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"F*** the EU," Revisited
"F*** the EU," top State official Victoria Nuland said on a phone call.
This phone call had been covertly recorded by Russia and was then leaked to the press, which should have been a signal that Russia, at least, was taking this more seriously than Obama's team was.The F-bomb is deployed because Nuland’s frustrated that the EU isn’t doing more to pressure Viktor Yanukovych, the Putin-backed Ukrainian president whose recent deal with Moscow instigated the last few months of protests.Why wasn't the EU doing "more" to pressure Yanukovych, Putin's choice for President? Here's the thing: Because the EU was thinking hard about the Ukraine and realistically about itself. The EU didn't want to force Yanukovych out of power, nor encourage the Maidan movement to force him out of power, because they knew that Russia would react as Russia has in fact reacted. And the EU knew this about themselves: They were not prepared to do a damn thing about a Russian invasion. So the EU made a cynical, self-serving decision to not encourage or support the Maidan movement, because they knew they would not be doing anything down the road to support the Maidan movement when the movement actually needed support. This was an unpopular decision, and it makes them seem cowardly and weak... but ti did have the benefit of comporting with reality. The EU was clear-minded enough and had an honest enough appraisal of its interests and capabilities to make the honest, accurate assessment that they would do nothing in Putin but offer him diplomatic protests were he to invade Ukraine. And the EU crafted its own policy response based on that accurate, honest appraisal of its own weakness and cowardice. You can call them cowards, but you cannot call them self-deluded fools. At least they understood themselves. And what has the US done, by contrast? We encouraged the Maidan protestors to hit the gas pedal on their revolution, but as Russia has done all the things that only a child could fail to predict that Russia would do, we have been surprised at every turn by the inevitable. Now this got Obama some good press in February, back when supporting Maidan seemed like the right move for American Social Media Foreign Policy, and was, at that moment, a cost-free gesture. But now the check is coming due, and what do we do to support the revolution we encouraged? We offer Tweets. Tweets. The EU knew that they too would only offer Strongly Worded Tweets, should Ukraine depose Yanukuvich and Russia in turn invade Urkaine. Which is why they attempted to discourage Ukraine from doing that. The American President, on the other hand, urged Ukraine to do just that, without telling them that should Russia begin shooting bullets into Ukrainians, the Ukranians could expect America to respond with Precision-Guided Tweets. Obama has long had this sense of delusion about himself, that he is so inherently good and pure and charismatic that his simple words will move oceans, like the words of God Himself. I can only imagine he did this because the thought, in the end, his Precious Red-Letter Words would be enough to fix another disaster he'd caused. One last point: If Obama were serious about any of this, he'd at least offer a Presidential Address to the Nation warning Russia away. Why? Aren't those "just words" as well? Yes, but the trick of the Presidential address is that it's an escalation. When a President speaks to the nation, he puts his own credibility and his own political fortunes on the line. If he fails to act in the face of aggression after that, he suffers politically. Thus, the point of the exercise is to put one's counter-party on notice that one has invested a policy with his own personal limited cache of authority, and hence will be much more likely to back that policy up with something more than well-crafted #hashtags. But of course Obama isn't doing that. Instead, he has a relatively low-level bureaucrat out there #TweetingForFreedom. And I'm not sure I blame him for that. I don't want to go to war with Russia, either. But I do wish that perhaps Obama could have managed the reasonable, realistic assessment of his actual level of capability and willingness to employ force that the EU managed. And unfortunately, I think the Ukrainians will soon be wishing that as well. I Just Got an Email from Winston Churchill... who, surprisingly, approves of Obama's foreign policy.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of rising Russia and all the odious apparatus of the KGB state, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on FaceBook, we shall fight on Instagram and Pinterest, we shall fight and, with growing follower lists and growing Likes, we shall defend our #hashtag, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on Twitter, we shall fight on Vine, we shall fight on the Washington Post's op-ed pages and in the New York Times' comment areas, we shall fight in Buzzfeed's gifs; we shall never surrender. And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this #hashtag or a large part of it were hijacked by trolls, then our social media reach, armed and guarded by the writers at Media Matters and the Daily Beast, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, some miracle should descend upon us in rescue us so we can return, as we much desire, to the #WarOnWomen. Romney wants to #BanTampons, please retweet.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 25, 2014 07:15 PM (I9I9J)
It doesn't really need the help.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 07:16 PM (la7X9)
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2014 07:18 PM (wAQA5)
And here's hoping we won't be here 5 years from now, going to war and saying 'If only we'd stood up to Putin in 2014'.
History may not repeat but it does rhyme.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 25, 2014 07:18 PM (FEgi1)
Posted by: President Smalls at April 25, 2014 07:18 PM (PAplM)
Posted by: pep at April 25, 2014 07:19 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2014 07:19 PM (raF1/)
BLASPHEMER!! HERETIC!!! HE IS OUR GOD-KING!!!
Posted by: Cult of Obama at April 25, 2014 07:20 PM (8SsiG)
Thus, Putin doesn't really mean it when he talks about restoring Mother Russia.
Thus, Muslim extremists don't mean it when they say they will kill all the infidels.
No, no, no. Thus are just responses to what their overlords are doing to them and if America just grovels and mouths the correct platitudes, then all the bad things will stop. After all, the bad things occur only because we, the only ones who are truly human, are causing them to occur.
And now we're going to have a global war because Our Betters are idiotic twats. Yay.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 25, 2014 07:20 PM (dMSj2)
Posted by: Roman Maroni at April 25, 2014 07:21 PM (KCCgc)
That said there is a new Euro trash on the Islands they can suck it..
that said...
We blew all our Capital on Obama Econ 101 and now we stand like a Fuck wit instead of asking the EU to get out of the way ..we will handle it..
Posted by: 7 Days in May at April 25, 2014 07:21 PM (5V+Di)
The only difference is that, while I can see their interest in expansion andhaving Ukraine as a member-state, I have no idea what our business is in this whole affair. We have no interests there. Right now, we are more militant about European interests than the Europeans themselves.
Posted by: Red Widow at April 25, 2014 07:23 PM (qXNr4)
what more can I do?
Posted by: Barack Obama, Super-Genius at April 25, 2014 07:23 PM (0cMkb)
"My name is Barackymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The twitter hashtags stretch far away.
Posted by: Percy Shelley at April 25, 2014 07:24 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at April 25, 2014 07:24 PM (Qp0nB)
Hey, I'm standing here with my dick in one hand and a thumb up my ass with the other-
what more can I do?
Posted by: Barack Obama, Super-Genius
Ya see that wood chipper over there? The one with the big chute in front?
Posted by: pep at April 25, 2014 07:24 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 25, 2014 07:25 PM (kqGWM)
Posted by: Barack Gibb at April 25, 2014 07:25 PM (x8uS1)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 25, 2014 07:25 PM (ujux6)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:26 PM (GEICT)
He be Choom Boy all along...
Posted by: 7 Days in May at April 25, 2014 07:26 PM (5V+Di)
Posted by: The Humpty at April 25, 2014 07:27 PM (hppbQ)
Posted by: navycopjoe at April 25, 2014 07:27 PM (krmE0)
Posted by: jb at April 25, 2014 07:27 PM (sXICw)
Posted by: O'God-King at April 25, 2014 07:29 PM (8SsiG)
inherently good and pure and charismatic that his simple words will move
oceans, like the words of God Himself.
'like'?
Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at April 25, 2014 07:30 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at April 25, 2014 07:30 PM (N+Fis)
you're just gonna "willow" the rest of us & leave us behind?
Posted by: shredded chi at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (0HcI0)
Posted by: O'God-King at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (8SsiG)
There's your problem.
It's more than that. I think Obama's completely disengaged from almost anything but what strikes him as interesting. Even then he'll only apply himself to that subject as long as it's not hard.
He doesn't attend briefings. He does checkbox decision-making which mean he doesn't have to pretend to be interested or ask any questions. He barely speaks off teleprompter. His schedule starts after 10am and ends before 4pm most days. He doesn't answer questions except in long-winded Professor Boring Answers Nothing ways. He gets advance-copies of shows he likes, which means he's all caught up on the current ones.
