bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

Libs are libbing right now over something.

People are demanding that Mueller get subpoenaed on facebook now lol

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My immigrant community was privileged in that way. And because of that, we never really worried about mass immigration raids. We weren’t punitively targeted by cops just because of the color of our skin. We weren’t seen as a terrorist threat and targeted for infiltration and entrapment by the FBI. We never turned on the TV to see ourselves dehumanized or branded as a threat from within — as enemies of the American way of life. Looking back on all the petty — and not so petty — crime we got into as kids, I’m amazed by how leniently the cops dealt with us.

We occupied a special spot in the immigrant pyramid. And because of it, we had never been in the crosshairs of a good ol’ traditional American xenophobic panic. The anti-Russian hysteria of the early 20th century and the Red Scare of the Cold War was a distant past that few us even were even aware existed. We never knew what it was like to have the country’s media and political class brand people like you a possible threat. In fact, watching other minority and immigrant groups get demonized only reinforced my community’s feeling of superiority. My fellow Soviet immigrants have never been known for their progressive racial politics — well, when you get down to it, quite a few are generic, down-the-line bigots. And so the general sense was, “We’re not like them. We’re different. And anyway, if some ethnic groups are being targeted, there must a good reason for it. America is a nation of laws, after all. People here aren’t hounded for bigoted political reasons like they are in repressive authoritarian countries.”

But this belief in the infallibility of American institutions started taking a big nose dive right around Donald Trump won the election.

For nearly four years now, Soviet and Russian immigrants have watched America’s liberal political elite shift the blame for their country’s domestic political problems away from themselves and onto a fictitious, inscrutable foreign enemy: a xenophobic campaign that put people like us — “the Russians” — at the center of everything that’s gone wrong in America. We’ve watched as this panic grew from a fear of the Russian government to an all-encompassing, irrational racist conspiracy theory that put a cloud over not just Russian nationals or Russian government officials, but anyone from the lands of the former Soviet union.

Immigrants turned on the TV to see top American security officials, politicians, respected journalists, analysts, and pundits tell national viewers that they were right to be afraid of us: Russians are devious, untrustworthy, wired to hate democracy, and genetically driven to lie and cheat. People like us pose a threat. We are a possible fifth column — whether we know it it or not, and that includes Russian pensioners and infants. In the words of Keith Olbermann, we were “Russian scum.”

R. Guyovich posted:

making fun of liberal mueller fantasies but also thinking aoc is gonna behead jeff bezos in the town square

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

If Democrats think of themselves as the default party of power, then elections are always theirs to loose. So they are actively choosing to lose over doing politics.

Condiv posted:

uglycat is asking if there's a connection between veterans for peace and gru...

is this guy actually an anarchist?

Grevling posted:

If he did have something to do with it, why wouldn't he be blaming the Clintons? If he just ignored the thing it'd only look more suspicious.

Lambert posted:

He pretty much called for violence against sitting Congresspersons, using foreign policy for personal gain seems almost benign. Trump is terrible in so many ways, but the Democrats never seem to be able to capitalize on anything.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Guatemala, etc might have something to say about the alleged incompetence of the CIA

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

These impeachment proceedings are going to be even worse than Russiagate, and when they inevitably go nowhere Democrats are going to get even more insane.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Fascist volunteers in Ukraine have already met with US congressmen, so we were already on that trajectory.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

quid pro quo for investigating Hunter Biden: not okay

quid pro quo for making Zelensky do more neoliberalism:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Nevermind that the coups in Honduras and Brazil were also carried out through the letter of the law & constitution.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/RowanKaiser/status/1186154230589067265

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My late parents did nothave the good fortune to come of age in a free society. My father fled the Soviets before ultimately finding refuge in the United States. My mother’s family escaped the USSR after the Bolshevik revolution, and she grew up stateless in Nazi Germany, before eventually making her way to the United States.

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The U.S. is the most powerful country in the history of the world, in large part because of our values. And our values have made possible the network of alliances and partnerships that buttresses our own strength. Ukraine, with an enormous landmass and a large population, has the potential to be a significant commercial and political partner for the U.S., as well as a force-multiplier on the security side.

Lawman 0 posted:

So the president screaming crimes at his grifter ambassador over an unsecured line in a public place in Kiev doesn't count for reasons?

Condiv posted:

watching idiots explain why it's totally ok and how trump isn't that bad is gonna be even more magical

in an I will become able to projectile vomit blood in a 20m radius way

Some Guy TT posted:

by this logic literally anything the president asks anyone to do in exchange for anything else is quid pro quo provided you can come up with a theoretical argument for how it makes him more electable

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1204129519529013248?p=v

this looks really bad so i was curious how the mainstream media is spinning it and uh


looks like the spin theyre taking on this time is that starting the investigation based on the word of christopher steele is totally and completely different than starting it based on the steele dossier and that conflating the two is basically a conspiracy theory

Lambert posted:

So what, there's still value in tying up the president/republicans. It's a successful strategy. Of course, Peolsi couldn't wait to ratify the trade deal regardless, so that just shows Democrats are terrible.

comedyblissoption posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/1207381942091603968?s=19