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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Tue Jun 1, 2021, 04:42 AM Jun 2021

Tiffany, Fitzgerald Compare Biden To Hugo Chavez

US Representatives Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald, both devout MAGAts and GQP, sent out a fundraiser letter in which they tried to compare Joe Biden to the late Hugo Chavez.

The report comes from James Wigderson at White Wisconsin, er, Right Wisconsin, who took over the site when Charlie Sykes left for the glamour and big bucks of national TV:

Congressmen Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) are asking for your money to prevent President Joe Biden from doing to America what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela.

No, really. We can’t make this stuff up.

“It took Hugo Chavez years to push Venezuela’s once-prosperous economy to brink of collapse,” Tiffany and Fitzgerald wrote in an email to their fundraising list. “But just over 100 days into Joe Biden’s term, he and Nancy Pelosi’s ‘rubber stamp’ Congress are taking our country down that same dangerous road.”

The “road” the congressmen then describe is the shutdown of an oil pipeline due to cyberterrorism, which they claim is the fantasy of Biden, Pelosi, Michigan Governor Christine Whitmer and the rest of the Democratic Party.

“If they get their way, the gas lines and fuel shortages gripping parts of our country today could go national tomorrow,” Fitzgerald and Tiffany wrote.


Wigderson goes on to remind his readers of who Chavez was and what he did:

Let’s remember what Chavez actually did in Venezuela. He declared “economic war” on wealthy opponents, nationalized industries, used mobs to attack his opponents, violently suppressed the previously-free press, and arrested his critics. In addition, Chavez ran up deficit spending and instituted prices controls, resulting in shortages across the country (including food). In directing Venezuela’s foreign policy, Chavez preferred the support of dictatorships. At home, Chavez expressed his admiration for past dictators in South America and even employed Cuban and Peronist advisors.


Gee, doesn't that sound more like their beloved Trump than anyone else?

Read more: https://www.cogdis.me/2021/05/tiffany-fitzgerald-compare-biden-to.html
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Tiffany, Fitzgerald Compare Biden To Hugo Chavez (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP
Sure sounds like Trump to me! True Blue American Jun 2021 #1
So, Fitz is Hitler and Tiffany is PolPot as a comparative SmartVoter22 Jun 2021 #2
ugh keroro gunsou Jun 2021 #3

SmartVoter22

(639 posts)
2. So, Fitz is Hitler and Tiffany is PolPot as a comparative
Mon Jun 7, 2021, 07:53 AM
Jun 2021

If they think this is outrageous comparison, let's address their assumption of what Chavez actually represented, what laws he actually got passed and what positive/negative affects Chavez had on his nation, not 'if it could happen here comparatives'.
Those comparatives are the purest of 'apples & oranges' misdirection.

Yes, Wisconsin had a Strong German population during both World Wars, so there were Nazis running around America's Dairyland today, and my comparison is simply the very same thing.

Fitz is the poster child of 'anti-open records' and 'public hearings'. Look at his actions during the Act 10 fights.

Tiffany would likely love to have some concentration camps up in the woods of Northern Wisconsin....where no one can hear you scream.
He would also likely abuse police 'detainment' rules to lock people up.

keroro gunsou

(2,223 posts)
3. ugh
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 03:55 AM
Jun 2021

i knew widgerson in college. he was an asshole then, and he's an ass crater now... some things never change

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