Enough Damn it, enough! The US and NATO has the ability to stop much of this, stop more of these kids suffering from watching their mothers burn to death. Think about what the rest of this kid’s life is going to be like. The US doesn’t have to declare war on Russia, the US doesn’t have to threaten to invade Russia. We simply need to say no more and close the airspace above Ukraine. Yes Russia will threaten to use nukes or biological weapons. But remember the idea of mutual destruction is the counter threat. We don’t need to storm and yell; we don’t need to threaten to go first. We do what we have always done and say if you start it with that, we will end you! All bets are off then. Why is it only Russia and Putin get to threaten and the US backs off. Nato wants to do more, but without the US they cannot. We are watching atrocities happen and saying we could stop it but maybe the guy behind it will get even more angry. Either we stand for something or we do not. There are things worth dying for. The US as attacked enough countries to get what we wanted; it is now time for the US to use its military might to stop the tragedy now happening. We once said never again. Did we mean it? A genocide is happening, but we say we won’t stop it because we are afraid the person behind it might do worse. We are going to look back at what is happening in Ukraine with the full knowledge we could have stopped it and were too afraid. Damn it, we as a country do not have so many things other countries do so we can maintain the world’s most might military, yet we cower when others threaten that if we use it they will react. If we wont act because the enemy might do something then reduce the damn military and give me universal healthcare, give us free college, give us a higher standard of living because being afraid to use the military we give up those things to pay for is useless. Look anyone who says we may be saving other lives needs to ask these kids if they think it is worth it our staying out of it as they watch their friends and families die. Ask the families that have seen their kids die if it is worth the worry about the maybe others dying. These people are dying right now damn it. Right now. We do not need to invade Russia, we just need to be willing to threaten, to use our might. From the start we said we wouldn’t fight, now we watch kids die, pregnant mothers die, where is the pro-life militia? Am I angry yes I am. Either we use our might or admit we only take on those unable to stand up to us. That is the stance of bullies and cowards.
Category: Animals / Insects / Water Life / Plants / Nature
Homeschooling Family Dead In Group Suicide Leap
The Daily Mail reports:
A family of four are dead and a teenage boy is fighting for life in hospital after appearing to jump from their apartment building in the Swiss resort of Montreux on Lake Geneva, police said.
The French family were found at the bottom of a seven storey building in Montreux on Thursday and are believed to have jumped moments after police officers tried to execute an arrest warrant in connection with the home-schooling of a child.
Neighbor Claude Rouiller said there had been the strong smell of incense coming from the family’s apartment in the days leading up to the tragedy, while other neighbours claimed the family were part of a cult.
The New York Times reports:
Jean-Christophe Sauterel, the police spokesman in Vaud, said the local authorities usually send the police to visit individuals who fail to respond to repeated written summons.
He said that one of the children living in the apartment was being home-schooled, which is legal in Switzerland, but requires routine checks on the process.
When parents do not respond to solicitations for these checks, they can be summoned by the police, he said.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The people are struggling to survive in the US with insufficient incomes / resources to have decent lives while the majority of our elected officials get wealthy in office by serving the wealthy donors.
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We need to restore campaign finance laws. Citizens United ruling is malware for democracy.
Republicans have no policy, no consistent beliefs. Their media is not journalism.
They are reduced to abusing the emotions of their unspectacular base.
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The same congress where 8 members voted against aid to Ukraine? The same congress where half the Republicans supported Putin? The right wing hates to admit that President Biden has lead the world in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They hate that Biden gets credit when their cult leader couldn’t stand up to Putin even to support the US own intel agencies.
Gods the right wing cartoonist are desperate. Russia is not a communist country. They are hoping none of their viewers are smart enough to know it is not 1980 anymore. Bernie never touted communism for the US. Bernie wants the government to work for the public and not just for the wealthy. That is not communism. It is about the taxpayers getting a return on their tax money.
Christians like Payne are adamant in forcing everyone to think and enjoy hatreds like them, especially when it comes to racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. Conserves are “woke” against “woke”. They don’t want white heterosexual folks to be offended by all those others around them. Some Disney employees participated in a walkout Tuesday to protest Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill The bill, which has not yet been signed into law, would limit discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools PREVIOUS: Disney opposes Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, CEO to meet with Gov. DeathSantis. Payne hates gay people apparently.
Isn’t that virtue signaling? I though right wingers considered virtue signaling to be bad. The right didn’t care about Uyghurs during Trump’s term. Now they are pretending to care about an ethnic group they didn’t care about before because they need a reason to paint President Biden as a bad guy over something. So, what do you armchair quarterbacks expect President Biden to do? Trump tried imposing tariffs on China because of their unfair business practices. It didn’t work very well, and Trump had to ask Congress to give farmers money to help them out. America is busy dealing with Putin. A dictator that some right wingers to praise. Trump called him a genius for his invasion of Ukraine. Seems like a bad idea to pick a fight with two countries with nuclear weapons. As for Canada “mistreating” Christians, give me a break.
