But is it racism or just political hatred?
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 75% of American Adults think the term “racism” refers to any discrimination by people of one race against another. Just 15% say it refers only to discrimination by white people against minorities. These findings have changed little in surveys for the past several years. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Eighteen percent (18%) say most white Americans are racist. But 25% believe most black Americans are racist. Fifteen percent (15%) think most Hispanic-Americans are racist, while nearly as many (13%) say the same of most Asian-Americans.
While most Americans believe that black people are the most likely to be racist, I think that the real answer is that White liberals are the biggest racist. Oddly, they are not only racists against Blacks, Hispanics, or Asians. But they are also racists against other White people who they believe are not like them politically.
Now they do not believe they are racist? But they will argue that black people are not as capable as White people of simple tasks like garnering ID or finding a voting polling station. They argue that Hispanics are not otherwise incapable of getting into the US by legal means and are in favor of decriminalizing illegal immigration? They believe there are too many Asians in gifted school programs and in high ranking colleges and that they should be discriminated against on the entrance decisions.
But ultimately they believe that most all white people are racist and that we need to groom our children into that particular thought process. Well, they actually believe that all white people except themselves are racist. They look yo make white children understand that the only redemption to being an inherently White racist is to vote for Democrats, even as actual minorities are starting to vote for Republicans. Eventually that Party will be only woke White racists, and the actual people of color who want handouts and believe in illegal immigration and are okay with discrimination.
Everyone else who doesn't believe race should control society will move on and vote GOP.
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I myself am convinced that blacks are probably a bit more racist than whites, and when I see what has long been going on in America and here on this blog, I can easily understand why.
We are not all racists, but we are all prejudiced, for although we do not choose which racial or ethnic or religious group we are born into, being born into any of them will influence some of our oulooks, our prejudices.
There are even prejudices that are good. For example, as a southern white who lived through years when blacks were especially being mistreated, I am immediately prejudiced FOR any black I see being mistreated, and AGAINST whoever is doing the mistreating.
We all have our prejucices, our predispositions, both good and bad. We cannot help that. But that doesn't mean we have to be out and out RACISTS.
THAT is another matter.
prejudices
Lmao 🤣
Donald Trump has always had problems with telling the truth, an ailment that’s only gotten worse since his single term in office ended. At rallies, he continues to spread falsehoods about the 2020 election, which he lost by over seven million votes. But that’s not the only whopper he’s been telling.
As per Insider, the former president dusted off an old favorite fib: that he won Man of the Year award in Michigan several years ago. He’s been telling this one for ages. Problem is: There is no such award. He made it up. And while he hasn’t mentioned it in a while, on Saturday, at a rally in Michigan, he busted it out again.
This rendition of the lie was more vague than usual, belying its untruth. “And then I was named a long time ago, I was named — did you know this? — a long time, I dunno, your Chamber of Commerce, somebody, who the hell knows what it is, they named me the man of the year in Michigan,” Trump told to a cheering crowd. Maybe they even believe it.
The first time Trump publicly made this claim was in 2016, when he was still running for office. Reporters dedicated time and energy to searching for such an award, in vain. The closest they could find was a Detroit News honor known as “Michiganians of the Year.” But that trophy has never gone to Donald Trump.
Of the many fictions Trump has spread, there’s a subgenre dedicated to fake awards he’s won. Perhaps you remember him boasting about nabbing a “Bay of Pigs Award.” That, too, does not exist. Then again, sometimes he does tell the truth, if accidentally.
Scott thinks that I am a racist because I'm as white as possible.
DNA can lead to racial bias.
This is the kind of stuff I find so fascinating...
Most human attitudes and behaviour have both a genetic and an environmental component. This is also true for our fear of others who are different to us — xenophobia — and intolerance of their viewpoints — bigotry. Hardwired into the brain’s amygdala region is a fear reflex that is primed by encounters with the unfamiliar.
In premodern times, it made sense to be fearful of other groups. They might be violent, steal our resources, or introduce new diseases we are not adapted to. Conversely, it was beneficial to trust those who look similar to us — they are more likely to be related. And when we help these kin, our own genes are more likely to be passed to future generations. What’s more, if the other person reciprocates the good deed, we benefit even more.
Beyond such genetic influences, our human culture strongly influences our attitudes and behaviour, modifying innate human drives – either suppressing them or encouraging them further. Whether we tolerate and trust someone or fear and reject them depends a lot on this culture.
Modern civilisation in general encourages the extension of attitudes such as respect and tolerance beyond those who look similar to us, to those who we have no relation to. We reinforce and codify these values, teaching them to our children, while religious and secular spiritual leaders promote them in their teachings. That’s because they generally lead to a more harmonious, mutually-beneficial society.
The only thing that is good about this situation is that I have been reading about everything that interests me...
https://theconversation.com/is-racism-and-bigotry-in-our-dna-135096
Scott thinks that I am a racist because I'm as white as possible.
You are a racist Roger...
I believe it is because you listen to liberal race baiters who convince you to hate and judge by race rather than content of character. If given the opportunity, these race baiters would gladly groom and indoctrinate everyone into this false and destructive way of thinking.
You, of course, believe you are a racist just because you are white and all white people are racists and privileged according to those who do your thinking for you.
I myself am convinced that blacks are probably a bit more racist than whites, and when I see what has long been going on in America and here on this blog, I can easily understand why.
This is an interesting argument Reverend.
To accept that not only does racism exist, but that it exists based on "what is going on" in America. I am sure your intentions are (as they generally are) one-sided and partisan to make certain people look bad and others look justified...
But let's play it out honestly, openly, objectively, and fairly.
It's possible that most racist people are racist because of "what is going on in America" and that those beliefs have been shaped by media and other forms of stereotypes. How often are young blacks in the movies and television shows portrayed as gang-bangers and criminals? How often are Hispanics portrayed as running drug cartels and such? How often is the Asian the smart one who is taking advanced math?
More to the point, the numbers do not lie. More blacks and hispanics commit crimes statistically, are arrested and incarcerated more than Whites and Asians. We have more Asians (by percentage) getting high level college degrees.
Maybe what "is going on in America" makes it easy for some people to stereotype or even become "racist" about some of these things.
I mean obviously not all white people treat minorities poorly, but that is the message being sent by most race baiters? You all but admit that Blacks are justified to be racist against other races based on "what is going on in America".
You cannot allow circumstances to defend one race, but not others.
As Vladimir Putin continues his brutal attack on Ukraine, a Kremlin-backed TV host in Russia on Tuesday made the case that President Joe Biden should be removed from office and replaced by Donald Trump, whom the host described as a "partner" for Moscow.1
How did Donald Trump respond? With glee.
Instead of rejecting the Kremlin's calls for a coup or condemning Putin's atrocities against Ukrainian citizens, Trump went on a far-right TV program to ask Putin to dig up dirt on President Biden and his son, Hunter—a longtime target of far-right smears.2
It's not just Trump. The entire GOP has turned its back on democracy and embraced many of authoritarianism's ideals—and they simply cannot take control of Congress this November.
