- The producer price index, which measures prices paid by wholesalers, rose 1.4% in March and 11.2% from a year ago, both records for data going back to 2010.
- Prices for final demand goods led with a 2.3% monthly rise, while services prices gained 0.9%.
- Wednesday’s release comes the day after the BLS reported the consumer price index for March surged 8.5% over the past year.
My wife runs a company that is tied directly to supply issues, especially international supply issues. The problem is not just the cost, but the time involved as well. Where they used to get products within a couple of weeks, it can be months now to garner the same product at a cost that will be 150% of what they used to pay in some cases. Trying to pass that on to the project managers and ultimately the consumer is a tough task. You have to both explain that there will be months of delay and then the cost will be more than they were looking at a couple years ago.
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God gave us Oil to use as oil and food to use as food.
Where did this become a confusing concept for the leftist here?
Joe Biden inflation is going higher. Producer Price Index up
11.2% from a year ago
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Roger invalidated
"skin color doesn't matter to rational people."
NAACP
BLM
Congressional Black Congress
Affirmative action Jackson
Biden's Black Farmers fee money and land grab givaway
Although Ch titles his thread article "Bidenomics," a careful reading of it indicates that what he is describing is a world situation that has nothing to do with Biden, but was on its way toward us long before Biden became president.
"Trumpanomics" would be a better title.
And all the blithering idiot in the white house can do is blame it on Putin, all evidence, and there's a fuck ton, to the contrary.
ALL OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIMENT WITH WHAT IT'S LIKE TO CATCH BA.2 OMICRON VARIANT, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS (UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE TO FLY).
CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises
Associated Press
April 13, 2022, 10:48 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is extending the nationwide mask requirement for public transit for 15 days as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was extending the order, which was set to expire on April 18, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant that is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S.
“In order to assess the potential impact the rise of cases has on severe disease, including hospitalizations and deaths, and health care system capacity, the CDC order will remain in place at this time,” the agency said in a statement.
When the Transportation Security Administration, which enforces the rule for planes, buses, trains and transit hubs, extended the requirement last month, it said the CDC had been hoping to roll out a more flexible masking strategy that would have replaced the nationwide requirement.
The mask mandate is the most visible vestige of government restrictions to control the pandemic, and possibly the most controversial. A surge of abusive and sometimes violent incidents on airplanes has been attributed mostly to disputes over mask-wearing.
Critics have seized on the fact that states have rolled back rules requiring masks in restaurants, stores and other indoor settings, and yet COVID-19 cases have fallen sharply since the omicron variant peaked in mid-January.
There has been a slight increase in cases in recent weeks, driven by the BA.2 strain, with daily confirmed cases nationwide rising from about 25,000 per day to more than 30,000. Those figures are an undercount since many people now test positive on at-home tests that are not reported to public health agencies.
Severe illnesses and deaths tend to lag infections by several weeks. The CDC is awaiting indications of whether the increase in cases correlates to a rise in adverse outcomes before announcing a less restrictive mask policy for travel.
BE SURE TGO GO MASKLESS,
AND IF YOU'RE ASKED TO WEAR A MASK ON A PLANE, BE SURE TO RAISE A LOF OF HELL AND GET THROWN OFF.
A LOT OF HELL
Fuck off pederast.
Reverend...
The main issue with her business is that things have been sitting in ports for months. Because they work with non-perishable items, they are low priority for entrance into the United States.
That being said, there is a "global" problem and ultimately the world needs leadership to come together and work to resolve some of these things.
But just because the war in Ukraine is not happening on our soil or the problems in Afghanistan are across the globe, doesn't mean our own leadership is helpless.
Okay... maybe our current leadership is helpless across the board, but I digress.
We are supposed to be a world superpower. The world looks to United States (or at least used to) for leadership. When we pretty much appear clueless or attempt to figure out a way to blame an ex President or "White Supremacy" as the problem... that is not extremely helpful.
Americans also are seeing way larger inflation and supply chain issues than the rest of the world. That is 100% on our own leadership.
but yeah, Reverend.
You keep up the "Trump rhetoric" - because that is a winner for Democrats in 2022!
Karma -
President Joe Biden’s approval rating is down to the lowest in his presidency at only 38 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval with the latest CNBC All American Economic survey released on Wednesday.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/04/13/cnbc-all-america-economic-survey-bidens-approval-rating-shrinks-to-lowest-level-since-presidency-began.html
According to the pederast, Sloppy Joe's 38% approval is Trump's fault.
So it's being reported that they caught the subway shooter.
Let's see if he's forgotten as quickly as the Christmas parade killer.
Something about black guys and violent crime. Swept under the rug almost immediately.
How to Disarm the Crazies
WOULD THE RANKED CHOICE SYSTEM HELP DO IT?
April 13, 2022 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments
Mona Charen:
“Not only does the ranked-choice system disempower party extremists, it also discourages candidates from savage personal attacks, the persistence of which arguably keeps some fine people out of politics altogether. Candidates are less likely to attack one another if they hope to be the second choice of the other person’s voters.
“The two-party system has not proven to be a solid foundation for democracy. Time to disarm the crazies.”
Rather than sweep anything under the rug, let's keep up your steady drumbeat of blame all blacks?
A man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire was arrested Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Frank R. James, 62, was taken into custody in Manhattan, the official said. Further details, including the arresting agency, weren't immediately available.
Scott wants to use this one
Autocrats Like Trump, Putin, and Le Pen Exploit Failures of Neoliberalism
The question is whether we'll return to sane and humane economic policies and ban big money from politics or if we'll embrace the authoritarian policies of Putin, Trump, and Le Pen.
THOM HARTMANN
April 13, 2022
A bit over 40 years ago the UK and the United States—followed within a few years by most of the rest of western Europe—embarked on a radical experiment in governance and economics.
The nations of the world would be turned over, practically speaking, to the biggest corporations and richest billionaires.
"Neoliberalism" was the word invented by a small group of utopian economists at a 1938 meeting in France, and it was turned into a movement at a 1947 meeting in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland. At that time the world had been shaken by the rise of Communism in the Soviet Union (and China) and the disaster Fascism brought to Germany and then all of Europe.
The hope of neoliberalism's founders was that it would prevent the rise of both communism and fascism in the developed democracies of the world: a sort of magic formula for governance that would keep the world safe and free forever.
As I laid out in The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America, the Mont Pelerin Society neoliberals believed that if most government functions and decisions were simply turned over to the most powerful economic players in a country, the "magic of the marketplace" would ensure that everything ran smoothly and thus guarantee an abundance of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
To get to that elevated place, neoliberals said, required privatizing as much of government as possible and ending most all government regulation of international trade, money in politics, and the movement of money across borders.
