Thursday, September 21, 2023

IMPEACHING JOE BIDEN . [ should be over the Ukraine War]


ARE we ready for Joe Biden impeachment ?
Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, propelling Congress toward a long-shot effort to remove the Democratic president following two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
CAN McCarthy survive a government 
shutdown ???




Impeaching Joe Biden is a BIG THING but I can say ... IT'S ONLY FAIR .  (1)>>Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy has announced a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden claiming they have unearthed a "culture of corruption" surrounding the president.The inquiry will focus on accusations of improper business dealings on the part of the president's son, Hunter Biden, and on whether the president benefited from his son's business dealings.  In a memorandum released in early August, the House Oversight Committee claimed that evidence suggested that the Biden family and their business associates had received more than $20m (£16m) in payments from foreign sources in countries including China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia and Romania. The committee's chairman, Kentucky Republican James Comer, has said - without substantial evidence - that Hunter Biden "sold" his father - then Barack Obama's vice-president - as a "brand" to "reap millions from oligarchs". Impeaching Joe Biden , this is  (2)>>NOT THE REASON . LET ME EXPLAIN .  While the "focus " has been to politically criminally prosecute Donald TRUMP. The Biden criminal investigations with everything that has been alleged about Hunter was pretty much swept under the rug by the FBI and worse the DOJ covered up any wrong doing on the part of the Biden's in order that Biden might get elected in 2020 . It's all theater for mush brains. Hunter seems to be a shady dude, they are attempting to link  (3)>>Biden to his dealings with Ukraine . There's is LOT  of evidence of that, but it doesn't really matter NOW. If they find evidence, I'm with them. These people should be held accountable and rarely ever are. Elites like the CLINTONS &  typically get away with everything, play by different rules than us. Going after TRUMP was nothing but a distraction away from the real criminals .It would be hypocritical not to. If Biden was just as corrupt as  claims about Trump, it would seem politically biased to only convict one. The law is a law for all. (4)>>Trump was the political punching bag since he became President , the Democrats hated the fact that he was elected . Biden is like the icing on a cake if you trust our election system , that the same people that were after Trump winning in 2016 , would have tried to distract the public over their own guy : Joe Biden ???Oh lawd thus again. I really wish this old misinformation would die.Alright here the facts, the Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was pro Russia, corrupt, and Ukraine plus the western allies wanted him gone because he wouldn't investigate corruption. (5)>>To recap, yes Biden did brag about getting the prosecutor fired. However Biden was acting as a agent of the United States, in his role as Vice President. It was part of US foreign policy, and had the backing of the EU, and Ukraine. It wasn't about Shokin investigating Burisma. Shokin was fired for not doing his job, investigating corruption, and for being pro Russian.And: having a gun illegally; being a foreign agent illegally, not paying taxes, having a job created for you and getting millions for what? Laundering money received from the Chinese which he was giving to the big man (Biden used various secret names) and other family members; receiving money from the Chinese for political influence (Biden too); there are many other highly illegal things I can't think of right now?????
Biden and Ukraine War ...Yes , Impeach him for that .
The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is not just about Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden.  (6)>>The laptop is the smoking gun... but there is no body. There isn't anything to suggest that Biden did anything that wasn't in line with US policy before and after. Remember the nonsense about Hillary and the Russian uranium company? Five other governmental departments signed off on the deal, but they had to bribe Clinton? The suggestion here is that for the sake of Hunter, Biden did something that was fully and vocally supported by the leaders of Europe, the World Bank, the IMF, etc. Again, there is no unexpected decision, no strange behavior. There is no body!  (7)>>BUT THERE IS A WAR GOING ON , RIGHT ? Here is what I said in a past BLOG post of mine  [ https://theun-politics.blogspot.com/2023/05/time-to-impeach-joe-biden.html  ]  BUT in REALITY Biden should be impeached for nearly ignoring the debt ceiling , wrecking the economy , the border crisis and most of all pushing a all out proxy war using Ukraine to fight Russia [ 180 billion dollars and counting, Getting the dollar removed as the world's reserve currency could be the best thing to happen. It may be the only way to end the crazy spending. ]  and bringing on the brink of nuclear war.  (8)>>IF the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN deadline comes, the economy crashes.It's JOE BIDEN that should be held responsible.Even those issues would be better than his actual foci: enabling drag shows, reimplementing racial segregation with a twist of sexuality mixed in, and supporting a money-grab laundering scheme...Linked to Ukraine  I mean... A WAR WORTH FIGHTING over a disputed border on the exact other side of the worldHow serious is the White House about reining in inflation and deficits? Biden's economy is a massive failure .  With out of control inflation & military spending towards UKR hit the debt ceiling to max 33 trillion dollars ! 
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN !?
The president’s pivot toward deficit reduction brings no actual new savings proposals. Let’s check the record. When President Biden was inaugurated, the Congressional Budget Office projected $14.5 trillion in baseline budget deficits between 2021 and 2031.Two years later, the CBO now projects $20.5 trillion in deficits over the same decade. (9)>>There is nothing Biden can do without looking weak. If McCarthy wants to bring down the ship so be it, it's a Republican torpedo that will do the damage. Cutting the social programs McCarthy is asking for will only make the Democratic position seem weak against the good of the people. The debt ceiling is a political creation that is unnecessary and should be eliminated. Raising taxes on the wealthy is the best way to reduce the deficit (though I don't like a wealth tax). However, I think Yellen has a point -- there will be negative economic effects (higher borrowing costs and lower economic growth) if Biden goes this route. How bad will they be? Don't know. With careful management of government bill paying, Yellen can minimize these effects. Future fuel the Republicans will use against Biden. It's a catch 22 scenario. Since Biden is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't let the  (10)>>blame fall on McCarthy and his ridiculous refusal to do for the Democrats what they previously did for the Republicans.But if I’m being realistic, that’s what I think will happen, if he even gets impeached in the first place. (On this sub to at least try to understand the other side)."It doesn't matter that he's created a humanitarian disaster, shaken the confidence of international allies and weakened America's diplomatic leverage on the world, he did what he said he would which is all that matters in the end." Several prominent Republicans, including Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, called on  (11)>>Biden to resign and raised the prospect of impeachment.


