19 FEB, 13:47

Bodies of NATO troops masquerading as mercenaries found in Avdeyevka

According to Viktor Vodolatsky, after the loss of Avdeyevka, "some are in a panic, others are comatose" among the Ukrainian military

LUGANSK, February 19. /TASS/. When coming across the dead bodies of foreign mercenaries in liberated Avdeyevka, Russian forces discovermany of the deceased to be servicemen from NATO countries, State Duma legislator Viktor Vodolatsky said.

"We find the corpses of mercenaries in the rubble in Avdeyevka, ‘so-called mercenaries’ because these are soldiers of regular unitsfrom Poland, Germany, France and many other NATO countriesthat send their units here to gain combat experience against Russia," Vodolatsky told TASS.

Earlier, Sergey Rudskoy, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said thatNATO military disguised as mercenaries were operating air defense systems, multiple rocket launchers and army tactical missile systemsin Ukraine. Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the DPR leader, told TASS that the bodies of militarypersonnel with US and Polish tagswere found during the mop-up operation in Avdeyevka.

According to Vodolatsky, after the loss of Avdeyevka, "some are in a panic, others are comatose" among the Ukrainian military. "This may lead to increased drone strikes on Russian territory," the parliamentarian believes. "They will be taking out their anger and hatred on peaceful citizens," he suggested.

https://tass.com/politics/1748699

22 FEB, 06:38

Ukrainian military finished off mercenaries incapable of leaving Avdeyevka on their own

The advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic pointed out that the bodies were found on the outskirts of the city in the direction of the settlement of Lastochkino

DONETSK, February 22. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops killed wounded foreign mercenaries who were unable to leave Avdeyevka on their own, Igor Kimakovsky, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, told TASS.

"The bodies of foreign mercenaries were found in Avdeyevka. Apparently, thesepeople were first seriously wounded and then shot with guns," the advisor said, adding that most of those found had blast injuries.

Kimakovsky pointed out that the bodies were found on the outskirts of the city in the direction of the settlement of Lastochkino. According to him, this rules out the possibility that the mercenaries were killed in close combat with Russian troops.

"You can see that the [Ukrainian] servicemen were leaving, and these [mercenaries] couldn't go any further on their own. They simply did not bother to take care of them in order to save time and keep alive those who could still move on their own.They were shot at point-blank range to hide their identities and give them no chance of being captured," the advisor explained. He stressed that military doctors confirmed the information that all the mercenaries whose bodies were found were shot at close range.

According to Kimakovsky, not only the chevrons, but also the insignia of the found bodies testify to their affiliation. "According to information from the field, there are quite a lot of these bodies. The nature and causes of death of all the wounded are the same. No one tried to hide them, save for their affiliation," he added.

https://tass.com/politics/1750297

Old but relevant

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HOLY CRAP!

Col. Douglas MacGregor doesn’t think we’ll even get to the 2024 election.

"I think we'll wake up one day and the banks will be closed for 2-3 weeks. No one will be able to get into them."

7:59 PM · Jun 29, 2023

https://x.com/DailyNoahNews/status/1674568376318849025?s=20

CPAC Bannon: Richard Grenell: "God Has His Hand On President Trump And He's Giving Him The Strength"

8:16

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CPAC Bannon: French Nuns Join WarRoom To Discuss How They Help The People Of The World Through Jesus Christ

This is beautiful

4:27

https://rumble.com/embed/v4cqj9b/?pub=4

CPAC Bannon: Naomi Wolf: "We Don't Know Who's Won Any Election In America Since 2005"

4:59

https://rumble.com/embed/v4cqkji/?pub=4

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Here’s the bill Naomi Wolf wants us to get to the legislature on Voting. Really long and detailed. PDF attached

Election Transparency, Accountability, and Inclusion Act: Model Law – DailyClout and American Voters’ Alliance

January 27, 2024 • by Phill Kline, Dr. Naomi Wolf, AVA/DailyClout Model Law

Note: Most legislators’ websites do not allow documents to be attached to messages. You will likely need to call your legislators’ office and request email addresses to which you can send the model bill. You can look up your legislators’ office phone numbers and physical addresses here.

