Likely 2024 Republican nominee: "I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine - of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. So Putin is now saying, "It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' 1/6
Likely 2024 Republican nominee (con't): And he's gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That's strongest peace force... We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. 2/6
Likely 2024 Republican nominee (con't): They're going to keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here's a guy who's very savvy... I know him very well. Very, very well. By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. 3/6
Likely 2024 Republican nominee (con't): This would never have happened. But here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,' he used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.'
Likely 2024 Republican nominee (con't): You gotta say that's pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn't have on for that. No, it's very sad. Very sad." 5/6
This unhinged lunatic sycophantically cheering a flailing/failing autocratic petrostate invading a sovereign democracy on border of our military alliance is likely 2024 Republican nominee: we must take his support for autocracy & disregard for life both seriously & literally. 6/6
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2016: Russia cyber-attacks US to help elect Trump; Republicans gut anti-Russian policy from platform
2017: Republicans obstruct investigation into ongoing Russian cyber-attack on US
2018: Trump prostates himself to Putin in Helsinki, declaring his trust of Russia over US
2019: Trump withholds military aid to Ukraine, trying to blackmail them into creating anti-Biden propaganda, Republican back Trump's blackmail attempt
Throughout Trump Presidency: Trump undermines NATO military alliance
2021: Trump attempts coup against US
2022: Trump praises Putin's invasion of Ukraine calling Putin "genius" & "savvy"
Republicans, who backed all of this, claim Putin attacked sovereign democracy Ukraine (after swearing it wouldn't happen) because Biden not tough enough on Putin
Republican position of cheerleading Russian autocrat Putin's invasion of the sovereign democracy Ukraine, while advocating for our potential invasions of Canada and/or Mexico is unique mix of insane, absurd, unpopular, dangerous for US.
Republicans will argue that public cheerleading of Russian invasion of Ukraine & possible US invasion of Mexico come from Trump, and that they are sadly unfamiliar w/ any words that come out of his mouth, but since he their Dear Leader & likely 2024 nominee, I take him seriously.
Imagine telling someone just a few years ago that autocratic Russia would invade a neighboring democracy and (1) Republicans would be rooting for a bloody Russian victory (2) Democrats would be for sending military aid to democracy, sanctions, but against US military engagement.
Republican leadership is actively rooting for failing/flailing petrostate ruled by unhinged autocrat to invade & conquer thriving democracy on edge of NATO allies, consumed by mix of hope it will hurt Biden & lustful support for unhinged autocracy.
There are no easy/obvious good answers to Russian aggression against Ukraine, but actively supporting Russia’s invasion, as many Republican leaders are doing both implicitly & explicitly, is one clear wrong answer.
In world of difficult choices, Biden aggressively arming Ukraine, pushing sanctions & tough negotiations with Putin, while ensuring our military is safely not engaged, is a pretty good response.
Somehow there are members of the mainstream media that treat Republican "concerns" about Biden's *yet-to-be-named* pick for the Supreme Court as good faith concerns.
Beyond the casual racism & misogyny of Republican "concerns" over Biden's *yet-to-be-named* pick for the Supreme Court: any person who backed any/all of Trump's three *super tainted* nominees has no standing to question the legitimacy of Biden's process.
Also, good to know Republicans are concerned about Supreme Court justices rewriting the Constitution as the Republican Supreme Court allowed bounties to overturn access to women's healthcare and is now spurring book banning laws around the country ...
Shorter @Nate_Cohn: confidence in economy tanks with Biden's approval, and Biden's approval tanks in August. And, I would argue Biden's approval tanked in August due to Mainstream Media's 20 day onslaught of anti-Biden headlines around Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden, following Trump's plan, withdrew our military ahead of the 20 year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan: we could have knocked Al Qaeda out and come home, but Bush/Obama/Trump spent nearly 20 years in futile national building.
Mainstream media loved their war though, they were so sad at the prospect of the US not being in a major war! So, when Biden pulled out our military, demonstrating how 20 years had been wasted on a paper government & army, they got mad at Biden and trashed him for weeks.