That whisper of wind you heard through the budding leaves on trees this afternoon was a sigh of relief from soldiers on the front lines in Luhansk and Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia as the House of Representatives overcame its Putin wing and passed the $95 billion aid package which included $61 billion in aid to Ukraine. There hasn’t been a Ukrainian aid bill passed by the House since December of 2022, a little less than a year after Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine began. The Biden administration began asking for this aid package for Ukraine last August, but because Donald Trump told them to, House Republicans have been sitting on their hands and refusing to pass it.
She's going to take big but when they return from their latest vacation and she tries to vate the Speakers Chair. Conceivably, we could be addressing Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in a couple of weeks.
She's a piece of work alright. And what about the fools who agree with her, How did so many of them get elected in the first place?
Johnson finally did the right thing, Any government is only as good as the sum total of those who make it up, and if most of them are for the good of the country than for themselves we'll have a good government. ,The problem right now is the MTG faction that are only capable of seeing a small part of the picture. They are unable or unwilling to grasp the intricacies of the bigger picture. They are stubborn too, it must be their way or no way, they see compromise with the Democrats as as fraternizing with the enemy. Putin must love to see them in action, blocking everything that might impede his ambitions. They are a very dark negative crowd, more bent om destruction than construction. But what do you expect that call the J6 insurgents patriots, and hostages and who want to see the devil incarnate re-elected as president.
The strongman persuades followers he alone can save them from fears that he has implanted and exploited with mountains of disinformation and money. Humans are vulnerable to this.
This is the question: How *did* so many of them get elected in the first place? The story of how they got elected goes back many decades, and probably back to the Civil War. It's why I wish so many people didn't focus so exclusively on Trump or on the MTGs and Matt Gaetzes and Josh Hawleys and all those godawful Tommy the Tubas whose names I have a hard time remembering.
Babette may have referring to the lead comment I saw when I logged on just now, which referred to MTG's famous remark about space lasers. I was jolted by it too.
I have many family members who’ve served in the US military ranging back to the Revolutionary War. It gets really personal when I see these chicken shit Putin sympathizers essentially giving the middle finger to all of my relatives who fought bravely to support this country—and global democracy. I’m reading the diaries of my grandfather who served as a US Army Lieutenant in WWI in France right now. This brings it all home.
My hope and prayer is that this defeat of the 112 House Republicans who voted against the aid package for Ukraine will result in them all being sidelined and ignored going forward, and that their craven kowtowing to Orange Julius will be written in phrases similar to the capitulation of Vichy France to Hitler in WWII. We know who won then. History may not repeat itself, but I hear a rhyme.
I could write the same thoughts down verbatim, only changing my Grandfather Turnbull's rank in the US Army - must have been lower, as he served as a balloon observer over the trenches - and adding that lacking a diary of his years there, here are his only two anecdotes about it:
The entire company, more or less, participated in a rather rollicking poker game that got going right after they received their pay; when it ended, the company cook had won practically everyone's pay - likely an exaggeration, but I heard this maybe a half-dozen times, in the summer at Lavallette and Manasquan at the Jersey Shore, in Waukegan, and several times in Des Moines when he and my grandmother visited, so who knows?
I only understood that you shouldn't wager ALL of your paycheck in a poker game - but it was in a combat zone, so there's that.
The other is that Grandfather T. was up in a balloon with his binoculars as a spotter, and looked across "No Man's Land" to see a German spotter, roughly the same age, late teens / early twenties, looking right back at him, and he for some reason immediately and indelibly, registered the total absurdity and insanity of war. That's all, over and out.
"That whisper of wind you heard through the budding leaves on trees this afternoon was a sigh of relief from soldiers on the front lines in Luhansk and Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia" that was some poetic writing and it is beautiful both in prose and content.
Sporkfoot Marj doesn't have the votes to oust Holy Mike Johnson, and that must be driving her insane, or more insane than she already is. I suspect that she was aiming to become Speaker herself. Starting to look like her power is diminishing.
"Shawn Harris, a cattleman in Northwest Georgia who served in the military for 40 years and retired as a U.S. Army brigadier general, is running for the congressional seat now held by far-right U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). "
I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that MTG, so dumb she has referred to "Hitler's gazpacho," is 1) a Congresswoman 2) someone other Republicans feel they must placate and 3) someone who news orgs feel deserves ink. A sign of our disintegration and schools failing. This girl is dumb as a box of rocks and yet, somehow, there are people who listen to her. 😒
Wishing the news could ignore her. MTG is Trump's stand in for headlines while he's falling asleep in the dock. Ah, once upon a time it was Lady Diana who sold copies of magazines.