NOTES AND COMMENTS :

(1)>>Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy has announced a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.  They aren’t really pretending anything. Ben Shapiro called it “mutually assured destruction” on his show and basically said that this is at least partially about Republicans using impeachment as a weapon of political warfare. His thesis was essentially “Democrats impeached Trump for no reason twice, so they created the standard of using impeachment as a political cudgel, and now Republicans are hitting them back”. He seemed to agree that that’s an appropriate thing to do. The idea that Trump’s impeachments were just done for no reason is obviously silly, but that’s what he said, and that’s what it’s all about. “Turnabout is fair play”, to quote him.  In a stunning move that has sent shockwaves through the political landscape, Kevin McCarthy has announced that the House will proceed with a formal impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden. This announcement comes after months of House Republicans uncovering serious and...... credible allegations into Biden’s conduct, alleging a culture of corruption. BUT it's too damn late ???That so far only allegations, made by Republican leaders, of President Biden's criminality exist and are being used by those same Representatives instead of evidence have been presented.They want it to be about revenge. Their base thinks the government is corrupt and that it uses its powers against republicans. So republicans are trying to blatantly show that they can use the government powers regardless of how corrupt the nature is. Both sides is valid. Impeach him and then decide if any wrong doing is worth kicking him out of office. Proving it true doesn't mean removal. (but might prove Trump was right to ask Ukraine about corruption in regards to Joe Biden, thus his impeachment was a sham). (2)>>NOT THE REASON . LET ME EXPLAIN .BUT in REALITY  Biden should be impeached for nearly ignoring the debt ceiling , wrecking the economy , the border crisis and most of all pushing a all out proxy war using Ukraine to fight Russia [ 180 billion dollars and counting, Getting the dollar removed as the world's reserve currency could be the best thing to happen. It may be the only way to end the crazy spending. ]  and bringing on the brink of nuclear war. IF the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN deadline comes , the economy crashes.It's JOE BIDEN that should be held responsible. Biden has gone AWOL on the U.S. Economy . Biden's been a lot more of a Dark Brandon than I ever expected from him, but I keep worrying about him backsliding to the guy who thinks we shouldn't get rid of the filibuster because it would cause chaos in the Senate... Let it default and let's get this shit show on the road to full collapse so we can exile the Fascists and rebuild. What a sad dystopia we live in, where our last vestige of hope for our future lies with the profit consideration of the right donors bribing the correct people. (3)>>Biden to his dealings with Ukraine . There's is LOT  of evidence .61% of Americans believe that Biden was directly involved in his son Hunter's shady business dealings with Ukraine & China during Biden’s tenure as Vice President of Obama. Democrats need to find someone else if they really want to defeat Trump.The invasion at our border alone is enough to impeach Joe Biden, not counting all his other crooked dealings with Ukraine, Russia, China, Romania & several other countries! But you have to ask, just what was Joe Biden selling those country's for all those billions of dollars? Which lie is the White House counsel referring to? Biden’s multiple lies when he said he never talked to his son about his business dealings? Never met with Hunters partners? Or that Hunter never made any money from China or Ukraine?Looks like Biden’s DOJ have found three lesser charges to indict Hunter with that distracts from his & his fathers dodgy BIG GUY dealings in Ukraine and China.That’s hugely surprising.Said no reasonable person. Crooked bastards.seen how this shit would have turned out.Anybody knowing of Biden's business dealings with Ukraine [ current war proxy war funding] should have known he couldn't be trusted to handle that crisis unbiasedly, without dedicating the entire American government to helping Ukraine because they gave his son a made up job in a oil company .Remember when the righteous Joe Biden was bragging about not sending a billion dollars to Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ if Burisma didn’t fired a lawyer who was raising the fact that Joe and his sons had dealings with Ukraine and Burisma and then bragged about it in WEF.(4)>>Trump was the political punching bag since he became President , the Democrats hated the fact that he was elected I can’t believe how many have fallen for the crap. This is the 21st century people need to realize it’s not about race. No one looks at skin color anymore. We define who people are by their acts & humanity. Trump was loved by Oprah before he ran for President. Democrats hate him because he can’t be bought!!100% of Democrats hate President Trump. 98% of Establishment Republicans hate President Trump.Why?100% of Dems are brainwashed. 98% of Establishment Repubs realize that if Trump gets back into power - all of their corrupt games are over, and most of them are headed to prison.There is a difference. A big difference. Impeaching Trump was based in the democrats party hate of him. A hatred that was so blind that "anything will do to make him look bad"... Possible Impeachment of Biden is based in ACTUAL facts. Things that can actually be proven if government agencies wouldn't stonewall investigations. Actual crimes being committed. ACTUAL bribery. ACTUAL corruption. They had none of that with Trump. You couldn't be more wrong on this. 5)>>To recap, yes Biden did brag about getting the prosecutor fired. Why would Joe Biden threaten to withhold $1 billion to Ukraine unless the Ukrainian prosecutor actively probing Hunter Biden was fired? DOJ/FBI covered up the Biden crimes. WHO participated in the attempted cover up? Who let statue of limitations run on tax charges? Get them all under oath!!Shokin was refusing to investigate corruption at Burisma and other companies. The US and our European allies pressured to get him fired because he WASN’T doing his job. Hmmmm. Victor Shokin — the top Ukraine prosecutor whom then-Veep Joe Biden got fired in March 2016 for alleged malfeasance — sure was popular with the rest of the Obama administration. That love shines through in newly unearthed documents: [ πŸ‘‰https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf  ] On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with his son’s business partner, Devon Archer, at the White House. Five days later, Vice President Biden visited Ukraine, and he soon after was described in the press as the “public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine.” The day after his visit, on April 22, Archer joined the board of Burisma. Six days later, on April 28, British officials seized $23 million from the London bank accounts of Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. Fourteen days later, on May 12, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, and over the course of the next several years, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch for their participation on the board.When rumors started to buzz in-country that further aid money was tied to Shokin’s ouster, the agency responded with a literal “Yikes.”Amazing how the MSM refuse to see that this was an actual “Quid Pro Quo” where Biden LITERALLY told the President of Ukraine if he didn’t fire the prosecutor investigating Hunters company they would not get the aid that 2ad already approved by Congress.. Now these e mails show that everyone on the Obama team loved the job the prosecutor was doing rooting out corruption. Sleepy Joe did what he had to in making sure it didn’t get out that Burisma paid the Biden’s including Joe 5-10 million. I’ll lay 1000-1 that MSNBC and CNN etc do nothing on this Seems like Ukraine is still getting billions more and extorting the Biden administration to hide the corruption him and his son were involved in Ukraine.