All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

A view from the top

[Catlady in training]

Zelenskiy struggles to get US Republicans to back $61bn Ukraine military aid package

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has struggled to persuade US Republicans to support a $61bn military aid package for Ukraine on a trip to Washington DC, with objectors insisting on White House concessions on border security as a condition for a deal.

The Ukrainian president addressed members of the Senate in a closed 90-minute meeting on Tuesday morning, but afterwards key Republicans repeated that they wanted to see a crackdown on immigration between the US and Mexico in return for supporting the package.

Speaking afterwards, Lindsey Graham, a senator for South Carolina, told reporters that he had told Zelenskiy that the problem was “nothing to do with you”. He added: “I said: ‘You’ve done everything anybody could ask of you. This is not your problem here.’”

The senior Republican went on to accuse the White House of having failed to tackle the southern border issue and called for “the commander in chief” – Joe Biden – to become personally involved in the negotiations.

Senate Republicans last week blocked an emergency aid package primarily for Ukraine and Israel after conservatives complained at the exclusion of immigration policy changes they had demanded as part of the package.

Zelenskiy sought to reassure senators concerned about whether US military aid would be wasted because of corruption, Mike Rounds, a Republican, told CNN, and that Ukraine needed more air defence systems to support its counteroffensives.

Senior Democrats, meanwhile, expressed frustration with the lack of progress. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, said “The one person happiest right now about the gridlock in Congress is Vladimir Putin. He is delighting in the fact that Donald Trump’s border policies are sabotaging military aid to Ukraine.”

The Ukrainian president then moved on to a meeting with Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat House minority leader, and after that with the recently elected Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who has been relatively sceptical about further financial support for Ukraine.

After their meeting, Johnson complained that the White House was asking Congress to approve the spending of billions of dollars “with no appropriate oversight, without a clear strategy to win”.

Johnson added that “our first condition on any national security supplemental spending package is about our own national security first” but he also insisted that the US did stand with Zelenskiy “against Putin’s brutal invasion”.

Zelenskiy posted a picture on X, formerly Twitter, of him addressing senators, saying he had had “a friendly and candid conversation”. He emphasised the importance of US military aid in his country’s fight against Russia.

Moscow said it was watching developments closely. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, said that “tens of billions of dollars” already provided by Washington had failed to turn the tide of war and more money would make little difference. Zelenskiy’s authority was being undermined by the failures, he added.

Congress is due to break for the year on Friday and there appeared little prospect of a breakthrough that would allow a funding package to be passed before then – meaning that negotiations will have to pick up in the new year at a time when the amounts available to Ukraine are running short.

Last week, Shalanda Young, the White House’s director of the office of management and budget, said that the Pentagon had used up 97% of the $62.3bn Ukraine allocations previously authorised by Congress, while the state department has none of its $4.7bn remaining.

Zelenskiy is due to hold a private meeting with Biden and a joint press conference in the afternoon. The White House has previously signalled it is willing to make concessions on the Mexico border issue as it tries to get the funding package through.

Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House national security council, said Russia believes that “a military deadlock through the winter will drain western support for Ukraine”, ultimately handing Moscow the advantage.

Newly declassified US intelligence concluded that the war had cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, amounting to nearly 90% of the personnel it had before the war, started in February 2022.

In Ukraine, the country’s biggest mobile phone network, Kyivstar, was badly hit on Tuesday by what appeared to be the largest cyber-attack of the war with Russia so far. Phone signals, the internet and some of Kyiv region’s air alert system were knocked out, in an attack that the company’s chief executive was “a result of” the war with Russia.

Ukrainian sources indicated that the attack was not financially motivated, but destructive in nature, and it was unclear who precisely was responsible. The country’s SBU intelligence service said it was investigating whether the attack had been directed by one of Russia’s intelligence agencies.

[Kevinroc]

Zelenskiy struggles to get US Republicans to back $61bn Ukraine military aid package

Ukraine is going to fall to Russia and Republicans are totally fine with that.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Ukraine is going to fall to Russia and Republicans are totally fine with that.

