Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks

[Rogue Valley]

Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks

Never mind the opinion polls and the Republican posturing. When the right sees Putin, they want what he's got

www.salon.com

3.18.22
Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham recently told "The View" that Donald Trump wanted the power to kill with impunity. In explaining why Trump both admired and feared Vladimir Putin she said:

I think he was afraid of him. I think that the man intimidated him. Because Putin is a scary man, just frankly, I think he was afraid of him…. I also think he admired him greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. So I think it was a lot of that. In my experience with him, he loved the dictators, he loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press.​

A healthy society would have been stunned, disgusted, terrified and moved to action by Grisham's confession. The evident fact that Trump is a sociopath would have been the subject of extensive news coverage. If America were a healthy society, we would have an ongoing "national conversation" about the peril the country experienced from Trump, his Republican-fascist allies and their movement — danger that has only grown stronger.

What does it say about American society that Donald Trump and his cabal of coup plotters and other enemies of democracy and freedom have not been punished? What was the response to Grisham's comments about Donald Trump's desire to commit murder? Silence and indifference. Neither the media nor the American people seem to care. They have become desensitized to what not long ago would have been judged unconscionable. Today's Republican voters and other Trumpists are part of a political cult. They follow, uncritically, whatever directives and various signals are sent to them by Donald Trump, Fox News, the white right-wing evangelical churches and the larger right-wing echo chamber. Most recently, Putin has indicated that criticism of his regime and the war in Ukraine will be viewed a type of thoughtcrime. Putin's Russia is a plutocracy and a kleptocracy controlled by an oligarchic elite of white men. He uses secret police and other enforcers to terrorize any person or group he deems to be the enemy. Republicans in the U.S., and many of their allies and followers, want to exercise that kind of power in America. The American people have been repeatedly warned about the dangers represented by the Republican fascists and the Trump movement. The past is prologue — but it does not have to be.

In the most basic rendition, once again having Donald Trump in the Oval Office would be tantamont to inviting Vladimir Putin into the Oval Office.

Putin’s Propaganda Machine Is What America’s Far-Right Wants

National security leaders must learn to fight disinformation at home, too.

www.defenseone.com

 

[RetiredUSN]

Speculation is now fact folks!

 

[Michael Cole]

Speculation is now fact folks!

I guess technically it could be called speculation, but I wouldn't use that word. This is opinion and fact. The facts are given, and the author forms an argument. That's how it works. You can rebut the argument, but you can't rebut the facts. Got a rebuttal or just passing thru?

Myself, I don't need the article at all. The title is correct. Here are my facts:

A 3-year-old tweet of Donald Trump's became the most retweeted post of the night after the Republican presidential candidate denied knowing Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The tweet, from 2013, shows that Trump was looking forward to meeting Putin at the Miss Universe pageant. In it, Trump asks, "Will he become my new best friend?"

Donald Trump's Tweet About "Best Friend" Putin Is Most Retweeted From Final Debate

The most tweeted moment from the night was when the candidates discussed the treatment of women.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Lovebug]

Didn't we cover this already?
I think I can, I think I can...
From the article quoted

"I think he was afraid of him. I think that the man intimidated him. Because Putin is a scary man, just frankly, I think he was afraid of him…. I also think he admired him greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him."
Doesn't make it so.
I think Biden is a woman. Doesn't make it so.

 

[Razoo]

Nobody wants Putin in control of anything. Lindsey Graham is calling for assassination so the rumors go. While I may or may not agree with him it's best for elected officials to keep these thoughts under the table NOT on the table. If Putin comes up missing so should some of his people who blindly support this insane activity.

At the same time the USA government should shut down at least 500 of our off shore military bases. 800 offshore military bases does not improve the image of the USA. Setting up a very active USA miltary base
in Poland is most likely pissing Putin off however does not warrant this genocidal response.

Shutting down 500 offshore military bases is money that could be placed elsewhere such as subsidizing Single Payer Insurance for ALL in America = excellent use of taxpayer tax dollars. Taxpayers would be in shock and awe that government was being fiscally responsible.

Putin is an angry old man that has had a face lift = he needs to hit the road.

Russian Mob money aka money laundering through hotels which was keeping Trump bailed out might have Trump scared to death at the moment. Maybe Putin wants Trump dead so Russia can own USA property.

Who knows. Nonetheless Putin needs to go as quietly as possible. There are plenty of governments who would like him gone.

 

[Razoo]

As of the last 30 years the ALEC GOP take over has brought in some weak minded easily manipulated individuals posing as republicans. The old school GOP has been dead since the arrival of Reagan/Bush.
The Bush family is anti american............. Prescott, GHW, GW and Jeb document such.

 

[LetsGoBrandon]

Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks

Never mind the opinion polls and the Republican posturing. When the right sees Putin, they want what he's got

www.salon.com

In the most basic rendition, once again having Donald Trump in the Oval Office would be tantamont to inviting Vladimir Putin into the Oval Office.

Putin’s Propaganda Machine Is What America’s Far-Right Wants

National security leaders must learn to fight disinformation at home, too.

www.defenseone.com

Despite what you may read at a fringe leftwing nut job site like salon.com, there is no GOP love affair with Putin. It is outright insane to suggest there is. It's just another sign of election season panic on the left. The left is painfully aware that special prosecutor Durham will soon be dropping the hammer on the Russian Collusion Hoax and all the illegalities that took place. What was once pushed as a Trump scandal is now a Hillary/Democrat Party scandal and they are trying to get out in front of it and spin it away before the midterm elections.

