The Trump Family is Corrupt to Its Core

A Russan oligarch bankrolled Don,Jr's wedding to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Trump's family is just rotten. They are in thrall to Putin, which is why the governing message of the GOP is "if they win, we go to prison." They are all crooks.

And their bone-deep debt to Putin is why nobody blinks an eye at Kushner's attempts to sell out Ukraine.

Kushner Channels His Inner Neville Chamberlain

US President Donald Trump's special envoy Jared Kushner has said that the only thing missing for an agreement to end the war is Ukraine's consent to give up its territories within the boundaries demanded by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
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"President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that. And obviously, our job as the mediators [is] to figure out how can we come up with a creative solution that doesn't violate their desires and that helps them achieve their objective, and does in a way that we can get Russia to end the conflict in a way that hopefully allows both parties to move forward in a framework where this doesn't happen again."

Here's a wild idea: Russia, the aggressor nation, can withdraw to its internationally-recognized border. Of course Ukraine doesn't want to give up territory, particularly at the behest of two men who are pretty much operating as Russian assets. Witkoff and Kushner likely have eyes on development projects in Russia, but those won't go forward with a war on. So they want it to end, on any terms that they can finagle.

Add to this is the fact that Kusher is just not that bright. He's gotten everywhere he's been on family connections, not talent. That was true when his dad bribed Harvard to let him in and when he used his connections to Trump to wheedle billions out of the Gulf-State Oil Arabs.

Remember This, Too

25 years ago, President George Bush and Vice President Cheney resolved to send the country to war against a country that had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. They pushed the intelligence community to fabricate intel justifying their war: The WMDs that didn't exist, the aluminum tubes that weren't suited to refine uranium, the "mobile biologial weapons lab" that was an apparatus that made hydrogen for weather balloons.

Thousands of Americans died, millions of Iraqis were made refugees and the costs to this country alone runs into the trillions, all because Darth and Chimpy wanted their war. Between a war of aggression and conspiring to commit war crimes, the White House, not for the first nor the last time, was the site of meetings of war criminals.

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Funny How They Keep Hiring Nazis

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) fired his campaign’s political director, Stephen Woytek, on Friday after learning about social media posts linked to Woytek, including a Facebook profile photo of Nazi officers and a public playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a now-defunct nation often venerated by white supremacists.

A spokesperson for Husted’s campaign told The Hill that Woytek, who joined the campaign in August, had “denied negative intent” but said the senator had quickly opted to fire him after learning of the posts Friday.

Only the best people.

Stupid Orange Fucker Can't Keep His Yap Shut

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that a unified Ireland would be “fantastic” as he waded into a complex and politically charged subject during a weekend visit to a major tournament at his Irish golf course.

At a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin, Trump said he would love to see the reunification of the Republic of Ireland with the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland.

“I don’t want to cause any problems but I’d love to see it unified,” Trump told a reporter who sought his opinion on the issue. “It’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now.

“I think it would be a fantastic thing,” the Republican president said, adding that “the U.K. will have something to say about it, obviously.”

Any president worth two shits would know how sensitive that topic is and would keep quiet, but not Trump. He's gotta yap about anything and everything because he truly believes he's the smartest person in whatever venue he's in. But he's not. He's as dumb as a fence post but far less useful.

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Meet Robin, a young kitten who is kinda related.

Happy 5787

May your name be inscribed in the Book of Life for a sweet year.

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