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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 11:20 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 11:26 PM
THG
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: A) It's bullshit. B) By ignoring the YEARS I asked about, you managed to (clumsily) avoid the question. THUGR: So you know comrade signym. If you ask a question that is designed to change a topic or to just deflect away from facts that are posted, or waste someone's time, you should expect it to go unanswered. .... That said, I have no idea what question you are talking about. T So .... you DON'T KNOW what question I'm referring to, but you won't answer it anyway??? Quote: And what I've posted about Russia's' behavior is pure fact And this is where I call bullshit. I watch Military Summary Channel almost every day, twice a day. Dima is NOT pro- Russian - if anything he's pro-Ukrainian - but one thing he insists on is VIDEO EVIDENCE. Russians will double tap Ukrainian soldiers all day long! They will bomb military positions and then drone -strike vehicles that are evacuating wounded or even just retreating soldiers. But I have NEVER seen video evidence of civilians being double - tapped. And if Kiev had video evidence, don't you think they'd splash it all over Telegram and elsewhere? Maybe one of the confusions is that AFU establishes military positions in civilian structures, using those old durable Soviet high rises for communication/ radar/ drone operators and anti- tank positions; hotels as control centers etc. Dima has always been careful to establish which kinds of positions are being struck. When they're civilian he says so. When they're occupied by military forces, he says so. BTW, I don't condone attacks on civilians by either side. But I think it's entirely fair that Kiev attack Russian refineries, just as Russia attacks Ukrainian refineries (and power stations) because they support the war effort. Also, FYI MOST of Ukraine's electricity is produced by nuclear power plants (NPPs), not Thermal or hydro power plants (TPPs, HPPs). IIRC peak demand before the war was about 10.5GW, NPPs produced about 7.5GW of the total. Russia refuses to bomb NPPs. However, they CAN bomb the substations and lines that distribute that electricity, so altho the plants are still operational they don't do anybody any good. Just reporting facts as I know them. Feel free to correct me if you have evidence (not allegations) that I'm wrong.
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: A) It's bullshit. B) By ignoring the YEARS I asked about, you managed to (clumsily) avoid the question. THUGR: So you know comrade signym. If you ask a question that is designed to change a topic or to just deflect away from facts that are posted, or waste someone's time, you should expect it to go unanswered. .... That said, I have no idea what question you are talking about. T
Quote: And what I've posted about Russia's' behavior is pure fact
Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:38 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
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SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 2:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Numbers of missiles, SECOND, not "intentions". Kiev has announced all kinds of intentions. Heck, Zelenskiy is still yakking about a 2025 offensive. HOW do they intend to do this? Real, practical steps. Do they have the resources? Do they have enough to make a significant difference? Do they have the time? It's a question people don't ask, but should! (You included.) It's not that I discount EVERYTHING that comes out of Kiev, but quite often I comment to hubby "Must be the coke talking!"
Thursday, April 18, 2024 6:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: When challenged with real-world issues you either spew insult or propaganda that even YOU don't bother to read!
Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:24 PM
Quote: If the damage was as bad as the Ukrainian defense ministry claimed...
Friday, April 19, 2024 6:48 AM
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 2:16 AM
Quote: As Trump’s Republican allies in the United States Congress block military aid that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv desperately needs to avoid defeat in its war with invading Russian forces, it’s clear the former U.S. president’s ill will toward Ukraine has deep roots.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 8:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's just one ridiculous narrative after another, isn't it?
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 5:53 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: As Trump’s Republican allies in the United States Congress block military aid that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv desperately needs to avoid defeat in its war with invading Russian forces, it’s clear the former U.S. president’s ill will toward Ukraine has deep roots. Everything about this sentence is wrong.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 6:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: As Trump’s Republican allies in the United States Congress block military aid that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv desperately needs to avoid defeat in its war with invading Russian forces, it’s clear the former U.S. president’s ill will toward Ukraine has deep roots. SIGNY: Everything about this sentence is wrong. THUGR: Quote: The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a series of foreign aid bills that include $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26.38 billion in aid to Israel, $8 billion in aid to the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan, and a foreign aid bill that includes a TikTok ban provision. House approves $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-approves-95-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine-israel-and-taiwan/ar-AA1nlCHL Yup, and half the republicans voted against it.
