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@AriDrennen
@AngryBlackLady
Those poor parents of left-handed kids who were blindsided when their kids came out. How could they have known. Their kids showed no signs whatsoever until they were corrupted by their friends at school and decided it was cool to be left-handed.
A clip from Dr. Snyder’s illuminating testimony about China’s (and Russia’s) political warfare.
Here he summarizes the 6 propaganda themes about the invasion of Ukraine that have been constructed by Russia, then picked up and echoed by China (and some in the U.S). Please listen.
Political warfare from outside works only when it runs through us and takes advantage of our mistakes. I was proud to be able to testify on disinformation to the House Oversight Committee yesterday. My brief introduction is at 52:40.
Oh. So Texans don’t pay “lower taxes” than Californians. It’s just that the tax burden is taken away from the richest Texans and dumped on rest of the population.
The world is watching Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise and the rest of the MAGA Putin puppets betray America, betray Ukraine, and by extension betray the entire free world. The world will not forget these treasonous scumbags.
The Russians thought they would have to wait for Trump’s presidency in order for the US aid to Ukraine to stop, but now they’re getting the same gift through his servile Republican proxies—and Ukrainians are paying for this despicable political game with their lives.
Russian propagandist and “professor of communications” Dmitry Evstafiev asserts that Ukrainians “don’t feel any pain” just like “the dead” and so the Russian army is “fighting against the undead”.
That’s fascist dehumanizing rhetoric and incitement to genocide. And insane.
Head of RT Margarita Simonyan said that winning this war would be more meaningful than WWII and would be "the biggest feat in Russia's history."
Professor Dmitry Evstafiev argued that Ukrainians are incapable of feeling pain, because they are the undead.
@JuliaDavisNews
Oh my. Yaakiv Kedmi - former Israeli politician - seems to have taken a wrong turn into the wrong studio. Solovyov is not happy to hear someone telling him “It’s not an option to bomb a peaceful city…these things shouldn’t even be uttered!”
‼️Listen to this superb response from
@RepAdamSmith
to MTG’s “demented” argument against aiding Ukraine which he correctly calls Russian propaganda.
“[Russians] invade, they, bomb, they kill, and it’s our fault for helping them to defend themselves…It literally makes no sense”
@0liviajulianna
@CollinsforTX
I’ll see your “harassing” and raise you a “terrorizing” as in - TX Republicans terrorizing loving and supportive parents of trans kids by labeling them abusers and opening DFPS investigations on them. That’s harassment, terror, AND abuse.
@JuliaDavisNews
Solovyov: “NATO and the US started this war against Russia on February 17! They pierced the flesh of Donbas!”
Nurse: “Sure, Grandpa, let’s get you to bed”.
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Naturally Hawley didn’t go to hear the speech of a hero defending democracy. But he did go to the insurrection against his own country. (And ran when it got scary).
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state propagandists bragged that while visiting Moscow, Tucker Carlson was able to charge his smartphone “via a USB port and connected to a fast and free Wi-Fi Internet”, adding that “Americans can’t even dream about such wonders of civilization!” 🤣 Yep, no wi-fi here 🤭
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state TV gloats about Trump’s GOP blocking Ukraine aid. They proudly show Hungary’s autocratic leader Orbán explaining that Trump is accomplishing this even though he’s not president “yet”.
How does it feel to betray your country and all your allies, GOP? Productive?
@JuliaDavisNews
After they drone on about how the Russian govt is banning “Barbie” & “Oppenheimer” because they contradict “traditional Russian moral values” Pecheykin finally points out why those movies ACTUALLY aren’t available to Russians. At which point the host says they’re out of time.🤣
@JuliaDavisNews
Olevich: We can’t even take one Ukrainian town in 15 months”
Norkin: “Some say that we can’t, other say we don’t want to”
Olevich: “Thousands of soldiers died and we didn’t even want it?”
More Olevich, please.
@JuliaDavisNews
Kremlin propagandist Norkin wants to “turn off the internet” and impose “harsh military censorship” so that Russians can’t know the truth about Ukraine’s counter-invasion. This is how a dictatorship works. They’d rather make their people ignorant than stop killing people.
