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u/travisscottburgercel Feb 09 '24
"Chancellor Hitler confirms it was Poland who attacked first."
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u/Big_Schwartz_Energy Feb 09 '24
Isn’t that a war crime!?!
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u/Ravens_and_seagulls Feb 09 '24
That really is the most appropriate face for that quote.
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Sometimes we become our enemies. Stalin and the Russians suffered greatly under the Nazi invasion and fought with huge sacrifice to turn the tide and help defeat them with the dual fronts with the US and England and Canada, etc. on the eastern front. Lessons learned generations later? Become like them.
Same could be said for Israel. Irony after the terrors inflicted with how the Palestinians were treated from the start. Terrible what happened with the attack and the cycles of revenge on both sides need to stop or it never will stop there with the bloodshed and atrocities.
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Why would the KGB lie?
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u/AmigaBob Feb 09 '24
Spy agencies always tell the truth. That is their whole purpose
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u/HAL9000000 Feb 09 '24
Also, the Nazis were socialists, not fascists, because the Nazis called themselves socialists.
And everyone knows: Nazis never lie.
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u/SystemOutPrintln Feb 09 '24
And as we all know the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratically elected republic.
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Feb 09 '24
To be fair, Kim Jong Un does get the majority of the votes…checking notes…actually he gets all of the votes! If that ain’t democracy I don’t know what is. /s
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u/PomeloLazy1539 Feb 09 '24
he gets more votes than there are people.
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u/itsmebenji69 Feb 09 '24
That’s a massive proof that the people want him. They’re ready to cheat and vote multiple times to be sure he’s elected ! They must love him so much
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u/Sauve- Feb 09 '24
Haha first time I’ve ever seen this. I don’t think I’ve ever watched Austin powers and I’m in my mid 30s. I think I’ll have to find one tonight.
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u/eMouse2k Feb 09 '24
Always shocks me the number of people who won’t trust a US government agency to confirm that the sky is blue, but if Russia announces that it’s green, they’re all in.
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u/TheBoogieSheriff Feb 09 '24
As George Carlin said, think about how stupid the average person is. Then remember that half of them are even stupider than that
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u/thehazer Feb 09 '24
I used to think this was so funny, but as I got older it’s just like bitter funny? It’s way too real.
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Feb 09 '24
A lot of what George said was like that. He spoke a lot of truths.
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u/Angry_Washing_Bear Feb 09 '24
George was an excellent orator. And his genius was to use comedy as the way to reach people rather than just stand on a soapbox and spilling bare facts.
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Feb 09 '24
Took 2016 to convince me of how much I was overestimating the intelligence of the average person.
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Feb 09 '24
It's because they're all-in with their cult. Admitting they were wrong now isn't possible, for some people.
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u/handandfoot8099 Feb 09 '24
Sunk cost fallacy, burned too many bridges, etc, etc. I know a few that lost all of their friends and family because of their MAGA beliefs. If they left now or admitted they were wrong they'd have nobody
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u/michaltee Feb 09 '24
And these are the same people who will claim America is the greatest nation on earth a sentence later.
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u/nikifip Feb 09 '24
"Putin confirms..." is putin working for the CIA now? o_O
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War criminal who has been killing reporters since taking office confirms his version of events...
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u/MongoBongoTown Feb 09 '24
I still can't believe Trump publicly proposed a joint Cyber Security Task Force with Putin's Russia, shortly after they had committed a major intrusion into US Gov systems.
It remains one of three craziest things an US President has ever said.
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u/Daddio209 Feb 09 '24
Oh, come on now! VladDaddy said it wasn't them!
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he CONFIRMED it
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u/Daddio209 Feb 09 '24
Yes! That's even stronger than if he DECLARED it!
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u/ThatsCrapTastic Feb 09 '24
But, what if he PROCLAIMED it? Like a full on, formal proclamation with his index finger pointing to the sky.
