It boils down to something quite simple here folks!
So what do all real criminal investigations have in common? They are actually investigating a crime. In other words, they know a crime has been committed, they need to nail down the specifics about what, where and who, and ultimately they hope to charge someone with the crime in question. For example if a bank is robbed, you know what crime is being investigated. The general concept is that you will eventually want to charge someone with robbing the bank.
On the flip side, when you see "investigations" (recently almost always political in nature) that revolve around particular actions that are not easily described with any actual real criminal statute, but those investigating just keep digging deeper "looking" for something that might turn criminal; well then that is what is called a witch hunt.
I mean seriously folks. We have at least three different investigation of Donald Trump across the country and none of them are even suggesting an actual criminal charge that they believe that can stick.
They talk about the Jan 6th "insurrection" but making an incitement charge against him would be tossed at the first judicial review. There is no legal obligation for a President (or anyone) to stop other people from rioting and it's not a crime if he didn't address it in some sort of timely matter. You hear all sorts of "leaks" about who they all interviewed, but not a single leak about anyone providing anything substantial about anything. You think if Bill Barr had something damaging on Trump that could show a crime that we would not have already heard about it? More to the point, the FBI and other law enforcement have finished their investigations and all that is left is the partisan political one in the House.
They talk about all sorts of election shenanigans where Trump was trying to undermine the election. These goes from the concept of alternative electors to unsigned orders to investigating phone calls where he requests that fraud be more forcefully investigated. None of these things have an actual criminal statute tied to them. We've had alternate electors in the past, unsigned and unused executive orders happen, and we have had people demand that there was fraud. The existence of actual alternate electors (even had they actually existed) is not a criminal act and calling them "fake" doesn't change the law. There is no crime in drafting an order that never goes through. Short of him threatening a Georgia official, there is no crime there no matter how hard you look. Perhaps this is why the Georgia officials have opened a grand jury that has no authority to indict anyone.
Lastly, the SDNY have been investigating Trump for supposed financial crimes for years. The prominent AG who led the charge had gotten pretty much everything he wanted in terms of information and he still never put forth charges. What are they suggesting? In a roundabout high level manner they are arguing tax fraud, but in the more concrete they seem to have little tangible in terms of specific charges. Generally tax fraud is charged by the IRS and the current investigation ongoing now is actually civil (rather than criminal). So even if they are successful, they plan on suing him, not charging him.
So right now we have multiple investigations into the so called "crimes" of Donald Trump. Yet, one is coming from Congress, the other involves a grand jury without authority to indict, and the last is being performed as a civil action rather than criminal. So does anyone see a common theme here?
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Scoop: White House plans expedited resettlement for Afghan refugees
Stef W. Kight, Jonathan Swan
Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders enter a processing center at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, last August. Photo: Sgt. Jimmie Baker/U.S. Army via Getty Images
President Biden's advisers are crafting a plan to accelerate bringing potentially thousands of Afghans to the U.S. from Qatar, according to a source with direct knowledge of the administration's internal deliberations on the subject.
Why it matters: As U.S. military leaders plan for a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the administration is still struggling to handle the aftereffects of its chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. One challenge: how to care for tens of thousands of displaced Afghans — many of whom helped the U.S. fight its longest war.
The president's senior national security and foreign policy officials are discussing an expedited refugee process.It would allow Afghans to be screened, vetted, approved for refugee status and placed on planes to the United States within 30 days of their arrival at the military site in Qatar being used to house them.It usually takes two to five years for refugee applicants to be resettled in the U.S.
Between the lines: The Department of Homeland Security, State Department and White House are considering a streamlined process.
The administration is nearing a mid-February deadline for moving thousands of Afghan refugees in the U.S. off military bases and into their new communities.So far, the administration has relied on the use of humanitarian parole to rapidly resettle tens of thousands of Afghans.That mechanism only provides protection from deportation and the ability to work for two years. Afghans already in the U.S. then will have to go through the lengthy special immigrant visa (SIV), asylum or green-card processes to attain permanent legal status.Using an expedited U.S. Refugee Admissions Program process in Qatar, though, would immediately put Afghans on a pathway to green cards.
The big picture: Biden officials involved in the discussions have said they're confident the full refugee vetting process can be done in 30 days. Individual cases already are expedited in similar ways.
The Biden team has studied the fast-track processes implemented under President Obama during the 2016 Syrian refugee crisis as an example, according to the source.During those efforts, 10,000 refugees were processed in under 12 weeks.In addition to the 30-day process, the administration also is looking into 90-day and 120-day processes as ways to update and innovate the U.S.'s refugee process overall — not just for Afghans, a White House official told Axios.
What they're saying: The administration has been working to rebuild the U.S. refugee program, a National Security Council spokesperson told Axios.
“There is more work to do, which is why we are exploring a variety of innovations to streamline the resettlement process and eliminate redundancies, while maintaining the robust health and screening and vetting processes,” the official said.
There would still be significant obstacles to speeding up the process, including the ongoing threat from COVID-19, which is complicating travel and in-person interviews.
The Biden administration also is trying to resolve issues with a refugee resettlement operation that withered under a slowdown enacted by President Trump.
In addition, the U.S. housing shortage has restricted the availability of new, affordable homes for Afghan families — a major hurdle for refugee agencies.Some Afghans also may not pass the screening process for refugee status, which would add more time.Officials are then forced to determine whether they are eligible to come to the U.S. through other avenues — or must be sent to a different country, according to the source.
By the numbers: More than 76,000 Afghans have been brought to the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome, according to DHS. An additional 2,500 are waiting at transit locations overseas.
Roughly 10,000 of those already in the U.S. are waiting at military sites, while the rest have been resettled in their new communities.Overall, the government is aiming to ramp up its evacuations to 2,000 Afghans per month.Half of them would be SIV holders or applicants rather than refugee applicants, a White House official confirmed.
What to watch: Refugee organizations and advocates have called on Congress to pass an Afghan Adjustment Act.
It would provide quicker pathways to permanent status for Afghans already in the U.S.
The reality of investigation into this highly complex situation, is stating to show results. The Proud Boys leader is charged for Insurrection act..
The new information coming out daily is showing that the former President is in danger of losing his ability to run again if he loses the charge of obstruction of justice looks likely.
The January 6th investigation will be on prime time television in late May or so.
You really don't care about our country. You are a loyalist.
If the investigation conducted by the house of representatives hearings, reveal crimes, then the DOJ will conduct Grand jury hearings. When you are served with the subpoena, you are compelled to appear under oath.
Your 200 word diatribes don't address the issue, you just claim prejudice, not about the law.
The Deep State conspiracy has infected your mind.
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The reality of investigation into this highly complex situation, is stating to show results. The Proud Boys leader is charged for Insurrection act..
I’d like lemon vinaigrette, bruschetta with heirlooms on the a plain bagette.
You think if Bill Barr had something damaging on Trump that could show a crime that we would not have already heard about it? No. Not until he has to testify under oath. You loved him until he said there is not enough evidence of fraud to change the outcome of the most secure election in history according to the security council chairman
More to the point, the FBI and other law enforcement have finished their investigations and all that is left is the partisan political one in the House.
During Benghazi you didn't claim prejudice. These hearing might be historic in nature, if they find out that he was involved directly, he could be changed with Insurrection or treason. Objection of justice is already visible to open minded people.
Fourteenth Amendment Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House
Trump was able to use executive privilege during the second impeachment process.
Not anymore
The threat of voter suppression
Another threat that’s gotten enormous attention from Democrats, advocates, and experts this year is voter suppression. They argue that Republicans have a longtime practice of trying to effectively trying to distort the electorate, making it harder for certain voters (especially young, poor, nonwhite, and immigrant voters) to actually cast their ballots, so the GOP can have a better shot at winning.
This effort accelerated in 2021 with a set of new laws in GOP-controlled states. Some toughened voter ID requirements, some reduced the time in which mail ballots can be requested, some limited drop boxes, some made it easier to “purge” voter rolls. Republicans claim they’re simply rolling back pandemic expansions or trying to combat possible fraud, but occasionally a Republican admits these measures are aimed at helping their party win.
Protesters rally in Washington, DC, on August 28, 2021, to demand protection for voting rights on the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
Biden and others have compared these laws to the old Jim Crow laws of the South. “We feel if they can do these voting rights laws and other voting rights laws, we will never have a majority,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently told the Washington Post. And the provisions of certain new laws that could enable partisan election subversion — election theft — could be quite dangerous.
But whatever Republicans’ malign intentions or Democrats’ fears, the real-world effects of voter suppression provisions on election outcomes seem likely to be considerably less dramatic. “There is very little that politicians can do to alter election administration in such a way that it would have a permanent, obvious effect on turnout or the composition of the electorate,” MIT political scientist Charles Stewart told my colleague Ian Millhiser last year.
