All the way to the point of treason, it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/ohio-vo...-wed-okay/

Quote:Ohio voter suggests GOPers are ready to accept Trump collusion with Russia: ‘If he had some help, we’d be okay’

Trump was right when he said, "I could murder someone, and everyone would be fine with it".

I think he said that, right?

The irony is that those on the far right make the lamest excuses to be against Democrats, excuses that make no logical sense. The same Republicans spout, "we tolerated" (no you didn't) "your president, you should tolerate ours", not realizing the magnitude of the difference between having a Republican president who does nothing except exploit the people for the 1% while the Democratic President is for the people.

(August 6, 2018 at 12:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All the way to the point of treason, it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/ohio-vo...-wed-okay/

Quote:Ohio voter suggests GOPers are ready to accept Trump collusion with Russia: ‘If he had some help, we’d be okay’

This is fucking insane. Putin is a product of Stalin's communism era, a trained KGB thug and a dictator.

If their argument is that the world has to get along with it's enemies, THIS is not the way to do it. 45 is shitting on Reagan and JFK.

"As president, Donald Trump has uttered more than 4,000 falsehoods or misleading statements." ~ Washington Post

How fucked up are Trumptards? They actually still believe our Liar In Chief. That's how fucked up they are.

In all fairness, if Barack Obama had won an election with help from the Russians, you wouldn't hear the entire conservative community screaming "bloody murder" or anything. 

(August 6, 2018 at 12:25 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: In all fairness, if Barack Obama had won an election with help from the Russians, you wouldn't hear the entire conservative community screaming "bloody murder" or anything. 

Facetious!

(August 6, 2018 at 12:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(August 6, 2018 at 12:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All the way to the point of treason, it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/ohio-vo...-wed-okay/

This is fucking insane. Putin is a product of Stalin's communism era, a trained KGB thug and a dictator.

If their argument is that the world has to get along with it's enemies, THIS is not the way to do it. 45 is shitting on Reagan and JFK.

Stalin died in march 1953.  Putin was born in November 1952.  When Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin and the Stalin era in front of the Supreme Soviet on Feb 1956 to kick the destalinazation companion into high gear, Putin was 3.5 years old.

All indications are Putin was a precocious child.  But he would have to be precocious indeed to have been a product of stalin’s Communist era.

The USSR did not change overnight and young Master Putin, KGB spy, was probably aghast at what Gorbachev did.

(August 6, 2018 at 12:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The USSR did not change overnight and young Master Putin, KGB spy, was probably aghast at what Gorbachev did.

Putin was not a master spy when Gorbachev was in power.  He was still a lowly Lieutenant colonel, more of an agent than a spy master.   He never really rose to become a spy master.  He dropped out of KGB and became a politician during the 1990s.  It was from a political position Boris Yelsin plucked him and put him on the path to succeed Yelsin.

The isssue of KGB’s attitude towards gorbachev's program glasnost and perestroika is a lot more complicated and nuanced.   It is absolutely not true that KGB would have been completely opposed to liberalization under Gorbachev.   In fact the KGB was the hidden driving force behind it.  

The western caricature of the Soviet KGB being merely a monolithic apparatus of state repression is not at all complete.   KGB has its own research institutes and its own think tanks and was a state within a state.  What is more it was much better informed than the Soviet state outside itself, not just about what dissidents and American military, or perspective presidential candidates were doing, but also about how economic and political system really works in practice as oppose to in theory. KGB was the only organization in the USSR that was truly aware of the state of the Soviet economy and the fundamental social and economic malaise it has suffered from since 1965, and the only organization in the USSR that truly studied and knew how western political and economic systems worked.  So KGV was in a good position to assess what reforms the USSR needed.  

Andropov was the head of KGB from 1967 to 1982.   He was also the Soviet embassedor to Hungary in 1956.   In the West Andropov has a evil reputation because of his role in the brutal crushing of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, and because as head of KGB he created the network of psychiatric hospitals used to imprison dissidents without trial.

Although outwardly Andropov was the very image of the black coated KGB murderer, his actual views were much more nuanced.  He deemed repression necessary in the short run but considered these to be bandaids and didn’t address fundamental problems facing the Soviet Union.  It was he who laid out the program of reforms which he believed necessary to ensure long term survivial of the USSR.  This was basically the same program Gorbachev tried to implement.   Mikhail Gorbachev was the protege of Yuri Andropov.

When Brezhnev died in 1982 Andropov succeeded to the top post.  But Andropov had severe diabetes, needed dialysis and he knew his days were numbered. He promoted Gorbachev, whom he had mentored and cultivated as the liberal but not too rash reformer, over the heads of numerous more seasoned old guard communists, and positioned Gorbachev to be the 2nd in line to succeed himself.   Gorbachev was extraordinarily young for a senior soviet official, too young to be accepted for the top post by the Soviet power structure if he simply came out of nowhere to succeed Andropov.  So Andropov then made sure the position of number 1 in line to succeed himself went to the infirm septuagenerian old guard Konstantin Chenenko so that Gorbachev can first have time become a familiar face in the top corridors of power,  but would not have long to wait to succeed to the top post.

When Andropov died less 1 year later in 1984.  Konstantin Chenenko succeeded him but also died in 1 year, and then Gorbachev succeeded Chenenko.  The rest is the reform that brought down the USSR.

So Far from being aghast at what Gorbachev was doing, the KGB actually was the power behind the scene that engineered the Gorbachev era.

(August 6, 2018 at 12:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All the way to the point of treason, it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/ohio-vo...-wed-okay/

Quote:Ohio voter suggests GOPers are ready to accept Trump collusion with Russia: ‘If he had some help, we’d be okay’

Simpsons did it.

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(August 6, 2018 at 1:32 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(August 6, 2018 at 12:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All the way to the point of treason, it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/ohio-vo...-wed-okay/

Simpsons did it.

Trumps toxic influence spreads.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/b...k-homepage

Quote:Video of “mask-wearing fascists” storming a liberal bookshop in London shows them accusing a shop worker of being a paedophile, a “Nazi-bastard” and “corbynite scum”.
Bookmarks in Bloomsbury was targeted by around a dozen demonstrators, including one in a Donald Trump mask, just before it closed its doors at 6.45pm on Saturday, in an incident now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.
In an almost 13-minute-long video posted on YouTube, the demonstrators are seen taunting the retailer and tossing books from the shelves while chanting “Trump, Trump.... we love Trump”.
They also appear to express support for the founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, as they appeared to crowd around the retailer while verbally abusing and filming him. 
Michael Bradley, from Stand up to Racism, said the protest was a “sinister development that indicates the growing confidence of the far right who feel they can attack a bookshop in central London in broad daylight”.
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He added: “Attacking a bookshop also exposes their claims to be defenders of free speech as hollow.”