Of the Republicans surveyed in the Quinnipiac University Poll, 68% said they would stay and fight compared to 40% of Democrats. Among Democrats, 52% said they would flee the country, compared to 25% of Republicans.
While the hypothetical question was polarizing between parties, the majority of Americans (55%) would still stay and fight if they were in the same position as the Ukrainians are now. Only 38% of those surveyed said they would leave the country.No doubt certain Democrats would also hide. Like with the fifth Beatle, under a bed. But this sort of thing doesn't surprise me. Part of it would be a lack of courage and part of it is a complete lack of love for America and Americans as a whole. If things don't come easy and things are not aligned for their own personal advantage, then why put in any extra effort, much less fight.
All that being said, if you were to have to go into an armed conflict against foreign invaders, who would you rather have standing beside you? The gun toting conservative who owns multiple assault rifles, or the whiny latte drinking liberal whose closest thing to a real fight was an heated debate on Twitter.
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As a US Army Veteran this does not surprise me in the least.
40% of democrats would stay and fight?
Seems way high. 20%, maybe.
Fight with what?
They surely have disarmed per their Beliefs .
More Democrats than Republicans would not put out ridiculous statements Putin and the Kremlin could use for lying anti American propaganda.
America’s Hesitation Is Heartbreaking
12:52 pm
Eliot Cohen:
“The American fear of escalation has been a repeated note throughout this conflict. But to the extent American leaders express that sentiment, or spread such notions to receptive reporters, they make matters worse, giving the Russians a psychological edge. The Russians can (and do) threaten to ratchet things up, knowing that the West will respond with increased anxiety rather than reciprocal menace. We have yet to see, for example, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin telling the world what a wretched hand the Russians are playing militarily, and how superior ours is—a message he is particularly fit to deliver.
“As for the nuclear question: We should not signal to the Russians that they have a trump card they can always play to stop us from doing pretty much anything. Nuclear weapons are why the United States should refrain from attacking Russia directly, not why it should fear fighting Russians in a country they invaded.
“Nuclear deterrence cuts both ways, and the Russian leadership knows it. Vladimir Putin and those around him are ill-informed but not mad, and the use of nuclear weapons would threaten their very survival.”
I AGREE.
U.N. Chief Says Nuclear Conflict Over Ukraine Possible
12:26 pm
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that the prospect of the nuclear conflict is “within the realm of possibility” as Russia continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Axios reports.
Said Guterres:
“Raising the alert of Russian nuclear forces is a bone-chilling development. The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility.”
I still affirm 12:07.
As usual you distort the situation.
Pompeo and Trump would have withdrawn from NATO because they don't agree with globalist policies, and Putin would succeed quickly because we would not have supported Ukraine's President.
The American Thinker has been saying this since the invasion.
Fortunately the President has been trying to destroy Russia, without a third world war.
The Republicans have been carefully supporting the President. McConnell and other Republicans have supported Ukraine's president.
Biden May Travel to Europe Soon
11:52 am
“White House officials are having early discussions about having President Joe Biden travel to Europe soon amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine,” CNN reports.
BIDEN CAN GO WHERE PUTIN WOULD NOT BE WELCOME.
AND AGAIN:
Sanctions Will Knock Russian Economy Back 30 Years
12:12 Roger speaks truth and sanity.
If you had recovered from Trumpism you would condemn this.
The American Thinker believes that we should let Russia win.
March 14, 2022
Alas, the Best Outcome in Ukraine Now May be a Relatively Quick Russian Victory
By Selwyn Duke
It’s hard finding an American, anywhere, who believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing. I’m no exception. War is ugly, and innocent people suffer as the pseudo-elites play their geopolitical chess games driven by power-lust, pocketbook and politics. This also isn’t about rooting for the “good guys.” For Vladimir Putin cannot be counted among them, and, for that matter, neither can ex-actor and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy or our globalist “leaders.” Rather, this concerns something else.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/alas_the_best_outcome_in_ukraine_now_may_be_a_relatively_quick_russian_victory.html
The best outcome is a victory for Putin
You don't mention it because you can't separate your beliefs from reality.
People like you have supported Putin and even Hitler and Mussolini.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/alas_the_best_outcome_in_ukraine_now_may_be_a_relatively_quick_russian_victory.html
The American Thinker article, which I just read, is chilling, admittedly.
But maybe we could send some of Ch's proud, multiple weapon-bearing militia-style conservatives up against Putin's nuclear capability?
Is that what you advocate, Ch?
Most Republicans don't agree with Trump who is opposed the globalism.
Trump voters having doubts about 'America First' policy as Ukraine fights off Russian aggression
Travis Gettys
March 14, 2022
The war in Ukraine has tested the limits of Donald Trump's "America First" policy for some of his supporters.
A recent survey found broad bipartisan support for punitive sanctions against Russia and its president Vladimir Putin, and self-described loyal Trump voters are alarmed by the death and destruction, reported NBC News.
“I don’t think we’re doing enough,” said Mary King, an unemployed caregiver from northeastern Ohio. “Ask the public what they are willing to sacrifice. I pray every day to St. Nicholas to save the children in Ukraine who are in danger.”
King went to a campaign event in Steubenville for Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, who has questioned aid for Ukraine, but even some conservative Trump voters are willing to endure higher gas prices as a result of President Joe Biden's ban on Russian oil.
READ: Republican Madison Cawthorn slammed in scathing editorial for pushing Kremlin 'talking points'
“It’s not going to cripple us,” said Bob Heinly, a retired cardiac technician who went to Vance's event. “I invest in things that are important to me.”
Heinly agreed with Vance's concerns about Russia forming a stronger relationship with China as the U.S. and other western nations back away from Putin, but he praised the president's handling of the war.
“I hate to say that Joe Biden and his administration have done anything right, but to a degree I think that this is a smart move, to reinforce the troops in these NATO countries,” Heinly said.
Voters told NBC News they don't want American troops involved in the conflict, and none of them supported the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but they strongly supported aiding the country's fight against Russian aggression.
“Give them the weapons to be able to defeat the Russian air force — they’re doing a hell of a job,” said Mark Longo, a retired owner of a food service distributor in Steubenville.
Liz Cheney Looks Beyond Wyoming
12:13 pm
CNN:
“Cheney’s own activity suggests she is laying the groundwork for something more. Last year, she traveled to the early primary state of New Hampshire. She has been making speeches to national Republican organizations such as the centrist Ripon Society. And Cheney has demonstrated impressive fundraising prowess, including raising a personal record $2 million in the final quarter of 2021.
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Might she run for President and shatter the Repblican vote?
Ch, only Republicans have opposed this war.
Republican Madison Cawthorn slammed in scathing editorial for pushing Kremlin 'talking points'
Alex Henderson, AlterNet
March 14, 2022
Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is among the many far-right MAGA Republicans who has been an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin — even during the Ukraine invasion. Cawthorn was more than happy to push Kremlin talking points when, during a March 5 townhall event in Asheville, North Carolina, he attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “thug.” And the editorial board of North Carolina’s Winston-Salem Journal calls him out for it in a scathing editorial published on March 12 and headlined “Our view: Cawthorn Is Deplorable.”
Cawthorn, during his March 5 diatribe, told the crowd, “Remember that Zelensky is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
GOTP?
GRAND OLD TREASON PARTY?
Russia Remains Mostly Stalled In Ukraine
1:40 pm
A senior Defense official
briefed reporters earlier today on the status of the Russian invasion and, according to Roll Call, this is the main takeaway:
“Almost all of Russia’s advances remain stalled.”
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I HOPE THIS IS TRUE.
I'M NOT ROOTIN' FOR PUTIN.
Pompeo and Trump would have withdrawn from NATO because they don't agree with globalist policies, and Putin would succeed quickly because we would not have supported Ukraine's President.
Trump was President for four years and did not withdraw from NATO. That was a threat to get NATO members to pay more of their fair share. Which appeared to work for the most part.
Not to mention that any President would need Congressional approval to leave.
Hint: When your best argument is a hypothetical that could not have realistically happened, you are fucked for arguments.
Joe has made good on his debate promises.
""Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one."
When the debate is lost.
Move to full on lies.
"People like you have supported Putin and even Hitler and Mussolini." Alky
A growing group of senators and congressmen from both parties are demanding biden get off his ass, stop talking, and send Ukraine the migs they want. Both parties.
Biden continues to fuck everything up.
New York Times
Allies and Former U.S. Officials Fear Trump Could Seek NATO Exit in a Second Term
By Michael Crowley
Sept. 3, 2020
For nearly four years, President Trump has publicly railed against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, angrily demanding that its members pay more for Europe’s collective defense. In private, Mr. Trump has gone further — speaking repeatedly about withdrawing altogether from the 71-year-old military alliance, according to those familiar with the conversations.
In a second term, he may get his chance.
Recent accounts by former senior national security officials in the Trump administration have contributed to growing unease on Capitol Hill and across Europe. They lend credence to a scenario in which Mr. Trump, emboldened by re-election and potentially surrounded by an inexperienced second-term national security team, could finally move to undermine — or even end — the United States’ NATO membership.
These former officials warn that such a move would be one of the biggest global strategic shifts in generations and a major victory for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Although Mr. Trump has been known to have expressed interest in withdrawing the United States from the Atlantic alliance since 2018, new evidence of his thinking has emerged in the run-up to the November election.
This summer, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton published a book that described the president as repeatedly saying he wanted to quit the alliance...
And in a book published this week, Michael S. Schmidt, a New York Times reporter, wrote that Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, told others that “one of the most difficult tasks he faced with Trump was trying to stop him from pulling out of NATO.” One person who has heard Mr. Kelly speak in private settings confirmed that he had made such remarks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/trump-nato-withdraw.html
MyballsMarch 14, 2022 at 12:56 PM
A growing group of senators and congressmen from both parties are demanding biden get off his ass, stop talking, and send Ukraine the migs they want. Both parties.
Biden continues to fuck everything up"
He is unable to do the job.
His ending of US Oil production is a Green Wet Dream win.
You have a right, Ch, to make up your opinions (which you do all the time), but not to make up "facts."
Jerome Powell Wedesday may increase the Federal reserve interest rates.
He should raise them by 50 basis points, but he is too much a coward.
Trump isn't president anymore
I suspect that he will surprise you, but you will never give him credit...
MyballsMarch 14, 2022 at 1:14 PM
Trump isn't president anymore"
Yet, Trump owns them.
“Almost all of Russia’s advances remain stalled.”
Well Great Reverend...
