The entire world now knows what a loser trump was trying to disband NATO!!!!! Thanks Joe for taking the reins and leading the world against the fraud of Putin and trump!!!!
This is awesome, despite the impact on our economy and gasoline prices!..
Oil field services company Baker Hughes became the latest American oil company to walk back its planned investments in Russia, the company announced on Saturday.
Driving the news: Baker Hughes' announcement came a day after its rivals, Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger, took similar steps in response to U.S. sanctions on Russia, ABC News reports.
The big picture: Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last month, more than 400 companies have taken steps to reduce their investment or operations in Russia.
Halliburton stopped shipments of specific sanctioned parts and products to Russia several weeks ago, per ABC News. Schlumberger, too, halted investment and said it would stop sending technology to its operations in the country. What they’re saying: Lorenzo Simonelli, Baker Hughes’ chairman and CEO, said in a statement the company “strongly supports a diplomatic solution” to the conflict.
“The health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and their families always remains our top priority,” Simonelli said. “We have been continuously monitoring the situation, and today’s announcement follows an internal decision made with our Board of Directors and communicated to our leadership team earlier this week.”
They are going to lose money, but starting under this President, they put the people of Ukraine first!!!
The next election can save America from..... The Big Lie.
Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, is not exactly known as a hotheaded partisan warrior – the softspoken Democrat enjoys polka, the card game Euchre, and a daily McDonald’s Egg McMuffin. But it struck a nerve this week when he heard Robin Vos, the powerful speaker of the Wisconsin state assembly, claim there was widespread voter fraud in 2020.
“He’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met but that was about the dumbest thing he’s ever said,” Evers told the Guardian on Thursday.
This fall, the future of American democracy may hinge on what happens in contests like the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, a critical battleground state. Evers, who was narrowly elected in 2018, is seeking a second term, and Republicans who control the state legislature have been eager to enact new voting restrictions, and more recently, have fractured in a push to illegally “decertify” Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
A similar dynamic is playing out in Michigan and Pennsylvania, also presidential swing states, where Democrats are also seeking to hold on to governorships and where Republican-led legislatures are attacking voting rights.
Part of Evers’ re-election campaign has been casting himself as a sort of last line of defense for democracy. Rebecca Kleefisch, who is leading the Republican field for governor, refuses to say whether Biden won the election. Tim Rathmun, another Republican candidate, is pushing for decertification. Kevin Nicholson, another GOP candidate, has acknowledged Biden’s victory, but said the election was “messed up”, though multiple reviews have affirmed Biden’s win. Republicans have also been united in their desire to do away with the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a bipartisan body created by Republicans in 2015 that oversees elections in the state.
“Giving the Republicans the opportunity to essentially depress the vote is not in the cards,” Evers said. “In the state of Wisconsin, the governor is the one who certifies the election. Can you imagine what that would look like in 2024 if I’m not re-elected?”
Evers also pushed back on the suggestion that voting rights would not be a winning issue for a campaign. “We can talk and chew gum at the same time here. We’ll be talking about the democracy piece. But we’ll also be spending a lot of time on what people believe Wisconsinites talk about every day and that is those kitchen table issues,” he said.
Over the last few years, Evers has led Wisconsin as Republicans in the state legislature have advanced what can only be described as a brazen assault on democracy. Evers has already vetoed a suite of bills that would impose new restrictions on voting, and said he expects to reject more soon. The state assembly, led by Vos, authorized a monthslong review of the 2020 election that has failed to turn up significant evidence of wrongdoing, but made sensationalist and false claims.
Earlier this month, the review released a 136-page report arguing the Wisconsin legislature could decertify the election. Vos has refused to go along with that effort, angering many in his party, including Rathmun, who said this week he wanted to punch Vos in the nose (he has since clarified that he didn’t really want to punch Vos).
Vos met with proponents of decertification this week and emerged from the meeting to say he believed there was widespread fraud. It appeared to be a clear move to thread the needle with his party, placating election deniers without embracing decertification. Evers predicted that kind of embrace of widespread fraud could backfire for Vos and Republicans.
“Most people that are thoughtful are not gonna believe it,” he said. Vos’ focus on voter fraud could convince people “to not vote”, Evers said. “What a legacy for him.”
In Wisconsin, Republicans in the legislature don’t really have to worry about electoral consequences for pushing fringe theories like decertification. A decade ago, Republicans drew district lines that were so distorted to benefit Republicans it essentially guaranteed they would have a majority for the next decade. In 2018, when Evers was elected, Democrats swept all statewide races, but Republicans maintained nearly two-thirds of the seats in the state assembly.
“The will of the people is traditionally the law of the land. That is not the case at this point in time,” Evers said.
Republicans are now poised to continue their majority for another decade. After the legislature and Evers fell into an expected deadlock over new maps, the Wisconsin supreme court took over mapmaking authority. It said it would adopt maps that made as little change as possible to the current ones, continuing the GOP advantage. Earlier this year they picked maps submitted by Evers, giving Democrats a boost, but maintaining the GOP advantage overall.
“We’re hopeful that we will begin to narrow that gap enough that people on the other side of the aisle will feel more of a need to think through these major issues and hopefully the will of the people will start to be reestablished,” he said. “But it’s difficult.”
If revenge is another word for looking into all of the outrageous things democrats have been remarkably incurious about while they obsess over trump, then yes.
I think we three enlightened people should just boycott these stupid Sunday funnies and wait until Ch puts up a halfway decent thread on Ukraine or something else that he doesn't want really to discuss.
Meanwhile, there is interesting and important information at politicalwire.com (or politicalwire hub).
The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it’s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the Times just served up about the laptop. They won’t be long in coming.
Hubris guided Vladimir Putin’s malevolent and maladroit invasion of Ukraine. As The Associated Press pointed out, U.S. military officials assumed Russia would deploy electronic and cyber warfare to blind and paralyze Ukrainian air defenses and communications. But the Russians did not take control of Ukrainian airspace when they launched their attack.
Putin has always had a Napoleon complex, puffing out his bare chest on horseback; fishing shirtless in Siberia; winning staged judo and hockey displays.
But Zelensky understands that stature is not about phony macho photo shoots. Stature is a physical quality, but, more important, it is a human and moral quality. Keats was barely over five feet, but look at his spiritual size.
Our military leaders have lately been quoting Napoleon, who said, “The moral is to the physical as three to one.” We have seen this with the Ukrainians, who are not only courageously resisting the Russians, but also launching counteroffensives.
As The Times reported, the number of Russian casualties has hurt morale; our intelligence reports have described Russian soldiers simply parking their tanks and wandering into the woods.
You don’t show your power by starting a war that reveals how weak and mediocre your army is and strengthens European bonds when your goal is to divide and weaken Europe.
No matter what happens in Ukraine, Putin will be a loser with no moral stature and Zelensky will have towering moral stature.
Donald Trump, who called Putin’s barbaric strategy “genius” and “savvy” after spending four years legitimizing that malefactor, also comes out a loser. Trump is stuck on the fringe of his party, sharing the wrong side of a moral divide with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance, Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Trump and Putin, what a pair, shrinking in stature in the eyes of the world. Tiny, tiny Trump and cruel fool Putin. The corrupt, paranoid germophobes love surrounding themselves with sycophants, conjuring delusional worlds and giving unhinged rants.
Putin let loose on those who question his misbegotten war: “Any people, and even more so the Russian people, will be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a midge that accidentally flew into their mouths. Spit out on the pavement.”
He even went after his pals, the oligarchs, “who can’t do without foie gras, oysters or the so-called gender freedoms” in Miami or the French Riviera.
Trump and Putin sowed the seeds of their own destruction. They wanted all of the attention and credit. Now they deserve all of the blame.
Grandiosity and fantasy worlds will trip up these poisonous authoritarians. Neither man has a democratic bone in his body. And both think they know better than anyone else.
“When you have an autocrat who’s been in power for too long, they don’t listen to people anymore, and this war was afflicted by very bad decision making,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian who teaches at New York University, said on MSNBC. This has left Putin vulnerable and humiliated before Russian elites and the world, she said. But it has also, parlously, left him without an offramp “because autocrats don’t negotiate.”
Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton, told The New Yorker’s David Remnick that the Russians have a fractured identity. Culturally and scientifically, they are a world-class power. But economically and politically, they have a hard time matching the West, so “they resort to coercion.”
“The worst part of this dynamic in Russian history is the conflation of the Russian state with some personal ruler,” Kotkin said. “Instead of getting the strong state that they want to manage the gulf with the West, they instead get a personalist regime. They get a dictatorship, which usually becomes a despotism.”
Zelensky spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, comparing the terror in Ukrainian skies to the death hailed down from the skies on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and on New York and Washington on 9/11. He also showed a devastating video that brought tears to lawmakers’ eyes.
Underlining his role as David to Putin’s Goliath, Zelensky said, “Strong doesn’t mean big.” Strong means supporting human rights and freedom and demanding the right to die when “your time comes and not when it’s wanted by someone else, by your neighbors.
HAPPENING NOW Zelensky says siege of Mariupol involved war crimes
Pope Francis condemns 'inhuman and sacrilegious' war against Ukraine Yahoo News March 20, 2022, 9:07 AM Pope Francis on Sunday sharpened his rhetoric against Russia's shelling of Ukrainian civilians in its increasingly brutal invasion.