It also called for widespread deregulation of business along with slashing most taxes on corporations and the morbidly rich. The nations of the world would be turned over, practically speaking, to the biggest corporations and richest billionaires.
Margaret Thatcher brought neoliberalism to the UK in 1978, destroying that nation's largest and most powerful labor union (the coal miners) in an epic battle, and beginning a privatization spree that has largely held to this day.
Reagan started us down the same path when he won the election of 1980 and crushed the PATCO union (which had endorsed him), then began the privatization of the Pentagon's functions (which is at about 50% now). George W. Bush doubled-down by starting the privatization of Medicare, which is also about half done with the private "Medicare Advantage" scam.
Russia embraced neoliberalism at the insistence of the GHW Bush administration in the early 1990s and is arguably the best example of what happens at the end point of neoliberalism.
The experiment has been, to be charitable, a failure. In every country where it was tried inequality has exploded, workers have fallen behind, corporate monopolies have strangled competition and destroyed small businesses, and political systems have been corrupted by big money.
In France, the Macron government is the current face of neoliberal policies.
Here in the US, both parties embraced neoliberalism from 1980 to 2021, when the Biden administration began a rapid turn back toward classical economics (with a long way still to go).
Russia has, over the past decade, completed the natural transition from neoliberalism to neofascism.
If turning most government functions over to private industry is neoliberalism, its opposite is "the people" seizing back control of their government and making it work for them in the way they want. Populist movements have emerged to do just this on both the right and the left.
Wow , Roger and James, where talking up Bidenomics as a great economy.
Now , it's Trump fault.
Russia embraced neoliberalism at the insistence of the GHW Bush administration in the early 1990s and is arguably the best example of what happens at the end point of neoliberalism.
The experiment has been, to be charitable, a failure. In every country where it was tried inequality has exploded, workers have fallen behind, corporate monopolies have strangled competition and destroyed small businesses, and political systems have been corrupted by big money.
In France, the Macron government is the current face of neoliberal policies.
Here in the US, both parties embraced neoliberalism from 1980 to 2021, when the Biden administration began a rapid turn back toward classical economics (with a long way still to go).
Russia has, over the past decade, completed the natural transition from neoliberalism to neofascism.
If turning most government functions over to private industry is neoliberalism, its opposite is "the people" seizing back control of their government and making it work for them in the way they want. Populist movements have emerged to do just this on both the right and the left.
On the left, the anti-neoliberalism movement to turn back towards the classical economics of Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton and John Maynard Keynes has been led by Bernie Sanders in the US and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France.
On the right, the anti-neoliberalism movement to push the system to its logical endpoint of neofascism has been championed by Donald Trump in the US and Marine Le Pen in France.
Most citizens of the US and France have no idea what neoliberalism is, where it came from, or when it was put into place. All they know is that the billionaires are doing really, really well but their lives have been stuck in a rut for decades. And they want out of that rut.
In France the battle is acute because of the presidential election that will be resolved in two weeks in a choice between Macron and Le Pen. Macron has been one of Europe's most aggressive neoliberal "reformers," as Didier Fassin wrote in The New York Times:
"Among Mr. Macron's first decisions in office was the abolition of the wealth tax and [institution of] a flat tax on capital income, which benefited the rich. At the same time he pursued a reduction in the housing allowance for the poor and a reduction in pensions for retirees.
"Halfway through his first year in power, he had become the 'president of the rich.' The image stuck, burnished by his reform of labor law, which limited workers' rights and weakened representative organizations, curtailment of unemployment benefits and diminution of employers' social security contributions."
So, along come neofascists like Trump and Le Pen telling their country's citizens—correctly—that "free trade" has shipped jobs out of the country, "low taxes" have made the rich even richer, and that deregulation and the destruction of legal protections for organized labor have screwed working people.
Feb 23 , 2022 day before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ruble value = 0.012 USD
Today , After Sanctions
Russian Ruble Value = 0.012 USD
Roger and James said, the ruble had been crushed.
President Biden is trying to reverse the Reagan era economic systems..
Run Roger.
Lol, nope
Roger, Biden has brought back Carternomics.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced an additional $800 million in military assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total aid tally since Russian forces invaded to more than $2.4 billion.
The package will include artillery systems, artillery rounds and armored personnel carriers, Biden said in a statement after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
“President Biden announced Wednesday that he has approved the transfer of helicopters, artillery systems and armored vehicles as part of a package of $800 million in additional military aid to Ukraine,” Axios reports.
“The U.S. and its European allies are drastically ramping up the scale and scope of their military assistance ahead of a massive Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region, which officials believe will dictate the trajectory of the rest of the war.
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Honest, decent, truthful Rev.April 13, 2022 at 12:33 PM
Makes a good case on how Biden is feckless.
CHT , as you pointed out the free flow of shipped goods in and OUT of the US is Still a hot mess, 14 months , no resolution .
Gas usage will drop as Americans live a lower standard of life under Bidenomics.
Why McConnell Kept Quiet About Trump’s Election Lie
April 13, 2022 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
A new book reports that in December 2020, Donald Trump called Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other top Republicans to talk about his plan to overturn the election, CNN reports.
But instead of going public with his criticism of Trump’s “rigged” election claims, McConnell kept quiet because he feared how the revelation would impact Republican chances in the Georgia Senate runoffs that were scheduled for January.
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
Martin, Jonathan (Author)
ANOTHER CLEAR INDICATION THAT MITCH MCCONNELL HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MORAL DECENCY AND THERE IS NO MORAL RED LINE HE WILL NOT CROSS FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
This is another example of what the Democratic have to do...
Why the US PRO Act Matters for the Right to Unionize: Questions and Answers
Frontline healthcare workers in Minnesota picket for fair wages. © 2021 SEIU Healthcare Minnesota
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the difficult economic and social realities for many working people in the United States and has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Low-wage workers, who are disproportionately women, migrants, and Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, have largely borne the brunt of the pandemic’s economic fallout.
Weaknesses and deficiencies in US labor law have made the situation worse. Workers face major obstacles to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain for fair wages, decent benefits, and safe working conditions. On numerous fronts, US laws fall far short of international standards on freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Now there is an opportunity to strengthen US labor laws. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (the PRO Act), H.R. 842, S. 420 passed the US House of Representatives on March 9, 2021 with a bipartisan vote. If approved by the Senate, it would significantly strengthen the ability of workers in the private sector to form unions and engage in collective bargaining for better working conditions and fair wages. If enacted into law, the PRO Act would be the most comprehensive worker empowerment legislation since the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935.
