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March 11, 2022

GOP lawmaker calls Zelensky a 'thug' and Ukrainian government 'incredibly evil'

North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn recently called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "thug" and the Ukrainian government "incredibly evil," criticizing the country and its leader as Russia invades it.

Cawthorn's statements were aligned with former President Donald Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin but in sharp contrast to the United States' broad bipartisan support for Ukraine.

[link:https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/madison-cawthorn-volodymyr-zelensky-comments/index.html|

GOP disavowing while crossing their fingers cause they have enabled this traitor.
March 8, 2022

Missouri Republican pitches new law to stop women from traveling out of state to get abortions

An anti-abortion GOP lawmaker in Missouri, a state which passed one of the country’s strictest abortion laws in back 2019, says she has a solution to to the problem of people traveling out of state for abortions, The Washington Post reports.

"An unusual new provision, introduced by state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident obtain an abortion out of state, using the novel legal strategy behind the restrictive law in Texas that since September has banned abortions in that state after six weeks of pregnancy," reports the Post. "Coleman has attached the measure as an amendment to several abortion-related bills that have made it through committee and are waiting to be heard on the floor of the House of Representatives."

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-abortion-law/|]
Emphasis mine

Under his eye

February 26, 2022

Walked past the Russian Embassy in London on my morning constitutional



Cars were beeping their support as they drove past the protest. Of course that is not going to stop - but maybe if all of the West kicked out the Ambassadors of this awful dictator on mass - maybe Putin would hear that loud and clear...
February 26, 2022

The treacherous right and perfidious Trump lean heavily into Putin, because of course... meanwhile..



This is where we are now:

The former president of the US applauds the dictator of what is quickly becoming a pariah state, and said admiration is, unsurprisingly, utilized as propaganda by leader of said pariah state. Not one republican / conservative calls him out because they are too busy blaming the current president of the US for the treacherous actions of a pariah state , all the while knowing that Biden is of course, in no way culpable, but they are craven wankers who will use anything at hand for political gain – to the extent of destabilising allies and encouraging eastern aggression.

Zelensky has the courage of a billion of these right wing toadies that are praising a literal dictator for invading a democracy. I do not think that Putin priced in the fact that he would become a global symbol of determination and resilience in the face of deadly illegal aggression and invasion.
Heh.
February 26, 2022

''Why should our government entertain your presence here when you're acting as an apologist for

slaughter''



Russian Ambassador to Ireland defends invasion amid calls to expel him - and gets slapped round the chops in this masterclass of journalism. We all need more of this.

Biff. Bff. Uppercut.
February 24, 2022

Started / Armageddoning



Heh. Yep.

Brexit destabilised everything, Putins puppy dogs in the UK gave him the result he wanted. Still propping him up. And here we are.

https://twitter.com/StopFundingHate/status/1496892088427888651
February 20, 2022

What is WRONG with these people? Can someone tell them it is 2022?

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1495489220995129356

BREAKING: The sponsor of the "Don't Say Gay" bill in the Florida House,
@josephbharding
, just introduced an amendment that would REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO OUT LGBTQ STUDENTS even if the school believes THE DISCLOSURE WILL RESULT IN "ABUSE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT"


If young LGBTQI people do not already have a storm of horror thrown at them by society it they grow up in the wrong red place...
February 20, 2022

Queen tests positive for Covid

Source: The BBC

The Queen has tested positive for Covid, Buckingham Palace has said.

The palace said the monarch is experiencing mild "cold-like symptoms" but expects to continue "light duties" at Windsor over the coming week.

"She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines," the palace said in a statement.

The Queen had been in contact with her eldest son and heir, the Prince of Wales, who tested positive last week.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60453566



2022 energy.

February 20, 2022

For TEN MINUTES this morning Boris Johnson refused to say whether he should quit if he broke the law

https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1495344939768631306

For TEN MINUTES Boris Johnson refused to say whether he should quit if he broke the law, while laughing and using Ukraine as a shield.

If you couldn't attend a loved one's funeral or be there when they died, THIS is what he thinks of you. @SophieRaworth
, Take a bow!! #Raworth


Johnson has nothing but contempt for the people he governs. After all he knows what a shockingly corrupt lying liar he is and he knows that nation voted for him anyway, gave him a huge majority anyway. Of course he has contempt for all of us - he thinks us utter fools for giving him No. 10. And for once he is right. He is not going to quit - he has never knowingly ever taken responsibility for any of his lies, carelessness and abject incompetency - no chance he will start now, and so we must wait until the sycophantic far right crack pots he surrounds himself with read the writing on the electoral wall and give the lying wind bag the boot.


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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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