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definitely a major blow to the inarticulate

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There are unconfirmed reports that a massive surrender is about to happen in Kherson. I'll believe it when it actually happens. Still, here's the report: Putin reeling as elite marine unit mutinies and troops prepare to 'surrender' in Kherson https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1667998/putin-news-russian-marines-mutiny-kherson-kharkiv-counter-ukraine-war-latest Here's hoping.

And here, for comic relief, is a report from TASS Russia shows footage of killing Ukrainian mortar troops for advance in Kharkov Region https://tass.com/defense/1506097

When I read your comment I thought you were being at best mischievous when you wrote that. It turns out that there are reports that this is the case. It seems to good to be true, though. Putin reeling as elite marine unit mutinies and troops prepare to 'surrender' in Kherson VLADIMIR PUTIN is facing a mutiny among his elite troops on the Kherson front after they sustained massive losses... It comes amid unconfirmed reports that Russian forces in Kherson city could be on the brink of surrendering. The Russian President has seen his army take a complete battering in recent days, as Ukraine continues its counteroffensive on two fronts. Kyiv's army has brushed aide all Russian resistance in the northeast as it continues its rapid advance in the Kharkiv region. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1667998/putin-news-russian-marines-mutiny-kherson-kharkiv-counter-ukraine-war-latest

What evidence is there that Trump will get over it? And it's not about him being hurt, it's about him propagating a massive lie which is immensely damaging to the democratic process. Thanks to the lunacy Trump keeps on feeding, some fanatics broke into voting machines and hacked the software. This actually could make possible voter fraud in the future. Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post. A Georgia computer forensics firm, hired by the attorneys, placed the files on a server, where company records show they were downloaded dozens of times. Among the downloaders were accounts associated with a Texas meteorologist who has appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show; a podcaster who suggested political enemies should be executed; a former pro surfer who pushed disproven theories that the 2020 election was manipulated; and a self-described former “seduction and pickup coach” who claims to also have been a hacker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/22/election-system-copied-files-trump/#:~:text=Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters%2C election deniers

Well, I believe that the gas and oil comes mostly from Siberia so that would be quite an invasion to mention nothing of an occupation.

Misdirection much?. Whether you agree with them or not, they are legislative victories. How many hours does Biden spend lounging in a nightgown watching Foxnews? How many hours does he block for something unspecfied that his predecessor called "Executive Time". And the ultimate criterion of how effective an executive is not how much time he spends away from the office but how much business actually gets done. Biden wins.

The best justification I read for the continuation and subsidies of the royal family is that it distracts attention from the personal lives of elected representatives and draws it to an unimportant destination. As we can see from the current posts about Meghan Markle it's highly effective. The second best reason is that it does bring in a fair amount of income via tourism. Maybe the priority for the above 2 should be switched?

Also, if I were a Russian, would I risk saying what I really believe? Would I even search out different sources of information? The consequences could be very serious.

I've got some news for you. The subject is "Biden speech denouncing Trump, 'MAGA ideology' sparks threats, calls for violence" Not every speech has to address every issue. Especially when American democracy is under serious threat. Are you contending that Americans aren't worried about the threat posed by Trump to democracy? A majority of Americans agree with Biden about Trump. " According to a new poll, a majority of Americans agree. The findings came in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, published on Thursday. In the survey, 58 per cent of Americans agreed with the statement that Donald Trump and his ongoing efforts to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election are dangerous and a threat to the rule of law." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-poll-democracy-threat-b2163261.html Who are you to decide what's a legitimate electoral issue and what isn't? You also left the Supreme Court's decision on abortion off your list of legitimate electoral issues. As recent actual elections show, lots of Americans disagree with you as do virtually all polls. And Americans overwhelmingly support govt programs to promote clean energy Survey Finds Majority of Voters Support Initiatives to Fight Climate Change A survey carried out after the November election found that 66 percent of respondents said that developing sources of clean energy should be a high or very high priority. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/climate/climate-change-survey.html

2 sides to every story? Maybe someday you can regale us with the redeeming features of the German case for launching WW2.

