Because check me if I am wrong, but we are pretty much doing everything in our power to prolong, finance, and fuel the fans of the war... under the pretense that we are trying to "defeat" Russia. Be serious here folks. If we wanted this war to end with Putin's eventual demise, we could do that in likely a few days at this point.
What we are doing is reminiscent of how we handled the Korean and Vietnam wars. We had both eyes on the politics and zero on the actual war itself. There is no reason why the entire Western civilizations could not conceivably defeat the Russian forces within a short period of time. Of course, we are less concerned with winning and more concerned with "escalation" and the political ramifications of such a move.
What we seem to be doing is prolonging the bloodbath by providing the means for the Ukrainians to keep the war going. Perhaps they can eventually win or perhaps they end up in eventual defeat. But just providing a dwindling army with additional supplies may or may not make the difference in this war. The only thing we can guarantee is more death, more destruction, and escalation. The main question is what are we really wanting to accomplish?
220 comments:
1 – 200 of 220 Newer› Newest»Another stupid fucking question from lipid cesspool of Lil Schitty' no mantra.......Yes it will be prolonged and as long as the Ukes keep fighting for freedom from Putin....that is all an answer any dumb fuck like you needs!!!!!!!! You keep fighting trump won with no evidence while real patriots are fighting for their country which you are not!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
IT'S TIME TO HOLD THE GOP ACCOUNTABLE
watch the video
read the article
https://www.aol.com/news/u-judge-rejects-rnc-request-091635172-114818540.html
READ THE ARTICLE:
U.S. judge rejects RNC request to shelve subpoena against email vendor
Reuters
May 2, 2022, 7:48 AM
By Akriti Sharma
(Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge dismissed a request by the Republican National Committee to block a subpoena asking its email vendor to release records to the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The RNC sued the House panel on March 9 after it issued a subpoena to Salesforce Inc, which organizes donor information for the committee.
The House Select Committee, formed in July, said it wanted to understand the flow of emails from the RNC in the weeks before the attack on the Capitol that claims the 2020 election was stolen.
In an order late on Sunday, U.S. District judge Timothy Kelly tossed out the RNC's claims that the subpoena to Salesforce was "overbroad" and "seeks sensitive and proprietary data," according to court records.
"The RNC argues that the Select Committee lacks the proper authorization to wield investigative power on behalf of the House on three grounds," Kelly said in the 53-page opinion.
"But for a few reasons, especially given the House's own reading of the authorizing resolution, the Court cannot agree."
However, Kelly also temporarily barred Salesforce from releasing any records to the Jan. 6 committee until May 5, giving the RNC time to appeal.
The RNC had claimed that the subpoena was a "fishing expedition" that would "chill the RNC and its supporters' First Amendment rights."
Separately, the committee had said the RNC and the Trump campaign had solicited donations after the 2020 election "by pushing false claims that the election was tainted by widespread fraud."
A representative of the RNC did not respond to a Reuters request for comment via LinkedIn outside regular hours. Salesforce and the House panel also did not respond to requests for comment.
In late March, the U.S. lobbying heavyweight Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck withdrew from representing the RNC in its legal challenge against Salesforce and the Jan. 6 committee.
(Reporting by Akriti Sharma and Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Nick Macfie)
TIME TO HOLD SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CRIMES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE
Follow the money, as in how badly is Biden compromised with Ukraine?
Zelenskyy could very well have Slow Joe over a blackmail barrel.
Crack whore Hunter had zero qualifications to sit on the Burisma board, and the guy who was investigating that whole arrangement was "SON OF A BITCH!!!" fired.
Just like that.
Well we have a president compromised by Ukraine by his son, Nancy who's son is on Burisma or some other Ukranian company, Schiff who's initial foray into politics and continuing was funded by Ukraine, a country known to be one of the most corrupt in the world.
Makes you wonder.
ow the hell could this have happened.
Biden left a 20 year was with 85 billion in arms behind and now is on the way to spend that much more in time and money on Ukraine.
Lot's of real democracies are fighting wars in places like Africa killing millions but somehow those black lives don't matter. Well actually we don't have a real dog in those fights so that may be the correct policy.
But the democrats definitely do in Ukraine.
corrupt as hell
wish Joe would redirect his efforts to the southern border which is costing us at least 100,000 young American deaths year.
but his son never was on the board or a Mexican oil company
I believe
CH ASKS
The main question is what are we really wanting to accomplish [IN UKRAINE]?
How about:
Show that a country committed to democracy and justice cannot be stomped even by a powerful dictator not committed to democracy and justice but to world dominion.
Trumpsters like rrb are saying,
Let Russia reestablish a Russian Empire.
Ch seems not to mind that either.
"Committed to democracy?
jailing the opposition leader
shutting down desenting press outlets
Following a close and disputed (actually overturned) election
that is your definition of democracy ?
well I guess it is
what a "pastor"
still falsely accusing others indiscriminately you POS ?
yep
Scott Adams
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1520754618774433793
People laughed -- oh, how they laughed -- when I predicted Trump would look better every day he was out of office.
Now this.
Glenn Greenwald
Noam Chomsky, in an interview this week, says "fortunately" there is "one Western statesman of stature" who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it.
"His name is Donald J. Trump," Chomsky says.
WATCH:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1520754618774433793
while we are now being led by a clown who can't find his way out of a room
and laughs at people suffering
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and stronly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
someone is deleting me again, the coward
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
Zelenskyy could very well have Slow Joe over a blackmail barrel.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! I would be more inclined to say Putin has the video evidence, and Zelenensky has doodily squat which is all you assholes have remaining as your grip of reality slips down the trump golden toilet!!!! LOLOLOLOLO
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
No one here is deleting your comments, pederast.
Some of my comments are disappearing too. Probably the work of some sniveling little leftist shitstain at Google. NOT the work of our host or another poster.
Grow up, you fucking CLOWN.
it has to be f daddy
it has to be f daddy
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
In Ukraine, we are trying to help a government democratically elected and strongly supported by its own people against an invasion by a force controlled by a dictatorial, non democratic oligarchy.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
somone is deleting me again, the coward.
it has to be f daddy
it has to be f daddy
it has to be f daddy
. Probably the work of some sniveling little leftist shitstain at Google
Unlike your shit stain party who have the backbone of a slug and have followers like you!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
It's as important as the cold war. We can't Let Russia reestablish a Russian Empire
In Vietnam, we were trying to prop up a corrupt, non democratic regime that had less of its own people's support than the other side had.
Actually stupid we were trying to stop what eventually occurred in the vaccine cause by our absence. Trại cải tạo In Vietnam 1,000,000 Vietnamese were tortured or dies died in reeducation camps, 2 million died at the Khmer Rouge I’ve seen the depressions in the earth where the mass graves were uncovered, the stacks of skulls, the baby killing tree where the Rouge soldiers swung infants by their feet and smashed their tiny skulls into that tree.
And BIL and the surviving members of his family rushed to Thai refugee camp.
So fuck you pedo, you don’t know shit as always
Show that a country committed to democracy and justice cannot be stomped even by a powerful dictator not committed to democracy and justice but to world dominion.
Thousands dead, ten million (25% of the country) or more displaced, complete cities wiped out, hundreds of billions now in damages....
I'd say they have been "STOMPED" pretty good so far...
But apparently you must believe that this is the point or a good thing or what exactly are you getting at here?
Vietnam was a terrible mistake. The original plan was to stop China from taking over South East Asia. But the Vietnamese were actually fighting a civil war.
LBJ was very wrong about it.
But like I said before is that we have to stop Russia from reestablish the Russian empire.
That would pose a threat to the United States and our allies that established NATO to fight and win the cold war
es....
I'd say they have been "STOMPED" pretty good so far...
AND STILL FREE, SOMETHING YOU AS AN R DON'T RESPECT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!! Sorry sport, just shut the fuck up with your idiocy and support of Putin.....who is a Friend of Trump!!!!!
We should stay and support them until the Russian military is removed from every square inch of Ukraine.
And like we did after the Second World War and many sure that Russia can't ever expand again.
The anti globalist like DeSantis should never be elected President.
They are several very conservative Republicans who don't want to withdraw from Ukraine and NATO.
It's similar to the post World War II era.
Truman and Eisenhower both sides supported NATO and remeber Scott when the Berlin Wall was demolished.
*vacuum not vaccine
FYAC
This is not a turning point in time.
But like I said before is that we have to stop Russia from reestablish the Russian empire.
That would pose a threat to the United States and our allies that established NATO to fight and win the cold war
Really.
We have to stop Russia from re-establishing the Russian Empire?
We do?
Huh.
We probably should've thought of this before we pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed some more for the eastward expansion of NATO.
We expand NATO right to Russia's doorstep and then we're shocked when Russia says "NYET."
And what the fuck gives us the 'moral authority' to determine this outcome? Especially with the current fucking retard in chief in charge?
Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.
- Robert Gates
Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.
- Skeets Hussein 0linsky.
And with the Afghanistan 'withdrawal' to his credit, this is the stumbling, bumbling fuck you want keeping us out of WW III while obviously being completely compromised by one of the countries involved.
