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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Is Ron Johnson competing for the most creative MAGAs BS’er in Congress? Hey Ron tell us more lies.. then GFY.

Steve Forman's avatar

Johnson has always been a tool. Probably second in stupid remarks behind only Tuberville.

olderwoman's avatar

I second that Steve F, I second that.

Yankee's avatar

Don't forget a hardcore traitor. Should be in Leavenworth.

Fraser's avatar

Sounds like either one could run with Vance as V.P.!

They can just "step over" the lowered bar. Pretty soon they'll have to dig to find it!!

Mike Oszko's avatar

Hey, let’s not leave Roger Marshall out of the discussion!

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

No, he's just an idiot.

MM Harris's avatar

Yes: Nice try ron; SHOW US THE RECEIPTS LIKE A BIG BOY.

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

Putin has the Trump-Epstein bank receipts.

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

The KGB is talented with honey and money traps. Trump openly admitted Russians supplied their cash needs. And Epstein - Trump conducted international “business” via Soviet and Soviet block banks. You can bet Trump takes his orders from the guy Trump had our soldiers on their knees literally rolling out the red carpet for. To say nothing of secret meetings with no Americans in the room. 47 is a Russian asset. Why else did Russia work so hard to get him elected?

Kris Lovaas's avatar

Remember that meeting Trump & Putin had in Helsinki during Trump’s first regime? The one where Trump made his translator destroy her notes? Remember the photo of them walking out of the meeting where Trump looked like a whipped dog & Putin looked like the cat who swallowed the canary? I think Trump got his marching orders from Putin at that meeting. I also think Trump’s obsession about the 2020 election & it being rigged was because it was supposed to be rigged in his favor. But, far more people voted by mail that year & Biden legitimately won. Why else does Trump hate mail in voting? I believe the 2024 election was rigged with Russia & Elon’s help. Trump has even said without Elon & his computers he wouldn’t have won. And now we’re living Trump doing Putin’s bidding, destroying this country.

MM Harris's avatar

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, and YEP. (I believe the puppet's grooming by the internationally recognized world's best manipulator began around 2010 or 11..)

Cheryl's avatar

I did not know about the fact that DJT made his translator destroy notes from the meeting! I bet Putin has his notes!

Mika Anderson's avatar

You're 100% correct and it pisses me off that Ron not Meidas will even look into it. There's more that enough evidence now and we need a big independent journalist to bring this to light. We're never going to win the midterms because the meddling has already been installed into the equipment and guess who owns majority of that equipment? The corrupt government.

Rhonda L Schneider's avatar

I would be for not knowing the results for a few days if the ballots were hand counted with bipartisan over site. No more machines that the republicans own and run including the programs.

Juli's avatar

Where is that translator today? Has anyone seen them lately?

Kris Lovaas's avatar

Not that I’ve read or heard anywhere.

SFGal's avatar

Kris, DT had that same whipped-dog look when he left the Alaska red-carpet private meeting with Putin who then quickly departed, spurning the haute cuisine feast DT had all laid out for his Rusky boss.

Alastair McLean's avatar

Agent Orange probably got the green light to attack Iran from Putin. You can't tell me no one thought the Straits of Hormuz would be closed. Putin would have known that and recognised the opportunity to use Israel to get Russian oil freed up to pay for continuing his grind on Ukraine. Russia's economy was on the ropes. Now, not so much as the USA is spending billions daily to fill Russia's coffers. Trump works for Putin. Period.

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

Aye. And suddenly Putin is selling billions in previously sanctioned oil. So now Trump is enabling Putin to continue his regime and war. It’s intuitively obvious to the most casual observer Trump is a Russian puppet.

Bob's avatar

That kompromat covers Lindsey Graham.

Yankee's avatar

Putin is selling the oil already on the high seas, about 1.4m barrels, about one day of world demand, but they're going to have a difficult time selling oil in the future with their pipelines, refineries, and ports on fire. The entire Russian Black Sea fleet is on the bottom of the sea. Reporting from Kyiv says that 9 oligarchs have fled Russia with their cash, and the entire senior military leadership of the Russian Army, including Shoigu, is in prison. The head of Pravda was defenestrated earlier in the year. Last week, one of Putin's influencer bros lost it and started criticising Putin in a live video. He's now in a notorious Moscow psychiatric hospital used to torture dissidents. The internet has been shut off for normal citizen use in central Moscow for about 3 weeks and Red Square is an armed camp. Putin has apparently gone to ground. Looks like invading Ukraine was not that great of an idea.

