Pompeo Insists There’s ‘No Condition’ For Zelensky To Visit WH But Won’t Say When He Can | Talking Points Memo

I’d be happy if they’d tell him to “bugger off” – but unfortunately, they are going to pat him on the head, waggle their fingers and say, “there, there, that was really quite naughty of you! now go outside and play…”

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No, they don’t believe it, they know perfectly well that we know well they’re lying, they just don’t give a crap. This is for the benefit of the koolaid drinkers, who will swallow it whole and regurgitate it on a regular basis whenever they run across a librul trying to point out the actual truth. By tomorrow it’s gospel and you will never, ever convince the MAGAts that it’s all a lie.

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Future Diplomacy from this group:
“Here, hold my beer”

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I see MSNBC has a panel discussion and Chris Matthews is the moderator.Worse choice ever,man cannot
shut up .

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“We want to make sure that it happens at a time when there are substantial progress, things that we can deliver between the two of us,” he told reporters.

Like, say, an announcement of a Biden investigation, Mike? You know, a deliverable?

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blackburn’s life began in the swamps of mississippi.
the offspring of the infamous swamp monster that crosses I-10 every now and then in the middle of the night.
to think, corker put a lot of miles on her when she migrated to Tenn and couch casted her submissive side to the gop. Probably still does
it’s no secret in her old district how she kept her job there.
I lived there, in her super gerrymandered district for 2 years.
worst 2 years everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr in any and all categories.

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Of course they have not setup a date for the visit… the Boss has not given his permission yet.

And so far… Putin really is not interested in listening

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Well since Putin has Ukraine by the short hairs as they say, I’d say Putin isn’t done playing with Ukraine.

oh come on, you know damn well that there is 1 condition that will get him a parade route right into the oval office for an all day exclusive expense paid experience with a psychology defunct baffoon.
Zelensky just won’t do it and as we know, it really pissed trump off.

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So they’re still at it. Well, thanks to the Republicans in the Senate, there’s nothing to stop Dictator trump from doing whatever he wants. About anything.

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The United States is now in that liminal state of transition to a reordered power configuration. When this happened in Russia in 2012, the group crushing the fragile neoliberal coalition that had been tolerated in the heady days of windfall oil revenues was swept away by the siloviki. Russia’s upper house, the Federation Council (Supreme Soviet in earlier times) had become an advisory body by 2015. That left the Duma as the only body needed to confer some legislative cred to Putin. We similarly have a Senate that has been virtually moribund for years, called into service only when the super-rich need a judge, money has to be approved or taxes lowered. A $1.2 trillion hole was punched in the federal budget that doesn’t even raise eyebrows.

But the biggest progress in this age of power politics is surely the institutional dismantling on the executive side. State has been gutted, embassy staff long gone, foreign policy turned into favor-granting. Nato is experiencing "brain death", which is several hundred billion dollars in the bank as far as Putin is concerned. Allies like the pro-American Kurds in Syria and Iraq sold out. Nicaragua, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil… failed policies across the board.

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Which will soon be used as a justification to further gut the safety net, thereby adding to the impoverishment of the lower classes, with the rich insulated from the ensuing damages.

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Yeah, but does Zelensky really want such a public appearance?

He’ll be bombarded with Trump Impeachment related questions.

However, if MORE revelations continue to emerge between now and the election, Trump may be gone. If so, the damage he has done to our government will begin to heal. The Senate needs to come next…

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FINALLY

A person who acknowledges that Trump might not make it to the 2020 Ballot. He is a very very sick man.

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Bull Phucky

I think Pompeo just told him to not get uppity.

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As Pompeo insisted from the podium that there were no conditions for Zelensky’s visit, reporters trained their zoom lens cameras on a piece of paper sticking out of his back pocket. The paper appears to have read, “Announce the investigations, motherfucker!” When confronted with this, Pompeo glared, and said, “That’s just a reminder to myself to ask my wife to investigate whether we have milk at home.” The Secretary of State glared for another few moments at reporters, and then stalked off.

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The condition is simple: Putin has to give his OK.