Putin didn't pull this shit with Trump in charge, but after witnessing the first 15 months of Slow Joe an da Ho in charge, he had to think that the US would do little to interfere and he was right.
Truman and Eisenhower both sides supported NATO and remeber Scott when the Berlin Wall was demolished.
Yeah, NATO was so effective the Berlin Wall remained in place for almost 50 fucking years.
NATO is nothing more than Europe's excuse for getting the US to pick up the cost of it's defense budget. Until Trump, when he finally shamed those fucking parasites into paying what they owned in accordance with the charter.
Scott. Scott! SCOTT!!!
LISTEN TO ME ABOUT NATO SCOTT!!!
I'M THIS BLOGS MOST EMINENT HISTORIAN SCOTT!!!
The original plan was to stop China from taking over South East Asia.
Huh, I thought it was the USSR, you know the country equipping and training the N Vietnamese, but after my visit there I’d say China won
Huh, I thought it was the USSR, you know the country equipping and training the N Vietnamese, but after my visit there I’d say China won
And the alky remembers distinctly when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
He rolling.
LOL.
rrb doesn't understand how effective it was.
The Russian Communist government wanted to take control over Europe and even Great Britain..
The establishment of NATO and the cold war destroyed the entire Soviet Union without a Third World War.
President Ronald Reagan supported NATO and he was in power when the collapse started after the Afghanistan War, and George W Bush was the President when the cold war ended.
What's the very best word to describe the kind of goverment the GOP wants to force onto Americans?
KLEPTOCRACY.
THAT'S THE BEST WORD.
BETTER THAN DICTATORSHIP, THOUGH THAT'S A GOOD ONE TOO.
BETTER THAN AUTOCRACY, THOUGH THAT'S A GOOD ONE TOO.
BETTER THAN OLIGARCHY, THOUGH THAT'S A GOOD ONE TOO.
NO, KLEPTOCRACY! THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE IN RUSSIA, AND THAT'S WHAT THE SUPER RICH WANT TO FORCE ON US HERE (AND ALREADY HAVE, TO TOO LARGE A DEGREE.)
LOOK IT UP FOR THE MEANING.
HINT: IT COMES FROM
THE GREEK WORD klevo -- to rob, to steal.
Scott this is what matters here 👏
ntiglobalization.
Extreme right-wing groups such as the British National Party, the National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands [NPD]), the National Front (Front National [FN]) in France, and the Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs [FPÖ]) see globalization as a threat to national economies and national identity and argue that the economy should be nationally controlled and immigration should be strictly restricted to guarantee national identity. Right-wing antiglobalism tends to argue that globalization is an ideology advanced by Zionism, Marxism, and liberalism. Globalization is presented as a worldwide conspiracy against national identity.
Globalist like President Biden are not trying to turn the country into a Communist country.
People like rrb want Putin to succeed..
I knew a couple veterans of the December 7th 1941 attack by Japan.
President Ronald Reagan supported NATO and he was in power when the collapse started after the Afghanistan War, and George W Bush was the President when the cold war ended.
NATO had nothing to do with the Reagan Doctrine or the collapse of the Soviet Union, alky.
Sure Reagan supported it. He just didn't need it to drive the Soviets into what was effectively national bankruptcy. That was all US.
NATO gave the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and the rest of socialist Europe something to feel good about while not having to get their hands dirty or their budget$ nicked by having to pony up.
But please, yell us more about China's conquest of Vietnam.
CH SAYS'
But apparently you must believe that this is the point or a good thing or what exactly are you getting at here?
_________
Are you daft? Are you too stupid to know what we have learned the hard way? Let a Hitler or a Putin get away with something criminal, and it will only get worse.
Your crocodile tears would not be appreciated by the Ukrainian people who are still determined to win against Putin.They still are determined to resist and even to win in their struggle against a Russian dictator backed by an egregious keptocracy who is determined to wipe them off the face of the earth.
Has your Trump-addled brain lost all sense of justice and decency?
KLEPTOCRACY.
THAT'S THE BEST WORD.
It's also a word that our nitwit in chief is unable to pronounce.
LOL.
rrb said...
No one here is deleting your comments, pederast.
Some of my comments are disappearing too. Probably the work of some sniveling little leftist shitstain at Google. NOT the work of our host or another poster.
Grow up, you fucking CLOWN.
May 2, 2022 at 9:31 AM
Blogger Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
it has to be f daddy
May 2, 2022 at 9:33 AM
What a fucking idiot and lying POS of a "pastor"
it doesn't "have" to be me
and isn't
go fuck yourself and hurry to your grave
can't be that far away
A little history for the pederast
The South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975.
Laos
Laos, in South-East Asia, is bordered by Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma) and China. Its 600-year-old monarchy was replaced in 1975 by the Communist Pathet Lao government, beginning a 20-year rule of terror. Between 1975 and 1995 the Pathet Lao killed over 300,000 civilians. Victims included the Royal Lao family, soldiers and about 46,000 officials under the former Royal Lao government.
The Khmer Rouge (/kəˌmɛər ˈruːʒ/; French: [kmɛʁ ʁuʒ]; Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម, Khmêr Krâhâm [kʰmae krɑːhɑːm]; lit. 'Red Khmer') is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979
Notice anything that’s common there?
I am fully aware of the IMMENSE suffering the Russians are causing in Ukraine.
I am also aware of the amazingly commendable determination of the Ukrainians to resist.
I only hope this will continue to make Russia an even bigger pariah in the world and will eventually lead to the Russian people throwing off and punish dictatorship and return, as they had a chance of doing before Putin, to democracy.
Meanwhile we need to resist the keptocrats we have among us who are trying to overthrow our own democracy.
Notice anything that’s common there?
The US had a feckless peanut farmer in charge.
Meanwhile we need to resist the keptocrats we have among us who are trying to overthrow our own democracy.
Yet you celebrate the new Biden creation - the Ministry of Truth.
Curious that.
I've just had two comments 'disappeared.'
I suspect it's a 'flaw' with this shit google platform.
Who I do not suspect is any of the commenters here.
Construction spending March 0.1%
Down 0.4 % from February at a time when in a non- recession time, should be expanding as the weather warms.
Notice anything that’s common there?
Yes, That racist Momma Carter and brain dead Biden have zero Economic knowledge.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
The New York Times is calling us racist again. Here’s our response:
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1519839592819613698
Tucker is back out of the twitter penalty box
and calling out state media
the ones the lefties fall dutifully in line with
can't wait until Musk is able to restore free speech there
if he survives the fascist Biden regime
I have long been fully aware of the horrible regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia.
If we had taken a more reasonable stance torward Ho Chi Minh in North Korea, we would have been in a better position to resist what Pol Pot did in Cambodia.
Hey JamesFuckingdaddy I see one of rat’s posts disappeared just before I commented on it. Are you doing that?
LMAO 😉
Ch has a valid point but we need to defend Ukraine and the US government from China and Russia.
If Putin wins the Chinese government will reunite with Russia. The best thing Nixon did was to separate them from united with Russia 🇷🇺
They would be the most powerful alliance on earth and the world would descend into fascist governments.
If we had taken a more reasonable stance torward Ho Chi Minh in North Korea,
Another history major among us
IDIOT
The Khmer Rouge additionally killed 2 million people in just a few years in the mid-70's.
Imagine all the horrors left to the survivors
Caliphate4vr said...
Hey JamesFuckingdaddy I see one of rat’s posts disappeared just before I commented on it. Are you doing that?
LMAO 😉
the lying POS "pastor" would probably say I am an equal opportunity deleter.
I guess I should consider it a compliment he thinks so highly of my capabilities
Then again he is such a idiotic piece of shit I wish he would stop picking on me.
I'm very shy
Imagine all the horrors left to the survivors
I’ve seen it. The Rouge killed my brother-in-law’s father. But get this, after the remaining family members escaped to a Thai refugee his family was sponsored by a Doctor here at Emory. Before they could come to America they were sent to camp in the Philippines where the family was immersed in English for one year before they were allowed to come.
Imagine wanting new immigrants conversant in our language
Two points. This will cause food prices to get worse than before and it another reason to defend Ukraine and destroy Putin 😑
The director of the United Nations World Food Programme in Germany has warned that millions of tonnes of grain is stuck in Ukraine due to sea ports being blocked by Russian military action.
Martin Frick said about 4.5 million tonnes of grain in containers at Ukrainian ports could not be shifted due to unsafe or occupied sea routes, some of which had been mined, as well as inaccessible ports.
Advertisement
‘JP, right?’ Donald Trumpappears to forget name of candidate he endorsed
“None of the grain can be used right now. It is just sitting there,” Frick told the German news agency dpa.
Ukraine is one of the world’s leading producers of wheat as well as being a major corn producer. About 30m tonnes of corn and about 25m tonnes of wheat were harvested in the country in 2020, according to the UN. Many countries in north Africa in particular are dependent for their basic food provision on low-cost wheat from Ukraine.
“The world urgently needs these items of food from Ukraine,” Frick said.
Despite the abundance of crops still available in Ukraine, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that since the start of the invasion on 24 February, it had had to provide 2.5 million Ukrainians with food support – the majority of them in Ukraine, as well as several hundred thousand in neighbouring Moldova.
