Lisa Benson for February 26, 2022

Psht. What would be more effective AND no more likely to cause a world war?

I guess this is a criticism of ‘the west’ for doing something that Lisa thinks is wrong — or maybe not doing something Lisa thinks should be done.

In either case, it is the typical Trump disciple criticism. No specifics, only criticism.

And some LIES. Smaller than usual in this cartoon.

As Hermit48 pointed out, in my comment above, I have demonstrated that on the subject of the American manned space program, I have apparently been living under a rock for the last couple of years!! Thank You, Hermit! I have no idea how that item had escaped my seeing it. Well, it took awhile, but I finally got some wonderful news, thanks to you. The rest of my comment is still valid, though.

It’s not like dinging a car lisa

Ok, Lisa. What’s your solutiion?

Biden is a total failure. His approval ratings are the lowest in 100 years, but keep beating the drum for the idiot, libs. #2022midterms

^Putin wanted to undermine the NATO alliance, and Trump undermined the NATO alliance. Putin wanted to weaken the E.U., and Trump made little effort to express his disdain for the E.U. Putin wanted to weaken the U.S. political system, and Trump was unnervingly aggressive in trying to weaken the U.S. political system.

Putin wanted to hurt Ukraine, and Trump launched an extortion scheme that threatened to hurt Ukraine.

Why didn’t the Russian leader deploy troops into Ukraine during Trump’s term? Perhaps because Putin was so pleased with an American president who pursued goals in line with Moscow’s agenda.

We defeated the Soviet Union with dollars and made their country disappear. We can do the same with Russia.

My problem this time is the cost in Ukrainian lives. That is a cost I find difficult to bear.

Let’s not forget that no one was tougher on Russia thanTrump. He sold the oligarchs property in Trump Tower, at market value. At this time, of course, DJT was unaware that there were Russian troops in Ukraine, and had no idea that Crimea existed. Good job Lisa – you never disappoint.

Unfortunately “dinging” is about all the rest of the world can do. And.. desperate (perhaps depraved?) men can initiate scary stuff in retaliation. We have, yet.. to see Putin unleash his cyber capabilities where it shows.

Putin will just wait a few years and we’ll very quietly remove the sanctions and increase our oil purchases from him.Look at Iran, since April we’re now buying oil from them.

As those that have studied the historical effects of sanctions know, sanctions never cause large nations to change their behavior. However, when the alternative is war over a country that is not an ally, they are better than nothing.

Those sanctions are not causing Putin and his oligarchs any real pain and won’t for some time. What I find interesting and absolutely ridiculous is that those sanctions specifically omit petroleum and natural gas which are Russia’s number one money making export. Making matters worse, we import about 559,000 barrels per day of oil from Russia which means we are helping fund Putin’s war machine to the tune of about $55 million a day given the current oil prices. Why didn’t Biden put an immediate stop to that? This is nuts. We went from being an energy independent, oil exporting country under President Trump to being dependent on about 3 million BPD of oil from external sources under Biden. How does any of that make sense? If you really want to hurt Putin, Biden should remove the regulations and hostile actions he imposed on our petroleum industry which would drive down the price of oil and have a definite negative impact on the Russian economy. If you’re concerned about the environmental impact, our petroleum production is among the cleanest in the world, certainly with higher standards than Russia. It would be better for the world if we ramped our clean oil production and not have to rely on 3 million BPD from countries who only give lip service regarding the environment.

As usual, lot’s of critique but no alternative. We really have few options shorr of going to war with Russia. They may have backed down if we threatened to enter on Ukraine’s behalf. Or not and then what?

“Leftists should set their tweets to self destruct after a week” – @1776Stonewall

President Biden’s steadfast broadcasting of Putin’s every move might be one of the savviest war avoidance moves made by a president in a generation – @joncoopertweets 6:55 pm 2/20/22

Is it me or does the media need to stop covering the “march toward war” as if it is a sporting event?- @joncoopertweets 12:23 pm 02/23/22

Biden acting on the swift sanction now after giving us blow by blow moves toward war is like reinstituting the remain in Mexico policy a year and a half after welcoming millions of illegals.

What’s next for the touch guy, is he going to unfollow Putin on Twitter?

I keep hearing this criticism but no alternatives to what he should/can do. Plenty of “Kick Russia out of the UN.” and “Shut down their access to SWIFT.” All great ideas but not something Biden can do.

No more sanctions on Russia.

After Putin invaded Ukraine, there was a concerted effort from blue checkmarks to declare “Thank goodness Donald Trump isn’t president.” Which is an odd flex. I know the main tenet of being BlueAnon is the belief that Putin “installed” Trump as president via Facebook ads, but it seems a simple equation. Trump is the one president where Putin DIDN’T try to invade another country. It seems like a waste of “installing” someone as the American president. Turns out, according to a new Harvard-Harris poll, it doesn’t make sense to a vast majority of Americans, either.

