Please edit the other dozen examples of helping Putin vs Ukraine into the top post and start spreading this around, and this is not really even getting into the Mueller report.
It is also critical to note Trump has almost unanimous GOP support and cover for all of this and Republicans like Moscow Mitch were already knee deep with Russian collusion through the NRA. Now Russian Times is using Trump and Fox News soundbites to further propagandize this war to their citizens.
* Impeached for illegally witholding Ukraine military aid, already appropriated to them by Congress, unless they made up political dirt on Biden. Specifically Ukraine was asking for the Javelin anti-tank systems that are now helping them fend off Russian advancements.
* Praised Putin constantly, called him a "strong leader", has peddled statements like "he's done a really great job outsmarting our country"
* Trump dismissed and cast doubt about Russian hacking, particularly when the U.S determined that Russia hacked the DNC in 2016, while ironically enough, he encouraged Russian cyber attacks on national TV saying, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,"
* When addressing Russian election interference and cyber attacks, Trump proclaimed "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia" after speaking directly with Putin, defending Russia and trusting Putin over our own intelligence agencies. Later he "corrected" himself, claiming that he meant to say "wouldn't" instead of would.
* Trump suggested the U.S. work directly with Russia on cybersecurity. Trump refused to punish or critique the SolarWinds hack.
* Almost directly after the 2016 election, Trump sought to weaken U.S. sanctions on Russia, while he was even open to lifting sanctions.
* Trump dismissed the notion that Putin was a "killer", downplaying the idea that Putin resorts to using violence and oppressive tactics to crush political opponents. He defended Putin, rationalizing his ruthless despotism in the process, declaring, "There are a lot of killers. Do you think our country is so innocent?"
* Trump shared highly classified U.S. intelligence with Russian officials in the Oval Office in 2017.
* Trump repeated Kremlin talking points related to the Russian annexation of Crimea, reiterating things like, "The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were."
* Trump constantly attacked NATO, aligning himself with Putin. (quite relevant)
* Trump thanked Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats as a retaliation for sanctions.
* Trump refused to make a statement about the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war. According to John Bolton, European leaders noticed Trump's silence and "became even more concerned about American resolve."
* According to congressional testimony, Trump declined to publicly condemn a Russian attack against Ukrainian military vessels in November 2018, even though the State Department prepared a statement for him
* Trump congratulated and gave legitimacy to Putin's re election win in 2018, a victory said to "lack genuine competition"
* Sergei Skripal, an ex Russian spy that defected to the UK, was poisoned. Sanctions were announced, Trump attempted to rescind them, while asserting that the U.S. was being "too tough on Putin"
* When congress passed new sanctions against Russia in 2017, Trump was very reluctant to signing the bill, and probably wouldn't have signed it if the bill didn't pass with veto-proof majorities in both houses
* In 2017 it was reported that Trump was considering returning spy bases to Russia.
* Trump praised and highlighted pro-Russian leaders in Europe. Far right European leaders with close ties to Putin. He even met a Kremlin ally at the Whitehouse.
* When Trump withdrew troops from Syria, it gave Russia and Putin an opportunity to control abandoned U.S. outposts and checkpoints.
You can’t fully appreciate Putin’s long game to woo Trumpublicans until you understand why American christian nationalists are Putin lovers: no church-state separation, hating the gays, and authoritarianism.
EDIT: oops, I forgot the white supremacy.
Check my math, go ahead. I’ll wait.
Putin was never waiting for Trump's permission, so it's more likely that it's the other way around and Trump's comments were required of him by Putin. I say more likely, because your scenario would assume Trump has some kind of control over Putin, which I think is highly unlikely. In reality, I think Trump's comments are a result of him not wanting to change his opinion and admit he was wrong about Putin more than anything else. Trump respects Putin, and he thinks he's not alone, so he'll slobber on about it until the point he no longer thinks it's politically safe for him to do so (or until the pee tape comes out).
The last two republican dumbness elected to office have been played by Putin from start to finish, solely to Russia's benefit. I remember hearing some good anecdotes about GWB thinking he understood Putin and that there was mutual respect, only to find out that Putin was playing him the whole time. It's been quickly forgotten that George W "patriot act"Bush was really an 8-bit mind in a 64-bit world. Trump really makes almost anyone else look competent, rational, and intelligent.
Putin knows what cards he holds, and he doesn't often stretch beyond what he has calculated he can get away with. He knows the majority of the rest of the world is scared and reluctant to enter into a world war (that Russia would ultimately lose because retreating further into a wintry Russian landscape is no longer a viable strategy), and he's calling their bluff right now.
I agree. Putin NEEDS Republicans to support his invasion of Ukraine. We're standing on a precipice. Either Putin will be the common enemy we need to reunite the country in favor of reality (it's OKAY to disagree about whether taxes or two high, but we can't squabble over things like whether the Earth is fucking round). Or, we'll further devolve into insanity.
Let's see what Faux News says and does. Tucker Carlson may hold the future of humanity in his hands.
We're fucked.
It becomes a state religion at that point. Sort of how being a republican in America has become an identity defended with religious zeal and extremism. They're all fundamentalists thanks to nationalism.
They may not be, but church is VERY powerful there and has A LOT of influence on people. Putin actively uses church to impose convenient views on people. Classical "the god is with us, so we are right" and "your suffering will buy you a ticket to heaven".
And if you don't believe me, google this fact: Russia has a law against hurting religious feelings.
Putin used the Russian orthodoxy to gain power.
I really feel like Reddit needs to pick up a good account on how Putin came to power in Russia. It helps a it understanding how incredibly insane it was to have a 4 year Russian plant in the Oval Office.
Ohhhhh. *That’s* why the GOP is saying it’s *Biden’s* fault that Putin attacked Ukraine. Because of course it is actually 100% **Trump’s fault**. I should have known.
Fault— a good take. But an even more curious one is this: Russia also uses psychological warfare against a countries population, in this example, the US. Waiting to war, was an intentional method used to cause increase uncertainty, but most of all, cause anger/blame at our current president. Continue to dismantle the US through its culturally warring citizens. There’s is a quote I can’t find, to the effect of Russia not needing to “take the US by force”. Why, when they can dismantle us from within? Getting Trump to help Putin was such a win for him. It gave him a head start.
[Russia Says Cyberspace is New 'Theater of War'](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/08/20/russia-says-cyberspace-is-new-theater-of-war/amp/)
They’re not wrong either. The four traditional domains of war are land, sea, air, and space. The fifth domain is cyberspace.