You really are the one of those who do your thinking for you.
You can't think objctively.
I think for myself.
I believe “objective” truth.
I’m a liberal because we are the ones who are tolerant and understanding of others, yet I often see how closed-minded we actually are. We want conservatives to have compassion for immigrants, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and those of different faiths.
Despite all this, we constantly neglect the fact that our fellow Americans deserve that same tolerance.
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You really are the one of those who do your thinking for you.
WTF???
Go outside you pathetic old man
Lol@Roger
"Scott people who don't have a college degree, are not very well informed about multiple issues."
Clearly you make that point.
Fox reports that MSNBC and CNN had a bidding war to land White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
She’s expected to leave the White House this spring.
She should try to get on Fox News in prime time.
Agree.
"You are a racist Roger..." CHT
ROGER is the only person on this blog that has abused a woman and one of color.
He said he did.
I’m a liberal because we are the ones who are tolerant and understanding of others,
Are you tolerant of Donald Trump and his supporters or do you actually have the deep seeded resentment and hatred that you appear to have?
Or do you get to intolerantly pick and choose which people should be tolerated and which should be hated? Because that is the very opposite of tolerance.
You have to be able to tolerate those you disagree with.
Scott people who don't have a college degree, can be as well informed about multiple issues as college graduates.
I mentored two people who had masters degrees, how to estimate highly complex hospital projects.
Because I can read and understand highly complex information.
Wsj interest
Mr. Trump’s foreign-policy legacy within the party is more mixed, particularly in the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some Republicans have gravitated toward the former president’s “America First” outlook limiting U.S. engagement abroad, while others say the invasion shows the importance of America’s global leadership.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell emphasizes candidates’ electability to take back control of the 50-50 upper chamber.PHOTO: ERIC LEE/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Republican lawmakers have criticized Mr. Trump over comments about the war, including when he praised some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s initial tactics as “genius.”
Across the Capitol, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is emphasizing candidates’ electability—not Trumpism—to take back control of the 50-50 chamber. He has had a strained relationship with Mr. Trump, and they haven’t talked since December 2020.
“How you feel about former President Trump is irrelevant,” Mr. McConnell said at a Punchbowl News event, calling such a standard for candidates an “illogical litmus test.”
An NBC News poll taken last month found that 40% of Republican respondents considered themselves to be more supporters of Mr. Trump, while 53% considered themselves to be more supporters of the party as a whole. When he was in the White House, polling consistently found more Republicans saying they backed Mr. Trump than the party.
Mr. McConnell and some other Republicans have complained about Mr. Trump’s continued fixation on the 2020 election. The former president still uses his rallies and frequent statements to falsely claim that widespread voter fraud cost him the presidency, and he has criticized Republicans who say President Biden won.
Mr. McConnell is backing the re-election effort of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska), who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his second impeachment trial. Mr. McConnell attempted to recruit several Republicans who have been critical of or have broken with the former president, including Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, to run for Senate.
Others Republicans warned that loyalty to Mr. Trump—not just his policies—remains essential to winning elections.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 75%
Now Lil schitty posting on line polls which he used to criticize all who used them... Now they are gospel since it supports his bias and inane philosophy !!!!!!
Donks grooming children and ignoring their own
In the court documents, she asked a judge to revisit the child support considerations because she plans to be a full-time student at Harvard University for two years.
She claimed a "substantial change of circumstances regarding the welfare of the children" after Warnock's victory, and she alleged in the filing that her ex-husband hasn't reimbursed her for some child care costs that she incurred during time he's scheduled to be with the kids.
The filing singled out certain weekdays when Warnock was set to have responsibility for the children under the agreement but now cannot because of his Senate duties.
"The fact that (Warnock) has failed to reimburse (Ndoye) has left (Ndoye) financially strapped, leaving the children in her care when she should be concentrating on work-related and school-related responsibilities," the filing states.
Ndoye also claimed that when Warnock has reimbursed her, "it has often been accompanied with an extended questioning regarding the value of and need for the services provided."
Oh you Herschel Walker
'You're never, not ever, going to be president': Mike Pence buried for desperate Biden attack
Sarah K. Burris
April 03, 2022
Former Vice President Mike Pence doesn't have a chance joining the ticket again with Donald Trump in 2024, the ex-president has said. Still, Pence is desperately trying to get the Trump crowd to like him.
Appearing on the Fox network Sunday, Pence alleged that President Joe Biden had done more to destroy the United States than any president in history. He didn't give a list of examples, but presumably, he doesn't mean the nearly 8 million jobs created, record reduction in unemployment, and reestablishing the U.S. reputation abroad. Ironically, the Biden administration also decreased the deficit in its first year. Still, Pence complains.
It was something that prompted viewers to ask why Pence is clinging to voters he's never going to win.
The main consensus was that Pence doesn't have a shot in 2024, while others rushed to remind folks that Pence isn't a hero to traitor like you 🤔
Outrage Widens Over Russian Attacks
April 3, 2022 at 10:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Haunting images of dead bodies littering the streets of a Kyiv suburb and reports of civilian executions are triggering new international condemnation against Russia, as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded accountability for what he said amounts to ‘genocide,’”
the WASHINGTON POST reports.
“Ukrainian officials said they have asked the International Criminal Court to visit the mass graves seen in Bucha, a suburb northwest of the capital, so that experts can gather evidence of possible Russian war crimes.”
Clinton Calls for Harsher Punishment of Putin
12:15 pm
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the U.S. to “impose even greater costs” on Russian President Vladimir Putin as punishment for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,
Axios reports.
Said Clinton:
“There are more banks that can be sanctioned and taken out of the so-called SWIFT relationship,” she said. “There is an increasing call for doing more on gas and oil.”
She added:
“I think now is the time to double-down on the pressure.”
Lithuania Cuts Off Russian Gas
12:07 pm
“Lithuania has stopped importing gas from Russia as of the beginning of April, the country’s ministry of energy announced on Saturday,” Axios reports.
Israel Ambassador Denounces Russian War Crimes
April 3, 2022 at 11:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments
Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine denounced the killing of civilians in a Kyiv suburb as a “war crime” on Sunday, in a break from the more restrained rhetoric exhibited by Israeli officials since Russia invaded the former Soviet republic just over a month ago, Haaretz reports.
However, the Israeli Foreign Ministry quickly clarified the Ukraine envoy’s comments saying it is not an official position: “It’s a tweet by the ambassador regarding the photos. He didn’t blame Russia.”
WHO DOES HE BLAME, THEN?
Russians Rally Around Putin
11:54 am
Julia Ioffe:
“Contrary to Western optimism, there is emerging evidence that, after the initial shock and despair of a poorly planned invasion, Russians are now rallying around their flag and their president. Some are refusing to accept anything less than total victory.”
