Andrew Walls, a leader of the Akron-Canton chapter of the Proud Boys in Ohio, was charged after he appeared to be caught on camera shouting racial slurs at a Black woman and then punching her in the face.
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A chapter leader in the far-right Proud Boys extremist gang was arrested on Monday and charged with assault in Akron, Ohio, after he was recorded shouting racial epithets at a Black woman and then sucker-punching her in the face.
A man police identified as Andrew Walls, 26, was caught on video outside a bar in the early hours of Sunday, stumbling and scuffling with other patrons while spewing a torrent of racial slurs. His victim, 23-year-old Cameron Morgan, was passing by with a friend when she heard Walls and others around him screaming “Fucking niggers.”
She later told her father that she confronted Walls after realizing she was the only Black person around.
“We were like … ‘You can’t say that. That’s not OK,’” she told her dad, local teacher and former sportswriter David Lee Morgan Jr., who recorded the conversation and provided a transcript to HuffPost.
Video taken by Cameron Morgan’s friend shows what happened next: Walls squares up, points his finger at Morgan, and repeats the racist slur, adding: “Bitch, shut your mouth.” He then cocks his right fist and punches her directly in the face, the impact of which releases a blood-curdling pop.
Morgan was treated for a concussion.
WARNING: The video below contains graphic violence and racist language.
Walls kept going after the recording ended, and dragged Morgan into the street by her hair, her father said. She was shaken up, he said, and left the scene without initially calling police.
But once the video began to make the rounds on social media Sunday, activists quickly identified the assailant as Walls. They also unearthed a previous story about him in the local Akron Beacon Journal, which identified him as the vice president of the Akron-Canton chapter of the Proud Boys.
According to this article (with photo) Andrew Walls is also the vice-president of the Akron-Canton chapter of the Proud Boys. https://t.co/mv9ZThIxBL
Though Walls wasn’t wearing his Proud Boys uniform — a black and yellow Fred Perry polo — during the assault, his membership in the gang suggests a predisposition for violence and bigotry. The Proud Boys, designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and a terrorist organization by Canada, have close ties to white supremacist groups and other extremists, and violence is literally written into their rules. (The gang’s highest rank, known as the Fourth Degree, is given only to members who commit a significant act of violence “for the cause.”)
Walls’ chapter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reached by phone Sunday, David Morgan’s voice trembled as he recalled waking up to see a video on his phone of his daughter being assaulted.
“Soon as we saw it, I was in tears,” he said. “I just cried, because, I just watched somebody punch my daughter, who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Morgan said his daughter went to an urgent care clinic and was treated for a concussion after she saw stars and blacked out. Her face swelled up temporarily, to the point where she couldn’t move her jaw.
“She couldn’t really open up her mouth to eat,” he said.
Walls was taken into custody on Monday, charged with possessing a firearm while intoxicated and assault. The severity of Morgan’s injuries may lead to his assault charge being upgraded to a felony, the Akron Beacon Journal reports. Akron police are considering an added ethnic intimidation charge and are reportedly in contact with the FBI to determine whether to classify the attack as a hate crime. Additionally, police said Walls attacked another woman at the scene and is expected to face additional charges for that crime.
David Morgan said the revelation of Walls’ Proud Boys affiliation changed everything for him. He said he was aware of the gang and the national tour of political violence they’d been on since their founding in 2016, but he “never thought it would hit home until today.”
“This changes a lot for me, in the sense that, I want to get involved now,” he said. “This happening was time for me to wake the hell up. And I hate that my daughter had to suffer that for me to wake the hell up.”
this piece of shit just emptied an unhoused person's tent of all their belongings and threw it all away. when i asked what they were doing they said cleaning up trash. when i said it was someone's stuff they called me a fucking weirdo, threatened me, and told me to back off. pic.twitter.com/hvHSvOEHtJ
Robots and automation in general eat up jobs. That should be a good thing. People do not exist just to work. Other countries know this. Living should be more than a daily grind to make wealth for the wealthy and trying to survive.
