And polls are still all over the place.
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From jason’s post on the last thread:
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Cory Booker calls El-Sayed a “fringe person”
BREAKING: Democrat Sen. Cory Booker just called Abdul El-Sayed a “fringe” person. Kristen Welker: “In our polls, socialism is viewed even more negatively than the MAGA movement. … And we’re seeing one of the big battles play out for progressivism in Michigan right now with Abdul El-Sayed, the candidate there… Do you think Democrats are drawing a firm enough line between themselves and socialism?”
Cory Booker: “This is really what the Republicans want to do, focus on a few fringe people…”
If El-Sayed was running up the score in Michigan internal polling and not hurting the national dem ticket, then Booker NEVER would have said this. Like I often say, watch the behavior as much as the polls.
Ed Case in Illinois said the Dems need to embrace the DSA or become a fringe minority.
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Second.
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Paddington Bear is from Peru. Jason is from Peru. Coincidence?
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I have to admit Peru invented the Pisco Sour, but I was born in Chile.
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f El-Sayed was running up the score in Michigan internal polling and not hurting the national dem ticket, then Booker NEVER would have said this.”
Not sure. Booker is a moron.
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Sen Kennedy on the difference between Nebraska and Louisiana.
There are differences between Louisiana and Nebraska,” Kennedy explained.
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Kennedy: “I am a US senator but every day I try to rise above that”
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“A hunter shot and killed a woman in Delaware last week after he mistook her for a deer, police said.
Walter Moorhead, 74, faces multiple charges, including manslaughter and reckless endangerment, for fatally shooting Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, Friday evening in the town of Ellendale, according to Delaware State Police.
Moorhead, of Salisbury, Maryland, was arrested at the scene of the shooting and later released on a $43,000 bond. State police said the preliminary investigation by its homicide unit indicated that Moorhead had been crouched close to the ground in an open field, hunting, when Soto passed by with a man and two children. Believing he had seen a deer, the hunter then fired his rifle in their direction, striking Soto”
The incident comes about a year after a teenager died in rural Iowa, after he was shot by a fellow hunter who apparently mistook him for a squirrel.”
The irony here is their eyesights were horrible in mistaking people for game but good enough to shoot them in the head.
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but I was born in Chile.
And that is why you are a second-class citizen.
– Putina
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Shooting squirrels? I buy peanuts to feed the ones in my yard.
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and your neighbors hate you because peanut plants are growing up all over their yard.
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Oil is down $5 this am.
Aaa will,show a rise in gas prices of 3 cents tomorrow,
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I am not going to buy into this idea of gas price gouging. I suppose it could happen when you have a lone station with none other in 20 mile radius. But in most suburban areas where there is a station on every other corner, if station A gouges, station B will say thank you, I will undercut and win on volume.
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DW – My cat likes watching the birds and squirrels. It is like HD TV for her. I will keep her indoors because she has 3 legs. We occasionally have foxes in the yard.
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my cat does the same.
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Sniffy will be at the Wh this week. Lock up the silverware
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More empty allegations against Zelenskyy by Putina.
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J-Hole, was this Soto lady a foreign born Marxist or merely a naturalized illegal? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I think according to Tina all “foreign born” citizens are Marxist so maybe both.
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Sniffy will be at the Wh this week. Lock up the silverware”
Tina and Janzam are celebrating today.
Their hero Putin just had another fake election where ALL the parties participating support him.
So of the the 480 seats in the Duma he is supported by, drum roll, 480 Duma members.
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Before Janzam shows up to whine about Zelensky (elected by a huge majority in free and fair elections) still being President (while Putin has been a dictator for 27 years) let’s remind her of the Ukrainian Constitution.
Ukraine’s laws and the Constitution of Ukraine prohibit holding national elections while martial law is in effect.
Constitutional and Legal Rules
So there cannot be elections in Ukraine while under martial law and 25% of the country under foreign occupation.