(6)>>The laptop is the smoking gun... but there is no body.President Biden and White House communication spokesperson have long maintained the president did not know about Hunter Biden’s international business dealings. But messages have surfaced showing that the president discussed Hunter Biden’s business.  What I find interesting about the discovery of Hunter Biden’s “abandoned” laptop is the parallel “discovery” of the personal diary of the Bidens’ daughter, also purportedly abandoned in a former temporary residence. A personal computer and a personal diary are normally items of great value to their owners, unlikely to be abandoned. Yet here we have stories that two of the Biden children either forgot or abandoned these valuable personal properties, both of which quickly ended up in the hands of Republican operatives. Why would two Biden children forget about or consciously abandon valuable items of personal property? Both were dealing with drug issues. Is that the explanation? Hunter Biden was indicted in September 2023 for three counts related to the gun purchase. Hunter Biden's lawyers are arguing that the DOJ already agreed to and signed a pretrial diversion agreement, and that when the DOJ had brought the charge to the plea agreement hearing they had referred to it as an agreement that was already in place and was not part of what the court was signing off on that day. Hunter Biden has admitted to using drugs during the general time that he purchased a gun and filled out the form, including writing about it in his memoir. The prosecution also might run into issues with the law being unconstitutional, because some courts have ruled that drug use alone does not negate a citizen's 2nd Amendment rights. The Ukrainians weren’t half as corrupt until the Bidens came on the scene. Biden couldn’t have countermanded “Team Obama” without their consent. Is “the big guy” still getting his “ten per cent? Joe Biden prioritized Hunter's illegal and wildy profitable grifts over Ukraine's security and economy. It’s actually more interesting than it sounds like, because Hunter Biden’s laptop is arguably the worst laptop Apple ever made. It was such a hunk of junk that it eventually cost Apple a $50 million settlement (more about that later). If you haven’t been following this, Hunter Biden is a guy who made a lot of money and took a lot of drugs — sort of like Kid Rock without the hat. He’s also the son of President Joe Biden, or no one would give a flyin’ fig about his laptop. But apparently, some people do, because there have been entire books written about it.I would assume Hunter, drugged up or not, would take it somewhere less shady - like a name/chain store rather than a mom and pop computer shop run by a blind man. And he’s not a poor man by any means if he was making the $$$ from that energy company they say he was - doesn’t he have someone other than himself to do this or ask to help out? No. “I am presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, oh blind man. Can you help me with my laptop?”(7)>>BUT THERE IS A WAR GOING ON , RIGHT ?Biden claimed to be the guy to end forever wars. His main legacy is the Ukraine war now expected to go on for 7 years. But don’t worry, then the nation-building can really begin!Media during Trump "Russia! Russia! Russia! *Richest woman in Russia wires Hunter Biden $3 million, Joe Biden has dinner with her at Cafe Milano, and then leaves her off the sanctions list when Ukraine war begins* Media: "There's just no evidence the Bidens did anything wrong." Now we have a Proxy war that looks like a big scam with lots of dead Ukrainians who are sent to the front lines in the east .While billions pour into the Ukrainian mafia's coffers . The media wants to pretend that there's no corruption in the Biden family. They've betted on that pony, and if it's shown just how corrupt many suspect that they are, the main stream media may never recover. They've already slid into one of the most un-truthworthy professions in the western world.(8)>>IF the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN deadline comes, the economy crashes.  Just months after averting a catastrophic US default, President Joe Biden once again finds himself girding for a brawl with Republicans over the federal budget. Congress failed to resolve differences over annual spending bills before leaving town for August, raising the odds of a government shutdown after funding runs out on Sept. 30. Politically, there’s both risk and opportunity for the president.A prolonged fight could dent the US economy.But Zelensky will be pushing for another round of 200 billion dollars .  They will shut down the government for attention in the Republican echosphere. They may attempt to cut Ukrainian aid for the same reason. Instead of wasting money on a war that might last for "years". It's the biggest, greatest shutdown of all time folks! Of all time! The Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate are at a budget impasse once again, which could lead to a government shutdown at the end of the month. A group of conservative and mainstream House Republicans reportedly worked out an agreement over the weekend to fund the government through October through a continuing resolution, but it appears that some far-right House Freedom Caucus members are panning the deal. A few are even arguing that a government shutdown might not be a bad idea if helps get some of their demands passed. Indeed, Donald Trump made exactly this point in his recent NBC interview. They’re almost certainly wrong.  The obstacles are piling up: House Republicans are skeptical of any new money at all. What’s more, their dysfunction threatens to push the government into a shutdown — a move that certainly gets Zelenskyy no closer to getting the billions requested by the Biden administration. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are divided over whether to continue providing humanitarian aid, arguing the rest of Europe needs to step up.It's the long play! Run the economy into the ground. Declare bankruptcy.  Send more money to UKR & Start a new government under a different name. Profit!(/s for the sarcasm impaired). (9)>>There is nothing Biden can do without looking weak.  He's the oldest President ever, he's so old that he literally has difficultly speaking. I've seen videos of him 20 years ago and the difference in how he talks is outstanding, we cannot trust 70+ year olds to run this country when they're so out of touch with the modern world and the younger generations  Our enemies around the world are on the march as they witness the weakness of Joe Biden. When America is weak, our world is less safe. We must restore American strength and not cower to our adversaries! Biden is old and feeble, he also grossly misrepresented his intentions during the campaign. Trump is an imbecile barely capable of coherent thought, this is the only reason Biden defeated him. They're both puppets controlled by the same corporate masters like the vast majority of elected representatives in America.Between us paying $6 billion for Iran hostages, a draining war in Ukraine, gas prices soaring, UAW strike and now the threat of stagflation….It sure feels like Carter is running the show. I mean, he can’t - he’s too old and too weak - but then again, So is Biden? So WHO is running the country you might ask? Perhaps the husband of the candidate they’d really like to run in 24? (Tho Kamala WON’T be happy!). (10)>>blame fall on McCarthy and his ridiculous refusal to do for the Democrats what they previously did for the Republicans.  