From the CTH perspective, if we accept the scale of the approaching U.S. economic pain that is clearly visible on the horizon, this narrative shift from the Associated Press and NPR, about a balancing act for U.S. policy and a corrupt Ukraine government, seems very predictable.
The average U.S. worker, and the middle class in general, is in trouble. The visible reference of bailing out the people of Ukraine to the tune of $60+ billion is legislative salt in an open economic wound caused by Biden policy. A shift is needed.
Pivoting away from Ukraine to focus on financial subsidies for Americans requires using a particular arm-distancing toward Zelenskyy from the politicians. Look, corruption.
Here we go:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the outbreak of war with Russia: Ukraine’s history of rampant corruption and shaky governance.
As it presses ahead with providing tens of billions of dollars in military, economic and direct financial support aid to Ukraine and encourages its allies to do the same, the Biden administration is now once again grappling with longstanding worries about Ukraine’s suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of American aid.
Those issues, which date back decades and were not an insignificant part of former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, had been largely pushed to the back burner in the immediate run-up to Russia’s invasion and during the first months of the conflict as the U.S. and its partners rallied to Ukraine’s defense.
But Zelenskyy’s weekend firings of his top prosecutor, intelligence chief and other senior officials have resurfaced those concerns and may have inadvertently given fresh attention to allegations of high-level corruption in Kyiv made by one outspoken U.S. lawmaker.
It’s a delicate issue for the Biden administration. With billions in aid flowing to Ukraine, the White House continues to make the case for supporting Zelenskyy’s government to an American public increasingly focused on domestic issues like high gas prices and inflation. High-profile supporters of Ukraine in both parties also want to avoid a backlash that could make it more difficult to pass future aid packages. (read more)
♦ Tomorrow’s News Today. Sometime in the not-too-distant future, congress is going to need to spend several trillion to bailout business and individuals who will suffer under the biggest U.S. economic collapse since the 2007 housing crisis.
Within those several trillions of emergency legislative appropriations, supported by both wings of the UniParty as an expression of the economic and humanitarian urgency, the Biden administration will hide the $500 billion in Green New Deal spending. The crisis will not be wasted.
The 2022 democrats are setting up the 2023 republicans to be the people in charge of congress when this economic collapse and subsequent bailout is needed. Lucy with the football Democrats, will demand more money be spent ‘for the people‘, essentially to subsidize the energy driven economic crisis they have fueled for the past two years.
Wash – Rinse – Repeat
And republicans will readily accept their charge.
Remove 535 by walking them into the Potomac
“Within those several trillions of emergency legislative appropriations … the Biden administration will hide the $500 billion in Green New Deal spending”
“… setting up the 2023 republicans to be the people in charge of congress when this economic collapse and subsequent bailout is needed. Lucy with the football Democrats …”
We’re pretty much sunk, huh Sundance?
They know how to play the game and rig the game
We don’t have an equivalent counter-balancing force on our side
I don’t see ANY major situation in the news that can’t be dominated by them, by hook or by crook
They’re smarter than us
We may be smart
But they’re also sinister and amoral
Tips the scales, that
I don’t know if they are smarter per se but they are definitely better a maneuver warfare!
The fact there is NO push back by the right make me wonder if they aren’t all trapped in Epstein’s honeypot?
Agreed! The Republicans must be so corrupt that they cannot move without revealing their own corruption.
Or they just don’t care about us…
perish the thought……
They don’t care about us, or would not be in the situation we find ourselves.
They do not care about us, or we would not be having this discussion.
They don’t care about us, but they do want our money.
People like Ms Linda Graham were in Ukraine pocketing kickback cash. Since that waste of breath and many like him were behind the 60 billion flushed there, guessing exactly zero finger pointing will happen
One party……just two names.
at least someone’s honey pot
There are no democrats that are Republicans but there are many Republicans that are secretly democrats.
Dan Bongino
Stuff like this is why I stopped listening to Bongino.
He Carrie’s water for the uniparty by maintaining
the team red/team blue narrative.
Unlike SD, who calls a spade a spade.
