During questioning from Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, Wolters said he was part of the effort to deter Russia, as well. Gallagher asked, as transcribed by WE: “Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?”
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| I can’t argue with your conclusions. |
Wolters began to give a typical non-answer to Gallagher’s question: “Number one, I would say that NATO’s solidarity remained” — prompting the lawmaker to cut him off and demand a direct answer. Amazing stuff; made even more amazing by Wolters’s admission:
I can’t argue with your conclusions.
Like everything else over the past year or so, this Administration had no plan. Nothing at all planned that could have possibly prevented this. They may or may not have even considered something that would have prevented it, but they (once again) seem to have been caught flat footed. None of this would have happened had we had more competent leadership.
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Everything woke turns to shit. Our military is no exception.
Biden sent Harris prior to the invation to keep the peace .
They failed.
Biden on day #1 attacked the USA Oil producers, at that point Putin knew he could do what he wanted .
Biden gave the green light to the invasion when he said that ""minor incursion." .
Unemployment claims rise by 14,000.
Yes, of course, unexpectedly.
Biden admits his EO that crushed US Energy independence has failed.
Admitting the US Economy runs on oil, not on Fairy Dust and Unicorn Farts.
Biden is draining the SPR for 6 months at 1,000,000 barrels a day.
Taking 1/3 of the Oil out of the Reserve.
What a crock. Putin had been planning to invade for a long time. Bolton is convinced that he was only waiting for Trump to be reelected president (as Putin hoped), for that would have made it even easier for him to invade without strong American led resistamce.
You can try to rewrite history,
but you cannot.
Putin is the one who gravely miscalculated, but you want to blame the wrong people.
Everything that Putin expected proved false.
A rapid take over of Kiev did not take place.
Ukrainians did not welcome Russian troops as liberators, quite the contrary.
The solidity of Ukrainian military resistance to Russian dominance has surprised the world.
Putin thought he could drive wedges into NATO, but NATO is more united than ever.
Putin thought he could sway Germany to be a weak NATO partner, but Germany is surprisingly supprting NATO even at cost to itself.
Putin is now having to try to ferret out some other plan in a desperate attempt to try not to lose face for allowing Ukraine to continue to exist.
Blame Putin for this.
Not Biden.
Nonsense.
Biden continued to state relentlessly that the Russians were going to invade, even when many others did not think so.
Why? Because Biden trusted our intelligence, not Putin's assurances.
Even now, we are embarrassing Russia and Putin by releasing normally classified intelligence material revealing that Putin has been misled as to what is really happening in Ukraine by his own staff and military leaders who are afraid to tell him the simple truth of what has happened and is happening.
Russian troops are frightened, demoralized, and disgusted by how badly this invasion has been handled and how dishonestly it has been presented the the folks back home.
It truly is a stupid move .
It is an international wound inflicted by Biden upon Capitalism.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Cheered on Day #1 when Biden signed his EO that crushed US Energy independence.
What Accounts for the Suspicious Gap In Trump’s Call Log?
12:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Aaron Blake:
“From the moment we learned the extent of the 7.5-hour gap in White House records of President Trump’s phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021, the question has been: How did this happen? Could it just be sloppy record-keeping — that so happened to overlap with the most critical and problematic portion of that day (that is, the insurrection)? Could Trump have used burner phones? Or could someone even have engaged in Watergate-style tampering?
“The answer isn’t just a matter of curiosity; it could matter legally. Coverups, after all, can be used to prove criminal intent. And the Jan. 6 investigation is trending in that direction, with some recent validation.
“All of the above-mentioned options are viable, given what we know so far.”
LIBERAL HEADS ARE NOT EXPLODING OVER THIS:
On CBS News Hiring Mick Mulvaney
12:00 pm EDT
Aaron Rupar:
“There’s nothing wrong with an outlet like CBS trying to balance its stable of commentators. It’s rare that a single perspective gives the right answer on every question of tax policy, budget priorities, or foreign policy, and often those questions are of fundamental belief, rather than the simple fact of the matter. Conservative voices can represent a valid perspective in those conversations.
“But lying and bad faith isn’t a side — it’s toxic to the constructive exchanges of ideas and information you’d hope major media outlets would try to encourage.”
BUT I BET CONSERVATIVE HEADS WILL BE EXPLODING OVER THIS:
FOX NEWS Hires Caitlyn Jenner
1:40 am EDT
Fox News announced that it has hired Caitlyn Jenner, the former athlete and reality TV star,
as a Fox News contributor.
Said Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott: “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all.”
What a crock. Putin had been planning to invade for a long time. Bolton is convinced that he was only waiting for Trump to be reelected president (as Putin hoped), for that would have made it even easier for him to invade without strong American led resistamce.
Nothing like a good fantasy!
Why would Putin take a chance that Trump would not be reelected (considering how far down in the polls he was)...
if he wanted to invade while Trump was in office he had four years to do so.
If he was interested at all in getting Trump reelected, then he would have invaded Ukraine sometime in 2020, which would have pulled Americans together and likely gottne Trump "reelected" as we generally do not change horses in midstream when the country is in crisis.
Perhaps you should actually find someone who provide just a tiny bit of logic behind their arguments, rather than people who twist themselves into a pretzel trying to argue away the reality.
Reality!!!!
Putin did not invade under Trump.
Putin started setting up this invasion within a few months of Biden taking over. The feckless Afghanistan mess probably just crossed the T and dotted the I.
Nope.
So Bruce is a new hire.
Ok, let's see how he does.
Caitlyn Jenner Named Fox News Contributor, to Make Debut on Hannity
Former Olympic gold medalist and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner has joined Fox News as a contributor, the cable network announced Thursday. She will make her first appearance during tonight’s episode of Hannity (at 9/8c).
“Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. “She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”
Added Jenner,
“I am humbled by this unique opportunity to speak directly to FOX News Media’s millions of viewers about a range of issues that are important to the American people.”
Jenner is no stranger to Fox News. She was the inaugural guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight after Carlson succeeded Bill O’Reilly in the 8 pm time slot in April 2017, and has since appeared on America Reports, Fox and Friends First, Gutfeld!, Hannity and Outnumbered.
In 2021, Jenner ran as the Republican opponent to Gov. Gavin Newsom in the California recall election and received less than two percent of the vote.
Jenner previously co-starred on E!’s long-running reality series Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which ran for 20 seasons and ended last April. She is not expected to appear in the Kardashians’ Hulu followup The Kardashians, which premieres Thursday, April 14.
Will you be tuning in for Jenner’s official Fox News debut on Hannity?
Nominal consumer spending Feb. 0.2%
Dropping a unbelievable 2.5% , from.prior report.
"Will you be tuning in for Jenner’s official Fox News debut on Hannity?"
Nope
Since I don't watch Hannity , ever.
Bidenomics gets another loss, Americans are losing.
Real disposable income Feb.-0.2
Ch is assuming that if Trump had been elected he would suddenly have changed his attitude toward Putin.
Or would he have said (as he did say!) that Putin's amassing of troops at Ukraine's border was a fantastic "negotiation" tactic?
And would he have believed (as he previously did*) Putin's word ("I believe him") that he was not going to invade over our own intelligence agencies' convictions that he definitely was going to invade.
Biden's revelation that we knew what was really being said by Putin's own generals shook him up and made his lying look even worse because it disarmed the "false flag" strategy he had hoped to use.
Just as our intelligence disarmed the "Ukraine is about to use chemical warfare" claim that Putin had hoped to use.
Bidenomics gets another loss.
Real consumer spending Feb.-0.4%.
Nothing like a good fantasy!
This is why he only copy and pastes, on his own he’s dumber than dirt
Bidenomics is based fully in Socialism.
The Average American has been crushed by Biden/Harris failures.
"This is why he only copy and pastes, on his own he’s dumber than dirt"
Yep,
Putin threatens to turn off Europe's gas supplies TOMORROW if countries refuse to pay in roubles, saying 'We get nothing free of charge and we are not going to engage in charity either'
LOL
Now Cali will tell us where I stated anything erroneous in my 11:58.
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US President Joe Biden's speech in Warsaw had strong words for Vladimir Putin, but even stronger words in support of a free world. DW's Bartosz Dudek writes that Biden may just have made history.
They were historic words that US President Joe Biden spoke in Warsaw on Saturday, words that at times recalled the famous speech that John F. Kennedy gave in Berlin, or Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat and Tears" address.
The most important words were directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin: The free world stands united — and the Kremlin's imperialist plans will fail. Ukraine has the right to freedom and sovereignty. Putin's decision to invade Ukraine will ruin Russia's economy and rob Russians of the opportunity for a future.
Redstate is as crazy as Alex Jones aka the former cold-hearted truth
There's a lot of energy being expended to devise ingenious reasons why Putin's disastrous war is actually a mastermind success. But need to do some double-entry bookkeeping here about what Russia has already lost: starting with its reputation for military competence.
It's obvious that Cali cannot answer me
1) because he cannot
2) because he is too busy rottin for Putin
BUT
[Putin's] move has been seen as a bid to bolster the Russian currency, which fell to historic lows when the West applied sanctions after he sent his army into Ukraine on February 24. Western companies and governments have rejected the demands as a breach of existing contracts, which are set in euros or dollars.
Russia has been hit by sweeping sanctions on its economy and trade since the start of Putin's war in Ukraine but measures by EU governments have not targeted oil and gas contracts with Moscow because many member states are heavily reliant on the Kremlin's supplies.
The European Union gets 30 per cent of its oil usage from Moscow and relies on Russia for 40 per cent of its gas consumption, costing the bloc £340million (€400million) a day.
However Moscow cannot easily carry out threats of shutting off deliveries to Europe because the Kremlin has no alternative pipelines to redirect the oil and gas to other markets and does not have sufficient storage facilities to hold oil and gas reserves until alternative buyers can be found.
Putin said the switch was meant to strengthen Russia's sovereignty, and insisted Moscow would stick to its obligations on all contracts, if foreign buyers agreed to pay in roubles.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck today rejected Putin's demands of payment in roubles as an unacceptable breach of contract, adding that the manoeuvre amounted to 'blackmail'.
Separately, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said German companies would continue to pay for Russian gas using euros as stipulated in contracts. 'By all means, it remains the case that companies want, can and will pay in euros,' he told a joint news conference with his Austrian counterpart Karl Nehammer.
A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that companies do not plan to pay for Russian gas in roubles, adding that the government was monitoring the implications for the European market of President Putin's demand.
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THEIR BACKS ARE STEEL.
AS IS BIDEN'S.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself a gifted and courageous leader who, logically, we should support and supply. But he is not an archangel pitted against evil Russian 18-year-old conscripts or necessarily the moral superior to Russian pianists and tourists.
Millions of impoverished Russians had no say about Putin’s savage misadventure in Ukraine.
