Attribution: Dollar Weakening As A Safe Currency Standard by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
[Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka’s works into comics including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
He has lectured around the world and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University].
Donald Trump’s speech at Davos drew a quick response from his Swiss hosts.
Freezing weather could hinder ICE’s operations in Minnesota, President Trump made the Davos summit all about Greenland, the United States reportedly used a disturbing sonic weapon to kill people in Venezuela, and Canada is preparing to repel an American invasion.
JD Vance and his wife Usha are expecting a baby in July, Trump rolled into Switzerland today to delivery a buffet of bufoonery, brag about our contributions during World War II, he berated World leaders for an hour and ten minutes, he claims that America will not be taking Greenland by force and declared that he has a “concept of a plan,” we are once again being threatened by the FCC, Trump is still going after Canada, and Jimmy interviews Donald’s badly bruised right hand!
never mind the board of peace, never mind Davos, never mind Greenland, never mind ICE, all for naught ’cause epstein ain’t going away, Dodo.
Gathering of Old-Time Musicians.
Jack Smith also not going away. We’ll be watching in chat room today.
The Public Showdown: This is the first televised collision with “hothead” Chair Jim Jordan, moving their long-running paper war into open combat.
The Verdict That Never Was: Smith gets to finally present the “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” he was blocked from showing a jury—testimony history will likely view as his true closing argument.
The Retribution Risk: Smith is walking into a trap, facing active GOP inquiries and the very real threat of criminal referrals for his own conduct.
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What America is Clicking — Jan 22, 2026
— Silas
Open Thread: If you had to pay $1 billion to join a club, what would the perks have to be?
This might be a good move but the messaging needs to be carefully crafted — Remember “Defund the police”…
Jeffries opposes bill funding DHS and ICE
Jeffries told his members that Democratic leadership made five requests for ICE accountability measures and other related language that Republicans rejected.
— AXIOS
According to a theory of Old Berman, the reason Maduro was arrested was so after once getting him into an American jail, they could have him “confes” to various and sundry crimes which will resulted in allowing Biden to steal the 2020 election, after which they arrest and prosecute Biden thus “proving” stolen election.
Also from Olbermann:
Gallego was with Anderson Cooper calling the Fat Carrot INSANE.
Cooper (slack-jawed): You really think he’s insane?
Gallego: Yes! He’s absolutely insane.
That Maduro theory makes sense. They are just crazy enough to try that.
Speaking of insane, thanks for the Gallego catch. I am collecting these for a reel.
TRUMP IS “DEMENTED”
— his former lawyer.
“This is a man who is demented”, Ty Cobb told CNN’s Erin Burnett last night. “His narcissism has run amok,”
Trump “can’t get into a sentence without raising a grievance” and can’t resist making revenge-driven points or trying to “add glory to himself,” added Cobb, a White House lawyer during Trump’s first term.
“He’s always been driven by narcissism,” Cobb said. “But I think the dementia and the cognitive decline are palpable, as do many experts, including many physicians.”
— Watch the VIDEO
Insane needs to become a steady universal drumbeat to provide COVER for any of the Rats who might be willing to jump ship.
Not “unfit”
Not “unwell”
Not “demented, unhinged” or any other other sideways word—just insane.
Stur, you’re right about beating the demented horse with the same sticks used against Joe. Quotes like
need to be repeated & reposted daily…. maybe at a nice waltz tempo.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ice-detains-4-columbia-heights-students-including-5-and-10-year-olds-sent-to-texas
hope your ashamed of yourselves, trumpers
if you’re capable of shame
i guess i am outraged by thugs using children as bait and then kidnapping them
why are we pure evil now? what was so wrong before to justify this?
oh, pilar was mad homes were being built within sight of his, so valid
🖕
miserable trash has damned us all
What was wrong before this was the Billionaires did not have enough control. The Billionaires don’t care how or why peasants die.
