While Russia’s war on Ukraine continues in all its blistering horror, there are glimmerings that suggest Russia’s position in its assault on Ukraine is weakening. A senior U.S. defense official today told reporters that while there is significant fighting going on, the only major military news is that Russia has now launched more than 1000 missiles at Ukraine. Ukraine’s allies are working on supplying Ukraine with long-range air defense systems. The Pentagon also believes the airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested, and tentatively assesses that the morale of Russian soldiers is flagging.
Shouldn't there be something equivalent of the 25 th amendment for certifiably insane Congress members like Boebert Gaetz Greene and my own Representative Chip Roy?
The House Republican stooges have managed to wrap Ukraine right into their slapstick narrative with nary a hitch, so caught up in their own echo chamber that even the most blatant attack on a democratic regime by the worlds most (or second most, perhaps) autocrat doesn't give them pause. Good God, one can only hope that enough folks are embarrassed enough by them that the mid-terms will pleasantly surprise us all by replacing them with something more ideologically sound, if not someone from another party. There's a silver lining for us Americans in this massive tragedy that is war; Biden is given the opportunity to speak to the American people frequently about issues of substance, in a setting where his tenure and prior office are his strengths. Can you imagine how tfg would be managing the message were he still in office? Makes my Head hurt to think of it...Biden is using the power of his office and the crystal clear morality play to utilize our technological strength on the side of the oppressed and spend money where even the Repubs aren't complaining. He's displaying the presidential power of diplomacy in the world, taking full advantage of the incredible gift of opportunity handed to him by Putin himself. Finally, truth prevails over fiction for a blessed moment or two in the national news. I wonder how long we'll enjoy this clarity before descending back into the cesspool of national politics and forget that there are bigger threats in the world than one another?
As described by Robert Hubbell, "The video is a masterpiece of communication that begins with Arnold discussing his great respect and admiration for the Russian people. He uses that affection as a launching pad for his earnest desire to inform Russians of the truth about Putin’s war."
The Russian people are standing up. Looks like the destroyer despot's use of fear is losing it's grip:
*This is a message sent from a friends’ son in Sweden. When I researched this, I found other universities and scientists in Russia standing up in this same way. Information is leaking out to the world. The Russian people may prove to be as brave as our Ukrainian friends. May the tide turn quickly against Putin, and all the terrorists in our own country and government. And may all the similar tyrants around the world, shrivel in fear.
Message to Putin:
Almost 4,000 academics, students and graduates of the prestigious Moscow State University, Russia’s oldest university, have signed a letter saying they “categorically condemn the war that our country unleashed in Ukraine”.
The letter says:
We, students, graduate students, teachers, staff and graduates of the oldest university in Russia, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, we categorically condemn the war that our country unleashed in Ukraine.
Russia and our parents gave us a strong education, the true value of which lies in being able to critically evaluate what is happening around, weigh arguments, hear each other and be faithful to the truth - scientific and humanistic. We know how to call a spade a spade, and we cannot stand aside.
Acting on behalf of the Russian Federation, which its leadership calls a "special military operation" is war, and in this situation there is no room for euphemisms or excuses. War is violence, cruelty, death, loss of loved ones, powerlessness and fear that cannot be justified by any goal. War is the most cruel act of dehumanization, which, as we studied within the walls of schools and the University, should never be repeated. The values of the absolute human life, humanism, diplomacy and peaceful resolution of contradictions, which we absorbed at the University, were trampled upon and thrown away in an instant, when Russia treacherously invaded the territory of Ukraine. The lives of millions of Ukrainians have been threatened every hour since the invasion of the military forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
We express our support to the people of Ukraine and categorically condemn the war that Russia unleashed against the Ukrainians.
As graduates of the oldest university in Russia, we know that the losses inflicted during the six days of a bloody war - first of all, human, but also social, economic, cultural - are irreparable. We also know that war is a humanitarian catastrophe, but we cannot imagine the depth of the wound that we, as the people of Russia, are inflicting on the people of Ukraine and ourselves right now.
We demand that the leadership of Russia immediately cease fire, leave the territory of the sovereign state of Ukraine and end this shameful war.
We ask all Russian citizens who care about its future to join the peace movement.
Anyone wanting to know the specifics of the war crimes that Russian combatants appear to be committing:
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 8-Definition
War Crimes
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.
2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:
* * *
b) . . . any of the following acts:
(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
* * *
(v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objective;
* * *
(ix) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
* * *
(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
Slovakia announced today they will give Ukraine all their S-300 SAMs as soon as they receive an assurance from the US that we will "backfill" with more modern SAMs. It would be nice if some way could be figured out to give Ukraine 100 of the artillery rocket launchers we have in Europe, that they could use for counter-battery fire against Russian arty. A smack in the bully's nose is a good defensive strategy.
