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pwb

(11,272 posts)
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 05:34 AM Nov 2016

The Republicans let the Russians in our back door.

The red republicans have become the red Russians. Putin has seen how the Republicans have been tearing our country apart and now he has joined them. Finally your divided government has found a friend in Putin's Russia.
When the republicans say look over here, look over there.

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The Republicans let the Russians in our back door. (Original Post) pwb Nov 2016 OP
I remember what... Mike Nelson Nov 2016 #1
I envision a Venn diagram showing commonalities between- Snarkoleptic Nov 2016 #2
The Ugly fact is DonCoquixote Nov 2016 #3
Spot on. tavernier Nov 2016 #5
This was only possible with the aid of the FBI. Augiedog Nov 2016 #4

Mike Nelson

(9,956 posts)
1. I remember what...
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 05:42 AM
Nov 2016

...non-patriot Mitch McConnell said: "My number one priority is making sure president Obama is a one-term president." Now, they are planning to just let the Supreme Court die off. Republicans believe Democrats are their #1 enemy - not Russians, fascism, communism, ISIS, etc...

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
2. I envision a Venn diagram showing commonalities between-
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 06:41 AM
Nov 2016

Trump, Putin, KGB, Alfa Bank, Paul Manafort, Russian oligarch mafia/creditors, and maybe a dotted line circle for yet-to-be discovered Russian funders of Trump-supporting super PAC's.

Not a pretty picture.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
3. The Ugly fact is
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 07:44 AM
Nov 2016

Putin and Trump both play to the same choir: the old white working class that was always ready to believe they were the rightful masters of the world, always ready to blame the outsider for all ills, instead of their leaders who played them like harps and butchered them like pigs.

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