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Chris Bray's avatar

I just realized: Somebody in Congress managed to out-stupid Chris Van Hollen on a foreign trip this week. What an accomplishment.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Our politicians love watching each other jerk off in public.

Only way to explain this latest stunt.

What right does his man have for jeopardizing my sons future by encouraging a direct kinetic conflict with Russia?!

What a reckless pompous ass. Not only is it peak stupid but also disrespectful to us mere peasants.

The disgusting part is he feels entitled to do it.

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Eric Mader's avatar

The other disgusting part is he's actually a Republican. Which often means: Dem who prefers to jerk off in a different caucus.

In any case, he's short-listed for Twit of the Year, and twits appear in all tribes:

https://ericmader.substack.com/p/twits-on-parade

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Pnoldguy's avatar

He's mostly a RINO if anything.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh shit. I just assumed he was a clueless Democrat

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NormaJeanne's avatar

PLEASE someone in the PA Republican Party find a decent republican to run against him! I vote in the primary every year to get rid of this bozo. He is not liked in the upper Bucks farm country. He’s former FBI which should tell you something.

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Eric Mader's avatar

Don't feel bad. As I was reading Chris' post, I did too.

This guy's got a serious Tim Walz vibe. Like Walz' thinner brother or something.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

He probably likes loading his gun with his ball sack, just like The Great Walz of China

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

... use your RAM ROD, soldier!

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RU's avatar

I think we know for certain, post-covid, that there is an establishment uniparty, it is comprised of (D) and (R) and (I) members, and its members move in lockstep, never disagreeing about anything of substance, especially wars. Some (most?) have no ideas of their own and have about the same level of intelligence as a cable news host.

In my view, Trump's coalition is the third party many have wanted to see. They are certainly not the typical (R) as we've know it since 1990 or so.

They took over the (R) party b/c that was their only viable route to electoral victory.

But there are still a lot of uniparty tools like this guy they need to purge from the new (R) tent.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

He represents Bucks County in PA, which is right on the frontier with Philadelphia, also know as the DARK CONTINENT. In order to get along with the savages of that terrible place, the white residents of Bucks County must PANDER GIFTS of great symbolic value.

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Art's avatar
Apr 20Edited

Good. That means when he faces the consequences nobody can claim it was partisanship. And he damn well better face serious consequences, as in prosecution or loss of his seat in congress, and not a slap on the wrist.

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Mystic William's avatar

Van Wollen and he should both be censured and booted from office.

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Michael L's avatar

Or get together and start a deluxe travel agency to edgy zones.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

I vote for exchanging him for any American being held captive in Russia. Let Putin deal with him🤗

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Rino Twit , making a living and a retirement package, with health insurance for life .

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the long warred's avatar

Sons? Future? We came close to nuclear war in 2022. That’s why Musk rushed to buy Twitter. This was discussed at the time. The other half only came out in 2025:

Germany threatened to use nuclear weapons on Russia if the Russians went into Donetsk and the Russians issued a Demarche.

… the Demarche was known at the time. In early 2025 the public revelation that Germany 🇩🇪 had made the threat. Germany like other NATO allies has 35~ low yield B61 nuclear Gravity bombs we 🇺🇸 loaned under Dual Control; we keep the arming codes, they have the weapons if necessary.

…. So the Russians called the bluff. However that’s closest ever to nuclear war. Ever.

So Fitzpatrick isn’t the most dangerous idiot about….

…. A great many institutions of the past must be checked now from ever being near sharp objects again. NATO certainly.

Also Congress.

So here we are…

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JT's avatar

I missed that. What did Musk buying Twitter have to do with avoiding direct nuclear conflict?

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the long warred's avatar

At the time I was skeptical,

It was posted by others early 2022 that we were on last step before nuclear war. I disagreed until I observed a month or so more, then realized at the time when Musk rushed into Twitter that 1) no way he can do that without Deep State Intel backing and 2) what’s the rush … ? So I worked back towards 3) The lunatic echo chamber of Twitter WAS turning the dial towards WW3 4) John Robb pointed out Musk is buying Twitter to turn down the volume on WW3 so 5) at which point I realized that yes , it’s true. They are that shallow.

The confirmation that Germany threatened nuclear weapons if Russia went into Donetsk came this year.

