The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 2/25/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and Ukraine getting pounded by Putin remains at the top of the dung heap with the subjugation of North America by its own insane governments smoldering somewhere underneath. While the latter in real, direct terms is much more important for obvious reasons, the former is a direct result of the rigging of the national elections and at some point in the not to distant future could have severe geo-political ramifications for our national and economic security, even if the sanity and clarity of a (or "the" [meaning Trump himself]) MAGA/America first agenda is restored.

In any case, with the bombs raining down not just in the "disputed" areas of Donbas but cities all over the Ukraine, the propaganda blitz begins, or rather ramps up to 'leventy-leven.

The 13 guards were posted on the small but strategic Snake Island off Ukraine's southeastern border when they were approached by two vessels on Thursday, according to Ukrainian media outlets.
The Russians contacted the guards and identified themselves as a "Russian Warship," demanding that the Ukrainians surrender or else they would open fire according to audio of the exchange.
"This is a Russian warship, I repeat. I suggest you surrender your weapons and capitulate otherwise I will open fire. Do you copy?" The Russians said to the border guards. . .
". . . This is it," one of the Ukrainian guards can be heard saying in the clip.
"Should I tell him to go f--k himself?" he appears to ask a comrade.
"Just in case," another guard responds.
The guard then turns up the volume on his comms and bluntly responds, "Russian warship, go f--k yourself."
The Russians then reportedly bombarded the 42-acre island with barreled guns from the warship. They then bombed the island with aircraft. . . All of the guards were killed, officials said.

How cool would it have been if after "go fuck yourself" she added "in the heart with a steak knife?" (thanks, Ace!)

Look, I don't mean to make light of this. It really is a tragedy that the average poor Ukrainian schlub or even Russian schlub has to die. But it isn't because we refuse to help our gallant Ukrainian brothers who yearn for Jeffersonian democracy a la Dubya (vomit). It's because Vladimir Putin saw a green light when America's leftists and globalists gave our nation a lobotomy with the installation of Joey Softserve as its mouthpiece, and then ripped the nation's balls off as it transitioned to a Renee Richards Bride of Frankenstein eunuch prostrate before the whole world (as an addendum, colleague and co-blogger Joe Mannix rightly notes that our pushing of NATO ever eastward for no really good reason post the Soviet break up is also not an insignificant factor behind Putin's aggression).

Until I'm blue in the face, Donald Trump's commitment to strong military deterrence as well as making America energy independent AND a net exporter for the first time in our history kept Putin in check. The fact that Putin, along with Emperor Pooh-Xi and every other bad actor - with the exception of the Democrat Party and their GOPe Renfield remora - sat on his hands between 2017 and 2021 proves to anyone with half a functioning brain cell more than Biden that the confirmed Hillary Clinton/Deep State concocted "Russia Collusion" hoax was just that. Meh, it's like pissing into the wind with this.

Psaki-Psircling back to that truly tragic tale above, I suppose this is the NY Post's attempt to recreate Wake Island, Back to Bataan or more accurately The North Star (more like "The Red Star"; Lillian Hellman, of course) on its front page and get you all misty-eyed, ready to buy war bonds -- or go volunteer to fight the evil Russians. Volunteer someone else's son or daughter or transexual to fight the evil Russians, that is.

Tune it out. Just tune it right the fuck out. That said, if you project into the not too distant future and substitute any of us for those Ukie border guards and the Lon Horiuchi Brigade of the Dept. of Education's military-equipped SWAT team (oh, yes, gentle reader; you'd be surprised how many federal agencies have them) for the Russian navy, it makes a world of difference. And considering J-6 and what's brewing up in Canada (and I don't mean Molson), it scares me shitless.

"NUTS" to you, NY Post and the rest of the agitprop media. And in any case where the fuck is Europe, western and especially eastern? Where the fuck is NATO, and not just the US contingent? This is your fucking, miserable, blood-soaked continent. You have a vested interest putatively (emphasis on the first two syllables) in defending yourselves. Too busy importing Muslims and letting your thousand-year-old innate anti-Semitism boil up while doing everything possible to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages via post-modern self-flagellation to actually want to do something, I guess. Except resort to the 76-year-old trope of blaming America for Europe's self-inflicted rotting societal failure, while at the same time clamping your fangs and suckling off the dried up, desiccated teat of the Marshall Plan, which miraculously has been copiously lactating for nigh on 75 years. Meh, Momma Sefton was right. We should've let the Soviets roll all the way to the Channel, if not to the Irish Sea.

With half my spleen duly vented, here are a few things that underscore the complete insanity of our illegitimate junta's response to this as well as the idiots baying for Putin's and our blood. First up, speaking of border guards, here's entry number one in the I-Can't-Even Dept.:

[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's [junta] is looking to divert United States Border Patrol agents from their mission at the U.S.-Mexico border to send them overseas "to assist" those fleeing from Ukraine amidst Russia's invasion, a new report states.
Even as illegal immigration continues pouring through the nation's southern border at record levels, Biden hopes to entice Border Patrol agents to sign up voluntarily to aid American citizens, green card-holders, and their immediate relatives fleeing Ukraine into Eastern Europe. . .
. . . In January, alone, the Biden [junta] released more than 62,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior. Border Patrol agents have blasted Biden's policies, which they say have made illegal immigration close to unmanageable.

In truth, I'd rather have a few hundred thousand or even million Ukrainians than the dregs of Latin America or, worse, that beacon of modernity and enlightenment Afghanistan. Funny how Biden didn't send the Border Patrol to Kabul or Kandahar last year when he did the bug-out. Forget a trucker convoy; every CBP agent should be marching on DC. Why not? It's not like they're even allowed to arrest let alone deport any illegal aliens anyway. We have in effect no border so why a Border patrol? Unreal.

From insanity we go to crystal clarity in the form of up and comer (hopefully) J.D. Vance who doesn't understand how Russia could just roll into Ukraine and pound the shit out of it relatively unmolested.

"We spent $6 billion on a failed Ukrainian army," Vance said. "Our leaders foolishly pressured Ukraine to give up their nuclear arsenal in the 1990s, which stripped them of their leverage to deter an eventual Russian invasion. These supposed 'experts' wrongly predicted that these moves would deter Russia instead of provoking them; on this, as with so much else, they were catastrophically wrong."
"Trump deserves an incredible amount of credit for the strength and diplomatic engagement that kept Putin in check -- and Biden an equal amount of blame for his lack of leadership," he added. "Our energy independence gave us leverage; Biden squandered it."

It should be noted that Ukraine back before Trump (and probably even during) - meaning during the Obama/Biden years and probably even now - was an open raging sewer of a corrupt kleptocracy. Remember that Biden was and still is "the Big Guy" who got 10%, delivered by bag man Hunter, who forgot his bag, evidently when he impregnated "Weed Slut 420," but I digress. $6 billion, even after Biden skimmed off his cut, isn't chump change so why the hell are we not seeing Russky tanks burning and their planes tumbling out of the sky, like they did when the Afghanis took aim at them with probably much less money and in much more primitive conditions?

And then there's this glittering jewel of abject inanity and stupidity, Chris Van Hollen, as if I needed that descriptive build up; his name says it all. Get this:

"I've heard people say that the Keystone decision had some impact on current prices. I also saw PolitiFact looked at that claim and said it was false. The reality is that oil and gas production is continuing in the United States, as it should, but we also need to do what President Biden wants to do, which is, over time, reduce our reliance on oil and gas. Because, obviously, it's a world market. And, as you point out, Russia has an important share of that."

Even bloated, grating, thumb/tuber doppelgänger Neil Cavuto did a double take on that doublespeak. We shouldn't restart and ramp up oil drilling because Russia has an important share of the market? Again, I ask, does the ideology drive the idiocy or vice versa or both or what the fuck is this annoying imbecile driving at (not alienating the enviro-communist-luddite bloc, I imagine)? If Russia has an important share of the market, do you not see that competing against him will choke off his income and force him to back down?! I'm dying out here.

So, as Biden and all the pieces of shit who accuse us of being traitors and unpatriotic, elsewhere in Biden world, one of the most crucial battles for justice is raging in . . . the Dept. of the Interior?

Federal officials have come up with a list of potential replacement names for hundreds of geographic features in three dozen states that include the word "squaw," kicking off a public comment period that will run through late April.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in November formally declared the term derogatory and initiated a process to remove the word from use by the federal government and to replace other existing derogatory place names.
Haaland said in a statement Tuesday that words matter, particularly as the agency works to make the nation's public lands and waters accessible and welcoming to people of all backgrounds.

I shouldn't squawk as we have been niggardly in our attention to the sheen of racism, which of course directly impacts our national security. Well, slap some hot Mazola on that one as we move on to our final item, a not so Ancient Chinese Secret . . .

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and his Chi-com libertine Fang Fang are going to crack open the champagne over this one. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped the Trump-era China Initiative, created to go after Chinese spies. . .
. . . This insane decision comes shortly after FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that China was "more brazen, more damaging than ever before."
Why would Biden's administration stop hunting Chinese spies? The excuse they are giving is exactly what you would expect from the left: racism!
"Anything that creates the impression that the Department of Justice applies different standards based on race or ethnicity harms the department and our efforts, and it harms the public," Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for national security, informed reporters. "I do believe that the China Initiative was driven by genuine national security concerns. But I'm also mindful that the department must maintain the trust of the people whom we serve."

Meanwhile, in the Garland Archipelago, the inmates are making room for a fresh batch of racist insurrectionist white supremacists as a trucker convoy rolls eastward to DC, right into their grasp.

Have a good weekend.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"We must reclaim our tech and our humanity from what our failing rulers wrought."
Ukraine and the American Future
"Our increasing aversion to taking chances creates dangers of its own."
Bring Back Risk
"The urge to save humanity is always an urge to rule over humanity." (that the individual knows best what's for his own good is the core idea of what real conservatism is all about - jjs)
For Your Own Good
Daniel Greenfield: "Masking 2-year-olds and handing out needles to addicts is the new public health."
Forget Crack Pipes, a CDC Provider is Promoting "Safe" Fentanyl Use

BIDEN-CREATED WAG-THE-DOG UKRAINE CRISIS

"Even as illegal immigration continues pouring through the nation's southern border at record levels, Biden hopes to entice Border Patrol agents to sign up voluntarily to aid American citizens, green card-holders, and their immediate relatives fleeing Ukraine into Eastern Europe."
Report: Biden to Divert Agents from U.S. Southern Border, Send Them to "Assist" with Russia-Ukraine Conflict
81 million votes (mostly from a dozen or so voters).
Joe Biden Claims "No One" Thought Sanctions Would Stop Putin -- Days After Kamala Harris Said Just That
"Biden said that the sanctions will target Russian elites, banks, and technology exports which he claimed will cripple Russia's ability to modernize its military and will damage the Russian economy." (but Big Guy's 10% will not be touched - jjs)
Biden Announces New Actions Against Russia In Response To Invasion
Jeez, Biden has no idea where he is.
Reporter Asks About Putin: "Is He Threatening a Nuclear Strike?" Biden: "I Have No Idea What He's Threatening"
Robert Spencer: "Weakness invites aggression."
Putin Sizes Up Biden, Invades Ukraine
Robert Spencer Part Deux: "So do the sanctions deter, or don't they? Clearly, they don't, or the Russian army wouldn't be at Kyiv. In response to yet another indication that he is an abject failure as [so-called quote-unquote "president"], or his handlers are, Biden simply lies again. It's the hallmark of his disastrous [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"]."
After Sanctions on Russia Fail, Biden Lies About Why He Imposed Them
"Since Putin has decided to oust the Ukrainian government, this means that every day Zelenskyy remains in office is another day that adds to Ukrainian national confidence to resist -- and another day that Putin looks to have miscalculated."
Has Putin Miscalculated His Ability To Take Ukraine Swiftly?
"If the invasion of Ukraine has taught us anything, it's that Russia's leader operates from a very different worldview from our own."
Seeing Putin Plain
He also did not answer a question about whether he was communicating with China to isolate Russia financially. "I'm not prepared to comment on that at the moment," he said.
Joe Biden Sanctions Russia; But Not Vladimir Putin or Russian Oil
"Trump right again: 'Putin is playing Biden like a drum.'"
In Continuation of Obama Legacy, Biden Presides Over Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "It took only one year for our fearless leader to plunge us into chaos on a global scale."
Trump Knew How to Handle Putin. Biden Has No Clue.

* * * * *
"In Putin's home town of St. Petersburg, a crowd of two hundred gathered to chant "No to war!" -- only to be confronted by police shouting through bullhorns that public gatherings were forbidden under coronavirus restrictions. Several dozen protesters were reportedly arrested." (Putin called up Castreau-cescu for a consultation - jjs)
Russia Warns of "Negative Legal Consequences" as Mass Anti-War Protests Break Out
"There is no purgatory for war criminals, they go straight to Hell," Kyslytsya said.
Ukraine Tells Russia to "Go Straight to Hell" at Russia-Led U.N. Meeting on Russian Invasion of Ukraine
"It is now unclear whether the aircraft will go to Bulgaria, as the official statement from the Ministry of Defense noted they have been moved 'in the vicinity of Poland,' the Aviationist reported."
Dutch Air Force Deploys Storied "MiG Killer" to Eastern Europe
"Ukraine's president is figuring out that the money spent buying Biden isn't giving Ukraine the protection it needs."
The Bombs Are Real, But What's Coming Out of DC is Theater
"Ukraine returned all of its nuclear weapons to Russia by 1996. . . and now we're here."
How Ukraine was Betrayed in Budapest Memorandum
. . . And all we got was this lousy t-shirt, and 10% for the Big Guy.
Conservative J.D. Vance: 'We Spent $6 Billion on a Failed Ukrainian Army'
Douglas Murray: "On the one hand, this buildup and the resulting invasion could look like the actions of a determined, if brutal, man. Yet it is also completely crazy."
Not Peter the Great, He's Vlad the Mad
"Indeed, the question asked during the Ukraine crisis is the same one that would be asked if Putin invaded one of the Baltic states: Would NATO risk world war, and possibly nuclear war, to save Lithuania? The Baltic states aren't so sure."
Is Putin's Next Target the Baltic States?
"Turns out Putin isn't deterred by transgenders in the U.S. military."
World War Woke
"Compares Putin to Hitler."
Video: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Thinks Putin Invaded Hungary; Defends Biden's Toothless Sanctions
"Several versions of 'Mitt Romney deserves an apology!' have been floated in the coverage for the last few weeks and reached a crescendo following the invasion. Mitt Romney deserves no such thing. . . Americans are far less prosperous and secure than before the pandemic and would have been again with the V-shaped recovery that preceded the election. High energy costs are at the root of the inflation that hurts middle and working-class families, and that will only worsen as of this morning. Ukrainians are fighting for their fundamental freedom to choose their own government and may have to lay down their lives for it. And Mitt Romney and other fair-weather Republicans share in the blame for that." (A-fucking-men to this - jjs)
Actually, Mitt Romney and His Never-Trump Buddies Should Apologize
JUSTIN CASTREAU-CESCU PROTEST CRACKDOWN
"The government's representative in the Senate could not answer a simple question: 'What exactly happened that the government decided to invoke the act?'"
Canadian Senator: Castreau-cescu Revoked Emergencies Act as Senate Leaned Towards Disapproval
"O Canada -- where did you go wrong?"
The Very Curious Ms. Justin "Fidelita" Trudeau
"The convoy embarrassed the elite and challenged their authority. And for that Trudeau made them pay. Other Western elites will follow."
Trudeau's Tyranny and the War on Civil Society
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The first trial of a January 6 defendant is set to begin next week. But jury trials should expose the government's weak case against most of them."
On the Eve of the Show Trials
"Kennedy's words apply perfectly to the establishment's overthrow of Trump, who represented the common man's peaceful revolution."
"Those Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible Will Make Violent Revolution Inevitable"
"The war in Ukraine is none of America's business. Censorship and administrative edicts here at home are."
Joe Biden Is Worse than Putin
"It's a laudable demonstration, but they'll take substantial legal risks, likely with meager chances of meaningful success."
Freedom Truckers in DC Would Be Asking for Trouble
"Free speech certainly isn't very "free" when it can be targeted by the State as indisputable proof that its critics are guilty of treason."
We Can't All Be Traitors, Can We?
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Americans were manipulated and turned against each other to hide government mismanagement, while many died unnecessary deaths."
The Chinese Covid Cartel Lied, People Died. Now They Say It's All Your Fault
". . . the hospital would rather let the boy die from a failed kidney then permit him to get a new one from his father, just because the father didn't get the jab and thus his kidney might somehow expose the boy indirectly to [Chinese] COVID."
Today's Blacklisted American: 9-Year-Old Boy Denied Kidney Transplant Because Donor Hasn't Gotten Chinese COVID Jab
"'It just feels so invasive,' like an 'assault on religion.'"
Premier Children's Hospital Fires Unvaxxed Nurses After Questioning and Rejecting Their Religious Beliefs
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Norms restored!
Stock Market Stumbles, Oil Briefly Crosses $100 Per Barrel After Russia Invades Ukraine
What the hell kind of illogical non-sequitur is that?! Thanks to fracking and Trump, America has the greatest reserve of oil and natural gas in the world - now untapped. If we had kept on drilling and exporting, Putin never would have had the leverage to invade Ukraine and gas over here would be $3.00 a gallon. Another lying, idiotic cocksucker.
Van Hollen: Have to Be Less Reliant on Oil, Gas "Over Time," Because Russia Has "Important Share" of Market, Don't Regret Axing Keystone
"'My [junta] is using every tool at its disposal to protect American families and businesses from rising prices at the gas pump. We're taking active steps to bring down the cost,' Biden said at a press conference at the White House."
Biden Tries the Emergency Oil Reserve Gambit Again Despite Last Year's Failure
"Using price controls to combat inflation is an old idea -- and a bad one, on both economic and democratic grounds."
Who Controls the Controllers?
"Over 80% of American travelers exhibit higher levels of excitement for their prospective travel future and those in a ready-to-travel mindset hit an all-time high 84.6%. More Americans than ever, since the onset of the pandemic, plan to take at least one leisure trip in the next 12 months (93.3%)."
Rental Car Prices Expected To Remain High This Summer
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"They're mandated reporters and they are supposed to do their job," the father of a teenager accuser told the outlet. "They should be held accountable every way shape and form possible." (where's that George Gaviscon? - jjs)
California School Officials Arrested For Allegedly Not Reporting Three Sexual Assault Cases
"Regina's murder was an inflection point for Biberaj, who now faces scrutiny from fellow Democrats and her own deputies for administrative incompetence and mishandling of high-profile cases, including Regina's. The political turmoil leaves Regina's mother in the worst possible position, at once eager that justice be accomplished for her daughter and wary of antagonizing the embattled commonwealth's attorney."
Murder Victim's Mother Has Questions for One of Virginia's Progressive Prosecutors
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"A remarkably dysfunctional year for the San Francisco Unified school board."
Frisco Frolics
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The governor issued an executive order in September to prohibit Florida agencies from assisting the [junta] in transporting illegal immigrants."
CPAC Crowd Erupts When Gov. DeSantis Says He'll Send Illegal Immigrants To Delaware
"Public charge is an immigration law term for migrants the government determines ineligible for green cards due to their reliance on government assistance. In 2019, former President Donald Trump expanded the rule to include migrants who use non-cash benefits like food stamps and Medicaid. Before then, public charge was defined as someone 'primarily dependent on the government for subsistence.'"
Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over "Public Charge" Rule
"U.S. tax dollars are funding migrant shelters inside Mexico, but the Biden [junta] won't release any details."
GOP Lawmakers Demand Details About U.S. Funding Of Migrant Shelters In Mexico
"Walls are not immoral and they are not xenophobic. They are indicators of a government that values its nation and its people."
The Undeniable Common Sense of Border Walls
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Austin Lin's unearthed role as a Special Assistant to the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and Deputy Director of Technology adds to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s controversial role in the 2020 election, which it has been accused of rigging through partisan grants and mail-in ballot manipulation."
Mark Zuckerberg's Election Interference Chief Now Runs Joe Biden's White House Tech Team
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Will Finland bow down to the gods of fashion?"
Freedom of Religion on Trial in Finland
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Funneled nearly $100,000 to company he used to register plane." (he has General Weygand's letters of transit -- with the big letter "D" on them - jjs)
How Henry Cuellar Used Campaign Cash To Fund a Private Plane
POLITICS
"Well, that sure sounded like a presidential stump speech. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took the stage at CPAC on Thursday afternoon and brought the house down."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Gives the Roadmap to Liberty at CPAC
"Republicans are winning on the issues that matter most to Hispanic voters and are well-positioned to capitalize on Democrats' extremely unpopular policies."
Voting Data in Texas Suggests the Hispanic Shift to the GOP is Real
"The libs will never give up on their loser politicians. That's why hacks like Elizabeth Warren remain in office and spy-lover Rep. Swalwell is still a rep. Democrats allow their feckless politicians to fail up. The lefties will not drop their support of Biden, not even after they stop by Dover Air Force Base to pick up the remains of their kids, who were killed despite all that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion battleground training."
It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Blame Joe
"A 'progressive' [so-called quote-unquote "president"] takes a wrecking ball to a nation."
We're Being Mugged Here, There and Everywhere
"According to LA Times columnist Mark Barabak, the biggest problem Kamala faces is that California is nothing like Montana. No, really, that's what he said."
Even California Hates Kamala Harris
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"…the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off. He was right in the short term, longer term, TBD," wrote CNN White House correspondent John Harwood.
Media Blames Trump After Joe Biden's Russia Policy Fails to Deter Vladimir Putin
"The bills will endanger customer security developed organically in the free market."
Washington Is Trying to Muck Up the Tech Market's Consumer Protections
SECOND AMENDMENT
"It may be too late for Ukraine -- let's make sure it's not too late for us."
Lesson from Ukraine -- Don't Give Up Your Guns (or Nukes)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The number of aircraft involved was well off the last large-scale incursion, 39 Chinese aircraft on Jan. 23, and since then, such fly-bys have been sporadic with far fewer aircraft."
Chinese Aircraft Move Into Taiwan's Air Defense Zone
"Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has ordered the island's armed and security forces to step up their surveillance, remain alert for military activity in the region and strengthen combat readiness as tensions between Russia and Ukraine mount."
Taiwan Military "Combat Ready" Due to Increased China Invasion Risk
"China and the U.S. play geopolitical chess in South Asia."
Himalayan Standoff
"China's goal of eclipsing the U.S. as the preeminent world power is proceeding apace."
SHOT: Breaking the Moscow-Beijng Axis Should Be Our Top Priority
"But just how secure is this supposed Sino-Russian friendship? While the two states may broadly agree on the need to limit U.S. hegemonic power, the two are likely to also find many reasons to view each other as more immediate sources of conflict."
CHASER: Russia and China Aren't the Natural Allies Many Assume Them to Be
"Without China's participation, sanctions will have little impact on Russia. Certainly, China isn't going to bankrupt itself for Russia, but Beijing will be of enormous assistance to Russia in the coming months, and the crisis will cement the already strong ties between the two powers." ANOTHER ROUND, BARKEEP: Putin Is Lucky to Have a Friend in Chinese President Xi Jinping
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Established by members of terror group, Al-Qassam tries to co-opt civil rights leader's legacy."
Mosque Linked to Palestinian Islamic Jihad Allowed to Defile MLK Parade
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Trump-admin targets were dropped as the military focused more on Marxism."
America's Military Aircraft Readiness Has Tanked Amidst a Focus on Woke Politics
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Biden adviser said war will distract from climate change." (thank goodness for that, at least - jjs)
As Putin Invaded, John Kerry Wanted To Change the Subject
Clarice Feldman: "If all this is too distressing, for laughs you might read the New York Times puff piece on how the Biden [junta] prepared for this crisis. Lots of internal meetings , sharing intelligence with allies, greenlighting a public information campaign against Putin, yammering about how to deal with the disastrous consequences of an invasion, moving a few thousand troops around. But nothing at all about ramping up U.S. energy production."
How the Greens Brought War to Ukraine
"The irrational treatment of carbon dioxide as a pollutant -- and by extension coal plants as dangerous polluters -- will be reviewed by the Supreme Court February 28. At question is whether the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate the gas without congressional authorization. A finding that the agency has no such authority could help unleash the potential of coal-fired electricity."
Supreme Court Should Cancel the Latest "Witch Hunt"
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Overall, the risks now are far more volatile than they were in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea. Not only is this war far larger, worldwide tensions are much higher because of the panic and governmental overreach and failure in the last two years because of [Chinese] COVID. Emotions are running high. Not only could the Russian invasion cause the end of its many international partnerships in space, the war could expand outward in ways that no one right now can predict."
The Deadly Impact of Russia's Ukraine Invasion on Commercial Space, the ISS and Beyond
"According to the Ingenuity engineering team in an update today, the Mars helicopter is getting ready for its 20th flight, scheduled for no earlier than today, even as the team successfully dealt with dust that settled on the helicopter's various parts prior to flight 19."
Ingenuity Update: Dust Storm Caused Issues; 20th Flight Upcoming
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
This is what the Biden junta decides to "squaw-k" about. Slap some hot Mazola on that and move on.
Proposal to Nix Alleged "Derogatory" Term Targets Hundreds of US Sites
Completely revolting and beyond the pale as this oral flatus is, it does define the nature and, for lack of a better word, mindset of the self-anointed "elite." In the immortal words of Ace, "Go fuck yourself in the heart with a steak knife."
As Ukrainians Fear for Their Lives, Joy Behar's "Scared" Because Her Italian Vacation Might Be Ruined
"This controversy is another sad commentary on the corruption of professional sports."
Phil Mickelson's Crude Defense of the Saudi Golf League
"Determined to make bank on its many millions in hotel investment, Disney cast aside an earlier version of the couple's romance."
Disney Rewrites Han and Leia's Love Story in Shameless Star Wars Hotel Marketing Ploy
"The Craft: Legacy is basically Man-Hating 101."
Woke Witches: Feminist Film Teaches Teens That Masculinity Is Cursed
Christian Toto: "Stars assemble for a meme-worthy pic, but there's a bigger message in play."
Spider-Men Marketing Push Another Apolitical Home Run
HITHER & YON
"This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum. And it's your fault!!" RIP
Sally Kellerman, Original Hot Lips From M*A*S*H, Dead at 84