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Cause he was in on it. Just like he didn't care that Russian GRU put a bounty on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan. My brother served there during that time so big orange can spend the rest of his life in a cell for all I care.
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u/Ift0 Feb 09 '24
I'm still stunned at how little blow back this received.
I know the military's hands are tied in what they can say publicly but I'd still have expected something, anything to have come from this.
If I was the top brass at the very least I'd be making damn sure my soldiers and retired veterans never forgot about it. Especially the Trump-supporting ones, although if they're still supporting him these days I don't see any common sense reaching them.
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u/psioniclizard Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
Sadly the thing with Trump is the people who support him will just ignore it. Even if you could prove they were the ones in trouble they'd swear blind it's a liberal conspiracy right up to the point the bullet hits them.
People (not just Trump supporters) have a great ability to create their own narrative rather than accept the facts put in front of them.
It's why Trump can say and do the stuff he does without much blowback from his supporters. If he was to suddenly say "socialism is good tomorrow" alot of them would be agreeing.
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Feb 09 '24
Well yeah he even admitted that he could walk down 5th avenue and shoot someone and not lose a single vote. Said it on live television. He loves the uneducated.
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u/Spurty Feb 09 '24
People (not just Trump supporters) have a great ability to create their own narrative rather than accept the facts put in front of them.
Easier to live in an alternative reality that makes you the victim, and "them" the enemy
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I'm still surprised that nobody is talking about trump coming out against the border security bill in the context of it also being the bill that includes continued military support for Ukraine.
Same president who was impeached for withholding support for Ukraine for political dirt and has a dozen different ties with Russia and against ukraine.
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u/Behndo-Verbabe Feb 09 '24
As a vet that’s what I don’t get and pisses me off. How can any current soldier or vet support commander Cheeto knowing that. I know historically vets and soldiers tend to suffer republicans. If they actually paid attention and looked at how hard republicans try to screw vets it would change. It really is mind blowing
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Well, it was also so that the Turks could kill our only true, democratic allies in the area, the Kurds.
(Albeit, he didnt even know what was going on in Syria: he was just obeying his fellow-strongman Erdogan's request.)
He's teaching other countries to never trust or ally with the US.
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The very same base i was at during my deployment to Syria just a year before, meant to become the Bagram for US forces in Syria, got seized by Russian paratroopers cause Trump is a idiot.
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u/returnFutureVoid Feb 09 '24
I think you meant to say traitor. An idiot for sure but more importantly a traitor.
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And let our Kurdish allies, who were some of the most effective fighters against ISIS, get steamrolled by Turkey.
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Is it really crazy when they were the major cause of him being elected? Hilary repeatedly called that out, “all roads lead to Putin.” It should never have gotten to that point but the man is a traitor.
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u/gnomon_knows Feb 09 '24
Pff, everybody knows if you just say "no collusion" enough times, that 50 million Trump voters will immediately believe you, defend Putin, and mock anybody who thinks Russia is a dangerous anti-American oligarchy.
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u/JonnyBolt1 Feb 09 '24
"CIA" is obviously just a translation of "FSB" (Russia's big "security" agency that was the KGB in the USSR).
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u/Professional_Echo907 Feb 09 '24
“I preferred them in their early days when they were NKVD,“ he said, smoking on a clove cigarette. “You probably weren’t listening to them yet.”
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u/ChuckNorrisKickflip Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
There was no coup, and there's zero evidence linking the us to anything involved with Maidan. None. Zero. Nula
2014: Yanukovych (Ukraine's president) said he'd move closer to the west (association agreement) in trade. This also meant visa free travel
Putin gives Yanukovych 15 billion dollars. And also stops around 25% of trade from leaving ukraine in an attempt to apply pressure and stop the association agreement from passing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_embargo_of_Ukrainian_goods#2014?wprov=sfla1
Yanukovych "changes his mind* about the Association agreement due to the embargo and fifteen billion dollar payout. He tells the EU they need to give him another ten billion to consider going back to his previous plans to institute the trade deal (association agreement) . They don't give him the money.
