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Pro-Hamas Protestors Riot, Seize Building on College Campus in NYC Ward Clark The parade of useful idiots on New York City's Barnard College campus seems to be expanding. On Wednesday, 50 anti-Israel protestors seized a campus building. On Thursday, at least 100 protesters gathered at the entrance to Barnard College, wearing keffiyehs and shouting "Free Palestine." This kind of behavior, we should note, is not a First Amendment issue. These are not "fiery but peaceful" protests. What happened on Wednesday was a riot. There were arrests. There should have been more: The school warned that if the students were not gone by 9:30 p.m., officials would be forced to take "additional, necessary measures to protect our campus." The students were not gone by 9:30 PM. This latest outrage began as protests over the expulsion of two pro-Hamas students, who had been passing around propaganda flyers inside a classroom: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/01/anti-israel-protestors-riot-seize-building-at-nys-barnard-college-campus-n2186160

Covered text THAT is the reason why you don’t see them and why black support for Trump is historically high. The white democrats will use you until you get thrown in jail and then they go home to their custom gas stoves and electric Mercedes-Benz. Don’t believe Mrs. Dr. Publius? She spends a ton of time on black American social media sites, and this is a strong sentiment she sees constantly. “Y’all go ahead, we’re gonna sit this one out.” Americans of all colors are coming to realize that Trump is trying to bring America together and not tear it apart.

Good Lord.

Zelenskyy Did More Damage to Ukraine's Cause Than Russia Ever Could Joe Cunningham The Russians are open to peace because Putin knows they have used more resources than expected - a lot more - in trying to take the country. And, I suspect, they are worried that their support from China might dry up because of all the resources they have used to make what amounts to little gain in Ukraine. So while everyone is accusing President Donald Trump of bowing to Putin's whims, the truth is a bit more complex. It's not that peace would give Putin what he wants in Ukraine, but it allows Putin to save face. What happened in the Oval Office yesterday was a boon for Putin. That's not really in question. It's less about how Trump "helped" Putin and more about how Volodymyr Zelenskyy helped Putin. My position has remained fairly consistent throughout all this: The more resources Russia throws at Ukraine without making any real gains, the less resources they have to use against other American interests. Russia weakening itself is a good thing. And with China maintaining "no limits" support of Russia, China is throwing resources at Russia to prop them up. So, this war is burning through Russian and Chinese resources. The more they waste on Ukraine, the less they have elsewhere. It's not enough to completely stop China from, say, going after Taiwan, but it does help. Truth be told, I want Russia distracted with Putin's ambition to rebuild Soviet-era borders. I want us to help Russia stay distracted not with our boots on the ground but American weapons. If Russia wants out, which it seems like they do given Putin's previous stances on taking Ukraine, then it means Russia is struggling more than they're willing to admit. Now, the flipside of that is that war means more Ukrainian lives lost, which is not good for Ukraine. Russia has a lot more bodies to throw at Ukraine than the other way around, which is another reason American weapons have been good for Ukraine. It's incredibly likely more lives would have been lost without them, and they've been more effective at hurting Russia's military. The problem is that if Ukraine wanted more American support, Zelenskyy showed he has a deep misunderstanding of how to approach a leader like Trump. There are hours worth of videos and transcripts of people who decided to get into a loud argument with Trump in front of cameras. Every single time, it never actually ends well for the person getting into a shouting match. You'll note that even in the debate people say Kalama Harris won against Trump, it did nothing to help her win. If Zelenskyy felt that his usual performance of playing the passionate, angry victim in front of cameras would work, and that that derailing public press event with Trump was a good idea, then it shows he's not really the great leader everyone has praised him of being. I don't much care for some of Trump's comments toward Zelenskyy in the past, but the latter made a massive mistake on Friday, and his subsequent thread on X didn't help matters at all. What you're going to see is the media rush out a bunch of polls showing Americans support Ukraine and that moderate Americans and a handful of Republicans think Trump looked worse in that exchange. But there were over 40 minutes of Zelenskyy being nothing short of an ass to Trump and feeling entitled to support. That is not diplomacy, either, and it's lost in the outrage generated over the much shorter exchange. That entire press event did more damage to Ukraine's cause than anything Putin could have done. In the wake of the event, three things happened: Zelenskyy (probably) cost himself any meaningful assistance from the U.S. for at least four years. Europe shared strong words on social media and nothing else, exposing itself as useless in the face of Russia. The entire foreign policy establishment shuddered, realizing the guy they've been praising as a strong leader is a child. And when I say "the entire foreign policy establishment," I don't mean the liberal foreign policy folks who have been on the wrong side of every issue for at least 40 years. They are normally the loudest voices, and it seems like today they are the most silent. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/03/01/zelenskyy-did-more-damage-to-ukraines-cause-than-russia-ever-could-n2186157

No. Pressler is much more a "common man" with NO aspirations of political office. I DID make an error though, Jennings is being encouraged by some to run for McConnel's senate seat in Kentucky.

That is a matter of choice on their part--and, frankly, due to excessive charity on ours. The EU's population is 3x Russia's, and its economic output is 10x Russia's. Yet they need the US to defend them? Why is that?

