I guess it all depends on how you view the terms success or failure. In my mind the war has been a failure on everyone's part just for being a war. This is not two countries fighting each other in a battlefield. This is one country invading and bombarding residential and commercial areas that have nothing to do with the military. Not sure how anyone wins.
My humble opinion here is that nobody really knows exactly what Putin is looking to garner out of this. It's easy to believe that he expected a speedy victory and is surprised and confused by the resistance. But it is not outrageous to believe that he hoped for the best and planned for the worst. I believe he will eventually come out of this with at least some of the concessions he went in looking for. Sadly, I don't see it ending with complete Russian submission.
Keep in mind that there were many military experts who didn't believe that the Russian had more than a week in them. Now here we are in week three, and they have opened up new attacks in the west and south and are upping attacks on various cities. How long can Ukraine hang on while the rest of the world sits and watches from the comfort of their own homes that are not being bombed?
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One Victory.
Putin put the clown🤡 suit on Joe.
Roger on US Energy.
"Putin is driving the bus"
A short while ago no one thought the Ukranians had this much resistance in them. I too thought they would be utterly and qickly overpowered by the massivity of Russia's troops.
It now looks more and more as if there is NO WAY Putin can actually rule a Ukraine so united against him.
quickly
O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blessed with victory and peace may the heav'n rescued land
praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
FROM THE MAN WHO GOT TO SEE TRUMP UP CLOSE:
Ex-Trump national security advisor John Bolton says 'Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him,' so he chose not to invade Ukraine
John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security advisor, on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office because "Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him."
Bolton pointed to Trump's outspoken criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military and diplomatic alliance established in the wake of World War II.
"I think one of the reasons that Putin did not move during Trump's term in office was he saw the president's hostility of NATO. It was widely reported in American media," Bolton said during an interview with Sirius's Julie Mason. "And to Putin's mind, it's a binary proposition: a weaker NATO is a stronger Russia."
Bolton went on,
"Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him, and thought, maybe in a second term, Trump would make good on his desire to get out of NATO, and then it would just ease Putin's path just that much more."
Trump undermined NATO during his time in office. In 2018, he privately discussed withdrawing the United States from the alliance, raising concerns among national security officials.
Bolton, in remarks during a virtual event with The Washington Post on Friday, said that he believes Trump would have withdrawn from NATO if he had won a second term.
"In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO. And I think Putin was waiting for that."
Bolton also said last week that he doesn't think the former president would have stopped Putin if the Russian leader had invaded Ukraine while Trump was in office. His comments come as Trump has repeatedly said that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine had he been president and has criticized President Joe Biden over the US response to Russia.
It warms the cockles of my heart to see pedo and Alky’s new besties are Neocons.
LOL
Trump is no longer president
Biden does not own a EV.
Neither does Schumer, or Buttigeg or Polosi..... Kerry?
Pedo , do you own an EV?
His chances are better than before because middle class union members have voted for Republicans since since Reagan era. Most of them were very conservative and again often racists in regards to Mexican immigrants. Because I speak some Spanish I often mentored them.
But in the great depression, FDR strengthened union jobs in both industries and again construction jobs.
Administration officials and industry groups say the Biden administration has been unusually explicit in linking its labor standards to federal funding opportunities.
“What we’re seeing is basically taking things farther on the labor front than we’ve ever seen before,” said Jimmy Christianson, vice president of government relations at the Associated General Contractors of America.
Mr. Christianson said he wasn’t sure how the administration’s guidelines would help ease the industry’s labor shortage.
“Are you really solving the problem of workforce shortage issues that everybody is facing, or are you just trying to play a political tune?” he said. “I think the jury is still out.”
Already several of the grant programs in the infrastructure law have included the labor guidelines in their funding notices.
On Monday, the Federal Transit Administration said it was accepting applications from agencies to buy low-emission or electric buses. The agency said applicants should spell out “whether and how project delivery and implementation create good-paying jobs with the free and fair chance to join a union.”
I have to do some research about right to work legislation that weakened unions.
It meant that even if the union represents the workers, they don't have to pay dues.
If the infrastructure bill creates hundreds of thousands of union jobs, if the President and the Democrats inform them, they would have family insurance coverage for very little. And again union pension fund are defined benefit pensions for life unlike 401k pensions that end when the benefits end.
A lot of these jobs are in red states, because the conservative legislation's have not maintained the bridges and even the roadways.
Roger, why did you dodge the car purchase exchange.
Did you buy an EV
The goal of the American Jobs Plan is to increase the ranks of dues-paying union members. When the next election rolls around, that will fund more campaign contributions to Democrats and more union help on Election Day.
Unionizing America is the strategy to secure a permanent Democratic majority,
Jan. 14, 2022: Federal Highways Releases Funds and Details on New State Bridge Program
The Federal Highway Administration released state formula apportionments for the new national bridge repair and replace program included in the bipartisan infrastructure law. The $27.5 billion program will see FHWA send $5.3 billion for states and $165 million for tribes in 2022. The amounts are based on number of bridges in a state that are in fair (repair) condition or poor (replace) condition. Each state is required to spend at least 15% of its funds on off system bridges (non-highway). For highway bridges, federal funds can cover up to 80% of a projects cost but for non-highway bridges, federal funds can cover 100% of the cost. FHWA guidance will encourage states to repair and replace existing bridges versus new bridge construction. Additionally, for newly constructed bridges or where an existing bridge's deck is replaced, new requirements will come into effect regarding bicycle and pedestrian access. The White House said the bridge program is expected to help replace or repair approximately 15,000 highway bridges.
She is the lunatic who wrote that
The public needs straight talk about what’s happening in Eastern Europe.
President Joe Biden and the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to level with their own countrymen about the rising risk of war against Russia. The public’s getting double talk — praise for the Ukrainians’ courage but also empty promises that what’s happening in Ukraine will stay in Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Sunday that “President Biden has been clear that we are not going to get into a war with Russia.”
Johnson wrote in the New York Times on Monday that “this is not a NATO conflict and it will not become one.”
On November 15, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law. The new law will invest $1.2 trillion in rebuilding crumbling roads, bridges, and public transportation systems; supporting advanced energy technologies and clean water infrastructure; closing the digital divide; and modernizing the electric grid. These investments will create hundreds of thousands of good construction and manufacturing jobs that pay decent wages and benefits; are located in the United States; and have the potential to increase access for women, workers of color, and LGBTQI+ Americans.
The United States urgently needs more high-quality jobs. While the tight labor market is pushing employers to increase wages across the private sector and unionized workers are increasingly leveraging their collective power to demand better work, these temporary pressures are not enough to overcome decades of wage stagnation and worsening work conditions. Recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute finds that while net productivity grew by nearly 62 percent over the past four decades, average hourly pay for the typical worker increased by just 17.5 percent.
The Build Back Better Act will create jobs and raise standards for workers in child care, home care, renewable energy and energy efficiency deployment, and electric vehicle production.
While the IIJA’s job quality standards will provide immediate benefits to American workers across the construction and manufacturing industries, further action is needed to improve the lives of workers in fast-growing sectors outside the construction industry. The Build Back Better Act is an essential complement to the infrastructure package. The legislation will create jobs and raise standards for workers in child care, home care, renewable energy and energy efficiency deployment, and electric vehicle production, as well as help make new protections real by funding agencies with key oversight roles and strengthening penalties for corporations that violate workplace laws. Together, the Build Back Better Act and the IIJA can also help sustain the pressure on employers to pay more to and do better by their workers.
Specifically, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will improve job quality by guaranteeing that new jobs pay decent wages and benefits, creating pathways into good jobs for all Americans, and creating these jobs in the United States.
1. Guaranteeing new jobs will pay decent wages and benefits
The federal government has long held that jobs created through government spending must pay decent wages and benefits. Ninety years ago, Congress enacted the Davis-Bacon Act to set wage and benefit rates for construction workers supported through federal contracts at existing market levels and ensure that low-road contractors could not undercut the market by paying poverty wages. These prevailing wage standards apply to many existing spending programs. Unfortunately, they do not automatically apply to new spending programs; Congress must take additional actions, as it has done several times in recent years.
The “overwhelming majority” of IIJA funds will be covered by the worker protections of the Davis-Bacon Act. This includes billions of dollars to support investments in advanced energy technologies that will help raise standards for workers in these fast-growing industries while also taking steps to combat climate change through programs to build new charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, support clean water infrastructure, and reduce truck emissions at port facilities.
I DO NOT LIKE this article, but feel I must take it into consideration along with everything else~~~
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Why some American leftists are critical of U.S. assistance to Ukraine
Yahoo News
BEN ADLER
March 11, 2022, 1:50 PM
The phenomenon of Republicans who admire Russian President Vladimir Putin is well known — especially since its most voluble proponent is former President Donald Trump.
