Not long ago, Musk was viewed favorably by progressives because his company Tesla was addressing climate change through innovation. He has revealed himself to be reckless in human relations, greatly lacking in empathy, and exercising power without ethics. EV enthusiasts like myself will not purchase a Tesla as long as he is associated with the brand. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/ev-enthusiasts-wont-buy-tesla
I am grateful that you take the time to record your newsletters. For this chronically ill ole lady, it’s so much easier to listen than to read. Thank you.
I study, practice, and write about philosophy, primarily New Thought, but I appreciate all philosophies. Here's some hope if you read between the lines:
''Why Doing Wrong Brings Its Own Punishment''
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, “You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong,” reflects the main idea in his essay Compensation. In it, Emerson explains that every action has a natural consequence, and the universe is always working to keep things balanced. When someone does something wrong, the harm does not just fall on the victim, it comes back to the person who caused it, too.
Even if no one sees the wrongdoing, the person responsible often feels guilt, fear, or regret. These feelings are part of nature’s way of restoring balance. Wrongdoing can also damage trust and relationships, which brings more trouble to the one who acted unfairly.
Emerson believed that justice is built into the fabric of life. He argued that you cannot escape the results of your actions, whether good or bad. Compensation teaches us that doing wrong sets off a chain of events that, in the end, circles back to the wrongdoer.
The universe is self-balancing, self-correctiing but we all can help restore it's equilibrium.
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead."
It's a conceit of mine that Trump is actually a miserable git and that every act of unspeakable vindictiveness he inflicts on others only increases his misery.
I agree. I don't how else one can explain his continual whining about being victimised and his absurd boasting about knowing more about almost everything than anyone else.
That philosophy brings comfort in believing that the wrongdoer also suffers the consequences of their actions; however, I have doubts that it necessarily holds true for those with severe personality disorders (e.g. psychopaths, sadists, malignant narcissists). Of course, such people may suffer as a result of their disorders, I think it's possible that due to their dysfunctional they may be insulated from the negative consequences of their actions (e.g. lack empathy, guilt, remorse, etc.) I suppose for them living with their disorder is a punishment in itself.
As I've written here before, the great Howard Zinn told us "You can't be neutral on a moving train." That is essentially the same as "Silence is complicity." We all must speak up for our democracy now, or it will be gone.
Maria Ressa, CEO & co-founder of rappler.com and 2021 Nobel Laureate, and a professor at Columbia University, says "Once you empower a dictator, you lose your rights."
No one here voted for this because half the population saw this coming. Now ALL of us have to endure the seriousness of the total mockery Cowboy individualism has made of our country, and democracy itself. Arresting Judges?! In pursuit of nothing but power, greed, self enrichment and aggrandizement. Just keeps getting worse every day. So grateful to all of you here, and to Heather for keeping the faith, always. ❤✌
Brilliant information and observations! That the beliefs of a few privileged white men are inherently better than a government elected by a a democratic representation of the entire country?! Revealing that the actions of those few men are for their own benefit.
How is it possible that 41% of you guys approve of Trump? He's obviously a narcissistic psychopath, with a magnum-sized ego! That means that half of the US supports him and what he's doing. Astounding!
So what were you talking about when Obama allowed Putin to take Korea and what were you talking about would Biden allowed Russia to take pieces of Ukraine what were you saying that. And then they drop it in trouble slap that you try to blame it a truck what a joke
This is about international recognition of Russia's unlawful annexation of Crimea, Rick, so your attempts at misdirection won't work here. Here's a list of some of the countries that have formally recognised Crimea as part of the Russian Federation - Belarus, Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea, Nicaragua, Eritrea and Sudan. Nice company Trump and MAGA is keeping these days!
Trump has sold out Ukraine to Russia in the vain pursuit of a peace deal that he will never achieve. His fealty to Russia can be in no doubt now despite all the protestations of victimisation and weaponisation. He's a Kremlin stooge.
Mistakes are the reason Restraint is an Alt-Virtue. My sense is there is no one truth outside of the wrestling ring, but all kinds of people feel differently. She's a historian I think, who seems to be digging into contemporary stuff. What were you saying when the Germans and Russia divided Poland? America first, probably. Anyhow, it's good you can stand to listen to other views, it puts you a cut above most of us.
