Whew! What a relief. A deal was finally made at the eleventh hour on raising the debt ceiling, saving the U.S. from defaulting on its national debt. Come on. Anyone
interest to be getting into a proxy war with china getting involved over things like the borderlands or over crimea. the fear of russia going into nato countries and steam rolling, that s not coming close to happening. it s part of a growing trend in the republican party. while some in the gop have maintained and congressman matt gaetz has introduced a resolution that would end-all military and financial aid to ukraine. marjory taylor green has called for biden s impeachment over his visit to ukraine earlier this week. and yesterday donald trump released a video for his supporters claiming that world war 3 has never been closer than it is right now and vowing to clean the house of all the warmongers and america last
right, the marjory taylor green right, not just republicans, there are plenty of republicans happy that brittney griner got released. but to put this into part of their i m so close to saying a bunch of words i m not supposed to say on television, to turn this into their fraudulent, fake, faux outrage culture war claptrap, i ll use that word instead of the one that goes bullshit, i ll say, i think we can say it on tv. bill barr does. it s so low and so repulsive. and the idea that joe biden is sitting around going, well, because she s non-white and she s gay, i can i ll get more political points out of it. this is a ludicrous. it s ludicrous and it s based on nothing other than the desire of people like tucker carlson and people like marjory taylor green to just try to rev up their base, make america hate each other rather than allowing everybody to have a moment where we can celebrate something.
it s like, let s take an opportunity to drive these divisions deeper, get cheap ratings points on it. it s baseless welcome factless fact-free, untethered from reality and the worst kind of like hatemongering in a moment where we should be able to have some kind of unified national celebration. i mean, it s a friday, morning. i don t like to start the weekend sick to my stomach, but watching some of this commentary has made he sick to my stomach over the last 24 hours and it s a marker of how low some of us have sunk. it s also important as we head to january 3rd, rev, because kevin mccarthy is trying to get enough votes to be the speaker, and one of the people whose support he needs is marjory taylor green. if her position is that biden should be impeached because of this, it is a known issue unknown, what he has promised her to get her votes. they are the nuts, they are outside of the mainstream of american ideology, but they are the most powerful people in the
hostages. and i don t have any recollection of anybody across the ideological spectrum ever doing anything other than celebrating the return of any american to the united states of america. that s not happening over on fox news. tucker carlson claimed that the u.s. advocated harder for greiner s release, because it would be more popular with biden voters. marjory taylor green went further and said it s another reason to impeach joe biden. again, i bring this up because i believe there are markers about how sick our politics are and this appears to be an important one. yeah, nicole, the release of brittney griner literally brought a tear to my eye. and the kind of debates we used to have about this were nonpartisan debates where it was like, is it okay to make these kind of trades, because it might send a signal to other countries that they could get away with this kind of thing.