For weeks, politicians and pundits have engaged in a ghoulish effort to blame every plane accident on the Trump Administration, even accidents that occurred within the first weeks of the Trump Administration. Hillary Clinton led the effort by bizarrely suggesting that the collision of the airliner and the helicopter over the Potomac was due to the changes in Trump’s policies. The spin showed utter contempt for the intelligence of the public since there was no evidence that the Trump Administration policies had any impact on the accidents.
Nevertheless, the press and pundits fueled the false narrative by citing various accidents in January. That narrative then collapsed after CNN and other media outlets acknowledged that there were actually fewer accidents in January than average and that the Biden Administration saw more accidents during the same period.
The attempt to use these tragedies for raw political advantage is appalling. However, it also shows the complete disregard for the intelligence of voters in suggesting the nexus between the change of Administration and airplane accidents shortly after the inauguration.
It does not matter that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was not confirmed until January 28, 2025, less than 24 hours before the accident over the Potomac.
Nevertheless, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and others immediately weaponized that and later tragedies.
Schumer was joined by media figures like former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who later was compelled to delete a tweet on Sunday, Feb. 16 in which he wrote “Make American Plane Crash Again.” Like others, Hasan was connecting a small plane crash in Georgia to the start of the Trump Administration.
Then there was Rep. Eric Swalwell. We have previously discussed the bottomless pit of Swalwellian logic, such as shutting down the government to prevent government shutdowns.
The logic tree was felled again by Swalwell in blaming the Trump Administration for the crash in Georgia: “Trump is President. President Trump is in charge of air safety. All crashes are Trump’s fault.”
The only problem, as pointed out by CNN, is that air travel overall was better in January than prior such periods:
“In fact, if the preliminary numbers hold, January 2025 will surpass the previous record for the lowest number of total accidents, with eight fewer than the prior record low of 70 from January 2012.”
Does that mean that all aircraft safety like aircraft accidents are attributed to Trump? Of course not. Not only have no changes been made that have impacted the air traffic controllers in these cases, but none of the proposals would reduce those controllers.
The most bizarre was the effort to blame Trump for an accident where a plane flipped over in Canada.
On NBC, Tom Costello observed “as you know there has been talk about maybe staff cuts at the FAA as a part of President Trump’s effort to trim down the federal workforce.”
This is becoming a policy version of Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon. Every airport accident can be traced within six degrees of DOGE or Duffy.
It is very easy. Just take any airline mishap anywhere in the world and then trace it back to the United States and Sean Duffy. For example, there was also a water main break at the airport at Fort McMurray International Airport in Alberta. Ready? Go…
If you are struggling, just watch Schumer who is the most nimble at this game.
“I’m thankful that everyone in the flight incident in Toronto that took off from Minneapolis is safe, but we keep seeing these incidents day after day. Meanwhile, Trump’s doing massive layoffs at the FAA – including safety specialists – and making our skies less and less safe…Democrats are fighting to protect the flying public…To those asking whether it matters that the plane’s destination was in Canada: The flight took off from Minneapolis. The FAA was still responsible for inspecting the aviation equipment, and Trump just let go of FAA safety specialists.”
Done. Six degrees to Duffy.
Democrats continue to show citizens that incompetent to lead. Marxist propaganda.
Hillary Clinton, gorgon of the Left.
Pilot-in-Command is the final authority to the operation of that aircraft PERIOD! Safety of each Flight is the
Captain’s responsibility, not Air Traffic Control or any other entity attempting to influence the Captain’s decisions.
Every time Eric Swallwell says something without thinking, one has to ask who voted for this guy. His opponent must’ve been a real loser for Eric to win, over and over again. Using Eric’s logic, if you sleep with an agent of the Chinese Communist Party, what does that make you….?
Answer: a stooge, a tool, a politician who thinks with his crotch.
He doesn’t think…ever. In any case, one must ask oneself how the Squad, particularly AOC, continually get re-elected.
This is from the democratic political analyst who told us 2 decades ago that democrats would be a permanent majority because of the rise of minorities.
Here is is pointing out what happened to derail that and why absent significant change NOW, democrats are in deep long term trouble.
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/one-simple-question-for-democrats
When UPS takes over the USPS, will the Postal Workers make the same $170K as UPS workers?
Perhaps. But given efficiencies, the payroll won’t change because they will be able to do more with fewer union postal workers.
