As usual, republicans are blaming our fantastic president, Joe Biden, for problems caused by the horrible Orange Turd.
#trumpflation
— Hugh G Merriman MD (@merriman_md) January 17, 2022
Like so many of the problems President Biden is presently fixing, inflation began under trump... pic.twitter.com/lgcsJI9vUv
#trumpflation
— Hugh G Merriman MD (@merriman_md) January 13, 2022
Inflation began in the U.S. when trump dramatically increased the M2 money supply in June 2020 to artificially prop up his failing economy in advance of the elections.
Government spending doesn't cause inflation.
Expanding the M2 money supply does... pic.twitter.com/0Nx9C9weBO
| Why Democrats must fight GOP's fake "Bidenflation" price hike charge (excerpts from a 11/19/2021 CT Insider article by Dan Haar...
It's a ... big, fat lie. Not an error, not an exaggeration. A screaming fib, weaned on ideology and glorified by an angry base of followers who see bright reminders of inflation in gasoline signs and cannot, or will not, see a truth deeper than "Bidenflation". In fact, this round of inflation has its cause in the pandemic recession: the steps both White House administrations and the Federal Reserve in 2020 and 2021, had to take to keep the economy moving; and even more so, the bottlenecks caused by a global shutdown with plummeting prices, followed by pent-up demand for goods amid a mass migration from big cities to smaller ones. ...the signs point to a quick end because this round was not the result of the normal, long buildup of pressures — it was caused by the COVID-induced stop and restart. Economist Dean Baker... [argues] that not only is the ARP [American Rescue Plan] not to blame for overheating the economy, but if anything, "our problem may be too little demand rather than too much demand". ... "The expectation of higher prices changes behavior" -- as consumers rush out to buy ahead of price increases, said Fred McKinney, a Trumbull economist... [but] "This is something that has the hallmarks of a temporary swing". Baker and McKinney... both point out that the 10-year bond market agrees with them, with low interest rates that further erode arguments about lasting inflation. |
According to Business Insider, "Americans are dealing with the worst inflation since 1990. But that's the price to pay for historic stimulus and a thriving recovery, and it's a price well worth paying ... This inflationary tab is one worth paying to prevent a catastrophe".
Sure, after the tRump administration bungled the coronavirus response, we didn't have any choice. Unless we wanted to plunge the US into a depression. And, while both the tRump and Biden administration passed huge stimulus bills, it was under the prior administration that the FED massively increased the money supply.
"The beautiful thing about our country is $6.2 trillion — because it is 2.2 plus four [combining the Fed money supply increase and the rescue bill] -- it's $6.2 trillion, and we can handle that easily because of who we are, what we are", Trump said, speaking after the bill's historic White House signing ceremony, and boasting the package was "twice as large" as any prior relief bill.
(Above paragraph excerpted from "Donald Trump And The Fed Are Destroying The US Dollar", a 3/28/2020 Forbes article by Billy Bambrough).
In the 2nd tweet I posted (above), Hugh G Merriman MD wrote "Government spending doesn't cause inflation. Expanding the M2 money supply does".
Economics Help concurs, explaining that "increasing the money supply faster than the growth in real output will cause inflation. The reason is that there is more money chasing the same number of goods" (The link between Money Supply and Inflation by Tejvan Pettinger, 3/13/2019).
Image: I added the image at the top of the post on 10/20/2024. It is from a 10/28/2024 post by Rusty Stahl on Twit-Turd, which is what I call X, formerly Twitter.
You should call it what it is. Stupid lockdown-flation... which won't end until Biden stops the lockdown stupidity (only he's too stupid so he won't).
ReplyDeletePresident Trump extends coronavirus shutdown until April 30. [3/29/2020] Bracing the nation for a grim death toll, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month...
DeleteWhat lockdown has president Biden announced?
What percentage of federal employee's are working in federal buildings?
DeleteThe lockout continues.
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DeleteWhat announcement, indeed!
DeleteThere were no vaccines when tRump was predisent. Now there are. Requiring proof of vaccination to enter isn't a "lockdown". Working from home isn't a "lockdown".
Delete"President Joe Biden said Thursday [1/13/2021] his plan to fight Covid during the winter doesn’t include shutdowns or lockdowns".
Minus = lockdown delusions.
Unvaccinated people can get to their jobs in DC w/o getting arrested? Who knew?
Deleteidk wtf you're talking about. Your link has nothing to do with unvaccinated people being arrested. A lockdown of the unvaccinated sounds like a good idea, though. Unfortunately it will never happen.
Delete30% of DC residents can't go to a store or restaurant. How is THAT not a lockdown?
DeleteIt's their choice. They also could not go into a store or restaurant if they chose not to wear a shirt or shoes.
DeleteAlso, in DC they check vaccination status to go into a store? I doubt it. It's usually just a mask that's "required". Meaning there is a sign and that actual mask wearing may or may not be enforced.
btw, you'll be asked to put on a mask or leave. Or produce your proof of vaccination (to enter a restaurant or place of employment). You won't be arrested. Unless you refuse to leave. Then you're trespassing.
FYI, my post was about trumpflation, not lockdowns. The lockdowns are over. They only happened under tRump and because the vaccines were not available yet. Now vaccines are available. Anyone who chooses not to get vaccinated is locking down by their own choice.
DeleteI've never shown, or been asked to show, my vaccination card by anyone.
DeleteDo it or die of starvation isn't a "choice".
