Coffee Talk: I Should Have Had a V-8

[mattola]

Trump says US "will not put up" with perceived resistance from Zelensky on peace deal

Zelensky knew from the moment he was invited to the whitehouse that it was a setup and he went anyway.. Not to try to convince Trump to help Ukraine but to show the world just how big a puppet Trump is for Putin and it continues to show over and over and over.

Problem is that I think Trump is Traitor enough to turn the US weapons on Ukraine.....

President Donald Trump says the US “will not put up” with perceived resistance by President Volodymyr Zelensky to ending the war with Russia, making clear his enmity toward the Ukrainian leader remains after a fracas in the Oval Office on Friday.

“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, citing an AP headline that quoted Zelensky over the weekend saying an end to the war is “still very, very far away.”

“It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?” Trump went on.

American officials have continued their harsh criticism of Zelensky three days after the blowup in the Oval Office. National security adviser Mike Waltz said earlier Monday that Zelensky needed to express regret before talks could resume on a rare earths mineral deal.

 

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Another vehicle attack in Germany...

BERLIN (AP) — A driver rammed a car into a crowd Monday in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, and authorities said two people were killed and ten others injured, five of them severely.

A 40-year-old German from the nearby state of Rhineland-Palatinate was detained and in a hospital after being injured, State Interior Minister Thomas Strobl of Baden-Württemberg, where Mannheim is based, told German news agency dpa.

Police would not immediately characterize the incident as an attack. In a statement Monday night they wrote that “at this stage of the investigation, no political background is assumed.”

A driver rams a car into crowd in Germany's Mannheim, leaving 2 dead and 10 injured

BERLIN (AP) — A driver rammed a car into a crowd Monday in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, and authorities said two people were killed and ten others injured, five of them severely.

ca.yahoo.com

 

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Did I watch that?

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Did I watch that?

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Instead of ripping off Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down", maybe Lara should try Running Down a DreamFor the Roses?

 

[Comeds]

I know it is joke, but sadly this is how intelligent many Americans are with world history.

lol 100% serious - my wife grew up in Houston where in High School she had 1 year of overall history.....along with 4 years of Texas history

Her sister is now a teacher there, and luckily its much much better now....well at least for now

 

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Trump calls himself the only President who didn’t give Ukrainian land to Russia

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newsukraine.rbc.ua

 

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Here's footage of Lara Trump eating a citrus...

 

[Comeds]

I don't think she looks so bad, you put her in the right dressage she might even look nice.

 

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How about the Dow dropping over 800 points today, anybody tired of winning yet?

Edit: A rally late, but still a drop of close to 650 points.

 

[mattola]

One Word Describes Trump - Patrimonialism

In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin. In the first portion of his rule, he ran the Russian state as a personal racket. State bureaucracies and private companies continued to operate, but the real governing principle was Stay on Vladimir Vladimirovich’s good side … or else.