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John, Please stop posting absurd comments around here. Life is absurd enough without all of your reductios.

Has anyone else noticed that John Cotter never answers questions in our discussions here? I'm still wondering where John gets his anti-democracy, anti-American propaganda. If I were a betting man, I would wager that John's favorite "news" and opinion sources are funded by Putin's oligarchs.

Ruh roh... Now Democrats are in serious trouble... 🙄 It looks like MAGA Ben Cole and the Faux News/RFK, Jr. fanboys are now taking a shirtless public relations page out of the Putin/Trump personality cult playbook.

JFK delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech 60 years ago this week, in Berlin, on June 26, 1963. In going to Berlin, JFK was expressing American support for NATO, and a commitment to the defense of freedom in West Berlin from Soviet totalitarianism. In defending Ukraine from Putin's military invasion and intended annexation of Ukraine, America's second Irish Catholic POTUS, Joe Biden, has been walking in his predecessor JFK's footsteps-- defending liberal democracy in Europe from militant totalitarianism. Yet, Joe Biden has been criticized by Donald Trump, Fox News, and others, for supporting Ukrainian sovereignty following Putin's invasion. In fact, following Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine, Donald Trump declared publicly that, "Putin is a genius." Trump calls Putin 'genius' and 'savvy' for Ukraine invasion - POLITICO And, in July of 2022, conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, "I don't really care... what Putin does in Ukraine." Tucker Carlson: "I don’t really care" what Putin does in Ukraine (axios.com)

Ben, Get a clue. There is no meaningful equivalence between Trump's multiple counts of mishandling (and even hiding) highly classified documents-- even Top Secret military intelligence-- and anything done by Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden. You probably don't know that the use of private Email servers was still legal when Powell, Rice, and Clinton were Secretaries of State. And the allegedly "classified" content in Hillary's Emails was marginal, at best. Also, Trump, himself, signed off on stricter laws about Presidential Records, after making a big deal about the Fox News/Hillary Email-gate nothing burger. Then Trump deliberately broke his own laws. Do some remedial reading and spare us the MAGA/false equivalence propaganda. Here's a good reference for you. What Are the Classified Documents in the Trump Indictment? - Lawfare (lawfareblog.com)

The lamest of lame rebuttals, John. It sounds like your response is to suggest that Prigozhin is simply making stuff up about Putin's pretexts for implementing the Dugin plan to annex Ukraine? Brilliant. But I asked you first. Who is your anti-democracy, anti-American propaganda Oracle over there in Ireland?

Yes, of course, restoring "faith." We need to re-elect Trump and his fascist plutocrats, and get back to worshipping the Golden Calf. We need to restore traditional Republican values-- corporate welfare, tax cuts for the rich, cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and gutting the EPA.

Yes, let's. Biden and the Democrats have had to deal with right wing attacks on democracy, at home and abroad, since 2021-- by the proto-fascist, white supremacist Trump cult and by Putin's totalitarian police state. Thus far, Biden and the Democrats have prevailed, in the footsteps of JFK and his defense of Berlin. Is that unfortunate, in your bizarre opinion?

Huh? Trump is a Deep State adversary? On what planet? If Trump is a Deep State adversary, why did he block the release of the JFK records in October of 2017, when they were finally supposed to be released to the public, 25 years after the passage of the JFK Records Act? Explain. If Trump is a Deep State adversary, why did he renege on his 2016 campaign promise to "tell the American people who really destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11?" Why did he launch Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian Army positions? You've been drinking the MAGA Koolaid, Karl. Trump only pretended to be a victim of the Deep State, beginning in 2017, in order to try to blame the "Deep State" for his crimes against the United States-- accepting illegal campaign funds from Russia (and GRU hacking of Emails and voter registration databases) during the 2016 U.S. election, then staging a coup attempt in January of 2021 to remain in power. Trump is no adversary or victim of the Deep State. He's a con man and a criminal who habitually blames others for his crimes.

Damn. Has anyone done a tally of MAGA Ben Cole's redundant RFK,Jr. threads on the JFKA board since the 56 Years thread was closed, and Ben refused to post on his MAGA Water Cooler thread?