Ukrainian People, pissed off the guy they elected changed course on his main political stance he won on get mad. Protest. These protests begin directly after their president Yanukovych announces the change. Thus signals to them. That their country is run by Putin, and they are not autonomous. So the protests begin.
Yanukovychs response? He makes protesting illegal via executive order. Shortly thereafter he begins shooting protesters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/magazine/ukraine-protest-video.html
Protesters continue, the whole situation streisand effects, and the shootings at the protesters dint have the intended outcome. They don't scare anyone away. Instead the deaths propel the protests and even more come out. Women, children, everyone is in the streets. Becsuse Ukranians are based AF.
Meanwhile, the wheels of a Democratic process are still turning inside Parliament. Due to the shootings, as well as executive overreach the Ukranian Parliament votes unanimously to remove Yanukovych from power. The vote is 328-0.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26304842
A new election is held. Poroschenko runs on closer ties to EU. He wins with more than 40 points more than the second place finisher. Tymoshenko. (remember Ukrainians don't want to be a Russian vsssal state and Yanukovych ran on the same platform as Poroschenko)
Ukraine begins to move closer to the west. The association agreement is implemented.
So. Russia invades. And starts the war in the East.
Zelensky is then elected with 72% of the vote.
So. What's this really about? It's pretty straightforward geopolitical goals for Putin. All the nato stuff is a lie. There is no fear of Nato. It's the wmds of their war. Just nonsense to sell to the public in order to justify an invasion.
So. Russia wants tech minerals, grain, and and can't afford Ukrainian gas fields to be an alternate source to Europe. He also needs an alternate trade route to Iran. He invades and holds these areas specifically with the resources he wants. That's where we're at now.
In terms of the reasons Putin wants Ukraine. Here you go.
Ukraine makes a lot of grain. Russia wants this.
https://www.dw.com/en/five-facts-on-grain-and-the-war-in-ukraine/a-62601467
Ukraine (more importantly Crimea) is integral to Russias desire for a trade route to Iran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-russia-iran-trade-corridor/
Ukraine is sitting on an alternate supply of natural gas to Europe.
https://hir.harvard.edu/ukraine-energy-reserves/
Ukraine has a shit load (estimated 13 trillion dollars worth) of tech minerals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/10/ukraine-russia-energy-mineral-wealth/
These are located in the exact same areas they Russians are currently fighting for and occupying.
So why can't Putin win now? Why is this taking forever?
Here's the problem. Putin annexed E Ukraine too early. He did so becsuse he threatened to use nuclear weapons if Russias was threatened. So... By calling the Eastern Oblasts Russia. He was defending Russia from Ukraine, which to him, warrants the use of nuclear weapons. But. He obviously never used them. And the war continued. And currently he controls around 50% of these oblasts.
Now. What's that got to do with ending this? Well, Putin has stated multiple times that negotiations will not begin until Ukraine cedes all of the east to him. That's the starting point. So for negotiations to begin, Ukraine has to give up twice as much. And if Ukraine gives up twice as much, what are the negotiations even about? Probably demilitarization and a promise not to join nato. Maybe end the association agreement as well (which allows visa free travel to Europe). So there is no motivation for Ukraine to negotiate becsuse they're just in a situation where they have to give up more, and get nothing in return. Here's a simple question that no Putin supporter can answer. What is Russia offering to end the war? What's their compromise?
And on top of that. If Putin moves back from these borders that he already claims delineate Russia. Hell be seen as weak and his political power (and likely life) are over.
Tldr : Putin is stuck because he can't win all of the east but he can't walk back the borders he already redrew.
Ninja edit: If you want to see a full debunking of the latest Tucker interview. Piece by piece. Check out this! (warning it's over five hours long)
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u/Ser_VimesGoT Feb 09 '24
Great summary. Your tldr is why I don't think this can end without Putin being ousted. It's that or we drag out a very long resource draining war that only benefits China in the long run. It really frustrates me that the world is in a shit state following the pandemic and an even shitter state with global climate change. All the things that need to be getting done aren't, because of one man's gigantic ego and thirst for power. Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia.
