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Zelenskyy declared that he would never agree to a peace deal if it involves Russia continuing to control the territory it already controls.

Well, Flake, you've had three years to dislodge them and you've failed. Do you mean you want American troops to come in and drive the Russians out?

Actually, that's incorrect. Russia did seize Ukraine territory three years ago, but the Crimea was seized 11 years ago.

Zelenskyy doesn't just want to reclaim the recently seized territory, but the territory Ukraine gave up without a shot being fired 11 years ago.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after he rejected a US proposal that would recognize Russian control of Crimea as part of a peace deal.

This comes as Washington continues its efforts to hammer out a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv. During a press conference, Zelensky said, "Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea" and that "There's nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution."

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Zelensky said Russia should agree to a cease-fire before further talks to demonstrate "serious steps, and not childishness." He said that Ukrainian officials meeting with U.S. and European officials in London would have a mandate to discuss a partial or full cease-fire, which Ukraine agreed to last month but Moscow rejected.

In a post on Truth Social, President Trump went on a long tirade against Zelensky, arguing that Zelensky's perspective "is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion."

Trump continued, "Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?"

The president said, "It's inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy's that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire -- He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country."

The FBI arrested a UMass Boston "student" for firebombing a Kansas City Tesla dealership.

A 19-year-old University of Massachusetts Boston student was busted for the crazed firebombing of a Tesla dealership in Missouri, according to federal officials.

Owen McIntire, 19, was back in his hometown of Parkville, Mo., for spring break on March 17, when he drove to a Tesla dealership in nearby Kansas City and hurled two Molotov cocktails at a Cybertruck, causing a fire and thousands of dollars in damage after the blaze spread to a second Cybertruck, the Justice Department said Friday.

In the alleged arson attack, McIntire allegedly concocted two homemade incendiary devices and used them to destroy the pair of Cybertrucks, which cost $105,485 and $107,495, the Justice Department alleged.

Only one of those bottle bombs exploded, and investigators were able to recover the second completely intact, the statement said. It appeared to be an apple cider vinegar bottle, according to photos from the scene.

Two Tesla charging stations, which cost $550 each, were also damaged in the blaze, feds said.

He (?) looks as we've come to expect zems to look:

Video report here.

Legal Insurrection: Trump should dust off the False Claims Act to bring rogue racially-discriminatory colleges in line with the law and Constitution.

The False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. § 3730; the "FCA") was passed over 150 years ago to address a seemingly intractable problem: widespread fraud by defense contractors during the Civil War. Under the FCA, a person who knowingly submits a false claim to the government is liable for three times the government's damages plus additional penalties. For example, a hospital that knowingly obtains $10 million from the federal government on bogus Medicare invoices would be liable to the government for over $30 million.

But while the government can bring such claims itself, the FCA has another important component: the ability for whistleblowers (i.e., people with inside information of the fraud) to bring FCA suits in the government's name, and receive a reward of up to 30% the funds recovered. Such private prosecutions are known as qui tam actions, and the vast majority of the billions recovered annually under the FCA arise from them.

For example, suppose you are an employee of the hospital in the foregoing hypothetical, and you discover that it is fraudulently billing Medicare for MRI's that never occurred. You find a lawyer who specializes in FCA qui tam cases, who then prepares and files the qui tam action in federal court under seal, and serves the Department of Justice a copy of the complaint and a comprehensive memorandum explaining the claim and the evidence that the whistleblower has. The Department of Justice can then choose to intervene in the case and thereafter prosecute it, or it can decline to do so and allow you to do so. Either way, if the FCA qui tam suit is successful, the whistleblower receives a reward of up to 30% of the funds recovered (typically, 15-20% where the government takes over the case).

So in the hypothetical set forth above, if the government immediately intervened and ultimately collected $30 million, the whistleblowing employee would collect a reward of $4.5 to $6 million (which typically would be split with his attorney, if the attorney handled the case on a contingency fee basis). These financial inducements -- along with provisions in the FCA (31 U.S.C. § 3730(h)) imposing draconian additional penalties on employers who retaliate against FCA whistleblowers -- make the FCA a powerful weapon against defrauding the federal government.

Nice. It's like letters of Marque for whistleblowers.

From last week: the government's Covid.gov website now links to a refutation of the fraudulent "Proximal Origins" paper that Fauci paid his sycophants to type up using taxpayer-funded "science" grants as the payoff.

It's a glorious thing.

Here's a screenshot.

George Clooney is not dipping his head into soy sauce and pretending that he's a Real Journalist Now. He says he went to "Darfur" to "get the story out" and so he's a Real Journalist.

He looks like he has a touch of Spring AIDS.

Notably, the guy asking this question is the same dude who sat down and yucked it up with Taylor Lorenz a week ago over a left-winger murdering a health insurance CEO.

The lack of self-awareness is stunning. https://t.co/7R70cLa7OH

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 23, 2025

Elizabeth Warren is asked why the Democrat Party refuses to ever admit it's gone off the rails or examine the reasons for its failures. She, get this, refuses to answer. But the interviewer calls her on it. She still refuses to answer.

She goes on to refuse to admit she lied when she said Joe Biden had complete acuity. He trips her up by asking "Was he as sharp as you?" This causes her brain to glitch, as she's not sure which lie to tell. Should she continue with the lie that Biden was completely cogent, or should she admit she has the same level of mental sharpness as an infamously demented man.

She responds that Biden was, and I do quote, "on his feet."

The interviewer accurately states that saying "Biden was on his feet" is not answering the question and not reassuring at all.

Even worse: The Democrat Media has lost Dwight Fart Schrute.

The audacity! The absolute audacity!

Yes, Big Mike, we've all been noticing how difficult you've found it to complain about everything, all the time, always.

You: Twins aren't creepy at all!

Me:

posted by Ace at 06:26 PM

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