WATCH: Kids in a Las Vegas school react to the news that they don’t have to wear masks anymore🇺🇸🥲 pic.twitter.com/L3poa8tmby
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 11, 2022
WATCH: Kids in a Las Vegas school react to the news that they don’t have to wear masks anymore🇺🇸🥲 pic.twitter.com/L3poa8tmby
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 11, 2022
136 comments:
First things first.
The Coldheartedtruth has turned into an old fashioned race baiting pile of shit.
You ran this
There’s an old opposition research tactic campaigns use: Take a huge bill your opponent voted for, scour it for the most controversial provision, and accuse the opponent of advocating something shocking. “Look what this scoundrel is spending taxpayer money on!” you can then say.
It’s usually baloney. But when Republicans do it, they almost always seem to gravitate in one direction: race-baiting.
They’ll get terribly angry if you suggest such a thing; nothing gets conservatives more worked up than their conviction that they’re constantly targeted by unfair accusations of racism. But their behavior speaks for itself.
This time it’s “crack pipes.”
Briefly, the facts are these: The Department of Health and Human Services has a $30 million grant program (or one-half of one-thousandth of 1 percent of the federal budget) for local harm-reduction projects, which bring drug addicts in for services rather than just locking them in jail. Those often involve things such as clean needles and supervised locations where addicts can use without overdosing.
The conservative Washington Free Beacon published an article Monday falsely claiming that HHS confirmed that its funds “will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and ‘any illicit substance.’”
As The Post’s Fact Checker documents, that’s not what HHS said. (The Free Beacon argues that it confirmed the substance of government-provided kits.) But it didn’t matter. The Free Beacon headline blared “Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity,’” and the “Biden is giving out crack pipes!” meme was born. Paul Waldman.
Second,
It looks like Sleepy Joe Biden has succeeded in the recovery from the worst medical crisis in history.
Despite the fact that the Democratic party's President has succeeded in recovering from a massive economic crisis, and watching happy kids cheer, his approval rating is a record low.
You may have made him look great!
This story was fake news by the teachers union.
Watching these staged videos come out of every school is so cringe. I agree kids shouldn’t be masked in schools but who actually believes this shit is real ��
I hope that President Biden will succeed today when.
President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday (today)as Western nations warned a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment. The last time the two leaders spoke was Dec. 30.
If we actually stop the Russians, President Biden should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
I found your source. Info wars
Footage filmed by a middle school student in Elgin, Illinois, captured the moment he was forcibly sequestered in a classroom reportedly for not wearing a face mask.
“It is the law by Governor Pritzker to let me out of this room,” the child tells a U-46 school official who’s standing outside blocking the door from opening.
“You can’t lock me in a room. You can’t lock me in here,” the embattled student says.
As the student struggles to force the door open, he begs, “Please let me out.”
The video comes as confusion over whether mask rules are still in effect abound, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on Wednesday saying he planned to lift restrictions statewide – however, not for school districts.
“Schools need a little more time for community infection rates to drop, for our youngest learners to become vaccine eligible and for more parents to get their kids vaccinated,” the governor said Wednesday.
The governor’s declaration, however, followed a ruling by a judge last Friday granting a temporary restraining order to block the state’s public health and education departments from imposing the mask and vaccine mandates.
On Thursday, school Superintendent Tony Sanders highlighted statements by him saying the district “is still requiring masks,” saying he had not been instructed by the state otherwise.
“There are no clear metrics from the state regarding when schools can reduce their mitigation strategies,” Sanders wrote.
On Twitter, the Libs of TikTok account shared another video from the same school of a different student being locked in a classroom reportedly also for a mask violation.
The U-46 school district did not respond to Infowars’ request for comment as of writing.
LMAO
Meanwhile, viral footage circulating on social media showed the moment Las Vegas schoolchildren celebrated after being told they no longer had to wear masks.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/please-let-me-out-begs-child-locked-in-classroom-for-not-wearing-mask/
https://www.infowars.com/posts/please-let-me-out-begs-child-locked-in-classroom-for-not-wearing-mask/
Wow now Lil Schitty pushes pictures of smiling kids......kinda like his child wife!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! What a sorry sack of excrement he has become!!!!!!
Roger AmickFebruary 11, 2022 at 9:45 PM
I have a great future with a very beautiful woman. If I visit my daughter Charlee and the family, I would like our families meet.
I have always thought I was superior than you. "
While we worry about silly things, important things are happening.
Biden and Putin Plan High Stakes Phone Call
February 12, 2022 at 8:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
“Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply and the U.S. announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital,” the AP reports.
“Before talking to Biden, Putin is to have a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the crisis.
“Russia has massed troops near the Ukraine border and has sent troops to exercises in neighboring Belarus, but insistently denies that it intends to launch an offensive against Ukraine."
Key takeaway:
“The U.S. picked up intelligence that Russia is looking at Wednesday as a target date.”
A law in Florida would ban the word gay in schools, vigilante tactics allow people to sue teachers who violate the law
The TikTok Buildup
February 12, 2022 at 9:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Washington Post: “Russian President Vladimir Putin and top Russian officials for months have been denying that Moscow is preparing to mount an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. But videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms tell another story.”
“In areas of Russia and Belarus near the Ukrainian border, onlookers have uploaded hundreds of videos showing sophisticated Russian weaponry and military vehicles speeding by on railways, highways and local roads toward positions near Ukraine.”
Tell us how you really feel.
Overnight the Canadian truck drivers have not moved on...but Canadian police moved in Saturday morning to clear protesters at a vital bridge in Windsor Ontario connecting Canada and the United States,” the New York Times reports.
“As the authorities began what appeared to be an operation to clear the crossing, on the other side of the Atlantic, in Paris, the police fired tear gas at demonstrators blocking traffic on the Champs-Élysées at a copycat protest.
The Russians use TikTok to sew doubt about the United States, and Ch is a fucking tool.
By any force nessary every soul of Freedom must be crushed.
Alky is an ALL IN SOCIALIST.
New York Times
15 mins ago.
"Hours after a court ordered demonstrators to stop blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, protesters were still there late Friday night, but in lesser numbers. Police officers were standing by but had made no move to clear the area of demonstrators"
PM Truddy come out n play.
New York Times
"The scene resembled a party, with fireworks, music and a chorus of “freedom” shouts in response to honks."
Let Freedom Ring.
Truckers blocking access to America are hurting Canadian producers of automobiles and parts even more than they are hurting American producers.
Party w/🇨🇦 Truckers.
🇺🇸
"Real Time" host Bill Maher kicked off his panel discussion Friday night on the ongoing Canadian Freedom Convoy protest that has garnered international attention.
"What's happening this week, it looks like, is people are understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate," Maher said. "It's becoming a big thing. It's happening all over the world now. They're thinking it might happen here in Washington on Super Bowl Sunday."
‘Freedom Convoy’ Enters Paris
By Taegan Goddard
“Police fired tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris on Saturday shortly after a ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesting against Covid-19 restrictions made it into the French capital,” France 24 reports.
BBC: “Authorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators.”
Trump Wants to Rescind Pardon for Scooter Libby
By Taegan Goddard
Donald Trump has been complaining loudly to people that Scooter Libby, who he pardoned, is attended a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the New York Times reports.
He has indicated he sees it as somehow disloyal.
The Washington Post reports Trump has asked if he can rescind the pardon.
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR. SIR, YOU ARE NO LONGER PRESIDENT.
LOSER!