Bongino is for entertainment purposes only, imo.
I can’t listen to Bongino because of his over the top style. He will rant about a subject and then use 6 over the top examples to make his point. The guy gets my blood pressure going.
Who dresses Bongino? That checkerd sportcoat from Goodwill is hanging on him every other day.
I honestly tried to give Bongino a fair listen but from day one I couldn’t stand his schtick.
These people “In Charge” do nothing all day and night except scheme and scam. Normal people are worried about the day to day of life and can’t possibly fathom that we have put they very worst of Humanity in command from years of fat and happy complacency.
Leadership of the Retardpublican Party are not right wing or conservative. Mitch, Kevin and company are squishy, business-as-usual middle of the roaders with even less integrity than courage.
Planning ahead, knowing what’s coming, in the election and in the economy.
What do you think Google AI is doing with it 24×7 work day?
No matter what the do though, God Wins!
you and I and many others are the pushback. Arise.
Those that live by laws and the others that live in a state of nature.
But they’re also sinister and amoral
Add ruthless to the list. That’s the part Republicans refuse to understand or acknowledge.
They also have no shame. No conscience to restrain them.
Thank God they eventually die a horrible death. Remember the brain cancer Presidential contender.
Nor the Media to hold them accountable.
sinister, amoral, ruthless …
actually they are evil.
You are correct they are Not smarter, they are deviant, Machiavellian if you will. We TRY to spend our time making life better for ourselves and those around us. They, all of the “new world order” pals and hanger ons, spend their time counting the $$$. It’s about their lust for money, it is their god.
I do also agree they know how to play the game against us. I had not thought of the Lucy angle you described…
However, my money is on the King of Kings & Lord of Lords.
NO FEAR. Matthew 10:28.
And the people of God said, “Praise Be To God!”
Well said. Too bad I can only click the upvote once. You are exactly right.
There is only one viable option at this point: States where integrity and sanity still prevail need to start the process of gaining their own independence. The Texas Nationalist Movement is leading the effort in Texas.
texitnow org
tnm me
Not smarter, I would use the words, sly, deceitful and cunning.
There are many trees on Constitution Ave. that are much closer.
No more middle class “Mr. Nice Guy” suckers. Volunteers needed to supply rope. Pols to be lined up by seniority; pigs and turtles first.
Ukraine is only number two when it comes to having the most corrupt people in government on planet earth.
We all know which country is number one in that category.
Obviously we also know the grifting family connection between the two.
I just remembered, something that came out of the Ukraine perfect phone call impeachment hoax, is the President has a specific obligation to insure that Ukraine isn’t corrupt, before we give them $, right?
PDJT was doing what he was legally obligated to do, in the perfect phone call, when he asked Ukraine about corruption?
So, the U.S. is shoveling what will soon be $100 billion, even as more and more info comes out, of massive corruption, in Ukraine.
Is this yet another law broken by Biden, that will never be enforced?
I wonder how much of a kickback the regime gets from our money that they send to Ukraine?
I would be real surprised if they can even account for 10% of the money and weapons we are being fleeced of.
We shouldn’t send another dime anywhere until all of these so-called, “Humanitarian Aids” are fully audited.
They couldn’t account for >$1.3 billion in USAID. That’s insane!
Not even a slap on the wrist. Just a ‘Dang, I hate it when that happens… here’s a hundred billion more’.
“Keep up the great work”…
Doesn’t matter much now, they don’t need Biden anymore. Unlikely that he will be the US head of state much longer…one day cancer, next day COV, next day….Gee there might be some corruption in Urkraine…..Two wings of the same bird.
The “ask” out of Kiev is $650B to rebuild… of which, you can be sure, the U.S. will kick in at least half… and probably more like 75%. Now, if Iraq, Afghanistan, The Big Dig, California’s Train to Nowhere, and countless other Financial Fiascos are to be used as Reality Benchmarks of sorts… then you can at least quadruple that number. The Big Dig, for example, was originally estimated at around $4b, and clocked in at a little over $20B when all was said and done, IIRC. Sure, it took a decade, and you factor that into value of a dollar… but 20 years in Afghanistan… and you get the picture. 20 years of Grift and Graft in Ukraine is not out of the question.
