Can we maybe ease off on the "gave secrets to the Russians" drumbeat for a bit?

[Orrex]

It comes off as a bit judgmental, to be frank.


Be honest: who among us hasn't handed highly classified information to a hostile foreign power in the literal center of the nation's presidency?

[LOL Lib]

1. ....

NOPE!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Well, there was that time when I was president

and I inadvertently let slip a top secret Norwegian lutefisk recipe to the Swedish ambassador... So I understand how easy it is for that to happen. The Swedish ambassador was sort of large and menacing.

[Orrex]

3. Ah, yes. Operation: Swedish Fish. I remember it well.

You harmed the republic that day, my friend.

[ProudLib72]

9. That's forgiveable

Let the Swedes eat that poison and leave us with all the nice, unadulterated lefsa.

[Sophiegirl]

16. Unacceptable!!!!

As a pastry chef with highest of culinary ethics, I will tell you, you never, NEVER give away secret ingredients! EVER!!

It's just unforgivable!!!! Deplorable!!!!

It just isn't done.

[democratisphere]

4. And it was done with laughing, snickering and lots of smiles.

[bluecollar2]

5. it's just pillowtalk...

Not really giving away secrets if you're trump and talking to the Russians...

[JI7]

6. HIllary coughed and fainted

[CentralMass]

7. The optics of him meetng with the russians in the oval office wirh just tbeir photographers so the

Russians could use it as pripaganda, shortly after firing Comey are just shameful. Add the fact that he was coughing up classified/sensitive information to them and it sure as hell points tiwards treasonous behaviour. Shame on the GOP. They hVe no moral compass. Its all about the money.

[Yavin4]

8. Adding: Just after you fired the person investigating you for....

colluding with that same foreign power to win an election.

[NanceGreggs]

10. Okay, I did.

But it was just that one time.

[ucrdem]

11. Let's call it detente and get ready for his peace prize.

If the Nobel committee won't do it he'll award it himself.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. There's something of a precedent ...

Interesting trivia: you may have seen at least one of the four famous paintings by Jacques-Louis David which Napoleon commissioned to record his and Empress Josephine's coronation. In true Trumpian fashion, Napoleon stiffed David on the payment. It required the intervention of an administration official, the Comte Daru, before the gov't finally paid him, three years late.

Although David did a preliminary drawing showing Napoleon crowning himself (the Pope refused to do so), Napoleon insisted that scene be left out of the final paintings. Fake news ! Sad !

[ucrdem]

25. That one ended badly didn't it.

Among other things burned by the Communards in 1871 was the Tuilleries palace, located between the Louvres and the Tuilleries gardens, now occupied by an empty strip on which, ironically enough, Emmanuel Macron gave a rousing speech on his night of his election victory last week:



hmmm...

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it ...

Those who don't learn from anything leave a trail of royal fuck-ups.

[GallopingGhost]

12. Well, there was that one time I

had to feed my book report on Andrew Jackson to the snarling Russian wolfhound that belonged to my childhood bully KellyAnne.

They shoved me into a bush while I was walking to school at the DeVos Academy of Edukayshun.

But I wasn't President. I just played one in grade school.

[JHan]

14. ........

[Sophiegirl]

17. You win. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

29. You just made DU Great Again!

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Six petabytes of encrypted data on DVDs

shipped to the Chinese Embassy in Mexico City. They still haven't figured out it's just random numbers, but what else are you going to do with twelve supercomputers for the next few years?

[TalenaGor]

15. it's like he's colluding out in the open while being investigated for colluding

File this under shit u can't make up

[Still In Wisconsin]

18. Oh, I do that all the time but NEVER VIA EMAIL OVER A PRIVATE SERVER!!!

just in case

[kaotikross]

19. Exactly! What about Hillary's E-Mails?

We should steer to more serious breaches of ethics, like Hillary's E-Mails! Where's Weaselface Chaffetz? Is he gone yet? Somebody get that little toad in here to launch Clinton Email Investigation #47- this will be the ONE!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

20. Well, ya got me there!

For a few seconds there, I thought you'd lost your mind!

[SusanaMontana41]

21. BUSTED! You got me!

Don't DO THAT!

[LibraLiz1973]

22. I was ready to flip out. lol. You got me!

[Princess Turandot]

24. I had two Russian Blues...

I can't say more than that, except that Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have been involved. Along with the International Society for the Evolution of Thumb Cats.

[Warpy]

26. Right, how silly of us. IOKIYAR. Silly old Julius and Ethel

simply belonged to the wrong damned political party. If they'd reregistered as Republicans, everything would have been peachy.

The very idea, suspecting a Republican of any wrongdoing!

[JNelson6563]

27. You make a valid point.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. You're right... let's not be hypocritical here. hahaha!

[ismnotwasm]

31. I never did

#withafewexceptions

[ProfessorPlum]

34. Lol. Well played

[workinclasszero]

32. You forgot this:

I'll forget Trump's treason like the reich wing forgot BENGAZI!!!1111 and EMAILS!!!1!!1 and JADE HELM!!111!!! and KENYAN MUSLIM!!!1!!!!!!!111!!!!and SCARY BLACK MAN COMING FOR YOUR GUNZ!!!!11!1111!11111!!!!!

The only difference is Trump's TREASON is REAL not the fever dreams of right wing nazi crackheads!

[niyad]

33. you SWORE you weren't going to tell!!!