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|    Phil Yagoda to All    |
|    Re: Why Do Putin And Republicans Sound S    |
|    11 Apr 22 22:03:25    |
      XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics, aus.politics       XPost: alt.tv.pol-incorrect, rec.arts.tv, talk.politics.guns       XPost: talk.politics.misc, uk.politics.misc, alt.global-warming       XPost: alt.atheism, or.politics, comp.os.linux.advocacy       XPost: sac.politics, alt.politics, uk.politics.misc       From: gayrightistsx@yahoomail.com              >       >       >Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson       >and the Republican party sound so       >alike?       >       >29 Mar 2022       >       >In a speech delivered last Friday       >from his office in the Kremlin,       >Putin criticized the west's "cancel       >culture", which, he charged, is       >"canceling" Russia - "an entire       >thousand-year-old country, our       >people". It was the third time in       >recent months Putin has blasted       >the so-called "cancel culture".       >       >Which is exactly what Trump, Tucker       >Carlson, and the Republican party       >have blasted for several years.       >       >"The goal of cancel culture is to       >make decent Americans live in fear       >of being fired, expelled, shamed,       >humiliated and driven from society       >as we know it," Trump said as he       >accepted his party's nomination at       >the Republican National Convention       >in 2020.       >       >Tucker Carlson, one of Fox News's       >most prominent personalities, has       >charged that liberals have been       >trying to cancel everything from       >Space Jam to the Fourth of July.       >       >Putin's fixation on transgender       >and gay people has also been echoed       >on the American right. Republican       >state bills aimed at limiting LGBTQ       >rights or discussion in schools are       >soaring. Last fall - months before       >Texas's Republican governor Greg       >Abbott threatened to criminalize       >parents who give their transgender       >children gender-affirming care -       >Putin argued that teaching children       >about different gender identities       >was "on the verge of a crime against       >humanity".       >       >Then there's admiration for Putin       >himself. Just before Putin ordered       >a full-scale invasion of Ukraine,       >Trump deemed him "savvy", "genius",       >and "smart" for "taking over a       >country, literally, a vast, vast,       >location, a great piece of land       >with a lot of people, and just       >walking right in".       >       >https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/putin-trump-tucker       >-carlson-republican-party?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1       >       >              Most traitors sound the same. No surprise here.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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