Matt Gaetz Explains Why He Cannot Support Removal of Speaker Johnson

Representative Matt Gaetz explains why he cannot support the effort by Marjorie Taylor Greene to vacate the chair and remove Speaker Mike Johnson. {Direct Rumble Link}

As outlined by Gaetz, there are two or three specific republicans, former democrats, who will vote to support Hakeem Jeffries if the opportunity arises. With all of the exits from the GOP House team noted, it will be a struggle to keep the house in republican control in 2025 even with a resounding victory by President Trump. WATCH:

Republicans had better learn to negotiate and stay united among their own or we will lose the entire ball game. It is the way politics works. No one should be claiming to be the inflexible dictator. We all can and will have some different opinions.

That has been a serious problem with us and it has only hurt us. Some think they should get to decide on the whole pie. Purity tests only alienate. I’m sick of party infighting. I’d like to donate but the actions of some turn us off. We need to keep everyone feeling like a winner.

“So you want people who believe in defending the national security of the United States, to be killed.”

That’s childish, but proves your slavery to the Cold War trope that Russians are still “The Evil Empire.”

You should note that, when President G. W. Bush enumerated membership in “The Axis Of Evil,” Russia wasn’t included. You might consider pausing long enough to deeply consider why.

The reality is that warmongering forces in this country — including the entire “Russia, Russia, Russia!” squad on the left — have never permitted Russians to cease being Soviets. They pine for the Cold War when people looked to them for policy guidance, recalling the warm thrill that went down their leg as they peer wistfully into the depths of their gin and tonic. But in continuing to view Russians through that time-worn Soviet lens, their perspective is inherently clouded by the burned-in image of a bygone spectre that neither any longer embodies the truth of the Russian stance nor permits a clear view of it.

The supreme irony, here, is that — whereas the left-press long ago fretted aloud that Ronald Reagan was “gonna get us into a shooting war with the Soviets” — these center-right NeoCon relics of the Cold War, allegedly “real conservatives,” and their ProgLeft “Russia! Russia! Russia!” counterparts have, right up to the present hour, been pushing Foreign Policy postures that actually do flex the needle in exactly that direction. The manner in which these confrontational, saber-rattling policy stances imperil all humanity is so antithetical to any inclination toward an harmonious geopolitics that one must wonder whether they don’t find some personal sense of glee in thus urging the hands of the Doomsday Clock toward Midnight.

The stubborn, decades-long refusal to entertain the commonsense claim that Russians, having left the Soviet era in the dust, are happy, now, to have done so, and no longer think and act in comity with those discarded paradigms is patently ludicrous. To go further, and drive policy positions that keep Russia geopolitically chained to that discarded past, to the point of thermonuclear brinksmanship on the world stage with humanity itself in the balance, is utterly unconscionable insanity, and — absolutely — “Yes,” I would wish Karmic limited nuclear death upon them in trade for the lives of the rest of humanity.

Absolutely.

Right now.

TODAY if at all possible.

Perhaps there was a brief time when Russia could have become a cooperative friend with the rest of Europe, but by 1999 that time had slipped by. In 1997 Alexandr Dugin had already published his book, which was probably a significant influence on Putin’s quest for power. It sets out a 21 point plan for Russia taking over power in Europe, and then expanding power and control in the rest of the world, including the United States. Read it and worry, the plan is definitely in motion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the crucial year of ‘99 a series of bombings of apartment buildings which killed over 300 people provided the opportunity. Putin was able to use this to enhance his power, blame Islamists, and begin the second Chechnyan war. The FSB, Putin’s source of power, was involved in a number of questionable actions as described below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings#cite_note-amyknight2012-16

Yeltsin who had seemed more receptive to democratic change was suffering from poor health and alcoholism, and was yielding power to Putin. For example after a Sept. 9 bombing that killed more than 100 the article reports:

“The FSB declared the bombing a terrorist attack the following morning, 10 September 1999. That day, Vladimir Putin was due to fly to Auckland for the 1999 APEC summit; after a brief consultation with Boris Yeltsin, it was decided that the trip go ahead as planned. Yeltsin had originally intended to go himself, but reasoned to Bill Clinton that Putin would almost certainly be President himself by the year 2000, contrary to speculation over Yeltsin’s successor. Prior to his flight, Putin telephoned Clinton and claimed he had “every reason to believe” that Chechen extremists were not only behind the attacks but had links to the Al-Qaeda group which had perpetrated the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam the previous year. Putin and Clinton would have their first face-to-face meeting in Auckland the following day, and Putin flew back shortly afterward.[48]

Yeltsin ordered the search of 30,000 residential buildings in Moscow for explosives.[49] He took personal control of the investigation of the blast.[30] Putin declared 13 September a day of mourning for the victims of the attacks.[44]”

Even more deadly bombings occurred not long after, and in 2000, Putin was indeed the president. The bombings, prevented bombings, and other events made 1999 a very busy and upsetting year for Russian events. This is laid out in great detail in this Wiki article.

“Perhaps there was a brief time when Russia could have become a cooperative friend with the rest of Europe...”

This is true, and — according to Putin, himself, as he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson — that ship hasn’t entirely sailed. Granted, the political landscape would have to change greatly, but his phrasing and the overall thoughtful demeanor as he spoke about it well served to indicate that such a possibility remains.

But it’s absolutely a dead letter if Western NeoCons are permitted to set the terms; they are The Reason that relational Normalization with Russia remained incomplete between 1991 and 1999, and they will again — if abysmally stupid people give them the chance — be The Reason for failure of complete Normalization.

There are a few apocalyptic inflection points in human history, and this neocon rejection of Russian overtures to join the table of Nations in peaceful trade and mutual collaboration on other geopolitical issues is one of them; it will prove to have been fatally deterministic in the end.

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