Just ‘disagrees’?
Even Reagan, the GOP’s idol, would have something like ‘we will let the Russians interrogate our officials when the hell freezes over’.
This will go down in history as more flaccid than Ryan’s response to Tump’s fellatio of Putin during the Helsinki presser.
I think even Putin was surprised about how unprepared and just plain dumb Trump is.
Trump said it was an “incredible” suggestion because he loves the word incredible - it is one of the few words left in his rapidly shrinking vocabulary. The other part of this is he had no idea what Putin was actually suggesting and he certainly doesn’t know any of the details about who Bill Browder is or the actual purpose of the Magnitsky act. His understanding of the complexities of our relationship with a man who serially murders his enemies is limited to the point of a hog staring at a centrifuge. It really is nothing except whether Donnie is getting the endless amount of attention and love that he craves.
Toddlers are all conscienceless sociopaths - if they were armed we would all be dead. Trump is a toddler. People continue to be fooled by his skin suit and height, but he is just a fucking toddler staggering through a world that isn’t working the way it used to (he gets everything he wants when he wants it) and it is reaching a tipping point.
Did I miss the Democratic outrage?
Both Putin and Trump live in a world of make believe. This is one of the stupidest and most frightening ideas ever and a quick way to get impeached. These two clowns’ effort to remake the world order has failed, except they don’t know it yet.
So, to recap: The president disagrees with Putin’s “incredible offer”
Not to mention Harry S Truman, and the whole Berlin Airlift thingy.
Grocery clerk…sent to collect the bill.
He won’t have to send them anywhere now - he has asked Bolton to invite Putin to DC in the fall. Josh has the story .
That’s his dilemma.
And it’s why I was surprised to see them say it.
So, I’m going to assume we’ve all thought of this.
Because of the closed meeting, and the complete untrustworthness of Trump (and his idiocy in having a closed meeting with his boss), Putin can now say that they agreed to…anything he wants, actually.
And Trump can do little more than sit there and look stupid while his boss changes the deal (the bigliest, classiest deal ever) at will.
Remember “Iran-contra”?
A smarter POTUS would have recognized the proposal as absurd.
This really stupid do-si-do riled me up enough to berate my congress representative and one of the senators – (The other is beyond hopeless) to ask them to please stop the idiocy.
How much lower can it get?
yes
“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it”
Sincerity?
You’ve got to be kidding me.
We seem to be in some weird parallel universe.
You can bet that when Putin figures it out, if he hasn’t already, Trump is going to wish he was dead. Putin will take it out on the orange baffoon and it will be epic.
Good short podcast about how Putin and Trump both messed up on Helsinki.
I’m starting to think that Trump is a zen buddhist master. Every word he says can be taken either literally or seriously. Since the two are mutually exclusive, every sentence he makes with N words has 2^N possible interpretations, assuming all interpretations are equally likely. So the probability that he makes an N-word completely true sentence is 1/2^N.
For example, a simple 5-word completely true Trump sentence occurs with a frequency of 1 in 32, or roughly 3% of the time. The longer the sentence, the smaller it is completely true, tending to a probability of zero as sentence length tends to infinity.
This is why no lawyer would advise Trump to speak with Mueller under oath.
I think you did. Both Schumer and Pelosi were quick to ask what hold Putin has over Trump. This is the key and imperative question of the historical moment. And just today the entire Senate repudiated this idea. Maybe you require more histrionics, and maybe you require that they be especially brought to your attention. But I do recall the Democrats speaking up. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.