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Trump Privately Pressuring GOP Senators To ‘Kill’ Border Deal To Deny Biden A Win
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No surprise there. Senate Republicans want another delay in a Democrat win to fuck over America. Remember how Iran delayed releasing hostages so Reagan could use it against Carter?
That wasn't even the first time. Nixon tried to sabotage Vietnamese peace talks in 1968 to hurt LBJ. It worked then too, the only thing that matters when you want power is winning.
The last halfway decent repub was Eisenhower.
And Ike was apolitical. He joined the Republicans because he felt the Democrats were too strong and he wanted levity between the two.
For fun look up his presidential platform to see how...progressive... Republicans used to be and how far theyve fallen.
Shit you don't even have to go that far back, Reagan, their neo-liberal god, would be lampooned in today's GOP. He passed gun-control and gave amnesty to those here illegally - both of which we should do again. He also ignored a pandemic resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths, just like our last Republican president, you know the one who stole Reagans motto, Make America Great Again. Yea Reagan did that first, that was his schtick and they both fucking failed HARD at that.
AKA Kissinger's job interview.
Someone should check on Kissinger and make sure they're still dead. Don't want to risk that Kissinger is a lich. While you are at, take a shit on Kissinger grave for us.
It goes back and back like that. I mean, they shot John in the head in broad daylight.
Traitors, all of them.
Hang 'em high
Well, not just America. Remember that part of the border deal crap involves Republicans agreeing to fund military aid to Ukraine. Ukraine is defending themselves from Russia. Putin runs Russia. Trump really likes Putin, far more than any normal person would.
Trump is a fucking traitor.
Also, there's a non-zero chance we'll get dragged into a war with Russia if Putin attacks a NATO country after Ukraine. Senators know that if we don't fund Ukraine now, it will be much worse for everyone later, and potentially having Trump at the helm during that time would be an unmitigated disaster.
Honestly if Trump gets back into office I'm joining the legion.
The (French? I think?) foreign legion, or is there another legion out there these days?
There are more than a few articles about how people had to sandbag things to stop him from trying to unilaterally withdraw from NATO.
Don’t tempt me with a good time
I just can't really see Russia invading a NATO country. I mean, they would be either completely destroyed relatively quickly, or we're talking WW3 and a couple thousand years of rebuilding.
Then again, a dying man has nothing to lose. Who knows if the rumors of him having cancer are true, but he's certainly no spring chicken, at any rate.
We really should start treating such things as the treason it is.
^^ This comment wins.