Merry Christmas, 'Uncle Vovo!'
Republicans offer Ukraine coal for their stocking while Putin giggles with glee
“Vovo” is short for Vladimir. The Republicans in Congress have deemed that Vovo, or even Vovochka — the diminutive of Vovo expressing either affection for the name-holder or sarcasm — has been a good boy this year. That same body has decided that Vovo — honestly, I am not sure if Volodymyr breaks down to Vovo — Zelensky was naughty.
Coal will be in Kyiv’s stocking this Christmas unless something changes really fast and quite radically. Mr. Grinch is indeed a mean one. Unfortunately for Ukraine, though, there is not one shaggy, green creature opposed to them fighting to stave off be genocided by Russia. Instead, there is a collective body of racists, Trumpists, gay-hating, Jesus-tormenting, dopey white men and women who regularly confuse QVC for the History Channel.
Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year.
“Make no mistake: Today’s vote’s going to be long remembered, and history is going to judge harshly those who turned their backs on freedom’s cause,” Mr. Biden said on Wednesday at the White House, just hours before the vote. He said Republicans were “willing to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security in the process (Republicans Block Aid to Ukraine).”
I have written so many times about the spinning of Ronald Reagan in his grave over the simply unbelievable decisions being made by modern Republicans that I have begun to search out factories in India for the purpose of manufacturing little spinning, wooden coffins with Reagan’s motion-sickened face peeking out. Reagan would never have abandoned Ukraine in the middle of a war against a Russia that has clearly chosen the path of soft totalitarianism as its ruling principle.
Reagan would have posed one question before considering such a move, and if the answer to that question was in the affirmative, then he would have happily subverted the will of Congress: Does a Russian victory in Ukraine weaken the United States?
Yes.
Russia will interfere in elections again
Most Russians deny that the Kremlin interfered in U.S. elections in 2016. In the way, however, that they accept that the elections in their own country are always rigged, they can, when presented with the facts, clearly see how the Kremlin could’ve done so. On these occasions, the Russian collective shrug ends the conversation: Well, what are you gonna do (shoulders lift toward the ears and quickly drop)?
Many Republicans are like Russians. They don’t buy it because they want to believe that the victory of Trump was somehow the legitimate, desperate cry of oppressed white America. There is not a lot that separates Republicans from the ruling party, United Russia, today. They, too, are entirely content with ending democracy and launching the era of one-party/one-dictator rule. This is what makes it so easy for them to deny the bold and brave people of Ukraine military aid.
As they continue to prove to us, and I am not exaggerating any of this, Republicans are not to be trusted to govern our nation through the troubled waters that lie no longer beyond the stretched-out horizon. The House of Representatives has been turned into a second-rate, traveling circus. Most Republicans in power today, even though in private know that Trump lost, openly continue to support the Big Lie. Trump’s Big Lie is in no way different from Putin’s fantastic tale that Ukraine was readying itself to attack Russia, hence the “preemptive” strike.
If it comes down to it that we end up leaving Ukraine to wither on the vine in this war, then we deserve all of the bad that comes with that decision. 90 percent of the problems Americans suffer from can be traced back to “emotional and hyper-political over-reactions” by Republicans and right-wing media. One small example: Imagine how much better off we would all be today if health care had passed in 1994 and didn’t have to get forced through without a single Republican vote in 2010.
We could trace this “how much better off we would’ve been, if only” back to at least a dozen major problems today. All of the problems were caused by dummy conservatives not being honest but merely manipulative of their not-so-bright constituents.
As President Biden says, we will regret abandoning Ukraine, and when the world is struggling to survive its first nuclear winter, it will be shit-head conservatives who will say ridiculous things like, “This was all caused by Joe Biden.”
Слава Україні (Glory to Ukraine)!
Shame to the United States if we carry through with this.