Sunday, March 27, 2022

Zelensky factually and correctly points out that speeches do not help in any manner shape or form without action to back them up

Brain dead liberals compare Biden to Reagan? Pretty sure nobody in the Reagan administration "walked back" the tear down that wall moment

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...



CNN — 

Just over a month after the first ballistic missiles slammed into Kyiv’s international airport, the Russian campaign has been disrupted and derailed by stubborn Ukrainian resistance – and in the last few days by agile Ukrainian counterattacks on several fronts.

Russian forces retain considerable – but not overwhelming – numerical superiority. Their armored groups have struggled against Western-supplied anti-tank weapons and Turkish-made drones. Ukrainian air defenses have punched above their weight and are now being reinforced by thousands of US-made Stinger missiles.

Poor logistical support, questionable tactics and growing evidence of poor morale among Russian battalion tactical groups have allowed the Ukrainian military to hold off Russian advances in several regions – and begin to take the fight to the enemy.

CNN analysis of satellite imagery, social media content and official statements from both sides suggests the conflict may now be moving into a new phase: a war of attrition in which the Russians may lose more ground than they gain and suffer even greater resupply issues as the Ukrainians cut into their extended lines.

There are indications that the Russian military is trying to compensate for this by greater use of missile forces and indirect fire from artillery and multiple launch rocket systems. To the north and west of Kyiv, for example, the Russians appear to be digging in rather than seeking to advance, shelling areas like Irpin and Makariv, where Ukrainian troops have established a tenuous hold.

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In the last two weeks, there’s been an uptick in Russian missile strikes, from Lviv in the west to Zhytomyr in central Ukraine and Mykolaiv in the south, with prime targets being fuel dumps, military depots and airfields.

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire after Russian guided missiles hit a fuel storage facility in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 27.

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Ukraine goes on the attack

The Ukrainians have been mostly circumspect about going on the offensive, but on Friday National Security Adviser Oleksiy Danilov said: “We are going on the counterattack in some areas, and this counterattack is absolutely productive.”

These fightbacks are limited and focused but include fronts in the south, central Ukraine and the northeast.

The Institute for the Study of War, in its latest assessment, describes them as “prudent and effective, allowing Ukrainian forces to regain small areas of tactically or operationally significant terrain without overextending themselves.”

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The south

The push towards the Russian-occupied city of Kherson is perhaps the most ambitious. After resisting attempts by Russian forces to take Mykolaiv – a bridgehead for assaulting Odesa – the Ukrainians launched devastating missile attacks against the Russian command at Kherson’s airport (killing a Russian general in the process, they say) and gained ground to the north of the city. This as civil disobedience in the city has frayed the nerves of Russian troops.

On Sunday, a large crowd took to the streets of Kakhovka – east of Kherson – to protest Russian occupation. A local journalist, Oleh Baturin, told CNN that Russian forces still controlled the area. Kakhovka matters because it’s close to a bridge linking Kherson with points east. A Russian land corridor linking Crimea with its border would be hard to sustain without that access.

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Baturin said there was heavy fighting near the nearby town of Tavriysk and Nova Kakhovka, where there was a large concentration of Russian forces.

How this battle evolves could have a major bearing on the Russian campaign in the south.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Saturday's Warsaw address was billed as one of the signature speeches of President Biden's term — perhaps bigger than a State of the Union. Then after a Reaganesque call for "a brighter future rooted in democracy," as a literal last line before his farewell, Biden ad-libbed:

What he's saying: "For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power."

Wait, what?! The U.S. wants to take out Putin? Is calling for regime change?

Some variation of Biden's jab instantly led every major news site in the world, starting with CNN, where many world capitals were getting the news: "BIDEN: PUTIN CANNOT REMAIN IN POWER."

Why it matters: The takeaway from a 27-minute speech of massive consequence — on the world stage, a border away from Russian missile strikes in a war zone — was derailed by a taunt.

A top official confirmed for Axios that the line wasn't on Biden's teleprompter or in his text.

Within minutes, a White House official was telling reporters: "The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change."

This morning, Secretary of State Tony Blinken formally walked it back at a news conference in Jerusalem: "We do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else for that matter.""It's up to the Russian people," he added.

Between the lines: The true consequence may depend on whether the Kremlin focuses on the words of the commander-in-chief — or the walkback.

If Putin uses it as a proactive attitude. It is hard to predict.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Acios is a good news source. Balanced

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You are predicting. Kerry in a landslide @

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

His mistake is all over the news.

LVIV, Ukraine, March 27 (Reuters) - Russia wants to split Ukraine into two, as happened with North and South Korea, Ukraine's military intelligence chief said on Sunday, vowing "total" guerrilla warfare to prevent a carve-up of the country.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to give Ukraine tanks, planes and missiles to help fend off Russian forces.

Top American officials sought on Sunday to clarify that the United States does not have a policy of regime change in Russia, after President Joe Biden said at the end of a speech in Poland on Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power".

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Biden had simply meant Putin could not be "empowered to wage war" against Ukraine or anywhere else. read more

After more than four weeks of conflict, Russia has failed to seize any major Ukrainian city and signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on securing the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian army for the past eight years.

But the fact is that the Russians are losing

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Striding gingerly, Biden showed the US is still, or again, the unquestioned leader of the free world. That very term, "free world," which only recently seemed an anachronism, has now been revived by an aggressive Russian leader bent on restoring a fallen empire. His megalomania may well be thwarted with crucial help from an American President who remembers the old days well enough to know it has to be stopped.





Biden's strategy has not only helped in Ukraine's defense, it has also helped turn this debacle into a geopolitical catastrophe for Putin by showing without ambiguity that Russia, led by a dictator, is clearly the aggressor against a fledgling democratic country trying to remain free.

American presidents have traveled to Europe for decades with the purpose -- with one notorious exception -- of touting the strength and unity of the Western alliance. This trip was different. Biden arrived during a raging war on the European continent, amid threats of nuclear attacks and with millions of refugees flooding out of Ukraine.

Striding gingerly, Biden showed the US is still, or again, the unquestioned leader of the free world. That very term, "free world," which only recently seemed an anachronism, has now been revived by an aggressive Russian leader bent on restoring a fallen empire. His megalomania may well be thwarted with crucial help from an American President who remembers the old days well enough to know it has to be stopped.

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Joe Biden doesn't have a magnetic ability exhibited by leaders through history. And that is one of reasons why he is unpopular.

But so far he has danced the fine line and avoided a third world war with Russia.

Only history will tell the story

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Rnc website is not thecoldheartedtruth.

anonymous said...

And the brain dead GOP slurpers are in panic mode as they see both houses slipping through there fingers of stupidity after their despicable performance and histrionics at the SCOTUS hearings......thinking the trolling was going to make assholes like cruz look smart......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Keeps Praising Vladimir Putin
March 27, 2022 at 11:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments

Donald Trump continued his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin at a rally in Georgia, Insider reports.

Said Trump: “The smartest one gets to the top. That didn’t work so well recently in our country.”

He added: “But they ask me, ‘Is Putin smart?’ Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.’ … I think he made a big mistake, what he’s done to so many people, but that was a big mistake. But it looked like a great negotiation.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Keeps Praising Vladimir Putin
11:59 am EDT
Donald Trump continued his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin at a rally in Georgia, Insider reports.

Said Trump:
“The smartest one gets to the top. That didn’t work so well recently in our country.”

He added:
“But they ask me, ‘Is Putin smart?’ Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.’ … I think he made a big mistake, what he’s done to so many people, but that was a big mistake. But it looked like a great negotiation.”

TO BE SO SMART, PUTIN SURE HAS MISCALCULATED.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And what a stupid comment from Trump.

C.H. Truth said...

Trump derangement syndrome...

Anonymous said...

CHT purposely triggered the Three Socialist Stooges .

Most Importantly
KU UP by 11

rrb said...



Not only are the speeches by Slow Joe not helping, if he keeps it up he's going to bumble us tight into World War Fucking THREE, and his imbecile handlers in the white house won't be able to clarify or 'walk it back.'

And all the usual suspects around here can bitch about is Trump.


Blogger C.H. Truth said...

Trump derangement syndrome...



BIGLY.


rrb said...


But so far he has danced the fine line and avoided a third world war with Russia.


Oh he's crossed the fucking line, alky.

That's why his douchebag handlers have to keep "walking it back."

Robert Gates on Biden:

I think he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

'Danced the fine line.'

LMAO.

There's stupid, and then there's 'alky stupid.'


Caliphate4vr said...

Striding gingerly, Biden

Is that what a stumbling gate is now called?

LOL

anonymous said...

Is that what a stumbling gate is now called?