The Speaker said he did not make the decision “lightly”, but insisted that the probe was needed in light of allegations of a “culture of corruption” at the heart of the White House driven by the president’s alleged involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter Biden. McCarthy after he struck a deal with President Biden over the summer to raise the debt limit and avoid a default, which analysts and experts said would have been catastrophic for the economy.But amid pressure from hard-line conservatives to cut spending, House Republicans crafted appropriations bills at levels far lower than those laid out in the bipartisan deal — a move that frustrated Democrats — and added policy changes that would be red lines for liberals.Then came McCarthy’s move to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden, which Democrats say has put how the caucus handles a vote on his ouster up in the air. A government closure is increasingly likely as time runs out for Congress to act. McCarthy’s bid to move ahead with a traditionally popular defense funding bill. Top Democrats say they have not formulated a strategy for handling such a vote, dismissing questions as hypothetical and insisting that they are focused on funding the government and averting a shutdown ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.(11)>>Biden to resign . Additionally, Joe Biden denied that he was there when the text was sent..Is this a joke?Yeah, of course he denied it. What else would he do?Admit to high crimes and treason?You do realize why milk and eggs are so expensive, right? It's because Biden is soliciting the military industrial complex and the federal reserve to aid a country which he directly profited from, going back to the Obama administration.So do we believe the “lying” president Biden or the lying, drug addict, and felon Biden who was recently convicted of LYING to purchase a gun? Hmm that’s a tough one.Hunter oversaw the funding and construction of multiple biolabs in Ukraine. He has also negotiated deals with numerous European energy companies, like Burisma.Even if we assume for the moment that Hunter is somehow an incompetent idiot, his dad had a direct hand in placing him in those positions. We know this because we have emails, bank statements and text messages, all as a matter of congressional record, indicating that they've been doing this shit for 13+ years.Don't get caught up in the Red versus Blue, Republican versus Democrat partisan hackery. Regardless of whether or not you're a democrat, Biden's decisions are not a reflection of you as a person, and you shouldn't feel ashamed simply because you voted for a guy who did this kind of stuff.Why this matters to everyone, me and you, is that the Biden administration purposefully censored the voices of ordinary citizens who spoke out about his corruption. For example, the Hunter Laptop story was labeled as "russian disinformation", and huge swaths of people had the boot of the government come down on their necks to keep the story silent before the 2020 election.Deprivation of rights via the government doesn't only affect one person. If the fed is comfortable with depriving one person of their rights, then they are willing to do it to all of us, you included. You need to see this situation for what it is and speak up about it.


Monday, September 11, 2023

Antony Blinken BIG UKRAINE HYPOCRISY !


U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken,visits the 
gravesite of the Ukrainian Army fallen .
Blinken has blood on his hands , these men and women
died in a US led Proxy war , not in the
interests of the Ukrainian people.


Secretary of (1)>>State Antony Blinken says that America intervened in the war to uphold a fundamental principle of sovereignty. Appearing at a United States Senate hearing on April 26, 2022, two months into the war, he said about Ukraine’s bid to join NATO or the European Union, which President Putin cites as one reason to attack Ukraine: “These are sovereign decisions for European countries to make... but this goes to the heart of the international system and the international order. And part of that is a basic principle that one country can’t dictate to another the choices it makes about with whom it allies, its foreign policies, or its decision or not to try to engage with the European Union with NATO.” WE can say that the  (1.2)>>United States Government , its elite leaders have BLOOD on their hands and exposing them to the American Public is the right thing . If the US stops supplying weapons to Ukraine, the war will stop. It is the US that is using Ukraine to fight a proxy war. Ukrainians died because of the interests of the US, not for their own country. U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken, who is on a visit to Ukraine, visited the cemetery where the Ukrainian servicemen who have died in the war are buried,.  (2)>>Good progress?  Blinken, praised the results of the graves of these people.  Inspecting the effects of the Washington proxy war policy: til' the last Ukrainian.I can’t believe even Ukraine are happy with this ‘progress’. Wasn’t the objective to actually capture Crimea by the end of the year? Thousands of dead Ukrainians , about 500,000  is the estimate . ALL those men who gave their lives in a proxy way died for NATO , not for the soil of Crimea . (3)>>These poor Ukrainians dying are fighting Russian for America,nothing else and Blinkin has blood on his hands for not even trying to  (4)>>END THIS INSANE WAR!. There would never have been a war if the US had agreed that Ukraine would never join NATO and Ukraine had abided by the Minsk agreements. The blood is on your hands, champ. (4.1)>>The war dead will continue to grow in Ukraine as long as American taxpayer money continue to fund this war .We now know that the (5)>>insane puppet Zelensky is throwing untrained civilians to fight his war for the United States . Utterly bizarre how many people are 'shocked' at the idea that a major conventional war would last longer than a year, and there was no clear winner by 10 months in well golly we better just throw in the towel. As far as I'm aware, we haven't yet sent anything to Ukraine under the latest lend-lease act. Everything we're sending up to this point is through the presidential drawdown and security assistance program, which is better for Ukraine than land-lease because they don't have to return the equipment or pay us back. The new lend-lease act that was passed last May (and technically started last October) is really just there for the president in case Congress decides not to approve funds to Ukraine, and it's quite different from the WWII era program.Regardless, we're sending both equipment (some of which is not that old) and money (financial grants to help keep the government running). It's the right thing to do for a variety of reasons. Antony Blinken unveiled another $1 billion in military and civilian aid for Ukraine on Wednesday as he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an unannounced visit to  (6)>>Kyiv.A billion here, a billion there...  Any country in 1st world country would have already been planning an exit plan and trying to do damage control at home. Vietnam. Afghanistan both times. Every country involved in both world wars. Bombing and killing the civilian population never works. It just makes them angrier and determined to keep fighting regardless of how things on the ground turn out.Also nuclear bombing isn't comparable. If that happened today it would just trigger an intervention. NOW continuing the slaughter and suffering both in Ukraine and at home is not necessarily a shock but I do think it's a bit surprising. I think many players, especially in Europe, thought even Putin would draw a line somewhere that he wouldn't cross. Turns out they were wrong. The question is what is the West willing to do to shorten and win this war? If nothing more than what it is doing now,then we will have a stalemate of attrition, which Putin will win.And all the casualties will have been wasted. Some third party has to negotiate a ceasefire with all warring parties staying in place. Just like in Korea.  At what point do we just call it what it is; a massive fraud perpetrated on the American People?