This question-and-answer document addresses the PRO Act through a human rights lens, with a focus on the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. It examines the challenges of unionizing in the US and explains how the PRO Act would be a corrective. Current US law excludes certain categories of workers, makes it difficult for workers to join unions, hampers the fight for better working conditions, and has failed to keep up with the disruptive role of workplace technologies in organizing efforts. Addressing these shortcomings could help to bring US law closer to international human rights standards, and slow or reverse decades of rising economic inequality.
Right to work for less laws were passed during the Reagan adoption.
If wages go up to balance inflation. The working middle class will vote for Democrats instead of Republican of any sort
Roger , your attempt to avoid the thread topic is telling.
Care to debate why Biden Day#1 policies caused these hikes?
We have the most competent administration in recent decades
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Pentagon Convenes Top US Weapons Makers to Increase Supply for Ukraine War
The Pentagon meeting comes as the U.S. and other NATO countries faced criticism for potentially "hindering negotiations rather than encouraging and facilitating them."
JAKE JOHNSON
April 13, 2022
The Pentagon on Wednesday is set to convene a classified meeting of some of the largest arms makers in the U.S.—from Lockheed Martin to Raytheon—as the Biden administration looks to ramp up weapons shipments to Ukraine, even as critics warn that continuing to pump advanced military equipment into the war zone could prolong the deadly conflict.
"It is within Putin's power to wind down this war, but what NATO does matters as well."
Citing unnamed officials, Reuters reported Tuesday that the Defense Department "will host leaders from the top eight U.S. weapons manufacturers... to discuss the industry's capacity to meet Ukraine's weapons needs if the war with Russia lasts years." Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is a former member of Raytheon's board of directors.
One Pentagon official told the Financial Times that a central purpose of the meeting with arms contractors—which are profiting mightily from Russia's war on Ukraine—is to weigh "industry proposals to accelerate production of existing systems and develop new, modernized capabilities critical to the department's ongoing security assistance to Ukraine and long-term readiness of U.S. and ally/partner forces."
The meeting, hosted by the Pentagon's weapons buyer, will come as the Biden administration is aiming to massively increase the flow of U.S. arms and other military equipment into Ukraine, a step that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded as his country fights Russia's illegal and devastating invasion.
According to the Washington Post, a new weapons package that Biden administration officials are discussing could be worth $750 million, adding to the $1.7 billion in military support the U.S. has provided Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in late February.
IF we still used the Calculation methodology of the Carter years.
Both CPI And PPI would be in double digits.
The Post reported that the Pentagon is "looking to transfer armored Humvees and a range of other sophisticated equipment," including howitzer cannons and coastal defense drones.
In remarks posted to social media on Wednesday, Zelenskyy declared that Ukraine needs "heavy artillery, armored vehicles, air defense systems, and combat aircraft."
"Anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes," he added.
News of the Pentagon's meeting with arms makers came as Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that peace talks with Ukraine are currently at a "dead end" after several rounds of negotiations in Belarus and Turkey.
Putin also indicated that Russian forces, having failed to seize Kyiv and other major cities, will focus in the near term on eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian troops for years.
"Negotiations have a greater chance of succeeding with Washington's participation."
On Wednesday, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov reiterated Moscow's view that "U.S.-NATO weapons transports across Ukrainian territory will be considered by us as legal military targets."
"We are making the Americans and other Westerners understand that attempts to slow down our special operation, to inflict maximum damage on Russian contingents and formations of the [Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics] will be harshly suppressed," Ryabkov added, referring to separatist regions of the Donbas that Moscow has recognized as independent.
Increasing arms flows into Ukraine and the latest remarks from top Russian officials augur poorly for the prospects of an imminent diplomatic resolution to the war, which has killed thousands and sparked a massive humanitarian crisis.
Foreign policy experts and peace advocates have been cautioning since Russia began its attack that Western weapons shipments into Ukraine could harm rather than increase the chances of a peaceful settlement. The Biden administration has also faced criticism for not taking on a more active role in diplomatic negotiations.
Get ready to spend more at the grocery store. Food prices expected to soar, USDA predicts.
SUSAN SELASKY | DETROIT FREE PRESS | 4:29 pm EDT April 6, 2022
From an earlier thread:
CH says:
"Somehow all of these liberals see no difference between challenging election results and overthrowing the Government."
_____
The good, decent, truthful, patriotic Reverend says:
"Even CH cannot really be so politically prejudiced that he cannot see the huge difference between legally challenging election results and criminally taking steps illegally to overthrow an election.
Even he cannot fail to see that.
He only pretends he doesn't.
HELSINKI (AP) — European Union nations Finland and Sweden reached important stages Wednesday on their way to possible NATO membership as the Finnish government issued a security report to lawmakers and Sweden’s ruling party initiated a review of security policy options.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 triggered a surge in support for joining NATO in the two traditionally militarily non-aligned Nordic countries, with polls showing a majority of respondents willing to join the alliance in Finland and supporters of NATO in Sweden clearly outnumbering those against the idea.
Finland, a country of 5.5 million, shares the EU’s longest border with Russia, a 1,340-kilometer (833-mile) frontier. Sweden has no border with Russia.
And yet, this thread is about Bidenomics and his wholly owned PPI that has skyrocked.
Note: PPI is a forward indicator for the CPI.
Biden's Economic team is worthless.
He denied insurrection on January 6th
He has never recognized it
"America can be described in one word, utrgererdfg, Himalaya " Pres. Biden
Reagonics and Trump economic crisis
The Democrats need to use it
Between 2014 and 2018, the 25 wealthiest Americans collectively earned $401bn, but paid just $13.6bn – about 3.4% of that – in taxes, according to a bombshell ProPublica investigation into the finances of the wealthiest Americans released on Wednesday.
The investigation is the latest in a series ProPublica started in June 2021 that looks at the tax records of the top 0.001% wealthiest Americans. This installment uses a trove of tax filings from 2013 to 2018 to dive into the wealth of the 400 richest Americans, all of whom earn more than $110m a year. It found that the wealthy benefit from lower tax rates on financial assets and deductions from charitable contributions to keep their taxes low.
Tax the rich: these one percenters want people like them to pay higher taxes
Read more
The difference in tax rates between the wealthiest Americans and the average worker comes down to two critical factors, according to the investigation: first, the wealthy have their income taxed at a lower rate because much of their wealth is accumulated through investments, like stocks; and second, the wealthy are able to use large charitable donations to get huge deductions.