How Kyiv Has Withstood Russia’s Attacks
11:53 am
New York Times:
“Russia vastly underestimated Ukrainians’ resolve to defend their homeland. And a Russian military trained for open spaces has also struggled with basic realities of urban warfare. Even a finely orchestrated military would be challenged by the block-to-block fighting required to secure Kyiv. The Russian army has failed to even surround it.”
Ukraine Winning in the North
11:39 am
White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday the Ukrainians “are winning the war” in the northern part of their country but the overall war is nowhere near won,
Politico reports.
You guys enjoy being on the side of White Supremacist racists in America and Russian genocidists in Ukraine, don't you?
Funny, how the WH phone missing phone records are not as settled as Lil Schitty and his minions breathlessly claimed were resolved......sad how hard they all work to cover the fat ass of the most disingenuous lying sack of shit with every breath they take!!!!!
INSIDER
A Watergate prosecutor says the 457-minute gap in Trump's White House call logs could be masking 'incalculably worse' behavior than Nixon's
A Watergate prosecutor says the 457-minute gap in Trump's White House call logs could be masking 'incalculably worse' behavior than Nixon's
Cheryl Teh
Sun, April 3, 2022, 11:20 PM
Former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump is under scrutiny for a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the White House's call logs on the day of the Capitol riot.Evan Vucci/AP
A Watergate prosecutor compared Donald Trump's phone-log gap to the gap in a Richard Nixon call.
She said Trump's gap might've hidden something more serious than what experts think Nixon omitted.
"A lot can be said in 457 minutes," Jill Wine-Banks wrote of Trump's call-log gap.
A Watergate prosecutor on Saturday compared Donald Trump's missing January 6, 2021, phone logs with a minutes-long gap in one of Richard Nixon's calls related to the scandal that cost Nixon his presidency — and she concluded that Trump's case had the potential to be far more serious.
"It is often said that Nixon's cover-up was worse than his underlying crime. The reverse is potentially true for Trump," Jill Wine-Banks wrote in an op-ed article published by NBC News.
"Trump's records gap is 25 times as long as Nixon's, but his alleged crime could be incalculably worse," she concluded.
Trump is under scrutiny over a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the White House's call logs on the day of the Capitol riot. The absence of these call records has also prompted the House January 6 committee to investigate what one unnamed lawmaker has called a "possible cover-up."
"A lot can be said in 457 minutes," Wine-Banks wrote. "Comparisons to the 18.5-minute gap in a crucial President Richard Nixon recording were immediately obvious to me."
Wine-Banks, who cross-examined Nixon's secretary in 1973 about the gap, also observed she was "not the only to make that connection" between Trump and Nixon.
More salt for the open wounds of LIl Schitty's exuberance that nothing was amiss of the phone records.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022.J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Rep. Jamie Raskin said the gaps in Trump's phone logs on January 6 "suspiciously" align with the "heart of events."
White House call logs during the Capitol riot show a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes.
The House January 6 committee is investigating a "possible cover-up" of the phone records.
The gaps in former President Donald Trump's phone logs on January 6 "suspiciously" coincide with the "heart of events," Rep. Jamie Raskin said on Sunday.
White House call logs during the Capitol riot show a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes, leading the House January 6 committee to investigate a "possible cover-up."
"It's a very unusual thing for us to find that suddenly everything goes dark for a seven-hour period in terms of tracking the movements and the conversations of the president," said the Maryland Democrat, who is also a member of the January 6 committee. "It does seem like the gaps are suspiciously tailored to the heart of the events."
Speaking with Margaret Brennan in an interview on "Face the Nation" on CBS News, Raskin said the committee has been able to "piece together" phone calls that the former president was on.
"But we have no comprehensive, fine-grained portrait of what was going on during that period, and that's obviously of intense interest to us," he said.
Recent reports from CNN also said that Trump frequently would move calls from the White Hosue's in-house phone system to his cellphone. It may partially explain why calls that were corroborated by witnesses didn't show up on the phone log, Insider's Jake Lahut reported.
On Sunday, Raskin said Trump "continues to look for a way to nullify an election that he considers fraudulent." Raskin cited claims by Republican Rep. Mo Brooks that Trump pressured him to "rescind" the 2020 presidential election and remove President Joe Biden from office.
"What we need to do as a country to fortify democratic institutions and processes against future insurrections and coups and attempts to destabilize and overthrow our elections," Raskin said.
Pretty good synopsis of the party of No's excuses for not confiming SCOTUS nominee.....as predicted weeks ago, there would be 1 GOP vote for her while the rest exhibit the hypocrisy and bigotry that remains the mainstay of the party of Lincoln, especially exhibited here with our noble host and his chorus of idiots!!!!!
From Wa Post
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, seems to be getting rave reviews from Republicans. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) said that she is “a person of exceptionally good character, respected by her peers and someone who has worked hard to achieve her current position.” Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) declared that she “has impeccable credentials and a deep knowledge of the law.” Obviously, Judge Jackson exceeds the standard that should apply to Supreme Court nominees: that they be well-qualified, possess an even temperament and sit within the judicial mainstream. Yet Mr. Graham, Mr. Sasse and other Judiciary Committee Republicans are vowing to oppose advancing her nomination when the panel meets on Monday.
The reasons they have concocted are not credible. Mr. Graham voted to confirm Judge Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the second-most powerful court in the country, less than a year ago. Yet Mr. Graham has suddenly concluded that she has a “record of judicial activism.”
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Mr. Sasse complained that Judge Jackson “refused to claim originalism as her judicial philosophy.” In fact, the extent to which she embraced originalism made many liberals uncomfortable. “I believe that the Constitution is fixed in its meaning,” Judge Jackson said in her confirmation hearings. “I believe that it’s appropriate to look at the original intent, original public meaning, of the words when one is trying to assess because, again, that’s a limitation on my authority to import my own policy.” If that is not good enough for Mr. Sasse, he is committing to reject any Supreme Court nominee selected by a Democratic president. Perhaps that is the point.
Senators should not impose an originalism test or a living constitutionalism test or any other crude philosophical standard on judicial nominees. The correct way to interpret the Constitution is open to legitimate debate, each judge — even each originalist judge — is different, and presidents should generally get high-quality picks confirmed. Otherwise the federal judiciary would become more political and less effective.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) announced he would vote against confirming Judge Jackson because she refused to answer questions about expanding the Supreme Court. Yet he rammed through Justice Amy Coney Barrett even though she also avoided answering the question during her confirmation hearings.
I’m a liberal because we are the ones who are tolerant and understanding of others...
I'll remember this the next time a conservative speaker is shouted down at Cal, Cornell, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Yale or any other institution of higher learning in the US.
The truth is, there is no more intolerant person on the planet than the modern American leftist. You cancel and destroy anyone who disagrees with you in the slightest, you intentionally misrepresent any issue you disagree with e.g.: Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' legislation where the word 'gay' appears exactly zero times, and where you're so fucking 'woke' as to wish death upon Clarence Thomas.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/20/justice-clarence-thomas-hospitalized-friday-evening-after-experiencing-flu-like-systems-and-the-left-reacts-just-like-youd-expect/
Leftists are the most intolerant pieces of shit to ever walk the earth.
