Russian Genocide – NOT War: When Putin says there is no Ukrainian nation and no Ukrainian state, he means he intends to destroy the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state.
Listen to what this war criminal says and believe him. He is doing exactly what he said he would do.
Russia has utterly destroyed the city of 430,000 people in Mariupol with likely over 10,000 Ukrainians dead.
This is not a fight against the military. This is not war. Putin has ordered the systematic terror and indiscriminate murder of the Ukrainian people. This is genocide.
Russia should formally be recognized as a terrorist state.
Biden’s Liberal Democrats: Sean Spicer pointed out.. the next time the leftist media preach about “disinformation” remember these are the SAME people that brought us – The Russia Hoax – Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Disinformation – Jussie Smollett Didn’t Do It – Nick Sandman Did It – Cloth Masks Work – Mostly Peaceful Protests.
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Make Putin Pay
What is the maximum we can force Russia to give up as a consequence for its Ukraine invasion?
Washington is full of talk about how to minimize Vladimir Putin’s gains from the Ukraine war. We should be having a different conversation — one about maximizing Russia’s losses. That isn’t exactly the same thing.
If you had asked me a year or two ago what the United States should be doing about Russia, my answer would have been: not much. And I think that would have been the right answer. Vladimir Putin’s grotesque mafia-state was a problem for the United States, but it was much more urgently and immediately a problem for the Europeans — and most of the relevant Europeans were not very much interested in doing anything about it. It wasn’t just the energy-hungry Germans: The Italians, the French, the Spanish, and the European Union at large all took a mostly blasé view of Russia. It is difficult to succeed in helping allies solve their problems when the allies aren’t interested in doing much to solve them.
To the extent that Washington was actively engaged with Europe on Russia, the effort was mostly a stupid and clumsy one, focused on hectoring the Germans about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and trying to bully them into abandoning the project. The security conversation was clouded by the fact that there were both German and U.S. business interests in play, and, rather than be frank about that, we preached sermons when we should have been negotiating deals. The Germans need to buy a lot of fuel, and the United States has a lot to sell and is an entirely preferable business partner. There ought to be a way to make that work. There were very considerable logistical and economic issues to be dealt with — namely making gas on ships competitive with Russian gas in a pipe, which is no small thing — but if big, powerful central governments are not there to deal with precisely these kinds of cooperation questions, then what are they there for?…
… Everything should be on the table — everything. Not only the phony Donbas republics but Crimea, too; not only cessation of hostilities but also heavy reparations; not only withdrawal but disarmament as well. If that sounds like pie in the sky, consider that it doesn’t have to be Vladimir Putin on the other side of the negotiating table — and, in the long run, it probably won’t be: Breadlines are going to be at least as hard on the Russian spleen as they are on the Russian stomach, and Putin has enemies. There are men who would like to succeed him, and none of them needs Washington to hand him a pistol.
Achieving our aims in Russia will require patience and perseverance — unfortunately, these are not the hallmarks of American political culture. It also will require being clear-eyed about the possibility that a drowning Vladimir Putin may very well take the whole of the Russian state down with him — and being clear-eyed about the fact that this would not be the worst possible outcome from the point of view of American interests.
Republicans lead generic ballot in swing districts: NRCC poll
An internal poll from House Republicans’ campaign arm is giving their members good reason to be optimistic about taking back the chamber this year following the party’s annual issues retreat this week.
Republicans have a 4-point advantage over Democrats on a generic ballot among registered likely voters in 77 competitive congressional districts, according to a memo released by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Wednesday.
President Biden won those districts by 5 points in 2020, and the new lead is a 7-point improvement for Republicans since February 2021.
It also indicated that Republican messaging on the economy and oil prices is resonating with swing voters more than counter messaging from Democrats.
It isn’t ‘fringe left’ hurting Democrats — the fringe IS the Dems
Democratic pundits, worried about the midterms and Joe Biden’s terrible approval ratings, are sounding the alarm: That dastardly “fringe” is hurting the party.