Is that all you got shorty????????? Like the rest, outlandish insults and attacks is all you panicked losers got!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

One improvisational line in President Joe Biden's Saturday speech in Poland brought criticisms from the right on the Sunday morning news shows. The Fox network hosts were disgusted to see Biden refer to Vladimir Putin as a "butcher" for killing at least 2,909 people, including children, according to the United Nations human rights office on Sunday. Meanwhile, Russia has kidnaped and removed over 2,000 children from Mariupol over the past weeks, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Writing for USA Today, Jill Lawrence explained that Biden’s comment might end up being a good thing. "After all, we are all thinking exactly the same," she explained.

"When you call someone a butcher, because his army has turned the sovereign democratic nation of Ukraine into a hellscape of slaughtered civilians and leveled cities for no reason except hunger for power and control, do you want that butcher to remain in power? No," she wrote Sunday. "So President Joe Biden was stating the obvious Saturday when he said of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power."

Writing for the Daily Beast, David Rothkopf called it "another confected controversy."

Speaking to CNN on Sunday, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen agreed that it's the Washington Beltway being out of touch with the rest of the world. After all, Putin made it clear in 2016 he was going to intervene to change the regime in the United States.

"I think they're making it bigger than it is," said Cohen. "What President Biden was saying is, how can a person this evil be leading a people that great? The Russian people are great people. If they had a choice, they would never have voted to go into Ukraine to kill their brothers and their sisters and their cousins and their uncles. So, this is a one-man operation who has gone in here to kill people in a neutral country, not threatening him with 44 million people now, perhaps at least 4 million or less, maybe even 10 million before this is all over. And what Biden was saying basically how can a country this great be led by someone so evil who has — he has bombed innocent people. He has killed thousands of women be and children. He has put them in a position of starving, kidnapped them, taking them back to Russia. And suddenly Republicans are getting concerned about this particular statement?"

He compared Biden to the former president, who, Cohen said, "would need a John Deere front loader to clean up all of the rhetorical mistakes." He explained that most Americans believe that Putin doesn't deserve to be the leader and that the U.S. will never be back on the same terms with Russia again until Putin is gone.

Rothkopf agreed with the sentiment, saying that after a poetic speech about freedom and against extremism and authoritarianism, the right is instead seeking to undermine the message.

"While controversy swirled around the remark, and the White House later sought to walk it back, that moment of clarity from the plain-spoken president elevated his speech," wrote Rothkopf. "It made it clear that Biden’s passion was deeply felt and real. It was the truth at a time when it is essential to be honest about Putin’s barbarism and the threat he poses not just to the world but to the people of his own country who will be denied full access to the community of nations so long as he remains in office."

Anonymous said...

Not only are the speeches by Slow Joe not helping"

French Pres. Macron took Joe to the woodshed over his reckless tell.

That is how badly the whole trip went.
Poor Joe.

Anonymous said...

Is that what a stumbling gate is now called?"

Funny stuff.

Roger said Biden's gaffes are "due to stuttering".

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Sleepy Joe Derangement Disorder.

From the day the Ukraine defeats then until the actually gets rid of the Russians, and even 😳 then it's incurable.

C.H. Truth said...

Roger....

Slow Joe is President of the United States and someone fucking up the entire world. You are obsessed with a private citizen who is only fucking with your mind, where he lives rent free!

anonymous said...

You are obsessed with a private citizen who is only fucking with your mind, where he lives rent free!


kinda like you and Hunter Biden Lil Schitty?????? Sad not only does he live rent free in your head....you seem obsessed with him!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Your personal beliefs have blocked your ability to think for yourself.

It very common in human nature because we came from tribes until we started talking, something no other creatures on earth. And built building in the middle east.

But fortunately enough people broke away from their tribes and built civilizations around the globe .

Objective thinking escapes you mind.

He is a decent person who actually cares about others unlike you and Trump.

You didn't even read the book by his niece.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile


White House: Please disregard what the president said. He does not speak for the regime.

Biden traveled halfway around the world for his White House to issue corrections for everything he said.

Biden is the worst ever, and we are about to add food shortages.


but he sure got first in line to chow down on the pizza

move aside soldiers, the "big guy" is cutting in

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Nobody  lives rent free in my head.

He made a big mistake in Afghanistan.

We should probably still be there.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The White House will target billionaires with a new minimum tax when President Biden unveils his 2023 budget, according to a document from the administration obtained by Fox News.

Dubbed the "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax," the Biden administration proposal, as highlighted in the document, aims to "ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation."

President Joe Biden delivers

57% OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS PAID NO INCOME TAX LAST YEAR, STUDY SHOWS

As part of the plan, a 20% minimum tax rate would be placed on U.S. households worth more than $100 million, with more than half the revenue coming from households worth more than $1 billion.

"This minimum tax would make sure that the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters," the document stated.


Wealthy households who already pay 20% on their full income will not pay an additional tax under the proposal. However, the document noted that if a "tax-free unrealized income allows a wealthy household to pay less than 20 percent on their full income, they will owe a top-up payment to meet the 20 percent minimum."

The document also said the tax "will eliminate the ability for the unrealized income of ultra-high-net-worth households to go untaxed for decades or generations."

Bottom up taxation

It would shrink the deficit and actually reduce inflation in the future.


rrb said...

Dubbed the "Billionaire Minimum Income Tax," the Biden administration proposal, as highlighted in the document...


...Is a fucking LIE.

It starts punishing success at $100 MILLION. Not $1 BILLION.

rrb said...

Writing for the Daily Beast, David Rothkopf called it "another confected controversy."


Of course he did. All leftist asshats think the same way. It's "confected."

Right up until the stupid drooling fucking retard "confects" us straight into World War Fucking THREE.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

When asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" about President Joe Biden's remark Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States, said that her people heard his comments "loud and clear."
"We heard President Biden loud and clear that U.S. will be with Ukraine in this fight," Markarova said. "We clearly understand in Ukraine, that anyone who's a war criminal, who attacked neighboring country, who's doing all this atrocities, together with all the Russians that are involved, definitely cannot stay in power in a civilized world."
"Now it's up to all of us to stop Putin while it's still local in Ukraine, because this war is not only about Ukraine, and this brutal aggression that is going on for 33 days now, in every city of Ukraine, and especially in cities like Mariupol and north of Kyiv and Kharkiv and others," she continued. "It's the brutal genocide, attempt to eliminate or exterminate Ukrainian nation, but also ... it's an attack on democracy, attack on anyone who wants to live peacefully in their own country."
When asked about Biden's commitment that the U.S. will accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, Markarova said that she is "glad" the U.S. will welcome Ukrainian refugees and is "grateful" for all nations who have pledged to do so, "the focus for us is sanctions, weapons, so we can stop Putin and start rebuilding Ukraine."
"Let's focus on that," she added. "Let's stop the war so that they will not be more refugees."

rrb said...



However, the document noted that if a "tax-free unrealized income allows a wealthy household to pay less than 20 percent on their full income, they will owe a top-up payment to meet the 20 percent minimum."

Another detail of the proposed tax hike should also run into opposition and a likely court challenge. The description of the amount of “income” to be taxed includes the phrase “unrealized investment income.” In other words, if the shares comprising your retirement plan or your stock portfolio go up by a given percentage, that increase will be treated as income and you’ll be taxed on it even though you haven’t cashed it in yet.

Let’s consider what that means. Let’s say you have amassed a healthy 401K over the years and the stock market rebounds to show significant gains, causing the total value of the fund to increase by one million dollars. You’ll have to pay the $200K bite out of that figure to Uncle Sam in what the White House is describing as “a prepayment of tax obligations these households will owe when they later realize their gains.” So what happens if the market tanks again the following year and all of those gains disappear? Will you get your $200K back? It certainly doesn’t sound like it. The reality is that “unrealized investment income” isn’t really income at all. It’s only potential income until it’s realized.


https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/03/27/biden-youre-just-going-to-love-my-plan-to-punish-the-successful-n458249

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Wsj made sense.

Better advice is needed because Mr. Biden is right that the Russia problem won’t go away as long as Mr. Putin sits in the Kremlin. This doesn’t mean open advocacy of regime change is wise. Russians will have to decide if Mr. Putin must go.

But Mr. Biden’s muscular assertions in the written text of his Warsaw speech need to be supported by more than rhetoric. The U.S. and the West need to urgently restore and strengthen the credibility of their military and diplomatic deterrents. More hawkish advisers would send a more determined signal to the world—and especially to adversaries.

The world is entering the most dangerous period since the Soviet Union collapsed, and perhaps since the 1930s. The Covid crisis obscured the trend, but the dangers have become obvious as adversaries have reacted to what they perceive to be the American decline, division and weakness at the root of the Afghanistan debacle. Mr. Biden needs to back up his Warsaw words with a defense buildup and far more diplomatic realism to confront the great risks ahead.

