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    905 months ago

    “I’m convinced there are two people Putin pays; Rorabacher and Trump.” - future Speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy in 2016

    “Shhh! STFU!” - then-current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan

  • @[email protected]
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    555 months ago

    Until lobbying is eliminated and campaign finance severely overhauled, assume they’re all compromised. It’s just a matter of who they’re bought and paid for.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    “Absolutely. And other powers. It doesn’t have to be foreign powers.”

    NSA has entered the chat.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      I trust the NSA a lot more than, for example, the Koch brothers, or some nameless billionaire none of us have heard of.

      I rich dick can do more damage than a bunch of government employees. Giant conspiracies just don’t exist.

  • str82L
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    For many of these politicians, based on their actions, they’re compromised, evil, stupid or insane. Quite possibly all the above.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      Never. Putin doesn’t need the videos he has on Trump. Trump isn’t a victim of kompromat; he’s a fanboi. He’s betraying American democracy and doing Putin’s bidding simply because he wants to, not because he’s being coerced to!

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    Given how little money it takes to sway the politicians votes I’m amazed it has taken this long

    I’m still all for crowd funding the buying of politicians votes at this point. The politician will think it’s some private benefactor or multinational patrolling them.

  • Flying Squid
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    555 months ago

    Does the person blackmailing them have a name very similar to a popular Canadian dish made with french fries?

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      Btw, I know it’s recognized as a Canadian dish, and Canada likes to flex it, but just wanted to say in passing, it’s a Quebec dish!

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              A bunch of dumb fucks wanted to split a while back, had a referendum that almost passed Brexit style. it’s been pretty moot since but there are a lot of conservative idiots in Quebec, like Texas.

              The only key difference is Quebec has the largest power company and a huge hydroelectric power source, so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice…

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                If your electrical system continues working when it’s both cold and hot, then you’re miles ahead of Texas!

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                  We were born in the cold, molded by it. I didn’t see grass until I was already a man and global warming removed winters completely.

                  Jokes aside it breaks pretty often because of bad weather, but gets repaired within a few hours.

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          I mean sure, as much a Louisiana or southern cooking is from “the US”. You wouldn’t say “US hot sauce” lol.

          Go to BC and your poutine will be shit.

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            Poutine is shit anywhere outside of Quebec but it doesn’t change the fact that Quebec is in Canada which makes it Canadian.

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              I mean sure? It’s a north american dish too at that point. And it’s still not wrong to say poutine isn’t from all of Canada, it’s from one place where people are Canadian lmao.

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                  Literally how I started this whole thing.

                  “Semantics, but it’s from Quebec”.

                  Then yall went on long rants to tell me I’m wrong. If yall don’t think you look like idiots arguing semantics…keep angrily downvoting all my comments too, makes you look real subjective.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      65 months ago

      I think it’s funny that both Trump and Putin have names that are euphemisms for farting

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      Unlikely, this is more of the domestic and close ally variety e.g. Epstein’s handlers/killers, or of that same caliber. The kind of people who can waive off, or prevent, an FBI counterintelligence operation from getting in the way…

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    compromised? JFC, they tried to overthrow the fucking government itself… they’re enemies outright…

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    US: We could easily destroy Russia in traditional warfare, we have the best weapons, we will never stop fighting them

    Russia: Here’s a suitcase full of money

    US: Oh, I love those! Never mind, do whatever you want

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        Producer Guy: “Sounds like destroying a democracy from the inside is going to be incredibly difficult.” Writer Guy: “Actually it’s gonna be super easy. Barely an inconvenience.” Producer Guy: “Oh, really!” Writer Guy: holds up a suitcase full of money