Not their problem. Their only problem is having to give ANY of their money to the peasants. Let the peasants go into the woods and eat bark while they’re dying from being unvaccinated.
Jamie — Kate got nominated. Oscars just announced.
Detailed map of Trump’s Approval
Lots of maps and charts on link
Craig,
I saw that and love that she got the nom. I’ll be rooting for her on Gold Derby even though she is a dark horse against two power nominees in Emma Stone and Jessie Buckley. A vote split might give it to her.
Jamies, it seems like the movie didn’t make the cut with the hip hollywood snobs, but her strong performance was tough to overlook
The voters can get snooty when a body of work looks too “fun” for a serious role to get considered. Her roles since the nom for Almost Famous have been principally rom-coms. The same for Hugh Jackman since the nom for Les Miserables. I’m hoping he will break that jinx with The Death of Robin Hood next year.
today’s meme…
meme #2…
In the minutes leading up to the Mn ice shooting was the shooter made aware of the fact that the woman he shot was gay?
He shot her in the face twice. Up close and personal. Knowing in real time he was in no actual danger.
yeah i think they imply their relationship in the video
i know these types of men
they’re nihilists, Donny, and they can hurt you
Speaking of Trump being deranged.
liberalism didn’t give these men anywhere to go but to naziism
no quick fix
Jack Smith basically told Jim Jordan he’s creepy, ICE is raiding kindergartens in Minneapolis, and we’re balancing the rage with a Highland cow named Hamish.
We dig into the data behind the noise—from the hearing room to the farm.
Today’s ELEVEN TO NOON Rundown
00:00 Intro
00:55 Jack Smith vs. Jim Jordan
04:20 Minneapolis, ICE, and Gas Stations
09:15 School Kids Detained
17:05 Kate Hudson & Oscars
21:30 Lead Belly & Song Catcher
26:45 Hamish the Highland Cow
28:10 Colorado Bob & Buddy Holly
32:45 Smith Testimony Continues
OUTRO: LeadBelly
I think I heard reverberations of a counter-factual hypothetical
Out of his criminal mind.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5700580-gaza-peace-board-initiative-davos/
President Trump and his administration rolled out the Board of Peace initiative for Gaza in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, featuring leaders of more than 20 countries that notably did not include major European Union allies.
Countries that have agreed to join the board include Argentina, Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Hungary, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.
During the signing ceremony, Secretary of State Marco Rubio anticipated more countries would join the Board of Peace charter in the future.
“Many others who are going to join, you know, others either are not in town today or they have to go through some procedure internally in their own countries, in their own country, because of constitutional limitations. But others will join,” Rubio said.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/world/trump-board-of-peace-explainer-intl-hnk
The board, indefinitely chaired by Trump, was originally conceived as a limited body tasked with overseeing the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which was devastated by Israel’s two-year war.
However, its purpose has since expanded to tackle conflicts the world over, and the charter draft, which was sent along with the invitations to join, does not even reference Gaza.
But a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos was attended by fewer than 20 countries — mostly from the Middle East, Asia and South America — far fewer than the roughly 35 that a senior administration official predicted to reporters earlier this week. European leaders were visibly absent. The only Western European nation represented was Hungary, one of Russia’s closest allies in Europe.
*Looks like POTUS was just a stepping stone. He’s going to be king-of-the-world as long as he lives…and he gets to pick the line of succession.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-gaza-peace-kushner-rubio-blair-b2902266.html
The board, selected by Donald Trump, who is also chairman of the board, includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, among others.
*Can Rubio be on this phony baloney board while being Secretary of State?
I don’t even have to look up at the tv to know when a republican is talking.
geniuses in their own mind.
Like my old boss always said, in a cautionary tale against doing good deeds, no good deed goes unpunished.
And some are getting away with some very bad deeds.
Fire in the belly by dems. Thank you, Joe.