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1 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

2
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 25, 2022 07:44 AM (K2SnJ)

3 What is more ephemeral than the promise of a nation run by democrats?

Posted by: IanDeal at February 25, 2022 07:44 AM (MGjjz)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 07:44 AM (JMENi)

5 Moronin, Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 25, 2022 07:44 AM (u7pQw)

6 At least it is Friday!

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 25, 2022 07:46 AM (yEBFM)

7 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:47 AM (DU+/6)

8 Hola

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9 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 07:48 AM (3D/fK)

10 The Ukrainians trusted Democrats, starting with Bill Clinton. One should never trust Democrats.

But those guards on that island. Good for them. Rest in peace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 07:48 AM (PEevu)

11 Hey! I have no idea. I am not kidding. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 25, 2022 07:48 AM (vrz2I)

12 10 The Ukrainians trusted Democrats, starting with Bill Clinton. One should never trust Democrats.

But those guards on that island. Good for them. Rest in peace.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 07:48 AM (PEevu)

*Clinton voice*

Just the head!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

13 Good Morning to all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 25, 2022 07:49 AM (89T5c)

14 Mornin'! Fave screenshot so far: some idiot saying the unvaccinated should be drafted. Sane person sharing with the comment: You idiots LITERALLY just kicked them out of the military.

Happy FIAF, everyone. And thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at February 25, 2022 07:49 AM (ZSsrh)

15 How Joey fvcked the US and the Ukraine

Killing Keystone.
Approving Nord Steam 2
Killing the gas pipeline from Israel to Greece

With smart people like this who needs idiots in charge?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 07:50 AM (PEevu)

16 Morning all. Day 2 of WWIII.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 07:51 AM (Hica+)

17 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 07:51 AM (BFigT)

18 Whats most comical is you can tell the authors age by simply measuring his Bush Derangement Syndrome. These children don't even realize how indoctrinated by the left they are.

Posted by: Fisht at February 25, 2022 07:52 AM (g5ddn)

19 Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 25, 2022 07:52 AM (uVDu4)

20 Good morning morons and thanks for good view of the geopolitical landscape JJ

It looks bleak and I suspect that we are going to look back on events of this week and next in world-historical terms.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (EZebt)

21 It's because Vladimir Putin saw a green light when America's leftists and globalists gave our nation a lobotomy with the installation of Joey Softserve as its mouthpiece, and then ripped its nation's balls off as it transitioned to a Renee Richards Bride of Frankenstein eunuch prostrate before the whole world.
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It is, but even that would likely not have led to this if it weren't for the US constantly provoking over Ukraine. Our foreign policy was long stuck in a Cold War mindset, and then it pivoted to general Russia hatred for a variety of reasons. In response, we kept pushing NATO east. Russia, not incorrectly, views NATO as at very best a significant adversary and at worst an actual enemy. There has been no good strategic reason to push NATO eastward and to try to bring Ukraine or Georgia into the fold. Like with Georgia, this is in large part a result of Putin's bright line around the topic of neighboring countries joining NATO, especially a country as significant as Ukraine. There are other factors like Ukraine's behavior toward its ethnic Russians, but this is a big one. Our weakness made this play likely, but a lot of factors made Putin want to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

22 "Rally around the flag and Joey kids!" - Gaylord Merkin Focker the Wurst

"Joey! Stop sniffing the kids!" - Gaylord five minutes later.

What was that quote - 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (PEevu)

23 Look, I don't mean to make light of this. It really is a tragedy that the average poor Ukrainian schlub or even Russian schlub has to die. But it isn't because we refuse to help our gallant Ukrainian brothers who yearn for Jeffersonian democracy a la Dubya.

The story is interesting in that it highlights yet another difference in the cultures between Americans and the rest of the world.

When someone puts a gun to the head of a typical post Westerner, they plead, beg, show pictures of their family, all in the vain and arrogant belief that they can talk their aggressor out of harming them. Pretty much everyone else resigns to the idea that they will be dead.

We see this in the panic over a virus that kills 0.1% of its infected victims with a list of co-morbidities. We see this in the hysteria over organics and heroic medical interventions. We see this in the cowardly surrendering of the soldiers to Iran and China.

This is something the tyrants exploit - better Red (Marxist-Communist) than Dead. So in one sense the Ukraine people know Freedom and Liberty far more than post-Westerners.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (lD3vL)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Listening to "Exclusively 20s" radio right now, with the 'boop-boop-a-doop girl' Helen Kane singing "Button Up Your Overcoat."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (2JVJo)

25 Woof!

Posted by: Brett at February 25, 2022 07:54 AM (CEbHf)

26 "'It just feels so invasive,' like an 'assault on religion.'"
Premier Children's Hospital Fires Unvaxxed Nurses After Questioning and Rejecting Their Religious Beliefs

Thing 3 just had surgery at that hospital last month.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 07:54 AM (45fpk)

27 "For Your Own Good" does not arise from a true urge to save humanity. Indeed, it is more misanthropic than salvific. It arises from the will to power.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2022 07:55 AM (H8QX8)

28 I saw a picture of a group of Ukrainians drop to their knees in the street, to pray.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 07:56 AM (45fpk)

29 Our weakness made this play likely, but a lot of factors made Putin want to do it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

You are correct sir. I should addendum-ize my rant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 07:56 AM (s2VJv)

30 I am a little stunned that our intel was correct.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 07:56 AM (qnVBz)

31 Ukes claim they've shot down six Russian aircraft.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 07:56 AM (UHVv4)

32 From Thermopylae to Snake Island: Courage Unbowed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (PEevu)

33 Until I'm blue in the face, Donald Trump's commitment to strong military deterrence as well as making America energy independent AND a net exporter for the first time in our history kept Putin in check.
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Maintaining deterrence is hard and regaining deterrence is very hard and extremely high-risk. Trump and Pompeo did an admirable job in this regard. I think there were four major factors in Trump's success with handling Russia:
1. He didn't hate Russia and didn't want to punish them as a matter of principle. This allows for understanding and negotiation in a way that the Left is incapable of achieving.
2. He demonstrated that American military capability was superior when he blew up their equipment and killed their men in Syria. It was a small demonstration that served tactical purpose and it very likely gave Putin pause on expansionist ambitions.
3. We increased energy production and kept oil low through our production and made Europe a wildcard by starting gas exports. Russia has a hard time affording adventurism when oil is cheap.
4. We didn't push too hard on his neighbors and make him think Russia Proper was at risk.

The Left is capable of none of this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

34 Well now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (Lec9d)

35 The Ukrainians trusted Democrats, starting with Bill Clinton. One should never trust Democrats.

A real, kick-them-in-the-balls, take-no-prisoners GOP nominee would scream that from the heights over and over again.

Are you a Jew? Democrats want to nuke Jerusalem. Are you an 'ally' of the US? Democrats will abandon you in a NY minute.

Any nation that trusts the word of the United States under Democrat control is insane.

But, of course, saying the truth is beyond the pale for any one of the worthless, corrupt, cowards who make up the GOP.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (2JVJo)

36 Nothing against Uke civilians who are genuinely fleeing to e.g. Poland but I've just seen my second 'refugee with cat' photo/video.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (UHVv4)

37 Psaki-Psircling back to that truly tragic tale above, I suppose this is the NY Post's attempt to recreate Wake Island, Back to Bataan or more accurately The North Star (more like "The Red Star"; Lillian Hellman, of course) on its front page and get you all misty-eyed, ready to buy war bonds -- or go volunteer to fight the evil Russians. Volunteer someone else's son or daughter or transexual to fight the evil Russians, that is."

Sad but funny; I turned on Fox News this morning (I rarely do that) to see if there were any Ukraine updates; and Geraldo and the rest of the morning crew were doing exactly what you describe. Rah-rah cheerleading when a real war is going on always sets my teeth on edge.

and then they quickly pivoted to how everyone here should be glad to bear some hardship to show Putin that we are serious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (evAgx)

38 Parents of MI high school shooter to be tried as well.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (UHVv4)

39 The ~~Czechs~~ Ukrainians have oppressed the ~~German~~ Russian minority long enough!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 07:58 AM (EZebt)

40 Ukraine paid Biden when they should have paid Putin. I think that may be the issue at the heart of this invasion.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 07:58 AM (Lec9d)

41 Honk!
https://nitter.net/bennyjohnson/status/
1496992589978824719#m
Spoiler
.
.
.
It's "Amazing Grace".

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 07:58 AM (UHVv4)

42 For a month "Russia is going to invade! Gonna invade! Gonna invade!"

*Russia invades*

Ok Russia invaded. What are we going to do about it?

FJB: I dunno? Sanctions?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 07:58 AM (qnVBz)

43 should be noted that Ukraine back before Trump (and probably even during) - meaning during the Obama/Biden years and probably even now - was an open raging sewer of a corrupt kleptocracy.
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I suspect based on what we know and what it implies that Ukraine is the global money laundry of primary importance to our corrupt officials and corrupt officials the world over. Aid money, NGO money, energy money, military money, financial packages, etc. - lots of opportunities to soak their beaks. Not to mention the human trafficking, which Russia clamped down on but Ukraine did not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

44 Our foreign policy was long stuck in a Cold War mindset, and then it pivoted to general Russia hatred for a variety of reasons.

That is one of the most perverse things. The NATO member politicians are just as oppressive or worse than Putin, these politicians clearly hate their citizens and their country, they do all they can to plunder and make miserable the lives of their subjects. They are even more criminal in their exploitation and robbery of smaller nations. I don't think that Putin was trying to force sodomy and abortion on to African nations as much as NATO nations have been.

Then we have Chy-nah which makes everyone look like choir boys - and instead of opposing their very ambitious goals for world domination (or for that matter Islam), we embrace them and want to be more like them.

Everything is so incredibly perverse.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 07:59 AM (lD3vL)

45 42 FJB: I dunno? Sanctions?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 07:58 AM (qnVBz)

========

But not, like, the good sanctions. The shitty ones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (LvTSG)

46 I thought all three were Hmong but I guess not.

||Three ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd denied the unarmed black man of his civil rights, a jury has found.

The officers were charged with showing "deliberate indifference to [Mr Floyd's] serious medical needs" during the attempted arrest in May 2020.

Tou Thao, 36, J Alexander Kueng, 28, and Thomas Lane, 38, all testified in their own defence in the trial.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (UHVv4)

47 Federal officials have come up with a list of potential replacement names for hundreds of geographic features in three dozen states that include the word "squaw," kicking off a public comment period that will run through late April.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in November formally declared the term derogatory and initiated a process to remove the word from use by the federal government and to replace other existing derogatory place names.
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It's wonderful to see our brave and competent government officials focusing on what matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

48 Today's essay is great, JJ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

49 The type of sanctions imposed upon Saddam after Kuwait. That really showed him. Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (PEevu)

50 The most high-profile Black Lives Matter group in the nation spent almost a quarter of its donations in 2020 on consultants and lawyers, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) submitted a statement of its revenue and expenses for the year while applying for tax-exempt, nonprofit status in August 2020.

IRS documents obtained by DailyMail.com show the group blew $12.7million out of the $60million in donations it received following the outcry over George Floyd's death on 'professional fees.'

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:01 AM (UHVv4)

51 As I mentioned in the pixy thread, my wife had a friend who has family in Ukraine. The government put limits on ATM withdrawals and gasoline. The family was going to flee to Poland, but could not get enough gas or cash to make the trip.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:01 AM (qnVBz)

52 Prayers for those Ukrainian soldiers' families.. They died bravely, but imo pointlessly.
No dying until you can take at least one enemy with you.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (lCui1)

53 As to the MSM InfoWhores and the NeverTs, who just cannot stop themselves returning again and again to their own vomit, and STILL blaming DJT for Vlad's fondling of his own asshole in order to comfort himself about the loss of the old Soviet paradigm: "Rip their fucking throats out, and stuff them in your trash compactor" (Gordon Gekko)

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (8m/Xb)

54 $12.7million on 'professional fees.'

That is a lot of hookers and blow

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (PEevu)

55 51 As I mentioned in the pixy thread, my wife had a friend who has family in Ukraine. The government put limits on ATM withdrawals and gasoline. The family was going to flee to Poland, but could not get enough gas or cash to make the trip.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:01 AM (qnVBz)

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*furiously taking notes*
-The Elite, everywhere

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (LvTSG)

56 I got nothing.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (ZcDSg)

57 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (arJlL)

58 All I hope for is that Hunter got his money out of the Ukraine before the shit hit the fan. Wouldn't want the big guy to miss out on his share.

Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (RMfpC)

59 Gov. Romney, Im glad that you recognize that al Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago when you were asked whats the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia. The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold Wars been over for 20 years.

Is it too early for a FUCK YOU BHUSSEIN??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (yrol0)

60 53 "Rip their fucking throats out, and stuff them in your trash compactor" (Gordon Gekko)
Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (8m/Xb)

=========

"What's a trash compactor?"
-AOC, the light of the Democrat future

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (LvTSG)

61 Thanks JJ ! Have a good weekend !

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (arJlL)

62 The government kept making assurances that Russia was not going to invade. It looks like this was designed to keep the population placated so they did not have the resources to flee ahead of time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (qnVBz)

63 48 Today's essay is great, JJ.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

High praise indeed! We'll talk Tuesday.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (tcZnS)

65 There's a website that as of yesterday had these totals for military losses in Ukraine:

- Russia - 44 losses, of which: 19 destroyed, 5 damaged, 20 captured
- Ukraine - 49 losses, of which: 22 destroyed, 3 damaged, 5 abandoned, 17 captured

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (BFigT)

66 There's an Army veteran from Wisconsin married to a Ukrainian man stuck over there.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (45fpk)

67 "What's a trash compactor?"
-AOC, the light of the Democrat future

"Get in, we'll show you." International Brotherhood of Trash Compactor Workers #236

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (PEevu)

68 Oh yes, Biden is ready to name his SCOTUS nominee.

Can't wait.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (ZcDSg)

69 54 $12.7million on 'professional fees.'

That is a lot of hookers and blow
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:02 AM (PEevu)

And they waisted a shit ton load

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (yrol0)

70 I just saw a headline but couldn't pull up the story. It said that Jim Inhofe, one of the four senators who couldn't bother to show up to defeat funding the vaccine mandates, is going to resign. Good.

Posted by: abbynormal at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (Xpj5t)

71 50 Let me guess. .. . . .. . .fees paid to the CLITton Crime Family Foundation's staff

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (8m/Xb)

72 *waves to AllenG*

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (PEevu)

73 Evidently, perhaps, maybe: 7 of 11 US-funded (NIH/Dept of Defense) biolabs have been hit in Ukraine.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxnzdms

Hey, If we can have biolabs in Wuhan, why not in Ukraine, right?

Posted by: Flyover at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (Rbu5d)

74 There's a website that as of yesterday had these totals for military losses in Ukraine:

- Russia - 44 losses, of which: 19 destroyed, 5 damaged, 20 captured
- Ukraine - 49 losses, of which: 22 destroyed, 3 damaged, 5 abandoned, 17 captured
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:04 AM (BFigT)
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Based on the language, this looks like equipment. Any idea what kind? Losing 50 trucks but destroying 20 aircraft and 30 artillery pieces does not make for equality even though both militaries would have lost 50 pieces of equipment...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

75 Joey Bidet will nominate Cardi B ...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (PEevu)

76 show Putin that we are serious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 07:57 AM (evAgx)

Buy War Bonds (at negative interest)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (6FeV1)

77 and then they quickly pivoted to how everyone here should be glad to bear some hardship to show Putin that we are serious.

I said this in the pixy thread - just as I predicted yesterday, the local rag's "sound off" column is packed stem to stern with asshole Dems demanding everyone support the pant-shitting retard who's 'standing up' to evil Drumpf's bestest buddy Putin.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (2JVJo)

78 67 . . . .killin' me. . . .absolutely killin' me. Props.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (8m/Xb)

79 They should rename everything with "Squaw" in it to "Squat". Then you only have to charge one letter on the signs.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (vrz2I)

80 Thank you so much, JJ, for all the hard work you do.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (DuiUU) at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (DuiUU)

81 Joint Chiefs still convinced that incorrect pronouns and transphobia are the greatest threats to our nation's security?

Top. Men!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (3D/fK)

82 75 Joey Bidet will nominate Cardi B ...
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (PEevu)

No joke, but she'd probably be less bad and destructive to the country than the other candidates...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (exHjb)

83 I suspect based on what we know and what it implies that Ukraine is the global money laundry of primary importance to our corrupt officials and corrupt officials the world over. Aid money, NGO money, energy money, military money, financial packages, etc. - lots of opportunities to soak their beaks. Not to mention the human trafficking, which Russia clamped down on but Ukraine did not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

Putin has also expressed concerns about US bioweapons labs in Ukraine. My problem with this whole issue is that, while I wouldn't necessarily believe Putin if he told me that the sky was blue, I absolutely don't believe a single thing said by the western media.

Just glad I don't live in eastern Europe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (JMENi)

84 Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (PEevu)

Mornin'

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (tcZnS)

85 the hard, logical reason I am very pessimistic that Kiev can stand for long is the basic vulnerability of all modern cities, which we have discussed here often. If electric power and supplies can be shut down, no modern city can stand for more than a few days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (evAgx)

86 It looks bleak and I suspect that we are going to look back on events of this week and next in world-historical terms.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (Hica+)

87 77 I said this in the pixy thread - just as I predicted yesterday, the local rag's "sound off" column is packed stem to stern with asshole Dems demanding everyone support the pant-shitting retard who's 'standing up' to evil Drumpf's bestest buddy Putin.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (2JVJo)

==========

Are they volunteering their children for military action? If this Ukraine business is that serious, they're willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:07 AM (LvTSG)

88 now,

can we invade Mexico ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:08 AM (us2H3)

89 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:08 AM (n2LT3)

90 Is it too early for a FUCK YOU BHUSSEIN??
Posted by: rhennigantx

Too early? I said that as soon as he said it. Little did we know, Russia was a business partner of TFG and the FAB.

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

91 "I do believe that the China Initiative was driven by genuine national security concerns. But I'm also mindful that the department must maintain the trust of the people whom we serve."

From your own lips, jackass...

How much are your Chinese masters, whom you serve so well, paying you to frolic among our state secrets and national security data?

Cuz there is absolutely no way this serves the interest of any American citizen...well, at least those not on the Chinese Corruptocrat Welfare Initiative.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2022 08:08 AM (5NkmN)

92 *waves to AllenG*
Posted by: Anna Puma

(sniffs armpits....shrugs)

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (arJlL)

93 Did Biden have a national address last night. I haven't read anything about it. Maybe I read the wrong MSM news, or something. Or did he just read something off the prompter and walk out as usual.

Posted by: Colin at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (RMfpC)

94 I predict that this Ukraine business will have as much of an effect of world geopolitics as Erdogan's consolidation of power in Turkey a few years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

95 Joint Chiefs still convinced that incorrect pronouns and transphobia are the greatest threats to our nation's security?

Yep Sec. of Karen Darth Lloyd's 69th Flaming Homosexual bloomer brigade is ready to go and give Putin such a vicious slap...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (PEevu)

96 IRS documents obtained by DailyMail.com show the group blew $12.7million out of the $60million in donations it received following the outcry over George Floyd's death on 'professional fees.'
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:01 AM (UHVv4)

Professional fees, aka friends and relatives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (JMENi)

97 Americans are far less prosperous and secure than before the pandemic and would have been again with the V-shaped recovery that preceded the election. High energy costs are at the root of the inflation that hurts middle and working-class families, and that will only worsen as of this morning. Ukrainians are fighting for their fundamental freedom to choose their own government and may have to lay down their lives for it. And Mitt Romney and other fair-weather Republicans share in the blame for that.

Is it too early for a FUCK MITTENS??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)

98
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (aVRv1)

99 I would like to suggest that NATO make immediate plans to seize and occupy Kaliningrad as a suitable initial response.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:10 AM (EZebt)

100 can we invade Mexico ?

We already did that and then had to force them to accept half of it back

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:10 AM (PEevu)

101 looks mostly peacefl to me

mostly

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:10 AM (us2H3)

102 the local rag's "sound off" column is packed stem to stern with asshole Dems

I guarantee every local rag has the same rants submitted from the same IP address.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:10 AM (qnVBz)

103 That is one of the most perverse things. The NATO member politicians are just as oppressive or worse than Putin, these politicians clearly hate their citizens and their country, they do all they can to plunder and make miserable the lives of their subjects.
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Putin's no saint. He's a hard man who had done some very bad things for the sake of his country. But compared to some of the Elites running our country and others, he's a goddamned boy scout.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

104 97 Is it too early for a FUCK MITTENS??

It's never too early. Mutt Rombley is a Fvcking disgrace 24-7 365

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 08:11 AM (HsAzN)

105 I thought we were tired of "foreign wars." I'm sure I saw a memo about that sometime recently... Or was that only when they could be used as a bludgeon against Republicans?

It gets so confusing.

More seriously, I find myself a bit flummoxed over our current military situation. Once upon a time, I would have recommended my son join the Air Force or Navy (either direct enlistment, or going to one of the academies) when he finished high school, on account of he wants to be an engineer (he's not sure what specific *type* of engineer, yet, but also he's only almost 15). With everything that's happened both to our military and in society over the last 12 - 16 years, I really don't think I can make that recommendation anymore.

And, a child and brother to veterans, that makes me a little sad.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:11 AM (tcZnS)

106 That is boneless pork rectum MIttels Rombley

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:11 AM (PEevu)

107 As I mentioned in the pixy thread, my wife had a friend who has family in Ukraine. The government put limits on ATM withdrawals and gasoline. The family was going to flee to Poland, but could not get enough gas or cash to make the trip.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:01 AM (qnVBz)

The War on Cash explained. Sorta.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2022 08:12 AM (5NkmN)

108 89 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:08 AM (n2LT3)

In a fog of war city environment, if you don't care how many of your own people you lose, it's a strategy. You demoralize the enemy and possibly even slow or stop him using the resources you have vs the ones you don't. I mean, if you're a 19 year old Russian driving the tank, are you really not gonna have nightmares forever if folks try this strategy? Are you really gonna keep going?

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:12 AM (exHjb)

109 just as I predicted yesterday, the local rag's "sound off" column is packed stem to stern with asshole Dems demanding everyone support the pant-shitting retard who's 'standing up' to evil Drumpf's bestest buddy Putin.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:06 AM (2JVJo)
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I'd like to see a breakdown of how many of them are military families and how many of them have defense stocks as primary components of their portfolios and how many of them majored in International Relations or Political Science.

A Venn Diagram might be necessary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

110 89 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:08 AM (n2LT3)

What the fuck is this, "Panfilov's 28?"

Good movie, BTW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:12 AM (s2VJv)

111 109 I'd like to see a breakdown of how many of them are military families and how many of them have defense stocks as primary components of their portfolios and how many of them majored in International Relations or Political Science.

A Venn Diagram might be necessary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

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They're all Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

112 The Hungarians in 1956 were reduced to tossing Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (PEevu)

113 Whomever the drooling asshat nominates for the Supreme Court, enough GOP scum will vote for them so it won't matter how terrible they are. Let's just get it over with because the most radical, anti-Constitution, anti-American, chip on her shoulder black woman is going to be confirmed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

114 ... the Lon Horiuchi Brigade of the Dept. of Education's military-equipped SWAT team (oh, yes, gentle reader; you'd be surprised how many federal agencies have them) ...

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The weaponized USPS will give new meaning to the term "going postal."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (7rP4D)

115 > Based on the language, this looks like equipment. Any idea what kind? Losing 50 trucks but destroying 20 aircraft and 30 artillery pieces does not make for equality even though both militaries would have lost 50 pieces of equipment...
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https://tinyurl.com/mwuurbw8

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (BFigT)

116 Is it too early for a FUCK YOU BHUSSEIN??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (yrol0)
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Is it too early for a FUCK MITTENS??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)
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Never.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

117 It's a balmy 4 degrees in NoCO. I should have put on silk thermals to take the garbage out. Almost got frostbit.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

118 I've never been a fan of the whole "chicken hawk" argument. We're not republican rome. We're not Klingons.

Their decisions are bad because they are bad decisions. The politicians are bad because they are bad people.
"Skin in the game" has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (6FeV1)

119 104 97 I would still pay real money to know how much Shit Rumney, and his brat spawn, and his other Corrupt as Hell McConnell-like friends, and their brat spawn, have lost--or are about to lose--in their cloaked Eastern European ventures.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (8m/Xb)

120 Ukes claim they've shot down six Russian aircraft.
Posted by: andycanuck

Ukes claim one pilot shot down six in air to air combat. Calling him The Ghost of Kyiv.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (Hica+)

121 "Once upon a time, I would have recommended my son join the Air Force or Navy"

Went thru the same thing with #1 son during the dogeater's term. We are both glad he did not choose that path.

Posted by: fd at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (vrz2I)

122 116 Is it too early for a FUCK YOU BHUSSEIN??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:03 AM (yrol0)
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Is it too early for a FUCK MITTENS??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)

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"Everything below the waist, is kaput!"
-Obama and Mitt, in a stirring duet

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

123
in random observation news, I just realized that the intern at work looks exactly like a 21 year old Joe Scarborough

as Mr. T would say "I pity the fool..."

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (aVRv1)

124 "Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and his Chi-com libertine Fang Fang are going to crack open the champagne over this one. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped the Trump-era China Initiative, created to go after Chinese spies. . ."

This may be the straw that broke the camels back (wait am I allowed to use that expression?)
for Putin to show our true weakness.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, didn't the lunies Impeach our President saying he was holding the Arms for Ukraine back until Zelensky investigated Biden.
Great point JJ - which trump gave them anyway....

Fog of war has many of us out here getting a severe case of whiplash as we watch this happen live on Social Media and EVERYONE has an opinion.

Posted by: Marlene at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (2oHWb)

125 Whomever the drooling asshat nominates for the Supreme Court, enough GOP scum will vote for them so it won't matter how terrible they are. Let's just get it over with because the most radical, anti-Constitution, anti-American, chip on her shoulder black woman is going to be confirmed.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)
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I wonder how Lindsey Graham will vote?

Actually, I don't.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (EZebt)

126 120 Ukes claim they've shot down six Russian aircraft.
Posted by: andycanuck

Ukes claim one pilot shot down six in air to air combat. Calling him The Ghost of Kyiv.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:14 AM (Hica+)

There is real video of something Russian blowing up in the sky and falling on an apartment building in pieces...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (exHjb)

127 120 Calling him The Ghost of Kyiv.

Take down 6 fighter jets, he's earned a cool nickname.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (HsAzN)

128 mean, if you're a 19 year old Russian driving the tank, are you really not gonna have nightmares forever if folks try this strategy? Are you really gonna keep going?
Posted by: Nova local

Russians been watching thousands of Russian speakers die at the hands of Ukie army over the last 8 years. Are they going to keep goin? Yes. They will keep going.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (n2LT3)

129 70 I just saw a headline but couldn't pull up the story. It said that Jim Inhofe, one of the four senators who couldn't bother to show up to defeat funding the vaccine mandates, is going to resign. Good.
Posted by: abbynormal at February 25, 2022 08:05 AM (Xpj5t)

Found it on Politico. He's 87 years old; the fact that he hasn't been showing up and is now willing to resign in time for a November election for his seat strongly suggests that he's dying, and all of the insiders know it.

Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? That's a big part of how Arizona's Senate seats got so screwed up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (evAgx)

130 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

131 One last rant:

Why in Hell are we all exercised over Putin extending Russia political influence in Ukraine?

The Davos/WEF crowd has toppled Western civilization, capitulated in every possible way to Chy-nah, killed millions of people, destroyed trillions of dollars in wealth, transferred trillions more to the multi-billionaire oligarchs and has turned at least one generation into neurotic sexually depraved intellectually bereft freaks.

We see Australia setting up concentration camps for the "unvaxxed", Canada seizing bank accounts and property without any due process, jailing J6 political dissidents, destroying jobs over a worthless medical issue.

How, pray tell, is whatever Putin has up his sleeve anything worse - so bad, that we have to suffer yet another round of totally avoidable energy crises, food shortages and runaway inflation that will be crammed down on us?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (lD3vL)

132 putatively (emphasis on the first two syllables)

ISWYDT.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

133 And in any case where the fuck is Europe, western and especially eastern? Where the fuck is NATO, and not just the US contingent? This is your fucking, miserable, blood-soaked continent.

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Saw where Vox Day was speculating that not ony might this lead to the demise of NATO, but possibly the EU. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (7rP4D)

134 liveuamap also has an interactive map of the Ukraine with notable events pinned. Photos, video, etc. is there.

Note: the site is periodically overwhelmed and may take a few tries to load.

https://tinyurl.com/4thwf4y4

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (BFigT)

135 https://tinyurl.com/mwuurbw8
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:13 AM (BFigT)
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Shoulda clicked the link. Thank you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

136 No idea who came into the market yesterday afternoon and bought so massively. But whoever it was made a huge bet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (Lec9d)

137 125 I wonder how Lindsey Graham will vote?

Actually, I don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (EZebt)

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He's one of only two left in the Senate who voted for Sotomayor. The other is Collins. The other seven are out.

Just a footnote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (LvTSG)

138 Happy Friday, all. I'm ready to stop with the interesting times and go back to my boring life.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (4olE8)

139 117 Hey, at least you're finally getting a little precip. I STILL can't believe how Boulder County burned during December. . . . and the 3 times I've seen the upper Colorado River in the last 4 months have been so depressing. . . . . . . .well, on second thought, I don't have much sorrow over the thought of Libs in Boulder burning to death--even in a rainstorm.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (8m/Xb)

140 If the junta had any intention of joining this war, the time to do so was three weeks ago, before it started.

Which means, given their corrupt malice and stupidity, that we'll probably have boots on the ground two days after the Russians consolidate their positions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

141 That is boneless pork rectum MIttels Rombley
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:11 AM (PEevu)

***

I'd bet that Mittens has had a bone in his rectum plenty of times

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 25, 2022 08:18 AM (flINI)

142 Has Putin sold out his country for money? The Clintons have. Multiple times. I would wager Bill sent the military to kill for his own personal fortune. So, who is worse?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:18 AM (qnVBz)

143 Speaking of what ails our Air Force, recently in Wyoming this *cough* suspiciously contrived *cough* cry of RAYSISMZ!!! IN CHEYENNE!!! from a certain Colonel Catherine Barrington, who I might add totally isn't a useless woke walking liability, has sullied the community with emanations of raysismz against minority airmen of color who would never tell a lie.
So it is written in the US NEWS which is not at all a pile of dreck.
https://tinyurl.com/v2uxpynx

Posted by: The Wind Cries 'Rayciss' at February 25, 2022 08:18 AM (yjmHr)

144 I bet there is not one single UN blue helmet within 500Km of Ukraine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:18 AM (PEevu)

145 That story about Jim Inhofe reminds me of how stupid we are to allow a pack of geriatric 80-somethings to be in so many top leadership positions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:18 AM (evAgx)

146 The family was going to flee to Poland, but could not get enough gas or cash to make the trip.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Jeebus

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 25, 2022 08:19 AM (lCui1)

147 128 mean, if you're a 19 year old Russian driving the tank, are you really not gonna have nightmares forever if folks try this strategy? Are you really gonna keep going?
Posted by: Nova local

Russians been watching thousands of Russian speakers die at the hands of Ukie army over the last 8 years. Are they going to keep goin? Yes. They will keep going.
Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:15 AM (n2LT3)

Maybe. A lot of folks think they can do something til it happens...and a lot of folks think the reverse.