“Foodstuffs have to reach those in Ukraine who are trapped and in need. But at the same time there is the need to provide other parts of the world with foodstuffs they are expecting from Ukraine, in order to alleviate a global food crisis,” Frick said.
Weirdest thing is none of my brother-in-law’s immediate family members are over 5’7” all of his nieces and nephews are freaking giants. Protein was added to the diet
Crap, this is mocking the Idiot James.
Caliphate4vrMay 2, 2022 at 10:55 AM
Hey JamesFuckingdaddy I see one of rat’s posts disappeared just before I commented on it. Are you doing that?
LMAO 😉
🙋♂️😃😃😃
Seriously this is the best Biden has.
Nina Jankowicz Called Herself the ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ on Tik-Tok"
She is a very child like Socialist.
Nice Failure Joe
Current Avg. $4.19
UP 7 cents in the last week
We should stay and support them until the Russian military is removed from every square inch of Ukraine.
We are not there, Roger?
How the fuck can "we stay"...
Do you even know what is happening?
Are you daft? Are you too stupid to know what we have learned the hard way? Let a Hitler or a Putin get away with something criminal, and it will only get worse.
What is Putin doing when he destroys entire cities, all of their residents must flee, some of them are shot while fleeing, and thousands have been killed...
and we sanction oil and stuff while he continues to bomb and take land?
What exactly is that by definition... if not getting away with it?
We are not there, Roger?
Note the irony. Joe isn't 'all there' either.
Scott the Ukrainian military will push Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory, because we and our allies have provided enough weapons and technology support.
We don't need our troops in Ukraine.
The bottom line is the President is doing extremely well and what ever any other President would have done except for Donald Trump.
Putin probably believed that we had a weak President
I was watching NCIS Los Angeles.
For some reason you want Putin to prevail.
Your extreme libertarian views have led you to believe that we should not spend another penny in support for Ukraine.
That's why people like you have ever won control
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
I was watching NCIS Los Angeles.
What’s next Matlock, McCloud? Magnum PI is probably on somewhere
Full day in the looney bin, I see
LOL
Roger...
Putin did believe we had a weak President which is why he invaded. So far that has cost the Ukrainians thousands of lives, millions displaced, billions in damages and the complete destruction of villages, towns, and cities...
There is no putting lipstick on that pig Roger...
There is being a "supporter" of Ukraine or a "supporter" of Russia and neither has any difference in telling the truth about what is going on.
This is part of our political gap in our country. Suddenly Democrats want to put forward fake narratives and censor opposition to those narratives under the pretense of "disinformation"... when the truth rarely lies in the narratives they create.
This war is not going well for either side, Roger. Nobody is "winning" and as brave as the Ukrainian forces are being, and as much as they blunted assaults on Kiev and other large cities, they are still losing ground down south and on the eastern front. It would be like... hey the Russians have only took California Oregon and Washington... but we stopped them when they tried to take Denver... therefore we are winning... meanwhile you are currently in a homeless camp in Texas because your nursing home was leveled and I am back in Minnesota because Russians control Seattle. Wouldn't see that as a win....
Even if they eventually drive them out (which they never did in Crimea) - they would still will never get back the villages, towns, and cities that are currently destroyed. Some completely destroyed.
Most like the separatist areas will remain under Russian Control (as will Crimea) and Putin will have expanded his reach will into Ukraine.
Why? Because he knew we wouldn't "actually" provide anything other than supplies and sanctions.
Neither President would have sent troops to Ukraine.
But if Trump was elected, and if he had invaded Ukraine the United States and would not have imposed sanctions and United NATO .
And eventually would have rebuilt the Russian empire.
And you don't fucking care because you hate liberals.
The Russian military is not currently capturing anything.
We are providing the weapons necessary to defend Ukraine from further from a more regular battles with tanks and air defenses weapons.
It is going to take more time than we want but the Congress is going to pass the huge bill.
Eventually like in the cold war era. Your hero Putin will lose everything.
Your extreme libertarian views have led you to believe that we should not spend another penny in support for Ukraine.
We can keep pissing $$$ away there alky. Just don't expect it to make any difference.
Putin felt emboldened to proceed with his attack after watching the world-class clusterfuck of a surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Every global adversary we have sat up and took notice. The world watched as Biden took his marching orders from the fucking Easter Bunny for chrissakes.
And like CH mentioned - how's Crimea doing these days? Still under Russian control?
Ultimately Putin makes a deal to keep the Pro-Russian areas like the Donbas region in exchange for a ceasefire. Zelensky should take that deal so he can stick to what he does marginally well - stand up comedy.
One thing is for sure - the US is extremely limited in our ability to affect change in this conflict. Our president is an imbecile, and if we go too far we've instigated WWIII with a moron at the helm. If anything we need to back away slowly and let those who have skin in the game - the Europeans - figure it out for once.
No , Most like the separatist areas will remain under Russian Control (as will Crimea) and Putin will have expanded his reach will into Ukraine.
Why? Because he knew we wouldn't "actually" provide anything other than supplies and sanctions.
We are providing sufficient support to let it happen without American troops
Russia will not hold one square inch of Ukraine
But if Trump was elected, and if he had invaded Ukraine the United States and would not have imposed sanctions and United NATO .
And if my aunt had balls he'd be my uncle.
Whenever you get resoundingly beat by reason and logic you blurt out shit like this that you not anyone else could possibly know.
Take away the plagiarism, histrionics, and lies and you have no reason to exist alky. At least around here.
.. hey the Russians have only took California Oregon and Washington... but we stopped them when they tried to take Denver... therefore we are winning... meanwhile you are currently in a homeless camp in Texas because your nursing home was leveled and I am back in Minnesota because Russians control Seattle. Wouldn't see that as a win....
Reminiscent of Col Andy Tanner
Wolverines!!!
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Russia will not hold one square inch of Ukraine
How’s Ukraine going to get back Crimea?
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Russia will not hold one square inch of Ukraine
Checked the map lately?
They already DO.
And no, none of us are pro-Putin. We just see things for what they are, and we accept the extremely limited support the US is giving Ukraine. Anything beyond what we are providing is WWIII. And Ukraine sure as fuck IS NOT worth starting WWIII over.
But if Trump was elected, and if he had invaded Ukraine the United States and would not have imposed sanctions and United NATO.
You got that Crystal Ball again Roger?
Telling the hypothetical futures of timelines that don't exist?
Bottom line
Trump was President for four years.
Putin stayed put and played nice.
That is the only fact you have...
The only fucking fact!
You really can't understand what I say .
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You really can't understand what I say .
I don’t think you understand what you say
Trump was President for four years.
Putin stayed put and played nice.
That is the only fact you have...
There's one other -
Biden surrendered to the Taliban and Putin noticed and said "Fuck it. Why not?"
It is often said that the US is the world’s oldest democracy. While that is not necessarily incorrect, depending on the definition of “democracy,” it tends to obscure more than it illuminates about the reality of American life. If we start from the assumption that America has been a stable, consolidated democracy for two and a half centuries, the current political conflict seems utterly baffling: where is the anti-democratic radicalization of the Republican party – and so many million Americans – coming from all of a sudden?
Is it really plausible to assume that the people who remain united behind Donald Trump and are now openly embracing authoritarianism were fully on board with liberal democracy until recently, before they were driven rightward by the presidency of a moderately liberal politician whose sole “radicalism” consisted of being Black? That the election of a religious elderly white man who has always been a proud centrist pushed them to finally abandon their supposedly “consolidated” democratic convictions?
And how can we explain that even those Republican officials who openly stand against Trump seem unwilling to support the necessary steps to strengthen democracy? Earlier this month, Liz Cheney described Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a “reminder that democracy is fragile” and talked about her obligation “to defend our democracy” – yet she doesn’t seem overly concerned with her party’s escalating voter suppression or gerrymandering efforts. Similarly, Mitt Romney warned his audience at a private fundraiser in mid-March that “preserving liberal democracy is an extraordinary challenge” – yet he helped block legislation in the Senate that would have introduced much-needed national standards for voting rights. In general, the few Republican lawmakers in Washington who are opposing the worst excesses of Trumpian authoritarianism have been strikingly unwilling to oppose the ongoing Republican attempts to subvert democracy on the state level.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/02/conservatives-dont-want-true-democracy-and-nice-republicans-are-no-exception
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You really can't understand what I say .
Unless it's plagiarized it's always a short sentence with small words. Tossed together. Like a salad.
We don't even try to understand you alky because you haven't made sense since your second-hand liver was installed. I remember those glory days. But you don't, that's for sure.
Rat...
The only way Roger believes he can win an argument is to literally make shit up about what "would" have happened in an alternate timeline.
Oh... and Russia has taken control of literally thousands of square miles of Ukraine and now have Russian control that links Crimea to the Russian Mainland. The separatist areas are fairly pro-Russia and it is unlikely that Ukrainians will be able to take that back once Russians dig in.
The side that is invading always has the tougher task than the side that is defending. A smaller less armed force can protest their area much easier than they can ride out and meet someone. But Ukraine is being sent "defensive" weapons (anti-tank, anti-aircraft, anti-whatever). They would need heavy artillery and tens of thousands of troops to take back the much of that area.
