-CW

but thanks for asking!

:-)

-CW

Yeah, Bond was precisely what I was thinking!

:-)

-CW

OK, that was funny!

Thanks for the laugh...

:-)

-CW

Seriously, Michale... don't make me start using "[removed for copyright protection violations]" edits on your posts again...

I mean, I've been getting complaints...

-CW

-CW

First you discount examples from 100 years ago, and now you're back to 1876?

Why stop? Let's talk about the Corrupt Bargain of 1824!

-CW

can we please not wager bets on whether the nukes are going to start flying on these pages?

I mean, seriously... there's some bets you just don't want to win, right?

Right?

(sigh)

-CW

"If you have to reach back over 100 years to make a point, your point is not worth making.."

Aren't you the same guy who keeps bringing up how the KKK was all Democrats?

Just sayin'...

-CW

Um, wait... is that you badmouthing Saint Ronnie of Reagan?

(heh, couldn't resist)

-CW

you know, it's too irreverent to be in an article, but I did think when this war began (Michale might appreciate this one) that Hollywood could soon pivot back to making movies where the Rooskies are the evil enemies once again.

Like I said, way too silly for the subject at hand (which is serious), but comments about the movies made me admit it, that's all...

-CW

It would probably be best to post your answer under the appropriate headlining piece, not here ...

I can hardly wait. ;)

THE MIDTERMS:

Most media began predicting disaster for the Dems the moment the dust settled in 2020. But I think the political environment in a couple-three months will be vastly different than right now:

We're going to have a long, hot summer of J6 Committee public hearings. Must-see TV!

DOJ will indict their way up the ladder, flip sufficient underlings (loyalty? Haha!) and thence indict Cheetogod. Alas, you cannot slip out of the country when you've got a Secret Service detail.

Inflation may well cool down.

The Dems may figure out how to effectively campaign against Repug facism and craziness.

UKRAINE

Zelensky and the whole world (outside of Russia) know that Putin has lost. The Ukrainians know that they are negotiating from a position of strength and the only concession I can imagine them making would be letting the Rooskies keep Crimea. Donbass will be liberated from occupation. Putin cannot launch without two other high ranking officials and if he tries that's when he'll get the bullet.

Ideally, the new regime would hand Vladimir over to the World Court for his wardrobes, but because of the cult of personality he's built up chances are far better that he gets a bullet in the head, even without trying to launch.

Elizabeth Miller! I copied your #LizSplainingUkraine
and will respond to it shortly.

So I predicted wrongly, but now that Putin and Russia are so vastly fucked

Putin and Russia are now fucked. I sure did predict wrongly

No, because I'm not obsessed with #PutinsBitch. But that WaPo comment and reply was too good not to share.

You're welcome.

Speaking of welched bets you refused to pay because Weigantia changed for the worse? Then why are you still here, snowflake?

Your family name ain't worth $150 as the FACT of your dishonorable behavior PROVES it.

And you know Trump ain't got squat if he has to Ask Putin to help him dig up dirt.

Repeating "party slave" over and over while trying to push a concession when one was not given. It's like you can't give a straight answer and are trying to weasel out of it...

Are you trying to one up Don?

Oh, I have no doubt that if the GOP takes the House, they will open a PLETHORA of investigations!

"If"???

BBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And, once again.. You try to make it ALL about President Trump when he has NOTHING to do with this..

It's ALL the NY TIMES and the Delaware AG... Yet, you cannot break free from your PTDS...

President Trump Derangement Syndrome... :D

Yea, that's yer claim..

But, as usual, you have NO FACTS to support..

And yet, yer slavery to Biden and the Democrats is unequivocal...

You have never condemned Biden or the Democrat Party...

Ergo, your slavery is well established..

Oh, I have no doubt that if the GOP takes the House, they will open a PLETHORA of investigations! Will those investigations be anything more than an orchestrated pony show for their base? Nope. It’s like in the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. When the shooting took place, the evidence was extremely clear that GZ acted in self-defense when he shot TM and no charges were filed against GZ. It was weeks later when the state AG stepped in and chose to indict GZ despite the fact that no new evidence had been collected that supported charges being filed! The public had been fed a completely fictional account of what occurred that night by Big Media. That was why so many people were shocked when the jury came back saying it was clear that GZ should have never been indicted and that it seemed like the entire trial was nothing more than a “production”.