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DeleteThey don't recognize "natural immunity" for "commercial purposes," either.
DeleteInfection-induced immunity may depend on the severity of illness, says Shangxin Yang, PhD, a clinical microbiologist at UCLA Health. Early studies found that people who were infected with COVID-19 but were asymptomatic or exhibited only mild symptoms mounted a less-robust antibody response.
Delete"Therefore, the efficacy of natural infection is not as predictable as vaccines", Dr. Yang says. UCLA Health.
How many people have died of starvation because they wouldn't get vaccinated? If anyone has, that was an extremely bad choice. Though I suspect the number is zero.
"Therefore, the efficacy of natural infection is not as predictable as vaccines", Dr. Yang says. UCLA Health."
DeleteThat's due to lack of understanding on the part of immunologists on T cell immunity.
You can't predict that which you don't understand.
DeleteYou remember T cells, right?
DeleteIn 3 words. Greed, power, ignorance. American capitalism and republican party ideology defined in summary.
ReplyDeleteIf you've had COVID-19 before, does your natural immunity work better than a vaccine?
ReplyDeleteThe data is clear: Natural immunity is not better. The COVID-19 vaccines create more effective and longer-lasting immunity than natural immunity from infection.
More than a third of COVID-19 infections result in zero protective antibodies
Natural immunity fades faster than vaccine immunity
Natural immunity alone is less than half as effective than natural immunity plus vaccination
The takeaway: Get vaccinated, even if you've had COVID-19. Vaccine immunity is stronger than natural immunity.
"Natural immunity can be spotty. Some people can react vigorously and get a great antibody response. Other people don't get such a great response," says infectious diseases expert Mark Rupp, MD. "Clearly, vaccine-induced immunity is more standardized and can be longer-lasting."
A third of infections don't get any protective antibodies
Some people who get COVID-19 receive no protection from reinfection – their natural immunity is nonexistent. A recent study found that 36% of COVID-19 cases didn't result in development of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The people had different levels of illness – most had moderate disease, but some were asymptomatic and some experienced severe COVID-19.
"Vaccine-induced immunity is more predictable than natural immunity," says Dr. Rupp. The COVID-19 vaccines provide great protection from severe disease, hospitalization and death.
SOURCE
COVID Vax 5 Times More Protective Than Natural Immunity
Nov. 1, 2021 -- Unvaccinated people who had a recent infection were five times more likely to be reinfected with the coronavirus compared to those who were fully vaccinated and didn’t have a prior infection, according to a new study published Friday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The research team concluded that vaccination can provide a higher, stronger, and more consistent level of immunity against COVID-19 hospitalization than infection alone for at least six months.
That's complete BS. The vaccines are wearing out the immune system by constantly stimulating the production of and wasting unnecessarily produced antigens. Antigen-centric immunologists like Fauci are idiots. Get some facts. Long-term immunity comes from T cell recognition and B cell production. It's why the vaccines are "failing" so badly when it comes to Omicron.
DeleteUniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine: One of the key concerns raised by the fourth-dose concept is that it might cause more harm than good by wearing out the immune system. But doctors say this shouldn't be much of a concern at all.
Delete"There's really no reason why the immune system would become fatigued or not be able to respond", said Cindy Gay, MD, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases.
There's no reason that adults should develop diabetes or alzheimers, either...
DeleteYou can't never have too many antigens constantly stimulating white blood cell protection in your system...
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ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 immunity: Natural infection compared to vaccination
The British Society for Immunology has partnered with the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC) to create an infographic which explains the difference in immunity against COVID-19 gained through natural infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared to vaccination. Scroll down this page to discover more, click the download link to print the graphic or share on social media tagging @britsocimm and @UKCICstudy to help strengthen public understanding.
The UK-CIC is looking at what parts of the immune system are involved in generating a protective response against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as after vaccination. It's likely that for most people vaccination against COVID-19 will induce more effective and longer lasting immunity than that induced by natural infection with the virus. Even if you've had COVID-19, you're recommended to get the vaccine because it will boost whatever immunity you have from natural infection.
Knowledge of COVID-19 and vaccine immunology will continue to evolve and this infographic is accurate at the time of publishing in June 2021.
New CDC Study: Vaccination Offers Higher Protection than Previous COVID-19 Infection
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In today’s MMWR, a study of COVID-19 infections in Kentucky among people who were previously infected with SAR-CoV-2 shows that unvaccinated individuals are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with COVID-19 than those who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the virus. These data further indicate that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone and that vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections.
Can Minus Eff Jay and JoeCon tell us where they studied to get their virology/immunology degrees?
They seem to know so much more than all the experts who've studied all their lives.
Or did they do their own research??? LOL!!!
Aren't they the same people who told us that the Arizona fraudit would show how Trump actually won the presidency? Also the Wisonsin audit? Also in Georgia?
So far their batting average is ZERO for a gazillion!
lol! I don't have a degree in either virology or immunology... but when those who do, disagree, I can choose to listen to all sides of the argument, providing idiots like Fauci aren't censoring them, and choose who to believe. And I choose to believe in the T cell argument/explanation for long term immunity.
Delete...and if the vote counters in Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan had followed the law instead of counting illegal mail in and drop box ballots, Donald J. Trump would be president today.
Delete:P
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DeleteJoe Biden received the most votes. donald tRump "wins" only when you throw out votes. There were no "illegal votes" counted. The Dotard legal team made their case and no judges agreed.
