"Our Partner Trump"

 

It's all out in the open now: the collusion, the quid pro quo:

Meanwhile on Russian state TV:

Host Evgeny Popov says it's time for the Russian people to call on Americans to change "the regime in the U.S." before its term expires "and to again help our partner Trump to become President."https://t.co/orPMoKoxwG pic.twitter.com/sPVDhVWm6Q

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 29, 2022

 

"Partner," or "asset," or "useful idiot," same thing at this point.  

Reactions To Trump's Treasonous Performance In Helsinki

Twitter is lighting up about Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump's treasonous performance at the news conference following his performance review with Russian thug Vladimir Putin (a.k.a., #treasonsummit). These are a few:

Trump's "We're all to blame" says it all. Attacking his own administration and flattering Putin. America First? A sick joke. Where are Trump's supporters right now? Where are you? You fools and enablers selling out your country and the world for this traitor?

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) July 16, 2018

I'm ready to call this the darkest hour in the history of the American presidency. Let me know if you can think of any competition.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) July 16, 2018

Everyone is numb and in shock. We can’t believe what we just witnessed, but for me it’s this simple: The President of the United States openly colluded with Putin to undermine our democracy.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 16, 2018

From a national security expert who has supported President Trump: “Played like a fiddle.  Unmitigated disaster. Embarrassing.”

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 16, 2018

Trump: Kneeling athletes disrespect our flag.

Trump also: Commits treason on live tv as he comforts our enemy and rebukes our intelligence community while standing in front of the flag (which is next to the Russian flag).#HelsinkiTreasonSummit

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 16, 2018

Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) July 16, 2018

Many of us have said so for years and we will do so again: Trump is dangerously unfit for his office. He is not a loyal American and he should be relieved of his duties expeditiously.

— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) July 16, 2018

If you needed any other evidence that this President is completely owned, you just got it.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 16, 2018

I missed the Trump presser in Russia. I gather he defected?

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) July 16, 2018

And finally,

Today's #TreasonSummit was so upsetting to Paul Ryan, he is going to have no choice but to propose cutting Social Security, Medicare, welfare, the top tax rate, support for healthcare and funding for Planned Parenthood.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 16, 2018

Quote Of The Day

Digby writes:

The simple truth is that the Republicans welcomed a foreign government interfering in the election on their behalf. They knew and they were happy about it and they are now doing everything in their power to cover it up. There is no other way to look at it. 

Republican leaders were so hungry to kill people on Medicaid, bankrupt the middle class and give tax cuts to their millionaire friends that they knowingly allowed a foreign government to help that corrupt, incompetent imbecile into the White House. Think about that.

I feel sick. 

 Us, too.

Quote Of The Day - What's That Smell?

“There’s a smell of treason in the air. Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mind-boggling event.” -- Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley in the Washington Post, March 20, after the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's interference on their asset Donald "Rump" Trump's behalf in the 2016 election.

Today's Cartoon - Unpresidential Treason

Unpresidented neo- fascist Putin poodle Donald "Rump" Trump won't be the first Republican president to have committed treason.  Tricky Dick beat him by 49 years.

(click on image to enlarge)


(Clay Jones, via www.claytoonz.com)

Yeah, some fat guy in New Jersey.  (Hmmm. Anybody seen Chris "Krispykreme" Christie lately?)

BONUS:  Tengrain recounts more Republican rogues' treason since Tricky Dick.

Headline of the Day - Treason Edition

"Poll:  29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary" 

That includes a plurality of Rethuglicans (44%!!), as well as some "Democrats" who clearly are either confused as to their party identification or are off their meds.  Well done, Fox "News," hate radio, Tea Party, Koch brothers, crackpot right-wing bloggers, and pin-headed Rethuglican blowhards everywhere.  You've done your job well!

A Tale of Two Republicans

Respected conservative Republican Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) gets defeated in his primary by a tea party/plutocrat candidate, and now comes this scrap of shite from Ponch (!) McPhee, a treasonous dirtbag in Virginia:

"[W]e shall not have any coarse [sic] but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November," McPhee writes. "This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue."

What makes this more than the usual inbred right-wing Cooter tippy-tapping in his underwear is the fact that said McPhee is editor of the Greene County Republican Committee newsletter, in which this appeared. (Would that be the Secret Service knocking on your door, "Ponch?") Really, though, considering the hateful, insane bile that has been pumped out of hundreds of radio stations and Fox "News" every day for decades, it's no wonder that the McPhees of the world prosper, while the Dick Lugars get unceremoniously canned.

(Image: Ponch ("Paunch?") McPhee, Greene County, VA, Rethuglican shiteletter editor - Hackwhackers' approximation)

Bachmann Overdrive

Rep. Michelle "Anti-American" Bachmann (Loon-MN) is at it again, dog whistling to her fellow loons and listeners of Sean "Manatee" Hannity's radio rant to revolt against the elected government of the United States. Hmmm... last time we checked that was, uh, treason. Apologists want to parse the loon's rant to mean a "peaceful" revolution, but to the mental defectives that take their instructions from the likes of Bachmann and Hannity, it could easily be taken as a call to violence against the government. Tim McVeigh, anyone?

Let's see how long it takes for the "leaders" of her party to rein her in. Once again, as we always caution when it comes to reining in extremist rhetoric by the far right, don't hold your breath.

(Photo: The Minnesota loon, soon -- 2010?-- on the endangered species list.)