At the end of the day, the Ukrainian army has about 1/5 of the troops that Putin has available. Without more "troops" they cannot invade a heavily secured area. They can push back advances and even take back recently taken land that was not fully secured... but to attack a Russian stronghold?
A very well written horror story if the Republicans get rid of Trump or DeSantis types 🤔
Caliphate4vr said...
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You really can't understand what I say .
I don’t think you understand what you say
If roger does understand what he says then he's in worse shape than I thought.
and I thought he was in really bad shape
It going to take a long time but it is worth it
Hey the stock market is only doing half as bad as Friday
just down around 450 on the dow
roger may soon be crowing about the improvement and crediting Biden
Just down 450
Gates's models probably had it going down another thousand today
that's a 550 point "improvement" under Biden
building broke better
where's all the billions/trillions we are paying out coming from ?
and we are "welcoming" millions more across the border
what a president
Hillary Clinton said at the funeral.
Hillary Clinton keeps getting it right
Dick Polman, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
May 02, 2022
Just as it’s a waste of time for Republicans to refight the results of the 2020 election, it certainly does no good for anti-MAGAs to refight what happened in the previous race. Nevertheless, I wince on occasion when I contemplate how our country would’ve been far better served if the popular vote winner in 2016 had ascended to the Oval Office.
Last Wednesday was one such occasion, truly wince-worthy.
While eulogizing Madeleine Albright at Washington’s National Cathedral, I was struck by these passages:
“Freedom can’t be taken for granted. Democracy must be defended. Peace must be won. And there is no time to waste doing any of that…(Albright) continued to issue blunt warnings about the dangers posed by authoritarianism and fascism with undeniable moral clarity … She talked about the importance of what President Biden is doing to rally the world against Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine and the urgent work of defending democracy at home and around the world. She knew better than most and she warned us in her book on fascism, that yes, it can happen here, and time and courage are of the essence … This must be a season of action. And yes, once again, we must heed the wisdom of her life and the cause of her public service. Stand up to dictators and demagogues, from the battlefields of Ukraine, to the halls of our own capital. Defend democracy at home, just as vigorously as we do abroad.”
It really makes no sense about this. Except your hate for liberals.
If President Trump had taken the same course, you would be cheering.
Unlike you I can understand that rational people can make mistakes.
And your hate for me and James and others dominate your mind.
Thinking about about what "would" have happened in an alternate timeline escapes your mind.
I have delt with people like you during my lifetime.
I really enjoy this
Roger...
I don't hate either you or the Reverend. That is just your personal projection about how "you" view politics.
I think the reverend is one of those annoying types who criticizes others for things he does himself. If he didn't pretend to be above things or declare himself to be "honest" in his moniker it would probably not be so annoying that he spreads so many lies. Maybe he believes them? Gaslighting is easy on the elderly.
You Roger... I have found myself feeling increasingly sorry for you and your plight. Again, misery loves company, right? So you would like to believe that the rest of us are in the same cognitive decline that you are obviously in...
So annoyances and pity... is basically what I feel in a nutshell. I am not even close to caring even remotely enough to even have a "dislike" much less a hate for two people I have never met.
By nature Roger...
We are incapable of knowing what "would" have happened. We only know what did happen.
What did happen is that Putin never even made a pretense of invading Ukraine while Trump was in office... just as the Taliban did not move in Afghanistan.
What did happen is that we have had a major military skirmish where we gave the Taliban back a country we fought two decades to keep from them and now we have a full scale Russian invasion... both under Biden.
That is the actual "reality" Roger...
The rest is literally made up.
Literally!
Cognitive decline diagnosed by Scott if I really was experiencing the problem you said my doctor would have said it.
In fact it's getting better.
Of course but speculation is very interesting 🤔
Grand jury selected in Trump Georgia investigation
A reckoning for Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn his presidential election defeat in Georgia is a step closer after the seating of a special grand jury in Atlanta.
The city’s Journal Constitution newspaper says a pool of 200 would-be jurors was reduced to 23 and three alternates over a two-hour period on Monday.
Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP
The panel will meet “intermittently” in the coming months, the newspaper says, working with prosecutors on subpoenas for documents, information and the testimony of dozens of witnesses, many of whom have been reluctant to cooperate with the criminal investigation.
As a special, rather than a regular grand jury, however, it does not have the power to issue indictments.
Fulton county’s district attorney, Fani Willis, announced in January she was seeking a grand jury to look into Trump’s attempts to influence the outcome of the election in the crucial swing state of Georgia, citing a refusal by numerous potential witnesses to talk without a subpoena.
In an infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, on 2 January 2021, Trump asked officials to “find” him 11,780 votes to reverse Joe Biden’s victory. Raffensperger has said he felt the call was a threat to his safety.
Other incidents, such as false claims made by Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani during a legislative hearing, and the abrupt resignation of Georgia-based US attorney Byung Pak, who testified that he faced pressure from Trump, are also the subject of Willis’s 15-month inquiry, the AJC said.
The Georgia investigation is one of numerous legal cases the former president is facing as he mulls whether to launch another run for the White House in 2024.
German is good news too despite the harm effects
KYIV, May 2 (Reuters) - Germany said on Monday it was prepared to back an immediate European Union embargo on Russian oil, a major shift from Moscow's biggest energy customer that could let Europe impose such a ban within days.
Russia's energy exports - by far its biggest source of income - have so far largely been exempt from international sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Kyiv says that loophole means European countries are funding the Kremlin war effort, sending Moscow hundreds of millions of euros every day.
Report ad
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has been more cautious than other Western leaders in backing Ukraine, has been under growing pressure to take a firmer line, including from within the Social Democrat's own governing coalition.
"Germany is not against an oil ban on Russia. Of course it is a heavy load to bear but we would be ready to do that,"
Cognitive decline diagnosed by Scott if I really was experiencing the problem you said my doctor would have said it.
You are living in a lock down nursing home with other people with mental health issues. I perfectly healthy non-Senior with full mental capacity would not be allowed to room with a guy who believes he is the fifth Beatle.
There is a reason why you have your nanas cut up for you.
I bounced all over the internet and see
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow’s upcoming Victory Day celebrations on May 9 will have no bearing on the pace of its operations in Ukraine.
Speaking with the Italian outlet Mediaset, Lavrov insisted on Sunday that Moscow would not rush to wrap up its so-called “special military operation” in time for the anniversary, which celebrates Nazi Germany’s surrender to allied forces – including the then Soviet Union – in 1945.
Scott I'm in a place where most people can't go out but I'm able to come and go and I get banana with the skin on.
It not a not a nut house like I was just after the divorce.
I pat $2,500 per month and get three meals a day.
They put me with Mark Shipper because I can handle it.
He very mentally disabled with IED.
It is really ugly 🤧
Got door code?
And are your meds in your possession?
At 75 Roger gives us his Life today.
It is enough to make one CRY.
"It not a not a nut house like I was just after the divorce.
I pat $2,500 per month and get three meals a day.
They put me with Mark Shipper because I can handle it."
$30,000 for a 350 square feet cell.
Speaking of support for Ukraine 🇺🇦.
The White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at her afternoon briefing that Biden will deliver remarks about the security assistance the US is providing, including Javelin anti-tank missiles produced at the Troy factory:
[He will be] highlighting the urgency of the request to Congress to pass money quickly to help Ukraine continue to succeed against Russian aggression, and to make sure that the US and our allies can replenish our own stocks of weapons to replace what we have sent to Ukraine.
Psaki said Biden will also speak to the need for Congress to get the bipartisan innovation act to his desk:
Each Javelin missile requires more than 200 semiconductors to make, and boosting domestic chip manufacturing isn’t just critical to making more in America or lowering prices, it’s a vital component of our national security.
Passing the act means America will stay on the cutting edge of new technology. It means stronger, more resilient supply chains, and means outcompeting the rest of the world for decades to come. The United States:military will no longer rely on Chinese semiconductors.
Bidenomics takes more devastating hits
It's not ideal kputz but I'm safe and sound.
The cost of Biden's Recession is cost the US Tax payer so much more
😊The initial interest rate on new Series I savings bonds is 9.62 percent. You can buy I bonds at that rate through October 2022.☺
My wife and I will invest $20,000 in these bonds.
Only because that is the limit.
Hey nice rebound on the market !!!
I'm going to post negative things more often
Roger, It is so freaking sad.
You are force to live with another man.
You are at deaths door and your life's body of work is summed up by you .
May 7th , 2022
Roger was to be married on the above date.
Why it will not happen , well, Roger hasn't exactly said why.
And the idiots like the goat fucker wonder what the objective of neutralizing Russia is all about!!!!! Supporting Putin and his ego promotes this type of bigotry and if I recall correctly, all you slurpers support Israel !!!!!
Associated Press
Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov's Nazism remarks
TIA GOLDENBERG
Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:25 AM
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Monday lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable” comments by its foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism — including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel, which summoned the Russian ambassador in response, said the remarks blamed Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust.
It was a steep decline in the ties between the two countries at a time when Israel has sought to stake out a cautious position between Russia and Ukraine and remain in Russia’s good stead for its security needs in the Middle East.
