Politics, Everyday, All day... morning, noon and night....II

[Lonesomebri]

Meanwhile, our neighbors to the north

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[Simon of the Playa]

"January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week — overturn the election," he told Hewitt.

"Now he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here in correcting that stuff, but it’s not going to change," Christie added. "He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned."


https://www.axios.com/chris-christie-tr ... 3f6d0.html

[Simon of the Playa]

"Donald trump has made clear time and time again that, in his view, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to be judged a “loser.” In the 2020 presidential election he was, in fact, a loser, but his narcissism and the incredibly fragile self-esteem that undergirds it won’t allow him to accept that reality. He has spent the past 15 months attempting to overthrow the election in an effort to make himself the winner and, after that effort failed, rewriting the narrative, portraying himself as a victim of “THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY.”

Almost every public comment Trump makes these days is focused on the election. America’s 45th president said in a statement last week that his vice president, Mike Pence, should have “overturned” the election. In a speech, he indicated that if he were to become president again, he’d likely pardon the people who on January 6, 2021, violently stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of the election, part of his ongoing effort to turn insurrectionists and those charged with seditious conspiracy into martyrs. He also warned that he would incite unrest if prosecutors who are investigating him and his businesses took action against him.

Trump’s mind has no room to entertain any other thoughts, at least not for long. His defeat is his obsession; it has pulled him into a deep, dark place. He wants to pull the rest of us into it as well."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... on/621505/

[Simon of the Playa]

Last night, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) was on the Fox News Channel sounding more frantic than usual, accusing the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol of attacking him and insisting that “this is ridiculous and the American people are so fed up with this….” Jordan, such a key Trump loyalist that the former president awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a private ceremony at the White House on January 11, 2021, five days after the insurrection, has been eager to deflect attention from what we now know was a ten-minute call between him and Trump on the morning of January 6.

Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted today that 740,000 Maricopa County ballots cannot be verified. (These were the ballots taken over by the Cyber Ninjas and have been examined and verified several times over.)

More odd, though, was Representative Troy Nehls’s (R-TX) claim on Twitter that the Capitol Police Intelligence Division on November 20, 2021, “investigated my office illegally” and that Capitol Police leadership was “maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character.” He claimed such an attack was due to his criticism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the January 6 Committee, the Capitol Police, and the shooting of Ashli Babbitt as she tried to break into the House chamber. The president of the right-wing organization Judicial Watch promptly accused Pelosi of targeting Nehls with “secret police.”

The Capitol Police responded that an officer found the office unlocked, entered it, and “saw a white board with text about body armor and an accompanying map of the Capitol campus.” In an article in the Federalist, Nehls said the map was intended to help an intern find an ice machine and the body armor part of a discussion of legislation to stop purchases of body armor from China. “If Capitol Police leadership had spent as much time preparing for January 6 as they spent investigating my white board, the January 6 riot never would have happened,” Nehls wrote.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ary-8-2022

[lucky420]

Gymmmmmmmm how’s them schweaty balls?
Nervous Gymmmmmm?
I sure hope so you fucking piece of shit

Hope everyone is having a pleasant day

[FlyingMonkey]

Gymmmmmmmm how’s them schweaty balls?
Nervous Gymmmmmm?
I sure hope so you fucking piece of shit

Hope everyone is having a pleasant day

Eew. My mind cannot un-see that. -WTF, wheres the vomit emoji?

I bet he doesn't even shave them. Savage!

Side note, if you see something on the news it probably isn't really news (you know....objective reporting) and just something someone wanted you to see to shape your perspective. That is universal and not a Right or Left thing. Consume your media responsibly.

[Simon of the Playa]

Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 9, 2022

This evening, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena for documents and testimony to former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, who has made a number of public statements about his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In its letter to Navarro, the committee noted his statements that former president Trump was “on board with the strategy” of trying to steal the election, as were “more than 100” members of Congress, including Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

This subpoena suggests that the committee is getting closer to lawmakers, and some of them are certainly acting as if they are uncomfortable these days.

Navarro responded to the subpoena with a fire-eating statement calling the members of the January 6 committee “domestic terrorists” engaged in a “partisan witch hunt,” and inaccurately claimed that former president Trump has invoked executive privilege that he cannot waive. (In fact, Trump invoked executive privilege only over documents in the possession of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Supreme Court denied his claims.) He tried to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Capitol Police for the violence on January 6.

