Quit Picking on the Republicans
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My God. Just when you think Republicans and Fox News can’t sink any lower, they do. Alexander Vindman, a decorated Iraq War veteran who fled the Soviet Union with his family when he was three years old, is testifying today that he raised concerns about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky to the top lawyer for the National Security Council. As soon as his opening statement was reported last night, Fox News and Republicans immediately launched disgusting attacks against him, accusing him of having “dual loyalties” and “espionage” because he was born in what is now Ukraine.
Let that sink in: Fox News and Republicans are viciously attacking a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran because he dared to stand up to Trump. They cannot fathom that someone would put country over party and follow their conscience to do what is right. To them, Trump’s interests are America’s interests, and anyone who defies their Dear Leader is a traitor. Shame on them. _ Robert Reich
The fundamentally un-American attacks on Alexander Vindman
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his team were exploring New York in the early 1980s, working on a feature about the Statue of Liberty as part of Burns’s “America” series. Sitting on a bench near Brighton Beach, they found an elderly woman sitting on a bench with twin boys, then about 10 years old.
They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. “Our mother died, so we went to Italy,” one added, “and then we came here."
In the final version of the film, titled, “Statue of Liberty,” the twins begin a section of interviews with other immigrants to the United States: a woman from Austria, a couple from Italy, a man from Cuba who worked at Yankee Stadium. The through-line is obvious, even without historian David McCullough’s introduction to the segment.
“To me, the Statue of Liberty is like the light that’s left on back home,” he said. Being at the statue, he said, made “you feel something I think much more than just being an American. You feel the importance of being human. And you feel a kind of fraternal [bond] with everybody who has come here."
This idea of dual loyalty is something that Trump himself has raised. During his attacks on a group of Democratic lawmakers this summer for purportedly being anti-Semitic, Trump suggested that American Jews who support Democrats are being disloyal to Israel. He’d made similar comments in the past.
The reaction to Vindman, though, reveals a fundamental hypocrisy in the Trumpian approach to immigrants. What Trump prioritizes in migrants who come to the United States is self-sufficiency and assimilation. He prefers migrants from Europe over Africa or the Middle East. What he wants is Alexander Vindmans — until Alexander Vindman points out where the loyalties of Trump himself might be questionable.
“My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old,” Vindman’s opening remarks read. “Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my father worked multiple jobs to support us, all the while learning English at night. He stressed to us the importance of fully integrating into our adopted country. For many years, life was quite difficult. In spite of our challenging beginnings, my family worked to build its own American Dream."
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...entally-un-american-attacks-alexander-vindman
Let that sink in: Fox News and Republicans are viciously attacking a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran because he dared to stand up to Trump. They cannot fathom that someone would put country over party and follow their conscience to do what is right. To them, Trump’s interests are America’s interests, and anyone who defies their Dear Leader is a traitor. Shame on them. _ Robert Reich
The fundamentally un-American attacks on Alexander Vindman
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his team were exploring New York in the early 1980s, working on a feature about the Statue of Liberty as part of Burns’s “America” series. Sitting on a bench near Brighton Beach, they found an elderly woman sitting on a bench with twin boys, then about 10 years old.
They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. “Our mother died, so we went to Italy,” one added, “and then we came here."
In the final version of the film, titled, “Statue of Liberty,” the twins begin a section of interviews with other immigrants to the United States: a woman from Austria, a couple from Italy, a man from Cuba who worked at Yankee Stadium. The through-line is obvious, even without historian David McCullough’s introduction to the segment.
“To me, the Statue of Liberty is like the light that’s left on back home,” he said. Being at the statue, he said, made “you feel something I think much more than just being an American. You feel the importance of being human. And you feel a kind of fraternal [bond] with everybody who has come here."
This idea of dual loyalty is something that Trump himself has raised. During his attacks on a group of Democratic lawmakers this summer for purportedly being anti-Semitic, Trump suggested that American Jews who support Democrats are being disloyal to Israel. He’d made similar comments in the past.
The reaction to Vindman, though, reveals a fundamental hypocrisy in the Trumpian approach to immigrants. What Trump prioritizes in migrants who come to the United States is self-sufficiency and assimilation. He prefers migrants from Europe over Africa or the Middle East. What he wants is Alexander Vindmans — until Alexander Vindman points out where the loyalties of Trump himself might be questionable.
“My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old,” Vindman’s opening remarks read. “Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my father worked multiple jobs to support us, all the while learning English at night. He stressed to us the importance of fully integrating into our adopted country. For many years, life was quite difficult. In spite of our challenging beginnings, my family worked to build its own American Dream."
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...entally-un-american-attacks-alexander-vindman
Prog shit.
Progs had no problem attacking Flynn, Gabbard, North, and the armed forces in general. Such hypocrisy.
Those scum, eh Walter?
The only good soldier is the one that gets four square behind the narcissist draft dodger.
It's amazing how many people get those two little words mixed up, isn't it?
"loose" and "lose" are two others I see all the time!
That too.
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
Samuel Clemens
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