Trump-Putin 'Summit' Is More Like a Meeting of Two Mob Bosses

[babylonsister]

Ashamed? How about furious?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-putin-summit-is-more-like-a-meeting-of-two-mob-bosses?ref=home

Trump-Putin ‘Summit’ Is More Like a Meeting of Two Mob Bosses
Let’s not grant this thing the dignity of calling it a summit. Trump is aligning the U.S. with Putin and against democracy, and it’s a day that should make Americans ashamed.
Michael Tomasky
07.16.18 4:59 AM ET

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This? This is more like a meeting between Joe Colombo and Vito Genovese. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have a cake shaped like Germany that they start cutting into.

It's a dark day, friends. If we can get rid of this guy in 2020 and a Democrat can win, we should be able to salvage a reversal of this. But if Trump wins, or “wins,” four years from now, the global damage this tag team can do is terrifying to imagine, and the United States will not be the country we knew.

But: We are not helpless, and we are not defenseless. There are people out there, Democrats and Republicans, but small-d democrats all, who are devoting their lives to battling Trumputinism. Many research centers are at work fighting cyber-warfare: the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund, the Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy initiative, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Data for Democracy, the Digital Forensic Lab at the Atlantic Council, and many more. They’re all doing important work.

In addition, nearly every agency of government has a task force devoted to some piece of this work. But—surprise, surprise—their work isn’t being coordinated well, because that would have to be done at the White House. “There is a great community of experts working from different angles and collaborating to network communities that never had reason to engage one another before (like national security experts and election administration experts) to develop and advance these strategies,” said Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy. “What’s missing to date is the political will in government to do what’s necessary at the top. That has to change before it’s too late.”

Amen to that. In the meantime, let’s not grant this thing the dignity of calling it a summit. It’s a capitulation and a humiliation and a day that should make Americans ashamed.

[JI7]

1. lol, maybe Putin is the Mob Boss but Trump is way below his level

[babylonsister]

2. The thuggishness applies, even

if his brains are scrambled.

[jimlup]

6. yep! /nt

[empedocles]

3. Cosa Nostra, 'our thing'

trump and putin do share certain; 'codes of conduct', approach to ceremony, similar perspective of 'the law', relentless obsessives/compulsions for still more power and status, no nuance to 'the ends justify the means', 'respect', 'account', high anxiety, overboss/underboss thing . . .

[Squinch]

4. That gives whiny donnie way too much credit. More like its a meeting

where the mob boss adjusts the strings on his puppet.

[lastlib]

5. So what's the big deal? Putin's meeting with his Ambassador to the United States, that's all.....

sarcastic, but accurate...

[UCmeNdc]

7. Trump is meeting his handler to receive new instructions!

Trump is a Russian Spy Asset.

[watoos]

8. I think it's simpler than that,

Trump needs a new battery for the chip hidden under his sage brush.

[muntrv]

9. I thought it is more like a prostitute paying the pump his cut.

[zentrum]

10. Very hard to salvage

……anything because of the Supreme Court and how he's seeded all the lower courts with scum, anti-regulation, Trumpist judges.

We must continue to fight but Dems have stopped being proactive and ready for what is happening in elections at the local levels. The Repugs have been attending to this for years. It's not all about Trump. It's about The Mob—which I now consider the bulk of the Repug party.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Trump is a corrupt small town mayor

and Putin is the big city mob boss looking to expand into Trump's small town.

Michael Corleone meets Boss Hogg.

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. I am definitely in the furious camp.

I have nothing to be ashamed of. I did not vote for him, I did not vote for any Republican who enables him, I do not support his policies in any way shape or fashion. I loathe him.

Ashamed? Hell no!

Embarrassed, frightened and furious. Completely!