The Russians

[magicalmoments]

"Progressive" Democrats: "The state absolutely needs to control the economy, nationalize most of it, redistribute the wealth with progressive taxation, wealth, death and property taxes. State confiscation of all inheritances. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! " LOL

Another piece of shit post from a piece of shit poster. No credibility left boy.

Guntherman, this your con man, troll.

 

[magicalmoments]

Biggest lie I've seen you tell yet.

You've told bigger. See #52 above.

 

[BotanyBoy]

You've told bigger. See #52 above.

Not at all.

And you still have yet to explain why I'm a piece of shit...or is that just lame ad hominem because you can't refute anything???

 

[Cubantripod]

Let’s look at the biggest enemy the United States currently has, the Russians.

The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back. The Russians were just Russianing. They've been trying to meddle since Kennedy. For some reason, we made it a big deal this time around. Perhaps because the wrong candidate won. Russia has the GDP of Italy. It's funny watching the left turn into the very chicken hawks they accused Republicans of being all to hate Trump.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Fuzzy1975 writes: "I thought media's only role was to make money?"

You'd certainly THINK so, wouldn't you?

I actually posted this, as a redundancy against someone else's post, who used the term Media in stead of News Media. Hoping someone would catch on. News Media is supposed to be unbiased. All other forms can do what ever they like.

CNN's ratings are in the toilet since they've willing become the Fake News anti-Trump news network, reporting on those stories pre-approved by the left!

I hear this a lot. Where the "ratings" mean something. The meaning most interpreted is, if the most tune in, it must be the best. That is a throw back to TV Shows where their ratings tied directly to the advertising dollars (market share drives add revenue).

So what does "the most watched mean"? ( market share)

Ratings are Mathematical ratios, so let us use that.

5 news stations, 100 total audience.

Station #1 captures 35 dedicated viewers who never watch another station

Station #2 captures 10 dedicated viewers who never watch another station

Station #3 captures 10 dedicated viewers who never watch another station

Stations #4 captures 5 dedicated viewers who never watch another station

Station #5 captures 10 dedicated viewers who never watch another station

This leaves 30 viewers who don't watch any stations exclusively.

of the 30 viewers 25 never watch station #1 15 never watch station #2, 10 never watch stations #3 20 never watch station #4, and 5 never watch station #5.

So since ratings evolve around time, you need a snap shot of the day to use to generate a rating.

at any point in time the Max viewers for station #1 are= 35+5=40%

at any point in time the Max viewers for station #2 are 10 +15=25%

at any point in time the Max viewers for station #3 are 10 + 20=30%

at any point in time the Max viewers for station #4 are 5 + 10=15%

at any point in time the Max viewers for station #5 are 10 + 25=35%

So if we call #1 Fox, 2 CNN, 3 MSNBC, 4 BBC and 5 CBS

So Fox holds #1, but only 40% of the market share.

Which means 60% of the market is viewing elsewhere.

Now I made up the numbers, and the market shares. I was not going to bother tracking down the real numbers ( but this information is readily available, if you wish to pay), so don't go nuts over that, this all an exercise in explaining the meaning of ratings, since some equate high ratings with being #1. And they are of course correct, in terms of potential advertising dollars and market share, but nothing else.

 

[Tigersman]

They're not. They don't give a fuck about 'us.' But they might co-operate with the US to focus some hostility on YOU.

This is just pure BS. The Russians have wanted to bury us or take over our Nation since WWII was over. When the old USSR fell apart in the late 80s hardliners have dreamed of putting the old USSR back together. That is what Putin is trying to do with the Ukraine with Trump's help.

 

[KeithD]

There's dancing in the Kremlin tonight. On the day the articles of impeachment came in, Trump entertained the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office. The last time the Russian foreign minister was there, Trump had fired Comey the day before and subsequently told the Russian foreign minister--with the Russian media there and the U.S. media banned from the office--that his Russia activity worries were over and then he gave the Russian foreign minister classified information.