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More than 1,000 Ukrainemarines have surrendered in Mariupol, says Russia
Instead of the standard paycheck that most American workers get, which includes deductions for social security and Medicare taxes, the wealthiest Americans get their income through financial assets, like stocks, that are generally taxed at a lower rate. The long-term capital gains rate has been 20% since 2013.
Billionaires in tech pay the lowest tax rate, an average of 17% of their income, largely because their wealth comes from such investment income. Bill Gates, whose income from 2013 to 2018 was an average of $2.85bn a year, paid an average effective federal income tax rate of 18.4%. Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, earned an average of $1.57bn and paid an average tax rate of 14.8%. Ten of the top 15 earners on the list are billionaires who made their money in tech.
In comparison, the average single worker earning $45,000 paid an average tax rate of 21%. A married couple with one child who earns $200,000 paid a rate of 26%. In 2018, the highest top rate on ordinary income, which excludes investments, was 37%, yet the average tax rate for the 400 wealthiest Americans was 22% from 2013 to 2018.
Typical of James and Roger.
Blame others for their failures.
Roger , where are the Biden Tax Cuts for these people?
"the average single worker earning $45,000 paid an average tax rate of 21%. A married couple with one child who earns $200,000 paid a rate of 26%."
Trump.reduced my families taxes.
If wages go up to balance inflation.
Just damn how stupid. That will further DRIVE inflation you simpleton
READ THIS AGAIN
Why McConnell Kept Quiet About Trump’s Election Lie
April 13, 2022 at 2:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 2 Comments
A new book reports that in December 2020, Donald Trump called Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other top Republicans to talk about his plan to overturn the election, CNN reports.
But instead of going public with his criticism of Trump’s “rigged” election claims, McConnell kept quiet because he feared how the revelation would impact Republican chances in the Georgia Senate runoffs that were scheduled for January.
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
Martin, Jonathan (Author)
ANOTHER CLEAR INDICATION THAT MITCH MCCONNELL HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MORAL DECENCY AND THERE IS NO MORAL RED LINE HE WILL NOT CROSS FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
AND THEN READ THIS from an earlier thread:
CH says:
"Somehow all of these liberals see no difference between challenging election results and overthrowing the Government."
_____
My reply:
"Even CH cannot really be so politically prejudiced that he cannot see the huge difference between legally challenging election results and criminally taking steps illegally to overthrow an election.
Even he cannot fail to see that.
He only pretends he doesn't.
______
CONCLUSION:
Hardly anyone is as dishonest and politically unprincipled as Mitch McConnell,
BUT CH SHOWS THAT HE IS EVEN MORE DISHONEST AND POLITICALLY UNPRINCIPLED.
No one eve read it, pedo
After all, Mitch has stated that Trump legally lost the election.
"Caliphate4vrApril 13, 2022 at 2:29 PM
If wages go up to balance inflation.
Just damn how stupid. That will further DRIVE inflation you simpleton"
We have taught him numerous times, he is incapable of learning.
James and Roger lay out Biden's plan to lower inflation.
James he's a political aswhore
New book details McConnell's attempts to avoid Trump's anger in the immediate aftermath of 2020 election
Sky Palma
April 13, 2022
A new book gives a window into former President Donald Trump's mindset in the weeks after the 2020 election, showing the lengths he was willing to go to reverse the election's results, CNN reports.
An excerpt from the book details how Trump wanted to rope Mitch McConnell into his plan. But McConnell wanted to shift focus away from the election and instead look towards the January 2021 runoffs for the races for two Senate seats in Georgia. McConnell maintained a strategic silence in regards to Trump's election claims in an attempt to prevent him from sabotaging the GOP's chances ahead of the runoffs.
"Trump was certain he could subvert the election outcome, telling McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, and other top Republicans that he had personally been on the phone with officials in Pennsylvania and Michigan -- and they told him they would move to keep him in power, despite the results showing Biden had won their states,"
In one and a half hours she raised $400 for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHEF4DyPqw&list=RDMM&index=2
Try not to lust, Republican pedophiles.
Where is any plan and action by Biden?
Finish the Keystone XL pipeline.
Biden to take more #2 yellow corn out of feed production for cows, chickens, sheep , goats and Turkey producers and make it into gas additive.
No, here's where she raised the money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck0HHzwu_k8&list=RDMM&index=1
Ground beef, 90% lean per lb. $5.780
Day #1 of Biden's Economic $3.95.
Projecting James called us this:
"
"Try not to lust, Republican pedophiles."
The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit March 4, 2022 at 6:50 PM
Approval Disprove
RCP Average2/19 - 3/3 41.6. 53.5. -11.9
Next week he will get almost 48% approval"
Always Spectacularly wrong Roger.
McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao did not know how to deal with Trump after the 2020 election.
"Every day the leader and I wake up saying, 'How do we manage the president?'" Chao told a friend in December 2020.
The comments were reported in a forthcoming book by two New York Times reporters.
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, no longer knew how to deal with the president, according to a forthcoming book.
"Every day the leader and I wake up saying, 'How do we manage the president?'" Chao told a friend in December 2020, per the book. CNN reported on Wednesday on details from the book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
McConnell publicly recognized President Joe Biden's victory on December 15, 2020, after the Electoral College made his win official. Up until then, the Kentucky Republican avoided weighing in on the election results and Trump's false claims about widespread voter fraud. McConnell's acknowledgement of the election results infuriated Trump, and the two haven't spoken to each other since.
Hypocrisy Award
Lmao �� �� ��
With all of the inhumane state sponsored sexualization of America’s children, the war on basic fundamental human rights and the propaganda deluge, the divide between humanity and a seemingly alien dictatorship grows with each passing day.
Things have gone so far left that it isn’t that surprising that Ufologists are beginning to claim that our government has been infiltrated by hybrid aliens.
Ufology specialist Dr David Jacobs, a professor of history at Temple University and an author, has written several books on the subject of alien abductions, interviewing alleged survivors to gather and compare different testimony. What he claims forms a terrifying conclusion.
Aliens are not only abducting humans, but are using mind control to integrate themselves into Earth’s civilization and government, and an alien species is preparing to take over the Earth.
Recently, the Pentagon released a trove of UFO related documents due to a FOIA request.
A common thread among abductees were burns, heart problems, apparent abductions and unaccounted for pregnancy.
Injuries were also reported related to electromagnetic radiation due to “energy related propulsion systems.”
