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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 92 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, I was going to comment on this, but you were faster. This is the first time that I've noticed a major media outlet connecting Republicans with Russia. So it's an open secret now?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's a secret at all anymore.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what an open secret is. Everyone knows it but few people are willing to acknowledge it publicly.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't this been an open secret for years? Does no one remember Paul Ryan talking about Russian payola to trump and other Republican traitors back in 2016?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I can’t believe I’m actually gonna say this, but I miss that guy. He was a bastard, but at least he was a “normal” politician and not some batshit psycho.

And he retired to run a weed company iirc. wtf.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

I can’t find the weed company on Wikipedia (you could be right, I just looked cursorily), but he’s on the board of directors at Fox News. Also I learned that he’s related through marriage to both Ketanji Brown-Jackson and a very hardcore George Wallace stan.

All in all, I should not have read his Wikipedia, it’s destroyed the hope that I had, that he might have become normal and would be interested in fixing things.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The comment is about headlines, not open secrets. I know you read the comment, why did you respond like this?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The comment is about headlines, not open secrets.

This is the first time that I've noticed a major media outlet connecting Republicans with Russia. So it's an open secret now?

I was responding to a comment talking about the open secret of Russian connections to republicans, not about the headline. Are you sure you responded to the right comment?

It’s the first time I’ve noticed a major non-liberal media outlet pointedly connecting Republicans with Russia. Which is a pretty big deal tbh.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Surprising coming from Forbes, honestly