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My uncle was as fit as a fiddle until he blacked out as well while driving his car. Fortunately it was a Volvo, and both my uncle and aunt were lucky to walk away from the accident with minor injuries.

Duma prepares higher taxation for Russians who left country: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/duma-prepares-higher-taxation-russians-who-left-country-speaker-2022-12-25/ The oligarchs have more than enough money to help out mother Russia in this time of need. But they won’t. So what does the Duma do? Purely out of spite, they raise taxes for those who fled the country to save their lives. How pathetic.

If he seriously starts taking away money from the Russian kleptocracy, he will very probably die a mysterious death (fall down some stairs, or out the window, have a ‘heart attack’), like so many Russian oligarchs before him this year. The world would be a much better place without that scumbag, so here’s hoping he will soon be worm food.

Ukraine refused to deliver dirt on Biden (Hunter and/or Joe) to Trump. I’m guessing that has a lot to do with it, seeing as how many Republicans seem to have a huge hard-on for Hunter Biden, and they desperately, and I mean obsessively, want to see him go to jail.

In the meantime, while her husband (deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov) was no doubt busy plotting more evil acts against innocent Ukrainian civilians, Svetlana Ivanova spent US$85,000 in a Paris shopping spree. The word I would describe her (and her husband) with begins with a c, but unfortunately I can’t use that word on this forum. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wife-of-vladimir-putins-deputy-defense-minister-spent-dollar85000-in-paris-shopping-spree-as-russia-devastated-ukraine-with-bomb-attacks/ar-AA15z8LJ?ocid=FeedManager

Russia at it again, deliberately attacking civilian targets, this time in Cherson:

If you want to discuss shameful pictures of a debased civilization, maybe you should go and take a look in Ukraine, how Russia is systematically trying to destroy the infrastructure there, and is knowingly and willingly sending millions of people into a very cold winter. Maybe you should go and take a look in Bucha, where the Russian military tortured, raped and executed hundreds of innocent civilians. Like they did as well in many other towns and villages in Ukraine. Maybe you should go and take a look in Mariupol, where the Russians are eradicating every single sign that it was ever a Ukrainian city. Including that concert hall, where hundreds of people were taking shelter, and Russia decided to drop a bomb on it. So if you want to discuss debased civilization, I think Russia should be the number one topic.

Indeed, nice one, and great news for democracy. If the USA and EU hadn’t helped Ukraine, Russia would now be knocking on the doors of the Baltic states, maybe eastern Poland and Hungary. So Ukraine, with the help of the West, is keeping the fascist dictator Putin and his cronies from achieving their goal of restoring the old USSR in all its old glory. I would say that is great news for democracy.

The government of the United States in 2020, wasn’t that Trump’s own government? So what he’s saying is that they cheated themselves out of winning the 2020 election? I really can not believe how someone can still believe the garbage this man keeps spouting.

“Citing the Dutch right-wing populist Forum for Democracy party” I am Dutch. This Forum for Democracy party is way past ‘right-wing populist’. They have gone full-on fascist, racist and anti-semite. The leader of this party said that he is a big fan of Putin, and that the war Putin started against Ukraine (and the West) is one of the most hopeful things in the world today. Just to give you an idea of the la-la-land these lunatics from Forum for Democracy live in.

A St Petersburg politician has asked prosecutors to investigate Russian President Vladimir Putin for using the word "war" to describe the conflict in Ukraine, accusing the Kremlin chief of breaking his own law. Putin has for months described his invasion as a "special military operation". He signed laws in March that prescribe steep fines and jail terms for discrediting or spreading "deliberately false information" about the armed forces, putting people at risk of prosecution if they call the war by its name. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-politician-files-legal-challenge-over-putins-reference-ukraine-war-2022-12-23/ Somehow I don’t think Putin will be charged for this ‘crime’……

Tucker Carlson, Fox News number one Putin fanboy and sleazeball, was praised on Russian TV for criticizing Zelensky’s clothes. https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-praised-russian-tv-criticized-zelensky-clothes-congress-1769147

Apparently, Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz didn’t stand up and applaud either. And Marjorie Taylor Green and Josh Hawley didn’t even bother showing up. Disgraceful, to say the least.

It’s astonishing, isn’t it, how some people can pinpoint the tiniest flaws and shortcomings in Dems, and are completely blind to (or choose to ignore) the much larger and much more disturbing flaws and shortcomings in Republicans. Talk about your double standard.

Ever heard about spin? That’s rich, coming from you. (perhaps you should advise Herr Putin to deny the nonsense he told the world)

You must be confusing Zelensky with your guy Putin.

Putin to give “important and lengthy” speech at Defense Ministry board meeting - Kremlin. https://tass.com/politics/1553575 Expect a lot of war mongering rhetoric, rants against the depraved West which is out to either conquer or destroy Russia, threats to use nuclear missiles, lies, misinformation, and lots and lots of deranged propaganda. I’m willing to bet that’s more or less what this speech will entail.

There are many more who need to be prosecuted and thrown in jail, I have no idea why the DOJ isn’t much more pro-active in these cases. There are 34 senators and representatives who were texting then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on or around January 6 that he (or Trump) needed to do something to overturn the result of the 2020 election, and some came up with some very clear ideas and suggestions to do so. That in itself is more than enough to prosecute them for treason and/or sedition, IMO. Then there were countless people involved in the fake elector schemes in several states. Why are these people not charged yet, or in jail? Every last one of them knew what they were doing was highly illegal, yet they proceeded with it anyway. Those present in the so-called war room on and before January 6 at the Willard Hotel, with just one goal in mind: overturning the result of the 2020 election. Why are they still free? The DOJ really needs to get into gear and start going after ALL the culprits involved.

Probably in Minsk, sitting at one end of the longest table in the world, social distancing himself some 30 feet from his comrades. Must be a b*tch to understand each other from so far away.

So I’m guessing 90% of all Thai officials on Phuket (provincial, municipality, customs, police, and so on) are going to resign? Because that’s where most of the crime is located.

Lukashenko, Putin, Lavrov and Shoigu all together in one location. Would be a good time to drop a bomb there, rid the world of four evil bast@rds.

Russian soldiers were sent to the front with maps from the 1960’s and bad intel. They also looked for manuals for their weapons on Wikipedia: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/world/europe/russia-war-putin-facts.html

Then what do you suggest we do once we run out of oil and gas? Start burning coal again?

“control of those territories be decided after a ceasefire agreement.” That’s what the Sahrawi did with Morocco in Western Sahara in the 1980’s, agree to a ceasefire. Morocco has been tightening its grip over this territory ever since, throwing thousands of Sahrawi in jail just for speaking their mind, torturing them, sometimes even killing them. And the Sahrawi are still waiting for a definitive solution to this day. I’m just saying, do not trust the Russians! They have shown to be extremely brutal occupiers, and that there can never be peace by giving them what they want, because they will just come up with new demands.

They have no clue what satire is.