According to polling, 62% say Putin would NOT be moving against Ukraine if Trump was still president, and 59% believe Putin only chose now to invade because he views weakness in Joe Biden. I wonder where Putin got this idea from?

The poll went along party lines, but 38% percent of DEMOCRATS think Putin only did this because Trump is gone. THIRTY-EIGHT percent of Joe Biden’s political party who have been fed BlueAnon conspiracies for the last five years STILL think Ukraine would not be getting invaded right now if Trump was president.

The other 62% of Democrats must believe what the boss describes.- Louder with Crowder

“I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”

As the resident oldhead at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website, I was in high school during the first Gulf War. The student Greenpeace organization wanted people to sign a petition to let Saddam Hussein know how disappointed we were in him over the oil fields and shame the dictator over what he was doing to the ozone layer. It was the dumbest thing I had heard to that point, but it was high school. High schoolers think lots of dumb things. They’re supposed to grow up.

John Kerry’s melted candle-looking carcass thinks those dumb things today. That he thinks Vladimir Putin cares at all about the “world stage,” let alone what other countries want to do to combat the climate, is laughable. Even if you have never heard of Putin before today, look at what Putin is doing today.

The people who control Joe Biden want us to think the climate is the greatest threat the planet faces. Today is not the best day to try and make that claim stick.

Russia has invaded Ukraine. In spite of Biden’s tough leadership (I couldn’t even type that with a straight face), Putin has given the west the middle finger and given Ukraine more than just the tip of the incursion. So, what’s the White House’s plan? More hashtags? No, those didn’t seem to work. Sanctions! Those will work! Or will they?

Well, Biden doesn’t actually seem to think they do anything to stop, well, anything. “No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening”

Really? Then what was the point, you dimwitted clod? And if the original sanctions weren’t actually meant to stop anything, what exactly is the point of the newest, super-duper, “swift and severe” sanctions being announced today?

Oh, well, those sanctions… Those sanctions are different, you see. Those are “swift and severe,” and Biden has all the faith in the world that these new sanctions will stop the Russians in their tracks (tank pun intended).

“I didn’t say sanctions couldn’t stop him [Putin]. […] The threat of the sanctions, and imposing the sanctions, and seeing the effects of the sanctions are two different things.”

Well, it’s actually three different things, guy—threat, imposing, observing: see, three—but we’ll forgive the braindead dufus for not being able to count. He hasn’t had his afternoon nap just yet. – Louder with Crowder

Biden also followed up saying that he would look to see what happens in the coming month to see where to go from here, but watching some of the footage coming out of Ukraine, I don’t really believe they have a month for us to sit by and see if Putin suddenly starts to give a f*ck about Biden’s sanctions. My guess is, either this entire war is over before a month goes by, or Putin isn’t going to care about sanctions at all.

No matter how you slice it, Biden and his administration have been, are now, and will continue to be complete and utter failures. Remember all of this come 2024 because Biden cannot remain in office and no one standing up right now saying he’s doing a good job should ever be elected, either.

Gas prices have been on the rise since Joe Biden was sworn it. His first order of business was to kill American energy production and all the jobs that went with it. Throw in inflation and supply chain issues as a result of Joe Biden’s policies, and the White House could really use a scapegoat to blame other than those policies. What luck that Russia invaded Ukraine this week! Jen Psaki can blame everything on that.

Costs have been on the rise for the last year. They are going to go up more now that there’s a war. In Biden’s logic, all the rising costs are because of the war, and Americans better be ready to sacrifice.

Keep in mind, this is the same Jen Psaki who said those pre-Ukraine high gas prices helped the Biden Agenda, so the words “our values” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The talking points have gone to the media. Before the invasion even began, “The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.”

@brodiganWhite House: Hey, can you blame all of Joe Biden’s problems on a thing that only started yesterday?

The Media: Sure. We have no self respect.

We could blame Putin invading Ukraine for energy costs rising now. Or we could blame Joe Biden for making us reliant on foreign energy. Dan Crenshaw has been outspoken over how Biden’s recklessness in the energy sector has affected the middle class. Let’s do the math.

@DanCrenshawTXWe import 595,000 barrels of oil per day from Russia.

The Keystone XL pipeline would have produced 830,000 barrels per day.

Relying on Russian oil is a choice. And it’s a stupid one.

830,000 barrels are more than 595,000 barrels. That would give America a net of 235,000 barrels that would help keep energy costs down. Also, 595,000 barrels are more than zero barrels. That gives America a deficit of 595,000 barrels and puts us at the mercy of Putin trying to make World War III a thing.

Keep the people of Ukraine in your prayers. The images we’re seeing today are horrifying, and they just started. There also aren’t enough dicks in eastern Europe to throw into a bag for Putin to choke on. But if the people who control Joe Biden think they’re going to gaslight Americans into believing Ukraine is why things cost so much and NOT Biden’s failed agenda, nope. – LWC

^“The Keystone XL pipeline would have produced 830,000 barrels per day.”

