• The House passed a more than $60 billion bill that provides more military aid to Ukraine.
  • It’s part of a larger foreign aid package that’s likely to pass the Senate and be signed into law.
  • 112 Republicans voted it against — the most ever, and a majority of the GOP conference.

Saturday’s vote marked the first time the House had approved billions of dollars in Ukraine aid since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber.

In the two years since Russia’s invasion, opposition to aiding Ukraine has grown from a fringe position to a majority view among House GOP lawmakers. Many argue the money should be spent domestically or that policy changes at the US-Mexico border should take precedence.

Here are the 112 House Republicans who voted against the bill.

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Since rest of the thread is undirected anger without naming names, let’s name names!

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Find your representative here and make note if they’re on this list. They’re up for reelection two years after being elected.

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So THIS is where Voronezh healthcare money went. Fuck em, please.

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This should be the boarding list for the next container ship to Sochi.

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For those who don’t know, The New York Post was the first American media outlet that Rupert Murdoch brought back in the day. It tries to play off being ‘center Right’ as opposed to Fox News. Following the spin on the spin can break your neck.

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When a Republican loses Rupert Murdock, things probably aren’t going the way you planned.

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It’s a New York paper, so they can hate on MGT. They don’t have to be consistent with the message from one branch tp the other.

I remember back in 2008. The Post had two op-ed pieces on the same page. One writer said that Obama was just another neoliberal hack who’d push a softer version of GOP plans and the voters should just opt for McCain. The other said that Obama was a hard Left radical who would about an extremist agenda.

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I still like Moscow Marge more… But hey.
Marjory Traitor Green.

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Perjury Traitor Scheme

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I’ve heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. I mean, has anyone seen the two of them in the same place at the same time?

Also, I’ve heard that she (he?) has a cleft butthole.

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Blatantly copying my previous comment.

Hey, Republicans, do y’all remember Red Dawn? Those two movies you made about The USSR and Russia being the ultimate evil enemy that was going to invade and must be stopped? You do? Good.

My real question is, why in the name of all that is Murican, ARE YOU ACTIVELY HELPING RUSSIA WITH THEIR ILLEGAL AND UNPROVOKED INVASION‽‽‽

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Because the Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, which the GOP hated (the communist part of it, anyway), and modern Russia is kleptocratic oligarchy, which the GOP loves. Easy enough to tease out, really.

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Even simpler:

Communist = lefties

Oligarchs & dictators = rich CEOs running the country.

Guess which ones the republicans have been supporting for decades.

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The GOP decision-makers see the Russian oligarchy and how freely they leech their wealth from the public and say “I want that.”

The MAGA followers see modern Russian society as a bastion of “western” (white) moral traditionalism holding out against progressive globalist degeneracy where none of this “woke” shit flies.

They have more in common with modern Russia than they do with modern America. They want the US to be more like Russia and many will be willing to spill American blood to get there.

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Republicans are the kind of people who think Footloose is a warning against the dangers of freedom.

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Yes, they are clearly bought and paid for.

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The fact that the only Nays were Republicans speaks volumes. The Republican party has been compromised by Russia, it’s the only explanation that makes sense.

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And, to clarify for future readers, this vote was only for the Ukraine Aid portion of the package. Each part got a separate vote. So even though the package includes Israeli funding, it wasn’t part of this particular vote which was exclusively about aid to Ukraine.

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well you got the names, now how about doing a little background check if there is some russki money lying somewhere in those traitors bank accounts…

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I’m doing background research and found a picture of biden laughing with medvedev and berlusconi. I guess it’s not just these 112 idiots who have ties with the mafia and russia but all of them are corrupted pigs in for the money and wealth

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If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?

Neoliberals are conservatives, but they usually are not outright traitors the way Republican conservatives are.

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If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?

No? While peasants get send to the front to die politicians are collecting wealth and power thanks to this war.

You should expect politicians to do what’s in their personal greedy interest, being taking money from someone or stabbing them in the back.

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Biden already said he’d veto an aid bill that included Israel without Ukraine. The republicans tried anyway, by drafting legislation last week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/us/politics/biden-veto-israel-ukraine-immigration.html

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okay.

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