“All this is inhuman!" Francis said, according to a translation published by Vatican News, the Holy See's media portal.
"Indeed, it is also sacrilegious," he continued, "because it goes against the sacredness of human life, especially against defenseless human life, which must be respected and protected, not eliminated, and which comes before any strategy! Let us not forget: It is a cruelty, inhuman and sacrilegious.”
Francis made the remarks during his weekly Sunday address to pilgrims in Vatican City's St. Peter’s Square, where many of those gathered wore gold and blue, the colors of Ukraine's flag.
The pope’s condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine represents a continuation of his activism on the issue. In the opening days of Russia's assault, Francis visited the Russian embassy to lobby for peace. On Ash Wednesday, earlier this month, Francis used his address to the world's 1.3 billion Catholics to call for public prayer to "appeal to the conscience of all those who have power over war and peace." And on Friday, Francis spoke at a gathering of European Catholic representatives, calling Russia's war against its smaller neighbor a "perverse abuse of power."
As Russia's attack has stalled, facing surprisingly fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military, the Kremlin has increased its bombardment — both artillery and missiles — of civilian areas. Over 3 million Ukrainian refugees have already fled their home country, according to the United Nations.
Photo: Pope Francis blesses a Ukrainian child receiving treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital.
Many children, Francis noted Sunday, are suffering. He recalled his Saturday visit to Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, a Vatican-run hospital in Rome, where he met wounded children who managed to escape the conflict.
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are predominantly Eastern Orthodox, but Francis's words carry significant weight on the world stage. Some of Moscow’s closest allies like Cuba are heavily Catholic — as are some of the countries maintaining defiant neutrality hoping to not antagonize Russia.
“Unfortunately, the violent aggression against Ukraine has not ceased," Francis said Sunday. "It is a senseless massacre in which atrocities are repeated every day. There is no justification for this. I plead with all actors in the international community to truly engage in bringing this abhorrent war to an end.”
In less then 2 weeks Americans will be receiving their stock investment quarterly reports, the vast majority will reflect huge losses. Bidenomics crushing Americans at every turn.
"Indeed, it is also sacrilegious," he continued, "because it goes against the sacredness of human life, especially against defenseless human life, which must be respected and protected, not eliminated, and which comes before any strategy! Let us not forget: It is a cruelty, inhuman and sacrilegious.”
Yet pro-infanticide democrats like Slow Joe and Peloshee are Catholics in good standing with this "pope."
Their entire agenda will be revenge, not government. Fascism will prevail and the American dream will never recover.
Like how? You mean they will start to investigate everything, not let anything go, still bring up things from the past, hold grievance, and be mad and hateful all the time?
You know... Like Jan 6th commission, fake investigations about past politicians. and people like you who still think everything is about the "bad orange man"?
I thought that this might happen, especially since Fox has changed, and Rachel Maddow is leaving.
By Joe Ferullo, opinion contributor The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill It looks like exhausted news consumers — battered by polarized cable channels that elevate opinion over facts — are finally being heard.
Piece by piece, a post-Trump media world is starting to take shape. It looks something like a universe where resentment and resistance are pushed to the side and straight news steps back into the spotlight.
In just the past few weeks, several high-profile developments point to an emerging correction in journalism:
Spectrum, a cable distributor which operates more than 30 local newsrooms around the country, has announced it will soon launch a national newscast, headed up by a former executive producer of “NBC Nightly News.” The move comes, Spectrum says, after a survey of 10,000 viewers showed a high level of trust in the company’s local newscasts.
At the same time, cable outlet NewsNation said it would continue to expand the number of newscasts on the service — reaching 21 hours a day by June. NewsNation, owned by The Hill’s parent company Nexstar Media Group, was launched in 2020 with a mission to deliver straight news.
And it is now apparent that CNN’s new bosses will move quickly to bring the network back to the journalistic center. David Zaslav, who takes over as CEO of CNN’s parent company later this spring, has said that “overall we’d probably be better off if we just had news networks in America” rather than partisan opinion. To head CNN, Zaslav has tapped CBS producer Chris Licht, someone he calls “a true news person.”
Zaslav also labelled competitor Fox News “much more of an advocacy network than a news network.”
All of this is a tacit acknowledgement that journalism — and cable news especially — lost its way during the Trump years, when blatant calls to tribal instincts became the easiest pathway to ratings success.
But, just like the politics that placed Donald Trump in the White House, that media development didn’t appear out of thin air. It began slowly during George W. Bush’s administration, when figures like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and FOX’s Bill O’Reilly came to dominate their networks and appeal to distinct political factions. The Tea Party revolt during the Obama years raised the stakes — elevating additional star commentators like Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow.
Still, the opinion gloves truly came off during the Trump administration. Even CNN felt compelled to join the fray or suffer the ratings consequences. Bare-knuckled competition for tribal loyalty led to deep extremes, places in mass media where authoritarians are praised and a discredited dossier stays in the headlines far longer than it should.
The shift now underway includes a reassessment from top business leaders. Former Disney chief Bob Iger last week asserted there’s a “problem of profiting from, I call it inaccuracy, from opinion and from presenting things in an inaccurate fashion.” Too many viewers, he said think of news in the wrong way, not how “we knew it when we were growing up and we were taught news should be.” Cable chieftain John Malone has talked about returning the industry to “actual journalism.”
That’s important. It could signal that certain titans of television may be willing to sit through some softening of revenue as key parts of the news environment readjust.
The most crucial unknown in this incipient shift is, as always in media, the audience. Too often, viewers tell researchers they want news sources they can trust, they want balance — but don’t follow through with their content choices. For these viewers, “trust” means “loud voices I agree with,” and “balance” means “just the facts that bolster my views.”
But some evidence does point to the existence of an exhausted majority. They will need to get off the sidelines — and seek out news posts and programming that deliver what they say they want. Media leaders and investors are starting to make big bets on those viewers and readers. It’s up to them to respond.
Just-the-facts journalism is important to a functioning democracy. People tired of where we’ve been are now being given an opportunity to vote with their time and attention — and maybe help change where we’re going.
Joe Ferullo is an award-winning media executive, producer and journalist and former executive vice president of programming for CBS Television Distribution. He was a news executive for NBC, a writer-producer for “Dateline NBC” and worked for ABC News. Follow him on
Only 5 percent of Republicans support Russia over Ukraine, but the MAGA wing of the GOP has continually sided with Putin and against Ukraine.” RAP has helpfully collected some of the MAGA commentary. It’s worth bookmarking.
“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.”
Fmr. President Donald Trump, February 2022 · Quote Source
“[Putin is] taking over a country for two dollars worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.”
Fmr. President Donald Trump, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), March 2022 · Quote Source
“NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is going with these #NATONazis?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), March 2022 · Quote Source
“I think we should probably take the side of Russia, if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine.”
Tucker Carlson, FOX News, December 2019 · Quote Source
“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
J.D. Vance, US Senate Candidate, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Every American who wants to know what’s *actually* going on in Russia and Ukraine, read this transcript of Putin’s address…WE are at fault.”
Candace Owens, Daily Wire, February 2022 · Quote Source
“No Republican should vote for any money for Ukraine. $0 for Ukraine.”
“The Soviet Union back before Russia when it broke up contained all of Ukraine including Crimea. The country itself is not really a country”
Peter Navarro, Former Trump WH Advisor, December 2021 · Quote Source
“I’m more concerned with the US-Mexico border than the Russia-Ukraine border. Not sorry.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), January 2022 · Quote Source
“It feels as if Putin is going into places that want him. They have voted overwhelmingly to be part of it. It is a family dispute that we shouldn’t get in the midst of, that’s for certain.”
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, February 2022 · Quote Source
“We had kind of a really pathetic display from the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.”
Laura Ingraham, FOX News, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Putin–unlike someone else we know–LOVES his country & FIGHTS for its interests”
Dinesh D’Souza, [convicted felon] September 2016 · Quote Source
“[Putin is] a very strong leader. He’s been in charge for a long time. And he’s not going to put up with the nonsense he’s seeing in Europe.”
Mike Flynn, former Trump National Security Advisor, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Zelensky is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons.”
State Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-AZ), February 2022 · Quote Source
“I wish Putin was president of America.”
Nick Fuentes, America First Political Action Conference, February 2022 · Quote Source
Add to this list: the eight (8) GOP representatives who voted yesterday against removing Most Favored Nation status from Russia and Belarus: Biggs (Ariz.) Bishop (N.C.) Boebert (Colo.) Gaetz (Fla.) Greene (Ga.) Grothman (Wis.) Massie (Ky.) Roy (Texas).
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So how will all this play out? A few weeks ago, I wrote in Politico Magazine that “the Putin-is-a-savvy-genius wing of the party may be small at the moment, but as we have seen over and over, the MAGA voices are the Republican id these days.” And I predicted that Republican politicians would sooner or later fall in line.
But this is not inevitable. And I may be wrong here. (Bookmark this too.)
Dave Weigel highlights the shifting political landscape:
Republicans like [Liz] Cheney, increasingly marginalized in the party before the Ukraine crisis, have new math on their side. A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found that 75 percent of American adults wanted Washington to “do whatever it can to help Ukraine, without risking a direct war between the U.S. and Russia,” even while a majority of adults opposed creating a no-fly zone.
