Ukrainians Promote Talks As Russia Tries To Surround Kyiv | Talking Points Memo

Next week will mark one month of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Now, even some Kremlin-aligned Russians agree that things have not gone entirely according to plan.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1408726

Not sure if that Zelensky speech will be carried live (no idea of what potential security issues might be, let alone having idiots like Rubio and Daines in the room, not to mention out-and-out GQP traitors), but I cannot wait to see it.

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Which fascistgooper will most embarrass themselves during Zelensky’s Wednesday address? Will it be one of the favorites like empty greene or lyin’ boebert or perhaps one of the old standbys of the gaetz or gohmert variety?

So many to choose from.

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Watch Carlson. This is insane. In my experience, I have never seen anything like this on the scale of sheer madness.

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“Entirely according to plan” is the punchline for many Russian SNAFU jokes.
So far the worst happened early when Russian paratroopers failed to hold the Hostemel airfield. This was critical to bringing in supplies and failure to obtain this objective is what resulted in a logistics backup which frustrated the objective of a quick win for Putin.
They eventually regained the airfield but not the surrounding forests where SAM batteries were positioned affectively making the airfield useless.

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“What is it about these so-called America Firsters in the end who are really America Lasters if you think about it?” he asked.

“They don’t last very long, either.”
– Stormy Daniels

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There’s this (from the Article):

[Fox News Host Calls Out ‘Putin Wing Of The Media’—AKA Tucker Carlson—For Parroting Russian Conspiracy Theories

Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday called out the “Putin wing of the media” — e.g. his own colleague, Tucker Carlson — for stoking a false Russian conspiracy theory claiming that Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine is actually him targeting labs where Ukraine and the United States have been developing bioweapons in secret. (The Kremlin contends these bioweapons are in fact … poison birds.)

“And of course, the Putin wing of the Republican party and the Putin wing of the media and the Putin wing of the Democrat party, they’re all over it,” Levin said. “No, those are old Soviet locations that the United States has located and has been trying to deal with. We’re not developing biochemical weapons in the Ukraine.”

“What is it about these so-called America Firsters in the end who are really America Lasters if you think about it?” he asked.

Carlson has been the most prominent mouthpiece for the conspiracy theory so far, which seeped from Russian propaganda into the QAnon bloodstream to Fox News]

Note on line #9 a BothSider jab at the “Democrat” Party

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Zelensky Will Address US Congress On Wednesday

  • which GQP PUTIN LOYALISTS WILL BOYCOTT ?
  • which GQP PUTIN LOYALISTS WILL attend but HECKLE?

REMEMBER - Zelensky is the guy who would not obediently “do the FAVOR” for PUTIN PUPPET TRUMP.

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I feel constrained to point out that WhatAbout-ism and BothSider-ism are Right Wing friendly tactics with the ultimate aim at making both parties (Dem and GOP) as axiomatically equal NO MATTER WHAT HARM THE GOP DOES

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I guess he means Gabby Gabbardoff. I can’t think of anyone else. Why he has to mention her in relation to most of the GQP, I don’t know.

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Tucker Carlson has personally effectively declared WAR on the United States of America

Tucker Carlson is an agent of Vladimir Putin and Putin’s corrupt regime

… and as a result of his decision to follow this path…

Tucker Carlson has chosen to be …
an enemy of the United States of America

… he has departed from the realm of reasonable discourse / open debate - he is now a partisan advocate for the cause / action / aggression/atrocities of Putin

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Mission accomplished.
That’s why she did anything with the Democrats
If there is any “wing” to her it’s the Jill Stein Wing

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Wondering which Republican will offer the official rebuttal to Zelenskyy’s address, and if the networks are obligated to cover it live?

Also, how quickly will the first fundraising email go out from MTG saying she won’t be cancelled because she was asked to mute herself on Zoom.

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I totally agree. However, he has been going increasingly far afield for some time now. I never watch his show, but even the short quips I see amaze me. What game is he playing, and why does Fox News allow: even enable it? He is way past yelling ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater. Now, it is more like him pouring gasoline all over the floor, tossing out a bunch of cigarette lighters, and then saying, ‘just posing a question’. I thought Mr. Trump was a mere sociopath, but recently Tucker Carlson acts like he is auditioning for the role of the psychopathic villain in the next Batman reboot.

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The only plausible agenda that it would seem that Tucker is pursuing … is to be an Oligarch - or - Czar of all Media - in a some totalitarian regime that grabs power in a crumbled North America .

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If the Ukrainians can somehow pull this off, it will be the greatest resistance campaign of modern times.

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FOX and the GOP are against it. And that should never be forgotten.

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Turns out there’s an upside to Putin’s venture into Ukraine.

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It’s already been referenced, but still worth an upvote. How sad that we live in a world where we have to cheer the deaths of largely clueless young men. If Dante were brought back to life he would create a new circle of hell for Mr. Putin.

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