skews13
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Trump and the GOP want to hold onto their control of the U.S. Senate more than anything in the world. They want it so bad they were willing to go to Moscow and telegraph their new quarterback, Vladimir Putin, to run the same play he ran in 2016, the one where Russian Internet trolls carpet-bombed Facebook and Twitter, spreading nasty smears about Hillary Clinton and thereby allowing Donald Trump to slither into office.
Hell, all Trump had to do for this gesture of friendship was launder a hundred million or so in dirty Russian money and make a few minor foreign policy adjustments. Oh, and find a workaround to those pesky sanctions, too.
You can’t argue with that kind of success. The GOP knows that its base only wants a win, and as Trump demonstrated, it doesn’t matter much to those folks in the heartland how you get there. Besides, their constituents are now practically lining up in red states to learn Russian.
So they needed to send a message that would be heard loud and clear by Vladimir Putin, even though the optics of meeting him directly weren’t really feasible. For that they carefully picked a special day, America’s most solemn holiday, to send that message.
A day when most Americans wave flags and celebrate the fact that we, unlike places like Russia, still have free elections. They picked Independence Day because they wanted to send an unmistakeable signal to the Russians just how far they’d be willing to bend over backwards to get what they wanted.
That they were ready and willing to sell us all down the river if the price was right--whether it was lucrative oil deals or campaign contributions funneled through organizations like the NRA. They’d betray their country’s founding principles if necessary. Just put up that cash and start with the Troll and ‘Bot Facebook posts already.
On The Seven Republican Senators Who Just Betrayed Us In Moscow
This was Treason plain an simple. Of which there are no statute of limitations on the criminal prosecution of.