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Trump says Putin may not want to ‘stop the war’ in Ukraine Gosh! I am shocked! What is wrong with Politico? This must be wrong. Vlad is the sweetest guy around. And I personally saw the Tik Tok video @Barknaway posted of Zelenskyy, the Hitler-like dictator, mass murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent Russian children. It is obvious Ukraine started this war and all Ukrainians who die deserve to be killed. Putin is ‘playing America as a patsy,’ Grassley warns Trump Gosh! I am shocked! What is wrong with Grassley? He must be senile. Personally I am hoping Putin is elected as the next Pope. But it's almost too much to hope that such a humanitarian will be chosen. Putin is too good for that. Gosh! WTF? It is almost like Grassley is saying Trump is wrong about Putin or something? Grassley needs to take his meds. Poll: Canadians despise Trump and distrust US Gosh! I am shocked! What the fuck is wrong with Canadians? Didn't they get the memo that Trump is successfully unifying the whole world against China, and that is the best way to lower prices for the middle class - even in Canada? How fucking stupid can these people be? Maybe it's time for Putin to invade Canada and give it to us! Although maybe Canada should go with Putin, along with Crimea. Who needs these assholes?

Good point. Since my theme of the day is that W. was actually far worse than Trump, so far, there are a few very important facts we agree on in relation to your argument. If you want to somehow blame Ukraine or the US or NATO for Genocide Man starting a war in 2022, I think your best argument is how W. and the US started the Iraq War. That's the main thing we seemingly agree on. And I would NOT include Afghanistan. The USSR invaded Afghanistan unprovoked. But the US was provoked by 9/11. You can argue whether or not the war made sense, especially after decades of grinding stalemate. I think Vice President Biden was right that Obama should have pulled the plug on Afghanistan in 2009. But whatever anyone wants to argue, Afghanistan harbored terrorists who killed thousands of innocent Americans. And however fucked up it got, I think one good outcome - which Putin himself supported at the time - was to show that acts of terrorism against big powerful nations means you will end up being fish food at the bottom of the ocean. Like bin Laden did. The Iraq war, on the other hand, was based on total bullshit. It was an unprovoked imperialist war. Putin and some European leaders, like Schroeder, tried to stop it. So the US arguing that Putin had no right to invade Ukraine after we decided to invade Iraq, unleashing a similarly unnecessary bloodbath, has always been a weak point. Putin simply decided to do what W. did, with his coalition of the willing limited to North Korea, Iran, and kinda sorta China. And, at the most basic level, Trump is seeking to end a war. Not start one. In the context of everything that happened, I personally view it as a massive betrayal of democracy and US institutions. As well as of Ukraine and NATO and Europe and other allies. But even viewed that way, Trump seeking peace is a lesser evil than W. starting a war in Iraq, in my view. I've thought about this one a lot, since it is how I get around the problem of dealing with family members I love, but deeply disagree with. My Dad was a WWII veteran and Reagan Republican who fully supported the Iraq War. So I just avoided the topic. I could still admire his patriotism. Even if it seemed very misguided. I think the long brutal impact of the Iraq War has a lot to do with why Republicans eventually turned against the idea of intervening in places like Ukraine and adopting "America First." Although the same "America First" Republicans still want to arm up for a war with China. So has anything really changed? These days, I have a niece and nephew I am close to who are pro-Trump. Even though I love her, it is easy to dismiss my niece as ignorant and reactionary. She watches Gutfeld and has no idea who Kevin McCarthy is, or what forces in the Republican Party drove him from power. Or why. My nephew is much smarter. He can talk fluidly about the discussion he had with W. about subprime when he and his partners at the big firm he works at paid Bush for a private discussion when he was in his post-Presidency "give a speech" days. But when my rich conservative nephew lets his guard down it is clear that he is naive about Congress, and politics. He mostly thinks they all suck. So it kind of makes sense that he'll just embrace a knee jerk notion of "America First." In my mind, it's pretty simple. And it fits very well with how the world and nations have always worked. My Dad, not necessarily by choice, happened to be born into the generation that, more than any other one, built the American century in the blood of WW II. Russians know even more than Americans about how awful that was. Along with his other children, I got the benefit of that global US leadership. But also witnessed some of the excesses like Iraq. And now some of his grandkids are embracing "America First", and saying we really don't want the American Century after all. Or maybe they do. But in some naive and poorly thought out way. Trump has no idea what he is doing. Whatever it is my beloved conservative family members are thinking, I still love them. Even though I know by voting for Trump they set America on the path to managing its own decline. Which Trump will do, ineptly. It's not the worst thing in human history. I'd argue the Iraq War was worse. I am hoping Ukraine is relatively safe as long as Trump is in power. Trump is a fool, but Genocide Man is not. So he'll try to appease Trump with praise and gestures, even as he concedes nothing. But Putin would be a fool to piss off Trump, who whether by design or accident is a remarkably good asset for Putin and his cronies and their interests. Europeans are not fools, either. So this means they hopefully have four years to seriously prepare for Genocide Man, Unleashed, after Trump is gone. Or whatever comes after Genocide Man. Russia is still a far weaker country than the US. And the Ukraine War cost Russia a lot, and the US pretty much nothing. This is not a strategic win for Russia. At least not yet. But congratulations! You don't deserve it. But congratulations, anyway.