“This whole noisy, identity left” composing “15% of the party” has taken over (James Carville). “The Democrats have to step away from the super wokeness” (MSNBC host Donny Deutsch).
But what’s the distinction between super wokeness and ordinary wokeness when the party’s oldest and most mainstream members are all pushing ideas that would have seemed outlandish in the Obama era?
Biden offered a Fed nominee who said she wanted to deny credit to the fossil fuel companies that power America, and tried to put an actual Marxist in charge of the currency. Only 10% of the senators in the party spoke out against this.
The party’s new legal superstar, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, can’t offer a definition of a woman because “I’m not a biologist”? Being moderately woke is like being moderately pregnant.
Democrats now view everything in terms of who’s being systematically oppressed. The reasonable view of racism is that there has always been racism in America. The woke translation is that America is defined by bigotry. From there you get to “I have no idea how to distinguish a woman” in about three intellectual moves.
Oklahoma Senate passes bill that would prohibit trans athletes from competing on female sports teams
A bill that would prevent trans girls from competing on female sports teams in Oklahoma passed on the House floor Wednesday afternoon.
The hot topic bill, House Bill 4245, was questioned and debated on the floor for two hours, but ultimately passed with a 79-18 vote.
“I do not want my granddaughters competing against biological males. It’s as simple as that,” said Representative Danny Sterling, R-District 27 while the bill was being debated on the floor.
“The message our kids hear is that they aren’t welcome,” said Representative Melissa Provenzano, D-District 79, also on the floor.
House Bill 4245, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, went back and forth on the House floor for two hours.
Putin’s Soviet Nostalgia: Time to Get Serious
The war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it’s about one man’s desire to return to the past. NATO must stop him.
It is a very human trait to look back on the past with a certain sense of longing, and perhaps with a melancholy ache for what has been lost. Few however would have the audacity or the desire to turn the clock back.
However warped, that is very clearly the aim of President Vladimir Putin, who perhaps not coincidentally turns 70 this year. Over time, he has voiced an inner rage at the collapse of the Soviet Union, describing it as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” He was referring to the same Soviet Union that mirthlessly engaged in repression, both foreign and domestic, closed itself off from the outside world behind an Iron Curtain also designed to keep its people prisoner and which threatened the world with obliteration for anyone with the temerity to challenge its foreign adventures. A society of paranoia, food shortages, poverty, with a brainwashing state media, and a ruthless KGB silencing anyone questioning the state.
If the world thought all this passed with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, they were not reckoning with Putin, who for 22 years has been laying the groundwork for a return to his good old days. In a matter of weeks, he has escalated toward a new Iron Curtain and a new Cold War. His more skeptical opponents might even argue the old Cold War never entirely ended.
Since February 24, Putin has launched Europe’s most significant war since 1945; has taken draconian measures to choke the remains of Russia’s free media; has brought down on his country unprecedented and ever-increasing sanctions; forcing some Russians to rush for the last Western products at outlets like IKEA and others to chase even basic necessities like salt and sugar; has caused a recession unseen in scale since the disastrous collapse of 1991, with the main difference being the West was there to help rebuild; and caused the oligarchs who propped up and acted as proxies for his regime to have their yachts and other assets seized, and their Western playgrounds placed off limits. McDonald’s, that high-calorific symbol of Western integration, has shuttered its 850 stores and Russia is now banned from most major sporting competitions.
Majority believes public schools on wrong track: poll
Nearly two in three voters, including broad majorities across racial, educational and economic lines, believe public schools in the United States are headed off on the wrong track, a new poll shows.
Just 24 percent of Americans said that when they think about what children are being taught in public school, they believe schools are headed in the right direction, according to the survey conducted for Grinnell College by the Des Moines-based polling firm Selzer & Co.
There is broad agreement across virtually every stratum of society. About two-thirds of men and nearly as many women believe schools are off on the wrong track; so do 64 percent of white voters and 63 percent who are non-white; 67 percent of those who live in homes with children under the age of 18 said the same.