Of course, if Putin gets the f–k out of Ukraine, elections could be held soon after.
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Yahoo Headline
Taylor Swift Celebrates Travis Kelce’s First Touchdown of the Season: ‘That’s My Husband!’
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but I was born in Chile.
And that is why you are a second-class citizen.
– Putina”
I guess her refusal to answer the question says it all.
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People wonder why if Irans fires at a tanker in Hormuz the price of gas goes up the next day, “how could the effect be that fast”.
Oil is a commodity, and the price of gas is based on the price of the commodity. If your car ran on gold or silver or pork bellies it would be the same.
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yep, the price today depends on how much they think it will cost to replenish the supply. I recall Rush Limbaugh explained all this years ago.
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Reminds me of one of the best movies of all time “Trading Places”.
Moguls (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) do some social engineering experiment by taking a homeless black guy and making him a high powered commodities broker (Eddie Murphy) while putting his haughty high living predecessor (Dan Aykroyd) on the street. Denholm Elliott is the butler.
Very funny, I have seen it probably half a dozen times.
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I think Trump should let the reporters back in and just ignore them. Why elevate them to false martyrdom?
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Yeah. Put them in the back with seats reserved for “FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS”.
And don’t take their questions.
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“After weeks of weeks of horrific fuel lines, Moscow has begun pulling gasoline from all regions of the ciuntry to maintain stability in the capital. In a week’s time, Moscow has gone from only 21% of service stations having any gasoline availability, to 45-65% (Moscow-Moscow region), while Russia-wide is currently only 34%. Russia’s new Gasoline Elite, while groveling peasants line up for days.”
Zelensky’s “War on Russia” is really taking its toll…..
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“Marta Havryshko
6h
Yesterday, after Kol Nidre at my synagogue, I spoke with a wonderful person who wanted to know more about what is actually happening in Ukraine.
And once again—for perhaps the tenth time in the past six months—the moment I mentioned Ukrainian men being forcibly mobilized and sent to the front, I heard the same bewildered question:
“You mean in Russia?”
No, friends.
I mean Ukraine.
U-k-r-a-i-n-e.
That “beacon of freedom and democracy” you hear about on CNN every day. The country where, according to the story relentlessly sold to Western audiences, ordinary people are supposedly united in their determination to keep fighting, ready to “die rather than stop resisting”.
And every single time, I watch the same transformation on people’s faces: wide eyes, disbelief, confusion, a thousand questions suddenly appearing at once.
Then I find myself explaining what Ukrainians call busification—men being stopped or seized in public and taken away in vehicles in the course of mobilization. I explain what people mean by the term, how such encounters are reported to happen, and I show them videos circulating from Ukraine.
And please understand who these conversations are with. These are not people who never read the news. They are American university professors, educators, writers, professionals—educated, engaged people who genuinely believe they know what is happening in Ukraine.
And yet, again and again, they have never heard about this.
That is the part that breaks me.
I cannot quite comprehend how something so many people in my country experience as a profound tragedy can remain almost invisible to millions abroad. How can a war be covered so relentlessly and yet some of its ugliest realities can remain so unfamiliar to the very audience consuming that coverage every day?
Western politicians and legacy media have helped construct a version of Ukraine that is cleaner, simpler, and infinitely more romantic than the country Ukrainians actually have to live in.
It is a story with heroes and villains, courage and sacrifice, stirring speeches and flags—but far less room for exhaustion, fear, coercion, grief, resentment, or the human beings who no longer want to be sacrificed to somebody else’s narrative.
And that romanticized image has consequences.
Because when an entire country is reduced to an inspirational story of heroic resistance, the suffering required to sustain that story becomes remarkably easy to ignore.
The Western audience applauds the courage. Western governments send the money. The war continues.
And somewhere far away from the television studios, ordinary Ukrainians live with the consequences.
The most disturbing part is that many of the people applauding have no idea what they are applauding. And sponsoring.