Plus, it does tell Russia every last person is willing to fight, so this won't be fast and easy - it will be brutal, even if they win the 1st "battle". It's reminiscent of the kamikaze Japanese, and we ended up nuking them b/c we could no longer stomach the fight any other way after the years or horror and resource/people losses...Russia probably can't deploy that strategy b/c of location...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:19 AM (exHjb)

148 How, pray tell, is whatever Putin has up his sleeve anything worse - so bad, that we have to suffer yet another round of totally avoidable energy crises, food shortages and runaway inflation that will be crammed down on us?

Two reasons, one good and one ~~bad~~ real.

Good reason: we (NATO/"the West") convinced Ukraine to give up its nukes on the promise (implicit if not explicit) that they wouldn't need them because we would protect them. It would be nice if we lived up to our word internationally at least once in my lifetime.

~~Bad~~ Real reason: "SQUIRREL!"

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:19 AM (tcZnS)

149 136 Yeah, and did you notice how it was done in quiet ebbs and flows, with a fairly flat volume? Oooops, sorry, foreign exchanges.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:19 AM (8m/Xb)

150 That's a big part of how Arizona's Senate seats got so screwed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (evAgx)
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That, and Martha McSally

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (Lec9d)

151 I wonder how Lindsey Graham will vote?

Actually, I don't.

=

After he puts on his fake "show of concern," he'll fall all over himself to support the president's prerogative.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

152 "Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? "

Remember Elijah Cummings(D)?

Democratic lawmaker from Maryland who died IN HOSPICE, while Maryland residents believed he was healthy and working!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (3D/fK)

153 BoJo is calling for Russia to be ejected from the SWIFT payment system.

Krautistan is saying "Nah, brah."

Given that their shiny new chancellor is an actual Marxist, not suprising.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (bW8dp)

154 139 117 Hey, at least you're finally getting a little precip.

I like Glenn (Insty's) line: "Less depth than a puddle in a Colorado summer." Ain't that the truth. Last year was one of the dryest on record. Thank God we didn't have any more wildfires up this way last year. The year before it got downright scary.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (HsAzN)

155 He's one of only two left in the Senate who voted for Sotomayor. The other is Collins. The other seven are out.

Just a footnote.

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Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

--Dancing Mitt Romney

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (n2LT3)

156 Friendly reminder:

We're fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

157 136 No idea who came into the market yesterday afternoon and bought so massively. But whoever it was made a huge bet.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (Lec9d)

Massive short covering at the 10% down mark for the year...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (exHjb)

158 In truth, I'd rather have a few hundred thousand or even million Ukrainians than the dregs of Latin America

But that runs the risk of importing foreigners that love this country, want to assimilate and think communists need to go swimming in a wood chipper.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (4olE8)

159 136 No idea who came into the market yesterday afternoon and bought so massively. But whoever it was made a huge bet.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:17 AM (Lec9d)

Soros, Pelosi, Blackrock.

I hope they lose their shirts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

160 Saw where Vox Day was speculating that not ony might this lead to the demise of NATO, but possibly the EU. NTTAWWT.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (7rP4D)

I'm reminded that the unholy, unroman empire managed to limp along until Napoleon finally put an end to it. In a strange way, the EU is a kind of replay of that nonsense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (evAgx)

161 But that runs the risk of importing foreigners that love this country, want to assimilate and think communists need to go swimming in a wood chipper.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2022 08:21 AM (4olE

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So far I don't see any downsides to this plan...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

162 Too busy importing Muslims and letting your thousand-year-old innate anti-Semitism boil up while doing everything possible to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages via post-modern self-flagellation to actually want to do something, I guess.

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May Germany's epitaph read: "Killed by a million imported Muslims, and one teenage Swedish 'climate activist' scold -- but mostly one teenage Swedish 'climate activist' scold. How DARE You!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (7rP4D)

163 Yup, the expansion of NATO eastward was an expansion of graft opportunities eastward, not an expansion of defense against Russia, except as an expansion of theft of graft opportunities from Russia.

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (5m+OQ)

164 148 Bad Real reason: "SQUIRREL!"
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:19 AM (tcZnS)

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It's two parts.

The first is the graft that international NGOs and the US government (and others) have established in Ukraine. Putin is threatening that.

The second is that Biden really needed a boost in the polls. His bellicose treatment of the situation up until a couple of days ago was doing the work he wanted to shore up his approval ratings somewhat. He was doing big, diplomatic things and seemed to be presidential for the first time of his administration. And then it all went to shit.

Does Biden go to war to secure the graft and destroy his approval ratings by actually sending troops to a country half a world away that virtually no American gives a rat's ass about?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

165 BoJo is thrilled that he does not have to explain his maskless parades anymore, and can show his heroic side.

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (n2LT3)

166 How, pray tell, is whatever Putin has up his sleeve anything worse - so bad, that we have to suffer yet another round of totally avoidable energy crises, food shortages and runaway inflation that will be crammed down on us?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (lD3vL)

Russia (and the fear of Russian militarism) has loomed in the American consciousness for two lifetimes now. It's also been a long time since one developed nation full- scale invaded another. So it's understandable this story would gather attention, even before you factor in the possibility (likelihood?) of our demented politicians dragging us directly into the middle of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (6FeV1)

167 Germany is putting the brakes on any sanctions because Putin can turn off the gas at any time. If Germany annoys Russia then guess what Germany freezes much like what is predicted to happen with the Norse gods and Valhalla.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (PEevu)

168 152 "Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? "

Remember Elijah Cummings(D)?

Democratic lawmaker from Maryland who died IN HOSPICE, while Maryland residents believed he was healthy and working!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (3D/fK)

*sound of Edith Wilson setting the Wayback Machine for 1917!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

169 They're all Mary Cloggenstein.

I live in Maskachusetts. I am astonished any time I meet anyone to the right of Stalin.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (2JVJo)

170 Good Friday morning, horde!

Thanks for the news, JJ. I'm taking the day off, so I had a chance to read the whole thing for a change.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (OX9vb)

171 For Russia to lose 6 operational fighters is a big deal. Considering they have trouble keeping their fleet in running order.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (qnVBz)

172 > Democratic lawmaker from Maryland who died IN HOSPICE, while Maryland residents believed he was healthy and working!

That's nothing. Dopey Joe has been brain-dead since day one, and he's sitting in the Oval Office right now.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (bW8dp)

173 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.

Sounds like the exact same government organizers for 2020s Riots Around America Tour.

Worked pretty well then. Got rid of Trump. Using their geometric logic it should get rid of Putin too.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (lD3vL)

174 Calling him The Ghost of Kyiv.

Take down 6 fighter jets, he's earned a cool nickname.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Even if it's only one, it's a mind fuck on your opponent.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (Hica+)

175 Talk big and carry a limp stick.

Bidenism 101.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (6FeV1)

176 169 They're all Mary Cloggenstein.

I live in Maskachusetts. I am astonished any time I meet anyone to the right of Stalin.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (2JVJo)

=========

*waves*

*awaits visit to Free America from good friend*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

177 Good morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

178 Morning everyone. Fuck Mitt Romney will a rusty chainsaw.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (nxdel)

179 141 Yes, indeed, Dirt Chute Romney is Barack Insane Odildo's bitch, mounted and splurged.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (8m/Xb)

180 23
This is something the tyrants exploit - better Red (Marxist-Communist) than Dead. So in one sense the Ukraine people know Freedom and Liberty far more than post-Westerners.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 07:53 AM (lD3vL)

Hence, my quoting Momma's desire for the Soviets to have rolled all the way west in '45. Maybe now, the attitude of the French might be much more in line with that of, say, the Hungarians or Poles. Or Ukies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (s2VJv)

181
That's nothing. Dopey Joe has been brain-dead since day one, and he's sitting in the Oval Office right now.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM

well, nor the actual Oval Office

they built a TV stage across the street what looks just like the Oval Office

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (aVRv1)

182 [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's [junta] is looking to divert United States Border Patrol agents from their mission at the U.S.-Mexico border to send them overseas "to assist" those fleeing from Ukraine amidst Russia's invasion, a new report states.

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It's official: EVERY headline is now indistinguishable from a Babylon Bee headline.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (7rP4D)

183 For Russia to lose 6 operational fighters is a big deal. Considering they have trouble keeping their fleet in running order.

Suffering Gell-Mann Amnesia?

You actually believe the Enemedia today when they lie to you all the time?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:25 AM (lD3vL)

184 All right, time to make another cup of tea and get to work on edits. Also, since I'm going to give up the HQ for Lent and become a lo-fo mofo, I also have to do some research on a Hollywood scandal for a post next Tuesday morning.

May see you all when the Pondering Primate pops up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 25, 2022 08:25 AM (2JVJo)

185 can tell things are going bad for ukraine; the fox news folks are switching from the "kyiv" pronunciation to "kiev".

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 08:25 AM (OOpLg)

186 The roads are a sheet of ice near me, looks like I won't be going anywhere today.

What is left to say about The Meat Puppet that's been installed in WH, he's a decrepit, vicious jackass.

And we're stuck with him for the near term.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2022 08:25 AM (sAo4d)

187 That's nothing. Dopey Joe has been brain-dead since day one, and he's sitting in the Oval Office right now.

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In large part because of Ukraine and people who used Ukraine for coordination.

Which is why I don't give a single sh*t about what happens in Ukraine.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:25 AM (cUuEU)

188 Air to air kills are nice but the Ukrainian air force really needs to bomb into oblivion the supplies in the Russian rear areas.

As one Warsaw Pact/NATO joke went. After the Soviets stopped in France one general asked another, "how did the air war go?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:26 AM (PEevu)

189 ..... ?????? Border Patrol? What the candy-coated FUCK is wrong with these mutants?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

190 Does Biden go to war to secure the graft and destroy his approval ratings by actually sending troops to a country half a world away that virtually no American gives a rat's ass about?

I don't think he'll make the choice on purpose, whatever it is. He'll keep talking "sanctions" and putting troops in places that *seem* like he's trying to help but are really just symbolic.

Then either some idiot with an itchy trigger finger will start WW3 or he won't. But it won't be because of any deliberate choice by Brandon. Because making a choice would require him to make a sacrifice that costs *him* something, and I don't believe Slow Joe has the moral fiber necessary to do things that carry a personal cost.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:26 AM (tcZnS)

191 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.

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Wear at least two masks. Stay safe!

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:26 AM (cUuEU)

192 > they built a TV stage across the street what looks just like the Oval Office

Ah... tired of cleaning his "accidents" off the antique furniture, maybe?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:26 AM (bW8dp)

193 Joe Biden's [junta] is looking to divert United States Border Patrol agents from their mission at the U.S.-Mexico border to send them overseas "to assist" those fleeing from Ukraine amidst Russia's invasion, a new report states.

Exactly where does that come up in Department of Homeland Security's charter to strip the former United States of its border patrols and put them into military service overseas working on some collapsing nation's "borders"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (lD3vL)

194 First order of business of the Republican Congress should be a bill disbanding all of these federal swat teams and auctioning off their weapons and ammo.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (m/Gc2)

195 194 First order of business of the Republican Congress should be a bill disbanding all of these federal swat teams and auctioning off their weapons and ammo.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (m/Gc2)

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*veto*
-Joe Biden

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

196 "Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? "

My father my father my father my father my father my father my father.....

- Backfat McRibsauce

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

197 The Hungarians in 1956 were reduced to tossing Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks.
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And committing flagrant fouls in men's water polo.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1Ca8P65IUkM

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (UHVv4)

198 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec11m

The WH strategy is to breeze a Supreme Court nominee right through during lots of distractions. No one will have time to scrutinize them. It also shows their focus is not Ukraine.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

199 $6 billion, even after Biden skimmed off his cut, isn't chump change so why the hell are we not seeing Russky tanks burning and their planes tumbling out of the sky, like they did when the Afghanis took aim at them with probably much less money and in much more primitive conditions?

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Out: "Follow the money."
In: "Follow the graft."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (7rP4D)

200 Why not send an expeditionary force of meter maids to put tickets on the brush guards of Russian tanks parked illegally? The hell kind of slackwitted jerkoffs think of this shit, let alone say it out loud....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (6FeV1)

201 168 152 "Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? "

Remember Elijah Cummings(D)?

Democratic lawmaker from Maryland who died IN HOSPICE, while Maryland residents believed he was healthy and working!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:20 AM (3D/fK)

*sound of Edith Wilson setting the Wayback Machine for 1917!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

man, that's fucked up

Posted by: Woody Wilson at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (us2H3)

202 How, pray tell, is whatever Putin has up his sleeve anything worse - so bad, that we have to suffer yet another round of totally avoidable energy crises, food shortages and runaway inflation that will be crammed down on us?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:16 AM (lD3vL)

Putin's not diverse at all!!!

One, he doesn't look like me? Because that would be so-o-o-o exciting if someone who looks like me took over the Ukraine and made it diverse? I mean, that would be wonderful!

And The Russians? Please. Have you seen them? White Supremacy Central? A white man army, ugh! That cannot be our future?

Because the Ukraine are all genders and races and people who look like me? EEEEEEEE! They are so-o-o diverse! We must help them?

#RainbowUkraine

Posted by: Amazon's "War of the Rings" Influencer at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (5NkmN)

203 If the story of the Uke pilot is true, it's similar to the Israeli pilot who downed 6 or maybe more in one sortie. During an interview, he said he used all his sidewinders or whatever. Guy interviewing asks if that was when he headed home. Pilot said, Nah, still had internal guns, kept hunting.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (lz5hY)

204 194 First order of business of the Republican Congress should be a bill disbanding all of these federal swat teams and auctioning off their weapons and ammo.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (m/Gc2)

Nah, send them to Poland right now - anyone who won't/can't go gets laid off permanently...leave the folks on the border (who they are threatening to send) right where they are...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (exHjb)

205 Hey horde

What should I give a pastor who is doing a memorial service for a sister in law and her husband.?

thanks

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

206 The WH strategy is to breeze a Supreme Court nominee right through during lots of distractions.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE

Posted by: runner at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (n2LT3)

207 According to The Script on Invasions, the United States will eventually have to give a deadline to Russia to leave Ukraine.

This is usually followed by the classic "Or Else."

In Kuwait, the US drew a Line in The Sand. Get out by blah-blah-blah or else. . .

Wondering right now who is in charge of drawing up the Line in the Snow for Biden right now?

Incoherence and word salads are not foreign policy.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (yRved)

208 205 Hey horde
What should I give a pastor who is doing a memorial service for a sister in law and her husband.?
thanks
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

==========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

209 What should I give a pastor who is doing a memorial service for a sister in law and her husband.?

thanks

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

$150

Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

210 The weaponized USPS will give new meaning to the term "going postal."
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We're from the Dead Letter Office... signed, sealed, and delivered.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (UHVv4)

211 "just as I predicted yesterday, the local rag's "sound off" column is packed stem to stern with asshole Dems demanding everyone support the pant-shitting retard who's 'standing up' to evil Drumpf's bestest buddy Putin.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing "

I really don't care about the Ukraine much, sort of think it is Russians business. But I might be inclined to vaguely support the president/military if I wasn't very high on their list of threats to the country, number one actually or possibly two after climate change Am I supposed to root for the camp guards too?

Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (MxEKc)

212 207 According to The Script on Invasions, the United States will eventually have to give a deadline to Russia to leave Ukraine.

This is usually followed by the classic "Or Else."

Remember Obama's Red Line to Assad?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

213 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

ISWYDT

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (tcZnS)

214 Maybe if you cared about securing the Ukraine borders, you should have FUCKING DONE SOMETHING instead of dicking about making empty statements and waiting for the invasion you claimed was imminent.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

215 *considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

DVD or Blue Ray?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

216 > *sound of Edith Wilson setting the Wayback Machine for 1917!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

Sometimes that works in our favor, though.

How long was RBG circling the drain? If she'd stepped down in Obama's administration, we'd likely have another hardline communist on the court rather than the semi-useless squishes we've actually got. Useless > actively hostile.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (bW8dp)

217 Media campaign to soften up the public for the inevitable -- US troops in Ukraine. Its horrifying what is happening to the Ukrainians; it goes without saying.

Stick to the facts, not feelings, though.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

218 the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off.

John Harwood's evidence-free rant calls itself 'reporting', as XiNN projects Biden's repeated failures on Trump. Again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (5d3Oo)

219 $150
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

I was thinking 200 to 300

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

220 well, nor the actual Oval Office

they built a TV stage across the street what looks just like the Oval Office
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 25, 2022 08:24 AM (aVRv1)
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It's not like FJB can tell the difference...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (YIVH2)

221 Calling him The Ghost of Kyiv.

Take down 6 fighter jets, he's earned a cool nickname.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Even if it's only one, it's a mind fuck on your opponent.
Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:23 AM (Hica+)

According to the equipment loss list, Russia has lost 3 aircraft. One was a transport and one was on the ground. Assuming this is true, the "Ghost of Kyiv" might be a bit of propaganda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (JMENi)

222 The new postal trucks will be made by Lockheed, fully armored with a 50 cal mount on the roof.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (qnVBz)

223 218 the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off.

John Harwood's evidence-free rant calls itself 'reporting', as XiNN projects Biden's repeated failures on Trump. Again.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (5d3Oo)

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I believe this is called a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

224 @JackPosobiec
The WH strategy is to breeze a Supreme Court nominee right through during lots of distractions. No one will have time to scrutinize them. It also shows their focus is not Ukraine.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:27 AM (NpAcC)
++++
No shit. Yesterday, Biden made it very clear that the focus is not on Ukraine. The only thing of substance he said is that:
1. Before, sanctions were threatened but not imposed
2. Now, sanctions are imposed
3. It will take time for sanctions to work and we will have to wait and see

That third point was the important one. The stance he laid out yesterday - which can, of course, change at any time - was that we've done our bit and now will wait for it to pay dividends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

225 Remember how everyone knew McCain was dying, but he refused to resign and blocked an honest vote for his replacement? That's a big part of how Arizona's Senate seats got so screwed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Thanks for the info, Tom. I guess it was too much to hope he was embarrassed into doing it. Ha ha, what am I saying? He's a politician.

Posted by: abbynormal at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (Xpj5t)

226 131 is so far the best post on the thread, hands down, IMO. Accurate, chillingly on point, succinct. Already archived.

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (8m/Xb)

227 There is literally a higher number of confirmed kills in the junta's war against The People than there is against Russia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (6FeV1)

228 Speaking of The Rings of Power

Someone actually went diving into the online public profiles for Amazon's four 'super fans.'

Two are Harry Potter cosplayers with zero Tolkien listed. The BBC announcer has zero mentions of Tolkien. The fourth, the one who wanted to fix Sauron, is supposed to be a world class book reviewer and on his Good Reads profile Tolkien is #55 on his "To Read" list.

Some super fans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (PEevu)

229 205 Hey horde

What should I give a pastor who is doing a memorial service for a sister in law and her husband.?

thanks
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

Are you the official "payer" of the minister? If so, $250-$500 depending where you are (some have official fees already set, so you might want to find out)...

PS - Different religions pay different amounts - Protestants seem to be cheapest average...we paid my mom's priest $300 in early 2020 (pre-inflation) plus the leader of song $150 (we filled the other roles ourselves).

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (exHjb)

230 This insane decision comes shortly after FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that China was "more brazen, more damaging than ever before."

Hey Wray, you know what would have been helpful here? Supporting the one guy in DC who was willing to push China back. You know the guy that appointed you that you should have been grateful to anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:31 AM (ESjRY)

231 can tell things are going bad for ukraine; the fox news folks are switching from the "kyiv" pronunciation to "kiev".