Since JK Rowling has blocked any reply to this litany of half-truths and transphobic dogwhistles, I thought I'd catalogue them properly here: https://t.co/vo3AsrZJLz
— 🤦♂️ Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) June 10, 2020
FOX is complicit. They parrot Russian active measures reflexively.
Republican rhetoric is meaningless.
Who pays an artist to take someone else's existing painting and repaint the figures and faces to depict yourself standing with a heroic sword-wielding Jeffrey Epstein? https://t.co/0lxj5cHwbW
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This is perhaps the most horrifying move. Shrier outs a trans minor in national press, virtually ensuring harassment and threats. https://t.co/GIJl7sZdE3
Alternate title: Transphobic father, Ted Hadacko, loses custody of his transgender kid after expressing his transphobic views and abusing his family.
This is more misinformation laundering by the NY Post for Abigail Shrier who outed the trans kid of the judge in this case. pic.twitter.com/h7Pf4jIFOj
— Alejandra Caraballo is on Threads/Bluesky (@Esqueer_) February 27, 2022
The amount of right-wing takes about the Russian army not using woke pronouns… nukes could be raining from the sky and these people would be saying “GUESS YOU DONT NEED GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS NOW!!” Deranged, psychosexual obsession pic.twitter.com/uBuj2JDhDc
Since JK Rowling has blocked any reply to this litany of half-truths and transphobic dogwhistles, I thought I'd catalogue them properly here: https://t.co/vo3AsrZJLz
— 🤦♂️ Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) June 10, 2020
John Kerry is a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran who risked his life to save others and was injured in battle and also came home to speak out against an unjust war. He has more understanding of life, death, energy and, yes, fighting for freedom than CHICKEN HAWK Mike Ramirez who has never served.
John Kerry’s current position is to seek solutions to the climate crisis and, in that capacity, he has called for greater energy independence, including the user of electric vehicles.
This is an important issue, but it has little direct relevance to the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the aggression by Russia and its dictator who receives worshipful praise from Trump, Pompeo and Tucker Carlson.
Trying to tie the two together by someone like Michael Ramirez, who understands neither demonstrates the desperation and intellectual vapidity we are dealing with.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends.
If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.
Oil and gas are top products of both Russia and Ukraine, whose energy Russia covets.
Perhaps if we listened to John Kerry and plugged our electric vehicles into solar panels (as my wife and I do), we would disempower Putin and reduce the need to fight over energy which can be produced by sun, wind and other renewable sources.
Perhaps if the president from 2017 to 2021 had not been busy doing everything he could to weaken Ukraine, weaken NATO, threaten to pull out of NATO, threaten to pull our troops out of Europe, invite Putin to gatherings other world leaders kicked him out of and so many more actions designed to strengthen Russia then Russia wouldn’t be a major threat to world peace now. It is all perspective isn’t it. At the time Romney said it Russia was not a major threat or a large problem. It grew into one with the help of tRump.
You’d think that a major global tragedy like Russia invading Ukraine could tear him away from taking pot shots at Democrats for a couple of seconds. He’s taking gratuitous shots at the President during what amounts to a proxy war. Politics used to stop at the water’s edge. Whatever you think of him, by exposing Putin’s lies and tactics well before he invaded Ukraine, Biden led the free world in a more United front than Putin thought possible. Biden and his team have done a good job of wrangling a fractious alliance and putting together some very tough economic sanctions. Their decision to telegraph the intelligence that the invasion was coming took guts as well — because if Russia had pulled back they would have been accused of either lying or being hysterical. As it was, Biden and his team prepared the world for what was coming and laid the groundwork for a unified response.
I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars. There would be no NATO if I didn’t act strongly and swiftly. Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets. Let History so note!
