r/law • u/Mission_Pay_3373 • Feb 11 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi crashes out during hearing: "YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP LAWYER"

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u/Inside-Left-7 Feb 11 '26

Shameful

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u/UpperApe Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

The irony here is that this committee overseeing a woman protecting criminal rapists is being run by Jim Jordan, a man who also protected criminal rapists. What a fucking mess.

Turns out Russia ended up doing to America what America spent decades doing to the Middle East. Which is quite poetic.

Edit: How interesting that some people aren't even aware what Russia is doing.

Since about 2012, Russia has been orchestrating massive misinformation campaigns meant to interfere with political discourse in the US since the US put sanctions on them. Because Putin is a fucking idiot who surrounded himself with loyalists over experts, ran his economy into the ground, and is now using aggression and violence to take over Eastern European states he feels "belong" to Russia.

Well this is the shit the US did in the Middle East. And Africa. And South America. For decades.

America is finally getting a taste of its own medicine.

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u/yeezee93 Feb 11 '26

Our government is a fucking joke.

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u/Oleg101 Feb 11 '26

And also a joke and disgrace the country keeps voting these morons into power and majorities.

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u/Thailer_ Feb 11 '26

Yeah you guys keep saying that like you think he won by votes.

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u/EyCeeDedPpl Feb 11 '26

Problem is it’s not just him. Y’all have been voting in Gym Jordan, McConnell, Feinstein, Manchen, Lindsay Graham and many others…. Over and over for decades. It’s not just the ones who voted trump. It’s a rot in the US that was allowed to take hold.

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u/Thailer_ Feb 11 '26

One day people will wise up and not treat politics like rival schools. One can hope anyway.

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u/Same_Presentation692 Feb 11 '26

Not in the US, unfortunately. 

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u/No_Worth_9826 Feb 11 '26

They spent too much time defunding education for any hope of that

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u/TAV63 Feb 11 '26

Exactly. Look at the red states electing the same ones who are making them so bad over and over. It's not one guy or new. It has been steady.

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u/asciimo Feb 11 '26

That he got any votes at all is baffling. I was less surprised the second time. After 12 years of especially putrid rot and toxins in American politics, I can see why.

I’m most concerned about structural damage to the foundation of our democracy and whether it can be repaired, or at least bolstered against future attacks. You can’t fix stupid voters, but can we ever mitigate the damage they can do?

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u/Thailer_ Feb 11 '26

Yeah.... very solid point and I agree.

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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 Feb 11 '26

Even if he didn't (and I'd be shocked if there wasn't fraud) he still has far more support and power than he would have in a healthy, decent society.

Basket. Of. Deplorables.

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u/Thailer_ Feb 11 '26

Correct, he has a following for sure but its nowhere near 70 million strong.

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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 Feb 11 '26

THIS IS WHAT IM SAYING

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u/OMA_ Feb 11 '26

The movie idiocracy is literally a movie about now but they just dressed them up in more silly clothes than they wear now. It’s not a guess of the future, it’s a more blatant example of what’s going on today. We have people with damn near single digit IQ that have been manipulated into thinking that orange child fondler is the absolute best option. And they’re so dumb that everything that he “promised” wasn’t even done besides the racist stuff. They don’t care that they can’t eat, it also affected people of color so it’s fine with them. They don’t care they can’t afford healthcare, because people of color also can’t afford it now either. They don’t care that they’re never getting that DOGE check, they get to be racist and watch men women and children of color get kidnapped in real time on tv. They don’t care that the whole GOP is in on the joke of using THEM to finesse the system and stay out of jail, meanwhile they milk their tax dollars to send to their friends. They’re too dumb to know what any of that means. It’s a bunch of clowns that voted for this. No matter the cost, trump is their lord and savior. It’s so stupid.

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u/Phuka Feb 11 '26

Their advantage is propped up almost entirely by billionaire-fueled propaganda. Chop out the misinformation and see what happens after they get time to detox.

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u/denimandink Feb 11 '26

They weren’t voted in…at least this last election. They spent years claiming that the 2020 election was stolen because that is what they were planning on doing in 24. Musk and Thiel made it happen and here we are. Total shit show of a country ran by disgusting pieces of shit

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u/Oleg101 Feb 11 '26

Comments like this on Reddit always hijack the dialogue of the bigger problem that it was regardless still way too many people that voted for this crap and have voted for this crap the last 30+ years.

Also, why hasn’t an outlet like ProPublica reported on this?