And huge concrete ceiling tiles fell and crushed some people to death once the Big Dig tunnel finally opened. It was the gift that just kept giving…. or taking (life) depending on which receiving end one was on.
I think there will be Americans who end up getting flattened by the financial mess our wards have created for us.
“The Big Dig, for example, was originally estimated at around $4b, and clocked in at a little over $20B when all was said and done”
Honolulu’s got a train project going, original estimate $4b, now looking at $12.4b
And they had to correct a crossover junction where the wheels they ordered wouldn’t fit the rails already installed
oh it so much more worse than just engineering oversights.
it will be a single track serving only the visitors on oahu only. There will be few locals who will use it. It’s not serving but a very small fraction of the transportation needs on oahu…and NONE on any other other islands.
and so far and counting no less than 9 people have been charged with financial crimes related to this project.
everything about this train is also on off, custom. even the non standard steel wheels.
oahu has always led the way in grifters. Louisiana corruption aint even close.
Puppet, Sr. forced Puppet, Jr. to fire yet another Ukrainian Prosecutor to Keep Grift Alive?
Well, Sonofabitch!
How do you say “Gott segne dich” (God bless you) in Ukrainian?
I doubt even $20B of that “aid” stayed in the country…….the corrupt in DC are ravenous
Ukraine has been used for years a money-laundering operation.
McCarthy deserves the lamp post next to Pelousy ,
Mitchy McCuckold next to Scummer, JoBama next to Hilarity
Necktie parties are such fun!!!
I say hang them all from a single gibbet and let them swing and soil themselves together. No masks, no hoods, dressed in their finest suits. Hmmm, drop them all at once, or sequence them to fireworks?
Stand them all on 50# blocks of ice and let them hang slowly as their feet melt through the ice. Gives them plenty ot time to contemplate one’s sins…
Never thought of that, good one, Mycroft!
I saw that 60 yrs ago as a naughty boy reading Playboy.
During the summer heat wave?? Enquiring minds would like to know.
Kind of makes the idea of global warming pleasant!
Use piano wire to hang and make it like an online website game. The more people that log in the warmer the room gets. The room starts out of zero degrees.
A little AC/DC would be appropriate, Highway to HELL.
McCarthy intentionally undercut the Hillary Clinton hearing on Benghazi
Reporters caught him in the hallway, that one where they always set up the cameras
“Aren’t these hearings simply a way to damage Hillary Clinton?”
(Glibly) “Yeah, sure”
(words to that effect, someone can look it up if they want)
Meanwhile, inside the hearing room, Trey Gowdy was questioning Hillary
The week prior there had been a BIG story about fighter jets on the tarmac in Italy waiting for a “GO” order that never came
Gowdy never even brought it up
This has been my theory for years-
The Blind Sheik (don’t remember his real name but probably something like Alla Alla Alla Bim Blam Blamma) was locked up in NYC about to go to trial for being involved with dastardly deeds.
Suddenly chaos in Libya. We have a US Ambassador in Libya at a fake US embassy that is not secure. Multiple documents are sent up the chain of command that the place is not secure but nothing really comes of it(remember the intelligence of January 6 where the National Guard was offered up but they were told to stand down) so this Libya lack of security issue is similar to J6, everybody knows problems are gonna happen but everybody in a position to stop the problems refuses to take action.
Anyways low and behold the fake US embassy in Libya comes under siege. Frantic calls for help go out. Situation is dire. All US government agencies shrug shoulders and offer no help. I believe this was all by design.
I believe the then powers in charge of the US government(Obonzo President/ Hillary State Department) either one of that group or both in the group wanted the US Ambassador to actually be taken hostage.
Then one or both, obongo and/or Hillary would negotiate his release safely and in return the Blind Sheik would have been turned back over to Taliban like a prIsoner exchange. The whole world would fawn over obongo and/or Hillary and Taliban would get one of their high ranking leaders back.
