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Patrick says

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Russia appears poised to invade Ukraine,

Just so people know, Russia isn't about to invade Ukraine. The United States has been expanding NATO Eastward for the last 30 years. That's PART of the reason the US engineered a coup d'etat in Ukraine.

richwicks says

The United States has been expanding NATO Eastward for the last 30 years.

So what? If a country wants to join a defence treaty why the fuck some FSB midged is supposed to have a veto power on it? It's not right neither legally nor morally.

Why the fuck should Poland/Lithuania/Estonia/Latvia/Hungary pass up the opportunity to secure itself from another occupation by the fucks hellbent on restoring Russian Empire?

The bullshit about Russia being afraid of being attacked by the West is just that - bullshit. If the West didn't attack them in the 90s when they were literally in shambles, it's not happening now, period. Who exactly is planning to attack them? Merkel? Makron? Please!

The West has been bending over backwards to disarm Russia's neighbors: took Ukraine's and Kazakhstan's nuclear weapons in exchange of "assurances of territorial integrity", pressed Ukraine into scrapping their missiles and strategic bombers, encouraged selling off tanks and artillery pieces, even took last stockpile of enriched Uranium from them during Obama administration. The whole "orchestrated coup" is a pile of Russian propaganda horseshit. Russia is not a victim here, no matter how loud their whining and crocodile tears.

Eric Holder says

richwicks says

The United States has been expanding NATO Eastward for the last 30 years.

So what? If a country wants to join a defence treaty why the fuck some FSB midged is supposed to have a veto power on it? It's not right neither legally nor morally.

Because part of the agreement with taking down the Berlin Wall so that German reunification could happen, was to stop NATO expansion. East Berlin was existed as an outpost into the the West.

The Warsaw Pact was dissolved when the USSR (thankfully) collapsed on December 26, 1991 - what is the purpose of NATO now? It's to waste money and to threaten Russia and to cause problems. It's part of the military industrial complex.

Eric Holder says

Why the fuck should Poland/Lithuania/Estonia/Latvia/Hungary pass up the opportunity to secure itself from another occupation by the fucks hellbent on restoring Russian Empire?

The only threat of occupation these nations now face, is occupation by the EU. Europe is trying to dump in refugees that the United States is creating into these nations, against the will of the citizens of those nations.

Eric Holder says

The bullshit about Russia being afraid of being attacked by the West is just that - bullshit. If the West didn't attack them in the 90s when they were literally in shambles, it's not happening now, period. Who exactly is planning to attack them? Merkel? Makron? Please!

Large wars are about economics, not actually defense. The West is fucking bankrupt, the assholes that have stolen everything and bankrupted the West need some excuse to explain the poverty they've caused. Any war that the assholes get us into are NOT meant for the US to win. Haven't you realized that by now? The US has bombed 7 nations over the last 20 years - can you even name them? What are these wars for? Out of sight out of mind.

When the USSR collapsed, the US was fine with it, as long as Yeltsin was their fucking traitorous slave, and they controlled the banking system there. Putin wasn't a problem either until he placed state control over the banking system in Russia. Part of the reason Ukraine was overthrown is that Russia gave Ukraine a better deal on loans than the ECB did. Also to stop the Nordstream II. Also to control the Nordstream I. Also to expand NATO.

The fucks controlling the United States right now are TOTAL FUCKING assholes. They don't represent us or you. Why do you defend them? These TOTAL FUCKING ASSHOLES need some excuse to get the sheep to rally around them, so they're always attempting to start wars and make up threats, they pit us continually against one another - do you really think the DNC gives a FUCK about Drag Queen Story Hour or the Republican leadership cares about the legality of abortion or not? It's just to piss people off, that's the ONLY reason they constantly change the rules. Don't you realize this yet?

Eric Holder says

The West has been bending over backwards to disarm Russia's neighbors: took Ukraine's and Kazakhstan's nuclear weapons in exchange of "assurances of territorial integrity",

You mean steal purified uranium?

Who gives a shit? If some small nation launches a nuclear weapon (and that includes Israel), they will be a parking lot the next day.

Eric Holder says

The whole "orchestrated coup" is a pile of Russian propaganda horseshit.

You are on the fucking internet.

You can talk to ANYBODY on this fucking planet now. That includes UKRAINIANS. It's easy to use translation programs as well.

Ви бачите, як легко говорити українською?