Trump’s FBI and DOJ were given the laptop in mid-2019. They couldn’t find anything useable to attack Biden with when they were desperately seeking any scrap of info that could be twisted in Trump’s favor. Trump would have to be a complete moron if he did not realize there were documents showing crimes being committed by Hunter! I mean,seriously, he’d have to be the dumbest sack of shit to not to have said something at the time. The evidence hasn’t changed.

And for someone who swears he was a member of law enforcement, you seem to know nothing on “probable cause”.

Only to someone who is a Party Slave...

Anyone else could read the plain english.. :D

Still refusing to condemn Biden's actions eh???

Nothing to condemn. Biden and Graham are right...

And there's the admission of Party Slave..

Biden is ALWAYS right.. You can't disagree with Biden at all... :D

So, yer saying you back Biden, even if a Republican agrees with him..

So, Biden is right.. Biden is ALWAYS right in your mind..

I accept your concession.. :D

You see, Bashi.. That's exactly your problem.. You think I am a Party slave as you are... But I am not..

That is why you always lose these discussions... Unlike you, my loyalty is to my country solely...

Well, family first.. Country second... Since I have no Party, loyalty to Party never enters the picture..

Unlike you...

Your loyalty is to Party above all else..

PARTY UBER ALLES

Sad....

I'm not a registered democrat. But you are a slave to Truumpism, so I guess it's theoretically possible...

Graham said it first...

No, but all the "Biden" qualifiers afterword does put some doubt on the whole thing... Some reason a simple yes or no is beyond you?

Of course not... Is THAT confusing to you??? :^/

Exactly. That's some serious dancing there... How is Putin negotiating in good faith sometimes but not in others in the same peace talks? Your dancing is moving quickly from a slow tango to jitterbug...

It's not my fault that you have a problem with comprehending plain english..

That's some Don Harris level of projection right there...

Still refusing to condemn Biden's actions eh???

Nothing to condemn. Biden and Graham are right...

So, yer saying you back Biden, even if a Republican agrees with him..

So, Party slave... Gotcha {wink wink}

Cite???

So... "Of course he is.. " IS in fact confusing to you...

Well, can't help you there, son... I can't help you if you can't comprehend plain english...

Let's put it a different way: should Zelenskyy trust Putin in the peace negotiations? Yes or no.

Of course not... Is THAT confusing to you??? :^/

And yet I've seen less dancing in a tango competition..

It's not my fault that you have a problem with comprehending plain english..

"Of course he is.. " is as plain english as it gets...

But, you did admit you were still in school, so maybe such plain concepts are ahead of you in your path to learning...

Still refusing to condemn Biden's actions eh???

You wear the mantle of Party Slave proudly, eh?? :^/

It's never been mine...

And yet I've seen less dancing in a tango competition...

Let's put it a different way: should Zelenskyy trust Putin in the peace negotiations? Yes or no.

Personally, I think Zelenskyy would be a fool to trust Putin and even if there is a peace agreement signed, Zelenskyy had better keep on guard lest some novichok or polonium find it's way in to his food or person...

Are you HONESTLY implying that I have a problem with straight answers, son??

That's YER bailiwick, not mine.. :D

You can't even call it when Democrats screw up...

Not answering straight questions is yer problem, Bash...

It's never been mine...

What part of "Of course he is.. " is not clear to you???

Putin's faith is that Biden means it when Biden says, "{Putin} cannot remain in power for god's sake!"

So YES... Putin is negotiating in good faith.. The good faith belief that Biden wants to remove Putin from power..

Still can't speak ill of Biden, can ya Bashi...

Party slave to the end.. :^/

There’s also evidence that Joe Biden financially benefited from Hunter Biden’s grift and his brother, Jim Biden’s grift, with these countries which are crucial to America’s national security interest. The lack of curiosity from most of the media is repellent and really corrupt. But I think the dam is about to burst. We have Hunter Biden looking at indictments coming out of that a grand jury in Delaware. You see The New York Times and The Washington Post are now sniffing around. They’ve admitted the laptop is real, and they have realized this is a bombshell story."
-Miranda Devine

Hunter Biden is going to BURY Joe Biden....

There is no stopping it..

"Your boys are going down, Danny. I can't stop it anymore."
-Captain Smilin' Jack Ross, A FEW GOOD MEN

Did you HONESTLY just try that BS here??? :^/

"As his faith leads him". That's some serious half assed dancing around the issue. Hilarious...

Is Putin negotiating in good faith in the peace talks with the Ukraine, yes or no?

Anyone??? :D

Yer grasping at strawmen arguments because you KNOW that the Democrats are totally frak'ed once the GOP takes the House and opens up a PLETHORA of investigations.. :D

Unless you think that the Democrats will be able to retain control of the House???