Kathy McLain's avatar

And Zelenski claim to have photographic and other proof that Russia is playing both sides against the middle. Russia wants the US and Trump may hand it to him.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

I firmly believe that THIS is what worries trump so much about the Epstein files - the "Trump/Epstein/Russia" connection.

Not the sex abuse - MAGA only worry about that when Dems do it.

But how much Putin has on Donald about money laundering, drug running, sex trafficking - and how much help Putin has had from Donald over the years.

Tracy Loftsgaarden's avatar

If/when Trump is exposed for being a Russian spy - hanging him for treason is a natural outcome.

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

It would be zero surprise if drugs and murder is part of it.

Kathy McLain's avatar

We know many Congress people got an influx of money from Russia after Citizen's United. How deeply has Russia infiltrated our government and what strings are they pulling?

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

Russia owns the President. It appears to be enough. Gotta wonder about Lady Lindsay too.

Patrice Mobley's avatar

and probably those stolen classified documents.

olderwoman's avatar

I think once Trump does that Jack Smith who is still a young man, will talk.

There is no reason for maintain Judge Aileen's order to seal everything once Trump is dead. I bet i outlive Trump. I exercize 3 times a week just like Medicare says I should.

Ann Beyer's avatar

And pictures! Indisputable proof!

David Holst-Grubbe's avatar

Absolutely. I’d bet pics, videos, audio and docs.

Lily's avatar

Truth Matters, Facts Matter, I wish proof and evidence mattered in this fucking regime!

Kris Lovaas's avatar

Absolutely! He keeps saying how transparent he & his administration are. He’s right. He doesn’t even bother hiding all of the grifting he does. And neither does anyone else in his family or administration/regime.

Jessica Holliday's avatar

House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (2018). New York, New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-1-5247-4350-5. OCLC 1043342267.

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (2021). New York, New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-593-18253-6. OCLC 1198990661

Fraser's avatar

Good point Dave!!

John Schwarzkopf's avatar

… Speaker of the Iranian Parliament MB Ghalibaf posted some financial advice today: “Heads-up: Pre-market so-called ‘news’ or ‘Truth’ is often just a setup for profit-taking. Basically, it’s a reverse indicator. Do the opposite: If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long. See something tomorrow? You know the drill.”

Too bad Iranians are smarter about what Agolf Shitler is doing to fix the market for his benefit than all the "Big Brains" on Wall Street.

MM Harris's avatar

They're smart and they're long-term thinkers/planners. They're determined. You gotta give them credit for cultivating and implementing the skills "others" so sorely lack. They are in control of this war. It will end when THEY want it to. They are the hornets in the nest nobody should have kicked, especially in the MIDDLE of negotiations that a participating third party felt were actually showing some promise of getting somewhere.

Fraser's avatar

Oh, it's beyond reprehensible!!

nacreplus2's avatar

That's why Putin likes them so much and is using them for his goal of destroying oil and gas competitors. Going swimmingly for them.

John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Completely agree with you.

Oaktown's avatar

… Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) insanely claimed on Fox that Democrats engaged in a conspiracy to get ICE protesters killed for political leverage: “Even more deviously, they trained activists to obstruct justice, encouraged them to put themselves in harm’s way, they got two martyrs, then they used their martyrs as their excuse to try to defund law enforcement.”

If these magas applied as much creativity to finding practical solutions to real problems currently undermining our prosperity and security as they do turning realities they can't face into contortionist conspiracy theories, they just might cure their fatal Trump Derangement Syndromes.

Fraser's avatar

Ron is NOT the coldest beer in the fridge!!

SFGal's avatar

Just the flattest beyond sell-by date, Fraser.

Keith Olson's avatar

Ron Johnson needs to be impeached immediately for this outrageous lie.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

If we impeached politicians for outrageous lies Congress and state legislatures would be empty.

C Bowlby's avatar

That's OK, preferred over lies&corruption!

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

We'd still have plenty of congresspeople left — but they'd all be Democrats. I can make you a list. We have some terrific Democratic congresspeople.