Quote: The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a series of foreign aid bills that include $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26.38 billion in aid to Israel, $8 billion in aid to the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan, and a foreign aid bill that includes a TikTok ban provision. House approves $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-approves-95-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine-israel-and-taiwan/ar-AA1nlCHL
Saturday, April 20, 2024 6:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: So. Neither Trump nor his allies "blocked" aid to Ukraine. In FACT, the part that Trump objected to ...$10 billion financial aid to the Zelenskiy regime ... he said would let pass if written as a loan. Funny how so much of what you post doesn't even have a passing resemblance to reality! Rumor, lies, libel, allegation, and spin. No facts? It would be nice to see some.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 6:53 PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024 7:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: So. Neither Trump nor his allies "blocked" aid to Ukraine. In FACT, the part that Trump objected to ...$10 billion financial aid to the Zelenskiy regime ... he said would let pass if written as a loan. Funny how so much of what you post doesn't even have a passing resemblance to reality! Rumor, lies, libel, allegation, and spin. No facts? It would be nice to see some.Signym, you are full bullshit. Trumptards always turn into lying sacks of shit when it serves them. As Trump does, so do his Trumptards. But doing as Trump does has not served them well in Congress. On aid to Ukraine, Trump got his way for 16 months. When Democrats held the majority in the House of Representatives in 2022, they approved four separate aid requests for Ukraine, totaling $74 billion. As soon as Trump’s party took control of the House, in January 2023, the aid stopped. Every Republican officeholder understood: Those who wished to show loyalty to Trump must side against Ukraine. At the beginning of 2024, Trump was able even to blow up the toughest immigration bill seen in decades—simply to deny President Joe Biden a bipartisan win. Individual Senate Republicans might grumble, but with Trump opposed, the border-security deal disintegrated. Three months later, Trump’s party in Congress has rebelled against him—and not on a personal payoff to some oddball Trump loyalist, but on one of Trump’s most cherished issues, his siding with Russia against Ukraine. The anti-Trump, pro-Ukraine rebellion started in the Senate. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats to approve aid to Ukraine in February. Dissident House Republicans then threatened to force a vote if the Republican speaker would not schedule one. Speaker Mike Johnson declared himself in favor of Ukraine aid. This weekend, House Republicans split between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine factions. On Friday, the House voted 316–94 in favor of the rule on the aid vote. On Saturday, the aid to Ukraine measure passed the House by 311–112. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will adopt the House-approved aid measures unamended and speed them to President Biden for signature. As defeat loomed for his anti-Ukraine allies, Trump shifted his message a little. On April 18, he posted on Truth Social claiming that he, too, favored helping Ukraine. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us!” But that was after-the-fact face-saving, jumping to the winning side after his side was about to lose. . . . The Ukraine vote gives the most significant clue. Here is the issue on which traditional Republican belief in U.S. global leadership clashes most directly with Trump’s peculiar and sinister enthusiasm for Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And on this issue, the traditional Republicans have now won and Trump’s peculiar enthusiasm got beat. To make an avalanche takes more than one tumbling rock. Still, the pro-Ukraine, anti-Trump vote in the House is a very, very big rock. On something that mattered intensely to him—that had become a badge of pro-Trump identity—Trump’s own party worked with Democrats in the House and Senate to hand him a stinging defeat. This example could become contagious. Republicans lost the House in 2018 because they were beaten in districts once held by George H. W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Eric Cantor. They lost the presidency in 2020 in great part because their vote eroded among white suburban men. They lost the Senate in 2021 because Trump fatigue cost them two seats in Georgia. They lost Senate seats and governorships in 2022 because they put forward Trump-branded candidates such as Blake Masters and Kari Lake in Arizona and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania. Republicans alienated too many of their own—and paid the political price. They alienated their own because of Trump’s hostility to Ukraine, and that price was paid in blood and suffering by Ukraine’s soldiers and civilians. The issues that were supposed to keep the Trump show on the road have proved squibs and fizzles. Inflation is down. Crime is down. Republicans threw away the immigration issue by blowing up—at Trump’s order—the best immigration deal they’ve ever seen. The attempt to confect Biden scandals to equal Trump’s scandals turned into an embarrassing fiasco that relied on information from a suspected Russian spy indicted for lying to the FBI. And Trump himself now faces trial in New York State on one set of felony charges. He faces a federal trial, probably starting this fall, on the even graver criminal indictments arising from his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Each of these warnings and troubles has deflated Trump. He has deflated to the point where he could no longer thwart Ukraine aid in Congress. Ukraine won, Trump lost. That may be a repeating pattern in the year ahead. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/trump-republican-vote-ukraine-aid/678148/
Saturday, April 20, 2024 7:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: SECOND, you lie about everything, even yourself. Not gonna bother to read yet another wall of crap that even YOU don't bother to read.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 8:24 PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024 9:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: AS IF you read your own bullshit! : You lie about everything.
