Putin Just Served Trump Divorce Papers. Here’s Why it Should Scare the Hell Outta Us.

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THE BLUE LETTER

Let me walk you through something that no one in the mainstream press seems to be talking about—but it's right there, smacking us painfully in the face like Trump trying to pronounce “anonymous.”

Putin’s pissed.

No, I mean like really pissed. Like “you were supposed to deliver Ukraine on a silver platter and instead you gave me a drone strike humiliating the Russian military 2,800 miles from Kyiv” kind of pissed.

And it’s not just frustration. It’s disappointment—which, as every authoritarian toddler like Trump knows, is so much worse. Because when Vlad’s disappointed? He starts shopping for a new American President. Even if he doesn’t have the ability to do it with polonium tea.

Let’s rewind, shall we? Trump rose to power with the full backing of Russia. That’s not conjecture. That’s not a “Russia hoax.” That’s fact as established in The Mueller Report, the Senate Intelligence Committee run by a GOP Senator and something like 15-16 foreign intelligence agencies. The only thing Trump changed in the 2016 GOP platform? The part where we’d defend Ukraine.

Gee, I just can’t think who might have wanted that in there?!? Could it possibly rhyme with Badamir Lootin? Everything else—the usual open season for right-wing theocrats, supply-side snake handlers, those concerned about ant-white racism and hedge fund vampires—remained the same.

Fast forward. Putin invades Ukraine expecting Trump, his loyal little poodle, to take care of it. I mean, they installed him for a reason, right? He had one job!

The bromance is more like Trump on his knees in Helsinki

Only problem? Trump flamed out in 2020 because he he ignored COVID, screwed up the economy and is basically a schmuck. So Biden came in, and Ukrainian President Zelensky—who Trump laughably tried to bully into submission—turned out to be Churchillian.

He not only outmaneuvering Trump tot the point where Trump got impeached (one of two!). But also totally wrecked the oft-topless-while-on-horseback Russian dictator with $47,000 worth of drones and trucks—a serious Mission-Impossible kinda plan with some serious Mission-Impossible-kinda courage.

Putin was left looking like a Bond villain with a receding hairline and no plan B. Elon Musk, basically..

So when Trump recently approved U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites—after being told by Putin and Medvedev, in very clear language, not to, but just couldn’t help himself—well, now Trump was 0-2. (Not the mention the sanctions he hasn’t gotten removed).

And that was the moment. Putin and his Lauren-Sanchez-Botox-regime mini-me, Medvedevm came out publicly, accused the U.S. of launching an “unprovoked war,” and made it crystal clear: Trump disobeyed orders. Some more from Medvedev:

“Trump started a new war, and expects us to pretend it didn’t happen?”

Ruh roh. You see, being smarter than Trump after chugging a bottle of Stolichnaya, then still smarter after cracking it over his own head, Putin knows Trump ran on “no new wars.” So he had Medy refute Trump’s exact phrasing to fire up some piss and vinegar in a MAGA world already beset by division over the bombing. With stalwart MAGAs such as MTG, Steve Bannon, Rand Paul, Tom Massie and Candace Owens furious.

And if anyone knows what it looks like when someone hands you divorce papers, that would be the serially married-yet-perpetually-porn-starred Donald Trump. This time, however, the papers are coming from guy who likes to break up with his boy-toys from 5th floor hotel windows.

Now, I’m not saying Putin’s about to send Trump on a magic carpet ride sans rug—he doesn’t want a nuclear war, after all. Though if you saw Trump’s angry response, that “Putin better be careful,” well, let’s just say that won’t go over well in Moscow.

And Vlad has other weapons. Many, many cultural, economic, and world-chaos-causing weapons. He’s also got options. And soon, he may jus hold some auditions. Or Kremlin Casting Calls.

You’ve got JD Vance, who’d probably crawl over MAGA hats with emptied Trump diapers to polish Putin’s boots with a Made-in-China “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. Tulsi Gabbard, who might as well be broadcasting direct from the Kremlin basement. And for all we know, she might be.

There’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Putin fangirl with a penchant for crazy conspiracies, who when not dodging Rothschild spacer laser beams that would make Flash Gordon jealous, get into her CrossFit fascism. And don’t forget Elon Musk, who’s somewhere between Lex Luthor and your emotionally stunted cousin who who drinks diesel fuel thinks he’s a genius because he read Atlas Shrugged once in college.