What you’re all trying to say is that “every house, every day” delivery will always be an unprofitable, cost-plus, military-type operation—exactly what the USPS is now.
UPS very wisely and corruptly absconded with the “cream of the crop,” parcels, from the USPS lo these many decades ago and has been rolling the USPS’s profit center ever since.
“When UPS takes over the USPS”
Without allowing UPS the latitude to radically restructure the USPS mission, which would likely include the curtailment or elimination of First Class Mail, I have doubt that it has any inclination whatsoever to take over USPS. UPS just recently (12/31/2024) ended its SurePost shipping arrangement that had UPS transport packages (from Amazon. etc.) to USPS offices and had USPS perform the past stage of delivery to customer, because UPS could not find a way to continue that relationship profitably, and USPS would not increase UPS’s compensation to allow it to do so. SurePost service is not directly related to First Class Mail, but the inability to salvage it does indicate a pretty drastic culture clash between the two organizations. I would also, on the basis of personal experience, cast some doubt on the ability of UPS to make all that much improvement on USPS services, if it did take over. Is UPS generally run better than USPS? I would have to answer “yes”, but, imo it is nowhere nearly as well run as it could and should be, as a commercial operation. Burden it with the obligation to deliver First Class on the same basis as USPS, and I could see it going down the tubes pretty quickly.
No, that will bring an Uberization of mailman, all workers will be replaceable widgets at the mercy of the boss, fired if they complain, and you’ll have to pay a subscription to get mail. And that price will go up at will.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are a fitting combination. She will SAY anything. He will DO anything. Neither is limited in any way by ethics, morality, truth, fairness or decency.
You left out laws.
Black Democrats continue their anti-LGBT bigotry. Cuz blacks gonna hate lesbians who call them out on their Africa trips while Los Angeles burns
#DemsHate
“LA Mayor Karen Bass axes fire chief Kristin Crowley over wildfire response weeks after she blasted politician’s leadership”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-axes-fire-chief-kristin-crowley-over-wildfire-response/
Damn those facts, Don’t you just hate them?
The national debt — under Trump’s first term in office — grew by $7.8 trillion, the largest four-year increase in history,
DAMN THOSE FACTS BABY!! BIDEN SURPASSED 8 TRILLION!! BEATING TRUMP by BILLIONS!! OBAMA GAVE US 9 TRILLION!!!
OVER 17 TRILLION JUST BY 2 DEM PRESIDENTS!!!!! REPLY BABY TRUMP! ha ha ha ha
EAT DOG(E) BABY TRUMP!!!!!!!
False, Biden’s $8.4 trillion added to the debt was larger, liar.
Now at least Trump is making an effort to stop the runaway debt but your Dem party is trying to stop him.
So GFY.
So you think it all starts on day 1 of presidency? As though the slate is wiped clean and there are no expenditures from previous administration? Funny, but Trump is trying to do just that and the Dems’ heads are on fire. Someone has to have the boules to make the necessary amputations in the budget. Obviously Trump does.
Wrong again dumbass.
Biden eclipsed that.
Why do you keep showing your stupid face here?
You have been humiliated time and again.
Its hard to keep count of the many losses Democrats have incurred in Federal Court ever since Joseph “the Supreme Court blocked it. But that didn’t stop me” Buydem started ignoring SCOTUS. But here we are, yet another Federal Court, a Trump appointee, ruling against the Democrats Federal Judge shopping
Winning!
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION, et al.
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, et al.
Defendants.
The original plaintiffs in this lawsuit are two unions that represent employees of USAID; they challenge a “series” of executive branch actions that they allege will “systematically dismantle[]” that agency. ECF No. 1 (Compl.) at 2. Those plaintiffs initially moved for a temporary restraining order on February 7, 2025, ECF No. 9-1 (Mot), which the Court granted in part that day, ECF No. 15 (TRO). Following full briefing on that Motion, the submission of various supplemental declarations, and multiple hearings, the Court concludes that plaintiffs have not demonstrated that further preliminary injunctive relief is warranted.
DATE: February 21, 2025
CARL J. NICHOLS
United States District Judge
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213/gov.uscourts.dcd.277213.49.0_3.pdf
Separately….a Biden appointee Federal Judge lacks cojones:
In a separate case brought by USAID funding recipients, U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali earlier this month issued a temporary restraining order directing the government to reverse the mass suspension of foreign-aid funding and honor the agreements that were in place before Trump took office.
