After Ukraine Aid Vote, Republicans Braced for Backlash Find Little
A week after he broke with the majority of House Republicans and voted to send $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, Representative Max Miller took the stage at a performing arts center in his Ohio district bracing for backlash.
Instead, Mr. Miller, a first-term congressman who spent four years in the White House as a top aide to former President Donald J. Trump, was greeted at a town hall-style meeting on Saturday in the city of Solon with a sustained round of applause. Several attendees stood to publicly thank him for his vote, and a line of locals queued up afterward to shake his hand.
“Anything we can do to support the Ukrainian victory over the Russian invasion would be a positive thing for the world,” said Randy Manley, a retiree from Strongsville, Ohio, who said he planned to vote for Mr. Trump in November.
Thank you for voting against russia, said the retiree who planned to vote for russias puppet in November and undo what he wanted done.
Godfuckingdamn these fucking people.
He basically said that anything they could do stop Russia would be good..but then is going to vote for the guy who has basically said he would end the war fast by caving to Russia's demands.
Trump supporters are a special kind of special.
I would say something about cognitive dissonance but that gives people like this too much credit.
It's also not cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is misused almost as much as gaslighting is.
Now you're just Gaslighting me into believing that!
No, they’re moving the goalposts
No it's the Overton window that was moved.
That's because pro-Russia sentiment in the USA is 95% astro-turfed bullshit.
Then why are the affects on Congress so oversized?
Turns out members of Congress are incredibly cheap to bribe. A few hundred thousand here and there and you own a congressman. Doesn't even have to be "never have to work again" money.
Which is the topic we should be discussing, along with WHO is on the take.
Almost all of them? Except Bernie and the Squad, that's what them talking about corporate funding was about. It's also public knowledge who gets paid off by who, just check the campaign contributions.
And how many brave Ukrainians are dead now, and died with no shells for their cannons, no missiles in the batteries we gave them, waiting for us to hold a damn vote?
I hope Johnson thinks about that when he kneels down to pray at night. I hope it haunts him for the rest of his life.
Anybody surprised, what with actual Russian propaganda being spouted in the halls of Congress? These fuckers are so accustomed to the smell of feces they've forgotten they're the ones who shit on the floor.
[Terminally online politicians think the pro-Russia/anti-Ukraine bots and shills are actually real people in America.]
Miller's deal is "the government and establishment political parties have failed you" which has extensive resonance with rural communities. He and many Republicans like him have zero competition electorally, so they can bounce around issues however they (or their donors) please.
Keep in mind the sanctions on Russia over Ukraine has opened up a massive oil export industry for the United States. The oligarchs do have an incentive to stave off resolution.
Ohio doesn’t have oil. We have some fracking, but our fossil fuel is coal
Right, and Ukraine isn't in Ohio either. But when the oil industry needs congressional votes for, say: keeping or expanding Russian sanctions, Millers the type of guy they'll donate to through a PAC.
Russian agitprop is a little bit less common given that neither the FSB nor Putin's captive oligarchs have nearly the discretionary financial clout they used to.
Can't keep the troll farms fed, as it were.