The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/8/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and it looks as if at least part of what friend and colleague CBD predicted on the latest edition of our award-winning™️ Cut Jib Newsletter Speaks! podcast might be coming to pass.

In an interview with Reuters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would be willing to halt military operations if, in addition to stopping its own military action, the government of Ukraine agrees to its terms:
-- change its constitution to enshrine neutrality between Russia and the West into law
-- acknowledge Crimea as belonging to Russia
-- recognize the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.
Peskov said that Russia's terms had been laid out and handed over to the Ukrainian delegation during the first two rounds of negotiations between the two countries last week.

Notice there is no mention of Zelensky stepping down nor the resignation of his government and the call for Jimmy Carter-monitored elections to install Putin puppets. That, plus the more salient fact of the announcement itself as confirmation of what we all suspected, in that Putin bit off way more than he could chew in trying to conquer all of the Ukraine in one fell swoop. Of course there are no promises of Russia acknowledging the territorial integrity and statehood of the remainder of Ukraine, not that they'd be worth the paper they're written on, and no guarantees that Putin would not gobble up Donetsk and Luhansk or rig a Dao-Min Yen plebiscite calling for anschluss with Russia some time in the future.

But all that said, the combination of Ukrainian resolve and apparent top down Russian military incompetence was not an outcome he entertained when he threw what he thought were rigged dice. And now his neck is on the line along with the oligarchs who have lost billions already and stand to lose billions more the longer this thing drags on. I don't think Zelensky at this point has any choice but to accept these terms as, while Putin may not nuke Kyev in a fit of pique, he would have no qualms about massive artillery barrages pulverizing the already battered capital city, and other cities. But a) does Putin have the guns and ammo to do it and b) will the continued squeeze on the oligarchs and the Russian economy be too much to bear and result in his ouster?

And what if Zelensky is thinking that as well? Yes, the world is hot and horny to portray this guy as a hero but would he actually allow even more bloodshed and destruction of his own people and nation in order to see Putin removed because he's an existential threat or worse, out of a personal vendetta? Forget the media image; Zelensky's a man, not a saint.

Let us assume (ass-you-&-me) that Zelensky does in fact accept this offer he can't refuse. That leads us to CBD's assertion that Joey Soft-Serve will have a fresh pair of Depends slapped on him, thrust in front of the cameras, duly doped up on antipsychotics, cholinesterase inhibitors and Lomotil-laced Ensure, and declare a foreign policy victory, regardless of the fact that he and his team of imbeciles and incompetents would have had nothing to do with it. While, no doubt, they will attempt to do this, I don't think it's going to fly with the American people. In fact, with gasoline through the roof, Team Biden is scrambling like mad to square the circle of trying to bring the price down by begging for imports from Venezuela, the Saudis and no doubt even Russia itself - even as they belch out the bullshit that they're in favor of a Russian oil embargo - while at the same time not wanting to alienate the enviro-Communists and going whole hog to destroy petrochemicals.

My problem, as CBD pointed out, is that I think too much like a sane, rational human being. I have to start thinking like the insane leftists in order to figure out what their next moves might be. Well, to paraphrase the immortal Johnny Nash, "I can see clearly now, my brain is gone . . ."

An unpopular [junta] has been gifted a crisis by Putin and is seeing to it that it doesn't go to waste. Biden had been unable to evade the blame for rising gas and food prices, but going forward the skyrocketing price of gas and food, in particular anything with wheat, will be blamed on the Russian invasion. While the invasion will certainly impact energy and food prices, the fundamental force driving the price hikes is still inflation caused by government spending.
Putin's invasion provides a perfect pretext for allowing the Biden [junta] and its congressional allies to go on printing money and shutting down the economy with regulatory impositions while blaming the resulting economic crisis on the situation in Ukraine.
That is why Biden doesn't want to stop Putin. Our intelligence people had all the necessary information on the invasion plans. We knew everything that was going to happen. Had Biden really wanted to deter the invasion, there were multiple options for heading off the war. Instead Biden made it clear that there would be no intervention, just sanctions he knew would not work. . .
. . . Only if Putin invaded Ukraine would they have the leverage to maintain a crisis, ransack the economy, consolidate corporate economic responses, and transform our foreign policy. . .
. . . Does the Biden [junta] actually want oil from Iran and Venezuela? No, it does not.
The green energy agenda means that the Biden [junta] is thrilled with high oil prices and an international pretext for keeping them high. At the same time it can build relations with Islamist and leftist enemies under the guise of trying to fix the high oil prices even though it has no intention of doing so except during election years when it can claim credit for lowering prices. . .
. . . The Biden [junta] has managed to actually have war fever without a war. There are Ukrainian flags flying and vodka being poured down the drain without a single American soldier being on the battlefield. And, despite what some on both sides think, it's going to stay that way. . .
. . . After running through the farce of looking for oil in Iran and Venezuela, and any other terror state that has any for sale, the Biden [junta] will double down on green energy. We will be told that the Ukraine crisis is more evidence that we need to invest all our money into windmills and solar panels. Even though the entire crisis only happened because the Europeans decided to invest in wind and solar which made them dependent on Russia and Ukraine.
In the name of stopping Russia, America will also become increasingly dependent on Russia.
Tethering America's energy market to unstable players like Russia and Ukraine, or Iran and Venezuela, or Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world, forces us into bad binary choices like war or appeasement. Instead of breaking the cycle of dependency by embracing the potential of our own oil, gas, nuclear, and future energy capabilities, we're trapped in the same dead end maze.
The green energy investors who fund the Democrats win and so do America's enemies.
Biden isn't trying to stop Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he is trying to stop America's economy while deftly avoiding the blame for the economic misery resulting from his domestic policies.

I always admonish people to stop thinking of the GOP as "the stupid party" when in fact their actions are collusion with the Democrats/Leftists and totally intentional. Same goes for me in describing the Democrats/Leftists as insane. Well, they are insane, but nevertheless everything they are doing is absolutely intentional. You can mock Mayor Peter Puffer and VP Kamala (also a peter-puffer) for the abject tone deafness in advising people to buy electric cars as the solution to high gasoline prices.

But another Leftist stooge, Jeff Merkley lets the cat out of the bag:

On Monday's broadcast of MSNBC's "All In," Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that in order to undermine Russia's power, we have to "end our dependence on oil and have the world transition to renewable energy." Because Russia will be able to sell oil as long as there's demand for oil, and called for a "climate emergency. . . "
. . . He continued that decades ago, we didn't know about two things: "One was [the] tremendous climate impacts of burning fossil fuels. And the second is, renewable energy was very expensive at that time, as compared to fossil fuels. Now, it's cheaper. So, we have every reason to pivot quickly. We should be having a national American solar program. We should have a climate emergency. We should be transitioning to offshore wind, and we should be doing it in partnership and leading the world in this effort to end this addiction to oil, this damage to the climate, and the enrichment of people like Putin."

This putrid, lying cocksucker has it absolutely backwards, but his lies - and there are some real titanic whoppers in there - are quite revelatory. The fact is no one believes the bullshit about anthropogenic global warming or climate change. It is near the bottom of every poll regardless of the pollster when it comes to top voter concerns. So now, we have to destroy our petrochemical industry in order to choke off tyrants. Get it?

Insane, ideological or insanely ideological, these fucking mutts must be stopped. Let me state this as clearly and concisely as I can.

OIL IS LIFE.

Everything we eat, wear, use or otherwise consume is made from or requires oil, coal, natural gas or some other form of carbon to create. Kill that industry and you kill off humanity.

You know, if I didn't know better, I'd think they don't even care if they get wiped out next November and two years from now. Assuming of course, America and the world survives to see those two days. I mean, why should they care? The real power that now lord over us rests in essentially two places: the unelected, unaccountable, and massive bureaucracy that issues edicts that carry the force of law and a growing percentage of the once private sector that is in bed with this tyranny and imposes it through a shrinking and formerly free market. Yes elections, and more importantly, stolen elections have consequences. But the inability to check and reverse the Deep State is the problem. Donald Trump miraculously won because he wanted to drain the swamp. What he did not bargain for was a swamp the size of the Pacific Ocean. He thought he had the 1945-era US Pacific fleet when in the event he was left clinging onto a pallet, and paddling for dear life.

That said, he accomplished more by himself than any president in history, and his accomplishments were the most significant in a positive way than almost any other. Yet his greatest was what his mere presence exposed - the sham of the two-party system and illusion of America's destiny driven by the will of the people. Despite everything over the past several years, his coming perhaps is a harbinger for better days. At the very least, it was a wake up call that was long overdue.

The catastrophe in Ukraine was the outcome of the combined miscalculations of Vladimir Putin and Western politicians. The Russian leader embarked on a quest to restore his country's historical greatness, while the West endeavored to preserve the Global World as it was. Both sides were firmly committed to the past, one to the re-establishment of the Soviet Union, the other to the pursuit of an environmentalist fantasy that effectively made Western Europe energy dependent on the Kremlin. The outbreak of war in Europe showed that living in the past was no longer possible. . .
. . . For the West, the disaster precipitated by the feckless pursuit of the Woke agenda is resulting in a partial ideological retreat in environmental and defense policy. Germany took steps to revive its nuclear power industry by extending the life-span of its remaining nuclear power plants. Even coal was back on the table, so great was the need for anything that could fuel power. "All options must be on the table," said the German economic affairs and energy minister. Similarly, guns are respectable again in pacifist Europe. A worried Russian foreign ministry called on European Union and NATO countries on Saturday to "stop pumping weapons" to Ukraine to fight the invasion. But in the current political climate Europe not only might continue arming Ukraine, but also re-arm themselves as fast as they can. . .
. . . In the end, the war in Ukraine will become a crisis in Russia and probably spell the end of the old Global World with its dream of the universal jurisdiction of soft power. For the immediate future the world is likely to be poorer, sicker, hungrier and more restricted than anyone would have predicted in 2019, which now seems like a long time ago. The confident ability to plan way into the future, to forecast the climate two decades hence, to remake society wholesale — is gone. In its place are more practical concerns.

"The highest priority of American national security is strategic independence in manufacturing and energy production."
This is quite reasonable. Why didn't everyone think of it before? Maybe because crises are times when we recall that we've forgotten the obvious.

Reasonable? Yes. Obvious? Yes. Of course the Kalorama Klown Komintern and the globalists will not want to do this. The question is, to paraphrase an anthem of the 60s "Shall We Overcome?" The world wonders . . .

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"If the political class want blood-and-guts Americans to do their bidding, the prima donnas running that class need to earn the privilege."
Why Should Deplorables Fight for Those Who Hate Them?
Lloyd Billingsley: "As the clocks strike 13, more wisdom from a war-torn decade."
Forties Something
Daniel Greenfield: "Biden doesn't want to stop the invasion. He wants to use it."
The Left Isn't Letting the Ukraine Crisis Go to Waste
Richard Fernandez: "In the end, the war in Ukraine will become a crisis in Russia and probably spell the end of the old Global World with its dream of the universal jurisdiction of soft power. For the immediate future the world is likely to be poorer, sicker, hungrier and more restricted than anyone would have predicted in 2019, which now seems like a long time ago. The confident ability to plan way into the future, to forecast the climate two decades hence, to remake society wholesale — is gone. In its place are more practical concerns."
The End of the Old Normal
The official junta line is that it's a move to further isolate Russia. Total bullshit. Cryptocurrency prevents the government from controlling what's left of our freedom here at home. Anything that can circumvent the economic stranglehold it has on how you want to live your life or what you support must be crushed.
Biden to Issue Executive Order on Cryptocurrency

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

". . . change its constitution to enshrine neutrality between Russia and the West into law, acknowledge Crimea as belonging to Russia, recognize the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states." (in other words, Putin bit off way more than he could chew and this is turning into a disaster for him - jjs)
Russia Says it is Ready to Stop Invasion "In a Moment" if Ukraine Meets Conditions
"Putin has strong incentives to prosecute the war, even as Ukraine evolves into a major, unanticipated proxy war with the West. Putin's rule at home and reputation abroad rests on his image of toughness and iciness. He needs to reverse last week's humiliation. He also needs the Chinese to know they have backed a winner. On the Ukrainian side, there is growing confidence that they might fight the war to a stalemate, and therefore need not accede to Putin's demands. Both sides are looking for a battlefield decision now." (hat-tip to CBD - jjs)
Why The War In Ukraine Seems Destined To Get Far Worse
"Analysts are combing through open-source information to try to understand the largest conflict Europe has seen since the end of WW2."
Russia's Latest Military Maneuvers Suggest a Long, Destructive Battle for Ukraine
"Ukrainian president told senators on video call 'this might be the last time you see me alive.'"
Zelensky Call Fuels Push for Increased Ukraine Aid
"Military researcher Justin Bronk noted on Friday that 'the Russian Air Force has yet to commence large-scale operations. The continued absence of major air operations,' he says, 'now raises serious capability questions.'"
AWOL: Where Is the Russian Air Force?
"So, I think there are a lot of things we can do to help Ukraine protect itself, both from air strikes and missile strikes, but I think people need to understand what a no-fly zone means. It's not just -- it's not some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by."
Rubio: A No-Fly Zone Means World War III
"The bank run in Russia could become a run on the country's central bank itself, with important currency implications."
No Ordinary Panic
"With regard to Putin's dream of a great pan-Slavic nation, I'm afraid that ship sailed a long time ago."
How Far Will Putin Go?
Larry Elder: "Be wary of American reporting."
Putin's Misadventure

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"Biden's meeting with Maduro is likely a response to American dependence on Russian oil exports, which have been nixed by oil traders, impacting oil prices. Biden has refrained from sanctioning many relevant Russian energy companies in response to the Ukraine invasion."
Marco Rubio Slams Biden Junta's "Secret" Oil Meeting with Venezuelan President Maduro
"The regime is repurposing its [Chinese] Covid-19 propaganda playbook."
The Putin Variant
"The official stressed Joe Biden's assertion that no American troops will be sent to Ukraine, and that the additional forces sent are 'enablers' going to NATO allies to increase capabilities that are already over there."
U.S. Sends Another 500 Troops to Europe
"A shocking 56% said that it was 'likely' Putin would use nuclear weapons."
I&I/TIPP Poll: 56% Blame Biden's Afghan Debacle for Ukraine Invasion; Fear Putin Will Use Nukes
"The first step to take in returning to peaceful and normal relations with Russia will be to reject the Wyoming Republican's warmongering."
Reject Liz-ard Cheney's War

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"I've done my bit, lads."
Irish Man Arrested After Driving Truck Through Gate of Russian Embassy
"If there were ever a time for energy realism, it is now."
Ukraine and the Great Energy Reset
"The onus is on the United States, the only so-called responsible superpower, to calmly negotiate with Putin on behalf of his innocent, weak victims."
Ukraine, Realpolitik, and the West's Failure
"A situation considerably worsened thanks to Obama and Biden's Mideast policies."
With Ukraine, Israel Must First Consider Its Security
"Have they hitched their wagon to a falling star?"
Palestinians Stick With Putin
"Are we allowed to explore the question?"
Why Does Zelensky Admire Justin Castreau-cescu?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The price of gas in Gorda, California, reached $7.59 on Sunday. Fuel stations in Los Angeles County were also selling premium gasoline for more than $7.00 a gallon. One gas station in Los Angeles was advertising gas for $6.99."
Donald Trump's 2020 Gas Price Prediction Comes True: $7 Plus Under Biden
But no more mean tweets!
U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump
"Let me finish."
Doocy and Peppermint Piss-Hockey Share Heated Exchange Over Rising Gas Prices
"Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to evade White House responsibility for soaring gas prices Monday, casting blame on turmoil in Ukraine."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey is a Lying Liar Who Lies: Insane Gas Prices Edition
"When will we ever learn not to fret over what's going on in the world? Our Democrat party overlords know what's best for us, and all we have to do is simply follow their suggestions. After all, their solutions are so simple."
Peter Puffer Buttigieg Says the Solution to High Gas Prices Is Simple: Just Buy an EV
"The Democrat Party is standing before the scaffold, ready to ascend to the gallows on energy policy. There's a way to avoid the sentence, but it is expensive to their political prospects and to the American people. They've got this coming, and they have only themselves to blame."
The Democrats' Energy Gallows
"Chinese officials warns that nation's winter wheat condition could be 'worst in history.'"
Is a "Wheat Crisis" Next as Ukrainian Grain Shipments Halt?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "In the case surrounding the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, the FBI will be on trial just as much, if not more, than the four men who stand accused."
The FBI Goes on Trial in the Whitmer Case
"Convoy participants are protesting vaccine mandates and other [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The convoy was inspired by weeks-long trucker protests in Canada."
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Extends National Guard Mobilization for Trucker Convoy
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so "wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them."
In Leaked Audio Former NIH Director/New Biden Science Adviser Laughs Over Threatening Unemployment to Force Vaccines, Blames Trump for Chinese COVID-19 Deaths
"What a new bombshell study reveals."
Video: Chinese COVID Virus DNA Sequence Owned by Moderna
"The biggest story in New York City right now is the lifting of mask mandates for school children and patrons of businesses and restaurants no longer needing to show proof of vaccination. And, while I'm thrilled that my children can now go to school, breathe without restrictions, and enjoy medical privacy when dining out, I'm dissatisfied."
On the Sidewalks of New York
"The study focused on how the vaccine protected children against the Omicron variant of the virus during the strain's December 13th through January 24th surge. The 12 percent figure – which translates to the vaccine conferring roughly one in 10 children with protection against the variant – comes amidst several states and schools rolling out vaccine mandates for kids."
Pfizer Shot Protected Fewer Than 2 In 10 Kids, NY Health Dept. Admits
"With smarter research priorities, the NIH might have better prepared us for the pandemic."
Study Echinacea on Your Own Dime
"Can an injection really be a civil rights flash point? Just ask Martin Luther King, Jr."
The Chinese COVID Vaccine is a Civil Rights Issue
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "Special Counsel John Durham demolished a key Russia hoax figure's attempt to get criminal charges against him dropped."
5 New Special Counsel Arguments Against A Russia Hoaxer's Attempt To Escape
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Officer Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots but never hit anyone after Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot a policeman during the raid, was charged with recklessly endangering neighbors."
Not Guilty Verdict For Louisville Officer Involved In Breonna Taylor Raid
"Indeed, Cosby was convicted of aggravated indecent assault in 2018 for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand 14 years prior in his Pennsylvania home. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in a state prison, and was released in June of 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction, saying his due process rights had been violated."
Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Overturning Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Conviction
"The impact of the new DA's plans didn't hit New Yorkers until he was actually sworn in and began to implement his promises. With crime continuing to soar, there was a mild degree of outrage about [Alvin] Bragg's intentions, though he had always been quite clear about his plans; it's just that no one was paying attention, or they assumed he wasn't serious."
Walking the Progressive Walk
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Does it say it in the bill?!"
Ron DeSantis Rebukes Reporter for Pushing "Don't Say Gay" Narrative
"NewsGuard partnered with the American Federation of Teachers (ATF), the second largest teachers' union in the U.S., in January in an effort to 'help educators and their students navigate a sea of online disinformation.'"
Leadership of Anti-"Misinformation" Group Partnered With Teachers' Union Donates Predominately to Democrats
"For a teacher to publicly single any child and attack them for their personal religious beliefs should be grounds for instantaneous firing. That teacher should have been immediately escorted to the exit and banned from ever teaching any children ever again."
Pushback: Christian HS Student Sues School for Persecuting Him Because of His Religion
"They told him to 'recant' in a memo that they never gave him."
Christian University Bans Professor From Campus for Critiquing Its Dive Into "Equity" and "Inclusion"
"Students of all political persuasions hold back—in class discussions, in friendly conversations, on social media—from saying what we really think," she wrote.
Liberal Student: Cancel Culture Has Conquered Campus
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Democrat election lawyer Mark Elias predicted Democrats would try to keep Republicans off ballots using J6 as an excuse, and a North Carolina activist group took up the call. But a federal judge rejected the attempt."
Federal Judge Rejects Dem Activist Attempt To Keep Madison Cawthorn Off NC Ballot Via 14th Amendment Insurrectionist Bar
"Recent arrests in Mississippi show other damage done to our elections by so-called 'Zuckbucks,' this time with embezzlement and fraud."
Mississippi Audit: Hundreds of Thousands of Mark Zuckerberg's Election Funds Were Stolen and Misused
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
James' comments came in response to a speech Cuomo gave in a Brooklyn church on Sunday in which he called the alleged efforts to boot him from office "prosecutorial misconduct" and "cancel culture," The Guardian reported.
NY AG Calls Angel of Death Cuomo a "Sick, Pathetic Man" After He Hints at Political Comeback
"He actually said his "behavior has been the same for 40 years in public life" (which suggests that dozens more women have ugly tales to tell), which turned out to be 'the problem.' Among other things, this also means he's still stonewalling on his deadly care-home orders, issued to protect a big-donating special interest at the expense of vulnerable elderly and special-needs New Yorkers."
G-d May Not Be Done with Angel of Death Cuomo, But New Yorkers Definitely Are
"The payments show the money was directed to Alisa Tatarian, who is a Financial Administrator at the U.S. House of Representatives. It is not clear how that money was finally spent. The Daily Caller contacted Tatarian as well as Pressley's office several times about the money that was spent on "security service," to which they did not respond."
"LoPecia" Pressley Spent Thousands Of Taxpayers Dollars On Private Security, House Records Show
POLITICS
"Democrats took Hispanics for granted for too long, and no one thought to create a home for us in conservative media. There is an appetite for this. You see it on social media. You see it in elections," Garcia-Hildago said.
"Defcon 1 Moment": Florida Democrats Panic Over New Conservative Network Targeting Hispanics
"Rule by incivility, live to regret it."
A Warning to the Biden-Pelosi-AOC Woke: What Boebert's and MTG's Disruptive Behavior at SOTU Portends
"It's silly to think that the war has distracted Americans from the country's festering domestic woes."
The Ukraine War Can't Save Biden
"Latino voters swung towards the Republican Party in large numbers during the 2020 election cycle, and the trend appears to be continuing into the 2022 midterms." (no way Dao-Min Yen will not prevent the race from even being close - jjs)
Gubernatorial Candidate Anthony Trimino Explains Why California is Ready for a GOP Takeover
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"Jackson was a member of the Black Students Association (BSA) during her senior year at Harvard in 1992 when the organization hosted controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries." (controversial, as in notoriously vicious Jew hater - jjs)
Is Biden's SCOTUS Nominee Anti-Semitic?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"For the Washington Post editors to 'correct' this story would be to undermine their own credibility, the legitimacy of Black Lives Matter, and Barack Obama's place in history."
Why the Washington Post Cannot "Correct" Its Trayvon Tribute
"The Democrat super PAC is best known for enabling a sex pest and engaging in neo-Nazi cosplay."
Media Outlets Continue To Portray Pro-Biden Lincoln Project as "Republican" Organization
ABORTION
"The case is reviewing the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that prohibits most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy."
Biden Solicitor General Inadvertently Admitted to Supreme Court That an Unborn Baby is a Baby
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Free Beacon reported in January Biden [junta] has records on nearly 1 billion gun sales."
The Bill That Would Bar the Biden Junta From Stockpiling Records on American Gun Owners
"It could be anyone in the district."
Tiny Texas School District Now Allowing Teachers To Carry Firearms
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Details of the agreement have been closely guarded for more than a year, with Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress saying they have been completely cut out of the negotiations. The Biden administration has avoided fully briefing Congress on the deal and appears poised to violate a 2015 law mandating that any accord with Iran first be approved by Congress. Republican leaders also have objected to Russia's position in the talks. Moscow has served as the United States' key interlocutor with Iran even as it faces international scorn for the ongoing invasion of Ukraine."
Russia: Tehran, Beijing, and Moscow Aligned To Win US Concessions on Nuclear Deal
"The organization scrubbed its website and social media accounts of stories by Pablo Gonzalez following his arrest in Poland on spy charges. Polish authorities arrested Gonzalez on Feb. 28 at the Poland-Ukraine border amid suspicions that he was working covertly for Russia's foreign intelligence service, the GRU. Polish authorities alleged that Gonzalez collected intelligence from inside Poland and planned to do the same from Ukraine."
VOA "Thoroughly Reviewing" Stories From Alleged Russian Spy
Robert Spencer: "The frightening fantasies of Biden's foreign policy."
Group Biden Removed from the Terror List Hopes That, Allah Willing, Its Missiles Will Soon Reach NY
"The World Economic Forum named Wang Guan as one of its Young Global Leaders in 2021."
REVEALED: World Economic Forum Leader Advocates China-Style "Re-Education Camps" Used For Uyghur Genocide
"He says he isn't, but his teachings say otherwise." (Pope Fiction - jjs)
Is the Pope Marxist
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The letter went out to 4,594 veteran patients who "possibly could have been infected and urged them to be tested for two types of hepatitis and HIV."
Georgia VA Center Patients Test Positive for Hepatitis, HIV Due to Unsterilized Equipment
"America's Democrat elites have intentionally left us vulnerable to nuclear attack in the belief that nuclear war was not possible."
DC Elites Have Opened Americans To Nuclear Attack, So Americans Must Protect Themselves
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The Democrats' proposed solution in Build Back Better is government-imposed price setting masquerading under the term 'negotiation.'"
Markets, Not More Middlemen, Will Lower Drug Prices
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Transition = cut our arms, legs and head off, stuff our genitals in our severed head then dress us in drag and rename us Loretta?
Merkley: "We Should Have a Climate Emergency" and Need to "Have the World Transition" to Green Energy to Undercut Russia

