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[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 99 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I was going to comment on this, but you were faster. This is the first time that I've noticed a major media outlet connecting Republicans with Russia. So it's an open secret now?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago

I don't think it's a secret at all anymore.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 29 points 8 months ago

That's what an open secret is. Everyone knows it but few people are willing to acknowledge it publicly.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago
[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Hasn't this been an open secret for years? Does no one remember Paul Ryan talking about Russian payola to trump and other Republican traitors back in 2016?

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I can’t believe I’m actually gonna say this, but I miss that guy. He was a bastard, but at least he was a “normal” politician and not some batshit psycho.

And he retired to run a weed company iirc. wtf.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

I can’t find the weed company on Wikipedia (you could be right, I just looked cursorily), but he’s on the board of directors at Fox News. Also I learned that he’s related through marriage to both Ketanji Brown-Jackson and a very hardcore George Wallace stan.

All in all, I should not have read his Wikipedia, it’s destroyed the hope that I had, that he might have become normal and would be interested in fixing things.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

It’s the first time I’ve noticed a major non-liberal media outlet pointedly connecting Republicans with Russia. Which is a pretty big deal tbh.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Surprising coming from Forbes, honestly

[-] MxM111@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Well, technically it is Trump aligned republicans.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 23 points 8 months ago

So, 99% of Republicans which is the same thing as Republicans.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

90%, but your point still stands. Anyone remember the saying "Weak men create hard times"? Those are the weak men. Little bitch-boys that need a strongman to tell them what to think.

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