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    Pablo Picasso Young girl throwing a rock 1931   • Trump Allies Believe Zelensky Should Leave Ukraine ‘Immediately’ (RT) • Zelensky ‘Not Important
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 22 2025]

    #182799
    Mister Roboto
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    “Millions of ‘Long Covid’ patients may be vaccine injured.”

    In other news, water might be wet!

    #182800
    Dr. D
    Participant

    People: I have never even SEEN a video like this. Sargon, on the Left not getting it:

    I could play it on loop. Especially as he has all the same verbal constructions and habits that I do.

    #182801
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #182802
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #182803
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Here’s a good one I’ve also covered. Who is Left and Right?
    https://www.renew-the-republic.com/p/the-brokenists-did-not-move-right

    Every party from every time seems to be the #Opposite of what is supposedly “Left” and “Right.” Political ironies. Because what’s happening is, the DEFINITIONS keep changing, not the people. That’s how we have far-Left Bernie Bro Rogan and the face of the “Right”, supporting a Jewish pro-gay-marriage, gun-control President as far right as Hitler. You know, the GAY Hitler.

    Russell Brand who is about 2 parties to the Left of Bernie is “Far right” and While Evergreen Professor Weinstein is now the Right’s Von Braun.

    Meanwhile the Left is the Pro-war, Pro-Billionaire, Upper-class rich PMC party of status and profit. Cheney is the top Democrat, welcomed breathlessly, with open arms. Romney and Bush are their new Gods, great guys: very proud. Etc.

    I always define it this way: “Left”, being Socialists, are Pro Government. Any Right in America, etc, if really on the Right are Small Government. (This isn’t much true in Europe).

    However, he’ calling it BROKENISTS AND DENALISTS

    “Despite the vast differences in what these groups believe, they’re all on the right now because, as Wiseman aptly labeled them, they’re “Brokenists.”

    “Democrats no longer represent the liberal ideas of the New Deal and Great Society either. They represent the idea that nothing is fundamentally broken with America …what makes you part of the left now is the denial that the system fundamentally is broken. They’re “Denialists.”1

    That’s why every time a wonderful, caring government employee loses their job, a puppy dies, and 100 color revolutions by Cheney using USAID is a magical thing. Government is GOOD. Innately, by existing. That matches a deeper level, their Religion of Progress. ALL passage through time, because it passes, means we are evolutionarily better just for being born. And the greatest evil in the universe is “Going back”. …You know, to a time when kids could read good.

    “We no longer have a left-right spectrum. We have a Brokenist-Denialist spectrum. Everyone who believes the system is broken—and there are a lot of them—is getting pulled into the Republican Party and the right. Everyone who thinks things are fine has become a Democrat on the left.”

    That actually means we have a Reform Party and a Status Quo Party, and guess which the “Rebels” and Hippies are right now? Yeah, you can tell from Free speech and humor. Said Rogan, Dore, Brand…

    But this is also why if you question ANYTHING, you’re excommunicated. Because you SUSPECT things might be “Broken”. Not practically perfect in every way, like all families codependent deniers of narcissistic abusers.

    “ Eventually you have to transform your rebellion into an alternative agenda to build something on which everyone inside your tent agrees. This is beginning to happen in some ways, but it’s going to create an epic internal fight. Everyone rushing into this tent to rebel against the establishment can’t get everything they want.
    The Democrats, on the other hand, have backed themselves into defending the indefensible. The current system is, in fact, broken, and everyone knows it.”

    “ the future will belong to neither of these coalitions, but something else entirely. 

    Survival Lily, from Austria, nice to check in once in a while:

    I believe she was a soldier once, which is super strange, both for being the dregs and for being a woman, but she was very outdoor oriented.

    #182804
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Just for fun:
    Meme

    Never Forget.

    Since I’m on a roll:
    Pic

    Even numbered day, we have Spaceplanes: First In-Orbit Image Released From Classified X-37 Spaceplane

    I hope this will be official every day at last. It’s nice to admit reality now that the party of Denial is out of power.

    “Blockbuster Yale Study: Millions Of Long COVID Patients Might Actually Be Vaccine Injured”

    Wow, what tipped you off? That the same thing is happening where no Covid at all? Like Australia?

