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Grins

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Thu Apr 25, 2024, 09:46 AM Apr 2024

George Will wakes up to see his monster [View all]

20 April 2024
Washington Post

Some gems and dead-on accusations by George Will

Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering - the nihilism of a febrile minority in their party - a majority of House Republicans - voted last Saturday to endanger civilization. Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious “establishment”), they voted to assure Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a European nation.

N.B:
A simple majority - 216 of all votes - was needed for passage.
On Ukraine: 311 - 112. All 112 were Republicans.

Voted to endanger civilization. Voted to enhance their political security. Voted to assure the erasure a European nation.

Will then goes on to add:

"Tuesday’s Senate ratification of Ukrainian aid proves that Dwight Eisenhower’s baton of Republican internationalism was passed, via Ronald Reagan, to Mitch McConnell."

Awwww. Give yourself some credit, George! You were there flogging the myth of the purity and sureness of Republican governing along the with the rest of the Reich-wing media, feeding the Reich's army of Armageddon-craving, gullible, imbeciles.

And Reagan. It all points back to Reagan. Nixon being dead. That must have hurt George, because in the 1980's he regularly burnish Reagan's balls to a high sheen.

The wind-up:

"We have defined heroism so far down that it encompasses Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) allowing a House vote on assisting Ukrainians’ resistance to indiscriminate bombardments of population centers, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture and the abduction of children."

And by "We", he means "Republicans." 112 Republicans VOTED to look the other way on bombardments, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, and the abduction of children.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/ignoble-house-republicans-against-ukraine-aid/
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I've always held George Will in low esteem, but he's a talented wordsmith nevertheless. Ocelot II Apr 2024 #1
" J.D. Vance, an itinerant Neville Chamberlain visiting green rooms" Grins Apr 2024 #12
Read this yesterday and Mme. Defarge Apr 2024 #16
Right when our last living WW2 vets go to their reward ... Charging Triceratops Apr 2024 #2
Will, like Buckley before him, fancies himself a conservative intellectual. Happy Hoosier Apr 2024 #3
Yep. yardwork Apr 2024 #5
His original claim to fame was stealing Pres. Carter's debate prep notes underpants Apr 2024 #7
It was about cutting Social Security and Medicare dsc Apr 2024 #9
Okay. Thanks. underpants Apr 2024 #11
It seemed to me that Buckley couldn't even physically sit up straight. Uncle Joe Apr 2024 #15
I remember when Bill Maher pwned him on This Week fizzix137 Apr 2024 #17
But George Will is blameless. SarahD Apr 2024 #4
George Will has been railing against Trump since day one. JohnnyRingo Apr 2024 #6
Well I hope he's getting some repugnuts to vote Democrat. KS Toronado Apr 2024 #14
What has happened to the Republican party is the natural consequence of their worldview. Caliman73 Apr 2024 #19
👆👆 Well said. nt crickets Apr 2024 #20
You missed a crucial step in the migration misanthrope Apr 2024 #22
"A cabal of grotesques..." Kid Berwyn Apr 2024 #8
Screw will. jaxexpat May 2024 #23
George Will is an old-school hawk Wednesdays Apr 2024 #10
I have always (for fifty years) called him UpInArms Apr 2024 #13
George's problem is the average Trumper is far too stupid and illiterate to understand his writing. sop Apr 2024 #18
George is a bottom feeder, always was. jaxexpat Apr 2024 #21
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