SECTION 1 – Statement of Purpose:

WHEREAS, election administration must be transparent, inclusive, and accountable to ensure fair elections and accurate results; and

WHEREAS, accountability requires that election management responsibilities be vested with persons and institutions accountable to the citizenry; and

WHEREAS, transparency requires that the public, political candidates, political parties, and the media be able to meaningfully observe the election process including any process involving the management of ballots; and

WHEREAS, government election offices must be managed in an objective manner that does not directly or indirectly benefit one candidate or political party over another; and

WHEREAS, [insert state] hereby seeks to treat all eligible voters and all legally cast ballots equally to ensure a fair election; and

WHEREAS, candidates and citizens must be respected in their ability to question government performance and in observing the election process; and

WHEREAS, occasions arise when election results are in doubt, thereby requiring a fair, transparent, and accountable method of resolving such doubt in a manner which reflects an accurate tally of the vote; and

WHEREAS, the use of machines to tally votes virtually eliminates transparency removing the public, candidates, and even election officials from the ability to view and assess in real time the accuracy of the tally; and

WHEREAS, it is the policy of [insert state] to ensure the equal treatment of all eligible voters and all ballots, by requiring state law to be equally applied and state resources to be, as much as practical, to be equally applied across the state for the management of elections; and

WHEREAS, the alterations in process and law and the infusion of private monies and expertise into government management of the 2020 election have significantly diminished faith in the election process; now, therefore,

BE IT ENACTED BY THE [INSERT state legislature] OF THE STATE OF [insert state]:

https://dailyclout.io/election-transparency-accountability-and-inclusion-act-model-law-dailyclout-and-american-voters-alliance/

Benny Johnson

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PANIC: Corporate Media reporter visibly STUNNED afterFIVE Michigan Biden voters TURN on Joe before her very eyes:

"We are not stupid enough to elect you again!"

“I’m willing to punish Biden”

11:01 AM · Feb 23, 2024

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https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1761058813602394180

johnny maga

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Trump imitates Biden navigating his way off a stage

Just an absolute masterpiece in comedic entertainment

10:13 PM · Feb 23, 2024

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Hour by sleepy hour, the VERY revealing details of a frail 81-year-old Biden's day: Woken by his cat… no work before 10am… physical therapy and slip-proof sneakers… and aides constantly terrified of disaster

By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

10:10 EST 21 Feb 2024 , updated 17:35 EST 21 Feb 2024

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DailyMail.com has incisive new insight into Biden's highly-managed day

It includes cat Willow acting as his alarm clock the steps staff take to avoid falls

Aides feel another stumble could be catastrophic for his re-election campaign

The insights lend significance to the fundamental question: Can he run again?

Bleary-eyed and with a sleep apnea machine strapped to his face, Biden wakes up most mornings when his cat Willow crawls across him.

After getting out of bed, he heads for a 45-minute workout with his physical therapist, who focuses on balance exercises to stop him falling and to deal with his increasingly stiff gait.

The president is not at his Oval Office desk until at 10am and usually leaves at 7pm – Obama, by comparison, began an hour earlier.

Aides schedule most of his public events between 10am and 4pm because, White House insiders say, 'that is when he is at his sharpest.'

His news conferences are heavily limited, and he has clocked just half the number of them compared to Obama. He is often late to them, by up to an hour – aides refer to this tardiness as 'Biden Time'. Follow-up questions are heavily limited in case disaster strikes, as it did recently when he got the Egyptian premier's name wrong.

The fear of him tripping has consumed his aides and forced the Secret Service to put an extra agent at the bottom of the small Air Force One stairs, in case he repeats one of his calamitous stumbles.

