Zelensky just surrendered the strategically important port city Mariupol after besieged Ukrainian troops there had complained that they had been ignored and abandoned except for propaganda purposes. This officially confirms that.
Why are we sending him billions of dollars again?
Brave leader, swimming in a bathtub filled with aid money: "good luck down there boys, that is a direct order"
Zelensky really just allowed a bunch of nationalists to get entombed days before he Zoom calls into a World Econonic Forum summit and there are still legions of people who think this war is about nationalism
The New York Times cope is unreal
"yes Zelensky just surrendered a critically important city and appears to have stabbed his men in the back, however, Ukraine's folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which experts say is the bigger victory"
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The New York Times has attacked Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk in the last week while defending defending Nina Jankowicz and her Disinformation Board, casually glossing over her connection to the National Endowment for Democracy, which is a CIA front that promotes color revolutions
I'm not saying Nina is a high IQ spook, she isn't, she's a robot with a cardboard personality, but she's also regime servant with ties to the most corrupt institutions in this country, not some independent person
What the CIA wants you to think its henchmen look like versus what they actually look like
It's utterly unpatriotic to subordinate the American Interest, on the one hand, to the whims of a domestic regime that *hates Americans*--and on the other hand, to a foreign country that is among the most corrupt in the world
Here Levin isn't patriotic about America--the real place that is home to real people--but to an abstraction, to an idea that is necessarily at odds with the real nation that is America because it subordinates both them and their homeland to it
There is no meaningful difference between how Mark Levin views the world and how libs/globalists view the world. It is a dispute over degree, not a fundamental one. Both have a view of America that is disconnected from the actual people and place
Taylor Lorenz is ultimately nothing more than a regime harpy who oozes crocodile tears when challenged by her victims. The prospect of them fighting back, as @libsoftiktok has, is terrifying because it threatens the left's chokehold on society and culture. washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/…
I would have tagged Lorenz for my latest @WashTimesOpEd but she blocked me for some reason a while ago🤷♂️ Very brave.
Something else worth mentioning here: Lorenz wrote that Libs of TikTok "promoted a dubious story about a child sex trafficking ring," pointing to a New York Post article about a law enforcement operation in Florida.
Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Six conglomerates own 90% of US media. Asset manager Vanguard Group owns large shares in defense contractors and news media and just overtook Elon Musk as Twitter's top shareholder. Musk isn't the problem.contra.substack.com/p/elon-musk-ve…
Vanguard's timing is interesting. Musk revealed on April 4 that he'd bought 9.2 percent of Twitter, leading to his designation as the top shareholder.
But on April 8, Vanguard disclosed that it upgraded its stake in the first quarter to 82.4 million shares, overtaking Musk.
This drama has also revealed a fun new paradox concerning private companies.
When Twitter kicked then-President Trump off the platform, Washington Post columnist Max Boot gleefully defended the virtues of the "free market" from critics who thought the company went too far.
With Mariupol 80% under Russian control and hundreds of AFU troops surrendering and Azov nearly annihilated, Russia supposedly chose to use the exact kind of chemical weapons that it was warned would trigger a US-led NATO intervention. You should be skeptical of this claim.
This is coming from the same regime that lied about nuclear terrorism at Zaporizhzhia to trick the US into shooting down Russian aircraft over Ukraine.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that Russia would do this. It would just be the dumbest possible thing for Russia to do at the most convenient time possible for Ukraine. A lot of Ukrainian troops surrendering seem to feel angry at and abandoned by Zelensky's government.
Why does the left do more investigative journalism than the right? This seems to be changing, the right has learned that it should follow the money to see why Republicans act the way that they do, but still. Muckraking still seems like an arena the right needs to engage in more.
Or rather, it is an arena still dominated by the left. Conservative writers seem more interested in commentary.
The other thing is that investigative journalism from the right doesn't look at the GOP and conservatism as much as it should. It's easy enough to dig up the skeletons of the other side, but it's more constructive to do it to the people "on your side" who really aren't.