Are these reports legitimate? Or is this the next stage in a massive global psyop to herd humanity into the New World Order?
Get prepared. The psyops will increase in intensity and desperation.
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Stocks rose on Wednesday as the corporate earnings season kicked off with mostly positive results, and traders looked past surging inflation numbers.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 345.09 points, or 1.01%, to 34,565.45, accelerating gains in the final hour of trading. The S&P 500 gained 1.12% to 4,446.67, and the Nasdaq Composite rallied 2.03% to 13,643.59. Those moves come after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posted their third straight losing session on Tuesday amid March’s CPI showing the highest inflation since 1981.
Wednesday’s moves come as corporate earnings figure more prominently for investors, who are carefully monitoring for clues on how well companies are managing inflationary pressures. BlackRock, Fastenal and Delta Air Lines all traded higher on the back of better-than-expected quarterly results. Delta also got a boost after the airline said it expects to return to profitability this quarter.
“This is going to be probably more important than the typical earnings season,” said Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments. “Earnings haven’t mattered a ton, because it’s been a macro-based market for a few years now, frankly. But we’re moving away from a macro-based world and we’re in a micro-based world, because of the activity of central banks around the world becoming increasingly more hawkish.”
Other travel stocks surged as a group on the back of Delta’s higher forecast, which indicated consumers will continue flying this year despite higher fares. American Airlines surged 10.6%, Southwest Airlines jumped 7.5%, travel shopping company Expedia rallied 4.9% and cruiser operator Carnival Corporation gained 5.4%. Hotel operator Marriott surged past 7.5%.
It looks good news because they seem to believe it is just transitory and no recession by the end of summer as demand for gasoline will decline.
My Cousin TD is a 20 army veteran and he said that �� need trained pilots.
Mr. Biden also said the United States would “transfer” additional helicopters — though he did not indicate whether they would come directly from the United States or another country. He said his administration would “continue to facilitate” the transfer of other weapons systems from allied countries to Ukraine to help in the fight.
But APC and kamikaze drones work great against tanks.
I really believe that they will push the Russian military out faster than before.
"demand for gasoline will decline."
Do tell, your opinion why Americans will use less ?
Nope
"But APC work great against tanks."
Keyboard Mosquito wing Roger wrong again.
President Biden is trying to reverse the Reagan era economic systems..
As in GDP growth, low inflation, and high consumer sentiment?
There is a reason why Ronald Reagan won 49 states in his reelection campaign and why Slow Joe is struggling to stay over 40% approval.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
President Biden is trying to reverse the Reagan era economic systems..
Right.
And take us all the way back to Carter's 'malaise' inflation days.
Brilliant.
"Even CH cannot really be so politically prejudiced that he cannot see the huge difference between legally challenging election results and criminally taking steps illegally to overthrow an election.
I see it just fine...
Just as Turley, McCarthy, a myriad of grown up legal experts, and apparently even Garland sees it.
But hey, Reverend... go ahead and get your legal opinions from the media, random politicians, the Jan 6th committee, and Liz Cheney. So wonder you are having such a hard time with all of this.
Which ones Roger:
Helicopter
APC
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
It looks good news because they seem to believe it is just transitory and no recession by the end of summer as demand for gasoline will decline.
For fuck's sake alky, LIFE is transitory, but in the case of life you want it to last a long time.
This inflation is NOT transitory by any accepted economic definition, and as it drags on it keeps getting fucking WORSE.
And it was all so unnecessary, just because you couldn't handle a few mean tweets.
It looks good news because they seem to believe it is just transitory and no recession by the end of summer as demand for gasoline will decline.
The only question with this statement is whether the grammar is worse than the content or the content is worse than the grammer.
RRB , is correct.
"This inflation is NOT transitory by any accepted economic definition, and as it drags on it keeps getting fucking WORSE."
Biden has no plan.
Biden has no plan.
Funny I asked you the other day what the GOP and McConnell plan is to beat inflation like he said.......all I got was your typical crickets and bullshit!!!!!! Nothing new with that goat fucker as you keep wish casting failure for your own political gain.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Complete the Keystone XL Pipeline as Sen Joe Manchin wants.
Calling out Day#1 Joe's Failed polices.
" “they’d be foolish not to.”
Mark Meadows removeD from NC voter roll based on his alleged address!!!!!!!! A double wide trailer was his home that he NEVER lived in!!!!!!!!......NOW THAT IS AMUSING.....VOTER FRAUD AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE GOP!!!!!!!!!
My "Wish" is always the same .
Prosperity.
Stop lying about me Denise.
the GOP and McConnell plan is
To take over the Senate and House and stop Democrats from continuing to ruin things? How's that for a plan?
The GOP is in the minority, nitwit. They cannot pass bills, they cannot pass go or collect $200. They just sit around and watch the wrinkly old dementia President introduce himself as Jon Biden because he couldn't read is own name correctly on a teleprompter... and then ruin the country.
The Democrats are in charge and have been in charge for well over a year. They have about 2-3 months to create a major turn of events or their days of being in charge will be over come next Jan when we swear in a new Congress.
Biden mocked the ruble as "rubble." CBS News.
Ruble is the same value today as it was prior to Biden's so called sanctions.
Epic World Stage Failure.
"Even CH cannot really be so politically prejudiced that he cannot see the huge difference between legally challenging election results and criminally taking steps illegally to overthrow an election.
So... apparently a person is able to criminally take steps illegally to overthrow an election, without being criminally charged.
As CH previously stated, acknowledged experts in constitutional law see no problem with Trump's election challenge.
Only partisan hacks like you and the assclowns on the J6 kangaroo committee have a problem with it and seek to make it criminal.
If only the law and the facts were on your side, pederast.
Stick to fleecing the gullible on Sundays.
We get to enjoy the US Consumer Confidence numbers tomorrow.
Surely it will reflect Bidenomics.
Karma:
April 13, 2022
Thirty-nine percent of Americans approve of President Joe Biden's handling of the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while 48 percent disapprove.
While 33 percent of Americans approve of the way President Biden is handling his job, 54 percent disapprove with 13 percent not offering an opinion. Biden's 33 percent job approval ties the low that he received in a Quinnipiac University poll on January 12, 2022 when his job approval rating was a negative 33 - 53 percent.
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3843
"1,000 Ukraine Marines Surrendered"
Sad, if true.
RRB, Roger has Joe at "48%" .
You are the saddest piece of shit in this country goat fucker.....rootin for Putin gets you a special place in hell for assholes!!!!