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"In the past week both Bahrain and Romania have joined the accords. The timing suggests both actions might have been triggered by the Ukraine War. Russia opposes the Artemis Accords, and for Romania, a former Soviet block nation, and Bahrain, an Arab nation, to make such announcements so quickly after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine suggests both are signalling their willingness to ally themselves against Russia."
Bahrain Signs Artemis Accords
"Capitalism in space: Astra today released the results of its investigation into its February 10th launch failure, confirming that the failure occurred because the improper separation of the fairings on the upper stage."
Astra Completes Investigation Into February 10th Launch Failure
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The mission of Texas Children's Hospital is to create a healthier future for all children, including transgender children, within the bounds of the law," a statement from the hospital said. "This step was taken to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications."
America's Biggest Children's Hospital to Stop "Gender-Affirming Therapies" for Kids
"What Have We Learned? We've learned that the left welcomes illegal immigrants into the country with open arms, all the while denying the onslaught of sexual assaults many of them commit against women in the U.S. and those on their way to cross our border. We've learned that 'no bail' laws have allowed violent criminals to remain free and prey on innocent people, many of whom are women. And we've learned the left defends the rights of mentally ill men who braid their hair, pretend they are women, and steal opportunities from hard-working real women."
Take the Hint, Ladies: the Left Doesn't Care About You
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Salena Zito: "They thought wokeness would be good for business. Taking a principled stand rarely is, at least in the short term."
The Hypocrisy of Coca-Cola
"Zelensky seems like a great and courageous leader. He's also a sophisticated man with a background in professional storytelling, but I don't fault him for one second for using every skill and asset he has to generate support for his country and misery for the enemies who are invading him. Good for him! It's Big Global I don't trust. I cringe as I watch it working every hour of every day to build out and coordinate financial networks, consolidate oil markets, internationalize trade regulations, and get its worldwide enemy-crushing system up and running."
Lights, Camera, War! Hollywood Hard at Work in Ukraine
Christian Toto: "Disgraced Democrat is testing the political waters with Tinsel Town's quiet help."
A Cuomo Comeback? Blame Hollywood's Mega MeToo Fail
"Further proof that making money is not on Hollywood's to-do list."
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Posted by: IanDeal at March 08, 2022 07:35 AM (MGjjz)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2022 07:35 AM (bVYXr)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:35 AM (yrol0)

4 Grempht.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 08, 2022 07:36 AM (T8gyh)

5 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 07:36 AM (3D/fK)

6 Still in the top 10! Happy Tuesday, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2022 07:37 AM (4olE8)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 08, 2022 07:37 AM (IUd0M)

8 Moronin, Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 08, 2022 07:38 AM (u7pQw)

9 Ugh, stinking phone. Anyway, Happy Birfday JJ.

Off to the link fu I go...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 08, 2022 07:38 AM (+ldAm)

10 morning horde. happy taco tuesday. time for dreams of queso... and content.

coffee is ready

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 08, 2022 07:38 AM (8D42x)

11 Spiders. Millions of "palm sized flying spiders" are invading the east coast over the next few weeks, or so says Scientific American.

That news probably should be kept from AtC.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 07:39 AM (435XZ)

12 13 bucks for a bushel of wheat and climbing, up from 7 dollars.

Nickel exploding upwards 75 pct.

It's a good thing The ADULTS are back in charge or we would have to really worry about this.

Commando Roll Out: Dollar Stores.

Commando Roll In: Ten Dollar Stores.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 08, 2022 07:39 AM (8Ck3S)

13 OIL IS LIFE.

Kill that industry and you kill off humanity.

That is the plan.

Carry on!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:39 AM (yrol0)

14 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 08, 2022 07:39 AM (ju2Fy)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2022 07:41 AM (DUIap)

16 Spiders. Millions of "palm sized flying spiders" are invading the east coast over the next few weeks, or so says Scientific American.

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WTF WTF WTF

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:41 AM (204zP)

17 The democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans, Hayek explains. It is for this reason that the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful in a society trending towards totalitarianism.

AOC
Pelosi
Obama
Kerry
HRC...

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

18 On the Ukraine point, when you're not sure you're going to lose, do you really take the deal that gives you all the losses? I mean, Russia is pretty much asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars, sans Zelensky. I mean, if someone went to war with the US and then wanted us to declare California as theirs and Florida and Texas to be separate countries after, and for us to not to be able to make any real foreign policy deals except with the nation that made us give them away...well, I might not take that deal...

TL/DR - While we as Americans would love for them to take the deal, it's not nearly as appealing to Ukraine...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 07:43 AM (exHjb)

19 Oil is life. Plus time. Plus pressure.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 07:43 AM (6FeV1)

20 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ

Take the deal

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 08, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

21 From the Tech Thread.

>>Is the fking Ukraine-Rissia war gonna fracture the Right just before midterms?

More than likely, the right is a loose and tenuous collection of disparate factions that has no natural home on the left.

To put it bluntly, the right is a clown show.

It's why we are where we are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 08, 2022 07:43 AM (8Ck3S)

22 Now the interesting thing is, does the west pressure Ukraine to take the deal, or to reject it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 07:44 AM (6FeV1)

23 Russia is about to default on its debt, maybe by next Wednesday. Many may not understand why this is significant, but this is huge. Its going to tear big holes throughout our financial framework, and it will destroy Russia's private economic sector for the next 20 years.

This is what a weapon of mass economic destruction looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 07:45 AM (Go39q)

24 @22

>>Now the interesting thing is, does the west pressure Ukraine to take the deal, or to reject it?

What deal?

The west is not actually trying to figure out how to end Russia's attack but instead are scheming to covertly get arms into Ukraine to prolong the conflict.

WAR = Profits and opportunities.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 08, 2022 07:47 AM (8Ck3S)

25 "REVEALED: WEF Young Leader Defends China Re-Education Camps" is an astounding article. The chutzpah of the CCP knows no bounds.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 07:47 AM (6TS7t)

26 That Russian deal sounds a lot better than the alternatives which in time will become more gruesome leading to someone making a bad decision.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 07:47 AM (Cfk8j)

27 Europe gets 25 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of all its oil and gas from Russia. For Germany, the shares are 35 percent and 70 percent, as well as 50 percent of its coal needs.

What is fucked and far from home, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:47 AM (yrol0)

28 Zelensky already rejected the deal. Trump knows that you always walk away from the table times 2 or 3 before the other side makes its best offer.

Not to mention that this is a huge tell on the part of Putin, as JJ noticed above.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 07:48 AM (Go39q)

29 Does JJ sleep at all?
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 08, 2022 07:48 AM (ZPx5P)

30 Bah
Russia will do what it wants
Ukraine will do what it wants
The Western oligarchy will do what it wants
None of them care about what I want or need
I want my own nuke

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:48 AM (204zP)

31 >Why Does Zelensky Admire Justin Trudeau?

*from the back row*
HA! GAAAAAAAAY!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2022 07:48 AM (ybIRR)

32 Russia is essentially asking for exactly what it was asking for before the invasion, or even the buildup to it, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

33 Brief survey this morning indicate gas is up another 5 cents or so overnight. But the experts on the radio keep saying prices are leveling off, this is temporary, America will be pumping soon so just go to work and stop bitching about it. And ride the bus and walk more, fatties.

I'm guessing those experts aren't taking the bus or walking to work.

Posted by: Ripley at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (MxEKc)

34 "Cryptocurrency prevents the government from controlling what's left of our freedom here at home. "

Doesn't crypto stop working when the internet is turned off?

Posted by: fd at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

35 The Ukes are faced with a fait accompli. Ceding territory that is in Russian hands and is populated by Russian majorities.
If that's the deal, I wonder what Russia's Crimea boarders look like. How much if any access to the Black Sea this would leave the Ukes.

Posted by: Winston Alabaster at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (6BTho)

36 Are these palm sized flying spiders native to the east coast, and if so why haven't I heard about them before?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (z2xUm)

37 "Trump knows that you always walk away from the table times 2 or 3 before the other side makes its best offer."

Not when they are burning down your house.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (Cfk8j)

38 Happy Birthday, JJ. Thanks for the MR.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 08, 2022 07:50 AM (4I/2K)

39 Morning all. What fresh $3.89/gallon hell do we have to look forwsd to today?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (6eU6O)

40 Mississippi Audit: Hundreds of Thousands of Mark Zuckerberg's Election Funds Were Stolen and Misused
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I had to click through to the linked article in order to have my suspicions confirmed. And... yep. :sigh:

https://tinyurl.com/nvdu3f98

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (OssQ4)

41 @36 flying spiders are an invasive species from Japan

Posted by: blaster at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (9otr5)

42 Why Does Zelensky Admire Justin Trudeau

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Is that in the links? Zelensky has said Trudeau is his inspiration for entering politics

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (204zP)

43 Tucker's clip from last night is depressing and enraging. Fuck the globalists.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (QZ/dC)

44 42
Is that in the links? Zelensky has said Trudeau is his inspiration for entering politics
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:51 AM (204zP)

Yes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:52 AM (s2VJv)

45 JJS, the first link in the "Second Amendment" section circles back.

But, on the article, isn't there already a legal prohibition against any sort of "national gun registry"? Of course, the Biden administration is ignoring the law, because it ignores the Constitution.

The junta does not recognize law: The only limit on what they are willing to do is current politics.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 07:52 AM (6TS7t)

46 Skip, how's your father?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 08, 2022 07:52 AM (PiwSw)

47 the dims strategists that ccoked up this war knew that the GOP would bite down on the bait but they didn't know they would swallow it whole

Linda "Killer" Graham is now the defacto leader of the GOP

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (us2H3)

48 Putin laid out these terms over a month ago, I think this is what he has been after the entire time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (L1+br)

49 >>If that's the deal, I wonder what Russia's Crimea boarders look like. How much if any access to the Black Sea this would leave the Ukes.

Odessa.

What Putin is demanding is really not much different from what he's been demanding for years. It's the west who moved before he did.

Putin is a thug and a dictator but that doesn't mean the west doesn't share some of the blame for this mess.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (ZLI7S)

50 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Cl7ej)

51 "Is that in the links? Zelensky has said Trudeau is his inspiration for entering politics"

Well, he was a comedian.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Cfk8j)

52 Gotta have a deal that leaves Zelensky's status as the all time hero of DEMOCRACY intact. Wall to wall media coverage of Zelensky the hero is the latest manipulation of brain dead Americans.

Posted by: Ziba at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (S1hrL)

53 Thanks JJ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (204zP)

54 Going for a 'checkmate' in three moves is not "biting off more than you can chew." It was bold and defensible.

Russia is not "bogged-down". They sent in the Second String because they didn't have to use the Good Stuff.

They have what the want to keep nearly surrounded, with minimal civilian casualties. They'd also rather keep the infrastructure intact.

All Zelensky had to do was Not Be a NATO Puppet, but he's not a leader and he's too stupid to know better.

The Russian advance was quite fast.

Ukranians are not "Zelensky's People". He is a Puppet Invader who has gotten civilians killed.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Ckg4U)

55 U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump

(D)ickheads love sending hard earned American dollar to dictator and terrorist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:54 AM (yrol0)

56 Is Zelensky a WEF guy?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 07:54 AM (204zP)

57 45 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 07:52 AM (6TS7t)

Link fixed. Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:54 AM (s2VJv)

58 I have to agree, Slapweasel. As usual.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 08, 2022 07:55 AM (OssQ4)

59 >>Is Zelensky a WEF guy?

Yes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 07:55 AM (ZLI7S)

60 Are these palm sized flying spiders native to the east coast, and if so why haven't I heard about them before?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (z2xUm)
===================
The spiders are an invasive species from *cough* "East Asia"

https://tinyurl.com/4jpv7j4p

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 07:55 AM (6TS7t)

61 This is the most likely historical outcome, and has the added benefit of avoiding mass casualties and destruction. This has always been the nature and quality of the relationship between these nations. In fact, the result is an improvement over the historical mean in terms of Ukrainian sovereignty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 08, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

62 The Japanese flying spiders didn't get the memo about the surrender, did they?

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 08, 2022 07:55 AM (Cl7ej)

63 Especially when they're burning down your house - that's why words like bravery and courage and tenacity are important. We used to believe in those things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 07:56 AM (Go39q)

64 54 Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Ckg4U)

Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

65 While, no doubt, they will attempt to do this, I don't think it's going to fly with the American people.

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Before I continue my reading and look at the links, I just have to say that this is a big "IF."

If the polls being thrown around here the last couple of days are any indication, yes, the public is buying the schlock that Joey Spongebrains is doing a good job as "war president" in handling the Russia/Ukraine situation. At least, insofar as looking like a leader (which makes me want to vomit) and participant in resolving that conflict.

It doesn't matter what's real. The only thing that matters is perception, and while you'd think the majority of the American public knows not to trust anything we're being spoon fed, they'll put those blinders on time after time and believe what they hear. What they're told. Anyway...just my two cents.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

66 "They told him to 'recant' in a memo that they never gave him."

Christian University Bans Professor From Campus for Critiquing Its Dive Into "Equity" and "Inclusion"

Little Winger graduated from that college. There is an on-going investigation that, I hope, will result in solidly rejecting woke-ness.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 08, 2022 07:58 AM (45fpk)

67 Ukraine claims 11,000 Russian deaths, in 11 days. Does anyone believe this? That's over 4x the death rate of Americans at Omaha Beach. C'mon, man.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 08, 2022 07:58 AM (OssQ4)

68 Another word in Ukraine's defense of continued fighting...so Russia takes Crimea in 2014, and now wants 2 more regions (yes, they'll be independent...of course they will, and I'm Santa Clause) in 2022...so what will they want by 2030? If you're Ukraine, and you're giving yourself away piece by piece, you have nothing to lose b/c you won't exist long term anyway at the rate Russia is picking you apart...

That said, as always, Europe, this is your court. Deal with it.

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 07:59 AM (exHjb)

69 my guess is the dims knew their shenanigans last Nov would most likely cause Putin to invade but they thought he would wait until later , when it was a little warmer

therefore, Brandon will not allow Zelesky to take a deal until at least summer

a deal now would make Brandon look weak

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 07:59 AM (us2H3)

70 JJ

Leaked Audio Forced Vaccines:

https://tinyurl.com/mpbkfyr4

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:59 AM (yrol0)

71 I finally read up on the history of the conflict in Ukraine, and I now have a position: The US should immediately stop meddling overseas.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 08, 2022 08:00 AM (tFnCj)

72 And what if Zelensky is thinking that as well? Yes, the world is hot and horny to portray this guy as a hero but would he actually allow even more bloodshed and destruction of his own people and nation in order to see Putin removed because he's an existential threat or worse, out of a personal vendetta? Forget the media image; Zelensky's a man, not a saint.

This is no different than telling a rape victim to not fight.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:00 AM (VYjdj)

73 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

74 Best one I saw this morning is that Ukrainian paratroopers and Russian special forces are fighting hand to hand on the streets of Kiev. Come on, man.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2022 08:00 AM (z2xUm)

75 -- recognize the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.

So Putin can grab them later. Hope they negotiate that point right out.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (HsAzN)

76 70 JJ Leaked Audio Forced Vaccines:

https://tinyurl.com/mpbkfyr4
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 07:59 AM (yrol0)

Fixed. Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (s2VJv)

77 13 bucks for a bushel of wheat and climbing, up from 7 dollars.

"A loaf of bread will buy a bag of gold.

I wish we'd all been ready."

--- Larry Norman

Posted by: grammie winger at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (45fpk)

78 Ukraine will take the deal and if it makes people feel better to say Putin failed or this is a tell or Biden won, so what. This needs to end now before our crazy politicians set the world on a path to economic destruction and global famine.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (QZ/dC)

79 "Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop."
-Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

It took three weeks to get to Baghdad for the U.S., but this two weeks is "failure"? -Not buying it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (Ckg4U)

80 Federal Judge Rejects Dem Activist Attempt To Keep Madison Cawthorn Off NC Ballot Via 14th Amendment Insurrectionist Bar
________

Bad link. comes right back here.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (R0Tis)

81 Ukraine claims 11,000 Russian deaths, in 11 days. Does anyone believe this? That's over 4x the death rate of Americans at Omaha Beach. C'mon, man.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist,
D-Day casualties were over 10,000 in one day.

ANd there were five beaches, not just one, plus airborne landings.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (VYjdj)

82 67 Ukraine claims 11,000 Russian deaths, in 11 days. Does anyone believe this? That's over 4x the death rate of Americans at Omaha Beach. C'mon, man.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 08, 2022 07:58 AM (OssQ4)

timeline

zslenski says 5K
russia says 498
US say could be 2K
Poroshenko, sunday, say 10K
now 11K

seems legit

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (us2H3)

83 Here is Zelensky's 2020 speech to the WEF. When a politicians says "We propose you be stakeholders to the new Ukraine" to a gather of the the world's globalist elite it's a pretty good indication of where he was headed.

Note, Putin has access to the internet too and he hates the WEF globalists.

https://tinyurl.com/29435ftx

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (ZLI7S)

84 The longer the battle lasts, the more force we'll have to use.

Posted by: Zombie Georgy Zhukov at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (sDz6A)

85 Happy International Marxist Womens' Day!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (EZebt)

86 On any news about my dad nothing yet known.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (ZPx5P)

87 Skip -

We're not gonna get malaria today.

Posted by: JT at March 08, 2022 08:03 AM (arJlL)

88 This isn't negotiation this is ego driven stubbornness. The Ukraine didn't have control over the areas that are to be ceded.