The plaintiffs in a court filing Wednesday accused the administration of not complying with the order and asked the judge to hold some of the defendants, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in contempt. In response, government lawyers argued the order still gave the administration the authority to terminate some categories of contracts on their individual terms, and said they believed most of the USAID agreements fit that definition.
Ali in a written rebuke Thursday said the government had violated his order, but he stopped short of issuing a contempt finding.
“The Court was not inviting Defendants to continue the suspension while they reviewed contracts and legal authorities to come up with a new, post-hoc rationalization for the en masse suspension,” he wrote.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-allows-trump-administration-to-resume-wind-down-of-usaid-operations-5bac7144
Curious that Biden appointee Judge Amir Ali failed to issue a contempt order. Maybe because he is only 39 yrs of age, from Canada, and risks being ruthlessly branded as a Democrat waterboy, impeached and / or overturned on appeal?
MAY THE DEM PARTY CRASH!!!
AND TRUMP WILL TAKE CREDIT!!
And here We go again … They launch Counter-Lawfair to our White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
AP Sues Trump Officials Over White House Ban, Citing ‘Targeted Attack’ on Free Press
“The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government,” the news org says
By: Sean Burch ~ February 21, 2025
https://www.thewrap.com/ap-sues-trump-officials-over-white-house-ban/
AP enjoys freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
AP enjoys no aspect, facet, degree, or amount of executive power.
The President enjoys all, or 100%, of the executive power, in exclusion of every other individual or entity.
AP should behave accordingly; that is the nature of power or a lack thereof.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
Are you saying the prez is a dictator and when he says jump the only acceptable reply is how high?
Has the AP been prohibited by law from printing anything they want? No, so perhaps you’d care to explain exactly what valid legal claim they have against Trump. For example do they have a constitutional right to go into the Oval Office or to board Air Force One?
#74
Legislative, judicial, executive branches are equal::
Legislative 30 thousand employees
Judicial. 30 thousand employees
Executive. 2 million employees.
Baby Trump , do you suggest increasing the size of the legislative and judicial branches?
..are you saying you don’t understand that anyone can say ‘Jump’ and that how high depends on your relationship?
No, he is the cheif executive of the united states, You are free – as many outside of the executive have done, to sue him – assuming you are actually harmed.
Inside the federal government unless you have civil service protection – which about 10% of the workforce does not, you can be fired at will.
Of those that do have civil service protection – if you fail to obey a presidential directive you can and will be fired.
If you beleive that directive is illegal or unconstitutional – you can go to court for damages, but your still FIRED.
The executive branch is run by the president.
The president is answerable to congress, which can sue him or impeach him. Neither of which has happened.
The courts are the arbiters of disputes between congress and the president over the presidents constitutional powers.
But congress is not in court. Therefore the current plantiffs have no standing and the courts have no jurisdiction.
All of the above is the way the constitution balances the power of the president, the courts, and the legislature.
All of the above is why the US can not have a dictator.
What we have is a president whose policies are overwhelmingly supported, And a congress that is not going to buck the will of the people.
That is the way a constitutional republic works.
Trump has repeatedly said he will follow the orders of the court WHILE APPEALING.
In his first term he lost most cases at the district court level and won nearly all cases at the supreme court – often 9-0.
This time – lots more suits were filed, but Trump was ready. He has a much deeper bench. And the lawsuits are all falling fast.
Even left wing nut judges are ultimately siding with Trump.
When the judge who tried to throw you in prison is saying that your order is constitutional – your clearly no dictator.
No. The Constitution is, you —-ing idiot!
What your mental defect, your psychosis, is, what you are utterly incapable of understanding, is that your wish, your goal, your desire is not the Constitution.
The Constitution is not your “dream sheet”; it is the law, the fundamental law of the United States.
The Constitution says quite clearly, “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
Start here:
The executive power is absolutely and immutably NOT vested in BabyTrump (BT) or any and all of his/her/its/their fellow direct and mortal communist enemies of America.
Trump must win the war over War-Mongers (e.g.: Bring peace to the world’s fronts),
AND he must also win the War of Media Propaganda.
Oxymoronic give that Trump is such a Mediac (sic – media maniac).
Pray he succeeds
In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt said, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” That American philosophy won two world wars, the cold war versus the USSR, the cold war versus Mao, and created NATO, the most powerful alliance the world has ever seen which made international trade secure and lavished incredible wealth on America since WWII.