Surely it will reflect Bidenomics.
And you are already ejaculating hoping it sucks like your life!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB, Roger has Joe at "48%" .
I'm sure. Which is exactly why he's kept under lock and key in an insane asylum, safely away from the general public.
Which ones Roger:
Helicopter
APC
Roger MI 17 helicopters where to be sent, now they are not being sent.
Like the Promised Mig's. Those Mig's would had been useful, but cowardly Joe nixed them.
Biden knows the war is "genocide".
But will not move to stop it.
Denise, have a good evening.
The one you have earned.
GOP POLLSTER SAYS TRUMP IS LOSING HIS GRIP ON THE GOP
April 13, 2022 at 5:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
Republican pollster Frank Luntz told the Daily Beast that GOP lawmakers were privately “laughing at” Donald Trump.
Said Luntz:
“They won’t say it in public, but behind his back they think he’s a child. They’re laughing at him.”
He added:
“Trump isn’t the same man he was a year ago. Even many Republicans are tired of going back and rehashing the 2020 election. Everybody else has moved on, and in Washington everyone believes he lost the election.”
Go fuck yourself you lying piece of goat shit.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Why are you such a useless pile of excrememt?????
Republican pollster Frank Luntz told the Daily Beast that GOP lawmakers were privately “laughing at” Donald Trump.
LOL. If only Luntz was a Republican pollster.
I continue to post the Truth on Biden's Economy.
It, is , what it is.
Predictably Avoidable.
Bidenomics facts.
USDA Says All Food Prices Will Increase in 2022—Especially for These 5 Foods
Samantha Leffler
April 12, 2022, 2:57 pm
Get ready to spend more money at the grocery store. Per the newly updated March 2022 report on food prices from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, "all food prices" are expected to increase in the coming months. More specifically, the report states that the cost of eating out will see an increase between 5.5 and 6.5 percent, while grocery prices are slated to jump between 3 and 4 percent in the remainder of 2022, adding to recent price increases that most consumers have already experienced. As the report points out, these increases, which will impact everything from meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy products to cereals and bakery items, are the highest they've been in decades."
Historic President
Scott the shooter was not a white hating lunatic. He would have been one of your favorite people!
Frank James, the 62-year-old man now under arrest for Tuesday’s mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway train, posted a lot of videos to YouTube and Facebook—over 450 of them, more than the number of subscribers he had (429). Mostly using the handle prophetoftruth88, these videos all featured him rambling angrily about a range of political topics, most of them racial in nature.
His YouTube account, now deleted, offered a kind of chronology of his descent into far-right extremism: James constantly disparaged other Black people, calling them “cattle” and “domesticated animals” whose intended role in white society was to be a slave; he regularly advocated setting up a separate “homeland” for nonwhite Americans. And he talked a lot about death, warning that “it’s gonna take a lot more death … for us to get the picture about how fucked-up we really are.”
Lmao Daily Kos
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The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit April 13, 2022 at 6:36 PM
Scott the shooter was not a white hating lunatic"
Wrong as always Alky.
The Black Racist , hates whites.
Period.
Yellen Warns Nations Staying Neutral on Ukraine
April 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments
“Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said countries that maintain their ties to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine risk facing isolation from the global economy, sending a warning shot to nations that have so far remained neutral in the conflict,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Yellen: “In this moment, where you have a dictator brutally invading another country targeting civilians, you have to contemplate what side of history you want to be on. And that is true for any country around the world.”
Twitter is in pure Panic mode.
Twitter is Suing Elin Musk.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Scott the shooter was not a white hating lunatic. He would have been one of your favorite people!
Scott
Scott
Scott
Pay attention to me, the 5th has a look in his eyes and a tube of KY, I alone, in dementia acres, no one has visited me in WEEKS
SCOTT
SCOTT
SCOTT
Wrong as always Alky.
The Black Racist , hates whites.
Period
Maybe Alky can find an APC that takes out main battle tanks. And if it can why spend money on Javelins??
Delusional
James, this describes Ch today
CONSERVATISM INC.
Did the John Birch Society Win in the End?
Modern conservatism was built by purging the right’s reckless conspiracy theorists—but now they’ve taken over.
by ROBERT TRACINSKI
APRIL 13, 2022
Q Anon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sports a Trump Won mask at the U.S. Capitol on the first day of the new Congressional session January 03, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Afoundation of the folklore of the American right is the story of how National Review’s William F. Buckley, in the early- to mid-1960s, cast the John Birch Society—and by extension the entire kooky, conspiracist wing of the right—out of the conservative movement.
This was part of a larger struggle for the soul of the right. Older conservative publications such as the American Mercury, which had once been the home of such luminaries as H.L. Mencken and Henry Hazlitt, had turned into a forum for antisemitic conspiracy theories—before eventually being taken over outright by neo-Nazis. The response was an effort by Buckley and other conservative thinkers, with the help of political frontmen Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, to create a conservative movement with more ideological and philosophical substance—one based not on conspiracy theories or mere reactionary emotions but on ideas. (Too bad he also tried to get rid of Ayn Rand.)
Looking at American politics today, it sure looks like this seminal conservative achievement is unraveling. The Birchers are back. And they’re winning.
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The John Birch Society, to refresh your memory, was started in 1958 by a conservative businessman who thought President Eisenhower was secretly a Soviet agent. It had a certain kind of cracked appeal as an easy explanation for various setbacks in the early years of the Cold War. The Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, the Communist takeover of China, the Soviet development of nuclear weapons—these weren’t the results of Western mistakes, or large and difficult-to-control social forces, or just the fortunes of war. No, it was all a secret plot, and THEY were lying to you.
This worldview was tremendously popular, more popular than today’s conservatives would probably like to admit. In 1962, Barry Goldwater complained, “Every other person in Phoenix is a member of the John Birch Society. I’m not talking about commie-haunted apple pickers or cactus drunks. I’m talking about the highest cast of men of affairs.”
The Birchers had such a big following on the right that Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan hemmed and hawed for years before breaking with them. Even then, it took repeated denunciations, combined with the Birchers’ increasing notoriety as a national laughingstock, to eventually reduce their appeal and relegate them to the crazy fringes.
Consider the elements of this history:
We have a conspiracy theory that explains everything conservatives think has gone wrong in the world by positing the machinations of a secret cabal that controls everything from the intelligence agencies to the schools.
We have the rapid spread of these crackpot theories to otherwise normal and respectable people in the rank and file of the movement.
