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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin has taken over the USA without a shot fired. He bought the GOP (for cheap) and then lobotomized the citizenry
with the internet.
He now controls the president, almost all of Congress, the supreme court, most of the media, social media, and many oligarchs.
We are about to become what is, in effect, an occupied country.
What will he do to us? And more importantly, what if anything, will stop him?
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Putin has taken over the USA without a shot fired. He bought the GOP (for cheap) and then lobotomized the citizenry (Original Post)
ProfessorPlum
Nov 2024
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keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)1. Putting money into Trump was the best investment Putin ever made.

hamsterjill
(17,710 posts)2. Exactly, and he didn't even hide his plans.
Yet the idiots dont see it.
blowback
(699 posts)3. Would make a great billboard. nt
DiverDave
(5,257 posts)4. 💯
Nailed it.
LiberalLoner
(11,467 posts)5. Holodomor for us, I am guessing.
BigMin28
(1,864 posts)6. Was this
The deal made when republiscum congress members visited Russia on July 4th, 2018?
mitch96
(15,859 posts)7. Yup, the oligarchs won. Thiel, musk and putin, The grand experiment in democracy has ended...It was a good run.nt