There simply haven’t been big variations in state election outcomes based on how much early or mail voting states have — it just doesn’t seem to matter much, because people largely adapt to the new rules. Study after study has found that voter ID laws have little effect on outcomes. And it isn’t the case anymore, if it ever was, that high-turnout elections are self-evidently bad for Republicans, given the parties’ changing coalitions and recent voting patterns.
Some political scientists are still worried. Charlotte Hill, Jake Grumbach, Hakeem Jefferson, and Adam Bonica write that it’s “not at all clear” that voter suppression policies have little impact. They posit that perhaps outcomes don’t change “because grassroots groups have invested ever-greater resources” to overcome barriers to voting, and such investment might not be sustainable.
Expanding and standardizing voting accessibility can be a worthwhile and important thing to do regardless of its partisan effects or impact on outcomes. Provisions of these laws, like the Georgia one that bans giving away food and water to people waiting in line at a polling place, can be cruel and arbitrary. And if an election is close enough, even policies with very small effects could theoretically tip the outcome. But major transformations of the electorate in these states from policies of this kind seem unlikely.
Because of the filibuster
It's not in the Constitution.
Rog put this on your word salads
https://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/fresh-cheeses/purple-haze/
Trump continues to cast doubt on the second component of our electoral system, the counting of the votes, by not facing the truth about the 2020 election. There is absolutely no evidence that any of the 2020 election results were fraudulent. No inaccuracies on the margins would have changed the outcome. The former president’s assertions are groundless. As Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security stated, the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.” The upstanding officials who have spoken the truth about this deserve our thanks and admiration. Even Dick Cheney
Claims that our systems for counting votes in the Republican states need to be reformed, is widespread voter suppression, not based in reality.
USA TODAY
BIDENOMICS build back broker policies and his recession.
"Fed faces crucial interest rate decisions, and any missteps could tip economy into recession"
Casting doubt, nope, out and out 100 % discredited the 2022 election as illegitimate is on your boy Joe.
Projection is, in marked contrast to most of the COVID treatments touted by Ron DeSantis as part of his anti-vaxx campaign, a hell of a drug
PROJECTION IS, IN MARKED CONTRAST TO MOST OF THE COVID TREATMENTS TOUTED BY RON DESANTIS AS PART OF HIS ANTI-VAXX CAMPAIGN,
The FDA ended emergency-use authorization for monoclonal antibodies, because apparently they aren’t effective against the omicron variant. You can probably guess who completely lost their shit because their ego and narrow political self-interest is vastly more important than the health of their constituents:
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it would halt emergency-use authorizations for two monoclonal antibody therapies, one made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and one by Eli Lilly. At least with these monoclonal antibodies, unlike hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, there was evidence they were once quite effective; that’s just not the situation we find ourselves in at this point.
The FDA decision has led to a vehement outcry from some on the right, including the Republican who has most forcefully promoted monoclonal antibodies: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis said Monday that President Biden “has forced medical pros to choose treating their patients or breaking the law.”
The governor added Tuesday morning, “Without a shred of clinical data to support its decision, the Biden Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments.”
DeSantis’s criticism has been cheered and echoed by many on the right, including Fox News’s Sean Hannity.
Going quite a bit further, DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw on Monday night even promoted a claim by a conservative conspiracy theorist that “the FDA is trying to make it so that people in Florida die of Covid. They’ll kill people to harm Republicans.” By Tuesday morning, she promoted another baseless claim that the decision was made “so Fauci-Pfizer can get a few extra points in the stock market.”
If there was any justice in the world, both Pushaw and DeSantis would have spontaneously combusted as soon as she retweeted the “kill people to harm Republicans” thing, given that perhaps no single person has done more to kill people and harm Republican voters to promote his own ambitions than Ron DeSantis.
I suppose it goes without saying that his assertions about the FDA are total bullshit:
Similarly, despite DeSantis’s claim that there is not “a shred of clinical data to support” the FDA’s decision, there is significant data on the monoclonal antibodies’ lack of effectiveness against the omicron variant in a laboratory setting.
As Nature reported more than a month ago, preliminary studies suggested that monoclonal antibody therapies, including the ones the FDA has now halted, showed virtually no efficacy against the omicron variant.
You know, I’m beginning to think that America’s Beloved COVID Governor is not terribly concerned about the health of his constituents after all. He never was!
Justice will be served if he is the next Al Capone and rot in jail for tax evasion, and election fraud.
Georgia's Fulton County district attorney just asked for a special grand jury to investigate the criminal implications of a Jan. 2, 2021 phone call in which Trump pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" more votes for him.
In New York, state Attorney General Letitia James outlined possible civil fraud by the Trump Organization in a recent court filing seeking to compel the testimony of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump. Manhattan's new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, also announced a new leadership team on the ongoing parallel criminal investigation of Trump and his businesses but is keeping his predecessor's senior lawyers.
Seig Heil Mr Trump
S. Scott Johnson MD schizophrenia squad.
When in the course of human events has a cabal, have those with enormous power, placed a puppet character like Sleepy Joe that:
Told the citizens that if they are exercising free speech, but that speech challenges the latest election results, then they are insurrectionists.
Shut down the entire economy, costing the citizenry lost jobs, lost business, and lost hope.
Shut down schools, denying students a classroom education, as well as the opportunity to see their teachers and mentors and be with their friends and peers. Thus, unsurprisingly, teen suicide is on the rise.
Demanded that all citizens accept an untested and unproven vaccine or lose their jobs, their enrollment in college, and their freedom to be outside their own homes.
Put citizens in D.C. gulags in solitary confinement without official charges being filed against them or bail being offered to them.
Established a J/6 commission that looks more like a Stalinist show trial than an American courtroom.
Used the national law enforcement apparatus of the FBI/CIA/NSA as their own private police force against political opponents.
Opened up the borders to illegal aliens, pedophiles, cartels, and human traffickers in stark violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Shut down churches, worship centers, and synagogues and also threatened the arrest of faithful churchgoers for the worship of God.
Yet, at the same time, they kept liquor stores, needle exchanges, and hemp depositories open.
Did not require illegal aliens to be vaccinated and allowed these illegal aliens to move freely about the country unvaccinated.
Have told all Christians, conservatives, and constitutionalists that they are by definition white supremacists and therefore domestic terrorists.
Have used the FBI and the attorney general's office to tell all parents that if they disagree with the school board members, they themselves are domestic terrorists.
Have told parents that government is in charge of your children — and if you disagree, maybe you should not be entrusted with your own kid's lives.
Mandated an experimental vaccine and forced "the jab" on their own people and told the masses that the "vaccine" is working exactly as we told you it would work, and to shut up and comply.
Allowed the mass media, along with Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to censor different opinions from different people because their opinions were different from those approved by government.
Made doctors, physicians, and nurses into non-persons because their medical opinions differed from those of Biden and Fauci's Ministry of Truth.
Given almost dictatorial power to Dr. Fauci when that power was never passed into law by Congress.
Stated that it is an insurrection to say the election of 2020 was stolen but that it's free speech to say the election of 2022 is going to be stolen.
Used censorship, oppression, authoritarianism, and intimidation against political opponents.
The present government and its accomplices are censoring, canceling, and making non-persons of anyone who refuses to comply.
Whose leader, Mr. Biden, has quoted Stalin by saying he does "not care who votes, he only cares who counts the votes.
"Government media are telling the viewers that there are no empty shelves, no inflation, and no supply chain issues as government orders unloaded cargo tankers to move 50 miles offshore so the masses cannot see their ineptitude.
When will we rise up against the cabal and restore our leadership in the White House?
Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok explained two key revelations in an exclusive CNN interview with Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
"Major news this morning in a story that CNN broke overnight," CNN's John Berman reported. "For the first time, the Department of Justice is publicly acknowledging that it is looking into a specific aspect of the plot from high-level Donald Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election."
"We learned that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former President Trump the winner of seven states, states that he lost," he explained.
"The fake electoral certifications were signed by Trump allies, who falsely claimed to be the rightful electors in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin."
For analysis, Berman and co-host Brianna Keilar interviewed Strzok.
Berman noted Monacco's "carefully chosen words."
"How do you read it?" Berman asked.
"Well, absolutely. You know, in my experience, any time the Department of Justice or FBI makes a comment on an ongoing investigation, particularly at a high level, those words are very carefully chosen and they're very closely scrutinized," Strzok replied. "Certainly, when you hear them coming from the deputy attorney general herself, I have no doubt that the intention and the plan to do that was probably — went up to the attorney general and certainly the office of the attorney general."
"And it's important when you're looking at a statement like that to read it very carefully and there are two things I see in there." he explained. "One, prosecutors are looking at it. What that means to me is they are examining the allegations, they're looking at federal law, they're seeing what the elements of the particular crimes that might be involved are and are looking where the evidence falls and doesn't fall."