MTG has blood on her hands. i don't know how she (it) sleeps at night (in a coffin?). I hope that every single republican in the Congress is voted out in November. The American people have had enough of this shit!
It is a relief to see the Democrats vote for the funding. Ukraine is taking the hit that we would have to take if Russia overran Ukraine, then Poland. They are depleting Russian trigger pullers, equipment, arms, and munitions. If they weren't doing it, we would be doing it one day. I am so pleased to see #Moscow Margie losing her few supporters. Clearly, the GOP house is rudderless. We have yet to see if they try to overthrow Johnson in an effort Margie is leading. I would love to see her castrated [metaphorically] as she serves no useful purpose. She took a great number of hits on twitter today. It was a good day and trump is feeling the pressure of the trial. Sitting in a courtroom for 6 weeks may take a toll on him. They will pump him up on drugs to keep him awake. I am disappointed that we funded Israel as they continue their brutality against a defenseless population. Israel needs to stop their apartheid policies and if it is not apartheid, it is the first cousin of apartheid. It is an open air prison, a phrase some do not like to hear, but it is what it is as the younger folk like to say. Israel JD...
Imagine if the DOJ had investigated the Members of Congress who appear to have provided info and tours to the insurrectionists leading up to January 6, some of whom are in the Putin wing. The DOJ has allowed them to get away with treasonous behavior. Now they can continue to follow Trump's orders, defy voters, disrupt Congress, and promote Putin. Will they ever face consequences for their reprehensible behavior?
The fact that they participated OPENLY in the coup and now are OPENLY spouting Russian propaganda and are still not being investigated continues to haunt me. Surely DOJ has the capacity to at the very least "follow the money" and find out the direct connections that Putin has with these members of Congress. As I recall, there's a law against "aiding and abetting an enemy," and maybe even a word to describe it: treachery.
It's really astonishing - - they're even proud of their treachery. Of course, they are auditioning for Trump's VP as well as a high-paying gig on Fox or some other Putin-allied media. Will we ever know why Garland and other VIPs at the DOJ are letting these traitors roam free?
Another thing I doubt I'll ever understand: On 9/11 when the US govt closed all American airspace, grounded planes on the ground, and redirected any planes in the air, somehow someone knew to let the Bin Laden family fly out of the US in their own aircraft that day.
I'm certainly not "in" on that mystery, but I did personally know the pilot who the Bush family "paid" to fly the Bin Ladens around in those days. The pilot went to college with my late husband and lived in Houston. I have been in his home and attended functions with him and his wife.
I’m hoping that with an electoral victory in November, January will bring with its cold a raft of indictments, whether the indicted are in DC or back home nursing their reelection defeats. Knock knock ✊🏿 this is for you 😎
In terms of intelligence and verifiable information in the last few days, Lucien, it is becoming clear that what is coming out of TFG's (to be charitable) lower orifice is as foul as that coming from his mouth.
Good to see Putin's MAGA Puppets go down! It's still unbelievable to me to see the Cold War Repub warriors who used to fight anything Russian deteriorate to this. If Russia put missiles in Cuba today MAGA would be lined up to welcome them and make the US a satellite state with Comrade Drumpf and Moscow Marg as figurehead leaders.
Don’t kid yourself. The propaganda machine for mEGA is nothing short of dangerous. You’d be surprised how deranged the electorate is, many voters vowing to abstain from voting entirely, others writing-in Micky Mouse.
Many immigrants, once they become citizens, want to shut the borders so they can keep “the goodies” for themselves.
It’s a sad commentary, but “the money-grab” has corrupted any sense of decency and we have descended into a snake pit of selfishness. Advocating stupidity is hardly a cure for what ails us.
What ails us at the moment is Trump (my opinion), and the best way to cure it is to expose it to the short term memory deprived public as much as possible. The deranged portion of the electorate is already lost. The Independents will be where this thing is decided. And in a race that is not about who do you like better but instead who do you dislike most, I think reminding them of what the monster is makes the most sense. Biden ran his campaign from the shadows last time. And although he had to do so, it worked. The more people are talking about Trump the better. The more people are talking about Biden? Not good.
I think this is especially true now that the remnants of trump's mind are oozing out of his ears.
Speaker Johnson turned his back on the unwritten and uniquely Republican rule invented by Speaker Dennis the Perv Hastert Rule of not bringing a Bill to the floor unless a majority of the majority supports it. The Uk aid package vote was 101 R yeas v. 112 nays with 1 voting present. All 210 present Ds voted yippie aye yay.
