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It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols | 11:13 a.m. ET on March 1, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations
-trump/681880/
Leave aside, if only for a moment, the utter boorishness with which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. Also leave aside the spectacle of American leaders publicly pummeling a friend as if he were an enemy. All of the ghastliness inflicted on Zelensky should not obscure the geopolitical reality of what just happened: The president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally, so that he can soon make a deal with the dictator of Russia to sell out a European nation fighting for its very existence.
Trump’s advisers have already declared the meeting a win for “putting America first,” and his apologists will likely spin and rationalize this shameful moment as just a heated conversation—the kind of thing that in Washington-speak used to be called a “frank and candid exchange.” But this meeting reeked of a planned attack, with Trump unloading Russian talking points on Zelensky (such as blaming Ukraine for risking global war), all of it designed to humiliate the Ukrainian leader on national television and give Trump the pretext to do what he has indicated repeatedly he wants to do: side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bring the war to an end on Russia’s terms. Trump is now reportedly considering the immediate end of all military aid to Ukraine because of Zelensky’s supposed intransigence during the meeting.
Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics. (The actual business of furthering Trump’s policies is apparently now Elon Musk’s job.) This time, however, he was brought in to troll not other Americans, but a foreign leader. Marco Rubio—in theory, America’s top diplomat—was also there, but he sat glumly and silently while Vance pontificated like an obnoxious graduate student.
. . . the strategic reality is that this meeting is a catastrophe for the United States and the free world. America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago. The entire international order of peace and security is now in danger, as Russian autocrats, after slaughtering innocent people for three years, look forward to enjoying the spoils of their invasion instead of standing trial for their crimes. (Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s homunculus, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.”)
Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure. With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are locked in the insane asylum but insisting you and all the inmates are the only sane people. The staff takes care of all your needs, proving you are sane and smarter than they are. You don't have to work or pay because the asylum staff handles it all you, but you are not happy with the quality of service and the available TV shows and movies. You voted for a different President with the expectation of better treatment where you are locked up. (And better entertainment from Hollywood, which you despise.)
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.
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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
I'M the dickhead?
I can't stop myself?
Jesus Christ dude...
From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?
You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.
You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.
If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I'm the king of my castle, bitch.
I don't watch movies or TV shows.
Looks like your TDS is flaring up pretty bad today, huh?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
It's about time somebody asked the child rapist if he owns any suits.
Fuck Zelensky. Fuck Ukraine.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Senate Republicans
One neat trick to make all the pain go away …
What if we told you that Republicans could make the deficit impact of these tax cuts all disappear, on paper, with one neat accounting trick? With apologies to the Surge’s editors, yes, we will be devoting an entry to the debate over “current law” versus “current policy” baselines. It’s important! In the House’s budget, Republicans used a “current law” baseline—as is standard—to score their agenda. This means that since, under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, it would add ~$4.5 trillion to the deficit to extend them another decade. That has two effects. First, it means that Republicans will want to make cuts elsewhere (like to Medicaid) to mitigate the paper impact of their tax cuts, and it means the tax cuts will likely have to be temporary again. Plus, Republicans have little breathing room to cut taxes deeper. What Senate Republicans insist on doing instead is using a “current policy” baseline to score their proposal. In their view, since the existing tax rates are current policy, then extending them another 10 years doesn’t “cost” anything. This sleight of hand would mean Republicans don’t need to work themselves into a sweat trying to find offsetting spending cuts, could use the extra space to achieve some of Trump’s new tax goals like “no tax on tips,” and could make this next round of tax cuts permanent—a top goal of the administration. The issue with this? Well, it would disguise a new $4.5 trillion deficit impact, and many House conservatives still want to make deep spending cuts. Plus, it would have to get by the Senate parliamentarian, unless Republicans just ignore her. But! If this is the path of least resistance, it’s where Republicans will end up.
Seriously dude.
After the last 4 years, nobody wants to hear one fucking word out of you about money.
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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
A majority of American People said Fuck Ukraine.
Get over it.
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Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine
Are you interested in who supports whom after Friday's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard:
Supports Trump
Russia
Hungary
Supports Ukraine
Moldova
Spain
Norway
Czechia
Netherlands
Estonia
Poland
Canada
Germany
France
UK
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
Iceland
Ireland
Belgium
Romania
Croatia
Slovenia
That's 25-2, with Italy remaining neutral.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-has-almost-no-supporters-over-ukraine/
Sounds like Ukraine has all the help they need then.
Good luck.
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A Secretive Movement Known As '#AltGov' Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies 2025 - 06:20 AM
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
We have a government that is literally fighting against itself. The federal workforce has always been more liberal than the population as a whole, but in recent years things have gotten really bad. Prior to this year, Democrats had been in control of the White House for 12 of the past 16 years. Over time, leftists that were hired for key positions just kept hiring more leftists underneath them. In fact, it got to a point where DEI policies at various agencies essentially institutionalized the systematic hiring of leftists. By the end of the Biden administration, leftist domination of most of our federal agencies was virtually complete. But now we have a new administration that most of our leftist federal workers absolutely detest. Many of them have absolutely no intention of cooperating with the new administration, and some of them have started to openly rebel against it.
A secretive movement known as “#AltGov” has become the epicenter of that rebellion. Those that are involved primarily communicate through anonymous social media accounts and an encrypted messaging app…
Calling itself #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.
With 40 accounts to date, their collective megaphone is getting louder, as most of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers, with “Alt CDC (they/them)” being the largest, at nearly 95,000 followers.
The network has also formed a group and a series of sub-groups on Wire, the encrypted messaging app, to share information and develop strategies – as played out on Saturday.
Most people don’t realize this, but the “#AltGov” movement was very active during the first Trump administration.
Of course during the Biden administration it went away, because the leftists inside our federal agencies saw no need to rebel against Joe Biden.
But now it is back with a vengeance…
“#AltGov dates from the first Trump administration, but it’s even more needed now,” said an employee at Fema, the disaster response agency, who requested anonymity to avoid being targeted at work. She recently launched an #AltGov Fema account on Bluesky. With nearly 13,000 followers, the account says it’s dedicated to “helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster”.
One member of the group that has dared to go public with her identity has explained what the purpose of “#AltGov” actually is…
The network is aiming to “expose harmful policies, defend public institutions and equip citizens with tools to push back against authoritarianism,” Lynn Stahl, a contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs and member of the group, told the Guardian.
I have no problems with people exposing what's going on internally, as long as they're honest and provide objective context. That's how errors are caught.
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In other words, they want to use their positions inside the federal government to oppose the Trump administration any way that they can.
If it sounds like this is gross insubordination to you, that is because it is gross insubordination.
And we are already seeing the results.
Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the FBI to deliver all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to her office, and they told her that they had done so.
But now it turns out that they had secretly held back thousands of documents, and Pam Bondi is extremely upset…
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a fiery letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday accusing federal investigators in New York of withholding thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein docuNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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A Secretive Movement Known As '#AltGov' Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies 2025 - 06:20 AM
Not anymore.
Trump thanks you for your service, Mr. Snyder.
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The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....
Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.
He should have listened to Kissinger.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....
Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.
This.
I am not being hyperbolic about Zelensky's survival chances right now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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