…made it through 3.5 hours so far and I am glued to the TV and devices. Every repugg is steering the topic away from Trump’s criminal stealing of the 2020 election.
Smith is holding his own with dignity, no outrage yet. He’s a cool cat under fire by Jordan and those fuckers.
Trump is TruthSocializing about how DOJ should now imprison Smith for, oh…whatever.
meme #3…
The guy directing the conspiracy is the lead conspirator. The follower-guys are foot soldiers. Seems simple but republicans not getting it.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-879424
Netanyahu, Tony Blair discuss future of Gaza admin., possible PA governance in secret meeting
US President Donald Trump has proposed Blair as leading the “Board of Peace” that would oversee the post-war administration of the Gaza Strip. [*Nope. Adolf will be king-of-all-sh/t…this meeting was over a month ago when the ~BOP~ was just about rebuilding Gaza.]
The one person who could have prevented the entire thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36746453
I once heard Hillary Clinton in a private moment expressing astonishment at his lack of doubt, using a withering American phrase popularised after the Jonestown mass suicide. “What’s happened to Tony,” she asked. “He’s started drinking the Kool Aid.”
She meant that he had abandoned all caution and every sliver of scepticism. And he had. Although it would be foolish to suggest that he didn’t understand the cost of war, nor give it deep thought, his loyalty to Bush had become so strong after 9/11 that it trumped everything else.
Think of one day, a few months after the war began. Blair addressed both houses of Congress in Washington and got more than a dozen standing ovations. Heady stuff.
A few hours later, flying over the Pacific, he was told of a melancholy event at home. Dr David Kelly, a weapons expert at the Ministry of Defence, had been found dead, two days after giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about his doubts over weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has come to dominate the Blair legacy to such an extent that many of his notable achievements – the Good Friday agreement, devolution to Scotland and Wales, the minimum wage and a number of social reforms are doomed to shelter under its shadow.
*Whelp, he’s sure not going to have a character glow-up by joining the fascist organization known as the ~Board of Peace~
(For anyone new on the trail, these are the ~flaming tildes of sarcasm~)
I was thinking about name the opossum under the dining room, Tony. No more.
Jeff van Drew – what a knucklehead. Dumbass did not conspire with Democrats to animate 1/6/21. Why would Smith investigate MOCs who Dumbass did not conspire with?
Mr. Nehls, do you have a question for Mr. Smith?
Wow, Vance is a spinning top right now, reinventing recent history in Minneapolis (the ICE agents were protecting the 5-year-old from “freezing to death”, the agents behavior is the fault of the protesters, blaming everything on “uncooperative” local police, and on and on and on ….)
I am realizing how much of a disadvantage Smith is facing here — DOJ managed to muzzle him on defending himself essentially by saying his defenses are confidential. They are also doing their best to set perjury traps, so he has to tread carefully, which makes some of his responses look tentative. This is not a win-win for our side, sorry to say.
Now Vance is saying ICE is there “to protect the people from the rioters”
And of course, his advance team made sure there are no mics on the reporters so we only hear his bullshit answers
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-protesters-burn-us-flags-in-switzerland-11393339
Protesters in Switzerland burnt American flags in demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s trip to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
Several protests have taken place in different cities, including one in Zurich, where thousands marched on Monday night and clashed with riot police, according to local Swiss outlet Swissinfo.
*That smelly, orange, pedo just killed Swiss neutrality.
The FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 248, is a federal law enacted in 1994 that prohibits violence, threats, intimidation, and property damage targeting individuals seeking or providing reproductive health services, as well as individuals at places of religious worship—the law is enforced by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation and carries criminal penalties including up to 11 years imprisonment for violent conduct and fines up to $250,000.
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https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-arrests-an-organizer-of-anti-ice-protest-at-st-paul-church/
Federal authorities have arrested three of the people connected to an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a church service on Sunday in St. Paul.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday morning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI agents arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney who helped organize the protest.