But on the left, there also exists a smaller movement that holds the United States and its NATO allies as at least somewhat responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Putin, an authoritarian nationalist who has enacted laws targeting LGBTQ people and jailed liberal dissidents, has never been lionized on the left. Still, a cadre of far-left activists and pundits argue that the U.S. risked provoking confrontation with Russia by expanding NATO to its borders, and some are opposed to giving military aid to Ukraine or imposing economic sanctions on Russia.
“Everyone I know is united in condemning this war, and none of us like Putin,” Branko Marcetic, a staff writer at the Marxist journal Jacobin, told Yahoo News. But, he said, that doesn’t mean the U.S. should arm Ukraine.
“The idea of sending weapons to Ukraine — I think there’s a defensible argument for it,” Marcetic said. “The problem is, there was a similarly defensible argument for arming the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s when they were fighting a Soviet invasion.”
The mujahideen were militias that fell into civil war with one another after the Soviets withdrew. The Taliban grew out of that war, later giving safe harbor to al-Qaida. Similarly, Marcetic warns, U.S. weapons could wind up in the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov Battalion, a part of the Ukrainian National Guard. Putin, who said at the onset of the war that Russia’s aim was “the de-Nazification of Ukraine,” has used the existence of groups like the Azov Battalion to justify his invasion.
“Because Putin has used that pretext, and because it’s such a big element of Kremlin propaganda at the moment, that in the West there’s a whole idea of ‘there’s no Nazi problem in Ukraine’ ... which is just not true,” Marcetic said.
As Marcetic and others on the left see it, any action that escalates tensions with Russia or intensifies the conflict militarily could lead to disastrous unintended consequences.
“The solution to this conflict is not going to be military,” Marcetic said. “It’s going to have to be some kind of negotiated settlement.”
“I’m against funding a proxy war that will lead to more bloodshed and — if the corporate media calling for a no-fly zone has its way — possibly nuclear war,” Katie Halper, a left-wing commentator and talk show host, told Yahoo News.
“Putin’s invasion was unjust, illegal and immoral,” she added. “But that doesn’t make arming Ukraine to fight a protracted miserable proxy war, with no winners but the war industry, the right thing to do.” Shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, Halper and her co-host Aaron Maté produced an episode of their podcast, “Useful Idiots,” entitled “How the US Caused the Ukraine Crisis.”
(Halper’s previous co-host Matt Taibbi, a columnist on Substack who used to work for Rolling Stone, is also a contrarian on Russia, having mocked the notion that Russia might invade right up until it did.)
On Wednesday, on the website the Grayzone, far-left journalist Max Blumenthal, who has been deeply critical of U.S. and Israeli policies, conducted a friendly interview with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a conservative with libertarian leanings who voted against a congressional resolution stating U.S. support for Ukraine. The next day, Blumenthal pressed Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a progressive Democrat, on why Americans should support sanctions on Russia if it raises gasoline prices.
“After campaigning on a peace platform, Ro Khanna sounds like a Bush-era neocon, spouting American exceptionalist bromides about freedom not being free,” Blumenthal concluded on Twitter.
In a recent editorial, the Nation magazine, a left-liberal tribune, while decrying the invasion, called for diplomacy instead of “a rush to arms” or sanctions that it warned “will hurt not only Russia — oligarchs and ordinary citizens alike — but also Europe, the US, and the global economy’s bystanders.”
A number of other progressive journalists have raised some similar concerns. Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept warned that arming Ukraine could prolong the war. Scahill also noted that the United States has previously invaded and occupied Iraq without provocation. Some on the far left, such as former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, have been arguing for years that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and U.S. support for pro-Western forces in Ukraine were provocations to Russia.
Concerns that NATO’s post-Cold War expansion into Eastern Europe could lead to a confrontation with Moscow are by no means limited to the left. As Ukraine fights for survival, there are some democratic socialists who come to some similar conclusions as their unlikely allies on the right about how the U.S. should, or should not, respond to the war in Ukraine.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, for example, worries that replacing Russian oil with oil from Saudi Arabia will empower the Middle Eastern kingdom, which has a deplorable record on human rights and is prosecuting a brutal war in Yemen. Omar, along with fellow left-leaning Democratic Rep. Cori Bush, was one of two House Democrats who voted Wednesday against banning Russian oil imports; they were joined in their opposition by 15 right-wing Republicans.
“If our issue is that we don’t want to buy oil from a powerful country that is conducting a devastating war on its weaker neighbor, I just don’t see Saudi Arabia hardly being a principled solution,” Omar said in a radio interview on “Democracy Now” on Tuesday.
Omar has been clear that she opposes Russia’s invasion and supports U.S. aid to Ukraine. So her reasoning is quite different from that of Republicans like Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who in a speech over the weekend called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” presiding over a government that “is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil.” (After a video of Cawthorn’s remarks was picked up by news outlets, the freshman congressman tweeted that Putin’s invasion was “disgusting.”)
In fact, all of the members of Congress who belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, including Bush and Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, have broadly backed the Biden administration’s alliance with Ukraine.
But the organization to which they belong has other ideas. In its Feb. 26 statement on the war, the DSA criticized Russia’s invasion but also came out against any effort to arm Ukraine or sanction Russia. It also called for the end of U.S. involvement in NATO.
“This crisis requires an immediate international antiwar response demanding de-escalation, international cooperation, and opposition to unilateral coercive measures, militarization, and other forms of economic and military brinkmanship that will only exacerbate the human toll of this conflict,” the group’s National Political Committee wrote. “DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict.”
The DSA’s statement was controversial among its own members. “They felt they had to criticize the United States for imperialism, for provoking the Russians,” Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College and a founding member of the DSA, told Yahoo News. Dreier called the statement “tone-deaf about the moment we’re in as a country — and about the role of progressives and the left working in politics.”
The DSA North Star Steering Committee, which urges the group to take a more politically pragmatic approach, issued a statement endorsing economic sanctions. “It is precisely because we oppose outside military intervention that we have an obligation to advocate for other means to compel a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine,” the committee stated.
Bowman also took a very different tack than the DSA. “I vigorously condemn Russian imperialism,” Bowman said in a statement on the day Russia invaded its neighbor. “I am committed to supporting the Biden administration in holding Putin and his oligarchs accountable. ... I support NATO and will continue to do so during this crisis.” Bowman is nonetheless contending with a primary challenger who is demanding that he explicitly renounce the DSA’s position.
The DSA does have at least one member in elected office who endorses its refusal to favor Ukraine: New York City Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan, a first-term Democrat who tweeted on Feb. 25, “Had Washington and Brussels taken Russia’s security concerns seriously this war wouldn’t be happening. No country wants or deserves to have foreign powers placing missiles right on its borders.”
Some Russia contrarians who may once have been on the far left have gone so far around the bend that they are functionally on the right. Take Glenn Greenwald, a columnist formerly of Salon, the Guardian and the Intercept, who has spent the last five years casting doubt on the substantial evidence that Russia interfered on Trump’s behalf in 2016.
Greenwald is a regular on-air guest of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who embraced a pro-Putin position before the invasion and continues to criticize U.S. assistance to Ukraine. Having started his career as a critic of the George W. Bush administration and American hawkishness, Greenwald is now a conservative favorite who tweets assertions like “there is a massive escalation in state and corporate censorship regimes in the West justified in the name of this war” to his 1.7 million followers.
Similarly, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform, is a frequent guest on Fox News and spoke at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.
This evolution reflects how marginal these perspectives have become on the mainstream left.
“Most people who call themselves liberals or most people who presume themselves to be part of the Democratic Party, and this includes people like Bernie Sanders, who consider themselves socialists, are broadly supportive of what Biden’s doing,” Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of “What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party,” told Yahoo News.
“In terms of more prominent pro-Putin people, that’s found much more in the Republican Party than in the left of the Democratic Party.”
But they nonetheless are drawing on a deep vein in American leftist thought. Just as Trumpist conservatives hearken back to their movement’s isolationist, pre-World War II history, leftists and socialists urging the U.S. to withdraw from NATO are expressing their ideology’s anti-imperialist instincts.
“People on the left who call themselves anti-imperialist ... believe that no big power, especially their own country, should be an imperial power, should have the right to have a large military, should have the ability to intervene around the world,” Kazin said.
That perspective has roots in the Cold War, although mainstream liberals such as Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were reliably anti-communist. In keeping with the Democratic Party’s internationalist position, President Biden, congressional Democrats and mainstream liberal publications — such as the New Yorker and New York magazine — have steadily backed Ukraine against Russia.
David Greenberg, a historian who teaches at Rutgers University and used to work in liberal opinion journalism, observed that some left-wing opponents of aiding Ukraine are motivated by “a fear that we’re going to go back to another Cold War.”
“I think for some, that’s amplified by a conviction that the foreign policy establishment, liberal and conservative, took us to war in Iraq, that was a disaster, and they’re out to do it again,” Greenberg told Yahoo News.
Some anti-intervention progressives are even willing to propose making significant concessions to Russia to bring the war to a swift end.
“One dark reality that many in the West will soon have to reckon with is that the future of a democratic Ukraine is not worth a larger land war or a nuclear threat,” wrote Ross Barkan, a left-wing pundit and former New York state Senate candidate, in a recent column.