They want that.

When/if Russia wins, they'll try to hang it around Biden's neck, and when food prices rise, they'll do the same.

[Tami]

‘Problematic pockets’: How Discord became a home for extremists

After white supremacists used Discord to plan the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, company executives promised to clean up the service.

The chat platform built for gamers banned prominent far-right groups, built a trust and safety team and started marketing to a more diverse set of users.

The changes garnered attention — Discord was going mainstream, tech analysts said — but they papered over the reality that the app remained vulnerable to bad actors, and a privacy-first approach left the company in the dark about much of what took place in its chatrooms.

Into that void stepped Jack Teixeira, the young Air National Guard member from Massachusetts who allegedly exploited Discord’s lack of oversight and content moderation to share top-secret intelligence documents for more than a year.

As the covid pandemic locked them down at home, Teixeira and a group of followers spent their days in a tightknit chat server that he eventually controlled. What began as a place to hang out while playing first-person-shooter games, laugh at gory videos and trade vile memes became something else entirely — the scene of one of the most damaging leaks of classified national security secrets in years.

But according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, moderators and researchers, the company’s rules and culture allowed a racist and antisemitic community to flourish, giving Teixeira an audience eager for his revelations and unlikely to report his alleged lawbreaking. Discord allows anonymous users to control large swaths of its online meeting rooms with little oversight. To detect bad behavior, the company relies on largely unpaid volunteer moderators and server administrators like Teixeira to police activity, and on users themselves to report behavior that violates community guidelines.

[JCAll]

They want that.

When/if Russia wins, they'll try to hang it around Biden's neck, and when food prices rise, they'll do the same.

Not only that, they'll bang on about every penny spent on aiding Ukraine as wasted money, while being openly in Putin's pocket.

[worstblogever]

It was on this date in 2017 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Dan Johnson, a church bishop who in 2016, won election to the Kentucky House of Representatives by 156 votes. This was in spite of the fact that Johnson is an extreme enough bigot that the head of the Kentucky GOP even condemned him. Over several Facebook posts, Johnson had the delightful habit of comparing the Obama family to apes. There also was the part where Johnson called for a ban of the religion of Islam in the United States (Heard of the First Amendment, Dan?), or the numerous times that he posted images of the Confederate flag. Johnson cites the fact that a sign hangs outside his church that says, “Jesus and this church are not politically correct,” while insisting he’s not racist because as he puts it, “I love America. I love people. I believe red, yellow, black and white, all are precious in God's sight. I'm not a racist. I'd like to know first off, what images that are being considered offensive. It wasn't meant to be racist. I can tell you that. My history's good there. I can see how people would be offended in that. I wasn't trying to offend anybody, but, I think Facebook's entertaining.” Considering Johnson also mixed a lot of pro-gun messaging into the Gospels of Jesus, maybe he wasn’t up to snuff on his scripture. However, Dan Johnson was accused of molesting a girl who attended his church in 2012, when she was only 16 years old. He of course, claimed that the accusation was “politically motivated”. But where there was smoke, there was a lot more fire coming, because before a local media expose broke detailing how rowdy and inappropriate the behavior around Johnson’s parish actually was, he committed suicide rather than face justice in court. His widow then tried running for his seat in the special election to replace him and lost.

On this date in 2018, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profile, where we’ll be talking about Nick Sauer, a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives who served one term in office after winning election in 2016 through the benefit of getting to run for the state legislature unopposed. When you read Sauer’s biography, the entire thing reeks of entitlement and his being earmarked by senior Republicans for advancement. Whether it was working in Bush 43’s Department of Commerce, to him being elevated time and again in races for the Illinois Board of Education, then to the state legislature, and then his placement on both the State Toll Highway Authority, and a key position on a Illinois House of Representatives Committee aimed at curtailing sexual harassment at the state capitol. That last one comes with a big ol’ spoonful of hypocrisy because only weeks after his placement on a committee in the state legislature to combat sexual harassment, when Nick Sauer himself was accused of posting nude photos of his ex-girlfriend online, and catfish other men that she was looking for sex, so that those men would send her harassing messages asking for sexual favors. Or, as prosecutors in Illinois refer to it, Nick Sauer committed “a felony charge of revenge porn”. Once the news broke, a college roommate of Sauer’s came forward, and claimed he was a “predator of the highest order” who had victimized “dozens” of other people, detailing an incident that took place between himself and Sauer where the young Republican attacked him, unprovoked, with an electric razor, taking a chunk of his hair from his scalp and prompting a scuffle. Once Sauer started to realize he was about to get his *** kicked, he said, “it doesn’t look that bad”. Sauer waited a few days, then deleted the majority of his social media accounts, leaving only his Instagram up but on “private” and resigned in disgrace.

