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On the Cardboard, there’s a post talking about how the trade shows the relative moral values of the US and Russia, and how Vicktor Bout is now a known quantity and therefore neutralized. All posted sincerely, with a sig line that begins “In 1938, Neville Chamberlain said there would be “Peace in our time.”
The talking points are pollyanna-ish nonsense. Foreign policy isn’t about the feelings of the parties. We knew what Bout was doing, but we couldn’t stop him until we lured him into a trap. There’s no indication that he won’t simply tap into his old networks and go from there. Maybe I’m wrong, and in the long run foreign policy success is determined by who has the purest motives, but I am cynical about the short term and long term effects of the weakest and dumbest foreign policy administration in my lifetime.
Back home in Russia, Viktor Bout has wasted no time in making clear his support for the invasion of Ukraine
He tells Maria Butina that Russia should have launched the "special military operation" earlier pic.twitter.com/ryqdrtgDGl
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) December 10, 2022
It’s always good when an American comes home.
Today, we will celebrate the release of Brittney Griner.
However, HOW we negotiated this release makes Americans less safe🧵
— Morgan Ortagus (@MorganOrtagus) December 8, 2022
It’s a tracking poll, released today. I think people are just so used to this administration that they aren’t mad anymore.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
Rasmussen, hardly a Biden-friendly pollster, finds that he’s only one point underwater.
Would have loved to watch the media react to Trump freeing a Russian warlord.
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) December 8, 2022
Good summary in this reply.
Jo Jo would have gone to all caps and Laurence Tribe would be posting some obscure US espionage code to have him impeached. Charlie Sykes and Joy Reid would be inconsolable. https://t.co/bBfZc1uVe0
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 8, 2022
Mick,
Here’s your former associate gaslighting her state.
Gretchen Whitmer: "Mrs. Dixon says I kept students out longer than any other state .. kids were out for 3 months." pic.twitter.com/mSx1Z4P8kL
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) October 26, 2022
Page One of @USATODAY is a giant inflation chart. pic.twitter.com/6ao3TpNsBi
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 19, 2022
If I had sold in May, when I posted a stocks thread, I could have avoided a 25-30% drop. Would have had to pay capital gains, but would have a lot of capital to deploy in a few months.
.@SpeakerPelosi: "I don't agree" w/ polls showing Americans care about soaring crime & inflation pic.twitter.com/IMyHx4dNHd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 18, 2022
You can’t run an economy by slamming down the gas pedal (Congressional spending) and simultaneously slamming on the brakes (the Fed raising interest rates). One or the other is going to fail.
What makes me mad about inflation is that it erodes savings. It takes most people a lot of sacrifice to build up a nest egg. To have it devalued by 13% (being generous here) means a lot more time, sacrifice, and effort just to build it back up again. Not to mention main store of savings (stocks) are down 25% lately.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/16/average-american-is-losing-34k-and-everything-else-on-bidens-watch/
Not to mention that real wages have declined every month for 19 straight months. An astonishing “accomplishment.”
Real wages are lower for Americans for the 18th straight month. pic.twitter.com/PRJwpVLSTU
— Bitcoin (@Bitcoin) October 13, 2022
This administration used unified party control to enact every progressive fever dream policy. They have proven that the left doesn’t understand economics or human nature. MMT is wrong, and the Democrats have broken the economy. KJ-P bragged about how the American Rescue Plan passed without a single Republican vote. Great. I hope when Biden claims that inflation will be worse under the Republicans, they hammer his press secretary over the head with her own words.
As it turns out, they did ask women.
Economy – 21%
Inflation/cost of living – 17%
Abortion – 9%
Immigration – 7%
Crime – 4% https://t.co/5rDOOWZS4q pic.twitter.com/FDGKDRkcPI— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) October 17, 2022
But Yamiche Alcindor and Claire McCaskill are credible on this topic. They crushed Matt Gorman on the panel.
Don’t be pokerguylp.
Scoop: Biden admin to release another 10-15 million oil barrels from nation’s emergency stockpile in bid to balance markets/keep gas prices from climbing, sources tell @jendlouhyhc @AriNatter & me. It’s latest tranche from 180m-barrel plan. WH to also share plans to replenish SPR
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 18, 2022
Don’t worry. We have this thing that we can use up for political purposes.
BREAKING: BBC Persian reports that Iranian sport climber Elnaz Rekabi has now gone missing. Yesterday she competed without the regime’s compulsory headscarf at the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s Asian Championships in Seoul. pic.twitter.com/6rpl7KaBP5
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2022
Or being North Korea. I mean, the ayatollahs have adopted the Shah’s late regime tactics?
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the statements issued about the Kingdom following the OPEC+ decision. pic.twitter.com/Bo7JVPDzFo
— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) October 12, 2022
Then Biden digs deeper, saying that aid to Saudi Arabia is under review because they didn’t want to delay until after midterms.
Well, two things can be true at once: that Christian Walker loves his father, but hates the effect that Herschel’s dalliances have had on his mother and family in general.
As for Warnock, let him who is without sin cast the first stone. He has plenty of his own personal baggage. (Covering up child sexual abuse at his camp / obstructing the investigation, the domestic violence allegations, the financial stuff re: his church, bringing in Brother Castro, using a fake dog in his campaign ads, etc.).
On policy, where are we? Did the infrastructure bill actually benefit Georgia? Will the Inflation Reduction Act actually reduce inflation? There have been so many deceptively misnamed bills this Congressional session, it is Orwellian, bordering on Kafkaesque. Remember the infant formula bill? What, exactly, did it do? Did it actually address the issue?
Mothers with autism, who are less likely than others to breastfeed, have been hit particularly hard by the baby formula shortage. https://t.co/zc55WOgzkc
— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) October 10, 2022
Yet some of the left’s talking point spreaders continue to harp about votes against a bill that did nothing, that were designed to do nothing.
https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1579240723337338880
The latest iteration of the Safe Streets Act? Did it reduce crime?
https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/fbi-crime-report-missing-data/
What are they hiding?
If it’s about policy, I would rather have gridlock than continually shoving garbage legislation through unified party control of the federal government.