Isn't that precious. The Enemedia is so committed to propaganda and lies that we have to resort to facial tics, micro-expressions and have a water witcher's luck to divine the buried pool of "truth".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (lD3vL)

232 Remember Obama's Red Line to Assad?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

I remember Obama taking a vacation after he said that.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (88xKn)

233 Forget Crack Pipes, a CDC Provider is Promoting "Safe" Fentanyl Use

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What, did they run out of Fish-Tank Cleaner?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (7rP4D)

234 Remember Obama's Red Line to Assad?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

he drew a new line every other day until it looks like a wheres waldo sweater.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (yrol0)

235 just set up a GFM page for a return Bearclaw flight to Ukraine

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (us2H3)

236
Incoherence and word salads are not foreign policy.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (yRved)

That time is now, and now is the time to do what we've been doing. That is what we are doing, now.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

237 Ukie government is nuts. Instead of moving people out out of harm's way they are telling them to make Molotov cocktail and throw themselves on tanks.

By "moving out of the way" you mean surrender?

Would you move out of the way if the Russians invaded your home town?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (yRved)

238 $150
Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

I was thinking 200 to 300
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

Inflation is hitting hard. Still the same as in town?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (qnVBz)

239
#UkraineSuperFan

Posted by: Amazon's "War of the Rings" Influencer at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (5NkmN)

240 . It looks like this was designed to keep the population placated so they did not have the resources to flee ahead of time.

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Makes sense
When the gubmint tells you not to panic, it's time to panic

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (lCui1)

241 229

thanks

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:33 AM (yrol0)

242 I really don't care about the Ukraine much, sort of think it is Russians business. But I might be inclined to vaguely support the president/military if I wasn't very high on their list of threats to the country, number one actually or possibly two after climate change Am I supposed to root for the camp guards too?
Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2022 08:29 AM (MxEKc)
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This is where I am. I and others like me are the ones my government views as the actual threat and the actual terrorists. They go out of their way at every opportunity to make it clear that they hate me, view me as the enemy, and would be happier if I wasn't here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

243 I was thinking 200 to 300

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

That would be not out of line, especially a service for two people. The funeral home Rev worked with always suggested $150 - $200, but this was Dinkytown, Midwest. Your amount would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 25, 2022 08:33 AM (45fpk)

244 Joe needs to establish a "Red Line". Everyone knows Red Lines are key components of foreign policy. In fact, without Red Lines you really can't have a foreign policy.

Posted by: President-For-Life Barrack Obama at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (5d3Oo)

245 History Channel has a Dogfight episode devoted solely to that Israeli pilot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (PEevu)

246 I really don't care about the Ukraine much

If we had a conservative media (that is: the same way the MFM is really just the media arm of Progressive Inc.), it would be hilarious if they just chose not to report on Ukraine at all.

To the extent they have to mention it because of energy prices and such, just say "the turmoil in Eastern Europe" and then go back to reporting on domestic matters. And watch the Liberal Pundits go absolutely insane.

"YoU aReN'T sUppOrTiNg teh TrOOps!!!!!!111eleventy!"

"What support do they need? We're not actually involved in a war right now."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (tcZnS)

247 In my estimation, Trump had no problems with Putin because he basically took the position that Russia and Putin didn't need to be "preemptively neutralized".

Just leave them the f*ck alone, you don't have to be their arch nemesis.

He pretty much stated it:

We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes. But we are not bound to be adversaries.

I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia, from a position of strength, is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won't be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can't make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (KtV/v)

248 Remember Obama's Red Line to Assad?
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

The white line to his nostrils.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (s2VJv)

249 > Woody Wilson

Woody Woodpecker > Woody Hayes > Woody Guthrie > Woody Harrelson > Woody Allen > Woody Wilson

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (bW8dp)

250 History Channel has a Dogfight episode devoted solely to that Israeli pilot.

Awesome episode. Almost made me want to convert to Judaism.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:35 AM (yRved)

251 Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (tcZnS)

Go on. Admit it.

You missed us.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

252 That third point was the important one. The stance he laid out yesterday - which can, of course, change at any time - was that we've done our bit and now will wait for it to pay dividends.

Right. So Puddinghead says Sanctions didn't work so we will apply more sanctions. Now for my nap.

Since they already admitted that they are going to effectively do nothing, why are we exercised over what isn't happening and won't happen? Isn't this a good thing that the Junta isn't going to be materially involved and they will do what they are best at - just mouthing sounds and making gestures?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (lD3vL)

253 the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off.

The FNM keeps saying this. And it makes no sense.

I saw someone on twitter who argued if Trump was president now he'd do nothing to stop Putin. Now, he's wrong, but at least this is a logical argument.

But the argument that Putin got Trump elected to allow him to take Ukraine...and then waited for another president supposedly hostile to him to take over to actually invade makes no sense whatsoever.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

254 Quick AOSHQ procedural question-

I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

255 Remember Obama's Red Line to Assad?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:30 AM (evAgx)

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I always referred to it as his Pink Line. Worked well for Crimea too, which was undoubtedly yet another tell that Putin could expect an easy checkmate in Ukraine with the same birdbrains back in The White House.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (7rP4D)

256
I saw Bushido with Kurosawa open for Cheap Trick at Budokan in '78.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (s2VJv)

257 So far I don't see any downsides to this plan...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

Well, that's because you are a normal person and have no problem with those kind of immigrants.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (4olE8)

258 Call me when you get to White Lines.

*sniff - sniff*

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (yRved)

259 Bearclaw aint exactly Robert E Lee

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (us2H3)

260 The thing with Joey Bidet is to ask who is drawing the line with Joey's penis?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (PEevu)

261 And just in time for the SOTU-

(CNN) - The US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention will announce new metrics to guide Covid-
19 restrictions such as mask-wearing on Friday,
according to a senior CDC official.
CDC will hold a news briefing Friday afternoon to
discuss changes to Covid-19 metrics.
"It's time to shift from panic mode to cautiously moving
forward." a CDC scientist who is involved with the
process told CNN on Thursday. "We still need to be
worried about [Covid] but maybe not all the time.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

262 Good morning, Horde.

Thank you, JJ, for the news, awful as it is. We count on you.

Posted by: Ladyl at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (TdMsT)

263 254 Quick AOSHQ procedural question-

I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

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You're new here, aren't you?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (7rP4D)

264 I live in Maskachusetts. I am astonished any time I meet anyone to the right of Stalin.

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I don't know how you live in that state, MP4. I'm in SC and we might as well be living on another planet. The difference between the people there and here is like night and day. My mental health couldn't make it in that cesspool.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

265 249 > Woody Wilson

Woody Woodpecker > Woody Hayes > Woody Guthrie > Woody Harrelson > Woody Allen > Woody Wilson

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (bW8dp)

Sheriff Woody

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (yrol0)

266 Quick AOSHQ procedural question-

I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon

Knuckleheads ?

Muldoon is channeling his inner Moe.

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (arJlL)

267 252 Since they already admitted that they are going to effectively do nothing, why are we exercised over what isn't happening and won't happen? Isn't this a good thing that the Junta isn't going to be materially involved and they will do what they are best at - just mouthing sounds and making gestures?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (lD3vL)

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Narrative uber alles, comrade.

This is a media created crisis in America (the invasion is real, the American side of the crisis is manufactured) designed to help Biden's flailing poll numbers. He was supposed to have the great bullet point for his SOTU address that Putin didn't invade because of Biden's great diplomacy.

Now that Putin's invaded, the administration seems to just be backing off from it all. The media, dumb as they are, are taking a while to get up to speed about the new direction they're supposed to take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

268 It's kind of amusing to watch the Fecesbook lefties (the ones who haven't unfriended me) going to great lengths to try to blame this on Trump.

Weak sauce indeed. It's pretty obvious that they don't even believe their line of bulllshit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (bW8dp)

269 I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)
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Mandatory. Start shouting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

270 "Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, "

Consider it more of a 'recommendation' than a 'requirement'.

Actually, more like a tradition.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (3D/fK)

271 Got to wag the Ukrainian dog

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (PEevu)

272 254 Quick AOSHQ procedural question-

I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

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REQUIRED.

Snap too it, doctor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

273 morning woody >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

274 The real Oval Office is now Trans-Potties.

Posted by: klaftern at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (taPSh)

275 it would be hilarious if they just chose not to report on Ukraine at all.

My memory is that the invasion of Crimea wasn't a major news item. I think the invasion of Georgia was.

So...it all appears random, unless you assume it is narrative driven

Georgia invasion = embarrass Shrub
Crimea invasion = ignore to protect the Dog Eater
Donbas invasion = cover to the max to change the topic from all of Biden's other failures

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (ESjRY)

276 254 Quick AOSHQ procedural question-

I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics. Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

Then type you comments in caps and bold.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (yrol0)

277 Nigel Farage on CNBC trying to educate the dumbass hosts. They were surprised to learn that we had promised the paranoid Russians that Ukraine would not be in NATO and we would not invite other neighbors in but we did anyway. They are shocked that Nigel thinks Trump trying to negotiate with Putin was a good thing as they run down a list of how Trump was cozy with Putin which allowed Putin to get the courage to do this. Really set back when Nigel said that the unilateral withdrawal from Afghanistan set this up. Seemed to have no idea we never consulted NATO including the UK before we walked out.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (NfEiv)

278 256
I saw Bushido with Kurosawa open for Cheap Trick at Budokan in '78.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (s2VJv)

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Great show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

279 Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:34 AM (tcZnS)

AllenG -- great to see you back! Missed your daily proclamation on burn, scatter, salt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (vL++3)

280 Woody Guthrie

What about Arlo ?

Who names their kid Arlo ?

"How they hangin' ?"

Arlo

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (arJlL)

281 Woody Woodpecker > Woody Hayes > Woody Guthrie > Woody Harrelson > Woody Allen > Woody Wilson

******

Looks like a comprehensive Woody's Round-up

Posted by: Prospector Pete, Jessie and Bullseye at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (m45I2)

282 261 Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

Also known as, loosening the chain by a couple of links.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:39 AM (s2VJv)

283 The Junta sees American voters as a greater threat to them than any foreign country or invasion of foreigners.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (yRved)

284 You forgot Natalie Wood

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (PEevu)

285 In my estimation, Trump had no problems with Putin because he basically took the position that Russia and Putin didn't need to be "preemptively neutralized".

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Granted, I'm no foreign policy expert like Joe Biden, but what was Trump supposed to be doing to Putin in those 4 years of his presidency where Putin wasn't doing anything much to warrant disciplinary action? Was Trump supposed to go in and poke the bear with a stick for no reason?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

286 The Biden disaster train, next stop, Taipei!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (EZebt)

287 I have no particular knowledge or insight regarding eastern Europe and Russian geopolitics.

You don't have to make statements, but understand that 'particular knowledge' is not a prerequisite.

We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (KtV/v)

288 284 You forgot Natalie Wood

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (PEevu)

I knew someone would float that comment!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (yrol0)

289 You forgot Natalie Wood

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (PEevu)

Doesn't float.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

290 "We still need to be
worried about [Covid] but maybe not all the time.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

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So at the VA and other federal properties, expect to have to wear a mask on days having no full moons. SCIENCE! What CAN'T it do?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (7rP4D)

291 Given how much influence both Russia and the Ukraine have had in corrupting our government I would be happy if they both lost.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (BFigT)

292 285 Granted, I'm no foreign policy expert like Joe Biden, but what was Trump supposed to be doing to Putin in those 4 years of his presidency where Putin wasn't doing anything much to warrant disciplinary action? Was Trump supposed to go in and poke the bear with a stick for no reason?
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

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"Putin hacked our elections! Trump should nuke Moscow!"
-The Left, for four years, not conspiracy theorizing

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

293 The Ukrainian public is going to shoot it's way out of this?? Idiotic to even think that.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (S1hrL)

294
286 The Biden disaster train, next stop, Taipei!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (EZebt)

I have a Type A personality . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (s2VJv)

295 the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off.

Somebody's been watching way too many old reruns of "Dynasty" and eating paint chips.

But mostly, eating paint chips.

Sorry, Paint-Chip Alexis, no one in real life thinks or acts this way.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (5NkmN)

296 Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

I did. I was able to lurk for a quite a while, but things have finally calmed down enough that I can at least comment on the morning thread. Sometimes I even get in a comment or two later in the day.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

Required? No. But it's fairly strongly encouraged.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (tcZnS)

297 "You forgot Natalie Wood "

Dat Wood don't float!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (3D/fK)

298 You forgot Natalie Wood

Posted by: Anna Puma

What kinda wood can't float ?

Lignum Vitae

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (arJlL)

299 They are shocked that Nigel thinks Trump trying to negotiate with Putin was a good thing as they run down a list of how Trump was cozy with Putin which allowed Putin to get the courage to do this.

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If Putin was "cozy" with Trump during those 4 years, why not go after Ukraine then???

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (sVtYq)

300 The Junta sees American voters as a greater threat to them than any foreign country or invasion of foreigners.

Or was it Climate Change? White Supremacy? It keeps changing depending on what deviancy celebration month we are supposed to be observing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (lD3vL)

301 280 US Deputy Marshal Raylin Givens grandparents named a kid Arlo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (lz5hY)

302 Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)
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As long as you use iambic pentameter you're good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (EZebt)

303 Would you move out of the way if the Russians invaded your home town?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 08:32 AM (yRved)

With the current people in charge of us, I might. You do realize the CIA installed the current guy in Ukraine? He won just like Brandon won.

Posted by: WiNO at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (FqOU9)

304 Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (m45I2)

You are welcome to make uninformed predictions, but please leave the catastrophically incorrect ones about Putin and Ukraine to me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (6ESYR)

305 How, pray tell, is whatever Putin has up his sleeve anything worse - so bad, that we have to suffer yet another round of totally avoidable energy crises, food shortages and runaway inflation that will be crammed down on us?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

*

Not to mention that there appears to at least be a possibility that Putin attacked Ukraine in order to take out United States bioweapons labs before we could release another COVID or worse virus on the world again. Screen grabs before twitter decided to kill the misinformation with citations from misinformation sites like businessinsider.com:

i.redd.it/dr7d1q3iysj81.png

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (cUuEU)

306 But the argument that Putin got Trump elected to allow him to take Ukraine...and then waited for another president supposedly hostile to him to take over to actually invade makes no sense whatsoever.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)
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No no no. It makes perfect sense.

You see, Putin knew that Trump would be a challenge to the US permanent government and would result in internal tensions within the government and the nation at large. They knew Trump would act as a destabilizing influence. They anticipated that Trump would be incompetent and disastrous, but also knew that it didn't matter even if he wasn't and his policies led to improvement because Trump would be a one-term president no matter what and the next guy would roll it all back. In their worst-case scenario, America would be back to where it was within a year of his last day but with added internal conflict and division and inability to respond. In a best case, the country would collapse as soon as Trump took over or shortly thereafter.

They didn't get either scenario, but the strategy overall worked. Wheels within wheels, man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

307 277 InfoWhores, all of them. . . . . . .don't forget: for every InfoHarlot that complained about Matt Lauer's magical locking door, there were 5 who were begging to be locked in there. "What's that stain on your skirt?"

Posted by: Toss another Lincoln Project log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (8m/Xb)

308 > You forgot Natalie Wood

I don't think she went by Woody, though.

However, she did give me one, so maybe honorable mention?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (bW8dp)

309 We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.

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Lol, thanks for reminding me of that. I laugh but cry in the same breathe realized how fubar'd we are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

310 The entire rationale for keeping half our military stationed in Europe was to keep Russia from attempting westward invasions.

Nobody has lifted a finger to counter or even prevent this westward invasion.

I'm not awake enough yet or generally smart enough to run through all the ramifications of this, but it's pretty glaringly fucked up, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (6FeV1)

311 US Deputy Marshal Raylin Givens grandparents named a kid Arlo.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (lz5hY)

Did Raylin have a daughter that went out, got married and hyphenated her last name to Givens-Head?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

312 "What kinda wood can't float ?

Lignum Vitae"

What wood is used in Navy strut bearings?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (3D/fK)

313 Muldoon is channeling his inner Moe.
Posted by: JT

******

Nope. I've run out of things to say. There just ain't no Mo'

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (m45I2)

314 "It's time to shift from panic mode to cautiously moving forward." a CDC scientist who is involved with the process told CNN on Thursday. "

Posted by: redridinghood"

Glad to see they are on top of things. Have they issued a statement that that lobotomies and bloodletting are no longer a thing?

Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (MxEKc)

315 You don't have to make statements, but understand that 'particular knowledge' is not a prerequisite.

We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (KtV/v)
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Damn, that's bleak. I need a drink and it's not even 0900 yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

316 I do not believe there is going to be any large stock market crash, because I do not believe that will be the mode of failure this time through the cycle. Note the large scale buying the propped things back up yesterday afternoon; if the Fed and their acolytes in the Banking system have to, they will create 10 Trillion new dollars to buy up everything offered for sale. There's nothing to stop them from doing that anymore; any thoughts that they couldn't get away with that have been dispelled over the last 2 years.

my prediction, based on my belief that politics runs this system all the way through, not reason; any time there is a major stock market drop, hundreds of billions of dollars will show up out of nowhere to prop it back up. The DJIA is more likely hit 100,000 before it hits 10,000 again. Of course, gasoline will be $12 per gallon, and a big mac will cost $20. That'll be the cost to the policy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx)

317 Up here in Canada, our part in the bank run continues. Cash is relatively simple to get out. But limited. It's the 'locked in' investments that are taking time to liquidate.

Those electronic transfers though. Imagine all the Canadians with dual citizenships and bank accounts in other countries simply removing money with keystrokes. All the Chinese money, every Eastern European who lived under a crap regime, all the snowbirds in Florida, the 1 million who live and work in the US.

Granted, most are probably libs and are doing crap. Which is great. More time for the rest of us to get things out.

I know the Ukraine is the big story right now. But the US and the world should really be watching the Canadian banking system. The chaos that could cause. Especially since Canada exports so much to the US.

Posted by: Stateless at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (G1tzT)

318 The new postal trucks will be made by Lockheed, fully armored with a 50 cal mount on the roof.
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And that's just to deliver in downtown Portland!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (UHVv4)

319 I'm not awake enough yet or generally smart enough to run through all the ramifications of this, but it's pretty glaringly fucked up, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:43 AM (6FeV1)

Ummmmmmm....Yes.

Abolish NATO.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (uVDu4)

320 I live in Maskachusetts. I am astonished any time I meet anyone to the right of Stalin

How much of the extreme leftyness of MA is lefty people going to the MA colleges/tech companies?

The most leftwing Massholes I've met are actually Indians and Europeans who went there to work/school.

Amusingly the Chinese I've met aren't particularly leftwing - though they are mostly ardent Chinese nationalists.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (ESjRY)

321 Glad the TV is on mute. Texas cyclops Crenshaw just showed up with his two cents.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (lz5hY)

322 "It's time to shift from panic mode to cautiously moving forward." a CDC scientist who is involved with the process told CNN on Thursday. "We still need to be worried about [Covid] but maybe not all the time.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)
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The "COVID is Over" faction is going to win, and I think this settles it. The CDC was last major institutional holdout within the government for "COVID Forever."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

323 and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples

*

This can't be real.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cUuEU)

324 Sanctions are opportunities for graft, imposed specifically to create those opportunities for graft.

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (5m+OQ)

325 "We've got our war now, so we don't need COVID anymore."