On this date in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Mark Harris, a pastor who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2014, and in 2016, missed out on his shot to upset Congressman Robert Pittenger by all of 900 votes. Part of the reason that folks might not have been elevating Mark Harris to victory could have been that he would blurt out some pretty ludicrous Evangelical fever-dreams, like the time that he promised there wouldn’t be “peace in Israel until Jews and Muslims convert to Christianity”, In 2018, however, Harris was not messing around, recruiting some of the dirtiest players in North Carolina on his campaign staff to make sure he was going to beat Pittenger and any Democratic challenger that emerged in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, hiring a chap by the name of McRae Dowless who was known to do things that were decidedly not legal to help whatever campaign he worked on. As such, when Harris then beat Pittenger by about 900 votes, Pittenger and his campaign staff notified the authorities about exactly the sorts of shenanigans McRae Dowless was up to, specifically, that he and his staff would collect absentee ballots from people in the district, and fill those ballots out to “help” the voters, going down the line and voting for anyone who was paying Dowless. The evidence of chicanery is pretty obvious, considering that somehow Harris won 437 of a possible 456 votes in Bladen County, where Dowless worked his magic. During the general election, investigators became aware of Dowless’ scheme for Harris’ benefit, and even though Mark Harris “won” North Carolina’s 9th by 905 votes over Democrat Cal Cunningham, his victory was never certified by the North Carolina election board and he was never sworn in to serve in Congress. The press began to report on the scandal, and Harris tried dismissing the accusations as “slander” made up by the “liberal media”, who were just reporting on things that even North Carolina Republicans were acknowledging. He also pleaded with judges to just declare him the winner, despite all the blantant voter fraud committed. As investigations intensified, Harris fled from the press at every stop, including one prolific moment where he was believed to have pulled a fire alarm to cover his escape. At the trial in February of 2019, Harris own son confirmed his father was aware of McCrae Dowless’ scheme, and that he warned his father against committing election fraud. That probably had a lot to do with why Mark Harris did not join the field in the special “do-over” election for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. At least he has a career as a pastor to fall back on, but people might wonder about his honesty. As hiring a criminal to commit election fraud on his behalf seems to have ended his political aspirations.

