This is in regard to the March 15 Press & Dakotan story, “Noem: Russian Invasion Of Ukraine ‘Europe’s Fight, Not Ours.'”
The Budapest Memorandum — which on Dec. 5, 1994, the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Britain and the United States signed — provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with becoming a non-nuclear weapon state. The four parties signed the memorandum, containing a preamble and six paragraphs. The first says: The signers reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine. The second adds: that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense. The third adds: to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
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As a proud Republican, I am encouraged by the fact that no one has responded to this nit-picking Democrat.
No one cares about history, Mr. Menke. AMERICA FIRST means that we do whatever we want. And that wisdom was determined by our real President, Donald Trump.
Did you notice that Mr. Trump pulled out of all the agreements we made when that racist Communist, Obama, was in charge?
What’s one more broken agreement when our interests are at stake?
Thank God our real President, Donald Trump withdrew from :
1️⃣The Paris Climate Agreement
2️⃣The Trans-Pacific Partnership
3️⃣UNESCO
4️⃣The Iran nuclear deal
5️⃣The UN Human Rights Council
Go Republicans‼️ We don’t need the rest of the world. 🌎 👎
America FIRST is the key to winning the 2024 election‼️
As a proud Republican, I am encouraged by the fact that no one has responded to this nit-picking Democrat.
No one cares about history, Mr. Menke. AMERICA FIRST means that we do whatever we want. And that wisdom was determined by our real President, Donald Trump.
Did you notice that Mr. Trump pulled out of all the agreements we made when that racist Communist, Obama, was in charge?
What’s one more broken agreement when our interests are at stake?
Thank God our real President, Donald Trump withdrew from :
1️⃣The Paris Climate Agreement
2️⃣The Trans-Pacific Partnership
3️⃣UNESCO
4️⃣The Iran nuclear deal
5️⃣The UN Human Rights Council
Go Republicans‼️ We don’t need the rest of the world. 🌎 👎
America FIRST is the key to winning the 2024 election‼️
President Biden in Canada last week said the following - "Today, I applaud China for stepping up. Excuse me, Canada." Seems old Joey has China on the brain, must be having trouble figuring out how to get them and his son Hunter more money before the "walls close in on him".
Last week in Canada, President Biden met with Trudeau to discuss climate change and global warming, in their motorcade alone were 75 vehicles including military armored personnel carriers. Not too much greenhouse gas emissions coming from this motorcade, is there?
Did you know President Biden's new budget includes $4,700,000,000 in NEW taxes? Bet you didn't. Remember him telling us all he is not raising taxes on anyone making under $400,000? So who's going to pay for these NEW taxes, businesses, corporations, rich people, sure, and they will pass them on to us in the cost of the goods we all buy, nope, not raising taxes on any of us. Oh, and inflation, yep, that is just like a tax, oh, well, at least he told us he isn't raising taxes, that's all us good democrats need to know.
Has anyone here looked up the BRICS nations yet? Probably haven't because it's more bad news for the U.S. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and many, many other nations are moving away from the U.S. dollar as their standard for trade, leaving the U.S. behind, again.
And in the meantime, China's leadership is globe trotting to nation after nation pulling them all into their fold, taking them under their wing, becoming the leader of the world, the superpower of the world. Our leader, yep, meeting with Trudeau, flying home every weekend, funneling more money to Ukraine. China is brokering a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine, Biden and the democrats, well they just keep funneling money and arms at the tune of almost $200 billion without anyone in America knowing where one single red cent has gone to. Russia is going to put a pipeline to China and sell them natural gas, oil, gasoline, sanctions, they ain't a workin' folks, been over a year now Biden's war has been going on. And here in America we are shutting down oil, shutting down pipelines, raising costs of natural gas, of fuel oil, of any fossil fuel, and in the meantime, the world just moves around us and laughs. The great democratic party at it's finest. Oh, and you want more wars, vote democratic, Ukraine and Russia, China threatening Tiawan, Iran and Saudia Arabia coming together to be a power, attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria. The democratic party, taxes and wars, it's what they are good at.
VoiceforAll, if American voters found all of your misinformation and spin as convincing as you Trumpsters do, doesn’t one have to wonder why it is that SIXTY percent of American voters DON'T want Trump - the leading Republican presidential candidate - to be president again.
But keep preaching to the Trumpster Choir, Voice. I think it’s driving away the congregation.