I don't know what Putin was offering in exchange for meeting his demands other than stopping shooting.

Face it if this goes on much longer, pressure on NATO is going to increase and that has no way of making this a better world.

This conflict is been going on for decades and Putin decided to end it.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 08:03 AM (Cfk8j)

89 Again we're pretending to know Putin's inner thoughts and the timeline with which he expected to sin Ukraine.

Except we don't know a fucking thing about it.

Posted by: deadrody at March 08, 2022 08:04 AM (/jrmI)

90 Zelinski isn't a night in shining armour, bit not evil either

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 08, 2022 08:04 AM (ZPx5P)

91 67

How many planes would they have to shoot down to kill 11,000 Russians, how many tanks blown up with Molotov cocktails? It's BS and approx 400 civilian deaths is also BS.

Posted by: Ziba at March 08, 2022 08:04 AM (S1hrL)

92 "therefore, Brandon will not allow Zelesky to take a deal until at least summer

a deal now would make Brandon look weak

Posted by: REDACTED "

More likely, is the regime want to keep the crisis going longer as it shifts headlines and blame for the economy over there. the MSM is brainwashing the LIV's right before eyes into believing inflation and gas prices were not a problem until Russia attacked Ukraine and they seem to believe it.

Posted by: Ripley at March 08, 2022 08:05 AM (MxEKc)

93 iden had been unable to evade the blame for rising gas and food prices, but going forward the skyrocketing price of gas and food, in particular anything with wheat, will be blamed on the Russian invasion. While the invasion will certainly impact energy and food prices, the fundamental force driving the price hikes is still inflation caused by government spending.
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What a narrow interpretation. Government spending is a factor, but it isn't the only factor and it might - though I am not sure - even be the biggest. Energy is an enormous factor and everything is downstream from it. The supply chain disaster and the introduction of massive disruption into global supply lines has also driven scarcity - and price - through the roof, especially for key agricultural (fertilizer) and industrial (integrated circuits) inputs.

To blithely blame this merely on government spending is dangerously simplistic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

94 Slap, it's not just failure, it's a miserable stinking failure. Don't be so pro-Putin that you delude yourself as to how badly he has screwed up; Ukraine may not survive, but Russia will not survive this either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:06 AM (Go39q)

95 How's it going for Vlad in Ukraine and back home?? A very long thread but with alot of worthwhile information and photos.

https://nitter.net/kamilkazani/status/
1500495309595725831

When you get to the end of a section, hit the "more replies" hotlink to access the next section of tweets. Do NOT hit the "Load more" hotlink -- it goes to replying tweets.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:06 AM (UHVv4)

96 Shorter Putin: This part is not Ukrainian, and the rest is not Western.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 08, 2022 08:06 AM (EZebt)

97 If the Ukraine thing ends, what will the next Media Event be? Everything is Media now. There will have to be something new for them and us.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (Vr12I)

98 Good morning all. Didn't sleep well last night so my butt is dragging right now.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (nxdel)

99 OIL IS LIFE.

Everything we eat, wear, use or otherwise consume is made from or requires oil, coal, natural gas or some other form of carbon to create. Kill that industry and you kill off humanity.
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No, probably not. But it will be a step backwards in time to around 1800 if we're being optimistic, possibly more like 1600. What *that* would mean is a medieval, dark-age existence with a population maybe 10% of what it is now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (DU+/6)

100 Like Dov Fischer, I miss civility between people with different politics. People are increasingly bitterly divided and discussion gets angry, fast. My best friend for many of my 29 years voted for Biden and has the good sense to regret that fact, but he is practically unique in my experience. Most of those voters are holding to their Demofascist identity like it's their last meal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (B+iHm)

101 "Slap, it's not just failure, it's a miserable stinking failure. Don't be so pro-Putin that you delude yourself as to how badly he has screwed up; Ukraine may not survive, but Russia will not survive this either."
-Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:06 AM (Go39q)

I will be proven correct.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (Ckg4U)

102 This conflict is been going on for decades and Putin decided to end it.
Posted by: pawn

This is bullshit. The land grabs by Putin have been going on for years, and there is no reason to believe that it will stop, especially if all the useful idiots order Ukraine to surrender.

He already threatened Sweden and Finland in the same way.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (VYjdj)

103 71 I finally read up on the history of the conflict in Ukraine, and I now have a position: The US should immediately stop meddling overseas.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel

We meddle. People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.

-River Tam (from the movie 'Serenity')

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (sAmhv)

104 tinyurl.com/4h7hd58m

2 US Senators, Cruz and R Johnson, will talk to the People's Convoy of truck drivers today...at least some legislators are doing the bare minimum for us...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (exHjb)

105 I'm considering going to the office without complying with the testing policy and letting my supervisor know I'm doing it, as a protest against discrimination. (Not only do we all know the shots don't prevent you getting covid, my work also explicitly refuses to recognize natural immunity - so it's a blatantly discriminatory policy, and the people being discriminated against are people with medical conditions, people with minority religious beliefs, and people with safety concerns. That last one is a giant fucking deal where I work. Our safety culture is huge, to the point where we have frequent training on the subject and are repeatedly encouraged to bring up concerns...UNLESS they are about the shot.) I'm not sure if my supervisor will write me up or call security or what. She might just pretend we didn't have the conversation (I would have it over non-work-phone text).

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 08, 2022 08:09 AM (tFnCj)

106 That, plus the more salient fact of the announcement itself as confirmation of what we all suspected, in that Putin bit off way more than he could chew in trying to conquer all of the Ukraine in one fell swoop.

Sorry, but it means no such thing. Can anyone show where Putin's plan was to conquer all of Ukraine, and rule it or install his puppet? Let me know where he said that. Maybe optimally it was hoped to achieve that. However, the minimal goal has always been some form of Ukrainian neutrality and peeling off the two breakaway regions. Crimea was done so long enough ago that that is just admitting to facts on the ground. So, yeah, it's so bad they are putting out what they've wanted from the beginning.

Always remember:
1. We agreed not to expand NATO which then happened in 2004.
2. NATO was supposedly defensive and we used it on Serbia and Libya in offensive operations.
3. We had some role in the 2014 coup.
4. The Establishment hates Russia because it isn't in on the alphabet people push.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at March 08, 2022 08:09 AM (EpDzw)

107 >>Again we're pretending to know Putin's inner thoughts and the timeline with which he expected to sin Ukraine.

A pretty good inference can be deduced by looking at what he's been saying for well over a decade about NATO expansion in Ukraine and Georgia and then looking what he did in Georgia in 2008.

Similar invasion, similar techniques and the demand are similar. To this day there are still two autonomous zones in what was formerly Georgina territory large administered by Russia.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:09 AM (ZLI7S)

108 I don't know about Vlad but alot of Russian troops thought it would be over in days.

https://nitter.net/kamilkazani/status/
1500515402673233923#m

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:09 AM (UHVv4)

109 89

Just like we don't know when/if he will invade Poland next or use tactical nukes. But the experts know he will do the former, but not the latter. Because they live in his head. That's why they're "experts."

Posted by: Ziba at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

110 No, probably not. But it will be a step backwards in time to around 1800 if we're being optimistic, possibly more like 1600. What *that* would mean is a medieval, dark-age existence with a population maybe 10% of what it is now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:07 AM (DU+/6)
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That does seem to be the end goal. A neo-feudalism with the techlords at the top commanding the heights and enjoying fabulous wealth and privilege. Then 99% of the rest of humanity scrabbling in the dirt as subsistence farmers. I've seen that movie. It generally doesn't end well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

111 Again we're pretending to know Putin's inner thoughts and the timeline with which he expected to sin Ukraine.

Except we don't know a fucking thing about it.

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True, but don't tell that to the millions of armchair foreign policy strategist "experts" that proliferated after this started. The kind that spray their sudden expertise in areas they know nothing about. Like Patricia Arquette...

I will say one thing though that has left me really uneasy. And that is the organized pile-on (and mostly, the acquiescence) of major corporations who have signed on to pull their services to an entire country. You can now be brought to heel if you don't do exactly as you're told. No money for you. No services for you. All of these companies have acquired tremendous power over individuals, and now entire countries. Can you imagine where this could potentially lead? I can. I know you can too.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

112 ...(Francis) Collins claimed that the Trump administration uniquely violated norms of separation of church and state in reaching out to white, Protestant voters. "[Separation of church and state] all got pretty muddy under the Trump administration. There was clearly a heavy effort to try to build political alliances with particularly white evangelicals. And it worked," Collins said.

Wait, so building alliances with folks who happen to be religious is a violation of separation of church and state? Interesting. Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (HsAzN)

113 Does Putin have a book the experts can read?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 08, 2022 08:11 AM (4I/2K)

114 Similar invasion, similar techniques and the demand are similar. To this day there are still two autonomous zones in what was formerly Georgina territory large administered by Russia.
Posted by: JackStraw

Puppet states.

Interesting how people shy away from the most precise terms when things get ugly.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:11 AM (VYjdj)

115 Good morning all. Didn't sleep well last night so my butt is dragging right now.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB

pics ?

Hiya Jewells !

Posted by: JT at March 08, 2022 08:11 AM (arJlL)

116 Ukraine claims 11,000 Russian deaths, in 11 days. Does anyone believe this? That's over 4x the death rate of Americans at Omaha Beach. C'mon, man.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 08, 2022 07:58 AM (OssQ4)

A loss rate 4x greater than what we lost in hedgerow fighting in Normandy. Yeah, sure.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at March 08, 2022 08:11 AM (EpDzw)

117 Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (s2VJv)
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Maybe, maybe not. Putin might dial up the repression to eleventy and survive. No way to tell.

But, on his invasion, he is taking on a country the size of Texas with about 10% of the force he actually needs in order to pacify such a large space. This thing could get very ugly and last quite a while, unless he can break the fighting spirit of the Ukraine.

Expect brutality and terror.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (B+iHm)

118 If you don't like my current predictions, wait until I tell you about Taiwan.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Ckg4U)

119 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

120 All of these companies have acquired tremendous power over individuals, and now entire countries. Can you imagine where this could potentially lead? I can. I know you can too.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

That's just crazy talk.

Posted by: Companies working together to develop the Vaccine Passport at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (PiwSw)

121 If the Ukraine thing ends, what will the next Media Event be? Everything is Media now. There will have to be something new for them and us.

Well the convoy would have been the top story if not for the Ukraine invasion. They could pivot to that I suppose but they better hurry and get all their lies lined up.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (nxdel)

122 Some of you need to read up on Russian history - I keep saying this, their war mentality is always brute force, attrition and the ability to out suffer the opposition. The media trying to intimate unrest at home and trouble for the leadership there have absolutely no idea what Russia is actually like. You people want to fight the Reds, have at it, I'm like that kid from Arkansas on Tucker - I'll die for Texas but I'll be damned if I am supporting our supposed government in another 1984 war.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (QZ/dC)

123 Putin says he's going after Nazis in Ukraine. How come their demands don't mention Nazis?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Francis Collins is an agent of Satan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Go39q)

125 You know, if I didn't know better, I'd think they don't even care if they get wiped out next November and two years from now.
++++
This is, in reality, a generational opportunity for Democrats if they want it. If they were willing to sacrifice 2022 they could make unbelievable gains by doing so. Inflation cannot be fixed by November. It will take a year, and that's if everything goes right. Two years is a better bet. So tackle inflation and do it now, sacrifice November and be coming out of the funk and on a growth path by this time in 2024 and ride that wave into electoral victory. They could do it. Raise interest rates. Slash government spending to the bone. Use their House majority to rework entitlements - something the Republicans in an election year *must* go along with. Reimpose the Trump domestic energy policy in its entirety, if not go even further on the atomic front. Secure the border. Get aggressive on trade, especially with China.

But they won't. That would violate their arrogant belief that they know everything and are righteous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

126 124 Francis Collins is an agent of Satan.

After reading that article, signs point to yes.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

127 Wait, so building alliances with folks who happen to be religious is a violation of separation of church and state? Interesting. Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (HsAzN)

Freedom of religion means you're free to be religious within the confines of your own home, but beware of being faithful in public. Or voting.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 08, 2022 08:13 AM (45fpk)

128 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:13 AM (7jGlt)

129 Putin says he's going after Nazis in Ukraine. How come their demands don't mention Nazis?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

Because Putin is hoping for them to actually take the deal

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:14 AM (tKbS8)

130 Hey JT! Sure, like I'd actually send you a picture of my butt. You silly person.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 08, 2022 08:14 AM (nxdel)

131 Civility?

There is nothing as civil as a good old-fashioned Southern "Bless your heart."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 08:14 AM (lKAqb)

132 Note, Putin has access to the internet too and he hates the WEF globalists.

https://tinyurl.com/29435ftx
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:02 AM (ZLI7S)

Fk them both then

WEF is clearly my enemy right now
Putin mostly stays out of my way, so far

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 08:14 AM (lCui1)

133 I will say one thing though that has left me really uneasy. And that is the organized pile-on (and mostly, the acquiescence) of major corporations who have signed on to pull their services to an entire country. You can now be brought to heel if you don't do exactly as you're told. No money for you. No services for you. All of these companies have acquired tremendous power over individuals, and now entire countries. Can you imagine where this could potentially lead? I can. I know you can too.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

To be fair to the corporations, Russia demanded as much as we did on how that would go - they passed laws last week that effectively told corporations "you're with us or against us, and if you're against us, get out" - now, that was after the world started boycotting, so it became tit for tat, but in that game, corporations were probably wise not to play with a dictator at war...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (exHjb)

134 ...(Francis) Collins claimed that the Trump administration uniquely violated norms of separation of church and state in reaching out to white, Protestant voters. "[Separation of church and state] all got pretty muddy under the Trump administration. There was clearly a heavy effort to try to build political alliances with particularly white evangelicals. And it worked," Collins said.

Wait, so building alliances with folks who happen to be religious is a violation of separation of church and state? Interesting. Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Now do blacks and politicking from the pulpit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (6eU6O)

135 But they won't. That would violate their arrogant belief that they know everything and are righteous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)
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Indeed. Their hubris knows no bounds. Unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer (and possibly die) first before they fall.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (YIVH2)

136 Freedom of religion means you're free to be religious within the confines of your own home, but beware of being faithful in public. Or voting.

Let's be honest. The Progressives and both Party Establishments believe that they are Humpty Dumpty and words me "exactly what [they] want them to mean, no more and no less."

Freedom of religion means mumble mumble mumble, because if they ever set forth a clear set of rules, people would attempt to make them abide by said rules.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (7jGlt)

137 But they won't. That would violate their arrogant belief that they know everything and are righteous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

They could do all that, *say* they're doing the opposite, and reign for 100 years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (6M5T5)

138 "...Slowly Putin is being squeezed into a corner..."

A corner occupied by China, India, Turkey and most of the rest of the world outside of the US and the Eurozone. Kind of a roomy corner they got over there.

As the U.S.destroys their dollar-hegemony, makes one kind of wonder who is in the corner, the US and Europe, or the rest of the world?

Posted by: Wade Hampton at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (Su9Le)

139 Lady in Black - yeah, one thing we should be observing is the corporae/media complex going after who they arbitrarily decided to oppose. Forget for a moment the Baddie McBadderson Putin, but consider the power that power arrayed against " your cause".

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (Vr12I)

140 >>Puppet states.

>>Interesting how people shy away from the most precise terms when things get ugly.

You are looking at from a western point of view not Putin's. This is his backyard and for decades the west agreed to not expand NATO closer to Russia. We have systematically broken that agreement.

It's not being pro-Putin to recognize reality. We spent years fighting back on communist expansion sponsored by the Soviets throughout Latin America and South America. We almost went to war over ICBMs in Cuba.

We knew Putin's red line. Biden is on video acknowledging it went he was in the Senate on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He and others in NATO knowingly decided to keep poking the bear. Putin is a bad guy but there is no denying NATO helped cause this war.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

141 I will say one thing though that has left me really uneasy. And that is the organized pile-on (and mostly, the acquiescence) of major corporations who have signed on to pull their services to an entire country. You can now be brought to heel if you don't do exactly as you're told. No money for you. No services for you. All of these companies have acquired tremendous power over individuals, and now entire countries. Can you imagine where this could potentially lead? I can. I know you can too.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)
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It's the BDS playbook that the Left has been trying against Israel for decades, but there are no barriers to implementing it against Russia. It's also probably illegal, not that it matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

142 Hey JT! Sure, like I'd actually send you a picture of my butt. You silly person.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB

LOL !

Posted by: JT at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (arJlL)

143 A loss rate 4x greater than what we lost in hedgerow fighting in Normandy. Yeah, sure.
Posted by: WiNO -

That period of fighting lasted over a month, after the landings had taken place.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (VYjdj)

144 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (sDz6A)

146 I said before that I didn't buy the vax being a population control device because the people who didn't get it are generally less compliant... (I have met one person who wanted it but couldn't get it bc health) but I read recently that the effects of the shots won't be seen in the population that gets it but in their children, with the girls experiencing premature failure of their ovaries. And that this was done by design.

I really hope that isn't true.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (tFnCj)

147 124 Francis Collins is an agent of Satan.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (Go39q)

According to the article, Russell Moore is friends with Collins??????

I knew that guy was bad news. He was the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics person until last year.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (PiwSw)

148 >>>Collins claimed that the Trump administration uniquely violated norms of separation of church and state
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Collins defines "norms" as anything necessary to promote the anarcho-leftist vision. To accomplish this Collins wants to divorce civil society from religion. This radical idea does nothing other than destroy civilized, enlightened communities, leaving jungle rules in its place.

People like Francis Collins sound so placid and so calm, but he advocates a revolutionary terror-state.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (y8OK5)

149 Biden making his totalitarian move on BitCoin. Surprise. There is no escape from Surveillance State. Enjoy your feudalism.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:18 AM (tiR3O)

150 We knew Putin's red line. Biden is on video acknowledging it went he was in the Senate on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He and others in NATO knowingly decided to keep poking the bear. Putin is a bad guy but there is no denying NATO helped cause this war.
Posted by: JackStraw

You are ignoring that Putin threatened over states, and that for decades, the USSR/Russia violated whatever the Hell it felt like.

You used a western term 'autonomous state'. Russia only uses that when talking to the west. They, and the people trapped there, don't call it that.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:19 AM (VYjdj)

151 Now do blacks and politicking from the pulpit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 08:15 AM (6eU6O)

That would be rayciss....I think you know that.

Posted by: BignJames at March 08, 2022 08:19 AM (AwYPR)

152
2 US Senators, Cruz and R Johnson, will talk to the People's Convoy of truck drivers today...at least some legislators are doing the bare minimum for us...
Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (exHjb)

But talking to the Jan 6th political prisoners, not so much.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

153 97

The next media event IF Ukraine ends or fatigue sets in with the public? Since the media is actually pretty lazy, they will resurrect Covid because it would take so little effort and the public has already been indoctrinated.

Posted by: Ziba at March 08, 2022 08:20 AM (S1hrL)

154 79
It took three weeks to get to Baghdad for the U.S., but this two weeks is "failure"? -Not buying it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (Ckg4U)

Three weeks to Baghdad. And 20 years to bug out of Afghanistan.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

155 The issue I have with most current geopolitical analysis is thst it assumes the US is being run by goid guys

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 08:20 AM (lCui1)

156 Can anyone show where Putin's plan was to conquer all of Ukraine, and rule it or install his puppet?
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He could have only quickly seized the remaining ethnic Russian areas and a "land bridge" to Crimea that Biden literally gave him "permission" to do.

Instead he's aiming for the whole country although you're right we can't know for sure if it was outright conquest; conquest and installing a puppet, leaving a garrison; an attempt to get the Zelensky Government to flee a la Afghanistan's government and then get a new "pacifist" government installed; or capturing the whole country but returning it as an independent state less the territorial "liberations", either absorbed into Russia or made "independent" states.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:21 AM (UHVv4)

157 So our new masters will be the BRICS? Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:21 AM (tiR3O)

158 152
2 US Senators, Cruz and R Johnson, will talk to the People's Convoy of truck drivers today...at least some legislators are doing the bare minimum for us...
Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (exHjb)

But talking to the Jan 6th political prisoners, not so much.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, the other 48 are doing neither, so progress? Cruz is still trying to rehab his image, so our winter pile on seems to have worked to put him back to working for us, at least for the bare minimum...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:21 AM (exHjb)

159 Will somebody please summon the fuckin meteors?!?!?!

Posted by: Xandar at March 08, 2022 08:21 AM (7cTrk)

160 I really hope that isn't true.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 08, 2022 08:17 AM (tFnCj)
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It would not surprise me in the least. The Powers That Be have shown that they have NO moral compass whatsoever (or it points due south) and will do ANYTHING that will further their globalist agenda with them ruling a shattered world.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 08, 2022 08:21 AM (YIVH2)

161 Media reduces everything to a spectator sport, which once again is going on, this time with Ukraine. It seems kind of demeaning, and probably debases us in some way.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:22 AM (Vr12I)

162 156 Can anyone show where Putin's plan was to conquer all of Ukraine, and rule it or install his puppet?
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The restore the Soviet Union meme is a Clinton talking point. Putin wants to protect Russia from US. Always has. Now that he has China as his wing man he is quite capable of doing so. Way to go Branden.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:22 AM (tiR3O)

163 2 US Senators, Cruz and R Johnson, will talk to the People's Convoy of truck drivers today...at least some legislators are doing the bare minimum for us...
Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:08 AM (exHjb)

Cruz talking

how novel

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (us2H3)

164 PS - The Trucker People's Convoy will be doing another route on 495 while the trucker leaders speak to the Senators, so they are still here (overnighting in Hagerstown MD every day)...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (exHjb)

165 Can anyone show where Putin's plan was to conquer all of Ukraine, and rule it or install his puppet?
-------------------------
He could have only quickly seized the remaining ethnic Russian areas and a "land bridge" to Crimea that Biden literally gave him "permission" to do.