Minutes later, Bondi announced Chauntyll Louisa Allen was also arrested. She’s listed as the clerk of the St. Paul Board of Education.
“Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP,” Bondi wrote on social media.
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https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/arrests-announced-in-minneapolis-church-protest/
Both Allen and Kelly have been charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X, based on an 1871 act prohibiting those who would conspire to deny the rights of others.
The act was passed to prohibit Ku Klux Klan acts of intimidation aimed at preventing formerly enslaved people from gathering freely. It says those in groups of two or more cannot “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” to prevent them from doing so. The language further includes those who “go in disguise” and “on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder” gatherings.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-church-raids-arrests-lawsuit-b2798388.html
A lawsuit from Baptist, Lutheran and Quaker groups accuses Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of chilling First Amendment protections and infringing on religious freedoms.
…federal agents seized a man in front of a church, brandished a rifle at a pastor and detained a grandfather dropping off his granddaughter at a church school in Los Angeles, according to the lawsuit. Federal officers have also recently chased several men into a church parking lot and arrested a parishioner at churches across southern California, according to church leaders.
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Abdulle said he’s already noticed the chilling effect at Abubakr As-Saddique mosque in south Minneapolis, where numbers are beginning to dwindle the longer federal immigration officials remain in town.
“At least one quarter was missing,” Abdulle said of attendance at last week’s Friday prayer. “People used to wait outside. That’s how full it used to be.”
We have officially survived 30 days and YouTube just legally classified us as a “Podcast” (Golden Globe campaign starts now).
Saturday is the Monthiversary. From the basement on Christmas Eve to a digital audience the size of a small Elks Lodge.
Watch the announcement here:
The fucking Energizer Bunny of the frivolous lawsuit. WaPo
Best of luck fatboy. Sue someone richer than god and the biggest bank in the US for enough to make it worth their while to fight back – Utterly stupid. Get ready for the discovery requests.
The weather is going to be extremely cold here in Michigan tomorrow. There is even a warning out for exploding trees. I figured that forecast deserved a new meme.
https://time.com/7357180/us-withdrawal-who-world-health-organization/
The U.S. was one of the first countries to join the World Health Organization (WHO) when it was created in 1948 as part of the United Nations. But on Jan. 22, 2026, it officially withdrew from the global health group.
“The flag of the United States continues to fly outside the WHO building [in Geneva], and that’s not a mistake. It’s a very intentional signal that they welcome us to re-engage.”
The yearly update of the flu vaccine is a good example. “The flu world has always been very close globally,” he says. “I am quite convinced that there will be unofficial information-sharing among this group. The question is, at what point does that information have to be official in order for companies to take action deciding which vaccine strains they are going to use?”
Walson sits on a few WHO committees and says he asked his colleagues there whether the U.S. decision changed his ability to participate. “They said absolutely not—that as a U.S. citizen, I still have the capacity to participate in the workings of the WHO. And there are scientists and technical experts engaging to continue to maintain our access [to the WHO] at the individual level. Clearly we have lost the coordination of all of these activities, but we will still have some engagement.”
*The demented, orange, blobs want to kill us all. FDT! FRFKJ!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-ice-funding-house_n_69725c82e4b0dfed7798eb39
The legislation includes $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $18 billion for Customs and Border Protection, the two federal agencies conducting sweeping raids involving thousands of federal agents in areas including Minnesota and, most recently, Maine. That’s on top of the unprecedented $75 billion boost in funding ICE received from Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill that Republicans passed unilaterally last year.
Democrats sought to include restraints on some of ICE’s tactics by requiring that its agents obtain a warrant before detaining immigrants and that they follow a standard use-of-force policy, steps that might have prevented the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. But those demands were blocked by Republicans in bicameral negotiations over the legislation, prompting many House Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), to oppose the bill.