Asked in an interview with an Italian news channel about Russian claims that it invaded Ukraine to “denazify” the country, Sergey Lavrov said that Ukraine could still have Nazi elements even if some figures, including the country’s president, were Jewish.
“So when they say ‘How can Nazification exist if we’re Jewish?’ In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest antisemites were Jewish," he said, speaking to the station in Russian, dubbed over by an Italian translation.
And the goat fucker acting out his role as an old lady with nothing to do but talk about others....such a douche!!!!!!
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Got door code?
May 2, 2022 at 2:20 PM
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
And are your meds in your possession?
Door code and meds are in the liquor cabinet next to the steak knives and hollow point ammo.
LOL.
I hope this analysis helps the world 🙏
.
On April 26, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told representatives of 40 nations gathered to support Ukraine that the embattled country “can win” its war with Russia. In context with Austin’s statement that the U.S. seeks to “weaken” Russia’s military, this appears to be closer to a commitment than a mere prediction. President Biden followed up with a request for an additional $33 billion in aid for the Ukrainians. Having served as a heavy artillery officer in Vietnam, I can attest that the artillery slated for Ukrainian forces can be a game changer, provided it can get to the battlefields in time.
This cascade of adverse developments, plus chronic logistics and command problems and mysterious fires at weapons and fuel facilities in Russia, would be enough to drive an average psychopath to distraction. Add to that the fact that his oligarchs are getting restless about the future of their fortunes, as well as the dire situation of their country.
To make matters worse, many Kremlin insiders reportedly have serious concerns about Putin’s war and the long-term damage it is inflicting upon the Russian Federation. Putin is certainly aware of the unrest in his inner circle. He knows that ugly things can happen to a leader who appears to be running the country off the rails, threatening the personal interests of powerful insiders. Some reports have surfaced that Putin replaced around 1,000 Kremlin staff out of concern for his personal safety.
The Russian dictator is on the horns of a serious dilemma — either bow to the gathering strength of the coalition against him and settle for negligible gains, or stay on the path of continuing escalation, hoping to pull off a stunning battlefield victory. Since a decisive victory is a rather remote possibility, Putin’s last desperate escalatory step may be to resort to the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Putin may soon be coming to the end of his rope. If he can’t figure a way out of the mess he created with his ego-driven war, it may be up to his old KGB cohorts to find a solution. It is quite possible that some among them will not allow him to take their country down with him.
Lol, nice job, RRB
Roger, i think.you missed an ID change, go back . Lol@Roger Daily .
Cernovich
@Cernovich
9 “reporters” assigned to the Tucker Carlson case and apparently none of them thought to check to see if Tucker was reading about South African farm murders in … the New York Times.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1520922282834620416
So the NYT does front page "journalism" that just shows what a clown show it has become.
And how ridiculous their "sources" are
The political hit squad has no idea what their brethren on the news side have reported
sad
and who the hell is now overseeing this hot mess ?
* get the Biden "Ministry of Truth" on this immediately
David Sacks
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1520978354672848898
Biden promised us a return to normalcy. Instead he’s escalated a proxy war with Russia that virtually all pundits now admit has WWIII potential. Is this enough normalcy for you?
FUCK YOU AND DAVID SACKS.....A MAJOR ZERO!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
I see VERY lo iq is back with his "brilliant" commentary !
ROFLMFAO !!!
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! As all fucked up can post is bullshit twitter crap from mainstream losers like himself.....fuck off asshole!!!! You got ZERO!!!!!!
Jack Plimpton
https://twitter.com/plimpton_jack/status/1517713415468462080
Gates and Elon going head to head. We know @BillGates is a globalist pedophile. @elonmusk wants to re-open the marketplace of ideas. We could have stopped or minimized the mismanagement of COVID if we didn’t have censorship. We wouldn’t have been at mercy of the State.
Imagine if we hadn't had all of Gates's faulty "models"
or the fraud Fauci
or China
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1520565030747574272
If your college degree isn't valuable enough for you to pay off... it certainly isn't valuable enough for my tax dollars to pay off.
Emerald Robinson ✝️
@EmeraldRobinson
https://gettr.com/post/p17unq94b39
Hello to all my fellow parents in America - or, as Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland prefers to call you, "domestic terrorists!"
and despite an intensive effort he couldn't even find one to arrest in the past year.
Maybe he should look within the FBI
or the Biden family
James fucking Daddy , beating Denny like a redheaded step child
Question for James, Roger and Dennis.
Tell us when Bidenomics inflation gets back to The Federal Reserve target rate if 2%?
Here's an answer for the goat fucker......you really are a useless piece of horseshit who know nothing!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! BTW asshole, you were bitching that the feds were not doing enough not too long ago and advocated raising the rates......what changed????????
Timing Denney.
Yet, it is always good to expose your lowest of Economic / Financial Knowledge.
American Thinker is has an isolationism philosophy .
Instead of trying to play Churchill in the lead-up to a wider European war, our "statesmen" should emulate Count Witte and counsel prudence, caution, and forbearance. Witte understood that Russia had no vital interest in the Balkans, just as we have no vital interest in Ukraine. A wider European war with nuclear powers on both sides would truly be "madness."
I clearly stated at the time .
MARCH 2021
Federal Reserve needs to start raising rates.
But they were frozen by the paralysis of analyst.
They were believing their own "Trasitory Inflation "
Roger, for the next 6 hours, try debating Bidenomics in your own words.
Peter Harrison aka Hunter Biden.
Too funny, the Laptop is real.
The Data is too.
Where is the Ministry of Truth Chic?
Hey goat fucker, for the next 10 days, go fuck yourself......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! With your own dick.....LOLOLOL
Blogger anonymous said...
Here's an answer for the goat fucker......you really are a useless piece of horseshit who know nothing!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! BTW asshole, you were bitching that the feds were not doing enough not too long ago and advocated raising the rates......what changed????????
What a fucking stupid, fatboi. The feds weren’t doing enough and thus inflation is rampant. Cause meet effect.
Take that bookkeeping degree from some unknown community college and eat a pie
Federal Reserve needs to start raising rates.
Which is exactly what I said.....NOW YOU ARE BITCHING THEY ARE TOO HIGH.....WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?????? Your expertise on the economy can be summarized in 1 word......nonexistant!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Cali, Well explained.
Denney doesn't understand a bit of it.
Denney, please stop lying.
It makes you look even dumber, if that is possible.
Most of us in March of 2021 believes the Fed should start raising rates, they didn't for reasons I already explained.
I am not , or have I complained about The Federal Reserve raising rates during anytime of Bidenomics.
Surely you can prove I have, right Denny???
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
American Thinker is has an isolationism philosophy .
And they happen to be correct.
We are ass-fucking-deep in BIGLY problems here at home. I do not need some alcoholic, denture-sucking twat to commit us to anything beyond playing a bit role in a war we did not start, nor do we have a vested interest in. Ukraine is not a NATO member therefore we owe them NOTHING.
Playing the world's policeman/defense department has won us nothing but crushing debt and dead and wounded warriors.
Let the douchebag with the granny fetish from France take the lead. Or the bozo from Great Britain who never learned how to comb his fucking hair.
You sit there from the 'comfort' of your insane asylum rooting for more US death and casualties, and another couple TRILLION in borrowed $$$ to pay for your little war fantasy. Fuck that and fuck Ukraine.
Oh, and if one of the local NATO members to the region decides to go on offense and get involved, article 5 is not on the table. That's only if they're attacked.
Denny doesn't understand a bit of it.
Shorty is dumber than you goat fucker......he explains as well as you.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! ZERO!!!! He's an expert in flaming and insults......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Sorry sport, his help is like having a boil on your ass!!!! As with most economic policy.....it takes months for the desired effect....something you and shorty have no patience for!!!!!
15 months of Bidenomics has us where we are. (31 % of his term is done and on the books).
But, do tell if this goes right from now, how long before Bidenomics delivers us 2% inflation?
EXCLUSIVE: Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC - and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US)
Emails obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Hunter Biden had courted Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin
The billionaire, 73, owns a company which has reportedly supplied Putin's forces with drones used for deadly bombings in Ukraine
He was sanctioned by the UK and Australia this month but remains unsanctioned by the Biden administration
The president's son and his now-jailed business partner Devon Archer sought an investment from the billionaire in Rosemont Realty in 2012 and 2013
Emails from his abandoned laptop show Hunter booked a trip to Moscow for a dinner with the oligarch at his company Sistema's headquarters in February 2012
A Sistema itinerary translated from Russian also showed a March 14, 2012 'breakfast with Hunter Biden' at the Ritz-Carlton in New York
The following day, Yevtushenkov had another 'breakfast with Rosemont Realty' at the city's Ritz-Carlton on March 15, according to the itinerary
Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch with reportedly close ties to Vladimir Putin, laptop files reveal.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, 73, owns a company which reportedly supplied Putin's forces with drones used for deadly bombing raids in Ukraine and until last year owned key Russian defense contractor RTI.
