Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "CNBC Television" channel.

  1. The actually text of the ruling (pardon the legal jargon): LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLLOLLOOOOOOL!! ROFLMAO UMAD? MYOB IKR OLOLOLOLOL!!!
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  2. Just one clown there and she’s on her way to losing her seat on the committee if Donny Sugar isn’t elected.
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  3. While you have a point, the amounts we are talking about are not commensurate. If we save a few billion by cutting foreign aid, that’s not going to pay for an additional $1400 in direct stimulus, which will cost an additional $200-300 billion or more. How much could be added to the direct payments if we cut the foreign aid pork? $10? $25? Look, if it’s all the same to you, I’d rather have $600 in my hand then $625 or $1200 or $2000 that never arrives.
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  4. Pence was skiing in Vail, Colorado. Mnuchin spent Christmas at his vacation home in Cabo San Lucas. And Trump was golfing in Mar a Lago. Are they back in Washington DC yet? Are they meeting with Senators to press the case for $1400 more? Trump isn’t an emperor who can just dictate his wishes, not even to the GOP. He has to make the case to the Republican Senate. Unless his refusal to sign was just a political stunt to make everybody suffer. If that’s the case, he doesn’t need to do anything, and should just stay in Mar a Lago.
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  5.  @sharperimage5976  Agreed. This is not the start of a civil war, but it’s intolerable and deplorable. Turns out Hillary Clinton was right for once in her life.
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  6. Nice try, Putzi.
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  7.  @mattt5006  Hello, how’s St. Petersburg?
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  8. Transitioning into what? A cross between a dried out wineskin and a sheaf of blighted wheat?
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  9. I got news for you: Congress will get paid no matter what. The foreign aid amounts to a few billion out of 900 billion, way less than 1%. Is that bad? Sure. But not bad enough to to torpedo the bill and start from scratch, imho. If all the pork in this bill was instead added to the stimulus payments, you’d see a $25 increase. I’d rather have the $600 now than $625 never (or $2000 or whatever).
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  10. Russian propagandists are really at a loss on how to respond.
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  11.  @freeradical8440  looked like bullet holes. That doesn’t mean that they’re related to the homicide, but that should be be too hard for investigators to figure out. My speculation is that the boyfriend will or has committed suicide and they’ll find his body next.
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  12.  Tom Copper  no, just some of the gun owners. Trump supporters don’t hold a monopoly on gun ownership. 1) You might be surprised at the number of liberals that own firearms because they don’t brag about it. 2) Not all gun owners are fanatical Trump supporters.
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  13. Seriously, he was one of the few reasons to watch Fox when he was on that network. He raises the credibility of any organization for whom he works.
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  14. This was a residential area. People were living there when it was attacked. People were murdered trying to flee. People that hid and took shelter were murdered. You must think that war is license for any and all brutality.
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  15. The mechanism is in place. Assuming you’re elegible, you receive it in the form of a tax rebate, sort of like when you get a tax refund. With any luck, the $600 will start showing up in your bank account at the end of the week or early next week. The additional money will be delivered the same way, if the Senate passes the additional funding.
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  16.  @hm3drake99  Nooooo! I want term limits on your representative, not mine!!
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  17. That would add $25 to your direct payment, at best. The pork in this bill is a few billion. Adding an additional $1400 is going to cost $200-300 billion or more to the price tag. Personally, I’d rather have $600 now than $2000 never. If Congress can’t amend the bill to include the extra $1400 TODAY, Trump should just sign the bill.
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  18.  @williamstamper442  All dictators have very high ratings. Dictatorships are the most popular form of government in the world, didn’t you know?
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  19. Plunging the economy into a recession to own the libs.
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  20.  @TroyStafford69  The Syrians are Pashtun? If true, that’s certainly big news that’s not getting out there. Have you been able to inform experts that have studied the region of this startling development?
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  21. Great news. Now I won’t have to symbolically boycott.
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  22. This riot wasn’t about that. The riot was caused by one person feeding the delusions of a company of fascist thugs and setting them on this path of destruction.
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  23.  @SanctusBacchus  Putzi
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  24. Wow, what are the chances that Putin has his own Rudy Giuliani!?
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  25. Putzi
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  26. It’s nuts. “Breaking the streak” by an insignificant amount on a single statistic does not reverse a trend. It’s truly irrational exuberance. It also ignores every other trend related to this pandemic: daily record breaking numbers on infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. And he can’t help but get a dig in at emergency measures that have a “negative” effect. He’s a lunatic cheerleader enthusiastic that fewer yards were lost on the last play.
