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| When The Establishment Cries Treason: Does Criticizing The US Make Gabbard a Russian Stooge? | ||
| 2022-03-16 | ||
[SpectatorWorld] Mitt Romney calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘treasonous’ as war becomes an excuse for the lazy
For the crime of preferring that Europeans not die en masse from biological poisons, Gabbard was accused by Senator Mitt Romney of "parroting false Russian propaganda" and spreading "treasonous lies."
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| Posted by:Hunter Bidens Laptop |
| #21 Everyone really ate up that weather balloon line. |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-03-16 18:49 |
| #20 I remember when treason meant aiding your countries enemies, not enemies of some other country. Mitt should use his words a bit more carefully. And let's be clear, we've given traitors a free pass since Hanoi Jane so is there really a point to the word anymore? |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-03-16 18:09 |
| #19 Mitt Romney only Republican senator to oppose repealing TSA mask mandate |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-16 15:41 |
| #18 Ukraine is the new BLM |
| Posted by: Uneting Smiter of the Faeries1008 2022-03-16 12:29 |
| #17 Fauci has stated he doesn't want any investigation of the covid over-reaction. He's afraid we will find out he was in it for the money all along. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-03-16 12:18 |
| #16 By the way, has anybody asked Tony Fauxi what he knows about the Ukrainian biolabs? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-03-16 12:12 |
| #15 These people calling Carlson and Gabbard treasonous dare not say a single word about China. That's because they are the ones who are stooges of a truly hostile foreign power. Ask Pierre Delecto how much money he has invested in China and what the return on those investments are. Somebody, please, ask him. Then ask him what he's gonna do when China invades Taiwan, or when China invades Siberia. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-03-16 12:07 |
| #14 IIRC one of the best Bible rules about killing is, if you are going to have to kill somebody, kill everyone they're related to as well. |
| Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-16 12:05 |
| #13 Every murder involves killing. Not all killings are murder. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-16 12:03 |
| #12 gunshot wounds in certain people MURDERER! "Doesn't the bible have some specific rules on killing?" "Very specific. It is however, fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps." |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-03-16 11:59 |
| #11 Super geniuses... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-16 11:39 |
| #10 Archive link: https://archive.ph/ULcgu |
| Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-16 11:00 |
| #9 The left calling anyone a Russian Stooge is pretty funny. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-03-16 10:58 |
| #8 /\ 'Not this shi* again.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-16 10:30 |
| #7 gunshot wounds in certain people MURDERER! |
| Posted by: Willard Magic Panties 2022-03-16 10:28 |
| #5 ^ #4 - there are some gunshot wounds I'd like to see...in certain people |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-03-16 10:14 |
| #4 Yes. Because I am anti-cancer, I must be pro gun shot wounds. Or something. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-16 10:05 |
| #3 The rest is paywalled. Here it is. Including a delicious takedown of David Frum Yet Romney’s smear was more than just an unseemly hypocrisy. It was a glimpse into the future, an example of how war and propaganda are going to work in our very online and very interconnected world. The formula seems to go something like this: an American voices less than full-throated support for Ukraine — or just endorses a position that happens to dovetail with Russian interests. This is then trumpeted by Russian media (Gabbard’s remarks have been played on Moscow TV). Back in the States, hysterics on Twitter seize on this as ironclad proof of secret allegiance to a hostile power. Free inquiry is chilled accordingly. If Gabbard is a Russian stooge because Russian media picked up on some of her words, then so am I. Several years ago, I wrote a piece advocating against American involvement in the Syrian Civil War. It was picked up by Sputnik, a Russian online media outlet, which espouses the Russian line in only the finest of broken English. And understandably so: Moscow was then fighting in Syria to prop up the Assad regime. They wanted the West to stay out, which also happened to be my position, albeit for different reasons. Did this accidental alignment make me guilty of treason? What about my skepticism over expanding NATO or my questioning why American troops are still in Germany? Does my sedition know no bounds? Somehow, despite my relentless propagandizing, I’ve never seen a single ruble for my troubles (what am I, chopped pelmeni?). One of the best kept secrets in American politics is that the anti-fracking movement is rolling in Russian money, since Moscow wants to eliminate the U.S. as a competitor to its own fossil fuels industry. Yet I don’t see leftists standing underneath wind turbines screaming “TRAITOR!” The fact of the matter is that Russia opposes American and Western influence in the world, whether military, economic or cultural. If a commentator expresses any skepticism of that influence, Moscow tries to amplify their voice. Yet that also doesn’t by itself invalidate the position. Debating natural gas extraction is not verboten just because Moscow happens to have an opinion on it. Biological pathogens don’t suddenly lose their kick because morons on Twitter are screaming about kompromat, which they still think is where Russians go to do their laundry. This is what happens in a time of war: inconvenient truths become unutterable; the Overton Window narrows to a pinhole. The climate right now feels as hysterical as it’s been since the 2002 run-up to the invasion of Iraq. That was when dissenters were casually maligned as turncoats, when David Frum was writing his hilariously overwrought essay “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” which all but accused the antiwar right of adoring Saddam Hussein. “They began by hating the neoconservatives,” Frum intoned. “They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.” |
| Posted by: Phaising Cromomble5326 2022-03-16 09:57 |
| #2 Mittens is the one who helped set up the "Give China a trillion dollars a year" thing. That enabled Putin along the way, both in money he gets directly from the West and indirectly from China. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-16 09:47 |
| #1 This is the lefts new "rayciss" card. And yes, I consider Romney a part of the left. Just the other day The View host were calling Carlson treasonous. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-03-16 09:27 |