“480 Minutes” - Grand Old Traitors
The week in review:
Georgia Representative Marjory Taylor Green introduced an amendment to strip $400 million in funding to the NATO Security Investment program, which she claimed sends U.S. taxpayer money to help the militaries of our European allies, falsely suggesting said allies won’t fight for themselves. Marge was clearly completely unaware of what she was talking about: the NATO Security investment program builds & maintains infrastructure for U.S. troops serving abroad. Her amendment is treasonous & would be even if what it did what she said/thought it did. Weakening/defunding NATO is high on Putin’s wish list. That is what the MAGA moron thought she was doing, but couldn't even get that right.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville announced that Russia wants peace & it’s the U.S. wants war in Ukraine. This is a Putin talking point coming out of the mouth of a U.S. Senator, undermining U.S. foreign policy & weakening our alliances.
The convicted felon running for President announced that he would fire all the “woke” generals in the military. Let that sink in for a moment — the know-nothing serial-llying draft-dodging criminal who thinks he’s pals with Putin promised he will fire highly qualified officers who spent decades serving their country & rising to the top of the military…because he labels them “woke?” There are several frightening aspects to this, I’ll limit my commentary to two. First, he already tried to get the military to seize voting machines back in 2016 based soley on his Big Lie; had he fired the career officers & installed his lackeys in their place, he might have gotten away with that…and declaring martial law…and any number of other coup-related steps on his way to refusing to give up power. Second, who would benefit most from beheading the U.S. military? That’s right, Vlad the Invader.
House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson appointed insurrectionist Scott Perry (R-PA) & alcoholic White House Pez-like drug dispenser Ronny Jackson (R-TX) to the House Intelligence Committee, thereby giving MAGA extremists seats at the table to receive sensitive, highly classified information. Johnson flies down to Mar-a-Lago (or to the outside of a NYC courthouse) to kiss the ring when summoned. Who would most benefit from that information? First, the convicted felon, who could use any such information to try to solicit help from his pal, Putin, so second, you guessed it: Putin.
The Republican Party is doing Putin’s bidding, & whether it is witting or unwitting, it represents a clear & present danger to the national security of the U.S. and our allies.
[deep breath]
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