To mitigate that risk, the commander-in-chief also tends to opt for slip-resistant sneakers rather than dress shoes that would usually go with a $2,000 custom Italian suit he pairs with.

These insights into the working day and life of the frail 81-year-old lend a new significance to the fundamental question facing voters - and the world: Does Biden have the mental acuity and physical energy to serve another term in the White House?

'Watch me,' Biden has frequently said to critics who say he is too old and not fit for office. Now more eyes than ever are on him and the staff that shield him.

His ability to deal with the 'toughest job in the world' is under public scrutiny like never before and the growing doubts have forced the West Wing to constantly slap down all suggestions he isn't up to it.

But polls still show an overwhelming majority of Americans think he is too old to run again, let alone serve as the leader of the free world until he is 86 years old.

In the wake of the devastating Special Counsel report calling Biden a 'well-meaning elderly man' with memory problems and 'diminished faculties', his workday building up to the 2024 election has come increasingly into focus.

Now DailyMail.com has interviewed West Wing aides and experts to delve into how Biden's staff make sure the frailties that could do further damage to his 2024 campaign aren't exposed – and what they reveal tell their own compelling story.

7 AM: BIDEN'S CAT ALARM CLOCK

Joe Biden typically wakes up at 7:00am in the second-floor master bedroom suite of the White House and it is usually just him and his cat.

Willow, a four-year-old American short-haired tabby, serves as the presidential alarm clock crawling over the commander-in-chief to rouse him, a White House insider told DailyMail.com…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13074353/sleepy-joe-biden-physical-therapy-aides-disaster.html

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By this time in the morning, First Lady Jill Biden, an earlier riser is already up and doing a barre or spin class.

The President, who wears a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine to treat his sleep apnea and often has visible indentations from its straps on his face, moves a bit slower.

In contrast to his immediate predecessors, the President gets a solid eight hours of sleep.

President Donald Trump often clocked in at five hours, and President Barack Obama, who was known for being a 'night owl,' said he regularly slept five to seven hours.

George W. Bush, an outlier, would wake up at 5:15 AM to have coffee with wife Laura and read the newspapers.

Like Obama, President Biden commonly heads to the gym one hour after waking, though their training regimes are quite different.

President Biden trips twice on stairs as he boards Air Force One

President Biden begins his approximately 45-minute workout around 8:00 A.M., often with a physical therapist.

The routine reportedly focuses on balancing exercises to help combat the President's increasingly stiff gait, which was first noted by a White House physician in Biden's 2021 physical examination.

'The President's ambulatory gait is perceptibly stiffer and less fluid than it was a year or so ago,' Dr. Kevin O'Connor, physician to the president, observed at the time.

The President fractured his foot during the 2020 presidential campaign and was advised to wear an orthopedic walking boot, but he reportedly refused to follow doctor's orders which is thought to have exacerbated his condition.

Now, Biden's shuffling walk and the frequency of his falls – while riding his bike in Rehoboth, Delaware in June 2022, at a U.S. Air Force Academy commencement in June 2023 and multiple times when climbing the stairs to Air Force One – are not only a troubling health hazard, but an unfortunate political liability.

Biden's allies have expressed concerns that he's one serious fall away from electoral disaster.

In an apparent concession to his infirmity and to deal with the foot injury, the President has started wearing sneakers instead of dress shoes while traveling.

On Monday, he was spotted departing Marine One wearing a sturdy-looking pair of wide-soled Hoka brand 'Transport' shoes paired with a blue suit.

For months, the President has boarded Air Force One by way of a short staircase that leads to the belly of the plane, instead of using the longer set of stairs that leads directly into the main cabin.

On Tuesday, he had a close call when he stumbled twice on the smaller staircase before his flight for a fundraising trip to California.

And even more recently, amilitary aide or Secret Service member has been positioned at the bottom of the steps in the event of a mishap.

From the gym, it's on to breakfast and then time to get down to work.

