The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/16/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the truly colossal, earth-shaking story this morning is the greatest deliberative body on the planet, the United States Senate has decided to tackle arguably the greatest existential threat we face. Russia? China? Iran? No. -- Daylight Savings Time.

Rest easy, America. The United States Senate has got your back. Mostly with a knife sticking in it. Ides of March indeed.

Back here in the real world, while the Klain Kalorama Komintern have now doused the drapery with gasoline - kind of a miracle considering it's almost too expensive even for them - and are ready to burn down the house, far too many have been focused on what's happening in Ukraine. While it is for sure tragic, and a trip that was not necessary had it not been for the incompetence of past administrations (Trump notwithstanding) and for sure the clueless, globalist pinheads in Foggy Bottom and the Kennedy School of International Relations et al, is Putin's attempted annexation of that nation really worth the potential to touch off a nuclear confrontation? If you answered yes, or if you think that it won't and that we should still get involved, you need to seek help.

Unfortunately, Dennis Prager seems to be getting right up to that line.

If the Left were concerned with what is in America's interest, it would not advocate—and, under Joe Biden, implement—open borders. It is not in America's interest to allow millions of people to illegally enter the United States.
If the Left were concerned with what is in America's interest, it would not advocate—and, under Biden, implement—policies to change America from an energy-independent country into an energy-dependent country.
If the Left were concerned with what is in America's interest, it would not advocate lying to its youth by telling them that America is systemically racist, that it was founded in 1619, that it fought the Revolution to preserve slavery, and that America's founders were immoral racists. It would not advocate defunding police departments. It would not have advocated depriving young children of education for two years.
The Left everywhere despises America. And the American Left is no exception. Most liberals love America, but they vote for the Left. So, their love is irrelevant.

Stop the tape. Dennis, you are now getting yourself into a semantics trap of your own design. How can most liberals supposedly "love America yet still vote Left" knowing full well that the Left hates the America that you claim they, "most liberals," allegedly love? Roll tape . . .

Unlike the Left, people on the Right are preoccupied with the question, "What is in America's interest?" That is why the Trump-era slogan "America First" so resonated with conservatives. . .
. . . they believe that America, despite its flaws, has been exactly as Abraham Lincoln described it: "The last best hope of Earth." Therefore, teaching young Americans that America is the very opposite is not only a lie, but it will also destroy the foundations of this country.
One hopes that virtually all conservatives (and virtually all people across the political spectrum) regard the invasion as evil. Whoever doesn't has a malfunctioning conscience.
Yet, some people, on the Right as well as the Left, do not put the entire blame for the war on Putin. Their chief argument is that Putin felt threatened by the possible expansion of NATO into Ukraine.

Stop tape. No, Dennis. Accusing people who try to explain WHY Putin invaded as somehow mitigating his actions or even taking his side is offensive. Roll tape . . .

NATO notwithstanding, the primary "not in America's interest" argument goes like this: "What Putin is doing is wrong, but essentially it is none of our business. The United States has no interest in Ukraine."
To this argument, one can ask: Other than an attack on America, when and where does America have an interest? And why? If a Russian dictator can invade and decimate another country in an act of unprovoked aggression and it not be in America's interest, what about China invading Taiwan, or Iran unleashing nuclear weapons against Israel, or North Korea doing so against South Korea? Why are Taiwan, Israel, or South Korea more "in America's interest" than Ukraine?
And, finally, what about the moral question? Is morality "in America's interest"? I have supported the notion of "America First." But as a conservative and as a religious conservative, I do not believe in "America Only." For the same reasons, I believe in "my family first," but I do not believe in "my family only."

Well, that is the question, isn't it? Let's look at the examples that he cites. In virtually all of them, we have either treaty obligations or other agreements that hold that the US would actively defend or otherwise provide materiel assistance to a nation in the event of an attack. In at least two, the regions involved are of tremendous strategic importance to our economic well-being as well as global security and containment of enemies. In the case of Ukraine, I could be wrong but I don't think the 1994 Budapest Memorandum obligates us to go to war with Russia in the event it invades Ukraine. Commenters please advise. That said, we have abject dolts like Sean Hannity and Lindsay Graham calling for the CIA or the SEALs to assassinate Putin to the neo-con Right and now the neo-neo-con Left calling for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Ukraine. That is a de facto declaration of war against a nuclear-armed Russia. Brilliant.

And now we get to the crux of the biscuit. Prager opines, "Other than an attack on America, when and where does America have an interest? And why?" I guess my glib response to that would be, American interest is a bit like pornography. I'll know it when I see it. Sorry to say, our own government's fuck ups both past and present vis a vis Ukraine and Russia notwithstanding, I just do not see Vladimir Putin - brutal, thuggish and international war criminal he surely is - invading Ukraine as a threat to our national security interests.

The bigger point I want to emphasize is, considering that as a direct result of the hijacking of the 2020 election which resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of the United States of America, any conversation about "American interests" and "national security" such as those concepts were before November of 2020 are moot. Prager himself takes up almost half of his very well-written essay actually identifying the greatest threat to our national security, inextricably linked to our individual freedom and security, without even realizing it: The American Left. As Michael Walsh underscored in the latest podcast, ever since Aaron Burr slew Alexander Hamilton (as well as conspired with Spain to seize part of early 19th century America and be installed as its emperor) right up until the present day, it is they in the form of the Democrat Party that have been and remain our gravest threat.

But the Democrat Party are merely the visible pawns doing the bidding of a much more malevolent force. That is, the World Economic Forum and its coterie of multi billionaires and other self-proclaimed globalist elites who are seeking to upend over a thousand years of human progress and essentially enslave the world. Funny how the loudest, most strident calls for Putin's head are coming from individuals like Nazi collaborator George Soros, Hans-Georg Wyss, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and others. Considering the truly sick, megalomaniacal machinations that these fiends intend to impose on us and the world, their protestations are hardly because of the pain and suffering of the Ukrainian people. Putin is not "down for the struggle," so to speak. Whether or not Xi is is not readily apparent. Him supporting Putin - and it's been lukewarm so far - could be that he, Xi, is playing both sides against the middle.

What's going on in Ukraine is horrendous. That said, I'm more concerned with what's going on right here and now in the former United States.

The Davos/WEF/Great Reset Mafia have aided and abetted in the destruction from within of our society and government (ironically started by the former Soviet Union nearly 100 years ago). I'm not really "rootin' for Putin" because I love what he's doing. But I sure as hell am not rooting for the enslavement of us and whatever is left of the free world such as it is. As to what is in our interest, right now it's our own self-preservation from the cancer that de-facto invaded/metastasized from within ever since Woodrow Wilson, if not earlier.. When we excise that disease and cure ourselves, then we can talk about national security from an international perspective, or even from a moral perspective, though I would still resist that.

Psaki-Psircling back to the Psenate . . .

But wait! There's more! Six (count 'em!) of our wonderful GOP Senators took the slings and arrows of outrage to defend the greatest medical mind of our age, Anthony Fauci, from being removed from his position. Leading the cause was none other than our own Mitt "Pee-Air" Defecto" Romney. Our hero.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"America's greatest threat is still from within."
Does Anyone Recognize This Country Anymore?
"A remedial look at American interests."
"Here Be Monsters"
"The lockdowns mark the start of a ride we can't get off."
Two Years After Lockdowns, the West's Troubles Aren't Ending -- They're Just Beginning

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

"Who run Barter Town?!"
Russia Reverses Gas Flow Via Key Pipeline Serving Europe
"The answer may lie in his tactics in previous conflicts. . . What this clusterfuck of a conflict will lead to in the days, weeks, even months ahead is anyone's guess, but the fact that both sides are ratcheting up their responses does not bode well for the future."
Will Putin Up the Ante?
"It's no surprise, then, that CIA Director Bill Burns recently told lawmakers that Russia 'is losing' the information war. But what he really means, though, is that a false, Manichean narrative has emerged to absolve the West of all wrongdoing and inch us toward nuclear war. Supposedly, all in the name of 'democracy.' But 'democracy' in Ukraine started a civil war that has raged for nearly a decade, with more than 14,000 dead before Russia even crossed the Rubicon. It meant turning Ukraine into the poorest country in Europe and using it as a proxy in the West's new cold war, for which it is now paying dearly."
The Fog of Information War in Ukraine
"Most of the false asylum claimants are economic migrants from North Africa and the Middle East."
30 Per Cent of "Ukrainian Refugees" Are Actually From Other Countries
Jeffrey Lord: " World War I and the lesson of unintended consequences."
Yes, Putin Could Go Nuclear
"The legacy of his positive spirit, boundless energy and eye for the story will carry on."
Fox News Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski Killed in Ukraine Outside of Kyiv
"Reckless talking heads promote a no-fly zone that would inevitably lead to more problems, conflict, and death for the U.S. and our allies."
Meet the Reckless Elites Wishing War on the West By Promoting an Air War in Ukraine
"'So, I will say what I know we all say and I will say over and over again, the United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance,' Harris said during her DNC meeting speech, though Ukraine is not a member of NATO."
White House Alters Official Kamala Harris Speech Transcript After Embarrassing Ukraine/NATO Flub
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the sanctions with a joke, tweeting, 'I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award.'" (you should only take a permanent vacation in Kolyma - jjs)
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Floats Bizarre Joke Theory That Russia Meant To Sanction President Biden's Deceased Father

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"If Xi makes good on his earlier promises to support Putin, China will find itself joining the club of pariah nations that includes Russia, North Korea, Syria and Iran. If Xi turns his back on Putin in this time of need, his word can no longer be believed while his country will not regain the trust of the West. In short, Xi has seriously miscalculated."
China Won't Let Putin Lose His Ugly Ukraine War
"It weighs action as Russian oligarchs flee to Israel."
Israel Considers Possible Break From Its Policy of Noninterference
"There is a method to Putin's madness."
Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
"How long can this Ukraine war last before Russia's population collapses?"
Is Putin More Afraid of Russian Mothers Than NATO?
Michael Goodwin: "China's apparent willingness to assist Vladimir Putin's army in addition to helping him avoid economic sanctions dramatically raises the stakes. A Russian victory in Ukraine now would be a triumph for a New World Order led by brutal autocrats and a defeat for the West and democracy itself." (Goodwin and far too many others are blind to the Global Reset/Davos Mafia that is at our throats right here and right now - jjs)
Aid Ukraine to Halt Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's Diabolical Plans
"Reflecting on the willingness of people to fight for their own."
Nationalism Good and Bad
Dennis Prager: "If conservatism means 'America First,' count me a conservative. But if conservatism means 'America Only,' count me out."
Ukraine: What Is in America's Interest?
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"China has been pushing its yuan petro-currency idea since 2018. The Journal reports that the Saudis, who overwhelmingly use the U.S. petrodollar to do their oil deals, may not switch. But if they do, and the U.S. slides as the world's reserve currency, who in their right mind would buy America's debt created with inflated dollars? The Chinese, who own about $1 trillion in America's treasuries, wouldn't need us anymore."
Will Anything Be Left of the U.S. After Biden Is Done With It?
"The move would deal a major blow to the dollar's supremacy in the oil market. The Saudis have grown motivated to turn against the United States, according to the Journal, because they are unsatisfied with America's foreign policy decisions and support for the kingdom."
Saudis Mull Ditching US Dollar for China's Yuan in Oil Sales
"Why Saudi and UAE leaders don't bother."
Taking Calls from Biden
"Psaki also offered no clarity regarding reports that Colombian President Iván Duque, who expressed lukewarm concern about a potential Biden-Maduro deal, had offered Colombian oil as an alternative during his visit to the White House last week."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Says No Venezuelan Oil "At This Time" as Hispanic Support for Democrats Collapses
What does this fool think the main ingredient is in his friggin' Aveda pomade?
Gavin Newsom Opposes Republican Bid To Pause Sky-High Gas Tax Because It Would Help "Petro-Dictators and Oil Companies"

