"... we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Country.' But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!"
Trump is on a roll on Truth Social this morning. That may be his best written work — most absurdly comic and yet too true — maybe ever.
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183 comments:
There should be a close quotation mark after "miles," and an open quotation mark before "a bad and humiliating day."
WaPo's insufferable David Ignatius was on Morning Joe saying that is very painful for Z to give up land to Ukraine.
Compared to what? Another million Ukrainians dead?
He's just trolling them now. He must know what's going to happen later. If Z is wearing a suit and tie then we will know there is a peace deal coming.
With all the accomplishments Trump has had in seven months, I wonder what the other presidents were doing.
Yeah, it's pretty much a guarantee that even if Trump gets peace in Ukraine, cures cancer, and introduces the Lord Jesus Christ at a press conference that the left would still scream that he is the worst person in the history of the world.
A reminder that peace and ceasefires are not the same thing.
I see Axios reporting that the WH did ask Z to dress for success today. Standing by my 9:10 prediction. Shorter version: No suit = no deal
Nice of the VP to enter the chat.
I agree, the fake news media is truly and comically absurd, yet millions get their "facts", their "science", and their opinions from them. How the 38% of Americans who still support the Democrats got so absurdly dumb should be studied and produce multiple dissertations and PhDs in psychology and political science, but we all know those would never fly in academia. There is not a more serious and substantial issue in the field than this. It's real, pervasive and extremely dangerous to the future of mankind,... and the womens too, whatever that is.
I have such contempt for the MSM, I don't care what they say. What's astounding about their coverage of Ukraine is how childish and clownish it is. They also seem to think they're Ukrainians and not Americans.
Unfortunately, Trump plays into their hands by reacting, he should be contemptous and calling them lying children. Instead, he wants their praise and approval.
The fake newz media adored their fake prezident - Crook Joe.
and trained riot master- Kamala.
Somebody in Trump's white house should go through the WaPo/NYT's achive for the last 10 years and total up the articles/Columns that are pro-Trump vs. Anti-Trump and publish the results. I'd bet the result would be 2000 negative stories vs. 3 postive ones.
Excuse me, but I'll have you know he used three exclamation points, not two.
Trump is singlehandedly redefining the news audience for these losers. All the institutional fakenews pioneers are losing market share, losing audience, losing influence, losing allies in DC while new media proliferates, grows, makes news every day.
Why doesn't he just end the war as he promised (Day 1 I recall). Are we supposed to feel sorry for the nut? That the press may never give him credit he deserves, doesn't mean that when they criticize him that they are always wrong.
I feel sorry for YOU, jim5301 that you are butthurt no matter what Trump does. Grow up.
They would call him an authoritarian for taking that much land.
Will Democrats explain to me how Ukraine can get back the territory that they already lost to Russia?
No treaty is going to do that. The Europeans are not going to send their troops to fight the Russians.
Hmmm. Who does that leave?
More like, Donnie could totally sell out Ukraine to his pal Putin and his sycophantic cult would claim it as a victory.
Did Neville Chamberlain ever get that Nobel?
"I wonder what the other presidents were doing."
They were running for a 2nd term.
Trump has the luxury of not having to do that.
And that's precisely what the Deep State that actually runs the country was afraid of.
Trump is unburdened by what has been.
AMDG said...
A reminder that peace and ceasefires are not the same thing.
This is a very apt and insightful comment. I am not being sarcastic despite who posted this.
The warmongers want a ceasefire so they can lace the ground with tripwires and European troops expand the war.
Trump wants peace.
The path to peace starts and ends with NATO and Russia both giving up territorial ambitions.
The only way to achieve that is pain for the political classes. Elections in the occupied territories and all countries involved would supply this pain.
D-gag-Inag hath spoken.
TeaBagHag said...
More like, Donnie could totally sell out Ukraine to his pal Putin and his sycophantic cult would claim it as a victory.
Did Neville Chamberlain ever get that Nobel?
Obama is on video with Russian leaders promising to commit treason. Imagine what this retard would do with that video if it was Trump.
These people are just really dumb.
What were other Presidents doing: "They were running for a 2nd term. Trump has the luxury of not having to do that."
I love it. President Trump 2.0 ..... the IDGAF version
It has been my experience that today’s Democrats are likely ignoramuses, diehards or communists. It is not productive in individual cases trying to determine which. They are all possessed by the same demon and bent on running the country into the ground. The leftmediaswine are their cheerleaders fooling “some of the people all of the time.” A. Lincoln (?).
Why is Trump posting so much this AM? Is he intimidated by the Europeans accompanying Zelensky today? Does he feel increasingly isolated from the West’s world leaders? Why is Trump sounding antagonistic toward Ukraine again? Is he embarrassed by his meeting with Putin and is trying to rebuild his image as a tough guy?
Putin's messenger boy.
"What was in it for them?"
Inga said...
Why is Trump posting so much this AM? Is he intimidated by the Europeans accompanying Zelensky today? Does he feel increasingly isolated from the West’s world leaders? Why is Trump sounding antagonistic toward Ukraine again? Is he embarrassed by his meeting with Putin and is trying to rebuild his image as a tough guy?
Inga wants Trump to shut up.
Inga supported the US Government colluding with the largest corporations in the world to censor Trump and remove him from the Town Square. Then she supported efforts to throw him in jail. Then she supported efforts to kill Trump.
Make no mistake about Inga’s intent or the meaning of her questions. She wants her political opponents censored and in jail or dead.
We have Obama on video colluding with Russia and we have the receipts for millions of Russian dollars flowing into the Clinton foundation.
We have the documents showing both of them working with Russian spies to create the Steele dossier.
We have the documentation of the conspiracy to use that dossier to spy on the sitting president of the USA.
And yet we still have retards pretending that Trump is colluding with Putin.
Trump knows that he is not going to be able to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, even though he promised to end the war within 24 hours, so he's posting this as a distraction, like he usually does when things aren't going his way.
That the press may never give him credit he deserves, doesn't mean that when they criticize him that they are necessarily always wrong.
@jim5301, FIFY. My point being that it might be right to criticize President Trump on some issue or another, but since his election his sole misstep has been that it is taking more than 24 hours to bring peace to Ukraine. Apparently he thought the US had some leverage that we don’t have after all. On everything else — literally everything else — he’s been right and his critics wrong. Considering that so far in this term he’s been the most active President since FDR in 1933, that’s saying something.
You can keep sniping at the President; it’s a free country after all (at least until the next Democrat occupies the Oval Office), but you do look kind of stupid, you know.
I’m an old man now, almost an octogenarian, and I can remember that when liberals believed that they were the smartest people in the room, that they had the best ideas, and they weren’t all that wrong. These days liberals still think they’re the smartest people in the room, but now they’re just being delusional and their ideas suck. A woman gets five years for welfare fraud, and thanks to 21st century liberals she gets to share her cell with a biological male convicted of rape. He says he’s trans, you see, so the state provides him a biological female cellmate to prey upon. Good work liberals! Good work, feminists!
"I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, 'We give up, we concede, we surrender...we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles…”
Hmm….is he giving us a hint on what the 52nd state is going to be?
Trump is right wrt the US MSM.
With all the accomplishments Trump has had in seven months, I wonder what the other presidents were doing.
Cashing Burisma checks from their bagman son.
“Inga wants Trump to shut up.”
No I don’t. It’s good to know what is buzzing around in his brain at any given moment.