(Don’t ask for links please I’m not narcissistic enough to keep a journal, but I recall the back and forth about the Blue Ukraine network swarm on John Robb’s stack).

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Phillip's avatar

The implications of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's threat justifies the election of Orange Satan a million times over IMHO. Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for each and every year of his presidency for his handling of Russo/American relations alone.

Of all the people in the West, you'd think that the Germans would have enough realism to dread war.

https://www.rt.com/russia/538417-russia-summons-german-military-attache/

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Rikard's avatar

"Germany threatened to use nuclear weapons on Russia..."

Are you sure it was Germany? Any nuclear weapons in Germany are American, aren't they?

France has their own nuclear arsenal, and the UK leases nuclear weapons from the US, but other than that, no European nation has nuclear weapons of their own.

Edit: Gah, I'm a sloppy reader sometimes! I re-read and saw you did mention the weapons if present would be American ones.

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kertch's avatar

Can you say "Logan Act"?

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Doggie Dad's avatar

Perhaps he's reading the room. Re PA-1: "The district encompasses Bucks County and parts of Montgomery County in southeastern Pennsylvania, including areas like Levittown, Doylestown, and Bensalem. It is represented by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R). Notably, the 1st District has the largest concentration of people of Ukrainian heritage in Pennsylvania, with over 106,000 residents statewide identifying as having Ukrainian roots." - Chat GPT

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rabbitrabbit's avatar

does that make this right? I do not want a war with Russia esp for Ukraine...if there are these many Ukrainians in America who think war with Russia is the solution then by all means head home to your country and fight...we need PEACE and we need to get out of this war ASAP

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Doggie Dad's avatar

Obviously not. I was looking for a plausible explanation for his idiocy. Pandering is usually number 1 or 2 for members of congress.

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DancingInAshes's avatar

Yeah but his constituents are also avoiding combat just like their friends who fled Ukraine for Europe in February of 2022.

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rabbitrabbit's avatar

I was also thinking why these Ukrainians would be allowed to vote and why so many in one district? Were they made US citizens when they arrived? Their being in this district should not have any effect on the election outcome unless they have been voting (most likely illegally)

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PhDBiologistMom's avatar

“People of Ukrainian heritage” makes it sound like these aren’t recent immigrants or war refugees, but rather descendants of people who came here from Ukraine years ago. Just like Minnesota has big populations of people of Scandinavian heritage, or NYC has neighborhoods of people of Italian heritage. They may have attachments to the “old country” but are natural-born US citizens.

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rabbitrabbit's avatar

Yes, good point...thank you

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Scott's avatar

Lived in Levittown/Bucks County for 20 years. Nickname: “The Speed Capitol of the World”. Every two years there would be a big bust and the names of all the dealers and strippers arrested would be published in the Bucks Country Courier Times. Motorcycle gang called “The Breed” was the primary antagonist.

Big incident where a number of Hells Angels turned up at a “Breed Bar” aka not their turf and tried to recruit some of the customers to join their organization instead. A few dozen shots fired and four dead bikers later, we had us a massacree!! (Sic).

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the long warred's avatar

Lol 😝 they’re no damn good or they’d be East of the Dnipro River.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

This is the inevitable result of playing too much CALL OF DUTY.

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Mystic William's avatar

Comical. If it weren’t quite so stupid and dangerous. He has to be booted.

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Eric F. ONeill's avatar

CVH: I’m the biggest idiot in Congress!

BF! Hold my beer!

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Christopher's avatar

I saw it this morning, and my first thought was "I know this record won't hold for more than a week, tops, but that's literally the most retarded thing I've ever seen".

It's almost certainly every bit as fake as Blue Origin, but still. These people are defective.

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Eric Mader's avatar

Me I'd say it's good this happened. Why? Because it provides, in brief narrative form, an unmistakable instance of the grave danger of performative politics.

I immediately thought of the lefty activist last year who shouted at city council members that she'd find them and murder them. Not understanding that her virtue-signaling was actually a crime, and that she would be locked up for it.

This twit is riding the same performative high, fishing for likes and shares, and his yen for going viral has made him forget: "Oh. Yeah. World War III? Hm. I guess I got a bit too inspired by the moment."