He should be more hawkish than before..

Caliphate4vr said...

The world is entering the most dangerous period since the Soviet Union collapsed, and perhaps since the 1930s

And we have a doddering old Dementia patient as POTUS who’s been asleep since 2 pm today

Wheeeeeee!!!

But there are no mean tweets

Twitchy said...

If Vladimir Putin uses chemical weapons, will the U.S. respond in kind? Is the 82nd Airborne Division being deployed to Ukraine? And are we calling for regime change in Russia? Biden seems to keep committing us to World War III every time he goes off the teleprompter.

Hot-air said...

How does a guy with 50 years’ experience in foreign policy at the Senate level or higher ad lib a line as momentous as calling for regime change in Russia during a hot war in Europe? We’ll have to wait for the reporting tomorrow, but my guess is that he got caught up in the moment. Here he was in the heart of the old Soviet bloc, living his dream as leader of the free world by staring down a sinister Russian leader, delivering a speech to an audience of Poles who were far more excited to see him than any American audience is. He’d spent the day meeting Ukrainian refugees and hearing stories of the terrible suffering across the border. He probably had Reagan’s famous “tear down this wall” speech in Berlin echoing in his ears when he stepped to the mic and felt the energy, wanting to produce something equally memorable.

What he ended up saying … certainly was memorable, I’ll give him that. Calling for regime change in Russia is what happens when “tear down this wall” gets filtered through the mind of a 79-year-old whose brain is already half oatmeal.

But hey, I also thought Trump’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani would touch off a war between the U.S. and Iran and was wrong about that. Sometimes a bit of reckless bravado succeeds in intimidating the enemy rather than provoking him. Maybe Grandpa Simpson knew what he was doing here?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CNBC

President Joe Biden is expected to propose a new minimum tax that would largely target billionaires when he unveils his 2023 budget, according to a document obtained by CNBC.

Called the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” it would assess a 20% minimum tax rate on U.S. households worth more than $100 million. Over half the revenue could come from those worth more than $1 billion.


“This minimum tax would make sure that the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters,” the document said.

The proposed levy is expected to reduce the deficit by about $360 billion in the next decade, according to the document.


If a wealthy household is already paying 20% on their full income, they won’t pay an additional tax under the proposal. If they pay less than 20%, they’ll owe a “top-up payment” to meet the new minimum.

“As a result, this new minimum tax will eliminate the ability for the unrealized income of ultra-high-net-worth households to go untaxed for decades or generations,” the document stated.

The new tax proposal is part of Biden’s 2023 budget expected to be released on Monday. His new spending plan would trim $1.3 trillion from the deficit over the next decade, according to a fact sheet released from the White House on Saturday.

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Billionaire have been giving their children billions that don't get taxed. If you're parents gave you a Billion dollars in their will! You don't pay a penny

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I never thought that it was fair!

As a result, this new minimum tax will eliminate the ability for the unrealized income of ultra-high-net-worth households to go untaxed for decades or generations.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This approach means that the very wealthiest Americans pay taxes as they go, just like everyone else.

Fox News

Anonymous said...

This is unworkable.

"including unrealized appreciation."

Tax that which has not happened.

Anonymous said...

Bi-Polar Joe strikes again

"President Biden on Sunday evening said that he was not calling for a regime change when he said Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power"

Myballs said...

Tell me, after taxing those unrealized gains, what happens when they go down the next year? (Investments go down too).

And the Year after that when they rebound again?

It's a bad plan. And those unrealized assets get stepped up valuations during estate tax and inheritance tax time.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Early morning update.

AP reports that a peaceful deal is in sight.


KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to possibly end the war.

The bulk of the Ukrainian army is concentrated in eastern Ukraine, where it has been locked up in fighting with Moscow-backed separatists in a nearly eight-year conflict. If Russia succeeds in encircling and destroying the Ukrainian forces in the country’s industrial heartland called Donbas, it could try to dictate its terms to Kyiv and, possibly, attempt to split the country in two.

The Russian military declared Friday that the “first stage of the operation” had been largely accomplished, allowing Russian troops to concentrate on their “top goal — the liberation of Donbas.”

Many observers say the shift in strategy could reflect President Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgment that his plan for a blitz in Ukraine has failed, forcing him to narrow his goals and change tactics amid a disastrous war that has turned Russia into a pariah and decimated its economy.

Will it look like the end of the Korean War?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Ukrainians will not allow it.

The Russian economy is going to collapse and....??

Anonymous said...

What issue(s) will Roger bring to this blog and then run from this week?

rrb said...


The never-ending grift...

The Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children raked in $3.9 million in 2020, but spent only a fraction of that on its purported mission to help kids, The Post has learned.

The Delaware-based charity, which was started in honor of President Biden’s late son, got an infusion of $1.8 million from the Biden Foundation before that group shut down in 2020, according to the charities’ latest tax filings. The Biden Foundation was started by Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, to champion “progress and prosperity for American families.”

The Beau Biden charity also took in $225,000 from entities tied to a top political donor and bundler to President Biden.

Despite the $2 million-plus windfall, the organization put only $544,961 in 2020 toward its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.


https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/how-the-beau-biden-foundation-spends-its-cash/


I think we can safely assume the 'big guy' got his 10% cut.






rrb said...

Anonymous Myballs said...

Tell me, after taxing those unrealized gains, what happens when they go down the next year? (Investments go down too).



In a word, nothing.

Sloppy Joe fucks you on the unrealized gains, and you eat the fucking losses.

But you can take solace in the fact that the majority of those getting fucked by this are mega-donors to the DNC.

Now let's repeal that SALT exemption block so the mega-rich don't feel totally abused.

anonymous said...

While trump, just like Putin, still lies about crowd size and that the press are just wrong!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-touts-massive-turnout-georgia-003345358.html

The only thing massive is the size of his old fat white ass!!!!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Biden’s speech was a pitch-perfect call for Western unity in the face of Russian aggression. The only thing that marred his address, at least according to much of the news coverage, was his seemingly ad-libbed ending: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
I understand the argument that Biden blundered because raising the prospect of regime change in Russia runs the risk that Putin might now fight all the harder. Certainly the fact that Biden’s aides rushed to walk back his remarks with lame explanations (“The president’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” one said) suggests that this was indeed a gaffe — one of many that Biden has committed over his long political career.

Yet I wonder if perhaps history will vindicate this Biden “gaffe” in much the way that many historians have praised comments by President Ronald Reagan that were once seen as dangerously provocative. Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and predicted it would wind up on the “ash-heap of history.” Those tough but true words contributed to raising superpower tensions in the early 1980s, but they also inspired many behind the Iron Curtain to fight for freedom. After the Berlin Wall came down, many saw Reagan as a visionary, not as a warmonger.
Future historians might similarly vindicate Biden’s hope that Putin — whom he has accurately branded a “war criminal” — will fall from power even though the United States apparently has no plan to remove Putin, just as in the 1980s the United States did not have any plan to topple the Berlin Wall.

Biden’s words give hope not only to Ukrainians but also to Russian dissidents fighting to build a freer country, and it is hard to see how they could make Putin fight any harder than he already is. I would rather have a president who is fearless in calling out Putin’s war crimes than one who toadies to the Russian tyrant.



Max Boot

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The uproar over President Biden’s speech Saturday in Warsaw — which concluded with the ad-libbed words that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” — made me recall the last time that an American president spoke in the Polish capital. That was Donald Trump.

His Warsaw speech on July 6, 2017, echoed white-nationalist complaints about how Western civilization was allegedly being undermined by foreigners and liberals. Russia rated only a passing mention, which rested on the dangerous and fallacious assumption that Putin shared common values with the West: “We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere … and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself.”
Trump made headlines that day less for his speech than what he said at a news conference, where he again denied that Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election: “I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have been other countries.” Trump then flew to Hamburg for the Group of 20 summit, where he genuflected before the Russian tyrant. He emerged with a farcical proposal for Moscow and Washington to form a joint cybersecurity unit to guard against election hacking — an idea so batty that it was swiftly disowned.

In short, Trump was a patsy for Putin. That is not an accusation anyone could possibly level against his successor, who has been skillful and stalwart in mobilizing the West to resist Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Capitol attack panel expects to hear how militia groups coordinated plans before insurrection


Behind closed doors in a nondescript conference room at the foot of Capitol Hill, the House select committee investigating 6 January next week expects to hear testimony about the connections between the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys militia groups and the Capitol attack.

The panel expects to hear how the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys coordinated their plans and movements in the days before the insurrection to the same level of detail secured by the justice department and referenced in recent prosecutions for seditious conspiracy.

And the select committee hopes to also hear in the 5 April deposition – arranged by a senior counsel for the panel – private conversations between the leaders of the two militia groups and whether they might have communicated with any Trump advisers.

