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    Are you a fascist, terrorist?

    Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. His average approval rating in AP-NORC polling through the first six months of his term was 60%.

    The president’s approval rating remains underwater, with 53% of U.S. adults disapproving of him, and the economy continues to be a weakness for Biden. Just 38% approve of his economic leadership as the country faces stubbornly high inflation and Republicans try to make household finances the axis of the upcoming vote.

    Biden and the Democrats are now emboldened with their self-proclaimed spending successes to calling Trump a man who is psychotic and seems to have no concern for law and order and democracy. They claim the Republican Party has gone to a place that is so unattractive and so dangerous, that this coming election in November could be the last election we ever have. An existential threat to America’s democracy.

    They are now associating anyone who gives any thought that the 2016 election was rigged, that the January 6th insurrection is not an existential threat to America’s democracy or is opposed / challenges Biden administration policies is a terrorist.

    But Trump is not our president, and this is supposed to be about midterm elections and the state of the economy and issues that plague America.

    Anyone who dares believe the border is not secure, believes that inflation is not cooling, questions CRT teaching in schools, believes crime is surging and particularly in Democratic run states, is not considered a domestic, fascist terrorist.

    Only twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults say the economy is in good shape, while 71% say it’s doing poorly. In June, 20% said conditions were good and 79% said they were bad.

    Many believe the economy’s doing super poorly and I have a hard time believing that the joblessness rate is as low as they say it is, thinking the middle class is being really phased out and families are working two and three jobs a person to make it.

    The Democrats are in denial and continue to focus on Trump as the existential threat to America’s democracy, freedoms, and free speech.

    Republicans are the extremists. Really?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Trump is hurting the Republican Party and deserves no further allegiance from his base.
    Lee, you've said many times you're not a Republican and definitely not part of Trump's base. As someone that is part of Trump's base, I'm compelled to offer this as a defense of my 'allegiance'...note: this video doesn't even enumerate his MAGA policies, only his virtues...


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    Buffy, I fail to understand anyone’s allegiance to Trump or Biden.

    Biden owns the national consequences of the economy, inflation, surging crime especially in Democratic run states, education as indoctrination, and an open border policy that is costing tens of thousands of lives from illegal drug entry and billions of dollars in aid. These are the issues that are primarily on American minds – especially those living paycheck-to-paycheck.

    Biden and his progressive cohort deny the importance of those issues and focus on Roe, 100% Green Energy (which will never be attainable / affordable for all), and ‘wokism’. Their focus and narrative are to destroy Trump, labeling him an existential threat to democracy. They have good reason to attack a man who became so hated and toxic that he could well cost Republicans votes.

    The Democrats realized that was not enough. They now dare to attack his base, anyone who dares support him in any way, anyone who even dares challenge the Biden agenda – that has become socialist and nihilist. A government which reflects totalitarianism, the existential threat to democracy.

    Trump is toxic and Biden is inept. America does not deserve having either one as its leader in 2024. They are both old and need to be put out to pasture. And if you are telling me that only Trump is the Republican Party’s Savior to defeat a Democratic Party undeserving of retaining control, the Republican Party is in deep ****!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    And if you are telling me that only Trump is the Republican Party’s Savior to defeat a Democratic Party undeserving of retaining control, the Republican Party is in deep ****!
    Didn't you watch the video? The speaker said strong leaders are in short supply - Trump is it, and he's a good, strong one. Why would you think the R Party is in deep sh_1t? Trump revived America when he was POTUS; there's no denying the prosperity across the board. He can and will do it again.

    I suggest you go buy yourself enough comfort food to get yourself through to January 2025, b/c, unless they kill him, Trump will be making America great again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buffy View Post
    Didn't you watch the video? The speaker said strong leaders are in short supply - Trump is it, and he's a good, strong one. Why would you think the R Party is in deep sh_1t? Trump revived America when he was POTUS; there's no denying the prosperity across the board. He can and will do it again.