Instead he's aiming for the whole country although you're right we can't know for sure if it was outright conquest; conquest and installing a puppet, leaving a garrison; an attempt to get the Zelensky Government to flee a la Afghanistan's government and then get a new "pacifist" government installed; or capturing the whole country but returning it as an independent state less the territorial "liberations", either absorbed into Russia or made "independent" states.
Posted by: andycanuck

Someone else gets it.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (VYjdj)

166 To be fair to the corporations, Russia demanded as much as we did on how that would go - they passed laws last week that effectively told corporations "you're with us or against us, and if you're against us, get out" - now, that was after the world started boycotting, so it became tit for tat, but in that game, corporations were probably wise not to play with a dictator at war...

--

Just putting Russia aside, it's part and parcel to where we've been heading for a number of years now. The cancelling is now a huge weapon, not just against American conservatives, but a limitless worldwide tool that will surely be used to achieve whatever goals they have in mind. It's not tinfoil hatty. One would have to be blind to not see the potential.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

167 I'm so old I can remember when the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome and the Trilateral Commission were the evil cabals scheming to take over the world... whatever happened to them? Is the WEF just the new, improved 2.0 or 3.0 or 10.0 version of those organizations?

Posted by: Secret Square at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (9WuX0)

168 From Russell Moore's website:

"The Wall Street Journal has called Moore "vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate." He was named in 2017 to Politico Magazine's list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington, and has been profiled by such publications as the Washington Post and the New Yorker."

When the world loves you that much, Pastor, you're doing it wrong...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 08, 2022 08:24 AM (PiwSw)

169 Collins wants to divorce civil society from religion.

And he's largely succeeding.

I want to point out that the most main-stream example of a good Christian is... Ned Flanders. Yeah, from the Simpsons. Other than him, who in pop culture represents Christianity (or Judaism, frankly) as a positive thing? The culture matters.

That said, I don't think this will turn out the way he and his ilk think it will. Religion (and Christianity and Judaism more than most other religions) is what gives men a reason to trust people they don't know - people who aren't of their "tribe" or culture. If you don't have a solid moral touch point (and morality and religion are tied together quite tightly), your society can't hold together. Which means places that keep their religion will be bastions of relative peace and safety in his anarchist dystopia.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:24 AM (7jGlt)

170 >>You are ignoring that Putin threatened over states, and that for decades, the USSR/Russia violated whatever the Hell it felt like.

>>You used a western term 'autonomous state'. Russia only uses that when talking to the west. They, and the people trapped there, don't call it that.

No, I'm not ignoring anything. I'm seeing the world the way it is. You are also ignoring that the people in the Donbas region voted overwhelmingly to join Russia and there has been deadly fighting there for years.

Putin sees NATO as an existential threat to Russia because it is. The entire reason NATO exists is to push back on Russian aggression. But in his view it is NATO that has been aggressively moving on Russia.

He just helped put down a color revolution sponsored largely by the west in Kazakhstan. He knows we ran one in Ukraine in 2014. He sees territory that was at worst neutral being gobbled up by the west and moving right up to his border and frankly he has a point.

NATO promised over and over not to do this and Putin warned over an over if we did there would be war. NATO didn't stop and he brought war.

Putin can be a bad guy and we could have acted stupid at the same time.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

171 Gubernatorial Candidate Anthony Trimino Explains Why California is Ready for a GOP Takeover
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Another bad link. Decaf doesn't work, JJ.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 08, 2022 08:25 AM (R0Tis)

172 Everything is broken. The only fix is moar government

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 08:25 AM (R8uWY)

173 Good morning. Gas at Shell down the street at $4.19/gal.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at March 08, 2022 08:25 AM (88xKn)

174 128 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:13 AM (7jGlt)

"I've been doing that for almost two weeks, tovarische!"

- - Bladdermeer

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

175 "Three weeks to Baghdad. And 20 years to bug out of Afghanistan."
-Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

Different impetuses, different goals, different generals, moving goalposts.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:26 AM (Ckg4U)

176 I will also note that while I get the concern about eastern Ukraine turning into puppet states, at the same time, the people in those regions have the same right to self-determination that all of us should (though we mostly don't) have, and they voted to separate and set up their own governments. I'm not okay with overriding that decision just because we don't think it'll turn out well for us.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 08, 2022 08:26 AM (tFnCj)

177 For those looking for the Tucker Carlson commentary last night, it was pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PC7DzTRS7A

Posted by: Slash Buzz at March 08, 2022 08:26 AM (tjGJt)

178 Morning peeps.

IMO Putin is losing his grip. In every way. A cease fire with Ukraine would give Putin several days or weeks to consolidate things and reevaluate. If Ukraine doesn't abide I really think Putin's going to go all in and level the country by any means necessary.

Russia did not perform as expected. Some military dudes are going to pay a price for that failure.

What happens after is debatable, but Putin will still be in charge. At least for a while longer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2022 08:26 AM (BFigT)

179 There is a complete embargo of the truck convoy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (R8uWY)

180 "Instead he's aiming for the whole country although you're right we can't know for sure if it was outright conquest;..."

That is not what he is asking for right now. He didn't even mention (that we know of) Zelensky being removed.

The end result of running off the Russians (by accepting the deal) is just the thing to burnish Ukraine into a more cohesive country. I don't think the Russians would want to mess with them again, considering.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (Cfk8j)

181 Putin is a bad guy but there is no denying NATO helped cause this war.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

THAT is what is so galling about it all... the ultimate "Let's you and him fight".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (6FeV1)

182 171 Gubernatorial Candidate Anthony Trimino Explains Why California is Ready for a GOP Takeover
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Another bad link. Decaf doesn't work, JJ.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 08, 2022 08:25 AM (R0Tis)

Fixed. Dang. Sorry for the foul-ups this AM.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (s2VJv)

183 Zelensky said Ukraine will not accept ultimatums from Russia. He thinks the adulation is his forever and that he can keep this up. Eventually, even the Ukrainians will be angry at seeing their homes and men killed, so that Zelensky can command the world stage. Take the deal.
I suspect that was the deal all along and that "our side" knew this and planned on jetting him off to his Florida mansion where he could get a book deal and a TV show. Forces inside Ukraine refused this, for a combination of good and bad reasons.
He seems bound and determined to pull the US in, and I hope he fails in that.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (ONvIw)

184 167 I'm so old I can remember when the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome and the Trilateral Commission were the evil cabals scheming to take over the world... whatever happened to them? Is the WEF just the new, improved 2.0 or 3.0 or 10.0 version of those organizations?
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The needs of the Too Big To Fail have always been at the forefront throughout history. America, as designed, was the only successful attempt to level the playing field. With the advent of Wilsonian Progressiveism we are back to being serfs and slaves. Work shall set you free.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:28 AM (tiR3O)

185 Mississippi Audit: Hundreds of Thousands of Mark Zuckerberg's Election Funds Were Stolen and Misused
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I'm glad to see an audit in a state we won. IMHO we should have them in EVERY state, from CA to WV. (After all, even the reddest states have cities. Many of which are corrupt Democrat run. Ooops, redundancy there.)

Posted by: Eeyore at March 08, 2022 08:28 AM (R0Tis)

186 Today's civil society is already divorced from religion. Frances Collins is a trained monkey dancing to his organ grinders tune.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:28 AM (Go39q)

187 Will somebody please summon the fuckin meteors?!?!?!
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There was supposed to be one in 2023 but it looks like it won't after all. Pull for the Yellowstone Caldera instead.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:28 AM (UHVv4)

188 That brings up a good question - why are all modern dystopian stories set in totalitarian states?

We used to get a good mix of totalitarian and anarchy dystopian fiction (The Post Man (the book, not the movie), Mad Max, The Book of Eli), but for the last decade or more, it's only been totalitarian states...

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:28 AM (7jGlt)

189 183 Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (ONvIw)

Zelensky = Sonny Corleone (hothead)
Putin = Solozzo/Barzini
??? = Tom Hagen

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

190 we drove Russia right into China's arms

good day's work, boys

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)

191 Putin is a bad guy but there is no denying NATO helped cause this war.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM

We can't expect Russia to honor their agreements when we keep trying to expand NATO onto Russia's front door.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

192 Just putting Russia aside, ...
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Are you new here, LiB??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (UHVv4)

193 181 Putin is a bad guy but there is no denying NATO helped cause this war.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)
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If you mean by NATO the US and Britain you are correct. Most of Europe just wants to avoid another slaughter fest. See the Bushies and Clintons on why the elite must have a war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:30 AM (tiR3O)

194 If you don't like my current projections, wait until I tell you about China and Australia.

We live in Interesting Times.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:30 AM (Ckg4U)

195 179. OAN just did a live ride along with one of the truckers ten minutes ago.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 08, 2022 08:30 AM (0lYmX)

196 If you mean by NATO the US and Britain you are correct. Most of Europe just wants to avoid another slaughter fest. See the Bushies and Clintons on why the elite must have a war in Ukraine.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:30 AM (tiR3O)

Yeah, the Brit commenters on their dailies are very gung ho for the US to get involved, the UK not so much.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (ONvIw)

197 Has anyone asked Fauci for his thoughts on Ukraine?

Where the hell is that evil little dwarf, anyhow?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (3D/fK)

198 190 we drove Russia right into China's arms

good day's work, boys
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Yep. Look for Brazil and India to sign up next. I think Venezuela is already onboard.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (tiR3O)

199 I'm still not buying this "known truth" that Russia overextended, failed, etc.
They're going to get everything Putin wanted, watch. And he will pretend to "give up" the whole of Ukraine.

We have literally no actual intelligence as to what Putin set out to do. None. And the people in charge of knowing just spent the last 5 years lying about everything Russian.
Add on that Hillary and Obama burned every last spy we had. And did we forget the OPM hack? Gonna pretend that wasn't mined for cross-references?

The only failure here is in the White House, for not knowing what Putin wants and not stopping it

Posted by: Well at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (bsXSq)

200 It took three weeks to get to Baghdad for the U.S., but this two weeks is "failure"? -Not buying it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (Ckg4U)
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I keep hearing this but it is a completely different case. The methodical U.S. advance had public milestones and as each milestone was met the next advance happened. You'll recall them better than I, but total air superiority and complete devastation of the professional military units were the two most important at the time. Our goal of losing very few people and minimizing civilian casualties in the advance was also met, through a deliberative (almost slow) advance.

Russia has accomplished none of these sorts of milestones, and hasn't even publicly announced what their military objectives are. But we know Ukraine still has effective air defenses and still has professional troops fighting. We also know Russia plans to be increasingly brutal to civilians.

Iraq and Ukraine are very different cases.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (435XZ)

201 Someone else gets it.
Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:23 AM (VYjdj)

I don't think either of you get it on this one particular point... if you want to peel off a chunk of territory, you don't invade just that territory and leave the rest of the enemy untouched as a base to launch a counterattack from. That would be foolish.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:32 AM (6FeV1)

202 Zelensky = Sonny Corleone (hothead)
Putin = Solozzo/Barzini
??? = Tom Hagen

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

He's not a wartime consiglieri

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:32 AM (ONvIw)

203
Fixed. Dang. Sorry for the foul-ups this AM.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (s2VJv)

Drunken stupor?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Yeah, the Brit commenters on their dailies are very gung ho for the US to get involved, the UK not so much.

Is that so different from any other war in the last 60 years?

"Yankee go home!"
"You're not the boss of us!"
{something bad happens}
"Where was the US when we needed you!?"

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:32 AM (7jGlt)

205 Surprised no one has commented on the articles about Cuomo. I saw several headlines yesterday about him saying "Cuomo rips 'cancel culture,' hints at a political comeback" and laughed my ass off at the thought he seriously thinks he has a chance to come back.

Granted, the Dems have no bench to pull from anyway, but they'll bring Hillary back before Cuomo. And there are plenty of safe, mediocre Dems in NY to run for Senate and Gov.

Posted by: Grimmy at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (0cx7j)

206 Yeah, the Brit commenters on their dailies are very gung ho for the US to get involved, the UK not so much.
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They grift on our wake like seagulls following a shrimp boat. We are the money spigot of international grift. We meaning American Taxpayers.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (tiR3O)

207 I don't think either of you get it on this one particular point... if you want to peel off a chunk of territory, you don't invade just that territory and leave the rest of the enemy untouched as a base to launch a counterattack from. That would be foolish.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:32 AM (6FeV1)

There is no way Ukraine would have failed to bomb and assault the Russian majority areas, so you are correct.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (ONvIw)

208 "Drunken stupor?"

This is what happens when Kurt isn't here to provide suggestions and oversight.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (3D/fK)

209 This cover for today's "NY Post" made me happy-kids without masks. Yes; I know this is a big "meh" to people in places that have long been without masks, but it was a pleasure to see them waiting at the bus stop without masks, and the boy on the cover of the NY is smiling and adorable, and I think it's a good day everyday to be thankful for things:

https://nypost.com/cover/march-8-2022/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2022 08:34 AM (GezNK)

210 200 It took three weeks to get to Baghdad for the U.S., but this two weeks is "failure"? -Not buying it.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM (Ckg4U)
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It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:35 AM (tiR3O)

211 ----------------------
They grift on our wake like seagulls following a shrimp boat. We are the money spigot of international grift. We meaning American Taxpayers.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (tiR3O)

Yep, but in all fairness, we've been pushing for Ukraine to join NATO for quite a while. W pushed it in 2008, as our most recent GOP presidential proponent.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:35 AM (ONvIw)

212 Has anyone asked Fauci for his thoughts on Ukraine?

Where the hell is that evil little dwarf, anyhow?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (3D/fK)

Hopefully getting mauled by beagles.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Here's a data point: We also have no evidence the sanctions or seizures of yatchs are having any effect.
Not one Russian oligarch has broke ranks with Putin.
Doesn't that suggest they're in on the plan and see it working?

Success has a thousand fathers but failure is a orphan bastard-- none of them are "vying for the throne," are they?

Posted by: Well at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (bsXSq)

214 Zelensky should not cede one inch of land.

The thing with tyrants is that after you feed them, they eventually want more. Russia will not stop at Crimea and Donbass. They will be back in a few years under the guise of protecting those regions.

Putin has more enemies than NATO. His days are numbered.

Notice that the Federal Assembly has been quiet. That does not mean they have nothing to say. Putin's days are numbered.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (8Sqzu)

215 I know Putin is a former KGB guy but has he any military experience? That is to say has he been in combat?

Posted by: dantesed at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (88xKn)

216 197 Has anyone asked Fauci for his thoughts on Ukraine?

"where the fuck am I gonna launder this Chinese cash now ?"

Posted by: FAUCI at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (us2H3)

217 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2022 08:34 AM (GezNK)

I am thrilled that my grandsons don't have to wear those stupid things anymore, but I was surprised by how many kids still do

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

218 That leads us to CBD's assertion that Joey Soft-Serve will have a fresh pair of Depends slapped on him, thrust in front of the cameras, duly doped up on antipsychotics, cholinesterase inhibitors and Lomotil-laced Ensure, and declare a foreign policy victory, regardless of the fact that he and his team of imbeciles and incompetents would have had nothing to do with it.

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You say Joe-tay-to
I say Joe-tah-to
Let's call the whole thing off

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 08:37 AM (FVME7)

219
This is what happens when Kurt isn't here to provide suggestions and oversight.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (3D/fK)

I'm just giving JJ a way out.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

220 "He seems bound and determined to pull the US in, and I hope he fails in that."

Exactly. Time is not on our side here. The house is on fire.

If the US has any leverage over Zelenski, they should be encouraging him to take the deal. If we (Biden, ugh!) don't, then this means we accept the fact that things will escalate further. The longer this goes on, the greater the risk of the US and Russia having at it.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 08:37 AM (Cfk8j)

221 211 ----------------------
They grift on our wake like seagulls following a shrimp boat. We are the money spigot of international grift. We meaning American Taxpayers.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM (tiR3O)

Yep, but in all fairness, we've been pushing for Ukraine to join NATO for quite a while. W pushed it in 2008, as our most recent GOP presidential proponent.
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Yes he did. Please note his father is the only President of the US to have served as a CIA Director. His one and only term brought the concept of the NWO into being. Insane Trust Fund Babies have been around for awhile.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:38 AM (tiR3O)

222 Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:35 AM (tiR3O)

That's understandable considering he had McClellan.

Posted by: dantesed at March 08, 2022 08:38 AM (88xKn)

223 A wesite I go to on a daily basis has become so shrill about the Ukraine that I am considering dropping it from my list. They sound as unhinged as the Leftists about the situation.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:38 AM (Vr12I)

224 "I'm just giving JJ a way out."

Something...something....golden bridge...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (3D/fK)

225 f the US has any leverage over Zelenski, they should be encouraging him to take the deal. If we (Biden, ugh!) don't, then this means we accept the fact that things will escalate further. The longer this goes on, the greater the risk of the US and Russia having at it.
Posted by: pawn

This assumes that Putin will actually honor any of this, or that he will even stop, or that things will not escalate.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (VYjdj)

226 Policy used to be, get a prepared a possible to smash Russia into a million pieces, then work tirelessly to prevent that from being necessary.

Somehow that turned into, eviscerate our strategic ability and popular will to smash Russia into a million pieces, then work tirelessly to piss them off and make a conflict inevitable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (6FeV1)

227 I am thrilled that my grandsons don't have to wear those stupid things anymore, but I was surprised by how many kids still do

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

Now that Rev has retired, he does the occasional student teaching across the border in Illinois. The schools there have dropped the mask requirements. When you've lost Illinois.....

Posted by: grammie winger at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (45fpk)

228 Why are no conservative media (except CFP) reporting on Trump's call for NATO confrontation with Russia as reported in The Daily Mail?

Posted by: Valiant at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (3MiF8)

229 213 Here's a data point: We also have no evidence the sanctions or seizures of yatchs are having any effect.
Not one Russian oligarch has broke ranks with Putin.
Doesn't that suggest they're in on the plan and see it working?
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Any word on Southern California Russian Oligarch Homes being seized? They, like the Saudis, enjoy the climate.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (tiR3O)

230 Zelensky said Ukraine will not accept ultimatums from Russia. He thinks the adulation is his forever and that he can keep this up. Eventually, even the Ukrainians will be angry at seeing their homes and men killed, so that Zelensky can command the world stage. Take the deal.
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Take the deal if it primarily means not joining NATO and the EU. NATO expansion is obviously the threat Putin is most concerned about, and who can blame him?

But if it means becoming a puppet state to Russia, maybe extend the battle a little. Doing so gives Ukraine a chance to preserve a more marked level of independence and also gives some safety to Poland, the Baltic States, and Moldova/Romania. Teaching the Russians to stay out of empire-building is not a bad goal.

Anyway, as awful as the war is, stretching it out exposes both countries leaders as corruptocrats fighting over the same money pile, and that is a useful education for the world, IMO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (435XZ)

231
This assumes that Putin will actually honor any of this, or that he will even stop, or that things will not escalate.
Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:39 AM (VYjdj)

"I've seen into this man's soul. He is good."

- - Chimpy McBushitler

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

232 >>It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.

But there was no high speed rail then.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

233 Where are the UN troops? Do they even serve a purpose anymore? Why wasn't the cold war joke known as NATO dissolved when Europe came up with the European Union? What has the EU Defense Force done?

Seems to me the European Union is a kinder, gentler Soviet Union. As far as I'm concerned, NATO should have been discontinued with the Treaty of Lisbon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (oWZwa)

234 we drove Russia right into China's arms

good day's work, boys
Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)

A reverse Nixon! Well done, geniuses.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (y7DUB)

235 The ~~spice~~ oil must flow.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (FVME7)

236 If the mask doesn't seal to the face, it's providing very little protection from airborne anything.

It's amazing how stupid humans actually are.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

237 that is a useful education for the world, IMO.

Only if they pay that much attention, which people don't.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (7jGlt)

238 we drove Russia right into China's arms
good day's work, boys
Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)
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This will be the long-term strategic consequence. I see two possible outcomes for Russia. Either the regime essentially fails and the remnants pivot to China, or the regime succeeds and pivots to China. I suspect one of the reasons that Trump more or less undertook detente with Russia rather than aggression was because of this. He demonstrated that we *could* deal with Russia aggressively (I think this is why we attacked Syria and destroyed Russian defenses), but would prefer not to. The Western preference would be to have Russia at least nominally on our side, and integrated with our economic structures. They'd never be allies, but we could be cordial - and keep them out of China's sphere. This has been undone. The ejection from SWIFT is, I suspect, the tipping point, though the rest is pretty important, too. But we have now firmly kicked them out.

