TURIN, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, fresh off its Eurovision victory, released a new music video Sunday of its winning hit “Stefania” that features scenes of war-ravaged Ukraine and women in combat gear, as the annual song contest took on ever more political tones given Russia’s war.
“This is how we see Ukrainian mothers today,” Kalush frontman Oleh Psiuk said of the video, which had already racked up millions of views within hours of its release. “We were trying to deliver the message of what Ukraine looks like today.”
"The video was released hours after Kalush Orchestra brought Ukraine its third Eurovision win, pulling ahead of Britain in the grand finale thanks to a surge of popular votes from some of the estimated 200 million viewers from 40 participating countries. The win buoyed Ukrainian spirits and represented a strong affirmation of Ukrainian culture, which Psiuk said was “under attack” by Russia’s invasion.
"Band members posed for photos and signed autographs outside their three-star Turin hotel Sunday, packing their own luggage into taxis en route to an interview with Italian host broadcaster RAI before heading home. They must return to Ukraine on Monday after being given special permission to leave the country to attend the competition; most Ukrainian men between age 18 and 60 are barred from leaving in case they are needed to fight."
"100 million, huh? Oddly enough, that’s just about the number of mail-in votes Democrats will likely receive in the mid-term elections. Weird how that works."
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American Thinker "It’s an oldie but a goodie: the Biden Regime is telling us to brace ourselves for a new wave of COVID coming this fall… just in time for the midterm elections. When something proves successful, you’d be a fool not to try it again, right? COVID fears led to mail-in balloting… which in turn allowed Biden to be “elected” president of the United States. Therefore, Democrats and their sycophants believe that reintroducing those fears can keep Congressional Democrats in power -- against all odds. Perhaps lightning can strike twice. (Mules on your marks… get set… go!)
"Without offering up any information to support the claim, a senior Biden administration official recently projected that up to 100 million Americans – nearly 1/3 of the population – could get infected with COVID-19COVID-20COVID-21 COVID-22 this fall and early winter if Congress doesn’t provide more funding for vaccines and other treatments. And if they are allowed to vote in person, of course.
"Given the staggeringly high rate of new cases among the fully vaccinated, that might not be too far-fetched. Several so-called “experts” agreed that another major COVID wave could be around the corner due to the waning efficacy of the various COVID vaccines.
"A report in the Washington Post noted the warning by “a senior administration official” during a background briefing. The report stated: “In forecasting 100 million potential infections during a cold-weather wave later this year and early next, the official did not present new data or make a formal projection. Instead, he described the fall and winter wave as a scenario based on a range of outside models of the pandemic. Those projections assume that omicron and its subvariants will continue to dominate community spread, and there will not be a dramatically different strain of the virus, the official said, acknowledging the pandemic’s course could be altered by many factors.”". . .
Violence — The calling card of the Democratic Party (bizpacreview.com)"The Democrat Party has embraced violence as its modus operandi. The party has sent a message to its adherents that anything goes in the pursuit of power—from weaponizing the FBI and IRS against political opponents, to rigging elections, to the use of violence. Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits their purpose. If that entails violent behavior aimed at you, too bad.
"A classic example of Democratic Party-supported violence is occurring as mobs attempt to intimidate conservative Supreme Court justices by protesting in front of their homes. Although this is expressly prohibited by federal law, you won’t see the Democrat-controlled Justice Department taking action against the protestors. Breaking the law has become acceptable.
"To mask its love of violence, the Democratic Party has used groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter as surrogates. Mark Levin calls Antifa “the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.” They show up everywhere with the intention of shutting down free speech. We don’t hear much about it because the mainstream media is the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party. Hitler used similar tactics in the 1930s. Hitler’s thugs targeted communists and Jews; Antifa vilifies conservatives and Trump supporters. Our liberal mobs believe their mission is to physically assault anyone who happens to be conservative. They feel justified in doing all the things that the Nazi Party did in Germany.
