To the MAGA controlled GOP, "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
Trump, Mike Johnson and the GOP's sellout of Ukraine, America and our allies
Happy Monday TAT readers,
Today, is a bare-knuckled assault on Trump, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, the GOP, the Republicans in Congress and especially, the seventy or so GOP fake-patriot, congressmen, that are Veterans, that daily sell out our national security… again. My Texas congressman, Tony Gonzalez is one of them. If you find this topic triggers you, you may wish to stop reading now. By default, this means that you, “cannot handle the truth.” Today that truth will be as in the old saying, the “unvarnished truth.”
Onward
Ever since the now infamous escalator ride in his garish building, Trump and his subservient mob called the GOP, have sold-out US and NATO security to Putin. This occurred in a variety of forms, but I won’t rehash all of them today. I have written about the GOP’s sellout of our democracy and national security so often, that I can nearly recite the words in my sleep. Today, if you wish those background essays, I’ll leave the links below which detail, including sources, what that ongoing “fire-sale” looks like. If the links are not of interest, please skip past them for today’s essay.
MAGA's sellout of America and Western democracy (truthaboutthreats.com)
The disgraceful behavior of the Speaker of the House and the GOP, regarding aid to Ukraine (truthaboutthreats.com)
The GOP fiddles while America burns - by Paul Cobaugh (truthaboutthreats.com)
Being a Republican today, doesn’t make you a Conservative (truthaboutthreats.com)
The real Axis of Evil in the US is Russia, the MAGA controlled GOP and spineless Republican voters, putting party over country. (truthaboutthreats.com)
MAGA is pure blasphemy, pursuing theocracy and the evil adversary of democracy. (truthaboutthreats.com)
Libertas, Justitia, Veritas - by Paul Cobaugh (truthaboutthreats.com)
Christian Nationalism and theocracy are the antithesis of democracy, not the foundation, as Putin and the US right would have us believe (truthaboutthreats.com)
Mike Johnson and the GOP are now the face of treason.
A week ago, Russia had a small battlefield success, their first since the first two weeks of the war, two years ago yesterday. Admittedly, that success was minor and insanely costly for Putin’s genocidal war criminals. Still, that success was directly enabled by Mike Johnson and a spineless, unpatriotic Republican party. Today’s Republicans, especially Mike Johnson, the Trumpian stooge, now serving in the once prestigious role of, Speaker of the House of Representatives, wittingly gave this gift to Putin. Like the Oval Office post Trump, the Speaker of the House’s office, will require sterilization after the traitorous Johnson is ousted.
Like most Veterans and others who have served our nation and allies, traitors and those who assault our constitution, trigger me. That is precisely how I feel about the MAGA GOP, since 2015. Since my congressman Tony Gonzalez refuses to speak truth, right along with the rest of the GOP leadership, someone must do it for them. I hope that you will join me in demanding that Johnson stops taking direction from a traitorous Trump and by extension, Putin, and do the job he so desperately sought.
Johnson’s oath of office demands that he adhere to his oath, to protect and defend our constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. He has not only rejected this oath, but now campaigns for enemies, both actual and to our constitution. Denying congress, the opportunity to vote for support to Ukraine, directly supports Putin, who supports Trump and vice versa. By extension, he is also supporting Xi, The theocratic terrorists in Tehran and lesser Putin/ Xi sycophants. All are enemies of our national security and our constitution. Next, we’ll look at the details of his support.
Why traitorous?
The US has in one form, or another, been in a state of conflict with Russia and the Soviet Union, for all but a handful of years, immediately after the collapse of the former Soviet empire. The methods they use against the West are little different now, other than the extent of their aggressiveness, now far worse. In 2016, they had their first big success after nearly a hundred years of trying. They swung our presidential election to a “Manchurian Candidate” of sorts.
Trump though had not been brainwashed, as was the case in the movie. Trump willfully embraced Russian-styled oligarchy, tinged heavily with organized crime. Russia played to his ego and ignorance, therefore deepening his natural authoritarian narcissism, which in turn, supports Russian and American oligarchy. Like Putin, his role model fascist, Trump’s vehicle for absolute power, is underpinned by and based on right-wing extremist ideology.
In the meantime, one of only two major political parties, already chasing oligarchy here in the US, like a dog chases a car, easily fell in line with Trump’s fantasies and have since embraced oligarchy, even at the expense of US and Western national security. Below are some examples of how under Trump and Johnson and the Republican party have stood cowardly in silence, while that Putin and his closest allies, gained strength and momentum via a Trump administration.
Now, the GOP’s complicity in the past eight years, has given Putin as much kompromat as he needs to control the GOP.
Like digital media, Kompromat, never dies and therefore is always the “axe poised over someone’s neck”, should they decide to tell the truth or behave differently than the holder of the compromising materials wishes. After the Maria Butina story, the sellout of the US by the NRA, convicted of funneling Russian oligarchical rubles into Republican politicians, and far more incidents since 2015. Speaker Johnson’s behavior, like McCarthy’s before him, denies Ukraine funding because Putin holds the kompromat, and funding Ukraine is what he wants, not what the majority of Americans or NATO member nations want. In truth, not fully supporting Ukraine until Putin is evicted, is to merely announce to the world, that he, Xi and others have a free pass to do as they please, as they collectively and aggressively, assault all global democracy.
