The Morning Rant: The Worsening Crisis of Europe’s Climate Follies

With Russia throttling natural gas supplies to Germany – which foolishly dismantled its own energy producing capabilities in deference to the climate religion – the impact of Germany’s self-imposed crisis is starting to loom large.

Russian Gas Supply Cuts Threaten World's Largest Chemicals Hub [WSJ – 6/29/2022]

Last Thursday, Berlin triggered the second of a three-step emergency gas plan that, in its last step, could cut off gas supplies to some companies.

Industrial giant BASF employs almost 40,000 Germans, and because of the natural gas shortage, it may have to shut down its Ludwigshafen plant, which employees about 1/3 of its employees.

Company executives are doing what was unthinkable just a few months ago: considering how to potentially shut down the complex if gas supplies fall further.

Sure, 13,000 people losing their jobs is bad, but how big a deal is this?

Because BASF and other chemicals companies sit at the beginning of most industrial supply chains, their disruption would reverberate well beyond the sector, threatening Europe's economy at a time of high inflation and slowing growth.
A throttling of BASF's ammonia output, a key ingredient in fertilizers, could exacerbate the world's growing food crisis, analysts say.

More unemployment, supply chain interruptions, and food shortages…that should play well with the proletariat.

In a post of mine last week about the Dutch farmers protest and the Davos elite, I saw this brilliant response: “So we’ve reached the ‘Some of you may have to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make!’ stage of elite decadence.”

Sacrifice - Some of You May Have To Die.JPG

The commenter is skeptical, however, that the victims of the green agenda will ever wise up to what their “experts” and elites have inflicted upon them. Maybe, but starvation, poverty, and a cold, dark winter would be very eye opening. The Sri Lankan presidential palace was stormed by civilians two days ago due to the destruction wrought by green polices. Sri Lanka’s economic self-immolation should be a warning, but to western elites it is still an instruction manual.

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There are so many foreboding headlines like this one these days.

Germany is rationing hot water and turning off the lights to reduce natural gas consumption [Fortune – 7/08/2022]

“The situation is more than dramatic,” Axel Gedaschko, a German politician and president of GdW, the federal association of German housing, told the FT.

It isn’t just hot water that’s being rationed. In addition to shorter shower times, officials are asking city councils nationwide to turn off traffic lights at night, stop illuminating historic buildings, and go easy on using air conditioners in a bid to conserve electricity, according to the FT.

German winters are very cold and very dark. Politicians convinced German voters that they could dismantle Germany’s old energy network and replace it with energy produced by the flapping of fairy wings. They were successful in dismantling Germany’s ability to produce energy, but they never replaced it with anything but Russian imports. Those politicians have cause for apprehension as a potentially lethal winter approaches.

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I once had a co-worker whose doctor had temporarily imposed on him a meatless diet due to some medical condition. When I saw him eating a chicken sandwich one day I asked if he was done with the vegetarian diet. He responded, “No, I’ve just decided that chicken is a vegetable.”

Eurocrats are about to use that same logic in redefining “sustainable” energy.

As Europe’s ruling class realizes just how catastrophic their green energy policies are, but still wanting to stay obedient to the Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse, they are now trying to re-classify traditional energy sources as being compliant with environmental sharia.

EU lawmakers back natural gas, nuclear energy as sustainable [AP – 7/06/2022]

The green labeling system from the European Commission defines what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy. Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy will now be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both.

The pampered princelings in Brussels seem to be assessing their self-imposed energy crisis, and starting to realize that millions of cold, starving commoners are much more of a threat to their reign than are a handful of environmentalists throwing a public tantrum.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: CA Token at July 11, 2022 11:00 AM (2+yws)

2 Wow, a morning rant first, first

Posted by: CA Token at July 11, 2022 11:01 AM (2+yws)

3 The Morning Rant: The Worsening Crisis of Europe’s Climate Follies

I've got no shits to give about Europe.
Because we are in the same boat.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:02 AM (c8pZY)

4 What cannot go on forever, won't.

It's going to really suck for those of us who are around for the imminent crash, though. I pray for my children.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 11, 2022 11:03 AM (JMAcK)

5 It isn’t just hot water that’s being rationed. In addition to shorter shower times

Whew, we though it was serious for a minute.

Posted by: The French at July 11, 2022 11:03 AM (/NCI4)

6 AGW/ACC is complete and utter horseshit, the elites need to be stuffed inside of gym lockers and the doors welded shut and smacked with baseball bats because they are destroying the world and sowing chaos.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2022 11:03 AM (hdp1J)

7 The green labeling system from the European Commission defines what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy. Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy will now be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both.
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The funny thing - and it is funny, albeit in a dark way - nuclear energy is actually sustainable and so is gas in a lot of circumstances. The crisis is forcing them to acknowledge what a whole lot of people have been saying for a long time, but it wasn't popular to say those things.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:04 AM (WWh8n)

8 Nothing more than a flesh wound.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 11:04 AM (8Sqzu)

9 They'll start stripping the forests for firewood...see Haiti.

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

10 Europeans take showers? Who knew?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:04 AM (NU6D7)

11 With Russia throttling natural gas supplies to Germany - which foolishly dismantled its own energy producing capabilities in deference to the climate religion - the impact of Germany's self-imposed crisis is starting to loom large.

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Who knew virtue signaling had such a high price tag?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:04 AM (FVME7)

12 The global warming thing peaked about 10 years ago, and has been coasting downhill ever since in popular belief and cultural significance. The less the public buys into this nonsense, the more frantic its acolytes become.

But Foofoo is right: Davos et al are absolutely willing to sacrifice millions that they may be comfortable and feel safe. They, like the Nazis, believe that this is necessary for a better future, and a price well worth paying -- but not for them to pay.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:05 AM (llsW/)

13 Dear US Energy Sector,

You supply said product. I consume and pay for said product.

Fucking supply it!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:05 AM (c8pZY)

14 AGW/ACC is complete and utter horseshit, the elites need to be stuffed inside of gym lockers and the doors welded shut and smacked with baseball bats because they are destroying the world and sowing chaos.

Someone needs to put up a prominent mirror of the University of East Anglia leaks. That proved that climate science is actually climate scientology.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (ZGrMX)

15 Unfortunately while this will work its self out eventually, the generations who buy into this will cause incredible damage and suffering before its all told.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (llsW/)

16 Repeat the line.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (zB/T/)

17 It's funny because it's Europe.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (b2nrj)

18 That's great news. The govt just decides what industry can be used. Good thing we won the cold war.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (Y5qcH)

19 Scheise!

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (gmo/4)

20 The funny thing - and it is funny, albeit in a dark way - nuclear energy is actually sustainable and so is gas in a lot of circumstances. The crisis is forcing them to acknowledge what a whole lot of people have been saying for a long time, but it wasn't popular to say those things.
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I've suspected for awhile that those that paid for the stolen election were doing so to destroy the Dem religious cults and so unleash themselves from their mandates from heaven. Wouldn't surprise me if they welcomed Trump back as a conquering hero.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (8Sqzu)

21 They were successful in dismantling Germany’s ability to produce energy, but they never replaced it with anything but Russian imports. Those politicians have cause for apprehension as a potentially lethal winter approaches.
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This won't happen. President Biden assured us about six months ago that the dependency on Russian fuel isn't a problem because Europe's monopsony power in the market will make the monopoly provider yield:
And, look, I think you’re going to see — for example, everybody talks about how Russia has control over the energy supply that Europe absorbs. Well, guess what? That — that money that they earn from that makes about 45 percent of the economy. I don’t see that as a one-way street. They go ahead and cut it off — it’s like my mother used to say: “You bite your nose off to spite your face.” It’s not like they have all these wonderful choices out there.

There is no way that Russia will "bite its nose off to spite its face." President Biden assured me about that, so I'm not worried ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (WWh8n)

22 But Foofoo is right: Davos et al are absolutely willing to sacrifice millions that they may be comfortable and feel safe. They, like the Nazis, believe that this is necessary for a better future, and a price well worth paying -- but not for them to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Can we haz Nuremberg trials and hang them?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (c8pZY)

23 I suggest Germans tear apart the houses of their political masters and use the wood for heat.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (5pTK/)

24 Too much nitrogen in the soil? Geez...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (VP9wG)

25 That IS s brilliant response " Some of you may have to die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

Someone should get to the German conservatives as well as the pretty Dutch conservative woman and it should be featured in ad campaigns

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (Oh/xF)

26 Germany's muzzie "immigrants" are now home sick?

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (gmo/4)

27 Scheise!
Posted by: Archer

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at July 11, 2022 11:08 AM (T4tVD)

28 The global warming thing peaked about 10 years ago, and has been coasting downhill ever since in popular belief and cultural significance. The less the public buys into this nonsense, the more frantic its acolytes become. ...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:05 AM (llsW/)
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Except among the youth. The youth are more or less universal in their belief in "climate change" problems and solutions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:08 AM (WWh8n)

29 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 11, 2022 11:08 AM (T4tVD)

30 21
This won't happen. President Biden assured us about six months ago that the dependency on Russian fuel isn't a problem because Europe's monopsony power in the market will make the monopoly provider yield:
And, look, I think you’re going to see — for example, everybody talks about how Russia has control over the energy supply that Europe absorbs. Well, guess what? That — that money that they earn from that makes about 45 percent of the economy. I don’t see that as a one-way street. They go ahead and cut it off — it’s like my mother used to say: “You bite your nose off to spite your face.” It’s not like they have all these wonderful choices out there.

There is no way that Russia will "bite its nose off to spite its face." President Biden assured me about that, so I'm not worried ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (WWh8n)

Interesting theory. What about the teensy eensy little issue of Europe not actually having Monopsony power?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (b2nrj)

31 Of course its all theoretical until they close down Oktoberfest. Then the schiza will hit the fan.
Oh wait.
They did for Covid.
Never mind.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (anj39)

32 "Putin didn't need a war in Europe. He just needed European leaders to fall for the tears of a misled Swedish girl to bring Europe to its knees."

Say, we haven't heard from Joan of B'ark lately, have we?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (WUvhL)

33 I’m positive Germany purchases energy from France as well, where 70% or so of their power comes from the evil nukes Germany will phase out by the end of the year if they haven’t already.

And not a peep anywhere on Bundeskanzler Schroeder? IIRC he was on the Nordstrom board and was profiting on the German over reliance on Russian energy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (aRxqp)

34
The Sri Lankan presidential palace was stormed by civilians two days ago due to the destruction wrought by green polices.

January 6 was much worse!

Posted by: Liz Cheney at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (63Dwl)

35 This dark has got right out of hand
It's a cruel, (cruel) cruel winter
Leaving me here on my own

Posted by: Germany, next February at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (4I/2K)

36 “No, I’ve just decided that chicken is a vegetable.”

Grits ain't grocery
Eggs ain't poultry
And Mona Lisa was a man.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (w0uGQ)

37 What they hate most of all is that Trump was Right about all of this.

And I believe Germany has done far too much damage to its energy sector to ever recover.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:10 AM (trdmm)

38 There is no way that Russia will "bite its nose off to spite its face." President Biden assured me about that, so I'm not worried ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (WWh8n)
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Remember that famous photo of all of the European leaders on one side of the table, President Trump on the other? Trump also warned Europe to get its energy house in order.

they laughed at President Trump.

Oops.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:10 AM (5pTK/)

39 Interesting theory. What about the teensy eensy little issue of Europe not actually having Monopsony power?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:09 AM (b2nrj)
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Unpossible. Those fuel flows have no other possible market, especially we put pressure on them. There is approximately zero chance that Russia can find other markets or defend its currency and GDP if they cut off Europe in conjunction with Western sanctions.

Posted by: Biden Administration Wonk at July 11, 2022 11:10 AM (WWh8n)

40 The Sri Lankan presidential palace was stormed by civilians two days ago due to the destruction wrought by green polices.

It won't work. Nobody brought a buffalo helmet.

Posted by: The French at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (/NCI4)

41 Can we haz Nuremberg trials and hang them?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (c8pZY)

Who needs trials?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (trdmm)

42 When we used to visit our Italian relatives all the time, I wondered why my parents never took us back there, after they made their money.

What's now occurring in Europe makes me so happy they kept us here.

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (dCxaZ)

43 33: Nordstream, damn autocucumber.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (aRxqp)

44 I believe Europe can solve many of their problems with a tax on breathing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (lTGtQ)

45 Company executives are doing what was unthinkable just a few months ago: considering how to potentially shut down the complex if gas supplies fall further.

That's going to affect Pop Tart availability.

Posted by: I'm saying Pop Tarts taste like they are made in a chemical plant at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (h5TKJ)

46 I keep repeating but the #1 mental defect common to every Lefty is also their mission statement.

The Ends Justify the Means .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:11 AM (aToww)

47 And Inslee
Wants to shut down hydroelectric power.

Hydro is about as renewable and green as you can get. The structure is already in place. And he wants to dismantle it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (w0uGQ)

48
Q: What weapon caused the greatest number of deaths in WWII?

A: Starvation

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (/U27+)

49 Germany's muzzie "immigrants" are now home sick?
Posted by: Archer

Fine. GTFO!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (c8pZY)

50 And I believe Germany has done far too much damage to its energy sector to ever recover.

Their economy was already teetering. They've lost lots of their manufacturing to lower cost East Euro countries.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (/NCI4)

51 Can we haz Nuremberg trials and hang them?

That day may sadly come, after the horrors are experienced.