And while I was typing my comment who should show up to prove my point but Inga the Stinka and lonejustice.
Point proven.
Case closed.
AMDG said...
"A reminder that peace and ceasefires are not the same thing."
To the people who are getting killed it is.
NATO is a collective defense association. They dont have territorial ambitions, it just doesnt work that way. Its like the EU, which is hard to join.
Countries beg to join, because they feel threatened. Usually this perception is accurate. Putin got two more to join, Sweden and Finland. Putin is the best salesman of NATO memberships since the USSR.
Most of the complaints about NATO expansion leave out the reason why. Its because the Soviets were such utter shits.
The more Putin acts like USSR II the more "NATO" he will sell.
If Putin wants less NATO then he, and Russia, should, maybe, act differently.
buwaya said...
NATO is a collective defense association. They dont have territorial ambitions, it just doesnt work that way. Its like the EU, which is hard to join.
You can’t post something this obviously wrong in good faith.
Mommas gaddafi would disagree with you if he was alive and hadn’t been drug through the streets and sodomized because Europe was trying to hold on to the Sahel.
Rusty said...
AMDG said...
"A reminder that peace and ceasefires are not the same thing."
To the people who are getting killed it is.
A ceasefire for them is at best a temporary reprieve.
If Europe succeeds in installing a tripwire force and dragging the US into the conflict WWIII will make Ukraine ground zero for something more the scale of what happened in 1944.
Buwaya, what was the Cuban Missile Crisis about? Why did the world come to the brink of nuclear war? Let me remind you, we put missiles in Turkey, which the press never reported at the time, and the Soviets responded by putting missiles in Cuba, which lead to the brink of WWIII. Why? Did the Russians push it to the brink over those Cuban missiles? Nope, we did.
Why should any country that the US doesn't like want NATO in the area? Look what NATO did to Qaddafi, who died with an AK-47 rammed up his ass, this is what a "defensive only" military alliance does?
NATA has been involved in other wars of aggression that have led to refugee crises in Europe as well, Syria, first time, Iraq, in fact the Nazi states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were awarded NATO membership on account of sending troops to participate in Desert Storm.
What about Yugoslavia? NATO divided that country up by force, which makes it pretty ironic when NATO complains about what Russia is doing by intervening in a civil war on its border that the US started by fomenting a coup in Kiev, which the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine rejected, and so took up arms in 2014.
Your press in Europe does not give you the whole story.
Why were the Soviets such utter shits? Because Hitler, like Napoleon, showed up in Moscow bent on conquest. The Soviets invasion of Europe was a counterattack against the second Western European attempt to conquer Russia. Stalin wasn't even Russian, he was Georgian, and Krushchev was Ukrainian, but let's forget all of that!
You should read some history to go along with the firehose of propaganda that is European media today.
I think that the plan to collapse the Russian Federation was modeled on the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which lost a war that it was considered that it absolutely had to win, and after this happened, its allies melted away and its credibility was destroyed, and the empire collapsed.
This was the hope, I think, behind this war with Russia that NATO and the US have been waging. It's why we provoked the war in Ukraine in the first place by putting the Maidan nazis in power there. We had been nursing this movement ever since the end of WWII, these fascists who were embittered by the Soviet defeat of Hitler, as a thorn in the USSR's side. The USSR is gone, but the anti Soviet zombie movement lived on.
People take about "Ruzzia" but the nazis they point to in Russia are always at Navalny rallies, Navalny was funded by the US to run for president in Russia. The whole Russiagate thing was projection.
most absurdly comic and yet too true — maybe ever.
Are you fucking kidding me?! Especially as you are still beating the "Biden is senile" story.
This is an embarrassment to the U.S. and the office of the President. The man is not right in the head.
Trump has made it clear that Ukraine is not joining NATO.
Ukraine needs to have elections before they decide to continue this war on their own.
You could not "model" a Russian collapse on the collapse of the Austro Hungarian empire. Thats because you have a closer example, the collapse of the Soviet empire. Both btw were due to economic crises. There were no sneaky British agents whispering in Czech ears (in either case). Both were due to massive screwups by the people in charge.
biden is senile.
I am trying to think of what the Soviets did that equalled all but wiping out the native population of the better part of a continent to take their land? What happened at Wounded Knee, for example? The US Army killed the last band of free roaming Sioux Indians, 300 men women and children.
As the Russians expanded east, they incorporated the native populations, they didn't wipe them out. It is this fact that we hope to use to divide Russia up along ethnic lines.
The Soviet Union voluntarily disbanded its empire.
People take about "Ruzzia" but the nazis they point to in Russia are always at Navalny rallies, Navalny was funded by the US to run for president in Russia. The whole Russiagate thing was projection.
Perhaps you and Achilles should change your pseudonym "Comrade". I am old enough to remembering when the right called anyone who was sympathetic to Russia would be called a commie. Hell, I am still called a commie here, still haven't figured out why.
Nazi states... You are nuts. Driven mad by consuming Russophile bs probably.
Have you actually been to Lithuania? (We were in Riga on a two day trip so I cant make great personal claims).
You are just deliberately misreading what I said. You are so emotionally worked up by the propaganda that you are doused in every day that you can't think about it dispassionately.
I think that there is a false hope that Russia will collapse due to our sanctions. How did Russia lose in WWI? Not on the battlefield, the regime collapsed at home in revolution. That's the model that the Ukrainians are banking on.
The Soviet Union couldnt afford to keep its empire, in large partvbecause the locals werent following orders
I once was in a social studies class in high school, and there was a Lithuanian girl in that class, and I will never forget when she said this "Lithuanians have the purest white blood in the world." It just is an in person confirmation of what I have later read about Lithuania.
When the the Lithuanians start celebrating the victory over Hitler? When NATO made them after admitting them.
Lithuanians generally prefer to approach their own history by honoring their fighters for resisting Soviet rule – and ignoring their active collaboration with the Nazis. The “victimization” approach largely precludes discussion about Lithuanian participation in Holocaust crimes and sparks chauvinistic sentiments. Recent threats to the Lithuanian Jewish community and signs of antisemitism highlight the problem. Lithuania accuses Russia of sowing domestic discord via fake news on this issue, but the problem is real and needs to be addressed. - Begin Sadat Center 2019
https://besacenter.org/lithuania-antisemitism-israel/
The Soviet Union is dead, but the axe to grind people live on.
"The Soviet Union couldnt afford to keep its empire, in large partvbecause the locals werent following orders"
Maybe they realized that it was all a mistake that people who were dead by then had made...
“You can’t post something this obviously wrong in good faith.”
Next Achilles will call Buwaya a “bad, terrible person”.
Admit it, you want the Russian Federation destroyed, and think that it is worth a war to do it. Fine, that's an honest argument, but all of this need for false flags, and denials about who we are allied with to accomplish it is intellectually dishonest.
The US has admitted using Jihadis in our plan to destroy Russia. Brzezinski admitted it in an interview. We certainly backed former Nazis in Soviet occupied countries, why do you feel the need to deny it if God is on your side, as they say.
What were the attacks in Europe by the "Red Brigades"? These were NATO trained terrorist organizations which were intended as leave behinds in the case of a Soviet invasion that never came. And the guys got bored and figure that a few false flag attacks blamed on the Soviets was better than hangin around cafés playing cards.
“Nazi states... You are nuts. Driven mad by consuming Russophile bs probably.”
As I said a couple of days ago, internalization of Russian propaganda.
