President Donald Trump announced just after 6pm on Sunday that the US will delay the implementation of a 50% tariff on European Union products to July 9 from June 1. Sunday’s decision to extend the tariff deadline was made after a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier in the day, and comes after Trump unexpectedly threatened duties of 50% on the EU on Friday morning. The move surprised European officials who thought they were making progress with his administration on talks to avert the 20% “reciprocal” tariffs Trump announced in April, and then paused for 90 days. “I received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% Tariff with respect to Trade and the European Union,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I agreed to the extension—July 9, 2025—It was my privilege to do so. The Commission President said that talks will begin rapidly.” Trump’s statement followed a post from von der Leyen on the social media platform X, in which she described her conversation with Trump as a “good call.”“The EU and US share the world’s most consequential and close trade relationship. Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively. To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9,” she wrote. Trump initially said on May 23 that the United States will impose a 50 percent tariff on the European Union starting June 1 after the president wrote on Truth Social that he felt talks with the EU were “going nowhere,” and cited a litany of his trade irritants, from the EU’s value-added taxes to fines and regulations on U.S. companies.
The sides also have yet to agree on how to align their trade policies on China, though the EU has privately indicated it is willing to work with the U.S. to combat Beijing’s subsidies for key industries such as steel according to the WSJ. Trump has long maligned the EU, which he says was formed to take advantage of the US, and decried the U.S.’s persistent trade deficit with the continent. The EU, meanwhile, has said it wouldn’t negotiate over certain Trump demands, such as value-added taxes. And some European ministers have made clear that they wouldn’t accept a deal that keeps Trump’s 10% baseline tariff in place—a concession the U.K. made in a pact signed early this month. Trump’s statement on Sunday reverts the negotiations back to where they were before his Friday missive, giving the sides just over a month to come to an agreement.
The United States and EU share the largest bilateral economic relationship in the world. Yet, U.S. goods and services face persistent tariff and non-tariff barriers in the EU market, according to the latest Foreign Trade Barriers report issued by U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Although the EU’s average Most Favored Nation tariff rate stands at a relatively low 5 percent, certain goods face disproportionately high levies, such as fish and seafood (up to 26 percent), trucks (22 percent), bicycles (14 percent), passenger vehicles (10 percent), and fertilizers and plastics (6.5 percent).Many processed foods such as confectionary products and baked goods also face complex and burdensome tariffs under the EU’s Meursing Table system, which calculates duties based on product composition.
Under this system, the EU charges a tariff on each imported good based on the products’ content of milk fat, milk protein, starch, and sugar. This system not only increases administrative burden but also creates uncertainty for U.S. food exporters, according to the USTR. In addition, the EU does not administer its laws through a single customs administration, which presents another layer of complexity for U.S. exporters. Each EU member state enforces customs law independently, resulting in different interpretations and enforcement throughout the bloc. The EU’s technical barriers to trade also remain a sticking point. For example, Europe’s adoption of regional standards for safety, quality, environmental protection, labeling, and packaging impede market access for U.S. products even if they meet international standards, according to the USTR.
Note: In my opinion neither Putin nor Trump are engaged in “peace negotiations” for the purpose of ending the military conflict in Ukraine. Putin’s purpose is to use negotiations to achieve a Great Power Agreement, a New Yalta. Putin says the purpose of the negotiations is to solve the “root cause of the conflict,” which is the absence of a Great Power Agreement. For Trump the purpose is to withdraw US focus, money and weapons and to concentrate them on China, which is regarded as Washington’s more dangerous and powerful enemy.
It is amazing how difficult it is for the Western foreign policy community and media to recognize and acknowledge facts. Generally speaking, analysts who tell you the difference between the truth and the narrative are brushed aside. All sorts of dismissive names are applied to us few, and false narratives serving agendas prevail. Policymakers themselves end up believing the false narratives, and this raises the risks of dangerous miscalculations. For example, one of the most dangerous of the false narratives is that the slowness of Russia’s military advance against Ukraine is the consequence of Russian military weakness, high Russian battlefield casualties, the vulnerability of the Russian economy to US sanctions, and Putin’s unrealistic expectation to be regarded by Ukrainians as a liberator.
The truth is entirely different. Every time Putin endorses negotiations, he emphasizes that they must address the “root cause” of the conflict. The root cause is the absence of a Great Power Agreement. Putin is using a long drawn out war that the West tires of to initiate “peace negotiations” that Putin hopes to turn into a Great Power Agreement like the one he and his foreign minister failed to achieve in the winter of 2021-2022. Washington policymakers have concluded that Russia’s weakness allows the US to withdraw from Ukraine and turn the war over to Europeans, while Washington gears up to deal with the more dangerous enemy–China. Failed Ukraine peace negotiations are the intended excuse for Trump washing his hands and walking away. What it signifies is Washington’s refocusing on China as the most dangerous adversary.