What they never baked into the cake was the Ambassador being killed. Oh well things like this happen I suppose during violent encounters where buildings are being lit on fire and bullets are flying around.
Sounds crazy I know right but think about how messed up Benghazi was then fast forward to present day and think of all the crazy things that the US government is and has been involved in.
And I forgot to add
At this point what difference does it make!
that’s a good theory, Fred
maybe we’ll see it borne out from someone’s hard drive sometime
The response to Benghazi starts making more sense if that is what actually happened.
The “embassy annex” in Benghazi was a CIA safe house collection point for arms, especially shoulder-fired anti aircraft missiles and anti tank rockets.
These arms were then sold/given to ISIS in Syria.
Many believe that the Seal Team 6 chopper that was shot down in Afghanistan not long after the Benghazi debacle was hit with one of those missiles.
There is a guy who could spend a productive 2 years as Speaker of the House before he runs for president again.
Thats why biden will be replaced before the election. They figure it would be harder to impeach heels up.
might be a ground swell to impeach her, and let the speaker assume office…..President is not obligated to nominate a VP, and the Senate is not obligated to confirm or deny such a nomination. There is an order of succession.
what planet do you live on…..2024 POTUS campaign starts in earnest Jan 2023….time draws nigh
A slice of history about those hanged for high crimes:
At Nuremberg, those sentenced to death were by hanging. And the assigned American executioner apparently set a ‘short’ drop, so that the condemned did not succumb instantly, as is normally the case. The trap door was also set up in a way to smash the executed Nazis in the face (sometimes breaking noses) as they dropped through.
All the condemned Nazis died a long, hard death. In the case of General Keitel’s execution, he thrashed and kicked as he dangled for approximately 24 minutes after the drop before finally expiring. And in another instance, the American executioner had to come down the stairs, and grab and give the condemned a final ‘jerk’ downward before his neck broke.
The American executioner, a stout Army sergeant from Texas, declared the hangings a ‘fine’ event, and had no sympathies whatsoever for the Nazi war criminals’ long, hard, ignominious deaths.
History.
I think Saddam’s demise was probably optimal for a hanging procedure.
No bleeding heart for the actual nazi torturers of the innocent,but they hire sick morons as executioners on purpose.With their lack of human decency,the world would have been a better place if the last one through the trap had been the executioner.
if America had stayed out and let Germany wipe out the communists just imagine how peaceful
the world would be today
one day you will learn the truth, try reading the transcripts from nuremberg it was a kangaroo court
the judge said at one point the defendants testimony is not to be trusted, clearly the defendant has
been tortured. there was no justice there only revenge
The real war criminals churchill stalin roosevelt eisenhower got of scott free
these scum had to kill Gen. Patton so he could,nt expose their crimes
They don’t each deserve their own post. They can all dangle from the same line like dead fish. Or line them up and use one bullet. They’ve consumed enough taxpayer money already.
today the Ukrainian bank raised the hryvnia 25% so the new (today’s) exchange rate is 36.6 hryvnia for 1 US dollar. just wondering how that affects the money laundering. every billion USD = 36.6 hryvnia so the US grifters get 25% more when it comes out of the dryer???
I forgot “billions” should read every billion USD = 36.6 billion hryvnia. still wonder how that effects the “big guy’s” haul.
Pretty amazing that a country that is under invasion, unable to provide for itself, has the value of it’s money raised. That isn’t the way things usually work.
Z is just trying to lure that $750B for “rebuilding” he needs into the country
Swiss bank account # X457R009K.
Rebuilding his out of country residences. Have to upgrade the security features of the property. Never know how many people will be out looking for him.
the average government employed person in Ukraine is 23,000UAH a month ($845). That 23,000 UAH includes housing and transportation and stuff. Makes me wonder how well a person living on US social security compares.
Well, a one thousand dollars a month US pension would be 36,600 hryvnia. A little more than 50% monthly increase. However dodging bullets, bombs, shells etc, could lead to an early departure from this plane of existence.