The man's killing time between fundraisers.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (44jNh)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (QwwBH)
Posted by: Ukrainians at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: nnptcgrad at April 25, 2014 07:33 PM (Opyrm)
Posted by: Winston Ogabe 404 at April 25, 2014 07:33 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 25, 2014 07:20 PM (dMSj2)
Yes, but at least a world war that wipes out most of the men in the current generation will solve our social security imbalance!
Posted by: Paul Krugman, master economist at April 25, 2014 07:33 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Eastern Europe at April 25, 2014 07:33 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: Claire Cloggenstein, of the California Cloggensteins at April 25, 2014 07:34 PM (uopHF)
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 07:35 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (QwwBH)
Mommy asked me why Ukraine was important and I showed her where it was on the map. She said isn't that Poland and isn't Poland in NATO. I said yep. Then she understood.
Frankly, I think that if there's an armed Russian invasion into Poland, TFG will ignore the NATO treaty obligations.
Then the super interesting times begin.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 25, 2014 07:35 PM (dMSj2)
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 25, 2014 07:35 PM (HDwDg)
realistic assessment of his actual level of capability and willingness
to employ force that the EU managed."
I just can't get my head around how Obama's famously well developed abilities for "reasonable, realistic assessment of his actual level of capability" suddenly just up and quit, totally failed, right out of the blue, in this one specific instance.
Surely among his many superb abilities, if there is one thing at which that man is an absolute star, it's at making "reasonable,
realistic assessment of his actual level of capability".
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 07:35 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:36 PM (WX3R9)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:36 PM (WX3R9)
No, no, he'll ask Putin to delay the invasion until February 2017.
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 07:36 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:36 PM (QwwBH)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2014 07:37 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 25, 2014 07:37 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: fabio at April 25, 2014 07:38 PM (uxJMc)
Fuck.
Posted by: The Humpty at April 25, 2014 07:38 PM (hppbQ)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:31 PM (QwwBH)
It seems to me that depends on whether the Poles stay on their side of the border, or behave more proactively.
Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2014 07:38 PM (hO9ad)
inherently good and pure and charismatic that his simple words will move
oceans, like the words of God Himself.
Behold his mighty hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCTq3EeDcY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 25, 2014 07:39 PM (I9I9J)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 25, 2014 07:37 PM (8SsiG)
No, this is what the world looks like with the US led by fools, naives and juveniles.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:39 PM (GEICT)
And like September 11, they’ll blame it on the president who’s been in office for less than a year (assuming they’re Republican, of course; otherwise, they’ll blame Bush).
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:39 PM (WX3R9)
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at April 25, 2014 07:35 PM (dMSj2) fnord (dMSj2)
It is a thing that interesting things are often boringly predictable from a small distance, isn't it?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (L8umz)
FIFM
Barky is at war with anything that is good and pure, Ace.
But he does have an inflated sense of his powers of charisma.
And why shouldn't he?
It's what got him elected, twice.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (la7X9)
Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (nsQhi)
Not. Cool.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:26 PM (GEICT)
I think our base is #3 or 4 on their nuke list, if that makes you feel any better.
Posted by: pookysgirl at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (tl+KL)
Posted by: Señor Juan McCain at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Otter O'bumble at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (gXRIG)
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2014 07:41 PM (JBggj)
Thinking he can cut a deal with Hans Gruber, he puts himself into a dangerous situation and then is shocked to find out the stakes are very much real and is surprised when his words have no effect.
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 07:41 PM (doBIb)
True. Disengagment and Utopian dreamsis a feature, not a bug with "fools, naives, and juveniles".
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 25, 2014 07:41 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:42 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: pookysgirl at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (tl+KL)
Jacksonville used to be very VERY high on the strategic targets list. Not sure where it is now.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:42 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:42 PM (L8umz)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:42 PM (QwwBH)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (qyfb5)
Then the super interesting times begin.
TFG? Yes.
Britain? They were making a lot more noise at the beginning of this about their obligations to Ukraine. I don't know if they could stomach leaving the Poles out to dry. You know, again.
Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:36 PM (QwwBH)
Nahh, no worries, the next guy can just take a tour around the world apologizing to everyone. That'll do it.
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (nTgAI)
"State Department Pulls Pro-Ukraine YouTube Video After Commenters Reveal Map Error"
(* Wah-wah-waaaaaaa~ *)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (ujux6)
Posted by: gm at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (/kBoL)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (wdHk6)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (ZPrif)
"I think you re wrong about the consistency of EU policies regarding
Ukraine, Ace. They sent in politician after politician - people like
Westerwellethe German Foreign Minister and Ashton the EUCommissar for
foreign policy coordination - to whip up the Maidan crowd."
Um. Yes. Well. About the Ashton woman.
So let's reflect that Putin wanted a Ukraine crisis. For a couple of reasons. One was a _casus belli_ to grab chunks of Ukraine to be incorporated into his resurgent Greater Russia. Another was an opportunity to dial up the price of natural gas to Ukraine, while simultaneously demanding payment of arrears, and convince Western idiots to underwrite the hugely inflated bill.
And anyone with the sense God gave a goose would know all this in advance.
So why would Ashton hand Putin what he wanted, a crisis to exploit?
Consider Ashton's antecedents. She got her start in UK politics back in the days of CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a lefty peacenik group opposing Reagan and Thatcher.
Well, after the end of the Cold War, access was gained to certain of the Soviet system's files, and certain former Soviet intelligence officers talked, and it turned out that there had been a massive longstanding program run out of Moscow Centre to penetrate and control Western civilian organizations. Such as labor unions, educational societies, and... disarmament groups. To include... CND. Specifically named as such by the defectors.
So Ashton has in all likelihood been a paid catspaw of the Kremlin going back many decades.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (noWW6)
I do believe we’ve done this joke before.
President Obama furiously said that he has decisively flagged the YouTube video for review by Google in response to rioters burning down the United States embassy in Libya.
“We’re also thinking about unfriending them on FaceBook,” said Vice President Joe Biden.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (WX3R9)
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (wAQA5)
he went after the insurance companies while having them write the bill
he went after banks while funneling money to them
he went after syria. cough.
Stop that Putin, right now!
so willfully dumb or doing foreign policy like he means it for realz.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (nqBYe)
Right. Obama has fucked this up from the beginning and we're now in a no win scenario.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (ZPrif)
You've learned nothing. Anything horrible is not President Dumbass' fault.
"The buck is over there somewhere."
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (AC0lD)
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of rising Russia and all the odious apparatus of the KGB state, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on FaceBook, we shall fight on Instagram and Pinterest, we shall fight with growing follower lists and growing Alexa ratings we shall defend our #hashtag, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on Twitter, we shall fight on Vine, we shall fight on the Washington Post's op-ed pages and in the New York Times' comment areas, we shall fight in Buzzfeed's gifs; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this #hashtag or a large part of it were hijacked by trolls, then our social media reach, armed and guarded by the writers at Media Matters and the Daily Beast, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, some miracle should descend upon us in rescue us so we can return, as we much desire, to the #WarOnWomen.
Romney wants to #BanTampons, please retweet.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (/FnUH)
Britain? They were making a lot more noise at the beginning of this about their obligations to Ukraine. I don't know if they could stomach leaving the Poles out to dry. You know, again.
"What about Europe?"
"I guess they figured twice in one century was enough. They're sitting this one out. All except England, and they won't last very long."
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (L8umz)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:43 PM (nTgAI)>>>
Dude! That's where Hillary's accomplishments come into play! She's clearly the best option to follow Obama. Do you know how many miles she flew while at State?! Not as many as Condi? The deuce you say! No matter. We need Hillary!
Posted by: gm at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (/kBoL)
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Never Die Alone at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (/vO0r)
Posted by: fabio at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (uxJMc)
Posted by: S. Muldoon at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (MKpBT)
AKA Psychotic Children. Or PC for short.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 25, 2014 07:47 PM (0HooB)
what do most of them have in common?
what is their ideology?
their thoughts about america and the world?
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:47 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2014 07:47 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (L8umz)
I would be love to hear what the Poles are saying behind closed doors right now.
