Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Interesting doublespeak and an insight to how certain people think...

So not sure what to make of this sort of logic?

You’ll recall that Trump’s core complaint as president was that the investigation into Russian interference and possible overlap with his campaign was unfounded. It wasn’t, involving probes into a number of individuals with obvious links to Russian actors. But Trump and his allies crafted a countervailing narrative centered on malfeasance by government officials — again, a claim downstream from Trump’s initial response to reports about the probe in which he asserted that government officials might be out to get him. 
Reading this story from the Washington Post about the latest Durham filings and the manner in which they are discounting them when I ran across this piece of oddly worded logic (if you want to call it logic). 

First, much like liberals here, there, or everywhere there is no topic of discussion that doesn't make its way back to Trump. This particular article regarding Durham's recent court filings implicating the Clinton campaign was about Trump for the first several paragraphs. Apparently whether or not Trump felt he was spied on previously is somehow legally pertinent to the new allegations by Special Counsel Durham? 

But if you really parse out this statement as written it is an exercise is logical futility. It basically accuses Trump of making the unfounded claims that the FBI investigation overlapped with his campaign team. Then in the very next sentence admits that the FBI did in fact probe a number of individuals (who were part of the campaign). That would be overlapping of the investigation into his campaign by any logical definition. 

How is the Trump claim "unfounded" if it did factually did happen? 

Well apparently it is unfounded because this particular WaPo writer believes that the FBI was justified in probing Trump campaign members over "obvious links to Russian actors" and Trump was wrong to claim they may have been "out to get him".  Of course, much of what Durham is focusing on is not just the manner in which Trump and his campaign "was" in fact probed, but to what degree there were players involved that knowingly provided or pushed bad intelligence as an excuse to probe Trump campaign members. 

To the degree that any Trump campaign members had obvious links to Russian actors is certainly a questionable statement, unless you actually believe that Ukrainians are Russians and that someone just knowing someone else (with no evidence of recent contact) is reason enough to justify FISA warrants.  We already know that flawed intelligence was used to garner these warrants and that relative information was left out of the requests for warrants.We know that certain Judges who granted them have said that they would not have granted them had they had been given honest information. 

Who knows where the recent allegations against the Clinton team will go. It seems obvious that someone was feeding the FBI this faulty information about the Trump Tower servers and Russian banks and other similar things that are being uncovered as we move forward.. It seems from what we know now, that this information was likely fed to the FBI by people working with or for the Clinton Administration. Not sure this monitoring of IP addresses and would be considered "spying" when in fact it never actually showed what it alleged.  But it would be illegal if the information was known to be false or misleading and passed to the FBI anyways. It would be especially cause for criminal prosecution if the intent was to get the FBI to start an investigation into political opponent.

With all due respect to the WaPo writer and the rest of these minions. Durham doesn't need to prove Trump rhetoric. He only needs to prove what he, himself, is alleging. 


88 comments:

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

More important than Crooked Hillary and again Russia Russia Russia.


I think  Democrats can defy history.”

* The virus needs to be contained with the country returning to a new normal. And it is.

* Inflation needs to start going down by summer. The Russian retreat will help reduce oil prices.

* The economy and the stock market need to maintain steady growth, particularly as interest rates begin to rise. The Fed is going to increase interest rates.

* The supply chain needs to return to normal. We shall see this one.

* We need to avoid another global crisis, like a war in Ukraine. Today there will not have a war in Ukraine!

* Biden’s job approval rating needs to be in the high 40s by summer. Very possible because of Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine

* And last but not least, Republicans need to nominate unelectable general-election candidates and run lousy campaigns.

“They are capable of this and have done this in recent past cycles,” Sosnic says, choosing far-right candidates such as Todd Akin or Christine O’Donnell, who ended up losing in the general election.

If Trump and the Republicans continue trying to spread the “big lie” about the 2020 election and promoting insurrection, then smart, moderate Democrats who run good campaigns might be able to carry the day, at the end of the day, on November.

Your story appeals to rrb etc.

Russia Russia Russia Russia won't help you out

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_silent_coup.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...


February 15, 2022

The Silent Coup

By Andrew W. Coy

Ever since President Trump came down the golden escalators to announce his candidacy for president of the United States, many professional and even casual observers of politics and history have wondered just what was going on in the events that followed. 

Many historians and folks who just read the newspaper every morning and watch the news at night felt that something quite different and very odd was occurring. 

Where were all the leaks coming from? Why all the Russia Russia Russia talk? What was all this 25th Amendment talk about? Why was there immediate talk of impeachment?  What was with the quick firing of Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn by Vice President Mike Pence? Why did the progressive liberal media obviously show that they had a favorite? Why the criminality in the 2020 election? Why the Jan. 6 roundup of citizens who only wanted free and fair elections? 