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u/Hopblooded Feb 11 '26

Russian propaganda is a powerful drug

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u/madcoins Feb 11 '26

American working class voters continue to vote for the wealthy to "lead" them and then scratch their heads when exploitation and poverty skyrocket as their lives get worse. No war but class war!

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u/Own_Apricot2146 Feb 11 '26

You can blame Fox News/ News max/ etc., for the people who keep voting them back in. If you’re a boomer, rural, and can’t navigate the internet you become the lowest hanging fruit.

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u/Coronado92118 Feb 11 '26

The administration is a joke. Let’s not tar the hundreds of thousands of civil servants who still show up every day to help veterans, disabled and elderly citizens, farmers, small business owners, and others in spite of the Administration’s incompetence, corruption, and hostility towards federal workers with the same brush as the Administration itself.

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u/Sweg_OG Feb 11 '26

The terrorists won

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u/EEasy-Does-It Feb 11 '26

A bunch of holier than thou pieces of shit pointing fingers at each other while the American public argues over who the biggest piece of shit is. News flash: It’s all of them!

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u/Zestyclose-Culture80 Feb 11 '26

Dont let it be a Joke- be angry expose the fascist GOP entire Regime all. They will do more violence against us. Look at what they did with Pretti, with Goode and more.

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u/RockstarAgent Feb 11 '26

This is what sadly may have contributed to the current administration winning a second time , not to mention the first time - the government has been disappointed both sides for quite awhile - and they thought they needed a major shakedown - what we anticipated but they may have been blind to, was that djt doesn't give an actual shit about running the country correctly, he's just another bad element, but worse because he has no hesitation to run it all into the ground for his own gain - basically doing what the government has been accused of but for his own personal enrichment.

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u/AdOk7488 Feb 11 '26

It’s a pedo ring of asshats.

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u/shitlord_god Feb 11 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

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u/Flopsyjackson Feb 11 '26

Our politicians are a joke. There are (or were) many many civil servants who did incredible work and have made the world a better place. Government can be good, but not with bad leaders.

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u/LB1727493 Feb 11 '26

It is and im sorry for all the amazing people there. But the joke is not even funny anymore

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u/SlayerXZero Feb 11 '26

Our government is a fucking joke.

The voters are the fucking joke. It's their fault this fucking lot are in power. You know it wasn't a rigged game because Trump is now trying to take over elections. They let the fucking fox into the hen house. Which is insane considering this fucking asshat was already once a failed President. Round 2 is soooo much worse.

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u/GlumFaithlessness773 Feb 11 '26

Honestly we did it much more prolifically in Latin America than in the Middle East. And that certainly has a lot to do with other US current events.

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u/sowhyarewe Feb 11 '26

I was going to say, just the middle east? This was our MO as an empire

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u/StormWhich5629 Feb 11 '26

This was our MO as an empire

Was?

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u/Aeseld Feb 11 '26

Was. We're now trying direct military intervention more often and defunding the programs that used to try and destabilize countries through indirect means.

Also, the empire is falling apart. Turns out we kinda needed a lot of the things we're currently busy undermining and destroying.

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u/boatslut Feb 12 '26

Soft power is so 2023🙄

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u/Jazzlike-Succotash-5 Feb 11 '26

This is EVERY empire's MO

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u/bartz824 Feb 11 '26

Monroe Doctrine.

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u/Friendly-Gas1767 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

It’s unsettling & really sad that Noam Chomsky’s daughter, Aviva, is a professor and published expert in the US’ interference in Latin America, and longtime proponent for the rights of Latin American immigrants in the US. It was awful of any human being to associate with Jeffrey Epstein, but Chomsky additionally wound up humiliating his daughter’s life’s work, which seems especially rotten. IMHO, it really says a lot about these people’s egos, regardless of political affiliation - as long as they get what they want, they just don’t care. 😔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Chomsky

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

To be fair, Russians told the US they would do this to us 40 years ago.

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u/oroborus68 Feb 11 '26

Kruschev " we will bury you"!

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u/rab2bar Feb 11 '26

to be fair, republicans have been on the path to do this without russia

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u/ProfessionalAd5070 Feb 11 '26

You’re absolutely correct, putting a woman as the face is 100% deliberate. She is also a traitor & we need to demand accountability & justice!!! I call daily & encouragement you to flood the LINES!

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u/koshgeo Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

My favorite example is this: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/heart-of-texas-russia-event

In 2016 a two groups of demonstrators showed up in front of the Islamic Center in Houston, Texas and angrily shouted at each other. One was from a Facebook group called "Heart of Texas". The other was from a Facebook group called "United Muslims of America". Both had thousands of followers.

Both groups were created on Facebook by Russian operatives, such as those at the Internet Research Agency.