It is my opinion that China is not an adversary any more than Russia and Iran are, but the narrative demands that they are adversaries. The American military/security complex cannot exist without adversaries. That is the reason America has adversaries. Without adversaries what would the CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency, think tanks such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, university international studies departments, and publications such as Foreign Affairs do? The United States has massive vested interests in having adversaries, the more dangerous the better.
The question has arisen: How does the US deal with so many adversaries. Formerly, we were assured that we could defeat all adversaries simultaneously. Today it is recognized that we cannot. Wess Mitchell in a recent article in Foreign Affairs says it is the policy of the Trump administration to sequence its conflicts. As Washington regards Russia as the weaker of its two main “adversaries,” Washington is turning the Ukraine conflict over to its European puppets while Washington takes on China.Wess Mitchell, a former Trump senior defense department official, wipes out the narratives and tells us the policy. And no one other than John Helper and myself have commented on it.
Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling the US Senate yesterday what I have told you, what John Helmer has told you, and what Wess Mitchell has told you: The purpose of the Ukraine “peace negotiations” is for the US to exit the conflict and focus on China. Here are Rubio’s words: “The war against China, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday (May 20) – is now the strategic priority for the US. Implementing it requires sequencing Washington’s wars. “Every minute we spend, every dollar we spend on this conflict in Europe [Ukraine] is distracting both our focus and our resources away from a potential for a much more serious and much more cataclysmic confrontation in the Indo-Pacific…they are related but they’re related both ways — they’re related on the one hand by the precedent that it could set, but they’re also related by the fact that every minute that we spend on this [Ukraine] conflict that cannot be won by military means, every resource that’s expended into it [Ukraine] is money and time that’s not being spent on preventing a much more serious confrontation from a global perspective in the Indo-Pacific.” Rubio clearly states that the prime target is China.”
In my judgment based on the knowledge I have at the present time, Putin and the Russian foreign policy commentators do not understand what is afoot. Putin is lost in hopes that peace negotiations can be turned into a Great Power Agreement, a new Yalta. That would be a greater achievement than merely winning a military conflict with Ukraine and, therefore, is worth the sacrifices of Russian troops in a conflict in which Putin prevents a victory, as a victory would prevent the negotiations that Putin imagines could become a Great Power Agreement. If Putin had immediately smashed Ukraine, Russia would be regarded as a Great Power and would have obtained its Great Power Agreement. Instead, Putin created the image of a weak Russia that can be sidelined to Europe while Washington takes on China.
The US is essentially facilitating the persecution of Christians in Ukraine by supporting the Kiev government, which has been waging a purge campaign against the nation’s canonical Orthodox church, American journalist Tucker Carlson has said. Carlson made the statement during an interview with a former Ukrainian MP, Vadim Novinsky, released on Friday. “Every day, churches and temples are seized by soldiers with machine guns who come in, throw out priests, beat believers, children, old people, women…” the former lawmaker stated, adding that “it is happening all over Ukraine.” “I think very few Americans understand the degree to which the Ukrainian government under [Vladimir] Zelensky has persecuted the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” Carlson said.
The former Fox News host then asked Novinsky what he would like to say to the American lawmakers who have nevertheless approved financial aid to Kiev. “The Speaker of the House of the United States Congress is a man who describes himself as a Christian and he has been paying for this,” the journalist said, referring to Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican. The former Ukrainian MP replied that he would like to see the US aid going directly to ordinary Ukrainians and not the authorities, who “live in parallel realities.” US government agencies appropriated a total of $182.8 billion on various forms of assistance to Kiev between 2022 and the end of 2024, according to Ukraine Oversight, an official portal that tracks such expenditures. Last week, US President Donald Trump stated he was concerned that billions of dollars were being wasted on aid to Ukraine. He said Congress was “very upset about it” and that lawmakers were asking where all the money was going.
Kiev has accused the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of maintaining ties to Russia even though it declared independence from the Moscow Patriarchate in May 2022. The crackdown has included numerous arrests of clergymen and church raids, one of the most notorious of which took place in the catacombs of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where holy relics are kept. Last year, Zelensky signed legislation allowing the state to ban religious organizations affiliated with governments that Kiev deems “aggressors,” effectively targeting the UOC. Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow would not abandon the Orthodox believers in Ukraine and vowed to make sure that “their lawful rights are respected.”