He added fuel to the ongoing fight within the Republican Party when he added: “Pence betrayed Trump. Marc Short is a Koch Network dog. Meadows is a fool and a coward. Cheney and Kinzinger are useful idiots for Nancy Pelosi and the woke Left.”

Navarro’s discomfort with the committee’s questions was not unlike that of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who picked up today on Representative Troy Nehls’s (R-TX) odd accusations of yesterday that Pelosi and the Capitol Police were spying on him. Greene accused Pelosi of having Gestapo-like secret police “spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens,” she said, although she called them “gazpacho,” apparently confusing the cold tomato soup with the Nazis.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is also flailing. Sunday, on Face the Nation, he said: “This commission is a partisan scam. They're going after—they're—the purpose of that commission is to try to embarrass and smear and harass as many Republicans as they can get their hands on.”

Yesterday, he released a video saying “Biden is sending free meth & crack pipes to minority communities in the name of ‘racial equity’.... There is no end in sight for this lunacy.“

This is a wild lie made up and spread by right-wing publications, referring to a drug harm reduction program inviting applications for grants in a 75-page call for proposals. Part of that harm reduction includes infectious disease testing kits, medication lock boxes, safe sex kits, vaccinations, and so on, including safe smoking kits, which do not include free meth or crack pipes but do include rubber mouthpieces for pipes to prevent burns, and disinfectant wipes.

Drug harm reduction programs have been around in the U.S. since the 1980s, when the HIV epidemic made it clear that addressing drug addiction could stop that era’s epidemic.

Exaggeration and demonization of their opponents has been part of politics for years, as Republicans tried to fire up their base by describing their opponents as socialists, lazy “takers,” baby-killers, and so on. Now, though, these over-the-top attacks on the committee and on the Democratic administration seem to be part of a new political project.

The frantic edge to them suggests concern about what the January 6th committee might uncover.

But statements like those yesterday of Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who claimed the Department of Justice was reading his mail; Nehls, who claimed that Pelosi was using the Capitol Police to spy on him; and Greene, who claims Pelosi has a “Gestapo,” normalize the practices of authoritarian government. The proposed banning of books by Republican school officials and lawmakers also echoes authoritarian tactics. Texas State Representative Matt Krause’s October list of 850 books he said “might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex” invited schools to self-censor. It also puts the idea of banning books–—banning one book normalizes the banning of 850—on the political table.

And, to enforce such bans, states like Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida are turning to laws that enlist ordinary people to turn each other in to authorities.

We learned yesterday more details of another undemocratic project thanks to Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman of the New York Times: in summer 2018, Republican operatives launched a spying operation in Wyoming to gather dirt on opponents of then-president Donald Trump, targeting progressives, Democrats, and Republicans who seemed insufficiently loyal. To help fund the project, they turned to Erik Prince, known as the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and brother of then–secretary of education Betsy DeVos.

The third piece of this new, frantic language ties into America’s long history of politicians deploying racism to break the coalitions that challenge their power.

When Rubio lies that Biden is sending crack pipes to minority communities, he is tying into other constructed panics around race. Fourteen state legislatures have passed laws restricting the teaching of anything that looks like Critical Race Theory, although the actual concept, an advanced legal theory that seeks to explain the persistence of racial inequality in the U.S., is almost never taught in public schools. Republican allegations of voter fraud focus on majority Black districts, and state laws are increasingly threatening minority voting. On Monday night, the Supreme Court okayed racial gerrymandering, making it harder for Black voters to elect representatives of their choice.

These new legal fences enclosing Black Americans echo times in our past when multiracial coalitions threatened an entrenched political party and those in power reacted by using the law to divide their opponents along racial lines. Last June, as Republican operatives whipped up fears of CRT, Republican political operative Stephen K. Bannon told Politico that enflaming racism was how Republicans would take back Congress. “I see 50 [House Republican] seats in 2022. Keep this up,” he said. “I think you’re going to see a lot more emphasis from Trump on [CRT] and DeSantis and others. People who are serious in 2024 and beyond are going to focus on it.”

Cracking the majority that elected a Democratic government in 2020 will enable the Republicans to take back Congress and, among other things, ease pressure over the January 6 insurrection.

