It was discouraging, although not unexpected, to see so many reporters fall for the pageantry. Even MSNBC was yapping about the "historic" summit, even though it was no such thing and it was obvious from the beginning that nothing would be accomplished. Putin should never have been invited to set foot on U.S. soil.
I don't think "historic" is what they think it means. To me, that word conjures up something great to be remembered throughout history. What I think they need to use is, "disaster". Yes, that's more appropriate.
MSNBC firing Medhi Hasan was the best thing they could have done for America...He is a much more powerful voice "off the chain" so to speak...O'Donnell and Maddow should split soon too and no left leaning journalist should replace them. Let MSNBC go the way of the dodo with the rest of the complicit media
They won't do that because its their job to create the APPEARANCE of a 'left wing media' all the while acting as a laundering service for fascist lies. They are there to make RW atrocities palatable to a mostly inattentive voter base. They are the 'pretend make believe' 'other side'. In fact they are even more dangerous than the explicitly RW media because they normalize this crap
They swapped stories about the good old days back in the 80s and 90s when they laundered money so biggly, then Daddy reminded him “it’s not nice to urinate on the lovely prostitutes we sent to your hotel room in Moscow”. Trump promised Daddy he’d behave and not bother Daddy while he kills Ukrainians. Vlad said “good boy”.
Gorbachev was the leader with Short Fingers sold himself to Russia. But, he was the KGB I often wonder if he is the one who orchestrated the deal? He obviously was planning way ahead at that time, and just waiting for Gorbachev to leave power.
If the summit was about the war in Ukraine, President Zelenskyy should have been there. If Putie wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if trump had been president in 2022, why hasn't Putie stopped the war now that trump is president again? Putie can withdraw from ALL Ukrainian territories and Ukraine will stop fighting, because the invader will be gone from their land. Why regurgitate trump's whines about the 2020 election, if this summit was about the war in Ukraine? Evan answered that - Putie knows how to work trump, and agreeing with trump about anything makes trump happy.
Real reporters would be asking those questions instead of drooling over the "historic" meeting between a Convicted Felon and War Criminal.
Maybe what he meant was he wouldn't have "needed" to invade since Trump would have given him Ukraine (as if it were Trump's to give). But you're right.
This is sad. We are losing so much. I guess laugh at him while it’s still permitted ‘cause there isn’t much time left for it. America really has no clue what’s coming. It’s had it good for so long and it’s pathetically innocent and under-informed. Truth be told, I don’t think America understands what’s already happened to it and what it will never get back. The last to go perhaps will be that wonderful innocence.
Ta, Evan. Putin's Puto/Putin's Puppet has always been a piece of shit, and will die a piece of shit. Meanwhile, Ukraine damaged Russia's supply chain and surrounded Russian troops to good effect. Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
First of all, I'm finding impossible to imaging the Rot from Russia, saying, "...your country is, like, hot as a pistol,' "
Second, when Short Fingers got off his plane and did his weird walk down the carpet and say Putin, I was reminded of an ad for a children's cancer hospital. The ad is very touching, seriously; even heart wrenching. But, a child at the hospital sees their father's car pull into the parking lot, and starts running toward him, yelling "Daddy! We missed you!"
It was pretty awful for me, to have his reaction to seeing Putin, put me in mind of this ailing child...but it did.
Why would Putin have to bug "The Beast?" The short-fingered vulgarian will tell him anything he wants to know - just as he did to the Russians in the Oval Office, during his first infestation.
His red hatted mob and benighted myrmidons will see no weakness in any of this. They put on blinders, ear plugs, and left their consciences and brains behind, years ago. They will praise him and continue to believe every drop of rancid ordure, leaking from his mouth, because they will not believe the Face Eating Leopard exists, even as it is chewing off their cheeks.
So sorry 😢 You only see what you want to see because your hatred is so deep. There is nothing you can do about it until you look into the truth. I wish you well.
John Fugelsang has called Trump God's moral IQ test. We more or less failed.
That said, his wins are, to me, more to do with faults with our electoral structure, that is weighted toward the right. Remember, he lost the popular vote in 2016, and in this last election, he lost the PV overall when you count all non-Trump votes.
I agree with Trump being God’s moral IQ test for the United States. It’s been an embarrassing failure. We always were a Great Country!
We always practiced the basics of “Christian faith” by being “neighborly” to each other, especially in time of crisis either here or around the world 🌎. The MAGA Republicans have totally flunked the morality test by accusing those who have found themselves in bad circumstances on the individuals and stripping away the social safety nets, including FEMA, HUD grants, Head Start, etc. to help our neighbors get back on their feet. This is the warped moral code of the despot. There’s nothing Christian about it.