"And the second thing, the last point is she says she can't comment anymore on ongoing investigations. That means exactly what it says, that means right now there are investigations — plural — that are open and ongoing within the Department of Justice about this matter," he explained. "So that's a very significant event and to me it indicates just how high the level of investigation is now going within DOJ."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fake-electors-lisa-monaco/
The difference between trump and a real president!!!!!! He acted like royalty......why does any one support this fat assed lying sack of shit????
Eric Trump tried to brag about how hard his father, Donald Trump, worked when he was in office, but given the former president’s famously light schedule, it didn’t go well.
Eric Trump was attempting to slam President Joe Biden and his administration during an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday:
Axios obtained Donald Trump’s schedule at several points during his administration. In 2019, it showed him in “executive time” for 60 percent of his working hours.
Axios reported that in 2018, “executive time” often meant Trump was “in his residence, watching TV, making phone calls and tweeting” and that his typical day didn’t begin until 11 a.m., soon after which he took an hourlong lunch.
Trump, who boasted in 2016 that he would “stay in the White House and work my ass off” and wouldn’t have time for vacations and golf, also spent 428 days of his presidency at a Trump Organization property, according to The Washington Post.
He played nearly 300 rounds of golf during his single term in office, costing taxpayers more than $150 million, with much of that money going into his own pocket since many of the golfing trips took place at his resorts.
Eric Trump’s comment prompted many fact-checking responses:
The difference between a liberal and a conservative. According to American Greatness.
LMAO
So, without further ado, you might be a liberal if . . .
You think having your penis amputated and your Adam’s apple shaved makes you a woman.
You think that a deadly virus emanating from a city with a level-4 Biohazard virology lab actually came from an animal at a food market.
You know Democrats made it super easy to cheat in 2020 with early voting, mail-in voting, ballot harvesting and the eschewing of voter ID, yet you believe no widespread cheating occurred.
You’re certain that the crime wave sweeping the country has nothing to do with Democrats defunding and denigrating the police, emptying the jails, and greatly diminishing or eliminating bail.
You think Joe Biden’s hair, teeth, or compassion for his fellow man are real.
You’re ready to block traffic, burn buildings, loot stores and spit on cops when annually, a handful of black men are wrongfully killed by police. But you’d never leave the comfort of your Lazy Boy for the handful of black men murdered in Chicago every weekend.
You fully expect lazy, fat-cat politicians driving around in large motorcades and flying private jets to tony climate conferences to save the planet.
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You watch CNN’s human potato, Brian Stelter, educating school kids on how to spot misinformation and you don’t laugh uproariously.
You think Kamala Harris is smart, charismatic and a great communicator. Ditto for the Hildebeest.
You’re fine with vagrants masturbating, pooping and shooting up on city sidewalks. But you’d berate your teenager for doing those same things in your front yard.
You approve of criminals, terrorists, drug dealers and sex-traffickers -- and some, I assume, nice people -- pouring across our southern border yet you have a nice tall fence around your home, deadbolt locks on all your doors and a state-of-the-art alarm system.
You wore surgical masks, practiced social distancing, quarantined when indicated, and soldiered through the bad side-effects of not one but two COVID-19 vaccinations plus a booster. Yet you still contracted the virus and a month later, have not fully recovered from it. Still, you tell a pollster you “strongly approve” of the job Tony Fauci, a multi-millionaire on a civil service salary, has done fighting the pandemic.
You firmly believe Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, his guards simply fell asleep, and the jail’s video cameras just happened to be inoperative at the time of Epstein’s death. And you’re certain the Clintons had nothing to do with Epstein’s untimely demise.
You consider today’s FBI to be fair, trustworthy and non-partisan. And you find Comey, McCabe and Strzok strangely sexy.
You think roads, trees, credit scores, punctuality, math, climate change, professionalism, and proper English grammar are irredeemably racist.
You strongly support the termination and dismemberment of unborn babies at any time in a pregnancy and for any reason. And you’re fine with abortion clinics selling fetal body parts. But you’d never in a million years watch the actual procedure.
You think the COVID tests our federal government is promising to provide, late to the party and unreliable at best, are free.
You accept Alec Baldwin’s claim that his gun went off without him pulling the trigger. You further believe there’s such a thing as an “assault rifle,” and if we just closed the “gun-show loophole,” there’d be peace in our time.
When teachers’ unions reacted to COVID-19 by essentially going on paid vacation, thereby doing lasting damage to an entire generation of children, you nodded in full agreement. Ditto for remote learning.
You tell your friends that the roaring inflation that just happened to pop up during Joe Biden’s first year in office is caused by corporate greed. Capitalism, not wild governmental overspending, is the problem, you advise them, nodding sagely.
Although vaccinated, boosted, and fully recovered from a nasty bout with COVID, you wear two masks and a face-shield while driving in your car alone. And there’s an old, faded I’M WITH HER sticker on your rear bumper.
You’d love to get rid of fossil fuels, secure in the knowledge that windmills and waterfalls will somehow make up the difference in energy supply. Yet your pricey solar panels barely put a dent in your energy costs and now your roof leaks every time it rains.
You’re somehow able to listen to Nancy Pelosi speak without staring at the wildly arching eyebrows halfway up her forehead.
I could go on, folks, but there’s just too many loony leftist beliefs to list without writing an entire novel. Suffice it to say, if you agreed with even one of the above sentiments, you need to see a doctor, tout suite!
Maybe Dr. Jill Biden?
Whoopi Goldberg says she’s a helluva doctor.
We see these talking points every single day on Thecoldheartedtruth
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/you_might_be_a_liberal_if.html
Any bets on the next Coldheartedtruth Truthseeker comments?
You know Democrats made it super easy to cheat in 2020 with early voting, mail-in voting, ballot harvesting and the eschewing of voter ID, yet you believe no widespread cheating occurred.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/you_might_be_a_liberal_if.html
From Wednesday's Biden presser.
"2022 election as illegitimate"
Nuff said.
Current Avg. $3.342
Up three cents from a week ago.
Roger told us it would be below $3.00 by now.
Why is Alky always so spectacularly wrong.
(Rhetorical)
By the numbers: More than 76,000 Afghans have been brought to the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome, according to DHS. An additional 2,500 are waiting at transit locations overseas.
Between this idiocy and the invasion of our southern border, what are we supposed to do when the left realizes their dream of turning America into a full-on, third-world shithole? You guys have already accomplished this in every major democrat-run city in the nation.
I'm just curious as to what your end game is here alky.
Newsom grapples with his ‘third-world country’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2022/01/21/newsom-grapples-with-his-third-world-country-495802
"2022 election as illegitimate"
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The never ending gibberish emanating from our fake farm owner goatsucker who now claims he bought his POS when the army terminated him!!!!!!! Will he ever tell the truth??????
turning America into a full-on, third-world shithole?
It is already a shithole with assholes like you and the trump supporters advocating the dissolution of democracy!!!!!!!
Inflation has moved from Transitory to sustained .
And the fear of "Recession" has gripped Bidenomics.
Failures mount up like stacked cord wood.
And the goat fucking liar keeps posting his special form of spam and stupidity!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The biggest failure of Kansas who hasn't worked in years and has a failing life criticizes anyone who does not support his dumb ass GOP!!!!!!!!
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE KIND OF REPUBLICAN WHO COULD ACTUALLY BEAT BIDEN AND THE KIND OF REPUBLICAN THE REPUBLICANS WILL BE FORCED TO RUN AND WHO WOULD/WILL LOSE TO HIM
Biden’s 2024 Opponent Won’t Be a Generic Republican
AND THAT'S WHY BIDEN WOULD WIN
January 26, 2022 at 6:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds President Biden losing to a generic Republican in a 2024 match up,
46% to 37%.
However, Biden holds small leads over four actual Republicans, including
Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz and Mike Pence.
SO BE SURE TO RUN TRUMP OR A TRUMP STYLE, TRUMP-APPROVED REPUBLICAN!
AFTER ALL, TRUMP WON'T ALLOW ANYTHING ELSE! (AND DOESN'T WANT PENCE!)
HEARD ON PUBLIC RADIO:
An expert asserts that sanctions being considered against Russia if Putin decides to invade Ukraine are so severe "they could shut down the Russian economy."
So right now we have multiple investigations into the so called "crimes" of Donald Trump. Yet, one is coming from Congress, the other involves a grand jury without authority to indict, and the last is being performed as a civil action rather than criminal. So does anyone see a common theme here?
The common theme here is multi-fold.
The democrats have nothing, quite literally, to nail Trump with. This much is obvious by having to resort to blind fishing expeditions, civil actions vs. criminal, and the extra-judicial actions of the J6 Clown Car Committee.
