Steve Schmidt on Zelensky:

[tblue37]

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@ZelenskyyUa is awe inspiring. He is the Elected leader of a democratic nation and his life is on the line. Compare him to the American cowards who buckled at mean tweets from Trump and allowed him to assault American democracy with lies and poisonous conspiracies.

[Budi]

1. .."the American cowards who buckled at mean tweets from Trump"

Bunch of weenies. No mind nor backbone to discern to between good & evil.

[BlueIdaho]

3. Cowards Indeed.

Not a single independent thinker in the bunch. Just a bunch of lock step duck and cover cowards.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. If Zelenskyy endures and Ukraine survives,

We can expect that he'll gain enormously in stature on the world stage. He will become everyone's hero who REALLY risked his life for the sake of his country.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. He may already be there.

His calm strength in this crisis seems a blessing to his nation.

[L. Coyote]

28. And #FailedCoupGuy though he could bully the comedian acting as a President.

Well, the reality show host acting as a president had no clue who he was trying to coerce and intimidate.

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[BadgerMom]

38. I'd take Al Franken over TFG also.

Comedy IS very close to tragedy. Comedians aren’t clowns. Only the unwise would so assume.

[HUAJIAO]

45. I have known a clown for decades. He is a consumate artist.

[BadgerMom]

53. I certainly meant no disrespect to clowns.

In my mind they generally do not play the same role as comedians do though. Maybe my perception is off.

[BadgerMom]

55. The title to response #53 has me laughing.

It’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.

[GeoWilliam750]

47. Comedians are usually the smartest guys in the room, and often amongst the kindest

Never get into an argument with a comedian. You will lose, badly, and look really stupid.

[secondwind]

57. Forget "ashamed", I'm past that... am ANGRY now...

[pandr32]

17. He's already there

This will chafe Putin's hide intensely.

[smb]

30. How Much Of A Wimp Do You Have To Be To Quake In Fear Before CADET BONE SPURS?? nt

[ffr]

2. The difference between those who have courage and those who don't

[calimary]

8. MAN! What a contrast!

Zelenskyy will be a towering figure whether he survives or not. His courage and leadership against a powerful adversary is already proven. And widely Re big used and documented.

He’s a true hero. And think - he used to make his living being a comedian. Wonder who’s laughing now?

[soldierant]

44. I'm deeply impressed, and yet

somehow not surprised.

Comedians have a long and honorable history - literally thousands of years - of speaking truth to power, even when - especially when - no one else could.

Being a comedian is one of the most difficult and challenging things that anyone can do.

[calimary]

52. They do deal with "incoming". Mostly, from rowdy club crowds throwing curses and tomatoes.

THIS former comedian is dealing with LITERAL incoming. As in bullets and bombs. And he refuses to leave the "stage."

This reminds me of something the current Queen Elizabeth's mom once said. It was during WW2, and Hitler's blitzkrieg of London. THAT Queen Elizabeth (later known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), was asked about the danger to their two little little girls, Elizabeth and Margaret, while they stayed in London. The Queen Mum answered: "the children will leave when I leave. And I will leave when the King leaves. And the King will never leave." And evidently, that won more hearts for the British monarchy than almost anything else that the royal family had ever done.

Gotta say, as a mom and a wife (and a grandmother), I still get chills when I think about that.

[txwhitedove]

23. Truth!

[highplainsdem]

5. K&R!!!

[paleotn]

6. Person of the year. The epitome of leadership.

I can't heap enough praise on the guy. Some people fold, some people run, others stand.

[calimary]

10. Yep. I can see the Time magazine cover now.

Wouldn’t surprise me if somebody there hasn’t already designed one.

[housecat]

12. Indeed

[Jarqui]

7. Zelenskyy wouldn't cower when Trump threatened him ...

Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, the rest of the GOP, etc ... they can't say the same thing.
You don't want those guys beside you in a fight. They're yellow. They have no spine. No conviction to what they claim to stand for. They'll turn tail and run when the going gets tough.

Zelenskyy ... (paraphrased) "I don't need a ride out of here (to escape) ... I need ammo to fight."
This is nothing new for him. He didn't turn his back on the US when Trump tried to screw Biden over with a fabricated Ukraine scandal.

[Traildogbob]

15. GD right

And they praise Putin bravery. Those spineless GQP assholes need none stop exposure. The image of McCarthy running from reporters and the same for Pompeo. The media ammunition is right there for the taking. Can any Hollywood film creator get the fuck on this and run adds 24/7?
The bravery of all of Ukraine 🇺🇦 is making America look like the cowards we’ve become in the eyes of the whole world.
And now NC is filing with the bought for Supreme Court to allow every state to chose their voters and eliminate all Others. Where is the Nation’s backbone and outrage at Putin’s attack on us?
Ukraine is a template for those that deserve democracy and will to give all to keep it. As so many dead veterans have done in our history. But to hell with them. Putin is the guiding light of the GQP, Fox, and Bannon. We can’t even administer Justice. I am becoming ashamed of the country I volunteered to serve and was willing to die for. I am sick of this shit.
Thank you Joe Biden but if we do not have his back, it will all be gone beginning next January. We should be rallying behind him as Ukraine is behind the fearless comedian they democratically elected after ousting the Putin puppet Manafort, trumps campaign manager to remind everyone, who is roaming freely with the treasonous General Flynn. Zelenskyy is a fearless leader from a comedian background.
Trump is a coward Joke of a man.