“In diplomacy, human life must be prized first, and if a so-called appeasement strategy is what saves us from further civilian slaughter, it will have to be the strategy pursued.”
In late February, Trump was criticized for praising Putin's justification for invading Ukraine. On March 10, Trump refused to call Putin "evil" on national TV. Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton even said on March 9 that during Trump's presidency, Trump was "doing a lot of [Putin's] work for him" by trying to remove the U.S. from the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western alliance seeking to limit Russia's military expansion.
The poll's results, released Friday, found that 37 percent of respondents believe that Trump sympathizes with Russia, and only 22 percent believe that Trump sympathizes more with Ukraine.
A recent poll shows that a percent of Americans believe former U.S. President Donald Trump sympathizes with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Trump (L) shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018.
Numerous political analysts have noted Trump's repeated praise of Putin and his reluctance to publicly criticize him during Trump's 2016 election campaign and presidency.
Trump's actions may have led to 42 percent of respondents to say that, during his presidency, Trump was too friendly toward Russia. Roughly 37 percent said President Trump's approach was about right, and only five percent believed that President Trump was too hostile towards Russia.
Comparatively, 39 percent said that current President Joe Biden is too friendly towards Russia, and 11 percent said that he is too hostile towards the country.
Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine by claiming he needed to send in "peacekeepers" to Ukraine's eastern regions because the Ukrainian government was committing genocide against ethnic Russians there. And soon after, Trump celebrated Putin's justification for invading Ukraine as "genius" while speaking on a conservative radio show.
However, the poll shows that most Americans disagree with Trump's praise.
Only about 15 percent agreed with Trump's assertion of Putin's "genius." Over 67 percent disagreed with Trump's assertion. While 42 percent believed Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still in office, an equal amount felt that Russia would've invaded anyway, regardless of who was in office.
Trump was "doing a lot of [Putin's] work for him" by trying to remove the U.S. from the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western alliance seeking to limit Russia's military expansion.
We are blessed that he lost the election.
Putin would have invaded Poland and Ukraine if he had won.
Biden lied.
He is purposely attacking US production.
The West Virginia Democrat, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is critical of FERC's handling of natural gas pipelines under President Biden, particularly as energy prices soar amid Russia's war on Ukraine.
Last week, the senator called the full FERC commission, including Chairman Richard Glick, before the committee to question the regulators over their policy decisions while pressing them to allow certain stalled projects to move forward."
Biden, Democrats Lose Ground on Key Issues, WSJ Poll Finds
The president’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine crisis hasn’t boosted his overall approval rating as voters worry about inflation
The survey also found Republicans making gains among minority groups. By 9 percentage points, Hispanic voters in the new poll said they would back a Republican candidate for Congress over a Democrat. The two parties had been tied among Hispanic voters in the Journal’s survey in November.
Democratic margins also eroded among Black voters, who favored a Democrat for Congress by 35 percentage points in the new survey, down from 56 points in November. Support for a Republican candidate rose to 27% among Black voters, up from 12% in November.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-poll-biden-ukraine-inflation-midterms-11646975533?st=7rw6mltwcrhukb6&reflink=article_copyURL_share
REPORTER: "How long should Americans expect — how long should we be bracing for — this historic inflation and some unprecedented gas prices?"
CUM-ALLAH HARRIS: ...............
https://twitter.com/i/status/1502301540962476032
President Joe Biden said on Friday he is working with Congress and foreign leaders to revoke favorable trade treatment for Russia, a move that would allow countries to impose more punishment on Russia for its war in Ukraine by raising tariffs on Russian products.
The move would return trade relations between the United States and Russia to Cold War-era status by repealing legislation to grant “permanent normal trade relations.” It’s the latest in an escalating series of economic measures the White House has taken to isolate Russia as its two-week-old invasion of Ukraine intensifies.
“Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy. It’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said at a White House event to announce coordinated action with Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom as well as the European Union.
Another QANON and trump slurper conspiracy that the goat fucker will buy into....!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
DAVID KLEPPER and ANGELO FICHERA
Sat, March 12, 2022, 12:05 AM
Russia's baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.
Despite rebuttals from independent scientists, Ukrainian leaders and officials at the White House and Pentagon, the online popularity of the claims suggests some Americans are willing to trust Kremlin propaganda over the U.S. media and government.
Like any effective conspiracy theory, the Russian claim relies on some truths: Ukraine does maintain a network of biological labs dedicated to research into pathogens, and those labs have received funding and research support from the U.S.
It was a double-whammy for two of then-President Donald Trump’s biggest patrons, Vladimir Putin and American fossil-fuel billionaires and their industry: the price of oil was too damn low.
Between the pandemic-induced collapse in demand for oil and the price war Saudi Arabia was then fighting with Russia — two of the world’s largest producers — Putin was being pinched badly. And in America, from Pennsylvania to Texas, oil producers were outright losing money on the oil they pumped. Gas prices were at record lows, gutting the profits even of refiners.
So, Trump acted. It seemed inexplicable at the time, but in retrospect (knowing now how tied to Putin he was) it makes perfect sense.
In the second year of his presidency, Trump had blown up the Iran nuclear deal that Obama had a hand in fashioning, letting us all think it was because he was trying to erase Obama’s legacy. But the real and immediate impact of Trump’s decision was to pull almost 3 million barrels of Iranian oil a day off the world market, boosting profits for Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US fossil fuel industry.
But that was 2018 and by 2020 prices were again sagging — and thus about 40 percent of the total revenue/income to Russia’s economy was sagging — as demand dropped because of the pandemic. Saudi Arabia was making the situation worse for Putin, keeping their oil production high to compete with Russia for worldwide market share, particularly in Chinese oil markets, and in retaliation for Russia refusing to go along with price-supporting production cuts.
Oil prices had fallen as low as $15 a barrel because Saudi Arabia had opened their spigots full-on, according to Reuters:
“Despite the agreement to cut a tenth of global production, oil prices continued to fall to historic lows. U.S. oil futures dropped below $0 last week as sellers paid buyers to avoid taking delivery of oil they had no place to store. Brent futures, the global oil benchmark, fell towards $15 per barrel - a level not seen since the 1999 oil price crash – from as high as $70 at the start of the year.”
So Trump took decisive action.
He called up his buddy, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and essentially threatened that if MBS didn’t cut production (and thus raise worldwide oil prices, which would help out Putin and US petrobillionaires) the United States would reconsider its seven-decade-long military support for the kingdom.
As Reuters reported on April 30, 2020, in an article titled Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut Oil Supply or Lose U.S. Military Support:
“Trump delivered the message to the crown prince 10 days before the announcement of production cuts. The kingdom’s de facto leader was so taken aback by the threat that he ordered his aides out of the room so he could continue the discussion in private, according to a U.S. source who was briefed on the discussion by senior administration officials.”
Oil-drenched Republican Senators Kevin Cramer and Dan Sullivan had drafted legislation to pull US troops out of Saudi Arabia, giving Trump the club he could wield against the Saudis to help out both Putin and the US oil industry that was seeing bankruptcies spread across the country.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
President Joe Biden said on Friday he is working with Congress and foreign leaders to revoke favorable trade treatment for Russia,
Yep. And then he's going to un-follow Putin on Twitter, and un-friend him on Facebook, alky.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
As Reuters noted, “Support for the measure was gaining momentum amid Congressional anger over the ill-timed Saudi-Russia oil price war.”
Thus, in the last year of his presidency, Trump oversaw the worldwide cuts in oil production that would lead to today’s prices soaring well past $130 a barrel.
Which brings us to today, with oil prices soaring. When President Biden tried to reach out to our allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to ask them to restore the production they’d cut under threat from Trump, both refused to take his call, according to press reports.
Meteor Blades reports at Daily Kos that The Wall Street Journal laid it out:
“The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
“The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.”
The outcome is predictable. Saudi Arabia and Russia keep oil production tight to keep oil prices and profits high, while President Biden is attacked from every direction in the US for high prices at the pump.
Republican politicians grandstand on the issue and hammer it daily into the news, blaming the increased price of gasoline on a president who’s trying to both get Iranian oil back on the market and increase Saudi production. The high price of gas and diesel, meanwhile, keep jacking up US inflation, giving the GOP another lead pipe to hit Democrats over the head with.
Neither of Biden’s efforts to lower oil prices are working, though, as the result of Trump’s two gutless actions on behalf of his patrons.
The Iranian talks are bogged down (the Iranians can see what happens to a country that gives up its nukes just by turning on the news and looking at Ukraine) and Saudi Arabia wants Biden to come on bended knee and approve of their slaughter in Yemen, something that would be very costly to American moral standing in the world.
The result is more money for Putin’s war machine and the Saudi crown prince, and a significant increase in the chances an oil-industry-friendly Republican Congress will be installed next year and a Putin/Saudi-friendly Republican President will win election in 2024.
Trump may be long out of power, but the impact of his corrupt treachery lives on.
