I know they envision themselves in charge (under Donny, at least) after they accomplish all this. But are they imagining a lot of easy resource extraction at that point, or what? They must have some vision of their hoped-for future, but I can’t really figure out what it would be. Who wants to take over a dump?
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Gee, you have just described the entire republican legislature and the tricycles they rode in on.
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…lol …better to reign in hell…
I too would love to hear Republican insiders or subject matter experts or, hell, just a Heritage flunky explain what they expect the result of all this too be.
And don’t just say “great wealth”. How can their policies be anything but disastrous?
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Only insofar as they think that the oligarchs will bring them into the armored biodomes protected by private Praetorian guards. The fact that they are obscenely rich doesn’t make them any less dumb–in fact, quite the opposite.
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because he knows he is saved
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Russian commentators have taken this as an opportunity to reflect on Alaska’s past. It was a colony of Tsarist Russia sold to the U.S. in 1867; some Russians believe the U.S. stole it.
By the end of Chiselin’ Trump’s meeting with Putin, he’ll believe it, as well.
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So, we’ve got another “TACO Friday” coming up. Watch our Felon in Chief get schooled. Maybe Vladdy will make him give back Alaska. What else can we expect, with our so-called “President” stumbling unprepared into a meeting with no agenda, no briefings, no knowledge of history, and definitely no pre-arranged agreement just awaiting their signatures?
He expects he’ll dazzle Putin with bs, like he’s always done to everybody his entire life – except Old Vlad, but at Trump’s age, who remembers? – and come out of the meeting with a Nobel Peace Prize in hand. And nobody will ever ask about how he teamed up with Epstein and Maxwell again.
Here’s to reality having its usual “librul bias.”
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I remember seeing this one the first time they did it!
god I’m old
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“Where the devil are those douchebags” is still part of my repertoire. And I think Buck Henry was an underrated comedic genius.
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Hegseth demonstrates the classic signs of alcoholism. Self-righteous, unrepentant, unyielding.
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Buck Henry was highly underrated as not only a comic genius but also as a writer and producer. You can’t argue with his work on the Graduate. He’s laugh out loud funny on SNL playing Uncle Roy the creepy babysitter. A skit that would not go over well today.
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Religion’s track record in governance is a record of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood and lives of misery. Religion is a childish fantasy - all religions. Religious belief is an absurdity, and has become more absurd the more we have learned about the real world. And as has been said, and is being proven again today in America, those who believe in absurdities will commit atrocities. Americans have put their government in the hands of deluded three-year-olds. The rivers will flow on, and the mountains of the dead will rise further. The nation is in the hands of the demented, the deluded, and the psychotic. Good luck, America!
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Funny how these so called enlighten christians not only don’t recognize the anti-christ among them but actually worship him.
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Witkoff may have botched this summit through his misunderstandings about such things as “swapping land”. Putin expects demilitarization of Ukraine, some sort of “elections” and no repatriation costs (about $2 trillion at the moment). Not only does Putin think he’s winning in Ukraine after 11 years, Russia can still afford to continue the war. Of course, it comes at the expense of the rest of its economy, guaranteeing low growth for decades, a lost generation and many dead Tuvinians. My hope is that Trump hasn’t been delusional about what is supposed to happen after he has bent over for Putin in this way. The summit in Alaska will likely be a fiasco, we just don’t know for which side yet.
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Right, it’s been reported that Putin is “flexible” about territory. He’ll want to keep some of it, but what he really wants is to bring Ukraine back under Moscow’s sphere of influence. No NATO membership, no EU membership, demilitarization and a degree of control over the government. Which may be what new elections are about. Zelensky will never agree to becoming essentially a puppet state.
Territory is part of it, but not the core of what Putin wants. Trump is such a moron he doesn’t understand this. He thinks this is a real estate deal he can broker.
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Charming. Worth noting, the interviewer, Pamela Brown, is ‘the kind of person people come out of’. Wilson had no hesitation enumerating his religion’s views on the role of women in his theocracy to her face. Brown deserves a purple heart for being civil and allowing his bile and misogyny to spill out and be fully revealed.
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He also doesn’t wash his hands because he doesn’t believe in germs. 'Cause he can’t see 'em.
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Disagree. Territory is at the heart of what Putin wants. If he settles a second time, it will be to regroup, rearm and try, try again until he restores Ukraine to Russia.
ETA: And thence onward into other eastern European states… Poland, Hungary, Finland… that are now members of NATO.
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