RFK Jr. rejects prospect of taking Trump VP slot

Kennedy is currently looking to claim the Democratic nomination for president.

By Ben Whedon

Updated: May 10, 2023 - 8:46pm

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday explicitly denied that he would consider joining with former President Donald Trump as his running mate in 2024.

"Just to quell any speculation,UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trumpon an electoral ticket," he tweeted. "Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of leadership could not be further apart."

Kennedy is currently looking to claim the Democratic nomination for president, though his challenge to President Joe Biden is generally considered a longshot. Recent polling data has shown him drawing the support of 14% of Biden voters.

Prior to his campaign announcement, he had largely drawn an audience due to his vocal opposition to stringent COVID-19 lockdown measures and vaccine mandates.

Speculation on Trump's choice of running mate continues to abound as he leads the polls for the Republican nomination.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/rfk-jr-rejects-prospect-taking-trump-vp-slot

Really what is this run all about? The dems will never let him in, is it to disrupt Bidan? I can't understand it.

Santos fundraising off of indictment: 'the fight is real'(So What?)

"I asked questions about #MilesGuo & the DOJ indicts me 5 days later!" he said.

(I said this 3 days ago, he is the only congressman or senator that even shown any interest in this Whistleblower that revealed the evil of the CCP that the DOJ is doing CCP’s bidding, he’s absolutely right about this. If he gets arrested for things all the other congress does, there’s another reason for his arrest)

Updated: May 10, 2023 - 6:03pm

New York Republican Rep. George Santos has begun fundraising off of his indictment after pleading not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges brought by the Department of Justice.

"The fight is real & I’m OVER the target, I need your support to keep me fighting for freedom," he tweeted on Wednesday, along with a link to WinRed, a Republican Party fundraising platform.

Santos appeared to suggest that his indictment was DOJ retaliation for his asking questions related to Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese billionaire who is facing fraud charges.

"I asked questions about #MilesGuo & the DOJ indicts me 5 days later!" he said.

In a separate Tweet, he merely posted "WITCH HUNT!" former President Donald Trump's favorite term for the myriad legal efforts against him. It is unclear whether Santos was referring to his own legal woes or those of the former president in that instance.

Santos turned himself in on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and stealing public funds. He was released on $500,000 bond.

The New York Republican flipped a competitive district in the 2022 midterms. Shortly after his victory, reports called into question the claims he made about his background while campaigning.

He has since admitted that, rather than working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup as he claimed, he worked for LinkBridge, a firm he says merely did business with both.

Santos has also come under fire for his dubious claim that his family fled Nazi Germany to escape the Holocaust, fraudulent activities in Brazil, and his alleged past activities as a drag queen.

He has refused calls to resign and has filed to run for reelection in 2024.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/santos-fundraising-indictment-fight-real

(Note look at Mad Maxine, she has done a 1,000x worse then Santos and is actually a retard Marxist, what about Sheila Jackson Lee, or others in both sides. I have no problem with what he’s done, because they all fucking do it, how many promises have they kept to their constituents? He was just a little too flamboyant about it! KEK)

House Budget Committee member says Biden needs to 'quit whining' about debt ceiling and negotiate*

'The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Biden like to attack our legislation, but they haven't put forward any of their own,' Cline said.

May 9, 2023 - 8:56pm

Virginia GOP Rep. Ben Cline criticized the Biden administration for not putting forward any legislation regarding the debt ceiling crisis.

"A lot of things were attached to the debt ceiling increase, but we were the only ones who were successful in passing a bill," Cline said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show Tuesday. "The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Biden like to attack our legislation, but they haven't put forward any of their own."

"So they need to quit whining and actually come to the table and negotiate and hopefully that's what we'll see today," he continued.

The GOP-led House passed a bill in April that raised the debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year and included federal spending reforms.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had a meeting with Biden Tuesday where he said he didn’t see "any new movement” toward reaching an agreement with President Biden on raising the debt ceiling and reducing federal spending. McCarthy said there would be another meeting this week.