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  27. NATO wasn’t installing offensive weapons in Cuba. It wasn’t even installing offensive weapons in the new NATO member states in the Baltic countries. Putin has stated his reasons: he wants Ukraine. He wants to reconstitute the old borders of the Soviet Union. There really is no analogy with Cuba here.
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  28.  jo shmo  Hey, Ivan. Do you get paid for each comment or by the hour?
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  29.  @willrobinson9767  Nice try, Putzi.
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  30. If the Taliban’s rebranding is to be believed, it’s Taliban 2.0. Who knows, it might even be true. After 20 years, they’ve had to change and adapt. Now they’re ostensibly in charge.
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  31. You’ll have to be more specific. Are you talking about the bill that already passed? The supplemental bill? The defense bill that was vetoed? Your broke ass car that needs a brake job?
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  32. Putzi, you’re having a panic attack.
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  33. They didn’t try to pass it, they did pass it. The amount of the direct stimulus was negotiated. Senate leadership wanted $0. House of Representatives wanted $1200. What’s halfway between $0 and $1200? I’ll tell you what. I’d much rather have $600 in the bank than $0 in the bank and $2000 of should’ves. Now it’s up to the GOP to either make good on Trump’s demand or fail the country at a crucial time. Apparently, Trump has decided to punish his fellow Republicans in the Senate for not staying with him in the fight to stay in the White House. Or perhaps some other reason.
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  34.  @idahocorrupt6595  I can’t take your figures seriously (enough to check them) if you can’t make up your mind whether the corona virus is a hoax or real.
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  35. To be honest, I hope the Dems take Georgia in any case. I registered as a Republican in 1982, and I am done with the GOP. The only major party fighting for the principles of American democracy is the Democrat Party.
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  36. Putzi
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  37. Cope harder.
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  38.  @elizabethrobinson7148  Direct deposit will be just fine, thank you. You know, if the Senate had been willing to start negotiations last May, there would have been plenty of time to target relief payments to the most needy. Or to develop programs to stop foreclosures and evictions without bankrupting landlords or hurting banks. Or to coordinate food relief with relief for food growers. Unemployment could have been temporarily relieved by a nationwide test and trace system (that would have kept the lockdowns shorter if we gained an upper hand on the pandemic). So many things could have been done in late spring/early summer that could have avoided our current situation.
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  39. If you’re a citizen of the U.S., you owe it to yourself to get a basic education in civics. This might sound dumb, but start with Schoolhouse Rock videos, specifically the ones about government.
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  40. No disagreement from me. However, unless the Supreme Court changes its mind, it’s going to take an amendment to the Constitution—and very likely amendments to each state legislature.
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  41. Putzi
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  42. Pelosi dropped their ask by a trillion in late summer, McConnel’s response was to drop his demand from 900 billion to 500 billion, AND THEN COULDN’T GET IT PASSED in the Senate, even though he had a majority. (You can’t blame Senate Democrats for blocking the “skinny bill” if the Senate Republicans are in disarray.) So at this point in the negotiations (just over a month ago) , the Democrats and the Treasury Secretary negotiate a deal of 1.8 trillion. To sum up, the Dems have dropped their ask from 2.9 trillion to 2.2 trillion to 1.8 trillion, and cut out their questionable demands not directly related to COVID relief. McConnell’s response has been to offer even less, the very opposite of compromise and negotiation. Currently, a bipartisan Senate group has negotiated a compromise of 900 billion. Pelosi is amenable. McConnell is dismissing it, but has no workable alternative to show us. To be honest, I don’t think McConnell has enough buy in from his own party, so he’s stalling. And the Democrats are being blamed? In what hyperpartisan bizarro world are the freaking Democrats to blame for obstructing a deal? Let’s be honest here. The Republican Congressional leadership is obstructing Covid relief.
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  43.  @DeansLists  Actually, the foreign aid provisions were in Trump’s budget request. TRUMP was FOR the spending before he was against it. This is why members of both houses were taken by surprise when Trump refused to sign the combined omnibus and relief bills. Also, many people seem to be very bad at math. If the foreign aid was converted into pandemic relief, it would add less than $50 to each direct stimulus payment (the most generous conversion being almost $50, more conservative conversions amounting to $15-20).
