• Carvex
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    61
    ·
    2 years ago

    Duh. Now can we do something about it?

      • psmgx
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Debatable. Blackmail is effective and often cheaper than you’d think.

        E.g. paying a couple thousand to get Matt Gaetz on camera banging a teenager, etc.

    • A_Random_Idiot
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 years ago

      They’ve been willingly regurgitating Russian Propaganda direct from the Kremlin for a very long time.

  • RubberDuck
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    2 years ago

    So name the Russian propaganda and the people repeating it.

    • fluxion
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      2 years ago

      Trump and the insurrectionist squad

      • RubberDuck
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Yes, but it would help if talking points where specifically noted and the people propagating them.

    • Optional
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      2 years ago

      Right and then - Hey there go the goalposts. Who woulda thunk it. Pass.

        • Wiz@midwest.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          2 years ago

          We can start with the Republicans that went to Russia over the July 4th break a couple years ago. Rand Paul was the ringleader there.

          Those traitors can fuck right off.

        • Optional
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          2 years ago

          Who’s running cover for these turd circus clowns? Asking for examples when the past eight years are awash in them is not asking in good faith. Like, seriously, you can’t guess where to look, like at all? Not even in an internet search? Yeah right. Fuck off.

  • VinnyDaCat
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 years ago

    Of course they are. Did we not see the old FOX news host literally go over to Russia to interview Putin and lap up every last bit of propaganda he fed him? They’ve been on Russian propaganda for years now.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Mike Turner, the chairperson of the US House intelligence committee, says some of his fellow Republicans are “absolutely” repeating Russian propaganda on the chamber floor, echoing a similar claim made recently by another rightwing American lawmaker.

    “It is absolutely true we see, directly coming from Russia, attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor,” the Ohio congressman told CNN’s State of the Union show.

    His comments Sunday came days after Michael McCaul, chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, told Puck News that misinformation in favor of Russian interests had found a foothold among his fellow Republicans.

    Both Turner and McCaul in their respective interviews suggested that pro-Putin propaganda was as hostile to the US’s position on the world stage as the threats posed by the regimes of Xi Jinping, China’s president, and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader.

    Though Turner did not single out any members of Congress or his party Sunday, his remarks came after Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia representative, recently filed a motion to oust Mike Johnson from his role as House speaker if the Louisiana Republican moved forward with a Ukraine aid bill.

    Turner on Sunday expressed his belief that Johnson was not at “any risk” of having the speaker’s gavel wrested from him by what he called members of the “chaos caucus … who are seeking attention for themselves and trying to stop all of the important work in Congress”.


    The original article contains 445 words, the summary contains 250 words. Saved 44%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • NounsAndWords
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    16
    ·
    2 years ago

    I think the simplest explanation here is that they’re getting it from their voters…who are getting it from Russian propaganda, but they just don’t care so long as they get reelected.

    • fluxion
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      37
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      They haven’t gotten shit from their voters in decades. They manufacture the issues then loop them on repeat in right wing media

    • ravheim
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      2 years ago

      The simplest answer is that they are getting it from Russian Propagandists. They repeat it because it riles their base and gets them engagement.