    I suggest you go buy yourself enough comfort food to get yourself through to January 2025, b/c, unless they kill him, Trump will be making America great again.


    Of course, I watched the video. An excellent hype presentation that makes Trump out to be a virtuous individual with extraordinary morals – absent any mention of his absence of humility, civility, but ever-present churlish mannerisms

    He’s your guy and you are willing to place the Republican Party’s election successes in his hands. I believe the party could do better to ensure success. The Democrats, liberal media and institutions will trash him severely and anyone associated with him in any way – guilt by association.

    Again, are you saying there is no Republican Party candidate capable of following through with the principles of conservative ideology, or Trump’s playbook. The Democrats are smart enough to already start casting Biden to the wayside while the Republicans quake waiting for the master’s directive.

    Four more years of either Trump or Biden is inconceivable - IMHO!

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    Biden and Trump Are Complete OPPOSITES

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    The Democrats are smart enough to already start casting Biden to the wayside while the Republicans quake waiting for the master’s directive.
    Biden is a weak, fragile demented man - Trump is none of those; he's still a sharp, informed businessman who wants and deserves another shot and, most importantly, has the voting base to win (again).

    One deserves to be cast aside to a Senior Memory Care Unit; the other deserves VINDICATION. No matter what you think of Trump, he deserves vindication for all the years of relentless false prosecution and fake news - a weaker man would have crumbled under the pressure, but Trump didn't. He continued powering through policies that were GREAT and they worked. The whole country did better under Trump's policies. If you can't see that, you just don't want to. You're blinded by his style - overlooking his substance.

    Four more years of Trump is inconceivable
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    Acting more like children than children

    Where are the adults?

    Oh, the horror! 50 asylum seekers entering the country illegally were transported to Martha’s Vineyard and a national disaster is declared. They were never notified, and although declaring themselves a Sanctuary City they are not prepared to handle the number. How dare they send such number from an open border state where near 2 million crossings have occurred under Biden’s policy.

    But wait, the emigrees have rights. They may have been misled that jobs and housing would be provided and they may appeal that they were kidnapped. It was okay when Biden flew thousands across the country in the dead of night because he provided housing and succor, right?

    Perhaps 11,000 undocumented immigrants have been transported north by Governors who are trying establish that the border is not secure as the morons in Washington lie to us, that people are being trafficked and abused, dying in the process of reaching America, tens of thousands of Americans are losing their lives due to the drugs entering our country, and the people living near the border have their property rights and lives violated and threatened, and our government dares to say the illegals are being ‘used as pawns.’

    Governors Abbot and DeSantis are being labelled ‘racists’ and ‘xenophobes’ by the Democratic Mayors of the northern Sanctuary Cities the emigrees are being transported to – who in turn are shipping them to other locales.

    A sizable majority of voters want the U.S. border with Mexico secured and approve of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s move to pay back criticism from “sanctuary city” mayors by busing illegal migrants to their towns.

    Other governors have started instituting similar policies, taking unprecedented numbers of illegals allowed to cross the border and busing them north. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week even flew a planeload to Martha’s Vineyard, the summer vacationland of top Democratic White House officials and former President Barack Obama.

    Mayors have sent some back, while complaining about the costs of taking care of the migrants despite calling their cities “sanctuaries” for illegals.

    A survey revealed the disconnect between the public declarations of liberal mayors and a majority of Americans who want the border tightened or closed and some of former President Donald Trump’s border policies reinstituted.

    Its analysis included it: “In response to complaints from Mayor Eric Adams of New York about the illegal immigrants being sent from Texas, a spokesperson for Abbott said: ‘If the mayor wants a solution to this humanitarian crisis, he should stop complaining and call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border.’ Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters agree with that statement, including 43% who strongly agree. Thirty percent (30%) disagree with the statement from Abbott’s spokesperson, including 15% who strongly disagree.”

    We can’t secure our border and Biden seems to be just fine with that. When interviewed, illegals crossing the border declare the border is open. As proof they declare nothing is happening to those crossing before them.