We have an attempt to make the conspiracists into the ultimate representatives of opposition to totalitarian communism, and a corresponding attempt to dismiss any conservative critics of the conspiracists as weak-kneed appeasers handing over the country to its enemies.
We have the uneasy balancing act of conservatives in the media and in politics who don’t want to denounce the crackpots for fear of angering their party’s base.
Isn’t this also precisely the state of conservatism today?
https://www.thebulwark.com/did-the-john-birch-society-win-in-the-end/
Show your plagiarism, Alky
https://www.thebulwark.com/did-the-john-birch-society-win-in-the-end/
They are very conservative but not crazy �� enough for you
Biden Answers Zelenskyy's Plea to 'Arm Ukraine Now' With $800 Million in Weapons
Peace advocates have expressed concerns that weapons transfers from the West will draw out Russia's war while enriching arms-makers.
JESSICA CORBETT
April 13, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced an even-larger-than-expected $800 million military aid package for Ukraine, which has been under attack by Russian forces since late February.
The package—which comes despite fears from anti-war voices that such weapons transfers will just further fuel the conflict—expands the type of weaponry the United States is sending to Ukraine.
"I am....not serene about this escalation," Esquire senior staff writer Jack Holmes tweeted about the U.S. assistance.
Biden's move followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration on Tuesday that diplomacy to end the war is at a "dead end."
Just hours before the U.S. announcement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video on Twitter calling for heavy artillery, armored vehicles, air defense systems, and combat aircraft—as he put it: "Anything to repel Russian forces and stop their war crimes."
"Freedom must be armed better than tyranny. Western countries have everything to make it happen," said Zelenskyy, who suggested the war could spread to other European nations if Ukraine falls to the Russian invaders. "Arm Ukraine now to defend freedom!"
Biden said in a statement released after a call with Zelenskyy that "this new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine."
"These new capabilities include artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers," Biden continued. "I have also approved the transfer of additional helicopters. In addition, we continue to facilitate the transfer of significant capabilities from our allies and partners around the world."
As Breaking Defense reports, "For the first time, the U.S. will provide 18 155mm Howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds to fulfill Ukrainian requirements for fire support, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said during a briefing following the White House's announcement."
The White House's decision also came after the Pentagon earlier on Wednesday convened a classified meeting of some of the largest arms-makers in the United States to discuss ramping up weapons shipments.
Longtime critics of U.S. foreign policy have warned how weapons transfers from the NATO governments to Ukraine could enrich these companies while exacerbating the bloodshed in the besieged country.
They are very conservative but not crazy �� enough for you
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Go outside you pathetic fuck.
Stupid ass
Bridget Moix, general secretary of the Quaker organization Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), on Tuesday detailed various nonviolent steps the Biden administration and Congress "can take to help end the war in Ukraine and promote long-term peace."
"While it may feel as though more weapons and punishing sanctions are the only options in Ukraine, in fact, U.S. leaders have many nonviolent policy options available to help save lives and advance peace," she wrote.
"They need to understand that using diplomacy, working through multilateral institutions, supporting local peacebuilders, providing humanitarian aid, and protecting refugees are not 'weak' responses," Moix argued. "These are our best tools for bringing about a durable solution to the crisis."
Shove it up your iliformed mind Jim's Hitler Jr. Aka rrb
"Maybe Alky can find an APC that takes out main battle tanks. And if it can why spend money on Javelins??
Delusional"
Yep, Cali , Keyboard Mosquito wing Roger sure knows his military hardware.
the Quaker organization Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
Was that the author of your Bulwark article? You stupid iliformed(sic) dementia patient
LOL
RRB said to me:
You criticize the wealthy at every turn, coveting all they have, and demand a portion of it. All while dismissing whatever philanthropic endeavors they may have accomplished.
You remind me of the nurses union who felt compelled to protest a NYC hospital because one of the Koch Bros. had just donated a multi-million dollar wing.
You despise all who have more than you and you covet what they have.
Nothing could be less Christian in my opinion. And this is why I will always consider you a f****** fraud.
________
TO RRB:
Nope.
I do not "hate" all wealthy people. There are a number for whom I have great respect because
1) some give more through philantrophy than they would ever be required to give through a 'fair share' of the tax burden
or
2) they have a sense of obligation to society and do not use tax shelters offshore and all sort of fiscal shenanigans to keep from paying their 'fair share' of the taxes.
There used to be progressive wealthy "moderate" Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller who took attitudes along that line.
Though I believe at one point he said he was the only one of that sort left.
That has been and is the 'fair share' attitude of the wealthy Roosevelts and Kennedy's and other Democratic wealthy.
Never forget Alky, I’m smarter, more informed, more successful, more athletic, better looking, have better teeth and OMG the hair I can still grow and my kids actually like me
Than you’ll ever be
Personal attack. How childish.
Lol@James
You attempt personal attacks daily.
.
You mean the Alky’s “ iliformed” (sic) comment, pedo?
Let's be kind to Roger.
His debt and other financial disasters has cancelled his move and his 3rd marriage this year.
He is the sole person here that said
" I don't like were I live"
And can not escape.
Here are the kind of corrupt wealthy I oppose:
Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers Moscow
Associated Press
April 13, 2022, 4:32 PM
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow.
Analysts saying Medvedchuk will become a valuable pawn in the Russia-Ukraine talks to end the devastating war that the Kremlin has unleashed on its ex-Soviet neighbor.
Medvedchuk was detained on Tuesday in a special operation carried out by Ukraine's state security service, or the SBU. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed that Russia could win Medvedchuk’s freedom by trading Ukrainians now held captive by the Russians.
The 67-year-old oligarch escaped from house arrest several days before the hostilities broke out Feb. 24 in Ukraine. He is facing between 15 years and a life in prison on charges of treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for mediating coal purchases for the separatist, Russia-backed Donetsk republic in eastern Ukraine.
Medvedchuk has close ties with Putin, who is believed to be the godfather of his youngest daughter. His detention has sparked a heated exchange between officials in Moscow and Kyiv.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia's Security Council and the country's former president, posted threats to Ukrainian authorities on the messaging app Telegram, referring to them as “freaks” and warning them to “carefully look around and firmly lock the doors at night.”
Zelenskyy's advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, in response, called Medvedev a “nobody,” and said his words were “nasty and, as usual, stupid.”
“The friendly relations between Putin and Medvedchuk turn him into a valuable trophy for Kyiv, and in the Kremlin they spark fury and a dangerous desire for revenge,” Volodymyr Fesenko, an analyst at the Penta Center, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “The fate of Medvedchuk will undoubtedly become a subject of bargaining and one of the points of undercover agreements between Kyiv and Moscow.”
