Re: ressearch on semi permanent voice

marika <[email protected]> wrote:
> marika <[email protected]> wrote:
>> marika <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> marika <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> As the days go on, the more I see of these trump Ukraine peace headlines,
>>>> the more enraged I get.
>>>> And especially enraged that idiot trump really thinks he is offering  some
>>>> kind of “deal”.
>>>> 
>>>> “Give us everything we want, every single thing we started this war for,
>>>> and even though after almost 4years we’re still not winning this
>>>> thing….just give it all to us anyway, and you get nothing”
>>>> 
>>>> That’s not even how WARS work, let alone DEALS.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Before the election his advisors all said he would have no trouble with
>>> this issue
>>> 
>>> This very much reminds me of when gwb was told about iraq being an easy
>>> win, that people would come out thanking him for disposing of saddam,
>>> telling him about nonexistent wmds 
>>> 
>>> This is the exact same thing but with better social media 
>>> 
>> 
>> I worry that Zelensky/ukraine signed this, in desperation just in the hopes
>> that trump will “like” Ukraine better, because of it. Because normal people
>> DO “like” people who treat them well, right?
>> If that’s the (only?) reason, than Ukraine is in for a heap of even more
>> bad trouble down the line. Because we all know how much trump “likes”
>> anyone who agrees to be ripped off by him. 
>> 
>> 
>> https://x.com/amanpour/status/1894822688197079340?s=61&t=ZCHyRu4DjWNZf_cm3_DB6A
>> 
>> Christiane Amanpour
>> ⁦‪@amanpour‬⁩
>> 
>> 
>> “It’s total extortion.” Former UK Defense Secretary ⁦‪@BenWallace70‬⁩ is
>> scathing about the US-Ukraine minerals deal. “What is Zelensky getting for
>> it?” 
>> 
>> 
>> 2/26/25, 1:51 PM
>> 
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>> 
> 
> You know what I was thinking today about the election(s)?
> 1) what an incredibly different time we’d be living in right now, if Hilary
> had won in 2016
> 2) trump had been saying since 2020 (including in his speech at the ellipse
> on Jan6) that if Biden wins we “won’t have a country anymore”. Am I the
> only one who remembers that he said that, and noticed that we still have a
> country?
> 3) and I honestly think we might have been better off (just a little bit)
> if trump had won in 2020. Because he was already in office and still didnt
> have all the gears set up, like he’s had for the past 4 years, to prepare
> to destroy the country. And there were still normal-ish people in his admin
> and the government, the media hadn’t been terrorized yet, maga was a cult
> but they weren’t so powerful yet, neither were the oligarchs involved yet,
> and trump didn’t have absolute fealty yet then.  There would have been no
> J6 and no total immunity from scotus, because there’d be no court cases
> until after he left office.
> The only problem is he’d probably have figured out by now how to run for a
> third term.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Happy new year.


Because our family in Ukraine now goes along with the recent European Union
mandated change to enhance uniformity. We celebrated the 25th. I did not do
anything special other than face time when the youngsters opened gifts.

I did go to Maine again.