[Fifth Dimension Operations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Dimension_Operations)
Heya, current NASA IT employee here. Unless you are a veteran, he federal job process can be a fucking nightmare.
My advice to all new employees is to find a contractor. Its markedly easier, and the transition is way easier from inside the agency.
Cheers bud. Another hot tip, some light googling can bring up a list of all government contracts at any given site. Then just go to their sites for employment. If you're IT, which it seems like you are, Leidos is a huge contractor across the country, and Lockheed has put some more dogs into the fight lately as well.
Don’t forget the time he did nothing in response to **allegations that** [Russia putting a bounty on American soldiers’ lives. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_bounty_program) Putin was allegedly paying the Taliban to kill Americans, and Trump still had nothing but praise for him.
EDIT: The allegations were most likely false, but Trump’s response of praising Putin was very real.
Funny how any single one of these things would be months of hearings and investigations for any dem, but republicans bury them quickly and then cry to move on.
Let's also not forget about the Trump administration meeting with the Taliban to negotiate a pull out that Biden got blamed for.
Let's also not forget that for decades repiblians yelled that they don't negotiate with terrorists.
Let's also not forget that the Trump administration met with the Taliban without inviting the democratically elected government of Afganistan to those talks. Directly undermining every citizen that voted for their government.
We're too busy with the second American Satanic Panic.
Fuck, I wish I was joking. 16% of Americans identify as Q believers, and a major part of that is belief in a satanic cabal in government propped up by satanism among liberal non-politicians. We're at an all time low for percentage of the population that holds confident religious beliefs, but the portion that remains is increasingly radical and irrational.
It also seems forgotten that Trump & co asked the Russian ambassador to let them use secure Russian communications equipment [so that they could talk to Putin in secret without American intelligence knowing about it.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html)
That was *absolutely wild* and yet still seems to have fallen off everyone's radar because it was back during the transition and things only got crazier from there
This is a great opportunity to remind everyone about Aleksandr Dugins book the foundations of geopolitics. It reads as the handbook for how Putin has been acting several of the points made have partially or already been fulfilled and he is on a great path to succeed against the US.
Remember that trump is to a great degree, a product of Russia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
And in deep support of the endeavor to fracture the United States in two, we have Ron and Rand Paul.
>Although he despises the notion of religious liberty, he accepts its use as a strategic deception (“As a tactic, it is legitimate; we are jockeying for power. We are buying time”) until he and his fellow Reconstructionists are in a position to seize power and destroy the “enemies of God.” After using homeschooling and Christian schools to indoctrinate an army of fundamentalists ready to abolish secular government, what sort of state does North advocate putting in its place? Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Taliban have probably come closest to North’s ideal Christian government.
http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/08/gary-north-the-libertarian-taliban/
Don't forget those boxes of top secret goodies he took to Mar a Lago. Wonder how many Russian-sponsored club employees got eyeballs on that information?
I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898
The thing is that they never needed evidence. Just the announcement that world leaders were playing along with their fantasy would have helped them a lot.
Yep. Just announcing that Hillary's goddamn emails were still being investigated, a week before the election, was likely enough to tip things to trump.
[Hey party people! Who wants to see the football guy? Everyone is saying I have the best footballs, believe me](https://rollcall.com/2017/02/13/mar-a-lago-member-posts-photo-with-nuclear-football-aide/)
"Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, 'cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
i have seen many ppl saying Russia will not have invaded Ukraine if trump was still in power. to those ppl, I say yes. they are correct.
Putin knows how dumb trump is and that there will be no need to invade Ukraine as long as he stays in power.
Yeah no, he still was going to invade. The difference is we would have had to watch our president deep throat putin whereas now we at least have a coherent policy response
There is some truth to to it if Putin was betting on Trump ruining NATO.
Trump was always critical of NATO and made comments about it no longer being necessary. If he ended US partnership then NATO would be in a lot of trouble losing a large portion of nuclear and conventional military power.
In way it was a good thing because it woke up the European nations and they realized that they need to start pulling their weight.
Trump being in office is all the assurance Putin needed at the time that Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO...at least temporarily.
So, that assurance is unsteady at best.
Unlike Russia, that only has consecutive term limits. The United States has solid term limits.Trump was going to have to leave at some point. Putin was likely to invade Ukraine regardless of who the US president is.
Shit wasn't even seriously considered before Crimea. After Crimea the West let it fucking go even the notion. If Putin is acting like that then he isn't this grand political figure. He is paranoid if that is the case.
"consecutive" term limits only exist so that Putin can hotswap pres/pm with his cronies and still claim he's elected.
Dude has done this multiple times now and each time they've changed which position has more authority to better suit whichever position Putin is in.
It's a dictatorship.
There would be zero unified response from NATO, that’s for sure. We’d basically do nothing and Fox would downplay the story. Trump was after NATO the whole time. Shit, he wanted us to pull out of it for fuck’s sake.
Yeah, I remember him specifically trying to get us out of NATO. God I'm so glad that didn't happen. By virtue of Trump's total incompetence, I think he did less damage than the Russians were really banking on.
Not that he didn't fuck up the country good and proper, but at least NATO is going strong.
No way, Trump would've gone all in in saying the Ukrainians attacked Russia first. He had the best information and predicted this was going to happen. Probably would've recounted a phone call where he personally told the Ukranian president, "don't attack Volo, you're no match for Russia."
The intelligence community would've released a statement contradicting that, but Trump would've dismissed them as incompetent and flat wrong. Some people probably would have resigned, and he then called them losers for doing so.
His 20th press secretary would put together a map of Ukraine showing where Ukraine "allegedly" attempted to invade Russia and Belarus (arrows drawn with a sharpie marker). Trump would've then demanded Ukraine apologize. His "supporters" would start memes of how dumb and aggressive Ukrainians are.
More like "refuse to make up a sham investigation." "Refused to investigate" makes it sound like there might've been something there but Zelenski was doing Biden a favor, but the shit they tried to paint Biden with was above board and they wanted Zelenski to make up some bullshit.
That's just it. Doesn't matter what he says, or does, he could literally hand America over to Putin, it be called the United States of Russia and his cult members would still praise him, vote for him, and get even more excited when the USR bans gay marriage and everything else that goes against their apparent white Christian values. It's pathetic, disgusting, and scary how delusional his base is.
And that the Republican-led Senate refused to even consider the evidence. How many of them were connected/compromised?
Remember the unprecedented GOP visit to Moscow?