This 60/40 split that you refer to, E pluribus, pretty much mirrors the poll numbers on all of the issues TruthFairy has laid out in her posts.
This 60/40 split is the difference between what most Americans think, and what Trumpsters fervently believe.
The intensity of the grievances VoiceforAll repeatedly shares with us shows why Republican candidates have to ignore the numbers showing them how out of step they are with non-Trumpster Americans.
Thus GOP candidates will have to dutifully follow along behind their base and declare solidarity with THEIR issues if they want to have a fighting chance in the GOP primaries.
How well this plays out in the general election already has poor Mitch McConnell worried about regaining the Senate in 2024 and maybe even losing the House and the Presidency as well.
And of course the biggest wild card in this electoral deck is what happens if Trump is indicted.
Likely nothing will separate Trump's base from their leader.
My guess is that regardless of what happens, the 60/40 split continues on into the general election.
Love or hate any one that seems to be running this nation, the fact that the US is now more dependent on other countries should be alarming to all. We need to get back to making our own products, keeping our own people well employed, restricting illegal aliens and the rampant drug trade, and finding out why our young people are becoming less healthy (autism, mental illness, allergies, sudden adult death, etc.) Why are we trying to save the world when we can't even take care of our selves?
Once upon a time Republicans were united with Democrats in supporting our military against the Russian “Evil Empire” as that once revered RINO, Ronald Reagan said.
Now Trumpsters wring their hands over the cost of defending the Ukrainians against Russian conquest. And like LKAS they say, “Why can’t we save ourselves?”
If Republicans under Reagan had taken that cowardly isolationist attitude the SOVIET UNION would have overrun Europe instead of collapsing.
Yes, supporting Ukraine is expensive. And yet these expenditures are still a bargain.
Our billions in aid to Ukraine are only a tiny portion of our defense budget of $1 trillion.
Doesn’t spending 5.6% of our defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seem like an absolutely no-brainer investment?
Not for today's Trumpster Putin fanboys.
Welcome to even more of the democrats unlawful use of not only the DOJ and FBI, but now the IRS and what the democrats silently call "enemies of the state", happens so often under the Biden administration, and all in the democratic party are ok with it, as long as it is happening to the "other party" - "The IRS was silent about how often it dispatches agents to people’s homes Tuesday on the heels of journalist Matt Taibbi saying he received an unannounced visit from Uncle Sam at his New Jersey residence.
Taibbi, a Substack journalist who played a key role in Twitter owner Elon Musk’s efforts to reveal the social media juggernaut’s once-secret communications, was visited by an IRS agent on March 9. That was the same day he testified before the newly Republican-created Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board criticized the IRS and noted it normally sends a letter or schedules a meeting at the agent’s office rather than make unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes.
Members of Congress have also questioned what the IRS was doing, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas tweeted it "absolutely stinks to high heaven" because the "IRS has a troubling history of targeting the political enemies of Democrats."
Visited the same day by IRS agents as the day he testified, unbelievable, the democratic party at it's finest once again.
Did you happen to catch your great President yesterday giving a speech addressing the Nashville shooting where children and adults were murdered, here are his opening statements before talking about this horrific event, Joe Biden – “My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband. And I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” he said. “By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I’m kidding? I’m not.” Then he went on his typical gun violence rant – “We have to do more to stop gun violence; it’s ripping our communities apart — ripping the soul of this nation,” Biden continued. And in case you didn't take what he just said seriously, he drifted back to ice cream - “…and by the way, it is splendid,” Biden said, adding, “If I were allowed to take you upstairs, you got a whole freezer full of Jeni’s chocolate chip ice cream … You know it’s pretty dull when you’ve been in public life as long as I have and you’re known for two things: chocolate chip ice cream and Ray-Bans sunglasses, but what the h*ll?”
Your democratic leader, the leader of the free world, the leader of the once greatest nation in the world, and he talks about ice cream, probably because this is the only thing he truly can talk about without having notes, a folder or a teleprompter in front of him, anything outside of ice cream stumps him. And the world continues to laugh at us.
“Way off in the Land Down Under, former President Barack Obama blamed his White House successor Donald Trump for China’s increasingly antagonistic behavior.
Obama talked foreign policy during a paid speaking tour appearance Tuesday in Sydney — part of a lucrative arrangement that reportedly could net him upwards of $1 million.