The Chinese are very antsy about getting caught up in secondary sanctions from allying with Vladolf Putler.
Upon reading HCR’s parting statement portraying Ukraine’s people as “trying to save their democracy from a criminal assault by an autocrat who has perverted his own country’s government…,” I dared to imagine, partisan disputes notwithstanding, that perhaps more and more of us are viewing Ukraine as the front line of freedom right now, engaged in a struggle between freedom and tyranny that, dare I say, is awakening in us the desire to protect our own aspirational American experiment from its potential undoing.
I will know we have undergone a paradigm shift when opposing parties start viewing one another, once again, as opponents and not as enemies.
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew
The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price
With Putin turning on his own, much like tfg, could it be that his rule is drawing to an end? If so, may the same be true for tfg and his sycophantic echocrats.
And did you catch Arnold’s video address to Russians? May it reach and influence his intended audience. 🙏🏻
This is really a rogues gallery of low lifes not worthy of representing their states in Congress. I hope their home state newspapers shellac them: The eight votes against the measure came from Republican members Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Glenn Grothman (WI), Thomas Massie (KY), and Chip Roy (TX), all staunch Trump supporters. Not sure how Cawthorn missed this opportunity to join his fellow wing nuts.
Through the 'blistering horror' of Ukraine, aptly noted in today's Letter, the story of an American looking for food in Chernihiv has emerged.
'A 68-year-old American man was killed in a Russian attack on Chernihiv, a Ukrainian city northwest of Kyiv, local authorities said Thursday.'
'James Whitney Hill, known to friends as Jimmy, was killed by heavy artillery attacks on unarmed civilians in the city, The New York Times reported. His identity was reportedly confirmed by an aide to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.'
“My brother Jimmy Hill was killed yesterday in Chernihiv, Ukraine,” Cheryl Hill Gordon wrote on Facebook on Thursday afternoon. “He was waiting in a bread line with several other people when they were gunned down by Russian military [snipers]. His body was found in the street by the local police.”
'The U.S. embassy in Kyiv said Wednesday that Russian forces had shot and killed 10 people standing in line for bread in Chernihiv.'
'Another sister, Katya Hill, told MPR News her brother was out looking for food when he was killed, but said the State Department could not tell her if he was among the victims in the bread line or if he was killed in another attack.'
'According to Hill’s Facebook page, he was a freelance lecturer and had worked at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Katya Hill said he was a social worker and forensic psychologist and had worked on and off in Ukraine for about 20 years.'
'He traveled to Chernihiv in December to seek treatment for his partner Irina, a Ukrainian citizen who has multiple sclerosis, his friend told an Idaho news station earlier this month.'
'After Russia invaded Ukraine, Hill and his companions were trapped inside a hospital with limited food, water and electricity.'
'In a series of updates on Facebook in his final days, Hill said his partner, whom he called Ira, was in intensive care. He said they wanted to flee the city, but couldn’t determine how to do so safely.
“Its a living nightmare but we are alive,” he wrote in one post last week. “Bombing throughout the day. Helpless feeling.”
'He said he and his companions only had enough food for a few more days and that it was very cold in the hospital.'
'Chernihiv, a city close to the Russian border, has been surrounded by Russian military. Civilians are increasingly dying under sustained attack from enemy forces in residential areas. The city’s mayor said last week that Chernihiv had run out of room to bury its dead.'
'In his final post, on Tuesday, Hill said that the bombing had intensified and there was no way out.' (Yahoonews)
There is 'no way out' for many millions of Ukrainians.
Please indulge me sharing an essay I wrote yesterday, a reflection on life’s problems:
AN INCONVENIENCE - NO HOT WATER
I have been without hot water for 11 days since March 5th. They are replacing the building’s old hot water heater with a new one and was supposed to be for 3 days, but of course there were problems.
It was an inconvenience, but nothing new to me – I’ve been here before. In 1970, living in my tar-paper shack in the woods, I carried all my water for cooking, cleaning and bathing from a drop-bucket well and heated it on a wood burning stove. In my travels in the mid-70s the cheap hotels in Central America did not have hot water. Not so bad in the tropics but in the cool mountains, quite uncomfortable for bathing.
In India I got used to bathing for a couple of months in a concrete area with drain, dipping from a 2-gallon galvanized bucket of hot water. That is what I have been doing this time, using a 2-gallon plastic bucket and heating water on the stove. At least with electricity, my microwave got me enuf quick hot water to wash dishes.
