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Russian State TV Hails Republicans
Right-wing Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) won a significant new fan -- Kremlin state TV -- for refusing to stand and applaud Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he spoke to Congress in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday.
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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2022-12-26 11:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
Aspiring to be a quisling seems like a poor life choice.
#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2022-12-26 11:21 AM | Reply
Kremlin TV is smitten with the GQP standard-bearer.
#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-26 12:02 PM | Reply
As i noted in a comment a couple days ago... once I had to wonder how far into the GOP that Russia as penetrated.
Nowadays, the GOP makes it easy to discern.
Maria Butina, explained: the accused Russian spy who tried to sway US politics through the NRA (2018) www.vox.com
...She met with Donald Trump Jr. and lived with a Republican consultant. Where will this investigation lead?... It's long been known that Butina and Russian central bank official Alexander Torshin have spent years cozying up to the NRA. For instance, they've hosted NRA bigwigs in Moscow, and Butina was a conspicuous fixture on the conservative conference circuit. Now, the government alleges that Butina was carrying out a plan to influence American politics on behalf of a Russian government official (Torshin). The plan, they say, was to try to influence the Republican Party to be friendlier to Russia, by way of the NRA. But Butina didn't inform the US government she was acting as a foreign agent on American soil, which would be illegal. Much of Butina's alleged conduct seems to have involved socializing and attending US political events, which may not seem all that dastardly. But we've gotten hints that there's much more to come. ...
It's long been known that Butina and Russian central bank official Alexander Torshin have spent years cozying up to the NRA. For instance, they've hosted NRA bigwigs in Moscow, and Butina was a conspicuous fixture on the conservative conference circuit.
Now, the government alleges that Butina was carrying out a plan to influence American politics on behalf of a Russian government official (Torshin). The plan, they say, was to try to influence the Republican Party to be friendlier to Russia, by way of the NRA. But Butina didn't inform the US government she was acting as a foreign agent on American soil, which would be illegal.
Much of Butina's alleged conduct seems to have involved socializing and attending US political events, which may not seem all that dastardly. But we've gotten hints that there's much more to come. ...
- and another -
Beyond the N.R.A.: Maria Butina's Peculiar Bid for Russian Influence (2018) www.nytimes.com
...Twelve days after a young Russian gun-rights activist gained access to some of America's most prominent conservatives, at an elegant dinner near the Capitol, a Republican operative was eager to keep the momentum going. In a February 2017 email, the operative, Paul Erickson, proposed another "U.S./Russia friendship" dinner. He noted that the activist, Maria Butina, who now is accused of being a covert Russian agent, was making an "ever-expanding circle of influential friends."... - and, some pics - twitter.com (2019) ...Could be about how the GOP worked with Maria Butina and NRA to funnel illegal campaign donations from Russians to their campaign coffers. ...
In a February 2017 email, the operative, Paul Erickson, proposed another "U.S./Russia friendship" dinner. He noted that the activist, Maria Butina, who now is accused of being a covert Russian agent, was making an "ever-expanding circle of influential friends."...
- and, some pics -
twitter.com (2019)
...Could be about how the GOP worked with Maria Butina and NRA to funnel illegal campaign donations from Russians to their campaign coffers. ...
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 07:37 PM | Reply
One thing I know for sure beyond all shadow of doubt -- Biden's support of Zelenskyy is costing me with high inflation for food and other sundry items.
#5 | Posted by wolfdog at 2022-12-27 11:03 AM | Reply | Funny: 5
#5 | POSTED BY WOLFDOG
And you would be wrong. The Ukraine war has very little to do with it. And Biden's support of Ukraine or lack thereof would not change a battle scarred Ukraine.
Curious how you don't blame Putin though, comrade.
#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2022-12-27 11:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4
Biden's support of Zelenskyy is costing me with high inflation for food and other sundry items. #5 | POSTED BY WOLFDOG
No it isn't. Putin's attack on Zelensky is what's doing that.
#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-12-27 11:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 6
How come nobody talks about Democrats against helping Ukraine?
I feel all alone over here. I hate the Repukes I vote democratic but I'm against arming and paying the Nazis.
