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The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
40 responses to “Waiting at the PA DMV. Noooooooo”
My daughter lost her license. She is home on Spring Break so we are waiting in a packed room to get a new one. Purgatory does exist…
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Putin received 99.9% of the vote. The .1% received 10 year sentences. Both can be true.
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You have dept of moronic services on a weekend?
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There is little difference from having a sham vote to canceling elections altogether, denying people’s right to vote. Both scenarios have the same results – nothing changes.
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The warmongers miss Door #3.
No Grifter
No Pooty poot
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No Polls today, as is fairly normal for weekends. Its not until the final couple of months of the campaign before its a 24/7 job to keep up with the influx of new polls. Although if the Dems stick with Biden, and Trump starts to run away with it, sort of like a 1980 kind of election, polling might dry up so they don’t depress the Dem base.
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warmongers?
Lets see, the greatest warmongers over the last two years have been those who started wars:
1) Putin
2) Hamas.
Without them needlessly starting wars, there would be no wars in the middle east or Ukraine.
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There is little difference from having a sham vote to canceling elections altogether, denying people’s right to vote.”
Wow.
Gets the intellectually dishonest prize of the month.
Zelensky is a legitimate President elected in legitimate elections.
He is totally correct in postponing a vote while the country is under martial law in a fight for survival with large parts of the population under Russian control.
The difference between his government and his legitimacy and Putin’s is miles apart.
Only Janzam and the other Putin toadies could compare Putin’s brutally repressive regime which sentences opponents to die in Gulags with a legitimate President like Zelensky.
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DW – Putina defina warmongers as those who support people defending themselves from aggression.
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Janzam and Tina won’t be in today.
They are both hung over after a wild night celebrating Putin’s “election” win where he got 99.9% of the vote against fierce competition
After endless rounds of vodka fueled toasts to “more dead Ukrainians” they retired in a drunken stupor.
They hope to be here tomorrow to cheer on Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, they hope Putin won’t be angry they will be taking a day off.”
Ok I was wrong.
Janzam, as a good little Putin soldier, awakes from her celebration to mouth some talking points on how Zelensky = Putin.
I underestimated her zeal to spread Russian state propaganda.
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DW – Putina defina warmongers as those who support people defending themselves from aggression.”
And “grifter” is anyone who fights against Russian invaders and their war crimes.
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Reagan called Russia/USSR an evil empire. I agree with Reagan. The only difference between that empire in 1981, compared to today, is the war this evil empire started is no longer a cold one.
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https://revolver.news/2024/03/special-counsel-jack-smith-documents-case-going-down-in-flames-judge-cannon/
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Bott is clearly grasping at stuff here. It’s like he has no knowledge of the former presidents act and the pra.
”Also of interest: Jay Bratt claiming there is no official process for a president to obtain or keep a security clearance. His argument is Trump’s clearance automatically expired at the end of this term–which contradicts how former government officials maintained clearances long after their service ended. Trump’s elimination of John Brennan’s clearance was raised. But there is a problem. The Dept. of Energy, learning of Smith’s indictment against Trump in the summer of 2023, retroactively revoked Trump’s “Q” security clearance. Bratt says the government has emails and a draft memo to revoke Trump’s clearance. Cannon’s counterargument is–but if there is no formal process for authorizing or removing a president’s security clearance–why did DOE need to memorialize it post-indictment. Bratt didn’t really have an answer.”
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If Zelenskyy was confident he would win the Ukrainian elections in May they would not have been canceled. Full stop…. His closest competitors, Zaluzhny and the mayor of Kiev, were officials criticizing Zelenskyy’s war policies and probably would have mounted a challenge to his presidency, and won. The excuses, people like Jason extols, are just that, “excuses.,” in their blind rationales regarding the irrational continuation of this devastating war. In the meantime we have open borders, waving millions of invaders across, with flotillas of Haitians now coming over to FL. But, hey let’s keep our eyes, aided and abetted by depleting our own armaments and money, only on an overseas conflict.
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DW, I agree that Russia is a bad actor. Putin is a thug who would be better off dead. That said, there is another major difference between 1981 and now; Russia’s ability to militarily defeat NATO was substantially greater then.
1. Helping Ukraine defeat Russia is an important national security objective for the US.
2. Russia is not a serious military threat to NATO.
As our Exalted Ruler likes to say on occasion….both can be true.
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Jan, Z is doing his job. He’s the leader of invaded country doing everything he can to help his country win. He’s not an American; he’s Ukrainian.
In my opinion, your immense dislike for him takes away from your argument that Russia v. Ukraine is not an American interest worth further expenditure. The isolationist wing of the party would be more effective focusing on that than constantly running down Big Z.
Just my take.
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Jan – Ukraine and the US border are completely separate issues and have nothing to do with each other.
If the war ended today with Russia in control of huge areas of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians under Putin’s dictatorship, and Zelensky executed, are you ok with it? Yes or no? That is the result you are advocating,
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“If the war ended today with Russia in control of huge areas of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians under Putin’s dictatorship, and Zelensky executed, are you ok with it?”
What does “ok with it mean”? It is possible to not be “okay with it” and also think it is not in US strategic interests. Both can be true.
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Chicon – Exalted leader? Zzzzzzzzz. Most of the posters don’t like me. Post the link for your blog. I’m sure it will be well-received.
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I was a guest last night at an Elks Club, where I discovered that they call their leader Exalted Ruler.