Trump, who discussed pulling the US from NATO takes credit for NATO’s existence in a new statement. Trump, who threatened to withhold weapons funding from Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, takes credit for Ukrainian weapons in same statement. pic.twitter.com/OvyorRtHmh
-Works to get weapons to Ukraine to defend from Russia off GOP platform -Illegally withholds military aid from Ukraine -Announces plan to pull US troops from Europe -Floats leaving NATO -Praises Putin's invasion of Ukraine -Criticize US action against Russia
The events of the past week makes it clear why Donald Trump worked tirelessly to undermine NATO. When supported by the United States, the organization is the greatest bulwark against Putin’s tyranny just as it was against Soviet tyranny.
“I wanted to hamstring NATO when I was president. I tried extorting political favors from Zelensky before I would give Ukraine military aid. Anyway: I now want you to know that NATO wouldn’t exist without me and I always looked after Ukraine’s national security.” – Trump pic.twitter.com/w12eBtpI22
Congresswoman says ‘our neighbors to the north need to be liberated’, prompting widespread condemnation
Lauren Boebert said: ‘We have neighbors to the north who need freedom and you need to be liberated and we need that right here at home.’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert was condemned for comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the clearing of a truckers’ protest in Ottawa, saying: “We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated.”
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A former US ambassador to Canada called the comments “reckless” and “dangerous”.
A protest in imitation of the Canadian truckers has been making its away across the US. It is expected in Washington this week.
Anthony Housefather, a Liberal member of the Canadian parliament, told Boebert that “while it’s good that you are not following the Trump line and are standing with Ukraine instead of Putin, it is sad to hear you compare free and democratic Canada to the invasion of Ukraine.
“If you would like to learn about Canada please reach out.”
That seems unlikely. Boebert, from Colorado, is a far-right controversialist and conspiracy theorist who since being elected in 2018 has consistently sought attention through confrontation.
She was discussing the Ukraine invasion at CPAC, the conservative event in Florida, in an interview with Fox Nation hosts Pete Hegseth and Kayleigh McEnany, the latter a former White House press secretary under Donald Trump.
Trump has condemned the invasion but repeatedly praised Putin.
Boebert said: “I pray for Ukraine and I wish them the best.”
She also praised the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose response to an evacuation offer was widely reported.
“They have a great president right now who really said, clearly, ‘Live free or die’,” Boebert said, reaching for the New Hampshire state motto before paraphrasing Zelenskiy, saying: “I don’t need a ride, give me ammunition. The fight is right here.”
She continued, saying: “But we also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and you need to be liberated and we need that right here at home.”
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It was a reference to the “Freedom Convoy”, a truckers’ protest which choked downtown Ottawa this month. The protest began against vaccine mandates but morphed into a protest against the government of Justin Trudeau.
The prime minister used emergency powers to aid the effort to end the protest, which saw police and protesters clash in the snowy streets of the Canadian capital.
Many in Canada and the US reacted to Boebert’s comments with anger.
Bruce Heyman, who was US ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said the congresswoman’s remarks were “reckless, dangerous and [crossed] every line of diplomacy and decency. Boebert would have been expelled from the Republican party before Trump but [is] now the darling of CPAC.
“Canada is our best friend, best trading partner, closest ally and should be treated as such.”
Reckless, dangerous and crosses every line of diplomacy and decency. Boebert would have been expelled from the @GOP before Trump but now the darling of CPAC. Canada is our best friend-best trading partner- closest ally and should be treated as such. https://t.co/W4VJhE1ENO
As Ukrainians fight for their lives during the Russian invasion, the extremist lawmaker used their plight to nonsensically push her ideology. https://t.co/nGQCNtMoF9
Paul Gosar also spoke at far-right conference, as calls for the censure of the two Republicans ring out again
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, members of Congress who spoke at a white nationalist event in Florida this week, are “morons” with no place in the Republican party, Mitt Romney said on Sunday.
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“I’m reminded of that old line from the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie,” the Utah senator and 2012 presidential nominee told CNN’s State of the Union.
“One character says, ‘Morons. I’ve got morons on my team.’ I have to think anybody that would sit down with white nationalists and speak at their conference was certainly missing a few IQ points.”
