Younger people may find this hard to believe, but back in the late 1940s it was considered a very big deal that a person under Moscow influence might serve as a mid-level official in the US department of state. www.archives.gov/files/citize... - ThreadSky

davidfrum.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Younger people may find this hard to believe, but back in the late 1940s it was considered a very big deal that a person under Moscow influence might serve as a mid-level official in the US department of state. https://www.archives.gov/files/citizen-archivist/images/07-26-2018-alger-hiss.pdf

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sonsofliberty.vote•43 days ago

I still couldn't bring myself to give Joe McCarthy any kind of credit however....

liberationnow.bsky.social•41 days ago

Frum would

catzinthehouz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Back in the 1950s some people who shared secrets with Russia were actually executed.

liberationnow.bsky.social•41 days ago

That was not a good thing.

catzinthehouz.bsky.social•41 days ago

Indeed.
But stunning how treason is treated in these times.

mrsdl.bsky.social•43 days ago

I am wondering if this meeting will take place in a Moscow high rise.

exexpat.bsky.social•44 days ago

Modern day McCarthy being pro Russia is a mind bender for sure

msbak.bsky.social•43 days ago

Of course . Cowards way out.

seamus-ohanlon.bsky.social•43 days ago

With apologies to Боб Дилан…

Ох, времена, меняются.

fdrobovelt.bsky.social•44 days ago

Funny how the GOP is up in arms about the physical border between US and Mexico but doesn't realize we've left open an entire digital border and we're being "invaded" and indoctrinated every moment of every day.

We need a Great Western Firewall.

khloedawn.bsky.social•43 days ago

People say he’s not a Russian ally….Yet another reason proving magas are in a cult, everyday there are more things that disqualify this man as a human let alone the president yet they still stand by him.

jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social•44 days ago

I'm literally nauseated at the thought of POTUS meeting Putin the war criminal

palchik.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s not beyond the realm of possibilities that Putin will commit to Trump to buy American weapons and Trump will sell this as a win.

jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social•44 days ago

Nothing is off the table. I believe it is Trump's intention to form an alliance with him.

palchik.bsky.social•44 days ago

Trump is not capable of friendship or alliances. Everything is transactional.

frieslandvrouw.bsky.social•43 days ago

This is correct. And he's also incredibly stupid compared to Putin.

jdublow.bsky.social•43 days ago

Criminals keep company with each other

chads1002.bsky.social•44 days ago

Putin doesn't need a meeting to convince TFG of those claims. He's been cupping Putin's balls for years. I remember the press conference, after the entire U.S. intel apparatus concluded that Russia had interfered in the election, and all he could say was, "But Putin said he didn't do it."

seamus-ohanlon.bsky.social•43 days ago

Get ready for ‘Biden and Zelensky were war collaborators against a helpless Russia… who only pre-emptively invaded to stop from being categorically obliterated by the Communist Socialist Nazi Globalist Fascist cabal…”

rapanotti.bsky.social•43 days ago

America needs to be removed from NATO so NATO can go about its business. America is much worse than the French who love being mavericks with their own agenda. Not having allies to participate in their belligerence will keep Americans in check.

theskwerty.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yes- Alger Hiss and his fellow travelers would even be able to brag about their "Russian connections!"

johanmoor.bsky.social•44 days ago

And of course they are already writing passionate love letters to each other, I'm sure

johanmoor.bsky.social•44 days ago

Different worlds. My granny told me, that when ruZZians invaded Estonia in 1940 there was massive looting, torturing, raping, killing. Her neigbour's breasts were cut off and then she was gang raped by ruZZians etc etc etc other satanic deeds...

dforshner.bsky.social•43 days ago

From Canada's perspective Trump is Putin.

Change seems to be arriving faster and faster these days.

realblaster1360.bsky.social•43 days ago

Amerika is gonna be the Germany to our Poland, just you watch.

dforshner.bsky.social•43 days ago

I'm thinking more Austria,.

I'll wake up one morning to the tanks. Some of my neighbors are crying but a few are cheering.

I'll be angry and confused but then I won't have time to think because I'll be conscripted. The next bit is a resentful blur.

Now I'm in a ditch in Greenland waiting to die.

jdublow.bsky.social•43 days ago

The Manchur-A-Lago Candidate

damngroundhogs.bsky.social•44 days ago

My late father blamed a lot of modern messes on two things: advertising and the suburban back yard and this is a case in point.