We can all celebrate that Russia has lost!!!
Now that you have declared it so!
Trump was President for four years and did not withdraw from NATO. That was a threat to get NATO members to pay more of their fair share. Which appeared to work for the most part.
In 2016, non-U.S. NATO members spent $262 billion on defense; in 2020, they will spend $313 billion. Regardless of whether this increase resulted from changing threat perceptions, or Trump’s laser-like focus on inadequate defense spending, or of some combination of the two, the results speak for themselves. The $50 billion increase is equivalent to the entire defense budget of France.
And that is just one year. Since 2016, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg noted that European allies and Canada will have added $130 billion to their defense budgets.
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/nato-allies-now-spend-50-billion-more-defense-2016
The threat worked. They paid their 'fair share.'
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1024529420921481
-year inflation expectations Feb. 6.0%
Yes, it is UP.from the last report from 5.8%.
The alky is such an imbecile, he thinks that geopolitics is binary -
Isolationist or globalist.
Thank God that Biden won.
Putin would succeed in history to expand the Russian empire across most of eastern Europe and even Africa and Venezuela and maybe Brazil.
How did Putin Expansion go with Obama at the wheel?
Trump?
And now Biden?
Yep, but Trump was the problem.
He will get a standing ovation from both sides Scott
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been invited to address the U.S. Congress via video on Wednesday as the charismatic leader cements his role as the inspirational face of resistance to the Russian invasion. “The Congress, our country and the world are in awe of the people of Ukraine,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a statement Monday. Although only lawmakers will be allowed to watch the unprecedented remote address in person, it is expected to be streamed live and aired on national news channels. “We look forward to the privilege of welcomin...
You are very ignorant.
Roger, 4 of us have posted pur new Vehicle purchases.
Cali = New Lexis
Scott = New Porche
Dopie = New Ford Escape
KD. = New Toyota
We missed your new purchase?
He will act soon
Playbook: “Something quite striking has happened in Washington since Russia invaded Ukraine. Congress — which typically takes a back seat on foreign policy matters — has repeatedly driven the White House beyond its comfort zone with bipartisan demands for more assertive policies.”
“It started with calls for tougher sanctions, then escalated to an appeal for a larger military and humanitarian assistance package. Members of both parties then clamored for a U.S. ban on Russian oil, which the White House saw as politically risky given the effect on gas prices at home. And they insisted that the U.S. end permanent normal trade relations with Russia.”
“The tactics have worked. And this week, lawmakers will be at it again — this time nudging the Biden administration to go further than it wants in facilitating the transfer of fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine.”
Even though it's going to be screamed all over the networks even Newsmax.
I drive an 8 year old accord, 75k miles and all paid for.
A majority, 65 percent, agree that politics — not science — is driving the decisions to lift restrictions. This sentiment is shared across the ideological spectrum by Democrats (58 percent), Republicans (75 percent), and independents (65 percent).
My balls, solid car.
Roger, what do you own?
PT Cruiser?
If he is correct, the President Biden should address the Congress like FDR.
Earlier Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that it's "only a matter of time" before Russian missiles strike a NATO country, amid reports that Russia's invading forces had escalated airstrikes on western Ukraine over Sunday night.
Zelensky said in a televised address that Sunday was a "black" day as Russian missiles struck from "east to west" and hit a military training base near Ukraine's border with Poland, killing 35 people and wounded 134 others, per an English translation provided by the president's office.Zelensky again called for a no-fly zone — which Western leaders have repeatedly ruled out due to concerns about escalating the war and potentially bringing NATO into a conventional conflict with a nuclear power."If you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory. NATO territory," Zelensky said. "On the homes of citizens of NATO countries."
If I was 50 years younger I would join the armed forces.
Right now..
Inflation? Price-gouging? The complex reasons that everyday costs are skyrocketing
John Stoehr
March 14, 2022
Inflation is serious, especially when you live paycheck to paycheck. (Today’s top news is inflation rising to its highest point in 40 years. Bloomberg said it peaked on rising gas, food, and housing costs).
Inflation is as complex as it is serious, though. Unfortunately, most press reports simplify it by pegging it to a tiresome media narrative about a Democratic Party heading for the killing floor in the fall.
That obscures a lot, especially the way it can help normal people. It inflates wages. It inflates savings accounts. It inflates away debts, too.
Prices are also more complex than your average press report suggests. And with attention going to what the president is going to do, and how inflation will affect his party, we’re all missing key nuances, to wit:
High prices are one thing.
Pricing power is another.
Price gouging under cover of inflation is another still.
Gouging comes from pricing power, which in turn results from high market concentration. After 40 years of pretty much-unfettered mergers, corporations like Walmart and Amazon have grown so titanic they can levy taxes, in effect, on entire sectors of the US economy.
In short, inflation is not a consequence of growing wages, as the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page would have you think. It is also not a consequence of government spending, as Joe Manchin and other vestiges of the “economic freedom” gang would have you think.
Prices are peaking, because market concentration has peaked. As President Joe Biden said, during the State of the Union, regarding meatpacking:
Small businesses and family farmers and ranchers, I need not tell some of my Republican friends from those states, guess what?
You got four basic meatpacking facilities. That’s it.
You play with them or you don’t get to play at all. And you pay a hell of a lot more. A hell of a lot more because there’s only four.
The democratic solution is breaking them up. The democratic means is federal antitrust laws that have been on the books since the early 20th century but that have been gathering dust for the last four decades.
Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at Open Markets, an anti-monopoly think tank, testified Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee. He said the root of the problem goes back to the Reagan administration. I caught up with Sandeep after his testimony.
Everyone's talking about inflation. Some are blaming higher wages for pushing prices higher. Is this correct or partly correct?
I don't believe that is correct. Contrary to the assertions of some conservative commentators, the current inflation is not a general increase in the price level. Rather inflation is driven by higher prices in a few important sectors – energy, food, automobiles and housing. Supply chain bottlenecks and corporate pricing power – not higher wages – appear to be the key factors.
Can you explain more about the role of "pricing power?"
Corporations with pricing power can raise prices far in excess of the costs of production. Sometimes, they can individually raise prices to boost profit margins and profits. At other times, they do so in collusion with their competitors, who agree to raise prices together.
This type of pricing behavior is commonly called 'price gouging.'
The president highlighted gouging in the SOTU. That was a good move, no? Redirecting attention from wages and to greed.
It was a good move politically and based in fact.
CEOs and CFOs at many corporations have boasted about their pricing power and higher margins on earnings calls. They are not shy about it.
I noted earlier that inflation is driven by higher prices in a few sectors. This appears to be having some bad spillover effects in other markets.
Corporations outside of food, energy, cars, and housing have said they are using inflation as cover to raise prices. In non-inflationary times, such hikes might justify outrage from customers and the public.
These higher profit margins appear to be economy-wide.
Only a democrat would not know that if you keep pumping out multi trillion dollar supplemental spending bills, you're certain to get inflation.
And funny how first, it was covid, then supply chain, then greedy corps, then putin. Even the Obama people are saying he needs to man up and own it for once.
Corporations outside of food, energy, cars, and housing have said they are using inflation as cover to raise prices.
There's not a business leader in America stupid enough to do that, let alone say it.
Pure fiction.
The alky peddles LIES.
Might she run for President and shatter the Repblican vote?
None of the never-Trumpers like Cheney ever voted for Trump. They voted for Clinton, then Biden. So Cheney would allow those never-Trumpers an alternative to the Democrat, not an alternative to the GOP candidate.
So it would probably inadvertently help the GOP nominee. I hope she does it!
Corporations outside of food, energy, cars, and housing have said they are using inflation as cover to raise prices.
I should have known.
Lil Bobby 'Third' Reich.
This is HIS bullshit.
You have a right, Ch, to make up your opinions (which you do all the time), but not to make up "facts."
It is a Fact that Trump was President for four years
It is a Fact that Trump did not withdraw from NATO
It is a Fact that it takes Congressional approval to withdraw.
The "opinion" is entirely in your NYT opinion piece.
Scott = New Porsche
One owner 44K - they gave me 3.2% for 84 months!
No way can I afford a New 911!
Putin Signs Law to Seize Foreign Aircraft
4:06 pm EDT
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russian airlines to keep foreign aircraft for use on domestic flights,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Taking ownership of foreign aircraft will only have limited effect, though. Sanctions forbid maintenance, updates, support or the supply of spare parts for planes. Modern passenger jets require high levels of maintenance and flying them could pose risks to passengers.”
Russia Could Default on Its Debt Within Days
4:02 pm EDT
“Russia has sent the clearest signal yet that it will soon default — the first time it will have failed to meet its foreign debt obligations since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago,” CNN reports.
“The default could come as early as Wednesday, when Moscow needs to hand over $117 million in interest payments on dollar-denominated government bonds, according to JPMorgan Chase. Although Russia has issued bonds that can be repaid in multiple currencies since 2018, these payments must be made in US dollars.”
Biden is blaming Putin .
Inflation is Biden's doing.
Too funny, Roger's life of "If Only"
"If I was 50 years younger I would join the armed forces.
Right now.."
You are 4F.
"4-F classification in the U.S. Selective Service System, identifying a person as unfit for military service."
Another example of anti globalism aka isolationist philosophy endangers all the world...
March 14, 2022
Economic Warfare: Ukraine and Beyond
By William R. Hawkins
President Joe Biden's announcement March 11 that the U.S. and its allies will revoke Most Favored Nation trade status for Russia should drive the final nail into the coffin of economic globalization theory. So sacrosanct was MFN status to transnational business that during the debate over granting it to China as part of its admission to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the term was changed to Normal Trade Relations so it did not seem that we were "favoring" Beijing's communist regime, only doing business with it like any other entity. The only values that mattered were measured in dollars.
The atmosphere is changing. Even before Biden's reluctant decision to cut off oil imports from Russia, energy firms BP and Shell cut ties to Russia. The Econ 101 theory of trade (which I taught for many years, but not in isolation) sees resources, particularly capital, allocated to where they would be the most productive without regard to borders in pursuit of aggregate economic growth and profit. The results would show on corporate accounts, not on any international balance of power, which was deemed an obsolete worldview.
Another change in terminology reflected the change in perceptions. Distinguished American academic John G. Ruggie, then U.N. assistant secretary-general for strategic planning, said in a November 20, 2000 speech, "Simply put, postwar institutions, including the United Nations, were built for an inter-national world, but we have entered a global world."
Yawn.
PPI report out this week.
I should be north of 9 %.