    “Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced the imminent release of the Epstein and Diddy list.”

    Then why isn’t it out yet? Why does everything Trump do move so slow?

    Executive Orders: yes, but he should NOT be signing executive orders. But here we are.

    “, if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state.” — Trump.

    ”Every time I say, oh, it’s not Russia’s fault, I always get slammed by the fake news. But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things.”

    This was said by Aaron Mate last night. I tell you, I remember a lot of things, but I’m still amazed by people who can recall even 5-10x what I can. To the person, date, quote. He said that is YET ANOTHER LIE™, what Trump said was, “Zelensky shouldn’t have started it”, in reference to the peace negotiations that were essentially finalized before Boris showed up from London. That is, he had the option for peace then, he went for war. That’s it. Just like the Rubio quote here.

    “We Make S—t Up!” “Every Day, in Every Way, Making S—t Up More Than Before!”

    “All the Truth We Hide From Print” –NYT

    “• US Threatens To Shut Down Starlink In Ukraine – Reuters (RT)

    Well yuh!! That s—t’s expensive! We are we paying for it? Again, Europe has, let’s say 500 MILLION men and a GDP of $20 TRILLION. …And We’re paying for it. Have you been to Baltimore, Gary Indiana, Flint Michigan? They make you DREAM you could live in Kiev.

    “• Marco Rubio Allows For Easing Sanctions Against Russia – NYT (TASS)

    Well since the sanctions are making them STRONGER, maybe we could try the Opposite for a bit?

    “the British judiciary is “no longer accountable” due to reforms by her predecessor, Tony Blair, who handed power over to an “unelected bureaucracy.”

    Yes, that is the whole model, and what the Left is melting down about. “If a single bureaucrat is wasted, God is quite irate.” This is the EU model which is the USSR Soviet Model. The “Party” runs it…whoever that is. It’s one big popularity contest. If you’re “IN” the party, you fly for shopping trips to Zurich. If you’re “out” of the Party, you mine uranium in Siberia. If you’re in-between you’re grateful for a modest flat filing paperwork about people snitching on their neighbors. No law. No elections. It was the Technocracy 1.0.

    But they found they didn’t have enough visibility, enough computing power. So they built the computer state, with all objects tracked via UPC code, so that “Real Central Planning has never been tried.” So prepare to die as they roll that all out again. And by “They” I mean Musk’s AI just as much as the EU/WEF’s.

    “NATO has no leaders other than Trump. Scholz will be dumped in Sunday’s election, Macron and Starmer are in single digits. It’s one big vacuum.”

    This is by design, above. The Uni-Bureaucracy can only be unaccountable so long as no one knows their name. If there’s a single name to point to – VanDerLyin’ – the people get mad and go after her. That means you must REPRESS talent, not advance it. Look at the DNC. No doubt they have thousands, a million amazing organizers who would be good candidates, but, most recently for example, Hillary Clinton shot them all. Classic Marxism. Cue Ye Olde Photo of the amazing disappearing Stalin staff, by the canal.

    And then there were none. The only person they can find is David Hogg, wherein even the Right could not pick anyone better.

    “While it is the new US administration that seems to shock the European elites the most right now, they should actually fear their own inaction, lack of urgency, can’t do mentality and in some cases the inability to overcome national interests.”

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that’s what happens when you murder all your own talent. Ask Serbia. 5-Star showing. Was it really THAT bad?

    “Europe should not hesitate to put pressure on the US if it fails to fall in line with “liberal democracies,”

    Hahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahaahaha

    …Whut?

    Like the Woke Left, they have

    NOT

    LEARNED

    THEIR

    LESSON.

    Beatings must continue, and for that I am very, very glad.

    “• Macron Calls For ‘Massive Defense Plan’ For EU (RT)

    Great. Those are just fantastic Words. Truly wonderful, practical, active, WORDS. …Also familiar. You’ve been saying them for years and certainly since 2022. What happened? 500 Million people and $20T GDP and yet, …Not a single Fiat making a single k-Wagen anywhere? An illiterate Croatian could bang one out with a hammer, and you have none of these? No CETME’s? Let me guess: you’re going to defeat Russia by UK closing the last remaining steel plant and shipyard.