Ukraine’s currency is the “hernia”? yeah that make sense
Great-Grandpa needs a hryvnia operation. With a rusty cat food lid.
That is not a raise, but a devaluation. You have to pay more hryvnias to get a dollar, so that means each hryvnia is less worth. It’s the official rate from The National Bank of Ukraine. Seems odd to change the rate so drastically instead of moving it incrementally, but there was an official message some days ago about Ukrainian debt and possible default, maybe that’s what trigged this abrupt rate change.
Well slap me twice and call me Nancy!
I hope I live long enough to see elected officials with backbone who appoint military and justice officials with backbone who have the balls to do the right thing, who will do what any sane moral human would do to the current crop of grifters and the openly lying press. We can call it the Balls and Backbone Party.
I can’t despise them any more than I already do. Each day is just confirmation that our government has fallen into the hands of a hostile power. Anyone in our government who is in cahoots with the CCP should be charged with treason, in my opinion. That would probably eliminate a lot of them right there. 99% of them don’t represent 99% of Americans. They just do whatever they want, label it whatever they want (“climate emergency”) and go on their merry way becoming wealthy and lying to themselves and others about their good intentions.
They’ll eventually meet their Maker.
The ultra-rich will conduct their business affairs through crypto-currency.
The rich, the multi-millionaires, will remain slaves of the matrix. Small potatoes.
And most of us will continue to check interest rates and the Dow Jones. The other reality.
“The 2022 democrats are setting up the 2023 republicans to be the people in charge of congress when this economic collapse and subsequent bailout is needed.”
I’m not so sure of a Dem loss this November. They control Dominion Voting Systems (with China’s help).
If they pull an “upset”, then the Dems will go scorched earth on what’s left of America.
They may be planning to lose. With a loss, they can claim:
I’m also seeing more MSM reports about Russia slowly going more ground without the Ukarisne being able to stop it. Of course the “more weapons and money” approach is used to report it. As many here know….Russia won this very early on. It never wanted the whole country. It is now a US state department operation.
The good news is the collapse is not far off!
The bad news is the collapse is not far off!
What should really happen is that all people should demand that taxes should be reduced by the amount that politicians have ‘gifted’ to Ukraine……
If you have read “Not yours to give” by Crockett/Bunce you will know that it is not the governments money when they give away…its OURS.
No government has the authority to give away one single dollar to anyone. Strictly speaking they can only take what is necesary to run the government and no more.
Demand Pelosi pay them her self…….. with her husbands ill gotten gains.
also, governments don’t make any money themselves
all monies from from taxpayers
Yeah, well if they succeed in selling us this turd, all that will prove is we’re dumber than we look (again).
I suspect Zelinsky’s every move is orchestrated by the Obama/Biden/NWO/WEF crews
State department. They have their own policy regardless of executive branch. 8f course they prefer a Democrat in charge though.
It’s not going to work. The bumbler in chief has screwed up everything he has attempted, and this shall be no exception. Republicans, despite the RINOs, will not play ball and will shut down the government before they shut down the fossil fuel industry. Let Biden’s presidency go down in flames before any more spending is done on the Green New Deal. Biden knows that he has two months to get done whatever he hopes to get done in his entire presidency. After that, it’s all over.
Joseph Biden will go down as the worst president in the memory of everyone alive. The choices that he has already made virtually guarantee that. The economic melt down coming will be his to own and ours to suffer.
worst president??
I think we are in worst ever individual HOF territory.
Because the Pubs won’t cut anywhere else in government to make up for it
Just more looting for the whole Uniparty wink wink
now hunter is out there dropping off laptops at every massage parlor in dirty delaware because he was forced to sit out this game of ukraines.
Just as with the COVID PLANDEMIC BAIL OUTS, the GREEN NEW DEAL PLANDEMIC BAIL OUTS will really be redistribution of wealth; tax reductions is NEVER suggested.
Just as Europol agency announced today that the Ukrainians are illegally selling firearms, military goods and heavy weapons on the black market. “There is a risk that they will fall into the hands of organized crime or terrorists,” the representative of Europol said.