Is that it, Russ??? You think that Democrats are going to be able to cheat again and keep control of the House??

REALLY??? :D

It's not relevant.. It's Hunter Biden's laptop.. The data is his.. The pictures and the porn are his.. The emails that confirms his illegal activities are his..

It doesn't matter how it got there...

Even if the laptop was stolen from Hunter Biden and dropped off at the computer repair shop so it could be exposed....

ALL of that is irrelevant...

It's Hunter Biden's laptop... And all the data on that laptop has been "authenticated" by the Democrat Propaganda Flagship, the New York Times..

THIS IS FACT..

Everything you spew is simply NOT relevant to the central facts..

Even Hunter Biden himself acknowledged that the laptop and the data is his..

Joe Biden has NOT CONTESTED the FACT that the laptop and the emails and the pics and the porn is, in fact, Hunter Biden's...

Yer grasping at strawmen arguments because you KNOW that the Democrats are totally frak'ed once the GOP takes the House and opens up a PLETHORA of investigations.. :D

Yea.. I have NEVER stated my opinion on what's going down in the here and now.. EVER... :^/

Did you HONESTLY just try that BS here??? :^/

As far as Putin negotiating in good faith... Of course he is.. As his "faith" leads him..

Originally he figured that the US/NATO could NEVER come together and be united..

Now, for the most part and at least temporarily, Putin's "faith" tells him things are not as he hoped they would be..

Then Biden comes along and says the goal is for Putin to end up with a bullet in his brain...

So, NOW Putin's faith tells him that he has nothing to lose by going ALL IN...

So... yea... Putin is negotiating in the "faith" that Biden has shown him...

You just CAN'T speak ill of Biden, can you?? You simply CAN'T express how badly Biden has scroo'ed da pooch.. Yer incapable...

Yer like Fonzie who can't say he was wrong.. It comes out... "I was wroooooo...... I was wr......."

You simply CANNOT condemn Democrats.... It's yer nature...

But the fact is, you keep on with this ridiculous claim that the laptop is not Hunter Biden's when the FACTS, even Hunter Biden's own statements prove that it is..

I’m sorry, but which side of your mouth should I be listening to?

You don't know MACs, so you can be forgiven. But the OS is linked to a person or a business.. Electronically and verifiably..

I am very familiar with how Apple verifies new hardware to your account and allows you to use your account on multiple pieces of hardware.

So, try another schtick... This blind computer guy schtick, even if it were factual, is getting old and has no relevance..

As for the evidence of crimes contained within the laptop??

Can you prove that it was Hunter Biden that took the laptop to the repair shop in Delaware? The shop owner cannot because he is legally blind! And since no one can verify that it was actually Hunter Biden who authorized the work done on what you claim has been proven to be Hunter’s laptop, what gives the government the right to look through a person’s private computer files without their permission?

You have provided no evidence that the Times has said that the laptop the repairman was given definitely belongs to Hunter Biden. But if it belonged to Hunter Biden, as you claim, and he did not know his laptop was taken to a Delaware repair shop to be “fixed”, it’s stolen property.

The repairman gave the laptop to the FBI. But for some reason, he cloned the laptop’s hard-drive and all of its files prior to turning it over to the FBI. Why? It appears that when the FBI didn’t rush to tell the world that they were investigating Hunter Biden, the repairman took the hard drive and data — that did not belong to him — and turned copies over to the NYPost and to Rudy Giuliani…neither of which had any legal claim to the laptop!

This is all nuthingburger… try not to choke on it.

Well, is he?

It's interesting that you dodge the question while accusing me of dodging a question...

With 7 months until midterms, GOP has upper hand in battle for House: polls

Republicans need a net gain of just five seats to win back the House majority
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/midterm-polls-republicans-upper-hand-house-of-representatives

Cuz, if so.. I have some swampland down here in FL I wanna sell ya... :D

Stormy says it was 3 minutes max.

Well... We know where MC's mind is at.. :D

Do you think often about President Trump's sex life, MC???

Of course you think that... What else could you POSSIBLY think?? :^/

Now lets all watch Threads so we can really get our existential dread on before the world moves on to something else...

OK, Bashi.. I'll be yer huckleberry...

What's yer take on where the Ukraine/Russo war is heading??

Care to make a prediction..

I am betting ya don't.. :D

Is Putin ever negotiating in good faith? I think Biden gets a no harm, no foul on this one.

Now lets all watch Threads so we can really get our existential dread on before the world moves on to something else...