Some Democrats Push Biden to Embrace Normalcy
BT Taegan Goddard
“Some Democrats are pushing President Biden to use his planned State of the Union speech to endorse a return to a sense of normalcy as Covid-19 cases fall, pressuring the White House as many of the party’s governors are rolling back restrictions in their states,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The elected officials are zeroing in on the March 1 speech as a pivotal opportunity for Mr. Biden to embrace dropping of mask mandates and other rules, as cases decline from the recent Omicron surge but hospitalizations remain high in parts of the country.”
“They are hoping the prime-time address can lift public morale and boost the party heading into midterm elections, where Democrats are considered to face an uphill fight keeping control of Congress.”
Politico: Senate Democrats left behind as party inches away from mask mandates.
Russia Pulls Diplomats from Ukraine
By Taegan Goddard
The Wall Street Journal reports Russia has also began withdrawing its diplomatic presence in Ukraine.
Police Move In on Truckers Blocking Ontario Bridge
“Canadian police moved in Saturday morning to clear protesters at a vital bridge in Windsor Ontario connecting Canada and the United States,” the New York Times reports.
Axios:
“It’s the strongest escalation by authorities after truckers, farmers and other protesters have blocked roads and portions of the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing for days, cutting off key delivery routes and leading factories to shut down.”
U.S. Warns Russia of ‘Massive’ Response
February 12, 2022 at 9:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he warned Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov of “a resolute, massive and united Transatlantic response” to any Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Roger and James Support crushing freedom of We The People world wide.
You two are not like Me.
For that I am grateful.
James post is about tax collection, not Freedom of the People.
Putin says Russians are not going to invade even as they pull their embassy personnel from Ukraine.
I guess a president Trump would be saying, "I believe him."
Oh it’s a beautiful Saturday, I see Roger is completely insane and the pedo is spamming.
I think I’ll spend the day outside mid-high 60s
Enjoy Cali.
Only 16°F here .
Sunny on the Farm.
Life is amazing.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Party w/🇨🇦 Truckers.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! More assholes than sane people can count!!!!!!!!! Screw them as they are affecting the US economy....which the goat fucker is rooting against!!!!!!!!!
Only 16°F here .
Sunny on the Farm.
Wow...I guess GW does not affect you.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Supposed to be record heat in Ca for the Super bowl....sad they don't burn wood there anymore.....LOOLOLOLOLO!!!!!
Supreme Court count is down to three...
Two of the three judges now on Biden’s short list were evaluated last year by White House aides, although that early vetting did not include deep dives into their opinions or backgrounds, formal interviews or FBI background checks.
They are Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, a recent appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she has served since June 2021, and Leondra Kruger, 45, a California Supreme Court judge since 2015 who would be the first person in more than 40 years to move from a state court to the Supreme Court if she were to be confirmed.
Jackson is seen as the top candidate. And she, too, has a proven record of bipartisan support: She was confirmed to the appeals court on a 53-44 vote. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted for her.
But J. Michelle Childs has rapidly become a serious third candidate after House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D.-S.C., publicly announced his support for her, as did the state’s Republican senators, Graham and Tim Scott. Graham has made clear Childs is his preferred choice.
I suspect Jackson will be sworn in.
More maybe good news
Two minutes ago
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday continued to play down American warnings of an imminent Russian invasion, urging calm and saying he had not seen intelligence showing that Moscow was poised to attack.
He told reporters that there was “too much information in the information space” about a possible full-scale war with Russia, and ridiculed news media reports that Russia could be planning to invade on Wednesday.
Brooks and Capehart on the Ukraine crisis
Feb 11, 2022 6:30 PM EST
Judy Woodruff:
And now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan Capehart, columnist for The Washington Post.
Very good to see both of you on this Friday evening, although some of the news today is fairly grim.
David, I'm going to start with you.
Our colleague Nick Schifrin reporting tonight that U.S. officials are saying a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come at any time. And you were telling us that you have been talking to administration officials today yourself.
David Brooks:
Yes, I don't know if I'm talking to the same people Nick is, but I'm taking to people.
And in the course of my career, I have been in hundreds, thousands of briefings of this sort. I'm not sure I have ever been in one as sobering as the one I was in today.
Over the last couple of weeks, there's been an accumulation of concern in the U.S. government. Over the last several days, couple days, that has accelerated. And they won't — they can't tell us what exactly they have learned over the last several days, but it's been something that has caused them alarm.
And so there's now a possibility, and I'm told even a relatively high probability, that we will see some sort of incursion into Ukraine. And that would be the most significant military action on the European continent since 1945. It would test the NATO alliance, and it would test the liberal order that existed in 1945.
I'd always assumed that what Putin's objective here was just to push NATO back a little, make sure that NATO promises never to include Ukraine as one of its members, never puts U.S. troops or Western troops on Ukrainian soil.
But it's quite possible that Putin's objectives are much more ambitious, to really disrupt NATO, to take back Ukraine, which a lot of Russians think has always been part of Russian was stolen from Russia, to create a buffer between — in case there's an incursion from the West.
And so it's scary. That's all I can say.
Judy Woodruff:
Jonathan, what do you make of what's going on, what we're learning, what we're hearing?
Jonathan Capehart:
Well, I have to say that David's — what David just said, and also his demeanor, has taken me from cautious to now also feeling very, very, very concerned about what's going to happen.
I was at an embassy dinner on Sunday where Ukraine was part of the table conversation, and lots of experts around the table, all of them wondering the same thing or saying the same thing. They didn't know what Vladimir Putin wanted to do.
Usually, in these situations, the writing is pretty clear about the objectives of someone. There was one person at the table who said that, no matter what Russian President Vladimir Putin does, he wins.
But listening to David, but also listening to the national security adviser today, Jake Sullivan, who is a very sober person, to see him, to listen to him from the White House Press Briefing Room delivers such stark news to the American people about the intentions, what they're seeing in terms of the intelligence about what Russia is about to do, but also the warning to Americans on the ground in Ukraine to leave within the next 24 to 48 hours, says to me — and I wasn't in that briefing that David was in.
But to hear that coming from the White House today should concern many Americans about what is about to happen on the European continent.
Judy Woodruff:
Well, David, what's interesting is, I hear some people asking me whether the position the West has taken, the United States has taken, in effect, drawing a line here, is truly in the best interest of the United States.
They point out, well, after all Ukraine is right next to Russia, that it used to be part of the Soviet Union. They're still trying to understand why this is a fight the United States should be making.
David Brooks:
Yes.
Well, I think there's a consensus we're not going to send troops there, we're not going to have a direct U.S.-vs.-Russia war over this. The question is, how can we rally the West to make Russia pay some serious penalties for this?
I'd say the stakes are this. In 19 — from 1915 to 1945, we had a culture and a regime in Europe which was the law of the jungle, the strong nations get to conquer the little ones. In 1945, after 150 million deaths and two World Wars, we set up a rules-based order, where strong nations do not get to take over little ones, that we have some sort of global international order, with NATO and the U.N. and all sorts of organizations making it a much more peaceful place.
And we have enjoyed a peaceful, peaceful land. And, if Russia is allowed to take Ukraine, that would destroy, that would shred that international order.
In 1991, in August, I was in Ukraine covering the Ukraine independence movement. I can tell you, the Ukrainians then, and I think the Ukrainians now, feel that they are a separate nation. They are not Russia. They are Ukraine. And they voted that way in 1991. They have been governing themselves that way.
They will probably be fighting — if this happens, they will be fighting to preserve their sovereignty and independence. And so our interest is not to go to war with Russia, but our interest is to preserve a world where rules are followed and it's not the law of the jungle.
Judy Woodruff:
And, Jonathan, is it your sense that most Americans understand that, that that's what this is all about?
Jonathan Capehart:
I'm not sure, because, as we all know, the American populace, writ large, doesn't pay that much attention to what's happening outside of our — outside of our borders, outside of our national concerns.
