It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

[finnbow]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Bringing a tumultuous chapter of American history to an abrupt conclusion, Donald J. Trump and three of his adult children fled to Moscow in the early hours of Friday morning.

Accompanied by Ivanka, Eric, and Don, Jr., Trump boarded a specially chartered Aeroflot plane to take him to his new home in Moscow, a nondescript apartment building that also houses the former N.S.A. employee Edward Snowden.

Trump reportedly was in a tremendous hurry to catch the plane and left behind only a one-sentence note, reading, “THERE WAS NO COLUSION [sic].”

At the White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that the Trump family had fled to Moscow, telling reporters, “The Trump family has not fled to Moscow.”

The arrangements for the Trumps’ exit were finalized last week in the one-on-one conversation between Trump and Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki, a translator who was present during the conversation has confirmed.

According to the translator, Trump told Putin, “We’ll move to Moscow as soon as Ivanka winds down her crappy company.”

Those who witnessed Trump’s departure indicated that his wife, Melania, did not board the Aeroflot plane with him, but saw him off at the airport with a cordial “Be best.”

[Rajoo]

Here is a snippet from a good opinion piece.

A wing of the Republican Party is preparing to double down and support the Russian autocracy, which it believes, mistakenly, is “Christian.” While the Pentagon and parts of the bureaucracy — the State Department, the FBI — certainly understand the need to push back in Europe, the White House certainly does not. Which side the Republican Party will end up on is anybody’s guess. Authoritarian tactics, from pressure on the media to pressure on the courts, clearly appeal to the party’s base.

This matters because Butina is at most the tip of the iceberg, one of the sillier, more junior players in a broader game. Far more important are Russian oligarchs bearing bribes or Russian hackers probing vulnerabilities in our political system as well as our electrical grid. To push back against them, as well as their equivalents from the rest of the autocratic world, we will need not only to catch the odd agent but also to make our political funding systems more transparent, to write new laws banning shell companies and money laundering, and to end the manipulation of social media. It took more than a generation for Americans to reject the temptations of communist authoritarianism; it will take more than a generation before we have defeated kleptocratic authoritarianism too — if we still can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.e1bb89097123

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Here is a snippet from a good opinion piece.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.e1bb89097123

Very interesting piece. When the Russians came at us from the left, the unions ultimately broke capitalist. I wonder if the corporate generosity vis a vis the unions in the 50s and 60s was just due to the bargaining power the communists gave them, or if there was actually a sort of explicit payoff?

Anyway, are there now enough forces available to turn this threat from the right? Will the center hold?

[Chicks]

Trump’s Former Lawyer Blasts Giuliani for “Damaging Trump’s Case Immeasurably”

Thanks, Rudy! What a bunch of clowns.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...easurably.html

[Chicks]

[Rajoo]

^^Brilliant and there are T's on sale with that logo.
Sad truth is that a majority of the Trumpturds will not get the implication.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

^^Brilliant and there are T's on sale with that logo.
Sad truth is that a majority of the Trumpturds will not get the implication.

What implication? Hammer and Sickle? Communism?

The present leaders in Russia have nothing in common with those of the USSR.

These leaders want to ship out Russian wealth as quickly as possible.
They were looking to Trump as an agent.

Unfortunately for them congress has limited Trump.
Sanctions have forced the oligarchs to look inward. Less shopping spree in Paris, London, New York etc., less education abroad for family members, less stashing of funds abroad and boosting of the London financial system.

The Magnitsky Act has really f*^ked the Oligarchs.

They have to spend and invest more of their money in places like Kazan, Novosibirsk.

Funds outside of Russia face the possibility of freeze.
Russian educational institutions should now see a marked investment.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

What implication? Hammer and Sickle? Communism?

Its makes a bold statement regarding the political status of the GOP and will get people's attention. The GOP is kowtowing to Putin like Trump and question is why. There is more to it that fear of Twitter in the Dotard's hands. This logo serves as a constant reminder and besides I will look good in it.

How representative is the the red, white and blue flag adopted by the KGB led nation?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

...The present leaders in Russia have nothing in common with those of the USSR...

Other than they're also devious, corrupt and ruthless kleptocrats with worldly ambitions.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Other than they're also devious, corrupt and ruthless kleptocrats with worldly ambitions.

And the guy in charge is deeply rooted in the KGB...