Now it is clear for all to see, the Deep State was running a coup against Donald Trump.  A coup against candidate Trump.  A coup against President-elect Trump. And a coup against President Trump while in office.  The Deep State, including the Fourth Branch of government (the intelligence apparatus), went after Trump from the moment he came down the escalators.  Not a military coup that we once thought of from a banana republic. No rifle fire, hand grenades, or mortar launchers.  But a soft and silent, yet deadly coup done by people with suits and ties and dresses and skirts in law firms and executive offices.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Special counsel Durham alleges Clinton campaign lawyer used data to raise suspicions about Trump

By Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN

Updated 7:41 AM ET, Tue February 15, 2022

(CNN)Special counsel John Durham accused a lawyer for the Democrats of sharing with the CIA in 2017 internet data purported to show Russian-made phones being used in the vicinity of the White House complex, as part of a broader effort to raise the intelligence community's suspicions of Donald Trump's ties to Russia shortly after he took office.

The accusation -- which Durham couched in vague, technical language in a court filing late Friday -- has been seized upon by Trump and his supporters, who claim the former President was subjected to a smear campaign.

Durham says in the filing that Michael Sussmann, the Democratic lawyer, spoke about internet data related to Trump in a meeting with a federal agency, which sources say was the CIA, more than five years ago. Sussmann claimed the information "demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations," according to the filing.

Durham's office said it found nothing to support the allegation. The special counsel also noted that the data showed a Russian phone provider connection involving the Executive Office of the President "during the Obama administration and years before Trump took office."

The data was compiled by a tech firm that had special access to the purportedly suspicious internet data through an "arrangement" with the US government, and that firm was in touch with Sussmann, according to the filing.

An executive at the tech company, Rodney Joffe, and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining domain name system traffic associated with the Executive Office of the President and other data "for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump," Durham's prosecutors wrote.

Joffe is not charged with any crime.

A spokesperson for Joffe said he "is an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP)."

"Upon identifying DNS queries from Russian-made Yota phones in proximity to the Trump campaign and the EOP, respected cyber-security researchers were deeply concerned about the anomalies they found in the data and prepared a report of their findings, which was subsequently shared with the CIA," the spokesperson added later in the statement.

Sussmann last fall pleaded not guilty to a charge of lying to the FBI about a separate meeting. Defense attorneys for Sussmann called Durham's recent statements in court about the internet data "misleading."

"The Special Counsel has again made a filing in this case that unnecessarily includes prejudicial -- and false -- allegations that are irrelevant ... and are plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage, and taint the jury pool," they wrote in a court filing Monday night.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

They said Durham had a fact wrong: that Sussmann told the CIA about internet data related to Russian phones being used around the White House before Trump was President, and not from after he took office.

Durham's most recent assertions in court about Sussmann implied that the CIA heard from him about Russian phones being used around the White House after Trump became President as a way to raise the intelligence communities' suspicions about Trump.

But Sussmann says that isn't so.

"Although the Special Counsel implies that in Mr. Sussmann's February 9, 2017 meeting, he provided Agency-2 with (Executive Office of the President) data from after Mr. Trump took office, the Special Counsel is well aware that the data provided to Agency-2 pertained only to the period of time before Mr. Trump took office, when Barack Obama was President," Sussmann's lawyers wrote.

Sussmann's team added that the reasons for concern that Sussmann took to the CIA about Trump and Russia weren't intentionally manipulative.

Durham's office says in the filing that he plans to use the information in it at Sussmann's trial. Durham's office declined to comment further.


Right-wing media outlets and Republican politicians, including Trump, are citing Durham's court filing to accuse Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign of spying on Trump because of the use of the data.

But Durham's court filing doesn't allege that the pro-Clinton researchers' use of internet data meant that there was any eavesdropping on content of communications.

Durham has used the Sussmann case to more broadly draw attention to the role of unsavory political opposition research in the 2016 election.

Sussmann is charged with making a false statement to the FBI about his representation of the Democrats, when he shared data that pro-Clinton researchers believed linked Trump Organization servers to a Russian bank in 2016.
The five-year statute of limitations appears to have passed for Durham to accuse Sussmann of any wrongdoing related to his meeting with the CIA. Passing along information from researchers to intelligence officials for further investigation is not uncommon and isn't necessarily a crime.

The new details were included in a more mundane request to have Sussmann agree to waive any conflict-of-interest issues that could arise because his lawyers have represented others connected to the investigation in the past.

Sussmann is set to go to trial in a few months, and the case is largely expected to be based on the testimony of former FBI General Counsel James Baker, who has made shaky statements in testimony over the past few years about his memory of his interactions with Sussmann.


This story has been updated with additional details and reaction.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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Why Trump is once again claiming that he was spied upon in 2016


It started with a tweet from President Donald Trump in early March 2016.

“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” he wrote. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

It was a wild claim — and one that was soon debunked. The primary rationale for Trump’s tweet, it seems, was a story published by Breitbart News that attempted to summarize a broadcast by right-wing radio host Mark Levin. 


You have joined Mark Levin........


You have lost your mind Scott...



Myballs said...

Seems to me Durham is now the one claiming it. But you keep changing the subject like a child. Meanwhile Hillary's big comeback just took a direct hit.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Durham describes an effort to impugn Trump by claiming that during a meeting with a government agency in February 2017, Sussman alleged that DNS lookups “demonstrated that Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations.” This doesn’t support a throughline back to Clinton, of course, since Trump wasn’t spending much time at the White House while Clinton was still a presidential candidate. Durham’s filing asserts that the lookups centered on those phones went back to 2014, when Trump wasn’t even yet a candidate.

rrb said...