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:48 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Cadet Barry O. Kirk at April 25, 2014 07:48 PM (x8uS1)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:48 PM (nqBYe)
I have to wonder who else is looking at this and wondering if this is their window of opportunity. The Dirty Harry question, I guess, is, do they think this is the start of a new line of leaderless administrations, or if it was just a fluke.
We kind of have to hope China, Iran, North Korea, et. al. think that we will continue to elect Obamas, so that they don’t think they’re under a deadline.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:48 PM (WX3R9)
Posted by: troyriser at April 25, 2014 07:48 PM (O66NZ)
Thinking he can cut a deal with Hans Gruber, he puts himself into a dangerous situation and then is shocked to find out the stakes are very much real and is surprised when his words have no effect.
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 07:41 PM (doBIb)
Not to mention they're both cokeheads.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 07:49 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:49 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 07:44 PM (noWW6) fnord (noWW6)
Well the job of the EU in the first place was to "harmonize" the unruly West with the well-ordered East.
http://youtu.be/AZYcjVC2rRQ
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 25, 2014 07:49 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:50 PM (L8umz)
Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at April 25, 2014 07:50 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 25, 2014 07:50 PM (WX3R9)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (L02KD)
Get me my brown pants.
Posted by: Otter O'bumble at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (gXRIG)
Posted by: Col. Larrick, USN at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (8c12T)
Posted by: Zombie Zhukov at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (kduZC)
Well, I am inclined to agree with that sentiment in general.
The United States saved Europe's ass in two World Wars and the Cold War. Our military expenditures enabled them to build their lavish welfare states.
By way of thanks, they've spent the last fifty years or so sneering at us for being warmongering cowboys. The EU was created in part to counter our economic "hegemony".
The EU is also destroying the national cultures of its member states and is importing African Muslims as fast as possible. Anyone who objects is vilified as a racist.
So yeah, "F*** the EU".
Posted by: rickl at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Sandra Fluck at April 25, 2014 07:51 PM (2ArJQ)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (/FnUH)
----------------
Heh.
Well, this is how he's fought against Republicans, Ace.
It's the only way he knows how to fight.
But Republicans are the perfect foe...they back down and cower when the O-media bashes them.
I guess Barky will stomp his foot and have a hissy fit, when Putin and China don't do the same thing.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (la7X9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (L8umz)
They melted in front of him. He was everything hoped for, everything they wanted black people to be, everything they disliked about themselves with their privilege and whiteness.
At what age did some rich, white progressive first tell Obama that he should be President? I'm sure in law school. Probably before then.
Obama mistook the personal effect he had on rich, white progressives with their souls dripping with white guilt ... he thought that was some universal charisma he possessed. That all people would want to do what he says and feel cleansed by his presence and acceptance.
But the rest of the world is not made up of rich, white chicks and pampered, pale dudes who feel guilty about being rich and white and are desperate for Obama's healing touch of forgiveness.
I think Obama is honestly confused when people don't prostrate themselves the way the rich, white guilters do. He though he had some sort of magical powers and that his mesmerizing effect wasn't so demographically limited.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (ZPrif)
Not. Cool.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:26 PM (GEICT)
I think our base is #3 or 4 on their nuke list, if that makes you feel any better.
Posted by: pookysgirl at April 25, 2014 07:40 PM (tl+KL)
I can see Chicago from my house.
Well, I have to walk five doors to the intersection, but I can see it pretty clearly. Last I checked a nuclear strike on Chicago that doesn't end up out in Lake Michigan is going to pretty thoroughly ruin my day.
Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (QwwBH)
Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Alicia Silverstone at April 25, 2014 07:52 PM (TO9tz)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:53 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:53 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 25, 2014 07:54 PM (IV4od)
If I was paranoid.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 07:54 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (HzRFk)
A man has to know his limitations - Clint "empty chair skit" Eastwood
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (nTgAI)
and he has,
from sea to shining sea, and within our borders.
he's not dumb.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (nqBYe)
So, what's the story now? Tampons make women dumber because it sucks out the juices of their brains?
Posted by: Col. Larrick, USN at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (8c12T)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:56 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2014 07:56 PM (Aqvh6)
So, what's the story now? Tampons make women dumber because it sucks out the juices of their brains?
Posted by: Col. Larrick, USN at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (8c12T)
Well, the progfems say they should vote with their lady parts.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 07:57 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 25, 2014 07:57 PM (gDHxV)
3 months after the election, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 25, 2014 07:57 PM (ZPrif)
So, what's the story now? Tampons make women dumber because it sucks out the juices of their brains?
Posted by: Col. Larrick, USN at April 25, 2014 07:55 PM (8c12T)
++++
It's amazing how science has been able to make those things so absorbent.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 07:57 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:57 PM (L8umz)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Muhammar Khaddaffi at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (q7DBM)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (HzRFk)
Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:59 PM (nqBYe)
Not to worry. Jen is on the secure Kremlin Twitter feed as we speak.
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 07:59 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 25, 2014 07:59 PM (L8umz)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (nTgAI)
That can't be good.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 07:59 PM (mx5oN)
What's not to love? Those polish building fall down so nice after we got done with them.
Stuka's? Meh. Hitler was a piker. You want rubble?
Try the 155mm howitzer! Ah... Artillery is the queen of the battlefield, comrade?
And, those who survived made such good blintzes with sour cream.
Posted by: Zombie Zhukov at April 25, 2014 08:00 PM (kduZC)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (HzRFk)
That was Flatbush Joe, I just added the comment at the end. I didn't paste it right.
It is a good synopsis though
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 08:00 PM (nTgAI)
Obama isn't the only one who thinks his words can move mountains.
Posted by: The Barbed Cock of Satan at April 25, 2014 08:00 PM (8d82l)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (HzRFk)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2014 07:45 PM (/FnUH)
****
Channeling Churchill, Ace blogs, tweets & swears
Posted by: S. Muldoon at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (MKpBT)
Posted by: Yakov Smirnoff at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (+KtKI)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (0HooB)
is talking, you hear? I'm talking to all those villains down there in Iran. I'm talking to all those villains in Afghanistan. And all those
villains down there in Syria. And what I'm saying is "Don't call my bluff." And if they did, how they could handle what follows anyhow.
Posted by: Little Bill Obama at April 25, 2014 08:02 PM (jnG1p)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:02 PM (HVff2)
harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will
keep his head and not get rattled, like as not, he'll school
ya. It ain't so easy to out-tweet a man anyhow, especially if the
son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you.
Posted by: Little Bill Obama at April 25, 2014 08:02 PM (jnG1p)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 25, 2014 08:03 PM (TNcMy)
Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at April 25, 2014 08:03 PM (/Ido6)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 25, 2014 08:04 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (HzRFk)
Yeah, I really did not need to know that.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 08:05 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: wooga at April 25, 2014 08:05 PM (/Ido6)
they have to have the gas.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:05 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: chief cloud william at April 25, 2014 08:05 PM (gDHxV)
"I don't want to go to war with Russia, either."
Disclaimer: My wife is russian. Have friends who are russian. They all b*tch about Putin, but they are all behind regarding the Crimeria. They are not so whole hearted about seizing Eastern Urkaine, but if russians troops went in they would stand with him. BTW.. Putin's internal poll numbers are higher than they have been years.
The world simply knows JEF and his crew are chumps. Third rate grifters who hit the jack pot.
GW Bush, love or hate him.. Putin would not be pulling this crap, but it probably wouldn't have gotten this far out of control. Russians do not want to go to war with America either, however Putin knows Russia's strengths and weaknesses and calculates the risks and he will get what he wants. Obama will continue being exposed as the unqualified simp we all know that he is.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (/CIT0)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 07:58 PM (nTgAI)
That can't be good.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 07:59 PM (mx5oN)
I disagree with you. Think about it, what has TFG accomplished with open communications? Be good or I will send big fucking deal Biden to Kiev? Obama dropped the ball months ago, it's a fumble he will never recover.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Zombie Fred... at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (gXRIG)
Posted by: The Jackhole
"A man's got to know his 140 character limit" - Obama, 1000 more days of this.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (ujux6)
Pretty doubtful that Upchuck could even get Domino's Pizza on the phone.
