Where Things Stand: Cheney Warns Another GOPer Has Become One Of The Kremlin's 'Useful Idiots'

[Zorro]

One of the continuing ironies of the current political moment is the extent to which it is now the norm for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), despite her name, to break with her party on a number of issues, especially to critique Trumpian lines of thinking from the far-right faction.

Today she went after Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), criticizing the QAnon congresswoman for giving fresh air to the stale Kremlin talking points about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Putin is targeting and slaughtering civilians in a brutal unprovoked war against Ukraine, a sovereign democratic nation,” Cheney tweeted this morning, pointing to a video that Greene posted on Facebook Wednesday. “Only the Kremlin and their useful idiots would call that ‘a conflict in which peace agreements have been violated by both sides.’”

Link to tweet

“Useful idiot” is both amusing on its face and a throwback to the Cold War, a term used to describe people who might not actually be allies of Soviet Russia, but who could be vulnerable to manipulation and indoctrination via its “propaganda.” (It goes without saying that history and ideology has scrambled terminology here: Greene is not a communist, nor is Russia Soviet — but the “useful idiot” line on its face … rings true here.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cheney-warns-another-goper-marjorie-taylor-greene-kremlin-useful-idiots

[Kali]

1. wierd close set eyes, yet wall-eyed

and dumb as a post too. sorry to sink to commenting on appearance (well not really) but I just noticed the wall-eyed part.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I notice too.

As an artist, particuarly people's facial features, I can't help but focus on visuals. Her eyes are so small and deep set that she looks like a chimp. The rest of her face looks like a horse. Her sense of fashion also sucks. Maybe she is hoping to distract us from her obvious ignorance and hatred. In my opinion, if she didn't want us to focus on her (any part of her) she would be very upset since she screams for attention.

[Patterson]

6. She looks like a bull terrier

[BigmanPigman]

7. She DOES! You're so right.

[diane in sf]

18. Her face and body are often likened to Barney Rubble from the Flintstones on the

Stephanie Miller show. And I have to agree. Little dull close-set beady eyes, coarse-featured heavy lower face, and a lumpy pear-shaped body with fat arms. But all that is irrelevant to her hideous personality. If we were dealing with a kind, smart person, they could have the same features and look charming because of their animating energy and perhaps a better dress sense.

[screamcheese]

19. Low Ears

Has anyone noticed how low-set her ears are? Saw a picture of a Neanderthal with wall eyes and low ears!
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/harvard-professor-seeks-adventurous-woman-birth-neanderthal/

[Moostache]

2. While the original is certainly germaine to that thing from Georgia...

I pretty much prefer to think of her as a USELESS idiot in general and a bleeding imbecile overall.

[DENVERPOPS]

3. If each atom of her brain

were a ton of TNT she wouldn't have enough to blow her nose. Same for Bang-Bang Boebert, along with Palin and others.......

Sadly, I feel the same way towards all the mentally deficient that voted for them........THAT is the far bigger tragedy.........
The same can be said for the 70 million across America that voted for Trump or most Republicans for that matter......

When I was young, I thought that the people that represented us all in the Federal Government were the smartest that this nation had to offer. I really can't remember when it suddenly dawned on me, that it was in fact, just he opposite in most cases......maybe it was when I was sixteen during the Viet Nam years????????????

WASF

[Wednesdays]

5. Bothsiderism

is a go-to tactic for the wingnuts while talking about American politics, what's stopping them from using it regarding the invasion of Ukraine?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. I love a Republican who can say "democratic".

So many have banned it as a term. And this display of unprovoked aggression speaks volumes.

Let Freedom Ring.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

9. She looks like she smells bad.

[WVreaper]

10. If a tree falls in the forest

and there is nobody there to here it, does it make a sound? Think of Empty Greene as that tree. The more that everybody rebroadcasts that voice, the more that it is heard. Just a tree falling in the woods.

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[TheBlackAdder]

12. I bet if you took all of her college papers and analyzed them there would be multiple authors.

.

There is no way that this moron wrote college level papers on her own.

There are probably multiple styles and voices.

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[wnylib]

24. Bought off the Internet.

[YoshidaYui]

13. SOMEONE SHOULD ASK her if SHE SPEAKS RUSSIAN??

Link to tweet

[murielm99]

14. Damn, that's funny!

[YoshidaYui]

16. and that some one turned out to be me

Link to tweet

[monkeyman1]

20. nah, has enough trouble with the English language !

[YoshidaYui]

21. maybe she is better at RUSSIAN?

[ificandream]

15. I really hope the Democratic Party will make unseating her a highest priority. She has got to go.

[The Jungle 1]

17. No repukes have been sanctioned by russia.

[monkeyman1]

22. talked to freinds in GEORGIA , they don't want her back !---

they said it's been nice down there with her goofy ass gone ! that is fact !

[BlueWavePsych]

23. Kick

[mahina]

25. They were both represented by the same "talent" agent

Link to tweet

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It’s not just a schtick , it’s an act.