Bailing out an economic collapse will be similar to the second Covid bill under Trump where the Democrats stuffed excessive amounts of pork, knowing that more or less, he HAD to sign it.
Always good to have a solid plan before building anything, or in this case building back after destruction, intentional or otherwise. Makes me wonder if the WEFers or whoever is in charge now are following a scripted plan or making it up as they go. I suppose some of both.
Worldwide economics is not an exact science. A bit like herding cats. Trashing an economy is the easy part. Making it work again, not so much.
I’m reminded of a phrase in the Eagles song Hotel California, ”you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave”. So how do we the people check out of Building back better? Or, better yet how do we avoid the deconstruction before it happens? It would be almost sane if we had other forms of energy ready for transition but we are a long way from that place. We are at insanity and possibly national suicide.
Perhaps the WEFers et. al. Are in a hurry because of their age as the leaders are not spring chickens. Wealth, power, overinflated egos and lack of common sense spell disaster.
Pray. For a fair election or two and failure of the enemy. Might want to buy some gold along the way.
“Wealth, power, overinflated egos and lack of common sense spell disaster.”
C’mon, man. Use a larger font.
I’m forced to comment because I can only give you one thumbs up.
Well, I put the common sense feature in there to make sure no one would confuse me talking about Trump. He has a healthy ego, along with power and wealth but it is mixed with boat loads of common sense. That sets him apart plus the fact he loves his country.
Until the world economy finally realizes that “The West™” does not have those “trillions of dollars.”
Until it will no longer accept those “Dollars,” which represent no actual, tangible wealth.
“Fool me once, shame on me. But, fool me twice …” Face it: what would you do?
“Pa-per ro-ses …”
BRICS already knows
Democrats and RINOs run the country to the brink of collapse, the people rise up and vote in adults who are actually prepared to deal with the issues…and then the media flips the script, “suddenly” discovers that the nation is in financial shambles, and immediately blames the Conservatives – “women and minorities hit hardest”!
The Leftists act shocked, demand bailouts (which won’t work but which the Republicans will pass anyway), start running ads about how heartless the Right is, and BOOM….they ride the “anti-incumbent” wave right back into power! Lather, rinse, repeat!
With the feckless republicans in charge for the next two years, and getting blamed for everything sets the dims up for a change of parties for the 2024 elections. Nonstop hatred for the Rs will be everywhere. How quickly people will forget that the dims created this mess, and will vote for them to get the republicans out, who do nothing but make matters worse.
Besides Donald Trump, are there truly any politicians in congress and the 4 branches of government that care about us and this country? It appears not.
It’s a delicate issue for the Bidens.
In times I recall, seems like years ago, threatening to withhold foreign aid unless a certain prosector is fired, would be considered delicate.
Hey, $10 billion here, $40 billion there…soon we are talking some escarole.
Apparently, the total for Ukraine this year alone is $60 billion. That comes to approx. $400 for every household in the country (that is our country). And, it is all borrowed!
Who knows where all of this money is going. Two for you, two for me…Unbelievable corruption both there and here.
On a related subject (uncontrolled corrupt spending), on the radio I was listening to today, that the so-called “Chips” bill is not just for Intel, there is also all kinds of spending increasing for agencies such as NSF (National Science Foundation) to the tune of doubling their budget by the billions!
Agencies such as NSF (and FDA, NIH, etc) and Departments in the US government issue project grants to the tune of billions and billions every year to Universities and other “research” organizations. I was once a grad student so I know how all of this works.
A Lead investigator (university professor) applies for a grant to study something. Let’s suppose the grant is approved (will not get approved if the request is not politically popular!). The professor will then recruit a grad student as cheap labor (in STEM fields, 80% or so of the grad students are foreign, lately most from China). Part of the grant money goes for paying the grad student to do the work, as well as pay for supplies, etc. Often, the professor will also pay themselves 2 months salary as many faculty positions are typically 10 month appointments. Money from the grant is also used to pay the tuition of the grad student.
Once the study is complete, it gets published and hence is public information for the whole world to use.
