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Lindsey Graham says Trump Calling Putin Genius was 'a Mistake'
by Ali Zaslav and Ellie Kaufman
March 3, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/politics ... index.html

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(CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on Wednesday that he thinks it "was a mistake" for former President Donald Trump to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a genius.

"I think that was a mistake. I think I know what he was trying to say, you know, going into the Donbas. But, no. Let's just make it clear, Putin's not a genius, he's a war criminal," said Graham, a close Trump ally.

On Wednesday, Graham introduced a nonbinding Senate resolution that calls for Putin to be held accountable for numerous acts of war, aggression and human rights abuses. The resolution supports a complaint filed by the Ukrainian government against Putin in the International Criminal Court that alleges war crimes in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Graham said he hopes if the US backs the complaint, more nations will follow.

Russia has been hitting civilian targets and residential areas in recent days, according to open source information and US officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of targeting civilians, including children, and called for an international investigation into the conflict on Sunday.
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Conservative Never Trumper Takes on ‘Putin apologists’ in a Scathing Video
by Alex Henderson
March 11, 2022

https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/putin-2656925077/

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(Alternet) The Bulwark, a conservative website known for prominent Never Trumpers such as Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes, Amanda Carpenter and Mona Charen, hasn’t hesitated to call out MAGA apologists for Russian President Vladimir Putin. And Never Trumper Tim Miller, in a biting but humorous video posted by The Bulwark on March 10, slams pundits and politicians who have been apologists for Putin’s vicious invasion of Ukraine — which has cost thousands of people their lives.

Miller, a former GOP activist and scathing critic of former President Donald Trump, tells viewers, “To all the Putin apologists out there, here’s my love letter to you…. I want to take on arguments made by influencers on the anti-war left and the populist right…. It’s everyone from the DSA to Candace Owens who argue it’s really the U.S. that’s at fault here.”

Miller slams former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — who has recently been echoing a lot of MAGA talking points — for saying that Russia had “legitimate security concerns” about Ukraine because of NATO.

“Number one, Russia has nukes,” Miller explains. “So, what exactly is their ‘legitimate security concern?’ Ukraine is no threat to them militarily. Number two, Ukraine isn’t in NATO. In 2008, when they tried to join, other European countries rejected them. So, what exactly was the imminent danger to Russia in 2022?”

Miller continues, “Number three, if Russia is butthurt that Ukraine has increased ties with Europe over them, well that’s too bad. It’s what Ukrainians repeatedly voted for. If the Ukrainian people decide that they want to join NATO, Russia doesn’t get to bomb, terrorize, and invade them. That makes Russia the imperialist aggressor.”
caltrek's comments: After years of successfully fostering division with the United States, Putin has now done something to unite the center right and the center left. In the meantime, and despite The Bulwark's observations, the far left for the most part is not exactly embracing the invasion. It is so sad that Ukrainians have to pay a price for actions that are breaking down the partisan divide in this country.
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GOP Pollster Reveals Trump Slowly Became a Laughing-Stock of the Political Party
by Meaghan Ellis
April 13, 2022

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/gop-po ... cal-party/

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(Alternet) A veteran Republican pundit is revealing how he believes Republicans really feel about former President Donald Trump and, apparently, they aren't as fond of him as they once were.

During a discussion with The Daily Beast, pollster Frank Luntz referenced a recent joke New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) made about Trump while at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington.

“He’s fucking crazy,” Sununu said of the former president. “I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out.”

Although it's common for roasting to take place at the event, Luntz believes the remarks are indicative of a bigger problem as he noted how Republicans may feel about Sununu's remarks.

“I don’t know a single Republican who was surprised by what Sununu said. He said what they were thinking,” Luntz told The Daily Beast. “They won’t say it [in public], but behind his back, they think he’s a child. They’re laughing at him. That’s what made it significant.”
caltrek's comment: I will believe it when comments like Sununu's become more common.
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Rightwing populist parties blight climate policy, study finds

Thu 14 Apr 2022 12.51 BST

Rightwing populist parties have a detrimental impact on climate policy, researchers have found for the first time, amid growing fears of a similar movement in the UK.