But according to a Washington Post story today, some of the very “suburban moms” being pressed into this racial division are organizing to fight back. “t’s time to get off defense,” organizer Katie Paris told reporter Annie Gowan. “Why should we be the ones explaining ourselves?” Paris’s organization, Red, Wine, and Blue, trains its more than 300,000 members to push back against book bans. Paris recognizes that the attacks on diversity in the schools are about political control of the nation. Attacks on the schools, she says, “certainly are part of what I would say is a pretty massive orchestrated effort to undermine public education and teachers in the country, impose a political agenda and win back suburban voters.”

[lucky420]

Gymmmmmmmm how’s them schweaty balls?
Nervous Gymmmmmm?
I sure hope so you fucking piece of shit

Hope everyone is having a pleasant day

Eew. My mind cannot un-see that. -WTF, wheres the vomit emoji?

I bet he doesn't even shave them. Savage!

Side note, if you see something on the news it probably isn't really news (you know....objective reporting) and just something someone wanted you to see to shape your perspective. That is universal and not a Right or Left thing. Consume your media responsibly.

May his razor always be rusty

[some seeing eye]

Navarro was the architect of inept trade policy. Yes the R are all about finding wedge issues and sowing distrust in government. That includes the school curriculum and library book wedge. It includes the vaccine and masking wedge. and now Newt Gingrich, architect of the Contract on (with) America is back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... inish-job/.

We are going to be in a world of hurt when Gym https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics ... index.html Jordan takes over house committee investigations. All progress on climate is going to stop as well.

[Simon of the Playa]

"Wherever this “freedom movement” manifests, a similar cast of characters emerges. Light-in-the-eyes zealots holler conspiracy theories. Grifters solicit to camera like a roll of tabloid clickbait. Burly, closed-mouth types appear to be handling secretive logistics. Around them are impassioned, often inarticulate – and poorly-costumed – clowns.

Don’t let the ridiculousness distract from the threat."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -dangerous

[FlyingMonkey]

It's amazingly well coordinated. There is no fewer than 4 live streamers at any given time in Canada and somehow they have colaborated to hide all the swastika flags being waved.

All the people cleaning garbage, shoveling snow and feeding strangers are obviously human props.

I bet just off screen there is an army of angry bigots goose stepping between the trucks.

What's puzzling is that no mainstream media is covering the looting and burned out shells of what once were minority owned businesses.

Oh the humanity!

Why should anyone be concerned about a government that uses Facebook to identify protesters and then sends police officers to their homes to intimidate them. Steals fuel from private citizens and when ordered by a judge returns it (contaminated with water).

This would be a great time to fight a war over an irrelevant country to distract the Sheeple.

[Simon of the Playa]

"It is likely that Russian mercenaries, under the direction of the Russian state, will be involved in any hostilities in Ukraine, potentially including a pretext for an invasion," said one Western security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ex ... 022-02-14/

[Canoe]

It's amazingly well coordinated. There is no fewer than 4 live streamers at any given time in Canada and somehow they have colaborated to hide all the swastika flags being waved. ...

As the various white supremacist symbols were outed at the "protest", those displaying them (including one of the leaders) were told to make them scarce.

Assaults have occurred in downtown Ottawa and surrounding neighbourhoods against people wearing masks, with numerous additional threats of assault (and some of sexual assault), including against elementary school students. The frequency of such abuse is outstandingly higher against non-white people. A number of incidents have been captured and posted around twitter, particularly where "truckers" have harassed residential neighbourhoods. Those who live in the downtown core are hugely affected. This most recent weekend, the increasing treats to staff by protesters led to the single grocery store just outside the core closing. I have a friend who lives in that condo building with his disabled wife, with the grocery on the ground floor. He's now going to have to go much further afield to get their food.

The abuse of workers & customers in the Rideau Centre by protesters in there led to management asking for Police assistance to keep the peace while the centre was closed. It's remained closed. That first weekend, protesters showed up at a homeless shelter on the other side of the canal from the downtown core, with some protesters sneaking in to get meals that were prepared for the homeless who eat there, and other protesters were outside demanding that they be fed the homeless's meals too. But that and their blocking the outreach truck from leaving on its rounds delivering meals to the homeless on the streets, has lead to a huge influx of donations for the shelter (>$500K?). A number of construction projects in the downtown have been closed, workers without work, due to the protests. Etc.