But Russia is small and poor by Western standards and they won't go it alone. Now, they'll go it with China, and be their first major foothold in the West.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

239 Any western leader advising Ukraine to reject dealing with Putin (maybe not this deal, but at least getting the ball rolling), who simultaneously will not 100% commit to joining a total war against Russia by Ukraine's side, is a charlatan and a dandy who should not be listened to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (6FeV1)

240 The only failure here is in the White House, for not knowing what Putin wants and not stopping it
Posted by: Well at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (bsXSq)

I think Biden knew exactly what Putin wanted and wanted to go along with it. He sent planes for the Ukrainian leadership to flee before the invasion began, not after. Ukraine didn't play ball and take off like the Afghans did. I can speculate all day long about why, but I don't think all of it was out of national pride. Just like our pols, their pols make a lot of graft from their high offices, and this graft comes with strings (as we see from how quickly the GOP shivved Trump)

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (ONvIw)

241 Shell has just apologized for buying russki oil and will donate all profit from those purchases to humanitarian aid.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2022 08:42 AM (X287T)

242 We will fight climate change to the very last Ukrainian, if necessary! - John Kerry

Posted by: leber at March 08, 2022 08:42 AM (v41tH)

243 ... Joey Soft-Serve will have a fresh pair of Depends slapped on him, thrust in front of the cameras, duly doped up on antipsychotics, cholinesterase inhibitors and Lomotil-laced Ensure, and declare a foreign policy victory ...

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"Geese in our time!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 08:42 AM (qVRSW)

244 I don't think either of you get it on this one particular point... if you want to peel off a chunk of territory, you don't invade just that territory and leave the rest of the enemy untouched as a base to launch a counterattack from. That would be foolish.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Putin did it when he grabbed the Crimea.

But at least you are admitting that this is a land grab. The whole nazi false flag appears to be tattered beyond repair.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:42 AM (VYjdj)

245 So the currently successful Russian invasion wouldn't have been able to have held off a counterattack against the Russian areas and any Ukrainian buffer area needed until the Ukrainians accepted the fait accompli that Biden's government thought would happen?

And without writing a military paper about how to do it 'my way', I didn't mean the Russians couldn't hit airfields, bridges, and road convoys on the Ukrainian side of the border. Maybe SPI will come out with a game in 2024? [SPI is still in business isn't it?]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:43 AM (UHVv4)

246 10K uncounted votes found in Houston 4 days after election: lawsuit

https://tinyurl.com/4djzza3w

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

247 Could be worse. Scheduled flying spiders could be Face Sized.

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 08, 2022 08:44 AM (taPSh)

248 one of my former customers on Maria atm

Georgette Mosbacher

she was always a fan of the war paint but now she is using a trowel and not a brush

Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)

249 As to why Zelensky turned down Putin's terms; why did Gen'l McCaullife say "Nuts" to the Germans at Bastogne? That looked like a good offer, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:44 AM (Go39q)

250 we drove Russia right into China's arms
good day's work, boys
Posted by: REDACTED at March 08, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)

And not for a second do I believe that Kalorama and the rest of the DC paid by China politicians did this by accident.
As for buying oil from Russia, Iran and Venezuela, pure Kalorama. And our GOP hides in the corner like 3 year old girls.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:44 AM (ONvIw)

251 Take the deal if it primarily means not joining NATO and the EU. NATO expansion is obviously the threat Putin is most concerned about, and who can blame him?
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I watched the Hitler Channel last night while they covered Stalingrad to Kursk. Not a big win for the Germans. As long as Germany doesn't want to fight Russians then Russia has nothing to fear from NATO. Macron, with the largest standing Army in the west certainly doesn't want to risk his neck on French military supremacy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (tiR3O)

252 If the mask doesn't seal to the face, it's providing very little protection from airborne anything.

It's amazing how stupid humans actually are.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Starting with health care facilities.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (y7DUB)

253 O idea who this Collins is but for sure a Leftist

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (ZPx5P)

254 What happened:
GZ: Hey, weve had some break ins in my neighborhood and theres a real suspicious guy, uh Retreat View Circle. The best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like hes up to no good or hes on drugs or something. Its raining and hes just walking around, looking about.
SPD: Okay, and this guy, is he White, Black, or Hispanic?
GZ: He looks black.

What WP reported:

GZ: Hey, weve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and theres a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like hes up to no good or hes on drugs or something. He looks black.

Trayvon had just bought skittles and arizona watermelon fruit cocktail juice to make PURPLE DRANK

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (yrol0)

255 Any western leader advising Ukraine to reject dealing with Putin (maybe not this deal, but at least getting the ball rolling), who simultaneously will not 100% commit to joining a total war against Russia by Ukraine's side, is a charlatan and a dandy who should not be listened to.
Posted by: Warai-otok

This is a fair point.

Sadly, the staging of talks in Munich was prescient. If Ukraine continues to fight for its life, it is likely to be alone.

I'm also concerned about shipping in arms and fighting to the last Ukrainian.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (VYjdj)

256 242 We will fight climate change to the very last Ukrainian, if necessary! - John Kerry

Posted by: leber at March 08, 2022 08:42 AM (v41tH)

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"I shall fight it on the yacht clubs, I shall fight it on private jet landing grounds, I shall fight in Al Gore's fields and mansions, I shall fight in at Davos; I shall never surrender!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (qVRSW)

257 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

The cynic in me thinks that all of this is simultaneously a giant "SQUIRRELL!!!" to get people's attention off the economic depression FJB is causing AND an attempt to keep a state of simmering hostility between us an Russia.

As long as Russia is an "enemy" and a "threat" they can be used as a punching-bag by politicians. Trump threatened that by nearly turning them merely into a "rival."

Things would be a lot more difficult for politicians if there were no major threats in the world.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (7jGlt)

258 But if it means becoming a puppet state to Russia, maybe extend the battle a little. Doing so gives Ukraine a chance to preserve a more marked level of independence and also gives some safety to Poland, the Baltic States, and Moldova/Romania. Teaching the Russians to stay out of empire-building is not a bad goal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:40 AM (435XZ)

Ukraine will be a puppet of Moscow - or Brussels. Just like DC is a puppet of Beijing. Zelensky doesn't care about the Ukrainian people, he just wants to siphon off a few million more before the end. Same as every other politician o the planet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (IUd0M)

259 Best comments here today are those pointing out that the Russian Federatin will now be bonded closer than ever to China. What other recourse do they have, since the West has declared them the source of all evil. We just love to do that sort of thing, and then are amazed at unintended consequences down the road.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

260 And here comes the Russia oil ban.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (ZLI7S)

261 This is what happens when Kurt isn't here to provide suggestions and oversight.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:33 AM

"And who provides suggestions and oversight to Kurt?" -- raimondo

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 08, 2022 08:47 AM (a3Q+t)

262 The biggest lesson of Ukraine is for every rogue country to get and keep nuclear weapons. Russia is treated respectfully for only that one reason, just like the Pakis were similarly treated respectfully during our Afghan adventure.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:47 AM (435XZ)

263 But at least you are admitting that this is a land grab. The whole nazi false flag appears to be tattered beyond repair.
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Moral Outrage demands Hitler and NAZIs be mentioned. Its Godwin's Law I believe. Hitler is a Rock Star and he only lasted 13 years. Amazing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:47 AM (tiR3O)

264 "Any western leader advising Ukraine to reject dealing with Putin (maybe not this deal, but at least getting the ball rolling), who simultaneously will not 100% commit to joining a total war against Russia by Ukraine's side, is a charlatan and a dandy who should not be listened to."

Puitin actually may be negotiating in good faith here. But beware the ones who are willing to watch you die as they slink away from supporting you. I'm looking at you, US State Department. Kadaifi would like to have a word with you.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 08:48 AM (Cfk8j)

265 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

266 Of course there was at the supermarket some Asian woman in mask with about a two year old, cute little girl in a mask and the two year old was tugging at their mask and pulling it down repeatedly in the two minutes in which I was in the floral section with them. What kind of moron puts their two year in a mask unless they HAVE to? Poor little girl The only thing I can think is that she comes from a country where there is regular masking such as China or Japan.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2022 08:48 AM (GezNK)

267 What other recourse do they have, since the West has declared them the source of all evil.
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Precisely. It also explains why so many Americans are on China's payroll.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:48 AM (tiR3O)

268 I'm also concerned about shipping in arms and fighting to the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: Blue Hen at March 08, 2022 08:45 AM (VYjdj)

Yeah. I'm just sick of the half assed meddling and amateur puppeteering.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (6FeV1)

269 It took three weeks to get to Baghdad for the U.S.,
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:01 AM

Don't forget the 9+ months of preparation...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (a3Q+t)

270 Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so "wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them."

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What part of march in step don't you understand?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (FVME7)

271 Things would be a lot more difficult for politicians if there were no major threats in the world.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (7jGlt)
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Yes indeed, and it is probably working for now, though not very well.

But external enemies on the other side of the world who aren't attacking us will become less and less meaningful with every dime that gas goes up in price, with every normal thing that is no longer available on shelves, with every monthly electricity bill, with every penny that corn and wheat go up, etc. The external diversion can only work for so long, and can only cover up and distract from relatively minor or moderate problems.

Our problems are severe and worsening and the distraction won't work forever or even for very long. Who cares about Putin slaughtering Ukrainians when you need a mortgage to fill your tank and your food budget is up by 100%?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

272 Feminist Thrillers: The Genre No One Wants But Hollywoke Won't Give Up On

That article was the first I'd heard of noted space whore Morena Baccarin being a Russian crime boss in a new series. But after watching the trailer I definitely won't be in my bunk.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (GdK3A)

273 The bottom line is that we abrogated our agreements not to expand NATO, and Putin waited until he had a Biden and a weakened US. It's sort of stupid to expect Russia, or any country, to honor agreements if we do not. Yes, we allow most of NATO to shit on us in terms of their financial obligations, so we set the bar low for our frenzz.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (ONvIw)

274 Best comments here today are those pointing out that the Russian Federatin will now be bonded closer than ever to China. What other recourse do they have, since the West has declared them the source of all evil. We just love to do that sort of thing, and then are amazed at unintended consequences down the road.
Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

Those that sleep with dogs wind up flea-bitten.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

275 PUTIN:

This is my last territorial demand in Europe.

Yeah I saw this movie.

Anyone who buys this is a fool

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 08:50 AM (d0Qel)

276 "But the inability to check and reverse the Deep State is the problem. Donald Trump miraculously won because he wanted to drain the swamp. What he did not bargain for was a swamp the size of the Pacific Ocean. He thought he had the 1945-era US Pacific fleet when in the event he was left clinging onto a pallet, and paddling for dear life."

Truer words never written.

Trump talks a lot about China.

THE most important battle plan Trump Must have is how to successfully fight and tame the Deep State Monster.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 08, 2022 08:50 AM (FCPbW)

277 If Zelensky was really targeted for death by Putin why hasn't bombed his office? He's practically doing daily talk shows from the place and as he says he's not hiding.

Putin doesn't need Chechen death squads, he's got bombs and missiles and he isn't shy about using either.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (ZLI7S)

278 I disagree that Russia will be bonded closer to China...instead, it will be owned by China and be China's puppet, whether or not it wants to be. China will swoop in and buy all the valuable assets now that everything is virtually worthless...

Now, if the next Russian leader doesn't like this situation, then there may be WWIII without us even being a factor...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)

279 Why nothing on the Guy Reffitt trial? FIRST January 6ther Defendant going on NOW.

Posted by: Close The Fed at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (LeNk3)

280 Our problems are severe and worsening and the distraction won't work forever or even for very long. Who cares about Putin slaughtering Ukrainians when you need a mortgage to fill your tank and your food budget is up by 100%?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

The media who turn everything into WWII. Zelensky is Churchill and Putin is Hitler..how can we not go to war? This is being asked quite a bit these days.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (ONvIw)

281 Okay, time to work-at-work, I guess.

Later, y'all.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (7jGlt)

282 Sorry: First J6ther Defendant TRIAL going on Now.

Posted by: Close The Fed at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (LeNk3)

283 we drove Russia right into China's arms - good day's work, boys
Posted by: REDACTED

Just wait until the famine hits central and south America, do you think China isn't crafting a narrative there as well?

The demonic junta (led mostly by WEF oligarchs) isn't just driving Russia into China's arms, but the rest of the world, at the same time alienating the West.

This soft siege on the West will soon be a full siege where what used to be three months wait for parts will be like never. Fewer countries will use our highly inflated fiat, and there will be no benefit making any treaties or deals with a nation that lies, cheats and backs out of treaties and contracts.

We need another George Washington, but even more we need a nation that deserves a George Washington.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (lD3vL)

284 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

So, noon'ish?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Putin has decided to use a novel tactic against the liars at NATO. He has told the truth at every opportunity. If that's Fourth-Generational Warfare, Russian-Style, I'll take it.

He has shown NATO and "Western" Journalism to be subversive bastards at every turn.

You don't have to like Putin to like the Truth.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (Ckg4U)

286 The biggest lesson of Ukraine is for every rogue country to get and keep nuclear weapons. Russia is treated respectfully for only that one reason, just like the Pakis were similarly treated respectfully during our Afghan adventure.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 08:47 AM (435XZ)
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Ukraine is somewhat special in that regard as I think Russia still retained command and control, but Ukraine had the hardware. The nukes they had after the fall of the USSR were probably not a great bargaining chip if I am remembering that correctly.

But there is another example: Libya. Gaddafi surrendered his nuclear and chemical warfare programs after we conquered Iraq and sought to cool relations with the US. Look where that got him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

287 Okay, with all this news over the last few days, I'm ready to start prepping. Black rifle, handguns, lots of ammo according to this place. Food. Water.

What else?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (X++p7)

288 So basically, Ukraine, according to the Russian terms, must unconditionally surrender.

That's isn't a deal. Ukraine might as well keep fighting.

Posted by: Archer at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (gmo/4)

289 As to why Zelensky turned down Putin's terms; why did Gen'l McCaullife say "Nuts" to the Germans at Bastogne? That looked like a good offer, too.
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SS Panzer Officer: My general says there is no point in continuing this fighting! He wishes to discuss terms of a surrender!

Major Harry Carlyle: We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner! Sorry!

SS Panzer Officer: [confused] What?

Major Harry Carlyle: We'd like to, but we can't accept your surrender! Was there anything else? [German officer walks off]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (UHVv4)

290 Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argued that in order to undermine Russia's power, we have to "end our dependence on oil and have the world transition to renewable energy." Because Russia will be able to sell oil as long as there's demand for oil, and called for a "climate emergency. . . "

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... and THERE IT IS. As predicted by myself and others when the COVID diktats started flowing.

Lockdowns 2: Elections Cancellation Boogaloo. If it saves just one tree. Who would stop them?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (qVRSW)

291 Where are we with the Polish Migs going to Ukraine at Biden's request. Is that on or off? Was this merely a PR gesture by Biden's brain trust to shine him up as a wartime leader?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (tiR3O)

292 Biden's poll numbers haven't budged. Stop lying you drooling imbecile.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

293 276
Truer words never written.

Trump talks a lot about China.

THE most important battle plan Trump Must have is how to successfully fight and tame the Deep State Monster.
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 08, 2022 08:50 AM (FCPbW)

Agree. To do that he would have to exert tremendous extra legal power, in order to combat a huge lawless entity. Brute force. Forget finessing these,people.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (Vr12I)

294 Breaking911
@Breaking911
EPA Administrator Michael Regan: "We're pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought."

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

295 Putin doesn't need Chechen death squads, he's got bombs and missiles and he isn't shy about using either.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (ZLI7S)

More theater and hyperbole and out and out lies, perhaps?

I marvel at how the Azov battalion was rehabilitated by the media into brave patriots without even a smidge of neo-nazi feellings.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:54 AM (ONvIw)

296 And not for a second do I believe that Kalorama and the rest of the DC paid by China politicians did this by accident.
As for buying oil from Russia, Iran and Venezuela, pure Kalorama. And our GOP hides in the corner like 3 year old girls.
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:44 AM (ONvIw)

The is NO GOP unless Trump leads the opposition to the Communists.
Without Trump it is all a race to to total domination and submission --of the USA population-- by mostly USA, GOP-assisted oligarchs.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 08, 2022 08:54 AM (FCPbW)

297 I disagree that Russia will be bonded closer to China...instead, it will be owned by China and be China's puppet, whether or not it wants to be. China will swoop in and buy all the valuable assets now that everything is virtually worthless...
Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)
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That's about as close a bond as you can get...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

298 I see the Turt Turd just dropped another one.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2022 08:54 AM (VhE0u)

299 "Who cares about Putin slaughtering Ukrainians when you need a mortgage to fill your tank and your food budget is up by 100%?"

Because it will make things worse.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (Cfk8j)

300 @Breaking911
EPA Administrator Michael Regan: "We're pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought."
Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)
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Zero-emissions future is zero future.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

301 Posted by: Kurt at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (HfvyZ)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

302 I disagree that Russia will be bonded closer to China...instead, it will be owned by China and be China's puppet, whether or not it wants to be. China will swoop in and buy all the valuable assets now that everything is virtually worthless...

The CCP has been drawing up plans for a while now to annex large chunks of Russia. If they can get there without firing a shot, it's a win-win for them.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (Fp5al)

303 >>More theater and hyperbole and out and out lies, perhaps?

>>I marvel at how the Azov battalion was rehabilitated by the media into brave patriots without even a smidge of neo-nazi feellings.

The amount of disinformation coming out from our garbage media is stunning. They are worse than Pravda.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

304 Posted by: Archer at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (gmo/4)

No. And this just isn't WWII, despite what the media wants us to believe

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (ONvIw)

305 Best comments here today are those pointing out that the Russian Federation will now be bonded closer than ever to China.�
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Not just that, but they've cut themselves free of the cancer of Big Tech. Sure, it's one evil boss for another.

But what's it say about the pure evil of US dominated Big Tech that Russia prefers China's evil big tech over them?

Posted by: Well at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (bsXSq)

306 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.

Will he explain why he spent his weekend in Delaware sitting on his wrinkled ass during international turmoil?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (y7DUB)

307 282 Bidens poll numbers have jumped 8 points in less than 2 weeks
Only a stable genius would recognize Putin's blunder as being "smart"
Russia's economy has collapsed.
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Russia can feed and fuel itself. Two things America can't do.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (tiR3O)

308 298 I disagree that Russia will be bonded closer to China...instead, it will be owned by China and be China's puppet, whether or not it wants to be. China will swoop in and buy all the valuable assets now that everything is virtually worthless...
Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)
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That's about as close a bond as you can get...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

Til Russia "Venezuelas" China and declares all the assets state assets that are theirs again...that would be WWIII...and China couldn't even complain b/c they've done it, too...

Posted by: Nova local at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (exHjb)

309 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.

Posted by: Zek at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (w/5KC)

310 With over 2 million illegal invaders coming into the country last year that we know of, excuse me if I say I don't give one fuck about the Ukraine. I want the military on our southern border.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (z2xUm)

311 307 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.

Will he explain why he spent his weekend in Delaware sitting on his wrinkled ass during international turmoil?
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Deep Thoughts.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (tiR3O)

312 292 Where are we with the Polish Migs going to Ukraine at Biden's request. Is that on or off? Was this merely a PR gesture by Biden's brain trust to shine him up as a wartime leader?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:53 AM (tiR3O)

I think that was a nutty idea, and I think Poland shot it down (ba -dump!) From the reports that I can find, it seems that the talk of having a "no-fly" zone is moot, as the Russian AF has been AWOL for over a week now. Thoughtful piece over at PJ Media, speculating that this is most likely because Russia underestimated the survivability and capability of Ukraine's AA defenses. Also made the point that modern AA missiles have gotten so good (even the manpads) that only aircraft with a lot of stealth features have any chance of surviving an engagement. America has invested a lot in stealth tech, Russia has not. (they have some designs, but they never built more than a few) Result: Russia's AF is mostly useless in this conflict.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (evAgx)

313 So basically, Ukraine, according to the Russian terms, must unconditionally surrender.

That's isn't a deal. Ukraine might as well keep fighting.

Posted by: Archer at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (gmo/4)
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Yep. The Ukrainians want to keep fighting. They don't want their country ruled by Putin.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

314 Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (ONvIw)

I respectfully disagree

Posted by: Archer at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (gmo/4)

315 Anyone who buys this is a fool
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 08:50 AM (d0Qel)

Of course. Which is why a policy of the strongest containment possible without being overly provocative is best. Everyone on the West has been doing the opposite. Provocations with the illusion of containment. Now, the only options are complete and total counterattack, or minimize strategic losses and end hostilities as soon as possible. How to handle Afterwards comes afterwards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

316 Our problems are severe and worsening and the distraction won't work forever or even for very long. Who cares about Putin slaughtering Ukrainians when you need a mortgage to fill your tank and your food budget is up by 100%?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Lets pick out kernels of corn from this shit. There are scores of books written about how wheat is bad for your diet and your health; how HFCS is a heart disease catalyst; how driving everywhere rather than biking or walking encourages obesity and overall bad health.

Instead of driving your kids across town to soccer practice or martial arts, give them a manual lawn mower and when they are done with the yard, point out to them the elderly down the street who need things done.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (lD3vL)

317 Oh, and Russell Moore claims David French as a friend.

OK then.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (PiwSw)

318 ++++
Zero-emissions future is zero future.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

The rich get richer and the poor get peasant.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

319 The amount of disinformation coming out from our garbage media is stunning. They are worse than Pravda.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

Yep, and let's not let the distinctly Jewish media off the hook. Both Tablet and Forward have announced that any talk about the Azov guys being neo-nazis is Russian disinformation and Azov loves the Jews

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

320 311 With over 2 million illegal invaders coming into the country last year that we know of, excuse me if I say I don't give one fuck about the Ukraine. I want the military on our southern border.
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Fist Bump. When I see the US Army on the Southern Border I may start believeing we have a National Defense.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (tiR3O)

321 An email just alerted me "Happy International Women's Day."

Will there be more or less whining than usual today?

Posted by: Stateless at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (FsZ2q)

322 Still stand by my thinking it's a Czar is land grab

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (ZPx5P)

323 An email just alerted me "Happy International Women's Day."

Fancy sammiches for everyone!

