A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.
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"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."
Trump has been a KGB/SVR useful idiot for decades.
Trump has sold his presidency to Musk, an admirer of Putin's oligarchic dictatorship. Trump sits idly by while Musk holds court in the oval, destroying the U.S. government and replacing it with himself.
Again the person in the White House who is constitutionally disqualified from being there (yes, really) is an insurrectionist in a conspiracy with our enemy, which is treason as well and he should be dealt with accordingly. No way can he stay in that position for much longer no less 4 years.
Also worth remembering that if sh*t hits the fan for him (🤞) he would always be able to count on Putin to lend a hand. Close relationship with Putin has its perks.
Trump couldn’t have gotten elected either time without Putin’s help. He is indebted and he will gladly throw America under the bus now to be “made whole.”
Make no mistake: This is nothing short of an authoritarian revolution creating a new International of strongmen, actively counteracting the post-WWII human rights declarations and the reign of law and scientific knowledge and progress. And people are supporting it out of unbridled egoism.
It’s a bunch of really, really rich assholes trying to rule the whole fucking world. Putin, Saudis, Musk, etc. Donny isn’t even close. He wishes he were.
Most intelligence services are excited to have a mole a few levels down in the hierarchy. But to have the top of the hierarchy as your mole, what a coup.
Is he actually dismantling USA in return for his place as a protected oligarch. After all, it’s unlikely that his legal issues are over if he doesn’t successfully blow up the legal system.
JD Vance thinks that America needs a dictator or as his buddy Curtis yarvin calls it a national CEO. This has been the stated goals from people like Kurtis yarvin since 2012. https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?si=UbXeJ33kOp51XmZS
LOL, can you be specific this time? Try not to spin out of control. We could all see there was a ‘Russia thing’ but it would morph from ‘Russia directly blackmails’ to ‘Russia behind every single thing Trump does’ to ‘this is ALL because of Russia’ to ‘all leftists are RUSSIAN or helping RUSSIA.’
It's the U.S., as we knew it, completely sacrificed. Russia is the enemy of the E.U., and more importantly, the enemy all common sense people of the world. The U.S. picking up the phone, sitting down and cuddling with these terrorists, is the most un-American thing to happen in my life time.
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Someone, explain to me again, please, how did it come to be that the world’s oldest democracy managed to let a Russian stooge into the Oval Office not once, but *twice* ?
Important to note that the primary reason (I think) is that these entities are preventing Putin from doing what he wants. He probably hates the US and it's allies, but mostly because every criminal hates cops.
All I can say now is “Duh!” What “we” said before there was a Special Council, BEFORE the first election! The ghost of Wayne Barrett is shuddering.
Billy Barr was an is an enemy of the people. He engineered the coverup.
A qualified president should be discussing things of peace and unity and restoration and fortifying efforts of all kinds and not discuss things of division and war. We democrats have to keep our democratic rights as much as possible and as best as possible as much as we can...
There is so much good information out there that can assist us and of course even scholars and scientists to fortify our already achieved knowledges as what should be in my personal opinion one human race in this world.
Steele was portrayed as some kind of sensationalist grifter but anyone who knows anything about intelligence would tell you that Steele had an impeccable record.
Kind of mundane and reliable.
That's why I've always thought that he was telling the truth as far as he knew it.
The funny thing about the pee tape was it supposedly him directing a prostitute to pee on some bed Obama had slept in. If that came out today in 4k no one would give a shit.
Our very independence is now a matter of how far China is willing to let them go. Long term they don’t want a Russian controlled Europe allied with the United States.
Unfortunately we spent a critical 4 years acting like it didn't matter any more. We have got to jettison the "look forward, not backward" affectation if we ever get out of this.
Mad white supremacist climate denier thief Charlie "Tar Sands" Koch for decades has promoted the Koch/Putin Axis. Mad Charlie funded Project 2025 through his Heritage Foundation. Mad Charlie has shifted his emphasis to the state and local level, as through ALEC. Our mad Leader is Charlie's boy.