I'm funny that way. I think Ethnic supremacist thinking is wrongheaded and should be discouraged. Russia is a multi-ethnic state that is inclusive. The Ukraine is bunch of ethno-bigots And I can't figure out why the Dems side with them.
Russia invaded in part to stop brutal ethnically based attacks on civilians. They annexed the Donbass to stop this. If the Ukrainian's don't want the Donbass, maybe they should just give it up and move on without it. But that Means losing the industrial heartland of their country. Of course the greedy corrupt bastards don't want to give That up.
They want to kill off the Russians living there and just take it.
And America is eager to help. The Dems leading the charge.
#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 12:00 PM | Reply
#7 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2022-12-27 11:34 AM |
Bullschitt
Reckless spending is causing inflation
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-12-27 12:08 PM | Reply
Russia knows the cheapest way to destroy america is to republicans win.
#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-12-27 12:13 PM | Reply
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Did you say that when trump made it train trillions on rich people?
#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-12-27 12:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 4
#8 | Posted by Effeteposer
There are mexicans living in texas who wish texas was part of mexico. Does that mean mexico can invade texas?
#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-12-27 12:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
"I feel all alone over here. I hate the Repukes I vote democratic but I'm against arming and paying the Nazis. " - Effetloser
You are such a giant effing moron who seems to have totally bought into the Russian propaganda on the topic. As far right wing as the current leader of Israel yet is he is still not a NAZI. Yet, you claim the 'jewish' leader of Ukraine is a NAZI because he commands a battlion of soldiers, that is now destroyed, that had a lot of NAZI elements in it? You do realize that the Russian military infiltrated Eastern Ukraine and Crimea with special forces operators and intelligence agents to provoke the Russian speaking people of those areas to rebel against their own interests i.e. Ukraine? The Russians did the same in Georgia. Putler was pissed off because the Ukrainians had a mini revolt to oust the corrupt Russian leader...an agent, a bootlicker kissing Putler's ass so as to keep 'all' of the people of that country in quasi slavery. Why would I think you would not realize this when you come off as somebody that would never wish to live under XI, Putler or Stalin but completely expect other people to give up their freedoms to live under tyrants like these dictators?
#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2022-12-27 12:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5
- There are mexicans living in texas who wish texas was part of mexico. Does that mean mexico can invade texas?
Only if Vlad says so.....
#14 | Posted by Corky at 2022-12-27 12:27 PM | Reply
@#8 ... Russia invaded in part to stop brutal ethnically based attacks on civilians. ...
Pres Putin did his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine because he is of the view that Ukraine should not exist as a sovereign country, that Ukraine is a part of Russia.
All the other excuses for Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine proffered by your alias are merely deflections.
#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
Reckless spending is causing inflation #9 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
Got any examples? Buying Trump NFTs, is that reckless?
#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-12-27 12:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#15 I always thought that too. I mean half the Soviet leaders were Ukrainian,the whole Russian civilization is linked inseparably to Ukraine,so yeah,maybe Ukraine is a part of Russia.
And troublemaking Western Meddlers are trying to take it away.
But that won't happen. The Western half maybe. But the East ain't going anywhere.
The Western Ukrainian's should just leave.isn't that what Ethnic Cleanser Boy said about the Russians in the East?
The Ukraine should be partitioned and the East vo into the Russian federation. The West can go it Alone or become parts of Poland and Romania.
Then they would already be in NATO,everybody gets what they want.
#17 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 01:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
so yeah, maybe Ukraine is a part of Russia.
17 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER
The Ukrainians keep saying not.
I keep identifying pro-Russian arguments with pro-Trump arguments and so by extension kleptocratic fascist arguments.
We don't need people like you being rewarded for aggression.
#18 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 01:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER
Putin will die of cancer or be assassinated by one or more of the Russian satraps he is trying to assassinate first.
After that the war in Ukraine will stop.
#19 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 01:28 PM | Reply
@#17 ... The Ukraine should be partitioned ...
That is up to the sovereign country of Ukraine.
It is not up to Pres Putin and his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country.