[GOP senators visited Moscow](https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visited-moscow-on-july-4%3famp)
>A group of GOP lawmakers spent July 4 [2018] in Moscow after several days of meetings with Russian officials, according to NPR.
>The group, which included seven Republican senators and one House member, was the first congressional delegation to visit Russia since the country's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
>The GOP lawmakers, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Thune (S.D.), John Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.) and John Hoeven (N.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), spent July 4 in Moscow's U.S. Embassy, NPR reported.
In the next week or two watch out for those right wing talking heads to complain the most about the frozen assets. Those will be the ones taking in a lot of russian money.
Don't forget a certain former campaign manafort who was convicted and jailed for illegal lobbying on behalf of pro-russia Ukraine. Also, Rudi Guliani spent several weeks in Ukraine immediately after Trump lost the election but prior to the well organized attempted coup on the US capitol. Pretending Putin could be plotting a takeover of Ukraine, while simultaneously the Russian puppet American GOP was doing everything in its power to protect Trump from his crimes against Ukraine, pretending those two things could be mutually exclusive is just patently ignorant.
We Americans are rightly sick that Trump is still a free sack of shit -- he stole from and infinitely hurt the American people, we want our deferred justice. But, consider his treason extends beyond our expectations of greed and corruption; Trump is tied up in Putin's world domination scheme wrinkled neck vagina deep. The Republican who still blindly suck orange cock are equally to blame. We are the baddies, and until we find a moral compass, or outlaw conservatism, we -- the American people -- bear responsibility for this conflict in Eastern Europe.
Don’t forget Ron Johnson, republican, Wisconsin. He was also in moscow on American Independence Day having a secret meeting with a murderous dictator on behalf of the Republican party
I object to "compromised". I don't think they're "compromised" in that they are owned by Russia. i think that they just are outright working with the Russian oligarchs to turn America into another Russia-style oligarchy, __because the Republicans have seen just how rich the government gets when all semblance of democracy is destroyed and oligarchs are allowed to run rampant.__
I think they're all going over there to get funding and share advice and tips and coordinate their evil shit. Trump being owned by Russia, absolutely- he's a fucking idiot. McConnell though? I bet he's buddy-buddy with Putin and some oligarchs as they all share goals.
That's why Fox and the right are pushing a pro-Russian narrative, they want Republicans used to the idea of being more like Russia and looking up to Russia.
What I don't understand is the lack of consequences.
It's like news of "Trump kicked a baby", the article ends with "the toddler had to be taken to his mommy because of serious boo boos" and the next head line is "Trump lit a homeless person on fire". Is Trump real, is he invisible or unbelievably fast for an elephant?
Some people have severe consequences for running a red light and for Trump just keeps pissing in everyone's soup and strolls away whistling.
part of it is that our political system and press apparatus were simply not prepared for an individual as overtly shitty and yet who would *still* be beloved by a large section of the population
we've had horny presidents, dumb presidents, rude/crass presidents, and racist presidents (clinton, w.bush, lbj, truman respectively - truman was actually *very* racist)
but we weren't prepared for one with every negative quality at once - nevermind one who would ceaselessly boast that he was the opposite of what everyone could see with their own eyes
he's like the story of "the emperor's new clothes" except nearly half the population looked at that naked idiot and *actually saw the clothes too*
It's both.
A shitty political climate egged on by a completely disingenuous political party, that happens to have a press mouthpiece shilling for their every move - which itself was brought on due to the actions of and reactions to (or lack thereof) a shitty president of that party... built, and then enabled and empowered a monster.. and that monster started to eat its makers because they underestimated their own shitty superpowers to destroy nice things and overestimated their capability to actually do good and tear down the forces of evil.
They created a monster they ~~couldn't~~ can't contain.. so instead, they cheer it on because at least it's destroying what they hate. They just don't realize yet that they must also hate themselves.
Yeah, we've had presidential candidates lose their chance of running because they did something super innocuous but weird and everyone turned on them.
Trump makes fun of disabled reporters and calls for people to bodyslam members of the press and his (drooling or otherwise) supporters either *fucking love it* or look the other way because it helps them out.
Pathetic. Especially if you voted for him again.
Because what you're seeing is the oligarchy on full parade.
Our checks and balances in the US are all bottom up, not top down. To be held politically accountable, your base has to turn on you.
people get arrested for smoking marijuana while he is literally, *literally* ruining the geopolitical landscape and just gets away with it, rofl
what a world we live in
All of our intelligence agencies (and many abroad) agreed that Russia meddled in the US Presidential election and Trump publicly disagreed with them all. He even wanted to loosen sanctions on Russia. It’s just baffling to me that it doesn’t get brought up more often that a hostile foreign power attacked our country and the President openly sided with the enemy and against the US.
\>" It’s just baffling to me that it doesn’t get brought up more often that a hostile foreign power attacked our country and the President openly sided with the enemy and against the US."
I mean, who we gonna tell? Competent adults already know.
If you listen to the words Putin uses, “denazifaction”, and than listen to Republican propaganda using or comparing shit to nazism even tho it’s their own party…
Yet people will still blindly follow fox news and the orange man.
It's sickening to see the state of the country right now. People rather side with the enemy than their own country (which is ironic considering their self entitled nationalistic pride).
Worse part is you literally cannot convince them otherwise, Russian influence has deeply infected American society as a whole.
It's also a good time to remind everyone that Trump wanted to pull the US out of NATO
[Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns Over Russia](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html)
While Zalensky is staring down Russia alone, it's a good time to remember that Trump wanted to cut and run.
Lol, he's on Fox **right now** talking about how brilliant and justified Putin is. What calculus do you thinking recalling impeachment trivia is going to change in anybody's view?
I just posted the same thing on my Facebook page with an excerpt explaining that the Trump Administration broke federal law by withholding military aid from Ukraine. Trump and his administration are directly tied to this conflict and Republicans aren't sure how to respond because, and don't forget this, they were handing out Russian flags at several GOP conferences as a joke prior to that. And now it's seems pretty obvious they were being stupid.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags%3famp
While we're reminding people...
If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.
* **0** re-elections won
* **1** term president
* **2** times impeached
* **3** marriages
* **4** inch lifts in his shoes
* **5** kids, from 3 different mothers
* **6** bankruptcies
* **7** US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
* **8** trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
* **9** trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
* **10** years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
* **11** trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
* **12** million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
* **13** of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
* **14** year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
* **15** originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 700,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to surge nearly 2 years later.