Today's entertaining of the Russian foreign minister not only comes in the context of impeachment of Trump not least for being an asset of the Russian government, using Russian support in the last election, and still soliciting Russian interference in the next presidential election, but it comes in context with the very situation, the extortion of Ukraine, that is the basis for the impeachment articles. Russia has invaded Ukraine, an ally of every U.S. institution but Donald Trump, an asset of the Russian government, and much of the impeachment context is the extortion by Trump of the Ukraine government, dangling an Oval Office meeting with the Ukraine president as an object of bribery. Today, the Russian foreign minister gets a second meeting in the Oval Office, and the president of our ally, Ukraine, still hasn't been given such a meeting as a signal of continued U.S. support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Trump is openly doing Russia's bidding, even on the day articles of impeachment for his behavior are registered.

With Donald Trump, every road leads to Russia and Vladimir Putin. The Republicans in Congress and the board Trumpettes in their enabling of Trump's blatant espionage for Russia thus are also operating as assets of the Russian government.

 

[Schlank]

There's dancing in the Kremlin tonight. On the day the articles of impeachment came in, Trump entertained the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office. The last time the Russian foreign minister was there, Trump had fired Comey the day before and subsequently told the Russian foreign minister--with the Russian media there and the U.S. media banned from the office--that his Russia activity worries were over and then he gave the Russian foreign minister classified information.

Today's entertaining of the Russian foreign minister not only comes in the context of impeachment of Trump not least for being an asset of the Russian government, using Russian support in the last election, and still soliciting Russian interference in the next presidential election, but it comes in context with the very situation, the extortion of Ukraine, that is the basis for the impeachment articles. Russia has invaded Ukraine, an ally of every U.S. institution but Donald Trump, an asset of the Russian government, and much of the impeachment context is the extortion by Trump of the Ukraine government, dangling an Oval Office meeting with the Ukraine president as an object of bribery. Today, the Russian foreign minister gets a second meeting in the Oval Office, and the president of our ally, Ukraine, still hasn't been given such a meeting as a signal of continued U.S. support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Trump is openly doing Russia's bidding, even on the day articles of impeachment for his behavior are registered.

With Donald Trump, every road leads to Russia and Vladimir Putin. The Republicans in Congress and the board Trumpettes in their enabling of Trump's blatant espionage for Russia thus are also operating as assets of the Russian government.

And while Trump is rolling out the red carpet for the Russians, Trump is also out there attacking the FBI.

Trump has a long history of embracing a hostile foreign power, while simultaneously attacking America's own intelligence services.

 

[JackLuis]

Russia’s only aircraft carrier bursts into flames while sitting in port

Russia’s only aircraft carrier caught fire Thursday while undergoing maintenance in an Arctic shipyard, news agencies reported, raising concerns for the future of the navy flagship.

Russia’s Interfax, RIA Novosti and TASS news agencies quoted local emergency services as saying at least 10 people had been injured in the blaze, with six reported to be in intensive care.

 

[KeithD]

Russia’s only aircraft carrier bursts into flames while sitting in port

I'm sure Trump will give them a couple.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I'm sure Trump will give them a couple.

Sell them, Trump never gives anything away for free.

 

[Dumpington]

Tigersman writes: "That is what Putin is trying to do with the Ukraine with Trump's help."

"With TRUMP'S help?" And where were you during the Obama presidency, Tigersman, when Putin's Russia STOLE the entire Crimean Peninsula from the Ukraine while the Obama administration looked on and did nothing? And then, the Russians proceeded to steal huge parcels of land from the eastern Ukraine while AGAIN Barack sat on his ass and did NOTHING! Putin & the Russians didn't respect or fear Barack Obama. In face, they held him in complete contempt! No matter how you want to look at it, Obama was a WEAK president!

KeithD writes: "There's dancing in the Kremlin tonight."

The Russians have been laughing at the Democratic Party ever since they began pushing that whole Trump/Russia collusion nonsense, and I'm sure they continue to chuckle at how our media has picked-it-up and run with it. But a stronger, more powerful America (such as Trump has built) isn't exactly in Russia's interest, Keith. I'm sure they preferred a more emasculated & effeminate America such as we had during the eight years before Trump took office!

Schlank writes: "Trump is also out there attacking the FBI."

The Obama administration politicized the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, and even the IRS. Those investigations are continuing, and the truth will come out. President Trump is setting things right again! Imagine how corrupt things would be today had Mrs. Clinton won the White House in '16!