And yes, while young people (non home schooled ones at least) have been brainwashed into believing in climate doom, they are reachable. Part of what turned so many against global warming fears was the failure of prediction. You can list a good dozen high level, major names making absolute predictions about ice levels, water levels, disasters etc that never came true.

In time, kids will see this, too. They've been told "we have to change or everything is doomed" over and over, but when things don't change and no doom takes place...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (llsW/)

52 Trump is just another blundering American.

— Maj. Heinrich Strasser

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (NU6D7)

53 Remember that famous photo of all of the European leaders on one side of the table, President Trump on the other? Trump also warned Europe to get its energy house in order.

they laughed at President Trump.

Oops.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:10 AM (5pTK/)
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Trump was acting, in some ways, as an ambulatory Gods of the Copybook Headings. Nobody appreciates that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (WWh8n)

54 47 And Inslee
Wants to shut down hydroelectric power.

Hydro is about as renewable and green as you can get. The structure is already in place. And he wants to dismantle it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2022 11:12 AM (w0uGQ)

And given regs, basically impossible to put back in place. Save the delta smelt! Errr, whatever little fishies or insects that need saving there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:13 AM (b2nrj)

55 I think the worst part about these crises is that they are completely avoidable.

None of this HAD to happen. Elitist magical thinking MADE it happen.

When the peasants start storming the gates of their leaders' compounds to use them for firewood, I'll be cheering them on...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:13 AM (YIVH2)

56 I just watched for the first time, then Pres. Trump giving an address to the creatures at the UN. In it he admonished the Deutsch delegation for being reliant on Russian natural gas. The camera then panned to their reaction. They were giggling like schoolgirls. Shaking their head, dismissing his advice.

Yeah. They aren't laughing now. Stupid fuckers.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:13 AM (IetnX)

57 When the peasants start storming the gates of their leaders' compounds to use them for firewood, I'll be cheering them on

See: Sri Lanka

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:14 AM (llsW/)

58 Insert vid of Euros scoffing and laughing at Trump's admonition of relying on Russia.

Here's hoping that Euro elites get all that's coming to them, without too much death, destruction, and suffering to innocents.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:14 AM (U3uv2)

59 The Who Dis? is Ina Balin and Irving Berlin.

Posted by: Pol Pott at July 11, 2022 11:14 AM (PIlQh)

60 Scheise!
Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 11:06 AM (gmo/4)

*questioning look*

Posted by: Karl at July 11, 2022 11:14 AM (4I/2K)

61 This won't happen. President Biden assured us about six months ago that the dependency on Russian fuel isn't a problem because Europe's monopsony power in the market will make the monopoly provider yield:
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (WWh8n)
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Monopsony power? why does that sound suspiciously like, "single source" suppler, which can absolutely kill a business, if their supplier goes under. Or, can't deliver.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (5pTK/)

62 Grits ain't grocery
Eggs ain't poultry
And Mona Lisa was a man.
__________

Fish don't fry in the kitchen
Beans don't burn on the grill

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (fs1hN)

63

It's lamp shade time!

Posted by: That nice Mr. Hilter at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (s/UgS)

64 And I believe Germany has done far too much damage to its energy sector to ever recover.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I'm looking for another World War. Has to happen.
Too many people, not enough resources.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (c8pZY)

65 They were giggling like schoolgirls. Shaking their head, dismissing his advice.

Yeah that was baffling, its not like he was making wild or outrageous statements, it was cold hard logic and obvious to even the stupidest person there. I cannot understand what they thought was so laughable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (llsW/)

66 AGW/ACC is complete and utter horseshit, the elites need to be stuffed inside of gym lockers and the doors welded shut and smacked with baseball bats because they are destroying the world and sowing chaos.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2022 11:03 AM (hdp1J)

I'm hoping baseball bats is a code name for the .50 BMG.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (VwHCD)

67 I just watched for the first time, then Pres. Trump giving an address to the creatures at the UN. In it he admonished the Deutsch delegation for being reliant on Russian natural gas. The camera then panned to their reaction. They were giggling like schoolgirls. Shaking their head, dismissing his advice.

Yeah. They aren't laughing now. Stupid f***ers.

Me: Mein fuhrer. A two front war is a very bad idea.

The fuhrer: "what a weenie"!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (/NCI4)

68 Monopsony power? why does that sound suspiciously like, "single source" suppler, which can absolutely kill a business, if their supplier goes under. Or, can't deliver.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (5pTK/)

Monopsony is a single customer. Like a single employer in town. Biden's proposition is that while Europe has only a single supplier (Russia) they are also the sole possible customer (untrue).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (b2nrj)

69 The Biden administration is flailing. Not surprising considering that it is an administration of diversity hires.

And this is why they can do nothing -- to bring in competence they'd have to load up on white people, mostly white males. (They've already hired the best "diverse" people that can be found.)

Whitey could probably rescue the situation to some extent and add savvy, but they can't hire him. They couldn't hire him even if the country depended on it -- which it does.

Posted by: Mick at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (8S+13)

70 Old and busted: Death rides a pale horse.

New and cool: Death rides a frozen horse.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (FVME7)

71
There is approximately zero chance that Russia can find other markets or defend its currency and GDP if they cut off Europe in conjunction with Western sanctions.
Posted by: Biden Administration Wonk at July 11, 2022 11:10 AM (WWh8n)

___________

Oh?

Posted by: The CCP at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (/U27+)

72 Hydro is about as renewable and green as you can get. The structure is already in place. And he wants to dismantle it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I refuse to use the language of my tormentors; there's no such thing as 'green energy' nor 'renewable energy.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (IEa8U)

73 Eggs ain't poultry

Eggs are just boneless chicken.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (c8pZY)

74 In the article about BASF potentially shutting down it's huge complex, it states that this is one of the world's largest suppliers of fertilizers. Shutting it down means shutting down a significant amount of world food production a few months later. And there's no backup facilities anywhere that can replace it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (trdmm)

75 When people start starving worldwide, it'll be blamed by our betters -- who intentionally caused it -- on "climate change."

Book it, Dan-O.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (C9m0L)

76 Monopsony power? why does that sound suspiciously like, "single source" suppler, which can absolutely kill a business, if their supplier goes under. Or, can't deliver.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (5pTK/)
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The opposite.
Monopoly: One supplier
Monopsony: One buyer

If you have only one customer (or one customer is well over half of your revenue), then your business depends on that customer. You can't afford to cut him off if you don't like the terms, and you will die if he cuts you off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (WWh8n)

77 Germany has the technology to turn coal into gas... oh wait don't remind the Germans about World War II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (WTzJM)

78 Being as I'm really slow, at times, I just realized what got President Trump in so much trouble:

We've reached that period in our history where telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:17 AM (5pTK/)

79 When they can't get enough CNG in Europe fast enough, they will vote to call coal green.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:17 AM (lTGtQ)

80 In the article about BASF potentially shutting down it's huge complex, it states that this is one of the world's largest suppliers of fertilizers. Shutting it down means shutting down a significant amount of world food production a few months later. And there's no backup facilities anywhere that can replace it.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Schwab loves it when a plan comes together.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (lTGtQ)

81 When they can't get enough CNG in Europe fast enough, they will vote to call coal green.

They'll burn wood. It's renewable!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (/NCI4)

82 Wait, you mean listening to an autistic Swedish teenager with tears in her eyes didn't work out???
Shocked.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (jTmQV)

83 I'm hoping baseball bats is a code name for the .50 BMG.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (VwHCD)

Too spendy.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (U3uv2)

84 Is burning environmentalists as fuel sustainable? Would we run out of them eventually?

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (Pj9mr)

85 Israel wanted to build a gas pipeline up to Greece, but nobody wants Jew gas.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (j40lz)

86 I refuse to use the language of my tormentors; there's no such thing as 'green energy' nor 'renewable energy.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (IEa8U)

I tell them oil is a renewable energy.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (aToww)

87

Germany is rationing hot water and turning off the lights to reduce natural gas consumption

..

They can't make enough popcorn.

Posted by: I Mean at July 11, 2022 11:18 AM (VCJ/o)

88 53 Remember that famous photo of all of the European leaders on one side of the table, President Trump on the other? Trump also warned Europe to get its energy house in order.

they laughed at President Trump.
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While Trump was building a large real estate business, they were going to environmental conferences and TED talks and what not. They were smart, not dumb, like Trump!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (fs1hN)

89 If there ever are Nuremberg-type trials for these climate freaks, Greta needs to be in the dock as well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (NU6D7)

90 I've changed my mind in light of this winter's forecast. She's not too fat for me.

Posted by: Gunther at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (4I/2K)

91 Eggs are just boneless chicken.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (c8pZY)

Baluts got bones?

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

92 Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post admits that the sanctions against Russia are backfiring badly - that the Russians are actually making more money from energy sales than they were before the invasion, while the West slides into recession.

He gets one thing right:

The Biden administration continues to make it difficult to finance long-term investments in natural gas and oil.

and one thing very, very wrong:

Nor does he [Biden] seem to find a way to restore the Iran nuclear deal - a move that would bring a massive influx of new oil supplies to the global market and certainly stabilize the price. I understand that there are valid objections and concerns about all of these policies - but the priority must be to defeat Putin.

I think that keeping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb and not legitimizing Iranian terrorism (as Iran is demanding) is more important than "defeating Putin". Sorry.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (I2/tG)

93 Being as I'm really slow, at times, I just realized what got President Trump in so much trouble:

We've reached that period in our history where telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:17 AM (5pTK/)
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We have, but it's even slightly beyond that. We're reached a period where the lies are both universal *and* elaborate, while the truth remains relatively straightforward. This increases the risks of truth-telling dramatically, because you can do so directly and easily while they have to build all of these complex and elaborate constructions to try to counter it with more lies.

It's the precise reason, for what it's worth, why the left can't meme. Their memes are all too long and wordy because their obfuscations are extremely complicated and highly dependent on other obfuscations, whereas the truth can cut like a knife in a couple of words. It's why the right *can* meme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (WWh8n)

94 Europe will be "interesting" but I'd keep a weather eye on Ceylon aka "Sri Lanka".

While I'm sure it was cathartic to burn down the PM residence, storm the Presidents mansion (the former parliament building) and tear down stuff...

Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves. Everything seems to be going Tango Uniform at once - even if say, India were inclined to provide help - they may have problems of their own.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (IetnX)

95 Good. More pain bitches.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 11:20 AM (3vQN0)

96 So here's the real issue: Utilities make money on capital investments and don't make money on operating expenses. Solar panels have high capex (= return on investment) and very low opex. Gas turbines have low capex and high opex. The total all-in cost of the gas turbine is lower, but the utility makes less money on it than it makes on the solar panel or the wind farm. So the utilities have a powerful incentive to build the renewables.

The check and balance is supposed to be at the Public Utility Commission (or whatever it's called in your state), and sometimes there's input from a public advocate. They are supposed to look out for the customer's interest. When those institutions are captured by the Greens, there is no honest broker to stop the nonsense. That is where we have to fight.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:20 AM (7B5FA)

97
This is not the result of some natural disaster. This is the result of policies deliberately implemented. Anyone who questioned them was denounced as a climate denier and Putin stooge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 11:20 AM (/U27+)

98 Coal, like oil, are natural products. Fuck me.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (8Sqzu)

99 Oh?

Posted by: The CCP

Tee hee

Posted by: India at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (6geMp)

100 When I was a kid, I read about the crime and stupidity of the past and felt lucky that I lived in enlightened times where such things were no longer possible. I thought the new age had begun about 1960 and with the Beatles to lead us we were entering a golden age.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (FVME7)

101
I'm looking for another World War. Has to happen.
Too many people, not enough resources.
Posted by: rickb223

The resources are there. We're just being told we can't use them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (63Dwl)

102 Next up: food riots.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)

103 I'm looking for another World War. Has to happen.
Too many people, not enough resources.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:15 AM (c8pZY)

Internationally, the stage is much like it was at the beginning of the 19th Century. Only one nation-state had a truly large, effective military (Great Britain) and yet they were hamstrung by years of pointless combat in far off places and a very dissatisfied electorate at home. Everywhere else, governments were broke and military forces had been allowed to decay into uselessness.

And then that little French guy showed up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (trdmm)

104 91 Eggs are just boneless chicken.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (c8pZY)

Baluts got bones?
Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

Gourmet balut does. The cheap stuff just has feathers.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (Pj9mr)

105 Hot off the Presses!

The Economist has figured out that the lockdowns were a disaster for teh kiddos

https://tinyurl.com/mr389n2w

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (dCxaZ)

106 Next up: food riots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)

Send in the scoops!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (4I/2K)

107 Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves. Everything seems to be going Tango Uniform at once - even if say, India were inclined to provide help - they may have problems of their own. Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (IetnX

Might we be of assistance?