Today, Trump has shitcanned that in favor threatening to invade Panama, take Greenland, take Gaza and extort mineral wealth from Ukraine which is a democratic country being attacked by a war criminal and his dictatorship.
Trump is evil and his followers are, too. Let’s hear how evil you are Trump followers… denigrate Teddy statement, denigrate the past American century, denigrate Ukraine, denigrate me. That’s all you know how to do.
No, we didn’t win WWI by finally showing up with boots on battlegrounds in the last 37 weeks of that war, where the Commonwealth and their allies (except for us) had combined with the Russians before that to bleed the Germans and their allies dry and their population nearly in a Russian style Marxist revolution due to starvation and the butchers’ bill of German dead.
What happened was that Warren Wilson ignoring that war while we sold to both sides and German submarines sank American vessels is we were spared the vast majority of that trench warfare butchery. The war would have been won much, much faster if we had engaged from closer to the beginning. But our war dead from WWI would have eclipsed what it was because Wilson chose to be isolationist.
What we won was that Britain, badly weakened economically by the five full years they fought that war, lost their position as the financial capitol of the world to be replaced by us.
And we’ve never looked back. Biden and the Democrats want to surrender that win with Democrat Marxist Regression.
” the Commonwealth and their allies (except for us) had combined with the Russians before that to bleed the Germans and their allies dry and their population nearly in a Russian style Marxist revolution due to starvation and the butchers’ bill of German dead…The war would have been won much, much faster if we had engaged from closer to the beginning. But our war dead from WWI would have eclipsed what it was because Wilson chose to be isolationist.”
You got the first part correct, anyway. However, isolation WAS the correct policy for the US. That only ended because WOODROW Wilson was such a weakling, and caved to domestic interests who ought to profit form war mayhem. Without us, the Europeans ultimately would have been forced to settle on terms much more favorable to Germany. Without the harm inflicted upon Germany by the egregious terms of the Paris Agreement ending that war, WWII would likely never have happened, or if it did, it would not have resulted from the rise of Hitler, and the consequences of his rise would likely no t have happened.
“sought” not “ought”
Idiot can’t even get the saying right. It’s speak softly, not walk softly, you stooge.
The above is a good example of how the Trump-hating left has lost all connection with reality. Their TDS has made them loony. They cannot be reasoned with. They have become a curiosity, like at a circus. 🎪
..the ONLY ‘evil’ going on here is coming from YOU, ‘Anonymous’ form the darkside, in making all these sweeping false accusations… when will you ever grow up!
ATS – WWI WII is over, the Cold War is over. Putin is a paper tiger. If Ukraine does not want a peace deal with Russia it is free to fight on.
But without boots on the ground from NATO Ukraine will with near certainty lose after several years, and a few million more deaths.
Russia is already badly battered – but it will still win a war of attrition with Ukraine.
However this war ends – Russia is pretty much done for.
If it had this much difficulty with Ukraine – it can not possibly invade any significant NATO country – even if NATO did not come to their aide.
intelligent people have known that Russia’s only consequential remaining power is that it holds 50% of the worlds nukes.
The US is not leaving NATO, and NATO will continue to exist. But as YOU noted – its finest days are over.
NATO did not defeat Mao. Mao died in power. Post Mao capitalism and Xeng Dao Peng nearly defeated socialism in China.
Unfortunately Xi’s ascent to power has brought an ACTUAL fascist into power.
And THAT is the real threat to the peace of the world – not Russia.
The good news is that China’s window of oportunity is closing, and likely will be completely closed before the end of this decade.
In the meantime Trump built a new alliance in Asia to stand up to Xi, and one of the few smart things Biden did was not piss that away.
Regardless, While Trump will likely manage peace int eh mideast and Peace in Ukraine – those conflicts are NO LONGER matters of significant US national interests.
Bad conduct by China IS. The Chinese economy is 10 times that of Russia. Its population is atleast 10 times that of Russia.
With few exceptions its forces are superior in numbers and training. While they are not even close to US standards they are more capable overall than Russia.
Russia could defeat Ukraine – and nearly did in the first few days, and that would be a blip globally. Nothing China does is not a global crisis.
Trump got that way before you did.
You still do not grasp that.
next – NATO did not secure international trade – the US did, NATO did not lavish incredibly wealth on the US – the american spirit did.