Dumbest and worst SECDEF in history, and that's saying something.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 25, 2014 08:06 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Richard Nixon at April 25, 2014 08:07 PM (eAJwE)
You may see it written that we can't *win* a war, but you'll never see it written that we can't *fight* one.
Posted by: The Polish Army at April 25, 2014 08:08 PM (jnG1p)
Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2014 08:08 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: wooga at April 25, 2014 08:08 PM (/Ido6)
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 08:08 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 07:56 PM (nqBYe)
++++
Well, to say all the following:
1. There was an agreement between Russia and Obama back in March of 2012 that after the US election, the West, led by Obama, would encourage anti-Russian protesters to bring about the fall of the pro-Russian government of Ukraine.
2. In response to this planned upon West-encouraged unrest in Ukraine, Russia would take the Crimea (and more?) and that the West would do some harrumphing, but not much more.
Some would say that there is no evidence of this conspiracy theory and that anyone speculating in that direction is just paranoid.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 08:10 PM (IN7k+)
Is that for show or is Putin at the 'pissed in cornflakes' stage of responding to Obama's Ukrainian revolution (as the Russians claim to perceive it)?
Posted by: Methos at April 25, 2014 08:11 PM (hO9ad)
"I don't want to go to war with Russia, either.
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Face it, we won't. Obama let North Korea blast away on the 4th of July without consequences. Remember the red line with Syria?
Obama is a gutless little prick who lives behind drone attacks and federal agencies, IRS, BLM, etc. Putin is a man with balls & fucking Obama cowers. War? I think not
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:11 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Jmel at April 25, 2014 08:11 PM (cfFqn)
This must result in immediate expulsion from the Republican Party. Democrats would never countenance the same.
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2014 08:12 PM (CnbGs)
Posted by: Putin at April 25, 2014 08:12 PM (GYg/s)
Posted by: The Polish Army at April 25, 2014 08:08 PM (jnG1p)
Yeah, but remember Vienna - The Hussars
Posted by: The Jackhole at April 25, 2014 08:13 PM (nTgAI)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:14 PM (myiTy)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at April 25, 2014 08:14 PM (FDGeg)
Posted by: wooga
Except it is a description of Obama's narcissism.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2014 08:15 PM (ujux6)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:01 PM (HzRFk)
++++
Ummm, I have no knowledge of those practices. I suppose I could speculate about the conversations (and other interactions) you may have had with your gay friend(s), but I don't think I want to go there.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 08:15 PM (IN7k+)
Okay, I edited that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 25, 2014 08:16 PM (aDwsi)
Oh, he knows and so do the palace guard - the media, that's why anyone who says so will be forced to recant.
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2014 08:18 PM (CnbGs)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at April
I learned a long time ago, nature hates a vacuum. Thanks for sharing your story
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:18 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Kreplach at April 25, 2014 08:18 PM (Xkr8I)
You can turn Twitter off?
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2014 08:19 PM (FcR7P)
We should simply disregard their outrage as the tantrums of dumb people, and ignore the stupid laws they pass in the name of social justice.
They have no counter to civil disobedience.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 25, 2014 08:19 PM (Hw3Gh)
Anon Y. Mous, I was not suggesting anything about you, just to be clear. I meant that as we are adults, we learn things we would rather not.
When I replied WTF I was laughed at for being naive. Silly me.
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:20 PM (myiTy)
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2014 08:21 PM (CnbGs)
Posted by: Guido at April 25, 2014 08:22 PM (GYg/s)
Posted by: Erowmero at April 25, 2014 08:22 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: anon a mouse at April 25, 2014 08:23 PM (gXRIG)
You forget the sarc tag on the nice guy thing?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:23 PM (HVff2)
His mother hated America.
His father hated America.
His stepfather hates America.
His 'Uncle Frank' Marshall hated America.
Everything he has done...has weakened this country.
He's weakened our economy, our military, destroyed our space program and is destroying our healthcare system.
To Barky, bringing America to its knees is the ultimate Social Justice.
To think of what he's done as "failures" is foolish.
He's doing it on purpose.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 08:24 PM (la7X9)
Posted by: Guido at April 25, 2014 08:25 PM (GYg/s)
What this debacle has revealed is that Putin is such a megalomaniac that he imagines he is heir to the Soviet Union and all its populations.
And that requires a serious contingency plan for defeating the Russian army. I don't think Obama has one. I seriously suspect the Army doesn't either. And unless they are prepared for the failure of their moderating escalations, there's no point launching escalations.
Posted by: Chris_Balsz at April 25, 2014 08:25 PM (5xmd7)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 08:25 PM (IN7k+)
That's ok buddy in print it seemed quite believable
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:26 PM (HVff2)
We should simply disregard their outrage as the tantrums of dumb people, and ignore the stupid laws they pass in the name of social justice.
They have no counter to civil disobedience."
Good strategy in small things where they don't have a phalanx of heavily armed troops arrayed against you.
On the other hand, why not go with it, isn't this how they won the 60s?
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2014 08:26 PM (CnbGs)
Posted by: keena at April 25, 2014 08:27 PM (RiTnx)
Posted by: Chris_Balsz at April 25, 2014 08:27 PM (5xmd7)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 08:28 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 08:29 PM (VX05i)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:30 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:30 PM (myiTy)
My God, you sound like Romney & his Cold War rants.
J/k
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:30 PM (HVff2)
This would be funny if we were merely making fun of "progressive" activist-buffoons and assorted online trolls. But these particular buffoons and trolls are the leaders of the free world and have 100% of the actual political power in this nation.
Beneath the nervous guffaws is true terror. It's not that the lunatics have taken over the asylum: The tweeners have taken over the high school.
Ace's brilliant-but-suicide-inducing Churchill parody reposted for the record:
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Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of rising Russia and all the odious apparatus of the KGB state, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on FaceBook, we shall fight on Instagram and Pinterest, we shall fight and, with growing follower lists and growing Likes, we shall defend our #hashtag, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on Twitter, we shall fight on Vine, we shall fight on the Washington Post's op-ed pages and in the New York Times' comment areas, we shall fight in Buzzfeed's gifs; we shall never surrender.
And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this #hashtag or a large part of it were hijacked by trolls, then our social media reach, armed and guarded by the writers at Media Matters and the Daily Beast, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, some miracle should descend upon us in rescue us so we can return, as we much desire, to the #WarOnWomen.
Romney wants to #BanTampons, please retweet.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 08:30 PM (mizYg)
destroyed our space program
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 08:24 PM (la7X9)
I don't blame him for that. Our space program, at least the human spaceflight part, has been in pretty sad shape for years.
Posted by: rickl at April 25, 2014 08:31 PM (sdi6R)
@55 The Polish Order of Battle
http://www.globalsecurity.org/ military/world/europe/pl-army-orbat.htm
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Based on the Equipment subsection, it appears that the information there is from 1992. Which would make it about 20 years out of date. It's possible that not much has changed since then, but there also might be some very big differences.
Posted by: junior at April 25, 2014 08:31 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 08:31 PM (VX05i)
Here's mine it's not horrific but it really did happen and it pisses me off to this day. My ex was Navy. She had a tooth pulled and the govt. was supposed to fix it.
So we are living in Chicago and she was naturalizing. On the very fucking day she did the citizenship thing we decide to hop off the train on the way home and go to the VA to look into finishing her dental work. We meet a receptionist and ask some questions about scheduling etc.
Later we get a bill from the VA for a couple of hundred bucks for lab work and X-Rays. We did not do any of that. I was there and I know we talked to a receptionist and left.
My ex was at the time 6 months pregnant with my son. The bill specifically said x-rays. A rationale person might think I'm exaggerating so I'm focusing on that point. There is no way either of us would have agreed to an x-ray knowing that she was carrying our unborn son.
So she argued with the VA for months and they kept saying that their records showed yada yada. In the end they took the money out of our tax return and there was nothing we could do about it.
I wrote my congressman and my senator but never received a reply. Those scum bags bilked us and they are bilking vets to this day.
Posted by: bestie21 at April 25, 2014 08:32 PM (qifmL)
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 08:31 PM (VX05i)
That's what Reggie says
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:32 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:32 PM (myiTy)
Except with Republicans...he's very rigid with them.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 08:35 PM (la7X9)
You're welcome.