You have lost your mind Scott...


We're free to move about the country. The world, in fact.

When you hit the door the alarm goes off and an orderly wrestles you to the ground and back to your shared room.

Tell us again about how our host and the rest of us have lost our mind, alky. From your perch in God's waiting room, of course.








rrb said...



Durham doesn't need to prove Trump rhetoric. He only needs to prove what he, himself, is alleging.

Precisely. Clowns like the WaPo will mis-represent, mis-characterize, lie by omission, and speak to Durham's motives without ever addressing the facts in evidence as we know them to be. And for good reason. When you're a DNC super-pac like the WaPo, NYT, MSDNC, XiNN, etc. your first responsibility is to protect the criminals and to cancel objective attempts to get to the truth.

It's become so regimented and so absurd as to be laughable.


Oh, and the word 'freedom' is now racist.





Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Clinton isn't going to be the next candidate

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I have an apartment not a nursing home room dumbshit

rrb said...



Yeah alky,

It's quite common to share an "apartment" with a committed psycho who fancies himself the fifth Beatle, and where the entry/exit doors are alarmed, and nurses and orderlies roam the halls.

And nothing says 'fine dining' like plastic tablecloths and pre-sliced nannas.



Anonymous said...

The cowards of the Federal reserve.

From a made up nonsense term of "Transitory Inflation" to this.

"This inflation we're seeing is very bad for low and moderate-income households," St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told CNBC. "Real wages are declining. People are unhappy. Consumer confidence is declining. This is not a good situation."

rrb said...


"This inflation we're seeing is very bad for low and moderate-income households," St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard told CNBC. "Real wages are declining. People are unhappy. Consumer confidence is declining. This is not a good situation."


And Joey Sprinkles thinks you're a wise guy for pointing this out.


Anonymous said...

"Lock Her up"

Turns out Trump is Right again.

Anonymous said...

"And Joey Sprinkles thinks you're a wise guy for pointing this out."
Yep, what a failure .


Roger lied, never had tickets to the Super Bowl .

He did say If, he stopped paying rent he could have " $10,000 by April".

Like that is a substantial amount of money.

So Roger pays $5,000 a year for his pitily semi-private room.

rrb said...



Trump Really Was Spied On

The new shocker relates to the data Mr. Joffe and friends were mining. According to Friday’s filing, as early as July 2016 Mr. Joffe was “exploit[ing]” his “access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data,” including “Internet traffic pertaining to . . . the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”).”

The filing explains that Mr. Joffe’s employer “had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided [internet services]” to the White House. Mr. Joffe’s team also was monitoring internet traffic related to Trump Tower, and Mr. Trump’s apartment on Central Park West.

White House communications are supposed to be secure, and the notion that any contractor—much less one with ties to a presidential campaign—could access them is alarming enough. The implication that the data was exploited for a political purpose is a scandal that requires investigation under oath.

The filing suggests the data collection continued into the Trump Presidency. Mr. Durham says that on Feb. 9, 2017, Mr. Sussmann met with a second federal agency (“Agency-2”) to provide “an updated set of allegations,” and that these “allegations relied, in part, on the purported [internet traffic] that [Mr. Joffe] and others had assembled pertaining to Trump Tower, Donald Trump’s New York City apartment building, the EOP” and a healthcare provider. . . .

The disclosures raise troubling questions far beyond the Sussmann indictment. How long did this snooping last and who had access to what was found? Who approved the access to White House data, and who at the FBI and White House knew about it? Were Mrs. Clinton and senior campaign aides personally aware of this data-trolling operation?

Mr. Durham’s revelations take the 2016 collusion scam well beyond the Steele dossier, which was based on the unvetted claims of a Russian emigre working in Washington. Those claims and the Sussmann assertions were channeled to the highest levels of the government via contacts at the FBI, CIA and State Department. They became fodder for secret and unjustified warrants against a former Trump campaign official, and later for Robert Mueller’s two-year mole hunt that turned up no evidence of collusion.

Along the way the Clinton campaign fed these bogus claims to a willing and gullible media. And now we know its operatives used private tech researchers to monitor White House communications. If you made this up, you’d be laughed out of a Netflix story pitch.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-really-was-spied-on-2016-clinton-campaign-john-durham-court-filing-11644878973?mod=opinion_lead_pos1



rrb said...


So Roger pays $5,000 a year for his pitily semi-private room.

That's no apartment.

That's a nursing home.

The alky forgets that I cared for an aging parent with dementia who went from assisted living, to a nursing home to a memory care facility. And I paid her bills.

He's in a nursing home.

Anonymous said...

$5,000 for a semi-private nursing home Room. Wow.

Roger, do you own the furniture ?

rrb said...



Roger, do you own the furniture ?


He doesn't even own the diaper he's sitting on.



Anonymous said...

Lol, exactly, his high life includes buying his own juice boxes.

Anonymous said...

Oh Roger.

You suck at predicting economic trends.

