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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 04:49 PM Oct 2019

'What the absolute hell is wrong with you?' GOP lawmaker blasted after celebrating Russian spy

‘What the absolute hell is wrong with you?’ GOP lawmaker blasted after celebrating alleged Russian spy’s release from US jail

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) took to Twitter and condemned her imprisonment as an example of growing “Russiaphobia” in the US. “She served a ridiculously long sentence essentially for not filing the right paperwork,” Massie tweeted. “But now she is free. Sadly, she was jailed to satiate the rampant Russophobia in the US these days. We are better than this.”

According to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who sentenced Butina earlier this year, she engaged in work on behalf of Russia that was both “sophisticated” and “dangerous.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/what-the-absolute-hell-is-wrong-with-you-gop-lawmaker-blasted-after-celebrating-alleged-russian-spys-release-from-us-jail/

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'What the absolute hell is wrong with you?' GOP lawmaker blasted after celebrating Russian spy (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2019 OP

Republicans are worried that their back channel to foreign campaign money is compromised. Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #1

Is all of Kentucky controlled by Putin? dem4decades Oct 2019 #2

All roads lead to Putin maxsolomon Oct 2019 #3

Two names tell you all you need to know: crickets Oct 2019 #5

Russia is still the evil empire Cartoonist Oct 2019 #4

Massie... sheshe2 Oct 2019 #6

"We are better than this." BKDem Oct 2019 #8

Yes. sheshe2 Oct 2019 #9

"Russia is our friend" - new republican meme. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #7

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)

1. Republicans are worried that their back channel to foreign campaign money is compromised.

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 04:52 PM

Oct 2019

dem4decades

(11,296 posts)

2. Is all of Kentucky controlled by Putin?

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 04:57 PM

Oct 2019

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

3. All roads lead to Putin

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 04:59 PM

Oct 2019

In Russia, they kill, jail, or declare the opposition illegal. Republics admire that; it speaks to their Fascist souls.

crickets

(25,981 posts)

5. Two names tell you all you need to know:

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:13 PM

Oct 2019

Len Blavatnik and Oleg Deripaska.

Follow the money.

Cartoonist

(7,317 posts)

4. Russia is still the evil empire

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:10 PM

Oct 2019

I wonder about my racist brother. He was a staunch anti-communist. I can understand his racist support for Trump, but wonder how he can turn out country over to Putin.

sheshe2

(83,790 posts)

6. Massie...

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:17 PM

Oct 2019

Massie actually had the balls to say... "Sadly, she was jailed to satiate the rampant Russophobia in the US these days. We are better than this.”

No you and your ilk are not better than this.

Heathcare taken away from Americans. Chip funds cut. Children in cages sitting in their own feces. Women stripped on their right to choose. Not one aggressive law to ban assault rifles after each and every mass murder that continue to escalate on a daily basis. Tax cut after tax cut for the wealthy as you laugh with glee and the poor get poorer. etc

You are a pitiful excuse for a human being.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)

8. "We are better than this."

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:37 PM

Oct 2019

That was a line Elijah Cummings used a lot. For Massie to use it in this context, on this day, is literally sickening.

sheshe2

(83,790 posts)

9. Yes.

Reply to BKDem (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:39 PM

Oct 2019

On this day it is indeed sickening, BK.

keithbvadu2

(36,828 posts)

7. "Russia is our friend" - new republican meme.

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 05:29 PM

Oct 2019

Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

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