Marta
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine. A large number of their Diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission. This ridiculous and never ending War with Ukraine must be ended. The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame! President DJT”
I disagree with the word “unfortunately”.
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“Marta Havryshko“
This woman is a despicable disgusting pro-Putin zealot traitor who advocates for Ukraine to surrender and become a vassal state of Russia
Janzam conveniently ignores Putin’s dictatorship fake election to post comments from pro-Russian dissidents.
The irony she pretends not to understand is that in Russia this woman would NEVER be allowed to be critical of Putin.
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https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-16148987/jennifer-eckhart-fox-news-suicide.html#
Sad. I do not like the term “died by suicide.” It denies any action by the deceased. My niece killed herself.
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Trump approval this morning:
Zogby: 42/56
Rasmussen 42/57
Morning Consult: 41/56
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Putin is a dictator who has committed atrocities. Zelenskyy is a dictator, clad in western media fantasies as being heroic, but who has committed atrocious.
Both are true.
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Janzam and the pro Russian zealot fail to acknowledge that the misery being faced by Ukrainian “ordinary citizens” is caused by ONE MAN only, Putin.
Putin could end the war today and end the “misery”.
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Zelenskyy is a dictator,”
BS. Zelensky is no dictator, and you know it.
Zelensky is a selfless Ukrainian patriot, and he is the legitimate president duly elected in fair and free elections.
The reason you don’t like him, I doubt even a brainwashed moron like you actually believes Zelensky commits “atrocities”, is that he has bravely kept his country from becoming a Russian vassal state.
The truth will set you free.
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To bad about Eckhart, beautiful woman.
The MSM will make this all about the rape charges but there are probably more issues than that.
The fact is the rape charges were settled out of court and at the time Eckhart claimed a “weight had been removed from her shoulders” and her lawyer said the settlement was satisfactory to all parties.
The suit alleged that she was raped while handcuffed with metal handcuffs in her hotel room. Henry alleges their relationship was consensual.
l am not going to pretend I know what went on, but the fact Henry was in her room and handcuffs were involved tells me they must have some kind of relationship outside of work.
I know, I know, believe all women.
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Meanwhile, Henry is still married to the same woman as before all this.
He works at Newsmax and she works at CNN.
Looking at her picture, I don’t want to be unkind, but she must have the same “qualities” as Meghan Markle.
https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-16148987/jennifer-eckhart-fox-news-suicide.html
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Travis Kelce is transitioning.
Yes, from Travis Kelce to “Taylor Swift’s husband”.
Yahoo headline:
“Travis Kelce oozes cool in Louis Vuitton jacket as Taylor Swift’s husband and the Chiefs look to build on strong start to NFL season“
Can you see it now:
“Mahonnes 20 yard pass COMPLETE to Taylor Swift’s husband”!
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Zelensky is a selfless Ukrainian patriot, and he is the legitimate president duly elected in fair and free elections.
Zelenskyy is a selfish leader who uses the war to stay in power, escaping prosecution for his crimes of corruption.
It is Ukrainian women who are being filmed fighting back, protecting their loved ones from being dragged off the streets and sent to be killed on the front lines.
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Marta Havryshko
2d
“Get away from him!” a young woman shouts as she strikes a draft officer on the back. “Let the boy go!” a grandma cries, pulling the young man toward her.
The women banded together and managed to save the young man from being taken away for mobilization.
This is the power of ordinary women in Ukraine!
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FVA9z48Dt/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Do you want to play the video link game, Jan?
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There are multiple videos of Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
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VA-1 is a Trump +5 district, meaning that most prognosticators have this as one of those seats that is sure to flip in any sort of a blue wave. Well, the Dem just released an internal poll showing the Republican incumbent up 1 point, 47/46.
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Zelenskyy is a selfish leader who uses the war to stay in power, escaping prosecution for his crimes of corruption.”
LOL
He stays at great personal risk when he doesn’t have to.