Today WTI Crude 93.10. +3.22

Anonymous said...

"Roger AmickFebruary 15, 2022 at 8:58 AM

The Russian retreat is good for for oil prices"

Nope, wrong .

Anonymous said...

Claim: “I was proven right about the spying, and I will be proven right about 2020!”

Claimed by: Donald Trump

Fact check by The Washington Post: False.

Yeah, he did .

C.H. Truth said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-really-was-spied-on-2016-clinton-campaign-john-durham-court-filing-11644878973?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

C'mon Rat!

This is right wing propaganda!

rrb said...



Electronic spying on the White House at the behest of the Democratic Party? It’s what you would expect from Chinese or Russian intelligence. And we thought the Mueller investigation was bad!

And talk about strange cases of projection. The Democrats were always accusing Trump of colluding with Russia while they were behaving like the KGB.

Trump himself responded that this is worse than Watergate, and he surely is correct. Watergate, it will be recalled, was about a small-time break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters during an election that Republicans won by a historic landslide. Although not to be excused in the slightest, politically, it couldn’t have been more irrelevant.

All this recent eavesdropping occurred during the tightest of elections (2016) and afterward during an actual presidency. It was clearly aimed at destroying that presidency, sabotaging from within—a genuine insurrection, instead of the phony one we know about. Nothing remotely like that has happened in our history.

And it was all instigated by people close to Hillary Clinton or, quite possibly, by Hillary herself. We don’t know yet. One of those involved we do know was Jake Sullivan, currently our national security adviser, charged with overseeing the conflict on the Ukraine–Russia border. Think about that. What a disgrace to our country that is. If you and I know about it, every nation in the world knows it.

This evolving scandal—atrocity might be a better word—has most probably eliminated Clinton from the Democratic presidential sweepstakes. It may even sweep up President Joe Biden.


https://www.theepochtimes.com/durham-reveals-democrats-behaving-like-the-kgb-is-more-coming_4279143.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Most Republicans in Congress have a clear understanding of Vladimir Putin: He’s a predator, and the only way to stop him is to stand up to him. They understand other tyrants the same way: China’s Xi Jinping, Iran’s Ali Khamenei, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.”

“But when the predator is in their own country—when he’s the leader of their own party—their philosophy of deterrence melts into appeasement. The hawks become doves.”

rrb said...


C'mon Rat!

This is right wing propaganda!



Yep.

If the MSM memory holes it and doesn't report on it, it never fucking happened.

That's their MO. And they'll never change.



C.H. Truth said...

He's in a nursing home.

My mother lived in what they called "independent living" within a senior community that also had "assisted living".

The main difference was size of apartment (my mom had two bedrooms and two baths) - how many meals were provided (my mom had one per day of her choice) - and access to nursing (my mom was allowed like six nurse calls per month).

They moved her to the assisted side about a week before she passed. Had a hospital bed, about half the square footage, a smaller kitchen with smaller fridge, stove, etc... unlimited meals and unlimited nurses calls.


Even in assisted living, nobody shared a one room studio apartment.

rrb said...



Show your Bul-Shit plagiarism, alky.

https://www.thebulwark.com/lindsey-graham-knows-how-to-stand-up-to-strongmen-unless-theyre-republicans/

Pierre Omidyar's nutsack is glistening on your chin.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I shared a one room studio apartment. Because I'm the only person who could handle Shipper. I got a better deal because they usually change almost twice as much.

And unlimited meals and unlimited nurses calls.

In Southern California it is cheap

anonymous said...

Most amusing news article of a source the short salesman from Ga has used to prove his bias......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!


Associated Press
US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda
NOMAAN MERCHANT
Tue, February 15, 2022, 7:27 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifyingremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies.

The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia.

Anonymous said...

Jane, Alky and Fatty
Wrong side of History and The Canadian Truckers.

"Fifty-nine percent, overall, said they support the movement, and of those, 42 percent “strongly” support it. Those who support it include 77 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents, and 40 percent of Democrats. "


Anonymous said...

Alky said $5,000 a month is cheap .

"And unlimited meals and unlimited nurses calls.

In Southern California it is cheap"

Anonymous said...

You can't stop paying rent .

"Roger AmickFebruary 14, 2022 at 1:16 PM

If I refuse to pay rent I will have $10,000 available on April 1st.


In the meantime I get three meals a day and my meds."

Wow, life at the bottom.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Funny day

Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Rejected by Jury

February 15, 2022 at 2:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

“A jury returned a verdict against Sarah Palin in her libel suit against The New York Times on Tuesday, finding that there was insufficient evidence to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial that erroneously linked her political rhetoric to a mass shooting,” the New York Times reports.

“The decision was the second time this week that Ms. Palin’s case was dealt a significant setback. On Monday, the presiding judge in federal court in Lower Manhattan, Jed Rakoff, said that he would dismiss the case if the jury found in her favor


rrb said...

In the meantime I get three meals a day and my meds."

Wow, life at the bottom.



Three hot's and a cot + meds.

Prison.


Myballs said...

