Ah, so Michael Flynn, the new national security adviser, is a long-time Putin employee. And not in any sort of a respectable position, either. He was an obedient little puppy, picking up sorry little crumbs at Russia Today. How very cute.
Was he that indigent? Because it’s a very pathetic job.
Watch this flick and see what the Democrats have done to the working class:
The cruelty and heartlessness of the left is beyond comprehension. By cleaving to a discredited ideology and forcing it down the throats of the working class they showed themselves to be completely devoid of any humanity.
Look and see why Trump won the Presidency!
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If it was for the economy, they wouldn’t have voted for an authoritarian Putin puppet like Trump.
The good news for the coal industry is that Trump is not sold on fracking because it would be catastrophic for Russia.
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\ The good news for the coal industry is that Trump is not sold on fracking because it would be catastrophic for Russia.
I am 100% sure Trump could not care less what is good for Russia.
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Trump is an employee of the Kremlin. He cares because he has no choice. All of his very first cabinet appointments are servile in the extreme to Putin.
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Perhaps Trump and his “Putin’s puppies” will arrange transfers of significant percentages of America’s Uranium reserves to Russia. But wait. That’s already been done and we may not have much left to transfer.
The deal left huge amounts of U.S. uranium under the control of Russia. The New York Times estimates this share at 20 percent. But Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash, say that it amounts to up to 50 percent of projected U.S. uranium output.
What we have recently learned
When Hillary Clinton was questioned about the deal, she said she had no reason to intervene in the decision. But Raphael Williams of Circa reports that memos contained on WikiLeaks show Clinton was warned about Russian attempts to flex its muscle in uranium markets. And members of Congress also sounded the alarm.
The State Department had obtained a “strategy paper” from Rosatom, the Russian company seeking to purchase Uranium One. The strategy paper alarmed U.S. diplomats because it confirmed fears that Russia was moving to control the long-term supply of nuclear fuel, shut Westinghouse out of the market, and extend Moscow’s influence over Europe.
The resulting diplomatic cable lays out what Williams calls “a clear warning from career U.S. officials about why expanding Russia’s control of uranium markets was bad for the United States and for its allies in Europe.”
In addition, members of Congress pointed to the dangers of the Rosatom deal. Sen. John Barasso said it “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.” Rep. Peter King said it “would pose great potential harm to the national security of the United States.”
Clinton, then, had ample reason to intervene in the decision. But doing so would have been inconsistent with the interests of those who were donating so generously to her Foundation.
Despite the warnings from her own diplomats and from Congress, Clinton let the deal go through.
But Trump’s “Puttin’s puppies” will doubtless find some way to give more to Putin. Right?
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“But Trump’s “Puttin’s puppies” will doubtless find some way to give more to Putin.”
They already started. The Kremlin is celebrating. The Russian Duma greeted the news of Trump’s victory with a standing ovation, a drunken bash, and a massive gathering of troops on the border with Ukraine.
The Russian (state-controlled, obviously) media are in a state of extreme glee since the election. It’s painful to watch.
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Gosh Darn! They will need to try pretty hard to best the Clinton syndicate. Perhaps “Putin’s Puppies” will arrange for former President Clinton and his lovely wife to make pre-paid speeches in the Kremlin. Maybe they will present a new “Reset” button with a proper Russian translation. President Trump will do his best to help.
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Forget about Clinton. There is no Clinton any more. How do you feel about the national security adviser being somebody who has spent years getting paid by Putin’s most powerful propaganda channel with a strong anti-US message?
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Forget about the Clintons? They had an important role in our democratic system for years, so it would be cruel to forget about them. Besides, since their supporters are disparaging President Elect Trump for stuff he and his associates did not do and are very unlikely to do, it’s useful to compare and contrast what Clintons did do.
It certainly would be helpful were Clinton supporters to get a life and accept that Trump won the election fair and square. Alas, many if not most — at least in the media and academia — seem unwilling to do so.
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“It certainly would be helpful were Clinton supporters to get a life and accept that Trump won the election fair and square. ”
I agree completely. Time to accept reality and move on.
I notice that you didn’t answer my question, though. 🙂
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I assume that this was the question:
<blockquoteHow do you feel about the national security adviser being somebody who has spent years getting paid by Putin’s most powerful propaganda channel with a strong anti-US message?