News item:

There's a seven hour gap in Trump's phone records from January 6th.

From the WaPo comments section:

The orange haired slop had a seven hour phone call with Stormy Daniels that was not included in the log.

Stormy says it was 3 minutes max.

'The reason they didn’t go and take him out is because that would have been another 15, 20-minute explanation of why we’re taking the Black man out'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/oscars-black-man-will-smith-whoopi-goldberg-chris-rock

Once again.. Whoppi (a Democrat and part of a HUGE blooper in Star Trek PICARD) is basing her assessment SOLELY on the basis of race..

THE textbook definition of racism...

Russia announced earlier today that it was withdrawing forces from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in hopes of laying the groundwork for a peace deal with Ukraine.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-live-updates-03-29-2022

This is what happens when the US states a policy of leadership/regime change...

It gives the enemy leader absolutely NO INCENTIVE to negotiate in good faith...

I won't quote it all, but it lays out quite perfectly why Jackson Brown is NOT suited to be a Supreme Court Justice..

Beyond the obvious aspects of being nothing but an Affirmative Action hire.... A token for Biden's crass promise of trading a quality SCOTUS candidate for votes and support..

While guiding the sentencing commission, Jackson didn’t just resist federal prosecutors' warnings that granting crack dealers early release would merely put them back in action faster. She also ignored their advice to exclude from eligibility those with firearms in their records. In the end, she sided with NAACP official Hilary O. Shelton, who called crack sentences "racially discriminatory" and demanded the commission "correct this injustice."

"People of color are being put in prison at much higher rates than their Caucasian counterparts," Shelton asserted, testifying before the commission alongside Rose.

And WHY is that??

Is it because they are black?? There are no facts that prove such a claim..

Or is it because they are more likely to commit the crime??

Facts overwhelmingly support that contention...

It's like the FBI's violent crime statistic... Black Americans are 14% of the population but commit upwards of almost 60% of the violent crimes..

Given this FACT, it's logical and rational that black Americans would be more prevalent and more represented in the criminal justice...

It's not racism.. It's CHARACTER...

And, as Dr Martin Luther King espoused...

Judge people by their CHARACTER... NOT by the color of their skin...

But do Democrats judge the Trayvon Martins by their character??? The Michael Browns?? The George Floyds?? The Duante Wrights???

No.. They judge them by the color of their skin..

Which proves beyond ANY doubt that the Democrat Party is STILL the Racist Party...

Jackson argues courts should have empathy for all people, no matter how egregious their behavior, and look to rehabilitate them and not just "lock them up and throw away the key."

Her supporters say she would bring a fresh new perspective to the high bench, which has been dominated by former prosecutors trained to keep criminals in prison, not out of it. If confirmed, Jackson would be the modern court's first public defender. No sitting justice has such experience.

The problem with Jackson Brown's approach is that it is completely and utterly racist...

60-100 years ago, black Americans were handed harsher penalties SOLELY because they are black..

That's racism...

In the here and now, Democrats in general and Jackson Brown in particular want to handed down MORE LENIENT penalties, AGAIN, SOLELY because they are black..

That is ALSO racism...

Racism to "fix" racism or racism to "make up" for racism is STILL racism..

That is a fact that Democrats simply refuse to acknowledge..

Then-U.S. Attorney Stephanie Rose objected: "It does protect the safety of the public, though, when they're not present to recidivate."

Unpersuaded, Jackson countered: "But the amount of time in jail doesn't affect that because there's no difference. If we keep them in jail for the extra 36 months, or whatever, they're going to recidivate at the same rate as if we released them early. So I don't see how public protection is being affected one way or the other in that scenario."

"Because during the three years they are in prison, they are not out committing new crimes — that's the difference," Rose replied, adding that the department had "public safety concerns" over cutting prison terms for so many felons at once.

Now vying for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, Jackson has struggled to fend off accusations that she is soft on crime. The Senate confirmation hearings have exposed a pattern: whether as a lawyer, sentencing commissioner or judge, she has disregarded the warnings or recommendations of prosecutors and investigators while advocating or easing the punishment not just for drug dealers but also child porn offenders and even accused terrorists.

Jackson Brown want's to give leniency to black criminals, terrorists and pedophiles SOLELY because they are black...

The very definition of racism...

In Depth: Ketanji Brown Jackson's Soft Spot for Drug Dealers, Pedophiles and Terrorists

"Justice demands this result." That’s what Ketanji Brown Jackson said in 2011 after the U.S. Sentencing Commission knocked as much as three years off the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts. As vice chair of the commission, Jackson believed the nation’s drug laws were overly harsh and especially "unfair" to blacks.

