Alexei Navalny’s widow invited as Biden’s guest to State of the Union
Yulia Navalnaya will not be in attendance when President Biden delivers his annual message to Congress on Thursday
Man... don't involve her in our bullshit.
I love the idea of Biden giving her honors, inviting her to the White House and talking with her, basically so that she can know that there are people on her side, to some degree, something like that.
The State of the Union isn't that. Marjorie Taylor Green is going to scream at her that she's secretly a transgender dolphin and Navalny was trying to steal all the gold that Dr. Evil buried under the Kremlin in 1966. Jim Jordan will try to serve her a subpeona so he can finally get to the bottom of Hunter Biden's laptop. There's all kinds of weird bullshit that goes on in the U.S. congress, and I genuinely don't think it's polite to expose her to it.
Just let us have our weird governmental thanksgiving with all our weird uncles and have the serious stuff happen somewhere else.
You should write for late night, lol
Would love to have seen Jon Stewart read that.
I agree all the crazy stuff will happen, but I think she's dealt with worse at this point. Her husband was literally poisoned and imprisoned by her government. I don't think the lunatics in our government can do much worse.
Actually, MTG's compromisation aside, the two of them actually have a lot of policy stances in common. Navalny was anti-muslim xenophobe. Sure, he was the only one with the balls and following to stand up to Putin for so long, but it doesn't change the quality of their character.
“🖕🏻 Can ya see this Putin?”
— Biden
100% a dark Brandon move.
He once told Putin to his face "I don't think you have a soul."
No poisoned undies yet 🫣
I hope it's just that because I don't like Navalny's actual policy stances.
Hopefully they offer her asylum at the same time…
“Mrs. Navalney, why don’t you invite your mother-in-law, too? And your own parents. And pets. Also, bring any valuables and anything you can’t stand to leave behind. Why? Oh… don’t worry about that…”
With a permanent visa I hope
This is the best summary I could come up with:
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday told reporters the invitation had been extended to Ms Navalnaya, but said the Russian opposition figure will not be in First Lady Jill Biden’s box above the House floor when Mr Biden addresses Congress on Thursday.
Mr Navalny’s funeral took place on Friday in Moscow, with thousands of people paying their respects under a large police presence.
She is taking on a daunting task, and it remains unclear if she, in cooperation with her husband’s followers and other opposition groups, can seriously challenge the rule of Mr Putin, who’s set to be re-elected once again in March to another six-year term.
With loyalist security forces, a subservient judiciary, a controlled media environment, and a legislature consisting of a ruling party and pliable opposition factions, the Kremlin manipulates elections and suppresses genuine dissent”.
While Ms Navalnaya has accused Mr Putin of killing her husband, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the claim “unfounded” as well as “insolent”.
At a meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council last month, she told leaders not to recognize the results of the Russian election in March and to place sanctions on more of Mr Putin’s close allies.
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Good going... you've just given Putin all the evidence he could possibly need or want to show people in Russia that Navalny was a US stooge.
All the bots in the world couldn't have handed Putin this kind of propaganda.
I am from a Russian speaking family and still retain enough of the language to understand this. Not once did he mention a thing about muslims. You have fallen for propaganda.
Everyone should read the comments on this video
Yay... another nazi in congress.
What is it with western countries like the US and Canada elevating right wing xenophobic nationalists, in this case the widow of one?
I cannot for the life of me imagine who your target audience for this comment is.
I think most likely is just that you know it'll get people riled up, and that's fun.
I’ll continue to respect Navalny for standing up to Putin, but dude was not an egalitarian by any stretch of the imagination.
I mean I didn't know much about the guys political philosophies outside of opposing Putin until i started seeing posts like this. Sounds to me we shouldn't really be praising someone who uses the same talking points as the guy running for office who will destroy American democracy
I mean, I get where you're coming from. Navalny may have opposed Putin but it's not like he was some great guy. But on the flipside, it's a nice little "fuck you" to Putin, which is rarely a bad thing.
jesus, enough with the navalny-simping already
Why?
But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience". Source
Gotta do something to try and distract from the illegal invasion and genocide Biden does support....
Can't be against all of it. That would be progressive.
Obviously it's best to oppose one and support the other, it's halfway between right and wrong, which means it's moderate and obviously the best choice.
Imagine if we had a president that was right on Russia and Israel! That would just be too much. We need a leader not afraid to take completely contradictory positions and refuse to even attempt to explain why.