Posted by: China at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (7B5FA)

108 Next up: food riots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)

*throws wad of mashed potatoes*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (x8Wzq)

109 Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves.
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They will sell the country to Disney and become cartoon characters. It is the Big Plan.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (8Sqzu)

110 Monopsony is a single customer. Like a single employer in town. Biden's proposition is that while Europe has only a single supplier (Russia) they are also the sole possible customer (untrue).
_______________________

"India and China would never betray their self-interests* by purchasing Russian oil."

*another country's self-interest as imagined by someone who never fails to go against their own country's self-interest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (fs1hN)

111 “Nobody wants Jew gas.”

That’s not been my experience.

— Jerrold Nadler

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (NU6D7)

112 74 In the article about BASF potentially shutting down it's huge complex, it states that this is one of the world's largest suppliers of fertilizers. Shutting it down means shutting down a significant amount of world food production a few months later. And there's no backup facilities anywhere that can replace it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:16 AM (trdmm)

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"We can use Skittle-enhanced unicorn poop as a replacement fertilizer, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (C9m0L)

113 Nor does he [Biden] seem to find a way to restore the Iran nuclear deal - a move that would bring a massive influx of new oil supplies to the global market and certainly stabilize the price. I understand that there are valid objections and concerns about all of these policies - but the priority must be to defeat Putin.

I think that keeping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb and not legitimizing Iranian terrorism (as Iran is demanding) is more important than "defeating Putin". Sorry.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (I2/tG)
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The part about Iran bringing new oil supplies to the market, if they get nuclear power, is making assumptions which border on fantasy.

I've seen better reasoning from a two-year old.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (5pTK/)

114 And then that little French guy showed up.

Marcel Marceau?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (/NCI4)

115 106 Next up: food riots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)

Send in the scoops!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (4I/2K)

I like scoops!

Posted by: Joey Sponge-brain Shit-pants at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (Pj9mr)

116
Next up: food riots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)

__________

Bread riots has a more old-timey sound to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (/U27+)

117 One thing that always bothers me about not using nuclear power:

Those radioactive materials are going to decay and produce energy regardless of whether we use them or not. If we wait a thousand years (or even a hundred years), that's a significant loss in usable energy. Why NOT try to use them now? While they still have enough radioactive material to do us good?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

118 Israel wanted to build a gas pipeline up to Greece, but nobody wants Jew gas.

It was quietly reported at the time that one of the first things the incoming Biden junta did was call everyone involved in that pipeline and tell them all of their banking access would go away if the pipeline came online.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (ZGrMX)

119 I tell them oil is a renewable energy.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

You just need to think in the long term.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM (FVME7)

120 If there ever are Nuremberg-type trials for these climate freaks, Greta needs to be in the dock as well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (NU6D7)

In a perfect world they would use her as the little torch to light the big torch, Olympics style.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (VwHCD)

121 And then that little French guy showed up. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (trdmm)

We could use a little 18th of Brumaire right now.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (7B5FA)

122 "The Sri Lankan presidential palace was stormed by civilians two days ago due to the destruction wrought by green polices."

The few MSM stories about Sri Lanka make no mention of the idiotic green policies that t brought this about. It is economic turmoil was caused by inflation, too much debt, electricity cuts, fuel shortage etc.. Just plain bad luck.

Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (MxEKc)

123
Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves. Everything seems to be going Tango Uniform at once - even if say, India were inclined to provide help - they may have problems of their own.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (IetnX)

There isn't necessarily a great now what after getting rid of the people who caused the mess. Problem still exists and may take a substantial time to fix.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (b2nrj)

124 I'd say the only way for them to learn is to let them suffer but they'll insist that this suffering is necessary for the Earth to drop a degree or two.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (4olE8)

125 Is the experiment over YET?

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 11, 2022 11:25 AM (glGDV)

126 And then that little French guy showed up. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (trdmm)

We could use a little 18th of Brumaire right now.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (7B5FA)

To encourage the others.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2022 11:25 AM (4I/2K)

127 The total all-in cost of the gas turbine is lower, but the utility makes less money on it than it makes on the solar panel or the wind farm. So the utilities have a powerful incentive to build the renewables.

Posted by: Caesar North

Real Clear Energy did a study, and found that windmills and solar are subsidized to the tune of 33%. That is over $20 billion in subsidies in Texas alone in the past decade. Proving that neither windmills nor solar farms are economically viable without subsidies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)

128 If we had an onset msm the Sri Lanka story would be front page news as a cautionary tale of green policy lunacy. But we don’t so it isn’t.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 11:25 AM (3vQN0)

129
And then that little French guy showed up.

Marcel Marceau?
Posted by: Archimedes

Pepe Le Pew

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

130 The elites are actively harming the human race. Doesn't that make them guilty of crimes against humanity?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (eGTCV)

131 The Who Dis? is Ina Balin and Irving Berlin.
Posted by: Pol Pott at July 11, 2022

***
Ina Balin! Now there's a great name from a past TV era!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (txdEq)

132 Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves.
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They will sell the country to Disney and become cartoon characters. It is the Big Plan.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Make it a giant paintball theme park!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (FVME7)

133 I'd say the only way for them to learn is to let them suffer but they'll insist that this suffering is necessary for the Earth to drop a degree or two.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 11, 2022 11:24 AM (4olE

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More importantly YOUR suffering is what matters to heal the Earf...

THEY plan on continuing to live their lives of luxury...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (YIVH2)

134 The good news is we have an unlimited supply of illegal alien hobo jerky. We're fine.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (8Sqzu)

135 Hows Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy look now, Braniac?

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (glGDV)

136
I think that keeping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb and not legitimizing Iranian terrorism (as Iran is demanding) is more important than "defeating Putin". Sorry.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (I2/tG)

After this winter, all Putin has to do is nuke Davos while it's in session, and stuffed to the gills with "Green" Weenies, and --

he'll be the most popular man in Europe. Maybe the world.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (5NkmN)

137 If the EU wanted to cut down its energy production, it would send all of those immigrants back to their home countries in the name of "equity" to it's citizens....

Bwhahahahah, who am i kidding, the EU would rather infect all of it's "citizens"/natural born with a COVID-like disease and watch them die, and then replace them all with compliant refugees/beggers.

Posted by: Scott_T at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (2waQ7)

138 We're a long ways from overpopulation but we do have a pretty poor distribution of population; some areas have way too many people in too dense a grouping.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (llsW/)

139 And then that little French guy showed up.
*
Marcel Marceau?
Posted by: Archimedes
*
Pepe Le Pew
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022

***
Jacques Cousteau!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (txdEq)

140 And then that little French guy showed up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (trdmm)

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Herve Villechaize?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (C9m0L)

141 107 Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves. Everything seems to be going Tango Uniform at once - even if say, India were inclined to provide help - they may have problems of their own. Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (IetnX

Might we be of assistance?
Posted by: China at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (7B5FA)

I've thought that it would be easy for either China or India to show up in force and take over right now; and yet I imagine both of those governments are looking at the situation there and saying " nah bro, it ain't worth it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (trdmm)

142 Hot off the Presses!

The Economist has figured out that the lockdowns were a disaster for teh kiddos

https://tinyurl.com/mr389n2w
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (dCxaZ)
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Shocking. Late to the party. On the plus side, it may turn out that it was even more disastrous for public ed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (WWh8n)

143 Those radioactive materials are going to decay and produce energy regardless of whether we use them or not. If we wait a thousand years (or even a hundred years), that's a significant loss in usable energy. Why NOT try to use them now? While they still have enough radioactive material to do us good?

The natural lifetime of U-235 is about 700M years, so it isn't going anywhere, but in a reactor it's more like 6 years, presumably because of the extra neutrons whizzing about.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (/NCI4)

144 Rainier cherries have been delightful this year.

Too bad they're so crazy expensive.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (5NkmN)

145
Proving that neither windmills nor solar farms are economically viable without subsidies.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Greenies reply that coal and nuclear are also heavily subsidized.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (63Dwl)

146 And then that little French guy showed up.
*
Marcel Marceau?
Posted by: Archimedes
*
Pepe Le Pew
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022

***
Jacques Cousteau!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (txdEq)

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (AiZBA)

147 I've thought that it would be easy for either China or India to show up in force and take over right now; and yet I imagine both of those governments are looking at the situation there and saying " nah bro, it ain't worth it."
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (trdmm)
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It would be an interesting experiment for China to see if they could project enough force to take over Sri Lanka...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (YIVH2)

148 Next up: food riots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:21 AM (VP9wG)
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Bread riots has a more old-timey sound to it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Ours will be let them eat cake riots.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (FVME7)

149 Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post also repeats this howler:

"We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find abandoned or destroyed Russian military equipment, it’s full of semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. Yeah, right. You just take a chip out of a refrigerator, and plug it into a tank. Easy-peasy!

In any case, the Russians have figured out the solution to a shortage of missiles - fire thousands of dumb, unguided artillery rounds at your targets. Seems to be working.

Zakaria of course claims that the Russian army is on the verge of collapse, as it has been since the invasion started. The Economist reported that the government is having a hard time filling the ranks and offering new recruits three times the average wage.

You know what the average wage is in Russia? You think that the Russian government can't afford to pay that with all its oil revenues?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (I2/tG)

150 138 We're a long ways from overpopulation but we do have a pretty poor distribution of population; some areas have way too many people in too dense a grouping.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (llsW/)

Chicago is doing everything it can to rectify that situation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (trdmm)

151 We've reached that period in our history where telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:17 AM (5pTK/)

As I've posted before, millions of our fellow citizens live in a fantasy world where you can choose your gender, the oceans are boiling, and the police are hunting young black men to kill them for no reason. A fantasy world can persist for a long time, but eventually reality must intrude.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (7B5FA)

152 You Polish vocabulary lesson for today:
“Pepe le Pew?” “Skoonkah” (Skunka)

Posted by: Holy Crap at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (glGDV)

153 129 Toulouse Latrec (or however it’s spelled)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (NU6D7)

154 Might we be of assistance?
Posted by: China at July 11, 2022 11:22 AM (7B5FA)
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I doubt it. Part of the problem is China's belt-and-road scheme. Red China has been rebuilding Sri Lanka's ports and some other infrastructure, and it's got to be paid for. That burden accelerated their Forex disaster prompted by export reductions and tourism collapsing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (WWh8n)

155 Hot off the Presses!

The Economist has figured out that the lockdowns were a disaster for teh kiddos

Posted by: kallisto

They knew it at the time, but feel safe reporting it now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)

156 I have a fantasy about Klaus Schwab and his acolytes facing a Nurembourg type trial followed rapidly by hanging.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (eGTCV)

157 some areas have way too many people in too dense a grouping. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:27 AM (llsW/)
Chicago is doing everything it can to rectify that situation. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (trdmm)

Wait until California runs out of water.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)

158 Bwhahahahah, who am i kidding, the EU would rather infect all of it's "citizens"/natural born with a COVID-like disease and watch them die, and then replace them all with compliant refugees/beggers.

Posted by: Scott_T at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (2waQ7)

Like they're doing here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (VwHCD)

159 But Foofoo is right: Davos et al are absolutely willing to sacrifice millions that they may be comfortable and feel safe. They, like the Nazis, believe that this is necessary for a better future, and a price well worth paying -- but not for them to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:05 AM (llsW/)

Willing? Try eager.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (zhLdt)

160 re: rationing hot water in Germany

On one of my tours in Germany, I was in "Economy Quarters", meaning the building was owned by a local. There was a meter on the hot water line into the apartment. Actually, two- one for hot tap water and another for heating. Same in Italy. So renters are pretty much already encouraged to conserved hot tap water. You pay a deposit at the start of the year and then at the end of the year, there's "equalization", either a bill or a refund, depending on your usage.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (8C7+r)

161 Sloe Joe is blathering on guns

Posted by: Fox2! at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (zXGrh)

162 The natural ~~lifetime~~ half-life of U-235 is about 700M years, so it isn't going anywhere, but in a reactor it's more like 6 years, presumably because of the extra neutrons whizzing about.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (/NCI4)

163 "We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find abandoned or destroyed Russian military equipment, it’s full of semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.

We used to have penalties for lying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)

164 Now what? Their economy is in tatters. They live on an island. 22 million people. Not enough food to go around, and no fuel, no foreign currency reserves. Everything seems to be going Tango Uniform at once - even if say, India were inclined to provide help - they may have problems of their own.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (IetnX)
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Post-revolution, the foreign debts will probably be repudiated and credit will stop because they still have no foreign exchange. Things will suck, badly, for a couple of years and little will get better. They maybe find an outside sponsor to help keep starvation at bay. If they manage it well, they'll be okay intermediate term because the debts are gone and they try again.