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"Though no statement has been released yet at the time of this writing, Joe Biden is widely expected to blame Vladimir Putin."
Joe-mentum: Inflation Reaches Double-Digits for the First Time
Pelosi I'm sure thinks this is a sign of a healthy economy.
Prices of Goods Climbed Record 2.4 Percent in February
Charlie Gasparino: "Of course, Powell won't do that when he unveils his new interest-rate policy [today] because in doing so he would have to admit to one of the biggest monetary-policy blunders in recent history. It was Powell who promoted the panacea of 'transitory inflation.' As we all know now, it was a cynical PR stunt designed to fool the American people that there would be no consequence to his historic money printing (in the trillions), low-interest rates and support of President Joe Biden's trillion-dollar spending sprees well past the time that [Chinese] COVID was squeezing growth from the US economy."
The Fed Must Fix the Mess it Created and Raise Rates to Choke Off Inflation
"The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has ensured investors of a rising defense budget and triggered the recent outperformance of defense names related to the S&P500," said the March 7, 2022, report by research analysts at Bank of America Securities and Merrill Lynch. (I wonder which anti-military Marxists supported defense spending in the latest multi-trillion dollar budget fiasco - jjs)
Defense Stocks "Outperform" After Russian Invasion of Ukraine
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
In the past week, op-eds in the Nation and the Hill have argued that Biden should make use of the National Emergencies Act and the Defense Production Act to aggressively regulate the supply and demand of U.S. energy and move the nation off fossil fuels. Both articles reference climate reports published in February, when Russia invaded Ukraine, and echo a claim made last week by Biden that the invasion "should motivate us to accelerate the transition to clean energy."
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Biden Urged To Use Ukraine as Excuse To Advance Green New Deal Through Emergency Order
"The transition will happen over the next three years because of sustainability and environmentalism -- and garden variety wokeness."
Woke Starbucks To Phase Out Disposable Cups For Nasty Reusable Ones
Reason, and economic reality, and "energy security" will overcome "green energy" fantasies every time. "Climate change" can wait indefinitely.
China Upping Its Use of Coal
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Among the examples of 'extremism' cited by DHS are: a belief that fraud occurred in the 2020 election, and objections to current [Chinese] coronavirus policies."
Meme Police: DHS Scanning Employees' Social Media for "Conspiracy Theories," "Extremism"
"AG Schmitt asked that the MSBA be penalized for knowingly violating the law."
Missouri Sues School Boards Association For Hiding Details About Biden's War On Parents
"Three recent left-wing tracts demonstrate how the Woke Occupation Army, and its pagan gods, are at war with traditional America and how they are determined to pin the blame on us."
Poking the Deplorable Bear
"Neither the Left nor their lapdog media can endure hoi polloi challenging their official narratives."
Whose Democracy Is This, Anyway?
"Assuming voters restore Republicans to the majority in the House of Representatives in November, the odds then will be that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will become Pelosi's successor with the House gavel, come January 2023. House Republicans now are increasingly bold in calling for reopening the Capitol to the general public as soon as possible. How McCarthy decides this issue if and when it is in his power to do so will say a great deal about what to expect from him and the rest of the congressional Republicans."
PREDICTION: Malig-Nancy Pelosi Will Never Actually Reopen the U.S. Capitol
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
I imagine it dies in the House, or does it? And will Ron Klain veto it?
Senate Passes Rand Paul Resolution to Ban Travel Mask Mandates
Scum: Republican Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Jerry Moran of Kansas each voted against the amendment.
These 6 Republicans Voted Against Ousting Fauci
"It appears Americans are truly trying to move on from the pandemic, as roughly one-third, 32 percent, said they have returned to levels of pre-pandemic normalcy in their day to day routines. Another 23 percent plan to do so this year. Overall, 66 percent said the Chinese coronavirus poses 'little or no risk.'"
Poll: Americans Forgo Masks, Deem Coronavirus "Little or No Risk"
"Deaths represented a stunning 1.3% of side effects reports. Many, however, argue that data from the federal government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which the study relied on, isn't the most reliable." CDC Study of VAERS Data Finds High Incidence of Chinese COVID Vaccine Side Effects, Including Death
"Meanwhile, Chinese stocks experienced the biggest plunge since 2008." (good - jjs)
China Orders 51 Million into Lockdown as "[Chinese] Covid-Zero" Policy Utterly Fails
"Just as Pfizer head says fourth shot needed 'right away.'"
Comedy Gold: Fauci Says MORE Vaccines WILL Be Needed; "We're Not Done With This"
"During a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing over the bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act, Romney voted no to lifting mask and jab mandates in the federal Head Start program."
Pee-Air Defecto Romney Just Voted To Keep Masking Two-Year-Olds
"Some medical people are probing the edges of what could be a staggering fraud case."
What if the Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Are Not Really Vaccines
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Gerald Brevard, 30, was taken into police custody and questioned, NBC Washington reported. The Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. told NBC that a suspect has been apprehended and was being interviewed, but wouldn't detail how he was caught. (looks like he's non-white so down the memory hole this one goes - jjs)
Man Suspected Of Shooting, Killing Homeless Men In NYC, DC Has Been Caught, Police Say
"The point is that society has a choice to make: either we allow the clowns who have created this system to remain in power, and we start wearing helmets and body armor when we're out and about; or we get serious about transforming our culture, services, and law enforcement back to a sane model."
Horror Show: Homeless Monsters Commit Unprovoked, Life-Altering Violence
"The victim suffered facial bone fractures, brain bleeding and multiple contusions and lacerations to her head." (name that melanin; down the memory hole this one goes - jjs)
Man Arrested for Allegedly Punching Elderly Asian Woman 125 Times, Stomping on Her Head
"A police agent posing as a 14-year-old girl responded to an online notice posted by a user named 'English Teacher,' who was identified as Matthew Christopher Yates, a 27-year-old who taught eighth grade English in St. Augustine, Florida, according to the DOJ."
Middle School Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Solicit Sex From 14-Year-Old
"Street crimes in American cities were down in 2020, but Americans weren't safer."
Lower Rate, Higher Risk
"DA Alvin Bragg is keeping violent criminals from going to jail, and Mayor Eric Adams's only achievement is that he is best known for hitting the city's coolest clubs. Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots." (shattered, sha-doobie - jjs)
Put a Fork in New York, Too
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The letter from VASS called out Youngkin for repealing equity initiatives largely launched by Former Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam's administration, as The Daily Wire reported. The governor signed an executive order on day one barring the teaching and training of critical race theory in public schools. Youngkin launched a tip line for concerned parents in January, which VASS takes issue with."
Government Liaison For Virginia Superintendents Group Deflects Whether Should Have Consulted All Members for Youngkin Letter
"The medical-school accreditation body places an increasing emphasis on 'diversity, equity, and inclusion.'"
First, Brook No Dissent
"Apparently, what school officials and teachers did not like is this girl talking to others about religion. Yuch! We can't have the minds of other children poisoned by such stuff! It will take time away from convincing them that boys are girls and girls are boys!"
Today's Blacklisted American: Second Grader Punished for Talking About Christianity
"The Left disrespects the child, dismantling the innocence of youth and future possibilities in the process."
"The Future is Not White": The Normalization of Activist Elementary Education
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"America was built on the notion of possibility and growth rather than to become a static government that falls into tyranny and turns citizens into subjects." (A review of The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State by Edward J. Erler)
In Search of an American Citizen
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The plaintiffs say the ordinance violates state law and claim that local elections officials can determine how elections are carried off but not who can vote. They may agree with the voters and the outcome of the election, but they don't agree that everyone who voted should have been allowed to cast a ballot. There's something about two wrongs making a right in there somewhere."
Wild San Francisco School Board Recall Election Prompts a Big Lawsuit—But Not for the Reason You Think
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Amnesty U.S. Director Paul O'Brien: "We are opposed to the idea … that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people." (he's thinking Madagascar, or perhaps Birkenau - jjs)
Amnesty's U.S. Chief Says Israel Shouldn't Exist "As a State For the Jewish People"
"Report exposes anti-Semitic, anti-Israel postings from Qatar-Northwestern U program."
Inside Qatar's "Multimillion-Dollar Plan" to Mainstream Anti-Israel Journalists
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Rheanne Wirkkala is awaiting Senate confirmation for the role of Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the Pentagon."
A Key Biden Defense Nominee is Adam Schiff's Aide Who Trained at Hunter Biden's Think Tank, and Fell for a Russian Prank Offering Nudes of Trump
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Blumenthal, one of the richest members of Congress, claimed last month that he does not own stocks."
Da Nang Dickweed Blumenthal Denies Owning Stocks. His Portfolio Tells a Different Story.
POLITICS
"The sagging poll numbers must be a continuing disappointment for the [so-called quote-unquote "president"], who may have hoped to regain favorability during the Ukrainian war. The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has used the Ukrainian war to justify high gas prices and inflation that largely occurred in 2021 but have continued to soar since the war commenced."
Poll: Only 37 Percent Approve of Joe Biden After He Blames Putin for Soaring Inflation, Gas Prices
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] confused the two women in his life during a speech at a Women's History Month celebration at the White House."
Jill Biden Corrects Joe Biden After He Calls Kamala Harris the First Lady
"The Right is the only political home for anyone who wants to live in reality."
No New Normal
"The poll found overall 58% of participants feel inflation is causing them major financial stress. When broken down among demographics, 35% of black, Hispanic, Asian-American and other minority voters expressed feeling the pain of inflation, compared to 28% of white voters. Among those polled, 44% of black women and Hispanic men reported the highest proportion of major strain among demographic and gender combinations."
POLL: Minority Voters Hit Hardest By Inflation, Some Say They Will Vote Republican Now
Robert Spencer: "Are Americans really just too stupid to understand the great job he's doing?"
Brand New Biden Whine
"It's too late for them to move to the center."
Why the Democrats Are In Deep Trouble Even If They Make a Course Correction
"Politicians need more than the right platform or good vibes. They need a team and a strategy focused on winning—not just the election, but the war we all recognize we're fighting."
The Right's Political Landscape Has Changed—Why Haven't Our Campaigns?
"Post these on Twitter to show everyone how much you admire strong women and love paying more money for gas and groceries."
Kamala Harris Quotes as Motivational Posters, Because the Time to Be Inspired is Every Day
"Buckle your seatbelts, folks, because Abrams is going to continue to get this type of softball coverage and hagiography as she battles Gov. Brian Kemp (or maybe David Perdue, but that's not likely) in her latest attempt to ruin the state of Georgia."
Tank Abrams Kicks Off Her Second Attempt to Ruin Georgia
Good. Too much Oprah baggage for a seat we really have to have a shot at winning in a too-crowded field.
Report: Oz Looks to Exit Senate Race, Return to Television
"Even red Mississippi is afflicted with RINOs."
Know the Pedigree of the RINOs Representing You
"The Supreme Court has allowed two state courts to replace congressional districts approved by legislatures, but a broader resolution of the issue may be coming."
Who Redistricts—Legislatures, or Judges?
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
". . .her vetting of Judge Jackson shows clear hypocrisy. Collins is gushing praise on a nominee who we know nothing about, yet refused to meet with Justice Barrett."
Why Susan Collins's Praise for Biden's SCOTUS Pick Irks Senate Republicans
"Quotas are the latest measure demolishing the principles that underpin Americans' faith in the Supreme Court's authority." (the only minority they really care about are Marxists - jjs)
"This Seat is Reserved": Quotas and the Supreme Court
"Joe Biden's efforts to smear and derail the advancement of minority candidates of a non-leftist bent demonstrate how hollow his commitment to 'diversity' is."
Joe Biden's Commitment to Diversity Just a Virtue Signal
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"When did they arrest people for saying stuff like this, and who is they exactly?"
Video: Tucker Carlson Responds To Calls For His ARREST Over Bio-labs Coverage
"Washington Post eagerly promotes misinformation about GOP governor."
FAKE NEWS: How One Reporter's Blatant Lie About Glenn Youngkin Became a Democrat Talking Point
"ANALYSIS: Trolling Trump on Twitter not the same as risking life to challenge Putin."
National Man-Boy Lincoln Project Schlub Compares Self to Courageous Russian Anti-War Activist
". . . the increasingly intolerant behavior of big tech companies like Microsoft to free speech increases the need for people to free themselves from them. The willingness of these companies to also treat your privacy and personal data as a plaything for their use, without your permission, is another rational reason to stop depending on them."
Dumping Windows and Apple and Switching to Linux
"Never have so few so devastatingly impacted the well-being and future of this country."
Social Media: The Intimidation and Enforcement Arm of the American Left
ABORTION
"Can a deputy or any person who professes to be a Catholic, while openly cooperating or legislating against life, receive Holy Communion? No."
Diocese Tells Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians They Cannot Receive Communion, Become Godparents
"Famous for recognizing the value of long-established traditions, Edmund Burke was no apologist for institutional error."
Tradition and Stare Decisis Are More Reasons the Supreme Court Should Reverse Roe v. Wade
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Cyberattack follows reports of failed Mossad operation against Iran."
Israeli Government Apparently Slammed by Massive Cyberattack
"The [junta] has thus far refused to commit to submit a new Iran deal to the Senate for ratification as a treaty, as per its constitutional obligation, or for review under statutory requirements that passed on a bipartisan basis in response to the 2015 deal," the statement said.
49 GOP Senators to Biden: Any Iran Deal Lacking Strong Bipartisan Support "Will Not Survive"
"The Biden [junta] is pressing forward with its efforts to secure a new nuclear deal with Iran, even after Tehran over the weekend launched a dozen ballistic missiles at American sites in Iraq. The [junta's] decision to 'shrug off the attack' is generating outrage on Capitol Hill among Republican lawmakers who say negotiations with Iran should be halted." Biden Junta Undeterred in Nuclear Talks After Iran Attacks US Outpost in Iraq
Robert Spencer: ". . . And the cost could be very, very high." (meh, I wouldn't exactly shed a tear - jjs)
Iran Plots to Murder John Bolton, Yet Biden's Handlers Won't Indict the Suspects
"Åkesson calls for pause on non-European asylum claims." (about 25 years too late - jjs)
Sweden Democrats: Ban All Refugees Except Ukrainians
"If there is one positive outcome of this crisis, Taiwan and Japan have begun to take China's military threat seriously."
The Ukraine Crisis is a Wake-up Call for Taiwan and Japan
"This event is a perfect illustration of what the EU has become: an oppressive system run by unaccountable bureaucrats who overturn democratically elected governments."
While Vilifying Putin, the EU Punishes Democracy in Hungary and Poland
"The two strongest Eurasian powers are united in seeking to end America's global preeminence."
The Decline of Nixon's Global Order
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Even with successful negotiations, any deal would have to secure the Pentagon's approval." (pfft, look who's running the Pentagon - jjs)
Plea Deal in the Offing for 9/11 Terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Four Defendants
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
Finally, something that is actually constructive coming out of Congress.
U.S. Senate Approves Bill To Make Daylight Savings Time Permanent
"If you're counting on me to do the math, that's 24 states that San Francisco wouldn't do business with as of 2019. But they weren't done. . . "
San Francisco Boycotts Most of the U.S. for Insufficient Wokeness
"Onerous regulations squash the California Dream."
Tarnishing the Golden State
"The Democrats have spent decades pretending to care about the poor. If allowing ankle-deep street feces is a sign of compassion, I'd hate to see their angry side."
Blue Cities Are Literal Toilets, and Libs Are OK With That
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Because almost all Russian communications satellites rely on western components, the sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of the Ukraine will likely prevent the future launch of any such satellites."
Entire Russian Communications Satellite Industry Threatened by Russia's Ukraine Invasion
"The irrational and rational concerns about using repeated atomic blasts to lift a rocket off the ground will kill any effort to fund this work, or allow private companies to do it."
Launching a Rocket Using Atomic Explisions?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] implies that G-d supports his gender agenda. How does he know?"
Joe Biden's Gender Obsession
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"A central struggle seems to be West's concerns over leftist and secular influences introduced to his children when they're with their mother."
Kanye West Isn't Just Clashing With Pete Davidson, He's Clashing With Secular Culture
Christian Toto: "Dog director lunged for victimhood status but learned a crucial lesson instead."
How Jane Campion Stepped into a Woke Trap of Her Own Making
"Color Us United will spend $500,000 targeting company's 'racial equity' policies."
"Un-American Express": Anti-Woke Group Takes Aim at Credit Card Company's Race-Based Hiring
HITHER & YON
"An anti-communist, Cold Warrior, and reporter and personage extraordinaire, dead at 95. But what a life!"
The Most Interesting Man in the World: Charlie Wiley, RIP

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:39 AM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 07:39 AM (bVYXr)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:39 AM (yrol0)

3 Mornin', y'all.

Posted by: Bert G at March 16, 2022 07:40 AM (l2ggO)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 16, 2022 07:40 AM (IUd0M)

5 Too many links. Good morning horde.

Posted by: IanDeal at March 16, 2022 07:40 AM (MGjjz)

6 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

A Verse for the Day:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? "I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."
--Jeremiah 17:9-10

*Our pols should be terrified*

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 07:40 AM (Msys3)

7 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at March 16, 2022 07:41 AM (CjFDo)

8

The death of the dollar as the world's reserve currency has begun. There is no stopping this. Let's Go Brandon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 07:43 AM (Mzdiz)

9 I DST racist or standard time racist? No way racism isn't involved somehow.

Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (MxEKc)

10 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (3D/fK)

11 Republican Senators Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Jerry Moran of Kansas each voted against the amendment.

Who are 6 people who I hope their asses grow together, Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (yrol0)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (arJlL)

13 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 08:39 AM

?

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (arJlL)

14
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 16, 2022 07:45 AM (SWi3y)

15
The dollar's status as international reserve currency is the only thing that has allowed us to get away with our fiscal and monetary incontinence. Otherwise we'd be Venezuela or Zimbabwe.

When that status is lost, we become that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 07:45 AM (Mzdiz)

16 It's the time machine JT.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 07:46 AM (Msys3)

17 Good morning dear morons and grwat essay this morning JJ

Here's what I see as the American interest in Ukraine. 1. Taiwan 2. The mode of The Russian offensive has been a criminal assault on a mass civilian population.

That cannot go unanswered. It went unanswered before and the result is clearly written in history.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 07:46 AM (EZebt)

18 How about instead of the DST clown show, the federales can abolish themselves and make that permanent and make the world a better place.

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2022 07:47 AM (wVHhX)

19 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 16, 2022 07:47 AM (ckjNG)

20 Another link but this one is not maddening:

feisty dachshund saves her oblivious owner from a charging moose in Alaska

https://tinyurl.com/yj3cbbsj

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 07:47 AM (vrz2I)

21 13 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 08:39 AM

?
Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (arJlL)

It ain't me. I can control the weather but not the templates.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

22 As pointed out this on ONT kids will start school in the dark at least in January

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 16, 2022 07:48 AM (ckjNG)

23 Rather than change everybody's clocks why don't the schools just change their start times?

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

24 As pointed out this on ONT kids will start school in the dark at least in January
Posted by: Skip's Phone

I won't be satisfied until they have to walk up hill, in the snow, both ways!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 07:50 AM (Msys3)

25 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 07:51 AM (UioMC)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 07:51 AM (kg+cP)

27 Rather than change everybody's clocks why don't the schools just change their start times?
Posted by: fd

Man working with nature instead of trying to bend it to his will?

Tut! Tut!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 07:52 AM (Msys3)

28 Our teachers betrayed us

Even our much-vaunted hospital workers betrayed us

Our corporate media betrayed us

Our politicians betrayed us

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

29
I don't know about changing clocks, but there are quite a few I'd like to have cleaned.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

30 Man working with nature instead of trying to bend it to his will?"

The Left seems to be all about changing the natural order of things.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 07:54 AM (vrz2I)

31 Our teachers betrayed us

Even our much-vaunted hospital workers betrayed us

Our corporate media betrayed us

Our politicians betrayed us

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)
===

Our LEO

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

32 17 That cannot go unanswered. It went unanswered before and the result is clearly written in history.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 07:46 AM (EZebt)

The question is, do we do the answering?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 07:54 AM (s2VJv)

33 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Pixy's thread reminded me how boring and irritating "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (DU+/6)

34 RC Bishop in England receives flack from gay community after he says that a homosexual author
Whose books promote gay sex and which contains a blasphemous gay parody of the Lords Prayer shouldn't be speaking at a RC.primary school. Also, Michael Voris the founder of Church Militant has a video about "no gay Saints" and explodes the ludicrous idea that men can't have deep feelings for other men without acting on those feelings sexually:

https://tinyurl.com/4x7kr8nj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (cY2qy)

35 I believe the use of executive orders to usher in green energy priorities will be the tipping point. People are getting tired of this leftist bullshit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (QZ/dC)

36 My gradeschool started at 9 and went to 3:15, what time do they start now?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (z2xUm)

37 I'm just flabbergasted that the entire world is like "Yep, the Government should totally tell me what time it is and when I should go to work and stuff."

There was once a time when Government (specifically State or Federal/National) didn't tell you what time it was. Whoever had the biggest clock in town (often the city government, but sometimes a railroad or a university or some such) told you what time it was - and they tracked as close to the sun as they reasonably could.

Even once railroads started needing coordinated time, the Feds didn't step in for quite a while - the railroads just more-or-less sorted it out.

But now, the Government says, "you know what, we're going to pretend its one solar hour later than it really is" and everyone just takes it in stride instead of laughing at the Canutean hubris.

Also - what about States that don't observe DST? Are they just forever forced out of sync? Are they forced to adopt this thing they have said they don't want?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 07:56 AM (kg+cP)

38
I read an interesting piece on the petrodollar yesterday. Brief monetary history: After WWII, we imposed Bretton Woods on the world. We're were king, then, victorious and unscathed. We could impose our will on the world.

The established the dollar as the world's reserve currency, like the British pound used to be. That is, international payments were to be made in dollars. In return we pledged the dollar would redeemable in gold, a fixed amount (this set the price of gold to a constant in dollars). This was only true internationally. Domestically, the dollar was fiat since FDR.

In the 60s and 70s, France started calling us on that, demanding repayment in gold. We couldn't make it, we'd printed too many dollars. So Tricky Dick had to close the gold window.

This would have destroyed the dollar and Bretton Woods, but Tricky Dick and Kissinger did a stick save. They made an agreement with Saudi Arabia, whereby the Saudi's would price oil only in dollars. In return we promised to protect Saudi security. Also, probably not develop our own oil too much to upset Saudi oil hegemony.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 07:56 AM (Mzdiz)

39 Prager is mostly a force for good, so I'll cut him some slack. I'm never going to agree 100% with anyone, including myself.

At Insty, he's linked to an article claiming statins do lower LDL but this does NOT reduce heart attack risk. Hmmm. I saw something similar about 3 years ago, and dumped statins from my daily pill regimen. And, as the saying goes "I am still here!"

Thx for the roundup JJS. And Happy Birthday. Y'all did a good job on the latest CJN podcast.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 07:57 AM (F0YaR)

40 It means starting World War III, Sen.

Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said. People need to understand what a no-fly zone means. Its not some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by.

Its the willingness to shoot down the aircraft of the Russian Federation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:57 AM (yrol0)

41 Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

The number of people you should trust with anything of importance is always going to be very small.

The number of *institutions* you should trust with anything of importance is zero or less.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 07:57 AM (kg+cP)

42 Good morning horde.

Thanks JJ, now to read the content... I'll be back much later!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 16, 2022 07:57 AM (bu/t9)

43 To this argument, one can ask: Other than an attack on America, when and where does America have an interest? And why? If a Russian dictator can invade and decimate another country in an act of unprovoked aggression and it not be in America's interest, what about China invading Taiwan, or Iran unleashing nuclear weapons against Israel, or North Korea doing so against South Korea? Why are Taiwan, Israel, or South Korea more "in America's interest" than Ukraine?
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Treaty obligations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

44 8 The death of the dollar as the world's reserve currency has begun. There is no stopping this. Let's Go Brandon.

Let it burn!

Posted by: Dusky Piss Flaps at March 16, 2022 07:58 AM (RlHi9)

45 "Rather than change everybody's clocks why don't the schools just change their start times?
Posted by: fd "

And adult too? Sounds dangerous. There would be massive accidents, chaos, death and destruction just as bad as the DST time changes.

Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2022 07:59 AM (MxEKc)

46 This was Bretton Woods II, and save the dollar. It effectively pegged the dollar to oil. After than, the price of oil sort of bounced around $10 - 40 per barrel, mean of about $20.

Think of this not as the price of oil, but the value of the dollar, internationally, in terms of oil.

In around the mid-2000s, that "peg" went to hell. That was the beginning of the end. The 2008 crisis, and the money printing accelerated that. The 2020 Covid printing spree was the "all at once" end game of that acceleration.

The dollar is gone as the reserve currency. Squandered by idiots.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 07:59 AM (Mzdiz)

47 36 My gradeschool started at 9 and went to 3:15, what time do they start now?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (z2xUm)

Mine too, but...we had to mine our own coal for heat so we were in the shafts at O dark 30.

The free range cattle lunches were also a bitch!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 07:59 AM (yrol0)

48 Oh. Yesterday, I made this throwaway comment on the EMR --

278 "With prices skyrocketing, it's time for Washington to suspend -- and ultimately repeal -- the Renewable Fuel Standard."
Food for the Table, Not for the Gas Tank

Right. They'll get right on that after ending DST and right after the heat death of the universe.

Crystal ball in working order. Now, about the heat death of the universe... Fuuuuuck.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 08:00 AM (F0YaR)

49 I just don't get why every indignation requires an answer - and especially a US one. I will postulate that unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe has done far more damage than Putin is doing to a "mass civilian population."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2022 08:00 AM (QZ/dC)

50 You had coal?

Lucky...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 16, 2022 08:00 AM (flINI)

51 ". . .her vetting of Judge Jackson shows clear hypocrisy. Collins is gushing praise on a nominee who we know nothing about, yet refused to meet with Justice Barrett."
Why Susan Collins's Praise for Biden's SCOTUS Pick Irks Senate Republicans

--

That about wraps it up, doesn't it? Sounds like Collins is already hot and heavy to vote for this woman. We can consider her already confirmed I guess.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

52 The free range cattle lunches were also a bitch!
Posted by: rhennigantx

You had lunches?