And of course, you have ZERO evidence of crimes of Zelensky corruption.
On the other hand, your hero Putin runs the most corrupt regime in the world, but no problem, right?
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Janzam admires draft dodgers?
Not surprised.
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Where there is REAL forced conscription…
https://platformraam.nl/artikelen/2821-russias-largest-conscription-campaign-in-years-runs-on-brute-force-and-deception
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If you read The Iron Broom, the climax of the story is how the author and his two brothers came THIS close to being caught up in the Soviet conscription to be cannon fodder in the 1980 war with Afghanistan.
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Bridge today.
Was not wearing my lucky underwear.
At the end of the first table of play (6 hands) my opponents scored 1610 each and my partner and I had a score of ZERO.
#########
Top score was 5600. My score was at the bottom–2500.
I think I might have legally had enough points to at least l bid (13 or more points) maybe 4 times out of 30 hands dealt.
To show you how bad it was, on the next to the last hand, I had a good hand, and ended up bidding an unscientific bid of 6 clubs on a wing and a prayer. I made the bid.
For bidding and making a small slam, I earned 500 points, made the bid of 6 clubs so got 120 points, had honors so got 100 more points. And for winning a game I earned 300 points.
So that ONE hand earned me a total of 1020 points. The last table of SIX hands my TOTAL score was1050.
Out of my 2500 pts. for the DAY, 1050 came in ONE hand toward the end of the day.
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and sent to be killed on the front lines”
Who is killing Ukrainians on the front lines INSIDE Ukraine?
It wouldn’t be the Russian invaders, would it?
A friend wants to know.
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Janzam has no problem with hundreds of thousands of Russians being forced into conscription to die in the invasion of Ukraine.
Her objection is to Ukrainians defending their homeland against the Russian invaders.
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BTW, has Janzam ever told us how much of Ukraine’s sovereign territory and how many millions of Ukrainians she is prepared to surrender as vassals to the Russians?
I don’t think we ever got an answer.
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I think I might have legally had enough points to at least”
Yes, but how many ILLEGAL points, let fess up.
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I am stunned that Trump is at 42% approval.
Trump adm. has done a lot of good and positive things that have helped the country.
But renaming Gulf of Mexico, renaming Lake Ontario, war on Kennedy Center, knocking down a wing of the white house, changing DOD to Dept of War, inartfully saying we are going to take Greenland, refusing to work to become a more articulate speaker, war with Canada and belittling them and wanting to make them 51st state, insisting on building a big-assed Trump arch in DC, the whole reflecting pool debacle, acting ignorant toward any and everyone, changing tariff policy every few hours, saying he might run for a third term, saying maybe he will run and get elected president of Venezuela, excoriating the Republicans on the SCOTUS, and being generally a unlikeable asshole, and doing other things to hurt the chances of Rs retaining control in Congress, gaining huge wealth while president from Bitcoin etc,r efusing to put his personal assets in a blind trust while in office,refuses to take advice from people who have good sense, having no mouth filter,….just stunned he is so high at 42%…
Yeah, I know the Trump apologists will soon respond “but he is a fighter [so is Mike Tyson ], and Trump is head and shoulders better than a D alternative [true],, and no other R as president would have been better…[hogwash]”
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Jason,
Sometimes when my cards are real crummy, I will ‘cheat’ and still bid even though based on how few face cards I have in my hand I should just pass-even though the suggested bidding ‘rules’ frown upon doing so.
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If you read The Iron Broom, the climax of the story is how the author and his two brothers came THIS close to being caught up in the Soviet conscription to be cannon fodder in the 1980 war with Afghanistan.
Where has war been kind or merciful to either the citizens of a country or its labeled opponents? Whether you’re reading the Iron Broom, or stories about the Holocaust it all entails “man’s inhumanity to man.” This Russian/Ukraine war is no different in that both the Russians and Ukrainians (especially those in the Nazi military units) are known for their brutality. Why are Russian conscription practices seen as more fanatically harsh than Zelenskyy’s practices of beating & kidnapping people trying to get away? This war should never have happened if the countries involved had been able to deal with their wedge issues, without a weak US president at the helm and no global interference.