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Axios, who wishes to be taken seriously:
The rise of white nationalist Hispanics
https://www.axios.com/rise-white-nationalist-hispanics-latinos-379c3177-8bcd-45a7-8fec-d7f723f8a94d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=politics-extremism
The outcome is predictable. Saudi Arabia and Russia keep oil production tight to keep oil prices and profits high, while President Biden is attacked from every direction in the US for high prices at the pump.
The US is sitting on enough oil and natural gas to send prices plunging if only we would 'drill baby, drill.'
But we won't. Which can only be interpreted as overt support for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The pain being inflicted on Americans by this administration is intentional and evil.
Thus, in the last year of his presidency, Trump oversaw the worldwide cuts in oil production that would lead to today’s prices soaring well past $130 a barrel.
Which brings us to today, with oil prices soaring. When President Biden tried to reach out to our allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to ask them to restore the production they’d cut under threat from Trump, both refused to take his call, according to press reports.
Meteor Blades reports at Daily Kos that The Wall Street Journal laid it out:
“The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
“The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.”
The outcome is predictable. Saudi Arabia and Russia keep oil production tight to keep oil prices and profits high, while President Biden is attacked from every direction in the US for high prices at the pump.
Nothing surprises me about the scumbag GOP party of no anymore.....My bet is that there will be maybe 1 yes vote for SCOTUS as the true racist bigotry of the party of lincoln comes out for the world to see....What a sad group of un americans!!!!!!!!!
Murjani Rawls
Thu, March 10, 2022, 9:55 AM
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, March 3, 2022.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, March 3, 2022.
Sen. Lindsey Graham stated his reasons as to why he’s leaning towards a no vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. That would leave two more senators who voted Judge Jackson to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last year–Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
Sen. Murkowski just last month stated she would “be honored to be able to support an exceptional African American woman.” Now, Murkowski isn’t sure how she will vote despite voting Jackson to the second most important court in the country.
https://www.rawstory.com/high-gas-prices-under-trump/
Thus, in the last year of his presidency, Trump oversaw the worldwide cuts in oil production that would lead to today’s prices soaring well past $130 a barrel.
Which brings us to today, with oil prices soaring. When President Biden tried to reach out to our allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to ask them to restore the production they’d cut under threat from Trump, both refused to take his call, according to press reports.
Meteor Blades reports at Daily Kos that The Wall Street Journal laid it out:
“The Saudis have signaled that their relationship with Washington has deteriorated under the Biden administration, and they want more support for their intervention in Yemen’s civil war, help with their own civilian nuclear program as Iran’s moves ahead, and legal immunity for Prince Mohammed in the U.S., Saudi officials said. The crown prince faces multiple lawsuits in the U.S., including over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
“The Emiratis share Saudi concerns about the restrained U.S. response to recent missile strikes by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen against the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, officials said. Both governments are also concerned about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, which doesn’t address other security concerns of theirs and has entered the final stages of negotiations in recent weeks.”
The outcome is predictable. Saudi Arabia and Russia keep oil production tight to keep oil prices and profits high, while President Biden is attacked from every direction in the US for high prices at the pump.
https://www.rawstory.com/high-gas-prices-under-trump/
The US is sitting on enough oil and natural gas to send prices plunging if only we would 'drill baby, drill
WHY DO YOU FUCKING SLURPERS LIE TO SUPPORT YOUR ASSHOLE???? ARE YOU REALLY THIS FUCKING STUPID OR DO YOU WORK AT IT?????
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-outpaces-trump-issuing-drilling-030433163.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Maybe they should be drilling your ass rat looking for a source of gas!!!!!
ESAD asshole rat
Approves Hundreds More Drilling Permits Than Trump
Jan 21, 2022 · The Biden Administration Approved More Oil And Gas Drilling Permits In Ten Months Than The Trump Administration Approved Annually For Three Years. “The Biden
Once again truth trumps rats opinion!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Ooh. Drilling permits.
Great.
With no increase in refining capacity, the cost of capital through the roof, and several well-funded enviro-nazi orgs waiting to seek injunctions for every attempt to drill, what could possibly be the fucking problem, BWAA?
Oh, and don't forget about the proposed Oil company windfall profits tax being floated by the dumbest fucks on the left.
Yeah, if I'm an oil co. exec I'm all over wanting to drill in THIS environment.
Imbecile.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! First the flaming asshole rat complains we don't drill enough oil, no he is bitching that windfall profits of big oil should not be taxed........speaking of fucking stupid......there we go!!!!!!!! As I posted the other day, the US has more than sufficient refining capacity to accept all the new oil expected to come in from canada......Are you trying to be stupid rat or is his your natural state.......LOLOLOLOLOL
Big oil doesn't make "windfall profits" BWAA. Oil co. profits average around 10%. Hardly a gouge no matter the price at the pump.
And then there's the FACT that whenever you impose a new tax on a company or industry, that tax is guaran-fucking-teed to be passed along to the consumer. So the proposed tax is just another class warfare tactic of the left meant to prey upon the perpetual envy of the chronically stupid like you.
Big oil doesn't make "windfall profits" BWAA. Oil co. profits average around 10%. Hardly a gouge no matter the price at the pump.
Let me explain to you in simple terms.....Yes, its only 10% but riddle me this genius when sales double from the increased price, do profits remain the same?????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I posted that same logic years ago when big oil profits were going crazy.....The fact remains, you can't find your own ass in the dark!!!!!!!!
You really are an amusingly stupid asshole rat....keep proving yourself to be an opinion driven member of the GOP whose Idea of a fact is listening to trump!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Yes, its only 10% but riddle me this genius when sales double from the increased price, do profits remain the same??????
The margin does BWAA, and that's the fucking POINT.
10% ain't a windfall and it ain't a gouge.
But what it IS is something idiots like you can be reliably predicted to fall for in your endless pursuit of class warfare.
Prophetic:
"You're paying what $2 dollars a gallon... If Biden got in you would be paying $7/$8/$9 and then they would say get rid of your car"
https://twitter.com/i/status/1502299651009093643
You are prophetically stupid rat.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
The margin does BWAA, and that's the fucking POINT.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!! The only point is you are a dumb fuck......The margin doubles without any increased production!!!!!!!! Sad you are toooooo fucking stupid to see that !!!!!!!!!
When the price of something is low, that means dupply is abundant. Do you reduce production. When that price rises, thst means that oversupply is going away. So you react by adjusting production higher. Unless you get a newv
President who is pushing shitty electric cars, attacking the oil industry, and is too senile to recognize when he should react. That is when you get a continual rise in prices over a year. Before Putin ever did anything. You will learn this in ECON 101.
And funny how shutting down Russia's pipeline will hurt their economy but shutting down ours will not. Hmmm.
d funny how shutting down Russia's pipeline will hurt their economy but shutting down ours will not. Hmmm.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! Keystone oil would provide ZERO benefit to US other than it being refined here for EXPORT!!!!!!! HMMMMMM.......Never let fact get in the way of you being stupid!!!!!!!!!
As KD likes to point out - the BWAA is a graduate of the alky school of economics.
And speaking of ECON 101, someone please tell our idiot president what the definition of Inflation is.
How can he be so stupid on everything?
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Keystone XL pipeline oil will not stay in the U.S. for the benefit of Americans. According to the Wall Street Journal, much of the crude oil that would flow down the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would likely be exported as refined products. There are no limits on exports of refined products, even if they’re made with U.S. oil. Refined exports have risen
Dopey avoided all of my points. Go figure.
Shutting a pipeline either hurts an economy, or it doesn't. He can't have it both ways.
the BWAA is a graduate of the alky school of economics.
Sad asshole that your whole retort of my posts is being an asshole.....>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Rat paid for his degree at Trump U......LOLOLOLOLOL
Dopey avoided all of my points. Go figure.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! YOU HAD NO FUCKING POINTS OTHER THAN BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
To bad you can't think for yourself.....and yes......refiners would benefit......not america as you claim.....dumb ass!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1502301540962476032
RRB,
" so all you have to do is look at a Map" Harris
A map of inflation, lordie.
Still waiting for the ball less wonder asshole to refute a single thing I posted about keystone!!!!1 Why is that.......?????
much of the crude oil that would flow down the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would likely be exported as refined products.
It doesn't have to stay in the US to put downward pressure on prices at the pump.
Only an imbecile believes otherwise.
The single most important thing we could be doing to help Ukraine and help ourselves is to crank US oil production up as high as we can.
Both parties in Congress want more drilling. That is how supply is increased. I didn't say the pipeline would do that. I asked why shutting a pipeline hurts Russia's economy but not ours. Different question.
We don't call you dopey for nothing.
Are you fucking stupid or just blind, ball less???? Biden has permitted more drilling than trump has....that is not the issue....the big oil has to drill, and they are more interested in record profits than fucking drilling....Canada has committed to more US oil exports via existing pipelines.....we have the capacity to refine said oil.....price is determined by the free market and that is in turmoil because of Ukraine.....too bad you ain't smart enough to put those data points into a single cogent thought!!!!!!