WJB Motown's avatar

Bring on the "terrific" progressive Democrats...........Chuckles and AIPAC Jeffires need to go. Their clock has run out and time for fresh batteries with new life.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Sorry but Jeffries has done a great job and will be incredible as speaker. And the minute you toss "AIPAC" casually into the conversation, there's no credibility there. This misguided obsession with AIPAC (which I've despised longer than you likely even knew they existed) has little to do with what is good for this country.

Fraser's avatar

Yup-off to the museum!!

Barry G. Hall's avatar

Yes, we do. I over generalized for the sake of a snarky comment.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Snark seems to be your sole and unwelcome raison d'être. Maybe go bye-bye.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

Not my sole reason to be, but a good enough one.

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

I can only imagine 7q11.23 duplication syndrome must be difficult. Of course, you do the best you can, however low that bar. Good for you, Professor!

Oaktown's avatar

I think that would leave the Dems at a distinct advantage.

Tracy Giddings's avatar

They lie too, just not as blatantly or often.

Fraser's avatar

True! And not so personal and at people's expense-like crude insults!!

Oaktown's avatar

They do not tell what you described as "outrageous lies," and I only said it will leave them at a distinct advantage.

Fraser's avatar

True Oak-People don't get shot in the street over a lie-Maga is just plain evil-lies are just a small part of their criminal cruelty!

Tracy Giddings's avatar

I did not say the Dems tell 'outrageous lies' (but apparently you do). I said they lie too, just not as blatantly or as often.

Oaktown's avatar

Apologies. I didn't follow the thread back far enough and you are correct—but you were responding by my reply to Barry, who said this: "If we impeached politicians for outrageous lies Congress and state legislatures would be empty."

I stand by my reply to his comment "I think that would leave the Dems at a distinct advantage," which in no way implied that Dems never lie about anything, rather that they don't tell outrageous lies.

Fraser's avatar

Exactly-just go with referendums by the people on everything!!

Patrice Mobley's avatar

The entire lapdog ReThuglican party lies. Nothing but chaos, lies, corruption from this unethical administration every single day. What a constant source of embarrassment this pedophile protection party continues to be. Just imagine our kids and grandkids knowing the leader is a 34 ct convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter. Smdh, no moral compass or human decency with these losers.

bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Who are Johnson 's donors and handlers?

Margaret's avatar

Johnson gets a lot of money from right-wing billionaires in ILLINOIS.

Yankee's avatar

How very annoying for Wisconsinites.

Margaret's avatar

As a Wisconsinite, I'm not just annoyed, I'm furious!

bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

That's useful to know.

SFGal's avatar

Even though he's a Wisconsin senator, Margaret? I'll have to run it down.

Bob's avatar

Senators can’t be impeached. Only path for removal is expulsion by a 2/3 vote of senators. Should be another mechanism.

Mike Oszko's avatar

Unfortunately, only appointed politicians can be impeached. Elected officials cannot, but they can be expelled from their body by a 2/3 vote.

I wish people would go back to their old civics notes from high school and understand what exactly impeachment vs. expulsion means.

Gloria Cantor's avatar

Ron Johnson's suggestion about Democrats actually " causing" the martyrdom of Pretti and Good is totally despicable! He sounds like a Party member out of 1984 (I'm rereading it right now, so it's on my mind).

teresafbrooks's avatar

I'm nearing the end of Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism," and the final chapters are very resonant to today.

Also have 1984 on my shelf to read again, but think I will take a movie break between.

Tracy Giddings's avatar

I read it in Highschool, then again about 20 years ago. I think one more time soon is in order.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

Good for you, actually rereading 1984. Well done.

SFGal's avatar

I taught 1984 for high school literature as fiction and can't believe we're now actually living it, Barry!

Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

SFGal, it seems likely Orwell observed the world around him and did not find it too great a stretch to foresee what he wrote in 1984, what we are living. “George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984”; https://tinyurl.com/rwff2nez. KH

"Do you realise, for instance, that no one in England under 26 now has a vote and that so far as one can see the great mass of people of that age don’t give a damn for this? Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side. Indeed the statement that we haven’t a Fascist movement in England largely means that the young, at this moment, look for their fuhrer elsewhere. One can’t be sure that that won’t change, nor can one be sure that the common people won’t think ten years hence as the intellectuals do now. I hope they won’t, I even trust they won’t, but if so it will be at the cost of a struggle. If one simply proclaims that all is for the best and doesn’t point to the sinister symptoms, one is merely helping to bring totalitarianism nearer."