Please spare us the nonsense about Trump being a strong negotiator. That was pure PR based on his ghost-written book and the TV Show, The Apprentice. In fact, Trump has a terrible history as a negotiator. He consistently overpaid for properties that led to bankruptcy, He ruined the business he inherited from his father. If he hadn't been rescued by The Apprentice, he'd be just a memory now. As for the Korean situation...the outcome was always premised on North Korea giving up its nukes. That was never going to happen and North Korean kept on working on its missiles while the negotiations - if that's the word they should be dignified with - went nowhere. Sept 19, 2020 Jong-un accused US of paranoia in angry letter to Donald Trump Kim Jong-un was “offended” by American military exercises carried out with South Korea last year and accused the United States of being “paranoid and hypersensitive” in a newly revealed letter to President Trump. His outburst, which he said he was “happy” to be able to share with Mr Trump, appears to mark the point at which diplomacy between North Korea and the US, aimed at bringing about North Korean denuclearisation, began to fail. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kim-jong-un-accused-us-of-paranoia-in-angry-letter-to-donald-trump-77mqx2mn0

Triggered much? in fact, Trump's effort, such as it was, ended in miserable failure before he left office.

Were those his only speeches? Wasn't he the guy who questioned the objectivity of the judge in the Trump University case because he was Mexican? Didn't he tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar,, and Rashida Tlaib, that they should go back to the countries they came from? (3 out of 4 of them were actually already there.)

Please. "Didn't want to admit it" Now you're reading peoples' feelings? Let's stick to verifiable facts:. Did Hillary Clinton deny that she had lost? Did Donald Trump deny that he had lost? I think we both know the answer to those 2 questions.

But not crying fraud. Not persuading tens of millions of voters that there was actual fraud. Her comments about voter suppression and voter purging simply reflect what actual investigations of ballots by even Republican ruled states have found; voter fraud is insignificant.

It would have been better if Biden cited Trump's message to the White Supremacist Proud Boys "Stand back and stand by." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proud-boys-stand-back-and-stand-by-trump-refuses-to-condemn-white-supremacists/

We don't even know what Biden construed what the woman meant by illegitimate. Given that Biden hadn't questioned the legitimacy of the election before that most likely he understood it to mean that Trump was acting illegitimately. And if so, I agree with him. Exactly what did Hillary Clinton say for years? Did she say that she really won the election but that there was voter fraud? Please. Nothing Hillary Clinton said is anywhere near what Trump has claimed..

The advances keep coming "Local officials in the Kharkiv region say the Ukrainian flag has been raised in settlements close to the Russian border, confirming the continuing retreat of Russian forces in the area. Oleksandr Kulik, an official in Derhachi northeast of the city of Kharkiv, said that the Ukrainian flag had been raised by local residents in the town of Kozacha Lopan... It is five kilometers from the Russian border and has been extensively damaged during the conflict." https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-11-22/index.html

He specfically condemned Neo Nazis and White nationalists a couple of days after he made the "were very fine people on both sides" comment. That was only after a storm of condemnation followed his original remarks. He also lied: In the follow-up comments he claimed that the mother of Heather Heyer, the young woman killed by the Neo Nazi, had done this: " In fact, the young woman, who I hear was a fantastic young woman, and it was on NBC -- her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things. And I very much appreciated that. I hear she was a fine -- really, actually, an incredible young woman. But her mother, on Twitter, thanked me for what I said.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2018/12/12/heather-heyers-mother-has-message-trump-please-think-before-you-speak/ In fact she wrote no such thing. “Once I heard what he had to say, I just said I think he’s busy and I’m busy, and neither one of us really has time to talk to one another,” Bro said on CNN. Shortly after her daughter’s killing, Bro had said that she did not want to hear from Trump, since, she said, he had equated counterprotesters to white supremacists." https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2018/12/12/heather-heyers-mother-has-message-trump-please-think-before-you-speak/ As for equating Biden's single comment of "Absolutely" which was just a reply to a question from someone in the audience to the nonstop screeches and whinings of Donald Trump about the 2020 election is absurd.

Not sure how respected he is: Galloway charity ‘may have delivered no aid despite £1m donations’ A charity fronted by the former MP George Galloway may not have conducted any charitable activity or distributed any humanitarian aid despite claiming to have gathered £1m in public donations, according to an investigation from the charity regulator. Viva Palestina was established in early 2009 and launched a large-scale media fundraising campaign to finance aid convoys to Gaza from the UK, bringing food, medicine, medical equipment and essential goods and services... But investigators from the Charity Commission found that the charity’s trustees (who did not include Galloway) failed in the basic requirement to keep receipts and records of income and expenditure and never submitted any accounts. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/06/galloway-charity-may-have-delivered-no-aid-despite-1m-donations

How about gofundyourself?

No.

Always right against the always wrong.