CH SAID:
It is a Fact that it takes Congressional approval to withdraw.
GOT AN ANSWER FOR THIS, CH?
OR DO YOU JUST PREFER TO MAKE UP SOME MORE 'FACTS'?:
Trump Can’t Do That. Can He?
On NATO withdrawal and other issues, it turns out presidential powers are constrained by norms but not laws.
By Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
JANUARY 16, 2019, 11:20 AM
If U.S. President Donald Trump decides to withdraw from NATO tomorrow, Congress might be unable to stop him.
That’s the conclusion a group of top lawmakers and some legal experts have reached, as Trump over the past two years has repeatedly bashed the alliance and extended olive branches to Russian President Vladimir Putin—even while his administration has taken some steps to support NATO.
The legal assessment is particularly worrying for some Democratic lawmakers in the wake of a New York Times report revealing that Trump had privately discussed leaving NATO. And it reflects a broader challenge that the Trump presidency poses on a number of issues, including trade policy, international treaties, and clean governance: The guardrails that curb a president’s powers are often traditions and norms but not actual laws.
U.S. membership in NATO retains broad public support and nearly unanimous backing in an otherwise fractious Congress. And any attempt to alter America’s role in the alliance would push the president into uncharted legal waters, even setting aside the geopolitical shockwaves.
Still, if Trump decided to withdraw unilaterally, it appears the law would be on his side, based on a series of court rulings over the past half-century and the Constitution itself.
Broken 4-F Roger dreams of Joining the US Armed force like Cali and I actually did.
I predicted lower gas and Oil prices.
They are creeping down as the motoring public stop most discretionary driving.
You caught him again and again and again and again and again and again
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, for the first time has publicly acknowledged that she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 “Stop-the-Steal” rally on the Ellipse that preceded the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, raising questions about the impartiality of her husband’s work.
In an interview with the conservative outlet the Washington Free Beacon that was published Monday, Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said she was part of the crowd that gathered at the Ellipse that morning to support President Donald Trump. Trump was claiming falsely that widespread voter fraud delivered the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden — a falsehood he continues to repeat.
Thomas said she was at the rally for a short period of time, got cold and went home before Trump took the stage at noon that day.
“I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence that happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the Ellipse on Jan. 6,” the conservative activist told the publication. “There are important and legitimate substantive questions about achieving goals like electoral integrity, racial equality, and political accountability that a democratic system like ours needs to be able to discuss and debate rationally in the political square. I fear we are losing that ability.”
A spokeswoman for the Supreme Court did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In February 2021, Thomas apologized to her husband’s former law clerks after a rift developed among them over her election advocacy of Trump and endorsement of the Jan. 6 rally that led to violence and death at the Capitol.
Anyway, the important thing to remember here is that if a majority of the Court joins Clarence Thomas to hold that Independent [Republican] State Legislatures have the inherent right to end democracy in their states anything in the constitutions of these states notwithstanding, remember that this will be a completely apolitical decision. Do not accuse the court of being controlled by rabidly partisan Republican hacks!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
As a US Army Veteran this does not surprise me in the least.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! As a fucking fraud goat fucker, you would be the first to hide in your mommy's root cellar!!!!!!!!!
Biden said we are "At War".
With whom?
There's plenty of price incentive right now for the oil and gas operators here in the United States,"
Yep, but Biden Beg back better plan has failed Americans.
This is what your trumpists support with your fealty to donnie and his bromance with Putin
Europe
Pregnant mother whose photo showed tragedy of maternity hospital bombing in Ukraine dies with her baby
What a tragedy that war mongers like the goat fucker have on their hands!!!!
Odd that Denny felt a need to lie about me.
I have repeatedly said, Ukraine is Not USA's problem.
We bailed Europe out twice already.
Biden's beg back better plan has failed Americans.
""I noticed it starting about six months ago," a man outside a grocery store near the University of Dayton told Fox News. "I have to eat less, drive less."
Another man said from inside his vehicle parked outside a grocery store: "I’ve had to cut back on groceries a little bit, trim down a little. I’ve also opted to drive less than I did beforehand."
Like I said, elasticity of demand at work.
Victor David Hansen I usually don't agree with him but he's completely correct on this. He is a brilliant writer.
Putin, like the Athenian diplomats, has no interest in rehashing past biased histories and counterallegations. He will deal only with present realities, namely that Ukraine is weak, and Russia is strong. Thus, idealistic but doomed Ukrainian resistance is a selfish and immoral act on the part of Zelenskyy because his own sense of heroism and gallantry will end up getting thousands of innocent women and children needlessly killed who otherwise might have at least lived under Russian domination.
In other words, Zelenskyy’s rockstar defiance, like the noble but utterly unrealistic resistance of the Melians, could earn his Ukrainians a Melian-like nonexistence.
These four choices depend not just on reason, morality, and emotion, but on the pulse of the battlefield in the next few days. Are Putin’s Russians tiring and simply want the mess just to go away? Or are they ashamed of their initial disorganization and now increasingly buoyed that their sheer numbers and savagery can still crush Ukraine?
Are the Ukrainians nearing exhaustion as their families live in rubble in wintertime and their dead pile up? Or are they just getting started, given the ferocious toll in men, planes, and tanks they are exacting on the supposedly invincible Russians?
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The answers to those hypotheticals will determine whether dogged Ukrainian resistance leads to an incredible and unforeseen victory, or soon a negotiated surrender and a harsh emasculation by Russia, or a glorious last stand that leads to resistance and eventual success—or the end of everything the Ukrainians hold dear.
KU GETS to the Sweet 16.
HOW far does Denneys , Roger and Jamie's college go?
Broken 4-F Roger dreams of Joining the US Armed force like Cali and I actually did.
I would not have 4-F today because they have changed the restrictions.
And the goat fucker never ever said a single thing about donnnies made up bone spurs......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You are and embarrassment to humanity with your constant lies!!!!!
Roger, you live a life of "what IF "
And failures.
The infowars are enabled by Ch
Although Russia seems to have an illegal program on chemical weapons, I doubt that they have military-style weapons to use in this conflict. Rather, a tweet a week or so mentioned 80 tons of ammonia – a railroad tank car full. Ammonia is used for agriculture. The more likely sort of chemical attack would be to explode a tank car of ammonia near a residential area. There might also be an attempt to use novichoks on Zelensky and his inner circle.
The US has come back strong this week with the claim that Russia, three weeks into the war, is asking China for military help. Russia has pushed back saying that they have not asked China. This back and forth is now in progress.
Today’s Defense Department briefing piled on more claims. Dan Lamothe daily provides a thread summarizing the daily briefing. Today: Attack on Ukrainian airbase was by cruise missiles from Russian ships, Russian ground advances are stalled, no indication of Russians sending in reinforcements from elsewhere in Russia, 100 percent of assembled forces in Ukraine, no Belarusian forces.
The information war is aided on both sides by activists – Ch- Q, Greenwald, Gabbard on Russia’s side, and others on the US side.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
KU GETS to the Sweet 16.
Really asshole......I don't think a single game has been played yet so your comment is just another line of BULLSHIT!!!!
BTW. only assholes root for KU losers!!!!
Gender changing gals are rethinking become a man on paper.
They are required to register for the draft
Denny what college did you attend?
Roger , didn't.
PALM BEACH—Donald J. Trump has reached out to Vladimir Putin to help Russia file for bankruptcy, the former U.S. President has confirmed.
Calling the Russian economy “in very, very bad, terrible shape” as a result of Western sanctions, Trump said that bankruptcy was “quite frankly” Putin’s only option.
“Bankruptcy is scary the first time you do it,” Trump said. “But once you’ve done it five or six times it’s the easiest and most beautiful thing in the world.”
Trump said that “the first thing Putin should do is stop paying his bills, and that’s something I can show him how to do.”
The former President also offered to send his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to Moscow to advise the Russian Federation on bankruptcy.
“No one can get you into bankruptcy faster than Jared,” Trump boasted.
None of your fucking business......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Obvously not KU which produces failures and liars like you.....LOLOLOLOL. BTW,,,,, I do have 3 degrees.....
The South Dakota School of mines and technology..
GOT AN ANSWER FOR THIS, CH?
OR DO YOU JUST PREFER TO MAKE UP SOME MORE 'FACTS'?:
Well Reverend... I was referring to NATO Support Act (H.R. 676) which is supposed to require Congressional Approval before a President can specifically withdraw from NATO.
That being said, if NATO was considered a Treaty (which most legal experts believe it is) - then a President cannot withdraw from a Treaty without Senate consent or without Congressional repeal. Treaties are not just for a President to rip up and toss aside.
So perhaps it's more of a legal "question" than a fact, but the first two portions of my argument are completely factual.
Trump was President for four years
We remained in NATO that whole time.
Anything else is purely speculation and hypothetical and by nature is an opinion. There is absolutely NO FACTUAL EVIDENCE that can "prove" anything about something that actually never happened.
I know the concept of having something ACTUALLY HAPPEN before you criticize someone for doing something that DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN is limiting to reality.
But shouldn't we really be arguing in REALITY not speculative hypotheticals of imagination and guesswork?
6) which is supposed to require Congressional Approval before a President can specifically withdraw from NATO.
BWWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! At you Lil Schitty,.,,,,,,you presume trump would have followed the rules....LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! You really are a bigger fool than the goat fucker and his lies!!!!!!!
That being said, if NATO was considered a Treaty (which most legal experts believe it is) - then a President cannot withdraw from a Treaty without Senate consent or without Congressional repeal. Treaties are not just for a President to rip up and toss aside.
The reverend is again confusing Trump with something Obunghole did with the Paris Accords
Gee shorty.....I thought Trump orchestrated the exit from the Paris accords.....not Obama......LOLOLOL
Hey stupid Obama entered the Accords without a senate.
Try to keep up fatboi
Fuck off Shorty,,,,,,suggest you learn to fucking read
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-paris-climate-agreement-unconstitutional-1563552
The U.S. Constitution designates the power of treaty-making to the president and the Senate.
Article II Section 2 of the Constitution states that the president "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
Although it is true that a treaty requires ratification by the Senate, an interpretation of Article II shows that it also can be passed by the president through an executive agreement.
Exactly fatman thanks for proving our points.
Idiot
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Proved you fucking wrong again asshole!!!!!!! LOLOLOL. You really are a funny loser!!!
Sorry shorty....your inability to read is as monumental as your fat fucking head!!!
