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In reply to the discussion: Kremlin papers appear to show Putin's plot to put Trump in White House [View all]DFW
(56,666 posts)30. The tradition and the tendency was always there, agreed
It's not the creation of the primitive instincts that I tried to emphasize, but rather that they have been brought from the fringes to dominance. The Salem witch trials were considered a black spot on the history of colonial New England. Today, they would have been mainstream throughout a third or more of the whole country. If you were to ask how many of today's American "Christians" would applaud their re-introduction, the rest of the country would be hanging its head in utter shame at the horrifyingly large number.
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Kremlin papers appear to show Putin's plot to put Trump in White House [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2021
OP
Somebody smack the US corporate media upside the head and get their attention
EYESORE 9001
Jul 2021
#2
Yup. And Dems need to keep this in the forefront and pound it every chance they get -that 45 is a
onetexan
Jul 2021
#74
Same here, though the Washington Post has a take on the story (link in post).
Justice matters.
Jul 2021
#101
they couldn't have done it without limbaugh/rw radio, which continues to evade any
certainot
Jul 2021
#5
The media is only as liberal as the conservative corporations that own it. bumper sticker -nt
CrispyQ
Jul 2021
#49
Pretty sure Rachel will have to verify the info. But she seems to have the network to do that.
fwvinson
Jul 2021
#98
Seems I owe you a beer. I like to make good on my bets. I hope you're somewhere in Texas!
marble falls
Jul 2021
#114
Leak, my ass. Vlad is prouder of his puppet president than he is of anything else he's ever done.
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#8
THIS! 👍 Putin is shoving America's nose in the pile of dog shit they both left behind.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2021
#52
One of the most significant victories ever achieved of a weak nation over a stronger one
DFW
Jul 2021
#13
I agree with you entirely, except in your questioning about what was behind the
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#25
Yes. And technology and the way it makes the world small certainly has magnified it in our age.
Scrivener7
Jul 2021
#37
Not one thing in the Steele has been disproved including Michael Cohen's meeting with Russian ....
Botany
Jul 2021
#41
We know his phone was there (Prague). And we know that Ivanka and Jared were in Europe at the ....
Botany
Jul 2021
#104
Russia had been grooming as a useful idiot since the 1990s. Putin's KBG let him see that Trump's
Botany
Jul 2021
#48
You might be right. Either he 'leaked' them and the info is more or less true...or...he leaked
wiggs
Jul 2021
#57
The report may explain Trump and 2016 but doesn't explain behavior of the GOP and
wiggs
Jul 2021
#67
Hillary talked about this in 2016. What's news is MSM suddenly giving a shit.
Demnation
Jul 2021
#65
And Moscow Mitch as well as all the other Senate and House Republicans made it even easier for them.
cstanleytech
Jul 2021
#73
an "impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex"
ffr
Jul 2021
#76
He can try to counter it by reminding people that he "aced" his cognition test!
Judi Lynn
Jul 2021
#84