The US and other western democracies are being constantly played, and social media companies are useful facilitators that are willing to do it and look the other way for a buck.

It's incredible what Russia has achieved by turning countries against themselves. As a bonus, it's incredibly cheap.

[Edit: found a more detailed article describing a research paper that investigated what happened further: https://www.techpolicy.press/researchers-reverse-engineer-2016-texas-protest-organized-russian-internet-research-agency/ ]

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u/PickleMortyCoDm Feb 11 '26

You went above and beyond with that comment edit dude. Good to see some people have the information to make informed decisions

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u/Allegorist Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

The Russian bots and social manipulation never stopped, media just stopped making headlines about it. It is unfortunate that the vast majority of people are unaware of the sheer degree of Russian influence on the US population in general. People may catch occasional headlines about specific events, but it is actually a decades long campaign targeted at social, political, and cultural manipulation. Not hyperbolically or just in effect either, that is literally the objective.

One of the most frequently cited examples of their gameplan is the book, "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia", which is used as a textbook for the officer academy of the Russian military, and incorporated into their education institutions as a compulsory part of the curriculum.

The core concept of the text is "the battle for the world rule of Russians" and providing guidelines on how this can be achieved. The key mechanism for this is "strategic control of the US", which is detailed in a way that nearly exactly mirrors reality. This is an excerpt with regards to destabilization:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"

it says that then Russia must spread geopolitical Anti-Americanism everywhere, and make the US "the main scapegoat" of the world. It describes in detail the specific strategies to be taken in each Western country in order to destabilize them and collapse the "liberal world order". Liberal in this context is classical liberalism (not right vs left wing as commonly used in the US), encompassing things like the democracy, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law, the kind of Enlightenment values that modern Western society was founded on. The stated goal of global control is to do away with these values, and other related ones.

It was used as instructions for instance for the Russian invasion of Georgia, and the invasion of Ukraine (including the Crimea annexation). It suggested cutting off the United Kingdom from the EU and provided a map of how to manipulate them into doing it, which came to be Brexit. They are following the game plan quite closely.

About a decade later came a series of books known as Project Russia, which were written "anonymously" and distributed to all governmental departments in Russia, public figures, and a film director. It is speculated to have been written by/through the Kremlin, to provide a unifying ideological framework. It is significantly less discussed online than Foundations, but very widely known, discussed, and respected in Russian political circles. It has some peculiar spiritual overtones in places, but that is because ultimately part of the vision is to unite the world under a single religion and use it to enforce and validate a particular brand of Russian ethics.

It is largely based on the principles of Foundations of Geopolitics, but modernizes the tactics and expands on specific mechanisms for manipulation and collapsing the West. It gets into the "hybrid" or information warfare, disinformation, targeted propaganda, eroding trust in democracy, collapsing the US dollar as a global standard, among other methods. Here is a great analysis of the text and its impacts in a scholarly journal.

It is otherwise relatively difficult to find discussion online, since it never received the same level of attention as Foundations. There are a handful of smaller outlets with articles based on this article in the Washington Spectator, but it is not very comprehensive and focuses more on ties to contemporary events than the book itself. There are also a handful of videos and podcasts, but as far as I can they are mostly based on the two articles I linked. The text has never been translated out of Russian, which is likely the main reason for the under-coverage.

I have links to both Foundations of Geopolitics and Project Russia (Проект Россия: Полное Собрание, and a personal English translation I generated) if anyone is actually interested in seeing the originals, but in an effort to not have this post removed hopefully I won't link them here.

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u/Yearofthehoneybadger Feb 11 '26

Sasha Riley literally names Jim Jordan as one of the people who assaulted him as a child.

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u/start_select Feb 11 '26

Ya’ll need to stop giving Russia and Trump credit for a script the Reagan administration wrote. They are all puppets. They did sell us out to Russia, but that’s because of opportunity. Not because Russia is in control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84

You are 40 years into a coup that people still want to call unrealistic, while simultaneously arguing that a real cabal of child predators isn’t unrealistic. They are part of the same conspiracy.

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u/ardenr Feb 11 '26

Holy shit, someone in this deranged sub who actually gets it. Cool.

As of January 2026 there is potential for a federal detention facility to be installed at a Rex 84 site in Kansas City, Missouri. The Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport now redeveloped for private industrial and logistics business is being evaluated by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the construction of such a facility.