Finally, today the hot water is back on and quite convenient. I even had the luxury of a hot soaking bath, which was very relaxing despite the anguish that haunts me from the reality of world events.
While I have been without convenient hot water, many Ukrainians are desperate for any water at all. I had drinking water in my refrigerator. I had a gas stove for heating water & for cooking food. I had food. I had electricity and electronics. I HAD AN APARTMENT.
All these things that I have, most Ukrainians also had less than a month ago. In a modern nation they would likely have been inconvenienced by the loss of hot water for 11 days. At that time it seemed unlikely that their normal lives would have been so destroyed by one insane, unconscionable, murderous Russian dictator.
Somehow, my consciousness this past 3 weeks has been dominated by the suffering in Ukraine. The cost of being empathetic. Unlike sociopaths like Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin, the suffering of others does impact on me. Especially, when War Criminals like Putin target civilians and children.
Other than that continuous niggling reality in the back of my mind, I enjoyed the hot bath and my still intact little living space where I will soon watch another Jason Bourne movie in the trilogy, and will waste some time on twitter later.
Adam Tooze reported today that the bond holders of Russian debt - the investors in supporting Putin's crimes over the past 20 years - end up in Western courts having primacy over victims of Putin or Ukraine in getting access to the Russian reserves because our "rule of law" priotizes property ownership over criminal accountability.
There is no doubt but that Russia's and Putin's language, methods, activities and governance is the model and foreshadows our Republican Party. Looking at history, authoritarian people, parties and national behavior are all identical. Labeling them "Nazi", fascist, communist, etc doesn't differentiate their practices and results. Stalin used the same political methods that Hitler did to subvert Russia into a repressive nationalistic nation under Stalin's rule. Trump and all Republicans today have bought into these methods for the same reasons. One party power that considers all non party citizens and residents to be enemies.
Brilliant as usual HCR. I’m surprised that no one has mentioned your last concluding paragraphs that left me thunderstruck, angry, and lastly, hopeful and energized. Please, leaders Pelosi and Schumer, lead the charge today with all the indignation you can muster!
Shouldn't there be something equivalent of the 25 th amendment for certifiably insane Congress members like Boebert Gaetz Greene and my own Representative Chip Roy?
The Guvernator speaks - and it's excellent - good on Arnie!
https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1504426844199669762.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/schwarzenegger-russia-ukraine-war-message/627100/
The House Republican stooges have managed to wrap Ukraine right into their slapstick narrative with nary a hitch, so caught up in their own echo chamber that even the most blatant attack on a democratic regime by the worlds most (or second most, perhaps) autocrat doesn't give them pause. Good God, one can only hope that enough folks are embarrassed enough by them that the mid-terms will pleasantly surprise us all by replacing them with something more ideologically sound, if not someone from another party. There's a silver lining for us Americans in this massive tragedy that is war; Biden is given the opportunity to speak to the American people frequently about issues of substance, in a setting where his tenure and prior office are his strengths. Can you imagine how tfg would be managing the message were he still in office? Makes my Head hurt to think of it...Biden is using the power of his office and the crystal clear morality play to utilize our technological strength on the side of the oppressed and spend money where even the Repubs aren't complaining. He's displaying the presidential power of diplomacy in the world, taking full advantage of the incredible gift of opportunity handed to him by Putin himself. Finally, truth prevails over fiction for a blessed moment or two in the national news. I wonder how long we'll enjoy this clarity before descending back into the cesspool of national politics and forget that there are bigger threats in the world than one another?
Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Task Force: Laughter is good medicine, and REPO did it for me!
And then there is Arnold the Terminator with his spot-on message to Russians:
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1504484990150602753?s=20&t=E78Mt-gF4e3gk0hPXvrZLA
As described by Robert Hubbell, "The video is a masterpiece of communication that begins with Arnold discussing his great respect and admiration for the Russian people. He uses that affection as a launching pad for his earnest desire to inform Russians of the truth about Putin’s war."
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/putins-unwinnable-war?s=r
DNC needs to hire Schwarzenegger's crew for effective messaging.
The Russian people are standing up. Looks like the destroyer despot's use of fear is losing it's grip:
*This is a message sent from a friends’ son in Sweden. When I researched this, I found other universities and scientists in Russia standing up in this same way. Information is leaking out to the world. The Russian people may prove to be as brave as our Ukrainian friends. May the tide turn quickly against Putin, and all the terrorists in our own country and government. And may all the similar tyrants around the world, shrivel in fear.