    “The key to understanding how the Democratic Party works is how it uses federal grants to redistribute taxpayer money into jobs programs for its rank-and-file.”

    Two thoughts on this: one, each level has to take a (big) slice, so it’s extremely wasteful. …But when you print money, no one cares. That’s why it only happens in these conditions. “Fix the money…” Two, the Republicans do NOT have any system of patronage. They actually PREVENT their talent from being rewarded, and hang them out to dry at the slightest challenge. This recently popped up as a Right-Media was shown to OPENLY hire a porn star, servicing the staff as a journalist.

    …And you know what? The Right is alright with that: hire who you want to.

    What you DON’T get to do is then LIE, and harass online Meme-Army about how “They’re not talented” Not trying, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, take same wages as a H1B visa Bros. The real kicker: She’s a hard-core far left Democrat. Up until they paid her for her ‘Services” a second ago. Like normal Woke shitlib stock. The Right does this more or less universally: Working since boyhood getting crotch-kicked? Sucks to be you. Were a insufferable wokescold, implacable foe to all things Conservative? Welcome to the party, here’s a national microphone and million dollar contract, plus the fully trusted keys to the city….Tulsi. Candice. Etc.

    So WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Would anyone lift a finger risking ANYTHING for the Republican Party when they’ll claw over your dead bodies to elevate a whore who was working for Rachael Maddow only yesterday? …Asks Ana Kasperian.

    That’s what the GOP does for its internal talent, and what the base expects from them. Help you? With a JOB – not to say we’re not openly embezzling hundred-billions of State money. Surely you jest. I hire the “Best” people, and if everyone at Fox News NYC are 90% Liberal, dems the breaks, kid. Sorry you get no graphic web design at home in Oklahoma because you “Learned to Code.” STILL no job for you!

    #182805
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Want to see some US truth?

    Look for Harry Potter is this list:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films

    Look for Harry Potter in this list:
    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066758419/

    Anyone who looks to imdb to provide them with anything other than “pictures” is obviously not getting the truth … this is what happens when you go to sites that “cancel” people. It is easy to go to imdb, it wsa a great site years ago, now is looks more like a cumbling artifact of the USA.

    #182806
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Keep worshipping Musk and Trump, your five-minute attention spans will come to bite you in the end.

    #182807
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Yes, I still come here, for the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Brilliant.

    #182808
    Red
    Participant

    “Again, Europe has, let’s say 500 MILLION men and a GDP of $20 TRILLION”
    That’s funny, Europe has 500 million “men”. They may have 50,000 men, maybe, the rest don’t seem to be much of anything.

    #182809
    kultsommer
    Participant

    We all have our (preferred?) definitions as what is Left and what is Right.

    I happen to think of, say, Jimmy Dore as representative of “my Left”, so, as hard as I may try, I can not see how he fits into that YT presentation narrative and is mixed with those scoundrels?

    #182810
    John Day
    Participant

    For Zelenski the dancer: Do The Hustle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFzMs2SN–s

    #182811
    John Day
    Participant

    There were a lot of people who got long-COVID in 2020, and I saw them and knew them and was related to them, but after the mRNA “vaccine” products, and Omicron especially, it became such that over 80% of “Long COVID”, the only diagnosis which could be used, was really “Long-vaxx” syndrome, which can be successfully treated if it is understood.
    With Kennedy at HHS, it may be that we will get an ICD-9 code to bill for “Long vaxx syndrome”.

    #182812
    poppie
    Participant

    Good morning. Some recent news involve claims that the President of Ukraine either is or is not currently valid. I needed to read the constitution myself. Only 96 pages. Here is the digest.

    Article 83 Rada during Martial Law.
    Article 85:28 Crimea recognized as autonomous.
    Article 90 Presidential termination of Verkhovna Rada.
    Article 106:20 President declares Martial Law.
    Articles 108 to 112 Early removal of President.

    Article 112 seems to be at the center of claims that in martial law authority reverts to the Verkhovna Rada. 112 is explicit. It applies only to 108, 109, 110 and 111. All 4 of which are early temination, not martial law. Martial law authority does not revert to the Verkhovna Rada. I have to conclude that Z is still the president.