In a word, yes. Although in some alternative reality, I suppose it is possible that Ukrainians parachuted into Moscow on Feb. 24, 2022. And started sadistically and genocidally slaughtering innocent people in the suburbs of Moscow. Maybe that is what Genocide Man wants you to believe. It's the same as saying that Trump won by 60 % of the vote in 2020, or whatever. And instead of certifying his landslide win Democrats sent a mob to the White House and trashed it and shit on the Oval Office desk and forced Trump to flee. Total bullshit. Genocide Man is still Genocide Man, and Trump is still a felon and a liar. Facts don't change. Buy enjoy playing Goebbels. Even if you suck at it.

I think that explains it. It is far less sinister or stupid motive than it seems. In fact, it actually is something to be proud about regarding America. That quote is what Steve Bannon told Michael Wolff about Muller going after Trump. It is a perfect quote in my mind. Bannon is a hit man who seems to have a love/hate relationship with Trump, who is an even more gifted hit man than Bannon is. And these people know what they are talking about when they use the term "hit man". If you are not Michael Wolff in disguise, you should be. You sure agree with most of what he writes about Trump. Pretty much what you wrote as recently as today. So as Wolff explains in his Act One book on Trump, and in the interview, Mueller was concerned about institutional stability. So he thought it was better to let Trump run out the clock, rather than give him a reason to blow things up by trying to throw his dumb ass in jail. Arguably, Mueller was not wrong. Trump ran out the clock, botched COVID, got lots of Republicans killed by pushing lies about vaccines, and lost to Biden. As if to prove Mueller was right, Trump only acted aggressively to take down democracy when he lost, and it was time to sick the mob on Congress. The far greater act of incompetence in my view was Merrick Garland. After what McConnell did to his SCOTUS nomination, Garland had every reason to want to be a hitman, in my mind. But he seems like he has the soul of a choir boy. So if Bannon is correct that the problem with Mueller was that you should not count on a Marine to be a hit man, why would one expect a choir boy to be a hit man? Garland had FOUR FUCKING YEARS to do what every fucking poll showed most Americans wanted him to do: bring Trump to justice for The Jubilant Patriotic Cop Beating, and let a jury decide. He fucked it up. Like I said, this actually can all be seen as a compliment to America. Most people would say Marines are actually hit men. But if you buy Bannon's logic, he understands that most professional military men and women have actual souls, unlike him and Trump. Trump seems like less of a fluke than he did in 2019, when Wolff wrote his book on Act One. He's back, after winning a plurality of the vote. So now one has to conclude that a big chunk of America actually wants a crazy hit man. And it also raises the question: did we now give Trump exactly what Muller feared? A reason to tear down the institutions and system that did him wrong? Maybe so. That said, the reassuring thing about Wolff's argument is that he thinks Trump is primarily a dumb ass who lacks the ability to plan or reflect. All he wants is attention. So the best hope is we just wait 1,361 days for the nightmare to end, unless Trump kicks the bucket before then. Cheer up. Only 1,361 days to go!

Well, you are of course correct about her. But I'm still rooting for her making something of herself. She has 87 months for re-invention. If Trump could do it, surely she can, too. I think Bruce Jenner was on to something. But the fatal mistake is the world didn't really need a transgender Republican in the era of Trump and LGBTQ-bashing. So Santos can learn from Caitlyn's grave mistake. By the time our gal gets out, we will have a Democratic POTUS. And America will be ready for a transgender Democrat, bursting with new personalities and an insanely cutting edge fashion sense, to run for her old seat. Stranger things have happened. And are happening right now.

Well, we will always have our devotion to virile young men with well hung cocks, Sis. That has already given us a lifetime of good fortune. Not to mention oodles of nutritious cum. What more could a girl ask for? Well, maybe a nice POTUS. But isn't that asking a bit much? The author of the essay trashing W. I cited agrees with you about W.'s personal qualities, of course. I think the fact that W. was popular, and came across as a decent guy who would bring you chicken soup if you were sick, actually helps explain why he was, if you buy the argument, the most destructive president in modern times. Even the MAGA faithful admire Trump thanks to his lack of kindness. He's an asshole. But he's their asshole. So it is actually a blessing that Trump is such a stupid fool, with small fingers to boot! It took years and two wars for W. to encounter the kind of resistance Trump has after a few months of his lousy second act.

