This morning, President Joe Biden signed into law the $95 billion national security supplemental bill providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, as well as humanitarian aid to Gaza and other peoples suffering humanitarian crises. The Pentagon immediately sent about a billion dollars worth of ammunition, air defense munitions, and artillery rounds, as well as weapons and armored vehicles to Ukraine. The U.S. Department of Defense had moved supplies into Poland and Germany in hopes that the measure would pass; they should move into Ukraine soon.
“Biden’s focus on the slow, steady work of governance is a change from the actions of Republican leaders since 1981 whose goal was not to build up successful programs that helped Americans in general, but rather to slash the government”. There we have a succinct summary of why we need to re-elect Biden -Harris !
OK -- positives Heather cites again today. Till the last sentence.
There, she notes in the Arizona indictments that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator. Which may remind us what this week is, what it features.
This week, April 25: perhaps the most disgraceful day in U.S. history.
This signals the day the Clarence court pushed its lengthy delay of justice for its, their favorite corrupt politician.
Worse, it did so, they did so, for the first time in U.S. history to venture some indeed as above the law. They – the bribed, perjured, corrupted Clarence court – thus set themselves also above the law. They may take bribes. They may use congressional confirmation hearings to perjure themselves. They may finally, too, place themselves beyond accountability to how their conceits for medieval theocracy also allows state control of women.
In ceding long delay of justice for their favorite fat, orange grifter and rapist, these deeply corrupt now poise also to end the Chevron Precedent and so end accountability by all billionaires to the federal government for workplace safety, health care, and environmental protection.
Thank you, Dr Richardson for this really uplifting post. People need to know how hard Biden is working every day to improve the safety and earning ability of the vast majority of us. Instead of riding around his "personal golf courses" he is either in his office or on the road getting important thing done. Now what was that about age?
"Bobb is now senior counsel for “election integrity” for the Republican National Committee." Was it 'Sesame Street' characters who taught, "These two things do not go together." I'd lol, but that hurts too badly even for my sense of humor.
This encapsulates why Biden should get another term as President! He knows how to govern 😍
“Over the years, it seems we have become accustomed to the idea that flame-throwing defines politics, but in fact, Biden’s reliance on slow, careful negotiation harks back to the eras when leaders sought to build coalitions and find common ground in order to pass legislation.”
Today's AP article about Biden signing the bill for US aid to Ukraine indicates that Russia's military forces have severely damaged the country during the 6 + month delay in US funding. Precarious is the the word I use for Ukraine. It needs a lot more than it is getting from US, including much stronger air defense, and who knows when there will be more.
“We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done,” Biden said a White House event to announce the bill signing. “Now we need to move fast, and we are.” (AP)
'But significant damage has been done to the Biden administration’s effort to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion during the funding impasse that dates back to August, when the Democratic president made his first emergency spending request for Ukraine. Even with a burst of new weapons and ammunition, it’s unlikely Ukraine will immediately recover after months of setbacks.'
'Biden immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine. The package includes air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as Russian President Vladimir Putin has racked up win after win.'
'Meanwhile, Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials confirmed Wednesday. The U.S. is providing more of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in the new military package, according to one official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.'
'Still, longer term, it remains uncertain if Ukraine, after months of losses and massive damage to its infrastructure, can make enough progress to sustain American political support before burning through the latest influx of money.'
'White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan cautioned that even as new U.S. aid flows into Ukraine, it’s possible that Russia will continue to make tactical gains in the weeks ahead.'
“The fact is that it’s going to take some time for us to dig out of the hole that was created by six months of delay,” 'he said.'
'Far-right Republicans have adamantly opposed sending more money for Ukraine, with the war appearing to have no end in sight. Biden in August requested more than $20 billion to keep aid flowing into Ukraine, but the money was stripped out of a must-pass spending bill.'
'By late October, Republicans finally settled on Johnson, a low-profile Louisiana Republican whose thinking on Ukraine was opaque, to serve as the next speaker. Biden during his congratulatory call with Johnson urged him to quickly pass Ukraine aid and began a monthslong, largely behind-the-scenes effort to bring the matter to a vote.'
'In private conversations with Johnson, Biden and White House officials leaned into the stakes for Europe if Ukraine were to fall to Russia. On explicit orders from Biden, White House officials also avoided directly attacking Johnson over the stalled aid.'
'Biden praised Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., saying in the end they' “stepped up and did the right thing.”
“History will remember this moment,” 'he said.'
