This Maria Butina lady reminds me of the old joke about a lady

[PCIntern]

Named Virginia Pipeline....

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/45d48y/virginia_pipeline/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

There must be something very hot going about this woman which still photographs do not convey. People sell out their country for her - I don’t see it. But what do I know?

[malaise]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Wounded Bear]

2. Some of the sexiest women I have known weren't particularly "beautiful"...

in the classic sense anyway.

[PCIntern]

3. I understand and agree completely

But her photos are not particularly flattering in any sense but obviously I’m missing something. I admit it.

[H2O Man]

12. Perhaps it is better

to consider her target audience, as opposed to her.

[Hotler]

4. Floyd R. Turbo please report to GD. You might want to see this.

[Sanity Claws]

5. I think her popularity is based on the lack of young women with right wing views

Not that many young women are right wingers. Think of all the pictures you have seen of women at the Trump rallies. Most are way over 50.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. There is no shortage of man-sluts

Women who are so inclined have no trouble exploiting this weakness. Physical attractiveness plays a very small role.

[dhill926]

7. Um excuse me...I'm a man...

and you are absolutely correct...

[Cirque du So-What]

9. There was a time...

when that term would apply to me. I've come a long way since yesterday.

[enough]

8. She knows how to appeal to unsavvy men who

imagine that her interest in them is personal. To them, that is irresistible.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. I don't think she's unattractive by any sense.

Not a necessarily a total bombshell, but when your dealing with a guy who looks like this, for example.....



....and couple it with the fact that the woman has an exotic foreign accent, you know that this is going to be a far better deal than you'll probably ever expect in life, so it's a moth to the flame type of situation.

Now, Bryne admittedly was a far better looking guy than Erickson, with that whole steel-jawed middle-aged blond thing going on, but even he was probably easily seduced by a foreign redhead far his junior, because he seems like the meat-headed guy who probably would get excited by such a thing.

[PCIntern]

13. And I get that but

When I was single I had GORGEOUS women try to make a “trade” with me for dental services and refused because it was not only grotesquely unethical but a sure way to get blackmailed/sued/licensure revoked. These people are running with a Russian national who might obviously be a spy. Insane if you ask me. But what do I know?

[Kid Berwyn]

11. What Peter Wolf said.