But, here is the kicker! For most grants, the university takes anywhere from 40 to 55% of the grant
as “OVERHEAD.” So, lets suppose the grant is for $1 million per year for 3 years. That means that the university gets ~ $500,000 per year. Where does this money go? In theory it goes for heat, lights, building maintenance, administration staff, etc.
You ever wonder why these Universities have so many admin staff and grad students for subjects such as “.xxx Studies.? Now you know where all of the money comes from. In reality, there is not much in the way of grant money for English, history, or “studies” grad students. It mostly comes from technical grant money laundered thru as “overhead.”
Amazing how much money the Federal government spends. Just no end. Now you know why all these University people support the Demokrats. That (and RINOs) is who feeds them They return the favor.
French and Interdisciplinary Humanities grad programs don’t get $ for ‘studies’ or research from STEM grants at the universities that I attended. If you wanted to go to Europe for research you wrote a grant, not unlike STEM grants, or you financed it yourself.
How much more debt can this country take on before we’re totally broke?
And what happens then?
We are totally broke, financially and spiritually. They’ll keep the printing presses running until the prices are so ridiculous that even the basement dummy voters will notice.
I think we’re already totally broke. We are at the cusp of sucking it up and getting on the straight and narrow or starving to death…as individuals and as a nation.
Well, we have a national debt of about $30 trillion. Assume 330 million people, that’s about $90K for every single person, including infants. For a family of four, $360K. Considering that 51% of Americans have less than $5K in savings, I’d say we’re totally broke already.
Think of Weekend at Bernies… The economy being represented by Bernie.
Wait a minute! Are you telling me that the Ukraine is not a model democracy? Say it ain’t so!
Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses.
Note that a Ukrainian plane carry tons of weapons crashed in Greece. Looks to me that the SOB’s in Kiev are selling some of the weapons the Biden regime is sending to them.
That country has been a weapons-smuggling hub since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Russia is NOT going to lose ANY war on it’s own border. Grow a brain America! This will end badly, very badly, with Zelensky retreating to his tax payer paid for mansion in Florida. The Democrats, along with many Republicans, can’t even state their end strategy, here. This whole Ukraine thing is backfiring. Sanctions are a total failure. The EU is getting the picture and are getting politically shaky.
Many countries are now trying to figure a way around the US Dollar being the reserve currency. We, and the rest of the world, are headed for an economic collapse the likes of which we haven’t seen in years.
Every bit of this entire mess is a monster of our own creation. And for those of you who don’t get it, or don’t want to get it, don’t forget your boosters. Joe says it’s for your own good. Stand by…………
I agree, Russia is not going to lose their war with Ukraine. The sooner they (Russia) get it over with, the better. And i hope the BRICS agenda is also successful. The WEF, NWO and their patsies in the West need to be taken down a notch. MAGA!
Russia does not want to get it over with. They are enjoying watching the west commit economic suicide.
Taken down COMPLETELY!
Paging “OldRealist”…
😂
“It’s Putin’s fault!” “The Russian Army is running over Ukrainian mailboxes, throwing M80s into Ukrainian toilets and throwing burning bags of dog poop onto Ukrainian porches after they ring Ukrainian doorbells.”
Funny how OldRealist posting Ukraine propaganda all over many of the other threads, but this one? Not a sign of the guy…
As Sundance always writes, “Leftists must pretend not to know things.”
So true.
The billions to be spent on EV charging stations all over the country will be as useful as buggy whips when there’s no power to the charging station! Only a complete fool or someone with evil intentions could believe wind and solar alone will run this economy!! Good grief!! God help us! Hosanna!
It’s time to discard the Useful Idiots. I expect something unfortunate will happen to the Ukrainian Comedian, and it will require an infusion of more worthless dollars and advisors of every sort, both political and military.
After the November election blood bath expect the defective roller coaster to take off with all of us on it.
I detest them all.
The actor- comedian playing president and his entire corrupt administration, can dutifully go FI.
Remember they called him George Washington
Wow, NPR no less. How do the U.S. clowns back away from this?