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  44. This is great news that there is a plan to roll out rapid testing nationwide, but meanwhile, there are still massive delays on current testing. We also know that the rapid tests have a 15% false negative rate, so aren’t a replacement for full tests (which aren’t perfect either). Why does the administration continue to fight against testing asymptotic people? And let’s say the administration actually implements this plan successfully? Testing is only 50% of the solution. What is the plan for contact tracing? Testing lets us know where the hotspots are emerging, contact tracing helps us control the spread in those hotspots. I’m very concerned about the economy, but the economy is not going to recover until the pandemic is under control. Right now it’s worsening and the actions of the president and the GOP are prolonging the pandemic.
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  45.  @AnEmerald  He liked the title President of the United States, but wasn’t interested in doing the job.
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  46. You first. Let us know how it works out for you.
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  47. I’d wager that Kotick steps down from day-to-day, and an acceptable interim leader is put in place. MS will slowly strip down the company, putting the franchises under direct MS management. They’ll fold in employees who wish to stay—at least those employees not caught up in workplace abuse scandals. The games you love will survive. Game devs will keep on devin’. And a terrible company that mistreats its workers will be erased. What’s not to love?
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  48. It’s rigged, but I’m not sure if these stock market flash mobs are accomplishing anything if the big players are recouping their losses at the end of the day while many of the small investors get left holding the bag for the ones who got in early and took profits. This asymmetric warfare, but asymmetric doesn’t always win. Revolutions don’t always succeed—indeed, they often get nipped in the bud long before they get large enough to qualify as a revolution. What is required for the retail mob to win is coordination, coordination that might be illegal according to SEC rules. I say “might” because it needs to be tested in court to say definitively whether or not mob coordination is legal. Such a test might be too expensive for those individuals sued (civil case) or prosecuted (criminal). Lawyers with the special competence to handle SEC cases are not cheap! However, HOWEVER, this could also be an avenue of attack to get the SEC rules changed to favor the retail investor. (More realistically, to shift a small amount of favor towards the small investor.) Successful prosecutions, David getting smashed by Goliath, gets the attention of law makers who love votes more than they love wall street money. Going forward, I think a way to avoid SEC actions is to 1) keep everything out in the open, 2) not organize around a specific stock, although you could publicly analyze stocks, 3) use a media figure to announce targets. An example of this would be 1) & 2) the mob openly organizing into “investment clubs” and creating a tranche strategy (early, middle, late tranches, roughly) to spread out the pain and the reward. Meanwhile, they crowd research potential targets—companies that are being over-shorted, for example. 3) When a target is selected, the media personality/financial journalist/analyst goes on air to announce it. If “investment club” sounds too cheesy, maybe a publicly traded “retail fund”, with shareholders getting to vote on targets. Or some other vehicle for the pooling of money. All out in the open, with the public announcement coming at the moment the vote is tallied. The vote would be a media event in itself.
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  49. and dying. And being hospitalized. How is someone on a ventilator supposed to renew their claim?
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  50. Your mind is a pretzel, and that’s not a compliment.
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  51. Dead or alive
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  52. For the first time in the history of Microsoft acquisitions, no one will be sad when Microsoft buys a company and drives it into the ground.
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  53.  @yaqiwang5242  The main difference is that Mao didn’t lose an election before the CR. The Cultural Revolution was, more than anything, a dictator increasing his power over the factions in his party. Trump lost, he’s on his way out, and fomenting insurrection is not going to get him his job back nor lead to civil war. The CR reached high and low into all levels of Chinese Society. This fascist mob will be put down in short order, and they will not get either the war they desire nor Trump installed as dictator.
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  54. As a conservative, I find it both funny and mind boggling that self-proclaimed conservatives are pushing for MORE regulation of business. They’ve apparently lost their faith in the free market, in which entrepreneurs can create rival services. They feel that they’re entitled to piggyback on the work of others. It’s mind boggling but not surprising, given these “conservatives” hypocritical stances and actions with regard to the deficit and other issues. They claim that they want fair competition in the marketplace of ideas, but are unwilling to put their money where there mouths are. If their donors can spend billions on political campaigns, surely they can invest in business ventures to give themselves the platform the desire.
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  55. Putzi
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  56. Is it pork? Yes. Should we hold up emergency relief for 300 million Americans because the $900 billion price tag contains $89 million in pork? The money you’re concerned about is 0.01% of the total budget. If you include other porkish spending, it still adds up to less than 1%.
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  57. Voters do not have the power to consign Mitch McConnell to Hell. Sorry, but even the ballot box has earthly limitations.
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  58. Where are you?
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  59. They’re understandably upset, but they couldn’t offer a warranty as robust as a military pact.
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  60. Putzi
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  61.  @Asdfgghhhjj  The money is the message.
