Had enough yet

[buffy]

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[mark blazejewski]

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Is anyone keeping count or tracking this money?

'Biden announces up to $150 million Ukraine military aid package as fears of Russian escalation grow


PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 6 20224:55 PM EDTUPDATED FRI, MAY 6 20227:28 PM EDT

The $150 million pledged on Friday comes from the remaining $250 million in presidential drawdown authority, which allows the president to transfer excess weapons from U.S. arsenals without congressional approval.

Last month, Biden requested $33 billion from Congress after he exhausted his remaining drawdown authority. He reiterated his request on Friday by saying that for Ukraine to succeed against Russia, the U.S. and its allies must continue to flow weapons and ammunition into the country.

Reference: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/bide...o-ukraine.html

[Lee Chowaniec]

Democrats and leftwing media calling for more violence against pro-lifers

Reported today:

Members of the liberal media, who repeatedly labeled parents protesting their local school boards as dangerous and racist, now appear to have much more enthusiasm for the pro-choice activists outraged by the recent leaked draft opinion striking down Roe v Wade.

MSNBC host makes asinine promise to SCOTUS leaker if Republican to have sex and abort the fetus if conception takes place.

Keith Olbermann spends Mother’s Day attacking mom for homeschooling child.

Anarchist protesters torch pro-family center.

Biden’s silence on abortion protests is repulsive.

Biden Administration and left have no interest in protecting religious people.

Feminist writer on MSNBC trashes white conservative women for voting against their best interests.

Reporter calls for violence against pro-lifers, says they shouldn’t have peace or safety until they are dead.

Comment

More American voters are changing their voter registration IDs to Independent. In 2020, around a third of registered voters in the U.S. (34%) identify as independents, while 33% identify as Democrats and 29% identify as Republicans.

Most independents in the U.S. lean toward one of the two major parties. When taking independents’ partisan leanings into account, 49% of all registered voters either identify as Democrats or lean to the party, while 44% identify as Republicans or lean to the GOP.

In the last year, Democrats have lost some of that advantage. 73% of American voters are expressing disappointment with Biden policies and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. In-fighting within the party and disaffection for the ‘woke’ crowd is evident.

Nonaffiliated voters have myriad reasons for not choosing to be tied and loyal to one party’s ideology and policies – perhaps even being a former member of a party, or else have views that align with it, but chooses not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level.

As a lifelong independent voter, registered as a ‘blank’, I have never been more disappointed in our inept / dysfunctional political system and scared for our future. We are indoctrinating our youth to hate America and believe a Marxist-socialist system that has failed in so many other countries through history is worthy of accepting violence as a means to stifle free speech and opposition. The country has gone mad!

America is burning, our Emperor has no clothes, and it's all Trump's fault say Biden and his propaganda machine!

[mark blazejewski]

This sums-up what I have been writing all along:

"By bragging publicly that we helped engineer the killing of Russian generals and the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, we taunt Russian President Vladimir Putin. We provoke him into retaliating in kind against us, thereby raising the possibility of a wider U.S.-Russia war that could escalate into World War III."

Is Ukraine’s War Now America’s War?

May 10, 2022 by Patrick J. Buchanan


Last week, sources leaked to The New York Times that, in Ukraine’s targeting and killing of Russian generals and the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, U.S. intelligence played an indispensable role.

Apparently, our intel people identified and located for the Ukrainian forces what became the targets of their deadly attacks.

Why U.S. intelligence would do this seems inexplicable.

By claiming credit for Ukraine’s most visible military successes, we diminish the achievements of that country’s own forces.

By bragging publicly that we helped engineer the killing of Russian generals and the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, we taunt Russian President Vladimir Putin. We provoke him into retaliating in kind against us, thereby raising the possibility of a wider U.S.-Russia war that could escalate into World War III.

Moreover, U.S. boasting like this plays right into Putin’s narrative that Russia is facing and fighting in Ukraine a U.S.-led alliance that is out to crush Russia.

Indeed, why are we going beyond assistance to the Ukrainians in defending themselves, into making this American’s war?

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Poland following her visit to Kyiv, she virtually embraced the idea of the Ukraine-Russia war as now being America’s war, declaring, “America stands with Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine until victory is won.”

Accompanying Pelosi to Kyiv was a delegation of House Democrats, one of whom, Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, echoed Pelosi in Poland:

“The United States of America is in this to win.”

Their visit followed that of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who came out of Kyiv and declared the U.S. strategic goals in Ukraine’s war:

“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kind of things it has done in invading Ukraine.”

These statements by U.S. leaders reinforce Putin’s line that Russia is besieged by a U.S.-led Western alliance that fears and detests Mother Russia and wishes to see her defeated and diminished.