Your inability to figure out the answer to your own question speaks volumes about your intellect.....>!!!!!!!
Some base data for the deeply ignorant ball less Now how many wells would it take to make an impact to the world market????
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This is a very broad question, and the answer will be similarly broad.
Oil well production depends on lithology, production techniques, and economics.
By lithology we mean the rocks from which we’re producing. Rocks have widely differing properties. To compare them to common objects, shales have low porosity and very low permeability, like a bar of soap. Sands and limes and dolomites can have much more porosity and permeability, like sponges.
The most prolific wells I know of, in terms of daily production have produced from sands and limes and dolomite. Some early Texas and Mexican discovery well
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How oil rig does a rig make per day?
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A shallow oil well may produce 1/2 barrel per day or less. The operator will continue to produce as long as he is covering his costs.
Deepwater oil wells may produce 10,000 barrels a day or more.
The median onshore well in the U.S. probably makes 5–10 barrels per day. Generally speaking, a 100 bpd well is a pretty good well.
You should be aware that rates generally decrease with time. Some low-volume wells may be “flat” for decades.
New horizontal “fracked” wells can report flashy initial rates, some as high as several thousand barrels per day. This type of well experiences extreme declines in rate, maybe 90% in the first year. Most of the oil a well will ultimately make may be
I'm not gonna keep explaining this to an idiot. Jusy having a lease doesn't mean it's golf. Somr are useless. That's why oil companies keep filing for new ones. To drill where the oil is. Biden began blocking new leases as well as drilling on federal land his first week in office.
You don't get to make up your own facts.
Domestic oil production is down 1.2M barrels a day from when Trump was president. Sane democrat joe Manchin has been demanding that this administration stop blocking new leases and drilling.
Kinzinger Regrets First Trump IMPEACHMENT Vote
March 12, 2022 at 8:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) expressed regret for failing to vote to impeach former President Trump the first time over his dealings with Ukraine in light of the recent Russian invasion,
The Hill reports.
Said Kinzinger:
“I want to be honest, in congress I have only a few votes that in hindsight, I regret. My biggest regret was voting against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.”
THE ENTIRE PORTION OF THE GOP THAT STILL HAS ANY SENSE OF DECENCY WILL FEEL THIS WAY TOO.
HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND.
How Congress Pushes Biden on Ukraine
8:29 am EST
“At first, the White House resisted calls from Congress to ban Russian oil imports to the U.S. And then, it did just that,”
the AP reports.
“The administration hit the brakes on legislation that would have revoked Russia’s normal trade status, until President Joe Biden announced the move Friday.
The administration persuaded senators to hold off on imposing Russian sanctions, then slapped stiff sanctions itself.
It rejected efforts in Congress to stop the Nord Stream 2 energy pipeline, then led allies in halting it.
“It’s an emerging pattern that has not gone unnoticed during the escalating war in Ukraine:
A remarkably unified Congress is out front on foreign policy, pressuring Biden to go further and faster with a U.S. response to a devastating conflict that has no clear endgame in sight.”
GLAD TO SEE SUCH UNITY IN CONGRESS (IF NOT HERE ON THIS BACKWARD BLOG)
U.S. Explores Sending Ukraine Advanced Weapons
DON'T JUST EXPLORE, DO IT!!!
8:26 am EST
Washington Post:
“The Biden administration, under pressure to expand the arsenal of weapons that Ukraine has in its conflict with Russia, is working with European allies to expedite more sophisticated air-defense systems and other armaments into the war zone.
“Discussions were ongoing ahead of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s planned trip next week to meet with NATO allies in Brussels and Slovakia, which along with Poland and Romania has indicated a willingness to transfer military aid to its embattled neighbor. Slovakia also possesses the S-300 surface-to-air missile system, which is used to shoot down enemy aircraft and is familiar to the Ukrainians.”
Financial Times:
Russia threatens to attack Western weapons shipments to Ukraine.
THEN ATTACK THEM RIGHT BACK!
How to Deal With the Unappeasable Putin
8:24 am EST
Walter Russell Mead:
“The best way to think about Mr. Putin is as a gifted tactician committed to a strategic impossibility: for Russia to regain the superpower status once held by the Soviet Union. Such leaders are unappeasable because their goals can never be reached. The rise of China, Russia’s continuing demographic decline, and its continuing inability to create a modern and dynamic economy will not end because Russian flags fly over the ruins of Kyiv.
“There are two mistakes we can make about figures like Mr. Putin.
"One is to underestimate their talent for troublemaking if they don’t get what they want.
"The other is to believe that by giving in to their demands we can quiet them down.
"The West has made both mistakes with Mr. Putin in the past. We must try to do better now.”
AMEN!
MONSTERS!
Russia Strikes Near Ukraine’s Capital
8:21 am EST
“Russian forces appeared to make progress from northeast Ukraine in their slow fight to reach the capital, Kyiv, while tanks and artillery pounded places already under siege with shelling so heavy it prevented residents of one city from burying the growing number of dead,”
the AP reports.
“In past offensives in Syria and Chechnya, Russia’s strategy was to crush armed resistance with sustained airstrikes and shelling that leveled population centers. That kind of assault has cut off Ukraine’s southern port city of Mariupol, and a similar fate could await Kyiv and other parts of the country if the war continues.
“In Mariupol, unceasing barrages have thwarted repeated attempts to bring in food and water and to evacuate trapped civilians. On Friday, an Associated Press photographer captured the moment when a tank appeared to fire directly on an apartment building, enveloping one side in a billowing orange fireball.”
MONSTERS!
I AM GLAD TO HEAR THIS
Deutsche Bank Reverses Course and Will Exit Russia
11:07 pm EST
Deutsche Bank said Friday that it was winding down its operations in Russia, one day after its chief financial officer said it wasn’t “practical” to shutter the unit, CNBC reports.
NO BODY IS BLOCKING LEASES YOU FUCKING DUMB ASS!!! THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF UNUSED PERMITS SITTING IDLE.....!! You really should look shit up before having me make you look dumber thant the goat fucker....ball less!!!!
https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/09/joe-biden/fact-checking-bidens-claim-there-are-9000-unused-o/#:~:text=Fact-checking%20Biden’s%20claim%20that%20there%20are%209%2C000%20unused,permits%20to%20drill%20on%20federal%20and%20Indian%20lands.
Biden’s number is correct: There are 9,137 approved permits to drill on federal and Indian land, and the oil industry could use those permits and drill. However, once the permit is approved, drilling doesn’t start overnight. Some companies choose not to drill for corporate reasons — because they can raise funds from investors by not drilling on leases with proven reserves.
Having thousands of unused drilling permits is not something that is unique to Biden’s tenure.
We rate this statement Mostly True.
Yes, Biden did and has.
Biden's beg back better plan has failed Americans.
He stopped Canada from building the Keystone XL in day one, closed off federal land on Day one and Approved Nord Stream 2.
Facts.
Oil as peaked in price.
As gasoline has become unaffordable.
I do not know the author of this, but I agree with every word:
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Sorry, USA, but I'm going to have to rant my ass off at you (not anyone I know personally, but just in general). There's a lunatic in the Kremlin threatening a global thermonuclear war and yet 95% of posts from the US today are bitching about the price of gasoline. Would it be too much to ask of you lot to look beyond the end of your own street for five minutes and acquire even a miniscule sense of perspective?
I've had the calculator out, and you lot don't know when you're well off. The average US gasoline price today is $4.06 per gallon. Boo frickin' hoo. What a hell of a lot of you don't realise is that $4.06 per gallon is substantially less than almost every country in the world payed for gasoline / petrol BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine. US gasoline is dirt cheap because you pay virtually no tax on it. The same gallon of gasoline would cost you $8.69 at a petrol station in Scotland today, but we're not moaning about it because we kinda figure that the survival of global democracy is slightly more important right now. By the way, buckle up, bitches, because you're going to be seeing prices like that (and worse) before we're anywhere near the end of this little excursion to the foothills of World War III.
And another thing. It's not "all Joe Biden's fault". You really want to know why even a slight increase in the price of gas has you hurting so badly? Maybe it might have something to do with the USA having monetised every single activity necessary for human survival short of breathing, and I'm sure at least one corporate laboratory has been working on a way to make that happen for years. If you weren't screwed to the wall on a daily basis by a combination of peasant wages and rampant consumer greed, you might have the necessary financial resources to absorb sudden monetary shocks like this, but 42 years of unrestrained capitalism has strip-mined every last cent from the US working class and handed it to billionaires. To make matters worse, your refusal to pay taxes in order to invest in services like public transportation, universal health-care and a workable welfare system means that even the slightest increase in prices creates an unsurvivable financial crisis for those least able to afford it. Maybe if you hadn't spent half a century or more believing that paying taxes for public infrastructure is socialism, you wouldn't be hurting so badly when a few cents goes on a gallon of gas.
I'm sorry, USA. I love you dearly, but you have to stop watching Tucker Carlson, pull your heads out of your collective assholes and look at the bigger picture for once. Sorry / not sorry.