This is the kind of palace intrigue that doesn’t show up on cable news chyrons, because corporate news doesn’t like to share…news. But it's real. And very much not difficult to put together if you have any ability to connect dots, understand the language behind the language of false diplomacy and can understand things like context and tonal change.

Putin gave Trump his big chance. Sure, they knew he was nuts, but the kinda nuts that Putin, and old KGB hand, knew could redound to their favor by ripping this country apart emotionally. And Putin was right. But, he also counted on Trump to execute. Big miscalculation there, Pootie.

So now the Kremlin just may be circling the field like a recruiter at a fascist football game.

And look—this isn’t some lefty fantasy. I think this split likely helps America a lot, but when it’s silly men with sillier egos and weapons of mass destruction, there’s always danger. And Trump, often after a period of blowing his shpadoinkle, comes back and apologizes, so this rupture may be repaired.

Putin doesn’t tend to be very big on forgiving disobedience. Sadly, in a thoroughly corrupt GOP and propagandized Far Left, there are always more marionettes to be had.

But, next time you hear Trump screaming that everyone’s out to get him—Iran, Israel, every platypus, his ex-lawyers, the deep state, Tiffany, the Hague—remember this: He’s not just unhinged. Well, he is unhinged, actually, but not about this particular thing.

On this, he’s cornered. And when a pathological narcissist like Trump—with something like 20 other emotional challenges the DSM-5 specifically lays out—is cornered, he lashes out at all those around him, and all those not around him.

That’s how wars can start. And that’s how democracies can fall.

If Putin is truly done with Trump, and looking to install someone even more obedient, we had better brace for what comes next—because there’s no shortage of right-wing bootlickers in line to audition in front of Putin, enter Stage Far Right.

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The Myth of the “Decent Republican” Just Died—Again.

Let’s stop pretending there are “good Republicans” left. There aren’t. They are all MAGA. And if you’re still clinging to that fantasy—Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski just lit it on fire and pissed on the ashes.

• Susan Collins voted for Trump’s Big Crappy bill. This is the same Susan Collins who once said she was “concerned” about Trump’s behavior—like a kindergarten teacher eyeing a kid lighting matches in the corner. She's spent her entire career play-acting "reasonable," while enabling extremism every time it actually counts.

• Lisa Murkowski just cut a dirty backroom deal to back the same legislation. Lisa Murkowski who is just *so concerned* she might leave her party, become an independent, say the word “damn” isn’t “moderate.” She’s just a quieter arsonist. Her deal to raise Medicaid funds for Alaska, while letting massive Medicaid cuts go through for the rest of us—let me translate: LETTING AMERICANS DIE TRAGIC UNNECESSARY DEATHS—this sickening. She’s a f-ing ghoul like the rest.

• These women know better. They know Trump’s a thug. They know he's compromised. They know what the legislation does—Medicaid and Medicare lost to millions, increased executive spying, easier for Trump to commit contempt of court by further limiting judicial enforcement powers... And they still chose to help him. They’re the same traitors as the rest of MAGA. And they need to hear it constantly, and publicly, for the next year and a half til the midterms.

• Every time they vote for Trump’s agenda, they prove the point: There is no “resistance” inside the GOP. No check. No balance. Just enablers, cowards and collaborators in power suits.

• The GOP is not a political party anymore. It’s a cult of authoritarianism draped in donor cash and God talk. If you vote with it, serve it, protect it—you own the results. The wars. The corruption. Broken democracy. Cruelty. The incompetence.

So let’s be crystal clear:

No more giving Murkowski a pass.
No more sighing when Collins frowns.
No more pretending.

The “reasonable Republican” is a myth, like Bigfoot.
They’re not fighting Trump.
They’re fueling him.

And it’s on us to stop them—at the ballot box, in the media, and every damn day until this disgraceful chapter of American history ends.

🐱 KITTY PIC! Steve and Rocki had some play time

🎥 VIDEO ON DEMAND! Lively discussion of Putin’s ire at Trump w/ me, David Shuster & Matt Robison, sharing from behind the curtain..

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