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>>15790120

Pardon for this post,

Some Democrats Angry at Biden for Not Blaming Trump, GOP for Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Rick Moran

The war in Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump but Democrats want to spin up a narrative that would condemn the entire Republican Party for the actions and words of a small number of Putin apologists on the right.

The reality is that Republicans are condemning the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin almost as strongly as Democrats.

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll showed a whopping 74 percent of Americans believe Putin’s invasion is unjustified — including 73 percent of Republicans.

A recent ABC/Washington Post poll found 67 percent of Americans — including 62 percent of Republicans — support sanctions on Russia.

“‘We’re Zelenskyy Democrats. And they’re Putin Republicans’ would be my bumper sticker,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), said in an interview. Indeed, Democrats have been desperately trying to deflect blame from Biden for the Russian invasion in the first place. A CAPS/Harris poll decisively showed that 62 percent of the American people, including 38 percent of Democrats, believe Russia wouldn’t even have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were president.

So theUkraine tar baby has stuck to the Democratsand they are trying to blame Trump and the Republicans for an invasion that Biden invited with his weakness.

As the polls show, the difference between the two parties on the Ukraine issue is negligible — except for the difference between the parties on what would have happened if Trump were president.

Politico:

Biden’s reluctance to more forcefully combat Republican attacks reflects both a fear that the situation in Ukraine could escalate further and an effort — at least for now — to minimize the creep of domestic politics in delicate matters of foreign affairs. Republicans have been less concerned about dragging Biden’s decisions squarely into the political arena.

Now that you’ve stopped laughing, I can point out that Democrats not only politicized foreign policy, they immediately politicized a national health emergency, which had repercussions we’re feeling to this day.

White House officials have placed the spotlight on the president’s efforts at diplomacy and the resulting squeeze on Putin and Russian oligarchs. For more than a week, Biden’s aides and allies have pointed to the diverse array of statements supporting his approach and actions — including several from Republicans. But they’re gradually joining with Democratic leaders in condemning Trump and Republicans for being out of step with the coordinated global response.

“There’s been wide bipartisan support for the president’s actions, but sadly some fringe Republicans are using this as an opportunity to try to score political points,” said Mike Gwin, a White House spokesperson. “Unfortunately for them, from President Trump on down, they can’t seem to decide day-to-day which side they’re on, or whether Putin is a ‘genius’ after all.”

In fact, Trump belatedly condemned the invasion. It’s just that the media doesn’t want to mention it because it’s so much more politically effective to pretend that Trump’s on Putin’s side.

And why condemn the entire Republican Party for what some “fringe Republicans” are saying? It’s counterintuitive to try and tie the 80 percent of Republicans who oppose Putin to the less than 20 percent who do.

Neither party has covered itself in glory when it comes to Ukraine. And that’s because the Ukrainian government is a corrupt oligarchy, as shown by Hunter Biden’s dalliances in Ukraine’s business sector. But if Biden wants to go after Republicans on the war, bring it on. There are enough witnesses in the military and diplomatic sphere to testify to Biden’s utter weakness in confronting Putin to make that argument moot.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/03/04/some-democrats-angry-at-biden-for-not-blaming-trump-gop-for-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-n1563691

Here’s Your Russian Collusion: Biden Working with Russia on New Iran Nuke Deal

BY ROBERT SPENCER MAR 04, 2022 1:50 PM ET

Just when you think the Biden administration couldn’t possibly get worse, it finds a way. Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department official, tweeted Wednesday that State, NSC, and European Union officials are warning that “what’s happening in Vienna,” where Biden’s handlers are negotiating a new nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, “is a total disaster,” and that they’re hoping that “Congress will act to stop the capitulation.”

It’s about as likely that Congress will stop this, of course, as it is that Biden’s handlers will send Donald J. Trump himself to Vienna to handle the negotiations, but there are abundant signs that the new agreement will be far worse than the old one, and directly endanger America and its allies. For one thing, even amidst ever-rising tensions with Russia and punitive sanctions, the administration has turned over leadership of the negotiations to a Russian diplomat, Mikhail Ulyanov. Yes, that’s right: Putin’s man is going to get us a new deal with the mullahs.

The trouble is not coming just from the fact that we are trusting Russia to act in America’s best interests (although America’s best interests have never been a priority for Biden’s handlers, and there is really no reason to believe that they have ever been a priority in the Vienna negotiations). Noronha added: “Led by Rob Malley, the U.S. has promised to lift sanctions on some of the regime’s worst terrorists and torturers, leading officials in the regime’s WMD infrastructure, and is currently trying to lift sanctions on the IRGC itself.”

Robert Malley has won renown and disgust as a man who has never hesitated to kowtow to America’s enemies. Judicial Watch noted back in 2015 that “over the years he has published a number of newspaper opinion pieces urging the United States to reach out and negotiate with terrorist enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah and Muqtada al-Sadr.” Now the Iranian mullahs can be added to that list, but since they won’t sully themselves by dealing directly with the emissaries of the Great Satan, the Russians are helpfully playing intermediary.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted the danger of all this absurdity in a tweet last Sunday: “President Biden — stop partnering with Russia to cut a deal with Iran. When China and Russia are on your side of the table negotiating ‘against’ Iran, you are putting America and Israel at risk.” A senior congressional official added on Monday: “It’s obvious that Russia should no longer serve as one of the key intermediaries brokering an Iran deal. We need to be isolating Russia not just economically, but also diplomatically. There is absolutely no chance that Russia has U.S. national security interests in mind when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program.”