"Under U.S. law, a treaty is specifically a legally binding agreement between countries that requires ratification and the 'advice and consent' of the Senate. All other agreements (treaties in the international sense) are called Executive Agreements, but are nonetheless legally binding for the U.S. under international law," according to PHE.gov.
President Barack Obama exercised his executive power when he entered the Paris Agreement, signing it in August 2016 without ratification from the Senate.
"The authority to negotiate treaties has been assigned to the President alone as part of a general authority to control diplomatic communications. Thus, since the early Republic, the Clause has not been interpreted to give the Senate a constitutionally mandated role in advising the President before the conclusion of the treaty," according to the Constitution Center.
Learn something for once in your life you obese dwarf
This Friday is “Earth Day” and by all indications the Obama administration intends to celebrate it by traveling to the United Nations in New York and signing the Paris Agreement on climate change. Despite the pomp and circumstance of a U.N. Headquarters signing ceremony, President Obama claims that the Paris Agreement is not a treaty. Since he claims it is not a treaty, he does not plan to submit the Agreement to the Senate for approval.
The problem is that the Paris Agreement is certainly a treaty. I reviewed enough treaties during my time in the Senate where I served on the Foreign Relations Committee to know. But don’t take my word for it. The State Department’s internal guidelines make clear that the Paris Agreement is a treaty.
Those guidelines, known as the “Circular 175” procedure, demonstrate that the Paris Agreement is a treaty. For example, the Agreement makes environmental commitments that affect the U.S. as a whole. The Agreement is formal and complex rather than informal and routine. The Agreement is open-ended and requires the U.S. to deliver untold billions of dollars to a “Green Climate Fund” for redistribution around the world to pay for “green projects” in foreign countries. These all indicate that the Agreement is a treaty and not a mere executive agreement, as the president claims.
But how does an agreement of such significance avoid Senate review? After all, the president himself said that the Agreement “represents the best chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got.” The White House released a statement referring to the Agreement as “historic” and “the most ambitious climate change agreement in history.” For his part, my former colleague and current Secretary of State John Kerry stated that the Agreement “will empower us to chart a new path for our planet.”
I suppose the president and Secretary Kerry intend to save the planet without the help of the Senate.
The fact is the White House gave up the game about a year ago when it signaled it would bypass the Senate no matter what. In March 2015 White House spokesman Josh Earnest was asked whether the Paris Agreement (which had not even been negotiated yet) would be submitted to the Senate for approval. Earnest replied, “I think it’s hard to take seriously from some Members of Congress who deny the fact that climate change exists, that they should have some opportunity to render judgment about a climate change agreement.”
So apparently the Senate must first agree with the president’s views on climate change before any treaty on the matter will be sent to them? I don’t believe the Constitution works that way.
And I’m done stomping your fatass in the mud, yet again
Yep.
"The reverend is again confusing Trump with something Obunghole did with the Paris Accords"
Gen. Milley says Kyiv could fall within 72 hours if Russia decides to invade Ukraine: sourcesMilley told lawmakers that Kyiv could fall within 72 hours if a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine occurs"
Nope
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Another valiant effort to look smart....Simple question for your massive ego......if the Paris accord was a nothing as you allege....why did Trump officially with draw from it......I won't hold my breath while you scramble your head in another attempt to explain why you are a dumb fucking salesman!!!!!! You really are an ass clown shorty.
HERITAGE BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Stupid let me explain this to you s..l..o…w…l…y…
Trump was able to exit the Paris Accords because Obunghole did an end run around the Constitution and decide by fiat to enter us into the Accords without Senate consent.
You fucking fat dumbass
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! You stupid fuck.......The accord was legal in spite of your naive opinion and he had to officially withdraw..Kicking you old white ass gets easier every day!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL. Keep digging, this is way too amusing!!
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-paris-climate-agreement-unconstitutional-1563552
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
Stupid let me explain this to you s..l..o…w…l…y…
I KICKED YOUR FUCKING ASS AGAIN.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
The accord was legal in spite of your naive opinion and he had to officially withdraw
Did the senate ratify it? No???
I won yet again, fatman
Beating your decrepit ass, is really easy
Russian TV Employee Yells ‘No War’ on Live Broadcast
5:48 pm EDT
An employee of the Russian state-owned television station Channel One broke into its nightly news broadcast to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She chanted:
“Stop the war! No to war!”
The woman recorded a video before her protest:
“I’m now deeply ashamed… We silently watched this anti-human regime… We are Russian people, thinking and smart ones. Only we have the power to stop all this craziness.”
Such courage!
That woman is
probably now facing a 15 year sentence in prison or worse.
YOU REALLY ARE PROVING HOW STUPID YOU ARE SHORTY!!!!!!! The senate did not have to ratify the treaty for it to be legal.....I guess reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it?? From my earlier post. which you have trouble understanding
and consent' of the Senate. All other agreements (treaties in the international sense) are called Executive Agreements, but are nonetheless legally binding for the U.S. under international law," according to PHE.gov.
President Barack Obama exercised his executive power when he entered the Paris Agreement, signing it in August 2016 without ratification from the Senate.
Keep digging shorty....you are way over your diminutive stature!!!!!
If you listen to Tucker Carlson you should be ashamed of yourself. He is the second propagandist for Russia since Vladimir Putin became The Dictator of Russia.
The Kremlin asked state-controlled Russian media to highlight Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s broadcasts “as much as possible” due to his criticisms of the U.S. and its NATO allies in his coverage of the Ukraine crisis, Mother Jones reported.
A leaked 12-page memo from a Russian government agency to media on March 3 said “it is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts” by Carlson, according to a translation by Mother Jones, which said it obtained the note from a contributor to a national Russian media outlet.
Carlson “sharply criticizes” the actions of the U.S. and NATO and their “negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine,” the memo said, per the news site.
Carlson is also critical of the “defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally,” it reportedly continued.
The document was titled “For Media and Commentators” and sent from Russia’s Department of Information and Telecommunications Support, according to Mother Jones.
The outlet said Carlson was the only Western journalist referenced in the memo.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council whose testimony figured prominently in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, weighed in on the report, tweeting at Carlson to “Live your life in such a way that the Russian government and state TV apparatus doesn’t think you’re an ally.”
Carlson has evidently landed in the Kremlin’s good books after consistently amplifying Russian propaganda on his show. On Thursday, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl reported that Carlson’s rhetoric was “almost a plagiarism” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s.
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In the days before Russia invaded Ukraine, Carlson defended Putin and questioned why he was expected to dislike him. “Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?” he asked.
Since the invasion, Carlson has blamed the U.S. for Russia’s attack and parroted baseless Russian conspiracy theories about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine.
He also complained that he was falsely accused of rooting for Russia. (He has openly admitted to doing so in the past.)
“Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia?” Carlson said in 2019. “And I’m serious. Why do I care? Why shouldn’t I root for Russia? Which I am.” He later claimed he was joking.
Multiple excerpts from his show have been translated to serve as propaganda on Russian state-sponsored TV, including one in which he argued that Ukraine is not a democracy but “a client state of the Biden administration.”
The senate did not have to ratify the treaty for it to be legal.....
God damn you are stupid, it’s why Obunghole chose not to call it a treaty.
Quit while you’re way behind fatman
Trump Says There Is ‘Love’ Behind Putin’s War
4:56 pm EDT
Former President Donald Trump told Jeanine Pirro there is “a lot of love” behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to “make his country larger.”
Said Trump:
“You say, what’s the purpose of this? They had a country. You could see it was a country where there was a lot of love and we’re doing it because, you know, somebody wants to make his country larger or he wants to put it back the way it was when actually it didn’t work very well.”
IS THERE "MUSH" BEHIND TRUMP'S SKULL?
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger, you live a life of "what IF "
And failures.
Ain't that the truth. I don't think I've ever known someone who has so utterly and completely and totally failed at every facet of life as the alky.
He's a case study in failure that should be taught to every medical student pursuing a career in psychiatry.
The reverend is again confusing Trump with something Obunghole did with the Paris Accords
NO I'M NOT, LIAR.
I've long been aware the Paris accords were not a treaty,
but members of NATO, the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION, are under TREATY commitments to one another.
Ch's answer at 2:34 was weak, weak, weak.
Want a fact?
Congressional leaders have been considering strengthening our government's legal language around NATO to make it impossible for President to withdraw us without congressional approval.
And by the way, there are numerous articles backing up my last statement.
MEANWHILE,
DNC Reports Record Haul In February
5:11 pm
“The DNC hauled in more than $14.4 million in February — the most in any February in DNC history — as Democratic donors are waking to the possibility of their party taking a beating in the midterms,” NBC News reports.
but members of NATO, the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION, are under TREATY commitments to one another.
Exactly dumbass, that’s why claiming Trump could Willy Nilly exit NATO, makes you fucking stupid.
Thanks for proving mine and Cold’s point
Stick to copy and pasting you aren’t bright
Oh and the point was what you claimed Trump wanted to do, Obunghole had already done it
DUMBASS
Coming again in 2022
Newsweek
"California, Facing Power Crisis, Frets Over Electric Car Charging Routines
BY MEGHAN ROOS ON 6/21/21"
Yep, failure
TWEETS
'A woman burst onto Russia’s main live evening newscast today with a sign that says:
“Stop the war
Don’t believe propaganda
They’re lying to you”
And chanting: “Stop the war! No to war!”
(Does anyone know who this woman is?)
max seddon
The anti-war protester who crashed the news broadcast is Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, says
@pchikov
whose legal defense foundation is going to defend her against charges of “discrediting the Russian armed forces.” She’s already at the police station.
RRB
"Ain't that the truth. I don't think I've ever known someone who has so utterly and completely and totally failed at every facet of life as the alky.
He's a case study in failure that should be taught to every medical student pursuing a career in psychiatry."
Yep. Roger hates where he lives.
Pederast,
You got your clock cleaned on the topic of NATO. Thoroughly and completely.
Time for you to go back to fluffing and fund raising for the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association.
Ovsyannikova also appears to have recorded a video beforehand in which she blames Putin for the war and apologizes for her work on Russian state TV news.
As temperatures hit triple digits during California's heat wave last week, the state's power grid operators encouraged residents to relieve pressure on the grid by charging their electric vehicles before the peak energy use times of day."
Lol @ fair dust and unicorn fart Socialist
We have Top Men in charge. TOP MEN.
Abigail Marone @abigailmarone
our taxpayer dollars paid for the WH to lie to a bunch of influencers so they could spread the lies on a Chinese app. classic.
As temperatures hit triple digits during California's heat wave last week, the state's power grid operators encouraged residents to relieve pressure on the grid by charging their electric vehicles before the peak energy use times of day."
