Day: February 12, 2024

More Aid? Really?

Warning:  This is my take on the situation in the Senate and will most likely contain words that some may find offensive….you have been warned and maybe pass this post by if you are easily offended.

Our crackerjack Senate is spending a lot of time trying to hammer out a deal for more air to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan….looks like they are close to a deal (for now)….

The Senate on Sunday took another step toward passing a $95 billion foreign military aid bill that includes funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

The Senate worked through the weekend to deliberate the legislation and voted 67-26 in a procedural vote to move it forward. The chamber held a similar vote last Thursday to deliberate on the legislation, which also passed with 67 votes in favor.

The final vote is expected to happen sometime this week, but it’s unclear when that will happen as Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continues to vow to do anything he can to delay it.

Paul said he would hold out until “hell freezes over” and indicated he would delay the vote by speaking about the national debt on the Senate floor.

“I love to talk,” Paul said, according to CNN. “That’s one of my favorite things to do. Yes, and I slept all day yesterday waiting for this. I’m going to take Adderall — nah, I’m just kidding.”

According to NBC News, Paul estimated on Sunday that a final vote would likely be held on Tuesday or Wednesday after he exhausts his ability to delay it.

If all 100 senators agreed to hold a final vote, it would happen much more quickly. Proponents of the bill believe that the procedural vote is a preview of the final vote, so they expect it to ultimately pass.

“I think we’re going to pass this spending bill for Ukraine. We’ve already moved past several procedural hurdles that require 60 votes. I think there will be 60 votes in the end,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT).

The bill is what’s left after Democrats stripped border provisions from a $118 billion piece of legislation that was negotiated with Republicans. Senate Republicans initially agreed on the deal, but later came out against it once it became clear it wouldn’t make it through the House. At this point, it’s unclear if the $95 billion foreign military aid bill will be brought to a vote in the House.

(antiwar.com)

My take on this and it is my opinion like it or not….

I have had enough of Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan….Congress has taken too much fucking time on this issue….

Where is the concern that was promised by the Dems for the price of meds for Seniors?

What part of this fucking deal has any implications for the average peasant sitting at home wondering if he should feed the kids or get his meds?

I say fuck everything else work on improving Americans lives and benefits before throwing money away on some shithole across the pond.

I know there is always the House that could prevent this deal but would that help you or me?

Besides special interests have deep pockets and large wallets so they can get whatever they want from the slugs in Congress.

I have had enough of these fuckers!

Did you vote for these scrotum lickers to throw your money away and ignore your situation?

(You were warned….sorry if you were offended but some things need to be said and said with gusto)

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

America’s Newest ‘Useful Idiot’

(I should have posted this last week but I just did not have the desire but then I thought the readers should know what a fool looks like.  I wrote this the day after the interview and could not decide when to publish….so here it is.)

Very soon dictionaries will a picture of this person to define the term ‘useful idiot’…..and that person is Tucker Carlson.

A few days ago the former FOX blowhard was granted an interview with his high highness Vlad the Invader….and it went about as most everybody thought it would go….

Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich during the interview with the Russian leader that aired Thursday, but he did little else to challenge Putin during a two-hour talk at the Kremlin that began with Putin delivering a very long lecture on Russian history. Four takes on Putin’s first interview with a Western journalist since the invasion of Ukraine:

Putin was “fully in charge.” Carlson’s “fixed, fascinated expression slipped a few times,” especially while Putin talked about history going back to the 9th century in an attempt to justify Russian claims to eastern Ukraine, writes Sarah Rainsford at the BBC. “But for the most part, Carlson seemed to lap up what Russia’s president was telling him,” she writes. “Putin was fully in charge of this encounter and for large parts of it his interviewer barely got a word in.” Rainsford notes that none of Putin’s statements were “challenged in essence” and Carlson made no attempt to address Russian war crimes in Ukraine. David Folkenflik at NPR writes that Putin “appeared to have done opposition research worthy of the KGB agent he once was. He needled Carlson at separate moments about having been a history major and having applied (unsuccessfully) for a position at the Central Intelligence Agency.”

A win for Kremlin propagandists. Eva Hartog and Sergey Goryashko at Politico say the interview was a win for the Kremlin, with Carlson “failing to extract any stirring insights into the Russian president’s actual war aims” and Putin taking “full advantage of the opportunity to plant seeds of doubt about America’s aid for Ukraine and the US political system.” They note that anyone “who can dent Putin’s armor is kept lightyears away from the president.”

An “olive branch to the West.” Anton Troianovski at the New York Times sees the interview, in which Putin called for the US to “make an agreement” to end the war by allowing Russia to remain in control of territory it has seized, as an “olive branch to the West.” The “uncharacteristically restrained” Putin did not resort to his usual “fiery rhetoric” when Carlson asked about Russia’s defense of “traditional values,” he notes. Putin said there’s “nothing wrong” with the Western way of doing things, which he described as more “pragmatic,” while Russians “think more about the eternal, about moral values.”

  • Carlson’s “not exactly sure” what he thought. After the interview, Carlson said he was surprised by the history lecture. “I’m not exactly sure what I thought of the interview,” Carlson said in a video posted on his website. “It’s going to take me a year to decide what that was.” He said Putin seemed sincere. “Putin is not someone who does a lot of interviews. He is not good at explaining himself,” Carlson said, per the Washington Post. “But he’s clearly spending a lot of time in a world where he doesn’t have to explain himself.” He said that while Putin denied it, it’s “obvious he’s very wounded by the rejection of the West.”

Semafor reports that Carlson also met with two Americans during his time in Moscow. He spent hours with NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday and also taped an interview with Tara Reade, who, during the 2020 campaign, accused then-presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her when she was a Senate aide in 1993.

Carlson proved to me that he was the very definition of a ‘useful idiot’ and what is more he does not know what a fool he looked like.

But do not take my word for it….here is a transcript of the interview……

https://www.miragenews.com/full-text-transcript-of-tucker-carlson-putin-1171489/

Is there anybody that still thinks Carlson is a credible information source?

What say you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”