But they should be because of what David just talked about. That liberal, small-D, democratic order that grew out of World War II, the United Nations, NATO, and so on and so forth, was created by the United States and maintained by the United States and the West.
And up until the presidency of Donald Trump, that alliance was inviolate, was solid. But, sometimes, part of me wonders whether Vladimir Putin felt it was perfectly fine to surround Ukraine on three sides, north, east and south, with thousands of troops because he thought that the NATO alliance would not and the Western alliance would not stand up to him.
And if anything we have seen over the last few months is that it appears that the NATO alliance, the Western alliance is pretty solid against what Vladimir Putin appears to be planning for Ukraine.
Judy Woodruff (later in the broadcast:):
Well, speaking of politics, another question I want to raise with both of you, and that is the move by the Republican National Committee last weekend, David, to censure two of its own, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, Congressman Adam Kinzinger, because of their role on the January 6 investigative committee, and then their statement that what happened, the assault on the Capitol January 6, was just normal political discourse.
We saw serious pushback from people like Mitch McConnell, other prominent Republicans. What's going on in the Republican Party?
David Brooks:
Yes, I like to think what Jonathan and I do is normal political discourse, but I may be living in another century.
(LAUGHTER)
What struck me most about that is institutional decay.
The RNC is supposed to be the institutional basis of the Republican Party. And so, if you're an institutional builder for a party, you want to unify your party. You want to keep it together. You want to be the center of gravity. And, instead, the RNC picked a completely unnecessary fight in order to divide the party, its own party.
And so that shows me the Republican Party has a lot of people who are not really about the party or not institutional. They want the fight.
And this comes at a time, it should be said, when it used to be most Republicans would say, I'm primarily loyal to Donald Trump, not to the party. Now most are primarily loyal to the party, and not Donald Trump. So there's some weakening there.
But the RNC is not part of that, let's distance ourselves from Donald Trump.
Judy Woodruff:
What does it look like to you, Jonathan?
Jonathan Capehart:
Wow is all I can say.
To hear that the RNC is saying that the insurrectionists were engaged in legitimate political discourse told me that the RNC had lost its mind, and that the fact that you had the Senate majority — Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans stepping forward and saying, no, no, no, no, no, this does not speak for me, this is not who we are as a party, goes against what we have seen in the past, which is they just used to just sort of walk — pretend like it didn't happen. I don't see anything that's happening over there in the Trump wing of the Republican Party.
But the fact that they came out publicly and slammed it is terrific.
But there's another thing that I want to bring up quickly, and that is that — about the stranglehold of Trump on Republicans. Fund-raising numbers were released, and the seven Republicans who voted for Donald Trump's second impeachment, who he has gone after to try to get them out of Congress with his own candidates, they raised — they outraised their Trump backed or their primary — their primary challengers.
Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is the number one target for Donald Trump, she raised $2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. She's got $4 million — $4.7 million in the bank. The person she's running against, Harriet Hageman — I'm pronouncing her name wrong — Harriet Hageman, she raised $443,000 and has $380,000 in the bank.
If money is speech, it looks like the establishment wing of the Republican Party is being heard loud and clear.
Judy Woodruff:
Well, we're going to go off and count our money right now.
(LAUGHTER)
Thank you both this Friday night, Jonathan Capehart, David Brooks.
We appreciate it.
Texas Ban on Urging Mail Ballots Unconstitutional
February 12, 2022 at 10:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
“A new Texas law that keeps local election officials from encouraging voters to request mail-in ballots likely violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled late Friday,” the Texas Tribune reports.
DON'T SUPPRESS THE VOTE.
LET FREEDOM RING~!!!
You’d think I would be accustomed to deciphering the incomprehensible after the last five years in D.C.
Donald Trump’s upside-down utterances. Kevin McCarthy’s demented backtracking. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s inanity, accusing Nancy Pelosi of siccing her “gazpacho police” on lawmakers.
This era of gobbledygook has also featured the Republican National Committee issuing a resolution that the barbaric attack on the Capitol was “legitimate political discourse.” This was so outrageous that Mitt Romney had to brush back the chair of the R.N.C., his niece Ronna Romney McDaniel. Aside from Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, most everything the Republicans do is cowardly; they are so afraid of the Trumpsters supporting the vandals that they tried to legitimize illegitimate discourse by calling it legitimate discourse. Shameful.
And there’s the government’s indecipherable instructions on Covid — crystallized in the ill-advised picture of Stacey Abrams trying to have it both ways, sitting and smiling, without a mask, in front of masked schoolchildren.
The only thing that can save President Biden and the Democrats now is Republicans showing how fringy and far out they’ve gotten. You know when Mitch McConnell is the guy calling out his own party that many top Republicans are freaking out. McConnell needs to get candidates to win in states Biden won, like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. That will be hard, given that we’re watching a party go nuts in real time. Their quarrons dainty are not.
The latest Trump embarrassment came when Axios reported that The Times’s Maggie Haberman writes in her new book, “Confidence Man,” that White House residence staff members believed Trump had wadded up papers found in a toilet. So the former president has a bathroom fixation. (H.G. Wells said Joyce, who could be graphic about bodily functions, had “a cloacal obsession.”)
Nixon had the plumbers. Trump’s the one who needed them.
Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s self-portrait, captures our incomprehensible politics in a remark that burns brighter than ever: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
D.C. and Joyce — Both Incomprehensible https://nyti.ms/3rGB9FA
I got an email from Trump campaign
I replied with Seig Heil Mr Trump
The blockade at the U.S.-Canada border is beginning to dissolve peacefully on Saturday after police moved in to remove the vaccine mandate protestors, AP reports.
Why it matters: The police intervention was the strongest escalation by authorities after truckers, farmers and other protesters have blocked roads and portions of the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing for days, cutting off key delivery routes and leading factories to shut down.
The latest: Many demonstrators retreated from the Ambassador Bridge after police arrived on the scene Saturday morning, per AP.
"WPS along with policing partners continue to engage with demonstrators for the purpose of enforcement," Windsor Police wrote in a tweet."No arrests at this time. We appreciate the cooperation of the demonstrators at this time and we will continue to focus on resolving the demonstration peacefully. Avoid area!"
Catch up quick: Windsor Police began enforcing demonstrations at and near the Ambassador Bridge on Saturday morning.
"We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully & peacefully. Commuters are still being asked to avoid the areas affected by the demonstrations at this time," Windsor Police wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
State of play: Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency on Friday in response to the protests.
Ford also said that he will convene the executive council of Ontario "to urgently enact orders that will make crystal clear it is illegal and punishable to block and impede the movement of goods, people and services along critical infrastructure."
Go deeper:
Canadian judge grants order allowing removal of protesters blocking border bridgeVaccine mandate protesters block main border crossing in Manitoba
Editor's note: This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
It looks like Sleepy Joe Biden has succeeded in the recovery from the worst medical crisis in history.
Two thousand people died yesterday from Covid, idiot!
Slow Joe believed there are people dumb enough to fall for it if he just declared it over. You are proof that he was right.
Oddly, while the Administration is calling the pandemic over, they are still fighting in courts for a variety of unconstitutional mandates to be enforced.
President Biden spoke with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Saturday in a bid to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, and the State Department ordered all but a “core team” of its diplomats and employees to leave the American Embassy in Kyiv over fears that Moscow would soon mount a major assault.
Reflecting the urgent concern in Washington over Russia’s growing military buildup surrounding its smaller neighbor, the Pentagon said it would temporarily pull 160 American military trainers out of the country, where they had been working with Ukrainian troops near the Polish border.