On this day in 1968, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
I remember very disticly the next morning my mother woke me up to tell me what happened the night before. 🌙
Biden Was Right: Putin Must Go
Max Boot: “The West must continue to ramp up aid to Ukraine, providing it with the kind of heavy combat systems needed to drive back the Russians in the south and east as they have already done in the north. It is good to see the Biden administration getting ready to transfer tanks to Ukraine.”
“Other weapons, including artillery, fighter aircraft and long-range air defense systems, must follow. The only way to achieve peace at this point is not by negotiating with the Russians but by defeating them.”
Garry Kasparov: “So who in Washington is calling the shots on Ukraine? If the Biden administration wants Ukraine to win, someone in the White House should say it and do what is necessary to make it possible. If the U.S. is offering deals to Mr. Putin or pressuring Ukraine to accept anything less than sovereignty over 100% of its territory, we should know. Tactical ambiguity can be useful, but a lack of strategic and moral unity and consistency leads to catastrophe.”
rrb wants Putin to succeed. Because he's a fascist.
Distinctly auto fill sucks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/03/atrocities-are-the-russian-way-of-war/
I'll remember this the next time a conservative speaker is shouted down at Cal, Cornell, Middlebury, Dartmouth,
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You like it better when trump yells at reporters and voters promising to pay legal bills if they beat the shit out of protestors......Yeah rat, you are a fucking moron!!!!
The American Thinker agrees with Biden and me and James and anonymous.
Regarding Putin and Power, Joe Biden was Right
By Ed Sherdlu
For the second time in as many years, Joe Biden was right. Putin cannot remain in power in Moscow. Biden’s other correct statement was his choice of Chocolate Chip as the best ice cream. The problem is that Biden’s latest comment verifies perilous times for all of us.
As predicted here months ago, Putin has now painted himself into an inescapable box. His Ukrainian adventurism had three possible outcomes. First, by massing Russian troops on the border, Putin might have scared Ukraine and the West into significant concessions without firing a shot. Putin would then have been hailed as the most powerful man in the world. That title goes well with his 495-foot yacht with the gold toilet paper dispensers.
If that didn’t work, the Russian invasion plan predicted leading elements of Moscow’s 1st Guards Tank Army enjoying lunch at Le Cosmopolite on Vladimirskaya Street in Kyiv within a week of crossing the border. The borscht with garlic fritters, followed by Chicken Kyiv in the main dining room there, is not to be missed.
The third possibility was so remote that it was quickly dismissed. Defeat or a stalemate was never seriously considered. Putin’s advisors told him the Ukrainians would either welcome their Slavic Brothers with open arms or Ukrainian army resistance would evaporate in mere moments, just like Biden’s thought patterns. Of course, everyone expected wimpy NATO would do nothing. Even better for Russia, the easy victory in Ukraine would open the way for a Red Army march west to the Baltic. That would fulfill Putin’s dream of reclaiming the glory of a reunited Soviet Union as Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia again became Russian puppets.
One of Tom Clancy’s characters once correctly stated, “Russians don’t take a dump without a plan.” Putin’s plan predicted easy success. But Putin’s generals forgot Erwin Rommel’s military maxim; “No battle plan ever survives the first contact with the enemy.” George Armstrong Custer proved how correct that is.
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I have been to The Custer Battlefield many times and driven past it properly 20 times.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/regarding_putin_and_power_joe_biden_was_right.html
rrb wants Putin to succeed. Because he's a fascist.
I don't give a shit who succeeds over there alky. Not even a little bit. What I would like to see is the Euro-weenies cleaning up their own fucking mess for a fucking change.
Ukraine - Not my clowns, not my circus.
We're so ass-deep in serious problems here in the US, virtually ALL of them intentionally caused by the drooling dementia boy YOU clowns installed in the white house, I just don't have the bandwidth to give a shit about anything outside the US.
Putin? Kill him for all I care. Zelensky? Kill his ass too for all I care. Those clowns die today, my life changes not one bit.
We have an economy that is in absolute shambles, a southern border invasion that has allowed 2 MILLION third-world-shithole scumbags to enter the US illegally so far, homelessness and violent crime at historic highs, and a public education system hell-bent on destroying our youth. All of this intentional and self-inflicted.
And just how did I get to this point of not caring? Leftists have hardened me. I'm the 'anti-woke', alky. the exact and precise opposite of 'woke.'
Everything that you fucking 'woke' assholes favor, I oppose. And this week that's Ukraine.
Try to imagine just how little I care. Take your cute little Ukraine flag pin and shove it up your ass.
Another chapter in the continuing "Get woke, go broke" saga:
Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation.
The island country is currently reeling from a severe economic crisis that has triggered food shortages and rolling blackouts as the COVID pandemic sent the tourism-dependent economy into a tailspin.
Agricultural chemicals such as fertiliser were among the imports banned last year as authorities tried to save dwindling foreign currency reserves. The restrictions were lifted months later after farmer protests and crop failures.
The government will pay 40,000 million rupees ($200m) to farmers whose harvests were affected by the chemical fertiliser ban, agriculture minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said on Tuesday.
“We are providing compensation to rice farmers whose crops were destroyed,” he told reporters. “We will also compensate those whose yields suffered without proper fertiliser.”
The government will spend another $149m on a price subsidy for rice farmers, he added.
About a third of Sri Lanka’s agricultural land was left dormant last year because of the import ban.
The restrictions also led to angry protests from farmers, an important political constituency of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Rajapaksa told a United Nations food summit last year that the policy was aimed at ensuring “greater food security and nutrition” and encouraged other nations to follow Sri Lanka’s example.
Instead, the lack of imported farm chemicals compounded the island’s economic crisis, with food shortages forcing shops to ration sugar, lentils and other essentials.
The country is short of fuel for the transport sector and power utilities unable to pay for oil have rationed electricity. Cooking gas is also in short supply, forcing households to use firewood to prepare meals.
Despite the end of the chemical ban, importers say they have been unable to replenish stocks because commercial banks lack foreign exchange to pay for new supplies.
Food inflation in Sri Lanka hit a record 21.5 percent last month with vegetables and other staples still in short supply in the wake of the organic drive.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/26/sri-lanka-200-million-compensation-farmers-organic-crops-drive
I don't give a shit who succeeds over there alky. Not even a little bit.
Which gives credence to why you hate America's successes!!!!!!! And suddenly he gives a shit about Sri Lanka......you really are a fucking joke rat.....take your head out of your old white ass and wake up!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
RRB, correct, another in a long list of "get woke, go broke".
Biden promised to increase food production by giving land to "black only farmers".
Stupid Socialism results in "there will be food shortages" Biden
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Goat fucker the woke dead of the GOP and its leader of idiots!!!!!!!!!
anonymous said...
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Goat fucker the woke dead of the GOP and its leader of idiots!!!!!!!!!
Who said VERY lo iq couldn't learn anything?
He learned alky speak
ROFLMFAO !!!
