Its one past time to call a spade a spade:

[Stinky The Clown]

Trump

Is

A

Russian

Tool

Our country is being run in ways that favor Russia/Russian oligarchs over American citizens. EVERYTHING he does is aimed at hurting the US and tearing down long standing relationships with our allies.

In the mix, he is setting himself up to change our form of government to a dictatorship.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. And pay himslf and his family

royalties. Out of taxes (according to the gop) we don't have unless it's for war or golf or train ride conventions up in the woods.

[Moostache]

18. If I were Eric and DJT jr. I would be trying to learn from the way Uday and Qusay went out...

Their fate will be the same if they don't...

[Girard442]

2. Absolutely agree.

The question that should be on everyone's lip's re major policy decisions like undermining the ACA, brutalizing families seeking asylum, or hammering our once-friendly trading partners with tariffs should be:

Did Putin tell him to do this?

[Iliyah]

3. 100%

[oasis]

4. MSM needs to ask GOP leaders if Russia should be admitted back into G-7. nt

[oberliner]

11. How do you think they will respond?

[oasis]

24. Trump's G-7 comment will need time to percolate.

However, I believe it is enough evidence of Trump's "Putin Love" to convince the lower level fence sitters to speak up.

[oberliner]

25. I'd be curious to see if any Republicans stand up to him on this besides John McCain

[oasis]

26. Sen. Jeff Flake, maybe. The R-wing media will lay low on this. nt

[DBoon]

29. With 18 seconds of silence

nt

[oberliner]

30. I sometimes wonder why Ted Cruz bothered with his RNC shenanigans

If he was just going to cave in and toe the line on all things Trump anyway in the end.

[magicarpet]

5. A cage full of monkeys flinging poop at the observers.

A feces flinging party to distract from what is really important so that they can methodically dismantle our Democracy while they create smokescreens to focus our attention else wheres. Then once you realize what they are up to it is too late to do anything about it.

This criminal Oligarchy are masters at diverting attention so they can escape any repercussions for their criminal acts.

The art of the Con man is to confuse his mark to the point of exasperation. trDump and his Criminal Syndicate excel at the game because this is their primary business model of success. They have honed the skill to levels previously unknown to most people.

[Moostache]

19. A usurpation by any means is NEVER "too late to do anything about"

There are elections (still) and they can reverse the damage being done; but if they cannot, then outright revolution is required. People need to recognize that failing to turn out and vote in overwhelming numbers this November will increase the likelihood of the need for armed rebellion otherwise... There will not be a 2020 general election with legitimate outcomes otherwise...

[RandomAccess]

6. He's taken lessons and instructions from Putin

I'm pretty sure. POSSIBLY by way of some of his other oligarchic friends, but the result is the same.

[SCantiGOP]

7. It would certainly explain a lot

Trump’s most erratic behavior becomes rational if the Russians have something on him that would be guaranteed to bring about his impeachment and indictment.

[Trek4Truth]

8. It is BLATANTLY obvious....it has been and it continues to be. The out in the open overt nature of

this foreign ASSet is astounding.

RUMP GOTS TO GO...PRONTO.

[debsy]

9. Turkey... Erdogan. Phillipines...Dutarte.

Others afflicted with Fake News attacks: [link:https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-11-14/report-russia-like-election-meddling-discovered-in-16-countries|] This isn't just limited to here. These guys - all of them - are trying to take over strategic areas of the globe to inflict maximum damage and make their empire lasting.

[jalan48]

10. It's not just the Russians. Our own oligarchs like the Koch Brothers are involved.

[world wide wally]

12. The most fucked up thing about it is that he is doing it with the approval of 40% of Americans.

This ain't the 'murica I knew

[Pluvious]

16. And like 87% approval of the Fux News indoctrinated Republicans. nt.

[Moostache]

20. Those 40% can be tried as co-conspirators after the fact for all I care...

I do not consider Trump supporters - overt or the cowardly kind who refuse to LEAD and take him on - as Americans or fellow countrymen. They are traitors and slime and for all I care they can all hang for treason...or move to a dictatorship of their choosing...Russia, Turkey, Philippines ....anywhere but here!

[DBoon]

31. What percentage of Italians supported Mussolini in 1940?

A few years later Italian citizens had him hanging from a gas station

[world wide wally]

34. I guess I'm just impatient

[Kablooie]

13. He also said he wants Russia in the G7

So obviously a Russian agent.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Once you let them in the door

it will be very hard to evict them from your premises

[LAS14]

15. Somewhere along in my life I was told that....

.... the phrase "call a spade a spade," was an old racist remark. Given the lack of response here I'm guessing it is so old as to have lost its original meaning. True?

[janx]

17. False.

But it has been misconstrued as one.

Origins:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade

[LAS14]

21. Thanks for the link, but I see that it is not totally false to say that...

... the phrase has racist connotations, even though they may have accrued to a perfectly OK phrase over time.

[janx]

22. Actually, it has been misunderstood for so long

and so widely that (as the author points out) it's probably best not to use it.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. It isn't . . . although I can understand why you might think that.

It has to do with shovels.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. ... and call a traitor a traitor.

[Initech]

28. What's even scarier is Trump seems to be getting his orders from Fox News directly.

I really wonder what Fox's role in setting up the Russian collusion is? The sooner they are wiped from our collective conscious the better!

[lunatica]

32. And he isn't even saying "Thank you Ma'am"

as he zips up.

[Gothmog]

33. Water is also wet