"Antifa is the contemporary version of Hitler’s Brownshirts, whose objective, says Dinesh D’Souza, is to “beat people into obeisance.” With the support of Democrat mayors and governors, violent Antifa mobs have trashed our cities, assaulted Trump supporters, and provided justification for more government control over the individual. What has the DOJ done to stop it? Nothing.". . . Full article at BPR
"During a panel discussion about the abortion debate on his Real Time With Bill Maher show, the HBO host said Psaki was indirectly taking a position of support for the protests with her announcement on May 6 that she did not have “an official U.S. government position on where people protest.” He was addressing pro-abortion rights activists gathered outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices who reportedly backed a leaked draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“ 'But we do!” Maher countered. “It’s wrong! It’s intimidation! It’s against the law!” He also showed video of the demonstrations and noted they did not appear "terribly violent," but Maher exclaimed, "Would you want this outside your house?". . .
. . .“I think that’s when Democrats were aligned with most Americans,” Maher said. “I think that’s what most Americans want — safe, legal, and rare."
" 'That’s not where the Democrats are now," Maher continued. "They don’t say that anymore. In fact, their own caucus on this in the House this week said, 'We don’t want to call it ‘choice’ anymore.' Because something, something racism, [it’s] ‘decision’ now. They’re even talking about using ‘pro-abortion.’ No one should be pro-abortion.' ”
Leftist professionals in politics, government, and private enterprise debased themselves for short-term political gain, or in furor at their bogeyman Trump, or in anger at the unwashed.
"The left-wing professional and political classes bequeathed a number of new protocols during the Trump derangement years. And it will be interesting to watch whether the Republicans abide by them in November should they take back the House and perhaps the Senate—and the presidency in 2024 as well.
"Will they follow the New Testament’s turn-the-other-cheek forbearance, or go for Old Testament style eye-for-an-eye retribution?
"Will Republican magnanimity suffice to shame the Democrats to be more professional in the future? Or will tit-for-tat deterrent reciprocity alone ensure a return to norms? Specifically, will Biden be impeached Trump-style, after losing the House in November? Say, to give just one possible example, for deliberately not enforcing and, indeed, undermining U.S. immigration law?
"Will Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in Pelosi-fashion, start yanking troublesome radical Democrats off House committees?
"Will a conservative Robert Mueller-like “wise man” head a $40 million, 22 month-long special counsel investigation of the Biden-family influence-selling syndicate—arrayed with a “dream-team,” “all-star,” and “hunter-killer” right-wing lawyers to ferret out “Big Guy” and “Mr. Ten Percent” quid pro quo profiteering?
"Would a Republican-led House set up a special committee to investigate the racketeering and “conspiracies” across state lines that led to a near “coup” and “insurrection” marked by “the riots of 2020?” Would such watchdogs offer up criminal referrals for all those responsible for attacking a federal courthouse and torching a police precinct or for setting an historic church afire? Or causing $2 billion of damage, over 30 deaths, and 1,500 law enforcement officer injuries—while carving out illegal no-go zones in major downtowns?
"Given the need for “accountability,” the “threats to democracy,” and a need for “transparency,” would another congressional committee investigate the Afghanistan fiasco of summer 2021? Will it learn who was lying about the disaster—Joe Biden or the Joint Chiefs—and how and why such a travesty occurred?
"Would a rebooted January 6 committee reconvene under new auspices—with Democratic members limited to those selected by a new Speaker McCarthy—to revisit the lethal shooting of Ashli Babbitt, to review thousands of hours of released surveillance video, to subpoena all email communications between the previous congressional leadership and the Capitol police, to demand the lists of all the FBI informants in the crowd, and to interrogate the sadistic jailers and overzealous prosecutors who have created America’s first class of political prisoners subjected to punishment without trial? Such a multifaceted legal inquiry would eat up most of Biden’s final two years in office. As accomplished leakers, Republicans then would also supply “bombshells” and “walls are closing in” special news alerts on cable TV, the fuel of supposedly “imminent” and “impending” indictments, based on special counsel leaks to conservative media. ". . .
Victor Davis Hanson’s daughter dies - Hillsdale CollegianVictor Davis Hanson, who is a fellow at the Hoover Institute and frequently writes for National Review and other publications, teaches a three-week seminar class at Hillsdale College every fall semester. . .Victor Davis Hanson, who is a fellow at the Hoover Institute and frequently writes for National Review and other publications, teaches a three-week seminar class at Hillsdale College every fall semester.
"Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.
She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.
2. The abuse of Presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the F.B.I. and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton's cronies.
Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be "hell to pay" if the furious First Lady's desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary's lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
Hillary Clinton Accuses Republicans of Wanting Babies to Starve (townhall.com) "Hillary Clinton took to Twitter to accuse GOP members of wanting to “kill certain babies” amid the nation’s baby formula shortage, while she and the Democratic Party support unlimited abortion on demand, making further clear their hypocrisy on respect for life.
. . ."The mishandling of the formula shortage is one more way in which the Biden Administration is putting American families last, at the expense of others. ". . .
. . ."While Clinton claimed Republicans want babies dead, her talking point ignores how Democrats are thus advocating for formula being sent illegal immigrants at the expense of American families. Further, Clinton, and the Democratic Party as a whole, advocate for babies being lost in the womb due to abortion. ". . .
Hillary Clinton had a brand new clean slate. After years of imprinting on the American people that she was a not so clever liar for whom allegations of deceitful, arrogant, and even bullying behavior seemed to follow her like a perpetual rain cloud . . .
"In 1996, The New York Times columnist William Safire diagnosed Hillary Clinton’s real problem. He called her a “congenital liar.”
"Congenital is defined as “having by nature a specified character.”. .
"Hillary Clinton has had power as first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of State, now she wants to achieve the ultimate in power, the presidency of the United States. Along this road we have seen her record and it is a trail of cover-ups, misstatements, dissemblings, half-truths and outright lies. It is increasingly difficult to give her the benefit of the doubt on anything because doubt would imply there might be some reason to believe that at least some of the things she says are true.
"The perception is always that she is hiding something, which, if discovered, might harm her chances of winning the White House. But, from the inconsequential to the substantive, Hillary Clinton is about as transparent as lead.". . .
"Meanwhile, what is the FDA doing to rectify the situation? The plant has been shut down since February. Abbott says they can be up and producing again within two weeks if the FDA just gives them the go-ahead, although it would still be longer to get it distributed to the shelves. We’re not hearing any answer to that.
"But meanwhile, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) is tweeting out that Abbott is offering free formula to families who need it."
Abbott is offering baby formulas that were previously on hold for free with a doctor’s recommendation.
If you are in need, call Abbott directly at 1-800-881-0876
“TRY BREASTFEEEDING! It’s free and available on demand,” [Midler] wrote. Yes, all caps. All caps always, right.
Ilyse Hogue responded, “Bette, respectfully, this is a very bad take. I had twins. I didn’t produce enough milk for both. Without formula, I would have had to have chosen which one got to eat. To say nothing of kids that get separated from the birth mothers very young. . .
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency,” bin Laden wrote to a top deputy. “Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour … and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.*
Ultra LAME | Power Line. . ."Lest their be any confusion — they seem to worry we might not get it — Biden crowned Donald Trump “the great MAGA king” the following day in his remarksto the IBEW: “Under my predecessor, the great MAGA king, the deficit increased every single year he was President. The first year of my presidency — the first year, I reduced the deficit — literally reduced the deficit by $350 billion. First year. (Applause.)” Woo hoo!
"We know who is responsible for the deterioration in the conditions of our daily life since January 2021. As the handy Biden sticker puts it, I did that! Biden in his dotage personifies the deterioration. That seems to me a political problem for Biden that the MAGA shtick can’t deflect.". . .
Joe Biden Picks Up Endorsement From…Osama Bin Laden? – Def-Con News (defconnews.com)"Everybody who is anybody in the whacky world of leftist lunatics is giving the king of the kooks, Joe Biden, a nod in his presidential bid and that includes dead terrorists. In what would be weird if it didn’t involve Crazy Joe, 9/11 terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has given Biden a posthumous endorsement. It turns out the jihadi cave dweller wanted Biden to be president because he is dangerously incompetent and would plunge the U.S. into chaos. Even bin Laden saw what democrats and the liberal media are trying to pretend doesn’t exist.
Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to documents seized from bin Laden’s Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011.
The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander David Petraeus as they traveled by plane.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency,” bin Laden wrote to a top deputy. “Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour … and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.
The Blue State ConservativeWinner: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer forces Democrats to go on the record and vote on a bill to allow abortion up until the moment of birth. "A week ago, Democrats were hyping the notion that the Dobbs V Jackson case, if the Supreme Court’s ruling goes ahead as it appears it will, would be a windfall for Democrats. It could be the difference between them retaining or ceding power in Congress. But that was never the case. The midterm elections in November will be decided by a lot of things, but abortion and the overturning of Roe V Wade won’t be among them.
