{"id":40870,"date":"2020-08-23T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40870"},"modified":"2020-08-23T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:45:00","slug":"republicans-on-parade-8-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/republicans-on-parade-8-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 8\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RepublicansOnParade3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred eighty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is the de facto head of the US Republican Party, Vladimir Putin [R-RU]. He is so honored for giving his brown-nose sycophant prot\u00e9g\u00e9, criminal Fuhrer Trump*, a lesson on how to best deal with a political opponent.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0823Navalny\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0823Navalny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0823Navalny.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"216\">Russia\u2019s most prominent Kremlin critic, <strong>Alexei Navalny, was in critical condition<\/strong> in a German hospital Saturday, suffering from suspected poisoning, as doctors conducted tests after an emergency flight from Russia.  <\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Charit\u00e9 hospital in Berlin said a \u201ccomprehensive medical exam\u201d was underway on Navalny, 44, who has been in a coma since collapsing early Thursday aboard a plane from the Siberian city Tomsk to Moscow.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>His spokeswoman and others suspect he was the target of a deliberate poisoning \u2014 a method used before by Russian agents \u2014 possibly in tea he drank at an airport cafe<\/strong>. Russian doctors said they did not find toxins in Navalny\u2019s system.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce that is complete, and after speaking with the family, the medical staff will provide further details about the sickness and the next steps,\u201d the Berlin hospital statement continued, noting that \u201cthe exam will take some time.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-flies-into-berlin-for-medical-treatment-for-suspected-poisoning\/2020\/08\/22\/7b1cb068-e3c0-11ea-82d8-5e55d47e90ca_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hat Tip to Mitch for sending me <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-alexei-navalny-revolutionized-opposition-politics-in-russia-before-his-apparent-poisoning-144830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Alexei Navalny revolutionized opposition politics in Russia, before his apparent poisoning<\/a>.&nbsp; You need to need to read it to understand just how big a threat Navalny is to Putin and his Russian Republican Reich.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although the proof is not yet set in stone, Putin, aka Daddy Vladdy, as Trump* calls him in bed, has so many poison priors that not to act on it would be insane.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p-0FlsgtPRA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Poison is part of Putin&#8217;s policy,&#8217; says Alexei Navalny associate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/p-0FlsgtPRA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">See what I mean?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Committing political murder is nothing new for the Republican Reich.&nbsp; Consider JFK, MLK, RFK and Kent State.&nbsp; More recently, look how they targeted Gabby Giffords, almost killing her.&nbsp; Since criminal Fuhrer Trump* admires his Daddy Vladdy so much and emulates him so often, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris need to add official food tasters to their security staff!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred eighty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winner is the de facto head of the US Republican Party, Vladimir Putin [R-RU]. He is so honored for giving his brown-nose sycophant prot\u00e9g\u00e9, criminal Fuhrer Trump*, a lesson on how <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/republicans-on-parade-8-23-2020\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3924,3783,3838,3714,4091],"class_list":["post-40870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gop-murder","tag-republicans-on-parade","tag-russia","tag-video","tag-vladimir-putin","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}