Even as Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin spoke by telephone — and after calls earlier Saturday between the top U.S. and Russian diplomats and between the countries’ defense secretaries — the path to a diplomatic resolution to a standoff appeared to be narrowing, with growing numbers of Russian and Russian-backed forces massing around Ukraine on three sides.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I got an email from Trump campaign
I replied with Seig Heil Mr Trump
Wow.
That was stunning and brave alky.
Thoughts and prayers and all that.
If you want to really show him who's boss you need to mock him by printing off that email and flushing it down the toilet.
That'll show him.
Two thousand people died yesterday from Covid, idiot!
Slow Joe believed there are people dumb enough to fall for it if he just declared it over. You are proof that he was right.
Oddly, while the Administration is calling the pandemic over, they are still fighting in courts for a variety of unconstitutional mandates to be enforced.
Don't you just love the pivot from the sciencey science to the political science?
There’s an old opposition research tactic campaigns use: Take a huge bill your opponent voted for, scour it for the most controversial provision, and accuse the opponent of advocating something shocking. “Look what this scoundrel is spending taxpayer money on!” you can then say.
You want to spend billions trying to make homeless drug addicts more comfortable being homeless drug addicts, rather than trying to help them become something other than homeless drug addicts... then you get the criticism you deserve.
If part of that bill includes providing clean needles and clean smoking kits so that these drug addicts can more safely continue their habits, well then that is worthy of scrutiny and criticism.
The fact that you do not believe that this deserves any scrutiny or criticism or that you don't believe that that money might be better spent on trying to find these people jobs and housing is the political disagreement here.
If you stand by a bill that makes these people more reliant on the Government for their comfort and existence, rather than trying to get them out of that situation...
then own it, Roger.
Don't play games and try to pretend that this thinking is above criticism. Either tell us why handing out needles and smoking kits to drug addicts is a good idea or shut the fuck up!
You became a cultist Scott and I find it amusing when you actually said
Trump believed there are people dumb enough to fall for what he ever said. Months after it happened, he said that it will just be disappear
kes these people more reliant on the Government for their comfort and existence, rather than trying to get them out of that situation.
Funny that you used to have a working brain....Now you just post inane opinions that support the bigotry of the GOP which you choose over country,,,,,,I heard that same argument on a right wing talking head so I doubt you were clever enough to come up with the same crap!!!! And don't think your holy opinion is worthy of anything but scorn.....sorry sport.....but you conservatives lost your way with trumps record deficits and giving breaks to the uber wealthy of which you are not!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
You were an addict Roger.
Please explain how someone giving you access to a bottle of your choice and then offering you a clean glass to drink it in would have helped your addiction?
Since you support a bill that basically does just that?
Tell us why making it easier and safer on addicts to continue their addiction is a good thing?
I'll wait.
Shut the f up, says Ch, descending to the gutter talk he so often allows here.
That and his handling for this blog is one reason so much political discourse in our land is disgusting.
Roger hit a nerve.
'It's going to disappear':
A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish
By Daniel Wolfe and Daniel Dale, CNN
Last updated October 31, 2020
In his first speech after his hospitalization for Covid-19, President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony on October 10 and made a grand declaration about the coronavirus: “It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing.”
His words might have sounded more dramatic had he not been saying the same thing for eight months.
Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing.
His proclamations have been wildly inaccurate. When Trump first started making the claim in February, it was about the time the US had just suffered its very first known Covid-19 death. More than 220,000 deaths later, Trump continues to falsely claim that the virus will somehow just go away — even as the US experiences yet another surge in cases and hospitalizations.
February
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February, 10 2020
US cases begin to rise
April 5, 2020
29,346 average daily new cases
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
President Trump
February 10, 2020
China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control. So I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away.
President Trump
February 25, 2020
…when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.
President Trump
February 26, 2020
It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.
President Trump
February 27, 2020
I don’t think people are panicking. I said last night — we did an interview on Fox last night, a town hall. I think it was very good. And I said, ‘Calm. You have to be calm.’ It’ll go away.
President Trump
March 6, 2020
We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.
Nyuk asked me why
Because
Roger hit a nerve.
Don't play games and try to pretend that this thinking is above criticism. Either tell us why handing out needles and smoking kits to drug addicts is a good idea or shut the fuck up!
If he's honest, which he's not, he'd say that what's "good" about the idea is the establishment of the agencies and programs that provide cushy 'make work' 6 figure jobs for all the Executive Directors and Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors and Co-Directors required to 'administer' the programs.
Leftists never ever want to actually 'solve' a particular problem. What they prefer is enriching themselves by the exacerbation and perpetuation of the problem through their endless efforts to 'solve' said problem.
It's never about achieving a measurable result but rather it's about their 'effort' and about their intentions and feeling, and how they care SO much and try SO hard to 'help' these poor people.
Truth be told, the only 'help' these leftists provide is help filling out a voter registration and help casting a ballot for the 'D's' across the board in every election.
Putin and Sleepy Joe Biden spoke about one and a half hours
Roger, every time you write "Seig Heil," it bothers me -- because I know and read German.
I've called it to your attention several times.
GET IT RIGHT!
Sieg Heil!
What they prefer is enriching themselves by the exacerbation and perpetuation of the problem through their endless efforts to 'solve' said problem.
Unlike you R's who lie cheat and steal to get their ultimate goal of money and power.....Unfortunately you are not bright enough to understand that is the path to authoritarian rules which for some unknown reason you and the slurpers all want.....WTF is wrong with you?????
GET IT RIGHT!
Sieg Heil!
LOL. Nothing upsets a true NAZI like fucking up the spelling of their favorite chant.
Reverend...
It's not lost on us that you support Roger's inability to actually stand by his support of the bill.
After all, you have not responded to a single question or accepted any challenge in recent history.
But I leave the question open for both of you?
That is... if you want actual political discussion rather than the nonsense that you generally see on political message boards and such.
If you want real back and forth, perhaps you can engage where Roger fails?
Why do you believe it is a good idea to spend billions doing things like providing addicts with clean needles and clean smoking kits, rather than spending that money on some sort of treatment?
I will wait...
Likely for forever!
Does anyone else find it ironic that the same people who are wanting to investigate and dig into a question about alleged clogged toilets in the White House residence from the last Administration...
Feel it's totally unacceptable for anyone to actually look at what is being spent in a current bill that is being considered for law by our current legislators?
I have put the same challenge to James to stop pasting the commentary of others like a simpleton and actually put forth his own argument for a change. There was no response.
Yes, they're the same elitest bunch who don't want to wear masks but demand tge rest of us wear them.
Hey Roger...
How would you feel about a whole Sunday funny threat about crack pipes? Crack pipes, more crack pipes, nothing but crack pipes! Plenty of funny stuff about Biden and crack pipes (isn't it ironic that his son smokes crack!).
Sound like fun?
Five minutes ago
By Steve Hendrix
,
Amy Cheng
and
Missy Ryan
Yesterday at 1:26 a.m. EST|Updated today at 12:46 p.m. EST
KYIV, Ukraine — President Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an hour on Saturday as most personnel began evacuating from the U.S. embassy in Kyiv amid intensifying warnings that Moscow could launch an immediate assault.
“We fervently hope and continue to work intensively to try to ensure that Ukraine does not become a war zone,” a senior State Department official said as a new travel advisory urged American citizens to depart Ukraine at once.
“However, it appears increasingly likely that this is where this situation is headed, towards some kind of active conflict,” the official told reporters.
Fearing imminent conflict, a growing number of nations have called on their citizens to depart, while Washington and London began pulling back small groups of military personnel that have been on training missions in Ukraine.