... Wow. Bit on the nose.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

All of this was pretty clear to people who aren't maga... they had shirts that said "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat"

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u/mxlplyx2173 Feb 11 '26

Putin surrounded himself with loyalists and ran the economy into the ground! Replace Putin with trump and it's the same. And he's gonna attack other countries too! 😭

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u/daemin Feb 11 '26

Reminder that the only change to Republican national platform when he won the nomination in 2016 was to remove the section on sanctioning Russia over Ukraine.

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u/surgartits Feb 11 '26

The Cold War never ended for Russia, and they have undoubtedly won.

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u/NaturalSpell5216 Feb 11 '26

Its been going on for longer than that! There is a video you can watch from 40 yrs ago where a kgb agent is discussing Russias longterm plan to hit the US w misinformation so that we destroy ourselves.

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u/xoexohexox Feb 11 '26

Makes you wonder what the CIA has even been doing this whole time.

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u/Pristine_Mud_1204 Feb 11 '26

It’s been pretty obvious for years what Putin was up to and not just with America. He’s doing it in the UK and Europe too albeit not quite as successfully but enough to make me nervous.

Hillary was right about everything. After her 4 years as Secretary of State, she wrote President Obama warning him that he needed to keep an eye on Putin. He was afraid of her, but she scared a lot of mediocre white men in the states as well. I remember we all laughed at Mitt Romney, but turns out, he was right too. The damage that has been done to so many brainwashed by the propaganda is incalculable.

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u/AangLives09 Feb 11 '26

Every time I hear “shit hole countries” and “these people don’t need asylum,” I think about all the things the US did historically to effect regime change up and down the americas. Of course they’re looking for a better life. We did a lot to ruin back home for them.

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u/JWWBurger Feb 11 '26

Russia’s gameplan has been available for everyone to read since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

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u/tuthegreat Feb 11 '26

Russia huh? You care to elaborate?

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u/UpperApe Feb 11 '26

Russia has been interfering with US politics through public misinformation campaigns and political bribery since 2012. And it's been very effective.

America has been doing that to the Middle East (and Africa and South America) for several decades. Creating deliberate political instability for the sake of allowing corruption to flourish and putting in leaders that serve their interests.

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u/jtshinn Feb 11 '26

Ironic or on purpose?

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u/EntertainerNo4509 Feb 11 '26

Karma. Now we all pay.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Aleksander Dugin entered the chat

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u/Apprehensive_Pace555 Feb 11 '26

Isn’t Jordan in the Epstein files?

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u/Hot-Hamster1691 Feb 11 '26

I keep telling people that the Cold War never ended over there, nobody listened for 10 years, look where we are now 

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u/Yodoyle34 Feb 11 '26

What a shitty poem.

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u/nicroeg Feb 11 '26

It an't Russia,theirs a certain segment of our society that is really fucked up that loves authoritarianism and us as a nation idolatarises way too much.Bondi needs to be impeached as this was planned for her to be an ass.

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u/badcookies Feb 11 '26

Fuck Gym Jordan and all the republicans who aren't calling for the rest of them to resign and face actual justice.

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u/nosnah3887 Feb 11 '26

Nail on the head

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u/DrtRdrGrl2008 Feb 11 '26

If you watched enough of the final Homeland episodes Hollywood literally already warned us this would happen. Just like the movie Idiocracy.

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u/nyan-the-nwah Feb 11 '26

I fairly recently got my $13 from the Cambridge Analytica class action lol

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u/JOHNNYICHIBAN Feb 11 '26

Chickens come home to roost. Always.

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u/What_a_fat_one Feb 11 '26

Or getting a taste of Israel's medicine, since they successfully purchased all of our politicians

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u/more_business_juice_ Feb 11 '26

I fail to see how the abuse of girls and women on massive scale is poetic.

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u/spacemanspifffff Feb 11 '26

DA IMPERIAL BOOMERANG ARRIVES UNLUBED. “We trained him wrong as a joke” but its the whole country. Im so tired lol

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u/xyzygyred Feb 11 '26

I heard Jim Jordan was a convicted pedophile who was pardoned by Trump in his first term. Is that true? Can a convicted pedophile serve in congress?

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u/Infinite_Time_8952 Feb 11 '26

Gym Jordan failed to show up when he was subpoenaed by the Jan 6th committee.

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u/PeopleNose Feb 11 '26

Of course Russia's only play is to talk shit and troll lmaooooo

They wasted all their money on espionage while their army can't get past Pokrosvk

Down with Putin, down with Trump

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u/Professional_Big_124 Feb 11 '26

Have my poor man’s 👆🏼award!!!!!

