The Russian Federation cannot take Alaska back, they never had it in the first place. You’d have to find a descendant of Tsar Alexendar II and give it to them.
This. I did the exact same thing. 
Came back to the thread after a couple days and the first thing I read. “Here’s a map of states where CP is still legal.” Did quite the double take.
CP? Yeah, it’s a cross-Canada rail network. Canadian Pacific. Runs some hotels, and shipping too. Well, maybe not now, but it did.
First the felon salutes a fucking North Korean general. Now he fêtes the dictator of Russia. It’s déjà vu all over again! (The bolding is mine.)
Social media users quickly mocked President Donald Trump for greeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a red carpet in Alaska on Friday.
Trump welcomed Putin onto U.S. soil on Friday afternoon, shaking hands with the Russian leader who walked to meet him on a rolled out red carpet. Trump could be seen clapping for Putin before posing for photos with the leader.
Trump hopes that the high-stakes meeting with Putin will bring about an end to the years-long war in Ukraine. However, Trump’s decision to meet Putin in Alaska has been met with widespread criticism for welcoming Ukraine’s adversary into the U.S.
And here’s what America’s new secret police are doing with taxpayer money.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is so desperate to look cool, they’ve gone full Pimp My Ride—at the taxpayer’s expense.
A cringey recruitment video released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security featured cars—a Ford Raptor and GMC Yukon—with massive ICE logos plastered on the side, and the name of the president printed on the back window in gold. Some have compared the large decal lettering and red stripe to the old design for the president’s private jet, nicknamed “Trump Force One.” The video shows the bulky cars swerving through the streets of Washington, as DaBaby’s “Toes” plays in the background.
“My heart so cold I think I’m done with ice,” the rapper sings over the Trump administration’s latest gimmick to recruit young people to execute the president’s sweeping and inhumane deportation scheme.
A Bluesky account called Boycott Citizens Bank and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, posted several purchase orders for the cars featured in the video. The total cost for the cars alone was more than $380,000.
Does anyone involved with the felon have an excuse for criminal behavior that is not lame? (The bolding is mine.)
E.J. Antoni, the MAGA partisan Trump tapped to replace Erika McEntarfer as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, reports NBC News. The Heritage Foundation economist and Project 2025 contributor can be seen among J6ers in footage archived by ProPublica.
One video, reportedly taken just about 10 minutes before the mob forced its way into the building, shows Antoni on the west side of the Capitol.
Tear gas is deployed in the air at the front of the crowd, causing people to shift. Shortly thereafter, a man NBC identified as Antoni, sporting what appears to be a University of Pennsylvania varsity jacket, gradually makes his way from around the center of the crowd toward the back. (According to The Guardian, Antoni seems to have familial ties to UPenn.) He can be seen visibly face-on starting at the 1:40 mark, as well as from behind at around 2:15, soon before the camera pans over to Alex Jones with bullhorn in hand.
NBC reports that additional footage depicts Antoni on the Capitol’s east side, walking away from the building.
A Trump administration official told NBC that Antoni was a “bystander” on January 6, who did not engage in “anything inappropriate or illegal.” Antoni was “in town for meetings” with his then employer, and had meandered to the Capitol from an office just blocks away after seeing the news, the White House claims.
The felon thinks he’s going to blockade half the planet or more, with just a few thousand people not trained for it no less! (The bolding is mine.)
The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials told CNN — a dramatic show of force that will give the president a broad range of military options should he want to target drug cartels.
The deployment of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit to US Southern Command, which has not been previously reported, is part of a broader repositioning of military assets to the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility that has been underway over the last three weeks, one of the officials said.
A nuclear-powered attack submarine, additional P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, several destroyers and a guided-missile cruiser are also being allocated to US Southern Command as part of the mission, the officials said.
A third person familiar with the matter said the additional assets are “aimed at addressing threats to US national security from specially designated narco-terrorist organizations in the region.”
On Friday, the US Navy announced the deployment of the USS Iwo Jima, the 22nd MEU, and the two other ships in the Amphibious Ready Group — the USS Fort Lauderdale and the USS San Antonio — but did not say where they were going.
