stop bugging Marco Rubio about Ukraine, he doesn’t give a shit
can’t we all just get over this whole war thing already?
after Donny’s disastrous despot bestie playdate in Alaska, the hosts of the Sunday shows had just one question for the team of toadies and lickspittles who allowed it to happen:
how the fuck could you toadies and lickspittles allow this to happen?
future historians will record that when Marco Rubio became Donny Convict’s Secretary of State, he sold his soul for a bag of dicks.
he’s proven himself to be an unprincipled weasel who will gleefully abandon all his previously-held positions in a heartbeat, and unquestioningly support every fuckbrained move Dear Leader makes.
he’s also a heartless piece of shit.
“look, the war in Ukraine gets a lot of attention and I’m not saying it’s an irrelevant thing. it’s a very tragic thing that’s going on, but life in America on a daily basis will be largely unaffected by whether there’s peace in Ukraine or not. that’s just a fact. we have a lot of issues we're focused on not just at home, but around the world.”
what the fuck? that’s it? that’s Marco’s rationalization for America throwing Ukraine to the Russian wolves? shit happens, you’ll get over it?
forget it, Jake, it’s the Donbas?
what a callous asshole.
whatever happened to America supports Ukraine because it’s the right thing to do?
whatever happened to America supports Ukraine because we signed a fucking agreement swearing we would?
it’s an easy thing to forget, but Ukraine was once a nuclear power. Putin would have never dicked with a Zelenskyy who could have said ‘here you go, Vlad, eat some nukes.’ but in 1994, Ukraine did an amazing thing: they voluntarily disarmed.
Thirty years ago, on 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia.
but apparently that security guarantee we signed wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, once Putin’s demented puppet took power in the US.
oh my god, Fox News actually committed a journalism.
Steve Witkoff, Donny’s envoy to Russia, has been going around telling everyone that Donny’s public pantsing in Alaska was a huge win for America — and Fox News’ Shannon Bream was all what the fuck are you talking about?
Shannon Bream: “the president has said numerous times, and he’s said in the past that he wants a ceasefire and was hoping to get one going in. here’s what he said when he was asked just days ago, what would happen if President Putin didn’t agree to end the war, or cease fire, going into this conversation?”
[plays clip of Donny saying there will be “very severe consequences” if there’s no ceasefire.]
Bream: “he told Brett Baier on the plane that he would be very unhappy if he came away from this without a cease fire, so how do you call this a win if he didn’t get that?”
after a long, uncomfortable pause, Witkoff doles out some incomprehensible word salad about how everything’s actually cool because Putin says we don’t need a cease fire because the war’s gonna be over any day now, so who needs a cease fire?
“Putin says.”
hey, here’s a fun thing that Marco Rubio said about Putin in 2022.
“this guy lies. he habitually lies. he’s never kept a deal we’ve ever signed. he lies all the time. he plays us like a violin, in the West. because the West wants to believe that you can cut a deal with everybody. you can’t cut a deal with guys like this. he’s a professional, experienced liar.”
at this point, you might be asking ‘why is Steve Witkoff such a credulous dope?’ it’s a legit question, and here’s your answer: it’s because Witkoff is a buffoon who’s in way over his head.
there is not one fucking reason on the planet why Steve Witkoff should be taking meetings with Vladimir Putin. Witkoff is not a seasoned diplomat. in fact, he’s not any kind of diplomat. he’s a real estate developer. he’s one of Donny’s New York slumlord cronies from back in the day — and here’s the funnest fact of all, via Heather Cox Richardson: this whole fucking debacle in Alaska happened because Witkoff doesn’t speak Russian.
On August 6, after a meeting in Moscow, Witkoff announced that Russia was ready to retreat from some of the land it occupies in Ukraine. This apparent concession came just two days before the August 8 deadline Trump had set for severe sanctions against Russia unless it agreed to a ceasefire.
Quickly, though, it became clear that Witkoff’s description of Putin’s offer was wrong, either because Putin had misled him or because he had misunderstood: Witkoff does not speak Russian and, according to former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, does not use a notetaker from the U.S. embassy.
oh, come the fuck on. Witkoff doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t use a US embassy notetaker, and relies on a translator provided by Putin. it’s a recipe for disaster, and guess what: a disaster is exactly what we got.
every day, it’s a new debacle caused by some unqualified, incompetent dumbfuck. if it’s not a Fox News dunk-tank clown texting classified war plans to a reporter, it’s a real estate crony getting played by the dictator of Russia.
so that thing that happened during the despot bestie playdate, where Putin supposedly told Donny about how mail-in balloting sucks all ass, and that’s why Donny lost in 2020, and how Donny should man-up and ban it, because Russia would never allow that shit?
here’s Fiona Hill to explain that Putin was just winding Donny up.
“this is Vladimir Putin, as usual, trying to manipulate US domestic politics… President Trump asserted in his Fox interview there were no countries in the world that allow mail-in voting. Well, Russia allows mail-in voting. In 2020, President Vladimir Putin signed into law Russians being able to vote by mail and also on the internet. more than 30 other countries also allow some forms of mail-in voting. so it’s just not true that other countries, including Russia, don’t use this. it’s a pure blatant piece of manipulation and that’s the kind of thing that Putin likes to do.”
Fiona Hill knows first-hand all about Putin’s ability to manipulate America’s Mad King. she saw it happen back in 2018, when she was an advisor to the Helsinki Summit — the one where Donny ended up utterly defeated.
just last week, Hill was warning Dear Leader’s handlers not to let Donny be alone with Putin.
“Putin will lure you in in a moment,” she said. “He likes to do the two guys chatting routine, but what he’s really doing is making you complicit in all kinds of things he wants.”
speaking of first-hand, it looks like Putin learned first-hand why he should never be alone in a car with Donny.
hang on, I think America’s narcoleptic fart factory wants to say something in his own defense.
oh shit, Dear Leader is sundowning at 9:31 in the morning. that can’t be good.
meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s posse just keeps getting bigger.
here’s the Murderer’s Row of world leaders who will be joining Zelenskyy at the White House today, to ensure that Donny doesn’t try to pull any of his fuckery this time around.
Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister
Alexander Stubb, President of Finland
Emmanuel Macron, French President
Friedrich Merz, German President
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy
that’s right, even Fred Merz is coming.
and because Donny’s a fucking idiot who can’t read the room, he’s excited. he thinks all these heavy hitters are coming to award him the Nobel Most Leaders Ever Prize or something.
“Big day at the White House tomorrow. Never had so many European Leaders at one time. My great honor to host them!!! President DJT”
what a dope. he’s going to wish he was back in Alaska, getting pantsed by his despot bestie.
stay tuned.
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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
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my guess is Donny was going to say something about Belarus and then stroked out
"but life in America on a daily basis will be largely unaffected by whether there’s peace in Ukraine or not"
Apparently Rubio is unaware there are people from Ukraine who live in America, or people (like me!) of Ukrainian descent who live here, or people from/of descent from other European countries bordering Russia who are battening down the hatches for when Putin decides to invade them too who live here, or people who HAVE HUMAN SOULS AND THE CAPACITY TO CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE who live here.
Fucking a.