I'm so fucking sick and tired of people that, DESPITE knowing they've been lied to into the Iraq War, the Syrian War, the bombing of Libya, this fake BULLSHIT "pandemic" still are talking like anything this FUCKING government says is true. WHEN, WHEN do you lose your fucking faith, your stupid childish trust? WHEN? Is it possible? What the FUCK DOES IT TAKE?

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ON A STICK, what the FUCK does it take? What must be done before you fucking stupid assholes can grasp the simple OBVIOUS fact that there is no goddamned fucking news in the West and there hasn't been for 2 decades? Quit fucking drooling out propaganda to me, and fucking make use to the goddamned fucking machine we made precisely for this reason. PRECISELY.

We know, with CERTAINTY that the US overthrew Ukraine, because Victoria Nuland in her (in)famous "Fuck the EU" recording she was talking about who should be replacing Viktor Yanukovych as Ukraine's leader - 1 month before he was no longer the president of Ukraine. Almost as if she had foreknowledge, because FUCKING DUH, she did. Much was made of the cunt's "vulgarity" but "Fuck the EU" mean "Fuck the EU's opinion on who should be the next leader of Ukraine. The EU can go fuck themselves if they think they have any say".

You're not stupid, I'm absolutely certain, but I am so fucking tired of the propaganda being repeated to me. So tired of it. OF COURSE the US overthrew Ukraine.

richwicks says

Because part of the agreement with taking down the Berlin Wall so that German reunification could happen, was to stop NATO expansion.

Nope. It's yet another BS Russian talking point. Gorbachev himself said (on video) that nobody promised him that NATO would not expand Eastwards when he was agreeing to German re-unification and dissolution of the Warsaw pact.

Here's a transcript:

"RBTH: One of the key issues that has arisen in connection with the events in Ukraine is NATO expansion into the East. Do you get the feeling that your Western partners lied to you when they were developing their future plans in Eastern Europe? Why didn’t you insist that the promises made to you – particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East – be legally encoded? I will quote Baker: “NATO will not move one inch further east.”

M.G.: The topic of “NATO expansion” was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a singe Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn’t bring it up, either. Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces from the alliance would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement, mentioned in your question, was made in that context. Kohl and [German Vice Chancellor Hans-Dietrich] Genscher talked about it.

Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled. The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been observed all these years. So don’t portray Gorbachev and the then-Soviet authorities as naïve people who were wrapped around the West’s finger. If there was naïveté, it was later, when the issue arose. Russia at first did not object."

They were promised NO NEW TROOPS IN EASTERN GERMANY and that's all. Fucking Putin shits in your fucking head and you accept it with glee and congratulate yourself on what a fucking contrarian you are.

richwicks says

You're not stupid, I'm absolutely certain, but I am so fucking tired of the propaganda being repeated to me.

What "propaganda", you stupid fucking fuck? Wasn't Ukraine disarmed of its nukes by US and Russia? It most certainly was. IT'S A FUCKING FACT AND NO WALL OF TEXT FROM YOU CAN CHANGE THAT. Did fucking Obama press Ukraine to give up their last stockpile of enriched Urainium in 2010? YES, HE DID - IT'S ANOTHER FUCKING FACT.

Step down from the fucking soapbox and learn some facts.

richwicks says

I'm so fucking sick and tired of people that, DESPITE knowing they've been lied to into the Iraq War, the Syrian War, the bombing of Libya, this fake BULLSHIT "pandemic" still are talking like anything this FUCKING government says is true. WHEN, WHEN do you lose your fucking faith, your stupid childish trust? WHEN? Is it possible? What the FUCK DOES IT TAKE?

I think it may take death by vaxx. Once dead from the 17th booster, the people who trusted the Pfizer/mafia/media no longer matter.

But until then, they have a religious faith that NPR must always be right, a faith which prevents them from even hearing "Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation" and "Funded by Pfizer" no matter how many times the corruption is openly announced.

So that generation is lost. They are willing puppets of the corruption because the reality is too unpleasant for them to contemplate.

Our work should be in educating the young that NPR is their enemy.

Patrick says

Our work should be in educating the young that NPR is their enemy.

Not just NPR. EVERYBODY. Anything called a "reliable source" in the United States is merely propaganda. There are maybe, literally, 1/2 dozen real journalists nationally. There might be a lot more at local levels, but I doubt it.

Eric Holder says

richwicks says

You're not stupid, I'm absolutely certain, but I am so fucking tired of the propaganda being repeated to me.

