Summary
Republican lawmakers who have condemned Putin hesitate to criticize Trump’s recent pro-Russia stance.
Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for the war, called President Zelenskyy a “dictator,” and demanded Ukraine surrender rare earth minerals in exchange for U.S. aid.
While some GOP officials reaffirmed support for Ukraine, they avoided directly challenging Trump. Meanwhile, Trump’s administration negotiated a Russia-Ukraine peace deal without initially including Ukraine.
Zelenskyy rejected Trump’s minerals demand, warning of dangerous precedents.
Blows my mind, having grown up in the age of Reagan Republicans, to see how Republicans act today, vs then. Its so weird.
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IMO… Reagan republicans would have behaved like this if they could have gotten away with it.
They’ve been working on getting to this point for a very, very long time.
Reagan republicans would have behaved like this if they could have gotten away with it.
No. Hard-disagree with that. For the Republican party members in Congress at least. Those who voted for them, some not, some so.
The greatest generation types would not stand for how the country is currently being used, and they spilled blood on foreign sands to earn that right of judgement.
I gotta believe that Nixon has got to be doing cartwheels in his coffin right now (he might of actually been cremated/urned, but you know what I mean), seeing what Trump/MAGA gets away with, when he was just trying to ease-drop on some opponents and used the FBI to do so.
you mean… such Republican Luminaries™️ like Mitch McConnell? who refused to even hold hearings on Obama’s supreme court negotiations to SCOTUS? ensuring trump had more picks than necessary?
or Sen. Chuck Grassley, or Rep. Hal Rogers? both of whom bend the knee.
McConnell has done more to help trump get- and return- to office than any other person alive.
All three of them started their careers during the reagan era. You act like Trump just showed up and took over. he was a useful patsy to the republican agenda, but that’s about it. Trump is able to do all of this without much (or any) pushback from republicans not because they’re weak and powerless, but because, rather, this is exactly what they’ve been working for.
Edit: and lets not forget reagan’s “agenda”… limited government, tax cuts, strong national defense, and traditional social values… sound familiar?
No, he doesn’t. He means the generation of Republicans even older than them, who fought in WWII and were senior congressmen during the Reagan administration.
^ This.
All of them served during Reagan. maybe not senior, but that’s just moving goal posts. and as someone else mentioned, Roger Stone.
Republican’s have been baking this cake for decades, and they don’t get to pretend like it’s all just Trump.
“Zelensky is a ruthless dictator that started the war, but if he gives is rare minerals we will give him weapons”
I’m baffled Trump can make this kind of argument and nobody on his party A. Calls him out for saying Ukraine is a dictatorship that started the war B. Calls him out for gleefully announcing he will support a warring dictatorship for a price
Bunch of traitors.
Actually, no. It’s worse than that.
Trump isn’t asking for rare earth minerals in exchange for weapons. Trump is demanding the rare earth minerals as retroactive payment for weapons already received. If Zelensky signs over 50% of the mineral rights as payment for past aid, then maybe Trump would be willing to strike a deal for new weapons depending on what else Zelensky is willing to give up. Maybe.
Some R’s have spoken out:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/putin-dictator-gop-balks-trump-212234635.html
Bunch of cuck bitch traitors.
Rotten to the very core serving the felon king.
Reagan would be rolling in his grave now. Given that he was one of the key players to pave the way for this, I’d laugh at the irony of it if, you know, it wasn’t screwing the whole world over.
Back in the day, a Soviet leader said that when the time came to kill the West, they’d use weapons an American businessman sold them.
edit = did a search and apparently it’s a spurious quote that can’t be verified.
On the other hand, it sure looks accurate right now.
The capitalist will sell you the rope for his own noose or something?
Apparently, it’s been attributed to everyone from Marx to Gorbachev and never been verified as an actual quote.
otoh, it’s sure looking accurate right now.
Kompromat.
Gaetz. Epstein. Drake.
I personallybelieve the US was always some sort of corporate authoritarianism. Democrats that spoke against the corporate status quo often got shoved aside.
But now more than ever we have entered a naked Authorian Era of single party rule. The penalty of going against an authoritarian ruler is literal career suicide so they have to toe the party line. Even if they’re against it.
And the opposition party? It doesn’t exist, the democratic party was never an opposition party and they enabled a lot of what is happening now for reasons I just mentioned.
A Conversation With Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/america-path-authoritarianism-democracy-trump