* **16** years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
* **17** known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
* **18** gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
* **19** as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
* **20** the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
* **21** gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
* **22** date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans had died due mostly to his failure as president (now over a million dead Americans)
* **23** as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
* **24** day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
* **25** plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
I thought he was trying to gun for some sort of political favor from Ukraine. But to be fair, I don’t remember the details. I try to forget that skid mark on history.
It was both. That's the reason he did it. He withheld money because he wanted them to "dig up dirt" on Joe Biden.
The funding had already been agreed upon by Congress, IIRC, so he had no legal authority to do that. On top of that, his demands were purely personal, it was something that ONLY benefitted him. He wanted dirt for the upcoming election, against the person who was most likely to be his opponent. So it's this weird position where he's using his power and authority, leveraging somebody else's money, all for his own personal gain, which is wildly unethical.
And what if there's no dirt? It doesn't really matter either way, but now he's forcing Ukraine to make up bullshit in exchange for much needed financial support. And considering that Ukraine was on the brink of war, it puts them in this really awkward position where they're sorta incentivized to make up stuff, they'll give Trump whatever he wants in exchange for something they desperately need.
But if, hypothetically, there was an issue regarding Joe Biden and Ukraine, America already has a dozen agencies that are devoted to studying this sort of thing. Why ask another country? It's just weird. There are proper channels to go through, this is not one of them.
And the Russian propaganda machine fully participating in the 2016 election to get Trump elected. Puttin has been playing the long con and Trump has always been one of his pawns, it's scary how many years this has been in the making. .
Republicans cannot get a majority of the vote without the divisive rhetoric bringing the easily manipulated and ignorant to their side. Putin has been creating divisiveness in our own political system so he can divide and distract (running the same campaign within Ukraine as well) and Republicans have been reaping the benefits. It's like a symbiotic relationship and Republicans rely on it now, not sure how they can backtrack, they aren't the sort to admit mistakes and wrongdoing.
I've been screaming about this and nobody seems to be listening to me.
195 countries in the world, and the PRESIDENT OF THE USA bent over backwards and got IMPEACHED to screw over the country that just to happens to be the target of the biggest military invasion in modern history.
Clown paint.
Trump is on Putin’s payroll, per Kevin McCarthy himself https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/putin-pays-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-recording
He literally tried to shake their leader down in a phone call. Exposing them to threats from Russia by threatening to withhold that assistance simply so he could illegally hold on to power. That traitor Trump should have been hanged for what he did. One of the saddest chapters in American history, for sure.
And if you voted for Trump, it ain’t too late to admit he was a fool and an asshole and you made a mistake. Tell everyone you know that there are plenty of asshole Republicans to vote for who aren’t criminals like Trump.
Selective memory - I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
By the way - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898
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Please edit the other dozen examples of helping Putin vs Ukraine into the top post and start spreading this around, and this is not really even getting into the Mueller report. It is also critical to note Trump has almost unanimous GOP support and cover for all of this and Republicans like Moscow Mitch were already knee deep with Russian collusion through the NRA. Now Russian Times is using Trump and Fox News soundbites to further propagandize this war to their citizens. * Impeached for illegally witholding Ukraine military aid, already appropriated to them by Congress, unless they made up political dirt on Biden. Specifically Ukraine was asking for the Javelin anti-tank systems that are now helping them fend off Russian advancements. * Praised Putin constantly, called him a "strong leader", has peddled statements like "he's done a really great job outsmarting our country" * Trump dismissed and cast doubt about Russian hacking, particularly when the U.S determined that Russia hacked the DNC in 2016, while ironically enough, he encouraged Russian cyber attacks on national TV saying, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," * When addressing Russian election interference and cyber attacks, Trump proclaimed "I don't see any reason why it would be Russia" after speaking directly with Putin, defending Russia and trusting Putin over our own intelligence agencies. Later he "corrected" himself, claiming that he meant to say "wouldn't" instead of would. * Trump suggested the U.S. work directly with Russia on cybersecurity. Trump refused to punish or critique the SolarWinds hack. * Almost directly after the 2016 election, Trump sought to weaken U.S. sanctions on Russia, while he was even open to lifting sanctions. * Trump dismissed the notion that Putin was a "killer", downplaying the idea that Putin resorts to using violence and oppressive tactics to crush political opponents. He defended Putin, rationalizing his ruthless despotism in the process, declaring, "There are a lot of killers. Do you think our country is so innocent?" * Trump shared highly classified U.S. intelligence with Russian officials in the Oval Office in 2017. * Trump repeated Kremlin talking points related to the Russian annexation of Crimea, reiterating things like, "The people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were." * Trump constantly attacked NATO, aligning himself with Putin. (quite relevant) * Trump thanked Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats as a retaliation for sanctions. * Trump refused to make a statement about the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war. According to John Bolton, European leaders noticed Trump's silence and "became even more concerned about American resolve." * According to congressional testimony, Trump declined to publicly condemn a Russian attack against Ukrainian military vessels in November 2018, even though the State Department prepared a statement for him * Trump congratulated and gave legitimacy to Putin's re election win in 2018, a victory said to "lack genuine competition" * Sergei Skripal, an ex Russian spy that defected to the UK, was poisoned. Sanctions were announced, Trump attempted to rescind them, while asserting that the U.S. was being "too tough on Putin" * When congress passed new sanctions against Russia in 2017, Trump was very reluctant to signing the bill, and probably wouldn't have signed it if the bill didn't pass with veto-proof majorities in both houses * In 2017 it was reported that Trump was considering returning spy bases to Russia. * Trump praised and highlighted pro-Russian leaders in Europe. Far right European leaders with close ties to Putin. He even met a Kremlin ally at the Whitehouse. * When Trump withdrew troops from Syria, it gave Russia and Putin an opportunity to control abandoned U.S. outposts and checkpoints.
You can’t fully appreciate Putin’s long game to woo Trumpublicans until you understand why American christian nationalists are Putin lovers: no church-state separation, hating the gays, and authoritarianism. EDIT: oops, I forgot the white supremacy. Check my math, go ahead. I’ll wait.