    76% of Americans are still voicing the country is headed in the wrong direction, the majority voice dissatisfaction with his handling the economy and border crisis, and he is touting his accomplishments and strutting around as the autocrat he is showing himself to be.

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    Immigrants? Not in my backyard say Sanctuary City Democratic Governors

    It should go without saying that any coercion or deception employed to expedite their transport is wrong. But that deception begins with the moral hazard created by the sparsely guarded border and selectively enforced laws.

    Border towns can't foot the bill for DC-created immigration chaos by themselves

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    And if we are going to leave the golden door ajar, the obligations to care for those who enter cannot be borne solely on the basis of a community’s proximity to the border. That is the point Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) are attempting to make, even if some are trying extremely hard to pretend they do not understand.

    Biden and his deputies sent millions of people the message that they could cross the border and possibly not be turned away. If they were accompanied by minors or made it deep enough into the interior of the United States, there was a reasonable chance they would be permitted to remain.

    At least 1.66 million people were arrested illegally entering the country in 2021. That number is set to surpass 2 million this year. Pent-up demand, indeed. When large urban centers such as New York City, which advertise themselves as sanctuary cities, already house large immigrant communities and have vast social welfare budgets that are overwhelmed by the redirection of some of these new immigrants to their jurisdictions, what hope should random Texas border towns have?

    When Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is a fearsome destination for 50 people, what happens when 50,000 people find themselves in less affluent areas, sometimes living underneath highway underpasses?

    "We're not a border town,” said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser. “We don't have an infrastructure to handle this type of and level of immigration to our city. ... We're not Texas."

    What magical properties does Texas possess? Why are immigration policies supposed to benefit Martha's Vineyard and Kalorama Heights at the expense of El Paso?

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    Fact-checking, lies and hypocrisy

    Fact-checking under President Trump was a bustling business. Every day, and sometimes by the hour, the 45th president’s every word was scrutinized, which all comes with the job. But under President Biden, fact checkers are enjoying what feels like extended vacations or have simply checked out in terms of scrutinizing the many ways that he is misleading the public.

    Lies and half-truths must be called out. It shouldn’t matter if a Republican or Democrat occupies the Oval Office. Fact-checkers must hold lawmakers and other public officials accountable without favor to party.

    In August, Biden declared that inflation in July was zero, despite the number being near a 40-year high at 8.3 percent. He continues to deny the impact of inflation on Americans and that America is in a recession. Despite 60% of Americans declaring inflation has an impact on their living paycheck-to-paycheck and 76% of Americans declaring the country is heading in the wrong direction, Biden would have us believe his policies are working and all is good.

    Last week, Biden claimed the Inflation Reduction Act, which numerous studies have concluded will do almost nothing to reduce inflation, had already “helped reduce inflation at the kitchen table.” In a related story, food prices rose again in August, with the Consumer Price Index up 10.6 percent year-over-year.

    The Biden administration claims it is doing a lot more than the Trump administration to secure the border. Biden halted border wall construction and ended the effective “Remain in Mexico” policy, near 2 million immigrants have crossed our border in the last year and Biden is doing more than the previous administration to secure the border. It is secure, ask Border Czar Harris - as 200,000 immigrants crossed the border in August.

    Biden says it "remains to be seen" if he will run for president again in 2024. He said he had expressed his intention to run again, but "it's just an intention." In December, Biden said he would run again as long as he remains in good health. The White House, too, has maintained that Biden currently plans on running.

    While Martha's Vineyard residents lament lack of resources, real estate data and Massachusetts state resources show otherwise: Island towns are flush with cash and plenty of extra beds to help needy people.

    "The Martha’s Vineyard thing might be the best and clearest example of what so many of us have been talking about for years," tweeted comedian Dave Smith. "The progressive elites advocate for policies that they never have to suffer the consequences of. And the one time they do, it ends quickly."