Not meant as a jab. I’d think someone who says what you do to other posters wouldn’t be so sensitive….
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I just kept the circus open. DW brought it to the next level.
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Russia is not a serious military threat to NATO”
Finland and Sweden don’t agree Russia is not a military threat.
Russia IS a threat to some NATO countries, especially the Baltic States Whether Russia would be successful or not against NATO is a separate issue.
During the Cold War, Russia was a threat to NATO countries in Western Europe for decades, independently of whether they could win a war or not.
In addition to NATO countries, Russia is a threat to another countries like Moldova.
Russia’s plan for a Greater Russia/Soviet Union is not in question, Putin has spoken about it many times. Since Putin came to power the Russians have managed to install puppet states like in Belarus and invade other former Soviet Republics like Georgia.If Russia were allowed to conquer Ukraine, it would definitely pose an even bigger threat considering Ukraine has vast agricultural and mineral resources.
It is in our interest to contain Russia in ALL its expansionist plans, whether economic or military.
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Chicon, I’m disappointed you describe my criticism of Zelenskyy as an “immense dislike” for him. I don’t have any feelings for him, one way or the other.
He originally was elected via free elections, following a red revolution disposing of a Russian stooge president, with a mission to address Ukraine’s government corruption. I think initially there were attempts to do that. But, once Russia invaded the country, and the US entered a proxy war with Russia, Zelenskyy settled into the more glamorous, higher profile role of being a war president, putting aside his mission statement involving corruption. Over a two plus year period he has devolved into placing bans on churches, free speech, a free press, jailing anyone protesting the war, and “postponing” free elections. He is actively conscripting people fleeing military engagement, putting them on the front lines, and has pulled out the top military commander, who Ukrainian troops loved, replacing him with a man nicknamed the butcher, having family members (ironically) living in Russia.
Consequently, I find Zelenskyy’s metamorphosis now is less because he is doing what is best for his people, than governing in a way that maintains his powerful control over Ukraine. In most countries we would call that a shift towards totalitarianism. However, somehow it’s viewed by proponents of the war as being heroic, even “Churchillian.”
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Zelenskyy was confident he would win the Ukrainian elections in May they would not have been canceled.”
Zzzzz….
Janzam is very “concerned” about elections in Ukraine.
She has no problem with Putin being a ruthless dictator killing and imprisoning his opponents and conducting sham elections.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
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regarding the irrational continuation of this devastating war. ”
Russia could end this war tomorrow, all it has to do is pull out of Ukraine.
Why is Putin not being attacked for his “irrational continuation of this devastating war”?
A friend wants to know.
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Heh, the only reason Janzam hates Zelensky is that he is a patriot who has refused to surrender to her icon hero Putin.
No other reason.
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“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything,” said Dostoyevsky, and indeed, we’ve become so accustomed to the manipulation of our elections that it’s become almost the norm. But the Democrats have already far exceeded even their previous serious misdeeds. Conservative complaints about this tend to be dismissed as conspiracy-mongering or poor sportsmanship. But to pretend that the Democrats’ actions since November 2020 are just part of the rough-and-tumble of politics is to ignore a mountain of evidence staring us in the face.”
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-2024-election-will-be-neither-free-nor-fair/
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Jason said…”It is in our interest to contain Russia in ALL its expansionist plans, whether economic or military”
I agree, which is why I believe it is in the US national interest to support Ukraine. My post was responding to one comparing the USSR of 1981 to the Russia of today. The former was a far more imposing force than the latter.
Also, I don’t see how Russia could have any encouragement for future regional dominance as a takeaway from this war; it has been an utter failure.
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Jan, there was a time when the US had Stalin as an ally because doing so aided American interests. Big Z is no Stalin; but even if he’s a bad dude, defeating Putin’s aspirations trumps (small T) that.
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I believe Jan doesn’t like or support Putin. I also believe she doesn’t think it is in US national interests to support Ukraine. She can confirm if she’d like.
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Zelensky chose to be a wartime leader because it is a glamorous, high profile position? Jan really can sink lower.
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Chicon, It goes without saying about how much of a thug I consider Putin is, and how his iron, brutal hand over Russia makes him a classic totalitarian leader. However, if you take the leadership characteristics the Ukrainian president is displaying, the difference between the two become less and less. For me, one of the last straws was denying the people their right to vote. Just think if that happened over here in this country, although the possibility of it happening under Biden or an equivalent Dem administration has been discussed.
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Her comments are relentless about Zelensky prolonging the war and being the reason Ukraine is suffering. She does not attack Putin and dismisses the brutal invasion as a trivial land dispute between closely related family members. I know you don’t like or respect me. Pretend somebody else pointed it out and reread her posts
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I also feel that any discussion, to the contrary of Jason and Bitter’s Ukrainian narrative — always being slammed as a Putin supporter — is just a way for them to shut down and degrade another’s POV as to where our national security interests really lie, in another’s mind. Mine see the trespassers on our own borders, and now waterways, being of greater importance, whether or not the Biden administration does anything about it.
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Bitter said…”I know you don’t like or respect me.”
Untrue.
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Lastly, there’s never mention or discussion about the stories/official interviews that do manage to get out of Ukraine, regarding how much of the aid has gone into corrupted hands. Without audits, without authenticated news stories we are left in a tule fog as to where our funding packages really go. But, the echo chamber here apparently doesn’t care.
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” I know you don’t like me”.
See a shrink.
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Jan also got “…or don’t respect me.” I only got the “same” first but not the latter.
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