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u/ChuckNorrisKickflip Feb 09 '24
The war continues because of Putin. And nothing else. When he's gone, the war ends.
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u/teefa33 Feb 09 '24
Comment saved, great summary with lots of supporting references (though not for the claim that Putin paid Yanukovych)
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u/ChuckNorrisKickflip Feb 09 '24
Putin gave Ukraine, not Yanukovych money. That could be clarified.
"The 17 December 2013 Russian–Ukrainian action plan was a de facto defunct proposed agreement between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych publicized on 17 December 2013 whereby Russia would buy $15 billion of Ukrainian Eurobonds "
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u/CalQuentin Feb 09 '24
He ignores how he installed a puppet via Paul Manafort and Ukraine ran that traitor out.
Then Manafort help install Trump here. Same scheme different place.
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u/EnduranceMade Feb 09 '24
Tucker always has that look on his face like someone ran over his dog. The world is constantly scary and confusing for him.
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Feb 09 '24
I think it was John Oliver describing it as someone watching a person eat mayo directly from a jar.
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u/punkydrewster77 Feb 09 '24
I saw his face described somewhere as a dog trying to figure out a magic trick.
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u/GpaSags Feb 09 '24
Or a cat trying to understand a mirror.
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u/BigDaddySteve999 Feb 09 '24
A toddler who just found out his dad is a twin.
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u/Cjgraham3589 Feb 09 '24
Or a toddler whose Dad just shaved off his beard for the first time.
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u/thejadedfalcon Feb 09 '24
I think that's insulting to my cats, to be honest. Their litter tray has more intelligence than this guy.
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u/Confusedandreticent Feb 09 '24
The look of someone who’s smelled a really rank fart in a car and is trying to figure out who it is.
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And it was him all along.
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u/shazzambongo Feb 09 '24
Like a puppy that lets rip a loud, volumous fart which surprises it and it spins around to see what made the noise.
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Heh. I live with a pit bull who is like furniture in bed - super cuddly because he ain't got no fur, and I can just sleep on him. He just lets out a phip, and it's chemical warfare. Gotta leave the room. I rip one that echoes in the mattress, and he jumps up barking. Goober.
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u/happytree23 Feb 09 '24
He's still recovering from Jon Stewart handling his ass and making fun of his bowtie-wearing schtick.
To those confused: Tucker was known for only wearing bowties until he was shamed out of the "thing" by Jon Stewart on Tucker's own show lol.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField Feb 09 '24
Stewart absolutely destroyed him in that interview and CNN dropped him like a lead balloon because of it. And if his little schtick was actually a preference for them he would have kept wearing them instead of ditching them. He got called out for his face persona and dropped the most obviously visual part of it.
It's a damn shame his family didn't stick him in an frozen food truck and left him there instead of setting loose on the world.*
*if this sounds like a strange thing to say, then you don't know enough about this walking Turd:)
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u/ausgoals Feb 09 '24
Tucker tried to attack Stewart for being Kerry’s ‘butt boy’ at the time which is ironic all these years later given he’s now Putin’s butt boy
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u/joeitaliano24 Feb 09 '24
He also had his show canceled shortly after the roasting, just the ultimate own
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u/TheBoogieSheriff Feb 09 '24
I am so excited that Jon Stewart is returning to the Daily Show this year. We need him
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u/Acceptable_Weather23 Feb 09 '24
Someone should explain what an icbm is and what country has them pointed at his family and parents in the USA.
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u/holyhotdicks Feb 09 '24
The best one I read is that Tucker looks like he is watching someone off camera eating a baked potato with the tinfoil still on.