That Ukraine is morally in the right and certainly deserves Western help does not mean that all Russians should be demonized or an often-corrupt Ukrainian government that just suspended its opposition parties should be deified.
Fifth, the Russian military abroad. The Russian army is historically unbeatable on its home soil. Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler all wrecked their once indomitable militaries once they crossed into Russia.
But the expeditionary armies of a multiethnic, disparate Russia have never done well abroad in major foreign invasions against determined enemies.
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Moscow faced a series of embarrassing and utter defeats in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905.
The czar’s 1914 invasion of German East Prussia ended in catastrophe. Russia invaded Poland and lost the Polish war of 1919-1921.
Stalin’s attack on tiny Finland in 1939 soon turned into a bloody quagmire. The decade-long invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ended in defeat.
Given these past realities, Ukraine can defeat Putin’s expeditionary army if the United States and its NATO allies increase aid, do not embrace no-fly zones or other provocative trajectories to World War III, cease crazy talk of killing or removing Putin, stop whipping up hatred of all things Russian, and remember that history was never on Putin’s side when he invaded Ukraine.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare.
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Putin threatens to turn off Europe's gas supplies TOMORROW if countries refuse to pay in roubles, saying 'We get nothing free of charge and we are not going to engage in charity either'
Excellent.
Let them burn Koran's to keep warm. Lord knows they must have several million of those laying around after letting all those radical moose-limb refugees invade.
Re 12:14 Notice how devoid of an actual argument Cali's post is.
There's no steel that related to Biden. Only steal.
Notice how stupid 12:17 is.
Notice how devoid of real argument
12:18 is.
If Trump had been elected, he would have withdrawan for NATO and Putin would have succeeded to rebuild the Russian empire.
But you have your head up Trump’s ass.
Nice selective edit of VDH's comments, alky -
There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war.
First, no-fly zones. Lots of Westerners are calling for NATO aircraft to establish a no-fly zone above Ukraine to stop Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities.
That is a terrible idea. Russian planes can still launch missiles from the nearby airspace of Russia and Belarus. No nation in history has declared a no-fly zone against an adversarial nuclear power.
No-fly zones are best known from the 12-year air block over Iraq in between the two Gulf Wars.
NATO also imposed a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, and again over Libya in 2011.
These efforts were aimed respectively at the bloody though small-time dictators Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milošević, and Muammar Gaddafi. None had nuclear weapons.
Eventually the air patrols withered away. Often allies bickered about their relative contributions. Sometimes the zones failed to stop ongoing anarchy on the ground. Enemies often still used low-flying ground assault helicopters.
The United States never attempted a no-fly zone against either nuclear Russia or China during the Cold War—despite a long history of these countries supplying wartime enemies of ours.
No nation wishes to risk Armageddon over the skies of a third party.
Second, regime change. There has been a lot of wild talk—from Joe Biden and various U.S. senators on down—about removing or assassinating Vladimir Putin to achieve “regime change” in Russia.
Here too, the United States has a mixed record, at best—from the engineered ouster of Vietnam’s Ngǒ Đình Diệm to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Efforts to kill Fidel Castro boomeranged in ways that likely still remain classified.
Dozens of Cold War-era forced removals of hostile heads of state in Asia, Africa, and Latin America often did not achieve objectives that were in long-term U.S. interests, much less did they achieve regional stability. Such coups and hit jobs did, however, tarnish America’s claim to the moral high ground.
In chicken-and-the-egg fashion, do odious dictators really hijack power from oppressed societies, or are they simply emblematic of them? Before Putin, were there democratically elected czars, Soviet premiers, or post-Cold War Russian strongmen?
Once Western liberals talk sloppily about removing heads of states, such authoritarians naturally will do the same. Do we really want Vladimir Putin threatening Western presidents, given the past propensity of his political enemies to disappear?
Third, nation building. Western powers—for a time—can “nation build” abroad. But recreating nations in our image requires terrible cost in blood and treasure.
Even idealists are branded as “neocolonialists” and “imperialists.” Even the beneficiaries of liberal democracy still feel it was “imposed” and any gratitude or warm feeling for America is short-lived.
The American public, meanwhile, rails that the trillions of dollars spent abroad could be better used at home. Witness the recent failed 20-year mess in Afghanistan.
Fourth, moral hysteria. The United States does not have a good record of turning wars into moral crusades by branding our allies divine and our enemies satanic.
America was wrong to have banned German language instruction during World War I. It should never have put Japanese legal residents and patriotic Japanese-Americans in detention camps during World War II.
For years, the United States has seemed unhinged as it caricatures Russians as subhuman thugs—from crudely stereotyped tattooed, shaved-head villains in Hollywood movies to mythical bogeymen who supposedly engineered the Russian collusion hoax, the Russian Alfa Bank hoax, and the Hunter Biden laptop Russian “disinformation” hoax.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself a gifted and courageous leader who, logically, we should support and supply. But he is not an archangel pitted against evil Russian 18-year-old conscripts or necessarily the moral superior to Russian pianists and tourists.
Millions of impoverished Russians had no say about Putin’s savage misadventure in Ukraine.
That Ukraine is morally in the right and certainly deserves Western help does not mean that all Russians should be demonized or an often-corrupt Ukrainian government that just suspended its opposition parties should be deified.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/30/history-should-be-our-guide-in-ukraine/
Ch is assuming that if Trump had been elected he would suddenly have changed his attitude toward Putin.
Here is the ENTIRE problem with your argument.
It relies 100%.... not 90%... not 95%... not 99%....
but 100% on "assumptions" and those "assumptions" are generally made by same people who have been wrong, wrong, and then more wrong about pretty much everything Trump.
There is no argument.
Putin did not invade under Trump.
He has invaded under Biden.
Those are the facts!
"assumptions" from "Trump haters" really don't override reality.
Was Bolton only "assuming" that Trump was decidedly anti NATO, Ch?
Seems he had abundant evidence that he WAS.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
Was Bolton only "assuming" that Trump was decidedly anti NATO, Ch?
Seems he had abundant evidence that he WAS.
Did Trump take the steps to actually remove the US from NATO, pederast?
Seems there is an abundance of evidence that he did NOT.
Seems there's also an abundance of evidence that the other NATO nations suddenly, inexplicably, started paying what you leftist assholes like to call "their fair share."
Bolton has a book to sell, pederast.
'Nuff said.
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Biden Warns Threat Of Russian Invasion Of Ukraine 'Very High' As Russia Expels No. 2 Diplomat
Last updated (GMT/UTC): February 17, 2022 17:05 GMT
By RFE/RL
U.S. President Joe Biden speak to reporters on February 17: "Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine and attack Ukraine."
U.S. President Joe Biden speak to reporters on February 17: "Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine and attack Ukraine."
U.S. President Joe Biden says the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is "very high" but that the door to a diplomatic solution remains open, even after Russia expelled the No. 2 official from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Biden told reporters on February 17 as he departed the White House that he had received Russia's response to U.S. security proposals but could not comment because he had not yet read it.
Asked to assess the threat level, Biden said: "My sense is this [attack] will happen in the next several days."
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Biden said Russia has not moved back its forces from the Ukrainian border as Moscow has claimed and said the United States has reason to believe Russia is engaged in a “false-flag operation” to justify an invasion.
"Every indication we have is they’re prepared to go into Ukraine and attack Ukraine," Biden added.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy confirmed the expulsion of Bart Gorman, the deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Moscow but gave no details on why the move was taken.
"Russia’s action against our DCM was unprovoked and we consider this an escalatory step and are considering our response," a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the UN Security Council that Russia is “taking steps down the path to war” and that the only responsible way to resolve the crisis over its troop buildup near Ukraine is diplomacy.
The U.S. chief diplomat warned that Russian forces are preparing to launch an attack against Ukraine in "coming days," and it likely would be preceded by fake or real attacks that would give it a pretext to invade. He said the targets include the capital, Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million people.
Blinken said he wanted to speak to the council “not to start a war but to prevent one.” He urged Russia to "choose a different path” and avert a war that would affect the lives and safety of millions of people.
"The Russian government can announce today, with no qualification, equivocation, or deflection, that Russia will not invade Ukraine. State it clearly. State it plainly to the world, and then demonstrate it by sending your troops, your tanks, the planes back to their barracks and hangars and sending your diplomats to the negotiating table," Blinken said, speaking to the 15-member council in New York.
He also said he has asked for another in-person meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to take place next week in Europe and said Germany and France are standing by ready to take up negotiations on the conflict in eastern Ukraine following the Minsk accords.
If Russia wants diplomacy the United States and its allies “will give Moscow every opportunity for it to demonstrate that commitment,” Blinken said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin told the council the military scenarios put forward by Blinken were regrettable and dangerous and said some Russian soldiers are returning to their home bases.
The United States and NATO earlier this week dismissed Russia’s claims of a troop withdrawal and said Moscow was in fact sending more forces to areas near Ukraine.
The only people who buy your bullsit have SLDS
Your IED is getting worse
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
If Trump had been elected, he would have withdrawan for NATO and Putin would have succeeded to rebuild the Russian empire.
But you have your head up Trump’s ass.
Hey alky -
Let Char-Lee know that Sloppy Joe sees him/her/it today-
Biden honors Transgender Day of Visibility: "Your President sees you"
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Was Bolton only "assuming" that Trump was decidedly anti NATO, Ch?
Seems he had abundant evidence that he WAS.
Bolton can have whatever "opinion" he wants. There is no "assumption" in an opinion. Obviously Trump was always critical of NATO and critical of NATO countries using Russian oil, making Putin richer, and then asking us to protect them militarily from Russia.
At the end of the day Trump got NATO countries to pay more and foot more of the military burden. They took heed to his criticism and reacted to it in a positive way.
That is what happened in the four years Trump was President.
It's nothing more than an assumption that can never be proven that Trump was going to leave NATO. Oh, and quite frankly a pretty serious constitutional and legal question whether any President has that authority without Congress to break what is by all practical purposes a treaty with multiple countries.
If you want "my" opinion on the hypothetical - which is as good as anything because it cannot be proven or disproven, Trump was never going to leave NATO - he used the threat of leaving to push his position that European nations in NATO needed to get their shit together.
I would bet a $1000 that Bolton never read any of Trump's books. Had he read "art of the deal" he would have recognized that this was a signature Donald Trump negotiating ploy. You always need to make the other side believe you are willing to walk away if you do not get what you want.
Trump canceled aid for Ukraine during the second impeachment trial.
President Biden immediately reversed it
YAHOO news.
Romney:
NATO would rethink U.S. relationship if Trump wins in 2024
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Tuesday in a CNN interview that if former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the NATO alliance would be significantly damaged. Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, said NATO members would wonder whether they could continue to count on the United States.
