Next on the Captain Obvious Show, MTG is an idiot and a Russian plant

The Troglodyte Congresscritter from Georgia is getting her talking points from Russia...that seems like it should be a problem, no?

They’re not wrong, eh? You certainly can’t question the opinion, even if the source is questionable. And, as for “trying to wreck the GOP,” that train has long since left the station, with Donald J. Diaperstain as the conductor. Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA) may have the IQ, common sense, and humanity of a Cro-Magnon Congresscritter, but the GOP was wrecked long before she showed up on the scene. All she’s doing is accelerating the process.

As for being an “idiot,” yeah, that must’ve been a stretch for Fox News. Like no other humanoid with the powers of observation could’ve puzzled through that one, yeah?

I know she’s a cretin, but she shows so much potential….

For someone getting their talking points from the Kremlin, MTG isn’t smart enough to camouflage her language so that she deflects conjecture about where they might have come from.

Stupid is as stupid does, Comrade….

[T]he GOP is wrecked and done for already. It’s nothing but a permanent parasite inside Donald Trump’s anal cavity, the exact kind of insurgent, insurrectionist domestic threat officials’ oaths of office speak of.

But let’s not get sidetracksies! Because all the people we hate the most are fighting.

The article, written by some interchangeable Fox News windsock named Liz Peek, isn’t particularly interesting. She’s not taking a bold stand. And while she calls Greene an idiot who believes all kinds of wacky bullshit, it’s clear Peek herself believes just as many delusional Republican conspiracy theories. For instance:

• She blabs out weird conspiracy theories about how Ukraine’s corruption is why Hunter Biden was so “richly employed” there.

• She has clearly and ignorantly drunk the Kool-Aid, repeating hilarious idiot lies about Hillary Clinton’s Deep State BFFs using FISA to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign.

• She thinks empowering unions “trampl[es] the rights” of people who choose not to join. (And they say Republicans don’t care about the least of these!)

• She thinks Kevin McCarthy was popular. LMAO.

So she’s ripshit crazy.

And that’s why this op-ed matters. This isn’t Adam Kinzinger or some other never-Trumper writing a contrarian article at Fox News. This is an in-house hit job against MTG and her Jewish Space Lasers.

Not that anyone noticed, but MTG did insert language into the Ukrainian aid bill requiring the development of space laser technology. Yes, to call the woman a dipshit attention whore might not be overstating it.

She actually believes herself to be a serious, influential legislator whose concerns deserve consideration. In reality, she needs to be put on a lengthy Thorazine regime, wrapped in a straitjacket, and propped up in the corner of Speaker Mike Johnson’s office.

This week, equally insane GOP Rep. Thomas Massie announced that he would be joining MTG’s cannibalistic crusade against weak sad loser extremist Speaker Mike Johnson, co-sponsoring her Motion To Vacate, which would send Republicans right into the same tailspin they were in when Matt Gaetz and a few other Republican dingleberries from the House Republican cloakroom floor decided to oust Kevin McCarthy.

There is absolutely no reason to believe it would go any better for Republicans than it did last time. If anything, the caucus is more syphilis-brained, incompetent and out of control than before.

When Massie dropped his little turd, Republicans jeered and booed him. “It’s a clusterfuck,” said one person. “We are screwed,” said another.

They’re threatening to do this, of course, over Ukraine aid, because some Republicans want Vladimir Putin to win, because they’re on the side of the genocidal dictator. Fuck whatever else they say about it — “border” blah blah giant wanking jackoff motion dot gif. They’re Putin’s boys and girls, plain and simple.

The unanswered (and thus far, at least, largely unasked) question is what these Republicans are getting for their support of Putin’s Russia. Is it money? Election interference on their behalf? Dezinformatziya? What possible reasons could so many members of the House Republican Caucus have for telling a key US ally to go fuck themselves? Especially when the US is bound by a 1996 treaty with Ukraine in the wake of the Ukrainians agreeing to divest themselves of their share of the USSR’s nuclear arsenal.