Yes, Trump’s orders clearly come from the billionaires close to Putin. They bought his presidency to swiftly destroy America at any cost. They’ll leave him holding the bag, but he’s too ignorant to see it! Feeling like a powerful dictator and king, they handed him his pacifier to keep him quiet!
The dude reran to keep out of prison and plans to golf while the crazy theocrats and Silicon Valley Bioshock villains run the country to the ground. Sadly his plan was seems to be working.
Virtually every Trump move in the last month makes perfect sense if put through the filter: "Is this something Putin would want in order to disable the United States?"
Blaming on Russia what Republicans wanted to do before, during, and after Trump is always a misdirection. Yes, Trump would have willingly accepted help from Russia, and indeed said so, but he is not doing Russia's bidding, he is doing Republican Party and billionaires bidding and always has.
"Would"!?
Honey 🤦
Kremlin correctly noted the weak spots in the US democracy, correctly identified the people who would use Kremlin's help to exploit the above mentioned weaknesses and give the Kremlin what it wanted in return.
It was real in 2024, as well. "Project Good Ol' USA" should be an informative read for many. They explicitly describe targeting Jews, Hispanics, & Gamers. The online gaming community is described as the new right-wing backbone in the U.S. https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/
I apologize if this point gets tedious, but the Russian propaganda is free and the story about it is behind a paywall. I understand good journalist need to get paid, but at the end of the day which are (particularly the targeted) people going to see?
I don't know if this works on a phone, but on a laptop w/ Firefox r/click on the page and select 'save page'. Needs 2 tries, unknown why. You now have a readable HTML doc in downloads, works on about 70% of sites.
In Firefox, sometimes it works if you "toggle to reader view" also. It's the little scroll-looking icon in the url bar. It's useful for TTS or just dodging ads.
Been screaming from the rooftops that gaming videos on YouTube and Twitch have been used as RW recruitment tools for MANY years. Had to deprogram my own kids!
Years ago Eric Trump said they had a lot of money coming in from Russia. The Trump family couldn't get loans from US banks so they turned to the Putin mafia. Plus the GOP likes Russia's hatred for minorities. The Russia connection has always been real. Ask Robert Mueller.
Don the con liked to call it the Russia Hoax, yet clearly he is beholden to Putin. Such a sad day to see this country under the rule of these unelected officials
Maybe someone can answer this question,Vance once called Trump a ‘moral disaster,’ and possibly ‘America’s Hitler’,
as we know never forgives anyone who has a pop at him. Then suddenly he announces Vance as his running mate. I wonder what Vance has on him.
Or more likely, what Russia has one Vance! They put pressure on Trump to promote Vance into the VP position so that they have both under their thumb with even greater leverage.
It was always about RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
We are seeing this play out in real life.
Russia was behind the rise of Trump and fascism and authoritarianism. They were the brains that studied the weak points in US government. Trump is their stooge.
As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is my friend so in the case of Trump, democratic allies are now the enemy and Russia continues to be the enemy of democratic allies so that would make Russia and the US besties. Okay, now it all makes sense.
Has been for years - Putin has evidence to compromise him, and Trump still wants his Moscow hotel. Not so much that he wants to help Putin, but he has no choice.
I think he sincerely ADMIRES Putin. His GOAL is to help himself! But he's happy to work toward shared goals with his Russian pal who really gets him. They're just dividing up the world between them like a couple of real big-time operators, doing it together.
On top of being both flattered and bought, Trump is also clearly terrified since the first assassination attempt -- by an amateur -- and he knows that Putin uses professional GRU assassination teams.
Heh. I mean, never say never. We're in an extremely wacky place right now, as, you know, a planet. But "the Russians whacking an American president would truly be taking it up a notch!"
I mean a lot of things don't make sense. Things can look confusing! The real world is complicated. But of all the things that don't make sense, "Trump staged an assassination attempt" makes just about the least sense of all.
But I mean I don't believe Trump is literally physically afraid of Russian assassins, either! I think everybody's got to dial it back a little lol. The "crazy theory" stuff is traditionally for the OTHER guys. Q and all that.