A month earlier, Jackson had shrugged off Justice Department warnings that the decision -- which made more than 12,000 federal crack inmates eligible for early release -- could flood the streets with dangerous criminals who would likely reoffend.

"[B]y keeping them in longer, it doesn't seem to make a difference with regard to whether or not they recidivate," Jackson reasoned in a June 2011 commission hearing in Washington, according to transcripts reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/29/in_depth_ketanji_brown_jacksons_soft_spot_for_drug_dealers_pedophiles_and_terrorists_823900.html

This goes to that EQUAL OUTCOMES/COMMON SENSE point that Democrats just cannot comprehend I made earlier...

You simply cannot push an EQUAL OUTCOME agenda in an area that is so black/white (no pun intended) as criminal justice..

Of course that's how you see it.. How you spin it.. :D

Which simply proves the point in #40... :D

Thanx Bash... yer a peach... Yer always proving my points for me.. :D

As for the purported mission of the Jan. 6 committee – to investigate the causes of the violence at the Capitol, and prevent a recurrence – maybe Nancy Pelosi and her minions can learn something from the precautions taken for the electoral vote count in 1877.

As reported by the Baltimore Sun on Feb. 2 of that year, “The one hundred special policemen employed for service during the period to be occupied with the electoral count reported at an early hour this morning at the capitol, and under the direction of the sergeants-at-arms of the two houses were posted at various points through the building. Each policeman wore on the lapel of his coat a blue badge with the words ‘special police’ printed across it. … Hundreds of strangers who were in the city, and were very desirous of witnessing the proceedings attending the count of the electoral vote, were bitterly disappointed to learn that they could not be admitted without tickets, and were not at all backward in venting their dissatisfaction and in asserting that as citizens of the United States they had the right to free passage in the capitol building. The only comfort they had was in expressing their opinion.”

Can you imagine if Speaker Pelosi had followed President Trump’s advice and brought in more security to control what was anticipated to be an angry crowd of disgruntled voters? The fact that Pelosi and the lax security are not being investigated at all is one more proof that the Jan. 6 committee is nothing but a political hit job.

The 6 Jan Committee is a joke.. And it will fade away into nothingness once the GOP is in control of Congress after the mid-terms...

Ya'all know it.. *I* know it..

Ahh yes.. The old I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I rebuttal...

It's a Democrat staple... :D

The rest of us are being told to stand down, to acquiesce to the idea that the votes of the American people should never be “overturned” once they are officially recorded. This is ridiculous, both as a matter of logic and as a matter of history.

Now, I actually disagree with this..

The idea that the courts should actively OVERTURN a Presidential Election and award the Presidency to the actual winner is frightening...

Which is not to say that election fraud should NOT be transparently investigated. It's important to identify and prosecute the cheaters to insure that such a thing can never happen again..

But it's a pipe dream to think that the courts will overrule an election...

What? Republicans have a long history of stealing elections and should not be trusted?

The Savannah Morning News spoke for many when it opined in its Feb. 24, 1877 edition: “[T]he Democratic leaders in Congress have been bullied, cajoled, betrayed and cheated into a surrender not only of the fairly won victory of the party at the polls, but of the constitutional right of the people to self-government.”

Consider for a moment what that statement means in the context of 2020, when mainstream Republicans were bullied by the mainstream media into abandoning President Trump and his claims of a stolen election. The lesson is clear: If you think the election was not free and fair, if you think victory was stolen from you, then fight for it with all your might. Don’t let anyone talk you out of it. Don’t surrender because someone told you it was a bad look.

As the Savannah editor wrote in the same edition: “A people who can calmly submit to and acquiesce in such a betrayal of their rights and liberties need give to history no better proof of their unfitness for self-government.”

If Twitter had been around in 1877, however, the Savannah Morning News would have been censored. If there had been an equivalent of the Jan. 6 House select committee, the editor would have been subpoenaed, shamed, and possibly prosecuted. As the mainstream media has essentially told us, when it comes to elections: “If you see something, say nothing.”

But just as in 1876, millions of Americans don’t believe what they are being told, and they don’t want to just shut up and go away, which has made them enemies of the establishment. Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Ginni Thomas and others who dispute the 2020 election results aren’t committing treason; they are committing free thought. And they are being treated as criminals for doing so.

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes..

What we are seeing now is that, with the Democrat Party, legally contesting an election that the Democrat Party won thru the courts is criminal...

