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Scarborough Admits Trump Got It Right on Europe's Dependence on Russian Oil
Newsbusters.org ^ | 3/10/2022 | Mark Finkelstien

Posted on 03/10/2022 10:16:47 AM PST by rktman

It was obviously a tough pill -- or shall we say nut -- for Joe Scarborough to swallow. On Wednesday's Morning Joe, the Trump hater par excellence grudgingly admitted that as president, Donald Trump got it right when he chided Angela Merkel over Germany's dependence on Russian oil.

Although Scarborough spoke of "oil," Trump's key concern was Merkel's agreeing to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, bringing Russian gas, not oil. Here's a 2018 Reuters article quoting Trump saying the gas pipeline deal made Germany "a captive to Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: germany; merkel; oil; punked; russia; scarborough; trump
Wait a minute. Did mika not realize someone has kidnapped killer joe and put a clone in place? When does the ransom not arrive?
1 posted on 03/10/2022 10:16:47 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

The realization must have hit him like a head to the desk.


2 posted on 03/10/2022 10:20:36 AM PST by struggle
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To: struggle

He’s sleeping on the couch tonight.


3 posted on 03/10/2022 10:21:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

It aint rocket science


4 posted on 03/10/2022 10:23:13 AM PST by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: rktman

Seems Trump was right about lots of things.. I remember at one of his rallies he said we got them all. And one day he would tell us who all is..


5 posted on 03/10/2022 10:24:17 AM PST by glimmerman70
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To: rktman
I haven't been a fan of a lot of the things Trump has said, and I think it hurts him politically sometimes.

But that is a judgement about politics and electability, which I care about because I'm a Republican who wants to see us win the Presidency. Where the left and Never Trump crowd go completely off the rails is confusing comments/behaviors that arguably impact domestic politics/electability with the real word impact of those comments.

Trump's occasionally friendly language towards Kim Jong Un and Putin cost us nothing. It was simply Trump's attempt to see if a different verbal tone might be more successful. There was absolutely nothing wrong with trying that, so to for Joey S. to castigate Trump for things he said about Putin that didn't damage our interests at all is simply ridiculous.

What really mattered was the policies Trump supported and actions he took, and in that regard, he pushed U.S. interests v. Russia much harder than Obama ever did.

6 posted on 03/10/2022 10:27:24 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: struggle

Nah, he knew all along he just wasn’t gonna say anything until the stealing of the last presidential election was complete.


7 posted on 03/10/2022 10:31:36 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: rktman

God, I can’t stand that POS.


8 posted on 03/10/2022 10:31:49 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: rktman

Banjo Boy will be sleeping on the couch tonight.


9 posted on 03/10/2022 10:36:48 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: rktman

Abacoa Joe got one right. I hope I see him at the free Tony Orlando concert this weekend. He’ll hear from me if I do.


10 posted on 03/10/2022 10:48:11 AM PST by FLNittany
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I should have said next weekend (3-20)for the Tony Orlando show in Abacoa.
11 posted on 03/10/2022 10:51:03 AM PST by FLNittany
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“ I haven’t been a fan of a lot of the things Trump has said, and I think it hurts him politically sometimes.”

People Say they’re not fans of trump and also that he hurts himself politically

How exactly does he hurt himself?

They can never explain. They lose it. They use emotional mob responses

Trump
Won the last election by tens of millions of votes

Do you mean that the Dems would not have been able to take Michigan, GA, AZ, PA and WI by going into major cities and counting illegal vit
Yes during the night after counting was done if Trump had been more ass kissing to people in those areas. And if so then please explain exactly how

Trump is mean to enemies of the constitution

Tell us where this is not so

Tell us exactly what Trump did to scandalize you.


12 posted on 03/10/2022 11:41:25 AM PST by stanne
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How exactly does he hurt himself? They can never explain. They lose it. They use emotional mob responses.

Seriously? Nobody has ever been able to explain to you how some of Trump's language or behavior hurts him politically? Either you haven't been asking, or you haven't been listening, and it is obvious.

I personally know people who voted against Trumps simply because they believed he was unnecessarily coarse and overly confrontational in his language. Those are lost votes. The majority of those, but not all, were independent or Republican-leaning women. My stepdaughter and her husband, both millenials, expressly said they liked his policies but couldn't stand the stuff he said sometimes. Couldn't be persuaded otherwise. And unless I am to believe they were unique...that's a loss.

Now, you may call them idiots, or say their reasoning doesn't make sense to you, but that's not the point. The point is that idiots and people whose reasoning doesn't make sense to you still vote, and their vote counts just as much as yours does.

Trump Won the last election by tens of millions of votes.

By tens of millions of votes??? Sure he did....

13 posted on 03/10/2022 11:50:54 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: struggle

....amazing....!!! I thought I felt the earth shift slightly out of its orbit with the realiztion that this dweeb actually said something NICE about our former President....!! and to think “once upon a time....” he was a conservtive [sic] member of the House of Representatives....he must have drunk the liberal Kool-Aid somewhere along the way.....


14 posted on 03/10/2022 11:52:39 AM PST by TokarevM57
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

That’s no answer


15 posted on 03/10/2022 12:01:12 PM PST by stanne
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To: rktman

Dave Rubin aired a segment a day or two ago showing President Trump speaking at the UN saying it was foolish for the Europeans to make themselves so dependent on a single source ie Russia, for so much of their energy.

Then the camera panned to the German delegation who were all smiling and laughing as he spoke with the usual smugness they have.

As Nigel Farage said: “well, you’re not laughing now are you?”


16 posted on 03/10/2022 12:01:54 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They’d all been warned
And the walls came down
They stood there laughing
They’re not laughing anymore
The walls came down

-The Call


17 posted on 03/10/2022 12:03:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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FU Scarborough and your blond blow up doll.


18 posted on 03/11/2022 12:28:21 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Stupid people breed more stupid people.

Biden’s family is proof of that.


19 posted on 03/11/2022 12:30:35 AM PST by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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