The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 2/24/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and I guess if this were Sunday's Food Thread, it would be Blinis and Maple Syrup. And it would be appropriate since this author confidently declared he would eat his hat if there would be a full scale war in Ukraine. So I guess pass the moose burger and beet-root remoulade. Putin evidently has taken lessons from the Malig-Nancy Pelosi school of theatrics by ripping up the script the denizens of the Klain Kalorama Komintern carefully prepared for him and threw it in their faces like so much confetti. This isn't a "minor incursion" but a full on invasion and assault on the entire country.

Russia has reportedly started to launch long-range missiles toward Ukraine and has aircraft en route to carry out additional strikes during the initial hours of the early morning full-scale invasion into Ukraine.
"Ukrainian officials said an initial wave of strikes targeted military installations, airfields and government facilities across the country, as well as border force installations. Ukraine's border service said its troops came under attack all along the country's frontiers with Russia and Belarus," The Wall Street Journal reported.
"Kyiv didn't immediately offer any official estimate of casualties. But a senior Ukrainian official said he believed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers had died in Russian airstrikes and missile attacks that began at 5 a.m. local time."Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tweeted out details of the attack seemingly before they were reported elsewhere.
"Russian aircraft are now en route to conduct additional targeted strikes on a number of key defense sites through all of Ukraine," Rubio wrote. "Long range missile launches from #Russia are now underway[.] They are headed towards various pre-selected military sites throughout Ukraine."

Before I start chomping down on that nice tender bit of lining adjacent to the Stetson label, I will say this in my own defense.

Biden and the idiots pulling his strings have not done anything more than sanctions that Putin is already ROFLHAO at, and an angry letter to the New York Times. Even Klain and Company cannot be that out of their minds to actually order American military assets to attack Russian forces just to save face. This is Russia. The former Soviet Union, which still has both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. I know these clods will do anything to distract the American people from the utter catastrophe of the first year of this illegal, illegitimate junta. But did anyone - Blinken? Austin? Vanilli Milli? Bueller? - game this out to the last move or were they just winging it based on the sole calculus that they weren't Trump. I do not even want to contemplate the sending of American troops into harm's way over this.

Whatever I predicted, the salient points remain:

First: Whatever Russia decides to do vis a vis Ukraine is absolutely NOT in our strategic interest. Period. That said, it was Bill Clinton who guaranteed Ukrainian territorial integrity if they gave up their former Soviet-era nukes that remained on their territory post the 1991 break up. And it was Barack Hussein Obama -"mmm-mmm-MMM!" - who sat on his hands as Russia gobbled up the Crimea and totally shit all over our credibility in the international community to friend and foe alike.

Second: Every American foe was put in their place, and our shitty so-called allies got read the riot act to straighten up and fly right, between 1/20/17 and 1/20/21 - - with the possible exception of the greatest foe we ever have faced in our history: our own fellow citizens who have had a hard on to destroy us from within. That said, it is particularly rage-inducing to hear the comments from that quarter of the Jimmy Carter Memorial Peanut Gallery on how this is somehow the fault of Donald Trump. It is axiomatic that whenever there is a crisis somewhere in the world, a big factor in the equation is the dissembling and fumbling of a Democrat administration coupled with the perpetual stupidity of the Ivy League self-annointed "elite" who infect Foggy Bottom and the foreign policy think tanks like chronic malignant anal warts.

Yes, "the best and the brightest" as Robert McNamara boasted. The man whose raging ego and absolute ignorance strategically and tactically on warfare and geo-politics helped dispatch 57,000 Americans to an early grave in Vietnam. The war Nixon got us out of despite him bearing the smear of the ultimate defeat, which was caused by a Democrat congress that, after forcing him from office (over the equivalent of a parking ticket compared to Hillarygate), refused to honor the Paris Peace Talk agreement to defend South Vietnam in the event of North Vietnamese aggression, tying Gerald Ford's hands, which led to a further 3-4 million deaths in the Communist killing fields. But I digress.

Sure, the left and the media, but I repeat myself, are shooting blood out of their eyes in blaming Trump and calling anyone who criticizes Biden a traitor and a Putin apologist. Worst of all are the fucking bastards supposedly on our side of the aisle - an aisle that is even more fictitious at this point than our southern border - I'm looking squarely now at Pee-Air Defecto Romney.

"Putin's impunity predictably follows our tepid response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts at a one-sided 'reset' and the shortsightedness of 'America First,'" Romney said in a statement released on social media Wednesday evening.
Romney's statement hinted at Biden's attempt to "reset" the relationship with Russia at the beginning of his term, but more aggressively criticized Trump's "America First" foreign policy.
The Utah senator, and failed presidential candidate, also took a shot at former President Barack Obama who beat him in 2012 for the presidency.
"The '80s called' and we didn't answer," Romney said, referring to a moment in the 2012 presidential debate when Obama dismissed his concerns about the threat that Russia posed to the world.

Funny, but I seem to recall someone named Cofer Black who shared a seat at the board of Burisma along with Hunter Biden was an adviser to Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. But that's neither here nor there, right? You know what? Mitt Romney can go lash himself to an ALCM and drop in on the Kremlin. And he can take Roger Wicker, the senator whose intellectual agility mirrors that of the lawn furniture he's named after, with him.

So, what is the upshot of what's going on in Ukraine? Were it not for the fact that we have a manifestly irresponsible and inept non-leadership steering our ship of state desperate for some kind of propaganda victory they can ride on until next November, and looking at our servicemen and women (transexuals notwithstanding) as cannon fodder expedients, Russia and Ukraine are meaningless to me. The other factor of course is Putin himself. He is doing this because he sees he can get away with it, not just a Biden-approved "minor incursion" - and let's not gloss over the fact that that statement, dementia-induced or G-d forbid not is what lit the fuse - but the whole Ukrainian enchilada. The cornered rat in this case is not Putin; it's the Klain Kalorama Komintern. If they do nothing (and sanctions are nothing) then this will redound on them like a nuclear-tipped Wile E. Coyote trick cigar. Forget the bullshit poll from wherever; there's a new poll out now showing Joey Soft-Serve is melting on the issue of foreign policy (see below). They almost have to do something. And Putin is not going to back down from that, my friends.

What a total titanic clusterfuck, and a potentially dangerous one at that. It seems the more dangerous the consequences the more absolutely unnecessary the trip was in the first place. William F. Buckley has been proven correct, yet again, in his assessment of rather being governed by the first random 3,000 people from the telephone book than the equivalent number of Ivy League grads.

Meanwhile, speaking of clusterfucks, while it is certainly welcome news that Jusitinian Castreau-cescu has revoked the emergency measures, and none too soon as he quite nearly collapsed Canada's banks. But, he and his ilk are tyrants and there is no real opposition to him in the parliament. Sound familiar? He'll do this shit again and he won't back down either. And with that said, there's a Freedom Convoy heading to DC right now. With what is happening in Ukraine about to explode in Biden's face, this can only be a godsend for him.

We saw what happened on January 6th. This is a propaganda coup for the junta, pun intended. Arrests, accusations of insurrection and treason, white supremacy, "glowies" and Antifarians dressed up as truckers with tiki torches causing violence, the whole Megillah. Look we need to protest but this is just playing into their hands. If the US truckers want to make an impact here's a suggestion:

BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

Throw in Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle while you're at it. That would send a message. The question of course is, how would the left interpret and react to it.

What a mess. Pass the ketchup.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Inept regulation threatens to suffocate the greatest innovation finance has seen in centuries." (see related articles in the Economy section below - jjs)
Free Bitcoin
"The Canadian trucker convoy suggests a new class divide originating in our experience of reality itself."
Reality Honks Back
"A miniature, knitted prosthetic penis arrives to save your female toddler from being misgendered."
The Bitty Bug Transgender Circus
"Liberals are generally satisfied with this state of affairs . . . Yet the right behaves as if parental rights were under sustained and serious attack, as if the parent has been dislodged from a high place." (flak status [X] directly over the target - jjs)
NY Mag ~~Columnist~~ Communist: Parents Are "Household Tyrants," GOP Imposing Conservative Agenda on Students
"The Trayvon Martin case, now ten years past, continues to rock American society with earthquake-like tremors."
A Decade of Deceit and Division: What Trayvon Wrought

BIDEN-CREATED WAG-THE-DOG UKRAINE CRISIS

"In a televised address, Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia's demand to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and offer Moscow security guarantees. He said Russia doesn't intend to occupy Ukraine but will move to "demilitarize" it and bring those who committed crimes to justice. As Putin spoke before dawn, big explosions were heard in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and other cities across Ukraine."
Explosions Heard in Ukraine as Putin Announces Military Operation, Threatens "Consequences You Have Never Seen" to Countries Who Interfere
"Ukrainian officials said an initial wave of strikes targeted military installations, airfields and government facilities across the country, as well as border force installations. Ukraine's border service said its troops came under attack all along the country's frontiers with Russia and Belarus."
Long-Range Missiles Launched From Russia, Aircraft En Route To Carry Out Strikes
"Russia's TASS News Agency claimed: 'The heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to offer help in repelling the aggression from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in order to avoid civilian casualties and prevent a humanitarian disaster in Donbass.'"
Russia Claims Separatist Regions Have Asked For Its Help Fighting Ukraine's Military
"Putin warns the U.S. not to intervene."
Kremlin Invades Ukraine
"It's not even an insight, it's not even a banality. I don't know whether she was trying to bore her European counterparts or send these sort of boring verbal missiles to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin until he gave in," Murray continued. "It doesn't say anything, it doesn't do anything. It's just another banality. It does nothing to stop Vladimir Putin."
Douglas Murray Says "It's Just Astonishing'"That Biden Sent Kamala Harris to Conference to Handle Russia
"There is no doubt that the sanctions introduced against us will hit global financial and energy markets. The United States will not be left out, with its ordinary citizens feeling the consequences of the price increase in full," Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador to the United States, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday night.
Kremlin Threatens U.S. Over Sanctions

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Victor Davis Hanson: "It is easy to predict what the Russian president will do in any given situation. Biden is making it easier for Putin to act with aggression."
Putin's Predictabilities
"Divided, infantilized, hijacked by the woke Left, and led by the zombie in the White House, we can't handle Russia."
The High Price of Biden's Weakness on Russia and Ukraine
"How do you explain to people?"
AP's Matt Lee Corners State Dept. Spox Ned "Ryerson" Price on Biden's Failure to Halt Nord Stream 2 Earlier
"The West needs to understand his imperialist aims."
The Dangerous Reason Behind Putin's Aggression Against Ukraine
"In July 2021, Biden gave Merkel green light on Russian pipeline, reversing Trump admin policy."
Germany Halts Russia's Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline After Putin Recognizes Ukraine's Separatist Regions
"Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, received $2,900 last year from Vincent Roberti Sr., the chairman of lobbying powerhouse Roberti Global. Roberti gave $5,400 to Swalwell's campaign in 2018. Roberti Global received $2.4 million in 2021 from Nord Stream 2 AG, a Switzerland-based subsidiary of Russian oil giant Gazprom. Critics of the 761-mile pipeline have long said it would allow Vladimir Putin to tighten his grip on Eastern Europe."
"Mr. Fang-Fang-Bang-Bang" Swalwell Cozied Up to Lobbyist for "Putin's Pipeline" While Accusing GOP of Enabling Russia
Oh, go to hell, asshole. What exactly did NOT happen between 1/20/17 and noon on 1/20/21? Get fucked. If anyone's "unpatriotic" or a "traitor" it's you and everyone like you that directly or indirectly sabotaged the Trump presidency and agenda. Strap yourself onto the hood of a station wagon and drive it off a cliff.
Piece of Shit Globalist Fraud Pee-Air Defecto Romney Blames "Shortsightedness" of America First for Putin's Invasion of Ukraine
JUSTIN CASTREAU-CESCU PROTEST CRACKDOWN
"As noted by the AP, the emergency powers granted the Canadian government authority "to declare certain areas as no-go zones"and also allowed 'police to freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts and compel tow truck companies to haul away vehicles.' Earlier this week, a Canadian law enforcement official told the press that investigations into the Freedom Convoy would go on for months."
Justin Castreau-cescu Revokes Emergency Powers Used To Target Freedom Convoy
How many divisions does Canada's constitution have . . .
Are Trudeau's Actions Under Canada's Emergencies Act Unconstitutional?
"Trudeau destroys faith in the banking system."
Jordan Peterson Video: "I Was Told to Take My Money Out of Canadian Banks Quickly"
"I know that if I had any cash in a Canadian bank I would right now be looking to put at least some of it elsewhere. The same thought applies to American banks, as their recent effort to shut down accounts of conservatives like Mike Lindell suggests that many banks will go along with a similar order by the Biden administration. And with an American truck convoy just now gearing up and heading for Washington, no one should be surprised if such a draconian action is just over the horizon."
Castreau-cescu's Grab of His Political Enemies' Bank Accounts Might Have Crashed the Canadian Banking System
"Whenever government presumes to censor free expression and resort to police force to deprive us of liberty or property without due process of law, Americans uniquely in all the world may appeal through the Courts to the Constitution's protections, proving once again that the Founding Fathers' recognition -- that our rights come from God and not the state -- is indispensable to preserve and protect individual liberty against abuses of political power."
The Fickle Nature of Canadian "Rights"
"Relentlessly nodding during Trudeau's speeches doesn't mean it isn't a draconian regime."
What is She Doing?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Like the many people who only peacefully protested at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the truckers will be smeared as domestic terrorists by the Biden [junta] and media."
No Matter How Peaceful The American Freedom Convoy Is, Our Corrupt Regime Will Demonize It
Molly McCaughey: "How Biden treats the truckers could be pivotal for his presidency and the Democratic Party. The people who truck our goods, serve us in restaurants and work with their hands are speaking out for American freedom." (that's why the convoy is at beast meaningless and at worst a pretext for more junta crackdowns; better to boycott all deliveries to the Northeast Corridor - jjs)
"Blue-Collar" Biden Should Not Make Castreu-Cescu's Mistake and Welcome Truckers Heading to DC
"Pentagon expected to OK National Guard for DC in response to convoys." (better idea: boycott all deliveries to the northeast corridor - jjs)
Truckers Gathering in California as #PeoplesConvoy Prepares Journey to D.C
"My motivation for this is simple. I love my country. I have respect for our veterans. I pledge allegiance to my flag, and I owe a debt to this country for letting me live in a free society." (great sentiment, but I think this is a bad idea; just refuse to deliver to the Northeast Corridor - jjs)
Horsepower of America: Frontline Truckers' Group Leads the Way in US Trucker Convoy
It's already happened. We haven't gone as far as Canada has. Yet.
Mike Pompeo: What Is Happening in Canada Can Happen in America
"It's stunning to see in this day and age a tyrant roll into a country." (like here last year and in Canada last week? It sure as hell is, strychnine tits!
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Uses Ukraine Crisis to Push Failed Democrat Russian Collusion Narrative
David Harsanyi: "These days, the American left spends an inordinate amount of time working to censor debate and dictate what is and isn't appropriate speech. The effort to smear dissenters is no different." (he does bitch about people on our side allegedly praising Putin, but his points on the double standard are spot on - jjs)
It's Illiberal for Liberals to Accuse Biden Critics of Treason
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Michael Walsh: "The fact that the entire Western world 'elite' now leaps to China's defense in any and all circumstances -- how about those amazing Peking Olympics, sports fans! -- is simply an indication of how deep the dragon's financial claws are into our society now."
Now They Tell Us
The suggestion of the lab leak theory was initially shut down in a letter in the prominent English medical journal The Lancet published in March of 2020. . . The letter was organised by British zoologist Dr Peter Daszak, who later admitted to having a conflict of interest as he serves as the president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance. The NGO funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with money supplied from the Dr Anthony Fauci-run National Institutes of Health (NIH)." UK Government Privately Believes Chinese Coronavirus Likely Leaked from Wuhan Lab: Report
Lloyd Billingsley: "Why, exactly, does Dr. Doom reside above the law?"
Pushing Science into Sadism
"Senior calls out fellow students for conformity to 'irrational [Chinese] COVID restrictions.'"
Harvard Student: We Are Chinese "COVID Sheep"
"The governor issued a harmful rule he didn't have the authority to make."
Illinois Legislature Finally Revokes Gov. "Sitz-" Pritzker's School Mask Mandate
"All the airline companies have been pretty much as oppressive as United these past two years, generally treating their passengers like cattle on the way to slaughter. It would seem there is room here for some real competition, offering employees a tolerant work environment and its customers a pleasant flight. Right now no one is doing it."
Pushback: Federal Court Grants Injunction Against United Airlines Chinese COVID Shot Mandate
Dr. Joel Zinberg: "From early in the pandemic the media vilified Florida Governor DeSantis as irresponsible and dangerous. Some labeled him "DeathSantis." But DeSantis’s approach proved to be right. The mitigation measures imposed in other, largely blue, states did little to improve health outcomes. And Florida was better able to preserve its economic health than most other states."
Without Mandates or Lockdowns, Florida Better Managed Chinese COVID Than New York
"A brave scientist reveals how [Chinese] Covid was produced in a military-controlled, bioweapon laboratory in Wuhan."
Life Lessons With Doctor Bob: Chinese Virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "A revelation buried in a cache of documents opens a new and potentially important investigative corridor for Special Counsel John Durham."
Let's Hope the Special Counsel (and Others) Are Investigating the People Who Watch You Online
"How many crimes is this? I honestly don't know. Perjury? Mail fraud? how many ways does it hit the Espionage Act? For mere mortals, it would be a long long time in prison. Let's see what comes of this."
Quick and Dirty Durham Explainer
"The division Hennessey now serves as a senior official 'supervises the investigation and prosecution of cases affecting or relating to national security, including any cases involving foreign interference in elections or violent extremist threats to elections.' That includes the investigation run by U.S. Special Counsel John Durham, an investigation Hennessey has previously dismissed in since-deleted tweets as it probes the conspiracies Hennessey championed."
Watchdog Sues DOJ for Withholding Documents on Hiring of Russia Truther Susan Hennessey
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"You can have a margarita, but it won't cure Bidenflation."
Ron DeSantis Mocks Piss-Hockey Psaki
"The late economist Milton Friedman helped explain the inflation and stagflation of the 1970s. His explanation helped shape the strong economic recovery of the 1980s, built on the principles of limited government, with sound monetary policy that resulted in a steep decline in what had been rampant, double-digit inflation."
The Real Cause of Inflation is Insane Insane Deficit Spending
"Somebody's pouring fuel on the fire."
Whose Fault Are High Gas Prices?
"All of the convenience of moving money around effortlessly comes at the cost of losing control over it."
Leftists Want To Control Your Money So They Can Control You
"It is clear that governments and central banks view cryptocurrency as an existential threat." (see related article Above the Fold - jjs)
Bullish on Bitcoin
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Imagine an area where the crime has gotten so bad and the criminals so blatant that Hollywood's progressives are at least eyeing the Red Pill."
LA Prosecutors and Hollywood Elite Back Recall of DA George Gascón
"Garza's campaign for DA in 2020 was heavily funded by organizations connected with [Nazi collaborator] George Soros, which have also invested in DA campaigns in Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and elsewhere."
Crime Watchdog Group Calls on Radical Austin DA to Recuse Himself in Indicted Officers Case
"Our jury system is woefully defective." (and corrupted by leftists - jjs)
Did the Police Officer Who Accidentally Shot Daunte Wright Deserve Her Sentence?
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Christopher Rufo: "Parents have the right to know what public schools are teaching their children."
The Fight for Curriculum Transparency
"Time to start funding education options with a pulse -- like, say, parents and children themselves."
Our Teacher Shortage Is a Sign of a Dead Educational System
"Its discrimination against Asians is reminiscent of its treatments of Jews, but for different reasons."
Déjà Vu All Over Again at Harvard
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Joe Biden hasn't 'botched' the border. He is, like Vladimir Putin, simply carrying out a very intentional plan."
Noting the Obvious About the U.S. Border
"The figures come from a new Customs and Border Protection (CBP) report highlighting the massive amounts of young migrants attempting to breach the U.S. border in Del Rio, which is just one of 20 sectors comprising the U.S. southern border."
75% Increase In Unaccompanied Minors Breaching U.S. Border Under Biden
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"And as is the case every single time, the problem is the fact that Donald Trump is clean as a whistle."
A Partisan Investigation Into Trump Seems to have Dead-Ended
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The case involves an appeal by a website design company that refuses to perform design services for gay couples."
Supreme Court Case Could Finally Define Religious Freedom Protections
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine states "The walls are closing in on Hunter Biden." That's more a psychotic reaction to coming down from a crystal meth bender. If the estimable Ms. Devine thinks this Lucky Sperm Club alumnus will face any real, serious prison time, then Hunter would appreciate if she didn't Bogart the crack pipe because he wants whatever it is she's smoking.
Hot Water for Hunter Biden is Reaching a Boiling Point
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Obvious stench."
Donors to Peter Puffer Buttigieg's Mayoral Campaigns Later Awarded Over $30 Million In City Contracts: Report
Resign? That's a Democrat resumé enhancer!
Illinois State Sen. Thomas Cullerton Resigns From Office Amid Plans to Plead Guilty to Embezzlement Charges
Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes has added one of the party's top "dark money" lawyers to his payroll while campaigning on a promise to crack down on undisclosed money in politics, according to campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon."
Senate Candidate Hired Dem 'Dark Money' Lawyer While Campaigning Against Money in Politics
"Abby Broyles told a blatant lie, then blatantly lied about lying."
Drunk Dem: "I Don't Remember" Harassing Tween Girls at Slumber Party
"The list of hosts for the Trump-backed candidate raises further questions as to the endorsement."
Morgan Ortagus Fundraiser Hosted by Jan 6th-Bashing RINOS Who Declared Donald Trump "Unfit" for Office
"The loss of a congressional seat means the ethically challenged representative will face off seventh-generation West Virginian, David McKinley."
In West Virginia, Carpetbagger Alex Mooney Meets His Match
POLITICS
Wait, there's a Far-Left response to the Leftist address?! Can we have a conservative response as well to the GOP-e's?
REPORT: Rep. Rancida Taliban to Call Out Fellow Party Members in Left-Wing Response to Biden's State of the Union
"The tyrannical urges among Democrats become clearer every day." (but the fecklessness and collusion of the GOP grows clearer also - jjs)
America Has Two Major Political Parties: The Republicans and the Authoritarians
"J.D. Vance passed up on a comfortable path of accolades and rewards. It speaks well of his character -- and his candidacy."
From the Ruling Class to the Outside . . . to the Senate?
The short campaign ad posted on Feb. 13 features a nearly nude Stogner straddling an oil pump while wearing a cowboy hat, boots, bikini bottom and stars covering her breasts. Stogner's campaign sign is seen flashing several times throughout the video while a narrator says "Stronger with Stogner, please vote early starting tomorrow."
GOP Candidate Sarah Stogner Fires Back at Critics After Straddling Oil Pump Naked for Campaign Video
"Will they seize the opening or keep fighting among themselves?"
The Left's Chinese COVID Insanity is Creating a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Conservatives
"If the leftists who so vehemently oppose an Article V Convention of States believed they could 'rig' it, it's news to them." (a fair point; discuss!- jjs)
If Leftists Could Rig a Convention of the States, Why Do They Oppose It?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"New scapegoat just dropped."
CBS News Clobbered Over "Propaganda" Tweet Covering For Biden's Economic Disaster
"The Jeff Zucker hire was also tasked with falsifying reports about Congressman Matt Gaetz."
XiNN's Anti-Trump Russia Hoaxer Paula Reid Is Married to a Chinese Communist Party Lobbyist
"While major news outlets claim to be 'objective' or 'truthful'. they are in fact neither."
The Myth of a "Mainstream" Media
"Rogan did what all of us should do if we're attacked for something we say."
Canceling Joe
"Psaki, a former competitive swimmer [does she tuck her junk too? - jjs] raised in Greenwich, Conn., seems to never have encountered people living paycheck to paycheck, or worried about how they'll feed, clothe or educate their kids -- amid a global pandemic, no less. If anything, her statements seem aimed at one cohort alone: high-earning, highly educated liberals and progressives just like her, ones who think anyone on the other side is too stupid to acknowledge."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey is the Condescending Face of the Biden Junta
ABORTION
"There is no middle ground between letting one live or killing," Magana told CNA. "They decided to allow killing up to six months and the Court has opened up the door to the abortion business even more."
Colombia Decriminalizes Abortion Through 6 Months, Critics Call it "Savagery"
SECOND AMENDMENT
"In a report summarizing various federal statistics, SafeHome.org found that Americans purchased nearly 19 million guns in 2021 -- falling somewhat behind 2020, when gun sales surpassed 21 million. Before the onset of [Chinese] COVID-19, the year 2016 was the strongest for firearm purchases."
Texas And Florida Lead U.S. Gun Sales' Second Best Year Ever
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Simply put, China has to back Russia up with emotional and moral support while refraining from treading on the toes of the United States and European Union," Ming Jinwei, a senior editor at the Xinhua News Agency -- the official press agency of the Chinese government -- wrote in a WeChat blog cited by The Washington Post. "In the future, China will also need Russia's understanding and support when wrestling with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all."
Chinese Media Leaks Censoring Rules On Ukraine: We'll Need Russian Support When We "Solve Taiwan Issue"
"Gallup also found that 62 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy, and only 36 percent of people approve of his handling of Russia, Fox News reports."
POLL: Biden's Foreign Affairs Approval Sinks to 40%
"Chalk up yet another victory for Donald J. Trump."
The Abraham Accords Are Working
"A threatening new facility overshadowed by nuke deal negotiations?"
Iran's New Nuclear Facility Said to be Unbombable
"But not left-wing extremism or Islamic radicalization."
German Federal Minister Wants Toddlers in Kindergarten to Be Educated About "Right Wing Extremism"
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "Savvy Muslim activists know the avenue by which their grip on Western society and culture can be loosened. That's why they fight so hard to defend it."
An In-Depth Look at Islam's Achilles Heel
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and his Chi-com libertine Fang Fang are going to crack open the champagne over this one."
BOMBSHELL: Biden's DOJ Drops Anti-Spy China Initiative -- Because Racism
"McKinsey's deep ties with Russian and Chinese leaders built over decades of lucrative deals raise the specter of conflicts of interest."
Amid Geopolitical Strife, US Corporate Giant McKinsey Has Deep Business Ties in Russia and China
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The FDA's approach to measuring medical shortages obscures vital information."
How Not to Fix Medical Supply Chains
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Chinese solar companies currently dominate the industry, producing the vast majority of panels, polysilicon for panels and solar wafers worldwide, according to a 2021 analysis from BloombergNEF."
LG Abandons Solar Panel Business Amid Supply Chain Issues, High Costs
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"How to sail between the cyborgs and the luddites."
Tech Friends and Enemies
"Meanwhile, it appears that at least six law firms are considering suing the company, which became a publicly traded company in July 2021. These law firms ' . . . are seeking clients who lost significant amount of money after purchasing the stock.' The launch failure caused the stock value to drop significantly, and these law firms apparently think that the company has made false claims about its plans -- such as its claim that it will eventually be launch 300 times per year -- and wish to put together a class action lawsuit based on this accusation plus the drop in stock price."
Astra Releases Update on February 10th Launch Failure
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Dinesh D'Souza: "Schwartzel documents that as Gere continued to champion the cause of Tibet, and castigate China for its human rights abuses, Hollywood became more and more uncomfortable with his public advocacy. The late 1990s and early 2000s corresponded with a period in which the American movie market was flattening out, and Hollywood studios increasingly looked to expand in China."
Hollywood Blacklists Richard Gere Over China Criticism
"Race Wokeism now extends to emojis -- because it's not enough to obsess about skin color (and other external attributes) in the real world. The virtual world must also be corrupted by the same sick obsession with race -- by people who claim to be 'fighting racism.'"
Mind Boggling Emoji Bean Counting
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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 07:48 AM (arJlL)

