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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010349018/inside-trumps-effort-on-russia-and-ukraine.html

"Your pick: In the most clicked link in The Morning yesterday, Maggie Haberman explains how Trump has been engaging with Russia and Ukraine."

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

DJT=POS

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie.Vey iz mir.

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Lil Snot's avatar

Try chicken or fish swathed with mayo, but then press a 50-50% mixture of panko and grated parm on the top. Bake and enjoy! Noms!

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Hank Napkin's avatar

There stands Sir, a Homo heidelbergensis among men.

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

𝘚𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴, “𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘴.”

CALLED IT

https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/trumps-and-putins-wet-hot-american?r=2lkipq&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=146697058

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Ron Spangler's avatar

"It is still a mystery what Putin said to Trump in their quiet car ride in Alaska, and during the closed-door meeting, that made Trump’s aides run out with “ashen” faces and cancel lunch."

<fade to tarmac next to The Beast>

"Donald, it is good to see you alive. For now. You seem forgetful lately on the American television, so I have brought some photographs and videos from our good times in Moscow, plus some papers from those days when you needed loans and none of the western banks would do it. We look at them together in the big car now, yes?"

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Nemo's avatar

Did Giorgia Meloni play fluffer to Biggus Dickus? Melania needs to up her game to compete with those melons.

Do you all remember back in 2016 when Donald "The John" was boasting about his sexual prowess? And how Melania would applaud his performance with the sound of one hand fapping?

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Lisa's avatar

Are we done yet with this shite? Honest to Gawwd, are we done? This is insane. All of it. I'm old, but I'll be damned if we leave our Gen X legacy with the label of bewildered fuckers who didn't DO SOMETHING about this travesty for the next generations.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"If you can lose your fucking mind when all about you

Are keeping theirs..."

-- With Apologies to Kipling

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LOU LOU's avatar

Yes that meeting with Putin’s was a total failure for Trump spun as a success. Something deflated trump’s usual hubris after his private time with Putin. Trump looked in some photos as if whatever soul he had left had vacated his body. Putin’s wants what he wants. Kompromat and poison are two of his strategic ways to get what he wants and get rid of what he doesn’t want.

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Linda Osika's avatar

Kissing president TACO McFuckface's flabby white rear just makes him demand more.

Someone has to go balls to the wall and tell him to shove it where Rubio 's face seems to be permanently attached.

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Nemo's avatar

The image of Marco's face being shoved up McFuckface's asshole like common dildo in a pegging needs to be enshrined in a political cartoon. That's Hustler magazine material.

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Mark's avatar

What SIX WARS are we talking about?

The leaders should have told Trump that no sovereign European land is going to "change hands", period, and that they are 100% behind Zelenskyy.

They should point out that Russia's birthrate is at a 200 year low, and that females outnumber males significantly, and it's just going to keep getting worse.

They should meet with a goal of creating an actual plan to add Ukraine to the EU and NATO.

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BECKY's avatar

and there are MAGA loons that will fall even madder in love with him after he "reminds" them of the wars to which he's single-handedly brokered an ending. Oh and a good reminder to the Nobel people since they're all about peace.

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Well, the proven rapist Trump tried to distract from his failures with Putin by bringing up the whole "Russia, Russia, Russia" (say it three times for the three reports that proved coordination between Trump's campaign and Russia) thing and then trying to blame President Biden.

As both of those have failed, I assume he will try declaring bankruptcy? That's usually next in his quiver. That or he will sue Zelenskyy for libel.

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Erisian's avatar

"Trump [sic] was poised to give him pieces of Ukraine that are not Trump’s [sic] to give, plus assurances that Ukraine would not join NATO, which is not Trump’s [sic] decision to make, in exchange for Ukraine getting absolutely nothing but vague “security assurances.”"

* People are saying, people who know things, that part of the land swap Fulvous Fuckwad is proposing includes either ceding some of Alaska back to Russia, or renegotiating the deal that ripped off Russia with the new purchase price being retroactive.

* Since the Halloween Orange Hemorrhoid is so opposed to the US remaining in NATO, and his disapproval of it is palpable, why does he give a rat's ass whether or not Ukraine becomes a NATO member nation? That is, other than a gift to his sugar daddy.