Maybe Roger can next tell us If his toilet is oval or round. I'm on the edge of my chair waiting for more details.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Rejected by Jury [AS WELL AS BY THE JUDGE]

February 15, 2022 at 2:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 76 Comments

“A jury returned a verdict against Sarah Palin in her libel suit against The New York Times on Tuesday, finding that there was insufficient evidence to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial that erroneously linked her political rhetoric to a mass shooting,” the New York Times reports.

“The decision was the second time this week that Ms. Palin’s case was dealt a significant setback. On Monday, the presiding judge in federal court in Lower Manhattan, Jed Rakoff, said that he would dismiss the case if the jury found in her favor.”

WILL THAT SATISFY CH?

anonymous said...


Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Rejected by Jury

Breaking Lil Schitty's heart and his hope that they would win........another bad day in seattle and his child bride......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Didn't see that Roger had already posted that.

Myballs said...

Former Whitehouse obama advisor Seth Andrews has just pled guilty to wire fraud and stealing over $200,000.

What's the bet this gets ignored by the news media?

C.H. Truth said...

I shared a one room studio apartment.

And unlimited meals and unlimited nurses calls.


and how, exactly, is this different from assisted living or a nursing home?


There is no shame in living in this sort of facility, but it is embarrassing when you continue to act as if you are living in an Apartment building. If I didn't know any better, I would say you are embarrassed.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

AMERICA SECOND
February 15, 2022 at 11:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

Just published: America Second: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish.

Axios: “U.S. elites have used ties to China to grow rich — and by doing so, they have helped Beijing grow more powerful, a new book argues.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He said that we will use cyberwarfare against Russia Russia Russia. Might be the next generation cold war

President Biden said Tuesday that the United States has not yet verified that some Russian military units are moving back from the border of Ukraine and returning to their bases, despite claims by senior Russian officials.
“That would be good, but we have not yet verified that,” Biden said in an address to the nation from the White House. “Indeed, our analysts indicate that they remain very much in a threatening position.”
Biden said that Russia had positioned more than 150,000 troops, up significantly from previous estimates of about 130,000. The president noted that “an invasion remains distinctly possible.”
But Biden’s remarks signaled a shift from his administration’s dire warnings of an invasion, which only last week senior officials described as possibly imminent.
Earlier in the day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he saw reason for “cautious optimism” after Moscow signaled willingness to continue talks to resolve the crisis over Ukraine and said some of its troops were pulling back.
The NATO chief added that he saw no evidence “on the ground” of de-escalation by the Russian military. Stoltenberg said NATO is looking for a “significant and enduring” withdrawal of Russian forces, troops and heavy equipment from areas bordering Ukraine as a sign of real de-escalation.
“There are signs from Moscow that diplomacy should continue,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels ahead of meetings with NATO defense ministers Wednesday. “There are grounds for cautious optimism.”

rrb said...



If Joey Sprinkles would just commit to Ukraine not being added as a NATO member the whole charade would be over.

Joey needs a distraction, so this saga carries on needlessly.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If I hadn't sold my house in Fullerton in 2013. I would have a half million equity...this is not ideal but I won't die here..

You should be ashamed of yourself in regards to Trump.

Anonymous said...

"Roger AmickFebruary 15, 2022 at 3:01 PM

If I hadn't sold my house in Fullerton in 2013. I would have a half million equity...this is not ideal but I won't die here."

IF, life at the bottom.

Littered with regrets and bad decisions.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Biden Ended the Ukraine Crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin surrendered.

anonymous said...


Anonymous Myballs said...
Former Whitehouse obama advisor Seth Andrews has pled guilty........


BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Getting desperate there sport.....trying now to change the subject and pin blame on Obama.......LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! Wonder how trumps accountants are doing????

rrb said...



Here's some of that sweet fascism you seem to love so much, alky.:

Christian Website GiveSendGo Hacked and Donor Information Published Online; Canadian Broadcast Authority Begins Going Through the List and Demanding That the Donors Explain Why They Donated to the Freedom Convoy


After GoFundMe attempted to steal nearly $10 million in donated funds and give it to charities they liked better -- leftwing "charities," no doubt -- people who wanted to donate to the Freedom Convoy truckers began using the GiveSendGo Christian alternative to GoFundMe.

The website was hacked, and redirected to another URL.

The donors' information was leaked online. And then published on Twitter.

Note that while Twitter supposedly bans doxxing, it has permitted a leftwing disgraced former Canadian shock-jock nobody to continue posting the donors' information with no penalty.



http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397837.php


rrb said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Biden Ended the Ukraine Crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin surrendered.



And Santa Claus just knocked up the Easter Bunny.

Word on the street is that Mrs. Claus is NOT pleased.

Just pitching in on your fan fic, alky.


Carry on.




Anonymous said...

Roger, simply does not own the furniture in his studio "apartment" that he is forced to share with the 5th Battle.

Life @ the bottom.

Anonymous said...

California lower food production in 2022.

"California farmers who struggled to make it through record-breaking drought and heat in 2021 are bracing for another bad year, this time without any additional water from the state.

The state said it won’t give any water from the State Water Project to farmers unless drought conditions improve. That could mean even higher food prices at a time when consumers are struggling with an ongoing pandemic and inflation across the board.