Our enemies in the West who seek to destroy Russia are like those we fought in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Putin now claims. And intervention in Ukraine was necessary to prevent today’s neo-Nazis from dragging Ukraine into their larger conspiracy to destroy Russia.

Consider Putin’s words of a week ago:

“The forces that have always pursued a policy of containing Russia … do not want such a huge and independent country that is too big for their ideas … They believe it endangers them simply by the fact of its existence, although this is far from reality. It is they who endanger the world.”

We are hated for who and what we are, says Putin. And our military operation is an act of legitimate self-defense against the same kind of “Nazi filth” we fought in the Great Patriotic War.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov describes the recent surge in heavy Western weapons shipments to Ukraine as “NATO … going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.”

By cutting Republicans out of her delegation to Kyiv, Pelosi appears to want to make the war not only America’s war, but her party’s cause.

That seems to be a motive as well behind Biden’s consciously exceeding any Western leader in the language he uses on Putin, calling him a “killer,” a “murderous dictator,” a “pure thug,” a “butcher,” a “war criminal,” guilty of “genocide,” who “for God’s sake … cannot remain in power.”

Such language is designed to showcase Biden as the world’s leading anti-Putinist and the most morally outraged of all the world’s leaders at what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

But, again, like the public boasting of U.S. intel agents over our role in the sinking of the Moskva and killing of the Russian generals, the effect is to disqualify the U.S. president from any role in negotiating a truce or an end to this war.

How do we benefit from having no leader-to-leader communication with the Kremlin, which President John F. Kennedy retained in the Cuban missile crisis to end it?

NATO Europe, which is supporting the Ukrainian resistance, is not on board with the U.S. plans to cripple Russia permanently.

America needs to recognize that our objectives in this war are not the same as Ukraine’s.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would like to have the U.S. plunge in and fight alongside Kyiv, devastate and defeat the Russian army, and expel Russia not only from the regions invaded this year but also from Crimea, which Putin annexed in 2014 .

America’s vital interests in this war, however, are to prevent it from becoming a U.S.-Russia war or a third world war or a nuclear war.

The U.S. goal of imposing a crushing defeat of Russian aggression is secondary to our far more vital interest in avoiding a U.S.-Russia war.

America’s interests are best served by an early and negotiated peace. Such a goal rules out imposing humiliating terms on Russia, which cause Moscow and Putin to escalate militarily — to survive politically.

Reference: https://buchanan.org/blog/is-ukraine...cas-war-159368

[mark blazejewski]

The U.S. delegation to the World Health Assembly will submit amendments to the Constitution of the World Health Organization which would constitute an instrument for pandemic preparedness and response.

These amendments will be voted during a World Health Assembly meeting on May 22-28, 2022.

Reference: https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/en/dates...ngs-eb_en.html

I understand that if adopted, these amendments, will supersede United States law, and will not, be subject to the advice and consent of the United States Senate. It would seem, by virtue of its U.N. and WHO membership, the United States will automatically be bound by the amendments.

Just my opinion, but if these amendments are realized, it will be tantamount to the backdoor implementation of a one world government.

The Case Against a Pandemic Treaty

Reference: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/ar...andemic-treaty

#StopTheTreaty: Comment on WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
By
World Council for Health
April 12, 2022

Reference: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/ne...-treaty/66422/

Further References:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2022...ds-to-do-next/

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/ar...ty-controversy

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-support...-/6334602.html

[Lee Chowaniec]

Two stupids don’t make a smart!

Could we be anymore embarrassed by watching our aged, feckless leader addressing anyone, at any place, at any time. He is no longer able to even read his prepared addressed speech coherently and error free.

Biden is warning Democrats voters are angry / anxious about inflation. They must do better to get the message on how successful their domestic and foreign policies have been.

A pro-choice activist protesting outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Falls Church, Virginia, on Wednesday disparaged the justice's views on abortion by claiming she doesn't know what it's like to give birth. Barret has five biological children and two adopted children. Crickets from the White House and Biden media lackeys.

Banning abortion is based on a religious belief that human life begins at conception. However, there is not yet a medical or moral consensus about when human life really begins. Anyone with opposing view will be castigated.

Worker productivity dropped 7.5% in the first quarter of 2022. Big Brother give-away programs at work.

Inflation still at 40-year high at 8.3%.
Energy 30% up
Fuel oil 80% up
Utility, gas up 22.7%
Food up 20%
Don't worry, Biden is working on it!

Biden continues to encourage abortion pro-choice protests outside judges’ homes, and that’s the president’s position says Jen Psaki..

