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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump: "The United States and Russia Have Always Been Close Allies..."
And so the Newspeak goes. A lie told often enough, gets accepted as truth by ignorant people. We're seeing that in action more and more every day.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)trump has been a Russia fanboy since the early 80's.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Listen to the Newspeak. It is truth.
standingtall
(2,786 posts)Russia was never even part of the Soviet Union. Got it. We never ever banned any of our citizens from traveling to Moscow any documentation that says other wise is also lie from the past.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Good citizen!
Coventina
(27,146 posts)MineralMan
(146,320 posts)with that horrible USSR. No. He's, well, almost an American, really. He only thinks of what is best for "The American People."
Yeah, that's the ticket!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Sure, haha
Coventina
(27,146 posts)unblock
(52,277 posts)particularly with those on the sanctions list.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)ck4829
(35,078 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Please read the original post again. Trump did not actually say that. The thread is satire. Have you read the novel, "1984?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)He has said so many crazy things. It would not be unbelievable for him to say this.
And nothing about the original post sounds like satire. They just write a quote attributable to him and say it sounds like newspeak.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)SweetieD
(1,660 posts)MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)The rest of us are well read.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Cosmocat
(14,566 posts)nm
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Is double-plus ungood.
TlalocW
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)Historic NY
(37,452 posts)forgot that the Russians stole and copied by hand our B-29, forgot Russians only got involved in Pacific to gain territory, forgot Russians flew North Korean Migs against our troops. Forgot Russians flew North Vietnamese Migs against our planes, forgot Russians were bringing ICBM to Cuban 90 miles away from Florida, forgot Russians under the guise of Syrians attack American aligned fighters, there are just so many forgots.....with friends like the Russians who need enemies.
Satire vs reality.....the Onion is more real today, then was passes for journalism.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,186 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,146 posts)">
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Ethel Rosenberg was executed for spying on less evidence than there currently is for Donald Jr. and Jared Kushner.
sinkingfeeling
(51,466 posts)his school desk in private school.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)Johonny
(20,864 posts)lpbk2713
(42,763 posts)That is, until this asshole came along.
Now Trump wants to slap them in the face with his wall.
Vinca
(50,299 posts)Remember good old Nikita Kruschev banging his shoe on the table at the UN? Il Douche should look up Francis Gary Powers. I wonder if they make a Little Golden Book of U.S./Russia history we could send to the guy.