Greene, from Georgia, and Gosar, from Arizona, spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, or AFPAC, organised by the far-right activist Nick Fuentes. Greene defended her attendance, saying she did not know Fuentes or endorse his views.
Calls for the censure of the two Republicans, familiar from previous instances of extreme behaviour, rang out again on Saturday.
Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, said: “In any other world, Greene speaking at a white supremacist conference where attendees have defended Vladimir Putin and praised Adolf Hitler would warrant expulsion from the caucus, to say nothing of her advocacy for violence and consistent antisemitism is disgusting.
“Quite simply, the longer [House Republican leader] Kevin McCarthy gives Marjorie Taylor Greene an unfettered platform and promises to elevate her, the more complicit he is.”
The Republican party chair, Ronna McDaniel, said: “White supremacy, neo-Nazism, hate speech and bigotry are disgusting and do not have a home in the Republican party.”
But McDaniel and McCarthy lead a party in which the far right is strong, former president Donald Trump its figurehead.
McDaniel is Romney’s niece, though she reportedly stopped using his name at Trump’s request. On CNN, Romney mentioned McDaniel’s statement about Greene and Gosar as well as strong words from Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican congresswoman and Trump critic.
“Talking about how repugnant these white nationalists are,” Romney said, “look, there’s no place in either political party for this white nationalism or racism. it’s simply wrong.
“Speaking of evil, it’s evil as well. And, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, I don’t know them.”
Cheney is a stringent conservative but remains at odds with her party. She was not invited to CPAC, the larger conservative event in Florida at which Trump and Greene appeared.
In video posted online, Vaughn Hillyard, a reporter for NBC, asked CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp why Greene had been invited despite her long record of extremist behavior and her participation in the white nationalist event.
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“I think it’s great that Marjorie Taylor Greene was on this stage because she was elected by her constituents to have a vote in Congress,” Schlapp said.
“[House speaker] Nancy Pelosi decided to strip her of her rights as a congressperson to serve on these committees and Twitter has decided to shut her down.”
Hillyard said: “But you’re inviting legitimacy to that white nationalist movement that was just down the road when a member of Congress from the Republican party appears at that event and you bring her here.”
Schlapp said: “I’m providing legitimacy to you and your network by being allowed to be in this room. It’s called the first amendment and you are a member of the press and you have a right to be in this room. If I had said you couldn’t come into this room, how would that make America better?”
Hillyard asked: “Did you extend an invite to Liz Cheney?”
Schlapp said: “No.”
Romney: "Marjorie Taylor Greene & Gosar, I don't know them. But I'm reminded of the old line from Butch Cassidy where one character says, 'Morons, I have morons on my team.' I think anybody who would sit down w/ white nationalists at their conference is missing a few IQ points." pic.twitter.com/sCEM2rSaxl
This is an audio only post. It does have CC and I watched it with the CC on for a while and it tracks well. The host is former Senator Al Franken. The subject is on how the right when batshit and got everything they wanted. It is how the Republican party became the tRump party. It is an important subject.
BREAKING: Amazon told union organizers at JFK8 today that they were calling the police after they delivered a pasta & grilled chicken lunch to break room.
Here is the video of NYPD showing up and arresting 3 union organizers, 2 are current employees.https://t.co/v07oFCZFKo
As I told Congress last week, Medicare for All is inevitable because current healthcare trends are unsustainable. The only real question is how much unnecessary pain, suffering, and cost Americans will have to endure before we get there. https://t.co/M1dPuZCBBL
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Imagine a supremely qualified SCOTUS nominee with two Harvard degrees with honors, a SCOTUS clerkship for the justice they'd replace, and two years as a federal judge.
(That's Chief Justice John Roberts.)
