I can’t help but notice that the fearsome omnipotence that Trump used to have (which, allegedly, would have stopped Putin from invading on Trump’s watch) have waned so dramatically that he no longer has any ability whatsoever to influence Putin at all.
Huh. Weird, right?
Not that it would have stopped the invasion, just the war.
True enough.
In the same way that – in profoundly depraved minds – Rohypnol is equivalent to Consent.
Well, Trump - after a “great meeting” that only he and the Russians would agree to - is unlikely that he will announce he’ll help end Biden’s Stupid War by giving intelligence or materiel to Ukraine.
Instead, as Mouth of Putin, he’ll announce that Putin will withdraw a little bit from Kherson and otherwise agree to a cease fire and freeze of boundaries and a pinky-swear PROMiSE that if Ukraine demilitarizes and also promises never to think of NATO East again, he’ll not fight any more in Biden’s Stupid War.
Trump will see that as a good deal and sure shot at the Nobel. Maybe even shared with the peacemaker Putin.
Other’s might see it as Putin - seeing Zelensky and his entourage of the head of other states are crashing the White House tomorrow - just might have some wrath sent his way.
Is this a real letter?
It doesn’t actually say anything. It just maunders on about precious children, which has never before seemed to be a big concern of the First Lady, but vague concern about children with no specifics is the number one social issue in America.
Even if Putin were inclined to do what she asks, what is that according to this letter?
That’s all it can be seen as. At least it doesn’t plagiarize Michelle Obama.
Here’s an excerpt from a letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Khrushchev, following her husband’s assassination:
You and he were adversaries, but you were allied in a determination that the world should not be blown up… The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men as by the little ones… I send you this message because I know how much my husband cared about the need for peace and how the relationship between you two was central to this care."
She didn’t write that. Someone who took a high school creative writing class and got a C did.
MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace was prominently featured on Fox’s website…they called her commentary a “profanity-laced rant”. While clutching their pearls and calling for smelling salts.
You have to use double-secret reverse quantum level decryption methods to read the real message from Mel to Vlad, namely, how much she loves it when he rides shirtless on horseback to show off his well-developed pecs and also that she wishes they had met in Slovenia in the old days so she could have had his babies and become First Lady of Russia.
It’s as plain as the nose on your face when you know where to look.
I’m not much for conspiracy theories, but I’m pretty wedded to “Melania Trump was recruited as a Russian agent, sent to America, and assigned to the stupidest rich American they could find.” I’m convinced that everything she does is for her parents, her son, and her Russian paycheck deposited regularly in a secret Swiss account.
Maybe Melania was aiming for the same thing as Sting, but without even a scintilla of his poetry, poignancy, and eloquence.
Dog, goat killer, and tactical wear fetishist model; Noem gets the hypocrisy treatment.
some states deserve more rights than other states
Yeah. The pubblies today have the following version of those rights.
Or, as Orwell might have put it: Some animals people are more equal, and thus have more equal rights, than others.
The felon needs a new spin doctor. This is just lame.
The White House responded to an NPR report revealing that U.S. government papers about the summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska were left on a public hotel printer, dismissing it as “hilarious.”
“It’s hilarious that NPR is publishing a multi-page lunch menu and calling it a ‘security breach,’” White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a Saturday statement to The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation. “This type of self-proclaimed ‘investigative journalism’ is why no one takes them seriously and they are no longer taxpayer-funded thanks to President Trump.”
NPR reported that the eight papers, which contained information about meetings and locations of the summit, along with phone numbers of three U.S. government workers, were found on a hotel printer before the Friday Trump-Putin meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage.
The first page of the papers showed the sequence of meetings for Friday, including information that the president would give Putin a gift. Pages 2 through 5 showed the names of the top U.S. and Russian officials in Alaska on Friday. Page 2 showed the phone numbers of three U.S. advance staffers. Pages 6 and 7 showcased the lunch seating chart and the menu.
The planned lunch did not take place on Friday, but it would have included a three-course meal, including a salad, filet mignon and/or halibut olympia, according to documents obtained by NPR.