"The debt ceiling debate is one of the few leverage points that we have on an administration that has just gone spend-crazy," Cline said. "The past two years have seen trillions in wasteful spending."

(*So Bidan taught Zelensky how to whine….kek!)

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/house-budget-committee-member-says-biden-needs-quit-whining-about-debt-ceiling-and

>>18831006

God Almighty, the best template ever? I'm sure someone's done apirate with a peg leg and bottle of booze getting on a ship with a Skull and Crossbones Flag

if not that would be cool

>>18831192

they are all jar babies

>>18831245

YOU forgot the WHO

>>18831336

Oh shit, it's a woman

Republicans need to start suing first for anything, just anything!

Nina Jancowicz should be sued for trying to destroy the 1st amendment, then sue DHS, ATF, just sue until there is no one left to sue! She should be sued for starting the Ukraine war and insane hatred of Russia.

A comment: "The right never conducts law fare" They should start suing right out of the gate, sue AOC when she lies about republicans on CNN, on Twitter, every where.

If the Right doesn't do this, they are missing the real WAR. We are not required to be nice to idiots that want us dead.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1656730924170502149?s=20

https://twitter.com/MarcMiddle/status/1656730123876302852?s=20

POSOBIEC: Gag order against Trump in Bragg case should be leading the news

by: C.G. Jones 05/10/2023 (I agree there should be greater outrage and exposure of this, Merchant just waited until attention on Bragg died down and put the gag order up)

Human Events Daily podcast host Jack Posobiec said that the recent gag order on former President Donald Trump should be leading the news, but it appears to have been pushed aside, even in conservative media.

A New York judge has now banned Trump from sharing to social media any evidence in the New York DA Alvin Bragg's case alleging Trump falsified business records, which are typically misdemeanor charges.

Prosecutors accused him of having a history of targeting witnesses, per Business Insider.

State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan made good on the prosecution's request in issuing a gag order on Trump, who faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, which Bragg has elevated to a felony, though he has not said what felony Trump is being charged with.

Not only is Trump not allowed to share evidence of the case on social media, he is only allowed to review "limited" materials in the presence of defense counsel. This is apparently a strategy that would prevent him from copying, photographing, transcribing, or "otherwise independently possess the evidence."

Posobiec said that it can be expected that the liberal media will not cover the gag order, but he added thatit is strange that "conservative media is totally silent" on the recent development. He goes on to say that the gag order has been placed on the most popular conservative political figure on the planet, and the conservative media appear to have forgotten that.

He said: "What's the matter? Did you forget? Did you forget the guy that built this entire movement and brought us all the way here over the last eight years?"

Posobiec laid out some of the details of the case, saying that any evidence "that comes out in discovery" cannot be shared by Trump with the public, making it impossible for the former president to defend himself in the court of public opinion.

Posobiec suggested that this appears to be yet another overt attempt on the part of Democrat lawmakers to silence the most prominent conservative voice in the country.

He said: "This is about preventing the American people, the populist movement, from having a voice, and in doing so, they are literally taking the voice away from the leader of the populist movement in this country. Every single other candidate, potential candidate on both sides of the aisle should be speaking out against this, because this is a brazen abuse of the rule of law in this country, which quite frankly, we don't have, because we have the rule of anarcho-tyranny."

"What does [anarcho-tyranny] mean? That means criminals in the subways are allowed to act with impunity. They're allowed to do whatever they want, but the law-abiding citizens get the hammer dropped on them, just because they vote the wrong way. They look the wrong way. They worship the wrong way. Or they say the wrong thing on social media."

Posobiec ended the segement, noting: "Here's the thing. Should Trump then go and post something in contrivance, or as the judge determines to be in contrivance of this order? He can be held in contempt, be thrown behind bars. Wake up ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the USSA."

https://humanevents.com/2023/05/10/posobiec-gag-order-against-trump-in-bragg-case-should-be-leading-the-news?utm_campaign=64483

1 May, 2023 18:25

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has begun – media

Kiev’s troops have reportedly struck Russian positions northwest of the city of Artyomovsk in Donbass

Ukrainian forces have breached Russian defenses northwest of the city of Artyomovsk in Donbass, Russian war correspondent Evgeny Poddubny reported on Thursday evening.He believes it’s the beginningof Kiev’s much-touted spring offensive.