Luxury!!

We had to capture, clean and cook the dust bunnies we hunted beneath our desks for sustenance!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 08:01 AM (Msys3)

53 The bigger point I want to emphasize is, considering that as a direct result of the hijacking of the 2020 election which resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of the United States of America, any conversation about "American interests" and "national security" such as those concepts were before November of 2020 are moot.
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I disagree that the question is moot, but it is now at least a bifurcated question. Like most tyrannies, the questions of "what is in the interests of the American people" and "what is in the interests of the American government/state" are now separate questions. They shouldn't be and those should always track, but they don't when the government and population are alienated. Well, we're alienated. So now both questions must be answered. If it's in the broad interest of the people, the people will answer "yes, there is interest." If it's in the broad interest of the state, the government will answer "yes, there is interest." Only if both agree - which they do not in this case - can there be said to be "American interest."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

54 39 Prager is mostly a force for good, so I'll cut him some slack. I'm never going to agree 100% with anyone, including myself.

At Insty, he's linked to an article claiming statins do lower LDL but this does NOT reduce heart attack risk. Hmmm. I saw something similar about 3 years ago, and dumped statins from my daily pill regimen. And, as the saying goes "I am still here!"

Thx for the roundup JJS. And Happy Birthday. Y'all did a good job on the latest CJN podcast.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 07:57 AM (F0YaR)

21 studies found about a 1% reduction in hearts and strokes using statins. I bet I could double that with a glass (or4) of red wine with dinner.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:02 AM (yrol0)

55 I don't want to have to vote for Kemp nor Perdud. The GA GOP f'd us over and now we have to vote for these shits over a bigger pile of shit.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:03 AM (vrz2I)

56 I'm not really "rootin' for Putin" because I love what he's doing. But I sure as hell am not rooting for the enslavement of us and whatever is left of the free world such as it is.
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There is such a thing as a story with no good guys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

57 To this argument, one can ask: Other than an attack on America, when and where does America have an interest? And why?

Also, "Just War Theory" can go die in a fire. Wars are justified in 2 circumstances: defense (of ourselves or those we are obliged by treaty to defend) or security of a necessary resource (that word "necessary" can get tricky, though) from a truly hostile power.

That's it. Those are the two reasons it's okay to go to war.

Assuming the situation fits one of those reasons, the only way to wage war justly is to kill as many of the other guy's soldiers and destroy as much of his infrastructure as quickly as possible to force him to accept your terms. Because that's the only way to end wars quickly and reduce long term suffering and loss of life.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:03 AM (kg+cP)

58 Our schools ran from 8:00 to 3:00 when I was there.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 08:03 AM (qH6FZ)

59 Penis Drager will advocate for any war at any time. That phrase-parsing jackhole left the Land of Silly years ago and is now on The Ignorance Train. Fuck that guy, in particular.

Hannity and Miss Lindsay should have never had my ear, in those few, fleeting moments I allowed them to. Those two were never serious about anything.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 16, 2022 08:04 AM (Ckg4U)

60 JJ, I'm not sure. Putin could have achieved his war aims using methods that wouldn't have involved intentional assaults on defenseless civilians.

Politics aside, this is the American interest in the conflict. Unfortunately our military and leadership are too hollowed out and decrepit to offer any serious answer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 08:04 AM (EZebt)

61 And, as the saying goes "I am still here!"

We are glad of that, GnuBreed, as are numerous people who aren't on ASHQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:04 AM (GezNK)

62 Unfortunately, Dennis Prager seems to be getting right up to that line.

Doesn't surprise me - Prager is another guy that I can listen to for about five minutes. He's got a pollyannish view of the world, and the United States place in it. He also really likes talking about what other people should do.

Born in 1948. Another guy that heavily leans on a particular ideology. He simply follows it, without regard of pros and cons, and no regard for results.

I'd make it real simple to the self-described genius that is Dennis Prager - there is no "moral question" worth risking a global nuclear war. Period. Full stop. Maybe the prospects of nuclear war seem less scary to somebody like Dennis that was born in 1948 - since he doesn't have that much longer on this Earth anyway.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (5T7tk)

63 The 6 GOP Senators who voted for Fauci are illustrative of the fact there is only one team and nothing is changing except the music in the 7th inning stretch.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (QZ/dC)

64 The death of the dollar as the world's reserve currency has begun. There is no stopping this. Let's Go Brandon.

--

I'll state right up front that, while I know it's going to be bad when it happens, I don't know the full apocalyptic mushroom cloud that will unfold when we lose reserve currency status.

But I do believe, with all my heart, that it is the goal of the WEF. And that's it's underway. Their controlled demolition of America. I'm not going to say what everyone else says..."it's an interesting time to be alive." I'm going to say what it's really turning out to be: "it's a terrifying time to be alive." And I'm getting more and more frightened with each passing day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (sVtYq)

65
DST is an abomination. The claim is it saves energy, but that is utter and complete bullshit, some noble fig leaf to cover the crass self-interest involved.

Who wants DST? Big Retail, and other Bigs. They like to have the by-the-clock quitting time be an hour earlier relative to local sun time. This increases business for them

That's the only fucking reason. Astronomical time has a certain definition: Mean solar time, defined when the mean sun (much vagaries there due to the Earth's ellipitical orbit) is overhead, or at its antipode.

That is the definition of time. Do not fuck with it for crass purposes of self-interest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (Mzdiz)

66 And, finally, what about the moral question? Is morality "in America's interest"?

Given that the Church has failed its primary and secondary missions (Make disciples and obedience to God's Word) the morality angle is definitely off the table.

Transcendent Morality is not to be confused Ad hoc Values. Morality gets its provenance from a pure and holy God; Values originate from a fallen and depraved Man.

Justice is supposed to be an extension of God's Morality, not this Calvin Ball of Social / Environmental / Racial / Economic /* "Justice".

And its pretty clear by now, particularly with the enormous amounts of unchecked "Diversity" that the this former Republic no longer has a moral and religious people, and by extension, the criminals that overthrew the government and installed their Junta, can at best be described as demonic and of their Father the Devil.

So America no longer has any "moral" authority or obligation. We have become as the world and have returned to the Historic Norm of institutionalized lawlessness, and wickedness.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (lD3vL)

67 Well, I guess Zelensky is going to pitch the Senate today and the wailing and sobbing of the MSM and the Tik Tok 'influencers' will reach a new crescendo. The uniparty sees their grift being diminished, even jeopardized, and Pooty Poot's army struggling in the Ukraine and so they're thinking now is as good a time as any to throw a punch.

We're being set up to go to war, folks.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (XPkZs)

68 60 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 08:04 AM (EZebt)

I cannot agree with sending in ground troops or imposing a no fly zone on Ukraine and then starting a shooting war with Russia over Ukraine.

Cannot see it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (s2VJv)

69 The Budapest Memorandum is not a treaty. It was never approved by the Senate. It was a con.
Morality driven foreign policy gets us the Carter years. Ukraine has traditionally been within Russia's sphere of influence. We have been meddling in Ukraine's internal affairs through bribe solicitations and color revolutions. Our role there should have been to encourage internal reforms of an utterly corrupt government while advising them to stay neutral between us and the Russians. That would have been the moral thing to do. Instead, our corruptocrats went looting.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (Spr0s)

70 Penis Drager will advocate for any war at any time.

Who is Penis Drager- Dennis Prager or Lindsay Graham. I really dont think Dennis Prager is advocating for any war at any time. He's too rational for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:07 AM (GezNK)

71 Nostalgia for Slavery and Oppression

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 08:07 AM (2ojo1)

72 > Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

She's done, and she knows she's done. She's just virtue-signaling loyalty to the Deep State so she can keep getting invites to the good parties after she leaves office.

> Mitt Romney of Utah

There MUST be someone in Utah who can primary this animated bag of hair gel. Get busy, Mormon peeps.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:08 AM (bW8dp)

73 The illegitimate regime in DC is determined to destroy the US by implementing a deal with Iran, so that the Saudis in response will abandon the dollar, which will lead to it no longer being the world's reserve currency. If you don't like that explanation, the only other possible outcome is to enable an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel. Take your pick. It might be both.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2022 08:08 AM (MAKO5)

74 70 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:07 AM (GezNK)

He's strongly hinting it, dear.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 08:08 AM (s2VJv)

75 The New Untied States has to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the old united states.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:09 AM (qnVBz)

76 Doesn't surprise me - Prager is another guy that I can listen to for about five minutes. He's got a pollyannish view of the world, and the United States place in it. He also really likes talking about what other people should do.

Listening to Prager for any length of time always made me start ranting about the difference between individual ethics and morality vs corporate ethics and morality.

Short version: a PERSON has a moral duty (if you are a Christian, at least, and I believe the Jews believe the same) to deny the self in service of our brothers and sisters. A GROUP has a moral duty to see to betterment and security (as defined by the group's charter/purpose) of it's members AND NO ONE ELSE (which is not to say the group should cheat, steal, and defraud, but that it has no particular business - as the group - in stopping other groups from doing the same).

I, personally, may have a moral or ethical imperative (for whatever reason) to, for instance, go to Ukraine and volunteer to help them. The United States has no such moral or ethical imperative.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:10 AM (kg+cP)

77 I bet we already have troops in Ukraine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:10 AM (qnVBz)

78 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (5T7tk)

You have no say on how long he has on this earth, Scogg---oops, Color Me Skeptical-the name that's lasted two days. Might be a record except for your original handle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:11 AM (GezNK)

79 The problem with the 'necessity of securing a strategic resource' as justification for war is indeed tricky as suggested. Empires, like ours, are built on assuming most of the world's resources are strategic to our interests. In other words, one man's manifest destiny is another's living space or historic (real ro imagined) borders argument. Men can rationalize anything in pursuit of "more".

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2022 08:11 AM (QZ/dC)

80 I'll state right up front that, while I know it's going to be bad when it happens, I don't know the full apocalyptic mushroom cloud that will unfold when we lose reserve currency status.

But I do believe, with all my heart, that it is the goal of the WEF. And that's it's underway. Their controlled demolition of America. I'm not going to say what everyone else says..."it's an interesting time to be alive." I'm going to say what it's really turning out to be: "it's a terrifying time to be alive." And I'm getting more and more frightened with each passing day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM

What I have read about what will happen is other Countries will quit buying up our debt at the levels they do now and will look to dump what dollar reserves they already have which will weaken the dollar even further setting up a downward spiral in the value of the US dollar.

It's gonna leave a mark for sure.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:12 AM (bVYXr)

81 "Well, I guess Zelensky is going to pitch the Senate today and the wailing and sobbing of the MSM and the Tik Tok 'influencers' will reach a new crescendo."
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (XPkZs)

I wouldn't be surprised if they passed a resolution declaring it "Zelensky Day" for the hero of Ukraine. Fuck'n retards.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 08:12 AM (qH6FZ)

82 He's strongly hinting it, dear.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 08:08 AM (s2VJv)

Maybe but that's he for any war at any time and "Penis Drager"?!! Com'on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:12 AM (GezNK)

83 DST is an abomination. The claim is it saves energy, but that is utter and complete bullshit, some noble fig leaf to cover the crass self-interest involved.

That is the definition of time. Do not fuck with it for crass purposes of self-interest. - Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Was it you that posted the reason why no one State could arbitrarily set its own Time Zone? The cynic in me says that this is the Fe'ral "Government" trying to get control over the two hold-out States (AZ,HI) that won't bow the knee to the Potomac Time Gods.

Obviously those who are posting Right Now are early risers, so DST among this group would be an abomination. For purity, I like the Standard Time, but I know that most people prefer the literally Retarded Clock Time.

I tend to live according to my circadian rhythm so I don't really have a dog in this hunt.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:12 AM (lD3vL)

84 And, as the saying goes "I am still here!"

We are glad of that, GnuBreed, as are numerous people who aren't on ASHQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:04 AM (GezNK)

Thank you for that Fen, and I am mostly glad of it myself; though there are some days...

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (F0YaR)

85 I wouldn't be surprised if they passed a resolution declaring it "Zelensky Day" for the hero of Ukraine. Fuck'n retards.

Can we hope for the authentic Saint George Floyd Treatment?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (lD3vL)

86 What moral power can the United States project anymore? This is a godless nation and needs to get right with God before we go about preening with any kind of moral airs internationally.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (QZ/dC)

87 Middle School Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Solicit Sex From 14-Year-Old

Good Link

https://tinyurl.com/22832yy2

thx JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

88 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 08:39 AM

?
Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 07:44 AM (arJlL)

It ain't me. I can control the weather but not the templates.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

So, yer not zipping around with Yeevette Meemeeyooo ?

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (arJlL)

89 Well, I guess Zelensky is going to pitch the Senate today and the wailing and sobbing of the MSM and the Tik Tok 'influencers' will reach a new crescendo."
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2022 08:06 AM (XPkZs)

I wouldn't be surprised if they passed a resolution declaring it "Zelensky Day" for the hero of Ukraine. Fuck'n retards.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 08:12 AM

Heard a rumor this morning that the House cafeteria is going to change the name of the french fries to Zelensky fries.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (bVYXr)

90 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

I don't know much about MO governor Parsons, but I keep seeing AG Schmitt's name popping up. He keeps doing things I like.

I think he has his eyes on the governor's mansion and that may be a good thing in the long run if he can follow the DeSantis model of governance.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:15 AM (YIVH2)

91 McConnell and Co. are trying to lose the election with this Dr. Strangelove crap.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 16, 2022 08:15 AM (cfkTP)

92 Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 08:14 AM (F0YaR)

Well, many of us have had those days or more. Come and talk about it if those feelings continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:15 AM (GezNK)

93 > Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

She's done, and she knows she's done. She's just virtue-signaling loyalty to the Deep State so she can keep getting invites to the good parties after she leaves office.

==

I'd really like to believe this, but these wretched POSs are like Michael Myers. They never die and go away. They just keep getting reelected and reelected and reelected and reelected. I should know. I'm languishing in SC with Lindsey Freaking Graham as my senator.

Does this old hatchet-faced broad have a viable challenger?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

94 feisty dachshund saves her oblivious owner from a charging moose in Alaska

Damn doxies are not afraid of anything. They think they are bigger than they are.

Good morning horde. Happy hump day!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:16 AM (nxdel)

95 I'll state right up front that, while I know it's going to be bad when it happens, I don't know the full apocalyptic mushroom cloud that will unfold when we lose reserve currency status. ...
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (sVtYq)
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Nobody knows all of them, but we know some. Our monetary policy depends on consistent (or growing) global demand for dollars. If major international commodity settlement no longer depends on the dollar, then the bill for our monetary policy comes due. We can no longer maintain significant trade deficits and the mediator for that - the exchange rate - will reflect the new reality. At very least, the loss of the petrodollar will cause the USD value to tank in Forex markets and imports suddenly become very expensive. Interest also probably soars. Governments at most levels likely go negative on cashflow and have to move to balanced budgets immediately or risk hyperinflation and outright failure of the entire complex. In the short term, everything gets very scarce and very expensive because we're so import dependent. That also means the exporters in Asia and Germany struggle with the loss of the market here.

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

96 Richard Burr of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Jerry Moran of Kansas

Without looking first I guessed 5 of the six. Dick "Dick" Burr, Susan "The Remaining Weird Sister" Collins, Bill "Even Shawn was a Better Cassidy" Cassidy, Lisa "Coke Bear" Murkowski and Mitt "The F*cking Disgrace" Romney.

Didn't get Jerry Moron. (updates scorecard)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 16, 2022 08:16 AM (HsAzN)

97 Morning peeps. Something of a quandary this morning. We have a telecon this morning to discuss our investments and review our retirement plan. Seems a bit irrelevant now. I'm sort of curious if there are strategies in play that keep one from going bankrupt.

Anyway, the timing of this review might be fortuitous.

Lastly it's nice to see that our political betters saw fit to address the most pressing issue in our lifetime; DST.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:17 AM (BFigT)

98 Hiya Jewells !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:17 AM (arJlL)

99 The problem with the 'necessity of securing a strategic resource' as justification for war is indeed tricky as suggested.

You can say that again. Here, I'll do it for you: "The problem with the 'necessity of securing a strategic resource' as justification for war is indeed tricky as suggested."

Nevertheless, it is a tricky problem that must be addressed individually each time it arises. England, for the nonce, is not our enemy and is not a hostile nation - therefore any resource we had to have that was primarily in English control would be okay. North Korea is an actively hostile nation. Any resource that is necessary for us that falls in their control is something we have every right (internationally) to secure - preferably by means of treaty, but by means of war if necessary.

Now what's "necessary?" Oil? Lithium? Uranium? Those all have actual strategic value. What about things that don't have that value: diamonds, or precious stones, or arugula? Are those "necessary?"

What if the only place we could get Insulin was North Korea? Would that justify securing that supply by war (if no mutually agreed upon treaty could be reached)?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:17 AM (kg+cP)

100 I, personally, may have a moral or ethical imperative (for whatever reason) to, for instance, go to Ukraine and volunteer to help them. The United States has no such moral or ethical imperative.

I'll do you one better - what would the United States actually do to follow this moral imperative that Dennis dreamed up ? Why, they'd compel people to take up arms and go fight in the Ukraine. That's all a nation state can do.

Again, as you say - do those individual soldiers feel Dennis's grand moral imperative ? I'd say mostly not - since I'm not aware of any volunteer brigades being formed. But, Dennis played the moral card - and that's all that certain people need to hear. It plays to their feelz.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:17 AM (5T7tk)

101 Hiya Perfesser !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:17 AM (arJlL)

102 Happy happy morning, hordelings! In an emergency meeting last night, the school board voted to drop the mask mandates for the wee ones. Freedom! I'm so thrilled for those kids. Two years. Two flippin' years.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that 80 percent of parents voted "no masks" in a survey they sent out, and elections are April 5th. It was that or heads would roll.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:18 AM (45fpk)

103 What I have read about what will happen is other Countries will quit buying up our debt at the levels they do now and will look to dump what dollar reserves they already have which will weaken the dollar even further setting up a downward spiral in the value of the US dollar.

It's gonna leave a mark for sure.
Posted by: Mister Scot

When the US crashes, the world will burn. I hope a lot of countries don't want/need to eat wheat or corn.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:18 AM (UioMC)

104 Heard a rumor this morning that the House cafeteria is going to change the name of the french fries to Zelensky fries.
Posted by: Mister Scot

Quid pro quo?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:18 AM (qnVBz)

105 JT!!!! Morning!

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:18 AM (Vr12I)

106

Historically, you'll see the divide between DST and Standard time purists is basically between the "by the sun" people vs. the "by the clock" people. That is between people who's workday is defined by the sun, like farmers, and those workday is defined by the absolute value of the local clock.

The "sun people" realize, intuitively, it's nonsense. The "clock people" like the extra hour of post-workday sunlight.

I will not get in the vagaries of astronomical time vs atomic time and all that unless someone wants to go there, 'cause it's quite complex. But basically, the celestial motions of the Earth around Mr. Sun relative to the sidereal, inertial background get complex.