* and how to bleat
Biden should release CRP land ad open up Federal Lands to increase US Food Production.
Teaching the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT is what I do.
Fungible.
"Swedish farmers may be forced to reduce their harvests by as much as half due to a shortage of manure and fertilizers"
* but not how to think
open up Federal Lands to increase US Food Production.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Yeah, all that forest land can be cleared of trees and scrub to farm.......maybe pipe in water to the Sonoran desert would work too.......god gave you a brain,....try using it!!!!!!!
Today's lesson:
Be woke, go broke
Appeals Court Upholds Huge Verdict: Woke Oberlin College Must Pay $31M to Bakery It Smeared as Racist
Oberlin College must pay a record $31 million to a mom-and-pop bakery that accused the school of ruining its business with false accusations of racism, according to three judges on the Ninth District Court of Appeals, which issued a 3-0 decision upholding a 2019 ruling in the case. The award is the largest defamation verdict in Ohio history.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/04/03/appeals-court-upholds-huge-verdict-woke-oberlin-college-must-pay-31m-to-bakery-it-smeared-as-racist/
Outrage Widens Over Russian Attacks
"Haunting images of dead bodies littering the streets of a Kyiv suburb and reports of civilian executions are triggering new international condemnation against Russia, as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded accountability for what he said amounts to ‘genocide,’”
the Washington Post reports.
“Ukrainian officials said they have asked the International Criminal Court to visit the mass graves seen in Bucha, a suburb northwest of the capital, so that experts can gather evidence of possible Russian war crimes.”
How Trump Could Win the Midterms for Democrats
April 4, 2022 at 4:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Robert Reich:
“I know the conventional wisdom about midterm elections — the party in power loses big — and I’ve lived through enough midterms to know that the conventional wisdom is mostly correct. Does this make Biden and the Democrats toast when it comes to retaining control of the House and Senate? No — especially because of one huge loose cannon aimed at the Republican Party: Donald Trump.”
LOL
By Taegan Goddard
Robert Reich
ROFLMFAO !!!
the "pastor" and his Gospel according to GODdard
what a pair
they are spectacular
spectacularly wrong
how many hoaxes have they tried to get to stick ?
must be frustrating
ROFLMFAO !!!
Jonathan Turley
https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1510608187640233989
Biden's defense puts the media and DOJ in an absolutely untenable position. The President "absolutely" stands by his son and the media absolutely stands by the President. The question is whether Garland will stand by justice and appoint a special counsel.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3257164-bidens-absolute-defense-of-hunter-leaves-media-and-justice-department-in-a-muddle/
Biden has become an albatross on the democrat party
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government’s sanctions initiative to “seize and freeze” giant boats and other pricey assets of Russian elites.
Spain’s Civil Guard and U.S. federal agents descended on the yacht at the Marina Real in the port of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police going in and out of the boat on Monday morning.
The joint operation to seize the yacht, with Spain’s Civil Guard, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, was carried out at the request of U.S. authorities, the Civil Guard said.
A Civil Guard source told The Associated Press that the immobilized yacht is Tango, a 78-meter (254-feet) vessel that carries Cook Islands flag and that Superyachtfan.com, a specialized website that tracks the world’s largest and most exclusive recreational boats, values at $120 million. The source was also not authorized to be named in media reports and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
Jonathan Turley
https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1510704118184222721
NBC's Chuck Todd interviewed Hillary Clinton just days after the FEC fined her campaign for hiding the funding of the Steele Dossier as "legal costs." The campaign lied repeatedly to reporters but Todd did not ask a single question on the FEC sanction.
FAKE NEWS
arm of democrat party
1984
Educating The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Daily.
Yes, we use Federal Lands to graze cattle, sheep, goats ....
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PUBLIC LANDS
What’s getting more expensive? Everything but grazing fees.Fees to ranch on public lands will remain the same despite dizzying inflation felt by consumers.
Kylie Mohr Feb. 9, 2022
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Cattle graze along the Snake River-Mormon Basin Back Country Byway, Oregon.
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Inflation may be at a 40-year high, but the cost of grazing on public lands is lower now than it was 40 years ago, in 1981. Last week, the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service announced federal grazing fees for 2022: Just $1.35.
Grazing fees dictate how much ranchers pay for each “animal unit” — one cow and calf, one horse or five sheep — per month. This year’s fee — just $1.35 per animal unit — keeps the grazing costs at the same rate since 2019, when Trump’s BLM lowered the fee from $1.41. Fees apply to roughly 18,000 BLM grazing permits and leases and 6,250 Forest Service permits; income is funneled to rangeland betterment funds, the U.S. Treasury, and the states where the grazing occurs."
Byron York
FORM:
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1509506315982417921
Sen. Grassley: 'There’s no middle man in this transaction. This is $100,000 from what is effectively an arm of the communist Chinese government direct to Hunter Biden. To the liberal media and my Democratic colleagues: is this official bank document Russian disinformation?'
FAKE NEWS:
silence
No questions, no reporting on, hey did you see Putin's yacht ?
1984
Educating The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Daily.
2012 President Barack Obama
��Nearly 4 Million Acres of Land Open to Haying and Grazing; USDA Drought Response Continues
August 1, 2012 | USDA
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government’s sanctions initiative to “seize and freeze” giant boats and other pricey assets of Russian elites.
This is cool. We can just take your shit because we don't like you, or don't like someone you might happen to be associated with.
Just like that.
Because all of the cool kids approve.
Whee.
RRB,
Notice how little the left knows about food production?
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1509961361656266761
Now that Psaki is headed to MSNBC, will Joy Reid be complaining about them hiring yet another white person?
FAKE NEWS
arm of democrat party
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1510697691197722625
I feel like there should be a registry for teachers in Florida who quit after they couldn't teach 5 year olds about sex anymore.
isn't that just a list of voters registered as democrats?
This is cool. We can just take your shit because we don't like you, or don't like someone you might happen to be associated with.
Just like that.
Because all of the cool kids approve.
Whee.
Animal Farm
Banana Republic
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
RRB,
Notice how little the left knows about food production?
Indeed. And they have no desire to learn. They just want to be seen at the farmers markets with their NPR tote bags.
And while gas prices are a pain in the ass, keep your eye on diesel prices to understand the breadth and depth of inflation and corresponding recession. Diesel is central to food production AND food delivery.
It is truly shocking how little Pres. Biden knows.
He want more beef production. Ok in 27 months We Ranchers will deliver.
"diesel prices to understand the breadth and depth of inflation and corresponding recession. Diesel is central to food production AND food delivery."
Oh yes
Educating The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT Daily
To respond to immediate needs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other federal agencies are using their existing authorities wherever possible to address the hardships arising from the lack of water, feed, and forage. Within the last month, USDA has opened the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency haying and grazing, has lowered the borrower interest rate for emergency loans, and has called on crop insurance companies to provide more flexibility to farmers. The Department of the Interior has provided additional grazing flexibility on federal lands and the Small Business Administration is working to help with access to investment capital and credit in affected communities.