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if the countries involved had been able to deal with their wedge issues, without a weak US president
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The only “wedge issue” was the Putin wanted to annex Ukraine. Biden had nothing to do with it. Putin was the only one responsible.
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Yeah, I know the Trump apologists will soon respond “but he is a fighter….
Trump can be criticized about the petty jabs or how unimportant his focus of attention tends to be, but the man is the sum of all his good and bad qualities. It is this mixture, IMO, that when blended together has made him endure so much, giving him resilience, tenacity and iron guts to get more done than most presidents. For me, I just tune out all his absurdities (of which there are many) & am simply grateful we don’t have Hillary or Kamala to b*t*h about, as they would have presented us with an agenda far worse than dealing with Trump’s silly even stupid distractions.
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Bitter – the bigger issue was Ukraine wanting to join NATO. Had that been negated and resolved first Russia probably would have been satisfied holding onto Crimea and doing nothing else. Biden also literally gave Putin a green light by saying he would do nothing if Russia only invaded a little bit. Yes, Putin invaded Ukraine, but only because of some weak & unreasonable responses by countries acting as back seat drivers.
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Ukraine wanting to join NATO.
Which it had every right to do if NATO agreed.
Putin invaded because he wanted to invade. Biden had no ability to stop or cause it.
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Poor Putin. He was forced to order the invasion of Ukraine despite begging Biden to stop him.
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Bitter – the bigger issue was Ukraine wanting to join NATO.”
Zzzzz…. that was just one of the excuses, complete BS.
Of course even if it was true, which it wasn’t Ukraine did not need Russias permission for a damm thing.
Russia invade Ukraine as part of Putins (admitted) dream of creating a Greater Russia or recreating the USSR (the demise of which he call the world’s greatest tragedy).
Oh, and btw, the Russians don’t have any claim to Crimea either.
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The following is almost verbatim what I earlier said about Biden’s weakness in deterring the Russian/Ukrainian war:
Key Takeaway: The most provocative action of all was Biden’s repeated appeasements and weakness that signaled a bright green light to Putin that the costs of invading would be low.
https://polaris-us.org/updates/fact-sheet-bidens-failure-to-deter-russia/
Bitter, either you don’t know your history on the lead-up to this war, or you are doing what you normally do ——> distort reality and the facts.
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Russia probably would have been satisfied holding onto Crimea and doing nothing else”
Zzzzzz… no.
Russia already had Crimea. They already controlled a large portion of the Donbas.
It that is all they wanted, they could have filled both with Russian troops and called it a day.
There would have been complaints to the UN, etc. but realistically those would be the new borders.
But that is not what Putin wanted. He wanted Ukraine, its mineral and agricultural resources and 40 million new vassals. All of it.
And he almost got it. This war is Plan B. The original intent was take Kiev by capturing the airfield close to the city and sending in tens of thousands of troops. Decapitate the existing govt, replace it with a puppet govt, and voila, a new Belarus. To save face, he has caused the death of more than half a million people, displaced 20 million, and caused untold destruction to both Ukraine and Russia.
Against that, we have Janzam’s fake “Zelensky owns yachts” story by fake news Gateway Pundit
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The most provocative action of all was Biden’s repeated appeasements and weakness that signaled a bright green light to Putin that the costs of invading would be low.“
What a load of crap. Starting with the idea that “appeasement is provocative”, convoluted logic there.
Biden had nothing to do with Putin’s plan to annex Ukraine, only a certified moron like Janzam thinks that. At most it could have affected the timing.
Putin didn’t invade Ukraine because of Biden. He invaded because he wants to recreate a Peter the Great inspired “Greater Russia” and/or a new USSR.
