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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@Tactical Fox: I don't know how much stock I'd put into that. This is a Russian Diplomat, after all, and we have several Republican Senators and Congressmen/women that actively acknowledge and condemn Russia's interference.
This could be Putin's new angle: He tampered with the Election, got caught, and is now intentionally trying to make Republicans look worse then they already do. Either that, or Mr. Pushkov is referring to every day Republicans.
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More or less, yeah. They see Putin as a Great Man, in terms of the Great Man Theory. It's the premise that history is defined by the actions of a rare few Great Men, individuals of tremendous intelligence, influence, courage, etc. who stepped up out of the shadows of time to do Great Things that shaped the course of human history.
Everyone else is basically just worthless garbage whose opinions are unfit for acknowledgment, but those Great Men are titanic gods among men who should be worshipped by the teeming masses for their incredible qualities.
Trump's campaign revolved around the Great Man theory. Remember his words at the RNC? "I, alone, can fix it!" This is the image he molded of himself: that he is one of those Great Men, ready to step up and singlehandedly save America, needing no more experience than his own inherent Greatness.
Trump gets on well with Putin because Putin similarly presents himself as one of history's earth-shattering Great Men, and the Republicans rally around them because their small-government philosophy revolves heavily around clearing out what they essentially see as the human clutter that is democracy and paving the road for Great Men to step up and lead the way.
They also get on very well with Christians because Christianity, too, revolves around the principle of Great Men - especially the one Great Man for whom the faith is named. It is not by accident that the Republicans directly compared Trump to Christ this December, celebrating the coming of our "new king".
This worldview ultimately forms the basis of a lot of Republican decisions and policy.
edited 7th Jan '17 1:17:15 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.https://twitter.com/maturetrumptwts?lang=en
This probably the most amazing parody account ever.
It's Trump's tweets as if written by a Mature adult.
New Survey coming this weekend!
Continuing from there, remeber when Billy West was doing Trump quotes in character as Zapp Brannigan? Mark Hamill decided to join the fun, Meet the Trumpster
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What? This is the mirror universe. In the good timeline Trump lost by landslide, Podesta's account wasn't hacked, and Hillary's emails
◊ were forgotten in the news cycle by the time of the conventions.
Mature Trump doesn't like taxes, but understands that taxes pay for niceties like roads and healthcare.
Mature Trump is a fairly ruthless businessman, but believes that long-term investments are more profitable than just screwing your partners.
Mature Trump is willing to invest in green technology to boost American business, even if he has doubts about the severity of climate change.
Mature Trump isn't quite up to speed with the civil rights movement, but he's not going to fuck over someone just because they don't see eye-to-eye.
Mature Trump is aware he's inexperienced in government, which is why he's filling his cabinet with experienced veterans.
God, I've made myself sad.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Trumplings fail to see what the big deal is with Russian meddling.
I know it should come as no surprise, but I still can't help be be freshly appalled at every new display of gross ignorance, or lack of fundamental morals.
I think it's safe to say at this point that for his worshipers to turn on him, Trump would have to start fucking them over in visible, day-to-day ways. And that's not as easy of a proposition as it seems, when you remember their sheer disconnect from reality, and their eagerness to blame liberals for literally everything. All he has to do is go "don't believe the media - it's actually the Democrats' fault that you're now living in a radioactive refrigerator box!" and most of them will eat it up.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
I think the worst of that is, those Trumplings being interviewed are not a bunch of angry teens and twenty-somethings; those are retirement age people who lived through the escalations of the 80's and several are old enough to remember the 60's and the Cuban Missile Crisis. One thing to learn abut this stuff from a book and be derisive of "exaggeration", something else entirely to reject reality because you don't like it. Seriously, WTFF.
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"fucking them over"
Now you've got me imagining him going full Caligula, demanding access to senators' wives in Congress and ordering women he finds attractive to kneel before him in the streets. I'm anticipating his personal codename to be "Incitatus" or "High Horse".
Newsweek: A look at Thomas Hardiman, a possible Trump Supreme Court nominee
edited 7th Jan '17 6:56:37 PM by FluffyMcChicken
This is more Pop Culture then Politics, but it involves Donald Trump, and he's going to be President, so...
edited 7th Jan '17 7:02:19 PM by DingoWalley1

The Republicans coming around to Putin isn't simply a case of enemy of my enemy, in many ways Trump's base and other right wing neo-nationalist movements view Putin as "one of them", and a very real way he is the Ur-Example of the kind of strongman Trump and his counterparts overseas aspire to become.