To maintain support, Putin built on decades of Russian/ Soviet influence operations designed to exploit sensitive differences western societies. This was called Active Measures, and two of its key components are “reflexive control” and kompromat. Reflexive control in layman’s terms simply means, that someone is brainwashed and can be manipulated from afar if they have been conditioned properly via propaganda. This is the exact dynamic now present in the MAGA crowd. With a word, phrase, action or directive from their dear leader, they will do unspeakable things. January 6th is a perfect example.
All of the un-American, WCN/ White Christian Nationalism and reverence for oligarchy is relentlessly promoted via every possible vector in American society. These are the seeds of destruction planted by the Soviets and perpetuated by Putin. Things like racism and income disparity have always existed in the US but via a wide variety of Soviet and Russian influence operations, have greatly amplified the social sensitivities to the point, that we are now once again, flirting with civil war.
Johnson’s religious beliefs are WCN and that’s part of his motivation to remain speaker at any cost. So long as he does the bidding of Trump and Putin, he will retain their ironclad support. Let’s also not forget that some of his largest campaign donors have been Russian oligarchs. While that his campaign claims that they returned the Russian money, to date there is no visible public proof. Also remember that Mike Johnson had to be caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, before claiming this.
Then there are the GOP members like my Senator John Cornyn, who despite sitting on the SSCI committee that investigated Russian influence in our 2016 election for 3 1/2 years and knew full well that Trump and the party were complicit in conspiring with Russian intelligence, sat cowardly in the corner hiding ever since. He failed to act morally and announce such a serious national security threat to the nation. Ted Cruz, who was up to his ears in Seditious Conspiracy and has since January 6th been attempting to erase all of his Seditious content from the internet, participated wittingly in an attempt to overthrow our nation.
Then there are the rest of the GOP elected representatives and senators like Tony Gonzalez, who still refuse to be honest about the massive GOP sellout of America to Putin. I have used my TX representatives as examples, but if you are represented by a GOP rep, your situation is little or no different.
Trump declared during office, that he would remove the US from NATO. Our treaty with NATO is ratified by the Senate and as such, cannot be removed by the Executive Branch, unilaterally. This though would not matter if Trump were elected again. Like 2016-2020, the rule of law would not matter to Trump and his GOP lemmings.
Gifting Putin Syria and her oil, discarding our Kurdish allies, allowing weaponized immigration against Europe and the US, empowering another Putin sycophant, Viktor Orban’ of Hungary, who constantly attempts to undermine NATO, failing to push back against Putin in Africa, LATAM and Afghanistan were just some of Trump’s gifts to Putin. The truth is Trump’s sellout of Afghanistan, was another gift to Putin… and Xi. Every single item and the long list of others not listed, have been a gift to Putin. Even the fraudulent FBI whistleblower so lovingly embraced by the GOP, is GOP complicity with Putin.
Here’s a little something that most pundits will not tell you. We cannot put the Chinese threat to bed, if we don’t put an end to Republican support for Putin. Much to Xi’s consternation, he has neither the power, economy nor experience to compete globally in an actual war. This is one reason for his slimy bromance with Putin. Xi requires Russian cooperation for one of the most valuable elements of his BRI/ Belt and Road Initiative. Xi’s bromance is actually an indicator that he is now realizing that while his military isn’t necessarily a “paper tiger” it is not a grown-up tiger either. Both Putin and Xi need to take a year or two to recuperate after the Ukraine debacle. Mike Johnson is desperately trying to give them a breather by selling out Ukraine.
Unless you have lived in a cave for the past few years, you’ve realized that nothing has been accomplished by the GOP in Congress, except giving away trillions to their oligarchical buddies and donors, via tax breaks. My regular blunt criticisms of the MAGA GOP are not born of political partisanship. This is not politics my friends; it is simply national security. Without a major house cleaning, pun intended, our national security remains at its worst threat since the civil war, when another bunch of White Christian Nationalists tore our nation apart for most of the same reasons espoused by today’s GOP; oligarchy and a WCN ideology.
I will wrap this up with some very blunt points; Mike Johnson and his fellow congressional, GOP sycophants, are murdering our brothers and sisters fighting in Ukraine. Their courage and dedication are not only to save their democracy, but they have become the front line, for NATO against Russian and Chinese aggression. Every penny we spend there, would have been spent anyway due to our long run of deterring Russia and their Soviet predecessors. It is now, more desperate than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Failing to support Ukraine is the direct equivalent of failing US national security. Let that sink in.
Telling the truth, devoid of political interest, is what TAT is all about. I am simply telling the truth about how severe the GOP threat is, to not only our security but to our constitution as well. If the lemmings don’t stop listening to their orange leader, they will take the constitution and our nation over the cliff with them. The only way to prevent that is for voters to stop listening to GOP snake charmers. The US government has no capacity to stop mis and disinformation, so we must do it ourselves. In my case, it is one article at a time. The GOP may be Republican, but they are not conservatives. When there are spines again in GOP candidates, we may have a chance but for now, this is a desperate fight for the reality of their threat.
The only thing that the GOP has accomplished in the past eight years, is to treasonously enable our worst enemies, and the dismantling of American constitutional democracy. If you vote party over country, regardless of “side” you are refusing to support America and what we stand for as a nation. While that I support no party, it is only common sense that voting R these days, is to vote against our national security and our constitution. There is zero sign that the GOP is recovering. It is up to every single American voter that considers themselves genuinely patriotic, to fight back at the ballot box. If someone won’t commit to defending our republic, they most certainly cannot call themselves a patriot. That’s it, that’s the message.
My very best for the rest of your week,
Paul