“If he were to come back as the U.S. president, I think it would represent a pretty dramatic departure for the world, and they would rethink whether they can count on the United States to lead NATO to lead other nations as they push back against China and against Russia,” Romney said
During his presidency, Trump downplayed the U.S. commitment to NATO and publicly criticized the alliance, primarily over the perception that member states were not contributing enough financial support. He also flirted with the idea of withdrawing the U.S. from NATO, according to former national security adviser John Bolton.
“In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO,” Bolton told the Washington Post in early March. “And I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin was waiting for that.”
Trump’s critics often argue that Putin’s top strategic priority was to weaken the NATO alliance, and Trump was seen as an ally in attaining that goal.
As Putin massed troops along Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus earlier this year and summarily declared two eastern regions of Ukraine as independent states, Trump lavished praise on Putin.
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said on "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “He used the word ‘independent,’ and ‘We’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
As global opinion of Putin plummeted following the start of the Russian invasion, however, Trump sought to portray himself as NATO’s savior.
“I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars,” the former president said in a written statement. “There would be no NATO if I didn’t act strongly and swiftly.”
LIE!
There is no evidence to back up Trump’s claim that NATO was in any danger of disbanding over the issue of dues.
In the run-up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO members banded together in their opposition to a Russian attack, and have acted largely in unison with regard to sanctions on the Russian government.
Asked whether Trump had permanently damaged NATO during his presidency, Romney responded, “Well, I think what’s happened to NATO is that they have said, ‘Can we rely on the U.S.?’ And is this America First idea, which is the president saying to everybody, ‘Hey, go off and do your own thing,’ I think that approach is one that frightens other members of NATO, and they wonder, are we committed to NATO and to our mutual defense, or are we all going to go off on our own?"
Trump’s warm public approach to Putin does not appear to be going away. On Monday, Trump solicited help from the Russian autocrat to obtain damaging information about President Biden’s son Hunter.
While Trump hasn’t committed to run for a second term in 2024, he indicated at a political rally in Georgia over the weekend that he “may just have to do it again.”
If you want "my" opinion on the hypothetical - which is as good as anything because it cannot be proven or disproven, Trump was never going to leave NATO - he used the threat of leaving to push his position that European nations in NATO needed to get their shit together.
That was always the case, but it's fun to watch the usual suspects 'bitterly cling' to the notion that Trump was leaving NATO. They've repeated that bullshit enough to convince themselves but no one else.
And it queued the alky to hop into his SLDS/IED clown car and do burnouts in the TV room at the nursing home insane asylum.
You are FULL of BULL, ch.
As always.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Trump canceled aid for Ukraine during the second impeachment trial.
President Biden immediately reversed it
A LIE.
You don't believe that new York Times instead you believe a highly partisan website
By Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper
Jan. 14, 2019
WASHINGTON — There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO, the military alliance among the United States, Europe and Canada that has deterred Soviet and Russian aggression for 70 years.
Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States.
Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.
In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.
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At the time, Mr. Trump’s national security team, including Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, scrambled to keep American strategy on track without mention of a withdrawal that would drastically reduce Washington’s influence in Europe and could embolden Russia for decades.
Now, the president’s repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from NATO is raising new worries among national security officials amid growing concern about Mr. Trump’s efforts to keep his meetings with Mr. Putin secret from even his own aides, and an F.B.I. investigation into the administration’s Russia ties.
A move to withdraw from the alliance, in place since 1949, “would be one of the most damaging things that any president could do to U.S. interests,” said Michèle A. Flournoy, an under secretary of defense under President Barack Obama.
“It would destroy 70-plus years of painstaking work across multiple administrations, Republican and Democratic, to create perhaps the most powerful and advantageous alliance in history,” Ms. Flournoy said in an interview. “And it would be the wildest success that Vladimir Putin could dream of.”
Just days before the invasion by Putin who you love like Trump
"They've repeated that bullshit enough to convince themselves but no one else."
Now that's a real kneeslapper!
Bolton was convinced.
And he was once as close to Trump as anyone could be..
In the last year of the Obama administration, the U.S. established the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which provided U.S. military equipment and training to help defend Ukraine against Russian aggression. From 2016 to 2019, Congress appropriated $850 million for this initiative.
The Trump administration in 2017 agreed to provide lethal aid to Ukraine, later committing to sell $47 million in Javelins.
But two years later, Trump delayed the release of congressionally approved security assistance for Ukraine as part of an effort to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation of his political rival, Joe Biden. The matter was part of Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You don't believe that new York Times
Why should I? They lie like it's their fucking job because, well, these days IT IS their fucking job.
The NY Times has been a piece of shit since Walter Duranty was suckling Josef Stalin's BALLS, alky.
They employ the Hall of Fucking Fame of liars like Haberman, and they carried water on the Russia collusion hoax for fucking YEARS on the way to picking up multiple P-U-litzer's.
I wouldn't wipe my ass with the NY Times if I ran out of toilet paper, alky.
You believe them because they're a leftist echo chamber and they confirm your biases by telling you exactly what you want to hear.
He resigned because of Trump’s conduct and planning to quit NATO
James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 26th US secretary of defense from January 2017 to January 2019. During his 44 years in the Marine Corps, he commanded forces in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.
Provision of Defense Equipment
After Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, the Obama
Administration provided Ukraine nonlethal security
assistance, such as body armor, helmets, vehicles, night and
thermal vision devices, heavy engineering equipment,
advanced radios, patrol boats, rations, tents, counter-mortar
radars, uniforms, medical kits, and other related items.
In 2017, the Trump Administration announced U.S.
willingness to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040
0linsky: Blankets
Trump: Lethal fucking WEAPONS.
LOL @ the alky
James we are waisting our time because he is not sane anymore.
He will spend his 70s in a nursing home
There is no argument.
Putin did not invade under Trump.
He has invaded under Biden.
Those are the facts!
"assumptions" from "Trump haters" really don't override reality.
He’s fucking stupid, it’s futile to engage
Wsj
President Biden has called for Vladimir Putin to be removed from power. But only Russians can remove Mr. Putin. That is why, in addition to supplying arms to Ukraine, the U.S. needs to take steps to reach the Russian people.
Mr. Putin understands that to prevail in Ukraine he must maintain the support of the Russian public. He uses state television to inundate Russians with reports of supposed atrocities by U.S.-backed Ukrainian Nazis against ethnic Russians, particularly in the Donetsk and Luhansk republics which the Russian army is said to be defending.
The Putin regime, however, is isolated in its own country. According to Karen Dawisha, author of “Putin’s Kleptocracy,” 110 people control 35% of the country’s assets. It is this group that is waging war against Ukraine and manipulating Russians.
America may have more power to influence Russians than we realize. The U.S. should begin by creating a database, independent of the existing Ukrainian site, to help Russians learn the fates of missing soldiers. The Russian Defense Ministry announced on March 25 that 1,351 Russian soldiers had died. The Ukrainians placed the number at 16,100. Valentina Melnikova, secretary of the Soldiers’ Mothers Committee, has said that Russian commanders often don’t retrieve the bodies of soldiers and list them as “missing in action.” This provides an excuse for not paying compensation to families and lowers the official death toll.
He will spend his 70s in a nursing home
Uh, now that would be YOU, alky.
0linsky:
FACT SHEET: U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine
The United States is working to bolster Ukraine’s ability to secure its borders and preserve its territorial integrity and sovereignty in the face of Russian occupation of Crimea and a concerted effort by Russian-backed separatists to destabilize eastern Ukraine. President Obama has approved more than $23 million in additional defensive security assistance since early March.
This assistance includes:
A new tranche of $5 million for the provision of body armor, night vision goggles, and additional communications equipment. This is in addition to the approximately 300,000 Meals Ready to Eat (delivered in March), as well as assistance for the provision of materiel using Foreign Military Financing to support Ukraine’s armed forces with medical supplies, service member equipment (e.g., helmets, sleeping mats, water purification units), explosive ordnance disposal equipment, and handheld radios.
The United States also has allocated Cooperative Threat Reduction funding to support Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service with supplies (e.g., clothing, shelters, small power generators and hand fuel pumps, engineering equipment, communications equipment, vehicles, and non-lethal individual tactical gear).
To date, Embassy Kyiv has purchased and delivered 20-person shelters, sleeping bags, fuel filter adapters, barbed wire, patrol flashlights, perimeter alarm systems, fuel pumps, concertina wire, vehicle batteries, spare tires, binoculars, excavators, trucks, generators, food storage freezers, field stoves, and communications gear to the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service, for use in monitoring and securing their borders.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/04/fact-sheet-us-security-assistance-ukraine
You are FULL of BULL, ch.
As always.
No more or no less full of any bull than anyone else who is making "hypothetical" predictions about what "would" have happened if A or B had happened rather than C.
At the end of the day... it's all bull.
The only thing that is not Bull.
Putin never invaded Ukraine while Trump was President.
Just like the Taliban never moved out of their agreed upon regions while Trump was President.
The Taliban started moving within weeks of Biden taking over and Putin just waited a few months longer.
Biden lies.
He blames Oil producers for his fucking them.
Biden the Dictator.
Using War Powers .
When did he go to Congress to gain those Powers.
James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 26th US secretary of defense from January 2017 to January 2019. During his 44 years in the Marine Corps, he commanded forces in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.
Another lie by the Alky, Mathis thought us leaving Syria would expose our troops
By last December, Mattis was facing the most urgent crisis of his nearly two years in the Cabinet. Trump had just announced, contrary to his administration’s stated policy, that he would withdraw all American troops from Syria, where they were fighting the Islamic State. This sudden (and ultimately reversed) policy shift posed a dire challenge to Mattis’s beliefs. He had spent much of his career as a fighter in the Middle East. He had battled Islamist extremists and understood the danger they represented. He believed that a retreat from Syria would threaten the security of American troops elsewhere in the region, and would especially threaten America’s allies in the anti-ISIS coalition. These allies would, in Mattis’s view, feel justifiably betrayed by Trump’s decision.
The Atlantic
Fucking hack
*Mattis dyac
Stupid Cocksuck
"So, to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health, but also the economy."
Putin never invaded Ukraine while Trump was President.
Just like the Taliban never moved out of their agreed upon regions while Trump was President.
The Taliban started moving within weeks of Biden taking over and Putin just waited a few months longer.
That's it Scott!
You're obviously insane Scott!
SLDS/EID/M O U S E Scott!
You're going to end up in a nursing home by the age of 70 Scott!
Scott!
SCOTT!
Listen to me Scott!
Lol
RRB mocking Alky.
Biden spurs record emergency oil release to offset losses from Russia
By Alexandra Alper
and Timothy Gardner
3 minute read
The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil storage facility, is seen in this aerial photograph over Freeport, Texas, U.S., April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday will launch the largest release ever from the U.S. emergency oil reserve to try to bring down gasoline prices that have soared during Russia's war with Ukraine, the White House said.
Starting in May, the United States will release 1 million barrels per day of crude oil for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a senior administration official told reporters.
