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grumpyduck

(6,650 posts)
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:30 AM Sep 2020

"Adam Schiff Urges Trump's Own Staff To Walk Out Now While They Can"

That's a headline from HuffPost, and I like that Schiff is planting ideas in all those admin minions. It's a subtle warning, but, given the way the polls are going, I hope some of those minions jump ship and create a bit more chaos in the so-called administration.

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SWBTATTReg

(24,178 posts)
5. Makes one wonder why quite a few republicans jumped ship earlier in this whole mess to begin w/,
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:43 AM
Sep 2020

doesn't it? Did they have a forewarning of what this Country was going to suffer through, w/ trump at the helm? Did they have inside knowledge of the harm and suffering that this Country was going to undergo? Why then, did they stand by, and say nothing?

Why didn't they say anything?

Why didn't they?

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
6. Seriously? They are in on the power play to be at the top of the Dictator's inner circle...
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:45 AM
Sep 2020

And they are jockeying for their own wealth and power in the future.

No? Well look how Rod Rosenstein 'really' stood up for and protected the Mueller investigation and now everyone knows what his little public luncheon was with Jeff Sessions that caught everyone by surprise. Every fucking republican is an enemy of the United States and have no intention of putting country first, unless they publicly denounce the tRUMP & Republican Party. And exactly how much did Mitt Romney really already know when he completely shocked and baffled everyone in his 2012 Debate with President Obama when he said that Russia was the biggest threat to the United States?

grumpyduck

(6,650 posts)
8. Yeah, but there are a lot of people lower on the ladder
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:52 AM
Sep 2020

who still have their careers ahead of them. Those are more than likely the ones Schiff was sending brainwaves to: the younger ones who want to have a job when this disaster is over.

Ilsa

(62,251 posts)
9. Your last sentence has been on my mind a lot lately.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 11:52 AM
Sep 2020

Obama made fun of Rmoney, probably only for political points, but there was truth in it.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
11. I still recall the Dubya elections and investigations that followed without gov't help.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 12:23 PM
Sep 2020

I know that I read or somehow know that I had seen that Putin watched how the Republican Party stole those Dubya elections. So when President Obama stood up to Putin and punished Russia for their behaviors, Putin went to work to make trouble for President Obama by giving the Republicans power to stand up to President Obama and hinder the United States domestic policies with infighting as payback for sanctions against Russia.

Following Putin's MO from before: Then 2016 came along and Putin absolutely hated Hillary, so he went all in on using what he learned from Dubya's deeds to get rid of the United States as a threat. So we get stuck with Donald Dumbass and the Republican Senate and Congress, until someone in intelligence thwarted what Putin was doing in 2018 without any orders from the White House... That was reported a few months ago and went away quickly, so hopefully that person has not been removed by tRUMP & Republicans.

lindysalsagal

(22,392 posts)
12. Putin is broke and needs oil to save his ass . Frump couldn't
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 12:48 PM
Sep 2020

give him the maneuvers he needed, but in a crooked 2nd term, he might.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
14. And how much did gas prices here drop during Obama compared to Dubya?
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 01:27 PM
Sep 2020

Putin got played by Dubya when Dubya got him to not dig in to object to the Iraq War. Remember gas prices here going sky high with Dubya, which is related to oil?

It is not that hard to realize who is corrupted when you logically look at how things have played out the last decade. President Obama made his domestic policy as stable growth for average Americans. Putin benefits more on an unstable United States, because he bet his country on oil... And tRUMP has been helping Putin as much as he possibly can with oil, but Putin still bet his country on a losing future and it isn't enough to stop world progress. Since reality hit Putin with oil and he can't fully contain tRUMP & Republicans, he is going to steal everything he can from and damage his enemy as much as he can. Perhaps Putin also learned how to cash in on chaos like Republicans have been doing for years.

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