3 Morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 24, 2022 07:49 AM (yEBFM)

4 Morning all! Let WW III begin!

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 07:49 AM (Hica+)

5 James Lindsay and New Discourses should be on everybody's playlist.

Posted by: IanDeal at February 24, 2022 07:49 AM (MGjjz)

6 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2022 07:49 AM (3D/fK)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (vqc+k)

8 It's war.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (bVYXr)

9 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (Hica+)

10 morning

WWIII and a 3+ hour meeting at the same time?

i shan't believe it's an accident. i blame the Germans for calling the meeting...

moar covfefe...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (8D42x)

11 Hope your morning is better than mine

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (X/q7N)

12 Happy Thursday one and all. Let us rejoice that our alleged betters have nothing left to throw at us in insults and let the gnashing of their teeth from our mockery be used to start campfires.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (4olE8)

13 Ukraine Mekraine we all kraine for ice kraine!

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 24, 2022 07:50 AM (vrz2I)

14 Kumlala reportedly said to Biden this morning "You arrogant bastard, you've killed us all!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 07:51 AM (EPNZf)

15 Wait, is it war?

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 07:51 AM (9otr5)

16 Not first

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 24, 2022 07:51 AM (t4poC)

17 I don't think there are any Russians
And there ain't no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playin' with tanks...

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 24, 2022 07:51 AM (pqqDJ)

18 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:51 AM (DU+/6)

19 Lia Thomas, who has retained her essential male body parts, is on record as being attracted to women, which in effect makes him/her a lesbian according to old school definitions.

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

20
OOF!

Welcome to Stock Market Murder Thursday.

Another Biden/Democrat Victory in establishing muh normz.

Welp, say goodbye to your retirement fund.

So long! Farewell! Auf Wiedersein! Goodbye!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2022 07:52 AM (5NkmN)

21 I too never thought Putin would go to all the trouble to launch an all-out attack on an essentially helpless state, especially one where the people are capable of guerilla resistance (no matter how sad-sack the Vindman leadership of the army might be).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (EPNZf)

22 UN security council meeting today. I suspect they will do nothing and perhaps not even bluster too much. Our UN ambassador *asked* Russia to stop their invasion. Not even bluster there, no demands (even if not backed up), nothing. Just a request to desist.

Congratulations, Europe. You got what you wanted and what you demanded and what you and your intelligence agencies worked tirelessly to accomplish. Enjoy it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

23 Thanks JJ ! Excellent job AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (arJlL)

24 Lia Thomas, who has retained her essential male body parts, is on record as being attracted to women, which in effect makes him/her a lesbian according to old school definitions.

ha
Posted by: rhennigantx

So he has an unfair advantage at swim meets. He has a rudder. IYKWIMAIKTYD.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (Hica+)

25 Bottom 10!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (ky6cW)

26 Our own administration is our biggest threat

Posted by: Don at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (Bgq/O)

27 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 24, 2022 07:54 AM (u7pQw)

28 24 Lia Thomas, who has retained her essential male body parts, is on record as being attracted to women, which in effect makes him/her a lesbian according to old school definitions.

A lesbian trapped in a male body.

Rush Limbaugh was WAY ahead of the curve.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 07:54 AM (9otr5)

29 It truly is amazing. In one year, Biden has incredible accomplishments. I just never thought it possible for the Democrat party to be so dangerous, absent a strong majority.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (EPNZf)

30 Maybe people who know more about military tactics than I do can help me understand something. Russia built up a major force on the Ukrainian frontier, postured for a couple of weeks, then withdrew only to launch what appears to be a major assault a week later.

Why the buildup and drawdown? Was it covering for crucial pre-invasion intelligence work and then used as a head-fake? Was it to give Russian commanders familiarity with the terrain and expose some their actual active force to the area and prepare? Something else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (DU+/6)

31 Morning peeps. Why, it's almost as if rezident retard isn't calling the shots. Putin is going to annex the Donbas while the junta fixates on truck drivers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (BFigT)

32 Morning, Horde...How goes it? Just when you think things can't get any worse, Democrats double-, triple-, and quintuple-down on stupid.

We're fucked.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (K5n5d)

33 Maybe Kamala can get drunk with Putin and apply the skills she learned with Willie Brown to save the day

Posted by: Don at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (Bgq/O)

34 What a mess. Pass the ketchup.
=====

Pass the avocados and salsa. Ketchup is soooo 80s.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 24, 2022 07:56 AM (MIKMs)

35 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

The world balance of power just shifted unfavorably.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2022 07:56 AM (EZebt)

36 Maybe Kamala can get drunk with Putin and apply the skills she learned with Willie Brown to save the day
Posted by: Don at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (Bgq/O)

hey putin has standards not like bill clinton. There are some hot russian vimen, he has not need for that scank

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 07:57 AM (Irn0L)

37 Hope your morning is better than mine
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Did the DOJ confiscate your hammer ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 07:57 AM (arJlL)

38 So he has an unfair advantage at swim meets. He has a rudder. IYKWIMAIKTYD.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (Hica+)
-

A sailing mast for backstroke competitions.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 24, 2022 07:57 AM (ky6cW)

39 Unfortunately for our freedom-loving friends and neighbors to the North, the reality is to the contrary, and that is, in part, due to the fact that Canadians rights exist by Act of Parliament

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (yrol0)

40 I see "increased" sanctions on Russia doing two things. Jack and squat.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (1WT1m)

41 I'm fixing to make about $100 off a wayyyy out of the money put contract on SPY.

Does that make me a war profiteer? That would be kind of fun.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (6FeV1)

42 The enduring problem with nuclear weapons is the fallout pattern. I think I'll pull up some wind charts and see where the best spot to cower under someones porch might be.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (EPNZf)

43 I can't wait for the "it's Trump's fault" stuff to begin in earnest in the press. There is one hard, cold fact in Russia's recent expansionist behavior: it happens when they can afford it. Putin wants various chunks of the historical Russian or Soviet empires, but he's not stupid. The Georgian war and the last Ukrainian war happened when they had the money. Russia isn't exactly a petrostate, but oil is pretty damned important to the revenue stream. They invade when they have the money and they have the money when oil is expensive.

Trump's energy policy - even more than his tactical engagement with Russians in places like Syria, and his bullying of NATO into taking things seriously - helped ensure a non-expansionist Russia.

Thanks, Brandon!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

44 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (Msys3)

45 Uh-oh. Money laundry's closed...

Posted by: Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Romney at February 24, 2022 07:59 AM (AytXr)

46 Joe should try blackface. It worked for Barky.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2022 07:59 AM (vrz2I)

47 Does that make me a war profiteer? That would be kind of fun.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (6FeV1
===

I've been positioned for this for ten years!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2022 07:59 AM (EZebt)

48 "Trudeau destroys faith in the banking system."
Jordan Peterson Video: "I Was Told to Take My Money Out of Canadian Banks Quickly"

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Looks like the youtube fascists took down the video by terminating the account of whomever posted it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

49 I see "increased" sanctions on Russia doing two things. Jack and squat.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (1WT1m)
++++
They'll have an effect, but I doubt they will be decisive. Europe needs the gas and the world at large needs the oil. Sanctions will hurt, but the spice *will* keep flowing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

50 > Why the buildup and drawdown?
__________
There was never a "drawdown."

Reposition troops, armor, etc. while the Ukrainians were massing in the "wrong" place. Basic head fake.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

51 Yeah, but think how bad it would have been if I hadn't gone!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (AytXr)

52 I was going to sell 25% of my stocks yesterday but my new job kept me busy. Dammit. We'll see. If it doesn't collapse this morning, I'll take the 2% decline and do it at market open.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

53 Mutt has decidedly gone insane on the Ukraine

seriously, something is not right with the guy

maybe it's a mormon thing but his chesse is on the floor

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (us2H3)

54
That said, it is particularly rage-inducing to hear the comments from that quarter of the Jimmy Carter Memorial Peanut Gallery on how this is somehow the fault of Donald Trump.

I refer to this as the "Nearest Available Republican" gambit. When there's some catastrophe under or caused by Democrats, it's always the fault of the nearest Republican, regardless how uninvolved (see also: Flint water crisis).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (/U27+)

55 There was never a "drawdown."

Reposition troops, armor, etc. while the Ukrainians were massing in the "wrong" place. Basic head fake.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)
++++
So the "Russia withdrew their forces and sent them back east" narrative wasn't correct?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

56 BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

No one would notice.

While I agree that going to DC is a mistake, only independent truckers are going to be involved with this. The corporations who're getting their piece of the swamp pie will keep people rolling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (vqc+k)

57 What a mess. Pass the ketchup.

Absolutely an utter mess and disaster.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (nxdel)

58 Pass the avocados and salsa

Cartels took both away last week.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (4olE8)

59 Nancy wants a war!

This, my friends, is our moment. This is the Sudetenland.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (yrol0)

60
Mutt has decidedly gone insane on the Ukraine

seriously, something is not right with the guy

Follow the money. No blood for politicians' kids!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (/U27+)

61 "And so it begins ..." -- You know who

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (743lG)

62 I think Biden should declare the Ukraine to be a Gun-Free Zone.

That would stymie the Russians.

Advantage: Geopolitical Genius Biden!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (5NkmN)

63 Basic sonzoo. Attack when your enemy is weak.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (vrz2I)

64 I don't think a whole lot of Kremlinology is needed here. Putin wants a chunk of the Ukraine. There is no one left on Earth who can be bothered to stop him. So he's taking it. This isn't high strategy. It's not even a game of Risk. It's sandbox geopolitics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

65 All requests for political donations received by my household will get this terse reply back: The Canadian Federal Government has set the precedent that participating in fundraisers carries with it the risk of personal and business bank accounts being frozen. Message received and clearly understood.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (nRMeC)

66 That said, it is particularly rage-inducing to hear the comments from that quarter of the Jimmy Carter Memorial Peanut Gallery on how this is somehow the fault of Donald Trump.

Like me, and we can't say we weren't warned, but they underestimated Joe's ability to fuck things up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (EPNZf)

67 If Mitch doesn't shut Mutt up, it's only further proof that he is more than happy to be the minority leader

all MSM will book Mutt for their Sunday shows

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:03 AM (us2H3)

68
This, my friends, is our moment. This is the Sudetenland.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (yrol0)

Wasn't Kamala in Munich last week? Can't we get the EU war machine to do something about this?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (/U27+)

69 can't wait for the "it's Trump's fault" stuff to begin in earnest in the press. There is one hard, cold fact in Russia's recent expansionist behavior: it happens when they can afford it. Putin wants various chunks of the historical Russian or Soviet empires, but he's not stupid. The Georgian war and the last Ukrainian war happened when they had the money. Russia isn't exactly a petrostate, but oil is pretty damned important to the revenue stream. They invade when they have the money and they have the money when oil is expensive.

Trump's energy policy - even more than his tactical engagement with Russians in places like Syria, and his bullying of NATO into taking things seriously - helped ensure a non-expansionist Russia.

Thanks, Brandon!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

romney has already started to blame Trump

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (Irn0L)

70 Why would the market collapse over a regional spat? The market impacts from either of the combatant countries are meaningless. Russia's exports of crude (60% of their total exports) will continue, trust.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (QZ/dC)

71 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen. By an idiot.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (5kI0z)

72 Mutt would be happier being right and losing than Trump being right and winning

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (us2H3)

73 If I were Xi I'd take Taiwan right now, the US and Anglosphere are weak and tearing itself apart.

Shit is getting real.

Or alternatively...

You've got your inflection point in my paradigm shift, no, you've got your paradigm shift in my inflection point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (BxACj)

74 Hope the people in Taiwan have a plan B, talk about a perfect time for China.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (8k7U7)

75 BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR

It isn't like they couldn't find routes west and south of there that need attending to. That is, any effective siege on the northeast corridor shouldn't cost the truckers anything since the fuel is expensive and there is plenty of demand everywhere else.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (lD3vL)

76 That said, it is particularly rage-inducing to hear the comments from that quarter of the Jimmy Carter Memorial Peanut Gallery on how this is somehow the fault of Donald Trump.

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Out: "Trump's Virus."
In: "Trump's War."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (743lG)

77 70 Why would the market collapse over a regional spat? The market impacts from either of the combatant countries are meaningless. Russia's exports of crude (60% of their total exports) will continue, trust.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (QZ/dC)

Fear of the conflict expanding, which seems unlikely at present.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (z5Vrg)

78 maybe it's a mormon thing but his chesse is on the floor
Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM (us2H3)

That's no Boneless Pork Rectum, it was Old Man Cheeseless Cracker all along!

"And i would have got away with it too... "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

79
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (K2SnJ)

80 Mutt has decidedly gone insane on the Ukraine

seriously, something is not right with the guy

maybe it's a mormon thing but his chesse is on the floor

Posted by: REDACTED

Romney was getting bribe money out of Ukraine.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2022 08:06 AM (5kI0z)

81 Why would the market collapse over a regional spat? The market impacts from either of the combatant countries are meaningless. Russia's exports of crude (60% of their total exports) will continue, trust.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (QZ/dC)
++++
Because we're a gigantic loose cannon flopping around on the deck launching ordnance in all directions. Markets hate instability, and things are unstable AF right now and nobody knows what the US plans are (and I suspect that "nobody" includes the politburo). It wouldn't surprise me to see some declines followed by stabilization and possibly some retracing of steps, depending on what we actually do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

82 Baby, I'm back!
Back in the U.S.S.R....

Posted by: Donbass Region at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (AytXr)

83 74 Hope the people in Taiwan have a plan B, talk about a perfect time for China.
Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (8k7U7)

I'm assuming they wait a few weeks and see how Russia does in taking/keeping Ukraine before getting Russian backing and taking it...

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)

84 Everyone thought Russia was still role playing the Fulda Gap strategy of overwhelming ground force. Whoops.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (QZ/dC)

85 romney has already started to blame Trump
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (Irn0L)
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Romney's a disingenuous and belligerent asshole. Nobody listens to Romney. I'm waiting for the press to align behind the "Trump's Fault!" narrative.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (DU+/6)

86 That's no Boneless Pork Rectum, it was Old Man Cheeseless Cracker all along!

"And i would have got away with it too... "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

lol

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (us2H3)

87 I will tell y'all this: there was no intelligence failure. I won't say how I know, but they were told this was going to happen. This is a failure of the faculty lounge junta.

Posted by: Bert G at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (WFw1/)

88 Obligatory theme song
https://youtu.be/nS5_EQgbuLc

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (lCui1)

89 Oil is $100 a barrel this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (1WT1m)

90 @70

>>Why would the market collapse over a regional spat?

Because a butterfly farting in Indonesia causes a dandelion in Caracas to flutter, which causes a bee to land on a non-pollen producing Venus fly trap and on and on.

Literally everything spooks the markets.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (BxACj)

91 Mornin', Horde. How totally fucked are we today?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (RkC6l)

92 Mitch doesn't want to shut Mitt up, heck he'd be happy to join him on those Sunday shows bashing the American First movement.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (4thlk)

93 Mitt Romney is a piece of ****. He has a very serious problem. A mental problem. Much like Liz Cheney. They are consumed with irrational hatred for Donald Trump and it affects every aspect of their public life. They are both very unfit for elected office.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

94 Hilarious. A media shit is interviewing a Nurses Union shit via Zoom or whatever and Nurse Union commie left her computer's cursor in the middle of her desktop after signing in and the cursor is hovering over her mouth and chin. At least she didn't have the animated animal-face thing turned on like that lawyer from last year.

Ooops. Someone noticed and moved it "off-screen"!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:09 AM (UHVv4)

95 So the "Russia withdrew their forces and sent them back east" narrative wasn't correct?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:01 AM

No.

Posted by: Bert G at February 24, 2022 08:09 AM (WFw1/)

96 81 Why would the market collapse over a regional spat? The market impacts from either of the combatant countries are meaningless. Russia's exports of crude (60% of their total exports) will continue, trust.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (QZ/dC)

Markets are also overvalued and currently propped up by the Fed (both directly and indirectly)...and the companies in the markets are almost all global with large reach in Europe and Asia. None of this will help them...

That said, don't sell everything. As mentioned a few weeks ago, balance by your age - 1% not in stocks per year old you are if you're conservative...1% your age - 20% if you're less risk averse.

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:09 AM (exHjb)

97 85 romney has already started to blame Trump
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:04 AM (Irn0L)

Mutt could find a rottie balls deep in Ann's ass and blame Trump for it

the guy is a sick fuck

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (us2H3)

98 If I were Xi I'd take Taiwan right now, the US and Anglosphere are weak and tearing itself apart.

I go under the "planned politics" mode where there is a master plan and the FNM's role in all of this is to provide continual disinformation.

Nonetheless, it is possible to play Kremlinologist and wargame some PRC/ROC scenarios. One small example: I'm interested in this sudden impulse to build chip manufacturing deep in the bowels of the former United States rather than ROC and the costal CONUS states.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (lD3vL)

99 > So the "Russia withdrew their forces and sent them back east" narrative wasn't correct?
____________
Fake news.

Moving your military units around is classic warfare. The media doesn't understand this at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (BFigT)

100 A kleptocracy has been invaded by a semi-kleptocracy. My indifference is increased by my lack of an ability to decode Cyrillic. Add to this my lack of concern over the Biden family losing a source of graft.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (LaNzR)

101 Mornin', Horde. How totally fucked are we today?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM (RkC6l)

Same as yesterday.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (8k7U7)

102 I'm assuming they wait a few weeks and see how Russia does in taking/keeping Ukraine before getting Russian backing and taking it...
Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)
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I don't expect a move on Taiwan until Winter or maybe even 2023. The CCP meets in Q4 this year for the 20th Party Congress. During that Congress, Xi will be installed as emperor for life (even without that title, it will be the effect) and Xi will be able to finish consolidating every facet of power in Red China and be the absolute dictator without question.

