Day: September 26, 2022
Zelensky: Putin’s Not Bluffing
“He wants to scare the whole world. These are the first steps of his nuclear blackmail. I don’t think he’s bluffing.”
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by CNBC, on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s threat of using nuclear weapons.
Biden Appointing More Judges than Trump
80
“President Joe Biden has won Senate confirmation for more than 80 of his nominees to be federal judges, a breakneck speed that outpaces former President Donald Trump at this juncture of his presidency,” NBC News reports.
The Presidency Brought Trump ‘Rich Friends’
“The question I get asked more than any other question: ‘If you had to do it again, would you have done it?’ The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.”
— Donald Trump, saying the “rich friends” he acquired from his presidency made it all worth it to him, according to Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book, the HuffPost reports.
Conscription Conniption
Vladimir Putin’s call-up is an act of desperation,
And Russian dudes are on the move — but not on vacation.
Going to Ukraine to get your ass shot off
Is about as funny as Yakov Smirnoff,
And now babushkas are putting the “mob” back in “mobilization.”
GOP ‘Platform’ Features Fake Lincoln Quote, Video from Russia and Ukraine
When Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich unveiled his “Contract with America” in 1994, you might have been forgiven for not engaging your dial-up modem to fact check it. But in 2022 there’s no reason why, with the search capabilities of today’s internet and the widely available cheap stock images and video, the Republican Party employed a quote from an advert and attributed it to Abraham Lincoln and used video shot in Russia and Ukraine to represent scenes of American exceptionalism.
Maybe they should have stuck with their 2020 strategy of going platform-free. Apparently, the GOP’s “Commitment to America” does not include a commitment to either accuracy or American videographers.
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