10:00 AM: OVAL OFFICE TIME

There is no such thing as a typical agenda for the President of the United States, but Biden's public schedule shows he regularly starts his official day behind the Resolute Desk at 10:00 A.M.

President Obama arrived in the Oval Office at 8:30 A.M. or 9:00 A.M.

President Trump was said to have arrived at approximately 11:00 A.M., after rising at 6:00 A.M. and spending five hours in 'executive time' reading news reports, watching cable TV, phoning lawmakers, friends and advisers, and - of course - tweeting.

As is true for all of America's chief executives, Biden first receives a classified daily security briefing on threats facing the country.

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Aides, including Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, are in and out of the Oval Office all day. And Biden is known to spend a lot of his day on the phone.

There are other calls to trusted advisers as well as lawmakers on Capitol Hill. But many of the calls are also personal and family-related.

Biden regularly speaks with any one of his seven grandchildren daily and the First Lady, who spends her day teaching at a Virginia community college or working in the East Wing.

The President also has daily phone check-ins with his son Hunter, who is currently fighting a dozen federal gun and tax charges - and, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, informed the President about his plans in December 2023 to defy a Congressional subpoena related to the House impeachment investigation.

The majority of the president's public events, whether they be remarks on the economy or greeting a foreign leader, are scheduled by staff for between 10:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M.

White House insiders say the president is at his sharpest during these hours.

'They basically just need to control the terms of engagement here,' Chris Whipple, author of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, told DailyMail.com.

'Biden needs to make sure that he's rested before he goes out. The care and feeding of the president is really important,' said Whipple.

'It's the staff's job', he noted, 'to rein him in and make sure that he's at his best.'

Lunch is usually soup and a chopped salad with grilled chicken. His favorite treat is ice cream - chocolate chip - and he usually eats some every day.

The President's 'bodyman,' Jacob Spreyer, an all-purpose personal assistant, keeps the President fueled with his favorite treats: orange Gatorade, Coke Zero and chocolate chip cookies.

Those close to Biden have described his routines as those of a creature of habit, but his reliability does extend to timeliness.

On Tuesday afternoon last week, the White House updated Biden's schedule to announce he would speak at 1:15 P.M. on the Senate's passage of a national security bill.

His remarks started over an hour late.

One common feature of Biden's presidency is that despite staff attempts to 'stage-manage' his day, he frequently runs late.

Jokingly referred to as 'Biden time,' the President's tardiness has become a source of exasperation - especially since so much of the schedule is cloaked in secrecy.

Sometimes the details of his schedule are filled in retrospectively.

The president's schedule on October 9, 2023, listed only that he had the presidential daily briefing at 10:00 A.M. Later that day, the White House announced the president had been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Hur.

And in stark contrast to Trump as well as Obama, Biden is far less frequently available to the media or the American public.

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Biden rarely holds evening events, preferring to spend his nights in the White House residence.

In the evenings, he'll remain in the Oval Office until around 7:00 P.M., after which he heads to dinner with the First Lady.

Obama would also usually leave between 6 and 6:30 PM to have dinner with his daughters and Trump would leave around 6, with his last meeting somewhere between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM

The president prefers pasta for his evening meal while Jill prefers grilled fish or chicken with vegetables. Biden is a teetotaler but the First Lady may have a glass of wine.

Waiting for him on a small table outside the White House residence is his evening briefing book, which clocks in at around 200 pages, and prepares him for the next day.

He'll spend the rest of the evening reviewing that and other papers.

A notable exception was last Thursday, the day that Special Counsel Robert Hur's report rocked Washington DC.

The White House announced that there would be a hastily arranged statement at 7:45 P.M. The White House press corps stood ready, and the President walked out 15 minutes later to defend himself against claims that he suffered from declining mental faculties.

The address started with Biden lashing out at the Special Counsel for releasing embarrassing details of his interview and furiously confronting reporters.