It also reveals the dems only home for 2024 which is to disqualify Trump as a candidate. He beats them across the board vs. every actual candidate they run, including the generic democrat, whoever the fuck that might be. The left is flailing, and failing on such a grand scale republicans of all people have enjoyed a 14 point swing over democrats in nationwide approval. THAT is indicative of just how badly the left has turned everything they've touched to complete SHIT.
Savor the Democrats’ Humiliation
There’s no sense in pretending that we don’t take pleasure in the total failure of our Marxist-curious party of the left. Through a combination of outright fraud, procedural irregularities, plus the total support of the garbage establishment and its failed institutions, the Democrats took power by the thinnest of margins and have proceeded to fail on a level comparable to Heaven’s Gate, New Coke, and the Weekly Standard. There’s no shame in enjoying their total rejection by all decent Americans. In fact, you should enjoy it without hesitation or mercy, especially since it means more than just us cons getting our jollies.
The Democrats’ “Biden is FDR and not just a desiccated, pervy old weirdo” dreams have died. Their dreams of five trillion in handouts to bums and donors have died. Their dreams of enshrining their ability to cheat in elections have died. The Democrats can’t even shatter norms, like the filibuster, competently.
So much fail in so little time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/01/24/savor-the-democrats-humiliation-n2602215
Heh.
Most voters don't want Biden or Trump or Hillary or pence in 2024. They want a new face, new ideas, new direction. Count me among them.
They've also had enough of Nancy Pelosi. House dems would be wise to get her to step aside for new, younger leadership.
"An expert."
LMAO.
Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows only what hurts is a safer guide, than any vigorous direction of a specialised character. Why should you assume that all except doctors, engineers, etc. are drones or worse? . . . If the Ruler is to be an expert in anything he should be an expert in everything; and that is plainly impossible.
- Winston Churchill
Dems have nothing to run on. So they want to keep Trump is the news every day because even though his policies worked, he is divisive nonetheless.
Biden and dems are taking the U.S. into war over the Ukraine border. If only they cared a fraction about our own border.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Biden and dems are taking the U.S. into war over the Ukraine border. If only they cared a fraction about our own border.
Yesterday one of Brandon's Nat Sec flunkies, a former WaPo reporter (LOL) said that we are focused on helping Ukraine maintain their sovereignty and the integrity of their border. I had not spit my coffee out in a very long time, but there I was, reaching for the paper towels.
The dumb fuck from XiNN didn't even possess the awareness to note the fucking irony of our own southern border invasion.
Remember this the next time a leftist around here hits you with Politi-fact:
@PolitiFact is calling out
@WinsomeSears
for “falsely claiming” that LCPS paid “about $300,000” for critical race theory-inspired training.
Well, your humble Poynter alumni is here with receipts. And LCPS DID pay upwards of $300k for such training
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Another pile of bullshit!!!!
President Biden's advisers are crafting a plan to accelerate bringing potentially thousands of Afghans to the U.S. from Qatar, according to a source with direct knowledge of the administration's internal deliberations on the subject.
Afghan Refugee Convicted Of Sexually Abusing 3-Year-Old Girl In Virginia, Faces Life In Prison
A federal jury has convicted an Afghan refugee of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl at a military base in Virginia.
“According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Mohammed Tariq, 24, engaged in sexual contact with the victim while both the victim and Tariq were housed at Camp Upshur, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, following evacuation from Afghanistan. United States Marines observed the defendant inappropriately touching the victim over her clothing, on her chest, genitals, and buttocks,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. “The victim and Tariq were unrelated, however, both Tariq and the victim and her family had recently been evacuated from Afghanistan and brought to the United States.”
The statement said that Tariq faces up to life in prison when sentenced in late April.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-refugee-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-3-year-old-girl-in-virginia-faces-life-in-prison?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-refugee-convicted
I guess the point of rats racism is that ALL afghan refugees are nothing but child rapers and worthless....kinda like his stance on beaners and all other border crossers that don't measure up to his fucked up opinion !!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Daily Wire and twitter.....the source for morons!!!!!!
Stock futures rose Wednesday following another wild session for the market as investors await results from a Federal Reserve meeting expected to set the tone for 2022.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed about 365 points, or 1.1%. S&P 500 futures added 1.5%. Nasdaq 100 futures gained 2.2%.
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
With the talk of recession .
WASHINGTON — A group of lawyers is working to disqualify from the ballot a right-wing House Republican who cheered on the Jan. 6 rioters unless he can prove he is not an “insurrectionist,” disqualified by the Constitution from holding office, in a case with implications for other officeholders and potentially former President Donald Trump.
The novel challenge to the reelection bid of Rep. Madison Cawthorn, one of the House’s brashest supporters of Trump and the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, could set a precedent to challenge other Republicans who swore to uphold the Constitution, then encouraged the attack.
While the House committee investigating the assault on the Capitol has been unsuccessful in its effort to force key members of Congress to cooperate with the inquiry, the North Carolina case has already prompted a legal discussion — one that is likely to land in court — about what constitutes an insurrection and who is an insurrectionist.
The 14th amendment....
And for the first time, a lawmaker who embraced the rioters may have to answer for his actions in a court of law.
“I don’t think we can have those persons who have engaged in acts of insurrection elected to office and serving in office in violation of their constitutional duties and oath,” said John R. Wallace, one of the lawyers on the case and a campaign finance and election law expert in Raleigh, North Carolina. He added, “It should not be difficult to prove you are not an insurrectionist. It only seems to be difficult for Madison Cawthorn.”
Cases challenging the legitimacy of a candidate before election boards usually hinge on a candidate’s age, legal residency, place of birth or citizenship status, or the legitimacy of signatures in a candidacy petition.
This case revolves around the little-known third section of the 14th Amendment, adopted during Reconstruction to punish members of the Confederacy who were streaming back to Washington to reclaim their elective offices — and infuriating unionist Republicans.
That section declares that “no person shall” hold “any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath” to “support the Constitution,” had then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Cawthorn, 26, who is in his first term in Congress, has denounced the case as an egregious misreading of the 14th Amendment, but he has retained James Bopp Jr., one of the most prominent conservative campaign lawyers in the country, as counsel.
Bopp declared the matter “the most frivolous case I’ve ever seen” but allowed that what he called an “unethical” exploitation of North Carolina law by “competent” lawyers could pose a real threat to Cawthorn — and by extension, to others labeled “insurrectionists” by liberal lawyers.
“This is the real threat to our democracy,” he said. “Just by bringing the complaint, they might jeopardize a member of Congress running for reelection.
“They have multiple targets,” he added. “It just so happens that Madison Cawthorn is the tip of the spear.”
North Carolina’s election statute offers challengers a remarkably low bar to question a candidate’s constitutional qualifications for office. Once someone establishes a “reasonable suspicion or belief” that a candidate is not qualified, the burden shifts to the office seeker to prove otherwise.
If Cawthorn is labeled an “insurrectionist,” that could have broader ramifications. Other Republican House members, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Paul Gosar of Arizona, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado face similar accusations, but their state’s election laws present higher hurdles for challenges to their candidate qualifications. If one of their colleagues is disqualified for his role in encouraging the rioters, those hurdles might become easier to clear.
The lawyers challenging Cawthorn’s eligibility are using an amendment last invoked in 1920, when Rep. Victor L. Berger, an Austrian American socialist, was denied his seat representing Wisconsin after criticizing the U.S.' involvement in World War I.
With the talk of recession .
By you goat fucker....WHO THE FUCK CARES!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! How'd you get a loan to buy your POS farm having no visible assets .........LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!
Domestic terrorism is the biggest threat of the year.
Domestic violent extremists have been planning to try to disrupt the U.S. power grid and will probably keep doing so, according to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence bulletin shared with law enforcement agencies and utility operators Monday and obtained by CBS News.
"DVEs have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors," the bulletin reads.
It warns that extremists "adhering to a range of ideologies will likely continue to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure."
Still, the bulletin notes that, "Absent significant technical knowledge or insider assistance, small scale attacks are unlikely to cause widespread, multi-state power loss but may result in physical damage that poses risks to operations or personnel."
When asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said to CBS News, "The Department of Homeland Security regularly shares information with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners to ensure the safety and security of all communities across the country."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/domestic-violent-extremists-plotting-disrupt-us-power-grid-dhs-bulletin-warns/
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Domestic terrorism is the biggest threat of the year.
Sure it is. Afghan refugees are raping and sodomizing American toddlers, but Trump supporters are the most serious terror threat.
Makes sense.
To an imbecile.
New York Times, NPR and Bloomberg news all reporting in the 2022 Bidenomics Recession.
Yes, dems think that suburban parents are the country's biggest threat. This is why Republicans will win big in November.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies have failed.
Not necessarily. It's all a matter of perspective.
Us normals see raging inflation, a southern border invasion, deliberate importation of moose-limb terrorists, massive increases in violent crime, and the turning of our major cities into disease-ridden shitholes as a problem...