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The 180 million barrels is equivalent to about two days of global demand, and marks the third time Washington has tapped the SPR in the past six months. read more
The release will more than cover oil exports to the United States from Russia, which typically produces about 10% of the world's crude, but only accounts for 8% of U.S. liquid fuel imports. Biden banned U.S. imports of Russian oil this month.
Roger, projecting his " I don't like where I live " upon Scott.
"He will spend his 70s in a nursing home"
Roger, where are you today?
"The release will more than cover oil exports to the United States from Russia"
Nope.
The 180 million barrels is equivalent to about two days of global demand
Only the smallest thinkers and most stupid among us are impressed by this idiocy.
GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME, right alky?
LOL.
Biden spurs record emergency oil release to offset losses from Russia
By Alexandra Alper
And then the taxpayer buys it back at a far higher price
God damn you’re stupid
I just released a fart from the US Strategic Methane Reserve.
This covers one nanosecond of global demand.
Just doing my part.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/03/31/joe-bidens-newest-plan-to-combat-high-gas-prices-is-a-mix-of-pointless-idiocy-and-communism-n543378
Scott used the same thing.
He actually believes that we are Communists.
Biden spurs record emergency oil release to offset losses from His Executive Orders.
By selling this Oil to The Oil Companies, Biden increases their Profits.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/03/31/joe-bidens-newest-plan-to-combat-high-gas-prices-is-a-mix-of-pointless-idiocy-and-communism-n543378
Scott used the same thing.
He actually believes that we are Communists.
Hey alky troll squad asshole...
Why do you pull random articles from random right-leaning sites and assign them to those of us who haven't even read them?
What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you that starved for attention?
No wonder someone cuts up your nannas for you.
Roger, what is the per barrel price Biden is selling this oil?
Wsj has a pretty good ��
The strategic reserves have been falling since 2017. At the peak of the shale drilling boom in the U.S., Washington lawmakers decided to start selling some of the reserves as a source of cash to balance budgets and modernize the reserve’s infrastructure, leading some analysts to warn that it could weaken the reserve if it is eventually needed.
The scale of the reserve release could have unintended consequences for oil markets, such as creating logistical bottlenecks at the U.S. oil industry’s export hubs on the Gulf Coast, according to a research note from Goldman Sachs. That could also make it harder for U.S. shale oil producers to increase their own output, the bank’s analysts said.
Another question is whether the U.S. could meet a target to release 1 million barrels a day from its reserves, said Joel Hancock, lead energy analyst at Natixis. The administration announced a release from the reserve in November and again in March. Since November, the reserve has pumped out an average of around 300,000 barrels a day, according to Energy Information Administration data.
It will help but we need to urgently end the Ukrainian war.
The single most important take away from the Biden SPR releases.
America runs on Oil.
Green Energy is an epic fail.
Are you that starved for attention?
Ding…
Ding…
Ding…
Ding…
30 minutes
President Biden is ordering the release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 1 million barrels per day on average for the next six months, he announced Thursday.
Why it matters: The historic release size underscores how much Russia's war is causing havoc in energy markets — and how the White House hopes to limit political fallout from high gas prices.
Driving the news: The release is expected to "shore up global supplies," per White House senior administration officials, who also say that it will lower gas prices.
"This record release will provide a historic amount of supply to serve as bridge until the end of the year when domestic production ramps up," the White House said.Biden also authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to support the production and processing of minerals and materials used for large capacity batteries, including lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite.Biden on Thursday also urged Congress to charge oil and gas companies if they are sitting on wells that are not producing oil and leases that they are not developing, per the White House.
What they're saying: "It is hard to overstate the scale of this intervention if it bears out. It would be the largest drawdown volume announced in the 45-year history of the SPR by a factor of 3.6x," the research firm ClearView Energy Partners said in a note.
Between the lines: Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday night after Bloomberg, Reuters and elsewhere reported on Biden's expected announcement, with the U.S. benchmark WTI down more than 4% to $104.46 and Brent seeing a similar drop.
What we're watching: The effect of the plan on the tight oil market, and potential new releases from other nations coordinated through the International Energy Agency.
The impacts are hard to tease out as international efforts to isolate Russia could lead to sharp declines in its exports that exceed the reported daily size of the SPR release.Goldman Sachs, in a note, said the reported plan would ease, but not resolve, oil's "structural deficit" and help the market rebalance."This would reduce the amount of necessary price-induced demand destruction, the sole oil rebalancing mechanism currently available in a world devoid of inventory buffers and supply elasticity," Goldman Sachs noted."This would remain, however, a release of oil inventories, not a persistent source of supply for coming years."
Catch up fast: It's the latest of several Biden administration attempts to try and tame prices via the SPR.
In November, the White House announced 50 million barrels in releases, with another 30 million in early March, alongside 30 million from other nations.
The Energy Department, which manages the reserve, says it holds more than 568 million barrels of oil.
Joey Soft Serve is releasing 1 million barrels per day.
In 2021, the United States consumed an average of about 19.78 million barrels of petroleum per day, or a total of about 7.22 billion barrels of petroleum. This was an increase in consumption of about 1.6 million barrels per day over consumption in 2020.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20the%20United%20States,day%20over%20consumption%20in%202020.
Fucking GENIUS.
He said that companies if they are sitting on wells that are not producing oil and leases that they are not developing, per the White House
Bolton was convinced.
And he was once as close to Trump as anyone could be..
He worked for Trump for about a year and a half and Trump said he fired Bolton and Bolton said he quit. Not exactly the best of friends and there seemed to have been bad blood after the fact.
Time for oil to enter U.S. market - 13 days from Presidential decision
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/strategic-petroleum-reserve-9
So look for the first drop to affect the market in about two weeks.
Yay.
Anyone got a Biden to Alky to English translation?
"He said that companies if they are sitting on wells that are not producing oil and leases that they are not developing, per the White House."
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
He said that companies if they are sitting on wells that are not producing oil and leases that they are not developing, per the White House
Dumb fuck alky -
Familiarize yourself with the permitting process that is involved AFTER a lease is granted.
Then familiarize yourself with the exploration required to see if there is even any oil in the fucking ground where the lease was granted.
Then familiarize yourself with the logistics, construction and operation of the apparatus required to pump the oil out of the ground IF they're lucky enough to find some.
And -
What a coincidence... Sloppy Joe is releasing oil in the six months LEADING UP TO THE MID TERM ELECTION.
Day #1 Biden attacked the USA Oil producers and The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Cheered.
Now that his poll number have crashed he slams his policies in reverse.
"I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel.”
Nope, you Dope.
WSJ
The Biden administration’s definitive wording leaves much to be desired: It could have said, for example, that it will authorize a release of 1 million barrels a day over 30 days with an option to repeat that another five times. Given that even the possibility of an SPR release can be enough to calm prices, playing its cards closer to its vest would have left that option open in the future. Flexibility would also seem prudent given that it isn’t entirely clear just how much Russian oil supply will be taken off the market and for how long. The International Energy Agency estimated earlier this month that 3 million barrels a day of Russian oil production could be offline next month. Data compiled by OilX shows that Russian oil production had dropped by a moderate 280,000 barrels a day as of March 27 compared with early March.
So many things matter...
Roger are you for oil production being restored in the USA ?
Voter suppression is under attack by the judiciary system.
Judge blocks all new Florida voter suppression laws — then knocks the Supreme Court for putting voting rights 'under siege'
Sarah K. Burris
March 31, 2022
In a 288-page document, District Court Judge Mark Walker blocked the Florida voter suppression bill and specifically called out judges and the Supreme Court for undercutting the Voting Rights Act. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate's court and law writer, cited several excerpts in the judge's decision that make the decision groundbreaking. Until the case goes to the Supreme Court, Florida's suppression laws will be stopped.
Republicans around the country have been pushing voter suppression laws after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election after a record-setting voter turnout. In Texas, for example, Republicans confessed that the law they passed putting additional barriers on vote by mail wasn't due to an outbreak of voter fraud. Instead, it was to make people feel better.
"This is a preventative measure for us," Republican state Rep. Travis Clardy said. "I think it is our job to make sure that doesn't blossom into a problem that disturbs the underlying and one of the underpinnings of our democracy, and that is confidence in our elections."
Florida SB 90 created their own restrictive legislation that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in 2021. The Florida voter suppression law makes voter registration more difficult, puts additional barriers on vote by mail and changes the rules for election observers.
READ: Five fetuses found at home of anti-abortion activist who feared 'people would freak out when they heard'
"Having reviewed all the evidence, this Court finds that, for the most part, Plaintiffs are right" wrote Judge Walker. "Thus, as explained in detail below, this Court enjoins Defendants from enforcing most of SB 90’s challenged provisions. In so ruling, this Court recognizes that the right to vote, and the VRA particularly, are under siege."
He went on to cite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who wrote in a letter to the New York Amsterdam News in June 1965 about the VRA that “to deny a person the right to exercise his political freedom at the polls is no less a dastardly act as to deny a Christian the right to petition God in prayer."
Then he dropped the hammer on the Florida law, explaining that Florida "has repeatedly, recently, and persistently acted to deny Black Floridians access to the franchise," meaning the right to vote. He thus placed the state back under preclearance, which mandates that any election laws in the state must be approved by the federal government.
He went on to detail an extensive "horrendous history of racial discrimination in voting," and explained that when the Florida Legislature passes so many laws that disproportionately burden Black voters, "this Court can no longer accept that the effect is incidental."
Absolutely!
Familiarize yourself with the permitting process that is involved AFTER a lease is granted.
He had is stupid ass handed to him so on to voter suppression copy and pastes
Bidenomics inflation tax costing the Average American Family $5,200 a year.
64 % Americans are living pay check to pay check.
Insanity: Watch Joe Biden try to lie and gaslight his way out of responsibility for the energy crisis he and Dems have caused [videos]
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/31/insanity-watch-joe-biden-try-to-lie-and-gaslight-his-way-out-of-responsibility-for-the-energy-crisis-he-and-dems-have-caused-videos/
The last time Alky bought gas was to fill up his PT Cruiser.
All Joe had to do Is not Fuck it up.
On January 24, 2017, in his first week in office, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum to revive both Keystone XL pipelines, which "would transport more than 800,000 barrels"
Scott The bottom line is that he has United Nations around the world to deal with Russia. He is very carefully giving military aid in record numbers, and has avoided a third world War, so carefully..
We granted the President to be the commander in chief. Just because one General doesn't agree with him, it really doesn't matter.
We have helped the Ukrainian forces well armed and technological support.
Only time will tell.
China and India are united with Russia.
Those two countries have the Greatest Populations.
Nope.
"We granted the President to be the commander in chief"
Historically retarded Alky.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
China and India are united with Russia.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! So says the retarded goat fucking asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REMEMBER THIS DAY FOREVER!
