Did Russia Invade Ukraine? Is Putin a Dictator? We Asked Every Republican Member of Congress | Two simple questions, few straight answers
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/republicans-dictator-putin-ukraine/681841/?gift=kbEy03BXZP-mub8VUexfQYbYbopJvkF7BYqQbm49vRgOpen linkView original on slrpnk.net
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Hearing the GOP fall silent on Post-Soviet Russian Aggression would have both Reagan and my grandfather rolling in their graves…
Wtf happened to the US man…
Conservatives didn't care about being conservative, they just cared about being rich.
Yeah and reagan started the fall with deficits. Before that controlling the debt was a conservative thing. They have abandoned everything except tax cuts and deregulation.
Which is the part that I really don’t get; How fucking dumb do you have to be to think you will still be rich and powerful after the Dollar is worth nothing? Not to mention what’s going to happen to Judges and Congresspersons when they become useless to the administration.
I think the teach tech bros think they have enough bitcoin that they'll come out ahead in the event of a dollar collapse.
I think they're wrong.
All things come to an end. Even the US
The crazy thing is the person who told me this as a child doesn't recognize that it's happening right now
Maybe it's the plastic in our brains? I swear humanity is getting noticeably stupider year over year
More likely lead in the gasoline
Social media that other people consume, not us, we're smart.
That too! But there have been a lot of studies done and there’s a very strong correlation between lead in gasoline and the loss in critical thinking and the increase in aggression of affected groups, especially as they age.
Yeah I honestly think we should pass a law that says any campaign donation needs to have a name on it. I don’t care if 2000 people donate to a super pac and a company sticks it’s name on it, or if all 2000 people are identified, but anonymously giving people money is a no go for private citizens EVEN IF IT”S NOT TAXABLE
Fox News.
Basically.
Reagan happened to the US.
They know the right answer and they know the Trump answer
You have to specify which one you want
But if you want the right answer you're gonna have to wait 4 years for it, the great emperor doesn't like the right answer
What's going to be different in 4 years?
Possibly Trump gets shot and Vance declares himself emperor
The Atlantic was going to publish any response, no matter how bonkers. If a congresscritter decided to send them a Saturday Night Live skit about beavers building a dam in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, they'd have described that response in the article.
Can we elect you? Cause that sounds like a very interesting response. Congress interpretive dance, at it were.
I suspect that my extensive online comment history is utterly disqualifying
Have you seen the shit that comes out of Republican representative mouths? You're good.
Republicans don’t have to be perfect like everyone else does.
Putin's a dictator and Trump's his dick taster
What does that mean? Do they want Europe to deploy a million soldiers to Ukraine?
Someone should tell him that the EU already massively outspends Russia and has more active military personnel, before you even include non-EU NATO members like the UK and Norway