SFGal's avatar

Thank you, Kelvin, for this most intriguing and insightful citation. One of my friends is now teaching "1984" in her 12th grade high school International Baccalaureate (IB) classes which her diverse classes find both stimulating and enlightening, perhaps intellectually fortifying them as they move forward in life (for what it's worth in a MAGA-contaminated society, though you point out that "sinister syndrome" is not unique to our current experience). I appreciate you sharing your insights. (:

Fraser's avatar

That's pretty bizarre SF.

SFGal's avatar

Duh, Fraser! Thank you for pointing out my mistake about grade level, too long rushing on the keyboard not proofing carefully. Crazy day! Gracias for saving me from too much embarrassment!

Fraser's avatar

We stick together:)

LHS's avatar

I read it a few months ago. So, so much feels familiar about that book.

John Schwarzkopf's avatar

LHS, I also reread it again a couple months ago. It was like reading the current news.

LHS's avatar

I read "It Can't Happen Here" around the same time. It was also like reading the current news. As I read it, I realized ICE was the equivalent of the Minutemen in that book.

Fraser's avatar

I did too! Brave New World and The Chryssalids are next!

JohnC-Va's avatar

… Tim O’Harrow: “I don’t know that I’m a Republican anymore. I don’t know what we are anymore.”

But you voted for him in 2024 for the third time, didn’t you Tim? 4 years after his attempted insurrection and overthrow of a legitimately elected government, you goddam voted for him again, I’m willing to bet. And it’s pathetic that it took him terrorizing your workers to get you to finally see a sliver of the light. I have no sympathy for you or anyone else, including the fucking farmers, who refused to see this piece of shit for what he is until the results of his criminal actions come knocking on your front door. If you had any sense at all, you would have left that criminal organization calling itself the Republican Party a long damned time ago. Good luck finding out where you do belong now.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

Agree. My sympathy is reserved for his workers.

Melissa's avatar

Yes! I just left a similar comment. Yours is better!

Protect the Vote's avatar

Funding Cheeto And Nazi Republicans Gestapo

What’s wrong with this picture? The Nazi Republicans are demanding $200B for more funding for Mullin’s Gestapo which he inherited from cowgirl Noem and Adolph Eichmann(aka Stephen Miller)

But wait for it This demand for more $$$ comes when Cheeto and his Nazi Congressional allies passed $45B in the first budget bill last year So now this most recent funding bill for ICE/CBP is 4.5x more than originally allocated Why does ICE need this more extensive funding? Since spendthrift Cheeto sees the Treasury as his own piggy bank it’s just a vicarious request to screw the American people without accountability

Is the funding for more concentration camps? Is it to hire and partially train more Gestapo agents to roam and maraud American communities? Is it to use extra Gestapo agents at polling places during the midterms? It’s surely not for border patrol agents since there aren’t any immigrants coming across the border anymore Nobody wants to live in a gulag D’s are making the Nazis accountable and they don’t like it

Nancy Richardson's avatar

Thanks again Ron for straight facts and receipts. We can always count on the Meidas team for the truth.

Kathleen Yost's avatar

Good update! I always look forward to your reports.

Oaktown's avatar

… Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL): “It appears there are some very angry, low-IQ members of Congress who seem to think the State Dept did not approve travel for peace talks regarding Russia.”

No, the low IQ individuals are the WH idiots like you who think Putin wants peace. He wants Ukraine and every former USSR vassal state.

LHS's avatar

Some day, we'll find out how much Putin is paying her and Tulsi.

Oaktown's avatar

Wish I could believe that, but sure hope you're right and it happens in my lifetime.

Lily's avatar

I bet she made alot of Rubles that day for her tour! Treasonous Bitch!

Lynette Mason's avatar

Her remark really pissed me off.

ramonaj's avatar

Everything about all these Maggat brain women makes me sick . They have to be so weak. How do you back being treated the way they all ultimately will end up be treated by the regime.

Sharon Bjork's avatar

"Whatever Putin has on Trump, it’s got to be pretty good"...ain't that the truth, Ron. You could literally write that everyday.

teresafbrooks's avatar

I wonder how many have something pretty good on 47.

Oaktown's avatar

Jack Smith sure does. Release Volume II of our taxpayer funded report!!!

Bobbie Pitkin's avatar

I'm convinced it's snuff films. It's the one line that cannot be uncrossed.

