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| Dmitry Medvedev with Vladimir Putin. |
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has issued a warning to Donald Trump’s White House that the “U.S. establishment” is preparing to oust him from power and codifying sanctions on Russia is only the first step.
“The U.S. President's signing of the package of new sanctions against Russia will have a few consequences,” Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s onetime successor in the Kremlin wrote on his Facebook page in Russian and English. “First, it ends hopes for improving our relations with the new U.S. administration. Second, it is a declaration of a full-fledged economic war on Russia.”
“The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way,” Medvedev wrote, lauding the “U.S. establishment” for having “fully outwitted” the White House. Both U.S. chambers passed the bill to take the power of lifting sanctions on Russia from Trump, with an overwhelming majority.
“The issue of new sanctions came about, primarily, as another way to knock Trump down a peg,” the Russian prime minister wrote. “New steps are to come, and they will ultimately aim to remove him from power.”
Jesus Christ! Is that a blatant attempt to freak Trump out about these Russia investigations or what?
And the sad part is that the effort to turn Donald Trump against the federal government is working.
Once again, is ANYBODY still in doubt that Trump and the Russians worked, and are working, together?Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017
If you can't do your JOB, dumb@ss, someone will! What a weak little pissant he is.
ReplyDeleteNo question whatsoever!He is totally unqualified as a human, considerably much less as the leader of a free country. He and pence chose to bed with these tyrants.
DeleteWe have ignorant politicians that have their own personal agendas.
I have nothing but disdain for most politicians and all trump voters!
Ahhh yes, but here's the fun part, the orange shitgibbon is likely feeling quite squeezed right now. If he does anything, the grand jury will get him. If he doesn't, Putin will tank his businesses.
DeleteHe's going to go out kicking and screaming and hitting every button he can on the way.
ReplyDeleteSomeone ought to explain the separate, but equal, branches of our government to that tsar.
ReplyDeleteGive us healthcare?! He did his level best to take it away PERIOD, and he's still at it.
ReplyDeleteThat picture appears to prove that even with Putin-level power and wealth, some people will never have nice hair.
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Ha! That was my first thought. That hair?! Does it always look so thin and stringy...oh, wait it's raining. See water on shoulders.
DeleteAlso explains that guy behind him and the weird round thing he's holding up LOL.)
But also notice, the little fingers. Maybe they shrunk when they got wet? Or maybe Putin always has small fingers? Explains a lot.
17 days at his New Jersey Golf club... kinda like a Russian Mafia money laundering family reunion.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-secret-service-russian-oligarch-new-jersey-vacation/4185/
DeleteAnyone with Half a brain cell could see if there was no Russia ties fatass cheeto wouldn't be trying so hard to stop/discredit Mueller.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump puts Secret Service at a distance, as Russian oligarch’s plane flies into New Jersey during golf vacation
ReplyDeleteEarlier this week it was revealed that Donald Trump appears to be increasingly pushing the Secret Service away. He’s kicked them out of their command post at Trump Tower entirely. And during his golf vacation in New Jersey, they’ll be using drones to do their jobs remotely. Now that a Russian oligarch’s private plane has just arrived in New Jersey on the same day Trump arrived in the state, it’s led to the question of whether Trump is pushing away the Secret Service because he doesn’t want witnesses.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-secret-service-russian-oligarch-new-jersey-vacation/4185/
Russian oligarch’s plane flies into New Jersey on same day Donald Trump arrives for golf vacation
On the same day that Donald Trump traveled to Bedminster, New Jersey to begin his vacation, a private plane belonging to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich arrived at nearby Newark International Airport. Abramovich isn’t just any Russian oligarch; he’s very close to Vladimir Putin, and his wife attended Donald Trump’s inauguration in January
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/russian-oligarch-new-jersey-donald-trump-vacation/4182/
Can this Trump/Putin affair get any sleazier? When will the GOP wake up to what is happening? It's not enough for us Democrats to fuss and fume about it; we do not hold the power now. It is such a tragedy to see this once-amazing country (until 11/2016) dissolve into a blithering satellite state of Putin's 21st century wannabe Soviet Union.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now pursuing Donald Trump’s various criminal activities from so many different ripe angles, it seems a matter of when – not if – Trump will become so thoroughly exposed that he’ll end up ousted from office. The presumption has been that Mike Pence assume office and, crippled by Trump’s scandals, play defense while finishing out the term. But Mueller’s latest move signals that he just might end up taking Pence down as well.