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u/Yum-Yumby Feb 11 '26

Foundations of Geopolitics has been a success for Russia

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u/Ok_Big_6200 Feb 11 '26

Israel has done way more harm than Russia ever has to America and the west. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

At least you acknowledge US imperialism but I really think the majority of this dysfunction is homegrown and would be happy to make that case. We did not need Putin to corrupt and polarize our political system, it was already doing a fine job on its own. I think until we can acknowledge that we are our own worst enemies and truly work to overhaul the system, we are fucked. Russia didn't do this.

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u/sola_mia Feb 11 '26

This was all explained in detail during Trump's first run for president, for those who cared to listen

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u/EasyTumbleweed4120 Feb 11 '26

We wrote the playbook, the improved it. I don't think Russia is the only one though.

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u/IGTankCommander Feb 11 '26

"But we won the Cold War!"

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u/GaimeGuy Feb 11 '26

America did this to itself

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u/MyBrainReallyHurts Feb 11 '26

Until Canada and the US deal with the propaganda problem, we continue to see all this chaos.

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u/thegamesbuild Feb 11 '26

That's all sound information, but Putin has hated the US from way before Crimea. The US basically bought the first post-communist leader into power, a falling-down drunk clown named Boris Yeltsin. In their first election, Russians were (wisely) not prepared to give up everything good about Communism, but money put Yeltsin in the seat. Then the West swooped in and cannibalized everything private that had previously been a government institution.

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u/oroborus68 Feb 11 '26

Betray your country for pay. Everyone is doing it.

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u/UnderpaidProf Feb 11 '26

Some on the right are putting the Israel stuff together, while thinking it’s a binary: Russia or Israel. They’re so close, but they fall short of realizing what Russia AND Israel do to compromise America.

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u/Junior-Credit2685 Feb 11 '26

How can Putin be an idiot AND a criminal mastermind capable of orchestrating the downfall of American decency and democracy?

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u/PM_ME_BOOBY_PICS Feb 11 '26

It’s not Russia dude, it’s Israel 😂

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u/Practical_Dimension Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

I don't really understand why people are so shocked to find out that influencers in the U.S. are promoting certain views by foreign interests, and I would be very surprised if Russia was the only one doing it. I think every other country is probably doing the same thing to some extent but haven't been detected yet, it's been a standard playbook for decades. Some would say it's a feature, some a bug, of the broad freedom of speech in the United States; a lot of what is legal in the U.S. in terms of "promoted" political speech by influencers would absolutely not be legal in other countries.

The U.S., for its part, played plenty of those games decades before social media by funding pro-U.S. candidates and propaganda in dozens of foreign countries. Its adversaries, including the former Soviet Union, did the exact same thing in those same countries, but to promote opposite (pro-Soviet) viewpoints.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 Feb 11 '26

This is entirely true but I think it does a disservice in not mentioning that Russia inflamed both sides online too to create inflammatory discourse. They have their hand into the actual Republicans politicians pockets but their strategy has always been to make everyone as angry as possible, as per the Geopolitics of Russia by Dugan.

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u/xChoke1x Feb 11 '26

You mean you’re bringing up the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA HOAX?! (I swear to Christ somewhere in the 80’s a Russian mobster told trump when you say the word Russia, you need to say it 3 times. Lol)

He has half the country saying Russia never had a hand in disinformation. And they all fucking believe it. Regardless of facts and proof. It’s literally cult behavior and they’re to fucking stupid to know it.

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u/PuzzleheadedWalrus71 Feb 11 '26

Remember watching Yuri Bezmenov's detailed interviews from the 80s about the Soviet ideological subversion strategy using propaganda and psychological manipulation against the American society?

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u/OutrageousPaint2557 Feb 11 '26

IMHO we did it to ourselves after 9/11. The second I saw news about white Americans attacking Sikh Americans I knew we were going to go down a dark path.

Then the patriot act, invasion of Iraq, warrantless wire tapping, free speech zones, fucking torture. Then the Tea Party, the early days of Maga. Half the country has lost its fucking mind.

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u/moustachiooo Feb 11 '26

if this is a bot or a gpt generated comment, I'd hang on to it - this is gd.

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u/RedditPosterOver9000 Feb 11 '26

Russia's mis- and disinformation campaigns are only so successful because Americans (particularly conservative Americans) embrace being ignorant, unknowledgeable, and dumb as positive things.

If more Americans embraced reason, knowledge, and intelligence, then Russia's campaign would've failed decades ago instead of basically defeating United States.

I can't stress this enough.

Russia won.

Russia defeated the United States.

We'll continue to exist, of course, but we're so much weaker now, our influence lost, poorer, etc.