It’s difficult to know how many Ukrainians have died as a result of Republican treachery and betrayal, but the number is not insignificant, and it’s growing. With the vote on aid to Ukraine having been delayed six months now, the Ukrainian military is in a precarious position, running low on key munitions and other supplies.

This isn’t how America is supposed to treat its allies. Yet, Congressional Republicans have held Ukrainian aid hostage because…well, because they want to raise Hell about looking fiscally Conservative or some such ridiculousness.

Politico’s Olivia Beavers reports…that Johnson just sent a message saying to members that the House Rules Committee would be putting up today the text of three (3) bills: one for Israel, one for Ukraine, and one relating to “indo-Pacific,” AKA Taiwan. (Plus a fourth one, involving some other stuff.) (And a fifth one, about BORDERRRRRR.) Here is some more info about what’s in the bills.

The Ukraine one, of course, involves “loan structure,” because Republicans can’t just help Ukraine because it’s the right thing to do. Plus, that’s what Trump ordered. But reportedly it’ll be $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian aid for Gaza, and more.

Johnson says they’re going to vote on these Saturday. This is not what leadership looks like, but it’s what it looks like when weak, unqualified hacks are forced into a corner to do their best impression of leadership.

But he’s doing it. And he’s going to need Democratic help, both on getting the Ukraine aid passed and very likely on keeping his speakership. Greg Sargent refers to this as his “move to shiv Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Clearly Fox News was teed up to help.

We’ll see what the CrossFit neanderthal and her new pal from the set of Deliverance do about it.

Aid to Ukraine shouldn’t be held hostage to internal Republican politics. Still, in this Congress, nothing is safe from Republican internecine warfare and/or the desire to deny President Joe Biden anything faintly redolent of victory. If the Ukrainian military and people have to suffer and run the risk of being overrun by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, so be it.

Republicans like MTG and others in the GOP Freedumb Caucus will scream about sending good money after bad. What they don’t realize is that American money and materiél are not only helping Ukrainians defend their freedom, it means American boots aren’t on the ground, nor are American lives at risk.

If American troops were directly in combat against Russian units, the stakes would be far higher. NATO would be dragged into the war, which would soon become WWIII…and given the instability of Russia’s leader, the country’s nuclear arsenal would undoubtedly come into play.

And wouldn’t that be fun?

MTG and the Freedumb Caucus aren’t smart enough to understand that American aid to Ukraine isn’t just about sending billions of dollars in war-fighting equipment to some far-off Eastern European battlefield that no one cares about. It’s about assisting a key American ally we’re bound to by a treaty, meaning we have a moral obligation to Ukraine.

The aid and assistance we provide to Ukraine also ensure that Americans are not on the ground fighting and dying in a direct conflict with undisciplined Russian troops who, more often than not, don’t respect the internationally agreed-upon laws of war. We, along with numerous other allies, can help Ukraine defeat Russia, but the Ukrainians can’t do it by themselves. Ukraine is a small country lacking the resources Russia has at its disposal. In terms of sheer numbers of everything- manpower, materiél, ammunition- Russia can dwarf Ukrainian military power.

American aid can help to level the playing field somewhat, and Ukrainian pluck and ingenuity can take them a bit farther. Without help from outside their borders, though, Ukraine can’t last long, and the Freedumb Caucus needs to wake up enough to do the right thing.

With the House finally approving aid to Ukraine yesterday, there’s reason for those on the ground in Ukraine to feel hopeful. The war is by no means over or even closer to being over, but the playing field is closer to being level. With the Russians being supplied by China, Iran, and North Korea, Ukraine is back to having a friend it can count on. If it can continue bleeding Russia, perhaps there’s hope for a positive outcome.

If there’s one thing Ukrainians will continue to do, it’s fight for their freedom. And they deserve our help in that fight.

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