At 4:08 p.m. Trump went out to the Rose Garden. At 4:17 p.m. he released a scripted, pre-recorded video, which included a call for “peace” and “law and order” and finally told his supporters “you have to go home now.”
But they didn’t. Things were still wildly out of control. In fact, the Capitol building was not secured until 5:34 p.m.
At 6:01, Trump’s message was back to indignant: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he wrote. “Remember this day forever!”
At 6:27, he went back to the residence, and started calling his lawyers.
Congress did not resume counting electoral votes until 8 p.m. They finished at 3:40 a.m. and certified Biden as the winner.
Florida Voting Restrictions Are Unconstitutional
3:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“A federal judge
ruled that multiple parts of a voting law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last year are unconstitutional, striking down various provisions and prohibiting the Legislature from passing future forms of voter laws without first getting approval from a court,”
the Tampa Bay Times reports.
“In a sweeping 288-page order declaring the right to vote ‘under siege’ based on the Legislature’s record on voting laws, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday forbade lawmakers from passing future laws involving drop boxes, third-party voter registration or efforts to limit ‘line warming’ activities at polling sites without the court’s approval for the next 10 years.”
WHOA! Voting is not to be made difficult!
Bidenomics moved today to lower oil price.
WTI Crude 105.3. +1.04% today
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker
Yawn. 0linsky appointee.
Oh, there's SO MUCH MORE regarding my 3:03 at 2:07!!! A judge is determined that the GOP and Trump are NOT going to make America a White Nationalist KKK Nation!!!
Keystone XL Pipeline would had been completed 3 years ago IF , Obama would not had gotten in the way.
Keystone XL Pipeline would had been completed 3 years ago
Try again asshole.......The trump revived pipeline was barely started.....IOW.....it would have had an effect many years from now and therefore not germane to oil prices of today!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Kicking your old white is is getting easier every day!!!!!!!!
Today in Bidenomics
Disposable income down
Consumer spending down
Number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck up.
36 % Biden Job Approval
34 % Biden Approval on Economy
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge struck down portions of a Florida election law passed last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to suppress Black voters.
The law tightened rules on mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods — changes that made it more difficult for Black voters who, overall, have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in his ruling.
“For the past 20 years, the majority in the Florida Legislature has attacked the voting rights of its Black constituents,” Walker wrote. Given that history, he said, any future election law changes should be subject to approval under the federal Voting Rights Act.
Florida's Republican-led legislature joined several others around the country in passing election reforms after Republican former President Donald Trump made unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Democrats have called such reforms a partisan attempt to keep some voters from the ballot box.
Much of the debate focused on vote-by-mail ballots and how they are collected and returned. Walker overturned a provision of the law limiting when people could use a drop box to submit their ballot, along with a section prohibiting anyone from engaging with people waiting to vote. Walker said the latter provision “discourages groups who give food, water, and other forms of encouragement to voters waiting in long lines from continuing to do so.”
"One way, then, to measure whether this provision will have a disparate impact on Black or Latino voters is to determine whether Black and Latino voters are disproportionately likely to wait in line to vote,” he said, citing testimony that showed that to indeed be the case.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who made the election bill a priority, said the state will appeal Walker's decision and win.
“In front of certain district judges, we know we will lose no matter what because they are not going to follow the law,” DeSantis said at a news conference in West Palm Beach. He did not say specifically why he believes the ruling is incorrect.
Upon appeal, the case would go to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, which is seen as being very conservative.
_________
IF IT IS GENUINELY CONSERVATIVE, IT WILL SIDE WITH THE JUDGE.
The Target by Biden is to move gasoline price down 35 cents.
Today gas is $4.23.
Trumps last day in Office $2.24
Joe is good with gas at $3.88.
Keystone XL Pipeline would had been completed 3 years ago IF , Obama would not had gotten in the way.
Simple facts are over the head of Scarecrow Denny.
From Wiki on Judge Mark Walker.
Federal judicial service
On February 16, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Walker to serve as District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida... The United States Senate voted to confirm Walker on December 6, 2012 in a 94–0 vote.... He became Chief Judge in June 2018.
Notable rulings
Hand v. Scott
In January 2018, Walker ruled against Florida and ordered Governor Rick Scott to restore the voting rights of felons after their release from prison.
League of Women Voters v. Detzner
In July 2018, Walker invalidated as unconstitutional Florida's total prohibition on early voting sites on college and university campuses. Walker determined the prohibition violated the First, Fourteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments and the law revealed a "stark pattern of discrimination" against younger voters. Consequently, in the 2018 midterms, nearly 60,000 people voted at the on-campus early voting locations.
Keohane v. Jones , et al.
Walker ordered the Florida Department of Corrections to continue providing a transgender woman prisoner with hormone treatment and ordered them to provide her with women's undergarments and grooming products. The prisoner was diagnosed with gender dysphoria but has been housed in a male-only correctional facility. The case is currently on appeal.
Madera-Rivera v. Detzner
In September 2018, Walker decided another significant voting rights case, in which he granted a preliminary injunction against Florida's Secretary of State, directing him to ensure that Spanish speaking voters have access to ballots in the Spanish language for the November 2018 elections. This decision, made on the basis of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act, is especially critical, as Florida is grappling with a recent influx of Puerto Ricans fleeing the aftermath of 2017's Hurricane Maria.
League of Women Voters v. Scott
After the 2018 midterms, Judge Walker ruled in favor of then-Governor Rick Scott who oversaw the state's ongoing recount in which he was a candidate for U.S. Senate. “Though sometimes careening perilously close to a due process violation, Scott’s most questionable conduct has occurred in his capacity as a candidate rather than as governor," Walker wrote. Though Scott's actions were “reckless and haphazard“ and “Scott has toed the line between imprudent campaign-trail rhetoric and problematic state action. But he has not crossed that line."
Anti-protest law
On September 9, 2021, Walker blocked Florida's anti-riot law as violation of the 1st amendment.
University of Florida professors
In another free speech case, on January 4, 2022, Walker refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by professors at the University of Florida after the University tried to stop them from testifying in a voting rights lawsuit.
League of Women Voters v. Laurel M. Lee
On March 30, 2022, Walker ruled that of Florida Senate bill 90 violate federal law, and he enjoined Florida's Secretary of State, Ms Lee, from any effort at enforcing the parts that he deemed efforts to suppress the votes of Blacks. In a discussion of the legislative history of the bill, Walker wrote, "And the exact justification for SB 90 as a whole, and for its constituent parts, is difficult to pin down, with sponsors and supporters offering conflicting or nonsensical rationales."
Russia have seized a majority of Ukraine Oil Fields.
Putin can move to a peacful stance going forward.
Nice job pederast. You confirmed that Judge Walker is nothing but a two-bit leftist hack.
Putin can move to a peacful stance going forward.
Why are you such a Putin lover goat fucker???? Are you following the genius trump lead to bro mance????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Mary Pete Buttplug says just stop being poor and buy a $60,000 Tesla.
Gas price crisis solved.
In a 288-page document, District Court Judge Mark Walker blocked the Florida voter suppression bill and specifically called out judges and the Supreme Court for undercutting the Voting Rights Act. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate's court and law writer, cited several excerpts in the judge's decision that make the decision groundbreaking. Until the case goes to the Supreme Court, Florida's suppression laws will be stopped.
That one is a snorter!
The Obama appointed Judge is chastising the USSC?
Does he not realize that he (as a district judge) does not have the "authority" to overrule the USSC or ignore their rulings. Obviously these sorts of things are done in an attempt to (as the left likes to do) get a lower level liberal activist Judge to create a ruling that they know will be overturned, and then hope they can delay the process till after an election.
This has actually happened specifically with this judge and with Florida. Where his ruling stood through an election and then was overturned a few months later.
They know there ruling is wrong and will be overturned. But fuck the hierarchy and integrity of the court system as we know it. Just keep filing new lawsuits on settled issues (there were still court cases challenging Voter ID laws which the USSC has continuously upheld over and over and over). But if they can get one idiotic Judge at the right time they can stop a perfectly constitutional law from being enacted (cheating for all practical purposes) they will do it.
The Obama appointed Judge is chastising the USSC?
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Our legal eagle Lil Schitty practicing ad hominem attacks on judges he claims to be ruling something he can't!!!!!!! BTW...aren't judges supposed to provide their opinion and ruling on law which does include their right to free speech??? You are getting rather comical, there sport!!!! You want an activist judge....look to Thomas the only dissenter on the WH papers!!!
Tomorrow is the Birthday of the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT.
A district judge cannot overturn a ruling of the Supreme Court, but he can challenge it to do the right thing by overturning blatant attempts to make voting more difficult for lower income citizens, including blacks.
Biden Covid Deaths today's report.
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+1,208"
Hey BWAA,
I wanted to follow up with you from the previous thread -
Funny seems that NBC, Wa Po Abc are mute on the subject and a quick google search showed the NY Post, AP and Sputnick headline the story......sorry sport but the facts again do not support your narrative!!!!
FEC fines Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC over Trump-Russia dossier research
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/clinton-dnc-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/index.html
Democrats Agree to Pay $113,000 to Settle Campaign Spending Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/politics/hillary-clinton-democrats-campaign-spending.html
DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-2022-midterm-elections-business-elections-presidential-elections-5468774d18e8c46f81b55e9260b13e93
Clinton campaign, DNC fined over improper spending disclosure tied to Steele dossier, conservative group says
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/clinton-campaign-dnc-fined-improper-spending-disclosure-tied-steele-do-rcna22324
Federal campaign watchdog fines DNC, Clinton campaign over dossier spending disclosure
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/dnc-clinton-campaign-fine-dossier-spending-disclosure-00021910
FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/fec-dnc-clinton-campaign/
DNC, Clinton Campaign Agree to Steele Dossier Funding Fine
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-03-30/dnc-clinton-campaign-agree-to-steele-dossier-funding-fine
You're a liar and an imbecile BWAA.
I wanted to follow up with you from the previous thread -
FEEL BETTER NOW LITTLE MAN?????? Sorry sport when I did my quick search....that is what I found......IOW'S you proved nothing again!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Keep trying you may get something else correct!!!! LOOLOLOLO
Dopie is have a typical day, being clubbed like a baby seal.
ESAD !!!!!
KansasDemocrat January 19, 2021 at 9:06 AM
True, Oil and Gasoline in the US , under Socialism Regeme of The Dark Winter President will go to $4. maybe $5 in the next 4 years.
Anwar closed
Off shore drilling permits stopped
Keystone Pipeline blocked
And so much more in the works.
Hurting Blacks and Latinos the most
Roger Cheered the Destruction of Biden upon US Energy independence by Biden.
MyballsJanuary 21, 2021 at 4:40 PM
So it took Biden only a day to torpedo our energy independence while flushing thousands of union jobs with one signature.
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The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit January 21, 2021 at 4:51 PM
He is taking us away from the high carbon emissions. When we build a renewable energy system, it will create millions of high wage union jobs.