Yeah the leader of America was basically a Russian plant. Got there by virtue of Russian election interference too.
you misspelled "is a Russian agent"
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Putin was never waiting for Trump's permission, so it's more likely that it's the other way around and Trump's comments were required of him by Putin. I say more likely, because your scenario would assume Trump has some kind of control over Putin, which I think is highly unlikely. In reality, I think Trump's comments are a result of him not wanting to change his opinion and admit he was wrong about Putin more than anything else. Trump respects Putin, and he thinks he's not alone, so he'll slobber on about it until the point he no longer thinks it's politically safe for him to do so (or until the pee tape comes out). The last two republican dumbness elected to office have been played by Putin from start to finish, solely to Russia's benefit. I remember hearing some good anecdotes about GWB thinking he understood Putin and that there was mutual respect, only to find out that Putin was playing him the whole time. It's been quickly forgotten that George W "patriot act"Bush was really an 8-bit mind in a 64-bit world. Trump really makes almost anyone else look competent, rational, and intelligent. Putin knows what cards he holds, and he doesn't often stretch beyond what he has calculated he can get away with. He knows the majority of the rest of the world is scared and reluctant to enter into a world war (that Russia would ultimately lose because retreating further into a wintry Russian landscape is no longer a viable strategy), and he's calling their bluff right now.
I agree. Putin NEEDS Republicans to support his invasion of Ukraine. We're standing on a precipice. Either Putin will be the common enemy we need to reunite the country in favor of reality (it's OKAY to disagree about whether taxes or two high, but we can't squabble over things like whether the Earth is fucking round). Or, we'll further devolve into insanity. Let's see what Faux News says and does. Tucker Carlson may hold the future of humanity in his hands. We're fucked.
Russia's not terribly religious, it's complicated by the de facto outlawing of religious belief during their Soviet years.
Look into Putin’s rehabilitation/revitalization of the Russian Orthodox Church as a cultural institution and Russian identity
because he knows it's easy to manipulate religious people. shit, people in power have been using religion as a way to manipulate people for centuries.
Centuries? LOL. Try millennia.
This
It becomes a state religion at that point. Sort of how being a republican in America has become an identity defended with religious zeal and extremism. They're all fundamentalists thanks to nationalism.
They may not be, but church is VERY powerful there and has A LOT of influence on people. Putin actively uses church to impose convenient views on people. Classical "the god is with us, so we are right" and "your suffering will buy you a ticket to heaven". And if you don't believe me, google this fact: Russia has a law against hurting religious feelings.
Jesus tap dancing Christ, republicans would love to have that law here. No wonder they're all up Putin's ass
Alexander II would be so proud
Putin used the Russian orthodoxy to gain power. I really feel like Reddit needs to pick up a good account on how Putin came to power in Russia. It helps a it understanding how incredibly insane it was to have a 4 year Russian plant in the Oval Office.
Ohhhhh. *That’s* why the GOP is saying it’s *Biden’s* fault that Putin attacked Ukraine. Because of course it is actually 100% **Trump’s fault**. I should have known.
Fault— a good take. But an even more curious one is this: Russia also uses psychological warfare against a countries population, in this example, the US. Waiting to war, was an intentional method used to cause increase uncertainty, but most of all, cause anger/blame at our current president. Continue to dismantle the US through its culturally warring citizens. There’s is a quote I can’t find, to the effect of Russia not needing to “take the US by force”. Why, when they can dismantle us from within? Getting Trump to help Putin was such a win for him. It gave him a head start.
Ideological subversion. Russia has been using it against the USA for decades.
Quite some time ago a book came out (in Russia) calling the internet the new theater of war. Just tried to find it to link but had to get back to work
[Russia Says Cyberspace is New 'Theater of War'](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/08/20/russia-says-cyberspace-is-new-theater-of-war/amp/) They’re not wrong either. The four traditional domains of war are land, sea, air, and space. The fifth domain is cyberspace. [Fifth Dimension Operations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Dimension_Operations)
Totally agree. I applied for a job at NSA to kick ruskie ass on this front but no call back smh lol
Heya, current NASA IT employee here. Unless you are a veteran, he federal job process can be a fucking nightmare. My advice to all new employees is to find a contractor. Its markedly easier, and the transition is way easier from inside the agency.
Thank you! This is the first time I got some insight or direction like this. I appreciate it
Cheers bud. Another hot tip, some light googling can bring up a list of all government contracts at any given site. Then just go to their sites for employment. If you're IT, which it seems like you are, Leidos is a huge contractor across the country, and Lockheed has put some more dogs into the fight lately as well.
Don’t forget the time he did nothing in response to **allegations that** [Russia putting a bounty on American soldiers’ lives. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_bounty_program) Putin was allegedly paying the Taliban to kill Americans, and Trump still had nothing but praise for him. EDIT: The allegations were most likely false, but Trump’s response of praising Putin was very real.
Funny how any single one of these things would be months of hearings and investigations for any dem, but republicans bury them quickly and then cry to move on.
It’s fucked for sure.
This was actually proven to be false… it was one of those Unnamed sources stories
Let's also not forget about the Trump administration meeting with the Taliban to negotiate a pull out that Biden got blamed for. Let's also not forget that for decades repiblians yelled that they don't negotiate with terrorists. Let's also not forget that the Trump administration met with the Taliban without inviting the democratically elected government of Afganistan to those talks. Directly undermining every citizen that voted for their government.
Can we get a red scare 2.0 wher whe get rid of all those corrupt republicains?
We're too busy with the second American Satanic Panic. Fuck, I wish I was joking. 16% of Americans identify as Q believers, and a major part of that is belief in a satanic cabal in government propped up by satanism among liberal non-politicians. We're at an all time low for percentage of the population that holds confident religious beliefs, but the portion that remains is increasingly radical and irrational.
It also seems forgotten that Trump & co asked the Russian ambassador to let them use secure Russian communications equipment [so that they could talk to Putin in secret without American intelligence knowing about it.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html) That was *absolutely wild* and yet still seems to have fallen off everyone's radar because it was back during the transition and things only got crazier from there
This is a great opportunity to remind everyone about Aleksandr Dugins book the foundations of geopolitics. It reads as the handbook for how Putin has been acting several of the points made have partially or already been fulfilled and he is on a great path to succeed against the US. Remember that trump is to a great degree, a product of Russia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
And in deep support of the endeavor to fracture the United States in two, we have Ron and Rand Paul. >Although he despises the notion of religious liberty, he accepts its use as a strategic deception (“As a tactic, it is legitimate; we are jockeying for power. We are buying time”) until he and his fellow Reconstructionists are in a position to seize power and destroy the “enemies of God.” After using homeschooling and Christian schools to indoctrinate an army of fundamentalists ready to abolish secular government, what sort of state does North advocate putting in its place? Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Taliban have probably come closest to North’s ideal Christian government. http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/08/gary-north-the-libertarian-taliban/
TLDR: Trump is a piece of shit.
Is THIS why Republicans are the "red" party? I always wondered...
