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More than 60 Republicans [nearly a third of the Republican caucus] today voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.Republicans who voted against Tuesday's resolution included most of Trump's most loyal defenders in Congress, among them: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia; and Jim Jordan of Ohio.The "House Republicans for Authoritarians" caucus.
Wasn't that long ago Republicans were personally kissing Putin's ass. Now they do it with their votes.
More than 60 Republicans [nearly a third of the Republican caucus] today voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.Republicans who voted against Tuesday's resolution included most of Trump's most loyal defenders in Congress, among them: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia; and Jim Jordan of Ohio.The "House Republicans for Authoritarians" caucus.
Wasn't that long ago Republicans were personally kissing Putin's ass. Now they do it with their votes.
More than 60 Republicans [nearly a third of the Republican caucus] today voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.Republicans who voted against Tuesday's resolution included most of Trump's most loyal defenders in Congress, among them: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia; and Jim Jordan of Ohio.The "House Republicans for Authoritarians" caucus.
Wasn't that long ago Republicans were personally kissing Putin's ass. Now they do it with their votes.
What do you expect, CPAC is meeting in Hungary, and is having Orban as a key note speakerThose GQP'ers hate democracy and love Putin.
Well, I consider those the 7 worse people in congress.here's the full list of the 63 asses. i've highlighted a few of the asses...
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More than 60 Republicans [nearly a third of the Republican caucus] today voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.Republicans who voted against Tuesday's resolution included most of Trump's most loyal defenders in Congress, among them: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia; and Jim Jordan of Ohio.The "House Republicans for Authoritarians" caucus.
Wasn't that long ago Republicans were personally kissing Putin's ass. Now they do it with their votes.
It also advocates the creation of a "Center for Democratic Resilience" within NATO's headquarters in Brussels, with the center providing member states assistance to strengthen their own democratic institutions.
As I said on the other thread, isolationism is stupid, but declaring it “treasonous” is equally stupid. America is diving headlong back into McCarthyism.
Yes, that is a product of the growing parochialism and reactionary politics of the far right wing.
Isolationism never really went away. The John Birchers were all about it.
But increasingly, right wing media has catered to isolationism. The strains of it run throughout what is now red state America.
You could overlay a map of KKK clavens across the US, with the current red state map, and they will largely overlap.
Lately, they’ve tried to intellectualize themselves by calling themselves “realists”.
Trump spoke right to this neo nationalism.
And the clown right wing is embracing it too.
Orban's election campaign is right out of the GOP playbook:What do you expect, CPAC is meeting in Hungary, and is having Orban as a key note speaker
More than 60 Republicans [nearly a third of the Republican caucus] today voted against a resolution expressing support for NATO and calling on President Joe Biden to strengthen the organization's committement to defending democracy.Republicans who voted against Tuesday's resolution included most of Trump's most loyal defenders in Congress, among them: Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia; and Jim Jordan of Ohio.The "House Republicans for Authoritarians" caucus.
Wasn't that long ago Republicans were personally kissing Putin's ass. Now they do it with their votes.
At least we know who the potential traitors are
Goldwater also infamously said, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!"Isolationist sentiment waxes and wanes over time. After 9/11 it declined for a while, but I think people are just tired. America can help others, but it’s become blindingly obvious we can’t solve all the world’s problems, and interjecting ourselves into them has left many exhausted.
As for the John Birch Society, I think it was Barry Goldwater who said that the actual Birch would be appalled at the kind of crap that gets spouted in his name.
Do you have a map of KKK clavens? Hyperbole is not helpful.Yes, that is a product of the growing parochialism and reactionary politics of the far right wing.
Isolationism never really went away. The John Birchers were all about it.
But increasingly, right wing media has catered to isolationism. The strains of it run throughout what is now red state America.
You could overlay a map of KKK clavens across the US, with the current red state map, and they will largely overlap.
Lately, they’ve tried to intellectualize themselves by calling themselves “realists”.
Trump spoke right to this neo nationalism.
And the clown right wing is embracing it too.
I know! For example, today Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted the following regarding soon-to-be Justice Jackson:Once again, it has become almost impossible to have an honest conversation about these people because in order to actually to so would immediately violate forum Rules.
That's how bad it has become, that's how dire it is, that's how crazy these people really are.
There is no real "discussion" to be had anymore, beyond "These [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] "
Because short of [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored], we're going to wind up watching them commit atrocities like we've never seen before here in America.
Tell that to the Poles.It's perfectly okay to not want to support NATO. Personally, I think it should have disbanded long ago. We already have mutual defense pacts with many NATO member nations and it isn't as if NATO is particularly useful or doesn't approach situations that we've already come at via other avenues.
Well, they clearly don't support democracy.Just a thought. Those Republicans object to a woman's right to choose yet back those who bomb maternity hospitals, rape and murder children, rape women in front of their spouses and children and then murder them all. So much for family values. If they don't support the principles of NATO and those our own country, they won't represent those values here and will condone it here to meet their objectives.
Goldwater also infamously said, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!"
I agree that isolationism waxes and wanes. It was very powerful in the 1930s, all the way up to Pearl Harbor. Then it was pushed into the background as the US fought WWII and set about arranging a world order designed to avoid another catastrophic war. NATO was one of those arrangements.
Just like democracy itself, some people (see the list above) can be lulled into thinking that peace is something that just happens naturally and doesn't need constant vigilance and sacrifice.
No one does. It's devastating. That's why we can't use nukes or openly confront Russia militarily one-on-one. Neither side would back down, which would inexerably lead to mutual nuclear annihilation.We’ve also been at war for the better part of twenty years. True, it’s been brushfire wars where the average American has had the luxury of conveniently ignoring them, but it just got hammered home that we didn’t actually win those brushfire wars, not really, and Americans don’t handle losing well.
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