Sieg Heil Mr James thanks
Unfortunately you are not bright enough to understand that is the path to authoritarian rules which for some unknown reason you and the slurpers all want.....WTF is wrong with you?????
What's wrong with us, BWAA?
LOL. You ARE a fucking idiot.
It's MY team that's throwing off the yoke of authoritarianism and tyranny.
It's MY team who is in solidarity against those calling for mandates of ANY kind.
It's MY team behind the wheel of those trucks telling that fucking simp in Canada to go fuck himself, and the same to Slow Joe who continues to push for his unconstitutional mandates.
“However, it appears increasingly likely that this is where this situation is headed, towards some kind of active conflict,” the official told reporters.
Well, it looks like Vlad rolled Slow Joe AGAIN.
As expected.
Looks terrible news
U.S., Russia Pull Out Diplomatic Staff From UkrainePresident Biden, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held call to discuss crisis—last-ditch diplomatic effort to ward off military conflict
By
Yaroslav Trofimov in Lviv, Ukraine, and
Brett Forrest in Kalanchak, Ukraine
Updated Feb. 12, 2022 12:18 pm ET
The U.S. ordered most embassy staff to depart Ukraine after warning that a Russian military invasion could happen at any moment, while Moscow also began withdrawing its diplomatic presence.
Putin told Biden to STFU and go get an ice cream.
Steve Hendrix, Amy Cheng and Missy Ryan
February 12 at 10:01 AM PST
KYIV, Ukraine — President Biden in an hourlong call on Saturday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of “swift and severe costs” if Russia attacks Ukraine, the White House said. The conversation came as most personnel began evacuating from the U.S. embassy in Kyiv amid intensifying warnings that Moscow could launch an immediate assault.
“President Biden was clear that, if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia,” the White House said in a statement. “President Biden reiterated that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine would produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing.”
Fearing imminent conflict, a growing number of nations have called on their citizens to depart, while Washington and London began pulling back small groups of military personnel that have been on training missions in Ukraine.
Russia has pushed back fiercely against the warnings by the Biden administration that Moscow is on the verge of attack, accusing the West of hysteria and spreading disinformation even as Russian forces continue to hold major exercises near Kyiv’s borders.
However, Russia confirmed media reports Saturday that it was pulling its own diplomatic staff from Ukraine, citing “possible provocations by the Kyiv regime and third countries.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the move was in response to other governments’ deciding to draw down their diplomatic corps and urging their citizens to leave.
“We conclude that our American and British colleagues apparently know about some military actions being prepared in Ukraine,” she said, according to a statement by the ministry.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan cautioned Friday that there is a “very distinct possibility” that Russia will invade Ukraine in a “reasonably swift time frame” and urged all U.S. citizens there to leave immediately. Sullivan could not confirm that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision to attack, but he said that military action could begin “any day.” Sullivan added that a Russian attack would be “likely to begin” with aerial bombing and missile strikes, and “no one would be able to count on air or rail or road departures.”
Diplomats raced to steer the situation back from the brink Saturday but with little sign of progress. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Putin for more than 90 minutes Saturday, according to his office.
Putin also spoke by phone Saturday with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, his closest military ally, as the two countries staged massive military exercises that analysts warn could be used to launch an attack on Ukraine from the north, potentially part of a multipronged invasion.
The Kremlin said the two men spoke about “the situation around the reaction from the U.S. and NATO to the Russian proposals to work out long-term international-law security guarantees for Russia.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, warned Russia that invading Ukraine “would result in a resolute, massive, and united Transatlantic response,” according to the State Department.
They are 5 minutes ago
Anonymous Myballs said...
Putin told Biden to STFU and go get an ice cream.
And the alky is now going to plagiarize the dozens and dozens of news stories that all basically say the same thing.
The alky thinks this practice makes him look "smart."
Hey Roger...
You still haven't told us why you think it is smart to give addicts free stuff to help them continue their habit? As an addict yourself, I would have thought you would have an opinion?
Meanwhile the Reverend is MIA as well!
This is absolutely disgusting -
A school in DC forced kindergarteners to march around with BLM signs and chant “Black Lives Matter”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1489709114489925632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489709114489925632%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoonbattery.com%2F
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Hey Roger...
You still haven't told us why you think it is smart to give addicts free stuff to help them continue their habit? As an addict yourself, I would have thought you would have an opinion?
If the alky can't plagiarize it, he doesn't have an opinion.
True, Roger can't debate.
Too shallow .
Nice troll, fantastically wrong .
"record heat in Ca for the Super bowl....sad they don't burn wood there anymore...."
"What state uses the most firewood?
Firewood came to California from 46 other states, Canada, and Mexico. Top firewood origins by weight were Oregon (13 million lbs), California (2.9 million lbs), Canada (2.7 million lbs), and Utah (1.2 million lbs)"
Hell, California uses so much they import it.
Myballsinthewoodsagain
Said"
Putin told Biden to STFU and go get an ice cream.
"
The Ukraine President told Biden the same thing.
‘The midterm ads write themselves’: Biden says federal workforce will be getting 600,000 new electric vehicles
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/02/12/the-midterm-ads-write-themselves-biden-says-federal-workforce-will-be-getting-600000-new-electric-vehicles/
Thanks Joe. And please, please continue to make lame-brained decisions and announcements such as this. At least one per week from now until the mid-terms would be nice.
Thanks again.
It's part of a long term plan to reduce addiction
Included in the grant is money to purchase 'safe smoking kits/supplies.' A spokesperson for HHS originally told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or 'any illicit substance.'
But on Wednesday, HHS flagged to DailyMail.com a statement denying that the kits would include crack pipes. 'No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits. The goal of harm reduction is to save lives,' the statement read.
A spokesperson for HHS did not reply to a followup question asking for an explanation on the discrepancy between the comments to the Free Beacon and the follow-up statement.
However, White House press secretary Jen Psaki blamed 'inaccurate reporting.'
The crackpipes 'were never a part of the kit. It was inaccurate reporting and we wanted to put out information to make that clear,' she said.
HHS said that the kits will serve to limit the risk of infection - typically users smoke out of glass pipes which can lead to cuts and sores that become infected with diseases like Hepatitis-C.
Handing out pipes is also intended to prompt users to smoke rather than inject themselves with some substances, like meth, as injection is far riskier.
Applicants for the program get priority if they serve 'underserved communities,' such as African Americans or Native Americans, or LGBTQ people.
The crack-cocaine epidemic starting in the 1980s disproportionately ravaged the black community.
The bottom line is to gradually reduce addiction to meth or heroin.....
So Roger's argument...
Was to quote the White House spin on the situation?
Funny how Manchin and Rubio (two Senators who understand bills) say the opposite and actually want to create a law that makes funding for needles and drug paraphernalia illegal.
So even a Democrat Senator believes that the bill is providing funding for drug paraphernalia. A Senator who has read the bill and has no reason to spin it for his constituents.
Nice try Roger.
Seems like Rat was right.
You only have the ability to cut and paste, not think for yourself.
The crackpipes 'were never a part of the kit. It was inaccurate reporting and we wanted to put out information to make that clear,' she said.
HHS said that the kits will serve to limit the risk of infection - typically users smoke out of glass pipes which can lead to cuts and sores that become infected with diseases like Hepatitis-C.
Handing out pipes is also intended to prompt users to smoke rather than inject themselves with some substances, like meth, as injection is far riskier.
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Personally I got high to have fun not get addicted. The last time I used meth was in 1974. I had used it twice, and I knew if I keep using meth I would not be able to quit.
A guy I knew got into it and he actually tried to commit suicide but he missed his brain. He had surgery to fix his nose.
But unfortunately he relapsed and was killed in an accident in Wyoming. He left a wife and I think 2 kids.