A survey reports over 33% of Americans support a meat tax – especially the generation Z class. Gen Z showed greater interest in government policies to reduce meat consumption, with 62% supporting a meat tax, and 71% advocating subsidies to reduce prices and stimulate innovation.

Biden promised in his campaign to accept blame for policy failures. Biden shirks responsibility and blames everyone and everything for failed domestic and foreign policies. Blaming Putin, the pandemic, Republicans, ultra MAGA supporters, greedy producers, etc.

It was pathetic watching that old man representing our country the other day and hearing him say that he gets it, that he understands our pain, and that we should trust him as he is doing everything in his limited power to resolve the myriad issues. “It’s them damn Republics,” says Biden

Over 70% of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction citing inflation, the economy, crime, the handling of the pandemic, Marxist-socialist policies and programs, supply, indoctrination of school children and labeling parents addressing school boards as ‘terrorists’, yet the Biden administration and their media lackeys feel their success story is not being messaged correctly.

How stupid do they believe the American voter is? Will the Republicans match their stupidity by nominating Trump again in 2024?

[buffy]

How stupid do they believe the American voter is? Will the Republicans match their stupidity by nominating Trump again in 2024?

Seriously?

What didn't you like about Trump's policies? Was it the booming economy? The low unemployment? The tax cuts? Maybe it was the resurgence of manufacturing? Surely it wasn't the Abraham Accords or the first time in a long time we weren't in a WAR!

Was it his tweets - those brutally honest bursts of TRUTHs that the media twisted into disinformation?

Is it really his style that offends you - Style over substance?

P.S. Trump deserves VINDICATION! Think about everything they did to Trump - EVERYTHING! Every single lie and false accusation for HOW MANY YEARS?!?

You think he should just step aside? You don't know Trump. He will get back in, clean up this monumental mess, and make America great again, again, thus SAVING AMERICA! He did it once under tremendous opposition - he will do it again (unless they assassinate him).

[buffy]

While listing Trump's policies you may not like, I forgot to mention THE BORDER!

and if you think back to the 2016 primary debates, he was the ONLY candidate out of 16 or 17 candidates that was even talking about securing the border - he probably won on that single issue!

[Lee Chowaniec]

While listing Trump's policies you may not like, I forgot to mention THE BORDER!

and if you think back to the 2016 primary debates, he was the ONLY candidate out of 16 or 17 candidates that was even talking about securing the border - he probably won on that single issue!

I am a lifelong unaffiliated registered voter (blank) who dislikes the split taking place today between Republicans and Democrats where the best interests of the politicos outweigh the best interest of the public.

The split between Democratic and Republican-voting states is “accelerating” with each side increasingly operating under different laws, he noted.

When it comes to Trump, I did not like him when he was a Democrat, when he hosted the Apprentice, and would not have voted for him in the 2015 primary had I had the opportunity to. I saw him as a narcistic, condescending bully through that period and the same in his time of office. “Zip it Donald,” was what I thought and heard the same from Trump supporters as well.

Was he a better president for the country than the inept, delusional Biden? By a longshot. Do I want the Biden policies to continue, the Marxist- Socialists and ‘woke’ hate America crowd, cancel culture madness to proliferate? Of course not!

Our Emperor has no clothes, his lackeys sing hosana and are trying to sell America of Biden’s nonexistent successes and disrespect any opinion other than theirs. Yet 76% of polled American voters are not buying their BS.

I do not wish to see the toxic Trump, who will be 77 in 2024, or the inept, lying Biden who would be 81 in 2024 elected to office. There has been a precipitous drop in staunch Trump supporters who now voice they would prefer Trump not run for same reasons as mine.

You may believe Trump’s influence will drive voters to elect his favored Republican candidates in the mid-term elections. I believe inflation, the open border, and crime will be the determining factors in influencing voter outcome.

Once again I will close with: “With rare exception all politicos suck.” Neither Trump nor Biden are those rare exceptions. Harris, Sanders, or Warren, OMG!

[mark blazejewski]

“Zip it Donald,” was what I thought and heard the same from Trump supporters as well...


I do not wish to see the toxic Trump, who will be 77 in 2024, or the inept, lying Biden who would be 81 in 2024 elected to office. There has been a precipitous drop in staunch Trump supporters who now voice they would prefer Trump not run for same reasons as mine.

I do not automatically assume that there will be free and fair elections in 2022, let alone in 2024, but if a semblance of normalcy does return to America, I would want a campaign free of a relitigation of the Mueller Investigation, January 6, the Ukrainian Impeachment, the Steele Dossier, the tweets, the Trump temperament, blah, blah, and of course, the inevitable new fake news charges that the media and the Left will faithfully use against Trump.

