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The Soup Nazi 07.16.2018 11:14 PM

I gotta say, them Brits showed you Unitedstateseans a lesson in protesting — of course they just had to keep it for a couple of days while you gotta press on for who knows how long, but still, they did get under the fucker's revolting skin. Now it's time for you to assume the mantle and BURN BABY BURN! ...Yeah, so enjoy the following postcards from Old Blighty, if you haven't seen 'em already. (Personal favorite: the one about England's lost semifinal at the World Cup).

 


 


 


 

The Soup Nazi 07.16.2018 11:16 PM

 


 


 


 

The Soup Nazi 07.16.2018 11:18 PM

 


 


 


 

The Soup Nazi 07.16.2018 11:24 PM

Washington Post editorial:

Trump just colluded with Russia. OPENLY.

Skuj 07.17.2018 12:37 AM

Fascinating.

This egg actually seems to be sticking to the wall. Perhaps? Maybe?

In American History books to come, July 16th 2018 will figure prominently, surely?

I'm still trying to figure out just how the fuck this could happen. Trump is very accustomed to tweeting bullshit, with not a care in the world that it is proveably false. But when you stand beside Putin, in front of the world, and say that kind of shit, well......the optics/platform is very different, right? Did he really think there would be no fallout? I think he is that deluded!!

Skuj 07.17.2018 12:40 AM

PS: England made me proud last week.

I'd like to think that my country, Canada, is a long way from succumbing to this kind of politics/reality, but I worry. Storm couds are gathering.

Skuj 07.17.2018 01:41 AM

At the end of the day (literally!) I just feel that Trump will never have the mental capacity to grasp wtf is going on in the world. You can hate Hillary Clinton as much as you desire, but she was FUCKING RIGHT about Trump's "qualifications/preparations" for this monumental task: He just fucking doesn't get it!! He is not cognisant of world history or global developments. He really does think that Putin is a wonderful guy!!

This whole fucking thing is surreal!! A POTUS publicly siding with Putin over his own Int Orgs. Mind boggling. I'm 56 years old, and this represents a Strange New World to me.

(I put tesla on ignore. Part of me wonders how he explains all this. Is he posting defenses like a crazy man?)

ilduclo 07.17.2018 09:24 AM

"One little thing I might add to that is the helping of people. Helping of people. Because you have such horrible -- if you see -- and I've seen reports, I've seen pictures, I've seen just about everything."

ilduclo 07.17.2018 06:03 PM

Here is what legendary journalist Dan Rather had to say:

There has been no shortage of historic summits in American history - but nothing like what is happening today.
No American president has ever appeared as a supplicant to a foreign power who attacked us - an attack that the intelligence community says is ongoing.
No American president has been so eager to placate a hostile foreign power. And no American president has been under a credible shadow of allegedly conspiring with a hostile foreign power.
No American president has so attacked our allies and heaped scorn on his fellow citizens while heaping praise on a hostile foreign power.
No American president has been so ill-prepared for diplomacy and statecraft and then insisted on handling negotiations with a hostile foreign power alone.
We do not know what was discussed. We will not be able to trust what President Trump or Putin say was discussed. Their words fail even the most minimum standards of political truth telling.
This is a historic summit indeed, but historic in terms of the damage it can (and likely already has done) to our nation and a democratic world order.

The Soup Nazi 07.17.2018 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuj
You can hate Hillary Clinton as much as you desire, but she was FUCKING RIGHT about Trump's "qualifications/preparations" for this monumental task: He just fucking doesn't get it!! He is not cognisant of world history or global developments. He really does think that Putin is a wonderful guy!!


That and/or KOMPROMAT.

 


Hillary really said it best when she told him —TO HIS FUCKING FACE, not via Twatter— that he'd be a puppet president. Or, as the formal term goes, a Controlled Asset.

Skuj 07.17.2018 07:00 PM

The Liar In Chief and his team came up with a backtrack today, involving "would" vs "wouldn't".

Are people actually going to buy that?