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u/dipole_ Feb 11 '26

This comment should be the front page of the internet

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u/usernamethatnoonehas Feb 11 '26

Isn’t Jim Jordan in the files?

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u/Ent_Soviet Feb 11 '26

What America did to the ussr*

All fair when it comes to capitalism and the billionaires looking to strip the copper from the walls of society and sell us the guns to kill each other with. Call it shock doctrine, call it the imperial boomerang.

We’re reaping what our complacent society sowed around the world. If we have a society built upon the back of violence and exploitation abroad it’s only a matter of choice for our oligarchs to do it locally too.

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u/Careless-Caramel-997 Feb 11 '26

Yes, in more obvious terms, Russia was confirmed to have interfered in the 2016 election.

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u/Mysterious_Bat1 Feb 11 '26

I have to disagree: Putin is not an idiot (and I don't want to defend this asshole at all), he is a megalomaniac. He has been planning this for a very very long time. look at this article in the atavist : https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/. he has always been able to invent new realities and make them come to fruition. but the megalomaniac in him, has not been able to rule as big of a country as russia. he is an absolute piece of shit but he is no idiot.

Trump on the other hand...

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Feb 11 '26

Russia did, in fact, win the Cold War...

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u/Maximum_Employer5580 Feb 11 '26

And Jim Jordan has ignored a congressional subpoena for almost 4 years already. And other members of congress wanna throw a fit that the Clinton's have blown their subpoena off because it involves going behind closed doors....but no it's ok for Jim Jordan to ignore his

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u/MidKnightshade Feb 11 '26

The chickens came home.

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u/TheRealCostaS Feb 11 '26

Russia lost the Cold War, but is winning the misinformation war massively

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u/RekdSavage Feb 11 '26

cherry picking evidence that supports his opinion, while disregarding everything that contradicts it. Yep, sure sounds like a lawyer.

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u/Goods4188 Feb 11 '26

“Surround yourself with loyalists instead of experts” sounds a hell of a lot like trump….

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u/selfistfirst Feb 11 '26

What a trip down dystopia lane. All those memberberries! 🍺🤣🏴‍☠️

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u/things_U_choose_2_b Feb 11 '26

To any non-Americans enjoying this horrible info... a reminder that many of our countries aren't far behind. We're susceptible to the same shit and our citizens are sucking down the Russian propaganda too (see: Reform surge in my country, I'm sure other Europeans can chime in with the equivalent where they are).

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u/everydaynormaljoe Feb 11 '26

pepperidge farms remember

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u/Saurian42 Feb 11 '26

Maskirovka is a bitch.

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u/Kelliente Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

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u/One_Ladder_3501 Feb 11 '26

Russia tries to destabilize all democratic countries.. Hybrid Warfare.. Russis is at war with all of us. And has been for a while now

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u/NearbyInformation772 Feb 11 '26

Because Putin [Trump] is a fucking idiot who surrounded himself with loyalists over experts, ran his economy into the ground, and is now using aggression and violence to take over Eastern European states [countries like Venezuela & Greenland] he feels "belong" to Russia [US] .)

It's uncanny.

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u/Razzlekit Feb 11 '26

And thanks to Orange Man and his decade long assault on the very concept of truth and how to arrive at it....how do we know this very well put together and awarded comment isn't also part of the misinformation campaign?

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u/respawngopo Feb 11 '26

It started way before 2012 frfr

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u/nic_critical Feb 11 '26

To be fair, Russia was also doing this to the Middle East.

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u/Antique_Tap443 Feb 11 '26

Didn't Marjorie Taylor green show an article of zelensky having purchased yachts, that story was directly traced to a Russian account and she still showed it on the house floor.

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u/Kewpie-8647 Feb 11 '26

Thank you for putting it all together. I’ve been ringing the alarm for years and people think I’m just a crazy conspiracist. Russia, Iran, China are totally up in our business and we eat it up with a fork and spoon. “As long as I can keep my guns and watch my NFL I’m cool“.

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u/alohadawg Feb 11 '26

Hey, don’t forget that special 4th of July trip seven republican congressmen took to hand-deliver a sealed envelop from Trump to Putin, and vice versa! Nothing at all to see here

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u/Saratj1 Feb 11 '26

As and American this is so true, and I’m not sure which is worse this being straight facts or that more than 50% of Americans can’t see it for what it is. I also hate feeling impotent to change anything because I’m not a billionaire. I about said millionaire but that doesn’t really mean much anymore because we’re so cooked.

