Liberal: The US cannot save Moscow from itself
“Wagner’s revolt shows that the US or anyone else can do little to save Moscow from its own mistakes – and there is no reason to try” thunders Peter Juul of Liberal Patriot. “Sometimes it appears that evidently many American and European political analysts and pundits fear a Russian loss in Ukraine greater than the Kremlin” due to “potentially catastrophic consequences” in Russia. Nevertheless, “it’s not our job to save Russia from the results” of its “decision – neither is it even possible.” After all, “we should be prepared for a possible political collapse in Russia – but we must also realize that there may be little we will do about it.”
From right: Hunter Probe Is cover-up
“Hunter Biden’s long-running tax and gun scandals have gone under the carpet” last week, argues Susan Shelley of the Orange County Registerand “you will not earn cash betting” against approval of his settlement. But “the identical Justice Department and FBI that made the fake Trump-Russia investigation materialize out of thin air made Hunter Biden’s suspected financial crimes disappear.” Based on IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, “month after month, 12 months after 12 months, Department of Justice professionals denied investigative steps, denied law enforcement operations, and even briefed Hunter Biden’s lawyers on developments,” and Justice refused to “allow IRS investigators to take a look at next” into Hunter’s infamous “I’m sitting here with my father” text message threatening a business associate. Indeed, “the investigation was a cover-up.”
Gender Patrol: Trans Jocks “Recent East Germans”
“I’m speaking out now about women’s sport because I don’t desire the identical thing to occur again” begs former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies in spiked interview comparing transgender athletes with East German athletes whose use of testosterone enabled them to dominate Olympic events for nearly 20 years. The International Olympic Committee did nothing to forestall it; today, “the IOC did not have a look at the science around transgender athletes,” but “just listened to transgender activists and lobbyists.” Now “having an open category and a women’s category might be essentially the most sensible thing to do”, so “we haven’t got a 20-year experiment on the expense of female athletes.”
Eye on ’24: Glenn Youngkin, Dark Horse?
Which Potential GOP Presidency Candidates Can Offer a “Broader Domestic Appeal Than Trump or DeSantis?” asks Douglas Schoen of The Hill. Well, apart from Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and a former governor. Nikki Haley, “the one one that could potentially galvanize the Republican electorate,” though “not within the race straight away,” is Governor Glenn Youngkin (Virginia). He won an upset victory in 2021 “by avoiding Trump-style politics – without direct condemnation of Trump or his constituents – and running a centre-right campaign focused on quality of life issues akin to the economy, public safety, education and personal freedoms which is strictly what Republicans must accomplish that nationally to stay viable.” He fares well within the polls against President Biden and “can also be more popular than each Biden and Trump amongst independent voters.” So “if Trump and DeSantis are slapping each other into political oblivion,” the GOP “can be smart to contemplate Glenn Youngkin strongly.”
Watch within the Media: See Who Beats RFK Jr.
The press “mocked” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for promoting “baseless theories, often rightly so”, writes Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal. But a few of his points – akin to that “Covid lockdowns have hurt lower-income Americans while enriching billionaires like Jeff Bezos – have a grain of truth.” Liberals scoff at his “anti-vaccine activism,” but it surely “spreads from the identical fanatical source because the environmental zeal they too have embraced.” “Progressive beliefs, regardless of how preposterous, are unchallenged” by the “partisan press,” while “views that cut against the present,” even when well-founded scientifically, “are silenced.” “Legitimate criticism of Covid lockdowns has been vehemently dismissed as ‘baseless’ in much the identical way as Mr. Kennedy’s dubious claims about vaccines.” No wonder Americans “don’t trust the media.”
– Developed by the editorial staff of the post