Message to Putin:
Almost 4,000 academics, students and graduates of the prestigious Moscow State University, Russia’s oldest university, have signed a letter saying they “categorically condemn the war that our country unleashed in Ukraine”.
The letter says:
We, students, graduate students, teachers, staff and graduates of the oldest university in Russia, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, we categorically condemn the war that our country unleashed in Ukraine.
Russia and our parents gave us a strong education, the true value of which lies in being able to critically evaluate what is happening around, weigh arguments, hear each other and be faithful to the truth - scientific and humanistic. We know how to call a spade a spade, and we cannot stand aside.
Acting on behalf of the Russian Federation, which its leadership calls a "special military operation" is war, and in this situation there is no room for euphemisms or excuses. War is violence, cruelty, death, loss of loved ones, powerlessness and fear that cannot be justified by any goal. War is the most cruel act of dehumanization, which, as we studied within the walls of schools and the University, should never be repeated. The values of the absolute human life, humanism, diplomacy and peaceful resolution of contradictions, which we absorbed at the University, were trampled upon and thrown away in an instant, when Russia treacherously invaded the territory of Ukraine. The lives of millions of Ukrainians have been threatened every hour since the invasion of the military forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.
We express our support to the people of Ukraine and categorically condemn the war that Russia unleashed against the Ukrainians.
As graduates of the oldest university in Russia, we know that the losses inflicted during the six days of a bloody war - first of all, human, but also social, economic, cultural - are irreparable. We also know that war is a humanitarian catastrophe, but we cannot imagine the depth of the wound that we, as the people of Russia, are inflicting on the people of Ukraine and ourselves right now.
We demand that the leadership of Russia immediately cease fire, leave the territory of the sovereign state of Ukraine and end this shameful war.
We ask all Russian citizens who care about its future to join the peace movement.
We are against war!
https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/letter-moscow-state-university-condemns-the-war-in-ukraine/
Anyone wanting to know the specifics of the war crimes that Russian combatants appear to be committing:
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Article 8-Definition
War Crimes
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.
2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:
* * *
b) . . . any of the following acts:
(i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
(ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
* * *
(v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objective;
* * *
(ix) Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives;
* * *
(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf
Slovakia announced today they will give Ukraine all their S-300 SAMs as soon as they receive an assurance from the US that we will "backfill" with more modern SAMs. It would be nice if some way could be figured out to give Ukraine 100 of the artillery rocket launchers we have in Europe, that they could use for counter-battery fire against Russian arty. A smack in the bully's nose is a good defensive strategy.
The Chinese are very antsy about getting caught up in secondary sanctions from allying with Vladolf Putler.
Upon reading HCR’s parting statement portraying Ukraine’s people as “trying to save their democracy from a criminal assault by an autocrat who has perverted his own country’s government…,” I dared to imagine, partisan disputes notwithstanding, that perhaps more and more of us are viewing Ukraine as the front line of freedom right now, engaged in a struggle between freedom and tyranny that, dare I say, is awakening in us the desire to protect our own aspirational American experiment from its potential undoing.
I will know we have undergone a paradigm shift when opposing parties start viewing one another, once again, as opponents and not as enemies.
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew
The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-manchin-big-coal-west-virginia-1280922/
Thank you sister Heather.
With Putin turning on his own, much like tfg, could it be that his rule is drawing to an end? If so, may the same be true for tfg and his sycophantic echocrats.
And did you catch Arnold’s video address to Russians? May it reach and influence his intended audience. 🙏🏻
https://youtu.be/3T5sh100mU0
I heard earlier this evening that the Pope has something planned as well.
This is really a rogues gallery of low lifes not worthy of representing their states in Congress. I hope their home state newspapers shellac them: The eight votes against the measure came from Republican members Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Glenn Grothman (WI), Thomas Massie (KY), and Chip Roy (TX), all staunch Trump supporters. Not sure how Cawthorn missed this opportunity to join his fellow wing nuts.
Through the 'blistering horror' of Ukraine, aptly noted in today's Letter, the story of an American looking for food in Chernihiv has emerged.
'A 68-year-old American man was killed in a Russian attack on Chernihiv, a Ukrainian city northwest of Kyiv, local authorities said Thursday.'
'James Whitney Hill, known to friends as Jimmy, was killed by heavy artillery attacks on unarmed civilians in the city, The New York Times reported. His identity was reportedly confirmed by an aide to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.'
“My brother Jimmy Hill was killed yesterday in Chernihiv, Ukraine,” Cheryl Hill Gordon wrote on Facebook on Thursday afternoon. “He was waiting in a bread line with several other people when they were gunned down by Russian military [snipers]. His body was found in the street by the local police.”