However, Jeffries didn’t “whip” the bill, allowing moderates and front-line Democrats to vote their conscience, including Henry Cuellar (Texas), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Wash.), Don Davis (N.C.), and Tom Suozzi (N.Y.). A “no” vote on the bill would likely be weaponized by the GOP against Democrats in districts where Trump is popular, potentially threatening their party’s path to winning back control of the House in November’s midterm elections.
*Gadammit!
https://time.com/7357264/ice-funding-bill-dhs-congress/
The Senate now takes up the package under the shadow of the approaching Jan. 30 deadline. Failure to act would risk another government shutdown—the second in four months…
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mayor-mamdani-supports-abolishing-ice-calls-humanity-dealing/story
“I am in support of abolishing ICE, and I’ll tell you why: Because what we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist,” said Mamdani…
Mamdani, a naturalized American citizen who was born in Uganda, has been critical of ICE for many years. Last year during his campaign, he said in a June interview that ICE is “a rogue agency, one that has no interest in laws, no interest in order.”
“We’re seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some sort of immigration law, but instead, what it is doing is terrorizing people no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, and no matter the facts of the case,” Mamdani said.
“And I’m tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home and dragged out of their life. What we need to see is humanity,” he added.
*US citizens are not safe, and they are building that into the funding bill by not exempting it.
Something is astir in the krasnov world. Not his great and wonderful talks. As someone on twit put it, ‘it is like open mic in the dementia and Alzheimer’s ward in the mental hospital’. We are seeing a lot of sfb presenting his alternate world and the question is why.
Perhaps cover for the Epstein disaster? Perhaps a distraction from how he, and his masters, are destroying the United States? Perhaps a cynical way of making sure he is put away and not listened to after he is shuffled off somewhere?
I just saw that couchman Vance is heading to Minnesota. I am not sure if it is to wave the WH flag or to stir up flames. He is better at the later. Something has been changing about how much his fat face is shown in public these last couple of weeks. It is no longer hidden and others strutting around. The talk of replacing him is dead, so going forward he will be forty-eight sometime, not sure how soon.
All that makes me think the WH is working on succession. Hope earlier than the Ides of March.
there was this on display, what other marks of the devil are hidden under the baggy suits?
Chat on Cam, Mic or Keyboard
Live 11am ET from D.C.
JD Vance takes the stage at the March for Life just hours after defending ICE raids in Minnesota.
Ivy – there is so much that the WH covers up and pretends the fat idiot is 235# 6’3″. The Air Force One turned around and returned to Andrews instead of continuing on to Switzerland. It was all weird.
Then sfb shows up with a nasty injection site on the back of his hand. Plus the hand looks like a Baggie filled with sludge. Then the mangomoron goes on stage to give another stemwinder of a bore fest. My biggest questions are why swap planes? There is the excuse of a minor electrical problem, I don’t believe it. What would have happened on the aircraft if stupid had a stroke and all sorts of medical stuff was all over it; along with what output stupid spewed, making clean up not worth the time. So switch aircraft.
I do wonder if Tissue-type plasminogen activator is injected into the hands? Due to a lot of damage the blood techs use the back of my hands to draw blood or inject stuff. I am sure a drug addict that is fatter and much uglier than me has no veins above the back of his hands.
BB, that thought hadn’t occurred to me, that the “minor electrical problem” was a cover-up.
In fact, he looks more and more like a zombie.
BB – On top of JD making more appearances, USHA has been to the IVF clinic to make it a trifecta of fascist women to be knocked up as optics for the midterms.
They are marching for a “culture of life” on the National Mall tomorrow, but the data shows a spike in death.
The hard numbers are in: Since Roe fell, the bans haven’t stopped abortions (they are actually up), but they have nearly doubled the maternal death rate for women in those states. The laws didn’t stop the procedure; they just made pregnancy lethal for the marginalized.
Talk about it tomorrow in our podcast.