He's also going to actually rebuild our infrastructure, that Trump never delivered.
Eisenhower created the Interstate highway system in the mid 50s. My father Ivan worked on Interstate highway 90 in South Dakota.
I actually worked on a drainage system on I 90. About 1970!
The infrastructure of a renewable energy system is a great way to strengthen the middle class
Roger is always so spectacularly wrong.
The Middle Class has been damaged by Biden policies.
Sorry sport when I did my quick search... that is what I found......
Obviously you’re to stupid too do a proper search, fatboi
Which is par for your course
This Bitch b crazy
"assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also the economy."
WTF?
On Jan. 6, 1961, Nixon presided over the formal certification of his opponent’s election. “This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated and announced the victory of his opponent,” he said. “In our campaigns, no matter how hard-fought they may be, no matter how close the election may turn out to be, those who lose accept the verdict and support those who win.”
On Jan. 6, 1961, Nixon presided over the formal certification of his opponent’s election. “This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated and announced the victory of his opponent,” he said. “In our campaigns, no matter how hard-fought they may be, no matter how close the election may turn out to be, those who lose accept the verdict and support those who win.”
You will cheer for this because you hypocrisy
A New York judge on Thursday struck down the state’s new congressional and legislative maps as defying a voter-backed constitutional amendment that aimed to end partisan gerrymandering, dealing a blow to Democrats hoping to hold onto their fragile majority in the House this November,” the Washington Post reports.
“New York Democrats drew a new congressional map with boundaries that could gain their party as many as three new seats, a crucial advantage at a time when the House majority will come down to just a handful of wins.”
Quote for These Times
“We survived the War of 1812, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War.
But now today we face the greatest danger we’ve ever faced. The militant right wing in our country has become the enemy within.”
— Retired pastor James Boswell
A New York judge on Thursday struck down the state’s new congressional and legislative maps as defying a voter-backed constitutional amendment that aimed to end partisan gerrymandering, dealing a blow to Democrats hoping to hold onto their fragile majority in the House this November,” the Washington Post reports.
“New York Democrats drew a new congressional map with boundaries that could gain their party as many as three new seats, a crucial advantage at a time when the House majority will come down to just a handful of wins.”
New York Democrats drew a new congressional map with boundaries that could gain their party as many as three new seats, a crucial advantage at a time when the House majority will come down to just a handful of wins.”
Alky, this is going to be an epic thrashing 3 seats won’t matter
Idiot
A district judge cannot overturn a ruling of the Supreme Court, but he can challenge it to do the right thing by overturning blatant attempts to make voting more difficult for lower income citizens, including blacks.
No Reverend...
Actually he can't.
No district Judge is allowed to ignore USSC precedent and attempt to "overrule" them.
Ironically you are making an completely 100% debunked political argument (rather than a legal one) which is exactly why this sort of Judge needs to be impeached and replaced with someone who has more respect for the "law" than their own political opinions.
A New York judge on Thursday struck down the state’s new congressional and legislative maps as defying a voter-backed constitutional amendment that aimed to end partisan gerrymandering, dealing a blow to Democrats hoping to hold onto their fragile majority in the House this November,” the Washington Post reports.
That could be brutal. If NY has to actually set it up to be more inline with their voter results... then they could not only lose the seats that they tried to gain (+3 with the new map) - but they could actually lose more seats than the old map.
If they have a strict constitutional amendment that ends gerrymandering and requires that they create a "fair" amount of seats based on voting then the Republican would be provided with 9 or 10 of the 26 seats (right now they have 4).
That could move the entire deal from Democrats being +11 (according to 538) to +6 or even +5 and there are some other late breaking deals that could also benefit the GOP.
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Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic.
Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census. Because communities change, redistricting is critical to our democracy: maps must be redrawn to ensure that districts are equally populated, comply with laws such as the Voting Rights Act, and are otherwise representative of a state’s population. Done right, redistricting is a chance to create maps that, in the words of John Adams, are an “exact portrait, a miniature” of the people as a whole.
But sometimes the process is used to draw maps that put a thumb on the scale to manufacture election outcomes that are detached from the preferences of voters. Rather than voters choosing their representatives, gerrymandering empowers politicians to choose their voters. This tends to occur especially when linedrawing is left to legislatures and one political party controls the process, as has become increasingly common. When that happens, partisan concerns almost invariably take precedence over all else. That produces maps where electoral results are virtually guaranteed even in years where the party drawing maps has a bad year.
He just threw his wife under the bus.
Jared Kushner testified — and what he said about Ivanka may be critical: legal expert
Bob Brigham
March 31, 2022
Former senior White House aide Jared Kushner testified on Thursday before the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Politico reported Kushner "did not play a visible role in the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, though he was a top adviser during much of Trump's presidency. According to a recent book by ABC’s Jonathan Karl, Kushner was involved in multiple conversations about how to delicately explain to Trump that he had lost the election and interacted with other senior administration officials who were exasperated by Trump’s refusal to concede. Kushner had reportedly steered clear of Trump in the chaotic final weeks of his presidency and was out of town until the afternoon on Jan. 6."
Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), who sits on the select committee, was asked about Kushner's testimony by MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.
"He was able to voluntarily provide information to us to verify, substantiate, provide his own take on this different reporting, so it was really valuable," Luria said.
RELATED: New reports suggest a 'significant shift' in DOJ's willingness to go after Trump: former federal prosecutor
On CNN, law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman offered his analysis.
Litman noted Kushner showed up in the text messages sent between Ginni Thomas and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
"But the most important, I think, is Ivanka," Litman said. "They can ask him things about her and we know that she figures centrally, she's the person that people tried to prevail on repeatedly to have Trump call of the dogs. Just his testifying, I think, makes it more likely — or puts more pressure on her to testify. She's in voluntary negotiations now."
He sat and watched the insurrection and cheered.
Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic
Thank god, oh BTW history major, did you forget we aren’t a democracy
Yet again.
Scott..
Scott..
Pay attention to me, the 5th Beatle has that look in his eye.
Pretend to enjoy it Alky, give him a reach around it’ll be quicker
Fuck you’re pathetic
The gap in record keeping is a bit difficult to prosecute.
At the end of each day, Trump's assistants in the Outer Oval would take the president's private schedule that day — along with their handwritten notes — to the Staff Secretary's office.
These notes were then sent for official records preservation — part of the White House staff's obligation under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.The presidential records-keeping law is considered to be expansive, and include preserving emails, text messages and phone records regardless of the device used, presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky told the Associated Press.
But, but, but: The law largely depends on good faith from presidents and their staff.
No president has ever been punished for violating the Presidential Records Act.
"The implementation of that act is really important, because there is no real mechanism for enforcement," Martha Kumar, co-founder and director for the White House Transition Project, told Axios."It depends on the goodwill of the president; if the president wants to avoid record-keeping, then there's a way of doing it."
Roger
"There's no single treatment that's best for everyone with intermittent explosive disorder"
In your case , one treatment was to call the police, throw your ass out and divorce you.
Do you have the money to repay Lydia?
Ch new favorite source
The explosion of “transgenderism” among the youngest generation is not an accident or a natural occurrence. The biological and mental realities of human beings did not suddenly change compared to prior generations. Rather, a relentless onslaught of far-left gender propaganda meant to indoctrinate and convert children has caused it. Worse, that movement exists almost solely to reinforce the delusions of adults who want to see their worldview affirmed no matter what.
So no, parents shouldn’t just “affirm” a child who thinks they are different sex any more than they would if a child said they are a horse. Objective reality matters, but there are also extremely harmful aspects to allowing a child to pursue transgenderism, a transition they never would have even had a concept of if it weren’t for adults seeking their own affirmation. If a child goes on to become an adult and wishes to pursue such, that’s on them. But as long a child is a child, they should be given the help they need, not pushed into destructive, irreversible behavior.
And let’s be real. Joe Biden is a nearly 80-year-old man. He doesn’t actually believe the stuff he’s saying. He’s just saying what he’s told. That makes it all the worse because not only is he promoting damaging behavior for children, but he’s too cowardly to speak against it.
The evil reason the GOP will exploit every crisis the world is facing
Thom Hartmann
April 01, 2022
Putin’s attack on Ukraine is producing a series of crises which are going to, in all probability, bring a period of great pain and instability to the world and to America in the near future.
Republicans are already working to exploit it.
By the election this fall much of the unity that exists because of today’s Ukraine passion will be exhausted, but the crisis it’s produced will just be beginning. And, just as Putin probably now hopes, it’ll stretch some democracies to the breaking point.
Americans think we’ve stood down Putin, but the forces he represents — strongman authoritarian neofascism combined with hard-right “Christian” nationalism — will grow a lot stronger over the next few years as fallout from his war in Ukraine.
If we’re not ready for it, those forces of bigotry and nationalism could overwhelm the US and other democracies around the world, particularly across Europe. Even if we are ready, oligarchs and wannabee strongmen are going to do their best to exploit the situation.
Those multiple forces now converging to threaten democracy, although many are the result of Putin’s murderous war against Ukraine, have also been brewing since the 1980s and Reagan’s neoliberal revolution.
They include:
Refugee crisesShortages and spikes in the cost of both fuel and foodA worldwide recession
None of these are world-ending, but each has an exploitable political impact. Combined, they can destabilize governments, change which parties are in power, and even flip democracies into autocracies.
To quickly summarize each of them:
Refugee Crises
Think back to how Fox “News” and the GOP hyped the “refugee caravans” we saw coming here to the US in 2016.
As climate change and democratic crises hit Central America over the past decade — particularly Guatemala — the Trump campaign pounded on the Obama administration, falsely claiming the president had “opened” the southern US border to “anybody who wanted” to arrive.
It was pure demagoguery to gin up the racist vote in the US, but social media doesn’t stay in the US: the Fox and GOP talking points spread widely across Central America, where people believed the message coming from seemingly credible sources like America’s largest cable TV network and Republican politicians in the US Congress.
Thinking US immigration policy had changed and our borders were “open,” desperate people hit the road for our southern border, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that filled the media for weeks and helped Trump and Republicans win that election.
Republicans continue to exploit that to this day, and a couple of Trump‘s good friends like Steve Bannon even scammed Trump supporters out of millions with a phony effort to build a wall. When Bannon got busted, Trump pardoned him (like he did so many of his other associates accused or convicted of crimes).
The political damage to Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, though, helped flip the White House to Trump and Congress to the GOP.
So we can see the impact that immigration surges, even tiny ones, can cause on society and politics, and how they can be exploited by cynical, power-hungry politicians.
Imagine if, instead of a few thousand refugees massing on our southern border, over 30 million Central Americans had actually made their way into the US and were today trying to fined housing and work across the country.
Just think of how Republicans would use that as a club to beat the Biden administration over the head.