You only need to look at US production during WWII to understand the US economic might relative to the world – we produced more than the entire rest of the world combined.
We are STILL the single largest economy in the world. We did that – not NATO.
That said unless the US is going to triple our defense spending we are no longer capable of securing global international trade.
Our Navy dominates the world in ways we have not done since WWII and maybe more so now. But that naval power is concenraited in 13 Carrier Battle Groups. This is what you need to project power globally. It is NOT what you need to secure international trade.
Increasingly the world is depending on the UK, India, Japan and other navies to secure international trade – because the US can not have the CBG’s that are critical to world peace and also defend global trade.
Other changes are taking place. Europes importance to the US is diminishing as the importance of the western hemisphere are increasing.
US energy no longer depends on the Mideast – one of the things that should have come out of the Ukraine war is that US interest in the Mideast and Russia is now SOLELY about Europe. Trump is constantly poking Europe – because it is THEIR national security interests that are threatened NOT ours.
The US fought several wars in the mideast over Energy – because that energy was critical to US national security.
It isn’t today. But it is critical to European National security.
It is time for the EU to take on the role the US has globally within its political domain – from the horn of africa to the the nordia arctic regions.
This is all EUROPES domain, it is all Europes national security that is at stake. NOT the US’s.
Aside from China the major US national security threat today is the Cartels in mexico – and that is a problem far beyond just drugs.
Mexico is our largest trading partner, and we can not afford chaos or a failed narco state their.
You rant about Panama – if there is a conflict with China, the Panama canal will be absolutely critical to quickly reinforcing Taiwan.
A US CBG will wreak helfire on the Chinese for about 72 hours after which it must withdraw quickly for resupply.
Starting with Trump we have re-opened Subic bay – even Biden continued the efforts to forward deploy forces and supplies in the pacific.
But any conflict with china will end with a chinese victory – if US naval and idustrial might from the East coast and Gulf can not be brought to bear.
Whether you like it or not – the Panama canal is in the US national security interests. In a conflict with China we will not have an extra week to invade Panama and take it back over. Warships must pass west on day one.
In the long run there are other routes coast to coast that are opening. Because the economics are there and because the Panama Canal is unable to keep up with growing demand.
Mexico is doing a port-rail-port system that will actually be cheaper and faster than the panama canal. But it is not a canal and warships can not pass.
Columbia is doing something similar to mexico – but that is more critical to south america than the US and again it is a port to rail to port system
Plans for a nicaraguan canal are older than the Panama canal. It is a longer route but it has always been a better route. Politics drove the choice of panama a century ago. And in the past 40 years politics are the only reason there is not a nicaraguan canal.
But that will eventually happen The cost to improve the panama canal while keeping it in operation is higher than building a canal through nicaragua, and a nicaraugaun canal shortenstravel from asis to the US east or Europe by about 1500km
But China will fade as a threat before any nicaraguan canal is finished. So right now the panama canal is critical and will remain so until the end of the decade.
The US is not going to invade Panama unless it has to – but EVERY US president would invade panama in a heartbeat if China appeared ready to invade Taiwan.
Trump is just speaking that pre-empetively and out loud.
Trump brashly and impolitely says the truth that more polite presidents wont say publicly.
That changes nothing.
No one is “extorting anything from Ukraine. We gave them $300B to keep their country from being overrun.
If they do not want to make a deal on their mineral wealth – which they will need our help to exploit and they will need our help to rebuild,
Then they can say “F#$K it to the peace process.
As to Gaza – no one – not the US, not Qatar, not the Saudi’s wants to rebuild Gaza with the palestinians there.
In fact no one in the world wants the palestinians. Everywhere they go they kill people and try to overthrow governments.
They participated in the overthrow of Mubarack they are responsible for two attempted assassinations of the Jordainian king – one successful.
Nobody wants them. Maybe we can send them all to Greenland.
It is highly unlikely that Gaza gets rebuilt by ANYONE with the palestinians still in it.
Once again Trump merely spoke outloud what intelligent people KNOW.
If we are going to remove the palestinians to rebuild gaza – because there is no other safe way to do so,
Then why bring them back EVER ?