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (cUuEU)

326 Alrighty, folks. Unfortunately it's time to work-at-work.

I'll probably see y'all next on Monday.
Somebody clean out the barrel.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (tcZnS)

327 271 Got to wag the Ukrainian dog

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (PEevu)

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You know what I always say: "Wag it before you eat it."

Posted by: President Obama's 4th Term at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (7rP4D)

328 322 The "COVID is Over" faction is going to win, and I think this settles it. The CDC was last major institutional holdout within the government for "COVID Forever."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

==========

FEAR comes in many shapes and sizes. They're trying to settle on the next flavor. War with Russia? Climate Change? Death wasps?

WHAT WILL BE NEXT ON THE FEAR IS RIGHT?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

329 ...please leave the catastrophically incorrect ones about Putin and Ukraine to me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

******

Heh! Fair enough.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:47 AM (m45I2)

330 You are welcome to make uninformed predictions, but please leave the catastrophically incorrect ones about Putin and Ukraine to me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (6ESYR)
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No, you can't sous vide Chicken Kiev.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:47 AM (EZebt)

331 But the argument that Putin got Trump elected to allow him to take Ukraine...and then waited for another president supposedly hostile to him to take over to actually invade makes no sense whatsoever.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

For those on the left, nonsense is like an old friend, a comfortable blanket, a favorite meal...they're feel at peace in its presence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (JMENi)

332 330 You are welcome to make uninformed predictions, but please leave the catastrophically incorrect ones about Putin and Ukraine to me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (6ESYR)
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No, you can't sous vide Chicken Kiev.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 08:47 AM (EZebt)

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What's the proper way to prepare Chichen Itza?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

333 273 morning woody >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:38 AM (us2H3)

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> 4-hour woody > morning woody

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (7rP4D)

334 Got to wag the Ukrainian dog

******

"In Japan, Ukrainian dog wagyu!'

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (m45I2)

335 The left: A real president would punch Putin in the face and nuke his house right now!

Joe Biden: I'm not doing shit, but good luck Ukraine. Oh, crap, I did do shit - Jill I need a new diaper

Also the left: That Trump guy is a traitor he hasn't killed a single Russian solider in Ukraine yet! Good think he isn't president so we can stop Putin!

Joe Biden: I need a nap!

Also, Also the left: Thank Gaia we have a real president that won't let this aggression stand!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (ESjRY)

336 I'm torn on the Ukraine thing. I can't decide if putin took a look at the clown show of western leaders and just went in on his own or if he had the blessings of them with a caveat of just don't go to far...take half of ukraine give Biden a fig leaf.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (rjpjQ)

337 my prediction, based on my belief that politics runs this system all the way through, not reason; any time there is a major stock market drop, hundreds of billions of dollars will show up out of nowhere to prop it back up. The DJIA is more likely hit 100,000 before it hits 10,000 again. Of course, gasoline will be $12 per gallon, and a big mac will cost $20. That'll be the cost to the policy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx)

That is the plan...no one knows long term if it works or if it leads to total collapse...and you never know if someone might get skittish and try to slow it or reverse it...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (exHjb)

338 "No, you can't sous vide Chicken Kiev."

If it fits in a bag, you can vide it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (3D/fK)

339 "Am I still required to make bold declarative statements of opinion, or can I leave that to the rest of youse knuckleheads?
Posted by: Muldoon"

Yes, use the Twitter format:

I stand with _______________ (insert casue celebre here to be brave)

Posted by: Ripley at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (MxEKc)

340 Of course, gasoline will be $12 per gallon, and a big mac will cost $20. That'll be the cost to the policy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx)

A price boom yoked to a value crash.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 08:50 AM (6FeV1)

341 Bearclaw aint exactly Robert E Lee
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 08:36 AM (us2H3)

More like Sara Lee cream pie.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:50 AM (V13WU)

342 If it fits in a bag, you can vide it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (3D/fK)

What if you're half in the bag?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 25, 2022 08:50 AM (6FeV1)

343
> 4-hour woody > morning woody
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (7rP4D)

If your morning woody becomes 4-hour woody, consult your doctor immediately.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

344 You forgot Natalie Wood
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No comment.

Posted by: robert wagner at February 25, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

345 344 You forgot Natalie Wood
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No comment.
Posted by: robert wagner at February 25, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

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"No....comment...."
-Christopher Walken

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

346 336 I'm torn on the Ukraine thing. I can't decide if putin took a look at the clown show of western leaders and just went in on his own or if he had the blessings of them with a caveat of just don't go to far...take half of ukraine give Biden a fig leaf.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 25, 2022 08:49 AM (rjpjQ)

Probably depends if we get a ceasefire within a week or this drags for months - instant ceasefire would seem to indicate everyone was in on it, as an excuse for all the "current problems", as a distraction from the western tyrranny, and as a "popularity float" for how they stopped war so fast...

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:52 AM (exHjb)

347 Bearclaw aint exactly Robert E Lee

It is well that pastries are so tasty, or we shouldnot grow enough chins.

Posted by: Stuff Col Vindman said at February 25, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

348 so, CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (evAgx)

349 I knew a girl named Sara Lee. Not a day went by that someone didn't say nobody didn't like her.

And if you hate double negatives you can't go not f*ck yourself

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (ESjRY)

350 You forgot Natalie Wood

No comment.
Posted by: robert wagner at February 25, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)

"No....comment...."
-Christopher Walken
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

Posted by: Amazon "War of the Rings" Influencer at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (5NkmN)

351 I'm willing to bet Taiwan is very nervous right now.

Posted by: bobbi at NSA at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (5pTK/)

352 so, CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (evAgx)

Got white blood on their hands? Dey ain't qualified if dey ain't killed whitey a time or two.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

353 Probably depends if we get a ceasefire within a week or this drags for months - instant ceasefire would seem to indicate everyone was in on it, as an excuse for all the "current problems", as a distraction from the western tyrranny, and as a "popularity float" for how they stopped war so fast...
Posted by: Nova local

Supposedly, the President of Ukraine called 27 western nation for help and not one lifted a finger.

So yeah. They're ALL in on it.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (Hica+)

354 my prediction, based on my belief that politics runs this system all the way through, not reason ... The DJIA is more likely hit 100,000 before it hits 10,000 again. Of course, gasoline will be $12 per gallon, and a big mac will cost $20. That'll be the cost to the policy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx)
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The other side of the argument is that politics are important but the Fed's ultimate goal is to prevent the failure of the dollar and subsequent collapse of the monetary system. They will bow to politics, but if they determine there are core risks to the fundamental mission, then they will take whatever actions they deem necessary regardless of political consequences.

If this is the driving force - and I think it probably is, but I may well be wrong - then things will appear to go the way you laid out right up until the Fed blinks and takes major, decisive action, political consequences and the collapse in asset values be damned.

It's pretty important know which of these stances are correct, but there's no way to know until it's over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

355 321 Glad the TV is on mute. Texas cyclops Crenshaw just showed up with his two cents.

his genius ideas to drive putin out of ukraine? toss them off the un security council. kick them out of the international space station. those'll work.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (OOpLg)

356 293 The Ukrainian public is going to shoot it's way out of this?? Idiotic to even think that.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 08:41 AM (S1hrL)

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Made the mistake of listening to that idiot Marco Rubio on Hannity's program yesterday (was in a mountainous region and no other radio stations available).

He literally was spinning The Great Ukrainian Resistance, telling Hannity that 70- and 80-year old Ukranians would be taking pot shots at the Russians in the streets. [Sounds like another Babylon Bee headline -- you just can't make this shit up.]

To his credit, Hannity was having none of it ... Jeebus, we are so totally fooked.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (7rP4D)

357 /off trans electronic snooping sock.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (5pTK/)

358 so, CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee.

A 52 year old leftwing lunatic.

Well, I guess China Bitch McConnell will let us know if he's been ordered to let her through or not soon...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (ESjRY)

359 Supposedly, the President of Ukraine called 27 western nation for help and not one lifted a finger."

He truly is a great fool if he didn't see that coming.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (evAgx)

360 We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (KtV/v)

At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (JMENi)

361 Bearclaw Vindman has outflanked a few Krispy Kremes in his day

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (88xKn)

362 Well, you don't see this very often.

https://tinyurl.com/y2kmmuxr

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (3D/fK)

363 Morning, Horde. In the ER waiting room. Mrs IMG is pretty sure she has another kidney stone.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (tG6OF)

364 If this is the driving force - and I think it probably is, but I may well be wrong - then things will appear to go the way you laid out right up until the Fed blinks and takes major, decisive action, political consequences and the collapse in asset values be damned.

It's pretty important know which of these stances are correct, but there's no way to know until it's over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

And thus, why, you don't have 100% in the market and you diversify to other assets in amounts determined by age and risk strategy.

Posted by: Nova local at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (exHjb)

365 I ask, does the ideology drive the idiocy or vice versa

The former. I've seen it first-hand. Perfectly intelligent and logically minded people that discard both when it comes to their brand of politics.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (Q6gOS)

366 The Ukrainian public is going to shoot it's way out of this?? Idiotic to even think that.

The FNM: The 2nd Amendment? You can't defend yourself from an army with your rifle you rednecks.

Also the FNM: The brave Ukrainian freedom fighters will defend their country with their rifles!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

367 Morning, Horde. In the ER waiting room. Mrs IMG is pretty sure she has another kidney stone.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (tG6OF)

Ouch.

Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

368 The entire rationale for keeping half our military stationed in Europe was to keep Russia from attempting westward invasions.

I thought it was so that the Democrat Party Military would already have assets in place for their endless adventures in the Middle East and to insure the safe sex and drug trafficking that is regular commerce in Eastern Europe.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (lD3vL)

369 Ketanji Brown Jackson

**

Having no idea what Ms. Ketanji looks like, I'm certain she's the most qualified candidate for the job.

Also the odds of her name also including both Brown and Jackson are absolutely f*cking incredible. That's hilarious. Definitely qualified.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (cUuEU)

370 If it fits in a bag, you can empty it? Dr. Jill is an expert on that j'en suis sure.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (S1hrL)

371 CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee

Look, she's articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking gal.....

Posted by: Joey B at February 25, 2022 08:58 AM (BqBIh)

372 Or was it Climate Change? White Supremacy? It keeps changing depending on what deviancy celebration month we are supposed to be observing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (lD3vL)

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Heh, love that. Shouldn't EVERY month from now on be Deviancy Celebration Month?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 08:58 AM (7rP4D)

373 Supposedly, the President of Ukraine called 27 western nation for help and not one lifted a finger.

When he decided to not help Trump expose Biden's corruption, Zelensky choose...poorly.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:58 AM (ESjRY)

374 At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (JMENi)
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Yeah, but its priorities are the perversions in which it engages.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 25, 2022 08:58 AM (5pTK/)

375 The FNM: The 2nd Amendment? You can't defend yourself from an army with your rifle you rednecks.

Also the FNM: The brave Ukrainian freedom fighters will defend their country with their rifles!

Fartswell: But we have nuclear weapons!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (lD3vL)

376 With the current people in charge of us, I might. You do realize the CIA installed the current guy in Ukraine? He won just like Brandon won.
Posted by: WiNO at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (FqOU9)

I thought that was the guy before this guy. This guy won in an upset in 2019.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (JMENi)

377 353 Supposedly, the President of Ukraine called 27 western nation for help and not one lifted a finger.

he's a lying dog-faced pony soldier. why, i myself imposed crippling sanctions that will drive putin out of ukraine by the end of this fiscal quarter. probably.

Posted by: paste eatin' joe at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (OOpLg)

378 It's pretty important know which of these stances are correct, but there's no way to know until it's over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

it's like walking a tightrope, and if you fall one way you drop into the fire, and the other, you fall into the bottomless chasm. As Gozer said, "Choose the form of the Destructor!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (evAgx)

379 " $6 billion, even after Biden skimmed off his cut, isn't chump change so why the hell are we not seeing Russky tanks burning and their planes tumbling out of the sky, like they did when the Afghanis took aim at them with probably much less money and in much more primitive conditions?"

Therein lies the heart of the biggest scandal here. The Ukraine was used as a cash cow by American piggies from the Bidens to the Romneys along with their Russian and Ukranian bagmen. How much went to the actual military? It's probably close to a fourth, if that. Ditto Afghanistan.

I'm also sympathetic toward the Ukranians and felt their ambassador gave a very touching speech at the Security Council. He's probably a crook, too, but it was compelling. The monsters at State and DOD helped steal American taxpayer money, though, and need to be hauled onto the carpet.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (nMx88)

380 CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee

==

Hey, now ! I reported it last night !

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (V13WU)

381 "At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering. "

Didn't Jimmy Carter too?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (3D/fK)

382 Hannibal Lector had a degree too.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (KFhLj)

383 At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering.

Oh, yes, the fallacy of accreditation.

I HAVE A DEGREE SO SHUT UP!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 09:00 AM (lD3vL)

384 Supposedly, the President of Ukraine called 27 western nation for help and not one lifted a finger.

**

Remember how that idiot Trump didn't help you by preventing Russia from invading you in the first place?

Way to go helping with the coup, big guy. Hope it was worth it.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:00 AM (cUuEU)

385 No no no. It makes perfect sense.

You see, Putin knew that Trump would be a challenge to the US permanent government and would result in internal tensions within the government and the nation at large. They knew Trump would act as a destabilizing influence. They anticipated that Trump would be incompetent and disastrous, but also knew that it didn't matter even if he wasn't and his policies led to improvement because Trump would be a one-term president no matter what and the next guy would roll it all back. In their worst-case scenario, America would be back to where it was within a year of his last day but with added internal conflict and division and inability to respond. In a best case, the country would collapse as soon as Trump took over or shortly thereafter.

They didn't get either scenario, but the strategy overall worked. Wheels within wheels, man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

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Out: Trump playing 11-dimensional chess.
In: Putin playing 11-dimensional chess.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:00 AM (7rP4D)

386 The Ukrainian public is going to shoot it's way out of this?? Idiotic to even think that.

The FNM: The 2nd Amendment? You can't defend yourself from an army with your rifle you rednecks.

Also the FNM: The brave Ukrainian freedom fighters will defend their country with their rifles!
Posted by: 18-1

Also, the Afghanis beat the most technologically advanced army in the world with AK-47's and Toyota pickup trucks.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:00 AM (Hica+)

387 'Remember Snake Island' on a Gadsden-type flag. What say ye?

Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (tnbBp)

388 Also the odds of her name also including both Brown and Jackson are absolutely f*cking incredible. That's hilarious. Definitely qualified.
Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:57 AM (cUuEU)

Just imagine if she ever got to write a Majority Opinion on anything, she could sign it The Jackson Five.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (evAgx)

389 Ukraine, don't care. However what I do care about is that it's taken everything off the front page. Trudeau, BoJo and to some extent the rutabaga and their failings aren't being covered. As someone upthread stated 'squirrel'. We are no longer talking about socialism in Canada, idiocy in GB and every failure of the rutabaga in the US. We'll see if that holds true based on whether Putin stomps the Ukes or not. If he doesn't the rutabaga has his talking point. He weakened the Russians. Also, new squirrel being introduced, the Supreme Court nominee.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (2NHgQ)

390 The Ukrainian leadership currently in place is every bit as corrupt as the previous one that was in bed with the *biden crime syndicate. They've thrown vast sums of money around East/West Europe in attempts to curry favor with anyone and everyone. It a grifting machine that rivals Congress.

It's no wonder most, if not all of Europe is ambivalent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (BFigT)

391 hemmer and parino haven't got the memo re: kyiv vs kiev.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (OOpLg)

392 You forgot Natalie Wood
No comment.
Posted by: robert wagner at February 25, 2022 08:51 AM (UHVv4)
"No....comment...."
-Christopher Walken
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

Someone's trying to silence my Voice!!!!?
Well, I have a comment, h8erz?
Did you know Natalie Wood was Russian! She was not diverse at all!!! She didn't look like me and and she oppressed all my Puerto Rican sisters and brothers and trans-sisters and transbrothers by taking that role as a Puerto Rican of color!!!! Walk on the Wild Side Story or something?
You just know she would be invading the Ukraine right now, if she was still alive???
#UkraineSuperFan
#NOTNatalieWoodSuperFan

Posted by: Amazon's "War of the Rings" Influencer at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (5NkmN)

393 Also, the Afghanis beat the most technologically advanced army in the world with AK-47's and Toyota pickup trucks.
Posted by: rickb223

*

Probably not hard to do when the entire endeavor just turned out to be a system of graft for connected families and politicians.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (cUuEU)

394 At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (JMENi)

I thought his degree was in "nuclear science," which sounds like a watered down degree.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (6ESYR)

395 rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism a

hey ! copycat

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (V13WU)

396 "Also, the Afghanis beat the most technologically advanced army in the world with AK-47's and Toyota pickup trucks."

Toyota does make a damn good truck.

Bet the Afghans also bought the extended warranty.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (3D/fK)

397 Those Ukraine soldiers should be folk heroes for the ages. They knew they would have likely been murdered anyway, so they went out with dignity.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (VWp7G)

398 ahahahahahahahaha

https://tinyurl.com/mthsetw8

(Tweet link)

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ky6cW)

399 I'm also sympathetic toward the Ukranians and felt their ambassador gave a very touching speech at the Security Council. He's probably a crook, too, but it was compelling. The monsters at State and DOD helped steal American taxpayer money, though, and need to be hauled onto the carpet.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (nMx8

Someone last night mentioned that out of that $6 billion, probably 90% of it never got more than 50 miles away from DC.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

400 Morning, Horde. In the ER waiting room. Mrs IMG is pretty sure she has another kidney stone.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

******

This too, shall pass.

(good luck!!)

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (m45I2)

401 heh. fox news bledped the ukrainian word for "fuck yourself"

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (OOpLg)

402 'Remember Snake Island' on a Gadsden-type flag. What say ye?
Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (tnbBp)

Danger Island > Snake Island

Posted by: Zombie Jan Michael Vincent, Still Drunk at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (uVDu4)

403 CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee

Might as well throw another clown in the car.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (Xrfse)

404 Newsmax reporting the Russians have gained control of the airport outside of Kiev.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (S1hrL)

405 I saw Transsexual Furry open for NIN at the Aragon back in 2018.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (V13WU)

406 Yeah, I remember being a bit suspicious when I started hearing about "Environmental Science" and "Earth Science" degrees twenty or so years ago.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (cUuEU)

407 Bearclaw has one of the most punchable faces since Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (HsAzN)

408 NBC News: Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

Posted by: Lola at February 25, 2022 09:04 AM (xjz83)

409 Ms. Ketanji is the most qualified candidate for the job, the job being to vote the party line.

Posted by: davidt at February 25, 2022 09:04 AM (5m+OQ)

410 Putin seems to want to come into Ukraine, claim he is getting rid of NAZIs*, put in his own puppet, and separate Donbas.

So, getting Ukrainian civilians to engage in guerilla war isn't a bad choice. A continuing resistance will make it hard for Putin to play pretend. It will get a lot of people killed though.