Few speak the language. Some will be criminals and their crimes that will be splashed all over the papers, even if it’s desperate people engaging in petty theft or prostitution. Some will “take jobs” from “good Americans.” Others will “burden” our social welfare system. Their need to eat and find housing will cause food shortages and drive up prices.
There are 360,000 refugees currently in Moldova, a fledgling democracy on Ukraine’s border with only 4 million citizens and an active, pro-Putin rightwing political movement.
That number of immigrants in Moldova is the equivalent of 30 million “Mexicans” (to use Trump’s phrase) “invading” America. It’s already straining Moldova’s politics.
Similarly, the 2.2 million Ukrainian refugees in Poland (pop. 37 million) is the equivalent of 21 million Central Americans flooding into the USA in less than three weeks. Already the backlash in Poland has begun, as Mateusz Mazzine wrote yesterday for Foreign Policy magazine:
Current deputy prime minister and leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, stated that refugees “will not abide by the Polish law.” Former interior minister Joachim Brudzinski depicted them as “young, horny bulls called ‘refugees,’” and Polish President Andrzej Duda feared they carry a risk of “possible epidemics.”
It’s the same all over Europe: over 10 million Ukrainian refugees, while today creating a humanitarian crisis, will be the foundation for a democracy crisis within months, one that will continue long after any sort of resolution to the Russian invasion is reached.
https://www.rawstory.com/the-evil-reason-the-gop-will-exploit-every-crisis-the-world-is-facing/
He describes the current Republican politicians in the brutal article. And it is actually happening now.
Our nation is at risk.
U.S. employment growth continued at a solid clip in March, economists say, amid an easing pandemic and signs that more Americans are returning to the labor force.
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal estimate that employers added 490,000 jobs in March. That would mark 11 straight monthly gains above 400,000, the longest such stretch of growth in records dating back to 1939.
The unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in March from 3.8% a month earlier, the economists estimate. The jobless rate is quickly approaching the February 2020 prepandemic rate of 3.5%, which was a 50-year low. The Labor Department is set to release its latest employment data Friday.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
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How is IED disorder treated?
There's no single treatment that's best for everyone with intermittent explosive disorder. Treatment generally includes talk therapy (psychotherapy) and medication.Sep 19, 2018
Get help ��
More psychological projection from the alky.
Alky, it was YOU who ended up the proud owner of a restraining order when you could not control your "intermittent explosive beat the living shit out of Lydia disorder."
And it's YOU who is confined to an asylum as a result, likely enjoying a daily dose of "medication and psychotherapy." So there you sit, in a little box with a nutbag who's not quite as fucked up as you, "diagnosing" and claiming to want to "help" others. Yet here we all sit, free to come and go as we please, critiqued by an assclown on lockdown.
Your constant projection of your afflictions upon others is a mental illness in and of itself.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
U.S. employment growth continued at a solid clip in March, economists say, amid an easing pandemic and signs that more Americans are returning to the labor force.
A LIE.
There is no U.S. employment growth, and there has not been since 2019.
What we're witnessing is U.S. employment 'restoration.'
As there are STILL roughly 10 MILLION jobs available and yet to be filled.
You assholes locked down and subsequently destroyed a $23 TRILLION economy, all because you had to rid us of a very bad, very orange man. You don't get to take credit for restoring something you destroyed. That might work on your imbecile political base, but for the rest of us it simply insults our intelligence.
You burned a fucking house to the fucking ground ON PURPOSE, and now you want to take credit for the rebuild by calling it a 'new housing start.'
In summary…
Hang onto your hat: things are going to get wild.
This coming crisis of war, refugees, food, fuel, a dysfunctional Fed, and a worldwide pandemic could rival anything the world has seen since the 14th century.
Worldwide adoption of neoliberal “reforms” over the past 40 years have thrown in an additional factor: an explosion of consolidated monopolistic businesses and the billionaires they create, who bring along their very own brand of authoritarian and oligarchic political activism and media control (including the social media they own).
Republicans here (and their conservative oligarch-owned colleagues inside other democracies) will exploit every piece of it. They’ll scream about the deficit, yell about the price of fuel and food, howl about crime and immigrants: all to try to frighten people and support their claim that government is their private possession and we therefore never again need to have genuinely democratic elections.
I don’t see any easy answers here. Great wealth and hard-core authoritarians have embedded themselves deeply in the fabric of the Republican Party and in many similar European parties, particularly in Hungary and Poland.
That said, it’s important to remember that the last time we faced a worldwide depression and war — roughly 80 years ago — we and Europe came out of it far more progressive and democratic. Although the toll, in both wealth and blood, was horrific.
Forewarned is, to the extent it’s possible, forearmed. They’re preparing, and we must, too. Spread the word.
More psychological projection from the alky.
Hit a nerve again, loser......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Your intolerable suffering at the hands of the GOP liars is showing!!!!!!
There is no U.S. employment growth, and there has not been since 2019.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! So opines our Ag school drop out who posts the most naive and openly stupid conclusions!!!!!! No wonder why you think trump won without a single shred of evidence, just someones fucked up belief!!!!!!!
Forewarned is, to the extent it’s possible, forearmed. They’re preparing, and we must, too. Spread the word.
Ok, boomer.
Oops.
Did I say 'boomer?'
I meant GROOMER.
LOL.
This fits in well with 6:41:
Editor's pick:
From the Pulpit:
When Jesus drew near Jerusalem for his last Passover
James Boswell
For The Pantagraph
3 hrs ago
When Jesus was only a toddler, two thousand Jewish insurrectionists were captured and crucified by Roman soldiers at Jerusalem. Some thirty years later, Jesus entered the city accompanied by large Passover crowds who were excitedly shouting, “Blessed is the Kingdom that is coming” – words which upset the city’s ruling priestly power brokers who, in lucrative collaboration with the still occupying Romans, did not want to see change come about.
Today we face a similar situation wherein foreign soldiers have invaded Ukraine in an attempt to compel that country to submit to being ruled by others. Some of those who want richly to rule Ukraine claim to be “orthodox” representatives of Jesus.
A like-minded power arrangement existed in czarist days when Russia’s rulers utilized the church in defending their exploitation of society for their own selfish advantage. When communism arose, the church suffered persecution, but managed to survive by keeping a low, largely acquiescent profile.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, however, Vladimir Putin has cynically brought the church back into favor, but only as a willing tool in support of his own corrupt ambitions. The Russian head of the church, Kiril, has been his obedient servant in helping him do this. Kiril refused to denounce Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and even blessed it, causing many Ukrainian and other Orthodox Christians no longer to recognize his authority. Both men pretend to be defenders of the faith against such Western “immoralities” as acceptance of the rights of gays and women, and in that pretense they enjoy support from too many Americans who also claim to be Christians while supporting would-be oppressors.
In reality, both men are willing collaborators with a selfish oligarchy committed to holding on to their own corruptly gained wealth by keeping a greedy dictator safe in his seat of power.
How different was Jesus’ “invasion” of Jerusalem, not arrogantly riding a war chariot, but a humble little donkey – his only weapon, love, his strategy not to kill, but be killed. Comparing himself to a mother hen offering her own life while calling her endangered chicks to the safety of her protective wings, Jesus summoned everyone, not to an enforced servitude, but to a freely given loving servanthood like his for the sake of all.
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Boswell is a retired pastor of The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in Normal. His views and email address may be accessed at www.jesuslaidbare--truthsaboutjesus.com.
https://twitter.com/PartymanRandy/status/1509753059529928704
Official Review or Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete CNN
The Partyman
But Very Serious Journalists assured me that this made the missing Nixon tapes look like child’s play.
I don’t understand.
Max Abrahms
That’s the sound of Tweets being deleted.
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Just the latest lie being parroted by FAKE NEWS, the confined mental patient and the charlatan pastor Boswell
it never ends...
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1509701900832329729
Remember when Biden said “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” LOL.
Now that they finally admitted the laptop and its emails were real maybe they can figure out who the "big guy" is
Biden Crime Family
even worse than the Obama and Clinton Crime families
Jobs Report Shows Strong Hiring Momentum
April 1, 2022 at 8:53 am
“U.S. job growth continued at a robust pace in March while the unemployment rate fell, signs the labor market is booming as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes and more workers return to the labor force,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Employers added 431,000 jobs in March, and the jobless rate fell to 3.6% from 3.8% a month earlier… The report marked the 11th straight month of job gains above 400,000, the longest such stretch of growth in records dating back to 1939.”
* funny how they keep "investigating" Trump while all the evidence points at Democrat leaders...
I see the charlatan POS "pastor" immediately and desperately reverts back to his plagiarized Goddard blog postings
the Gospel according to Goddard
and never corrected
how many thousands of plagiarized lies has he posted here ?
thousands for sure
Breaking news! Putin has been assassinated!
How many lies do you find in the Wall Street Journal report on job growth?
Dishonest, indecent, untruthful charlatan Rev. said...
How many lies do you find in the Wall Street Journal report on job growth?
You mean job recovery ?
btw you left of the link to the source by "mistake"
https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/01/jobs-report-shows-strong-hiring-momentum/
Your GODdard's political_lire
No lies in the WSJ article, eh?
(I'm assuming the report of Putin's assassination was an APRIL FOOL.)
McConnell Says Views of Trump Are ‘Irrelevant’
April 1, 2022 at 9:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) further distanced himself from Donald Trump while discussing the prospect of Republicans reclaiming the majority in the Senate, saying the views of potential candidates on the former president are “irrelevant” to him heading into the midterm elections,
THE BOSTON GLOBE reports.
Kushner Gives Marathon Interview to Select Committee
9:11 am
Jared Kushner spoke to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot for more than six hours, THE HUFFPOST reports.
Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), a member of the committee, said she couldn’t give details but that the information he provided was “really valuable.”
DO YOU GET THE FEELING THAT "THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY," DONALD?
Last Ditch Effort to Sink Herschel Walker
8:57 am
POLITICO reports:
“In the eight weeks running up to the May 24 primary, two super PACs supporting Walker’s GOP rivals plan to drop millions of dollars in ads attacking Walker, according to people familiar with their spending plans — ad buys that stand to alter the shape of a race that could decide control of the Senate.
“Walker is still expected to finish first in the primary. But his opponents intend to drive his support under 50 percent and force him into a June runoff, when the second-place finisher will be able to focus attention on what many Georgia Republicans contend is Walker’s unique vulnerability to Democratic attack: his history of alleged domestic abuse.”
RELATED FROM NPR:
Trump is struggling again in Georgia, with 2022 endorsements driven by his 2020 loss.
Dishonest, indecent, untruthful charlatan Rev. said...
No lies in the WSJ article, eh?
(I'm assuming the report of Putin's assassination was an APRIL FOOL.)