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  62. To do that means shooting down Russian aircraft and attacking their ground based air defense. What you want requires attacking Russia. Attacking Russia probably means nuclear war.
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  63. More deaths also bring down unemployment numbers, so obviously Trump’s strategy is working.
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  64. What everyone else already said . . . I do have an unlikely left field alternative though. What if the misspelling wasn’t break for brake, but was the omission of “–er”. It’s perfectly cromulent to say “pull the breaker” if one is trying to cut a circuit. It’s derived from (pre-breaker) pulling a fuse.
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  65. It can’t happen soon enough.
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  66. They’ve been out of hand ever since Putin ordered this invasion. However, we’ve never seen Putin this visibly desperate. He’s bluffing about the nukes, and his mobilization will not be effective. He sent the troop trainers into battle and most of them are dead and wounded. He has a training bottleneck.
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  67. OK Ivan. I see you joined today. Welcome to YouTube! Maybe you should have your own tea party in St. Petersburg or Moscow, or where ever it is you live, since you suffer from taxation without representation. Here in the U.S. we at least have the representation.
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  68. Thankfully, it has already failed. It failed the moment they attacked the police and broke into the Capitol, because finally the Trump GOP revealed itself in all of its naked “glory”. Whether you are a liberal, a conservative, or a progressive, if you love democracy you know you saw the face of fascism today. This is the heart of Trump’s base, his most fanatical followers. Many of us saw them for what they were before today, but it’s now abundantly clear to anyone capable of reason.
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  69.  @undeadend  That’s a lie. I don’t know why you want to see people suffer. I guess you just hate America.
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  70. Good luck to her on that. I’ll give her credit for finally finding a line she wouldn’t cross, but I don’t think that credit will get her more than a ham sandwich.
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  71. He’s taking aim at McConnell on his way out. Perdue and Loeffler are just collateral damage; they’ve been loyal to the President and he has no reason to hurt them . . . no reason other than throwing them under the bus removes Mitch McConnell from power. McConnell’s first “sin” against the President was recognizing Biden as President-Elect. This was an ultimate betrayal, a dagger-in-the-back in Trump’s mind. The second was not including section 230 in the defense bill (because it makes no sense that it should be there). The third is McConnell not going along with the objection stunt, and discouraging his caucus from participating. The fourth is overriding Trump’s veto of the defense bill. All of McConnell’s substantial power as Senate Majority Leader hinges on the Georgia election. Trump has been less than 100% helpful to the two GOP Senate candidates since the November election. He has campaigned for them, but his rallies tend to really be about him. He did a lot of fundraising in Georgia . . . for himself! His crack squad of election-overturners have suggested that Republican voters boycott the election. And now, today, he’s come out with a series of tweets claiming that the upcoming election itself is illegal and fraudulent. These are not the actions of a political leader overly concerned about his followers or the well being of his party.
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  72. It really seems like this is all about putting the screws to the Republican Senators. Punishment for their disloyalty?
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  73.  @eschcal1619  OK, Ivan.
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  74. @THOMAS Nah. He is a bully making threats, but he won’t go through with it. His threat is pointed at his own people, more than anything else. He’s saying to the Russians, “If you don’t win this war for me, I’m taking you all down with me.”
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  75. Thanks for covering my share! 👍
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  76. First Lady is an official public position, with a staff and budget. Laura Bush and Michele Obama both had staff and both worked to promote initiatives. Ms. Bush used her position as First Lady to promote literacy. Ms. Obama promoted nutrition. Ms. Trump promoted, uh, I’m not sure what she promoted. “Be better”?
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  77.  @eschcal1619  OK Ivan
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  78.  @Single_moms_suck_at_life  LOL, keep trying to undermine democracy, you Russian troll.
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  79. Wrt to continuous claims, how does one maintain that claim if they’re dead? What’s the process for staying on unemployment if you’re hospitalized and barely able to breathe?
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  80. My sentiments exactly. Shep is a straight shooter. He’s a conservative who doesn’t compromise his journalistic integrity with partisanship. He is principled without being ideological. He is an example of what conservatives should aspire to be.
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  81. Look, Putzi, we know you’ve never invested a ruble in the the NYSE, and we know you never will. The stock market fluctuates constantly, which you would know if you weren’t stuck in your troll farm cubicle. You should be more worried about what sanctions are doing to your miserable country.
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  82. The Senate has not shown any indication that they’ll go along with any deal Trump negotiates. They should pass Trump’s offer to the Democrats as their own bill. Then the differences could be ironed out in committee.