So basically they are trying to reduce death by meth...
Blogger Roger Amick said...
It's part of a long term plan to reduce addiction
The bottom line is to gradually reduce addiction to meth or heroin.....
So... you reduce addiction by providing/subsidizing the tools needed to consume the meth and/or heroin that one is addicted to.
I see.
I guess the only issue I have with this line of thought is that it defies logic, reason and common sense.
Other than that, it appears to be 'sound' leftist judgment.
Roger, dropping $13,000 to see the super bowl.
Bold move, IF you actually did it.
The bottom line is to gradually reduce addiction to meth or heroin.....
Is that how AA works.
They counsel you to gradually reduce your addiction and the AA group provides new members with clean bottles and clean glasses to drink them from so that they don't get sick?
You know.. as they gradually reduce their addiction?
All addictions in moderation, huh?
Handing out pipes is also intended to prompt users to smoke rather than inject themselves with some substances, like meth, as injection is far riskier.
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Personally I got high to have fun not get addicted. The last time I used meth was in 1974. I had used it twice, and I knew if I keep using meth I would not be able to quit.
A guy I knew got into it and he actually tried to commit suicide but he missed his brain. He had surgery to fix his nose.
But unfortunately he relapsed and was killed in an accident in Wyoming. He left a wife and I think 2 kids.
So basically they are trying to reduce death by meth...
Not get people to vote for Democrats
Personally I got high to have fun not get addicted. The last time I used meth was in 1974. I had used it twice, and I knew if I keep using meth I would not be able to quit.
So you are confirming that you've been a complete idiot since at least 1974.
majority, 57 percent, selected the economy, identifying it as the top issue that will determine how they vote later this year"��
Bidenomics is on the Ballot.
I think that what the alky is saying is that he'd like us to all pitch in and send him a case of whiskey, and some clean shot glasses, in his ongoing battle against alcoholism.
I suppose Roger will now have to quit AA, because they believe in one day at a time, not a gradual reduction of your addiction.
I mean if the Biden administration and Democrats tell him that addictions are best handled by providing addicts with the means to continue "safely" then quite obviously they are the experts.
Roger can now denounce AA as a fascist right wing organization who doesn't believe in science!
Trump kept the U.S. out of war his entire term. Biden is about to take us into one. Everything he touches turns to shit.
So it's not about science, but control -
ALBANY — State health officials acknowledged they have no precise, numerical goals they are using to establish the metrics for determining whether to end a mandate requiring masks in New York schools.
That lack of measurable health data that would be used to determine a threshold for when the mandate will end has riled opponents of the continued mask rules that have prompted caustic showdowns at school board meetings. It's also created consternation among the leaders of school district who said it is creating unrest and anxiety because at present the mandate appears to exist in perpetuity.
Travis O’Donnell, a state Health Department official, told the state’s Public Health and Health Planning Council on Thursday that New York has not developed its target metrics for what may trigger the end of the mask mandate in schools.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/No-one-rule-State-says-it-has-no-numerical-16910841.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-spotlight
Personally, we should quit prosecution for most drugs... ... except heroin and meth, and???
Instead of arresting millions and spending hundreds of millions on prison, expanding the same path we are on... very carefully of course
If you didn't hate liberals like me...
Your libertarian views should agree with me on drug laws
You have no idea about addiction
Biden Issues Stern Warning to Putin
February 12, 2022 at 1:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 85 Comments
President Biden in an hourlong call on Saturday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of “swift and severe costs” if Russia attacks Ukraine, the Washington Post reports.
“Russia has pushed back fiercely against the warnings by the Biden administration that Moscow is on the verge of attack, accusing the West of hysteria and spreading disinformation even as Russian forces continue to hold major exercises near Kyiv’s borders.
“However, Russia confirmed media reports Saturday that it was pulling its own diplomatic staff from Ukraine.”
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Biden is not kowtowing to Putin the way Trump did.
As usual, Selena Zito nails it -
The word racist has become the elites' connective tissue — it is what holds them together — and it is tossed out every time they see something with which they disagree.
That is not only ridiculous on its face, but it also dilutes the full assault of true racism.
If almost everything is racist, then nothing is racist — because your zeal to score political points has made a mockery of the pain it invokes.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/the-covenant-between-the-main-street-consumer-and-big-corporations-is-collapsing
Your increasing number of insults are irrational feelings about AA etc is why I keep fucking with you Scott.
Myballs said...
Trump kept the U.S. out of war his entire term. Biden is about to take us into one. Everything he touches turns to shit.
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I repeated this just for the stupidity of it.
Biden is not kowtowing to Putin the way Trump did.
Really.
Do you read your own plagiarisms?
“Russia has pushed back fiercely against the warnings by the Biden administration that Moscow is on the verge of attack...
Putin doesn't give a fuck WHAT Ron Klain told Biden to say. He's going to do as he wishes and Slow Joe is powerless to stop him.
Why Washington Has Lost Its Mind Over Ukraine
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-washington-has-lost-its-mind-over-ukraine-200513?page=0%2C1
We would be wise to actually help Americans leave Ukraine, all of them, and let Putin do as he wishes since we have NO national interest, no NATO interest, no legitimate interest at all on a any level.
But Slow Joe, being the imbecile that he is as he fancies himself the second coming of FDR, will fuck this up six ways from Sunday because that is what Slow Joe does.
"Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky
I repeated this just for the stupidity of it.
Perhaps your like to point out the stupidity of it for those of us who can't see it pederast.
If you can't see it...
So you've got nothing to say but Sieg Heil, like a good little 'speaker of German.'
LOL.
Russia is FIERCELY denying that it is on the verge of attack.
Good. So if they do, all the world will know they lied and NATO will be even more united.
If they don't, if all the machinations they are going through are just to see how much they can gain by effectively threatening, they will ultimately look weak.
rrbFebruary 12, 2022 at 12:43 PM
Personally I got high to have fun not get addicted. The last time I used meth was in 1974. I had used it twice, and I knew if I keep using meth I would not be able to quit.
So you are confirming that you've been a complete idiot since at least 1974" Bingo.
The Roger moved on to his Alcohol addiction and nearly suicide.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, pederast.
Details, details, details...
LOL.
So niw James thinks he's smarter than obama. What a horse's ass.
I am and was aware that Ukraine is not part of NATO. But NATO and the U.S. are united in opposing a Russian invasion.
🇨🇦Trucks Winning.
Canadian parliament will vote tomorrow afternoon to End Mandates.
Was that really so hard to govern as the People want.
Durham: Perkins Coie Allies Connected to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Spied on Trump’s Internet Traffic While Trump Was President
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/durham-perkins-coie-allies-connected-hillary-clintons-2016-campaign-spied-trumps-internet-traffic-trump-president/
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I think if they attack, we will hit them hard, financially and possibly in other ways, such as cyber attacks.
And they will hit us hard, but with less than nuclear strikes. Both sides may experience cyber and financial attacks that may exceed anything yet experienced on either side.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
I am and was aware that Ukraine is not part of NATO. But NATO and the U.S. are united in opposing a Russian invasion.
NATO is not relevant to the conversation.
Certain members and certain idiots like you may think they are, but in accordance with the actual language of the NATO agreement, they are not.
There is no 'article 5' conversation to be had here, and to advance on Russia with that as the stated reason is a demonstrable LIE.
The problem is that Slow Joe is stupid enough and enough of a liar to do just that.
James complained about swearing, yet he curses all of the time.
America does not want , not support Joe's Wag the Dog war.
Putin has no fear of Biden. But he wasn't so sure about Trump. That's the problem. No one is afraid of our feeble old president.