John, Have you figured out yet that Prigozhin's latest confession about Putin's bogus pretexts for invading Ukraine completely debunks your oft-repeated narrative blaming the U.S. and NATO for the invasion? So much for the oppressive G-7 democracies "poking the bear," eh? BTW, what are your anti-American propaganda sources over there?

This statement by Prigozhin, certainly, debunks the oft-repeated Russia Today narrative on the Education Forum blaming Biden and NATO for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Hopefully, we'll hear an explanation from the "blame it on NATO" crowd-- but I won't hold my breath.

Hmmm... Not a single comment about Prigozhin's remarkable confession here, from the guys who have been pushing the "blame it on Biden and NATO" narrative about Putin's invasion of Ukraine?? Talk about yer confirmation bias... 🙄

Ron, Your Berry Gordy post (above) got me thinking about the Contours great 1962 Berry Gordy song, Do You Love Me, which got me thinking about the Isley Brothers great 1962 hit, Twist and Shout, which got me thinking about this incredible 1963 Beatles' performance for Queen Elizabeth II. The Beatles really nailed this live 1963 performance of Twist and Shout, although the song wasn't released in the U.S. until 1964.

Very strange, and it's hard to know what is really going on. With his capitulation, my guess is that Prigozhin's head will, ultimately, end up on a pike.

Should we call this Wagnerian opera, "Gotterdammerung?" I'm wondering what will happen if Prigozhin manages to occupy Moscow.

"Plunder" is the key word, Kirk. IMO, the three P's of Putin-ism are plunder, police, and propaganda, as those of us in the ROCOR learned back in 2007. Putin's aggressive international propaganda convinced many in the West that NATO and Ukrainian fascists were responsible for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine-- with major assists from Faux News and Putin's Orange Asset, Donald Trump. And the Putin apologists have persistently refused to study or discuss Putin's history, while focusing their diatribes on the sins of the U.S. and NATO. "Russia is a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources and power and the present situation is a clear indication that Putin was not able to control the factions from infighting." -- Gary Kasparov June 23, 2023

Texas Heat Wave Has Smashed Some All-Time Records, And Will Expand Into Next Week (msn.com)

How about, "Operation Truth Social?" 🤥 Meanwhile, I'm hoping that John Cotter will continue to entertain us with his comical anti-democracy diatribes. John has ducked the question, but I think he'd be right at home in NOKO, rather than being oppressed by American full spectrum dominance in South Korea or Japan. As a vegan, John could live on kimchi in NOKO, avoid vaccinations, and spend his days posting pablum in praise of Kim Jong Un and his peaceful, multi-polar ballistic missiles.

Folks, I found an educational forum meme for John Cotter about 21st century European politics... 🤥

Interesting history, Jim. Thanks for posting this. JFK was, obviously, interested in maintaining the NATO alliance in 1963, while simultaneously seeking peace with the Soviets, if possible. Your JFK history reference here is a welcome break from reading Ben Cole's repetitious, flatulent nocturnal posts about RFK, Jr. and the JFK records, etc., etc. On a positive note, Ben has finally ceased denying Donald Trump's criminal conduct lately. He has reached the MAGA stage of not wanting to talk about Trump's history, other than vague denials about the fascist characteristics of the MAGA cult.

Yeah, Matt, things have progressed to the point where the old Trump advocates, like Benjamin Cole, no longer want to even mention Trump's name. That's progress, of sorts. I remember this happening after Nixon resigned. His old fans never wanted to even mention his name. Unfortunately, they all crawled out of the woodwork to vote for Reagan in 1980.

Sure thing, Larry. Do let us know which specific details of Russ Baker's analyses are incorrect. Thus far, all you have posted are vague, inaccurate generalizations.

Another low point in the history of the Republican Party-- censuring an exemplary American statesman, Adam Schiff, for his investigations and eloquent, accurate commentaries about Donald Trump's crimes. Let's recall that Schiff was the minority party leader on Devin Nunes's GOP-controlled House Intel Committee that "looked for no evidence of Russian collusion and reportedly found none." And the Party of Stupid vote censuring Schiff happened along strict party lines. 🙄 House Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-censure-rep-adam-schiff-trump-era-probes-rcna90451