This "protest" is an occupation of parts of Ottawa's downtown core, noisy and abusive. The "truckers protest" affect on the running of the Federal Government? None. It's just a PR thorn in their side. Parliament is on skeleton staff, of what little takes place there to begin with. The 'protesters" are not even smart enough to clue in that the outstanding majority of what they're supposedly protesting against were measures put in place by Provincial governments, not the Federal government. So they got the address wrong... Or else the organizers motivated people to protest so they could be there just to disrupt whatever they can however they can. Interesting to read what's been found out about what the organizers have done in their past, ties or membership in white supremacy, and where the money has come from for a "truckers protest" that has Canada's trucker's associations completely disavowing themselves of the protest - they've got work to do keeping the country running. As actual working truckers put it: 90 % of Canadian Truckers are fully vaccinated, and 100 % of those 90 % didn't play victim about it.

While the numbers of trucks, cars and vans is meaningful for the area they're in, the numbers of people in them are surprisingly small. For over a week, the numbers of actual protesters is so small, that they've not needed to leave the sidewalks by the trucks on Wellington in front of Parliament Hill, and use the significantly larger actual protest area - there just aren't enough of them. As protests go, their initial numbers ranged from small up to the low side of medium, but quickly fell after the first weekend, and remains between medium-large within small. At their peak, they just got enough people to fill the sidewalks immediately in front of The Hill, and only the paved walkways on the front of the hill, leaving the bulk of the protest space unused. A large protest fills - with people - The Hill, the street in front of Parliament (filled with people, not trucks) (and from the Rideau Centre to the Supreme Court, spilling over into the Market area), and all of the feeding streets for four blocks to the south. The "protesters" are getting rather frustrated, as the majority of Canadians don't buy into their bullshit, only tiny numbers "flocked" to support them, and the majority are telling them to close the block parties, quit abusing Ottawa's residents and go home.

People have done research and posted results on twitter and facebook. A not surprisingly large number of trucks there have a spotty working record, as their performance (or rather the lack of it) has a number of them facing difficulty finding work - during a trucking shortage... While real truckers are continuing with their jobs, delivering goods across Canada and between Canada and the U.S..

Apart from the Rideau Centre and those abused downtown residents, this "truckers protest" has little affect on Ottawa. And while the affect on residents is huge, most of downtown is closed due to Covid. With the majority of business workers working remotely, most of the businesses that used to service them scaled back or closed for the duration.

They've taken over a number of Canada's national capital city streets in the downtown core for multi-week noisy block parties, installing bouncy castles, beer tents, supply tents, a karaoke stage with a multimedia display and a hot tub, while saying they don't have enough freedom...

If you'd like to have an idea of the scope, try looking at where they are, and aren't. You have to go to the downtown core, as they're of no affect on the other 99 % of Ottawa.
The cam showing Parliament Hill is particularly telling.
https://ottawacameras.ca/
https://traffic.ottawa.ca/beta/en
There was an influx of vehicles on Friday night. As of Sunday morning, 95 % were gone, as were at least 10 % of what was there prior. The vehicles on the sideline streets is hugely down. Numbers really shrunk over the weekend. And the cameras show that they have shrunk further today.

[Simon of the Playa]

"
The story at the root of the right’s accusations against Clinton is actually fascinating. After Russians hacked the servers of the Democratic National Committee in 2015 and 2016, cybersecurity experts started to look to see what else hackers might have hit. In July 2016, four of them noticed that Russia’s Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank appeared to be pinging a server registered to Trump Tower. To a lesser extent, it communicated with Spectrum Health in Michigan, an organization associated with the DeVos family. The servers were configured in such a way that they appeared to be shutting out other communications.

One of the security experts took the story to lawyer Michael Sussman, who took it to the general counsel at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in September 2016, alerting him that cybersecurity folks thought there might be secret communications between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. Sussman worked for the same law firm that represented the Clinton presidential campaign.

In May 2019, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, appointed John Durham, former U.S. attorney for Connecticut, as special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia.

In September 2021, Durham indicted Sussman for lying to the FBI by saying he was not working for a client when he alerted them to the issue. Sussman denies he said he did not have a client, and identified himself as working for the cybersecurity expert. While Durham’s witness has contradicted himself, emails support Sussman’s account. For his part, Sussman responded by denying the charges and saying that Durham’s 27-page indictment contained “prejudicial—and false—allegations that are irrelevant to his Motion and to the charged offense, and are plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage, and taint the jury pool.”