The margin does BWAA, and that's the fucking POINT.
10% ain't a windfall and it ain't a gouge.
And supposedly he’s an accountant.
Tell joe Manchin thay this administration is not blocking leases. Because he lit up the FERC director this week for it.
Freakin stupidass dopey moron idiot imbecile jackass.
An exit strategy would be terrible...
Robin V. Sears
March 12, 2022
Many of the world’s foreign affairs pundit class – and some in the Canadian contingent and the American Government – seem trapped in a time warp. Before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, they tut-tutted about how the West and NATO should not have provoked Putin into threatening his invasion, by welcoming new members 25 years ago. Within days of the first attacks, they were already mumbling about the need to provide Putin with an “exit strategy”, and the importance of not “provoking” Putin further. As the body count mounted, they began to speculate about when the Russian oligarchs might push back on Putin. What nonsense. The only pushback he fears is from the siloviki, the security establishment. They may yet decide he is a liability to their control of the kleptocracy they govern.
This is not 1989. This is not the era when Helmut Kohl, George H.W. Bush, Brian Mulroney and many other world leaders were able to gently nudge the Russians away from confrontation. Putin is not Gorbachev. We are at the end of the quiet decades of Russian integration into the global community, with occasional wrist slaps for Putin’s earlier, smaller aggressions against neighbours.
This is 1939, when a crazed autocrat drove his hundreds of tanks across the Polish border, only a few hundred kilometres east of where Putin invaded across the same vast, rolling plains, ideal for tank warfare. Then as now, the invader downplayed his strategic ambitions, attempting to soothe the world into not reacting. Both dictators got it badly wrong. Putin has made it clear he not only wants to annex Ukraine, but also to remove NATO forces from his borders, by force if required, even threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons if needed. Our Putin sympathizers might ask themselves the question, “How would Poland or Ukraine feel about not having a security perimeter against Russian incursions?”
There is no “exit strategy” for Putin, today. As there should not have been when he invaded first Georgia and then Crimea. As Churchill made clear to a similarly wobbly foreign policy elite in 1940, the dictator’s only exit strategy is defeat.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Once again the ball less wonder takes an asshole senator at his word....LOLOLOLOL!!!!!
And shorty shows up to renew the theory that salesman are dumber than dirt!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/bp-earnings-q4-2021.html
Thanx for playing dumbs!!!
Even the conservative point of view is that Putin has to be destroyed by the President and our allies.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-in-ukraine-the-stakes-could-not-be-higher-for-the-west
We might actually destroy Russia.
Joe Manchin has done a great job of exposing Biden's hate American First Energy plan.
https://www.policymagazine.ca/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-no-deal-with-the-devil/
Roger, I noticed you skipped the New vehicle purchase conversation.
I know why.
Also in that same conversation I see that RRB, CALI, CHT AND myself are driving this Economy by purchasing our dream vehicles.
James, Alky and Dopey are dreaming.
Salad for Breakfast ?
This Is Not 1989.
It's 1939.
9:29 am EST
Robin Sears:
“This is not the era when Helmut Kohl, George H.W. Bush, Brian Mulroney and many other world leaders were able to gently nudge the Russians away from confrontation.
"Putin is not Gorbachev.
"We are at the end of the quiet decades of Russian integration into the global community, with occasional wrist slaps for Putin’s earlier, smaller aggressions against neighbours.
“This is 1939, when a crazed autocrat drove his hundreds of tanks across the Polish border, only a few hundred kilometres east of where Putin invaded across the same vast, rolling plains, ideal for tank warfare. Then as now, the invader downplayed his strategic ambitions, attempting to soothe the world into not reacting.
"Both dictators got it badly wrong.”
Goat fucking loser eats shit and hopefully dies in his land barge.......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! D
So now joe Manchin is an asshole Senator...why? Because he is going after this administration for blocking more domestic dtilling? Or maybe just because he's a democrat?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is emerging as a serious test for former President Trump and his “America First” approach to the world, as rising public support in the U.S. for the effort to counter Moscow threatens to undermine a key pillar of the former president’s political brand.
Trump’s long-held grievances about NATO and other multinational partnerships — grievances that came to define the modern GOP’s approach to foreign policy — have suddenly put him out of step with many in his party, who have begun calling for the U.S. to take a more active leadership role in the crisis in Ukraine.
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At the same time, his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin has drawn rare bipartisan criticism, with even former Vice President Mike Pence speaking out against “apologists for Putin” within the GOP. Others have also struck a more hawkish tone. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said last week, for instance, that deploying U.S. ground forces to Ukraine shouldn’t be taken “off the table.”
The rhetoric marks a rare break between Republicans and a former president who has maintained a vise-like grip over GOP orthodoxy and ideology since first clinching the party’s presidential nomination in 2016. And as he eyes another bid for the White House in 2024, the shifting sentiment on the United States’ role in the world could pose a challenge for Trump.
“You’ve already seen the Republican Party backing away from the former president’s record and his statements as this all unfolded, and trying to reassert the party as more hawkish than they have been over the last four years,” Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said.
This Is a Uniquely Perilous Moment
10:10 am EST
David French:
“This is the unthinkable version of nuclear war that dominated millions of people’s fears during the Cold War.
"This is the nuclear war of 'The Day After,' the 1983 ABC television movie that depicted a catastrophic nuclear exchange.
"An estimated 100 million Americans watched, and I still remember the hushed hallways in my high school the morning after it aired.
“But there was also a thinkable version of nuclear war, one that relied on a kind of nuclear weapon that could perhaps deter the Soviets (and, if deterrence failed, smash their invading armies) without triggering a global thermonuclear exchange.
"The common term for these armaments is tactical nuclear weapons.
“It’s precisely this kind of weapon that raises unique and profound concerns now, as Russia attacks Ukraine, and as NATO allies consider the limits of their support for Ukrainian resistance.
"Vladimir Putin is using a threat that NATO used to deter the Soviets to now deter NATO. Even worse, we have reason to believe that Putin may actually deploy such weapons, with the goal of not merely ending but also winning the war.”
Hi Dopie.
Got that new EV yet?
Biden, Pelosi, psaki, Schumer , Harris, Buttigeg, do any of them own one?
This should be good if Dopie answers.
"MyballsMarch 12, 2022 at 9:13 AM
So now joe Manchin is an asshole Senator...why? Because he is going after this administration for blocking more domestic drilling?
Pandemic Fears Give Way to Rush for Bomb Shelters
10:14 am EST
New York Times:
“Europe has already spent two years on high alert against the pandemic. But now the manifestations of its anxieties and desires for self-defense have shifted from the masks, vaccines and lockdowns of Covid to the bunkers, iodine pills and air raid sirens of nuclear war.
“From Italy to Sweden, Belgium to Britain, the specter of nuclear war, which had seemed a relic of the past, is permeating a new generation of European consciousness. And it is prompting a new look at defense infrastructure, survival guides and fallout shelters that not long ago were the purview of camouflage-wearing, assault-weapon-toting survivalists or paranoid billionaires.”
True prepers are already , ready.
Oil as peaked in price.
As gasoline has become unaffordable.
Zelensky Seeks Help to Free ‘Kidnapped’ Mayor
10:20 am
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said he has appealed to several Western leaders for help to free the mayor of a southern Ukrainian city who he says was kidnapped by Russians, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The mayor, Ivan Fedorov, was at work when Russians took him away with a plastic bag over his head.
Polish Cities Can No Longer Absorb Ukrainian Refugees
10:17 am
“Officials in Poland’s two largest cities have warned that they can no longer cope with the waves of refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
“The mayors of both Warsaw, the capital, and Krakow, Poland’s second largest city, said that they are struggling to accommodate the sheer number of people who are arriving — and urged the United Nations and European Union to intervene.”
Because he is going after this administration for blocking more domestic drilling?
Because he lies just like all of them.....no one is blocking domestic drilling and like you, is bullshitting the country !!!
The whole story of the PAUSE on new lands.......does not affect all permits!!!!
CNN
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The Biden administration has once again put a pause on new leases and permits for federal oil and gas drilling after a judge blocked the administration from using a metric that
cietal cost of carbon emissions.
Earlier this month, US District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana issued an injunction preventing the Biden administration from using what’s known as the “social cost of carbon” in decisions around oil and gas drilling on public land, or in rules governing fossil fuel emissions. The ruling has consequences for a range of Biden administration actions on climate change, but especially on the Interior Department’s federal oil and gas leasing program.
In an appeal filed by government attorneys on Saturday night, the Biden administration argued Cain’s injunction necessitated a pause on all projects where the government was using a social-cost-of-carbon analysis in its decision-making.
Sorry assholes.....you keep posting opinions instead of facts....!!!!!
The number of times Putin invaded another country while Trump was President remains at ZERO.
Peace through strength.
A stark contrast from having a dementia patient and Willie Brown's side piece at the helm.