DeleteAs per what I've read, having had covid previously does NOT confer long term immunity. One example is Sarah Palin. She says she is unvaccinated and has had covid twice. So much for her being protected long term.
DeleteSCIENCE.ORG
Immune warriors known as T cells help us fight some viruses, but their importance for battling SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been unclear.
Now, two studies reveal infected people harbor T cells that target the virus—and may help them recover. Both studies also found some people never infected with SARS-CoV-2 have these cellular defenses, most likely because they were previously infected with other coronaviruses.
"This is encouraging data," says virologist Angela Rasmussen of Columbia University. Although the studies don't clarify whether people who clear a SARS-CoV-2 infection can ward off the virus in the future, both identified strong T cell responses to it, which "bodes well for the development of long-term protective immunity," Rasmussen says. The findings could also help researchers create better vaccines.
The more than 100 COVID-19 vaccines in development mainly focus on another immune response: antibodies. These proteins are made by B cells and ideally latch onto SARS-CoV-2 and prevent it from entering cells. T cells, in contrast, thwart infections in two different ways. Helper T cells spur B cells and other immune defenders into action, whereas killer T cells target and destroy infected cells. The severity of disease can depend on the strength of these T cell responses.
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Before these studies, researchers didn't know whether T cells played a role in eliminating SARS-CoV-2, or even whether they could provoke a dangerous immune system overreaction. "These papers are really helpful because they start to define the T cell component of the immune response," Rasmussen says. But she and other scientists caution that the results do not mean that people who have recovered from COVID-19 are protected from reinfection."
Promising studies are NOT definitive studies. Scientists are still doing the research. This is early data still awaiting reviews.
Dr. Fauci would be derelict in his duties if he said ANYTHING definitive about T-cell long-term protection BECAUSE THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ENOUGH STUDIES OR RESEARCH TO PROVE ANYTHING.
Just because you read some articles, that doesn't mean you know this T-cell long term immunity is an accepted way to protect oneself from COVID.
The studies are PROMISING, but there is no hard, definitive proof. Evidence directly on COVID and T cells is still being gathered.
You'd have to be crazy to believe this is settled science. It isn't, this is still being researched.
JoeCon: "...and if the vote counters in Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan had followed the law instead of counting illegal mail in and drop box ballots, Donald J. Trump would be president today."
ReplyDeleteLOL! I'm always amazed at the mental gymnastics people put themselves through to justify believing a lie. LOL!
On Wisconsin!
DeleteConservative group finds no signs of widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin but urges changes to election processes
DeleteCare to share with us what hallucinatory drugs you're on?
A CONSERVATIVE group, The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, found NO FRAUD!
Your tenacity to a lost cause is reminiscent of something in U.S. History when people who were on the losing side of a war kept insisting that they won and that their region would "rise again!" SAD!
:)
DeleteGee, PA just declared mail in voting there was unconstitutional. tsk-tsk...
DeleteDespite a court battle, Pennsylvania voters can still apply for mail ballots without an excuse. ... Governor Tom Wolf appealed the lower court's decision to the state Supreme Court on Friday [and] voters can still apply for a mail-in ballot without having a legally-approved excuse: being in the military, away from home, ill or disabled.
Delete"Until and unless the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upholds this case, you can still vote by mail and you should feel very comfortable doing so", lawyer Ben Geffen of The Public Interest Law Center said.
I wonder what tRump's biography, when it's written, will be titled. A Canon of Lies has a truthful ring to it methinks.
ReplyDeleteHis cultst (like joe con) will hang on every word no doubt.
Sad. Deluded. Dangerous. tRump's legacy.
Of course I mean tRumpers will hang on to evey word to twist themselves into pretzels trying to refute truth.
Delete...kinda like these guys.
DeleteSoooo...Skittlephobic!
DeleteOT: The defenestration of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger is the most Stalinist tactic we've witnessed *so far* by the TrumpOrban Party.
ReplyDeleteThis is what Steve Bannon said after hearing Mike Pence’s speech:
ReplyDelete“You are a stone cold coward…My head’s blowing up…I can’t take Pence and Marc Short and all these guys up there ratting out Trump on Capitol Hill right now.”
LOL! "...ratting out Trump..." is the most mobbed-up mobster statement by the living corpse, Steve Bannon. "Ratting out" is a gangster term, and it always means someone's telling the truth about a mobster.
"Ratting out." Translation = telling the truth.
It's Pajama Day at the Biden White House.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't.
DeleteDerv, Farmer and Thersites are suffering through having a sane and dignified president in the White House. They need our pity. They miss their hero, The Great Shredder of Mar-a-Lardo and Fascist Leader of the US. Poor things.
ReplyDeleteTrump will get his. Soon. Good and hard.
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DeleteLOL!
ReplyDeleteFox News host Brian Kilmeade says Trump's claim he won Arizona in 2020 is an 'outright lie'
FAUX NOOZ helped promote lie that the election was stolen from Trump, even though they called Arizona for him in 2020!
The Trump cultists here were positive the Arizona Fraudit would prove Trump won the state. It didn't, and now even FAUX NOOZ is walking back their lies!
They know this absurd obsession over the 2020 election is going to hurt the Trumpublicans, and their egregiously stupid claim that Jan. 6 was "legitimate political discourse," which is biting them in their collective posteriors!
