7/13/23
House Republicans dealt a blow to one of their own, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, while hashing out the final version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
More than 1,5000 amendments were filed for consideration against the draft cleared by the GOP-led House Armed Services Committee, with nearly 300 advanced to the House floor. Greene filed six markups herself, targeting U.S. assistance to Ukraine, and on Thursday, lawmakers killed one of her top priorities: the elimination of the $300 million in Ukraine funding included in the proposal.
Eighty-nine Republicans voted in favor of eliminating the funding while 130 voted against the amendment. All but four democrats, who did not vote, voted against Greene’s amendment.
The NDAA has passed with bipartisan support every year for the last six years, but the defense policy bill has faced controversy this year as far-right members of the GOP’s flank see it as a way to target President Joe Biden‘s Pentagon policies on social issues like diversity, climate change, abortion and vaccines. With a razor-thin majority, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy can’t afford to lose more than four GOP votes, meaning he will have to perform a balancing act of appeasing his most conservative colleagues without isolating too many moderate Republicans.
There has been a growing effort from those on the right to severely restrict the U.S. military‘s support for Ukraine. Lawmakers around the globe were quick to send assistance to the war effort when Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Republicans have become increasingly wary of sending more American dollars.
Greene has been one of the most vocal opponents of U.S. support for Ukraine. While introducing her amendment to strike the $300 million in funding, the Georgia Republican said, “Congress should not authorize another penny for Ukraine and push the Biden administration to pursue peace.”
Greene reminded lawmakers on Tuesday that the Department of Defense’s mission is “to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security,” not the security of another country.
“That is for America’s national security, not Ukraine. Ukraine is not the 51st state of the United States of America,” the congresswoman said.
The Biden administration and Congress have approved more than $75 billion in aid for Ukraine, the most of any of Ukraine’s Western allies, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Greene slammed that spending as “essentially open-ended support,” which she argued distracts from other national security priorities and would increase the risk of a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia.
American support for Ukraine assistance has dropped in recent months. Although most voters say the U.S. is providing the right amount or not enough to Ukraine, 23 percent say the U.S. is giving too much support, a Pew Research poll found last month. That sentiment is especially pronounced among Republicans, of whom 44 percent say the U.S. is sending too much aid. In March 2022, only 9 percent of Republicans said as much.
The five other amendments that Greene filed include the withdrawal of the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a prohibition on Ukraine funding until a diplomatic solution is reached, the removal of the creation of a Center of Excellence in Ukraine from the NDAA and bans on sending F-16 fighter jets and long-range missile to Ukraine.
“We should not be devoting time and resources and putting the people of Ukraine over American citizens and over American veterans. We should be only helping our American citizens first,” Greene said on Tuesday.
Greene has very absurd arguments for stopping aid to Ukraine. Nothing could damage our country more than following her brainless advice. Nothing could be more un-American than to help an evil, fascist, criminal regime to subdue a brave, innocent nation.
Greene, Mat Gaetz, Trump, and others – they are politicians who should seek out other jobs. They are too dangerous to our national security in their present positions or potential positions.
The putler wing of the GOP is not conservative. Fascism/national socialism is a far left concept.
Taylor-Green and her ilk are working assiduously for RuZZian interests: you can see them all regularly on kremtroll TV; particularly of course “nashi Trumpushka.”
The only question is whether it is money, kompromat or shared ideology.
In the case of the vile Taylor-Greene, I’d say shared ideology.
Here is Trumpkov’s latest outpouring of putinoid slurry from his favourite pro-kremlin site :
Fascism is far-right, not matter how many times people on the right claim it’s leftist.
Mussolini’s Fascist Manifesto (Il manifesto dei fasci italiani di combattimento) explicitly states, “Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism”.
And anyone who believes that the Nazis were socialists probably believes that North Korea is a democracy. (“But it’s in the name – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”) 😂 😂 😂
I disagree. The Left are the ones cancelling people and taking their freedoms and trying to tell them how to live. That’s fascism in my book.
There is very little difference. The Marxist Jeremy Corbyn, who until recently led the U.K. Labour Party, holds positions on Russia and Ukraine that are almost identical to Trumpkov.
Haven’t you heard of the “horseshoe of politics?” The far right and far left are just two sides of the same fascist coin.
Stalin was a Marxist-Leninist turned fascist. So is putler. But I would argue that Lenin was also a fascist, as were the rulers of the Russian empire. We can see the vicious imperialism in the work of the authors that prof Sheremeta references.