The 112 R House members voting nay included at least 2core with weapon/ammo plants in their district. Didn't cross-check it with the Infrastructure however me-gut suspects some overlap to voting nay while touting the $$$ and jobs from both in their district.
Uk must show success and progress from this tranche cuz it's highly unlikely any more direct aid will be approved in the House before the election. And if Trump wins forgetaboutit post-election.
Still can't get over Uk is in a fight for their life yet will not conscript 18-25 year olds whether male oir female. Major and high-tech weapon systems don't take and hold dirt, grunts do. And small arms are far less expensive yet deadly as fuq.
It’s the slow-motion, what’s next?, “can you even imagine” aspect of Trump’s antics that’s most infuriating. That he forces us to watch this and constantly wait for the next shoe to drop.
Nothing pleases me more than seeing MTG get her comeuppance…Secret Jewish Space Lasers strike again!
She went into hysterics after her loss. Maybe she's afraid the payments from Putin will stop.
She's going to take big but when they return from their latest vacation and she tries to vate the Speakers Chair. Conceivably, we could be addressing Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in a couple of weeks.
Ooh! A consummation devoutly to be wished!
I missed that - would love to see it!
She ranted and raved in front of the press. Made a complete ass of herself. Nothing new there.
She's a true Karen!
She's an attention whore of trump-like proportions....and makes just about as much sense.
She's fund-raising.
She blows Vladimir?
She's a true Benedetta Arnold.
Benedict Arnold was almost certainly smarter -- but then again, you don't have to be smart to be a traitor.
Except the management ain't interested in her yowling any more.
Red Karen
She's a piece of work alright. And what about the fools who agree with her, How did so many of them get elected in the first place?
Johnson finally did the right thing, Any government is only as good as the sum total of those who make it up, and if most of them are for the good of the country than for themselves we'll have a good government. ,The problem right now is the MTG faction that are only capable of seeing a small part of the picture. They are unable or unwilling to grasp the intricacies of the bigger picture. They are stubborn too, it must be their way or no way, they see compromise with the Democrats as as fraternizing with the enemy. Putin must love to see them in action, blocking everything that might impede his ambitions. They are a very dark negative crowd, more bent om destruction than construction. But what do you expect that call the J6 insurgents patriots, and hostages and who want to see the devil incarnate re-elected as president.
The strongman persuades followers he alone can save them from fears that he has implanted and exploited with mountains of disinformation and money. Humans are vulnerable to this.
So true.
Jonestown Part two.
https://twitter.com/SororInimicorum/header_photo for example
can't hit 'like' on that!!
I know! Horrid.
But I can hit like
This is the question: How *did* so many of them get elected in the first place? The story of how they got elected goes back many decades, and probably back to the Civil War. It's why I wish so many people didn't focus so exclusively on Trump or on the MTGs and Matt Gaetzes and Josh Hawleys and all those godawful Tommy the Tubas whose names I have a hard time remembering.
Sarcasm is an effective tool for reducing stress, unless is it misunderstood.
Than it becomes weaponized and backfires. Not good for reducing aggression!
???
"There is no hope, none whatsoever, for the excessively literal minded..."
At least until they are wrenched out of it by some inner work aided by, well, whoever
is around to help out!
Babette may have referring to the lead comment I saw when I logged on just now, which referred to MTG's famous remark about space lasers. I was jolted by it too.
Say what?
I have many family members who’ve served in the US military ranging back to the Revolutionary War. It gets really personal when I see these chicken shit Putin sympathizers essentially giving the middle finger to all of my relatives who fought bravely to support this country—and global democracy. I’m reading the diaries of my grandfather who served as a US Army Lieutenant in WWI in France right now. This brings it all home.
My hope and prayer is that this defeat of the 112 House Republicans who voted against the aid package for Ukraine will result in them all being sidelined and ignored going forward, and that their craven kowtowing to Orange Julius will be written in phrases similar to the capitulation of Vichy France to Hitler in WWII. We know who won then. History may not repeat itself, but I hear a rhyme.
Orange skidmark is my take on him David…
Hear, hear!
I could write the same thoughts down verbatim, only changing my Grandfather Turnbull's rank in the US Army - must have been lower, as he served as a balloon observer over the trenches - and adding that lacking a diary of his years there, here are his only two anecdotes about it:
The entire company, more or less, participated in a rather rollicking poker game that got going right after they received their pay; when it ended, the company cook had won practically everyone's pay - likely an exaggeration, but I heard this maybe a half-dozen times, in the summer at Lavallette and Manasquan at the Jersey Shore, in Waukegan, and several times in Des Moines when he and my grandmother visited, so who knows?