As citizens of a democratic republic, we have a responsibility to know all of the facts, even those are facts that the people in power, say during the Biden Aministration, whose policies led to this conflagration, didn't want us to discuss publicly, or even think about, even as they are true.
All you have to do, Inga, is point out where I am wrong. Oh, that's right, you already explained that you won't be doing that.
Europe doesn’t want to conquer Russia, what absolute garbage. How about this? Russia doesn’t invade sovereign nations, too much to ask?
Big Mike said - " ...but since his election his sole misstep has been that it is taking more than 24 hours to bring peace to Ukraine."
I guess you are fine with his dozens of clearly unconstitutional executive orders (such as punishing law firms for employing or representing people he doesn't like) but let's agree to disagree and respect each other opinion as hard as that may be.
I'm okay with the "24-hour" statement. Everyone but perhaps some commentators here knew it was bullshit.
I would tell you to open a history book and read about how wars are actually started, but that is too big an ask for somebody who has so internalized their position that they cannot question it. How about this, how about I refer to a story book, would that be simple enough for you, Inga?
Remember the Princess Bride, Vizzini, when he explains that he is in the lucrative business of starting wars? You don't need someone like Vizzini if your plan is to simply march your soldiers across your neighbor's border. No, you need to create the idea that the other guy started it.
If you don't believe that Vizzini is based on what real people have done in history, I refer you to the book, "The Guns of August" and you can read about the maneuvers people went through to assign "the odium" of starting the conflict to the other side. It's in the first few chapters, but I bet that would make your head hurt.
And BTW, the story of arguing your position by calling the other guy a ___-lover, I guess in this case and "orc lover" is filled with people who history has smiled on in the end, I bet.
"The USSR is gone, but the anti Soviet zombie movement lived on."
In both the US and Europe, the Left was fine with Russia, when it was the HQ of a Communist empire with global aspirations. Now that it's just another white, Christian nation, they want to destroy it.
How about the US doesn't invade sovereign nations, or NATO doesn't invade sovereign nations? Too much to ask?
Jaq, is it too much to ask that you identify the people you are responding to in your retorts?
Jaq said...
Wounded knee was payback by the 7th calvary for June 25th 1876. It's stupid to place modern sentiments on 19th century actions.
If the indiginous people didn't want to war with the United States they should have not killed have declared war on the United States.
Everyone is too emotionally involved to realize that the Ukraine war is already over, it has no power, it is in suspended animation waiting for final disposal. The only risks it carries is in ongoing death and the fortunes of a few politicians.
The battle has moved on to China, we know this because no one is talking about China. There is power and energy there. I suspect China is waiting to see who is elected to follow Trump. If Democrats get into office then it may be in their interest to try a “Ukraine” of their own.
Hamas is critical to China as a way to keep the world in tears and distraction.
Jim numbers.
Which unconstitutional executive orders?
Zelensky has dropped the tee-shirt, but still wears no suit. He's in an all-black outfit---maybe he'll call it traditional Ukrainian garb.
Hmm. I will leave the sins of the Soviets to the kindergarten class. Its too easy. The sins of Old Russia, that's something else. Not often investigated.
You can start with the Circassian genocide - this really got started after Tolstoy's tour of duty so its not in his Cossack stories. It is in part the subject of "Sabres of Paradise", Lesley Blanch, the inspiration somewhat for Frank Herbert's "Dune". The genocide part is "the rest of the story".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
And this does go on, and on.
“A reminder that peace and ceasefires are not the same thing.”
A reminder addressed to amdg a step in the right direction is normally - for most people - a GOOD thing.
buwaya said...
The Soviet Union couldnt afford to keep its empire, in large partvbecause the locals werent following orders
They had that in common with Europe’s empire in the Sahel.
It is laughable when Europeans claim any sort of moral superiority over anyone in the world.
The only country in Western Europe that has anything to be proud of is England for their efforts to end slavery. The rest of European history has been dragging the world into giant wars and only being peaceful when occupied by the US.
“WaPo's insufferable David Ignatius was on Morning Joe saying that is very painful for Z to give up land to Ukraine.”
Say WHAT!?!?
Zelenskyy changed into a dark suit sans tie. Good news world: he really does want peace.
France doesn't even think it's own territory is sacrosanct see the no go zones in the ban lieus, thats the real threat to the republic, something macron doesn't care about same with starmer, in fact they imprison those who complain about the grooming gangs,
NATO invaded a sovereign nation? Did I miss something?
Josephbleau said...
Everyone is too emotionally involved to realize that the Ukraine war is already over, it has no power, it is in suspended animation waiting for final disposal. The only risks it carries is in ongoing death and the fortunes of a few politicians.
There are also a lot of purposeless moral retards who have no accomplishments or experience demonstrating courage who wish to stand on the bodies of dead soldiers and proclaim their valor.
The battle has moved on to China, we know this because no one is talking about China. There is power and energy there. I suspect China is waiting to see who is elected to follow Trump. If Democrats get into office then it may be in their interest to try a “Ukraine” of their own.
If Joe Biden was a Chinese Spy it would be hard to imagine him doing anything different than what he did.
Hamas is critical to China as a way to keep the world in tears and distraction.
Not Hamas. Iran.
Hamas is just one of the wheels China was counting on. The Houthis were shooting at all traffic in the straight except Chinese ships.
Everything was run through and managed by Iran including Hamas.
Jaq, aka Timofei and Tim in Vermont , said...
"How about the US doesn't invade sovereign nations, or NATO doesn't invade sovereign nations? Too much to ask?"
***************
It's laughable, and astounding, to see you offer such rhetorical snot-----when the Soviet "Union" and the former Iron Curtain countries were all results of the USSR invading nations and taking their sovereignty away!
And, why did all those former Soviet republics and East Bloc nations LEAVE the USSR, and chose to take back their sovereignty when the USSR fell?
Could it be they all detested being under the Soviet yoke?
Ignatius used to be a good fiction writer, that occasionally imparted facts, like the real history of the lebanese civil war
but now hes just another hack,
of course they want to take over Russia, they have made that clear, but experience since 1991, has made many Russians weary,
when the oligarchs stole most of the country for themselves, that was Summers and Sachs legacy,
“There are also a lot of purposeless moral retards who have no accomplishments or experience demonstrating courage who wish to stand on the bodies of dead soldiers and proclaim their valor.”
Achilles is the only true and moral genius who comments on these Althouse blogposts, wasn’t that OBVIOUS? Sheesh.
Rusty - here are a few examples I have taken the time to find for you:
https://primarynewssource.org/sourcedocument/addressing-risks-from-wilmerhale/
https://primarynewssource.org/sourcedocument/addressing-risks-from-jenner-block/
https://primarynewssource.org/sourcedocument/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss/
https://primarynewssource.org/sourcedocument/addressing-risks-from-perkins-coie-llp/
remember what happened at the abbey gate, anyone was punished, in fact they pushed for the next forever war, Milley Vanilli and Darth Austin,
https://www.piratewires.com/p/american-power
if they wanted us to lose, would they have done anything different,
Let us remember, it was Hillary who started the "fake news" accusations in 2016 .
Trump brilliantly stole it from her, turned the tables, and has used it effectively for years. Limbaugh may have played along as well.
Hillary Clinton calls fake news ‘an epidemic’ with real world consequences
.
"Dave Begley said...
With all the accomplishments Trump has had in seven months, I wonder what the other presidents were doing."