[Justice matters.]

25. THIS! TRUTH!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank YOU!!

[smb]

31. They Should Be Running Clips Of GQP Cowards Running From Reporters

Better yet, either

1. Play the clip in slow-mo set to the "Chariots of Fire" theme.

2. Play the clip in jerky double-speed set to "Yakity Sax".

[Traildogbob]

33. I love both ideas.

Unlimited footage of the cowards they are. Remember the fat boy being shuffled off stage at a Jamboree supremacy gathering?

[smirkymonkey]

43. +1000

[Farmer-Rick]

58. Putin is no leader or KGB mastermind

He made 05 in 16 years at the KGB. Why did he take so long? I have friends who made 05 in 10 years, unrestricted line, some of the specialities can make rank even faster. It depends on how good you are. 05 in 16 years is hmmm ok. I would be happy with that. But it isn't something to write home about.

So, he wasn't a Super Star in the KGB. Probably because he didn't work well with others. Duplicity and egotism can only take you so far. There comes a time where you actually have to do something.

He then got voted into a fledgling democracy. A democracy that had come out of a totalitarian government. A democracy that was barely standing on its own legs and what does he do? Takes the country backwards to a dictatorship.

That's not leadership, that's laziness. He couldn't understand what a democracy should be or how to support it, so he falls into the already developed, easily understood dictatorship. He's a lazy man who doesn't have any idea what true leadership is.

[gab13by13]

9. Putler has plain clothes assassins

in Kyiv looking for Zalensky, I hope he is well protected.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. If Zelensky pulls this off...

This being successfully defending his nation against Russia’s military; he will have earned all the accolades coming at him. I see big things.

I want him to have them all, and still be here to share the success with his countrymen and women.

[world wide wally]

14. This guy has stood up to both Trump and Putin.

He certainly has earned the respect of the entire world.

[Peregrine Took]

16. The moment and the man....when its right its historic.

I'm so impressed with him being out there every day, doing 2 or 3 videos, to stiffen some spines and inspire everyone.

[XacerbatedDem]

18. Contrast that to that twerp who packed his bags full of money and ran out of Afghanistan....

first chance he got.

[Rebl2]

19. So very true!

Republicans cower in fear going against tfg.

[bringthePaine]

20. spot-fucking-on! refuKKKchickens are a worthless lot of wankers...

[bullwinkle428]

21. As well as every POS, cos-playing asshole who posed with a big gun to show

how "tough" they were or are. The very first ones that would run as fast as their legs could carry them in the other direction, at the first sign of a fight.

[niyad]

22. KNR plus a gazillion. For truth!

[spanone]

24. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

26. Zelensky is the goddamn man!

[BidenRocks]

50. He is the war time President

Bush never was!

[L. Coyote]

29. Things sane people and good christians would never say!

[FakeNoose]

32. No reason to escalate, it's already scary enough

If we were to provoke anything now, it would only set off the powder keg. How would that help Ukraine?

[ShazzieB]

42. No. Just NO.

Please, get a grip. This is not helpful.

[Evolve Dammit]

34. Steve Schmidt nails it again.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Here are some more tweets from Steve Schmidt

Schmidt is correct on Velensskyy

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[Cha]

40. ".Will become Putin's Doom.."

Rts TY, LMPV!
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[monkeyman1]

49. Donald run's to a MF bunker ! fortifying the WH cause he might cry !!

GOP fucking loser's !

[The Unmitigated Gall]

36. And the roving bands

Of cowards calling themselves “proud boys”.

[DLevine]

37. K&R

[Cha]

39. Excellent! Rt TY & Steve Schmidt!

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[sarchasm]

41. KnR!!

[SWBTATTReg]

48. He makes such an important comparison of the republican cowards of today, doesn't he?

tRump is a joke, and will get worse as time goes by, and fewer and fewer will listen to him, and truly see what tRump is, a money-grubbing republican (in name only).

[SouthernDem4ever]

51. Brilliant Observation

[crickets]

54. So, the latest Repub talking point is to compare Zelenskyy to Biden,

so they can say how weak they think Biden is. It never occurs them to compare Zelenskyy to themselves.

C'mere Cancun Cruz. Let's hear all about your strength and backbone in a crisis.

[brewens]

56. You have to be pretty sharp to be a comedian. It's not very often you get someone smart

that actually wants to do a good job as president, in any country. I bet he's even listening to experts.

[L. Coyote]

59. And he earned a law degree, which also requires some smarts.

In 2015, Zelenskyy became the star of the television series Servant of the People, where he played the role of the president of Ukraine.[22] In the series, Zelenskyy's character was a high-school history teacher in his 30s who won the presidential election after a viral video showed him ranting against government corruption in Ukraine. wiki

[tblue37]

60. I'm sure they're also afraid of Kompromat.