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There are unconfirmed reports coming out of Russia that a purge of Prigozhin allies within the Russian armed forces is underway. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, head of the Russian Air Farce is reported to have been arrested. He was originally reported missing on Saturday. It seems as if the Matryoshka dolls, the nesting Russian dolls is being redefined. It doesn't mean fertility instead layer after layer of corruption.

Only recently has his legal team struck out. For three quarters of a century he has set up scam after scam. Sealing from students, employees, investors, etc. and never gone to jail. His recent sexual assault conviction is the first loss of substance. His political losses in his mind are the failings of others of the GOP party. Look at his recent presidential history. Jared walked away with $2 billion in Saudi money and trump scamraisers never end. It looks as if he will get the GOP nomination. When no banks will lend to him he fundraisers from Fred and Wilma, FOX viewers in trump country. Sometimes the best defense is to let the bad news out in advance in dribs and drabs. To acknowledge it so when dealing with it later its no surprise. Lying about its substance comes naturally to trump and his lawyers.

Its time a thread explored the full range of comments that GOP leaders make in order to stay in touch with its "I love the poorly educated" base. “What’s a Uyghur?” was the comment from Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez in response to a radio station interview. I'll give him some credit he has not voted for trump for president. Although thats kind of like the statements of many in SC who never admit to voting for trump. Yet are staunch conservatives.

Plus it reinforced the plan to end all terms of liberals on the bench.

So some in SC want to debate facts and ideas. Mark Twain had a thought on such ideas. “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”, .

Two to five points increase in GOP primary support for trump

Infighting between capos of a crime family who knows what is really going on. Prigozhin generates billions, yeah billions in income in his various African military scams and propping up governments. Billions in price fixing Russian military contracts. "Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) published its latest investigative work on Friday, revealing what it says is a cartel of businesses owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin and contracted by the Defense Ministry. Widely known as “Vladimir Putin’s favorite chef,” Prigozhin is a billionaire restaurateur' "Wagner Group’s operations in recent years have expanded in Africa, especially into Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Libya, where it protects investments of Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, the US accused Wagner mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in CAR, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere in the continent. Over the last year of Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Wagner Group has further expanded its network in CAR, where its mining profits reportedly reached $1 billion. In 2020, the group sent soldiers to CAR to take control of an artisanal gold mine and turn it into an industrial complex. The same year, CAR’s Ministry of Mines cancelled the license of a Canadian company at Ndassima, according to a report, and gave a 25-year concession to a Madagascar-registered company called Midas Resources, a Russian entity owned by Prigozhin." Is it nothing but a scam/pretext to overthrow Belarus? Presumably Prigozhin is going to Belarus as a part of a deal worked out by Lukashenko. Is Lukashenko going to fall out a window in the next week or so? Is Wagner going to have nuclear weapons of its own in Belarus to act as a fall back state for Putin? Who the hell knows? According to the latest twists and turns of this story. Putin swallowed his pride and backed down in order to get a ex hot dog vendor not to invade Moscow! Perhaps the next turn is Prigozhin handing Belarus to Putin after clearing out all the Nazis. Putin rewarding Prigozhin with the Hero of the Russian Federation medal. Putin withdraws from Ukraine and calls it a good week.

President Biden made an honest statement and deserves criticism for it. He called Xi of China a dictator. Communists are dictators of course because party votes are a sham. President Biden is usually much better than that. trump saying the same thing would be ignored. Because stupid non diplomatic statements are his forte.

It appears as though President Biden has approved ATACMS for Ukraine. Its like HIMARS but with a 190 mile range. Which would put all of Russian occupied Ukraine within range of present Ukrainian positions. So Putin's bridge, the Black sea fleet still left in Sevastopol and all kinds of parade grounds for Russian generals.

Extra street cred because a gun charge was involved.

So Hunter Biden has been charged by the Feds. Needless to say FOX, trump, et al will soon be talking coverup ignoring the four years when trump had is own private DOJ.