Zelenskyy has released a photo of Medvedchuk sitting in handcuffs and wearing a camouflage uniform with a Ukrainian flag patch, in which he looks tired but visibly unharmed.
Medvedchuk’s wife Oksana Marchenko has appealed to Zelenskyy, calling for her husband to be released and given guarantees that “his life would not be in danger.”
NOT AS MUCH DANGER AS THE NUMEROUS KILLED UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS.
“My husband is being persecuted for political reasons against the laws of Ukraine,” Marchenko said.
Medvedchuk is the head of the political council of Ukraine's pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life party, the largest opposition group in the Ukrainian parliament. He is one of its 44 lawmakers in the 450-seat Rada. The activity of his party has been was suspended for the duration of the war at Zelenskyy's initiative.
“The war automatically turned Medvedchuk into (Russia's) accomplice, since he personally advised Putin on Ukrainian affairs and directly or indirectly influenced many of the Kremlin’s decisions,” Fesenko said. “Zelenskyy no longer needs to be careful, and by arresting Medvedchuk, he wants to show that he is not afraid of the Kremlin and is ready to bargain, having different cards on the negotiating table.”
Ivan Bakanov, the head of Ukraine’s national security agency, said Wednesday that the Russian security service, the FSB, had planned to evacuate Medvedchuk, disguised as a Ukrainian serviceman, to Moscow through the disputed territory of Transnistria in Moldova, where Russia has troops stationed.
Well, sounds like he was still wearing his disguise.
Here are the kind of corrupt wealthy I oppose:
Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers Moscow
Associated Press
April 13, 2022, 4:32 PM
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow.
Without any rights, yeah I believe that first statement of your fascistic pedo ass
And they have NOT been killing Ukrainian civilians.
That's just Ukrainian propaganda.
Believe that, too?
And again, you went off copy/paste and are just simply too stupid to get it.
SSDD
What am I too stupid to "get"?
Do tell us.
If basic human rights have to be explained to you, I rest my case.
The war automatically turned Medvedchuk into (Russia's) accomplice, since he personally advised Putin on Ukrainian affairs and directly or indirectly influenced many of the Kremlin’s decisions,” Fesenko said. “Zelenskyy no longer needs to be careful, and by arresting Medvedchuk, he wants to show that he is not afraid of the Kremlin and is ready to bargain, having different cards on the neg
You’d love to lock all those whom disagree with you.
You my pedo underling are the definition of a fascist, I however, believe no matter how deplorable I may find child rapers like you have a rights.
Classic liberalism v Fascists.
Fuck Noem and yeah, I wouldn’t mind a go
DeSantis-Abbott 2024
First Texas bus drops off migrants blocks from US Capitol in Washington, DC
The buses are part of Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to counter the Biden administration's approach to illegal immigration
LOL
If you really believe I rape children, you would take legal action against me.
You won't, because you don't.
___
As for understanding what you said, I understood, but easily see how wrong you are.
You would defend the "rights" of an ally of the Russian dictator who has illegally invaded Ukraine and is continuing to commit war crimes and genocide while lying to his own nation about what he is doing.
Go ahead and keep defending such "rights."
I doubt even Ch would want to back you on that.
You would defend the "rights" of an ally of the Russian dictator
I’d defend the rights of red coats that shot people in Boston as Adams did
I believe in absolute rights, unlike fascists, like you
Stay copy/pasting it’s you at your best….l
You’re on the wrong side of the Bill of Rights, pedo
Short, overweight, and quick-tongued, John Adams hardly fits the model of the typical Founder. But Adams’s contributions to American independence and the formation of the United States government were great. Adams penned defenses of American rights in the 1770s and was one of the earliest advocates of colonial independence from Great Britain. The author of the Massachusetts Constitution and Declaration of Rights of 1780, Adams was also a champion of individual liberty. He favored the addition of the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution. When he was elected president in 1796, he kept America out of war with France, but signed the unpopular (and likely unconstitutional) Alien and Sedition Acts to do so.
Adams was a principled man who was willing to take unpopular stands. For example, his legal defense of the British soldiers who killed five Bostonians in the infamous “Massacre” of 1770 lost him law clients and friends. Though he often spoke his mind openly, Adams trusted few people aside from his wife Abigail, his only confidante. To her he once lamented that “mausoleums, statues, monuments will never be erected to me.” For many years such contemporaries as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson obscured him from the gaze of posterity. But in recent years, Adams’s contributions have been reevaluated and the man whom Thomas Jefferson called “a colossus of independence” has assumed his rightful place among his fellow Founders esteemed by history.
Famous Quotes
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – 1772
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” – 1775
Lol
Where’d ya go Pedo, wanna reboot?
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
What am I too stupid to "get"?
Do tell us
LOL
Six weeks into Russia’s punishing war in Ukraine, the world’s food supply is in peril. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that without international assistance, hunger rates in dozens of countries will soar, fomenting “political instability and unrest around the globe.”
Together, Russia and Ukraine supply 30 percent of global wheat exports, and more than half of the world’s sunflower oil, a key cooking ingredient in many countries. The war has dramatically curbed exports from both nations; Ukraine is cut off physically due to port blockages, and Russia because of sanctions.
The fallout has been immediate. Shortages in wheat and oil have caused food prices to soar to record levels around the world. According to the United Nations, the war could cause 7.6 million to 13.1 million more people to go hungry, most of them far from Ukraine’s borders.
Compounding the shortage is that food prices have already been rising due to pandemic-related supply chain issues. Additionally, fertilizer – another top Russian export – is in short supply, making it hard for farmers to sow crops used to feed people and livestock.
It's not Biden’s fault kputz
Together, Russia and Ukraine supply 30 percent of global wheat exports, and more than half of the world’s sunflower oil, a key cooking ingredient in many countries. The war has dramatically curbed exports from both nations; Ukraine is cut off physically due to port blockages, and Russia because of sanctions.
So Rog, I, kdem and rat were right
Thanks for the confirmation
LOL
~~~UNEXPECTANTLY
a favorite word here at Ch Untruth: ~~~~~~~~~UNEXPECTANTLY
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Consumer Sentiment UNEXPECTANTLY RISES
April 14, 2022 at 11:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly rose to A THREE-MONTH HIGH in early April as OPTIMISM about job growth and WAGE EXPECTATIONS MORE THAN OUTWEIGHED DECADES-HIGH INFLATION,”
Bloomberg reports.
link at politicalwire.com
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