8 to 10 years from the date Canada would have started building it. The existing Keystone pipeline, with its current spills, is sending tar crude to Cushing, Ok. currently.

Hanging the dirty laundry…

From 1999- 2014 Ukraine donated more money to the Clinton Foundation than any other foreign country. Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney all have children who worked for UK gas companies.

What did Ukraine get in return?

Yes, The Russia Scandal Is Real — And It Involves Hillary Clinton

Clinton Scandals: For well over a year now, the progressive left in the Democratic Party have tried hard to sell the idea that, a) Russia meddled in our election, and, b) that it was to the detriment of Hillary Clinton. After nearly a year and a half of investigating, neither appears true. What is true, and now documented, is that Hillary Clinton and her family foundation both benefited handsomely from Russian corruption.

Citing federal officials and government documents, The Hill details the Russians’ nuclear-industry corruption here in the U.S., citing extensive evidence that “Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business” in the U.S.

But that’s just the beginning. Based on both an eyewitness account and documents, The Hill report goes on to say that federal agents found evidence “indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow.”

Isn’t that called bribery?- IBD

One of the more incendiary tales first reported in Schweizer’s book charges that Hillary helped win approval for Russia’s state nuclear agency to buy a controlling interest in Uranium One, one of America’s largest uranium mines, in exchange for $2.35 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation. The payments were not included on the Clinton Foundation website, as was demanded by an agreement with the Obama administration. Instead, the funds flowed through a Canadian offshoot, the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, and therefore escaped notice.

At about the same time, Bill Clinton was paid a $500,000 speaking fee by a Russian investment bank, causing The New Yorker to ask, “Why was Bill Clinton taking any money from a bank linked to the Kremlin while his wife was secretary of state?” Good question. The uranium deal raised national security concerns; numerous Congressmen had petitioned to block the purchase.

The Wall Street Journal separately reported how Hillary intervened in a dispute between U.S. tax authorities and Swiss bank UBS. The bank turned to Clinton for help and she solved the problem. Soon after, UBS funneled substantial cash to the Clinton Foundation, rising from less than $60,000 through 2008 (before she was in office) to about $600,000 by the end of 2014. That was just the beginning. UBS also foot the bill for some $32 million in foundation programs and paid Bill Clinton an extraordinary $1.5 million to appear at various bank gatherings – his largest payday since leaving the Oval Office. – Liz Peek

Fox = trump. Trump still wants to realize his dream to build a trump tower in Russia. – https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/we-will-be-in-moscow-the-story-of-trumps-30-year-quest-to-expand-his-brand-to-russia/2018/11/29/91f9f100-f3f4-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.htmlSo, his party and his media will be soft if not outright complementary to putin. (Tucker did backpedal a bit from his first love fest statement about putin that was broadcast inside russia in russian. – Newsweek)

When Putin kicked this invasion off a few days ago I said it was a brilliant tactical move from a military perspective. He opened up a simultaneous assault on three axis’, along four fronts. A complex maneuver to pull off successfully. I also said at the time that Putin was likely to be putting the bears paw into a meat grinder from a ‘strategic’ POV and from what we’re seeing and from the limited reports coming out of Ukraine this may be the case.

It appears that St. Javelin and Sister Stinger are having their way with with the Russian forces.

Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Malyar, posted the destruction of the following Russian forces:

80 tanks

10 aircraft

7 helicopters

516 armored combat vehicles

Now some might question these numbers, but consider. Russia should have captured that airport out side of Kiev (Kyev, whatever, spellcheck says ‘Kiev’!) on the first day and they did get to it. But it’s traded hands a couple of times and it’s seems to be in control of neither side. Kiev was supposed to have fallen by the second day and we’re seeing a lot of images destroyed Russian military equipment on the city’s border. So the above numbers seem to be credible.

If we can keep the supply lines open not only with military equipment but food water and medical stuffs, I believe the Ukrainian people can defeat Putin. Sanctions will certainly help as well as other actions. Facebook has suspended service to the Russian government and personnel related to it. The free Baltic states and other nations are beginning deny service to Aeroflot. France has seized a Russian cargo ship bound for St. Petersburg. Other similar stories are pouring in from around the world. God bless and pray for the Ukrainian people.

Russian army deploys its TOS-1 heavy flamethrower, capable of vaporizing human bodies, near Ukrainian border, footage shows

CNN footage shows a TOS-1 heavy flamethrower being deployed near the Ukrainian border.

The TOS-1 heavy flamethrower is able to shoot thermobaric rockets.

Thermobaric weapons are capable of vaporizing human bodies and crushing internal organs, say reports.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-army-deploys-its-tos-1-heavy-flamethrower-capable-of-vaporizing-human-bodies-near-ukrainian-border-footage-shows/ar-AAUlc2v?ocid=msedgntp

The latest news from the Ukraine is that this may be no cakewalk for Putin. Russian soldiers are getting lost and surrendering. Fast forward just a little and you may see them wondering how to get out alive from the country they were airdropped into. It seems that the free citizens of a republic want something to say about their own destiny and that of their children. Might be a good time to re-read The Moon is Down by Steinbeck. The fog of war prevents us from knowing for certain, but maybe Ted Rall and all the other crypto-Communists will be frustrated in their wish for worldwide Dictatorship of the Proletariat, at least temporarily.