From AoS:
My Review of Lord of the Rings
by Kamala Harris
You see the thing to remember here is that there's these rings. And rings are important. It's important to have rings because that means it's something you can be lord of.
So when you have a lord of the rings, that's somebody who can do a lot of things because the rings let you do a lot when you have them.
Being a lord has a lot of responsibility to it. What you need to remember is that you can't just pretend you don't have these rings or that you're not a lord. You have to do things with them. Important things. Because when you're a lord, that's what you do. {cackle}
Posted by: Kamala Harris
The “social cost of carbon”
This is how we can be certain that we are swirling down the shitter of Idiocracy.
Yahoo News
U.S. oil and gas permitting has increased under Biden, data shows
Ben Adler
Ben Adler·Senior Editor
Wed, March 9, 2022, 5:35 PM·6 min read
In this article:
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
46th and current president of the United States
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
45th President of the United States
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Republican politicians, conservative pundits and fossil fuel industry leaders have accused President Biden of weakening the U.S.’s economic power against Russia by reducing oil and gas production.
Last week, for example, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said, “Joe Biden has given up the
Sorry folks......you and your lying caught again!!!
best defense we had against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s evil vision for the world — energy independence.”
But a data dashboard unveiled Wednesday by the Center for Western Priorities shows that the opposite is true. The federal government has been issuing oil and gas drilling permits more willingly than it did during President Donald Trump’s first three years in office, and it could be issuing even more if the oil and gas industry weren’t leaving many current leases undeveloped.
Right now, the industry is sitting on 9,173 approved but unused drilling permits on federal and tribal lands. This is mystifying to some observers, who note that filing for those permits has already cost operators more than $10,000 each. The permits also expire after two years, with only one extension allowed. More than 26 million acres of federal land — an area comparable to the size of Kentucky — are currently under lease for oil and gas drilling. Of that, slightly more than half — 13.9 million acres, equivalent to the size of West Virginia — are not being used.
Another right winger
The suspect busted in the hate-fueled hammer attack on an Asian man in a Manhattan train station is a known “transit offender” with nearly four dozen prior arrests, cops and police sources said Thursday.
Christian Jeffers, 48, who identifies as a woman, was picked up shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday — about 17 hours after she allegedly attacked the 29-year-old male victim at the 14th Street 1/2/3 station Tuesday, police said.
Jeffers was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing — all as hate crimes — and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said. Her arraignment was pending Thursday.
Prior to that bust, she was arrested 47 times, dating back to 2007, cops said.
She is a known “transit offender,” police sources said.
This senile fucking retard is going to be responsible for starting World War Fucking Three.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/11/joe-biden-threatens-world-war-iii-if-vladimir-putin-attacks-nato/
The suspect busted in the hate-fueled hammer attack on an Asian man in a Manhattan train station is a known “transit offender” with nearly four dozen prior arrests, cops and police sources said Thursday.
We need to start executing these fucking assholes.
On the fucking spot.
--from The Guarian of March 9
Trump ‘admired’ Putin’s ability to ‘kill whoever’ and to 'keep peace,' says Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former press secretary. She discussed his relationship with the Russian dictator in an interview with The View.
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Donald Trump “admired” Vladimir Putin’s ability to kill anyone he wanted, according to his former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
In an interview with The View on Tuesday, Grisham discussed the former US president’s relationship with the Russian president, saying:
“I think [Trump] feared [Putin]. I think he was afraid of him. I think that the man intimidated him. Because Putin is a scary man, just frankly, I think he was afraid of him.”
She went on to add:
“I also think he admired him greatly. I think he wanted to be able to kill whoever spoke out against him. So I think it was a lot of that. In my experience with him, he loved the dictators, he loved the people who could kill anyone, including the press.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in more than 1,300 civilian casualties, including 474 killed and 861 injured, Trump has highly praised Putin for his actions, calling him a “genius”.
In an interview last month with a conservative radio show, Trump fawned over Putin, saying:
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of … Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh that’s wonderful. So Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border.”
Trump continued, saying:
“There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy, I know him very well. Very, very well.”
Trump’s comments were criticized by the two Republicans serving on the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, who are among the few Republicans who have been critical of the former president. Liz Cheney tweeted that Trump’s statement “aids our enemies. Trump’s interests don’t seem to align with the interests of the United States of America.”
YEAH, DONALD, PUTIN SURE HAS PROVED TO BE A MAGNIFICENT "PEACEKEEPER."
WANT TO KILL ME FOR SAYING THAT?
--from The Guardian of March 9
Everyone in the "Smart Set" get's their foreign policy guidance from "The View."
The same folks who seek moral guidance from the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association.
Gee, who to believe? Joe Manchin or dopie?
Not from The View. From Trump's own former press secretary.
get's(sic)
I get, you get, he, she, it gets,
we get, you get, they get
You're welcome.
Funny....the facts support manchin is full of shit.....for the naive ball less who relies on opinion rather than facts......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Sorry sport....there is a pause on new land leasing....which will be lifted sooner than later....biden has released more permits than trump....another fact you can't understand!!!
Manchin ripped the ferc director for a reason dumb ass. But hey, if dopey says he's wrong, then that's the end of it.
And Manchin was play acting.....and yes mancjin was full of shit.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
BTW....Joe's record on environmental issues suck....and his stance on FERC is bullshit!!!!! Sorry sport, I am all for caution when comes to drilling....exactly what FERC is doing is not unreasonable ....!!!
Examples of Manchin bullshit from FERC hearings.....
That’s concerning, particularly since the United States was well on its way to being energy-independent before the Biden Administration shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and enacted bans on drilling.
Sorry sport.....facts do not support his statement.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
You really should look shit up ball less as you always miss the whole story!!!
F Daddy is not going to like this, but
Russia's bioweapon conspiracy theory finds support in US
Associated Press
DAVID KLEPPER AND ANGELO FICHERA
March 12, 2022, 9:08 AM
Russia's baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.
Despite rebuttals from independent scientists, Ukrainian leaders and officials at the White House and Pentagon, the online popularity of the claims suggests some Americans are willing to trust Kremlin propaganda over the U.S. media and government.
Like any effective conspiracy theory, the Russian claim relies on some truths:
Ukraine does maintain a network of biological labs dedicated to research into pathogens, and those labs have received funding and research support from the U.S.
But the labs are owned and operated by Ukraine, and the work is not secret.
It's part of an initiative called the Biological Threat Reduction Program that aims to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks, whether natural or manmade. The U.S. efforts date back to work in the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction.
“The labs are not secret,” said Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London, in an email to the Associated Press. “They are not being used in relation to bioweapons. This is all disinformation.”
That hasn't stopped the claim from being embraced by some on the far-right, by Fox News hosts, and by groups that push debunked claims that COVID-19 is a bioweapon created by the U.S.
The day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an early version appeared on Twitter — in a thread espousing the idea that Russia's offensive was targeting “US biolabs in Ukraine” — and was soon amplified by the conspiracy theory website Infowars. It has spread across mainstream and lower-profile social platforms, including Telegram and Gab, that are popular with far-right Americans, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and adherents of QAnon, the baseless hoax that Satan-worshipping pedophiles secretly shape world events.
Many of the accounts posting the claim are citing Russian propaganda outlets as sources. When Kremlin officials repeated the conspiracy theory on Thursday, saying the U.S. was developing bioweapons that target specific ethnicities, it took a few minutes for their quotes to show up on American social media.
Several Telegram users who cited the comments said they trusted Russian propaganda over independent American journalists, or their own democratically elected officials.
“Can’t believe anything our government says!” one poster wrote. WAS THAT YOU, RAT?
Others cited the claim while parroting Russia's talking points about the invasion.
“It’s not a “war,” it’s a much needed cleansing,” wrote a member of a Telegram group called “Patriot Voices” that is popular with supporters of Trump. “Ukraine has a ton of US govt funded BioWeapons Labs that created deathly pathogens and viruses.”
Television pundits and high-profile political figures have helped spread the claim even further. Fox News host Tucker Carlson devoted segments on his shows on Wednesday and Thursday to promoting the conspiracy theory. On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. said conspiracy theories around the labs were proven to be a “fact” in a tweet to his 7.3 million followers.
Ukraine Live Updates: Desperation Grows in Cities Under Continued Russian Assault
Here are the latest developments in Ukraine.
LVIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces intensified their campaign of devastation aimed at cities and towns across Ukraine, including in the capital, Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow on Saturday of terrorizing the nation in an attempt to break the will of the people. “A war of annihilation,” he called it.
Russian forces have not achieved anything resembling a strategic military victory since the first days of the war more than two weeks ago, and have turned to attempts to flatten whole sections of cities. Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that all attempts by Russian forces to advance on any front had been stopped and that the Ukrainian forces had inflicted “heavy losses in manpower and equipment.” The claims could not be independently confirmed but were in line with analyses by the Institute for the Study of War and other military experts.