Ya can't stop the honk! :)
Delete...and it's Coming to DC...
Only an anti-democracy hate-filled disrupting Trumper would look forward to a bunch of lawless half-witted fascist "truckers"(being paid by outsiders) clogging highways and making normal Americans' lives miserable.
DeleteViolence and mayhem, just like J6, is how people like Minus Eff Jay seek to get their way. Minus has decided the answer to dissatisfaction is political power demanded by threat, lawlessness, and intimations of violence.
Minus and his ilk have no interest in power granted by the morality of the ballot.
Now go launder your brown shirt and join your fellow Proud Boys and Oath Keeps in shitting all over America.
This is what Minus Eff Jay eagerly anticipates in DC.
DeleteWorkers of the World, UNITE!
DeleteThey're a minority. A majority -- LARGE MAJORITY -- of Canadians DO NOT SUPPORT the truckers who're getting money and instructions from the American arm of the Fascist Party, aka Trumpublicans.
DeleteMinus Eff Jay and his sock puppets are carrying on in the finest tradition of international fascist pigs.
ReplyDeleteFunny, the international fascist pigs seem to be on YOUR SIDE.
DeleteNah. They're all yours, bunko!
DeleteThose are fake "truckers" coming to DC to spread their fascist hopes of turning this event into a fake anti-vaccine demonstration by disgruntled paid trouble-makers.
ReplyDeleteBLM is driving the trucks? Who knew?
DeleteThe fake "truckers" demonstration was NOT ORGANIZED BY real truckers. They have a completely different agenda that has NOTHING to do with vaccines or FREEDUMBS!
ReplyDeleteOoooh, I'm SCARED! lol!
Delete"Fake" truckers have enough actual trucks to shut American commerce down? Who knew that the "fakers" were so powerful?
DeleteOnly an anti-democracy, pro-fascist would be happy about that! We know you for what you are Minus Eff Jay.
DeleteIs fj's apparent ignorance worth you're continuing to present truth just so he can continue to toss out bullshit for you to again correct?
ReplyDeleteOr, could that really be his purpose, to expose ignorance for more capable folks to build on? Naw, my mind must have fogged over for a brief instance of delusion!
Just let -fj wallow in his delight of bullshit and obscurations. It's liberating to simply laugh at his bullshit and move on. Frankly, the internet (blogosphere) has become a cesspool of bullshit. There is as much garbage as there is credible information. And, the weak minded like -fj always go for the bullshit.
Honk Honk!
DeleteLOL!
DeleteRN You're probably correct. No use trying to educate JoeCon and his sock puppets. Look what happened to JoeCon when I showed him the facts about the Canada insurrection instigated and financed by US fascists:
ReplyDelete"Joe Conservative February 9, 2022 at 1:01 PM
Honk Honk!"
JoeCon turned into a silly goose! LOL!
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Delete‘This Is Not My City’:
ReplyDeleteProtesters Turn a Quiet Capital Upside Down
The Ottawa protesters (AND MINUS "I'm a goose" EFF JAY) are giddy with their sense of collective purpose. But local residents see the demonstration as an unruly, disrespectful and even dangerous occupation.
From the start, the protest, initially organized to oppose a vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, has attracted the company of far right, anti-government and other fringe groups in Canada. In the first days, in Ottawa, at least two flags with Nazi swastikas fluttered in the crowd. Many demonstrators were draped in flags that told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau where to go, rudely. They demanded Parliament be dissolved, and Mr. Trudeau be removed from office.
(What does that have to do with vaccine mandates? Nothing! It's the Red Revolution of 1917 only with assholes!)
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DeleteTotalitarian government slowly boring its way into North America. Put on steroids' by tRump the magnificent maggot, the horrors of the past elsewhere are now knockings at our doors in what used to be the best hope for a better life for many. We legitimately fear those days are rapidly coming to an end.
ReplyDeleteYes Shaw, ASSHOLES they most certainly are.
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ReplyDelete:)
DeletePutting your ignorance and greed on a billboard for viewing I see jc. Keep on keeping on dude. Your negative karma will be your ultimate judge of you. LOL!
ReplyDeleteNWO got you down, RN?
DeleteAll power to the proletariate.
ps - And didn't you perhaps mean vaccination karma?
DeleteNothing gets me down jc. Life is wonderful. I do get a chuckle however watching the many conditioned deluded fools of so called American conservatism these past 6 years pretend they are actually not deluded fools.
ReplyDeleteNow, go kneel at the throne if tRump and once more kiss his ass.
I don't think there's enough room for both me and Trump inside your head.... it obviously has a very limited capacity.
DeleteThere aren't any posts about Joe Biden on your blog? The guy who writes "Let's go Brandon" all the time... that isn't you?
Deletebtw - This is why we know for CERTAIN that Russia has NO PLANS AT ALL to invade Ukraine:
DeletePELOSI: “Well, I think we have to be prepared for it. And that is what the president is — yes, I do believe that he is prepared for an invasion. I also understand why the President of Ukraine wants to keep people calm and that he wants his economy not to suffer. But, on the other hand, if we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin would invade. Let’s hope that diplomacy works.
It’s about diplomacy deterrence. Diplomacy deterrence. And the president’s made it very clear. There’s a big price to pay for Russia to go there. So, if Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.” … “I’m very proud of the work that the president has done.”
All the Left has left is FAKE NEWS.
DeleteThere are no Russian troops on the Ukraine border?
