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Botany

(70,447 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 10:55 AM Mar 2022

Remember the Moscow 8 and their July 4, 2018 trip to Russia?

I want to see our great "liberal media" sticking a mic in these traitors face ask them how they
feel about Russia and their trip to Moscow now?

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“What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom,” Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.

For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin’s regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.

The Moscow Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.),
John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Johnson, plus Rep.
Kay Granger (Tex.).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

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Remember the Moscow 8 and their July 4, 2018 trip to Russia? (Original Post) Botany Mar 2022 OP
Never forget their names. And daines was the one besides rubio who tweeted pics niyad Mar 2022 #1
And every republican senator and congressperson who voted not to hold TFG accountable ... Botany Mar 2022 #3
Exactly. niyad Mar 2022 #5
+1. iluvtennis Mar 2022 #27
Daines keeps sending me fundraising Biden-bashing emails Walleye Mar 2022 #4
Good for you. I tried calling both his offices and little marco's yesterday. All niyad Mar 2022 #6
I keep getting them too! MontanaMama Mar 2022 #10
Senator Tester, though!! cilla4progress Mar 2022 #17
You got that right, my friend. MontanaMama Mar 2022 #31
I get them too. BlueMTexpat Mar 2022 #51
I miss the old days, when even nominal hackers could mess up GOP websites. plimsoll Mar 2022 #11
Guests Of Putin (GOP) lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #33
go-fers of putin? niyad Mar 2022 #35
Guardians Of Putin Kid Berwyn Mar 2022 #54
And a subsequent report included a third one - Grassley. soldierant Mar 2022 #38
Colour me sooooooo NOT surprised. niyad Mar 2022 #39
Oh, me too. soldierant Mar 2022 #47
Grassley has always been old enough to know better RVN VET71 Mar 2022 #52
+1000 soldierant Mar 2022 #56
Dana Milbank was one of the few reporters to even report on this calling them the Moscow Mules spanone Mar 2022 #2
Thanks for that info mrsadm Mar 2022 #50
No need to single out just 8 traitors, gab13by13 Mar 2022 #7
Exactly. niyad Mar 2022 #40
And remember the Coup Caucus too, every Republican who voted against certification of Biden's win. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #8
And if these guys complain about unfair treatment Vogon_Glory Mar 2022 #9
Recommended. H2O Man Mar 2022 #12
hammer these fucks relentlessly.... bahboo Mar 2022 #13
These mercenary traitors have to be Enoki33 Mar 2022 #14
We have 25% of Americans who will always be MAGA types because their racism and anti intellectualism Botany Mar 2022 #16
True enough. Could be a byproduct of plastering Enoki33 Mar 2022 #25
My senator jerry Q moran is up for reelection this year KS Toronado Mar 2022 #15
Traitors, all of them. n/t TeamProg Mar 2022 #18
Kicking for visibility SheltieLover Mar 2022 #19
So, we all attribute the escalation of Russian bribery cilla4progress Mar 2022 #20
Dark money really is DARK n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2022 #28
Conservanazi TRAITORS! TxVietVet Mar 2022 #21
IN. SANE. live love laugh Mar 2022 #22
Kay Granger is a crook and a half. Stole money from the Feds for water reclamation/rerouting flying_wahini Mar 2022 #23
Thank you for posting this info. n/t MarcA Mar 2022 #29
No wonder two impeachments failed to convict Agent Trump. Kid Berwyn Mar 2022 #24
Republican betrayal of USA is epic evil Achilleaze Mar 2022 #26
Let's make sure that "Moscow 8" label sticks like glue. calimary Mar 2022 #30
it should be posted on each of their twitter accounts so others will see it. IcyPeas Mar 2022 #45
They have nothing to worry about. Tacan Mar 2022 #32
KnR Hekate Mar 2022 #34
just to add insult to injury, we paid for this trip didn't we? rurallib Mar 2022 #36
Is it gaining access to money or innate bigotry that binds them to Puty? SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2022 #37
Yep dalton99a Mar 2022 #41
Never forget these assholes. Where was the media FCS? This should have been investigated. n/t Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #42
better add a lot more names to that russian shit list ! monkeyman1 Mar 2022 #43
sadly there are probably thousands in various institutions, public and private. Evolve Dammit Mar 2022 #44
In the 50's -we had Mcarthyism , just might have to bring that back ? monkeyman1 Mar 2022 #46
This has never been addressed. Traitors, all. Joinfortmill Mar 2022 #48
Kick! love_katz Mar 2022 #49
Why don't they go again, today. twodogsbarking Mar 2022 #53
Moran is turning on his sugar Daddy deminks Mar 2022 #55