'At frustrating moments during the negotiations, Biden urged his aides to' “just keep talking, keep working,” 'according to a senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal discussions.'
'So they did. In a daily meeting convened by White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, the president’s top aides would brainstorm possible ways to better make the case about Ukraine’s dire situation in the absence of aid.'
'The White House also sought to accommodate Johnson and his various asks. For instance, administration officials at the speaker’s request briefed Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., two conservatives who were persistent antagonists of Johnson.'
'In public, the administration deployed a strategy of downgrading intelligence that demonstrated Russia’s efforts to tighten its ties with U.S. adversaries China, North Korea and Iran to fortify Moscow’s defense industrial complex and get around U.S. and European sanctions.'
'The $61 billion can help triage Ukrainian forces, but Kyiv will need much more for a fight that could last years, military experts say.'
'Realistic goals for the months ahead for Ukraine — and its allies — include avoiding the loss of major cities, slowing Russia’s momentum and getting to Kyiv additional weaponry that could help them go on the offensive in 2025, said Bradley Bowman, a defense strategy and policy analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington.'
“I think Ukrainian success is not guaranteed,” Bowman said, “but Russian success is if we stop supporting Ukraine.” (AP) See link below.
Folks, we have to remember that Biden is walking - or trying to - a very fine tightrope on the Israeli-Gaza fiasco. America cannot let Israeli down and we can’t dictate to them whom they should elect as their leader - although I do believe that we can signal who shouldn’t be (or have been) their leader … Netanyahu is on the opposite end of the political spectrum - ideological - than Biden/Harris [and Obama/Biden]. We all know - or should - that Netanyahu is trying to remain in power and control of the Israeli government to keep himself out of the court system and certainly in power until our next election hoping that his good buddy trump gets re-elected. What Netanyahu, his government cronies on the right and the IDF are doing to the innocent Palestinian people and Gaza is worse than deplorable. Biden and our choices or options with this situation are very few - but we must be careful and much more forceful with Netanyahu … desperate people do desperate things!
As I trip my fingers over the light fantastic of the keyboard, we are just under three months out from the former Party of Lincoln (now Lincoln Rockwell) convening in Milwaukee.
By the time the boatloads of foam rubber fingers, cardboard signs and sub-standard booze are offloaded from the barges in Lake Michigan to fete the conventioneers, their putative Presidential nominee will most likely be a felon.
This poses a most pressing dilemma. Will the GOP go forward with nominating Don Snoreleone in spite of his imminent ride up the Hudson to the Ossining State Correctional Facility, or will they FINALLY decide to cut their losses, and stage the first true nominating convention in over fifty years?!
If the latter, who would they nominate? Former Palmetto State Governor Nikki "Slavery, what slavery?!" would be the leading contender, of course, but they could stay MAGA and go Trump lite with Repugnant Ron. Or would they have the cojones to go totally off script with a candidate hitherto unexperienced on the national campaign trail but beloved by the Kool Aid drinking Fox News audience, such as Odious Elise Stefanik or Pretty-in-Pierre-but-low-in-IQ Kristi Noem?!?
Me get I remind folks. The war between Russia and Ukraine, and the war between Israel and Iran, with the Hamas attacking and senselessness killing of innocent people in Israel on October 7th, all was the work, and cause, of one person. This person sat at his residence in Florida and shared all the Classified, Top Secret, documents with his Russian oligarch friends who took this back to Putin. This information was then passed on to Iran and the Hamas. This the invasions.
Donald J. Trump shared this information with everyone he could show it to at Mar-a-Lago. This is a known, proven, fact. Sworn to by people who were there seeing this either their own eyes. Personal knowledge of what was shared with visitors to Mar-a-Lago. Now, I’m not a genius in National Security, but I do know that there’s no Schiff at Mar-a-Lago, and these documents were all illegally obtained by Trump. All this has been revealed through the extensive investigation. And, all the documents have yet to be returned to the National Archives l, even after the FBI served the search warrant and conducted the search. That, too, has been proven.
The point I’m making by all this is simple. All these conflicts lead back to the illegal actions of one person. Donald J. Trump! Every single death caused in these conflicts/wars are on him. And he should be the one to suffer the most from it. This is no different than the assault on our Nation’s Capital on January 6th. That too was the sole work of one person. He sat back for hours and did nothing relishing in watching his handy work unfold on television from the sanctuary of the White House.