But it ended in chaos with the President mixing up the names of the presidents of Egypt and Mexico, while responding to a question about the on-going war in Gaza.

But, usually, it's quiet at the White House at that hour.

And the Presidential bedtime is at 11:00 PM.

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Oops I missed 4/5

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What is undeniable is that the White House staff - and particularly the First Lady - have worked hard to shield the President from public appearance during which he may come off poorly.

He has held 33 news conferences during his time in office compared to Obama's 66 and Trump's 52 by this time in their presidencies.

The President will often answer short questions when at public events, but he rarely submits to long interviews where he can be asked in-depth questions and probed with follow-ups.

JOE'S NOTE CARDS:

If Biden has a speech to deliver during the day he will go over a draft with chief speechwriter Vinay Reddy and members of her team.

He is also briefed by aides on news of the day in case he decides to answer any shouted questions from the press.

The President will carry 'cheat sheets' that his aides make for him, which contain talking points and other notes that he may need.

In 2022, during a public address to wind industry executives, the President inadvertently revealed one of his 'cheat sheets' to the cameras revealing the granular details of his instructions.

'YOU take YOUR seat', 'YOU give brief comments', and 'YOU depart', were among the cues on the card.

Notably for the second straight year, the President declined an interview with a major television broadcaster during the Super Bowl - an appearance that would have garnered tens of millions of viewers in a generally friendly format.

The Biden campaign's co-chairman Mitch Landrieu justified the head-scratching decision this way: 'I think people really want to watch the Super Bowl tonight and think about football. They don't want to hear from a politician.'

And now in recent days, after that damaging Special Counsel report, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has increasingly been asked to not only explain the President's decision-making, but his competence.

'He's sharp, he's engaged, he pushes us for information,' she said from the White House Briefing Room. It's a common refrain that aides, advisors and members of the cabinet often repeat nearly verbatim.

Jill and his closest confidants say his age is a sign of his experience. They argue he is one of the most qualified men to ever serve in the White House, with 30 years in the Senate and eight as vice president.

But with the 2024 election heating up, the President is more often on the road - with even less time to rest and recharge.

When he is traveling abroad his mornings are often kept open, and public events are confined to afternoons and evenings.

But even before the President had to cope with the strain of a presidential campaign, sometimes those events got canceled.

5:00 PM LID:

In November 2022, he skipped a gala dinner in Indonesia at the G20 summit.

Aides said he had to 'attend to a few items' after a busy day. Many observers suspected the president was tired and the 12-hour time change had gotten the better of him.

Often the President's official working day ends at 5:00 P.M. when the White House calls a 'lid' for the press, meaning the president will have no more public events.

Biden's cheat sheets at fundraisers worry donors

Axios Sneak Peek

President Biden has been using notecards in closed-door fundraisers, calling on prescreened donors and then consulting his notes to provide detailed answers, according to people familiar with the routine.

Why it matters: Biden's reliance on notecards to help explain his own policy positions — on questions he knows are coming — is raising concerns among some donors about Biden's age.

The president is 81 but claims he feels younger.

The staged Q&A sessions have left some donors wondering whether Biden can withstand the rigors of a presidential campaign, let alone potential debates with former President Trump, 77.

Biden advisers say the president is given notecards only for very detailed and technical questions, and say he frequently does spontaneous Q&As.

Most recent presidents — including Trump, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — have carried crib notes, or used teleprompters, to help guide them through various public events and meetings.

In Biden's case, donors have noticed he's also using notecards in private events.

Biden's campaign dismissed such concerns.

"In news that matters to the American people when it comes to the 2024 election today: Three IVF clinics in Alabama ceased operations out of fear of criminal prosecution by the state — all at the feet of Donald Trump," Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said, referring to an Alabama court's ruling that frozen embryos are children, the latest decision to follow the Supreme Court's rejection of abortion rights.

What we're hearing: Biden's notecards are partly the result of a detail-oriented staff that wants to ensure his fundraisers are successful.