Tighter national migration and border control policies could spell doom for the European Union, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned, following Berlin’s recent move to curb the influx of asylum seekers. Merkel made the remarks at the ‘Southwestern Press Forum’ event in Neu-Ulm last week, where she appeared to present her memoir, Freedom. “I do not believe we can decisively combat illegal migration at the German-Austrian or German-Polish border… I have always advocated European solutions,” Merkel said when asked about the latest measures adopted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s cabinet. The new policies, introduced earlier this month by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, prohibit asylum applications at all German land borders – marking a sharp reversal of Merkel’s 2015 open-border stance.
Exceptions are made for children, pregnant women, and other vulnerable individuals. According to Merkel, the move threatens both freedom of movement within the EU and the integrity of the Schengen zone, which allows visa-free travel across most of the bloc. She insisted that any immigration and travel reforms should be agreed upon at the EU level. “Otherwise, we could see Europe destroyed,” she warned. Merkel’s open-door policy in 2015 was met with fierce political backlash, with critics branding it “disastrous” after more than a million migrants were allowed into Germany during the peak of the 2015–16 refugee crisis. Germany remains the EU’s top destination for asylum seekers. In 2023, it received over 237,000 asylum applications – roughly a quarter of the bloc’s total, according to EU statistics.
Merz had pledged to tighten border controls during his campaign ahead of February’s snap elections, amid surging public support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), known for its hardline anti-immigration stance. The AfD ultimately secured second place with 20.8% of the national vote but was excluded from coalition talks and government formation by mainstream parties. Earlier this month, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) officially designated the AfD a “confirmed extremist entity.” The classification was temporarily suspended following legal challenges and mounting public backlash, but senior officials – including members of the ruling coalition – have continued to seek legal grounds to pursue a formal ban on the party. Earlier this week, German police warned that offi’rs to support the 11,000 already stationed at key crossings.
Germany should consider adopting a “positive approach” toward Moscow that would including restoring the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Michael Kretschmer, the prime minister of the state of Saxony in eastern Germany, has argued. The current hostile policy has been unproductive and has only harmed Germany’s economy, the politician, who also serves as one of the deputy heads of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said in an interview with Die Zeit on Sunday. “Nord Stream is a possible opening for a conversation with Russia,” Kretschmer suggested, adding that such talks would benefit both nations. The German economy requires at least one-fifth of its gas supplies to come from Russia to function normally, he claimed.
He also pointed out that various companies had begun relocating due to high production costs and energy prices. If the situation in the economy does not improve, Germany, not Russia, will have to “change [its] course in one or two years,” he warned. Kretschmer’s stance contrasts sharply with that of his party leader and federal chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Earlier this week, as part of a new sanctions push, Merz expressed support for an EU plan to ban any use of the Nord Stream gas pipelines and to block attempts to revive energy trade with Russia. The head of Saxony considers such an approach counterproductive. “As long as we say that we don’t want anything, we don’t want gas supplies, we only impose sanctions, no one will talk to us,” he argued.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline systems were built under the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany. Each system consisting of two pipelines was capable of delivering up to 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Three out of the pipelines’ four lines were destroyed by underwater explosions in September 2022 in an act of sabotage that Russia believes was orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies. European gas prices surged after the Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022 as pipeline gas imports from Russia mostly ceased due to sanctions and the Nord Stream sabotage. In 2021, Russian pipeline gas accounted for 32% of the total demand of the EU and UK, while Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its consumption, according to the European Council.
Make no mistake about it: The Democratic Party is facing an existential crisis that even their media allies can’t spin anymore. The New York Times, the crown jewel of the liberal media establishment, just published a devastating analysis showing how the Democrats’ supposed stronghold on American politics has crumbled under the MAGA movement. While Democrats continue their tired routine of Trump-bashing and pretending to care about working Americans, the numbers tell a completely different story. The Times’ analysis reveals a political earthquake that’s reshaping the electoral landscape, and it’s not in the Democrats’ favor. “All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party’s share of the presidential vote in each election he’s been on the ballot in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all,” the paper writes.
