Republicans Aren't Patriots Anymore, They Admit

 

New: Nearly 200 House Republicans have written to President Biden warning any nuclear deal made with Iran without Congress' approval "will meet the same fate" as the 2015 agreement by President Obama later abandoned by President Trump. w @zacharybasu https://t.co/OEzlmxdg40

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 17, 2022

Look, this isn't new. Obviously, this is the same fuckery as we saw in 2015 when freshman Senator Tom Cotton decided to get very fresh and formulate a movement against the one thing a reasonable democratic government could do: multilaterally negotiate in good faith and encourage inspections backed with relief of sanctions--to encourage Iran to step into a better 21st century agreement with us. And the GOP House contingent backing this is not accomplishing anything, actually, except for stating their willingness to fuck things up.

It's sort of weird that this is a theocratic thing: people wanting to do what certain Israel right-wingers prefer because of end-time reasons that you could look up if you felt like being really depressed about humankind. But in the real world, it would be actually great if we did actually useful things to discourage people thinking nukes are a solution because nuclear war is bad.  

Nearly 200 House Republicans don't think diplomacy regarding a nuclear Iran is worth admitting that diplomacy is a thing or Democratic government is legitimate. They are goddamn near revealing themselves to be lower than Iran hardliners on this score. They want to positively state that the very nature of democratic government is not to be trusted. They will never put US interests first if there is a specific political need for their party. They will always fuck over Democrats if they can. 

Even if it makes things demonstrably worse.  

I really can not stand these fuckers. They have no moral core, and don't know a good thing from a bad thing. They only know signifying for an audience that is dumb as hell. They can't even show the leadership needed to explain why their dumbass people are wrong, they would rather be popular than right. And this is wrong on so many levels. 

UPDATE: I'm the least professional person writing about this, because I'm literally putting out statements like "I hate these fuckers" (but I do, because acting like when the US government switched from a Democrat to a Republican in the WH means we are a whole new entity, as if we aren't one of the longest running democracies, is entire ass)  but there's kind of a FU clause in the new dealings:  

The Middle Eastern diplomat and an Iranian official indicated, however, that Tehran was prepared to accept a lesser measure - that in the event of a U.S. violation of the pact, Iran would be allowed to enrich to up to 60% purity again.

And frankly, I'm cool with that, because the US is the party that withdrew from the multilateral deal and the party whose participation undergirds whether Iran stays on target, so yeah, put in writing that reneging has a consequence because the soft skulled crabs who want no part of it don't seem to understand what the whole deal is about.