Biology adjusted itself to the motions of Earth around Mr. Sun. That is the best notion of civil time. For precision purposes of a proper time yardstick, atomic time is the best. The twain need not meet.

DST is an abomination to both standards of time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 08:19 AM (Mzdiz)

107 There is no reason for us to be involved in Ukraine.

Short of full engagement and destruction of the Russian military, all we'd do is slow the inevitable. Besides, Ukraine is involved in all sorts of political money laundering, bio-research, cyber hacking and who knows what other shady shit goes on there. And they were involved in stymying and overthrowing a duly elected US president, and the subsequent installment of the fraud we're stuck with now.

You got the president that you paid for Zelensky, now live with the consequences.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2022 08:19 AM (XPkZs)

108 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:19 AM (arJlL)

109 When the US crashes, the world will burn. I hope a lot of countries don't want/need to eat wheat or corn.
Posted by: rickb223

or soap.

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM (arJlL)

110 Hiya kraken !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM (arJlL)

111 "Damn doxies are not afraid of anything. They think they are bigger than they are."

That little dog was going for the throat but he just couldn't reach it.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM (vrz2I)

112 I'm not calling for a U.S. military response necessarily.

But as bad as the internal situation has become, the junta is plunging us into very dangerous waters abroad also. Depending on how things play, a military response may become unavoidable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM (EZebt)

113 I'll state right up front that, while I know it's going to be bad when it happens, I don't know the full apocalyptic mushroom cloud that will unfold when we lose reserve currency status.

The process has been going on for quite a while. The SDR of the IMF (a basket of currencies) was supposed to be the Great Substitute so that one country, like reprobates in the Fed and DC wouldn't spoil it. But there seems to be a pact among currency traders and the global bankers that if one country inflates their currencies than other members of the cabal inflate theirs too so that one currency doesn't dominate the others, so SPRs really are yet another mechanism for currency traders to wring out arbitrage profits.

You can thank the black markets for keeping the US dollar alive, even though its a PITA to trade dollars in Mexico because of action against the drug cartels.

There is a lot of informal momentum to keep the fiat US dollar in play. But there should be and will be a divorce. It will be fun to watch the sharks play now.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:21 AM (lD3vL)

114 Assuming it is true the Russians are taking a beating by a much smaller, weaker nation, have any of the approved punditry/thought leaders asked how is it our vaunted intelligence agencies with unlimited money and technology have gotten the assessment of their capabilities and threat so wrong? Any curiosity at all?

I imagine to ask such a question is borderline treason and makes one a Putin tool.

Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2022 08:21 AM (MxEKc)

115 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)

116 > Does this old hatchet-faced broad have a viable challenger?

Kelly Tshibaka is getting some traction as a primary challenger. Endorsed by Trump.

We primaried Lisa's ass once before, then her good friends in DC (Bitch McConnell, John Bonehead, you know the crew) funded a write-in campaign, helicoptering in planeloads of money. Then the Dems instructed their bots to vote for Murky rather than their own pathetic candidate. So... we got stuck with her again.

I don't think that's gonna work this time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:21 AM (bW8dp)

117 Depending on how things play, a military response may become unavoidable.

Absolutely true. It is certainly possible that Brandon can screw this pooch so royally that the only way out is bloody war.

I just hope God stops that from happening (Brandon and his advisors certainly can't).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:22 AM (kg+cP)

118 Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) is denying that he owns individual stocks even after he disclosed that his familys investment fund bought millions of dollars worth of shares earlier this year.

Liar Dick is a lying dick, who would have thunk that?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:22 AM (yrol0)

119 Hey JT.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:23 AM (nxdel)

120 When the US crashes, the world will burn. I hope a lot of countries don't want/need to eat wheat or corn.
Posted by: rickb223

Another instance of blindly following ideology. The current political class is wedded to the notion that we must cease as a super-power. Frankly, I see positives and negatives to it.

But they haven't thought it through. When we stop becoming a super-power, our ability to support a super-power military dies as well - and they'll no longer be able to project power across the globe. That means no more color revolutions.

When the dollar ceases as the world currency, their ability to print currency ceases with it. No more of the recent fiscal madness with minimal consequences. And they're proceeding with no acknowledgement of that. If they think they can somehow stay above the fray - they're sadly mistaken.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:23 AM (5T7tk)

121 Historically, you'll see the divide between DST and Standard time purists is basically between the "by the sun" people vs. the "by the clock" people. That is between people who's workday is defined by the sun, like farmers, and those workday is defined by the absolute value of the local clock.

Farmers days are no longer ruled by the sun. Not since they put flood lights on the equipment. Many a night at 10pm I've seen them out cutting and bailing hay or harvesting other crops. My cousin milked at 3:00 am & 3:00 pm every day.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:24 AM (UioMC)

122 We had to capture, clean and cook the dust bunnies we hunted beneath our desks for sustenance!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2022 08:01 AM (Msys3)
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And that was still better tasting and more nutritious than the lunch offered by the school cafeteria...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

123 The problem I am having with my retirement investments. We know a crash is coming. In a right proper crash it will drop below 15,000, then take a decade to recover. It doesn't make much sense to put a ton of deferred compensation into retirement funds, when they won't recover today's value for decades. But, on the other hand, the fed will probably go back to manipulating the market to re create the same situation we are in now. On the other other hand, the dollar will be worth less than toilet paper in 5 years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:25 AM (qnVBz)

124 You can say that again. Here, I'll do it for you: "The problem with the 'necessity of securing a strategic resource' as justification for war is indeed tricky as suggested."

Except that has been the basis for war and exploration since expulsion from The Garden.

You can only have so many generations of sons partition out the family farm before eyes start looking for some new fertile ground.

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

125 But I do believe, with all my heart, that it is the goal of the WEF. And that's it's underway. Their controlled demolition of America. I'm not going to say what everyone else says..."it's an interesting time to be alive." I'm going to say what it's really turning out to be: "it's a terrifying time to be alive." And I'm getting more and more frightened with each passing day.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:05 AM (sVtYq)
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Cold comfort time, but the WEF doesn't really want the destruction of the America. They do very much want its extreme diminution and to see it remade under their own vision.

The global technocrat vision is, essentially, a world with zero superpowers and five or six chaotically stable regional powers. All of these regional powers will have technocratic management so top-line policy is basically similar. There is no liberty under their vision, as all men are just gears in their technocratic engine. The nations as they are get remade as integrated technocracies.

The US has the most to fall (from liberal global power to technocratic North American power) under such a scheme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

126 Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) is denying that he owns individual stocks even after he disclosed that his familys investment fund bought millions of dollars worth of shares earlier this year.

Liar Dick is a lying dick, who would have thunk that?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:22 AM (yrol0)

My word as a Dick? He's been lying about as long as The Rutabaga In Chief.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 08:26 AM (F0YaR)

127 The problem I am having with my retirement investments. We know a crash is coming. In a right proper crash it will drop below 15,000, then take a decade to recover. It doesn't make much sense to put a ton of deferred compensation into retirement funds, when they won't recover today's value for decades. But, on the other hand, the fed will probably go back to manipulating the market to re create the same situation we are in now. On the other other hand, the dollar will be worth less than toilet paper in 5 years.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Gold, silver, brass, lead, copper. Physical ownership.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:27 AM (UioMC)

128 The problem I am having with my retirement investments.

Because you are measuring it in terms of fiat rather than in terms of value.

Change your perspective and the direction becomes more clear.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:27 AM (lD3vL)

129 ++++
Treaty obligations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
--------------------

Ranking Democrat says, treaties aren't binding but that they are a framework to begin negotiations.
That's communist talk.
Our word should be our bond.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:27 AM (Zktzy)

130 That's why they hated Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:27 AM (Zktzy)

131 or soap.
Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM (arJlL)

Oh mon Dieu!

Qu est-ce que c'est savon?

Posted by: Smelly Frog at March 16, 2022 08:28 AM (wVHhX)

132 Speaking of Alaska, I see that some Russian MP is calling on Putin to take Alaska back.

Good luck with that, Sparky.

You know the definition of "liberal" in Alaska? Someone who doesn't own anything larger than .357 Magnum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:28 AM (bW8dp)

133 Republicans and insurgent candidates who want to put America First need to trim the fat from these outdated, compromised campaigns. Politicians need more than the right platform or good vibes.

1. Hire a consultant like FP1 or Majority Strategies
B. Sit down with a drink and 1 sheet of notebook paper and write down their first five ideas.
iii. Do the opposite
d. Stick a pineapple up their ass

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:29 AM (yrol0)

134 If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (vrz2I)

135 What moral power can the United States project anymore? This is a godless nation and needs to get right with God before we go about preening with any kind of moral airs internationally.

--

This is a topic that deserves much thought and introspection. My viewpoint about America (namely the governing body and all its moving parts) has changed drastically over the course of about 15 years, with most emphasis on the last 5. There is a dark undercurrent within DC that has probably been there to some degree for a very long time, but only now has become apparent. The wholesale corruption and nefarious evil actors are all components of a nation with no moral compass. They've made sure society has followed suit. One look at social media shows a reflection of just who and what we've become. It's not pretty. We have no morals as a nation. By all accounts, we are Godless. I can't think of a worse time in our country's history.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

136 You can thank the black markets for keeping the US dollar alive, even though its a PITA to trade dollars in Mexico because of action against the drug cartels.

There is a lot of informal momentum to keep the fiat US dollar in play. But there should be and will be a divorce. It will be fun to watch the sharks play now.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:21 AM (lD3vL)
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This is also the primary reason I think an all-digital (cashless) US dollar is unlikely. The government wants the visibility and control of a cashless system, but far too much nasty shit is financed by pallets of Benjamins. The US government needs cash, because they need it to fund their illegal and sinister activity abroad. If those dollars can't repatriate because they can't be spent, they have no value. All-digital currency would wreck their plans. They want it for its domestic oppression potential, but their lust for that is mediated by their lust for hinky shit financed in cash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

137 Kiev. Kiev Kiev?

Posted by: Being Kiev Kievovich at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (W/jUp)

138 Except that has been the basis for war and exploration since expulsion from The Garden.

We can talk of "should" or "is." The two seldom, if ever, coincide.

Both, of course, are important. We need to discuss and think about "should" so we can have a framework from which to address the "is," but the "is" must be our working foundation to which we apply the "should" - anything else is simply wishful thinking.

This applies to all morality and virtue when we get down to actually making real world choices.

How much more significant is it to keep the "should" in mind and apply it to the "is" when we're talking about decisions that will cost thousands of lives and livelihoods?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (kg+cP)

139 Should the US devolve into full blown civil war, be taken over either by force or softly by another country or perhaps just wither and die slowly one thing is likely not in doubt. The current form of government and those currently in it will cease to exist.

The left just doesn't get it. They hate America and want it dead. By killing it they're slitting their own throats.

I'm calmly ok with that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (BFigT)

140 Happy Wednesday one and all. It's a gorgeous day in the GPROMD despite the best efforts of the world around us.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (4olE8)

141 But as bad as the internal situation has become, the junta is plunging us into very dangerous waters abroad also. Depending on how things play, a military response may become unavoidable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2022 08:20 AM

That is exactly what they want, the United States put in a position that the only option is a military response. biden and the war mongers are trying to move us to that point using rhetoric like "traitor" and "putin lackey".

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:31 AM (bVYXr)

142 The problem I am having with my retirement investments. We know a crash is coming.

Bad news - the idea of living into old age without having to work is a fairly recent idea - except for the extremely wealthy. For the rest of us proles and kulaks, the name of the game has always been be work until you die, and die when you can no longer work.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:31 AM (5T7tk)

143 > You can only have so many generations of sons partition out the family farm before eyes start looking for some new fertile ground.

Yeah, the classic model in Europe was to have two sons... one to be the heir, and one to go into the Church as a sort of hot-swappable backup (the Church would generally turn him loose for a "small donation", should anything happen to the primary heir).

Any sons after the second one were steered into Crusades and the like. They'd either conquer their own territory (in which case, no problem) or get killed (in which case, no problem).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:32 AM (bW8dp)

144 Ranking Democrat says, treaties aren't binding but that they are a framework to begin negotiations.
That's communist talk.
Our word should be our bond.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:27 AM (Zktzy)
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Ask the American Indians about that. Our word - backed by treaty or not - has never been very good. It's our size, our wealth, and our weapons that keep getting people to come back to the table. Our word has long been worth about as much as the paper it's printed on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:32 AM (DU+/6)

145 "dictator can invade and decimate[/i another country in an act of unprovoked aggression"

10%, right? Seem like this is almost done already. Can we go back to covid 24/7 now. I think the curve is nearly flatlined.

And good morning.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone @ (?????) - at March 16, 2022 08:32 AM (k1UTF)

146 Speaking of Alaska, I see that some Russian MP is calling on Putin to take Alaska back.

Good luck with that, Sparky.

You know the definition of "liberal" in Alaska? Someone who doesn't own anything larger than .357 Magnum.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:28 AM (bW8dp)
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Just the logistical nightmare of moving an army across the Siberian tundra is enough for any soldier in Putin's army to say, "Nyet, tovarishch!" ["No, comrade!"]

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:32 AM (YIVH2)

147 Obama wants the African nations to rise up as a super power. Mostly because his opportunity for graft is orders of magnitude higher.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:32 AM (qnVBz)

148 112 I'm not calling for a U.S. military response necessarily.

But as bad as the internal situation has become, the junta is plunging us into very dangerous waters abroad also. Depending on how things play, a military response may become unavoidable.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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If every adult Ukrainian 15yo and up had one stinger and one javelin this thing would be over.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (Zktzy)

149 "die when you can no longer work."

Or they haul your ass out into the woods and leave you there.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (vrz2I)

150 If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM

APMEX. Been buying from them for years. Problem right now is silver and gold is through the roof.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (bVYXr)

151 Cold comfort time, but the WEF doesn't really want the destruction of the America.

Colder comfort time:
It's hard to slice surgically with a sledge hammer.
Aka, best laid plans of mice & men....

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (UioMC)

152 > If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?

Gold and silver coins might be easier to negotiate in a Mad Max situation, rather than bars with the mark of a possibly unknown refiner.

Just sayin'.

Coin and stamp dealers often have both the coins and the bars.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:34 AM (bW8dp)

153 Alright, as fun and uplifting as all this is, it's time for me to work-at-work.

Have fun, y'all.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 16, 2022 08:34 AM (kg+cP)

154 Please stop the DLS time change.!!! There is absolutely no good reason for it.

Posted by: Sidney at March 16, 2022 08:34 AM (/cuBJ)

155 "APMEX. Been buying from them for years. Problem right now is silver and gold is through the roof."

$2000 an ounce. I should wait. It will probably go back down.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:35 AM (vrz2I)

156 But they haven't thought it through.

You are getting into a favorite topic of mine: Epistemological Entropy

Though every generation of man has been inflicted with cognitive dissonance, Gell Mann Amnesia and poor abstract thinking, the doping towards horizontal decalage , degraded Theory of Mind, and the inability to consider third order, or even second order effects is becoming more and more apparent in the West.

I blame the usual suspects: the schools, media, parents, depraved and haughty culture, poor diet, lack of motivation, etc.

The point being, is that we are watching an element of people who can focus on one immediate and often emotional topic and have no idea what happens next, because they don't even think about "then what" - it isn't even part of their mental vocabulary

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:35 AM (lD3vL)

157 To what degree is the stability of Europe in our interest.

Posted by: Skylerkat at March 16, 2022 08:35 AM (hdJNZ)

158 If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?
Posted by: fd

APMEX. Based out of Oklahoma City. I would get a physical delivery of silver in about 3 days.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:35 AM (UioMC)

159 Should the US devolve into full blown civil war, be taken over either by force or softly by another country or perhaps just wither and die slowly one thing is likely not in doubt. The current form of government and those currently in it will cease to exist. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (BFigT)
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I concur with the latter but am not so sure about the former. If there's a second civil war, this time around the victor will likely be externally selected. Somebody will arm one faction or another and somebody else may well directly engage by, say, nuking urban or industrial centers controlled by the faction they'd prefer to lose. Capitalize on the chaos.

I am not at all sure, however, that this results in conquest or foreign administration. There isn't a lot of strategic sense in that because the goal would be to knock out America, and that would be accomplished just by adding to the melee and winning a very pleased postwar ally. Why muck about with administration and empire when you can just kill the big guy and get at least one of his kids on your side?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

160 The barrel seems hongry this morning.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone @ (k1UTF) - at March 16, 2022 08:36 AM (k1UTF)

161 Making a law to change time is like making a law to change the weather.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 08:36 AM (z2xUm)

162 APMEX. Been buying from them for years. Problem right now is silver and gold is through the roof.
Posted by: Mister Scot

*fist bump
GMTA.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:36 AM (UioMC)

163 No-fly zones are something I always think of being imposed in places like like Iraq or Libya or Bosnia. Who believes Russia would actually observe one?

Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (MxEKc)

164 Voting on Time.
The Republican party is a joke.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (GYllL)

165 ..."He's too rational for that."
-Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:07 AM (GezNK)

*HAH!*

Dennis Prager is self-interested, dear. He's as "rational" as his own self-interests. Of-This-World self-interests. I fell for it, too. ...years ago.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (Ckg4U)

166 134 If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (vrz2I)

Search for coin shows in your area. Bring cash.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (F0YaR)

167 Colder comfort time:
It's hard to slice surgically with a sledge hammer.
Aka, best laid plans of mice & men....
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (UioMC)
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Oh, sure. I didn't mean to imply that I think their schemes are remotely workable or will end in anything other than large-scale destruction and collapse. They think they know everything and their schemes are brilliant, but it will not turn out like they envision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

168
Yeah, the classic model in Europe was to have two sons... one to be the heir, and one to go into the Church as a sort of hot-swappable backup
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Yep - Heir and a Spare.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (lD3vL)

169 Problem right now is silver and gold is through the roof.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:33 AM (bVYXr)

My mother has a lot of old silver dimes which her late husband purchased for investment. When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime. I don't understand how silver works as an investment. It just seems as if she has a bag of dimes.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

170 Dumping Windows and Apple and switching to Linux

HELP

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to switch over? I would really like to dual boot if possible.

I used to know this shit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (yrol0)

171 Obama wants the African nations to rise up as a super power. Mostly because his opportunity for graft is orders of magnitude higher.

--

It would be a graft slapfight between the Obama Foundation and Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

172 Posted by: Slapweasel at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (Ckg4U

Everybody has self interests. I just don't think he's for any war any time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (GezNK)

173 169

My mother has a lot of old silver dimes which her late husband purchased for investment. When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime. I don't understand how silver works as an investment. It just seems as if she has a bag of dimes.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

They were trying to rob her is what they were doing.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (Vr12I)

174 Gold $1927.00
Silver $25.15

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (UioMC)

175 "The Washington Free Beacon has reported that the Biden administration's push to transition to green energy sources, however, may empower another authoritarian nation. China controls the majority of the production of the silicon wafers used in solar panels, the rare earths used in wind turbines, and lithium for electric vehicles."

