from the circle of hawkish advisors that had advised him to go into ukraine and that same piece makes clear that putin is still counting on pretty high popular support for the war and for this kind of national sense that russians will suffer and are willing to suffer economic set backs and economic hardship for his vision of national imperil greatness. so that piece even though it does have that little grain of hope that maybe there is fractures emerging in the elites doesn t make clear they likely won t change anything and that putin is not listening to them and not planning to. yeah. by the way, for our audience, the washington post is reporting one of the people in the small circle is the patriot, russian orthodox leader according to the washington post, his sermons echo and supply the rhetoric that putin has used. he called a leading author he s called one of the leading
endure there, they are tieing up russian forces that would not be advancing and cannot advance towards the donbas. they will be redemieded, the russian forces will be redemied to the north and this is providing time for the rest of the ukrainian military to do a couple things. one, hudonbas and digging into defensive positions, repositioning new military equipment that s coming in. those in mariupol, the bravery, has really given their country more of a chance for this next wave of the fight. and, you know, i wonder if you think, you know, if you feel the sort of frustration, clint, as you watch this happen. you have janet yellen and others walk out of the g 20 meeting as a normal power. but there is a sort of and so what? it doesn t seem that the dictator of russia cares whether the world thinks he s the devil. he s just going to keep doing
you know who can t file a lawsuit? every trans kid and gay kid and every lower income that gets hit with these attacks every day and can t fight back so what i prefer to see happen, i won t file a lawsuit but i want straight white, middle upper class suburban moms to stand up and take the hit, too, because then it doesn t mean anything and it s revealed for the hateful bull that it is. yeah. i mean, we ve had a disney heir come forward and stand up and say that, you know, they regretted not standing up to the bill before but people are afraid. what the right is trying to do is to take the most absurd possible claims and claims that really come from qanon honestly, they have adopted the qanon belief system as their campaign strategy to essentially make people so afraid as, you know, as the wonderful state senator said to even stand up for lgbtq people unless you re lumped in and called a pedophile or a
then it s the attempt to marginalize you and turn you into one of them because it can t possibly be that white ch from the suburbs doesn t stand up for the hate, the black community that we have to teach slavery and accurate history in schools. it is absolute madness and disgusting. so it hit me. a fundraising email directly accused me by name of grooming children and sexualizing kindergartners and i am the mom of a 1-year-old. and it is it was disgusting. it was disgusting, and it was unfounded, and it s horrifying and that is the playbook for everybody that dares to stand up for what is right. have you considered an action here? because that is slanderous. yeah, where i come down on it is if i bid that, great.