[The Soup Nazi]

Oh, and I can't believe I forgot — Bannon: fat fuck.

[evollove]

I'm digging the fat fucks theory.

If one can't take care of one's self, then empathy for others must be hard to come by.

[Skuj]

This current trip makes the recent G7 fiasco pale in comparison. It's cringe-worthy. And tomorrow Putin is going to devour him again, then laugh himself to sleep. Never mind what the USA Intelligence agencies have to say. Just take Putin's word at face value.

I cannot believe we live in these times.

[ilduclo]

https://www.truthbrary.org/

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

[
Note to h8kurdt:

do you realize President Donald Trump is a Republican?

do you realize Russians were indicted for hacking and leaking Democratic emails?

do you realize Paragraph 4 - - - Lines 3 & 4 of the story you linked mention “possible collusion?”

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?

[Skuj]

Well, wasn't that Trump-Putin thing beautiful? It's what Putin says, not what the Int agencies say, that matters.

That smirk on Putin's face!!

[evollove]

I'm disappointed you're not outraged enough. If that press conference wasn't treasonous, I don't know what is.

And here's why it doesn't matter to his base:

If Trump had slammed Putin for interfering w US elections, his base would praise him for being tough.

If Trump pussied out (like he did), they'd praise him for trying to mend fences and bring peace to the world.

Trumpers are Trumpers because he can do no wrong, no matter what he does.

Think about that: NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES. Fucking scary.

EDIT: I take it back. Sort of. Plenty of pissed conservatives. Some apologists, but overall treason doesn't seem to be going over very well.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by evollove

I'm disappointed you're not outraged enough. If that press conference wasn't treasonous, I don't know what is.

And here's why it doesn't matter to his base:

If Trump had slammed Putin for interfering w US elections, his base would praise him for being tough.

If Trump pussied out (like he did), they'd praise him for trying to mend fences and bring peace to the world.

Trumpers are Trumpers because he can do no wrong, no matter what he does.

Think about that: NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES. Fucking scary.

EDIT: I take it back. Sort of. Plenty of pissed conservatives. Some apologists, but overall treason doesn't seem to be going over very well.

I am fucking outraged. It's mind boggling. Millions of people, many who are seemingly intelligent, are unaware of the presentations that the Int Agencies made during the POTUS transition. It's not Fake News. It's not Deep State. And the guy at the top wants to pretend that it never happened, for obvious/devious reasons. As if his reasoning is more important than the bigger picture.

For this reason alone he should be impeached, but that's my dreamworld.

[evollove]

Three and a half months away from a pretty important election.

Every seat in the House of Representatives is up in the air. Tons of other important races.

I'm scared.

[Skuj]

Half the country thinks Mueller is a bad guy. Nothing will surprise me anymore.

[Skuj]

"But her emails".

[ilduclo]

Originally Posted by evollove

Three and a half months away from a pretty important election.

Every seat in the House of Representatives is up in the air. Tons of other important races.

I'm scared.

http://www.thecrosstab.com/2018-midterms-forecast/

[ilduclo]

 

[tesla69]

one man deserves much of the credit for the new Cold War and that man is William Browder, a hedge fund operator who made his fortune in the corrupt 1990s world of Russian commodities trading. Browder is also symptomatic of why the United States government is so poorly informed about international developments as he is the source of much of the Congressional “expert testimony” contributing to the current impasse. He has somehow emerged as a trusted source in spite of the fact that he has self-interest in cultivating a certain outcome. Also ignored is his renunciation of American citizenship in 1998, reportedly to avoid taxes. He is now a British citizen.
Browder is notoriously the man behind the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which exploited Congressional willingness to demonize Russia and has done so much to poison relations between Washington and Moscow. The Act sanctioned individual Russian officials, which Moscow has rightly seen as unwarranted interference in the operation of its judicial system.
Browder, a media favorite who self-promotes as “Putin’s enemy #1,” portrays himself as a selfless human rights advocate, but is he? He has used his fortune to threaten lawsuits for anyone who challenges his version of events, effectively silencing many critics. He claims that his accountant Sergei Magnitsky was a crusading "lawyer" who discovered a $230 million tax-fraud scheme that involved the Browder business interest Hermitage Capital but was, in fact, engineered by corrupt Russian police officers who arrested Magnitsky and enabled his death in a Russian jail.

[The Soup Nazi]

 

[Skuj]

Even Fox News is unhappy!! Trump is tweeting some lame-ass excuses now.

Well, that whole trip went well.

[tesla69]

William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987:

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

[Skuj]

Maybe this is a turning point? (How many times have I wondered that?!!) I'm actually surprised at the level of outrage across the spectrum on this. What I'm trying to understand is how do Kelly/Bolton etc let Trump go out and say that shit in front of the world when standing beside Putin?

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Skuj

Maybe this is a turning point? (How many times have I wondered that?!!) I'm actually surprised at the level of outrage across the spectrum on this. What I'm trying to understand is how do Kelly/Bolton etc let Trump go out and say that shit in front of the world when standing beside Putin?

From the most recent Fareed Zakaria column in The Washington Post:

Jonathan Chait writes in New York magazine that “Trump is training his base to hate NATO and like Putin.” Indeed, Trump has been remarkably successful: Fifty-one percent of Republicans now believe the United States shouldn’t defend NATO allies unless they increase defense spending. Even more astonishingly, Trump seems to have reversed Republican attitudes toward Russia and its dictator, Vladimir Putin. At a recent rally, Trump said, “You know what? Putin’s fine. He’s fine. We’re all fine. We’re people.” Republicans are now twice as likely as Democrats to express a favorable opinion of Putin, and 56 percent of Republicans want to cooperate and engage more with Russia.

The Republican Party has proved remarkably malleable ideologically. The party of law and order now has deep distrust of the FBI. The party of free trade is now far more solidly behind protectionism than the Democrats. The party that celebrated President Ronald Reagan’s optimism about immigrants now contains a majority that supports separating families at the border and criminally prosecuting undocumented immigrants.

Trump’s political genius continues to be that he recognizes that the base of the party is ripe for this ideological revolution — that while the old Reaganite formula may still be subscribed to by Republican elites in Washington and New York, it’s not embraced out there in the grass roots.

Five years ago, one establishment Republican wrote that “the specter of isolationism is stalking the Republican Party. . . . It is hardly certain that isolationist sentiment will prevail. But it is critical . . . that national-security Republicans can answer the questions being raised, restore a coherent party platform and thereby thwart the new isolationism.”

(This is the part when you think, Oh, that must have been John McCain. Try a different John...)

Those words were written by John Bolton, now Trump’s national security adviser. It seems even the most stalwart national-security Republicans have accommodated themselves to the Trump revolution.

https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/20...out-donalds-in

[The Soup Nazi]

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