I only understood that you shouldn't wager ALL of your paycheck in a poker game - but it was in a combat zone, so there's that.
The other is that Grandfather T. was up in a balloon with his binoculars as a spotter, and looked across "No Man's Land" to see a German spotter, roughly the same age, late teens / early twenties, looking right back at him, and he for some reason immediately and indelibly, registered the total absurdity and insanity of war. That's all, over and out.
Amen!
"That whisper of wind you heard through the budding leaves on trees this afternoon was a sigh of relief from soldiers on the front lines in Luhansk and Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia" that was some poetic writing and it is beautiful both in prose and content.
Sporkfoot Marj doesn't have the votes to oust Holy Mike Johnson, and that must be driving her insane, or more insane than she already is. I suspect that she was aiming to become Speaker herself. Starting to look like her power is diminishing.
And General Harris is on the rise. Can’t wait to see her beaten in November, too…
Edit: My apologies-I just read of the general who you're referring to.
I hope he does win her seat. She deserves to be out of office:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/04/03/meet-shawn-harris-the-democrat-who-seeks-to-oust-marjorie-taylor-greene/
"Shawn Harris, a cattleman in Northwest Georgia who served in the military for 40 years and retired as a U.S. Army brigadier general, is running for the congressional seat now held by far-right U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). "
Thanks for calling my attention to who “General Harris” was & with a link! Just donated.
Compare and contrast.
Thanks for the link. Just made a donation. Wonderful article!
We can only hope.
Thanks for this - & for Mary Hilton calling my attention to who “General Harris” was & with a link! Just donated.
Yes, let's keep donating to Harris' campaign, not just watch what happens!
I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that MTG, so dumb she has referred to "Hitler's gazpacho," is 1) a Congresswoman 2) someone other Republicans feel they must placate and 3) someone who news orgs feel deserves ink. A sign of our disintegration and schools failing. This girl is dumb as a box of rocks and yet, somehow, there are people who listen to her. 😒
Because she speaks their language: hatred.
But she does bleat some terrific Malaprops.
Oh, my yes!!
The "space lasers" are on Mergatroid and Yogi Bear is large and in charge, awaiting orders from maga.
Wishing the news could ignore her. MTG is Trump's stand in for headlines while he's falling asleep in the dock. Ah, once upon a time it was Lady Diana who sold copies of magazines.
Good to see Marjury Traytor Greed and her Putin pals get their wings clipped. Hope it's the start of a long term trend.
MTG has blood on her hands. i don't know how she (it) sleeps at night (in a coffin?). I hope that every single republican in the Congress is voted out in November. The American people have had enough of this shit!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍🙏😎
Sir Farts a Lot of Rikers Island is a traitor.
It is a relief to see the Democrats vote for the funding. Ukraine is taking the hit that we would have to take if Russia overran Ukraine, then Poland. They are depleting Russian trigger pullers, equipment, arms, and munitions. If they weren't doing it, we would be doing it one day. I am so pleased to see #Moscow Margie losing her few supporters. Clearly, the GOP house is rudderless. We have yet to see if they try to overthrow Johnson in an effort Margie is leading. I would love to see her castrated [metaphorically] as she serves no useful purpose. She took a great number of hits on twitter today. It was a good day and trump is feeling the pressure of the trial. Sitting in a courtroom for 6 weeks may take a toll on him. They will pump him up on drugs to keep him awake. I am disappointed that we funded Israel as they continue their brutality against a defenseless population. Israel needs to stop their apartheid policies and if it is not apartheid, it is the first cousin of apartheid. It is an open air prison, a phrase some do not like to hear, but it is what it is as the younger folk like to say. Israel JD...
Gotta get rid of Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir.
Absolutely.
Dr. Snyder attempting to educate Rep. Greene.
https://youtu.be/aPSYm5RIXMU?si=6IHTWwJ0QbFXFyQN
Brilliant of course!
That was a brilliant fact-filled
rebuttal to her willful ignorance.
Imagine if the DOJ had investigated the Members of Congress who appear to have provided info and tours to the insurrectionists leading up to January 6, some of whom are in the Putin wing. The DOJ has allowed them to get away with treasonous behavior. Now they can continue to follow Trump's orders, defy voters, disrupt Congress, and promote Putin. Will they ever face consequences for their reprehensible behavior?