DeleteGavin Newsom posed in a picture without a mask = so what. Everyone in the outdoor stadium was vaccinated or provided a negative test.
There are no Russian troops in Russia? Where are they supposed to be, then?
Delete"btw - This is why we know for CERTAIN that Russia has NO PLANS AT ALL to invade Ukraine:"
ReplyDeleteYeah. Right. Moscow’s forces are massing on Ukraine’s north, east and south. Russia's placed over 130,000 troops and hundreds of tanks around 3/4 of the Ukraine's border just for shits and giggles.
Fake news, eh? Tell us about that FRAUDIT in Arizona that you brayed about and said would show that Trump won the state. Tell us about the Wisconsin recount.
The only one promoting FAKE NEWS is Trump's little parakeet here on Dervish's blog. Minus Eff Jay and his sock puppets have been WRONG about EVERY ONE OF THEIR PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION.
Who the hell would believe ANYTHING The Sock Puppet Brigade leave here?
So if Russia never invades Ukraine, Biden deserves a Nobel Peace Prize...
DeleteLOL!
Somebody's got their "eye on the prize" alright.
DeleteWe've seen this movie before... :)
DeleteWanna know how Biden spells "wag the dog"? U-K-R-A-I-N-E.
DeleteThen you must be used to reruns. The reruns America apparently has great attachment to.
DeleteAll attachments eventually lead to suffering. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan to name a few. Will Ukraine be the next? We shall see.
Biden will not deserve nor will he receive a Noble. Just like tRump the authoritarian did not.
“February 16 will be the day of attack” on Ukraine by Russia, said a post on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s Facebook page accompanying a video address to his country on Monday night.
DeleteBiden, SAVE US! Tomorrow is "U-Day"!
OMG It's the 17th... where are the Ruskies?
Delete“February 16 will be the day of attack” on Ukraine by Russia, said a post on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s Facebook page accompanying a video address to his country on Monday night."
ReplyDeleteSo that's how you tankies see it, Minus Eff Jay?
Got it.
Biden picked this week because several months ago Russia announced they were conducting military exercises in Western Russia near the Ukraine border. The United States is fabricating their claim of a pending Russian invasion of Ukraine around these Russian exercises. When the invasion/attack doesn’t happen, Biden officials will declare a strategic geopolitical victory.
Delete(CNN) […] Russian President Vladimir Putin “continues to add to” his “menu of options” with the type of capabilities he has added from the Russian military by land, sea and air, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a briefing on Monday.
On land, Putin has “combined arms capability, so it’s infantry, it’s armor,” but he has also added “air and missile defense as well as offensive air,” Kirby said.
Putin also has built up his maritime presence. He has added “at least half a dozen” ships in the Black Sea that are LSTs — or landing ships — which have “one purpose, and that’s to put troops ashore,” Kirby said.
“He’s got significant naval power inside the Black Sea,” Kirby said. (more w/ updates)
As soon as Russia completes their military exercises without an invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden will declare victory.
Union Resolve 2022
DeleteOK Tankie.
Deletebtw- It's Lt (jg) Tankie to you, Ms. Clueless.
DeleteWhatever you say, Tankie.
DeleteBy Sunday 2/20 the troops will all be back on the train to Moscow.
ReplyDeleteOK Tankie.
DeleteMuh Russia....
DeleteSpecial Counsel John Durham's investigation isn't just imposing accountability for Hillary Clinton's 2016 political trick to dirty up Donald Trump with the FBI; it's also encroaching on the credibility of President Biden's current chief foreign policy adviser and point man for the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was a senior adviser to Clinton's 2016 campaign and, by his own admission, spread the word to reporters back then that Democrats believed Trump was colluding with Vladimir Putin to hijack the election and had a secret computer channel to the Kremlin. Neither proved true.
,,,but we should believe him now...
Uh huh. Uh huh. Keep telling yourself.
DeleteOh my, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ended... boo-hoo!
DeleteOK, Moskal!
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DeleteMinus FJ's link = fake news. Study Debunks Conservative Censorship in Media Claim.
DeleteTrump was colluding with Vladimir Putin to hijack the election = proven true.
...had a secret computer channel to the Kremlin = Never alleged. The allegation concerns a Kremlin-linked bank. And that allegation has never been disproven.
Quote: defense lawyers for the scientists say it is Mr. Durham's indictment that is misleading. Their clients, they say, believed their hypothesis was a plausible explanation for the odd data they had uncovered — and still do.
The Alfa Bank results "have been validated and are reproducible. The findings of the researchers were true then and remain true today; reports that these findings were innocuous or a hoax are simply wrong", said Jody Westby and Mark Rasch, lawyers for David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist...
Justice is coming...
Delete...for donald tRump.
DeleteHe sure could use some, it's been denied him for so long now. :)
DeleteSo, like his hero tRump -fj must put a great deal of stock in Interfax, a Russian news agency. No suprize at all!
ReplyDeleteI believe the Russians more than the proven liar and Ukrainian invasion storyteller Jake Sullivan
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DeleteOK, Tankie!
DeleteUh huh. We believed you the first time you told us who you are.
Иди поцелуй Путина в зад!
Yesterday, the Russians reminded the Ukraine government to set their alarm clocks so they did not miss the invasion. Today the Russian government asks the Biden administration for the invasion dates, they plan to use this year, so that Moscow can coordinate the vacation plans of key military and government officials.
