11.26.2020

Make Russia Great Again, Buckley - B+

                  Christopher Buckley is a brilliant satirist, not as laugh-out-loud funny as Hiaasen was a few months ago, but nonetheless, very witty.  This is a faux-memoir written in a federal penitentiary by Herb Butternut, the Donald's 'favorite Jew' and his 7th or 8th chief of staff. At the center of Herb's problems are a US Cyber-Command artificial intelligence program called Placid Reflux that manages to rig a Russian election causing Putin to lose to a communist. One of Putin's henchmen has film and audio of the Donald's shenanigans at the 2013 Miss Universe contest. He threatens release of the Donald in flagrante delicto with all eighteen contestants - and he does. Nonetheless, the base doesn't care and the CIA manipulates Putin to not interfere,  and assures Trump's re-election. Sophisticated and very, very funny.

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