I don't think that "Trump is physically afraid" is conspiratorial. It relies on no secret information; you can just compare his demeanor in public appearances before and after the Pennsylvania shooting.
And sure, this is the "vision" these kinds of people have, if you can call it that. In real life, Putin doesn't "get" Europe because the Europeans still have agency and are awakening to the danger. It just means we'll go back to the "perpetually armed to the teeth and fighty" Europe of history.
The Far East is different because it's less about America I guess. China is its own thing and would be what it is (for good and bad) with or without us. They'll just dominate that third of the world far more easily (if this truly is our new future).
Russia is not a superpower. The only reason it’s in the discussion is because it had nukes. It’s GDP ain’t that grand and it’s military not the fighting machine some thought. A mirage.
Greenwald/Taibbi were very successful in convincing a lot of leftists that it was “cringe” to think he was compromised or at the very least conflicted up to his eyebrows but he clearly was/is.
Flashback to January 2017 when Dmitriev, Erik Prince, and MBZ met in the Seychelles and arranged a phone call between Trump and Putin because they were making a deal over Ukraine. Reread the Mueller report - all those transition contacts were about selling out Ukraine.
Trump has always been Putin’s puppet. And the MAGA-GOP and NRA have been funded by Russian oligarchs like Semion Mogilevich. Russian tools doing Russia’s bidding.
Bill Barr successfully propagandized against the #MuellerReport. When in fact, that report, even with its incredibly limited scope, is so absolutely damning. There is no doubt Trump is in office because of Russian ops and mass influence campaigns.
Read Craig Unger’s books. Researched, sources cited, authoritative. DT has been laundering Russian org crime cash since 1984. Screaming “Russia” 3 times like a Brady Bunch episode doesn’t make that go away.
Of course the Russia thing was real. Why wasn’t trump convicted of treason? A lot of cover up for which I blame the democrats, the American people and mostly the Republican Party. Don’t you think all of what has been happening so fast was planned over the past 4 years. Trump is a stooge.
I don’t think it’s a pee tape. My bet is that Donnie wants to develop land in Russia. And he’ll be in for a surprise when Putin reneges on him. Putin knows a rube when he sees one.
It’s usually something not sophisticated when it comes to Trump. You are probably on the mark. Putin hints that there could be trump casinos all over the Russian countryside, and he is mesmerized.
People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder must dominate everyone and everything. The smallest slight wounds and enrages them. They do not behave submissively even to people from whom they want something. They only grovel and simper the way Trump does with Putin to those who can harm them.
Trump on Canada: “Canada has been very abusive of the United States for many years.” “We’re not well treated by Canada.”
Trump on Russia: “We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together.”
Right. Putin might be the truly richest man on Earth, controls many billionaires, is an international crime magnate. That alone, to Trump, is a superb reason to ally with Russia. Canada is not going to bribe Trump. I just hope you guys can keep the narrative from becoming as elaborate as last time.
If there is anything I know about billionaires is there is never enough money, so Putin will take as much money away from Trump and the American people as possible. Canada doesn't need or want to bribe Trump. But both countries did benefit from our friendship in the past. We feel sad for America now
That’s not what the nit wits down here think. They’re so stupid they think they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Rogan says “musk is the richest man in the world, he doesn’t need any more money.” As if that’s a thing with billionaires.
The Russia thing was literally Treason. It was an attack on the US by a foreign adversary supported by a person owing allegiance to the US. The kind of Treason that should have put Trump in prison.
During Mueller investigation, friend who worked at Google, HP and Symantec said Americans would be aghast if the river of Russian (and Chinese) money flowing thru U.S. politics was actually exposed - and correctly predicted it wouldn't be.
Everything makes sense if Musk knows about all of it.
The senility was always real too. Put both together and throw in Musk's own goals of becoming God Emperor on top of that, and... idk what is going to happen, but nothing good. Nothing functional.
Anyone who plans to wait and just 'pick up the pieces' later may not have much to pick up.
US intelligence apparatus turned a blind eye on evidence that Trump is an alleged Russian asset with firm allegiance to Putin’s interests. If the compromised president and ex-president had been Obama, the CIA would have had the balls to out him. Trump has white oligarch criminal privilege.