...while Marxist leftists and those who fund them like Soros and Pierre Omidyar (guy who funds the Bulwark) see it as a good thing. Ruination of America is the goal, and the Klain Klown Kar is ON IT.
Being the President during this period in time is the biggest challenge for decades.
The end of the world order as we know it
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Jan 25, 2022
(CNN) - It's a confusing time for Americans when it comes to world affairs, with the government explaining on the one hand why it was time to pull out of Afghanistan, but on the other why it's also time to stand up for Ukraine.
It's a time when Americans want their military less committed abroad. NATO is feeling the heat. Autocracies with an eye on expansion, like Russia and China, are getting bolder and acting like allies.
The era of America the superpower is being tested in new ways across the globe.
Eastern Europe
Exactly 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is maneuvering to encroach further into Ukraine, one of its former republics. A post-Soviet growth of NATO is Russian President Vladimir Putin's prey.
The Biden administration has put 8,500 US troops on heightened alert for deployment to Eastern Europe as a deterrent to Russia and assurance to NATO countries.
Western Europe
American influence needs buttressing. To unify NATO countries against Russia, the US is also playing the role of energy broker, seeking guarantees of fuel from the Middle East and Asia to blunt Russia's leverage as a top supplier of natural gas to Germany.
Asia
China is testing the autonomy of Taiwan, the self-ruled island it has long coveted, with repeated air force missions close to Taiwan. The largest such incursion this year came the day after the US, along with Japan, moved a flotilla of Navy ships into the Philippine Sea as part of a training exercise.
Meanwhile, shut off from the world, North Korea has ramped up its missile testing.
Middle East
Bases housing US troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked this year. This week, US Patriot missile defenses joined with the United Arab Emirates to intercept missiles fired by Yemen's Houthis that targeted Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, which houses US troops.
And then there's Iran. After the US under then-President Donald Trump blew up the international agreement meant to halt the country's nuclear escalation, Iran could be marching ever closer to nuclear weapons.
The American role
All of these situations are years in the making, but the emerging question is what role the US will play going forward.
The standoff over Ukraine suggests US opponents sense weakness and see an opening now.
"The building challenges to US authority come at a moment when there is a widespread perception abroad that Washington is not the power it was for the second half of the 20th century," writes CNN's Stephen Collinson (sign up for his Meanwhile in America newsletter).
He adds: "Despite Biden's assurances that 'America is Back,' the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year raised questions about US competence and commitment. US adversaries know Americans are exhausted by 20 years of war abroad, a factor that may lead some to calculate that Washington could waver on its strategic obligations for political reasons."
The Putin factor
Putin is directly or indirectly involved in most of these issues -- from Ukraine to Syria to Asia.
I wrote here last week that no one knows for sure what Putin is after. But Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Russia expert at the White House, makes a compelling argument in The New York Times that she knows exactly what he's after, at least in terms of Ukraine: Putin "wants to evict the United States from Europe."
She writes, "As he might put it: 'Goodbye, America. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.' "
Jill Dougherty, a Russia expert and former CNN Moscow bureau chief, concurred. "They want a replay of the end of the Cold War," she said Tuesday on "New Day." And Russia's state media blitz is helping to shape the public's attitudes on the ground.
Putin senses American power is ebbing, according to Hill. He "believes that the United States is currently in the same predicament as Russia was after the Soviet collapse: grievously weakened at home and in retreat abroad."
The Ukraine standoff, she writes, must be met by strength from the US since it will reverberate around the world.
She argues that in addition to challenging NATO, Putin's aggression in Ukraine would threaten "the entire U.N. system and imperil the arrangements that have guaranteed member states' sovereignty since World War II — akin to the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990, but on an even bigger scale."
The West is not entirely united on Russia
For all the geopolitical stakes, it is Putin's economic leverage that has slowed European unity against his actions.
Ivana Kottasová writes for CNN Business from London that the undersea Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia, bypassing Ukraine and into Germany, has become a wedge in the geopolitical crisis.
Germany has not vowed to arm Ukraine like other Western democracies. It has been slow to include the pipeline in conversations about sanctions against Russia.
"Given that Russia's aim is to split everybody, if they're seeking to break apart unity in the European Union and in NATO, this pipeline has been a wonderful vessel," Kristine Berzina, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, told Kottasová.
CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify the location of Chinese planes near Taiwan.
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I still think that Joe Biden is the better person for this reason..he will not get us into a war .
Marxist leftists
Crazy mothrf***r Republicans have been saying that since FDR.
Carolina. He added, “It should not be difficult to prove you are not an insurrectionist. It only seems to be difficult for Madison Cawthorn
Again Roger has it wrong. You don't have to prove you're not an insurrectionist the state has to prove you are.
Roger must have grew up in the Soviet Union.
And then there's Iran. After the US under then-President Donald Trump blew up the international agreement meant to halt the country's nuclear escalation, Iran could be marching ever closer to nuclear weapons.
Oh how cute. Roger thinks an agreement will stoop Iran from building their nuclear arsenal. Well they didn't stop with Obama, didn't stop with Trump and are not going to stop with Biden.
There is no doubt that Iran is now closer to a nuclear weapon than they would have been if Trump had not pulled the US from the agreement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2fB8vphLk
War over Ukraine?
Fuck
US and allies discussing deploying more troops to Eastern Europe prior to any Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN
Updated Jan 26, 2022
(CNN) - The US and a handful of allies are in discussions to deploy thousands more troops to Eastern European NATO countries before any potential Russian invasion of Ukraine as a show of support in the face of Moscow's ongoing aggression, three US officials familiar with the discussions tell CNN.
The deployments -- numbering approximately 1,000 personnel from each -- would be similar to the forward battle groups currently stationed in the Baltic States and Poland, two defense officials said. Among the countries considering accepting the deployments are Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, all three officials said. No final decisions have been made.
The US and UK are among those considering the new, pre-invasion deployments, but not all 30 NATO members are willing, according to a European diplomat. Therefore, the US is in discussions to send the additional forces on a bilateral basis or, as one official described it, as a "coalition of the willing."
Broadly, the US military goal would be to "meet the capability" NATO allies in the region are asking for, another defense official said last week. US forces could operate, as they already do, unilaterally in Europe, but could also operate under existing NATO command structures.
The possibility of deploying some forces closer to Russia's doorstep before an invasion marks a shift by the administration, which had previously been wary of the risk of further provoking Moscow. The move could be weaponized by the Kremlin as an example of the kind of aggressive NATO posture that Russia has been using to justify its buildup of forces along Ukraine's borders.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Monday that the US has put 8,500 troops in the US on heightened alert in case a NATO Response Force is called up and American forces are needed quickly. However, the vast majority of these forces are intended for activity supported by the full NATO alliance.
The US and NATO have tens of thousands of other troops already in Europe to draw on for any additional deployments to Eastern European allies.
Kirby told CNN on Tuesday that some troops are also on heightened alert "just for our own United States purposes to see if there's a need for us to continue to reassure on a bilateral basis with some of our NATO allies over in Europe." And President Joe Biden also said on Tuesday that he "may be moving some of those troops in the nearer term, just because it takes time" and because the US' eastern European allies have "reason for concern."
President Biden was originally planning to deliver remarks to the public on the situation with Russia as early as this week, two sources said, but it is now unclear whether he will as the White House continues to try and engage with Russia diplomatically.
The military planning comes as the US has become increasingly concerned that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen at any time and on short notice.
"When we said it was imminent, it remains imminent," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a daily briefing on Tuesday. "But again, we can't make a prediction of what decision President Putin will make. We're still engaged in diplomatic discussions and negotiations."
In its written responses to Russia's security demands, which US officials could present to the Kremlin as soon as Wednesday, the US is unlikely to allow any room for negotiation on NATO's open-door policy, which is President Vladimir Putin's central grievance. For that reason, there is some concern within the administration that Moscow will use the US response as a pretext to say diplomacy has failed.
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President Biden was originally planning to deliver remarks to the public on the situation with Russia as early as this week, two sources said, but it is now unclear whether he will as the White House continues to try and engage with Russia diplomatically.
The military planning comes as the US has become increasingly concerned that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen at any time and on short notice.
"When we said it was imminent, it remains imminent," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during a daily briefing on Tuesday. "But again, we can't make a prediction of what decision President Putin will make. We're still engaged in diplomatic discussions and negotiations."
In its written responses to Russia's security demands, which US officials could present to the Kremlin as soon as Wednesday, the US is unlikely to allow any room for negotiation on NATO's open-door policy, which is President Vladimir Putin's central grievance. For that reason, there is some concern within the administration that Moscow will use the US response as a pretext to say diplomacy has failed.
Still better than before because he listened to others, unlike Trump followed his instincts
Rapid City South Dakota is not the Soviet Union empire!
Biden received illegal money from 🇨🇳
Again Roger has it wrong. You don't have to prove you're not an insurrectionist the state has to prove you are.
