Another Putin Disaster
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I wouldn't say worst President "ever" since I've only experienced 9
10 (I barely remember Kennedy). They all had their good points and bad points.
Johnson was pretty bad. He sent a lot of young men to death in a pointless war, then blew the budget on his Great Society and caused a huge inflation problem for Nixon to solve. OTOH he did desegregate the south. On balance, he sucked.
Nixon was personally paranoid and weasely, but he ended the great bleeding wound that was Vietnam, and tackled Johnson's stagflation problem with wage-price controls and taking the dollar off the gold standard, substituting the petrodollar instead. Started the EPA. OTOH Kissinger was his foreign policy advisor, a war criminal, and supported tyrants like Pinochet and Suharto with massive loss of life and freedom around the world. So, on balance, HE sucked!
Ford wasn't in office very long, I recall "couldn't walk and chew gum".
Carter was a sincere person and intelligent, introduced the notion of "human rights". OTOH he had the "brilliant" idea of arming and funding Islamic radicals in Afghanistan to drive out the Soviets, not realizing what a force for evil they would become. On balance, prolly not terrible, but naive.
Reagan. Oh, my! "Star Wars" defense system (lots of $$$ to the MIC!), Iran- Contra, tac cuts for the rich. But he did sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets which reduced stockpiles of warheads in both nations. Some very good actions, some terrible.
Clinton. Wholly owned by the banks and transnationals. Actually reduced the deficit, taking advantage of the "peace dividend" but ... free trade, commodities speculation, cozied up to China, killed Glass Steagall, and in general set the stage for the USA becoming a financialist nation, and for the pickled we're in today. On balance, terrible.
GWB continues in the same tradition as Clinton but adds a couple of wars in the Mideast. Adds Rx to Medicare but forbids Medicare from negotiating for best prices, tax cuts for the rich, blows up the USA deficit, adding fuel to the 2008 fire-to-be.
Obama. Continues " interventionist" foreign policy by destroying Libya, attempting to destroy Syria, conducting a coup in Ukraine, and bailing out the banks to the tune of $17 trillion. Promotes identity politics. Can't think of a single good thing. About on par with GWB. Terrible.
Trump- lofty goals. Took us out of free.trade deals (good) and attempted to secure the border, but couldn't wrest control of the admin from closet neocons and rabid partisans in State Dept, CUA, and FBI. Will be remembered more for what he failed to accomplish.
Biden* - a sock puppet. Administration factions fighting each other. Imposed illegal medical mandates, smeared half of the USA electorate as "white supremacist terrorists", blew up the budget causing inflation ... the final word has not been written. Maybe some faction will pull his administration out of a nosedive.
I think it's kind of a tie so far between Johnson, GWB, Clinton and Obama in terms of not representing America's interests.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Are you giving a pass to Biden* then simply because he's a sockpuppet?
A lack of ill intentions simply because his dementia has advanced so far that he has the innocence of a 2 year old shouldn't preclude him from the worst ever list, IMO.
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Quote:Nah. I can't think of a single thing that he* hasn't fucked up, no "good" things on his ledger. But he might retrieve his Presidency with some stunning action or policy that's good for America (not big pharma, financiers, and transantional buddies and fellow grifters). Record not complete yet. So far, not good.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Are you giving a pass to Biden* then simply because he's a sockpuppet?
A lack of ill intentions simply because his dementia has advanced so far that he has the innocence of a 2 year old shouldn't preclude him from the worst ever list, IMO.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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If Donald Trump Had Won 'Russians Would Already Be in Kyiv,' John Bolton Says
"I think he would have given Ukraine away, basically," Bolton told Newsweek. "Until they turn over that Democratic National Committee server and find out what Hunter Biden was doing in Ukraine, Ukraine was going to fend for itself."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/if-donald-trump-had-won-russians-
would-already-be-in-kyiv-john-bolton-says/ar-AATtBNA?ocid=msedgntp
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Nobody gives a shit what John Bolton has to say about anything.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Are you giving a pass to Biden* then simply because he's a sockpuppet?
A lack of ill intentions simply because his dementia has advanced so far that he has the innocence of a 2 year old shouldn't preclude him from the worst ever list, IMO.
Oh. An optimist, I see.
Good for you.
I live by "Expect nothing, and you won't be disappointed."