Posted by: Zek at March 08, 2022 08:58 AM (w/5KC)

324 I watched the whole of Tuckers rant.

And they call him a Putin stooge.

Somehow - and he says this - questioning whether going to war with Russia is a good idea is bad.

Posted by: blaster at March 08, 2022 08:58 AM (9otr5)

325 Okay, with all this news over the last few days, I'm ready to start prepping. Black rifle, handguns, lots of ammo according to this place. Food. Water.
What else?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM (X++p7)

Meds, First aid goodies, booze and weed.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2022 08:58 AM (sDz6A)

326 @Breaking911
EPA Administrator Michael Regan: "We're pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought."

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Here he comes
Here comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.

You bet your life Speed Racer
Will see it through.
Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer, Go!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (FVME7)

327 The amount of disinformation coming out from our garbage media is stunning. They are worse than Pravda.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)
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Our press is far worse than Pravda or Izvestia ever were, for one reason. In those Soviet press organs, there was somebody working there who was working there at the point of a gun. A graphic designer, a press operator, a delivery driver - somebody was there who was there only because he would be murdered if he wasn't. And that man - even if it was only one man - prevented the rot from being total.

With our press, every single man working for them does so by his own choice. Not one person in any press outfit at any level is there by compulsion. Not one person is working for them because to *not* work for them would mean a bullet or a gulag. There is no excuse and no justification and no rationalization for our press. Every single person, to the last man, is there by choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

328 After a 32-year old black Chicago teacher died of what teachers' union officials claimed was covid acquired from an infected student, the union used the teacher's covid death to push for keeping schools shut down.

Yesterday it was finally revealed what really killed the teacher: she drank herself to death. The ME's report revealed that the teacher died as a result of chronic ethanolism (progressive alcohol poisoning of the organs, caused by chronic drinking, i.e. alcoholism).

https://tinyurl.com/2p937enc

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (k4dH2)

329 Yep. The Ukrainians want to keep fighting. They don't want their country ruled by Putin.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC

Right, they want it ruled by different oligarchs. I don't think the Ukrainian people were consulted as to their views any more than we are.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

330 Biden to Issue Executive Order on Cryptocurrency

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... and THERE IT IS. As predicted by myself and others when crpto first arose on the scene. The feral governments of the world will broker no competition or freedom, but mostly freedom.

All Your Crypto Are Eventually Belong To Us, Criminalized, and Likely Both.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (qVRSW)

331 Of course. Which is why a policy of the strongest containment possible without being overly provocative is best. Everyone on the West has been doing the opposite. Provocations with the illusion of containment. Now, the only options are complete and total counterattack, or minimize strategic losses and end hostilities as soon as possible. How to handle Afterwards comes afterwards.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

Yes we should never have held out the promise of Nato membership to Ukraine or any country bordering on Russia. Sigh, but what is done is done

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (d0Qel)

332 I'll give back some of what I've taken, and stop bombing you, if you let me keep what I actually wanted all along.

Posted by: Putin at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (ApVam)

333 "If the mask doesn't seal to the face, it's providing very little protection from airborne anything.

It's amazing how stupid humans actually are.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau"

The only reason the masks are tolerable for more than a few minutes is because they were worn loosely by most people and at least half the air was going around them. If they had been sealed tight people would have been passing out in stores, schools and their cars. Pure theater, like most of the emergency measures.

Posted by: Ripley at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (MxEKc)

334 Okay, with all this news over the last few days, I'm ready to start prepping. Black rifle, handguns, lots of ammo according to this place. Food. Water.
What else?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 08, 2022 08:52 AM

Black Rifle? Those guys are pikers. Why don't you try some REAL coffee that DOESN'T think you're a wannabe for supporting the 2nd amendment?

Posted by: King Harv at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

335 The conflict between Ukraine and Russia also provides a suitable distraction for the greens and radical left to push their own agenda here in the states. There's no real attempts being made to curtail the runaway inflation, skyrocketing gas prices or any common sense moves on the supply chain issues.

The green new deal is likely to be dumped in our laps wholesale by the summer. Or some bastardized form of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (BFigT)

336 Meds, First aid goodies, booze and weed.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2022 08:58 AM (sDz6A)

And Masks!!!!

Posted by: Prepper Karen at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (PiwSw)

337 Will he explain why he spent his weekend in Delaware sitting on his wrinkled ass during international turmoil?

Does anyone know if meticulous visitor records are kept when acting "presidents" are "working" from home?

These prolonged sojourns to the personal estate seems to correlate tightly with these frequent crises.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (lD3vL)

338 instead, it will be owned by China and be China's puppet, whether or not it wants to be
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Yes, and we know Biden is working for the Chinese. How do we know Putin isn't too? I'm sure there's plenty of space for him and the WEF types in New Zealand.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (UHVv4)

339 Because Russia will be able to sell oil as long as there's demand for oil, and called for a "climate emergency

I'm so old I remember when the FNM told me the world was going to run out of oil so we had to transition to "green power" immediately.

Apparently though we we need to transition to "green power" immediately because Russia has infinite oil. If only we knew that then!

Personally I can't wait, in 2 years, when it is all quiet on the eastern front that there is yet ANOTHER reason to transition to "green power" immediately.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (ESjRY)

340 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

Yes! The left completely took over the media. I also think they took over the GOP and the GOP "media". Was Kristol or French ever really conservative? They couldn't have adored Obama like they did if they were.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (ONvIw)

341 Just a reminder: the only humans who are carbon neutral are dead.

Posted by: blaster at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)

342 Biden could open up drilling in this country, buy more oil from Mexico and Canada, but instead he's cozying up to "Death to America" Iran.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

343 Russia can feed and fuel itself. Two things America can't do.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (tiR3O)

Baris and Barnes had lots of charts illustrating this. Amazing how quickly the uniparty undid every fucking accomplishment of DJT.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (y7DUB)

344 "Still stand by my thinking it's a Czar is land grab"

Of course, no one really changes their mind unless they get a bloody nose. I think this is Putin's point.

Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (Cfk8j)

345 Just a reminder: the only humans who are carbon neutral are dead.
Posted by: blaster at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)

They are? As they decompose, don't they give off methane or other toxic crap?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (d0Qel)

346 >>Does anyone know if meticulous visitor records are kept when acting "presidents" are "working" from home?

They are and Biden is refusing to release them. Why should he? It's not like the media will force the issue.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

347 I don't think the Ukrainian people were consulted as to their views any more than we are.
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Bingo.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (tiR3O)

348 342 Just a reminder: the only humans who are carbon neutral are dead.
Posted by: blaster at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)

Over time, ironically, they turn into carbon. Frankie Carbone in the meat locker notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (s2VJv)

349 JJ writes: " they don't even care if they get wiped out next November and two years from now. "
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Bingo! Dems were wiped out after passing Obamacare, and so what? Ocare is still with us.

Same with crippling the energy industry, they will take their lumps and wait for the next time in POWER.

Posted by: JM in Florida - Biden the Moscovite Candidate at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (L7jyl)

350 Good News, people:

Lynching will now be illegal AND include all crimes that aren't in fact...

you know, Lynching.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (L+BRH)

351 As hard as I try to get upset about Russia, my main concern with that conflict is that the Junta doesn't wag the dog into some colossal fuck-up. I don't much like either side, so a long battle may be the best outcome.

Meanwhile, back in Washington the fight goes on against utopian leftists fantasists, the Propaganda Press, and corruption of the Deep State.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (nweGN)

352 After a 32-year old black Chicago teacher died of what teachers' union officials claimed was covid acquired from an infected student, the union used the teacher's covid death to push for keeping schools shut down.

Yesterday it was finally revealed what really killed the teacher: she drank herself to death. The ME's report revealed that the teacher died as a result of chronic ethanolism (progressive alcohol poisoning of the organs, caused by chronic drinking, i.e. alcoholism).

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"Never let a good self-assisted suicide go to waste." -- Shit even Alinsky or Epstein hadn't conceived or considered

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (qVRSW)

353 Biden is also going to Texas today to talk about the burn pits.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

354 Right, they want it ruled by different oligarchs. I don't think the Ukrainian people were consulted as to their views any more than we are.

Welcome to the New Normal: Neo-feudalism followed by genocide.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (lD3vL)

355 Yes we should never have held out the promise of Nato membership to Ukraine or any country bordering on Russia. Sigh, but what is done is done
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 08:59 AM (d0Qel)

At least we could stop offering it. Our "leaders" are still equivocating on this.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

356 Happy 308 day! Now go shoot something!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (6eU6O)

357 "Never let a good self-assisted suicide go to waste." -- Shit even Alinsky or Epstein hadn't conceived or considered
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (qVRSW)
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Sure it is. The "teacher died of COVID she got from a student but she actually drank herself to death" is just a false flag like any other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (DU+/6)

358 At least we could stop offering it. Our "leaders" are still equivocating on this.
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

Who is offering it?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (d0Qel)

359 Russia can feed and fuel itself. Two things America can't do.
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It's not that we can't do it.

It's that we don't do it. Because the government won't let us.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (k4dH2)

360 343 Biden could open up drilling in this country, buy more oil from Mexico and Canada, but instead he's cozying up to "Death to America" Iran.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

As the Bee pointed out yesterday, we need to give Alaska back to the Russians. That way we could drill and produce the oil there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (evAgx)

361 We will have the Green new Deal, and China will have oil and coal. Fuck this

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (ONvIw)

362 Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Overturning Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Conviction

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Mrs. Wrecks' favorite show, Secrets of Playboy, made Cosby look like a super sleaze last night. Also Tony Curtis, Jim Brown et al.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (FVME7)

363 After a 32-year old black Chicago teacher died of what teachers' union officials claimed was covid acquired from an infected student, the union used the teacher's covid death to push for keeping schools shut down.

So...we are arguing about 1 death? How many teachers were killed by "yutes" this year? Or illegals? Or drugs?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (ESjRY)

364 At least we could stop offering it. Our "leaders" are still equivocating on this.

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Because now it would be a capitulation. Promising something we really never intended to give has put us in a very dangerous situation. Never promise that which you cannot deliver.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (sX1BW)

365 Black Rifle? Those guys are pikers. Why don't you try some REAL coffee that DOESN'T think you're a wannabe for supporting the 2nd amendment?
Posted by: King Harv at March 08, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

I forgot about those guys. They must be in a constant state of euphoria thinking about going to war with Russian.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 08, 2022 09:05 AM (4thlk)

366 Biden is like the guy who removes his own roof and then blames the rain for all his sh!t getting soaked.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1977 at March 08, 2022 09:05 AM (kfcYC)

367 Well the convoy would have been the top story if not for the Ukraine invasion. They could pivot to that I suppose but they better hurry and get all their lies lined up.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 08, 2022 08:12 AM (nxdel)

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Was going to say something similar, but checked to see if someone beat me to it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:05 AM (qVRSW)

368 It's that we don't do it. Because the government won't let us.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (k4dH2)

Take the jackboot off of America's neck, and the economic boom would be audible from Pluto.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 09:05 AM (6FeV1)

369 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (w/5KC)
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Speaking of potential presidential candidates, did you happen to catch Pence on Mornings with Maria today? He had his talking points down already and refused to stop talking even when Maria was trying to interrupt him for a hard break. He's definitely running.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (VhE0u)

370 Supreme Court Declines to Review Decision Overturning Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Conviction

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Good. The state should be shamed for even taking it to the Supreme Court.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (sX1BW)

371 -----

Was going to say something similar, but checked to see if someone beat me to

Wait. That's a thing?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

372 The CCP has been drawing up plans for a while now to annex large chunks of Russia. If they can get there without firing a shot, it's a win-win for them.
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I read several years ago [so uninfluenced by very current events] that the Chinese are already conducting their own Mexican-like invasion of Siberia.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

373 I would guess that China can easily prop up the Russian economy if it so chooses. Their demand for raw materials and consumables seems endless. And then, of course, they will sell their product to us, at a premium.

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (Vr12I)

374 It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Sherman took that left turn at atlanta.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:07 AM (R8uWY)

375 179 There is a complete embargo of the truck convoy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 08:27 AM (R8uWY)

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This is also true. The MDM-MSM will have no part of it, same as with the Canadian convoy. Only what little remains of the right-leaning free press and citizen journalists, but mostly citizen journalists.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:07 AM (qVRSW)

376 333 I'll give back some of what I've taken, and stop bombing you, if you let me keep what I actually wanted all along.
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Well said. This is precisely what's afoot. Putin is correcting Khrushchev's mistake. Had it not been for Stalin's murder campaign in Ukraine the schism between the Ukes/Ruskies would likely never have happened.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:07 AM (tiR3O)

377 As the Bee pointed out yesterday, we need to give Alaska back to the Russians. That way we could drill and produce the oil there.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And, while we're at it, give Manhattan back to the ~~Indians~~ ~~Native Americans~~ ~~First Peoples~~ First Pxoplxs just because.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (FVME7)

378 I don't think the Ukrainian people were consulted as to their views any more than we are.
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Bingo.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:02 AM (tiR3O)

Acting like Ukrainian people speak with one unified voice is...how shall I put this?..not smart.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (y7DUB)

379 "And what if Zelensky is thinking that as well? Yes, the world is hot and horny to portray this guy as a hero but would he actually allow even more bloodshed and destruction of his own people and nation in order to see Putin removed because he's an existential threat or worse, out of a personal vendetta? Forget the media image; Zelensky's a man, not a saint."

==

He is an actor, playing Napoleon in TV.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (V13WU)

380 *on tV

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (V13WU)

381 Lol. DNC does not countenance insurgency tickets. They will always correct the voters who are making the wrong choice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (R8uWY)

382 He's definitely running.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (VhE0u)

How can these old men who have done nothing but politics their entire lives be such fucking amateurs at politics?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (6FeV1)

383 He's definitely running.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2022 09:06 AM (VhE0u)
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He and Jeb! can fight it out for last place.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (nweGN)

384 Same with crippling the energy industry, they will take their lumps and wait for the next time in POWER.

Except the Oligarchs have purchased the GOP in terms of participating in the coordinated effort to destroy the energy sector once and for all in the former West.

The GOP has held Texas for a generation, and during that time, starting with 'W', particularly with Rick Perry (who ironically was placed in the Department of Energy under Trump) and continued on with Abbott they have been conspiring with the billionaires to eviscerate Texas oil and coal to be replaced piecemeal with wind and solar.

They even passed laws to speed up the ED needed to confiscate the windy plains and build the power lines to the major urban areas. The GOP is every bit as guilty as the Communists and Leftists in their quest to frustrate human flourishing through energy starvation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (lD3vL)

385 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek

Haven't heard from Sinema lately.

Posted by: davidt at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (ApVam)

386 " I don't think Zelensky at this point has any choice but to accept these terms"

D.C. will pressure Zelensky NOT to take the deal.

Mark it.

There's too much grift to give up here. What CDB and company suggested actually would be the best resolution but this is a post-sane country.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (nMx88)

387 Sherman took that left turn at atlanta.
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Sherman, like Sheridan, mainly made war on farms run by the wives of Confederates. The word 'Bummer' originates from Sherman's march. It was his looters (aka supply) that fed his army. They came away with a lot of family silver as well.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (tiR3O)

388 386 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek

Haven't heard from Sinema lately.
Posted by: davidt at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (ApVam)

Horse head, in her bed?

Posted by: kraken at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (Vr12I)

389 And, while we're at it, give Manhattan back to the Indians Native Americans First Peoples First Pxoplxs just because.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:08 AM (FVME7)

No way. You fucking mammals got it all shitted up. You can keep it.

Posted by: The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (6FeV1)

390 Haven't heard from Sinema lately.
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Hopefully, she is wearing hooker boots. Makes me hard.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (tiR3O)

391 I was at the hospital in Canada with my mother, who is fine. BUT for the first time I saw that vaccine passport thing in effect.

Workers were coming in, holding up their phones with a green bar code on and walking past. Very creepy.

I'm one of the crazies who believe this was a depopulation shot, so this won't last...

Posted by: Stateless at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (FsZ2q)

392 The amount of disinformation coming out from our garbage media is stunning. They are worse than Pravda.
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And pro-Putin types pretending that a 600-man battalion in an army of 215,000 active- duty troops and 900-thousand reservists, without including new volunteers, represents Ukraine's military and polity isn't the other side of that same coin?

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (UHVv4)

393 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek

I suspect the democrat primary in 2024 is gonna be lit and very crowded.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (bVYXr)

394 310 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (w/5KC)
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If he did, it would fit a pattern: Find the person who's done the most damage to my reputation/agenda and make her/him Veep. Courage!

Posted by: WisRich at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (G0vdT)

395 The junta may want green energy and use this as a tool, but vast swaths of America doesn't. It is a religion, no doubt. But I have to the even wine box Karen is looking at prices and is saying, " let's first get it down and then spend."

The fact that we have spent what we spent and still no "plug" of windmills and sun to fill the gap has demonstrated how far there is to go and what a waste it has been.

Karen has been slapped in the face. She will still profess belief at the alter. But her pocket book comes first.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (NW9xb)

396 Christian University Bans Professor From Campus for Critiquing Its Dive Into "Equity" and "Inclusion"

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Blessed are they who shove equity and inclusion down our throat for they shall inherit the new San Francisco.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (FVME7)

397 390 Posted by: The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (6FeV1)

Vogons >> The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (s2VJv)

398 We are in an ice age. The South Pole has NOT melted for millions of years. This part of this ice age is called the Holocene. The Holocene summer is past. We are fairly late into the Holocene fall. Winter IS coming.

Posted by: Marooned at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (w6hJ9)

399 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.

You mean he will speak incoherently for 15 minutes and then wander off stage.

Posted by: dantesed at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (88xKn)

400 Your media at work. In 2019 the NYT called the Azov Battalion a "Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization".

Today they are part of the Ukrainian National Guard.

https://tinyurl.com/2waumsrp

You, however, are still a Nazi.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

401 Anyone know where I can pick up a good gas siphon hose?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (d0Qel)

402 Religion (and Christianity and Judaism more than most other religions) is what gives men a reason to trust people they don't know - people who aren't of their "tribe" or culture. If you don't have a solid moral touch point (and morality and religion are tied together quite tightly), your society can't hold together. Which means places that keep their religion will be bastions of relative peace and safety in his anarchist dystopia.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at 08:24 AM

I love this. So well said.

Posted by: Mongerel at March 08, 2022 09:13 AM (XHSZb)

403 Who is offering it?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (d0Qel)

If we weren't why was Zelensky saying "well is Ukraine part of this or not", meaning NATO". Bush pushed for this as did Obama, so I think it is highly likely that their buddies at State and in the administrations still wanted it. Biden may deny it now, but I just don't believe it. Biden also assured Zelensky that NATO would support Ukraine, meaning that the US would.

https://tinyurl.com/ybktfdeu

The Biden people have been offering a lot. I still, however, believe that it was illusory and that Biden wanted and expected Zelensky to move to his Florida mansion

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:13 AM (ONvIw)

404 394
I suspect the democrat primary in 2024 is gonna be lit and very crowded.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 08, 2022 09:11 AM (bVYXr)

Interesting thought. It indicates either a) Biden is out, voluntarily or otherwise before that, or b) the narrative that he's the greatest president 80 million votes cast by 12 people will go the way of the dodo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:13 AM (s2VJv)

405 From yesterday, in Australia the *vaccinated* account for:

4 out of 5 Covid19 infections
9 out of 10 hospitalizations
9 out of 10 ICU admits
4 out of 5 deaths

Australia has camps for the un-vaxxed...what's up with that?

Are mandated jabs more about digitally ID-ing everyone on the planet and not about preventing disease?

Posted by: Ju at March 08, 2022 09:13 AM (aTmM/)

406 ENERGY is Life. Literally.

Today anyone who believes we can live our current lifestyles without significant petroleum-derived energy in less than five decades is an idiot or a fool. Unfortunately, realists like us are going to suffer along with the idiots and fools when energy available in the US declines.

Soon the rubes are going to learn more about energy availability and affordability than they ever wanted to. They will learn the hard way that renewables will not come close to meeting their energy wants, and ultimately, the energy needed to sustain their lives.

Posted by: Gref at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (AMIL/)

407 For a long while, Biden pointed to the (Fed supported) stock market as evidence his policies were not total and complete failures. Now, not so much.

The market is slowly turning away from Ukraine and returning to inflation and energy chaos. Increasingly, the energy sector is everyone's favorite investment idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (nweGN)

408 357 Happy 308 day! Now go shoot something!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:03 AM (6eU6O)

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"Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (qVRSW)

409 Globohomo wants to use Ukraine to destroy Russia

I presume they will hint to Zelensky they will get the Western countries to intervene to keep the conflict going as long as possible.

Direct intervention is insanity as it might lead to nuclear war - but the Biden junta just might go there if it sees a "quick victorious war" as the only way to help for November. Yes, that is a stupid idea...and yes that means Biden might go for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

410 So where does Larry Fink stand on war with Russia?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (tiR3O)

411 Posted by: The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (6FeV1)

Vogons >> The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Yay! Vogon Poetry hour!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (6eU6O)

412 Bush and Joebama both wanted Ukraine in

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (ONvIw)

413 402 Anyone know where I can pick up a good gas siphon hose?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (d0Qel)
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Lot's of 'em, unused, just north of Kiev. Just laying on the road.