The alky fancies himself a nursing home lawyer, but the concept of burden of proof escapes his tiny cerebral cortex.
US and allies discussing deploying more troops to Eastern Europe prior to any Russian invasion of Ukraine
Fucking imbeciles. Ukraine IS NOT a member of NATO. Let Europe figure this out. We have NO national interest. Europe, on the other hand, stands to freeze to death if Putin turns off the NG.
"Again Roger has it wrong." CS
Madam Roger always is spectacularly wrong.
I bought gas today. $3.19
Roger, when do you see gas under $3.00 (* take the Mulligan ")
Rapid City South Dakota is not the Soviet Union empire!
Just one of the US cities were you find pockets of communist. Guess Roger is one of them. Luck for him he is also in a country where there is freedom of speech.
Fucking imbeciles. Ukraine IS NOT a member of NATO. Let Europe figure this out. We have NO national interest. Europe, on the other hand, stands to freeze to death if Putin turns off the NG
It's really Germany's problem of there own making. And my feeling is that if Germany is unwilling to support US interest then they can deal with Russia by themselves.
4F Alky never served, never come close.
He enjoys all.the rights of Freedom.
The 1st Amendment backed up by the 2nd Amendment.
EU choose to snub US Energy is bitting them in their ads.
That and cutting Nuke Energy and going all in on wind/solar.
Kansas Bill Forces Pharmacists to Fill Bogus Prescriptions
January 26, 2022 at 9:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
“A group of Kansas politicians tasked with steering public health policy are pushing to allow doctors to prescribe unproven treatments and preventives for Covid-19 without any potential for responsibility,” the Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
“While the FDA has warned against using ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19, some Republican senators want to shield doctors from legal liability and board discipline for prescribing the drugs.”
Montpelier, VT. -14 °F.
Those that have wood heat are thankful.
Deterrence is not working.
"The alky fancies himself a nursing home lawyer" RRB
Yes, Madam Rita Amick does, yet he is so spectacularly wrong in My US Constitution.
Roger, get off the fence.
You want war, you just said Biden talks and saber rattling have failed.
Great news
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New home sales starts (SAAR)
Dec. 👍811,000
Dear @RobertKennedyJr:
Anne Frank, a mere child, was starved then murdered in the Holocaust.
My Great Uncle was burned alive at Auschwitz.
Soley because they were Jewish,
Asking you to put a mask on your ugly, hateful mug is not a 'greater injustice' than that.
A tweet the troll squad asshole won't say
“A group of Kansas politicians tasked with steering public health policy are pushing to allow doctors to prescribe unproven treatments and preventives for Covid-19 without any potential for responsibility,” the Topeka Capital-Journal reports.
I believe the law stated that physicians can only prescribe on label. The reduces the ability for them prescribe only CDC/FDA approved drugs.
Right now Kansas is breaking the law right and left to dispense - you got it - COVID vaccines.
She is not very popular right now because she is the Vice President of President Biden who is very unpopular. It looks like the is trying to run for President, if Biden doesn't run again. By carefully crafting her campaign events.
Politico: “Inside Harris’ office and among her advisers, confidants and close allies, there’s a near universal belief that she is mired by a contradiction: While she’s among the most powerful people in the world, owing to her swift rise in national politics, people still don’t know her at the levels they need to.”
“They point to instances where her work is either ignored or her policy portfolio misinterpreted, as evidence that she remains not just poorly defined but under-defined by the public. They’ve identified a spate of recent polls where voters give Harris and President Joe Biden similar marks for their disapproval rating, but where her approval rating falls several points below his. They explain the disparity not purely as a byproduct of her early, and at times self-inflicted struggles, but of Americans not knowing what she’s been up to. And aides and allies believe the D.C. press corps is obsessed with style over substance, especially when it comes to their boss.”
Now Alky is a Jew.
✡
Biden Failed, according to Madam Alky.
"Roger AmickJanuary 26, 2022 at 10:06 AM
"Deterrence is not working"
Tucker Carlson: Democrats suddenly value border security, just not the US borderThe US border remains open, but Democrats and the Biden administration are focused on securing the Ukrainian border
Ultimately, analysts say, Russia’s efforts won’t be enough to soften the blow of major new sanctions.
While down from 80%, the share of the dollar in exports of goods and services is currently at 56%, ING Bank estimates. The private sector is even more exposed and the dollar still dominates the local foreign-exchange market.
“Russia came prepared this time,” said Maria Shagina, a visiting fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. “But this doesn’t mean that the effect of sanctions won’t reverberate through the whole system.”
Brian O’Toole, a former Treasury official and an expert on sanctions at the Atlantic Council think tank, said the latest round of sanctions, if adopted, “would cause huge economic dislocation, with massive economic consequences… There will be an immediate economic impact.”
Russian assets tumbled this week as investors weighed the sanctions threat. The ruble and local stock markets have sunk to their lowest levels in months while Russia’s credit default swaps, a measure of financial risk, rose to their highest since the beginning of the pandemic. Strategists at JPMorgan on Tuesday recommended that investors close their long ruble positions due to the “prohibitively high” geopolitical uncertainty.
Economic pain could further dent Mr. Putin’s approval rating, which dropped to 65% in December from close to 90% in 2015, according to the independent Russian pollster Levada Center.
Among the hardest-hitting options—and one Western negotiators say isn’t currently on the table—the Biden administration has in the past weighed disconnecting Moscow from the SWIFT international banking system, which is used by more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries, and preventing Russian financial institutions from using the U.S. dollar.
In the event of a SWIFT disconnection, Russia could turn to the central bank’s alternative System for Transfer of Financial Messages. But while almost every Russian bank has joined the network, it accounted for only 20% of financial transactions in 2020, the central bank said last year. It is also unpopular abroad: only one Chinese lender has joined.
Meanwhile, if the Biden administration cuts off Russian banks’ access to the dollar, that would disrupt the country’s links to the rest of the world and lead to a steep contraction of GDP, said Janis Kluge, expert on Eastern Europe at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Most of global trade, including oil and gas sales, is settled in dollars. Side effects would include capital flight, a ruble crash and high inflation, he said.
On the banking front, Dmitry Dolgin, a Moscow-based economist at ING Bank, estimates that nine of the 12 financial institutions listed in a sanctions bill sponsored by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, (D., N.J) account for over 40% of the local interbank market and up to 80% of the corporate lending and funding. If those banks are sanctioned, “it would be a very painful measure,” he said.
Restrictions on Russian energy companies would hit directly at the heart of the country’s economy, where the oil-and-gas sector contributes as much as one-fifth of GDP. With some companies, including oil major PJSC Rosneft, already under sanctions, the U.S. could further restrict their financing or go after their subsidiaries overseas, analysts said. Mining and metals companies could also face financing cuts.
Putin depends upon the support of the oligarchs who are in charge of Russian economic system.
Money may be the deciding factor.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-attempts-to-sanction-proof-its-economy-have-exposed-a-weak-spot-11643193911
Biden Failed, according to Madam Alky.
"Roger AmickJanuary 26, 2022 at 10:06 AM
"Deterrence is not working"
Blogger Roger Amick said...
She is not very popular right now because she is the Vice President of President Biden who is very unpopular. It looks like the is trying to run for President, if Biden doesn't run again. By carefully crafting her campaign events.
Politico: “Inside Harris’ office and among her advisers, confidants and close allies, there’s a near universal belief that she is mired by a contradiction: While she’s among the most powerful people in the world, owing to her swift rise in national politics, people still don’t know her at the levels they need to.”
It's not that they don't know her. They just don't like what they see.
He is stepping down now
Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪ. ər/ BRY-ər; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪ. ər/ BRY-ər; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994.
Is stepping down at the end of this term.
AOC WINS
Justice Breyer retires
The USSC will not shift.
He made a Political Retirement, to help Socialist Dems.
Three US/Iran Negotiators resign because Biden is giving away the store.
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Multiple news outlets reported Wednesday that Justice Stephen Breyer, the Supreme Court’s oldest member and one of its three remaining liberals, will retire, giving President Joe Biden his first opportunity to fill a seat on the nation’s highest court.
With Democrats controlling both the White House and a narrow majority in the Senate, this retirement is the party’s first real chance to fill a Supreme Court seat in more than a decade — and its first shot since Senate Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, from receiving a hearing in 2016.
A former administrative law professor, Breyer often tempered his liberalism with the kind of technocratic cost-benefit analysis that is common within that field. He was the Court’s staunchest defender of the right of legislative majorities to legislate, believing that judges should be very reluctant to strike down laws under debatable readings of the Constitution — though this broad trust of legislatures did not stop him from rejecting laws that sought to infringe on abortion rights, or from becoming the Court’s most outspoken opponent of the death penalty.
Breyer was also a skilled dealmaker, a talent honed during his extraordinarily successful tenure as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1979 to 1980.
