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Dan Rather ✔ @DanRather
Vladimir Putin didn't just attack American elections. It was an attack on the entire United States meant to undermine our democracy and national security. Seeing President Trump joke with Putin about this shows where the loyalties of the President of the United States really lie.
8:24 AM - Jun 28, 2019
Botany
(70,567 posts)And Mitch McConnell was in on it too.
And they're still at it! Treason in plain sight.
I never thought I'd live to see a moment like this.
Since 2000, I've been saying, every election, that we're fighting for the soul of our country. But we are now really in the climactic battle for our country not only for our Constitution and our collective soul, but also, given T's multiple betrayals, for our very survival as a nation.
It's a battle that will take every once of emotional strength, strategic smarts, sustained commitment, and resources to win. And it's one that we've GOT to win.
Botany
(70,567 posts)And so he blocked Merrick Garland for even getting a vote to be on the SCOTUS.
MBS
(9,688 posts)One of the worst moments in the history of our democracy.
McConnell and Trump are the lowest forms of life and need to be brought to account.
Botany
(70,567 posts)McConnell knows that the elections and the machines are dirty and likes it that way.
MBS
(9,688 posts)gleefully destroying our democracy for personal gain. I like to think that I'm balanced enough to find at least nuggets of good attributes even in "complicated" people.
But, sorry, McConnell and Trump are pure evil. They are also unapologetic about their evil and they bring out the darkness in others, besides.
Botany
(70,567 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)Needs to be hanged for it.
Bluepinky
(2,276 posts)He has done more to undermine our country than anyone else.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)I consider his actions to warrant an indictment for treason in that he has taken action to assist an sworn enemy of our nation to destroy fair elections. I think bastard should be tried and then hung if found guilty of treason. I am not saying this as hyperbole, but as actionable evidence.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Barr and Rosenstein are part of it too.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)Don't think they didn't see the opportunity to co-opt that movement a long time ago and they have co-opted it.
spanone
(135,861 posts)lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)they are all too busy trying to ENSURE that there is going to be a close primary race (republican strategist on MSNBC saying what a horrible night Biden had... WTF).
A close primary race ensures more viewers... more of the story to cover.
It wouldn't matter who the front runner is... they would skew this to make it seem like the front runner "lost".
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)Did you notice Little Man Vlad Putin smirking during the whole press conference? Even the orange Traitor joined in a smirk now and then.
It's a sure sign of a psychopath to smirk at the misery they create.
Those 2 psychos are having a gay old time.
EleanorR
(2,393 posts)What an embarrassing bunch of cowards republicans have become. Just add that to the list, they are now the party of liars, cons, cheats, and pathetic cowards.
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)bdamomma
(63,918 posts)He is as guilty as sin and has been holding hands with Putin for a very long time. Both thugs and screwing the American people and our country. Let him move to Russia if he loves it so much. No put him in Prison next to Manafort.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)inwiththenew
(972 posts)The how they won is immaterial. They look at it as a zero sum game that if they are winning their power is expanding. This idea that we are all Americans and there is some underlying thing that crosses partisan lines is as dead as disco. We are a balkanized nation that is held together by shoe strings and bubble gum. I think the next time we have a big economic downturn things are going to get ugly.
Traffic Interruptus
(38 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)Republicans is that what works in Russia can work just as well in America. Of this there can be little doubt. Think for one minute of all the horrible implications.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Come on now. Everybody, all together.
"REPUBLICANS are the traitors !!"
Politicub
(12,165 posts)It's no surprise Trump wants to become a dictator. He's a piece of garbage and is used to being surrounded by yes-men. He's unaccustomed to anyone telling him no.
But what I don't understand is the number of Americans who support him and his behavior. It's like we're in the twilight zone.
When you think there's no lower he can go, he finds a way to dig deeper.
happyaccident
(136 posts)Are the right race, ethnicity and sexual orientation, at first fascism isn't that bad and hate as a guiding force can work for awhile. It's the fringe that gets hurt, it's up to that "normal" majority to make it their fight too. Of course in the end the fascist state eats it's own too...
BarbD
(1,193 posts)Putin controls our president, our senate and the republican party. He has succeeded in getting the republicans to systematically destroy our government. It is no accident that Trump has failed to fill vacancies thereby letting our government drift in impotence.
It is obvious that the only way we can recapture our democracy is by getting out the vote for Democrats up and down the ticket.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,453 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Skittles
(153,180 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)to expand their power base.
They have an excellent chance to succeed. Whoops, sorry! They have succeeded.
Now we get a chance, to attempt, to put it all back together.
At the very least, it should be interesting.
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)That's why they don't have to worry about hiding it. They can allow a dufuss like Trump to be out in the open with his treason and not have to take steps to shut him up.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)vapor2
(1,249 posts)HE IS A TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY, PERIOD
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Waiting for the final results of 2020? Ask Putin, or impeach the treasonous motherfucker already!
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)They know the size of every screen star's boobs and will debate football for hours, but don't know how Congress operates, have never read the Bill of Rights, and can't manage their own money. The system caters to stupid people who think autopilot gives the best results, that you can do democracy on 30 minutes a year and only then when Reality TV stars joke with you. This is a marked reversal from the 1950s. There was serious journalism on TV then, and it counted for a lot since there were only 3 channels.
We have been dumbed down. And you can't argue with them. They have stupidly rigid thinking. Facts and logic do not matter. Science is the Devil to them. If it's not instant, illogical, and counterintuitive, it makes no sense to them.
You remember the Russian experiments where they could move an object across the table without touching it? We are there. No one wants to see the magnets under the table.