60 billion dollars later
The Joebama administration is in on it (the corruption in Ukraine). That’s why they have to keep the money flowing in. Otherwise, Russia will call them out. and I hope they/Putin does exactly that.
Putin warned Ukraine and the United States, come to the table now or there will be no concessions
Now we will take it all…
Yes, this message from Lavrov is not good in the bigger picture. Someone will make a mistake or do something really stupid.
Its more of a reunification than an annexation.
Most of it used to be part of Russia anyway.
Yes. Most of the current “Ukraine” was part of the Russian Empire before WWI.
The westernmost part of the country – area around Lviv – was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. That was the only Ukrainian territory where Ukrainians were officially recognized as a distinct nationality. The people there were called Ruthenians, and a West Ukrainian dialect was an official language of the Empire.
There is no voting booth solution to any of this. The sooner you realize and accept this, the better you’ll fare down the road. Free yourself.
Exactly why they are coming for our guns. The writing is on the wall.
In a recent op-ed trashing Trump….
Mitt Romney said “Biden is a good man” and that Ukraine’s Zelensky “showed us what real character looks like”.
Romney should hang his head in shame supporting such corruption.
Romney always doubles down on stupid. Romney is an idiot.
Romney should hang. Period.
You beat me to it, lol.
Romney should just hang, period.
Biden sends them F16s and Warthogs….unbelievable
16s & 10s? No way!
It was the republicans who ran full steam into the moral hazard abyss in 2008 when Bush and Paulson pushed TARP through congress and set the precedent for foisting private debt onto the American public. They have also been more than happy to ignore the budget process ever since in exchange for their share of tax-payer funded slush funds and kick-back schemes.
So I don’t think we need to fear the republicans being “the fall guy” this time. They will more than likely be leading the charge once again.
The republicans need to revive the story of a previously fired ukranian prosecutor, the result of a quid pro confessed on video by the perpetrator.
Within those several trillions of emergency legislative appropriations, supported by both wings of the UniParty as an expression of the economic and humanitarian urgency, the Biden administration will hide the $500 billion in Green New Deal spending.
If only we could elect a MAGA House and get a MAGA Speaker to restore regular budger order. Watch the Uniparty squirm as they have to vote on clean appropriations bills for these items instead of an omnibus bill where they calim they at least got somrthing out of the deal.
This. 👇
They are throwing Zelensky under the bus because he’s served his purpose in letting them launder that money through his Israeli satellite-state. Now that this money has looped back into their offshore accounts they need the cover to say he stole it so anyone who gets snoopy won’t follow it back to them.
Yea Let them cough up that money. Way too much $ supply so print more you fools. Personally I don’t think they got it in them. They screwed up so bad giving $ to Ukraine round 1. I have been saying that single act was the biggest red pill for normies EVER. Didn’t matter to most of us but I am telling you that pissed NPCs off. A lot of them are hurting mind you.
If they go to pass some big ass spending bill now EVEN in the name of helping Joe normie it’s going to light inflation on fire and we are out of flame retardant.
I disagreed when Trump when he bitched at Powell for raising rates. The economy was smokin and that is the time to reign in spending and up the interest rates. It gives you a tool to fight recession, hence Covid lockdowns. I don’t envy Powell’s position. I’m not saying he’s on Team Good but he has his motives which may be counterproductive to the Davos crowd. This has suddenly become a “Game of Thrones” no pun intended. Lots of snakes moving about in the form of “Rock Paper Scissors.” That’s probably better than “Us vs Them.”
So to this I say the more then merrier.
The article quoted is just a paid “advertorial” placed by the deep state to distract and divert attention. No one in the ruling class gives a flip about Ukraine except for 1) it’s usefulness to launder kickback money to US politicians and 2) it’s usefulness as “cover” – a plausible (to Joe Sixpack) reason for the destruction of western economies.
“advertorial”
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Of course the 2023 “Republicans” could pass thru CONgress various “get America working again” errrrr Make America Great Again measures and force the occupant to veto them.
But alas, I dream.