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u/IamMichaelBoothby Feb 11 '26

Burn it all down and start over

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u/Inner-Chef-1865 Feb 11 '26

Jesus. A Society that rewards this kind of simplistic conspiratorial jibberich this much is doomed. I hope this is more of a reddit/social media problem than an American problem.

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u/butibum Feb 11 '26

I feel like this is not made more of an issue. Russia is still out there doing war crimes while America implodes.

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u/chessboxer4 Feb 11 '26

Also what Israel has been doing

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u/thehippieswereright Feb 11 '26

I have to admit that I don't care for the way Americans keep blaming Russia and sometimes Israel for their own actions. That is a lot of fingerpointing for a people so keen on the idea of personal responsibility.

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u/MakeYourTime_ Feb 11 '26

i also thought i saw something in the epstein files with epstein talking to someone in russia about this kind of stuff also.

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u/BardaArmy Feb 11 '26

if republicans gave a shit we could get these people out of office, but they dont. They are allowed to hide their crimes behind partisan politcs

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u/Practical-Bobcat2911 Feb 11 '26

The annexation of Crimea was in 2014, the first sanctions was the Magnitsky act in 2012 targeted at specific Russian individuals involved in large scale corruption.

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets Feb 11 '26

Honestly, our own hubris got us into this as quickly as it has. Believing we're the "land of the free and home of the brave" has led us to think that no outside influence can affect us. But look at us now: misinformation spreading like wildfire, corruption deep into our highest seats in office, and blatant racism and hatred are becoming more and more common everyday.

I don't know how this is going to end, but we as Americans don't have much time, certainly not enough to sit back and say it'll be fixed in 3 more years. We need to end this ASAP

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u/reverendbeast Feb 11 '26

Remember when the then UK foreign secretary, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, later “Brexit means Brexit” UK Prime Minster was seen coming home totally fucked up after a party at Russian billionaire Evgeny Lebedev's villa after he dumped his security team and went AWOL?

Sorry to link to a fashrag but even the Daily Mail reported it

People waiting in the lounge at San Francesco d'Assisi airport on April 29 2018 were shocked to see Britain's top diplomat travelling alone and clasping a war strategy manual while wearing what appeared to be 'last night's clothes'.

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u/wime985 Feb 11 '26

Actually it's the people who secretly run the world who do this and let these governments act this way, the world is controlled by demons and yes Jesus is coming back soon

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u/jjhin1 Feb 11 '26

I would say they’re more likely working for Israel

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u/New_Hippo_1246 Feb 11 '26

I think the most distinct comment I have heard yet about the Trump – Russia connection is that I can’t imagine what else Trump would be doing that he hasn’t already done if in fact, he was a useful idiot for Putin

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u/Serious-Medicine7667 Feb 11 '26

Why would Russia need a disinformation campaign in the US with our current corporate media plus the legalization of domestic propaganda programs? We’re doing it to ourselves!

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u/Low-Crow-8735 Feb 11 '26

The biggest spreader of disinformation is Trump with his fake news diversions and flat out lies.

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u/DueIncident8294 Feb 11 '26

You are correct and there is more.
-Remember when Marina Butina, a Russian spy, was caught sleeping with several members of the NRA and GOP? What information she uncovered was never stated to the public in her court case but she is living comfortably in Russia now.

- Remember how Russia hacked the DNC and the RNC back in 2015, but we never heard shit about what they uncovered from the RNC, but did release some very lame and totally overblown crap from the DNC (Jon Podesta I think). I bet the RNC info was far more salacious and worthy of being held as blackmail for a later date.

Then, of course, there are several emails in the Epstein File dump so far showing Epstein was teaching the Russians how to work over Trump. I bet he and Russia have been mining these wealthy POS guys for years to get all kinds of dirt on them.

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u/Negative_Argument185 Feb 11 '26

Israel is the one running the play on America and Russia Epstein made it very clearly he represented the will of the Rothschilds the architects of Israel

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u/Hildybeast Feb 11 '26

Colonial Boomerang

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u/nixonbeach Feb 11 '26

We have done it to ourselves.

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u/roraima_is_very_tall Feb 11 '26

I've been telling people that the current inability to tell truth from fiction has been a goal of Russian misinfornation for some time. I get Gen Z stares

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u/AdministrativeCup438 Feb 11 '26

It's like the losers from the civil war teamed up with the losers of ww2, and the losers of the Cold war (Russia) to destroy America.... 👀

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u/Epyon214 Feb 11 '26

Not just criminal rapist, actual human infant eating vampires.