Who knew that virtue signaling could be such an expensive and arduous pain in the ass?
Trump 2.0
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump 2.0
The personality and affect have been evident since DeSantis won the governor's seat back in 2018. The Trumpian pettiness, the contempt, the reflexive hostility seem to come naturally to him. He treats the press like dirt and thinks insults are the highest form of humor. If he has any personal warmth or human compassion it's certainly well hidden. He even gestures like Trump.
But with DeSantis, it's more than just style. He's got the Republicans in Florida working together like clockwork to enact the most authoritarian agenda in the country, calibrated perfectly to appeal to the base in advance of his re-election campaign --- and a potential presidential run in 2024.
Florida has been at the leading edge of COVID denialism from the very beginning, but in recent days DeSantis and his hand-picked science-denying surgeon general have taken it to a new level. They had already turned masks into a battleground with the governor taking it upon himself earlier this month to scold high school kids for wearing them in his presence, declaring that it's time to end the "COVID theatre." This was ironic since it turned out that many of the kids had been told by their parents to wear them and DeSantis' numerous assaults on education over the past year have been rationalized as a defense of "parental rights." Then last week the surgeon general went even further, defying the CDC and most physicians by recommending that kids not get vaccinated for COVID-19. DeSantis and his medical henchman seem determined to keep the virus circulating as long as they can.
Meanwhile, the legislative season just coming to a close has produced such an astonishing array of right-wing culture war victories delivering on Desantis' "anti-woke" agenda that it's hard to know where to start. Building on last year's education wrecking ball in which they banned Critical Race Theory from schools despite the fact that they were not teaching it, instituted a requirement that schools teach about the "evils of communism" and passed a higher education law that allows for budget cuts to colleges based on student and faculty surveys about "viewpoint diversity" (which DeSantis defines as "indoctrination") this year they took it to a whole new level. Salon's Amanda Marcotte offered this tart analysis of the
The legislature also passed the "Stop WOKE Act," which bars both schools and businesses from having any training or program that supposedly causes an "individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin." This has been largely covered as a ban on any kind of diversity training, but it's even more expansive than that. As I note in Friday's Standing Room Only newsletter, conservatives can also block anti-sexual harassment trainings by claiming it's guilt-tripping men to tell them that ass-pinching is not allowed in the workplace.
The "fuck your feelings" crowd sure are sensitive snowflakes, aren't they?
James , you had no chance.
Keyboard pvt Roger.
Go to Ukraine and fight.
No need to wait, man up.
Perhaps you losers should hold the losers in charge accountable for what is happening today...
Rather than being losers who try to blame a former President and a Fox News Talk show host for the COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE of this Administration.
Because, seriously... you are embarrassing yourself.
Want a fact?
I would be open to a "fact" from the Reverend every once in a while...
Which will never, ever, not in a million lifetimes, ever....
Even once...
Not even close to remotely being ever...
even slightly having anything to do with....
a NYT Reporter "opining" what they believe "would have happened" if Trump was still President.
I mean seriously Reverend.
When that is what you call a fact?
Well then the "fact" is that you are a behaving as a fool.
Not saying you "are" a fool. Not calling you a name. Just pointing out how absolutely silly you are being repeating a NYT reporter's delusions of what might have been as a fact.
Multiple journalists identified the protester as Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Channel One, one of Russia’s most popular news channels.
She recorded a video beforehand, which has since gone viral, accusing the network of propaganda and apologizing that she worked there.
"Unfortunately, for the last few years I've been working for Channel One,” Ovsyannikova said in the video. “I've been doing Kremlin propaganda and I'm very ashamed of it — that I let people lie from TV screens and allowed the Russian people to be zombified.
"We didn't say anything in 2014 when it only just began.
We didn't protest when the Kremlin poisoned Navalny.
We just silently watched this inhuman regime.
Now the whole world has turned away from us,
and ten generations of our descendants won't wash off this fratricidal war,” she continued.
She noted that her father was Ukrainian.
The video was originally posted by OVD-Info, a Russian human rights media project aimed at combating political persecution.
According to reports, she has already been detained by authorities.
In recent weeks, Russia has cracked down on independent media outlets. Putin introduced a new censorship law on March 4 that restricts the press from disseminating information to the public, prohibiting anyone from calling the invasion “a war.”
This censorship has led major outlets like The New York Times and Bloomberg to suspend their on-the-ground reporting in Russia, and many other journalists have left, fearing imprisonment.
According to OVD-Info, nearly 14,000 anti-war protesters have been arrested across Russia.
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UNLIKE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN AMERICA, THERE ARE RUSSIANS STILL PREPARED TO CALL A LIE A LIE, EVEN AT COST TO THEMSELVES.
CNN.
"US economy flashes a recession warning sign"
NO SHIT.
Welcome to the party,.late. but come in.
Well Roger...
If you call our Administration out on something, or post something from a foreign study that undermines our CDC narrative or bring up election fraud... or any number of uncomfortable topics here in the US.
Even if you are 100% correct.
They simply ban you from social media and in some cases a Fed will come knockin on your door.
Something you claim to support over and over and over and over.
You believe in freedom of speech. But just in Russia, not the U.S.
Document Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings
8:04 pm
“A document found by federal prosecutors in the possession of a far-right leader contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year,“ the New York Times reports.
“The document, titled ‘1776 Returns,’ was cited by prosecutors last week in charging the far-right leader, Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the Proud Boys extremist group, with conspiracy.”
“The indictment of Mr. Tarrio described the document in general terms, but the people familiar with it added substantial new details about the scope and complexity of the plan it set out for directing an effort to occupy six House and Senate office buildings and the Supreme Court last Jan. 6.”
_______
AND NOW CH will again kindly explain that this was not an intended insurrection or overthrow of our government.
It wasn't conspiracy either, was it, Ch?
Infowars agreed with you Scott.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Facebook for its role in helping him win the propaganda war after the platform announced it would permit calls for violence against Russians.
Following its move to allow praise for the pro-Ukraine neo-nazi Azov Battalion last week, Facebook said they would permit ‘calls for violence against Russians’.
“As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
Moscow responded by banning both Facebook and Instagram in Russia.
President Zelensky took to Twitter to thank Zuckerberg for standing with Ukraine in the “informational space.”
“War is not only a military opposition on UA land. It is also a fierce battle in the informational space,” Zelensky tweeted. “I want to thank @Meta and other platforms that have an active position that help and stand side by side with the Ukrainians.”
In other words, Facebook is directly aiding Ukraine by allowing pro-Ukraine propaganda to spread while banning any pro-Russia propaganda.
This despite the fact that there have been numerous huge fabricated stories in just a few weeks alone, including the Snake Island hoax and the supposed attack on a Holocaust memorial in Kiev that never happened.
“Facebook has helped Zelensky himself spread endless disinformation to try and con NATO into World War III,” comments Chris Menahan. “Most recently, they helped Zelensky spread the lie that Russians attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with tanks and it was leaking radiation and could lead to a nuclear holocaust wiping out all of Europe (if NATO doesn’t immediately get involved in the war and start WW3).”
“They also helped Zelensky spread the lie that Russians attacked the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and were trying to trigger a meltdown.”
Facebook’s decision to allow its platform to be used to advocate for violence against Russians was also made despite actual real world violence being directed towards Russians.
A Russian cultural center in Paris was firebombed last weekend, while a man in Dublin also drove a truck into the gates of the Russian embassy.
Scott believes that private companie can decide what to post is censorship.
The government is not banning anything even Tucker Carlson.
Roger believes that it is okay to beat up a woman, as long as she is black.
I mean... as long as we are just making shit up.
The reality Roger...
Is I believe that the laws of public forums should be followed and flagrant examples of violations should be dealt with as the law allows.
You have proven over and over and over that you are not smart enough to understand them.
You aren't making sense anymore.
Lol, Roger will not get the joke
James, Ch thinks it was just a peaceful demonstrations by white people.
Prosecutors say a “documentary film crew” was present when Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes met for 30 minutes in an underground parking garage on Jan. 5, 2021.
The details, revealed in a Justice Department court filing on Monday, provide new evidence of the encounter between the two groups, whose leaders played a key role in the breach of the Capitol the following day.
“While in the parking garage, Tarrio told another individual that he had cleared all of the messages on his phone before he was arrested,” prosecutors wrote, in a filing urging a federal magistrate judge to detain Tarrio pending trial. “Tarrio further stated that no one would be able to get into his phone because there were ‘two steps’ to get into it.”
Prosecutors say that after Tarrio left Washington, D.C., that night — part of a court order that he stay away from the city while facing charges related to his conduct during a December 2020 rally — he traveled to Baltimore.
“That evening, Tarrio used the phones of associates to make a number of phone calls, and to log back into his encrypted messaging accounts,” prosecutors say. “After having regained access to his accounts, Tarrio assured his men that his phone had not been compromised.”
Reuters first reported on the existence of the Tarrio-Rhodes meeting, and the FBI’s interest in it, last month.
The new details suggest Tarrio played a more direct role than previously understood in orchestrating the events that occurred on Jan. 6, when top Proud Boys leaders were at the vanguard of a mob that overran police lines and threatened the presidential transfer of power.
Prosecutors have charged Tarrio, along with four other Proud Boys leaders, with conspiring to obstruct Congress that day. They also charged a sixth member of the group, Dominic Pezzola, who they say was the first to physically breach the Capitol when he shattered a window with a stolen police riot shield.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/14/film-crew-january-5-meeting-proud-boys-oath-keepers-00017107
Omg, this is Socialist Stupidity.
"Dems push plan to tax oil companies' profits, send checks to Americans during Russia-Ukraine price spike"
And oh, the lies , too.
The Deep staters according to you
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Leader of Proud Boys Indicted in Federal Court for Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach
Five Others Facing Charges in Case
WASHINGTON – Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, was arrested today following his indictment on conspiracy and other charges related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Tarrio, 38, of Miami, Florida, was arrested in Miami and is to make his initial appearance today in the Southern District of Florida. He was named in a superseding indictment returned Monday in the District of Columbia that also includes five previously charged defendants.
Others named in the superseding indictment include Ethan Nordean, 31, of Auburn, Washington; Joseph Biggs, 38, of Ormond Beach, Florida; Zachary Rehl, 36, of Philadelphia; Charles Donohoe, 34, of Kernersville, North Carolina; and Dominic Pezzola, 44, of Rochester, New York. All previously were detained. They earlier pleaded not guilty to charges.
