Senior Heritage officials had advocated for months in conversations with DeSantis’ team that he oppose policies that could move the U.S. toward direct confrontation with Russia, the people said.
While officials at Heritage have been in contact with almost every 2024 Republican presidential campaign, including that of former President Donald Trump, the think tank’s proximity to DeSantis is unique, eight people involved in the discussions said.
The Heritage Foundation’s Wikipedia page reads like they’re responsible for all the absolute worst political decisions of the last 50 years. Here’s just one example:
The Heritage Foundation supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to a 2004 study in the journal International Security, the Heritage Foundation confused public debate by challenging widespread opposition to the Iraq War by international relations scholars and experts by contradicting them “with experts of apparently equal authority…this undermined the possibility that any criticisms [of the war] might be seen as authoritative or have much persuasive effect.” The organization defended the Bush administration’s Guantanamo Bay practices.
Heritage is always code word for white supremacy too when you think about it. Confederate “heritage not hate” bullshit too.
Well yeah. They’re Republicans.
Conservative think tank is one of the most notable oxymorons in use today.
They should call them GOP meddling sessions instead.
You poke fun but this is where the real evil happens. This is the powerful elite coming together to manipulate the fuck out of reality, because, yes, they’re that rich.
Scheme hatching tank? Mustache twirling tank? Hunched skulking tank? Atrocity enthusiasts tank?
Can we stop saying think tank, as though these dummies actually think…?
You have to admit it’s a bit catchier than “Room of Blowhards Making Shit Up for Useful Idiots”
Maybe daft raft would roll off the tongue more easily
A “Cluster of Fucks”, maybe?
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The presence of some intelligence is not sufficiently persuasive for changing terminology when the point is to insult them. Duhhhh.
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We should really have another name other than “think tank” because I’m not convinced there’s a lot of thinking going on here.
Suggestions?
Propaganda generator
Dummy Trabant.
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Not to defend Heritage but I’d like to see some evidence of the claim that “Senior Heritage officials had advocated for months in conversations with DeSantis’ team that he oppose policies that could move the U.S. toward direct confrontation with Russia.”
I went over to Heritage’s website and everything I found is almost direct conflict with what these anonymous “people familiar with the discussions” are saying. They’ve been advocating that the US assist Ukraine in their conflict with Russia from the beginning.
They pushed for Washington to engage better with NATO regarding Ukraine and deterrence after the War started in 2022 and then again in 2023.
There’s a whole bunch of other reports, articles, and interviews about Ukraine over there and I can’t find a single one where Heritage is calling for the US to stop helping or pushing politicians to withdraw support for Ukraine.
I’m open to the idea that they are saying one thing publicly and doing something different in private but there needs to be evidence besides “Trust me bro…” I’ve had all of that I can stomach over the past 6 years.
