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Doonesbury, October 24, 1999 (Original Post)
ehrnst
Oct 2019
OP
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)2. The warning signs were in flashing neon
dweller
(23,646 posts)3. sad it took 20 years to get it ...
N/F'N/T
✌🏼
2naSalit
(86,665 posts)4. Yikes!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)5. Trudeau is clairvoyant!
New Breed Leader
(625 posts)6. Prophetic.
SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)7. Holy crap.
Damn.
Spot on.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)9. Doonestradamus
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)10. Trump just waited....
until the citizenry of the United States was sufficiently ignorant enough for a shit-weasel like him to slip in under the doormat. And it happened! Tuesday November 8, 2016 was the perfect aligning of the stars for Trump and his deplorables. The rest, as they say, is history.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)11. He's run before, but Putin saw that he had a real tool with DT in 2016, so that's
a large part of why DT had the help to to steal the election from the winner. They've been gathering Kompromat on him since at least 2013, and it was ripe in 2016 - and Putin hates Hillary Rodham Clinton with the heat of a thousand suns, so he deployed DT, as well as the far right and far left in this country against her.
With the protesters accusing Putin of having rigged recent elections, the Russian leader pointed an angry finger at Clinton, who had issued a statement sharply critical of the voting results. She said they were dishonest and unfair, Putin fumed in public remarks, saying that Clinton gave a signal to demonstrators working with the support of the U.S. State Department to undermine his power. We need to safeguard ourselves from this interference in our internal affairs, Putin declared.
Five years later, Putin may be seeking revenge against Clinton. At least thats the implication of the view among some cybersecurity experts that Russia was behind the recent hack of the Democratic National Committees email server, which has sowed confusion and dissent at the Democratic National Convention and undercut Clintons goal of party unity.
While Donald Trumps budding bromance with Vladimir Putin is well known the two men have exchanged admiring words about each other and called for improved relations between Washington and Moscow Putins hostility towards Clinton draws less attention.
Former U.S. officials who worked on Russia policy with Clinton say that Putin was personally stung by Clintons December 2011 condemnation of Russias parliamentary elections, and had his anger communicated directly to President Barack Obama. They say Putin and his advisers are also keenly aware that, even as she executed Obamas reset policy with Russia, Clinton took a harder line toward Moscow than others in the administration.
Five years later, Putin may be seeking revenge against Clinton. At least thats the implication of the view among some cybersecurity experts that Russia was behind the recent hack of the Democratic National Committees email server, which has sowed confusion and dissent at the Democratic National Convention and undercut Clintons goal of party unity.
While Donald Trumps budding bromance with Vladimir Putin is well known the two men have exchanged admiring words about each other and called for improved relations between Washington and Moscow Putins hostility towards Clinton draws less attention.
Former U.S. officials who worked on Russia policy with Clinton say that Putin was personally stung by Clintons December 2011 condemnation of Russias parliamentary elections, and had his anger communicated directly to President Barack Obama. They say Putin and his advisers are also keenly aware that, even as she executed Obamas reset policy with Russia, Clinton took a harder line toward Moscow than others in the administration.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-putin-226153