Blame Game...

The Republicans blame the media for reporting on Trump. It's somehow unfair and biased reporting to quote him. What?

Trump blames the United States for the relationship with Russia. Including the very dishonest Enemy of the State media that won't let the whole Russia election meddling go. Trump says we're foolish, which we are, but I don't think in the way he's implying.

The Republicans call it a witch hunt.
Except there are witches being found so it can't be a witch hunt. It's a bear hunt. An old advertising maxim is to hunt where there are bears to be hunt. This is obviously a bear hunt.

But if only the media would stop talking about it then it would all be okay.

And his followers eat it all up.

Over the past two years the favorability among Republicans for Putin has gone up.
The trust in the media has gone down.

And for two hours today Trump met with Putin with only two witnesses and those were their interpreters. So no official record of what was said.

This should bother you.

I don't care what political party you belong to, this should bother you. We are not a dictatorship, we have a governing system. The president is not supposed to have unilateral powers on most decisions, and though we have eroded that over and over since 9/11, it does not mean we should all just accept it as okay. If governing through Executive Orders is bad for one side it's bad for both. If a do nothing Congress is doing nothing we should fucking vote them out. We have all rolled over and shown our bellies and are now facing a wanna be despot in the White House (stop acting offended and look at what he's said REPEATEDLY and tell me that he doesn't wish he had unlimited and unfettered powers) and still...nothing.

In fact his base celebrates him. And all that he does. Cult 45 it's called. I think that's becoming more and more accurate.

Yes, I know, we need to not be so divided as a country. This is exactly what Putin wanted to do with Russian interference and he did it. Just because I know it's what he wants doesn't make it any easier to not be disgusted with the minions towing the line on whatever Trump says or does. He blamed the United States today for the bad relationship with Russia. He ignored the 12 new indictments on Friday (that he was briefed on, by the way, before he ever left for his NATO summit where he tried his best to wreck our relationships there before taking credit for a referendum that happen in 2014). He says Putin is good guy. Former KGB agent, poisoner of people he's miffed at, invader of Crimea, Putin. He's a good guy. We should have a good relationship with him. Putin says he didn't do anything wrong and who are you going to believe our ENTIRE intelligence community or Putin?

How in the world can you not be at least a little concerned over Trump and the Russians? Say he isn't a Russian pawn, what would he be doing differently if he was? Because it's hard to see.

Republicans keep saying that his administration has taken action against Russia so it shows that he is strong against Russia no matter what he tweets or says in speeches. No, no it doesn't. For one thing he keeps getting forced by Congress to act. Which is what our governing system can do. CONGRESS keeps acting against Russia and forcing the White House to comply. The White House says: the United States is foolish, Russia a great country and Putin is a really good guy and the investigation in to their meddling in our elections is RIGGED, FAKE, WITCH HUNT!

Because he can't possibly think for a second that the outcome was affected by anything but himself. I mean, that's a big part of it in my opinion. Putin is telling him what he wants to hear and who the fuck cares if nobody else believes that, Trump wants it to be true so he will believe Putin over everything and everyone else. He lives in a world of tissue paper lies. Very fragile place to be. If he were a stronger person he would be able to say, "Russia meddled in our elections. We need to stop them. They tried to do a number of things. Some of them were successful. Thank goodness that they were not able to actually change any votes. We need to send a message that this is not something we will tolerate. And we need to assure ourselves that they could never actually affect the outcome of an election." This shows he won "fair and square" (which we can all argue until we are blue in the face but we will never actually know) and still puts the blame on them for messing and getting caught.

But he can't do that.

So instead we are left wondering is it that he can't do that because his ego is so fragile he cannot fathom that an election he called RIGGED from the moment he entered it might actually have been meddled with, just in his favor, or is it that he is beholden to Russia in some way? Pick your poison because it's one or the other.

We are being governed by a fragile man baby or a pawn.

Vote in November. At least put some brakes on him.

Vote in 2020. Let's send him back to rage against the machine on Twitter alone.