 

[LincolnDuncan]

No one on the right supporting Trump's Russia program has given me an answer to a question I asked sometime ago. Why should the US care about Russia other than because they have nukes? Their nukes still threaten the west even though Trump has bent over and grabbed his ankles for Putin. (See Helsinki) Their economy sucks. They don't manufacture shit. So what's up with Trump kissing Colonel Putin's Russian ass?

Asking for Patton

 

[KeithD]

Sell them, Trump never gives anything away for free.

This would be in exchange for not showing the yellow rain tapes for another week.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

When did the cold war with Russia end?

 

[KeithD]

When did the cold war with Russia end?

It went on hiatus, but Vladimir Putin brought it back.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

It went on hiatus, but Vladimir Putin brought it back.

Yes, of course. I had forgotten about the Boris Yeltson blip on USA / Russian history.

 

[icanhelp1]

No one on the right supporting Trump's Russia program has given me an answer to a question I asked sometime ago. Why should the US care about Russia other than because they have nukes? Their nukes still threaten the west even though Trump has bent over and grabbed his ankles for Putin. (See Helsinki) Their economy sucks. They don't manufacture shit. So what's up with Trump kissing Colonel Putin's Russian ass?

Asking for Patton

It’s all about nukes! I also think that Trump is daring Puta to get buried in the ME. ISRAELIS aren’t afraid of Putin. Iran is on the verge of collapse. Could work out better for us

 

[LincolnDuncan]

It’s all about nukes! I also think that Trump is daring Puta to get buried in the ME. ISRAELIS aren’t afraid of Putin. Iran is on the verge of collapse. Could work out better for us

Wrong, it's not about the nukes, it's about Trump investments in Russia. When it was about nukes, our policy was to isolate them and minimize them as long as their nukes were not a threat from rust.

Do you really believe that Trump the real estate investor is playing KGB Colonel Putin? Are you one of the people so convinced in Trump's greatness due to his appearance of wealth that he doesn't need to spend time listening to intelligence briefings?

 

[Dumpington]

LincolnDuncan writes (about Russia): "Their economy sucks. They don't manufacture shit."

That's what seventy-five years of living under a socialist economy will do to ANY country! But American politically-progressive lefties like Bernie Sanders would STILL like to give socialism a try here in the United States, just to see if we might do it better. We won't, but Bernie has his followers who agree with him, and insist that our becoming more like Venezuela might be fun!

"When did the cold war with Russia end?"

That would be back in 1991, when the Soviet Union COLLAPSED, and broke apart into fifteen different nations. That's what a socialist economy will do to ANY powerful country!

KeithD answers (incorrectly): "It went on hiatus, but Vladimir Putin brought it back."

Putin might LIKE to bring back the U.S.S.R., but he'd need a WEAK U.S. president (like Barack Obama) to sit on his ass doing nothing while Russia siezes portions of the Ukraine right under Obama's nose (as happened with the Crimean Pensinsula!) But with Trump in the White House, that's not likely to repeat itself.

 

[magicalmoments]

#71 above
Yes, with Thanos the inevitable in the Oval Office, Putin will be shaking in his shoes, just like little rocket man is in North Korea.
He may have the infinity stones but trump doesn't have the balls to take on Putin. We all saw his "decisive action", that 9th grade letter he wrote,
against the Turks as they started their genocide of the Kurds. Laughable.

 

[Dumpington]

magicalmoments writes: "Yes, with Thanos the inevitable in the Oval Office, Putin will be shaking in his shoes, just like little rocket man is in North Korea."

Barack Obama secretly promised Russia's Putin that he'd "have more flexibility" to offer a deal to Russia after his 2012 re-election. knowing that any mention of it beforehand might damage him with the American voters. It's NO WONDER that Putin held Obama in complete contempt! Of course, Russia's America-hating ally IRAN benefitted greatly from the Obama presidency, what with all of those billions of dollars being surreptitiously shipped-off to Iran in the dead of night.

And how have the Iranians fared since President Trump took office? Well, Russia's ally is currently getting its balls squeezed by increasingly tight U.S. sanctions on Iran, triggering riots in the streets of Tehran! Do the Russians approve? I'm guessing they probably don't. As for the North Koreans, they're continuing to behave erratically, but what else is new? At least President Trump has established a line of communications with that country that never existed before now!