SpyGate 101: A Primer On The Russia Collusion Hoax’s Years-long Plot To Take Down Trump
For those who care about our country’s future but don’t want to be buried in the minutia of the Russia collusion hoax scandal, here is your big-picture primer.
As Special Counsel John Durham continues to expose more details of the “SpyGate” or “Russia collusion” scandal, it can be difficult for any apolitical, non-news-junkie member of the public to grasp the ongoing developments.
After all, for more than five years, the corrupt legacy media has refused to report on scandal or done so with a slanted portrayal of the facts. So most Americans remain unaware of the Democrats’ years-long duplicity that sought to destroy first candidate and then President Donald Trump. Add to that reality the overlapping conspiracies and sprawling cast of characters involved, and it can be difficult to follow the story.
That the scandal is dense, however, does not mean it should be ignored. To the contrary, the duplicity must not be disregarded because what Trump’s political enemies tried to accomplish over the course of five years represents the biggest threat our constitutional republic has seen in the last century.
So for those who care about our country and her future but don’t want to be buried in the minutia of the scandal, here is your big-picture primer.
35 of Ayn Rand’s Most Insightful Quotes on Rights, Individualism, and Government
Some insightful words from one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Alisa Rosenbaum was one of the most controversial writers in America’s history. Why, then, have few people heard of her? Because both people’s plaudits and their intemperate attacks have been aimed at the new name she adopted after leaving Russia for America—Ayn Rand.
Her influence is beyond question. She sold more than 30 million books, and decades after her 1982 death, hundreds of thousands more sell each year. Atlas Shrugged has been ranked behind only the Bible as a book that influenced readers’ lives.
Some are devoted enough that Randian has become a descriptive term. Others use her name only to disparage opponents. Still others disagree with some of her ideas (e.g., while Rand was an often-strident atheist, capitalism is clearly defensible on Christian principles, and most historical defenses of liberty employed Christian rationales which conflict with Rand’s reasoning) yet find a great deal of insight in her analysis of liberty, rights and government.
As we mark the anniversary of Rand’s February 2 birth, consider some of her most insightful words:
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships.”…
Manchin will back Jackson for Supreme Court
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Friday that he will vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, making it ever more likely she’ll be confirmed to the court.
If all 50 Democrats back Jackson, the party will not need any GOP votes to win her confirmation with Vice President Harris breaking ties in the evenly split upper chamber. Manchin was not expected to oppose her, but was seen as one of two possibly uncertain votes along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.).
“After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court,” Manchin said in a statement.
Russian citizens not rushing to help their beleaguered military, Pentagon says
Ordinary Russian citizens have not streamed across the border into Ukraine to help the beleaguered Russian military, the Department of Defense said while increasingly highlighting setbacks to Putin’s ambitious 2022 invasion.
“I haven’t seen any indications of Russian citizens volunteering spontaneously to go fight in Ukraine,” spokesman John Kirby told reporters this week at the Pentagon.
“But that’s sure as heck happening in Ukraine by Ukrainians,” he said.
The comments from Kirby come while the Pentagon continues to emphasize problems Russia has encountered in Ukraine.
“They’ve used a lot of munitions,” Kirby said, adding that Russia has changed tactics based on its lack of military results and may be depleting its supply of weapons.
“What we have seen as they have been frustrated on the ground, they have resorted to more and more long-range fires, as we call it here,” he said. “Bombardment by artillery, missiles, rockets. And clearly that’s going to have — that’s going to show up in an inventory decrement.”
The Pentagon contrasted Russian setbacks against its protracted buildup last year of troops along the border.
Retiring Texas Democratic Rep Will Leave Office Early
Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who represents Texas’ 34th congressional district, confirmed Thursday that he will resign from office in the coming weeks. This comes after he announced last year that he would retire from the U.S. House of Representatives.
Reportedly, Vela will leave office before the end of this term to work for Akin Gump, a law and lobbying firm. He has served in Congress since 2013.
Washington D.C.-based publication Punchbowl first reported the news this week on Twitter. The congressman confirmed the news to The Texas Tribune shortly after.