"Imagine IRS agents descending upon America like a swarm of locusts," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned in an interview with Fox Business. "And by the way, these IRS agents aren't there to go after billionaires. They're there to go after you. They're there to go after your small business. They're there to go after your family." and from the IRS "Let's be very clear about what these resources are and are not doing," Sarin(IRS spokesman) said. "These resources are not raising audits on any small business or any household that makes under $400,000 a year." All moot now that republicans got their way with cuts to IRS.

Plays better in the higher courts.Brownie points so to speak.

Most republicans only watch FOX and don't follow any events outside the US. So you have to be a bit patient with them.

Well some in SC learned how to apologize and speak the truth from FOX news. Take this week for example. FOX was running its usual disinformation propaganda campaign to educate its masses of GOP viewers. It placed a headline banner under a couple stories stating "‘Wannabe dictator speaks at White House after having his political rival arrested.’ Regarding the arrest of trump in Florida. Somebody in the legal department or possibly someone with common sense intervened and ordered the banner removed. Subsequently FOX-pas apologized by running a news story stating that the banner generated "controversy" when it “went too far.”.

FIFY The right has yet to address the idea the if there was a deep state. If the department of justice was corrupt and on and on. That Pence would have been charged in a separate documents case. But pandering to the big criminal in the room is what the GOP has become. But forgetting that Pence came clean right away doesn't fit their self serving narratives.

Not at all equivalent to hunter's laptop. The constitution is less and less important now. Expectantly so since the court has its new biblical makeup.

Which casts doubt on the authenticity of your "almost a republican" when it comes to the ballot box. No I'm really a middle of the road common sense voter. But I'll swallow, digest and fully expose GOP talking points and nonsense.

Yes amazing. The GOP marketing machine selling that they work for the little guy who gets preyed upon by Washington elites.

Especially if the most irresponsible one is in the front row.

The attitude of the GOP with regards to the IRS and taxation is akin to treason. Its well off people that warrant investigation the most. That have the largest and most questionable claims. Not the average working Joe. They paint the IRS as the enemy and the funds they generate as funding evil. “Instead of adding 87,000 new agents to weaponize the IRS against small business owners and middle America, this bill will eliminate the need for the department entirely by simplifying the tax code with provisions that work for the American people and encourage growth and innovation,” said Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter, a Republican from Georgia Since when is the enforcement of the act "weaponizing"?

Another report of the same incident: "Russian sources claimed that the division waited two hours in one location while waiting for 20th Combined Arms Army Commander Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov to arrive and deliver a speech before the division conducted offensive operations.[8] One milblogger suggested that the reported Ukrainian HIMARS strike killed around 100 Russian personnel and wounded another 100," One milblogger even called for the responsible commanders to be shot in front of their formations, whether they are colonel or generals At least they weren't captured by Ukrainian Nazis and used as zombies in slave labor camps.

Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. "Misguided loyalty to his party." How about that? But other conservatives resigned to force his retirement as PM and they were resigning now because of ...disgust with the party. Which is night and day different from the US GOP messaging. America is corrupt, America is broken, Democrats are criminals and must be locked up,WOKE is destroying America, Dems want your guns, Gays and lesbians want your children, etc.

Agree. trump has new election talking points to place the entire department of justice under direct presidential control. He states that its the only way to protect Americans from the deep state. The only way to keep what the deep state is doing to him. From doing it to every single American. What a hero! Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israel PM who has also gone populist. Is also going the same route, or at least trying to. He has similar corruption challenges in the courts. What loyalists will trump put in as FBI director? How many FBI agents would quit as a result? One of trump's first orders in 2017 was to order the termination of 46 Obama appointed prosecutors.

In the UK where politicians still answer the little bits of integrity left. BoJo resigned as MP after resigning as P.M. The report was released today and it plainly stated that he lied to the people and to parliament. His downfall was preceded by the resignation of others within his conservative party. As compared to America under the GOP. Is the decimation of the party in elections the only way to build a backbone of integrity? Or is it going to be allowed to continue to send a message that the state is the enemy. Both a deep and shallow state enemy.