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This headline appeared on Monday, July 31, 2017, at precisely 4:00 am: “Koch Brothers Move to Back White House’s Tax-Cut Plan.” This one appeared less than twelve hours later: “White House sees tax reform zipping through Congress in October, November.”
ReplyDeleteThat’s what you get when you combine the Kochs’ money and influence with Trump’s executive power and support from the Republican base: a unified Republican Party marching in lockstep toward a destructive goal.
The Kochs’ much-publicized hostility toward Donald Trump has been replaced by a strategic alliance between the ideologically extreme billionaire brothers and the ideologically fluid but equally self-serving businessman/president. They have reached “new-found unity” around an issue that is guaranteed to excite all Republican politicians; tax cuts that would benefit Trump, most members of his cabinet – and, of course, the Koch brothers themselves.
They don’t call them “cuts,” of course. That would sound crass. Instead, in time-worn Republican fashion, they hide their selfishness behind a more refined word: “reform.” “Social Security reform,” “Medicare reform,” “tax reform” – when Republicans say they want to “reform” something, the only thing you can be sure of is that the wealthy will benefit and everyone else will suffer.
Longtime Koch operative Marc Short was given a key role in the Trump White House. As Legislative Director, Short works with Republicans in Congress to promote the passage of Trump’s agenda – or, in this case, the Trump/Koch agenda.
When it comes to taxation, the Kochs seem to be the senior partner in this relationship. Steve Bannon’s proposal for a millionaire tax increase was quickly shot down. So was House Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposal for a “border adjustment tax,” which the billionaires brothers strongly opposed.
What remained was a “reform” plan any self-serving billionaire could love. Virtually all of the cuts – 99.6 percent of them – would go to the top 1 percent, according to Americans for Tax Fairness, cutting approximately $1.5 trillion from Medicaid while giving roughly $2 trillion in tax cuts to corporations. The House’s “reform” plan would also cut nearly $500 billion from Medicare.
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/kochs-and-trump-team-cut-billionaires
But if you give an ordinary, beer drinking white guy an extra five bucks a year he'll be thrilled and have no problem that the wealthiest got so very much more.
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A guide to the shrinking GOP presence in Trump’s West Wing
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The shrinking GOP presence is likely being replaced by an increasing alt-right presence. Really scary when the GOP looks better than its replacement.
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The shrinking GOP presence is likely being replaced by an increasing alt-right presence. Really scary when the GOP looks better than its replacement.
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Drip, drip, drip. It's the sound driving President Trump up the Oval Office's rounded wall.
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...Trademark Trump. He takes the very thing that he is doing — in this case, demeaning the Constitution — and flings that accusation back at his opponent. Trump’s campaign and now his presidency have been an unceasing effort to demean the Constitution. From “fake news” to “so-called” judges, from his ill-considered travel ban to encouraging police officers’ roughing up of suspects, Trump is a one-man assault on the rule of law.
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Why Is the Kremlin Suddenly Obsessed With Cryptocurrencies?
ReplyDeletePutin and his people once threatened to jail bitcoin users. Now, they can’t get enough of the digital money.
...But sometime last year, something changed. Perhaps the Kremlin realized that creating a proprietary “digital ruble” defeated the purpose of having a dispersed-ledger digital currency. Possibly they observed the huge sums of money being poured into blockchain technology by Silicon Valley, and resolved to make sure Russia didn’t get left behind when the technology became popular. (The blockchain is essentially a ledger with thousands of copies that gets updated every time a transaction takes place.)
Or maybe they just woke up to the vast array of possibilities that cryptocurrencies could offer in the service of money laundering.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-the-kremlin-suddenly-obsessed-with-cryptocurrencies
We unfortunately know for sure that Trump will always side with Putin in any argument.
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If that tweet doesn't convince people that Trump is in bed with Putin, then I don't know what will.
ReplyDeletePretty clear Vlad doesn't understand how the Constitution works.
ReplyDeleteOr he is very aware and out to undermine that too. He wants the U.S.to be like Russia, which an authoritarian dictator and no other part of the government powerful enough to check or balance the tyrant who called himself a president. Elections a sham. He wants the U.S.to be little Russia.
Problem is, no matter how bad it gets, he can't destroy the country in four years.