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Democrats_win

(6,539 posts)
Tue May 30, 2017, 12:20 PM May 2017

Nothing good happens after midnight or with Russian economic deals.

After midnight, you are either committing a crime, are a victim of a crime or are being chased by the police. As for Russia, the Trumps-Kushners want to get into bed with them (to join the kleptocracy?). Where is the GOP common sense? These guys are toxic. Consider:

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has been criticized for running a kleptocracy, in which a small number of rent-seeking plutocrats drain the economy. Russia was ranked second in the world on The Economist's 2014 crony-capitalism index.

"Russia was already near a recession before the Crimean crisis, and Russia ranks low on the World Economic Forum's rankings of road quality, technological adaptation, and burden of government regulation. Russia's already-weak economy left it less able to withstand the challenges imposed by low oil prices and international sanctions. The Russian Central Bank's "erratic response" to the falling ruble has also been blamed for deepening the crisis."

from: Wikipedia's Russian financial crisis (2014–2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014%E2%80%932017)

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Nothing good happens after midnight or with Russian economic deals. (Original Post) Democrats_win May 2017 OP
Bad Haiku... Freelancer May 2017 #1
KGOP has been selling their common sense for Rubles in Campaign Funding over the years... Trump did MedusaX May 2017 #2
Just a feeling I have, but DefenseLawyer May 2017 #3

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
2. KGOP has been selling their common sense for Rubles in Campaign Funding over the years... Trump did
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:02 PM
May 2017

NOT bring Russia into our Government....

Russia's investment in KGOP gave Vlad the opportunity to put *45 in the WH ....

KGOP is not naive nor blind nor beholden to *45...

KGOP is a collective Russian asset that pre-dates the 2016 election.....

It is both unreasonable and unrealistic to think that KGOP will wake up, come to their senses or even momentarily stop to consider their actions....

If they simply dig in and 'stay the course' long enough....it won't even matter what their constituency says...
They will be able to retain power through non-democratic methods...

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
3. Just a feeling I have, but
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:09 PM
May 2017

I think Republican politicians were getting money from Russian oligarchs long before Trump and his Russian entanglements rolled into town.

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