That is my question, Laurie. Why have they not been investigated?
I don't know, Ally. Perhaps other readers can tell us.
The fact that they participated OPENLY in the coup and now are OPENLY spouting Russian propaganda and are still not being investigated continues to haunt me. Surely DOJ has the capacity to at the very least "follow the money" and find out the direct connections that Putin has with these members of Congress. As I recall, there's a law against "aiding and abetting an enemy," and maybe even a word to describe it: treachery.
It's really astonishing - - they're even proud of their treachery. Of course, they are auditioning for Trump's VP as well as a high-paying gig on Fox or some other Putin-allied media. Will we ever know why Garland and other VIPs at the DOJ are letting these traitors roam free?
Another thing I doubt I'll ever understand: On 9/11 when the US govt closed all American airspace, grounded planes on the ground, and redirected any planes in the air, somehow someone knew to let the Bin Laden family fly out of the US in their own aircraft that day.
I'm certainly not "in" on that mystery, but I did personally know the pilot who the Bush family "paid" to fly the Bin Ladens around in those days. The pilot went to college with my late husband and lived in Houston. I have been in his home and attended functions with him and his wife.
I’m hoping that with an electoral victory in November, January will bring with its cold a raft of indictments, whether the indicted are in DC or back home nursing their reelection defeats. Knock knock ✊🏿 this is for you 😎
In terms of intelligence and verifiable information in the last few days, Lucien, it is becoming clear that what is coming out of TFG's (to be charitable) lower orifice is as foul as that coming from his mouth.
They are much, if not exactly, the same: noisy, smelly, and offensive.
Yes.
I really feel sorry for the courtroom janitor. "Clean up at defendants table."
If they weren't such assholes, I'd feel sorry for his legal team, having to suffer in close proximity and look professional while enduring the stink.
Hopefully they are charging for 'hazardous duty pay' also. /s
Good to see Putin's MAGA Puppets go down! It's still unbelievable to me to see the Cold War Repub warriors who used to fight anything Russian deteriorate to this. If Russia put missiles in Cuba today MAGA would be lined up to welcome them and make the US a satellite state with Comrade Drumpf and Moscow Marg as figurehead leaders.
Let him speak! Donald Trump's own mouth is our best weapon in defense of democracy.
Don’t kid yourself. The propaganda machine for mEGA is nothing short of dangerous. You’d be surprised how deranged the electorate is, many voters vowing to abstain from voting entirely, others writing-in Micky Mouse.
Many immigrants, once they become citizens, want to shut the borders so they can keep “the goodies” for themselves.
It’s a sad commentary, but “the money-grab” has corrupted any sense of decency and we have descended into a snake pit of selfishness. Advocating stupidity is hardly a cure for what ails us.
What ails us at the moment is Trump (my opinion), and the best way to cure it is to expose it to the short term memory deprived public as much as possible. The deranged portion of the electorate is already lost. The Independents will be where this thing is decided. And in a race that is not about who do you like better but instead who do you dislike most, I think reminding them of what the monster is makes the most sense. Biden ran his campaign from the shadows last time. And although he had to do so, it worked. The more people are talking about Trump the better. The more people are talking about Biden? Not good.
I think this is especially true now that the remnants of trump's mind are oozing out of his ears.
Don't let them forget.
The Biden administration has accomplished a lot. They should make sure to spread the word to the electorate.
That makes perfect, logical sense but it doesn't seem to work. Or maybe it is working and people are lying on polls. That's entirely possible.
Speaker Johnson turned his back on the unwritten and uniquely Republican rule invented by Speaker Dennis the Perv Hastert Rule of not bringing a Bill to the floor unless a majority of the majority supports it. The Uk aid package vote was 101 R yeas v. 112 nays with 1 voting present. All 210 present Ds voted yippie aye yay.
The 112 R House members voting nay included at least 2core with weapon/ammo plants in their district. Didn't cross-check it with the Infrastructure however me-gut suspects some overlap to voting nay while touting the $$$ and jobs from both in their district.
Uk must show success and progress from this tranche cuz it's highly unlikely any more direct aid will be approved in the House before the election. And if Trump wins forgetaboutit post-election.
Still can't get over Uk is in a fight for their life yet will not conscript 18-25 year olds whether male oir female. Major and high-tech weapon systems don't take and hold dirt, grunts do. And small arms are far less expensive yet deadly as fuq.
It’s the slow-motion, what’s next?, “can you even imagine” aspect of Trump’s antics that’s most infuriating. That he forces us to watch this and constantly wait for the next shoe to drop.