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Augiedog

(2,541 posts)
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:51 AM Jul 2018

It seems clearer and clearer that Russia has put in place in our presidency an agent provocateur.

With the willing aid of the NRA and Fox News we are under attack by the Russians and their oligarchs.

We have all witnessed the bizarre and obscene actions and words of agent tRump. His praise of Putin, and other dictatorial leaders. We have heard his false allegations of criminal behavior or lying about him in his proclamations of the FBI and the CIA and other intelligence community agencies.

He has relentlessly attacked anyone who has attempted to expose the truth about him. Using the bully pulpit of the presidency as a club to beat and submit any who transgress against him personally. He has declared the media an enemy of the people, endangering them personally and threatening the structural security of a fundamental element of our society.

His trade wars weaken us economically, his NATO assault weakens us militarily and his socially focused attacks here at home sow chaos and violent decision amongst American citizens. Weakening America is the prime directive of Russian foreign policy. We are the prime stumbling blocks on their aspirations, especially in Europe. Just sowing insecurity amoung the NATO members is a major coup for Putin.

Viewed through the lens of ‘what would an enemy nation like to see occur in the United States so that they can gain greater influence in their world?’ It is not a far fetched notion to think that we are actually being politically decapitated by having our presidency broken and eviserated.

Our presidency has become an unequal co-branch of our government. It has become more powerful due to the fecklessness of our politicians who don’t want to take responsibility for having to make difficult decisions, so they defer their authority to the presidency and in doing so endanger us all by allowing the presidency to become almost uncheckable and unstoppable.

We now have a system that is clearly not of our choosing, trump is not the president of just America, he is also the agent of Putin, so we now are witness to an attack on the fragile edge of our society which we have allowed, through indifference , to become the vehicle for our demise.

I can’t help thinking that Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan must aghast and spinning in their respective graves. When Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe on the table and proclaimed that he would bury the United States, who would have thought he had a chance to be right.

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It seems clearer and clearer that Russia has put in place in our presidency an agent provocateur. (Original Post) Augiedog Jul 2018 OP
Agent provocateur, saboteur, vandal, arsonist dalton99a Jul 2018 #1
Enabled by traitor Republicans and a treasonous supporting cast that can and will be bought. Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #2
We are in the midst of a Russian-sponsored coup d' digitale... Raster Jul 2018 #3
I like to call him a "chaos agent" Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2018 #4
Putin saw the Scarsdale Jul 2018 #5
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #6

Raster

(20,996 posts)
3. We are in the midst of a Russian-sponsored coup d' digitale...
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:20 AM
Jul 2018

...every action tRump* takes WEAKENS THE U.S. and gives strength to Putin*. This is NOT COINCIDENCE. At this level of the "big game," there are no coincidences. Just about EVERYTHING happens for a purpose, stated or otherwise.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
4. I like to call him a "chaos agent"
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:32 AM
Jul 2018

Nobody could have done more damage to the USA and our international standing in the last year and a half *if they had tried*

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
5. Putin saw the
Mon Jul 9, 2018, 11:53 AM
Jul 2018

lineup of republican contenders for the WH, and decided tRump would be the easiest to manipulate. That, plus the pee-pee tape, was all it took. If this orange ass gets a private meeting with Vlad, we can kiss what is left of the government goodbye.

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