The US government said Saturday it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans after a far-right influencer with the ear of President Donald Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek medical treatment in the United States.
The announcement came one day after a series of furious social media posts by Laura Loomer, who is known for promoting racist conspiracy theories and claiming that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job.
“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,” the State Department, which is led by Marco Rubio, wrote on X.
In a series of posts on X Friday, Loomer called on the State Department to stop giving visas to Palestinians from Gaza who she said were “pro-HAMAS… affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and funded by Qatar,” without providing evidence.
And who are these terrorist-supporting dangers to America?
Loomer’s target was the US-based charity HEAL Palestine, which said last week it had helped 11 critically wounded Gazan children – as well as their caregivers and siblings – arrive safely in the US for medical treatment.
This is a success? Yeah, for Russia.
NEW YORK (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who took part in the talks Friday at a military base in Alaska, said it “was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that” and called it “game-changing.”
“We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," Witkoff told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Witkoff also said Russia had agreed to enact a law that it would not “go after any other European countries and violate their sovereignty.”
“The Russians agreed on enshrining legislatively language that would prevent them from — or that they would attest to not attempting to take any more land from Ukraine after a peace deal, where they would attest to not violating any European borders," he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
I think that jackass meant “not violating any more European borders. And that’s yet another nothing berder. It’s not going to happen. Putin will say he wanted it, but then he will order his rubber stamp parliament to nix it.
I really hate to see the enshitification of public discourse that we have come to. But truth doesn’t work, facts don’t work, shame absolutely doesn’t work so what’s left to try? The best way to get at the onionskinned POS may be trolling him. Bullies do hate to be mocked. Newsome posted this image today:
Then in response to a pissed off MAGA, he posted this:
I laughed. I’ll allow it.
I think Rubio’s now facing a full count.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday acknowledged the Trump administration is far away from reaching any kind of peace deal between Russia and Ukraine after President Trump’s summit on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rubio insisted progress was made at the Alaska summit, which the president declared a “10 out of 10” because of how well he got along with Putin.
At the same time, Rubio in a Sunday morning interview in ABC’s “This Week” didn’t mince words in discussing how much work still needed to be done.
“We made progress in the sense that we identified potential areas of agreement, but there remain some big areas of disagreement,” Rubio told ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “So we’re still a long ways off. We are not at the precipice of a peace agreement. We are not at the edge of one. But I do think progress was made.”
Only the best, but evidently the best have no memory, apparently.
Uh-oh! Kim Jong-Un is going to be ticked. (The formatting is from the link.)
Trump Releases Putin Love Letter After Ceasefire Summit Flop
President Donald Trump released a garbled mess of a video praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for a “very productive meeting” a day after they failed to reach a ceasefire deal in Ukraine.
In a bootlicking propaganda clip that Trump posted to his Truth Social account Saturday, somber music accompanies snippets of the world leaders’ meet-and-greet in Anchorage, Alaska, including footage of their respective planes arriving, and the two men shaking hands and walking in slow motion, spliced with images of American flags.
The growly voiceover Trump recorded to accompany the video was equally puzzling, beginning, “I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team” before segueing into Trump’s comments at their joint press conference.
At the conference, Trump declared that he and Putin would stop “thousands” of people from being killed, The Guardian reported.
Closing out the video, Trump says, “We will speak to you very soon and will probably see you again very soon.”
I swear I’ve heard that closing line from some television show. But, damn, coming from him, it’s fucking creepy. Also, today’s Monday, not Tuesday. (Kudos if you get that.)
I am perversely enjoying the felon’s lack of knowledge. (The bolding is mine.)
Vladimir Putin set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in 10 years on Friday—but don’t try telling President Donald Trump that.
In the days leading up to the historic summit between the two world leaders, and even while traveling to the meeting in Anchorage, Trump did not seem to understand that Alaska is part of the United States.
In an interview for Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, Trump indicated that Alaska is not part of the United States.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump told Baier, speaking about a potential deal with Putin, while on board Air Force One en route to the meeting in Anchorage. “If it’s bad, if it’s something I don’t see a future in, I’m gone, I’ll leave,” Trump added. “I’ll go back to the United States.”