Trump POSITIVELY disrupted peace efforts with his remarks. He make Qatar, Saudi’s and even egypt think about the fact that Gaza is valuable. It turned the claims that Gaza is an open air prisan camp on its head. The Gazans could have chosen peace and prosperity – they chose terrorism war and poverty. Trump’s remarks cut the leggs out of Hamas baragaining positions, and empowered Qatar and he Saudis to DICTATE to the palestinians.
The US should have stayed out of WWI – there would have been a negitiated peace and there would have been no Hitler and WWII.
Germany FAILED in its last gasp offensive prior to the US arriving. But the allies were to weak to significantly counter attack.
Both sides were exhausted and Wilson was stupid enough to step in in the name of peace, disrupt the peace for half a century.
There are many excellent books on WWI that you could read if you actually wanted to learn something.
“The US should have stayed out of WWI ”
You beat me to it…
No people who disagree with you – and frankly have a better understanding of the world that dingbats such as yourself are not evil.
Putin is evil. Xi is evil. Erodigan is evil, MBS is evil many of out allies are evil. That is how the world is.
I would prefer we followed George Washingtons’s advice – rather than your warped TR advice and stayed out of foreign entanglements.
But if we are going to be the worlds sole superpower we are going to have freinds that are evil.
anmd we are going to have to work with hostile nations that are evil – without starting global nuclear war.
Putin’s invasion of Georgia occurred when the Bushies started stupid nonsense about Georgia joining NATO.
Putin’s invasion of Crimea occured when Clinton Nuland and the obamites staged a coup in Ukraine and then started talking about Ukraine joining NATO.
Putins invasion of Ukraine in 2022 occured avter theNuland and the Bidenites AGAIN engaged in lose talk of Ukraine joining NATO.
None of this is secret.
The US nearly started a global nuclear war when the USSR tried to put missles in Cuba.
We were absolutely going to invade Cuba.
So you really think Putin was NOT going to invade Ukraine faced with a similar threat ?
Reagan promised Gorbachev that NATO would not get within 1000km of Russia.
Since the collapse of the USSR – the interest of the US was to establish GOOD relations with Russia.
Except when he was F#$King them over Obama tried that.
Trump sought to do that – but was constrained by you “Russia, Russia, Russia” nonsense.
Idiots like you had better hope that Trump can strike a GREAT deal with Putin – because whatever deal Trump gets is going to be the best possible outcome right now.
You should be happy Biden did not accidentally start a global nuclear war and annihilate 3B people
No one is denigrating TR, or the 20th century – though wilson was a racist stupid PROGRESSIVE democrat.
No one is dengrating Ukraine – though they were stupid to Trust Biden and his people.
I am absolutely denigrating YOU – because you an idiot with a shallow and warped understanding of history.
“. . . extort mineral wealth from Ukraine . . .”
Isn’t it a bit late to complain about extortion?
Ukraine extorted some $200 billion from American taxpayers. And doesn’t that $200 billion deserve some repayment — in the form of mineral wealth?
“Ukraine which is a democratic country . . .”
Democratic countries hold elections. When is the last time Zelensky permitted an election?
“mineral wealth from Ukraine”
FWIW:
“Ukraine Has Scorched Earth; What It Doesn’t Have Is Rare Earths”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ukraine-has-scorched-earth-what-it-does-have-rare-earths
The Ukraine Constitution precludes holding elections during a state of emergency. Facts still matter to some of us ( independent thinkers ).
It doesn’t matter that it’s easily proven false.
A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth is still putting its pants on.
No matter how ridiculous or obvious the lie, there will be millions of people who obediently believe it. It’s like the false claim that Trump called racists “very fine people”, when he actually said, “and I’m not talking about the Neo Nazis or white supremacists, who should be condemned totally.”
Democrats are abusing their positions of power, in the media and in politics, to damage and sabotage Trump’s presidency, regardless of if it’s false, or if it hurts the country. It’s Get Trump, and d@mn the consequences.
Karen, you likely will agree that when an entity has lost credibility, it is very hard for that credibility to be re-established. Catherine Herridge just interviewed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and he stated accurately the current state of the MSM and by extension the DNC. Watch the interview on X or other sites. I couldnt find it on Youtube, unsurprisingly.
it was once told to me by a politician that 1/3 of America will always vote left, 1/3 will always vote right, and 1/3 will always vote middle line. Consequently if 2/3 of Americans believe in one particular direction like for example not believing the mainstream media, then they’re lose. they’re going to have to rely on that 1/3 of the population that believes them to keep them in business, which is not sustainable over the long haul. this is why Democrats lie, because they cannot sustain a following if they were truthful. Thus they have to lie to try to have followers.
there is a maxim in business that states you can’t afford to alienate any of your customers, never mind more than half of your audience. CBS, MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, LA Times, etc have done just that. The only reason why they are still in business is because they are financially supported by billionaire owners / mega corporations who are now laying these very people off.
