Posted on 04/17/2024 4:27:50 PM PDT by OakOak
The inside story of how House Speaker Mike Johnson was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid starts with his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.
The Speaker intends to set up a Saturday evening vote in the House of Representatives on the plan that completely abandons border security and instead pushes to funnel tens of billions of more U.S. tax dollars to foreign countries like Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. In a string of recent betrayals by the Speaker–the recent government funding plan and last week’s reauthorization of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without a requirement for warrants for surveillance on American citizens–this one stings America First conservatives even more. Despite calls for his resignation from top conservative Republicans like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY)–who say they are prepared to vote to remove Johnson by force if necessary–Johnson has tripled down in moving forward on the matter not just completely ignoring conservatives aligned with former President Donald Trump who are openly criticizing the effort but authorizing staff and allies like House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) to attack them in order to achieve congressional passage of this radical agenda. McCaul, as Breitbart News reported earlier on Wednesday, launched an unhinged attack on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over Ukraine aid. McCaul is one of Johnson’s top allies and quickly endorsed Johnson’s foreign aid framework without even having read the plan
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If you go by their postings over the past year, that handle and its fellow travellers have no loyalty or alleigence to the United States.
And they can go take a long walk off a short pier. Every single one of them.
You’re very mistaken. Russia owns have the country because half thr country strong supports Russia. No amount of money is changing that. The question is, how soon will the next 60 billion to save the war be negotiated.
It’s ok, the Zeepers will accept it with glee....
“The aid needs to go to Ukraine, and a Russian victory resulting from GOP obstructionism, would be a political disaster for Trump and Republicans.”
The majority of Republican voters oppose further aid to Ukraine.
Within that context, the opposite is true.
Since Trump supports Judas Johnson and this betrayal, he will lose the election now.
Given that the first sentence of the article is BS, I take the rest of it lightly. Johnson never opposed supporting Ukraine: He supported it conditionally, the conditions being that Biden define our strategic objective, and, provide better monitoring of where monies sent are going. He stated this in multiple interviews around the time he became Speaker.
Therefor, if one wants to challenge Johnson on consistency of his stance, he should be asked if he got that definition, and is better monitoring written into the bill - if so, state the text.
That's total BS.
The war is lost. Except reality.
I love you people that tell others we have to accept your predictions of the future.
Great CHRISTIAN he is.
It’s really not. The Eastern half of Ukraine was always friendly to Russia. They joined a civil war on one side. I throw out “half” loosely, that’s true but my main point remains. The Russians have legitimate support inside of Ukraine and among those in the East who remain is probably approaching total support. If Russia left tomorrow the Ukrainians in the East would keep fighting. Zelensky doesn’t have the support of Russian speaking Ukrainians and since they decided voting is no longer a prerequisite for Democracy it’s difficult to know how much support he actually has anywhere in the country.
When will people wake up…
The establishment is the problem, period. Anyone thinking the right letter beside an establishment politicians name changes that is a fool
The aid to Ukraine will make absolutely NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER in the war. All it does is guarantee more Ukrainians die and that Russia will take even more territory.
You couldn't give a damn about Ukraine. I have no doubt a scumbag like you is making money off this aid package.
You and your ilk are evil personified.
This is Misdirection, they are trying to draw attention away from the obvious fact that the rats own Johnson now.
This funding deal is not a “Loan” as honest people define “loans.
Speaker Johnson’s Ukraine Foreign Aid Package is another contrived “no-repay loan” like Hunter Biden got from his sugar-daddy who, as a Biden donor, happened to have $60 million handily laying around (like most working class people do /s):
<><>the Ukraine “loan” allows Joe to “Forgive” 50% of the billions Nov 15, when Trump wins,
<><>or lets Biden forgive 100% of “the Loan” Later On (If he pulls off a 2nd election steal)
Zelensky knows that routine. Its already been tried.
Few years back, billions more of our tax dollars to Israel
were handed out———designated a do-good foreign aid “loan.”
But when it came time to pay, Israel got its lobbies to manhandle Congress.
The battered, bruised Congress sap-happily passed a law
.........saving its collective political ***es.......
quickly turning the foreign aid “loan” billions into a “gift.”
Listen you loud mouth fraud there is a war going on so no the aid package is not just about giving money to the defense industry you are a quisling a propagandist and you are of no good use to any patriotic American I wish you nothing well my friend because you are not a friend.
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