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MadameButterfly

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41. They'll care if their social security checks stop

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:02 PM

Mar 24

or their kid gets deported. Or they can't pay their mortgage, their local school and hospital closes, they get taxed for a foreign war, they can't buy a car, they need a government service that no longer exists, someone they care about gets arrested for speaking....For them, autocracy is too abstract. They don't understand the protections they have until they lose them.

The sooner we can educate them so it doesn't have to go this far, the better. We have to make them care.

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Sergey Samoilenko post on Trump is making the rounds. [View all] Swede Mar 24 OP

If I wasn't nervous before I read this Tickle Mar 24 #1

Nothing new, we already knew this. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #2

We did, but others did not.. This needs to be spread far and wide. niyad Mar 24 #10

Yes. But we need more. Does he have MadameButterfly Mar 24 #39

Republican politicians don't care Mtnmama Mar 24 #18

They don't care or they agree with the Russian takeover. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #27

They'll care if their social security checks stop MadameButterfly Mar 24 #41

GOP politicians pensions will be safe. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #42

If the regular guys start caring MadameButterfly Mar 24 #55

Fair elections is the tricky bit. Irish_Dem Mar 24 #56

Yeah Cosmocat Mar 24 #19

That middle 1/3 is starting to care, now that Medicare, Social Security and etc. are under the gun TheRickles Mar 24 #21

Trump was recruited by Russia. He got the loans needed in return for doing whatever Moscow wanted of him. Lonestarblue Mar 24 #3

His loyalty is to Russia. He is in so deep he can't possibly disconnect, not that he wants to. Walleye Mar 24 #4

Hey, you gotta go where the money is! dchill Mar 24 #23

Money is the true north of his moral compass. While the rest of us struggle to survive. Walleye Mar 24 #30

It's the true north of the moral compass of the whole GOP. dchill Mar 24 #31

Yep. I wish it were different, but it's not. The whole party has gone sour. Walleye Mar 24 #32

Sour and dangerous. dchill Mar 24 #34

Correct, toxic Walleye Mar 24 #35

I read this one a long time ago I think Meowmee Mar 24 #5

Anyone here who followed the revelations FalloutShelter Mar 24 #6

A lot of people have not followed and don't know. live love laugh Mar 24 #14

So many people just don't want to know Walleye Mar 24 #33

Some but not all may not want to know. It's important to reach as many people as possible. live love laugh Mar 24 #36

I agree, one at a time. Maybe they'll convince their friends or something or maybe their face be eaten by the leopard Walleye Mar 24 #37

Absolutely correct Evolve Dammit Mar 24 #38

The koronation of king krasnov (R-felon) BoRaGard Mar 24 #7

knr UTUSN Mar 24 #8

We have known this for quite a while, but it deserves far wider distribution. niyad Mar 24 #9

Idle observation. .all three of his wives were models. Two were niyad Mar 24 #11

TRUMP IS OWED BY PUTIN & RUSSIA rickyhall Mar 24 #12

It is common knowledge how markodochartaigh Mar 24 #13

Those assets (people) belong to putin. The ones that are still alive. erronis Mar 24 #28

Taylor Swift is richer and more respected than him. multigraincracker Mar 24 #15

After all, the day after the (s)election, the Orange Degenerate was given a veiled threat by Nicolai Patrushev, The_REAL_Ecumenist Mar 24 #16

Is the big money, first-ski. Then comes the treason, da. Kid Berwyn Mar 24 #17

Thank you. Would you consider posting this as its own OP for wider niyad Mar 24 #20

Thank you, niyad! Will do... Kid Berwyn Mar 24 #51

Makes one wonder what reagan bushes part was in "take down that wall". Clouds Passing Mar 24 #58

"...only the best people!" dchill Mar 24 #22

...and this has apparently been all ok with CIA, FBI, DIA PCIntern Mar 24 #24

Why wasn't the CIA on this from the beginning? Sneederbunk Mar 24 #25

What makes you think that they were not? niyad Mar 24 #46

When you deal with them, they own you, as per Eric. republianmushroom Mar 24 #26

K & R & Bookmarked lastlib Mar 24 #29

The Siberian Candidate. n/t Liberal In Texas Mar 24 #40

As much as I would like to believe this ... it's from fakebook UpInArms Mar 24 #43

You have been here for a very long time. This information is not new, niyad Mar 24 #47

Thank you UpInArms Mar 24 #52

This should be the top story...... SergeStorms Mar 24 #44

I wonder if there is any relation? DFW Mar 24 #45

Fascinating that purchasing The Plaza Hotel is on the "to-do" list. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 24 #48

Coincidence that Ivana "fell down the stairs?" joanbarnes Mar 24 #49

It was remarkably convenient Hekate Mar 24 #50

Comrade Krasnov gonna Krasnov. Karasu Mar 24 #53

Melania makes a heck of a lot more sense now - TBF Mar 24 #54

M$M: "Nothing to see here...." Blue Owl Mar 24 #57