    "They are against building a wall, but they live in gated communities. They are for gun control, but they have armed security. They destroy public education but send their kids to elite private schools. They support mask mandates but only their servants wear them at their parties," Smith continued. "There are too many examples like this to list them off. And it’s not just that they advocate for these policies but that they demonize, in the most vicious ways, anyone who dare oppose them. This is why the elites are so rightfully hated in our society," the comedian concluded.

    “The reaction to DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard move should disabuse people of the idea that libs are capable of feeling hypocrisy. They don’t care. They can’t learn. You simply have to destroy their world with political power instead of trying to teach them a lesson," wrote Chronicles magazine senior writer Pedro L. Gonzalez.

    “We have to say the right things," Bill Clinton told Zakaria in the interview, which aired Sunday. "And we have to know the Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. That's what they did in 2021 when they made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox."
    (Comment – Incredibly lame. It is Joe Biden and the Democrats that has put this country in the economic-social peril we now encounter)

    Biden told Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes that he defines MAGA Republicans as those who "refuse to acknowledge that an election took place and there was a winner."

    "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," Biden said earlier this month. "Now, I want to be very clear, very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. MAGA Republicans are those people who, in fact, say that the use of violence is a legitimate tool”
    (Comment – Is Biden ever clear or truthful. Walking back recent declarations that 50% of Americans are semi-terrorists for embracing any support of a policy other than his own is both another example)

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams is blasting Republican Governors for shipping immigrants with Covid and dehydration. The horror! Keep them where they belong, not-in-my-backyard! The Republicans are displaying the hypocrisy of Democrats and Sanctuary Cities who don’t walk-the-talk on humanitarian compassion.

    President seeks to restore trust in American democracy. The state of the union and his “with us or against” mantra does not attest to that. His own party election candidates are shying away from seeking his campaign support. The same is true on the Republican side where Trump’s loyalists are leaving ship. This is no longer ‘your father’s politics.’ It has become a culture war; cults represented by inept egomaniacs, supported by extremists and media on both sides that continue to act to further divide and weaken the country.

    With any luck, neither Biden nor Trump will be nominated in 2024. Biden will not announce his intention to run until Trump announces his intention. Silence is golden! They should both keep their mouths shut in the best interests of our country.

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    Republicans need to stay the course

    The six-month primary season has ended. Issues such as abortion, crime, immigration, the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump have risen and fallen, but nothing has dislodged inflation and the economy from the top of voters' minds. Inflation is now high enough to rob every working American of a month's pay over the course of a year.

    A New York Times/Siena poll released Friday had bright spots for Democrats, but 49% of respondents said that "economic issues such as jobs, taxes or the cost of living" were likely to determine their votes in November, compared with 31% who saw "societal issues such as abortion, guns or democracy" as decisive. And 52% of registered voters said they agreed with Republicans on the economy, versus 38% who said they agreed with Democrats.

    While Democrats try to center their campaigns on abortion rights, voting rights and democratic pluralism, Republican strategists focus on the economy, inflation, crime, Democratic radicalism, education, and an open border detailing the amount of fentanyl confiscated and resulting deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, tales of dying migrants and overwhelmed border agents.

    In a country where one party controls the House, the Senate, and the White House - and in a state where Democrats control pretty much everything, there's a sense that Democrats in general are responsible for the issues plaguing the country.

    The official inflation report Sept. 13 showed that prices in August rose 8.3% from a year earlier, only slightly better than July's 8.5%. Failed to be mentioned is the 8.3% inflation rate increase is 8.3% higher than last August when the inflation rate increase was then 5.3% higher than the previous August.

    It’s the inflation, stupid! Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid!

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    Democrats, liberal media, and ‘woke’ have a bad day

    While the Democrats and left continue to obsess on Donald Trump and revel in every attempt (successful or not) to destroy his presidential aspirations, they appeared weak and hypocritical in so many ways today.

    Media reports today focused on the following:

    The Inflation Reduction Act has no impact on cooling inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell by 522.45 points, or 1.7%, closing at 30,183.78 as the Fed raised rates by 75 basis points.