So - United States 🇺🇸 - do you like being cast in a beta role to Russia and Putin? Or do you as Americans get up off your knees and defend our place in the world by forcing these insurrectionists running our Government and restore our democracy, our freedom loving country, in which every person is to be treated as you would want to be treated under the same circumstances. We are one nation, under God, (if you choose to acknowledge God - but if not - come along for the ride) with Liberty and Justice for all! Including the Executive Branch.
What, it's not fast enough? We lost all our friends early on, when Trump tariffed the living shit out of foreign markets, which results in American importers no longer buying foreign raw materials and consumer goods. Then, Trump attempted to humiliate Zelenskyy in front of the world, saying he started the war with Russia and then cutting military aid to Ukraine. Even Ruth Ben-Ghiat said it all happened much more quickly than she expected.
Anyone else tired of filling the emotional emptiness of this administration? Trump and Hegseth’s daddy issues. Vance’s hatred of women due to maw-maw and mama, and whatever other psychological needs these fools have. Then we just have the flat out sociopathy of Noem… it’s a cornucopia of untreated psychological disease.
Trump was remarkable quiet after the meeting. I wonder if Vladimir was showing him some Kompromat pictures. “Remember these, Donald? Now you be a good boy and let me do as I like. Or else…”
I wonder how Putin could stand the stench of Diaper Don when they were cuddling in the backseat of the Beast. He either had nose plugs or he has a very strong stomach.
Well that was a waste of jet fuel. Maybe if Trump asks nicely, Vladdy Daddy will send an Aeroflot luxury porn jet to pick him up. Loaded with 16 year old Slavic gymnasts and hidden cameras.
Great piece, Evan. I agree with your conclusions, and would add that I think it was a choir practice meeting; the war criminal and the pedophile needed time and privacy to get on the same page, ahead of their plans to carve up the world, from Ukraine to Gaza and including the United States. Gods help us all.
It was discouraging, although not unexpected, to see so many reporters fall for the pageantry. Even MSNBC was yapping about the "historic" summit, even though it was no such thing and it was obvious from the beginning that nothing would be accomplished. Putin should never have been invited to set foot on U.S. soil.
Corporate media is all in with trump, and complicit in propping up his regime.
Trump is constantly playing to the media, while Biden was mostly silent, which didn't sell well to consumers.
Consumers are sick and tired of TACO, and are turning out of the MSM, which is still enamored of him.
They're "enamored" of whatever sells.
I don't think "historic" is what they think it means. To me, that word conjures up something great to be remembered throughout history. What I think they need to use is, "disaster". Yes, that's more appropriate.
MSNBC is a joke. The corporate media always sucks up to the orange oaf in the end.
MSNBC firing Medhi Hasan was the best thing they could have done for America...He is a much more powerful voice "off the chain" so to speak...O'Donnell and Maddow should split soon too and no left leaning journalist should replace them. Let MSNBC go the way of the dodo with the rest of the complicit media
I'm watching to see when CNN goes full right wing.
They won't do that because its their job to create the APPEARANCE of a 'left wing media' all the while acting as a laundering service for fascist lies. They are there to make RW atrocities palatable to a mostly inattentive voter base. They are the 'pretend make believe' 'other side'. In fact they are even more dangerous than the explicitly RW media because they normalize this crap
They also love Trump because the stories write themselves. It's about selling stories and making money, and avoiding the ire of their editors.
They swapped stories about the good old days back in the 80s and 90s when they laundered money so biggly, then Daddy reminded him “it’s not nice to urinate on the lovely prostitutes we sent to your hotel room in Moscow”. Trump promised Daddy he’d behave and not bother Daddy while he kills Ukrainians. Vlad said “good boy”.
Gorbachev was the leader with Short Fingers sold himself to Russia. But, he was the KGB I often wonder if he is the one who orchestrated the deal? He obviously was planning way ahead at that time, and just waiting for Gorbachev to leave power.
If the summit was about the war in Ukraine, President Zelenskyy should have been there. If Putie wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if trump had been president in 2022, why hasn't Putie stopped the war now that trump is president again? Putie can withdraw from ALL Ukrainian territories and Ukraine will stop fighting, because the invader will be gone from their land. Why regurgitate trump's whines about the 2020 election, if this summit was about the war in Ukraine? Evan answered that - Putie knows how to work trump, and agreeing with trump about anything makes trump happy.
Real reporters would be asking those questions instead of drooling over the "historic" meeting between a Convicted Felon and War Criminal.
Maybe what he meant was he wouldn't have "needed" to invade since Trump would have given him Ukraine (as if it were Trump's to give). But you're right.
This is sad. We are losing so much. I guess laugh at him while it’s still permitted ‘cause there isn’t much time left for it. America really has no clue what’s coming. It’s had it good for so long and it’s pathetically innocent and under-informed. Truth be told, I don’t think America understands what’s already happened to it and what it will never get back. The last to go perhaps will be that wonderful innocence.
Like the American Dream, all that hope will be gone.