CSmith's avatar

Putin must have something really good on our Tyrant, which means it must be really bad and we all know what it must be in relation to…drum roll…Epstein! So we have a Tyrant who is just a Putin Puppet which we all knew that as well but it is showing more and more in actions that cannot be hidden. God help us to get through the next 2.9 years! Wonderful weekend bulletin and No Kings signs, Ron, thank you!!!

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Oaktown's avatar

Don't forget money laundering and loans for a perpetually bankrupt idiot who was shut out of many American banks.

ramonaj's avatar

He has alot of dirty secrets from the Casino days and even before. He has been a slime since born.

Knowing the shit he's pulled , I will NEVER get why anyone would vote for him for anything. Still can not believe it.

SFGal's avatar

Along with global sex and drug trafficking, Oak! I suspect it's all stashed at MAL in those scores of stolen boxes.

Oaktown's avatar

I figured CSmith had covered that part with his comment "... we all know what it must be in relation to…drum roll…Epstein!" Release the Epstein files and Jack Smith's Volume II report!!!

SFGal's avatar

Yes, I assumed that as well, Oak. Simply my version of rubbing salt in DT's thin-skinned wounds becoming more visible with each public spectacle.

Oaktown's avatar

… Trump on Fox refused Zelensky’s offer for Ukraine to help with Iranian drones: “We don’t need their help in drone defense. We know more about drones than anybody.”

Sure you do, Mr. Low IQ Ignoramus. That's why you're wasting 4 million dollar missiles to shoot down one $10,000 drone and are LOSING the war you started—all while you help Putin, who is helping Iran.

LHS's avatar

If you made this shit up, people would tell you you're exaggerating. Instead, it's our reality.

Lily's avatar

hegshit shot 850 of those 4 million missiles in 3 weeks!!!!! THats over $2 Billion in just missiles and ,oops, hegshit murdered 175 students and teachers with one of those stray missiles...or I mean, the idiot in the room fired all the experienced military and used years old intel!....I think POS LOSER POTUS,Hegshit, barron, jared, jackoff, rubio, vd and bessent should suit up and go to their fucking war!

elliemae.padme66's avatar

Why did we shutboff the electric grid in Cuba? We weren't at war with them. Read about hospitals in Cuba generators apparently failing and all patients on oxygen and in ICU and babies in incubators died. This administration continues to accumulate more blood on their hands.

How do we know this Russian ship isn't delivering drones?

These deaths were unnecessary. 😪😥😭

Barry G. Hall's avatar

We did not directly shut off the Cuban electrical grid, they ran out of fuel for electricity generation. Of course, we shut down their access to oil. Why? Sheer petulance by Trump and Rubio so they can feel tough.

Oaktown's avatar

Rubio has had a hard-on to overthrow the Castro regime for decades.

SFGal's avatar

Rubio wants to be El Jefe there for life, Oak!

CAROL F. HAUCK's avatar

War is hell. A woman president never would have gone to war.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

See Margaret Thatcher for counter example.

If I was a duck's avatar

Golda Meier as well (not sure if I spelled her name correctly)

Oaktown's avatar

Hillary too. Voted to invade Iraq.

Old Uncle Dave's avatar

First-century Celtic queen Boudica led an uprising against the Roman occupiers.

Oaktown's avatar

I'm thinking that was a justified, defensive war, unlike this Iran "excursion."

Old Uncle Dave's avatar

Yes, *very* justified.

Yankee's avatar

Didn't the Romans kidnap and rape her? Then she went home and raised an army. Whoops.

Oaktown's avatar

Had to look her up; found this on Wiki. Pretty hard to know where the complete truth lies, but I'm with the queen on this one:

The Romans' next actions were described by Tacitus, who detailed pillaging of the countryside, the ransacking of the king's household, and the brutal treatment of Boudica and her daughters. According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters were raped.[15] These abuses are not mentioned in Dio's account, who instead cites three different causes for the rebellion: the recalling of loans that were given to the Britons by Seneca; Decianus Catus's confiscation of money formerly loaned to the Britons by the Emperor Claudius; and Boudica's own entreaties.[5][8] The loans were thought by the Iceni to have been repaid by gift exchange.

Robot Bender's avatar

I wouldn't bet on that. Women rulers have gone to war throughout history.

Barb O's avatar

Especially American ones.