The cloud over tonight's SOTU: WE HAVE BEEN INVADED AND OCCUPIED BY AN ENEMY POWER

[Stinky The Clown]

The Russians have found it cheaper, more efficient, safer for their sons, and just as effective to meddle electronically as it might be to invade with troops.

They control our president and congress as surely as if they were in Washington, DC wearing military uniforms.

These are fundamental facts that very few people are stating as such. They do not wish to be seen as "nutty" or "fringe" or "leftists" or some other dismissive term.

Look to other countries to see the effect some years out. Ukraine. Azerbaijan, Syria. Others.

Look to those at or close to our levers of power. Manaforte. Page, Flynn, The Orange-Oligarch-Wannabe. Nunes, The Trump spawn. Look to the attempts to undermine the very institutions there to protect from such an invasion. This is not a normal time and this is not politics as usual.

We are VERY CLOSE to needing to take to the streets, not to overthrow our government, but to expel invaders.

Yeah, I know. "You're a silly old man, Stinky."

Oh yeah?

[thegoose]

1. That's not silly

The country is divided. Hate and hate crimes are skyrocketing. One party has taken over and is blatantly operating like a crime family.

And this one goes...

[eleny]

2. I agree completely. This is our sad truth.

[mountain grammy]

3. I agree. We've never seen anything like this.

and that's because we're no longer operating under American rules. As flimsy as they were, they were better than Russian rules.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I wishyou were a silly old man.

[gademocrat7]

5. Preach it, Stinky.

This is a travesty.

[wobblie]

6. you would have supported McCarthy too

War mongers will be the end of our Republic

[Hekate]

9. Excuse me: Who the fuck are you, wobblie?

Jury: this is what the newbie just said to Stinky: "you would have supported McCarthy too / War mongers will be the end of our republic"

Pardon my incivility, but that statement is beyond the pale.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Thank you, friend!

You silly old lady!

[Hekate]

20. Back atcha

[byronius]

16. !! Beat me to it. 'Wobblie'. Chortle.

So good.

[reflection]

11. Welcome to DU, comrade. n/t

[irisblue]

17. So how do you take your pizza? 🍕

A lot will probably be served tonight

[Hekate]

25. I hope many are served tonight. I hope Skinner has an open tab at Domino's. nt

[rockfordfile]

24. McCarthy was a right-wing fascist. Trump and Putin are right-wing fascists.

McCarthy would support Trump and Putin.

[Hekate]

7. It's what I mean by "without a shot being fired," and "who knew they could do it so fast?"

You say it well, and you say it true.

But then, Hekate is a silly old lady.

[Solomon]

8. It's okay because these invaders are

considered white. God forbid the brown invaders.

[whathehell]

33. We were against those "white" people"

of the Soviet Union for about half a century.

[BigmanPigman]

10. If he fires Mueller the Resistance is ready to go and hit the streets within hours

of the announcement. This was planned last Dec when people thought he could fire Mueller over Christmas Recess. Since that time the number of cities who have been preparing and planning for this situation has grown from 400 to 700. My signs are ready and waiting . Someone on DU posted it last night too.
https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/
https://act.moveon.org/survey/mueller-firing-pledge

[spanone]

12. they found a complicit candidate and a complicit political party....Voil

[byronius]

14. Absolutely correct.

[Enoki33]

15. You are absolutely correct. The magnitude of what has

happened, and is right now still unfolding before doubtful eyes, is truly terrifying. It is a huge criminal and geopolitical victory dance those that watch SOTU will witness. The crime in process continues.

[Atticus]

18. K & R!! nt

[orangecrush]

19. Shhh! Don't raise your voice.

[Hekate]

23. This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper


CODA: How about we say "Not on our watch"?

[orangecrush]

28. NOT ON MY WATCH!

That wasn't so hard.

[madamesilverspurs]

35. Another version:

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a twitter.


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[Hekate]

36. If TS Eliot were writing today, he very well could have used that

[Generic Brad]

21. You've reminded me of what my wife said to me the day after the election

"We woke up in Russia". She was absolutely correct.

[orangecrush]

29. +2

[rockfordfile]

22. I agree.

[Sophia4]

26. I was shocked when I read the Atlantic article on Manafort.

Everyone should read it. The ties to Russia and every nasty dictator possible are just an insult to our Constitution and our nation. It's unbelievable.

[bdamomma]

27. no Stinky

you post was spot on. Those of us DU'ers do see and/or read know this situation is not normal. This totally stinks of treasonous actions of greed and lies, and we have our most esteemed office being held hostage by foreign and treasonous Americans. This is horrible.

[ancianita]

30. Agreed, except for where we "expel invaders" in the streets. They're not there.

Putin's soviet one-party mob spent years getting their money's worth out of this guy. Years in developing their hybrid approach to satellite control.

Now their St. Petersburg and Moscow crews can further stir up the astroturfed base audience that's amplified through the white supremacist GOP/Koch/Mercer "populist" media theater, which 45 goes out to take the temperature of now and then.

Trump's adorable operation of Russian anchor babies in Miami Beach, along with all his non-enforced sanctions and "deals," assures them they don't even have to show their faces here.

[Horizens]

31. Fake News/ A Hoax !

Imagine it's Dec. 8th 1941. President Roosevelt goes before congress and declares the Japanese bombing go Pearl Harbor is Fake News, a Hoax. That's where we are today. And few people seem to give a ****.

[Hekate]

32. You are mistaken if you think "few people" care. You are at least the 6th person I've replied to...

...in the past few hours today who is peddling the theme that no one cares and that few will show up for our protests and that the protests don't do any good anyway.

I wonder why that is? We don't usually get so many people from the FUD Squad all at once.

[smirkymonkey]

34. +1000

[Honeycombe8]

37. There was a time I would have disagreed. Not anymore. nt

[Gothmog]

38. From Paul Begala

Link to tweet