Assuming they don't keep fighting for a generation and that the periodic new leader doesn't steal everything that's left, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (WWh8n)

165 I doubt it. Part of the problem is China's belt-and-road scheme. Red China has been rebuilding Sri Lanka's ports and some other infrastructure, and it's got to be paid for. That burden accelerated their Forex disaster prompted by export reductions and tourism collapsing. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (WWh8n)

Accepting their Chinese overlords in exchange for food might be a trade that would look attractive. Remember, there were actual Communists fighting a guerrilla war in Sir Lanka until recently.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (7B5FA)

166 Hydro is about as renewable and green as you can get. The structure is already in place. And he wants to dismantle it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

It’s not about green energy or carbon emissions. This silliness of climate change (carbon being under .04% of the atmosphere) is just another means of creating and protecting the liberal world order. They want us either dead or as servile workers for the state. .

Posted by: 7man at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (qwO6y)

167 The elites are actively harming the human race. Doesn't that make them guilty of crimes against humanity?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 11, 2022 11:26 AM (eGTCV)

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As I've stated a few times in the past:

Make the Nuremberg Trials Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (C9m0L)

168 >>>When they can't get enough CNG in Europe fast enough, they will vote to call coal green.

As a design project, we prepared designs for a fuel cell powered car that used steam reforming of petroleum to produce hydrogen for the hydrogen fuel cells, which in turn produced electricity for electric motors to drive the cars.

As you can imagine with any power conversion technologies, there are a lot of losses in the process of conversion and transmission, which cannot be compensated (enough) for by extravagant power recapture technologies such as using the kinetic energy of the vehicle to regenerate electricity.

In the end, IIRC, nobody could approach conventional modern ICE/diesel efficiencies, using the petro right at the source, even using the high efficiency fuel cell tech.

You have to get really clean hydrogen cheaply to make such tech economically feasible, and then it is a storage and safety nightmare.

Too many get stuck on the pie in the sky idea of cars burning hydrogen and producing heat and water vapor to ever get to the really hard thinking part of how exactly such projects might be accomplished. That is the story of ALL green power ideas.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (U3uv2)

169 On one of my tours in Germany, I was in "Economy Quarters", meaning the building was owned by a local. There was a meter on the hot water line into the apartment. Actually, two- one for hot tap water and another for heating. Same in Italy. So renters are pretty much already encouraged to conserved hot tap water. You pay a deposit at the start of the year and then at the end of the year, there's "equalization", either a bill or a refund, depending on your usage.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (8C7+r)
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Germany is a country with vast coal and water resources and they ration hot water.

Wow.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (5pTK/)

170 Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post also repeats this howler:

"We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find abandoned or destroyed Russian military equipment, it’s full of semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators," Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. Yeah, right. You just take a chip out of a refrigerator, and plug it into a tank. Easy-peasy!

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You never know - MacGyver might have defected.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (Pj9mr)

171 They knew it at the time, but feel safe reporting it now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (lTGtQ)

Last eve my neighbor gets out of his car wearing a surgical mask. During the past two+ years, I never ever saw him masked. But last evening he was, outdoors, by himself. I spoke with him briefly but I was at least six feet away.

This morning he was out surveying his garden and he was once again masked, outdoors. His wife works at a major Philly hospital. I'm wondering what's up.

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

172 Why spike protein?

So spike was chosen to elicit neutralisation . . . .

. . .

The spike protein is definitely toxic. We know it can cross the blood-brain barrier in mice and cause nerve damage. We know it can cause cardiac damage. We know it can cause lung inflammation. We know it can cause endothelial cell damage. We know it can significantly inhibit DNA damage repair.

https://tinyurl.com/3syz83nn

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (U3uv2)

173 We used to have penalties for lying.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)

If the narrative fits, you must acquit.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (AiZBA)

174 ZeroHedge had an article that showed the wealthy a European was the more they supported "paying the costs to defeat Russia" well...theoretically.

In practice though almost everyone opposed higher costs.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (ESjRY)

175 Wouldn't the Russian army cobbling together shit out of whatever is to hand and fighting with a shoestring roster of children, immigrants, and has-beens be evidence that this *isn't* some adventurist foray into neighbor-fucking, but actually a war of necessity not of Putin's choosing?

I mean, I give zero fuchs either way, just... you know.... pick a fucking narrative, people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (/EuRN)

176 it’s full of semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators

Dual use technologies that now have to have export licenses. See how that works?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (7B5FA)

177 "Greenies reply that coal and nuclear are also heavily subsidized.

Posted by: Bertram Cabo"

What they mean when you look at these idiotic claims it usually means they are allowed tax breaks/write-offs granted to all other companies/industry. They just shout it again and again until the lemmings think it is true.

Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (MxEKc)

178 You think that the Russian government can't afford to pay that with all its oil revenues?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:28 AM (I2/tG)

Thanks to Joe Biden and the junta.

Trump's policies would have kept the price of oil below Russia's foreign exchange needs. They would not have been able to afford this war.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (XIJ/X)

179 In any case, the Russians have figured out the solution to a shortage of missiles - fire thousands of dumb, unguided artillery rounds at your targets. Seems to be working.

Well, I suppose if that's your only option because everything else failed, then yes, they've figured it out. Of course, there is the small matter of obliterating the land, its infrastructure, and its people.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (/NCI4)

180 Knock on wood but ERCOT has done their job during this Texas heatwave.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (aToww)

181 Proving that neither windmills nor solar farms are economically viable without subsidies.

Windmills and solar farms are cheaper than fossil fuel power plants.

That's why construction of windmills and solar farms will completely stop if you take away our subsidies!

Posted by: Moronic Enviornmentalists! at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (I2/tG)

182 >>And Inslee
Wants to shut down hydroelectric power.

That guy is a Full On Retard.

We should be building impoundments and small, local hydro everywhere out West.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (HJ1lo)

183 Wait until California runs out of water.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)

The Water Wars will be lit.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (U3uv2)

184 On one of my tours in Germany, I was in "Economy Quarters", meaning the building was owned by a local. There was a meter on the hot water line into the apartment. Actually, two- one for hot tap water and another for heating. Same in Italy. So renters are pretty much already encouraged to conserved hot tap water. You pay a deposit at the start of the year and then at the end of the year, there's "equalization", either a bill or a refund, depending on your usage.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 11, 2022 11:30 AM (8C7+r)
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When my parents lived in England (70s), their apartment electricity and gas meters were pay-as-you-go (coin-op). Feed your shillings into the meter or you don't have power and gas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (WWh8n)

185 The elites are actively harming the human race. Doesn't that make them guilty of crimes against humanity?

The Nuremberg Code specifically bans most of the crap done with the clot shots.

The problem is it wasn't encoded into law.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (ESjRY)

186 Our Marxists are doing year damnest to drag us down too

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (Y1zIR)

187 That guy is a Full On Retard.

We should be building impoundments and small, local hydro everywhere out West.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (HJ1lo)

We have vast tracts of land suitable for nuke power stations, too.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (U3uv2)

188 Well, I suppose if that's your only option because everything else failed, then yes, they've figured it out. Of course, there is the small matter of obliterating the land, its infrastructure, and its people.

It's always worked for us.

Posted by: The Russian Way Of War! at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (I2/tG)

189
You never know - MacGyver might have defected.
Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (Pj9mr)

You shut your whore mouth!

Posted by: Patty and Selma Bouvier at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (906pl)

190 His wife works at a major Philly hospital. I'm wondering what's up.

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

No maskie no nookie....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (XIJ/X)

191 Joe just invoke his dead son Beau.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (zXGrh)

192
The Nuremberg Code specifically bans most of the crap done with the clot shots.

The problem is it wasn't encoded into law.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (ESjRY)

Whatever, we'll just use common law rules.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (b2nrj)

193 166 Hydro is about as renewable and green as you can get. The structure is already in place. And he wants to dismantle it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

dam

and during Pride Month

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (us2H3)

194 Keep getting electric cars and California won't have enough electric

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 11:35 AM (Y1zIR)

195 "A fantasy world can persist for a long time, but eventually reality must intrude."

Depends, and perspective on it depends on your timeline.

Just to pick one of a zillion examples, small manufacturing in CA was systematically exterminated by a combination of factors, some of them completely artificial ("regulation", especially the idiotic "environmental" sort, plus labor and a few others).

One of the many baleful consequences was a social shift. The owners/workers in this sector, it turns out, are a very different breed than the usually vastly overpaid, now freakishly propagandized, ignorant, and self-dealing public employees who have, de facto, replaced them as the new middle class. Welcome to a big part of CA's political death as a functioning normal place.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 11:35 AM (OTzUX)

196 >>Germany is a country with vast coal and water resources and they ration hot water.

What is funny is that Water Heating is one of the only things Solar actually does well.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:35 AM (HJ1lo)

197 You never know - MacGyver might have defected.
Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 11:32 AM (Pj9mr)
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Or some military hardware uses off-the-shelf microcontrollers and logic circuits and the like, which can be redirected from other purposes like consumer appliances to war production.

Zakaria's story could be a lie, or it could be the truth but it doesn't mean what he's implying, or something else entirely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:35 AM (WWh8n)

198 Texas Wheels says people need to cut back on their electricity usage as the Super Green wind turbines are failing him. Texas can do better than this asshat.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (MkYsY)

199 my guess the Fed is gonna go to a full point in July

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (us2H3)

200 Assuming they don't keep fighting for a generation and that the periodic new leader doesn't steal everything that's left, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:31 AM (WWh8n)

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Hunter Biden is tanned, rehabbed, immune from prosecution, with access to unlimited funds/hookers/blow, ready, and nude with a gun!

What's not to like?

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (C9m0L)

201 We should be building impoundments and small, local hydro everywhere out West.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:33 AM (HJ1lo)

And create more wetlands for the EPA? No thanks.

Oh...wait...they got their dicks slapped!

Build those dams!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (XIJ/X)

202 Wouldn't the Russian army cobbling together shit out of whatever is to hand and fighting with a shoestring roster of children, immigrants, and has-beens be evidence that this *isn't* some adventurist foray into neighbor-fucking, but actually a war of necessity not of Putin's choosing?

By that logic, Saddam Hussein was just a misunderstood victim. Dictators often do stupid things because their underlings are afraid to give them bad news.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (/NCI4)

203 No maskie no nookie....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:34 AM (XIJ/X)

How did you know they are Chinese!

No... really?

Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (dCxaZ)

204 Where are we going and how did we get in this handbasket?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (FVME7)

205 my guess the Fed is gonna go to a full point in July

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (us2H3)

They probably won't. Not because it is a bad idea...it's a good idea, but they are political whores who have no sense of their real responsibilities.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (XIJ/X)

206 Proving that neither windmills nor solar farms are economically viable without subsidies. Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)

But to my point, everyone knows that - it's simple math - but there is no one in the system to prevent the waste. The PUC is where the consumer's voice is supposed to be heard, at least in Texas.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (7B5FA)

207 Warm and in the embrace of 💩 Tin?
Or free and severely inconvenienced?

Or perhaps war with the Beast of the Kremlin.
I always believe the earlier the fight the better.

Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (Y274z)

208 140 years of great innovations on one of the greatest inventions evah

and we're gonna toss it overboard

nope

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (us2H3)

209 My issue with all the green agenda foisted upon an unwilling populace is that even when faced with existential danger like freezing to death, the populace still allows the usurpers of power to dictate the terms of their existence.

Sure the EU is backtracking and redefining terms, but that allows them to appear to stay in control and appear to be responsive.

The Farmers have it right. Spray shit on them.
Any power structure of unelected elites is just a return to feudalism by another name for the aristocracy.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (MFphb)

210 They love to regulate what we love.
They are coming for your coffee baby.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (C4MsG)

211 America no longer produces or re-processes nuclear control rods. That's my understanding.

Thank the peanut farmer for that. (They've been knocking over key tactical pillars, strategic industries, and blocking off civilization sustaining choke points for decades now. It's really obvious when you know what to look for, what their goals are. It's like they dusted off the old Morgenthau Plan for Germany and applied to America.

Guess who does do the re-processing of nuclear control rods? No really, take a guess! You'll never guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (IetnX)

212 You started it.

No we didn't

Yes, you did; you invaded Poland.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (gmo/4)

213 I doubt it. Part of the problem is China's belt-and-road scheme. Red China has been rebuilding Sri Lanka's ports and some other infrastructure, and it's got to be paid for. That burden accelerated their Forex disaster prompted by export reductions and tourism collapsing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (WWh8n)

This also happened in Venezuela, which I find quite comical. Chavez, and then Maduro encouraged China to spend all kinds of money building new factories, etc, inside Venezuela, and the Chinese were excited to have a foothold in South America. Except then Venezuelan gangs (likely parts of the Venezuelan Army since they've all gone rogue) stole all of the new equipment out of the new factories and sold it for scrap, and now they all sit there abandoned and rotting. And Maduro sends the Chinese a tanker full of tar every now and then and figures it'll all be good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (trdmm)

214 Putin is an idiot. Look at history and see what happens when western European’s are driven into desperation. The EU politicians will start looking for an enemy to point that anger at and if history is any guide it will be Russia. And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

Posted by: SquidbillyCPO at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (JdnFk)

215 I think that keeping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb and not legitimizing Iranian terrorism (as Iran is demanding) is more important than "defeating Putin". Sorry.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:19 AM (I2/tG)

What I once thought an impossibility, I now consider an inevitability, thanks to the left, primarily Bronco and Brandon. We will see a nuke lit off in the U.S. by a foreign adversary within my lifetime.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (U3uv2)

216 Guess who does do the re-processing of nuclear control rods? No really, take a guess! You'll never guess.

Ha ha, we win again, loundeye.

