Hey kids! This week let’s do something educational, and learn Russian! After all, it might be a lot more necessary in the next few months.
Here’s your first word: bitch
In Russia, the word for bitch is: suka
That’s su-ka.
Suka.
Bitch.
Let’s test your knowledge. If you live in Brighton Beach, or some other place with a Russian community, go up to the waitress at a restaurant and call her “suka.”
Did she slap you? Then you got it right!
Now let’s use it in a sentence. Russian does not use articles, so to apply a possessive, you simply use the person’s name with “ya.” So, Trump = Trump, bitch = suka, Putin’s = Putinya, equals:
Trump suka Putinya, meaning
“Trump is Putin’s bitch.”
Look up a translate program and you can even print it in Cyrillic, like this:
After a Monday meeting in Helsinki, requested by Russian President Vladimir Putin of his Viceroy Donald Trump, Trump stood side by side with his Master handler counterpart, and the two talked to the press about several issues, including whether Russia had interfered with the 2016 American election, as the latest indictments from the Mueller probe seem to prove. Trump told reporters “I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” Sounds like a man who’s easily impressed. Or intimidated. He went on and said, “What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? 33,000 emails gone — just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily.”
Donnie, whaddya mean, what happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? On July 27, 2016, you yelled, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” And that very day, the 12 Russian intelligence agents indicted by Mueller last week approached a US reporter under the Guccifer 2.0 hacker alias to release emails that they had already stolen.
Why don’t you ask your boy where the emails are when he’s standing right there, Donnie?
“Hey boss, you know what happened t’them emails?”
“Why yes, Donny, they are right here. Don’t ask how…”
The spectacle was such that even Trump’s own party couldn’t believe it. No, not the Republican Congress. Fox News. Abby Huntsman, daughter of Trump’s own Ambassador to Russia, tweeted: “No negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus.” Neil Cavuto called Trump’s display “disgusting.” A Trump Administration official, speaking confidentially to the Daily Beast, said: “Trump looked incredibly weak up there. Putin looks like a champion – I’d like to say I’m shocked, but this is the world in which we live now.” Of course, nobody else in the Administration except Trump wanted a public meeting with Putin. And now we all know why. As Ed Kilgore at New York Magazine put it, “In the brightest international spotlight side by side with the foreign leader he has most admired for his toughness, Donald Trump looked weak and submissive, incapable of expressing any sort of righteous indignation at even the most blatant bad behavior by Russia. His soon-to-be-infamous suggestion that he thought Putin might be more credible than U.S. intelligence agencies on the subject of Russia’s election interference is obviously disturbing in itself. But delivered in Putin’s own presence it came across as the act of a toady or at least someone who is extremely conflict-averse — which is exactly 180 degrees away from the persona Trump has worked so hard to present.”
But really, not like it matters.
On MSNBC today, Republican Senator from Arizona Jeff Flake was asked if this aroused suspicion from Trump’s own party was going to lead to a block in judicial nominations, and while he said that Republicans should “support the intelligence community” he also said that he was only holding up previous judicial appointments because of Trump’s tariff policy, and now that that issue had been resolved to his satisfaction, there was no need for such measures. When pressed, repeatedly, by Katy Tur, whether tariffs were a higher priority than the sanctity of our elections, Flake responded, “well, I got what I wanted.”
And once again, Flake has earned his name.
But this in itself is pretty telling. Republicans have been just fine with Trump warping their “free trade” party into its statist opposite, all the while earning the hatred of the rest of the country with the administration’s socially regressive positions, because they’re getting what they want. Specifically, at least one Supreme Court justice, which they may need to be a doorstop on Democratic initiatives depending on how things play out. If Trump goes against their dogma on tariffs or something else, he’ll just tell them the lies that they want to hear – like he always does – and they’ll goosestep back in line. Because what it really comes down to is: they’ve got nothing else. As unpopular as Trump is, he’s at least 40 percent in most polls, and how many other national Republicans are doing even that good? They’re dying with him, but they’re dead without him.
Thus the real evil reveals itself. Republicans will do whatever they can to pretend they didn’t see what they just saw, but the rest of us know better. The cult was able to delude itself as long as they could believe that Trump was a strongman who took no guff. But here the provocateur who traded in fake machismo and transgressive behavior kneeled and bared his throat to the stronger (and shorter) male.
They will of course, press on regardless. They’ve got no choice. Even now that they know the choice is between their little boy and America. And they will have to admit that if they liked America, they wouldn’t have gone for this guy in the first place. To save their need for a Daddy, they will, at least subconsciously, transfer their allegiance to the real motivating force of their movement, as the “leader of the Free World” meekly declares America to be the first satellite of the new Warsaw Pact. And so a Republican Party that already accepted the bargain to turn into the Party of Trump has to accept that their master has his own master. Today, the Party of Trump is confirmed as the Party of Putin.
If nothing else, Trump’s already got his re-election slogan picked out: