Satellite images show more than three-mile-long Russian military column on roadway to Kyiv
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy.
As Ukrainians continue to repel Russian advances around Kyiv, new satellite images show a more than 3-mile-long Russian military convoy is on a roadway that heads toward the capital city.
According to Maxar, the convoy was seen on satellite images on Sunday around 10:56 a.m. local time on the P-02-02 road near Ivankiv, which is about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of the Ukrainian capital. The P-02-02 road goes toward Kyiv.
Maxar identified fuel and logistical trucks, in addition to tanks, infantry vehicles and self-propelled artillery moving in the convoy.So this would fall in line with two different possible and competing concepts
- That Putin is getting desperate and now bringing in the last of his reserves because he has no other choice.
- That Putin was simply softening up Ukrainian resistance with a less than robust first wave of disposable under-equipped soldiers and that his real attack would come with better more elite reserve troops.
Either way, it cannot be good for Kyiv if a three mile long military convoy is approaching the capital city. It does not appear at this point in time that any Ukrainian planes are taking off or that they have any sort of long range weapons to attack the convoy in question. Perhaps that was the point of this convoy coming in now rather than at the beginning.
Again, we can hope that the convoy in question is also nothing more than the same under-equipped and underskilled soldiers that are "reported" to have been fighting in the Ukraine cities. Of course that also requires us to believe all the reports that Russian soldiers are unskilled and underequipped. If one thinks a little deeper about these rumors, they start to fall apart once you realize that Russia has over a million people in their military and spends over 60 billion a year (versus 200,000 soldiers and 5 billion for Ukraine). In fact, only three countries (United States, China, and India) spend more than Russia.
Hard to imagine a country that has 1 million soldiers and spends 60 billion dollars a year would be running out of soldiers and supplies within the first 4-5 days.
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The convoy is a Parade for Affirmative Action VP Harris and her outstanding job she did to prevent the war.
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In humility, do I detect some delight in the way you announce this, Ch?
Do you wish to declare Putin the "genius" that Trump declared him to be?
Well, Ch, in all humility, I must say I just watched the video accompanying the article you cited above, and I must say I got a little different impression from what you got. I will next quote the text, or people can watch it for themselves at your link.
Satellite images show more than three-mile-long Russian military column on roadway to Kyiv
And the fly jockeys at the AF want to scrap the A-10….
On Saturday Germany’s chancellery said it would send 1,000 antitank weapons and 500 Stinger surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine “as quickly as possible.” That’s a reversal of Berlin’s policy since World War II of not supplying lethal weapons.
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Once Sleepy and Picturesque, Ukrainian Villages Mobilize for War
While Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities have drawn most of the attention in the war’s early days, civilians in country towns have joined the fight, putting aside the routines of daily village life.
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The Ukrainian flag being raised over a newly-established checkpoint on Sunday in Hushchyntsi, Ukraine.
The Ukrainian flag being raised over a newly-established checkpoint on Sunday in Hushchyntsi, Ukraine.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
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Feb. 27, 2022
Updated 5:22 p.m. ET
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KHOMUTYNTSI, Ukraine — The villagers appeared as silhouettes in the headlights of cars and trucks, a few carrying guns and others clubs, as if they were gangsters roaming the streets.
They were local men and women formed into self-defense units in the villages of the Vinnytsya region in central Ukraine, which had gone silent and dark when the streetlights switched off. They stood by the roadsides, under a very low sky with bright stars.
“I am so proud of our people,” said Oksana Mudryk, the mayor of Khomutyntsi village, about 140 miles southwest of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “Our village is so tiny that I was thinking, ‘Do we even have anybody to patrol the streets?’ I thought maybe three guys at most would come to patrol with me. But in one day after the war started in Kyiv, I have signed up more than 30 people.”
Most of the attention in the first days of the war has focused on Ukraine’s large cities, which are the main targets of Russian troop movements and the scene of pitched street battles and deafening artillery attacks. But out in the countryside, a massive grass-roots movement is underway in villages like Khomutyntsi as ordinary Ukrainians — farmers, shop owners, day laborers, taxi drivers — take up arms to join a battle that has abruptly upended their lives.
The mobilization of civilians to fight against seemingly impossible odds has been one of the distinguishing features of Ukraine’s unexpectedly fierce resistance. And though it may end tragically, Ukrainian officials have been pointing to the effort with pride.
“The Russian leadership does not understand that it is at war not only with the armed forces of Ukraine, but with the entire Ukrainian people,” Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said in a news briefing on Sunday. “And these people have already risen to the liberation struggle, liberation war against occupiers.”
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Molotov cocktails stored at a checkpoint at the edge of the village of Hushchyntsi.
Molotov cocktails stored at a checkpoint at the edge of the village of Hushchyntsi.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Displays of defiance have been recorded across the country. In eastern Ukraine, where Russian armored columns entered towns and villages, some local residents confronted soldiers with angry words. In northern Ukraine, a man knelt briefly in front of a tank. One Ukrainian woman filmed herself on a cellphone taunting a Russian soldier by telling him to put sunflower seeds in his pocket, so that when he died in Ukraine, flowers would grow.
In Khomutyntsi, the big meadow that stretches along the Postolova River is normally a place of leisure. Villagers fish in the river year-round and swim there in the summer. But this weekend the whole village gathered in the meadow to build trenches, a checkpoint and underground shelters.
Ms. Mudryk drove her car Saturday night to check on her volunteers. She does this several times each night, as patrols keep guard on the roadsides from dusk to dawn.
Are these tensions just starting now? Antagonism between the two nations has been simmering since 2014, when the Russian military crossed into Ukrainian territory, after an uprising in Ukraine replaced their Russia-friendly president with a pro-Western government. Then, Russia annexed Crimea and inspired a separatist movement in the east. A cease-fire was negotiated in 2015, but fighting has continued.
How did this invasion unfold? After amassing a military presence near the Ukrainian border for months, on Feb. 21, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia signed decrees recognizing two pro-Russian breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. On Feb. 23, he declared the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Several attacks on cities around the country have since unfolded.
What has Mr. Putin said about the attacks? Mr. Putin said he was acting after receiving a plea for assistance from the leaders of the Russian-backed separatist territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, citing the false accusation that Ukrainian forces had been carrying out ethnic cleansing there and arguing that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction.
How has Ukraine responded? On Feb. 23, Ukraine declared a 30-day state of emergency as cyberattacks knocked out government institutions. Following the beginning of the attacks, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, declared martial law. The foreign minister called the attacks “a full-scale invasion” and called on the world to “stop Putin.”
How has the rest of the world reacted? The United States, the European Union and others have condemned Russia’s aggression and begun issuing economic sanctions against Russia. Germany announced on Feb. 23 that it would halt certification of a gas pipeline linking it with Russia. China refused to call the attack an “invasion,” but did call for dialogue.
How could this affect the economy? Russia controls vast global resources — natural gas, oil, wheat, palladium and nickel in particular — so the conflict could have far-reaching consequences, prompting spikes in energy and food prices and spooking investors. Global banks are also bracing for the effects of sanctions.
In Kalynivka, which is close to a large weapons depot that Russian troops have targeted, local volunteers wove small strips of cloth together to form a makeshift camouflage net over their checkpoint. Too many people have been clustering around the spot, they said, making it a potential target. The location they chose is next to a bomb shelter, to hide in if bombs start to fall.
“We came to help our soldiers,’’ said Valentyna Rudenko. “It is hard to believe it is happening to us.”
In some places, as in Hushchyntsi, the volunteer effort encompassed the whole village. About 50 people were piling up logs into makeshift bunkers, as children ran about and women carried out homemade meals.
“Step away, you might get hurt, that’s the job for grown-ups,” one man told the children hoping to participate.
The town square near a military recruitment center in Kalynivka was filled with men with duffel bags, and also their wives and children who came to say goodbye.
They sat on tree stumps and on their bags or stood in groups joking. Their children grew bored during their fathers’ long waits to be issued a gun and receive instructions.
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Volunteers tying camouflage netting for use by the Ukrainian military in Kalynivka.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Those who were waiting had already registered and came ready to deploy. But there were also newcomers arriving every minute at the entry gate to the square, asking guards where they should go to register.
Because he might have put them in concentration camps across Russia this is the right time
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. citizens should consider leaving Russia immediately on commercial flights, the State Department said on Sunday, citing an increasing number of airlines canceling flights and countries closing their airspace to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
"U.S. citizens should consider departing Russia immediately via commercial options still available," said a security alert dated Feb. 27 on the web site of U.S. embassy in Moscow.
It has asked U.S. citizens to have "a contingency plan that does not rely on U.S. government assistance."
Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two, has unleashed a barrage of Western reprisals, with U.S. and European governments imposing sanctions on Russian banks and financial institutions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the attack a "special operation" through which he aims to demilitarise Moscow's southern neighbor.
Putin is unhindered but he has the authority on one of the largest armed forces in the world
What do you think, General?
"My take at seeing that convoy, those overhead shots, the same kind of pictures we get from military intelligence satellites, but it's showing they are desperatedly attempting to resupply their forces forward. That's been a struggle for the Russians across the board. Yeah, and we are four or five days into this thing, and it's apparent from the number of vehicles that are being captured, or abandoned, or destroyed, they're -- they're running out of gas. They're running out of ammo. They're running out of food for their soldiers. So it has become a logistics fight right now. And when you see a convoy of resupply trucks with tanks on board with artillery pieces nearby, that means they're trying to protect those resupply columns. They're not doing a good job of it. Yeah, and the resupplies of some of those initial forces that went in were taken out."
Bonus Quote of the Day
February 27, 2022 at 6:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“Why do I care what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious, why do I care? And why shouldn’t I root for Russia, which I am.”
— Tucker Carlson, on Fox News.
CH SAID:
Hard to imagine a country that has 1 million soldiers and spends 60 billion dollars a year would be running out of soldiers and supplies within the first 4-5 days.
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Yes, hard to imagine that. But see 5:26 above.
The is what happens when civilians order soldiers to attack cities.
Putin ordered his forces to invade cities first. But The large cities may prove a particular problem, Vacroux said.
“The Russians learned in Chechnya the same lesson that we learned in Mosul, which is it’s extremely difficult to hold cities,” Vacroux said. “It’s gruesome and bloody and requires a huge amount of human force. I just don’t see the ‘day after’ strategy, from the Russian point of view.”
Experts said in the days and weeks to come, they’d be looking for things like how much of a fight the Ukrainian army puts up and whether they can drag the battle out and increase the Russian body count.
couldn’t I root for Russia, which I am.”
And Tucker wonders why he and his worthless family is being harassed!!!!!! Can he be that stupid?
This is absolutely incorrect.
That Putin was simply softening up Ukrainian resistance with a less than robust first wave of disposable under-equipped soldiers and that his real attack would come with better more elite reserve troops.
“The Russians learned in Chechnya the same lesson that we learned in Mosul, which is it’s extremely difficult to hold cities,” Vacroux said. “It’s gruesome and bloody and requires a huge amount of human force. I just don’t see the ‘day after’ strategy, from the Russian point of view.”
Experts said in the days and weeks to come, they’d be looking for things like how much of a fight the Ukrainian army puts up and whether they can drag the battle out and increase the Russian body count.
CH SAID:
Hard to imagine a country that has 1 million soldiers
Even harder to believe that Lil Schitty would think the Russian soldiers would not run into problems as he roots for Putin and war!!!!
Bonus Quote of the Day
February 27, 2022 at 6:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“Why do I care what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious, why do I care? And why shouldn’t I root for Russia, which I am.”
— Tucker Carlson, on Fox News.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1199135388956123136?s=20&t=6rbpfdhMbkYvypoDAZi9dQ
November 2019
While dems were desperately trying to impeach Trump and lying about everything
context matters
What was said first which Tucker responded to ?
And people wonder why nobody trusts GODdard or the lying POS "pastor"
I shouldn't have checked back but this was so dishonest it scrapes the bottom.
I guess that's where the POS "pastor" lives
any real pastor would be ashamed
Sweden to Send Arms to Ukraine
February 27, 2022 at 7:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Sweden announced it will break its doctrine of not sending arms to countries in active conflict and send military equipment, including anti-tank launchers, to Ukraine, AFP reports.
Bullish on their chances of winning control of Congress this year and setting up a Trump comeback, some Republicans said that the questions about the Biden family and Hunter Biden’s work with the Ukrainian firm Burisma were more important than ever.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), a former White House physician who has said that the president should take a cognitive test to prove his fitness for office, said that “the Russians and the Ukrainians and the Chinese” are likely to have dossiers on the president and his son. “I can’t help but wonder if there’s something there. Hopefully, when we get the House back in November and we get oversight authority, we’re going to be able to do some investigations and find out what’s really there.”
As they rooted for Ukrainians to defeat their invaders, conservatives saw people resisting tyranny — just like them, battling to liberate Americans from vaccine mandates, gender ideology and Biden.
“Why should Americans have to pay the cost of freedom elsewhere when our leaders won’t stand up for freedom here?” asked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Saturday. “I’m not for sending Americans to Ukraine — except maybe one. If Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine, they didn’t need to send tanks. They could have sent Dr. Fauci.”
Sweden announces it will break its doctrine of not sending arms to countries in active conflict and send military equipment, including anti-tank launchers, to Ukraine.
The decision to send 135,000 field rations, 5,000 helmets, 5,000 pieces of body armour and 5,000 single use anti-tank launchers is the first time Sweden has sent weapons to a country in armed conflict since the Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1939, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tells reporters.
Sweden has always been neutral...since World War two ended
In all humility, I have to say some Trump supporters are saying some amazing things these days. In all humility, I cannot think requiring people under some conditions to get vaccinated and wear masks is comparable to the kind of loss of freedom the people of Ukraine are being threatened with.
U.N. Calls Special Session of General Assembly
February 27, 2022 at 7:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The United Nations Security Council voted Sunday to convene a rare special session of the General Assembly to address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The move came as President Vladimir Putin declared that he had placed Russia’s nuclear defense system on high alert,” the New York Times reports.
“The General Assembly has held a special session only 10 times since 1950.”
U.S. Tells Americans to Leave Russia ‘Immediately’
February 27, 2022 at 7:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment
“The U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Sunday advised Americans to leave Russia ‘immediately,’ citing the potential for U.S. citizens to be stuck there as more airlines cancel flights into and out of the country,” the Washington Post reports.
Germany and Eight Other Nations Ban Russian Flights
February 27, 2022 at 7:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments
“Germany has banned Russian aircrafts and flight operators from flying into and over its airspace starting at 3 p.m. local time Sunday, a government release said — adding to the list of countries to do so amid a coordinated European pushback against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
“Officials in France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands also indicated Sunday that they would move to close their airspace to Russian flights, joining nearly a dozen other nations who have already done so.”
JUST IN----
The World Unites Against Putin
February 27, 2022 at 7:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing in days what decades of American prodding and pressure couldn’t:
Getting Germany and other European nations to unite,
expand defense spending and strategic thinking,
and do more to protect themselves and others,” Axios reports.
“Putin calculated a divided America and Europe would make it hard to punish him for invading Ukraine.
Instead, he’s spawned a new coalition of the willing that spreads
from Europe,
to U.S. companies,
to Russians in the streets.”
WHY ARE WE PULLING US CITIZENS FROM RUSSIA?
PUTIN IS A MADMAN. I ONLY HOPE THERE ARE FORCES IN THE KREMLIN THAT NOW HAVE HIM UNDER CONTROL.
JUST IN----
Zelensky Appeal Led to Historic Sanctions
February 27, 2022 at 7:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“As the leaders of the European Union gathered for an emergency summit on Thursday night, momentum was already moving toward imposing tough new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
“But a handful of key leaders, notably including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, were reluctant to proceed with some of the harshest proposals.
“Then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dialed into the meeting via teleconference with a bracing appeal that left some of the world-weary politicians with watery eyes.
In just five minutes, Zelensky — speaking from the battlefield of Kyiv — pleaded with European leaders for an honest assessment of his country’s ambition to join the European Union and for genuine help in its fight with the Russian invaders.
Ukraine needed its neighbors to step up with food, ammunition, fuel, sanctions, all of it.”
Putin’s Bloody Folly In Ukraine
February 27, 2022 at 7:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
David Remnick:
“Like many aging autocrats, Putin has, over time, remained himself, only more so:
more resentful, more isolated, more repressive, more ruthless.
He operates in an airless political environment, free of contrary counsel.
His stagecraft — seating foreign visitors at the opposite end of a twenty-foot-long table,
humiliating security chiefs in front of television cameras —
is a blend of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘The Great Dictator.’
“But there is nothing comic in the performance of his office.
As Putin spills blood across Ukraine
and threatens to destabilize Europe,
Russians themselves stand to lose immeasurably.
The ruble and the Russian stock market have cratered.
But Putin does not care.
His eyes are fixed on matters far grander than the well-being of his people.
He is in full command of the largest army in Europe,
and, as he has reminded the world, of an immense arsenal of nuclear weapons.
In his mind, this is his moment, his triumphal historical drama,
and damn the cost.”
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AS I SAID, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I HOPE SOMEONE IN THE KREMLIN IS HOLDING HIM IN CHECK.
HE IS HITLER ON STEROIDS.
These lunatics are going to try again to destroy the Constitution when they President Biden will give his State of the Union address.
After weeks of holding the Canadian capital hostage — with relentless honking and other abuse of the residents — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally brought an end to what pretended to be an uprising by truckers opposing vaccine mandates but was really a fringe minority trying to recruit more followers into a fascist movement.
We are putting barbed wire fences around the Capitol building.
Ch will say it is unfair
Sunday evening here is a loony bin
In all humility, there is nothing loony in these careful assessments.
He's not smart Scott, Trump was wrong about him..He didn't out smart Biden
He's nuts.
Looking back, the central flaw in the West’s strategy was the fear that any preëmptive actions—whether providing more high-powered weaponry to Ukraine or imposing economic sanctions on Russia’s power brokers sooner—would be used by Putin as justification to attack Ukraine. The West also tried to avoid enacting economic sanctions that would disrupt the flow of the world’s energy supplies and their own economies.
It’s now clear that the Russian leader intended to invade, whatever the West did. “He’s gone off the rails,” the former Defense Secretary and C.I.A. director Robert Gates said on Sunday, on CNN. Although Putin has always been a calculated risktaker during his twenty-two years in power, “this behavior is different.” As Western powers mobilize to aid Ukraine and confront Putin more aggressively, there is an underlying sense of regret. And the protests around the world prove that there are already questions being asked, with many others certain to follow, about why far more was not done in advance to prepare Ukraine for war or to stop Russia’s deranged leader.
I MISSED THIS EARLIER----
Russian Official Apologizes to Ukraine
February 27, 2022 at 7:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments
“A Russian government representative apologized to Ukraine and said there was no justification for his country’s invasion during a meeting of climate scientists and governments on Sunday morning,”
Politico reports.
Said Oleg Anisimov:
“First of all, let me thank Ukraine and present an apology on behalf of all Russians who were not able to prevent this conflict.
All of those who know what is happening fail to find any justification for this attack against Ukraine.”
Russia’s Embrace of Belarus Hints at Nuclear Deployment
February 27, 2022 at 7:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
“Belarusians voting in today’s referendum are poised to abandon the country’s nonnuclear status, an outcome that could lead to Moscow deploying such weapons in Belarus just as Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the alert level for his country’s nuclear forces,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
MADMAN!
The video was a fake
Maxar satellite images showed a massive Russian convoy 40 miles from Kyiv and moving toward the city. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told the AP that Kyiv was "encircled" with all routes out of the city now blocked, but his spokesman later said he "misspoke," per the Kyiv Independent.
https://www.axios.com/ukraine-russian-invasion-talks-bedd8c3a-efc7-4549-92fe-b360e0655b5d.html
The Actual Law in Ukraine has given them a shot at winning.
Gun Control Law. Regulation of private firearms in Ukraine is ranked as permissive, rather than restrictive. Rifles and shotguns are allowed for hunting, target shooting, collection, protection of person or property and private security.
Now those guns are being used to kill the Sons of Bitches Ruskies.
Fuck it kill all the invades, and let God Sort them out.
Opinion
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a superb addition to the US supreme court
Moira Donegan
Unlike most people nominated to the court, Jackson’s career has included advocating for the rights of criminal defendants and the poor. (rrb will say welfare queens)
Sat 26 Feb 2022 12.03 EST
She has always wanted this. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to fill the supreme court seat left vacant by the retirement of Stephen Breyer at the end of this term, said that she wanted to become a judge one day in the yearbook from her Miami high school. By then she was already a champion in national oratory competitions, sharpening the skills of rhetoric and cadence that are the stock and trade of ambitious lawyers. Her parents – an attorney and a school principal – saw their daughter’s potential, and helped her to hoist herself from her middle-class origins onto the path followed by ambitious lawyers from more patrician backgrounds. She went to Harvard for undergrad and then to Harvard Law, eventually clerking on the court for Breyer himself – a justice known to be particularly picky with his clerkships.
She seems to have pursued the law with single-minded devotion since she was very young, committing herself to the profession with all the passion and devotion of a vocation.
Tucker Carlson condemned for Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Rwanda’ comments
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But her legal career took her to places most supreme court justices’ careers have not: In addition to her standard bona fides in private practice and later on the federal bench, she served on the United States Sentencing Commission, working to assess federal criminal sentencing practices and advocating for reduced sentences for drug offenders. Later, she served as a federal public defender in Washington. This makes her the first former public defender nominated to the court, and the first since Thurgood Marshall with extensive criminal defense experience. Her nomination signals a respect for a field of legal practice with great moral authority but little respect from the legal establishment: advocating for the rights of criminal defendants and the poor.
When Biden nominated Jackson to a seat on the DC circuit court just last summer, the post was widely seen as a stepping-stone to the supreme court itself: Jackson had already been all but anointed as Breyer’s successor. She sailed through that confirmation, even bagging three Republican votes. The ease of her last appointment, even amid the backdrop of her future one, suggested that Senate Republicans had not been able to manufacture controversy from her record, a failure on their part that suggests remarkable discipline on Jackson’s. She seems to have behaved in a manner becoming a federal judge her whole life. It’s as if she was born wearing a black robe.
And yet for much of the nation’s history, Judge Jackson’s story would have been impossible. Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the supreme court, fulfilling a Biden campaign promise, and she has made her way in a legal profession – and indeed, in a country – that is accustomed to discarding Black women’s talent. In many ways she represents America’s great, if usually thwarted, promise: that hard work by individuals, combined with a moral arc of national history that bends toward justice, can deliver talented and worthy people to success despite the injustices imposed on them for their race, their sex, or their origins. That there has never been a Black woman on the court before is testament to how rarely this promise is kept: Jackson is not the first Black female legal mind worthy of the court, and if she is confirmed, she will serve alongside more than one white man of lesser intellect and character. But though she is the first, she will not be the last.
Belarus Preparing to Join Russian Invasion
February 27, 2022 at 10:04 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments
“Belarus is preparing to send soldiers into Ukraine in support of the Russian invasion in a deployment that could begin as soon as Monday,” the Washington Post reports.
Said a U.S. official: “It’s very clear Minsk is now an extension of the Kremlin.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
February 27, 2022 at 10:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments
“I personally think he’s unhinged. I worry about his acuity and balance.”
— Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, quoted by the New York Times, on Vladimir Putin.
Updated 2 hours ago -
World
Russian troops advance on Kyiv as Ukraine continues to resist
A flurry of major announcements on Sunday — an announcement of peace talks from President Volodymy Zelensky, a nuclear warning from President Vladimir Putin, and dramatic pledges of support from Europe — came as additional Russian troops moved toward the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
State of play:
A senior Pentagon official told reporters on Sunday morning that Russia has now committed two-thirds of its massed forces to the fight inside Ukraine, and has fired over 320 missiles, but still does not hold a major population center.
The invasion has caused at least 352 civilian casualties, including 14 children with another 1,684 people, including 116 children, injured, Ukraine's Ministry of Interior announced Sunday.
Catch up quick:
Zelensky announced on Telegram following a conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to hold peace talks with "no preconditions" on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, near the Pripyat River.
Update: The talks will begin on Monday morning and the precise location will not be disclosed, according to Russia's TASS state news agency.
Putin ordered Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on high alert on Sunday, citing Western sanctions and "aggressive statements." Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv sees that as an attempt "to raise stakes and to put additional pressure on the Ukrainian delegation" in the peace talks.
Maxar satellite images showed a massive Russian convoy 40 miles from Kyiv and moving toward the city. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told the AP that Kyiv was "encircled" with all routes out of the city now blocked, but his spokesman later said he "misspoke," per the Kyiv Independent.
The European Union announced sweeping sanctions on Russian aircraft and state media and said that, for the first time, the bloc will buy and deliver weapons to Ukraine — including transferring Soviet-era fighter jets.
Russian troops continued to suffer setbacks. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said all of Kharkiv — Ukraine's second-largest city, which lies on its eastern border with Russia and has endured some of the heaviest fighting of the war — was back under Ukrainian control.
The United Nations will convene a rare emergency session of the 193-member General Assembly on Monday to vote on a resolution calling for peace in Ukraine.
What to watch: Defense analysts have warned that Russia is likely to respond to the stiff Ukrainian resistance, and some humiliating setbacks, with still more aggressive tactics.
Forces from Chechnya have entered the fight, while Belarusian forces have reportedly been readied to deploy in support of Russia.
What they're saying: Announcing the peace talks plan, Zelensky said, "Lukashenko has taken responsibility for ensuring that all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on Belarusian territory remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation's travel, talks and return."
“Our president, from the beginning, even before the war started, was focused on the diplomatic solution," Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova said after the announcement, per CNN. “But he always said, 'we’re ready for peace talks, we’re not ready to surrender.'"
Zelensky had previously rejected a Russian offer to meet in Minsk and offered alternative locations, including Warsaw and Israel.
"We go there to listen to what Russia wants to say," Kuleba said on Sunday. "We are bleeding, but we continue to successfully defend ourselves," he added, comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin's tactics to those of Adolf Hitler.
Between the lines:
It's unclear what exactly can be achieved from negotiations between envoys sent by Putin and Zelensky, given that Putin's unprovoked invasion appears to be aimed largely at removing Zelensky from power.
He has called on the Ukrainian military to topple their president and absurdly suggested that Zelensky's administration is comprised of Nazis (Zelensky is Jewish and lost family members in the Holocaust).
In his AP interview, Klitschko said Kyiv residents still have water and electricity, "but the infrastructure is destroyed to deliver the food and medication,” which he said could cause a "humanitarian catastrophe."
At least nine civilians including one child have been killed in the city so far, he said.
Earlier in the day, the Pentagon official said the bulk of Russia's forces had stalled about 30km (19 miles) from the city center.
Meanwhile, Western signals of resolve continue to flood in.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the all "Russian-owned, Russian registered or Russian-controlled aircraft," including the private jets of oligarchs, would be banned from European airspace.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared that Russia's invasion "marks a turning point in the history of our continent," and promised major new contributions to Ukraine and to Germany's own defenses.
Meanwhile there were long lines at ATMs in Moscow as Russians braced for severe financial sanctions which have sent the value of the ruble plunging to historic lows even before all the sanctions take effect.
The Kremlin and state media continue to tell Russians that no "war" or "invasion" is taking place, but instead states there's a limited defensive operation in eastern Ukraine.
The large protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg, despite the threat of mass arrests, indicate that many Russians aren't buying it.
What to watch: Having already threatened any independent publications that report on Russian casualties or aggression with censorship, the government is preparing to crack down harder on its citizens.
The Kremlin today announced that "the provision of any assistance to a foreign state" during the "military operation" would be considered treason, carrying a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Never forget that Trump, was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine!
22 of last 24 posts are by the two copy paste jackasses here, Roger and James. Enough already.
Ukraine agrees to talk with Russia, but isn’t optimistic the violence will end.
LVIV, Ukraine — With a three-mile-long convoy of Russian military vehicles pressing down on Ukraine’s capital, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed little hope that negotiations planned for Monday morning would bring an end to the conflict, which has killed more than 350 civilians since the invasion began.
“I do not really believe in the outcome of this meeting,” Mr. Zelensky said, as the Ukrainian army, joined by a growing force of citizens turned soldiers, prepared to repel another assault on the capital.
This is great news.
How Putin made the EU great again.
Continent has come together in the face of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to tear Europe apart — he might have made it stronger than ever | Sean Gallup/Getty Images
BY MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG
BERLIN — Vladimir Putin just achieved the impossible: genuine European unity.
The Russian president’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has united Europe and the transatlantic sphere like nothing since the fall of the Berlin Wall, as even his erstwhile allies on the Continent abandoned him over the weekend.
From Sofia to Stockholm, Europe’s internal divisions over how to react to Putin’s aggression have melted away in recent days as the historic dimensions of the invasion — the greatest challenge to the West’s security architecture in decades — sank in.
As images of Russian tanks rolling over the Ukrainian border and families huddled in subway stations filled the airwaves, concerns in national capitals about the local impact of tougher measures, such as barring Russian banks from SWIFT (a linchpin of the global interbank payment infrastructure), gave way to a shared resolve to do whatever it takes to halt Putin in his tracks.
Faced with the cold reality of what the invasion means not just for Ukraine, but also for the security architecture across Europe, parochial objections, whether Italy’s desire to keep selling luxury goods to Russians or Germany’s to maintain easy access to Russian gas, evaporated.
Even Putin’s staunchest allies abandoned him, from Czech President Miloš Zeman to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen.
By Sunday, Europe had not only agreed to impose sweeping financial sanctions on Russia and Putin, but most countries — including neutral ones such as Austria and Sweden — had closed their airspace to Russian planes or were preparing to do so. The EU even decided to ban Russian broadcaster RT, the Kremlin’s main conduit for sending propaganda abroad.
“It is now absolutely necessary to proceed with further measures to isolate Russia,” Swedish EU Minister Hans Dahlgren told Swedish radio.
The most dramatic shift, however, occurred in Germany, a country whose leaders pursued fruitless “dialogue” with Putin for years, despite loud warnings from allies who insisted he couldn’t be trusted.
Following Germany’s decision to indefinitely suspend the operation of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Berlin buckled to pressure from allies and agreed to take a tougher stance toward Russia across the board.
On Saturday, Germany dropped its resistance to suspending Russia from SWIFT and announced that it was also giving up its longstanding refusal to send arms to Ukraine.
On Sunday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, marking nothing less than the most dramatic political shift in modern German history, outlined a sweeping reversal of the country’s position on defense spending with the announcement of a €100 billion fund for new weaponry that he said would enable Berlin to fulfill its NATO spending commitments over the long term.
After years of dragging its feet on defense spending, Berlin committed to even go beyond what its allies were asking when it came to investing in the Bundeswehr, the German army.
During a special session of the German parliament, Scholz, a politician not known for hyperbole, left no question about the gravity of the events that prompted the shift, calling the Russian invasion “a turning point in the history of our Continent.”
Just two weeks ago, some German leaders were still downplaying the threat of the Russian move, dismissing incessant warnings from Washington and other quarters as hysteria. Senior German diplomats had even avoided meeting with Andrij Melnyk, Ukraine’s outspoken ambassador to Germany, who had been trying for months to convince Berlin to drop its export ban on weaponry to his country.
In a poignant moment during Sunday’s parliamentary session, MPs gave Melnyk, who was seated in the Reichstag building’s VIP section, a standing ovation and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock personally thanked him for coming. Baerbock, whose Green party is rooted in pacifism, made no secret of how the events in Ukraine in recent days had forced her to confront uncomfortable realities.
“That could be us in the subway tunnels, those could be our children,” she said. “What’s happening in Europe right now has been unthinkable for someone of my generation.”
Putin’s war in Ukraine serves as a reality check on other fronts as well.
Vladimir Putin is not very bright anymore
Fierce fighting continued on Sunday. But even as Russian troops penetrated Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, in the northeast, and seemed poised to put Kyiv and its 3 million residents in a stranglehold, Ukrainian officials described an array of Russian losses in personnel and equipment.
Some 4,300 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded, and 46 military aircraft, 146 tanks, and 706 armored vehicles were destroyed, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at an afternoon news conference. “Hundreds of Russian soldiers became prisoners of war,” Kuleba said, noting the data was preliminary given battles were ongoing.
“Ukraine is not falling,” he said, thanking allies for the support and urging them to keep it up. “We are bleeding, but we continue to successfully defend ourselves.”
Zelenskiy, who on Sunday continued to command the war effort unshaven and wearing military green, posed for a selfie with Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who tweeted it, writing: “It’s impossible to break our defenders.”
The determined and upbeat, if exhausted, resilience voiced by Ukrainian leaders was a stark contrast from the shrill and bitter one of Putin, who appeared in yet another highly-staged Kremlin video along with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of the general staff of the Russian military, Valery Gerasimov.
“The top officials of the leading NATO countries allow aggressive statements against our country,” Putin griped, a day after Germany and other European countries said they would speed weapons and other military assistance to help Ukraine repel the Russians
The people of Ukraine should inspire people all over the world.
This:
https://youtu.be/MHXuHpaEwgE
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Sunday evening here is a loony bin
Another alky-lanche of mental illness I see.
I skipped over the James/Alky avalanches.
I did see Germany is in full retreat to dependable coal fired plants.
As protesters unfurl their banner along the canal beneath Germany’s newest coal plant, a barge piled high with coal glides by, the crew whooping and whistling in mockery."
YEP, perfect.
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a superb addition to the US supreme court
Abso-fucking-lutely.
We are way past time for a black vagina on the highest court in the land.
Black vagina is us, and we are black vagina.
All hail black vagina!
That is all.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled alky mental illness, already in progress.
I did see Germany is in full retreat to dependable coal fired plants.
That's the thing about fairy dust and unicorn farts. The only way to find out they don't work is the fucking HARD WAY.
Yep, As The Governor of California did.
He said , that gas, oil, coal are dependable, fairy dust and unicorn farts are nice , but not ready for prime time.
Current Avg.$3.610
Last Day of Trump in office $2.24
Biden and the Affirmative Action VP Harris, are standing firm.
The US must not be permitted to return to Energy Independence.
‘Mental sharpness of a bowl of jello’
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/02/27/mental-sharpness-of-a-bowl-of-jello-new-abc-poll-shows-biden-continuing-to-sink-in-perhaps-his-most-painful-disapproval-ratings-yet/
Something Trump never did, even though the alky likes to LIE about it -
Democratic Socialists of America calling on the U.S. to leave NATO
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/02/27/aoc-and-every-other-squad-member-should-be-asked-if-they-agree-with-the-democratic-socialists-of-america-calling-on-the-u-s-to-leave-nato/
Wow rat,,,,all 50 democratic socialist in america is about as important as your stupidity!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Getting rather desperate there sport with bullshit like this......
RRB, as you have correctly pointed out, that which the Lefist accuse other if doing, they Are in Fact doing .
2020 US became Energy Independent *(according to HB and Jamie)
Over the weekend Biden re-affirmed he will keep his chains on US Energy producers.
Current Avg.$3.610
Last Day of Trump in office $2.24
Sad how much of this bullshit behavior exists here, in Lil Schitty's slice of heaven. A place the locals support putin and his ways as surrogates of trump the savior !!!!!! Not a single slurper has the ballz to even admit trump lost and remain fixated on their fake indignation that the election was stolen.....what a bunch of losers and idiots!!!
Not since the days after Sept. 11, 2001, have Americans been as united on an issue of foreign policy as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the new Washington Post-ABC poll, 80 percent of Americans, including more than three quarters of Democrats and Republicans, view Russia as unfriendly or an enemy — the highest level of animosity toward Moscow since the Cold War. But Russian President Vladimir Putin still has one prominent American admirer: former president Donald Trump. And in the /United States, Putin’s war has taken Trump’s personality cult to new lows.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) denounced Putin, expressed prayers and support for Ukraine and denounced President Biden’s approach to the conflict as “half measures.” Then the host asked Cotton what he thought of Trump praising Putin as “very savvy” and calling his strategy this past week “genius.”
If ever there was a time a Republican could chide Trump, this would be it. Before this past week, die-hard Trumpists were comfortable praising Russia’s president. (“Putin puts Russia first as he should,” Republican Rep. Paul A. Gosar of Arizona tweeted last August.) But as the tanks rolled toward Kyiv this past week, those same voices focused on criticizing President Biden and NATO or downplaying Ukraine’s importance to the United States. Only Trump, even as he condemned the invasion Saturday, still went out of his way to call Putin “smart.”
Cotton's answer of you can invite trump showed how little spine this fuck has!!!!
2020 US became Energy Independent *(according to HB and Ja
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!! According to me....the goat fucker is dumber than dirt!!!!!!
NPR: Sesame Street for Adults -
5 ways to cope with the stressful news cycle
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1083077194/news-anxiety-tips-self-care
In case of a nuclear explosion, FEMA warns to try to keep 6 ft social distance and wear a mask for covid. You can’t make this up
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1498058825819062275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498058825819062275%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2022%2F02%2F27%2Ffema-website-warns-americans-to-maintain-social-distancing-and-wear-a-mask-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-explosion%2F
If warned of an imminent attack, immediately get inside the nearest building and move away from windows. This will help provide protection from the blast, heat, and radiation of the detonation.
When you have reached a safe place, try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.
https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
In other news, I received my "free" (LOL) Covid test in the mail, and like cali's it was left in my mailbox in sub-freezing temperatures rendering it fucking useless.
Just like my president.
Facts
2020 US became Energy Independent *(according to HB and Jamie)
Over the weekend Biden re-affirmed he will keep his chains on US Energy producers.
Current Avg.$3.610
Last Day of Trump in office $2.24
Current Goat fucker posts that are not stupid.....ZERO
Amount of grey matter in goat fuckers head.....ZERO
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Yes, according to the alky, this is a REAL, honest, SERIOUS republican - -
NeverTrump Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) fell victim to internet pranksters over the weekend, retweeting the viral hoax that the “Ghost of Kyiv,” an alleged Ukrainian fighter ace, was a man called “Samuyil Hyde.” Tricksters are quick to spread memes naming American comedian Sam Hyde as the culprit in media events such as mass shootings. In this case, Rep. Kinzinger fell for a poor photoshop of Hyde into a cockpit along with an ethnic spin on his name.
The meme, which spread quickly on social media after news of the “Ghost of Kyiv” started to trend, is a variant on the long-running Sam Hyde prank, which claims that the American comedian Sam Hyde is responsible for newsworthy events, particularly those involving mass casualties.
In a now-deleted tweet, Rep. Kinzinger, who has been censured by the GOP for serving on the January 6 commission, during which he infamously broke down in tears, retweeted one of the pranksters, praising “Samuyil” for “owning” the Russian air force.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/02/27/nevertrumper-adam-kinzinger-falls-for-infamous-sam-hyde-prank-in-ghost-of-kyiv-tweet/
The GOP NEEDS this type of leadership.
Stunning.
Brave.
Tearful.
Rat again posts the most dribble about nothing from the still dead breitbart.....and rat's dead fucking brain.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! About as amusing as his hanging hemorrhoids and Greene not knowing she was speaking at a white supremacist meeting !!!!!!!
It’s Biden’s Time
Playbook:
“Biden is an Atlanticist who likes to brag about how he stayed in touch with European leaders while out of office from 2017 to 2021. He is a creature of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Munich Security Conference. He came up in politics immersed in the debates of the Cold War, which are now newly relevant. When he said recently that ‘the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power,’ he could have been lifting the line from one of his 1988 presidential campaign speeches.
“Biden, in this view, is uniquely suited for the new role that has been thrust upon him.
*“It was Biden and his team’s patience and close consultation with European allies that has led to the extraordinary unity now on display.
*Biden’s patience waiting to impose sanctions until after the invasion, even in the face of intense criticism, has been vindicated because Putin would have pointed to preemptive sanctions as a provocation and a reason to invade.
*Biden said that Germany would abandon the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Putin attacked and he was right, because he had been engaged in quiet diplomacy on the issue all along.”
Romney Rips ‘Almost Treasonous’ Republicans
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) tore into his fellow Republicans who have spoken positively about Vladimir Putin.
Said Romney:
“How anybody in this country which loves freedom can side with Vladimir Putin — who is an oppressor, a dictator, he kills people, he imprisons his political opponents. He’s been an adversary of America at every chance he’s had.
“It’s unthinkable to me. It’s almost treasonous, and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that. But of course, they do it ’cause it’s shock value and it will get them more eyeballs and make a little more money for them and their network. It’s disgusting.”
Zelensky Says Next 24 Hours Crucial
“Ukrainian and Russian officials arrived at the Ukraine-Belarus border for peace talks that kicked off at 6 a.m. ET Monday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Day 5 of the invasion that the next 24 hours would be ‘crucial’ to Ukraine’s fate,” Axios reports.
Wall Street Journal:
“The talks on the fifth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine come after Russian forces have struggled to make headway in most of the country, and failed so far to take any of Ukraine’s major cities as they faced fierce resistance.”
War In Ukraine Isn’t Going Russia’s Way
“Outgunned but determined Ukrainian troops slowed Russia’s advance and held onto the capital and other key cities — at least for now,” the AP reports.
Washington Post:
“Videos posted on social media show whole columns of tanks and armored vehicles have been wiped out. Others have been stopped in their tracks by ordinary Ukrainians standing on the street to block their advance.
WOW!
“Lightly armed units propelled deep into the country without support have been surrounded and their soldiers captured or killed.
"Warplanes have been shot out of the skies and helicopters have been downed.
“Logistics supply chains have failed, leaving troops stranded on roadsides to be captured because their vehicles ran out of fuel.”
Putin Finds Himself Isolated
Wall Street Journal:
“Now evidence is mounting that even some allies may be moving away from him.
Turkey is weighing a request from Ukraine to block Russian warships from entering the Black Sea through a strategic chokepoint. Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesman and top aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, tweeted Sunday that his country would ‘continue our efforts to help the people of Ukraine and end bloodshed in this unjust and unlawful war.’”
“Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic and ally of Russia, has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine.”
Russia’s Ruble, Financial Markets Hammered by Sanctions
“Powerful Western sanctions rocked Russia’s financial system and triggered a spiral in the ruble, drawing the central bank into an emergency doubling of interest rates,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Russian ruble fell as low as 111 to the U.S. dollar from 83 on Friday, a drop of more than 20% and, if sustained, the biggest single-day fall on record. But trading was spotty, with local onshore markets frozen by the central bank and markets outside Russia reluctant to trade the currency.
“The Bank of Russia took a raft of measures early Monday to protect Russia’s banking system.
It raised benchmark rates to 20% from 9.5% in an attempt to attract savings into banks, the largest of which were targeted by Western sanctions and will be all but cut off from international markets.”
New York Times:
“The ruble cratered, the stock market froze and the public rushed to withdraw cash on Monday as Western sanctions kicked in and Russia awoke to uncertainty and fear over the rapidly spreading repercussions of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
U.S. Assesses Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Associated Press:
“For years, some U.S. officials have worried that Putin, if faced with the prospect of losing a war in Europe, might resort to the use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons, thinking it would quickly bring the conflict to an end on his terms.”
Barr Says Trump Went ‘Off the Rails’ After Election
The New York Times has an early copy of former Attorney General William Barr’s new book:
“For his part, Mr. Barr portrays Mr. Trump as a president who — despite sometimes displaying ‘the menacing mannerisms’ of a strongman ruler as a ‘schtick’ to project an image of strength — had operated within guardrails set up by his advisers and achieved many conservative policy goals. But Mr. Trump ‘lost his grip’ after the election.”
Writes Barr:
“He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails. He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.”
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Barr's book:
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
to be published March 8.
All my posts above taken from the excellent news source politicalwire.com by Taeggan Goddard.
This to has got to hurt Putin as sanctions seem to be working more quickly than expected!!!!
The Central Bank of Russia announced on Monday the increase of its key interest rate from 9.5 percent to 20 percent that came as an emergency move. The move came as the monetary regulatory is trying to tackle the barrage of economic sanctions imposed on the country by the western governments that pushed down the value of rubble.
I don't think the talks on the border will come to anything.
Zelensky might be willing to agree to committing to a neutral Ukraine, but only if Russia gets its troops completely out of the country.
Fanatic dictator Putin will not agree to that.
...that pushed down the value of rubble.
Interesting.
I was always under the impression that once something reduced to rubble, it was worthless at that point.
I did not know that the value of rubble could be reduced further.
Although, if we're talking about Barney Rubble, I suppose that if he were to pass, that WOULD reduce his value. From a living cartoon character to a dead one.
This is all so complicated, but I for one am glad that the pederast has chosen to strike up a conversation on the value of rubble. I believe that in retrospect, the value of rubble IS one of life's great unsolved mysteries and overlooked issues of our day.
In fact, I'll bet that if we give this topic it's due, we can discover a link between wokeness and even the 1619 project.
U.S. Assesses Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Associated Press:
“For years, some U.S. officials have worried that Putin, if faced with the prospect of losing a war in Europe, might resort to the use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons, thinking it would quickly bring the conflict to an end on his terms.”
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Everybody understands what "nonstrategic nuclear weapons" means, I hope.
Biden Shifts Focus of State of the Union Speech
“President Biden’s team has revised his first State of the Union address to emphasize Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a major crisis facing the West, shifting the tenor of a speech that his team had long hoped would launch a reset of his struggling administration,”
the Washington Post reports.
“While not a wholesale rewrite of the address, which will be delivered at 9 p.m. Tuesday from the U.S. Capitol, the new version will reflect the way the crisis has added urgency to his longtime theme of defending democracies.”
Playbook:
“Foreign policy crises have a way of reshuffling the priorities of a president.”
I did not know that the value of rubble could be reduced further.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Again proving why you flunked out of Ag school.......BTW......Barney has nothing to do with it!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
Regarding the State of the Union speech, it will be interesting to observe which sides of the aisle do or do not stand up and applaud what will be a very patriotic, "America Leads" speech.
The world is currently and frighteningly locked in a battle to the death between democracy and authoritarianism. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin issued a new threat to the West — telling his defense minister and his top military commander to place Russia’s nuclear forces on alert.
It is a new cold war.
The biggest difference between the old cold war and the new one is that authoritarian neo-fascism is not just an external threat. A version of it has also taken over one of the major political parties in the United States.
The Trump-led Republican Party does not openly support Putin, but the GOP’s animus toward democracy is expressed in ways familiar to Putin and other autocrats. Trump Republicans continue to refuse to acknowledge the outcome of the 2020 election, claiming without evidence that it was “stolen” from Trump. In many states, on the basis of this big lie, they are making it more difficult for people who don’t share their beliefs to vote. In several states they are laying the groundwork for ignoring the popular vote altogether and throwing a future presidential election to Trump or another strongman. They have stopped even pretending to be the party of free speech: They are banning books from schools and prohibiting teachers from talking about America’s struggles against racism and homophobia.
Putin’s attack on Ukraine, starting February 24, 2022, and the attack by followers of Donald Trump on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 are different, of course, but they resemble one another in their contempt for democratic institutions and their attempts to justify violence by asserting a threat to a dominant racial or ethnic group. Each also represents the logical culmination of leadership by a dangerous narcissist who flagrantly lies about his intentions and his opponents and who sees the world only in terms of his personal power.
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Donald Trump has long admired Vladimir Putin who, evidence shows, personally authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Believing that a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, Russia’s spy agencies were ordered to use “all possible force” to ensure Trump’s victory. Again in the 2020 election, according to a recently unclassified report by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Putin authorized "influence operations” aimed at “supporting Trump” and “denigrating President Biden's candidacy.”
Presumably Putin supported Trump in 2016 and in 2020 in part because of Trump’s disdain for NATO. As president, Trump did all he could to undermine the organization, even suggesting the U.S. should withdraw from it. Is it pure coincidence that once Trump was out of office and NATO remained intact, Putin attacked Ukraine?
Defending democracy and standing up against authoritarian neo-fascism requires courage. In 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refused Trump’s demand for help in rigging the 2020 election in the United States, even after Trump threatened to withhold money Congress had appropriated to help Ukraine resist Russian expansion. Today, Zelensky won’t be bullied by Putin. He turned down America’s offer to evacuate him, saying “I need ammunition, not a ride.” Zelensky’s courage in the face of overwhelming brute force has fortified Ukrainians now defending their country against invaders.
Contrast this with the toadies at the Republican National Committee who in February censured Republican Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for participating in Congress’s select committee investigating the events of January 6, and who called the January 6 attack on the Capitol "legitimate political discourse." Also contrast Zelensky’s courage with most elected Republicans who still refuse to stand up to Trump. Just yesterday on national television, Senator Tom Cotton refused four times to condemn Trump for calling Putin “smart” and “savvy” and NATO and the US “dumb.”
Make no mistake. Putin’s authoritarian neo-fascism has rooted itself in America.
We may be able to prevent Putin’s aggression from spreading to the rest of Europe. But we cannot win a cold civil war inside America without destroying this nation — another of Putin’s objectives when he ordered his spy agencies to help Trump.
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That the Republican AGs of 17 states added their names to a legal effort to invalidate the ballots of a majority of Americans shows how frail our democracy has become, and how close Trump's GOP is bringing us to neofascism. Do not be complacent.
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In the months and years ahead, those of us who believe in democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and truth, must do everything we can to win back our fellow countrymen to these same overriding values.
The link he posted shows it's a dangerous situation
from 7:49:
[Putin and Trump] resemble one another in their contempt for democratic institutions and their attempts to justify violence by asserting a threat to a dominant racial or ethnic group. Each also represents the logical culmination of leadership by a dangerous narcissist who flagrantly lies about his intentions and his opponents and who sees the world only in terms of his personal power.
Re 7:49
It is disconcerting
to think that the term
"dangerous narcissist"
can be applied to
~~~~Donald Trump
~~~~~~~~and
~~~~Vladimir Putin
both of whom unsuccessfully
...........tried to bully
~~~Vladimir Zelensky.
Bill Barr has a new book about his term.
The book opens with a Dec. 1, 2020, meeting with Mr. Trump hours after Mr. Barr gave an interview contradicting the president’s claims of a stolen election, saying the Justice Department had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
Mr. Trump was furious, he writes, accusing Mr. Barr of “pulling the rug out from under me” and saying he must “hate Trump.” After Mr. Barr says he explained why claims of various fraud were unfounded, he offered to resign and Mr. Trump slammed the table and yelled “accepted!” Mr. Trump reversed himself as Mr. Barr left the White House, but Mr. Barr stepped down before the end of the month.
His book expands on that theme, going through specific “fact-free claims of fraud” that Mr. Trump has put forward and explaining why the Justice Department found them baseless. He lists several reasons, for example, that claims about purportedly hacked Dominion voting machines were “absolute nonsense” and “meaningless twaddle.”
“The election was not ‘stolen,’” Mr. Barr writes. “Trump lost it.”
Ch to this day, he keeps saying that fraud probably got Sleepy Joe Biden elected President.
This idiot sure speaks volumes for the dumb fuck rural GOP voters in Ga!!!!! Sad how popular this dumb shit is amongst the mentally challenged voters!!!
USA TODAY
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized for speaking at white nationalist conference
David Jackson, USA TODAY
Sun, February 27, 2022, 3:15 PM
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., spoke before a meeting of white nationalists who support Russian President Vladimir Putin, drawing a rebuke Saturday from the leader of the Republican National Committee and others.
“White supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican Party," RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.
Greene, who is barred from sitting on congressional committees because of extremist comments, said she did not know the views of the delegates at the conference and did not apologize for speaking there.
He mentions that conspiracy theories dominated his mind, like Scott has for years now.
Barr: “He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails. He surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.”
Scott has done the same thing since he rolled down the escalator....
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Regarding the State of the Union speech, it will be interesting to observe which sides of the aisle do or do not stand up and applaud what will be a very patriotic, "America Leads" speech.
You do realize that a bowl of Jello will be delivering the SOTU, right pederast?
"Relax, Democrats"
says John Harris:
“Here is one place Biden and his anxious party might start:
By remembering that the modern presidency offers its occupants nearly inexhaustible capacity for political revival.
While Biden faces a growing roster of doubts and doubters — including within his own party — his two immediate Democratic predecessors offer vivid examples showing that the tools for him to reverse perceptions and regain control of his presidency are within his grasp.
“Biden’s, Obama’s, and Clinton’s troubles in the opening phase of their presidencies are all different in detail.
But they share a common dynamic — progressives with an ambitious agenda who faced a uniformly hostile and remorseless partisan opposition, and were widely perceived in the opening phase of their tenures as being in over their heads.”
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Yet Clinton and Obama were both reelected, and Biden....
Ch to this day, he keeps saying that fraud probably got Sleepy
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Probably my ass....he is absolutely certain of it and to date has never provided proof that any fraud occurred!!!!!! Just statistical information that vote count releases were outside of normal range, but were not fraud!!!!!!
Here comes a knee slapper:
Ask Putin if Biden is "a bowl of jello."
The bottom line is that he is unfit to be the President of the United States of America and for which it stands. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.
I would prefer Senator Marco Rubio..
He is a true friend who. Unlike DeSantis who is a Trumpet player
Or another ice cream bar...
2020 US became Energy Independent *(according to HB and Jamie)
Over the weekend Biden re-affirmed he will keep his chains on US Energy producers.
Current Avg.$3.610
Last Day of Trump in office $2.24
Yet Clinton and Obama were both reelected, and Biden....
I still believe that he will win a second term because he will have defeated Vladimir Putin and helped rebuild the European Union.
Kputz is fixated on gasoline prices.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Kputz is fixated on gasoline prices.
So is everyone who owns and drives a vehicle, alky.
This excludes those like yourself who are prohibited from driving and are remanded to an insane asylum.
He is a true friend who.
You mean like Cindy Lou Who?
Donald Trump Jr.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1497965750400827395
Yikes! Also 54 percent think Biden mentally incapable of serving (including 59 percent of independents)
ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics
JUST IN: A career-low 37% of Americans approve of Pres. Biden’s job performance, with 55% disapproving.
That includes just 30% approval among political independents and 10% from Republicans. http://abcn.ws/3teI4oR
and dementia doesn't improve
there is no new improved jello aka Biden
HAPPENING NOW
Ukraine demands cease-fire in talks with Russia
That will not be granted.
Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble
By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come
Russian President Vladimir Putin chose this war, Joe Biden said in his Thursday afternoon speech to America regarding the conflict in Ukraine. That is true, but U.S. elites also had something to do with Putin’s ugly and destructive choice—a role that Democrats and Republicans are eager to paper over with noble-sounding rhetoric about the bravery of Ukraine’s badly outgunned military. Yes, the Ukrainian soldiers standing up to Putin are very brave, but it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price for America’s folly.
It is not an expression of support for Putin’s grotesque actions to try to understand why it seemed worthwhile for him to risk hundreds of billions of dollars, the lives of thousands of servicemen, and the possible stability of his own regime in order to invade his neighbor. After all, Putin’s reputation until this moment has always been as a shrewd ex-KGB man who eschewed high-risk gambles in favor of sure things backed by the United States, like entering Syria and then escalating forces there. So why has he adopted exactly the opposite strategy here, and chosen the road of open high-risk confrontation with the American superpower?
continues:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble
worth a read
in a blog comment section saturated with leftwing propaganda
from deranged and demented old white men
OH NO! INTERFERING WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!
Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts pushing anti-Ukraine propaganda
NBC
Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.
One of the operations, a propaganda campaign featuring a website pushing anti-Ukraine talking points, was an offshoot of a known Russian disinformation operation. A Facebook spokesperson said it used computer-generated faces to bolster the credibility of fake columnists across several platforms, including Instagram.
The other campaign used hacked accounts to push similar anti-Ukraine propaganda and was tied to a known Belarusian hacking group.
Disinformation experts warned that Russia is expected to continue to try to manipulate narratives about Ukraine — most notably around the claims made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The networks that were removed by Facebook and Twitter pushed narratives that Putin himself mentioned in his speech announcing a military operation, which has since turned into a large-scale invasion.
The announcement also demonstrates that Russia continues to use disinformation strategies first identified years ago around the 2016 election, albeit with some advancements — most notably the use of software that can create realistic and original human faces.
The larger of the two disinformation groups operated in Russia, as well as the Russian-dominated Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine, said Nathaniel Gleicher, Meta's head of security policy, and it is tied to the websites News Front and South Front, which the U.S. government has designated as part of a broader disinformation effort that had connections to Russian intelligence. (Meta is the parent company of Facebook.)
'These actors are trying to undermine trust in the Ukrainian government'
Gleicher said in an interview that the propaganda campaign was able to “seed stories across the internet that Ukraine isn’t doing well” by “pretending to be journalists based in Kyiv.”
“The good news is that neither of these campaigns have been that effective, but we do see these actors trying to target Ukraine at this point,” he said.
“These actors are trying to undermine trust in the Ukrainian government, suggest that it’s a failed state, suggest that the war is going very poorly in Ukraine or trying to praise Russia.”
...the article continues...
Something historic is happening right now. The nation and the world, are uniting in opposition to the russian invasion. But what us noteworthy is thst it is happening without the president of the United States. He is nearly invisible, not leading. The President of Ukraine has looked and acted like the far better leader.
Want another example of anti American propaganda?
You'll find it right up there at 8:39.
________
Even the alleged author of that post is fake.
Another example:
Balls' 8:44
and dementia doesn't improve
there is no new improved jello aka Biden
And we have a $10 whore in the on-deck circle.
Yay.
"Today is the day for us to do the same things that we do every day, and that day is today."
Yay.
The West’s Plan to Undermine the Ruble
February 28, 2022 at 9:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“By targeting Russia’s central bank with sanctions, experts said, American and European leaders have taken aim at what could be one of President Vladimir Putin’s greatest weaknesses: the country’s currency,” the New York Times reports.
“In Russian cities, anxious customers started lining up on Sunday in front of ATM’s, hoping to withdraw the money they had deposited in banks, fearful it would run out. The panic spread on Monday.”
“In Russia today, as the purchasing power of the ruble drops sharply, consumers who hold it are finding that they can buy less with their money. In real terms, they become poorer. Such economic instability could stoke popular unhappiness and even unrest.”
Britain Moves to Crackdown on Russian ‘Dirty Money’
February 28, 2022 at 9:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
“Britain will intensify a crackdown on what Prime Minister Boris Johnson called ‘dirty money’ by introducing the government’s Economic Crime Bill to parliament on Monday, a step brought forward in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Reuters reports.
“The much-delayed legislation comes as many opposition lawmakers and those in the governing Conservative party have called on Johnson’s government to do more to stop the flow of Russian cash into London, dubbed by some as ‘Londongrad'”
When was the last time you fueled a car you owned , Roger?
#2 yellow corn is $6.77,Biden
Trump was $ 3.97
Anti American??
Good grief. Little wonder no obe takes you seriously anymore.
He is nearly invisible, not leading.
C'mon man! He's leading 'from behind' myballs.
That's a thing now since 0linsky made it a thing.
racist rat thinks nothing new is being done
James spent 4 years bashing president Trump. I guess he was anti American.
Ask Putin if Joe is leading from behind.
"No, he and NATO are hot on my tail."
Per the pederast -
If you refuse to march in lockstep with Joey Sprinkles you are an anti-American traitor and you must be executed with Tucker Carlson.
This is some of that "tolerance and inclusion" we're always hearing about from the left.
Agrre.
Or face wall.
Agrre. = AGREE
Better yet, let's ask the Ukrainian President if biden is leading anything.
James speaking As Putin.
MyballsFebruary 28, 2022 at 8:56 AM
Better yet, let's ask the Ukrainian President if biden is leading anything"
Biden is leading the parade leaving Ukraine.
Biden sends Uber for Ukraine President
.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev.
Now that is a true fake.
or as it is commonly called a lie
Wha a lying POS "pastor"
and that's the truth
NATO has no role here pederast.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
Drawing NATO into this conflict in the absence of an attack on a NATO member nation is also in violation of the NATO charter.
KansasDemocrat said...
James speaking As Putin.
Well he also speaks as Hitler
and Jesus
and says he doesn't lie
ROFLMFAO !!!
U.S. BANS TRANSACTION WITH RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK
“The U.S. has taken its most aggressive step yet to cripple Russia’s economy and financial system,
announcing a ban on transactions with Russia’s central bank and new sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund and its chief executive Kirill Dmitriev,”
the Financial Times reports.
“The move by the U.S. Treasury on Monday morning follows a joint pledge by western nations on Saturday to block Russia’s ability to access roughly $630 billion in foreign reserves and impose huge costs on its economy in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.”
Taegan Goddard comments:
"This is the atom bomb of economic sanctions."
Ukraine Vows Not to Surrender
“Ukraine has vowed that it will not surrender to Russia, as talks are held between delegates from both countries following days of clashes across Ukraine,”
CNBC reports.
Said Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba:
“Ukraine is ready to continue seeking a diplomatic solution, but Ukraine is not ready to surrender or capitulate.”
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
That tweet is something, given what we know now.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1497600066508537860
So there was a criminal conspiracy to frame the president of the United Sates
funny how state media is ignoring that
Randy Quaid
https://twitter.com/RandyRRQuaid/status/1497740483753173001
“We’re going to kick the Biden crime family out of the WhiteHouse in 2024”—- Trump
the whole swamp needs to go
I see they lying POS "pastor" has forgotten
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what an asshole
"...in violation of the NATO charter...
LOL
I guess rat thinks
the NATO charter specifies that member nations can ONLY come to the aid of member nations...
ABC News
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1497800543107895296
Republican congressional candidates have a 49-42% advantage over Democrats among registered voters, widening to 54-41% among those who say they both are registered and certain to vote in November, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds. http://abcn.ws/3teI4oR
Lowest Democrat numbers in over 40 years
Biden is destroying America and people see it
Is he back from his weekend off yet ?
You know, this blog
today had much reasonable
content.
Then rat and KanDim and pseudo F Daddy showed up.
But do not worry. I will continue to maintian a high degree of journalistic integrity.
Since when is copy pasting a thread to death called journalistic integrity?
I guess rat thinks
the NATO charter specifies that member nations can ONLY come to the aid of member nations...
No, stupid.
Any NATO nation can go out and pick a fight on their own. The other members are under no obligation to join them or defend them.
Article 5 speaks to the defensive nature of the charter.
So in the context of Ukraine, NATO is, in fact, irrelevant.
The United States and our allies are destroying Russia.
The West’s Plan to Undermine the Ruble
February 28, 2022 at 9:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments
“By targeting Russia’s central bank with sanctions, experts said, American and European leaders have taken aim at what could be one of President Vladimir Putin’s greatest weaknesses: the country’s currency,” the New York Times reports.
“In Russian cities, anxious customers started lining up on Sunday in front of ATM’s, hoping to withdraw the money they had deposited in banks, fearful it would run out. The panic spread on Monday.”
“In Russia today, as the purchasing power of the ruble drops sharply, consumers who hold it are finding that they can buy less with their money. In real terms, they become poorer. Such economic instability could stoke popular unhappiness and even unrest.”
________
There are many signs of a crisis in Russia Russia Russia.
NATO Defcon 2?
You spent 8 years attacking Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
Political reasons I'd not anti American
“In Russia today, as the purchasing power of the ruble drops sharply, consumers who hold it are finding that they can buy less with their money. In real terms, they become poorer. Such economic instability could stoke popular unhappiness and even unrest.”
What a coincidence. This is exactly what Biden has done to the U.S..
...they can buy less with their money. In real terms, they become poorer.
Such economic instability could stoke popular unhappiness and even unrest.
Well, they ARE erecting a fence around the capitol again, now aren't they?
Political reasons I'd not anti American
Thousand Island dressing, croutons, and a modicum of cracked pepper please, waiter.
LOL
I guess rat thinks
the NATO charter specifies that member nations can ONLY come to the aid of member nations...
Reverend rat outthought you.
Switzerland joins Russia sanctions, breaking neutral status
Teaganne Finn
27m ago / 7:20 AM PST
Switzerland announced on Monday it will sanction Russia over the war in Ukraine, breaking its traditional neutral status.
"Switzerland reaffirms its solidarity with Ukraine and its people; it will be delivering relief supplies for people who have fled to Poland," Switzerland's federal council said in a statement Monday.
The attack on Ukraine was the first military action in The Third World War. Very much like Pearl Harbor attacks.
If the Russians succeed, it will have two nuclear weapond allies, China and North Korea.
Fortunately our allies around the world are using economic attacks and military supplies and technology weapons system to defend Ukraine and eastern Europe.
The President's State of the Union address is as important as FDR in 1942. And we will prevail without direct Militarily forces.
Reverend rat outthought you.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Rat loses to everyone....LOLOLOL
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Rat loses to everyone..
Is there anyone who is such a perpetual loser as you fat boy?
Biden declared WAR Yet?
"The Third World War." ALKY
Loser Cramps attempts to be a big man!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Another Putin boy bites the trump fat ass!!!!
The attack on Ukraine was the first military action in The Third World War. Very much like Pearl Harbor attacks.
If Russians succeed, it will have two nuclear weapond allies, China and North Korea.
Fortunately our allies around the world are using economic attacks and military supplies and technology weapons system to defend Ukraine and eastern Europe.
The President's State of the Union address is as important as FDR in 1942. And we will prevail without direct Militarily forces.
I do not think that Ukraine is the first shot of Third World War.
Nor are China and North Korea allies of Russia. In fact all China wants to do is make mischief for the US.
I'm sure you and the reverend will go Gaga over Biden's SOTU.
The President's State of The Union address is critical.
In the opening days of the war in Ukraine, the fractious American public is remarkably united in opposition to Russia’s invasion, with 74 percent saying the breach is not justified and 76 percent expressing an unfavorable opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Yet in a striking sign of how deep partisanship continues to run in the U.S., just 3 percent of 2020 Donald Trump voters are willing to say President Biden is “doing a better job leading his country” than Putin. Nearly half (47 percent) of Trump voters say Putin is doing a better job than Biden, even as Russia’s economy threatens to collapse under the weight of crippling global sanctions. A slightly smaller share of Trump voters (45 percent) say “neither” man is doing a better job than the other.
More Trump voters also express an unfavorable opinion of Biden (95 percent) than of Putin (78 percent) — with a full 87 percent saying they have a “very” unfavorable opinion of the U.S. president versus just 60 percent who say the same about his Russian counterpart.
The poll of 1,532 U.S. adults, which was conducted online from Feb. 24-27, sheds light on how sharply domestic opinion has shifted toward Ukraine since Putin launched his onslaught — especially among Republicans. At the same time, it reveals how reluctant many of those same Americans are to credit Biden for his response.
Three weeks ago, Americans were more likely to say the U.S. should remain neutral (49 percent) than side with Ukraine (46 percent); today, they’re more than twice as likely to want the U.S. to side with Ukraine (57 percent) than to stay out of it (25 percent). Republican opinion has shifted the most, from 8 points in favor of neutrality earlier this month to 34 points in favor of siding with Ukraine.
Because he is going to address the Ukraine crisis and the Russian militay attacks first invasion since 1945 when we invaded Germany, he may change the minds of millions of Americans.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
The attack on Ukraine was the first military action in The Third World War. Very much like Pearl Harbor attacks.
And the alky jumps out to an early lead in the "dumbest fucking comment of the day" contest.
Hide under your bed alky. The 5th Beatle is there to protect you.
Pearl harbor. WW III
YOU FUCKING MORON.*
* h/t: Indy Voter.
The President's State of The Union address is critical.
I'm sure Nancy Pelosi will tear up the SOTU in front of Biden (/sarcasm)
Because he is going to address the Ukraine crisis and the Russian militay attacks first invasion since 1945 when we invaded Germany, he may change the minds of millions of Americans.
yeah, that's it. The guy upwards of 60% of America thinks is as intelligent as a bowl of fucking Jello is going to change the minds of millions of Americans.
Just. Like. That.
Alky, ask the orderlies if you can take your pink elephants out for some fresh air.
60% of americans think rat is a racist trump sucking bigoted asshole who is nothing but a whining pussy of the GOP!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
For the next time you encounter a leftist who demands to be taken seriously.-
NPR: Nourish yourself. The kitchen is a safe space for a lot of us.
Hey Democrats! Currently, Trump isn’t the president, your boy is.
Deal with it.
Ukraine
Afghanistan
Inflation
Unemployment
Inner-city crime
Border
Election integrity
COVID
The only “root cause” is you.
https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1498064184830935041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498064184830935041%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F
The next time you encounter an R who demands a recount, remind him that is what Putin did to get power......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Pelosi just dropped the SOTU mask mandate. I'm sure the CDC timing is just coincidence.
I wonder which Ukraine family the Whitehouse will find to attend the SOTU.
BTW Rat.....Biden is dealing admirably with your whole fucking list....All trump did was play golf and pray the BS went away by doing nothing!!!!!
Damn. We don't call you dopey for nothing.
Awesome post ball less.......I don't call you a fucking asshole because your not......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
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