They have been: Biden's robust fundraising schedule has given his campaign and the Democratic National Committee a colossal cash advantage over Republicans with the election less than nine months away.

As a senator for 36 years, then vice president for eight years, Biden expects to be prepped by staff for nearly every meeting on his schedule. In those briefings, Biden is demanding, difficult to please — and frequently profane.

What they're saying: In some impromptu Q&A sessions, certain donors have been impressed.

"He's always been an extemporaneous speaker, and he spoke off-the-cuff. Not scripted at all," said Fred P. Hochberg, a donor who attended a fundraiser in Manhattan earlier this month.

"I asked him about immigration and the border, and he talked about what's going on," Hochberg said.

Between the lines: Biden has some of his most notable unscripted moments at late-night events with donors.

On Wednesday, during a three-day West Coast swing, he called Russian president Vladimir Putin "a crazy SOB."

In June, he referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator" at a California fundraiser.

Zoom in: Most of Biden's conversations with donors are shielded from public view.

The president begins his remarks with reporters — but not TV cameras — in the room. There's frequently a teleprompter to help him stay on track. Wednesday night, there wasn't.

After his opening comments at fundraisers, reporters are ushered out of the venue — often a supporter's elegant home — before donors are allowed to ask two or three questions vetted by the president's staff.

Zoom out: Both Biden and Trump — but especially Biden — are facing questions about their age in a campaign that's likely to feature the oldest presidential finalists in U.S. history.

Special Counsel Robert Hur's report this month depicting Biden as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" has given Republicans a talking point — even as Trump has appeared to forget names in speeches, and has been hit with a $364 million court judgment for business fraud.

Biden supporters have drawn attention to Trump's gaffes and relatively light campaign schedule.

But two in three voters said they think Biden is too old to effectively serve another four-year term as president, according to a Quinnipiac University pollreleased Wednesday.

41% said they think Trump is too old.

Biden has tried to use humor to defuse concerns about his age, winking at voters that he's in on the joke.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/23/biden-notecards-fundraisers-donors-age

It’s odd it took them this long to notice

‘She abandoned us’: Haley’s South Carolina problem isn’t just Trump

The former South Carolina governor largely ignored the state’s grassroots activist base.

2/23/2024

Haley returned to South Carolina in 2019 after serving at the United Nations and living in New York City, putting down new roots in the coastal resort community of Kiawah Island. It was hours away from Lexington, the Republican-rich suburb of Columbia where she launched her political career as a state representative.

Far from the heart of conservative South Carolina, Kiawah Island is a golf and beach town, a destination for transplants and retirees and part of a county that President Joe Biden won in 2020. The Biden family has vacationed there at a donor friend’s mansion.

The campaign official said Haley recently spoke to the Dorchester GOP — she took part in the group’s “Presidential Sweet Tea Stop” at the Summerville Country Club earlier this month — and was well-received when she held a VIP photo line there with several party activists. Her son also spoke to the Dorchester GOP a few weeks ago. The official said the campaign has been in touch regularly with the South Carolina GOP.

Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokesperson for Haley’s campaign, noted Haley’s record as governor — how she cut taxes, cracked down on immigrants in South Carolina illegally, implemented voter ID requirements and “moved 35,000 people from welfare to work.”

“Anyone who knows Nikki knows she’s always been the conservative outsider,” Perez-Cubas said. “Nikki’s working hard to earn every vote and fighting for the 70 percent of Americans who don’t want another Biden-Trump matchup.”

Olson, who was among those standing behind the new governor in spring 2011 as she signed into law a bill she championed that required state legislators’ votes to be on record, said he supported her longer than some tea party activists he knew.

“She was a breath of fresh air, someone not willing to back down, willing to stand up for the grassroots movement,” Olson said. “Not only to stand up, but take the hits, and she did.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/nikki-haley-south-carolina-problem-trump-00142515