Yeah. But Biden’s handlers show no sign of relenting on this. To all appearances, they’re rushing headlong in to a deal with Tehran that would, surprise of surprises, place Russia in a key role, as did the original Obama nuke deal. NBC News explained that “Under one draft interim agreement that sources said Russia presented to Iran, Tehran would be required to stop enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity and dispose of its current stockpile, possibly by exporting it to Russia, along with other restrictions. In exchange, the Iranian government would receive access to billions of dollars in oil revenues frozen in foreign bank accounts, including in South Korea, the sources said.”…

https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/03/04/heres-your-russian-collusion-biden-working-with-russia-on-new-iran-nuke-deal-n1563717

>>15790421

Seriously she birthed Jesus? Dont you think God would choose an exceptional person to bring his Son into embodiment. have a little respect for the woman God chose

>>15790401

Has anyone actually seen Dianne for almost a year now??? Anyone?

>>15790376

I love that

'Sports Illustrated' Profile of Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Is a Nice Piece of Propaganda

Rick Moran

How can you write more than 4,000 words about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and not mention thatThomas’s rank when swimming as a man was 462?The Sports Illustrated profile of Thomas mentions right at the top that when swimming as a female, Thomas is ranked number one in the NCAA.

Somehow, it kinda slipped SI author Robert Sanchez’s mind that Thomas, when swimming as a man, was a mediocre swimmer. And that omission illustrates the problem with SI’s profile of Lia Thomas.

Sanchez tried. Look at all the second-place finishes Thomas won as a man!

The 2018–19 season proved to be Thomas’s best yet. She earned second-place finishes in the same trio of Ivy championship races in which she’d excelled the previous year, earning her multiple spots on the All-Ivy team. Thomas got closer to her goal of swimming at the NCAA championships and perhaps qualifying for the ’20 Olympic trials. In just two years she’d proved to be a quiet leader—a no-complaints workhorse who kept a steady pace in practice and flipped the switch in competition.

All kinds of inconvenient facts are glossed over or left out in this story. It just so happens that most of the omissions appear to favor Thomas’s argument that Thomas should swim on the Penn swim team as a woman.

The SI piece refuses to delve very deeply into the controversy, making the profile a thinly disguised puff piece.

“I’m a woman, just like anybody else on the team,” Thomas says. “I’ve always viewed myself as just a swimmer. It’s what I’ve done for so long; it’s what I love.” She’s not thinking about wins or records, she insists. “I get into the water every day and do my best.”

I call BS on that. There isn’t a genuine competitive athlete on the planet who doesn’t constantly and obsessively think about winning. It’s that obsession that usually spells the difference between victory and failure.

For Thomas, the transition to female was a shock.

When she started practicing with Penn again in the late summer of 2021, she felt physically different from the person who’d come close to hitting NCAA championship–qualifying times in men’s distance races. She’d been on HRT a little more than two years by then. Thomas says she shrunk about an inch. She noticed her strength wasn’t the same; fat had also had been redistributed within her body. Holding her old practice paces was an impossibility. She realized she couldn’t obsess over what she could no longer do. “I feel disconnected from them,” she says of her old race times. “It was a different moment in my life.” [Emphasis added]

As a man, Thomas was not that close to being a champion — not with a ranking of 462. And hitting the NCAA qualifying times is light years away from winning or even being competitive. In fact, any information that would suggest the complaints about Thomas’s abilities versus a female’s are valid are glossed over or omitted entirely.

This is an argument that has two sides. But one side can’t afford to have the other side’s arguments aired because doing so would expose the fallacy of those arguments. Rather than engage, other viewpoints are suppressed by threats and intimidation. And author Sanchez barely scratched the surface of that outrage.

You’ve probably read of the controversy on the Penn swim team, how it’s divided the team and set parents against one another. What you won’t read much about in the SI profile of Thomas is the threats against swimmers, parents, and students who dare question trans orthodoxy. Thomas doesn’t hold with the terror campaign against opponents but has taken the position that “you’re either for me or against me.”

“It’s mean,” one Penn parent who identifies as a progressive but opposes Thomas’s eligibility says of the online and media bigotry directed at her. “Lia is a human being who deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. But it’s not transphobic to say I disagree with where she’s swimming.”

That argument is disingenuous to Thomas. There is no such thing as half-support: Either you back her fully as a woman or you don’t. “The very simple answer is that I’m not a man,” she says. “I’m a woman, so I belong on the women’s team. Trans people deserve that same respect every other athlete gets.”

Gender dysphoria is real and those afflicted with it deserve our sympathy and support. It’s a shame that those who wish to have a serious discussion about the issues surrounding transgenderism are automatically branded as haters if they don’t toe the trans line on athletics…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/03/04/sports-illustrated-profile-of-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-is-a-nice-piece-of-propaganda-n1563635

>>15790669

Ted has some Invesments in Ukraine me thinks

>>15790687

Interesting