NOTES AND COMMENTS ::(1)>>State Antony Blinken says that America intervened in the war to uphold a fundamental principle of sovereignty.With that in mind, when President Biden talks of the moral imperative of democracies challenging the Russian autocracy, it is all too likely to fall on deaf ears. People simply contrast the president’s stance on Putin’s regime with Western links to autocracies worldwide, not least in the Middle East and North Africa. Some would argue that the West’s more recent war, its sustained air assault on ISIS in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2018, successfully destroyed the group. But even that ‘success’ is now looking tarnished, as ISIS survives and remains active in both countries and, along with other extreme paramilitaries, is entrenched across the Sahel, has a presence in Mozambique and the DRC, impacts on Kenya and Uganda, and has links with groups in Somalia.And this is not to mention the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the US sponsorship of countless Latin American dictatorships that collectively killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing workers and young people.Three months ago, the US and NATO leaders met in Vilnius, Lithuania, posturing as a “summit of victors” who had just launched a massive military counteroffensive that would inflict a devastating strategic defeat upon Russian forces in Ukraine.Three months later, Ukraine’s offensive has ended in a debacle, failing to achieve any of its objectives, measuring its episodic advances in mere yards and meters, while desperately sacrificing tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, and losing hundreds of US and NATO armored vehicles. Billions of dollars in aid have been squandered and stolen by Ukrainian officials and Kiev’s defense minister has been fired.This is the context in which US President Joe Biden, the doddering master strategist of this bloody disaster, has arrived at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, in an effort to bolster international support for the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and, at the same time, deepen the military and economic offensive against China.Having staked the prestige of American imperialism on a military victory and totally indifferent to the staggering loss of Ukrainian life, the Biden administration is determined to continue and intensify the war against Russia. Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kiev to pledge to continue the war “for as long as it takes.” One recent Financial Times op-ed referred to any negotiations as a “moral defeat,” while other reports speak of the “fear of peace talks.”In the media, there is talk of the war extending until 2024 or 2025(1.2)>>United States Government , its elite leaders have BLOOD on their hands. Over the past year, there has been an open spigot delivering tens of billions of dollars in weapons and other military hardware. As the war has dragged on, earlier hesitation expressed by leaders of NATO states. So far the US can't point at Putin while explaining the 20 years of being at war , the countless millions that died in American proxy wars . Just replace the word Ukraine with Iraq, Russia with the United States, Russian with American, and Putin with Bush, and ask if the U.S. government would have recognized the legitimacy of such a tribunal established to bring accountability for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.Many of those wars – which were started and largely fought by the US and its coalition partners, notably Britain – ended in failure, including in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. In Iraq alone, the current count for civilian deaths since 2003 ranges from 186,143 to 209,349, depending on the methodology used.  NOW  US president’s decision to send the widely banned weapons because “they’re running out of that ammunition” was also criticised by Labour and a former senior diplomat today.Cluster munitions are prohibited by 123 countries including Britain because each bomb spreads many small bomblets over a wide area, posing a high risk to civilians.Vice-chairman of the campaign coalition Chris Nineham told the Morning Star: “The reason Biden says it’s a difficult decision is because senior State Department officials have in the recent past condemned Russia for doing the exactly the same thing: for using cluster bombs in Ukraine, and even said it’s a war crime.There’s a basic problem of massive hypocrisy here.But American stubbornness, especially given Ukraine and its history and geographical proximity to Russia, has led the world to an unknown future in which Russia is making gains in eastern Ukraine. More than 4.5 million people have been displaced, and the world is facing famine, inflation, and a shortage of crucial components of modern life, such as fuel, fertilizer, and chemicals.  Ukraine may have to yield territory to stop further bloodshed, a suboptimal outcome .(2)>>Good progress?  Blinken, praised the results of the graves of these people.  Staging the same pattern of killing mindlessly one another by the burst of bombs and bullets in utter ferocity beguiled in lurking fear of being killed unless I take to fire to kill and save myself ! Realize the situation and the mind set! Abominably wild and dangerous play assimilating with the ancient time. The war reportedly robbed of nearly a million of vibrant lives many of them might make so much fanciful and pleasant to their loved ones, progeny, siblings and parents. I detested to denote them simply as Russians or Ukrainians in the proxy war .  The offensive is collapsing in the Eastern Ukrainian front while the US is still pressing on this war at any cost. For their only option remaining is a direct military intervention. Over the ensuing decade and a half, the US transformed the “war on terror” into “great power conflict,” instigating the Maidan coup of 2014 that erupted into the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Practically the whole world can see the proxy 'war' instigated by Washington was doomed to fail from the beginning. The people it is hurting the most are the European 'allies' of the US hegemons which was exactly what the Americans wanted. They are clutching at straws if they think they could get more nations to support them in this economic suicide. 500,000 deaths so far , But that number soared in the winter and spring, as the two countries turned the eastern city of Bakhmut into a killing field. Hundreds of troops were killed or injured a day for many weeks, U.S. officials said.In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials. The losses included some of the formidable Western fighting machines — tanks and armored personnel carriers — that the Ukrainians were counting on to beat back the Russians.More significantly, thousands of troops were killed or wounded, officials said.A senior U.S. official acknowledged the high number of Ukrainian casualties but said combined arms is “very, very hard.”U.S. really has no idea of enemy casualties. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, we always exaggerated the number of enemy casualties. So let keep focus on numbers we know, which are Ukrainian casualties. Two hundred thousand is a remarkable number when you consider the number includes 70,000 dead and about 50,000 who have lost one or both legs. It is time for the U.S. to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict.(3)>>These poor Ukrainians dying are fighting Russian for America. US army chief fears Kyiv has only 30 days left for offensive Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military.General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come. The U.S. knows time is running out for Ukraine. It knows that high-tech weapons will not be mastered in time to blunt a sustained Russian offensive.Those who mount proxy wars are blinded by wishful illusions. The arming of Ukraine is not missionary work. It has nothing to do with liberty or freedom. It is about weakening Russia. Take Russia out of the equation and there would be little tangible support for Ukraine. As many as 354,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Ukraine war which is grinding towards a protracted conflict that may last well beyond 2023, according to a trove of purported U.S. intelligence documents posted online.If authentic, the documents, which look like secret U.S. assessments of the war as well as some U.S. espionage against allies, offer rare insight into Washington's view of one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since World War Two.According to an assessment collated by the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, Russia has suffered 189,500-223,000 total casualties, including 35,500-43,000 killed in action and 154,000-180,000 wounded.Ukraine has suffered 124,500-131,000 total casualties, including 15,500-17,500 killed in action and 109,000-113,500 wounded in action, according to the document entitled "Russia/Ukraine - Assessed Combat Sustainability and Attrition."The figures are around 10 times bigger than any public casualty figures published by either Moscow or Kyiv.Neither side gives timely data on military losses.