Wonder if Trump will continue full steam ahead for two years, get all the domestic lawsuits and delays out of the way, economy on track, taxes down, less fear, and then resign and turn it over to Vance. Let Vance get settled in to presidency while everything is hunky-dorey, set him up for 2028.
yes there wasn't one law firm, that wasn't a party to some element of fraud with Russia hoax, with Lawfare et al,
Inga said...
“There are also a lot of purposeless moral retards who have no accomplishments or experience demonstrating courage who wish to stand on the bodies of dead soldiers and proclaim their valor.”
Achilles is the only true and moral genius who comments on these Althouse blogposts, wasn’t that OBVIOUS? Sheesh.
Remember when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan Inga was against that war. We all know why.
Now she is for this war. We all know why.
Inga doesn’t have a soul toe principle or moral that will not be instantly changed if the change results in her having more power over other people.
Also remember that inga was one of the most enthusiastic champions of the Russian Collusion hoax and the J6 murdering police hoax.
There is no dead body that inga will not stand on and no bloody shirt she will not wave.
If you are on the same side of an argument as Inga you need to do some self reflection. She is the best example of a completely amoral piece of shit that does exactly what her master’s instruct her to do with no self respect or awareness.
Anyone who doesn’t buy everything Achilles asserts is simply just a terrrrible person.
Why doesn't he just end the war as he promised (Day 1 I recall).
Criticizing the guy for trying to end the war your people started.
Yeah. Go with that.
Dylan. Over 60 years ago.
As little kids, we learned to duck under our desks as protection from the Russian A-bombs that were due any day.
The Second World War came to an end
We forgave the Germans, and then we were friends
Though they murdered six million, in the ovens they fried
The Germans now too have God on their side
I learned to hate the Russians all through my whole life
If another war comes, it's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide
And accept it all bravely with God on my side
We recall the Cold War, when they had 40 divisions, in East Germany, and all the press were terrified of Reagan, thats what the day after, threads testament, count down to looking glass were about, not Brezhnev Andropov, and Chernenko,
of course most of this nuclear freeze folderall that Biden Kerry and company mouthed was Soviet propaganda
Inga said...
Anyone who doesn’t buy everything Achilles asserts is simply just a terrrrible person.
There is room for principled disagreement. If you want to discuss how different actions will lead to different results and more moral hazard in the future there is space for disagreement.
But anyone who makes a claim to superior morality or an impugns my patriotism to the United States will come under scrutiny.
In your case you are so hypocritical and obviously amoral that you become figure A. for dim witted maliciousness and evil that defines the modern day Democrat party.
the Soviet system was an evil system, it seems to be the favorite of the Dem majority, ration cards, free speech bans,
firing squads not a thing yet, but give them time,
they are not above shooting or beating unarmed civiilians to death, but perhaps not in sequence,
now actual criminals, well they should be given free range,
Democrats did celebrate murdering that girl in a prone position, in cold blood. All's fair in lust and abortion following progressive principles.
Three more Americans dead in an illegal alien vehicular homicide, licensed in Californication.
Pehaps George "Fentanyl" Floyd syndrome through drug migration, too, in excess deaths.
narciso said "yes there wasn't one law firm, that wasn't a party to some element of fraud with Russia hoax, with Lawfare et al,"
You know how things are supposed to work in a functioning democracy under the rule of law? 1) someone commits fraud, they are charged with committing fraud, 2) there is a trial, 3) if found guilty the judge imposes punishment.
You are fine with eliminating all due process and allowing Trump to make all these decisions.
(Not to mention that every court who looked at the orders found them unconstitutional - but of course judicial decisions are only "correct" when you agree with them.)
“You know how things are supposed to work in a functioning democracy under the rule of law? 1) someone commits fraud, they are charged with committing fraud, 2) there is a trial, 3) if found guilty the judge imposes punishment.”
Yes, in a country unburdened by thieving, skeeving, mendacious leftwing shitbirds, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.
'find me the man, I find you the crime' that seems the Dem motto, in Atlanta in NY in Washington only in Miami was there one judge who read the law and dismissed the case,
“But anyone who makes a claim to superior morality…”
That is EXACTLY what you do every single day here on these threads. Don’t you realize this?
the very fake Russian dossier, seeded a very real war, that has claimed a million lives ball park
all of the accusers Schiff James Hillary were guilty of one of more offenses, while they destroyed livelihoods and sometimes lives,
https://nypost.com/2024/08/30/us-news/maryland-gov-wes-moore-falsely-claimed-to-be-a-bronze-star-recipient-on-wh-fellowship-application/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social like danang dick
Roccean II, I asked Chat, "You said:
How many negative news story have been written about trump between that start of his first presidential victory and now? How many positive?" and got:
You're asking a fascinating—but extremely ambitious—question: “How many negative news stories have been written about Trump between the start of his first presidential victory and now? And how many positive?”
Why this is tough to quantify accurately
Enormous volume
Trump's media presence has been colossal. A Harvard study noted that in the first 100 days of his first presidency alone, his coverage outpaced that of all other newsmakers combined
Vox
+4
Shorenstein Center
+4
Vox
+4
. The scale is vast.
Lack of centralized tracking
Unlike approval ratings, there's no universal tally for “positive” vs. “negative” coverage. Sentiment analyses exist but are typically limited in scope or time.
Bias and methodology vary
Coverage tone can depend heavily on methodology—dictionary-based sentiment, manual labeling, or machine learning. Most public studies focus on short timeframes or specific campaigns, not continuous tracking since January 2017.
What studies and data are available
Media Research Center (2018 study)
Reported that 92% of media coverage of Trump’s first presidency was negative
Wikipedia
+1
. However, that’s a percentage-based snapshot, not a total count.
Sentiment analysis studies
Academic research on shorter periods (e.g., during the 2020 election) found that on Twitter, ~45.7% of Trump-related tweets were positive; on YouTube metadata, ~14.6% were positive
Shorenstein Center
+1
arXiv
+1
. These are social media, not news media.
Hackernoon article (2020)
Notes negative sentiment around Trump dipped after his COVID diagnosis—but again, not absolute counts
Wikipedia
+4
Shorenstein Center
+4
Pew Research Center
+4
Hacker Noon
+2
Vox
+2
.
So, in summary:
Exact counts of negative vs. positive news stories about Trump from his first electoral win (January 2017) to today (August 18, 2025) are not publicly available.
There is evidence that media coverage skewed overwhelmingly negative early in his presidency—perhaps over 90% of stories—but that’s a relative percentage, not a sheer number.
Sentiment studies on social media (e.g., Twitter, YouTube) show varied positivity levels in short windows, but don’t reflect traditional news stories.
If you'd like to dig deeper:
Here are some options:
Subscribe to or commission a media-monitoring service (e.g., LexisNexis, MediaQuant) that can run sentiment analysis across all mainstream outlets.
Narrow the timeframe (e.g., first 100 days, 2024 election cycle) to get estimates from academic studies or media-center reports.
Explore public sentiment data via platforms like Pew, academic journals, or consulting firms that sometimes share aggregated sentiment stats.
Let me know if you'd like links to specific tools or studies by time period—I’m happy to help you explore further!
Interesting article that uses images of smiles vs image of non-smiles in publications to gage positive versus negative coverage https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10738
Fuck me running, if James Comey’s Taylor Swift superfandumb and his memorizing her song lyrics isn’t a head scratcher in the first degree.
its statistically impossible to get such ridiculous ratings,
Comey looks absolutely terrified!
Inga said...