Posted by: Chinese with 2 heads and 5 arms at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (/NCI4)

217 anybody have a link to the vid of the Germans at the UN (201

chuckling when Trump warned them about being too dependent on Russia for energy?

It's almost like Putin is doing the would-be western autocrats a favor with his war in Ukraine.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (Ynyl9)

218 Or some military hardware uses off-the-shelf microcontrollers and logic circuits and the like, which can be redirected from other purposes like consumer appliances to war production.

Yeah, not an unreasonable conclusion, even assuming there's anything valid in what this fool is reporting. I don't know what is going on over there really but what I do know is that we cannot trust the media.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (llsW/)

219 But Foofoo is right: Davos et al are absolutely willing to sacrifice millions that they may be comfortable and feel safe. They, like the Nazis, believe that this is necessary for a better future, and a price well worth paying -- but not for them to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:05 AM (llsW/)

You misspelled Billions.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (MFphb)

220 Is it wrong for me to enjoy the prospect of millions of Germans freezing their asses off this winter...in the dark?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (XIJ/X)

221 They probably won't. Not because it is a bad idea...it's a good idea, but they are political whores who have no sense of their real responsibilities.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (XIJ/X)

they know what everyone else knows

you can't stop inflation if the interest rate is below the rate of inflation

known for 5K years

Posted by: REDACTED at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (us2H3)

222 If I were king I'd decree that we double the number of nuclear plants presently operating. That would give us about 100 plants .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (aToww)

223 Good. Can't wait for the fall and winter when the smelly euroweenies will have to burn their IKEA furniture to stay warm.

Rootin For Putin!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 11, 2022 11:40 AM (vvzla)

224 Morning.
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They love to regulate what we love.
They are coming for your coffee baby.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (C4MsG)

They can take my coffee from my cold! Dead! HANDS!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (w3a7O)

225 One thing that always bothers me about not using nuclear power:

Those radioactive materials are going to decay and produce energy regardless of whether we use them or not. If we wait a thousand years (or even a hundred years), that's a significant loss in usable energy. Why NOT try to use them now? While they still have enough radioactive material to do us good?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:23 AM

U-238 has a half life of 4.4 x 10^9 years
U-235 has a half life of 7.0 x 10^8 years

Posted by: Chuck C at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (hOAT3)

226 They probably won't. Not because it is a bad idea...it's a good idea, but they are political whores who have no sense of their real responsibilities.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2022 11:37 AM (XIJ/X)

I agree - they're going to steer away from the Scylla of rate hikes, and straight into the Charybdis of accelerating inflation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (trdmm)

227 DC doesn't want to defeat Putin, DC wants to spend money. Defeating Putin stops the money.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (Y5qcH)

228 Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (Ynyl9)

229 202 "Wouldn't the Russian army cobbling together shit out of whatever is to hand and fighting with a shoestring roster of children, immigrants, and has-beens be evidence that this *isn't* some adventurist foray into neighbor-fucking, but actually a war of necessity not of Putin's choosing?"

By that logic, Saddam Hussein was just a misunderstood victim. Dictators often do stupid things because their underlings are afraid to give them bad news.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:36 AM (/NCI4)

Saddam's army was pretty well equipped and large.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (b2nrj)

230 No gas, no squeegee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (VP9wG)

231 #198
Better Texas wind fails now...as an object lesson.

There has to be coal, nuclear, and gas as base load.

Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (Y274z)

232 @151

At a bible discussion group yesterday I asked the group how many had ever even heard the term ESG. Out of 20, only 2 had ever heard the term and wanted to know what it meant.

After learning more about it, they were aghast. They had no idea of the ramifications and were visibly shocked at the insidiousness of the entire concept and how it has laid hold of the most basic elements inside out economy and capital markets.

The point of the discussion was to encourage folks to take care of themselves spiritually so as to be ready and able to maintain their faith during dark times such as those most of us here see coming.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (MkuC5)

233 "Depends, and perspective on it depends on your timeline."

@rhomboid, the USSR lasted 80 years based on a ridiculous concept of how economics worked. A long time can be a long time. These things are gradual. At the end of the 19th Century the US and Argentina were comparable countries, yet we went one way and they went another. I think California's model will, in the long run, result in much unnecessary misery in California, but eventually it will self-correct.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (7B5FA)

234
Sloe Joe is blathering on guns
Posted by: Fox2!

Can we get floating guns stores in the Gulf of Mexico?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (63Dwl)

235 By that logic, Saddam Hussein was just a misunderstood victim. Dictators often do stupid things because their underlings are afraid to give them bad news.

Putin is feeling his mortality, has been physically isolated for two years, and looked at how Drooling' Joe handed Afghanistan, and decided that he had a world-historical opportunity to take over the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine.

After twenty years in power, he doesn't have anyone left close to him to tell him that his initial decapitation strike against Kiev probably wouldn't work.

Posted by: The Russian Way Of War! at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (I2/tG)

236 And Maduro sends the Chinese a tanker full of tar every now and then and figures it'll all be good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (trdmm)
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He's probably right. They have no money and can't pay so sanctions, threats and the like can't work, they have little offshore to expropriate for non-payment and China can't project force all the way to Central America to go extract physical value to send back home to China.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (WWh8n)

237 228 Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (Ynyl9)

He eats only one meal a day but it lasts 16 hours.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (eGTCV)

238 Trump's energy policies were among the most important of his excellent successful policies (but to clarify, they were mostly just common sense - it's just he was the first boss in a long time to follow it). They "hurt" Russia in the sense of reducing their oil earnings.

But Russia could easily have afforded this war, regardless. "Afford" completely depends on how important something is, and how much the public supports/will tolerate it, and/or how much the public can influence the policy. No reason to think lower oil revenues would have changed Moscow's calculations on what Ukraine's military status means, which is the basis for the whole thing.

And artillery is a normal big part of every large conventional war in modern history, and a disproportionate part of Russian ground warfare in modern times.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (OTzUX)

239 And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

While I am skeptical of Russian military prowess, I am even more so of European military power. Without the US providing most of the equipment, guidance, and manpower, they're down to a few Saab technicals and some Mirage jets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (llsW/)

240 #229
Saddam's army wouldn't or couldn't fight. Didn't matter much what equipment they had.

Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (Y274z)

241 Saddam's army was pretty well equipped and large.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

And he was sure he had chem weapons and was close to nukes.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (/NCI4)

242 What I once thought an impossibility, I now consider an inevitability, thanks to the left, primarily Bronco and Brandon. We will see a nuke lit off in the U.S. by a foreign adversary within my lifetime.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (U3uv2)

I think seeing one lit off by a domestic adversary is more likely. Eric Swallowwell has already said he likes the idea.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (trdmm)

243 And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

Posted by: SquidbillyCPO at July 11, 2022 11:39 AM (JdnFk)

Really?....I mean really?

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

244 >> Putin is an idiot. Look at history and see what happens when western European’s are driven into desperation. The EU politicians will start looking for an enemy to point that anger at and if history is any guide it will be Russia. And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

Look Out Jay Inslee.

A new retard has taken the field.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (HJ1lo)

245 Or some military hardware uses off-the-shelf microcontrollers and logic circuits and the like, which can be redirected from other purposes like consumer appliances to war production.

In the US, there are special military and space rated versions of every chip. Not everyone's military demands the much more expensive MIL-SPEC versions though.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

246 Turning off traffic lights at night was already commonly done in Germany ages ago, well before this climate hysteria. It should be done everywhere, IMHO, as it's infuriating waiting at a stupid traffic light with no traffic for miles around.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (m2XKJ)

247 I agree - they're going to steer away from the Scylla of rate hikes, and straight into the Charybdis of accelerating inflation. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (trdmm)

If they would just stop the bond purchases and reduce the intervention in the repo market and let the market find its own interest rate, that would have the same effect.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (7B5FA)

248 If I were king I'd decree that we double the number of nuclear plants presently operating. That would give us about 100 plants .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

If I were king, the left had better run for bolt holes outside of CONUS.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (c8pZY)

249 228 Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (Ynyl9)
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But seventeen between meal snacks is totally OK...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (YIVH2)

250 I don't want shock you but here is Hunter, a whore, and crack cocaine.

https://bit.ly/3nUmILy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (FVME7)

251 163. Raimondo is using the same tactic as the faux witnesses at J6. She heard this BS from someone else and has no responsibility for the lie.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (Q/n1Q)

252 They love to regulate what we love.
They are coming for your coffee baby.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (C4MsG)

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Art thread Diogenes hardest hit.

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (VJsqe)

253 I don't want shock you but here is Hunter, a whore, and crack cocaine.

That's only shocking now if Hunter appears without a whore and crack cocaine.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (ZGrMX)

254 Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.

Posted by: mallfly

True, he eats around seven.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:45 AM (lTGtQ)

255 U-238 has a half life of 4.4 x 10^9 years
U-235 has a half life of 7.0 x 10^8 years
Posted by: Chuck C at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (hOAT3)

The half lives of the dangerous material is on the order of 10's to thousands. U-238/U-235 are relatively safe by themselves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:45 AM (Y5qcH)

256 Putin is feeling his mortality, has been physically isolated for two years, and looked at how Drooling' Joe handed Afghanistan, and decided that he had a world-historical opportunity to take over the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine.

After twenty years in power, he doesn't have anyone left close to him to tell him that his initial decapitation strike against Kiev probably wouldn't work.

That's about right.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:45 AM (/NCI4)

257 OT two from the 4chan leak, first is a pic of Hunter naked (censored), with a kid behind him on the bed. Twitter link.

https://tinyurl.com/bdt2hxz5

Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic.

https://tinyurl.com/ywu3mhkv

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (M9XmQ)

258 He's probably right. They have no money and can't pay so sanctions, threats and the like can't work, they have little offshore to expropriate for non-payment and China can't project force all the way to Central America to go extract physical value to send back home to China.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:42 AM (WWh8n)

The funniest part of this is that outside of any political considerations, the thing the Chinese hate more than anything else is to made fools of. Especially when it comes to money.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (trdmm)

259 And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

*cough cough Hitler cough cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (c8pZY)

260 In the US, there are special military and space rated versions of every chip. Not everyone's military demands the much more expensive MIL-SPEC versions though.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

A lot of that is EMP hardening. I am sure that there is much more QC that the U.S. places emphasis on, both in HW and firmware. Not so much the Ruskies.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (U3uv2)

261 U-238 has a half life of 4.4 x 10^9 years
U-235 has a half life of 7.0 x 10^8 years

Posted by: Chuck C at July 11, 2022 11:41 AM (hOAT3)

dear lord the math...the frigging math. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (VwHCD)

262 And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

Look Out Jay Inslee.

A new retard has taken the field.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (HJ1lo)
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How many divisions/battalions does the EU have under operational command? How much battlefield experience do they have? How much logistical support can the EU provide?

Do they really want a winter war with Russia? Ask Napoleon or Hitler how that worked out for them....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (YIVH2)

263 Turning off traffic lights at night was already commonly done in Germany ages ago, well before this climate hysteria. It should be done everywhere, IMHO, as it's infuriating waiting at a stupid traffic light with no traffic for miles around. Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (m2XKJ)

It's not true in every case, of course, but most of the time traffic light and street light power is virtually free. Large generators often can't be shut down overnight and then be available the next day -- they have to keep running. So the power is there whether you want it or not in order to ensure that is there the next day when you really need it. Now, if your power comes from solar panels, that's obviously not true.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (7B5FA)

264 OT- FenSpouse is being considered to serve on a jury. It's all done by Zoom with people at their homes and it's worse than actually being at the court house. Some guy who was obviously over the age to be required to serve (70) started to take off his clothes and was bringing the lap top into the bathroom where I guess the man was going to take a shower. He said that he and the other jurors started laughing because they couldn't believe they were seeing this , and spouse said to me as I was passing through the room, "He must have dementia." I said either that or it was a really clever way to get out of serving on a jury. If spouse doesnt get picked today he's free and doesn't have to serve on the case. He hasn't been questioned yet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (FZ2cV)

265 "Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken"

So the Endless Buffet counts as one?

Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (MxEKc)

266 And let’s be truthful here, if the EU decides to go after Russia fullbore Russia will not stand a chance.

The EU is not going to sacrifice its living standards to "go after Russia fullbore".

We're the people shoving billions of dollars to Ukraine - the European contributions have been much more modest.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (I2/tG)

267 I don't want shock you but here is Hunter, a whore, and crack cocaine.

https://bit.ly/3nUmILy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (FVME7)

The Bidens...Shitty Family or Shittiest Family?

Posted by: Robert at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (w3a7O)

268 They love to regulate what we love.
They are coming for your coffee baby.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 11, 2022 11:38 AM (C4MsG)

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Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 11:44 AM (VJsqe)
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They'll take my coffee when they pry my cup from my cold dead fingers!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 11:47 AM (anj39)

269 Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (m2XKJ)

You wait?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:47 AM (aToww)

270 >>After twenty years in power, he doesn't have anyone left close to him to tell him that his initial decapitation strike against Kiev probably wouldn't work.