Perhaps it is the fact that CNN cannot average more than about 750,000 viewers while Tucker Carlson reaches over 3,000,000 and others at FOX routinely reach over 2,000,000.
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of crazy "bad orange man" haters who have nothing else to say other than to still talk about the "bad orange man". If CNN kept up the way it was going, it was going to be lucky to keep 750,000 viewers.
So here is the reality, Roger.
Tucker Carlson is relevant. He makes points that keep up with what is going on today. When Covid was a thing, he talked about Covid. When CRT was in the news, he talked about CRT. Now... yep, he is talking about Ukraine.
People like Cuomo, Lemon, and Maddow are one trick ponies. They hate Republicans and the "bad orange man". They are generally hateful race baiters who call people names. That is their speil. Expressing hate is not news.
There is about a 90% chance she will lose the GOP nomination for her spot in Congress. The fact that nobody is watching the Cheney style bad orange man hate shows anymore means that her sure fire gig as personality at CNN may no longer happen.
So while all of those Trump supporting members of Congress will see themselves in the Majority in about 10 months, Cheney will be sitting at home stewing as a loser.
Perhaps she can consider a potential run for President as some sort of idiotic spoiler (that would no doubt "help" Trump if he is the nominee), but other than that...
ISTANBUL, March 20 (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said in an interview published on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine were nearing agreement on "critical" issues and he was hopeful for a ceasefire if the two sides did not backtrack from progress achieved so far.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. President Vladimir Putin has called Russia's actions a "special operation" meant to demilitarize Ukraine and purge it of what he sees as dangerous nationalists. Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an aggressive war of choice.
Foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine met in the Turkish resort town of Antalya earlier this month with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also attending. The discussions did not yield concrete results!!!!!.
But Cavusoglu, who also travelled to Russia and Ukraine last week for talks with Lavrov and Kuleba, told Turkish daily Hurriyet that there had been "rapprochement in the positions of both sides on important subjects, critical subjects".
"We can say we are hopeful for a ceasefire if the sides do not take a step back from the current positions," he said, without elaborating on the issues.
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But the Ukrainian government will never accept the Russians to control any part of their country. It would give Putin credit in Russia.. Eventually they have to be expelled completely. The morning talk shows all said that...
Plus we should not renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal, because they would be able to sell billions of barrels and use it to further divide the middle east. Obama sent them billions...
Getting out of that deal was one of the few good things the former did.
I believe Roger has been an alcoholic I believe Roger has been drug addicted I believe Roger has been homeless I believe Roger had COPS called for Domestic violence
Photo: Pope Francis blesses a Ukrainian child receiving treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital.
Many children, Francis noted Sunday, are suffering. He recalled his Saturday visit to Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, a Vatican-run hospital in Rome, where he met wounded children who managed to escape the conflict.
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are predominantly Eastern Orthodox, but Francis's words carry significant weight on the world stage. Some of Moscow’s closest allies like Cuba are heavily Catholic — as are some of the countries maintaining defiant neutrality hoping to not antagonize Russia.
“Unfortunately, the violent aggression against Ukraine has not ceased," Francis said Sunday. "It is a senseless massacre in which atrocities are repeated every day. There is no justification for this. I plead with all actors in the international community to truly engage in bringing this abhorrent war to an end.” _____
Maybe rat and KansasDem would like to tell the His Holiness the Pope to f off.
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Or why you support our President who is opposing more robust anti-aircraft defense systems and instead just providing the hand held and smaller mobile ones that only work if the planes are able to be seen?
Jeff Carlson https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1505566110044762113 1) One of the more damning emails from Hunter's laptop was a Nov 2, 2015 email from Vadym Pozharskyi, head of Burisma’s board.
Pozharskyi directed Hunter to “close down" "any cases or pursuits” against Burisma owner Zlochevsky in Ukraine.
I made it clear that I wanted us to supply the Ukrainians with fighter jets. I only said that I suppose our Pentagaon and other intelligence agencies knew something that made it too dangerous to do that, and Biden must have felt he had to listen to them.
Panel Could Recommend Criminal Charges for Trump March 20, 2022 at 11:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump,” Axios reports.
Said Cheney: “I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway.”
The Battle for Kyiv Looms 11:53 am New York Times: “Kyiv remains the biggest prize of all for the Russian military; it is the seat of government and ingrained in both Russian and Ukrainian identity. But capturing it, military analysts say, would require a furious and bloody conflict that could be the world’s biggest urban battle in 80 years.
“For comparison, one of the largest urban battles this century was the nine-month siege of Mosul, Iraq, in 2016 and 2017 to oust its Islamic State occupiers. Mosul covers 70 square miles and had a wartime population of about 750,000 people — a fraction of the numbers for Kyiv, where the metropolitan area’s prewar population was 3.6 million.”
Robert Barnes https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1505304402722140160
Name the President that imprisoned the leader of the opposition party, stacked the courts, banned opposition media, empowered secret police & armed units against his people, and whose country made top 10 lists in corruption in the world? Putin? Nope. That answer is #Zelensky.
Serious question… Is anyone actually dumb enough to believe that this was a coding error instead of something used to drive the narrative that they wanted?
On a positive note about the CDC it does lie less than the charlatan "pastor" boswell
Alky look up the percentage of people who walk out of a nursing home, after being involuntary sent, in their 70s and have resided in the facility for over 2 years
Listen to Geri Perna, the aunt of #MattPerna "Matt walked through an open door,he did not break through any barriers, he walked in while Capitol police officers stood to the side...he entered the Capitol almost 45 min after Congress had been adjourned." #Jan6
NATO and the US say this is a nonstarter as a no-fly zone would require the nuclear-armed alliance to shoot down Russian warplanes, a move that Russia would most certainly take as an act of war.
The President is absolutely correct about this.
It would lead to a Third World War, that could become a nuclear war.
It's the Republicans who are calling on Biden to do more. Republicans are in favor of a no-fly zone and sending more robust equipment. It's Biden and the Democrats who demand that doing so will start WWIII.
So when kids die...
That is not for you to blame Republicans (who are wanting to do more to stop it). That is to be blamed on those of who who believe it is more important to not "escalate" things than to prevent the deaths.
So you cannot have it both ways.
Either stand up and say you are like the Republicans who want to be more aggressive with Putin and do more to stop it... and they you can complain about kid missing arms all you want.
Or support your President and his non-aggressive don't want to rock the boat appeasement to Putin, and take responsibility for the kids missing a limb.
But you cannot twist the logic and blame the side who wants to do more, when innocent civilians are slaughtered and towns and cities are destroyed.
Or at least be like Rat... and suggest that it's none of our business and we should just stay the hell out of it. But don't play the middle and blame everyone on either side of you.
Roger threats his wives like used toilet paper. "If I hadn't betrayed my first wife, we would be celebrating our 39th anniversary, and probably be as rich as you are."
Lonely voices': Mitch McConnell rips Marjorie Taylor Greene and 'Putin wing of the Republican Party' CBS/screen grab Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday shrugged off members of his party who seem to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said there's actually a Putin wing of the Republican Party," CBS host Margaret Brennan told McConnell. "I think she's referring to Congressman [Madison Cawthorn] who calls [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] a thug. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the U.S. should not fund a war the Ukrainians cannot possibly win."
"Is there any room in the Republican Party for this rhetoric?" she asked. "And why isn't there more discipline?"
"Ah, well, there's some lonely voices out there that are in a different place," McConnell replied. "But looking at Senate Republicans, I can tell you that I would have -- if I had been the majority leader -- would have put this Ukraine supplemental [funding bill] up by itself. I think virtually every one of my members would have voted for it."
McConnell insisted that the "vast majority of the Republican Party writ large" are "totally behind the Ukrainians and urging the president to take these steps quicker."
"So there may be a few lonely voices off to the side," he added. "I wouldn't pay too much attention to them."
Roger threats his wives like used toilet paper. "If I hadn't betrayed my first wife, we would be celebrating our 39th anniversary, and probably be as rich as you are."
Plus another example of Republicans who actually give a shit about our county..
The Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the "kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Driving the news: Cheney, who serves as the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, referenced Trump's refusal to "tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol."
What she's saying: Cheney said there will "certainly" be new information coming from the committee.
"I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway." — Rep. Liz Cheney on "Meet the Press" Cheney said she doesn't regret voting to acquit Trump during his first impeachment trial — which came after a phone call in which he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Biden family.
The Jan. 6 attack is "fundamentally different" from the circumstances surrounding the first impeachment trial, Cheney said. "We all watched that unfold in real-time. We all lived through that attack." "But I will say that the January 6th Committee is very much focused on lessons learned from that first impeachment and very much focused on making sure the American people have all of the facts and the truth about what happened.
Almost three years ago, in a civil divorce situation, she didn't actually say that I hit her, because I have never hit a woman. And except when boxing as a kid I have never hit anyone, even when a guy I knew, thought I was banging her. I never fucked her. He hit me but I just walked away..
Like I have said before, even in a bar, when people might have hit me, I stood up and because I am tall and somewhat muscular, and went to the bathroom. When I came back and nobody tried anything....
I have a loud voice..
Anyway, I hope that this President Biden can prevail without a foreign war.
Ukraine's crisis is a tipping point for the world's democracies! David Shribman Mar 19, 2022 9:00 PM The American national anthem celebrates “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Canada’s speaks of “the true north strong and free.” Great Britain’s pleads that the “Lord make the nations see / That men should brothers be.” And Ukraine’s national anthem opens with this haunting phrase: “Ukraine’s glory has not perished.”