“But anyone who makes a claim to superior morality…”
That is EXACTLY what you do every single day here on these threads. Don’t you realize this?
You can be forgiven for your stupidity and inability to read simple words.
I do not claim moral superiority over anyone anymore when the topic is war. I made that mistake when I was young and I thought I was doing good things.
Then I went to war and shot people and participated in awful things. I was betrayed by my leaders and used as a pawn. I realized that all claims of morality and right and wrong in war were cover for evil and deception. Anyone claiming to be the good person in war is contributing to evil outcomes.
Now I only care about the results. I don’t care what anyone says. I care what they do. War is about who lives and who dies and who is allowed to define the social contract.
In 10 years nothing will be different in Ukraine for the people living there no matter who wins except there will be fewer men around and fewer kids. The parties in this war are the same parties that betrayed us in Afghanistan and Iraq.
There will be a bunch of oligarchs in Moscow ruling over some of them and some Oligarchs in Kyiv ruling over others. There will be corrupt warmongers in Washington DC who line their pockets with war profits. There will be greedy Europeans who want to replace their colonies in Africa with colonies in Asia.
There will be a bunch of cowards wearing Ukraine flag pins with Ukrainian flags in their social media bios wearing the bloody shirts they stain in the graves of soldiers they care nothing about. Most of these people are the shitheads that called us murderers and called Bush a war criminal.
The only person who cares about all of the little people involved is Trump. The attacks on Trump’s attempts to end this war from moral degenerates like you could not be more hypocritical and despicable.
You are scum.
Scientists in New Mexico announced a potential breakthrough in the fight against Cancer. Inspired by what they read about President Trump’s remarks about Covid, the researchers started adding a tiny bit of bleach to their formulations for new chemotherapy treatments. At a press conference last week the doctors announced that they are seeing startlingly good results in mice and hope to start human trials soon. Dr. John Doe joked, “If we ever get a Nobel Prize for this we will have to share it with President Trump.”
In other news, Congressional Democrats today proposed an Article of Impeachment against President Trump for the High Crime of practicing medicine without a license.
Outside the White House, protesters gathered with signs indicating their support for Cancer.
that was the al green position, they are now for pesticides now
of course the only one who injected himself with bleach, was cuomo's dotty wife, thanks to his hack doctor,
“The only person who cares about all of the little people involved is Trump. The attacks on Trump’s attempts to end this war from moral degenerates like you could not be more hypocritical and despicable.
You are scum.”
You are so deluded.
honestly you should make the costanza rule less obvious,
Democrats in power/media are horrible people who only care about power, self enrichment, ego... and LIES.
For those of you who might not be interested in Colorado politics and our corrupt one party rule and our budget hole - I strongly suggest you read this anyway.
it's a glimpse into the Democrat lie machine in Colorado.
Marco Rubio takes the Hack-D media behind the wood shed.
Igna ignorantly said..
"Europe doesn’t want to conquer Russia, what absolute garbage."
Could someone give me a rough count, of the times Europe has invaded Russia?
Napoleon and Hitler come to mind..
there's Also the Crimean War..
then there was Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
i hadn't even heard of this one! (Ukrainian–Soviet War)..
then there was the Finnish Civil War
(when the Germans took Finland from the Russians)..
i'm sure i'm missing quite a few? can anyone fill me in?
also: It goes without saying, that IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE,
the European invasions were ALL Super GOOD! and necessary!
because otherwise we'd be saying that Germany and France DON'T have a right to invade Russia..
And, CLEARLY! the ONLY Reason it happens SO OFTEN,
is because there are SO MANY Russians hiding out in Russia
oh, also; could someone give me a list of ALL the times Russian invaded Europe (also, maybe list how far they got)
More Marco on the Democrat party /Meet the Press.
volume ... up it.
One more Rubio clip.
"JOURNALIST": "Can you name any concessions Putin made?"
RUBIO: "I wouldn't name them on your program! Why would I do that??"
It's comical at this point 🤣
All you have to do is ask: Would Inga and her friends rather have Trump get full credit for bringing peace to Ukraine or would they rather have another half million dead people there?
And we all know they would much rather have yet another mountain of skulls rather than Trump get any "good press."
So, Inga: Tell us how you plan to "win the war" in Ukraine. Without killing millions of Americans. If you have no such plan, then please admit it and shut up about Trump trying to achieve peace, because otherwise you are just demanding bloodshed for bloodshed's sake and to "Get Trump!!!!!!!"
“Would Inga and her friends rather have Trump get full credit for bringing peace to Ukraine or would they rather have another half million dead people there?”
If Trump ended the war by himself he would deserve to get full credit. Why would anyone want the war to go on? To suggest that Democrats want more deaths is an example of the twisted mind games Vance and his fellow extremists like to play.
Colorado link
In 56 and 68, the Soviet reinvaded, Hungary then Czechoslovakia, the last with half a million troops, the fellow who was the Ambassador to Hungary, later became the Prime Minister and the press raved over him because he played Jazz, that tells you everything about the press,
Inga says that to suggest Democrats want more death is a "twisted mind game." Yet today, I read about Democrat governor of New York Hochul literally pardoning convicted murderers in an attempt to keep them from being deported.
That is clearly promoting violence and wanting more deaths. As for Ukraine, Inga fails to remember that it was Joe Biden himself who authorized a "limited excursion" into Ukraine by Russia. She had no problems with that then....
gilbar said...
oh, also; could someone give me a list of ALL the times Russian invaded Europe (also, maybe list how far they got)
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To address your question:
Russia has invaded or militarily intervened in Sweden, Poland (several times), Finland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine. and Europea parts of the Ottoman empire.
If you want a timeline of such actions, go get it yourself on any AI platform
In CO - the dems are giving illegals drivers licenses.
Illegals are killing people on our roads.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/clown-cars-monday-august-18-2025
If Trump ended the war by himself he would deserve to get full credit.
Save this line. No. Not because she's planning to give Trump any credit should the war end.
Nope. It's a caveat should Trump facilitate all the players coming together to end the war (which he's trying to do), it would be quite clear Trump didn't do it 'by himself."
That's the level of dishonesty we're dealing with here.
“ To suggest that Democrats want more deaths”
BLM riots
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/08/18/trump-zelensky-hot-mic-about-press-n2417538
so, we're all agreed then?
That Russia has NEVER invaded western europe (Germany France, etc) ??
just checking
Euros (or rather those from the west of whatever the border was) invading Russia -
Not including numerous border wars with ex. Lithuania and Sweden as Muscovy was expanding.
Poles (and dissident Russians) 1609-1618, took Moscow
Swedes concurrently took and held Novgorod (with Novgorodnik acquiesence) and elsewhere, 1611-1617
This all was in the nature of a Russian civil war.
Swedes 1700-1721 Great Northern War
Napoleons invasion of Russia, 1812
Britain, France etc. 1854-56 Crimean war.
Germany, Austria-Hungary 1914-1918
Numerous, complex interventions by many powers supporting, generally, the "whites" in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
Poland? Russo-Polish war 1919-21 The Poles intervened in Ukraine early on to try support the nascent Ukrainian state.
Germany (and etc) 1941-45
A really good list of all conflicts Russia has been mixed up in -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
You can yourself figure out from the list -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
- how many times Russia in its various iterations has invaded/intervened/put down revolts by conquered states in what is now European/NATO territory. It is a lot.
Achilles, your 3:11 PM soliloquy is great. It should get passed all around the internet like the Flight 93 Election essay or Derbyshire's The Talk.
