Jury, Thy name is Karma

also in karma’s sights are these two characters and others so cleverly caricatured or described by david horsey in his latest op ed

Anti-Ukraine Republicans enable tyranny over democracy | The Seattle Times

Remarking on President Joe Biden’s historic surprise visit to Kyiv, here is what Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz had to say: “On President’s Day, I’m not surprised that Biden is ditching America for Ukraine.”
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went further: “The President of the United States chose Ukraine over America, while forcing the American people to pay for Ukraine’s government and war. I cannot express how much Americans hate Joe Biden.”
I cannot express how loathsome I find these two MAGA Republicans and the rest of their ilk in Congress. In the biggest fight between freedom and tyranny in a generation, they are siding with the tyrant in the Kremlin.
Gaetz and Greene are co-sponsoring a bill in the U.S. House they have dubbed “The Ukraine Fatigue Act.” The measure seeks to end American support for the Ukrainians in their desperate war against Russian aggression. Were it to succeed, the pair would be responsible for condemning to political slavery millions of people who want nothing more than independence and a chance to unite their country’s destiny with Western democracies.
Fortunately, there are enough sane Republicans left in Congress that the bill has no chance of passing. Nevertheless, Gaetz, Greene and the so-called “America First” crowd will continue to use their megaphones in social media and Fox News to spew Russian propaganda and mislead a great many of their compatriots on the right. In this, they are exactly like the America First agitators in the 1930s who actively supported Nazi Germany and resisted President Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts to support the British people in their lonely fight against Adolph Hitler’s plan to conquer all of Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may wear an expensive suit instead of a brown fascist uniform. He may not sport a silly mustache or scream his speeches into a microphone, but his blandness does not conceal his similarities to the Nazi dictator. And the loud claims of patriotism asserted by the clownish Greene and Gaetz do not hide the fact that they are sycophantic apologists for an enemy of America.

CNN:

Fox News continues to be exposed for the dishonest organization that it is — this time, with the help of its billionaire owner.
A Monday filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against the right-wing talk channel offered additional revelations — including the fact that Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch admitted in a deposition that some of his top hosts were pushing election lies to his audience.
Murdoch rejected that Fox News, as an entity, endorsed former President Donald Trump’s election lies. But Murdoch conceded that Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and former host Lou Dobbs promoted falsehoods about the 2020 presidential contest being stolen.
“Yes. They endorsed,” Murdoch said, according to the filing, when asked about the hosts’ promotion of false claims about the election.
“I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” the media mogul added at another point in the deposition.
That’s just one of the several revelations included in Monday’s filing. Here are some additional highlights:
► In the wake of the election, Murdoch wrote in an email to the New York Post’s Col Allan, describing election lies that Trump was pushing as “bulls**t and damaging.”
► Murdoch said it was “wrong” for Tucker Carlson to host conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell after the election. When asked why he continued to allow the MyPillow CEO to continue appearing on Fox News, Murdoch signaled it was a business decision. “It is not red or blue, it is green,” he said. That’s a shocking admission from Murdoch about what actually guides coverage at Fox News.
[…]
► Murdoch responded to one email from Ryan by telling him that Sean Hannity had “been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers.” In other words, Hannity, who always claims to say the same things on camera as when he’s off camera, was not being up front with his loyal audience for fear they’d rebel against him.
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sturge, thanks for KO link.  he’s right about

“…the most startling of the second tranche of revelations from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against Fox and NewsCorp – doesn’t just violate electoral and journalistic ethics. It may be criminal -“

“the new OJ trial”

sturge, my thought exactly and also as in that case i don’t think the jury will find him guilty of murder – imo guilty of a whole lot of other stuff that he did to his clients and the harm addiction did to his family, but not killing his wife and son.

as for loser strump, he has a million covid deaths to answer for including insurrection, sedition, treason and conspiracy to commit a coup.

BiD, that was an interesting report.  i’d rather get my blood clots the natural way: lotsa butter on biscuits and lotsa dollops of whipped cream on sweet potato pies. 

also find that preserved fruits taste better when canned with pear juice instead of whatever they put in that “heavy syrup” stuff. sweetners always seem to leave a bad aftertaste to things. 

bink,

sorry to be late about this but a BIG THANK YOU for the link to zelenskyy’s “servant of the people” with english subtitles.  finally got around to watching and love it but it’s so sad to see Ukraine’s once beautiful scenery which now is only a shell of itself.

my bet is that an eng/american adaptation is already in the works at neflix for a new series here. wonder who they’ve picked for zelenskyy’s role. tom hanks and harrison ford are too old, but someone on that order maybe who might have dreams of being another ronald reagan.