The Fifth Circuit will hear Longoria v Paxton, 22-50110, on Tuesday, March 8. That is the lawsuit over the Texas law that makes it a criminal offense for an election official to suggest to any voter that he or she apply for a postal ballot. The U.S. District Court had enjoined it.
Why should Isabel Longoria be suggesting that I vote in the Democratic or Republican primary rather than participating in a Libertarian or Green or SAM convention or saving myself for signing independent petition?
If Democrats or Republicans want me to vote in their primary they can invite me.
Wasn’t Isabel Longoria married to a handsome basketball player?
ALL folks in each State allegedly know ALL laws/regs in such State —
aka ignorance of the law is NOOOO excuse.
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Killer tyrant Putin has sent his military into Ukraine – see CNN.
Good. Stand with Russia!
Eva Longoria was the actress who was once married to a basketball player.
Agreed with disco stick, stand with Russia,!
Everyone in Ukraine speaks Russian.I’ve studied Russian and visited Russia, including Ukraine. I don’t speak Ukrainian, and had no trouble at all talking to anyone in Ukraine in Russian. Out of at least hundreds if not more people there was not one who only spoke Ukrainian but not Russian. Not in Kiev, Yevpatoria, Odessa,Kharkov or even Lvov. Not in small towns, villages or collective farms.
No one disputes that Massachusetts has existed for over 400 years as an English colony and US state. You can post pictures of New England churches and towns side by side with what was then a swamp and is now DC. None of that makes Massachusetts its own separate country that existed for centuries. That would just be a lie. Same thing with Ukraine.
Made up countries like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia have more validity than Ukraine as a nation state. They were nation states for longer than Ukraine has been a nation state in its whole history.
In the US, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California are known as Border States. Two of them were even briefly nation states themselves. That doesn’t mean they have been a separate country or countries for centuries. And it doesn’t mean you should incorrectly translate border states as “other place.” That’s what stock is trying to do with Ukraine, which is ridiculous.
There are a lot more people in Ukraine who don’t speak Ukrainian than there are who don’t speak Russian, which in my experience was zero. In many parts of Ukraine it’s much more common to hear people talk to each other in Russian than in Ukrainian. Lvov used to be a part of the Austrian empire and then Poland so many of the older people there spoke German and Polish. The only language commonly understood by everyone in every part of Ukraine is Russian.
There are a lot more places in the US where most people don’t speak English than there are places in Ukraine where most people don’t speak Russian, if there even are any such places at all. Especially but not only in the Border States in the US there are large stretches where there are lots of people who speak Spanish or one of the Native languages and no English. I didn’t come across any areas like that in Ukraine.
If you are going to use language as a basis, the U.S. border states have a better claim to be separate countries than Ukraine does.
There are lots of other places in Russia which have their own languages. Everything from Siberian tribes to Tatars to dozens of different ethnicities in the Caucasus. There would be hundreds of countries carved out of Russia if every place that had a language was made into a country. The same is true in the US, except more so because English is less universally understood here than Russian is there.
Stock, why are you comparing Ukraine to countries which have actually been separate for many centuries? Ukraine has been a separate country for 30 years and for a couple of years in the 1920s. That’s it.
No, you are wrong. Ukraine’s been a part of Russia for over a thousand years. It’s been a nation state for 30 years. It’s like saying Massachusetts existed as a separate nation for centuries.
The root word is kray which translates as region or edge. U translates as at. U kraya means at the edge. A good translation would be borderlands. Krainya translates as extreme. The meaning is border region of Russia. It makes no sense otherwise.
Stock also argued that Ukraine must be its own country because Kiev is older than Moscow and once was capital of Russia. By that standard, New York state and Pennsylvania should be countries, because New York City and Philadelphia are older than DC and were once capitals of the United States.
Stock is also lying about the history of Ukraine. It was a part of Russian Empire and USSR. It briefly declared independence after the communist revolution but that did not last long. It’s only been a nation state for 30 years, not centuries. It does not translate as the other place, the name translates as border region or at the edge. Stock is a dedicated Satanist socialist propaganda liar. He distorts everything to bring about a new world war and another mass sacrifice for Satan.