The panel should get the evidence both on the record and under oath, according to two sources familiar with the arrangement, to add to raw video footage of a meeting between the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders in a garage across from the Capitol on the eve of 6 January.

The expected testimony and materials represent another significant breakthrough for the investigation and could play a major role in establishing for the select committee whether Donald Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy as part of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Most crucially for the panel, it could form part of the evidence to connect the militia groups that stormed the Capitol on 6 January to the organizers of the Save America rally that immediately preceded the attack – who in turn are slowly being linked to the Trump White House

rrb said...



Max Boot. World-renowned Chickenhawk. Never met a war he didn't approve of other people dying in.

Max would love himself some WWIII.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/capitol-attack-panel-militia-groups-oath-keepers-proud-boys

rrb said...

“Well, there’s that passage about tearing down the Wall,” Reagan said. “That Wall has to come down. That’s what I’d like to say.”

The speech was circulated to the State Department and the NSC three weeks before it was to be delivered. For three weeks, State and the NSC fought the speech. They argued that it was crude. They claimed that it was unduly provocative. They asserted that the passage about the Wall amounted to a cruel gimmick, one that would unfairly raise Berliners’ hopes. There were telephone calls, memoranda, and meetings. State and the NSC submitted their own alternative drafts–as best I recall, there were seven–one of them composed by Kornblum. In each, the call for Gorbachev to tear down the Wall was missing.

This presented Tom Griscom with a problem. On the one hand, he had objections to the speech from virtually the entire foreign policy apparatus of the U.S. government. On the other, he had Ronald Reagan. The president liked the speech. Griscom had heard him say so. The president especially liked the passage about tearing down the Berlin Wall, the very part of the speech to which the foreign policy experts were most vehemently opposed. If that passage had to come out, it would be Griscom’s job to explain to Reagan why.

The week before the president’s departure, the battle reached a pitch. Every time State or the NSC registered a new objection to the speech, Griscom summoned me to his office, where he had me tell him, one more time, why I was convinced State and the NSC were wrong and the speech, as I had written it, was right. (On one of these occasions, Colin Powell, then national security adviser, was waiting in Griscom’s office for me. I held my ground as best I could.) Griscom was evidently waiting for an objection that he believed Ronald Reagan himself would find compelling. He never heard it. When the president departed for the Venice summit, he took with him the speech I had written.

On the very morning Air Force One left Venice for Berlin, the State Department and the National Security Council made a last effort to block the speech, forwarding yet another alternative draft. Griscom chose not to take it to the forward cabin. Air Force One landed. Hours later, President Reagan delivered his speech.

There is a school of thought that Ronald Reagan managed to look good only because he had clever writers putting words into his mouth. (Perhaps the leading exponent is my former colleague Peggy Noonan, who while a Reagan speechwriter appeared in a magazine article under a caption that said just that: “The woman who puts the words in the president’s mouth.”) There is a basic problem with this view. Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, George Bush, and Bob Dole all had clever writers. Why wasn’t one of them the Great Communicator?

Because we, his speechwriters, were not creating Reagan; we were stealing from him. Reagan’s policies were straightforward–he had been articulating them for two decades. When the State Department and the National Security Council began attempting to block my draft by submitting alternative drafts, they weakened their own case. Their drafts lacked boldness. They conveyed no sense of conviction. They had not stolen, as I had, from Frau Elz–and from Ronald Reagan.


https://www.hoover.org/research/tearing-down-wall

h/t: Glenn Reynolds

rrb said...


Blinken continues cleanup of Biden’s Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ remark

Chickenhawk Max Boot and draft dodger alky want WWIII because it will save Biden's presidency and make him the GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME or something.

rrb said...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/blinken-continues-cleanup-of-bidens-putin-cannot-remain-in-power-remark

anonymous said...

Chickenhawk Max Boot and draft dodger alky want WWIII because

Spoken like the Cheeto eating basement posting Braveheart you are..........BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Sad you omitted bone spurs trump from your post....!!!

rrb said...

Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...

Biden’s speech was a pitch-perfect call for Western unity in the face of Russian aggression.



Yet it required an enormous level of clean-up and walk-back virtually around-the-clock over several days by dozens of Sloppy Joe's handlers and publicists.

LMAO.

THWAP!!!


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Quote of the Day
March 28, 2022 at 7:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments

“The invaders do not even mourn their own casualties. This is something I do not understand. Some 15,000 have been killed in one month… Vladimir Putin is throwing Russian soldiers like logs into a train’s furnace. And, they are not even burying them…Their corpses are left in the streets. In several cities, small cities, our soldiers say it’s impossible to breathe because of the…stench of rotting flesh.”
— Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with The Economist.
______

Ch and Trump and Tucker Carlson applaud for the Russians.

rrb said...




But the question remains: who’s in charge of our foreign policy? Is it the President or the Secretary of State? If it’s the President, then where did Blinken get the authority to publicly contradict Biden?

And, before Blinken went through the process of “walking back” Drooling Joe’s call for regime change, what was the behind-the-scenes process? Did Blinken deal with Biden or did he communicate with Biden’s caretakers? What was the discussion? Who made the final call about regime change? Was it Biden, his wife, his son Hunter, the Biden family’s financial benefactors in Ukraine and Russia, and/or the nursing staff who swab out his throat?

Who’s running our government and in a position to countermand Biden?

How about when Biden addressed the 82nd Airborne in Poland, and told them that — surprise! — they will soon be in Ukraine. This after he had insisted that the United States must stay out of the conflict to avoid triggering World War III.

What are we and Putin supposed to make of that? The same guy who is calling for regime change has also told our Army that they are going into Ukraine. Might this tend to heighten tensions and raise the stakes? And, even though Biden’s remarks were “walked back” by subordinates, who are we and Putin supposed to believe? Biden or his underlings? And how did the process work by which Biden’s invasion announcement was supposedly rendered inoperative?

Who’s in charge?

And don’t forget Biden’s answer when he was asked about NATO’s response if Russia used chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine. Biden said that NATO would “respond in kind.” Does this mean that NATO will use such weapons in Ukraine against Russian troops? If so, how would they be used without harming the Ukrainians? Or is Biden saying that NATO would use such weapons on the Russian homeland?

Who knows and who can tell? This is just another dangerous conundrum of the type to be expected when the United States is being led by a gibbering dementia patient.


https://spectator.org/whos-running-the-biden-regime/

Anonymous said...

Joes trip.was and is a disaster.

Anonymous said...

�� lying James.

"Ch and Trump and Tucker Carlson applaud for the Russians."

Ist post and already trolling .

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Most Americans Worried Russia Might Use Nukes
7:29 am EDT
A new AP-NORC poll finds “close to half of Americans say they are very concerned that Russia would directly target the U.S. with nuclear weapons, and an additional 3 in 10 are somewhat concerned about that.”

“Roughly 9 in 10 Americans are at least somewhat concerned that Putin might use a nuclear weapon against Ukraine, including about 6 in 10 who are very concerned.”


Russian Forces Have Left Chernobyl
March 28, 2022 at 7:24 am EDT By Taegan G

Inside Ted Cruz’s Battle to Keep Trump In Power
7:18 am
Washington Post:
“An examination by The Washington Post of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to keeping him in power. As Cruz went to extraordinary lengths to court Trump’s base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principles.

“Now, Cruz’s efforts are of interest to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in particular whether Cruz was in contact with Trump lawyer John Eastman, a conservative attorney who has been his friend for decades and who wrote key legal memos aimed at denying Biden’s victory.”


Redistricting Stalls In Last Four States
7:11 am
Politico reports
that “spats between governors and state legislators have brought map-making to a standstill in the final four states still without new congressional lines for the 2022 elections.

“With filing deadlines looming, 44 House seats are still outstanding in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Missouri and, most importantly, Florida, which has 28 districts all by itself.”


Zelensky Offers Diplomatic Opening as Peace Talks Resume
March 28, 2022 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments

“Ukrainian and Russian delegations are arriving in Istanbul for another round of in-person talks — putting NATO member Turkey, which has ties to both Kyiv and Moscow, in the spotlight as an intermediary in the deadly conflict grinding into its second month. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed his desire for a cease-fire in a phone call Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported,” the Washington Post reports.

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to offer a diplomatic opening Sunday, saying that Kyiv could declare its ‘neutrality’ and effectively renounce its ambitions to join NATO in a potential peace deal with Moscow, but stressed that Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are ‘beyond doubt’ and any deal must be voted on by a national referendum held without Russian troops in Ukraine.”

