electoral void, helping Hillary. That being the case, shouldn’t the article’s title have read:

A former CIA operative is running for president to help Hillary

But the article is pitched as stopping Trump AND Hillary… stop Hillary winning Utah by offering a nominally Republican alternative to Trump so Utah’s lily-white Mormon moral vote can be tossed into an electoral void, helping Hillary without admitting it is Republicans helping Hillary. And the voter is supposed into buy this. Actually, yeah, that could work to assuage the moral conscience of the Mormon religious right, because:

“You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will” -Behaviorist Yuval Noah Harari

But the really creepy portion of the  article is somewhat off topic:

“…[McMullin] has served most recently as the Republican policy director for the House of Representatives, after working 11 years as a CIA operative”

Huh. Better go back and read THIS ONE again… (if you want into the expanded possibilities of the CIA efforts to elect Hillary…)

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