The attackers appear to havelaunched a series of simultaneous strikesnorth and south of Artyomovsk, also known as Bakhmut, several other Russian war reporters added. The city has been the scene of intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops for months.

In addition, Kiev’s troops have reportedlyused tanksto strike the city of Soledar. Located northeast of Artyomovosk, it was captured by Russian troops after heavy fighting in January.

Meanwhile, in Zaporozhye Region, Kiev’s troops have reportedly attacked Russian positions near the city of Guliay-Pole. They are seeking tobreak through the Russian forces’ first defensive line, Poddubny explained.

A large column of heavy military equipment was also allegedly spotted moving towards the Ukrainian side of the border with Russia’s Belgorod Region in the northeast.

Kiev has not commented on Thursday’s movements so far. Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed his military still needed more time to prepare before the attack.

The country’s forces were generally “ready” for the operation, he told a collection of Western state media outlets, adding, however, that the cost of the offensive would probably be too high at the present moment. “We can go forward, and, I think, be successful,” Zelensky said. “But we’d lose a lot of people. I think that’s unacceptable. So we need to wait.”

TheRussian Defense Ministry has also not yet commentedon the reports of the alleged Ukrainian counteroffensive.

The long-awaited attack was originally expected to start in the spring – even as early as late winter – but has been repeatedly postponed by Kiev, which cited unfavorable weather conditions and the need to stockpile more Western weapons and equipment before the operation.

Earlier this week, German Armed Forces chief General Carsten Breuer also said that the conditions for a massive operation in Ukraine were “not in place.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/576139-ukraine-counteroffensive-begins/

11 May, 2023 18:11

Ukraine using chemical weapons, Russian journalist claims

Banned substances were reportedly deployed in Zaporozhye Region

Ukrainian forces have used chemical weapons thatcaused loss of consciousness after inhalation, Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Alexander Kots reported on Thursday, citing sources in the Russian military. The alleged attack happened near Orekhov, in Zaporozhye Region.

The use ofsubstances banned by international conventionsappears to be part of the much-anticipated Ukrainian offensive, the journalist wrote on Telegram.

According to Kots, Western-supplied tanks have been spotted outside of Kharkov, while Ukrainian troops have launched attacks on Russian positions north and south of Artyomovsk, which they call Bakhmut.

On Thursday evening, the Russian Defense Ministry said there were “no active operations” on the Zaporozhye front, and that the “general situation in the area of the special military operation is under control.”

Multiple Western officials have said over the past week that all the weapons, ammunition and supplies required for Ukraine’s grand counteroffensive had already been delivered. On Thursday, the UK confirmed it had supplied Kiev with long-range ‘Storm Shadow’ missiles.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, however, claimed he needed more time and more armored vehicles before he could launch the assault, in order to avoid casualties. In the same interview, Zelensky claimed Ukraine had nothing to do with the drones that attacked the Kremlin last week.

According to US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose son had volunteered on Kiev’s side for several months last year, Ukraine has suffered around 300,000 military casualties and is taking losses at a far higher rate than Russia.

Donetsk People’s Republic authorities had accused Ukrainian troops of dropping chemical weapons from drones back in February, pointing to frontline reports and videos shared by Ukrainians on social media.

In late February, the Russian military warned that theUkrainian forces in Kramatorsk had received 16 containers with riot control agents CS (chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile) and CR (dibenzoxazepine), as well as the incapacitating agent BZ (3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate), accompanied by “citizens of foreign countries.” Moscow suggested the US might be planning a “false flag” attack in the Donbass.

Chemical warfare is forbidden under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty that took effect in 1997 and to which both Ukraine and Russia are signatories.

https://www.rt.com/russia/576138-ukraine-chemical-weapons/

>>18831502

Yes and Russia will not hold back. I doubt they will use chemical weapons but they will bomb the hell out of that area.

