watching the biden gang that can't shoot straight you gotta wonder if they even are aware of the constitution let alone involved in any way in using and defending it. now they're ramping up their attack on anyone who disagrees in any way with their dictates;

The extent to which the White House will not tolerate any dissent against its war messaging on Russia was revealed when President Joe Biden’s press secretary on Wednesday condemned a sitting member of the United States Senate as a Russian propagandist for simply questioning the drive to war over Ukraine. 

Jen Psaki accused Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of "parroting Russian talking points" for sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken questioning the drive for war. "Well, if you are just digesting Russian misinformation and parroting Russian talking points, you are not aligned with long-standing, bipartisan American values," Psaki told reporters at a regular White House briefing.   Those values are "to stand up for the sovereignty of countries like Ukraine … their right to choose their own alliances and also to stand against very clearly the efforts — or attempts, or potential attempts — by any country to invade and take territory of another country," she said.

Psaki added: "That applies to Senator Hawley, but it also applies to others who may be parroting the talking points of Russian propagandist leaders."  The word "others" is ominous. It can be taken to mean any other member of the U.S. Congress, U.S. independent media or ordinary Americans. 

Such vilification is designed to take agency away from American elected officials, journalists or private citizens — who are schooled in the American world view and not Russia’s — to think for themselves, examine evidence and come to their own conclusion. 

Smearing government critics as agents of a foreign power is the oldest trick in the book. Anti-Vietnam War protestors were labelled apologists for Hanoi and critics of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as Saddam stooges.

Hawley’s letter to Blinken was actually hawkish in tone, talking about Russian 'threats' — hardly a Moscow "talking point." He wrote: ..........read more.......