RLTW
JSM
"In CO - the dems are giving illegals drivers licenses.
Illegals are killing people on our roads."
"Our roads"? California's got that beat. They gave out a license to an illegal who went on to kill three people in Florida.
Gilbar - "(when the Germans took Finland from the Russians).."
The Finns don't think so. Germany helped the Finnish "whites" but could not have intervened with their minimal forces (@10,000) had there not been a large and effective Finnish "white" army doing the heavy lifting.
Ukraine was trying to become a proper European country, the model was Poland. The critical element was EU membership. The effect of that would have been a massive reduction in corruption, and a great reduction in "political risk" of investments, as there was some sort of oversight (even if only only a matter of perception) of potential political excesses by formerly bitter factions. Normal administration and normal politics became possible. This is how Spain, for instance, finally entered the "First World" in the 1980s.
And they ARE happy about that. Even the $%$# Hungarians. They know where their bread is buttered, no matter Orbans noise.
You characters keep complaining about the EU but you don't bother to understand it.
Just curious...has the ban against the R word been rescinded? It sure has been used a lot lately.
Ukraine offers $100bn weapons deal to Trump to win security guarantees ~ FT
The reality of playing a completely transactional game is your negotiating partners may be better than you at putting together a winning set of transactions, and then offering you a deal you cannot reject. And that deal may be more what they want than what you thought you were going to get.
Brilliant political moves by Ukraine, the EU and UK!
Presses all the right Trump buttons by matching his stated bluster and goals and giving him a chance to look great (at least in his own eyes).
Immediate increase in tangible military support for Ukraine gives them the tools to hold back Russian advances and push them back while continuing to chew up military targets inside Russia.
Huge short and long term financial commitment by EU, UK and Ukraine proves to Putin and Russia Europe’s overwhelming united commitment to stop Putin and his criminal gang dead in their tracks,
Combines with crackdown on India’s and China’s buying Russian oil and gas, which takes the final steps to cripple Russia’s economy and provide a critical bargaining chip in both country’s Tariff bargaining, again making Trump look good.
Takes advantage of a weakened Russian military and economy by removing Putin’s options for rebuilding his military or his war footing economy during a staged temporary halt in fighting. All Putin’s claims he doesn’t want a cease fire are because his military desperately needs a cease fire! He has run out of tanks. Ukraine is chewing up his military production, oil and gas production and infrastructure, and he can’t rebuild it fast enough. And politically he cannot keep throwing Russian men into a meat grinder in Ukraine.
Trump has been placed in a position where he will have to participate in the world calling Putin’s bluff.
It’s being reported that Trump paused the meeting with the European leaders to have a 40 minute phone call with Putin. Trump checking in with the boss?
Wow that went in the sh!tt3r fast
Austria and Finland managed to become wealthy countries without belonging to NATO or the EU. They joined the EU in 1995 and Finland joined NATO in 2023. Austria is still outside NATO. Norway is still outside of the EU, as Britain now is. Switzerland is not a member of NATO or the EU.
There are different ways to prosperity and security. The conflicts between the rich countries like Germany and the poor ones like Greece might have been a sign that not all was skittles and beer in the European Union. Greece's GDP per capita was 56% of the EU average per capita GDP. Ukraine's was 12%. It would take a lot of work to bring up that average and until that happens, Ukraine will get an awful lot of funding from the EU. Maybe the EU will be able to assure that the funding goes where it's supposed to. Maybe not.
“That may be his best written work — most absurdly comic and yet too true — maybe ever.”
Yes!
First, Trump employs the absurdly comic placement of quotation marks that Ann points out in her first comment.
Second, there is Trump’s absurdly comic framing of Russia giving Ukraine and the U.S. territory - in a negotiation where Russia isn’t offering to give any country any territory, just negotiating how much of Ukraine’s territory Russia is going to keep. My eyes are filling with tears, I’m laughing so hard.
Third, the territory being given us is absurdly comic, “Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles” includes all of the following countries and parts of several others: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, and, wait for it, Ukraine. stop. Make the laughing stop, it’s starting to hurt.
We’re getting Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest. And BEST of all, we’re getting part of Kazakhstan! Summon Borat! We’re getting Oral!
gilbar said...
so, we're all agreed then?
That Russia has NEVER invaded western europe (Germany France, etc) ??
just checking
**********
You asshole, to get to those countries Russia/USSR would have had to invade the countries east of them FIRST!!
(and changing your challenge marks you as intellectually dishonest, at a grade school level.)
Jaq said...
"I am trying to think of what the Soviets did that equalled all but wiping out the native population of the better part of a continent to take their land?"
***********
Timofei, we'd ask you to think harder, but we know that's a fruitless hope.
Does the word "Holomodor" bestir your tiny remaining network of fast-failing neurons?
Left Behind on the Charles: It's a hypothetical about how the TDS crowd woud criticize Trump EVEN IF he succeed in getting Russia to give up great gobs of its territory.
As that Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff sometimes had to explain to tone-deafs like you: "Is joke".
It's clear
When it comes to total people murdered, the Wounded Knee massacre wouldn't even have been in the top 100 among the massacres of Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, and probably not among the massacres the Indians committed against each other, either.
What wiped out most of the Indians was smallpox and measles, to which they had no immunity. That would have happened whenever first contact was made, whichever side made the first crossing: if Aztecs had sailed to Europe or Africa before Columbus, it would have happened then.
Of course, Europe gave the Americas smallpox, measles, and hard liquor, but they got syphilis, gonorrhea, cocaine, and tobacco in return, so the devastation went both ways.
I find it interesting that people like to try to decide who has started the most wars as if there is some grand scoreboard in the sky in order to justify one side in a war or another.
They cannot see the forest because there are trees in the way.
Should have mentioned Attila the Hun and the Arab conquests as other campaigns in which a Wounded Knee-scale massacre would not have been considered worth special notice.
The Great Communicator strikes again.
Inga said...
It’s being reported that Trump paused the meeting with the European leaders to have a 40 minute phone call with Putin. Trump checking in with the boss?
Biden took millions of dollars from Russian Oligarchs and clearly invited Russia to invade.
Yet you still pretend Trump's efforts to end this war are somehow in service of Russia.
You are a complete moral degenerate. Trump is an infinitely better person than you are.
Greece gdp ppp
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=GR
The Greeks are really good at whining. And they havent an ounce of gratitude.
Biden was an idiot and a penny ante grifter (the congressional record talks about millions not billions), and his staff was only better than he was at the difficult task of staying upright.
And the US "permanent government" mismanaged aid to Ukraine, partly because they were not listening to Ukrainians (or Poles) and partly because they were horribly incompetent. The Pentagon could not get out of its own way for one.
buwaya said...
Biden was an idiot and a penny ante grifter (the congressional record talks about millions not billions), and his staff was only better than he was at the difficult task of staying upright.
And the US "permanent government" mismanaged aid to Ukraine, partly because they were not listening to Ukrainians (or Poles) and partly because they were horribly incompetent. The Pentagon could not get out of its own way for one.
The oligarchs in DC and Ukraine didn't "mismanage" shit. Both governments were corrupt and stole billions from US taxpayers in a not complicated money laundering scheme. The Ukrainian Oligarchs were busy selling many of the weapons we sent them.
I would like to know who actually made the call to cancel elections in Ukraine and to jail the political opposition. Was it Biden's handlers or was it Zelensky?
