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    3310 hours ago

    It’s not about being smart for America, it’s about being smart for Putin. Trump’s going to do that with every single decision until we’re completely destroyed.

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      199 hours ago

      I hear that again and again, but I don’t quite understand the endgame anymore.

      There was the theory Russia had compromising material on him to get him to play along, but the MAGA crowd is so committed and reverent that I’m not sure anything could shame him anymore.

      Russia could show a tape of him porking his 7-year-old daughter on the Times Square Jumbotron and the GOP would rally to lower the age of consent to 6. If the Russian financial authorities showed incontrovertible proof that Trump was broke, Congress would declare he had a bazillion FreedomBux ™ to magically settle his debts.

      Why would he bother listening when there’s no leverage left?

      It’s more chilling to think this is pure domestic terror with no evil-other boogeyman to blame. The far right got all their best and brightest in one place, and thry couldn’t dilute their paranoia and hate enough to serve their greed.

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        44 hours ago

        Yes, any kompromat the Russians had is completely useless now. Even if people believe it to be true, he apparently wouldn’t lose a single vote.