It pains me to see America reduced to this level of stupidity. Of course, you’re free to voice your opinion on any subject at any time. If that opinion shows that you’re an ignorant and hateful human being, you need to expect rebuke from the rest of us.
It’s really no more complicated than that.
From Wikipedia:
“State Sponsors of Terrorism” is a designation applied by the United States Department of State to countries which the Department alleges to have “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism“. Inclusion on the list imposes strict unilateral sanctions. The State Department is required to maintain the list under section 1754(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act. As of 2021, the list consists of Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Precisely what recognizing Russia as a member of this group of bastards will accomplish is anyone’s guess, given the long and growing list of sanctions that is already in place. Having said that, it seems like a natural thing to do, considering that these war crimes will soon come to rival anything that’s happened on this planet since the Holocaust and the Turkish genocide of the Armenians more that a century ago.
No. Well, maybe in the privacy of his garage with the door closed, but certainly not in public.
These people got swindled in the most epic proportion, and it’s extremely painful to admit that a clever criminal took you to the cleaners.
What will happen is a slow cessation of conversation on the topic of Trump. Of course, the conman will not take kindly to being cast out of the limelight, so let’s expect some amazing histrionics when he’s on the way out.
We’re a very long way from having this pathetic chapter in U.S. history fully behind us. The unfolding of criminal indictments over the coming years will, each one, constitute international news, so the fireworks are not even close to being over.
This doesn’t surprise me.
Trump was afraid of being poisoned too.
I guess when you’re one of the most hated people on Earth, that goes with the territory.
Millions of Trump supporters were attending “America First” rallies just a few short months ago, pledging their indifference to the well-being of those living outside the United States. But how do these tragedies facing the people of Ukraine, e.g., the bombing of maternity hospitals and apartment buildings, affect their thinking?
The answer is that many of these people quickly realized that they had been talked out of their basic goodness. It didn’t take more than a couple of days of Russian bombardment of maternity hospitals and apartment buildings before virtually all of these kind and decent Americans figured out that being “woke” actually means being compassionate, and immediately began to beg our leaders, “Why can’t we be doing more?”
Good people cry tears of pain for others, and tears of gladness for peace and justice.
Here’s an article in Politico that begins:
It’s been more than two years since then-President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment, a scandal that was set off by a phone call between Trump and the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, anxious about his country’s position in the crosshairs of an increasingly bellicose Vladimir Putin. We know how that call went: Zelenskyy wanted to buy more Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States, and in exchange, Trump asked Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden’s son’s activities in the country. Now, the invasion of Ukraine has made clear why Zelenskyy spent the rest of the call appeasing Trump, even agreeing with Trump’s unwarranted attacks on Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Now, Yovanovitch, whose firing was at the center of the first impeachment, might be the person with the most interesting insight into how we got from that moment to this one. “It was pretty clear to [Vladimir Putin] and pretty much everyone else that Trump didn’t really hold Ukraine in high regard,” she told me in an interview. “So I think if you’re President Putin, you’re getting much of what you need from a President Trump. When Trump lost the 2020 election, I think maybe Putin had to recalibrate and look for other means to achieve his goals.”
Yovanovitch is out with a new book, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir, about her three-decade-long career as a foreign service officer. She says she began writing it when Covid-19 upended everyone’s routines in early 2020, but she probably couldn’t have guessed that two years later, her experience in Ukraine would be urgent and valuable for an entirely new reason. I called her to discuss the new book, what she saw during her time in Ukraine that has made her think of the current conflict differently and how the impeachment has affected her life. “I’ve had a long career and I’ve done a lot of things throughout my life, some of which I’m proud of,” she said, “and I will always be remembered as the person who was fired by Trump.”
I have no unique insights into Putin’s mind; it seems most probable that what Ms. Yovanovitch says here is correct. There is no reason to think that there is something special about Ukraine that doesn’t pertain to the rest of Eastern Europe.
But speaking of high-level people “getting away with” their crimes, what about Trump himself? He’s still on a roll, holding rallies in which he instills rage into huge crowds of morons who believe that Biden stole to the 2020 election. He remains the top contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, and there is no indication that the long arm of the law has any intention of reaching out and grabbing him by the throat.
With everything happening in the world, it’s easy to forget even the most outlandish statements that came out of the Trump administration even a few years ago. We need to recall how the world stood agape at President Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway, who, it could be said, propelled American society forward in the land where facts have ceased to matter.
Conway said that then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer used “alternative facts” when he falsely called the crowds at Trump’s swearing-in ceremony “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”
Then we had this:
President Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway on Monday sidestepped questions about whether any evidence backs Trump’s explosive claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him ahead of the 2016 election.
“I’m not in the job of having evidence. That’s what investigations are for,” she told CNN’s “New Day.”
Welcome to the dawning of an Orwellian nation.
I’ve seen far worse ideas than the one shown here, but I would say:
Hard to install
Hard to clean (and a lot of filth from auto traffic)
Extra maintenance due to wind and vibration generated by traffic
Cyclists don’t like cars whizzing past them.
Describing Ron Johnson, a reader notes: empty-headed senator.
From NPR: In the last two months, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has attracted headlines and liberal criticism for saying taking care of children isn’t “society’s responsibility“; for declining to call on Oshkosh Defense to manufacture next-generation mail trucks in Wisconsin; for raising the possibility of an Affordable Care Act repeal in the next Congress; and for calling a GOP proposal that would cut Social Security and raise taxes on seniors “a positive thing.”
Sorry, but this isn’t empty-headed. It may be empty-hearted, but we need to give terrible human beings like him credit where it’s due: he has great skill at playing to a base of other terrible human beings.
This is inspiring, though I’m afraid I’d rather my kids weren’t about to bring babies into a world of nuclear saber-rattling, trending world fascism, white nationalism, and the rejection of science leading to environmental collapse and climate catastrophe.
