In his first interview, Alex Vindman calls Trump a "free chicken" for the Russians

[kpete]

"In the Army, we call this ‘free chicken,’ something you don’t have to work for—it just comes to you. This is what the Russians have in Trump: free chicken.”

Link to tweet

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/alexander-vindman-trump-putin-useful-idiot/616341/

[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. Trump is so enamored of dictators that he's willing to do anything for them.

He publicly professed his love for Kim Jong Un and the adoring looks he's given to Putin are a strong tell.
It's been written that Trump's father was a cruel bully. Maybe he's got daddy issues.

[atreides1]

14. Okay

That would mean his cult are just as willing to sell this country out, too!!!

[GeorgeGist]

22. As long as it 'owns the libs' ...

anything goes.

[edhopper]

26. Not willing to

they already have.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. And what happens when usefulness runs out?...

I really don’t need an answer...I know.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. The chicken gets put in a pot.

[Blue Owl]

6. Bags of chicken soup

n/t

[Dem_in_Nebr.]

34. Yuck!! Trump Soup!!

Double yuck!!

[JHB]

10. Trump Paradise Severny Resort

[Lars39]

3. Trump's family is "free chicken", too.

[dchill]

36. Stuffing.

[Ninga]

5. Preach! Circulate! Tweet! Outstanding article.

[tanyev]

7. Marking to read later.

[greenjar_01]

8. OUCH

That's gonna leave a mark.

[JI7]

9. We need to use this regularly

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[lastlib]

19. Stealing! n/t

[niyad]

12. KNR and bookmarking.

[Me.]

13. I LOve That Phrase

It should be used every day, all day.

[underpants]

21. I have to say I hadn't heard it.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Putin's Free Chicken

If the wattles fit...

[Baked Potato]

16. So fitting for Dump.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Trump is just a big orange chicken nugget to Putin, dipped in Murdoch and Twitter sauce.

Apologies for any nauseating images that may create.......


KY......

[SheltieLover]

20. +1

[Traildogbob]

18. Duty chicken

In the Navy when doing a long at sea period food would run low. So there was an on duty chicken that cooks would dip into hot water to fool us into believing we were eating chicken soup. Putin dips Trump into our social media to make the fools believe we have a leader. After a while we believed dipped duty chicken soup was ok. When your starving you don’t think straight. Now 35 percent of abandoned fools are starving for Help, and believed trump was real chicken soup.

[klook]

24. Great analogy. Thanks for the info. (nt)

[flotsam]

23. Time to give Trump a Big Chicken Dinner!

(BCD) army slang for a bad conduct discharge.

[ffr]

25. Their sense of duty and patriotism gives me great pride

That there are still patriots out there like them.

[TheRealNorth]

27. I don't think Trump is a "useful idiot"

He is aware enough of what he is doing. The Republican voters that still support him are the useful idiots.

[DTomlinson]

30. This. Trump doesn't need Putin's blackmail to be a destructive piece of shit. That's who he is!

[Bayard]

28. Where's the tweet storm?

Chickens do tweet.

I admire Alex Vindman.

[DTomlinson]

29. Regardless of Putin's strategy, Trump and the GOP have been destructive for decades.

Trump is an all too American figure - representative of the worst of America, to be clear, but American all the same.

[patphil]

31. A chicken in every pot.

A feast for Putin and his ilk.

[Hekate]

32. KnR

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Tee hee! Love that phrase.

[captain queeg]

35. I'll bet that felt good to say!

[Cha]

38. No Kidding, right!

[Cha]

37. Rt.. Putin's the Only one trump is "useful"

for

[sandensea]

39. Calling all cartoonists....