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It has not been a great week for six Democrats who thought it was a good idea to make a video out of the blue telling our service members they must not obey illegal orders from the president. Considering none of them can name a single unlawful order Trump has put out, they've done quite a bit of backtracking and are now down to insisting they're just defending the Constitution, even though they can name nothing Trump has done that is unconstitutional. They really didn't think this through, OR they assumed more people would agree with them, since, you know, Trump is bad or whatever. Rep. Maggie Goodlander has been working overtime to backpedal without actually backpedaling, if that makes sense. https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/11/23/goodlanders-disturbing-connections-did-she-organize-the-seditious-six-n2422026

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Your Sunday morning Clarice: FTA: The best, most detailed description of the 28-point peace plan, what it contains, and how it was presented to Zelensky is in Jeff Childer’s substack. I summarize it, but urge you to read it all. After four years of sending a tsunami of U.S. money to Zelensky’s Ukraine, Trump, who ran on a promise to end this war, cut off the funds and reduced the weapons flow there. He tried working with Zelensky and Putin, but the U.S. team's best efforts were going nowhere. The U.S.-controlled anti-corruption agency NABU exposed what had long been of concern -- enormous government corruption. Zelensky's best friend and business partner, Timur Mindich, fled the country, leaving behind stacks of dollars and a gold-plated toilet. Politico said, “The agency has charged 71 current and former MPs with corruption, 42 of them during the period between 2022 and 2025. 31 of the charged MPs still sit in the Ukrainian parliament.” Andriy Yermak, his top aide, is under attack from Ukrainian lawmakers who demand he be fired. (Yermak appears to have found urgent affairs to attend to in Istanbul, to which he’s decamped.) Other ministers have also resigned or skedaddled out of the country, including the former defense minister, who reportedly came to the U.S., sought asylum, and offered his cooperation in the corruption scandal. The U.S. is demanding that Ukraine give up some land and arms. Apparently, because we required his presence there, Zelensky was forced to come to Istanbul, where he was presented with the plan, a plan that had no input from European leaders and was not leaked before it was handed over to Zelensky. While Zelensky and Yermak are considering the plan in Istanbul, top U.S. generals arrived back in Kyiv, also to ‘discuss peace.’ The Russians seem to like it, and Zelensky has not complained. In fact, he tweeted, 'only President Trump and the U.S. can make this war come to an end.' How many times before have we thought this is it? And then, somehow, Zelensky and his European buddies manage to scurry away through a crack nobody noticed? But this time, President Trump obviously orchestrated a massive strategy that the Z-man and the Euroweenies never saw coming. The carefully coordinated corruption scandal -- which nobody doubts happened -- is the political equivalent of a decapitation strike. This is ugly political hardball; the Mafia-like offer that can’t be refused, the horse head in the bedsheets. The only reason Zelensky wasn’t himself implicated in the corruption scandal -- a scandal that includes all his best buddies -- is that they need him to sign the paper. But if he won’t sign the paper, he’s useless. And what happens to useless people? It appears that Trump may be poised to resolve the most intractable, contentious, and difficult war on the planet since the last intractable, contentious, and difficult war that he resolved. Everyone keeps telling Trump to force Putin to take a deal. But how? Isn’t it much easier to negotiate a deal the Russians can live with, and then force Zelensky to take it? Maybe this time, we are finally in the endgame. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/carrots_and_sticks.html https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/slava-polycrisis-thursday-november?

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AOC email seeks donations for turkey giveaway — but money goes straight to her campaign coffers By Geoff Earle and Gabrielle Fahmy https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers/

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