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Post by onelasttime on Aug 18, 2023 14:14:24 GMT
He would ALLOW Putin to keep parts of Ukraine. “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose”. Seriously?
Jim Acosta.
”During my interview with Ramaswamy, he reiterated his position that he would allow Putin to keep parts of Ukraine, block Ukraine from joining NATO and even visit Putin in Moscow. The GOP contender added: “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose.”
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 18, 2023 14:18:34 GMT
The Washington Post…
”The parents of a teenager killed in the Parkland school shooting led a convoy of over 20 empty school buses in a protest to demand action against gun violence. The buses — with nearly 66 seats each — represented the 1,500 children killed by guns in 2023.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2023 14:23:11 GMT
The Washington Post… ”The parents of a teenager killed in the Parkland school shooting led a convoy of over 20 empty school buses in a protest to demand action against gun violence. The buses — with nearly 66 seats each — represented the 1,500 children killed by guns in 2023.” Heart breaking..... |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2023 16:19:12 GMT
What happens when you hand power to an idiot!! "I’m not changing my mind,” Tuberville said Thursday (video below). “I don’t care if they promote anybody. To be honest, we got 44 four-star generals right now. We only had seven in World War II. So I think we’re a little overloaded to begin with.”*** But now Tuberville, who infamously was unable to correctly name the three branches of the federal government, is suggesting another reason he is blocking the promotions is because, he alleges, the Senate hasn’t followed the U.S. Constitution since Trump left office. "I’ve been up there almost three years and the animals are running the zoo after President Trump left office. They haven’t done anything that’s actually gone through the Constitution,” Tuberville on Thursday told former Trump campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle on her podcast. He offered no proof or examples to support his allegations. (Me, what needs to go through the Constitution daily?)www.rawstory.com/i-dont-care-expanding-claims-tuberville-refuses-to-drop-blockade-on-hundreds-of-military-promotions/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2023 17:55:58 GMT
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 18, 2023 18:10:57 GMT
And yet we did nothing to slow the use of opioids for years. We do nothing to stop the flow of guns to the cartels. Also you can’t murder someone that’s only suspected of doing something. Does he also not know that most of the drugs are transported by Americans? I want to see drugs stopped but executing suspects and bombing Mexico isn’t the way to do it. |
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Post by Gem Girl on Aug 18, 2023 19:18:49 GMT
He would ALLOW Putin to keep parts of Ukraine. “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose”. Seriously? Jim Acosta. ”During my interview with Ramaswamy, he reiterated his position that he would allow Putin to keep parts of Ukraine, block Ukraine from joining NATO and even visit Putin in Moscow. The GOP contender added: “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose.” Oh, I didn't know that, Ramaswamy. So, I guess you missed the whole Cold War era? Everything the government did to protect our interests against theirs before TFG started kissing up to his Pootie-Pie was just a waste? |
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Post by Gem Girl on Aug 18, 2023 19:29:16 GMT
The Washington Post… ”The parents of a teenager killed in the Parkland school shooting led a convoy of over 20 empty school buses in a protest to demand action against gun violence. The buses — with nearly 66 seats each — represented the 1,500 children killed by guns in 2023.” Good idea to make the impact graphically visible and likely to get network news coverage. Shame that the R's won't care. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 18, 2023 19:57:04 GMT
And yet we did nothing to slow the use of opioids for years. We do nothing to stop the flow of guns to the cartels. Also you can’t murder someone that’s only suspected of doing something. Does he also not know that most of the drugs are transported by Americans? I want to see drugs stopped but executing suspects and bombing Mexico isn’t the way to do it. Exactly. Not sure why fentanyl is suddenly a hot topic? Other than a deflection from Trump and his legal problems. Ramaswamy is talking about it, too, and blaming the border and fentanyl on Biden. Nothing new there but it's still false. I don't know why rep[orters and Democrats are not pushing back on this. www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1191638114/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-border-drugsProsecutors and defense lawyers say Haley's story is typical; the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley. Virtually none is seized from migrants seeking asylum. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 18, 2023 20:04:22 GMT