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, President Obama convened his White House Rural Council
NATO leaders suggest eastern expansion could still be on table
By Annabelle Timsit
NATO countries have made statements in recent days suggesting that eastern expansion could still be on the table for the security alliance, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — which Moscow has partly justified as needed to rein in Ukrainian ambitions of joining NATO — enters its 40th day.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was asked Sunday in an interview with CNN whether the organization expects to receive a membership application from Finland and nearby countries. He said NATO has had productive conversations with the government of Finland and Sweden, and speculated that their applications would be “very much welcomed,” and possibly fast-tracked, if they decided to apply.
Stoltenberg, who is from Norway, a founding NATO member that shares a border with Russia, said it is for individual nations to decide whether they want to join the alliance. In March, a Russian official threatened Finland and Sweden with retaliation if they joined NATO, in remarks published by Russian news agency Interfax.
This is really exciting:
"Removing the IRGC from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list is a non-nuclear related concession to Iran which would reward terrorist blackmail, allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States, weaken law enforcement's ability to go after those providing support or resources to the IRGC, and make it harder to hold those outside U.S. soil criminally accountable for helping the IRGC," according to the policy analysis, which was distributed on Friday to 160 congressional offices and obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/new-iran-nuclear-deal-could-allow-iranian-terrorists-into-us/
NATO countries have made statements in recent days suggesting that eastern expansion could still be on the table for the security alliance, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — which Moscow has partly justified as needed to rein in Ukrainian ambitions of joining NATO — enters its 40th day.
This is nothing short of absolute brilliance.
One of the main reasons Russia attacked Ukraine to begin with was Russia's perceived threat from the eastern expansion of NATO which would include adding Ukraine as a member.
So by making this announcement NATO has justified Russia's aggression, and encouraged it's continuance.
Awesome. The adults are most definitely in charge now.
Whee.
Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities
Associated Press
Oleksandr Stashenhevsky and Nebi Quena
April 4, 2022, 8:22 AM
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation on Monday after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some Western leaders called for further sanctions in response, even as Moscow continued to press its offensive in the country's east.
Germany's defense minister suggested the European Union discuss a ban on Russian gas imports, but more senior officials indicated an immediate boycott was not possible — a sign that leaders could struggle in the short-term to ramp up already severe sanctions on Russia.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that were recaptured from Russian forces in recent days. In Bucha, northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists saw 21 bodies. One group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site that residents said Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to have been shot at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
In Motyzhyn, to the west of Kyiv, AP journalists saw the bodies of four people who appeared to have been shot at close range and thrown into a pit. Residents said the mayor, her son, and her husband — who had been bound and blindfolded — were among them.
The images of battered corpses lying in the streets or hastily dug graves unleashed a wave of outrage that could signal a turning point in the nearly 6-week-old war. But sanctions have thus far failed to halt the offensive, and rising energy prices along with tight controls on the Russian currency market have blunted their impact, with the ruble rebounding strongly after initially crashing.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before, and the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has opened a probe to investigate the conflict. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation even further, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some Western leaders going so far as to accuse Russia of genocide.
In a video shown during the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas for musicians and other artists, Zelenskyy implored them to support his nation and “fill the silence with your music.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” He said the mayor of Bucha made no mention of atrocities a day after Russian troops left last week, but two days later scores of bodies were photographed scattered in the streets.
He said Russia is pushing for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the matter, but the U.K., which currently chairs the body, has refused to convene it. The United States and Britain have accused Russia in recent weeks of using Security Council meetings to spread disinformation.
European leaders, meanwhile, left no doubt about who they thought was behind the killings.
contributed.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said “the Russian authorities are responsible for these atrocities, committed while they had effective control of the area.”
“The perpetrators of war crimes and other serious violations as well as the responsible government officials and military leaders will be held accountable,” he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new measures. “I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki described Russia as a “totalitarian-fascist state," saying “the bloody massacres perpetrated by Russian soldiers deserve to be called by name: This is genocide." Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also used the word “genocide,” saying those responsible should answer for their crimes.
The crime of genocide is difficult to prove, as prosecutors would have to show that the killers or their commanders had a “specific intent” to partially or wholly destroy a group of people.
In the meantime, the U.S. and its allies have sought to punish Russia for the invasion by imposing sweeping economic sanctions. But they may be reluctant to impose measures that cause further harm to a global economy still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. As a major oil and gas exporter, Russia stands to benefit from any rise in already high global energy prices.
Europe is in a particular bind, since it gets 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia. Governments have been scrambling to find ways to reduce that reliance without causing a substantial loss of economic output.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, said Europe can go “significantly further” in imposing sanctions against Russia. But he said Germany is right to take a longer-term approach to abandoning Russian energy imports.
Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting gas will take longer.
“We are working every day on creating the conditions for and steps toward an embargo,” Habeck said. "We are on the right track.”
Wolfgang Buechner, a German government spokesman, meanwhile said Putin and his supporters “will feel the consequences,” of additional measures to be approved in the coming days, without elaborating.
Asked on ARD television Sunday evening whether there should be a halt to gas deliveries, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht replied that “exactly that” should be discussed by EU ministers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion has killed thousands of people and forced more than 4 million Ukrainians to flee their country. Putin has said the attack is aimed at eliminating a security threat and demanded that Ukraine drop its bid to join the NATO military alliance of Western countries. Ukraine insists it never posed any threat but has offered to officially declare itself neutral.
The head of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia has said Moscow’s negotiators informally agreed to most of a draft proposal discussed during talks in Istanbul, but no written confirmation has been provided.
While Western officials initially said they believed Putin's goal was to take Kyiv and potentially install a Kremlin-friendly government, Russian forces faced stiff resistance outside the capital and on other fronts, and have now retreated from some areas. Moscow says it is currently focusing its offensive on the Donbas in the country’s east, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for years.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia continued to flood soldiers and mercenaries from the Wagner private military group into the Donbas. It said Russian troops are still trying to take the region's strategic port city of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting and some of the worst suffering of the war.
“Mariupol is almost certainly a key objective of the Russian invasion," the ministry said, "as it will secure a land corridor from Russia to the occupied territory of Crimea,” in the south, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military said its forces had retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region and humanitarian aid was being delivered.
Too Much for Tulsi
9:37 am
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who has often said nice things about Russian president Vladimir Putin, changed her tune on Twitter:
“President Putin, not only is your brutal attack on Ukraine reprehensible, it has been a huge geopolitical error which has already cost Russia dearly. Those costs will get higher every day you remain in Ukraine. So it is in the best interest of the Russian people and the people of Ukraine, that you pull your forces out now. It is still not too late to salvage the kinship felt between the Russian and Ukrainian people.”
TRUMP WILL NOT BE PLEASED.
Exiled Oligarch Calls on Others to Break with Putin
9:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the self-exiled Russian oligarch and vocal Kremlin opponent, has called on Russian billionaires and officials who have fled Russia to publicly denounce President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as criminal,”
the Washington Post reports.
