18 Republicans -- including MTG, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert -- voted against Sweden and Finland

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

joining NATO

Eighteen Republican lawmakers voted against the US allowing Finland and Sweden to join NATO.

Among the dissenters in the Monday vote were some of the party's farthest-right members, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Matt Gaetz (FL) and Lauren Boebert (CO).

The vote was a symbolic one to express support from the House for the applications — the formal process by which the US can ratify new NATO members takes place in the Senate.

The House bill passed easily with 394 votes, leaving the 18 Republicans in a small minority even among their own party.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/18-republicans-including-mtg-matt-gaetz-and-lauren-boebert-voted-against-sweden-and-finland-joining-nato/ar-AAZJBjE

GOP - Gang of Putin

[Walleye]

1. Such a good little Ruskis

[underpants]

2. All to support Putin's puppet

[Irish_Dem]

3. They were installed by Putin. It is an old KGB tactic.

Put your puppets into high office.

[durablend]

4. I for one am *shocked*

[FakeNoose]

5. Pootie's puppets: Here's the full list

The House bill passed easily with 394 votes, leaving the 18 Republicans in a small minority even among their own party.

Here is the full list:

Andy Biggs (AZ)
Dan Bishop (NC)
Lauren Boebert (CO)
Madison Cawthorn (NC)
Ben Cline (VA)
Michael Cloud (TX)
Warren Davidson (OH)
Matt Gaetz (FL)
Bob Good (OH)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA)
H. Morgan Griffith (VA)
Thomas Massie (KY)
Tom McClintock (CA)
Mary E. Miller (IL)
Ralph Norman (SC)
Matthew M. Rosendale Sr. (MT)
Chip Roy (TX)
Jefferson Van Drew (NJ)

Nineteen US lawmakers didn't vote —17 Republicans and two Democrats.

It's the Senate vote that matters, and I believe it will pass in the Senate.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

6. This just adds fuel to the fire regarding these misfits

I posted this a couple of weeks ago just pondering the sheer improbability of all of these idiots appearing from the ether and getting themselves elected to congress at the same time: https://democraticunderground.com/100216864732

How did this happen? Where did their money come from? Who put them up to running? It just smells awful fishy.

[keep_left]

7. One of the fishier things is that "Explore Talent" website...

...that featured so many of the crazies, at least the female ones. I don't know if MTG was on it, but Boebert definitely was, as was the execrable Emerald Robinson, who was a "reporter" for OANN and NewsMax, and now with LindellTV.

"ExploreTalent.com" reminds me of what started happening in the '90s, when the out-of-shape stuffed shirts running the "think" tanks clearly realized that they didn't look good on TV and started hiring a lot of young blondes and coaching them on movement conservative talking points. So we got Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Monica Crowley, Barbara Olson, etc. Randi Rhodes called them the "right-wing Fembots". A lot of them ended up at Fox News.

What is clear about "ExploreTalent.com" is that no talent is actually there to explore! It has little or nothing to do with show biz. A few reporters and bloggers looked into it for a while and found even more connections to the Trump regime and movement conservatism in general.

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