"The economy will be at the top of the list of voters’ priorities in the fall. Folks who have watched their 401K accounts evaporate and who are getting clobbered by inflation will be voting with their pocketbooks. Many voters will consider the immigration crisis at the southern border when casting their votes, as well as the instability in Eastern Europe and President Joe Biden’s incoherent foreign policy.
"For most voters, abortion is not their top issue, regardless of if they consider themselves Pro-Life or Pro-Abortion. And for those who do consider it their top priority, what happens in the Supreme Court in the coming days is not going to change how they vote, one way or the other.
"There are too many other problems in our country right now for voters to overlook the utter disaster that the Biden Administration has become just because they may disagree with the Supreme Court. And while we’re all going to have to wait another two years before we can vote Sleep Joe out of power, we can give his cronies in Congress the boot when we vote in less than six months.
"But make no mistake, abortion is still a hot-button issue. ". . .
"Sanders was spotted on an American Airlines flight to Pittsburgh Friday to stump for State Representative Summer Lee, running for an open seat in Pennsylvania's 18th District.
"Sanders, wearing a mask, appears to head for the front of the plane in the photos obtained by Fox News from a fellow first class traveler.
"He was also snapped by an excited Twitter user in the same row, although its unclear if Sanders availed himself of the free booze and food offered to first class fliers.
"Lee has the endorsement of Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and 'squad' progressives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and Ayanna Pressley, as well as Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal.
"She defeated an incumbent Democrat in 2018 with the endorsement of her local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and is the first black woman to represent southwestern Pennsylvania in the state legislature.". . .
Lee endorses far left policies like the Green New Deal, abolishing prisons , reversing the Hyde Amendment to allow for government-funded abortions and Sanders' signature Medicare For All government-run health care system
Joe Biden has spent his presidency thus far dismantling commonsense border protections, and ending the Title 42 order will be the culmination of that effort. The incoming Guatemalan caravan will be one of many to arrive at our doorstep as we lose operational control of our borders.
American Thinker"As the Biden administration prepares to end the Trump-era public health order under Title 42, a new caravan is moving north to take advantage of the open border their incompetence creates.
"A mass of foreign nationals coming from Guatemala is expected to reach the U.S. by the time the Title 42 order is terminated, which is scheduled to happen May 23. Title 42 of the United States Code is the section of federal law that addresses public health, social welfare, and civil rights.
"National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told Fox News that it's possible the larger caravan will be broken up into smaller caravans at the behest of organized crime and drug cartels.
" 'Organized crime or the cartels have them break up prior to arriving at our border due to the optics," Judd said. "I can't say whether this will happen with this particular caravan, but that has been the trend."
"This is the latest warning about the consequences that are likely to develop as the Biden White House goes forward with its plan to dismantle the last vestiges of sane border policy that remain.". . .
American Thinker"Just in the past few days, news outlet MSNBC hosted two separate women, both of whom addressed the hot-button topic of abortion. Although such a controversial and emotionally charged subject ought to be approached with diplomacy and discretion, these women were visibly thrilled as they considered the murder of helpless babies. After what we've been through with American Democrats, it shouldn't be surprising — yet it is.
"Laurie Kilmartin, a "comedian" known for her appearance on a popular television show, vocalized her fantasy about procreating with the SCOTUS leaker and then happily killing the child if the leaker turned out to be a conservative.". . .
MSNBC guest says she wants to make sweet love to the SCOTUS leaker, then “joyfully abort the baby." pic.twitter.com/NNSU7B6ahD
"As Kilmartin relayed her sadistic wishful thinking, the other correspondents present nodded along to her rant — they even laughed. Not a single person on the panel castigated her for joyfully envisioning the creation of a precious child for the purpose of slaughter.
"Next up is Katie Porter, a Democrat congresswoman from California, gleefully discussing the wake of destruction left by the Biden tornado — hyper-inflation — because she knows in just a moment, she gets to discuss one of her favorite topics: the gruesome mutilation of the unborn (verbally sanitized as "abortion")."
“Conspicuously quiet” on abortion is an interesting way for journalists to characterize video game companies, which have absolutely nothing to do with sex, pregnancy, or in utero homicide. But it’s an especially interesting characterization coming from Liao at The Washington Post.
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