agip wrote:
There is now a highly sick pro-coup caucus in the GOP.
How does this resolve? They are actively pro-coup.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1372961377304899586?s=21
When I see something like this, I have to ask why. I looked around and found these statements in a Forbes article:
Biggs, in a video posted to Twitter, said the violence is “tragic,” but “there is suffering everywhere in the world” and the U.S. “can’t be the military police for the entire world,” claiming the resolution is a way to “put our foot in the door in Burma.”
Ok, but the resolution called for sanctions, not military intervention. Sometimes sanctions are just sanctions. Also, ignoring problems doesn't make them go away.
Jay Ostrich, a spokesperson for Perry – who objected to Pennsylvania’s electors on Jan. 6 – told Forbes the resolution is an “overt attempt to trap Republicans into condemning the claims of evidence of election fraud in Burma” while “perpetuating similar claims (in the Democrat’s views) of evidence in US elections.”
Honestly, I'm having trouble unraveling this statement, but I think it's saying, "They're trying to trick us into condemning coups like the one we tried."
Harris said in a statement that Congress should be dealing with “COVID positive illegal aliens being dispersed into our communities” rather than “wasting time on useless resolutions about a foreign country.”
Would any more or less time have been "wasted" had Rep Harris voted yes on this resolution?