I was saying that Clinton pulled the nuclear weapons otherwise none of this would've happened and I loved Clinton. Don't forget it wasn't only Germans and Russians. It was the British as well and the Americans during a negotiated peace.
I've also told Heather one other thing and a number of people here you can't name a country you can't name one country or region that wasn't invaded or attacked by outside culture that didn't either kill or enslave the indigent population That's just live history
Well, I believe it was back in the mid to late 90s Bill Clinton had this wonderful idea of pulling all the nukes out of Poland. And he made them a deal that we would always protect them which of course who the hell knew we were gonna be able to or not, but it changed the whole make up because Russia would not be in a position right now to do what it’s doing if Poland still had its nukes because they would be sharing them with Ukraine. I think that might be what you’re referring to. And also right after the second world war, there was a meeting between I want to say between Germany, Russia and the US as to how they were going to divide and who was gonna control the various destroyed countries. Thanks for weighing in and I love your nome d’ guerre There’s nothing like a good head on your shoulders and a smiling face
Poland has been a NATO member since 1999, Rick, so they are protected by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. As for the Yalta conference in 1945, that ended up with the Iron Curtain in case you've already forgotten about this. Finland's president Alexander Stubb put it well at the recent Munich Security Conference earlier this year. He said that the western powers must choose between two visions - Yalta (spheres of influence of the great powers) and Helsinki 1975 (the Helsinki Accords reaffirming the principles of sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of nation states). Trump and Putin have chosen the former vision; the rest of the western world the latter. Thats the difference, Rick, and it's shameful that you can't see this. Your president is a cowardly bully and he's frustrated because his great pal, Vladimir Putin, knows this.
Russell you are a waste….AND A DREAMER. NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF POLAND AHD NUKES. AND WHAT HAS EUROPE/NATO DONE FOR THE REGION? Nothing. THE NUKES WERE THEEEEE DETERRENT OUR cowardly bully wasn’t taken advantage of during Crimea NOR the current incursion. And the reason is because he won’t take shit from anyone like North Korea nor China , NOR MOST IMPORTANTLY RUSSIA.
And I just love it when the left blames him for taking “Russia’s side” here when ALL OF THIS CURRENT CRAP IS ON OBAMA AND BIDEN.
You've got to try harder to avoid punching the caps lock, Rick, when you're posting because frankly it makes you look like a raving idiot, even more so than the content of your posts.
That aside and to clarify. Poland doesn't need or want a nuclear weapon because it's a member of NATO and so is under the NATO nuclear umbrella. Trump is currently 'taking shit' from just about everyone - the courts, the Chinese, the Russians and even the folks back home (where his approval rating is tanking). His real estate buddy, Steve Witkoff is on his fourth meeting with Putin and the only thing he's brought back so far is a stupid portrait of Trump.
Trump's getting the cold shoulder from Putin. He's lying about having meetings with the Chinese and conversation with president Xi. He's lying about having signed 200 trade deals (when there are not 200 countries to sign them with). And now the fathead is arresting judges after losing 11 court cases in two days.
...when Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear stockpile in exchange for security guarantees from USA, European states and Russia. Clinton did that. Cheap kalashnikovs were turning up all over the world as Russians and Ukrainians pilfered military stocks to sell abroad, a Pakistani nuclear scientist sold bomb plans to N Korea, terrorism was on the rise, and newly independent Ukraine had one of the biggest nuclear stockpiles in the world with indeterminate oversight. Years later, in 2014, Russia decided to protect Ukraine by taking over Crimea and Donbas, ostensibly in defense of Russian speakers. In 2022, when ⅓ of the Russian Army was bogged down on the road to Kiev, I felt NATO should have charged into Belarus to confront the mess that was coming head-on. It was unlikely Putin would nuke Belarus, at least. Probably it's a good thing that I will never be in a position to make decisions like that. In my email before I was referring to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939 when the Russians and Germans split Poland at the Bug River, Russians taking the East, and the Germans the West, and starting the Second World War, which was really kind of an extension of the first one, which ended badly. American opinion strongly favored neutrality and America First was a common refrain at the time. It wasn't an unreasonable position for people to have even though the fascists were a nasty bunch. We didn't enter the war in Europe until Hitler declared war on the United States after the US Congress declared war on Germany's Asian ally, Japan, in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The point is that, while people are against wars, aggressors have shown in the past that they are not effectively appeased.
Totally agree!! The left will NEVER UNDERSTAND NOR AGREE…the left dreams of peace and then FOMENTS WARS….LIKE VIETNAM AND AFGHANISTAN. WARS WITH LITTLE OR NO PURPOSE AND NO END IN SIGHT…a]even today, did you see the poll about Ukraine? The dems want a war with no term limits BUT HAVE NNOOOOO CLUE NOR END GAME FOR ENDING THE WAR….REPUBLICANS WANT AN IMMEDIATE END NOW.
20-80 VS 80-20. THE LEFT THINKS WE HAVE BOTTOMLESS POCKETS.
..in fact, they learned Nothing from Russia’s 20 year failure in Afghanistan. Bush was no better unfortunately…he could have finished Sadaam and stopped at his doorstep after 911
The FUNNIEST THING is that the left believes that NATO would defend Poland let alone its nearest neighbor/border called Ukraine….they send “checks” but no other Necessary Showing of support. Has NATO lifted a military finger. To do anything to protect its Eastern Flank?
I'm not sure who or what foments wars, and AI still gives us GIGO. If a democracy is working, left or right is only a direction, and have no sovereign power in themselves. An Australian guy, Jorge Conde, wrote this in an op ed in today's Moscow Times titled 'Twisting Reality..':
"As cognitive sovereignty emerges as one of our generation’s greatest national security challenges, the world must learn to fight ideologically, militarily and cognitively by preemptively maintaining information superiority to counter totalitarian and autocratic regimes’ mind games. Winning the cognitive battle means reclaiming the narrative and demonstrating that reality, not propaganda, dictates the course of history."
One of the anomalies yet benefits of today's Society is the mass variety of alternative opinions and venues from which to get your ideas and facts. And there are so many misleading deceptive slanted stories that it makes honing in on the actual truth so much more difficult
You just don’t get it Rick! If he can send Garcia to that prison without a fair hearing before the court, then they can send You to that same prison without giving you the chance to argue your case before the court. Sure, the guy was reported for domestic abuse. That’s actually not a crime in Trumpland. He was never charged with, much less convicted of a crime. They never presented any evidence of gang membership on his part to any court. They even admitted that he was “mistakenly” sent to Cecot, but later walked that back saying that he was a member of MS13. Strangely, that’s when the photo appeared. I have no reason to believe that the photo was not altered, they do that all the time, especially on “Truth Social”. What I have heard is that the tattoos on his hand are real, but that the MS13 was added in. I wouldn’t believe Pam Bondi since she is just Humpty’s attack dog, in that job only to do his bidding. And there are hundreds of people he sent down there without a court hearing; claiming they were all gang membership, yet where’s the evidence that they committed any serious crimes? If they have it, where is it? If they have court-admissible evidence, why did they spirit them out even as a federal judge told them to turn the planes around (which they ignored). Why have they not brought Garcia back as the Supreme Court “respectfully” advised the lower court to instruct Humpty to do? Why did the Supreme Court tell him to stop sending people to El Salvador under the Enemy Aliens Act, which is only to be used during wartime? Recently, when Bukele was in the White House, Humpty told him he should build five more mega prisons so Humpty can send a lot of “home growns” there; that could be you, Rick if he or one of his cronies feel you have offended them; just like in any other dictatorship!
