HEY VLADIMIR, I’LL CUT YOU A NICE DEAL IF YOU GIVE ME THOSE PICTURES BACK!

Last Friday, Trump called Russian mass murderer and thug, Vladimir Putin, to wish him a belated happy birthday, and cut him a diesel deal.  Putin celebrated his birthday two days before, killing women and children with civilian bombing raids on Ukraine.  All of this while Trump’s real-estate buddy and son-in-law were representing the U.S. in “peace talks”.

This is a far cry from the pride we all felt when Ronald Reagan stood in West Berlin and exclaimed “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

I get it. Donald Trump has unique attraction for strong-men types like Putin. Not sure why or what the infatuation is about. He frequently uses specific keywords like "handsome," "beautiful," "perfect specimens," and "all man" when describing men he admires. At a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump commented extensively on Ohio Senator, John Husted’s, physique. He remarked, "I started examining his body... I looked, and I watched up and down, and I looked at his ass... and I looked at the whole... Look at that jawline, I’m telling you."

Maybe he’s an old swinger from the eighties, or Putin has pictures, who knows?

But that’s not what we're talking about.

For me, it starts with why Trump would even consider cutting this one-sided “diesel deal” with Putin at all.  As a result of Trump’s self-described “expert deal-making”, we get a couple of days relief on diesel supply.  Putin gets all U.S. sanctions lifted, an economic jump start, and millions to refill his war chest to murder more Ukraine civilians. Even more puzzling, Putin can now continue to supply Iran with more satellite imagery and intelligence to track our military assets in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence reports that this bull-shit’s been going on for a while.

You can do your own research and come up with your own words to describe a person who “sells out” their own country.  The dictionary has three words to describe such a person: “traitor”, “turncoat”, or “collaborator”.  You choose.

And that’s just the head of the snake.

Today, the MAGA infested Republican Party is the beating heart of the pro-Putin movement in American policy.

You can’t just blame Trump.  The Republican Party is more to blame, in my opinion. It’s seemingly become a functional asset of the Russian Federation.  When Trump invited Putin to America, the world watched U.S. soldiers on hands and knees, picking lint from a red carpet.  Did anyone hear any Republican Senators speak out? When Trump and his freaky vice-president, J.D. Vance, verbally berated Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office, did Republican Senators speak out? And then we have this crazy diesel deal. Some Republicans did speak out, but none mentioned anything about Russia’s ongoing intelligence aid to Iran and how this deal would conjtinue to fund it. not forgetting we lost 22-24 service members depending on how those losses were classified. All because of Trump’s "main squeeze" giving intelligence support to Iran.

Time for action!

You can’t call the Republican Party a patriotic party when increasingly larger portions of the party maintain a calculated silence on Trump’s everyday praise of Putin. You just don’t dare to piss off MAGA! You can’t call yourself patriotic and put the town drunk in charge of our military. You can’t extol the virtues of patriotism and not overwhelmingly respond to J6 or condemn Trump’s war position on Ukrainian given the genocide launched by his buddy.

Trump says he is “on the ballot” this November. He’s right, but so is the Republican failure to help a European ally fight for survival.

Let’s hold these MAGA Republicans accountable. Support freedom and basic human dignity. We didn’t choose this moment. But history has chosen us. We will be judged by generations to come based on how we respond.

            VOTE!!!

NUFF SED!!!