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That's how it's always has been.

They just don't have to hide it anymore.
January 25, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Well he's a GOPnik, so what else is new?

Take a look at the Kremlin, and now Republican, practice of "vranyo": theconversation.com/ukraine-war-...
January 25, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It's not enough. This is a criminal, anti-American and stochastic as well as domestic terror network.

It needs to finally be brought to justice, decades after Watergate, Iran-CONTRA and all the lawless devastation it has caused to US norms, reputation and the lives of American citizens.
January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
It's been working in russia for over a century so there's no surprise it's worked almost flawlessly well in the US for the past decade(+).

Were there ever any real condemnation or rebuke of POTUS' "Pizzagate" or "Obama not a citizen" malicious drivel in US mainstream media?
Ukraine war: ‘vranyo’ – Russian for when you lie and everyone knows it, but you don’t care
‘Vranyo’ is the Russian word for a lie that you tell to make yourself look good, whether people believe it or not.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Under traitorous Republican rule it's the United States of russia. And has been for the past decade+, since the mediasphere meekly parrots every single GOPnik deception: www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
Ukraine war: ‘vranyo’ – Russian for when you lie and everyone knows it, but you don’t care
‘Vranyo’ is the Russian word for a lie that you tell to make yourself look good, whether people believe it or not.
theconversation.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 AM
True enough, and it's been working quite well for a decade: The global right wing (adding a "far-" in front it is practically meaningless these days...) is the Kremlin's and siloviks' utmost useful and important tool for making the West as shitty as their own nation is.
Charlie Brookers 2014 Wipe - Non Linear Warfare by Media (Summary with Adam Curtis)
YouTube video by NotPercy203
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is what US' mainstream media, discourse and reality have been for the past 10+ years.
Ukraine war: ‘vranyo’ – Russian for when you lie and everyone knows it, but you don’t care
‘Vranyo’ is the Russian word for a lie that you tell to make yourself look good, whether people believe it or not.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 PM
That place's always been a social darwinist & authoritarian hellscape, it's why GOPniks and conservatives long for it and want to bring every aspect of it over to North America. Putin, his legions of yes-men and secret police are GOP's ideal society. Also "vranyo," which is all GOPniks have:
January 23, 2026 at 8:50 PM
They've always been the same people, it was never about ideology: The mask just fell off and they found it quite liberating not having to care about nor pretend considering women, minorities and [other]s to be actual human beings.

Which fits very well with russian society and culture:
January 23, 2026 at 8:41 PM
This (quite worn) free pass has been used time and again throughout the years; Vietnam peace talks sabotage, Watergate, Iran-CONTRA, the 2000 Florida election "recount," the lies behind Iraq/Afghanistan invasions, Jan 6th, etc.

This unwritten rule is now literal law in the United States of russia:
Russia: The mafia as the state
Prigozhin’s death is only the latest example of an enigmatic fusion of formal governance and clandestine networks.
www.lowyinstitute.org
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
...Especially considering that Kremlin's tools and agents in the US have been outright criminal and anti-American for literal decades, without ever being held responsible: The US had normalized a free pass voiding any punishment nor consequence for the mob that willingly became russia's accomplice.
Republican Attacks on Robert Mueller Are Absurd. But the GOP Has Been Lawless for Decades.
From Vietnam to Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Clinton impeachment, the Republican Party has proved itself an awesome force of lawlessness.
theintercept.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The US really was the perfect stage and a fertile testing ground for this kind of long-term operation: With a dysfunctional mediasphere, basically 40+ years of submissive and groveling GOPnik court jesters, and an intentionally underfunded and lacking educational system it was an open goal...
How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings
I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...
www.brookings.edu
January 23, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The United States (of russia), conquered and made a vassal state.

Meanwhile, in 3-Day Special Military Operation:
January 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"Law & Order," "Fiscal Responsibility," "Family Values," etc. etc.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
It might've been a crime in the US, for non-(R)s, but it's the United States of russia now...
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Why would they? It's everything they've been dreaming of for the past half-century.
How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings
I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...
www.brookings.edu
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 AM
He won't arrest the only person in the world that he's consistently deferential and submissive to.
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
January 21, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Ah, muscovite "ingenuity"...
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 AM
He's became a foreign asset long before that.
January 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM
They don't have to be. They just love money more than their homeland and admire authoritarians so they're quite easy to manipulate and control:
How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings
I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...
www.brookings.edu
January 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, 14 Eyes and similar programs currently are all security risks for every involved Western democracy not realizing the current state of affairs and taking steps against it.

I.e. information-isolating the US since it has become a compromised and increasingly hostile actor.
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Anybody *still* sharing intel with the United States of russia, 1(+) year after a hostile takeover of its entire federal government, is incompetent or plain stupid.
How the GOP became the party of Putin | Brookings
I never expected that the Republican Party—which once stood for a muscular, moralistic approach to the world, and which helped bring down the Soviet Union—would become a willing accomplice of what the...
www.brookings.edu
January 20, 2026 at 6:01 AM