According to court documents, the Proud Boys describes itself as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world, aka Western Chauvinists.” Through at least Jan. 6, 2021, Tarrio was the national chairman of the organization. In mid-December, Tarrio created a special chapter of the Proud Boys known as the “Ministry of Self Defense.”
As alleged in the indictment, from in or around December 2020, Tarrio and his co-defendants, all of whom were leaders or members of the Ministry of Self Defense, conspired to corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, the certification of the Electoral College vote. On Jan. 6, the defendants directed, mobilized, and led members of the crowd onto the Capitol grounds and into the Capitol, leading to dismantling of metal barricades, destruction of property, and assaults on law enforcement.
Although Tarrio is not accused of physically taking part in the breach of the Capitol, the indictment alleges that he led the advance planning and remained in contact with other members of the Proud Boys during their breach of the Capitol. Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4, 2021, on a warrant charging him in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia with destruction of property in the Dec. 12, 2020, burning of a Black Lives Matter banner. He was released at approximately 5 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2021. As a condition of his release, he was ordered by the Court to stay out of Washington.
The indictment alleges that Tarrio nonetheless continued to direct and encourage the Proud Boys prior to and during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and that he claimed credit for what had happened on social media and in an encrypted chat room during and after the attack.
Tarrio was indicted on one count of each conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and obstruction of an official proceeding, as well as two counts each of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and destruction of government property.
This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Valuable assistance was provided by U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida.
The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington and Miami Field Offices. The charges in the investigation are the result of significant cooperation between agents and staff across numerous FBI Field Offices, and law enforcement agencies.
In the 14 months since Jan. 6, more than 775 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including over 245 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or visit tips.fbi.gov.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
'Russia is the global enemy': Fallout from Ukraine invasion could last for years
Yahoo News
March 14, 2022, 4:00 PM
WASHINGTON — When he invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin almost certainly expected a quick, decisive conquest that would restore the Kremlin's influence in Eastern Europe and burnish his own status as a Russian leader on par with Peter and Catherine the Great.
Weeks later, Russia is a hobbled pariah, while the dogged Ukrainian resistance — led by charismatic President Volodymyr Zelensky — has attained admiration in much of the world.
There is little doubt that the Russian army has the firepower to level its smaller neighbor if it chooses to. But the costs to Russian society could be enormous for years, even generations, to come.
"Russia is done," said New School political scientist Nina Khrushcheva, whose great-grandfather was Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, an ethnic Russian whose rise through the communist ranks mostly took place in Ukraine. In fact, it was Khrushchev — who grew up in a peasant family on the Ukrainian border — who returned Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 as a Soviet administrative region, putting in motion the geopolitical shifts that would, much later, result in war.
Six decades later — in 2014 — Putin first invaded Ukraine to recover Crimea, as well as two eastern territories home to many ethnic Russians. When he launched a full-scale invasion last month, he blamed his Soviet predecessors for making mistakes he said it was now his duty to correct.
Few outside the Kremlin see it that way.
"Russia is hated by the rest of the world," Khrushcheva said, predicting a period of deepening international isolation. "Russia is the global enemy. That doesn't end quickly," she said, pessimistically envisioning "another 100 years of us being villains of the universe."
On Friday, President Biden announced that the United States, the European Union, Canada and Asia were all revoking Russia’s status as a favored trading partner, a move that comes on top of several rounds of sanctions and an exodus by Western corporations like McDonald’s.
Though it is not clear how long the sanctions will last, “it's pretty clear that Russia will become poorer and more technologically backward. The choices for its citizens will be radically diminished and for many, many years to come," Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations told The Hill.
Moscow will certainly look to Beijing in response, and while China has avoided joining the chorus of condemnation directed at Russia, its own vast ambitions could leave Putin indebted to a dangerous degree.
What is already clear, however, is that three decades of hoping that Russia would emerge from the Cold War, like Germany, as a full-fledged modern democracy have been decisively dashed. The departure of McDonald’s, which opened on Red Square in 1990 to surging fascination, was a poignant symbol of disappointment in how little has changed since communism’s collapse.
The initial sanctions were not a surprise to the Kremlin, which almost welcomed them with a show of defiance. Nor, so far, have they served as a deterrent. In Putin's own speeches and writings — including a remarkably frank English-language essay two years ago in the National Interest, an American publication — he discusses history in geopolitical terms, and he may be willing to countenance collective suffering to achieve his vision of a restored Russian empire that encompasses Ukraine and perhaps other ex-Soviet states. But achieving that vision has already caused widespread suffering for Russians and Ukrainians alike, leading to the kind of near-universal condemnation that is rare in a world of complex and competing national interests.
"Vladimir Putin is isolated and morally dead," the lead editorial in a recent issue of the Economist thundered, with the magazine comparing him to Joseph Stalin, the brutal Soviet dictator whose image Putin has assiduously worked to rehabilitate.
Khrushcheva thinks such comparisons are unfair — TO STALIN. "Even Stalin had an idea," she said, adding that she has no sympathy for the ruthless Soviet despot who sent millions of his citizens to death and prison. The point of the comparison, rather, is to underscore Putin's failure to articulate a reason for invading Ukraine, a nation that does share many cultural and historical ties with Russia but has been sovereign since 1991.
She deemed Putin's vision of a "pan-Slavic state" encompassing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as "beyond backward-looking," not to mention out of touch with a Russian populace whose appetite for war he may have misjudged.
Still, war is being waged in the Russian name. And the longer it continues, the more dangerous Putin arguably becomes. Projecting strength is a key feature of his foreign policy — and has been for decades. "You must hit first, and hit so hard that your opponent will not rise to his feet," he told Russian interviewers in 2000 about the second war he launched against Chechnya. The conflict reduced the breakaway republic to rubble, leaving little but grief and destruction in the wake of the Russian army.
Similar fears are mounting with Russian troops approaching Kyiv, though Putin may not be willing to outright destroy the historically significant city. Failing to seize the Ukrainian capital, however, would be tantamount to defeat. "I don’t think Russia has a 'best outcome,'" Khrushcheva believes. "Russia doesn't have a good solution — at all."
An outcome short of clear victory could prove personally devastating for Putin, who has wielded his power virtually unchallenged for two decades. So far, attempts at a negotiated peace have failed while confusion over the path ahead — on both diplomatic and military fronts — appears to be deepening.
The political scientist Francis Fukuyama believes that a Ukrainian resistance bolstered by the West will ultimately prevail against a Russian military that has the advantage of size but suffers from poor leadership and low morale. The war will end in an "outright defeat" for Russia, Fukuyama argued in a recent blog post, and the subsequent collapse of Putin’s regime: "He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive power?"
Khrushcheva thinks that even if Putin is replaced as president, the kleptocratic power structure he created will remain, simply allowing a successor to take over without making reforms, the way Dmitry Medvedev did when he became president in 2008. (Putin could not serve a third term at that time because of term limits; he has since changed that law, assuring his own rule into near perpetuity.)
"The system is not going anywhere," Khrushcheva told Yahoo News. And she finds discussion of a post-Putin Russia far too premature. "His popularity is rising," she said. Though polling can be inaccurate in Russia, his approval rating last month was above 70 percent. "People will rally around the flag," Khrushcheva predicted. And she did not have in mind the banners of Ukrainian yellow and blue that have become commonplace in many Western cities.
An American company is!!@!
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp. is preparing to take operating control of its joint ventures in Venezuela if Washington relaxes sanctions on Caracas to boost crude supplies after banning Russia's oil imports, according to three people familiar with the situation.
The U.S. oil major has begun assembling a trading team to market oil from Venezuela, two of the people said. If U.S. approvals are received, Chevron aims to expand its role in the four joint ventures it shares with state-run company PDVSA, they added.
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Chevron has asked the U.S. government for a license broad enough to have a greater say at its joint ventures in Venezuela, a first step to recovering crude output and exports, and to control where oil is sent, the three people said. Since 2020, Chevron has delegated most decision making to state-run PDVSA.
U.S. officials have made clear, however, that any new authorization will depend on whether Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro takes further political steps, two sources said, such as releasing more jailed Americans and setting a firm date for resuming negotiations with the Venezuelan opposition.
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Chevron's proposed moves could revitalize Venezuela's oil output and exports after years of underinvestment and sanctions shrank it to about 755,000 barrels per day (bpd) last month from 2.3 million bpd in 2016. Chevron's joint ventures with PDVSA had produced about 200,000 bpd before U.S. sanctions and lack of financing cut their output.
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A date has not been set for issuing the authorization. But Chevron has begun preparations for employees to get Venezuelan visas in Aruba, ready to head to Caracas if the U.S. Treasury eases restrictions, the people said.
This will help reduce gasoline prices
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-chevron-set-trade-venezuelan-oil-if-us-relaxes-sanctions-sources-2022-03-14/
Because I read very quickly I saw the the Russian armed forces are not doing well almost everywhere.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-14
It's way too long to post it
Socialist Joe helping Fellow travelers in Venezuelan.
But Chevron has begun preparations for employees to get Venezuelan visas in Aruba, ready to head to Caracas if the U.S. Treasury eases restrictions, the people said.
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit March 14, 2022 at 8:32 PM
This will help reduce gasoline prices"
Every other country produces great oil, but the US according to Stupid Add hat Biden and Alky.
Russia’s early struggles to push disinformation and propaganda about Ukraine have picked up momentum in recent days, thanks to a variety of debunked conspiracy theories about biological research labs in Ukraine. Much of the false information is flourishing in Russian social media, far-right online spaces and U.S. conservative media, including Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News and Thecoldheartedtruth and kputz and rrb etc.
The theories, which have been boosted by Russian and Chinese officials, come as U.S. officials warn that Russia could be preparing a chemical or biological weapons attack of its own in Ukraine.
Most of the conspiracy theories claim that the U.S. was developing and plotting to release a bioweapon or potentially another coronavirus from “biolabs”’ throughout Ukraine and that Russia invaded to take over the labs. Many of the theories implicate people who are often the targets of far-right conspiracy thinking — including Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Joe Biden — as being behind creating the weaponized diseases in the biolabs.
Every fucking thing Alky thinks is wrong.
US can do the job of oil production, we don't need others, as Trump Proved as he took us to Energy Independence.
Biden is making his green party agenda a reality.
"I'm talking about stopping fracking, as soon as we possibly can," Biden "
President Ronald Reagan, said, "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Millennials are largely clueless about what this means due to progressive indoctrination in schools, while their parents have been asleep.