China is laughing at how they have us over a barrel. Biden is so weak and they know it and will take advantage of our ineptness.

What's Biden going to do if China decides to invade Taiwan?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

176 Please stop the DLS time change.!!! There is absolutely no good reason for it.

Posted by: Sidney at March 16, 2022 08:34 AM (/cuBJ)

I luxuriate in it.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

177 Did someone say silver and gold?

Posted by: Burl Ives at March 16, 2022 08:40 AM (W/jUp)

178 MY BAD

I see the is a process herein that article!!!

sorry

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (yrol0)

179 You are getting into a favorite topic of mine: Epistemological Entropy.

You have a more formal education on these things - mine ended in four years of a glorified community college with a technical degree that turned out well. Sven and you both often pull out concise terms that describe theories I've formed and observations I've made over the decades.

This is one of those moments - the inability to think even one move ahead, let alone three or four. I've seen this in all generations, in both the chaos of the real world as well as neatly defined, relatively controlled things like various card and board games.

And here's the kicker - I don't think it's an inability in many cases, as much as an outright refusal.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (5T7tk)

180 What's Biden going to do if China decides to invade Taiwan?
Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

Ice Cream Run!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (PiwSw)

181 Gold $1927.00
Silver $25.15

That's spot market. Not what it'll cost you to buy.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (UioMC)

182 Obama wants the African nations to rise up as a super power. Mostly because his opportunity for graft is orders of magnitude higher.

And as a child I wanted a pony.

You can't become a superpower when STEM excellence is considered expressions of White Supremacy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (lD3vL)

183 Oh boy. They showed the Congressional chamber with the big screen up for 'Skyy's address. Members are already stumbling in after morning meds and/or bourbon. I wonder if there's a concession stand out in the hallway for popcorn and Milk Duds.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (lz5hY)

184 What's Biden going to do if China decides to invade Taiwan?
Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

***

Nothing... wait, maybe ban Tic Toc...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (flINI)

185 Sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, green chiles, and gravy. M'am, could I get some more cholesterol here?

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (Ma2wW)

186 Gold and silver coins might be easier to negotiate in a Mad Max situation, rather than bars with the mark of a possibly unknown refiner.

Just sayin'.

Coin and stamp dealers often have both the coins and the bars.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Don't they sell bags of out of circulation pre-64 quarters? That would be common buying specie.
Considering it would be difficult to buy a loaf of bread with an $1800 gold coin.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (Zktzy)

187 My mother has a lot of old silver dimes which her late husband purchased for investment. When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime. I don't understand how silver works as an investment. It just seems as if she has a bag of dimes.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM

You need to find a legitimate dealer. The one that offered her a dime for each was less than honest. APMEX is a silver/gold dealer and they buy from people also. You can call them and get a quote.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (bVYXr)

188 No-fly zones are something I always think of being imposed in places like like Iraq or Libya or Bosnia. Who believes Russia would actually observe one?
Posted by: Ripley at March 16, 2022 08:37 AM (MxEKc)
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That's sort of the point. You impose a "no-fly zone" by shooting down anything that flies in it. Eventually, the opponent stops trying or you fail to impose the zone. The old-fashioned language for this was "air supremacy." A no-fly zone - if it works - achieves air supremacy in that the enemy doesn't even try to engage because he knows he will die if he does and his death and the destruction of his hardware won't buy much death and destruction on your side. The idea of the no-fly zone is that a credible power tells a combatant, "you know we can achieve air supremacy and this is your opportunity to acknowledge that and quit at any time you want to, and in exchange we won't ravage your air forces and kill your airmen when they're on the ground and you've bowed out of aerial combat operations."

And Russia might decide they can sustain a dogfight, in which case the "no-fly zone" just becomes an aerial combat theater where both try to achieve superiority and then supremacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

189 Classes in grade school started for us at 8am. Probably because Mass came first, a bit of breakfast after and then classes began. Having to wait until after Mass to eat due to the the rules at that time sucked. Our milk sat in the hallway unrefrigerated until breakfast time. Warm milk. Many a fellow classmate threw it up. Once all over my back. Yay, me. Yes I'm old.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (2NHgQ)

190 My mother has a lot of old silver dimes which her late husband purchased for investment. When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime. I don't understand how silver works as an investment. It just seems as if she has a bag of dimes.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

100 pre 1916 are worth 175 bucks!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (yrol0)

191 Oh boy. They showed the Congressional chamber with the big screen up for 'Skyy's address. Members are already stumbling in after morning meds and/or bourbon. I wonder if there's a concession stand out in the hallway for popcorn and Milk Duds.

--

Concert t-shirts!

"I Stand With Ukraine!"
"Putin Sucks!"
"Love Wins!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2022 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

192 You need to find a legitimate dealer. The one that offered her a dime for each was less than honest. APMEX is a silver/gold dealer and they buy from people also. You can call them and get a quote.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (bVYXr)

Thank you for the information, Mister Scot. I will pass that on to my mom. She's tired of hiding bags of dimes.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

193 Gold $1927.00
Silver $25.15

That's spot market. Not what it'll cost you to buy.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM

Yep, right now silver is ~$10 per ounce over spot so $35 for a 1 ounce silver American Eagle. Way more than I want to pay.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2022 08:43 AM (bVYXr)

194 Can we get back to the thing about the Dems trying to get nudes of Trump? The part where the scheme involves Hunter Biden just makes it funnier.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (haMNq)

195 100 pre 1916 are worth 175 bucks!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (yrol0)

Oh my.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (45fpk)

196 185 Sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, green chiles, and gravy. M'am, could I get some more cholesterol here?
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (Ma2wW)

Chicken livers comin' right up!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (PiwSw)

197 That's spot market. Not what it'll cost you to buy.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:41 AM (UioMC)
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Over 6% is too much.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (Zktzy)

198 My mother has a lot of old silver dimes which her late husband purchased for investment. When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime. I don't understand how silver works as an investment. It just seems as if she has a bag of dimes.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

As someone above said... cheats. Silver face is worth around 71% of spot, minus commissions, etc.. Plus commissions if buying.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (Lo80G)

199 The global technocrat vision is, essentially, a world with zero superpowers and five or six chaotically stable regional powers. All of these regional powers will have technocratic management so top-line policy is basically similar. There is no liberty under their vision, as all men are just gears in their technocratic engine. The nations as they are get remade as integrated technocracies.

The US has the most to fall (from liberal global power to technocratic North American power) under such a scheme.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

"Ahem!"

- - 1.5 Billion Muslims

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (s2VJv)

200 My high school's first class started at 7:35 am. Earliest of any school I ever heard of. Bus picked us up at 6:55.

Then again, we got out earlier than everybody else. So that part was cool.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (HsAzN)

201 You have a more formal education on these things - mine ended in four years of a glorified community college with a technical degree that turned out well.

I am a man without letters. Swapped out the television for books. Instead of surfing for pr0n I used the internet to download papers. Rather than just shouting down and insulting people in social media I found a world of people with far more domain knowledge than me who gladly shares their wisdom and experience.

Many people here spark curiosity in some other corner of knowledge and I'll set off to understand it. Also helps to have very high retention of what I read/see/hear.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (lD3vL)

202 I've always been suspicious of Zelensky. This teenage crush everyone seems to have on him makes my antenna go up. I admire he's fighting for his country and my heart breaks for the citizens there but we are treading dangerous ground.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)

203 191 They all hold up their Bic lighters as they sway back and forth. Not to music, just geriatric balance issues.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (lz5hY)

204 The global technocrat vision is, essentially, a world with zero superpowers and five or six chaotically stable regional powers.

Spheres of Influence. If they pursued this goal logically, it would make some sense. But they're not. Our current bunch in charge seems to think we'll become a regional power, yet they'll still retain all the superpower bells and whistles.

They are mistaken. Gravely mistaken.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (5T7tk)

205 Finally, something that is actually constructive coming out of Congress.

U.S. Senate Approves Bill To Make Daylight Savings Time Permanent

------

Joe Biden's greatest accomplishment in history! Certainly worthy of the Nobel ...

I can see his headstone now:

"Look Fat, Here Lies Lunch-Bucket Joe
He Took Down Corn Pop, Day Light, and America"

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (c3Qm1)

206 $100 face, current quote, $1779 to sell, around $2100 to buy.
Meaning face value of the coin.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (0eoyn)

207 My high school's first class started at 7:35 am. Earliest of any school I ever heard of. Bus picked us up at 6:55.

I think that's when mine started. So many students would fall asleep during one of their classes. Including me.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (nxdel)

208 "Ahem!"
- - 1.5 Billion Muslims
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 08:44 AM (s2VJv)
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Nah, their leadership is down with us. When we eliminate the superpowers, the inequities that drive expansionist terrorism will be moderated and the lean technocratic rule by trained experts in the Islamic regional powers will give them some regional gains that will satisfy them while also keeping them from aspiring to greater conquest because quality of life will go up for the pod people who suddenly have a metaverse to play in and subsidized living expenses.
-- The WEF, approximately

Yes, they're arrogant to the point of hubris and stupid to the point of retarded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

209 Russia has for the first time in the conflict reduced their demands. While they still want Ukraine to be neutral, they're open to dropping the demand that Ukraine be demilitarized.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 16, 2022 08:47 AM (z5Vrg)

210 Did someone say silver and gold?
Posted by: Burl Ives at March 16, 2022 08:40 AM (W/jUp)

Burl Ives was great as the vengeful grandfather of a hooker who was killed by one of her clients in a "Night Gallery" episode.

Old bastard was cunning and mean...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2022 08:47 AM (wVHhX)

211
If the Uniparty succeeds in deploying , in any shape form or manner, America's manpower in Ukraine and causes any loss of American blood in or around Ukraine at that point the Uniparty will have declared, formal, irrevocable war AGAINST America.

The Uniparty is desperate for an European Vietnam -- to fund and line their pockets and alibi/cover up/ distract from their colossal failures elsewhere.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 16, 2022 08:47 AM (FCPbW)

212 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Plot Twist: Boogaloo Boys traveling to Ukraine to join International Legion

https://tinyurl.com/3byj3dpd

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

213 100 pre 1916 are worth 175 bucks!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:42 AM (yrol0)
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Depending on condition she may do better selling them for their numismatic value.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:48 AM (Zktzy)

214 I am not at all sure, however, that this results in conquest or foreign administration.
____________
That ship sailed years ago. Look what China has been able to do. They have infiltrated the government, academia, technology, transportation, the means of production and supply, the military-industrial complex, utilities, etc. They effectively own the country now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:48 AM (BFigT)

215 What does Obama think-that African nations-some of whom are regularly at war-or their various tribes were before they were nations are suddenly going to join hands in a warm embrace, declare themselves a this worldly African version of Wakanda and magically become a united superpower? He's rather naive, Mr. Obama.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:48 AM (GezNK)

216 And Russia might decide they can sustain a dogfight, in which case the "no-fly zone" just becomes an aerial combat theater where both try to achieve superiority and then supremacy

Why dogfight when they have really good SAMs?

But the real question to ask is: How many aircraft and pilots is the Democratic Party Military willing to lose to have the tail keep wagging the dog? I know they have absolutely no concern for the life and health of people, but isn't there the Optics Problem of losing aircraft in Michael Bay like levels of missile to jet explosions?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:49 AM (lD3vL)

217 In desending order: gold coins, silver coins, brass/lead/copper items.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2022 08:49 AM (Ma2wW)

218 I think I will continue investing in more common metals.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (vrz2I)

219 > When she went to one of those places where gold and silver are taken in, they only would give her ten cents for each dime.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

> They were trying to rob her is what they were doing.
> Posted by: kraken

This, definitely. Pre-1965 U.S. 90% silver coins are currently selling for more than 20x their face value.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

220 PMAGS or Gold ?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (GYllL)

221 Precious metals are kind of a crap deal in the non-burning times.

Take silver. Say it is $20 an ounce spot. You can buy it at best at $22 an ounce. Plus more if you use any payment other than direct bank/cash. Plus shipping. If you want to sell it, and the price is still $20, you would be lucky to get $17 an ounce. There is a lot of transactional friction there.

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (9otr5)

222 In desending order: gold coins, silver coins, brass/lead/copper items.
Posted by: Eromero

I disagree... small amounts?
Silver coins, then lead.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (0eoyn)

223 202 I've always been suspicious of Zelensky. This teenage crush everyone seems to have on him makes my antenna go up. I admire he's fighting for his country and my heart breaks for the citizens there but we are treading dangerous ground.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)

I thought I was America's boyfriend?!

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (rjpjQ)

224 15 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 07:45 AM (Mzdiz)

That has been known to serious economics minds for decades.

Remember to the $oro$ gang our comeuppance is a feature not a bug.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (Lzpvj)

225 Don't they sell bags of out of circulation pre-64 quarters? That would be common buying specie.
Considering it would be difficult to buy a loaf of bread with an $1800 gold coin.
Posted by: Braenyard

Welcome to Y2k thinking! We always said, silver for everyday purchases, gold for large purchases.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (UioMC)

226 Investing in precious metals is one thing. Trying to use, say a silver quarter circa 1920 to buy x amount of food or y number of bullets ain't gonna work like we think.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (BFigT)

227 Elementary school was 8
Jr and Sr high also 8 but pre school actives
usually started at 6;45

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (Zktzy)

228 > brass/lead/copper items.

If you have these, you can often get the first two.

Posted by: Nicky Mac, the Fresh Prince of Florence at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (bW8dp)

229 I am a man without letters. Swapped out the television for books.

My wife can probably cite my following rant by rote by now - people carry a damn library in their pockets, and refuse to read it. Access to such important - and such easily read - texts like "Freedom and Capitalism", "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "Starship Troopers", "Animal Farm", "1984" - and the stupid bastards simply refuse to partake.

FWIW - if it wasn't for about a $5K / year scholarship about thirty years ago, I wouldn't have any letters either. It didn't make me any smarter, just opened a couple doors a tiny bit. If it wasn't for that scholarship, I was off to the Corp.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (5T7tk)

230
Gold is not an inflation hedge -- look at the real price (inflation adjusted price) of gold. It's absolute peak was around 1980 or so.

Gold is a shit-hit-the-fan hedge. When the shit hits the fan and your currency and country collapse, which is pretty much baked in the cake for us, gold is good to have.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (Mzdiz)

231 Why dogfight when they have really good SAMs?

But the real question to ask is: How many aircraft and pilots is the Democratic Party Military willing to lose to have the tail keep wagging the dog? I know they have absolutely no concern for the life and health of people, but isn't there the Optics Problem of losing aircraft in Michael Bay like levels of missile to jet explosions?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:49 AM (lD3vL)
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Right. I used "dogfight" improperly there, and thanks for the correction. And I think the Party doesn't want what you're describing. I think they think that imposing a "no-fly zone" and shooting down a few Russian assets with minor US losses would get the job done because everyone is afraid of American air power.

Well, everyone *is* afraid of American air power, which is why the Soviets and then the Russians embed so much AA capacity into all operations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

232 Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

That dealer needs to be punched in the throat. Was going to take advantage of an old lady like that. What a dishonest pos.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (qnVBz)

233 This, definitely. Pre-1965 U.S. 90% silver coins are currently selling for more than 20x their face value.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

Geez Louise. And she was just going to hand them over no questions asked, because she's tired of having them around.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (45fpk)

234 That ship sailed years ago. Look what China has been able to do. They have infiltrated the government, academia, technology, transportation, the means of production and supply, the military-industrial complex, utilities, etc. They effectively own the country now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

As we can see, their apparatchiks within "government" and industry can collude with suppliers in China and levy Sanctions (which only hurt the middle and lower class) and Siege.

That is the Junta can punish and destroy American families with sanction upon sanction against real and imaginary foes while at the same time China can completely screw up the supply chain by failing to send a growing category of things.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (lD3vL)

235 PMAGS or Gold ?
Posted by: Capital Eff

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (UioMC)

236 Don't they sell bags of out of circulation pre-64 quarters?
Braenyard

Right. It's called "junk silver". We buy mixed bags. Dimes, quarters, halves.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:52 AM (0eoyn)

237 202 Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)

The left and kept right all function ceaselessly as cults of personality.

Zelensky is an actor.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 08:53 AM (Lzpvj)

238 Rather than just shouting down and insulting people in social media I found a world of people with far more domain knowledge than me who gladly shares their wisdom and experience.

WELL THATS STUPID!

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 08:53 AM (9otr5)

239
I don't agree with Peter Zeihan totally but would recommend his books; he certainly called the Ukraine war coming years ago.

America is the most self-sufficient country in the world by virtue of geography alone; bad times are coming but we are capable of producing our own oil and growing food if the politicians stay out of the way.

Sucks to be in a lot of the rest of the world right now.

Posted by: Auspex at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (bQvYf)

240 And why would Obama think that most peoples of Africa-who are diverse religiously, ethnically and tribally give a damn about his views about the rising up of Africa? He's another condescending elitist who thinks he knows it all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (GezNK)

241 Right. It's called "junk silver". We buy mixed bags. Dimes, quarters, halves.

They started at 90% silver. The assumption is, with wear, they have 71% of face value silver in them, and is the basis upon which they trade.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (0eoyn)

242 > Geez Louise. And she was just going to hand them over no questions asked, because she's tired of having them around.

Yeah... dealers have to make a profit, obviously, but that's way beyond a normal profit, way beyond even what you'd call "predatory". Outright thievery. That dealer needs to be reported, named, and shamed.

Posted by: Nicky Mac, the Fresh Prince of Florence at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (bW8dp)

243 226 Investing in precious metals is one thing. Trying to use, say a silver quarter circa 1920 to buy x amount of food or y number of bullets ain't gonna work like we think.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 08:51 AM (BFigT)

A theory I have is that many people are too uninformed/stupid to " get it" when presented with a valuable coin for commerce. Then , to be fair, there is the matter of the recipient of the silver coin then having to use it for their next transaction. Problems indeed.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:55 AM (Vr12I)

244 America is the most self-sufficient country in the world by virtue of geography alone; bad times are coming but we are capable of producing our own oil and growing food if the politicians stay out of the way.
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I think I found the flaw in your argument...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:55 AM (YIVH2)

245

In the shit-hit-the-fan burning times, your goal is not return on investment, but preservation of some fraction of the wealth you have.

Gold can do that. Lord Humongous may accept gold for safe passage. He won't accept dollars or other paper.

You won't keep all your wealth in basket of goods terms, but it may keep alive with something to barter with.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 08:56 AM (Mzdiz)

246 One time zone. Murican time. 7:35 off of UTC. And then be offended when the rest of the world can't figure out what time it is here.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:56 AM (qnVBz)

247 https://tinyurl.com/2p89zmv6

Spot junk silver.

Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:56 AM (0eoyn)

248 240 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (GezNK)

Africans, REAL Africans not hyphens hate Globohomo and view China as a hedge against it.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Lzpvj)

249 "If one were to, say, want to buy, say, a gold bar, where would one, say, go to, say, to, say, buy one?"
Posted by: fd at March 16, 2022 08:30 AM (vrz2I)

Buy? I was thinking more of a bold pre-dawn raid of Glenn Beck's place.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (qH6FZ)

250 241 Right. It's called "junk silver". We buy mixed bags. Dimes, quarters, halves.