Another interesting tidbit I got as we were discussing how Obama thinks he can "charm" people into doing things, which is fine for classroom discussions, but doesn't work in the real world when you are facing people like Putin (or radical Islam, etc) and that the time to start was way back with the Georgia conflict and not to draw "red lines" with other places like Syria that he had no intention of keeping, I jokingly said "Because no one wants to try to invade Russia --Napoleon couldn't do it; Hitler couldn't do it; because the Russians don't play -- they will burn their cities to the ground and wait for winter." To which the two Russian girls emphatically replied "No, no not -- it's not like that anymore. The people now aren't tough like that -- they're weak and lazy and spoiled."
So at least Russia is also dealing with a generation of Pajamaboys too.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at April 25, 2014 08:36 PM (FDGeg)
Except with Republicans...he's very rigid with them.
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 08:35 PM (la7X9)
++++
It pays to remember who your real enemies are.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2014 08:37 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Zed Putin at April 25, 2014 08:37 PM (dvRYt)
Posted by: wheatie at April 25, 2014 08:38 PM (la7X9)
Where are the Russian girls from, country or city? Just curious about their thought process.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:40 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 25, 2014 08:40 PM (gDHxV)
But they pass out drunk and spend the night outside in those pajamas.
Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2014 08:40 PM (Ua6T/)
Where have we seen this before....
Where? Hmmmm...
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 25, 2014 08:40 PM (L5H2v)
You might've noticed something about obama, by now -- he's a saint by proxy.
What I mean by that is obama is always championing many causes, but does so from afar, or with other people's money, or with other people's blood.
For example, obama supposedly tried to bring democracy to Syria...and got a lot of people killed. And here is obama supposedly trying to save Ukraine's sovereignty by egging them on to rebel...and getting lots of Ukrainians killed.
obama, as you all know, sickens me. i know his type. And obama's type is the worst kind of snake in human form. obama is a leech; a bloodsucker with devotees. obama's type do 'great things.' Don't believe me? Just ask obama; he'll tell you. Never mind all death and suffering and misery in his wake.
Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 25, 2014 08:41 PM (DxThd)
It's a good thing I'm drinking. Normally this sort of thing would send me into fucking orbit with rage. Now, I'm just shrugging and thinking....wel yeah, that's about right for this bunch of mewling quims.
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 08:41 PM (Pvcl5)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 25, 2014 08:43 PM (dvRYt)
Posted by: Barack Obama at April 25, 2014 08:43 PM (j0wOO)
The other girl was from a very small place in Northern Russia -- she said I wouldn't know it, but I asked her to tell me the name anyway and not only had I not heard of it, I can't even remember it now.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at April 25, 2014 08:44 PM (FDGeg)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 25, 2014 08:43 PM (dvRYt)
...because science.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 25, 2014 08:44 PM (L5H2v)
DC in Towson, fapping? I don't think so.
How can I with the plight of the gay hampsters over in Zimbabwe?
Have you no soul?
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:45 PM (myiTy)
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 25, 2014 08:45 PM (dvRYt)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:46 PM (vVSOO)
%-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 25, 2014 08:47 PM (q+fqH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:47 PM (HVff2)
At the time we didn't have a lot of money but in time that worked out. In time I could afford to just fix the tooth myself and we absorbed the bill.
Imagine someone with real injuries that depends on these guys for health care though. It infuriates me. I could pay for her tooth but what does a vet with serious injury do?
I don't feel that it's a partisan argument. The VA is broken and corrupt. Both then Dems and the GOP need to step up and fix it.
Posted by: bestie21 at April 25, 2014 08:48 PM (qifmL)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 08:48 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 08:48 PM (QwwBH)
I go to work for a few days and miss a new meme? Or are you creating one out of thin air, like AtC did with "baby lambs"?
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 08:48 PM (Pvcl5)
Posted by: rickl at April 25, 2014 08:49 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 25, 2014 08:49 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 08:49 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:49 PM (myiTy)
Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action...
While the exact details may not have been planned, this is part and parcel of the dismantling of Western power and influence.
It's deliberate destruction.
His owners make more money and gather more power in chaos than in stability. Useful idiots and craven traitors are easy to find, breed, or create.
Welcome to the 21st Century. We fools have allowed ourselves to be destroyed.
Posted by: OG Celtic-American at April 25, 2014 08:50 PM (W7zKe)
No one told Obama yet the the President is "someone".
Posted by: Damiano at April 25, 2014 08:50 PM (j0wOO)
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Why not? Do they have the national will to resist? This is a country that shut down its nuclear reactors to "go green" and are now having to build a bunch of coal plants just to keep there electricity on. The socialist hive mind is getting strong in that country.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:51 PM (vVSOO)
Obama's base is not America, it's urban America. Most of the core Democrat base would not vote to defend Idaho from Putin, much less Poland or even Canada (except maybe the parts that have good skiing.)
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 08:51 PM (o+SC1)
I realize they have little militarily, but I thought the Baltics were fairly stable and doing well economically. However, perhaps bowing to the inevitable.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 25, 2014 08:51 PM (L5H2v)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:51 PM (myiTy)
Well, they are the only 2 Russian girls at the university right now, so they are also each other's closest friends -- I'm sure they have discussed this between the two of them and you know (especially at that age -- 18/19 years old) your BFF can influence the way you see things a lot. SO it could be that the country girl influenced the city girl or vice versa.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at April 25, 2014 08:52 PM (FDGeg)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:49 PM (myiTy)
Dr Jill and his CNA. But sometimes he try's and flings it like the fucking monkey he is.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:52 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at April 25, 2014 07:26 PM (GEICT)
BC ..One .. Ping ... Only
Posted by: Capt Ramius at April 25, 2014 08:53 PM (aTXUx)
i went to the local VA and applied to receive care for some of the non-trivial injuries i incurred while in uniform.
the response, which i only got over the phone, because almost two years later i've yet to receive a letter, was that, since i hadn't done any long periods on AD, through no fault of mine, i wasn't *really* a veteran, and therefore i wasn't entitled to any care or benefits.
Shitsiki should be taken out and slowly strangled with one of his worthless black berets on a live stream web event. i'll be happy to donate mine to the cause...
useless stupid mendoucheous buddy fucking twatwaffle that he is.
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 25, 2014 08:54 PM (q+fqH)
I would stick up for andycanuck, he seems to be a standup moron
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:55 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 08:55 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at April 25, 2014 08:56 PM (jucos)
Gimp = Obama
Ukraine = Ving Rhames
There's no Butch in this version.
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 25, 2014 08:45 PM (dvRYt)
Obama: You okay?
Ukraine: Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 08:56 PM (yz6yg)
Obama, well so, I got almost free abortions for my buddies girlfriends!
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:56 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:57 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Capt Ramius at April 25, 2014 08:53 PM (aTXUx)
Funny, I watched that on demand last night.
Still a great movie.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 08:57 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:58 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Fishing boat observations at April 25, 2014 08:58 PM (Ks4nX)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (myiTy)
fairly stable and doing well economically. However, perhaps bowing to
the inevitable.
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They are also NATO members, but can the EU and NATO match the number of tubes and tanks that Russia has anymore. I don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up. Not sure about the numbers of air forces. France is France. I doubt that the French will deign to get involved. Britain just mothballed their last aircraft carrier because they can no longer afford to pay for operating it. If the US were to react, it would take weeks to move armor to Europe by sea, and if the Russians already had neutralized British air power, what do you think the odds of getting American troops and weapons to Europe are? Slim and none.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Fishing boat observations at April 25, 2014 08:58 PM (Ks4nX)
Far Side FTW!
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2014 09:00 PM (32Scy)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (nqBYe)
173d ABCT is on the ground in Poland right now.
For all the good that will do.
Too little…too late. And our fucking State Department thinks they're still in high school.
'Scuse me, I need to go shop for some ammo.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:01 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:02 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:02 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 08:59 PM (nqBYe)
Yeah Willow, it really does suck to be them. The lesson is to arm yourself and never give up your arms. Boy did Senators Lugar & Obama fuck Ukraine
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:03 PM (HVff2)
The Russians thought they had the Germans dealt with when they bought the last German government, but the current bunch - despite the Green influence, disastrous energy policies, and the Euro drain - hasn't stayed bought.