(4)>>END THIS INSANE WAR!. Today Ukraine is a corrupt and authoritarian state. Opposition parties and mass media are closed. Not capable of independent action. Neither in economics , nor in politics , nor in war . Nowhere. This is a donor state of people for the struggle of Western countries and the United States against Russia. It is important for warmongers to understand that Russia WILL NEVER LOSE THIS WAR. And this is evident from the articles in the NYT. So why continue to kill people ? So far most regular citizens of USA (like myself) can’t fathom “not supporting...” poor Ukraine. To suggest any ulterior motive , risks, etc as so eloquently pointed out here -hits a block wall with everyone I know .They’ve done their job well to garner unwavering support for this proxy war I admit the first few weeks I was onboard... but knowing how USA loves war for their own rewards I quickly was educated by the likes of Mr Hedges and obvious truths-if you open your eyes How do we get Americans to RECOGNIZE what’s really going on?.......reality of these bloody wars πŸ™πŸ™ (4.1)>>The war dead will continue to grow in Ukraine as long as American taxpayer money continue to fund this war . Kiev uses weapons that it purchases from Western countries via Ukrainian taxpayers to kill civilians on its own soil instead of ensuring national security. US pentagon, CIA and military industrial complex can continue its Interventionist policy of proxy wars for amoral state interests. ManUkrainiansns will continue to go to the front lines being sacrificed . The U.S. doesn’t really care about Ukrainian freedom or democracy, which in any event are unlikely to flourish in the ruins created by this war. They poked the Russian bear until they got the fight they were looking for and which they hope will bleed and pin down the Russians. If a generation of young Ukrainians have to be sacrificed for this purpose, that is a price neocons like Victoria Nuland and “liberal” interventionists likAntonyny Blinken (both of whom incidentally have deep family histories in the region) have decided they are willing to pay.  President Joe Biden recently sent to Congress his budget proposal for 2023. It included an astounding $813 billion for Pentagon and military expenditures. This is more than half the income taxes citizens send to the federal government each year, and a more than $31 billion increase over the already bloated fiscal year 2022 Pentagon budget. It also more than the defense budgets of the eight next biggest military spenders put together, including Russia, China and India.There was never a need to turn Ukraine into a cemetery on behalf of U.S. foreign policy. The Project for a New American Century and its Full Spectrum Dominance, pursued by both Republican and Democratic administrations is a grand failure that has left corpses everywhere. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen to name a few. And now the killing fields of Ukraine. The winners are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and their ilk. Everyone else loses. Inexcusable, criminal, shameless.(5)>>insane puppet Zelensky .I wish they would get their story straight is he a western puppet? a coke head? Insane and make insulting demand? did joe Biden have a row with him.? I am very sorry for all the Ukrainian civilians and young men dying , but i did my research, which tells me that ukrainians are not so innocent .We all know about illegal coup in 2014 and that not everyone in Ukraine supported that coup (because Presidents are supposed to be elected in democratic elections) , Particularly Donbass and Luhansk,Crimea .So in 2014 there were found mass graves of people in Donetsk region , and some people in European parliament declared that these were the victims of the nationalist Aidar battalion.This battalion was funded by Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky , who supported The presidency of Zelenski.Even Former President Poroshenka said that Zelenski is Kolomoiski's puppet, who controls nationalist battalion's, and who were executing people in a simmilar way like in Bucha.This is EXACTLY what suggestions by US Gen. Milley that Ukraine should think about negotiations and leaked info about Jake Sullivan White House Security Advisor asking Zelensky’s team to rethink Crimea leads to:EMBOLDENED Russians in the shape of unhinged Lavrov. He revealed he was offended that a "puppet of the West," Zelensky, no longer listens to his "masters". Zelensky snubed Russia as he addresses 'G19' at G20.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Ukraine’s demands for peace "inadequate". In addition, as noted, in conversations with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Lavrov accused Ukraine of allegedly disrupting the negotiation process.He noted this on the sidelines of the G20 summit, reports Russian RIA-Novosti"Ukraine's demands are inadequate," a Russian propaganda publication quoted Lavrov as saying."From Zelensky's speech at the G20, the conclusion follows that he does not listen to any advice from the West about negotiations with Russia. Russia wants to see concrete evidence that the West is interested in disciplining Zelensky," Lavrov said. Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West to deliver more more weapons in order to start a global nuclear war, the Russian government media writes, quoting a French politician. In fact, Ukraine needs more weapons from the West in order to defend itself against the Russian aggression in the context of ongoing hostilities.(6)>>Kyiv.A billion here, a billion there...  I have to imagine that the US would've had to shell out a lot of money if that were the case. Most equipment in Afghanistan was painted tan to match the natural environment, which served as camouflage. Having tan colored equipment isn't going to help a soldier in a place like Ukraine.So due to the war in Ukraine of course the US has been donating a few billions dollars to Ukraine to assist them defending themselves,multiple politics have spoke against this saying things such as” why isn’t that money going to fixing our own country?” Which that’s a good question, why wasn’t it? Because as far as I know we had all that money before the war in Ukraine began, so if they’re complaining about that now, then why wasn’t it ever going towards our country in the first place? It isn't "a few billion", it's over $200 billion. These are just blank checks to defense contractors though. This is the SAME EXACT bullshit Bush did with his bullshit war, but it seems the left likes this one because its russia??? idk why the left hates russia but loves other autocracies like cuba and china.   The issue that many people have comes down to the fact that we didn't actually have that money, and are financing it with debt. That raises the question as to why we are borrowing money to give to a country we have no alliance with when we also have record inflation at home.Also consider the recently passed spending bill. It gives a ton of money to various countries to help secure their borders, but nothing is being to address the issues we have on our southern border.It's certainly an issue that gave Trump a lot of support with his America First philosophy. It’s a total sham and a ripoff to taxpayers. It’s stealing, pure and simple. Ukraine is just a front for a bunch of juiced in, mafia type politicians basking in the piles of money being given to them. I wish we could sue to stop this. It’s sickening. And , Zelensky is probably a billionaire by now too, right? I’m sure he’s living high on the hog. He’s just as bad as the rest of them. Stop giving this guy taxpayer money.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy , a CAUTIONARY TALE for 2024 AD.