There were 5 people who died as a result of that ‘invasion’ on the Capitol. Yet, not one indictment against Trump further any of those murders. Not one! Not one mention of the thousands of deaths he’s caused by sharing all this information with Putin, and the rest of his communist friends. This man is evil, vile, and needs to be locked up in a dark dungeon with the jet thrown away. He needs to be incarcerated in a hole and forgotten, never to have access to the outside world ever again.
I want to touch on something else while I’m on my horse.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but Trump has yet to go out in the ‘campaign trail’ and do any campaigning. He has yet to hold a “rally” anywhere and actually give a campaign speech. All he’s doing is flying his “Trump One” (classic ‘presidential name for his plane) around and giving hate speeches collecting his millions from his sheep 🐑! All he’s done calling is ‘crooked Joe Biden’ does this, that, or the other. He has yet to discuss any issues, other than the sane exact lies he spewed in 2016. And now, thanks to the testimony of the old head of THE ENQUIRER magazine, that’s been revealed as all false fabricated information to get him elected.
Anyone sending him one red cent is a fool. Anyone sending the RNC one red cent, is a fool. There used to be NO REPUBLICAN PARTY anymore. It used to be gone. Dead, deceased. It just hasn’t been buried, yet. Hopefully, with the euro of a kit if us, the funeral will be this coming November first the Republican Party. We MUST VOTE BLUE 💙💙💙💙!!! We MUST VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT. Local, state, and Federal must all go BLUE in November!!!
There’s no way in Hell that Donald J. Trump should come anywhere near the Oval Office, or the Nuclear Codes!!!
To get this bipartisan bill passed threw the house and the senate, goes to show you how shrewd Biden is with his negotiating working behind the scenes with Johnson, McConnell and Jeffries. He is a pro with 40 years of experience. Trump on the other hand keeps getting bad news. Especially what happened today in Arizona with the 11 fake electors who were indicated. All the hell Trump has caused this country and the American people doesn't mean a damn thing unless the Supreme Court will make right decision and not grant Trump immunity for the crimes that he has committed and betrayal of our Democracy. It's time for the Supreme Court to step up to the plate. The American people are completely fed up with their BS excuses and their BS theories.
And yet the media keeps offering up polls showing Biden falling further and further behind TFG.
Who the hell are they polling?
So good to see the legal "noose" slowly tightening on all these anti-democracy conspirators...
“Biden’s focus on the slow, steady work of governance is a change from the actions of Republican leaders since 1981 whose goal was not to build up successful programs that helped Americans in general, but rather to slash the government”. There we have a succinct summary of why we need to re-elect Biden -Harris !
OK -- positives Heather cites again today. Till the last sentence.
There, she notes in the Arizona indictments that Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator. Which may remind us what this week is, what it features.
This week, April 25: perhaps the most disgraceful day in U.S. history.
This signals the day the Clarence court pushed its lengthy delay of justice for its, their favorite corrupt politician.
Worse, it did so, they did so, for the first time in U.S. history to venture some indeed as above the law. They – the bribed, perjured, corrupted Clarence court – thus set themselves also above the law. They may take bribes. They may use congressional confirmation hearings to perjure themselves. They may finally, too, place themselves beyond accountability to how their conceits for medieval theocracy also allows state control of women.
In ceding long delay of justice for their favorite fat, orange grifter and rapist, these deeply corrupt now poise also to end the Chevron Precedent and so end accountability by all billionaires to the federal government for workplace safety, health care, and environmental protection.
Thank you, Dr Richardson for this really uplifting post. People need to know how hard Biden is working every day to improve the safety and earning ability of the vast majority of us. Instead of riding around his "personal golf courses" he is either in his office or on the road getting important thing done. Now what was that about age?
"Bobb is now senior counsel for “election integrity” for the Republican National Committee." Was it 'Sesame Street' characters who taught, "These two things do not go together." I'd lol, but that hurts too badly even for my sense of humor.
My motto, and this should be his campaign slogan is We Do Better Under Biden!
This encapsulates why Biden should get another term as President! He knows how to govern 😍
“Over the years, it seems we have become accustomed to the idea that flame-throwing defines politics, but in fact, Biden’s reliance on slow, careful negotiation harks back to the eras when leaders sought to build coalitions and find common ground in order to pass legislation.”
Thank you HCR 🙏
Ukraine is still hanging by a thread!
Today's AP article about Biden signing the bill for US aid to Ukraine indicates that Russia's military forces have severely damaged the country during the 6 + month delay in US funding. Precarious is the the word I use for Ukraine. It needs a lot more than it is getting from US, including much stronger air defense, and who knows when there will be more.
“We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done,” Biden said a White House event to announce the bill signing. “Now we need to move fast, and we are.” (AP)
'But significant damage has been done to the Biden administration’s effort to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion during the funding impasse that dates back to August, when the Democratic president made his first emergency spending request for Ukraine. Even with a burst of new weapons and ammunition, it’s unlikely Ukraine will immediately recover after months of setbacks.'
'Biden immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine. The package includes air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as Russian President Vladimir Putin has racked up win after win.'
'Meanwhile, Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials confirmed Wednesday. The U.S. is providing more of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in the new military package, according to one official who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.'
'Still, longer term, it remains uncertain if Ukraine, after months of losses and massive damage to its infrastructure, can make enough progress to sustain American political support before burning through the latest influx of money.'
'White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan cautioned that even as new U.S. aid flows into Ukraine, it’s possible that Russia will continue to make tactical gains in the weeks ahead.'
“The fact is that it’s going to take some time for us to dig out of the hole that was created by six months of delay,” 'he said.'
'Far-right Republicans have adamantly opposed sending more money for Ukraine, with the war appearing to have no end in sight. Biden in August requested more than $20 billion to keep aid flowing into Ukraine, but the money was stripped out of a must-pass spending bill.'
'By late October, Republicans finally settled on Johnson, a low-profile Louisiana Republican whose thinking on Ukraine was opaque, to serve as the next speaker. Biden during his congratulatory call with Johnson urged him to quickly pass Ukraine aid and began a monthslong, largely behind-the-scenes effort to bring the matter to a vote.'
'In private conversations with Johnson, Biden and White House officials leaned into the stakes for Europe if Ukraine were to fall to Russia. On explicit orders from Biden, White House officials also avoided directly attacking Johnson over the stalled aid.'
'Biden praised Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., saying in the end they' “stepped up and did the right thing.”
“History will remember this moment,” 'he said.'
'At frustrating moments during the negotiations, Biden urged his aides to' “just keep talking, keep working,” 'according to a senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal discussions.'
'So they did. In a daily meeting convened by White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, the president’s top aides would brainstorm possible ways to better make the case about Ukraine’s dire situation in the absence of aid.'
'The White House also sought to accommodate Johnson and his various asks. For instance, administration officials at the speaker’s request briefed Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., two conservatives who were persistent antagonists of Johnson.'
'In public, the administration deployed a strategy of downgrading intelligence that demonstrated Russia’s efforts to tighten its ties with U.S. adversaries China, North Korea and Iran to fortify Moscow’s defense industrial complex and get around U.S. and European sanctions.'
'The $61 billion can help triage Ukrainian forces, but Kyiv will need much more for a fight that could last years, military experts say.'
'Realistic goals for the months ahead for Ukraine — and its allies — include avoiding the loss of major cities, slowing Russia’s momentum and getting to Kyiv additional weaponry that could help them go on the offensive in 2025, said Bradley Bowman, a defense strategy and policy analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington.'
“I think Ukrainian success is not guaranteed,” Bowman said, “but Russian success is if we stop supporting Ukraine.” (AP) See link below.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-mike-johnson-ukraine-israel-b72aed9b195818735d24363f2bc34ea4
Folks, we have to remember that Biden is walking - or trying to - a very fine tightrope on the Israeli-Gaza fiasco. America cannot let Israeli down and we can’t dictate to them whom they should elect as their leader - although I do believe that we can signal who shouldn’t be (or have been) their leader … Netanyahu is on the opposite end of the political spectrum - ideological - than Biden/Harris [and Obama/Biden]. We all know - or should - that Netanyahu is trying to remain in power and control of the Israeli government to keep himself out of the court system and certainly in power until our next election hoping that his good buddy trump gets re-elected. What Netanyahu, his government cronies on the right and the IDF are doing to the innocent Palestinian people and Gaza is worse than deplorable. Biden and our choices or options with this situation are very few - but we must be careful and much more forceful with Netanyahu … desperate people do desperate things!
Thank you for the good news about the president’s work and his supporters. Trump is closer to getting what he deserves.
Evening to All you Lovers of the Letter!
As I trip my fingers over the light fantastic of the keyboard, we are just under three months out from the former Party of Lincoln (now Lincoln Rockwell) convening in Milwaukee.
By the time the boatloads of foam rubber fingers, cardboard signs and sub-standard booze are offloaded from the barges in Lake Michigan to fete the conventioneers, their putative Presidential nominee will most likely be a felon.
This poses a most pressing dilemma. Will the GOP go forward with nominating Don Snoreleone in spite of his imminent ride up the Hudson to the Ossining State Correctional Facility, or will they FINALLY decide to cut their losses, and stage the first true nominating convention in over fifty years?!
If the latter, who would they nominate? Former Palmetto State Governor Nikki "Slavery, what slavery?!" would be the leading contender, of course, but they could stay MAGA and go Trump lite with Repugnant Ron. Or would they have the cojones to go totally off script with a candidate hitherto unexperienced on the national campaign trail but beloved by the Kool Aid drinking Fox News audience, such as Odious Elise Stefanik or Pretty-in-Pierre-but-low-in-IQ Kristi Noem?!?
Inquiring minds want to know!!
Me get I remind folks. The war between Russia and Ukraine, and the war between Israel and Iran, with the Hamas attacking and senselessness killing of innocent people in Israel on October 7th, all was the work, and cause, of one person. This person sat at his residence in Florida and shared all the Classified, Top Secret, documents with his Russian oligarch friends who took this back to Putin. This information was then passed on to Iran and the Hamas. This the invasions.
Donald J. Trump shared this information with everyone he could show it to at Mar-a-Lago. This is a known, proven, fact. Sworn to by people who were there seeing this either their own eyes. Personal knowledge of what was shared with visitors to Mar-a-Lago. Now, I’m not a genius in National Security, but I do know that there’s no Schiff at Mar-a-Lago, and these documents were all illegally obtained by Trump. All this has been revealed through the extensive investigation. And, all the documents have yet to be returned to the National Archives l, even after the FBI served the search warrant and conducted the search. That, too, has been proven.
The point I’m making by all this is simple. All these conflicts lead back to the illegal actions of one person. Donald J. Trump! Every single death caused in these conflicts/wars are on him. And he should be the one to suffer the most from it. This is no different than the assault on our Nation’s Capital on January 6th. That too was the sole work of one person. He sat back for hours and did nothing relishing in watching his handy work unfold on television from the sanctuary of the White House.
There were 5 people who died as a result of that ‘invasion’ on the Capitol. Yet, not one indictment against Trump further any of those murders. Not one! Not one mention of the thousands of deaths he’s caused by sharing all this information with Putin, and the rest of his communist friends. This man is evil, vile, and needs to be locked up in a dark dungeon with the jet thrown away. He needs to be incarcerated in a hole and forgotten, never to have access to the outside world ever again.
I want to touch on something else while I’m on my horse.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but Trump has yet to go out in the ‘campaign trail’ and do any campaigning. He has yet to hold a “rally” anywhere and actually give a campaign speech. All he’s doing is flying his “Trump One” (classic ‘presidential name for his plane) around and giving hate speeches collecting his millions from his sheep 🐑! All he’s done calling is ‘crooked Joe Biden’ does this, that, or the other. He has yet to discuss any issues, other than the sane exact lies he spewed in 2016. And now, thanks to the testimony of the old head of THE ENQUIRER magazine, that’s been revealed as all false fabricated information to get him elected.
Anyone sending him one red cent is a fool. Anyone sending the RNC one red cent, is a fool. There used to be NO REPUBLICAN PARTY anymore. It used to be gone. Dead, deceased. It just hasn’t been buried, yet. Hopefully, with the euro of a kit if us, the funeral will be this coming November first the Republican Party. We MUST VOTE BLUE 💙💙💙💙!!! We MUST VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT. Local, state, and Federal must all go BLUE in November!!!
There’s no way in Hell that Donald J. Trump should come anywhere near the Oval Office, or the Nuclear Codes!!!
Slowly but inevitably, the day of trump’s comeuppance is approaching.
This can be shortened significantly:
In an ad, McGarvey said: “Donald Trump is incapable of running anything, let alone the most powerful country in the history of the world.”
To:
“Donald Trump is incapable of running.”
My apologies for a typical (of me) lack of gravitas.
To get this bipartisan bill passed threw the house and the senate, goes to show you how shrewd Biden is with his negotiating working behind the scenes with Johnson, McConnell and Jeffries. He is a pro with 40 years of experience. Trump on the other hand keeps getting bad news. Especially what happened today in Arizona with the 11 fake electors who were indicated. All the hell Trump has caused this country and the American people doesn't mean a damn thing unless the Supreme Court will make right decision and not grant Trump immunity for the crimes that he has committed and betrayal of our Democracy. It's time for the Supreme Court to step up to the plate. The American people are completely fed up with their BS excuses and their BS theories.