What’s the alternative, Lisa? Republican critics can never seem to think it through.

The GQP: https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1497642340357341187

Loser Lisa proving she doesn’t get the point of sanctions, nor does she understand just how devastating even the minor sanctions Biden has imposed are going to be to Putin and Russia.

For Lunatic Lisa, any solution that doesn’t involve rampant bloodshed and destruction is “weak”.

The Ruskies just got cut out of SWIFT. A good start. Question: What do you call a million dead Totalitarian-Progressives? Another good start.

Lisa is right, we should do more. Let’s round up every child, spouse, and grandchild, of Russian Oligarchs and drop them off at the Eastern most port of Russia.

From Hoover Institute Insights: Not long ago, the United States was heavily dependent on foreign oil to power its economy. With this dependency came geopolitical challenges that profoundly affected the nation’s foreign policy for decades. A heavy reliance on oil from members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meant the US foreign policy and economy were shaped by countries with little regard for the best interests of the United States.

The United States should be well positioned to use its energy wealth to advance its important policy interests abroad. Energy security gives us another crucial international tool by enabling the U.S. to neutralize geopolitical threats by shifting our energy resources abroad to our allies without having to use military force. It also allows the United States to improve global security and environmental rules.

Attaining energy security is thus in the economic and political interests of the United States.

Biden blocked the crucial Keystone XL Pipeline, signaling to the world that American energy independence is no longer a priority. On the other hand, he green-lit the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, strengthening Russia’s energy hold on Europe. And in the process, he gave Russia the leverage to create the crisis that we are witnessing unfold in Ukraine.

Until last year, getting tough on Russia was one of the few issues that seemed to unite conservatives and progressives.

In 2019, Congress passed a bipartisan measure to impose sanctions on the Russian company that is building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. The sanctions had strong support from both Democrat leadership and the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump signed the sanctions into law after pointing out that the pipeline “really makes Germany a hostage of Russia if things ever happened that were bad.” He wanted to contain the Russians, not empower them to overrun Europe.

Maintaining Trump’s sanctions should have been an easy call for President Biden. Polish President Andrzej Duda told Trump that he fiercely opposed Nord Stream 2. The head of Naftogaz, a Ukrainian energy company, called the pipeline Russia’s most “dangerous geopolitical project.” And thanks to America becoming a net exporter of energy during President Trump’s administration, the United States had created the capacity to sell our gas to European allies and reduce the reliance on Russian energy.However, last May, the Biden administration waived those bipartisan sanctions, allowing Nord Stream to move forward. In doing so, they handed away leverage to the Russians and doomed Ukraine in the process.Some theorize that President Biden simply reversed an important accomplishment of the Trump administration for spite. A more sinister theory suggests that because his son, Hunter Biden, served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, President Biden had, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest. To make matters worse, Hunter “received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow,” according to a Congressional report.I hope that Biden will someday explain why Canadian oil causes global warming, but Russian gas doesn’t. – By Kristi Noem

Say goodbye forever to liberals raging at you Order today.. New: Narrative Scripts… written by brainwashed people for free thinking people.. so you know they’ll work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4n4n1i7dUY

If we are now facing a renewal of the long struggle with Russia, and probably even a struggle against China too, allied with Putin’s Russia, then the leaders of Western countries had better think about how they are going to meet the demands of this struggle. They have no hope of doing so with a country in which they have abused and alienated a huge number of people for the crime of being white, heterosexual, culturally conservative, or clinging bitterly to their bigoted churches. We saw just the other day that Justin Trudeau actually seized the bank accounts of people supporting the trucker protests, under the guise of fighting domestic terrorism. I have absolutely no doubt that Washington will try the same. The woke left, having marched through the institutions, are weaponizing them against parents, children, families, church people, conservatives, and other deplorables.You tell many of us that we are racist, fascist, deplorable scum who deserve to be fired, or at least to worry about our livelihoods because we don’t agree with you, and then you expect us to be all on board to risk our kids’ lives to serve a political and social order that despises us? Really, explain how that works.Who on earth do they think are going to fight their damn wars? Better get Ibram X. Kendi, immigration lobbyists, and that sadomasochist trans freak at the Department of Energy to suit up. If you want to be a great power, you had better start treating actual Americans better. The Pentagon’s propaganda claims that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a “force multiplier”. Once all the conservatives drop out of the military or fail to sign up because they do not want to defend an order that treats them like villains, the Pentagon is going to need all the industrial-grade copium it can get its hands on.- Rod Dreher https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/ukraine-mearsheimer-told-us-so-in-2014/

Take a look at this newly relevant 2014 lecture by Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, the legendary foreign policy realist. He was talking about the Euromaidan situation, and explaining how the West was pushing Ukraine to the point of a serious crisis with Russia:

https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4

For short version forward to the 44 mark

Peace through strength: The embargo on North Korea told the North Korean regime that Trump meant business, but the public praise gave Kim an honorable exit, a way to save face on the national stage. He could make concessions to the U.S. while still appearing strong domestically. Outward, it would just look like a mutual agreement between good friends for mutual benefits.