Read the whole article to see how many times the felon’s words show he doesn’t know Alaska is in the USA. Either he doesn’t know, which is bad enough, or he’s incapable of communicating his thoughts accurately, which is all kinds of horrible. Actually, my money is on both.
Europe to stage an intervention for the felon in DC.
WASHINGTON —European leaders will join Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington this week as he meets with Donald Trump at the White House, rallying around Ukraine’s wartime president after Trump appeared to embrace a peace stance held by Vladimir Putin after their summit.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte are all set to travel to the United States for the the talks on Aug. 18.
& this part is interesting.
After the meeting, Putin declared that an “agreement” had been reached that could solve the “Ukrainian issue” and restore “business-like” relations with the United States. Minutes later, Trump said there was merely progress toward a deal without providing details.
Do you notice a particular party’s name missing here? Yeah, UKRAINE! The dictator and the puppet don’t care about Ukraine even an iota.
This particular Xit is amazing. It shows the felon walking the red carpet in Alaska.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Sunday that authorities arrested 68 people overnight in Washington, D.C., amid a federal crackdown on crime in which President Trump has sent the National Guard to the nation’s capital and federalized the police force.
“Over 300 arrests in D.C. — and counting: Just last night, our federal and DC law enforcement partners made 68 arrests and seized 15 illegal firearms,” Bondi said in a post on the social platform X. ”Homicide suspects, drug traffickers, and more are being charged. I’ll continue to stand with you as we make DC safe again!”
Yo, Bondi. Why don’t you just get all the residents to stand outside, arrest everyone, and then pretend you and your felon boss aren’t scapegoating a blue city with better crime stats than some major red cities?
A real leader, the governor of California, talks to the felon in words said felon can understand.
“TINY HANDS IS OUT HERE COPYING ME — BUT WITHOUT THE STAMINA (SAD), AND CERTAINLY WITHOUT THE ‘LOOKS.’ TOTAL BETA! — GCN,” the governor’s press team replied on X along with a similar picture from earlier this year of Newsom pointing a finger at Trump’s chest.
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“TRUMP JUST FLED THE PODIUM WITH PUTIN — NO QUESTIONS, NOTHING! TOTAL LOW ENERGY. THE MAN LOOKED LIKE HE’D JUST EATEN 3 BUCKETS OF KFC WITH VLAD. IS HE AFRAID THE PRESS WILL ASK ABOUT ME??? (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) AND THE FACT I ‘STOLE THE CAMERAS’ THIS WEEK WITH ‘THE MAPS’?” the press team wrote.
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“MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING HE BEGGED PUTIN TO HOLD HIS HANDS (TINY) ON THE WAY OUT,” the post continued. “ADMIT IT, DONNIE J… YOU’RE TERRIFIED BECAUSE THIS WAS THE WORST WEEK OF YOUR LIFE BECAUSE OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. ‘THE MAPS’ WILL END YOUR PRESIDENCY, RETAKE CONGRESS FOR THE PEOPLE, AND EXPOSE YOUR RIGGED “LITTLE GAME.” MY “PERFECT MAPS” ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYTHING IN TRUMP TOWER (WHICH MANY SAY SMELLS WEIRD). @STEVENCHUENG47STEVENCHUENG47 — EXPLAIN THIS DISASTER!!! ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT HOME, DONALD — YOU’RE PUTIN’S PROBLEM NOW. I’M AMERICA’S SOLUTION. — GCN.”
Oh, fuck. I held my nose when I voted for Newsom, but his staff is going too far with the imitations. Sure, I love it, but a potential Presidential campaign doesn’t need to ramble as lengthy as Orangeboy always does just to poke the Orangebear.
I’m not recognizing any of the four in the first batch except is that Newsom seated?
It’s Newsom seated, surrounded by Kid Rock (left), the late Hulk Hogan (back, with unearned halo), and Tucker Carlson (far-far-right). It doesn’t make any sense but neither does the Pope Donald thing.
Newsom, step away from the keyboard.