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I find it difficult to take someone seriously when their name sounds like a a person that mows lawns on ass.
It becomes exceedingly more difficult when said anal landscaper is a fucking idiot fascist ball licker.
Just how many people, that aren't Trump/Republican mouthpieces or geopolitical foes, really think Zelenskyy is the one who came off looking bad in that exchange?
Yet another ratings-topping embarrassing episode in this new season of America's 'great television' show.
Who the fuck is Baumgartner?
I am assuming some corrupt American?
Yeah. This could probably go in an "US Politics" community for this ultra niche US stuff.
Nobody knows who TF this guy is so his opinion is pretty irrelevant on the world stage, and pretty low quality 'news' to begin with.
Republican Congressman from E. WA state. Yes, a corrupt American, one of the majority in the corrupt Congress. https://baumgartner.house.gov/about
What a fucking idiot. Some degenerate from what seems like provincial Washington state is making calls about the leadership of Ukraine?
We should send his family to Pokrovsk (a key frontline town in Donetsk oblast) to do logistics volunteer work.
Hell, they can even come to my apartment in Kyiv. While it's safe here, I have a feeling they are not going to enjoy daily shahed OWA strike warnings that happen in and around midnight or regular getting ballistic strike warnings at 4 am (and hearing takedowns of said shaheds and ballistic missiles during the night). Or seeing that the building down the street recently got hit my debris from a shahed takedown.
Some degenerate from what seems like provincial Washington state is making calls about the leadership of Ukraine?
Washington State is where Seattle is, a city that's bigger than Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Boston, Atlanta...
The problem is that the eastern part of the state (where this guy is from) is basically western Idaho.
Can't stand his miserable face and his troll like voice.
Sure, lets just pretend that it is normal for a US Government to dictate how other countries democratically elected Leaders are chosen and at what terms they have to resign themselfes from their Position, without any regards to said countries peoples will or democratic proceedings.
Just to be clear, the "diplomatic meltdown" was mainly by Trump and Vance, not Zelenskyy, right?
Asked whether the U.S. had itself gone back on its commitments by demanding compensation for aid that was freely given, Baumgartner was unequivocal.
“Be that as it may, (Ukraine has) now twice been ready to sign an agreement and twice backed out at the last second,” Baumgartner said. “And then you had this bizarre descent into public grievance, an argument in the White House in front of the American public, that’s not advantageous to either side.”
Baumgartner doesn't even deny that the US is "demanding compensation for aid that was freely given" but he's upset that Zelenskyy isn't jumping to pay up.
Just to be clear, the "diplomatic meltdown" was mainly by Trump and Vance, not Zelenskyy, right?
I couldn't even watch the interaction to the end. I have absolutely no idea how he was so calm about it. I guess I would have been shot by the secret service for trying to strangle Trump or Vance.
Please don’t give this sort of fascist talking points the light of day
This is what a russian asset looks like.
donald trump should resign after such an embarrassing performance. ‘Voters should demand it’ - also bum gardener tehehe
Who cares what this dumb fuck, green, redneck has to say? It’s not like he’s the leader of Ukraine. The people of Ukraine overwhelmingly support their President.
Unlike the US, where our President has +5 penalty roll to any diplomacy because he’s literally that stupid.
Well that's another guy to add to the list of people that need to go. Thanks for pointing yourself out.
"Congressman Michael Baumgartner is currently serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents the people of Washington State’s 5th Congressional District." https://baumgartner.house.gov/about
He's a MAGA bootlicker and is unfit for office. What an embarrassment to our nation he is.
It very much feels like all the American politicians getting any significant news coverage, now, are an embarrassment to the country, and the world.