Compare and contrast this method to how Biden has acted concerning Russia. He has leveled demands and threats in public while, behind the scenes, he has made feeble military moves. President Vladimir Putin is then left with the choice to obey the United States and look weak or invade Ukraine to save face.

While Trump’s method is designed to funnel the adversary toward a peaceful resolution, Biden’s approach does exactly the opposite.

Trump would probably have taken the opposite approach with the Ukraine situation. We would have heard him say phrases like “Putin is a great guy” and “I like him” while placing the most severe economic pressures on Russia behind the scenes. Putin would not only have respected this approach but would also find it a far more predictable manner of dealing with America.

Trump would also have reaped the benefit of sowing fear in two of Russia’s closest allies, China and Iran. However, none of these actions would have brought Trump much recognition in the West. The legacy media would likely have revived their false accusations of Russian collusion – a point which suggests the former president may have been right about enemies much closer to home as well. – Caroline Adana

“It is extremely difficult to trust this administration as they lie with a straight face to the American people daily,” Flynn said.

In Flynn’s statement, he wondered how Biden came to the conclusion that he should shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, undermining America’s energy independence, while enabling Russia and Germany to continue building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Flynn listed the actions of the Democrat Party government: “Describing America as a systemically racist nation, the appointment of Marxists and other radical ideologues to positions of power, allowing millions to surge across our southern border, attempts to federalize and take over our election systems and processes, implementing racist CRT in our schools, our military and across our government, all along, raising the national debt closing in on $30 Trillion dollars, spending us toward extinction, all for left-wing causes.”

He also recalled “the Afghanistan disaster, the myriad lies about COVID, a certain Biden-owned laptop, and a fraudulent presidential election that has massive amounts of evidence coming out daily … all while China gets a pass.”

spare me the FLYNN lied stories: FBI records show exculpatory evidence was concealed from the defense team. The documents suggest that now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and the FBI’s leadership stopped the bureau from closing its investigation into Flynn in early January 2017 after investigators had uncovered “no derogatory information” on him. Emails from later that month show Strzok, along with then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page and several others, sought out ways to continue investigating Flynn.NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION, NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION

Wayne Root:I believe Putin is sick and tired of hearing Biden and America’s politicians lecture him about “Russia’s corruption.” Putin knows Biden is filthy dirty. Putin knows the Biden Crime Family hastaken kickbacks and payoffs all over the world. He knows Joe Biden is “the Big Guy” who expects a piece of every deal. Biden lecturing others about corruption is like the mafia lecturing about extortion.

Putin knows the center of Biden’s corruption was in Ukraine. Biden and his family intimidated, extorted and literally raped Ukraine. A little birdie tells me this is the big bonus for Putinafter he invades and conquers Ukraine. He will capture and torture everyone involved in shady deals with Biden in order to unearth the secrets of Biden’s filthy corruption.

Then Putin has two juicy options. Behind door #1: Expose Biden’s massive crime wave in Ukraine, shock the world, make Biden step down, embarrass and demoralize the United States, and paralyze America’s government. This makes Russia the new big bad sheriff in town.

Behind door #2: Putin can blackmail Biden, hold his secrets over his head, in order to get whatever Putin wants. Suddenly Biden is Putin’s bit-ch. The same relationship China already has with Biden. China has the goods on Biden. They clearly own Biden lock, stock and barrel. Now it’s Putin’s turn.

..there are those who obviously know better and still rush to spew nonsense in an attempt to shoehorn the situation with Ukraine into their far-left, woke worldview.

Enter Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the error-riddled 1619 Project. According to her, the real problem with Western support for Ukraine is that it’s upholding a dog-whistling social construct that is meant to get us to care because white people are suffering.

Sit back and really soak this one in.Honestly, what kind of depraved person is so obsessed with racial essentialism that they’d try to turn the conflict in Ukraine into a false, woke history lesson? People are dying, including women and children. Putin’s aggression is clearly unjustified. Shouldn’t that be enough? But for a grifter like Hannah-Jones, the next score is always being prepped for, and she senses a threat from any situation that might encroach on her top-level victim status. What a shallow, depressing way to think. – Bonchie, RedState

As Carlson pointed out in his monologue, the people who would be leading such a fight, economically or militarily, have shown themselves to be completely inept and corrupt. Thus, it’s not surprising at all that the vast majority of Americans want no part in bearing the cost of another costly, foreign policy adventure.

