Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Hillbilly Apologist

Current and former elected officials, candidates for office, and media figures who are popularized in MAGA World have a history of pro-Putin comments. 

Recently, they have decided that they should disparage Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy despite Russia’s invasion. 

Of course some of them have walked back their comments after witnessing the raw brutality of Putin’s war machine target innocent civilian noncombatants as he forces his genocide on Ukraine. (Sociopaths are cowards at heart).

Sadly, many still see Putin as someone to be admired.

The supply of Trump-Putin apologist material is seeming unlimited.

Including this from Trump's hand-picked candidate for senate.....

I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.

J.D. Vance, US Senate Candidate
February 2022  ·  Quote Source
 
Great book - bad movie.  You can take the hillbilly out of the holler but you can't scrub the sociopath out of the hillbilly.
 
It will be interesting to observe the Ohio GOP primary today......
 

3 comments:

  1. Just a taste of some of the really concerning thoughts rolling around in Vance's head.

    This is a long read, but fascinating:
    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

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    1. JD Vance embraces the Trump-Putin position that ‘extra-constitutional’ is now the new normal.

      I guess fascist is synonymous with sociopath too, eh?

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    2. The scary part is the how these folks think of themselves of big brain scholar/philosophers. Just wait until they start throwing around labels like "The new Founding Fathers" or some other nonsense.

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