They started at 90% silver. The assumption is, with wear, they have 71% of face value silver in them, and is the basis upon which they trade.
Posted by: MkY at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (0eoyn)

A place I transacted with would weigh the slver on their scale, and quote a price.They have been in the business for several generations.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Vr12I)

251 223 202 I've always been suspicious of Zelensky. This teenage crush everyone seems to have on him makes my antenna go up. ...
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)
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Zelensky is a this or that or Ukraine was playing dirty [don't we all] is a misdirection.

Puting willfully crashed a sovereign nation's borders and proceeded to bomb, murder and rape.

It's no different than Mexico crashing into CA, AZ, NM, and TX saying 'this used to be ours and we're taking it back.

That's a big no no.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Zktzy)

252 And why would Obama think that most peoples of Africa-who are diverse religiously, ethnically and tribally give a damn about his views about the rising up of Africa? He's another condescending elitist who thinks he knows it all.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (GezNK)
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As a general thought experiment, is there ANY nation in Africa that could rise to dominate the continent in the same way that China dominates Asia, Russia dominates Europe (right now), or the U.S. dominates North America? Forget leadership for the moment. Which country has the resources and human capital to make it happen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

253 CockPsaki and Shit Rumney + brat spawn. What a morning. . . .reaching for a tire iron . . .

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & GOPe clapping seals at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (8m/Xb)

254 I am stocking up on cat oil.

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (9otr5)

255 There will be a time when the dollar has no value and people will immediately understand the value of the metal the coin is made of. Most don't get it right now, but they will.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (qnVBz)

256 JJ, to your question about obligations, we also have obligations not to insert ourselves into a country under a guise of NGOs, or some other benevolence, remove leaders that do not suit the junta in charge here. Let's recall how obama, after a beautiful "reset" seriously soured on Putin after he made it impossible for countries legalizing ghey marriage to adopt Russian babies.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (roH/W)

257 America is the most self-sufficient country in the world by virtue of geography alone; bad times are coming but we are capable of producing our own oil and growing food if the politicians stay out of the way.
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I think I found the flaw in your argument...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:55 AM (YIVH2)

At that point, we'll make them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (UioMC)

258 Offering billions to Iran and green lighting their nuclear program after they attacked the US this weekend is straight up treason.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (UuD2k)

259 When I was a kid in the late 60's, I had a paper route (Arizona Republic) and would make collections weekly. Most people still paid in change then (the paper was cheap) and thanks to my dad, I would go through it each week and pull out all the pre-64 quarters and dimes. (Halves were rare even then, but I loved it when I would get a Ben Franklin!) I've still got that stuff stored today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (evAgx)

260 I am a man without letters. Swapped out the television for books. Instead of surfing for pr0n I used the internet to download papers. Rather than just shouting down and insulting people in social media I found a world of people with far more domain knowledge than me who gladly shares their wisdom and experience.

Many people here spark curiosity in some other corner of knowledge and I'll set off to understand it. Also helps to have very high retention of what I read/see/hear.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 08:45 AM (lD3vL)

We are a seriously unserious society. WHO DA FUCK CARES what a 19 or 20 YO says or thinks?

They know nothing, have zero wisdom, and are 5 to 10 years from having a brain that can process information without emotions.

PS If you do not allow yourself to grow up (get a job, move out, find a relationship) in that time period my guess is you will never ever grow up.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (yrol0)

261 255 There will be a time when the dollar has no value and people will immediately understand the value of the metal the coin is made of. Most don't get it right now, but they will.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (qnVBz)

Yeah. I have read about what an American dime or quarter would buy in Weimar Germany. It was amazing.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (Vr12I)

262 Good Morning!

Let's smile and be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 16, 2022 09:00 AM (GRDrZ)

263 As a general thought experiment, is there ANY nation in Africa that could rise to dominate the continent in the same way that China dominates Asia, Russia dominates Europe (right now), or the U.S. dominates North America? Forget leadership for the moment. Which country has the resources and human capital to make it happen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

Eswatini (Swaziland). O wait. They're still working on getting electricity.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:00 AM (45fpk)

264 I am stocking up on cat oil.

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (9otr5)

Dark matter starship fuel.

Posted by: Archer at March 16, 2022 09:00 AM (gmo/4)

265 Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Lzpvj)

I do know that evangelical church folks are really much more conservative than mainline Protestants or more liberal Catholics. I think Obama regards black people in Africa as some sort of pet, as a kind of project. He wants to instruct them. Bah!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (GezNK)

266 255 There will be a time when the dollar has no value and people will immediately understand the value of the metal the coin is made of. Most don't get it right now, but they will.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (qnVBz)

Some of our coins cost more to make then their face value. So coin hoarders will make bank.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (Y5qcH)

267 It's no different than Mexico crashing into CA, AZ, NM, and TX saying 'this used to be ours and we're taking it back.

That's a big no no.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Zktzy)

NATO. Libya. Compare and contrast.

This is not moral equivalence. It's pointing out that if you take the position that any time a country "violates a sovereign nation" there is a war crime, well, we have a number of war criminals to deal with then.

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)

268 America is the most self-sufficient country in the world by virtue of geography alone; bad times are coming but we are capable of producing our own oil and growing food if the politicians stay out of the way.
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I think I found the flaw in your argument...

The history of the Depression supports this. People were starving, while the Feds were out compelling farmers to burn crops in the fields.

It's not lost on me that your typical farmer, back in those days, did not have access to firearms in nearly the same manner that we do today.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (5T7tk)

269 Zelensky is a this or that or Ukraine was playing dirty [don't we all] is a misdirection.

Puting willfully crashed a sovereign nation's borders and proceeded to bomb, murder and rape.

Thank you, Braenyard.

Have a great day all - it's lovely out. Get away from the keyboards if you can

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (j9HX3)

270 As a general thought experiment, is there ANY nation in Africa that could rise to dominate the continent in the same way that China dominates Asia, Russia dominates Europe (right now), or the U.S. dominates North America? Forget leadership for the moment. Which country has the resources and human capital to make it happen?

I'm thinking that Cape Town alone couldn't pull it off. And Somalia's thriving industry of hijacking cargo ships didn't raise enough money. I'm reminded of the usual Path To Riches in Africa is to kill all of the whites and steal all their land and wealth.

The Classic Zimbabwe Model. Copied pretty much everywhere warlords assemble.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (lD3vL)

271 Look at the population projections for Africa, there will be mass starvation.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (z2xUm)

272 > A place I transacted with would weigh the slver on their scale, and quote a price.They have been in the business for several generations.

Some places sell by weight (which honestly, is probably the best way), others sell bags of $x face value (which is going to vary depending on coin wear).

Back in the day, there were numerous ways of getting extra metal from coins. There was the obvious clipping or filing of the edges (which is why coins have those milled edges, even though they're base metal). Another method was called "sweating". You'd put a bunch of gold and silver coins in a bag and shake the piss out of it for a long time. Do this enough, and eventually there's a layer of gold or silver dust in the bottom of the back, which can be melted down into bullion.

The advantage of sweating over clipping is that the loss in weight looks a lot more like normal wear and tear, though it was no doubt still suspicious if you handed in a bunch of this years coins looking like they had 20 years of wear on them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (bW8dp)

273 Grade school start at 8am. Report to your homeroom for roll call and announcements over the speaker. First class at 8:05am thru 3pm. Got on school bus and home around 3:20pm or so depending on the driver.

I did that for the longest time.

Posted by: dantesed at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (88xKn)

274 Hiya Salty !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (arJlL)

275 Vegetable seeds will be a hot commodity in the burning times.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (qH6FZ)

276 252 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

Kenya coupled with the the human resources of South Africa would be formidable.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (Lzpvj)

277 265-Meant mainline Protestants or more liberal Catholics in the US.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:02 AM (GezNK)

278 The show is getting ready to start. Will they go straight to Zellenskyy, or show coming attractions? Maybe the "Let's all go to the lobby and get ourselves a treat" cartoon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (lz5hY)

279 There will be a time when the dollar has no value and people will immediately understand the value of the metal the coin is made of. Most don't get it right now, but they will.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 08:58 AM (qnVBz)

Yeah. I have read about what an American dime or quarter would buy in Weimar Germany. It was amazing.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 08:59 AM (Vr12I

I have some Nazi money Dad took off of dead krauts in WW2. The coins are either 100% zinc or have a high percentage of that metal in them. Really light and cheap feeling.

Posted by: Archer at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (gmo/4)

280 Good morning all. Well, I see things are still fucked up.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (o2MD2)

281 Prager is making the "World Policemen" argument for America that was in play for about 75 years, from the end of WW2 until lately. He doesn't get that we're done with that, because we tried and it flat out did not work for any of us normal people. In practice, it just meant a bunch of our boys dying so the ruling class could play soldier and get rich. We don't need that, or want that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

282 Matthew 6:19-24 NIV "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal."

I do not interpret that as "don't use your common sense and prepare well for your family during hard times."

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:04 AM (45fpk)

283 Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV

7m
Bill Hemmer reports that Ben Hall is safely out of Ukraine and is in good spirits after being seriously injured near Kviv recently. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott says he's receiving "the best possible care in the world" and is currently in close contact with his wife & family.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

284 The history of the Depression supports this. People were starving, while the Feds were out compelling farmers to burn crops in the fields.

It's not lost on me that your typical farmer, back in those days, did not have access to firearms in nearly the same manner that we do today.
Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (5T7tk)

There was a big ruling about you could not grow corn for feedstock but had to buy it.

Real cause of the depression was that Fed shrunk the money supply b over 33% literally leaving no cash to exchange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiIp8TKaLs

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:04 AM (yrol0)

285 NATO. Libya. Compare and contrast.

This is not moral equivalence. It's pointing out that if you take the position that any time a country "violates a sovereign nation" there is a war crime, well, we have a number of war criminals to deal with then.

Pretty much all of Western Civilization since the Reformation has been Invade and Conquer. When it isn't that it is Infiltrate and Overthrow.

Russia entering into Ukraine has more "moral authority" than the former US invading Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:05 AM (lD3vL)

286 As a general thought experiment, is there ANY nation in Africa that could rise to dominate

No. But that is the point. The thing that has prevented Africa from dominating the world- and by rights they should given the resources of the continent- is their culturally self-centered mindset.
If you can't pay for your healthcare, they are happy to kick you back onto the street. People will walk by the dying old lady, leaning against the tree and say "What is wrong with her?" Oh, she can't afford the blood transfusion. Then proceed to steal her shoes because she is dying and doesn't need them anymore. Any aid goes immediately into the bank account of the rulers. That is what the WEF wants worldwide. All of the graft goes to them. Fuck the people.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (qnVBz)

287 Puting willfully crashed a sovereign nation's borders and proceeded to bomb, murder and rape.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (Zktzy)

You'll forgive me if invading a sovereign nation doesn't carry the weight that it used to after 2002-2003.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (C9XVS)

288 I have some Nazi money Dad took off of dead krauts in WW2. The coins are either 100% zinc or have a high percentage of that metal in them. Really light and cheap feeling.

Posted by: Archer at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (gmo/4)

ah, so the same as everything our mint makes today. It's kind of amazing to compare the "feel" of a new penny with one made back when they were actual copper. And nothing compares with the feel of holding an actual old-style silver dollar in your hand; that's when you *know* you've got something worthwhile.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (evAgx)

289 Let's also remember how after signing a Minsk agreement Ukrainians continue to murder people in the East. So certain commenters continued propaganda ignoring Ukrainian war crimes over 8 year period, is puzzling.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (ReE5g)

290 We are a seriously unserious society. WHO DA FUCK CARES what a 19 or 20 YO says or thinks?

They know nothing, have zero wisdom, and are 5 to 10 years from having a brain that can process information without emotions.

PS If you do not allow yourself to grow up (get a job, move out, find a relationship) in that time period my guess is you will never ever grow up.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Tying our energy policy to a Swedish teen was the height of stupidity.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (UioMC)

291 281 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

Pax Anglia relied on a will and self-love that is not there anymore.

You cannot make the societal sacrifices for the cost and voluntarily ceded gain potential with the amount of internal hatred all the Anglic nations express.

Prager cannot accept that to keep Pax Anglia you have to actually destroy the Marxists we face politically.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (Lzpvj)

292 282 Matthew 6:19-24 NIV "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal."

I do not interpret that as "don't use your common sense and prepare well for your family during hard times."
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:04 AM (45fpk)

Well said, grammie.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (Vr12I)

293 1 oz. silver wafer, not coin or a round, is $31.24 USD this moment at my bank's PM dealership.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (UHVv4)

294 The history of the Depression supports this. People were starving, while the Feds were out compelling farmers to burn crops in the fields.
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There was a big ruling about you could not grow corn for feedstock but had to buy it.

Yep. I'd hazard a guess that FDR's pseudo-communist policies killed more Americans during the Depression than the Japs and Germans killed in WW2. Yet, we dedicate monuments to and name schools after the bastard.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (5T7tk)

295 291 281 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:03 AM (evAgx)

Pax Anglia relied on a will and self-love that is not there anymore.

You cannot make the societal sacrifices for the cost and voluntarily ceded gain potential with the amount of internal hatred all the Anglic nations express.

Prager cannot accept that to keep Pax Anglia you have to actually destroy the Marxists we face politically.
Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (Lzpvj)

Why do you call it a Pax Anglia? World wasn't peaceful when the British were strong and by the end of WWII the US wasn't that English either (last 50% when the country was first founded).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 16, 2022 09:08 AM (z5Vrg)

296 Not our circus.

Not our monkeys.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2022 09:08 AM (cTCuP)

297 294 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (5T7tk)

The left worships him as a god, he is the closest they got to having a dictator in perpetuity given Wilson stroked out and Urkle was term-limited.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (Lzpvj)

298 I think I'm more with JJ on the Ukrainian situation. I believe Putin is a gangster, a thug, and it would make me happy to see him fall, as I would love to see any tyrant fall. BUT I do not believe one single drop of American Blood should be wasted in that fight. It's basically two major Crime families going after each other, and there is no reason I have to take a side, or get involved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (evAgx)

299 293 1 oz. silver wafer, not coin or a round, is $31.24 USD this moment at my bank's PM dealership.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 16, 2022 09:07 AM (UHVv4)[/]

That's what I mean. Spot is $25 or a little less right now.

And I bet their buy price is no more than $20.

Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (9otr5)

300

I remember it from the KJV, paraphrased as "moth and rust doth corrode", which was one of my father's favorite phrases. He'd say that when some piece of machinery, sitting for a while and running perfectly when put up, but now needed repair: "Well son, moth and rust doth corrode!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (Mzdiz)

301 Let us also remember that we made agreements with Russia, mentioned here many times, not to expand NATO To Russia's borders, was ignored. Moldova?? Seriously?

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (ReE5g)

302 Dirty Woodall-Vogg Defies State Supreme Court and Will Set Up Ballot Drop Boxes in Milwaukee for April Primary

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:10 AM (yrol0)

303 *agreements that were ignored

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:10 AM (ReE5g)

304 Not sure why youre making fun of them finally making a real attempt to end twice yearly time switching. It is more important than 99% of what they do everyday.

Posted by: Fisht at March 16, 2022 09:10 AM (g5ddn)

305 And now we get to the crux of the biscuit.

Will there be gravy?

Asking for a Texan.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2022 09:11 AM (a3Q+t)

306 I think I'm more with JJ on the Ukrainian situation. I believe Putin is a gangster, a thug, and it would make me happy to see him fall, as I would love to see any tyrant fall. BUT I do not believe one single drop of American Blood should be wasted in that fight. It's basically two major Crime families going after each other, and there is no reason I have to take a side, or get involved.

Yep. I've noticed we haven't taken an official position regarding volunteers - I'd leave it at that. Anyone that really thinks we have a "moral obligation" isn't stopped from going there. I'll even slide Dennis Prager all my airline points.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:11 AM (5T7tk)

307 Holy cow, J.J.! Did you leave anything for the rest of the world to cover?

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (cTCuP)

308 You would think the leader of a country who relied on so much graft with the US would speak english.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (z2xUm)

309 Given how uninformed most of the country is today about stuff like the value of metals, coins, etc. I really do find it hard to believe that should it come down to bartering for supplies, at least initially my stash of old coins won't amount to much if anything for trade.

Gas, bullets and pussy will be valuable. Old coins, not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (BFigT)

310 302 Dirty Woodall-Vogg Defies State Supreme Court and Will Set Up Ballot Drop Boxes in Milwaukee for April Primary
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:10 AM (yrol0)

Citizens should organize posses to remove them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (s2VJv)

311 300

I remember it from the KJV, paraphrased as "moth and rust doth corrode", which was one of my father's favorite phrases. He'd say that when some piece of machinery, sitting for a while and running perfectly when put up, but now needed repair: "Well son, moth and rust doth corrode!"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 16, 2022 09:09 AM (Mzdiz)

I was told that reading the KJV is greatly aided by wearing a frilly collar.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (Vr12I)

312 Look at the population projections for Africa, there will be mass starvation.

I'm sort of conflicted. The massive gains in population in Africa have largely been due to equally massive gains in the provision by Western nations of medicines and food.

While gifts of food priced out local farmers so that they could never profit and build their own food supplies because foreign aid would always outprice them in the market, it did allow others to flourish - to what degree they could. (I think Bill Gates and his industry of micro loans was probably the best thing that ever happened to Africa).

Its like cultivating a large bird population by pouring near unlimited amounts of seed in an area for a few years and then abruptly stopping it. In those years of plenty there was a thriving and growing population of birds that the natural land could never support. So when the artificial supply went away, the scavengers played Survival of the Fittest - Cage Match.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (lD3vL)

313 Tying our energy policy to a Swedish teen was the height of stupidity.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (UioMC)

How dare you!

Blah, blah, blah....

Posted by: Greta Thunberg, Still Unable To Rub One Out at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (wVHhX)

314 Obama made it our circus. Instead of extricating us from that circus, doubled down on stupid.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (ReE5g)

315 295 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 16, 2022 09:08 AM (z5Vrg)

There are more Germanics in America than Germany and more English peoples than the UK and have been for some time. That said the United States is a product improved United Kingdom on matters of economy and liberty. We also allowed ourselves to be integrated into the English world order by choice and took the baton to finish the race so to speak.