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  83. Are you not horrified that 80% of Republicans in Congress are RINOs, disloyal to the President? I know I am.
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  84. You’re part of the state organ that has kept Putin in the dark. Doesn’t this worry you? Or is it only your bosses that will get the hatchet?
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  85. Finally we’re getting actual negotiations. Dems came down, Mnuchin came up. Will they split the difference? If Mnuchin and Pelosi find a compromise, what will the Senate Republicans do?
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  86. He’s crowing that the unemployment number for a single month “breaks the streak”, as if it’s proof of a reversal of a trend. And meanwhile every other trend continues to worsen: Deaths, hospitalizations, and infections break records daily. This is cheerleading when your team keeps fumbling the ball, but this time it was for a loss of nine yards, not ten. Rick is giving irrational exuberance a whole new meaning.
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  87. Small potatoes. Sure, don’t let her get away with it, but the real effort is going to be frying bigger fish.
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  88. Yup. Talking out of both sides of his mouth.
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  89. The House passed it. Pelosi and the House Dems are not on the spot. The ball is in the hands of Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans. Chances are, they’re going to fumble it—McConnell couldn’t even get his majority to pass the $500 Billion skinny bill back in October. Too many Republican Senators wanted $0 spent. So it’s accurate to say that Trump has put McConnell in a tough spot.
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  90. Comrade Ivan, whoever taught you English failed you.
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  91. Circular firing squad.
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  92. OK Ivan
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  93. Ahahahaha, the CueCat guy that changed his name after losing investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  94. Did he? Link the video.
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  95. Hey, Ivan. Duolingo or Rosetta or however you tried to learn English. It’s not working. You should demand a refund.
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  96. cope harder, Ivan.
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  97. Why can’t it be both? Or all three? Why should the Democrats go blameless when the GOP loses. Goddam Democrats, playing politics with an election!!!
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  98. Almost 350,000 views on this video alone. If you don’t see the struggle going on right now between the President and the Senate GOP, 🙈🙉🙊 Trump’s latest tweets are discouraging his base in Georgia from voting. 🤔 He’s telling them that the runoff election is illegal.
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  99. And you are a Putzi.
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  100.  @hangout5959  Yes, because those allies use the weapons they bought from us to hold the line against our adversaries, such as Iran and China. This is one of the reasons why $1 of foreign aid can save $5 of defense spending.
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  101.  laron adams  LOL, what is a 4th World country? You ignorant, mouth-breathing, excuse for a human being, do you not understand the schema behind 1st, 2nd, 3rd world? It’s not a ranking, you idiot. It’s a grouping of political interests dating back to the Cold War. 1st World = Western Countries, 2nd World = Communist Countries, 3rd World = those not aligned with either side. You need to examine your political rhetoric for any and all terms you use without understanding, or you’re going to get caught with your pants around your ankles the moment you start debating an adult. Heed these words, or continue being a mental lightweight, a dancing clown in the political circus. Lmao!! 😂
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  102.  @catcowboy6376  You had to be an American citizen. If you filed jointly with a non-citizen as your spouse, you didn’t qualify for the first payment, but you will qualify for this one. If you were an 18+ dependent, you didn’t qualify and you still don’t.
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  103.  @spawn1086  If someone’s cupboard is bare, $600 can mean a whole lot. On the macro scale, if people are spending that $600, especially if they spend it locally, it could keep the economy on life support just a little longer. Regarding your other point about whether Donald Trump can or can’t write legislation, over course he can’t, but normal presidents do it all the time. They write up legislative proposals, usually in conjunction with one or both chambers, and then the two chambers hash out the details, negotiate compromises, or refuse to participate, depending. The months of negotiations between Pelosi and Mnuchin (Mnuchin serving as Trump’s lead negotiator) were done with the good faith understanding that McConnell would back whatever Trump wanted (or McConnell could have also participated in the negotiations). It was surprising that McConnell torpedoed the negotiations when they were getting very close. But the main point here is that was an example of President Trump co-writing a bill. I’ll give you another example. President George W Bush asked for authorization to invade Iraq. He wanted specific powers and he got them. That is the executive branch writing a bill and asking Congress to enact it.
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  104.  @kimklim3267  If Putin goes, you won’t be forced to post trash comments anymore. Wouldn’t it be nice to stop lying?
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  105.  @kimklim3267  Look, I realize that if you don’t keep posting Russian propaganda, you’ll be sent to Ukraine to die face down in the mud. So you go ahead, keep posting your lies. It’s not ideal, but you do whatever you gotta do to survive.