“It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the second of those three races, in 2020. By contrast, Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of the nation’s 3,100-plus counties.” In the 2024 election, six times as many counties shifted toward the GOP as toward the Democrats. While 435 counties trended more Democratic compared to 2012, 2,678 moved more Republican—by an even larger average margin of 13.3 points versus 8.8 for Democrats. That’s not just a loss; that’s a political bloodbath. The Democrats’ problem? They’re increasingly becoming the party of coastal elites and college-educated snobs. Meanwhile, Trump has built an unstoppable coalition that includes working-class voters across all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
The New York Times didn’t sugarcoat the situation for the Democrats. Counties that have become steadily more Republican exist in some of the country’s bluest strongholds, including New York City, Philadelphia and Honolulu. Mr. Trump’s party is still losing in those places, but by significantly less. At the same time, Mr. Trump has driven Republican margins to dizzying new heights in the nation’s reddest bastions. In New York, 43 out of 62 counties shifted at least 10 points more Republican in 2024 compared to 2012, cutting the statewide Democratic margin in half. The only county to consistently trend Democratic was ultra-progressive Tompkins County, home to Ithaca. Meanwhile, even deep-blue and diverse areas like the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn have trended Republican in multiple elections, alongside rural upstate counties like St. Lawrence and Lewis.
“We could be entering a world where the greatest predictor of voting behavior is no longer race,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) told the New York Times. “Donald Trump’s greatest achievement — his greatest electoral achievement — lies not in breaking the blue wall in the industrial Midwest, but in beginning to break the blue walls in states like New York, and in counties like the Bronx.” The Democrats’ old playbook is dead, and they know it. Their own pollster Ben Tulchin admitted “the math doesn’t work” anymore. While they’re stuck pandering to wealthy urbanites and pushing radical policies that normal Americans reject, Trump’s MAGA coalition keeps growing stronger. The only thing that could derail this momentum is if Republicans get complacent or drop the ball. I hope they don’t.
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Moscow targeted Ukraine “for no reason whatsoever,” after Russia launched a series of missile strikes against military targets in Kiev and other locations – following a week of constant Ukrainian drone raids involving hundreds of UAVs. Ukraine significantly intensified its drone attacks inside Russia last week, with at least 764 drones intercepted over Russian territory between Tuesday and Friday, and hundreds more destroyed over the weekend. The helicopter carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin was reportedly caught in the “epicenter” of a massive drone raid while he was visiting the Kursk Region on Tuesday. In response, the Russian military conducted a major strike against a drone and missile production plant in Kiev on Saturday, followed by additional reported strikes on Ukrainian military facilities on Sunday.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Trump claimed Russia’s response was unwarranted and said he was “surprised” by what he is seeing. “I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing,” he said. “We’re in the middle of talking and he’s shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don’t like it at all… We’ll see what I’m going to do.”“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump added in a post on Truth Social, claiming that “missiles and drones are being shot into cities in Ukraine for no reason whatsoever.” Trump also criticized Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, in an apparent reference to his remarks about Washington’s “silence” in response to the latest Russian attacks.
“Likewise, President Zelensky is doing his country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems. I don’t like it, and it better stop,” the US leader stated, reiterating that the Ukraine conflict is “not his war.”The Russian Foreign Ministry suggested that the spike in UAV incursions was an attempt to derail the US-brokered peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, while Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “some European nations led by the UK, France, Germany, and the EU leadership,” who are supporting Kiev and want the conflict to continue, bear some responsibility for the drone raids.Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine have completed a record prisoner exchange, agreed to during direct talks in Türkiye earlier this month. Lavrov stated earlier that the sides will exchange draft ceasefire proposals once the swap process is complete.
The Kremlin as well as Russian state media are alleging a huge, potentially conflict-altering incident which will surely escalate the war in Ukraine – an attempted attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. A high-ranking Russian military commander on Sunday described that last week, as Putin traveled to the Kursk region for the first time since is liberation after 6+ months of Ukrainian occupation, Ukraine tried to attack Putin’s helicopter mid-flight, sending a wave of drones to swarm the flight path of the chopper. The presidential helicopter was caught in the “epicenter” of a massive Ukrainian drone attack, commander of an air defense division in Kursk, Yury Dashkin, told Russian media. The headline is the top featured story of English-language RT on Sunday, something which suggests the allegations are largely aimed at grabbing the attention of the West.
The incident is said to have happened Tuesday as the helicopter transported Putin to tour Kursk – a southern oblast which has suffered much destruction since the initial Ukrainian cross-border incursion of last August. Commander Yury Dashkin told Russia 1 in an interview which aired Sunday said that Putin’s helicopter had found itself “in the epicenter of an operation to repel a massive drone attack by the enemy” in Kursk Region.He went on to describe that this “unprecedented” attack was successfully repelled by anti-air defenses in the region. Air defense units in the area had to “simultaneously conduct anti-aircraft combat and ensure the safety of the president’s helicopter in the air. The task was accomplished,” Dashkin stated. “The attack of the enemy drones was repelled, with all aerial targets being hit.”