DeleteLike I said.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Minus Eff Jay shows more allegiance to Putin than to his own country. A real Moskal. Bannon's work is complete in that one.
DeleteSo when's the invasion?
DeleteI dunno, Moskal, you tell us.
DeleteThe Ukraine is just a "feint". The real target is Sweden!
DeleteWe must warn the Swedes!
Here come the Russian invaders...
DeleteSo we shouldn't believe what we're hearing with our own ears and seeing with our own eyes, and we should take seriously Minus Eff Jay's opinions on what's REALLY happening/not happening in the Russia/Ukraine situation?
DeleteWe shouldn't believe Jake Sullivan, but we should believe Minus Eff Jay, an internet blogging sock puppet who spends his time commenting on blogs! Yeah. That's the ticket! LOL!
One more thing: Durham's non-report on something we read about in October did NOT indict Hillary or anyone on anything. We read about this months ago.
As usual, Minus Eff Jay is WRONG again. But at least he's consistent in his utter failure to be right.
Jake Sullivan has actual military experience? Who knew?
DeleteLike his Orange hero -fj prefers the stories created in his head, as well as the stories created in the minds of his deluded brothers in trumplandia. That world of make believe that tRump created for his adoring knuckledragers.
ReplyDeleteCall me when Russia invades... if you live that long.
DeleteMinus Eff Jay (or as we like to refer to him -- "Snarkack, The Not-So-Magnificent") -- disambiguates this blog with more of his flaccid cynicism. Yuk. Yuk.
DeleteAt least I don't mistake an 8 year old separatist conflict with a "pending Russian invasion"...
Delete“It’s not about to start, it’s been going on for eight years. We have lost control of huge parts of our land — Crimea, some of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions… We have lost thousands of people,” and “millions have been displaced,” Podolyak told the Daily Caller. (RELATED: How Young Ukrainians Are Preparing For Possible Invasion)
Oleksandr Yusupov, a Ukrainian columnist and blogger, agreed, noting that U.S. media often uses the wrong words to describe the ongoing war.
When speaking about the eight-year conflict in Donbas, “many American journalists and TV channels say ‘in Donbas the Ukrainian army is fighting against the Russia-backed separatists,’ which makes readers believe the conflict is to a larger extent an internal one, although it is clear that, despite some Ukrainians indeed serve in the Russian armed formations in the East, the war is between Ukraine and Russia,” Yusupov said.
"OMG they shelled a kindergarten, the invasion has begun...." e-r-r-r.... nope. Same old same O.
Delete...and if you want to know more about the "cyberwar" thats been going on for eight years, maybe you should ask the DNC owned experts at CrowdStrike. They specialized in the Ukrainian cyberwar.
Delete...and always remember, "There are Russians under your bed, America!"
DeleteBREAKING: John Durham says claims by right-wing news outlets — and Donald Trump — that Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers ARE FALSE.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell JoeCon and Minus Eff Jay! It'll spoil their Delusion-of-the-Day!
You have a source other than Jon Cooper?
DeleteDidn't think so.
Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing
ReplyDeleteHow the right embraced the false claim that Hillary Clinton ‘spied’ on President Donald Trump
John Durham dumps a small bucket of water on the forest fire he sparked
Where does it say, "Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers ARE FALSE.", again? Oh that's right, it DOESN'T.
DeleteAnd isn't it remarkable that President "Lock-Her-Up" was in the White House for four years with the full resources of the executive branch, including the Justice Department, at his beck and call, yet he didn't lock her up. Maybe because there are no reasons to? Uh-huh.
ReplyDeleteAnd guess who DOESN'T have to appear and give testimony in a case before a judge: The lady Trumpy and his thugs wanted to lock up!
Durham's EXACT quotes:
ReplyDeleteIn a filing on Thursday, Mr. Durham defended himself, saying those accusations about his intentions were “simply not true.” He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.
“If third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the government’s motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the government’s inclusion of this information,” he wrote.
"...over the weekend, the conservative news media treated those sentences in Mr. Durham’s filing as a new revelation while significantly embellishing what it had said.
Mr. Durham, some outlets inaccurately reported, had said he had discovered that the Clinton campaign had paid Mr. Joffe’s company to spy on Mr. Trump. But the campaign had not paid his company, and the filing did not say so. Some outlets also quoted Mr. Durham’s filing as using the word “infiltrate,” a word it did not contain."
All Durham actually said was "simply not true" and then reporters filled in everything and anything they wanted to apply to the statement.
DeleteDurham's "actual words:
Delete4. The Indictment also alleges that, beginning in approximately July 2016, Tech Executive-1 had worked with the defendant, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm-1 on behalf of the Clinton Campaign, numerous cyber researchers, and employees at multiple Internet companies to assemble the purported data and white papers. In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data. Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based universitywho were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract. Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish “an inference” and “narrative” tying then-candidate Trump to Russia. In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain “VIPs,” referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton Campaign.
5. The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower(iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”). (Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.
Digging for the mountain of negatives that tRump has amassed over his sef centered narcissistic life is fairly easy. A bit of focused time coupled with a bit of investigative work reveals the truth of a man tormented by is own negative karma. His personal samsara must be a living hell.
ReplyDeleteYes, sitting on gold plated toilets during one of many incarnations can be quite the trial.
DeleteThank you for adding strngth to my words. Not that YOU would see why I note this. The samsaric hell folks like tRump create by there own actions await them. Perhaps you will be right with your hero.
