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Okay… So he went to Russia in 2003. Considering that the consensus in 2003 was that Russia was still on its way to becoming a democracy I am not that offended by it personally.
“Putin’s hometown” being St. Petersburg, which is the 2nd biggest city in Russia.

What is more worrying is all the things that happened since 2003.

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109 points

It means he has been getting gifts from Harlan Crow for at least 20 years.

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26 points

Are these guys like lovers? They are sure close.

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32 points

They all go to a secretive 2 week slumber party in California every year where they don’t allow women. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if these two had some sword fights. Sorry for conjuring that visual for someone.

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Yeah, describing St Petersburg as “Putin’s hometown” is pretty manipulative. It’s a beautiful city, historically a popular tourist destination and home to one of the world’s best museums.

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5 points

Probably not cheap to chopper into and stay at either, which is the main point, but apparently not sensational enough alone.

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13 points

It’s a pattern.

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It’s probably how they obtained kompromat with which they can control him.

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I’m surprised they didn’t call it Leningrad to drive home the point. Dude’s a turd, there’s no need to make shit up to make him look bad.

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He took a fucking helicopter trip to Putin’s palace. Literally. How is there anybody who can’t see the writing on the wall? This man is beyond compromised.

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Come on my dude. They are probably just friends and ol’ Vlad was just giving him a belated or early birthday gift over a lovely brunch of blinis and caviar.

~And if anyone is wondering why there’s no “end sarcasm” indicator, it’s because the sarcasm should be so fucking obvious that no one currently alive on this planet with access to the internet should be able to misunderstand it.~

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no one currently alive on this planet with access to the internet should be able to misunderstand it.~

Average Lemmy user: hold my bear

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Okay, I’m holding your bear, what now? It looks fluffy, can I pet it? Is it cuddle-safe?

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I do find it rather odd how we Millennials and Gen X had little trouble understanding sarcasm on the internet, overall, but over the last couple of years there’s suddenly this huge push that we need to use ‘/s’ to make it extra super obvious. Does Gen Z not use sarcasm?

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It seems the Russians won the war after all, as I look around at all of these clearly compromised people running our country, or trying to run the country. Half our political system is ensuring they do this without any criticism whatsoever.

The idiots have all but won. Idiocracy is becoming a reality, and I say that with no humor or jest whatsoever.

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He’s dirty as can be and it also sounds likely that he’s a traitor in some way.

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And is anyone going to do anything about this man?

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The Supreme Court just granted immunity to President Biden, so he can send him and the other traitors to Guantanamo without fear of legal repercussions. Of course not, nothing’s going to happen.

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This seems to be a common misconception.

The Supreme Court did not give Biden immunity. They gave the president immunity for carrying out official acts. Who determines what an official act is? The Supreme Court.

Biden doesn’t have immunity. I’d argue he doesn’t have immunity as president, either.

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That’s the thing about this though. I’d like to see them try to prevent that from within Guantanamo. It’s not legal neither moral, yet it can’t be stopped using the law.

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True, but Republicans seem to have taken the position that you can do whatever you want while the consequences work their way through the courts.

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Kind of hard to rule from a jail cell, and I’m guessing that he’d have died of old age by the time something like this was ruled on, regardless. I say, go out with a legacy of giving the court (and the GOP) what they deserve.

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Will no one rid me of this turbulent “justice”?

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Yeah… they are impeaching him.

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With the Republicans holding the House? Lmao

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Didn’t say it would work.

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Who held the House during Trumps impeachments? I honestly don’t remember, but I guess I’m assuming it was the Democrats.

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I’m not going to hold my breath.

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Impeachment him?

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3 points

Yes, I went to the doctor today to see if he could treatment me too

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27 points

He’s pretty damn Evil he sent his newphew to abusive boarding school in Georgia called Hidden Lake Academy similar setup to cedu one of places Paris Hilton ran from

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elan.school for those unfamiliar with these types of places.

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5 points

You sent me down a frightening rabbit hole…

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3 points

Same happened to me a few weeks ago. I accomplished pretty much nothing that day. Just spent the day reading through that story.

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25 points

This guy gets so much stuff.

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It’s still surprisingly small a price for selling out such a large and powerful country.

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It’s almost as if he isn’t doing it for the money…

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Whereas I’m sure the money and the powerful friends and the luxury trips and the free RVs and houses are a big reason he hasn’t retired a long time ago.

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He’s just a traitor for the love of the game

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