Hmm, well, that’s not what I said, but he isn’t simply asking other countries to pay more - he’s trying to publicly humiliate longstanding allies into doing that while making doe eyes at the enemy NATO was formed to repel. Keep trying, though. Liberty through aligning ourselves with illiberal regimes!
You mean other than the two I mentioned, attacking the free press and unnecessarily involving the power of the presidency in private affairs?
You mean that thing I had to explain to you?
Oh, how did I forget? Actively trying to undermine the integrity of investigation into his actions.
Given that that expression, ends justify the means, was born from a conversation that took place in Hell, I would say that means do matter.
Not sure how you square the circle formed by ‘the tax cuts were appropriate’ and ‘the ballooning of the deficit/debt secondary to tax cuts was inappropriate.’ But I take your point that I didn’t internalize your reference to the balanced-budget issue.
Whataboutism doesn’t really resolve the tension between Trump’s actions and the family-values conservatism supposedly characteristic of the GOP.
Sure. Just about every utterance he makes. The words of the POTUS carry great weight in shaping the national discourse. And through his words, he is normalizing autocracy (among other bêtes noires).
“Make Russia Great Again:” should be the slogan.
Drive a wedge between the U.S. and it’s NATO allies. Check.
Undermine one of the most, if not the most important exercises of a Democracy; voting. Check.
Undermine the credibility of the Democratic institutions from Intelligence to a Free Press. Check.
Via Cyber Espionage; sew discord, mis-information and Fake News (“true” fake news), in and among all forms of Western Media and Communication. Check.
And in the “Blood-less Coup” of all Coups:
Have an American President who is at the very least indifferent too all of your actions.
Check. Check…and Check…
(…I can’t wait to see what comes out of this “Putin Summit”…)
I ask for actions, you site words. You see my point?
Trump sucks royally. He’s not near as bad as the left’s histrionics.
(Trey Gowdy on the “Putin Summit”):
“…Ask Putin where we can pick up the 25 indicted Russians…”
One last word on this “summit” (until we see what comes out of it)…
John Bolton.
Who lived on FOX and stayed up President Obama’s ass for eight years… criticizing him with every move he made…
You know what he says about the “Putin Summit”?
“…We are not looking for any concrete deliverables…”
(What the hell does that even mean?)
I guess things are not as simple and easy as he made it seem for eight years…
It doesn’t mean anything yet. Afterwards, it will mean something.
No, I truly don’t, because the words of the POTUS matter. They are actions in and of themselves.
We shall see about that.
It means he is frantically trying to reduce expectations.
This needs to be emphasized.
The ironic thing is that Conservatives believed this when it came to President Obama…
But Trump? “It’s just Trump being Trump…”
Yeah, it also very entrepreneurial that he’s moonlighting as a Russian propagandist. I guess there’s gonna be plenty of layoffs in Kremlin now in the creative propaganda department - after all one only has to like/confirm whatever the POTUS says…
You beat me to it, @loppar.
Unbelievable…just unbelievable…
So, our DOJ indicts close to 20 Russian operatives (unrelated to collusion charges) and Trump’s immediate response is to defend Russia, lament that we’ve treated Russia shabbily, and try to undermine the integrity of the indictments?
You know, just like Reagan would have!
You mean like how Nixon would have?
Trump blames America first.
In one fell swoop, President Trump blamed poor U.S. relations with Russia on the “foolishness and stupidity” of his predecessors in the Oval Office as well as on a criminal and counterintelligence investigation, authorized by Trump’s own Department of Justice, that only days earlier indicted 12 Russian military intelligence agents for interference in the 2016 election. Trump did not attribute those bad relations on Putin’s aggressive incursion and annexation Crimea, territory held by our ally Ukraine, in 2014; not on Putin’s war against the sovereign state of Georgia six years earlier; not on more than a decade of Russian pressure on our allies in eastern Europe; not on Putin’s propping up of Bashar al-Assad’s murderous regime in Syria; not on Russia vetoing six U.S.-backed UN resolutions against Assad since 2012; not on Russia’s courting of ostensible U.S. ally Turkey away from Washington and into Moscow’s sphere of influence; not for Putin’s terrible record on freedom in his own country; and not for numerous other offenses to the free world Putin has so cavalierly made in his nearly two decades of power.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/michael-warren/trump-blames-america-first
For Trump every day is Rusev Day.
Bad Hombres? he was talking about human traffickers south of the border. They are Mexican. Not surprising as that is Mexico. That’s far from code that’s just stating a fact
Dear Calling someone deplorable. That is not code. Her meaning was plainly stated, look the word up in the dictionary