'The U.S. embassy in Kyiv said Wednesday that Russian forces had shot and killed 10 people standing in line for bread in Chernihiv.'
'Another sister, Katya Hill, told MPR News her brother was out looking for food when he was killed, but said the State Department could not tell her if he was among the victims in the bread line or if he was killed in another attack.'
'According to Hill’s Facebook page, he was a freelance lecturer and had worked at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Katya Hill said he was a social worker and forensic psychologist and had worked on and off in Ukraine for about 20 years.'
'He traveled to Chernihiv in December to seek treatment for his partner Irina, a Ukrainian citizen who has multiple sclerosis, his friend told an Idaho news station earlier this month.'
'After Russia invaded Ukraine, Hill and his companions were trapped inside a hospital with limited food, water and electricity.'
'In a series of updates on Facebook in his final days, Hill said his partner, whom he called Ira, was in intensive care. He said they wanted to flee the city, but couldn’t determine how to do so safely.
“Its a living nightmare but we are alive,” he wrote in one post last week. “Bombing throughout the day. Helpless feeling.”
'He said he and his companions only had enough food for a few more days and that it was very cold in the hospital.'
'Chernihiv, a city close to the Russian border, has been surrounded by Russian military. Civilians are increasingly dying under sustained attack from enemy forces in residential areas. The city’s mayor said last week that Chernihiv had run out of room to bury its dead.'
'In his final post, on Tuesday, Hill said that the bombing had intensified and there was no way out.' (Yahoonews)
There is 'no way out' for many millions of Ukrainians.
https://news.yahoo.com/american-lecturer-killed-ukraine-while-005430876.html
Please indulge me sharing an essay I wrote yesterday, a reflection on life’s problems:
AN INCONVENIENCE - NO HOT WATER
I have been without hot water for 11 days since March 5th. They are replacing the building’s old hot water heater with a new one and was supposed to be for 3 days, but of course there were problems.
It was an inconvenience, but nothing new to me – I’ve been here before. In 1970, living in my tar-paper shack in the woods, I carried all my water for cooking, cleaning and bathing from a drop-bucket well and heated it on a wood burning stove. In my travels in the mid-70s the cheap hotels in Central America did not have hot water. Not so bad in the tropics but in the cool mountains, quite uncomfortable for bathing.
In India I got used to bathing for a couple of months in a concrete area with drain, dipping from a 2-gallon galvanized bucket of hot water. That is what I have been doing this time, using a 2-gallon plastic bucket and heating water on the stove. At least with electricity, my microwave got me enuf quick hot water to wash dishes.
Finally, today the hot water is back on and quite convenient. I even had the luxury of a hot soaking bath, which was very relaxing despite the anguish that haunts me from the reality of world events.
While I have been without convenient hot water, many Ukrainians are desperate for any water at all. I had drinking water in my refrigerator. I had a gas stove for heating water & for cooking food. I had food. I had electricity and electronics. I HAD AN APARTMENT.
All these things that I have, most Ukrainians also had less than a month ago. In a modern nation they would likely have been inconvenienced by the loss of hot water for 11 days. At that time it seemed unlikely that their normal lives would have been so destroyed by one insane, unconscionable, murderous Russian dictator.
Somehow, my consciousness this past 3 weeks has been dominated by the suffering in Ukraine. The cost of being empathetic. Unlike sociopaths like Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin, the suffering of others does impact on me. Especially, when War Criminals like Putin target civilians and children.
Other than that continuous niggling reality in the back of my mind, I enjoyed the hot bath and my still intact little living space where I will soon watch another Jason Bourne movie in the trilogy, and will waste some time on twitter later.
Adam Tooze reported today that the bond holders of Russian debt - the investors in supporting Putin's crimes over the past 20 years - end up in Western courts having primacy over victims of Putin or Ukraine in getting access to the Russian reserves because our "rule of law" priotizes property ownership over criminal accountability.
There is no doubt but that Russia's and Putin's language, methods, activities and governance is the model and foreshadows our Republican Party. Looking at history, authoritarian people, parties and national behavior are all identical. Labeling them "Nazi", fascist, communist, etc doesn't differentiate their practices and results. Stalin used the same political methods that Hitler did to subvert Russia into a repressive nationalistic nation under Stalin's rule. Trump and all Republicans today have bought into these methods for the same reasons. One party power that considers all non party citizens and residents to be enemies.
Brilliant as usual HCR. I’m surprised that no one has mentioned your last concluding paragraphs that left me thunderstruck, angry, and lastly, hopeful and energized. Please, leaders Pelosi and Schumer, lead the charge today with all the indignation you can muster!