Trump: "The United States and Russia Have Always Been Close Allies..."

[MineralMan]

And so the Newspeak goes. A lie told often enough, gets accepted as truth by ignorant people. We're seeing that in action more and more every day.

On edit: (apparently this was needed.... )

[NightWatcher]

1. What about the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and a generation of movies like Red Dawn and Rocky IV

trump has been a Russia fanboy since the early 80's.

[MineralMan]

4. You don't understand. Those are all just lies from the past.

Listen to the Newspeak. It is truth.

[standingtall]

12. That's right it was the Soviet Union we had trouble with not Russia

Russia was never even part of the Soviet Union. Got it. We never ever banned any of our citizens from traveling to Moscow any documentation that says other wise is also lie from the past.

[MineralMan]

15. See. Now you're understanding better.

Good citizen!

[Coventina]

11. That was the USSR! Not Russia! Two totally different things!!!

[MineralMan]

16. Of course. Trump's friend, Vlad, had nothing to do

with that horrible USSR. No. He's, well, almost an American, really. He only thinks of what is best for "The American People."

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[NightWatcher]

23. Like the KGB isn't the KGB because they changed their name?

Sure, haha

[Coventina]

25. You got it, comrade! Uh, er, FRIEND!!

[unblock]

2. translation: benedict donald has a long business history with russians.

particularly with those on the sanctions list.

[dalton99a]

19. Bingo.

[rzemanfl]

3. I am so pissed at my teachers for making me hide under my desk all those times.

[ck4829]

5. "We have never been in conflict with Russia, we've always been in conflict with teh Muslims"

[SweetieD]

6. Yet somehow he hates cuba? Did he forget history?

[MineralMan]

7. Oh, dear...

Please read the original post again. Trump did not actually say that. The thread is satire. Have you read the novel, "1984?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

[SweetieD]

8. I've read 1984 a couple of times. I thought Trump really said this though because it was in quotes

He has said so many crazy things. It would not be unbelievable for him to say this.

And nothing about the original post sounds like satire. They just write a quote attributable to him and say it sounds like newspeak.

[MineralMan]

9. Yes. That's how satire works.

[SweetieD]

13. It is bad satire then. And no that is not how it works.

[MineralMan]

18. Satire that is not misunderstood by some is failed satire.

[Corgigal]

10. Is that for his 27 percent?

The rest of us are well read.

[MineralMan]

14. Yes. For that lot and some others.

[Cosmocat]

17. YEP, this is now reality for over a third of the country now

nm

[TlalocW]

20. To say otherwise

Is double-plus ungood.

TlalocW

[MineralMan]

22. You are correct, of course.

[Historic NY]

21. When, forgetting Russian were aligned with the Nazi's first...

forgot that the Russians stole and copied by hand our B-29, forgot Russians only got involved in Pacific to gain territory, forgot Russians flew North Korean Migs against our troops. Forgot Russians flew North Vietnamese Migs against our planes, forgot Russians were bringing ICBM to Cuban 90 miles away from Florida, forgot Russians under the guise of Syrians attack American aligned fighters, there are just so many forgots.....with friends like the Russians who need enemies.

Satire vs reality.....the Onion is more real today, then was passes for journalism.

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. "Many people don't know that." nt

[left-of-center2012]

26. You ...

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Then why did your "father", Roy Cohn, have the Rosenbergs executed?

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[gratuitous]

32. Weird, huh?

Ethel Rosenberg was executed for spying on less evidence than there currently is for Donald Jr. and Jared Kushner.

[sinkingfeeling]

28. That from someone born in the 1940s. Guess he didn't have to crawl under

his school desk in private school.

[WinkyDink]

29. So this is a fiction? Because I take BP meds.....

[Nay]

30. Jesus Christ. Someone, someone save us from this utter moron. nt

[Johonny]

31. Trump returning us to the 19th century...

[lpbk2713]

33. We have always been friends with Mexico.

That is, until this asshole came along.

Now Trump wants to slap them in the face with his wall.

[Vinca]

34. Well, there was that little Cuban Missile Crisis thingy and the whole Cold War.

Remember good old Nikita Kruschev banging his shoe on the table at the UN? Il Douche should look up Francis Gary Powers. I wonder if they make a Little Golden Book of U.S./Russia history we could send to the guy.