Biden warns Putin of 'severe costs' of Ukraine invasion
Associated Press
JIM HEINTZ AND AAMER MADHANI
February 12, 2022, 1:31 PM
MOSCOW (AP) — In a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, President Joe Biden made clear that if Russia invades Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies would respond “decisively and impose swift and severe costs," the White House said.
According to a readout of the hourlong call, Biden told Putin that an invasion would “produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing.” The U.S. remains committed to diplomacy, but was “equally prepared for other scenarios,” according to the White House.
The two presidents spoke the day after Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, warned that U.S. intelligence shows that a Russian invasion could begin within days and before the Winter Olympics in Beijing end Feb. 20.
The Biden administration has been warning for weeks that Russia could invade Ukraine soon, but U.S. officials had previously said the Kremlin would likely wait until after the Games ended so as not to antagonize China.
Sullivan told reporters on Friday that U.S. intelligence gleaned show that Russia could take military action the during the Olympics.
Russia has more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders but denies that it intends to launch an offensive against Ukraine.
With the risk of war looming larger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes telephone call Saturday as a tense world watched and worried that an invasion of Ukraine could begin within days.
Before talking to Biden, Putin had a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. A Kremlin summary of the call suggested that little progress was made toward cooling down the tensions.
The closely watched call between Biden and Putin began shortly after 11 a.m. and lasted just over an hour, according to the White House. Biden conducted the call from Camp David. There were no immediate details about the discussion.
In a sign that American officials were getting ready for a worst-case scenario, the United States announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital, and Britain joined other European nations in urging its citizens to leave Ukraine.
Russia has massed well over 100,000 troops near the Ukraine border and has sent troops to exercises in neighboring Belarus, but denies that it intends to launch an offensive against Ukraine.
The timing of any possible Russian military action remained a key question.
The U.S. picked up intelligence that Russia is looking at Wednesday as a target date, according to a U.S. official familiar with the findings. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and did so only on condition of anonymity, would not say how definitive the intelligence was. The White House publicly underscored that the U.S. does not know with certainty whether Putin is committed to invasion.
However, U.S. officials said anew that Russia’s buildup of firepower near Ukraine has reached the point where it could invade on short notice.
A Kremlin statement about the Putin-Macron call referred to “provocative speculations about an allegedly planned Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine.” Russia has consistently denied that it plans military action against its neighbor.
Putin also complained in the call that the United States and NATO have not responded satisfactorily to Russian demands that Ukraine be prohibited from joining the military alliance and that NATO pull back forces from Eastern Europe.
Biden has said the U.S. military will not enter a war in Ukraine, but he has promised severe economic sanctions against Moscow, in concert with international allies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he told his Russian counterpart Saturday that “further Russian aggression would be met with a resolute, massive and united trans-Atlantic response.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to project calm as he observed military exercises Saturday near Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
"We are not afraid, we're without panic, all is under control,” he said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, also held telephone discussions on Saturday.
U.K. troops that have been training the Ukrainian army also planned to leave the country. Germany, the Netherlands and Italy called on their citizens to leave as soon as possible.
A State Department travel advisory on Saturday said most American staff at the Kyiv embassy have been ordered to leave and other U.S. citizens should depart the country as well.
Further U.S.-Russia tensions arose on Saturday when the Defense Ministry summoned the U.S. embassy’s military attache after it said the navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified “appropriate means,” the ministry said.
Adding to the sense of crisis, the Pentagon ordered an additional 3,000 U.S. troops to Poland to reassure allies.
Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Americans in Ukraine should not expect the U.S. military to rescue them in the event that air and rail transportation is severed after a Russian invasion.
Several NATO allies, including Britain, Canada, Norway and Denmark, also asked their citizens to leave Ukraine, as did non-NATO ally New Zealand.
Sullivan said Russian military action could start with missile and air attacks, followed by a ground offensive.
“Russia has all the forces it needs to conduct a major military action,” Sullivan said, adding that “Russia could choose, in very short order, to commence a major military action against Ukraine.” He said the scale of such an invasion could range from a limited incursion to a strike on Kyiv, the capital.
Russia scoffed at the U.S. talk of urgency.
“The hysteria of the White House is more indicative than ever,” said Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. “The Anglo-Saxons need a war. At any cost. Provocations, misinformation and threats are a favorite method of solving their own problems.”
Zakharova said her country had “optimized” staffing at its own embassy in Kyiv in response to concerns about possible military actions from the Ukrainian side.
In addition to the more than 100,000 ground troops that U.S. officials say Russia has assembled along Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders, the Russians have deployed missile, air, naval and special operations forces, as well as supplies to sustain a war. This week, Russia moved six amphibious assault ships into the Black Sea, augmenting its capability to land marines on the coast.
Sullivan’s stark warning accelerated the projected time frame for a potential invasion, which many analysts had believed was unlikely until after the Winter Olympics in China end on Feb. 20. Sullivan said the combination of a further Russian troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders and unspecified intelligence indicators have prompted the administration to warn that war could begin any time.
“We can’t pinpoint the day at this point, and we can’t pinpoint the hour, but that is a very, very distinct possibility,” Sullivan said.
Biden has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies on NATO’s eastern flank. The 3,000 additional soldiers ordered to Poland come on top of 1,700 who are on their way there. The U.S. Army also is shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania, which like Poland shares a border with Ukraine.
Russia is demanding that the West keep former Soviet countries out of NATO. It also wants NATO to refrain from deploying weapons near its border and to roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe — demands flatly rejected by the West.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014, when Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly leader was driven from office by a popular uprising. Moscow responded by annexing the Crimean Peninsula and then backing a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed over 14,000 people.
A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany helped halt large-scale battles, but regular skirmishes have continued, and efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled.A Kremlin statement about the Putin-Macron call referred to “provocative speculations about an allegedly planned Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine.” Russia has consistently denied that it plans military action against its neighbor.
Putin also complained in the call that the United States and NATO have not responded satisfactorily to Russian demands that Ukraine be prohibited from joining the military alliance and that NATO pull back forces from Eastern Europe.
Biden has said the U.S. military will not enter a war in Ukraine, but he has promised severe economic sanctions against Moscow, in concert with international allies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he told his Russian counterpart Saturday that “further Russian aggression would be met with a resolute, massive and united trans-Atlantic response.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to project calm as he observed military exercises Saturday near Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
"We are not afraid, we're without panic, all is under control,” he said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, also held telephone discussions on Saturday.
U.K. troops that have been training the Ukrainian army also planned to leave the country. Germany, the Netherlands and Italy called on their citizens to leave as soon as possible.
A State Department travel advisory on Saturday said most American staff at the Kyiv embassy have been ordered to leave and other U.S. citizens should depart the country as well.
Further U.S.-Russia tensions arose on Saturday when the Defense Ministry summoned the U.S. embassy’s military attache after it said the navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified “appropriate means,” the ministry said.
Adding to the sense of crisis, the Pentagon ordered an additional 3,000 U.S. troops to Poland to reassure allies.
Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Americans in Ukraine should not expect the U.S. military to rescue them in the event that air and rail transportation is severed after a Russian invasion.
Several NATO allies, including Britain, Canada, Norway and Denmark, also asked their citizens to leave Ukraine, as did non-NATO ally New Zealand.
Sullivan said Russian military action could start with missile and air attacks, followed by a ground offensive.
“Russia has all the forces it needs to conduct a major military action,” Sullivan said, adding that “Russia could choose, in very short order, to commence a major military action against Ukraine.” He said the scale of such an invasion could range from a limited incursion to a strike on Kyiv, the capital.
Russia scoffed at the U.S. talk of urgency.