Posted by: WisRich at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (G0vdT)

414 "Zelensky's a man, not a saint"

Oh, from what I've read, he is much worse than that.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (hlxe7)

415 It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.

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The North got close to Richmond quickly and early in the war. But like now, they had bumbling idiots as generals.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (sX1BW)

416 Your media at work. In 2019 the NYT called the Azov Battalion a "Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization".

Today they are part of the Ukrainian National Guard.

https://tinyurl.com/2waumsrp

You, however, are still a Nazi.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

There are Neo Nazis all over Europe. They, what ever they are, are the not an critical issue here other than a talking point for putin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (d0Qel)

417 Zelensky to move to his Florida mansion
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:13 AM (ONvIw)
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What Florida mansion? Does Zelensky have a house in Florida?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (nweGN)

418 409 Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

Predicament: do they want to end it quick to allegedly help in November or do they keep it going to push for green death?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv)

419 The fact that we have spent what we spent and still no "plug" of windmills and sun to fill the gap has demonstrated how far there is to go and what a waste it has been.

There is fifty-four square miles of Walmart owned windmills between Waco and Corsicana Texas. Every single time I go through that area fewer than half of those mills (and they go from horizon to horizon) are turning. And by turning, it might be some lazy one rotation a minute speeds.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:15 AM (lD3vL)

420 Best comments here today are those pointing out that the Russian Federation will now be bonded closer than ever to China.
Not just that, but they've cut themselves free of the cancer of Big Tech. Sure, it's one evil boss for another.
But what's it say about the pure evil of US dominated Big Tech that Russia prefers China's evil big tech over them?
Posted by: Well at March 08, 2022 08:55 AM (bsXSq)

As Richard Fernandez points out (more or less) is that we're now seeing the End of Pax Americana and the the Davos/Soros/Democrat's Dream of Six Equal SuperPowers.

Both China and Russia have been using the Six Equals as boob-biat for our surprising stupid and naive overclass. Even now China is freeing itself from Big Tech's influence and the silliness of cryptocurrency, which they will use their own crypto to become the world's currency.

Russia saw that it was being cut out of the six powers world in favor of the emerging Pax Sinoca(?). And went to war for national interest influence and remaining relevance, blowing up that whole narrative. Except for the stupid-

Enter Slow Joe and his LowIQ Crew.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

421 Frances?

That's the spelling for a woman.

Francis is for a man. I know a couple (they are not a couple).

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (lKAqb)

422 > I read several years ago [so uninfluenced by very current events] that the Chinese are already conducting their own Mexican-like invasion of Siberia.
_________________
Some Chinese politico said the area around the Russian city of Vladivostok historically belonged to the Chinese. Gets the ChiComs a bit closer to Japan too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (BFigT)

423 Hopefully, she is wearing hooker boots. Makes me hard.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:10 AM (tiR3O)

TMI

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (GezNK)

424 >>>Anyone know where I can pick up a good gas siphon hose?

>Don't you have one of those vacuum pumps with a saliva sucker? Too noisy?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (oWZwa)

425 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
2h
From Stephen Colbert

@StephenAtHome
: "Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4/gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It's important. I'm willing to pay $4/gallon. Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon b/c I drive a Tesla"

https://tinyurl.com/4wp2uddj

Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

426 Sherman, like Sheridan, mainly made war on farms run by the wives of Confederates. The word 'Bummer' originates from Sherman's march. It was his looters (aka supply) that fed his army. They came away with a lot of family silver as well.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:09 AM (tiR3O)

Well, aside from having to contest every foot of ground between Chattanooga and Atlanta with Joe Johnston and then John Bell Hood, but yeah.

(My great-great grandfather saw combat in the Atlanta Campaign.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (dfRN6)

427 "Here he comes
Here comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.

You bet your life Speed Racer
Will see it through.
Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer, Go!
"

You're not really 29 years old.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (3D/fK)

428 370 Manchin's latest posturing on Ukraine strikes me as a guy running for President, or Veep. Given the state of the Dems bench I wouldn't be surprised at a Tulsi/Manchin insurgency ticket.
Posted by: Zek at March 08, 2022 08:56 AM (w/5KC)

Manchin's "posturing" is brilliant politics - he's figured out the perfect angle to win benefits for his states energy sector from this crisis, at no cost to himself or his state of West Virginia. We would do well to jump completely on board with him here.

*Yes*, ban all imports of Russian oil.
*Yes*, this will send energy prices through the stratosphere and crash our economy.
*Yes*, the economic desperation this will cause will lead to the collapse of the green scream movement, and push us back into a rational national energy policy faster than any other option we have at the moment.

The Oregon Senator's push for a "climate emergency" is insane, and self destructive, because even if it was tried, a "carbon neutral" energy policy is absolutely impossible. It cannot be done, as Germany, which tried it, is finding out now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

429 There are Neo Nazis all over Europe. They, what ever they are, are the not an critical issue here other than a talking point for putin

I disagree. We just be shoving this in the FNM's face constantly.

Apparently having one guy with a NAZI flag in the Freedom Convoy made them all NAZIs and gave the government carte blanche to beat them and ride them down, but having some percentage of the Ukrainian armed forces be NAZIs? BARELY AN INCONVENIENCE!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (ESjRY)

430 As late as December, Biden told Zelensky that NATO membership was in his own hands. We do not know what the Ukraine response was.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (ONvIw)

431 402 Anyone know where I can pick up a good gas siphon hose?

Good luck with that. Gasoline tanks since the mid-nineties have come standard equipped with anti-siphon fuel necks. You will need to cut fuel lines and pump it out.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (lD3vL)

432 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

SAINT OF THE DAY
St. John of God (1495-1550) was born in Portugal and became homeless and alone at the age of 8. he found work as a shepherd until the age of 22. At that time he enlisted as a soldier in the Roman Emperor's army to escape an offer of marriage to the shepherd's daughter. There he led a wild and dissolute life; fond memories of his parents was all that kept the spark of faith alive in his heart. At age 40 he left the army and reformed himself, beginning with a pilgrimage The Way of St. James in Spain. Appalled at his sinful and wasted life, he resolved to spend his remaining days in good works. He was affirmed in this direction by a vision of the Infant Jesus and a sermon of St. John of Avila, who became his spiritual director. He later dedicated his life in service to the poor, homeless, and sick, especially the mentally ill. Many people were attracted to him and his work, and he organized his followers into the Order of Hospitallers which still exists to this day. St. John of God is the patron saint of many causes, especially of hospitals, hospital workers, nurses, the sick, and the dying.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (Msys3)

433 AAA national average gas price, regular:
Today: $4.173
Yesterday: $4.065
Week ago: $3.619
Month ago: $2.774

Brutal. Gas is up by 50% since this time last year but is also up 15% in a mere one week and 2.7% since *yesterday.* That's a death blow if it keeps up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

434 415 It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.

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The North got close to Richmond quickly and early in the war. But like now, they had bumbling idiots as generals.
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But like now, they had an endless supply of immigrants to continue wave attacks.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (tiR3O)

435 Russia saw that it was being cut out of the six powers world in favor of the emerging Pax Sinoca(?). And went to war for national interest influence and remaining relevance, blowing up that whole narrative. Except for the stupid-

Enter Slow Joe and his LowIQ Crew.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

"Yeah, about that . . . "

- - Global Caliphate

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (s2VJv)

436 The chinese and russians hate each other and are a greater threat to each other than the US is to either. They are both just using this situation and others to try and destroy the USA and along with the dems doing a damn fine job

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (d0Qel)

437 Dr. Jordan Peterson has commented that cheap energy is how the world's poor are able to rise out of their poverty.

The Greens really, really hate poor (or all) people.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (lKAqb)

438 Soon the rubes are going to learn more about energy availability and affordability than they ever wanted to. They will learn the hard way that renewables will not come close to meeting their energy wants, and ultimately, the energy needed to sustain their lives.

Posted by: Gref at March 08, 2022 09:14 AM (AMIL/)

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20th Century: "Over 100 million killed by collectivist ideology."
21st Century: "Here, hold my windmill."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (qVRSW)

439 Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.
====

But that is just based on feels. I really, really, really find it hard to believe this notion you and cbD and others are putting out that the Russians did not plan on being there more than 2 days...or two weeks..or two month...or two years. Or for Zelensky being propped by up by US for more than two weeks. Remember when US tried to remove Russia's ally Assad ? Paid for Syrian civil war? Assad still there. Or Russia's ally Maduro? Still there. Somebody is screwing up all right. And the assumption that Russia wanted to "invade all of Ukraine".It does it need all of it. Russian demands have not changed. What did change is NATO's insistence on Ukraine being in the alliance. Maybe no one noticed, but that was not just walked back, but even described as something along the lines of "Ukraine has no future in NATO. what made you think that it did?!"

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (V13WU)

440 The biggest casualty of this will be the US (dominated) Petro Dollar.

We have invited over 1/2 the world to conduct energy commerce in foreign currencies. Hurting nobody but ourselves.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (lhr6a)

441 >>There are Neo Nazis all over Europe. They, what ever they are, are the not an critical issue here other than a talking point for putin

Actually, no. Nazis have been a big issue in Ukraine since WWII.

Do you know a lot of other countries in Europe were prominent WWII era Nazis have their paintings prominently displayed on politicians office walls?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)

442 So...we are arguing about 1 death? How many teachers were killed by "yutes" this year? Or illegals? Or drugs?
______________

The woman who drank herself to death was actually one of two teachers whose "covid deaths" were used by the Chicago teachers' union to keep schools shut down.

The other teacher who died was also a black female, age 44. The article says she died from covid-associated pneumonia, with diabetes and hypertension as contributing factors. So most likely obese and obviously in poor health to begin with.

We knew from the start of this "pandemic" that the people most at risk from the virus were the obese and those who had health problems like diabetes. They are the ones who should have been kept at home (and given therapeutic treatments early in the course of the virus), not the kids. We punished the kids for years because of fat, lazy, drunk teachers who wouldn't even make the effort to look after their own health.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (k4dH2)

443 Dr. Jordan Peterson has commented that cheap energy is how the world's poor are able to rise out of their poverty.

The Greens really, really hate poor (or all) people.

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What they really hate is the thought that anyone should be able to have what they have.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (sX1BW)

444 >>Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.

Tough to do to a leader with 70+% approval of his citizens.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (lhr6a)

445 I believe that there are degrees of dem and pub. Conservative to just a smidgen to the right of leftist for the pubs, wackadoodle to the old blue dogs for the dems. So yes, the Lincoln Project is pub but holding on by their hang nails.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (2NHgQ)

446 (My great-great grandfather saw combat in the Atlanta Campaign.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (dfRN6)

I had an ancestor who was one of Sherman's staff officers on that march. Some people thought he should have been shot. The Army gave him a medal, and a promotion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

447 @StephenAtHome
: "Today, the average gas price in America hit an all-time record high of over $4/gallon. OK, that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. It's important. I'm willing to pay $4/gallon. Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon b/c I drive a Tesla"

https://tinyurl.com/4wp2uddj
Posted by: redridinghood at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC)
++++
There is no force more destructive than self-righteous ignorance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 08, 2022 09:20 AM (DU+/6)

448 429 There are Neo Nazis all over Europe. They, what ever they are, are the not an critical issue here other than a talking point for putin
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The Tyranny of the Charlottesville Polemic is sacred. Do not question the moral superiority of your betters.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:20 AM (tiR3O)

449 I suspect the democrat primary in 2024 is gonna be lit and very crowded.

We aren't going to make it to 2024.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:21 AM (lD3vL)

450
Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

You'd presume the Russians had a plan if that didn't happen. But...we have no real insight into Russian thinking so who knows.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

451 ha

catturd2
I simply dont understand why Russia feels emboldened during the Biden regime.

https://tinyurl.com/bwyu6he5

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:21 AM (yrol0)

452 They came away with a lot of family silver as well.
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The Ron Paul Battalion.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:21 AM (UHVv4)

453 Actually, no. Nazis have been a big issue in Ukraine since WWII.

Do you know a lot of other countries in Europe were prominent WWII era Nazis have their paintings prominently displayed on politicians office walls?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)

Sure Serbia and others. And anyway there has been no change in the ukrainian situation that would provoke this kind of russian reaction. Look I am not defending ukraine, as a Jew, I have no love for them, but this is naked russian aggression and all the window dressing will not change thart

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (d0Qel)

454 "John Kerry Face" Sized Spiders now interfering with radar and sat-comms near Azores. Sunlight, too.

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (taPSh)

455 And Ukraines's future in the EU? I hear that the whole fast tracking pronouncements are feeble attempts by certain Eastern European parties to prop up Zelensky's attempts to cling to something he lost. Germany and HOlland, who actually pay for the EU, are not keen on putting broken up, territorially compromized basket-case of corruption on the fast-track to the EU.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (V13WU)

456 On his way out of office in 2010, Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko honored prominent WWI era Nazi leader Stepan Bandera with the Hero of Ukraine award.

That is not normal all over Europe or anywhere else for that matter.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (ZLI7S)

457 Tough to do to a leader with 70+% approval of his citizens.
Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (lhr6a)

That number is up there in lights with Biden's 81 million votes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (evAgx)

458 Our elites are willing to crash the economy and shut down oil to push green energy even though they know that the path we are on will kill millions. They don't think they will be affected.
Narrator: They will be affected. We will make sure of that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (R8uWY)

459 37 "Trump knows that you always walk away from the table times 2 or 3 before the other side makes its best offer."

Not when they are burning down your house.
Posted by: pawn at March 08, 2022 07:49 AM (Cfk8j)

Exactly, or Trump wouldn't have walked away from the White House without a fight. (still bummed that he did that)

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (hlxe7)

460 garrett. You mean like the rutabaga got 81 million votes and kim jong idiot gets 100% of their votes. Yes, I know that Putin is very popular, noticed that when I visited mother russia. However, the population may use other means to divest themselves of the madman. I've been praying that God sends him home to hell.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (2NHgQ)

461 434 415 It took Lincoln four years to reach Richmond. That's about 150 miles from DC.

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The North got close to Richmond quickly and early in the war. But like now, they had bumbling idiots as generals.
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But like now, they had an endless supply of immigrants to continue wave attacks.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (tiR3O)
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But like now (Trump, DeSantis), they seemingly only had two men willing to lead the fight (Grant, Sherman).

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (qVRSW)

462 The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.

If Putin faces a real risk of losing power, and thereby his life, what makes anyone think he won't go out with a blaze of glory?

Remember what we did to Qaddafi. I suspect Putin isn't going to let some American allied outfit sodomize him and then shoot him in the head right before Russia falls apart...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

463 Yay! Vogon Poetry hour!
Posted by: rickb223

Where's Obama?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (FVME7)

464 Oh and it was the KGB, Putin's former employer, who murdered Bandera.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

465 Breaking: Biden to halt Russian oil purchases.

Bonus: Putting the US Economy into a stagflation nose dive curtesy of the New Green Deal.

Posted by: WisRich at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (G0vdT)

466 Posted by: The Glorbnaxian Galactic Protectorate
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Splitters!

Posted by: The Protectors of the Glorbnaxian Galaxy at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (UHVv4)

467
Do you know a lot of other countries in Europe were prominent WWII era Nazis have their paintings prominently displayed on politicians office walls?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)

No. There is a lot going on that is being whitewashed about Ukraine. I don't think Ukraine is a massive bed of antisemitism, but I don't buy the idea that there in now, miraculously, none at all. Plenty of the Azov whitewash is to hide CIA involvement as we obscure how involved our pols were in Ukraine.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (ONvIw)

468 In regards to Ukraine (novel subject, right?) there was a good piece on Substack the other day going through the history of the Russia/Ukraine/US entanglement, showing how each of the three legs to the stool are rotten to the core. This is why the whole "Zelensky is a patriot/Putin is a villain/the US is coming to the rescue of the plucky upstart" narrative is such bullshit. Worth the read.

https://mate.substack.com/p/
by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?s=r

Posted by: red speck at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (gS3OW)

469 450
Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

You'd presume the Russians had a plan if that didn't happen. But...we have no real insight into Russian thinking so who knows.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

He's angling to reconstitute the Soviet Union or Russian empire or whatever you want to call it. Ascribing logic to our enemies is the same as ascribing logic to the Leftists. They do things many times based on irrational emotional wants. The smart or smarter ones game things out. And sometimes even the smart ones don't do that, or make astoundingly wrong assumptions.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (s2VJv)

470 Our elites are willing to crash the economy and shut down oil to push green energy even though they know that the path we are on will kill millions. They don't think they will be affected.

Narrator: They will be affected. We will make sure of that.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (6eU6O)

471 An entire summer camp devoted to Sex Education for 10-12 year olds. Indianapolis is having an absolutely normal one.

Dayum I know where not to be this summer!

https://tinyurl.com/yckkwt67

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

472 >>That number is up there in lights with Biden's 81 million votes.

Apparently you haven't looked into it at all or you'd know how wrong you are.

Putin is too poular in Russia to have any hopes that he will be overthrown from within.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (lhr6a)

473 Bonus: Putting the US Economy into a stagflation nose dive curtesy of the New Green Deal.
Posted by: WisRich at March 08, 2022 09:23 AM (G0vdT)

Our oligarchs, like Soros and Gates must be thrilled.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (ONvIw)

474 Our elites are willing to crash the economy and shut down oil to push green energy even though they know that the path we are on will kill millions. They don't think they will be affected.
Narrator: They will be affected. We will make sure of that.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I heard that in Don LaFontaine's voice: "In a world. . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at March 08, 2022 09:25 AM (Msys3)

475 Breaking: Biden to halt Russian oil purchases.

And replace this with.....

Posted by: grammie winger at March 08, 2022 09:25 AM (45fpk)

476 I don't think that Putin screwed up. Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't.

I don't believe any of the "news."

I think Zelensky is a traitor for allowing Ukraine to be destroyed. IMHO, he should have surrendered or agreed to Russia's demands. But then, he's a puppet of the WEF, and they want GloboHomo to prevail.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:25 AM (lKAqb)

477 Tough to do to a leader with 70+% approval of his citizens.
Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:19 AM (lhr6a)

And Zelensky's 70% win. He was as surprised and you and I are at his unbelievable electoral prowess !

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:25 AM (V13WU)

478 "And replace this with....."

Unicorn farts.

Imported unicorn farts.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 09:25 AM (3D/fK)

479 Russia saw that it was being cut out of the six powers world in favor of the emerging Pax Sinoca(?). And went to war for national interest influence and remaining relevance, blowing up that whole narrative. Except for the stupid-
Enter Slow Joe and his LowIQ Crew.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 08, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

"Yeah, about that . . . "
- - Global Caliphate
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:18 AM (s2VJv)

The Global Caliphate was given a seat at the Six Powers table as Iran was supposed to be the "super power" for that region.

This is why Oblabla and Slow Joe have been making seemingly insane and counter-productive deals with Iran. They were all going to be Corrupt Oligarchal Butt-Buddies in the new Six Power world. But, that's dead.

Our New Chinese World will not tolerate islam as the Uighurs are finding out.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (5NkmN)

480 64 54 Posted by: Slapweasel at March 08, 2022 07:53 AM (Ckg4U)

Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

Um, it took 17 days in Georgia.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (hlxe7)

481 (D)ullards demanding PDT lower gas prices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zy89UwQFxU

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

482 You know what people are having the toughest time right now? Optimists.

Posted by: steevy at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (CYnTg)

483 For some reason, people insist on conflating the former USSR with modern day Russia.

Big mistake if you want to ascend to understanding.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (lhr6a)

484 "Does the Biden [junta] actually want oil from Iran and Venezuela? No, it does not."

No, it just wants to send them pallets of cash. The oil is just the excuse.

Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (Ndje9)

485 Narrator: They will be affected. We will make sure of that.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Fist bump
Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (6eU6O

And I think a lot of leftists quietly agree. It wasn't Trump supporters who put the little guillotine in front of Bezos' DG digs during the Antifa/BLM riots.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (ONvIw)

486 (My great-great grandfather saw combat in the Atlanta Campaign.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (dfRN6)

I had an ancestor who was one of Sherman's staff officers on that march. Some people thought he should have been shot. The Army gave him a medal, and a promotion.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The OG Burn, Loot, Murder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (FVME7)

487 Our New Chinese World will not tolerate islam as the Uighurs are finding out.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (5NkmN)

About a third of Russians are Mohammedans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (yrol0)

488 "And replace this with....."

Unicorn farts.

Imported unicorn farts.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Damn, you have to be quick around here!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (6eU6O)

489 458 Our elites are willing to crash the economy and shut down oil to push green energy even though they know that the path we are on will kill millions. They don't think they will be affected.
Narrator: They will be affected. We will make sure of that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:22 AM (R8uWY)

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Indeed. And all the useful idiots who enabled the coming collapse (per Ayn Rand):

"They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: 'But I didn't mean this!'"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (qVRSW)

490 The ban will include Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal,

Natural gas? Coal? Why are we importing that?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (R8uWY)

491 A US ban on Russian energy imports is fine, but without the EU and specifically Germany joining in, it will not have a "devastating" effect on Russia. And I do not see Germany doing that. I hope I am wrong

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (d0Qel)

492 >>And Zelensky's 70% win. He was as surprised and you and I are at his unbelievable electoral prowess !

We aren't talking about the Ukrainians ousting Zelensky. We are talking about the possibility that the Russians want to oust him.

Big difference.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (lhr6a)

493 >>No. There is a lot going on that is being whitewashed about Ukraine. I don't think Ukraine is a massive bed of antisemitism, but I don't buy the idea that there in now, miraculously, none at all. Plenty of the Azov whitewash is to hide CIA involvement as we obscure how involved our pols were in Ukraine.