    Some liberal cities that have in recent weeks been crying foul over moves by Republican governors to bus migrants to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country have themselves used buses to transport homeless people out of their cities.

    Democratic cities soft on crime, cashless bail, defund the police experiencing crime surges.

    There are mounting warning signs of a coming recession. Employment gains are slowing. Savings cushions are wearing thin. Price increases remain high and corporate profits, which had stayed strong, appear to have softened, underscored by a bleak FedEx warning last week that contributed to a massive stock market sell-off.

    The number of migrant encounters at the southern border rose to over 200,000 in August, as the border faced an increase in migrants coming from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, which officials said was driving a "new wave of migration" across the Hemisphere. Over 2 million in the last year. And the White House is angry that FOX News is reporting on the border crisis. Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them.

    The number of Hispanic voters registered as Republicans increased by about 15% from August 2020 to August 2022, outpacing the overall increase in GOP voter registration of 5% as well as the growth of total Hispanic voters of 7.8% during that same two-year period, state records show.
    The neglect of crime coverage shows how left-wing activism destroys trust in journalism.

    Critics slammed White House's mixed messaging after officials were forced to backpedal President Biden's statement declaring the COVID pandemic "over."

    The left condemns hate speech while ignoring fallout from Biden branding Trumpers fascist.

    'The View' host Sunny Hostin blasted for claiming Nikki Haley uses fake name to hide Indian heritage. Frustrated with Hostin’s rant, co-host Sara Haines, exclaimed, "Sunny, you go by a different name!" Hostin, whose real name is Asunción Cummings Hostin, justified her own nickname, stating, "Yes, most Americans can’t pronounce Asunción because of the under-education in our country."

    Hey Sunny, Nikki is an Indian birth name. And yes Sunny, many of us are intelligent enough to pronounce your birth name. Stupid is as stupid does!

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    Slavery history: Its origins and evolution

    British Royals expert Hilary Fordwich stunned CNN anchor Don Lemon into silence with her argument that African slave owners owe "reparations" rather than the British Empire, in a viral clip from CNN’s coverage of the death of the queen. Observers noted Lemon meekly switching topics without protest after Fordwich’s unexpected response.

    Lemon remarked to Fordwich: "you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, ‘$100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there.’"

    "Some people want to be paid back and members of the public are wondering, ‘Why are we suffering when you are, you have all this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns," Lemon stated.

    Fordwich agreed that the desire for reparations is alive and well, though those who want it can look to African slavers.

    "Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of – if people want it though, what they need to do is, you always need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain. Where was the beginning of the supply chain?" she asked.

    "That was in Africa," she continued. "Across the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery?" It was "the British," Fordwich declared, adding, "In Great Britain they abolished slavery. 2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them [in] cages, waiting in the beaches."

    She concluded, "I think you’re totally right. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely, that’s where they should start."

    After her answer, Lemon provided no pushback. He simply nodded, mentioned it’s "an interesting discussion" and moved to the next segment.

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    Slavery was not “invented” by white people. It did not start in 1619 when the first slaves came to Jamestown. It existed before then.

    It did not start in 1492 when Columbus discovered the New World. In fact, when the intrepid explorer landed in the Bahamas, the native Taino tribe hoped he could help them defeat their aggressive neighbors, the Caribs.

    The Caribs enslaved the Taino and, on occasion, served them for dinner.

    Slavery existed in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The word “slave” actually comes from the Slavs of Eastern Europe. Millions of them — all white by the way — were captured and enslaved by Muslims in the ninth century and later by the Ottoman Turks.

    Slavery existed when the Roman Empire controlled the Mediterranean and most of Europe from the 1st through the 5th centuries.

    Slavery existed when Alexander the Great conquered Persia in the 4th century BC. It was so common that Aristotle simply considered it “natural.”

    The slave/master model was just how the world operated in the great philosopher’s day.

    Slavery existed during the time of the ancient Egyptians five thousand years ago.

    As far back we can go in human history, we find slavery. As renowned historian John Steele Gordon notes, from time immemorial, “slaves were a major item of commerce, as much as a third of the population of the ancient world was enslaved.”