Like tears in rain.
GNU RUTGER HAUER
Ta, Evan. Putin's Puto/Putin's Puppet has always been a piece of shit, and will die a piece of shit. Meanwhile, Ukraine damaged Russia's supply chain and surrounded Russian troops to good effect. Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
First of all, I'm finding impossible to imaging the Rot from Russia, saying, "...your country is, like, hot as a pistol,' "
Second, when Short Fingers got off his plane and did his weird walk down the carpet and say Putin, I was reminded of an ad for a children's cancer hospital. The ad is very touching, seriously; even heart wrenching. But, a child at the hospital sees their father's car pull into the parking lot, and starts running toward him, yelling "Daddy! We missed you!"
It was pretty awful for me, to have his reaction to seeing Putin, put me in mind of this ailing child...but it did.
Why would Putin have to bug "The Beast?" The short-fingered vulgarian will tell him anything he wants to know - just as he did to the Russians in the Oval Office, during his first infestation.
His red hatted mob and benighted myrmidons will see no weakness in any of this. They put on blinders, ear plugs, and left their consciences and brains behind, years ago. They will praise him and continue to believe every drop of rancid ordure, leaking from his mouth, because they will not believe the Face Eating Leopard exists, even as it is chewing off their cheeks.
So sorry 😢 You only see what you want to see because your hatred is so deep. There is nothing you can do about it until you look into the truth. I wish you well.
Son, the snausages were good that day
Yesterday was an embarrassment for the USA. Sometimes I wonder if God sent trump to destroy America. At least Sodom and Gomorrah got a quick end.
John Fugelsang has called Trump God's moral IQ test. We more or less failed.
That said, his wins are, to me, more to do with faults with our electoral structure, that is weighted toward the right. Remember, he lost the popular vote in 2016, and in this last election, he lost the PV overall when you count all non-Trump votes.
I agree with Trump being God’s moral IQ test for the United States. It’s been an embarrassing failure. We always were a Great Country!
We always practiced the basics of “Christian faith” by being “neighborly” to each other, especially in time of crisis either here or around the world 🌎. The MAGA Republicans have totally flunked the morality test by accusing those who have found themselves in bad circumstances on the individuals and stripping away the social safety nets, including FEMA, HUD grants, Head Start, etc. to help our neighbors get back on their feet. This is the warped moral code of the despot. There’s nothing Christian about it.
So - United States 🇺🇸 - do you like being cast in a beta role to Russia and Putin? Or do you as Americans get up off your knees and defend our place in the world by forcing these insurrectionists running our Government and restore our democracy, our freedom loving country, in which every person is to be treated as you would want to be treated under the same circumstances. We are one nation, under God, (if you choose to acknowledge God - but if not - come along for the ride) with Liberty and Justice for all! Including the Executive Branch.
I don't ride courtesy of any god. This country doesn't either.
Thank you! It is trying to drag us back into the dark ages now.
What, it's not fast enough? We lost all our friends early on, when Trump tariffed the living shit out of foreign markets, which results in American importers no longer buying foreign raw materials and consumer goods. Then, Trump attempted to humiliate Zelenskyy in front of the world, saying he started the war with Russia and then cutting military aid to Ukraine. Even Ruth Ben-Ghiat said it all happened much more quickly than she expected.
Anyone else tired of filling the emotional emptiness of this administration? Trump and Hegseth’s daddy issues. Vance’s hatred of women due to maw-maw and mama, and whatever other psychological needs these fools have. Then we just have the flat out sociopathy of Noem… it’s a cornucopia of untreated psychological disease.
Trump was remarkable quiet after the meeting. I wonder if Vladimir was showing him some Kompromat pictures. “Remember these, Donald? Now you be a good boy and let me do as I like. Or else…”
I wonder how Putin could stand the stench of Diaper Don when they were cuddling in the backseat of the Beast. He either had nose plugs or he has a very strong stomach.
It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
If Putin said all that shit to Trump, it was like tossing dog biscuits to the slavering, useful idiot.
I expected as much. Zelenskyy should cancel all future meetings with the orange dodderer.
Well that was a waste of jet fuel. Maybe if Trump asks nicely, Vladdy Daddy will send an Aeroflot luxury porn jet to pick him up. Loaded with 16 year old Slavic gymnasts and hidden cameras.
Daddy issues: yes
Kompromat: likely
Narcissism: 100%
But also, and a big uh-oh….riveting/chilling interview with Fiona Hill:
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/in-conversation-with-fiona-hill-on-donald-trumps-nuclear-nightmares/
Excellent overview.
VLADDY = DADDY.
Great piece, Evan. I agree with your conclusions, and would add that I think it was a choir practice meeting; the war criminal and the pedophile needed time and privacy to get on the same page, ahead of their plans to carve up the world, from Ukraine to Gaza and including the United States. Gods help us all.