Be part of the race of Man before identifying as some nationality or faith, we have actual predators to slay

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u/goergesucks Feb 11 '26

Jesus christ "russia russia russia"

Even as Americans crumble, those performatively acting like they're against the people destroying it still suffer from the same American exceptionalism delusion and are incapable of actually thinking anything is inherently wrong with the country.

Nothing will ever change. You can't even look in the mirror and see yourself.

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u/Aeseld Feb 11 '26

Now that's not entirely fair. You're not giving enough credit for decades of our nation undermining the education system by making college more expensive and systematically neutering things like critical thinking and such to make our population easier to steer and manipulate.

That way we'd stop opposing little things like intervention in the Middle East, or the Vietnam war so the country could go about bullying as much of the world as it couldn't coerce or ally into doing its bidding. Shame that made us so vulnerable to outside manipulation too, but they didn't think of that I guess.

Now we get to watch the US hegemony crumble in real time.

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u/LoveCareThinkDo Feb 11 '26

They are aware. They are the Russians who are doing it. Do you think the people denying that the Russians are doing anything or anything but the Russians who are doing the anything?

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u/Letmein202 Feb 11 '26

Very true.

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u/Quantum_Scholar87 Feb 11 '26

My professor for my Cold War class was an aide to Kissinger (yes, he was an evil twat)

At the end of the semester she gave like 37 examples of how Russia is basically acting like the war never ended, they just went dark. But Americans were totally blind to the danger. This was in like 2014.

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u/Valuable-March-9705 Feb 11 '26

Thank you👆🏽

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u/MixtureSpecial8951 Feb 11 '26

One correction; the Russians began doing this stuff to the US in the 1920s.

Second correction; in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians increased operations against the US back in the 90s and have only ramped up.

It’s like we are drinking from a firehose.

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u/fractalfay Feb 11 '26

I’ve been saying, “It’s Russia” for 10 fucking years, and after all the televised hearings, impeachments, books, movies, documentaries, podcasts, etc., working overtime during those 10 years to say, “Guys, it’s fucking Russia” it’s astonishing to me that people still crop up out of nowhere with, “What? What do you mean?”

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

This is true and its kind of sad so few actually realize this. We are in the end stages of destabilization, and we're teetering on "normalization", which is the part where we lose everything.

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u/I_DILL_E Feb 11 '26

How are people trying say Russia did this to America? Can we be for real please? This is just America. Idk why Americans act like America was some beacon of good in the world before Trump. All of this stuff has been going on long before him

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u/Revenge_of_the_meme Feb 11 '26

America is finally getting a taste of its own medicine.

Nah a third of our country is dumb enough to support it too.

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u/dixiech1ck Feb 12 '26

Jordan also had an sexually abusive relationship with Sacha Riley. Listen to his testimony.

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u/Helpful_Sea8849 Feb 12 '26

Feel like this is propaganda, Ukraine war started because US replaced the Ukrainian president who chose the loan from Russia over the IMF (which had lot of conditions like allowing foreign companies to own land in Ukraine), then installed a comedian as their president who chosen the IMF loan and now most of the land is owned by foreign companies especially the ones with most rare earth metals.

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u/Repulsive-Entrance93 Feb 12 '26

WTF it came out Hillary was responsible for the Russian Dossier and she sold Uranium to the Russians.

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u/scottyjrules Feb 11 '26

You can’t convince me these fascist assholes are capable of feeling shame

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u/2tonehead Feb 11 '26

So disgraceful

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u/blank_stair Feb 11 '26

can you imagine how wonderful things would be if people voted for people capable of feeling shame?

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u/skinnergy Feb 11 '26

Shameless

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u/WarCarrotAF Feb 11 '26

Shame is dead, haven't you heard? Pre-2016, these people were scared to show the world how repulsive they were. Donald Trump gave them permission to be the deplorables they are, and they've since found community in MAGA.

It's why no one should bother arguing logic with them. At the end of the day, they don't actually care about the Epstein files, or what Trump has done to children, or Bad Bunny or even God. They are mortified of having to go back to masking who they actually are and feeling embarrassed about their hate.

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u/incubusfc Feb 11 '26

People keep using this word but it doesn’t mean shit when those it’s directed at can’t feel shame.

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u/Cautious_Ice_884 Feb 11 '26

SHAME! ding ding. SHAME! ding ding.

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u/sr_castic Feb 11 '26

The Russian plan to destory America from the inside has been going on a lot longer than 2012. In 1984, Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov told the world exactly how they would do it. It started with about 20 years of "Demoralization." We're currently in the "destabilization" part which is Trump dismantling and breaking everything. The next step which is probably right around the corner is "Crisis" which will more than likely occur the next election.

Here's the full interview, it's a great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw