In the interest of our country and its great people
I’ve been marveling at Trump’s “statement” on the Russian hack.
It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation.
I’ve been marveling at the grandiosity of it. He says it as if he’s doing us some big favor, some spectacular concession out of his deep love for our greatness and out of his own remarkable generosity.
He is such a lying fraud.
Taking a security briefing is not some kind extra favor he’s doing us, it’s an important part of his job, the job he got in part, it appears, because Putin helped throw it to him. It’s his job. He doesn’t get extra credit for doing his god damn job.
He gets worse every day, and there are more than 365 x 4 days to go, unless he’s impeached as a traitor and lying piece of shit.
And then we get Pence. Oh joy.
I’m still not counting out impeachment before the two year mark. I see near zero benefit to the reds for keeping him as head of state vs. appointing Pence. Dear Leader’s honeymoon with his Nazi friends is looking to be about over, so losing the super racist vote in the mid-terms shouldn’t be a huge concern.
It’s possible the reds might decided to save us from ruinous foreign policy (that they allowed to surface in the first place) even though they still plan on burning the country to ground.
What reds?
I’ve taken to calling Republicans “the reds” (for whatever reason)…
Ah. Meanwhile some people call Russia “the reds.” Confusing!
I figure the colloquial use of “Reds” to refer to the Russians is pretty much dead now that the Cold War has been replaced by whatever it is we’re calling it nowadays (Dear Leader’s Homoerotic Bromance?).
I’d say the “reds” still means the USSR, communists, foreign enemies, to those of a certain age who recall the cold war very very clearly. . .
Hey look everybody, he’s going to be informed about a current urgent question next week. I’m sure we all feel safe at that.
I’m not entirely sure the RNC isn’t now a functioning arm of the CBP (or SVR to the Cyrillically challenged). After all, the RNC was hacked along with the DNC, but they’re keeping quiet about it and downplaying the whole thing. So calling Republicans “Reds” might not actually be ambiguous after all, but actually accurate.
Blood Knight @ 6 – I might have thought so too a week ago, but then I saw people calling indignation at Putin and the hacks “red-baiting”…and not people who just don’t know but people who’ve been on the left for decades. So that was weird.
But also it’s still a historical term, so “reds” for Republicans is a little like calling someone “suffragettes” while meaning a group other than the historical one.
Plus “red state” and “blue state” are totally confusing anyway, because red is socialist or Labor and blue is Tory.
According to my husband, it used to be the other way, but there was some idea that having the Democrats as the red was too much like calling them Communists, so it was switched. He remembers how odd it was seeing the country go red when Reagan won, so I’m guessing it was fairly recent? I don’t remember that, myself, but I wasn’t quite as tuned to things like Red State and Blue State at that time – I just followed Democrat/Republican, or the candidates, and didn’t realize we were color coded (that’s colour coded for all the British readers…)
It was recent(ish) – recent from the perspective of an ancient like me. I couldn’t remember exactly when though. I would have guessed Clinton era.
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Not bad.
This is what I was thinking about…Apparently the dates of this becoming “universal” (all the media, not the entire universe in this context) was a bit later.
I seem to remember a broadcaster saying that Reagan’s 1984 victory map looked like a suburban swimming pool.