Axios: No clear pathway to peace in Ukraine.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

HA HA HA HA
Trump Touts ‘Massive’ Crowd That Was Underwhelming
10:46 pm
Former President Donald Trump boasted Sunday that a “massive” crowd turned out to see him in Georgia, even as two experienced journalists on the scene said the rally was the “smallest” they had seen in years, the HuffPost reports.

Said Greg Bluestein, a political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “I’ve covered more than two dozen Trump rallies around the nation. This is the smallest crowd I’ve seen at a rally of his in Georgia since he won the 2016 election.”

Georgia Public Broadcasting: Trump’s Republican revenge tour falters in Georgia.


Zelensky Gives Interview to Russian Journalists
10:32 pm
“It was a remarkable moment in the war in Europe: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine gave a 90-minute-long Zoom interview on Sunday to four prominent journalists from Russia, the country invading his,” the New York Times reports.

“Hours later, the Kremlin responded. A government statement notified the Russian news media ‘of the necessity to refrain from publishing this interview.’

“Journalists based outside Russia published it anyway. Those still inside Russia did not. The episode laid bare the extraordinary, and partly successful, efforts at censorship being undertaken in Russia by President Vladimir Putin’s government as his bloody invasion of Ukraine enters its second month, along with Mr. Zelensky’s attempts to circumvent that censorship and reach the public directly.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ukraine Seeks to Exploit Shift in Russia’s Strategy
10:31 pm
“Ukrainian forces are seeking to roll back Russian gains as Moscow shifts its focus to controlling a swath of the country’s south and east,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Ukrainian forces said Sunday they drove Russian troops out of Trostyanets, in the northeast near the Russian border, potentially opening a road to the provincial capital of Sumy, which is encircled by the Russians.”


Russia Intensifies Attacks on Mariupol
10:29 pm
“Russian forces redoubled attacks on strategic targets across Ukraine on Sunday, with fierce fighting reported around the capital, Kyiv, amid signs that the besieged city of Mariupol was close to falling,” the New York Times reports.

“As the conflict moved into its second month, Russian forces have largely failed in their first aim to take the largest cities and have narrowed immediate targets to the sieges of the southern port city of Mariupol and the strategically placed city of Chernihiv in the north.”

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

RRB is rootin for Putin all the time.

James's Fucking Daddy said...


KansasDemocrat said...
�� lying James.

"Ch and Trump and Tucker Carlson applaud for the Russians."

Ist post and already trolling .



Obviously the charlatan POS "pastor" is just using the Gospel according to Goddard and has not been keeping up with Tucker himself

When you rely on FAKE NEWS you have a fake gospel

and with his constant lying and plagiarism the "pastor's" character is on full display

He has fooled no one

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Glenn Greenwald

FANTASTIC VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1507706092318507010


You have to give the US corporate media credit where it's due: they are 100% correct that the US faces a *grave* problem of disinformation.

But as this great video shows -- by @0rf for @mtaibbi -- they're wrong about the source. It doesn't come from FB or QAnon but themselves


all things pushed by Goddard and the lying "pastor"

FAKE NEWS

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump's base splinters over Ukraine
NBC
Jonathan Allen
March 28, 2022, 3:33 AM

COMMERCE, Ga. — As former President Donald Trump tries to refine his message about Russia's war against Ukraine, his base is splintered over the question of America's engagement in Eastern Europe.

"It's not our business," Peggy Bright, 57, said shortly before Trump spoke to an unusually restless and muted crowd here Saturday night. It makes sense to her, she said, that Russian President Vladimir Putin would want to push back against NATO expansion.

"I'm not a Putin lover, but if it was here in America, I would expect our president to take care of our people, just like I would expect him to take care of their people," said Bright, who works at a local bookbinding facility. "I understand what Putin is doing."

Bright's sentiments reflect those of one wing of the Trump base — as well as the former president's early praise of Putin — but they are not universal. In conversations with Trump voters in and around this town, about halfway between Atlanta and Greenville, South Carolina, the spectrum of thinking ran from giving Putin free rein, on one end, to sending in U.S. troops.

That may help explain the inconsistency of Trump's message when Western democracies have united to condemn Putin, impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on Russia and arm Ukraine.

All along, Trump has blamed Biden for Russia's aggression, but he has stopped lauding Putin. On Saturday, Trump called the war "Putin's heinous attack."

“Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Joe Biden totally failed to deter Russia’s disgraceful invasion of Ukraine,” Trump said. “All of those people are dead. Putin’s heinous attack on a proud and sovereign nation shocks the conscience of every person of goodwill.”

Biden, whose approval rating just dropped to a low of 40 percent in an NBC News poll, has sought to escalate pressure on Putin without committing U.S. forces to a broader war. Just hours before Trump spoke at a drag-racing track in northeast Georgia, Biden, addressing European leaders in Warsaw, Poland, appeared to call for regime change in Russia.

Although Biden's aides scrambled to say he was not articulating a new U.S policy, his words — Putin "cannot remain in power" — may prove indelible.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Some Trump supporters would welcome a stronger U.S. response.

Alina Roberts, a Trump voter who was born in Latvia and lives in Atlanta, said at Saturday's rally that Putin cannot be stopped without direct U.S. intervention.

“I love America, love our troops, but I think we need to send them there,” said Roberts, 22. “If we don’t really fight him — as an individual, if you know what I mean — it’s never going to end until he gets what he wants in its entirety.”

Asked whether she meant the U.S. must remove Putin from power, she said, “That’s exactly what I’m implying.”


In interviews, Trump supporters here largely voiced agreement with the former president's assertion that Putin would not have invaded had Trump been elected to a second term. They also criticized Biden from both angles — saying he has done too much and too little.

There is little common ground about what should be done now, and some Trump backers revealed a deep ambivalence.

"It’s hard to say at this point whether we should be more involved or less involved," said Melanie Collier, 60, a consultant who plans special events. "Of course, everybody’s got compassion for the people of Ukraine who are involved in this in an innocent way, but we still don’t know exactly what’s going on with the leadership."

Her comments reflect the Trump world's long-running suspicion of Ukraine's political class. Trump was impeached for withholding congressionally approved aid to Ukraine to get President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to announce an investigation into Biden and Biden's son Hunter.

Collier added that she is "starting to lean toward 'hold back a bit.'" But she also said that Putin "has gone way off the rails" and that "he's got to be stopped."


Ron Smith, who traveled two hours from Sylva, North Carolina, to see Trump, was similarly torn.

While "Ukraine's not a perfect country," he said, "we're a beacon of hope, and the whole world looks at us." He said Biden was too slow to send arms to Ukraine but also that "we don't need American blood on that soil."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Even providing weapons is too much for some Trump backers.

"We should sit back and let them see what they can do on their own," said Chad Gailey, who runs a car service shop in Henry County, southeast of Atlanta. "That's our dollars, not theirs. That's too much — dropping tanks and guns and things like that. I'm not against helping them, but, at the same time, that's not our fight."

Gailey said he is worried that "possibly" the U.S. could get drawn further into war.

"Putin as a person, honestly, I think he is a strong president, much like Trump," he said. "We can’t be sending billions of dollars when we need it here."

Andrew Johnson, 33, who works at a distribution center in Maysville, not far from the rally site, said the U.S. has a responsibility to help Ukraine.

"We kind of forced the hand of Russia to do it, so, I mean, we have no choice but to protect them now," he said, referring to NATO's openness to admitting Ukraine. "How are you going to pursue something and then leave them out to dry? They're human, too, regardless of whether they're American or not."

It is difficult to pin down one policy preference of the Trump base — much less an entire approach — when it comes to the Russian war in Ukraine.

Some of the most influential players in Trump's world, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson, have been heavily critical of Ukraine and shown enough sympathy for Putin to be amplified by Russia's propaganda machine. But many leading Republicans, including Trump allies in Congress, are ardent in their support for Ukraine and their antipathy toward Russia.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of Trump's most loyal friends in Congress, has called for Putin to be assassinated.

At least one Trump voter here expressed relief that Trump is not in charge as the U.S. responds to the war in Europe.

"I’m glad he’s not president now," said Brenda Watkins, 77, a retired schoolteacher from nearby Madison County who chose not to attend Saturday's rally.

"I’m terribly discouraged and disturbed about what’s going on in the world," Watkins said. "I don’t think President Biden is handling it well, but I don’t know if I’d feel comfortable if President Trump were in there, either. I hate to say that."

_________

LOL
I LOVE TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT. THE TRUTH IS, YOU TRUMP SUPPORTERS DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO OR SAY. YOU'RE ALL OVER THE FREAKING PLACE.

Anonymous said...

Yawn, Roger, James is more boring then you.