On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Christine Scott, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, looking to knock off Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch. Without irony, she responded to Ballotpedia’s candidate survey with the question “Who do you look up to?” by answering, “I look up to Trump. He plows forward no matter the criticism. He is not afraid to take a stand and to do what is right and best for the United States. He takes very unfavorable positions which most people would not have the backbone to take. He cares about Americans first. Our country had been losing itself and politicians were simply saying that was the way it would be...until Trump. His choices are sound and fearless. I would like to follow after his example because we need true Americans who are willing to fight for the health of our country and our people. I like that he tweets. He needed a way to get his message to the people and he found one. If the media was not so corrupt, he would not have been forced to find an alternative. His approach was innovative and is effective. I respect that he found a solution. It is not a popularity contest. It is a job of running the country for the American people. He consistently remembers why he is in office. I respect that he addressed corruption issues regarding Biden's son and the abuse of Biden for using his office for personal gain instead of for the betterment of our citizens. You must investigate, even if the person who is corrupt is running for President, not because he is running. The two scenarios are different.” Now, liking what Donald Trump does on Twitter might seem a bit over the top, echoing Trump’s attacks on journalists is a concern, but note that at the end of that rambling mess of a statement, she transitions into delving into the Hunter Biden conspiracy theory seamlessly with the sort of pathological fanaticism that’s a hallmark of Trump Republicans. It’s not the only conspiracy theory she was a fan of, either, as Christine Scott was yet another Republican running for Congress in 2020 who was a Qanon supporter. It was pretty evident given she put the Qanon slogan out in the open on her campaign webpage. Christine Scott was disqualified from the ballot prior to the Republican Primaryfor apparently failing to complete the proper paperwork or pay for fees necessary to register as a candidate and responded to that exactly as a sane person would, filing a lawsuit against everyone within the Florida state government. Those lawsuits were as fruitful as her hero Trump’s legal challenges to the election.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be discusisng Christine Quinn, a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 14th Congressional District in 2016, 2018, and 2020, who was looking to knock off Democratic Congresswoman Kathy Castor. Quinn is yet the latest in our long, long line of Republicans who ran for office in 2020 who campaigned and fundraised while touting the Qanon conspiracy theory. She currently is suing two men who she paid travel expenses for to fly to Washington, D.C. and take part in the attack on the Capitol, who, big surprise, had no intention of ever paying her back. But hey, wouldn’t a great member of Congress be someone who’s duped into funding domestic terrorists? Truly, quality Republicans running for office all over the country these days. Not for nothing, Quinn was also in attendance on January 6th, and claims that the people who attacked Congress were actually “Antifa”. Keep in mind, she also supports Donald Trump’s useless idea for a border wall on the U.S./Mexico border because she thinks illegal immigrants are coming into the country, somehow appearing in San Francisco, and causing outbreaks of tuberculosis there, against all factual evidence of any kind. She also thinks Donald Trump has “military experience” because he went to military school. She’s… well… an easily duped dope. Among her other baffling, non-reality based “beliefs” include her doubts the U.S. never found WMDs in Iraq after invading, and she responds to the “Black Lives Matter” movement with “ALL LIVES MATTER”.Christine Quinn has twice advanced out of the GOP Primary for Florida’s 14th District, but has never even crossed the 40% threshold in any of her attempts to reach office. In her attempt to be elected there in 2022, she only got 3% of the vote.

On this date, in 2014, in 2015, 2016, and in 2022, "Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" published profiles of Jim Hagedorn, who twice failed to get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota's 1st District in 2014 and 2016, before finally slipping in the door in 2018 and winning re-election in 2020. His credentials for office were being the former CEO for Miracle Gro and... well, the classic GOP nepotism of being the son of a former Congressman himself. The problem with Hagedorn was he had a habit of writing to the "Bluestern Prairie", where he offered a variety of politically incorrect thoughts about gays, minorities, and Democrats. Things like calling Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell "undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes", calling former Congressman Herb Kohl a "switch-hitter" and "packer", echoing John Wayne's sentiment that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian", and discussing an election between Mike Taylor and Max Baucus by using imagery about fisting and lubication. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. But hey, when you’re married to the Chairwoman of the Republican Party in the state of Minnesota, they’ll keeping funding your efforts to get elected until you’re no longer able to run, or you’re divorced. Hagedorn was too controversial to get elected to the House in 2014 against Democrat Tim Walz, and in 2016, Hagedorn actually wanted a rematch, hoping people would just forget about all his controversial remarks if he kept his nose clean for two more years. Hagedorn was wrong, and still lost, this time at least in a much closer affair by only about 2500 votes. This had a lot to do with Hagedorn accusing Walz of “letting terrorists in”, because he supports refugees being settled in the United States who might just be Muslim. That takes some balls, given that Walz has served in National Guard for 25 years. But hey, we’re talking about Jim Hagedorn here, who took time to deride Black Lives Matter in the debate between the two that year for virtually no reason other than race-baiting.After Tim Walz left his seat in the House to run to become the next Governor of Minnesota in 2018 and 2020, Hagedorn’s opponent was Dan Feehan, a former member of the Department of Defense who he defeated by narrow margins so he could go to Congress and place votes against impeaching Donald Trump, signing the amicus sent to the Supreme Court to try and get them to overturn the results of the 2020 election, vote for the objection to it in Congress, and vote against almost every bill successfully passed by Democrats to aid the public during the Covid-19 pandemic. More importantly, Hagedorn’s entire time in office, he was plagued by ethics investigations for his wife purchasing stock related to his work in Congress, and for steering approval for federal contracts to companies owned by members of his Congressional staff. Y’know, grifting for his wife and friends being his top priority as a Congressman. But maybe it’s more likely that the reason Hagedorn seemed to be so willing to abuse his power illegally was because he thought he’d never actually face the consequences for any crimes or ethical violations he might commit. Shortly after he took office, he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Kidney Cancer back in 2019. The timing of getting a cancer diagnosis and ending up with such a high-risk status when a year later, the Covid-19 pandemic would hit. And, as would be overheard at Republican fundraisers back in Minnesota, his wife Jennifer knew it, openly offering to pay for the hotel room of conservative activists against ethical rules, and telling them, “I don’t care… Jim’s gonna’ be dead in two years. So be it.” Alas, he would only make it another six months, testing positive for Covid-19 in January of 2022, and dying a month later, on February 17th, 2022. The former fertilizer company CEO is now fertilizer himself. We will set aside his profile at this time to profile another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1262-60, since this was established in July 2014.