Which channel is that? RT, perhaps? Often, the news there is more credible than that presented in the NY Times and other Democrat party affiliates.
I am prepared to give all of Trump’s appointees a chance and to see what they do. If they perform badly, Trump is pretty good at firing people.
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“Often, the news there is more credible.”
It saddens me profoundly to see that you have allowed this naked Kremlin propaganda to get to you. :-((( Well, that means you will be happy living in Putin’s America. Good for you. Please understand, however, that those of us who believe that this country deserves better than to be Russia’s slave are not sharing your excitement.
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Sadly, many if not most of our “legitimate” media outlets are also propaganda outlets. See, for example, The Associated Press. Based on facts as I understand them, I try to decide what is news and what is propaganda.
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The difference is that our media outlets are not run by the FSB (former KGB.)
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I don’t think RT is very credible. Here are some quotes from the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 terrorist attack.
“Ukraine’s Security Council chief may have inadvertently spilled the beans, saying fragments of a Buk-M missile may be found with MH17 crash debris. However, the exact missile he mentioned is only possessed by Ukraine, Russian army officials say.”
“On the day that the MH17 was shot down, Ukraine’s 156th SAM regiment carried out an unauthorized missile launch, an emergency situation that is being investigated by the SBU and obviously being hushed up by Kiev authorities, the official said.”
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/194848-mh17-ukrainian-missile-buk/
“The Russian Defense Ministry dismissed the allegations, saying that neither the Buk missile defense system nor any other military equipment, has crossed the Russian border into Ukraine.”
“Russia says, according to its observations, a Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missile battery was operational in the region on the day of the Malaysian airliner’s crash.”
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/174380-crash-issues-ignored-media/
The articles were written back in 2014 before the Dutch investigation results were released saying Russia shot down the airplane.
Articles on the Dutch led investigation from NPR and Brietbart:
“A Dutch-led team of international investigators has concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which crashed in July 2014, was shot down by a Russian Buk missile that had been transferred into rebel-held eastern Ukraine.”
After the shooting, the surface-to-air missile launcher was transferred back to Russia”
“Dutch report confirms that Russian missile shot down airliner over Ukraine
Russia launches its massive disinformation campaign”
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“Not very credible” is a yuuge understatement but I’m grateful somebody is not completely gullible.
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I’ve been to West Virginia. It is truly a devastated region. That kind of poverty I hadn’t even seen in Ukraine. It’s very very bad. The people there are, indeed, collateral damage. But not of Obama or Bush or anybody else. It’s a lot bigger than that. They need to stop sitting there waiting for somebody to bring the old world back.
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And it was only for the economy, Hillary Clinton would have won by a landslide.
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“was only for the economy, Hillary Clinton would have won ”
It depends on what you mean for the economy. Without definitions (and without keepn them in mind) all diagnoses and prognoses about “the ecnoomy” are meaningless…
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It’s tempting to find a scapegoat to blame for this. But nobody, not Trump, not anybody else can give these people what they want. Because it’s not about the EPA, Obama, or the Democrats. It’s about a complete transformation of the very nature of work that takes place everywhere on the planet. Even in the places that never heard about the EPA.
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The Democrats threw this election away. It’s as if they wanted to lose. Talk about sexism, racism, Islamophobia all you want but if you abandon and betray the backbone of your party then you will lose big time.
I hope the Democrats have learned a valuable lesson here, that is DITCH the PC ideology and return to caring about the working class.
Give people solutions that work!
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“The Democrats threw this election away. It’s as if they wanted to lose. ”
Do you seriously think that’s the case? I do believe established parties decide (or the leadership decides) to take a dive once in a while.
I’m convinced the republicans did not want to win in 2008 (so that some poor democrat would have to deal with the mess W made).
I hadn’t given that idea serious thought this election but…. maybe. But I think that if so then Clinton herself was not in on it….. and we’re back to the screwjob theory of the election.
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-((( Well, that means you will be happy living in Putin’s America. Good for you.
Clarissa, you forget that daninpanama doesn’t live in America. He lives in Panama. He hasn’t lived in the United States for at least 14 years, 20 if you count his time on a boat. To date that for you, he hasn’t been living in the US since Clinton was President and he hasn’t been here since the Iraq War started.
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