In his indictment, Durham said the cybersecurity experts did not believe their own suggestion of connections between Alfa Bank and Trump Tower and were trying to hurt candidate Trump. They responded by accusing Durham of editing their emails misleadingly and stood behind their earlier conclusions.

The current furor is over a related issue. On Friday, in a court filing in the case against Sussman, Durham alleged that one of the cybersecurity experts, who was working for the White House as part of a cybersecurity contract, “exploited” his access there to find “derogatory information” about Trump. This charge stems from the fact that the researchers found odd data suggesting that a Russian-made smartphone, a YotaPhone, had communicated with the same networks—this we already knew—and that one of them told that information to the CIA in February 2017, about 20 days into the Trump administration. Durham did not indicate when he thought the experts had uncovered the issue—the timing suggests it was in 2016, before Trump took office—and the researcher’s lawyer has pointed out that the person had been hired to identify security breaches and threats.

The story is confusing, but it seems to show security experts who found anomalies and took them to the appropriate authorities (none of them has been charged with anything). The FBI dismissed the server issue, and it is not clear whether the phone issue was ever investigated. The launch of the FBI’s investigation of the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia had nothing to do with any of this, anyway. The investigation, called Crossfire Hurricane, began in July 2016 after George Papadopoulos, a member of the Trump campaign, told an informant that the campaign had dirt on Hillary Clinton. An investigation by the inspector general of the Justice Department concluded that the FBI investigation was not politically motivated.

The current story appears to be a nothing burger, and yet, the former president, right-wing media, and Trump loyalists are flooding the news with accusations that the Clinton campaign paid operatives to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House to create the Russia scandal. They are calling for multiple indictments.

​​Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) told the Fox News Channel on Sunday: “They were spying on the sitting president of the United States…. And it goes right to the Clinton campaign.” The former president claimed that “Robert” Durham—a name switch that might reflect his intense focus on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was in charge of the Russia investigation—had provided “indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.… In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.”

The right is complaining bitterly that the mainstream media has covered this story only briefly, insisting the lack of wall-to-wall coverage proves the media is biased against the right. But the exaggeration of this story seems a transparent attempt to revisit the 2016 attacks on Clinton in order to distract both from the revelations of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol and from the eye-popping news that Trump’s accountants have said the last ten years of his financial statements cannot be relied upon.

Controlling the narrative has always been a key factor in the right’s ability to turn out voters. But that ability just might be slipping.

Today, former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit J. Michael Luttig, a Republican, said: “For the past six years, I have watched and listened in disgust that not one single leader of ours with the moral authority, the courage, and the will to stand up and say: ‘No, this is not who we are, this is not what America is, and it’s not what we want to be,’ has done so.”

Also today, a report by the Interior Department’s Inspector General Mark Greenblatt, who was appointed by former president Donald Trump, offered a window into how one Trump loyalist looked at our government as a way to further his own interests. The report concluded that Trump’s secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, broke federal ethics rules, lying to officials that he had “purely social” contact with developers in Whitefish, Montana, when in fact he communicated with the developers 64 times to talk about the project, including a parking lot on his own land and his interest in having a brewery on the property.

Zinke is now running for Congress. His campaign called the investigation a “Biden Administration led report” (the investigation began in 2018, under Trump) that “published false information, and was shared with the press as a political hit job.”

Spreading false stories depends on making sure the truth is inaccessible. Today Biden rejected Trump’s attempt to hide the White House visitor logs for January 6, 2021, from the January 6th committee on the grounds of executive privilege. Biden said that keeping them hidden “is not in the best interest of the United States.” Unless a court steps in, the National Archives and Records Administration will deliver them to the committee on March 3."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ry-16-2022

[Simon of the Playa]

i guess "Mom" and "Apple Pie" are no longer cool...

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[Canoe]

i guess "Mom" and "Apple Pie" are no longer cool...

Pro Tip: if they ask you what the favourite gun of Jesus is, don't answer "nail-gun".

Did I say that out loud?

[Simon of the Playa]

Putin is Used To Blowing Up his Own People in False Flag Operations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_a ... t_bombings

[some seeing eye]

Worrisome

Nevada Dems Sound Alarm Over 'Single Most Vicious Suppression Attempt' Yet by GOP
"It is with absolute outrage that we have discovered a shocking effort to assault the electoral process of Washoe County," said the chair of the Nevada Democratic Party.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... pt-yet-gop

Republicans create wedge issues. The Burning Man event makes a perfect wedge issue because its true nature is hard to explain.