The Democrat said China began to change “once I left office” in 2017 when Trump entered the White House following his victory over Obama’s preferred candidate Hillary Clinton.
“And so as a consequence, I think China’s attitude as well, we can take advantage of what appears to be a vacuum internationally on a lot of these issues,” Obama said.”
Apparently Obama hasn’t heard anything about Hunter and Joe getting payments from China, you all seem to want to ignore that, don’t you? And once again, democrats blaming Trump (or everyone else for that matter) for all the problems this country has, Trump spent 4 years in political office, Joe Biden has been in politics over 40 years and has never done one thing wrong, never made a mistake, never lied, or at least that is what he will tell you. Over 820 days into Joe Biden’s presidency, and all we keep hearing is it's Trump’s fault, FOR EVERYTHING! So folks, how are things going? You doing good? How’s our country doing? Any issues there? How’s the world going? Any issues there? Over 820 days of Biden and the democrats control, it's all good? Nope, well too bad, welcome to the democratic party. Now why don’t you go and join Joey and have some ice cream, it’s all he and the rest of your party care about anyways.
Oh, indeed we HAVE heard “about Hunter and Joe getting payments from China,” VoiceforAll.
And this is only one of Republicans’ many unproven allegations.
But so far, Republicans haven’t proved any of these allegations.
And now that they have the investigative powers of the House of Representatives, why are they moving so slowly, Voice?
Maybe there’s nothing there? What do you suppose is the explanation?
And the tolerant left, the loving, caring, beautiful people of the democratic party, their true colors come out in times of tragedy, and like the old saying goes, a good democrat doesn’t let a tragedy go to waste.
Here is your party at work democrats, these words have to make you proud:
After a shooter killed three children and three staff members at a Christian grade school in Nashville Tennessee on Monday, some journalists, columnists, entertainers and activists turned their ire onto Christians and conservatives banning drag shows for kids.
Left-wing sports writer Mike Wise seemed to agree with a tweet that sympathized with the transgender shooter, who police say attended the school as a child, for being a victim of "intolerant… brainwashing" through "religious indoctrination."
"I don't condone Audrey Hale's actions, though I understand their outrage against an intolerant state that brainwashes children through religious indoctrination. The reality is this human still identified as that child attending that school and carried that pain into adulthood," a Twitter user named Kat Amarco wrote.
Others attacked Covenant School and those praying for victims of the tragedy.
Progressive talk show host David Pakman mocked the Christian school for not "praying enough."
"Very surprising that there would be a mass shooting at a Christian school, given that lack of prayer is often blamed for these horrible events. Is it possible they weren't praying enough, or correctly, despite being a Christian school?" he asked in a since-deleted tweet.
Gun control activist Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action also seemed to blame the victims as well in her tweet.
"If prayers alone worked there wouldn’t have been a mass shooting at a school where they pray. DO YOUR F---ING JOB," she tweeted.
Television show writer Lee Aronsohn scoffed at prayer while ridiculing the state's move against drag shows.
"Dead, Maimed Children = Thoughts & Prayers™ Drag Queen Story Hour = Impassioned Condemnation and Priority Legislation The thing is, If we gave an assault rifle to every drag queen the GOP would make Story Hour a national holiday," he tweeted.
ABC News journalist Terry Moran was accused of blaming Christians and Republicans after he highlighted how Tennessee "banned transgender medical care for minors as well as a law that prohibited adult entertainment including male and female impersonators after a series of drag show controversies in that state," during his report on the school shooting.
VoiceforAll, why do you suppose the number of Americans who identify as “Christian” is steadily dwindling?
Have you thought about it? Do you even acknowledge that the numbers show this is happening? Do you?
And the group that has declined the most is at the core of your MAGA movement. White evangelical Protestants have experienced the steepest and most rapid decline.
Just maybe this is because today’s Christians demand the right to reject those they know their god would reject, while supporting issues out of step with the world that a majority of Americans actually inhabit.
As recently as 2006, white evangelical Protestants comprised nearly one-quarter of Americans (23%). Today, white evangelical Protestants are only 13.6% of Americans, and dwindling - especially their young folks.
No wonder you’re so threatened and angry.
You all remember when Jane Fonda was on a recent episode of 'The VIew' and she said people should go out and murder pro-life Christians, well yesterday she got her wish, she got the violence she wanted, she got what democrats want. Imagine if this was someone from the republican party saying this, Joe Biden would be giving another speech, first he would talk about ice cream, then blame Trump, then blame guns, then blame Christians, then blame the school, then blame the police department, then blame Trump some more, then call for a complete ban of all guns, then talk about ice cream again.