    #182813
    John Day
    Participant

    As Dr D dug up:
    “Despite the vast differences in what these groups believe, they’re all on the right now because, as Wiseman aptly labeled them, they’re “Brokenists.”

    “Democrats no longer represent the liberal ideas of the New Deal and Great Society either. They represent the idea that nothing is fundamentally broken with America …what makes you part of the left now is the denial that the system fundamentally is broken. They’re “Denialists.”

    #182814
    zerosum
    Participant

    Thanks to RIM we get to see into a lot of bubbles.
    “living in a disinformation bubble”

    Lies, Secrets, Embarrassment, two-faced, hustle, disinformation, scam, Blackmail, negotiation, exaggerated, driven by “hyperbole” and “hysteria,”

    ———-
    • US Threatens To Shut Down Starlink In Ukraine – Reuters (RT)
    • Rubio Explains Purpose of Russia-US Talks (RT)
    ———–
    • Pete Hegseth’s Military (Victor Davis Hanson)

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
    He is proposing radical changes in the Pentagon.
    Remember where we are right now with the Pentagon.
    We spend $820 billion a year.
    It’s about 14% of the entire budget and it’s immune to criticism.
    It really is.
    And we are building $14 billion carriers.
    We’re building $85 million F-35s.
    We have built $140 million F-22s.
    And we’re watching, in Ukraine and the Middle East, the entire mode of 21st-century warfare being revolutionized.
    ———–
    • Trump Fires Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff (NYP)

    pick to replace Brown –
    Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine
    Brown wasn’t the only senior military officer ousted on Friday night.

    Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti
    and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Jim Slife were also fired, Hegseth said
    ————
    And now the chickens have come home to roost.
    • NATO Leaders Back Zelensky Over Trump (RT)
    • Europe’s Leadership Continues To Fail Its Citizens (Mevissen)
    On top of that we see a lack of strategic thinking, apathy, panic and victimhood, and Europe has no money.
    ————–
    • Funny Money (Kunstler)
    Do you see how all this works now?
    The ever-expanding matrix of NGOs creates an army of useful idiots working hand-in-hand with an ever-expanding rogue bureaucracy that has become effectively a fourth branch of government accountable to nobody.
    This is how your tax dollars disappear down a rat-hole and why the US government is insolvent.
    ————–
    • Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes at the FBI (Margolis)

    —————–
    • The Democrats Are Standing Against America (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Skeptics perhaps endeavoring to demoralize Trump supporters say it is all just an act.

    As Trump and Vance have said, America’s real enemies are at home, not in Russia, China, and Iran.
    Trump does not want war.

    —————-
    The majority of Americans are in the denial bubble.

    • Millions of Long COVID Patients May Actually Be Vaccine Injured (Thacker)

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379v1.full.pdf
    Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after
    COVID-19 Vaccination

    Yale researchers released a study today that posits millions of Americans thought to have Long COVID may have been misdiagnosed and actually have post-vaccination syndrome caused by exposure to the spike protein in COVID vaccines.
    ————–

    “DOGE Dividend,” must be borrowed because US is $36trillion in debt.
    Musk floated the idea of a “DOGE Dividend,” which would reimburse taxpayers, courtesy of the alleged savings from DOGE’s cost-cutting measures and savings;
    Trump originally suggested a $5,000 refund.
    DOGE has claimed an estimated $55 billion in savings so far, but experts say its calculations don’t add up.
    ————-

    #182815
    poppie
    Participant
    #182816
    kultsommer
    Participant

    OCR, hardly a somebody that one could place firmly into the “Left camp”, talking some ” weird Left shit”:

    Jobs Offshoring and Work Visas Are Means of Enriching Corporate Executives with “Performance bonuses”

    Jobs Offshoring and Work Visas Are Means of Enriching Corporate Executives with “Performance bonuses”

    #182817
    kultsommer
    Participant

    PCR

    #182818
    John Day
    Participant

    @poppie: Thanks for the analysis of the Ukrainian constitution.
    Zelensky was a Bidenadmin/CIA asset, but now his patron has changed to France? Even Dima at Military Summary is not completely sure who his bodyguards work for right now, but indirectly for European old-money, it seems, City of London, Davos, globalists, and so on.