But while he was added to the UK and Australian sanctions lists this month but remains one of a handful of oligarchs unsanctioned by the Biden administration.
continues
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10767957/Hunter-Biden-flew-Moscow-meeting-sanctioned-Russian-oligarch-Vladimir-Yevtushenkov.html
Maybe next people will start looking on why Hunter got 3.5 million from Moscow's mayor (buddy of Putin)
and trying to figure out who the "big guy" is
funny Joe hasn't sanctioned this oligarch yet...
and 51 intelligence officials including Brennan and Clapper said this was all misinformation
As well as Biden's pick to head the "Ministry of Truth"
and where are all the reports from state media ?
getting awful quiet over at CNN
Fatboi where did KD complain rates were too high?
That was your claim
Link it up fatass or admit you are incapable of retaining anything.
It’s ok, it happens to the elderly
LOL
* wonder if Elon will tweet about this ?
Cali, Denny can't.
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukraine on Monday said it sank two Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea and a Russian missile attack killed civilians in Odessa, while the European Union was set to propose a ban on Russian oil over Moscow’s invasion.
Ukraine released video footage of what it said were Bayraktar TB2 armed drones hitting the two Raptor-class patrol boats at 4:51 a.m. local time Monday near Snake Island, which Russian forces captured on the first day of the war on Feb. 24. Both boats appeared to be hit, but it wasn’t clear whether they sank. Russia didn’t comment on the Ukrainian claim, but said it had downed three Bayraktar drones near Snake Island, without providing evidence.
Ukraine’s military said in recent days that it carried out several airstrikes on the strategic island, located 22 miles off the Ukrainian coast southwest of Odessa, destroying the air-defense system and other heavy weapons of the Russian military unit that occupies it. The two boats in the area, each capable of carrying 20 Marines in addition to three crew members, were likely to be carrying reinforcements and resupplies.
The island holds heavy symbolic importance for Ukraine because its defenders refused to surrender—according to the Ukrainian version of events that has grown into a national legend—and radioed, “Russian warship go screw yourself” when the Russian Black Sea flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, approached with an ultimatum on Feb. 24.
The Moskva itself was sunk by a Ukrainian missile strike on April 14, with dozens of sailors still listed as missing by Russian authorities. Since the war began, Ukraine has also sunk a Russian landing ship, Saratov, and damaged at least one other in a missile strike on the Russian-occupied port of Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov.
Russia on Monday repeatedly fired cruise missiles at Odessa. An afternoon strike, which also hit a Russian Orthodox church, killed a number of civilians, including a 13-year-old child, according to the local authorities. Earlier in the day, a Russian strike targeted a strategic bridge near Odessa, the third such attack on the facility in recent days. The bridge provides the only internal connection to the western part of the Odessa region that faces Snake Island. The area is also reachable over land via Moldova
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Cali, Denny can't.
Reading comprehension is not his forte
But he can eat
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! At you shorty......nothing is your forte, bit drinking as you toil as a fucking loser salesman living in s ahit hole condo in Atlanta!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL A pathetic waste of space!!!!!
So much for sanctions, eh Alky?
LOL
The Ruble has 'mysteriously' surged to six-month highs against the dollar (and even stronger relative to the Euro) over the last few weeks since Russian President Putin demanded Rubles-for-Gas...
But now, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, appears to have spilled the beans on what is really going on among the Russia-dependent European nations.
Gulyas told public radio on Sunday that while multiple European leaders have publicly proclaimed they won’t comply with Putin's demand that they buy Russian gas in rubles, 10 EU countries are technically going along with Putin’s plan.
It is unclear which EU countries Guylas was referring to. Russian energy giant Gazprom has already shut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after both refused to pay in rubles, but a Bloomberg report last week stated, as Gulyas did, that 10 of the bloc’s member states have already set up accounts with Gazprombank, and four have actually paid for Russian gas using this mechanism.
On Thursday, EU officials confirmed that any company agreeing to open a rouble account in Russia and pay for gas that way would be in breach of sanctions, but as The Guardian detailed last week, there could be a loophole.
According to further guidance issued by the EU last week, the Kremlin’s decree does not stop gas importers asking Gazprom to agree the purchase is legally complete once the first payment, in euros or dollars, has been deposited at Gazprombank.
Any conversion into roubles would take place thereafter, meaning the buyer would not technically have breached sanctions. Another option, the guidance says, is for buyers to make a public declaration that they consider the purchase complete once their dollar or euro payment is made. The only obstacle to this, according to the guidance, is the need for “confirmation from the Russian side” that all of this complies with decree 172.
In other words, Gazprom – or effectively the Kremlin – has to be onboard. Gazprom and Gazprombank are not subject to EU sanctions, so buyers are permitted to negotiate such labyrinthine proposals without breaching sanctions.
Tactics like these appear to be what the likes of OMV and Uniper are examining. Uniper said it was looking into “concrete payment modalities” that would allow it to pay while complying with sanctions.
This apparent legal loophole significantly clouds the picture over the true nature of compliance with Putin’s demand. For instance, responding to reports that OMV was preparing to make rouble payments, the Austrian chancellor, Karl Nehammer, insisted this was not the case.
Gulyas said that Hungary has opened a euro account with Russia’s Gazprombank, which then converts payments into rubles before transferring them to suppliers in Russia. This system, as The Guardian explains, allows European buyers to comply with Putin’s demand, made in late March, that “unfriendly” countries switch to Russia’s national currency to buy its natural gas.
“There are nine other countries using the same payment scheme,” said Gulyas, adding that "there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that countries importing raw materials from Russia use exactly the same method to pay for Russian gas."
So, as Gulyas confirmed, while numerous nations are exploiting this loophole to go along with Putin's demands, these countries' leaders will never it, in order to ensure they are seen as "being a good European."
"...because today the idea of being a good European also means that the leaders of those countries are not honest when speaking either in the international arena or to their own people, the other nine countries won’t say that they are doing the same thing."
Let the denials begin...
IOW fatty can’t back up his claim.
As always
Eat another pie
Denny, Roger and James can't back up their assertions.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Denny, Roger and James can't back up their assertions.
Now that Roger’s POS medicare advantage carrier has Over The Counter (OTC) benefits, he can get some depends delivered to him
Damn funny Cali.
Roger called off his May 7th , 2022 wedding, sad turn of events.
Donald Trump’s “impenetrable” border wall has resulted in increased migrant deaths and devastating injuries from falling, according to a new study that analyzed the effect of the new barriers on a southern California hospital.
The US replaced more than 400 miles of existing barriers that were between six-17ft tall with a 30-ft steel wall, and added nearly 50 miles of new barrier under the former president, who campaigned on the promise of “securing” America’s borders and routinely demonized migrants.
Advertisement
The wall has been far from Trump’s promise of being “virtually impenetrable” – smugglers breached what he called the “Rolls-Royce” of barriers more than 3,000 times since its construction. Though the former president said his wall “can’t be climbed”, migrants have continued scaling the barrier, facing great peril. Last month a woman died while attempting to scale the wall in eastern Arizona after her leg became trapped in a climbing harness and she was left hanging upside down.
A study, published in the Jama surgery journal on Friday, found an unprecedented increase in the number of falls from the border wall in San Diego and Imperial counties. The report is one of the first efforts to calculate the effects of Trump’s wall on migrants, according to the Washington Post, as federal officials don’t track deaths and injuries related to falls from the barrier.
The University of California San Diego trauma center, which treats patients with border wall injuries, saw a five-time increase in the number of people admitted with falling injuries from 67 cases between 2016 and 2018 to 375 cases between 2019 and 2021. During that same time, the number of deaths rose from zero to 16, according to the report, which cites data from the San Diego county medical examiner’s office.
‘A senseless tragedy’: woman dies after bid to climb US border wall
Read more
Trauma doctors say the rise in injuries is related to the increase of the height of the border wall.
“The height increase of the border wall along the San Ysidro and El Centro sectors was touted as making the barrier ‘unclimbable,’ but that has not stopped people from attempting to do so with consequential results,” said Amy Liepert, an author of the study and medical director of acute care surgery at UC San Diego Health. “This is an unseen public health crisis happening right now.”
Advertisement
Most of the patients the hospital treated had “significant brain and facial injuries or complex fractures of the extremities or spine”, many of which required “intensive care and staged operative reconstructions”. Because patients largely did not have health insurance they were ineligible for rehabilitation centers or physical therapy, and had longer hospital stays.
The costs of the increase in patients was more than $13m, and further burdened the trauma center as it grappled with rising Covid cases amid the pandemic, according to the study.
“The care of these injured immigrants is not only a humanitarian problem but also a public health crisis that further worsened trauma center bed capacity, staff shortages, and professionals’ moral injury,” the authors wrote.
The taller border wall has made what was already a perilous journey for migrants even riskier. At least 7,000 people are believed to have died along the US-Mexico border since 1998, the Guardian reported in 2021.
rrb and Russia Likens Zelensky to Hitler as Mariupol Says Russia Worse Than Nazis
Scott do you really want to withdraw?
The Pentagon assesses that Russia's progress in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has been "minimal at best," with Russian forces continuing to suffer from "poor" command and control, low morale and recurring logistical problems, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Monday.