You mean other than not correctly identifying the report as a job recovery and you not identifying Goddard as the person who posted it on his blog, created the headline and extracted the portions he wanted ?
and everyone knows your post of Putin's "assassination" was your typical bullshit
A charlatan POS "pastor"
desperately seeking attention
probably not a more dishonest "pastor" on the planet
as most here say
Fuck Off
* followed by another avalanche of unlinked Goddard posts
Boswell really should kick the 5th Beatle out of his bed
and move in with alky
Amid soaring inflation and worries about a looming recession, the U.S. economy added slightly fewer jobs than expected in March as the labor market grew increasingly tighter.
Nonfarm payrolls expanded by 431,000 for the month, while the unemployment rate was 3.6%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 490,000 on payrolls and 3.7% for the jobless level.
An alternative measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons fell to a seasonally adjusted 6.9%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous month.
The moves in the jobless rates came as the labor force participation rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point to 62.4%, to within 1 point of its pre-pandemic level in February 2020. The labor force grew by 418,000 workers and is now within 174,000 of the pre-pandemic state.
Russia’s War Lacks Battlefield Commander
“Russia is running its military campaign against Ukraine out of Moscow, with no central war commander on the ground to call the shots, according to American officials who have studied the five-week-old war,”
the NEW YORK TIMES reports.
“That centralized approach may go a long way to explain why the Russian war effort has struggled in the face of stiffer-than-expected Ukrainian resistance.
“The lack of a unifying military leader in Ukraine has meant that Russian air, ground and sea units are not in sync. Their disjointed battlefield campaigns have been plagued by poor logistics, flagging morale and between 7,000 and 15,000 military deaths.”
An alternative measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons fell to a seasonally adjusted 6.9%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous month.
The moves in the jobless rates came as the labor force participation rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point to 62.4%, to within 1 point of its pre-pandemic level in February 2020. The labor force grew by 418,000 workers and is now within 174,000 of the pre-pandemic state.
Average hourly earnings, a closely watched inflation metric, increased 0.4% on the month, in line with expectations. On a 12-month basis, pay increased nearly 5.6%, just above the estimate. The average work week, which figures into productivity, edged down by 0.1 hour to 34.6 hours.
“All in all, nothing shocking about this report. There was nothing that was really surprising,” said Simona Mocuta, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors. “Even if this report came in at zero, I would still say this is a very healthy labor market.”
As has been the case through much of the pandemic era, leisure and hospitality led job creation with a gain of 112,000.
Professional and business services contributed 102,000 to the total, while retail was up 49,000 and manufacturing added 38,000. Other sectors reporting gains included social assistance (25,000), construction (19,000) and financial activities (16,000).
The survey of households painted an even more optimistic picture, showing a total employment gain of 736,000. That brought the total employment level within 408,000 of where it stood pre-pandemic.
Revisions from prior months also were strong. January’s total rose 23,000 to 504,000, while February was revised up to 750,000 compared to the initial count of 678,000. For the first quarter, job growth totaled 1.685 million, an average of nearly 562,000.
Anonymous James's Fucking Daddy said...
* followed by another avalanche of unlinked Goddard posts
Boswell really should kick the 5th Beatle out of his bed
and move in with alky
how true
Quote of the Day
April 1, 2022 at 9:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“I can tell you firsthand that these parties happen… Madison Cawthorn told me yesterday that he had not retracted what he said.”
— Roger Stone, on InfoWars, vouching for Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s claims of cocaine-fueled orgies.
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I'm assuming that's NOT an Anonymous's APRIL FOOL joke.
That brought the total employment level within 408,000 of where it stood pre-pandemic.
so it still hasn't completely recovered
thanks
U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said Friday. The figure was just shy of forecasts, and there was an upward revision of 95,000 for the previous two months of this year.
The unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, down from 3.8 percent a month earlier and just a touch higher than its levels right before the pandemic.
Among the industries with gains were leisure and hospitality (112,000), retailing (49,000) and manufacturing (38,000).
Job openings and the number of workers voluntarily leaving their positions remain near record levels, among the measures showing that demand for workers is the highest in decades.
“It’s all about the virus, the virus, the virus — and the virus’s grip on the American psyche seems to have loosened and we may be moving toward the idea that ‘the Covid era’ of the U.S. economy is done,” said Austan Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago and a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama.
More urban office workers appear to be headed back to their desks, giving a boost to hard-hit downtown economies, and the drop in coronavirus cases has prompted many people to resume tourism and in-person entertainment.
The average gain for the last six months is 600,000. The economy has recuperated more than 90 percent of the 22 million jobs lost at the peak of the pandemic’s impact on the economy in the spring of 2020 — a far swifter rebound than forecasters initially expected.
Fool of the Day
James Boswell
Normal Illinois
of course he fools no one
ROFLMFAO !!!
what a charlatan POS
a far swifter rebound than forecasters initially expected.
Nice.
The average gain for the last six months is 600,000. The economy has recuperated more than 90 percent of the 22 million jobs lost at the peak of the pandemic’s impact on the economy in the spring of 2020 — a far swifter rebound than forecasters initially expected.
Say it again, Sam, lol.
While rapid wage growth is a boon for many workers, it is complicated by — and raising concerns about — rapid inflation. Workers are finding that their paychecks, while bigger, no longer buy as much as prices rapidly climb. At the same time, fast pay increases may be prodding some employers to raise prices as they try to pass higher labor costs along to their customers.
“The promise of wages moving up is a great thing,” Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said after the central bank’s decision to raise interest rates last month in a bid to cool off the economy. But the increases are “running at levels that are well above what would be consistent with 2 percent inflation, our goal, over time.”
With March’s figures, wages are increasing at an even faster rate over the year than they were when Mr. Powell made his remark.
Incredibly helpful for working people.
Wages are exchangeding inflating
The figure was just shy of forecasts"
and
"That brought the total employment level within 408,000 of where it stood pre-pandemic."
So below forecast and still below pre=pandemic levels
How many illegals have flooded into America since then ?
Along with Americans dying from fentanyl smuggled in and the child traffickers enabled by Biden's War on America ?
and excused by the Democrats
btw you two should get a room
seriously
ROFLMFAO !!!
The plagiarism source:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/01/business/march-2022-jobs-report
"Recuperated."
Clever.
Translation: Jobs restored, NOT new.
To repeat -
There is no U.S. employment growth, and there has not been since 2019.
What we're witnessing is U.S. employment 'restoration.'
As there are STILL roughly 10 MILLION jobs available and yet to be filled.
You assholes locked down and subsequently destroyed a $23 TRILLION economy, all because you had to rid us of a very bad, very orange man. You don't get to take credit for restoring something you destroyed. That might work on your imbecile political base, but for the rest of us it simply insults our intelligence.
You burned a fucking house to the fucking ground ON PURPOSE, and now you want to take credit for the rebuild by calling it a 'new housing start.'
The low info democrat base eats this shit up.
* "The figure was just shy of forecasts"
The increase in wages isn't even coming close to keeping up with inflation.
Another alky LIE OF OMISSION.
But while business growth, wage growth and high spending signal a robust recovery, price increases are casting a dour shadow. Inflation, the highest in decades, is being compounded by international events: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is pushing up commodity prices, and Covid-19 outbreaks at supply centers in Asia.
But while business growth, wage growth and high spending signal a robust recovery, price increases are casting a dour shadow. Inflation, the highest in decades, is being compounded by international events: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is pushing up commodity prices, and Covid-19 outbreaks at supply centers in Asia.
“For consumers, most of whom are either workers or reliant on so-called breadwinners, the state of the job market provides a solid underpinning for household finances,” said Mark Hamrick, the senior economic analyst at the financial website Bankrate.com. “These same households are being tested by inflation, which will flash further into the red with forthcoming readings, aggravated by impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” effectively serving as a tax on savings, which improved for many during the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/01/business/march-2022-jobs-report
To repeat -
There is no U.S. employment growth, and there has not been since 2019.
What we're witnessing is U.S. employment 'restoration.'
As there are STILL roughly 10 MILLION jobs available and yet to be filled.
You assholes locked down and subsequently destroyed a $23 TRILLION economy, all because you had to rid us of a very bad, very orange man. You don't get to take credit for restoring something you destroyed. That might work on your imbecile political base, but for the rest of us it simply insults our intelligence.
You burned a fucking house to the fucking ground ON PURPOSE, and now you want to take credit for the rebuild by calling it a 'new housing start.'
The low info democrat base eats this shit up.
the problem with the alky and the "pastor" is that they have no comprehension
they really do need to get a room together
eliminate the middle man
this blog
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1509695664657248256
Biden actually said you should just buy an electric car if you can't afford gas prices.
I know of two fools who eat this up !!!
Of course they still haven't figured out who the "big guy" is
Notice how Republicans keep rooting against America and for Putin and the Russians?
Treason is rampant in the GOP.
Candace Owens
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1509709072010031104
There is no 5 year old in the world that is explicitly gay, lesbian, transgender or heterosexual.
Small children do not think about sex and sexuality unless they have been groomed to do so by an adult.
These are the facts.
supported by a POS charlatan "pastor"
or the pederast as he answers to here
Wages are rising, up 0.4% in March and up 5.6% over the last year.
The bad news: That's too slow to keep up with inflation.The good news: It doesn’t suggest an inflationary upward spiral in wages and prices.
The bottom line: Two years ago, we had mass unemployment. Now, amid an exceptionally fast recovery, the job market looks increasingly healthy and normal.
The bottom line: Two years ago, we had mass unemployment. Now, amid an exceptionally fast recovery, the job market looks increasingly healthy and normal.
Rob Schmitt
https://twitter.com/SchmittNYC/status/1509864635322847273
As it stands: Hunter’s laptop is real, the Biden family sells access to the President, Obama knew Hillary invented Russian collusion to distract from her emails, they did spy on Trump, and Fauci likely funded the creation of Covid-19. Welcome to your government.
and their latest lie to distract is quickly proven false, there is not 7 hours missing from Trump's phone logs
But how come they never really clean up there avalanche of hoaxes ?
or more accurately, lies?
The bad news: That's too slow to keep up with inflation.
yep
the "big guy" is going to have to charge more
Jobs, pay boom https://www.axios.com/march-jobs-report-7e2d7a15-51f0-4451-a5e4-a4189bfba6bc.html
Hey roger you spent all week shouting about this
"much worse than Watergate"
Have you spent any time correcting here ?
Official review found Jan. 6 White House phone records complete: report
An official review found that the White House phone records for Jan. 6, 2021, are complete, CNN reported Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter, following reports earlier in the week that the call logs given to the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol had a gap of more than seven hours that day.
The source told CNN that no pages were found to be missing from the six-page White House phone logs from Jan. 6.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/official-review-found-jan-6-white-house-phone-records-complete-report/ar-AAVJsnH?cvid=ead5226f8f8c401d8470ab5d2df5dea0&ocid=winp2octtaskbarhover
I guess a week of apologizing would be in order
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