    #182819
    John Day
    Participant

    From November 2022, perhaps the first “Brokenism” Essay, from the editor of Jewish magazine “Tablet”. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/brokenism-alana-newhouse

    #182820
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “I have to conclude that Z is still the president.”

    …according to the English translation of the Ukraine constitution that’s posted on the current Ukrainian government’s website, at least.

    #182821
    zerosum
    Participant

    The world is threatened by peace and the warmongers must do something about it.

    #182822
    John Day
    Participant

    A few days old: The Brokenists Did Not Move Right
    People haven’t moved politically. It’s a different fight. It’s also transitional. This isn’t the final form of the Republican or Democratic Parties.
    https://www.renew-the-republic.com/p/the-brokenists-did-not-move-right

    #182823
    zerosum
    Participant

    Did you know that?

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/when-there-are-no-illegal-immigrants-theres-no-need-for-shelters/
    When There Are No Illegal Immigrants, There Is No Need for Shelters
    February 21, 2025
    (For more info/links go to article)

    Two years ago, U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered 1,500 illegal immigrants every day in the El Paso sector alone — now, they’re seeing roughly 80 per day amid President Donald J. Trump’s unprecedented effort to secure the homeland.

    Now, organizations that once facilitated the invasion of illegal immigrants are finding out that sheltering them is no longer necessary: “It’s because migrants are not coming across the border right now,” one local reporter said.

    Catholic Charities says they see only “zero to three families” at their McAllen, Texas, shelter and cut staff in Dallas due to the lack of need.
    A Brownsville, Texas, facility shut its doors due to the “sudden decrease in asylum seekers” over the past month.
    A migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, says just one or two of its 20 shelters will remain open.
    Pima County, Arizona, shut down two migrant shelters due to the lack of demand in the aftermath of President Trump’s inauguration.
    In San Diego, California, a shelter “has not had a single migrant walk through its doors since President Trump took office” and has since closed altogether.
    In New York City, a network of shelters that once housed thousands of illegal immigrants have been closed.
    In northern Mexico, local news reports the flow of illegal immigrants seeking to enter the United States has “decreased enormously” — with facilities that once held thousands of illegals now seeing just a tiny fraction.

    #182824
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/02/icymi-departments-tout-results-after-president-trumps-historic-first-month/

    ICYMI: Departments Tout Results After President Trump’s Historic First Month
    February 21, 2025
    (For more info/links go to article)
    President Donald J. Trump marked his historic first month back in office — but the accomplishments don’t stop there. Across the Trump Administration, departments celebrated the one-month milestone by touting the work they’ve done to deliver for Americans as they implement President Trump’s agenda.

    Here’s what they’re saying:

    The Department of Homeland Security celebrated their remarkable success securing our homeland and restoring law and order as they bring needed safety to our communities.

    The Department of the Interior outlined the steps they’ve taken to fulfill President Trump’s mandate of unleashing American energy, protecting our public lands, and advancing prosperity for all Americans.

    The Department of Education marked a month of success in advancing choice in education, ending government-sponsored discrimination and weaponization, and pushing back on the dangerous ideologies that have permeated America’s education systems.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development marked a return to their core mission of ensuring all Americans have access to fair, affordable housing, and opportunities to achieve self-sufficiency.

    The Department of State commemorated the return to President Trump’s America First foreign policy that advances peace through strength.

    The Department of Transportation touted its work eliminating overbearing regulatory burdens and restoring consumer choice as it brings the department’s focus back where it belongs — on transportation.

    The Department of Defense took their message directly to Americans amid their return to restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military, reestablishing deterrence, and holding themselves accountable — the ingredients for returning the U.S. military to the world’s most lethal fighting force.

    The Department of Health and Human Services celebrated their needed departure from the previous administration’s obsession with radical, dangerous gender ideology — and returning to common sense as they empower Americans to make healthy choices that work for their families.

    #182825
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-proposes-rival-un-action-ukraine-pitting-it-against-europe-2025-02-21/

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the proposal pits Washington against an effort by Kyiv and European allies to have their own text adopted on Monday by the General Assembly.

    U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a bid to broker an end to the war in Ukraine, sparking a rift with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and raising concerns among European allies that Kyiv and Europe could be cut out of peace talks.