While this could just be a mid-level officer’s attempt to toot his own horn, given the world is just hearing about what’s tantamount to an ‘assassination attempt’ on one of the world’s most powerful leaders being alleged – and coming belatedly a number of days after the incident in question – this seems part of Moscow’s ongoing messaging that the UAV incursions are an attempt to derail the US-brokered peace talks between Moscow and Kiev. The drones are being launched on Russia in record numbers, with literally multiple hundreds sent over the past week, in some cases halting inbound and outbound flights at major airports, including in the Moscow area. Ukrainian officials have boasted that the operations is trying to disrupt and destabilize daily life in Russia, in hopes that the government could lose control. A major new allegation coming from Russia’s military:
[..] Significantly, Russia’s military pummeled the Ukrainian capital of Kiev again overnight, with emerging images showing raging fires and devastation in city neighborhoods and populated areas. Other regions were hit as well, in a second straight night of some of the largest strikes of the war. There were significant casualties. According to Ukrainian emergency authorities, cited in national media: Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions with drones and missiles overnight on May 25, killing 12 people, including three children, and injuring more than 60, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram.
Russia launched 69 missiles overnight and 298 drones, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. The Air Force reported that 45 cruise missiles were shot down by air defense and 266 drones were neutralized, while 22 locations recorded a direct strike. The attacks come one night after one of the heaviest Russian assaults on Kyiv throughout the full-scale war. The attack also coincides with Kyiv Day, a city holiday typically celebrated on the last Sunday in May. US media outlet NPR also acknowledges that “The scale of the onslaught was stunning — Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, making this the largest single attack of the more than three-years-long war.”
The attack featured heavy use of Iranian-designed Shahed drones, Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force, said. It was “the most massive strike in terms of the number of air attack weapons on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022,” Ihnat emphasized.Given the sizeable death toll and casualties, this is sure to get Washington and Europe’s attention, at a moment the Trump administration has been losing patience with both sides over lack of progress in attempted peace negotiations, the last round which was held in Istanbul just over a week ago. Washington is still threatening more anti-Moscow sanctions, a move which would likely terminate the peace negotiation proces By all appearances, Putin is actually ready to expand the ground operation inside Ukraine, in part to establish a ‘buffer zone’ in order to better defend the constant drone attacks coming out of Ukraine on Russian territory.
Russian troops at the same time continue advancing slowly on the eastern front in Donbass, having reportedly captured two settlements in Donetsk region as well as one in Ukraine’s northern region of Sumy, according to a Saturday Russian Defense Ministry statement. Reuters cites the statement as saying Russian forces had “captured the village of Stupochky in Donetsk region, east of Kostiantynivka, a town under recent Russian pressure.” It also named the villags of Otradne and Loknya, the latter which is inside the Russian border in Sumy region – as coming under Russian control. That makes three more settlements captured in eastern Ukraine. All of this strongly suggests that peace is no closer on the horizon.
Russia has continued the operation to secure a “buffer zone” between the held regions in the Eastern part of Ukraine and the area west of the Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod regions. The NATO alliance continues pouring weapons in to support Ukraine defenses, but the Russians are methodically grinding down the Ukrainian military. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now saying President Trump’s silence is emboldening the Russian assaults. “Each such terrorist attack by Russia is a sufficient reason for new sanctions against Russia. Russia is dragging out this war and continues to kill every day,” Zelensky said in a post on Telegram Sunday morning. “The world may go on vacation, but the war continues, despite weekends and weekdays.
This cannot be ignored. America’s silence, and the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin,” he continued. This is an interesting dynamic to continue watching unfold. In the background as Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio and perhaps even John Ratcliffe begin confronting rogue elements within the CIA and pulling them away from covert operation in Ukraine, per the strategic withdrawal of influence announced by President Trump, the position of Zelenskyy could weaken quickly.
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Former Wales rugby international Mark Jones has died suddenly at the age of 59.
“Wales Rugby League said Jones suffered a heart attack while training at a gym in the Middle East.”
• Trump Claims Putin ‘Has Gone Absolutely Crazy For No Reason
Combined with still giving a douche-bag like Kellogg a voice in anything, it’s Trump that has gone completely insane or is so outright ignorant and just plain stupid about Ukraine that there is no hope of rationality.
Russia has stated their position of Ukraine now for years
It has not wavered.
Russia holds ALL the cards in Ukraine
As Andrei Martyanov has explained to death over the years, the US is not only ‘agreement incapable’, it can not fight or ever win a modern war with it’s boondoggle military industrial clown show.
