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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/americans-dont-agree-on-what-to-call-jan-6-attack
Reasonable minds differ, along partisan lines. Which tells me that the truth is somewhere in the middle, and likely not an insurrection, nor simply a riot. Certainly the cases tried so far seem to not back the “insurrection,” narrative, and the congressional kangaroo court (based on what they’ve subpoenaed and the lack of any real GOP participation) investigation is going nowhere. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are mental lightweights after jobs on MSNBC after they’re no longer in power. (Thank you to Adam Kinzinger for his service, but his Ukraine tweets, falling for hoax after hoax, show he’s unusually susceptible to propaganda). Liz Cheney just called a rocket attack on a rail station “genocide.” Quit throwing terms like that around for no reason.
Muh norms? From a party that wants to blow up the filibuster, pack the court, get rid of the Electoral College, federalize elections, use public health as a political weapon, delay the vaccine rollout for two months (killing more people) for political reasons, change all voting laws to eliminate voting standards to “protect democracy,” use the CDC to pass rent control / eviction moratoriums and OSHA to enact vaccine mandates, open our borders, and use the DOJ to silence parental rights groups? Not to mention a rolling foreign policy disaster predicated on weakness and “optics” rather than basic competence?
The Constitution was designed to prevent any one person or branch from aggregating too much power for a reason. Democrats don’t believe in this principle anymore.
Not to mention the most poisonous political dirty trick in history, exacerbating a foreign policy disaster dating back to at least 2014? A dirty trick that weaponized the intelligence community and federal law enforcement, in conjunction with the media to launder a political lie? That’s not a violation of norms? That gets a pass?
Oh, wait. Are you talking about talking about a stolen election?
Insurrectionist! https://t.co/E14YmuKv2O
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 10, 2022
Her lust for power, combined with using the levers of government (and a compliant media) to run a fraudulent political influence operation against the American people is okay? That’s not anti-democratic?
What did the Trump administration do that was ultimately found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court? Compare that to how many Biden administration policies that have already been found unconstitutional (OSHA vaccine mandate, CDC eviction moratorium, excluding white people from relief programs by race). You can buy into the media’s hatred of Trump as a person, but his administration did not willy-nilly violate the Constitution. The Biden administration has shown a willingness to KNOWINGLY violate the Constitution (OSHA and the CDC? Really?).
So think very carefully when you regurgitate the media narrative that Trump / the GOP is a danger to democracy. I’m not sure the “democracy” the Democrats are selling you is the same as what they’re envisioning.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1513177176941768707
Around 70% turnout. Also, an amusing quote about French elections.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DurhamWASP/status/1513185652019449861
I would disagree re: Chinese influence. Their economy is larger than Russia’s. They’ve already gotten all of Hollywood chasing their dollars. Have you heard of TikTok? Bytedance is a CCP influence campaign. They have invested heavily on Twitter bots and monitor Western media in a way that would astound most people.
[quote quote=5893]How about painting Chinese flags on some of our planes and bombing Russia?[/quote]
I advocated, tongue in cheek, for a “small incursion” to take Vladivostok and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands when the Russians pulled some of their Eastern troops for deployment in Ukraine. We could easily say we were returning the Kuril Islands to Japan. Using their words against them is fair play….
Fiscal policy has always been prone to fraud. Large pools of other people’s money? What could go wrong?
That being said, there were some praiseworthy private efforts during the pandemic. The 30 day Virginia fund, created by Pete Snyder, and the Barstool Fund (modeled after the Virginia Fund) both raised money and distributed money to save small businesses during the pandemic. (Full disclosure, I donated to the Barstool Fund). Americans not only want to help, but we know how to help in effective ways. Government solutions aren’t always the best ones.
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1508525310295351298?cxt=HHwWhIC57d7xre8pAAAA
Well, the President decided to come in over the top.
Huh. Facing disciplinary action for defending a teammate? That sounds… odd. Also, what a terrible reason for suicide (a quasi-judicial administrative proceeding).
Let’s be honest. The sanctions announced by the US were weak and terrible.
It was not until the Germans decided to impose the SWIFT sanctions and to cut off Russian access to its reserves and the monetary system that there were any real sanctions with teeth. Now the US wants to jump on the bandwagon.