"He may have the infinity stones but trump doesn't have the balls to take on Putin. We all saw his "decisive action", that 9th grade letter he wrote against the Turks as they started their genocide of the Kurds. Laughable."

The Kurds are NOT a country - they are a people scattered across the middle east, living mostly in northern Iraq - but also in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, & northwestern Iran. They were the ones most threatened by the spread of ISIS, which President Trump joined with them to eradicate after the Obama administration allowed ISIS to fill the vacuum that opened-up after Barack withdrew all U.S. ground forces from Iraq (so that he could claim that war was over in time for his 2012 re-election!)

Turkey is (and remains) a NATO ally, and the Turks have always felt threatened by ethnic minorities living within their borders. One-hundred years ago they actually murdered about a million Christian Armenians whom they suspected wanted their own homeland in the aftermath of World War I. If you have the answers in fixing the Islamic-dominated middle-east, we'd all love to hear it!

 

[LincolnDuncan]

LincolnDuncan writes (about Russia): "Their economy sucks. They don't manufacture shit."

That's what seventy-five years of living under a socialist economy will do to ANY country! But American politically-progressive lefties like Bernie Sanders would STILL like to give socialism a try here in the United States, just to see if we might do it better. We won't, but Bernie has his followers who agree with him, and insist that our becoming more like Venezuela might be fun!

"When did the cold war with Russia end?"

That would be back in 1991, when the Soviet Union COLLAPSED, and broke apart into fifteen different nations. That's what a socialist economy will do to ANY powerful country!

KeithD answers (incorrectly): "It went on hiatus, but Vladimir Putin brought it back."

Putin might LIKE to bring back the U.S.S.R., but he'd need a WEAK U.S. president (like Barack Obama) to sit on his ass doing nothing while Russia siezes portions of the Ukraine right under Obama's nose (as happened with the Crimean Pensinsula!) But with Trump in the White House, that's not likely to repeat itself.

That was a sad attempt to change the subject, but 75 years of socialism has nothing to do with the fact that they still don’t manufacture shit.

The Soviet Union was always Russia with the satellite countries it dominated. Keith is correct that there was a hiatus and a brief flirtation with democracy, but the reality is that they are even more dangerous to the US and world security since they have morphed into an organized crime syndicate with nuclear weapons.

 

[Dumpington]

LincolnDuncan writes: "That was a sad attempt to change the subject, but 75 years of socialism has nothing to do with the fact that they still don’t manufacture shit."

And HOW exactly did I change the subject, Lincoln?

You've just admitted that socialism can't manufacture shit, while Bernie Sanders & Liz Warren argue that America NEEDS to embrace socialist economics! It would appear to me that you & I are in full agreement that those pro-socialist weirdos currently taking over the Democratic Party are economic imbeciles!

"The Soviet Union was always Russia with the satellite countries it dominated."

Yes, the Soviet Union WAS the evil empire that Ronald Reagan said it was - and the U.S.S.R. DID, in fact, dominate/enslave several east European nations (e.g. Poland) that are now allied with the United States! But Russia was only ONE of the fifteen "republics" making up the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. It was definitely the biggest and most powerful, until Ronald Reagan's policies led to its collapse, ending its hold on so many other captive-nations.

"Keith is correct that there was a hiatus and a brief flirtation with democracy, but the reality is that they are even more dangerous to the US and world security since they have morphed into an organized crime syndicate with nuclear weapons."

No argument there (except about Keith being correct on anything) - which ALSO explains why the United States needs a STRONG president, as opposed to a weak & somewhat effeminate leader (as was Barack Obama, whom the Russians held in complete contempt!) President Trump has restored America's greatness, rebuilt our military, and is currently undermining Russia's allies (Syria & Iran) in the middle-east with devastating sanctions!

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Since President Trump decided to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria, Russians have been moving into the territory abandoned by the Americans. On Thursday, Russian troops took over an air base that had been controlled by U.S. forces near Raqqa—the onetime capital of the Islamic State. The Russians, who are allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, have also occupied former U.S. airbases in Qamishli and Tabqa in recent weeks. Trump announced in October that the U.S. was withdrawing from Syria ahead of a Turkish incursion into Kurdish areas.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-take-over-3rd-us-base-in-northern-syria

Remember how Trump said that if he became president, there'd be so much winning? This doesn't feel like winning.