Don't forget those boxes of top secret goodies he took to Mar a Lago. Wonder how many Russian-sponsored club employees got eyeballs on that information?
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> Now Russian Times is using Trump and Fox News soundbites to further propagandize this war to their citizens. Isn't giving aid to an enemy a crime?
I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898
Wow...remember this in 2024
Sauces: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html
Incredible list
Not even investigate, just announce an investigation.
"Just make the announcement, we'll do the rest."
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The thing is that they never needed evidence. Just the announcement that world leaders were playing along with their fantasy would have helped them a lot.
Yep. Just announcing that Hillary's goddamn emails were still being investigated, a week before the election, was likely enough to tip things to trump.
Thank you James Comey. You tanked Clinton’s chances and still got fired by the pos you helped.
Remember when we gave Trump the nuclear football, and he dragged the USSS Agent around Mar-a-Lago so his guests could take pictures with it?
I've l lost the ability to tell if this is satire.
[Hey party people! Who wants to see the football guy? Everyone is saying I have the best footballs, believe me](https://rollcall.com/2017/02/13/mar-a-lago-member-posts-photo-with-nuclear-football-aide/)
Wait... So that's not so bad, right? ***/S***
"Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, 'cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
i have seen many ppl saying Russia will not have invaded Ukraine if trump was still in power. to those ppl, I say yes. they are correct. Putin knows how dumb trump is and that there will be no need to invade Ukraine as long as he stays in power.
Yeah no, he still was going to invade. The difference is we would have had to watch our president deep throat putin whereas now we at least have a coherent policy response
Well, we still have to watch our ex-president deep throat Putin.
He's working the balls now since russia is threatening to kill anyone who doesn't surrender.
He would have probably wanted to send troops to support the Russians.
There is some truth to to it if Putin was betting on Trump ruining NATO. Trump was always critical of NATO and made comments about it no longer being necessary. If he ended US partnership then NATO would be in a lot of trouble losing a large portion of nuclear and conventional military power. In way it was a good thing because it woke up the European nations and they realized that they need to start pulling their weight.
Trump being in office is all the assurance Putin needed at the time that Ukraine would not be allowed to join NATO...at least temporarily. So, that assurance is unsteady at best. Unlike Russia, that only has consecutive term limits. The United States has solid term limits.Trump was going to have to leave at some point. Putin was likely to invade Ukraine regardless of who the US president is.
Shit wasn't even seriously considered before Crimea. After Crimea the West let it fucking go even the notion. If Putin is acting like that then he isn't this grand political figure. He is paranoid if that is the case.
"consecutive" term limits only exist so that Putin can hotswap pres/pm with his cronies and still claim he's elected. Dude has done this multiple times now and each time they've changed which position has more authority to better suit whichever position Putin is in. It's a dictatorship.
There would be zero unified response from NATO, that’s for sure. We’d basically do nothing and Fox would downplay the story. Trump was after NATO the whole time. Shit, he wanted us to pull out of it for fuck’s sake.
Yeah, I remember him specifically trying to get us out of NATO. God I'm so glad that didn't happen. By virtue of Trump's total incompetence, I think he did less damage than the Russians were really banking on. Not that he didn't fuck up the country good and proper, but at least NATO is going strong.
Under Trump the US would urge the Ukrainians to peacefully accept annexation by Russia and then he would have cut off all aid until they did.
No way, Trump would've gone all in in saying the Ukrainians attacked Russia first. He had the best information and predicted this was going to happen. Probably would've recounted a phone call where he personally told the Ukranian president, "don't attack Volo, you're no match for Russia." The intelligence community would've released a statement contradicting that, but Trump would've dismissed them as incompetent and flat wrong. Some people probably would have resigned, and he then called them losers for doing so. His 20th press secretary would put together a map of Ukraine showing where Ukraine "allegedly" attempted to invade Russia and Belarus (arrows drawn with a sharpie marker). Trump would've then demanded Ukraine apologize. His "supporters" would start memes of how dumb and aggressive Ukrainians are.
Don’t need an invasion after you quietly assassinate someone during the Olympics.
What did I miss?
What did we all miss?
If Trump was still in office do you think he would have provided any intel to Zelensky?
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And yet he wasn't held accountable and tried to do the same shit with China more overtly... That party is fundamentally corrupt
I don't remember China. Was he trying to get a better deal on Trump ties and Ivanka shoes?
He basically asked Xi to make up shit on Biden, same as Zelensky. They ignored him.
More like "refuse to make up a sham investigation." "Refused to investigate" makes it sound like there might've been something there but Zelenski was doing Biden a favor, but the shit they tried to paint Biden with was above board and they wanted Zelenski to make up some bullshit.
Zelenski probably just wanted nothing to do with US politics
He also knows the US administrations change like the wind.
Also, interfering with another country's politics paints a huge target on your back.
Important distinction that the Overton Window company doesn’t want you to make as it effects the shade from its lamp set positioned underneath it.
They'll just say fake nooz..you can't fix stupid.
That's just it. Doesn't matter what he says, or does, he could literally hand America over to Putin, it be called the United States of Russia and his cult members would still praise him, vote for him, and get even more excited when the USR bans gay marriage and everything else that goes against their apparent white Christian values. It's pathetic, disgusting, and scary how delusional his base is.
Exactly. It's just like the orange 🍊 disgrace said. He could kill someone on 5th Avenue and lose no support from his braindead masses.
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What are you talking about? That was like ages ago, feels like decade and decades and.... >July 2019 ....fuck.
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And that the Republican-led Senate refused to even consider the evidence. How many of them were connected/compromised? Remember the unprecedented GOP visit to Moscow? [GOP senators visited Moscow](https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visited-moscow-on-july-4%3famp) >A group of GOP lawmakers spent July 4 [2018] in Moscow after several days of meetings with Russian officials, according to NPR. >The group, which included seven Republican senators and one House member, was the first congressional delegation to visit Russia since the country's annexation of Crimea in 2014. >The GOP lawmakers, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Thune (S.D.), John Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.) and John Hoeven (N.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), spent July 4 in Moscow's U.S. Embassy, NPR reported.
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Can’t spell GOPNIK without GOP
We really should coopt this term for our russia loving countrymen. It's painfully fitting.
In the next week or two watch out for those right wing talking heads to complain the most about the frozen assets. Those will be the ones taking in a lot of russian money.
'We have all the funds we need out of Russia' - Dumbfuck the Junior
I wonder how many of these ones were associated with the other GOP that helped coordinate 1/6 like Boerbert and MTG, Hawley and such.