niyad

(113,074 posts)
1. Never forget their names. And daines was the one besides rubio who tweeted pics
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:05 AM
Mar 2022

of President Zelensky on that zoom call. F'n traitors, all.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
3. And every republican senator and congressperson who voted not to hold TFG accountable ...
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:11 AM
Mar 2022

... for hamstringing President Zelensky and the Ukraine in getting weapons to defend against Russia
in order to blackmail them to make up some dirt on Joe Biden and his family along with giving Trump
a pass on the 1/6/21 attempted violent coup should have to answer about that shit too.

Walleye

(30,982 posts)
4. Daines keeps sending me fundraising Biden-bashing emails
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:16 AM
Mar 2022

Don’t know why he has my email address.So this morning I replied in a very profane and obscene tirade

niyad

(113,074 posts)
6. Good for you. I tried calling both his offices and little marco's yesterday. All
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:19 AM
Mar 2022

mailboxes full.

MontanaMama

(23,296 posts)
10. I keep getting them too!
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:03 PM
Mar 2022

Absolutely infuriating. I sent a similar response and finally had to block him.

plimsoll

(1,667 posts)
11. I miss the old days, when even nominal hackers could mess up GOP websites.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:12 PM
Mar 2022

Good times, yes I'd like to donate -$250 to your campaign bill(Credit) my account.

Kid Berwyn

(14,802 posts)
54. Guardians Of Putin
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 09:14 AM
Mar 2022

History will add that money grubbing Florida fuck Ron DeSantis, sheltering oligarchs and their property.

soldierant

(6,791 posts)
38. And a subsequent report included a third one - Grassley.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 08:44 PM
Mar 2022

Wouldn't you have thought he was old enough to know better?

RVN VET71

(2,689 posts)
52. Grassley has always been old enough to know better
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 07:52 AM
Mar 2022

But his moral compass got lost somewhere between his baptism and the Senate.

spanone

(135,795 posts)
2. Dana Milbank was one of the few reporters to even report on this calling them the Moscow Mules
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:06 AM
Mar 2022

Grrrrrr

gab13by13

(21,264 posts)
7. No need to single out just 8 traitors,
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:31 AM
Mar 2022

The GQP has become the Putin Party. Putin didn't just want to elect Trump in 2016 he wanted to also elect the Putin Party to control Congress.
CPAC just confirmed in its straw poll that Putin puppet Trump is the leader of the party and the members of that party are not going to criticize Putin's puppet.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
8. And remember the Coup Caucus too, every Republican who voted against certification of Biden's win.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:42 AM
Mar 2022

They cannot get off by claiming stupidity when they clearly were part of a coup plot and they knew it.

We need some wanted poster templates to paste all their official photos onto, Wanted, Coup Participant, Voted to Overthrow the Government. Would "public lynching at the ballot box" be a step too far?

Vogon_Glory

(9,109 posts)
9. And if these guys complain about unfair treatment
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:42 AM
Mar 2022

Steel your hearts and remember how many good Democrats were voted out of office in swing-districts and red-leaning districts in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s because a few far-left anti-war protesters * were waving Viet Cong flags and the R’s convinced credulous voters that Democrats wanted American soldiers dead.

I have no pity for these guys.