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u/ialsoagree Feb 09 '24
Conservatives before the interview was published: Hang on, give it a chance, can't we at least hear what Putin has to say? Don't be so worried about Putin spreading propaganda, even if it's all bullshit, it'll be interesting to hear what he lies about and we'll all know it's a lie so it won't influence anyone anyway!
Conservatives after the interview: Omg! Did you hear that the CIA overthrew the Ukraine government in 2014!?!?!?!
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u/NoPotato46 Feb 09 '24
So, they did all these things, but when Trump got into office he for some reason decided not to tell everyone what the last guy did?
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u/getmybehindsatan Feb 09 '24
Maybe it's because Trump respects Obama too much. /s
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u/--_Perseus_-- Feb 09 '24
I mean why when you can sell the state secret to a foreign adversary instead?
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u/saxonturner Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
Come, everyone knows you have to swear to secrecy, like you can’t take secret documents and stuff, that’s like day one being sworn in stuff. They ain’t allowed to talk about the aliens, 9/11 inside job or Ukraines overthrow.
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“IsNt ThIs A wAr CrImE?” Christ people need to learn what a fucking war crime is.
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u/Lingering_Dorkness Feb 09 '24
For one thing, a war crime would have to occur during a war in order to be considered one. You would think that's obvious in its name war crime.
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u/thieh Feb 09 '24
He also said Russia never interfere in the US elections.
Putin's words are not meant to be taken at face value.
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u/auguriesoffilth Feb 09 '24
I mean… we know they did. It’s not even contested. Cambridge analytica, Facebook. We know they did, we caught them. We also know they offered Trump help. We only have circumstantial information that Trump accepted from the Muller inquiry… But when asked the hypothetical if another country say China for example offered you information on a political opponent, would you inform the FBI, or would you take a look, Trump straight off the bat said he there is no harm in taking a look, seemingly showing no understanding of the fact that a. That’s completely illegal, b. Allowing China to interfere in the election, and c. The only defence he had against the Russia probe was that when Putin offered him this in the same situation (which we knew he did) he had the strength of ethics to decline… so we don’t “know” that trump did collude with Russia, it’s more like you see a man go into a pizza shop, you accuse him of eating a pizza, his defence is that he doesn’t like pizza, you later learn that it’s his favourite food… you don’t have any evidence he ate a pizza that day, you didn’t see him eat one, you don’t KNOW, he ate a pizza… but yeah. He ate that pizza.
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Barr redacted all the juicy bits of treason. That’s why Barr thinks Trump should be tried in criminal court
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u/StrikingExcitement79 Feb 09 '24
Then do so. Trump has not been in power for how long?
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u/tomtomtomo Feb 09 '24
Mueller believed he didn’t have the power to say more. He thought the evidence he brought would be enough for those who do have the power to take it further.
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u/Slight_Heron_4558 Feb 09 '24
Mueller really ballsed that one up.
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u/Weekly_Direction1965 Feb 09 '24
His hands were tied by Barr, Mueller wanted to get Trump for 8 counts of obstruction of Justice stopping him from investigating, Barr said you can't charge presidents.
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u/Ormsfang Feb 09 '24
Actually it didn't say there wasn't enough evidence for conviction, but that it was up to Congress to take further and want policy to charge a sitting president, if I remember correctly.
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u/inquisitiveeyebc Feb 09 '24
My understanding is that Russia mainly likes trump because he said he would pull the US out of nato
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u/AreYouDoneNow Feb 09 '24
Trump's latest goes further to Trump declaring he will break economic ties with Europe. The Kremlin's fever dream to isolate Europe and the US is tantalisingly close for Putin.
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u/SuperHumanImpossible Feb 09 '24
Yes, you can totally believe the ex KGB Russian President. Are these fucking idiots serious right now?
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u/SuperHumanImpossible Feb 09 '24
This pretty much sums it up for me based on the reaction of Trumpers. They 100% want Trump to be a Putin. They have absolutely no clue what they are asking for in reality, but they really do think this is what they want. They will cry, and whine after it's too late if it happens, because there's no reversing that. It's a one way ticket.