VoiceforAll, why do you suppose it is that murder rates in Trump-voting states have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000?
And guess what, more soft on crime democrats letting murderer's out of jail early. So kill 3, get 5 years on each murder, this is justice to a democrat, and your hero George Soros. But a democrat will tell you they are for the people, they are doing no harm, it's Trump or it's the republicans that are hurting you, it's not us, we are the good one's, everyone else, they are the bad one's, anyways, it's not our fault, sounds all to familiar coming from the democratic party, doesn't it? So let's see another example of that:
"The families of crime victims in the Oakland, California, area are calling for the ousting of George Soros-funded District Attorney Pamela Price following the newly-elected prosecutor's failed bid to slash a sentence in a triple murder case.
Two veteran prosecutors recently announced they are quitting the Alameda County District Attorney's office, citing concerns surrounding Price's radical polices and impact on victims.
Price brokered a plea deal earlier this year that had many critics alarmed. The deal would have reduced sentencing in a triple murder case from 75 years to life in prison down to 15 years."
75 years to life, nope, 15 years, yep, move on, 3 dead, so what, nothing more to see here.
VoiceforAll, why do you suppose it is that murder rates in Trump-voting states have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000?
Don't you all find it awesome that many, many republicans have come out and called the policemen and police women in Nashville that ran into that school to help save as many as they could, hero's, while on the democratic side, amazing as it seems even nowadays, politicians, talking heads, pundits, many, many of them attack Trump, attack republicans, blame others and call for gun control. Really shows the difference between republicans that actually care about people and democrats that are looking for a way to gain anything they can politically on the backs of dead children and adults, they very same day they get killed. Even your President, the same day of the murders came out and said we need more gun control, of course after talking about ice cream, he couldn't even wait a day or two, they have to pounce, he doesn't care, the only thing he cares about it taking peoples guns away, this is the democratic party at their worst, again.
VoiceforAll, why do you suppose it is that murder rates in Trump-voting states have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000?
As a proud Republican I was delighted to know Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett stands his ground against all those gun “safety” nuts who think anything can be done about the epidemic of child gun deaths.
(Which liberals are always pointing out now exceeds the number of child fatalities in auto accidents.)
Tim just said in plain and simple words what any sane assault rifle owner knows about school shootings: 'We're not gonna fix it. Lawmakers would only "mess things up.”
Liberals are always whining that we have far more gun deaths than any other civilized nation. But doesn’t that just show that Americans are much better marksmen than those effete Europeans?
We should be proud!🇺🇸
Besides, auto accidents always mess up somebody’s car. Sometimes even a couple of them. But you never hear about a properly maintained assault rifle being damaged blowing out the brains of a random toddler, do you?
Go Republicans‼️‼️ Protecting our sacred Second Amendment right to own Assault Rifles is the key to winning the 2024 election‼️
You know Trumpsters are desperate when they play the “Fonda Card.” It’s been a favorite through the decades. Starting with the Vietnam War era.
But, seriously Voice, do you really think the foolish WORDS of an actress will be enough to distract from the foolish (and allegedly illegal) ACTIONS of all the Trumpsters who are the object of numerous DOJ investigations?
Are you even aware of all the legal proceedings ignored in Fox “News” broadcasts?
And why isn’t your House of Representatives getting anywhere with THEIR investigations into all your serious allegations?
Serious ALLEGATIONS seem to be the point of all this, doesn’t it! Since serious EVIDENCE isn’t needed to energize the Trumpster Base.
But the lack of serious EVIDENCE is certainly noticeable to the rest of us. You fellas might want to find some before the 2024 election.
PS VoiceforAll, you seem to have completely abandoned your strange “Democrat” schtick. But I’m reassured to see you still using “Re-elect Biden.”
Keep at it! Only 293 more days to go‼️
Biden thinks children and adults being killed is a joke, he's a senile old man and it shows more and more every day, so on Tuesday he proved it once again, just a day after the killings in Nashville and Biden relentlessly talking about ice cream the day of the killings, Biden had this to add - "Tuesday afternoon, Biden stopped by to chat with the press reporters outside the White House and was asked whether or not he agreed with Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) assessment that the shooting was specifically aimed at Christians.