"Let's dispel with this fiction that Vivek Ramaswamy doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing."

Vivek Ramaswamy has a number of interesting ideas,  has made it a point to say he loves immigrants and that we need more. So I personally think his time as front runner is numbered. (1)>>Pharmaceutical executive and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he wouldn’t accept a nomination for Vice President.   (1.2)>>THE REALITY is that Vivek pretty much is another Barack Obama . He legit plagiarized Obama at the debate.When I heard him say that I squinted at the corner of my eye knowing I had heard that line before. Then I remembered Obama. That he plagiarized without thinking anyone would notice. You don't even have to look far or ever really go back any in terms of timelines to discover most of these shit heads are frauds through and through.he's pretty much trying to butter up the conservative masses , the anti -war masses , but we just don't know anything about him . I'm going to be honest with you,  (2)>>I had no idea this guy existed until the other day when I saw a headline that Eminem took some kind of legal action against him regarding his music. In any situation, my beloved great-aunt passed away several years ago because of Alzheimer's so from where I sit him doing that to dementia patients is disgusting (and from browsing the comments his mom was named in this which is bizarre.... seriously was she okay with this?!?). In 2019, he claimed that he had been offered a job at Google but turned it down because he didn't want to work for a "woke" company. However, Google denied ever making him an offer. (3)>>Ramaswamy is the “core” or elite Republican Party candidate. He is who the Koch and Coors Wall Street polluters want in.  (4)>>Yea, Vivek is not center right. The guy is a loon with disastrous fringe policies, obsessed with pandering to the average Fox viewers with his antiwoke rants and borderline fascist ideas. It’s no mystery. He’s speaking articulately on specific issues and debates his ideas with anyone that will push back. Those are podcasters big and small.Through these channels, he is catching the ear of those disenfranchised voters who want high level thinking and open discussions that isn’t coming from the news networks or Republican and Democrat establishment.There are a looooot of Indian GOP voters though, and they’re enough of the base to get him some decent numbers, especially now that DeSantis is cratering.  (5)>>He isn’t gonna win the nomination unless Trump is out of the picture though, just like everyone else running. Trump has a good 25% of the base at least, and no one is going to be able to claim them as long at Trump is still a candidate. AS YOU UNDERSTAND BY NOW , even the Rhino GOP wants Trump out, so they can put up one of the cardboard uni-party clowns to keep Biden in Office .The reason people voted for Trump in '16 was because he wasn't establishment. The reason people will vote for Vivek in 24 is because he's not establishment. Yes, he has independent leanings, and that's just fine. He's smart enough to understand that a libertarian/independent candidate will NOT win that election, so he has to (unfortunately) align himself with A or B. I'd rather him align with the right than the left, much as I despise partisan politics   Mark my words. If Vivek somehow ends up running against Biden, most MAGA people will still vote him over the "white man" Biden. Whereas the liberals who claim about "diversity & representation" will probably still vote the white man Biden. He’s an INFLUENCER plain and simple. He’s not there to be an actual candidate. He’s just going out there to push the Overton Window towards chaos.

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

(1)>>Pharmaceutical executive and GOP presidential candidate VIVEK AND BIG PHARMA MONEY?   SO FAR there is a lot of stories of Vivek and BIG PHARMA for examples : Vivek bought the rights to a failed alzheimers drug, RVT-101, from GSK for $5 million. This drug failed four clinical trials. Vivek created a startup, Axovant, to market RVT-101. Vivek took one of those failed trials and modified it, put his mom (who is a doctor and also on the board at Axovant) on the research team and fudged some words and numbers in the trial that took the trial from "failed" to "showed improvement", and used that for raising venture capital. Then he made the rounds on TV and publications to pitch this amazing new company/drug and launched an IPO. When it launched the stock went from $15 to $30 instantly. It peaked at around $200/sh in 2017. Eventually the drug (predictably) failed it's next trial, but not before Vivek and his family/friends had already sold their stock for profit. The stock dropped 99% in a day, down to $0.40. After the stock tanked Vivek changed the name from Axovant to Sio Gene Therapies, to try to make it a little harder to put the pieces together and distance himself from it. The answer might lie in Ramaswamy's implementation of Roivant's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative, called Roivant Social Ventures, during his CEO tenure. Launched in 2020 while Ramaswamy was still CEO, this initiative aimed to foster "DEI opportunities for future leaders in biopharma and biotech."While Ramaswamy vocally opposes ESG principles, Roivant's major institutional investors—including Morgan Stanley, Viking Global, and BlackRock, the very firms he criticizes by name—are among its largest stakeholders, owning over 500 million shares. Ramaswamy himself holds more than 80 million shares, making him an essential partner of these major ESG funds.In a deeply ironic twist, Ramaswamy's anti-"woke" campaign is being bankrolled by the profits reaped from the very policies he denounces.  (1.2)>>THE REALITY is that Vivek pretty much is another Barack Obama . Vivek could possibly be Obama  2.0  It was a reference to the former political wunderkind Barack Obama, which former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey quickly pointed out, adding, “I’m afraid we’re dealing with the same kind of amateur.” Christie then interrupted to say he’d “had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT,” and knocked Ramaswamy’s opening line from earlier in the program.“The last person in one of these debates … who stood in the middle of the stage and said, ‘What is a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here?’ was Barack Obama. And I am afraid we are dealing with the same type of amateur standing on the stage tonight,” Christie said. Vivek = Obama Vibes Odd… Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy lives in Columbus Ohio, but not a registered Republican in Ohio… Vivek Skipped half of the elections since registering to vote in Franklin County. His wife is also unaffiliated and skipped the same elections. His parents live in Hamilton County and do not appear to be registered to vote at all, at least not at the address where they claim an owner-occupied property tax reduction. This is where it gets weird.. Also, Vivek Ramaswamy, according to The database of the Federal Election Commission, on March 29, 2016, Vivek Ramaswamy donated the maximum amount of $2700 to Friends of Dena, the campaign committee of Democratic Party Congressional candidate, Dena Minning Grayson. That’s bad news… In 2019, a “mystery woman” sat behind President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen and made animated facial expressions as Cohen testified before the House Oversight Committee against President Trump, was later revealed to be Dena Grayson. Dena is best known for criticizing and ridiculing President Trump and amassing a large following for this reason. Now, he's been giving off Obama vibes; new dude, eloquent speech, says all the "right things". Not saying he's shady, but on the outside he seems too "perfect", with all this corruption, present and past, "too perfect" means red flag for me.