Don’t worry guys. The threat of sanctions was plenty. Russia is already reigned in.
Winnnnnninggggg
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Is that the Russian government’s official line? Also, how do school shootings and gay marriage in the US affect Russian life?
Or is that the implied message: if you don’t vote in the election we’ll become Murica.
Yes. Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t throw a rabbi in the mix.
In a nutshell:
Yes, the standard of living in the US is still higher than in Russia, but what are you complaining about? You’ve got an apartment, an iphone, a big ass TV, you drive a non-Russian car, there’s a Starbucks nearby and you can afford a vacation in Turkey or Egypt. Sure, the US supposedly has “democracy”, but what’s the point - our President is so much smarter than all of their politicians combined, including Hillary. Yes, you’d earn more if you’d move to the US, but do you really, really want to be around so many black people with gays openly strutting around and kids shooting each other in schools? Mother Russia is somewhat poorer but so much safer.
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You’re forgetting that US cops actually arrest you for DUI. In Russia they stop you and give you vodka lol.
Well, things are changing - younger generations drink less, they still get hammered but it’s more during vacation and on weekends, much like in the West - they’re not 24/7 drunk like the old guard.
Actually, vodka culture was imposed top-down by the central government, starting from Ivan the Terrible as a reaction to bloody serf revolts that almost destroyed the country.
Peasants were forced to gulp down vodka from government owned taverns in a system of daily quotas until they became alcoholics. The Russian Tsars understood that the peasants won’t rebel if they’re constantly drunk and basically turned everybody into drunkards. The Soviets simply copied the system that survived (survives?) until very recently.
Russians tried to introduce prohibition twice - in 1917 and 1988 respectively. On both those occasions the Tsarist Empire and the USSR respectively collapsed.
Before you start laughing “ha, ha crazy Russians”, the Russians make a pretty convincing case that pot serves the same purpose in the US.
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No argument here. But it’s not just pot: NFL, Game of Thrones, Music, Movies etc…
Panem et circenses. It’s a really old, really effective formula.
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Seriously?! Holy shit I did not know that.
I love learning new things
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As a guy who may or may not have tried pot in the last half hour, I take offense at putting pot in the same category as the NFL.
Pot is soooooo much better, and it provides like 1000x the tax revenue
edit: stupid massive smileys
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Oh Boy! Do they have conveniently short memories or what?
It’s a matter of perception, not facts. For example, during communism we had mandatory screenings of blaxploitation movies for kids - we pretty much believed that the US is awash in (black) crime and that the US population is at least 50% black drug dealers. Which explain cartoonish racism of Russian immigrants in the US.
Russian (and Chinese) systems work precisely because people have long memories “if this isn’t good enough for you we can always get back to good old times of Stalin and Mao when we were killing millions”
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Oh man some dry snitching going on this week
Guccifer 2.0 → Roger Stone → Donald Trump
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Tin foil hat activated
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But Putin said he didn’t do it
Donald Trump’s Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates was in direct communication with a person he knew was a Russian spy in the weeks ahead of the 2016 election, according to court documents filed by special counsel Robert Mueller Tuesday.
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Nothing to see here folks… I guess we now know which “ally country in the Baltics” tipped off the US authorities about Trump…
They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.
In 2010, a small group of businessmen including a wealthy Russian supporter of Vladimir Putin began working on plans to build a glitzy hotel and entertainment complex with Donald Trump in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
A senior Trump executive visited the city to scout for locations. Trump and his daughter Ivanka spent hours at Trump Tower with the Russian, Igor Krutoy, who also knows attendees of a fateful meeting at the same building during the 2016 US election campaign.
Then the Latvian government’s anti-corruption bureau began asking questions.
The Guardian has learned that talks with Trump’s company were abandoned after Krutoy and another of the businessmen were questioned by Latvian authorities as part of a major criminal inquiry there – and that the FBI later looked into Trump’s interactions with them at Latvia’s request.
Those involved deny that the inquiry was to blame for the deal’s collapse.
Latvia asked the US for assistance in 2014 and received a response from the FBI the following year, according to a source familiar with the process. Latvian investigators also examined secret recordings in which Trump was mentioned by a suspect.
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Thought you’d like this synopsis on recent events:
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That awkward moment when Russia’s still fucking with us but our POTUS has twice as much sand in his vagina as HRC at her peak and still won’t impose the sanctions he signed.
And this is said with full knowledge that it takes a hella lot to get Trump to sign his name on something, given he couldn’t even sign his own Stormy hush contract.
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He actually did (finally) enact the sanctions. I am still unclear if he enacted exactly what Congress nearly-unanimously passed. This was, of course, after the UK and pretty much everyone else took action after Putin tried to off that former spy (and his daughter) on British soil.
I thought those sanctions were in response to the Russian attempted hack of the energy grid?
Nvm I just found the article. Guess it was at executive branch discretion which of the sanctions to enact. What a fuckin joke lol.
edit:
LOLOLOLOL
“They are going to have to decide whether or not they want to be a good actor or a bad actor,” press secretary Sarah Sanders said. “I think you can see from the actions we have taken up until this point we are going to be tough on Russia until they start to change their behavior.”
Tough on Russia. Is that what she calls it?
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