===

Far-left protesters WHO WEREN’T EVEN DEMOCRATS.

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
14. These mercenary traitors have to be
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:20 PM
Mar 2022

held accountable at the polls by reminding every voter of their betrayal. Plaster a big T on every photo of the thugs they have proven themselves to be.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
16. We have 25% of Americans who will always be MAGA types because their racism and anti intellectualism
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:39 PM
Mar 2022

.... will make them always vote for "a Trump" even if it is against their own best interests and it
hurts America. Fuck 'em those votes are gone anyway because there a lot more of us then there
are of them. They want to go down on the Trump-tanic fine let let 'em.



BTW Oklahoma, Arkansas, Utah, Wyoming, Ohio, & Indiana, and some southern states w/gerrymandering & electronic
voting machines those states are gone.

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts)
20. So, we all attribute the escalation of Russian bribery
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:42 PM
Mar 2022

in US politics to John Roberts, yes?

The 2010 Citizens United decision?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#:~:text=cases%20in%20years%22.-,Decision,violations%20of%20the%20First%20Amendment.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the relationship between campaign finance and free speech. It was argued in 2009 and decided in 2010. The court held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions, and other associations

flying_wahini

(6,578 posts)
23. Kay Granger is a crook and a half. Stole money from the Feds for water reclamation/rerouting
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:46 PM
Mar 2022

Feds pushed the issue and Now the Taxpayers have to pay it back. MILLIONS.

Also took money from pro choice and then voted against it. A real piece of work.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/capitol-assets/public-projects-private-interests/|

Rep. Kay Granger (R - Tex.)

Earmark near personal property with
family connections: $51.9 million

Over the past decade, Granger has helped obtain $51.9 million in earmarks toward a project to make over downtown Fort Worth and reroute the Trinity River. Until 2010, Granger co-owned a condominium building with her son about a half-mile south of the project. Her son is director of the group in charge of the project. "The congresswoman has always given her support to qualified programs in full compliance with the House Ethics Committee and the rules of the House of Representatives," her spokesman said.

Kid Berwyn

(14,802 posts)
24. No wonder two impeachments failed to convict Agent Trump.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:46 PM
Mar 2022

Those Senators should have no business in Congress other than directing their pension checks be forwarded to the federal prison where they deserve to reside.

calimary

(81,125 posts)
30. Let's make sure that "Moscow 8" label sticks like glue.
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:31 PM
Mar 2022

DON’T let any of these miserable scheming traitors EVER get away from that label.

This must follow each of these double-dealing traitors for the rest of their careers (hopefully soon to be permanently up-ended).

The Moscow Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.),
John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Johnson, plus Rep.
Kay Granger (Tex.).


They must be LAMINATED to that title. Okay DNC. WHERE’S the attack ad campaign??? Lincoln Project - where are YOU GUYS??? Where’s YOUR attack ad?

Who’s yer daddy, Moscow 8????

rurallib

(62,387 posts)
36. just to add insult to injury, we paid for this trip didn't we?
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:00 PM
Mar 2022

Taxpayers dollars for treasonous bastards.

You'd think if they were going to sell out their country they could pick up the bill.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,087 posts)
37. Is it gaining access to money or innate bigotry that binds them to Puty?
Mon Mar 7, 2022, 07:42 PM
Mar 2022

Maybe they will always be corrupt opportunists. Trick is exposing how they take our tax dollars in the form of paychecks to do self-serving business with a mass murderer who dreams of the downfall of America. They still get support. But maybe not enough to win reelection.

Plus, I keep thinking of the Macaca moment of George Allen. And how we got Jim Webb in the Senate and a filibuster proof majority for about 5 minutes. How that turned into an extreme right wing SCOTUS 15 years on keeps me up nights.

https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2322630&page=1

deminks

(11,014 posts)
55. Moran is turning on his sugar Daddy
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 09:25 AM
Mar 2022

Now that he can't pay anymore. He called Pooty a thug yesterday.

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