Why it matters: Russia launched a major offensive in the Donbas last month that both sides have characterized as a decisive "second phase" of the war. Two weeks in, the U.S. believes Russian forces are "behind schedule" and experiencing many of the same problems that forced them to retreat from Kyiv.
A Fox News story is written with intent to sow doubt about the President.
The planes take off almost daily from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware — hulking C-17s loaded up with Javelins, Stingers, howitzers and other material being hustled to Eastern Europe to resupply Ukraine’s military in its fight against Russia.
The game-changing impact of those arms is exactly what President Joe Biden hopes to spotlight as he visits a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama on Tuesday that builds the portable Javelin anti-tank weapons that have played a crucial role in Ukraine.
But Biden’s visit is also drawing attention to a growing concern as the war drags on: Can the U.S. sustain the cadence of shipping vast amounts of arms to Ukraine while maintaining the healthy stockpile it may need if a new conflict erupts with North Korea, Iran or elsewhere?
The U.S. already has provided about 7,000 Javelins, including some that were delivered during the Trump administration, about one-third of its stockpile, to Ukraine, according to an analysis by Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies international security program. The Biden administration says it has committed to sending about 5,500 to Ukraine since the Russian invasion more than two months ago.
Analysts also estimate that the United States has sent about one-quarter of its stockpile of shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to Ukraine. Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes told investors last week during a quarterly call that his company, which makes the weapons system, wouldn’t be able to ramp up production until next year due to parts shortages.
"Could this be a problem? The short answer is, ‘Probably, yes,'" said Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and former government specialist on Pentagon budget strategy, war funding and procurement.
He said that Stingers and Javelins were where "we’re seeing the most significant inventory issues," and production of both weapons systems has been limited in recent years.
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.
We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months.
The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.
No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.
LOL
Jeff Charles
@JeffOnTheRight
BREAKING: White House unveils "Save the Negroes" initiative which will ban the sale of pork, Hennessey, and Swisher Sweets to decrease health disparities.
“Menthols were just the beginning. We’re gotta save the blacks from themselves,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki
And yes, I know it’s satire
My personal opinion is that someone from the liberal side released it to put pressure on Robert and perhaps to make to give political liberal ammunition in November
The Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a leaked draft document first published by Politico.
Why it matters: Overturning Roe v. Wade would make abortion immediately illegal in at least 13 states, as Axios' Oriana Gonzalez has reported.
Roger calls for Violence against USSC Members and their families.
Left Panics That Millions Of Babies Might Live
If this report is true, this Republican attack on abortion access, birth control and women’s health care has dramatically escalated the stakes of the 2022 election.
This will result in a replay of the 2018 election and the Democrats will keep both sides.
Hulu has The Rockford Files reruns you and the 5th Beatle can binge on tonight…
Powerine
ASTOUNDING LEAK FROM THE SUPREME COURT
Liberals love to bleat on these days about how Republicans have been breaching “democratic norms,” but late today one of the most sacrosanct norms of our political order was breached: Someone leaked a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the pending case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Association.
The opinion, drafted by Justice Samuel Alito, is 98 pages long, and I’m going to want to read through it carefully before offering conclusions or analysis. But some of the language in the opinion on a first skim seems promising, such as “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.” Heh: The left has been saying for years now that a liberal Court could overturn precedents they hate such as Citizens United under the heading that it was “wrong the day it was decided.” More:
Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.
A complete draft opinion has never leaked from the Supreme Court before, and it has long been understood that anyone (especially a law clerk) who leaked an opinion would be kissing their legal career goodbye. This is why I think the leak probably came from one of the Justices. And my money is on Sonia Sotomayor, who is by far the most politicized Justice on the Court, though she will soon have company when Ketanji Brown-Jackson joins the Court.
A leak of the opinion is surely a desperate attempt to stir up a public firestorm (so the left hopes) that will cause a Justice to switch his or her vote at the last minute. (It also provides desperate Democrats with something to distract from inflation, crime, education, Biden’s senility, etc.) This suggests the Court’s vote was 5 – 4, likely with Roberts once again defecting. The media isn’t even trying to disguise the purpose of this leak. Politico “reports”:
Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months. . .
No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.
I am certain that Breyer and Kagan are NOT happy about this leak, whatever their strong feelings about the issue. Could a Justice be impeached for leaking an opinion? It would be grounds for disbarment for any lawyer. Stay tuned. . .
UPDATE: An angry crowd of lefties (is there any other kind?) is already gathering on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest.
UPDATE 2—He mole hunt is under way.
Years ago I actually wanted every episode.
I had a very similar car I had a 1978 Pontiac Trans Am PT Cruiser TA 6.6 Gold and the Screaming Chicken on the hood.
Supreme CourtUSA
Planned Parenthood tweeted: "While abortion is still legal, tonight's report makes clear our deepest fears are coming true.
"We have reached a crisis moment for abortion access. We don't have a moment to spare - we must act now."
Former US Secretary off State Hillary Clinton said if the decision stood, it would be a "direct assault on the dignity, rights, and lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law.
"It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal," she went on.
"What an utter disgrace."
In a joint statement Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: "If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years - not just on women but on all Americans.
"The Republican-appointed Justices' reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history."
This could result in a replay of the 2018 election and the Democrats will keep both sides.
Former President George W. Bush will appear at a fundraiser for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Texas this month, wading into one of the year’s highest profile primaries to help a Republican targeted for extinction by Donald Trump.
The fundraiser, at the home of real estate developer Harlan Crow, lists Bush as a “special guest,” according to a copy of the invitation obtained by POLITICO.
Bush’s intervention in the Georgia primary underscores longstanding tensions between Trump and the Bush family — and the traditionalist wing of the Republican Party that Bush represents. Bush last year appeared at a fundraiser for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), and he gave money to Cheney and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Ala.) reelection campaigns, supporting two Republicans who backed impeaching Trump.
Like Cheney and Murkowski, Kemp has been savaged by Trump for his resistance to the former president’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Following Trump’s defeat in Georgia, Trump called Kemp a “RINO,” pledged to campaign against him, asserted he was “ashamed” he endorsed Kemp in 2018 and recruited former Sen. David Perdue to run against him this year.
But Kemp always appeared to have an upper hand in Georgia. Even last year, when Republican activists in the state booed Kemp at their state convention, they stopped short of censuring him. And Kemp has consistently been running ahead of Perdue in his campaign for reelection.
In an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll last week, Kemp was leading Perdue 53 percent to 27 percent. An 11Alive/Survey USA poll put Kemp up by a similar margin — 56 percent to 31 percent. At that rate, Kemp may not only beat Perdue on May 24, but could surpass the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff — a staggering rebuke of Trump’s influence on the party.
On Monday, Kemp’s campaign announced he had raised $2.7 million in the 26 days following the end of Georgia’s legislative session, during which Kemp was barred by state law from raising money. He has $10.7 million in cash on hand.
The fundraiser with Bush this month will put Kemp in front of an influential room of Texas donors just days before the Georgia primary on May 24. Hosts of the May 16 event include Crow; Jim Francis, a major Texas bundler; Republican strategist Karl Rove; and Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate.
Tickets for a V.I.P. reception are listed at $15,200, while the general reception is going for $5,000.
Bush, while largely reluctant to criticize Trump directly, implicitly did so last year, when he lamented a modern-day GOP that he said had become “isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.”
Trump has been less reserved, dating back almost a decade, to 2013, when he wrote of the Bush family that “we need another Bush in office about as much as we need Obama to have a 3rd term.” In the 2016 primaries, he walloped “low energy” Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, and he called Jeb Bush’s son, George P. Bush, “the only Bush that likes me,” after he, the Texas land commissioner, split with much of his family to endorse Trump.
Even then, Trump endorsed the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, for reelection.
Numerous polls since the 2020 election have shown Republicans overwhelmingly believe Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, and pro-Trump activists in Georgia have loudly joined Trump in their criticism of Kemp.
But Trump and Perdue may have overestimated the broader spill-over effect of Trump’s baseless claims on the midterm elections in one of the nation’s most significant swing states.
In the 11Alive/Survey USA poll, Perdue was leading Kemp by a wide margin among voters who said “election integrity” is their top issue. But that accounted for only 5 percent of voters. Far more Republicans, the poll found, are most concerned about the economy. And Trump’s support for Purdue has not had the effect that Purdue’s supporters once anticipated, as he continues to lag behind Kemp in public polling.
Some are looking at Sotomayor clerk Amir Jain as the leaker. Apparently a raging liberal who fiercely opposed kavanaugh, Jain was quoted a few years ago by politico journalist Josh kierstein. Kierstein is the one who got this draft.
‘This Is an Earthquake’: Monumental Reported Leak of Justice Alito Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade Stuns Legal World
ELURA NANOSMay 2nd, 2022, 10:27
Justice Samuel Alito
Supreme Court watchers were shocked late Monday when Politico reported on and released a copy of an apparently leaked draft majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and wholly eliminate a constitutional right to abortion.