Americans have assumed that freedom is only lost in other countries. They feel superior to communist countries, even as communism is growing right in their own backyard.
It's time, however, to consider objectively whether the United States under Democrat rule is so different from communism. Just think about how fast "free" nations like Austria and Australia lost their freedom. Germans are still wearing face masks everywhere.
While the Danish government lifted all restrictions in January 2022, it still uses the government email system, to which everyone is required to be connected, to "remind" people to get vaccinated, and the government still uses the school system's intranet to blast reminders of vaccinations available for the students in Danish schools. That is not freedom.
The people have a responsibility to fight back to provide for the next generation the same rights we have enjoyed during our lifetime. Events in 2020 have revealed to us how leftists have abused power around the world. We must hold our elected officials accountable for their actions, and when they violate our rights, we have the responsibility to vote them out. (You can see me develop these ideas further on You & the Truth with the host of the Mike Essen Show.)
Governor DeSantis looked at what Americans are dealing with in 2022 and summed it up well:
The threats we face to freedom, the threats we face to a just society are much more pervasive than they were just ten years ago. Think about what the left wants to do. What are their political aims? If they had elected just a couple more senators, they were going to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. They were going to make D.C. a state, so they could have two radical, Democrat, left-wing senators for life. They were going to abolish the electoral college, so California could elect the president, and they wanted to federalize the fraudulent ballot practices.
Think about these words, and ask yourself if Democrat plans prove that they are for freedom or freedom's end. For the Democrats, the word "freedom" is what the F-word is to Republicans — it's a curse. When they talk about "democracy," they are not envisioning America's constitutional republican democracy predicated on individual rights and small government. They will not take action to support our constitutional rights, and everything they say is deceptive.
New York(CNN Business)US oil prices briefly tumbled below $100 a barrel on Monday, unwinding a significant chunk of the recent spike caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Oil plunged more than 8%, touching a low of $99.76 a barrel. That means oil has lost almost roughly quarter of its value since touching a near 14-year high of $130.50 a barrel on March 6.
It's the first time oil has traded below $100 since March 1.
"This is one hell of a correction," said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Analysis.
The selloff should ease fears of an energy-driven recession in the United States and, if sustained, should bring some relief to drivers dealing with record gasoline prices.
Brent crude, the world benchmark, dropped more than 7% to $104.35 a barrel in recent trading. That marks a sharp pullback from the recent peak of nearly $140 a barrel.
What this means for gas prices
Still, the tumble back to $100 should cool off prices at the pump, which move with a lag to oil.
If oil prices stay at current levels, the national average price for regular gasoline would likely dip by about 20 cents a gallon, Kloza said. That would mean gas prices are still high — and above $4 a gallon nationally — but below record highs.
Gas prices have already stopped going straight up, even before Monday's sharp decline in oil. According to AAA, the national average stands at $4.33 a gallon on Monday. That's unchanged from Friday, so things seem to be leveling out — albeit basically at record highs.
But as demand increases during the summer vacation season. the prices will increase again.
Author and political scientist Francis Fukuyama said the Russian military is now facing the possibility of “outright defeat” in Ukraine.
And he’s warning Russian President Vladimir Putin that the end could be swift ― for both his military and his more than two-decade rule.
“The collapse of their position could be sudden and catastrophic, rather than happening slowly through a war of attrition,” Fukuyama wrote for the American Purpose website. “The army in the field will reach a point where it can neither be supplied nor withdrawn, and morale will vaporize.”
Fukuyama, author of 1992′s “The End of History and the Last Man,” blamed incompetent planning by Moscow, which anticipated that its forces would be welcomed in Ukraine.
“Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations,” wrote Fukuyama, who holds several positions at Stanford, including Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Now, those soldiers are stuck outside of cities, facing both supply issues and constant attacks from Ukrainian forces.
If they’re defeated, he predicted, that would also spell the end of Putin.
“Putin will not survive the defeat of his army,” Fukuyama wrote. “He gets support because he is perceived to be a strongman; what does he have to offer once he demonstrates incompetence and is stripped of his coercive powers?
And by the way Scott, even if we remained as a member of NATO, if he was elected President, as the commander in Chief he could have refused to send troops to Germany and France and Poland in response to a Russian invasion of eastern Europe.
Under article 5 in NATO..
Tucker Carlson has drawn scorn from the neoconservative wing over the last several weeks, despite the fact that he’s roundly condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. That’s because Carlson’s position on a response is essentially the opposite of the establishment Republican wing, which is rushing to push for a hot war with Russia.
And if you think I’m being hyperbolic, here’s Adam Kinzinger, who had previously called for the United States to go to war with Russia by instituting a no-fly zone over Ukraine, now stumping for war with Belarus as well.
Kinzinger has lashed out against Carlson personally several times, accusing him of being an agent of Kremlin in no uncertain terms. In response, Carlson invited Kinzinger on his top-rated Fox News show to defend his point of view. That would seem like a great opportunity for the soon-to-be ex-congressman to defend his calls for war.
Here’s how the Never Trump figure responded.
What an absolute coward. Instead of taking Carlson up on his offer to go on and defend his viewpoints to millions of people (some of which might be sympathetic, given many who watch Fox News are much more hawkish than Carlson), Kinzinger decided to shoot an iPhone video and get completely punked in the process.
Look, I think there are a lot of Republicans who are probably not as isolationist as Carlson on the matter of Russia invading Ukraine. That in and of itself is a reasonable place for disagreement. I’m not saying one has to agree with Carlson’s more skeptical eye toward the crisis. But what makes Kinzinger such a clown is that he is going around basically accusing people of treason for injecting any nuance into the situation.
For example, Carlson has discussed the US-funded bio-labs in Ukraine on his show. Yes, they exist, and no, it is not being an agent of the Kremlin to talk about them. Is there anything nefarious going on with them? I don’t personally think so, but I’m also not going to be triggered by their mere mention. Neoconservatives are sent into orbit by the discussion.
Back to Kinzinger, though, he’s just a joke a politician. He talks a big game on MSNBC, but the moment he’s challenged, he folds because he knows he can’t actually defend his positions, specifically those that will lead to open war with Russia. Instead, he’d rather hide behind the protection of Twitter, spreading misinformation and taking shots at those who don’t agree with him.
Kinzinger didn’t turn down Carlson’s offer because he’s “focused on supporting the Ukrainian people.” He turned him down because he’s an empty suit. The purge of Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, and perhaps a few others from the GOP that’s going to happen in November is a welcome event.
Happy anniversary:
“Just 15 days,” we were told on March 16, 2020, “to slow the spread.” Do your part to promote the “common good”—the historical rallying cry of every wannabe despot—or be branded a heartless heretic. And it worked, far better than the original architects probably anticipated.
On the same day my daughter left her college dormitory in upstate New York, not to return to a normal campus life for two years, I posted this on Twitter:
"This is what the Left wants. They want people stripped of wealth, isolated, and terrified. They want sources of joy—church, sporting events, vacations, large social gatherings—eliminated. This is how they get control. And it’s far scarier than any virus."
To say that was a very unpopular view at the time would be an understatement. But having covered the climate change movement for years, I recognized a familiar approach to the spread of COVID-19 hysteria: use flawed data to whip up a public frenzy and shut down all debate in fealty to “science!”
Any disagreement over the data, no matter how unreliable or untested the data happened to be—and in the early months, the only available data came from China—made you a “science denier,” or worse.
This time around, sadly, the hysteria wasn’t pushed solely by lefty environmental activists but also by President Donald Trump, Republican governors, and “conservative” influencers throughout the media. Once that buy-in was made, all hope was lost.
Trump’s catastrophic decision to acquiesce to the demands of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx—the former a charlatan, the latter a dunce—and shut down the country two years ago this week was by far the worst moment in his presidency and rivals the worst moment in any presidency. As usual, however, Trump’s first instinct (the one he suppressed to appease those demanding we honor The Science™) was the right one. The cure should not be worse than the disease, he fretted. He knew it, but he listened to the quacks anyway.
The cure, of course, got worse. Emboldened by their success in forcing Trump to authorize the first 15-day shutdown, the then-adored Fauci and Birx took it a step further. With two dubious projection models in hand, the pair went to the White House at the end of March 2020 and convinced Trump to extend the lockdowns another month.
The decision sealed his electoral fate; the booming economy he helped build entered a death spiral.
Which is why the Left will try this again. Pandemic lockdowns produced all sorts of benefits for Democrats, including outcomes the environmental movement had been dreaming about for five decades: fossil fuel use plummeted as airline and vehicle traffic screeched to a halt; meat prices soared; commercial buildings in large energy-consuming cities sat vacant.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/14/from-15-days-to-two-years/
If the left tries to pull this shit again, every one of them deserves a shotgun blast to the face.
If the left tries to pull this shit again,
If idiots like you continue to post this abject gibberish.....you will never dig out of the GOP hole you are in.....BWWWWAAAAAAAAAA
Fixed it for you dumbs!!!!!! Remember.....Trumps lack of leadership is the reason sooooo many in America have suffered....oh well!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/15/truth-about-gas-prices-oil-production/
Confirming what I have said many times before.....about the oil market and how little control the US has over its prices.....
The other part of this Quinnipiac poll:
A Quinnipiac poll published on March 7, 2022, gave a remarkable insight into the state of the country in terms of its political divisions. It has long been suspected that Democrats care more about their party than the country, and the recent polls provide strong evidence supporting that opinion. The poll indicates that most Democrats will never criticize a Democrat president despite a disastrous job performance. But more troubling is what the Quinnipiac poll revealed: a majority of Democrats do not love this country enough to stay and defend her in case of war.
Presidential Job Approval: Given the disastrous performance of the current administration, including over 600,000 COVID deaths in America, the border crisis, the Afghanistan fiasco, high inflation, record-high gas prices, supply chain problems, bare shelves at stores, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is difficult to recall a single thing this administration can offer as a success. As expected, Republicans overwhelmingly disapprove of the Biden administration by 91% to 6%. Independents follow with 51% to 30% disapproval.
But Democrats approve of Biden's performance by a remarkable 83% to 13%. In terms of strong approval or disapproval, 86% of Republicans strongly disapprove, 41% of independents strongly disapprove — but 47% of Democrats strongly approve. For Democrats, it appears that approval is not based on job performance, reality, or the good of the country; rather, it exclusively depends on whether the president is a Democrat.