In Kyiv, artillery battles in the suburbs remained intense, though the Russian advance toward the capital seemed to be on pause. In recent days, attacks by Ukrainian light infantry units and Turkish-built drones continued to have some success in ambushing Russian tanks, artillery and mechanized vehicles as they try to encircle the city,. Images from multiple satellites showed family homes on fire in a town less than five miles north of Kyiv.
Here are some of the latest developments:
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Melitopol in southern Ukraine on Saturday to protest the detention of the city’s mayor on Friday by Russian forces. The Ukrainian government called the detention a kidnapping and a war crime.
For two weeks, Russian forces have failed to take the strategic southern city of Mykolaiv and, in turn, have stepped up their bombardment of civilian targets there, causing damage to a cancer hospital and sending residents fleeing into bomb shelters. Once again on Saturday morning, residents awoke to the sounds of artillery fire and explosions.
Russia warned the United States that convoys with weapons sent to Ukraine would be “legitimate targets” for the Russian military, saying the “thoughtless transfer” of weapons such as antiaircraft and antitank missile systems could lead to serious consequences.
The U.N.’s disarmament chief said the agency had no evidence of any biological weapons program in Ukraine. Russia had accused the United States of a plot involving biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine and migratory birds, bats and insects.
Deutsche Bank said it was “winding down” operations in Russia, a day after the German bank’s chief financial officer said that doing so would not be practical or “the right thing to do.”
How we verify our reporting on the Ukraine war: To cut through the fog of propaganda and misinformation on both sides, The New York Times has deployed dozens of reporters, photographers, videographers, audio journalists, writers and others to Ukraine and the countries bordering it to deliver real-time, independent, in-depth coverage of the conflict and its reverberations across the region.
Both Carlson and Trump misrepresented congressional testimony from a State Department official saying the U.S. was working with Ukraine to secure material in the biological labs, suggesting that indicated the labs were being used for illegitimate purposes.
It’s not surprising that a biological research center would contain potentially hazardous material, however. The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has asked Ukraine to destroy any samples that could pose a threat if released, either intentionally or accidentally.
While the disinformation poses a threat on its own, the White House warned this week that the Kremlin's latest conspiracy theory could be a prelude to a chemical or biological attack that Russia would blame on the U.S. or Ukraine.
“Frankly, this influence campaign is completely consistent with longstanding Russian efforts to accuse the United States of sponsoring bioweapons work in the former Soviet Union,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Thursday during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. “So this is a classic move by the Russians.”
The conspiracy theory has also been picked up by Chinese state media, and was further amplified this week by China's Foreign Ministry, which repeated Russia's claim and called for an investigation.
Milton Leitenberg, an arms control expert and senior research associate at the Center for International & Security Studies at the University of Maryland, noted that Russia has a long history of such disinformation. In the 1980s, Russian intelligence spread the conspiracy theory that the U.S. created HIV in a lab.
Leitenberg said numerous Russian scientists had visited a similar public health lab in the republic of Georgia, but that Russia continued to spread false claims about that facility.
“There’s nothing they don’t know about what’s taking place there, and they know that nothing of what they claim is true,” Leitenberg said. “The important thing is that they know that, unquestionably.”
While gaining traction in the U.S., the claims about bioweapons are likely intended for a domestic Russian audience, as a way to increase support for the invasion, according to Andy Carvin, senior fellow and managing editor at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which is tracking Russian disinformation.
Carvin noted the Kremlin has also spread hoaxes about Ukrainian efforts to obtain nuclear weaponry.
“It’s a rinse-and-repeat cycle to hammer home these narratives, particularly to domestic audiences,” Carvin said.
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Klepper reported from Providence, R.I. Fichera reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press reporter Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report from Washington.
Tucker Carlson is all over Russian media...
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Tucker Carlson is all over Russian media...
LOL @ you assholes. You always need a boogie man as a diversion away from the epic fail that you installed in the white house.
It's like the most vociferous critics of Rush Limbaugh. They never listened to him. Not even once.
Good one alky. I'm glad to see that in addition to Trump, Tucker is driving you nuts too.
Heh.
"Manchin was play acting"
Damn. We don't call you dopey for nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQx2xtWbVgo
Karolina Protsenko family play Ukrainian National Anthem.
Russian mother, Ukrainian father, American brothers, she was born in Ukraine.
So a bunch of West Point Cadets OD'ed on coke laced with Fentanyl.
Thank goodness the Biden Administration has made the conscious decision to allow Fentanyl to continue to pour across our southern border unabated.
Old and busted: US Southern border.
New Hotness: Sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine's border.
The Klain Klown Kar continues to fuck us over and we just can't get enough.
whee.
rrb likes the fact that Tucker is on Russian media propagandizing against the United States and Ukraine
Karolina Protsenko family play Ukrainian National Anthem.
So the pederast celebrates the playing of the Ukrainian National Anthem, while taking a knee when OUR National Anthem is played.
Perfect.
Never took a knee. Hand on heart patriot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHEF4DyPqw
Karolina's latest released video
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
rrb likes the fact that Tucker is on Russian media propagandizing against the United States and Ukraine
except that I watch tucker and have since his show first aired and I can tell you with 100% certainty that that is exactly not what he's doing or saying.
I'm not surprised that Russian media has taken a page out of the NY Times style guide and has chosen to edit, misrepresent and take out of context what he's been saying.
All of Tucker's segments on Russia and Putin are available. And you have not watched ONE of them.
Don't you have a young boy's asshole to violate pederast?
Because they are not brown?
Russians and Ukrainians represent only a small fraction of all the people crossing the southern border. But unlike most migrants from Mexico and Central America, who have often been turned away since the beginning of the pandemic, they are being allowed to make asylum claims at ports of entry. And while a vast majority of asylum cases are ultimately denied, two-thirds of those from Russia and Ukraine have been winning their cases, according to government data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Between June and Feb. 21, with the exception of one week, Russians were among the top-three nationalities assisted by the San Diego Rapid Response Network, which offers food and lodging to migrants after their release from U.S. border custody. The network has also been receiving a small but growing number of Ukrainians, and the volume is expected to increase in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion, assuming access to Mexico remains relatively easy.
“This is about to become a torrent,” said Lou Correa, a Democratic representative from California who recently testified in Congress about what he witnessed at the San Ysidro port of entry near San Diego. “You are going to have destitute Ukrainians and hungry Russians.”
Vadim Fridovskii, an activist, left, and Ilia Kiselev, who was visited by the police after he attended pro-opposition rallies in Russia.
Vadim Fridovskii, an activist, left, and Ilia Kiselev, who was visited by the police after he attended pro-opposition rallies in Russia. Credit... Tracy Nguyen for The New York Times
A flight that he boarded from Cancun to Tijuana six weeks ago was packed with Russian speakers, he said in an interview.
To qualify for asylum in the United States, applicants must establish that they have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. All those who cross without visas are placed in deportation proceedings, and make a case for asylum during court hearings.
L.G.B.T.Q. people from Russia have for years been seeking asylum in the United States. But in recent years, the pressure against them in Russia has escalated with a spate of state-sanctioned discriminatory policies, especially in the Russian republic of Chechnya, according to advocates who have been working with the new immigrants.
“The increase in L.G.B.T.Q. asylum seekers coming over the border reflects the desperation that people are feeling,” said Tess Feldman, an immigration lawyer at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Jehovah’s Witnesses, subjected to raids and imprisonment since a Russian court labeled the Christian denomination an extremist group in 2017, have been heading to the U.S. border with photographs of themselves worshiping and proof they were baptized, said Mr. Khurgel, the immigration lawyer.
Most Russians driving through San Diego-area border crossings have been following tips shared by groups on the encrypted messaging app Telegram — about how to plan the journey, find car dealers in Tijuana and avoid arousing suspicions. (Hint: Don’t buy a beater car.)
In December, when a record 2,000 Russians were encountered, officers fired at two vehicles carrying 18 Russians as they raced toward the San Ysidro port of entry. Bullets hit one car, which crashed into the other, and two migrants suffered minor injuries.
In December, when a record 2,000 Russians were encountered, officers fired at two vehicles carrying 18 Russians as they raced toward the San Ysidro port of entry. Bullets hit one car, which crashed into the other, and two migrants suffered minor injuries.
We need to upgrade these officers with RPG's and Stinger missiles.
Vaporize these cocksuckers and keep doing it until we kill them all.
The sovereignty and integrity of the US border needs to matter again.
Fuck Ukraine. Let the Euro-weenies figure it out.
All of Tucker's segments on Russia and Putin are available. And you have not watched ONE of them.
Yes I have. And I can see why the Russians would absolutely JUMP at a chance to play them or portions of them for propaganda purposes.
White House Approves More Military Aid for Ukraine
1:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“The White House has approved an additional $200 million in arms and equipment for Ukraine, administration officials said on Saturday, responding to urgent requests from President Volodymyr Zelensky for more aid to stave off the Russian invasion,” the New York Times reports.
“The latest arms package, which officials say includes Javelin antitank missiles and Stinger antiaircraft missiles, follows a $350 million arms package the Biden administration approved last month.”
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