The First Draft Majority Opinion attributed to Alito shows the justice writing that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
Images of the photocopied draft opinion can be seen in the tweet below:
“[F]ar from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue,” says the opinion, “Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a challenge to Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law that prohibits all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in direct contravention of standards set down by the nation’s high court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
The 68-page draft majority opinion rails against the concept of any legal right to abortion. It reasoned that despite “the Constitution mak[ing] no mention of abortion,” and that “American law or the common law had never recognized such a right,” Roe created a framework that seemed more like “a set of rules much like that those would be found in a statute enacted by a statute legislature.”
As for the concept of stare decisis, Alito wrote that it “does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.”
Despite the unprecedented nature of a leak regarding a case of such sweeping national importance, the legal community appears united in believing the draft opinion to be a true representation of what is to come from the high court.
A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.
Gerstein further says that Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan are working on a dissent, and that there is no word yet as to how Chief Justice John Roberts plans to vote.
Former Acting Solicitor General of the United States Neal Katyal tweeted that “[t]here are lots of signals the opinion is legit,” and pointed to the the length and depth of the opinion and its analysis.
Law professor Rick Hasen also tweeted that he believed the leaked document to be an authentic Alito draft, noting that the language in the document “really SOUNDS like Alito,” and that he considers Josh Gerstein a respected source.
“This is an earthquake,” University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck tweeted of the leak, and noted that it is significant not only for the legal future of reproductive freedom, but also “for the stunning breach of the Court’s norms of confidentiality.” Vladeck emphasized the unprecedented nature of the leak, adding, “And whatever you think of the leak, the former has *everything* to do with the latter.”
SCOTUSblog also characterized the leak as an “earthquake,” predicting that it will destroy trust among members of the Court. “This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin,” SCOTUSblog tweeted.
Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman said in a tweet that “it’s impossible to overstate how stunning and gobsmacking the leak of the Alito draft in the abortion case is,” and called the publicly-shared draft, “Unprecented and that’s just for starters.”
The New Republic writer Matt Ford drew attention to context for a SCOTUS leak in a tweet referencing an interview with Ian Samuel, a former clerk of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Samuel said that Scalia was clear about the obligation of complete confidentiality and told his clerks, “If I ever discover that you have betrayed the confidences of what goes on in these chambers, I will do everything in my power to ruin your career.”
Constitutional law professor Dan Epps also tweeted that the leak would likely give rise to a “serious inquisition at the Court as the Chief tries to figure out who leaked.”
Washington Examiner reporter Cami Mondeaux reported just minutes after the draft opinion was leaked that barricades are up around the Supreme Court building.
The draft decision contains a note that it was circulated among the justices on Feb. 10. Of course, no opinion of the Court becomes final until it is officially released. However, given the context and reports about the justices’ votes, legal experts appear to be united in the belief that something very close to Alito’s draft opinion will before too long be released in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.
Law&Crime reached out to the Supreme Court’s Public Information Office for comment and to inquire about the authenticity of the leaked document. We did not immediately receive a response
Politico is reporting that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights.
Alito, in his draft majority opinion, says very clearly that he is seeking to overturn the Roe and Casey court decisions.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Alito writes, according to Politico. "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....”
In the past Chief Justice John Roberts has said that he wanted to remove the "viability" clause from the Roe decision, which is the way of essentially overturning the law without saying it.
According to Alito, "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives."
Legal analyst Harry Litman of the Los Angeles Times noted that for Alito to have written the opinion means that Chief Justice John Roberts assigned it to him. It's an interesting choice, Litman said, because Alito is "the least gifted and powerful writer probably of the 5."
As former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti explained, the decision is going to remove the autonomy of all women with one decision.
As one Civil Rights lawyer explained, "The draft sets out a vision of substantive due process as inflexible — a right exists only if it’s been recognized for generations. No room for constitutional change to match a more tolerant and enlightened society. A recipe for no Roe OR Griswold OR Obergefell."
Griswold was the 1965 ruling that declared the Constitution protects the liberty of married couples to buy and use contraceptives without the government probing their decisions or lives.
Obergefell is the ruling that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage.
"Casey described itself as calling both sides of the national controversy to resolve their debate, but in doing so, Casey necessarily declared a winning side," Alito also writes. "The Court short-circuited the democratic process by closing it to the large number of Americans who dissented in any respect from Roe. … Together, Roe and Casey represent an error that cannot be allowed to stand.”
As former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained, there are currently laws on the books in some states that won't even allow abortion for women who have been raped or children who have been molested.
Some legal analysts also cited Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who claimed that she was a moderate pro-choice republican. When Judge Brett Kavanaugh was up for a vote, Collins agreed to support him, saying that Kavanaugh believed a woman's right to choose was "settled law?"
---------
This is a political earthquake.
I strongly suspect that the election will not result in a Republican landslide that was going to happen. If this is true then the Democrats will keep both houses..
https://www.rawstory.com/alito-leak/
This will mobilize millions of Americans who probably were not going to vote in the next election.
Young couples who have daughters, will be outraged by antiabortion laws that ban abortion for rape or incest.
I know a friend who was raped by a police officer at the age of 13. The Republicans would not have let her get an abortion. She didn't get pregnant.
Some legal experts say that this could end same sex marriage and almost every woman's rights.
WASHINGTON—A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and published late Monday by Politico indicated the court may be preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that established a constitutional right to an abortion.
The draft, dated from February, couldn't be independently confirmed, but legal observers said it appeared authentic. The Supreme Court’s spokeswoman declined to comment.
The 67-page opinion, marked as a first draft, declared that Roe was “egregiously wrong and deeply damaging,” and that Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 decision that limited but didn’t eliminate abortion rights, prolonged the court’s error.
Advertisement - Scroll to Continue
“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” the draft opinion said. “Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”
Roe v. Wade: Protests in Washington Over Leaked Draft of Supreme Court Opinion
Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. after Politico published a leaked draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade may be overturned. The 1973 precedent established a constitutional right to an abortion.
The draft, written in February, doesn’t necessarily represent the court’s ultimate decision in the case or even the majority’s current thinking. But it is consistent with the tenor of December’s oral arguments in the case challenging Roe, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, concerning Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks. The draft was labeled the opinion of the court, implying a majority of justices had agreed with it.
The apparent leak represents a nearly unheard of breach of the court’s private, behind-the-scenes deliberations on a blockbuster case the court hasn’t yet publicly issued. It also could threaten longstanding bonds of trust on a court that has already been under ideological and personal strains.
After an initial vote among justices on a case, Supreme Court decisions can undergo considerable evolution in tone and substance as justices circulate draft opinions for weeks and months. Those drafts are circulated between chambers—with justices typically offering feedback, support and criticism in writing—until the court arrives at a final ruling, which is frequently accompanied by concurring and dissenting opinions that weigh in on the court’s holding.
Given those internal processes, it’s possible that there are more recent versions of the decision that look different than the draft Politico published. And on occasions, justices can change their positions during deliberations.
Since the December arguments in the Mississippi case, many court watchers have been expecting the justices to make significant changes to the legal landscape for abortion, with the only question being whether the court would merely narrow abortion rights or instead overrule constitutional protections entirely.
Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban would prohibit the procedure far earlier than current Supreme Court precedent allows. Additional states already have been adopting similar bans in anticipation of the court’s decision. Some states have adopted even more stringent restrictions.
The court’s decision has been expected by the end of June or early July
WSJ
Roger projecting his wishful thinking regarding the Nov elections. Nothing more. This won't erase the inflation misery, immigration chaos, the govt war on parents, the transgendering of grade school kids and the rest of it.
Many abortion supporters also support a ban after 15 to 20 weeks. That is where I am.
Democrats are back on the court packing train. No one else like the idea and strongly opposed it. This alone will balance out the abortion coverage.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Alito writes, according to Politico. "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....”
Precisely and absolutely CORRECT.
Roe was a complete and total fabrication when instituted. The right to an abortion simply does not exist within the constitution and it never did.
Return it to the states where it rightly belongs and move on. This is hardly the calamity it's being made out to be.
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
This will mobilize millions of Americans who probably were not going to vote in the next election.
Just like the pussy hat rebellion that descended on DC to pitch a fit when Trump was inaugurated. Wishful thinking on your part alky. Myballs is correct. We are ass-deep in a myriad of Biden-inflicted fucking problems that are ruining the lives of everyday Americans. Ask the guy knocking down $60K/year and seeing $6K of that devoured by inflation if he gives a shit. If he does he's likely on the conservative side of the issue anyway.
NY codified abortion into law a few years ago under Cuomo. Maybe we can become the abortion destination state. We sure could use the economic development, that's for fucking sure.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Some are looking at Sotomayor clerk Amir Jain as the leaker. Apparently a raging liberal who fiercely opposed kavanaugh, Jain was quoted a few years ago by politico journalist Josh kierstein. Kierstein is the one who got this draft.
Of course. Sotomayor's clerk. The clerk for the dumbest fuck on the court. The harm that Jain has done to the trust among the justices is irreparable. And all for a fucking "Hail Mary" to try and salvage the mid-terms.
What a piece of fucking shit.
In the end Roberts will find to retain Roe on some sort of ridiculous technicality because he's a fucking coward.
"It’s impossible to overstate the earthquake this will cause inside the Court, in terms of the destruction of trust among the Justices and staff. This leak is the gravest, most unforgivable sin."
https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1521295411545260035
Post a Comment