Comments on: Over U.S. Intelligence, Donald Trump Accepts Putin’s Strong Denial of Russian Election Interference

By: seashell

seashell — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 02:24:36 +0000

So deconstructing the world order and living under a tyrant is OK as long as abortion is no longer legal or the promise of that looms around the corner? Does everyone know that abortions will still happen anyway with little to no slowdown?

By: thatotherjean

thatotherjean — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:03:27 +0000

I’m inclined to think, besides the fact that Trump is a fool who reduces every relationship to dollars and cents, that Putin spent their closed-door summit reminding Trump that he owes Russian banks much more than he can ever repay, and that there would be dire consequences for Trump and his family if Trump didn’t do what Putin told him to do. Trump spent their joint press conference fawning over Putin in a way that no US President has ever done to any foreign leader, much less a man who wants the West in chaos and has interfered in the elections of several European countries, as well as our own. Trump has made it clear whose side he is on, and needs to be removed from office before he makes our situation worse.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:47:36 +0000

I emailed my two senators and house rep(all three white male GOP) to tell them “Donald Trump today chose Vladimir Putin over the US Intelligence Community. He has broken his oath of office. He needs to be publicly denounced and we need to commence impeachment proceedings immediately. Please choose country over party at this critical time.” Feel free to copy and paste. We need to be heard.

By: ken

ken — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:50:00 +0000

In reply to Tacitus. No, Trump has made "anti-russian" comments (on twitter) before. The ones I recall were wrt Syria, but I believe there were others as well. And it isn't just with Putin, basically anyone he attacks is done via twitter or when giving a speech in front of a friendly crowd.

By: Tacitus

Tacitus — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:07:06 +0000

In reply to ken.

I don’t think it’s cowardice. It might not even be that Putin has something on Trump (which seems likely). I think it’s simply that Trump has yet to meet an authoritarian leader he doesn’t get on famously with.

Putin, Xi, Duterte, Erdoğan, even Kim for goodness sake — he admires them all, and he’s not shy about saying so.

For a man to seeks to personally dominate everyone he meets, even his friends and supporters, it’s kind of bizarre behavior. I’m assuming it’s got something to do with his narcissistic personality disorder, but is as though he’s getting some kind of affirmation from these despots that he isn’t getting from anyone else, which is bizarre because he’s the most powerful leader in the world. His ego shouldn’t need any stroking.

Perhaps the key is that he’s discovered that US Constitutional government is far more restrictive, cumbersome, and intransigent than he would like and his unbridled admiration for despots has a green-eyed tint when he looks at their unchecked power and the fear and absolute respect it commands. He already gets a ton of it back in Washington, but it chafes that it’s still not on the same level that Kim or Putin enjoys.

If anywhere, that’s where the cowardice comes in — fortunately. I have absolutely no doubt that if he had dictatorial power, he would wield it, but his lack of competence and willpower prevents him from taking the audacious risks required to take over the US government like Erdoğan did in Turkey.

Still, the love his base has for Putin is nauseating. They were big fans of his long before Trump came along, and I suspect Trump will eventually fare badly in comparison once he’s out of power (hopefully by 2020), because he didn’t deliver on imprisoning political enemies, killing off the free press and “draining the swamp” of liberals, as Putin has done in Russia.