I wonder how Lisa Murkowski feels now. https://theweek.com/politics/senate-vote-big-beautiful-bill-trump-alaska
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Trump is handling the peace negotiations in the most spectacularly embarrassing way. Giving the aggressors in a conflict concessions in exchange for a pinky swear that they won't do it again? Wow, what a concept. Historically bulletproof strategy that has never failed or backfired in any way.
I saw someone write once that Trump is so obsessed with making deals, and being known as a great dealmaker, to the point where the terms of the deal are often irrelevant to him. If the terms are favorable, he honors the deal. If he discovers later that the terms were not favorable to him, he reneges.
This kind of behavior works when you are a billionaire developing real estate because the people he screws over rarely have the funds to fight him in court, and have their workers' livelihoods to think about. Even if they do take him on, or they get a law team to work pro bono, he drags out the court proceedings and delays paying court judgements, or he opts to settle for much less than what was promised initially.
This doesn't work in geopolitics, but he doesn't know how to operate any other way. He wants to make a deal, and if he has to give away America's most valuable natural resources to close that deal, he'll do it. Doesn't matter if Putin has no intention of giving up the fight in Ukraine, Trump just wants to feel like he's some great peacemaker.
It doesn't work this way in geopolitics? I thought the USA was infamous for breaking its deals.
Trump giving RUSSIA OUR expensive Resources is PROOF he's NOT working for Russia!
My man absolutely loves a shady real estate deal. Surprised he isn't throwing in that collapsed Minnesota bridge and all the leaded pipes in Flint, Michigan.
How is it that I'm not even born in the US and somehow I'm more American than the average American in my country.
Traitors, to the gallows.
So he was Putin's bitch all along! Who could have guessed it?
Anyway...
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Meanwhile, the files at an undisclosed location
It's insane that anyone needs more proof.
He's been pretty clearly working with Russia since like the 90's.
The Russia investigation origins conspiracy theory or Russia counter-narrative[1] is a conspiracy theory narrative created by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Republican Party leaders, and right-wing[2][3] conservatives.[4] It attacks the legitimacy and conclusions of multiple investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections and the public and secretive links between Russian intelligence and Trump associates. Trump in particular has attacked the origins and conclusions of the Crossfire Hurricane and Mueller investigations and ordered Attorney General William Barr[5][6] and U.S. attorney John Durham[7] to conduct reviews of the investigations.[8][9][10][11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_investigation_origins_conspiracy_theory
As someone who actually watched the impeachment ... Holy shit there is SO MUCH evidence that Trump's campaign was helped by Russia and that he is basically a Russian tool. Like ... Mountains of evidence that people just pretend doesn't exist.
It's wild AF to me honestly. People just don't want to believe what the evidence says is the truth so they called it a "Russia hoax" and that's that. All it took was saying the word hoax for all of Trump's bootlicking sycophants to ignore their own eyes and ears.
I think it's more just about the regular person not having the interest to even remotely look at the thing.
If the large majority of people actually were made to watch and give their verdict... I think it would be pretty clear.
The crazies are a minority but they're a very vocal minority so that it seems like there's some actual debate doing on, when there fucking isnt. But the perception of "it's still undecided" is what serves Trump.
"The evidence isn't in yet."
Yes it fucking is Trump is a Russian shill
Is peace plan is selling parts of the us to appease the dictator? If that's the case, that only validates putin to do more of his business because it looks like it may work.
And there people were joking about Trump giving Putin Alaska.
Trump is willing to surrender our our natural resources to Russia cause he is weak. He always has been weak and everyone knows it. Also he rapes children.
Trump is willing to surrender our our natural resources to Russia cause he is weak.
I mean, its weird to say this when Dems are the one hiding under their desks every time Trump stumbles back into DC after a Big Mac bender. Trump sees real estate he thinks is "worthless" because it is part of the National Wildlife Refuge and is trading it for something he considers "worthwhile", which is a detente in Ukraine that'll give him time to carve up and sell off the choice bits of its western real estate.
This isn't "weak", its just about personal enrichment. What's "weak" is a Congress and Court that will rubber stamp his decisions, for fear of looking divisive or intransigent or insufficiently loyal. Like, watch how Senator Dan Sullivan responds to this shit by lining up to lick Trump's puckered asshole.
Jesus fucking Christ. Will someone for the love of God get this asshole out of office! This isn't yugo fucking salvia!
Just arrest him and prosecute him!
He will NEVER see a jail cell, never. There’s really only one way to deal with him at this point
Under Tito, Yugoslavia stood up to the Russians.
The man was a tyrant, no question, but after he took power he actually tired to do some good for his country... Well... Until the CIA pinned the Muslims against the Christians and tore the country apart.
The man was a tyrant, no question
It's weird to call someone a tyrant when he preceded over one of the most peaceful and productive periods of Yugoslavian history. Then he dies, the various ethnic enclaves get a fresh influx of "liberal" mass media, and we've hearing the genocide machine rev up again within five years. Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, the GDR, and even Romania seem to tell the same story.
Would that any of them - or Afghanistan or Libya or Haiti/DR or even fucking Texas - have a man half as "tyrannical" as Tito in charge, instead of the psycho fascist fucks and capitalist ghouls they inherited.
Until the CIA pinned the Muslims against the Christians and tore the country apart.
It's funny how the United States is experiencing a very similar ethnic tension happening currently. I guess what goes around can come around.
Offer the country you’re spending billions against in a proxy war resources that will likely find their way, directly or indirectly, used against the US’s financial expenditures in the war.
No wonder this idiot bankrupted a casino.
Four casinos.
Don't forget: bankruptcy only affects the business, hence golden parachutes. Being a casino owner wasn't enough, bastard had to screw over the workers too
What did you expect? Trump is a goddamn Kremlin Gremlin.
Complete hypothetical, stay with me, but if Trump was a Russian asset what would he be doing differently? 🤔
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Trump needs to give his own shit to his boyfriend Putin. Get off your knees you pedo traitor! When is this demented old man going to keel over?!?!
America first to be sold
I like the Woody Guthrie line from his song Lindbergh about the American fascist collaborators in the 40s:
And I'm gonna tell you workers,
'fore you cash in your checks
They say "America First," but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, Washington...
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