THAT is the lesson that the Democrat Party is putting forth...

But not how ridiculous your original claim was? Or are we only allowed to go back as far as it doesn't contradict?

When it's factually accurate and the best thing for this country..

So...never?

As opposed to your support for Biden leading us into WWIII with nukes..

Are you going to make up your mind on this one? Earlier Biden was not strong enough now we fear nukes? Which is it? Or is it your normal dammed if he does, dammed if he doesn't so we should just ignore your opinion type issue?

What History Teaches Us About Stolen Elections
The scenario is familiar. A presidential election ends with uncertain results. Millions are convinced the election has been stolen. Congress steps in to reassure the nation, picks a president, and opens a wound that just divides the country further.

Welcome to 1876. That was the year Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote and was just one vote short of an Electoral College victory, but somehow lost to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes when the electoral votes of four states were “reconsidered.”

If you think the presidential election of 2020 was controversial, suffice it to say that if half the irregularities of 1876 had been repeated in 2020, America would have been torn apart.

Not only was an Electoral College majority certified for neither candidate, Congress opted in 1876 to invent a wholly novel “solution.” Instead of following the constitutional mandate putting an unsettled election in the House of Representatives to resolve, Congress improvised, passing a law on Jan. 29, 1877 that formed a 15-member Electoral Commission which was authorized to decide for the entire country who had won the election. Not surprisingly, every decision favored the Republicans on an 8-7 party-line vote, and the commission ended up awarding all 20 disputed electoral votes to Hayes. Democrats reportedly allowed Hayes to become president in exchange for his promise that he would end Reconstruction and withdraw federal troops stationed in the South after the end of the Civil War.

Trust me, if there had been an Internet or 24/7 cable news back then, the “Compromise of 1877” probably would have ignited a second civil war instead of putting an unofficial end to the first one. But even without the nonstop blare of social influencers and the Twitter mob, plenty of people knew they were being had.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/03/28/what_history_teaches_us_about_stolen_elections_147388.html

"Cheaters Never Prosper"

We see that playing out with today's Democrat Party...

I just did by pointing out how ridiculous your claim is...

As oppose to you parroting the Trump agenda?

When it's factually accurate and the best thing for this country..

As opposed to your support for Biden leading us into WWIII with nukes..

Can't back it up, eh? Heh...

As opposed to others who vary their principles according to whatever political agenda is Left Wing popular at any given moment.. :^/

As oppose to you parroting the Trump agenda?

The Czech Republic gave one Russian diplomat 72 hours to leave the country, while Ireland told four senior Russian officials to leave the country because of activities deemed not “in accordance with international standards of diplomatic behavior.”
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-live-updates-03-29-2022

Allies continue to back Putin into a corner..

The chances of nukes flying may actually be increasing...

Link me to the actual quotes from President Trump that say what you claim they say...

I double-dog dare you.. :D

THIS could really happen.. As I told dsws yesterday... I give it a 75%-80% chance that nukes will start flying...

...said the guy who bet that Trump would do well with black voters and then welched on his bets.

Says the guy who said Putin would never invade..

Do you REALLY want to play the PREDICTIONS GAME, MC?? :D

Speaking of welched bets you refused to pay because Weigantia changed for the worse? Then why are you still here, snowflake?

Do you really want to revisit this??

My conscience is clear.. I paid the wager in the best manner I could while still adhering to my principles...

Principles, I might add, that are COMPLETELY consistent...

As opposed to others who vary their principles according to whatever political agenda is Left Wing popular at any given moment.. :^/

Does that include WWI?

If you have to reach back over 100 years to make a point, your point is not worth making..

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly rejected a note from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeking peace in the more than a month-long conflict. When the note was hand-delivered to him by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, Putin reportedly replied instead: "Tell him I will thrash them."
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-live-updates-03-29-2022

Once again.. I have to ask..

What incentive does Putin have to negotiate???

Not surprising that their heavy biased interpretation conflicts with the lefts heavily biased interpretation. Kind of like the bible, it supports just about anything thing you want as long as you ignore the fact it contradicts a few lines down.

That's an excellent point, Bashi! Two ideologically opposed sides, each putting their "spin" on Trump's incoherence. I learned something this morning!

The point being your predictions track record since I arrived.

Speaking of welched bets you refused to pay because Weigantia changed for the worse? Then why are you still here, snowflake?

No, you welched because you're butthurt over Cheetogod's epic loss. I always planned on covering your losses because I knew you'd disappear. I'm still willing to do so if you make like a tree and leave.