Ketanji Brown Jackson has all of that, plus seven more years as a judge.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. This is what a leader looks like. This is what courage looks like. He didn’t fake bone spurs or flee to Poland to leave his people to die. 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/2Lhk6ZBGRo
Anyone who questions why Ukraine decided to become a sovereign nation and why they don’t want to go back to being under the thumb of Russia should read this thread. @cspanwj#IStandWithUkrainehttps://t.co/nQPUd7iUhL
Kyiv now. Continuous rocket shelling. And three convoys of tanks – almost 500 in total – approaching the city from different directions. It will be hellish tonight. pic.twitter.com/pgkjvSnVT1
Russian military is bombing hospitals in Ukraine, health minister Viktor Liashko said. "This is a violation of Geneva convention, a shameful and cowardly act. Such actions by the occupiers put civilian lives in danger and contradict principles of international humanitarian law'
Thinking back on Tucker Carlson's "Has Putin ever called me a racist?" comment-it's wild how so much of the conservative culture war is just driven by being afraid of getting called bigoted.
Franklin Graham is the son of Billy Graham. Both are/were idiot charlatans.
Five Texas district attorneys pushed back on Gov. Greg Abbott's directive in which he called gender-transitioning and affirming procedures as "child abuse." https://t.co/PXLfcmaBcl
The governor of Texas wants parents who support their trans kids to be prosecuted for "child abuse."
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Attorney general Paxton's opinion and Governor Abbott's letter have no legal effect, can't change Texas law, and can't override the constitutional rights of Texas families.
No court anywhere in the country has ever found that gender-affirming care can be considered child abuse. https://t.co/D8F7rfELdV
Getting a little worrisome how much the right wing is embracing "the West was weakened by our failure to oppress trans people" as a narrative right now pic.twitter.com/Q0HlozOalo
It is 100% repackaged homophobia by the way. When gay marriage was the big culture war issue the reactionary talking point was all about how men and women procreate and same sex couples don't so homosexuality isn't "scientifically justified".
Right wing media is split with some praising Putin and others are mocking the invasion to slam Biden. None of them seem to care about the people of Ukraine.
SKelley thinks Biden is responsible for the global rise in gas prices.
Notice that the US isn’t even near the middle of the list.
Also, another cheap shot at the polls, when he hasn’t even gotten close to the Last Occupant yet.
Rising petroleum prices are simply an inevitable consequence of dependence on a finite commodity. Every bit of oil taken out of the ground is that much less oil left in the ground. Duh.
Hopefully it becomes inevitable that nowadays any country invading another one, even if it’s next door, it turns into a quagmire that the invader loses. Problem with “explosions in Moscow” is that those would be followed by “explosions in New York and Washington D.C. “. Anybody really want that?
For those wondering what this is about last night I had finally had it. After weeks of patience mine was gone with the rabid right wingers. Two in particular, who simply ignore any evidence, lie, misinform, misdirect, and When backed into a corner move the goal post. Everything they disagree with is fake news and what ever they want to believe is fact. They are pushing conspiracies about everything and there is no nuance or shades of grey with them. They feel that all Democrats are one block out to destroy the country, rape the kids, and do all the evil. Republicans in their view are both the strongest people in the world and being cancelled while being pushed around by the tyrannical left. They make no sense and when I point that out that they have conflicted themself I am an evil liar out to destroy the US. Putin is right yet Biden is a weak doddering fool for not stopping him. Yes that was in the same paragraph. I told them both off, not that it did any good and now I am simply refusing to engage with them. While I am busy it seems all they do is spend time in the right wing comic sections picking fight non-stop. So denying them engagement is the best thing to hurt them.
Failed humans think wage suppression and labor exploitation are acceptable.
News has become clickbait for ratings.
Fascists of a feather.
Trump’s sycophantic idolatry is pathetic.
Trump has been on Team Russia for decades.
The weakest POS in the world: Trump
Russian owns the Republican Party.
Republicans are spineless swine, cemented minds.
Russia owns the Republican cowards.
People who attack Ukraine and people who attack the Capitol share the same leader.
We need an education revolution. We need more solidarity with our teachers. We need to counter reactionary parents and their cowardly agenda.
The sad thing is, for two years, we have been watching people crying and saying goodbye to loved ones that they will not see again… because someone didn’t wear a mask.
There’s no debate: FOX is a sister station for Russian state media.