Then he will begin his historic quest to be the greatest emperor in Chinese history by finally reunifying all of China *and* cowing the west in one shot with the conquest of Taiwan.

That's my guess. Opinions, of course, are like assholes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

103 Dow futures are down 2.3% - that's not a collapse folks, that's a normal Biden day.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (QZ/dC)

104 Nothing wrong with moose burgers, I've cooked those, very tasty with or without a marinade.

Posted by: Grog at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (YFj/0)

105
Yep. The world being "otherwise engaged" and the US being run by a Senile Retard and a bunch of Self-Hating, AntiAmerican Retards makes this the perfect time to run the table.

Adios, Taiwan. And more than likely the Japanese territory they've been edging up on among others.

Pax Americana will be dead with a stake driven straight through the heart of American Credibility.

And Fucking Mutt Rombley...all he can think about is salving his little, Small Dick Energy ego.

Pitiful.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (5NkmN)

106 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)

107 Romney's statement hinted at Biden's attempt to "reset" the relationship with Russia at the beginning of his term, but more aggressively criticized Trump's "America First" foreign policy.

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Jey, Mitt, the cuck store called, and they're running out of you.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (743lG)

108 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Thanks, Bert and Martini Farmer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

110 102 I'm assuming they wait a few weeks and see how Russia does in taking/keeping Ukraine before getting Russian backing and taking it...
Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)
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I don't expect a move on Taiwan until Winter or maybe even 2023. The CCP meets in Q4 this year for the 20th Party Congress. During that Congress, Xi will be installed as emperor for life (even without that title, it will be the effect) and Xi will be able to finish consolidating every facet of power in Red China and be the absolute dictator without question.

Then he will begin his historic quest to be the greatest emperor in Chinese history by finally reunifying all of China *and* cowing the west in one shot with the conquest of Taiwan.

That's my guess. Opinions, of course, are like assholes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

Wouldn't the vote be a coronation, though, if he brought Taiwan in hand to it...and then said he was ready to reunite all of China?

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (exHjb)

111 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Well that sucks!!

HeyOhhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (Msys3)

112 ----I read it's all out from all corners including the water.
----Saw some tweets that this conflict also had "water" as part of the issue as water for farming was cut off.
----Rubio pounced all over Tulsi Gabbard on twitter re her remarks of putin/ukraine (don't know if I trust her to join the GOP - she was invited to conference but is she switching sides?)
----Also saw a complete cyber attack (not just electricity and whatnot).
and this tweet:
Cernovich @Cernovich

Now would be a good time for Ukrainian intelligence to release the Biden information they covered up for vegetable Joe.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (8I+CL)

113 So we have two senile world leaders with nuclear arsenals. Would be kind of nice if they could avoid blowing up the world.

Posted by: Caliban at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (HgGBT)

114 Are we making lists? Should we be making lists?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (7bRMQ)

115 Cernovich @Cernovich

Sold uranium to Russia (Democrats), Crimea invaded (Democrats), US domestic pipeline shut down (Democrats), nuclear power halted (Democrats), Ukraine invaded again (Democrats).

Starting to notice a pattern.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (8I+CL)

116 Biden asked Putin to attack the Ukraine and destroy certain buildings to obliterate evidence showing he, his family and the Clintons are corrupt as fuck and should be tried for treason.

This is all part of the plan.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

117 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)

Oh no! Quick! Someone perform a Heimlich Maneuver!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (6FeV1)

118 Harvard student Julie Hartman, speaking against "irrational COVID restrictions," is apparently 1 in 1,000,000. Or more. I don't see any such heroes or nonconforming non-sheep around here.

I feel like the only sheepdog, or maybe even wolf. There is one faculty member who is pro-Trump and anti- all this nonsense. But she is from Armenia and has actually lived under socialism and communism. She *knows*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (txdEq)

119 I don't agree that the trucker convoy is playing into their hands. For too long we've fretted over what the Left will do in response to what we do. It has proved paralyzing. And as for boycotting deliveries to sections of the country, I'm afraid that would backfire, i.e., be seen as clinical and premeditatively cruel.

The truckers are moved by righteous cause, and it demands direct expression. We don't know how it will play out; we never do. But it is a time for action.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (H8QX8)

120 But.. but.. but Biden said he would restore norms and stop Putin or something.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (88xKn)

121 106 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)

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She'll still get one as an 'HISTORIC FIRST REEEEEEEEEEEEE!" participation trophy after Biden Doesn't Kill Himself.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:13 AM (743lG)

122 Then he will begin his historic quest to be the greatest emperor in Chinese history by finally reunifying all of China *and* cowing the west in one shot with the conquest of Taiwan.

That's my guess. Opinions, of course, are like assholes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)
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You may be on to something, but if the opportunity presents itself before then, he could seize Taiwan and consolidate his hold on it *before* that celebration. Then unveil a unified China, cementing his hold as dictator-for-life.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:13 AM (K5n5d)

123 Looks like Putin wants to put the band back together.

Posted by: Infidel at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (ryXBe)

124 Wouldn't the vote be a coronation, though, if he brought Taiwan in hand to it...and then said he was ready to reunite all of China?
Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (exHjb)
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Xi doesn't have absolute power in China and there are loads of domestic and economic problems there. Taiwan is not guaranteed victory, and it will be a tremendous gamble with global consequences whenever China chooses to try it. If you think there's a chip shortage now, wait and see what happens if Taiwan scuttles that part of the industrial base to keep it from falling into Chinese hands.

Waiting until after the coronation when he has consolidated power and removed anyone and everyone not totally on board the Xi train strikes me as more likely. Time will, of course, tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

125 Can we trade a Murk and a Mutt for Joe and a Sinabuns ?

shit, I'd even throw in my old Lear 8 track

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (us2H3)

126 Hope the people in Taiwan have a plan B, talk about a perfect time for China.

I have been told that Winter is a horrible time to be play Navy in the South China Sea.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (lD3vL)

127 The baby's awake!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (Msys3)

128 They claim inflation is not caused by the Fed creating too much money, but by people having too much money to spend; taxation will remove that excess liquidity and stop inflation.

People spend money Baderer

Govt spend money moar gooder

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

129 Trudeau will start bombing Alberta if we send Kamala to Ottawa next.

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (ELgVT)

130 Ukraine's investment in Hunter isn't looking so good right now.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (1A6lZ)

131 122 106 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)

give her a chance, she hasn't blown it yet !!

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (us2H3)

132 Morning, Horde...How goes it? Just when you think things can't get any worse, Democrats double-, triple-, and quintuple-down on stupid.

We're fucked.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Death by Bunga-Bunga ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (arJlL)

133 give her a chance, she hasn't blown it yet !!
Posted by: REDACTED

She already choked!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (Msys3)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (tcZnS)

135 I don't think the SOTU speech is going to be the happy celebration Biden was planning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

136 Waiting until after the coronation when he has consolidated power and removed anyone and everyone not totally on board the Xi train strikes me as more likely. Time will, of course, tell.

China tech economy collapses without the silicon being stamped out by Taiwan. They need more sources.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (lD3vL)

137 this is good
Logan Dobson @LoganDobson
9 days ago, lol
https://tinyurl.com/ymtz58ep

he posts a piece from Thomas Friedman/NYT

The Ukraine story is far from over. But if Vladimir Putin opts to back away from invading Ukraine, even temporarily, it's because Joe Biden -- that guy whose right-wing critics suggest is so deep in dementia he wouldn't know Kyiv from Kansas or AARP from NATO -- has matched every Putin chess move with an effective counter of his own.

laughing hysterically...

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (8I+CL)

138 You morons are all missing what's important!

1. No Mean Tweets.
2. The world loves us again.

Isn't that worth the sacrifice of some land?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (4olE8)

139 And with that said, there's a Freedom Convoy heading to DC right now.

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I expect to be assured #Soon by the MDM-MSM that these are actually RUSSIAN AGENTS!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (743lG)

140 Trayvon Martin and George Floyd were garbage people.

Posted by: Minuteman at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (LaNzR)

141 @125

>>Time will, of course, tell.

Guess who the largest producer of Palladium is?

And Palladium prices are soaring this morning.

The Junta seizing control of The US government is a disaster of untold dimensions at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (BxACj)

142 I don't think the SOTU speech is going to be the happy celebration Biden was planning.
Posted by: JackStraw

It'll be postponed due to 'world tensions' or some such.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (Msys3)

143 The baby's awake!
Posted by: Tonypete

Does he have a long mustache ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (arJlL)

144 114 So we have two senile world leaders with nuclear arsenals. Would be kind of nice if they could avoid blowing up the world.
Posted by: Caliban at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (HgGBT)

Putin's not senile. But he has nukes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (s2VJv)

145 I don't think these people know how chess is played....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

146 @Cernovich
Now would be a good time for Ukrainian intelligence to release the Biden information they covered up for vegetable Joe.
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (8I+CL)
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Not a chance. Not now. Ukraine is likely angling for US intervention, and letting loose with the goods would not be a way to gain that.

When we refuse to do so or intervene and fail, that's when they'll probably drop the hammer if they're going to do so.

The wildcard is Russia since Putin likely has all those details, too. Russians are good at spying. If we're ramping up to intervene, he might try to short-circuit that with an intelligence drop of his own to cause domestic support to collapse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

147 Death by Bunga-Bunga ?
Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:15 AM (arJlL)
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I'd much prefer death by snu-snu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8sjzETQ5o

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (K5n5d)

148 Skip-

We're not gonna get malaria today.

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (arJlL)

149 Biden asked Putin to attack the Ukraine and destroy certain buildings to obliterate evidence showing he, his family and the Clintons are corrupt as fuck and should be tried for treason.

This is all part of the plan.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

sigh, ya know, that would not surprise me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (Irn0L)

150 Nancy wants a war!

This, my friends, is our moment. This is the Sudetenland.
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That check is going to bounce.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (UHVv4)

151 LOL tv nooz is very concerned about the spread of disinformation in the "yoga community"
sounds like Fauci's lost the yoga moms

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (lCui1)

152 So, I guess the question is if the US holds up to its treaty obligations (don't laugh, it could happen) and we just saw the start of WW3, or if Poopin' Joe goes all Chamberlain and just gives Vlad what he wants.

I'm honestly not entirely sure which would be worse. I don't care about Ukraine as such (the people there, yes, the nation-state itself, meh), but there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

153 I don't think these people know how chess is played....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)
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These people fail at tic-tac-toe

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (K5n5d)

154 146 I don't think these people know how chess is played....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

No kidding.

Posted by: Bobby Fischer at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (88xKn)

155 Romney seems to direct most of his ire at Obama and Hillzabub, mentioning Trump only because Pork Rectum thinks Trump wasn't aggressive enough. Whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean. I could read the article with all his comments, but I don't really need another rage-inducing provocation to hate the GOPe Senate caucus. So, pass.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (9TjH4)

156 Mornin', Horde. How totally fucked are we today?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:08 AM

Same as yesterday.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:10 AM

So...we're stable, then. I suppose that's a plus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (RkC6l)

157 I don't agree that the trucker convoy is playing into their hands. For too long we've fretted over what the Left will do in response to what we do. It has proved paralyzing. And as for boycotting deliveries to sections of the country, I'm afraid that would backfire, i.e., be seen as clinical and premeditatively cruel.

The truckers are moved by righteous cause, and it demands direct expression. We don't know how it will play out; we never do. But it is a time for action.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (H8QX

They are already infiltrating them.
I say that the optics IS important, but not in DC. Go to a safe zone (Texas?, Florida?) and simultaneously stop the food supply to key areas, as we discussed yesterday. They will feel no pain as their groceries and pre-made food are delivered regardless.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (8I+CL)

158 And just like that, there goes Kamala's Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)
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Why? They gave one to Obama, and he launched more cruise missiles and caused the collapse of more countries than any other Peace Laureate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

159 Let it play out. Meanwhile fill up the gas tank.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (S1hrL)

160 Cernovich @Cernovich
Starting to notice a pattern.
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:12 AM (8I+CL)

No offense but nobody cares about Cernovich and his shit posting. His opinion is just as worthless as Romney's.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (4thlk)

161 Trudeau will start bombing Alberta if we send Kamala to Ottawa next.

Kamala seems to be the policy Grim Reaper of This Dynamic Duo of Failure.

Wherever she goes, the Policy dies in a grotesque DC Comics sort of way.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (lD3vL)

162 She'll still get one as an 'HISTORIC FIRST REEEEEEEEEEEEE!" participation trophy after Biden Doesn't Kill Himself.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:13 AM (743lG)

What's the Over/Under on Biden "Not Killing Himself" now?

Or-

What looks like complete disaster and chaotic failure to us, may include a big payday for the Big Guy and assorted Democrats and Our Betters. I doubt it. I think this is the old put Massive Fuck-upps in power get Massive Fuck-ups dealio but who knows? They always seem to turn up richer at the end?

Exit Question: Which stocks did Nanzi Pelosi and other Democrats short, oh, say, over the last two days?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (5NkmN)

163 just think about all the new Tunnels to Towers spots on TV

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)

164 136 I don't think the SOTU speech is going to be the happy celebration Biden was planning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

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"My fellow Ukrainians. The country has never been so united ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (743lG)

165 Guess we poked the bear one too many times.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (nxdel)

166 I mean she's not a terrible piece, but i wouldn't give her any prizes for it outside of a new job.

Posted by: Willie Brown at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (6FeV1)

167 This, my friends, is our moment. This is the Sudetenland.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 08:02 AM (yrol0)

No, this is the same as us responding if China installed a gov't in Mexico and then planned on moving troops and missiles into the country.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (EpDzw)

168 good tweet here

https://twitter.com/blogho/status/
1496831555561570304

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (lCui1)

169 I'm afraid that would backfire, i.e., be seen as clinical and premeditatively cruel.

Cruelty is the only language understood by our Rulers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (lD3vL)

170 Fuck Mittens. America First was starting to make us strong again. Donks and Richie Rich couldn't have that. It stood in the way of their billions. Now Germany is shutting off their own energy supply, the one that was none of our business, but defend us for free, dumb yanks. With no real military, and dependant on Russia for energy, they want us to foot the bill for both.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (ONvIw)

171 153 So, I guess the question is if the US holds up to its treaty obligations (don't laugh, it could happen) and we just saw the start of WW3, or if Poopin' Joe goes all Chamberlain and just gives Vlad what he wants.

I'm honestly not entirely sure which would be worse. I don't care about Ukraine as such (the people there, yes, the nation-state itself, meh), but there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

"Bright red lines" - we are already past that thanks to Obama...a Dem admin's word is never gonna be believed anymore, so I wouldn't worry too much on that account...

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (exHjb)

172 Jewells, I hope you are feeling better this morning

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (lCui1)

173 147
The wildcard is Russia since Putin likely has all those details, too. Russians are good at spying. If we're ramping up to intervene, he might try to short-circuit that with an intelligence drop of his own to cause domestic support to collapse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

Fly in to "ernt-ment" is the media will claim it's Russian disinformatsiya that Putin and Trump concocted.

Better if the Ukies release it, or Assange if he's still a player.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

174 Guess we poked the bear one too many times.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 24, 2022 08:20 AM (nxdel)

PUTIN!!! SOVIETS....wait RUSSIANS!!! Too many are trained seals being told to clap.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (EpDzw)

175 168. Agreed.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (ONvIw)

176 In Soviet Kanada, dawn breaks you.

Posted by: Bankenfrieren Kommando at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (yjmHr)

177 CPAC opens today.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (S1hrL)

178 @153

>>if Poopin' Joe goes all Chamberlain and just gives Vlad what he wants.

The Meat Puppet is going to follow on in the tradition of The Kenyan Dog eater and do something that's strong enough to not be mocked but ultimately Vlad is going to get what Vlad wants.

The US, West and Anglosphere has put themselves in a position where they are over-reliant on our supposed enemies to realistically do anything about it at this point.

Trump was trying to do something about this situation but Trump was ejected from the Oval Office by The Junta.

So here we are, living a catastrophe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (BxACj)

179 Maybe if NATO stopped expanding eastward, as Slick promised and then went back on, none of this would be happening.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (y7DUB)

180 America First was starting to make us strong again. Donks and Richie Rich couldn't have that. It stood in the way of their billions. Now Germany is shutting off their own energy supply, the one that was none of our business, but defend us for free, dumb yanks. With no real military, and dependant on Russia for energy, they want us to foot the bill for both.

Turns out "speak softly and carry a big stick" was actually pretty good foreign policy. Who knew?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (tcZnS)

181 No war for Biden's Ukraine deals!

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (ONvIw)

182 I don't think the SOTU speech is going to be the happy celebration Biden was planning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

Would not be surprised if he cancelled it or maybe just handed in a staement

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (Irn0L)

183 There is only one war America is prepared to fight and training for at the behest of their leadership, and that is the defeat of its own citizenry.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (quoXt)

184 Surprised this didn't get a mention in the links:

New York investigation into Trump's business looks imperiled after prosecutors quit

A long-running investigation into Trump's business practices from the Manhattan district attorney's office appears to have been derailed, as the two lead prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned Wednesday. A New York Times report suggests they did so because the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told them "he had doubts about moving forward with a case" against Trump.

The one possibility the "journalist" can't wrap his head around is the possibility trump did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (qnVBz)

185 So, I guess the question is if the US holds up to its treaty obligations (don't laugh, it could happen) and we just saw the start of WW3, or if Poopin' Joe goes all Chamberlain and just gives Vlad what he wants.
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This is why the market is on a down elevator. Just like WW1, the allied west is led by idiots, and this is a war starting in an innocuous area over an incursion no one thought serious and puffed-up people, like Romney, are going to get all wrapped up in treaty obligations and, suddenly!, you're in a serious war with a nuclear power.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (9TjH4)

186 Russia - Ukraine war pr0n here:

https://tinyurl.com/5dxkp37e

Goes to "The War Zone" blog.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)

187 New from February 14:

Democrats used the Senate filibuster, which they are busy trying to eliminate, to block a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday that would have sanctioned companies associated with Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The bill had 55 votes.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (9otr5)

188 Maybe if NATO stopped expanding eastward, as Slick promised and then went back on, none of this would be happening.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (y7DUB)

That's very true

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (Irn0L)

189 Kamala has alot of experience putting on Tijuana politburro shows.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (UHVv4)

190 Has the FBI started sponsoring billboards all over the country yet for Americans to turn in their fellow Americans who are part of the trucker convoy to DC? With scary, red font and ominous doomsday graphics?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

191 180 Correct. Let Europe deal with this.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (ONvIw)

192 Fly in to "ernt-ment" is the media will claim it's Russian disinformatsiya that Putin and Trump concocted.

Better if the Ukies release it, or Assange if he's still a player.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (s2VJv)
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Sure, that's a variable. But I suspect it might work anyway. Media trust is already collapsed. They control the narrative, but not very many people actually believe them anymore. They can call it disinformation and Russian lies all they want, but a ton of folks will believe it anyway. This is true, by the way, even if it does turn out to be Russian lies.

Our systems are so rotten and trust is so low than an intelligence psyop to engender disruption and crush support would probably work regardless of the whether or not the other player was telling the truth (or the whole truth). As long as it looks credible and ties in to stuff with a decent paper trail, it might work regardless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

193 I don't care about Ukraine as such (the people there, yes, the nation-state itself, meh), but there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

You mean like telling Russia we wouldn't expand NATO to their borders?

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (EpDzw)

194 So, I guess the question is if the US holds up to its treaty obligations (don't laugh, it could happen) and we just saw the start of WW3, or if Poopin' Joe goes all Chamberlain and just gives Vlad what he wants.

Which treaty is that?

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (9otr5)

195 185 Surprised this didn't get a mention in the links:

New York investigation into Trump's business looks imperiled after prosecutors quit

A long-running investigation into Trump's business practices from the Manhattan district attorney's office appears to have been derailed, as the two lead prosecutors, Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, resigned Wednesday. A New York Times report suggests they did so because the new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, told them "he had doubts about moving forward with a case" against Trump.

The one possibility the "journalist" can't wrap his head around is the possibility trump did nothing wrong.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (qnVBz)

Likely that this came from the top down since it happened the same day/next day that the Hochul got a real possible R "Youngkin" challenger with money...Gov probably whispered a few words that this had to go away soon...

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (exHjb)

196 Would not be surprised if he cancelled it or maybe just handed in a staement

but norms !!

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (BqBIh)

197 I am pretty sure the USA has some strategic interest in Ukraine. The USA has something like 11 biological warfare labs in that country. Curiously, if you look at a map of the Russian missile strikes and compare it with a map of the USA biolabs, there seems to be quite a bit of matching.

I would be pissed if some empire was building biolabs on my borders for sure.

Posted by: Fal Phil at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (ryVbk)

198 160 Let it play out. Meanwhile fill up the gas tank.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:19 AM (S1hrL)

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In AZ last week, as gas starts to approach $4/gallon, predictions were that Russia invading Ukraine would likely cause them to jump up to $5 minimum.

I drive 85,000 miles/year for work and have to pay for my own gas. If it gets much more than that, it may not be worth my time to continue working (and unlikely to get a raise, working as an independent contractor for a federal contractor who has fixed fees for the next 5 years).

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (743lG)

199 That Trucker Convoy from Scranton to DC?

One truck.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (9otr5)

200 Don't worry all is fine...biden will announce his selection of some radical left black women to the court and the world will magically heal

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (Irn0L)

201 CPAC opens today.
Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:21 AM (S1hrL)

Can't wait for all our conservative thought leaders to take Biden to task for being weak, telling their fellow conservatives we should have boots on the grounds and standing up for our allies, blah, blah, blah.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (4thlk)

202 Oil is $100 a barrel this morning.
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Gold's $1960+

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (UHVv4)

203 181 Trump.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:25 AM (ONvIw)

204 I just checked a map. Ukraine is more than 10 miles away from me.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:25 AM (qnVBz)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM

Can I get an "amen"?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:25 AM (RkC6l)

206 Because a butterfly farting in Indonesia causes a dandelion in Caracas to flutter, which causes a bee to land on a non-pollen producing Venus fly trap and on and on.
----------------
All for the want of a bottle of Butterfly-Pepto!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:25 AM (UHVv4)

207 That Trucker Convoy from Scranton to DC?
One truck.
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (9otr5)

Giddy Up Go?

Posted by: Zombie Red Sovine at February 24, 2022 08:26 AM (pqqDJ)

208 They are already infiltrating them.
I say that the optics IS important, but not in DC.

If you want to go all in and play the optics game. Monkey dance with this junta and the FNM will play up even more the necessity of bringing in the Party Military to stop this. Get Kamala, Fartswell and the other members of Team Nuke America to swing their imaginary dicks about stopping this with a violent response.