There were a bunch of outsiders recruited to act as grassroots supporters in the Maidan coup in 2014. It is widely suspected some of the neo-Nazi groups, which our CIA has also been reportedly training in Ukraine, were involved in that very violent uprising.

It should be a bright red flag that our betters which just a couple years ago were complaining about neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine are now pretending they don't exist.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

494 An entire summer camp devoted to Sex Education for 10-12 year olds. Indianapolis is having an absolutely normal one.

The cities are absolutely gone, everywhere. We've self sorted.

Posted by: Statistics at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (DZsvp)

495 He's angling to reconstitute the Soviet Union or Russian empire or whatever you want to call it.

I don't think so. Pulling 40 million Ukes into Russia is a bad idea. I think he wants the Russian regions, with maybe a land bridge to Crimea, and a friendly ruler in Kiev.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (ESjRY)

496 Manchin isn't running for President unless it'd in the Republican side.

Good grief. Anyone thinking after killing BBB and the number of Bernie/Warren wing of the Ds, and 2020 D primary that Manvhin has a chance is wasting time.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (NW9xb)

497 490 The ban will include Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal,

Natural gas? Coal? Why are we importing that?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2022 09:27 AM (R8uWY)

liquefied natural gas=wet unicorn farts

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (yrol0)

498 265 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.
Posted by: redridinghood

OFFS
Better top off the gas tank before then

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:29 AM (lCui1)

499 491 A US ban on Russian energy imports is fine, but without the EU and specifically Germany joining in, it will not have a "devastating" effect on Russia. And I do not see Germany doing that. I hope I am wrong
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China will happily buy all of what Russia is selling. US Dollar as world's reserve currency is a thing of the past. Even Larry Fink knows what this means.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:29 AM (tiR3O)

500 The cities are absolutely gone, everywhere. We've self sorted.
Posted by: Statistics at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (DZsvp)

BNW is a manual!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 08, 2022 09:29 AM (yrol0)

501 Can Russian Oil sneak across the Souther Border?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (tiR3O)

502 He's angling to reconstitute the Soviet Union or Russian empire or whatever you want to call it.

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No. He is not. And no, Russia does not. But what they do want, is what was promised Russia way back in 1990's. No NATO expansion to Russia's borders. That did not happen.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (V13WU)

503 China will happily buy all of what Russia is selling. US Dollar as world's reserve currency is a thing of the past. Even Larry Fink knows what this means.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:29 AM (tiR3O)

So be it, I am sick of the world trying to blackmail us over our currency and energy.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (d0Qel)

504 197 Has anyone asked Fauci for his thoughts on Ukraine?

Where the hell is that evil little dwarf, anyhow?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 08, 2022 08:31 AM (3D/fK)

He's hanging out on the Woke as F*ck podcast with his buddies.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (hlxe7)

505 265 Biden will speak on Russia from WH @ 10:45.
Posted by: redridinghood

"We begin bombing in five minutes."

Posted by: Stateless at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (FsZ2q)

506 I wonder if the USA is heading towards an eventual disunion

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (lCui1)

507 Apparently you haven't looked into it at all or you'd know how wrong you are.

Putin is too poular in Russia to have any hopes that he will be overthrown from within.
Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:24 AM (lhr6a)

Russia's system of government today is closer to the old Roman Imperial system than anything else. When the Emperor's foolishness threatens to drag everyone down with him, the Emperor gets a knife in the back, and the man with the knife becomes the next Emperor. In 1944, the German nation still had a chance to survive if they'd gotten rid of Hitler; the Germans chose to let their entire nation die with him. The Russians stand at that same crossroads today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (evAgx)

508 Disagree. This was supposed to last 48 hours max with Zelensky bugging out. Just like what happened in Afghanistan.

Russia screwed this up big time. Putin may be the top gangster but all the other gangsters beneath him have lost billions. The longer this drags on the more the possibility that Putin gets the chop.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

We helped. Biden would not have sent transport out of Kiev, if he did not expect their government to use it. Can he say that now? No, so he won't, anyone that he can admit that he told Ukraine that NATO membership was "in their hands", but the articles and videos exist, including Psaki saying that the door was open for East European "aspirants" to join NATO

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (ONvIw)

509 Shocked face, that Putin doesn't want to roll over all of Europe. We could all tell what he wanted, because he told us. I didn't know what he was aiming for to secure that first thing.

Me reading twitter: "I am uncertain about certain things, so you the low-IQ spazzes ought to as well, but unfortunately do not."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2022 09:31 AM (44ww/)

510 Has anyone asked Fauci for his thoughts on Ukraine?

Early on some FNM nitwits were complaining that most Ukes weren't clot shotted and therefore were at risk from COVID.

It was comical.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:31 AM (ESjRY)

511 >>I don't think so. Pulling 40 million Ukes into Russia is a bad idea. I think he wants the Russian regions, with maybe a land bridge to Crimea, and a friendly ruler in Kiev.

I think you are close to nailing it. I see little beyond what you are outlining here. Mainly, the leveraging of European Energy weakness against the global markets and damaging the US Petro Dollar.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:31 AM (lhr6a)

512 506 I wonder if the USA is heading towards an eventual disunion
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (lCui1)

oh of course it is, but the question is whether it happens during my lifetime, or my grandson's lifetime.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2022 09:31 AM (evAgx)

513 We aren't talking about the Ukrainians ousting Zelensky. We are talking about the possibility that the Russians want to oust him.

Big difference.
Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:28 AM (lhr6a)

How about US ousting Yanukovich and causing a civil war in the East ? Same, or shades of gray ?

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:31 AM (V13WU)

514 No. He is not. And no, Russia does not. But what they do want, is what was promised Russia way back in 1990's. No NATO expansion to Russia's borders. That did not happen.
Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (V13WU)

People ignore this, including Bush and Joebama. Promises are for the other countries

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:32 AM (ONvIw)

515 No. He is not. And no, Russia does not. But what they do want, is what was promised Russia way back in 1990's. No NATO expansion to Russia's borders. That did not happen.
Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (V13WU)

Well it's a little of both. As I have said from the get go in this situation and before it was a huge mistake to push Nato so far East, but make no mistake, Putin wants to take control of many of the former Soviet Republics, and he has stated so

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:32 AM (d0Qel)

516 People
@people
Alec Baldwin Says Certain Rust Lawsuits Are Targeted Toward 'Deep-Pocket Litigants'

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Poor baby!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 08, 2022 09:32 AM (FVME7)

517 No. He is not. And no, Russia does not. But what they do want, is what was promised Russia way back in 1990's. No NATO expansion to Russia's borders. That did not happen.
Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (V13WU)

Exactly. Policymakers just dangled out promises of NATO membership to Zelensky to keep the grift going in Ukraine. We have been looking at possible nuclear war to support bribery.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 08, 2022 09:32 AM (nMx88)

518 What Florida mansion? Does Zelensky have a house in Florida?
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According to reports, he owns at least 5 homes, in various places.

One of the places is in an expensive resort town in Italy, Forte dei Marmi. He and his wife recently put that seaside villa on the market, for 4.5 million euros. The house is technically not owned by Zelensky, but by an Italian corporation. But according to the company's records, the sole owner of the company is Zelensky's wife.

At the start of his election campaign, Zelensky told Ukranian voters that he had his wife had chosen to invest in real estate "because of the imperfect banking system in Ukraine."

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:32 AM (k4dH2)

519 Putin was never going all the way to Poland. He would then have NATO on his border.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2022 09:33 AM (Ndje9)

520 There are many tracks, Iran is one of them , but it's Ukraine all the time. China is another.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:33 AM (V13WU)

521 >>Russia's system of government today is closer to the old Roman Imperial system than anything else. When the Emperor's foolishness threatens to drag everyone down with him, the Emperor gets a knife in the back, and the man with the knife becomes the next Emperor.

I am confident that Putin has his house in order at home. The Russian people are not going to suffer for his actions.

Europe on the other hand, has been own goaling itself for decades.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:33 AM (lhr6a)

522 The Putin is Hitler shit is pretend but effective propaganda in a nation where everything is compared to WWII on a daily basis.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:33 AM (ONvIw)

523 People keep saying Putin screwed up; but if you know you must eventually fight to stay alive, isn't it best to fight when the enemy is weakest?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:34 AM (lCui1)

524 I presume the green leftists next move is to shutdown the refineries and cease the overland and pipeline transport of petroleum products?

I mean, if you're going to reset the world you gotta' go all in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2022 09:34 AM (BFigT)

525 A Chilean was my boss once. They have a saying in South America. Translated it's "Poor Mexico, so far from God. And so close to the United States."

Poor Ukraine...and so close to Russia.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:34 AM (lKAqb)

526 >>How about US ousting Yanukovich and causing a civil war in the East ? Same, or shades of gray ?

Still has nothing to do with whether or not the Russians turn on Putin from within.

That the West invited this aggression is not at argument, is it?

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:35 AM (lhr6a)

527 506 I wonder if the USA is heading towards an eventual disunion
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:30 AM (lCui1)

So long as our half is left alone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:35 AM (s2VJv)

528 What Florida mansion? Does Zelensky have a house in Florida?

Yes

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 08, 2022 09:35 AM (ONvIw)

529 What Florida mansion? Does Zelensky have a house in Florida?

And COVID didn't kill him? WOW.

/s

Posted by: 18-1 at March 08, 2022 09:36 AM (ESjRY)

530 So long as our half is left alone.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 09:35 AM (s2VJv)

I wasn't thinking of half - more like breaking up into.states or state groups.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 08, 2022 09:36 AM (lCui1)

531 Alec Baldwin Says Certain Rust Lawsuits Are Targeted Toward 'Deep-Pocket Litigants'
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A deep-pocketed guy shoots and kills an innocent woman employee on the job, while he is showboating and acting like a fool. Woman's family sues stupid rich killer for her wrongful death. Stupid rich killer is surprised and offended. LOL, what an idiot.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:36 AM (k4dH2)

532 Well a barrel of oil is up $5. Should be over $130 or more by the end of the day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (d0Qel)

533 Gasoline tanks since the mid-nineties have come standard equipped with anti-siphon fuel necks. You will need to cut fuel lines and pump it out.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 08, 2022 09:17 AM (lD3vL)

You need to get some small diameter clear plastic hose and flexible wire and do it the old fashion way, suck it out. I got an old piece of 3/8 OD hose that's about ten years old and fairly stiff I make work.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (4thlk)

534 Putin wants to take control of many of the former Soviet Republics, and he has stated so

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Again, "Putin", this is such a trap ! Russia, because Putin is not alone in doing what he is doing. And they want to have governments friendly to them rather than US on Russia's borders.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (V13WU)

535 It's not that we can't do it.

It's that we don't do it. Because the government won't let us.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:04 AM (k4dH2)

You mean the bankers and the corporations who profit from this cozy arrangement.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (hlxe7)

536 Fundamentally, Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger. His bad.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:38 AM (lKAqb)

537 Again, "Putin", this is such a trap ! Russia, because Putin is not alone in doing what he is doing. And they want to have governments friendly to them rather than US on Russia's borders.
Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (V13WU)

Fine no argument, but that does NOT give him or russia free rein for this type of aggression.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:38 AM (d0Qel)

538 osted by: steevy at March 08, 2022 09:26 AM (CYnTg)

I'm not having a hard time right now particularly because my optimism is not based on rulers of this world or things of this world.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2022 09:39 AM (GezNK)

539 I see oil going to 200. Blinken and the rest of the brain trust running this shitshow, think that they can cripple Russian plans in Ukraine by squeezing them more economically. They can try....

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:39 AM (V13WU)

540 >>Fine no argument, but that does NOT give him or russia free rein for this type of aggression.

There is nobody on the planet that is going to stop him.

No one.

That gives him free reign enough.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:40 AM (lhr6a)

541 Well, Biden has taken the Stock Market Hostage to his 'Speech". My guess the Hedgefunds will have fun killing American wealth this morning.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:40 AM (tiR3O)

542 Fine no argument, but that does NOT give him or russia free rein for this type of aggression.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:38 AM (d0Qel)

We can take him and Cheney to ICC.

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:40 AM (V13WU)

543 sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:40 AM (d0Qel)

544 Nood art thread.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 08, 2022 09:41 AM (lKAqb)

545 I wonder if the USA is heading towards an eventual disunion

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Yes, the only question is time. But that was the same answer in 1787 and 1866.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at March 08, 2022 09:41 AM (sX1BW)

546 if Zelensky has real estate in Florida, what does he have in France, England , Switzerland ?? Hmmm ??

Posted by: runner at March 08, 2022 09:41 AM (V13WU)

547 History of OUN-UPA: the Bandera controversy that eclipsed 200,000 people who fought for the independence of Ukraine

Link in sock

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:41 AM (UHVv4)

548 532 Well a barrel of oil is up $5. Should be over $130 or more by the end of the day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 08, 2022 09:37 AM (d0Qel)

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Yesterday was the first time gas was over $4/gallon for regular here in rural Northern AZ. It went up 10% between Sunday and Monday.

I was out driving on the Navajo Rez for work and passed my normal refueling station at 9:30 am -- price was $3.74. By the time I stopped to refuel on the way back home 3 hours later, it was $3.99.

Hyperinflation: first slowly, then all at once ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 08, 2022 09:42 AM (qVRSW)

549 >> I see oil going to 200. Blinken and the rest of the brain trust running this shitshow, think that they can cripple Russian plans in Ukraine by squeezing them more economically.

With India and China siding with Russia...
They are going to find out that they are squeezing Europe and the Western Economies a lot harder than they will be squeezing Russia.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:42 AM (lhr6a)

550 536 Fundamentally, Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger. His bad.
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He also owned the production company that hired the cheap and inexperienced armorer girl who failed to check the prop guns and make sure they were safe before handing them to the actors on set.

He is liable, and he will end up paying the dead woman's family millions, as he should.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:42 AM (k4dH2)

551 Great News - Facebook and Amazon are up today!

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 08, 2022 09:43 AM (tiR3O)

552 Nickel up 250%, trading halted. So much for cheap electric cars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 08, 2022 09:43 AM (UuD2k)

553 >>He also owned the production company that hired the cheap and inexperienced armorer girl who failed to check the prop guns and make sure they were safe before handing them to the actors on set.

Pretty sure that Prop Girl wasn't the one handling the gun in question at the time of the shooting.
At least, if what little I caught of E. Hunley's coverage was correct...

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2022 09:45 AM (lhr6a)

554 Pretty sure that Prop Girl wasn't the one handling the gun in question at the time of the shooting.
At least, if what little I caught of E. Hunley's coverage was correct...
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More than one person can be responsible for the woman's death. It's called contributory negligence. Baldwin was negligent for pointing the gun at the victim and firing, but the armorer was also negligent for failing to do her job and making sure the gun was not loaded with live ammo before handing it to Baldwin.

Problem for Baldwin is that he employed the amorer, and as the employer, her contributory negligence gets attributed to him under the legal doctrine of respondeat superior.

So bottom line, Baldwin is screwed either way. He will have to pay, and he will have to pay big.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 08, 2022 09:49 AM (k4dH2)

555 30% of Russia's petroleum exports already go to China. A very small percentage goes to India. Around 30% of Russia's petroleum exports go to the combined EU nations. They've already said that dependence will be reduced by 2/3's, and I suspect they will eventually cut even deeper. With the price of oil this high and the market in transition, Russia shouldn't be so cavalier. If they truly believe nations like China will suck up all that extra oil, more power to them. They're already cut off from the global markets. Right now nobody want to finance or ship their oil. They will also become fully dependent on China for, well, everything. I wish them luck. Their short term gain, will be their long term pain.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2022 09:51 AM (VpIIl)

556 India and China are enemies for those who have forgotten.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:53 AM (UHVv4)

557 I think Russian food imports are India's concern.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 08, 2022 09:55 AM (UHVv4)

558 What Florida mansion? Does Zelensky have a house in Florida?
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According to reports, he owns at least 5 homes, in various places.
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The only news I've been able to read say he owns a big house outside of Kiev that he's owned for years and the Forte del Marmi mansion, again that he's owned for years, and that he apparently sold it last fall.

We all know Zelensky got rich from TV before he entered politics. But I am definitely interested in learning if he is as corrupt as all the other guys over there (Putin especially). More out of curiosity than anything else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 08, 2022 09:56 AM (bhYIO)

559 Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger.

The Shadow knows.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 08, 2022 09:57 AM (44ww/)

560 >>>Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger.

>Alec Baldwin dropped the hammer. He thought the Colt SSA had a decocker.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 08, 2022 10:04 AM (oWZwa)

561 I wonder if the USA is heading towards an eventual disunion.

Hope so. There are wide swaths of this country I no longer wish to associate with.

Posted by: Statistics at March 08, 2022 10:17 AM (DZsvp)

562 Ask not for who the fartclam reverbs, it reverbs for thee

Posted by: Hemingway or Metallica? at March 08, 2022 10:55 AM (46hk9)

563 They will also become fully dependent on China for, well, everything. I wish them luck.
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The plan was to neuter Vlad. He will diminish, and fade into history and Russia will sit at the kids table with India, Brazil.

Posted by: Herr Docktor Strangelove at March 08, 2022 10:59 AM (QJIVS)

564
I'm not having a hard time right now particularly because my optimism is not based on rulers of this world or things of this world.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
==
This is truth listen to it.

Posted by: Judgie McJudgerson has a significant point oftentimes at March 08, 2022 11:03 AM (GCd5H)

565 Nickel up 250%, trading halted. So much for cheap electric cars.
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The electric car push going to rely bigly on rare earth mining from Chy - na. You know who gets 10% of that action.

Every single stupid irrational decision made by this administration, can be understood as logical self interest when you factor in BRIBERY/KICKBACKS.

Posted by: Its not like there isn't proof either . . . at March 08, 2022 11:06 AM (T7XRA)

566 There were a bunch of outsiders recruited to act as grassroots supporters in the Maidan coup in 2014. It is widely suspected some of the neo-Nazi groups, which our CIA has also been reportedly training in Ukraine, were involved in that very violent uprising.

It should be a bright red flag that our betters which just a couple years ago were complaining about neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine are now pretending they don't exist.
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TBF all of those Neo Nazi groups were actually our paid stooges. So they were pretending to exist before, and now they are not. So they don't exist and never did. It was just pretend. See.

Posted by: Let me Government Splain it to you . . . at March 08, 2022 11:12 AM (ZI42e)

567 566 TBF all of those Neo Nazi groups were actually our paid stooges. So they were pretending to exist before, and now they are not. So they don't exist and never did. It was just pretend. See.
Posted by: Let me Government Splain it to you . . . at March 08, 2022 11:12 AM (ZI42e)

See the Julie Kelly link above about the FBI and the Whitmer trial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 11:21 AM (s2VJv)

568 Two things related to this topic: First, why so little focus on the possibility that Putin could be a gray hat helping take down the Globalist Cabal? Soros, Hillary, Schiff, Graham, etc. all spew their Putin/Russia hate. That alone should tell you they're worried. Why? Well, there's lots of info on alternative media about bio-labs in Ukraine (15+) as well as Nazi influence. Watch these same idiots get tongue tied when China moves on Taiwan. Putin, like Trump, is playing chess while the Cabal plays checkers.
Second, why after years of false narratives do we assume fossil fuels are really fossil fuels? The fossil narrative implies a finite supply, driving prices up. What if oil was a process that occurred over time and was literally everywhere?

Posted by: Bluestateblues at March 08, 2022 12:52 PM (1is08)

569 568 Posted by: Bluestateblues at March 08, 2022 12:52 PM (1is0

Interesting points. First, considering Soros is heavily backing Ukraine, you have to wonder why. Second, as to the global reserve of oil, while surely all life on earth eventually decomposes and/or possibly turns into oil over time and therefore is constantly replenished, the question is our usage compared to the rate of replenishment.

In any case, the US alone is estimated to have about 300-400 years worth of fossil fuels.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 08, 2022 02:01 PM (s2VJv)

570 "Notice there is no mention of Zelensky stepping down nor the resignation of his government and the call for Jimmy Carter-monitored elections to install Putin puppets. That, plus the more salient fact of the announcement itself as confirmation of what we all suspected, in that Putin bit off way more than he could chew in trying to conquer all of the Ukraine in one fell swoop."

Getting Zelensky to step down or conquering the entire Ukraine was never their goal. What they're asking for now is basically what they wanted from the get-go. Assuming, of course, that they couldn't restore the social contract that prevailed until 2014 between Ukrainians who leaned toward the West and those who leaned toward Russia (who divided the pre-2014 population of the country about 50/50), and which was torn up by the Western-leaning half of the country when they had Yanukovskiy "impeached" without any regard to the procedures set out for doing so in the Ukrainian constitution.

Posted by: Seamus at March 08, 2022 04:21 PM (R1Li/)

571 To be clear, restoring the pre-2014 social contract was and is pretty much a non-starter. The best that the Russian-leaning sector of the Ukrainian population can hope for is something like partition.

Posted by: Seamus at March 08, 2022 04:22 PM (R1Li/)

572 WTF is this "executive order on cryptocurrency"?

Actually, WTF is all of this "executive order" horseshit masquerading as something that anyone except a federal employee has to pay attention to?

The President can issue an executive order telling DOD employees that they may not send US Sat photos to the Swiss Army. Any executive order prohibiting a privately owned Satellite company from the same is bullshit.

Yet we allow the jackass to make these pronouncements, and take them seriously. That's how freedom is lost - by acquiescence.

Serious discussion has been ignored, so... mockery.

Let's go, Brandon.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 08, 2022 08:37 PM (m8X3n)

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