Read the report 📑
That was my first thought, but the quick turnaround to Davos, and Adolf meandering down a red carpet (did he bring his own or does everyone get that?) made me doubt it was a medical emergency. He looks and sounds terrible; bruises, extra orange make-up, gurgling saliva in the back of his throat.
How has he avoided DVT?
He will croak before he has any consequences for anything. Will the Epstein files come out after his gone or will Repugz still protect pedophiles?
https://www.rawstory.com/michael-fanone-ivan-raiklin/
Former police office Michael Fanone had to be separated from President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “secretary of retribution” during a break in Jack Smith’s congressional testimony.
“Hey, what’s up buddy?” Fanone replied, turning around. “Go f— yourself.”
“Why do you have to swear at me?” Raiklin protested.
“What’s that?” Fanone said. “Oh, don’t pretend we’re not mortal enemies. Go f— yourself.”
“Why do you have to lose your cool with me?” Raiklin complained. “I’m always professional with you. Every time I communicate with you, I’m always professional.”
“Go f— yourself,” Fanone repeated. “You’re a traitor to this country.”
You threatened my family, and you threatened my wife,” Fanone said. “You’re a traitor to this f—ing country. Go f— yourself.”
“Why are you so spasmodic?” Raiklin asked, and Fanone challenged him to “do something.” “Why should I? I’m communicating with you, trying to calm you down. Look at your face right now, I think you need to control yourself.”
“Look at me, total control of my mind and body,” Raiklin intoned, as a Capitol police officer attempted to separate the men. “Total control of my mind and body, and I’m totally dominating you right now. Totally dominating you right now.”
“This guy is threatening my family,” Fanone said. “He threatened my children, threatened to rape my children – rape my children, you sick bastard. Rape my children!”
*Well, that’s incredibly sick and on-brand for a Republican.
Another Capitol police officer led Fanone and Dunn from the hearing room as Raiklin smirked into the camera and Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) banged his gavel and called for order.
“Thank you, Mr. Fanone,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking Democrat, as supporters stood up and applauded as Fanone and Dunn were escorted out by a police officer.
“Mr. Chairman, please control the deranged observer, Mr. Raiklin, so he doesn’t create any other problems with this today.”
*Kudos to Jamie Raskin for getting in that parting shot.
*Another name that’s new to me. How many of these alt-right a-holes are there?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Raiklin
A long-time associate of Michael Flynn,[4] Raiklin is a former Lt.-Col. Army reservist,[4] having served as a Green Beret, and a former employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[5]
*This is why our military won’t save us.
Raiklin will serve on the board of directors for America’s Future, a nonprofit established by Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.).[9]
*A non-profit. ~Right~ Effing Russian agents.
The scariest part of the hearing wasn’t the shouting match. It was the quiet part.
“board of peace”
axis of evil
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/22/putin-and-us-envoy-witkoff-begin-talks-in-moscow-kremlin-says_6749711_4.html
Top US negotiators including Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow late Thursday, January 22, for talks on a US-drafted plan to end the Ukraine war, just as Kyiv announced it had agreed on post-war security guarantees with Washington.
Video published by the Kremlin showed a smiling Putin shaking hands with Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House advisor Josh Gruenbaum.
Russia, which occupies around 20% of Ukraine, is pushing for full control of the country’s eastern Donbas region as part of a deal. But Kyiv has warned that ceding ground will embolden Moscow and says it will not sign a peace deal that fails to deter Russia from launching a renewed assault.
Witkoff said earlier he believed the two sides were “down to one issue,” without elaborating.
*Putin probably wants his money unfrozen so he use a billion of it to join tRUMPsky’s alternative-UN war criminals club.
So funny that tRUMPsky invited Putin to join the ~BOP~ when he couldn’t even go to Davos for fear of being arrested and taken to the ICC.
Argentina is joining…with our tax dollars, I guess. We float them $40 billion & now they have a billion for club dues?
New York mayor in re Renee Good killing:
We believe our eyes
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