In the past weeks, Ukraine’s glory has done more than not perish, though the country itself is in grave threat of perishing. Its fighters have shown courage and valor; its refugees have provided an eloquent statement about the human yearning for freedom; its president has displayed remarkable audacity and fortitude, making him the video version of Louis Kossuth, the 19th century Hungarian revolutionary hero who toured the United States trying to raise arms and support for his country’s doomed war of independence.
Kossuth failed, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy might in his own heroic star turn in the global spotlight; he spoke in his address to the American Congress of the fatalism of “to die when your time comes.” The Hungarian insurrectionist travelled the country for more than a half-year. It is impossible to underestimate the half-life of Mr. Zelenskyy’s.
Kossuth left memorials and monuments in his path — they still remain in, among other places, New York and Cleveland — and his visit is commemorated on the American map, with his name on an entire county, in Iowa. Can anyone doubt that future Americans will attend a Zelenskyy Elementary School or that new American byways will bear the name Zelenskyy Avenue? A section of Ontario Street in Montréal’s downtown was renamed avenue du President-Kennedy after the assassination of the 35th president. Would Mr. Zelenskyy deserve anything less, having been what Kennedy would have described, in remarks prepared for a speech on Nov. 22, 1963, but never delivered, as one of “the watchmen on the walls of world freedom”?
The allusion was to Psalm 127, which speaks of “arrows … in the hand of a mighty man” and compares them with children — and no one who witnessed the poignant video that Mr. Zelenskyy showed in his remote visit to the Capitol Wednesday will forget the images of the children burned, injured and killed by the Russian onslaught.
“President Zelenskyy is now one of the most amazing figures of the early 21st century,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview in the Stanford Daily. “I’ve always said countries sometimes get fortunate. The strength that he has shown, the bravery that he’s shown, the commitment to the Ukrainian nation but also to the values of Europe is just extraordinary. I think Ukraine is extraordinarily fortunate that it is Zelenskyy.”
In his Capitol remarks, Mr. Zelenskyy said, “We need you right now” — an eerie echo of the words of Winston Churchill, who in a July 1940 letter to Franklin Roosevelt asking for military aid wrote: “Mr. President, with great respect I must tell you that in the long history of the world this is a thing to do NOW.”
Wednesday morning, members of the House and Senate — witnesses themselves to an assault on democratic values, still fresh in memory, still draped in disgrace — stood and cheered as Mr. Zelenskyy attempted to rally them to his country’s defense. The precursor to today’s Congress sought similar aid during our Revolution from France. In that effort, Benjamin Franklin played the Zelenskyy role, the spokesman for keeping the flickering flame of liberty burning. The American Battlefield Trust describes France’s eventual assistance as “the tipping point” in the struggle for independence.
Now the world watches, in near-unified horror, as another tipping point approaches.
“Wars tend to lead to places no one can anticipate at the time,” said Matthew Dallek, a historian at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. “They have their own afterlife that no one can control. We can’t look into the future, but we know that there is an incredibly destabilizing thing going on.”
During the Second World War, Vice President Henry Wallace injected the phrase “Century of the Common Man” into the global lexicon. Wallace was a visionary with clouded vision, a product of, and spokesman for, rural America who became something of a hero in many of the urban enclaves of the country. He crafted that notion in 1942, inspiring Aaron Copland, another visionary but one with a clear vision of the American character, to write his “Fanfare for the Common Man,” still played by orchestras worldwide even though Wallace’s phrase has disappeared from the world’s conversation.
It turns out that one was a wishful thinker, the other a wishful composer. The century from Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome of 1922 to Vladimir Putin’s assault on Kyiv in 2022 is more properly the century of the tyrant. And though Mr. Zelenskyy is the spiritual heir to Franklin and Kossuth, Vladimir Putin is the spiritual heir to Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and other petty but deadly despots from António de Oliveira Salazar and Nicolae Ceaușescu and from Lon Nol to Bashar al-Assad.
Against that parade of the dictators stands Mr. Zelenskyy, reminding Americans in his Capitol speech that Ukraine is fighting against “a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values” and that Ukranians have stood bravely and resolutely, resisting capitulation. “We have not even thought about it for a second,” he said.
Second thoughts abounded in the Capitol complex that afternoon — about whether enough aid has been sent to Ukraine; about whether the no-fly-zone that Mr. Zelenskyy wants could be imposed without triggering a wider war with nuclear implications; perhaps even about American devotion to democratic values in light of the insurrection mounted 14 months ago in the very chamber where the lawmakers sat and applauded the world’s reigning symbol of those values.
It is well to consider that last point, at this moment of drama and decision, and perhaps of destiny. In cities across Ukraine as in communities across America — where, in different circumstances but with hauntingly similar consequences — democracy is at an inflection point. In Ukraine, the question of its survival will be decided within months, perhaps weeks. In the United States, the process will take longer to be resolved.
Mr. Zelenskyy said he was living through “the darkest time for our country.” The men and women sitting there in their safe seats in the House — a phrase with two meanings — may not realize that they are doing the same.
David M. Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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The entire world now knows what a loser trump was trying to disband NATO!!!!! Thanks Joe for taking the reins and leading the world against the fraud of Putin and trump!!!!
Forbes, Roger and James and i agree the US was energy independence.
Dopie doesn't.
I am fine with that.
Ch has lost his entire mind.
If the Republicans prevail in November, the next year will be revenge season for Donald Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/598848-senate-gop-eyes-hunter-biden-fauci-probes-after-midterms?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=03.20.22%20KB%209%20AM%20The%20Hill%20-%20Tipsheet&utm_term=Tipsheet..
Their entire agenda will be revenge, not government.
Fascism will prevail and the American dream will never recover.
This is awesome, despite the impact on our economy and gasoline prices!..
Oil field services company Baker Hughes became the latest American oil company to walk back its planned investments in Russia, the company announced on Saturday.
Driving the news: Baker Hughes' announcement came a day after its rivals, Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger, took similar steps in response to U.S. sanctions on Russia, ABC News reports.
The big picture: Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last month, more than 400 companies have taken steps to reduce their investment or operations in Russia.
Halliburton stopped shipments of specific sanctioned parts and products to Russia several weeks ago, per ABC News. Schlumberger, too, halted investment and said it would stop sending technology to its operations in the country.
What they’re saying: Lorenzo Simonelli, Baker Hughes’ chairman and CEO, said in a statement the company “strongly supports a diplomatic solution” to the conflict.
“The health and safety of our employees, customers, partners, and their families always remains our top priority,” Simonelli said.
“We have been continuously monitoring the situation, and today’s announcement follows an internal decision made with our Board of Directors and communicated to our leadership team earlier this week.”
They are going to lose money, but starting under this President, they put the people of Ukraine first!!!
The next election can save America from..... The Big Lie.
Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, is not exactly known as a hotheaded partisan warrior – the softspoken Democrat enjoys polka, the card game Euchre, and a daily McDonald’s Egg McMuffin. But it struck a nerve this week when he heard Robin Vos, the powerful speaker of the Wisconsin state assembly, claim there was widespread voter fraud in 2020.
“He’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met but that was about the dumbest thing he’s ever said,” Evers told the Guardian on Thursday.
This fall, the future of American democracy may hinge on what happens in contests like the gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, a critical battleground state. Evers, who was narrowly elected in 2018, is seeking a second term, and Republicans who control the state legislature have been eager to enact new voting restrictions, and more recently, have fractured in a push to illegally “decertify” Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
A similar dynamic is playing out in Michigan and Pennsylvania, also presidential swing states, where Democrats are also seeking to hold on to governorships and where Republican-led legislatures are attacking voting rights.
Part of Evers’ re-election campaign has been casting himself as a sort of last line of defense for democracy. Rebecca Kleefisch, who is leading the Republican field for governor, refuses to say whether Biden won the election. Tim Rathmun, another Republican candidate, is pushing for decertification. Kevin Nicholson, another GOP candidate, has acknowledged Biden’s victory, but said the election was “messed up”, though multiple reviews have affirmed Biden’s win. Republicans have also been united in their desire to do away with the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a bipartisan body created by Republicans in 2015 that oversees elections in the state.
“Giving the Republicans the opportunity to essentially depress the vote is not in the cards,” Evers said. “In the state of Wisconsin, the governor is the one who certifies the election. Can you imagine what that would look like in 2024 if I’m not re-elected?”
Evers also pushed back on the suggestion that voting rights would not be a winning issue for a campaign. “We can talk and chew gum at the same time here. We’ll be talking about the democracy piece. But we’ll also be spending a lot of time on what people believe Wisconsinites talk about every day and that is those kitchen table issues,” he said.
Over the last few years, Evers has led Wisconsin as Republicans in the state legislature have advanced what can only be described as a brazen assault on democracy. Evers has already vetoed a suite of bills that would impose new restrictions on voting, and said he expects to reject more soon. The state assembly, led by Vos, authorized a monthslong review of the 2020 election that has failed to turn up significant evidence of wrongdoing, but made sensationalist and false claims.
Earlier this month, the review released a 136-page report arguing the Wisconsin legislature could decertify the election. Vos has refused to go along with that effort, angering many in his party, including Rathmun, who said this week he wanted to punch Vos in the nose (he has since clarified that he didn’t really want to punch Vos).