NYPD does not need that much money. Defund and redistribute. Lower poverty. Lower crime.
Fascism is central to Republican politics.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Russia invades Ukraine and we get this. Takes a special kind of ass to post this “toon” today as scores of lives are lost to Putin’s evil. He is so much worse than Putin. What’s next making restaurant workers wash their hands? How can we let this happen, we should attack Canada now to protect those poor truckers.
A few truckers, many antivax, QAnon conspiracy mongers and some funding from a foreign country (USA) were blocking major infrastructure / economy and major cities. The vast majority of Canadians did NOT support the idiots. The idiots brought 18 wheelers and were having a party. THis was NOT lawful protests. They were warned, warned again and then they were removed.
Oh…by the way, where are your Russian v Ukranian strips? Tell us the truth about a real situation of WAR!!!!
I can’t tell you the current sanctions regime will succeed, the the Trumpservative insistence that economic sanctions can’t work is ridiculous. The 1970s Arab oil embargo was nothing more of less than a regime of economic sanctions against the U.S. For its support of Israel in the 1973 war. It crippled the U.S. economy for nearly a decade and forced permanent policy changes.
Uneducated ignoramus Lisa Benson’s minimizing extremely severe sanctions as a “ding in a credit score” smacks of the same ignorant aid to our enemies as Trump praising his puppet master Putin’s war crimes as “savvy genius” for just “walking in” and taking over a “whole country” for the price of a “two dollar sanction.”
How ignorant does someone have to be not to understand the unprecedented step of massive sanctions on an unprecedented scale, going far beyond what any president has dared to impose in the past, and coordinated with virtually all European nations as well as many others, including international assets frozen (how will Mar-a-Lago make payroll?) for Russia as a nation, all the top OILigarchs as well as Putin himself (an unprecedented move), cutting off access to the international banking system, and further restrictions to trade and technology as well as direct sanctions on Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and the top OILigarchs?
Trump basically reduces war crimes to a real estate deal and both he and Lisa completely misrepresent these severe, unprecedented sanctions that will impose real pain.
The real question is, why are these people peddling such perverse misinformation for the purpose of supporting our enemies over our own government and our allies?
This was a cartoon on the misleading right wing media today. Gas prices were low because the demand for gas was very low with the world closed down and the factories not running. Now the world is opened up again. That is much better for the world to be up and running. The economy was slowing down and showing signs or regression in early 2019 as the fuel from the 2017 tax give away to the wealthy was burned through. Rather than invest that money in the country or more capacity the corporations spent it on stock buy backs and raising dividends. The US is as energy independent as it ever has been. That situation has not changed just the price of fuel has risen. Do you think US oil doesn’t rise when the rest of the worlds oil cost is rising? The US is still a net exporter. The borders are secure. Nothing has changed at the southern border. Those coming across it illegally are apprehended and deported. Those seeking asylum are being housed illegally in Mexico, and those seeking asylum with families are vetted given, court dates, and monitored in the country. tRump praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and called Putin a genius for doing it. China is still in check , nothing has changed.
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John Kerry is a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran who risked his life to save others and was injured in battle and also came home to speak out against an unjust war. He has more understanding of life, death, energy and, yes, fighting for freedom than CHICKEN HAWK Mike Ramirez who has never served.
John Kerry’s current position is to seek solutions to the climate crisis and, in that capacity, he has called for greater energy independence, including the user of electric vehicles.
This is an important issue, but it has little direct relevance to the Ukrainian war of self-defense against the aggression by Russia and its dictator who receives worshipful praise from Trump, Pompeo and Tucker Carlson.
Trying to tie the two together by someone like Michael Ramirez, who understands neither demonstrates the desperation and intellectual vapidity we are dealing with.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends.
If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.
Oil and gas are top products of both Russia and Ukraine, whose energy Russia covets.
Perhaps if we listened to John Kerry and plugged our electric vehicles into solar panels (as my wife and I do), we would disempower Putin and reduce the need to fight over energy which can be produced by sun, wind and other renewable sources.