    The brief three-paragraph U.S. draft resolution, seen by Reuters, mourns the loss of life during the “Russia-Ukraine conflict” and reiterates “that the principal purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security and to peacefully settle disputes.”
    It also “implores a swift end to the conflict and further urges a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia.”

    Russia has proposed an amendment, seen by Reuters, to that line so it reads “implores a swift end to the conflict, including by addressing its root causes, and further urges a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia.”

    Russia U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia described the U.S. draft as a “good move.” A Russian diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said if Russia’s amendment was adopted by the General Assembly then Moscow would vote in favor of the U.S. resolution.
    Nebenzia said he had been briefed by the U.S. before the draft was circulated to the 193-member General Assembly.
    The General Assembly is already set to meet on Monday to vote on the text drafted by Ukraine and the European Union, which calls for de-escalation, an early cessation of hostilities and peaceful resolution in line with the founding U.N. Charter and international law.
    EU ambassadors at the United Nations will meet later on Friday to discuss the U.S. move, diplomats said.

    Ukraine and the EU have been negotiating with U.N. member states for the past month. General Assembly resolutions are not binding but carry political weight, reflecting a global view on the war. No country holds a veto in the assembly.
    The Ukrainian and EU text, seen by Reuters, “reiterates the urgent need to end the war this year, and to redouble diplomatic efforts to reduce the risks of further escalation and achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine.”
    The language in that resolution appears slightly toned down from previous action by the General Assembly. It takes a less direct approach in its criticism of Russia by simply referencing “the aggression.”
    This compares to a resolution adopted shortly after the war began – with 141 votes in favor – that deplored “in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation.”
    The Ukrainian and EU text asserts the need for the implementation of previous U.N. resolutions that demanded Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory, and insisted that Moscow halt hostilities.

    The General Assembly adopted six resolutions on the conflict in its first year, denouncing Moscow and demanding Russia withdraw all its troops. A resolution in October 2022, which condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four regions in Ukraine, won the greatest support with 143 states voting yes.

    #182826
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    I looked for an updated summary of the Russian government’s views on Zelensky’s presidential authority. This is from Pravda, dated 19.02.2025.

    Zelensky revealed when he will leave the presidency
    Volodymyr Zelensky intends to remain president until Ukraine joins NATO and the EU. He stated this in an interview with ARD…
    Vladimir Zelensky’s term of office expired on May 20, 2024. The presidential elections in Ukraine in 2024 were canceled, citing martial law and general mobilization. Zelensky stated that the elections are now “untimely.”
    Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that, according to preliminary estimates, the only legitimate government in Ukraine is the parliament and the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada. According to him, if Ukraine wanted to legitimately elect a president, then it would be necessary to repeal the law on martial law: its effect does not mean prolongation of the results of the last elections, “there is nothing about this in the constitution.
    https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/19/1068810.html

    #182827
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Doc Robinson:
    “How many tanks does the Supreme Court have?” Joe Stalin.

    #182828
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I had to take this up elsewhere for a comment:

    I totally agree the power may remain in the OFFICE of the President and not the Rada. However, there is zero about that term being extended past 5 years. According to the Constitution, when the 5 years are up, he turns back into a pumpkin.

    However, the RADA would have all authority, just as we do. Since there is a dead Ukrainian President, only a citizen-pumpkin, all Power in Ukraine must devolve to the Rada. Therefore I agree with Putin in this regard.

    No? Well, it’s super-east to solve: Have the Rada pass a law — legal or not — of what should be done in this state. Then have the Court — legal or not — approve it. Right? They can all sue out the fine print for years or whatever they want, but as a practical matter, Ze has the full support of the “Government” that is, the Parliament and the Courts.

    They Do Not. Why? BECAUSE NO ONE HAS CONFIDENCE IN Zelensky. No one supports him for President. He would lose. What does THAT also say about his Presidential office, de facto or de jure?

    #182829
    John Day
    Participant

    A flying car that can leapfrog stopped cars in traffic: What could go wrong?

    Watch: SpaceX-Backed EVTOL Takes Flight, ‘Jumps’ SUV In City https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-spacex-backed-flying-car-jumps-car-city

    #182830
    Noirette
    Participant

    What actually are the ‘precious’ / ‘rare’ / other / minerals in the UKR that Trumpy now wants to have turned over to him / the US?
    Let’s see a list, estimates, etc. The costs of exploitation…and more…Hmm….