* Pres Zelenskyy has placed the security assurances ball back in the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster's court by offering the one thing that will get his attention: a bribe.

> "Ukraine has proposed a massive $150 billion security package to the United States, combining $100 billion in European-financed American weapons purchases with a $50 billion drone production partnership.

Why It Matters

This proposal represents Ukraine's strategic pivot toward appealing to Trump's "America First" agenda by positioning the deal as beneficial to U.S. industry rather than traditional aid." https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-weapons-deal-donald-trump-backing-zelensky-2115383

(Sidebar: "He added that Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are coordinating with both Russia and Ukraine." ibid

After Vance's actions in the first meeting with Zelenskyy I doubt he's serious about any negotiations that don't follow the direct instructions from the Deep Saffron Dipstick. Rubio has no place at the table after pushing bothsideserism on "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Witcoff is a lightweight only involved because of his friendship with the Tangerine Twink [a Twink for any authoritarian who smiles at him].)

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"How about some of the details of this amazing deal you made, that you refuse to release to anyone?"

The Amber Ardipithecus ramidus is a Big Picture kinda guy, he's only concerned with coming up with a rough outline of a concept of an idea of a plan; he doesn't care about supplying the deets, that's up to his flunkies to fill in (and whose jobs are on the line if they don't get it right).

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"And Trump [sic] was like, no, no, we don’t need a ceasefire to make peace. I’ve made peace with no ceasefire in SIX WARS already." [all caps in the original]

As of this morning the count is now seven.

> "Donald Trump [sic] has claimed that he has ended seven wars during his second presidency, despite stating it was six on Monday (18 August). ... ending the India and Pakistan conflict as a “big one”. ... The list is as follows: Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.

Many of the conflicts have not been entirely resolved." https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/trump-claims-ends-seven-wars-ukraine-russia-video-b2810371.html

* India and Pakistan have been fighting each other for centuries, and the Whale-sized Pumpkin Wannabe Potentate had nothing to do with the current cease-fire (and definitely did not end the war):

> "Since May 10, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire after a “long night” of talks mediated by Washington, he has repeated his claim over 40 times that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in Parliament that no leader of any country asked India to stop Operation Sindoor. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has categorically said there was no third-party intervention in bringing about a ceasefire with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor."

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/donald-trump-once-again-claims-he-stopped-india-pak-war-3686491

* Thailand and Cambodia isn't over... and guess who was not directly responsible if the temporary ceasefire:

> "Old Borders, New Battles: Thailand, Cambodia and an Unfinished War [headline]

Rooted in centuries of history, the border conflict between the two countries is set to flare up again unless underlying causes are addressed. [subhead]

The recent ceasefire and ongoing talks between Thailand and Cambodia are fragile bandages over a long-festering wound. It was brokered by Malaysia – and closely observed by China and the US, along with other Southeast Asian countries" https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Old+Borders+New+Battles+Thailand+Cambodia+and+an+Unfinished+War+18082025120500

* Three other peace/ceasefire claims from the Pyrite Pustule also don't quite ring true:

> "The peace agreement between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda is temporary and shaky. With Egypt and Ethiopia, there is no deal on the table. With Kosovo and Serbia, there’s little evidence he was significantly involved or that a major conflict was emerging." https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-did-trump-help-stop-6-wars/22122852/

* Iran/Israel?

> "A senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday that another war with Israel or the United States could begin at any time.

“We are not in a ceasefire, we are in a stage of war. No protocol, regulation or agreement has been written between us and the US or Israel,” Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, told Iranian media." https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-ceasefire-khamenei-military-adviser-warns-war-with-israel-could-restart-at-any-time/

As usual, nothing honest came out of the White House on any of the conflicts that the Tangerine Tyrant claims to have fixed.

fnord

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Oscar Possum's avatar

I haven't read this yet but I have to comment. Could That Man look anymore slovenly? He is such an embarrassment.

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BECKY's avatar

how nice would it be if we were just chuckling about what a slob he is or how his tie is too long rather than being in constant fear that he's going to destroy our country with an eye on the world.

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