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In reply to the discussion: A complete destruction of the State Department is what Putin told Trump to do. [View all]RKP5637
(67,112 posts)2. IMO most Americans are F'en clueless as to what is going on. Putin knows that well as
does the Trump Regime, and use it to their full advantage. US AKA United Stupidity!!! The land of Idiocracy!
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A complete destruction of the State Department is what Putin told Trump to do. [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
OP
IMO most Americans are F'en clueless as to what is going on. Putin knows that well as
RKP5637
Mar 2017
#2
We werent always like this in fact in the latter half of the 18th Century and the 19th
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#4
"Nobody in control of the power strings in Washington cares." Fixed. KGOP is in on this.
ffr
Mar 2017
#6
This is the "John Bolton-ization" of our state department, and when the state department is no more
Akamai
Mar 2017
#7
And we will lose face around the world. Our popularity with the world is what Putey really
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#8
Yes, and it is NOT proof that "Putin told them to do this" which is what the OP alleges.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#11
Actually, shrinking the Govt down so it can be drowned in a bathtub was what NORQUIST
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#10
the sad legacy of our anti-communist crusades, that still haven't completely ended
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2017
#23
The people I know don'care. Politics turns them off. As far as they are concerned it has nothing to
notdarkyet
Mar 2017
#18
Sadly, that one patriotic Republican who cares more for country than selfish greed
lark
Mar 2017
#17
Just announced STate will travel abroad and NO reporters will be allowed
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#35
Nigel Farage seems to be current back channel to Assange. Met with him hours before the recent dump.
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2017
#41