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  106. They don’t know any better. Russian society and culture is based on fear and cowardice, or they would have gotten rid of Putin long ago.
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  107. That’s not what he said. Watch the video again, but pay attention this time.
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  108. I’m going to assume you’re not American, because you’re ignorant about how the American system of government works. One person and one person alone signs bills that have been passed by Congress. That is the President. Congress votes on legislation, and when legislation gets passed in both chambers of Congress, it’s delivered to the President for signing or a veto. If he vetoes it, Congress can override the veto with a supermajority. I’m not sure how any of this fits into any legal definition of treason.
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  109. Most of his own caucus support an increase (maybe not the full $2000, but at least $1200).
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  110. Yes, there were peaceful protestors. There was also an army of thugs that headed over to Congress, vandalizing, looting, attacking the police, and (worst of all) trying to disrupt Congress from doing its constitutional duty. As bad as antifa might be, Trump’s brownshirts make them look like pikers.
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  111.  @jerryjansen5325  Why do you hate America?
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  112. Antifa didn’t break into the Capitol.
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  113.  @jyin475  You should join us. Once I decided to only believe Trump, everything became a lot easier. I no longer have to read or listen to the news. I don’t have to take in unpleasant facts, or examine my assumptions. In short, I no longer have to learn. I can turn off that unquiet part of my mind that was used for critical thinking, and devote all my mental energies into hating President Trump’s enemies, whoever they happen to be that day. Yes, swallowing the red pillow seems difficult at first but it becomes easier over time, just as when you are asleep and dream you’re eating a giant marshmallow. I’m much happier now, despite my anger. Perhaps happy isn’t the right word. I know. I’m much more smug and self-satisfied, now that I just believe President Trump and nothing else. MAGA!!1l!!.
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  114. It’s obvious you’re trolling when you use multiple accounts to post the same comment word for word.
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  115. I think the Taliban leadership does want us out of their hair, but it should be recognized that the Taliban is made up of factions. The Taliban of 20 years ago was more unified, but to survive they had to become a coalition and cut deals with other groups. As a side note, this is what we fail to understand, that the taking of Kabul and the fall of the Afghan government was more of a deal-making victory than a military victory. But now that the Taliban is in power, what does that mean? It means they have to deal with competition between their internal factions and external challenges to their power. They don’t (at least not yet) have the same level of control they had 20 years ago. The leadership in Kabul might control the airport there, but a different faction might control the airport in a different city. This complicates and delays negotiations. Countries trying to get their people out must negotiate with the leadership, but the leadership then has to negotiate with their sub-faction, which is (possibly) using foreign nationals as a bargaining chip to negotiate their own power in the government. Yes, it’s a huge clusterfluck. But it would be a lot worse if the country was plunged into civil war, which could still happen.
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  116.  @nw1858  we can’t say it didn’t happen, but we can expect you to show proof that it did happen. You make the claim, you show the proof. An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.
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  117.  jo shmo  OK, Ivan.
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  118. The Democratic House wanted 3 trillion. The GOP senate offered 1 Trillion. Democrats counter-offered 2 Trillion. The GOP’s response? 300 Billion? That doesn’t make any sense. It looks like the GOP Senate is the obstruction here.
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  119. There’s something that happens when you promote based on loyalty and only surround yourself with loyal people. You lose the competent people that will tell you the truth, the people that could have confirmed that anything he saw on western media was true. Putin was lied to. But what is worse, he wanted to be lied to, to have his insecurities and anxieties soothed and smoothed over. That is the other half of the story. He demanded that his inner circle tell him only good news and flattering lies.
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  120. Maybe for all y’all in Russia, Marek. But your definition of treason is different from ours, too.
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  121. Why, how much Russian state TV do you watch?
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  122. IT’S INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK!!!
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  123. Nice try, Putzi. Your propaganda has lost its effectiveness.
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  124. Do you plan on boycotting future elections? You really should boycott, if you believe in and support the President.
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  125. He might not make it the 2 weeks remaining. Article 25 or impeachment might be coming in the next few days. Wouldn’t that be wild, if he was impeached with less than 2 weeks left to serve?
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  126. Nice try, Putzi. You’re not in the U.S. and you’re not an American. Worry about what the sanctions are doing to your rubles.
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  127.  @ljmarino1  How can you tell if he’s smiling or not? His head is a basketball.
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  128.  @georgehugh3455  These anti-government types want to abolish the U.S.
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