DeleteSitting on a golden "throne"... the horror!
DeleteIgnorance be thy guide -fj.
ReplyDeleteHe's already busy guiding you, RN.
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ReplyDelete-FJ February 18, 2022 at 5:42 AM
Call me when Russia invades... if you live that long.
Putin orders ‘peacekeeping’ troops to separatist regions of Ukraine
Calling Minus Eff Jay!!!! WRONG AGAIN!!!!!!
You think that screaming "Don't invade Ukraine Russia, cuz we won't defend you!" incessantly for two weeks helped Ukraine?
Deletebtw - What UN charter agreement authorizes US forces in Syria?
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ReplyDeleteCalling Minus Eff Jay! WRONG AGAIN! You're batting a thousand! Always wrong!
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees ordering military forces into two separatist regions of Ukraine for “peacekeeping” purposes as Moscow recognized the breakaway regions’ independence Monday.
Putin signed a decree recognizing the areas — a move that Russia could use to justify an attack in those areas — and an agreement of cooperation with the heads of the two regions: Denis Pushilin of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Leonid Pasechnik of the Luhansk People’s Republic.
The formal recognition prompted a chorus of condemnation from world leaders, with some vowing sanctions.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden would issue an executive order prohibiting U.S. investment and trade in the breakaway regions. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Putin’s recognition of the breakaway territories a “blatant violation” of international law and said the bloc would “react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with Ukraine.” French President Emmanuel Macron called the declaration a “violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine” and called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, echoing Ukraine’s request from earlier in the day.
Peacekeepers are invaders? lol!
DeleteSomebody call the UN!
DeleteWhen do the US Peacekeepers arrive?
DeleteNATO Peacekeepers?
DeleteUN Blue Helmets?
DeleteIs corporate globalism face-planting in the Ukraine?
Delete"Russia don't touch Ukraine!" 6 people unfurled banners against invasion in downtown Moscow. Waiting police immediately arrested them.
ReplyDeleteNo one arrested the arseholes shouting "Let's Go Brandon." They wouldn't have lasted a minute in Russia, yet Trumpublicans side with Russia against the American president.
Tucker Carlson and Trumpublicans sided with the Russians over the Ukraine. The internet is full of photos of Trumpers wearing t-shirts that say "I'd Rather Be A Russian Than A Democrat."
We know where their loyalty is now: With a despot who invades sovereign countries with tanks and threatens war. This is who people like Minus and other Trumpers admire.
Despots, Totalitarians, Liars, Murderers.
The RCMP trampled and severely injured a disabled woman with horses in Toronto for supporting horn honking...
DeleteWhen does the UN Security Council meet so that they can legitimize the Russian Peacekeeping force?
DeleteFrom the Ottawa News
DeleteA woman at the heart of a widely spread and false report of a trampling death amid the police operation to clear "Freedom Convoy" protesters from Ottawa streets Friday is very much alive, and Ottawa police say it's an example of the misinformation that has been spread throughout the three-week demonstration.
WRONG AGAIN, MINUS EFF JAY. When will you learn to check your false comments before planting them in other people's blogs?
Why would anyone believe ANYTHING you post? Answer?
What part of what I stated wasn't true? Are you saying she wasn't hurt? Prove it.
DeleteOh... she didn't DIE. You've debunked something not originally "bunked".
DeleteOntario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the official watchdog group for the province, said this weekend it is investigating an incident in which a mounted police officer trampled a woman on Friday during police action to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.
DeleteContrary to statements from the Ottawa police, SIU confirmed the woman suffered a “serious injury” during her “interaction” with the horse.
"What part of what I stated wasn't true? Are you saying she wasn't hurt? Prove it"
DeleteI reported, from the Ottawa News, that she wasn't KILLED! Because of this lying liar at FAUX NOOZ. Where most of the Trumpidiots get their news.
Why do you even care about this? I mean it's not like she was run over by a Trump supporter and killed during a pro-fascist "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottsville!
No one arrested the arseholes shouting "Let's Go Brandon."
DeleteSo what happened to all the Jan. 6 protestors that disappeared into DC jails w/o bond?
And let's not forget this bit of recent history:
ReplyDelete"Former Trump aide, Paul Manafort, was found guilty of 8 counts, including tax fraud and bank fraud, as part of the Russia probe. Manafort earned millions working for a corrupt pro-Russian political party that repeatedly disparaged America's most important military alliance, NATO.
Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chief from May to August 2016, spent nearly a decade as a consultant to Ukraine's Party of Regions and its standard bearer, Viktor Yanukovych.
Backed by Russian-leaning oligarchs, the party opposed NATO membership and spouted anti-Western rhetoric that once helped fuel violence against American marines. Its reign ended when Yanukovych fled to Russia after bloody street protests against his personal corruption and pro-Moscow actions."
Trump pardoned this corrupt pos and the people who admire Trump supported this crook.
Is Hunter Biden going to join the Ukrainian army and defend Burisma's gas wells?
DeleteHi Minus Eff Jay,
DeleteDeflecting and changing the subject is what a person who is losing an argument does. Hunter Biden has NOTHING to do with what is happening right now in Ukraine. HOWEVER, Donal Trump's lackey and convicted felon, Paul Manafort, has EVERYTHING to do with what's happening in Ukraine.
See above.
Paul Manafort has more influence over events in Ukraine than Joe Biden? Who knew?
