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'Historian' Demands to Know Why Some in Congress 'Refused to Clap for Zelensky' and I Have Thoughts
redstate.com ^ | 12/22/2022 | Sister Toldjah

Posted on 12/22/2022 10:10:38 AM PST by rktman

Not surprisingly, the hot takes from The Usual Suspects in response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress Wednesday night were fast and flowing, with the consensus seeming to be that anyone who wasn’t giddy with excitement to the point they were tripping all over themselves to virtue signal their support for Zelensky was nothing short of a “useful idiot” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Such claims have been a common theme in Democrat/media circles ever since Russia invaded Ukraine every time questions have been raised about the level of U.S. involvement. But as my RS colleague Nick Arama astutely observed, one can still “believe in keeping Russian ambitions in check” while also believing that the U.S. “should not be [an endlessly flowing] money spigot” into foreign entanglements, with what’s best for America ultimately needing to take priority.

With all of that in mind, we turn to MSNBC’s favorite “historian” Michael Beschloss who, among other things, once warned that if the Republican red wave took place that “our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.” In another example – this one from 2020, Beschloss declared that “Abraham Lincoln never told an esteemed reporter, ‘Don’t talk to me that way! . . .I’m the President of the United States. Don’t ever talk to the President that way!'” before being reminded about Lincoln’s actual history where he shut down some 300 newspapers and issued an executive order for the “arrest and imprisonment of irresponsible newspaper reporters and editors.”

And on Wednesday after Zelensky addressed Congress, Beschloss was at it again, demanding to know why certain members – like Reps. Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert – did not stand nor applaud Zelensky at certain points during the speech (though they did stand and clap towards the end):

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: demkarens; roboticlikefealty; scamalama
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To: rktman
Lincoln’s actual history where he shut down some 300 newspapers and issued an executive order for the “arrest and imprisonment of irresponsible newspaper reporters and editors.”

Wow, some actual history. Lincoln also suspended habeas corpus. Not my favorite President.

The suspension of rights do not right a wrong, or in other words two lefts don’t make a right, or is that wrongs? 🤣 It’s never two leftists.

41 posted on 12/22/2022 11:42:37 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: 1Old Pro

Just an observation. his last name translates to “decided” from German.


42 posted on 12/22/2022 11:48:08 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ConservativeInPA

You mean like punishing white people today for what some white people did 150 years ago isnt actually righting anything.


43 posted on 12/22/2022 11:53:36 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: rktman
(Washington, DC) Rapper Grifta Z visits White House

44 posted on 12/22/2022 12:05:11 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Mr. K

Absolutely, it’s not exactly a secret that the US has been directly involved in targeting Russian ships and facilities. No one in Washington has any right to cry if Russia starts acting in self-defense against this. And anyone _still_ in the US military as of 2022 has no excuse. It has nothing to do with defending America - not while it ignores an invasion on the southern border for example - and everything to do with enforcing the dictates of the unelected and arrogant elites in the Capitol District.


45 posted on 12/22/2022 12:33:34 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: rktman

Clap for the Wolfman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_eIZ7tWhak&ab_channel=BubbaModee


46 posted on 12/22/2022 12:36:40 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Kaiser8408a

Yes (Steve Howe) - Clap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUedapF-bo


47 posted on 12/22/2022 12:40:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: freedumb2003

Ukraine is a kleptocrat hellhole, no better than Russia.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Zelensky and Biden, both are enemies of our Constitutional Republic.


48 posted on 12/22/2022 1:12:33 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Because this is America and you’re allowed to have a dissenting opinion without being put in a gulag you fascist moron Michael


49 posted on 12/22/2022 1:22:15 PM PST by databoss
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Absolutely, it’s not exactly a secret that the US has been directly involved in targeting Russian ships and facilities. No one in Washington has any right to cry if Russia starts acting in self-defense against this. And anyone _still_ in the US military as of 2022 has no excuse. It has nothing to do with defending America - not while it ignores an invasion on the southern border for example - and everything to do with enforcing the dictates of the unelected and arrogant elites in the Capitol District.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BINGO!


50 posted on 12/22/2022 1:35:19 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

You are delusional if you honestly think that rat-faced psychopath Zelensky is using all of the stolen US taxpayer cash to “defend his borders.” That corrupt POS and his criminal lackeys are wiring that money to covert offshore accounts.

Like I said, DELUSIONAL.


51 posted on 12/22/2022 1:53:58 PM PST by Prole
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To: rktman
'Historian' Demands

narrator or conductor?

52 posted on 12/22/2022 2:02:10 PM PST by Irenic
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To: rktman

The “media” arm of the Democrat party.
The “social media” arm of the Democrat party.
The “United Nations” arm of the democrat party.
The “Ukraine” arm of the democrat party.
The “FBI” arm of the democrat party.
Starting to see any similarities?
U.S. taxpayers are being fleeced, to send millions and billions of $$$ to all, and more.


53 posted on 12/22/2022 2:17:38 PM PST by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

That guy’s lack of enthusiasm was duly noted. I don’t think it ended well for him.


54 posted on 12/22/2022 3:48:40 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Prole
You are delusional if you honestly think that rat-faced psychopath Zelensky is using all of the stolen US taxpayer cash to “defend his borders.” That corrupt POS and his criminal lackeys are wiring that money to covert offshore accounts.

Oh, I'm pretty sure that at least some of it is going to beating Russia's ass - I don't see how Ukraine would still be an independent nation unless they were applying some of that aid to their own defense. I just don't see why I should pay for it.

I also don't understand or care about your Zelensky hatred - I don't care about this guy or what he does in his country, as long as he stops using my money to do it.
55 posted on 12/22/2022 6:41:35 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rktman

a historian who lacks the perspective that allows him to understand why people don’t clap is no historian.


56 posted on 01/02/2023 6:29:33 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: NicoDon

The YUGE majoritiy of them looked like it was their first Beatles concert. Such fan boys/girls. Does nanzi have a signed poster from vlad in her office? Fidiots! They would probably treat mengelefauci the same........


57 posted on 01/02/2023 7:59:28 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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