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:03 PM (o+SC1)
I'm watching last week's Vikings episode. What's wrong with Ragnar's baby? Is he deformed?
Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 25, 2014 09:03 PM (DxThd)
and by amazing i mean i'm not liking it much.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:03 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (myiTy)
and by amazing i mean i'm not liking it much.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:03 PM (nqBYe)
Word.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (yz6yg)
simply amamzing.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (nqBYe)
Then I will live in Montana. I will marry a round American woman, and raise rabbits. And she will cook them for me.
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (Pvcl5)
Well, Putin just poked Obama with a stick. He woke up, but all that happened was his motionless stuffed form bleated, "Teddy Bear is sad! Teddy Bear is sad....", and then the string rewound all the way and he fell silent again.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (mizYg)
Imagine the skimming the would have occurred if Chicago would have actually won the bid.
Posted by: Seems legit at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (A98Xu)
A missile defense system sure would've been a deterrent
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Yes and no. Worthless against a ground based attack, but if we had gone ahead and installed it, it's the kind of thing that might have given Putin pause. It would have meant that the US supported their allies and still had a pair.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:05 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:05 PM (o+SC1)
"They have no counter to civil disobedience."
Astute observation. I had a black professor make the same comment, over beers, after the LA Rodney King riots. "The police simply disappeared. They have no real control."
I just got out of the Army around that time and some buds of mine told me troops out of Ft. Lewis were sent down to quell it.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 25, 2014 09:05 PM (/CIT0)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 25, 2014 09:00 PM (32Scy)
******
If I were Japan at least, I would have all components for Tac Nucs all together at one location for fast assembly. We've now shown the world that we won't live up to our protective agreements.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:06 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:06 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:06 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:07 PM (myiTy)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:06 PM (zOTsN)
Or balls, or spine, or sense of history.......
Feel free to add
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:07 PM (HVff2)
simply amamzing.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (nqBYe)
This is why I don't feel bad for anyone who voted for Obama and is:
(a) out of work
(b) losing their home
(c) losing their health insurance
(d) paying more for health insurance
It sucks for them, I am sure. I only wish…it could suck even more.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:08 PM (yz6yg)
Well, those nukes a re till in place, but are now essentially artworks representing military power, because they will never ever be used.
Instead of Mutually Assured Destruction, we now have Unilaterally Guaranteed Impotence.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:08 PM (mizYg)
Feel free to add
He has a Mangina. And very very very little sphincter control left.
Posted by: OG Celtic-American at April 25, 2014 09:08 PM (W7zKe)
together at one location for fast assembly. We've now shown the world
that we won't live up to our protective agreements.
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I think I read not to long ago that Japan was going to give up plutonium that had been created to the US for disposal. If I were Japan, I'd have given up about three pounds and said that's all we got.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:08 PM (vVSOO)
Funny you should mention that. My UPS guy just dropped off a couple of heavy boxes today. He hates me, but that fucker earns every bit of his Christmas check.
He told Cougar one time "If I ever turn to a life of crime, I'm just gonna skip your house". He was dropping off 2 crates of Mosin food at the time.
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 09:09 PM (Pvcl5)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 25, 2014 09:09 PM (tjmco)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:09 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 09:10 PM (QwwBH)
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (Pvcl5)
I always hated the part where he died on the bridge.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:10 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:08 PM (vVSOO)
*******
Agreed. Recent events had better have changed their stance.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:10 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 09:10 PM (QwwBH)
Depends.
Depends on the color of their skin.
I'm not kidding.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (yz6yg)
That's ok buddy in print it seemed quite believable
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 08:26 PM (HVff2
lol
Posted by: Guido at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (GYg/s)
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (vVSOO)
Kramer was right.
The Ukraine is weak.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:12 PM (zOTsN)
Amen brother, may they live, breathe & embrace the suck
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:12 PM (HVff2)
Buzzion, let us not mock the daddy issues.
They haveworked to my advantage more than I care to admit.
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:12 PM (myiTy)
If the PRC ever invades via Santa Monica, they'll shortly be communicating back to Beijing, saying that they've just encountered a bunch of filthy Communists.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 09:12 PM (noWW6)
Carried over from the previous thread ---
Putin thus looks at the Obama Administration and sees it for what it is -- juvenile (if not puerile), only concerned about the next poll and the next #HashtagEvent.
I think infantile is really what you sought to say here, ace.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at April 25, 2014 09:13 PM (WAH9w)
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Why not? Do they have the national will to resist? This is a country that shut down its nuclear reactors to "go green" and are now having to build a bunch of coal plants just to keep there electricity on. The socialist hive mind is getting strong in that country.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:51 PM (vVSOO)
Germany has always had a socialist bent. Marx was a fucking German.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 25, 2014 09:13 PM (HxSXm)
Buzzion, let us not mock the daddy issues.
They haveworked to my advantage more than I care to admit.
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:12 PM (myiTy)
I'm not mocking their daddy issues. I'm mocking that Obama has more daddy issues than an entire club full of them.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 25, 2014 09:14 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at April 25, 2014 09:14 PM (7SJiC)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (zOTsN)
Well, Putin just poked Obama with a stick. He woke up, but all that happened was his motionless stuffed form bleated, "Teddy Bear is sad! Teddy Bear is sad....", and then the string rewound all the way and he fell silent again.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (mizYg)
Obama would probably say "not tonight Michelle".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Buzzion at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 25, 2014 09:13 PM (HxSXm)
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True, but they've now tasted the sweet cash of Capitalism. So they'll become what we are heading for.....A Social Socialist that is pseudo Capitalist.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (QwwBH)
I know right? Braved the force of the Red Navy, killed by a zampolit with a tokarev. Like if Columbus had died from a splinter he picked up jumping ashore.
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (Pvcl5)
In case anyone doubted that @MomsDemand has no idea how firearms work. #ShannonWattsLogic #2A pic.twitter.com/AupsCnUz5J
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (HxSXm)
Dude, you really think he's tapped that in the last 10 years?
Can't see his scrawny ass manhandling anything larger than a paper clip.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (yz6yg)
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I'm guessing that it is inherently difficult to create a democracy in a country that has been under the boot heels of tyrants for centuries. It didn't make any difference who the tyrants were, the Tartars, the Mongols, the Russians or Germans. The government had the ability to kill you at any time, for any reason or any whim.Shaking off the shackles of servitude has to be incredibly hard.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 09:17 PM (vVSOO)
I occasionally reflect on the totally boned economic situation into which Generation Special Snowflake are embarking, where they are now unavoidably going to live far less well than their parents. And I briefly have a sad.
Then I reflect on how Generation Special Snowflake have voted in the last couple of elections, and my sad goes away, replaced by a diamond hard schadenboner.
Hey, kids, be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 09:17 PM (noWW6)
They've got some problems, they've got a green-streak that's a severe drain on the country, but they've also I think come to realize that they drifted a little too close to Putin in the Schroeder years.
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:17 PM (o+SC1)
Depends.
Depends on the color of their skin.
I'm not kidding.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (yz6yg)
Don't surprise me none.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 25, 2014 09:18 PM (I9I9J)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:18 PM (myiTy)
"Expanding like this will create insurgencies that Putin won't know how to deal with."
Well hello there.
Posted by: Cheychania at April 25, 2014 09:18 PM (/CIT0)
The voting age definitely needs to be raised to 40...and people have had to file taxes in the private sector for 10 years.
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:19 PM (kI5Xp)
189 Barky was raised to hate America. [nr]His mother hated America. His father hated America. His stepfather hates America. His 'Uncle Frank' Marshall hated America.
Everything he has done...has weakened this country. He's weakened our economy, our military, destroyed our space program and is destroying our healthcare system.
To Barky, bringing America to its knees is the ultimate Social Justice.
To think of what he's done as "failures" is foolish.
He's doing it on purpose.
Posted by: wheatie
Exactly. All of Obama's decisions are part of the Fundamental Transformation.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 25, 2014 09:19 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 09:17 PM (noWW6)
I want the snowflake generation to suffer.