Kellogg is it’s impotent blustering poster boy.
The total complete lack of understanding by Trump over why Russia responded to a week of Ukrainian drone strikes shows beyond the shadow of a doubt what a buffon Trump is.
I can’t wait to hear Dr, D’s predictable excuse and rational for Trump’s ‘insane’ response.
“Christian Rally In Seattle Park Attacked By Violent Woke Mob
WTF are Christians doing being allowed in parks? Where will this outrage end? Can they also marry non-Christians? What if their children see a church?
“House Oversight Chair Wants To Question Biden Handlers Acting As ‘De Facto Presidents’
“If I could prosecute, there would be Biden family members in prison now. There would be Deep State actors in prison…”
Getting reports it’s not the staff, Hunter and Jill were running all the Cabinet meetings. …But I’m sure they have great classification.
The great b—h slapping they just gave the Tapper book is a good example: he says he has 4 cabinet people on record saying Biden wasn’t running things. O Rlly? Aaaaaand I believe that makes them accessories to sedition as they are not pursuing the 25th.
“Watch: Tulsi Gabbard Crushes Comey For Blaming ‘8647’ Trump Threat On His Own Wife
Actually, 86-99, under Control. If ya know ya know.
“• Trump Delays 50 Percent Tariff On EU Goods To July 9 (ZH)
Europe was f-ing around like usual. Delay, deny everything. “Oh our ‘regulations’ that just coincidentally outlaw all your products aren’t really trade barriers at all! You just suck!” Uh, STFU, we ain’t playin’ that no mo’ fool.
Lie, Whine, Delay, Divert, DARVO. Why shouldn’t they if we let them?
What we have is Trump settles budget, etc, doesn’t need Congress til the Midterms, so he can go arrest them all, whatever. That’s related to this, they are trying to delay their bankruptcy, continue the mass-murder war, and outlast Trump and all America to stay in the game. Of course they are. And of course they’ll kill all 400M Europeans trying if they can, by arming POLAND, not Ukraine, and the biggest base on the planet in ROMANIA, in order to shell/invade Russia. They ain’t stoppin!
But that’s WHY Cheeto can’t let them drag feet and outlast it. He’s methodically savaging all collateral worldwide: Africa, Ukraine, Iran, everywhere. Europe lost claim to all of it. And note they still haven’t collapsed, so what power is coming from where, exactly? And they’re attacking us out of JAPAN now (bond market). Have they been hiding a lot of their power, and even who their power-people are? “Real bankers don’t have wikipedia pages.” — Luongo. They’re the guy you call up for a PRIVATE favor. They’re the High Table. Public records are for the hoi polloi.
“How does the US deal with so many adversaries. Formerly, we were assured that we could defeat all adversaries simultaneously. Today it is recognized that we cannot.”
Actually, we can’t beat even one. Not even Canada and Mexico, it seems. We COULD, but that would require entirely re-engineering from the ground up after 50 years of ruthless sabotage. Things like: the existence of patriotism, for example, or “not poisoning everybody from birth”. Little things.
Disagree with the later parts. Again. Russia “Smashing” would have activated NATO on some BS premise. Remember the Nuke plant FF, and in Kursk yet again? Russia BLEEDING Euro/NATO is working wonderfully, and allowed generations of new weapons to be developed we don’t have. Like they were 5:1, 10:1 and now 20:1 casualty rates since they began. NATO/NeoCon/Nazis (but I repeat myself) didn’t care if every Ukrainian was murdered if they took a Russian with them. Okay, fine. But what if it’s not 1:1 a million Russians down when Russians are scarce, but Sacha pushing one drone-button in Belgorod that kills 10,000 soldiers in Lviv? That is: zero casualties, which is where they’re headed. There’s no NeoCon math to be had then. Attacking only weakens themselves, which it already has, tho they haven’t noticed.
Anyway, Russia’s position – as I’ve said since the 1st 6 months – seems to be Putin thinks he’s fighting all Europe, for the very long term. So far, he’s completely right. Still building helicopters, not using them. Training millions, not using them. Building ships with his top planners, not using them. That’s not cheap. So the “Great Power Agreement”? Russia is realistic this may take 10-20 years, and it may take the “collapse” of Europe to do it. *(Collapse meaning something like W. Europe becomes as poor and helpless as E. Europe was. Historical cycles.)
“• US Financing Persecution of Christians In Ukraine – Tucker Carlson (RT)
Yeah? When was the last time the US government wasn’t persecuting Christians? 1985? It’s a core value of the whole Liberal, Materialist system Religion. They’re fundamentalists, zealots, religious extremists. They are the theocracy of the State. They round up and burn heretics.