“The carryover water that got a lot of farmers through this past year is gone,” said Mike Wade, executive director at the California Farm Water Coalition. Farmers will either have to pump groundwater, if they can, “or they’re going to be fallowing a lot of farm land,” he said.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Biden should get credit for this!


U.S. stock indexes rose, while energy prices slumped and bonds sold off, after Russia said it had pulled back some troops from the Ukrainian border.

The S&P 500 climbed 1.6% Tuesday, snapping a three day losing streak. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 2.5%.

Tuesday’s advance came as investors’ fears about a conflict between Ukraine and Russia dampened. The threat of war has, in recent days, added a geopolitical element to an already troubled market outlook. Investors also have been weighing inflation concerns, as well as signs of easing supply-chain issues.

“We have two big crosscurrents. One that has been out there for a while, which is inflation. The other being in the near term—which has ramped up over the last week—which is Russia,” said David Kalis, manager of the Future Fund Active ETF.

The likelihood of a Russian invasion into Ukraine has increased in recent days. Investors are spooked about the economic effects of such a conflict. Though those fears abated somewhat Tuesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had withdrawn some troops from the border, 


rrb said...



The Russian government claimed on Tuesday that several military units have completed “scheduled drills” along border with Ukraine and will now return to their permanent bases, bringing their armor and artillery with them.

Russian officials taunted the Biden administration by claiming the redeployment “humiliated” Western war hysterics, while Ukrainian and NATO military officials said they did not see any immediate sign of Russian forces actually pulling back from the border.

Russia’s state-run Tass news agency quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov’s claim that Russian troops were packing their gear and preparing to depart on Wednesday morning.



https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/02/15/russia-claims-ukraine-standoff-is-over/

rrb said...




Awww... Poor baby. Not everyone memory-holed his traitorous activity.

Lawyers for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann are furious at Special Counsel John Durham for describing an effort to spy on President Donald Trump while in office — and cited Breitbart News coverage in their response.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/15/sussmann-lawyers-furious-at-durham-for-exposing-spying-complain-about-breitbart-coverage/

Anonymous said...

Ok, Roger, I will

US Dow
34,988.84 -1,596.22 (-4.36%)year to date

Gas ok, sure , Biden $3.49
Was $2.24 first day in office

More credit oil today $92.40
Ist day in office $30 less.

Food prices,, you really need me to say.

Anonymous said...

Ok, Roger, I will

US Dow
34,988.84 -1,596.22 (-4.36%)year to date

Gas ok, sure , Biden $3.49
Was $2.24 first day in office

More credit oil today $92.40
Ist day in office $30 less.

Food prices,, you really need me to say.

rrb said...




In just one year of Joe Biden’s presidency, America’s economic freedom index has fallen to its lowest point ever in the survey’s history.

In its annual survey, the Heritage Foundation reports that the U.S. has fallen 2.7 points to an all-time low score of 72.1 and has hit its lowest rank globally of 25th place among nations with the freest economies. The 25th ranking is down from ranking 20th a year ago. Despite the drop in economic freedom, “the Biden administration is still barreling full steam ahead to implement a socialist agenda that would add trillions to the debt, hike taxes, and centralize more federal power over the economy.”

The survey, launched by the Heritage Foundation in 1995, scores countries based on government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets.

“This year’s Index of Economic Freedom paints a disturbing picture, both at home and abroad,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said according to Fox Business, “The decline of American economic freedom is serious cause for alarm and has real and tangible consequences for all Americans, especially low-income families and the working class.


https://lidblog.com/economic-freedom/

https://www.heritage.org/press/2022-index-economic-freedom-bidens-economy-drags-us-all-time-low-ranking-taiwan-earns-first

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The True Limits of American Power
February 15, 2022 at 2:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments

Walter Shapiro: “Politics still stops at the water’s edge, but that’s because Americans don’t care about foreign policy unless U.S. troops are under fire. Voters would probably barely notice if Biden’s threats of sanctions helped convince Putin to take an off-ramp and slowly withdraw his troops from Ukraine’s borders.

“It is possible that the threat of enhanced economic sanctions by America and our European allies might end up deterring Putin. That said, whatever the slow-moving Congress does on its own Russian sanctions will probably have about as much effect as putting an angry message in a bottle and dropping it in the Black Sea.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

The Heritage Foundation sure likes to throw that word socialist around.

Anonymous said...

Roger , give Credit to Biden, sure thing.
S&P 500
4,471.07 -325.49 (-6.79%)year to date

rrb said...

Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...

The Heritage Foundation sure likes to throw that word socialist around.



That's because Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the rest of 'The Squad' likes to throw that word socialist around, pederast.




Anonymous said...

Roger cheers
Let's Go Brandon.

Nasdaq
14,139.76 - 1,693.04 (-10.69%)year to date

rrb said...


Got your Pfizer vaccine? Second shot? Boost? 4th shot?

Lucky you. This might be in your future...

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Anonymous said...