More on Republicans and their war on Mexico www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132In recent weeks, Donald Trump has discussed sending “special forces” and using “cyber warfare” to target cartel leaders if he’s reelected president and, per Rolling Stone, asked for “battle plans” to strike Mexico. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he is open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug lords even without that nation’s permission. And lawmakers in both chambers have filed legislation to label some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move supported by GOP presidential aspirants.Other 2024 candidates side with Trump. Using military force on cartels without Mexico’s permission “would not be the preferred option, but we would absolutely be willing to do it,” entrepreneur and conservative activist Vivek Ramaswamy said in an interview. What the cartels are doing “is a form of attack” on the United States, he added. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 18, 2023 20:17:09 GMT
This looks like a big middle finger to Fox. Maybe because they're using unflattering pictures.  . The real story - 1. He doesn't have the courage to debate other Republicans. Christie would tear him apart. 2. No way in hell would he sign the loyalty pledge. He's not going to support the Republican candidate, unless it's him. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/trump-debate-tucker-carlson.htmlFormer President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 18, 2023 20:53:39 GMT
The conservative war on the US Women's soccer team and equal pay www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion/womens-world-cup-final-uswnt-megan-rapinoe.htmlThe U.S. team certainly fell short of its best in this tournament. But few of the women’s recent critics supported this team when they were champions, either. This is no ordinary “Shut up and play.” What they really seem to be saying is: Just shut up.
That’s absurd. The only reason this team has a game to play at all — a right to the same work opportunities that most men can take for granted — is through speaking out. For these players, fighting is existential. In that way, the experience of the U.S. women’s team reflects the confounding experience of so many women trying to make a case for their callings and careers around the world.
The women argued that despite their best-in-world status, they were still treated as inferior to the men’s team in their own country. They received less pay and less support. Finally, in 2022 they won a $24 million settlement and a pledge for equal pay.
It was an extraordinary victory, one as significant as any trophy. It was never intended to be a trade-off between winning and fair pay. But America has long struggled to understand that perfection is not a precondition for equality. In women’s soccer, at least, now is our chance.
It won’t be easy. Women’s sports have long been relegated to the realm of inspiration and the inessential. Men’s sports are where you make money, even when you lose. Amid this, female athletes have carved out our own approach, because we have had to.
we are witnessing a seismic change in women’s soccer that is incredibly exciting. Both finalists this year, Spain and England, are first-time contenders for the global title. Both countries now have equal pay structures for their men’s and women’s teams. This, too, is astonishingly recent. In England, for example, women were barred from playing organized soccer for 50 years, until 1971 — a common theme for women’s sports around the world. Now the world is catching up with America and will continue to push higher. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2023 21:40:19 GMT
Some voter suppression laws overturned just today. mark Elias..
Georgia. water and food allowed to be given out to voter lines . Not to require birthdate on outside of mail-in ballots.
Something in AZ and another state.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 18, 2023 22:17:05 GMT
In depth opinion on maternal mortality which is really high in the US, especially for women of color. The rate in the US doubled in the last 20 years. The mortality rate in states with abortion bans was already high and will only increase. I know we have good quality medical care, but there are a lot of qualifiers - it depends on who you are, your access and your ability to pay. Gift article - no paywall wapo.st/44gIRpOA paper published in JAMA in July found that more than twice the number of people in the United States are dying of pregnancy-related causes than 20 years ago.
Most interventions to improve maternal health focus on prenatal care and delivery. To be sure, these are critical periods in pregnancy. The majority of pregnancy-related deaths, however, occur postpartum.
For many American mothers, postpartum care does not functionally exist — a pattern Jessica L. Cohen, an associate professor of global health at Harvard University and an affiliated researcher with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), describes as a “chasm of accountability.”
According to the CDC’s 2021 data, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 2.6 times higher than that for White women. Also American Indian and Alaska Native women are twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women.