 

[Simpletruther]

Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks

Never mind the opinion polls and the Republican posturing. When the right sees Putin, they want what he's got

www.salon.com

In the most basic rendition, once again having Donald Trump in the Oval Office would be tantamont to inviting Vladimir Putin into the Oval Office.

Putin’s Propaganda Machine Is What America’s Far-Right Wants

National security leaders must learn to fight disinformation at home, too.

www.defenseone.com

Projection of the highest order. The left propaganda machine has no equal.

And wow what a broad brush false demonization of the right pulled out of Uranus.

 

[Razoo]

Give Putin a chance and he will throw these ALEC bogus republicans under the bus. He knows they cannot be trusted.

 

[j brown's body]

Trump has shown us that conservatives view a blustering, belligerent demagogue as someone who is strong, and therefore, desirable.

 

[CaughtInThe]

"Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia liberalized some of its anti-LGBT laws. Most notably, homosexual relationships were decriminalized in 1993. Transgender Russians have also been allowed to change their legal gender on identity documents since 1997, although there are many obstacles to the process and invasive surgical requirements remain in place.

Despite these liberalization trends during the immediate post-Soviet period, in recent years, Russian authorities have routinely denied permits for Pride parades, intimidated and arrested LGBT activists and condoned anti-LGBT statements by government officials. ILGA-Europe, the European section of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, rates Russia as the least protective country in Europe for LGBT citizens, ranking it 49th out of the 49 European countries rated in its annual survey."

 

[Airyaman]

If Russians weren't purposely targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, I bet you'd see more support of Putin by members of the GOP. Even most of them hate that aspect, thus the reason they've been ditching their love for the despot.

 

[Lutherf]

Speculation is now fact folks!

Some people just can't get enough propaganda into heads with a teaspoon and choose the pitchfork method instead. It used to be funny to watch but now it's killing Ukrainians and they cheer on the bumbling blockhead in the White House.

 

[charliebrown]

Speculation is now fact folks!

Has been for awhile. trump = click bait. Fact of life we all have to live with.

 

[Indlib]

Despite what you may read at a fringe leftwing nut job site like salon.com, there is no GOP love affair with Putin. It is outright insane to suggest there is. It's just another sign of election season panic on the left. The left is painfully aware that special prosecutor Durham will soon be dropping the hammer on the Russian Collusion Hoax and all the illegalities that took place. What was once pushed as a Trump scandal is now a Hillary/Democrat Party scandal and they are trying to get out in front of it and spin it away before the midterm elections.

Why in the world would the left be afraid if an investigation by Republicans into an investigation by Republicans?

 

[LetsGoBrandon]

Why in the world would the left be afraid if an investigation by Republicans into an investigation by Republicans?

That question comes off as disconnected and confused. Since when was the Mueller investigation a republican investigation?

 

[Indlib]

That question comes off as disconnected and confused. Since when was the Mueller investigation a republican investigation?

Which democrat appointed Mueller?

 

[LetsGoBrandon]

Which democrat appointed Mueller?

That's a very shaky dodge. Mueller was a figurehead and did not really run the investigation. Clinton operative Andrew A. Weissmann did.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

Speculation is now fact folks!

Quotes were provided. What else do you require?

 

[Indlib]

That's a very shaky dodge. Mueller was a figurehead and did not really run the investigation. Clinton operative Andrew A. Weissmann did.

Shaky dodge? The investigation was lead by a republican appointed by a republican who was appointed by Trump in an administration where all 3 branches of government were controlled by Republicans and you think that is shaky?

Just curious; do you think the 8 or 9 Benghazi investigations we're conducted by democrats?

 

[Old 'N Chill]

Trump has shown us that conservatives view a blustering, belligerent demagogue as someone who is strong, and therefore, desirable.

Being as weak and ignorant as they are, it's easy to see why. The republican party is dead, the new trump cult party is anti-American, pro-Putin, pro-terrorism, pro-dictator, pro white supremacy, anti-constitution, anti-rule of law, anti-Patriotism. They are the enemy within, they are the racist violent conspiracy nutters who attacked our country in the trump incited (failed) insurrection of January 6, 2021. These fake 'conservatives' are a cancer in our society, killing from deep within. Luckily they aren't in the majority.

 

[Michael Cole]

The left is painfully aware that special prosecutor Durham will soon be dropping the hammer...

Some people never learn.

The check's been in the mail since Trump gave us his standard two-week warning on his Hawaiian investigators. Book 'em, Dano. Lol.

Where's Rudy? I's coming...it's coming...

 

[LetsGoBrandon]

Some people never learn.

The check's been in the mail since Trump gave us his standard two-week warning on his Hawaiian investigators. Book 'em, Dano. Lol.

Where's Rudy? I's coming...it's coming...

Sounds like TDS.

 

[LetsGoBrandon]

Shaky dodge? The investigation was lead by a republican appointed by a republican who was appointed by Trump in an administration where all 3 branches of government were controlled by Republicans and you think that is shaky?

Just curious; do you think the 8 or 9 Benghazi investigations we're conducted by democrats?

No I don't. The Benghazi investigations were legitimate. And to the chagrin of the hildabeast, they led to the discovery of Hillary's classified emails on an unsecure private email server. Even the hildabeast would tell you that tanked her 2016 campaign.

 

[Indlib]

No I don't. The Benghazi investigations were legitimate. And to the chagrin of the hildabeast, they led to the discovery of Hillary's classified emails on an unsecure private email server. Even the hildabeast would tell you that tanked her 2016 campaign.

Ok. Just checking.

Funny you think a series of 8 investigations turning up nothing in regards to Benghazi is a legitimate investigation...even after the fact.

I always wondered what would have happened if Obama had gone scorched earth executive privilege like Trump did his entire presidency and blocked all testimony.