The story of how Stephen Breyer came to the Court is a reminder of how our politics has changed over the past generation. Nearly three decades ago, Democratic President Bill Clinton and Sen. Orrin Hatch, then the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a phone conversation. As Hatch recounted in his autobiography, it was 1993, and Justice Byron White had just announced his retirement. Clinton wanted Hatch’s thoughts on who he should nominate to replace White. And Hatch — here’s the part that is unimaginable in today’s Republican Party — offered two entirely reasonable suggestions to the new presiden
Claims that our systems for counting votes in the Republican states need to be reformed, is widespread voter suppression, not based in reality.
Guess all those videos of Democrat operatives stuffing unverified ballots in the counting machine doesn't make a diffrence.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
AOC WINS
Justice Breyer retires
There's no win here for the left. They trade an old liberal asshat for a new liberal asshat.
No net gain.
LOL.
Breyer worried dems will lose the Whitehouse in 2024.
Guess all those videos of Democrat operatives stuffing unverified ballots in the counting machine doesn'
COMPLETE AND UTTER GIBERISH!!!!!! Even sadder, you cannot supply a shred of actual; evidence that occurred other than a trump saying so!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
"There's no win here for the left. They trade an old liberal asshat for a new liberal asshat.
No net gain."
True
Montpelier, VT. -14 °F.
Those that have wood heat are thankful
Breyer worried dems will lose the Whitehouse in 2024.
The midterm shellacking is what’s worrying them
Breyer he was forced out .
It was not of his choosing to leave
Those that have wood heat are thankful
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I had a ski house in west dover Vt.....EVERYONE HAD A FIRE PLACE OR HEARTH to supplement their electric heat!!!!.....nothing new there assshole......Your asshattery goat fucker is legendary!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
There's no win here for the left. They trade an old liberal asshat for a new liberal asshat.
No net gain."
True
Except they are going to replace an older liberal asshat with a younger liberal asshat.
Except if you don't keep the fire going you'll freeze your ass in your mountain retreat.
Yesterday in Vermont it was -21 degrees.
Montpelier, VT. -14 °F.
Those that have wood heat are thankful.
Independence comes from hard work.
Here in Kansas we have great hardwoods , white oak, red oak and Osage Orange.
I have a tree trimmer that I have gotten 90 % of my wood from for now 17 years.
Maybe he'll put Barack Hussein on. The court might need a Muslim.
Or a trans. Right democrats?
He will choose an African American woman, not Vice President Harris.
If Mr. Biden succeeds in winning confirmation for his nominee to replace Justice Breyer, that justice is very likely to serve for decades.
As a candidate for the Democratic nomination, Mr. Biden vowed to appoint a Black woman to the court if he were elected president. He made the promise at a debate in February 2020, just days before winning the South Carolina primary that helped jump-start his flagging campaign.
“I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented,” Mr. Biden said.
Speculation about whom Mr. Biden might nominate has centered on two possibilities: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who graduated from Harvard Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Breyer, and Justice Leondra R. Kruger of the California Supreme Court, who graduated from Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens.
Some of Mr. Biden’s supporters have urged him to cast his net wider and to consider candidates without Ivy League degrees or Supreme Court clerkships but with a diversity of experience.
They pointed to, for instance, Judge J. Michelle Childs of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., a graduate of the University of South Carolina’s law school and a former law firm partner who also worked in state government. In December, Mr. Biden said he would name Judge Childs to fill a vacancy on the D.C. Circuit, a sign that she may be a serious contender for Justice Breyer’s seat.
Some liberals questioned Justice Ginsburg’s decision not to retire during the administration of President Barack Obama in spite of her advancing age and bouts with cancer. Her death at the age of 87 gave Mr. Trump a chance to make his third appointment to the court, cementing a 6-to-3 conservative majority.
Justice Breyer’s decision to step down may have been influenced by Justice Ginsburg’s experience.
CS , you know double wide Denny paid for his wood.
Imagine that jar of lard running a chain saw , splitting with a mail, stacking ...
Justice Stephen Breyer Will Retire
January 26, 2022 at 12:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 358 Comments
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after serving more than two decades on the nation’s highest court, NPR reports.
NBC News: “Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices, and his decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for several decades and, in the short term, maintain the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.”
Tagan Goddard comments:
"Breyer would officially step down at the end of the Supreme Court term, which would be in late June or early July."
U.S. Donates 400 Million More Vaccine Doses
January 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“White House officials announced Wednesday that the United States has donated more than 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to other countries under the Biden administration,” the Washington Post reports.
>Raphael Warnock Build Massive War Chest
January 26, 2022 at 11:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments
Sen. Raphael Warnock (R-GA) raised more than $9.8 million in the last three months of 2021 and will end the quarter with roughly $23 million in cash on hand for a reelection battle that could decide control of the U.S. Senate, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
GOP Has Congress Edge by Default
January 26, 2022 at 11:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments
Monmouth Poll:
“Congressional Republicans have a small edge over their Democratic colleagues on a dubious metric – they are slightly less likely to be seen as lacking concern for the average American’s financial well-being.
“This, along with a continuing decline in President Joe Biden’s job rating, contributes to a small preference for GOP control after this year’s midterm elections.”
Said pollster Patrick Murray:
“The GOP advantage on the economic concern question is not large as a percentage, but Democrats had a similarly small edge on this metric in 2018 and ended up gaining 41 House seats.”
My, my.
Do tell???
"Justice Breyer’s decision to step down may have been influenced by Justice Ginsburg’s experience."
Even a Trump endorsed auditors could find zero evidence of fraud
Justice Amy Coney Barrett , oh yeah, she rocks.
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Breyer worried dems will lose the Whitehouse in 2024.
The midterm shellacking is what’s worrying them
I think they know they're fucked in the midterms. What's going to be entertaining is just how much of a fucking loser Brandon is going to nominate. Outdoing 0linsky's "Wise LatinX" ain't going to be easy, but he could go full retard and go for 0linsky himself, or even Hillary.
LOL.
Politico reports
The person familiar with the process said Wednesday, giving President Joe Biden his first, highly coveted opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s top court.
Breyer, 83, informed the president last week of his intention to retire and indicated he would follow up with an official letter, the person briefed on the justice’s plans said.
Breyer’s move comes after more than a year of pressure from liberal legal activists who urged the appointee of President Bill Clinton to step aside to give Biden a chance to name a jurist who could shape the country’s legal landscape for decades. Biden has pledged to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
While Breyer’s resignation is welcome news for many Democrats and left-leaning attorneys, it is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the court’s decidedly conservative bent. Since late 2020, the high court’s bench has been split, 6-3, with Republican appointees holding the clear majority.
Until Wednesday, Breyer seemed adamant about not caving to demands that he step off the court. He also published a book that appeared to be a riposte to what he viewed as efforts to politicize the court by implementing reforms that would increase the number of justices or do away with the current lifetime tenure for justices.
“I didn’t retire because I had decided on balance I wouldn’t retire,” Breyer said in a September 2021 interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
Breyer did say in that interview and others that were part of a book tour last year that he did not “intend to die on the court.” But he consistently declined to discuss the timing of his possible departure and often seemed to bristle at the suggestion that his retirement plans might be shaped by which party controlled the White House or the Senate majority.
We know Breyer is retiring, alky.
Are you going to try and plagiarize every single article on the interwebs reporting it?
LOL. Fucking tool.
giving President Joe Biden his first, highly coveted opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s top court.
Brandon's first question for a candidate - "So, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?"
Roger, you act as if you have a scoop.
You only cut n paste.
No original thought , eva'
Jewish ✡ Roger Amick.
Lordie
He knew that if the Republicans would win this year, he decided to retire before the election.
For months, liberal activists had called for Breyer to retire while Democrats hold both the White House and the Senate — which could change after the midterm elections in November.
"The stewards of our system must put the good of an institution they love, and of the country they love, above their own interests," Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed in May. "They have to recognize that no one, not even a brilliant justice, is irreplaceable, and that the risks presented by remaining are more than hypothetical."
In 2020, 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, allowing former President Donald Trump to appoint her successor, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, moving the court further to the right.
I said this because I was watching MSNBC live here in my room
26, 2022 at 11:02 AM
He is stepping down now
Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪ. ər/ BRY-ər; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994
Seems the first hurdle is to find an American Hating anti-constitution Tranny.
"Are you going to try and plagiarize every single article on the interwebs reporting it?" RRB
YES.
Here are potential nominees who have been on observers’ short list.
DC Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Biden has already elevated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson once, appointing her last year to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which is considered the second-most powerful federal court in the country. Previously, the 51-year-old judge served on the federal district court in DC. Because of that appellate appointment, she’s already been through a vetting process that included an interview with the President himself. Fittingly, she clerked for Breyer and holds degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law School. She also served as an assistant federal public defender, making her a prime example of the Biden’s White House focus on appointing judges with backgrounds that are outside the typical prosecutor and Big Law box.