“Tighter national migration and border control policies could spell doom for the European Union, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned,”
Really? Because looser ones definitely have, and will. You want to explain how you got in a position where going backward is bad but forward is worse? You’re fired.
“• German Politician Urges Talks On Restoring Nord Stream (RT)
Apparently serious plan that, when W. Europe is shattered to E. Europe levels, the U.S. will own the pipeline so Europe won’t dare bomb it, and the gas will be sold from Russia, which will constantly drain all W. Europe hollow. That’s their reparations, and they should say yes, it’s worth it and they’re getting off too easy.
• The Democratic Party’s Death Spiral Is Even Worse Than We Thought (Margolis)
Democrats spending $20M to figure out what men are. Because they don’t have a single one in the ranks.
“Why we lose de votes?” Gee, I dunno, so mysterious n’ stuff.
Irony is $20M isn’t enough to larn them. Also: “So we suddenly know what a ‘Man’ and a ‘Woman’ is again?” Huh. We know that we don’t know that we know but we don’t, BothNeitherAii.
General article: Trump is incredibly unpopular, that’s why in addition to losing the election to him, they’re losing all their core, anchor areas at the speed of light as well. It’s because racism, that’s why these areas are all Hispanic, Black, etc. as those numbers quadruple. I see this all day online as Liberals can’t read Maths.
“• Trump Claims Putin ‘Has Gone Absolutely Crazy For No Reason’ (RT)
No idea what he’s up to most of the time. WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO??? Putin knows this is bull. WE know this is bull. Officially, MI6, Congress are quietly informed this is bull. So who’s this sale for?
Apparently he can’t get enough support over the edge to pull out, and thereafter (long sell) pull out of NATO too. — That is, the EU’s Nazi army. So he has to Push-Pull, play that ruhlly ruhlly going on here. Ugh! STOP LYING. Can we just?
And the Assassination attempt? Almost certainly all from the West, NATO, MI6, etc. Don’t be children here. What intel does Ukr have independently? Some, I’m sure, but a normal.
Cambodia: shows it’s all about the habitat, not the animal
Owl: Impossible to describe but it’s unspeakably creepy to encounter them, as they make absolutely no sound. Like an apparition.
My description for Trump/Ukraine is above. Yours is the #Opposite. It’s that you know exactly what Trump is thinking and doing at all times and that he’s fought off 40 lawsuits, 15 assassination attempts, wiped out 18 GOP candidates, survived in NYC as a billionaire for decades, now is in control of the levers of state and completely annihilating the Democratic Party while re-working the entire foundational structure of U.S. manufacturing, taxation, government, and culture
…Because he’s a certified moron who don’t know nuffin’.
So which of our two explanations is the dumber? Stupid is as stupid does. You’re arguing that winning constantly is stupid. Is it really, though? Are there really 55 years of coming up all 7’s in a row? Yup, guess so! Topcat is spooning Trump every night and he says so! Mere, pure, dumb luck. As plausible as “Forrest Gump”. That’s the ticket.
My description for Trump/Ukraine is above. Yours is the #Opposite. It’s that you know exactly what Trump is thinking and doing at all times and that he’s fought off 40 lawsuits, 15 assassination attempts, wiped out 18 GOP candidates, survived in NYC as a billionaire for decades, now is in control of the levers of state and completely annihilating the Democratic Party while re-working the entire foundational structure of U.S. manufacturing, taxation, government, and culture
…Because he’s a certified moron who don’t know nuffin’.
So which of our two explanations is the dumber? Stupid is as stupid does. You’re arguing that winning constantly is stupid. Is it really, though? Are there really 55 years of coming up all 7’s in a row? Yup, guess so! Topcat is spooning Trump every night and he says so! Mere, pure, dumb luck. As plausible as “Forrest Gump”. That’s the ticket.
you never engage with me. is it because it is uncomfortable for you to face your sponsorship of a murderer?
mr trump is a murderer. it was obvious in his first term. you ignored that because you are selfish.
mr trump is a murderer. it is obvious now. you ignore it now because you are selfish.
don’t blah, blah about purity tests and pragmatism.
mr trump is a murderer.
there are many, very many americans who are not murderers who could do a much better job than mr trump.
mr trump is a murderer.
america (like every other place populated with humans) was never great. incessant killing does not lead to greatness, it leads to more killing.
isn’t it time to make america great for first time?
isn’t it time to stop ignoring the crimes of murderers?