The Soup Nazi 07.17.2018 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuj
The Liar In Chief and his team came up with a backtrack today, involving "would" vs "wouldn't".

Are people actually going to buy that?


Yes, the 35% or whatever the fuck it is already bought it (if they cared at all in the first place), Republicans will now say, ah well, he finally admitted there was some kinda meddling, we're A-OK, news cycle over, let's give the 0.01% another tax cut, boom.

The Soup Nazi 07.17.2018 09:29 PM

From Politico:

Why Trump's GOP critics never go nuclear

Quote:

Hours after Donald Trump sidled up to Vladimir Putin at their now-infamous news conference, Republican Sen. Bob Corker received a call from a prominent politician who pleaded with him to repudiate Trump — and to make it hurt this time.

The politician, who is weighing a run against the president, urged the Foreign Relations Committee chairman to use his procedural leverage in the Senate to halt Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court as payback for Trump’s refusal on Monday to acknowledge Russia’s election meddling. Nothing doing, the retiring senator responded.

“Why would I cut off my nose to spite my face?” Corker recounted responding to the pol, whom he declined to name publicly. “I like the Supreme Court nominee. So what the heck?”

And that's just the beginning of the article.

MOTHERFUCKERS.

The Soup Nazi 07.17.2018 11:44 PM

Short (1:29) clip from The Guardian:

Maria Butina, accused Russian spy, poses with politicians and asks Trump, in 2015, about foreign policy regarding Russia
Butina, who has been charged with spying, met American politicians [hey Santorum, you wretched waste of oxygen] and candidates to establish 'back channels' and secretly reported back to the Kremlin through a high-level Russian official, according to the US Justice Department.

Skuj 07.18.2018 12:57 AM

Fuckin, The Mueller Report will cause a civil fucking war, I swear.

A thought I had today: Research why Nixon resigned, and why Clinton endured the Impeachment Process.

Then, compare what they did to what Trump has done.

What. The. Fuck. Is all I can say right now.

Sucklechimp 07.18.2018 08:35 PM

I believe that regardless of what side you're on, the media is never going to give you the real deal about the pulse of society. Almost everyone I talk to in red-as-fuck Oklahoma absolutely hates the man. I seriously have a hard time finding people who are as insane about Trump as the media would have me believe. I am holding out for the mid-terms, after which I will make the judgement whether or not the Republic is fucked. I guess it's called hope, and I sure as shit hope I'm not deluded.

Sucklechimp 07.18.2018 08:41 PM

One other aspect -- the fact that my state is actually legalizing medical Mary J Blige gives me hope. We literally outlawed tatoos until like 2006. I feel like the younger generation is finally starting to outweigh the old troglodytic mouth-breathing assfucks.

Skuj 07.19.2018 12:08 AM

I just cannot get over the fact that Nixon resigned over what seems like childsplay compared to all the proveable lies that Trump has told. We live in very strange times. I'm 56, and as a 12 year old I remember studying Nixon and being shocked that he lied. The POTUS lied!!

Fuck me.

tesla69 07.19.2018 06:58 PM

yes, everything the corporate media tells you is true! And you can trust all of them! The CIA is setting public policy now. The secret police are openly running the Congress now! its the resistance! under his brioni silks, ny senator schmuck schumer wears a sealed rubber suit and doesn't remove it for days at a time for any reason.

Bytor Peltor 07.20.2018 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt
You are actually mental. So let me get this straight, you're saying that because the hacking is about Democratic emails that that has nothing to do with helping the Republicans campaign?


As Skuj said, the story in the link you provided says the exact opposite from what you were interpreting it to say.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuj
Nah, you are doing it wrong:

"It proves that there is absolutely no evidence of collusion. There was no collusion. Why aren't they charging Crooked Hillary? Total vindication."




We know Democrats broke actual laws and were not prosecuted!

Possibly you will understand this analogy:

Hillary Clinton steals a car
Hillary Clinton speeds & runs red lights
Hillary Clinton runs over and kills someone crossing street
According to you, it’s the dead persons fault because they were jaywalking


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