It'd be worthwhile to write a book on this scourge of mimetic politics and its real cost to us. Chris Bray would be the man to do it, each chapter dealing with a different area of concern.

I remember also the recent case of the woman who was trying to get up-close photos of a shark swimming near her. She lost both hands.

It's across the board in our society. The Instagram-tier forgetting that your post, as digital artifact, and the real world are not the same thing. A mass psychosis that sadly affects women more than men. But this "tough guy" representative?

You go, girl!

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Chris Bray's avatar

I pitched that book, and the response was so warm that I never heard back from anybody.

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Eric Mader's avatar

They didn't read your pitch, because they were scrolling. Your pitch was too close to Gutenberg format. Do the pitch again. On TikTok.

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Worthy's avatar

Yep. Well said.

The political actors studio, which seems to include most Democrats & Republicans in Congress, has failed. These actors have no authenticity or depth or feelings and no understanding of character. They just read the script. If you watch a few “hearings” you realize we’ve hired the worst actors to ever perform on stage. And their acting in the most important play ever written

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Isaiah Antares's avatar

Politics is show business for ugly people. Who can't act for shit.

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RU's avatar

It's performative, yes, but I also think they believe the majority of the population is in agreement with them, which makes them think they are safe in performing in this way.

They have come to believe their own fake polls and propaganda.

To me that's the part that makes what we are seeing today different than previous eras (of my lifetime, anyway). I always had the sense that politicians didn't actually believe what they were saying and doing, just acting the part to keep the donations and votes coming. But not that they actually believed the stupidest of ideas and were willing to act them out.

But today, I think we've managed to elect officials with IQs so low they would have been considered mentally handicapped in previous eras. So mentally inept that they believe their own propaganda and so do things like unknowingly start WW3 and post it social media, threaten to kill gov't officials in public, and fly to a Central American country on the taxpayer's dime to try to spring a violent, human trafficking paramilitary member from another country's prison. It's amazing, in a sad way.

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Michael L's avatar

Much like how many media workers believe they can "mold" public opinion. You can sell the public on an idea by presenting it in the appropriate way, but simply stating it over and over (as with the supposed necessity of transwomen participating in women's sports) only undercuts your credibility with much of the public.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"They have come to believe their own fake polls and propaganda".

BULLSEYE

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Dunno...i think this stunt may "backfire"...lol...;)

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NormaJeanne's avatar

Please let that be true

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Michael White's avatar

We are doomed, somehow we as a nation have voluntarily elected the stupidest people among us to govern smh.

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JW Writes's avatar

True - because who in their right mind would run these days? Who would put up with 1/1000 of what Trump and DeSantis and MTG and the many others have and have to deal with to be elected and when in office? We are self-editing to the lowest common denominator.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

You be right…

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Nick's avatar

Yes, many of the representatives we have now are both low IQ and nuts.

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reality speaks's avatar

The only reason WW III hasn’t happened is due to Putin’s restraint

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Scott's avatar

We are very fortunate that Russia has a leader with intelligence and restraint, as America’s leadership has shown precious little of these commodities for decades.

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Jack Dee's avatar

Can anyone identify the logos and unit patches on his kit?

Also is he carrying three magazines in his webbing?

I'm sure it's all for show, but if so that would fall under the

"Ha, Ha ! joke's on YOU, I was only PRETENDING to be retarded" meme

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Chris Bray's avatar

Completely missed the fact that he was carrying magazines. Good eye.

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Jack Dee's avatar

Yeah, try to get his press office to explain why he was either carrying loaded magazines, for which he had no legitimate use, or empty magazines which makes him a total wannabe ass

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Chris Bray's avatar

It occurs to me that if he was actually near the front, traveling with Ukrainian troops near Russian positions, and he was carrying magazines, he stopped being a noncombatant and made himself a legitimate target -- an armed person, or displaying a sign of being an armed person, on a battlefield. Incredibly reckless.

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Bandit's avatar

No such luck, Chris. 😒🙄

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Charles Wemyss, Jr.'s avatar

The problem with this nitwit, newly minted Representative former FBI super secret agent man playing solider is that indeed he made himself a target, and then we are in the mode of having to get his dead ass home, and then the ruffles and flourishes play for Representative dumb ass, and surely we need to name a new federal building after him, a nice 10 story poured concrete box like structure for more federal employees….and on and on it goes. Sadly it is likely he has passed on his genetic traits to another generation and in today’s world Darwinism is not always properly effected. There was a time when nature took care of fools like Fitzpatrick, ya know he gets his long winter scarf caught in a water driven buck saw and the party is over, now with all the built in safety controls this is less likely to happen and ergo reduce the gene pool of the blatant stupidity.