Either way everyone involved in turning Ukraine into a klepto-autocracy should be killed. Ukrainians are being drug off the street by press gangs and fed to a meat grinder serving a dictator that cancelled elections and wore $50k designer dictator uniforms.
Oh really? How would you sell Himars and Patriots and 155mm shells and any of the really valuable bits the US gave Ukraine? Everybody on Earth would know about it. You cant hide that shit, everyone knows all the buyers. All the rest was penny ante surplus crap. Leftover overaged Hummvees and M113s and MRAPS.
And here's Achilles telling more bald-faced lies. Ukraine is in fact a democracy, Zelenskyy is not corrupt,* has not jailed the political opposition, there is no evidence that any weapons have been sold to third parties, elections have been postponed, not canceled, as required by the Ukrainian constitution, and so on. Of course, this is the same guy who was complaining on a previous thread that Zelenskyy hadn't followed the Mingsk [sic!] accords (signed and immediately violated by Russia in 2014) when he wasn't elected until 2019.
*I've pointed this out before, to deafening silence from the likes of Achilles and Jaq, but Hunter Biden left Ukraine and Burisma, never to return, the very month Zelenskyy was elected. All that corruption was on Poroshenko, whom the Ukrainians voted out in great part because of his corruption. Of course, the most corrupt oligarch of all was Yanukovych, who had a net worth of $12 billion (with a B) on a salary of $2,000 a month, besides slaughtering unarmed demonstrators, and Jaq is still whining about how he should have served out his term. The fact is that Ukraine was a "klepto-autocracy" under Yanukovych, and to a lesser extent under Poroshenko, but is nothing of the sort under Zelenskyy.
Hmm. Churchill ran WWII without an election since 1935 (the next British election was in 1945). And he drug millions of British men off the street and put them in the meat grinder that is modern war.
Technically, you know, I am (or was, I am way over age) a reserve officer in the Philippine Navy, subject to call up. I was in the ROTC.
The corruption wasn't on Poroshenko, he appointed a prosecutor to look into it. Biden blackmailed him to fire the guy by threatening to withhold US aid. Thats in the Congressional record.
Or not that particular bit of corruption anyway.
buwaya (10:18pm):
Good point. I'm always amused by people who seem to assume that those nasty corrupt Ukrainians corrupted poor innocent Hunter Biden instead of the other way around - that Ukrainians, desperate for weapons to defend themselves, unwillingly submitted to blackmail from Hunter Biden and his buddies because they felt they had no choice.
In other words, who corrupted whom? It takes two to make a corrupt deal, but Hunter Biden was obviously far more the corrupter than the corruptee.
Welp, there you have it. Weevil just can’t accept even a shred of reality. Zelensky loses any election in a landslide that is why he canceled them. That’s why all his political opponents are in jail.
One has to wonder if weevil is one of the people getting rich while Ukrainian men are getting killed over lines on a map. Russia is occupying land that voted overwhelmingly for yanukovich. Nobody in Donetsk cares which oligarchs draw those lines.
Weevil should get his cowardly worthless ass to Ukraine and fight Russia.
Zelenskyy couldn’t be bothered to wear a white shirt for his meeting with Trump, but at least he had on a suit. Dare we hope someday for a white (or blue or pinstriped — I won’t be judgmental) and a tie? We shall see.
Inga said…
“It’s being reported that Trump paused the meeting with the European leaders to have a 40 minute phone call with Putin. Trump checking in with the boss?”
Interesting take. There are two so-called bosses here, Zelensky and Putin. Each need to be kept perfectly up-to-date re the ongoing discussions. If they are not, there is no deal about anything. You don’t get a peace deal without respecting all sides.
Interesting take.
No its not an "Interesting take". Its an tiresome, boring take thats just an insult. And the MSM and the Left have been insulting Trump with it for 10 years. If people would insult them back instead of "reasoning with them" and falling into their trap, they would've stopped.
This isn't directed at anyone here at Althouse blog. But if someone said "You're mother is a whore" would then go "Gosh, that's an interesting take. Lets have a drink and debate the pros and cons"?
The very fact that you're debating whether your mother is a whore, gives credance to insult. And furthermore, by being defensive you're not talking about other things. The Left/MSM does this constantly - saying crazy untrue statements about people don't like, or insulting them, and the Right and Center-right just want to "talk about it" and think they've "Won" when they prove the Left wrong. No, the Left won because you're talking about it. And playing defense.
Big Mike said...
Zelenskyy couldn’t be bothered to wear a white shirt for his meeting with Trump, but at least he had on a suit. Dare we hope someday for a white (or blue or pinstriped — I won’t be judgmental) and a tie? We shall see.
I actually liked Zelensky's suit for the meeting with Trump. It might not have been appropriate, but it looked good.
Unlike the sweatpants he wore for his melt down.
I wonder if Ukrainians wear all black to show mourning?
And here's Achilles demonstrating again what a liar he is. And what a fool: he thinks removing the 'Dr.' and the capital W from my user name makes me look worse, when it just makes him look like a petty, small-minded creep.
Ukraine has pollsters, who operate freely, and all agree that Zelenskyy would in fact win reelection by a landslide (2-1) if one could be held. Even the three people most likely to run against him agree that elections cannot be held under Russian bomb, drone, and missile attack, without massive slaughter of voters, and without disenfranchising the millions living under Russian occupation. That's UK ambassador and former army chief Zaluzhnyi, previous P.M. Poroshenko, whom Zelenskyy defeated, and the woman whom Yanukovych defeated, quite likely by cheating, Tymoshenko. All three hate each other, and the latter two hate Zelenskyy, but all agree that elections must be postponed. (And none of them, or any of Zelenskyy's "political opponents", are in jail, unless they were caught calling in targeting locations to the Russians, or taking bribes. I thought we were all against corruption.) I've explained all this more than once before, and Achilles doesn't disagree, he just ignores the argument and repeats his false claims in later threads as if they hadn't been refuted.
The fact that the Donbas voted overwhelmingly for local boy Yanukovych over western Ukrainian Tymoshenko is of course utterly irrelevant. They also celebrated when he abandoned his post and fled to his puppet-master Putin, and his party's candidate got 3.07% in the next election. I've mentioned this before: why doesn't Achilles even acknowledge it? The fact that both Donbas oblasts voted to join Ukraine in 1991 rather than stay in Russia, and by 5-1 margins, is of course the crucial point. The one-sixth and their Russian masters have been fighting to rule over the five-sixths.
As for Achilles' contemptible resort to the 'chickenhawk' argument, I will note that the Donbas militants also take American volunteers. Why doesn't Achilles take his cowardly worthless ass over there and join up? Is he afraid he might end up like Russell 'Tex' Bentley, the Donbass Cowboy?
I find it interesting that CNN is showing polls that Ukrainians want to end the war now.
It was interesting to go through all of the forces involved in Ukraine between Budapest memorandum and now.
I am willing to admit that Zelensky was just a chip caught in a flood. The people of Western Ukraine look like they bear a lot more responsibility for their situation that I thought. Zelensky wanted to sign the Steinmeier Formula but it looks more like it was domestic pressure that forced him to back out.
One thing I firmly believe is that the people of Donetsk and Luhansk should have their own countries and be independent. It just looks like Russia and Ukraine take turns killing them. But looking at a map I don't think Russia would ever allow them to be truly independent.
Dr Weevil said...