The idea that you would invade a sovereign country of 40 million people because of anything Biden said or did is ridiculous.
And of course, if Putin got from Biden the idea that the “cost would be low”, he was certainly wrong wasn’t he.
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Janzam is pretending that there was some good excuse or reason for her hero Putin to invade Ukraine.
Let’s put that one to bed.
There was no justification whatsoever, starting with NATO (a defensive, not offensive) alliance that already borders Russia (Baltic States, Poland, Finland, etc.).
Save “Russians” in Ukraine. Nah, as we can see the vast majority of Ukrainians want no part of Russian and will fight to the death to keep it that way.
This was a land and power grab, pure and simple.
Biden “green light”? Puhhhhleeeze.
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es, Putin invaded Ukraine, but only because of some weak & unreasonable responses by countries acting as back seat drivers.”
The stupidity of this statement is mind boggling.
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“Officials on both sides of the Atlantic later admitted that Ukraine in NATO really was Putin’s issue. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Congressin May 2023 that Russia’s “immediate ambitions” were “ensuring that Ukraine will never become a NATO ally.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the European Parliament in September 2023 that Putin had sent him a document asking for “no more NATO enlargement” as “a pre-condition for not invade [sic] Ukraine” a few months before the war.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-biden-blow-best-chance-190745447.html
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Bitter, either you don’t know your history on the lead-up to this war,
I know that Putin wanted Ukraine. That is the history. All the rest of your speculation and apologizing for Putin is nonsense. “The deal” you claim existed was a surrender demand.
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Keep digging your BS hole deeper Jason…You are simply ridiculous in your posting – no facts, just bluster!
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”R” disgraces. All because both of them were indirectly or directly connected to his failed impeachment.
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Instead of regurgitating Putin propaganda here, Janzam should be outraged at Russia’s fake elections and there war crimes in Ukraine.
“The European Union has announced sanctions against those responsible for elections held in the occupied territories of Ukraine following Russia’s parliamentary elections.
“Those involved in organising these sham elections or standing as candidates in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as those responsible for undermining the possibility of free and fair elections inside Russia, will be sanctioned,” a statement issued by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on behalf of the 27 member states on Monday said.
Neither the elections held there nor their results would ever be recognized, the statement said.”
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Putin had sent him a document asking for “no more NATO enlargement” as “a pre-condition for not invade [sic] Ukraine” a few months before the war.”
LOL
Janzam now quoting “Putin documents”
You can’t make this sh-t up.
We know what Putin says. We also know whatever he says is either a lie or BS.
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Too bad NATO did not respond, “GFY, Putin.” and admit Ukraine on its own.
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Zelenskyy is a selfish leader who uses the war to stay in power, escaping prosecution for his crimes of corruption.”
That is EXACTLY what the left says about Netanyahu. janzam has her Jews mixed up.
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If I lived in Texas, I would vote for Paxton in the GE. I voted for a lot of crappy republicans in Philadelphia because the alternative was always worse. No different in this case.
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Jan – Let’s try it this way.
1. Why did Putin order the invasion?
2. What was Putin’ goal when the invasion began?
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If I lived in Texas, I would vote for Paxton in the GE. I voted for a lot of crappy republicans in Philadelphia because the alternative was always worse. No different in this case”
I would too.
But Paxton is not having trouble putting away Talarico because of Janzam’s delusional “people aren’t paying attention yet” BS.
The reason Paxton is struggling is because he has not even united Republicans and is way behind among Indies.
And that is because he is a ethically challenged subpar candidate with way too much baggage.
In TX you can win election with just Rs and a minority of Indies. But you need the Rs.
Hopefully Rs will end up voting for him even if reluctantly.
But it really should not be that difficult considering what a creepy screwball Talarico is.
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Jan said that MAGA would not support Cornyn in the GE if he was nominated. Now she is mad conservative Republicans are not thrilled to support Paxton.
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I always vote for the Republican nominee. Even the ones I can’t stand.
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