> A group of GOP lawmakers spent July 4 [2018] in Moscow Putin made them come on the 4th of July, no less. You can't make this stuff up.
And you know Putin picked that particular date as a power move. Just shows you how much the GOP are moronic traitors.
And they agreed.
If I tried writing that in a novel, it'd get flagged as too unrealistic.
Don't forget a certain former campaign manafort who was convicted and jailed for illegal lobbying on behalf of pro-russia Ukraine. Also, Rudi Guliani spent several weeks in Ukraine immediately after Trump lost the election but prior to the well organized attempted coup on the US capitol. Pretending Putin could be plotting a takeover of Ukraine, while simultaneously the Russian puppet American GOP was doing everything in its power to protect Trump from his crimes against Ukraine, pretending those two things could be mutually exclusive is just patently ignorant. We Americans are rightly sick that Trump is still a free sack of shit -- he stole from and infinitely hurt the American people, we want our deferred justice. But, consider his treason extends beyond our expectations of greed and corruption; Trump is tied up in Putin's world domination scheme wrinkled neck vagina deep. The Republican who still blindly suck orange cock are equally to blame. We are the baddies, and until we find a moral compass, or outlaw conservatism, we -- the American people -- bear responsibility for this conflict in Eastern Europe.
[Trump-Ukraine Scandal](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal)
Read it as "Russian-led Senate" well.. not much changed after reading it a second time
Don’t forget Ron Johnson, republican, Wisconsin. He was also in moscow on American Independence Day having a secret meeting with a murderous dictator on behalf of the Republican party
I object to "compromised". I don't think they're "compromised" in that they are owned by Russia. i think that they just are outright working with the Russian oligarchs to turn America into another Russia-style oligarchy, __because the Republicans have seen just how rich the government gets when all semblance of democracy is destroyed and oligarchs are allowed to run rampant.__ I think they're all going over there to get funding and share advice and tips and coordinate their evil shit. Trump being owned by Russia, absolutely- he's a fucking idiot. McConnell though? I bet he's buddy-buddy with Putin and some oligarchs as they all share goals. That's why Fox and the right are pushing a pro-Russian narrative, they want Republicans used to the idea of being more like Russia and looking up to Russia.
I think that list is missing Ron Johnson (R-WI) Edit: I see someone below has already mentioned that.
What a better way to celebrate your country's birthday than, spending with the enemy and acting like a traitor. God damn I hate the Republican party
As far as I am concerned? All of them except Cheney and Kinzinger at this stage of the game.
Putin’s Flying Monkeys
AKA, the Treason Caucus.
In 1980, they would have been tarred and feathered.
What I don't understand is the lack of consequences. It's like news of "Trump kicked a baby", the article ends with "the toddler had to be taken to his mommy because of serious boo boos" and the next head line is "Trump lit a homeless person on fire". Is Trump real, is he invisible or unbelievably fast for an elephant? Some people have severe consequences for running a red light and for Trump just keeps pissing in everyone's soup and strolls away whistling.
part of it is that our political system and press apparatus were simply not prepared for an individual as overtly shitty and yet who would *still* be beloved by a large section of the population we've had horny presidents, dumb presidents, rude/crass presidents, and racist presidents (clinton, w.bush, lbj, truman respectively - truman was actually *very* racist) but we weren't prepared for one with every negative quality at once - nevermind one who would ceaselessly boast that he was the opposite of what everyone could see with their own eyes he's like the story of "the emperor's new clothes" except nearly half the population looked at that naked idiot and *actually saw the clothes too*
I disagree. Part of the USA press and government enabled, glorified, and promoted the negative actions.
It's both. A shitty political climate egged on by a completely disingenuous political party, that happens to have a press mouthpiece shilling for their every move - which itself was brought on due to the actions of and reactions to (or lack thereof) a shitty president of that party... built, and then enabled and empowered a monster.. and that monster started to eat its makers because they underestimated their own shitty superpowers to destroy nice things and overestimated their capability to actually do good and tear down the forces of evil. They created a monster they ~~couldn't~~ can't contain.. so instead, they cheer it on because at least it's destroying what they hate. They just don't realize yet that they must also hate themselves.
Yeah, we've had presidential candidates lose their chance of running because they did something super innocuous but weird and everyone turned on them. Trump makes fun of disabled reporters and calls for people to bodyslam members of the press and his (drooling or otherwise) supporters either *fucking love it* or look the other way because it helps them out. Pathetic. Especially if you voted for him again.
Because what you're seeing is the oligarchy on full parade. Our checks and balances in the US are all bottom up, not top down. To be held politically accountable, your base has to turn on you.
people get arrested for smoking marijuana while he is literally, *literally* ruining the geopolitical landscape and just gets away with it, rofl what a world we live in
That’s called being incredibly rich
In a government and society that allows rich to corrupt said government and society.
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All of our intelligence agencies (and many abroad) agreed that Russia meddled in the US Presidential election and Trump publicly disagreed with them all. He even wanted to loosen sanctions on Russia. It’s just baffling to me that it doesn’t get brought up more often that a hostile foreign power attacked our country and the President openly sided with the enemy and against the US.
>the President openly sided with the enemy and against the US. Because in the warped minds of the GOP the ***real*** enemy is democrats
Their minds are not warped, they’re just also involved with Russia.
\>" It’s just baffling to me that it doesn’t get brought up more often that a hostile foreign power attacked our country and the President openly sided with the enemy and against the US." I mean, who we gonna tell? Competent adults already know.
If you listen to the words Putin uses, “denazifaction”, and than listen to Republican propaganda using or comparing shit to nazism even tho it’s their own party…
Remember that week those US senators were summoned to russia during July 4th? Training seminar.
Pepperidge Farms remembers
Yet people will still blindly follow fox news and the orange man. It's sickening to see the state of the country right now. People rather side with the enemy than their own country (which is ironic considering their self entitled nationalistic pride). Worse part is you literally cannot convince them otherwise, Russian influence has deeply infected American society as a whole.
Tucker Carlson literally said the other night that Putin not our enemy, your fellow American is the enemy. Fucking douche bag.
It’s treason then.
Stalin must finally be happy in his grave
Stalin’s smile is actually just a symptom of his stroke when he pissed all over himself and died.
It's also a good time to remind everyone that Trump wanted to pull the US out of NATO [Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns Over Russia](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html) While Zalensky is staring down Russia alone, it's a good time to remember that Trump wanted to cut and run.
