Daily Take: How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
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How Putin seized control of the Republican Party…
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| 0:00.0 | How far will Republicans go to bring America to her knees on behalf of Putin and Trump? |
| 0:07.0 | There's little doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin has succeeded in achieving near total control over the Republican Party. |
| 0:15.0 | They're gutting aid to Ukraine and have been for over a year working to kneecap our economy, |
| 0:19.2 | whipping up hatred among Americans against each other, promoting civil war, and openly embracing |
| 0:24.7 | American democracy with authoritarian autocracy. |
| 0:28.0 | Putin has declared war on queer people proclaiming Russia a Christian nation and shut down all the media he called fake news. |
| 0:35.0 | Check, check, check. |
| 0:37.0 | Most recently, the three-year Biden bribery hysteria Republicans in the House have been running, |
| 0:41.5 | including thousands of hits on Fox so-called |
| 0:43.6 | news and all over right-wing hate radio turns out to have been a Russian |
| 0:47.9 | intelligence operation originally designed to help Trump win the 20-20 election |
| 0:52.0 | the Russian spy who had been feeding this phony to help Trump win the 2020 election. |
| 0:52.6 | The Russian spy who'd been feeding this phony information |
| 0:55.5 | to Jim Jordan and James Gomer Pile Comer |
| 0:58.6 | is now in jail. |
| 1:00.3 | Over the past two years, |
| 1:01.5 | as America was using Russia's terrorist attacks on Ukraine to degrade the power and influence of Russia's military, |
| 1:07.0 | Putin was using social media, Republican politicians, and right-wing American commentators to get Republican politicians on his side |
| 1:15.0 | and thus kill off U.S. aid to Ukraine. |
| 1:18.0 | The war in Gaza is making it even easier with Putin-aligned politicians like Senator Josh Holly |
| 1:24.0 | tweeting quote any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately |
| 1:28.3 | end quote. |
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