So when the convoy is still a few hundred miles out in friendly country and the rhetoric is all amped up. Blow a few bridges leading in to DC. Have all of the memes and conservative talk radio pin the explosions on the junta going overboard on trying to stop the trucks from entering the Holy Land.

Self made siege, great optics.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:26 AM (lD3vL)

209 So...we're stable, then. I suppose that's a plus.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (RkC6l)

lol

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:26 AM (8k7U7)

210 I don't think the SOTU speech is going to be the happy celebration Biden was planning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:16 AM (ZLI7S)

Would not be surprised if he cancelled it or maybe just handed in a staement
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:22 AM (Irn0L)

They can't let that pants shitting retard loose on unedited television about a number of topics he's clueless about.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (y7DUB)

211 Has the Bulwark blamed Trump for this yet ?

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (BqBIh)

212
The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (t1eo9)

213 Willowed

not an ecoystem for power users.

Every one of the developers where I work, until we hired three juniors, could easily be a principal engineer or director anywhere else - when the choice was given for a top end Windows or MacBook Pro, everyone went with the latter.
*

Yeah, but you make my point for me. They're great if they suit your needs. If you require it for things outside of whatever the specific scope of whatever you are doing that it was bought specifically for, it will generally be a really bad choice.

It's not a good ecosystem for power users. Those folks might be smart users, but that doesn't mean they use their computer for anything other than the task it was bought for.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (4VkOh)

214 vmom, so far so good! Still some congestion but that's about it. Thanks!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (nxdel)

215 Ukraine is more than 10 miles away from me.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:25 AM (qnVBz)

Much like choosing who sits in the WH, these are events over which I have no control.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (lCui1)

216 153 ... there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

Something about reputation taking 20 years to build and 5 minutes to destroy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 24, 2022 08:27 AM (nRMeC)

217 Hiya CN !

Howya doon ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (arJlL)

218 You mean like telling Russia we wouldn't expand NATO to their borders? - Posted by: WiNO

Yep. Turns out that would have been a good one to keep. Though, keeping promises you made to people who are antagonistic to you is a good, Christian thing to do, it's not always the best play in international politics, so I'm not going to pretend I can judge that one completely.

Which treaty is that?

Isn't Ukraine part of NATO? The "TO" stands for Treaty Organization, after all. Pretty sure the terms are that if one of the member nations gets attacked, the other member nations are supposed to send actual military support.

But I've been wrong before, so I could be again, I suppose.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (tcZnS)

219 The incoherent Biden debacle in Europe is making us forget the incoherent Biden debacle in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (3FiQa)

220 Time for us to focus on what WE need to do now - each of us, personally. First, each of us has a group of friends and acquaintances who we influence; some of us more than other, some not. Doesn't matter, whatever you got. Everyone is scared - this breaks through all the LIV's normal info blocks. We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to talk to them now, do it!

Tactics - NEVER express support or sympathy for Putin! That is poison that will turn people off. Instead, at every opportunity, stress how Biden's incompetence is endangering all Americans, how Biden's senility brought this crisis on. (you can embellish) Tell them how this is going to destroy our economy and make their lives miserable; the millennials and the LIV's will eat this up. At every opportunity, do everything you can to undermine any remaining shreds of trust or support for this administration. This is what the Left did to LBJ in the 60's. We must do it now!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (evAgx)

221 We are all a disappointment to FJB. He is going to tell us all the ways we have let him down over the past year.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (qnVBz)

222 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

223 Ukraine and Libya stand as a testament to the fact that no country with nuclear weapons should ever give them up.

Meanwhile, Dementia Joe is negotiating with Iran to do that ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (RHGPo)

224 Isn't Ukraine part of NATO? The "TO" stands for Treaty Organization, after all. Pretty sure the terms are that if one of the member nations gets attacked, the other member nations are supposed to send actual military support.

But I've been wrong before, so I could be again, I suppose.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (tcZnS)

Ukraine is NOT part of NATO.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (9otr5)

225 I think it's interesting that Putin says he's de-nazifying Ukraine. Seems everyone can play at the forever WWII game.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

226 BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

I can haz my Heinies still??

Posted by: dananjcon at February 24, 2022 08:29 AM (u6xw0)

227 Isn't Ukraine part of NATO? The "TO" stands for Treaty Organization, after all. Pretty sure the terms are that if one of the member nations gets attacked, the other member nations are supposed to send actual military support.

But I've been wrong before, so I could be again, I suppose.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (tcZnS)

Nope, if there was any "reason" for this war besides Putin realizing that he can get away with it, it was that Ukraine was threatening to join NATO.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

228 200 That Trucker Convoy from Scranton to DC?

One truck.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:24 AM (9otr5)

1982 S-10

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (us2H3)

229 Ukraine is NOT part of NATO.

I sit corrected.

Never mind then. Not our circus, not our monkeys.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (tcZnS)

230 hmmmm, he includes a map of where the US biolabs are - not sure where he got that info

Clandestine @WarClandestine
1) HOLY SHIT! I think I may be onto something about #Ukraine.
Zelensky said the Russians are firing at "military installations". How broad is that term?
I am seeing speculation that could include US installed biolabs.
At first I was like no way.
Then I started digging.
https://tinyurl.com/4ywncv25

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (8I+CL)

231 Kyiv (Keev) is woke for Kiev.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

232 I'm just glad John McCain isn't alive to see this.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

233 BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR.

Can we wait until Fri? I have 3 rifles on a delivery truck.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (qnVBz)

234 We will not let President Putin tear down the security architecture that has given Europe peace and stability over the past decades. We will not allow President Putin to replace the rule of law with the rule of force and ruthlessness. He should not underestimate the resolve and strength of our democracies.

That is from the President of the EU, threatening to unleash the might of the 82nd Airborne on Putin.

At least we now know who runs war talk in the Junta. This is a weird world where some German woman most people have never heard of before threatens Russia with American troops.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:31 AM (tzQxk)

235 I'm just glad John McCain isn't alive to see this.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:31 AM (Irn0L)

236 I watched Jackie Brown recently.

Damn ! That was a long-ass mutha f***in' movie !

(that was my Samuel L. Jackson impersonation)

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:31 AM (arJlL)

237 Isn't Ukraine part of NATO? The "TO" stands for Treaty Organization, after all. Pretty sure the terms are that if one of the member nations gets attacked, the other member nations are supposed to send actual military support.

But I've been wrong before, so I could be again, I suppose.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (tcZnS)

No, Ukraine is not part of NATO. NATO has been threatening to add it as a member which is part of Russia's problem. Russia would be content if Ukraine was Finlandized. Finland was never a problem for the Russians because both sides agreed they would remain neutral.

We don't have to like each other to work together. The Russians have specific historic interests. We used to understand that.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:31 AM (EpDzw)

238 Russian disinformation will be sly too.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:31 AM (8I+CL)

239 Can't wait for all our conservative thought leaders to take Biden to task for being weak, telling their fellow conservatives we should have boots on the grounds and standing up for our allies, blah, blah, blah.

The proper move would be to just show disappointment and loss because the Junta screwed up another Party Military adventure. Don't offer any suggestions, and when petitioned by the FNM, say, "The junta doesn't act along lines of reason, any sort of coordination would be in self-interest for their Party members. Whatever advice we could give they would do the opposite and make things worse. The division and hatred has grown so great in the White House that we can no longer communicate. We will just pray as a nation that we can survive until the next election".

[working on a catchy sound-bite version of that]

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (lD3vL)

240 Isn't Ukraine part of NATO? The "TO" stands for Treaty Organization, after all.

no, that's what all this is presumably about.
Putin doesnt want us inviting Ukraine to become part of NATO at any point in the future...

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (BqBIh)

241 The Left is already pushing this propaganda-
Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg
�1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

242 226 I think it's interesting that Putin says he's de-nazifying Ukraine. Seems everyone can play at the forever WWII game.
Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

Given that the international WEF is now controlling most Western countries, and that they are as proto-Fascist (nazi) as you can get, see Canada, Putin isn't really lying all that much here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (evAgx)

243 Maybe if NATO stopped expanding eastward, as Slick promised and then went back on, none of this would be happening.

I'm sorry, did I miss Ukraine becoming a part of NATO yesterday that prompted this attack?

Putin's lunacy has guaranteed another 30 years of NATO.

This wasn't about NATO. This was about Putin's nostalgic fantasies about resurrecting the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (3FiQa)

244 No one will listen to the SOTU, not even Biden's own party.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (S1hrL)

245 Oil is $100 a barrel this morning.

*

Heh...82million voters can't be wrong.

Posted by: dananjcon at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (u6xw0)

246 223 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

tight now, it's Kyiv

but the Ukrainians chicken out, they're going back to Kiev

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (us2H3)

247 Luckily all of my money is in Albanian chrome futures!

Albania! Albania!
You border on the Adriatic,
Your land is mostly mountainous
And your chief export is chrome!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (UHVv4)

248 Meghan MCain's Cuckhold was on FOX yesterday getting all choked up about Papa Crash McCain and The War At Our Door.

That dude seriously needs to get on a diet.

His face is as wide as his shoulders.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (BxACj)

249 ... while it is certainly welcome news that Jusitinian Castreau-cescu has revoked the emergency measures, and none too soon as he quite nearly collapsed Canada's banks. But, he and his ilk are tyrants and there is no real opposition to him in the parliament. Sound familiar? He'll do this shit again and he won't back down either.

-----

Sundance at CTH had an excellent analysis of that reversal (in addition to the damage to Canadian banking) entitled "BOOM, Trudeau Reversal Motive Surfaces -- Canadian Banking Association Was Approved by World Economic Forum To Lead the Digital ID Creation."

Basically, WEF bitchez Trudeau and "Freeland" (you can't make this Matrix-like computer simulation we're living in up) pulled the trigger too soon, very publicly shaking people's confidence in future authoritarian-mandated enslavement technologies like Digital IDs.

https://tinyurl.com/56xajtjk

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (743lG)

250 WED WINE CWOSSED!!!!!!

Posted by: Li'l Kamala at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (vted1)

251 231 After wuflu why would Putin tolerate our biolabs? If he can destroy them without unleashing more disease, I can't blame him.

Posted by: CN at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (ONvIw)

252 OH! People here might know...

For a book (yes, I write books. I do more books than blogging these days) - is anyone familiar with freight train switch yards? I need a physical something that a person might pick up from a switch yard and carry on their person that would later point a detective type to that switch yard.

Anyone got any ideas?

(Hey, it's less gloomy than worrying about Ukraine)

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (tcZnS)

253 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

The backwards V always confuses me.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (t1eo9)

254 Finland was never a problem for the Russians

*Chuckles in Finnish*

Posted by: Simo Hayha at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (BqBIh)

255 [working on a catchy sound-bite version of that]

Sigh and say "just get used to failure"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (lD3vL)

256 no, that's what all this is presumably about.
Putin doesnt want us inviting Ukraine to become part of NATO at any point in the future...
Posted by: McCool

He's saying Ukraine is MYkraine !

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (arJlL)

257 This shit with Russia started with the election of Coolidge. Every minute since then has led to today.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (qnVBz)

258 oh.

U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Biological Threat Reduction Program
https://tinyurl.com/muuetfec

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (8I+CL)

259 WED WINE CWOSSED!!!!!!
Posted by: Li'l Kamala at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (vted1)

===
Bravo!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (EZebt)

260 I'm just glad John McCain isn't alive to see this.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

You joke but that's basically what his son in law said yesterday on Bret Baier's show, then he cried a little. I shit you not.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (4thlk)

261 This wasn't about NATO. This was about Putin's nostalgic fantasies about resurrecting the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (3FiQa)

That's a bad take. Putin is not a fan of the Soviet Union and does not pine for it. His speech where he recognized the separatist republics was clear on that. He has a different view of a Russian -not Soviet - nation.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (9otr5)

262 hmmmm, he includes a map of where the US biolabs are - not sure where he got that info

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (8I+CL)

People come up with this stupidity all of the time. First blowing up a bio-lab is the height of dumb. You release stuff when you do that. Second, I doubt this guy has any concrete information.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (EpDzw)

263 From what I read, pointing out how weak stupid Biden is and that Putin isn't afraid of him, or even paying much attention to what he says is now treason.

How convenient, for the Dems. I expect many more wars to keep this new rule in place.

Posted by: Ripley at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (MxEKc)

264 The democrat script for today was written by the team that wrote Mr Mom back in the 80s. The failing execs say: Let's blame our failures on the guy we let go a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (5kI0z)

265 Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
We are in the midst of the Longest... Saddest....Most Excruciating "I TOLD YOU SO" in the history of the world.

#FJBiden

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (lCui1)

266 I am seeing speculation that could include US installed biolabs.
At first I was like no way.
Then I started digging.
https://tinyurl.com/4ywncv25
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (8I+CL)

That's what I found as well, if that's the case, bomb away.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (8k7U7)

267 an old newsweek piece, 4/8/21

Vladimir Putin's Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia

a new plot twist

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:35 AM (8I+CL)

268 but there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

Yes, and we are paying it, or rather Ukraine is.

The US sat in a room and said it would not recruit nations on Russia's borders to NATO. Then it went right ahead and did it anyway, and continues to do it. So yes, you are correct, failing to meet your obligations and stay true to your word has its consequences.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2022 08:35 AM (quoXt)

269 That's a bad take. Putin is not a fan of the Soviet Union and does not pine for it. His speech where he recognized the separatist republics was clear on that. He has a different view of a Russian -not Soviet - nation.
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (9otr5)

The resurrect the Soviet Union take is for people who live in the past.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:35 AM (EpDzw)

270 For the first time since March 2020, I will not even bother to open up my Brokerage account this morning. Maybe not even this week

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2)

271 BOYCOTT ALL TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE ENTIRE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR

IF the American Communists send Deplorable men and women in harms way over the Ukraine fiasco , boycotting Northeast Corridor should be the minimum response,
Trump and the rest of us must realize THE greatest victory in November and in any other election is destroying RINOs.
Traitors in the ranks must be severely dealt with if you want to pretend you are opposition to the Communists.

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (FCPbW)

272 Vladimir Putin's Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia

a new plot twist
Posted by: artisanal ette

Fauci would never!...

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (lCui1)

273 @vermontgmg
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (NpAcC)
++++
The chaos unleashed with Trump's election was entirely caused by our own government, our own press and the governments of some of our putative allies. Russia had nothing at all to do with that, other than being the whipping the boy of the aforementioned.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

274 Ukraine was part of the whole Russiagate thing.

Karma, she is a bitch.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (9otr5)

275 the world is playing with fire

this covid release was no accident but it probably shook some trees

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (8I+CL)

276 Biden's puppet masters need to be arrested. Putin knows Obama makes the calls for Biden. Reason he invaded again

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (WY8d2)

277 241 The Left is already pushing this propaganda-
Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg

One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

-----

They forgot to include Russian agents surrounding Ottawa and shutting down Canadian border crossings.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (743lG)

278 Vladimir Putin's Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia

Point against it: I don't put it past Russia to sow disinformation to give it "just cause" for any aggressive actions it takes.

Point for it: The Faucci Flu.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (tcZnS)

279 "The junta doesn't act along lines of reason, any sort of coordination would be in self-interest for their Party members. Whatever advice we could give they would do the opposite and make things worse. The division and hatred has grown so great in the White House that we can no longer communicate. We will just pray as a nation that we can survive until the next election".

[working on a catchy sound-bite version of that]
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:32 AM (lD3vL)

That's good, the soundbite versions will come. I have a 30 something daughter who always signs on to whatever trendy ideas are circulating among the millennials. Luckily she's not overtly political, but she's a good sounding board for whatever ideas are popular among that cohort currently. Just a couple days ago, she was listening to all this and told me "I'm really kinda surprised, but I think I'm becoming an isolationist now." That's where that age group is trending.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:37 AM (evAgx)

280 Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

--

This makes absolutely no sense. Russia had very little (other than $100k in FB ads?) to do with the '16 election, for one. And that weakened us exactly how? So now it's ok to invade Ukraine. Oh, okay.

"I drove from Boise to Louisville and it's Miami's fault I got lost in Cleveland."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

281 272. Moscow Bob

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:37 AM (WY8d2)

282 Ben and Meggers go to the grocery store in a F-550 stake bed

daily

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

283
That's a bad take. Putin is not a fan of the Soviet Union and does not pine for it. His speech where he recognized the separatist republics was clear on that. He has a different view of a Russian -not Soviet - nation.
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (9otr5)

Just symantics. Call it Soviet Union, or the Old Russian Imperial Empire, same thing. He wants to reimpose Russian influence over all those so called break away republics. and he will

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (Irn0L)

284 Can you imagine the orgasms going off at the Pentagon and Defense Contractor Boardrooms right now?

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (WY8d2)

285 "I drove from Boise to Louisville and it's Miami's fault I got lost in Cleveland."
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)
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You forgot to take that left turn at Albuquerque...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (K5n5d)

286 The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

I have no idea what that means. Maybe if I interpret it not by using traditional communication techniques of syntax, grammar and word definitions but rather a salad of emotional trigger words it might make sense.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (lD3vL)

287 Remember the failed coup in Kazakhstan a few months ago? It was another fake grassroots uprising much like the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine.

Putin got out ahead of that one and publicly said after he helped put down the coup attempt that he would not allow anymore color revolutions, he specifically used that term, in former Soviet territories.

The west has fucked around in Ukraine for years, took out a government that was favorable to Putin and installed our own regime that was favorable to the west led by Petro Poreshenko and proceeded to use the place like an ATM for our "elites" and their idiot offspring.

We refused Putin's demand to permanently bar Ukraine from NATO consideration and he had enough. Putin is a bad guy, our leadership hasn't been much better.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (ZLI7S)

288 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

===

You are not the boss if me!

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (n2LT3)

289 I sure hope all the ukrainians buying guns are registering them so the russians will have an easier time conmfiscating them in a few weeks

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (Irn0L)

290 274 Ukraine was part of the whole Russiagate thing.

Karma, she is a bitch.
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (9otr5)

yeppers

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (us2H3)

291 I'm just glad John McCain isn't alive to see this.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

Did the funeral procession clear before the bombs landed?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

292 I will not rest until I've heard from Bearclaw Vindman comments on this.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (88xKn)

293 I need a physical something that a person might pick up from a switch yard and carry on their person that would later point a detective type to that switch yard.

Anyone got any ideas?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

There are switch heaters that are used to keep switches ice free during the winter. There may be specialized tools to operate them - dunno. Also, yardmen still use flame torches to melt snow and ice on switches. Maybe something like that.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (Msys3)

294 @280

>>other than $100k in FB ads?

Ted Cruz asked Mark Zuckerberg, directly, at a hearing during the whole Russia Election Interference Op, how much money in ad buys they could trace directly to Russian entities, he said...

Four Thousand Dollars.

That's it.

It was always bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (BxACj)

295 272 Vladimir Putin's Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia
a new plot twist
Posted by: artisanal ette

Fauci would never!...
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (lCui1)

Technically, Wuhan is a lot closer to Russia than it is to us.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (evAgx)

296 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

Isn't it 2 different cities?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

297 UN security council meeting today. I suspect they will do nothing and perhaps not even bluster too much.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

Aren't Russia and China permanent members of the security council? That guarantees it's a waste of time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (vqc+k)

298
We refused Putin's demand to permanently bar Ukraine from NATO consideration and he had enough. Putin is a bad guy, our leadership hasn't been much better.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (ZLI7S)

Sigh 100% correct

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (Irn0L)

299 Point against it: I don't put it past Russia to sow disinformation to give it "just cause" for any aggressive actions it takes.

Point for it: The Faucci Flu.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:36 AM (tcZnS)

That's fair.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (EpDzw)

300 Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Perhaps limiting domestic energy production over a truant scoldy Swedish teen was a bad idea.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

301 Bartiromo says they're now expecting a huge increase in cyber attacks so it's a good time to change all your passwords.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (VhE0u)

302 291 I'm just glad John McCain isn't alive to see this.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

dig the corpse up and put his head on a pike so he can watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (evAgx)

303 an old newsweek piece, 4/8/21
Vladimir Putin's Adviser Says U.S. Is Developing Biological Weapons Near Russia
a new plot twist
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:35 AM (8I+CL)
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That's not the U.S. operating those labs, it's just some bureaucrat at the CDC. Those guys are fascinated by bioweapons and seem to have their own unlimited taxpayer funds at hand.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (tzQxk)

304 Meghan MCain's Cuckhold was on FOX yesterday getting all choked up about Papa Crash McCain and The War At Our Door.

That dude seriously needs to get on a diet.

His face is as wide as his shoulders.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (BxACj)

Marriage to Mega causing eating disorders is probably one of the least worst outcomes.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (y7DUB)

305 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

Isn't it 2 different cities?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM

Istanbul or Constantinople, it's nobody's business but the Turks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (bVYXr)

306 Chances of nuclear war aside, how bad am I that I'm kinda hoping Putin optically smears Biden's face in dog poo? Hey, we can't be any more embarrassed as a country than we are right now anyway.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (sVtYq)

307 Trump blamed the Biden administration, and the show of what he suggested was weakness, which started with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"This is something that should have never happened," he said. "This would not have happened during my administration. In fact, some people were saying, why didn't this take place over the past four years during my administration? And it didn't for a very good reason. I'll explain that to you someday. But it wouldn't have taken place, and it wouldn't have taken place right now. It's a very sad thing for the world, the country, and it is certainly sad for a lot of people that are going to be needlessly killed."

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

308 By the way, Kazakhstan also had a large, US funded bio lab.

Had.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)

309 Ben and Meggers go to the grocery store in a F-550 stake bed

daily
Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

How else would she keep that moo moo covered figure?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

310 The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

I have no idea what that means. Maybe if I interpret it not by using traditional communication techniques of syntax, grammar and word definitions but rather a salad of emotional trigger words it might make sense.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Where they make their mistake?
They can say whatever they want.
It doesn't make it so.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (Hica+)

311 but the Ukrainians chicken out, they're going back to Kiev

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM

ISWYDT.

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (RkC6l)

312 Fox News is particularly bad this morning.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (S1hrL)

313 What is true about PDT,is that the left"s false charges of russian collusion and the vitriol and endless investigations did weaken Trump and the USA and contributed to what we see today and that is %150 the fault of the left and we should shove that down their throats and make them choke on it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (Irn0L)

314 Mean well France is reporally building at least 17 new nuclear power plants and Germany is closing theirs in the name of Global Warming. Gretta has told them to be on her side, fossil fuels are a thing of the past.
Our nuclear plants are getting old and with no plans on replacing them. I live fairly near a 1960's nuclear plant that is past its life span....But don't worry, Russia can supply all the natural gas we and Europe needs.

