He listened so well.
Blew up decades old missile treaties.
Kept arming ukraine iduring Trump 1.
Stops all aid but made a special exception for ukraine.
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Thanks, most of us figured that out in ~2018
the claims fuel speculation about Trump’s ties to Russia, which he has denied.
“We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”
-Eric Trump
In the 60's someone with ties to KGB would be arrested (and death sentence) for treason, now it can be president and no one does anything
It’s worst than that.
Not only no one does anything but the majority of American voters voted for the guy.
No, the machines were likely rigged in the swing states. Needs some forensic analysis to confirm.
You sound like the Republicans saying Biden didn’t win.
Accept it and help the country be better for the next election.
That's exactly the GOP playbook you are parroting.
They took ownership of 'election integrity', but it turns out it was just part of the big lie.
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Spanish and pro-Palestine people voted for him, the same ones getting deported and shocked for no giving a fuck about Gaza.
It's like jews voting for Hitler, after him repeatedly said that they are the problem
A plurality, not a majority.
He may only have been short of the majority by a fraction of a percent, but no sense in giving him any more credit than is due or contributing to the myth of a mandate.
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Isn’t it known that Melania is his handler?
That's mostly the problem, it is all "known" just by being obvious, no actual proof. But you'd think being obvious would at least be enough to prevent him from getting elected, lol. Hell, at this point, I'm not even sure if proof would have done the trick...
Yes but she's only trained to handle small packages.
For the larger work efforts there is someone else appointed.
Donnie Jr. publicly boasted that the Russian banks loved his daddy.
Trump is a Russian asset. This has been known for years.
Our alphabet soup (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) have far more information about this than the general public. This has been known for years.
His base does not care. This has also been known for years.
Congress, who has the power to impeach and remove a Russian asset sitting in the Oval Office, will do exactly nothing about it. This has also been known for years.
In other words: We know, nobody cares, it doesn't matter. Nobody's going to do anything about it.
It does seem odd that the intelligence community seems to have been totally compromised. You'd think the cia, who has done quite a few coups themselves would have seen this coming and done something about it.
To be fair the CIA and FBI, like all other law enforcement, has spent literal decades training their agents to view US citizens as "the enemy."
They have simply have no way to wrap their heads around the idea of doing anything about it. The CIA was created as a weapon for the government to point at their enemies. They don't know how to respond when that government is the enemy.
The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1959 and was made a movie in 1962. I guarantee that the people who do game theory about coups and nuclear war have thought about a willing or unwilling traitor in power. It’s one of the most confusing things about all this that they haven’t done anything to stop it.
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Sure they do. They just don't want to because they're complicit in it happening.
They have always worked for the oligarchs. And the oligarchs are either in on this as well or find it useful.
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It was pretty widely known in the intelligence community that Trump was compromised, yet here we are
I think we can see that pretty clearly considering the sudden love for Russia throughout our entire administration and pulling out of Ukraine, the best value for our military spending in decades.
On the other end, my fellow citizens are extremely stupid too.
It's not 'sudden.'
Trump Tower has been selling luxury housing the Russians for decades.
Story from 2017
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Also here's him criticizing NATO after visiting Russia in 1987
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-letter-foreign-policy-september-2-1987/
Truth Is Stupider Than Fiction Dept.
The Travis McGee novels from John D. MacDonald are still in print. "A Deadly Shade Of Gold" was released in 1965. Travis is a Florida beach bum and unlicensed investigator. When an old friend pops up and is then brutally murdered, Travis begins to investigate.
One of the characters in this romp is a California millionaire. He inherited his money and is now working hand in glove with the KGB for 'kicks.'
A pulp fiction writer came up with the adult Donald Trump while the real one was still huffing airplane glue.