The perception that shit is falling apart is because as we get further and further from the ideals first expressed in the Magna Carta and towards "Das Super State" the less "English" we are and the more Marxist.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (Lzpvj)

316 307 Holy cow, J.J.! Did you leave anything for the rest of the world to cover?
Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2022 09:12 AM (cTCuP)

"Orbis non sufficit."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (s2VJv)

317 *that would be Brandon

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (ReE5g)

318 if you take the position that any time a country "violates a sovereign nation" there is a war crime, well, we have a number of war criminals to deal with then.
Posted by: blaster at March 16, 2022 09:01 AM (9otr5)
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Yes, there are.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (Zktzy)

319 That's a big no no.

I agree. I just hate the hero worship of this guy. I don't think he's the saint the msm is portraying him as.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (nxdel)

320 Tying our energy policy to a Swedish teen was the height of stupidity.
Posted by: rickb223

She was just a retarded autistic spokesperson for a commie NGO. She got a little local fame for some school stunt, and her theatrical parents marketed her out to the world.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:14 AM (qnVBz)

321 313 Tying our energy policy to a Swedish teen was the height of stupidity.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (UioMC)

And an ugly, mentally disturbed one at that. Anita Ekberg she ain't.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:14 AM (s2VJv)

322 I agree. I just hate the hero worship of this guy. I don't think he's the saint the msm is portraying him as.

I think I saw last week that Zelensky finally released his predecessor from house arrest. So he's "growing" in office, so to speak.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:14 AM (5T7tk)

323 Tying our energy policy to a Swedish teen was the height of stupidity.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:06 AM (UioMC)
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Oh, I dunno. Carter using his daughter as "inspiration" for his strategic and military policy is way up there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

324 People buying precious metal bars or coins should also look into purchasing fine pocket sized jewelers saws and good pocket size electronic scales.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 16, 2022 09:15 AM (GYllL)

325 Was there not a coup in Ukraine in 2014? What was America's response then?

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

326 I just read Kamala's inspirational quips. Damn, I feel inspired.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (o2MD2)

327 301 Let us also remember that we made agreements with Russia, mentioned here many times, not to expand NATO To Russia's borders, was ignored. Moldova?? Seriously?
Posted by: runner
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We didn't violate a sovereign border, we didn't murder a nation or rape it's women, and destroy it's hospitals and schools.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Zktzy)

328 325 Was there not a coup in Ukraine in 2014? What was America's response then?
Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

Wasnt that the guy Obama put in to save Joe and his sons asses?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (yrol0)

329 Who is the other guy on the left in the picture? I recognize Soros and Schwab.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (GezNK)

330 325 Was there not a coup in Ukraine in 2014? What was America's response then?
Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

331 People will walk by the dying old lady, leaning against the tree and say "What is wrong with her?" Oh, she can't afford the blood transfusion. Then proceed to steal her shoes because she is dying and doesn't need them anymore."

So, it's a lot like most American inner cities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

332 I was told that reading the KJV is greatly aided by wearing a frilly collar.

They did studies of the education required to read the KJV compared to modern [per]versions. The KJV was ranked the highest as requiring a 12th grade education, everything else was geared for the illiterate and dull.

Bothered by the claim of the "inerrant Word of God" and then seeing shelves filled with a large variety of English translations, how could all translations be inerrant yet necessary such where it demanded their existence?

Or as some KJV Only enthusiasts would say: "If the King James was good enough for Jesus and Paul, then it is good enough for me".

Resolving that problem led me to learning the original languages so now I don't care what translations exist.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (lD3vL)

333 320 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:14 AM (qnVBz)

It is an op, she is part of a PsyOp.

The list of "things and people you are not allowed to question" is ever growing and coincidentally always helps the Soros agenda.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (Lzpvj)

334 And why would Obama think that most peoples of Africa-who are diverse religiously, ethnically and tribally give a damn about his views about the rising up of Africa? He's another condescending elitist who thinks he knows it all.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 08:54 AM (GezNK)
As a general thought experiment, is there ANY nation in Africa that could rise to dominate the continent in the same way that China dominates Asia, Russia dominates Europe (right now), or the U.S. dominates North America? Forget leadership for the moment. Which country has the resources and human capital to make it happen?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

A couple of things:

1) Obama is a grifter and he hates the US. He's giving this "I have a Dream.(of Wakanda)" speech cuz it's a good money maker for the Slow Brains and LowIQ crowd on the left. My, my how uplifting! All the Black people banding together like little Black Smurfs. Totally ignores history, human nature, and culture. He probably sees himself as Preezy of Africa.
This is also a message for American Blacks, who are always the spearpoint in the Democrat's fever dreams of revolution.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (5NkmN)

335 The perception that shit is falling apart is because as we get further and further from the ideals first expressed in the Magna Carta and towards "Das Super State" the less "English" we are and the more Marxist.
Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:13 AM (Lzpvj)

Well the German part isn't really relevant since the English aren't a Germanic people(Angles yes but the English are Britons). That's a language thing, much like the Norman impact but stronger. And the economy is from the Dutch when England imported their royalty from there.

There wasn't really an English world order. We didn't start heavily meddling in Europe until WWI, and the League of Nations is an American, not British project. Calling it a Pax Anglia seems to imply some period of time where the British were relevant for world peace, instead of their usual foreign policy of trying to keep Europe at war to limit the rise of a powerful rival. British foreign policy was actually rather dickish.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (z5Vrg)

336 I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

That's what JackStraw has always said, long before this current conflict.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

337 In other more important news, we should hit 60 this afternoon in central Wisconsin. So that's nice.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (qH6FZ)

338 We didn't violate a sovereign border, we didn't murder a nation or rape it's women, and destroy it's hospitals and schools.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Zktzy)

�Me ests hablando?

Posted by: Juan One at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

339 I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

I get lost too. I do remember Obama handled it badly, whatever it was.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (45fpk)

340 329 Who is the other guy on the left in the picture? I recognize Soros and Schwab
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Larry Fink - CEO Blackrock. They are all playing characters from Buchan's The Power House. One form of Lumley after another.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (LQjWA)

341 Given how uninformed most of the country is today about stuff like the value of metals, coins, etc. I really do find it hard to believe that should it come down to bartering for supplies, at least initially my stash of old coins won't amount to much if anything for trade.

Gas, bullets and pussy will be valuable. Old coins, not so much.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Them's city people. Farmers know what a bull, cow, goat, lamb or chicken is worth.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (UioMC)

342 I bought a 1 kg bar of silver years ago, just because I wanted a big bar of something and gold was to expensive. It's more than doubled.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (UuD2k)

343 330 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

That would be correct, the Russians engage in "Hybrod War" we call our version "colored revolutions."

The US backed the toppling of a Russophile Ukrainian government.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (Lzpvj)

344 We didn't violate a sovereign border, we didn't murder a nation or rape it's women, and destroy it's hospitals and schools.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Zktzy)

*Cough* IRAQ?

Violated sovereign border? Check

Raped women? Check. Also raped men in Abu Ghraib

Destroyed hospitals and schools? Check

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 16, 2022 09:18 AM (C9XVS)

345 325 Was there not a coup in Ukraine in 2014? What was America's response then?
Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)
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I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)
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The Maidan was indeed our baby.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2022 09:19 AM (VhE0u)

346 In other more important news, we should hit 60 this afternoon in central Wisconsin. So that's nice.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (qH6FZ)

I plan on frolicking.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:19 AM (45fpk)

347 Was there not a coup in Ukraine in 2014? What was America's response then?
Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.

And the Junta promoted the saboteurs who kibitzed in Ukraine's overthrow of 2014

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:19 AM (lD3vL)

348 British foreign policy was actually rather dickish.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (z5Vrg)

They went to war so they could sell opium to China. It's doesn't get more dickish than that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:19 AM (UuD2k)

349 Yes we engineered a violent , bloody coup in Ukraine in 2014. Nuland was front and center. McCain and Graham made many visits. Now the same gang is in charge again. Sans McCain , of course.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (ReE5g)

350 RC Bishop in England receives flack from gay community after he says that a homosexual author Whose books promote gay sex and which contains a blasphemous gay parody of the Lords Prayer shouldn't be speaking at a RC primary school. ...
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 07:55 AM (cY2qy)
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The Lord's Prayer is one of those things you should seriously consider *not* using as your theme for a blasphemous parody that is used to push a homosexual agenda.

Even a Visigoth wouldn't piss on the tabernacle without expectation of censure and reprisal, yet these guys do so routinely. It's grotesque and disrespectful in the extreme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (DU+/6)

351 I, for one, am fine if the US congress restrains its interference in our lives to issues no more weighty than daylight savings time.

And rolls back every other bullshit law they've ever passed.

Posted by: strange matter at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (vcv8B)

352 I know someone who was in both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. His views of the situation there are a lot more complex and detailed than the pap we are being shoveled by our " news sources".

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

353 I'm only listening to the speech, so I have to know. Is the interpreter hawt?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (z2xUm)

354 A tiger? In Africa??

Four Bengal tigers rescued from a railway train carriage in Argentina are being moved to South Africa. [I assume in a zoo.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (UHVv4)

355 336 Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

Quite, essentially Urkle decided to engage in a game of "Pull the Bear's tail" and installed a graftocrat.

You can read a scenario based largely on Ivan's actions in the Crimea here-

https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/DATE/Europe

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (Lzpvj)

356 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals."

.. you in the mirror Al

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

357 Perhaps I have a heart made of ice, but this film and especially its accompanying music, that Zelensky just played is propaganda of the highest and most transparent degree.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (VhE0u)

358 The Maidan was indeed our baby.
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Yes it was. Sent with love from Hillary and Nuland.

Then there was Egypt, Libya and then Syria. Now its the US.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (LQjWA)

359 We didn't violate a sovereign border, we didn't murder a nation or rape it's women, and destroy it's hospitals and schools.
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*Cough* IRAQ?
Violated sovereign border? Check
Raped women? Check. Also raped men in Abu Ghraib
Destroyed hospitals and schools? Check

You forgot the all-critical plundering!
*Cough* Food for Oil?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (lD3vL)

360 Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage

Mar 15
This tracker says it all.

Payments to Russia for fossil fuels since the invasion of Ukraine began currently total over 12,495,000,000+.

The Putin supporters were never Brexiteers or Trump but the EU itself.

https://beyond-coal.eu/russian-fossil-fuel-tracker

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

361 319 That's a big no no.

I agree. I just hate the hero worship of this guy. I don't think he's the saint the msm is portraying him as. Posted by: Jewells45
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There was a plane idling on the tarmac waiting to spirit him away but he chose to stay with his people and die with them if it is to be.

Looking around at prominent leader,
That's pretty heroic.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (Zktzy)

362 some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "CEOs."

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

363 352 Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

We are constantly violating the unwritten Russian equivalent of the Monroe doctrine and wonder why they act enraged and afraid.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (Lzpvj)

364 I'm only listening to the speech, so I have to know. Is the interpreter hawt?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Proceed as if she is.

Posted by: strange matter at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (vcv8B)

365 356 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals."

.. you in the mirror Al
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Anyone that questions an Oligarch's grift is a traitor!

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (LQjWA)

366 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals."

Hey Al! I have a question for you!

What company has paid the all time highest fine in a criminal fraud indictment?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (lD3vL)

367 Forget leadership for the moment. Which country has the resources and human capital to make it happen?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 16, 2022 08:57 AM (YIVH2)

the hard, sad, unmentionable fact is that the only way any African government could ever rise out of poverty and become relevant would be if they had a Colonial government imposed from outside. China may make a play at that in the coming century; but then the Chinese have always had the problem that they have never given two shits about anyplace not in the Middle Kingdom. (they have always used the term to mean The Middle of the Earth, surrounded by Barbarians) So, they're more likely to just exploit the resources and dump it whenever it ceases being profitable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

368 Uh oh, , we are getting the totally unexpected "murder of babies and rape" claims.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (ReE5g)

369 I know someone who was in both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. His views of the situation there are a lot more complex and detailed than the pap we are being shoveled by our " news sources".

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

Last Sunday, we had a livestream from a pastor in Ukraine whose church we help support. He was born in Russia and has family there. He said the Russian people mostly do not have information on what is happening. Fake news and No news. He urged us to pray for those on both sides. It's a mess. So far his church has sustained only minor damage.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (45fpk)

370 363 352 Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

We are constantly violating the unwritten Russian equivalent of the Monroe doctrine and wonder why they act enraged and afraid.
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We will have to make room for Mexican Naval Ships in Norfolk and San Diego to be woke enough.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (LQjWA)

371 361 Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:22 AM (Zktzy)

Self-interest and heroism can look a lot alike.

Zelensky probably understood if he left he was out of power period.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (Lzpvj)

372 360 Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage Mar 15 This tracker says it all.

Payments to Russia for fossil fuels since the invasion of Ukraine began currently total over 12,495,000,000+.

The Putin supporters were never Brexiteers or Trump but the EU itself.

https://beyond-coal.eu/russian-fossil-fuel-tracker
Posted by: red
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So, it's Commies for Putin, all the way.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (Zktzy)

373 IrishEi

My thoughts exactly.

Posted by: Infidel at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (ou23q)

374 I believe we helped engineer it, no? I lose track.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)
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We did, along with the prior one in, IIRC, 2006. It was after the 2014 color revolution that Putin seized Crimea. He also drew one of those "red lines" that national leaders sometimes do, making for two "red lines" in the region. The first was "no other country that shares a border with Russia shall enter NATO" and this was why he invaded Georgia at the end of the Bush 43 administration. The second, as of 2014, was, "no more color revolutions in Russia's sphere of influence." We probably violated that last year with the attempted revolution in Kazakhstan that Russia put down with a limited invasion. Add that to Lloyd Austin's "open door policy" stance with regard to Ukraine and NATO and now both "red lines" have been violated.

Whether those "red lines" are reasonable or justified is a different matter, but Putin hasn't been secretive about what he considers a violation justifying military response.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (DU+/6)

375 Zelensky just got a big standing O from congress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (qnVBz)

376 >>She was just a retarded autistic spokesperson for a commie NGO. She got a little local fame for some school stunt, and her theatrical parents marketed her out to the world.

Her actress mother is a huge environmental activist, hanging out with people like Bono, and got some global 'activist of the year' award right before lil' Greta started her own activism. Somehow, difficult child Greta, who was dealing with a grab-bag of issues -- autism, depression, anxiety, OCD -- got it in her head that all of these were caused by our climate emergency. Given her mom's connections, she quickly gained fame and global attention.

It's and op *and* her mom's way of giving troubled Greta an outlet for blaming/dealing with her issues. Sick.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (MmndN)

377 hat does Obama think-that African nations-some of whom are regularly at war-or their various tribes were before they were nations are suddenly going to join hands in a warm embrace, declare themselves a this worldly African version of Wakanda and magically become a united superpower? He's rather naive, Mr. Obama.

Obama lives in the leftist American bubble. As has been observed many times, Africans are *not* complimentary of American blacks or their political projects.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (ZGrMX)

378 Zelensky probably understood if he left he was out of power period.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (Lzpvj)
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Better Dead than Red

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (Zktzy)

379 (con't)

That why Black individualism, Black free thought, and Black people as agent of their own life and captains of their own fate, are so anathema to the Democratic party.

2) Nation building and dominant regional nation status is generally a few hundred years in the making dealio. Not just in Africa. Look at South America. This is why the Multipolar/Six Super Powers model fails.
They want Brazil to be the dominant Ruling Super Power of SA. So, of course, everyone in SA is going to say "Sure! Brazil's got the samba. Yeah, they should rule over us"
Nope. Nation building and regional dominance is a bloody bloody affair taking lots of war and military might to happen. You can't short cut it.
Look at Eastern Europe. Totally dominated by Russia for roughly 50 years. Yet, all those countries ran away from Daddy first chance they got and resumed their national ways.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (5NkmN)

380 369 I know someone who was in both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. His views of the situation there are a lot more complex and detailed than the pap we are being shoveled by our " news sources".
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It is very complex. There are no bright lines that hold up. They are both corrupt. This would be a real good time to read Thycydides and understand what's afoot.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:26 AM (LQjWA)

381 369 Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (45fpk)

Russia was initially expecting to run its "Little Green Men" playbook and consequently was too soft and not prepared with all category A troops.

They discovered that unlike the Crimea they were not actually wanted.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:26 AM (Lzpvj)

382 They went to war so they could sell opium to China. It's doesn't get more dickish than that.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:19 AM (UuD2k)

and they raped India pretty thoroughly, too. You kinda got to admire the balls on those guys. Whenever they were told "Go Big or Go Home!" they said "well we ain't goin' home, that's for sure."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)

383 375 Zelensky just got a big standing O from congress.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (qnVBz)

He really thinks the US is going to send in the troops to save his ass.

Normally, I'd laugh in his face considering past actions of our Foggy Bottom elites. But Ho Lee Fook; this time we might actually do it.

Chee-wah=wah.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (s2VJv)

384 I am stocking up on cat oil.
Posted by: blaster

We recommend expressing their glands every 2 weeks for maximum production and the purest cat oil. Burns clean.
4 weeks for dog anal glands, which is primarily used in Jack Murphy's line of beard oils and Alpha Lube ( for her boyfriend's pleasure.

Posted by: The Chia Pet Shop Boyz 2 Men at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (EnXRd)

385 The US signed a document in Nov 2021 that said the US would support Ukraine's desire to join NATO should they choose. I think that was the spark that kicked this off.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

386 Hi JJ,

Just a note regarding Prager and "left" vs "liberal". Dennis devotes a lot of effort to trying to educate his audience to understand that the word "liberal" should not be confused with the ideology of the left side of the political spectrum. He prefers to use the classical definition of liberal, which is antithetical to the ideology of the left. In the portion of his essay that you quote, that is why he attempts to distinguish the two.

Posted by: The Liberty Dude at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (QUoCi)

387 Zelensky just got a big standing O from congress.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Except Steny Hoyer. He was too engrossed in the NYT crossword puzzle.

Posted by: strange matter at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (vcv8B)

388 378 Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (Zktzy)

Ocasio-Cortez is redder than Putin.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (Lzpvj)

389 369

Last Sunday, we had a livestream from a pastor in Ukraine whose church we help support. He was born in Russia and has family there. He said the Russian people mostly do not have information on what is happening. Fake news and No news. He urged us to pray for those on both sides. It's a mess. So far his church has sustained only minor damage.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:23 AM (45fpk)

Good words. My acquaintance says that Zelensky is not a saint, but the Ukrainians want above all else some peace and stability and not perpetual war.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (Vr12I)

390 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals." ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)
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That's a bit of an escalation. I wonder if he's starting to panic. Not a major panic yet, but starting to be very worried. I hope so. Probably not - he's ruling class - but I do hope so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (DU+/6)

391 58 going to 76 down here by NASA

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (yrol0)

392 Dayum. My weakish defense of Prager seems to have landed me in the no-friend zone at the HQ.

Tell me, how hard have YOU worked to educate the public on basic American values? I've watched a few of those videos, and they try hard to sell what should be an easy sell. In the past, they wouldn't even be needed. But this ain't the past.

At the least, he has that as a lifelong accomplishment.

That's why I'm cutting him some slack. ymmv.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (F0YaR)

393 Last Sunday, we had a livestream from a pastor in Ukraine whose church we help support. He was born in Russia and has family there. He said the Russian people mostly do not have information on what is happening. Fake news and No news. He urged us to pray for those on both sides. It's a mess. So far his church has sustained only minor damage.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 16, 2022 09:23
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My brother has friends that are from Ukraine and are really conservative and vote that way too. They are saying the same thing as many of them have relatives that are in Russia and do not have information on what's happening in Ukraine.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2022 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

394 3 faces of the Honky Apocalypse.