THIS could really happen.. As I told dsws yesterday... I give it a 75%-80% chance that nukes will start flying...

...said the guy who bet that Trump would do well with black voters and then welched on his bets.

Actually, that's probably true. What Michale and the rest of the trumpateers fail to mention is any time Trump speaks it's such a contradictory word salad that they are also trying to interpret what he says as well. Not surprising that their heavy biased interpretation conflicts with the lefts heavily biased interpretation. Kind of like the bible, it supports just about anything thing you want as long as you ignore the fact it contradicts a few lines down. Trump's big difference is you don't need to turn page or even leave the same sentience to find the contradiction. He has the ability to contradict himself, lie and toss in some incomprehensible verbiage in the same sentience. Impressive when you think about it...

First off, President Trump NEVER says the things ya'all claim he says... NEVER... It has ALWAYS been ya'all's INTERPRETATION of what President Trump actually says.. And that interpretation is based solely on ya'all's PTDS President Trump Derangement Syndrome..

Secondly, President Trump's statements can only be described as musings and twitter-esque stuff..

Wow. You cannot be reached, can you?

You're the only Weigantian with Trump Derangement Syndrome, the unwavering belief that a know nothing New York douchebag who turned out to be #PutinsBitch is somehow not our worst President in 170 years.

Dude, I watched it happen! Or am I supposed to trust right-wing media instead of my lying eyes?

Does that include WWI?

That's because up until Grenada & Panama, politicians let the military prosecute the process...

Disaster comes when politicians think they know more regarding military tactics than the generals...

A perfect case in point is Biden's disastrous actions in Afghanistan...

Because the US is soooooooooooo good at regime change. Heh.

Exactly my point..

Which makes Biden regime change policy that he refuses to walk back all the more ridiculous..

Right. Too many spy movies, Michale!

Maybe so.. Although these days, there is hardly any quality movies of that genre.. Or ANY genre, for that matter...

But it still doesn't change the fact you have yet to identify what exactly is Putin's incentive to negotiate...

Not if Biden has his way and Putin is removed from power..

Putin gets a bullet in the back of the head..

Putin has NO incentive to negotiate..

Oh.. Well, time will on that score..

But it's the NY TIMES who is feeding that story, so.... :D

Negotiated settlement ... with Ukraine settling for less than what it could have had if war had been avoided.

What's Putin's incentive for settling? Or even negotiating for that matter???

The endgame for the US is Putin's removal..

Why should Putin even negotiate??

Negotiated settlement ... with Ukraine settling for less than what it could have had if war had been avoided.

I thought I made that much clear. ?

Not exactly... But I have been off the last few days.. Insides all tore up, my biologics are way off..

But none of that negates the factual nature of my assessment of the here and now..

Maybe it's BECAUSE were in a VERY precarious and dangerous time that I am all scroo'ed up.. :D

But, enough about me.. :D

How do YOU see all of this ending??

The Democrats’ Common Sense Problem

Voters Think They’ve Abandoned It

The Democrats are bleeding voters, particularly working class voters of all races. There are lots of reasons for this and I’ve written about some of them. One important throughline here is what we might call the common sense problem. As in, Democrats seem to have abandoned it in many areas. This helps explain why there hasn’t been a ”Trump disenchantment dividend” for the Democrats as the former President’s popularity has fallen and for that matter a “nutty GOP politicians” dividend as various Republican pols do and say fairly crazy things. Voters just aren’t sure the Democrats are that well-grounded either.
https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-common-sense-problem?s=r

In this past FTP, ya'all cherry picked a few GOP'ers who have issues... And tried, but failed to paint the entire GOP with those little brushes..

But let's take a look at the problems that the entirety of the Democrat Party have..

1. Equality of opportunity is a fundamental American principle; equality of outcome is not.

Americans love equal opportunity! But lately more and more Democrats have embraced, implicitly or explicitly, the idea that we must equalize outcomes as well by emphasizing policies that promote “equity” as opposed to simple equality.

But Americans’ common sense is that opportunities should be made equal if they are not and then let people achieve as they will. There is no guarantee, nor should there be, that everyone will wind up in the same place.

The statement above was tested in the very liberal state of Massachusetts by pollster Louis DiNatale who was interested in my ten statements and added them to some of his polls. (I should note that my statements were simply tested as is, rather than reworded for survey purposes, but the results are still quite interesting I think). On this statement, DiNatale found that Massachusetts voters overall agreed with the statement by 61 percent to 16 percent. Republican voters agreed with the statement by 72-12, but so did independent voters by 65-13 and even Democrats by 56-17. White voters endorsed the statement by 63-12 but so did black voters by 56-17.

