A community gathering is being organized on Saturday, March 5, at 1 pm at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven to show support for the people of Ukraine, according to an email from Carla Cooper.
Cooper, along with Iya Labunka, is organizing the community rally.
“The world is shaken by this savage invasion, and people are fearful,” Cooper wrote. “We want to bring our community together to uplift the Ukraine people and their courageous president.”
A flier for the event states, “This is a peaceful event; all are welcome.”
I hope Cooper is asking people to bring signs telling the president to start pumping our own oil again so we can shut off our dependence buying it from Russia!
Only 8% of our oil imports come from Russia. And who told you that the US is not currently pumping oil from our own reserves?
That’s just silly.
With that said, it’s nice to know gas prices are seemingly more important to you than the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
I don’t Debate, I just make Comments. Debating is useless……
Woody–People would be less likely to attempt to debate you if your comments were accurate.
Take it from me, commenting isn’t particularly useful, either.
Is that why you make comments?
They are undebatable?
Seems an appropriate time to remind the citizens of Dukes County that 2,631 voters in the November 2020 election voted for the man who praised Putin for his invasion of Ukraine.
“He is pretty smart. He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions.” “…taking over a country_really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land, with a lot of people _ and just walking right in.”
Rather than protesting the actions of Putin 4,500 miles away, why not protest our own 2,631 neighbours and their vote for the owner of Mar a Lago?
Spot on comment, James..
100%!
You’re perfectly free to organize any protest you want.
Kozak one can be smart and still be a thug. To suggest Putin is not smart is unwise. Trump did not praise Putin for invading Ukraine. He said our leaders are dumb and Putin is playing Biden like a fiddle. That is what he said. Mao was smart. Stalin was smart. We dont admire them for their smartness we condemn them for their evil actions.
Trump did praise Putin for invading Ukraine. And how is Putin playing President Biden like a fiddle?
And no, neither Mao nor Stalin were particularly intelligent. What they were was ruthless.
Just like Vladimir Putin.
Russia interfered in the 2016 election and it was easy for Putin to play Trump like a fiddle. Trump was a scamming conman who tried to overthrow our democracy with his Big Lie. He will go down in history on the same pages as the murderous thugs you name. Trump simply didn’t have the same brain power, but his evil is on the same level and he will be condemned forever. His evil is responsible for the early spread and covid deaths when he lied and kept the truth from us. His supporters who never figured this out will also be condemned forever, including every Putin-loving idiot antivaxer still at it today.
Andrew-DT has yet to condemn the actions of Putin, only praised him for his savvy and genius.
Putin is smart but he’s also evil and corrupt and he must be stopped.
Trump to radio hosts Sexton & Travis: “I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
Trump, the next day at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser: “They say, ‘Trump said Putin’s smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”
Andy–read trump’s comment more carefully. For the most part, he actually is praising Putin for taking over Ukraine. How can any rational possibly read it otherwise ?
James has accurately pointed this out.
trump is especially impressed that Putin can just walk right in and grab em’ by the city.
Your attempt to nullify trump’s disgusting quote by using a non specified “quote” from him from some other time and place about his opinion of Biden is pretty lame.
And just let me point out very clearly to you , Andy– trump has in fact, more than once praised Putin for being a “genius” and “smart” since this invasion , but has not uttered a word of condemnation.
I agree 👍 with you Andrew, see why I don’t debate anyone.
They ‘always’ take things out of context plus I don’t ever try to change anyone’s mind and they sure can’t change mine so debating is totally useless……
Putin is presently totally guilty of war crimes, he was previously guilty of war crimes and was never held accountable that is why he is doing it again because he thinks our present leader is a chump and that he can get away with it again.
Anyone who thinks us Veterans side with Putin is completly out of their minds like him!
Let Putin touch one hair on one of our Airborne soldiers heads who are on the Polish border and all us Veterans will be in the streets demanding that Biden finally man’s up!
Mr Levy, If gas prices were lower, oil would be lower and if oil is lower, Putin gets less money for his exports, and when he gets less money, his economy suffers, his people protest even more and Ukraine is advantaged. Yes we are pumping oil but less than before and we are importing oil as we did before. We still import and export to match crude locations and types most efficiently with refineries. but we were more energy independent before and we produced about as much as we consumed. There is no correlation between wanting lower gas prices and not being sympathetic of the Ukraine.
The correlation between wanting lower fuel prices and empathy for Ukrainians is that if Trump-supporting, conservative Republicans could only choose one or the other, they’d go with the choice of personal greed every single time. You know it and I know it, engelman.
Andrew, Woody’s comment was a classic case of ‘whataboutism.’ Instead of expressing solidarity and support for the Ukrainian people, he took a swipe at President Biden over a false notion.
The fact remains: We are not dependant on Russian oil. OPEC+, that’s a different story.
And we are indeed pumping our own oil, even if we thankfully slowed down the production of shale petroleum.
And yes, I saw he made a supportive post later. So that’s good.
Protests are great, support is great but they need money to help all of these refugees. I donated to World Central Kitchen and Unicef.
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