Vos met with proponents of decertification this week and emerged from the meeting to say he believed there was widespread fraud. It appeared to be a clear move to thread the needle with his party, placating election deniers without embracing decertification. Evers predicted that kind of embrace of widespread fraud could backfire for Vos and Republicans.
“Most people that are thoughtful are not gonna believe it,” he said. Vos’ focus on voter fraud could convince people “to not vote”, Evers said. “What a legacy for him.”
In Wisconsin, Republicans in the legislature don’t really have to worry about electoral consequences for pushing fringe theories like decertification. A decade ago, Republicans drew district lines that were so distorted to benefit Republicans it essentially guaranteed they would have a majority for the next decade. In 2018, when Evers was elected, Democrats swept all statewide races, but Republicans maintained nearly two-thirds of the seats in the state assembly.
“The will of the people is traditionally the law of the land. That is not the case at this point in time,” Evers said.
Republicans are now poised to continue their majority for another decade. After the legislature and Evers fell into an expected deadlock over new maps, the Wisconsin supreme court took over mapmaking authority. It said it would adopt maps that made as little change as possible to the current ones, continuing the GOP advantage. Earlier this year they picked maps submitted by Evers, giving Democrats a boost, but maintaining the GOP advantage overall.
“We’re hopeful that we will begin to narrow that gap enough that people on the other side of the aisle will feel more of a need to think through these major issues and hopefully the will of the people will start to be reestablished,” he said. “But it’s difficult.”
The will of the people matters Scott..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/20/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-election-american-democracy
Republicans like Tony Evers can save America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/20/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-election-american-democracy
Republicans like Tony Evers can save America
Their entire agenda will be revenge, not government.
Fascism will prevail and the American dream will never recover.
Truer words were never spoken...
...about the current Slow Joe an da Ho regime.
Your psychological projection is fucking epic, alky.
It's essentially your sole redeeming quality.
Fascism - surrounding your Capitol with fencing, razor wire, and 25,000 troops... for no good reason at all.
Revenge - Signing a Mount Everest-sized pile of executive orders overturning everything Trump enacted, just because it was Trump.
If revenge is another word for looking into all of the outrageous things democrats have been remarkably incurious about while they obsess over trump, then yes.
Word salad? My post was precise in its point expression. More likely, you didn't understand it. After all, we don't call you dopey for nothing.
I think we three enlightened people should just boycott these stupid Sunday funnies and wait until Ch puts up a halfway decent thread on Ukraine or something else that he doesn't want really to discuss.
Meanwhile, there is interesting and important information at politicalwire.com (or politicalwire hub).
Meanwhile I intend to let the bottom crawlers here just stew in their own depraved juices.
The issue is never the issue. I suspect that Joe Biden is being prepped for ejection. Exactly how it will happen I do not yet know. But he is on the threshold, or possibly has even passed the threshold, where he could appear to govern. His minders understand this. They must be the ones to replace him, otherwise they themselves risk being replaced, which would be intolerable. As I say, it’s not entirely clear yet how the defenestration will take place. Obviously, Kamala will have to be dealt with first, and she will be. Look for some ground softening stories such as the Times just served up about the laptop. They won’t be long in coming.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/19/bidens-handlers-are-preparing-to-eject-him-and-kamala/
Hubris guided Vladimir Putin’s malevolent and maladroit invasion of Ukraine. As The Associated Press pointed out, U.S. military officials assumed Russia would deploy electronic and cyber warfare to blind and paralyze Ukrainian air defenses and communications. But the Russians did not take control of Ukrainian airspace when they launched their attack.
Putin has always had a Napoleon complex, puffing out his bare chest on horseback; fishing shirtless in Siberia; winning staged judo and hockey displays.
But Zelensky understands that stature is not about phony macho photo shoots. Stature is a physical quality, but, more important, it is a human and moral quality. Keats was barely over five feet, but look at his spiritual size.
Our military leaders have lately been quoting Napoleon, who said, “The moral is to the physical as three to one.” We have seen this with the Ukrainians, who are not only courageously resisting the Russians, but also launching counteroffensives.
As The Times reported, the number of Russian casualties has hurt morale; our intelligence reports have described Russian soldiers simply parking their tanks and wandering into the woods.
You don’t show your power by starting a war that reveals how weak and mediocre your army is and strengthens European bonds when your goal is to divide and weaken Europe.
No matter what happens in Ukraine, Putin will be a loser with no moral stature and Zelensky will have towering moral stature.
Donald Trump, who called Putin’s barbaric strategy “genius” and “savvy” after spending four years legitimizing that malefactor, also comes out a loser. Trump is stuck on the fringe of his party, sharing the wrong side of a moral divide with Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance, Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Trump and Putin, what a pair, shrinking in stature in the eyes of the world. Tiny, tiny Trump and cruel fool Putin. The corrupt, paranoid germophobes love surrounding themselves with sycophants, conjuring delusional worlds and giving unhinged rants.
Putin let loose on those who question his misbegotten war: “Any people, and even more so the Russian people, will be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a midge that accidentally flew into their mouths. Spit out on the pavement.”
He even went after his pals, the oligarchs, “who can’t do without foie gras, oysters or the so-called gender freedoms” in Miami or the French Riviera.
Trump and Putin sowed the seeds of their own destruction. They wanted all of the attention and credit. Now they deserve all of the blame.
Grandiosity and fantasy worlds will trip up these poisonous authoritarians. Neither man has a democratic bone in his body. And both think they know better than anyone else.
“When you have an autocrat who’s been in power for too long, they don’t listen to people anymore, and this war was afflicted by very bad decision making,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian who teaches at New York University, said on MSNBC. This has left Putin vulnerable and humiliated before Russian elites and the world, she said. But it has also, parlously, left him without an offramp “because autocrats don’t negotiate.”
Stephen Kotkin, a professor of history and international affairs at Princeton, told The New Yorker’s David Remnick that the Russians have a fractured identity. Culturally and scientifically, they are a world-class power. But economically and politically, they have a hard time matching the West, so “they resort to coercion.”
“The worst part of this dynamic in Russian history is the conflation of the Russian state with some personal ruler,” Kotkin said. “Instead of getting the strong state that they want to manage the gulf with the West, they instead get a personalist regime. They get a dictatorship, which usually becomes a despotism.”
Zelensky spoke to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, comparing the terror in Ukrainian skies to the death hailed down from the skies on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and on New York and Washington on 9/11. He also showed a devastating video that brought tears to lawmakers’ eyes.
Underlining his role as David to Putin’s Goliath, Zelensky said, “Strong doesn’t mean big.” Strong means supporting human rights and freedom and demanding the right to die when “your time comes and not when it’s wanted by someone else, by your neighbors.
A competent president actually answering questions while the press is attacking him. Graceful, eloquent and speaking the truth and in control:
VIDEO:
https://gab.com/QAnon211/posts/107988098213706743
Boy do we miss him now
Ian Miles Cheong
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1320621896480636929
Lesley Stahl laughs at Trump when he says that Biden is in the midst of a scandal. “Hahaha. He’s not. No.”
The FAKE NEWS press handling of the 2020 race for president
Shameful
Why don't you give Maureen Dowd the attribution she's due, alky?
Stealing from a woman?
Low class.
Not as cool as beating her to a bloody pulp though, eh? Even better if she's a NEGRO, eh alky?
Anonymous Myballs said...
Word salad? My post was precise in its point expression.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Sure ballz....about as precise as a 2 year old!!!!!
HAPPENING NOW
Zelensky says siege of Mariupol involved war crimes
Pope Francis condemns 'inhuman and sacrilegious' war against Ukraine
Yahoo News
March 20, 2022, 9:07 AM
Pope Francis on Sunday sharpened his rhetoric against Russia's shelling of Ukrainian civilians in its increasingly brutal invasion.
“All this is inhuman!" Francis said, according to a translation published by Vatican News, the Holy See's media portal.
"Indeed, it is also sacrilegious," he continued, "because it goes against the sacredness of human life, especially against defenseless human life, which must be respected and protected, not eliminated, and which comes before any strategy! Let us not forget: It is a cruelty, inhuman and sacrilegious.”
Francis made the remarks during his weekly Sunday address to pilgrims in Vatican City's St. Peter’s Square, where many of those gathered wore gold and blue, the colors of Ukraine's flag.
The pope’s condemnation of Russia's war against Ukraine represents a continuation of his activism on the issue. In the opening days of Russia's assault, Francis visited the Russian embassy to lobby for peace. On Ash Wednesday, earlier this month, Francis used his address to the world's 1.3 billion Catholics to call for public prayer to "appeal to the conscience of all those who have power over war and peace." And on Friday, Francis spoke at a gathering of European Catholic representatives, calling Russia's war against its smaller neighbor a "perverse abuse of power."
As Russia's attack has stalled, facing surprisingly fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military, the Kremlin has increased its bombardment — both artillery and missiles — of civilian areas. Over 3 million Ukrainian refugees have already fled their home country, according to the United Nations.
Photo: Pope Francis blesses a Ukrainian child receiving treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital.
Many children, Francis noted Sunday, are suffering. He recalled his Saturday visit to Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, a Vatican-run hospital in Rome, where he met wounded children who managed to escape the conflict.
