Because Putin owns him. I thought that was obvious.
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Indeed I wish reporters wouldn't dance around the obvious.
Man does literally everything that would help Putin.
"Conservatives": He's the toughest president ever on Russia! You have TDS! Ukraine are Nazis!
...I hate this reality
He had meetings with Putin without anyone else present while being president. That alone should disqualify him from holding any public office, let alone becoming president again.
The article is more of an exploration of the consequences of the failure of the US to support Ukraine. Not sure why they went with that headline.
The article makes is all very obvious but the author is too cowardly to spell it the obvious conclusion: the only one who benefits from all this bullshit is Putin. The only rational explanation is that Trump is acting in Putin's interest against the US.
At best it's because it's because he doesn't want Joe Biden and the Democrats to look good before the upcoming election. At worst it's because he's Putin's bitch doing whatever his master says. Personally, I believe he's a piece of shit traitor and so too are all the Republicans that follow and listen to him.
There have been so many examples of Trump protecting and sweet talking Russia and Putin, and he has been surrounded by Russians in all kinds of situations, financial and his security, that there is no reason to believe there are 2 options here. Trump is a traitor to USA, pure and simple.
Smells like all Republicans are traitors
There are a number who aren't, like Liz Cheney. It's possible to disagree almost completely with somebody on policy, and still recognize that they're not a traitor.
Not that the rest of the Republican party accepts them or will allow them to win a primary anymore.
Do Republicans who got kicked out of the party still count, though?
Right, but that is what it smells like.
Exactly, they are no longer the same thing. Maybe it's finally time to realize there are more than two options.
If you're a longstanding Republican and looking for another home, that's not a bad idea. If you want the Republicans to lose the next election, you need to actively vote for a Democrat. These three scenarios show why:
Scenario 1:
D - 9 votes
R - 10 votes
T - 0 votes
Republican wins
Scenario 2:
D - 9 votes
R - 9 votes
T - 1 vote
Tied election, decided by a coin toss
Scenario 3:
D - 10 votes
R - 9 votes
T - 0 votes
Democrat wins
I mean, that line of reasoning can get a bit dicey. Given that they're in the electoral majority, I think that technically makes the Democrats traitors.
Your "given" is false.
I'll grant you this - Republican leadership are all traitors.
The Nazis were traitor to the German nation, didnt matter that they were the majority.
The Nazis were a nationalist movement with enormous support within the German state. Who were they betraying, exactly?
So Trump is the deep state
Because a vote for R is a vote for Russia.
Question is why is he allowed to dictate policy?
Republicans control a majority of the House of Representatives, giving them the power to block spending. They do what he says.
Why does the article focus on the small minority of Republicans when the rest of the Republicans are complicit in blocking the aid too? Only a few Republicans need to vote in favor of the aid to pass.
this is why all republicans are bastard fascists. they vote in lock-step regardless of literally anything.
It is unfortunate that All Republicsns Are Bastards (ARAB) wouldn't be a good acronym, because that would have dovetailed nicely with ACAB.
How about All Neoconservatives Are Losers?
Nice!
All Conservatives Are Bastards.
It has to be brought to a vote, which is the responsibility of the speaker of the house, who is a Republican. There is a way around that, but I think it would take more than just a few Republicans
That’s the proximate cause. The ultimate cause is that the Republicans stand no chance if they alienate Trump’s base. Many of them would prefer it if he went away but they can’t make it happen.
Because the Republican House Reps listen to him and want to appeal to his political base. And because right-wing news media pushes a ton of Trump-friendly media advocating against further funding of the Ukraine War.
If you really get under the hood of this thing, the Republican positions is that Americans should be allied with Russia and at war with Ukraine because Ukrainians are gay woke liberal pedophile soyboys, while Russians are Based Western TradCath Chads. What gets even nuttier is that Republicans still despise China, and believe they need to ally with Russia against China in a war over the South Pacific.
Trump's not even really leading on this issue so much as echoing what the right-wing press regularly puts out. The real hand behind the throne is a cartel of industrialist billionaire hold-overs from the John Bircher movement of the 1960s, plus their larger network of talk radio, TV, newspaper, and social media talking heads parroting their message.
He's just taking orders from his boss.
Just remember that turnip was willing to suspend aid for Ukraine unless zelenskyy made a particularly statement supporting his narrative.
trump is a wanna-be fascist dictator. why is he wanting a foreign dictator to win? because hes fucking jealous. he admires putin