And to be clear, Americans aren’t just worried about the costs related to a possible military action. Energy prices have already been skyrocketing, putting a huge crunch on the poor and middle-class. Few are prepared to drain their bank accounts further to defend the sovereignty of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Yet, that’s exactly what the White House is asking them to do, and this poll shows that to be a wildly unpopular position.

What will the response to that unpopularity be? Well, you can expect the way-too-online crowd to insist that only a rube wouldn’t believe Putin is a priority worth sacrificing one’s personal savings over, but I’m not sure how effective that will be in persuading the masses.

Yet, that should come via policies that actually make sense, and little of what we are being told right now makes sense. It did not make sense to cancel Keystone XL while greenlighting Nordstream 2. It did not make sense to lift sanctions on Russian officials without getting anything in return. Those asinine decisions led to where we are today, but the leaders who made them now want Americans to sacrifice more for their incompetence without even explaining why it’s necessary?

That’s just not going to fly. This poll shows that, and it also serves as a reminder that Twitter remains not real life. – By Truth Press

Leaked phone conversations between Joe Biden and then-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko have been made public by a Ukrainian lawmaker.

Edited recordings of the calls were played at a news conference Tuesday in Kiev by Andriy Derkach, who has claimed he has proof showing that Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter Biden, paid then-Vice President Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees.

Derkach said he received the leaked audio from “investigative journalists” — and that the recordings were made by Poroshenko himself.

How can one briefly describe ex- President of Ukraine Petro О Poroshenko? He is an oligarch, son of a Soviet criminal who was convicted of stealing state property, and Petro Poroshenko also appeared in an offshore scandal (Fonseca) when he tried to evade taxes. Ask yourself a question: how did Vice President Joseph Biden find himself closely connected to the Ukrainian corrupt criminal Poroshenko to close his son’s cases and remove the Ukrainian prosecutor. And let’s remember how in 2014, U.S. Ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Ross Pyatt personally came and took part in an armed coup in Kiev in Ukraine. Fueled the coup d’état along with another U.S. official, Victoria Nuland.. He was calling on personal Twitter for war in the south of Ukraine. And why haven’t there been any criminal cases initiated against Peter Poroshenko and his American friend and partner Joseph Biden?

Remember this?

LEAKED BIDEN UKRAINE PHONE CALL: Phone Calls Between Joe Biden And Ukraine’s President Poroshenko Leaked; Details $1 Billion “Quid Pro Quo” To Fire Burisma Prosecutor.

https://youtu.be/IpCpI_HAB84

The Epoch Times is reporting that according to a 2016 State Department email, the US government received information from a source in Ukraine which said that Burisma, the Ukrainian-based energy firm that gave Hunter Biden a sweet position on its board, allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.

George Kent, an official within the State Department was called to testify at the 2020 impeachment trial of former President Trump, however never mentioned or disclosed the information from that 2016 email.

The email was mentioned in a Sept 18, 2020, Senate Homeland Security report, however, wasn’t publicly released until earlier this month. It states that Kent, then the deputy chief of mission in Kyiv, Ukraine, was advised by Ukraine’s deputy general prosecutor that Burisma paid a $7 million bribe to put an end to a 2014 corruption investigation into the company.

Kent’s email, the Times reported, was also addressed to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jorgan Andrews, and warned that Hunter Biden’s role at Bursima, which was during the time when Joe Biden was Obama’s vice president, was undermining US government endeavors to get a handle on corruption in the eastern European nation.

The media of course accomplished their job. Since they had engaged in a blackout of the story and those who didn’t watch Newsmax, Fox News or OANN and perhaps read the New York Post were unaware, many voted for old “lunch bucket Joe.”

A poll taken late in 2020 showed that 45 percent of those who voted for Biden were completely unaware of the allegations against the Bidens. Many said had they known, they would not have voted for Joe Biden.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/state-dept-email-showing-7-million-bribe-withheld-from-trumps-defense/

The American People Add Ukraine to Biden’s Growing List of Failures -By Brandon Morse

President Joe Biden’s entire time as President of the United States can be summed up with the word “abandonment.”

He abandoned the border, he abandoned Afghanistan, and he even abandons the press after the vast majority of his speeches. Now, we can add “Ukraine” to the list of things he abandoned. As RedState previously covered, Biden dropped sanctions on Russia but it couldn’t be confirmed if they’d actually have an effect. Biden’s handling of Ukraine has been another example of his incompetence. Never mind that this entire invasion was a door he helped open in the first place, now that the invasion is here, we have a leader who’s doing very little leading on the matter.

It’s why the American people agree that Biden’s handling of the Ukraine matter has been poor.

According to Rasmussen, fewer than a third of voters actually approve of what Biden is doing in Ukraine with a majority believing his performance to be less than stellar:

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that just 31% of Likely U.S voters give Biden an excellent or good rating for the way he has handled the Russian aggression toward Ukraine. Forty-nine percent (49%) give him a poor rating for his handling of the Russia-Ukraine situation.

