No Trump supporting MAGAt was listening to a single word Schiff was saying. Schiff may as well have been reciting the winning lottery numbers for all of next week and they still would tune him out completely in lieu of the nightly Trump Cult holy worship services lead by Hannity and Pirro.
Ukraine is our ally, Russia is our enemy, led by a dictator who has no problem killing people who criticize him or oppose him. (In fact, in 2006, the Duma passed a little-noticed law that gives the president of Russia the option of executing enemies of Russia on foreign soil. He does not have to explain to anyone or any governing body the decisions he makes or notify anyone of these executions. Alexander Litvinenko was promptly murdered in London.) Trump worships Putin. Putin invaded Ukraine. Assisting one of our allies to thwart the advance of a dictator is just basic allyship. If it prevents Putin from gaining more power, the world is a better place.
Yeah, a bunch of Americans were saying the same things in the 1930s.
Fair point.
Senators supporting Trump would say “you don’t win a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry”.
They’re putting everything on victory in November. If they win, they’re home free for the next four years (unless the Democrats somehow get a supermajority in the Senate while losing the Presidency). If they lose, well, there’s going to be a massive problem for them.
I was never able to find the recording on ABC, of Parnas and friends.
Here’s one in Washington Examiner:
Personal takeaways:
- One year and some change into his Presidency, and the matter of Ukraine vs. Russia being an eensy weensy bit relevant to much of his campaign and rhetoric, Trump appears to have no knowledge of the situation in Ukraine.
- For Trump, oil = money opportunity. My assumption is that he immediately forgot everything but that one fact about Ukraine as soon as he left the building, same as every other time in the previous year that people tried to teach him about the place. Which, again, obviously failed, ergo point #1.
- These guys know exactly what to say, blending truth and fiction, and blatant ass-kissing to take advantage of Trump. They lure him with oil, they goad him with Clinton, and they loft him with tales of Putin fearing him.
This is what the Republican party likes about Trump. He’s easy to understand and easy to control.
At least, that’s been the case so far.
Nitpick: I like language to be very precise here at SDMB; it increases clarity and avoids confusions. I don’t even like acronyms unless they’re very well known.
Thus my disappointment that the slang term “hit” is used in this thread almost to the exclusion of more meaningful words like “execution” or “murder.” If nothing else, insistence on the slang term is just silly. And “hit” doesn’t always mean murder. UIAM in the news business, a “hit job” is not a murder — it’s a concentrated effort to slur in print media. “Hit” has other slang meanings as well.
IIRC the allegedly incriminating language from the alleged potential “hitters” was also ambiguous. Let’s not compound the confusion.
He thinks he is Vito Corleone but he’s actually Fredo .
UIAM?
Unless I Am Mistaken… got it from context.
C’mon, this had to be intentional, right?
WWNNK…
(Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge, KnowwhatImean?)
:o Sorry. UIAM is one of those acronyms that confounded me at first … but I thought it was already ubiquitous here at SDMB!