Since I have been doing more than my fair share trashing Trump as the insolent pig, let me take a break for a minute and do the opposite. What I'm about to say in not really a compliment to Trump. Or my country, which I love. But I think it is mostly true. My neat party trick I've exhausted with most family and friends who are anti-Trump is I will ask them this. If you got to eliminate one POTUS from history, and it was either W. or Trump, which would you pick? Since most people I am close to are anti-Trump, including several mostly Republican siblings (they are the college-educated kind), the unanimous answer has been they would get rid of Trump. Then I surprise them by saying I would get rid of W. in a heartbeat. And keep Trump, as much as I despise him. It leads to interesting discussions. Most people despise Trump's crudeness, his contempt for democracy and the institutions it is based in, and his "megalomaniac" nature, to quote one brother. My reasons for dumping Bush are: 1) the Iraq War, 2) the subprime lending crisis, and how it blew up the world, and 3) the fact that he got away with those two horrors, and a lot more, while mostly being both popular and successfully authoritarian in a way that Trump will never be. Plus he was either a damn good liar. Or a fool who believed the shit his own warmongers fed him about WMD. Trump has 1,361 days to prove me wrong, and destroy the global economy. Or start a nuclear war. But the conclusion I am reaching is that W. represented the worst parts of US imperialism, and cowboy capitalism. Whereas Trump simply is a symbol of US decline. W.'s eight year reign had massively destructive consequences, globally. Bush was right that, in a real way, he was the last Republican POTUS. Everything about Trump is a conservative reaction to everything Bush fucked up. I'm a patriot. But given the choice between the imperialism of W. or the ignorant and crooked American decline of Trump, I think the latter is the lesser evil both for the US and the world. Mitch McConnell got it right when he said Republicans choosing Trump was a choice for the management of America's decline. Putin and Xi are thrilled. This guy is on to the same idea: What Donald Trump Learned From George W. Bush The author is right. We have been through this before, and it was objectively worse then. I think under W. much of the world either feared America, or perhaps respected us, or both. Now the rest of the world laughs at us, and plots against us. And Trump thinks he is winning. What a complete fool. But we deserve it. 49.8 % of us voted for this piece of shit leader, who is managing America's decline. We are a lesser nation thanks to him. But we voted for it. It's a democracy, and still will be. So we own the mess. Ugh! But hey. We still have 1,361 days to go!

US Supreme Court halts deportation of detained Venezuelans These fuckers need to be deported. And now. Especially that Black bitch. She was a DEI hire for sure. Same as that old Black smelly ass rapist with the pubic hair on his glasses or whatever. The incompetent Black asshole has DEI written all over his face. And what is up with that Latina? And, no, none of that Latinx shit anymore. And yes, I mean that ugly woman, who is clearly not like the attractive White woman standing beside her. She would fit right into a prison in El Salvador. Probably even speaks some Third World language or whatever. Maybe we should give a pass to The Jew. Trump is all in on Jews over Muslims. Who hires these socialists? Send them to fucking El Salvador now.

Duh!

And speaking of Evil Gays. For those of you who don't get a rise from Summer's smugness, here is one of my favorite Evil Gays giving an alternative version of Econ 101. But the point is still the same. Trump is an evil incompetent piece of shit POTUS. And America and the world know it.

Larry Summers summed it all up nicely, in a Harvardy elitist way that only Larry Summers can do. Poor @Barknaway! The stupid yapping dog used TikTok so masterfully to try to persuade us that Trump was something other than an evil incompetent piece of shit POTUS. And yet here he is. An evil incompetent piece of shit POTUS, sinking in approval just like in his first term. The difference in the sequel is Trump may actually yet wreck the economy. There is an upside. My one big disappointment with Season 3 of The White Lotus is that we did not have an Evil Gays subplot, like in Seasons 1 and 2. I missed the Evil Gay Hotel Manager or the Evil Trust Fund Murdering Gays. So if Mike White is paying attention all of this could end up in a great White Lotus season. Trump is a Straight rapist, of course. But Scott Bessent has all the makings of a genuinely Evil Gay in my book. Does anyone know who he fucks in the middle of the night, when he needs to blow off some steam from cleaning up Trump's daily messes? This has potential!

Trump is a traitorous pig. He is a traitor to democracy. His pig-like brain makes him weak. He thinks he is strong and smart. But he keeps showing America and the world he is stupid and weak. As Harris warned during the debate, Putin is eating the weak traitorous pig for lunch. This traitor belongs in jail. The weak stupid pig thinks he wants peace. He is actually working to create more violence. He is allowing Putin's genocide to work.

That's an outright lie. Fox News would never do such a thing! 🙄

So that must mean black smoke coming from a Tesla signals that the old Musk is still the asshole who was not elected? 😉 Musk stepping back from government work amid plummeting Tesla sales

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