Congrats.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I guess F daddy is too stupid to figure out the many sources Goddard uses. And the last article I got straight from NBC. LOL

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Biden approval ratings plummet amid war and inflation fears in new public opinion poll
44% have 'very little' confidence in president's handling of Russia-Ukraine crisis


President Biden’s job approval rating has declined to 40%, the lowest level of his presidency, as the president continues to see eroding support from key demographics like independents and minority voters ahead of the midterm elections, a new poll shows.

Biden’s approval rating stands at 40%, down from 43% in January, while the number of voters who disapprove has increased by one percentage point to 55%, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-approval-ratings-plummet-amid-war-and-inflation-fears-in-new-public-opinion-poll

You can see the scared lefties reactions here

an avalanche

as if the longer their posts the more credible they are

actually they are just skipped over

must infuriate them, like Putin

ROFLMFAO !!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Even on the international stage, we see anti-Black racism manifesting even during a war: Journalists monitoring the invasion in Ukraine have reported that Black people are being violently removed from trains trying to get people to safety.

What could be fueling an increase in these views? Following Trump’s loss in 2020, the Republican Party leaned further into messages that paint Republicans and white people as victims of an overzealous movement for racial justice. For example, Fox News coverage of critical race theory — a decades-old framework for legal scholarship — surged during the Virginia gubernatorial campaign, according to a Newsweek analysis, only to quickly and starkly dip following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s win. And several pundits pointed to education and critical race theory as reasons for his success. Republicans have also found a seemingly successful political strategy in attacking and amplifying race-related buzzwords, such as “woke,” once used in activist circles. And as FiveThirtyEight contributors Hakeem Jefferson and Victor Ray pointed out on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, the current narratives of victimization and the associated backlash to racial progress are some white people’s way of reckoning with the changing times.

Sommers underscored the gravity of leadership’s role in these processes when we talked with him: “If we’ve learned nothing else in the last five or so years, it’s just how influential top-down attitudes are. When leaders around the country and at a regional level are using racist or vulgar language themselves, that seems to move the needle on what’s considered normative and acceptable behavior in our society.”

If we want to address the inequities that continue to plague and divide our society, white Americans — and in particular, white Republicans — will need to move away from the victimhood narrative and acknowledge our current reality. And the extent that the inequities can be muted or even mitigated depends heavily on what politicians choose to emphasize in the narratives that they construct about the state of our union. The success of minorities does not mean victimization for white Americans. Without recognition that we can all succeed — and that the nation will be better off for it — the patterns of disparities we have discussed throughout will continue to persist, and we will all be worse off for it.




Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

At least one Trump voter here expressed relief that Trump is not in charge as the U.S. responds to the war in Europe.

"I’m glad he’s not president now," said Brenda Watkins, 77, a retired schoolteacher from nearby Madison County who chose not to attend Saturday's rally.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Here’s what’s in store in US politics today:

Joe Biden will unveil his multi-trillion dollar blueprint for the US budget for 2022-2023, including a proposal for a billionaire minimum income tax, reportedly starting at 20% on households worth more than $100m.
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection is set to begin proceedings towards holding in criminal contempt of Congress two of Donald Trump’s most senior White House advisers, Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro.
The committee is also expected to discuss the matter of whether to call Ginni Thomas, wife of US supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas, in for questioning over last week’s report that she exchanged text messages with Donald Trump’s then chief of staff Mark Meadows urging efforts to overturn the Republican president’s defeat by Biden in the 2020 election.
Most Americans are at least somewhat worried that the US will be drawn directly into Russia’s war on Ukraine and fear the use of nuclear weapons, a new poll shows.
The Senate judiciary committee will begin considering Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the supreme court, following her confirmation hearing last week, with a vote expected next week.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Ron DeSantis
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1508209749883506697


After begging for oil from dictators, Biden is now using emergency war powers to produce batteries for the 1% that drive electric cars.

Most Americans suffering due to high gas prices don’t have the luxury of spending $50k+ on an electric car.

Unleash American energy today!



A fantastic governor calling out a failed president

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Wow, the deranged lefties are really shouting today

homeless people are quieter and more honest

ROFLMFAO !!!

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Metabiota Poso🧬
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1508092975796129793


It’s hard to tell precisely where the corruption of Biden’s family ends and Biden’s stupidity begins. But you watch those old clips of him you can see he has been publicly stupid for his entire career


Biden Crime Family

Banana Republic

Anonymous said...

Roger use to Love to post about the inverted yield curve.

This recession indicator is flashing a warning sign

By Lucy Bayly, CNN Business

Anonymous said...

Taxing based on "net worth" and "unrealized game".

Biden's attack in investors.

He did promise to kill of the investor class in the USA.

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Biden’s approval rating stands at 40%, down from 43% in January, while the number of voters who disapprove has increased by one percentage point to 55%, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday.

rrb said...



Alky stealing from 538?

Say it ain't so!

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/


Oh, and those "journalists reporting" this -

Journalists monitoring the invasion in Ukraine have reported that Black people are being violently removed from trains trying to get people to safety.

Yeah, Buzzfeed "news" and twitter blue checks.

LOL.

rrb said...


Biden Crime Family

Banana Republic



Even French sissy Macron wants Sloppy Joe to Shut The Fuck Up.


LOL.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn't use their marathon question-and-answer session with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to challenge her about two high-profile decisions she issued that went against former President Trump.

Instead, their focus was on other issues, a shift that marks the latest sign that Senate Republicans see Trump as more of a liability than an asset heading into the 2022 midterm elections.

While some Senate Republican candidates are clamoring for Trump's endorsement in this year's primaries, Senate GOP incumbents don't want to inject the former president into the national conversation, fearing he could turn off moderate swing voters.

Republican strategist Vin Weber said GOP lawmakers believe they're in good position to win control of the House and possibly the Senate in 2022 and the White House in 2024 because of President Biden's unpopularity and don't want to blow their chances by turning either election into another referendum on Trump.



"Republicans believe there is very little that can screw up a new Republican majority, but there are a couple of possibilities: one is a completely unpredictable external event, the other is Donald Trump," he said. "As Republicans assess the risk out there, that is one possible risk factor.

"Republicans have a real interest in not elevating the Trump issue, if you will, whether it be advocating for him or defending his actions," he added. "That's a lot of what you saw in the Supreme Court hearing, a desire not to draw attention to Trump."

Anonymous said...

F'ng Daddy.

Roger predicted it would stand at 48 % by now.

Roger is wrong again.

Anonymous said...

"It's way past time we put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism"
Biden to tax "unrealized gains"

James's Fucking Daddy said...


Even French sissy Macron wants Sloppy Joe to Shut The Fuck Up.

Yep, Biden was on full display.

I wonder if any of the soldiers got to eat any pizza when Joe was done stuffing himself

an embarrassment on the world stage

rrb said...




The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who is 79 years old and suffering from senile dementia at the end of a long life of bullying, lying, boasting, conniving, grifting, grafting, and living off the public tit to an extent indecent even by Washington standards, declared war on Russia on Friday. In the course of a typically blustering, hectoring speech, the senescent Biden went off script and interpolated the following peroration: "My God, this man cannot remain in power."
To which the only proper response is: "My God, this man cannot remain in the Oval Office." Joe Biden needs to be removed from the White House as soon as possible, before his failing mind, his erratic behavior, and his proven lack of character get us all killed. The question is, is there enough political will in the capital to do what needs to be done? . . .

. . . During his long occupation of a Senate seat, Biden served for many years on the foreign-relations committee, and learned all the wrong lessons without acquiring an ounce of real-world savvy. . .

. . . For 50 years this creepy blowhard has been dining out off his dead wife and daughter, and more recently, a dead son, parlaying sympathy votes into a lifetime sinecure. Now, by accident/design/hook/crook he's Potus. And God help us, by calling for regime change in Moscow, he's just given the Russians a causus belli, should they choose to accept it. They would be perfectly within their rights to do so under the laws of war.



https://the-pipeline.org/the-column-no-country-for-old-men/

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Right now the Democrats are facing a catastrophic problem in November.

The President has to provide a plan to address inflation and fuel prices.

rrb said...


I wonder if any of the soldiers got to eat any pizza when Joe was done stuffing himself

The Senior Officer always eats LAST.

Even those of us who never served know this.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Biden will propose more than $32 billion in new spending to fight crime, two White House officials familiar with his 2023 budget plans tells Axios, putting a price tag on his State of the Union call to fund — not defund — the police.

Why it matters: Biden wants to show Americans he is addressing rising crime, which threatens Democrats' fortunes in the midterm elections.

Details: The budget proposal to be released Monday will include $20.6 billion for the next fiscal year for Department of Justice discretionary spending on federal law enforcement, crime prevention and intervention. That's $2 billion more than the $18.6 billion enacted for the current fiscal year.

The proposal also would mandate $30 billion in new spending over the next decade on a variety of programs to expand law enforcement and crime prevention. Details on those programs have not yet been released.