Advertising (in this case, media) has allowed MAGA to sell treason as treacle. And the proliferation of back yards has taught everyone to picnic in private not together.

tarheelfemboy.bsky.social•42 days ago

Wasn't Henry Wallace basically a Soviet asset, and didn't he still have a pretty successful career despite this?

philthebrit.bsky.social•43 days ago

So, Putin can't leave Russia for fear of arrest, Trump can't leave the US as he's a felon, what's left, Zoom?

kryspee.bsky.social•43 days ago

The “party of Ronald Reagan”

kaykenney.bsky.social•43 days ago

I hope accounts such as yours never let up on that fact. Putin is a shadow US president. Kremlin agent Elon is a co-president. JD Vance is the serf to billionaires who are salivating at the idea of carving up the world order for profit and new found power.

whirledbizarre.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ukraine/NATO alliance has Russia on the ropes and Trump is going to throw the fight

stogachess.bsky.social•44 days ago

national review writers still make a big deal about alger hiss! less so about trump.

witchqueen3975.bsky.social•44 days ago

Just checked out the headlines over there , you are correct sir 👍

henryschoenberger.bsky.social•44 days ago

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ldmls.bsky.social•44 days ago

They raised the same issue about Bernie Sanders, who honeymooned in the USSR. And they successfully, if nonsensically, portrayed Kamala Harris as a Communist.

atruenorthview.bsky.social•44 days ago

The convicted-felon-elect will seek Putin's evaluation of his illegal threats to allies, notes on how effectively he's cowed politicians & journalists into not addressing them as absolute outrages, & seeking Putin's tips on how to further antagonize the US' close allies,& violate international law.

sponky.bsky.social•43 days ago

Continuation of the war he started, why do people have to defend their sovereign territory.

fandabbydosy.bsky.social•43 days ago

Has he sent people to camps yet?

phinp.bsky.social•44 days ago

To even visit an "Eastern Bloc" country raised red flags for most government jobs in the UK until the mid 80s. And even now, visiting "unfriendly" nations without clearance can lead to issues (up to and including having to get a new and clean iPhone)

liberationnow.bsky.social•41 days ago

And that was not a good thing

shenloop.bsky.social•44 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcECXr9gpDo

rhiannonbeaubien.bsky.social•43 days ago

Right? If McCarthy came back now he’d conclude that the Communists won :)

frieslandvrouw.bsky.social•43 days ago

LOL understatement of the year. It's crazy town these days.

txmeema.bsky.social•42 days ago

Pootie and the Felon don't need a face to face. The Felon is more than capable of serving up Ukraine to Russia via Zoom.

rspires52.bsky.social•43 days ago

That's because they were Marxists, commies. They still are.

fredthewonderdog.bsky.social•43 days ago

Sounds like Putin will be setting annual goals for his viceroy.

bluenosebruno.bsky.social•43 days ago

Will anyone Hiss at this comment ?

readingwarrior.bsky.social•43 days ago

Never mind POTUS.

zorbathegeek.bsky.social•43 days ago

conservatives wanted a government they could drown in a bathtub. what we ended up with is a government despots could purchase on the cheap

we need to stop acting surprised

kiskimaastakin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Three years soon that the despot started the war with the benediction of Xi, right after the end of the Olympics. Putin has drained is youth, bought cannon meat from North Korea and looks like a looser internationally, no wonder he loves Trump...

borthwick-smith.bsky.social•44 days ago

Putin does not need to sell Trump on this.

cardcatcher.bsky.social•44 days ago

At Texas A&M, they're still screaming about "Democrat Marxists" even at my brother and I who actually served in the Military. Vladimir Putin would get a warmer welcome these days at A&M than us. After all, Putin is a good guy. He's not a Communist, and of course he's not a Democrat. Aggie Logic.

thegreatdeliverer.bsky.social•43 days ago

A lot changes over 80 years...not always for the best.

zerogenamerican.bsky.social•44 days ago

I remember when treason was a big deal.

goonbelly.bsky.social•43 days ago

"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

psgoddard.bsky.social•44 days ago

For those that haven't yet binged the fabulous British drama "Foyles War", it does a great job of capturing that transition from end of WW2 into the Cold War era. 🇬🇧 MI5 need for Russian Intelligence as 🇷🇺 became the enemy.

americafailed.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yeah, and they used to lock that person up or assassinate them... Those were the days...

yimmysue.bsky.social•44 days ago

...being gullible, naive and stupid wasn't an American trait then, and committing crimes was a red flag with voters.

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