@EvrythgIsCasual
Do you remember why Ukraine gave up its nukes? Because we promised to protect it. It wasn’t getting ready for war. It didn’t ask to be invaded by Russia.
@JuliaDavisNews
Right. It really made a huge difference for them to wait to announce their retreat from Kherson. Because everyone here thought they were winning before they announced it. 🙄
@JuliaDavisNews
Simonyan claims Lvova-Belova took children “nobody wanted”. No, Marge, she *kidnapped* children after you murdered their loved ones. Their relatives wanted them, their friends wanted them. Their country wanted them. And in some cases their parents were still alive and wanted them
@JuliaDavisNews
“How does it benefit us if the residential bldgs in Kyiv are without electricity and water?”
Yikes a sane comment snuck into the discussion. Time for the disclaimer.
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state propagandists are never shy about saying out loud which Western politicians belong to them. They’ve called Trump “our Trump” and now they’re calling Mike Johnson “our Johnson”.
(stop your giggling, this is serious)
@JuliaDavisNews
Lol. Grumbles about being baselessly accused of having ties to Russia…while sitting on a stage in Russia, next to a convicted Russian spy, asking Putin for a favor.
Russian propagandists keep insisting that they utterly disdain the West and Western culture but then they say stuff like “Remember that episode of South Park” on a political talk show. 🤣
Yevgeny Satanovsky lifts the veil on Russia's deep-seated insecurities, based on its desperate need to be feared — and its willingness to go to any lengths to terrorize its opponents.
@JuliaDavisNews
More prototypical fascist rhetoric - “We’re curing the severely ill Ukrainian people”. I mean, in reality every accusation is essentially a confession so…
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state TV is celebrating today that “ultra-right Trump supporter who always voted against aid to Ukraine” Mike Johnson has been made Speaker of the House.
“This means that all of this suits us well”, gloats Kremlin propagandist Olga Skabeeva.
How do US Republican pundits and politicians like Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis justify appeasing a dictator who has been issued an arrest warrant for war crimes by the ICC?
@JuliaDavisNews
The Russian Ambassador summarizes what the US is asking for - to leave Ukraine alone and cease their genocide of Ukrainians - then says that is unthinkable for Russia. He says it as if it’s a perfectly reasonable and obvious response. How can anyone negotiate with these monsters?
@soledadobrien
Kramer has been this way the entire time he’s been on the air. And his financial trading advice is completely worthless. He’s a charlatan.
A succinct explanation by Prof.
@amanda_frost1
(a lovely person whom I coincidentally went to school with) that the Constitution requires Congress to administer SCOTUS, including the size, quorum, laws around recusal and other ethics concerns, and it has done so for 230 years.
WATCH: In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Prof.
@amanda_frost1
says Congress has the constitutional authority to enact a
#SCOTUS
code of ethics.
@NewsHour
@JuliaDavisNews
Kremlin propagandist Mardan:
“Somewhere on the outskirts of our empire our glorious legions are defeating the barbarians. This is a totally normal way of an empire’s existence”
Nothing about NATO, nothing about “denazification”. Just delusional genocidal garbage. That’s Russia.
@JuliaDavisNews
Trump was always more than just a “useful idiot” to them. He was their great hope for the destruction of US society. They don’t even bother hiding any more that they helped get him elected. Here they talk about how much they love him because he generates so much hate.
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state TV lying to its viewers, showing images of a residential building in Uman destroyed during a Russian missile strike, saying it’s an image of Ukrainians striking Donetsk.
The Russian missile strike killed 23 people, including 6 children.
❗️The rescue operation at the site of the Russian strike on a multi-storey building in
#Uman
,
#Cherkasy
Region, has been completed.
23 people were killed, including 6 children.
19 people were injured.
17 people were rescued, Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs, said.
@JuliaDavisNews
And note Solovyov’s sinister smirk when he replies, “we will first warn the civilians to leave”, knowing full well it doesn’t help them and that he’s saying it to be glib.