It is true that the Trump administration gets very high marks for his pre-pandemic foreign and domestic policies, but his habitual embrace of Deep State, Globalist, and NeoCon actors throughout his Presidency, contemporaneously concerned me.

Trump lost my support when he recently admitted that politics was his primary consideration for keeping Fauci in his 2020 position, and, together with his inability to prevail over a very dangerous mutinous military, suggest to me that Trump's time has come and gone.

[mark blazejewski]

I am not aware that this has happened...

U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8

(Article 1 - The Legislative Branch Section 8 - Powers of Congress)

The Congress shall have Power To...To declare War...

...so what's this all about?

Top Democrat Thinks We're at 'War' with Russia

Rebecca Downs

Posted: May 13, 2022 3:30 PM



House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) raised some eyebrows when he claimed from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that we are "in a time of war" as it pertains to Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

It's quite the claim to make that we are "in a time of war," when we are not. President Joe Biden himself has assured the American people that there will not be boots on the ground with Russia.

Reference: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebecc...ussia-n2607221

[Lee Chowaniec]

The freedom to be ourselves is the most important freedom and is at risk
In these perilous times, that’s the freedom that is most at risk — and the one worth defending with all our might.

In his report Washington Post Writers Group journalist Ruben Navarrette is spot on with likeminded independent registered voters when he writes:

I’m Latino, but I’m not a Republican — or a Democrat. I think both political parties are hot messes, and I often have trouble telling them apart. Even when there are bright line differences in their policies — as with abortion — the tactics and schemes they use to achieve their goals all come from the same grab bag.

Besides, the Democratic Party doesn’t deserve a blank check from non-white voters for all eternity. For those keeping score at home, Democrats failed African Americans by not moving forward on police reform after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis two years ago. They also failed Latinos by pretending to care about fixing the immigration system and giving the undocumented legal status, but never delivering on that front either.

These days, with Americans disagreeing so vehemently about so much, some people seem to think they’re entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of the kind of peace and tranquility that comes from being surrounded by the like-minded.

We need a lot less of this impulse in our society, and we could use a lot more etiquette. The founders were brilliant, but they got one thing wrong. The first and thus most important freedom isn’t freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to assemble or petition the government. It’s the freedom to be ourselves.

In these perilous times, that’s the freedom that is most at risk — and the one worth defending with all our might.


Black and brown Republicans deserve respect – not the condemnation they receive

https://greensboro.com/ruben-navarre...efcc0a3ff.html

[Lee Chowaniec]

Don’t like abortions? Don’t get one.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...10c748c18d9195

The Pew Research Center reported this year that a majority of people in the U.S. support abortion rights, and that outside of conservative white evangelicals, a majority of religious people believe abortion should be legal.

While some believe that life begins at conception, it’s not a universally shared belief among people of faith and definitely not a shared analysis by medical professionals and scientists.

Religious freedom means you have the right to practice your religious beliefs, not the right to impose them on others. Don’t like abortions? Don’t get one.

Religious freedom means each person can choose how they live out their beliefs in their own life. Religious freedom is inherently pro-choice because each one of us has the right to choose how we practice our beliefs, which means ensuring the legal right to safe and affordable abortions for those who want them.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Tragic mass killing in Buffalo is but one of many in our violent country

Buffalo politicos and police are to be commended in their attempt to heal a suffering public from an evil act perpetrated by an evil person indoctrinated by another media outlet focused on divisiveness and hate.

When a pundit stated yesterday that we have to get to the root source of what is causing all this hate, my first though was, really? We live in a polarized country where antagonism, divisiveness, and hate is employed by our very politicos, social and profession media daily.

It was sad to see our city involved in such a heinous act, sadder yet when reading that we are but one of the 198 mass shooting in the first 19 weeks of 2022 – following a like amount 1n 2021.

It's week 19 of the year and America has already seen 198 mass shootings

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/15/10990...2-tally-number

The 10 people killed, and an additional three injured, make this weekend's racially motivated attack in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket the deadliest mass shooting of the year in the United States.

It is also the 198th mass shooting in 2022. With 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week.

The tally comes from the Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization. The group defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter. The full list of mass shootings in 2022 can be found here.

[mark blazejewski]

When a pundit stated yesterday that we have to get to the root source of what is causing all this hate, my first though was, really? We live in a polarized country where antagonism, divisiveness, and hate is employed by our very politicos, social and profession media daily.

Lee, the attack was vicious act of terrorism, unquestionably inspired by evil.

As I see it, incited by the extreme elements of both the Left and Right, America has long been subject to a violent social cataclysm, which only serves the interests of evil revolutionary causes. Without reference to a destructive reordering of our well-tested Constitutional system, this evil must stop.