“President Biden told us that he was going to bring diplomacy back. Instead, it’s on its back,” Grenell pointed out. “We desperately need new, creative, visionary diplomacy, muscular diplomacy to secure meaningful peace when a conflict arises. Last summer, we watched helplessly as our credibility, our deterrence, and our national honor crumbled in the retreat from Afghanistan.”

Grenell went on to describe how both Biden and former President Donald Trump faced the same situation in Afghanistan and contrasted their differing approaches to solving the problem. “The difference is that President Trump had an unapologetic pro-American diplomacy with a credible military option behind him,” he said. “It’s clear that the Taliban respected and feared President Trump. He sought to withdraw on his terms, leaving a delicate but viable order behind while reading the situation on the ground and adjusting his plans when necessary.”

Que the Let’s Make a Deal loser music…

https://youtu.be/iO0Emcybrqc

Wow, tops in crime, poverty, poor education, and now bed bugs. Geez, you dims just can’t help infesting until everything is ruined.

For the second year in a row, Chicago took the top spot on Orkin’s list. Looks like bed bugs love the Windy City. Jumping a whopping 12 spots to the number two slot: Philadelphia. And rounding out the top three is New York City; the Big Apple climbed a notable nine spots from last year. Here are the top ten cities on Orkin’s 2022 list:

ChicagoPhiladelphiaNew York CityDetroitBaltimoreIndianapolisWashington, D.C.Cleveland, OhioColumbus, OhioCincinnati

Matthew Perna was failed by the country he loved, demonized by the news media, tormented by the world’s most powerful law enforcement, ignored by political leaders of both parties, and betrayed by a federal judge sworn to defend justice not appease the whims of a vengeful Biden regime.

In a fair world, local reporters, Matthew Graves and his prosecutors, Judge John Bates and anyone involved in this abusive prosecution would re-evaluate the human cost of what they’re doing and hang their heads in shame. Thousands of lives destroyed—for what? To sooth the fragile ego of Joe Biden and quench the insatiable lust for revenge by the Democratic Party? To notch legal victories to advance Beltway careers? To create clickbait headlines? But these people have no shame—so no moment of reflection can be expected. They all have blood on their hands now. – Julie Kelly, American Greatness

…looking through their glass houses: AOC, on occupying Nutsy’s office: “I shared my story that my journey here started at Standing Rock and started with everyday people doing exactly what you all are doing standing with allies…because we don’t have a choice. We DO NOT have a choice.”

AOC, last December suggested “that protests and occupations and anything that was necessary to make “folks uncomfortable” was acceptable”.

Twitter posts unearthed from 10 years ago show Nutsy positively enthusiastic about a mob of trade unionists, teachers and assorted rabble who crowded the halls of Wisconsin’s state Capitol in Madison in 2011. As the Madison State Journal reported in a 2017 retrospective, the Wisconsin Capitol protests went on for weeks and gummed up the day-to-day work of government.

And let’s not forget the hypocrisy of the “mostly peaceful protests” where lives were ended and changed for the worse forever.

They abused your children for two years but wrapped it up just in time for the senile man to give a talk tomorrow. – Dave Rubin, Rubin Reports

Now, this son of Staten Island is being persecuted and threatened with termination by the New York Police Department, despite the support of the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), simply because he supported President Donald Trump in his free time and became a friend and supporter of Trump-loyalist Roger Stone.

Sal Greco has been subjected to a politically motivated investigation at NYPD. Newly elected Mayor Eric Adams has written extensively about providing personal security to convicted felon Mike Tyson when Adams was an NYPD Captain. Once again, we have a two-tiered justice system.

Sal Greco may be fired simply because of his support for Trump and Stone, losing the pension that he has paid into for 14 years while turning in a spotless record of service and risking his life for the public in some of the most dangerous precincts in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx.

Sal Greco faces a Departmental Trial tomorrow March 1. If fired and with his pension terminated, Sal Greco may have no choice but to sue Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Police department to recover his pension and to disprove the politically motivated and false charges that he has done anything wrong. If so, Mayor Eric Adams will be the first witness in the $25 million lawsuit that Sal Greco files against the politicized New York Police Department. – Gateway Pundit

Lisa’s cartoon has not aged well. Massive joinder in our demand for sanctions; even neutral Switzerland has now made an exception and is freezing the bank accounts and assets of Putin and his oligarchs. Biden has learned well: get your allies involved, and craft a joint plan to confront the wrongdoers. This is no “ding” to Russia’s credit score. Keep watching.

MIT economist Christopher Knittel, known for his work on the potential environmental benefits of carbon pricing, argues that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are neglecting the likely possibility that the likely alternatives to the Keystone XL pipeline and consumption of crude from the Alberta tar sands are actually worse than allowing the project to proceed as planned:

1. The value of tar-sands production is such that Canada will almost certainly build an alternative route to access the global market;

2. though the Keystone XL pipeline will increase the value of tar-sands production, the supply response isn’t likely to be very strong;

3. and the alternative to tar-sands oil production may well be Venezuelan Petrozuata or Californian Kern River oil, both of which are dirtier than the tar-sands oil sold to the U.S.