11 May, 2023 17:58

US sells weapons to majority of authoritarian regimes – The Intercept

Washington sold weapons to at least 48 countries classified as being under authoritarian rule in 2022, the outlet said

The administration of US President Joe Biden sold weapons to at least 57% of the world’s authoritarian regimes in 2022, according to analysis published on Thursday by The Intercept.

In a lengthy review of US arms-dealing practices and recently released government data, the American publication noted that Washington has accounted for around 40% of global arms sales each year since the end of the Cold War.

It added that, according to a classification system devised at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, theUnited States distributed weapons in 2022 to at least 48 of 84 (57%) countriesdescribed by the ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project as being under autocratic or authoritarian rule.

The Swedish study categorized global governments on a scale ranging from ‘closed autocracy’ to ‘liberal democracy’, principally using methodology to discern how free and fair a country’s elections might be.

US weapons exports are typically divided into two categories: foreign military sales (FMS) and direct commercial sales (DCS).FMS requires the US government to act as a direct intermediary, with Washington buying the assets from a weapons manufacturer before it provides them to a foreign government.

DCSdeals, meanwhile, largely removes from the government’s intermediary role andpermits manufacturers to sell directlyabroad. Both types of sale require full approval from Washington.

According to government data, the United States sold arms inFMSdeals to 142 countries and territories last year, producing $85 billion in bilateral sales. InBiden’s first full yearas president, US weapons sales to foreign countriesamounted to $206 billion– surpassing a Trump-era record of $192 billion.

The US has been a key weapons supplier to Ukraine throughout its conflict with Russia. The Intercept noted, however, that this does not fully explain the boom in Washington’s arms export industry last year, as much of the weaponry was provided to Kiev in the form of grants. Russia’s offensive also began five months into the 2022 fiscal year.

The findings of the analysisstand in contrast to Biden’s often-repeated stance of opposition to authoritarian governments. In a speech in Warsaw last year, the US president described conflict between democracy and autocracy as a battle “between liberty and repression” and “between a rules-based international order and one governed by brute force.” (Bidan always lies, he’s a dictatorial authoritarian himself)

https://www.rt.com/news/576137-us-biden-arms-sales/

11 May, 2023 07:37

No peace talks ‘on Russian terms’ – Kiev

Ukraine will not “sell out” despite foreign pressure, the country's National Security Council secretary has said

Kiev will not negotiate with Moscow unless it is done on its own terms, the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council has pledged. Aleksey Danilov also claimed apressure campaign is underwayinvolving several other countries tokick-start peace talks.

“I want you to realize that they ramp up tensions to make us sit down at the negotiation table on Russia’s terms,” the top official said in an interview on national television on Thursday.

“Nobody will sell out our national interests, regardless of how many representatives of other countries who are engaged in this situation want that to happen,” he added. Danilov did not name any officials or nations from which the supposed pressure is coming. (They will sit down when US and EU stops delivering weapons)

Kiev has pledged to fight Russia until it regains full control over lands that Ukraine considers to be its sovereign territory. President Vladimir Zelensky has also signed into law a ban on talks, forbidding any engagement with Russia as long as President Vladimir Putin is in power.

Moscow noted that Ukraine took its uncompromising position after a draft peace treaty based on Kiev’s proposals was penned by the two parties in March 2022. Russian officials said the U-turn was ordered by the US and its allies, who seek to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Moscow, regardless of how many Ukrainian lives are lost. Russia considers the hostilities to be part of a Western proxy war.

The Ukrainian military is expected to launch a major counteroffensive against Russia in the near future. Western media have described the promised operation as a make-or-break moment for Kiev, arguing that without significant gains on the ground it may struggle to secure future packages of military assistance from foreign donors.

Ukrainian officials havedownplayed the significance of the much-touted push, urging continued military support regardless of its outcome.

(Are you fucking kidding me, back the continuous loser, regardless if they lose…fuck they really want all people to die in Ukraine, this is not about territory, it’s about a Napoleon complex of incompetent Nazis and the midget leader, more weapons and they don't want the money laundering to stop)

https://www.rt.com/russia/576095-danilov-peace-talks-russia/