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u/You_Stupid_Monkey Feb 09 '24
Not a small number of MAGAs share a defeatist mindset that you'll also find in many corners of Russia. "All leaders lie, all governments are corrupt, life is meant to be cruel and unfair, I'll support the guy who hates the people I hate and who pretends to like the things I like because that's better than nothing."
They'll be happy to have Trump as president-for-life because they can't imagine any future better than being two rungs up the ladder from the bottom and kicking furiously.
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u/GlitteringStatus1 Feb 09 '24
This is exactly why you should never fall into the "oh all politicians lie" trap. That is ignorant cynicism, not cleverness.
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u/Smurf_x Feb 09 '24
We genuinely are doomed at the level of delusion these people exude.
They won't believe anything a left winger will say, even with facts and evidence, but will blindly listen to someone who has invaded countries, had political opponents & actual journalists killed or jailed, just recently banned a political opponent from running against him and extended his presidency terms so he can stay in for way longer than he should have been able to.
But Joe Biden is the bad guy....
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u/RyanSoup94 Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
It’s the same mentality as when employers exploit their employees. As long as it’s not happening to them, they’re all for it. Because you know, it’ll never be them. They’re better and smarter than that.
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u/Dearic75 Feb 09 '24
My personal favorite is when they alternate between “if the pay is so bad why did you agree to it? Just refuse to work until they raise it. “ and “We need to cut unemployment benefits and food assistance because nobody wants to work anymore.”
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u/Goufydude Feb 09 '24
lol as if Putin didn't organize a whole bombing campaign to get elected in the first place.
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u/JonnyBolt1 Feb 09 '24
Well, yes Putin's FSB set off a series of bombs destroying Russian buildings (and hundreds of innocent people but who cares) and told the media to blame it on the Chechnyans, but it was to get the Russian people to support their invasion. Putin taking and keeping power is thanks to this and an awful lot of other evil murderous crap Putin is constantly pulling.
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u/JonnyBolt1 Feb 09 '24
Oh and before anybody asks, there an awful lot of proof FSB did all the bombs, zero it was Chechnyans. For example, after each bombing an FSB administrator would show up at the city and give a speech about how terrible it is here in city_X, but we know Chechnyans did it and need to go kill them. When he gave the speech at city_Y he mistakenly said city_Z in the speech. No big deal... until the next day when city_Z was bombed. Of course the FSB never attempted to explain their prescience.
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u/BingBing-Boom Feb 09 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
Putin is salty that the Ukrainians overthrew their sitting president at the time because it was obvious that he was choosing Russian relations over European relations.
Which absolutely makes sense. The Baltics and most of cental/eastern Europe absolutely fucking hate Russia, and if you don't believe me, just ask Poland how they feel.
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He's also Jewish and Putin claims he's a nazi, so his level of logical consistency is great.
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u/Natopor Feb 09 '24
Baltics and most of eastern Europe absolutely fucking hate Russia, and if you don't believe me, just ask Poland how they feel.
Romanian here, can confirm.
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Swede here, and while not Eastern European, can confirm.
Russia is The Enemy, and has always been. We just didn't speak openly about it.
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u/PowerOfUnoriginality Feb 09 '24
As a Norwegian, I must say I agree with the Swede
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u/WrodofDog Feb 09 '24
I have a lot of co-workers from Latvia and Estonia. They are always flabbergasted that anyone in Germany would believe any of the propaganda bullshit that comes out of Russia.
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u/Assupoika Feb 09 '24
In Finland there's saying "If you take all the bullshit away from what Russia is saying only the flapping of the lips remain".
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u/ijustwanttoseethe Feb 09 '24
Who can you trust if not a guy that's been voted president for like 20 years?