(2)>>I had no idea this guy existed until the other day when I saw a headline that Eminem took some kind of legal action against him regarding his music. Everyone who is suggesting Eminem needs to diss this guy, No he doesn't. He did the right thing with the cease and desist. Anyone with a few working brain cells can tell that he doesn't want to be associated with this guy. Making a diss will only get him more colour, exactly the shit he wants.   Em started to realize this, that's why he waits until the opponents clout dies a bit down before responding . If you think about it, some use Em's name when they are promoting something. After the promo is finished they go back to silence... And that's when Em should strike. If you actually follow either side of politics you’d know, but nice jab. Also not really a shot, agree with OP on the fact that it’s just an acknowledgement of Em. Misusing his lyrics and taking a shot at him are two completely different things, maybe switch up your news source a bit because you’re clearly misguided. Judging by the fact that you’re probably 14 though i’m not surprised......They think Eminem is washed up because he still hasn't got a top 10 country album. They can't comprehend that some people like different things.Eminem is racist so of course he doesn’t want to be associated with an Asian man who is clearly a huge fan of his for some reason. He prefers candidates who are old white men like Biden. That being said, it’s Eminem’s right to choose how his music is used publicly. If he wants his music to be associated with racist pedophiles like Biden, then that is his right. Vivek should stop rapping in public anyway and just focus on making sure voters know where he stands on key issues.(3)>>Ramaswamy is the “core” or elite Republican Party candidate. His interview on Pod Save America was infuriating.Spends the entire time ripping apart the MAGA GOP and Trump…and then completely defends all the bribery that’s clearly happening with Chief Justice Thomas. Straight up said it wasn’t an issue because none of the lavish gifts and trips worth MILLIONS never came “directly” from people with cases before the Supreme Court.Like come on…as the former Governor of New Jersey who looks like a fat mobster himself, you’d think he know about that one simple trick where you use middlemen to launder the pay offs to officials. My problem with Vivek, yes he may have changed since then, but he has to prove it. He has connections to Soros money and quite honestly hasn’t done anything for me yet to show he’s worthy of my vote much less anything else. My fear is he is pro Trump only to get a spot in trumps admin and backstab him like all these other clowns did. Trumps biggest issue his first time was selecting people who truly wanted MAGA and not uniparty goals. But the haze of fact-free hype surrounding Ramaswamy’s business exploits obfuscates some of the key questions about his true business background which have gone unanswered. Already, Ramaswamy’s standing in the polls dipped just this past week when we revealed his checkered business track record–but here’s a deeper dive as his once-promising candidacy falls like a stone since our revelations.  Anyone who labels themselves republican and then runs for office on anything other than a christo-bigoted platform is suddenly surprised that big MAGA is doling out big hate? I mean, it’s almost worthy of a chuckle there.Vivek is NOT an establishment candidate, and this is a good thing. This country is in the shithole it is , right now, because of establishment candidates doing things their way, since, well damn near forever. (4)>>Yea, Vivek is not center right. The guy is a loon with disastrous fringe policies.   So far as "described"Vivek Ramaswamy is just another chaos agent with ridiculous ideas and a loud mouth. As MUCH as the other GOP candidates who are running against Trump . They are too are just a bunch cardboard characters, While I mostly agree I do see a spotlight being placed on either white on black or black on white crime from either side of the media when intraracial crime is much more prevalent. The other candidates on stage in Milwaukee did not offer we the people much hope. Most indicated they would vote for the former president if he’s their nominee. They also indicated they would pardon him almost immediately, if they should ascend to the presidency. Besides the other candidates either are their to stop Trump from getting the nomination , or they just helping Biden get a second term .Vivek Whatever looks and sounds like the freshman running for class president who is very full of himself. He comes across as arrogant, condescending, and an all around jerk. You just want to wipe the smug look off his face. His complete lack of knowledge about foreign affairs is appalling. (5)>>He isn’t gonna win the nomination unless Trump is out of the picture though. I think it's more of a MAD situation. They have equal dirt on Trump. If anyone pulls the trigger, everyone goes down in flames. How many times did we see the same story replay over and over? Ardent Trump opposition gets summoned to Trump, 4 hours later they are either singing praises or are suddenly retiring. There's no way Trump convinced them to change their tune with ideology or a policy plan. I don't buy that he convinced them with a "for the good of the party" arguments either. The speed and depth everyone fell into line was unprecedented and speaks to fear.  The Democrats want Trump out of the way at ANY COST , we hear the media making up the thought that Trump will get his nomination in Jail . That would be ridiculous .  NOW Pundits are saying that Trump might want Vivek as VP , or Vivek as Trump's VP . I personally can't see that combination , but know how crazy things will get next year any thing is possible .Trump praised Ramaswamy’s performance in a Truth Social post early Thursday morning and included a clip of Ramaswamy calling Trump, “the best president of the twenty-first century.”   Voters at the Ramaswamy events consistently said they were deciding between the two alternatives to Trump. But like the woman who intimated that Ramaswamy could be Trump’s running mate.Republican strategists are worried that if former President Trump doesn’t secure the GOP’s presidential nomination next year, or if he is kept off the ballot because of his mounting legal problems, it could spell a voter turnout disaster for their party in 2024.   Ramaswamy has modeled much of his platform and pitch to voters along Trump's initial, disruptive run.