Logan: Ukraine is run by Fascist thugs just like Russia. I think the United States should stay out of the conflict. Let the European Union deal with this if they want. Other then my disagreement with you regarding history, I don’t have a dog in this fight.
Logan: I find it strange that you recreate four very long posts from a discussion we had several days ago just because you saw that I commented here. That is either obsession with me or fear of me on your part.
I’m glad we agree that US should get out of NATO. European Union/NATO should stay out of Russian affairs also. Everything I said is a fact so if you disagree you are either ignorant or disingenuous. Ukraine has always been part of Russia except the last 30 years and Russian is the only language understood by everyone in every part of Ukraine. Hundreds of other parts of Russia and the US alike have their own languages. Pennsylvania and New York have cities which existed before DC and served as US capital before DC. .Ukraine means border region not “other place” similar to US border states CA, AZ, NM, TX. Those US border states include two former independent nations and large areas where many/most people do not speak English, unlike Ukraine where everyone speaks Russian (but not everyone speaks Ukrainian). Some of the US border states include areas that were colonized by Europeans before any of the English colonies that later created the US. These are all facts. If you argue against any of them you argue against reality.
” I find it strange that you recreate four very long posts from a discussion we had several days ago just because you saw that I commented here. That is either obsession with me or fear of me on your part.”
The discussion was I believe last night but on a post from July of last year. I copied and pasted the remarks so I would not have to write them again. I didn’t even realize you already commented on this post. I reposted them here because it was the most recent discussion of Russia/Ukraine in these comments.
I’m not the least bit obsessed or fearful or Satanist Socialist Stock. But I do want everyone to realize the danger from satanic socialism/communism. It killed hundreds of millions in the 20th century and if we don’t put a stop to it it will kill billions in the 21st. It is a lying religion and doctrine that says it brings liberation, compassion and justice. In reality it brings ultimate tyranny achieved through blood sacrifice of billions of human beings to Satan through war, disease, starvation, and oppression. This is all deliberate as part of the satanist New Age/New World Order. The attack on Russia is part of this evil agenda. Russia shines the light of Christ on the world. Unlike Stock’s satanic lies, Satan is real, not imaginary. Hell is real. And Russia is not ruled by fascist thugs, only Ukraine is.
“Good. Stand with Russia!”
Amen!
FBI and CIA and NSA taking note of the pro-Russia killers/enslavers on BAN ???
Is your love for Ukrainian fascists extend to banning free speech in USA? Who is fascist enslaver? The one who calls for opposing views to his fascism to be silenced with government force “az” is the fascist tyrant enslaver.
Ukraine needs to undergo a process of denazification, similar to Germany after WWII. Russia is facilitating the restoration of legitimate Ukrainian leadership such as President Yanukovich who was illegally overthrown in a CIA/NATO coup.
Truth!
Never any shortage of DEVIL F***S with under 50 IQs who love DEVIL monarch regimes — Kaiser Bill, Hitler-Mussolini-Hirohito, Stalin, Mao, Saddam, Putin, XI.
What monarch regimes, idiot? Have you ever been to Russia? I have. Putin is extremely popular and freely elected. You are delusional. The Russian people LOVE Putin!
How is it a free election when the leading election opponent is imprisoned?
I recommend the book “The Man Without a Face” by Masha Gessen
Navalny is a repeat convicted embezzler. He’s imprisoned for criminal activity which was repeat and ongoing.
I recommend “First Person” by Vladimir Putin.
Also good
The World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules: Putin talks to Valdai Club in Sochi
Anyone who visits Russia and talks to more than a few people there can tell you Putin is very popular in Russia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60522454
13 Ukraine heroes- victims of the killer tyrant Putin and his killer gangsters.
Support the Resistance in Ukraine. Likely U govt in exile shortly.
See the olde exile govts in London in WW II – esp French.
15 Ukraine criminals killed in a law enforcement raid against the corrupt neonazi Western agent criminal gangster Ukraine puppet regime …to restore the legitimate elected government of Yanukovich.
Stand with Russia! Stand with the liberation of Ukraine from the nazis once again!