A key element of both fascism and Marxism is Jew hatred. Stalin, his predecessors and successors up to putler all have it.
It was the Russian fake from Czar times: “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that inspired Hitler.
It is still widely believed today in Russia, the ME and many other shitholes throughout the world.
Russia created national socialism, which is just exactly what the name suggests.
West-based Marxists/socialists are international socialists. The “far right” are just the same; except they are national socialists. Socialists with added racism. The Jew hatred though they already have.
Marx; supposedly a Jew, was actually a Jew-hater who blamed Jews for all the problems in the world. A proto-nazi in other words.
Who are the most absurdly nationalist people in the world today? The chicoms without a doubt. From imperialist times to Mao to the current ruling arsehole they are all the same. Except for the Taiwanese and Hong Kongers, who are no different from people living in any other developed democracy.
If you read the comments sections of US pro-kremlin sites like Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire etc, you will see the same anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist bullshit that you see from the far left.
Far left useful idiots such as Sanders, Sachs, Chomsky etc are in fact Jews who have gone to the dark side. On the far right you have Jewish useful idiots too: Ben Shapiro, the foul scum Barr woman etc.
Any Jew who shills for putler; such as Solovyov, is no different from a nazi.
Yes, I’ve heard of Horseshoe Theory, which most people say is nonsense. It says that the far right and far left are more similar to each other than the far right is to the center-right or the far left is to the center-left. But it doesn’t say they’re both fascists – it says the similarity is due to the techniques used against their perceived enemies. In fact, the Wikipedia definition says it was invented “after seeing the Nazis (far right) and Soviets (far left) invade Poland”.
The German Workers Party changed their name to the National Socialists party as a way to disguise themselves as something benign. Their use of the word socialist was a way to appeal to the masses, but they were far from socialists. They used some aspects of socialism from the left and combined that with totalitarianism of the right for their ideology.
Nazism is a political ideology, socialism is an economic theory. Socialism and Marx’s original vision was a classless society where we are all equal. Nazism’s core is the superiority of a race and people. Nazism is focused on nationalism, socialism doesn’t focus on this and is borderless.
It’s only the far-right that we see marching with Nazi flags.
American “support for Ukraine assistance has dropped in recent months. Although most voters say the U.S. is providing the right amount or not enough to Ukraine, 23 percent say the U.S. is giving too much support, a Pew Research poll found last month. “
This is absolutely false. Every poll that I’ve had an opportunity to review actually shows a growth in support for Ukraine. Figures don’t lie but liners figure…. This kind of bullshit journalism where they pull our bits and pieces of a poll to prove their point is just pure dishonesty. The Pew Poll did nor show a decline it’s actually showed an increase but it did show a slight decline among republicans.
As for Greene, she’s. POS with dubious intelligence and only value is to Trump and Putin whose ass she enjoys kissing.
“The Pew Poll did nor show a decline it’s actually showed an increase”
I don’t know what you’re looking at, but the article refers to “a Pew Research poll last month”. I found the following Pew article regarding a June 2023 poll; it does show a small increase in the number of people who think that the U.S. is giving too much aid to Ukraine.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/15/more-than-four-in-ten-republicans-now-say-the-us-is-providing-too-much-aid-to-ukraine/
Quoting from that article:
Yet the share of Americans who say the U.S. is providing too much aid to Ukraine has steadily increased since the start of the war, largely driven by a shift among Republicans.
Currently, 44% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the U.S. is giving too much aid to Ukraine, up modestly since January (40%) and the highest level since shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.
Just 14% of Democrats and Democratic leaners view the current level of U.S. aid as excessive, little changed in recent months.
In March of last year, Republicans were only 4 percentage points more likely than Democrats to say the U.S. is providing too much aid to Ukraine (9% vs. 5%). Today, Republicans are 30 points more likely to say so.
MTJ is yet another dumb bitch who is drinking Putin;s cool aid. I doubt she has the brains to even be bought and paid for. There is on like her in every crowd
What really disappoints me is that 89 other Republicans sided with this stupid cow.
What the fuck has happened to the party of Ragan?
This is why I will never vote Republican again.
“Eighty-nine Republicans voted in favor of eliminating the funding while 130 voted against the amendment. All but four democrats, who did not vote, voted against Greene’s amendment.”
So 130 Republicans voted against MTG’s amendment, while 209 Democrats voted against it. Seems to me that Democrats were stronger against it than Republicans – I don’t see why the title of the article says that Republicans killed it.