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Just An American's avatar

Freedom Fox below beat me to it. Logan Act violations don't just apply to private citizens taking part in diplomacy with words, and I think this goes further. This is actual Treason against the United States and it's duly elected government. The President sets the foreign relation policies. Trump says he wants peace with Russia. He's said it a million times. This guy just undermined all of that, and committed multiple high crimes as far as I am concerned. I'd stay in Ukraine if I were him...wild times. Two out of three branches of our government are either captured by the left, or are being theatre kids: They are not going along with the most powerful branch, the one with the military and the power of Executive....AKA doing stuff and breaking things.

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Scrub-Texas's avatar

This guy is an attorney AND former FBI - we are in deeper neurological do do. Upside a lot of us high school grajeates are feeling pretty smart right now.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

I imagine we will have a few mysterious factory fires soon in PA-1 as payback in the new asymmetrical war America has been experiencing over the last few years.

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Lysander Spoonbread's avatar

man, I was thinking the same thing... some sort of hack/DOS of major industry/govt

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Isn't that at *least* a Logan Act violation?

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Chris Bray's avatar

IIRC, Americans can legally fight for other countries. You can enlist in the French Foreign Legion, and Americans have volunteered to fight in Ukraine. But actual elected officials fighting for foreign countries is...a new one. Actually holding public office in Country A and actively shooting at Country B. Interesting choice.

Will be interested to see how this plays out: legally, politically, diplomatically.

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Rikard's avatar

If he's not in proper uniform and is partaking in real military action, he is in violation of both the Geneva convention and the Hague convention; uniform and insignia must be worn and be clearly defined and identifiable from a distance.

I'm not in any way up to date on the exact wording, or to what extent the USA has acknowledged and ratified said conventions, so don't take the above as gospel truth.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

If Pres. Trump said if he finds out any Congressmen are pulling shit like that he'll personally green light Putin to take them out, even give him coordinates I'd support that. If one of Trump's generals was cleared after calling China's leaders behind the President's back if he thought he was doing something the general thought might get the US into a war with China then certainly a President can call Russia's leaders about a congressman getting us into a war with Russia. AmIRight?

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letterwriter's avatar

I hope you are right--that the leaders can have a chat, I mean, and that this leads to loss of position and formal punishment, up to whatever treason receives. This erratic junior politician needs to ... I'm thinking brig, plank, tower cell, stuff like that. This is absolutely insane. Do we need to introduce some sort of oral examinations, similar to a thesis defense, before our politicians are sworn in? Clearly merely promising to uphold the Constitution doesn't have meaning for all of them.

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Worthy's avatar

He WAS an FBI agent. That could explain some of the stupidity.

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Regina Filippone's avatar

Trump should get in front of this and get rid of him (possible??) Someone call Elon … we need a Doge for stupid people.

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Mister Delgado's avatar

I don't believe Trump could do anything directly against him, but he could pressure House leadership to undertake whatever disciplinary measures against Fitzpatrick that might be appropriate.

Elon could fund a primary challenger.

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Regina Filippone's avatar

I’ll take all of the above.

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libgurl's avatar

Way overdue!!!

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Yacheng's avatar

“Hanoi Jane” cosplay. Politics really is Hollywood for ugly people.

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Larry Bailey's avatar

More serious but reminds me of your hometown sending Putin a cease-and-desist letter. Gets me every time I think of it.

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QuestionEverything's avatar

I think it is fair to say we don't have a representative government anymore.

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Michael L's avatar

Well, it's representative of...something.

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CTW's avatar
Apr 20Edited

We are governed by the absolute worst of the worst. For some additional context, he is targeted by the Ds in his upcoming election (in Bucks County, which is becoming a leftwing bastion) and so apparently he decided that launching artillery at Russia will help him politically back in his home district. Another piece of evidence showing the line between R and D in Washington doesn’t really exist.

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JTURNER's avatar

Cosplaying ourselves into a war

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