    By now, a bigly (riffing of DT speech) part of E. UKR is not UKR any longer but Russian, as Trumpy has admitted (“UKR will have to make territorial concessions” etc.) So the deal won’t be with URK but with Russia…?

    Plus, on the other side of the non-deal, it was Poroshenko (elected in 2014) who annuled laws restricting foreign ownership in UKR of land etc. leading to privatization, probably quite massive, but who knows, I haven’t seen, as looked for without success, any even vaguely accounting or decription of anything about Minerals in whatever territory / mines / expliotations, etc.

    Imho all this is Trumpy bluffing usind a ‘transactional’ card, We gotta Be paid Back.

    Just 2 links, note I am not pretending to know, understand, this whole story.

    https://www.kyivpost.com/post/10285

    https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2020-11-12/how-did-5-million-hectares-disappear-secret-land-privatisation

    #182831
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Well, my genius daughter has done it again. She summarized tens of thousand of news article from the past few weeks on every topic under the sun into a few short paragraphs that say it all. And I quote as close to verbatim as I can remember.

    “All of the Medicare money is being sent to the insurance companies who send it on to their investors (Blackrock and the rest) and tell Medicare to send more money because expenses have gone up with the rising prices for everything. And then deliver as little real service to patients as legally possible (and guess who writes the laws for what’s legal.)
    That sucking up the lion’s share of Social Security while destroying the health of a whole country accounts for quite a few trillion dollars. The rest of the $35 Trillion National Debt is just all of the other scams just like Medicare. Defense, Education, all of them.”

    #182832
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    She had this to say about 15 minutes later, “That national debt is just a fiction story written by the robber barons. We don’t owe anybody that money. It was all fraud.”

    #182833
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS: Does your daughter have a security detachment?

    #182834
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      then worked as a part-time Air National Guard member 

    3star Dan Raizin’ Caine apparently a John Dan like James Donald David Vance.
    Raising Cain, a retiree like me, will be raised from the dead, er ah, retirement with 3-stars and for what? Annihilating the Caliphate in record time. He says. Just ask him. Self-referential

    Criteria:
    1. Many names
    2. Nationsl Guard
    3. Guarding The Nation’s Capital AFTER 911 already “happened”. Nice!

    And

      “‘I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir,’” Trump said, quoting Caine

    So fighting the 2003 Illegal War of Aggression in Iraq some 2 decades later isn’t an ongoing War crime and James Mattis isn’t a good man at all no matter the lunatic musings of Victor David Hanson, Hagiographer and Knob Polisher extraordinaire.

      But the last two were fine men. Gen. [Jim] Mattis, I know him, whom I like, 

    Fallujah should never be forgotten nor what Mattis, Tomita and Tam did and didn’t do.

    Why not detach Lisa for cause?

    Otherwise, no “message” is sent.

      Detachment for Cause (DFC) is the administrative removal of an officer from their current duty assignment before their normal transfer or planned rotation date due to unsatisfactory performance of duty or misconduct

    Lisa spent 20 of 40 year career at sea. Boo fucking hoo. Still Hegseth gets the right thing wrong.
    Ditto for Brown et al.

      Hegseth also questioned Franchetti’s qualifications to serve as the highest ranking Navy officer, sarcastically writing, “If naval operations suffer, at least we can hold our heads high. Because at least we have another first! The first female member of the Joint Chiefs

    Btw, JD Vance has access to better sources of information than Victor David Hanson and we do.

    Was The ISIS Caliphate entirely a CIA construct defeated in record time AND pretty much single-handedly by JD john dan Daniel Raisin Caine CIA Special Projects guy?
    Ever meet a VMI guy?
    Does the pope shit in the woods?

    Dan Raisin Caine didn’t really wear a MAGA hat.

    Here’s a rule.