Trump’s Social Media App Has Bombed
Read about it at politicalwire.com.
Also this:
Iran Says Nuclear Deal Is Close
Iran said that it thinks a revival of the nuclear deal with the U.S. is close to happening,
Bloomberg reports.
Joe Biden has called for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes and said he would seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, the US president noted the importance of gathering evidence of war crimes and was asked if genocide had been committed. He replied: “No, I think it’s a war crime.”
‘They were all shot’: Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion
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He said: “I’m going to continue to add more sanctions.” Asked for details, he said: “I’ll let you know.”
Iran said that it thinks a revival of the nuclear deal with the U.S. is close to happening,
RAT'S HEAD EXPLODES!!!!!!!!
So by making this announcement NATO has justified Russia's aggression,
YOU REALLY MAKE THAT BOX OF ROCKS LOOK SMART!!!!! RAT!!!!!!!
You really are dumber than it seems!!!!!!
rrb wants Putin to win.
Bidenomics, so much losing.
Factory orders Feb.-0.5%
Ouch
This is how the President should do.
Biden, who first came into political office in the middle of the energy crisis in 1973, has the opportunity to act more like Franklin Roosevelt than Nixon or Carter. Biden should immediately impose across-the-board price controls on gas and oil. He can do this because he has options that didn’t exist in the 1970s: the US is more independent, more energy efficient, more invested in alternative fuels – and, as the 1991 Gulf war showed, more willing to defend the free flow of global oil. Indeed, Biden has promised, “I’m going to take robust action and make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy, not ours.”
The horrific images coming from Ukraine give Biden some breathing space, as is evident in the polls showing bipartisan support for tough action against Russia, that his predecessors didn’t have. Even as he has shown restraint, Biden sees Putin’s actions as a struggle between democracy and autocracy. He took aim at companies exploiting the moment. “To the oil and gas companies, and to the finance firms – we understand that Putin’s war against the people of Ukraine is causing prices to rise, we get that, that’s self-evident,” he said.
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He added: “It’s no excuse to exercise excessive price increases, or padding profits, or any kind of effort to exploit this situation or American consumers.”
Biden has a chance to rally the country. He can call for lower speed limits, encourage Americans who are able to continue working from home, and ask everyone to conserve. But he should also go further. Now is the time to push hard on a big, robust progressive agenda.
He should start with targeted price controls on oil and gas. The oil companies, which are reaping substantial windfall profits, should not use this moment to enrich themselves but rather to rally and stand behind consumers in the fight against Putin. At a moment of war, when the market is functioning under massive stress, governments should step in to set prices; they should be high enough to attract capital and investment but not so high as to allow Putin to fuel his war machine and harm the global economy.
As he did in the State of the Union address, Biden should also push for the rest of his agenda to lower costs for American families, from rent control to an investigation into meat prices, to caps on prescription drug prices to college debt forgiveness to subsidized child care. In truth gas prices, as much as they are the most visible tracker of inflation, comprise a small amount of consumer spending – especially compared with these other essential items.
Factory orders down 2.0% from prior report.
At a time when Biden wanted more US Production.
Finally, Biden should fight for his clean energy agenda, and he should promote it as a jobs act that will bring growth and independence. The bipartisan infrastructure bill was a historic first step. In 1956, Eisenhower passed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act in the name of national security. The time has come to rebrand Build Back Better into the American Security and Democracy Act and pass it.
Putin’s war presents an opportunity to defend democracy, shore up American security, and chart a path toward a fossil-free future. It is time for Biden to embrace the Rooseveltian tradition of using government in times of turmoil. By doing so, he will strengthen our nation, and the resolve of voters, to support the tough steps that will be essential to containing and rolling back Russian aggression.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/04/joe-biden-us-russia-energy-oil-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Watch: President Biden calls for Russia’s ‘brutal’ Putin to be tried for war crimes
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
April 04, 2022
Monday morning President Joe Biden called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes after the weekend delivered horrific news reports and images documenting at least hundreds of murders and violent rapes of Ukrainian civilians by Russian soldiers.
"You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal," Biden said on the White House lawn. "Well, the truth of the matter, you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him – he is a war criminal."
"Well, we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the details so this can be – have an actual war crimes trial."
"This guy is brutal. And what's happening to Buka is outrageous. And everyone's seen it."
https://www.rawstory.com/watch-president-biden-calls-for-russias-brutal-putin-to-be-tried-for-war-crimes/
Biden should immediately impose across-the-board price controls on gas and oil.
This is the single dumbest fucking idea out of all the ideas to come out of the left in recent memory.
Price controls encourage companies to produce LESS of a product, creating shortages.
That the call for this is coming from a Princeton history professor is not the least bit surprising.
"This guy is brutal. And what's happening to Buka is outrageous. And everyone's seen it."
You might want definitive proof that Putin is responsible before you construct the gallows.
This might be a return to bottom up economics.
Organizing workers in the United States is almost always hard because corporations fight so fiercely against unionization, but if any workplace was considered impossible to unionize, it was an Amazon warehouse. First, because Amazon has famously mounted such ferocious, full-court presses to stifle unionization efforts. And second, because unionizing a warehouse with thousands of workers is logistically daunting. Nonetheless, last week a tiny, new, underfunded union managed to pierce Amazon’s Maginot Line at an 8,000-employee warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
As a result of that huge upset victory, executives across corporate America are no doubt wondering whether their carefully constructed anti-union defenses are nearly as impregnable as they thought, and whether their decades of being “union free” will soon be over. C-suite concern is warranted, but a surge of unionization that increases worker power and pressures corporations to share more of their profits is far from guaranteed. Union leaders across the nation would have to rise to the occasion—and so far that’s not happening.
The victory at Amazon, as well as a string of such victories at Starbucks that started with a café in Buffalo, New York, reflects teeming pro-union excitement among many workers, especially young workers. The secret of the union successes at Starbucks and at Amazon on Staten Island was to largely use rank-and-file worker activists to reach out to their co-workers to organize and mobilize them, knowing how unhappy many of their co-workers were. At Amazon, Starbucks, and other corporations, many workers believe that their bosses have treated them shabbily during the pandemic, are angry that their wages have merely inched up while corporate profits and Wall Street have soared to record after record, are fearful that their pay won’t keep up with inflation, are exasperated that their company often ignores their suggestions about how to improve working conditions. After years of being told that the way to improve your economic lot is to lift yourself up by your bootstraps, many young workers—often inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders—have come to realize that the best way to lift themselves up is through collective power. That is, by unionizing.
That the call for this is coming from a Princeton history professor is not the least bit surprising.
And was published in a London paper
LOL
...as well as a string of such victories at Starbucks that started with a café in Buffalo, New York...
I laughed at this when it first occurred. Thanks for the laugh AGAIN, alky.
In Buffalo no one goes to Starbucks. Everyone goes to Tim Horton's.
https://www.timhortons.com/store-locator
LOL.
Starbucks "barista's" - "We formed a union and no one STILL wants to drink our shit overpriced coffee."