The fact you posted about a poll, rat, gives remarkable insight to your partisan derangement syndrome driven by your brain washing of all intellect......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! If you ask me, the poll failed to show the origins of the divide being exacerbated by both trump, Jowls and the racism of the GOP!!!!!!! Oh well, just another opinion that means less than nothing in the big scheme of life, just like yours..!!
But Democrats approve of Biden's performance by a remarkable 83% to 13%. In terms of strong approval or disapproval, 86% of Republicans strongly disapprove, 41% of independents strongly disapprove — but 47% of Democrats strongly approve.
The trouble with this blog is now how long it takes to pass over those lengthy "posts" from the three rabid democrats here who are strong supporters of a weak Biden.
And the plagiarized Goddard blog copy/pastes
As if they are doing a service
ROFLMFAO !!!
Tulsi Gabbard
@TulsiGabbard
FANTASTIC Gabbard VIDEO from Tucker interview:
https://gettr.com/post/p104neac622
Americans and people around the world have just suffered through a global pandemic quite possibly caused by pathogens accidentally released from a biological lab. Yet my political opponents are not concerned about 25+ biolabs in Ukraine war zone, which could easily be breached, unleashing dangerous pathogens, igniting new worldwide pandemics. And, they label those of us who say we must take action to prevent a new pandemic as being treasonous.
people are getting around the corporate state MSM and big tech
with truth
* above is nine minutes. Romney and state media should be ashamed
A specter is haunting America—the specter of the Democrat Party. Like an evil spirit that cannot be exorcised, the Democrats have been plaguing the United States since Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in 1804. Ferociously pro-slavery, the Democrats divided the country practically from its inception, blocked the path to abolition and eventually took up arms against the nation after the election of the first Republican president, firing on Fort Sumter and seceding en masse from the Union. And, a week after they had lost that war, one of them assassinated Abraham Lincoln, elevating a Democrat from a Confederate state to the presidency, and plunging the country into more needless turmoil.
* * * * * * * * *
The midterms are still eight months away but Real America is crying out for succor right now. Gasoline, home heating oil, electricity, natural gas—the prices continue to soar, already past the point of recent plausibility and heading into economic terra incognita. Millions of illegal aliens pour across the nearly erased southern border. A befuddled Joe Biden threatens to sleepwalk us into an armed conflict with the ghost of the old Soviet Union in the form of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and disinformation is rife on both sides of the conflict in the Ukraine. In a parliamentary system, Biden’s government would have fallen right after the debacle in Afghanistan—but barring a miracle we’ve got another three years to suffer.
For just over a year, Americans have watched with admirable patience as their economy collapsed, their legal system was perverted to serve the interests of a few, their nation’s military degraded, and their freedom of speech subverted via the government’s fascistic and unconstitutional co-opting of the social media sites. Meanwhile, woke corporations and a thoroughly compromised media crack down on the commercial and personal privacy of anybody that runs afoul of the New Normal while manic Greens demand a return to the days of three-masted schooners and windmills. Such relentless cultural and economic sabotage would be considered an act of war if done by anyone else—but here it goes by the fellow-traveler names of “dissent,” “patriotism,” and “progressivism.”
https://the-pipeline.org/the-specter-that-haunts-america/
March 15 (Reuters) - The war in Ukraine is likely to be over by early May when Russia runs out of resources to attack its neighbour, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, said late on Monday.
Talks between Kyiv and Moscow - in which Arestovich is not personally involved - have so far produced very few results other than several humanitarian corridors out of besieged Ukrainian cities.
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In a video published by several Ukrainian media, Arestovich said the exact timing would depend on how much resources the Kremlin was willing to commit to the campaign.
"I think that no later than in May, early May, we should have a peace agreement, maybe much earlier, we will see, I am talking about the latest possible dates," Arestovich said.
"We are at a fork in the road now: there will either be a peace deal struck very quickly, within a week or two, with troop withdrawal and everything, or there will be an attempt to scrape together some, say, Syrians for a round two and, when we grind them too, an agreement by mid-April or late April."
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A "completely crazy" scenario could also involve Russia sending fresh conscripts after a month of training, he said.
Still, even once peace is agreed, small tactical clashes could remain possible for a year, according to Arestovich, although Ukraine insists on the complete removal of Russian troops from its territory.
The war in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he called a "special military operation," the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1503702083693854730
"Honey!"
"Yes Dear."
"Is that chicken I smell cooking?"
"No that's just Adam Kinzinger. He's too chicken to go on Tucker Carlson."
Adam Kinzinger
@AdamKinzinger
Tucker Carlson invited me on his show tonight, but that’s not going to happen…ever. While he echoes Putin’s lies, I’ll remain focused on supporting the Ukrainian people. My video statement:
He's not a republican chicken
He's a democrat
Ukraine Adviser Predicts War Will Be Over by May
March 15, 2022 at 7:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
A top adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zylensky said the war is likely to be over by early May when Russia runs out of resources to attack its neighbor, Reuters reports.
Said Oleksiy Arestovich: “I think that no later than in May, early May, we should have a peace agreement, maybe much earlier, we will see, I am talking about the latest possible dates.”
Maria Bartiromo’s Sources Are Right: The Biden Administration Is Actively Partnering With Putin On Climate And Iran
Whether or not you agree with the wisdom of these decisions, the Biden administration is openly continuing to treat Russia as a ‘partner’ on climate and Iran.
Judging by the reaction from peers in media, you might think Maria Bartiromo said something incorrect on Sunday when she noted, “Some people have told me over the weekend that they feel that at the end of the day this administration does not see Putin as the enemy, they see him as a partner on many issues.”
It’s hardly a stretch to imagine someone mentioning that to Bartiromo because it’s true. Viewers who watched the full clip would have heard Bartiromo specifically cite climate change and the Iran nuclear deal as the issues in question when she made the statement on Fox News’s ”Sunday Morning Futures.”
continues:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/14/maria-bartiromos-sources-are-right-the-biden-administration-is-actively-partnering-with-putin-on-climate-and-iran/
another example of FAKE NEWS and state media
and out new axis of evil
Putin, Biden and Iran
and China
who keeps paying the "big guy"
whoever that is
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/15/truth-about-gas-prices-oil-production/
https://the-pipeline.org/the-specter-that-haunts-america/
Sad that the wantonly lazy asshole rat ignored the WaPo article I posted earlier and post another PIECE OF GUANO from the questionable pipeline org that was completely devoid of facts and logic.....typical of partisan derangement syndrome of the GOP and its losers!!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
The bravery of the people in Ukraine is unbelievable and they will prevail because of the support of the world except for a few Republican morons. Like rrb
Did Biden spend all day trying to get world leaders to answer his phone calls yesterday ?
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1503385227112206340
No normal human has ever interacted with a child and thought, "I'd like to teach you about sex."
progressive democrats are not normal
Gosh, wonder why MSM is leaving THESE POSTS out when reporting on man who allegedly stabbed 2 MOMA employees
Gosh, no wonder we’re not seeing more about the crazy person who stabbed two employees at the Museum of Modern Art.
He’s not the right political persuasion.
Sort of like that Christmas Parade ‘crash,’ right media?
From Gothamist.com:
The man who allegedly stabbed two employees at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday was a Broadway usher and passionate critic of former President Donald Trump whose recent social media tirades had worried some of his friends, several people who spoke to Gothamist on Sunday said.
Security footage released Sunday showed the enraged suspect, who police identified as 60-year-old Gary Cabana, leaping over the museum counter, cornering two employees and plunging a knife into them as they tried to escape. He fled the building and remained at large Sunday, the NYPD said.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/14/gosh-wonder-why-msm-is-leaving-these-posts-out-when-reporting-on-man-who-allegedly-stabbed-2-moma-employees/
Another left-wing terrorist
Where's Garland
chasing down parents ?
Since Biden took office, the right wing’s steady assault has led to 91 percent of Republicans disapproving of his performance as president, according to Quinnipiac.
A similar but slightly smaller percentage of Republicans, 76 percent, disapprove of how he is handling the war. The strong negativity among Republicans results in a split decision in overall public opinion of Biden’s war leadership, with 42 percent approval and 45 percent disapproval.
What happened in Afghanistan stands as a painful reminder for Democrats.
An overwhelming majority of Americans over more than a decade told polls they wanted an end to the longest war in U.S. history.
Biden got it done. He even managed to evacuate a record number of people. But the GOP trashed the long overdue withdrawal because 13 Americans in uniform tragically died in a terror attack at the airport in Kabul.
Now, Biden is succeeding in rallying international support for Ukraine against Russia’s aggression. Again, the GOP wants him to pay a political price.
In my lifetime, I have seen presidents pay a price for war.
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, American initially supported a war on terror led by a Republican, President George W. Bush. When that effort went astray in Iraq, voters gave control of Congress to the Democrats at the 2006 midterms.
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won the presidency by drawing a stark contrast by pointing out that then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — Obama’s main opponents in the Democratic primary and the general election, respectively — had cast Senate votes in support of the Iraq war.
Now as commander-in-chief, Biden is understandably hesitant to call out Republicans for playing politics with foreign policy as the nation faces the possibility of World War III with a nuclear Russia.
But some Democrats worry that voters' memories are short-lived. That is especially true of partisan GOP voters who do not want to be reminded of Trump’s obsequiousness to Putin, which emboldened the Russian dictator.
No president should ever play politics with America’s foreign policy. But Democrats would be foolish to ignore the potential for a political storm at home over this crisis.
No president should ever play politics with America’s foreign policy.
Hey Dunning-Kruger alky -
"The 80's called and they want their foreign policy back."
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky
The U.S. historical gender pay gap is at its smallest in history. So naturally, Biden just signed an executive order addressing the issue do he can take credit for it 8 months from now.
And how many times did trump take credit for the stock market ballz????? Or massive tax relief?????? Or having Mexico pay for the wall......your partisan derangement runs deep sport.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Dopey still not able to discuss the current president.
The U.S. historical gender pay gap is at its smallest in history. So naturally, Biden just signed an executive order addressing the issue do he can take credit for it 8 months from now.
Dopey still not able to discuss the current president.
No problem loser....as soon as you knock off posting idiotic speculation like the above......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Your partisan derangement is most amusing to us who still can think.!!!
I comment on Biden, you know, the gut who became president 14 months ago. The first reply is to change the subject to Trump like a simpleton. Most voters are moving on.
New yahoo/yougov poll proclaiming support for Biden. Sounds great until you see that the sample is only 23% Republican.
Wow ballz.....sure struck your simpleton nerve there sport.....keep supporting the GOP of trump and I WILL KEEP talking about him since he pulls your strings like the clown you are!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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