The expanded discretionary spending would increase resources for federal prosecutors and give additional resources to state and local law enforcement to put more police on the beat.

It would more than double the funding for community policing through the COPS Hiring Program. It also would add $500 million for so-called community violence interventions — a tenfold increase.It would pay for nearly 300 new deputy marshals and related personnel.It would pay for 140 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents and investigators working on gun-trafficking strike forces in five major U.S. cities; and 160 ATF investigators working on gun-dealer compliance.It would significantly increase funds for law enforcement agencies to trace firearms found at crime scenes.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Between the lines: The president has been looking for ways to distance himself from progressives over how to combat crime, and to convince swing voters he understands their concerns about feeling unsafe.

In his State of the Union address this month, Biden said, "We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them. Fund them with resources and training."In February, he met with New York Mayor Eric Adams, a retired police officer who captured his party’s nomination by focusing on crime to burnish his public safety credentials.

The big picture: The overall budget Biden is set to unveil is expected to propose increases across defense and non-defense spending and a "billionaire's tax" to pay for $1 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, the Washington Post and Associated Press reported.

A new minimum tax on the wealthiest Americans would require households worth more than $100 million to pay at least 20% of their income, according to the Post.“The President’s budget will reflect three important values: fiscal responsibility, safety and security at home and abroad, and a commitment to building a better America," one White House official told Axios.

Don't forget: While presidents use their budgets to articulate their spending priorities and overall agenda, their official proposals rarely become law.

What we're watching: Biden is expected to include a placeholder for a revised version of his Build Back Better agenda without specifics for how much he plans to spend, according to Bloomberg.

His administration is trying to figure out how to re-engage Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) who killed a version of Biden’s plans in December. Manchin has signaled that he may be open to returning to the negotiating table for a smaller bill that addresses climate, energy and deficit reduction.

rrb said...



Vladimir Putin has been informed reliably by the Western alliance that his exit — which in his case possibly includes a firing squad — is the price for peace.

Instead of building Putin a golden bridge to peace, Biden has backed him into a corner and dared him to lash out.

That’s the idiot’s way to start World War III, but from Joe Biden, what else did you expect?


https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/03/23/joe-biden-and-world-war-iii-for-dummies-n1583519

rrb said...




5-year and 30-year Treasury yields invert for the first time since 2006, fueling recession fears

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/us-bonds-treasury-yields-invert-flashing-recessionary-warning-sign.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and cross promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, and of course, Fox News. Whatever conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted.

That's why we provide the real cold-hearted truth.

rrb said...



Alky stealing from Google Books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=HTPKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=Reality+is+defined+by+a+multimedia+array+of+interconnected+and+cross+promoting+conservative+blogs,+radio+programs,+magazines,+and+of+course,+Fox+News.+Whatever+conflicts+with+that+reality+can+be+dismissed+out+of+hand+because+it+comes+from+the+liberal+media,+and+is+therefore+ipso+facto+not+to+be+trusted.&source=bl&ots=_KWjEFxd_Q&sig=ACfU3U2eOiNqKrE5puAkMiZOf52KZXcHvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjt64y3gOn2AhUjk4kEHdJ6DswQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=Reality%20is%20defined%20by%20a%20multimedia%20array%20of%20interconnected%20and%20cross%20promoting%20conservative%20blogs%2C%20radio%20programs%2C%20magazines%2C%20and%20of%20course%2C%20Fox%20News.%20Whatever%20conflicts%20with%20that%20reality%20can%20be%20dismissed%20out%20of%20hand%20because%20it%20comes%20from%20the%20liberal%20media%2C%20and%20is%20therefore%20ipso%20facto%20not%20to%20be%20trusted.&f=false

anonymous said...

Funny, now rat is obsessed with CNBC and is rooting for a recession!!!!! Why do uneducated white men all hate out great country?????????

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

That was one of my favorite beers!

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish brewery group Carlsberg said Monday it is pulling out of Russia, hours after its competitor, Dutch brewing giant Heineken, did the same, citing Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

In a statement, the Copenhagen-based group said it had taken “the difficult and immediate decision to seek a full disposal of our business in Russia, which we believe is the right thing to do in the current environment.”

A bar in Fullerton has over 100 beers on tap. Heroes. If you travel to Disneyland it 10 miles away.


James's Fucking Daddy said...

thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1507747776662278152


Biden's crack smoking son was laundering him cash from Ukraine while funding biolabs in the same country now at war with Russia. I'm pretty sure Trump would have been impeached by now.


James's Fucking Daddy said...

Arthur Schwartz
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1507490706931265544


New record: conspiracy theory to established truth in 24 hours.

Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Biden-helped-secure-millions-funding-military-biotech-research-program-Ukraine.html


now if the FBI could only figure out who the "big guy" is

and if he reported this income on his taxes

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Dr. Dirk Diggler
@TDProductions2


How bad is it? This bad.

https://twitter.com/TDProductions2/status/1507041418237423620


totally corrupt

anonymous said...

How bad is it? This bad.


EVEN WORSE YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

The Dirk Diggler Story is a 1988 mockumentary short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It follows the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler, a well-endowed male porn star.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

FOX NEWS
The U.S. can best support Ukraine by providing it with weapons, planes and parts to defend its airspace rather than establish a no-fly zone, a U.S. Air Force expert told Fox News Digital.

"[The Ukrainians] are fighting with basically two very large feathers in their cap: one is the munitions we’re providing them and the other is the morale that they can sustain on their own," said John (JV) Venable, a veteran Air Force commander and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

"By giving them the right weapons, we boost their morale, we give them wins, we allow them to bloody Russia’s nose and make this a very costly endeavor."

Ukraine’s staunch defense of its airspace has helped keep its armed forces on a more even battlefield against Russia. Experts remain surprised one month into the war that Russia has yet to establish clear control of the skies over Ukraine and that Ukraine has appeared to drag Russia into a stalemate.

"Ukraine has been effective in the sky because we operate on our own land," Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, told The New York Times. "The enemy flying into our airspace is flying into the zone of our air defense systems."


Ihnat described the country’s strategy as luring Russian planes into air defense traps, which Venable explained likely amounted to Ukrainian planes pretending to retreat and luring Russian planes into areas where ground forces then fire from both sides and annihilate the pursuing fighters.

Ukraine’s airspace remains a topic of intense debate as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his fellow politicians continually appeal for a no-fly zone enforced by NATO. Some experts calculate that Ukraine has roughly 55 operational fighter jets remaining, and that number continues to dwindle.

But American politicians remain divided over supporting a no-fly zone, with President Biden arguing that such action would essentially drag the U.S. and its NATO allies into direct conflict with Russia. That hesitancy has also held the U.S. back from providing planes to Ukraine, with some reports that the Pentagon rejected Poland's plan to provide Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters.

Venable told Fox News Digital that the U.S. needs to double down on supplying Ukraine with the necessary tools to push back Russia – especially in the air.

"The weight that people are talking about – they don’t understand how much this would take and how very involved we would become right away," Venable, who commanded the largest combat group in the U.S. Air Force in 2004 and 2005, explained regarding a no-fly zone. "This is not a matter of will; it’s a matter of judgment, and we can do a lot of things that are more effective other than … getting into a fight with a nuclear-armed Russia."

Venable stressed that the javelins and stinger missiles provided to Ukraine by NATO allies have proven to be the most effective weapons, but he argued that planes provide more than just combat effectiveness.

The Ukrainians have employed three fighters in their conflict with Russia: The MiG-29, the SU-27 and the SU-24. The limited number of planes Ukraine has at its disposal – roughly 30 of the SU-24 – take damage even in the most successful maneuvers, so providing the planes would allow Ukraine to stop cannibalizing other planes for spare parts.

But, perhaps most importantly, the planes provide a significant morale boost for ground forces.

"To allow them to continue pushing those sorties forward is a big feather we can put in their hat," Venable said. "When I tell you that the MiG-29s are less effective, I mean that – with one exception … Any time you hear a friendly fighter or see one of your own birds flying overhead, and you’re in a firefight, it gives you a surge of energy."
__________

Even Fox and the conservative Heritage Foundation have to admit that the policy we are now following is largely successful with our present strategy.

James's Fucking Daddy said...



Leslie McAdoo Gordon
https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1506996262914113536



You can’t protect women’s rights, if you can’t identify them.




James's Fucking Daddy said...

Zach Parkinson
https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1507037738528346118


Amazing how the science supports one set of rules for the wealthy and well-connected and a different set of rules for everyone else

New York Post
@nypost

Eric Adams exempts athletes, performers from city vaccine mandate https://trib.al/MwgvMne



Well at least Kyrie Irving gets to play home games instead of ridiculously having to watch home games from the front row

but still....

