"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time", British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War.
Woke up this morning at 6:30 to find out the world has gone to hell. Of course we were expecting it but still hard to grasp. Ukraine will now experience what the people of Donbas have endured for 8 years, thanks to Putin.
We are organizing to hunker down but have packed go-bags just in case. Even Lucky knows something is wrong as he wouldn't eat, just ran around his yard barking at everything. He'll eat tonight.
Gas stations are closed here to conserve fuel in case of evacuation. We are safe so far but who knows how fast the front will move west or north.
Do not believe unconfirmed videos or tweets as Russia is spreading a great deal of misinformation to panic people. For example there is no confirmed amphibious landing in Odessa. Some of the videos of explosions are faked.
Thanks so much for keeping us informed. You're performing a valuable service by letting us know what's happening at ground level. I hope you stay safe. What's happening in Ukraine is what all my friends are talking about- you are not forgotten.
Thank you for this information, Allen, for taking the time to touch base, even as you sit amidst the growing conflict. You and everyone in Ukraine are all I have thought about this week, and I think that is true for the majority of Americans. I have been following Ukrainian journalists and others, who I hope are reliable, on the news and Twitter all night, and remaining cautious about accepting anything at face value, but it certainly seems ominous and terrifying. Stay safe.🙏🏻
My brother has a slightly younger cousin of Lucky running around his back yard in Pennsylvania. Serious ball obsession, and the same radar ears. I'll have all of you in my heart as we watch developments from across the ocean. Thank you for continuing to inform us of what is happening and know that you have a world wide audience of support during this horrible time.
We think Lucky is purebred but we don't know. He showed up at our door as a maybe 6 week old pup nearly starved to death. We nursed him for weeks before he recovered. Our granddaughter named him Lucky
As it did. It wasn't a dangerous place before. Whatever's crawled into that man's head, I hope it can be dislodged by something that appeases him. He kept agreeing to talk with people - he had all the leaders of Europe on the phone being nice to him - what's addled him? USSR fixation? No, Novorossiya. I'm thinking now of the civil airliner full of Australian and Dutch families, accidentally shot out of the sky in 2014 by a Russian Buk missile (but not of course by a Russian) into a field of Ukrainian sunflowers. "On 9 June 2016, a Russian businessman claimed that the shooting down of the airliner put an end to the possibility of a creation of a pro-Russian Novorossiya confederation and prolonged the War in Donbass." Bucket list? He's nearly 70, and looking puffy.
I’m thinking, on some level, that this was mulled over by chump and his handler at Helsinki or the July 2017 meeting with Putin. In fact, Vox reported in Jan 2019 that “the administration apparently has no notes of any of the many Trump-Putin interactions over a two year period.” Wonder why that would be???
How can we get the translator at that meeting to "cough up" the notes, or at least verbally tell us what went on? At this stage, she is complicit in enabling Putin and Trump's adventures.
"They" are "masters" of nichego.., and 'jacks' of nichego. Their delusions of grandeur is fed by selfishness & ignorance of rich and poor alike. And..., there is plenty of it.
Yes, it seems more than coincidence that the installation of TFG and his insane connections with Putin and Russia are leading to this moment in history.
Yes, we don’t need much of an imagination. Just since this War began, TFG has praised Putin and supported his warmongering. The World at War. Wonder when TFG will be invited for a visit to the Kremlin.
I apologize for my conspiracy tilted comments…but…that said and in light of tRump’s endorsement of Putin’s actions. Could this (Putin’s invasion plans) been in the works back during tRump’s presidency? Remember the meetings; no notes or extensive records! Perhaps they…tRump and Putin thought they might put together a mighty world wide, unstoppable conquering force. All the while never expecting a tRump 2020 defeat after the 2016 election win amidst alleged Russian tampering rumors(?)…this could also explain tRump’s desperate attempts to overturn President Biden’s victory. Further, think back during tRump’s four year debacle…recall what shaky ground the US was on with the rest of the World and thanks to tRump, how in ineffective NATO was perceived. Now Putin…committed to their plot and perhaps an unalterable timetable and has moved ahead…hoping against hope that tRump’s traitorous actions might still be able to come into play, considering his obvious re-election attempts. In addition…is it possible that all tRump’s “switch hitting” stooges are a part of it? There has to be some reason for their strange, erratic actions.
It’s the only thing that makes sense to me. The courting of Russia even before day one, the trashing of Allie’s and NATO, the attempt to have his own “army” of sorts to divide and destroy (successful I might add), the no record of their communication, the back channels. It goes on and on. I think chump and Putin, along with oligarchs of choice and Republican cult nuts planned to rule. It’s not beyond the delusions of the most maglignant narcissists our our age.
If DJT were still in power, all that military and humanitarian aid would have gone to Russia and the US would have aligned with no one. And his republican cronies would have enabled it.
How many of the 124000 that Biden got out of Afghanistan do you think would have gotten out in a DJT regime. Pick a number between 0 and, well, 0. DJT wanted to pull the troops and "leave the country a smoking ruin" and considering his lack of knowledge about nukes, guess how he would have done it. If you said - with Putins help, spot on!!
I think they are just what they seem: strange erratic actions. If they have a purpose, it's just to distract us. But both T & P are blunt-force instruments. Not sure that sublety rises to a conscious level.
Interesting you too noted that Putin is looking puffy and bloated. He looked awful in his pictures with Ji at the Olympics. As a retired nurse I wondered if he were ill, maybe congestive heart failure in the early stages. I don't think he's well and perhaps this is manifesting in his poor judgment regarding Ukraine. Too bad he's dragging the rest of the world into his crazy thinking.
Just a thought that crawled into my head this morning.
Putin doubtless has to negotiate with other powers in Russia, and the world, and we know that he and Trump were in bed together in some kind of "arrangement." When Trump fell, and Biden rose, it had to change the calculus for Vlad by quite a lot, and I suspect he is facing a lot of pressure at home. I don't know enough to speculate what pressure, or from whom. But the descriptions of him are of a man who is being forced, backward, into something he really doesn't want to do. Not because of humanitarian instincts, but because he's likely screwed either way, and this is now the best (for him) of the unpalatable options available.
Allen…Let us know when Lucky eats his bowl of food. That means safe place. We have you in every thought of safety and resolve. The people have been brave hearts all. Be assured that the majority of Americans support President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine and will not tolerate misinformation regarding this crisis. Salud, Allen.
OK, I'll let you know when Lucky eats his food. I wish I could send you a video I have of him eating. For 65 seconds he look around, licks himself, and lays down beside his dish. He is so spoiled.
Of course you are scared, you would not be human if you were not! To me, courage is being scared but getting through it. In fact, the dictionaries define it as "the ability to do something that frightens one" or " the choice and willingness to confront agony". I'll be thinking of you and Lucky all day and know our leaders will do the utmost. You are not alone, keep whistling!
How come 28 people got to "heart" this and I couldn't, but could heart one above? I'm confused, but then confusion is probably a natural condition of being human. At any rate, what Sally said, and 28 people before me agreed with. Keep whistling in the dark, Allen. It gives us all hope.
Tanya went out at 4 pm and he ate everything. He is an outdoor dog. Tanya feeds and plays with him in the morning and I feed and play with him in the evening. Today we messed up his schedule. He is so like a toddler.
Hahahahahahaha. Was with my BabyGrand 4 yr old yesterday. Was just thinking how she romps about like a puppy but somehow I can’t get one darn thing past her. Hahahaha
So true: they are much the same. I just adopted a dalmation (mix, maybe, but I don't think so) a bit over a month ago. She's got me wrapped around her doggie thumb. Morning: I get up, get dressed right away because guess what? Beatrice is a morning person (I am not). She likes her morning constitutional and is getting to know the neighborhood without all the distractions of traffic (or light, as she is albanistic like me, with light-sensitive eyes). Then making sure her food is in place, though she doesn't eat it until noonish. The she goes to the woodstove and looks at me until I get the fire going. Furnace isn't enough for her. And of course I do all these things and spend the rest of my morning trying to catch up with myself. Love that doggie.
Glad to hear from you, Allen. From US media, it's looking like an initial multipronged attack of missiles ahead of ground forces. Assuming you speak Ukrainian, do you also speak Russian? Wishing you safety.
If this is just starting...could we promote an observance that is not flammable? I'd like to keeping it 24/7 but won't do that with a candle...how about something like "tie a ribbon 'round the ol' oak tree"...and maybe Blue for democracy? (other ideas welcome)
Be safe, take care and may your safety and those of other Ukranians somehow be delivered as your country undergoes a completely unprovoked attack by another short, insecure man with a large set of guns (like George "W" Bush for example).
Thanks for this, Allen! Today I was up at 230a for a work meeting which was to include colleagues from Lutsk. Of course they were not present. Most of our meeting was silence, as we were lost in concern for them and all the people of Ukraine.
A friend in Latvia just posted on FB - if you have a friend or family in Ukraine who needs a place to stay or needs help, call this number: +371 25728044!
"Trump and his supporters praise Putin and dismiss Biden as crisis unfolds
By Meryl Kornfield
February 23 at 7:45 PM EST
As the United States seeks to rally its allies and impose tough penalties for Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine, a vocal group of Republicans and right-leaning commentators is expressing praise and admiration for the president’s strength and shrewdness. President Vladimir Putin, that is."