DeleteWasn't Joe Biden in charge of Ukraine during the Obama Administration?
DeleteWhat ever happened to that $1 billion he gave them?
DeleteMinus Eff Jay: "Wasn't Joe Biden in charge of Ukraine during the Obama Administration?"
ReplyDeleteDidn't Trumpy undo almost everything the Obama administration accomplished, and then watch Russia grab another chunk of Ukraine?
Why yes, yes he did.
Funny, Ukraine was still intact when Trump left office. Ukraine lost all its' territory under Obama and Biden. :)
DeletePutin's not stupid. He knows that Democrat aren't worth sh*t when it comes to Defense.
DeleteReally? Just who the fuck was in charge during WW II? WW I?
DeleteAnd jc continues his delusional merriment.
Minus Eff Jay: "Ukraine lost all its' territory under Obama and Biden."
DeleteReally? "All its'[sic] territory? The Ukrainians in Kyiv are shocked to hear this.
Meanwhile, Traitor Trump praised Putin for his "savvy" invasion and mocked America's president. All this during an international crisis involving our Cold War enemy and our NATO allies.
Trump is a dirty traitor to America. He just made Jane Fonda look like Betsy Ross.
No wonder the Trump supporter states are called Red States.
What's the problem? George Soros' "Open Society Institute" in Ukraine not going to get any American government anti-corruption grants this year?
Deletebtw - What part of Ukraine's 3 lost territories weren't "lost" during Obama/Biden Administrations?
Delete3 of 3 sounds like "all" to me.
DeleteThe Pro-Russia, anti-America Red State Trumpers ALWAYS toss in Soros to their arguments, but never look at the Mercers:
ReplyDeleteMercer family played bigger role in 2020 election than thought, giving nearly $20 million to dark money GOP fund
Actually, Trump's admiring lap-dog obeisance to Putin is what encouraged him to do what he did. America and the world saw Trump kiss Putin's ass in Helsinki when he chose Putin over his own intel people --in a foreign country yet! Effing unheard of in my lifetime!
People are wrong to call Trump the Orange Blob. Trump is Red, through and through, and he proved it once again this week when he praised and cheered on Putin and MOCKED America.
America has never seen a former president so utterly anti-democratic and disloyal to his own country during an international crisis.
Trump deserves every true American's undying contempt for the rest of his stupid, miserable life.
The Mercer's have a financial interest in the Ukraine? Who knew?
Deleteps - Like I told Dervish Here starting at 6:35am... It's one thing to "listen to the Master's voice" and quite another to "pretend to understand it", let alone give a rational explanation of it.
Deleteaka- "The University Discourse".
DeleteLive Updates: Russia Attacks Ukraine From Land, Air and Sea
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to hear the noise from the attack on Ukraine because of all the cheering from Russia's biggest supporters: Trump, Pompeo, and the GQP who are in love with Putin and his thugs.
Minus Eff Jay: WRONG AGAIN!
Biden prevented the invasion? So when are the Nobel ceremonies?
DeleteI knew that all of Biden's running around screaming, "The Russians are coming!" would galvanize "somebody else" to do something about it.
Deletebtw - Wasn't it me who said that Ukraine lost ALL it's territory under Obama and Biden? LOL!
Deletebtw2 - When are you going to put your kids, nieces and nephews on a plane to defend the Ukraine?
Delete"L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace. - Patton ;)
DeleteJoeCon and his pals trying to deflect again from their rock solid assertion that Putin would NOT invade and attack Ukraine. They laughed about President Biden's warning about an imminent attack and now that they've been proved calamitously wrong, they change the subject. B.S.
DeleteThe invasion is a violation of the rule of law, a violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine, a violation of democratic principles, and a violation of the principle of self-determination.
And what did a former POTUS have to say about the tyrant who initiated this assault on a sovereign nation: "Savvy," "Oh, that's wonderful! How smart is that?" "This is genius!"
There it is. A former American president cheering on a murderous, anti-democracy, anti-liberty tyrant and enemy to all peace-loving people.
May Trump's words follow him and his followers into the ignominy they so richly deserve.
If Biden had been serious about defending Ukraine and wanted to deter Putin, he would have "broken the rules" and sent large quantities of lethal weapons and "advisors" to Ukraine months ago. Instead, he played "Chicken Little"...
ReplyDelete...with predictable results.
DeleteMinion's shouldn't mess with Evil "Master"-minds like "Gru"
Delete:P
DeleteThe problem with "minions" like Biden and their slave morals is that they never know when to BREAK THE RULES!
DeleteThe US has four NATO allies on Ukraine's border. How many troops did Biden amass there to deter Putin?
DeleteReally finding the abject ignorance belched by jc and -eff j quite amusing, were it not so damned dangerous. Not that they don't have a lot of deluded fools with them.
ReplyDeleteA Master's lament...
DeleteHow all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, I do not know
Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me
Shakespeare, "Hamlet" (Act IV, Sc iv)
I guess Biden lacked the "will, strength, and means..."
Delete...or perhaps more likely, a few still-functioning neurons.
Germany especially.)."
DeletePerhaps there's a silver-lining in this. Europeans must realize that we won't always be thee to hold their hands and bail them out (Germany especially).
ReplyDeleteBreaking: Russia’s stock market has lost almost 40% of it’s value today. This is a one of the biggest meltdowns that has happened in a single-day, in modern market history.
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