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are predominantly Eastern Orthodox, but Francis's words carry significant weight on the world stage. Some of Moscow’s closest allies like Cuba are heavily Catholic — as are some of the countries maintaining defiant neutrality hoping to not antagonize Russia.
“Unfortunately, the violent aggression against Ukraine has not ceased," Francis said Sunday. "It is a senseless massacre in which atrocities are repeated every day. There is no justification for this. I plead with all actors in the international community to truly engage in bringing this abhorrent war to an end.”
In less then 2 weeks Americans will be receiving their stock investment quarterly reports, the vast majority will reflect huge losses.
Bidenomics crushing Americans at every turn.
The US House of Representatives are Calling in Big Oil to testify.
Nancy needs a scapegoat for her and Joe's failed Energy policies.
The 2022 midterm elections are now 235 days away, and Republicans have an 11-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot_mar18
Expect the 'Electorus Interruptus' Covid variant to be identified in September, and full lockdowns/mandates to be enacted almost immediately.
"Indeed, it is also sacrilegious," he continued, "because it goes against the sacredness of human life, especially against defenseless human life, which must be respected and protected, not eliminated, and which comes before any strategy! Let us not forget: It is a cruelty, inhuman and sacrilegious.”
Yet pro-infanticide democrats like Slow Joe and Peloshee are Catholics in good standing with this "pope."
LMAO.
Fuck off pederast.
Their entire agenda will be revenge, not government.
Fascism will prevail and the American dream will never recover.
Like how? You mean they will start to investigate everything, not let anything go, still bring up things from the past, hold grievance, and be mad and hateful all the time?
You know... Like Jan 6th commission, fake investigations about past politicians. and people like you who still think everything is about the "bad orange man"?
I thought that this might happen, especially since Fox has changed, and Rachel Maddow is leaving.
By Joe Ferullo, opinion contributor
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
It looks like exhausted news consumers — battered by polarized cable channels that elevate opinion over facts — are finally being heard.
Piece by piece, a post-Trump media world is starting to take shape. It looks something like a universe where resentment and resistance are pushed to the side and straight news steps back into the spotlight.
In just the past few weeks, several high-profile developments point to an emerging correction in journalism:
Spectrum, a cable distributor which operates more than 30 local newsrooms around the country, has announced it will soon launch a national newscast, headed up by a former executive producer of “NBC Nightly News.” The move comes, Spectrum says, after a survey of 10,000 viewers showed a high level of trust in the company’s local newscasts.
At the same time, cable outlet NewsNation said it would continue to expand the number of newscasts on the service — reaching 21 hours a day by June. NewsNation, owned by The Hill’s parent company Nexstar Media Group, was launched in 2020 with a mission to deliver straight news.
And it is now apparent that CNN’s new bosses will move quickly to bring the network back to the journalistic center. David Zaslav, who takes over as CEO of CNN’s parent company later this spring, has said that “overall we’d probably be better off if we just had news networks in America” rather than partisan opinion. To head CNN, Zaslav has tapped CBS producer Chris Licht, someone he calls “a true news person.”
Zaslav also labelled competitor Fox News “much more of an advocacy network than a news network.”
All of this is a tacit acknowledgement that journalism — and cable news especially — lost its way during the Trump years, when blatant calls to tribal instincts became the easiest pathway to ratings success.
But, just like the politics that placed Donald Trump in the White House, that media development didn’t appear out of thin air. It began slowly during George W. Bush’s administration, when figures like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and FOX’s Bill O’Reilly came to dominate their networks and appeal to distinct political factions. The Tea Party revolt during the Obama years raised the stakes — elevating additional star commentators like Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow.
Still, the opinion gloves truly came off during the Trump administration. Even CNN felt compelled to join the fray or suffer the ratings consequences. Bare-knuckled competition for tribal loyalty led to deep extremes, places in mass media where authoritarians are praised and a discredited dossier stays in the headlines far longer than it should.
The shift now underway includes a reassessment from top business leaders. Former Disney chief Bob Iger last week asserted there’s a “problem of profiting from, I call it inaccuracy, from opinion and from presenting things in an inaccurate fashion.” Too many viewers, he said think of news in the wrong way, not how “we knew it when we were growing up and we were taught news should be.” Cable chieftain John Malone has talked about returning the industry to “actual journalism.”
That’s important. It could signal that certain titans of television may be willing to sit through some softening of revenue as key parts of the news environment readjust.
The most crucial unknown in this incipient shift is, as always in media, the audience. Too often, viewers tell researchers they want news sources they can trust, they want balance — but don’t follow through with their content choices. For these viewers, “trust” means “loud voices I agree with,” and “balance” means “just the facts that bolster my views.”
But some evidence does point to the existence of an exhausted majority. They will need to get off the sidelines — and seek out news posts and programming that deliver what they say they want. Media leaders and investors are starting to make big bets on those viewers and readers. It’s up to them to respond.
Just-the-facts journalism is important to a functioning democracy. People tired of where we’ve been are now being given an opportunity to vote with their time and attention — and maybe help change where we’re going.
Joe Ferullo is an award-winning media executive, producer and journalist and former executive vice president of programming for CBS Television Distribution. He was a news executive for NBC, a writer-producer for “Dateline NBC” and worked for ABC News. Follow him on
Scott, you probably didn't watch Meet the Press.
Cheney said very carefully that the evidence could lead to criminal charges.
The only reason to mention him again is that if he doesn't win or not, this country will never recover..
Only 5 percent of Republicans support Russia over Ukraine, but the MAGA wing of the GOP has continually sided with Putin and against Ukraine.” RAP has helpfully collected some of the MAGA commentary. It’s worth bookmarking.
“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.”
Fmr. President Donald Trump, February 2022 · Quote Source
“[Putin is] taking over a country for two dollars worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.”
Fmr. President Donald Trump, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and it is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), March 2022 · Quote Source
“NATO has been supplying the neo-Nazis in Ukraine with powerful weapons and extensive training on how to use them. What the hell is going with these #NATONazis?”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), March 2022 · Quote Source
“I think we should probably take the side of Russia, if we have to choose between Russia and Ukraine.”
Tucker Carlson, FOX News, December 2019 · Quote Source
“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
J.D. Vance, US Senate Candidate, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Every American who wants to know what’s *actually* going on in Russia and Ukraine, read this transcript of Putin’s address…WE are at fault.”
Candace Owens, Daily Wire, February 2022 · Quote Source
“No Republican should vote for any money for Ukraine. $0 for Ukraine.”
Steve Bannon, March 2022 · Quote Source
“The Soviet Union back before Russia when it broke up contained all of Ukraine including Crimea. The country itself is not really a country”
Peter Navarro, Former Trump WH Advisor, December 2021 · Quote Source
“I’m more concerned with the US-Mexico border than the Russia-Ukraine border. Not sorry.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), January 2022 · Quote Source
“It feels as if Putin is going into places that want him. They have voted overwhelmingly to be part of it. It is a family dispute that we shouldn’t get in the midst of, that’s for certain.”
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, February 2022 · Quote Source
“We had kind of a really pathetic display from the Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.”
Laura Ingraham, FOX News, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Putin–unlike someone else we know–LOVES his country & FIGHTS for its interests”
Dinesh D’Souza, [convicted felon] September 2016 · Quote Source
“[Putin is] a very strong leader. He’s been in charge for a long time. And he’s not going to put up with the nonsense he’s seeing in Europe.”
Mike Flynn, former Trump National Security Advisor, February 2022 · Quote Source
“Zelensky is a globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons.”
State Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-AZ), February 2022 · Quote Source
“I wish Putin was president of America.”
Nick Fuentes, America First Political Action Conference, February 2022 · Quote Source
Add to this list: the eight (8) GOP representatives who voted yesterday against removing Most Favored Nation status from Russia and Belarus: Biggs (Ariz.) Bishop (N.C.) Boebert (Colo.) Gaetz (Fla.) Greene (Ga.) Grothman (Wis.) Massie (Ky.) Roy (Texas).
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So how will all this play out? A few weeks ago, I wrote in Politico Magazine that “the Putin-is-a-savvy-genius wing of the party may be small at the moment, but as we have seen over and over, the MAGA voices are the Republican id these days.” And I predicted that Republican politicians would sooner or later fall in line.
But this is not inevitable. And I may be wrong here. (Bookmark this too.)
Dave Weigel highlights the shifting political landscape:
Republicans like [Liz] Cheney, increasingly marginalized in the party before the Ukraine crisis, have new math on their side. A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found that 75 percent of American adults wanted Washington to “do whatever it can to help Ukraine, without risking a direct war between the U.S. and Russia,” even while a majority of adults opposed creating a no-fly zone.
Well Roger...
Perhaps it is the fact that CNN cannot average more than about 750,000 viewers while Tucker Carlson reaches over 3,000,000 and others at FOX routinely reach over 2,000,000.
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of crazy "bad orange man" haters who have nothing else to say other than to still talk about the "bad orange man". If CNN kept up the way it was going, it was going to be lucky to keep 750,000 viewers.
So here is the reality, Roger.
Tucker Carlson is relevant. He makes points that keep up with what is going on today. When Covid was a thing, he talked about Covid. When CRT was in the news, he talked about CRT. Now... yep, he is talking about Ukraine.
People like Cuomo, Lemon, and Maddow are one trick ponies. They hate Republicans and the "bad orange man". They are generally hateful race baiters who call people names. That is their speil. Expressing hate is not news.