We should not underestimate the aod, comfort and encouragement that former President Donald Trump and his supporters have given Putin to undertake this assault o. Ukraine both when Trump was in office and up through today. Not only has Trump incited an attack on our Capitol that threatened US Congress men and women, which led to the deaths of Capitol police. But Trump is now responsible for giving Putin the expectation that he can get away with the deaths and destruction of Ukainian citizens and their country.
Right wing US media, probably with Russian support, has concocted all kinds of fake history and reasons why Russia is justified. Such as, Ukraine has always been part of Russia. Or that "Nazis" and "fascists" took over Ukraine, oppressing the people of Ukraine. Stalin and Russia attacked independent Ukraine in 1917, taking possession of this independent nation, starting the formation of what would become the Soviet Union. Russia has dominated, oppressed and imposed itself on Ukraine for 100 years. Russia starved Ukrainians for a period as it destroyed Ukraine's farming culture, to force development of state owned farms while sending people off to work in state factories. Ukraine's economy crumbled along with Russia's. After WWII, Stalin persecuted, rounded up and sent off to the gulags everyone in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, who were not loyal to Stalin. Thus included both those labeled "Nazis", people who might have attachments to Germany and Europe, and national communist party members loyal to their country. These were countries ravaged by Nazi Germany and then by Russia as WWII was conducted back and forth.
Ukrainians deserve to live in peace in their own nation. This is why they on good terms with Russia after the dissolving of the Soviet Union, gave up their nuclear weapons, with promises by Russia to protect them. Now every smaller nation in the world from Morth Korea to Iran and Isreal will not give up their existing pr potential nuclear weapons. What Putin with support from Trumo and other right wing extremists around the world has done is make our world that much more dangerous. The dangers are both potential for severe wars and total distraction of attention and resources needed to address all of our domestic and international challenges like sustanable economic development and climate change. Our own Republicans have been selling us out, to covid19, to rewriting our elections for o e party control, and now to the expansion of Russia and other authoritarian nations. In the end, Americans may well kill ourselves with misinformation, supporting the spread of pandemics, oppressive authoritarianism and destruction of our climate and planet.
This (invasion of Ukraine) is what happens when we leave guys like Donald Trump free to go about saying and doing as they please after an attempted coup.
Now? Trump leads his merry fellow travellers of authoritarian rule on a quest for not just US Domination but world domination.
This is why rapid arrest and jail for a criminal is important. Timing matters.
... then again, it may be of value to let them run their course, thinking they have free rein - then corral them in their own game and have done with it, once and for all ...? Lock them up and let it fester under the surface - maybe even gather steam - would be like suppressing the symptom rather than curing the disease ...?
True. And that is the frontier of healing arts we are exploring today ... the way I see it Mike, we are going to die, one way or another - it's part of the life process. For myself, I expected to die a long time ago - learned to let go, live and die with every breath and let the river flow ... guess what - I'm still going ...
In the context of what to do with political players who are hell bent on undermining governmental infrastructure - given that much of that construct needs to change - how do we curtail corrupt, destructive influences and invite change that serves the best interest of all concerned?
People want to be free. Many feel that government involvement impairs freedom - while others recognize the value and importance of government to serve and support freedom - whether for a select few, or the larger population.
So, how do we serve the health of the whole body, while supporting the strength and integrity of every cell?
I know very little about social structures, and dynamics of law and penal systems. I do have a sense that networks of communication and interaction are woven into fabrics of influence that operate beyond prison walls - within and without system parameters. So, just putting someone in prison may not solve the problem - in fact, might just enhance their capacities to do more damage.
It might help to examine what powers represent true authority in the global equation - keeping in mind that when one contingent overcomes another, the submissive element may be viewed as criminal in relation to the newly imposed body of law - and as the wheel turns again, the extant dominant force may likewise have to submit to the next governing body.
Just offhand, I have a feeling that the Kremlin holds in it's depths, a power beyond what we can imagine - it is just possible that the 'free world' of today with it's excessive ambitions and appetites dependent on pollutive, volatile energy systems violating core ecological and cultural values needs to be curtailed.
So even as we view ourselves as defenders of freedom and just governance, we need to take a deep inventory of what exactly we are defending ... the 'enemy' may not be so easily defined as one nation or another - or one system over another ... maybe we all need to examine more closely what exactly we are fighting for ... who needs to change what to work for a healthier world for one and all ....
We must pay attention. “Our own Republicans have been selling us out, to covid19, to rewriting our elections for o e party control, and now to the expansion of Russia and other authoritarian nations. In the end, Americans may well kill ourselves with misinformation, supporting the spread of pandemics, oppressive authoritarianism and destruction of our climate and planet.“ By Meryl Kornfield
No R who has voted for that travesty and any of his minions can claim to be a patriot, a Christian, or a decent person. As an aside, I had a massage yesterday and my LMT is a vet who served on an aircraft carrier and he told me that every time a war like this happens, his post traumatic stress syndrome kicks up. I also see lots of prayers and thoughts for Ukraine on other threads. I am sending reiki energy to the people of Ukraine. When I see that monster Putin, I always think how a relatively few egos are ruining the world.
Michele, I will add another universal prayer, sending universal Qi, energy, I have shared before. In Qigong and with a push-pull movement or anytime in thought or movement:
May all beings be free from suffering
May we ( or name or country)
be free from suffering
May all beings know joy
May …. know joy
May all beings know Peace
May … know Peace
Sending Hope and Love to the Ukrainian people and all victims of this War and Madness.
This is beautiful. Thank you. I feel these various energies are actually very similar. We need to get the universal energy flowing to Ukraine and any who are affected by it. Joining you at this moment in your universal prayer.
American GOP “patriots” rail against losing their freedoms because of covid rules, while at the same time encourage the “genius” Putin for his authoritarian strategic aggression against the free people of Ukraine as the actually blame President Biden for “weakness”
I can hardly watch a nanosecond of the insanity. Fox on steroids all around. it saps our hope slowly and continuously, and encourages the insurrectionists who are chomping at the bit while praising the evil
What gets me is that one of the first things authoritarian do is take over the "news" media. Murdoch, Bannon & the like will be under the thumb of the ruler. How can they not know that? If that's winning.....
What’s disturbing is the public media, PBS news continues to blame Biden and members of cabinet and administration for all the ills of this country and the world. Sometimes subtle sometimes not. Like collective amnesia or blindness to Truth. Even with positive stories the negative lives in people’s memories. That’s how trash media survives.
“Destroy the village to save it.” What happens now when autocrat meets autocrat. It did not work out for Hitler and Stalin. Every Hungarian must be focused on 1956 right now and the Russian invasion. Their president is a big frog in a small pond. He kept immigrants out, and now here come the Russians. How would he feel as a small frog in a big pond? And who will tucker Carlson be rooting for? Orbán or Putin? Stay tuned. We have all had quite enough of Russian paranoia as an excuse to do what its leaders want. She has had a love hate relationship with the west for 400 years. Just can’t resist G
Thank the Lord somebody remembers that the republicans have a hand in this. Seems like the first step in a long planned bully take over of the world. It’s not just Ukraine folks. Where are those notes, chump? Did you eat them or flush down the toilet? No wonder you had flushing problems.
When an egomaniac like Putin gets a win like 4 years of TFG sitting in our Oval Office and deconstructing our democracy from within it simply grows his ego which then requires deeper and darker wins to feed. How is it that we the people give our power to these grotesquely inhumane monsters? Why haven’t we yet learned, in the year 2022, to stop giving power to sick minds?
Christy. We didn’t give up power! Years and years and years of radio waves washed over the entire nation calling for the demise of the democrats. Republicans lauded this propaganda as it resulted in political victories they couldn’t otherwise win. New fortunes were made for heretofore shady radio personalities by advertisers. Both parties were compromised by this direct political strategy. People who in their own right could not become famous realized they could much more readily become infamous. As bashers of human rights and immigrants they grew a following. Appealing to religious fervor and overtaxation the likes of Rush Limbaugh et al bombarded us with outrageous untruths. This went on for decades until they were household words and “idjits” came into being. The process took time and patience but was inexorable. I was astounded as people I knew and loved made the transition to this manufactured reality. The engineering was exquisite, perfectly tailored to niche with the angst people felt, leading easily to false premises. The average convert not caring for the truth or even able to do due diligence. I.E. thank god and corn flakes for Heather Cox Richardson Americas canary.
We all make hundreds of choices every day. Do I turn on the news this morning? Which News do I choose to listen to. How do I judge for myself who to listen to? Who is a trustworthy source and who isn’t? Who will I associate with today? Who will I listen to today? Who will I learn from today? What can I learn about myself from my own reactions to news and others today. Will I stand in a line for six hours in the rain or blowing cold wind to make sure my vote gets counted. Will I blame someone else for my flat tire today or will I ask what could I have done to prevent it? Whose voice will I lift up today? It’s my belief Pat that with every small decision we make we can give away our power or choose to strengthen it. The human will. The freedom to choose.
Answering your questions, our Constitution's First Amendment allows voters to give power to sick minds and 'grotesquely inhumane monsters.' Which presents us with uncomfortable choices concerning the future of democracy in this country.