LOL.
Where the alky stole his goonion diatribe:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/how-build-union-victory-amazon-staten-island/629464/
Biden: Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha killings
Associated Press
Aamer Madhani
April 4, 2022, 10:51 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called for war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal”
Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions “genocide” and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide.
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova, said. Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
“We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual — have a war crimes trial,” Biden said.
Biden lashed out at Putin as “brutal.”
"What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it,” Biden added.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that he European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general “document war crimes."
9:52 Even Tulsi agrees.
who wants to tell her -
Hillary Clinton Doesn't Understand Why People Don't Appreciate Everything Democrats Are Doing for Them
“I’m not quite sure what the disconnect is between the accomplishments of the administration and this Congress and the understanding of what’s been done and the impact it will have on the American public and some of the polling and the ongoing hand-wringing,” Clinton told Todd.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/04/04/hillary-clinton-doesnt-understand-why-more-people-dont-appreciate-the-democrats-n1586732
rrb doesn't believe that these satellite videos are fake news because he is a traitor and fascist
https://www.axios.com/satellite-images-bucha-ukraine-mass-grave-site-f64b16c5-0778-45b3-a490-dd1eceffe6bc.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/how-build-union-victory-amazon-staten-island/629464/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
rrb doesn't believe that these satellite videos are fake news because he is a traitor and fascist
On the contrary alky, I think it's quite possible those satellite videos are fake news. And that's exactly why I'm taking a wait and see attitude until they are independently confirmed.
Remember 'Baghdad Bob' and 'Blue Helmet Guy?' The two of them peddled astronomical amounts of bullshit. Bullshit that you and your fellow leftist asshats fell for, and begrudgingly acknowledged was false only after a mountain of incontrovertible evidence.
I don't give a fuck how many sat videos you have. It doesn't prove who did it, and that's what I seek.
Look alky, we know you're a simpleton who runs on pure emotion with zero rational thought. That's on YOU, pal.
I'm sorry. Did I say "Blue" helmet guy?
It should read "GREEN Helmet" guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Daher
Qana controversy
Main article: 2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies
On July 30, 2006, Daher was present at the scene of the Qana bombing, which occurred only about 12 km from his office at Tyre, and was photographed there by the international media. The pictures depicted him carrying dead children away from the site of the bombing, while wearing the green helmet that led to his nickname. He issued widely quoted casualty figures for the bombing at Qana. He cited 51 fatalities including 22 children,[5] though later reports revised this to a lower figure of 28, including 16 children.[6]
The 2006 photographs and footage led to a number of websites labelling Daher the "Green Helmet", in reference to his distinctive headgear, and accusing him of being a member of Hezbollah and of using bodies for propaganda purposes.[3] One website published a video that it asserted showed Daher arranging for a child's body to be taken off an ambulance to be displayed for photographers.[1] British author Richard North asserted that Daher had taken control of the scene "to orchestrate false photo opportunities with the dead bodies". North later admitted to Jefferson Morley of the Washington Post that he had no evidence that Daher was connected to Hezbollah and, as he put it, "All I have to go on is gut instinct."[7]
The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse news agencies, whose photographers had taken the "Green Helmet" pictures, all denied that the pictures from Qana had been staged. The Washington Post's photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez rejected the claims of staging, commenting: "Everyone was dead, many of them children. Nothing was set up. There was no way photos could have been altered with a dozen photographers there." The Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, reviewed the pictures published by the newspaper and reported that they "didn't show any obvious manipulation."[8]
The Associated Press was eventually able to identify "Green Helmet" as Salam Daher and interviewed him twice. He strongly denied having anything to do with Hezbollah, stating that the blog allegations were not true and that he was not affiliated with any party. He told the agency: "I am just a civil defense worker. I have done this job all my life."[3] Commenting on his display of some of the bodies at Qana, he said: "I did hold the baby up, but I was saying 'look at who the Israelis are killing. They are children. These are not fighters. They have no guns. They are children, civilians they are killing.'" He told the Associated Press that he had no regrets or apologies: "I wanted people to see who was dying. They said they were killing fighters. They killed children."[1]
On August 13, 2006, Daher was reported to have been lightly injured in an Israeli attack near a hospital in Tyre shortly before a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in the conflict came into effect.[9]
BUCHA, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russian forces as murderers and rapists as the extent of killings in towns surrounding Kyiv began to emerge, vowing to prosecute what he called war crimes as Russia ramped up attacks in the east of the country.
More than 100 civilians were found buried in mass graves in the commuter town of Bucha after Russian troops withdrew last week, sparking an outcry from Western leaders and adding to the pressure on the Biden administration and its European allies to take stronger action against Moscow.
President Biden called for a war-crimes trial over Bucha, and said Russian President Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for the war in Ukraine.
“We have to get all the detail so this can be an actual war-crime trial. This guy is brutal and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone has seen it,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House on Monday, adding that Washington was seeking additional sanctions against Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for additional sanctions on Russian oil and coal, despite the pain it would inflict on Europe’s economies.
“It is very clear today that there are clear indications of war crimes,” Mr. Macron said on French radio. “It was more or less established that this is the Russian army.”
Ukrainians Buried in Bucha Mass Graves Amid Allegations of War Crimes
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Bodies were buried in mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and the dead littered the street, sparking international condemnation. The Ukrainian president called Russian troops in Bucha evil and missiles hit the port city of Odessa. Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
Ukrainian soldiers and police said Monday they were clearing Bucha of booby traps set by fleeing Russian forces. An explosion sounded but combat engineers crowding the sidewalk near the town’s administrative headquarters paid little notice.
There were signs that normal life was gradually returning. A girl in a purple helmet rode a bicycle past a destroyed coronavirus clinic. A couple walked four dogs off the leash. Crowds lined up at the central hospital to receive medicine and a hot meal.
In the hospital’s backyard, Leonid Cherkassky, the informal coordinator of Bucha’s humanitarian effort, loaded food into a white van for delivery to retirees.
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“We’ve stopped being afraid,” Mr. Cherkassky said. “We’re free people. Bucha was occupied but not taken.”
In the early afternoon, Mr. Zelensky arrived in Bucha in a convoy of military and police cars, wearing a tactical army jacket and pants and an armored vest. He strode into the hospital amid a formation of guards.
In a video address the night before, Mr. Zelensky said hundreds of people had been killed in the area surrounding the capital and vowed to hold the perpetrators to account. “Concentrated evil has come to our land. Murderers. Torturers. Rapists. Looters. Who call themselves the army. And who deserve only death after what they did,” he said.
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Rrb thinks he is a fascit because he believes Putin
Rrb thinks he is a fascit because he believes Putin
I'm not sure what a "fascit" is, and I don't believe anyone over there alky. Not Putin and not Zalenskyy.
Which is why I seek independent verification of the atrocities.
You simply don't possess the intellectual horsepower to comprehend what I'm saying, do you alky? It's ok. We have the "Special Olympics" specifically for folks like you.
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