But a couple people, both sides said that Biden should avoid making absolute comments, leaving it open to other outcomes based upon new things..
Even calling Putin a war criminal...
Expressing hate is not news. You do it every single time, SLDS
Indy and I agree that you really are nuts.
I come here to fuck up your mind.
Well Roger...
Here is the math for Liz Cheney.
There is about a 90% chance she will lose the GOP nomination for her spot in Congress. The fact that nobody is watching the Cheney style bad orange man hate shows anymore means that her sure fire gig as personality at CNN may no longer happen.
So while all of those Trump supporting members of Congress will see themselves in the Majority in about 10 months, Cheney will be sitting at home stewing as a loser.
Perhaps she can consider a potential run for President as some sort of idiotic spoiler (that would no doubt "help" Trump if he is the nominee), but other than that...
The math looks dim for her.
Roger, compare your life to Scott's.
Tell us where you feel you are more Accomplished?
Education
Income
Love Life
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of crazy "bad orange man" haters who have nothing else to say other than to still talk about the "bad orange man".
Behold the power of TDS.
The alky's in that clique that you describe, preferring to the have the "bad orange man" rhetoric injected directly into his veins.
I have a neighbor who's as bad if not worse.
Well Roger....
Did I tell you I just bought a one owner 44,000 mile Porsche 911 Carrera and I can afford to keep my other car (which I really still like).
Did I tell you that I actually am married to a former model and living happily here in Seattle?
I am guessing that you neither bought your Audi or married the model.
So if your joy in life is to come here and believe that you somehow get under the skin of conservatives and that you actually win arguments...
More power to you, friend.
Yet pro-infanticide democrats like Slow Joe and Peloshee are Catholics in good standing with this "pope."
LMAO.
Fuck off pederast."
James , care for Ukraine kids at the same time he supports killing the unborn American child.
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I come here to fuck up your mind.
From the confines of an insane asylum.
Note the irony.
Reuters has been doing a good job.
ISTANBUL, March 20 (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said in an interview published on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine were nearing agreement on "critical" issues and he was hopeful for a ceasefire if the two sides did not backtrack from progress achieved so far.
Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. President Vladimir Putin has called Russia's actions a "special operation" meant to demilitarize Ukraine and purge it of what he sees as dangerous nationalists. Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an aggressive war of choice.
Foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine met in the Turkish resort town of Antalya earlier this month with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also attending. The discussions did not yield concrete results!!!!!.
But Cavusoglu, who also travelled to Russia and Ukraine last week for talks with Lavrov and Kuleba, told Turkish daily Hurriyet that there had been "rapprochement in the positions of both sides on important subjects, critical subjects".
"We can say we are hopeful for a ceasefire if the sides do not take a step back from the current positions," he said, without elaborating on the issues.
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But the Ukrainian government will never accept the Russians to control any part of their country. It would give Putin credit in Russia.. Eventually they have to be expelled completely. The morning talk shows all said that...
Plus we should not renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal, because they would be able to sell billions of barrels and use it to further divide the middle east. Obama sent them billions...
Getting out of that deal was one of the few good things the former did.
I believe Roger has been an alcoholic
I believe Roger has been drug addicted
I believe Roger has been homeless
I believe Roger had COPS called for Domestic violence
Roger, compare your life to Scott's.
Tell us where you feel you are more Accomplished?
Education
Income
Love Life
Property Ownership
Owned Auto
Occupation
Roger , where is Joe in the polls?
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit March 4, 2022 at 6:50 PM
Approval Disprove
RCP Average2/19 - 3/3 41.6. 53.5. -11.9
Next week he will get almost 48% approval
Photo: Pope Francis blesses a Ukrainian child receiving treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital.
Many children, Francis noted Sunday, are suffering. He recalled his Saturday visit to Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, a Vatican-run hospital in Rome, where he met wounded children who managed to escape the conflict.
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are predominantly Eastern Orthodox, but Francis's words carry significant weight on the world stage. Some of Moscow’s closest allies like Cuba are heavily Catholic — as are some of the countries maintaining defiant neutrality hoping to not antagonize Russia.
“Unfortunately, the violent aggression against Ukraine has not ceased," Francis said Sunday. "It is a senseless massacre in which atrocities are repeated every day. There is no justification for this. I plead with all actors in the international community to truly engage in bringing this abhorrent war to an end.”
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Maybe rat and KansasDem would like to tell the His Holiness the Pope to f off.
Roger is consistent, consistently Wrong.
March 4th, 2022 Roger Predicted
"
Next week he will get almost 48% approval"
RCP
Average 3/2 - 3/15 Approval 40.9
Disapproval 54.8
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Maybe you can explain why you oppose a no fly zone that would probably would have prevented this?
One time
I have made a lot of mistakes in my entire life.
But fortunately I have learned from it and like I say every single night.
God grant me the ability to understand the things I cannot change and the things that I can, and the ability to understand the difference.
If I hadn't betrayed my first wife, we would be celebrating our 39th anniversary, and probably be as rich as you are..
I'm not going to die here, like Mark Shipper.
You don't understand how dangerous he is.
Unless something else happens, I will probably live for another ten to fifteen years. And I will not die alone.
That's enough personal time
“One of them is missing an arm; another was wounded in the head," Francis said.
Or why you support our President who is opposing more robust anti-aircraft defense systems and instead just providing the hand held and smaller mobile ones that only work if the planes are able to be seen?
Jeff Carlson
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1505566110044762113
1) One of the more damning emails from Hunter's laptop was a Nov 2, 2015 email from Vadym Pozharskyi, head of Burisma’s board.
Pozharskyi directed Hunter to “close down" "any cases or pursuits” against Burisma owner Zlochevsky in Ukraine.
https://mediaactionnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/25.-Re-Revised-Burisma-Proposal-Contract-and-Invoice.pdf
Biden Crime Family
more proof if we even needed it
As usual, you distort my position.
I made it clear that I wanted us to supply the Ukrainians with fighter jets. I only said that I suppose our Pentagaon and other intelligence agencies knew something that made it too dangerous to do that, and Biden must have felt he had to listen to them.
Want nuclear war?
Election Wizard 🇺🇸
TABLE:
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1505584089260298253
Donald J. Trump has the highest favorable rating among any U.S. political leader in RCP's average.
While Biden is trending down Trump has been trending up
must be all the "effort" from the POS charlatan "pastor" and the confined mental patient
ROFLMFAO !!!
Panel Could Recommend Criminal Charges for Trump
March 20, 2022 at 11:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump,” Axios reports.
Said Cheney:
“I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway.”
The Battle for Kyiv Looms
11:53 am
New York Times:
“Kyiv remains the biggest prize of all for the Russian military; it is the seat of government and ingrained in both Russian and Ukrainian identity. But capturing it, military analysts say, would require a furious and bloody conflict that could be the world’s biggest urban battle in 80 years.
“For comparison, one of the largest urban battles this century was the nine-month siege of Mosul, Iraq, in 2016 and 2017 to oust its Islamic State occupiers. Mosul covers 70 square miles and had a wartime population of about 750,000 people — a fraction of the numbers for Kyiv, where the metropolitan area’s prewar population was 3.6 million.”
Robert Barnes
https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1505304402722140160
Name the President that imprisoned the leader of the opposition party, stacked the courts, banned opposition media, empowered secret police & armed units against his people, and whose country made top 10 lists in corruption in the world? Putin? Nope. That answer is #Zelensky.
we are supporting "democracy"
right
Donald Trump Jr.
HEADLINE:
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1505576090697404423
Serious question… Is anyone actually dumb enough to believe that this was a coding error instead of something used to drive the narrative that they wanted?
On a positive note about the CDC it does lie less than the charlatan "pastor" boswell
or should I say Goddard waterboy ?
I'm not going to die here, like Mark Shipper.
Alky look up the percentage of people who walk out of a nursing home, after being involuntary sent, in their 70s and have resided in the facility for over 2 years
It’s non existent
Heather Champion
This VIDEO should be played before any state media Jan 6th "news". Of course, they will ignore...
https://twitter.com/winningatmylife/status/1505318422128869384
Listen to Geri Perna, the aunt of #MattPerna "Matt walked through an open door,he did not break through any barriers, he walked in while Capitol police officers stood to the side...he entered the Capitol almost 45 min after Congress had been adjourned." #Jan6
Banana Republic
state media
FAKE NEWS
1984
Why????
This is why. The experts..
NATO and the US say this is a nonstarter as a no-fly zone would require the nuclear-armed alliance to shoot down Russian warplanes, a move that Russia would most certainly take as an act of war.
The President is absolutely correct about this.
It would lead to a Third World War, that could become a nuclear war.
Putin is in complete control. And he is nuts..
Want nuclear war?
Pick a side Reverend...
It's the Republicans who are calling on Biden to do more. Republicans are in favor of a no-fly zone and sending more robust equipment. It's Biden and the Democrats who demand that doing so will start WWIII.
So when kids die...
That is not for you to blame Republicans (who are wanting to do more to stop it). That is to be blamed on those of who who believe it is more important to not "escalate" things than to prevent the deaths.
So you cannot have it both ways.
Either stand up and say you are like the Republicans who want to be more aggressive with Putin and do more to stop it... and they you can complain about kid missing arms all you want.