Secretary Marco Rubio With Catherine Herridge of Catherine Herridge Reports
QUESTION: I was going to say, Secretary Rubio, you could have given this interview to any reporter – any major corporate outlet – but you chose an independent journalist who posts on X.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, and I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but here’s my observation: We have to go where the people are, and so we need to communicate with people. We need to be able to – this is their State Department. It’s not my State Department. I’ll be here for a number of years, and then my job is done, and I’ll go back to being a private citizen. But this will always be their State Department. And we’re doing – making decisions every day, and they deserve to hear from us. Where are people getting their news and information? That’s where we need to be delivering our news and information. I still talk – I just went overseas. We had a bunch of people from different traditional outlets on our trip, and we’re not going to exclude them, but we have to be able to communicate people where they’re getting their news and information.
What we can’t allow to have happen is we can’t allow our message to solely be provided through the filter of legacy, traditional media outlets whose – sadly, I don’t mean to hurt their – I’m not trying to be mean here – but their readership is down, their viewership is down, their ratings are down. I have – we have to take our message where people are getting their news and information, and in these sort of long-form interviews where you’re getting serious questions and can provide answers to nuanced issues, not little sound bites that they run during the cable news hour for news and entertainment purposes. So, we’ll engage everybody, but we almost certainly see a greater emphasis on independent journalism because that’s where people are getting their news and information.
https://www.state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-with-catherine-herridge/
NBC jettisoned MSNBC (no longer affiliated with NBC) and they are sinking like a lead brick.
Doctor “Pimple Popper” (Sandra Lee, M.D.) gets exponentially more views than MSNBC and CNN combined.,
You mean like saying we sent $50 million in condoms to Gaza? No wait, $100 million. No wait, it was to build bombs. All an utter disgusting lie Trump pulled out of his decrepit ass.
Give us another rendition of the “Trump-Russia Dossier” that you keep pulling out of the decrepit asses of Killary and The Oval Office House Plant Formerly Known As Bribery Biden.
Democrats: If They Ain’t Lyin Like A Proud Biden, They Ain’t Really Tryin’!
Karne S: This describes you to a “T”: “No matter how ridiculous or obvious the lie, there will be millions of people who obediently believe it.” Tell us KARNE S—Is Zelenskyy an “unelected dictator? Did Ukraine start the war with Russia? The answer to both is “NO”–but the pig you worship keeps spreading these lies–and you keep believing them.
Trump DID say “very fine people on both sides” and then tried to qualify it later on to exclude the Neo Nazis, but the people who started the trouble at Charleston were White Supremacists and Neo Nazis, who are his ardent followers, just like the Three Percenters and Proud Boys.
Even left wing Snopes admits you are a liar.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
Zelenskyy has banned the free media, entire religious he dislikes, and political parties. Even though he was originally elected he is now officially a dictator, and a liar about the negotiations over mineral rights. But he has taken $200 billion of our hard earned money and then treated us with contempt so he had that going for him. Since you are making money hand over fist from his vast money laundering operation I can see why you would want to defend him and prevent your gravy train of theft from coming to a halt.
The mustached guy was elected President in 1932, and just stayed in office. The sitcom star was elected President in 2019, and just stays in office.
I really don’t see any difference in their legitimacy. We had elections when we had war on our own soil, in 1812 and 1864, so why not Ukraine?
Actually Zelensky has eliminated elections for the past several years and Russia invaded Ukraine under threat of missile deployment on their border as well as the threat of Ukraine joining NATO. A previously agreed to treaty that Russia, the US and NATO Nations agreed to disallowing that to ever happen. Mcgregor was right and now it’s all coming together.
Isn’t it– putting its shoes on?
Karen S,
Well said.
The Democratic Party vermin are demonstrating that there is no lie too vile for them to spread, too maliciously evil for their MSM parasites to repeat, or too obviously false for their idiot servants in blogs such as this one to mindlessly echo.
For the dems it’s–> for a few dollars more, a fistful of dollars… any day claimed is a few dollars more. There’s no long range plan.
