Censored, I would argue he's trying to recreate the Russian Empire from a classical sense as opposed to the Soviet Union.
#48 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Either way, not in our interests to help him. Particularly when pretty much the entire Western World, and much of the non-Western World, is already unified against Russia. This isn't a light switch, where we can flip coalition defense on and off on demand.

But anyway, this is all moot. Trump was on Team Putin ten years ago and nothing has changed, other than the GOP's willingness to sell out NATO and our allies to help Trump get his payoff and make sure they aren't primaried. A shame there are very few principled conservatives left who will voice their opposition to Trump's surrender to our second biggest international threat.

Both Ukraine and Russia are corrupt AF [...]
#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Even assuming that they are equally corrupt, only one of them is trying to recreate the Soviet Union. The government that we spent over $1 trillion per year to keep in check.

Funding Ukraine's defense is pennies on the dollar to make sure Russia doesn't present that threat again during our lifetime.

Trump will respond by ignoring the ruling, and the GOP will support him. And voters will not care.

Rinse and repeat for the next 4 to 12 years.

failure to have accountability ...
#15 | Posted by Bluewaffles

It's the Dem's fault that Trump is attacking our allies and NATO while surrendering to Russia?

Thanks for clarifying!

really...you mother loving rat terds are gonna complain about the irs being audited..
#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Rumor has it that the IRS may have files that many taxpayers would consider private in nature.

But please feel free to post your last 10 year's of tax returns here if you feel like that is being overly-sensitive.

Since when does breaking laws matter for the Insurrectionist in Chief?

The GOP already signed and delivered the Get Out of Jail Free card four years ago. What's a few thousand more crimes on top of his 34 felony convictions (that SCOTUS will toss into the ash-heap) anyway?

Suckers and losers.

Seems to me that once it becomes clear that there really is no law in the land then the lawless will be kings and the Purge can truly begin.

What a glorious day it will be for true freedom.
#7 | Posted by donnerboy

Laws for thee, but not GOP.

Trump should give the Red States everything an the Blue States nothing. It's called compromise!

#2 how many vaccines should the child have to have?
#3 | Posted by oneironaut

This isn't China, where we have a surplus of donor organs kept viable by whomever the government sticks on their death row.

More of the same is clearly not working.
#23 | Posted by BellRinger

It's depleting Russian power and wrecking their economy. So they can't lend a hand when China tries something similar in five or ten years. And the stick you speak of is meaningless as the US turns it's back on its allies and it's previous promises.

Handing Russia trillions of dollars in Ukraine's mineral resources is only encouraging them to go for a repeat, no matter how much Trump/Vance try to make themselves look tough as they give Putin everything he wants and more.

none of "you people" give a goddam fk about theft of money by democrat pukes.
#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You know, if there was actual criminal activity going on, the President could have that investigated and prosecuted without throwing the nation and our international activities into complete disarray.

And now he's been admitted to the hospital.

Bolton loves war. He's going to be devastated when this ends
#18 | Posted by BellRinger

So you're a pacifist now? Peace no matter the cost?

Did you have these feelings before Trump took over your party and decided to give a democratic nation away to Russian fascists?

Putin Attacks Chernobyl

Jokes on him! It's already broken!

Which Trump will ignore. And the GOP Congress will let him. And so will the voters.

#10 that was Ghandi.
#11 | Posted by oneironaut

Pretty sure it was Stalin.

This is how Trump works. Think outside the box and in this case the Saudis think it's a good idea.
#7 | Posted by fishpaw

It helps to have a reputation as a capricious, greedy loon who would have no moral qualms about displacing and murdering millions of people while escaping all possible negative ramifications. In fairness to Trump, not everyone can pull that sort of thing off.

#1-#4 So now Egypt and the Saudis want to rebuild Gaza themselves. Perfect.
So I guess the world is not ending after all.
Do you guys wake up every morning and scream into your pillows because you were wrong again?
#5 | Posted by fishpaw

Don't lump me in with the rest. I told you Egypt would come around.

Anyhow, looks like Trump was just throwing out crazy stuff to pressure Arabs to cough up the dough. They should have called his bluff. Would have been much funnier to watch Trump cave.

Trump Ousts Director of Office of Government Ethics

Won't be any need for him while Republicans are in control, anyway, seeing as how ethical constraints only apply to Dems.

So the best employees (i.e., the one with options) who care about WFH will quit.

Egypt's President to Stay Away from White House if Gaza Plan on Agenda

He'll gonna show. Trump will lure him in Big Macs and Diet Coke.

@ Corky

Five Guys burgers are OK, IMHO. Gotta ask for the right toppings.

The chain's ridiculous quantity of fries they serve alongside made an impression (cooked in peanut oil which is high in sat fat). Don't really care for them as they're not crispy enough for my taste, but next time I go gonna ask for them to be cooked extra well done, as those seem to be the magic words. Also, the free peanuts were really good.

BuT VIetNaM wAs DiFFeRenT!
#9 | Posted by oneironaut

That's correct. Vietnam was different. Good of you to notice.

We are not risking American lives here. It's the Ukrainians who choose to do the heavy lifting. All they are asking for is the resources to defend themselves, and in the process take out our second biggest international threat.