... the East vo into the Russian federation. The West can go it Alone...
What makes you think that Pres Putin would stop with just the eastern part of Ukraine? He has said that all of Ukraine should be Russia.
#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 01:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
If the Ukraine dissolved and the western half was absorbed by Romania and Poland that area would be in NATO. Problem solved. Everybody wins. Except of course, the Ukrainian ultranationalists. They would have to get new day jobs.
Boo Hoo.
#21 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 01:37 PM | Reply
the Ukrainian ultranationalists.
#21 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER
You've explained why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard and so well.
They really want their own homeland which, if memory serves, has already been in existence since the fall of the Soviet Union.
#22 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
You want to start a dead pool as to how long Putin stays alive?
I say that he is dead six months from now to the day.
Ukraine will enjoy the next summer without war.
#23 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 01:49 PM | Reply
@#21 ...Problem solved. Everybody wins....
Nobody wins.
Pres Putin does not get all of Ukraine, which he has said should not exist as a separate country from Russia. Which means he will invade again to get the rest of Ukraine.
The sovereign country of Ukraine no longer exists.
That aside... Why reward Pres Putin with a part of what he wants as a reward for his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country?
I have a different idea... Pres Putin stops his unprovoked invasion, withdraws the Russian troops and returns all the occupied territory back to Ukraine.
#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 02:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Russia says Ukraine must surrender or face continued war www.irishtimes.com
...Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said Ukraine must surrender or face continued war, even as Moscow's troops have been forced to retreat in a series of damaging defeats. In an interview with the state-run news service Tass published on Tuesday, Mr Lavrov said Ukraine must cede sovereignty over territories annexed by Russia since president Vladimir Putin's February 24th invasion. He reiterated unfounded claims that Russia's aim in starting the war was "the de-Nazification and de-militarisation of Ukraine"....
In an interview with the state-run news service Tass published on Tuesday, Mr Lavrov said Ukraine must cede sovereignty over territories annexed by Russia since president Vladimir Putin's February 24th invasion. He reiterated unfounded claims that Russia's aim in starting the war was "the de-Nazification and de-militarisation of Ukraine"....
#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 02:03 PM | Reply
If Putin is dead. It won't mean jack. There are plenty of others in Russia to carry on. This war is bigger than Putin or Zelinsky,it's about whether or not the West takes over in Eurasia.
My bet is No. The West will try. But fail. NATO is fracturing more every day,the Germans and French are losing patience with being US vassals forced to deindustrialize their economies because the US demands it.They want cheap Russian energy not expensive American imports that only benefit the US at their expense.
The long game favors Russia. More economically than militarily.
#26 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 02:05 PM | Reply
@#26 ... This war is bigger than Putin or Zelinsky,it's about whether or not the West takes over in Eurasia. ...
That is how Pres Putin changed his framing of the war a couple three months ago when he started facing significant losses in the battlefield.
He framed it as a war with the West.
Not surprising your alias is repeating that propaganda.
#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 02:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
@#26 ... NATO is fracturing more every day ...
NATO and the EU are stronger and more united than they have been in many years, thanks to Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine.
NATO may even get stronger should Sweden and Finland join.
Pres Putin was hoping for a fractured NATO, but he is faced with a strong and united NATO and EU.
#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
If Putin is dead. It won't mean jack.
#26 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER
When Putin is dead.
It'll mean the same thing as when Hitler died.
#29 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 02:54 PM | Reply
The long game favors Russia.
We've been in the long game since Russia retreated from Kiyyv.
Maybe you mean the long-long game.
#30 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 02:56 PM | Reply
The long game hasn't even started yet. When the dollar stops being the international currency then you'll see the consequences of the long game. When Europe stopping kissing American ass and stands up for their own interests and not ours then you'll see the long game.
When NATO fractures on the sanctions and some members refuse to impose them then you'll see the long game.
If another front opens in Serbia/Kosovo will NATO bomb Serbia again?
Will they intervene militarily on the ground?
More war. All thanks to the "defensive" alliance that only serves "peaceful" interests.
#31 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 03:07 PM | Reply
The long game hasn't even started yet.