Badly.
Because that's the only way they're ever going to grow the fuck up.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:20 PM (yz6yg)
Don't surprise me none.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 25, 2014 09:18 PM (I9I9J)
Doesn't surprise me. My favorite uncle worked for Uncle Sam & it was that way in the 60s & 70s
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:20 PM (HVff2)
Why should they?
Shannon Watts is a professional public relations operative.
If she weren't shilling for gun control on Bloomberg's dime, she'd be shilling for ethanol mandates or education unions or patent lifespan extensions, and wouldn't take much time to learn about the factual niceties of any of those issues other than what the person writing the checks wanted to have said.
#ProFlacksDemandWhatever
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 09:20 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: @Laura_PH at April 25, 2014 09:22 PM (fXZDm)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:15 PM (yz6yg)
The difference between living in a cold, reality based (KGB) world of cause and effect; as opposed to the frighteningly naive, insular academic environment of predetermined outcome based on emotional want.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 25, 2014 09:22 PM (L5H2v)
Obama: aw you haz a sad? Here have some apple slices!
Ving Rames: starts sobbing
Posted by: sven10077 at April 25, 2014 09:22 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 09:22 PM (Dwehj)
Obama's maternal grandparents were also fellow travelers.
Posted by: Comrade Pug at April 25, 2014 09:23 PM (8c12T)
Posted by: Travis McGee at April 25, 2014 09:23 PM (Ph479)
Posted by: Travis McGee at April 25, 2014 09:24 PM (Ph479)
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:24 PM (kI5Xp)
drain on the country, but they've also I think come to realize that they
drifted a little too close to Putin in the Schroeder years."
I think that "severe drain" understates the case.
Came across a German web site which stipulated that "Energiewende" equals "Selbtsmord", and that's pretty much how it looks, at least as far as Germany remaining an industrial nation.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 25, 2014 09:25 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 09:25 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: #barackobama at April 25, 2014 09:25 PM (5ikDv)
If obama was born a Russian, he'd be Putin.
They're both shitbags. Put 'em both in a bag, shake 'em up, and they'd come out the same.
Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (DxThd)
Posted by: Travis McGee at April 25, 2014 09:24 PM (Ph479)
Cut it out
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (HVff2)
Shannon Watts is a professional public relations operative.
If she weren't shilling for gun control on Bloomberg's dime, she'd be shilling for ethanol mandates or education unions or patent lifespan extensions, and wouldn't take much time to learn about the factual niceties of any of those issues other than what the person writing the checks wanted to have said.
#ProFlacksDemandWhatever
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As a PR rep she should know not to run her mouth about something that makes her look like a clown, which this does.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:24 PM (kI5Xp)
********
Why, it's almost as if people are furiously refreshing another tab with the HQ up looking for the ONT. Almost.....
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (ojnk6)
"Germany has money. Germany make the rules in most of Europe these days economically. Russia will take exactly as much as they can without provoking Germany into a direct conflict"
Bullox. Former SPD PM Gerhard Schroeder.. remember him? Care to take a guess whose his employer these days?
Gazprom. He forced a deal through to finance a North sea pipeline to get Russian gas to Germany. They are all socialists here, but Gerhard was a whore from the word go.
Posted by: Cheychania at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (/CIT0)
85 Grandpa, what did you do in the Great Twitter War?
Posted by: Never Die Alone at April 25, 2014 07:46 PM (/vO0r)
I shoveled #hashtags in Foggy Bottom
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (WAH9w)
Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (DxThd)
Putin is at least a competent shitbag. He's good at it.
Obama would fuck up a wet dream.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (yz6yg)
Posted by: fluffy at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 25, 2014 09:27 PM (/CIT0)
Putin is the Russian version of obama, in other words.
Just like Hugo Chavez was the Venezuelan version of obama. All these shitbag smilin' populist--totalitarians are the same.
Posted by: Soothsayer § at April 25, 2014 09:27 PM (DxThd)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2014 09:27 PM (/i3Yt)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:26 PM (ojnk6)
Nah....
*hits Refresh*
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at April 25, 2014 09:28 PM (L5H2v)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014
He would probably have a diarrhea,dream
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:29 PM (HVff2)
Putin's doing his job....
Russian strongman
Ogabe's doing his job too....soviet bathhouse man
Posted by: sven10077 at April 25, 2014 09:29 PM (TE35l)
That's what I thought...new thread stampede...
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:29 PM (kI5Xp)
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:30 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:29 PM (kI5Xp)
***********
Release the Corgis!.........just not yet.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:30 PM (ojnk6)
What he had heard from the Japanese nationals he knows here (and what he had read) is that the Japanese understandably hate nukes and would never, ever develop them.
When he was in Japan, what he heard from EVERYONE was "we have to get nukes." It was said softly, even whispered, but it was clear enough.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 25, 2014 09:31 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: CanaDave at April 25, 2014 09:31 PM (kI5Xp)
Sticks and stones may break my bones but hashtags will never harm me.
Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at April 25, 2014 09:33 PM (Dwehj)
But, she added, life on the campaign trail felt like military life. “Dealing with everything that I was dealing with — a spouse traveling, a job, kids — we didn’t deal with multiple moves, but I learned about the challenges that happen when you move from base to base to base; the way your kids have to adjust on a dime. And doing it knowing that the person you love is in harm’s way.”
Military life is just like that. Five star hotels, secret service, private plans and limos, designer wardrobes
Just
Like
Military
Life
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:33 PM (zOTsN)
In case anyone doubted that @MomsDemand has no idea how firearms work. #ShannonWattsLogic #2A pic.twitter.com/AupsCnUz5J
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (DmNpO)
They're not just wrong, they're stupid.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 25, 2014 09:33 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: Andy Reid at April 25, 2014 09:33 PM (EhP9K)
Posted by: OG Celtic-American at April 25, 2014 09:34 PM (W7zKe)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:34 PM (ojnk6)
Old cold war joke: Two Soviet Generals are sipping tea in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. One says to the other: "Tell me again who won the air war?"
Posted by: VADM(Red) Cuthbert Collingwood (Mentioned in Despatches) at April 25, 2014 09:34 PM (1mtKP)
Posted by: Avi at April 25, 2014 09:34 PM (p/izY)
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at April 25, 2014 08:46 PM (vVSOO)
Rather an astute postulate. Enjoyed it.
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:34 PM (bb5+k)
Posted by: Avi at April 25, 2014 09:35 PM (p/izY)
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 25, 2014 09:35 PM (QwwBH)
Swimming in a septic tank would be more sanitary
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 25, 2014 09:36 PM (HVff2)
Welcome to the 21st Century. We fools have allowed ourselves to be destroyed.
Posted by: OG Celtic-American at April 25, 2014 08:50 PM (W7zKe)
I agree, but where do you think the nexus was? At what point did we really fuck things up?
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:36 PM (bb5+k)
I wonder if Diane Sawyer has discussed this? or David Gregory? of Stephanopolis?
Posted by: Avi at April 25, 2014 09:36 PM (p/izY)
Can't see his scrawny ass manhandling anything larger than a paper clip.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:16 PM (yz6yg)
He ain't the one doing the manhandling. She wears the strap-on in the family.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 25, 2014 09:37 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Thunderb at April 25, 2014 09:37 PM (zOTsN)
I agree, but where do you think the nexus was? At what point did we really fuck things up?
We gave women the vote.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 09:39 PM (EhP9K)
"Grandunit, what'r them medals fer?"
"Fightin' in the last war."
"What'd ya do?"
(Pointing to the medals pinned to his overalls.)
"Well, this one's for defending a hashtag with some well-timed snark when all seemed lost. This one is for trolling behind enemy lines and leaving a comment that made the other side seem all racist 'n' stuff. And this one -- ah, this one -- is for uploading a really sticky gif involving kittens and some lolcat captions. That got more traffic than news of the whole war!"
"Gee, grandunit, I didn't know you were such a hero."
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:40 PM (mizYg)
simply amamzing.
Posted by: willow at April 25, 2014 09:04 PM (nqBYe)
I am not convinced that second election was legit.
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:40 PM (bb5+k)
'Selbstmort' - suicide.