Brigham McCown, former head of the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, told the House Subcommittees on Energy and the Environment that, “based on the available information and plans for construction, the completed Keystone system would be the safest pipeline ever built in this country.” Moreover, he said, “pipelines represent the best option when it comes to moving large volumes of energy” – far better and safer than truck or rail alternatives that we would be forced to use is Keystone is rejected.

“This project has been studied more than any other project of its kind,” House Transportation Chair Bill Shuster (R, PA) points out. “Pipeline opponents do not mind endless reviews, but they will only be truly happy if and when the final death knell is sounded for this jobs and prosperity creating project.” Meanwhile, the President continues to dissemble – promising “not to rush” his decision, which really means he would love to wait until after the 2014 elections to announce his final decision.

02.05.2021Steve Daines: Democrats Voted to Support Keystone but Schumer-Driven Move Nixed Amendment

In the wee hours of the morning, in the most D.C. swampy way possible, Senate Democrats flip flopped on their support for American energy and union jobs by killing Senator Daines’ Keystone XL Pipeline amendment and another supporting fracking,” a Daines spokesperson said in a statement distributed on Friday. “They thought they could get away with it while the American people were asleep.”

“Folks will know that when it came down to it, every single Senate Democrat chose to stand with the job-killing, Green New Deal radicals over American union jobs and blue-collar workers,” the spokesperson said. “For those representing Western states and for those that flip flopped on their support, you’ll have some explaining to do, not just on your opposition to the pipeline and fracking, but for your misleading attempt to pull a fast one to protect a partisan, far-left agenda.”

The amendment on fracking put forth by Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) — the drilling technique that has almost singlehandedly led the domestic energy revolution and made the United States a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the first time — was also removed by Schumer’s last-minute Senate Amendment #888.

Keystone XL is 36-inch-diameter crude oil pipeline system that will carry up to 830,000 barrels of petroleum per day from the oil sands in Canada to oil refineries and ports on the Gulf Coast of the United States.

According to the State Department’s January 2014 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, greenhouse gas emissions will actually increase without the pipeline if the crude oil from Canada is alternatively transported by rail across the U.S.

“During operation of all No Action rail scenarios, the increased number of unit trains along the scenario routes would result in GHG emissions from both diesel fuel combustion and electricity generation to support rail terminal operations (as well as for pump station operations for the Rail/Pipeline Scenario),” the FSEIS said. “The total annual GHG emissions (direct and indirect) attributed to the No Action scenarios range from 28 to 42 percent greater than for the proposed Project.”

The State Department also found that alternative energy would not replace the need for fossil fuel.

“The analysis found that even with renewable energy and conservation, there would still be a demand for oil sands-derived crude oil,” the FSEIS said. “Based on this evaluation, these alternatives were not carried forward for further analysis as alternatives to the proposed Project.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/03/24/donald-trumps-state-department-gives-green-light-keystone-xl-pipeline/

…For now, she acknowledges that ending economic dependence on fossil fuels is a work in progress. The transition to a renewable energy economy will require multiple levels of change over time. For example, even if we made the switch entirely to electric cars, we would likely still need hydrocarbon fuels to mine lithium for the batteries and to run machines with longer lifetimes than cars, such as airplanes and ocean-going vessels. Yet she maintains a positive outlook.

“Something that gives me great optimism is that we’re going through a revolution in our ability to make new discoveries that lead to technologies that enable acceleration of the pace of discovery,” she says. “We’re going to find new ways of converting energy from one form to another that we haven’t even imagined. The capacity to make this substantial change from a fossil-based to a renewables-based economy is going to be there. We just need to drive it forward.” – Maureen McCain, Perdue U

So during the multi level change why not be smart about what sources we depend on for fossil fuel?

The Keystone Pipeline link to China and the Biden MafiaFitton: America Needs to Know the Truth About Biden Family’s CorruptionIn fact, “strong efforts” were made last summer to suppress analysts who wanted to expose the full range of Chinese efforts to swing the election to Mr. Biden.

We are already seeing China indirectly benefitting from Biden policies. Cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline will divert Canadian oil west to the petroleum-hungry People’s Republic. Re-entering the Paris Climate Agreement gives political cover to China’s excessively polluting dirty coal industry, in which Hunter Biden is heavily invested. Mr. Biden’s State Department on Day One removed a page on its web site that contained a comprehensive assessment of the threats China poses to the U.S. and its allies, and an emboldened Beijing slapped outrageous sanctions on outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and 27 other former Trump officials. Does China have corrupt leverage over President Biden?

Given the years of investigations costing millions of dollars to delve into fake Russia collusion accusations against Trump world, the American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now. – Tom Fitten, Judicial Watch

Remember the so called leaders and the propagandist media who now talk about “FREEDOM” for Ukraine are the same ones who proclaimed “FREEDOM” to be “selfish” just a few short weeks ago. They continue to silence debate, cheer on restriction of liberties, demonize and cancel all dissenters.