Michael Hough

Welcome to what is the 1262nd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling former Maryland State Senator Michael Hough, a former legislative aide to Congressman Alex Mooney before he carpet-bagged over to West Virginia to run for Congress. Hough spent four years in the Maryland House before moving on to serve eight as the senator for Maryland’s 4th District, and rose to be the state chair of ALEC in Maryland. And while his whole voting record was a problem, including voting against reforms to curtail excessive police violence after the death of Freddie Gray, or against minimum wage increases…

Our main reason for profiling him is that during his tenure, he helped block passage of a law that would increase the statute of limitations on childhood sex abuse victims and allow many individuals seeking justice for abuse they endured. It was only after he was off the Judicial Proceedings Committee that reforms could be made.

When you’re helping members of the church avoid facing consequences for sex abuse, maybe that’s a sign you shouldn’t continue to be re-elected.

And luckily, in 2022, when Hough made a run for Frederick County executive, he was narrowly defeated by less than a thousand votes by Jessica Fitzwater. We would like to wish him our deepest “GOOD RIDDANCE” salutes at this time, and hope that the people he was preventing from getting justice can now do so.

[Tendrin]

Israel tacitly encouraged Hamas to stay in power, according to the New York Times.

In some cases, Israeli support was more obvious.

Israeli security forces would help escort millions in funds into Gaza, helping Hamas, NYT reported.

Israeli officials are facing backlash after years of Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu quietly allowing Hamas to remain in power.

But reporting in the New York Times has revealed that Netanyahu's government was more hands-on about helping Hamas: they helped a Qatari diplomat bring suitcases of cash into Gaza, indirectly boosting the militant organization, according to the report.

The calculus — the Times reported on Sunday, citing Israeli officials, Netanyahu's critics, and the man's own reported statements — was to keep Hamas strong enough to counteract the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, allowing Netanyahu to avoid a two-state peace solution and keep both sides weak.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-dr...185354972.html

Israel has since responded with a massive bombing and ground campaign in Gaza. About 17,000 people in Gaza have been killed, according to Hamas-led Gazan health authorities.

For those doubting the Palestinian death toll, it's 1) probably even higher than that and 2) the Palestinians have gotten very good at counting their dead. Each time this has happened, the same playbook has been trotted out to cast doubt on the number of Palestinian dead, only for investigations after the fact to find out that those numbers were accurate.

The Gaza MoH has historically reported accurate mortality data, with discrepancies between MoH reporting and independent United Nations analyses ranging from 1. 5% to 3. 8% in previous conflicts.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...us%20conflicts.