Posted by: Colin at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (RMfpC)

315 297. R congresswomen said on Newsmax last night that Russia is the chair for this security council meeting.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (n5sui)

316 Maybe Kamala can get drunk with Putin and apply the skills she learned with Willie Brown to save the day
Posted by: Don at February 24, 2022 07:55 AM (Bgq/O)

Have you seen Putin's girlfriend? I can't imagine that the offer of a beejer from old Heels Up would impress him much.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (vqc+k)

317 Kramer, Newman, Risk and Ukraine.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9fssc3

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (H8QX8)

318 @284

>>Can you imagine the orgasms going off at the Pentagon and Defense Contractor Boardrooms right now?

I don't know about that, these are not 7th century barbarians we are dealing with here, we are dealing with countries that we are reliant on for staples that cannot be found elsewhere or produced at home because we no longer produce them.

We are in a tough spot, The Junta is going to make us look very ridiculous at the end of all of this.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (BxACj)

319 Isn't it 2 different cities?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

I don't know but looking at a map of Ukraine it's spelled Kyiv.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (88xKn)

320 If you recall Trump told the Taliban that if they misbehaved, he would bomb their homes and their families, so there would be nothing left to fight for.

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

321 Just symantics. Call it Soviet Union, or the Old Russian Imperial Empire, same thing. He wants to reimpose Russian influence over all those so called break away republics. and he will
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:38 AM (Irn0L)

So like a Russian version of the Monroe Doctrine? Really, if you border some big country and you are a small one, the big neighbor is going to be influencing you a lot. That's how it has always been and will be.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (EpDzw)

322 Kyiv (Keev) is woke for Kiev.
--------------------------
Losers!

Posted by: Peking at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (UHVv4)

323 292. He should go defend his beloved homeland, the one he "escaped" from.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (ONvIw)

324 "Putin is not a fan of the Soviet Union and does not pine for it."

He allegedly said some years ago that it was normal for Russians to miss the old USSR but they would be crazy to want it back. What he's trying to reassemble is, I suppose, USSR 2.0 -- replacing the godless Communism with loud and proud Orthodox Christian culture.

Posted by: Secret Square at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (9WuX0)

325 thing. He wants to reimpose Russian influence over all those so called break away republics. and he will

====

*looks at Latin America

Is that wrong?

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (n2LT3)

326 For a book (yes, I write books. I do more books than blogging these days) - is anyone familiar with freight train switch yards? I need a physical something that a person might pick up from a switch yard and carry on their person that would later point a detective type to that switch yard.

Anyone got any ideas?

(Hey, it's less gloomy than worrying about Ukraine)
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (tcZnS)

I had a thought! A Hobo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (evAgx)

327 NY Mag ~~Columnist~~ Communist: Parents Are "Household Tyrants," GOP Imposing Conservative Agenda on Students

-----

Out: Parents.
In: Household Domestic Terrorists.

"We're coming for your children ..." -- Groomers of America, Unite!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (743lG)

328 Sundance at CTH had an excellent analysis of that reversal

Yup. Canada was intended to beta test the WEF universal digital ID (aka the mark of the beast). They posted YouTube videos bragging about it. But Castreau jumped the gun and WEF is worried that he blew the project.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (haMNq)

329 Oh , I forgot, we are the good guys.

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (n2LT3)

330 So like a Russian version of the Monroe Doctrine? Really, if you border some big country and you are a small one, the big neighbor is going to be influencing you a lot. That's how it has always been and will be.
Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:42 AM (EpDzw)

Yup

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (Irn0L)

331 Blog hates Russian, so no jokes in Cyrillic about Joe putting wipes in pipes.

Posted by: The Vlad Who Loved Me at February 24, 2022 08:43 AM (yjmHr)

332 Putin's immediate concern is protecting his land grab from a couple years ago; the Crimea. I still think he'll annex the Donbas at a minimum for that reason. If he decides to go all in and retake all of Ukraine it's a sure sign he's fucking with the pants shitter and will continue to reclaim land one country at a time until someone (we?) stops him.

I don't think the idiots in the junta running the country realize what they've done.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (BFigT)

333 Is it Kiev or Kyiv? Can we stick to one spelling?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

Maybe in cyrillics.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (y7DUB)

334 The FNM drive to blame the Ukrainian invasion on Trump is...beyond bizarre.

Their theory is...Trump was doing Putin's will so well that he didn't need to invade Ukraine? That makes no sense at all.

If Putin invaded in 2022 its because he saw an opportunity in 2022 that wasn't there in say 2018. The biggest change in those 4 years? We now have a potato as president.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

335 We bring light and democracy. Like we did to Libya, and Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (n2LT3)

336 "I drove from Boise to Louisville and it's Miami's fault I got lost in Cleveland."

*snort.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (nxdel)

337 Bartiromo says they're now expecting a huge increase in cyber attacks so it's a good time to change all your passwords.
Posted by: IrishEi

What does that do? If they don't have my password now, what does changing it do?

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (Hica+)

338 Great Morning Report.

Willowed cultural news:

On Tuesday Evening, I listened to a few snippets of NPR Calm as I was running errands. An interview with an Irish author, etc.

Anyway, they had a segment about Putin claiming that Ukraine had no culture of its own, and Ukrainian musicians defiantly performing Ukrainian music in response. Including at Eurovision.

One song "borrowed" the language spoken in Chernobyl. As a memory of the people who had lived there.

I guess NPR did not really understand the immediate threat, so they decided to do a hopeful little segment that revealed how Putin had been laying a psychological case for invasion for some time. Defiant musicians were standing up to him. Refusing to perform in Russia, even.

It is worrisome that Putin has been saying that there is no Ukrainian culture. There are only those Nazis there that he needs to get rid of.

Posted by: KT at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (0ghg2)

339 Anyone got any ideas?

(Hey, it's less gloomy than worrying about Ukraine)

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (tcZnS)

A hobo skinsuit left over by Ace?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (7bRMQ)

340 4 years of Trump - no new wars
1 year of Dementia Joe - ground war commencing; nuclear war possible.

Who wants to try to convince me that 81 million Americans voted for this?

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

341 Chances of nuclear war aside, how bad am I that I'm kinda hoping Putin optically smears Biden's face in dog poo? Hey, we can't be any more embarrassed as a country than we are right now anyway.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM

I personally don't care what happens in Ukraine or Russia, the only issue I have is what is biden's reaction going to be. He has a history of considering stuff like this as a personal insult to his feeble manhood. If that happens we are in deep $hit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (bVYXr)

342 Bartiromo says they're now expecting a huge increase in cyber attacks so it's a good time to change all your passwords.
Posted by: IrishEi

What does that do? If they don't have my password now, what does changing it do?
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (Hica+)

So my usual password 1,2,3,4,5, is no good anymore?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (Irn0L)

343 I don't think the idiots in the junta running the country realize what they've done.

They don't care.

Except for elections (and they've proven that it really is the one who counts the vote that matters), there isn't really a down-side for them.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (tcZnS)

344 303 The CDC and our tax dollars is the US.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (ONvIw)

345 Fox News is particularly bad this morning.
Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (S1hrL)
*********
Pete Hegseth has been excellent.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

346 Is it Saturday yet?

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (WY8d2)

347 313

Hillary is the cornerstone, yes.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (S1hrL)

348 So, the Great Gate of Kiev is really the open door of Kyiv.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (88xKn)

349 The left wing democratic talking points that use like lemmings marching in lock step should be fun to see

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (Irn0L)

350 People come up with this stupidity all of the time. First blowing up a bio-lab is the height of dumb. You release stuff when you do that. Second, I doubt this guy has any concrete information.
Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 08:34 AM (EpDzw)

he links you to the Ukraine embassy

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (8I+CL)

351 How many biolabs do we have?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (qnVBz)

352 Fox has been bad since the Arizona call. F them

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (WY8d2)

353 BREAKING: European sources just announced strong sanctions on Russia. No longer will Russian caviar be served at NATO summits or EU council meetings.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (OZwZJ)

354 What if China decides to hold off on some deliveries and disrupt already fkd up supply chain???

Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (n2LT3)

355 It is worrisome that Putin has been saying that there is no Ukrainian culture. There are only those Nazis there that he needs to get rid of.
Posted by: KT at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (0ghg2)

So Putin is like the donks? Using their endless nazi bullshit phrasing.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (ONvIw)

356 " We now have a potato as president."

It is as if a thousand voices from Idaho suddenly gasped.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

357 So my usual password 1,2,3,4,5, is no good anymore?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (Irn0L)

You stole my password!!

Posted by: Catherine the at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (jxmu6)

358 I forgot zelensky is Jewish. Well plenty of Jews have been killed on Ukrainian soil

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (Irn0L)

359 Mitt Romney is a piece of ****. He has a very serious problem. A mental problem. Much like Liz Cheney. They are consumed with irrational hatred for Donald Trump and it affects every aspect of their public life. They are both very unfit for elected office.
=====

Painful public demonstrations of the mortal sins of Pride and Envy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (MIKMs)

360 What if China decides to hold off on some deliveries and disrupt already fkd up supply chain???
Posted by: runner at February 24, 2022 08:47 AM (n2LT3)

WalMart hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

361 So my usual password 1,2,3,4,5, is no good anymore?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM

No, that's the password to the air shield.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (bVYXr)

362 Pretty sure a hobo skin would not be the sort of small thing I'm looking for, unfortunately.

Though, now that you mention it, a dead yard worker *mistaken* for a hobo might be a good clue.

But, now I have to go work-at-work.
Back to lurking.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (tcZnS)

363 Yeah, note that Russia is currently in the chairmanship of the UN Security Council, which probably plays a role in why they picked NOW to strike.

Posted by: AmericanHawkman at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (VfMhS)

364 Putin looks to me like a traditional paternal autocrat that has an affinity for Russian culture. So Ukraine is in his "sphere of influence" and...Kiev has some special importance to Russia since it was the capital of the Rus culture.

And this is the norm of national leadership across the whole world before the Cold War - so DC should understand how this works.

But what concerns me is that DC has *NO* idea what Putin actually wants, which is an abject failure of the State Dept and the CIA - because you can't respond intelligently if you don't know what your adversaries actually want.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (ESjRY)

365
I don't think the idiots in the junta running the country realize what they've done.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 08:44 AM (BFigT)

My best guess, which we discussed some last night, is that Putin will keep the two eastern provinces and set up a puppet government for the rest, like he has in Belarus. Sort of a Vichy France for Ukraine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (evAgx)

366 That last pic on the story about Psaki's condescending attitude? Not very flattering. She looks short-legged and dumpy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (txdEq)

367 That's not the U.S. operating those labs, it's just some bureaucrat at the CDC. Those guys are fascinated by bioweapons and seem to have their own unlimited taxpayer funds at hand.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 08:40 AM (tzQxk)

yes, the money is flowing to these labs

seems very coincidental to all be happening after they released covid - regardless of what really happened, this might have stirred Putin's paranoia

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (8I+CL)

368 Remember, Kiev is the Sex slave capital of the world. Young girls are pulled off the streets there.

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

369 Who wants to try to convince me that 81 million Americans voted for this?
Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

LOL, but they had to stop Trump from putting half the country in camps!!!!/s

This forever WWII shit has killed sanity.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (ONvIw)

370 I see a lot of Putin responding to NATO moving east here today. Putin would have made these moves regardless. He sees it as his destiny to reconstitute the borders of the USSR. He is a ruthless thug.

Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (GcxM3)

371 That last pic on the story about Psaki's condescending attitude? Not very flattering. She looks short-legged and dumpy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (txdEq)

She's lost a lot of sleep binge watching The West Wing in an effort to learn how to do her job.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

372 We now have a potato as president."

It is as if a thousand voices from Idaho suddenly gasped.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2022

***
I'm reminded of the old "Ruffles have ridges" spot.

"R-r-rrutabaga!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (txdEq)

373 Biden claims his political opponents are NAZIs controlled by Putin

Putin claims his political opponents are NAZIs controlled by Biden.

Remember how the FNM consistently tells everyone the thread from NAZIs has never been higher? Well apparently Vlad knows how to play this game too

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (ESjRY)

374 368 Remember, Kiev is the Sex slave capital of the world. Young girls are pulled off the streets there.
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

Hunter Biden needs to spend all that cash on something.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (OZwZJ)

375 We know Psaki doesn't care. She told us that yesterday: sacrifices for thee, not for me.. or anyone in DC.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (S1hrL)

376 USSR 2.0 -- replacing the godless Communism with loud and proud Orthodox Christian culture.
Posted by: Secret Square

That would certainly be a turn. Russia becomes an Orthodox Christian republic, and we become godless commies.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (qnVBz)

377 Rudy W. Giuliani @RudyGiuliani
�
13h
Is it now clear that electing a mentally deteriorating man, who was of limited intelligence even before his dementia, constitutes a 'CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER' to our safety and security.

hehe, Giuliani never afraid to say it like it is

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (8I+CL)

378 306 Chances of nuclear war aside, how bad am I that I'm kinda hoping Putin optically smears Biden's face in dog poo? Hey, we can't be any more embarrassed as a country than we are right now anyway.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 08:41 AM (sVtYq)

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I'm sleeping easy these days knowing that my, and millions of others', lives may depend upon a DC Death Cult whose titular head depends upon Depends.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (743lG)

379 "Two Turkish military Airbus planes at Boryspil airport are under Russian military control, parked at the presidential/VIP terminal, with safe passage to evacuate President Zelensky and his entourage if they desire to leave."

https://tinyurl.com/3b3hzzp5

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (BqBIh)

380 Pull all the student visa's for the children of Russian Billionaires at Vassar and Yale

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (WY8d2)

381 But what concerns me is that DC has *NO* idea what Putin actually wants, which is an abject failure of the State Dept and the CIA - because you can't respond intelligently if you don't know what your adversaries actually want.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (ESjRY)

meanwhile, Putin has it easy - he knows that all that our leaders really want is endless grift for the ruling class and guys with dicks on all women's sports teams.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (evAgx)

382 My best guess, which we discussed some last night, is that Putin will keep the two eastern provinces and set up a puppet government for the rest, like he has in Belarus. Sort of a Vichy France for Ukraine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (evAgx)
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That really is about all Putin needs to do. Establish a stable puppet government that is less corrupt than the current one and then allow people to go about their lives (more or less). Crack down hard on any major dissidents, make a big show of eliminating the corruption, and give the people some basic autonomy and less corrupt government. That's it. He's won.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (K5n5d)

383 Rudy W. Giuliani @RudyGiuliani

13h
Is it now clear that electing a mentally deteriorating man, who was of limited intelligence even before his dementia, constitutes a 'CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER' to our safety and security.

hehe, Giuliani never afraid to say it like it is
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (8I+CL)

"Stop shitting my pants....."

- President Biden on a plane

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

384 That last pic on the story about Psaki's condescending attitude? Not very flattering. She looks short-legged and dumpy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022
*
She's lost a lot of sleep binge watching The West Wing in an effort to learn how to do her job.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022

***
Episodes of Madam Secretary, too. JP is looking tired and not-so-young any more. Which is true of all of us, but that poisonous attitude makes it worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (txdEq)

385 So my usual password 1,2,3,4,5, is no good anymore?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:45 AM (Irn0L)

change it to "password"

that'll throw em

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (us2H3)

386 Nato is a joke. Head was on BBC this morning. What a Euro Weiner

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

387 It's raining hard here and my office (thin roof insulation in this room) sounds like the continuous, thunderous applause that Brandon will not be receiving at the SOTU.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

388 Would not be surprised if he cancelled it or maybe just handed in a staement
Posted by: Nevergiveup

The SOTU is now a tweet: All is well!

Posted by: Biergood at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (FQWHA)

389 Before things get hot between the US and Russia I hope that Putin would be smart enough to drop a 500 pounder on the head of Klause Schwab instead. I think he has his grubby little Nazi hands in this...pulling Brandon's strings.

Posted by: Haywood at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (RE0XQ)

390 The Hill: "Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a defining moment for the Republican Party"

Wait for it... Republicans pounce !

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (BqBIh)

391 with safe passage to evacuate President Zelensky and his entourage if they desire to leave."

I was wondering about this last night. Putin can claim the guy the US installed with a coup is a NAZI or whatever, but I think Zelensky would be a much harder case to sell so letting him leave is the smart move.

Now the question for Zelensky - how much of a Ukrainian patriot are you, and how much fight do your people have in them?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (ESjRY)

392 I see a lot of Putin responding to NATO moving east here today. Putin would have made these moves regardless. He sees it as his destiny to reconstitute the borders of the USSR. He is a ruthless thug.
Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (GcxM3)

Yup, pretty much. 100% correct.
Google reagan bear in the woods commerical

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (Irn0L)

393 375 We know Psaki doesn't care. She told us that yesterday: sacrifices for thee, not for me.. or anyone in DC.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (S1hrL)

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Let them eat treadmills.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (743lG)

394
Nato is a joke. Head was on BBC this morning. What a Euro Weiner
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

It's so much funnier when you use the OTHER definition of BBC........

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

395 What if China decides to hold off on some deliveries and disrupt already fkd up supply chain???
Posted by: runner

WalMart hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge

They already are. For some unknown reason, they can't keep their dried pasta aisle stocked.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (Hica+)

396 Mitt Romney is a piece of ****. He has a very serious problem. A mental problem. Much like Liz Cheney. They are consumed with irrational hatred for Donald Trump

They are pissed that Trump wasn't the corrupt but na�ve person they thought he was. He turned them down for admin jobs and they can't get past their anger.
Trump: I only hire the smartest and best. No, not you Mitt and Liz

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (qnVBz)

397 348 So, the Great Gate of Kiev is really the open door of Kyiv.
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (88xKn)

I think Putin is coming in through the Back Door. IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (evAgx)

398 The SOTU is now a tweet: All is well!
Posted by: Biergood at February 24, 2022 08:53 AM (FQWHA)

----
hey, at least it ain't mean, amirite?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (K5n5d)

399 George W. Bush:

"Russia's attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II."

what is sad is that I do not trust Bush or any of these guys at this point - so I do not know what is really going on, and never will

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (8I+CL)

400 Oh boy. Champions League final is taken away from St Petersberg

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

401 So, has Stephen King come out with his newest explanation about how Biden prevented even worse outcomes in Ukraine yet?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

402 Biden now needs to turn his focus onto what he actually considers is his main enemy - the convoy heading toward DC. He will let Kamala handle the Ukraine thing.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (OZwZJ)

403 That really is about all Putin needs to do. Establish a stable puppet government that is less corrupt than the current one and then allow people to go about their lives (more or less). Crack down hard on any major dissidents, make a big show of eliminating the corruption, and give the people some basic autonomy and less corrupt government. That's it. He's won.

So the Ghengis Khan model of governance.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (lD3vL)

404 as of 5 hours ago, not sure now

the Russian stock market is down almost 50%, just today.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (8I+CL)

405 Before things get hot between the US and Russia I hope that Putin would be smart enough to drop a 500 pounder on the head of Klause Schwab instead.

Things could get very, very interesting if Putin grabs some WEF types and says "These are the NAZIs I am going after".

Imagine your average LIVs surprise when he finds out there really is an international conspiracy to destroy self government in the West led by an old German national socialist (this time without the ugly mustache)

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (ESjRY)

406 Biden tweets out that Strawberry is his favorite flavor

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

407 China refuses to call Russian attack on Ukraine an invasion, deflects blame to U.S.

been nice knowing you taiwan

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (Irn0L)

408 I heard "asdfjkl;" was a strong password.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (S1hrL)

409 Before things get hot between the US and Russia I hope that Putin would be smart enough to drop a 500 pounder on the head of Klause Schwab instead.

they are in their bunkers

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (8I+CL)

410 Sean Spicer
@seanspicer
1h
What a difference one election makes

botched Afghanistan
open southern border
skyrocketing inflation
energy dependent again
unscientific mandates
Russian invasion

Reminder, it's only been a year

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

411 387 It's raining hard here and my office (thin roof insulation in this room) sounds like the continuous, thunderous applause that Brandon will not be receiving at the SOTU.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

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Clap and laugh tracks FTW! John Gill meets Max Headroom ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (743lG)

412 Chuck Schumer holding a vote on Federally making Late Term abortion legal .

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

413 Biden tweets out that Strawberry is his favorite flavor
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

And he hit long home runs also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (Irn0L)

414 Voldomyr said there'd be no invasion, and shut up this chatter hurts our oligarchs and YOUR oligarchs.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

415 BREAKING: NATO countries have decided to put into action the alliance's defence plans, said the Secretary General of the Alliance

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (BqBIh)

416 410 Reminder, it's only been a year
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

=========

Reminder: the RNC and the GOPe cheered this and allowed it to happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

417 Frankly, if we don't revisit the fraudulent 2020 election, it is going to be almost impossible to right this ship.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (5kI0z)

418 "Russia's attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II."

So we ignore the whole Kosovo, Macedonia and other events?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (lD3vL)

419 Our entire state department and intelligence service is consumed with stopping Trump.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

420 Oh boy. Champions League final is taken away from St Petersberg
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

heh, yea

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (8I+CL)

421 vermontgmg
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

*

So we're just supposed to pretend Joe never admitted that the "minor incursion" would be completely fine.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (1R3Bo)

422 Biden tweets out that Strawberry is his favorite flavor
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

Look, fat. Vanilla ice cream is white. I'm all about the white. I mean, Owebama is articulate for a colored and you can't go to a 7-11 without speaking in an east Indian accent.

WHITE POWER!

Posted by: Spongebrain Shitpants at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

423 410. do not forget that 30% correction in the Nasdaq

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (WY8d2)

424 So the Ghengis Khan model of governance.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:55 AM (lD3vL)
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I'm thinking more of the Lord Vetinari model from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (K5n5d)

425 What if China decides to hold off on some deliveries and disrupt already fkd up supply chain???
Posted by: runner

WalMart hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge

They already are. For some unknown reason, they can't keep their dried pasta aisle stocked.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM

Couldn't find a single box of any brand of saltine crackers at Walmart yesterday. Other than the first buying panic, that has never happened to me before.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (bVYXr)

426 hehe, Giuliani never afraid to say it like it is

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:50 AM (8I+CL)

He should have written "elected."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (7bRMQ)

427 412 Chuck Schumer holding a vote on Federally making Late Term abortion legal .
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

Godless commie

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

428 412 Chuck Schumer holding a vote on Federally making Late Term abortion legal .
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

==========

It's gonna juice his fundraising numbers by at least 2% for about a week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

429 407 China refuses to call Russian attack on Ukraine an invasion, deflects blame to U.S.

been nice knowing you taiwan

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (Irn0L)

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You know who else fought a two-front war?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (743lG)

430 418 "Russia's attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II."

