#russian stooge

[liberalsarecool]

Probably the CIA.

Typical MAGA 'alpha'.

Imagine making being a performative cospatriot your entire personality and then being exposed as a Russian stooge. 😂😂😂

[sac-trained-killer]

Well at least Donnie the Dumpster’s Russian masters are happy with his performance.

[musdomus]

Not Russia, huh? FANCY THAT!

“Liberation Day”

Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

[captainpirateface]

[sac-trained-killer]

But Donnie was only doing as his masters commanded

[tomorrowusa]

« [E]ssentially, this is President Trump surrendering to the Russians. No surprise. In Afghanistan, he sat down with the Taliban, excluded the government of Afghanistan, in Doha, through his embassies, and they essentially said, listen, don't bother us for a year and we'll be out.

And now he's trying the same thing, which is, basically, we're going to undercut the Ukrainians. Oh, and by the way, we're going to get their precious minerals at the bargain rate prices as a threat to do even worse.

This is not a statesman or a diplomat. This is just someone who admires Putin, does not believe in the struggle of the Ukrainians and is committed to cozying up to an autocrat. And that, I think, is going to be wrong because Putin will not stop in Ukraine. »

— Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) on ABC's This Week. His comments are one part of Sunday's show.

Sen. Reed reminded us of Trump's responsibility for the mess in Afghanistan. Trump sent Mike Pompeo to give in to the Taliban. Then when the government in Afghanistan collapsed, Trump blamed Biden.

Trump wants to do the same thing to Ukraine even though Ukraine is far more viable and cohesive than Afghanistan ever was.

Fortunately, Ukraine is the one issue where a notable number of Capitol Hill Republicans are willing to disagree with Trump. They carry a lot of influence because of the tiny majorities Republicans have in both House and Senate.

If you live in a House district or a state with a GOP representative or senators, then you have more power than most Americans to help Ukraine. Look up whether your GOP US rep or senator has a local office near you and visit there to give your views during business hours. A personal visit by a registered voter has enormously more impact than a semi-anonymous email or phone call. A close second to a visit to a rep's or senator's office is attendance at a town hall meeting; but those are not usually scheduled on a regular basis.

[thatnonameblog]

[clonebrainrot]

Elon Musk is a Russian stooge don’t you forget it and don’t let him forget it. He’s either paid, compromised or an idiot.

[sac-trained-killer]

Putin will follow Trump’s orders if he knows what’s good for him.

[psychotrenny]

Imperial Core Liberals love "forgetting" that a diversity of political opinions exist in other countries the second they see someone parroting an Imperialist talking point who happens to be from whatever country they're currently obsessed with intervening in. Like they'll take a single tweet from Juana B. Comprador saying "Thank you America for overthrowing that tyrant and bringing my people Freedom and Hamburger" as proof that Imperialist interference is good and anyone who disagrees is just a cruel, out of touch Westoid that's too arrogant to care about authentic lived experiences. And like you don't even need to think in Marxist terms of like class interest and national contradictions etc. to realise how stupid this; simple common sense should tell you "People in the Third World are not a hive mind; finding one individual who says a thing does not mean everyone in their nation agrees".

But that very simple and obvious fact is inconvenient to the self image of a "progressive" Imperialist, and so they simply don't think about it. Even when they're forced to admit that differences of opinion exist, they find some rhetorical framing to present such dissent as automatically illegitimate. Like clearly anyone from X country who disagrees with them is just a Russian agent or brainwashed stooge of the regime, not a free thinker that truly speaks for the people. It's a form of argument that relies on the patterns of dehumanisation that people in the Imperial Periphery are subjected to; as anonymised masses that lack any meaningful individuality, an "authentic" speaker for one is an authentic speaker for all. Their value in any conversation starts and ends as rhetorical constructs to affirm what you already believed; the complex thoughts and feelings of countless living humans do nothing but get in the way

[reading-writing-revolution]

ABC News, citing interviews with three of her former staffers, reported Thursday that Gabbard regularly read and shared articles from RT (formerly Russia Today), a state-run media outlet, even after being advised that RT wasn’t a credible source.

https://trib.al/4fS4JoB

[liberalsarecool]

Democrats are loyal to Democracy/America.

Republicans betray all for a Russian stooge.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dan Rather at Steady:

It was a new low for American diplomacy in my lifetime. There are few words that are family-friendly enough to describe what happened. Embarrassing. Horrifying. Mortifying. People who witnessed or have watched Trump and JD Vance’s behavior toward a visiting head of state have said it made them everything from appalled to nauseous. Here’s what happened: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was scheduled to meet with Trump and Vance at the White House before a joint news conference and then a signing ceremony for a minerals-for-money deal. It never got past a one-sided shouting match in the Oval Office. In what looked like a rehearsed and choreographed tag-team effort, Trump berated and lectured Zelenskyy while Vance egged him on. In front of cameras, Trump harangued Zelenskyy for supposedly not being grateful for U.S. aid and not acceding to American demands to end the war. According to CNN’s fact checkers, Zelenskyy has thanked presidents Biden and Trump, and the American people, 33 times since the war began three years ago. The whole thing today appeared to be a setup, a trap sprung on a wounded ally. Whatever it was, it will remain, through history, a stain on America’s reputation. This reporter has covered hundreds of photo opportunities in the Oval Office over many administrations. Such are almost always dignified occasions. Today this tradition was sullied for the benefit of the MAGA faithful and the Kremlin. [...]

If the point was for Trump’s friends in Russia to see his performance, message received. Cheers erupted in Moscow. A former Russian president praised Trump for his treatment of Zelenskyy. At one point, Trump openly threatened the Ukrainian president. “You’re either going to make a deal or you’re out,” Trump yelled. A short time later, Zelenskyy left the White House.

The way Donald Trump and JD Vance disrespectfully acted towards Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday is more reason I pray for a military coup to remove these two Russian stooges from office.

[tomorrowusa]

I don't quite know how to say lapdog in Russian. But this comes relatively close...

Трамп – Путинский пудель. (Trump is Putin's poodle.)

Apologies to all poodles out there!

[darkmaga-returns]

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, legacy news networks were already sliding toward 2016 levels of melting down about the increasingly definite prospect of a presidential victory by Donald J. Trump. For them, Harris’ stinging defeat is personal — because it’s just as much a defeat for them as it is for her.

The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump’s entire political career trying to destroy him. Hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and Democrats, they ran a hoax painting Trump as a Russian stooge based on ridiculous rumors commissioned by his opponent’s campaign in 2016. They continued to spread the lie for the duration of his presidency, awarding each other Pulitzers for it. And they’ve only ramped up their efforts since then.

The problem they’re reckoning with tonight is this: those efforts didn’t work. They’re no longer able to control Americans by controlling their information intake, because their credibility is farther deep-sixed than the Clinton family’s enemies list.

A TV executive anonymously fretted last week that “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.”

Even before the election results were in, that was true of the corporate press. Jeff Bezos knew it when he reportedly ordered The Washington Post to withhold an endorsement of Harris. But now, they can’t avoid it.

Since the last presidential election, the media have screeched incessantly about Trump “inciting an insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They made documentaries comparing Trump to the Ku Klux Klan. They portrayed Trump as the ringleader of a terrorist attack and not as a president who gave a speech and urged his supporters to protest peacefully.

Tuesday night’s results are a resounding indication that Americans didn’t buy it.