One of the officials emphasized that the military buildup is for now mostly a show of force, aimed more at sending a message than indicative of any intention to conduct precision targeting of cartels. But it also gives US military commanders — and the president — a broad range of options should Trump order military action. The ARG/MEU, for example, also features an aviation combat element.
The deployment of the Marine Expeditionary Unit, however, has raised concerns among some defense officials who worry that the Marines are not trained to conduct drug interdictions and counter drug-trafficking. If that is part of their mission set, they will have to lean heavily on the Coast Guard, officials said.
The so-called summit was a big nothing berder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome and a flyover by screaming jets at a U.S. military base in Alaska but ended with a thud Friday after they conceded that they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
After about 2 1/2 hours of talks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, the two men appeared before reporters for what had been billed as a joint news conference — but they took no questions.
“We had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to, there are just a very few that are left,” Trump said. “We didn’t get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.”
Yo, felon! There is no there there. As dishonest as you are, how is that you cannot tell when someoe is lying to you?
What about you? Are you an “asphalt-type person”? (The bolding is mine.)
While announcing this year’s Kennedy Center honorees on Wednesday, President Trump went off on a tangent about fixing roads, citing a need for “a very talented asphalt-type person.” It thoroughly amused Seth Meyers, who roasted the “out of touch rich guy” terminology on Thursday night.
During Wednesday’s announcement, Trump first complained about hosting the Kennedy Center Honors this year, then complained about never being nominated for one himself, before eventually circling around to complain about the roads in Washington, D.C.
“We have great contractors here, great road builders, everything, and we’re not ripping roads apart so they’re closed for four years as they redo the concrete bases,” Trump said. “And you don’t need that. We need a beautiful topping by a very talented asphalt-type person.”
“What is an asphalt-type per– do you mean a construction worker?” Meyers questioned.
“That is such out-of-touch, rich guy talk. I mean, he talks like an heiress at a dinner party on the Upper West Side,” he added, putting on a fancy voice to imitate said heiress himself. “‘Oh, dear. The roads my limousine took to get here were dreadful, darling! Can’t you find someone to fix that? Maybe an asphalt-type person? One with talent!'”
No kidding. It’s certianly not the way someone who’s had an actual career working in putting up buildings talks.
And this is why our felon needs adult supervision.
President Donald Trump is considering opening up some of Alaska’s natural resources to Russia and offering part of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals to Vladimir Putin in exchange for ending the war.
But Trump also admitted there’s a 25 percent chance that Friday’s Russia summit could be a flop and he has not ruled out adopting wide-ranging sanctions to get a peace deal.
“It’s like a chess game,” he told Fox host Brian Kilmeade on Thursday.
Oh, wonder of wonders. We’re back to him belieiving he’s a grandmaster of strategy. And I wonder how much of this he promised already. It’s not like the person the people of Ukraine elected to represent them and their interests was present to stop it from happening.
I think when government workers start talking about our government being like 1930s Germany, it’s no longer a Godwin’s Law situation. (The bolding is mine, the fascism is the felon’s.)
The Trump administration’s heavy-handed revision of U.S. history has put fear into Smithsonian employees, eliciting comparisons among staffers to 1930s Germany.
Workers at the government-created museums are censoring historical content that they believe could upset the president. Tensions have gotten so high that staffers have been warned against putting any complaints about the current climate at the institution in writing, while volunteers are considering quitting, HuffPost reported Thursday.
On Tuesday, White House officials laid out detailed plans to eliminate exhibits that they determined represented “improper ideology,” sparking alarm and panic among staffers. The memo challenged the application of educational lenses on race, gender, and oppression in U.S. history and accused the Smithsonian directly of advancing a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”
The administration’s critiques also veered toward eugenics, torching a specific Smithsonian exhibit for describing race as “not a biological reality but a social construct” and underscoring that “race is a human invention.”
But the memo wasn’t a suggestion: failure to comply will turn the faucet off on funding for the world’s largest educational institution, effectively crippling the Smithsonian and nixing two-thirds of the organization’s revenue.