Anytime you would say you believe Putin over your own intel regarding voter interference, you are an AUTOMATIC TRAITOR TO THE USA!
HE Should’ve been tried for TREASON…RIGHT THEN AND THERE!
Yup and we managed to put enough pressure on him in 1.0 where he wasn’t able to deliver his part to Putin. Now there aren’t anymore adults left in the room. He’s kicked them all out and surrounded himself with corrupt people like himself.
Listening to Vance blather at European leaders the other day really helped emphasize the fact that Republicans are now actively hostile to Europe. What a world.
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"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."
https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks-and-xs-role-in-2024-election?r=ezg75&utm_medium=ios&triedredirect=true
Trump has sold his presidency to Musk, an admirer of Putin's oligarchic dictatorship. Trump sits idly by while Musk holds court in the oval, destroying the U.S. government and replacing it with himself.
A complete purge of the military is next.
The Russia thing was always real and the payoff starts now.
https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/wagner-group-helping-serbia-prepare-attack-on-kosovo
Yes it is
Watch the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Watch NATO.
Think. Understand. Speak. Act.
open their eyes.
Disappointed Joe didn't release the unredacted Mueller report. FFS.
EVERYTHING makes perfect sense.
was always
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This belief is not new:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-intelligence-chiefs-believe-trump-205153804.html
Billy Barr was an is an enemy of the people. He engineered the coverup.
We are more similar to Belarus right now than any European nation.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/explainer-jared-kushners-attempted-back-channel-russia-treasonous-typical
Kind of mundane and reliable.
That's why I've always thought that he was telling the truth as far as he knew it.
How much of our election was really about this?
Honey 🤦
Kremlin correctly noted the weak spots in the US democracy, correctly identified the people who would use Kremlin's help to exploit the above mentioned weaknesses and give the Kremlin what it wanted in return.
Weak spots? do tell.
Identified people? Tell us, who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjruPKgjRpc
as we know never forgives anyone who has a pop at him. Then suddenly he announces Vance as his running mate. I wonder what Vance has on him.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
Trump owes Putin big time.
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3lifbevcn4k2z
I would not doubt that every bit of info Doge has collected is already in Putin's hands
The most likely result is that the US is sidelined from the peace process which will break down.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/14/10/donald-trump-twitter.jpg
We are seeing this play out in real life.
Russia was behind the rise of Trump and fascism and authoritarianism. They were the brains that studied the weak points in US government. Trump is their stooge.
The kid was brainwashed just like
terrorist with an explosive vest.
Nothing else makes sense.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
Too Much Russia !
#TooMuchRussia
What we need to see is more
America, America, America!
#AmericansFirst
C'mon people, fight like a Ukrainian !!!
#BeLikeZelensky
https://link.motherjones.com/public/35592388
Read the Mueller Report
Read the Senate Comittee on Intelligence Report . Senator Mark Warner addresses the Trump Putin relationship even now .
https://bsky.app/profile/timwegenermn.bsky.social/post/3lifijhpoak2s
Trump on Russia: “We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_billionaires
The rest can't afford plane fare, much less accommodations.
Doubly sad to see the whole country sprinting in the same insane direction. Hopefully the next generation of voters has more sense. Boomers suck.
Canada & Mexico don't deserve this crap from trump & Republicans. I'm so sorry.
Watch this video from the early 80s, I think, where a Russian defector talks about the KGB strategy to destabilize Western Democracies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA&t=2s
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
Everything makes sense if Musk knows about all of it.
Anyone who plans to wait and just 'pick up the pieces' later may not have much to pick up.
HE Should’ve been tried for TREASON…RIGHT THEN AND THERE!
"LOL, collusion doesn't begin to describe how tight we are."
That’s ALL it takes.
Pardoned Trump campaign chair admits he DID pass intel to Russian contact, KK.
He COULD have been brought before Congress.
Why did Schiff and Schumer bury this admission?
https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-exclusive-interview-trump-campaign-polling-data-russia-kilimnik-2022-8