My wife and i have a combined total vaccine shots of exactly.

zero

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Deborah Birx Has a Book Deal
February 15, 2022 at 5:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments

Coming this spring: Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of The Trump Administration, COVID-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too Late by Dr. Deborah Birx.

Birx to the Associated Press:
“In the book, I expose the true cost of mistakes that were made at all levels of the federal government, but I also clarify the things that went right yet remained largely unseen — the insights and innovations that saved American lives in this pandemic and are essential to preparing for the next.”

I EXPECT SHE WILL DEAL QUITE HONESTLY WITH HOW TRUMP BEHAVED IN ALL THAT TIME.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

My wife and I have Moderna one and two and booster.

No ill effects. My wife had some discomfort after her Moderna booster but by the night it was gone.

C.H. Truth said...

You should be ashamed of yourself in regards to Trump.

I don't give a shit about the man!

Of the two of us... you talk way more about Trump than I do. So I think you should be ashamed of your close personal (he lived in your head) relationship with the bad orange man!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

OH BOY!
Select Committee Subpoenas Arizona GOP Chair

February 15, 2022 at 5:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot issued subpoenas Tuesday to Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and five others over their alleged efforts to interfere with the certification of the 2020 election results,
CNBC reports.

Associated Press:
“The individuals subpoenaed include Michael Roman and Gary Michael Brown, who served as directors for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. The committee believes the two men reportedly promoted allegations of election fraud as well as encouraged state legislators to appoint false slates of electors.”



Eric Trump Promises Showdown with Letitia James

February 15, 2022 at 4:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 91 Comments

Eric Trump promised to highlight the “blatantly unethical” motivations of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), saying family lawyers will offer a New York judge 81 pages of evidence on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Insider notes that James is asking the judge to compel the Trump family “to comply with civil subpoenas for their testimony and documents, including the contents of two dozen file cabinets in the organization’s Trump Tower headquarters, presumed to hold the former president’s personal business files.”
________

Want to see "blatantly unethical"?

Look in the mirror.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

CH, YOU HAVE NEVER HAD THE GUTS TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP AS MUCH AS ANY DECENT AMERICAN SHOULD -- CONDEMNING,
CONDEMNING,
CONDEMNING
HIM.

REPEATEDLY.

Anonymous said...

James, see we agree.

"Honest, decent, truth telling ReverendFebruary 15, 2022 at 4:14 PM

My wife and I have Moderna one and two and booster.

No ill effects. My wife had some discomfort after her Moderna booster but by the night it was gone."

Good for you.

And me and mine got exactly Zero.

Freedom to choose .

Caliphate4vr said...

For the best economy since Reagan, for the best black unemployment numbers in history, for Hispanics unemployment plummeting, for 3 SCOTUS judges that will be there when you’re worn food

I really don’t see why he should be condemned Pederast, except for the fact he was Bad Orange Man

And I didn’t vote for him but he’s far better than dementia Joe

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Most of the Republicans have been saying that Biden is actually giving in, just negotiated agreements, but not really stopping him.

Hypocrisy award

Trump doesn’t have Putin’s record of jailing political opponents, eliminating dissidents and journalists, or invading countries. But he has often emulated foreign autocrats—for example, by calling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, denouncing the press as “the enemy of the people

Anonymous said...

Nothing Happened Roger.

You and James don't get your war.

Anonymous said...

You are right , he did.
"
Turnscalling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, denouncing the press as “the enemy of the people"
Turns out Trump was right on both.

Throw in the 13 intelligence community that failed to defend and protect Trump from having the white house servers hacked by Obama/Hillary.

Anonymous said...

cnn. Almost nonexistent

rrb said...

Trump doesn’t have Putin’s record of jailing political opponents, eliminating dissidents and journalists, or invading countries. But he has often emulated foreign autocrats—for example, by calling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, denouncing the press as “the enemy of the people


Oh my.

Hyperbole, rhetoric, and bluster. With mean tweets sprinkled on top. The man hurt exactly NO ONE.

And THAT'S why you incessantly called him HITLER, alky.

Which is why you're locked safely away in a looney bin, right where you belong.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Tucker Carlson proved my point.

Tucker Carlson has repeatedly questioned US support for Ukraine in the Russia military crisis.

On Monday he claimed Ukraine's democratically-elected president was a dictator.

He also suggested without evidence that Biden was cowing to Ukrainian lobbying pressure.

The Fox News host Tucker Carlson called Ukraine's democratically-elected president Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator, and again questioned why the US isn't on Russia's side.


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Trump doesn’t have Putin’s record of jailing political opponents, eliminating dissidents and journalists, or invading countries. But he has often emulated foreign autocrats—for example, by calling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, denouncing the press as “the enemy of the people."


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

On his Monday show, Carlson claimed Democrats in the US were wrongly framing the Russia-Ukraine military crisis as good-versus-evil story because, he claimed, Ukraine was not a democracy.

Carlson has previously sought to directly compare Russia to Ukraine despite their different political systems — Russia is an authoritarian regime while Ukraine is considered a democracy.

"It's run by a dictator who's friends with everyone in Washington," Carlson said of Ukraine, before attacking GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for defending Kyiv. (Kinzinger and Cheney are not the only Republicans who have expressed support for Ukraine, but many conservatives have singled out the duo for taking part in the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.)