*Just like Biden and Castro!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 09:04 AM (ESjRY)

411 316 I do not believe there is going to be any large stock market crash, because I do not believe that will be the mode of failure this time through the cycle. Note the large scale buying the propped things back up yesterday afternoon; if the Fed and their acolytes in the Banking system have to, they will create 10 Trillion new dollars to buy up everything offered for sale. There's nothing to stop them from doing that anymore; any thoughts that they couldn't get away with that have been dispelled over the last 2 years.

my prediction, based on my belief that politics runs this system all the way through, not reason; any time there is a major stock market drop, hundreds of billions of dollars will show up out of nowhere to prop it back up. The DJIA is more likely hit 100,000 before it hits 10,000 again. Of course, gasoline will be $12 per gallon, and a big mac will cost $20. That'll be the cost to the policy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx) )

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This is the correct answer. Over at ZeroHedge, they've been referring to this never-miss tactic for years now as "The Plunge-Protection Team."

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:04 AM (7rP4D)

412 Ketanji Brown Jackson

I theenk I see the deciding factor.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:04 AM (HsAzN)

413 Putin seems to want to come into Ukraine, claim he is getting rid of NAZIs*, put in his own puppet

==

Is that wrong ?

--HillaryObamaBillKrystol

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (V13WU)

414 Ketanji: it's all in the name.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (S1hrL)

415 >>>heh. fox news bledped the ukrainian word for "fuck yourself"
Posted by: anachronda

They're so ridiculous. Most Americans wouldn't know the word, anyway. Boy has that "news network" truly fallen.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (VWp7G)

416 Putin seems to want to come into Ukraine, claim he is getting rid of NAZIs*, put in his own puppet, and separate Donbas.

**

JackStraw posted something about it last night. IIRC it turns out our very own CIA was training a bunch of shock troops that lo-and-behold turned out to be actual by-golly white supremacists. Nazis if you will.

You know the drill. Whatever the left accuses conservatives of...

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (cUuEU)

417 Was Trump supposed to go in and poke the bear with a stick for no reason?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

I think our entire foreign policy for a long time running now has been to destabilize other countries that pose the threat of rising to any level of relative strength (save for China, whom we basically treat as a slave labor owning business partner for corporations).

The thought is, generally, that if I can make your country chaotic, my country does not experience real growth and progress, but does experience relative growth and progress in comparison to yours.

And in that way, yes, Trump was expected to tap on the glass of the aquarium and send the fish into panic.

But Trump has a different world view. Trump thinks that growth is actual growth and that if America put its emphasis on improving itself that its relative gains compared to the world would outpace the gains of other nations who were also focused on themselves. They call that 'dangerous nationalism' from the left, 'America First' from the right, and 'f*cking with my graft' from D.C. and corporate America.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (KtV/v)

418 And if you hate double negatives you can't go not f*ck yourself
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Don't not fuck you! Don't not fuck me, buddy!!!

Posted by: robert wagner at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (UHVv4)

419 At least the transsexual furry has a degree in nuclear engineering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 08:56 AM (JMENi)

I thought his degree was in "nuclear science," which sounds like a watered down degree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (6ESYR)

Are you sure it wasn't "Nuclear Studies"?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (5NkmN)

420 his genius ideas to drive putin out of ukraine? toss them off the un security council. kick them out of the international space station. those'll work.

Which is particularly dimwitted since the US relies on the Russians to shuttle Americans and their supplies to the ISS.

NASA changed its charter to bolster Islamic self esteem

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 09:06 AM (lD3vL)

421 Futures are up.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:06 AM (V13WU)

422 his genius ideas to drive putin out of ukraine? toss them off the un security council. kick them out of the international space station. those'll work.
Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 08:55 AM (OOpLg)

Did Dan "WEF Junior Global Leader" Crenshaw explain exactly how we're supposed to kick a permanent member off the security council? Vote on it via a mechanism that Russia can veto?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:07 AM (JMENi)

423 We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Moloch at February 25, 2022 09:07 AM (a3Q+t)

424 Was Trump supposed to go in and poke the bear with a stick for no reason?

The left in 2012: Russia is our FRIEND!

The left in 2016: We can't elect Trump he'll cause wars all over the world

The left in 2019: We are impeaching Trump because he won't nuke Russia...not even a little!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 09:07 AM (ESjRY)

425 We have transsexual furries handling our nuclear waste disposal and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples running our transportation department in this country.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 08:40 AM (KtV/v)

I saw Transsexual Furries open for GWAR at the TCCC in 1984.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (yrol0)

426 419 Are you sure it wasn't "Nuclear Studies"?

critical nuclear theory

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (OOpLg)

427 They call that 'dangerous nationalism' from the left, 'America First' from the right, and 'f*cking with my graft' from D.C. and corporate America.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 09:05 AM (KtV/v)
++++
It's that third one that's important, since they're the shot callers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

428 Which is particularly dimwitted since the US relies on the Russians to shuttle Americans and their supplies to the ISS.

NASA changed its charter to bolster Islamic self esteem
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 09:06 AM (lD3vL)
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Heh, this whole thing could get government off the back of Musk, because they're going to need his cooperation to keep the ISS supplied.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (5pTK/)

429 the left wants to pick a big racial fight over the SCOTUS nominee this summer

with a lil luck, some cities will burn

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (us2H3)

430 Ukrainian military vehicles are entering Kyiv to defend it against approaching Russian troops, Ukraine's interior ministry says.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said earlier the city had "entered into a defensive phase".

The government is calling on the people of Kyiv to do everything it can to resist Russian troops, including making Molotov cocktails and taking up arms.

=

Hey, dumbass, your first order of business was to evacuate people from the hot zones.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (V13WU)

431 316 I do not believe there is going to be any large stock market crash,
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (evAgx)

I believe this guy who predicted the dot com bubble and avoided getting hurt in the mortgage fiasco. I've been avoiding news but was shocked when researching the article to see that Moderna, the maker of one of the miracle drugs, actually is down 70%.

He lays out exactly why Moderna and Pfizer are going under. One interesting point is there are poisoned stockbrokers who want to take these companies down. You have to figure there are lawyers, media and others for whom this is or will become very personal.

When those companies go under, that's when I'd expect the crash. Lawsuits against anyone that mandated jabs. Mob violence looking for revenge.

https://tinyurl.com/4fnzukz8

Posted by: Stateless at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (G1tzT)

432 429 the left wants to pick a big racial fight over the SCOTUS nominee this summer

with a lil luck, some cities will burn
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (us2H3)

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She raped me at some point somewhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

433 The propaganda is up to eleventy at FNC with bitch Jennifer Griffin front and center doing an all dayer.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (KiBMU)

434 397 Those Ukraine soldiers should be folk heroes for the ages. They knew they would have likely been murdered anyway, so they went out with dignity.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:03 AM (VWp7G)

I'm reminded of a scene from "The Lion in Winter". Young Richard the Lion Hearted (Anthony Hopkins) is imprisoned with his brothers, contemplating his death. Richard wants to die fighting; his brother Joffrey says "When the end is certain, what does it matter how it comes?

Richard replies "When the End is all there is, it matters."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (evAgx)

435 Probably not hard to do when the entire endeavor just turned out to be a system of graft for connected families and politicians.
Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (cUuEU)

Yup...I got this ribbon for re-suppling the shit paper in Kabul and this ribbon for making sure the water cans read "potable water" on them and my CIB for visiting the Hilton in Bagram while it was under mortar fire to make sure the O Club had enough cocktail napkins and I got...

Posted by: Alex Vindman, Fat Professional Grifter at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (uVDu4)

436 critical nuclear theory
Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (OOpLg)

Like.... Chernobyl?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (6FeV1)

437 I know the Ukraine is the big story right now. But the US and the world should really be watching the Canadian banking system. The chaos that could cause. Especially since Canada exports so much to the US.

Posted by: Stateless at February 25, 2022 08:44 AM (G1tzT)

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Foreseeing some economic/societal collapse starting two years ago, I pulled out a significant amount of cash from my bank (weekly, in not-so-alarming increments that they'd suspect me of being a terrorist -- which apparently now I'm considered) for such emergencies.

I'd like to think that what happened in Canada has caused some in the U.S. and rest of the West to realize "it's just a shot away" from happening here -- and doing the same.

Unfortunately, I think the WEF oligarch cabal WILL eventually get physical currency criminalized and force a digital one on us ... so then we'll have to Make Barter Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (7rP4D)

438 heh. fox news bledped the ukrainian word for "fuck yourself"
Posted by: anachronda

They're so ridiculous. Most Americans wouldn't know the word, anyway. Boy has that "news network" truly fallen.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp

Trachni sebe.
You're welcome.

Posted by: rickb223 Dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (Hica+)

439 Now they are throwing civilians into harm's way for a photo op. The Palestinian model. Then they are going to parade pics of teddy bears in rubble.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (V13WU)

440 "Hey, dumbass, your first order of business was to evacuate people from the hot zones. "

I'm not too sure that the whole 'Die for the motherland' mind set is exclusively Russian.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (3D/fK)

441 letzgobrandon is Uke for "go fuck urself"

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3)

442 Futures are up

Looks like all my covered calls will be exercised today. Oh well, still out on the plus-side.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (Q6gOS)

443 Hey, dumbass, your first order of business was to evacuate people from the hot zones.
Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (V13WU)
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Unless you're in an existential war, in which case you need as many men wielding weapons as possible, just like how Berlin was defended by old men and young kids because they were there and a Russian victory would be the end of Germany and possibly the end of Germans.

Western Ukraine might view this along those lines, in which case the call to take up arms and throw everything at the Russians makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (DU+/6)

444 I gotta job waiting for my graduation
100 k a year will buy a lotta queer
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright I think I gots AIDS

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (yrol0)

445 critical nuclear theory
Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (OOpLg)

Like.... Chernobyl?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (6FeV1)
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Trans uranium theory and practice.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (5pTK/)

446 This is where I am. I and others like me are the ones my government views as the actual threat and the actual terrorists. They go out of their way at every opportunity to make it clear that they hate me, view me as the enemy, and would be happier if I wasn't here.
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My bright line is no American blood or treasure to support the Biden family investments in Ukraine. Ukraine tried to appease the Biden Cartel and it failed. There is no excuse for US to enter a civil war for the Biden Family Cartel Investment Trust.

I'm sorry that Ukraine lost that bet. Reality bites.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2022 09:11 AM (MIKMs)

447 Here's the fundament flaw in my analysis...

I thought Putin sought a territorial solution, not a political one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 09:11 AM (EZebt)

448 Leftist Kentanji Brown Jackson has a Paul Ryan connection.
Her husband's twin is Ryan's brother-in-law.
Ryan testified in support of her nomination to the district court.
So I'm sure he'll be petitioning for her behind the scenes for Supreme Court Justice.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

449 >>>Ukrainian military vehicles are entering Kyiv to defend it against approaching Russian troops, Ukraine's interior ministry says.

I read they destroyed fifteen Soviet tanks with Javelin missiles. May be an exaggeration, but I know they destroyed at least a few.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:11 AM (VWp7G)

450 Jennifer Griffin

Susan Powter-lookin' bitch.

Every MFM outlet has their Deep State embeds. She's FNC's #1.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (HsAzN)

451 he's a lying dog-faced pony soldier. why, i myself imposed crippling sanctions that will drive putin out of ukraine by the end of this fiscal quarter. probably.
Posted by: paste eatin' joe at February 25, 2022 08:59 AM (OOpLg)

Within 2 weeks or so all the blue checkmarks will be reminding us that Ukraine was basically always part of Russia and the Poles will start getting very nervous.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (JMENi)

452 "Then they are going to parade pics of teddy bears in rubble."

Call me!

Posted by: Green Helmet guy. *Dead baby costs extra at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (3D/fK)

453 323 and a man trying to nurse a baby from his male nipples

*

This can't be real.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cUuEU)

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"If you suck it, it will come." -- Obligatory Kamala

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (7rP4D)

454 I'm not too sure that the whole 'Die for the motherland' mind set is exclusively Russian.

Or it could be "attack Kiev and you'll have to kill a bunch of civilians and look bad to the world"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (ESjRY)

455 ha

The United States imported more gasoline and other refined petroleum products from Russia than any other country in 2021

1 or of 5 barrels!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

456 Wouldn't it be nice to have a war without someone immediately making it about Trump or race or mask wearing or trans rights?

Just an olde-y tyme-y "Once more to the breach, boys!" conflagration.

Kidding. Sort of.

Actually the thing that really broke me yesterday was a video of a Ukrainian dad saying goodbye to his wife and daughter as they got on a bus to safety and he remained to fight. Brought it all back to the human cost of the indignations of stupid leaders.

God bless 'em.

Posted by: red speck at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (gS3OW)

457 446 I'm sorry that Ukraine lost that bet. Reality bites.

Dittoes. Ukraine chose poorly.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (HsAzN)

458 >>>I thought his degree was in "nuclear science," which sounds like a watered down degree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (6ESYR)

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Did he have a crazy teacher who wore dark glasses?

Posted by: Timbuk 3 at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (fhOCd)

459 heh. fox news bleeped the ukrainian word for "fuck yourself"
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Buffalo PBS has been doing that to an Italian police series called Thou Shall Not Kill [or the British translators of the series] but there was one they missed that I can't recall now.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (UHVv4)

460 Americans tend to be suckers for photo ops.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

461 Within 2 weeks or so all the blue checkmarks will be reminding us that Ukraine was basically always part of Russia and the Poles will start getting very nervous.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:12 AM (JMENi)

Ukraine was always part of Russia.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

462 I'm not too sure that the whole 'Die for the motherland' mind set is exclusively Russian.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:10 AM (3D/fK)

Sadly, many are unaware of the internal Ukrainian dynamic vis a vis Russia.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (V13WU)

463 455 ha

The United States imported more gasoline and other refined petroleum products from Russia than any other country in 2021

1 or of 5 barrels!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (yrol0)

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Drilling our own oil = bad.

Purchasing vast quantities of oil from the boogeyman = good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

464 "Hey, dumbass, your first order of business was to evacuate people from the hot zones."

Say what?

Posted by: Mayor of New Orleans at February 25, 2022 09:14 AM (5m+OQ)

465 Hey, dumbass, your first order of business was to evacuate people from the hot zones.
Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:08 AM (V13WU)

I'm very pessimistic about Kiev's ability to resist, because I do not think any modern city can stand for more than a few days once electricity and fresh supplies are cut off. All of our modern systems are fragile and easily disrupted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:14 AM (evAgx)

466 Here's the fundament flaw in my analysis...

I thought Putin sought a territorial solution, not a political one.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2022 09:11 AM (EZebt)
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I think Putin seeks a buffer zone around critical assets and will take that however he can get it. Ukraine kept moving toward NATO and getting in bed with the West while also taking belligerent actions against its ethnic Russian population in the East. This represents, to Putin, a security threat to Russia and is also a problem as far as pan-Russian cultural defense, both of which are important to him.

The political approach to dealing with those two problems was making no progress or had failed, so the military approach is underway.

Just my $0.02 and take it for what it's worth, which is less than that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

467 Oh, yes, the fallacy of accreditation.

I HAVE A DEGREE SO SHUT UP!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 09:00 AM (lD3vL)

My point being that it's possible he knows more about nuclear waste than Buttigieg knows about transportation, not that he's intelligent and in no ways an embarrassment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:15 AM (JMENi)

468 460 Americans tend to be suckers for photo ops.
Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

We love us some propaganda and lurid imagery. We are Media Junkies. We did not get to where we are by accident.

Posted by: kraken at February 25, 2022 09:15 AM (Vr12I)

469 Never...ever..put your faith and trust in a Democratic US President.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:15 AM (3D/fK)

470 WHAT WILL BE NEXT ON THE FEAR IS RIGHT?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

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"THE COMING HYPERINFLATION AND STARVATION CAUSED BY TRUMP!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:15 AM (7rP4D)

471 349 I knew a girl named Sara Lee. Not a day went by that someone didn't say nobody didn't like her.

And if you hate double negatives you can't go not f*ck yourself
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2022 08:54 AM (ESjRY)
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For a long time, I wasn't sure if the slogan was

"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee" or "Nobody does it like Sara Lee"

Seemed like either would work.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 25, 2022 09:16 AM (CAJOC)

472 >>>Dittoes. Ukraine chose poorly.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Maybe they thought the U.S. would help after they gave the Biden Crime Family millions. Definitely chose poorly.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:16 AM (VWp7G)

473 Unfortunately, I think the WEF oligarch cabal WILL eventually get physical currency criminalized and force a digital one on us ... so then we'll have to Make Barter Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:09 AM (7rP4D)

I don't believe they are going to be alive long term. The poisoned and penniless will have no reason not to kill them.

On the plus side, I'm finally going to be left alone up here in Canada....after the unpleasantness. And all I ever wanted was to be left alone. But, as ace says, I was made to care...

Posted by: Stateless at February 25, 2022 09:16 AM (G1tzT)

474 Reading the list of Ukrainian cities being attacked makes me feel as if I'm reading a history book of WW2 Eastern Front battles, 80 years ago, 1941-1943 (current spellings):
Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Odessa, Poltava, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia.

I never imagined these cities and towns would become battle sites during my lifetime.

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2022 09:16 AM (AMIL/)

475 So, if the Ukrainians stay and fight, they are stupid for not evacuating.

But if they evacuate, they will considered cowards like the French in 1940.

They can't win.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (yRved)

476 Based on the "what is the stupidest, evilest, most counterproductive thing they could do" principle, the junta should be nuking moscow about a solid week after hostilities seem to have ceased.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (6FeV1)

477 'Remember Snake Island' on a Gadsden-type flag. What say ye?
Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (tnbBp)

If everyone on the island was killed, how do we know this happened the way it was described?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (JMENi)

478 I'm very pessimistic about Kiev's ability to resist, because I do not think any modern city can stand for more than a few days once electricity and fresh supplies are cut off. All of our modern systems are fragile and easily disrupted.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:14 AM (evAgx)

In my estimate, they don't have a chance, never did. Any "resistance" is a photo op. They know that, but are willing to sacrifice civillinas. with their dumbass Molotv cocktail shit. This is 2022. Russia can level the city like they did Grozny , if they wanted to. Obviously they don't want to at this time.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (V13WU)

479 Came across an interesting (to me) speech/document: Administration of Barack H. Obama, 2009, Remarks at a Graduation Ceremony at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia, July 7, 2009

Topics included Afghanistan, NATO relations, State sovereignty and so much more. At govinfo dot gov/content/pkg/DCPD-200900539 or on The NYT

Posted by: Lola at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (xjz83)

480 You'll need one primary thing if you accuse me of treason for expressing my opinion, a good dentist.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (VpIIl)

481 Then out spoke Brave Horatius,
the Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this Earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can Man die better
than facing fearful odds,
for the ashes of his fathers,
and the Temples of his gods?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (evAgx)

482 Can Sefton give a rest with the attempted "humor" and just write a simple post?

Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting.

Posted by: Sandy Vigilante at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (wvn6O)

483 At least COVID is over for a while.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

484 MACRON JUST ACCEPTED ALL TERMS AND SURRENDERS TO RUSSIA

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

485 Are we back to Kiev or are we still on Kyiv? Anybody know of a good map of Ukraine on the internet it's current situation?

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (88xKn)

486 477 'Remember Snake Island' on a Gadsden-type flag. What say ye?
Posted by: Eromero at February 25, 2022 09:01 AM (tnbBp)

If everyone on the island was killed, how do we know this happened the way it was described?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (JMENi)

Because the TV people told us so.

Posted by: kraken at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (Vr12I)

487 I thought his degree was in "nuclear science," which sounds like a watered down degree.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2022 09:02 AM (6ESYR)

You could be right. Maybe he was a music major who focused on Timbuk3.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (JMENi)

488 334 Got to wag the Ukrainian dog

******

"In Japan, Ukrainian dog wagyu!'