He has no designs on Kiev.
Other than maybe offing a bunch of specific fellas who used to live there.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:47 AM (HJ1lo)

271 Oh, first BoJo, now Macron???

https://tinyurl.com/mtm3ar83

(link goes to "latest active news" .org)

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the ungrateful colonial at July 11, 2022 11:47 AM (gao0c)

272 >>257 OT two from the 4chan leak, first is a pic of Hunter naked (censored), with a kid behind him on the bed. Twitter link.

Yikes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2022 11:48 AM (MkYsY)

273 They'll take my coffee when they pry my cup from my cold dead fingers!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 11:47 AM (anj39)

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Absolutely.

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 11:48 AM (VJsqe)

274 "...turn off traffic lights at night, stop illuminating historic buildings, and go easy on using air conditioners..."

Pretty soon, Germany's going to be yearning for the good old days of East Germany and Hitler.

Posted by: red speck at July 11, 2022 11:48 AM (gS3OW)

275 246 Turning off traffic lights at night was already commonly done in Germany ages ago, well before this climate hysteria. It should be done everywhere, IMHO, as it's infuriating waiting at a stupid traffic light with no traffic for miles around.
Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 11, 2022 11:43 AM (m2XKJ)

who waits? Although mercifully here, the lights go to flashing red and flashing yellow at night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (trdmm)

276 Michael Moore wants us to know that no one needs to eat three meals a day.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken

Didja see Big Mike's second amendment fix?

https://bit.ly/3uGkTpf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (FVME7)

277 ~I'm looking for another World War. Has to happen.
Too many people, not enough resources.~

Resource scarcity at least currently, is totally and completely driven by supplier withholding and Western Incompetence. We haven't reached scarcity caused by lack of harvestable resources. We will someday. But with any luck we'll have started to mine asteroids and other planets by then.

Posted by: FrozenTech at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (ESZMY)

278 The funniest part of this is that outside of any political considerations, the thing the Chinese hate more than anything else is to made fools of. Especially when it comes to money.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (trdmm)
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That is pretty hilarious that Venezuela can tell China to go fuck themselves after stealing all their technology...Kind of what China likes to do...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (YIVH2)

279 >>How many divisions/battalions does the EU have under operational command? How much battlefield experience do they have? How much logistical support can the EU provide?

Western Europe has ZERO will to fight. None.

Their armies are a joke. What few armies they have are understaffed and their hardware is terribly outdated and irreplaceable.

The only power in Europe is the United States / G. Britain.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (HJ1lo)

280 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Y5qcH)

281 After twenty years in power, he doesn't have anyone left close to him to tell him that his initial decapitation strike against Kiev probably wouldn't work.

Remember, right before the invasion, Putin humiliated all of his senior advisors on national TV by demanding that they unconditionally support his Ukraine policies. A number of them (including the Defense Minister) looked very, very unhappy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (I2/tG)

282 Turn out the lights. The party's over.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (FVME7)

283 Yikes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2022 11:48 AM (MkYsY)

X 6.02*10^23

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (U3uv2)

284 ... Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic. ...
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (M9XmQ)
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There is no way that should be survivable. They're going to have work very, very hard to suppress it. Also, I do not recommend clicking that link. It's quite disturbing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (WWh8n)

285 OT two from the 4chan leak, first is a pic of Hunter naked (censored), with a kid behind him on the bed. Twitter link.

https://tinyurl.com/bdt2hxz5

Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic.

https://tinyurl.com/ywu3mhkv

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (M9XmQ)

Oh my fucking Buddha...

Posted by: Robert at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (w3a7O)

286 Appearing on Media Buzz with Howie Kurtz on Fox News to discuss Elon Musk’s refusal to move forward with his acquisition of Twitter, Fox Business Network correspondent Charles Gasparino mentioned the f-word: fraud. Stating that if Musk’s contention is correct, that Twitter has been lying about the prevalence of bots in its traffic since its IPO in 2013, that would constitute securities fraud, and could land Jack Dorsey and other executives at Twitter in prison.

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (RHGPo)

287 Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic.

Dude, what the @#(*$?? Those poor girls

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (llsW/)

288 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Y5qcH

London has a huge system that they built in pre existing tunnels, bomb shelters, etc.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:51 AM (aToww)

289 Jesus anyone see the drooling rutabagas speech on the "gun bill"? went on to say "I will ban assault weapons, I will ban high capacity magazines" shouldn't he have his pudding and go to bed already?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 11, 2022 11:51 AM (MGB5H)

290 could land Jack Dorsey and other executives at Twitter in prison.
Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (RHGPo)

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That would be very entertaining, but I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 11:51 AM (VJsqe)

291 A number of them (including the Defense Minister) looked very, very unhappy.

Yeah but they are Russian, so they look like that all the time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 11:51 AM (llsW/)

292 Twitter is a US government asset.
Same with Facebook, google, et al.
Nothing will happen to anyone.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 11:51 AM (jTmQV)

293 Western Europe has ZERO will to fight. None.

Their armies are a joke. What few armies they have are understaffed and their hardware is terribly outdated and irreplaceable.

The only power in Europe is the United States / G. Britain.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (HJ1lo)
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Western Europe's armed forces - which includes police - have a different mission, which is maintenance of the regime at home.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (WWh8n)

294 "
Les Patriotes leader Florian Philippot said: “Macron must resign! He betrays France, its companies, the State, justice, the people! Out!”"

the local Gendarme replies "ooo are you to order zeez peeple about???"

unless the answer is "I am THE MONSTER!!!" not much will come of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (trdmm)

295 Iceland has a neat municipal hot water system. Geothermal for the win.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (aToww)

296 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Y5qcH)

They make up for it in volume. In reality, it only makes sense where you are using something which is otherwise a waste stream, such as waste heat from coal/oil fired power generation plants, where you have that heat input available, but would otherwise reject it to a heat sink such as a large body of water (river, ocean, etc.).

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (U3uv2)

297 Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic.

Hunter needs to spend the rest of his miserable life in a cage.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (/NCI4)

298 279 >>How many divisions/battalions does the EU have under operational command? How much battlefield experience do they have? How much logistical support can the EU provide?

Western Europe has ZERO will to fight. None.

Their armies are a joke. What few armies they have are understaffed and their hardware is terribly outdated and irreplaceable.

The only power in Europe is the United States / G. Britain.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (HJ1lo)

Probably overselling Great Britain a bit there but the practical stumbling blocks are Poland, Greece, and Turkey, though there is no guarantee that the latter two get involved either.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (b2nrj)

299 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It is common in Northern Europe. The winters are so cold that steam is piped to houses to keep them warm. In Siberia, the steam pipes run above ground, like giant telephone lines.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (lTGtQ)

300

Let me tell you about my plan for Boncentration Bamps...

Posted by: That nice Mr. Hilter at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (s/UgS)

301 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat.

Highly efficient, and used across the former Eastern Bloc.

Big power plants are only one-third efficient - you put big power plants into your cities, and you can use the waste heat from the power plants to provide hot water and most of your heating needs, basically for free.

The slight problem is that it means you have big polluting power plants in your cities.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (I2/tG)

302 He has no designs on Kiev.
Other than maybe offing a bunch of specific fellas who used to live there.

Right. He would have just handed it back to the Ukes. Come on.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (/NCI4)

303 Iceland has a neat municipal hot water system. Geothermal for the win.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (aToww)
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We installed a geothermal heating system on the campus where I work. It was installed about a decade ago, with an expectation that it would start paying for itself by now (and yeah, I think it is, actually).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (YIVH2)

304 The Polish armed forces, taking them as an example is 114,000 total. 61,000 army, active duty. Offered without commentary.

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (Vr12I)

305 Recent drive through the Intermountain West.
There is a significant amount of farm and pasture that was in production 10-20 years ago that is fallow.

Food riots topple governments.

They know that. And are pushing it. The US, even weak and corrupted as it is now, is still too strong, too offensive to their plans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 11, 2022 11:54 AM (4SRyA)

306 It's quite disturbing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (WWh8n)

Yeah, I have been skeptical of some of the worst evidence (excepting him getting a foot job from his niece). At this point, skepticism about whether HB was fucking children is irrational.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:54 AM (U3uv2)

307 But Foofoo is right: Davos et al are absolutely willing to sacrifice millions that they may be comfortable and feel safe. They, like the Nazis, believe that this is necessary for a better future, and a price well worth paying -- but not for them to pay.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Foo foo is a nevertrumper. She fucking voted for this. Fuck her and fuck that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2022 11:54 AM (IEa8U)

308 They make up for it in volume. In reality, it only makes sense where you are using something which is otherwise a waste stream, such as waste heat from coal/oil fired power generation plants, where you have that heat input available, but would otherwise reject it to a heat sink such as a large body of water (river, ocean, etc.).
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (U3uv2)
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Community-scale steam. Some places in the US have this, too. Cornell University in NY is one such place. They have a power plant and it produces a lot of waste heat. They pump it through buried pipes to heat a bunch of buildings and sidewalks. No shoveling snow through the main campus and they don't have to pay for heat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:54 AM (WWh8n)

309 295 Iceland has a neat municipal hot water system. Geothermal for the win.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (aToww)

Geothermal...because they sit on a tectonic hot spot.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (BgMrQ)

310 Western Europe's armed forces - which includes police - have a different mission, which is maintenance of the regime at home.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (WWh8n)

That's mission #2. Mission #1 is all about the protecting the donut shops by hanging out there all day and all night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (trdmm)

311 Iceland has a neat municipal hot water system. Geothermal for the win.

There's an area of Boise heated with geothermal power.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (I2/tG)

312 . Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic. ...
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 11:46 AM (M9XmQ)
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There is no way that should be survivable. They're going to have work very, very hard to suppress it. Also, I do not recommend clicking that link. It's quite disturbing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (WWh8n)

Damn...that dude is pure evil.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (VwHCD)

313 We also store spent nuclear fuel in "temporary" on-site storage facilities, basically in barrels, instead of using the long-term permanent storage facility the govt spent billions of dollars on at Yucca Mountain. Because democrats, of course.

Posted by: brak at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (j5Tg0)

314 Iceland has a neat municipal hot water system. Geothermal for the win.

And all you have to do is build your country atop a volcano.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (/NCI4)

315 >>Right. He would have just handed it back to the Ukes. Come on.

Obviously you are a dedicated student of Military History.

Hint : Seek out the definition of 'Feint'. Maybe you'll understand. But, I doubt it.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (HJ1lo)

316 Geothermal is great when you can get it, but not everywhere can get it. Plus you get the added fun of living in a geothermally active area.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (Y5qcH)

317 If I were king I'd decree that we double the number of nuclear plants presently operating. That would give us about 100 plants .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

Your Highness*, you probably don't need to know the date Plant_100 would be online.

* why isn't this Willie Nelson's title?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (a3Q+t)

318 Geothermal...because they sit on a tectonic hot spot.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (BgMrQ)
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Yup. If you have the write geology, geothermal can be a kick-ass choice. It won't work everywhere, but if it can work for you then it's pretty cool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (WWh8n)

319 A municipal hot water system sounds pretty inefficient. All those pipes will lose heat. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Y5qcH

District heating and cooling is actually a LOT more efficient than having lots of smaller units spread about. Manhattan has one of the largest steam systems in the world, which uses waste heat in addition to boiling water on purpose to make steam. Without it it, if every building had to have its own furnace, there would be a lot more gas and heating oil burned, a lot more expensively.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (7B5FA)

320 302 "He has no designs on Kiev.
Other than maybe offing a bunch of specific fellas who used to live there."

Right. He would have just handed it back to the Ukes. Come on.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (/NCI4)

Wasn't in their war demands. Also they only devoted a tenth of their forces to the region, which might have been much more successful than they had anticipated in the early days. The smallness of the force, that they never reinforced it, and that they never launched a serious assault suggest it was more of a feint to encourage repositioning in the east.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (b2nrj)

321 >>Recent drive through the Intermountain West.
There is a significant amount of farm and pasture that was in production 10-20 years ago that is fallow.

They pay Farmers and Ranchers to let that land lay fallow.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (HJ1lo)

322 We installed a geothermal heating system on the campus where I work. It was installed about a decade ago, with an expectation that it would start paying for itself by now (and yeah, I think it is, actually).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:53 AM (YIVH2)

If you're sitting on a hot spot, it's great. But I snicker when I think that the US had one of the worlds most efficient geothermal stations in Hawaii, a test plant where they were trying all kinds of new equipment. Oops, after one of the most recent eruptions its remains are now underneath 50 feet of hardened lava.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (trdmm)

323 No, no, no. Hunter Biden is just really, really into bicycling. He's a pedalphile. That's all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (/EuRN)

324 Yup. If you have the write geology, geothermal can be a kick-ass choice. It won't work everywhere, but if it can work for you then it's pretty cool. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:56 AM (WWh8n)

The biggest problem, as I understand it, is salt corrosion.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (7B5FA)

325 There is no way that should be survivable. They're going to have work very, very hard to suppress it. Also, I do not recommend clicking that link. It's quite disturbing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (WWh8n)

Damn...that dude is pure evil.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 11:55 AM (VwHCD)
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Imagine if Trump were still in office. He was pretty keen on shutting down the sex-trafficking industry, as I recall...Hunter is probably involved up to his eyeballs in this evil practice (maybe only second to abortion in its sheer evil)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (YIVH2)

326 Turkey and Greece are out. They won't enter the fray.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (HJ1lo)

327 Didja see Big Mike's second amendment fix?

https://bit.ly/3uGkTpf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (FVME7)

'Cause government does everything so well.