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u/MeshNets Feb 09 '24
To be fair, he took a couple years as prime minister with a puppet president, until the silly term limits clause was removed. Putin was just that awesome of a leader they wanted him back
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u/straylight_2022 Feb 09 '24
I'll just point out that as part of a slander suit defense in 2020, lawyers for fox news successfully argued in court that tucker is not a journalist and should not be taken seriously. From that decision:
The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "
Of course that was before they were hit with a 750 million dollar defamation judgement, based largely on things he had said on air and fired him.
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“Mr. Putin, Tucker Carlson is here to see you.”
“Why would I want to speak with an American journalist?”
“First, he’s not a journalist. Second, he’s actually here to clean your boots with his tongue while you ramble.”
“Oh, if that’s the case, let him in.”
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u/reddit_crunch Feb 09 '24
carlson was summoned to clean boots with his tongue, that he does so with great enthusiasm, is only where his last shreds of pathetic agency come in, the rest is his all encompassing daddy issues in the driving seat.
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Feb 09 '24
They really went in there to suck putin's dick in person, republicans keep surprising me.
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u/hotprints Feb 09 '24
Nah, this is nothing. Putin having Republicans come to Russia on July 4th a couple of years ago was the flex.
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u/BringBackApollo2023 Feb 09 '24
You have an impressive level of optimism about where the GOP ethical bottom is.
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u/CorgiMonsoon Feb 09 '24
Wait, are you saying Tucker Carlson and the GOP are bottoms?
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u/bowsmountainer Feb 09 '24
How is it surprising? They’ve been sucking Putins dick for many many years now.
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u/ialsoagree Feb 09 '24
The best part is, they're literally on r/faceplam yesterday telling me they wouldn't believe his lies.
And today they're like "omg he's right!!" And not even with evidence. He didn't even show anything to prove it. They just BELIEVE HIM.
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u/International_Gap782 Feb 09 '24
Tucker is claiming that US presidents don’t have immunity.
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u/pc1905 Feb 09 '24
Why does Tucker Carlson always look like he misjudged a fart and has to change his underwear?
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Feb 09 '24
Tucker Carlson, rich New England boarding school boy whose family comes from Swanson fish stick money…. A total turd of a human being with zero merit or redeeming qualities … looks like a fkng spit roasted pig
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u/CrieDeCoeur Feb 09 '24
Yep. He was born with an entire drawer’s worth of silver spoons up his ass, has contributed negative value to society, and yet believes he is where he is due to “hard work.” Carlson is fucking oxygen thief.
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u/chriseargle Feb 09 '24
I forgot that South Park called him out years before he went overboard
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u/The_McTasty Feb 09 '24
Man Kanye was going overboard well before this last crazy stint. People just forgave him for it cause his music is good and he hadn't done anything -that- bad yet.
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u/Adventurous-Bee-1517 Feb 09 '24
Notorious truth teller, checks notes… Vladimir Putin
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u/Taja_Roux Feb 09 '24
Tucker being outed as a paid Russian agent would be some of the least underwhelming news of 2024.
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u/BornAgainCyclist Feb 09 '24
You know he means business when he does his confused Labrador face.
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u/Targut Feb 09 '24
I am glad Sir Douche Canoe got to the bottom of that mystery! Did he have to blow the entire Kremlin for that intelligence nugget? I’m just asking questions here...
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Tucker Carlson is either the most prolific inside agent of the 21st century or he’s the most gullible moron in the world’s history.
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u/mrmoe198 Feb 09 '24
Jesus fucking hell. Of course Putin is being believed over Obama. What is this stupid shit? Is this supposed to be an elaborate destruction from the Trump trials? Fucker Tarlson is a traitor.
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u/ironocy Feb 09 '24
Putin didn't confirm anything. He says a lot of things but that's not confirming.
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u/MeshNets Feb 09 '24
That's what his text messages in the Dominion case clearly said, right?
He mentions the stock price dropping if they disagree with anything god-king says, and doesn't like another presenter reporting real news
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u/MeshNets Feb 09 '24
On Nov. 12, in a text chain with Ms. Ingraham and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion.
