Russia defeated: Prigozhin Drama’s Not Over
Initially, Wagner’s mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin “gave the impression to be operating under the assumption that he was in open insurrection only against” the Russian defense minister and top military commander, follow Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet at The Hill. Nonetheless, President Vladimir Putin “modified all that”, calling Prigozhin’s march on Moscow a “treason”. Prigozhin eventually relented, but “Putin is unlikely to forgive him.” It appears to be only “a matter of time” before Prigozhin will “fall out the window”, “drink the flawed cup of tea” or “be forced to flee” to Africa, “where most of his money flow comes from activities corresponding to stealing gold.” Still, one thing is certain: “We have not seen the last Prigozhin yet.”
The Libertarian: Hunter’s Two-Tier Treatment
Hunter Biden’s darling deal to avoid jail is “a touch of restraint that prosecutors exercise towards the powerful and that the rest of us would appreciate” growls JD Tuccille from Reason. Tax-cheating Hunter “has taken advantage of the kind of deal his father looks upon with distaste for everybody else.” Normally, “the federal government is merciless towards prohibited categories of people possessing firearms,” nevertheless, Hunter avoided “serious time behind bars.” Politicians “love harsh sentences so long as it doesn’t affect their families, friends or approval rankings.” Hunter’s special treatment shows that “indulgence is on the table for the right people.” That is: if what Hunter has is not “beloved deal” followed by “ought to be available to all”.
Take a take a look at 2024: voters fear a rematch
“With the Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump rematch now the prevailing belief, the 2024 election – steeped in personality – is fast becoming an election that voters don’t need” growls David Winston in Appeal. In the Economist/YouGov poll, for instance, 59% of “voters don’t need Biden” on the ballot, and 56% are against Trump’s “re-election”. Amongst independents: “64 percent. against Biden and 59 percent. against Trump.” Even their favorable-unfavorable rankings “are remarkably similar” and “none of them improved their standing amongst independents.” Aspects like Biden’s “age and ability to serve one other full term” and Trump’s “series of indictments and trials” will only increase. So if it is indeed Biden-Trump II, for 57% of voters, “the query is not necessarily who to elect, but how?”
Hidden Story: When Bubba lost the ball
The codes needed to launch US nuclear strikes are ‘never removed from the president – a minimum of they need to never be’ sighs Christopher Woody at Business Insider. But former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelton revealed in his autobiography that the authorization code card often called “”Biscuit‘ [and] carried in “soccer” was lost in 2000. Each time a Pentagon official visited Bill Clinton’s White House to envision the codes, “he was met with the same excuse – the president is very busy, but he takes the codes very seriously and has them available.” Only when the time has come Change codes that the White House has admitted have been “missing for months.” Shelton wryly remarked, “‘You do the best you’ll be able to and you think that you’ve an infallible system, but in some way there at all times appears to be a way for somebody to screw it up.’
Liberal: working class FirstDems
“Democrats should focus – and obsessively – on working-class voters” begs Ruy Teixeira of Liberal Patriot. What the “skilled class” Democrats fail to understand is that “in 2024, two-thirds of eligible voters will still be working class.” Plus, “everyone a state deemed competitive for the Electoral College or Senate in 2024 is above the national average in terms of working-class voter participation.” This is where the party loses voters; indeed, its “predominance amongst non-white working-class voters dropped by as much as 19 points in each elections.” And while Democrats can win squeekers without conforming, the only method to a “big victory is straight through the American working class.”
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