What "propaganda", you stupid fucking fuck? Wasn't Ukraine disarmed of its nukes by US and Russia? It most certainly was.

Give me a source. What year? What were the terms? Why? Who got the plutonium?

I don't trust a SINGLE FUCKING thing this government claims. Nothing. Why do you?

Eric Holder says

Did fucking Obama press Ukraine to give up their last stockpile of enriched Urainium in 2010? YES, HE DID - IT'S ANOTHER FUCKING FACT.

If it's a fact - demonstrate it to be a fact.

Why should the US care of Ukraine has nuclear weapons or not regardless?

Eric Holder says

Step down from the fucking soapbox and learn some facts.

Demonstrate anything you've said is a "fact".

https://notthebee.com/article/forget-the-long-coup-conspiracy-theory-theres-a-far-more-likely-way-trump-gets-another-term?source=patrick.net

The 2024 election will begin soon enough, and in some ways it's already under way in much of the media. Concerned about the status of their party's candidate, the mainstream press is already floating trial balloon replacements like this…

…only to find out how comical such a thought is to the vast majority of Americans at this juncture. As it stands for Democrats, if Biden doesn't run, there's no easy way to get away from running Harris without undermining all of the identity politics nonsense they have chosen to embrace and foist upon the country.

On the Republican side, it is increasingly clear that former President Trump will run for a second term. When he declares, it will be virtually impossible for anyone else to claim the nomination, and anyone who tries will be seen as a turncoat to the MAGA millions, thus curtailing any political future in what has clearly become Trump's party. Consequently, it's far more likely that most potential rivals will either bide their time or cozy up to the former president rather than challenge him.

All of this means that, for now, we are likely looking at a Biden/Trump rematch, signifying there will be more on the ballot than just the candidates. Riding on its outcome will also be every claim of 2020 voter fraud, the charge of a stolen election, and the declaration of an illegitimate presidency. In other words, 2024 is shaping up (for now) to be a 2020 sequel with twice the rancor.

Unconvinced that a vengeful Trump can rein in his temperament enough to win, folks on the Left are becoming increasingly panicked by the emerging theory that the former president is playing the long coup. Axios had the story, as did the Atlantic before them.

The premise goes like this: Trump attempted to have his minions overturn the 2020 election by getting the state legislatures and key election officials in the swing states he disputed (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) to certify Republican electors rather than Democrat ones, claiming the official election outcome that showed a Biden victory was the result of fraud. His effort failed because not enough Republicans in those states were willing to go along with the scheme. Since that time, Trump has been diligently working to destroy and remove those "disloyal" Republicans and replace them with loyalists who will do his bidding in 2024 should the opportunity arise.

I have to admit finding the whole theory pretty humorous. One thing I remember so vividly from the Trump term was the tendency of his supporters to spin any bizarre or inexplicable tweet, statement, response, or action as being part of some master political gamesmanship the rest of us just didn't understand. "Trump is on a whole different level," they would say, alluding to the former president playing 4D chess above our heads. Liberal elites in media and the DNC mocked the MAGA legions for such a belief, but now as they speak of this "long coup" strategy are essentially claiming the same thing: "Trump the mad political scientist is outsmarting us all."

I get that the Dems loathe the man and can't stomach the thought of his potential return to power. But there's a far more plausible path for President Trump returning to the White House that they should be focused on. And it's a path that has absolutely nothing to do with Trump.

Build Back Better has, like it or not, become the signature legislation representing the Biden administration, and it's an unmitigated disaster economically. To call it a flop is an insult to LeBron James, as the policy threatens to exacerbate inflation, which is already at alarming levels.
Vaccine mandates are being struck down as unconstitutional (obviously). It's one thing to be the president who tried to do something popular that later gets knocked down by the courts. But pushing something unconstitutional and unpopular is not a good statement heading into a re-election campaign.
The anti police posturing has failed, crime has soared, and violent crime has reached unprecedented levels in cities across America.
Covid fatigue is real, the specter of lockdowns continues to haunt the economic climate, and failed mitigation strategies continue to be imposed on people without justification. That's especially bad for a president who built his campaign around "shutting down the virus." The complaint Biden used successfully in 2020 was that Trump wouldn't listen to science. In 2024, Trump will use successfully the fact that Biden has manipulated the science.
CRT debates have morphed into challenges of parental rights with the Democrat Party lining up behind teacher unions and lobby groups while Republicans are seen as fighting for parents.

And then there's this:

Joe Biden reads instruction off teleprompter:
"End of message."

I understand the leftist impulse to obsess over Trump has not worn off. But truth be told, if he does return to power in 2024, they'll have no one to blame but themselves.

https://www.ntd.com/head-of-us-energy-alliance-says-biden-administrations-energy-policies-are-driving-up-costs-of-oil-and-gas_719111.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

richwicks says

Not just NPR. EVERYBODY. Anything called a "reliable source" in the United States is merely propaganda

When you try to quote statistics (from the CDC and VAERS) that contradict the narrative of the vaxxers they respond, "where do you get your news from?". I have heard that exact quote from three different people.

Onvacation says

richwicks says

Not just NPR. EVERYBODY. Anything called a "reliable source" in the United States is merely propaganda

When you try to quote statistics (from the CDC and VAERS) that contradict the narrative of the vaxxers they respond, "where do you get your news from?". I have heard that exact quote from three different people.

All you can do is have a ready made list of CDC articles, and you will have to quote portions of it.

If you want to go through that trouble, you send it to them and write something along the lines "perhaps I made an error, can you help me find it?"

99% of the time they won't read it and you won't get a response. IF you get a response - you can then push a little further with "But I found this information, why do you think professional journalists whose JOB is to know this information, can't?"

It's EXHAUSTING to try to deprogram somebody. I've MULTIPLE times pointed out "mistakes" of our media to friends to have them just return to the vomit of our news media. It's infuriating. I just stop trying to explain but when I'm challenged, I generally have the information readily available and will forward it to them when challenged. Even doing this for YEARS, they still believe the nonsense propaganda.

They can't seem to figure out they are being systematically lied to. It's a cult.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-bidens-numbers-tank-lets-go-brandon-chain-of-stores-expands-to-10?source=patrick.net

While Biden’s Numbers Tank, ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Chain Of Stores Expands To 10
"Business is very, very good right now."

https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/voters-need-to-start-turning-the-page-on-bidens-disaster/?source=patrick.net

In these areas and more, the Biden Administration has placed politics and ideology above the interests and lives of American citizens, not to mention Afghans and migrants. Of course, the mainstream media and congressional Democrats will never truly hold this White House responsible for its actions. In this midterm election year, it falls to the American people to do so. By ousting Biden’s elected supporters, voters can begin to turn the page on his disastrous presidency.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/02/with-more-covid-deaths-in-2021-when-does-trump-get-his-apology/?source=patrick.net

With more COVID deaths in 2021 than 2020, when does Trump get his apology?

https://patriotpost.us/articles/85300?utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_content=body

Senator Cruz Details Grounds for Biden Impeachment
If the GOP takes back Congress in 2022, this is a serious, and warranted, possibility.

Patrick says

Senator Cruz Details Grounds for Biden Impeachment

It will never happen.

Even if it did, all it would do is replace one puppet for another. If we're going to have a puppet, best we have the worst possible and incompetent puppet as possible, rather than one that can at least appear in charge.

No policy change will happen if Biden were replaced with Harris.

Still needs 66 senators for removal.

Even in GOP wet dreams they ain't gonna get that kind of a majority in 2022 elections.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10372327/Venmo-PayPal-Cash-App-report-transactions-totaling-600-IRS.html?source=patrick.net

Venmo, PayPal and Cash App will now have to report transactions totaling more than $600 to the IRS as Biden plans to ramp up financial enforcement

Use cash instead.

Patrick says

Use cash instead.

A $600 cash transaction triggers that Biden reporting, too.

Only if someone actually enters that data. At least it won't be automated, as it is with Paypal, etc.

Patrick says

Only if someone actually enters that data. At least it won't be automated, as it is with Paypal, etc.

ATMs will likely report. You have to get your cash somehow to pay cash manually.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Only if someone actually enters that data. At least it won't be automated, as it is with Paypal, etc.

ATMs will likely report. You have to get your cash somehow to pay cash manually.

$600 is above usual ATM limit, iirc.

Patrick says

Use cash instead.

I do.

Credit Union cash max is $500. I get $500 4 or 5 times a month and buy meals and things. Small businesses appreciate cash; so do those who serve us..

I am pretty sure one of Biden's new IRS tax goons is going to target me for "structuring" my withdrawals to fall below the reporting level. I'm not going to tell them about the hookers and blow, I'm going to lie and say it was massages and cannabis.

