It’s not about being smart for America, it’s about being smart for Putin. Trump’s going to do that with every single decision until we’re completely destroyed.
I hear that again and again, but I don’t quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I’m not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux ™ to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there’s no leverage left?
It’s more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn’t dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
I don’t know if I think it’s Kampromat so much as simply business. Republicans have been flying to Russia to suck dick for years now, even on American holidays, just so Putin can show the world they’re bought and paid for dogs. I think it’s as simple as that - whatever endgame there is is part of whatever contract they made with another country’s leader in exchange for him getting them in power and them letting him weaken and destroy the country. In the end, they all get to be lords of the ashes, and that suits all their interests just fine.
It’s Russia for the same reason it was voting machines and woke professors and DEI: it’s a handy way of pretending the country isn’t really like that, and if only we got rid of <group> things would go back to normal. Because if it’s not, you’d have to face the reality of a country that elected both Trump and Obama. Twice.
It’s not about being smart for America, it’s about being smart for Putin. Trump’s going to do that with every single decision until we’re completely destroyed.
I hear that again and again, but I don’t quite understand the endgame anymore.
There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I’m not sure anything could shame him anymore.
Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux ™ to magically settle his debts.
Why would he bother listening when there’s no leverage left?
It’s more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn’t dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.
There is no endgame for these clowns, only opportunism.
I don’t know if I think it’s Kampromat so much as simply business. Republicans have been flying to Russia to suck dick for years now, even on American holidays, just so Putin can show the world they’re bought and paid for dogs. I think it’s as simple as that - whatever endgame there is is part of whatever contract they made with another country’s leader in exchange for him getting them in power and them letting him weaken and destroy the country. In the end, they all get to be lords of the ashes, and that suits all their interests just fine.
It’s Russia for the same reason it was voting machines and woke professors and DEI: it’s a handy way of pretending the country isn’t really like that, and if only we got rid of <group> things would go back to normal. Because if it’s not, you’d have to face the reality of a country that elected both Trump and Obama. Twice.
Yes, any kompromat the Russians had is completely useless now. Even if people believe it to be true, he apparently wouldn’t lose a single vote.