Please widen the comment field. All the wrapping text is cut off on the right side, similar to how the videos are cut short on the right side.
Or, when the screen is scrolled to the left, then all the text on the left side is cut off. There is plenty of room in my windows for a wider field.
Another strange thing is when the screen jumps back up well above the start of the comments when we click on the “Comments” link just below the top of a new posting. Also, there’s no “Submit” button unless we scroll left. Are we being hacked?
Perhaps it is time to get your neighbor’s 14-year-old niece to help reprogram the website. Those kids are something else…
But do this giving priority to taking care of yourself and advancing your recovery. Gotta keep our priorities straight…
If the site was having trouble I didn’t see it til just now. 19:49 UTC
News is here but brief if that’s a sign of his energy level. Can it be passed to someone? None of us are around forever, but the format takes a particular kind.
Is Trump misbehaving, is America? Of course. And of course his crimes are worse than all the others of all other leaders, all other countries, worldwide, ever. That’s your point, right? Stopping wars = Starting wars. Otherwise, he’s just another leader of just another country in history and we baseline him at that level.
So your plan is, we only have, elect, pay, think of, perfectly moral people who are in Congress, ran businesses, but never did any wrong.
There’s only one man who never did any wrong, but he passed on a long time ago. Until he comes back we’re stuck with us. You can volunteer! I’ll vote for you since most probably you haven’t killed anyone yet. Why aren’t you? As I ask Rich, how come he’s not taking the first steps, whistleblowing, getting on the talk circuit? No? Well if you don’t then this is who we have.
Rich also seemed to want Generals who never killed no one, or would cry themselves to sleep at night after. President is the top General, is that you want? Be productive. How do we defeat the bad guys without inconveniencing anyone or our precious moral sensibilities?
Btw, Luongo’s got to a point about as much patience as I have as well. He’s saying it of Libertarian principles that never get anything done, but I’m sure he would extend that to how you win a SHOOTING WAR we are in, that has BIOWEAPONS and constant ASSASSINATIONS like we have.
But you go ahead and use the nerf bat, I’ll watch.
I know you are not feeling well and I wish you well.
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It wasn’t about compassion.
It wasn’t about the science.
The key to the covid experience,
Was really about compliance.
A bonus was that bending will
Can manifest a major kill.
If you put your faith in trust,
When the world is going bust,
Then it’s confidence you’re really trying to bolster.
But when everything’s a con,
It gets hard to carry on-
What you really need is something in your holster.
if your 401-k means more to you than a baby’s head, well…
anyhoo, let’s see:
Is Trump misbehaving, is America? Of course. And of course his crimes are worse than all the others of all other leaders, all other countries, worldwide, ever.
•• what on earth is this nonsense? the horrors of gaza are bad. the horrors of the spanish inquisition are bad. the horrors of the armenian genocide are bad.
That’s your point, right?
•• no. my point is “thou shall not kill”.
Stopping wars = Starting wars.
•• more nonsense.
Otherwise, he’s just another leader of just another country in history and we baseline him at that level.
•• mr trump is an evil figure head. but, you endorsed that evil.
So your plan is, we only have, elect, pay, think of, perfectly moral people who are in Congress, ran businesses, but never did any wrong.
•• my plan!? no one gives a flick about “my plan”. no one gives a flick about “your plan”, either. those in power want you dead.
There’s only one man who never did any wrong, but he passed on a long time ago.
•• “the meek shall inherit”
Until he comes back we’re stuck with us.
•• can’t you grow up?
You can volunteer!
•• no, you can try to grow a heart.
I’ll vote for you since most probably you haven’t killed anyone yet. Why aren’t you? As I ask Rich, how come he’s not taking the first steps, whistleblowing, getting on the talk circuit? No? Well if you don’t then this is who we have.
•• one thing is to shoplift a peach. it’s anther to assassinate little girls.
Rich also seemed to want Generals who never killed no one, or would cry themselves to sleep at night after. President is the top General, is that you want? Be productive. How do we defeat the bad guys without inconveniencing anyone or our precious moral sensibilities?
•• YOU ARE THE BAD GUYS!¡!
Btw, Luongo’s got to a point about as much patience as I have as well. He’s saying it of Libertarian principles that never get anything done, but I’m sure he would extend that to how you win a SHOOTING WAR we are in, that has BIOWEAPONS and constant ASSASSINATIONS like we have.
•• evolve human. so, so primitive. it’s ugly. very, very ugly.
But you go ahead and use the nerf bat, I’ll watch.
•• with some nifty specs purchased with your blood-soaked 401-k…
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