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (m45I2)

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Damn. * standing golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (7rP4D)

489 too bad Jennifer Griffin, Jerry Rivers, Cavuto, and Bret weren't hitching a ride with Qasem Soleimani

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (us2H3)

490 Is that "Snake Island" the one that's full of venomous snakes?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (HsAzN)

491 Go somewhere else if you don't like it. The Internet is a big place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (6FeV1)

492 482 Can Sefton give a rest with the attempted "humor" and just write a simple post?

Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting
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Meow.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (uia9V)

493 Posted by: Sandy Vigilante at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (wvn6O)

.....

Stick to reading. Dick.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (KtV/v)

494 Can Sefton give a rest with the attempted "humor" and just write a simple post?

Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting.
Posted by: Sandy Vigilante

*

JJ does more to accumulate and provide news every single day of the week - unpaid - than any other conservative that I'm aware of.

I'm fine with a bad joke here and there.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (cUuEU)

495 Who pissed in the troll's soiflakes?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (HsAzN)

496 the Rooskies are now killing babies in incubators

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

497 Mob violence looking for revenge.
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I want all of the TV media doctors strung up too.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (UHVv4)

498 Looks like Kurt has a new schtick.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (3D/fK)

499 Daily Mail- Squad of Chechen special forces 'hunters' is unleashed in Ukraine to detain - or kill - Kyiv officials

https://tinyurl.com/yckud7du

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

500 MACRON JUST ACCEPTED ALL TERMS AND SURRENDERS TO RUSSIA
**

hahaha

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (cUuEU)

501 the Rooskies are now killing babies in incubators

That's hot

Posted by: PLanned Parenthood at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

502 If people would have asked some of the fundamental questions about Iraq and Afghanistan, that they are asking about Ukraine, a lot of my brothers, our neighbors and countrymen, would probably still be alive.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (VpIIl)

503 500 MACRON JUST ACCEPTED ALL TERMS AND SURRENDERS TO RUSSIA
**

hahaha
Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (cUuEU)

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"I don't get it."
-Charles de Gaulle

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

504 Looks like Kurt has a new schtick.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (3D/fK)

Spelling?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (6FeV1)

505 Here is an idea, let's drop Bill Krystol and his family into Kiev, to fight for the regime he installed.

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:22 AM (V13WU)

506 496 the Rooskies are now killing babies in incubators
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

Nah, that's for next weeks news shows. Pace yourself.

Posted by: kraken at February 25, 2022 09:22 AM (Vr12I)

507 well, he and his cohorts, he is not alone

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:22 AM (V13WU)

508 Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting.

*******

Oh boy! This oughta be good. Let me grab some popcorn!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 09:22 AM (m45I2)

509 the Rooskies are now killing WHITE babies in incubators

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (cUuEU)

510 The United States imported more gasoline and other refined petroleum products from Russia than any other country in 2021
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From my unreliable memory, same with uranium.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (MIKMs)

511 " turns out our very own CIA was training a bunch of shock troops that lo-and-behold turned out to be actual by-golly white supremacists. Nazis if you will."

They probably "white supremacists", idk. But to get to the Nazi part I'd think they'd have to be actively killing "the other". Just a strong connection to one's heritage is not necessarily "supremacist", and there are supremacists that are not white ... maybe a majority of them are not white?

Americanism is unique in that it is not really tribal, but based on liberty and God given rights supreme, BigGov submissive (ideally) to the people. Since we have gone tribal, it might become more important to join/form the right "tribes".

Posted by: illiniwek at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (Cus5s)

512 US Rep. Swalwell Suggests Kicking Russians Out of US Universities But Ignores Chinese in US Universities Stealing US Knowledge and Research Used in Development of COVID-19

Go bang bang fang fang!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (yrol0)

513 Got to wag the Ukrainian dog

******

"In Japan, Ukrainian dog wagyu!'

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 08:48 AM (m45I2)

Bravo !

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (V13WU)

514 475 So, if the Ukrainians stay and fight, they are stupid for not evacuating.
But if they evacuate, they will considered cowards like the French in 1940.
They can't win.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 25, 2022 09:17 AM (yRved)

James T. Kirk may not believe in the No-Win scenario, but bad planning puts you there every time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

515 475

I'd rather be a living coward than a dead fool...history will remember neither of the two.

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 09:24 AM (S1hrL)

516 From my unreliable memory, same with uranium.
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (MIKMs)

I DID THAT

Posted by: willie clinton at February 25, 2022 09:24 AM (yrol0)

517 Is that "Snake Island" the one that's full of venomous snakes?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (HsAzN)

It's named for Snake Plissken. He escaped from there. You might not have heard about it, because it was a Direct to Video movie.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2022 09:24 AM (FJYfm)

518 From my unreliable memory, same with uranium.
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2022 09:23 AM (MIKMs)
++++
If we buy domestic Uranium that is owned by a Russian firm (thanks, Hillary!), does that count as an import?

This is an actual question, because that's a nuance I don't know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

519 510 The United States imported more gasoline and other refined petroleum products from Russia than any other country in 2021
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Yep. How else could Putin afford to put on a war? We deplorables are now financing Putin. We are the patriots Obama has been looking for.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (uia9V)

520 Posted by: Sandy Vigilante

******

Sounds like somebody got sand in their vig-jayjay!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (m45I2)

521 BREAKING: Biden to Nominate Radical Obama Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to US Supreme Court

Was she named after that Robin Williams movie?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (yrol0)

522 Is that "Snake Island" the one that's full of venomous snakes?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:19 AM (HsAzN)

It's for well endowed make Ukranians

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (GPwVZ)

523 So, when vetting this SCJ pick, will ANYONE have the balls to ask:

"Do you think segregation is wrong?"

"Do you believe that skin color should be a quality used to determine value or competence?"

"Which is more important, content of character or color of skin?"

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

524 485 Are we back to Kiev or are we still on Kyiv?

Oksana Baiul, Oksana Bayul.

The Ukes are rather fluid in their spelling.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (HsAzN)

525 "If we buy domestic Uranium that is owned by a Russian firm (thanks, Hillary!), does that count as an import? "

Sort of like if you buy a BMW made in South Carolina, is it a real German import?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:25 AM (3D/fK)

526 It's named for Snake Plissken. He escaped from there. You might not have heard about it, because it was a Direct to Video movie.
Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2022 09:24 AM (FJYfm)

LOL, I think that's my favorite comment so far today!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2022 09:26 AM (evAgx)

527 Snake Island:

The purpose of war is not to die for your country. The purpose of war is to make the other dumb bastard die for his--Patton

Posted by: Scoob at February 25, 2022 09:26 AM (uz9Qm)

528 Foxnews reporting Ketanji Jackson is SCOTUS pick. Don't know much about her. Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?

Posted by: WisRich at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (G0vdT)

529 Looks like Kurt has a new schtick.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (3D/fK)

I have it on good authority that he's still a dick.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

530 So, if the Ukrainians stay and fight, they are stupid for not evacuating.

But if they evacuate, they will considered cowards like the French in 1940.

==

Um, evacuate civilians .

Posted by: runner, dissent is the highest form of patriotism at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (V13WU)

531 Josh Hammer
@josh_hammer
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to overstate the utterly pathetic nature of the Biden presidency thus far. Biden's is the "Murphy's law" presidency--anything that can go wrong has indeed gone wrong.

My latest
@NewsweekOpinion

https://tinyurl.com/5x225k9m
.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

532 Foxnews reporting Ketanji Jackson is SCOTUS pick. Don't know much about her. Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?
Posted by: WisRich at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (G0vdT)

She's a district court judge in DC, so that should tell you enough.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

533 Looks like Kurt has a new schtick.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:21 AM (3D/fK)
++++
Nah, this guy can spell and has some rudimentary ability to construct a sentence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

534 528 Foxnews reporting Ketanji Jackson is SCOTUS pick. Don't know much about her. Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?
Posted by: WisRich at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (G0vdT)

=======

More of an Assata Shakur, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

535 "...the Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off. He was right in the short term, longer term, TBD," wrote CNN White House correspondent John Harwood.

No evidence of Trump's perfidy is provided these claims - as usual. The Democrat-Media Complex continues to operate the only way it can in the face of the facts: Throw out a blizzard of dis- mis- mal-information using un-proven accusations of treason, racism, and you know all the rest of the slanders.

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (AMIL/)

536 @528

>>Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?

Worse, she's related to Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (sAo4d)

537 L.J.....This is important.

Larry Correia lets loose with one of the best rants he's ever done, and, boy, has he done some doozies.

https://tinyurl.com/2e7bpd4x

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (fBtlL)

538 @josh_hammer
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to overstate the utterly pathetic nature of the Biden presidency thus far. Biden's is the "Murphy's law" presidency--anything that can go wrong has indeed gone wrong. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Murphy was an optimist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (DU+/6)

539 hahaha

Visual representation of Biden, Russia, and Ukraine

Mostly safe for work. No nudity, although some animals engaging in intercourse.

https://tinyurl.com/ydab2f8r

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (cUuEU)

540 I'd rather be a living coward than a dead fool...history will remember neither of the two.

Whuhhh???

Posted by: New Hampshire Live Free or Die at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (yRved)

541 Ketanji Brown Jackson

KBJ?

We need a Moron moniker for her.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (HsAzN)

542 Did anyone catch Blinken yesterday saying that we would not cut off oil imports from Russia because it would be too painful? Direct 180 from what Biden and Harris were saying a few days ago.

Posted by: Tofer732 at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (GcxM3)

543 "Nah, this guy can spell and has some rudimentary ability to construct a sentence."

Did you just assume its gender?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (3D/fK)

544 Foxnews reporting Ketanji Jackson is SCOTUS pick. Don't know much about her. Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?
Posted by: WisRich at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (G0vdT)

She's a district court judge in DC, so that should tell you enough.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

I see nothing in her history that is at all encouraging. She has been overturned a lot. She has repeatedly ruled against PDT

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (GPwVZ)

545 In November Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled that Don McGahn must testify to Congress about his time as Trumps White House counsel.

Last July Judge Ketanji Jackson temporarily blocked the deportation of two migrants who claimed the Trump Administrations new lesson plan for asylum officers makes it harder to prove fear of returning to their home country.

She basically said PDT does not have right to attorney client privilege.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (yrol0)

546 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE GUY WHO PLAYED SPICOLI IS ACTUALLY IN THEATER RIGHT NOW

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (6FeV1)

547
>>Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?

Worse, she's related to Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2022 09:28 AM (sAo4d)

so she likes it in the ass ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (us2H3)

548 The Ukes are rather fluid in their spelling.
=====

Watches Goolgang searches . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 25, 2022 09:30 AM (MIKMs)

549 Is she more of a Sotomayor or a Kagen?

I would guess more of a Sotomayor. Left and stuipid

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 25, 2022 09:30 AM (GPwVZ)

550 >>>
Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting.
Posted by: Sandy Vigilante

Sit down, Krut.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 25, 2022 09:30 AM (VWp7G)

551 "Do you believe that skin color should be a quality used to determine value or competence?"

*

Oh that would be fantastic.

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:30 AM (cUuEU)

552 545 In November Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled that Don McGahn must testify to Congress about his time as Trumps White House counsel.

Last July Judge Ketanji Jackson temporarily blocked the deportation of two migrants who claimed the Trump Administrations new lesson plan for asylum officers makes it harder to prove fear of returning to their home country.

She basically said PDT does not have right to attorney client privilege.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (yrol0)

========

She got on the DC Circuit court with only 2 Republicans voting for her. In an election year, I would not be surprised if those 2 Republicans don't vote for her for SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

553 I'm here to introduce today Jumanji Jackson Brown.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (yRved)

554 NOOD.

Dude art.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

555 @josh_hammer
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to overstate the utterly pathetic nature of the Biden presidency thus far. Biden's is the "Murphy's law" presidency--anything that can go wrong has indeed gone wrong. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at February 25, 2022 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

Sorry, that's letting him off too easy. The point of Murphy's Law is that you can't count on luck. Even smart, well-planned endeavors can go bad.

With Biden, everything he's done has went exactly as anyone could have predicted - Anyone but Biden, that is. No bad luck was involved. Only a miracle could have saved him, and God's not wasting any miracles on this evil idiot.

Posted by: Wally at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (FJYfm)

556 Olivia Wendell Homey?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (6FeV1)

557 Art up

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (UHVv4)

558 so she likes it in the ass ?
Posted by: REDACTED at February 25, 2022 09:29 AM (us2H3)

Is there any indication that Ryan is gay? He does have a wife and kids.

Or you meant you allowed Republicans to be run over?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2022 09:32 AM (GezNK)

559 >>CNN is reporting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be Biden's SCOTUS nominee

I'll bet she won the beauty show partly because of her first name. It's not a typical name for a white woman. Marks her as black without needing to see her picture, and is much different from Sonia and Elena.

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2022 09:33 AM (AMIL/)

560 Did anyone catch Blinken yesterday saying that we would not cut off oil imports from Russia because it would be too painful? Direct 180 from what Biden and Harris were saying a few days ago.

That is one hell of a strong show of force and resolve behind "Devastating Sanctions" when the Junta lays on its back and exposes its belly to the bear.

Please! Don't stop the flow of oil! We will continue to do all we can to not produce for ourselves and will do all we can to rely on you more!!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 25, 2022 09:33 AM (lD3vL)

561 Art up
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 25, 2022 09:31 AM (UHVv4)

Thank you, Lord, and CBD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2022 09:33 AM (GezNK)

562 Lots of top stories are covering United States Redistricting 2022

In fact, Marc E. Elias has been on fire about recent redistricting victories (Pennsylvania and North Carolina) and Voting Rights

Posted by: Lola at February 25, 2022 09:35 AM (xjz83)

563 biden's in trouble. harf is saying his administration is out of touch.

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:35 AM (OOpLg)

564 oops; that's not harf. where'd i put my glasses?

Posted by: anachronda at February 25, 2022 09:36 AM (OOpLg)

565 482 Can Sefton give a rest with the attempted "humor" and just write a simple post?

Sefton- you're not funny. Stick to just reporting.
Posted by: Sandy Vigilante at February 25, 2022 09:18 AM (wvn6O)

Humor? What humor? Did I write any jokes? No, I merely hurled invective and insults with a satirical tinge.

Pity you lack the intellect to discern between jokes and satire nor the ability to just skip direct to the links.

Thank you and please remember to hit the tip jars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 09:36 AM (s2VJv)

566 Thanks for the well wishes.In the treatment room, collecting specimens..

Hah, Muldoon! We were hoping it would have passed by now.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 25, 2022 09:37 AM (tG6OF)

567 Snake Island:

Don't know the situation, but would have been more pleased if they would have delayed the bombardment instead of saying "go f*ck yourself", undertook a tactical retreat or retreated to a bunker, and fought another day.

But maybe the circumstances did not provide that option.

Posted by: Scoob at February 25, 2022 09:39 AM (uz9Qm)

568 THE JOOOOOS!!!!

Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:43 AM (cUuEU)

569 I have...unhappy feelings...about those judges, proscecutors, and enablers of the unjustice done to the J6 political prisoners. In a just world, the people would go out and do --censored, censored--to all those sons-of-bitches.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 25, 2022 09:44 AM (ynpvh)

570 567 Snake Island:

Don't know the situation, but would have been more pleased if they would have delayed the bombardment instead of saying "go f*ck yourself", undertook a tactical retreat or retreated to a bunker, and fought another day.

But maybe the circumstances did not provide that option.

Posted by: Scoob at February 25, 2022 09:39 AM (uz9Qm)

I would like to see a slew of accidents happen to the Russian fleet...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 25, 2022 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

571 They are shocked that Nigel thinks Trump trying to negotiate with Putin was a good thing as they run down a list of how Trump was cozy with Putin which allowed Putin to get the courage to do this.
___________

Their view would only have made sense if Putin invaded when his "buddy" Trump was still prezzy. Makes zero sense for Putin to feel emboldened by his supposed friendship with Trump, but then not invade Ukraine until a year after "the anti-Trump adults" take over from Trump in the U.S.

Have you seen the silly Time mag cover story, featuring the fearsome, smooth-skinned Joe Biden in his ultra-cool aviator specs and jutting jaw? The sight of super-competent, photo-shopped Joe is supposed to strike fear in the hearts of America's enemies!

All it really did was make Vlad laugh out loud and say "yep, this is what I've been waiting for. Now's the time!"

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 25, 2022 09:51 AM (k4dH2)

572 542 Did anyone catch Blinken yesterday saying that we would not cut off oil imports from Russia because it would be too painful? Direct 180 from what Biden and Harris were saying a few days ago.
---------------------
This tells you that Biden and Beautiful People are wetting their beaks on Russian Oil. Everything is a GRIFT!

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 25, 2022 09:52 AM (uia9V)

573 Typical day on the market. Raid NASDAQ profits to puff up the DOW. Fuck SoDiNY.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 25, 2022 09:53 AM (uia9V)

574 569 THE JOOOOOS!!!!
Posted by: Moron Rubie at February 25, 2022 09:43 AM (cUuEU)

"Always and forever . . . "

- - Lionel Kvetchie

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 10:14 AM (s2VJv)

575 Posted by: Petrushka at February 25, 2022 09:40 AM (hrCuk)

Ah yes, a Ukrainian anti-Semite (BIRM) with an appropriate hash "CUCK."

And ... he's gone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 25, 2022 10:27 AM (s2VJv)

576 Blinken goes rogue. Progress!

Posted by: Ziba at February 25, 2022 10:43 AM (S1hrL)

577 Damn. The Russians used -barreled- guns against the Ukrainians? That's some exotic, high-tech kind of gun, right?

Posted by: Spartan at February 25, 2022 11:25 AM (xNjxJ)

578 Gang, I think it's a little early to claim the Ukraine army has 'failed".

First, the strength and technological capability of the forces is completely asymmetrical. I don't think any one really thought the Ukraine standing firm against Russia would give them much of a black eye, at first.

Second, it sure looked like the Taliban "failed" in 2002 or 2003, also, but they fought on for years, slowly bleeding our willingness to fight.

I would anticipate that Ukraine's tactic would be to resist a bit and fall back, and continue doing so until Russia's supply lines, and slow attrition, started adding up and leveling the playing field. Standing firm against such an overmatched opponent is a recipe for defeat. Let them punch air for a bit until they're exhausted, then find a weakness and strike.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they are collapsing. But it's too early to say just yet.

Posted by: Goober at February 25, 2022 11:33 AM (Hgvgt)

579
- Because, obviously, it's a world market. And, as you point out, Russia has an important share of that."

Gee! And who has power over the electric battery market?
That would be the country which controls the lithium and cobalt. Who is that?
Communist China, that's who.
How did we get painted into this particular corner?

Posted by: Speller at February 25, 2022 12:29 PM (pSotA)

580 re: the Ukrainian border guards

I get where you're coming from, truly I do, but I am still damned proud of those guys. Maybe I'm still tuned into the '80s or whatever, but anyone who stands up to Russian aggression with a hearty, "Go fuck yourselves," has my admiration.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at February 25, 2022 01:24 PM (lXZ2r)

581 Just tonight saw pics, per ported to be now, of snake island and not a sign of any damage at all. Fog of war and all. Also known as lying.
,

Posted by: robert smith at February 25, 2022 09:24 PM (VqOWW)

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