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Joe Zeigler's avatar

My wife and I have this kind of discussion. She produces complicated conspiracy theories about trumps grift and such. I reply, "Trump works for Putin. Enough said."

You may like my stack: JosephZeigler.substack.com

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Megan Macomber's avatar

The first ominous (to those of us who noticed it) sign of ALL that was to come: the Manafort-engineered change to the GOP platform at the RNC in 2016. The Trump campaign requested only ONE revision, and to the surprise of most pundits it concerned foreign policy--not known to be Donald Trump's strong point. And too, it seemed minor, just a tweak really...

Putin was pulling the strings from the start. "You're the puppet!" was lying about that Moscow high-rise deal he still hoped to pull off, and Ukraine has never seemed too high a price to pay.

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John Foley's avatar

“Barack HUSSEIN Obama, has anyone ever heard of him?”

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Psyker01's avatar

An reason Trumps "peace plans" keep failing is he keeps trying to turn the peace talks into a bidding war over who can give the best goodies to him for US aid. Neither side can afford a half ass half state and its why they keep ignoring the US

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

The correct answer to "Vladimir, NO!" is "bitch, please!"

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Free beach's avatar

Stop is not a safe word for Putin. Dump will have to increase vocabulary

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Alicia Brown's avatar

I kinda don't want him to watch that history video, tbh. I'm afraid when he gets to the part about snipers killing protesters he'll think it's a great idea. 😳

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Correct me if I'm being obvious... but MY sense of the this is that if not for Rump Putin would not have invaded Ukraine in the first place. I mean, installing a Russia-friendly asshole; withholding military aid; all the Rethugs "blaming" Hunter et. al. for illegally getting rid of said Russian asset; Manafort BEING a Russian asset, lying about it to our Federal government to get Rump elected, then being pardoned once Rump is actually (barely) elected.... That last is the epitome of... the denouement... the climax, of the sheer traitorous actions carried out by on of America's political parties. While Republicans strive to kiss T's ass with things like "The Gulf of America". One wonders and how much of our money they'll spend trying to rename Canada "Northern America", Greenland "Eastern America", and Panama "Southern America". All while all the shit Rump is doing continues to cause chaos in our lives. This is a Shit Show wrapped in a shit show, surrounded by a shit show.

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NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

Those of us who know and care, know and care.

The rest of the fucking country: “Why they still fight’n over there? Seems like them Ukraines shouldn’t have started somethin’ if they couldn’t finish it. They better make them a deal while they can.”

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

A few months ago I was talking to a fellow substitute teacher about Ukraine and he said he saw videos where "nothing was going on, and people were just going about their daily lives. I didn't see any war". Fucking jack ass. I go "dude" it's not as if there is fighting going on up to and along every single mile of the Ukrainian border. Fox isnt; going to show you the real story." I directed him to YouTube for videos of the conflict taken by Ukrainian solders. The death and destruction is plain to see.

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Ill-Advised's avatar

"Peace is a code word...Beltway journalists don’t get it."

Journalists try to simply the obvious, not knowing there is a code, and simplifying the code doesn't tell us anything about what those words ACTUALLY MEAN IN THE SPEAKER'S AND LISTENER'S context... their "lingo."

Up is down, remember?

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Free beach's avatar

More normalizing the autocratic breakthrough.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Please clap.

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

VLADIMIR, STOP! Off the couch! Quit chewing! Fish are friends, not food!

Shit, the memes write themselves!

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ManchuCandidate's avatar

"We've tried nothing and we're all outta ideas!"

-Trump Flanders Administration

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Evan. It was always thus, that That Thing in the Offal Office is Putin's puto.

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Opiwan's avatar

Felon Boy's need to "win" a Nobel Peace Prize is officially the "Gretchen! STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH HAPPEN!" of his administration. Dude is sooooooooooo thirsty and will NEVER drink from that cup.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

“Vlad please, just stop bombing long enough for me to win the Nobel Peace Prize. After that, you can unleash the nukes for all I care.”

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William McF 🇨🇦👋🏻👏🏻's avatar

Sadly for Donny Convict, he’s the only one in the entire world that doesn’t realize he’s been Putin’s bitch since before he was elected for his first term!!

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