"science"

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Pathological liar

TRUMP: “In fact, I stand as the only president of the 21st century on whose watch Russia and Putin did not invade any other country.” — Saturday rally.

THE FACTS: Trump is not the only one.

Putin, who served as Russia's president from 2000 to 2008, and then as prime minister before returning to the presidency in 2012, did in fact invade Georgia in 2008 during George W. Bush’s second term. He also moved in on Ukraine in 2014 on Obama’s watch. It's also true that Putin did not invade a country during Trump’s term.

But Bill Clinton, who finished his second term in January 2001, also never saw an invasion by Putin into another country. Russia did attack Chechnya twice in the 1990s, but Chechnya is a region of Russia, not a country.

___

PENCE: “The Ukrainian soldiers are using the arms that our administration provided to them, and they were suspended by the Biden administration.” — Fox interview.

THE FACTS: That’s a stretch. With both sides going through weapons and ammunition very quickly in the brutal Ukraine-Russia war, it’s dubious that the Javelins Ukraine received from the U.S. during the Trump years would be still on the shelf. Trump did not provide Stinger anti-aircraft systems to the Ukrainians.

Including the $800 million package announced by Biden on March 16, the total designated military aid for Ukraine since Biden took office is about $2 billion. The assistance, some of it drawn from $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian assistance recently approved by Congress to help Ukraine and its neighbors, has included a number of lethal weapons such as Stingers, Javelin anti-armor systems, Mi-17 helicopters, grenade launchers, Humvees, body armor and helmets.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the West to provide his country with warplanes and air defense missiles, stressing on Sunday that “it’s necessary not just for Ukraine’s freedom, but for the freedom of Europe.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE — A look at the veracity of claims by political figures.

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Find AP Fact Checks at http://apnews.com/APFactCheck

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define 'woman.' Science says there's no simple answer.
Alia E. Dastagir
USA TODAY
When Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define "woman," she said "I'm not a biologist."

Blackburn was displeased, but experts say Jackson's answer was scientifically sound.

There is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman.

In the 13th hour of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked the Supreme Court nominee: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”

Jackson, appearing confused, responded, "I’m not a biologist.”

Blackburn chided Jackson, claiming that "the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about."

Senators on both sides of the aisle have used Jackson's confirmation hearing to air issues that have less to do with Jackson's qualifications and more to do with their respective parties. The exchange reflects the current state of gender politics in the U.S., as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' recent NCAA win sparked a fierce debate over trans athletes, as a flurry of bills have sought to ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth, and as other bills have banned trans girls from participating in K-12 girls' sports. If Jackson is confirmed, it's inevitable she will preside over cases involving trans rights.

Scientists, gender law scholars and philosophers of biology said Jackson's response was commendable, though perhaps misleading. It's useful, they say, that Jackson suggested science could help answer Blackburn's question, but they note that a competent biologist would not be able to offer a definitive answer either. Scientists agree there is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman, and with billions of women on the planet, there is much variation.


"I don't want to see this question punted to biology as if science can offer a simple, definitive answer," said Rebecca Jordan-Young, a scientist and gender studies scholar at Barnard College whose work explores the relationships between science and the social hierarchies of gender and sexuality. "The rest of her answer was more interesting and important. She said 'as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there's a dispute about a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law, and I decide.' In other words, she said context matters – which is true in both biology and society. I think that's a pretty good answer for a judge."

James's Fucking Daddy said...

The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit
Pathological liar



Thanks, but we already knew that

Been jogging on the beach with your girlfriend ?

or have you finally accepted reality on at least one thing ?

anonymous said...


Well at least Kyrie Irving gets to play home games instead of ridiculously

BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The dumb fuck gives up $ for being a stupid fuck....even you got the shot......Why can't he?????????

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

'There isn't one single 'biological' answer to the definition of a woman'

Blackburn tweeted after the exchange that "this is a simple question," and called Jackson's response "a major red flag."

But Jordan-Young said she sees Jackson's answer, particularly the second half, reflecting the necessity of nuance. While traditional notions of sex and gender suggest a simple binary – if you are born with a penis, you are male and identify as a man and if you are born with a vagina, you are female and identify as a woman – the reality, gender experts say, is more complex.

"There isn't one single 'biological' answer to the definition of a woman. There's not even a singular biological answer to the question of 'what is a female,'" Jordan-Young said.

There are at least six different biological markers of “sex” in the body: genitals, chromosomes, gonads, internal reproductive structures, hormone ratios and secondary sex characteristics. None of the six is strictly dichotomous, Jordan-Young said, and the different markers don’t always align.

Sarah Richardson, a Harvard scholar, historian and philosopher of biology who focuses on the sciences of sex and gender and their policy dimensions, said Jackson's answer accurately reflects legal practice. While U.S. law remains an unsettled arena for the conceptualization and definition of sex, it frequently grounds sex categorization in biological evidence and reasoning.

But like Jordan-Young, Richardson emphasized that biology does not offer a simple or singular answer to the question of what defines a woman.

"As is so often the case, science cannot settle what are really social questions," she said. "In any particular case of sex categorization, whether in law or in science, it is necessary to build a definition of sex particular to context."

Experts say the category of 'woman' has always been in dispute

Juliet Williams, a professor of gender studies at UCLA who specializes in gender and the law, said it's important to note this isn't an entirely new debate.

The category of woman has long been politically contested. Black women, she said, were not always welcomed in the category. For example, while the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, for decades many Black women were excluded from exercising it. During Jim Crow, there would be bathrooms labeled "men," "women" and "colored." The longstanding view of white supremacy denied recognition as women to Black women and women of color.

Williams said one can also look to the era of Phyllis Schlafly, an attorney and activist and the face of conservative women in the 1970s who argued against the Equal Rights Amendment, which would make discrimination on the basis of sex unconstitutional. Williams said Schlafly believed women's roles as homemakers were fundamental to how the category of woman was defined.

"There was an effort to define womanhood in very specific ways around roles of mothering and nurture, and to suggest that a society in which women's rights and opportunities were equal to men would essentially lead to a genderless, gender-neutral society," she said. "In other words, if women ceased acting like women, they would cease being women."

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

A fierce debate over trans women in sports

Blackburn's questions reflect the current debate over Thomas, a transgender woman and member of the University of Pennsylvania swimming team who made history this month when she won an NCAA swimming competition in Division I.

Gender scholars and trans activists argue that critics are focused on Thomas' assignment as male at birth as the sole reason for her excellence. Thomas began transitioning in 2019 with hormone therapy, and while her swim times slowed, she remained a top competitor.

Opinion:
Lia Thomas' NCAA title should spark legitimate debate, not hate

Analysis:
Conservatives want to ban transgender athletes from girls sports. Their evidence is shaky.

"Lots of people are assigned male at birth, have higher testosterone levels ... and could never make a Division I swimming team," said Kate Mason, a gender studies professor at Wheaton College who studies social inequality. "Why do we attribute her current success to her assigned sex, rather than to her long record as an elite swimmer?"

Gender scholars say there can be standards for legal sex classification, but no one can legislate science.

"I do think that judges and justices sometimes have to make determinations about who is meant by 'man' or 'woman' in written statutes – and they may have to acknowledge the reality that sex and gender are not binary," Mason said. "I think Blackburn would prefer a world in which reality was much simpler."

Jordan-Young said some politicians have work to do on the issue of "fairness" for women.

"When Blackburn and the rest of her caucus support women’s full reproductive justice, when they aggressively try to solve the inequality of investment in girls’ and women’s sports – still true 50 years after Title IX made it illegal – when they take meaningful action on the persistent wage discrimination against women, especially women of color, then maybe it will make sense to engage their questions about who can count as a woman."

James's Fucking Daddy said...


John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1507328502743572484


Republicans should make Democrats and their media munchkins feel more comfortable by bringing out some rando who claims to know Jackson from college and swears she's a pedophile. This business of asking substantive questions about her actual record is just WAY out of line.


Liberals are fine with that


James's Fucking Daddy said...

Mollie
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1506606100124250112


If you lack both the common sense and the education to understand what being a woman is — or you’re too terrified of your political allies to admit you do know — perhaps you should not have a job that affects other people in any substantial way.



FACT CHECK - TRUE


rrb said...


You can’t protect women’s rights, if you can’t identify them.


Well, we all know that men make the best wymyn so there's that.

LOL.

James's Fucking Daddy said...

Trish Regan
https://twitter.com/trish_regan/status/1508437640705683460


It’s TIME for Joe Biden to bring in some CONSERVATIVE leadership into his cabinet to balance out the liberals.

This is a serious time and we need serious people. The President screwed up in Poland, the world is on edge, & we need ADULTS in the room ASAP.


well said

but he won't

it looks like he is deliberately ruining America