re: Anyone here think improving our relations with Russia is a bad idea?

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ETA - One of her campaign issues was improving high speed internet access to rural areas. It's really hard to function in today's society without reliable, high speed internet access. Applying for jobs, finding suitable housing, paying bills, etc. That's just one area where I don't think the was clueless to working class issues.

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You'd have to be disconnected to campaign on this. We gave away billions to at&t for this exact things... got almost nothing in return.

Some of them are even convinced California will be going red in 2020.

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You sound mad (and poor).

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I was thinking unhinged, like a lot of the poli board posters just on the other side of things.

That dude is nuts when it comes to Trump. "He's a Nazi!"

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don't listen to what he says...watch what he does.

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I did. He looked like he was about to cry.

This thread would be more fun if

Liberals/Anyone who voted for Hillary: Said something positive that Trump has done

Conservatives/Anyone who voted for Trump: Said something negative that Trump has done

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don't listen to what he says...watch what he does.


I did. He looked like he was about to cry.

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Son, you may be looking, but you obviously don't know what you're seeing.

"Just last April, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Russia — including strict sanctions on seven of Russia’s richest individuals and 17 top government officials for their interference in our elections.

The sanctions directly penalized President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle by prohibiting them from traveling to the United States ever again. He did this by opening a bank account in the West, preventing them from doing business with the West and prohibiting anyone else to do business on their behalf.

The sanctions were significant — among the toughest sanctions ever placed on individuals in a foreign country, with the exception of perhaps Iran and North Korea. Yet like many of Trump’s successes, it received minimal mainstream media coverage.

During his first month in office in January 2017, President Trump upheld strict sanctions to punish Russia for its unlawful 2014 annexation of Crimea. With those sanctions, the Trump administration punished more than three dozen individuals and organizations that were behind the invasion of Ukraine.

Even Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had a hand in the actions, stating that there would be no easing of the sanctions until Russia meets its obligations under the 2015 Minsk agreement — the ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

In August 2017, Trump signed a bill slapping even more sanctions on Russia — this time specifically aimed at the country’s energy and defense industries. Congress made the legislation Trump-proof, meaning that no executive order could ever undo such sanctions; yet Trump signed it anyway.

In fact it was Trump — not Obama — who ordered the closure of Russian diplomatic properties in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City that appeared to be a threat to American security.

It was also President Trump who shuttered the Russian consulate in Seattle.

To be sure, Obama kicked 35 Russian diplomats out of the country after suspected election meddling by Russia, but only after Trump won the 2016 election. It is questionable whether he would have done so had Hillary Clinton succeeded in being the victor.

Furthermore, it was President Trump who led the world in expelling Russian diplomats after the Russian government was suspected of carrying out a nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom against one of their former spies. President Trump moved swiftly to expel 60 Russian diplomats from U.S. soil, and other countries followed suit by expelling dozens as well.

In addition to stringent sanctions, President Trump has also called out Russia publicly."....not to mention the little message Trump sent to Russia in Syria last year...Obama didn't have the cajones to stand up to them.

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don't listen to what he says...watch what he does.


I did. He looked like he was about to cry.

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trump looked like putin told him he was going to wear the strapon again. he looked like a neutered, pathetic gimp who had just been given his orders.

1. The author of that article is a Republican Strategist. The article is pure fox news type propaganda.

2. Every one of the actions listed can be attributed to actions Congress forced down trumps throat that he resisted, did not like and in one case, the new sanctions, did not even implement under after the deadline to do so when he was forces to.

By the way, apparently he "misspoke" again today when he got confused between the definition of yes and no when asked if Russia was interfering in our elections. Yet another 180. Dude is a total joke.