Wendy Rogers calls Zelenskyy a 'globalist puppet for Soros and Clintons' in Twitter rant
In a series of tweets, the Arizona senator and Trump supporter blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Russia's attacks on their country
Wendy Rogers is Arizona State Senator and has made absurdly false claims about Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers in what appeared to be a tweetstorm on Sunday, February 27, unleashed a flood of insane talking points on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. The Republican lawmaker also made an outlandish claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a "globalist puppet for [George] Soros and the Clintons."
Rogers, 67, an admirer of Confederate generals, is well-known on social media for her hatred of "communists" and her belief in former President Donald Trump's election lies. In a series of tweets, Rogers blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Russia overrunning his country and complained about Russia getting cut off from the global financial system.
Rogers in her first tweet asked, "So when will the #FakeNews tell us the truth about Ukraine instead of just the pro-Clinton Global Initiative side?", referring to the claim Ukraine was the No. 1 donor to Hillary Clinton when she was running for president. In her second tweet, she wrote, "If Zelenskyy was so great why didn't he amass troops and tanks to defend his country when people were warning him that hundreds of thousands of Russian troops and tanks were amassed on his border for months? Pretty big blunder. Typical liberal who doesn't project strength." "The West is trying to deplatform and debank Russia. This is just as wrong as invading Ukraine", read her third tweet. All these tweets led to her fourth unsubstantiated claim: "Zelenskyy is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons."
It is not uncommon for far-right forces around the world to blame Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros for the woes of the world, an accusation that is often tinged with anti-semitism. It is worth noting that Zelenskyy is Jewish, and Vladimir Putin has tried to justify his invasion by falsely claiming he’s working toward the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine.
Rogers in another tweet claimed, "I stand with the Christians worldwide not the global bankers who are shoving godlessness and degeneracy in our face." "Liberals always start wars because they are weak and then after they start them, they pretend to act tough when really the tough thing is to make peace", she tweeted. Rogers continued, "Macron, Ardern, Trudeau, Zelenskyy... they all report to the same Satanic masters." She wrote, "You celebs can all be mad at me all you want but literally no one is giving us all the facts and I don't want World War III. Do you?."
Rogers continued, "If you don't understand that Hitler and Napolean invaded Russia and tried to take Moscow or what the Cuban Missile Crisis is - open a history book. The #FakeNews won't tell you, they just want global government so they can enslave us all." Arizona Senator tweeted, "The bankers want a great reset and World War III." She further claimed, "I nominate President Trump to broker a truce between Zelenskyy and Putin. We don't want World War III."
The rant doesn't end here and is still ongoing.
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Arizona’s Scariest People
By Stephen Lemons
Phoenix
September 9, 2021
No. 1: Wendy Rogers
Yes, I know, Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers is waaaay out there on the outer edge of full-on woo.
The retired Air Force colonel has always been squirrely, but as a perennial Republican candidate she would sometimes take aim at people that I considered more troublesome – mainly because they threatened to be more influential, like Sheriff Paul Babeu and former Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen, whom I like to think of as a female Russell Pearce and whom Rogers defeated in the Legislative District 6 GOP primary of 2020.
But in Arizona politics, you cannot just drink a wee bit of the Kool-Aid. You ultimately have to chug the whole gallon. And though Rogers seemed to lose more than Eisenhower-era serial candidate Harold Stassen back in his day, she finally got elected to office with Allen’s defeat, and she’s since blossomed into a veritable font of bull-goose looniness.
Not only has she embraced elements of the militia movement – like the Oath Keepers, of which she’s claimed to be a charter member – she’s also engaged in much extremist rhetoric, like calling Robert E. Lee “a great patriot” and regurgitating the white nationalist, anti-Semitic “great replacement” theory, which claims there’s a plot to replace whites through immigration and intermarriage, though in Rogers’ version on Twitter she used the phrase “Americans who love their country” instead of referring directly to whites.
She’s now become as bad as Babeu was, rhetoric-wise. Can she rise to higher office? Seems unlikely. But then, whoever thought we’d one day be saying the words “Congressman Paul Gosar”?
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Just because you can maybe get people to vote for you it doesn't not necessarily indicate that you are remotely sane.
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