Politics "Lock her up! Lock her up!" Oh the irony.

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Russians are no different than British, Swedes and Mexicans under our laws.

    Nothing wrong with communicating with them, in fact it's the heakthy thing to do.

    Fake News.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Nope, it depends on what the meeting is about. If it's about Russian adoption then all is clear. If it's about partnering up on a plan for getting some fake news out there to help one candidate that the Russians prefer for some unknown reason, over the other candidate and information is exchanged or there is an attempt to exchange information then it will get someone other than just the Russians involved in some very hot water. Sounds like something worth investigating. Where's the FBI in all this. That would be their job to investigate.
     
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    Yeah, it's always healthy to have a relationship with a dictator that has shown the willingness to kill his own people and raid and conquer countries in Europe. Putin is a class act right Maris, lol.
     
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    Cup, imo it doesnt matter if it's a right winger having relations with Putin or a lefty having a great time with the Castro (commie) regime. Both sides are guilty as hell when it comes to stroking dictators.
     
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    I agree except that I've got mixed feelings about Cuba.
     
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    There's quite a few differences. Start with Cuba doesn't have nukes and doesn't pose a military threat to anyone. Cuba doesn't have oil & gas that it can withhold strategically. Cuba is in our backyard. Cuba isn't interfering in our elections. Cuba's dictator was very old so we had a strategic opportunity to influence a new generation of leadership. We were the last, not the first, western nation to reach out to Cuba.

    None of those things is true of Russia.

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    Russia is scary!

    You'd think it was 1950 all over again with the anti-Russia hysteria. With today's partisan leftists proudly playing the Joseph McCarthy role.
     
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    Except this time the witches are pleading guilty.

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    Secretly shipping pallets of billions to a country that finances terrorism and wants Death to America is pretty serious business too.
     
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    Except Cuba hasn't posed a threat for a long time, while Putin is trying to build Russia back up to the power they were as the USSR. Big difference and they don't care how they do it.
     
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    Trying to keep a country that finances terrorism and wants Death to America from getting nukes is a pretty serious business too.

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    looked to me that we were financing terrorism in the most absurd way possible! Pallets of billions in the dead of night! Come on, any American politicians regardless of party thats does that is corrupt as Hugo Chaves was....
     
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    We have diplomatic relations with Viet Nam and China and we still have a cold war with Cuba? Never made sense to me at all
     
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    Most historians think so.
     
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    Well, there you go then.

    Witch hunts are fine when they target actual witches.

    You can't ever be sure at first whether you are targeting imaginary witches or real witches, but when the suspected witches lie about how many broomsticks they own and whether they've been to the newt-eye-monger's shop, and their closest friends admit to being witches, you've got a pretty good idea you are on the right track.

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    You shouldn't talk about Ronald Reagan that way...

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    See, McCarthy was right.
     

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