Absolutely correct, in my view. No question that Trump is a knowing and willing accomplice in the Russian assault on American democracy. Trump doesn’t understand the implications and doesn’t want to understand.
I would add two things:
Trump is not just going along with this because he enjoys his friendship with Putin. He’s almost certainly being blackmailed and pressured into behaving the way he behaves. It’s a coercive pressure that Putin is applying. Why does that matter? Because there’s a difference between someone who assumes he has the choice of following Putin’s lead - that person can back out at any time. But the person who is blackmailed cannot. They feel permanently indebted to that person in order to survive. It’s not just Trump’s political fortunes at stake; it’s his survival. It’s legal jeopardy we’re talking about. It’s the survival of his financial “empire” (house of cards).
Trump is almost certainly not the only one who is in legal jeopardy, and he almost certainly not the only one who has highly questionable relationships to Russian oligarchs (thugs). And that’s what’s on the line in early November: whether or not this country normalizes an authoritarian democracy that is run by thug rule and anti-democratic values.
Well, we could all extrapolate at least the broad outlines of that from watching the two years of the Mueller investigation, so it gets mentally placed in the BTDT file. The health issues, with the mini-strokes (which sounds a lot scarier than Transient Ischemic Attacks) lets us think: “Maybe he’ll DIE!”
Yeah. In the grand scheme of things, the fact that the POTUS is literally a Russian agent is really significant. But it’s also old news. On the other hand, if Trump’s brain gives one more wobbly MAGAt a reason not to vote… then that’s important.
exactly. McCabe thought he had teed it up (to use a golf analogy) so the investigation would continue no matter what happened to him.
the best we can hope for is a democratic sweep in November. the amount of legislation and investigations needed to deal with what happened these past 4 years is staggering.
although biden wasn’t in my top five during the primary, i’m leaning more and more in to the “he is the best bet” to get the government back on track. he has playbooks from the Obama transition to give him a base line to start.
If not enough people understand this, we will lose a functional, if imperfect, democracy for the foreseeable future. It might still resemble a democracy in some ways, but it will be one that is run by and for aristocrats.
In Individual 1’s interview with Laura Ingraham, Part 2, he also claimed that he really won the popular vote because all of the cheating in California and New York doesn’t count.
If I’m telling someone to get me soup out of the pantry, I’ll say, “Get me the chicken noodle soup, would you?” I don’t say, “Get me the can of chicken noodle soup.”
This is an common, ingrained speech pattern and, while I fully agree with you that $45 is demented, I would not consider this an example of his declining cognitive ability.
And in closing, Because $45 makes me sick to begin with.
The property owner let Trump lie about him still being the business owner and presented himself as such. That’s called “lying” in most places. Clearly it’s “close enough” to the truth for some people. Truth-adjacent, as it were.