Not a stogie, but I'll be lighting up something else celebrating the passage of issue 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbiemcgee
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Not a stogie, but I'll be lighting up something else celebrating the passage of issue 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobbiemcgee
Hah!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smails
(also, for you guys with the Covenant Eyes app, remember it works both ways. So your kids will be getting a report on your visit to game day boob drop)
Wait..just wait everyone. If we get rid of Rowe and hand it over to the states, this will be end of abortion rights in many parts of the country!
Hmmm…
Plenty of parts of the Country have seen a full repeal of abortion rights. Ohio would have been one of them but for issue one passing. I am not quite sure what sarcastic point you are trying to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by noteggs
Sadly, not in enough of the country.
While the fashionably elite change their colors from Ukraine to Palestine, it's a good time to highlight a lesson that was deeply unpopular 22 months ago, to one that has gained the majority.
We should've listened:
"If you’ve followed the diplomacy over Ukraine closely, you may have noticed that the Biden administration has relied heavily on CIA Director William J. (Bill) Burns. In November it dispatched him to Moscow where, according to CNN, he served as a “key intermediary” between the US and Vladimir Putin. In January he flew to Germany to discuss Ukraine with the new government in Berlin. This all makes sense. Burns is the Biden administration’s highest-ranking Russia expert. He’s a fluent Russian speaker who has served twice in the US embassy in Moscow, the second time as ambassador. Which makes it all the more striking that Burns, in his memoir, flatly contradicts the Biden administration’s narrative about how this crisis came to be. Remarkably, one of the most trenchant critics of official US discourse on Russia and Ukraine is the sitting director of the CIA.
Two years ago, Burns wrote a memoir entitled, The Back Channel. It directly contradicts the argument being proffered by the administration he now serves. In his book, Burns says over and over that Russians of all ideological stripes—not just Putin—loathed and feared NATO expansion. He quotes a memo he wrote while serving as counselor for political affairs at the US embassy in Moscow in 1995. ‘Hostility to early NATO expansion,” it declares, “is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.” On the question of extending NATO membership to Ukraine, Burns’ warnings about the breadth of Russian opposition are even more emphatic. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” he wrote in a 2008 memo to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
While the Biden administration claims that Putin bears all the blame for the current Ukraine crisis, Burns makes clear that the US helped lay its foundations. By taking advantage of Russian weakness, he argues, Washington fueled the nationalist resentment that Putin exploits today. Burns calls the Clinton administration’s decision to expand NATO to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic “premature at best, and needlessly provocative at worst.”
Were a reporter to read Burns’ quotes to White House press secretary Jen Psaki today, she’d likely accuse them of “parroting Russian talking points.” But Burns is hardly alone. From inside the US government, many officials warned that US policy toward Russia might bring disaster. William Perry, Bill Clinton’s Defense Secretary from 1994 to 1997, almost resigned because of his opposition to NATO expansion. He has since declared that because of its policies in the 1990s, “the United States deserves much of the blame” for the deterioration in relations with Moscow. Steven Pifer, who from 1998 to 2000 served as US ambassador to Ukraine, has called Bush’s 2008 decision to declare that Ukraine would eventually join NATO “a real mistake.” Fiona Hill, who gained fame during the Trump impeachment saga, says that as national intelligence officers for Russia and Eurasia she and her colleagues “warned” Bush that “Putin would view steps to bring Ukraine and Georgia closer to NATO as a provocative move that would likely provoke pre-emptive Russian military action.”
https://progressivehub.net/bidens-ci...about-ukraine/
High fives all around!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smails
Is anyone really surprised that issues 1 and 2 easily passed in Ohio? I think issue 1 is a very poorly worded amendment, so I think there will be some lawsuits filed to try to clarify the language.
I also won’t be surprised to see the Ohio Statehouse try to get in the way of implementation of issue 2 and put restrictions on marijuana use.
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I was shocked issue 1 passed and by the percentage it passed by with it being a red state. You have to wonder if a portion of the conservative voters didn’t come out and vote the election cycle. It will be interesting to see how the Republican Supermajority at the Statehouse plan to target this amendment in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by bjf123
Nikki Haley is just George W Bush in a dress. Puke.