Note: the Smithsonian has both federal and non-federal job positions.
Cruella de Vile is camping out in the Coast Guard Commandant’s government quarters.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been staying rent-free in the home reserved for the top Coast Guard official following death threats, drawing scrutiny and criticism from congressional Democrats.
The Department of Homeland Security said it was a wide range of death threats, as well as reporting that showed the area around Noem’s Navy Yard condo that spurred the unusual arrangement at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, where the Coast Guard commandant typically lives.
“Following the media’s publishing of the location of Secretary Noem’s Washington DC apartment, she has faced vicious doxing on the dark web and a surge in death threats, including from the terrorist organizations, cartels, and criminals gangs that DHS targets. Due to threats and security concerns, she has been forced to temporarily stay in secure military housing. Secretary Noem continues to pay rent for her Navy Yard residence,” Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
The move has prompted criticism from some Democrats, who say Noem is improperly using military resources because Cabinet officials traditionally pay fair market value to stay in federal housing that otherwise would be occupied by top military officials.
“Federal government coffers are not Noem’s personal piggy bank, and Coast Guard service members are not her servants. Noem must pay her part. If she requires accommodations for her security, she should brief Congress and request appropriate resources—not take over property from the Coast Guard,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.
The Washington Post first reported Noem was staying in the commandant’s residence rent-free, while the Daily Mail first reported the secretary moved there in July.
The entire article is a fascinating read.
They may change the pic, yet I remember that’s when trump was shouting some sarcastic remark to the press about Zelensky’s attire. Which should remain the same. Dunno if he can bring any muscle to take on Vance in Tag Team Match part Deux.
Damn stolen election in 2020. So that means he’d have had four years to consider not starting the war in the mud this past February and perhaps mid January (Russia takes a nine or so days holiday after new years).
I want to hear him say “See, even Putin agrees”
From Monty’s link:
So the US pays Russia to stop destroying Ukraine.
Brilliant, fucking bravo.
And ten years from when the Russians are invited in to mine resources in Alaska Putin launches an invasion to “protect” ethnic and Russian-speaking Russians there.
Whereas Jon Stewart will no doubt go straight for his Jerry Lewis impression: “Oy, this road feels so much better with the smoothing and the paving, Mr. Asphalt-Type Person!”
Not if Trump is still President. And Putin will be two years older than trump is now. Aren’t magical steroids a wonderful thing?
Oh, hell, if Trump is still president he’ll probably give Alaska to Russia and claim it was part of the Best Deal Ever! So yeah, guess Putin won’t have to invade or fire a shot in that case, so OK, you’re right.
Like chess eh Donnie? Well you certainly know how a pawn moves.
Both Russia, and sadly the US Republicans are playing you. They will keep you until it’s time to sacrifice you.
I’ll bet everything that Trump could not set up a chess board let alone play a game. That’s quite clear.
I really love this part, it is so in character for Trump to offer to ‘pick up the tab on a big meal’ by offering up someone else’s credit card when the server brings the bill.
@enipla You, my friend, are an absolute genius. I shall be quoting this oft. Nay, this shall be my mantra during IRL discussions about the felon.
Even worse, they can’t keep their plans secret because they don’t know how printers work…
Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR?
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I saw that article earlier today. Never mind turtles all the way down; it’s incompetent fools and numbskulls.
Every single one of them think Governing is easy, that you just tell people what to do and then it happens just as they said. They are marching around giving out orders like children playing a game, ignoring all the complexities and details and negotiations that are required to make them actually work properly, because they genuinely think that’s how it’s done. Hence why they are so frustrated with “red tape” and “big government”.
But it has to be that way to work, if it isn’t that way THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. It all goes pear shaped immediately, and everything fails in the worst ways.
They are a bunch of tiny-brained ego-driven arrogant man-babies. It’s pathetic.
I screen-captured that post for passing around because it is worth passing around.
I hope the surf and turf being served to Putin is better than the last one served at a Trump function.
Nevermind…
I did too. Thanks for the suggestion.