FuckCCP89 says

$600 is above usual ATM limit, iirc.

I thought someone would bring that up. But cumulative in a given time period will count here for reporting, just like with the old $10k limit. Gaming withdrawals to stay under the limit will get you in trouble.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/85297?utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_content=body

Burying Biden’s Big Lie About Vaccination
He’s told a lot of them, but this particularly nasty one about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” has now been thoroughly debunked.

It’s no secret that Joe Biden has an uneasy relationship with the truth — especially when it comes to his claims about vaccination.

For example: He was long ago proven to be a liar when he was asked whether vaccination should be mandatory and he answered: “No, I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand that it be mandatory.” Likewise, he was long ago proven to be a liar when he told one of CNN’s resident perverts, Don Lemon, during a town hall meeting in July, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” Same with the lie he told just last month when he challenged our patriotism before sneering, “How about making sure that you’re vaccinated so you do not spread the disease to anybody else?”

Memo to Snake Oil Joe: How about making sure you’ve got your facts before making such bold and sweeping pronouncements?

Those, though, aren’t the vaccination lies we’re looking for. No, the ones we had in mind were those that smeared and vilified the unvaccinated. “It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Biden lectured, just before clarifying things as only he can: “It’s a vaxation of the unvaccinated.”

Then he washed, and he rinsed, and he repeated. Time and again, he said things like: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated.”

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/why-biden-gets-my-vote-as-the-worst?source=patrick.net

Biden’s approval rating has dropped to a new low of 33%. I think it’s going to go even lower. I think history will eventually judge him as the worst President in US history.

Sure, Biden didn’t create COVID. But by enabling Fauci instead of firing him, he has turned a bad situation (COVID) into a national and worldwide disaster.

A wise chief executive will always solicit opposing points of view on any important decision
The most important quality in a chief executive is his decision-making ability.

Take, for example, the question as to whether or not to mandate the vaccination of the entire population of the US with a vaccine which was never properly tested on animals (they never did the amount, duration, and distribution studies of the spike protein on non-human primates, for example, and still haven’t) and where the safety signals in VAERS are off the charts (and nobody can explain the reason for that other than using hand-waving arguments without any evidence).

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-just-called-yall-domestic-enemies-if-you-disagree-with-him?source=patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/well-talk-about-that-later-cmon-watch-as-biden-gets-frustrated-and-then-looks-utterly-confused-after-reporters-ask-him-questions-about-covid-policy?source=patrick.net

From an email from info@grrrgraphics.com

The Biden Regime has failed at nearly everything they’ve tried. This is a good thing because what they’ve been attempting is totalitarianism. The Socialist Democrats do not want competition. Like the Bolsheviks, they want all other political parties eliminated..

Joe sounded disconsolate that his ‘voting rights’ bill is in big trouble. Kamala sounded more hopeful, but she’s always on the wrong page.

Traitor Joe wants to end the filibuster and that also flopped. The Supreme Court tossed out Joe’s vaccine mandate for businesses. Unfortunately they did not allow medical professionals equal protection under the law.

Joe’s ‘Build Back Better’ collapse is also dangerous. It means the desperate Socialist Democrats will resort to more alarming and desperate tactics. A war with Russia? A new and more powerful bio-weapon to be released? Will patriots who believe in the Constitution and individual rights continue to be arrested as ’insurrectionists’ by a corrupt DOJ and FBI?

https://notthebee.com/article/manchin-and-sinema-wont-kill-america-by-axing-the-filibuster-and-joe-biden-went-on-a-crazy-rant-about-it?source=patrick.net

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pentagon-has-yet-to-issue-report-on-weapons-left-in-afghanistan_4220187.html?source=patrick.net&utm_source=share-btn-copylink

Pentagon Misses Deadline to Produce Report on Billions in Weapons Left Behind in Afghanistan
By Ken Silva January 18, 2022 Updated: January 18, 2022biggersmaller Print
The Department of Defense (DOD) has missed a deadline to produce a report on the estimated $85 billion in U.S. weaponry left in Afghanistan, prompting a letter from 27 House Republicans demanding answers.

HeadSet says

Gaming withdrawals to stay under the limit will get you in trouble.

I take out $500 at a time, as that is the limit.

It is none of the government's business what I do with MY money.

https://babylonbee.com/news/off-releases-biden-repellent-for-kids?source=patrick.net