[lucky420]

Worrisome

Nevada Dems Sound Alarm Over 'Single Most Vicious Suppression Attempt' Yet by GOP
"It is with absolute outrage that we have discovered a shocking effort to assault the electoral process of Washoe County," said the chair of the Nevada Democratic Party.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... pt-yet-gop

Republicans create wedge issues. The Burning Man event makes a perfect wedge issue because its true nature is hard to explain.

Yes, I’ll be at that meeting tomorrow calling out this BS, some of which may be illegal. Fucking asshats

[Simon of the Playa]

take your shit and shove it up your ass...

[Canoe]

take your shit and shove it up your ass...

In the responses to that tweet, it shows the footage of Trump having great difficulty walking down the ramp following his 2020 speech at the West Point commencement. https://twitter.com/skolanach/status/14 ... 0588097536
Followed by...
"I never noticed it before, but was he making choo-choo noises going down the ramp?"

Then there's https://twitter.com/killermuses/status/ ... 4114193413

[Canoe]

Puts another twist into the boxes of documents Trump took out of the White House that include classified documents.

What Russia is doing to attack a Democratic ally, combined with Republicans turning against Democracy for Putin, on the day Senator Rick Scott announced his 11 point political suicide plan honestly has me thinking back to these Senators & their July 14th, 2018 trip to Russia.

https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/sta ... 6261186561

"One denied he was there. He actually put out his 4 July pics from the previous year as cover"

These eight Republicans spent July 4th in Moscow
https://twitter.com/gym2e/status/1496463128128888835

While in Russia you accept enticements you ought not and learn it was all for a purpose. You feel angry and trapped at first until money begins to flow and opportunity seems greater than risk. Then with every compromised step, cords tighten around you until your will is theirs.

All 8 GOP Congressmen who visited Russia on the 4th of July have all voted against providing funding to secure State election systems against Russian interference in 2018. Voted AGAINST. Coincidence? My ass!

These eight Republicans spent July 4th meeting with our enemies in Moscow.

Putin's minister of propaganda in America
https://twitter.com/gym2e/status/1496463205899636736

[Canoe]

"Meetings to decide" were staged hours earlier, including the signing.

Putin convened an unscheduled meeting with his Security Council in Moscow on Monday. The meeting was broadcast at 5 pm. But what time was it really held? Let's look at some participants' watches. Sergei Shoigu & Sergei Lavrov prep at 11:45.

This meeting was to decide if Russia would recognize two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as sovereign states. If so, an agreement would be signed following the "important" meeting. In actuality, Putin had already signed the agreement almost two hours prior at 10:15.

Putin even signed the document in the presence of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik. And their watches, you might ask? 10:15 and 10:17.

https://twitter.com/Forrest_Rogers/stat ... 4119281665

[Simon of the Playa]

war.


https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... ba83187d46

[Simon of the Playa]

"It is impossible to say the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is safe after a totally pointless attack by the Russians," he said.

"This is one of the most serious threats in Europe today," Podolyak said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ch ... 022-02-24/

[some seeing eye]

Ukraine has 12 operating nuclear power plants.

[Simon of the Playa]

Before midnight, American Eastern time, Friday had begun in Ukraine with the news from Ukraine’s minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba that Kyiv was being hit by “horrific Russian rocket strikes…. The last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany. Ukraine defeated that evil and will defeat this one. Stop Putin. Isolate Russia. Sever…all ties. Kick Russia out of everywhere.”


https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.c ... ry-24-2022

[thnkfl]

President Zelenskyy's address to the Russian people
https://twitter.com/p_zalewski/status/1 ... ol-of-hope

[Simon of the Playa]

jerry saltz nails it...

[Elliot]

I fail to understand it.

We often hear that "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". But here we are with Hitler and Poland all over again, and the free western world plans to "impose stern economic sanctions" on Adolf Putin?!

I seem to want to ask... Please tell me which economic sanctions have curbed the grotesque behavior of North Korea's Rocket Boy?
None, of course.
Kim does not give a rat's ass what suffering our economic sanctions inflict on his population, so long as he can do whatever he wants, to anyone he wants, of the 25 Million starving toys in his personal playpen.

Same with Putin.

Does the free western world really not have the military means to Stop. Putin. Right. Now?

Did we not learn anything from the last Hitler?
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