As an example, Carlson said Ukraine's opposition leader "is now under arrest" and "the opposition media, the TV stations, have been shut down by the government."

Carlson was referring to Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Ukraine's Opposition Platform for Life party, whom Ukrainian prosecutors charged with treason in May. Ukraine also banned three of Medvedchuk's pro-Russia TV channels two months earlier.

"That's how a dictatorship operates," Carlson said.

"It should make you very nervous that Joe Biden, [Director of the US Domestic Policy Council] Susan Rice, and the National Security Advisor kid, they're all telling us with a straight face … it's a democracy," he added, apparently referring to Jake Sullivan.

Ukraine is widely considered a transitioning democracy, including by the US.

Zelensky won the 2019 presidential election with more than 70% of the vote and a number of independent election observers, including the National Democratic Institute, assessed that the election was conducted fairly.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last month that Russia had "systematically sought to undermine and divide Ukraine's democracy."

Carlson, who has on several occasions said it makes sense for the US to side with Russia, went on to suggest without evidence the Biden administration was cowing to pressure from Ukrainian lobbyists.

"Why Ukraine?" Carlson said. "Because the president's son was paid $1 million a year by Ukraine and they have a massive lobbying effort in Washington."

Biden's son, Hunter, served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma between 2014 and 2019 and Joe Biden's opponents have claimed that Hunter offered access to his father in exchange for favors.

However, a September 2020 report by GOP senators concluded there was no wrongdoing on Joe Biden's part, but said Hunter Biden "cashed in" on his father's name abroad.

Russia amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine's borders in recent months, with the US repeatedly warning that Moscow could soon launch an invasion. Russia said on Tuesday it was withdrawing some of those troops, but did not say how many.

He loves Vladimir Putin.



The Detective said...


Biden doesn’t have Putin’s record of jailing political opponents, eliminating dissidents and journalists, or invading countries

Correction - I guess he does

C.H. Truth said...

CH, YOU HAVE NEVER HAD THE GUTS TO TALK ABOUT TRUMP AS MUCH AS ANY DECENT AMERICAN SHOULD -- CONDEMNING,
CONDEMNING,
CONDEMNING
HIM.


So I should become a bold printing obsessive crazy person like you and Roger?

Anonymous said...

Fox News host Mark Levin has been slammed over the last five years by the media for ostensibly promulgating a "conspiracy theory" that Donald Trump was being spied on ahead of the 2016 presidential election. A filing from Special Counsel John Durham might now vindicate him.

In 2017, headlines such as the Los Angeles Times’ "How the phony conspiracy theory over wiretapping caught fire," CNN’s "Birth of a conspiracy theory: How Trump's wiretap claim got started" and the Washington Post’s "Mark Levin inspired Trump’s wiretapping conspiracy theory. Now he is turning on the president" flooded the news cycle. Levin was blamed by the media for sparking the "conspiracy theory" that Trump was spied on, which was soon followed by Trump saying "McCarthyism" was playing out in real time.

Levin rips Texas Democrats fleeing state to block GOP election bill Bus of clowns
Levin rips Texas Democrats fleeing state to block GOP election bill Bus of clowns
"How many phone calls of Donald Trump, if any, have been intercepted by the administration and recorded by the Obama administration?" Levin said on his radio show March 2, 2017. "This, ladies and gentlemen, is the real scandal."




"And I even said at the time, whether it's eavesdropping of some other form or another, they're spying. Or they're spying on his campaign, or they're spying on the transition team, and that this has been going on for some period of time," Levin told Fox News Digital on Sunday in a phone interview.

Levin - as well as former President Trump and his allies - were slammed by the LA Times as "operating in what amounts to a hall of mirrors," where "facts are twisted, misdirected or ignored in the service of political propaganda" for arguing former President Barack Obama and his allies spied on Trump ahead of him facing off against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Anonymous said...

https://share.newsbreak.com/hnx1n85b

anonymous said...

Funny how the lions share of the money donated to the asshole truckers originated in GOP controlled regions.....sad these idiots supporting idiots burning wealth because they can!!!!!

Investigations
Which U.S. communities sent money to support the Canadian trucker protests?
By Aaron C. Davis, Andrew Ba Tran and Dalton Bennett
Yesterday at 8:06 p.m. EST

Residents in wealthy enclaves across the United States — from Beverly Hills, Calif., to suburbs of Austin, to Florida beach communities — sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shut down commerce at key border crossings between the two nations, according to a Washington Post analysis of leaked fundraising data posted online over the past 48 hours.

The richer an American community was, the more likely residents there were to donate, and the biggest number of contributions often came from communities where registered Republicans made up solid majorities, according to the review of more than 55,000 U.S.-based donations through the Christian fundraising website GiveSendGo. The site, which had suffered multiple security breaches over the past year, emerged as a fundraising magnet early this month after the better-known online fundraising platform, GoFundMe, stopped accepting donations for the convoy. GoFundMe pulled away after saying the occupation born out of opposition to vaccine requirements for truckers

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

“John Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers,”


He shredded your mind Scott