Pass no Marijuana laws and no abortion laws in your States, no trans. Better than the crucifix you wear around your neck to keep vampires away.
It looks like the democrats took the Big Lie principle to heart without understanding the risks of overuse.
Their chosen narratives have required so many big lies that there is no way to keep it going. Bottom bottom line, the narratives they have chosen for their multiple purposes, and we know all of them, have all burst out like the alien in Alien. We don’t believe any of their crap and we can, enough of us, see the crap for the dangerous crap that it is and we are no longer afraid of being called bigots or transphobes; we are far too angry and we know that we need to destroy the parasitic creatures before they destroy our nation.
This comment is related to something that came to light in the previous weeks.
The $50 million dollar defamation law suit brought by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt against ABC’s Joy Behar, and has prevailed.
The ‘Network’ have shown that They don’t intend to change their; tone, demeanor, for all thing GOP. Further the Networks in New York Cities Mid-Town Manhattan district proved that they would continue their persecution of All things Trump when in fact they themselves were over their heads in red ink (insolvent). As they enjoined coverage in Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg lawfair suits.
Here’s the crux, Letitia James came after the TRUMP Organization and prevailed on a thin argument that the Valuations on the Commercial Properties were overstated for the purpose of securing a Commercial Loan. As it stands now, that is now Case Law.
Wherein fact the Properties Debts were made solvent and loans paid out. Today there are according to some estimates 1.5 Trillion Dollars of Commercial Debt on the books. Some of it is combined into Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) Debt Instruments.
This would included many of the Buildings in New York City and other Commercial Properties across the U.S..
Now we come back to Letitia James whom has fought and won her case for the Good of New York (according to her). However it appears that now only the Trump Organization was guilty, yet the Industry as a whole is guilty of participating in this illicit behavior as the Norm. Letitia James and her 18 State Attorneys Generals have not brought sweeping cases against an armada of Commercial Liar-Loans in NY and their respective jurisdictions. Joining James in a recent lawsuit were the Attorneys Generals of; Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, wherein the case to stop Elon Musk’s aides access to a sensitive federal payments database, was tried and lost. (What do they have to Hide – Federal CMBS Loan Subsidies perhaps)
Yet none of these Attorneys Generals have yet to take on the CRE’s (Commercial Real Estate) obvious problems (insolvency). The AGs have become the problem in the process. When Musk turns his eye to this problem the AG’s must be removed for not doing their duty.
Since the AG’s can not and will not do their job in these circumstances, then more cases such as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt against the Networks are necessary to bring the Network down and with it the Commercial Real Estate that houses it. A Legalized Scorched Earth Policy need be applied.
Lawfair – Capture their weapons and use them against Them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/states-sue-trump-treasury-doge-00203229
An orange jumpsuit is definitely Behar’s best look.
Not if it leaves anything uncovered.
Subprime Redux: Commercial Real Estate Bond Distress Hits Another Record High
“… As bad as the above stats may seem, they do not convey the true extent of malinvestment in commercial real estate, and the consequences thereof. For starters, the analysis leaves out the market for bank lending in commercial real estate—the largest source and the hardest for which to find data—comprising roughly $3 trillion in outstanding loans. …”
By: Artis Shepherd • Mises Wire ~ 02/20/2025
https://mises.org/mises-wire/subprime-redux-commercial-real-estate-bond-distress-hits-another-record-high
#74 Sir Floyd pointed out Mr. Kuntslers blog, Clusterfvck Nation, earlier. It’s creating money out of thin air….
Completely fictitious for you dumbaxx MAGA morons who need to believe lies. Joy Behar has been absent from “The View” because she is working on her Broadway show that is due to premiere soon. And the dumb, bottle blondie liar did NOT prevail in any lawsuit, either.
WAS OUT SICK! ANON!!!
She was leaving anyway…blah blah
What the Networks and their Landlords don’t realize is that Trump hold the Key to their existence.
When the time comes for a ‘CRE Bailout’ (of which they and a whole lot of people have been counting on), He can Veto any such Bill and Order the Treasury to not provide it (Bye Bye Helicopter Money). The Networks will be forced to consolidate, to reduce their operational cost and subsequent viability (i.e.: In the ‘disruption’ – Cut Their Losses and Coverage). They are not ‘To Big To Fail’ in Trump’s Eyes. What goes around, comes around[.]