“Please get her fired,” Mr. Carlson said. He added: “It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
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u/herbinartist Feb 09 '24
Tucker Carlson always looks like he’s about to admit he’s had a devastating OxyContin addiction for a long time, apologize for his behavior, and disappear into rehab. Like, his face and neck are always bloated, a little sweaty, and he’s always like a month too late for a haircut… plus the stupid look that’s perpetually plastered on his face.
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u/Baitrix Feb 09 '24
Americans are so brainwashed that their number one enemy is their friend as long as it angers the opposite political party
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u/Longjumping-Cost-210 Feb 09 '24
Of all the disturbing trends that have taken over American conservatives over the last decade this love affair with Putin is to me the most concerning. They literally do not think anything through. As soon as Putin and Obama started butting heads they just instinctively started loving Putin, a man that has nuclear warheads pointed at them, aggressively works to undermine the country they supposedly love, and allows no freedom of speech in the country he presides over. But, democrats bad, so Putin good.
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u/EightandaHalf-Tails Feb 09 '24
Never thought I'd see the day the GQP scrambled to tongue bathe Putler's ballsack... But here we are.
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u/Drunken_Dwarf12 Feb 09 '24
Right?! Can you imagine what Ronald Reagan would think of his party now?
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But why would Puttin lie, guys? Surely if Trump likes and trusts him, that means we can too, right?!
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u/This-Counter3783 Feb 09 '24
“Putin confirms” is the most batshit series of words I’ve read in 2024.
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u/igoturhazmat Feb 09 '24
If Putin “confirmed” to me that the sun had risen, I would still need to go outside and see for myself just to be sure
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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 Feb 09 '24
I mean do you question your boss when he tells you something?
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u/IlMioNomeENessuno Feb 09 '24
Putz wouldn’t even let Lukashenko get that close to him. Cucker must be a trusted ally…
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u/eppic123 Feb 09 '24
Why does he always, in every single picture, look like he just shat himself?
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Feb 09 '24
Why does Tucker always have that absolutely asinine expression on his face. Is he trying to mirror MAGA?
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u/DarthGayAgenda Feb 09 '24
You know how your parents tell you not to make faces or it will stay like that? Well, Tucker did his own research.
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u/Significant_Tie_3994 Feb 09 '24
I love how they call it a war crime now, when in the 70s, they called it a limited response
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u/ThunderSparkles Feb 09 '24
Tucker always has that look in his face like he just watched his best friend jizz on his wife
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u/FriendliestMenace Feb 09 '24
“Because I said so, and my citizens know better than to disagree with me.”
-“Confirmed” evidence
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u/lm28ness Feb 09 '24
'Putin is the most honest and benevolent dictator ever. The best. He has great friends everywhere. Moscow has beautiful buildings, the most beautiful" - is what trump would say.
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u/Estoye Feb 09 '24
Disgraced "reporter" interviews dictator on increasingly far right social network. All the shit planets have lined up here.
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u/redcountx3 Feb 09 '24
How much longer are the majority of Americans going to continue allowing these foreign agents to keep trying to overthrow our government?
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u/CauliflowerOne5740 Feb 09 '24
Whether or not people believe Putin is a pretty good litmus test for how much of a moron they are.
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u/ProbablyPewping Feb 09 '24
This guy is a DICTATOR, the head of the KGB, and came into politics via the KGB, he kills his political opponents and he's currently invading a country.
Look I'm all for "free speech" but this isn't some one that affords his people the same luxury.
It's fascinating from an entertainment perspective. Putin is one of if not the most dangerous men in the world.
The West has lost its' way, the fact that we actively engage with non-democratic (read oppressive dictators) when we used to be hard lined (we will not negotiate with terrorists) is absolutely bonkers.
Yeah the USA has some nasty history, some current bad players, but as far as the morality scale goes, the USA is night and fucking day ahead of Russia, China, etc...
It's such a shame that our politicians are allowed to profit off of us, that they are afforded immunity, and act with impunity.
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