Hey... Maybe when Democrats get destroyed in November and he doesn't have to answer to them anymore he might surprise us all.
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Dismal Russian record in occupied eastern Ukraine serves as warning
The Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions were once the engines of the country’s economy and dominated its politics.
They produced its richest man, billionaire industrialist Rinat Akhmetov, as well as former President Viktor Yanukovych, ousted by the street protests that triggered the Russian invasion in 2014.
Since then, however, the two areas—now nominally independent “people’s republics” inside the larger regions of Luhansk and Donetsk—have turned into impoverished, depopulated enclaves that increasingly rely on Russian subsidies to survive. As much as half the prewar population of 3.8 million has left, for the rest of Ukraine, more prosperous Russia or Europe. Those who remain are disproportionately retirees, members of the security services and people simply too poor to move. Current economic output has shrunk to roughly 30% of the level before the Russian invasion, economists estimate.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin is massing more than 100,000 troops for a possible broader invasion of Ukraine, the developments in Donetsk and Luhansk show what many fear could happen to the rest of the country if he were to carry that out. The dismal record of Russian rule is one reason so many Ukrainian citizens, including Russian-speakers, are ready to take up arms so that their hometowns won’t meet the same fate.
“The nightmare that started in 2014 in Donetsk has transformed the popular attitudes in mostly Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine,” said Oleksiy Goncharenko, a lawmaker from Odessa, one of the cities in southern and eastern Ukraine rocked by large-scale pro-Russian protests at the time.
“Back in 2014, the majority here were undecided—their main priority was to keep living normally, working in their businesses, sending their kids to school,” Mr. Goncharenko said. “Since then, they’ve seen very clearly that life is quiet only in the areas where the Ukrainian flag remains. They said: We don’t want to live in such a zombie zone, in some kind of Somalia.”
Borys Korolyov, a native of Luhansk city, is now studying at a university in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, some 220 miles away. On a recent day, he lingered for a few minutes while his cellphone still worked in Stanytsia Luhanska, a crossing point from Ukrainian-controlled to Russian-held areas. Then he picked up his suitcase and headed across a bridge into Luhansk, to visit his parents.
“In Kharkiv, there are new, unexpected things, opportunities at every corner,” said Mr. Korolyov. “In Luhansk, there is nothing to do except stay at home. Boring. No prospects for the future.”
. . . One of the hundreds of prisoners there was Ukrainian novelist and journalist Stanislav Aseev, who was detained in 2017 after local security officials discovered he was contributing under a pen name to Ukrainian news outlets. Mr. Aseev, who says he was repeatedly tortured with electric shock, was freed in December 2019 as part of a prisoner exchange and now lives near Kyiv.
“They’ve managed to rebuild a Soviet system in the occupied territories—and not the Soviet system of the 1960s and 1970s, but a Soviet system of the 1930s and 1940s, with dungeons, with torture chambers, a system where lives are ruined if you dare to write or say something negative about these republics and their authorities,” Mr. Aseev said.
Russia still doesn’t formally recognize the self-proclaimed independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, something it has already granted to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A bill to do so is making its way through the Russian parliament. Meanwhile, Russia has increasingly absorbed the two enclaves into its own economy.
The breakaway areas have switched from the Ukrainian currency to the Russian ruble; their citizens have been issued Russian passports; their students receive Russian diplomas; and the leaders of both republics last year publicly joined Mr. Putin’s political party, United Russia. Mr. Putin recently ordered the exten
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What's that wall of text? Some more war against Russia propaganda then?
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Quote:Shorter version: Now nominally independent “people’s republics” inside the larger regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have turned into impoverished, depopulated enclaves that increasingly rely on Russian subsidies to survive. As much as half the prewar population of 3.8 million has left, for the rest of Ukraine, more prosperous Russia or Europe. Those who remain are disproportionately retirees, members of the security services and people simply too poor to move.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's that wall of text? Some more war against Russia propaganda then?
“They’ve managed to rebuild a Soviet system in the occupied territories—and not the Soviet system of the 1960s and 1970s, but a Soviet system of the 1930s and 1940s, with dungeons, with torture chambers, a system where lives are ruined if you dare to write or say something negative about these republics and their authorities,” Mr. Aseev said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Oh. So it's turned into California then.
Man. Sucks to be them, huh?
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