The study, by the universities of Sussex and Warwick, looked at the policy of more than 25 countries over a period of more than a decade. Researchers created a climate policy index and compared it with a baseline of a centre-right government. They found the combined effect of the presence of a rightwing populist party in parliament and in government was associated with a reduction in the index of about 25% on average.

But while rightwing populist parties had a negative impact on climate policy across the board, EU membership and proportional representation voting systems lessened the effect.

The study’s authors, brothers Dr Matthew Lockwood and Dr Ben Lockwood, wrote: “These findings are consistent with our hypothesis that in countries with proportional representation, where rightwing populist parties enter government they will do so as typically junior coalition partners with limited numbers of cabinet seats and a tendency not to prioritise portfolios relevant to climate policy.

“By contrast, in countries with majoritarian electoral systems, when rightwing populist parties get into government, our finding is that they have a much greater influence on climate policy.”

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Ron Johnson Takes Heat for Linking School Shootings to 'Wokeness'

BY XANDER LANDEN ON 5/28/22 AT 10:39 AM EDT

Senator Ron Johnson is facing criticism online after he linked "wokeness" and critical race theory (CRT) to school shootings on Thursday.

During an interview on Fox News, host Neil Cavuto noted that the suspected gunman in the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this week that killed 21 people, including 19 students, legally bought his two guns.

"Do you think that that would require maybe stiffer background checks?" Cavuto asked Johnson, who is a Wisconsin Republican.

"No matter what you do, people fall through the cracks," Johnson responded. "You can't identify all these problems, you can't arrest somebody for a crime they haven't commit yet. These are difficult issues, but again the solution lies in stronger families, more supportive communities, I would argue renewed faith. We've lost that."

The senator added: "We've stopped teaching values in so many of our schools. Now we're teaching wokeness. We're indoctrinating our children with things like [critical race theory], telling some children they're not equal to others and they're the cause of other peoples' problems. "

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Hahahahaha.

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Major blow for One America News as Verizon Fios drops far-right network

Mon 25 Jul 2022 14.33 BST

Verizon Fios will no longer carry One America News (OAN) at the end of this month, dealing a major blow to the far-right television network that has become a hotbed of misinformation.

Verizon was the largest pay-TV provider still carrying the OAN, according to the Daily Beast, which first reported the network was getting dropped. Verizon and OAN were unable to reach an agreement to continue providing the network and customers will not be able to access the service after 30 July.

The development means that OAN in effect will not have a major television platform in the US. DirecTV, a major revenue provider for OAN, announced that it was dropping the network in April.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... fios-drops


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These Non-MAGA Conservatives Believe Their Third Party Can Help Prevent 'the Demise of Our Democracy'
by Alex Henderson
July 28, 2022

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(Alternet) On Wednesday, July 27, a new political alliance was formed in the United States when the Renew America Movement, founded in 2017, merged with the Forward Party (founded by tech entrepreneur and former Democrat Andrew Yang) as the Serve America Movement.

Typically, third parties struggle in the U.S. when it comes to statewide races; members of the progressive Green Party and the right-wing Libertarian Party who win elections usually hold city or county positions rather than becoming governors or U.S. senators. In deep blue Philadelphia, progressive Councilwoman Kendra Brooks is a member of the Working Families Party, closely allying herself with the left wing of the Democratic Party. But in an op-ed published by the Washington Post on July 28, three key players in Serve America —Yang, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and former Rep. David Jolly — lay out some reasons why they believe their third party can succeed.

While Yang is an ex-Democrat who ran in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Whitman and Jolly held office as Republicans. Whitman and Jolly are fiscally conservative but aren’t far-right culture warriors, and both of them have been scathing critics of former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement — which they view as dangerously authoritarian. Whitman endorsed now-President Joe Biden in 2020’s election.

“Political extremism is ripping our nation apart, and the two major parties have failed to remedy the crisis,” Whitman, Jolly and Yang warn in their op-ed. “Last week, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack at the Capitol led us to relive one of the darkest days in U.S. history. The chilling culmination of an attempted electoral coup in the United States was the strongest evidence yet that we are facing the potential demise of our democracy. Polarization is fueling a spike in political intimidation. In the past two years, we’ve seen death threats and assassination plots against members of Congress, governors, Supreme Court justices and even the vice president of the United States.”
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