    Here’s the second thing you need to know. White people were the first to formally put an end to slavery.

    In 1833, Britain was the first country in the history of the world to pass a Slavery Abolition Act. They were quickly followed by France, who in 1848 abolished slavery in her many colonies. Then, of course, came the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After centuries of human slavery, white men led the world in putting an end to the abhorrent practice.

    That includes the 300,000 Union soldiers, overwhelmingly white, who died during the Civil War.

    The truth is that human history is complicated; no one, regardless of skin color, stands guiltless.

    Yet today we are never told to consider the murderous Persian Empire or the cannibalism of indigenous tribes of North and South America, or the heinous actions under the imperialistic Muslim, Chinese, Mongol, or Japanese Empires, to name just a few.

    Instead, we’re told that slavery is a white phenomenon. Like all persistent lies, this lie spawns a bunch of other lies. On social media there are extraordinary depictions about how Africans lived liked pharaohs before Europeans came and laid waste to their paradise. This is not true. It’s a fantasy. The truth is that Africans were sold into slavery by other Black Africans. And in many cases, sold for items as trivial as gin and mirrors.

    Whites didn’t go into the interior and round up the natives. They waited on the coast for their Black partners to bring them Black bodies. The stark reality is that our lives had very little value to our ancestors.

    Here’s the third thing you need to know.

    If you think slavery is a relic of the past, you’re wrong. There are some 700,000 slaves in Africa today. Right now. That’s the lowest estimate I could find. Other sources say there are many more. For context, that’s almost twice as many slaves as were ever brought to the United States. Child soldiers, human trafficking, forced labor—these are the conditions that currently exist within the same sub-Saharan region where the transatlantic slave trade originated.

    African bodies are being sold today like they were sold then—and no, they are not being purchased by any country of white men. In fact, slavery, by any traditional definition, is exclusively practiced today within nonwhite countries.

    But we hear almost nothing about this. Just like we hear nothing about how slavery was universal until people in Europe and America ended it two centuries ago.
    Why? Because our so-called “leaders” — black and white — wouldn’t profit from it. Black victimhood is nothing if not profitable. It elects politicians and funds racial grievance groups.

    If Black Americans began to view themselves as partners in the American dream, embraced the patriotic spirit that holds all men are created equal, the patriotic spirit that is our real heritage, then the race hustlers would soon be out of business.

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    Russia-Ukraine War: Scared, you should be!

    Confused? Yeah, me too!

    Both China and India have been powerful partners of Russia throughout the war, declining to institute sanctions and continuing to purchase the country's energy products. However, leaders of both countries recently took the rare step of speaking against the war having questions and expressing concerns regarding the war. Most likely Putin was told to end the war and the brutality.

    Putin responded: "I know about your position on the conflict in Ukraine, and I know about your concerns. We want all of this to end as soon as possible."

    Less than a week later, on Wednesday, Putin said he was calling up 300,000 reservists to join the fight, something he had avoided doing for fear of backlash among the Russian people. The announcement, in which he also threatened to use nuclear weapons, came after the Ukrainian military made major gains in recent weeks. And the Russian people are protesting the military call up, being jailed for their effort, and some leaving their country

    There currently is frustration in the Russian media that many in the West misunderstood what Putin said⁠ - he was threatening the West, not Ukraine, with nuclear strikes. And so, droves of propagandists have been sent out to tell the West: push us into a corner and everybody dies.

    Russia is the victim of Western aggression: “We will not allow the destruction of our country. If you’re trying to destroy us, you will be destroyed along with us. Putin is hastily readying a nuke missile with unlimited range, satellite pictures suggest.

    No longer just wanting to expel Russia from Ukraine, Zelenskyy wants to punish Russia and is requesting 200-300 mile-range missiles and encouraging the U.S. to use nukes as well.