So we ignore the whole Kosovo, Macedonia and other events?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (lD3vL)

Islamic terrorism and mass migration/infiltration: Nothing to see here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (s2VJv)

431 Couldn't find a single box of any brand of saltine crackers at Walmart yesterday. Other than the first buying panic, that has never happened to me before.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Brookshire's is out also. Completely out.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (Hica+)

432 Btw, how long has AllenG been back and I'm just now noticing?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (RkC6l)

433 What good are the sanctions on Russia do now?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (88xKn)

434 Chuck Schumer holding a vote on Federally making Late Term abortion legal .
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

You're one....evil.....sonofabitch.......

Posted by: Child Predator at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

435 430 Islamic terrorism and mass migration/infiltration: Nothing to see here.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (s2VJv)

========

Pretty sure those are just acts of love.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

436 So the Ghengis Khan model of governance.

There was a LOT of killing and raping in that model you know.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (ESjRY)

437 Couldn't find a single box of any brand of saltine crackers at Walmart yesterday. Other than the first buying panic, that has never happened to me before.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (bVYXr)

Maybe demi-preppers like me bought it all, along with the canned meat, beans and tomatoes.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

438 "Russia's attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II."

And here I thought CoViD, Climate Change™ and White Supremacy™ were the gravest security crises not only on the European continent but throughout the world. I think the adjectives attached to it include "unprecedented" and "existential threat".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (lD3vL)

439 Biden tweets that he played baseball with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and use to throw a good Knuckleball

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (WY8d2)

440 Btw, how long has AllenG been back and I'm just now noticing?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Monday. IIRC.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (Hica+)

441 Newsmax calls it Kiev. Did they not get the memo?

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (S1hrL)

442 What good are the sanctions on Russia do now?
Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (88xKn)

We can sanction all we want. We're still importing a fuckload from them and funding this war, so there's no fucking point.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

443 Reminder: the RNC and the GOPe cheered this and allowed it to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

I will never forget it

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

444 BREAKING: NATO countries have decided to put into action the alliance's defence plans, said the Secretary General of the Alliance

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM

Good luck with that. Other than Poland and France there are no NATO forces.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (bVYXr)

445 431 Couldn't find a single box of any brand of saltine crackers at Walmart yesterday. Other than the first buying panic, that has never happened to me before.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Brookshire's is out also. Completely out.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM (Hica+)

The outages are weird - canned cat food, out. Last night, a lot of dairy product shelves were empty. At least paper goods were back in stock, so I bought a couple jumbo packs of TP.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)

446 Biden tweets that he played baseball with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and use to throw a good Knuckleball
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (WY8d2)

When in reality, he's got Lou Gehrig's disease and can only throw up.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

447 Hey LIVs - just to make sure you understand - as soon as Biden because president, it was baked in the cake that our international rivals were going to make moves to benefit themselves.

A vote for Biden is and was a vote for the Taliban humiliating the US, Putin running Eastern Europe and China dominating the Pacific.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:00 AM (ESjRY)

448 I always buy at least one can of Anything every time I shop

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

449 Maybe demi-preppers like me bought it all, along with the canned meat, beans and tomatoes.
Posted by: CN The First

You are better off buying flour and making your own as you need them. Saltines tend to go stale toot sweet.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (Hica+)

450 I give the Biden administration an A+ for bullshit and an F- for actual performance--basically the status quo for Democratic administrations back into the last century.

So, keep up the good work! At least you are consistent!

Meanwhile, prepare our LGBTQ+ military to go over and donate $billions more of our latest military equipment to --let's say, the Russians this time.

Posted by: Kurtz at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (0YZ6P)

451 418 "Russia's attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II."

So we ignore the whole Kosovo, Macedonia and other events?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (lD3vL)

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It's only a crisis when a Republican is POTUS.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (743lG)

452 DC tard class erects a fence around the capital: Now, you can't get in!

Trucker convoy: Now, yous can't leave.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (KbCG3)

453 We can sanction all we want. We're still importing a fuckload from them and funding this war, so there's no fucking point.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

and the one thing that Russia has a lot of is Oil, which Europe and China are both desperate for. Sanctions amount to "We won't let you post on Facebook or Youtube anymore!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (evAgx)

454 448 I always buy at least one can of Anything every time I shop
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

Spotted dick?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (s2VJv)

455 Couldn't find a single box of any brand of saltine crackers at Walmart yesterday. Other than the first buying panic, that has never happened to me before.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Brookshire's is out also. Completely out.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:58 AM

Yeah, I went there first. I am seeing weird shortages of stuff that has never been out of stock once the panic buying shut down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (bVYXr)

456 Stephen King thinks the lessons we learned on the playground as kids can deter Russia's invasion of Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/38hncfwt

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

457 I don't really have a feel for this - how much are the Ukrainians fighting back?

We just sold them a ton of weapons right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (ESjRY)

458 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)

459 Spotted dick?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (s2VJv)

Lia is that you?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (yrol0)

460 You are better off buying flour and making your own as you need them. Saltines tend to go stale toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (Hica+)

Did I say I didn't buy flour? Sugar? vitamins to balance things, dried foods? All that and more.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (ONvIw)

461 Generals drooling with their hookers right now at Pentagon.

Mmmm Casualties.. Mmmmm

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (WY8d2)

462 Cracker shelves empty here, too. Stop n Shop. CT.

Must be the wine and cheese n cracker crowd.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (S1hrL)

463 George H. W. Bush, August 5, 1990, speaking on the the Iraqi seizure of Kuwait: "This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait."

Joseph R. Biden, Jr, February 24, 2022, speaking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: (Who knows what tough-guy blather he will mumble out today? I doubt it will be unequivocal about anything.)

I never thought I'd see this day.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (AMIL/)

464 Remember in the movies how some 120 lb girl can beat the shit out of an endless number of big beefy "cis-men"?

I think Biden is about to put that to the test.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

465 Stephen King thinks the lessons we learned on the playground as kids can deter Russia's invasion of Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/38hncfwt
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

Seems a bit too late on that one.

Oh, and he can GFH.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

466 AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM

My father delivered telegrams to and from a freight train switch yard when he was 5 years old. One thing that made that possible was a bridge.

What about something that could be accidentally dropped from a bridge?

Posted by: KT at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (0ghg2)

467 Have they explained why it's Trump's fault that we're not energy independent anymore?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (1R3Bo)

468 457 I don't really have a feel for this - how much are the Ukrainians fighting back?

We just sold them a ton of weapons right?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (ESjRY)

So far, about like the French after the Germans marched into Paris.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

469 Peanut butter the best. Protein and also can be used to stop bleeding and make fire torches

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (WY8d2)

470 Good luck with that. Other than Poland and France there are no NATO forces.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (bVYXr

Us and the UK. This is such a disaster. No blood for oligarchies!

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

471 "Let me review your draft before you first put it out," stated the WH post, which has since been removed. Commentaries, it added, must be "carefully selected and controlled," while topic selections should follow the lead of Washington Post, NYT, and CNN - three of the country's foremost Party mouthpieces.

Oh, wait. I edited that wrong.

"Let me review your draft before you first put it out," stated the Weibo post, which has since been removed. Commentaries, it added, must be "carefully selected and controlled," while topic selections should follow the lead of People's Daily, Xinhua, and CCTV--three of the country's foremost Party mouthpieces.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (qnVBz)

472 What about something that could be accidentally dropped from a bridge?
Posted by: KT at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (0ghg2)

So we're back to hobos.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (evAgx)

473 The wildcard is Russia since Putin likely has all those details, too. Russians are good at spying. If we're ramping up to intervene, he might try to short-circuit that with an intelligence drop of his own to cause domestic support to collapse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

Just in case any of Putin's people are reading the comments here...this would be a waste of time. Anyone who still supports this retard and his handlers is unlikely to abandon him over something like rampant corruption.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (vqc+k)

474 Have they explained why it's Trump's fault that we're not energy independent anymore?

He refused to harness the power of unicorn farts, meaning we are years behind on our green energy policies.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (ESjRY)

475 https://tinyurl.com/56xajtjk
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 08:33 AM (743lG)

thanks!

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (8I+CL)

476 469 Peanut butter the best. Protein and also can be used to stop bleeding and make fire torches
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (WY8d2)

I think I only bought 50lbs of peanut butter, damn

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (ONvIw)

477 Crap, the stock market is not looking good.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

478 Spotted dick?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:01 AM (s2VJv)

Oh no. Dick comes in a tube....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (7bRMQ)

479 Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM (lD3vL)

You make a valid observation. When the left and media sensationalize silliness then they show no sense of what is important

Posted by: 7man at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (qwO6y)

480 I've been buying the store brand Ritz crackers. Cheap, never a shortage and they seem to work just fine in soup.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (4thlk)

481 The fact remains: the admin never goes beyond the first move.

Joey softserve never "prepped" the country for this possibility. Mr. "toe to toe" was, is and has always been a bluffer. Somebody should have dropped and actually challenged him to a pushup contest or an IQ test.

Ann Coulter is right: Rs need to stop talking about Ukraine. Let Joey do that and fail. Simply state: the Ds care more about Ukraine border than our own. They want you to suffer for Ukraine and help destroy our border.

BTW: FUCK Mitt.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (NW9xb)

482 Breaking. Pelosi calls for Impeachment of Trump over the Ukraine

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (WY8d2)

483 Funny that anyone thinks Biden is in charge of anything, he's just the ventriloquist's dummy a little wooden guy with a big mouth.

Posted by: Senor Coffee at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (iSbhf)

484 The US sat in a room and said it would not recruit nations on Russia's borders to NATO. Then it went right ahead and did it anyway, and continues to do it. So yes, you are correct, failing to meet your obligations and stay true to your word has its consequences.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2022

***
And who was America's "president" when that happened?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (txdEq)

485 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)
++++
My guess is that it ties into greater labor and supply shortages. I doubt the saltine factory is making only saltines - it's also probably baking bread and muffins and pretzels and whatnot. If they can't cover the full product line, they'll likely sacrifice crackers before bread.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (DU+/6)

486 and the one thing that Russia has a lot of is Oil, which Europe and China are both desperate for. Sanctions amount to "We won't let you post on Facebook or Youtube anymore!!!"

Let me think this one through.

The illegitimate and highly dysfunctional Biden junta wants to freeze and starve to death us Europeans to support some half baked and constantly evolving "sanctions" that aren't really sanctions, so we just need to please them and suffer.

Given that France and Germany were flouting all of the sanctions against Iraq back in the day because Money and Corruption always beats Integrity and Comity.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (lD3vL)

487 241 The Left is already pushing this propaganda-
Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.
Posted by: redridinghood

TDS isn't a syndrome. It's a cult.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (D8mow)

488 Anyone who still supports this retard and his handlers is unlikely to abandon him over something like rampant corruption.

We have sufficient evidence to know Biden molested his daughter, and that Hunter molested his niece - and that both were taking bribes from Ukraine/China.

I suspect that if Putin dropped more evidence of both the FNM would just ignore it or call it Russian fakes.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (ESjRY)

489 Monday. IIRC.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 08:59 AM

Ah. So I'm not too far behind the blog power curve, then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (RkC6l)

490 how much are the Ukrainians fighting back?

We just sold them a ton of weapons right?

I dont think handing sophisticated weaponry in the hands of untrained people will do much good.
Soon, it'll all be Putin's

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (BqBIh)

491 458 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)

Gentlemen, We Must not have a SALTINE GAP!!!

Posted by: General Buck Turgidson at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (evAgx)

492 There will be much false Irish bluster and creepy whispering, plus Trump balmeshifting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (qnVBz)

493 480. Agree. Aldi looks good right now. Can of soup for Fitty Cents

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

494 Has Gen Milley contacted his counterpart in Russia to let him know about Biden and all is well?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

495 484 The US sat in a room and said it would not recruit nations on Russia's borders to NATO. Then it went right ahead and did it anyway, and continues to do it. So yes, you are correct, failing to meet your obligations and stay true to your word has its consequences.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2022

***
And who was America's "president" when that happened?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (txdEq)

Clinton, Bushes, and Obama?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (z5Vrg)

496 480 I've been buying the store brand Ritz crackers. Cheap, never a shortage and they seem to work just fine in soup.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (4thlk

I bought a lot of soup as foundations for beans, and canned meats, to go along with the added cracker and starch fillers. My husband thought I was nuts, he's happy now.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (ONvIw)

497 473 Just in case any of Putin's people are reading the comments here...this would be a waste of time. Anyone who still supports this retard and his handlers is unlikely to abandon him over something like rampant corruption.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (vqc+k)

=========

"Corruption? Surely you speak of Trump."
-LIV

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

498 So far, about like the French after the Germans marched into Paris.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022

***
"You wore blue, the Russians wore gray. Oh. Wait. Wrong war."

Posted by: Rick to Ilsa at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (txdEq)

499 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.

The Ukraine is falling short of its wheat quota.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (qnVBz)

500 483. Right. Obama is calling the shots, not Biden. 2014 Redux

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (WY8d2)

501 I'm honestly not entirely sure which would be worse. I don't care about Ukraine as such (the people there, yes, the nation-state itself, meh), but there is a steep cost to *not* standing by your word when it matters.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 24, 2022 08:18 AM (tcZnS)

When we broke our word to abandon South Vietnam we got a flotilla of boat people. An invasion of hot Ukrainian women wouldn't be so bad...even if I'm too old and married to take advantage.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (vqc+k)

502 Silly Americans proletariat. Saltine crackers are a terrible "survival food". The vegetable oil used in their production causes them to go rancid quickly. Rancid crackers, while still technically edible, taste like they've been dipped in diesel fuel. "Pilot Bread" is survival food. All smart Russian spies should have a few cans of the bread of the pilots stashed away already.

Posted by: The Vlad Who Loved Me at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (yjmHr)

503 Remember, Kiev is the Sex slave capital of the world. Young girls are pulled off the streets there.
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

Ukrainian pizza is even better than Comet Ping Pong's!

Get the deep dish with extra pineapples.

Posted by: John Podesta, democrat prevert at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (pqqDJ)

504
*crosses of Ukraine*

Posted by: Vlads Bucket List at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (5aWFq)

505 487 241 The Left is already pushing this propaganda-
Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.
Posted by: redridinghood

=========

So, Russia would have lost if the left would have accepted the election results?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

506 My guess is that it ties into greater labor and supply shortages. I doubt the saltine factory is making only saltines - it's also probably baking bread and muffins and pretzels and whatnot. If they can't cover the full product line, they'll likely sacrifice crackers before bread.

Don't discount the cost to transport and warehouse goods. A trailer full of something costs a lot of money that has to be amortized over the cost of the something. It is always an advantage to move high density high value goods in place of low density low value goods.

If it costs me $10k to move a trailer from here to there, do I want to have them haul Samsung S22 phones or saltines?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (lD3vL)

507 Our entire state department and intelligence service is consumed with stopping Trump.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

Yup. The dems have done nothing, NOTHING, for 5 years except try to get Trump

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (Irn0L)

508 After trying to pin this on Trump, and even among the brain dead this will not fly, the invasion and upcoming annexation will be memoryholed as soon as possible before the State of the Unconscious.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (nMx88)

509 . Agree. Aldi looks good right now. Can of soup for Fitty Cents
Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022

***
I read late last year that we were supposed to have an Aldi's in our area. Got to look it up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (txdEq)

510 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)

Gentlemen, We Must not have a SALTINE GAP!!!
Posted by: General Buck Turgidson

We need common sense Saltine control!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (Msys3)

511 This is it boys, Nuclear Combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.

Posted by: Maj. King Kong, USAF at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (gmo/4)

512 Given that France and Germany were flouting all of the sanctions against Iraq back in the day because Money and Corruption always beats Integrity and Comity.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:05 AM (lD3vL)

Fuck Germany, they laughed in Trump's face over paying up at NATO and not being dependent on Russia.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (ONvIw)

513 Norwegians fought the Nazi's harder than the Brits or French.

Swiss and Irish hung out and drank thru WW2

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

514 Don't even want to think about the market. They're predicting it opens 800 + down.

Posted by: Ziba at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (S1hrL)

515 Whoa boy Brandons really gonna step up the sanctions now.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (5aWFq)

516 what is sad is that I do not trust Bush or any of these guys at this point - so I do not know what is really going on, and never will
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (8I+CL)

Watch Barnes or The Duran

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (y7DUB)

517 508 After trying to pin this on Trump, and even among the brain dead this will not fly, the invasion and upcoming annexation will be memoryholed as soon as possible before the State of the Unconscious.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (nMx8

========

That's a week away. I'm more firmly in the, "I'm a war president now, also we're not going to send troops because that would be political suicide," gambit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

518 The new york post has:

Bloomberg Accidentally Reports ...

as far as the "Ukraine Invasion" being underway.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (tRpV0)

519 We've had Aldi's around for a while now. Just started seeing Lidl's popping up within the last few years. Always across the street from an existing Aldi. Heh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (6FeV1)

520 Pray for Taiwan. They're next.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

521 Nope; the only Aldi in Lousy-ana, according to their website, is 2 hours away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (txdEq)

522 At least war has taken the China flu out of the news. Yep, that's where we're at.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (8k7U7)

523 Right now, the DOJ is looking for a GOP Rep to Indict

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (WY8d2)

524 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)
********
All the pregnant men are probably hoarding them.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

525 511 This is it boys, Nuclear Combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.
Posted by: Maj. King Kong, USAF at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (gmo/4)

It's a good thing Biden and company have allowed our deterrent to degrade over the last year . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (s2VJv)

526
Watch Barnes or The Duran
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (y7DUB)

Hungry Like the Wolf!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

527 Our entire state department and intelligence service is consumed with stopping Trump.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

Our state dept is consumed with aiding WEF and the oligarchs here and abroad. I hope the WEF is toppled.

Posted by: CN The First at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (ONvIw)

528 Bush derangement syndrome replaced reagan derangement syndrome. Trump derangement replaced bush. What we need is another republican for the left to be deranged about, then get trump back in office.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (qnVBz)

529 Hey Vlad you should be scared now...this is the time were they will bring out the big guns...and give them to you.

HAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Some Goatf*ckers that kicked America's asses at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

530 Just in case any of Putin's people are reading the comments here...this would be a waste of time. Anyone who still supports this retard and his handlers is unlikely to abandon him over something like rampant corruption.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (vqc+k)

No - but they WILL abandon him when they're facing 10% per MONTH inflation and when they're reminded of the threat of Death from Above every single day because of the administrations warmongering. Very fertile ground for us, the more scared the LIV's are the easier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (evAgx)

531 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.

The Ukraine is falling short of its wheat quota.

Yeah, that February harvest just isn't finding its way to market.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (lD3vL)

532 Kiev is the Sex slave capital of the world. Young girls are pulled off the streets there.

Google 'Ukranian brides'
No shortage of sites.
Sad

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (BqBIh)

533 518 The new york post has:

Sorry, that was Feb 4th ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (tRpV0)

534 JJ, Resistols are more piquant than Stetsons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (a3Q+t)

535 467 Have they explained why it's Trump's fault that we're not energy independent anymore?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 24, 2022 09:03 AM (1R3Bo)

-----

"Trump colluded with Putin to throw the 2020 election to Biden, thus ensuring Putin would become even more the world's wealthiest kleptocrat and wreak so much havoc on America, that the voters would rise up and crown Trump Presidente-Pinochet-for-Life in 2024! Thus, THIS is why we're no longer energy-independent and why this is 'Trump's War' ..."

#TrustThePlan

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (743lG)

536 I don't really have a feel for this - how much are the Ukrainians fighting back?

We just sold them a ton of weapons right?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM

Well that's part of the issue. About 1/3rd of people living in Ukraine are ethnic Russians. No one is sure how that will work out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (bVYXr)

537 Bush derangement syndrome replaced reagan derangement syndrome. Trump derangement replaced bush. What we need is another republican for the left to be deranged about, then get trump back in office.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (qnVBz)

DeSantis.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

538 This is it boys, Nuclear Combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.
Posted by: Maj. King Kong, USAF at February 24, 2022 09:08 AM (gmo/4)

One of my favorite movies and the depository of all truth along with The Godfather

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (Irn0L)

539 528 Bush derangement syndrome replaced reagan derangement syndrome. Trump derangement replaced bush. What we need is another republican for the left to be deranged about, then get trump back in office.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (qnVBz)

==========

"No, the left won't get deranged by the next Republican as long as they're not Trump. Trust us."
-GOPe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

540 everyone zooming in on his tie

Putin's declaration of war against Ukraine taped days earlier: reports
Russian President Vladimir Putin recorded his declaration of war against Ukraine days earlier, according to multiple reports.
Putin pre-taped the address that aired on state TV Thursday in Russia on Monday, according to the country's Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
The outlet posted metadata purportedly from the Kremlin's website indicating the footage was created at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21.
The Moscow-based Conflict Intelligence Team also noted that Putin, 69, wore the same maroon tie and dark suit during Thursday's address as he did during a meeting with the Russian Security Council on Monday.

heh. intel

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (8I+CL)

541 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.

The junta f*cked up the supply chain in a bunch of different ways. The just in time system is very complex and doesn't deal well with the kind of stupidity the junta has brought us

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (ESjRY)

542 That's a week away. I'm more firmly in the, "I'm a war president now, also we're not going to send troops because that would be political suicide," gambit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

We'll compare notes in a week, assuming the State of the Unconscious speech can be translated from incoherent into retarded.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (nMx88)

543 Wolfus Aurelius

You can always go to Family Dollar. Oh wait.

Trader Joe's is just Aldi by a different name. Kinda. Cousins.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (qnVBz)

544 Very fertile ground for us, the more scared the LIV's are the easier.

Witness the terror and the horror over a killer disease that wipes out 0.01% of those who are infected.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (lD3vL)

545 @vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

*

In a way they're right and I agree with them, though.

Russia and China would be fools to not take advantage of a weakened and destabilized United States that was brought on by the actions of the FBI and CIA via the color revolution.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (cUuEU)

546 542 That's a week away. I'm more firmly in the, "I'm a war president now, also we're not going to send troops because that would be political suicide," gambit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

We'll compare notes in a week, assuming the State of the Unconscious speech can be translated from incoherent into retarded.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (nMx8

==========

Press X for doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

547 531
Yeah, that February harvest just isn't finding its way to market.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:10 AM (lD3vL)

On a more serious note about harvests, I heard last year's harvest in the US was bad. Smallest since 2002 apparently.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (z5Vrg)

548 he links you to the Ukraine embassy
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:46 AM (8I+CL)

Yeah, and those aren't, by their description, bio-warfare creation labs. They are for detection and mitigation of contagious and possible bio-warfare agents.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (EpDzw)

549 Pray for Taiwan. They're next.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)
*********
Definitely. China could easily take them since China pretty much owns the world.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

550 Yeah Markets are F'd. Bought some to average down my position last 3 days, thinking it was bottom and Putin would not be that stupid. Not chasing today. Chips fall at this point.

