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Russian commentators note, rightly, that sooner or later, the Democrats will come back into power," and theyre already joking about offering Trump asylum.Julia Davis
Updated Dec. 16, 2019 10:55AM ET / Published Dec. 16, 2019 10:12AM ET
Sometimes a picture doesnt have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, Russian state media was gloating over the spectacle. TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled Puppet Master and AgentHow to Understand Lavrovs Meeting With Trump.
Vesti Nedeli, a Sunday news show on the same network, pointed out that it was Trump, personally, who asked Lavrov to pose standing near as Trump sat at his desk. Its almost the literal image of a power behind the throne.
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Russian state television still views the impending impeachment as a bump in the road that wont lead to Trumps removal from office. But President Vladimir Putins propaganda brigades enjoy watching the heightened divisions in the United States, and how it hurts relations between the U.S. and Ukraine.
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The host, Vladimir Soloviev, smugly asked: Should we get another apartment in Rostov ready? Solovievs allusion was to the situation of Viktor Yanukovych, former president of Ukraine, who was forced to flee to Russia in 2014 and settled in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-state-tv-calls-trump-their-agent
The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,274 posts)triron
(22,240 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,582 posts)Only compromised repugs can look the other way. It's deeply alarming and makes my blood boil.
bluestarone
(17,855 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,274 posts)Sooner or later, the Democrats will come back into power. The next term or the term after that, it doesnt matter... I have an even more unpleasant forecast for Trump. After the White House, he will face a very unhappy period. Once the useful idiot is no longer useful, will the oligarchs call in their loans?
Crowman2009
(2,722 posts)He'll be under house arrest with stipend of 500 rubles a month when he flees to Moscow.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,274 posts)lastlib
(24,396 posts)courtesy of Apparat-Chik-Fil-A, wid all da trimmin's: lettuce, ketchup, mustard, polonium.....Yummy!
I hope he eats it.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(10,479 posts)Now the thoughts that cross my mind are not really healthy. But thinking those thoughts are kinda cathartic.
Wawannabe
(6,080 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,566 posts)are even an American political party.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)With his shit-eating grin in full view.
DENVERPOPS
(9,610 posts)It couldn't have been any clearer unless Trump was standing and the russian was seated in the chair.
My russian friend, who is contact with his friends and family back in Russia says the Russian people are laughing hysterically at how easily Putin has trashed america......He also says they are laughing at how easily Putin has played Trump.......
SWBTATTReg
(23,566 posts)laughing along w/ their Russian counterparts too, being that rump and cronies were so easily manipulated, and how pathetic they are.
But on the other hand, being that we also live in the US, and have to deal w/ the consequences of dealing w/ these MAGA maggots on a daily basis, it's not a party cruise, and will make us all stronger in the long term.
Personally, I think that it's making all of us (for the most part) realize just how fragile our democracy is, and how ignorant others can be, if given a platform to spew their ridiculous and hateful rhetoric, such as that of Steven Miller, etc. Steps will be taken in the future to not allow such a travesty to ever happen again in our Country. 2020 can not get here soon enough.
DENVERPOPS
(9,610 posts)I am focused on the night of the election, the next day, and the days following that.
We have never seen anything near what is going to play out....Regardless of which side wins, but especially if the Repubs win. Katie Bar The Door.....
WASF
Liberal In Texas
(14,189 posts)And make no bones about it on their media.
Repugs, you really ought to wake up.
Hekate
(93,581 posts)They know, all right.
They are mocking Trump (who is too stupid to read his own intelligence services' reports) -- and they are mocking us, all of the US.
shanti
(21,702 posts)Putin loves fucking with us.
progressoid
(50,425 posts)Or if they do hear it, they don't believe it.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)During the hearings, I never heard a single Dem say "criminal". Not once. Maybe I missed it?
But they SHOULD have shouted it from the rooftops!
And if it was just one or two, pinched-voiced nerd moments, that's not good enough. The Republicans have to MAKE UP their accusations of criminal wrongdoing. As Abramson notes in another DU post today, here is crime IN PLAIN SIGHT. Use it people. And REPEAT IT!!!!!!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!!!
NoMoreRepugs
(10,244 posts)running fruitless campaigns, broadcast these kinds of things in print and TV ads across the country. Be true Patriots and spend your $$$$$ defending the Democracy that provided you the opportunity to become Billionaires.
End of rant.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!!
TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL!!!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)We need a thousand thoughtful and strategic messaging solutions. The Democrats have brilliance on their side. The only thing holding us back are ourselves!
matt819
(10,749 posts)But I'll wager (haha)) that the online betting sites will eventually take bets on whether trump will move to and/or seek asylum from Russia or another non-extradition country. I would say right now that the odds are 65-35 that he will. 50-50 on the rest of the grifters.
While we're on the subject of the grifters, wtf happened with the Weisman guy, supposedly the many who knew all the secrets but got federal immunity and managed, it seems, not to have provided any secrets.
Lonestarblue
(11,344 posts)Its hard to believe that over 40% of people polled do not believe Trump should be impeached or removed from office. I wish pollsters would add one question to their polls, which would likely bring out utter hypocrisy and that question is: If Clinton had won the presidency and refused to cooperate with the investigation into Russian election interference and then asked a foreign leader to create dirt on her major political opponent for the 2020 election, would you support impeachment and removal?
The answer from Trumps cult would not only be a resounding yes, but hell yes. Hypocrites one and all.
wnylib
(23,663 posts)are being made aware of Russian TV comments about Trump. Part of their divide and disrupt program.
Funtatlaguy
(11,525 posts)This isnt the Onion?
keithbvadu2
(39,143 posts)"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03
Gothmog
(152,036 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,146 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,582 posts)Capitalists will sell you the rope with which to hang them? Greedy repubs are so easy to corrupt, and il drumpf is their God.
catbyte
(35,340 posts)JDC
(10,350 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,147 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,885 posts)It's so seldom that we see little Donny with a genuine smile.