    Scary times, more so when your own president refers to his own citizens as domestic terrorists and fascists. And then to listen to a report that presents a scenario that if true begs the question whether us peons are being played, and by who. Could much of the slaughter of Ukrainians and Russians been prevented? The destruction of homes, businesses, hospitals, infrastructure? A World economic crisis and resulting hardship?

    The point of the Ukraine war is regime change in Russia

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...-change-russia

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    If the Pandemic is ‘over,’ so is Biden’s Authority to Forgive Student Debt

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    President Biden declared that “the pandemic is over” and now is trying to walk it back. Little wonder: With just a few words in a “60 Minutes” interview, Biden completely undermined his administration’s legal justification for student loan forgiveness.

    The nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that Biden’s loan forgiveness plan will cost between $605 billion and $1 trillion. Congress has not authorized him to spend any of that. So where does the president get the authority to unilaterally spend up to 1$ trillion? He claims to find it in the Heroes Act — a law passed after the 9/11 attacks to help those Americans called up to active military service not default on their student loans. The law provides “the Secretary of Education with specific waiver authority to respond to a war or other military operation or national emergency” (my emphasis).

    In an August memo explaining the legal basis for Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, Education Department general counsel Lisa Brown claimed that emergency authority includes a “national emergency, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic.” This is absurd. The Heroes Act explicitly states that it is intended to help the “hundreds of thousands of Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard reservists and members of the National Guard [who] have been called to active duty or active service.” It authorizes the secretary of education to forgive or modify their loans in response to a “national emergency, regardless of the location at which such active-duty service is performed.” There is no way to read this law as justifying debt relief for an entire class of individuals who never wore the uniform.

    Biden is not even trying to conform with the intent of the law — by, for example, perhaps extending loan forgiveness to first responders and front-line medical workers who risked their lives during the covid-19 pandemic. He’s driving a steam engine right through the plain text of the law and providing mass debt forgiveness for those who did not serve in any capacity in a national emergency — and using the pandemic as justification.

    But now that Biden has declared the pandemic “over,” his justification for abusing this law has evaporated. Walking through the Detroit Auto Show, Biden told CBS correspondent Scott Pelley, “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.” He said, “We still have a problem with covid. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. But the pandemic is over.”

    That means what his administration’s lawyers called a “national emergency, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic,” is no longer “present.” And if the pandemic is no longer present, neither is the legal basis for using it to forgive student loans.


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    Which is why the White House is trying to ‘walk-back’ another of the Gaffers inept, irresponsible statements. But if the pandemic is not over, Title 42 is still active policy. You can’t have it both ways!

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    Likely 2024 presidential candidates

    The Hill reported today on the most likely presidential Democratic candidates should Biden decide not to run – which many Democrats are hoping. Biden’s “it remains to be seen” declaration is based primarily on Trump’s decision.

    After reporting ‘no rising star’ The Hill listed the most likely candidates to enter the primary:

    Kamala Harris
    Elizbeth Warren
    Bernie Sanders
    Pete Buttigieg
    Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
    Gov. Gavin Newsom
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.)

    On the Republican side, it appears Trump has (or had) a lock on the party’s nomination. No one was coming forward to announce a primary challenge or dared to until now.

    Though former President Donald Trump vigorously campaigned in support of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2018, the one-time allies have grown distant amid rumors they will soon launch competing campaigns for the 2024 presidential election.

    The two haven’t spoken in months and privately, Trump now lambasts the man he once referred to as his "great friend," calling the Florida governor "ungrateful" for his earlier endorsement.

    DeSantis has out-fundraised the former president this year to the tune of $43 million, according to data collected by OpenSecrets. Polling also suggests the governor has an advantage over the former president in a hypothetical primary match-up in 2024.

    How sweet if Biden and Trump cancelled each other and resigned from primarying. DeSantis against the perceived seven progressive socialists, no contest.

    For the midterms, the electorate should focus on the state of the economy, inflation, surging crime, a red-hot border crisis, and the inept Biden glossing over inflation and still calling it transitory and easing, declaring the border is secure, and only his opponents are domestic terrorists.

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