Posted by: BignJames at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (AwYPR)

328 In 1880-1960 Paris had a compressed air network. The naive ambition at the start was to move industry with a couple of 1500kw power houses.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (44ww/)

329 The only power in Europe is the United States / G. Britain.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:49 AM (HJ1lo)
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Western Europe's armed forces - which includes police - have a different mission, which is maintenance of the regime at home.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:52 AM (WWh8n)
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It's been awhile since I bothered to check, but the Turks have/had a very basic, but very tough army. I'd not want to fight them. Used to be the largest army in NATO at about 250,000 men. The other 250,000 were "internal securit forces" that were targeted against Greece.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (anj39)

330 The battle of Kyiv was part of the Kyiv offensive in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, and surrounding districts. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Ground Forces. The battle lasted from 25 February 2022 to 2 April 2022 and ended with the withdrawal of Russian forces.

Initially, Russian forces captured key areas to the north and west of Kyiv, leading to international speculation of the city's imminent fall. However, stiff Ukrainian resistance sapped the momentum. Poor Russian logistics and tactical decisions helped the defenders to thwart efforts at encirclement, and, after a month of protracted fighting, Ukrainian forces mounted successful counterattacks. Russians began to withdraw on 29 March; on 2 April, the Ukrainian authorities declared that Kyiv and its surrounding province were again under Ukrainian control.

Boy, that's some feint. Glad I have a military genius to explain it to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (/NCI4)

331
There is no way that should be survivable. They're going to have work very, very hard to suppress it. Also, I do not recommend clicking that link. It's quite disturbing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:50 AM (WWh8n)

1.) Not clicking.

2.) It will be supressed. Or not.

3.) It is survivable. There are no boundaries for our ruling class.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (Zhwz2)

332 Imagine if Trump were still in office. He was pretty keen on shutting down the sex-trafficking industry, as I recall...Hunter is probably involved up to his eyeballs in this evil practice (maybe only second to abortion in its sheer evil)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (YIVH2)
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On bad days, I think that was one of the reasons that they wanted Trump gone so much. He was going after their underage sex slave networks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (WWh8n)

333 A New York Times/Siena College poll shows His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s job approval rating at just 33 percent.

Biden’s disapproval rating in this corporate media poll is a whopping 60 percent.

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

334 He's a pedalphile.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (/EuRN)

Stealing that.

Posted by: Robert at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (w3a7O)

335 The write geology is the write stuff.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (VP9wG)

336 Natural gas will eventually seep out of the ground or erupt out of the ground and into the atmosphere where it will reside or catalytic combust. We might as well burn it and get heat and electricity out of it. It makes it to the atmosphere anyway.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (4+fHv)

337 >>Initially, Russian forces captured key areas to the north and west of Kyiv, leading to international speculation of the city's imminent fall. However, stiff Ukrainian resistance sapped the momentum.

Hahaha - And your last boyfriend promised he wouldn't cum in your mouth.

Jesus. You are being fed a lot of shit.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (HJ1lo)

338 Didja see Big Mike's second amendment fix?

No. What did Mrs Obama have to say?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (5NkmN)

339 Just read about Russia taking delivery on a sub with 'doomsday nuclear torpedoes'

Can someone explain to this idiot how that works? I could understand doomsday nuclear missiles, but isn't a torpedo going to remain in the water? So they can blow a ship sky-high and then some with one of these... How does that really help them?

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (VJsqe)

340 There is no way that should be survivable. They're going to have work very, very hard to suppress it. Also, I do not recommend clicking that link. It's quite disturbing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Like what led to the Sri Lanka riots, it never happened. You're a kooky konspiracy theorists if you think it did. I can prove it never happened, too, because the media never reported on it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (TLtfY)

341 326 Turkey and Greece are out. They won't enter the fray.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:58 AM (HJ1lo)

Their dicking around in Ukraine and diplomatic overtures to each other suggest there is some possibility to it. They likely see Russia as a threat given Russia's historical aims in the region and so could be pulled into a fight should Poland get into a war with Russia. Also possible that they could be diplomatically neutralized or divided against each other (as has been normal for some time) if Russia were to back one of them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (b2nrj)

342 By the way, that sidebar bit about Kamala faking it... no. She is not faking anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (llsW/)

343 321 >>Recent drive through the Intermountain West.
There is a significant amount of farm and pasture that was in production 10-20 years ago that is fallow.

They pay Farmers and Ranchers to let that land lay fallow.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 11:57 AM (HJ1lo)

Ben Had and I have both noted that near Corsicana Texas (just off Hwy 31) you can see the remains of a large steel making plant which was still in production in the late 80's. But it was closed, and it's been allowed to decay until now the roofs are falling in on all of the buildings.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (trdmm)

344 Jesus. You are being fed a lot of shit.

I see. So your argument boils down to Nuh-uh!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (/NCI4)

345 Boy, good thing that Star Pizza conspiracy theory was just a conspiracy theory because the people involved told us it was a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (TLtfY)

346 335 The write geology is the write stuff.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (VP9wG)

...Word

Posted by: zombie Write Bros at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (BgMrQ)

347 >> Ukrainian forces mounted successful counterattacks.

This gets better and better.

They are conscripting women to fight. But, yeah - Total Victory is nigh.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:01 PM (HJ1lo)

348 ? So they can blow a ship sky-high and then some with one of these... How does that really help them?

a big enough blast can destroy a port and irradiate it indefinitely to the point it can no longer be used

but Russian "doomsday" weapons are often a lot of big talk

Posted by: brak at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (j5Tg0)

349 The smallness of the force, that they never reinforced it, and that they never launched a serious assault suggest it was more of a feint to encourage repositioning in the east.

Nah, I think that it was intended as a decapitation strike against the Ukrainian leadership, and they thought that the Ukraine generally would simply crumble when attacked. Obvious defeat.

Allegedly the Russians spent millions for years on getting local Ukrainian officials to support the invasion. The FSB officers handling the money simply pocketed it, since they figured Russia would never actually invade. They are allegedly in prison now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (I2/tG)

350 Can someone explain to this idiot how that works? I could understand doomsday nuclear missiles, but isn't a torpedo going to remain in the water? So they can blow a ship sky-high and then some with one of these... How does that really help them?

The idea is to create a tsunami, and make port cities (LA, NY...) uninhabitable with radiation.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (/NCI4)

351 "Energy is life" Doomsberg.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (5HBd1)

352 You are being fed a lot of shit.

Isn't it possible to just disagree with someone without attacking the viciously? I mean, allegedly we're friends here, right?

I think the guy is mistaken and wrong but I mean really?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (llsW/)

353 By the way, that sidebar bit about Kamala faking it... no. She is not faking anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Willie Brown was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (MGB5H)

354 Ukrainian forces mounted successful counterattacks. Russians began to withdraw

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Those damn wily Russians keep withdrawing deeper into Ukraine.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (TLtfY)

355
Boy, that's some feint. Glad I have a military genius to explain it to me.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (/NCI4)

Russia didn't have to use many people to do that. Likewise they didn't have enough people to hold it when Ukraine started redirecting troops there, so they retreated without giving battle. The majority of troops on both sides has from the beginning been in the east. To all appearances Ukraine was using weaker troops at other points on their borders, which is why they got rolled so easily.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (b2nrj)

356 Oh another note about counterattacks, the Russian's didn't give battle in their retreat from Kiev. Ukraine has launched counterattacks elsewhere but that was a full unilateral retreat on Russia's part from a large portion of Ukraine.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:03 PM (b2nrj)

357 336 Natural gas will eventually seep out of the ground or erupt out of the ground and into the atmosphere where it will reside or catalytic combust. We might as well burn it and get heat and electricity out of it. It makes it to the atmosphere anyway.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (4+fHv)

All petroleum eventually makes it back to the surface given enough time. Where it reacts or is metabolized by single cell organisms. The vast majority that the Earth created has already gone through this process. We are just catching the left over that was trapped in geologic formations.

All that CO2 that the left is so scared of will get to the atm. eventually. Which is where it initially came from also.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (Y5qcH)

358 Boy, that's some feint. Glad I have a military genius to explain it to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (/NCI4)

Putin's giant April Fool's joke.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (U3uv2)

359 REPORT: Corn pop is the alleged man who raped the 10 yr old girl.

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (RHGPo)

360 I cannot see how anyone can make authoritative, certain statements about what is going on in Ukraine, since both sides lie about what is happening in a way that would make Joe Isuzu blush. Who knows what is going on??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (llsW/)

361

Will a radioactive tsunami wash all the shit off the sidewalk?

Posted by: San Fran Naan at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (s/UgS)

362 Also possible that they could be diplomatically neutralized or divided against each other (as has been normal for some time) if Russia were to back one of them. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (b2nrj)

The Greeks don't see Russia as an enemy. They see another Orthodox country, and the Communists (which are strong in Greece) have a historical afection for the USSR. But they do see the Turks as the enemy.

The Turks don't see Russia as an enemy. They never have.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (7B5FA)

363 359 REPORT: Corn pop is the alleged man who raped the 10 yr old girl.
Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (RHGPo)

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Well, he WAS a bad dude you know.

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (VJsqe)

364 They are conscripting women to fight. But, yeah - Total Victory is nigh.

Remember at the beginning of the invasion, when a guy working for Bellingcat (controlled by British intelligence) literally said that Russia would be unable to continue the war "past Sunday"?

Good times, good times.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (I2/tG)

365 Russia didn't have to use many people to do that. Likewise they didn't have enough people to hold it when Ukraine started redirecting troops there, so they retreated without giving battle.

That won't fly. "We meant to do that" is an ineffective strategy in war.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (/NCI4)

366 Caesar -- I don't really care about the power usage of the traffic light; it's about the uselessness and inefficiency of them when they're not really needed.

Posted by: FriscoYoda at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (m2XKJ)

367 >>Their dicking around in Ukraine and diplomatic overtures to each other suggest there is some possibility to it. They likely see Russia as a threat given Russia's historical aims in the region and so could be pulled into a fight should Poland get into a war with Russia. Also possible that they could be diplomatically neutralized or divided against each other (as has been normal for some time) if Russia were to back one of them.

Turkey is a completely unreliable NATO member. They will do nothing that doesn't directly benefit themselves.

Greece is completely neutered.

Poland has more impressive numbers than they do Military Supply.

There is no Power in Europe that can resist any real fighting force, outside of the US military. None.

Fortunately, Russia is not looking to take Western Europe. Just to cow them.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (HJ1lo)

368 E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (RHGPo)

369 349 "The smallness of the force, that they never reinforced it, and that they never launched a serious assault suggest it was more of a feint to encourage repositioning in the east."

Nah, I think that it was intended as a decapitation strike against the Ukrainian leadership, and they thought that the Ukraine generally would simply crumble when attacked. Obvious defeat.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (I2/tG)

Why not attack Kiev then? Why sit around outside it with a few thousand guys? If taking Kiev is the goal, shouldn't they well, try to take Kiev?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (b2nrj)

370 I just saw on the chrysoberyl that the World Economics says that gas prices will NEED to go higher to save democracy. Please explain to me WTF GAS PRICES HAS TO DO WITH SAVING DEMOCRACY.

Posted by: Chillin the most at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (7Ptvp)

371 The direct attack on Kiev could very well have been bigger than a feint and yet smaller than a primary objective. Throw some chod at the target. If they win, great, if not, you still get the diversion effect while you're doing the thing you really wanted to do. Good idea, bad idea, either way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (/EuRN)

372 >>>millions of cold, starving commoners are much more of a threat to their reign than are a handful of environmentalists throwing a public tantrum

I don't know. Cold and starving people can't fight very hard.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (r8enq)

373 Thank heaven for little girls...

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (VP9wG)

374 The basement dummy claimed in his speech today that the AWB was lifted due to pressure from the NRA. I'm sure you'll be shocked to know that's a lie. The AWB had a sunset provision. You might say the AWB wasn't renewed due to pressure from the NRA, but it wasn't lifted due to NRA pressure.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (kDGvA)

375 368 E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations
Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (RHGPo)

Uh ohhh...

The "bat signal" has been lit

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (BgMrQ)

376 I will have to stop using my natural gas fed fireplace, furnace, and hot water heater if our beloved governor has her way by 2030. NYS sits on a large supply of natural gas but its forbidden to use it. Nuclear plants were built in the 1960's and are in danger of shutting down. Because of the state pols wanting to save the earth or something. No fossil fuel cars can be sold in the state also by 2030-2035 again to save the earth.