The first is from Politico. The second, from WaPo. Our president leads from behind and then tries to jump in front of the parade when it picks up steam. pic.twitter.com/sdRS8OK2dJ
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 28, 2022
To all those trying to put this on Trump, I present:
Bill Clinton calls Vladimir Putin “highly intelligent, deeply, deeply patriotic in terms of Russia…" https://t.co/UbJ1NJYzHl
— John Ashbrook (@JohnAshbrook) February 24, 2022
Seriously, though. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Trump works with a–holes, and knows how to play a–holes, because he’s a narcissist like them (and a lot of politicians). But Biden has painted himself into a corner.
Eight seconds that will live in infamy. pic.twitter.com/pXABuqNIXT
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) February 24, 2022
We’re not going to sanction the flow of energy. Because you’ve tanked America’s energy independence, and allowed Germany to shoot themselves in the foot on the energy front post-Fukushima. Merkel was a complete fool. While France went big on nuclear, Germany chose “renewables.” Now they’re dependent on Russian gas and oil.
Ooooo. Sanctions on stuff that doesn’t actually inflict any pain on the Russian economy. Some oligarchs had to cancel their vacations. Start seizing oligarchs’ assets in the West. Kick out the oligarchs’ kids. Renege on the Uranium One deal in the name of national security. Stop buying Russian oil (which we’re now dependent on). Also, Ted Cruz trapped the Dems with his Nord Stream 2 sanctions bill that Biden had the Dems FILIBUSTER.
Everyone warned us Biden is a foreign policy disaster waiting to happen. It was worse than predicted.
I, for one, will take BTD’s word that the thread is in the spirit of this board. I will disagree that the roots go only back to the Bush administration. The roots go back to the Russian foundational legend (the Kievan Rus), and the post-Mongol division of the area between the Polish-Lithuanians and what became the Russians. The Russians have always wanted warm water ports (hence Kaliningrad), and the Crimea was the first step to re-establishing the Russian navy’s ability to project power in the Mediterranean year round.
Nevermind that Russia will be one of the primary beneficiaries of global warming, because it will open up their northern lands to a potential “Arctic Silk Road.”
Many of the currently existing environmental disasters are in Russia (nuclear accident sites, Lake Baikal, etc.). So to h— with the environment, Russia is going to Russian.
I DO foresee a Chamberlain-like result with no war, but concessions wrung out of nothing. Putin doesn’t really want a shooting war, and the Ukrainians are crazy enough to bog them down. That being said, one of the craziest things to come out of this was Biden’s apparent offer to let the Russians inspect NATO bases in Romania and Poland for cruise missiles. His instincts re: foreign policy and military matters are so bad.
Biden is an unmitigated foreign policy disaster. But we knew this was coming.
From 2021: CBS’s “Face The Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Gates if he stood by a statement from his memoir that Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Gates stood by that statement.
By drafting Obama’s B-team, he’s set the world back on fire. We’re about to make another deal with Iran… after they now have enough nuclear material for a bomb (not material useful for generating electricity). The early concessions to Russia (and knee-capping our own energy independence) is what lead to the current Ukraine situation. Also, deep state / Col. Vindman? How are you enjoying the fruits of impeachment? Giving China a free pass for COVID / Hong Kong has emboldened them across the globe. Our first meeting with the Chinese was a disaster because Anthony Blinken steps in it every chance he gets. Jake Sullivan? How is he qualified (other than being part of the origin and sale of Russian collusion)? The Palestinians are now getting terrorism bounty money again, ISIS is back in Syria (and has doubled its ranks in Afghanistan… so much for the Taliban being our allies against ISIS-K), and the Houthi rebels are shelling the UAE. Even North Korea is testing missiles again. Our relationship with Central and South America is terrible.
So what do you expect will happen in Ukraine? The eastern half of the country will be Russian, possibly enough to create a land corridor to the Crimea (remember the Crimea?). We’ll see what Putin’s end game really is, and whether he sees himself as the next Stalin. After all, it was Stalin who emptied out half of Ukraine during the Holodomor so Russians could settle there, setting up the situation now.
Oh, and the idiots running Germany, who got rid of their nuclear plants, creating an energy crisis, realize they will be energy dependent on Russia. If we lose Germany as an ally (their economic ties to the US are fading as our manufacturing economy fades), what’s the point of NATO?
