Protesters hold signs and cheer to the passing traffic during the protest of the Trump administration at the "four corners" intersection of Routes 16 and 153 in Conway Village on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Event co-organizer Andy Davis (left) talks with Tamworth residents (from left) Natalia Egan, Deb Maille, Maud Anderson, and Julie and Skip Mason during the protest on Tuesday in Conway. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
An estimate 300 people held signs at the "four corners" intersection of Routes 16 and 153 in Conway Village on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Andrew Maki of Albany and his son Aletto, 4, take part in Tuesday's protest in Conway. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Protesters hold signs and cheer to the passing traffic during the protest of the Trump administration at the "four corners" intersection of Routes 16 and 153 in Conway Village on Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Event co-organizer Andy Davis (left) talks with Tamworth residents (from left) Natalia Egan, Deb Maille, Maud Anderson, and Julie and Skip Mason during the protest on Tuesday in Conway. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
Protesters hold signs up to the passing traffic during the protest of the Trump administration at the "four corners" Tuesday. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)
CONWAY — In one of the largest protests at the Four Corners in memory, hundreds of people descended on intersection of Route 16 and Route 153 in Conway Village on Tuesday for a demonstration against recent actions by the Donald Trump administration.
The Conway protest was coordinated with many at the same time around the country and occurred just hours before President Trump delivered a speech before a joint session of Congress.
I'm not raging against "continuing to spend money on fraud, waste, and abuse; continuing to have unbalanced trade deficits with no end in sight; fighting to keep boys and men in girls' and womens' locker rooms and bathrooms; and continued spending that fuels inflation."
I'm enraged at their despicable scene in the White House that was similar to a hazing incident and based on lies. I'm disgusted with the gutting of social security so that elderly and disabled people who need their money are being kept on hold for hours. The destruction of other public agencies looks pretentious and we are getting no reassurance that anything is being planned in the place of what they destroyed. The false imprisonment of people who are blameless under the pretense that they're trespassing into the U.S. needs a harsh punishment.
I have been told that people who are American citizens who are born here can be picked up and deported and imprisoned and this makes me afraid to leave home.
After the Democrats' disastrous election result, I'm not surprised that the activists are able to garner a few hundred people to a rally in the Liberal enclave of Conway. While this obviously does not reflect the will of the majority, they have every right to protest. Keep in mind that what they are protesting is continuing to spend money on fraud, waste, and abuse; continuing to have unbalanced trade deficits with no end in sight; fighting to keep boys and men in girls' and womens' locker rooms and bathrooms; and continued spending that fuels inflation (which is a tax on everybody).
But what I am responding to is the comment that to stop the Russia-Ukraine war, we just need Russia to stop bombing. So true.
But that doesn't mean that Trump is wrong and Biden's strategy is correct. In fact, just the opposite is true.
Biden was going to commit American money "for as long as it takes." Three years is obviously not long enough. How long can Russia sustain their attack? Five years? Ten? Twenty? Does anybody think the independent state of Ukraine can last that long, no matter how many weapons we give them?
Ukraine fundamentally has a manpower problem. Russia is a far larger country and their citizens have given up the ability to reject their leadership because of a failed policy. Anyone who speaks out is silenced or killed. Many "dissidents" managed to flee the country already.
So how is the war to end? The only way it can, in the short term, is to have someone like Trump broker a peace deal. And the only way he can do that is to appear "neutral" to Russia so that he has some leverage.
Biden was not neutral and look where we are today. His weakness invited Putin to further its invasion (started in 2014 under Obama). And remember, he didn't speak with Putin since the war started. The only real message he sent him that was apparently received was that a small incursion might not result in a reaction from the US.
Now that the war is over three years old, only President Trump has the ability to speak with Putin and try to negotiate something. Ukraine is not in a strong position, unfortunately. Biden never gave Ukraine enough weapons to push Russia out of the territory it held, and Ukraine acts like it is in the driver's seat because that's what Biden and the EU keep telling Zelenskyy. Things like Ukraine doesn't have to accept a peace deal if it doesn't want to, that it gets to decide.
So either we let Trump try to settle it, which will give Russia a better outcome than having it keep fighting for another three years, or we don't try to negotiate Ukraine's capitulation because that would be unjust, given Russia's brutality and aggression.
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I'm not raging against "continuing to spend money on fraud, waste, and abuse; continuing to have unbalanced trade deficits with no end in sight; fighting to keep boys and men in girls' and womens' locker rooms and bathrooms; and continued spending that fuels inflation."
I'm enraged at their despicable scene in the White House that was similar to a hazing incident and based on lies. I'm disgusted with the gutting of social security so that elderly and disabled people who need their money are being kept on hold for hours. The destruction of other public agencies looks pretentious and we are getting no reassurance that anything is being planned in the place of what they destroyed. The false imprisonment of people who are blameless under the pretense that they're trespassing into the U.S. needs a harsh punishment.
I have been told that people who are American citizens who are born here can be picked up and deported and imprisoned and this makes me afraid to leave home.
After the Democrats' disastrous election result, I'm not surprised that the activists are able to garner a few hundred people to a rally in the Liberal enclave of Conway. While this obviously does not reflect the will of the majority, they have every right to protest. Keep in mind that what they are protesting is continuing to spend money on fraud, waste, and abuse; continuing to have unbalanced trade deficits with no end in sight; fighting to keep boys and men in girls' and womens' locker rooms and bathrooms; and continued spending that fuels inflation (which is a tax on everybody).
But what I am responding to is the comment that to stop the Russia-Ukraine war, we just need Russia to stop bombing. So true.
But that doesn't mean that Trump is wrong and Biden's strategy is correct. In fact, just the opposite is true.
Biden was going to commit American money "for as long as it takes." Three years is obviously not long enough. How long can Russia sustain their attack? Five years? Ten? Twenty? Does anybody think the independent state of Ukraine can last that long, no matter how many weapons we give them?
Ukraine fundamentally has a manpower problem. Russia is a far larger country and their citizens have given up the ability to reject their leadership because of a failed policy. Anyone who speaks out is silenced or killed. Many "dissidents" managed to flee the country already.
So how is the war to end? The only way it can, in the short term, is to have someone like Trump broker a peace deal. And the only way he can do that is to appear "neutral" to Russia so that he has some leverage.
Biden was not neutral and look where we are today. His weakness invited Putin to further its invasion (started in 2014 under Obama). And remember, he didn't speak with Putin since the war started. The only real message he sent him that was apparently received was that a small incursion might not result in a reaction from the US.
Now that the war is over three years old, only President Trump has the ability to speak with Putin and try to negotiate something. Ukraine is not in a strong position, unfortunately. Biden never gave Ukraine enough weapons to push Russia out of the territory it held, and Ukraine acts like it is in the driver's seat because that's what Biden and the EU keep telling Zelenskyy. Things like Ukraine doesn't have to accept a peace deal if it doesn't want to, that it gets to decide.
So either we let Trump try to settle it, which will give Russia a better outcome than having it keep fighting for another three years, or we don't try to negotiate Ukraine's capitulation because that would be unjust, given Russia's brutality and aggression.
Sometimes the world just isn't fair.
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