Some of this discrepancy has to do with the interlocking challenges facing Black women and other women of color — a type of “chronic stress” that University of Michigan professor Arline Geronimus called “weathering.” And it’s true that differences in maternal health outcomes will persist as long as disparities in housing, income, physical safety, health and treatment do. |
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Post by dawnnikol on Aug 18, 2023 23:05:13 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 18, 2023 23:27:00 GMT
I saw that, isn’t that something and disgusting. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 0:26:43 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 0:31:16 GMT
I saw that, isn’t that something and disgusting. You can't buy class!! Just the GOP obsession with sex and body parts etc that they are surely missing out on . Except the ones who are adulterers or less holes (gotta love auto-correct) pedophiles. |
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 19, 2023 3:15:44 GMT
The fact that they don't see their own hypocrisy is just mind boggling. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 4:06:05 GMT
More on Tuberville... NATIONALPhotos put Tuberville in Trump’s hotel on Jan. 5 despite denying meeting
The photos and Facebook post put Tuberville, Donald Trump Jr., Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani and others at the Trump hotel on Jan. 5.ByEDDIE BURKHALTERPublished on January 27, 2021 at 7:47 am CST Updated on January 27 at 5:55 pm Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville through a spokeswoman Tuesday denied meeting with the then-director of the Republican Attorneys General Association and others inside Trump’s private residence at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 — on the eve of the deadly U.S. Capitol attack. But a photo posted to social media appearsto show Tuberville in the hotel’s lobby that day, and a company CEO in a separate post describes meeting with Tuberville and others at the hotel that day and discussing “illegal votes.” *** Tuberville, through a spokeswoman Tuesday, told APR that he did not attend a Jan. 5 meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. A photo posted to an Instagram user’s account appears to show Tuberville standing in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5. The user captioned the photo “Newly elected Senator Tommy Tuberville.” In two other separate photos, the person posted images of Flynn and Donald Trump Jr. inside the hotel on Jan. 5. Attempts to reach the person who posted that photo were unsuccessful Tuesday. (Sen. Tommy Tuberville inside the lobby of the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5, according to an Instagram post. (VIA INSTAGRAM) Daniel Beck, CEO of an Idaho technology company, in a Facebook post at 10:27 p.m. on Jan. 5 wrote that he’d spent the evening with Tuberville, Trump Jr. and girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, Michael J. Lindell, Navarro and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. He wrote: “The Trump hotel is Amazing!! Fifteen of us spent the evening with Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tommy Tuberville, Michael J. Lindell, Peter Navarro, and Rudy Giuliani. We talked about the elections, illegal votes, court cases, the republics’ status, what to expect on the hill tomorrow. TRUMP WILL RETAIN THE PRESIDENCY!!!!!A commenter on Beck’s post wrote: “My God look at what is happening now at the Capital. Is this what America has become. These are NOT Democrats doing this. So our Senate and House are under lockdown. Is this what all you discussed at your meeting?” Beck responded: “not at all." www.alreporter.com/2021/01/27/photos-posts-put-tuberville-in-trumps-hotel-on-jan-5-despite-him-denying-meeting/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 4:47:50 GMT
Just in from Truth Social...
"'Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.'” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this??? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!" Trump wrote on Friday.
