Does anyone credible actually think they’re really capitalist or democratic? Putin’s regeme - or groups connected to them - almost certainly murders journalists, human rights lawyers, etc. Civil society and the courts are a joke. And the plight of LGBTQ citizens is just awful at this point. Pretty much existing is…

That is odd, because there are endless stories from actual citizens of the oppression they experience at the hand of the one-party led oligarchy rulership.

Uh, no. Russia is not really at all like us. Take it from people who have actually lived there.

granted the Dems are a bit lazy. But its more about government being lazy than presidents. they all get too high a pay and to many perks and that makes them lazy.

I think Pussy Riot would like to talk to you, or maybe you could point to any of the female journalists and comedians who criticize Putin who have a national audience on Russian TV INSIDE Russia.

Siberian Candidate’s been my preferred name for DJT for about a year now.

Putin and Russia are virulently anti-gay, and this ties them into the GOP and its Nazi wing.

Graham has weirdly been the only Republican who has publically refused to bend over to DJT.

The are a capitalist democratic republic not unlike us.

They aren’t a real democracy because the government controls the press and political opponents have a bad habit of dying.

Interfered in the election of the US President.

Sure is odd... I’ve met Russian cab drivers who gave up everything, including lucrative careers out of fear of the government. I guess it all depends on if you’re considered a threat or not. Not that we’re that much better in the US... right here in the good old US of A we had armed rebels holding government property…

“The are a capitalist democratic republic not unlike us.”

Pretty much laughing at the idea that they are a “capitalistic democratic republic not unlike us”. I have many Russian coworkers who have war stories about why they gave up being scientists and educators to become first level computer programmers. They say that the only thing you’re allowed to say to their government…

Meanwhile they Repubs will demand years of investigations if HRC tips her manicurist more than 15%. They have zero ethics.

The blindspot is that the GOP no longer functions as a bulwark of traditional American conservatism. Patriotism, honest government, fiscal responsibility - all of this is meaningless.

There’s a strange silence about this from all the Republican retired generals, national security experts and secretaries of defense. I doubt they’d have been so quiet if HRC had suggested links back to the Kremlin.

The rich irony of the Left being called commies, pinkos, Russian agents for decades while the Right is now their catnip of choice. I’m sincerely curious how they managed to create such a lackadaisical blindspot that the mere potential of Russian involvement gets a ‘meh, whatever, get over it’ from their end. Like…

John McCain and Lindsay Graham are trying to get an investigation going, and if all of the Democrats work with them, I think that’ll be a majority in the Senate.

Hillary would be hanged for treason if the Russians helped her...The GOP have no ethics or morals so they’ll let it pass and block any special inquiry into this. Oh well. Plus ça change plus c’est pareil.