There just isn’t much of a constituency for equality of outcomes.

You simply can't FORCE equality of outcome??

I am reminded of the Urban Legend about a sociology professor who ran a test.. Ya'all know the one..

Whether it actually happened or not is not relevant.. The lessons it teaches are factually accurate...

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

It's common sense that you can't enforce equality of outcome..

Whether it be in society or in the criminal justice system...

It's NOT possible because doing so ignores human nature..

This is ONE of the problems that the entirety of the Democrat Party has...

And I can honestly tell you with COMPLETE conviction that we have never been so close to a nuclear war since those days of October, 1962.. Less than 1 month after I was born..

There is no one here who can factually deny that fact that we are closer to nuclear war than we have been in 60 years..

Even dsws agrees that things look bleak.. I would be very interested in his thoughts on my percentages..

As for me being a Drama Queen??

Says the person who supports the idea that the planet's changing climate is going to destroy humanity.. And that humans could actually do something about it, even if it were factually accurate.. :D

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he would make “no apologies” and wasn’t “walking anything back” after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” attempting to turn the page on a controversy that clouded his recent trip to Europe.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-europe-moscow-df6c9f17b04e26611ae5c58a16aa0e78

So, Biden stands by his regime change policy...

According to Joe Biden, the leader of the ONLY remaining Superpower and the most powerful man on the planet???

Putin cannot survive... This war won't end with Putin in power..

And ol' Vlad is over there thinking "Well, OK then.. I guess I have NOTHING to lose... Where are the nuclear launch codes.."

And to think it ALL could have been avoided... :^/

Democrats need to act..

Or else, my only consolation prize will be I'll be able to post to WEIGANTIA, "Told ya'all so..." right before a nuke takes out MAYPORT NAS....

Mainstream journalists have avoided putting a fine point on the likelihood that World War III just got closer thanks to Biden's words, whether or not they were a "slip" or a "veiled threat." In fact, it might never be possible to know which it was. That ambiguity only underscores that the president's slip and/or threat was massively irresponsible, endangering the survival of humanity on this planet.

Outrage is the appropriate response. And a special onus is on Democrats in Congress, who should be willing to put humanity above party and condemn Biden's extreme irresponsibility. Prospects for any such condemnation look bleak.

Biden's impromptu nine words underscore that we must not take anything for granted about his rationality. Russia's murderous war in Ukraine does not give Biden any valid excuse to make a horrendous situation worse. On the contrary, the U.S. government should be determined to promote and pursue negotiations that could end the killing and find long-term compromise solutions. Biden has now made it even more difficult to pursue diplomacy with Putin.

"Massively irresponsible"...

Remember, this is Democrat Water Carrier Extraordinaire SALON here.... Not some Right Wing Rag...

You people need to really sit up and take notice have bad Democrats are in the hole thanx to Joe Biden..

Are Democrats going to step up and call a spade a spade??

In this case, point out Biden's dangerous lapses in judgement???

Are ya'all???

Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse. Administration officials scurried to assert that Biden didn't mean what he said. Yet no amount of trying to "walk back" his unhinged comment at the end of his speech in front of Warsaw's Royal Castle can change the fact that Biden had called for regime change in Russia.

They were nine words about Russian President Vladimir Putin that shook the world: "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power."

With a reckless genie out of the bottle, no amount of damage control from the president's top underlings could stuff it back in. "We do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Sunday. Such words might plausibly have less than full weight; Blinken was chief of staff at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when, in mid-2002, then-Sen. Biden wielded the gavel at crucial hearings that stacked the deck in support of the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq, with the explicit goal of regime change.
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/28/nine-words-that-shook-the-world-what-was-joe-biden-thinking/

Whatever ya'all are thinking about Biden's off the wall regime change policy...

It's MUCH worse than that...

When your enemy has his finger on a nuclear trigger, the LAST thing you want to do is box him in...

You want to give him an out.. As Sun Tzu said, build him a golden bridge with which to retreat..

Biden has demolished ANY possible avenue for Putin to retreat.

Biden just proved to Putin that Putin is fighting for his VERY SURVIVAL...

You NEVER do that to a man who has a nuclear weapons fallback plan...

NEVER...

First of all, lower the tax rates, which are currently driving the exodus of highly productive Californians out of the state.

BEST.... SUGGESTION.... EVER.....