Anti-vaxxers remind me of the person that got mauled by the tiger at the zoo because they decided to go into the tiger pit. They were warned many times of the danger but decided to overcome the obstacles put in place designed to prevent such a tragedy from happening. Such safeguards are put in place in order to prevent people from dying from COVID. If you decide to have a hissy fit and not do what is expected to stop COVID, then don’t expect me to feel sorry for you if you die. I will only feel sorry for the people that died from COVID because they had a compromised immune system. Taking the analogy farther, they remind me of the person who decided to release the tiger so it could wander the city freely, mauling whomever it wants.
The cartoon over looks the new varient to push one of their favorite villains Dr Fauci and the fear that he will force you to do things you do not want to do. People Dr. Fauci is only an advisor. But it is easier to make him the villain and pretending tRump was not in charge of the things people hate.
tRump is not responsible for the vaccine development nor for their distribution. While tRump was throwing the US treasury to any organization that would promise him anything to save his bacon, the leading vaccine maker did not take the money from the US. All the vaccine manufactures had started working on vaccines before tRump started offering money. tRump offered money to people who claimed their businesses to develop vaccines were in their living rooms. The tRump people had no plan or method to get the shots into peoples arms. For that the credit goes to the Biden administration. But the real reason to not give credit to tRump / Republicans is their catering and fostering an anti-vaccine insanity that is not only prolonging the covid issue but has led to unnecessary death and economic problems. But the right doesn’t care about facts, they want to worship their cult leader tRump and pretend science is not real.
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Snowflake Has A MELTDOWN Over This Children’s Book
Fox News Is OUTRAGED Over Rainbow Socks
A SIMPLE FACT CHECK
Texas AG Declares School District’s “Pride Week” Illegal
Are we closer to being Russia yet? Will they make LGBTQ+ people illegal next? Or just showing you are gay in public will be illegal? Will two guys holding hands be a jail sentence? The goal is to make the non-white non-straight people non-Christian people second class people with no rights. It is happening as we watch. Fascism is taking over in the red states as we watch, and they want to do it to the entire US. Scary
The Hill reports:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said in a letter to the Austin Independent School District (AISD) this week that its Pride Week was “breaking state law.”
Paxton wrote Tuesday that by hosting pride week, the district “has, at best undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent. Or, worse [the] district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of [students] that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop.”
The Texas AG also wrote that the Austin ISD’s curriculum and lesson plans “deal head-on with sexual orientation and gender identity—topics that unmistakably constitute ‘human sexuality instruction’ governed by state law.”
The Washington Post reports:
About 45 minutes after Paxton’s office tweeted out the letter, the school district’s superintendent, Stephanie Elizalde, tweeted back: “I want all our LGBTQIA+ students to know that we are proud of them and that we will protect them against political attacks.”
District spokesman Jason Stanford told The Washington Post the celebration will continue as planned. “We’re going to react to this by doubling down on making sure our kids feel safe and celebrating Pride,” Stanford said.
Republican Lunatics SMEAR Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson
Creepy Republican’s DISGUSTING Treatment Of Trans Teen
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The wealthy see the rest of us as things to be driven for their profit, not as humans worthy of decent lives and respect.
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Your surplus labor value is stolen. The system gives the thieves multiples of that stolen wealth via stock evaluations.
Ted Cruz is sad becuase tries to sound dumb to connect with his base. His Ivy League debate skills are used to protect the weak-minded and petty in his party.
These vile assholes were always there in the Republican Party.
Trump gave them oxygen.
Not only is there no test, it’s expressly forbidden.
If The US Senate followed Establishment Clause, the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress, we would have almost no Republican Senators left.
Two of Russia’s biggest spies posing with their puppet in the Oval Office. Trump did not allow US media to cover this event.
But, sure, tell me how 2A conservatives will fight ‘tyranny’ while their Republican leaders give everything to our biggest enemy.
I do not think it is even that high. People in the US just don’t vote as they are disconnected from the government. They have been shown and told that government doesn’t work for them, the government only responds to the wishes of the wealthy. The government has been bought by the large donors. Often when people vote for something if Republicans are in charge the Republicans simply either ignore it or change what the voters wanted to suit right wing needs.
‘Desperate for the attention of other stupid people’ is the FOX model: the incurious moral blank.
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This is an attempt to both smear Germany with the past but to claim they are not helping now. In fact Germany is paying a steep price for enforcing the sanctions.
I post this drivel to ask even if all the salacious drug and sex stuff about Hunter was correct what would it matter? He is not an official advisor to his father such as the tRump children were. Hunter has no part of the government, draws no paycheck from the government, and is a private citizen. But things like this are an attempt to get their base to associate President Biden with sex and drugs through his son. They just can not find anything to attack Joe Biden with that sticks.
Again Rivers is far far hard right. He is in the cult of tRump. Why would we miss him due to high gas prices due to price gouging? So he can gouge more? His administration had high gas prices also before Covid by the right wing has forgotten that. Short memories they have.
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Scottie's Playtime 