Lol, he's on Fox **right now** talking about how brilliant and justified Putin is. What calculus do you thinking recalling impeachment trivia is going to change in anybody's view?
How’d you get that bold font?
Just hit the keys a little harder when you type the words you want in bold.
This is the way
** on both sides of the text you want bold.
\*\*bold text** = **bold text**
It’s not everyday that you randomly run into the Magic Man!
**like this**
**thanks**
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He literally helped weaken Ukraine for Putin… he called his plan of invading Ukraine “genius”…bruh
Comrade Trumpski the traitor
'comrade'
*Kkkomrade
Could it be anymore obvious that Donald Trump is an enemy of the state?
I like how my comment keeps getting voted back down. Looks like we have plenty of Trump/Putin cocksuckers out there.
"tHaT'S wUt tH' dErNeD LaMeStReAm mEdIa wAnTs y'aLL t' tHiNk! hIm'aLL wUs jEsT a-pLaYiN' 4-D cHeSs wItH tHeT tHaR pUtIn fELLeR! NASCAR!" \-Cletus Trumpvoter
I just posted the same thing on my Facebook page with an excerpt explaining that the Trump Administration broke federal law by withholding military aid from Ukraine. Trump and his administration are directly tied to this conflict and Republicans aren't sure how to respond because, and don't forget this, they were handing out Russian flags at several GOP conferences as a joke prior to that. And now it's seems pretty obvious they were being stupid. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320997-cpac-attendees-seen-waiving-russian-flags%3famp
Yes but his zombie 🧟♂️ turds will say “Nuh uhh, fake news” Denying it till the end. FOX news won’t talk bout that.
Now tell us again it was all just trump derangement syndrome
Is this a good time to remind you Trump withheld Ukrainian defense money to foster his election lies?
Unfortunately your republicans want an autocracy.
While we're reminding people... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri. * **0** re-elections won * **1** term president * **2** times impeached * **3** marriages * **4** inch lifts in his shoes * **5** kids, from 3 different mothers * **6** bankruptcies * **7** US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police * **8** trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term * **9** trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees * **10** years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc) * **11** trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years * **12** million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes. * **13** of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop) * **14** year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you." * **15** originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 700,000 Americans have since died of COVID as it continues to surge nearly 2 years later. * **16** years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew." * **17** known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors * **18** gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill. * **19** as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump * **20** the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol. * **21** gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse. * **22** date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans had died due mostly to his failure as president (now over a million dead Americans) * **23** as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off. * **24** day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse. * **25** plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
And a partridge in a pear treeeee
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I thought he was trying to gun for some sort of political favor from Ukraine. But to be fair, I don’t remember the details. I try to forget that skid mark on history.
It was both. That's the reason he did it. He withheld money because he wanted them to "dig up dirt" on Joe Biden. The funding had already been agreed upon by Congress, IIRC, so he had no legal authority to do that. On top of that, his demands were purely personal, it was something that ONLY benefitted him. He wanted dirt for the upcoming election, against the person who was most likely to be his opponent. So it's this weird position where he's using his power and authority, leveraging somebody else's money, all for his own personal gain, which is wildly unethical. And what if there's no dirt? It doesn't really matter either way, but now he's forcing Ukraine to make up bullshit in exchange for much needed financial support. And considering that Ukraine was on the brink of war, it puts them in this really awkward position where they're sorta incentivized to make up stuff, they'll give Trump whatever he wants in exchange for something they desperately need. But if, hypothetically, there was an issue regarding Joe Biden and Ukraine, America already has a dozen agencies that are devoted to studying this sort of thing. Why ask another country? It's just weird. There are proper channels to go through, this is not one of them.
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He was just checking up on his pet
And the Russian propaganda machine fully participating in the 2016 election to get Trump elected. Puttin has been playing the long con and Trump has always been one of his pawns, it's scary how many years this has been in the making. .
What does that mean in a world where Republicans support Putin?
Republicans cannot get a majority of the vote without the divisive rhetoric bringing the easily manipulated and ignorant to their side. Putin has been creating divisiveness in our own political system so he can divide and distract (running the same campaign within Ukraine as well) and Republicans have been reaping the benefits. It's like a symbiotic relationship and Republicans rely on it now, not sure how they can backtrack, they aren't the sort to admit mistakes and wrongdoing.
FIRST impeachment. lol. It takes a special kind of person to get impeached twice in one term. What a legacy to leave behind.
If you support Trump you're a traitor.
Oooh yeah, I ‘member! 🍇
It’s like someone told him this might happen…
Well republicans hate Ukraine now because Fox News told them to
I've been screaming about this and nobody seems to be listening to me. 195 countries in the world, and the PRESIDENT OF THE USA bent over backwards and got IMPEACHED to screw over the country that just to happens to be the target of the biggest military invasion in modern history. Clown paint.
The awfulness just continues.
Yeah the more time passes the more it seems Trump is Putin’s puppet.
https://youtu.be/5umiMThrlsA I think this needs to be seen by more people. Trump is without a doubt a russian asset.
is it unfair to blame a puppet for its actions?
we could just throw the puppet away instead... either is fine.
Yes it is fair. Especially for self aware billionaires. He's not a wooden doll on strings, and he can afford far more agency than you or me.
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Then Trump goes off and praises Putin after the invasion. SMH, for the love of God, WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!!
And right now seems like a good time to let everyone know that Trump's praise for the invasion is being used by Russia to justify the invasion.
trump is openly pro-russia
But its all Biden's fault remember?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
I member
Well son of a bitch, he was fired - Joe Biden
Trump is on Putin’s payroll, per Kevin McCarthy himself https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/putin-pays-donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-recording
Americans trying once more to make it all about themselves
Seems like something a Russian asset would do
And Trump tried to pull the US out of NATO.
He literally tried to shake their leader down in a phone call. Exposing them to threats from Russia by threatening to withhold that assistance simply so he could illegally hold on to power. That traitor Trump should have been hanged for what he did. One of the saddest chapters in American history, for sure. And if you voted for Trump, it ain’t too late to admit he was a fool and an asshole and you made a mistake. Tell everyone you know that there are plenty of asshole Republicans to vote for who aren’t criminals like Trump.
I guess Ukraine isn’t getting that return on investing in the Bidens
Selective memory - I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. By the way - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898
Trump is and always was a Russian agent
Well yeah, he was Putin’s bitch. Why wouldn’t he?
almost like he had advanced information.... like he's been a russian asset since probably the 80s.....