“Mr. President, do you believe that Christians were targeted in the Nashville school shooting?” a reporter asked.
“I have no idea,” he answered.
“Josh Hawley believes they were. What do you say to that?” a journalist asked.
“Well, I probably don’t then,” Biden said with a chuckle, perhaps expecting a laugh from his typically subservient media. “No, I’m joking. No, I have no idea,” he followed up.
In response, Hawley tweeted, “What a disgrace,” while adding, “There’s nothing remotely funny about hate crimes.”
Yep, a tragedy like this, Biden talks about ice cream and he thinks this whole thing is a joke. You can see in times like this that democrats are grateful for these kinds of things because it gives them more cause to push their agenda, the President doesn't care, it was only hours after the killings happened and he was telling jokes and laughing it up with people in the White House and talking about ice cream, he doesn't care, the only thing he and the rest of the democratic party care about it their agenda, nothing more.
As a proud Republican, I think it’s always best to look at the bright side. There’s a silver lining in every atrocity, isn’t there?
Even mass shootings in school houses.
And to be fair, for most of the perpetrators this is their first brush with the legal system, and we should respect that they scrupulously followed the law in obtaining their assault weapons LEGALLY.
So it’s important to acknowledge that most of these toddlers are snuffed out by a tumbling .223 round tearing through their little bodies fired from a LEGALLY purchased AR-15.
And in the last moments of their young lives we should rejoice that they’re being spared the tragedy of attending a drag show, learning about America's past, or reading books somebody doesn’t like.
Better Dead than Read, I always say to my grandchildren. And this is what every patriotic American needs to say to the next generation.
And those who survive will pass it on down to the next generation!
May the circle be unbroken! 🥲
Go Republicans‼️‼️ Protecting our sacred Second Amendment right to own Assault Rifles is the key to winning the 2024 election‼️
And while the democrats are talking about eating ice cream, destroying our economy, funneling billions of U.S. tax payers money to Ukraine, our President visiting Cananda and talking about global warming, what are our enemies doing? - China's expansion of its nuclear arsenal is the most "disturbing" development that Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has seen in his decades-long career, he told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Kendall made the statement during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. Kendall, with a 50-year U.S. military and defense career, says China's development into a top-level nuclear power is a major issue.
"I don't think I've seen anything more disturbing in my career than the Chinese ongoing expansion of their nuclear force," Kendall told lawmakers. China announced plans late last year to more than triple its nuclear warhead stockpile by 2035, according to a Pentagon report. "If China continues the pace of its nuclear expansion, it will likely field a stockpile of about 1,500 warheads by its 2035 timeline," the Department of Defense assessed.
It's a good thing our President keeps giving away our military equipment to Ukraine and keeps selling our strategic oil reserves to China, shuts down our own oil and natural gas production and keeps his son Hunter rich by working with Chinese companies, seems he is trying to help our enemies more than he is trying to help America now a days, doesn't it? Oh well, we sure know a lot about the ice cream he eats, so we have that going for us. Someday you will all wake up, hopefully before it is too late.
VoiceforAll, you may not see this on Fox “News” but with all the investigations closing in on Trump and his merry band of Trumpsters, so far you boys still haven’t put a single point on the board.
Hunter’s laptop. FBI, CIA, IRS malfeasance. Money to the Biden’s from China and Ukraine, etc….
Yet the investigations Republicans have undertaken have turned up nothing so far.
As Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani told Republican Rep. Russell “Rusty” Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, you, too, have “got lots of theories, you just don’t have the evidence.”
Of course you do have those 🍦🍦🍦 don’t you?🤣
Uh oh, wonder if this will just kind of disappear like the Russia collusion, taxes, classified documents, any of the other 100 or so things the democrats have brought "charges" up against Trump on, my guess, probably so, they keep delaying and delaying, trying to find the next thing while what they are working on fails - "The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s alleged $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels won’t hear evidence in the case for a month as it goes on a previously scheduled break.
Politico reported that any potential indictment of Trump would not happen until at least the end of April unless the grand jury’s schedule changes."
Lucky you, VoiceforAll. At least this will give more time for your boys to find evidence for all your theories.
Even luckier would be if all this “will just kind of disappear.”
Somehow, though, I think you are going to be disappointed. Just as you were when you discovered that it really wasn’t true that “Nobody cares about January 6.”
Meanwhile, the House Republicans need to get busy. Even one resulting indictment would be a start.
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