And that's before we talk about members of the IDF having a telegram channel called '72 Virgins' where they celebrate violence against Palestinians, comparing them to 'roaches' quite frequently, as revealed by the Israeli based Haaretz newspaper.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...c-febd01c30000

Unfortunately, it seems hard to access at the moment but here's their twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/statu...60554046337301

Let's remember that as much as we can hate Hamas, we as a nation have done the very thing that they are doing right now, and it leads nowhere good.

[kidfresh512]

Both Texas state Senators dodging the questions about their constituent having to flee the state for basic healthcare. They can't say the basic no one should have
to flee their home state in America to have basic healthcare. No one should have to beg courts to allow their doctors to save their lives and their future fertility.

Or how awful it is to be going through a personal family health crisis and have the Texas AG publicly threaten you, your family, your doctors if they dare try to save your life.

It is a complete cop out to say oh that is state level like Cornyn, or in Cruz's case say "Call my press office"

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Admit it! Y'all want this sweet merch:

Donald Trump Releases ‘Mugshot Edition’ Digital Trading Cards—Offers Pieces Of Suit From Fulton County Arrest

[CaptainEurope]

Admit it! Y'all want this sweet merch:

Donald Trump Releases ‘Mugshot Edition’ Digital Trading Cards—Offers Pieces Of Suit From Fulton County Arrest

I bet he is selling the suit because his advisers told him that too many potential swing voters have been googling "Donald Trump suits" to find out if he is guilty or not.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

They want that.

When/if Russia wins, they'll try to hang it around Biden's neck, and when food prices rise, they'll do the same.

Of course. Anything to undermine Biden and weaken him prior to next year's election. Even if an agreement were made where border security money were added to an Ukraine funding bill, Republicans would move the goalposts and demand something else to gum up the works.

[Mister Mets]

Both Texas state Senators dodging the questions about their constituent having to flee the state for basic healthcare. They can't say the basic no one should have
to flee their home state in America to have basic healthcare. No one should have to beg courts to allow their doctors to save their lives and their future fertility.

Or how awful it is to be going through a personal family health crisis and have the Texas AG publicly threaten you, your family, your doctors if they dare try to save your life.

It is a complete cop out to say oh that is state level like Cornyn, or in Cruz's case say "Call my press office"

Minor point, but if you say "Texas state Senators" that leaves the impression you're talking about members of the state legislature, rather than US senators.

Us Senators can say that they deal with federal legislation, and not state law, although obviously they would comment on state legislation if it was somehow politically useful.

It seems that that this is a situation where people are arguing past one another, because there are multiple perspectives and the main point of contention seems to be something else.

Whatever the policy on abortion, I believe that women shouldn't have to bear children with significant fetal abnormalities. However you define significant fetal abnormalities, it should include disorders like Trisomy-18.

Trisomy-18 is not always fatal. Rick Santroum has a child with the condition who is now a teenager. But it is difficult. It should be up to the family to choose to bring a child with Trisomy-18 to term.

Plenty on the pro-life side are against the idea of abortion in the case of disabilities. They see it as eugenics, and devaluing of life.

The main argument is about the risk to Katie Cox's health and future fertility, and how the statutes define these questions. There would be a temptation for the pro-choice side to define health risks so loosely as to allow for the termination of any pregnancy so the line should be drawn somewhere.

The information online is vague about the specifics of how much of a risk to life and future fertility this pregnancy was. I fully understand that this is a person's private health information, but specifics matter when figuring out whether judges made the right call.

Of course. Anything to undermine Biden and weaken him prior to next year's election. Even if an agreement were made where border security money were added to an Ukraine funding bill, Republicans would move the goalposts and demand something else to gum up the works.

Republicans aren't a hivemind.

Some of them don't want a deal, and are trying to use this as a cudgel against Biden. Others see supporting Ukraine as important, as well as getting border security in the US.

[Catlady in training]

They want that.

When/if Russia wins, they'll try to hang it around Biden's neck, and when food prices rise, they'll do the same.

Reagan must be rolling in his grave.