Posted by: klaftern at March 16, 2022 09:29 AM (taPSh)

395 386 Posted by: The Liberty Dude at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (QUoCi)

The current situation extant was enabled by a group of muddleheaded "liberals" who decided because of their "racial guilt" to empower an agent of the GloboHomo left to wreck America for 8 years.

If a "liberal" empowers the Ocasio-Cortez left with their soft hearts they are functionally leftists.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:29 AM (Lzpvj)

396 These are people who think they're clever enough to deal with powerful foreign countries run by sane people. They're not, and those foreign powers have taken note of that fact. The kind of Americans the world fears or respects have been put out of government and military leadership and replaced by a menagerie of nursing home patients, human resources ladies, affirmative action hires, sexual degenerates, and obese four-star generals angling for board seats on the next Theranos start-up. The day of reckoning has arrived. Leaders like Putin, Xi, and Mohammed bin Salman are no longer amenable to being pushed around and morally browbeaten by the circus freaks that constitute the United States Government.

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

397 383
He really thinks the US is going to send in the troops to save his ass.
Normally, I'd laugh in his face considering past actions of our Foggy Bottom elites. But Ho Lee Fook; this time we might actually do it.

Chee-wah=wah.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (s2VJv)
That all depends on what our Chinese Masters have to say on the matter. They OWN us.

Posted by: kraken at March 16, 2022 09:29 AM (Vr12I)

398 "58 going to 76 down here by NASA"
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (yrol0)

Spring Break weather.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (qH6FZ)

399 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM (DU+/6)

Yes; It's very disrespectful. I think the gay author claims to be RC, which I suppose he was asked by some people in the school to talk at the primary school . One of the books promoted in my local public school which is about gay relationships features a picture of gay teen dressed as the Virgin of Guadalupe (sp?) with a sentence under it about "Will he give out?" I knew some conservative RC's who were going to the school board meeting yesterday to protest. I don't know what the outcome was.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (GezNK)

400 Part of me hopes the standing Onwas politeness.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (qnVBz)

401 Whether those "red lines" are reasonable or justified is a different matter, but Putin hasn't been secretive about what he considers a violation justifying military response.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 16, 2022 09:25 AM (DU+/6)
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A more civilized approach would have a well publicized round table negotiation. He may well have won the battle in the court of opinion without murdering a soul or sending his boys to die.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (Zktzy)

402 Siderio is white, like most Americans shot by police, by the way, so he will not be revered like other victims of police shootings.

Folks like Siderio are killed by police at nearly double the rate each year as black people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (yrol0)

403 Zelensky just got a big standing O from congress.

So who stopped applauding first? I expect that person will not be around much longer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (lD3vL)

404 390 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals." ...
Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)
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CEO Albert Bourla reminds me of Admiral Borda. Remember, Admiral Borda committed suicide for less than this.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:30 AM (LQjWA)

405 392 Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (F0YaR)

Prager and I both have been just about as effective at "saving the republic" and given I am totally ineffective I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (Lzpvj)

406 NOOD Art

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (HsAzN)

407 the circus freaks that constitute the United States Government:

Kamala Harris: hyena

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

408 My thoughts exactly.
Posted by: Infidel at March 16, 2022 09:24 AM (ou23q)
~~~~~

*Fist bump*

It wasn't directed so much at Congress and the Potato in Chief as it was to the American people with the hope that they will pressure the politicians to act. I have no doubt that it worked to change more than a few minds.

I do not want another single American to shed blood, lose a limb or their life in yet another senseless war just to line the pockets of those who themselves, or whose own children, have not and do not serve.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (VhE0u)

409 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (UioMC)

410 The great tragedy of South America is that there hasn't been a single competent government in power anywhere on that continent since Pizarro overthrew the Inca 500 years ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2022 09:31 AM (evAgx)

411 >>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday that some people who spread misinformation on Covid-19 vaccines are "criminals."

Says the guy whose company wanted to keep vaccine testing info hidden for 70+ years. So, yeah, something something about stones while living in glass house.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 16, 2022 09:32 AM (MmndN)

412 That's why I'm cutting him some slack. ymmv.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (F0YaR)

I agree with you. Those videos have changes minds.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:32 AM (GezNK)

413 385 Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 16, 2022 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

Yup, that would be correct.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:32 AM (Lzpvj)

414 The Princes with the most artillery usually win. This is Known. Russia wins, Ukraine loses, and America blames all its failures on Putin - which to a Dem is a BIG WIN.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:33 AM (LQjWA)

415 I watched a great podcast from GrayZone featuring Col MacGregor. It was very informative, and thebhosts were anti- Soros and referred to the green movement as greeniacs.

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:33 AM (ONvIw)

416 414 Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:33 AM (LQjWA)

Putin's actions will work to save a few Donk congressional seats.

That is the only domestic impact other than perhaps our loss of global petro reserve currency status which is get this "bad."

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:34 AM (Lzpvj)

417 410 The great tragedy of South America is that there hasn't been a single competent government in power anywhere on that continent since Pizarro overthrew the Inca 500 years ago.
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Pinochet! Capes and Helicopter Rides.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:34 AM (LQjWA)

418 Sans McCain , of course.
Posted by: runner at March 16, 2022 09:20 AM

We still invoke his spirit.

Posted by: Mehgan at March 16, 2022 09:35 AM (a3Q+t)

419 >>Part of me hopes the standing Onwas politeness.

He'd just showed a video full of dead and/or wounded, bloody children.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 16, 2022 09:35 AM (MmndN)

420 Uh oh, , we are getting the totally unexpected "murder of babies and rape" claims.

Which is literally Planned Parenthood's Business Model

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:36 AM (lD3vL)

421 That is the only domestic impact other than perhaps our loss of global petro reserve currency status which is get this "bad."
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That is a direct result of Obama and his Jizz Sock playing to make Iran the regional hegemon. Good for grift. Not so good for retaining World Reserve Currency. But, when has Obama ever been wrong?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:36 AM (LQjWA)

422 But, when has Obama ever been wrong?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 16, 2022 09:36 AM (LQjWA)

If you don't take your own tests or write your own papers, do you ever really make a mistake ?

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:37 AM (5T7tk)

423 420 MacGregor said he saw videos of Ukrainian Azovs refusing to let civilians leave. Azov has a terrible reputation and I will wait for better confirmation than Zelensky

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:39 AM (ONvIw)

424 I just saw a video of the Zelensky the Great's appearance. Wearing that stupid OD green T-shirt, of course.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2022 09:39 AM (qH6FZ)

425 It took a while, now to follow the previous posts!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 16, 2022 09:39 AM (bu/t9)

426 Argentina was doing pretty well until the Nazis immigrated.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:40 AM (Zktzy)

427 Ah yes, let's make daylight "saving" time permanent... this seems like a perfect example if government - distract from all real issues to pretend they are doing something when in actuality they have just gone from messing up the clocks for half the year to messing them up ALL year! No one "gives" you extra daylight, they just FORCE you to do everything an hour earlier and insist you believe them when they tell you it's the same "time." Perfect.

Posted by: Sugar Plum Fairy #etc at March 16, 2022 09:40 AM (velLz)

428 424. He's an actor and that's his wardrobe.

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:40 AM (ONvIw)

429 >> Uh oh, , we are getting the totally unexpected "murder of babies and rape" claims.

Because it works -- like the award-winning photo of the dead Turkish boy* on the beach was used to sway Europeans to accepts millions of ME/African refugees, or the faked dead Palestinian girl by a French news agency.

*Whose death was caused by his dad, who was captaining the overcrowded boat.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 16, 2022 09:41 AM (MmndN)

430 429. This.

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:42 AM (ONvIw)

431 Take the time to watch the MacGregor video at CTH. It's very worthwhile. We are being subjected to a mass propaganda ploy.

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:44 AM (ONvIw)

432 Every dead Ukrainian shot by a Russian soldier was murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:44 AM (Zktzy)

433 Every dead Ukrainian shot by a Russian soldier was murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:44 AM (Zktzy)

If you want to go over there and make it right, I'll give you all my airline points.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:46 AM (5T7tk)

434 If you want to go over there and make it right, I'll give you all my airline points.
Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:46 AM (5T7tk)
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I appreciate that you agree with my assertion.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:48 AM (Zktzy)

435 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:46 AM (5T7tk)

You already offered that to Prager. You cant offer it to everybody, Scoggy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:48 AM (GezNK)

436 432 Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:44 AM (Zktzy)

The GloboHomo left says the same of every foreign national killed by American forces.

I support handing the Ukies every rocket they need so long as not one American life is spent.

The world needs taught that buying American pols does not mean you bought American blood.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:49 AM (Lzpvj)

437 435 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 09:48 AM (GezNK)

If I had a stack of airline miles high enough I'd offer it to lots of folks.

The end result of Greta Bork Bork and the American left's zero-emissions adventure hour will be our economic penury and enforced debasement.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:50 AM (Lzpvj)

438 I've never suggested American blood.

I did say that if every adult Ukrainian over 14 had a sting and a javelin this war would be over.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:51 AM (Zktzy)

439 432 Every dead Ukrainian shot by a Russian soldier was murdered.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:44 AM (Zktzy)

Well, the Ukrainian DOJ should do its duty, nyet?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:51 AM (s2VJv)

440 436 Bravo

Posted by: CN at March 16, 2022 09:51 AM (ONvIw)

441 I've got a lot of airline points, and no intentions to ever use them. I can probably get Prager and Braenyard to the Ukraine if they'll work with me on flight times.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:53 AM (5T7tk)

442 438 Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:51 AM (Zktzy)

The end result being eventually the reverse engineering of the equipment and the development of countermeasures.

Ivan got lazy and greedy and believed that the smell of his own farts was rose like vice the Crimea. Probably fed themselves shit polling that showed a popularity that was not really there. Sound like any nation you know of?

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:53 AM (Lzpvj)

443 Being a "Smart Military Blog", have we broken down the actual sitrep in Ukraine? The main question I have is: Does the Ukraine still have operational airbases? All this talk of sending him Polish MIG's; begs the question: Where will they land and operate from? IF it is on foreign soil? Act of War. The reports from the MSM are pure BS. The miles of Russian vehicles backed up look like they can be take out by a chimp in a hot air balloon with a basket of hand grenades', kind of.

Posted by: Paladin at March 16, 2022 09:54 AM (CE4w9)

444 Only 7% of covid deaths are vaccinated people.

Posted by: Kurt at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (IuwYA)

445 392 That's why I'm cutting him some slack. ymmv.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 16, 2022 09:28 AM (F0YaR)

Gnu:

I don't think my critique was harsh. But it was warranted. Yes, Prager U has been vital. But I'm not going to let something like this, which is a pretty big issue, slide when I think he's wrong. He doesn't quite openly espouse being world police, but he comes damn close. And I disagree with that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (s2VJv)

446 The problem with sending missiles to the Ukes is pretty simple. We're a debtor nation. So, although it makes some people feel really good that we're "doing something" over there - we're really not. We're compelling our grand-kids that aren't even born yet to do something, mostly pay the freight for all those missiles. All we're doing is borrowing the money on their behalf.

Feels good though, don't it.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (5T7tk)

447 444 Posted by: Kurt at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (IuwYA)

Only 0% of Covid deaths are solely of Covid.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (Lzpvj)

448 If all the Ukrainians were armed as I mentioned they would win.

Therefore Ivan gets no more opportunity to reverse engineer than he already has.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (Zktzy)

449 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (5T7tk)
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Hasn't Fen kicked your butt enough today?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:58 AM (Zktzy)

450 446 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (5T7tk)

Every action by the federal government including the police state being openly erected under the auspices of "controlling the rabid right" is done on our great great grandchildren's back these days.

Call it nostalgia in me, but I have a hard time being bothered that the Sovie er uh Russians are slamming their dicks in the door.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 09:58 AM (Lzpvj)

451 444 Only 7% of covid deaths are vaccinated people.
Posted by: Kurt at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (IuwYA)

100% of deaths from the COVID vaccines were vaccinated people too.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 09:58 AM (s2VJv)

452 Dying with COVID is like dying with an average penis. I'll die WITH an average penis, but I won't die BECAUSE OF an average penis.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:00 AM (5T7tk)

453 443 Posted by: Paladin at March 16, 2022 09:54 AM (CE4w9)

The situation as I understand it, acknowledging that there is no credible data stream there to glean, is that Russian forces are gaining strategic leverage despite their lack of tactical success. Putin's conventional forces are showing a decided lack of tactical excellence, and are the absent minded professors of logistical prowess. The Ukies are unable to mount effective conventional operations of their own and their success is largely on the scale of the "war of the flea" from an FM 3-24 standpoint.

We are looking at a stalemate for the time being with a gradual closing of Russian momentum towards the major Ukie cities.

*If* Putin can keep up the pressure materially for another two months I think he "wins". 1/?

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 10:02 AM (Lzpvj)

454 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 09:56 AM (5T7tk)
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Hasn't Fen kicked your butt enough today?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2022 09:58 AM (Zktzy)

You bet - she's been her typical rhetorical tour de force. As have you. Reminds me of my favorite scene from "The Dirty Dozen" -

Maj. Reisman: I owe you an apology, colonel. I always thought that you were a cold, unimaginative, tight-lipped officer. But you're really quite emotional, aren't you?

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:03 AM (5T7tk)

455 From a grand strategy standpoint Ivan has already "won" in that the Ukies are now declaiming the desire to join NATO. It is a pyrrhic "victory" that leaves the perception of Russian power lesser than at day one. The Ukies "win" in the sense that ostensibly they will be outside the "Russian orbit" but as the Finns showed that means functionally your nation's foreign policy becomes "how do we not piss Russia off" for decades.

The "win" is Pyrrhic for Russia because at a minimum Sweden and Finland are now poised to openly join NATO so there is still the proximity issue Putin feared with the Ukraine joining.

From the American viewpoint given that two Security Council members will now make it their mission to deny America petro reserve status we are the nation that will "lose" the most.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 10:05 AM (Lzpvj)

456 You forgot the all-critical plundering!
*Cough* Food for Oil?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2022 09:21 AM (lD3vL)

Indeed, my mistake. I don't suppose any war criminal will be brought up on charges for pulverizing that aid worker and his nephews and nieces in Afghanistan last year either.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 16, 2022 10:07 AM (C9XVS)

457 456 Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at March 16, 2022 10:07 AM (C9XVS)

Joe needed to change the news cycle, so "sacrifices had to be made."

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 10:08 AM (Lzpvj)

458 My understanding is that since WWII air superiority is square one. AA Systems being cheaper and effective in holding an airbase are great but, flying sorties is the name of the game. I would think Russia can, distant bases. Is the Ukraine still capable of it? During the sandbox opening stages all the (arab air forces) jump in their jets and beat feet out of the country. Did the Uke's do that. I was at Bikeweek and did not listen to any news when this 1st hit the fan.

Posted by: Paladin at March 16, 2022 10:11 AM (CE4w9)

459 From the American viewpoint given that two Security Council members will now make it their mission to deny America petro reserve status we are the nation that will "lose" the most.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 10:05 AM (Lzpvj)

It looks to me, if I can believe anything that I'm seeing - and that's no sure bet - that Russia can't project power for very long. That's a key thing to know, and not good for them that it's been revealed.

It also looks like, and this is a surprise to me, that the utility of armor has taken a downturn. I don't know if it's because missile tech has finally overtaken armor - or the Russians are just that bad logistically.

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:12 AM (5T7tk)

460 Is there some reason you need to change your handle every two days, Scoggy?. Everybody knows it's you. I wasn't trying to do rhetorical flourishes. I was just pointing out the pattern. You lambast people for not accepting your point of view, make snide remarks about -and to them- if you think they rely too much upon their "feelz" which you evidently never do./sThe only thing I can think is you like being called out, or that you get a charge of about of being combative. It gives you energy or something. Are you chronically clinically depressed and that temporarily gets you out of it to be combative?

By the way, most people don't feel a need to change their handle every three days and the government already knows who are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2022 10:12 AM (GezNK)

461 459 Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:12 AM (5T7tk)

Ivan may not have enough ERA armor to deploy it large scale.

One thing to hesitate over drawing deep conclusions is the very real possibility that Ivan thought this was Sevastopol 2 Electric Boogaloo. The FSB, Russian diplomatic corps, and Spetsnaz all ran their playbooks to perfection back in 2014 on the hybrid war front. There is the very real possibility that they deluded themselves that the same criteria they had set for that success had been met and consequently when reality asserted itself they were caught flat-footed.

A federal government that has total control of the news cycle that deludes itself regarding facts on the ground.

What nation does the above sentence describe?

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2022 10:16 AM (Lzpvj)

462 A federal government that has total control of the news cycle that deludes itself regarding facts on the ground. What nation does the above sentence describe?

No kidding. That would, of course, be us.

Your points are good, and I've been trying to make sense of the same thing - because Russia ran Crimea pretty damn well. Could they have become this poor this quickly ?

Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:34 AM (5T7tk)

463 Totally agree with you JJ. Anyone that wants an intelligent, historicity based understanding as close as possible to what is going on, so as to try to make sense out of what scenarios may be coming, is intelligent. The attack sound bites from stupid is what's head scratching. One wants to send them back to the kids' table.

Posted by: Autumnplayschess at March 16, 2022 10:44 AM (RnoAn)

464 452 Dying with COVID is like dying with an average penis. I'll die WITH an average penis, but I won't die BECAUSE OF an average penis.
Posted by: Color Me Skeptical at March 16, 2022 10:00 AM (5T7tk)

Depends where you stick it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2022 10:56 AM (s2VJv)

465 The US even thinking about an armed conflict with Russia is like a D-3 college team that lost its conference tournament grousing about not getting into the Big Dance.

We just lost to the fucking Taliban.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at March 16, 2022 11:07 AM (daRiy)

466 I would note for the Prager essay that he very subtly shifts the goalposts from "What is in America's best interest?" to "What is in [his/our] conscience's best interest?"
Which may be a good question, but it is not the one the title of the essay proposes.
And it evades answering the original question on a raw realpolitik level, for which the answer might well be an accommodation with Putin, starting with Russian membership in NATO, in exchange for support against the Chinese and an end to funding subversives in the U.S.

Posted by: Sam at March 16, 2022 11:20 AM (ohyxL)

467 Fuck Richard Burr!!!

Posted by: Shaftoe at March 16, 2022 11:48 AM (Rvxb7)

468 1) Ukraine
a) Russia's actions
b) Our actions
2) Taiwan
a) China's actions
b) Our actions
1 and 2 are completely different, and officials explaining our "no action" response on 1 must emphasize that difference. Lord helps if they don't.
Acknowledging the horrendous effects on the Ukrainian people, we still have no critical interest in Ukraine.
We have critical interests in Taiwan. Intel USED to lead in semiconductor technology. Right now, they are running on 7nm tech. TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is now running on a 5nm process. China is way back in the field at 20nm. We, quite simply, cannot allow China to access and control this tech. It would be a disaster militarily and economically.

It's past time to put Xi on notice, before he takes our inaction on Ukraine as a greenlight to invade Taiwan.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 17, 2022 10:43 PM (m8X3n)

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