    Good men don’t commit war crimes in Fallujah.
    Pediatricians and Pediatric surgeons and their accompanying RNs are supposed to report the children harmed by Mattis’s War Crimes in Fallujah

    Name the National Security exception to the requirement for nurses and pediatric specialists to report child abuse to their state licensing board

    #182835
    poppie
    Participant

    Interesting. Since ancient times, keeping your wealth safe has been an issue. There are many examples. Bronze age hoards of copper buried. Iron age hoards of coins buried. Bitcoin. I think maybe “let the government owe it to you” is indicated by DBS daughter. Sounds right. Sounds like that needs a haircut.

    #182836
    citizenx
    Participant

    I feel a little like buster the dog here in the PNW rain…celebrate good things when you can.

    …the Left not getting it

    No they are not getting it, at all.
    As an East Coast J.F. Kennedy liberal most of my life…it is mind blowing to have directly witnessed and experienced the “new Lefts” descent into madness and insanity. Curious if others here are surrounded in a “leftist” hell scape of todays Democrats.

    I’ve been deeply thinking about making significant life changes as this morning I fully realized I am “set up for failure” living amongst the insane here in the PNW. Not one to “flee” my own home or Nation, but it’s pretty f’n bad here. I’m up for resisting, but it does wear you down, up for stand and fight too- Stranger in a Strange Land. Grimly the vax dying off would certainly create a fresh world here…

    F’n Bill Gates lives only a few miles away, this is an epicenter for Leftist insanity, and it is palpable.

    Karoline Leavitt !
    I listed to a few of her press talks yesterday- how refreshing after the dei woke lgbtxyz munchkin psycho liar. Sanity being restored illuminates how f’d the gaslighting truly was from Demtards.

    ..

    IRS and Obama
    I voted for scumbag “hope and change” first term, vowed to never again vote Dem which I had basically voted for my whole life. I will never vote Dem again.

    A few years back I had a tax return coming for around $750, which I desperately could have used as finances were f’d after cvd. IRS sends me a letter saying they were keeping my full return, as I did not have health insurance, (which I could not afford) and I I wanted to fight it they would do a full audit on me.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f1bca38ba38eea5c8b6785349c5e0eb50f667afb9e3be200080b0a07ff75dece.jpg

    Abolish the IRS filth. especially in light of DOGE corruption revealed.

    BOMBSHELL Study: COVID Shots Cripple Immune System — Possibly Permanently

    as reported by others –
    https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/02/22/bombshell-study-covid-mrna-shots-cripple-immune-system-possibly-permanently-n4937227

    Yale report-
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379v1

    More Libtard hypocrisy-
    Rep. Jamie Raskine

    Indiscriminate mass layoffs by Elon Musk are ravaging key programs, depriving our people of nuclear safety inspectors, air traffic controllers and food safety inspectors. These cuts crush democracy and devastate the livelihood of tens of thousands of public servants.

    Response- Harold_Finch

    Here’s the problem with the emotional blackmail you’re attempting: neither you, the Democrat party, your Democrat president, or the federal workers getting fired & laid Off gave a single fuck about the tens of millions of Americans who lost their jobs, lost their businesses, lost their medical coverage, lost their homes, & who’s families were destroyed by your actions & policies the last four years.
    None of us have any sympathy to spare for the cushy government jobs & people in those jobs
    stealing trillions of our dollars from us while we went hungry, jobless, homeless.
    You, the Democrat party & the government workforce you’re pimping for can all go fuck
    yourselves.

    I saw a Dead Head sticker on a cadillac yesterday…well actually it was a Trump sticker on a car in Seattle…had I the opportunity to a give thumbs up, I would have. Perceived reality here is- you would be targeted for hostile confrontations or car damage from the Libtards… sad but true.

    Keep worshipping Musk and Trump, your five-minute attention spans will come to bite you in the end.

    Worshipping? hardly- just glad that the descent into hell has been stopped for now.
    But remind me- didn’t you “flee’ the US and now live in Hong Kong or something?

    That’s a bit rich and hypocritical of you don’t you think ?
    If you don’t have the stomach or balls to stay and fight back, that’s fine, but don’t mock others for celebrating small/ or big victories, as we stay here and fight for dignity and a better life in our own Nation.

    Are you enjoying the lady boys in Thailand, and all that personal freedom in China?

    Do you have a problem with Musk restoring free speech and no censorship on X, and Trump doing the same?

    #182837
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    We tried to hire a security detachment, but all of the ex-Special Forces guys were afraid of her.

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