Or support your President and his non-aggressive don't want to rock the boat appeasement to Putin, and take responsibility for the kids missing a limb.
But you cannot twist the logic and blame the side who wants to do more, when innocent civilians are slaughtered and towns and cities are destroyed.
Or at least be like Rat... and suggest that it's none of our business and we should just stay the hell out of it. But don't play the middle and blame everyone on either side of you.
One more time I don't live in nursing home.
I can come and go 24/7
Scott, if you really agree with rrb. it's none of our business.
Putin will prevail and regain The Russian Empire.
You have become an isolationist...
Just like the first man to fly over the Atlantic Ocean...
Russia and China would lead the world into fascism.
You don't care because you hate liberals and even Bush..
Roger threats his wives like used toilet paper.
"If I hadn't betrayed my first wife, we would be celebrating our 39th anniversary, and probably be as rich as you are."
James, look how Roger desires wealth.
Aren't you going to shame him?
Scott probably believes he is a RINO.
Lonely voices': Mitch McConnell rips Marjorie Taylor Greene and 'Putin wing of the Republican Party'
CBS/screen grab
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday shrugged off members of his party who seem to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said there's actually a Putin wing of the Republican Party," CBS host Margaret Brennan told McConnell. "I think she's referring to Congressman [Madison Cawthorn] who calls [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy] a thug. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the U.S. should not fund a war the Ukrainians cannot possibly win."
"Is there any room in the Republican Party for this rhetoric?" she asked. "And why isn't there more discipline?"
"Ah, well, there's some lonely voices out there that are in a different place," McConnell replied. "But looking at Senate Republicans, I can tell you that I would have -- if I had been the majority leader -- would have put this Ukraine supplemental [funding bill] up by itself. I think virtually every one of my members would have voted for it."
McConnell insisted that the "vast majority of the Republican Party writ large" are "totally behind the Ukrainians and urging the president to take these steps quicker."
"So there may be a few lonely voices off to the side," he added. "I wouldn't pay too much attention to them."
Roger threats his wives like used toilet paper.
"If I hadn't betrayed my first wife, we would be celebrating our 39th anniversary, and probably be as rich as you are."
Cops Called on Roger for Abusing his 2nd wife.
See the pattern.
Plus another example of Republicans who actually give a shit about our county..
The Jan. 6 committee is considering recommending enhanced criminal penalties for the "kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Driving the news: Cheney, who serves as the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, referenced Trump's refusal to "tell the mob to go home after he had provoked that attack on the Capitol."
What she's saying: Cheney said there will "certainly" be new information coming from the committee.
"I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway."
— Rep. Liz Cheney on "Meet the Press"
Cheney said she doesn't regret voting to acquit Trump during his first impeachment trial — which came after a phone call in which he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Biden family.
The Jan. 6 attack is "fundamentally different" from the circumstances surrounding the first impeachment trial, Cheney said. "We all watched that unfold in real-time. We all lived through that attack."
"But I will say that the January 6th Committee is very much focused on lessons learned from that first impeachment and very much focused on making sure the American people have all of the facts and the truth about what happened.
You don't give a shit
You don't give a shit"
About jan 6 , yep, correct.
I don't .
Roger predicted $3.00 gasoline by last fall.
Got a new prediction when we see $3.oo gasoline.
COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
11,718 MAR 19 2022
62,422 MAR 19 2021
DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
293 MAR 19 2022
1,514 MAR 19 2021
A huge improvement from last year.
Almost three years ago, in a civil divorce situation, she didn't actually say that I hit her, because I have never hit a woman. And except when boxing as a kid I have never hit anyone, even when a guy I knew, thought I was banging her. I never fucked her. He hit me but I just walked away..
Like I have said before, even in a bar, when people might have hit me, I stood up and because I am tall and somewhat muscular, and went to the bathroom. When I came back and nobody tried anything....
I have a loud voice..
Anyway, I hope that this President Biden can prevail without a foreign war.
The police officer didn't like to force me out.
Kputz Shut the fuck up
Ukraine's crisis is a tipping point for the world's democracies!
David Shribman
Mar 19, 2022
9:00 PM
The American national anthem celebrates “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Canada’s speaks of “the true north strong and free.” Great Britain’s pleads that the “Lord make the nations see / That men should brothers be.” And Ukraine’s national anthem opens with this haunting phrase: “Ukraine’s glory has not perished.”
In the past weeks, Ukraine’s glory has done more than not perish, though the country itself is in grave threat of perishing. Its fighters have shown courage and valor; its refugees have provided an eloquent statement about the human yearning for freedom; its president has displayed remarkable audacity and fortitude, making him the video version of Louis Kossuth, the 19th century Hungarian revolutionary hero who toured the United States trying to raise arms and support for his country’s doomed war of independence.
Kossuth failed, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy might in his own heroic star turn in the global spotlight; he spoke in his address to the American Congress of the fatalism of “to die when your time comes.” The Hungarian insurrectionist travelled the country for more than a half-year. It is impossible to underestimate the half-life of Mr. Zelenskyy’s.
Kossuth left memorials and monuments in his path — they still remain in, among other places, New York and Cleveland — and his visit is commemorated on the American map, with his name on an entire county, in Iowa. Can anyone doubt that future Americans will attend a Zelenskyy Elementary School or that new American byways will bear the name Zelenskyy Avenue? A section of Ontario Street in Montréal’s downtown was renamed avenue du President-Kennedy after the assassination of the 35th president. Would Mr. Zelenskyy deserve anything less, having been what Kennedy would have described, in remarks prepared for a speech on Nov. 22, 1963, but never delivered, as one of “the watchmen on the walls of world freedom”?
The allusion was to Psalm 127, which speaks of “arrows … in the hand of a mighty man” and compares them with children — and no one who witnessed the poignant video that Mr. Zelenskyy showed in his remote visit to the Capitol Wednesday will forget the images of the children burned, injured and killed by the Russian onslaught.
“President Zelenskyy is now one of the most amazing figures of the early 21st century,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview in the Stanford Daily. “I’ve always said countries sometimes get fortunate. The strength that he has shown, the bravery that he’s shown, the commitment to the Ukrainian nation but also to the values of Europe is just extraordinary. I think Ukraine is extraordinarily fortunate that it is Zelenskyy.”
In his Capitol remarks, Mr. Zelenskyy said, “We need you right now” — an eerie echo of the words of Winston Churchill, who in a July 1940 letter to Franklin Roosevelt asking for military aid wrote: “Mr. President, with great respect I must tell you that in the long history of the world this is a thing to do NOW.”
Wednesday morning, members of the House and Senate — witnesses themselves to an assault on democratic values, still fresh in memory, still draped in disgrace — stood and cheered as Mr. Zelenskyy attempted to rally them to his country’s defense. The precursor to today’s Congress sought similar aid during our Revolution from France. In that effort, Benjamin Franklin played the Zelenskyy role, the spokesman for keeping the flickering flame of liberty burning. The American Battlefield Trust describes France’s eventual assistance as “the tipping point” in the struggle for independence.
Now the world watches, in near-unified horror, as another tipping point approaches.
“Wars tend to lead to places no one can anticipate at the time,” said Matthew Dallek, a historian at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. “They have their own afterlife that no one can control. We can’t look into the future, but we know that there is an incredibly destabilizing thing going on.”
During the Second World War, Vice President Henry Wallace injected the phrase “Century of the Common Man” into the global lexicon. Wallace was a visionary with clouded vision, a product of, and spokesman for, rural America who became something of a hero in many of the urban enclaves of the country. He crafted that notion in 1942, inspiring Aaron Copland, another visionary but one with a clear vision of the American character, to write his “Fanfare for the Common Man,” still played by orchestras worldwide even though Wallace’s phrase has disappeared from the world’s conversation.
It turns out that one was a wishful thinker, the other a wishful composer. The century from Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome of 1922 to Vladimir Putin’s assault on Kyiv in 2022 is more properly the century of the tyrant. And though Mr. Zelenskyy is the spiritual heir to Franklin and Kossuth, Vladimir Putin is the spiritual heir to Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and other petty but deadly despots from António de Oliveira Salazar and Nicolae Ceaușescu and from Lon Nol to Bashar al-Assad.
Against that parade of the dictators stands Mr. Zelenskyy, reminding Americans in his Capitol speech that Ukraine is fighting against “a brutal offensive against our values, basic human values” and that Ukranians have stood bravely and resolutely, resisting capitulation. “We have not even thought about it for a second,” he said.
Second thoughts abounded in the Capitol complex that afternoon — about whether enough aid has been sent to Ukraine; about whether the no-fly-zone that Mr. Zelenskyy wants could be imposed without triggering a wider war with nuclear implications; perhaps even about American devotion to democratic values in light of the insurrection mounted 14 months ago in the very chamber where the lawmakers sat and applauded the world’s reigning symbol of those values.
It is well to consider that last point, at this moment of drama and decision, and perhaps of destiny. In cities across Ukraine as in communities across America — where, in different circumstances but with hauntingly similar consequences — democracy is at an inflection point. In Ukraine, the question of its survival will be decided within months, perhaps weeks. In the United States, the process will take longer to be resolved.
Mr. Zelenskyy said he was living through “the darkest time for our country.” The men and women sitting there in their safe seats in the House — a phrase with two meanings — may not realize that they are doing the same.
David M. Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
First Published March 19, 2022, 9:00pm
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