Trumpettes! Your President needs you!

@SW-User [b]That[/b] is the kicker. Ronnie Raygun must be spinning like a top right about now. 😅

@RemovedUsername704086 You ever hired a contractor? Late, over-budget, and shoddy is par for the course. XD

@cattleboy


lol i'm aware

@Pikachu He FINALLY blocked me too. Been telling him he should for ages.

@Xuan12

Probably needs to find people who don't know him as well

@akindheart 🤔 Exchanging our own prisoners for the definitely innocent hackers....now we might be on to something.

@Xuan12 well lets see. since hillary bought and paid for that fake russian dossier, she is first on my list to go.

@akindheart Ah, there's the hitch in the plan. Trump hasn't appointed that special investigator or prosecutor yet. She's not a prisoner, or even under investigation. Better write him a letter to remind him to "Lock her up!".

@room101 Yeah, I remember reading a biography written about Putin. He was in the KGB stationed in East Germany when the wall came down. From what is written, it seems like it had a big effect on him. He scrambled to burn documents and wracked his brain trying to understand why the East Germans would revolt against USSR leadership. He might have even truly believed they were there to help the East Germans, even if they sometimes had to use unpalatable methods. (Though I doubt he himself would ever speak of his true feelings on the matter such that the public could ever hear.)

It seems to have triggered a period of introspection and learning for Putin, as he came to realize that they weren't there to help the East Germans or expand the ideology, not anymore anyway, they were there to defend and enrich the Russian heartland, as was the entire Soviet Union, and he crystalized the doubts he had been fostering about communism, paving the way for the oligarchic kleptocracy he would later sit atop of. These doubts of course were not uncommon in the Soviet Union, particularly among the educated, but none would match Putin in the sheer magnitude of ideological reversal. At least, none that we can see. The Soviet Elite knew the system was failing, and focus turned away from trying to fix it, toward seeing how much they could get out of it before the ride ended.

He also fostered a deep distrust of the west, and feelings of betrayal. Though I think over time those feelings have softened in intensity, there are material reasons he knows he can never take up a handshake from the west in fully good faith.

@room101 Kind of like reading and interpreting the bible, in a way. You can make the written word mean almost anything that aligns with whatever a person happens to want to emphasize.

@4meAndyou Erm......not really. An article either supports an assertion or it doesn't. At best, it may allude to something unsaid. But, with all due respect, neither of your articles even do that much.

And then there's the matter of verifiable history. Since WW2, the USA has been involved in five major wars. In chronological order; Korea, Vietnam, Iraq 1&2 and, Afghanistan. Republicans where at the helm at the start of all of them.

@SW-User I loves me free stuff 😎

@luckranger71 Me too! 😻

@Xuan12 thanks for the save I'm driving between jobs all day so I have to talk text

@Jibby Your talk-text is either rather poor, or you have a thick accent. XD

@Xuan12 Brooklyn.

@TexChik There, there. Don't be scared little coward. It's just the internet. The only thing it can hurt is your feelings.

@Xuan12 coward ? Pfft ... face to face , if you talked to me like that , you’d need help getting back up . But you’re a lib, a disgusting pussy hat wearing lying little freak hiding in a safe space ... so you go 👍🏻

@TexChik I know you like talking big, because frankly that's all we can do here, but it is fun to watch you do this. I'm 6'2, and can throw 270lbs over my head. I was a firefighter paramedic, though now I'm just a paramedic. Believe me, every piece of trash in the trailer parks thinks it has super strength, but even when they string themselves out on street drugs, they still go down. All you end up doing is stacking up criminal charges.

But I love it when you talk stupid, do it some more!

@Xuan12 Well, they lose basically nothing. The 12 will be well coached, and interviewed by their compatriots in the service. I don't think there was an offer to let our guys direct the interrogation.

@QuixoticSoul If it's even actually the 12 we're looking at.

@Xuan12 Well, we have their names, ranks, and service records. We'll know. But what utility we'd get out of the exercise I have no idea.