Thanks Jack. Yes, I get the part about our Constitution and I wholeheartedly support voting rights. My question, that I wish more effort would be directed to, with all our widely expanding knowledge, how is it that we the people give our power away to the sickest minds. How are we not more interested in truth? How are we not more resilient in the face of propaganda? Can we not figure out how to prevent “shared psychosis”.
Education is the Jeffersonian answer. Without it, democracy is severely handicapped. That's why those who favor undemocratic institutions attack our schools and what is taught in them. Socrates gave up and drank the hemlock rather than renounce his teaching. We cannot do that.
Knowledge/truth is key but fertile soil for growing souls is essential. Growing up in a home of anger and hate begets more of the same more often than not.
Christy, your question is universal, asked through the ages. I wonder if there is an answer we want to hear. Maybe we (humans) were /are naïve to believe that Democracy can win. Today’s technology, with more sophisticated weapons and ways to communicate instantly and universally are powerful. Then mix that with Good vs Evil, Might makes Right. A catalog of hope and positive choices to balance power. I’m not giving up because there’s still a choice. But the clock is ticking.
Irenie, I’m a student of humanity. I believe in our abilities to adapt, evolve, & co-exist. Neuroscience and our understanding of how our brain functions is developing rapidly, albeit somewhat behind our technology. I believe the cumulative intelligence of generations past gave us religions to promote the golden rule so that we nurture and grow all that is best in us. Religions have been hijacked by the sick minded. The growth of truthful knowledge of our own best assets (our brains), gives me hope for our future. Knowledge and emotional resilience to manipulative lies will be key. Who knows what good might come if we focused our efforts on cherishing and protecting our brains from birth onward? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171742/
Christy, I add my Hope and continued action and work to that collective and cumulative desire for Good in the World. Starting with the children. A reminder to always pay attention.
"We" is a big word, Christy. By using it, you include a lot of people who do none of the things you mention. Including, perhaps, yourself. I realize it is a literary device, using "we" in this way, but it is a poor way to reach people, or to create action for change. I'd rather hear what your ideas are, and what you are doing to create change. Your own personal "I" story. It is all those "I" stories that make a difference.
Exactly what I have been thinking since I heard the news. Authoritarian, power-hungry, American traitors. My prayers have been with everyone in Ukraine and the world given the madness driving this assault. Special prayers for Allen and Lucky.
any one who believes ANY of this is the fault of Ukraine, is certifiable in my opinion. The cult that was created with Drumph is the only voice believing and promoting the idea that Russia is not to blame for this assault. This is true mental illness on steroids. God help the good people of Ukraine and the innocent people of Russia who adamantly opposed this attack from the beginning.
The parallels between this and the Nazi invasions at the start of WWII just leap out at us.
Putin's flimsy pretexts for an invasion are equally as contrived and hollow as Hitler's, and his intentions were clear from the start. Listening to him only bought him time to prepare.
What is also noticeable is how the Quislings embedded in the supposedly 'neutral' countries voice their support for Putin and his actions. Tucker Carlson...Donald Trump...Pompeo... All of them are diligently earning their pay. We see you and know your names; no one is surprised.
It's time for the good people of this world to come to the aid of Ukraine. This will be hard.
All the Trump minions are there to assure Putin that when Trump returns in 2024 that the international crime family of autocrats (Neo-Feudalists) will rule with an absolute iron fisted grip on their fiefdoms.
I mean look at all the effort the Orange Traitor put into undermining NATO and making our European allies really, really nervous as to who they could on for backing.
Trump, if he had won in 2020, would have blessed this latest Putin invasion faster than you can say, “Trump Tower Moscow” - which Putin will never allow Trump to have as the longest running pratfall in the annals of Russian humor.
Flimsy excuses precede Hitler. I recently read "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. It's about the beginning of WWI. The posturing, inanity & egos almost led me to stop reading. (And if you read it, you will need a scorecard to keep track of which generals are with which army.)
When I read Barbara Tuchman, I always looked for her underlying theme that make me look at present times and how similar themes are playing out around us. Brilliant writer and historical analysis, without ever betraying her original story.
I hear it in Professor Richardson’s voice. It never matters how much one is warned of “imminent danger and attack”. When it begins, fight or flight kicks in. Peace has been broken in Europe. I feel afraid but I am not scared. More than ever, I refute any effort to create broken peace and to deny democracy here in this country. Woe be to the person who quotes any hateful and perverse misinformation to me on this day. I spit on any traitorous alliance designed to conquer and enslave people to authoritarian rule.
I’m calling my “armies” today. We must work harder and give it our all. I begin every effort today with a thought of Light to the people of Ukraine. May it sustain them, these warriors!
We should not wait until this insidious death of democracy becomes the way in our nation. Our senate does not want the popular vote to even be counted much less stand. Heck they tell us to our faces that if we are allowed to vote they will never win an election again. We MUST do all that we can to get the Putin lovers out of our government. Trump says he is a genius and others sing his praises. Surreal isn’t it?? But happening none the less. I would rather take to the streets in masses to stand against this fascist autocracy than to be packing up and running. This is real folks. Just ask a Ukrainian citizen. Putin is obsessed with rebuilding his Soviet Union and our guys are obsessed with power. We no longer have a representative government and we came damn near autocracy. This is not a Netflix series. This is our life. We can no longer be divided by petty differences. We must stand together and rid this country of fascist both from outside and especially in.
But, but, they refuse to stand together with the likes of us. They follow their leadership like Christ himself. Nothing is changing their “need to own the libs”
Who cares, not me at this moment Dave. They will never own me just as I do not own them. Those that release their refusal of Truth will always be welcomed by the Light.
We are all in this together. There is enough to go around.
No way I’m waiting, Georgia Girl. I am in the stand. I can feel so many of us. We will not be ruled, so “get offa my land”. The dark will not prevail. Only the Light can do that. It has no opposite.
The point is, we shouldn't leave it up to chance. When an opportunity appears to bend the arc towards civilization, freedom and equality we have a responsibility to act. Sometimes the right word at the right time is enough. Other times might require a more lengthy response and a bigger committment.
“Among those 40 million*, a significant number—at all levels of society, all across the country, in every field of endeavor—aspire to create a fairer, freer, more prosperous country than any they have inhabited in the past. Among them are people willing to dedicate their lives to fighting corruption, to deepening democracy, to remain sovereign and free. Some of those people are willing to die for these ideas.
The clash that is coming will matter to all of us, in ways that we can’t yet fathom. In the centuries-long struggle between autocracy and democracy, between dictatorship and freedom, Ukraine is now the front line—and our front line too.”
I have been a member of the Religious Society of Friends for about 30 years. Speaking truth to power gives them a real stabilizing influence far beyond what their numbers would suggest.
“Today’s invasion of democratic Ukraine by authoritarian Putin is important. It not only has broken a long period of peace in Europe, it has brought into the open that authoritarians are indeed trying to destroy democracy.”
Our souls are sickened, though not surprised, by Putin’s gambit. The destruction and misery he’s personally responsible for must not be tolerated, our push back must definitively push him back, and IMHO, he must be held accountable for his executions and imprisonments of political adversaries, and for instigating this damned war.
But a significant portion of our population supports the evil, Just like in 1941. Then Japan fixed that. Who will jolt the appeasers this time…or will America be the next target
Russia has been developing Trump as a potential Presidential candidate since the late 90's. This fact is one reason why Trump has never gone to jail. Any investigation, including the most recent one by the NY DA, where all of the lawyers quit yesterday, is shut down by Russian money flooding into the arena.
Russia poured laundered money into Trump's organization and his son even bragged about 'We have all the funding we need out of Russia'. Two golf courses in Scotland were purchased with Russian laundered money. Probably Mara Lago as well.
Compromising America with Russian money has worked.
Fox News, Trump, Idaho (where laundering money is legal), and many churches who incorrectly correlate the state religion of Russia (Orthodox Christian) with a "good" government are on board now.
In fact, it may be all over here at this point. We let Trump go for too long and now, he just might be too powerful to arrest without an organized war to support him.....including having Russia declare war on us.
I just have been reading about Trump, and trying to understand why he is not in jail, for a long time because I live in NY and if I did ANY of the stuff he did I would be in jail.
"His fat fingers are in this someplace". Anybody notice this absolutely Trumpian turn of phrase? "Putin warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen.” It's nearly "the likes of which they have never seen". Yes, there is a fat, grubby fingerprint.
Heather picked up that he's wearing the same suit in both videos. We already knew that the first video had been recorded well ahead of transmission. President Biden wasn't wrong when he said, repeatedly, that he "thought" Putin had already made his decision to invade.
Excellent advice from Zelensky: stay calm, just stay at home. If they do that, but get attacked anyway, it will be hard for Putin to spin any sort of legitimacy out of it in the eyes of the world.
"... the likes of which they have never seen" ... yes Anne Louise, I did notice that - straight out of the same playbook - what do they think to gain? Complete victory and eternal domination befitting those of such self-proclaiming superior status ...? I am trusting real people of conscience and integrity will stand and be known - and come together for just governance - pretenders to the throne will be fired and retired to the dust bin of history ... that is the vision I hold with sincere intent ....
Easy, the bully take over of the world, chump waiting for his turn. Bannon has been globe-trotting to all the wannabe dictators all over the world. This is the first step…
And chump destroyed any notes from some meetings. They have been in cahoots from the first week. But before we can prove it in any court of law, we will be slurping Borscht.
War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
[The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote in witness to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. I chose a few stanzas and changed Germany to Russia and Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.]
Russia
O, rosiest virgin
among the green hills—
Russia!
Russia!
Russia!
Shame!
Before the Ukrainian peasant woman—
you don’t lower your eyes,
as you roll on your tanks
through her rye, her hopes?
Before the huge grief
of this small country,
what is it you feel, Russian,
Russia's sons??
[In 1942, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote in Moscow.]
This week easily contends as one of the worst weeks in my personal life. But, watching the president of Russia have a psychological meltdown, then invade Ukraine yesterday topping it off with bombing Kiev and other cities all on live TV is more than gut wrenching. Two statements I heard tonight stood out to me. A Ukrainian friend emailed former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul who said, I can’t believe we are facing the Russians alone. Then, at the UN Security Council, chaired this month, ironically, by Russia, the Ukrainian UN ambassador who was justifiably angry and gave a wonderful oratory this evening, also said later to the Russian ambassador, War criminals do not go to purgatory, they go straight to Hell! AMEN
I was very impressed with him. He spoke directly to the Russian UN ambassador that was chairing the meeting.
“Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, warned it was "too late" for de-escalation at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council Wednesday night, as he urged other countries to help stop the conflict.
“Because it’s too late, my dear colleagues, to speak about de-escalation, too late,” he said. “The Russian president declared war."
One factor in this horror is that the other authoritarians and their acolytes will now be forced to break cover as we see with Trump and Carlson. They are exposed as anti democrats irrevocably with no excuses plausible or credible. In the UK also the laundromat facilitation which is Londonograd [and the Russian money laundered through Dublin - Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times in Tuesday] will be shown up, but hopefully the tentacles can be slain and excised. Hopefully…..
I am wondering what they have to actually do to get themselves accused of treason. See, they need to be put on the defensive. They are always on the attack like the pack of bullies that they are. They need to be culled off, one by one and called out as traitors.
Thanks. From here in Ireland, Trump's surprising (but accurate)insight [given to him by someon like Bannon?] that he could murder someone on 5th Ave and it would not matter, says to me that he was told his cult followers are so consumed by white grievance and anger but who identify him as their 'saviour' that for them at least he has virtually carte blanche [as the Access Holywood tape showed]; so they will not read it as treason against the US; patriotic Republican citizens like Cindy McCain, Liz Cheney and the Bushs are not listened to by the predominant Trumpist captured GOP; so I would not be optimistic, in short.
While I am not optimistic about the hard core Trumpers, since the sick bunch of twisted spawn are missing all reason! I do believe that there are a lot of sheep in that crowd, who can be led one way or another. Those sheep are the ones to reach. That is why Navalny is in prison and why people thinking for themselves is a threat to dictators everywhere.
Thank you, Heather. This direct and somber letter tonight, conveying much dreaded news, exemplifies why we subscribe. I grieve for the Ukrainian people.
As I watched Nora O Donnell question Anthony Blinken on CBS News last night , I was sickened to hear her line of questioning which focused continuously on “Biden’s failed sanction efforts” WITHOUT A WORD to shift blame away from Biden to Putin
I thought, what the hell is happening to our sources of news. Why would she pursue this line of questioning. I got a chill in response
The propaganda machine is an infection and we have little antidote
Incredibly important time for our input at network websites!
As a habit, not a one-off!
The comments on this thread are exactly correct about the need to counter the corporate groupthink and the trivializing ... as depicted in the film "Don't Look Up."
"I watched Nora O Donnell question Anthony Blinken on CBS News last night "
I, too, watched that interview. And I, at first, thought the same thing. However, I quickly came to the conclusion that she was simply "getting ahead of the game" by addressing the expected criticism of the Administration.
In any event, it should quiet (well, maybe) those complaining that the "tough" questions are not being asked.
As she got ahead of the game, she dog whistled at every “patriot” attacking Biden, creating a narrative of failure. Knute Rockne didn’t do locker room speeches that said “ go out there and win one for the Putin”
I cannot abide her. She's always trying to "make news" and is always, always telegraphing to viewers whose camp she belongs to - and guess what - it is not democracy. It's Nora. She is not a bonafide reporter in my opinion.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time", British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War.
Woke up this morning at 6:30 to find out the world has gone to hell. Of course we were expecting it but still hard to grasp. Ukraine will now experience what the people of Donbas have endured for 8 years, thanks to Putin.
We are organizing to hunker down but have packed go-bags just in case. Even Lucky knows something is wrong as he wouldn't eat, just ran around his yard barking at everything. He'll eat tonight.
Gas stations are closed here to conserve fuel in case of evacuation. We are safe so far but who knows how fast the front will move west or north.
Do not believe unconfirmed videos or tweets as Russia is spreading a great deal of misinformation to panic people. For example there is no confirmed amphibious landing in Odessa. Some of the videos of explosions are faked.
Tell Biden to keep on keeping on!
Thanks so much for keeping us informed. You're performing a valuable service by letting us know what's happening at ground level. I hope you stay safe. What's happening in Ukraine is what all my friends are talking about- you are not forgotten.
Thank you for this information, Allen, for taking the time to touch base, even as you sit amidst the growing conflict. You and everyone in Ukraine are all I have thought about this week, and I think that is true for the majority of Americans. I have been following Ukrainian journalists and others, who I hope are reliable, on the news and Twitter all night, and remaining cautious about accepting anything at face value, but it certainly seems ominous and terrifying. Stay safe.🙏🏻
Thank you. It gives me something to do besides worry
How big is Lucky? Deerhound, or cat-chaser you can have fun with in the yard?
40 kg German Shepherd 2.5 years old. 5 second attention span. Ears pick up signals from the cosmos.
My brother has a slightly younger cousin of Lucky running around his back yard in Pennsylvania. Serious ball obsession, and the same radar ears. I'll have all of you in my heart as we watch developments from across the ocean. Thank you for continuing to inform us of what is happening and know that you have a world wide audience of support during this horrible time.
Kiri, my 32kg mountain cur/pit bull/ German Shepard mix and I send greetings. Thank you for checking in. Be safe!!!
We think Lucky is purebred but we don't know. He showed up at our door as a maybe 6 week old pup nearly starved to death. We nursed him for weeks before he recovered. Our granddaughter named him Lucky
5 second attention span … 😁😁
Pay attention to them ears, lol
Love this!
A dog dog! Perfect!
Thank you for the report and reminder. Wishing you safety.
Our hearts and minds are with you, Allen. Courage, mon ami. Sending you strength and hope that this madness will subside, and that peace will reign.
As it did. It wasn't a dangerous place before. Whatever's crawled into that man's head, I hope it can be dislodged by something that appeases him. He kept agreeing to talk with people - he had all the leaders of Europe on the phone being nice to him - what's addled him? USSR fixation? No, Novorossiya. I'm thinking now of the civil airliner full of Australian and Dutch families, accidentally shot out of the sky in 2014 by a Russian Buk missile (but not of course by a Russian) into a field of Ukrainian sunflowers. "On 9 June 2016, a Russian businessman claimed that the shooting down of the airliner put an end to the possibility of a creation of a pro-Russian Novorossiya confederation and prolonged the War in Donbass." Bucket list? He's nearly 70, and looking puffy.
I’m thinking, on some level, that this was mulled over by chump and his handler at Helsinki or the July 2017 meeting with Putin. In fact, Vox reported in Jan 2019 that “the administration apparently has no notes of any of the many Trump-Putin interactions over a two year period.” Wonder why that would be???
How can we get the translator at that meeting to "cough up" the notes, or at least verbally tell us what went on? At this stage, she is complicit in enabling Putin and Trump's adventures.
She has a toilet too
The translator was probably Natasha...I mean Melania. And, I believe that Putin speaks perfect English and needs no translator.
Should be what our free press is for
❤️ this. It is eery..but what comes out about tfg will also come out about putin. They are masters of distraction, obstruction and revenge.
That distraction could be very costly if we take our collective eye and action away from voting rights, et al.
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"They" are "masters" of nichego.., and 'jacks' of nichego. Their delusions of grandeur is fed by selfishness & ignorance of rich and poor alike. And..., there is plenty of it.
Nichego????
Yes, it seems more than coincidence that the installation of TFG and his insane connections with Putin and Russia are leading to this moment in history.
A well-laid plan, I think. It could very well be the reason why chump allowed no notes regarding his meetings with Putty
Totally agree…imagine what might happen with 4 more years of him 🤯🤬
Yes, we don’t need much of an imagination. Just since this War began, TFG has praised Putin and supported his warmongering. The World at War. Wonder when TFG will be invited for a visit to the Kremlin.
Jeri,
I apologize for my conspiracy tilted comments…but…that said and in light of tRump’s endorsement of Putin’s actions. Could this (Putin’s invasion plans) been in the works back during tRump’s presidency? Remember the meetings; no notes or extensive records! Perhaps they…tRump and Putin thought they might put together a mighty world wide, unstoppable conquering force. All the while never expecting a tRump 2020 defeat after the 2016 election win amidst alleged Russian tampering rumors(?)…this could also explain tRump’s desperate attempts to overturn President Biden’s victory. Further, think back during tRump’s four year debacle…recall what shaky ground the US was on with the rest of the World and thanks to tRump, how in ineffective NATO was perceived. Now Putin…committed to their plot and perhaps an unalterable timetable and has moved ahead…hoping against hope that tRump’s traitorous actions might still be able to come into play, considering his obvious re-election attempts. In addition…is it possible that all tRump’s “switch hitting” stooges are a part of it? There has to be some reason for their strange, erratic actions.
It’s the only thing that makes sense to me. The courting of Russia even before day one, the trashing of Allie’s and NATO, the attempt to have his own “army” of sorts to divide and destroy (successful I might add), the no record of their communication, the back channels. It goes on and on. I think chump and Putin, along with oligarchs of choice and Republican cult nuts planned to rule. It’s not beyond the delusions of the most maglignant narcissists our our age.
If DJT were still in power, all that military and humanitarian aid would have gone to Russia and the US would have aligned with no one. And his republican cronies would have enabled it.
How many of the 124000 that Biden got out of Afghanistan do you think would have gotten out in a DJT regime. Pick a number between 0 and, well, 0. DJT wanted to pull the troops and "leave the country a smoking ruin" and considering his lack of knowledge about nukes, guess how he would have done it. If you said - with Putins help, spot on!!
I think they are just what they seem: strange erratic actions. If they have a purpose, it's just to distract us. But both T & P are blunt-force instruments. Not sure that sublety rises to a conscious level.
Agree. Chump probably passed some classified information to Putin and that was the impetus behind this attack. Why else would Putin attack now?
Why do you think there were top security documents at mar - a - lie - go . I bet putin paid good money for those before Biden closed that account.
I would bet there is a view from 10,000 feet of a tapestry that is really ugly and has been woven for a very long time.
Already flushed down the white house toilet. I guess a paper shredder was beyond tRUMPs technical ability. 🙄
Interesting you too noted that Putin is looking puffy and bloated. He looked awful in his pictures with Ji at the Olympics. As a retired nurse I wondered if he were ill, maybe congestive heart failure in the early stages. I don't think he's well and perhaps this is manifesting in his poor judgment regarding Ukraine. Too bad he's dragging the rest of the world into his crazy thinking.
If he's ill, and knows it, this looks more like nihilism than poor judgment.
Just a thought that crawled into my head this morning.
Putin doubtless has to negotiate with other powers in Russia, and the world, and we know that he and Trump were in bed together in some kind of "arrangement." When Trump fell, and Biden rose, it had to change the calculus for Vlad by quite a lot, and I suspect he is facing a lot of pressure at home. I don't know enough to speculate what pressure, or from whom. But the descriptions of him are of a man who is being forced, backward, into something he really doesn't want to do. Not because of humanitarian instincts, but because he's likely screwed either way, and this is now the best (for him) of the unpalatable options available.
Allen…Let us know when Lucky eats his bowl of food. That means safe place. We have you in every thought of safety and resolve. The people have been brave hearts all. Be assured that the majority of Americans support President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine and will not tolerate misinformation regarding this crisis. Salud, Allen.
OK, I'll let you know when Lucky eats his food. I wish I could send you a video I have of him eating. For 65 seconds he look around, licks himself, and lays down beside his dish. He is so spoiled.
Allen, you are an inspiration. You are all so courageous. It's true, we are all watching and with you in spirit.
Bull. I'm scared spotless. I whistle in the dark
Of course you are scared, you would not be human if you were not! To me, courage is being scared but getting through it. In fact, the dictionaries define it as "the ability to do something that frightens one" or " the choice and willingness to confront agony". I'll be thinking of you and Lucky all day and know our leaders will do the utmost. You are not alone, keep whistling!
No big deal. There are 45 million Ukrainians doing the same thing and many are fighting and dying
How come 28 people got to "heart" this and I couldn't, but could heart one above? I'm confused, but then confusion is probably a natural condition of being human. At any rate, what Sally said, and 28 people before me agreed with. Keep whistling in the dark, Allen. It gives us all hope.
"I never knew how brave he was, until I saw how scared he was"
Our hearts are breaking for you.
Keep a record of what's happening. It might help. Thoughts are with you.
🐶 Dogs are the most loyal of creatures. So glad he is there with you.
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Tanya went out at 4 pm and he ate everything. He is an outdoor dog. Tanya feeds and plays with him in the morning and I feed and play with him in the evening. Today we messed up his schedule. He is so like a toddler.
Hahahahahahaha. Was with my BabyGrand 4 yr old yesterday. Was just thinking how she romps about like a puppy but somehow I can’t get one darn thing past her. Hahahaha
So true: they are much the same. I just adopted a dalmation (mix, maybe, but I don't think so) a bit over a month ago. She's got me wrapped around her doggie thumb. Morning: I get up, get dressed right away because guess what? Beatrice is a morning person (I am not). She likes her morning constitutional and is getting to know the neighborhood without all the distractions of traffic (or light, as she is albanistic like me, with light-sensitive eyes). Then making sure her food is in place, though she doesn't eat it until noonish. The she goes to the woodstove and looks at me until I get the fire going. Furnace isn't enough for her. And of course I do all these things and spend the rest of my morning trying to catch up with myself. Love that doggie.
Prayers for the people of Ukraine.
Be safe.
We are all Ukrainians, Allen.
Glad to hear from you, Allen. From US media, it's looking like an initial multipronged attack of missiles ahead of ground forces. Assuming you speak Ukrainian, do you also speak Russian? Wishing you safety.
I have lit a candle in my house, far away, in Maine, for the Ukrainian people.
Pam, thank you. I will do the same.
Me, too!
Lighting a candle...is this an observance shared or just something you yourself are doing?
I did it myself, but would love to know others are doing it, too. The flame is small, the hope it conveys is large.
If this is just starting...could we promote an observance that is not flammable? I'd like to keeping it 24/7 but won't do that with a candle...how about something like "tie a ribbon 'round the ol' oak tree"...and maybe Blue for democracy? (other ideas welcome)
Another thought is an electric candle you could put in a window (perhaps with a blue bulb?)
Actually, I just turned on a low watt light, instead.
I am also in Maine and I will follow your example.
Doing the same. A small candle flame light always reminds me of the Light.
Me too!
Edit: your later comment was a low watt light instead, but I am still lighting a candle here because it's safe for me to do so.
I’m speechless Allen. Thank you for reaching out with your experience of this horror. Holding you all in prayer for a safe end to this nightmare. ❤️
Be safe, take care and may your safety and those of other Ukranians somehow be delivered as your country undergoes a completely unprovoked attack by another short, insecure man with a large set of guns (like George "W" Bush for example).
I bet you guys all thought I meant Hitler. :-)
Please stay safe.
Thanks for this, Allen! Today I was up at 230a for a work meeting which was to include colleagues from Lutsk. Of course they were not present. Most of our meeting was silence, as we were lost in concern for them and all the people of Ukraine.
Yes, the Lutsk airport was bombed
Tears for all of Ukraine.
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A very sad day. Our hearts are heavy for you and your neighbors and all of Ukraine.
Allen, thank you for your reports from "inside." The news of the "invasion" has made us sick here. Praying for the safety of you and all Ukrainians.
Please be safe, Allen and family. Praying for Ukraine.
A friend in Latvia just posted on FB - if you have a friend or family in Ukraine who needs a place to stay or needs help, call this number: +371 25728044!
people in the NW of Ukraine may need that. Our route out is Romania if we are forced to leave.
I know a prospective shelter family in the Czech Republic if you need it..
The Carpathians look like a good shield. But it would be nicer to go there for a holiday... We're hanging on your every post.
"Trump and his supporters praise Putin and dismiss Biden as crisis unfolds
By Meryl Kornfield
February 23 at 7:45 PM EST
As the United States seeks to rally its allies and impose tough penalties for Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine, a vocal group of Republicans and right-leaning commentators is expressing praise and admiration for the president’s strength and shrewdness. President Vladimir Putin, that is."
We should not underestimate the aod, comfort and encouragement that former President Donald Trump and his supporters have given Putin to undertake this assault o. Ukraine both when Trump was in office and up through today. Not only has Trump incited an attack on our Capitol that threatened US Congress men and women, which led to the deaths of Capitol police. But Trump is now responsible for giving Putin the expectation that he can get away with the deaths and destruction of Ukainian citizens and their country.
Right wing US media, probably with Russian support, has concocted all kinds of fake history and reasons why Russia is justified. Such as, Ukraine has always been part of Russia. Or that "Nazis" and "fascists" took over Ukraine, oppressing the people of Ukraine. Stalin and Russia attacked independent Ukraine in 1917, taking possession of this independent nation, starting the formation of what would become the Soviet Union. Russia has dominated, oppressed and imposed itself on Ukraine for 100 years. Russia starved Ukrainians for a period as it destroyed Ukraine's farming culture, to force development of state owned farms while sending people off to work in state factories. Ukraine's economy crumbled along with Russia's. After WWII, Stalin persecuted, rounded up and sent off to the gulags everyone in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, who were not loyal to Stalin. Thus included both those labeled "Nazis", people who might have attachments to Germany and Europe, and national communist party members loyal to their country. These were countries ravaged by Nazi Germany and then by Russia as WWII was conducted back and forth.
Ukrainians deserve to live in peace in their own nation. This is why they on good terms with Russia after the dissolving of the Soviet Union, gave up their nuclear weapons, with promises by Russia to protect them. Now every smaller nation in the world from Morth Korea to Iran and Isreal will not give up their existing pr potential nuclear weapons. What Putin with support from Trumo and other right wing extremists around the world has done is make our world that much more dangerous. The dangers are both potential for severe wars and total distraction of attention and resources needed to address all of our domestic and international challenges like sustanable economic development and climate change. Our own Republicans have been selling us out, to covid19, to rewriting our elections for o e party control, and now to the expansion of Russia and other authoritarian nations. In the end, Americans may well kill ourselves with misinformation, supporting the spread of pandemics, oppressive authoritarianism and destruction of our climate and planet.
This (invasion of Ukraine) is what happens when we leave guys like Donald Trump free to go about saying and doing as they please after an attempted coup.
Now? Trump leads his merry fellow travellers of authoritarian rule on a quest for not just US Domination but world domination.
This is why rapid arrest and jail for a criminal is important. Timing matters.
Timing is everything, FDR knew that, we had better
... then again, it may be of value to let them run their course, thinking they have free rein - then corral them in their own game and have done with it, once and for all ...? Lock them up and let it fester under the surface - maybe even gather steam - would be like suppressing the symptom rather than curing the disease ...?
Certainly, letting the disease run its course does leave one with immunity that might not otherwise have developed.
Agree.
But, the disease might also kill you. In which case, you are dead.
True. And that is the frontier of healing arts we are exploring today ... the way I see it Mike, we are going to die, one way or another - it's part of the life process. For myself, I expected to die a long time ago - learned to let go, live and die with every breath and let the river flow ... guess what - I'm still going ...
In the context of what to do with political players who are hell bent on undermining governmental infrastructure - given that much of that construct needs to change - how do we curtail corrupt, destructive influences and invite change that serves the best interest of all concerned?
People want to be free. Many feel that government involvement impairs freedom - while others recognize the value and importance of government to serve and support freedom - whether for a select few, or the larger population.
So, how do we serve the health of the whole body, while supporting the strength and integrity of every cell?
I know very little about social structures, and dynamics of law and penal systems. I do have a sense that networks of communication and interaction are woven into fabrics of influence that operate beyond prison walls - within and without system parameters. So, just putting someone in prison may not solve the problem - in fact, might just enhance their capacities to do more damage.
It might help to examine what powers represent true authority in the global equation - keeping in mind that when one contingent overcomes another, the submissive element may be viewed as criminal in relation to the newly imposed body of law - and as the wheel turns again, the extant dominant force may likewise have to submit to the next governing body.
Just offhand, I have a feeling that the Kremlin holds in it's depths, a power beyond what we can imagine - it is just possible that the 'free world' of today with it's excessive ambitions and appetites dependent on pollutive, volatile energy systems violating core ecological and cultural values needs to be curtailed.
So even as we view ourselves as defenders of freedom and just governance, we need to take a deep inventory of what exactly we are defending ... the 'enemy' may not be so easily defined as one nation or another - or one system over another ... maybe we all need to examine more closely what exactly we are fighting for ... who needs to change what to work for a healthier world for one and all ....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps
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And yet he (and his cohorts) still runs free…no words to describe my frustration. 🤬😡🤯😠
There are words but not for “normal political discourse.” Hahahaha, unless I turn repub
We must pay attention. “Our own Republicans have been selling us out, to covid19, to rewriting our elections for o e party control, and now to the expansion of Russia and other authoritarian nations. In the end, Americans may well kill ourselves with misinformation, supporting the spread of pandemics, oppressive authoritarianism and destruction of our climate and planet.“ By Meryl Kornfield
No R who has voted for that travesty and any of his minions can claim to be a patriot, a Christian, or a decent person. As an aside, I had a massage yesterday and my LMT is a vet who served on an aircraft carrier and he told me that every time a war like this happens, his post traumatic stress syndrome kicks up. I also see lots of prayers and thoughts for Ukraine on other threads. I am sending reiki energy to the people of Ukraine. When I see that monster Putin, I always think how a relatively few egos are ruining the world.
Michele, I will add another universal prayer, sending universal Qi, energy, I have shared before. In Qigong and with a push-pull movement or anytime in thought or movement:
May all beings be free from suffering
May we ( or name or country)
be free from suffering
May all beings know joy
May …. know joy
May all beings know Peace
May … know Peace
Sending Hope and Love to the Ukrainian people and all victims of this War and Madness.
This is beautiful. Thank you. I feel these various energies are actually very similar. We need to get the universal energy flowing to Ukraine and any who are affected by it. Joining you at this moment in your universal prayer.
Feel free to share the positive Qi, the healing energy. We hope to connect to people in so many ways.
American GOP “patriots” rail against losing their freedoms because of covid rules, while at the same time encourage the “genius” Putin for his authoritarian strategic aggression against the free people of Ukraine as the actually blame President Biden for “weakness”
Its surreal
I can hardly watch a nanosecond of the insanity. Fox on steroids all around. it saps our hope slowly and continuously, and encourages the insurrectionists who are chomping at the bit while praising the evil
What gets me is that one of the first things authoritarian do is take over the "news" media. Murdoch, Bannon & the like will be under the thumb of the ruler. How can they not know that? If that's winning.....
What’s disturbing is the public media, PBS news continues to blame Biden and members of cabinet and administration for all the ills of this country and the world. Sometimes subtle sometimes not. Like collective amnesia or blindness to Truth. Even with positive stories the negative lives in people’s memories. That’s how trash media survives.
They are hypocrites of the highest order and love being jerks because it sets everyone else off.
It is distilled down to "owning the libs". That, and their desire for an oligarchy.
Yep, its”our tribe must win, even if we have to burn down the stadium to do it”
And destroy they will, it’s what Bannon promised
“Destroy the village to save it.” What happens now when autocrat meets autocrat. It did not work out for Hitler and Stalin. Every Hungarian must be focused on 1956 right now and the Russian invasion. Their president is a big frog in a small pond. He kept immigrants out, and now here come the Russians. How would he feel as a small frog in a big pond? And who will tucker Carlson be rooting for? Orbán or Putin? Stay tuned. We have all had quite enough of Russian paranoia as an excuse to do what its leaders want. She has had a love hate relationship with the west for 400 years. Just can’t resist G
Indeed. Today is the day the ones here in Oregon are supposed to clog up Salem with their vehicles. We will see. And we do have a skiff of snow.
Thank the Lord somebody remembers that the republicans have a hand in this. Seems like the first step in a long planned bully take over of the world. It’s not just Ukraine folks. Where are those notes, chump? Did you eat them or flush down the toilet? No wonder you had flushing problems.
When an egomaniac like Putin gets a win like 4 years of TFG sitting in our Oval Office and deconstructing our democracy from within it simply grows his ego which then requires deeper and darker wins to feed. How is it that we the people give our power to these grotesquely inhumane monsters? Why haven’t we yet learned, in the year 2022, to stop giving power to sick minds?
Christy. We didn’t give up power! Years and years and years of radio waves washed over the entire nation calling for the demise of the democrats. Republicans lauded this propaganda as it resulted in political victories they couldn’t otherwise win. New fortunes were made for heretofore shady radio personalities by advertisers. Both parties were compromised by this direct political strategy. People who in their own right could not become famous realized they could much more readily become infamous. As bashers of human rights and immigrants they grew a following. Appealing to religious fervor and overtaxation the likes of Rush Limbaugh et al bombarded us with outrageous untruths. This went on for decades until they were household words and “idjits” came into being. The process took time and patience but was inexorable. I was astounded as people I knew and loved made the transition to this manufactured reality. The engineering was exquisite, perfectly tailored to niche with the angst people felt, leading easily to false premises. The average convert not caring for the truth or even able to do due diligence. I.E. thank god and corn flakes for Heather Cox Richardson Americas canary.
We all make hundreds of choices every day. Do I turn on the news this morning? Which News do I choose to listen to. How do I judge for myself who to listen to? Who is a trustworthy source and who isn’t? Who will I associate with today? Who will I listen to today? Who will I learn from today? What can I learn about myself from my own reactions to news and others today. Will I stand in a line for six hours in the rain or blowing cold wind to make sure my vote gets counted. Will I blame someone else for my flat tire today or will I ask what could I have done to prevent it? Whose voice will I lift up today? It’s my belief Pat that with every small decision we make we can give away our power or choose to strengthen it. The human will. The freedom to choose.
Propaganda masters know well how to skew reality for the minions who can’t or won’t sift through the mountains of crap spewed every hour of every day.
I’ll say me too to all
the sickest mind
Answering your questions, our Constitution's First Amendment allows voters to give power to sick minds and 'grotesquely inhumane monsters.' Which presents us with uncomfortable choices concerning the future of democracy in this country.
Thanks Jack. Yes, I get the part about our Constitution and I wholeheartedly support voting rights. My question, that I wish more effort would be directed to, with all our widely expanding knowledge, how is it that we the people give our power away to the sickest minds. How are we not more interested in truth? How are we not more resilient in the face of propaganda? Can we not figure out how to prevent “shared psychosis”.
Education is the Jeffersonian answer. Without it, democracy is severely handicapped. That's why those who favor undemocratic institutions attack our schools and what is taught in them. Socrates gave up and drank the hemlock rather than renounce his teaching. We cannot do that.
Knowledge/truth is key but fertile soil for growing souls is essential. Growing up in a home of anger and hate begets more of the same more often than not.
Christy, your question is universal, asked through the ages. I wonder if there is an answer we want to hear. Maybe we (humans) were /are naïve to believe that Democracy can win. Today’s technology, with more sophisticated weapons and ways to communicate instantly and universally are powerful. Then mix that with Good vs Evil, Might makes Right. A catalog of hope and positive choices to balance power. I’m not giving up because there’s still a choice. But the clock is ticking.
Irenie, I’m a student of humanity. I believe in our abilities to adapt, evolve, & co-exist. Neuroscience and our understanding of how our brain functions is developing rapidly, albeit somewhat behind our technology. I believe the cumulative intelligence of generations past gave us religions to promote the golden rule so that we nurture and grow all that is best in us. Religions have been hijacked by the sick minded. The growth of truthful knowledge of our own best assets (our brains), gives me hope for our future. Knowledge and emotional resilience to manipulative lies will be key. Who knows what good might come if we focused our efforts on cherishing and protecting our brains from birth onward? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171742/
Christy, I add my Hope and continued action and work to that collective and cumulative desire for Good in the World. Starting with the children. A reminder to always pay attention.
"We" is a big word, Christy. By using it, you include a lot of people who do none of the things you mention. Including, perhaps, yourself. I realize it is a literary device, using "we" in this way, but it is a poor way to reach people, or to create action for change. I'd rather hear what your ideas are, and what you are doing to create change. Your own personal "I" story. It is all those "I" stories that make a difference.
This is sickening, and as treasonous as Jan 6th was!
Exactly what I have been thinking since I heard the news. Authoritarian, power-hungry, American traitors. My prayers have been with everyone in Ukraine and the world given the madness driving this assault. Special prayers for Allen and Lucky.
And Tanya.
any one who believes ANY of this is the fault of Ukraine, is certifiable in my opinion. The cult that was created with Drumph is the only voice believing and promoting the idea that Russia is not to blame for this assault. This is true mental illness on steroids. God help the good people of Ukraine and the innocent people of Russia who adamantly opposed this attack from the beginning.
YES!!
I wonder how long it will be before Tucker Carlson starts broadcasting from Moscow.
If only he'd get a one-way ticket.
He already is.
The parallels between this and the Nazi invasions at the start of WWII just leap out at us.
Putin's flimsy pretexts for an invasion are equally as contrived and hollow as Hitler's, and his intentions were clear from the start. Listening to him only bought him time to prepare.
What is also noticeable is how the Quislings embedded in the supposedly 'neutral' countries voice their support for Putin and his actions. Tucker Carlson...Donald Trump...Pompeo... All of them are diligently earning their pay. We see you and know your names; no one is surprised.
It's time for the good people of this world to come to the aid of Ukraine. This will be hard.
Don't turn away.
Don’t forget the traitor 8, who spent July 4, 2018, in Moscow. Or Moscow Mitch, who is smart enough to keep his mouth shut at the moment.
You would think we would have learned more about that by now.
Indeed, but there has been a new crisis every day since. They keep it up, purposefully
Yes Jeri, that old looney is waiting to see which side gets the cheese.
Yep, he’s always doing that.
All the Trump minions are there to assure Putin that when Trump returns in 2024 that the international crime family of autocrats (Neo-Feudalists) will rule with an absolute iron fisted grip on their fiefdoms.
I mean look at all the effort the Orange Traitor put into undermining NATO and making our European allies really, really nervous as to who they could on for backing.
Trump, if he had won in 2020, would have blessed this latest Putin invasion faster than you can say, “Trump Tower Moscow” - which Putin will never allow Trump to have as the longest running pratfall in the annals of Russian humor.
Flimsy excuses precede Hitler. I recently read "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. It's about the beginning of WWI. The posturing, inanity & egos almost led me to stop reading. (And if you read it, you will need a scorecard to keep track of which generals are with which army.)
When I read Barbara Tuchman, I always looked for her underlying theme that make me look at present times and how similar themes are playing out around us. Brilliant writer and historical analysis, without ever betraying her original story.
Flimsy excuses and peace talks, in places like Munich.
I hear it in Professor Richardson’s voice. It never matters how much one is warned of “imminent danger and attack”. When it begins, fight or flight kicks in. Peace has been broken in Europe. I feel afraid but I am not scared. More than ever, I refute any effort to create broken peace and to deny democracy here in this country. Woe be to the person who quotes any hateful and perverse misinformation to me on this day. I spit on any traitorous alliance designed to conquer and enslave people to authoritarian rule.
I’m calling my “armies” today. We must work harder and give it our all. I begin every effort today with a thought of Light to the people of Ukraine. May it sustain them, these warriors!
United! 🙋🏻🙋🏼🙋🏽🙋🏾🙋🏿
You get it
United, indeed, Christine!! Light, love, and protection to the people of Ukraine!
Thanks Christine, truly ...We must work harder and give it our all.
What a dark day for Europe and for democracy. My prayers are with all Ukrainians in these very difficult times.
We should not wait until this insidious death of democracy becomes the way in our nation. Our senate does not want the popular vote to even be counted much less stand. Heck they tell us to our faces that if we are allowed to vote they will never win an election again. We MUST do all that we can to get the Putin lovers out of our government. Trump says he is a genius and others sing his praises. Surreal isn’t it?? But happening none the less. I would rather take to the streets in masses to stand against this fascist autocracy than to be packing up and running. This is real folks. Just ask a Ukrainian citizen. Putin is obsessed with rebuilding his Soviet Union and our guys are obsessed with power. We no longer have a representative government and we came damn near autocracy. This is not a Netflix series. This is our life. We can no longer be divided by petty differences. We must stand together and rid this country of fascist both from outside and especially in.
But, but, they refuse to stand together with the likes of us. They follow their leadership like Christ himself. Nothing is changing their “need to own the libs”
Who cares, not me at this moment Dave. They will never own me just as I do not own them. Those that release their refusal of Truth will always be welcomed by the Light.
We are all in this together. There is enough to go around.
Say it, think it, know it.
United!
No way I’m waiting, Georgia Girl. I am in the stand. I can feel so many of us. We will not be ruled, so “get offa my land”. The dark will not prevail. Only the Light can do that. It has no opposite.
And for the world.
Putin knows where this starts, but no one knows where it ends, or how.
The point is, we shouldn't leave it up to chance. When an opportunity appears to bend the arc towards civilization, freedom and equality we have a responsibility to act. Sometimes the right word at the right time is enough. Other times might require a more lengthy response and a bigger committment.
Dear God, calamity again!
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We had just begun to break the chains
That bind our folk in slavery
When halt! Once again the people’s blood
Is streaming …
From the poem, "Calamity Again'' written in Ukrainian, in 1859, by Taras Shevchenko.
This poem opens an essay by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic, and is worth the time it takes to read it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/ukraine-identity-russia-patriotism/622902/?utm_source=feed
R Dooley, thank you for sharing the article. 💙
Excerpt:
“Among those 40 million*, a significant number—at all levels of society, all across the country, in every field of endeavor—aspire to create a fairer, freer, more prosperous country than any they have inhabited in the past. Among them are people willing to dedicate their lives to fighting corruption, to deepening democracy, to remain sovereign and free. Some of those people are willing to die for these ideas.
The clash that is coming will matter to all of us, in ways that we can’t yet fathom. In the centuries-long struggle between autocracy and democracy, between dictatorship and freedom, Ukraine is now the front line—and our front line too.”
-Anne Applebaum
*Ukraine, a nation of 40 million people
Anne Applebaum is so gifted and amazing. A warrior of peace.
I asked permission to copy this from the Quakers:
All of our public communications can be shared with whoever you like!
Here are a few more ideas, thinking especially about the situation in Ukraine today:
Quakers in Ukraine https://www.facebook.com/QuakersKyivUkraine
Download the newsletter of Friends House Moscow here: https://friendshousemoscow.org/publications/newsletter-winter-2021/
News from Quakers across Europe and the Middle East is shared in our newsletter:
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Past issues
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in friendship,
Jez
I have been a member of the Religious Society of Friends for about 30 years. Speaking truth to power gives them a real stabilizing influence far beyond what their numbers would suggest.
Good!! Quaker Friends practice peace - beyond just talking about or praying for ...!!
“Today’s invasion of democratic Ukraine by authoritarian Putin is important. It not only has broken a long period of peace in Europe, it has brought into the open that authoritarians are indeed trying to destroy democracy.”
Our souls are sickened, though not surprised, by Putin’s gambit. The destruction and misery he’s personally responsible for must not be tolerated, our push back must definitively push him back, and IMHO, he must be held accountable for his executions and imprisonments of political adversaries, and for instigating this damned war.
But a significant portion of our population supports the evil, Just like in 1941. Then Japan fixed that. Who will jolt the appeasers this time…or will America be the next target
Jeri,
America has been the target for quite a while.
Russia has been developing Trump as a potential Presidential candidate since the late 90's. This fact is one reason why Trump has never gone to jail. Any investigation, including the most recent one by the NY DA, where all of the lawyers quit yesterday, is shut down by Russian money flooding into the arena.
Russia poured laundered money into Trump's organization and his son even bragged about 'We have all the funding we need out of Russia'. Two golf courses in Scotland were purchased with Russian laundered money. Probably Mara Lago as well.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/332270-eric-trump-in-2014-we-dont-rely-on-american-banks-we-have-all-the-funding-we
Compromising America with Russian money has worked.
Fox News, Trump, Idaho (where laundering money is legal), and many churches who incorrectly correlate the state religion of Russia (Orthodox Christian) with a "good" government are on board now.
In fact, it may be all over here at this point. We let Trump go for too long and now, he just might be too powerful to arrest without an organized war to support him.....including having Russia declare war on us.
Me thinks you have been paying attention for a very long time. Sadly
Not really Jeri.
I just have been reading about Trump, and trying to understand why he is not in jail, for a long time because I live in NY and if I did ANY of the stuff he did I would be in jail.
Anybody know why the prosecutors in NY resigned yesterday. I was shocked to say the least
The new DA said he was "unsure" of the path forward for the investigation EVEN though Trump's long time accounting firm gave him up a week ago or so.
My guess?? Russia dropped a few million dollars on the new DA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyregion/trump-ny-fraud-investigation.html
His name is: Alvin Bragg.
OR, worse, Igor showed up at Alvin's front door and left him a finger or two from a friend of his.
That's what I'm waiting for HRC to report.
Our own treasonous idjt actually used the words savvy, smart and genius to describe his good buddy Putin. His fat fingers are in this someplace.
Trump praises Putin as 'savvy' amid new escalations on Russia-Ukraine border - https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082478790/trump-praises-putin-as-savvy-amid-new-escalations-on-russia-ukraine-border
"His fat fingers are in this someplace". Anybody notice this absolutely Trumpian turn of phrase? "Putin warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen.” It's nearly "the likes of which they have never seen". Yes, there is a fat, grubby fingerprint.
Heather picked up that he's wearing the same suit in both videos. We already knew that the first video had been recorded well ahead of transmission. President Biden wasn't wrong when he said, repeatedly, that he "thought" Putin had already made his decision to invade.
Excellent advice from Zelensky: stay calm, just stay at home. If they do that, but get attacked anyway, it will be hard for Putin to spin any sort of legitimacy out of it in the eyes of the world.
What really does he think to gain from this?
"... the likes of which they have never seen" ... yes Anne Louise, I did notice that - straight out of the same playbook - what do they think to gain? Complete victory and eternal domination befitting those of such self-proclaiming superior status ...? I am trusting real people of conscience and integrity will stand and be known - and come together for just governance - pretenders to the throne will be fired and retired to the dust bin of history ... that is the vision I hold with sincere intent ....
Easy, the bully take over of the world, chump waiting for his turn. Bannon has been globe-trotting to all the wannabe dictators all over the world. This is the first step…
I also noticed the clear similarities in their rhetoric, Anne-Louise! Tfg and Putin are birds of a feather; their brains are similarly sized, too!
And chump destroyed any notes from some meetings. They have been in cahoots from the first week. But before we can prove it in any court of law, we will be slurping Borscht.
Thank you, he was up to no good with Putin from the first week with Russians in the WH. Probably owed them for help trashing HRC.
Heather, I look forward to your continued analysis on the attack on Ukraine. This is devastating.
I look forward equally to HCR's report on today's domestic events, unexpected to say the very least.
Thinking of you today, Daria. ☮️
Thank you, Christine. And i, you.🌷
What are your neighbors thinking?
A sad day, devastating in it's reach.
War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
[The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote in witness to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. I chose a few stanzas and changed Germany to Russia and Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.]
Russia
O, rosiest virgin
among the green hills—
Russia!
Russia!
Russia!
Shame!
Before the Ukrainian peasant woman—
you don’t lower your eyes,
as you roll on your tanks
through her rye, her hopes?
Before the huge grief
of this small country,
what is it you feel, Russian,
Russia's sons??
[In 1942, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova wrote in Moscow.]
Courage
We know what trembles on the scales,
and what we must steel ourselves to face.
The bravest hour strikes on our clocks:
may courage not abandon us!
https://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/russian/poems-to-czechoslovakia/
This week easily contends as one of the worst weeks in my personal life. But, watching the president of Russia have a psychological meltdown, then invade Ukraine yesterday topping it off with bombing Kiev and other cities all on live TV is more than gut wrenching. Two statements I heard tonight stood out to me. A Ukrainian friend emailed former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul who said, I can’t believe we are facing the Russians alone. Then, at the UN Security Council, chaired this month, ironically, by Russia, the Ukrainian UN ambassador who was justifiably angry and gave a wonderful oratory this evening, also said later to the Russian ambassador, War criminals do not go to purgatory, they go straight to Hell! AMEN
I was very impressed with him. He spoke directly to the Russian UN ambassador that was chairing the meeting.
“Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, warned it was "too late" for de-escalation at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council Wednesday night, as he urged other countries to help stop the conflict.
“Because it’s too late, my dear colleagues, to speak about de-escalation, too late,” he said. “The Russian president declared war."
Kyslytsya cited the UN charter and the stipulation that only peace-loving states would be admitted into the Security Council, and then asked the Russian ambassador to relinquish his role as council president.” https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/h_33a8188e02219f739c8d1ca026699907
A video. He starts speaking 4:30 into it. UN assembly should have responded by stripping the Russian ambassador of the Presidency over the council at that moment. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-you-declared-war-ukraine-ambassador-confronts-russia-s-representative-at-u-n-133903429996
One factor in this horror is that the other authoritarians and their acolytes will now be forced to break cover as we see with Trump and Carlson. They are exposed as anti democrats irrevocably with no excuses plausible or credible. In the UK also the laundromat facilitation which is Londonograd [and the Russian money laundered through Dublin - Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times in Tuesday] will be shown up, but hopefully the tentacles can be slain and excised. Hopefully…..
I am wondering what they have to actually do to get themselves accused of treason. See, they need to be put on the defensive. They are always on the attack like the pack of bullies that they are. They need to be culled off, one by one and called out as traitors.
Way past time
Thanks. From here in Ireland, Trump's surprising (but accurate)insight [given to him by someon like Bannon?] that he could murder someone on 5th Ave and it would not matter, says to me that he was told his cult followers are so consumed by white grievance and anger but who identify him as their 'saviour' that for them at least he has virtually carte blanche [as the Access Holywood tape showed]; so they will not read it as treason against the US; patriotic Republican citizens like Cindy McCain, Liz Cheney and the Bushs are not listened to by the predominant Trumpist captured GOP; so I would not be optimistic, in short.
While I am not optimistic about the hard core Trumpers, since the sick bunch of twisted spawn are missing all reason! I do believe that there are a lot of sheep in that crowd, who can be led one way or another. Those sheep are the ones to reach. That is why Navalny is in prison and why people thinking for themselves is a threat to dictators everywhere.
Someone like Bannon? it's even more typical of Farage, hiding in a log somewhere at the moment.
Agreed
Thank you, Heather. This direct and somber letter tonight, conveying much dreaded news, exemplifies why we subscribe. I grieve for the Ukrainian people.
Please HCR - get this into the Guardian too (great to see your latest piece!) - and keep posting there!
Glad you brought that up!
HCR had an excellent piece published in the Guardian on Tuesday!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/trump-claims-investigations-into-him-are-politically-motivated-that-is-a-lie
Thank you for sharing that.
Finally!! 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️ Hopefully more will start sharing her words.
As I watched Nora O Donnell question Anthony Blinken on CBS News last night , I was sickened to hear her line of questioning which focused continuously on “Biden’s failed sanction efforts” WITHOUT A WORD to shift blame away from Biden to Putin
I thought, what the hell is happening to our sources of news. Why would she pursue this line of questioning. I got a chill in response
The propaganda machine is an infection and we have little antidote
You are right, and we need to make our voices heard. I’m going to write CBS this morning. All the false negative coverage needs to be called out.
Incredibly important time for our input at network websites!
As a habit, not a one-off!
The comments on this thread are exactly correct about the need to counter the corporate groupthink and the trivializing ... as depicted in the film "Don't Look Up."
I had the same reaction. She implied that Biden was at fault for the invasion because of his failed diplomatic efforts.
"I watched Nora O Donnell question Anthony Blinken on CBS News last night "
I, too, watched that interview. And I, at first, thought the same thing. However, I quickly came to the conclusion that she was simply "getting ahead of the game" by addressing the expected criticism of the Administration.
In any event, it should quiet (well, maybe) those complaining that the "tough" questions are not being asked.
As she got ahead of the game, she dog whistled at every “patriot” attacking Biden, creating a narrative of failure. Knute Rockne didn’t do locker room speeches that said “ go out there and win one for the Putin”
Shame on Nora!! Going to cbs.com now 😤
I don't know what that means.
I registered my disappointment (stronger feeling and words, actually).
I cannot abide her. She's always trying to "make news" and is always, always telegraphing to viewers whose camp she belongs to - and guess what - it is not democracy. It's Nora. She is not a bonafide reporter in my opinion.
We’re cancelling her