As we have reported about three dozen times in the last month or two, the closer one is to Donald Trump, the stronger the MAGA, the more one opposes President Volodymyr Zelensky and sees the war criminal Vladimir Putin favorably. There is a link there, somewhere, but it is hard to really put the finger on… pfft, Trump cannot cross Putin and his followers’ dream of a permanent government that mirrors Putin’s much more than the transparent democracy that Ukraine has planted and is just beginning to flower.
Just today, we’ve seen examples from Don Jr. (“Zelensky is the biggest welfare queen on earth”), from Bannon, something about being tired of fighting Ukraine’s war (It is not just Ukraine’s war, it is the war of the democratic west’s war). We have heard Boebert say that she wants a full accounting of every dollar sent (In the midst of a war, yeah, that’s practical). We have read that 16 Republicans simply skipped the speech to the joint session of Congress. And most tellingly, we have heard that Rep. Paul Gosar opposes Zelensky because a true leader seeks peace, not war. He did not call out Putin as the man responsible for the war. He didn’t say, “Putin should be a real leader and pull out and seek peace. No, he criticized Zelensky as a man who is too bloodthirsty to end the war. Putin has sent missiles into apartment buildings. But Zelensky needs to find a way to make peace.
Enter Ted Nugent, who has never found a limit on how far he’ll go to support Trump, and, of course, this means that he’ll fall in line and follow up on the true MAGA line. The only thing setting him apart is that Nugent has to do it Nugent syle. At least he didn’t reference assaulting 16-year-old girls. He still flirted with X-Rated tweets anyway:
Glad I threw out all my Ted Nugent 8-Tracks long ago. pic.twitter.com/dwZBGs4A0R [1]
— Love and Lemonade ⛳️❤️ 🍋 (@DavidEmmerson_D) December 22, 2022 [2]
Feel free to throw up. It’s Putin’s party and there’s fck all we can do about it.
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