And here's Achilles demonstrating again what a liar he is. And what a fool: he thinks removing the 'Dr.' and the capital W from my user name makes me look worse, when it just makes him look like a petty, small-minded creep.
You are a coward and a liar. It doesn't matter if I type fewer letters in your stupid online moniker.
Ukraine has pollsters, who operate freely, and all agree that Zelenskyy would in fact win reelection by a landslide (2-1) if one could be held. Even the three people most likely to run against him agree that elections cannot be held under Russian bomb, drone, and missile attack, without massive slaughter of voters, and without disenfranchising the millions living under Russian occupation. That's UK ambassador and former army chief Zaluzhnyi, previous P.M. Poroshenko, whom Zelenskyy defeated, and the woman whom Yanukovych defeated, quite likely by cheating, Tymoshenko. All three hate each other, and the latter two hate Zelenskyy, but all agree that elections must be postponed. (And none of them, or any of Zelenskyy's "political opponents", are in jail, unless they were caught calling in targeting locations to the Russians, or taking bribes. I thought we were all against corruption.) I've explained all this more than once before, and Achilles doesn't disagree, he just ignores the argument and repeats his false claims in later threads as if they hadn't been refuted.
Zelenksy will win if he makes a peace deal. Zelensky will lose if he continues to fight. I actually applaud Zelensky's transformation from a petulant brat getting his people killed a couple months to his appearance yesterday. He almost looked like a statesman.
The fact that the Donbas voted overwhelmingly for local boy Yanukovych over western Ukrainian Tymoshenko is of course utterly irrelevant. They also celebrated when he abandoned his post and fled to his puppet-master Putin, and his party's candidate got 3.07% in the next election. I've mentioned this before: why doesn't Achilles even acknowledge it? The fact that both Donbas oblasts voted to join Ukraine in 1991 rather than stay in Russia, and by 5-1 margins, is of course the crucial point. The one-sixth and their Russian masters have been fighting to rule over the five-sixths.
I think the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces should be independent countries. Both Ukraine and Russia have treated them very poorly.
As for Achilles' contemptible resort to the 'chickenhawk' argument, I will note that the Donbas militants also take American volunteers. Why doesn't Achilles take his cowardly worthless ass over there and join up? Is he afraid he might end up like Russell 'Tex' Bentley, the Donbass Cowboy?
You think this is a good argument because you are stupid.
I don't support US participation in this conflict. It is not our conflict. It is actually my hope for those people that they can stop fighting and stop being used as tools by pieces of shit like weevil.
Cowards like you that argue for more war and don't fight themselves are the problem. The people in Ukraine overwhelmingly want this war to end.
Yes, one thing Achilles firmly believes is that the pro-Russian one-sixth of the population of Donbas should have the right to rule over the five-sixths who want to live in Ukraine.
As for the CNN polls, of course Ukrainians want to end the war now. Who wouldn't? The question is whether they want to end it without getting their country back, or getting back the millions of Ukrainians in the occupied territories who are being oppressed, beaten for speaking Ukrainian, having their Ukrainian books destroyed, and in many cases being tortured, raped, and murdered.
And here's petty shit Achilles acting like Thersites again with more stupid lies. All the polls show that the one way Zelenskyy would lose support is to agree to hand over the occupied territories to Russia. The people support him because he fights.
I have also repeatedly said that I do not support sending US troops to Ukraine, I support supplying them with the weapons and ammunition they need to win. We have thousands of M-1 tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, and hundreds of F-16s, lined up in the desert ready to use. It would cost less to ship them to Ukraine than it will cost to recycle them to EPA standards, as will have to be done eventually. We've sent them 61 M-1s and zero F-16s.
Why can't Achilles stop lying?
Dr Weevil said...
Why can't Achilles stop lying?
You are too stupid and dishonest to differentiate between a lie and a disagreement.
Part of being a piece of shit is that you cannot be honest about what I say and what I want. It is obvious that a significant number of the people in Donetsk and Luhansk do not like Western Ukraine particularly after they threw out Yanukovich. There was a separatist movement and 14000 people had died in fights between Donbas and Kyiv from 2014-2022.
You are a cowardly warmonger that wants to have a purpose and a cause but you are too lame to fight yourself so you do your battles on comment forums. It is pathetic.
One more time: the "significant number" of people in the Donbas who don't want to live in Ukraine is the one-sixth of the population who voted against joining Ukraine in 1991. Why should a small minority rule over the large majority? Anyone who thinks one-sixth should rule by force over five-sixths is in fact a Fascist unAmerican asshole.
I have pointed out more than once that the coup in Crimea and the uprising in the Donbas that started in Slovyansk were both led by a Russian KGB man who had no connection with Ukraine. His name is Igor Girkin and he's still tweeting from prison. Has Achilles or Jaq ever bothered to look him up and see if I'm right? Nooo! They don't want to know the truth, which is that the supposed uprising of the people of Donbas was in fact a coup d'état orchestrated in Russia and supported by only a small minority of residents. So was the seizure of Crimea: Girkin himself has said that the local leaders who declared independence there didn't want to do it, but he 'convinced' them - he and the armed men he had with them.
The fact is that the overthrow of Yanukovych was a popular uprising against a vicious, murderous, massively corrupt, Putin-puppet oligarch, and the seizures of Crimea and the Donbas were a pair of coups by Russian agents led by Girkin, with the help of some paid local collaborators.
Anyone who calls the Maiden rebellion a 'coup', or the Russian seizures of Crimea and Donbas 'uprisings' has demonstrated his utter ignorance of the most basic facts of modern history, and his willingness to swallow the most blatant lies of Russian propaganda. That's our Achilles!
Of course I am perfectly capable of telling the difference between a lie and a disagreement. I can tell that Achilles is a liar because he never addresses my arguments as a disagreeable person would, he simply ignores them and repeats the falsehoods I have rebutted as if they were unscathed. He also calls me a liar and a coward, which makes him a filthy hypocrite when he demands not to be called a liar himself, even while telling lies.
buwaya.
With any luck the Chinese Navy will continue to sink their own ships and your position will become redundant.
jim numbers
So your source is actually AP News and gets funding from the left leaning McArthur Foundation and selected NGOs.
Thanks for your unbiased contributions.
Nice collection of opinion pieces.
Again. How has Trump gone against the Constitution?
[Leland] "They would call him an authoritarian for taking that much landz". Well, yeah, if Trump somehow forced Putin to cede Moscow, St. Petersburg, and thousands of miles of land to the US and Ukrainre he would be a nauseating aggressor. But that's how DT's fantasies work: he thinks we have a right to Greenland and Canada and God knows what else. No, Putin just needs to get the hell out of Ukraine, and we don't need any part of fricken Russia
We should be happy that Trump now seems willing to guarantee Ukraine's security. But we should remain worried that while Trump is the most powerful person in the world, the second most powerful is the last one who flattered him. This is diplomacy as reality TV produced by and starring a deeply insecure narcissist.
We haven't yet seen the last twist in this drama.
Inga. Need I remind you,(and all the usual suspects), that if not for you and your voter harvesting we, the United States, wouldn't be in this position. It was the president that you installed that gave Putin permission,(who's Putin's stooge?) to invade Ukraine. You have a lot to answer for in this, so it isn't a good look for you to be grinding on the only person who is actively trying to stop this war. I'm not just singling you out, but all the resident chuckleheads.
“No, Putin just needs to get the hell out of Ukraine, and we don't need any part of fricken Russia”
Oh my god you are so cool I love you so much for your great wonderfullness.
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