Regarding the “minerals deal”, it is entirely meaningless. True, Humpty is no longer demanding $300 Billion in resources from war-devastated Ukraine, perhaps more reasonably, $100 Billion. But there are zero security guarantees; Humpty has got nothing from Putin; Ukrainian civilians are still being attacked and killed daily. Here’s something to consider: most of the rare earth and critical minerals are in the parts of Ukraine under Russian occupation, which Humpty wants Zelenskyy to just hand over to Vlad! How does that work? No, it makes no sense at all. It’s just window dressing since Vlad has not made any concessions to Humpty; why? Because Vlad has no intention of stopping his aggression; he wants to control all of Ukraine. Can’t you see that? Humpty cannot make ANY progress in stopping this war UNLESS he provides rock-solid security guarantees (U.S. troops, or at least, make Ukraine bristled with weapons: the “Porcupine” approach that protected Poland from Russia); and stop demanding that Ukraine give up future membership: and stop demanding that Ukraine give up all the stolen land (and $Trillions of resources) to the aggressor. But, unfortunately, Humpty is too weak and feckless to lead in this situation since he has already told Vlad that Vlad can have whatever he wants. Why is Humpty so afraid of Vlad? What does Vlad have on him? Or is it just that Humpty is better at destroying things than actually leading? Why do majorities of American Hispanics, black folks, and Asian/Pacific Islanders, and about 45% of white folks, believe that Humpty is a dictator? Because that’s what he is. But he’s a weak dictator since he still has to deal with the courts. He had the worst first 100 days of any modern president. The stock market had the worst first 100 day performance since Richard Nixon! Nobody but MAGAts believe that what he is doing is good for them. Let’s see him solve the war in Ukraine without any assistance from Vlad! Now THAT would be a stunning display of gravitas and leadership! It’s time to pee or get off the pot! Humpty is a failure at negotiating anything because he is a pathological narcissist - the only person he actually cares about is himself and anyone who can help him grab more power and money.
Hearing your voice makes my day, Heather. Women will save our sacred democracy. AOC/Crockett is the most diverse and inclusive ticket for the democrats in 2028: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/aoc-crockett-2028
Agree! Priceless to hear Dr. Heather say: "Doggie" in her live voice :)
You’ve outdone even yourself in this one, HCR! Thank you and have a lovely weekend.
Not long ago, Musk was viewed favorably by progressives because his company Tesla was addressing climate change through innovation. He has revealed himself to be reckless in human relations, greatly lacking in empathy, and exercising power without ethics. EV enthusiasts like myself will not purchase a Tesla as long as he is associated with the brand. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/ev-enthusiasts-wont-buy-tesla
Mr. Sender, please remove yourself from our Democracy. A relocation to Putin’s Russia would be a perfect fit for you … and for our country!
Your posts are a lifeline. Thank you!
You are my calm in this storm. Many thanks!🙏🏻
I am grateful that you take the time to record your newsletters. For this chronically ill ole lady, it’s so much easier to listen than to read. Thank you.
Excellent as always, thank you.
I study, practice, and write about philosophy, primarily New Thought, but I appreciate all philosophies. Here's some hope if you read between the lines:
''Why Doing Wrong Brings Its Own Punishment''
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, “You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong,” reflects the main idea in his essay Compensation. In it, Emerson explains that every action has a natural consequence, and the universe is always working to keep things balanced. When someone does something wrong, the harm does not just fall on the victim, it comes back to the person who caused it, too.
Even if no one sees the wrongdoing, the person responsible often feels guilt, fear, or regret. These feelings are part of nature’s way of restoring balance. Wrongdoing can also damage trust and relationships, which brings more trouble to the one who acted unfairly.
Emerson believed that justice is built into the fabric of life. He argued that you cannot escape the results of your actions, whether good or bad. Compensation teaches us that doing wrong sets off a chain of events that, in the end, circles back to the wrongdoer.
The universe is self-balancing, self-correctiing but we all can help restore it's equilibrium.
Keep the faith.
I like this quote by James Baldwin:
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead."
It's a conceit of mine that Trump is actually a miserable git and that every act of unspeakable vindictiveness he inflicts on others only increases his misery.
I think Trump runs (figuratively) from the awareness that he is a hollow man. A deep seated core of shame and unworthiness festers.
I agree. I don't how else one can explain his continual whining about being victimised and his absurd boasting about knowing more about almost everything than anyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA631bMT9g8
That philosophy brings comfort in believing that the wrongdoer also suffers the consequences of their actions; however, I have doubts that it necessarily holds true for those with severe personality disorders (e.g. psychopaths, sadists, malignant narcissists). Of course, such people may suffer as a result of their disorders, I think it's possible that due to their dysfunctional they may be insulated from the negative consequences of their actions (e.g. lack empathy, guilt, remorse, etc.) I suppose for them living with their disorder is a punishment in itself.
I agree. I am not sure if they have the capacity to understand or even care how incredibly cruel and harmful they are. Those around them suffer.
Yes, and some even seem to derive pleasure from hurting others.
As I've written here before, the great Howard Zinn told us "You can't be neutral on a moving train." That is essentially the same as "Silence is complicity." We all must speak up for our democracy now, or it will be gone.
Maria Ressa, CEO & co-founder of rappler.com and 2021 Nobel Laureate, and a professor at Columbia University, says "Once you empower a dictator, you lose your rights."
No one here voted for this because half the population saw this coming. Now ALL of us have to endure the seriousness of the total mockery Cowboy individualism has made of our country, and democracy itself. Arresting Judges?! In pursuit of nothing but power, greed, self enrichment and aggrandizement. Just keeps getting worse every day. So grateful to all of you here, and to Heather for keeping the faith, always. ❤✌
Brilliant information and observations! That the beliefs of a few privileged white men are inherently better than a government elected by a a democratic representation of the entire country?! Revealing that the actions of those few men are for their own benefit.
PROTEST!
Fraudsters behind bars!
IT IS ALL BEYOND COMPREHENSION...
How is it possible that 41% of you guys approve of Trump? He's obviously a narcissistic psychopath, with a magnum-sized ego! That means that half of the US supports him and what he's doing. Astounding!
Thanks so much! - please keep going!
So what were you talking about when Obama allowed Putin to take Korea and what were you talking about would Biden allowed Russia to take pieces of Ukraine what were you saying that. And then they drop it in trouble slap that you try to blame it a truck what a joke
This is about international recognition of Russia's unlawful annexation of Crimea, Rick, so your attempts at misdirection won't work here. Here's a list of some of the countries that have formally recognised Crimea as part of the Russian Federation - Belarus, Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea, Nicaragua, Eritrea and Sudan. Nice company Trump and MAGA is keeping these days!
Trump has sold out Ukraine to Russia in the vain pursuit of a peace deal that he will never achieve. His fealty to Russia can be in no doubt now despite all the protestations of victimisation and weaponisation. He's a Kremlin stooge.
Crimea. Voice trexring
What were you saying then?
Did they drop it in trumps lap and you tried to blame Trump what a joke
This is why you're threads have no credibility to those who understand the truth
Mistakes are the reason Restraint is an Alt-Virtue. My sense is there is no one truth outside of the wrestling ring, but all kinds of people feel differently. She's a historian I think, who seems to be digging into contemporary stuff. What were you saying when the Germans and Russia divided Poland? America first, probably. Anyhow, it's good you can stand to listen to other views, it puts you a cut above most of us.
I was saying that Clinton pulled the nuclear weapons otherwise none of this would've happened and I loved Clinton. Don't forget it wasn't only Germans and Russians. It was the British as well and the Americans during a negotiated peace.
I've also told Heather one other thing and a number of people here you can't name a country you can't name one country or region that wasn't invaded or attacked by outside culture that didn't either kill or enslave the indigent population That's just live history
Well, I believe it was back in the mid to late 90s Bill Clinton had this wonderful idea of pulling all the nukes out of Poland. And he made them a deal that we would always protect them which of course who the hell knew we were gonna be able to or not, but it changed the whole make up because Russia would not be in a position right now to do what it’s doing if Poland still had its nukes because they would be sharing them with Ukraine. I think that might be what you’re referring to. And also right after the second world war, there was a meeting between I want to say between Germany, Russia and the US as to how they were going to divide and who was gonna control the various destroyed countries. Thanks for weighing in and I love your nome d’ guerre There’s nothing like a good head on your shoulders and a smiling face
Poland has been a NATO member since 1999, Rick, so they are protected by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. As for the Yalta conference in 1945, that ended up with the Iron Curtain in case you've already forgotten about this. Finland's president Alexander Stubb put it well at the recent Munich Security Conference earlier this year. He said that the western powers must choose between two visions - Yalta (spheres of influence of the great powers) and Helsinki 1975 (the Helsinki Accords reaffirming the principles of sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of nation states). Trump and Putin have chosen the former vision; the rest of the western world the latter. Thats the difference, Rick, and it's shameful that you can't see this. Your president is a cowardly bully and he's frustrated because his great pal, Vladimir Putin, knows this.
Russell you are a waste….AND A DREAMER. NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF POLAND AHD NUKES. AND WHAT HAS EUROPE/NATO DONE FOR THE REGION? Nothing. THE NUKES WERE THEEEEE DETERRENT OUR cowardly bully wasn’t taken advantage of during Crimea NOR the current incursion. And the reason is because he won’t take shit from anyone like North Korea nor China , NOR MOST IMPORTANTLY RUSSIA.
And I just love it when the left blames him for taking “Russia’s side” here when ALL OF THIS CURRENT CRAP IS ON OBAMA AND BIDEN.
NOW GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM AND SULK.
You've got to try harder to avoid punching the caps lock, Rick, when you're posting because frankly it makes you look like a raving idiot, even more so than the content of your posts.
That aside and to clarify. Poland doesn't need or want a nuclear weapon because it's a member of NATO and so is under the NATO nuclear umbrella. Trump is currently 'taking shit' from just about everyone - the courts, the Chinese, the Russians and even the folks back home (where his approval rating is tanking). His real estate buddy, Steve Witkoff is on his fourth meeting with Putin and the only thing he's brought back so far is a stupid portrait of Trump.
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hcyk5eYVEt4
Trump's getting the cold shoulder from Putin. He's lying about having meetings with the Chinese and conversation with president Xi. He's lying about having signed 200 trade deals (when there are not 200 countries to sign them with). And now the fathead is arresting judges after losing 11 court cases in two days.
In 1993, I breathed a sigh of relief
...when Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear stockpile in exchange for security guarantees from USA, European states and Russia. Clinton did that. Cheap kalashnikovs were turning up all over the world as Russians and Ukrainians pilfered military stocks to sell abroad, a Pakistani nuclear scientist sold bomb plans to N Korea, terrorism was on the rise, and newly independent Ukraine had one of the biggest nuclear stockpiles in the world with indeterminate oversight. Years later, in 2014, Russia decided to protect Ukraine by taking over Crimea and Donbas, ostensibly in defense of Russian speakers. In 2022, when ⅓ of the Russian Army was bogged down on the road to Kiev, I felt NATO should have charged into Belarus to confront the mess that was coming head-on. It was unlikely Putin would nuke Belarus, at least. Probably it's a good thing that I will never be in a position to make decisions like that. In my email before I was referring to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939 when the Russians and Germans split Poland at the Bug River, Russians taking the East, and the Germans the West, and starting the Second World War, which was really kind of an extension of the first one, which ended badly. American opinion strongly favored neutrality and America First was a common refrain at the time. It wasn't an unreasonable position for people to have even though the fascists were a nasty bunch. We didn't enter the war in Europe until Hitler declared war on the United States after the US Congress declared war on Germany's Asian ally, Japan, in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The point is that, while people are against wars, aggressors have shown in the past that they are not effectively appeased.
Totally agree!! The left will NEVER UNDERSTAND NOR AGREE…the left dreams of peace and then FOMENTS WARS….LIKE VIETNAM AND AFGHANISTAN. WARS WITH LITTLE OR NO PURPOSE AND NO END IN SIGHT…a]even today, did you see the poll about Ukraine? The dems want a war with no term limits BUT HAVE NNOOOOO CLUE NOR END GAME FOR ENDING THE WAR….REPUBLICANS WANT AN IMMEDIATE END NOW.
20-80 VS 80-20. THE LEFT THINKS WE HAVE BOTTOMLESS POCKETS.
..in fact, they learned Nothing from Russia’s 20 year failure in Afghanistan. Bush was no better unfortunately…he could have finished Sadaam and stopped at his doorstep after 911
The FUNNIEST THING is that the left believes that NATO would defend Poland let alone its nearest neighbor/border called Ukraine….they send “checks” but no other Necessary Showing of support. Has NATO lifted a military finger. To do anything to protect its Eastern Flank?
Treaties? Lmfao.
I'm not sure who or what foments wars, and AI still gives us GIGO. If a democracy is working, left or right is only a direction, and have no sovereign power in themselves. An Australian guy, Jorge Conde, wrote this in an op ed in today's Moscow Times titled 'Twisting Reality..':
"As cognitive sovereignty emerges as one of our generation’s greatest national security challenges, the world must learn to fight ideologically, militarily and cognitively by preemptively maintaining information superiority to counter totalitarian and autocratic regimes’ mind games. Winning the cognitive battle means reclaiming the narrative and demonstrating that reality, not propaganda, dictates the course of history."
One of the anomalies yet benefits of today's Society is the mass variety of alternative opinions and venues from which to get your ideas and facts. And there are so many misleading deceptive slanted stories that it makes honing in on the actual truth so much more difficult
Lots of political history around the globe that year could you be more specific thank you.
You just don’t get it Rick! If he can send Garcia to that prison without a fair hearing before the court, then they can send You to that same prison without giving you the chance to argue your case before the court. Sure, the guy was reported for domestic abuse. That’s actually not a crime in Trumpland. He was never charged with, much less convicted of a crime. They never presented any evidence of gang membership on his part to any court. They even admitted that he was “mistakenly” sent to Cecot, but later walked that back saying that he was a member of MS13. Strangely, that’s when the photo appeared. I have no reason to believe that the photo was not altered, they do that all the time, especially on “Truth Social”. What I have heard is that the tattoos on his hand are real, but that the MS13 was added in. I wouldn’t believe Pam Bondi since she is just Humpty’s attack dog, in that job only to do his bidding. And there are hundreds of people he sent down there without a court hearing; claiming they were all gang membership, yet where’s the evidence that they committed any serious crimes? If they have it, where is it? If they have court-admissible evidence, why did they spirit them out even as a federal judge told them to turn the planes around (which they ignored). Why have they not brought Garcia back as the Supreme Court “respectfully” advised the lower court to instruct Humpty to do? Why did the Supreme Court tell him to stop sending people to El Salvador under the Enemy Aliens Act, which is only to be used during wartime? Recently, when Bukele was in the White House, Humpty told him he should build five more mega prisons so Humpty can send a lot of “home growns” there; that could be you, Rick if he or one of his cronies feel you have offended them; just like in any other dictatorship!
Regarding the “minerals deal”, it is entirely meaningless. True, Humpty is no longer demanding $300 Billion in resources from war-devastated Ukraine, perhaps more reasonably, $100 Billion. But there are zero security guarantees; Humpty has got nothing from Putin; Ukrainian civilians are still being attacked and killed daily. Here’s something to consider: most of the rare earth and critical minerals are in the parts of Ukraine under Russian occupation, which Humpty wants Zelenskyy to just hand over to Vlad! How does that work? No, it makes no sense at all. It’s just window dressing since Vlad has not made any concessions to Humpty; why? Because Vlad has no intention of stopping his aggression; he wants to control all of Ukraine. Can’t you see that? Humpty cannot make ANY progress in stopping this war UNLESS he provides rock-solid security guarantees (U.S. troops, or at least, make Ukraine bristled with weapons: the “Porcupine” approach that protected Poland from Russia); and stop demanding that Ukraine give up future membership: and stop demanding that Ukraine give up all the stolen land (and $Trillions of resources) to the aggressor. But, unfortunately, Humpty is too weak and feckless to lead in this situation since he has already told Vlad that Vlad can have whatever he wants. Why is Humpty so afraid of Vlad? What does Vlad have on him? Or is it just that Humpty is better at destroying things than actually leading? Why do majorities of American Hispanics, black folks, and Asian/Pacific Islanders, and about 45% of white folks, believe that Humpty is a dictator? Because that’s what he is. But he’s a weak dictator since he still has to deal with the courts. He had the worst first 100 days of any modern president. The stock market had the worst first 100 day performance since Richard Nixon! Nobody but MAGAts believe that what he is doing is good for them. Let’s see him solve the war in Ukraine without any assistance from Vlad! Now THAT would be a stunning display of gravitas and leadership! It’s time to pee or get off the pot! Humpty is a failure at negotiating anything because he is a pathological narcissist - the only person he actually cares about is himself and anyone who can help him grab more power and money.