Yeah, the last German government was bought and paid for by the Russians. The current bunch is a little saner and less craven.
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:40 PM (o+SC1)
**
pew! pew! pew! went the bullets!
I seriously LMAO. She honestly seems to believe that a semi-auto gun becomes an automatic depending upon whether the person holding it chooses to fire more than once.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2014 09:41 PM (DmNpO)
Putin is obama with a set of balls.
BTW, I will predict here and now that the LIVs will not give the GOP control of the Senate.
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:44 PM (myiTy)
Depends on the color of their skin.
I'm not kidding.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 25, 2014 09:11 PM (yz6yg)
Obama has done more to advance the cause of racists than any other man ever could.
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:44 PM (bb5+k)
Right now every western economic power needs to be in full sauve qui peut mode.
Never mind the Germans, the Poles ought to be working on nukes.
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:44 PM (o+SC1)
They're both shitbags. Put 'em both in a bag, shake 'em up, and they'd come out the same.
Nah. Putin loves his country and acts in her interests.
Posted by: DC in Towson at April 25, 2014 09:45 PM (Pvcl5)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale
No, it's the vote-frauding Dem-controlled precinct poll "watchers" who will not give the GOP control of the Senate, regardless of the actual vote.
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:45 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: Earl Butz ( your grandfather's Sec of Ag. ) at April 25, 2014 09:46 PM (JyjXt)
I mentioned. A week ago a friend's heartbreaking story of his nephews overdose and death and 25. It turns out it wasn't accidental, it wasn't suicide... it was homicide. I didn't think it could get any worse for his grieving family.
People are fucking animals. We have debased life so much it doesn't even matter to a certain segment of society.
Posted by: mpfs at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (3hyY+)
Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (mizYg)
Posted by: D-Lamp
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It has been a creeping thing. The Left, however, took advantage of the inept handling of VN to inveigle their way into all of our institutions. They are parasites, which kill the host.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (V70Uh)
... unfortunately, I'm not near enough to the bulk of you to attend a big MoMee. But for those of you that are ...
... if you don't take the first few beers easy, and actually make a few shit-hits-the-fan plans ....
... then you are out of your damned minds.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (v3BJ5)
Posted by: toby928© Person of Pallor at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 09:48 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Earl Butz ( your grandfather's Sec of Ag. ) at April 25, 2014 09:49 PM (JyjXt)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:49 PM (myiTy)
Voter ID and enforcement mechanisms need to be THE first priority of EVERY state GOP party if it gets control. They don't have to talk about it, but once in power, voter ID needs to be the first priority.
Then you clean out the public employee unions.
Posted by: JEM at April 25, 2014 09:49 PM (o+SC1)
"We gave women the vote."
I knew an old guy who was a retired secret Service Agent... was with the Kennedy Kids when John bought it. Told me once, the women voted for him for his looks. Period. The squeeled at the sight of him.
He also said the 3 biggest lies of 1960:
1. The Edsel will be the most loved car of America.
2. I'm catholic, but I didn't vote for him.
3. Put this in your mouth and you won't get pregneant (life savers candy).
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 25, 2014 09:50 PM (/CIT0)
Posted by: Peaches at April 25, 2014 09:50 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:50 PM (myiTy)
I know a day when I can tell the whole story it will turn out to be for nothing important and planned in advance.
Posted by: mpfs at April 25, 2014 09:51 PM (3hyY+)
I know a day when I can tell the whole story it will turn out to be for nothing important and planned in advance.
Posted by: mpfs at April 25, 2014 09:51 PM (3hyY+)
Please let us know when you can.
Posted by: EC at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (doBIb)
It has been a creeping thing. The Left, however, took advantage of the inept handling of VN to inveigle their way into all of our institutions. They are parasites, which kill the host.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 25, 2014 09:47 PM (aDwsi)
I pinpoint the major shift at the last three words of the 24th amendment. Those last three words "Or other tax" created the Democrat coalition which kept them in power since the 60s.
It was those last three words which killed the nation.
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (bb5+k)
Nuf said.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (V70Uh)
I agree, but where do you think the nexus was? At what point did we really fuck things up?
We gave women the vote.
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 09:39 PM (EhP9K)
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Yeah, that tips the electorate more toward the security-driven, the prissy, and the sentimental.
But I think the feminizing of politics would be greatly mitigated if you had a no-taxes-no-vote rule or, better, a disenfranchisement of those on the public dole.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (dfYL9)
This is why I loathe most people on general principle. I know what sick, depraved acts they are capable of.
Posted by: mpfs at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (3hyY+)
My father guarded a few pesidents.
He overheard the dems laughing about how only the idiots obeyed the laws. This was back inthe 70's. Think it's gotten better since then?
BTW, Unlimited Access: Inside the Whitehouse is very accurate. Read it if you have not.
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:54 PM (myiTy)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at April 25, 2014 09:54 PM (ojnk6)
Ne Representation without Taxation!
Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2014 09:54 PM (EhP9K)
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 25, 2014 09:55 PM (v3BJ5)
But I think the feminizing of politics would be greatly mitigated if you had a no-taxes-no-vote rule or, better, a disenfranchisement of those on the public dole.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (dfYL9)
Bingo. Johnson created a vote buying scheme, and it's kept his party in power ever since.
Posted by: D-Lamp at April 25, 2014 09:55 PM (bb5+k)
Had a childhood friend who did a 3 year tour at the WH (military) and saw the Clintons daily. Hillary is a lesbian and Bill is a smooth talking shmuck he appears to be.
If you want to read a good book, I would suggest "In Confidence" by Anatoly Dobrynin. A good look at past US presidents from the other side.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 25, 2014 10:05 PM (/CIT0)
Posted by: An Observation at April 25, 2014 10:38 PM (ylhEn)
I don't expect you to read all the comments on a dead thread, but I am not feeling great now & it's better when I avoid computers, iPads & iPhones.
I did not read this until now & it's one of the best you wrote this week. I read it when I received email from Yahoo group.
I looked in earlier & think you were on a roll today but I didn't read more than a few lines. I'll read tomorrow if I'm better.
We love you.
Posted by: Carol at April 25, 2014 11:54 PM (gjOCp)
Posted by: bleck at April 26, 2014 12:05 AM (ruoPh)
Let's not get carried away. There is a universe of difference between picking on weak, divided, poor, badly equipped, and non-NATO Ukraine, and any of the other countries listed. Russia's military is a shadow of what the FSU had. It has improved somewhat of late, but only somewhat. This Is the same country that was fought to a standstill 10 years ago in Chechnya. They are better now, but not vastly so. Their military still has grave problems and limitations.
They might be able to bully the Baltics, but that would entail enormous risk for little gain. I dont think Putin is dumb or brave enough to risk a fight with NATO. Taking on Poland, even unaided, might result severe embarrassment. The Poles have a pretty tough, disciplined, well-trained military. They could give the Russians a hard time.
Plus, it isn't all upside for Russia. Threaten the Baltics/Poland, and they could lose the very valuable, vulnerable Kaliningrad/Konigsberg enclave.
Putin doesn't have any plans outside the Ukraine. Even taking that country will likely be all they can handle and expose serious operational shortcomings. They even had a bunch of problems in their Georgian operations in 08.
Posted by: Tantrumblogo at April 26, 2014 12:16 AM (GwLJQ)
"Energiewende" equals "Selbstmord" (note-not spelled selbtsmord)
=
"Energy Transition" equals "Suicide"
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at April 26, 2014 05:35 PM (oZq7H)
#379: " Putin is obama with a set of balls. BTW, I will predict here and now that the LIVs will not give the GOP control of the Senate."
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 25, 2014 09:44 PM (myiTy)
- - - - - - - - -Well, that; and all those electronic voting machines with a "backdoor" that the DNC has the encryption key to . . .
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at April 26, 2014 05:43 PM (oZq7H)
Posted by: A message at April 26, 2014 05:44 PM (LORBg)
" ... a disenfranchisement of those on the public dole."
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 25, 2014 09:52 PM (dfYL9)
- - - - - -YES!
*Absolutely* *necessary* !!!
Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at April 26, 2014 06:30 PM (oZq7H)
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