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Post by samantha25 on Aug 19, 2023 4:52:02 GMT
Just in from Truth Social... "'Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.'” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this??? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!" Trump wrote on Friday. He's so stupid. That's what I don't understand with the MAGA. If he was a smooth talker or sounded like he had an ounce of intelligence, but he is so unintelligent. |
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Post by samantha25 on Aug 19, 2023 5:38:19 GMT
WOW- I don't understand why people keep saying Joe is too old. What a cop out. He is getting things done. The media is biased and tainted in posting the sensational twist and not the mundane, normal things. But damn, Biden is TCB in a terrible situation that ANY president would have to recover from and doing phenomenal- COVID, insurrection, corruption, indictments, inflation, supply chain issues, decreased unemployment, insulin caps, limited student loan relief, increased wages, etc.... No president is perfect, but I don't get it why media and Americans don't shout out what Joe has done. It doesn't matter what party affiliate you are. Why can't people just acknowledge the good?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 5:42:34 GMT
Democrats in general don't promote themselves and their accomplishments often enough. But they certainly could promote each other to inform the electorate!! samantha25 |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 19, 2023 17:33:17 GMT
I'm worried, too. No other leaders will trust him with information, classified documents or trust what he says. Pompeo was terrible, I can't imagine who he would appoint in a 2nd administration. Maybe Jared. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/world/europe/trump-2024-election-europe.html
In Europe, Few Even Want to Talk About Trump Part 2
The prospect of a second presidential term for Donald J. Trump has many officials worried about alliance cohesion, NATO and the war in Ukraine.
For most European governments, it is almost too upsetting to think about, let alone debate in public. But the prospect that Donald J. Trump could win the Republican nomination for the presidency and return to the White House is a prime topic of private discussion.
“It’s slightly terrifying, it’s fair to say,” said Steven Everts, a European Union diplomat who is soon to become the director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies. “We were relieved by President Biden and his response to Ukraine,” Mr. Everts said, “but now we’re forced to confront the Trump question again.” |
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Post by Gem Girl on Aug 19, 2023 19:40:20 GMT
Just in from Truth Social... "'Hey, I’m running against a guy, I’m going to Indict him 3 or 4 times to keep him busy.'” Does anyone think that Crooked Joe Biden would have said something like this??? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!" Trump wrote on Friday. He's so stupid. That's what I don't understand with the MAGA. If he was a smooth talker or sounded like he had an ounce of intelligence, but he is so unintelligent. Most MAGAts don't sound any better. Those I know who support TFG are either lower-middle- to lower-class folks who love that he's hateful to the same people that they hate or they want the loot (they're well-to-do business owners who like the tax breaks). |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 20:02:19 GMT
America's idiot, more like America's shame.. Donald Trump saying he was the "apple" of Vladimir Putin's eye is sparking some harsh criticism. David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said helping Trump to become the president was Putin's "supreme accomplishment as dictator." *** "A perverse truth here. Helping Trump into the US presidency was Putin's supreme accomplishment as dictator. A Trump 2nd term would have wrecked NATO from within," Frum wrote Saturday. "With no one to help it, Ukraine would have been easy pickings for Putin." *** Presidential historian Michael Beschloss took a more historical approach: "Never heard Truman boast of being the 'apple' of Stalin’s eye," he said. Ron Filipkowski, a former Republican, had an extremely simple response. "Yeah, we know. Putin’s most useful American idiot," he wrote. www.rawstory.com/trump-backlash-putin/ |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 19, 2023 20:13:38 GMT
In case you don't want to click on the tweet. Here is the rest of his statement.
Use our military to secure our border & to annihilate the Mexican drug cartels if necessary. If we’re ready to actually do it, the Mexican government will step up & regain its sovereignty. That’s how we solve the problem.
Sure they will step up just like they paid for the wall .. They'll send every drug shipment and dealer here to punish us, with good reason.
And he is supposed to be the smart one. Attack Mexico our immediate neighbor and hand Ukraine to Putin...
Let us not forget he will pardon TFG, leave NATO, and screw all of Europe and the rest of the world. You go Vivek!!!
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 19, 2023 20:28:11 GMT
NWS Bay Area…
“⚠️Welcome to California! Red Flag Warnings due to fire weather concerns to the N & Wind, Flood, & Tropical Storm Warnings to the S for Hurricane Hilary. Lots of impactful weather for the Golden State. Please visit weather.gov for the most up to date info #cawx”
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. The real story - 1. He doesn't have the courage to debate other Republicans. Christie would tear him apart. 2. No way in hell would he sign the loyalty pledge. He's not going to support the Republican candidate, unless it's him.