“The hysteria of the White House is more indicative than ever,” said Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. “The Anglo-Saxons need a war. At any cost. Provocations, misinformation and threats are a favorite method of solving their own problems.”
Zakharova said her country had “optimized” staffing at its own embassy in Kyiv in response to concerns about possible military actions from the Ukrainian side.
In addition to the more than 100,000 ground troops that U.S. officials say Russia has assembled along Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders, the Russians have deployed missile, air, naval and special operations forces, as well as supplies to sustain a war. This week, Russia moved six amphibious assault ships into the Black Sea, augmenting its capability to land marines on the coast.
Sullivan’s stark warning accelerated the projected time frame for a potential invasion, which many analysts had believed was unlikely until after the Winter Olympics in China end on Feb. 20. Sullivan said the combination of a further Russian troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders and unspecified intelligence indicators have prompted the administration to warn that war could begin any time.
“We can’t pinpoint the day at this point, and we can’t pinpoint the hour, but that is a very, very distinct possibility,” Sullivan said.
Biden has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies on NATO’s eastern flank. The 3,000 additional soldiers ordered to Poland come on top of 1,700 who are on their way there. The U.S. Army also is shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania, which like Poland shares a border with Ukraine.
Russia is demanding that the West keep former Soviet countries out of NATO. It also wants NATO to refrain from deploying weapons near its border and to roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe — demands flatly rejected by the West.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014, when Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly leader was driven from office by a popular uprising. Moscow responded by annexing the Crimean Peninsula and then backing a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed over 14,000 people.
A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany helped halt large-scale battles, but regular skirmishes have continued, and efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled.A Kremlin statement about the Putin-Macron call referred to “provocative speculations about an allegedly planned Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine.” Russia has consistently denied that it plans military action against its neighbor.
Putin also complained in the call that the United States and NATO have not responded satisfactorily to Russian demands that Ukraine be prohibited from joining the military alliance and that NATO pull back forces from Eastern Europe.
Biden has said the U.S. military will not enter a war in Ukraine, but he has promised severe economic sanctions against Moscow, in concert with international allies.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he told his Russian counterpart Saturday that “further Russian aggression would be met with a resolute, massive and united trans-Atlantic response.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to project calm as he observed military exercises Saturday near Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
"We are not afraid, we're without panic, all is under control,” he said.U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, also held telephone discussions on Saturday.
U.K. troops that have been training the Ukrainian army also planned to leave the country. Germany, the Netherlands and Italy called on their citizens to leave as soon as possible.
A State Department travel advisory on Saturday said most American staff at the Kyiv embassy have been ordered to leave and other U.S. citizens should depart the country as well.
Further U.S.-Russia tensions arose on Saturday when the Defense Ministry summoned the U.S. embassy’s military attache after it said the navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified “appropriate means,” the ministry said.
Adding to the sense of crisis, the Pentagon ordered an additional 3,000 U.S. troops to Poland to reassure allies.
Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Americans in Ukraine should not expect the U.S. military to rescue them in the event that air and rail transportation is severed after a Russian invasion.
Several NATO allies, including Britain, Canada, Norway and Denmark, also asked their citizens to leave Ukraine, as did non-NATO ally New Zealand.
Sullivan said Russian military action could start with missile and air attacks, followed by a ground offensive.
“Russia has all the forces it needs to conduct a major military action,” Sullivan said, adding that “Russia could choose, in very short order, to commence a major military action against Ukraine.” He said the scale of such an invasion could range from a limited incursion to a strike on Kyiv, the capital.
Russia scoffed at the U.S. talk of urgency.
“The hysteria of the White House is more indicative than ever,” said Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. “The Anglo-Saxons need a war. At any cost. Provocations, misinformation and threats are a favorite method of solving their own problems.”
Zakharova said her country had “optimized” staffing at its own embassy in Kyiv in response to concerns about possible military actions from the Ukrainian side.
In addition to the more than 100,000 ground troops that U.S. officials say Russia has assembled along Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders, the Russians have deployed missile, air, naval and special operations forces, as well as supplies to sustain a war. This week, Russia moved six amphibious assault ships into the Black Sea, augmenting its capability to land marines on the coast.
Sullivan’s stark warning accelerated the projected time frame for a potential invasion, which many analysts had believed was unlikely until after the Winter Olympics in China end on Feb. 20. Sullivan said the combination of a further Russian troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders and unspecified intelligence indicators have prompted the administration to warn that war could begin any time.
“We can’t pinpoint the day at this point, and we can’t pinpoint the hour, but that is a very, very distinct possibility,” Sullivan said.
Biden has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies on NATO’s eastern flank. The 3,000 additional soldiers ordered to Poland come on top of 1,700 who are on their way there. The U.S. Army also is shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania, which like Poland shares a border with Ukraine.
Russia is demanding that the West keep former Soviet countries out of NATO. It also wants NATO to refrain from deploying weapons near its border and to roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe — demands flatly rejected by the West.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014, when Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly leader was driven from office by a popular uprising. Moscow responded by annexing the Crimean Peninsula and then backing a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed over 14,000 people.
A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany helped halt large-scale battles, but regular skirmishes have continued, and efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled.
Nice spam James.
Almost Alky level.
Biden has united Americans against his Economic policies and pain of worsening inflation
You have no idea about addiction
You are right. I am not weakened and prone to it, Roger.
But here you are... defending a position that is at 180 degrees odds with your AA group motto and everything AA stands for.
Why do you suddenly believe that AA is a right wing fascist organization that is dead wrong about their approach? Because of politics. You cannot break from Biden even on a subject that you should care a lot about.
If I had told you last week that the way to cure addiction was to give people access to their tools so they can slowing reduce their addiction you would have told me I was "bonkers".
But when the Biden administration provides you that nonsense... you just go along with it. Defend it and in doing so, you turn your back on AA.
If they don't, if all the machinations they are going through are just to see how much they can gain by effectively threatening, they will ultimately look weak
And the Biden Administration will look like idiots for alarming everyone, clearing out their US Citizen from Ukraine, and demanding that their own intelligence has the goods on this.
What a dumb thing to do.
Either Russia invades and Biden looks weak.
Or Russia doesn't and Biden looks stupid for saying they would.
They put themselves in a no win situation.
UNITY SOCIALIST Democrats and Republicans agree, The U.S. isn’t going to war to stop Puntin.
All those countries that are pulling out their embassy personnel will look stupid, Ch?
I think Ch, rrb, and several others here need to read with attention the long article I posted.
Americans UNITY.
Bidenomics Sucks
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As usual, james unable to articulate his own argument. All he is able to do is paste the commentary of others.
Roger and James have the same infliction, they know their opinion after they read it.
All those countries that are pulling out their embassy personnel will look stupid, Ch?
Depends... are they relying our US intelligence?
Because our Administration seems to be the ones telling everyone he is ready to invade this week. Actually earlier in the week it was this weekend, and how it is next week. Probably will be next weekend by Tuesday or Wednesday if they haven't invaded by then.
Putin moved troops to spike the price of oil.
Biden took the bait.
Blogger Honest, decent, truth telling Reverend said...
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I think if they attack, we will hit them hard, financially and possibly in other ways, such as cyber attacks.
And they will hit us hard, but with less than nuclear strikes. Both sides may experience cyber and financial attacks that may exceed anything yet experienced on either side.
Pedo, the lights go out in Europe. How long does that last?
Western Europe went all in on windmills, fairy dust and unicorn farts…..
Fuck’em
Did James just make his case for War for oil?
Looks like it.
Oil.Price March 31, 2021 $61.32
Today Oil Price. $92.49
PUTIN moved troops to move oil price.
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