Sunday, April 21, 2024 12:07 AM
Sunday, April 21, 2024 8:49 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: More bullshit from The Swamp, via Swamp Thing SECOND. Dood. You really expect anyone to believe Pelosi? Or you? It's not the length. It's the crap.
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: But we also had a rummy game, and THAT table was fierce. Gave me a headache. I was just looking for some good-natured fun and relaxation at lunch. I had enough headaches at work with a sociopathic supervisor. A little levity always helps the day along.
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Did some research on my latest dx. I was just happy to finally get one, but most of my doctors are serious about it. Turns out the treatment, while not as bad as the disease, is pretty consequential and can lead to "irreversible" immune suppression and lifelong risk of serious infections requiring hospitalization. Reactivation of dormant diseases like TB and the various hepatitises is a real possibility, so I've been tested for all that. No more live-virus immunizations. They want me all updated on that. Been told I'm gonna have to mask up and wash my hands, a lot. Then there is the problem of my gardening. The soil is full of mold spores and gram negative (the kind that's hard to treat) bacteria. I may have to give that up. Since I'm on an antibiotic that makes people sensitive to sunlight, I practiced gardening in long sleeves, with a sun hat, N95, and glasses. It wasn't too bad but I think my doctors and family may put theur collective feet down. Gardening is both my responsibility, and my passion. It's one thing I really enjoy. The only one happy is my ENT surgeon. Just had another debridement on Wednesday. She was all smiles, very happy with the results and doesn't anticipate any more outpatient surgical procedures, just in-office. I think what's making her happy is that she and ny rheumatologist are communicating, and she's not in this all by herself. Well, on with my day. Gotta get thru all the non-fun stuff (dishes, laundry pre-scrubbing, cooking prep, paperwork) before I get to the fun stuff (gardening). On a bit of a steroid energy high ... SIX, this must be what you feel like a lot of the time ... so gotta burn off all this good energy doing something useful. When the steroids come down, I know I'll droop.
Sunday, April 21, 2024 8:51 AM
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Quote:Originally posted by second: Political Warfare and Congress My Testimony from 17 April By Timothy Snyder | Apr 19, 2024 https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-warfare-and-congress The essence of “political warfare,” in the sense defined by the Chinese communist party, is that Beijing uses media, psychology, and law to induce adversaries to do things counter to their own interests.
Sunday, April 21, 2024 10:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by second: Political Warfare and Congress My Testimony from 17 April By Timothy Snyder | Apr 19, 2024 https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-warfare-and-congress The essence of “political warfare,” in the sense defined by the Chinese communist party, is that Beijing uses media, psychology, and law to induce adversaries to do things counter to their own interests. wow! That happens here in the USA all the time! We're inveigled, stupefied, lied to, convinced... to support self- destructive things ALL THE TIME! Whooda thunk was a Chi-Com invention??
Monday, April 22, 2024 7:27 AM
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: This is around the 1,000,000th time Russia has threatened to nuke the world, almost as many times as Russia's protege, North Korea, has made the same threat.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:19 AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 12:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: He went on: “If Russians believe in something, they believe until the end. They believe in God. They’re ready to die for their faith. They believe in communism. They’re ready to die for that. They believe in Russia and they’re ready to sacrifice themselves for Russia.” Even the atomic bomb, batyushka? “Of course,” he replied quickly. “We’re ready to sacrifice ourselves. Because if we don’t win, we’ll burn it all down. If we can’t achieve this bright future, then what’s the point in living?” He grew more heated. “Our president is saying what everyone is thinking. If we don’t have the Russia we want, we’re ready to martyr ourselves, sacrifice ourselves and the whole world if it’s unjust and evil. There’s no need for a world like that.”
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