House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out such a problem in his party

  • @vegeta@lemmy.world
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    They have such nice subways and grocery stores in Moscow. Much better than the US.

    –Cucker Tarlson

  • Admiral Patrick
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    Has it infected them (implying it’s against their conscious will) or are they willing hosts?

    (We all know the answer, just phrasing it as a hypothetical)

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      These elected officials are not stupid, as much as they claim ignorance about everything anti-American they’ve done. Many went to top-tier schools as legacies without applying and have law degrees; it’s hard to claim “oops I voted against my constituents again” when they definitely know better.

      Except Bobert. She took three tries to get a GED and apparently only achieved it while campaigning. She dumb.

    • @EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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      Done gradually, an exhausted and distracted population will never stand against their rights being filed away. This is late stage bullshit.

  • BarqsHasBite
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    He said gop base.

    I think it’s the party as well, but he said base.

    Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”

    McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.

    “There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it — and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television] — on our airwaves,” McCaul said.

    He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate, and they actually model Russian propaganda.”

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    It makes sense politically. GOP’s politics are pretty much identical to those of United Russia. But letting this seep into geopolitical issues is treasonous.