@JuliaDavisNews
Amazingly rare lucidity for one of these propaganda shows. He starts with “Russia initiated a sp military op, miscalculated its strength, and for 8 straight months can’t win”. Then says… 😆
@JuliaDavisNews
The country that made the decision to go to war, Mr. Solovyov, is Russia. Everyone else is helping the country you invaded defend itself. Seems that The Hague may be interested to see, however, that you’re calling for attacks against “Berlin, Paris, Madrid, London, & Washington”.
@NoLieWithBTC
I remember when Lindsey Graham broke the Judiciary Committee’s rules and pushed Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination through to the Senate floor without a voting quorum.
@JuliaDavisNews
They’re saying that a loss now would be catastrophic for Russia and the falling apart of their society/nation…without acknowledging the obvious: that Russia caused this catastrophe in the first place by invading Ukraine.
@JuliaDavisNews
If you’re measuring linguistic similarities that way then you can also argue that English is a dialect of Dutch and Portuguese is a dialect of French…
@JuliaDavisNews
Solovyov wants to know “Who needs Ukraine where they don’t respect Russians?” Okaaaay. After a terrorist state invades and murders another population they demand to be “respected”. Good luck with that.
Oh, and the answer to the question is - the world. The world needs Ukraine.
@JuliaDavisNews
Russian state propagandist Mardan claims that there’s now in Russia “a total consensus that Ukraine has to be dismantled brick by brick so that nothing at all is left there”.
Are you having a nice vacation, US House of Representatives? Enjoying Easter weekend, House Republicans?
@JuliaDavisNews
Just like Medvedev, their state propagandists have been pushing the narrative that ‘no one needs’ Ukraine and that it shouldn’t exist. Yes, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
@JuliaDavisNews
Solovyov wants to know “Who needs Ukraine where they don’t respect Russians?” Okaaaay. After a terrorist state invades and murders another population they demand to be “respected”. Good luck with that.
Oh, and the answer to the question is - the world. The world needs Ukraine.
@JuliaDavisNews
Yikes. Solovyov says the coup has shown the Russian gov’t that their National Guard should figure out a list of basic readiness procedures so it can defend their territory the next time someone invades. Wow, so he’s saying they didn’t already have this figured out? Good to know.
@JuliaDavisNews
Solovyov suggests Russia can simply march into Poland, Switzerland, and Italy like “the great Russian warriors of the 18th century”. Okay, grandpa, let’s get you to bed.
@JuliaDavisNews
Solovyov: “Nothing in Russia can ever be solved with an uprising. Never!”
Not even, say, the 1917 revolution that eventually led to the birth of his beloved Soviet Union?
When Solovyov keeps performing these religious fire and brimstone sermons and weaponizes religious blackmail on his guests, bear in mind that he grew up in *atheistic* Soviet Union, which he calls his “Motherland” and which he proudly stated he has “given an oath to”.
@JuliaDavisNews
How to Putin:
Show a bunch of big booms, men using scary knobs and buttons, more big booms, then say you’re practicing destroying the US and “formerly” Great Britain, then praise the “wonderful” Tucker Carlson.
And that, kids, is how you Putin.
While Russia was raining bombs and missiles upon Ukrainian civilians on New Year's eve, here is what was happening on Kremlin-controlled state TV: they spoke of peace, love and mercy, referring to Ukraine as "Russia's southern lands." Watch some of this madness:
@JuliaDavisNews
Of course Solovyov is still obsessed with convincing people that death is fine. (Not his own mind you, but the soldiers’ on the front lines).
@JuliaDavisNews
A Russian grandmother gets physically dragged off a bus in Russia for speaking out against the invasion in Ukraine.
Russian propagandist logic: “There is a special military operation [in Ukraine]…so that no granny in Ukraine gets dragged off a bus”
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The Russia-appointed “governor” of occupied Zaporizhzhia describes displacing & brutally beating Ukrainian families, cancelling teaching Ukrainian, and then says “cities with millions of inhabitants” ahead will receive the same treatment. See why Ukraine will never give up?
@JuliaDavisNews
After decades (or more) of living inside a system built on acute corruption and fraud, he’s asking the inevitable, obvious questions now? “Better late than never” or “He’s so close to getting it” - take your pick of sarcastic caption.