Aldi is my market today

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (WY8d2)

551 21 I too never thought Putin would go to all the trouble to launch an all-out attack on an essentially helpless state, especially one where the people are capable of guerilla resistance (no matter how sad-sack the Vindman leadership of the army might be).
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 24, 2022 07:53 AM (EPNZf)

When are the Vindman Twins going to ruck up, grab an AK, and fight for the Homeland?

Posted by: Fox2! at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (qyH+l)

552
Google 'Ukranian brides'
No shortage of sites.
Sad
Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022

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You'd expect a Ukrainian bride who looked like the slim, pretty Russian woman who "married" Dr. House. You'd get one that looks like today's Meghan McCain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (txdEq)

553 Meanwhile in the US
we have Ec-130 spy planes doing circles above the trucker convoy in AZ

https://tinyurl.com/mr3vhswr

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (BqBIh)

554 We'll compare notes in a week, assuming the State of the Unconscious speech can be translated from incoherent into retarded.

Authentic Washington DC Gibberish

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (lD3vL)

555 554 We'll compare notes in a week, assuming the State of the Unconscious speech can be translated from incoherent into retarded.

Authentic Washington DC Gibberish
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (lD3vL)

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"I didn't get a harumph out of that guy."
-Biden, SOTU 2022

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

556 New from Germany.

"Chief of Germany Army this morning: "The Bundeswehr, and the Army that I have the privilege to lead, is more or less stripped bare. The options that we can offer politicians to support the alliance are extremely limited."

Tell me again what good has NATO been over the last few decades? Besides being both a salesman and buyer for military equipment?

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (4thlk)

557 When are the Vindman Twins going to ruck up, grab an AK, and fight for the Homeland?
Posted by: Fox2! at February 24, 2022 09:13 AM (qyH+l)

when I get a date with a pretty 20 year old model who is also rich and wants to marry me, or when hell freezes over

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (Irn0L)

558 Thank you, JJ.

"Loving" our $300 heating bill from last month. Looking forward to $135 barrel oil prices.
FJB and all who actually voted for him, all 40 million.

Posted by: (jV+aN) President Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (jV+aN)

559 I never have problems finding saltines at the Dolla G.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (qnVBz)

560 FJB and all who actually voted for him, all 40 million.
Posted by: (jV+aN) President Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (jV+aN)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

561 543 Wolfus Aurelius

You can always go to Family Dollar. Oh wait.

Trader Joe's is just Aldi by a different name. Kinda. Cousins.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (qnVBz)

Trader Joe is full service Aldi's - so you pay the labor fees to get nice bagged groceries and samples...

Posted by: Nova local at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (exHjb)

562 The Moscow-based Conflict Intelligence Team also noted that Putin, 69, wore the same maroon tie and dark suit during Thursday's address as he did during a meeting with the Russian Security Council on Monday.

heh. intel
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:11 AM (8I+CL)

Maybe he's like Ernest, his closet has 20 suits in it that all look exactly the same, with 20 maroon ties. Did they think of that?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (evAgx)

563 I never have problems finding saltines at the Dolla G.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (qnVBz)

We've actually had an issue finding Fritos.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

564 You can always go to Family Dollar. Oh wait.

Trader Joe's is just Aldi by a different name. Kinda. Cousins.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022

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There is a Trader Joe's in the 'burbs here. Always pretty busy on a Saturday morning when I've gone.

Family Dollar and Dollar General are dark and dirty-looking, and there's not much that costs an actual dollar. Dollar Tree comes closer. They've gone to $1.25 for everything, though, and they have shortages now too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (txdEq)

565 Bannon and The War Room is going to be LITAF this morning.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (BxACj)

566 Ukraine's Embassy in Turkey requested Turkey close the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits for Russian warships.

Posted by: McCool at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (BqBIh)

567 561 543 Wolfus Aurelius

You can always go to Family Dollar. Oh wait.

LOL! Rats'R'Us!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (evAgx)

568 563 We've actually had an issue finding Fritos.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

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Be wary of the Frito Banditos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

569 Tell me again what good has NATO been over the last few decades? Besides being both a salesman and buyer for military equipment?
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (4thlk)

Abolish NATO.

Posted by: SEATO at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (pqqDJ)

570 Family Dollar and Dollar General are dark and dirty-looking

*

Get out of the cities.

Rural Family Dollars and Dollar Generals are fantastic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (cUuEU)

571 Has Bearclaw Vindman made any comments?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (88xKn)

572 Be wary of the Frito Banditos.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Aye-yi-yi-yi!

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (Hica+)

573 If Biden strokes out during the SOTU do you think that the FNM will tell us that it was righteous rage against Putin?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

574 Lol, Jennifer Griffin talking about shock and awe sanctions. These people are just not serious.

Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (GcxM3)

575 520 Pray for Taiwan. They're next.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

I was just thinking to check the innertubes to see if Xi is using Putin as a distraction ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (tRpV0)

576 Has Gen Milley contacted his counterpart in Russia to let him know about Biden and all is well?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 09:06 AM (88xKn)

THIS. Russia and China have their own deep state here. They own us. Buy beans, rice and ammo,

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (5aWFq)

577 Tell me again what good has NATO been over the last few decades? Besides being both a salesman and buyer for military equipment?
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (4thlk)
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I believe you answered your own question.
At least our kids can afford leftist university tuition.
And our wives get their country club memberships paid for.

Posted by: The Military Industrial Complex at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (sy5kK)

578 Billions of US arms and equipment left to the Taliban, possibly billions(?) of US/NATO arms and equipment recently supplied to Ukraine now available for the Russians to take?
__________
No worries, we'll make more. Pay up taxpayer!
MIC

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (fs1hN)

579 We've actually had an issue finding Fritos.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022

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No problem finding Fritos, but at $3.99 a bag, never mind. Dollar Tree used to have some good corn chips, worth it even at $1.25, but the stores I've visited recently are out. And nobody, even Walmart, has house brand corn chips, only the "true" Fritos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (txdEq)

580 573 If Biden strokes out during the SOTU do you think that the FNM will tell us that it was righteous rage against Putin?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

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Maybe we'll have a Dave situation where Biden's double outlines the corruption of his own administration before faking a stroke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

581 Chief of Germany Army this morning: "The Bundeswehr, and the Army that I have the privilege to lead, is more or less stripped bare. The options that we can offer politicians to support the alliance are extremely limited."

Remember when the bad orange man made our allies upset by trying to force them to spend more on their own defense. He played right into putins hands or something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (qnVBz)

582 Every so often, I watch farm reports and the like. Fertilizers are through the roof to the point some farmers won't put in crops as large as in the past. Remember, it was lack of fertilizers that ruined Germany and caused their loss in WW1. Hard to get the hungry to keep fighting.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (lz5hY)

583 581 Chief of Germany Army this morning: "The Bundeswehr, and the Army that I have the privilege to lead, is more or less stripped bare. The options that we can offer politicians to support the alliance are extremely limited."

Remember when the bad orange man made our allies upset by trying to force them to spend more on their own defense. He played right into putins hands or something.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:17 AM (qnVBz)

=========

But he said it meanly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

584 502 Silly Americans proletariat. Saltine crackers are a terrible "survival food". The vegetable oil used in their production causes them to go rancid quickly. Rancid crackers, while still technically edible, taste like they've been dipped in diesel fuel. "Pilot Bread" is survival food. All smart Russian spies should have a few cans of the bread of the pilots stashed away already.

Posted by: The Vlad Who Loved Me at February 24, 2022 09:07 AM (yjmHr)

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That vegetable oil though can ultimately be used to fuel clean-burning green cars that are a must for all preppers, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (743lG)

585 On a more serious note about harvests, I heard last year's harvest in the US was bad. Smallest since 2002 apparently.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 09:12 AM (z5Vrg)
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Fertilizer up by several multiples this year, which is going to drive a lot of cost and probably reduce yields, which also drive a lot of cost.

We (American and the West more generally, and the richer Asian countries) will survive this because we can afford it. It will suck hugely and depress other economic activity,, but we'll get through it because we can outbid others. Africa and the poorer parts of Asia and likely parts of South America are going to get skull fucked by it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

586 Matt Ridley, an Oxford trained zoologist who believes the lab leak theory is a possibility, said of the animal DNA found in the sample, "These are not from seals or penguins but from African green monkeys and Chinese hamsters. Both species are the source of commonly used laboratory cell lines."

Posted by: SMOD at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

587 Remember, it was lack of fertilizers that ruined Germany and caused their loss in WW1.

Hard to get the hungry to keep fighting.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

You can eat what you conquer.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (Hica+)

588 382 Sort of a Vichy France for Ukraine.Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 08:48 AM (evAgx)
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That really is about all Putin needs to do. Establish a stable puppet government that is less corrupt than the current one and then allow people to go about their lives (more or less). Crack down hard on any major dissidents, make a big show of eliminating the corruption, and give the people some basic autonomy and less corrupt government. That's it. He's won.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2022 08:51 AM (K5n5d)
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Agreed. Then it's the move of the nations and organizations that impose sanctions. Do they all impose the same sanctions on the nation of Vichy Ukraine? How long will those last? How long will any sanctions imposed today last? How long until we and the EU begin funneling billions of humanitarian relief to Vichy Ukraine, to help-out the poor people stomped on by the Rooskies? Putin will laugh his ass off as he skims a healthy cut off the top of that pile of foodstuffs and money.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

589 I'm really looking forward to Biden's SOTU address. This will be lit.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (4eKPg)

590 Every so often, I watch farm reports and the like. Fertilizers are through the roof to the point some farmers won't put in crops as large as in the past.

**

Already. Right now. Things are ALREADY bad.

Thank goodness Russia isn't a major provider of the world's fertilizer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (cUuEU)

591 The junta f*cked up the supply chain in a bunch of different ways. The just in time system is very complex and doesn't deal well with the kind of stupidity the junta has brought us

It wasn't the Junta, it was all of the politicians that participated in Lock Down Theater, jailing dissidents who clandestinely cut hair or mixed an adult beverage.

it was the FNM that terrified the people with imaginary waves of death.

It was the stoppage of many factories, warehouses and other means of production, who operate on very thin profit margins. It doesn't help that underacheivers were given money to sit on their butts doing drugs and watching Netflix. It didn't make anything better when "working" goldbricks could convert a sniffle into two weeks paid vacation.

The junta is too dysfunctional to conjure up anything this destructive.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (lD3vL)

592 Tell me again what good has NATO been over the last few decades? Besides being both a salesman and buyer for military equipment?
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:14 AM (4thlk)
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It's been a huge net benefit.

Posted by: Defense contractors and corrupt public officials at February 24, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

593 Get out of the cities.

Rural Family Dollars and Dollar Generals are fantastic.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022

***
Rural is a long drive for me, but maybe I can have a look around on Sunday and Monday this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:19 AM (txdEq)

594 I guess you can never underestimate the desire to make money, because makers of little knitted penis for toddlers are some delusional, warped people. However, if they are really going to go all out they should market it with some pablum such as "Individually knitted by a loving grandma struggling to make ends meet."

Let me take a wild guess-this warped stupidity is manufactured in China in bulk?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2022 09:19 AM (GezNK)

595 Africa and the poorer parts of Asia and likely parts of South America are going to get skull fucked by it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

"Great!" said "Biden," as the border was thrown open wider.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:19 AM (nMx88)

596 Yeah, I don't quite understand the saltine shortage.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:02 AM (4thlk)

And hardtack. Not to be found. Who hoards hardtack? (besides me)

Posted by: grammie winger at February 24, 2022 09:19 AM (45fpk)

597 Silly Americans proletariat. Saltine crackers are a terrible "survival food". The vegetable oil used in their production causes them to go rancid quickly. Rancid crackers, while still technically edible, taste like they've been dipped in diesel fuel. "Pilot Bread" is survival food. All smart Russian spies should have a few cans of the bread of the pilots stashed away already.

Posted by: The Vlad Who Loved Me

Hardtack.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (Hica+)

598 Yep

Posted by: Jonah at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (WY8d2)

599 @vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.
_____________

Uh, yeah, one tiny problem: it wasn't "Russia" that "attacked" the US presidential election in 2016, it was the Hillary Clinton Campaign's Dirty Tricks Department. They are the ones who fabricated all the "Russia, Russia, Russia -- Trump is colluding with Russia!" bullshit that they fed to their besties in the CIA and FBI (neglecting to mention that it was made-up bullshit from the Clinton Campaign), and that the media dutifully reported as truth.

That is what the reams of evidence from the Durham investigation have shown. These imbeciles who are still swallowing the Clinton Campaign "Russia!" fairy tales need to pull their incredibly stupid and gullible heads out of their asses and take a look around at the real world once in a while.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (k4dH2)

600 574 Lol, Jennifer Griffin talking about shock and awe sanctions. These people are just not serious.
Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (GcxM3)

What she means is that they're not only going to block Putin from using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, but they're going to cut off his access to TikTok videos as well.

The Horror! The Horror!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

601 Thank God BLM Lesbian Overlords stole the election for Biden. Special thanks to Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Soros, Schwab and all of corporate America. Way to go guys and dykes.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (4eKPg)

602 everyone zooming in on his tie

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David Brooks predicts war if Putin's tie has a wrinkle in it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (743lG)

603 600 What she means is that they're not only going to block Putin from using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, but they're going to cut off his access to TikTok videos as well.

The Horror! The Horror!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:20 AM (evAgx)

=========

"No, they won't be doing that."
-China

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

604 Thank goodness Russia isn't a major provider of the world's fertilizer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

That would be DC.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (Hica+)

605 How long until we and the EU begin funneling billions of humanitarian relief to Vichy Ukraine, to help-out the poor people stomped on by the Rooskies? Putin will laugh his ass off as he skims a healthy cut off the top of that pile of foodstuffs and money.
Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

After the Big Guy gets his ten percent booth set up, and not a moment sooner.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (nMx88)

606 Maybe he's like Ernest, his closet has 20 suits in it that all look exactly the same, with 20 maroon ties. Did they think of that?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:15 AM (evAgx)

my first thought is, ex kgb, he's screwing with people 100% of the time, so who knows?

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (8I+CL)

607 because makers of little knitted penis for toddlers are some delusional, warped people.

If you can arrest people for donating to the Trucker Convoy you can arrest them for indirect grooming of kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

608 If I understand things correctly, Aldi was a German family owned chain that split into Aldi North and South after a family rift. One of them expanded into the US as Aldi, the other, wanting to replicate the success in America opened up shop as Trader Joes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (qnVBz)

609 593 Walmart put in Neighborhood Markets in small towns around here. Couldn't make a go of it, DolGen took over and they're doing fine. Full service grocery in a rural area is a blessing for a lot of folks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2022 09:21 AM (lz5hY)

610 Rural is a long drive for me, but maybe I can have a look around on Sunday and Monday this week.

*

Walmart tried to make little rural satellite stores a few years ago. Gas pumps and everything. They failed at it, and when they gave up Dollar General bought many if not all of them out. If you come across one of them it's worth stopping.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (cUuEU)

611 Fertilizer up by several multiples this year, which is going to drive a lot of cost and probably reduce yields, which also drive a lot of cost.

We (American and the West more generally, and the richer Asian countries) will survive this because we can afford it. It will suck hugely and depress other economic activity,, but we'll get through it because we can outbid others. Africa and the poorer parts of Asia and likely parts of South America are going to get skull fucked by it.

It doesn't help that so many people have an aversion to GMO grains. There is a line of GMO seed that is mated to a bacteria where the two act symbiotically to create the nitrogen that plants need. IOW, plants that cooperate with bacteria to make its own fertilizer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (lD3vL)

612 574 Lol, Jennifer Griffin talking about shock and awe sanctions. These people are just not serious.

Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (GcxM3)

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A veritable blitzkrieg of sanctions!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (743lG)

613 Germany doesn't have an army. It's been deliberately stripped bare by the political parties Germans elected over and over again. Enjoy being at the mercy of your poor decisions. Oh, and try to stay warm der blodel.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (Rz7nO)

614 hahaha, hordemind.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (cUuEU)

615 611 It doesn't help that so many people have an aversion to GMO grains. There is a line of GMO seed that is mated to a bacteria where the two act symbiotically to create the nitrogen that plants need. IOW, plants that cooperate with bacteria to make its own fertilizer.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (lD3vL)

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"This will make me grow a third eye in the middle of my forehead. Also, the vaccines are perfectly save without any side effects."
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

616 Heh. Refresh shows JJ's image now available at the top.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (743lG)

617 @vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.

I don't mind saying......You're a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

618 480 I've been buying the store brand Ritz crackers. Cheap, never a shortage and they seem to work just fine in soup.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:04 AM (4thlk

They are tasteless. Other than that, they're OK.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

619 Jennifer Griffin used to be somewhat reliable in her reporting. Now, for some reason she's gone full nutter and literally makes everything cringe worthy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (BFigT)

620 Jeffery Goldberg is reporting that unnamed generals have quoted Brandon calling Putin a "dog face pony soldier"

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (us2H3)

621 Does Putin make TikTok videos in blue hair where he explains his pronouns and gender preferences?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (qnVBz)

622 613 Germany doesn't have an army. It's been deliberately stripped bare by the political parties Germans elected over and over again. Enjoy being at the mercy of your poor decisions. Oh, and try to stay warm der blodel.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (Rz7nO)

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They have single payer healthcare to pay for to placate their masses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

623 Taiwan?

What?

Posted by: Xi Jinping at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (sy5kK)

624 I'm open to all sorts of logic on this, because there are far more intelligent and learned people on these issues than I am, so I try to listen and sort out the facts.

The Vlad is just a bad person and wants to recreate the USSR expiration seems far-fetched at best.

If this is global domination, it's the slowest expansion in the history of empires. At this rate, he'll hit Hungary by the time he's 120 years old.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (quoXt)

625 Remember, it was lack of fertilizers that ruined Germany and caused their loss in WW1.

Hard to get the hungry to keep fighting.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

It was yet another apostate Jew, Fritz Haber who created process by which the Kaiser rollers could manufacture nitrogen for explosives and allowed to war to roll on for four years.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (s2VJv)

626 @vermontgmg
1h
One thing worth keeping in my mind today: There's a straight line from Russia's attack on the US election in 2016 to 1/6 to today's new invasion of Ukraine. The chaos that Russia unleashed with the election of Trump weakened us to the point Putin feels confident invading Europe.
_____________

Uh, yeah, one tiny problem: it wasn't "Russia" that "attacked" the US presidential election in 2016, it was the Hillary Clinton Campaign's Dirty Tricks Department

Second tiny problem. Russia had four years under Trump. Not one move. After one year of Bia Den, NOW he makes a move. They need to go peddle that horseshit someplace else.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (Hica+)

627 Goldfish crackers are pretty darn good in canned soups. Off-brand goldfish crackers are even cheaper.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (cUuEU)

628 621 Does Putin make TikTok videos in blue hair where he explains his pronouns and gender preferences?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (qnVBz)

=========

"I will block you if you don't use my correct pronouns of the hour!"
-Vlad Putin, terror of Eastern Europe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

629 Allen's back and there's gonna be trouble
Ooh! My G Friend's back!

Posted by: The Angels at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (UHVv4)

630 Lol, Jennifer Griffin talking about shock and awe sanctions. These people are just not serious.

Posted by: Tofer732 at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (GcxM3)

She looks like her face smells of wet pussy.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

631 It doesn't help that so many people have an aversion to GMO grains.

Winemoms: Oh my gaia, GMOs are poison! I would never touch that or let little Jayden eat that!

Also Winemoms: And so Jayden and I just got our boosters...it was great! The doctor said the heart damage he just came down with is not at all related to the shot and will, maybe, heal! So we are fully protected now!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

632 Germany doesn't have an army. It's been deliberately stripped bare by the political parties Germans elected over and over again. Enjoy being at the mercy of your poor decisions. Oh, and try to stay warm der blodel.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM

Germany can't even patrol their own airspace, we do it for them. They literally don't have enough aircraft to do the job.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (bVYXr)

633 I've been buying the store brand Ritz crackers. Cheap, never a shortage and they seem to work just fine in soup.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022
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They are tasteless. Other than that, they're OK.
Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022

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Pop some peanut butter, or mustard and cheese, or spaghetti sauce and cheese on them. Or a cream cheese with chives.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:25 AM (txdEq)

634 Alex Bruesewitz
@alexbruesewitz
1h
Fascinating that Mitten's criticizes the 'America First' agenda.
When we had a REAL America First President, Donald Trump, his peace through strength mentality made our country and the world more safe.

No new wars were started. You will never be President Mitt. Move on.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

635 hat is sad is that I do not trust Bush or any of these guys at this point - so I do not know what is really going on, and never will
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 08:54 AM (8I+CL)

Watch Barnes or The Duran
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 24, 2022 09:09 AM (y7DUB)

listening to the duran right now, thanks

Barnes as in the lawyer? Who also does a show with Viva?

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:25 AM (8I+CL)

636 Chuck Schumer holding a vote on Federally making Late Term abortion legal .

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Can we shove him back up his momma's crank and do the honors?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (sVtYq)

637 Attila the Bun was worse than the Kaiser's rollers!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (UHVv4)

638 625 Yep. If not for him the blockade preventing Chilean nitrates would have brought things to a halt a lot earlier.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (lz5hY)

639 Walmart put in Neighborhood Markets in small towns around here. Couldn't make a go of it,

Because everything you went to walmart for, you couldn't get at the neighborhood market. So you wound up going to the big one anyway. They would have done better leaving the WM name off.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (qnVBz)

640 SOTU next week is going to be lit AF

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (NW9xb)

641 622 613 Germany doesn't have an army. It's been deliberately stripped bare by the political parties Germans elected over and over again. Enjoy being at the mercy of your poor decisions. Oh, and try to stay warm der blodel.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (Rz7nO)
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They have single payer healthcare to pay for to placate their masses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

I remember about 5 or 6 years ago, there was an accident where two fighter aircraft (typhoons, I think) turned into each other as they took off, both were lost. It was reported that on that day, Germany had lost 20% of its operational fighter aircraft.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (evAgx)

642 How long until we and the EU begin funneling billions of humanitarian relief to Vichy Ukraine, to help-out the poor people stomped on by the Rooskies? Putin will laugh his ass off as he skims a healthy cut off the top of that pile of foodstuffs and money.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

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Thank goodness for our annual budget surpluses and digital printing presses, but mostly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:27 AM (743lG)

643 It doesn't help that so many people have an aversion to GMO grains.

Winemoms: Oh my gaia, GMOs are poison! I would never touch that or let little Jayden eat that!

