7 Dec, 2023

Pentagon threatens Americans over Ukraine – Tucker Carlson

Fund Ukraine or your children will have to fight Russia, X host claims Congress was told

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly told members of Congress thatunless they approve more funding to Ukraine, Americans will be sent to fight Russia directly, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Thursday.

According to Carlson, Austin spoke at a classified briefing for members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, and at one pointtold members that “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia”unless Kiev gets the $60 billion in aidrequested by the White House.

“The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine,” said Carlson said on X (formerly Twitter), summarizing Austin’s message as “Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids.”

“He really said this?” asked X owner Elon Musk.

“He really did. Confirmed,” Carlson replied.

Carlson was by far the most popular host of an evening talk show on cable TV when Fox News mysteriously chose to part ways with him in April. He has since speculated that its corporate owners “really didn’t like” some of his coverage that challenged official narratives. In May, he launched his own show on Musk’s platform in a format similar to his long-form interviews for Fox.

On Tuesday, his guest was Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican opposed to sending any more money to Ukraine – on account of the US being too heavily in debt.

“How could Washington possibly send tens of billions more to sleazy oligarchs in Ukraine now that the whole enterprise has been revealed as a fruitless, corrupt and incredibly destructive disaster?” Carlson wondered in the introduction to that interview.

The US Congress has approved over $120 billion worth of aid to Kiev since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022, in the form of weapons and ammunition coming from the Pentagon’s stockpiles as well as cash payments to the Ukrainian government.

That money has mostly run out at this point, and the White House has asked for $60 billion more – choosing to bundle it with aid for Israel, weapons for Taiwan and “border security.”Some Republicans in both the House and the Senate have refused to go along, however. GOP senators stormed out of their briefing on Wednesday and later voted against advancing the aid package.

Meanwhile,Republican chairs of the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence committees in the House of Representatives have embraced the White House talking pointsin a memo aiming to persuade their party members to back the Ukraine funding bill, according to Axios.

(Fuck You!Now this is beyond all sanity expected from Pentagon Leader.)

https://www.rt.com/news/588708-tucker-carlson-pentagon-ukraine-threat/

7 Dec, 2023

Biden approval rating hits new low

Even members of the president’s own party have urged him not to run for reelection as concerns about his fitness and the economy escalate

US President Joe Biden’s approval rating has hit rock bottom, according to a CNN poll published on Wednesday. Just 37% of Americans surveyed over the last month had a favorable view of the Democrat’s job performance.

While the president’s approval ratings never inched far above half the population by CNN’s count, topping out at 53% in April of 2021, his numbers have steadily declined since last December,driven by a dismal perception of his handling of the economythat has extended even into his own party, with 36% of Democrats taking a dim view of his economic policies, according to the poll.

These results reflected respondents’ overall pessimism regarding the nation’s financial fate -just 29% of those polled described the economy as “good”or “very good.” Even Democrats seemed to have trouble finding the silver lining in Bidenomics, with just 52% rating the economy positively.

Indeed, Americans' sense of impending fiscal doom appeared to hit an all-time high last month, with61% of those surveyed predicting somewhat or very poor economic conditionsa year into the future - the most pessimistic response since CNN’s pollster began asking the question in 1997.

The economy remained the primary issue occupying voters’ minds as it has throughout Biden’s presidency, with 42% rating financial matters as their chief concern. (Why only 42%?)

Despite Biden’s collapsing approval ratings,the Democrat has shown no sign of willingness to abdicate the Oval Office, appearing convinced he alone can defeat Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” he reportedly told donors at a campaign event on Tuesday, declaring that Democrats “cannot let him win.”

Even David Axelrod, the former senior White House adviser for Barack Obama, strongly hinted last month that a Biden-Trump rematch would not end well for the Democrats, acknowledging that while Biden had the Democratic nomination if he wanted it, “what he needs to decide is whether that is wise, whether it’s in HIS best interest or the country’s.”

Axelrod subsequently clarified that he had not asked Biden to drop out of the race despite posting ominous poll numbers showing Trump leading the Democrat in five out of six critical swing states. A national The Economist/YouGov poll conducted last month similarly showed Trump in the lead, including among independent voters.

Axelrod’s misgivings prompted an outpouring of similar sentiments from hardcore never-Trumpers, including arch-neocon Bill Kristol urged the president to “pass the torch to the next generation.” The Iraq War architect framed Biden’s hypothetical departure from the race as “an act of personal sacrifice and public spirit.”

Biden would be 86 years old at the end of his second term, should he be reelected and survive that long.

https://www.rt.com/news/588707-biden-approval-ratings-bottom-economy/

(This is Obama’s threat, they fail to realize no one will vote for him and the election cheating will be contained one way or another. There must be solution that will come, it won’t be comfortable but necessary.)