#31 | POSTED BY EFFETEPOSER
If it's going to start after the war is over, then it is not a long game but a new one entirely.
Ukraine is winning the war and your'r hell-bent in telling us that's disaster.
Being a Russophile is not a bad thing in itself but being a Putin dogmatist is disgusting.
#32 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-27 03:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Winning? That's a tad premature. The front is stable and the Ukrainian rear is getting pummeled by missiles and drones. Half the country has electrical disruptions daily. The Ukrainians keep pushing And losing like 500+ people a day. The Russians have more reserves.
Unless NATO intends to start putting boots on the ground in the Ukraine the losses are going to start biting hard on them.
Russia certainly could lose, but it's not clear if they will yet.
The Poles are amassing a huge army. They may come into the fight.
If so, who knows what the consequences would be? If Russia stays conventional that could break them. .
#33 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2022-12-27 03:42 PM | Reply
The long game favors the Allies and democracy.
Always has. Always will.
Like crispy fried Hitler, Putin will just end up on the ash heap of history.
#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2022-12-27 03:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
The Ukraine is starting to do the things that will push Putin out of power. They are starting to return fire in Russia. This draws the attention of the Russian public in a way their national news can't deny, can't spin as something else, as they see it with their own eyes.
I would hesitate to say that removing Putin will be for the betterment of The Ukraine. Those in the wings to replace him are not better or nicer people.
#35 | Posted by BBQ at 2022-12-27 03:54 PM | Reply
"This draws the attention of the Russian public in a way their national news can't deny, can't spin as something else, as they see it with their own eyes."
I think you underestimate the power of propaganda.
Who will they believe Putin or their lying eyes? Sound familiar??
#36 | Posted by donnerboy at 2022-12-27 03:58 PM | Reply
GOP selling their loyalty to a failed state for the sake of some campaign rubles.
Less than a year after the invasion started, Russia's military and economy is wrecked. Wonder if the GOPher love for Russia will last out the next year.
#37 | Posted by censored at 2022-12-27 04:39 PM | Reply
"One thing I know for sure beyond all shadow of doubt -- Biden's support of Zelenskyy is costing me with high inflation"
Good Christ you're dumb.
First, that doesn't explain inflation in the rest of the world.
Second, the reason your inflation is so high is your leader invaded another country, and you support him.
#38 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-12-27 04:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#31 | Posted by Effeteposer
Putin just threw another russian businessman off a hotel for being anti war.
#39 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-12-27 05:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"Putin just threw another russian businessman off a hotel for being anti war."
Ah, yes...another sad case of Window Cancer.
#40 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-12-27 05:29 PM | Reply
Look at the positive side of all this. Republicans don't have to worry about falling down stairs or about falling out windows.
#43 | Posted by wolfdog at 2022-12-28 04:38 AM | Reply
Why does Tucker always look confused in every picture anyone from any media source takes?
#44 | Posted by VictorZiblis at 2022-12-28 10:14 AM | Reply
"Why does Tucker always look confused in every picture anyone from any media source takes?"
That's his schtick. The wha...? look on his face. Lefties think it shows him to be a fool. People for whom the jury is still out on the subject need significantly more convincing because they take that look to be an expression of righteous condemnation.
#45 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2022-12-28 10:19 AM | Reply
People for whom the jury is still out on the subject need significantly more convincing because they take that look to be an expression of righteous condemnation.
#45 | POSTED BY HAGBARD_CELINE AT 2022-12-28 10:19 AM | FLAG:
He likes to pretend he's "just asking questions." In reality, of course, his whole agenda is to go against anything a Democrat says. I know the current brand of conservatism is all in on authoritarian regimes.
I've got to say, however, that the degree to which Lil Tuckems is willing to shill for Putin makes me think something else is at play. Financial benefits, for example, or maybe he's being blackmailed. He knows he's being used as propaganda by the world's most ruthless anti-American dictator, and clearly he's OK with that. And so are his viewers. But still they wave the American flag. Seems incongruous if you ask me.
#46 | Posted by cbob at 2022-12-28 01:58 PM | Reply
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