Also Winemoms: And so Jayden and I just got our boosters...it was great! The doctor said the heart damage he just came down with is not at all related to the shot and will, maybe, heal! So we are fully protected now!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM

Tell one of those wine moms that we have been genetically modifying our food for over 5,000 years and watch their reaction.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

644 640 SOTU next week is going to be lit AF
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (NW9xb)

Cancelled due to Russia, Covid and most of all POLLING.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2022 09:27 AM (s2VJv)

645 641 I remember about 5 or 6 years ago, there was an accident where two fighter aircraft (typhoons, I think) turned into each other as they took off, both were lost. It was reported that on that day, Germany had lost 20% of its operational fighter aircraft.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (evAgx)

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"It's fine. We have those stupid American pigfucking warmongers to protect us."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

646 "Germany can't even patrol their own airspace, we do it for them. They literally don't have enough aircraft to do the job.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:24 AM (bVYXr)"

Our armored ID's have been providing almost all of their ground based deterrent for as long as I can remember. So, we provide most if their defense. The only country in the region with a capable military is Poland.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:28 AM (Rz7nO)

647 In all seriousness, though, I wonder what President Biden will say when he wakes up?

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:28 AM (cUuEU)

648 OrangeMan be Bad, Yo!

Posted by: NPC_00000010 at February 24, 2022 09:29 AM (a3Q+t)

649 Walmart put in Neighborhood Markets in small towns around here. Couldn't make a go of it,
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Because everything you went to walmart for, you couldn't get at the neighborhood market. So you wound up going to the big one anyway. They would have done better leaving the WM name off.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022

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I hate those stores. The local ones insisted on the face diaper nonsense even after the big stores had unofficially dropped it. Plus you *have* to use their self-checkouts; there are no checkout clerks. So WM is getting my labor and saving money, but I'm not getting a price break for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:29 AM (txdEq)

650 If this is global domination, it's the slowest expansion in the history of empires.

I don't doubt he has ambitions. But we in no small part created this problem. Obama was actually pursuing putting Ukraine into NATO for a time, and our government has acted like the Cold War never ended since the wall came down. Hell, there are people at the HQ who've repeatedly talked about how US should deploy forward in Poland and the Baltic States. There's less difference between the current turnip in the white house and the GOP on Europe and NATO than there should be.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 24, 2022 09:29 AM (KFhLj)

651 I was reading yesterday 1 medical ins company in Germany has paid for over 400k doctor visits over the free jab.

They estimated around 3 M people in 2021 sought doctor care after the jab!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 09:29 AM (yrol0)

652 Tell one of those wine moms that we have been genetically modifying our food for over 5,000 years and watch their reaction.

Some of the renaissance artists like to paint foods of their time, it is fascinating to see how much many foods have changed even in the last few hundred years.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

653 We are going to genetically modify this corn to resist weevils

The horror!

We are going to genetically modify your child to make spike proteins

Jab away!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:30 AM (qnVBz)

654 I cannot believe I seriously thought Mitt Romney would be a decent president.

Gad, what a two faced slimy little worm of a man.

Oh, and Romney, you jackass, PDT plainly said that he planned on negotiating in the best interests of the US, and expected his counter parts to negotiate in the best interests of their country. Amazing how you ignored that part.

What a despicable human being Romney has turned out to be.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 24, 2022 09:30 AM (5pTK/)

655 Tell one of those wine moms that we have been genetically modifying our food for over 5,000 years and watch their reaction.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

We've been BREEDING plants, including grapes, against their will for millennia! REEEEEEE! Can I live on boiled water alone???

Posted by: Wine Moms of the USA at February 24, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

656 576 Has Gen Milley contacted his counterpart in Russia to let him know about Biden and all is well?
____________

Yeah, you'd think some enterprising reporter would ask Milley Vanilli if he plans to ring up his besties in Russia and give them advance warning of any of Biden's planned military moves, like he said he planned to do when Trump was his commander.

F*cking traitorous POS.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2022 09:30 AM (k4dH2)

657 640 SOTU next week is going to be lit AF

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 24, 2022 09:26 AM (NW9xb)

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Shock and Awe!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:30 AM (743lG)

658 Germany and France have been Iran's biggest trading partners and remain so. The only reason any sanctions have worked on NK is because the chi-coms allowed them for their own benefit.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (1WT1m)

659 What a despicable human being Romney has turned out to be.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 24, 2022

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I suspect most of us voted for him only because the alternative, Jugears, was far worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (txdEq)

660 They will trot out Susan Rice to explain everything.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (qnVBz)

661 Hell, there are people at the HQ who've repeatedly talked about how US should deploy forward in Poland and the Baltic States.

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We may not need to deploy people, but I am far more open to supporting those countries, especially Poland, over Ukraine.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (sX1BW)

662 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec�36m
You can immediately drop the price of oil by authorizing the Keystone pipeline, expanding domestic drilling, and fracking. Yes, fracking.

Then go all-in on nuclear.

So much of this comes down to pipelines and energy.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

663 > Walmart put in Neighborhood Markets in small towns around here. Couldn't make a go of it
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FWIW

There's one around here and it's still branded as a "Walmart Neighborhood Market."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (BFigT)

664 It doesn't help that so many people have an aversion to GMO grains. There is a line of GMO seed that is mated to a bacteria where the two act symbiotically to create the nitrogen that plants need. IOW, plants that cooperate with bacteria to make its own fertilizer.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM (lD3vL)

if you're on keto, grains are mostly irrelevant

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (8I+CL)

665 Shock and Awe!
Posted by: ShainS --

Shart and Awwwwww

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (qnVBz)

666 LOL..

"The U.S. Postal Service finalized plans Wednesday to purchase up to 148,000 gasoline-powered mail delivery trucks, defying Biden administration officials' objections that the multibillion dollar contract would undercut the nation's climate goals."

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (bVYXr)

667 We've been BREEDING plants, including grapes, against their will for millennia! REEEEEEE! Can I live on boiled water alone???
Posted by: Wine Moms of the USA at February 24, 2022

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Maybe if you put salt in it.

No, wait. That's been fiddled with -- it's got iodide. Oh, well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (txdEq)

668 657 Shock and awe. Retardo's Depends change after a Ben and Jerry's binge.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (lz5hY)

669 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0NVaQ2RSU

Fox Live featuring UN Spokesidiot.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (tRpV0)

670 Looks like Putin might less sane than I estimated ... but still not much to be done for Ukraine now. They should have armed themselves better and we shouldn't have a doddering old fool as president ... but c'est le guerre. Good luck and good fighting to Ukrainians.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (dYe5S)

671 Oh, and try to stay warm der blodel.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:22 AM

Brunettes can keep you warm, too, da?

Posted by: Vlady McVladface at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (a3Q+t)

672 You can immediately drop the price of oil by authorizing the Keystone pipeline, expanding domestic drilling, and fracking. Yes, fracking.

Then go all-in on nuclear.

So much of this comes down to pipelines and energy.

---------------

Remember, they don't want to drop the price of oil.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (sX1BW)

673 "I remember about 5 or 6 years ago, there was an accident where two fighter aircraft (typhoons, I think) turned into each other as they took off, both were lost. It was reported that on that day, Germany had lost 20% of its operational fighter aircraft."

If memory serves me, Germany has about 75 Typhoons and ~ 125 Eurotrash Fighters. That's, what, about one of our air wings or roughly 2 CVW's? It's a joke.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (Rz7nO)

674 662 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec36m
You can immediately drop the price of oil by authorizing the Keystone pipeline, expanding domestic drilling, and fracking. Yes, fracking.

Then go all-in on nuclear.

So much of this comes down to pipelines and energy.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

99.99% of all Progressive want the poor and working poor dependent of Big Govt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (yrol0)

675 I hate those stores. The local ones insisted on the face diaper nonsense even after the big stores had unofficially dropped it. Plus you *have* to use their self-checkouts; there are no checkout clerks. So WM is getting my labor and saving money, but I'm not getting a price break for it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

At least with self checkout, you don't have to listen to the tatted up thot talk about who her momma is banging this week and when the thot's baby daddy is getting out of county.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (Hica+)

676 571 Has Bearclaw Vindman made any comments?

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 09:16 AM (88xKn)

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I will donate money to the Bearclaw-for-Ukranian-Leader-Puppet campaign if he pulls an Al Haig, calls a press conference, and declares "I'm in control here."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (743lG)

677 Putin will laugh his ass off as he skims a healthy cut off the top of that pile of foodstuffs and money.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

Will he skim off ten percent like the Bidens and the Romneys, though?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (nMx88)

678 Trump wanted to move our troops from Germany to Poland becusse he was putins puppet. Or something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (qnVBz)

679 660 They will trot out Susan Rice to explain everything.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (qnVBz)
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'twas a video...
-S. Rice

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (fs1hN)

680 FWIW

There's one around here and it's still branded as a "Walmart Neighborhood Market."

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Yeah, I think a lot of the places where they failed are places where people remembered what Walmart did to the locals.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:33 AM (cUuEU)

681 @JackPosobiec 10h
Trump is speaking before Biden tonight. Says Biden is probably asleep.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

682 PDT plainly said that he planned on negotiating in the best interests of the US

MAGA was all about "America First." Romney is an asshole.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (Q6gOS)

683 At least with self checkout, you don't have to listen to the tatted up thot talk about who her momma is banging this week and when the thot's baby daddy is getting out of county.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 24, 2022

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Usually, though, the clerk is faster at scanning and bagging than I would be, so I'm out pretty quickly. As long as the line isn't a mile long.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (txdEq)

684 I suspect most of us voted for him only because the alternative, Jugears, was far worse.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:31 AM (txdEq)
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We knew what Obama was. What Romney projected turned out to be 180 degrees from reality.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (5pTK/)

685 Hey...

Remember when the media conspired to cancel the foreign policy debate of 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (LvTSG)

686 "The U.S. Postal Service finalized plans Wednesday to purchase up to 148,000 gasoline-powered mail delivery trucks, defying Biden administration officials' objections that the multibillion dollar contract would undercut the nation's climate goals."

*

Turns out they actually need to drive places through the day to do their job.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (cUuEU)

687 685 Hey...

Remember when the media conspired to cancel the foreign policy debate of 2020?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (LvTSG)

What're the odds of foreign policy mattering for the Presidency?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM (z5Vrg)

688 Whatever your opinion is, Putin is certifiable. He just deliberately and with malice started the largest land invasion since WWII. Let's not sugarcoat that part. Hitler and Stalin would be proud.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM (Rz7nO)

689 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM (txdEq)

690 669 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0NVaQ2RSU

Fox Live featuring UN Spokesidiot.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (tRpV0)

Sorry, should have been NATO Spokesidiot. He's been explaining the political response ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM (tRpV0)

691 if you're on keto, grains are mostly irrelevant
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (8I+CL)
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ummmm....
-cows, pigs

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (fs1hN)

692 I do not even want to contemplate the sending of American troops into harm's way over this.

This will be over before they could get there.

Posted by: Methos at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (kOpft)

693 Call me traitor, but not our fight, not our problem. People need to calm down - in two weeks when this is over and Plugs can claim he brought the peace you'll see what really happened.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (QZ/dC)

694 ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (yrol0)

695 @JackPosobiec 10h
Trump is speaking before Biden tonight. Says Biden is probably asleep.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

Russia attacked the Ukraine. Biden will not speak tonight. He's too busy.

Mark it.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

696 687 What're the odds of foreign policy mattering for the Presidency?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM (z5Vrg)

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"Listen we could talk about the deployment of troops, diplomacy, and trade, or we could have tried gotchas on Trump about pronouns. One of these is obviously more important than the other."
-The Establishment media, which is totally conservative because corporations are inherently conservative and shit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

697 Romney is an asshole.
Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM

He's Utah telling the rest of the country what they think.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (a3Q+t)

698 Please place your item in the bagging area

Unexpected item in the bagging area

Please wait for an attendant.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (qnVBz)

699 if you're on keto, grains are mostly irrelevant
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (8I+CL)
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Except for all the grains the meat eats while it's growing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (DU+/6)

700 Ukraine's investment in Hunter isn't looking so good right now.

That's because you're a lying retard. The Ukraine didn't invest in Hunter. Putin did. The people in the West who _lie_ about that and give the treasoncrats cover while pretending to be conservative are just as much a part of the problem as President Joe Alzheimer Petain is.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (c53Uj)

701

32,336.64 -795.12 (-2.40%)
As of 09:36AM EST. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at February 24, 2022 09:37 AM (aWEzO)

702 "The U.S. Postal Service finalized plans Wednesday to purchase up to 148,000 gasoline-powered mail delivery trucks, defying Biden administration officials' objections that the multibillion dollar contract would undercut the nation's climate goals."

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:32 AM (bVYXr)

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BREAKING: FBI Raids and Imprisons USPS Leaders for Seditious Conspiracy; to be Held in the Garland Archipelago Indefinitely. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:37 AM (743lG)

703 I was just watching a clip of Blinken on CBS. Newschick asks Blinken about the "bloodies conflict in Europe since WWII."

Umm, these people are entirely ignorant of history. They just know nothing. So far I have heard some 40 people are killed in Ukraine. How many were killed in the various wars of dissolution in Yugoslavia?

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2022 09:37 AM (9otr5)

704 Dow opened and dropped -806.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:37 AM (Rz7nO)

705 ... change it to password ...

Or, "Incorrect" the error message will tell you the password

Posted by: Fox2! at February 24, 2022 09:37 AM (qyH+l)

706 but still not much to be done for Ukraine now. They should have armed themselves better

Don't worry about us, everything is well-defended in Swiss bank accounts.

Posted by: Ukraine/Deep State Alliance at February 24, 2022 09:38 AM (vOGqy)

707 I watched an old clip of Trump in some kind of international round table, Pompeo by his side, where he argues that "trade" and "energy" are two completely separate animals for negotiating. One of the foreign guys was arguing that if we work with (I read appease/weak negotiations) Russia in some aspects that the balance ow working with them helps the relationship or some such crap. Trump wanted to take a hard line when it came to energy, the others were arguing against it and equating it with all trade. I can't find the clip. It was short.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:38 AM (8I+CL)

708 Please place your item in the bagging area

Unexpected item in the bagging area

Please wait for an attendant.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2022

***
This

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 24, 2022 09:38 AM (txdEq)

709 Bullshit Putin is certifiable. All you had to do was say Ukraine never gets into NATO and no US/Euro weapons systems would be deployed there. All the warmongers need to reflect on our own dealings with Russia and Cuba years ago. This is all stupidity.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 24, 2022 09:38 AM (QZ/dC)

710 Whatever your opinion is, Putin is certifiable. He just deliberately and with malice started the largest land invasion since WWII. Let's not sugarcoat that part. Hitler and Stalin would be proud.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM

Yes he did, but my issue is we have zero interests there, none, zip, nada. It is literally none of our business at this point unless he keeps going and hits a NATO Country.

Yes I understand that we agreed to protect them if they gave up their nukes but that ship sailed when obama started actively trying to recruit Ukraine into NATO and reneged on the deal that Clinton signed with Russia.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 24, 2022 09:39 AM (bVYXr)

711 @Cernovich; 6h
If you don't support the Keystone pipeline and nuclear energy in the US, you're riding with Putin.

@Cernovich; 9h
Is climate change still the worlds greatest threat?

@RichardGrenell; 2h
Newsrooms in DC won't say it but Biden's weak diplomacy failed.

Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc; 2h
What's happening with Russia is exactly why you don't let a Swedish teenage girl stop you from creating self sufficient energy supplies.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:40 AM (UHVv4)

712 685 Hey...

Remember when the media conspired to cancel the foreign policy debate of 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 24, 2022 09:34 AM (LvTSG)

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Heh. Good memory and point, TJM.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 24, 2022 09:40 AM (743lG)

713 634No new wars were started. You will never be President Mitt. Move on.

Posted by: redridinghood

Mitt knows. That's where the bitterness and hate for Trump and us comes from. He cant blame himself for it of course.

Posted by: Floridachick at February 24, 2022 09:40 AM (PBU/y)

714 @702 "The Board of Governors did not hang itself."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 24, 2022 09:40 AM (videA)

715 Dang. You said Carter Memorial and I flipped thinking when did he die and how could I have missed it?

Fooled me. Don't doooo that. He's top of my list for next to spend a day or two in Congress rotting. But he and Rosalyn are like Timex watches. It was his failures as a President but successes as a freaking socialist that started a decline for me that lasted 10 years so I def have woody if he turns up room temperature sometime soon.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2022 09:40 AM (+Nm6D)

716 Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc; 2h
What's happening with Russia is exactly why you don't let a Swedish teenage girl stop you from creating self sufficient energy supplies.

**

hahahaha

Perfectly done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 24, 2022 09:41 AM (cUuEU)

717 The White House and State Dept. are working hard this morning writing some a statement for Biden to read that will include some really sick burns. They're also working really hard to balance Biden's meds so he can read that statement and appear coherent.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:41 AM (4thlk)

718 Joementia is supposed to have some statement around noon today.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 24, 2022 09:41 AM (1WT1m)

719 Except for all the grains the meat eats while it's growing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2022 09:36 AM (DU+/6)

true this
although I will admit I try to find grass fed beef and so forth

and have gone to mostly seafood, so I'm building up my mercury poisoning as well

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:42 AM (8I+CL)

720 706 but still not much to be done for Ukraine now. They should have armed themselves better

Don't worry about us, everything is well-defended in Swiss bank accounts.

Posted by: Ukraine/Deep State Alliance at February 24, 2022 09:38 AM (vOGqy)

Bingo! The thugs who paid Hunter got what they paid for for years, and the resulting money is secure in banks outside of Ukraine. Now the tip-top Ukrainian dogs of the racket can sit on a beach in Italy and live off the interest.

Posted by: Gref at February 24, 2022 09:42 AM (AMIL/)

721 Lol. Oh yeah, it's Trump's fault. These people have no shame. Democrats created and ran with the phony Russia hoax, further putting distance between us and the Russians while using them as a political tool. Trump made us energy independent and sunk the Russians main source of income, oil, to a level where they could not sustain their economy. Brandon immediately went to war against the US oil and gas industry, raising the price to record highs and causing us to import over 200 million barrels of oil. Brandon is funding the Russians war effort and his frailty and weakness has given them the green light to invade.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:42 AM (Rz7nO)

722 Whatever your opinion is, Putin is certifiable. He just deliberately and with malice started the largest land invasion since WWII. Let's not sugarcoat that part. Hitler and Stalin would be proud.

It's Springtime, the time when kings go to war.

Posted by: Methos at February 24, 2022 09:42 AM (kOpft)

723 OK, I'm going to date myself here, but I saw a report that what we used to call the Looking Glass plane is airborne today.

Posted by: Archer at February 24, 2022 09:43 AM (gmo/4)

724 nood art -- Chagall crap

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:43 AM (UHVv4)

725 OK, I'm going to date myself here
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Most of the Morons do.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 24, 2022 09:44 AM (UHVv4)

726 Whatever your opinion is, Putin is certifiable. He just deliberately and with malice started the largest land invasion since WWII. Let's not sugarcoat that part. Hitler and Stalin would be proud.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:35 AM
Yes he did, but my issue is we have zero interests there, none, zip, nada. It is literally none of our business at this point unless he keeps going and hits a NATO Country.

same here
I do not want our men fighting for the elite's bank accounts and money laundering schemes anymore.
Let someone else do it.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2022 09:44 AM (8I+CL)

727 Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2022 09:41 AM (4thlk)

Good luck with that.

Posted by: dantesed at February 24, 2022 09:45 AM (88xKn)

728 I guess the Biden Junta wasn't satisfied with creating domestic enemies, so, they pivoted to creating external enemies.

The Biden Junta is now going to call on all of the people they painted as "insurrectionists" to go fight in a war that was completely avoidable.

This will go swimmingly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 24, 2022 09:45 AM (5pTK/)

729 I didn't think Putin would pull the trigger. I figured he'd just go into the breakaway areas and sit there for a while and let things cool a bit and then take another bite maybe.

I would bet he got some intel that said the Ukraine (at the urging of paste boy) was going to attack so he did what any leader would do and attacked first.

Note he's only taking out military targets so far. This means he's going to rely on all the Russians who live there and moved there to be waving flags in the street when the Russian Tanks come rolling in.

People forget how the Ukraine has just been a memory for a 100 years or so and the majority of it's people are Russian or Russian leaning. And Russia considers it like we would if Texas broke away when Clinton was in and now is trying to make the USA stay out of Kansas. Ain't happening. Ukraine is the bread basket of Russia just like the great plains is ours. No ones going to let that get taken away.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 24, 2022 09:45 AM (+Nm6D)

730 "Yes he did, but my issue is we have zero interests there, none, zip, nada. It is literally none of our business at this point unless he keeps going and hits a NATO Country. "

Problem is, he won't stop at Ukraine. There is no disincentive. We need to be very thoughtful how this one is played. I don't think the Eurotrash or our government has the stones to isolate Putin to a degree that it destroys their economy. Without serious punitive action he will eventually get to something we do care about. By then it will be too late. Brandon really has us fucked over a barrel

Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2022 09:48 AM (Rz7nO)

731 Putin certifiable? I think he took a measure of the situation and calculated that the rewards are worth the risk. We may come up with a different calculation, but we don't know everything that Putin knows or thinks he knows.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2022 09:50 AM (fs1hN)

732 We need to be very thoughtful how this one is played.
___________

*looks at Biden, Kamala, Blinken, what passes for leaders in EU/Germany*

"uh oh"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2022 09:51 AM (fs1hN)

733 So what drugs do they give Biden to read some bullshit to the camera?

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 24, 2022 09:53 AM (4eKPg)

734 Uh, the trucker convoy headed to DC is called "The People's Convoy".

That just screams "conservative" to me.

Posted by: West at February 24, 2022 09:56 AM (QY+6a)

735 Problem is, he won't stop at Ukraine. There is no disincentive. We need to be very thoughtful how this one is played. I don't think the Eurotrash or our government has the stones to isolate Putin to a degree that it destroys their economy.

Is this the part where you tell us again why we have to send our kids to die protecting the Europeans that won't send their kids to die to protect themselves ? This is my favorite part - please continue.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 24, 2022 10:16 AM (swPM0)

736 Let the tranny brigades and the COVID death shot cultists show us how tough and superior they are in fighting the Russians.

Posted by: Pete at February 24, 2022 10:44 AM (MzJ1W)

737 Three words: "Wag the Dog."

This war is intended to attempt to keep Americans from scrutinizing the elections to prevent fraud, which will help the Democrats in 2022. It may not be enough to keep them from losing the House, but enough to retain enough Senate seats to prevent relatively easy GOP legislation in the senate. Finally, the war will prevent Americans from reforming any realistic election integrity laws both state level and federal, so 2024 will be in jeopardy of a 3am ballot dump as well. Note: Dominion algorithms that skew results from Republican to Democrat rely on these dumps and drop-off boxes. It's really that simple and cannot be disputed, so don't even try.

Posted by: Jonah Kyle at February 24, 2022 11:00 AM (R4j1g)

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