A Tale from the Ancient Past

 Well, three days ago, anyway.  Anything becomes as ancient as Aristotle the minute it doesn't suit the narrative of Conservatives.  Anyway, this is an article from CNN, our nation's leading storehouse of mealymouthed fact-ignoring, for two decades now:


"Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war...


As President Joe Biden reprises the fabled presidential role of leading the free world, the predecessor who wants to succeed him is showing Putin that impunity, dictator-coddling and hero worship will return if he wins back the White House."


Pretty amazing take on things, considering the focus of our press on the narrative that Biden is a failure.


Here's our beloved former (and maybe still) President, Donald Trump:


“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in an interview on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.”


The ex-President added: “So Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force,” Trump said. “We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. … Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. … I know him very well. Very, very well.”


You sure do know him well, like a whipped dog knows its master. 


In anything approaching a fair world, those words would be etched on Donald Trump's tombstone. 


 How's your savvy genius friend looking today, asshole, only three days later?  Even the weak CNN can't resist calling it right on this one:


"No other living former president would dream of, let alone get away with, lionizing a Russian leader who may soon be waging the biggest war in Europe since World War II after declaring on Monday that Ukraine has no right to exist."


"...waging the biggest war in Europe since World War II" and, at this point, succeeding about as well as Trump himself did in the casino business.


"But Trump’s status as the likely favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024 – and the possibility that he could return to power – takes his latest crowing over Putin’s gangsterism to a new level. He’s sending the promise of future favors and approval of Putin’s illegal land seizures, which suggest he would do little to reverse them as president."


This is treason and betrayal on a level that the nation could have never even imagined before this century's Republican turn toward fascism.  And even though it is betrayal in favor of a guy who now seems barely more competent than Trump, it won't dissuade Republicans, because even though Putin is a fool, he is still a fascist, and that is enough for them.



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