We seem to be encountering a number of "check and balance" bugs in our system of government. Putin and his toadies are methodically exploiting them all, in an effort to bring down the republic.
We seem to be encountering a number of "check and balance" bugs in our system of government. Putin and his toadies are methodically exploiting them all, in an effort to bring down the republic.
The ongoing MAGA Permaputsch has never let up for one moment since the former president's defeat at the polls. Nor will it deflate as long as he walks free.
Like Putin's "little green men" in Crimea ten years ago, Johnson and his other operatives in the House of Representatives are achieving victory for the Kremlin dictator where all else -- action both political and military -- had failed.
CRIME PAYS.
TREASON PAYS.
Nothing, it seems, pays like treason.
Nor, apparently, does the United States possess any antidote.
[As for the notion that the 45th president is being blackmailed by his backer in the Kremlin, there is absolutely no need for that. Here, we see the natural confluence of two criminal minds. Blackmail and direr threats, together with the promise of powerful posts, from Gauleiter all the way down to Blockwart, may well account for the would-be dictator's powerful hold on Speaker Johnson and the members of the GOP caucus...
It may be too much to ask people to turn their minds to what lies behind the absolute self-assurance of Trumputin... A little depth psychology might help.
Putin with the help of Trump and his MAGA Congressional dupes has done extensive damage to the US without firing a shot at us. He has turned us against one another using divide and conquer tactics to weaken us and render us unable to defend ourselves or our allies.
I believe Putin is richly endowed (LOL) with both carrots and sticks when it comes to keeping Trump on leash. IтАЩll never forget the private meeting they had, early in TrumpтАЩs presidency, followed by a press conference. The looks on those two faces as they walked into the press room! Trump: whipped puppy. Putin: cat that just ate the canary. ThereтАЩs blackmail going on.
Can anyone unearth an image or evidence of DT placing any other being on a pedestal above him? Cohn was his mentor, not his master.
Here, however, fealty was sold to him as the ultimate opportunity. Putin could not have dreamed up a tool better suited to his purpose. Yet, given the forces in play, the sorceror's apprentice may prove even more dangerous than the sorceror.
That said, can anyone explain how it can be licit for the Speaker and Representatives openly to take orders from a private individual that directly sabotage the national commitment to provide material support to an imperilled ally?
Perhaps some jurist can explain this deep mystery to us.
Likewise, any official or politician with even the vaguest experience of national security issues and the tight rules governing highly classified documents will know that any other individual who had played fast and loose with the merest fragment of the papers purloined by DT would have been buried alive in a maximum security hole in the ground long since.
It seems the man has succeeded in "normalizing" the ultimate crimes.
All I can think of as recourse is that each of the folks on this substack should send Trump fifty coupons for a double cheeseburger with bacon. Cholesterol might take care of the problem?
It would surprise me if Trump does not fear the dirt Putin could dish on him, but in any case, Trump seems to have been bought. More than one Trump family member has bragged about unlimited funding from Russia. That alone put Trump's pocket; and it seems he chooses despots for mentors.
We seem to be encountering a number of "check and balance" bugs in our system of government. Putin and his toadies are methodically exploiting them all, in an effort to bring down the republic.
The January 6th coup failed.
The ongoing MAGA Permaputsch has never let up for one moment since the former president's defeat at the polls. Nor will it deflate as long as he walks free.
Like Putin's "little green men" in Crimea ten years ago, Johnson and his other operatives in the House of Representatives are achieving victory for the Kremlin dictator where all else -- action both political and military -- had failed.
CRIME PAYS.
TREASON PAYS.
Nothing, it seems, pays like treason.
Nor, apparently, does the United States possess any antidote.
[As for the notion that the 45th president is being blackmailed by his backer in the Kremlin, there is absolutely no need for that. Here, we see the natural confluence of two criminal minds. Blackmail and direr threats, together with the promise of powerful posts, from Gauleiter all the way down to Blockwart, may well account for the would-be dictator's powerful hold on Speaker Johnson and the members of the GOP caucus...
It may be too much to ask people to turn their minds to what lies behind the absolute self-assurance of Trumputin... A little depth psychology might help.
Give it a try.]
Putin with the help of Trump and his MAGA Congressional dupes has done extensive damage to the US without firing a shot at us. He has turned us against one another using divide and conquer tactics to weaken us and render us unable to defend ourselves or our allies.
тЩб means I concur.
One would have to be wedded to evil like that pair to take "liking" any further.
I believe Putin is richly endowed (LOL) with both carrots and sticks when it comes to keeping Trump on leash. IтАЩll never forget the private meeting they had, early in TrumpтАЩs presidency, followed by a press conference. The looks on those two faces as they walked into the press room! Trump: whipped puppy. Putin: cat that just ate the canary. ThereтАЩs blackmail going on.
Not just your belief, Marge.
Can anyone unearth an image or evidence of DT placing any other being on a pedestal above him? Cohn was his mentor, not his master.
Here, however, fealty was sold to him as the ultimate opportunity. Putin could not have dreamed up a tool better suited to his purpose. Yet, given the forces in play, the sorceror's apprentice may prove even more dangerous than the sorceror.
That said, can anyone explain how it can be licit for the Speaker and Representatives openly to take orders from a private individual that directly sabotage the national commitment to provide material support to an imperilled ally?
Perhaps some jurist can explain this deep mystery to us.
Likewise, any official or politician with even the vaguest experience of national security issues and the tight rules governing highly classified documents will know that any other individual who had played fast and loose with the merest fragment of the papers purloined by DT would have been buried alive in a maximum security hole in the ground long since.
It seems the man has succeeded in "normalizing" the ultimate crimes.
What recourse remains?
All I can think of as recourse is that each of the folks on this substack should send Trump fifty coupons for a double cheeseburger with bacon. Cholesterol might take care of the problem?
It would surprise me if Trump does not fear the dirt Putin could dish on him, but in any case, Trump seems to have been bought. More than one Trump family member has bragged about unlimited funding from Russia. That alone put Trump's pocket; and it seems he chooses despots for mentors.