As a judge, Jackson has ruled on high profile cases including the Don McGahn congressional subpoena lawsuit (where, as a district court, she ordered the former Trump White House counsel to comply with the House’s subpoena). As an appellate judge, she signed on to the recent opinion ordering the disclosure of Trump White House documents being sought by the House January 6 committee — a case Trump has now asked the Supreme Court to review. If she is confirmed to the court while the justices were still considering the case, she’d likely be asked to recuse.
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger
Kruger, now 45, was the youngest person to be appointed to the California Supreme Court when then-Gov. Jerry Brown nominated her in 2014.
Kruger is intimately familiar with the Supreme Court having worked as a clerk for the late Justice John Paul Stevens and served as acting deputy solicitor general in the Obama administration. While in the Solicitor General’s office, she argued 12 cases in front of the Supreme Court representing the government. At the Justice Department, she also earned the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the department’s highest award for employee performance, in 2013 and 2014.
At the California Supreme Court, she has authored notable opinions on the 4th Amendment — holding that law enforcement could not search a woman’s purse without a warrant after she declined to provide a driver’s license — and upholding a California law that requires law enforcement to collect DNA samples as well as fingerprints from all persons arrested for or convicted of felony offenses.
Though she is said to be well-liked among the alumni of the Solicitor General’s office, she has not yet received the thorough vetting that other potential nominees have gone through.
South Carolina US District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs
Childs, a judge on South Carolina’s federal court, is said to have a major booster in House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a Biden ally who helped deliver South Carolina for the eventual nominee in the 2020 Democratic primary. Just last month, Biden nominated Childs to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the nomination remains pending.
A graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, Childs does not have the Ivy League pedigree shared by eight of the nine justices. Her cheerleaders have touted her public-school education and other elements of her background as an advantage for Democrats, according to a 2021 New York Times report, and as a way to fight back against claims that the party has become too elitist in its makeup.
In addition to a decade spent in private practice, the 55-year-old served as a state court trial judge on the South Carolina Circuit, as the deputy director of the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, and as a commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission.
This is Thecoldheartedtruth about America today
"Are you going to try and plagiarize every single article on the interwebs reporting it?" RRB
YES.
She is my favorite.
Because she is so young.
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger
Kruger, now 45, was the youngest person to be appointed to the California Supreme Court when then-Gov. Jerry Brown nominated her in 2014.
Kruger is intimately familiar with the Supreme Court having worked as a clerk for the late Justice John Paul Stevens and served as acting deputy solicitor general in the Obama administration. While in the Solicitor General’s office, she argued 12 cases in front of the Supreme Court representing the government. At the Justice Department, she also earned the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the department’s highest award for employee performance, in 2013 and 2014.
At the California Supreme Court, she has authored notable opinions on the 4th Amendment — holding that law enforcement could not search a woman’s purse without a warrant after she declined to provide a driver’s license — and upholding a California law that requires law enforcement to collect DNA samples as well as fingerprints from all persons arrested for or convicted of felony offenses.
Though she is said to be well-liked among the alumni of the Solicitor General’s office, she has not yet received the thorough vetting that other potential nominees have gone through.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Seems the first hurdle is to find an American Hating anti-constitution Tranny.
Could be.
Ultimately what we have here is an asshole who graduated near the very bottom of his class from a second tier law school picking the next USSC justice. Sounds like a recipe for success.
I would encourage every GOP member of the judiciary committee to treat his nominee just as poorly as he treated Bork, Thomas, et.al. Fucking gut them. They won't of course, because the GOP is full of feckless, spineless cowards, but it's nice to dream.
On November 24, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown announced the appointment of Kruger to the California Supreme Court.[2] Although she had no prior judicial experience before her appointment to the California Supreme Court, her selection was publicly praised by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama's then-Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., Obama's former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, and former Solicitor General (under President George W. Bush) Paul Clement.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leondra_Kruger
Good choice.
"So, you like ice cream, right?"
"You're black, right?" "Because you know, we're all identity politics around here all the time, and IF YOU AIN'T BLACK..., Hey, LOOK FAT, you ain't a junkie are you?" "How many push-ups can you do?"
Lol, Damn RRB.
Heh:
Whoever Biden wants to replace him raped me in high school. I don’t remember where. Don’t ask me to come back to DC. I’m afraid to fly.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1486384680517738498
Fucking destroy this candidate, no matter who it is.
"4) Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
- Rules for Radicals.
Leondra Kruger
Has a cunt ✔
Is a Non-white mutt ✔
Hates America ✔
Anti - 2nd Amendment ✔
Supreme Court deals another setback to abortion providers in latest decision on Texas heartbeat lawThe Supreme Court allowed Texas' law to remain..."
Former VP Pense said Roe will be overturned.
The U.S. delivers its written response to Russia’s demands in Eastern Europe.
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Blinken Calls U.S. Letter to Russia a ‘Diplomatic Path Forward’
The United States delivered a written response to Russia’s demands in Eastern Europe, which included its concerns over escalating military tensions in the region.
Russia had previously outlined its concerns and proposals in writing. And last week, I told Foreign Minister Lavrov the United States would do the same. Today, Ambassador Sullivan delivered our written response in Moscow. All told, it sets out a serious diplomatic path forward, should Russia choose it. The document we’ve delivered includes concerns of the United States and our allies and partners about Russia’s actions that undermine security, a principled and pragmatic evaluation of the concerns that Russia has raised, and our own proposals for areas where we may be able to find common ground. We make clear that there are core principles that we are committed to uphold and defend, including Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the right of states to choose their own security arrangements and alliances. We’re not releasing the document publicly, because we think that diplomacy has the best chance to succeed if we provide space for confidential talks. We hope and expect that Russia will have the same view, and will take our proposal seriously.
The United States delivered a written response to Russia’s demands in Eastern Europe, which included its concerns over escalating military tensions in the region.CreditCredit...Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press
The U.S. and NATO gave formal responses on Wednesday to Russia’s demands that NATO pull back forces from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining the alliance, amid escalating military tensions in Eastern Europe.
Russia had been insisting for weeks that the United States provide written responses to the Kremlin’s demands before it would decide on its next course of action, while asserting that it had no plans to invade Ukraine.
Both Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the Russian foreign ministry said that the American ambassador to Moscow, John J. Sullivan, had personally delivered the U.S.’s written response to the ministry. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, said NATO had also sent its reply.
The U.S. response “sets out a serious diplomatic path forward should Russia choose it,” Mr. Blinken said at a news briefing in Washington. It suggests “reciprocal transparency measures regarding force posture in Ukraine, as well as measures to increase confidence regarding military exercises and maneuvers in Europe,” he said, as well as nuclear arms control in Europe.
The Biden administration has already made such proposals, so it is unclear whether the U.S. response will have any effect on the growing crisis over Russia’s massive troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern borders.
“It reiterates publicly what we’ve said for many weeks,” Mr. Blinken.
Mr. Blinken said that the United States had not moved from its refusal to contemplate ruling out the possibility of future Ukrainian membership in NATO, as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has demanded, although President Biden and other U.S. officials have said there is little possibility Ukraine could join the military alliance anytime soon.
“We make clear that there are core principles that we are committed to uphold and defend, including Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the right of states to choose their own security arrangements and alliances,” Mr. Blinken said.
Russia has also demanded that the United States remove nuclear weapons from Europe and withdraw troops and weapons from former Soviet bloc countries that joined the alliance after 1997. The United States has deemed those demands “non-starters.’’
I suspect that the former President Trump would have gone along with it.
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Democrat President Joe Biden was caught shopping and going out for ice cream on Tuesday after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared to struggle to answer what exactly Biden was up to today.
“The president has nothing on his schedule today aside from the PDB,” a reporter said. “Can you shed any light on how he’s spending his day?”
“Well, let’s see, um, this morning I think he had some policy meetings, uh, also a PDB meeting,” Psaki said. “Uh, he, um, later this afternoon, uh, I think is doing some remarks review. There’s some days that we spend some time doing internal meetings and discussions, uh, with policy experts, with policy leaders, um, and that’s that’s what’s happening today.”
Jen Psaki struggles to explain why Biden’s schedule is so empty today. pic.twitter.com/Xh00o8jD8G
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 25, 2022
Reuters reporter Jeff Mason later tweeted out photographs showing Biden wandering around Washington, D.C., visiting at least one boutique store and going to an ice cream shop.
“@POTUS visits a boutique store on Capitol Hill called Honey Made,” Mason tweeted. “Products at Honey Made include RBG and @KamalaHarris mugs and oven mitts.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-appears-to-struggle-to-answer-what-biden-was-doing-today-then-a-reporter-tweeted-photos-of-biden
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And there it is folks...
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