The Most Important Thing That the Zelenskyy Meeting Showed to Me David Strom It has nothing to do with Zelenskyy. His behavior--and more importantly, the elite's freakout and SIDING with Zelenskyy--laid bare the divide between ordinary Americans (and many frustrated Europeans who are getting a boot stomped on their face by the elites) and the transnational elite. If you believe that the transnational elite should rule the world and everybody else should meekly follow their diktats, you thought Zelenskyy was a brave truth-teller who was rightfully chastising the Bad Orange President and his Appalachian Yokel the reality of how things are supposed to work. If you are an ordinary person, you saw an ungrateful, arrogant, whiny child-man who has been gifted unGodly amounts of money and support insulting the President of the United States in the Oval Office in front of the world after the president graciously praised him and promised him support. "It's not enough! I deserve more! You don't understand!" Yes, Zelenskyy tried to school the president and the Vice President, change the deal they had made in private, on our turf and in public. He lectured and shouted at the President of the United States in front of the world, and now says he did nothing wrong. And nearly every European leader rushed to support Zelenskyy's behavior. Europe is deindustrializing--choosing to become actually poorer and more dependent--and lectures us about how we don't do enough for them. The average EU citizen is now poorer than the average Mississippian, but if you mentioned Mississippi to any of them they would laugh at them as rubes. They laugh at all of us as rubes, and then demand we defend them. Germany cannot put 20 fighter jets in the air. Its tanks are falling apart. No European country could defend its own borders, no less push back Russia. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/01/the-most-important-thing-that-the-zelenskyy-meeting-showed-to-me-n3800320

Apparently it bears repeating

Everyone who wants to comment on today has to watch this entire tape and hopefully realize that at approximately the 38 minute mark President Zelensky asks a question of Vice President Vance which isn’t really a question. (My guess is that someone gave President Zelensky really terrible advice to not fight with President Trump in public but that he could score on the VP because the VP couldn’t respond. Wrong.) President Trump had been almost indulgent of President Zelensky for 38 minutes, trying to get to the post-presser meeting with a path forward to a ceasefire intact, aware that he has to deal with Putin afterwards as well. A couple of times President Zelensky dances on the cliff (especially with the pictures which someone who doesn’t know this business told him would be an excellent stunt and wasn’t) and President Trump steers it back to a path to the post-presser meeting. But then President Zelensky puts the VP on the spot and it escalated. Then President Zelensky tells President Trump how the United States would feel, and you can see our president give into a (justified) rising anger at President Zelensky’s approach and rhetoric, as did the VP. I have long supported Ukraine and still do. President Zelensky’s conduct has been heroic. But he is used to President Biden, Secretary Blinken and NSA Sullivan who did not have a plan or a purpose other than “de-escalation” which they assumed would stop escalation from Russia —which did not happen— and for whom every decision was agony. President Zelensky also did not remember that Ukraine didn’t lose the war (that President Biden told Putin would be fine if it was a “minor incursion”) because of weapons President Trump had sent in his first term. I don’t know how this gets back on track. I don’t know if the warrior Zelensky can actually make a deal. Putin has kidnapped tens of thousands of children, murdered thousands of his people and tens of thousands of his soldiers. Putin has committed war crimes. All of that is true. It is also true that Putin has thousands of nukes and NORKs. President Trump has a plan. He wasn’t in charge when Putin invaded Ukraine the first time or the second time. All President Trump can do is try and bring about a stable and enduring peace and get Ukraine enmeshed with Europe and the U.S. while also dealing with Putin. Nixon dealt with the worst murderer of the 20th century when he sat down with Mao. Reality is what it is. Presidents of the United States have to deal with whatever mess their predecessor leaves them. I’ll repeat what I said on the program today: President Zelensky should call all of his strongest supporters w/i the Senate GOP and genuinely seek advice. And dismiss those who have been “advising” him for the past six weeks. Very publicly.

Not really. This was for February Washington crash - 1/29 Philadelphia crash 1/31 .

I think that he might run for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2026.

Spotted this evening at Men's Wearhouse.....

Wrong thread. .

LOL. If you have to ask, then you will never understand. You are not worth the effort, but just assume that I posted the well known Kamala calling Joe a "racist" during their competing campaigns picture. Okay ?

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TRUTH. AMERICA FIRST.

You're right. When I first watched the argument without the proper context, I thought it was possible that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky or were even trying to humiliate him. That's not what happened. You had 40 minutes of calm conversation. Vance made a point that didn't attack Zelensky and wasn't even addressed to him, and Zelensky clearly started the argument. In the first 40 minutes, Zelensky kept trying to go beyond what was negotiated in the deal. When Trump was asked a question, it was always "we'll see." Zelensky made blanket assertions that there would be no negotiating with Putin, and that Russia would pay for the war. When Trump said that it was a tragedy that people on both sides were dying, Zelensky interjected that the Russians were the invaders. For his part, Trump made clear that the US would continue delivering military aid. All Zelensky had to do was remain calm for a few more minutes and they would've signed a deal. The argument started when Trump pointed out that it would be hard to make a deal if you talk about Putin the way Zelensky does. Vance interjects to make the reasonable point that Biden called Putin names and that didn't get us anywhere. The Zelensky/Trump dynamic was calm and stable. It was when Vance spoke that Zelensky started to interrogate him. Throughout the press conference to that point, everyone was making their arguments directly to the audience. Zelensky decided to challenge Vance and ask him hostile questions. He went back to his point that Putin never sticks to ceasefires, once again implying that negotiations are pointless. Why on earth would you do this? Then came the fight we all saw. Zelensky was minutes away from being home free, and he would have had the deal and new commitments from the Trump administration. The point Vance made was directed against Biden and the media, taking them to task for speaking in moralistic terms. This offended Zelensky, and that began the argument. I've been a fan of Zelensky up to this point, but this showed so much incompetence, if not emotional instability, that I don't see how he recovers from this. The relationship with the administration is broken. Ukraine should probably go with new leadership at this point.