Posted by: Colin at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (YVx1O)

377 E-Vehicles Are Like Covid Vaccines: Sold to Public Based on Wildly Unrealistic Exaggerations

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Stop hating science. I posted a link last week showing that you can use a Ford Lightning EV to successfully tow a small RV from north Denver to south Denver before needing to stop for an hour or more and block the entire parking lot with your truck and trailer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (TLtfY)

378 >>Isn't it possible to just disagree with someone without attacking the viciously? I mean, allegedly we're friends here, right?

>I think the guy is mistaken and wrong but I mean really?

You do you. I will call a Cuck a Cuck.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (HJ1lo)

379 > Cold and starving people can't fight very hard.

Battle of Stalingrad says, "hi."

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (kDGvA)

380 >Second is Hunter with several very young girls -- Hunter mostly naked, maybe passed out. AC link to png pic.

can't see the guy's face

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (geLO8)

381 How does that really help them?

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 12:00 PM (VJsqe)

Nucular splosion is a nucular splosion. I suppose it would be helpful in destroying ports and naval facilities.

But, IIRC, these were supposed to be banned under one of the nuclear non-proliferation treaties, although I'd imagine the U.S. retains these capabilities, but may not use such capabilities currently.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (U3uv2)

382 There are close to 4,000,000 head of beef cattle in South Dakota and about 859,000 people. We're keeping our food. Suck it NY.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (gmo/4)

383 by the way, I do not recommend looking at anything purportedly from Hunter's phone or laptop.

I think it's just asking for a 3am visit from the FBI.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (5pTK/)

384 Inslee also wants to outlaw sale of IC vehicles by 2030. Makes perfect sense to have less capacity for electrical generation.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (5HBd1)

385 All that CO2 that the left is so scared of will get to the atm. eventually. Which is where it initially came from also. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (Y5qcH)

On a geologic timescale, there is 100x more CO2 captured in limestone and marble, deposited by plankton and arthropods on the ocean floor over billions of years, than there is in coal and hydrocarbons.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (7B5FA)

386 Sucks to be a Kraut this winter. Remember, you kept voting for this $hit for the last 20 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (bVYXr)

387 What to make of this...videos of bank runs in China are leaking out, showing hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of protestors rushing branch front doors and being violently repelled by police. Bloomberg has some of the film if you have a subscription.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (s16GZ)

388 >>>Isn't it possible to just disagree with someone without attacking the viciously? I mean, allegedly we're friends here, right?

is this your first day

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (geLO8)

389 can't see the guy's face

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I suspect possession of the photo is punishable by death.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (TLtfY)

390 Any bets that muslim households (that live off of real Germans) get all the hot water, lights, and heat they want?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (WKPeU)

391 Are the Hunter Pictures part of the Epstein compromat? And if so, are the representative of pictures of other Epstein visitors?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (cupoy)

392 I cannot see how anyone can make authoritative, certain statements about what is going on in Ukraine, since both sides lie about what is happening in a way that would make Joe Isuzu blush. Who knows what is going on??

We do know some things, thanks to satellite info. There was a long Russian column trying to get to Kiev, but it literally ran out of gas and was destroyed piecemeal. We know the Russians tried to decapitate the government with spec ops troops flown into Kiev airport, but the plane was shot down. We know the Russian war plan did NOT envision anything like a war of this length and brutality, as demonstrated that they didn't plan on calling up conscripts, but now they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (/NCI4)

393 When does Putin bring in his Asian forces?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (8Sqzu)

394 365 "Russia didn't have to use many people to do that. Likewise they didn't have enough people to hold it when Ukraine started redirecting troops there, so they retreated without giving battle."

That won't fly. "We meant to do that" is an ineffective strategy in war.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:05 PM (/NCI4)

Getting people to redirect troops from one area to another over a false attack is an effective strategy. It's hard to say whether Ukraine ended up redirecting many troops and the situation in the east didn't appear to be much affected by it ultimately, but that has no bearing on whether the attack was a feint.

Could Russia have taken Kiev by simply using more troops there and launching an assault? Yes. Did they? No. We can speculate as to the reasons.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (b2nrj)

395 Winter is coming...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

396 I don't know. Cold and starving people can't fight very hard.
Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (r8enq)

Somebody forgot to tell the Russians defending Stalingrad

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (BgMrQ)

397 Russia is the new Jews. When all else fails blame it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (3vQN0)

398 >>The direct attack on Kiev could very well have been bigger than a feint and yet smaller than a primary objective. Throw some chod at the target. If they win, great, if not, you still get the diversion effect while you're doing the thing you really wanted to do.

A definite possibility, take one roll and if it doesn't come up your way...not much lost.

BTW - Concurrent to that Feint, and it was a feint, Putin came to the table and demanded Z step down and Ukraine negotiate. It was a leveraged gamble and it would have saved tens of thousand Ukrainian lives if it worked.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (HJ1lo)

399 350 Can someone explain to this idiot how that works? I could understand doomsday nuclear missiles, but isn't a torpedo going to remain in the water? So they can blow a ship sky-high and then some with one of these... How does that really help them?

The idea is to create a tsunami, and make port cities (LA, NY...) uninhabitable with radiation.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:02 PM (/NCI4)

The flaw with all of these "super weapons" is that none of them do any more damage than the old familiar ICBM does. We demonstrated how to create a tsunami at Bikini Atoll in 1946, that's nothing new. And nuclear torpedoes were developed in the 1950's, that's nothing new either. So they've got a little bit fancier version, so what. Unless you can protect yourself from an ICBM counterstrike you're still in the same old boat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (trdmm)

400 393 When does Putin bring in his Asian forces?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (8Sqzu)

Soon I hope...

Posted by: Chairman Xi at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (BgMrQ)

401 Will a radioactive tsunami wash all the shit off the sidewalk?

Posted by: San Fran Naan at July 11, 2022 12:04 PM (s/UgS)

Might even reach them in their cushy lairs.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (U3uv2)

402 Why not attack Kiev then? Why sit around outside it with a few thousand guys? If taking Kiev is the goal, shouldn't they well, try to take Kiev?

They did. See 392. They had hoped to take the airport, hold it, and fly in lots of troops. It didn't work out.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (/NCI4)

403 We do know some things, thanks to satellite info. There was a long Russian column trying to get to Kiev, but it literally ran out of gas and was destroyed piecemeal. We know the Russians tried to decapitate the government with spec ops troops flown into Kiev airport, but the plane was shot down. We know the Russian war plan did NOT envision anything like a war of this length and brutality, as demonstrated that they didn't plan on calling up conscripts, but now they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:09 PM (/NCI4)

The Russian column was destroyed? It was untouched. Reference western media. We had news articles complaining about it and it later dispersed to do its job.

https://tinyurl.com/2fnn9bdf

The West made no claims that the column was destroyed. Ukraine doesn't have the air resources to do that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (b2nrj)

404 When I go to my local ATM to pick up a quick $40 or so, I peek inside the bank lobby.
Lot and lots of Asians at the teller windows withdrawing huge sums, stacks and stacks of $100s.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (jTmQV)

405 Just heard on the radio that we need to conserve energy in Texas because there is no wind to run the windmills that make up almost 15% of our grid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (bVYXr)

406 Why sit around outside it with a few thousand guys? If taking Kiev is the goal, shouldn't they well, try to take Kiev?

The Russians never completely controlled the Antonov airport by Kiev, and it was apparently intended as a diversion for the decapitation strikes against the Ukrainian government (which failed).

You can't control a city with three million people in it with a few thousand troops - they literally thought that the Ukrainian government would collapse at the beginning of the war.

Ooops.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)

407 >>We know the Russians tried to decapitate the government with spec ops troops flown into Kiev airport, but the plane was shot down.

Ghost of Kiev!

Good lord man, you have swallowed the entire shaft.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (HJ1lo)

408 The flaw with all of these "super weapons" is that none of them do any more damage than the old familiar ICBM does. We demonstrated how to create a tsunami at Bikini Atoll in 1946, that's nothing new. And nuclear torpedoes were developed in the 1950's, that's nothing new either. So they've got a little bit fancier version, so what. Unless you can protect yourself from an ICBM counterstrike you're still in the same old boat.

Posted by: Tom Servo

They claim a yield up to 100 Mtons. Quantity has a quality all its own.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (/NCI4)

409 Supposedly the "doomsday" weapons on the Russian sub include nuclear powered and armed torpedoes with a massive and very dirty warhead. Russia claims to be able to fire one of them and it will loiter around in the sea until directed to whatever it's supposed to attack. One theory is that the weapon could be detonated near the entrance to a coastal port city and the ensuing tsunami would destroy everything leaving behind a massive nuclear nuclear mess for centuries.

Whether the weapons are legit is debatable. It does however make for interesting stories.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (BFigT)

410 The West made no claims that the column was destroyed. Ukraine doesn't have the air resources to do that.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (b2nrj)

Do so!!!

Posted by: Ukie with a Drone at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (BgMrQ)

411 The flaw with all of these "super weapons" is that none of them do any more damage than the old familiar ICBM does.

Vhat good is a doomsday device ift you don't tell anyvone?

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (gmo/4)

412 Russia vs Ukistan for me is like Iran vs Iraq. No matter who wins we lose.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (3vQN0)

413 Lot and lots of Asians at the teller windows withdrawing huge sums, stacks and stacks of $100s. Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (jTmQV)

The Asians like to do cash business. No IRS.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (7B5FA)

414 The West made no claims that the column was destroyed. Ukraine doesn't have the air resources to do that.

**

The Ghost of KEEEEEEV did it in his battleship while saying "F*CK YOU" right before Putin's missiles destroyed his sniper post.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (TLtfY)

415
They did. See 392. They had hoped to take the airport, hold it, and fly in lots of troops. It didn't work out.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (/NCI4)

A couple hundred guys doesn't make for much of an investment frankly. It is not overwhelming force. If Kiev was the main objective of the first few days of the conflict, nothing in their operations suggests it. Nice to have yes, but unlikely given the troop positioning at the start of the war, absent Russia redirecting a bunch of troops.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (b2nrj)

416 Whether the weapons are legit is debatable. It does however make for interesting stories.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (BFigT)
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A couple of nuke explosions in the port of Houston, TX would have been catastrophic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (5pTK/)

417 379 > Cold and starving people can't fight very hard.

Battle of Stalingrad says, "hi."
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (kDGvA)

Point taken.

Posted by: m at July 11, 2022 12:14 PM (r8enq)

418 I have no idea what the fuck is going on in Ukraine. I just know that what the MSM says is all bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 12:14 PM (89T5c)

419 370 I just saw on the chrysoberyl that the World Economics says that gas prices will NEED to go higher to save democracy. Please explain to me WTF GAS PRICES HAS TO DO WITH SAVING DEMOCRACY.
Posted by: Chillin the most at July 11, 2022 12:06 PM (7Ptvp)

If gas prices are high enough, then they will have to let Countries use mail in voting... which they can easily manipulate.

And since Democracy now means Rule by Democrats....

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 11, 2022 12:14 PM (oHd/0)

420 416 Whether the weapons are legit is debatable. It does however make for interesting stories.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (BFigT)
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A couple of nuke explosions in the port of Houston, TX would have been catastrophic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (5pTK/)

It Long Beach was taken out, would anybody notice?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

421 The Asians like to do cash business. No IRS.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (7B5FA)

This is the way.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U3uv2)

422 What to make of this...videos of bank runs in China are leaking out, showing hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of protestors rushing branch front doors and being violently repelled by police. Bloomberg has some of the film if you have a subscription. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 12:08 PM (s16GZ)

They just teased it on Newsmax. Gordon Chang after the commercial break.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (7B5FA)

423 248
Absolutely, they need to go.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (vNbzm)

424 Hunter also searched for "12 year old girls" on a pr0n site. Gaaaaaah.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

425 I still have several neighbors proudly flying the Uke flag. Same neighbors that think flying a US flag is evil.

These dullards would fly a Nazi flag if the right people said it was the new thing to do.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (3vQN0)

426 No one watches the news anymore.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (VP9wG)

427 >>I have no idea what the fuck is going on in Ukraine. I just know that what the MSM says is all bullshit.

The guys at The Duran will give you another perspective and also point you in the direction of their sources.

A lot more than you will get from any legacy source.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (HJ1lo)

428 Just heard on the radio that we need to conserve energy in Texas because there is no wind to run the windmills that make up almost 15% of our grid.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Yeah. No.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (c8pZY)

429 424 Hunter also searched for "12 year old girls" on a pr0n site. Gaaaaaah.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

What are you even gonna do with twelve of them, Hunter?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (/EuRN)

430 What's going on in Ukraine? See the "Some of you may have to die, and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" in the post above.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (5pTK/)

431 You can't control a city with three million people in it with a few thousand troops - they literally thought that the Ukrainian government would collapse at the beginning of the war.

Ooops.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)

The Russian offensive near Kiev on paper makes Ukraine's forces look ridiculous because they collapsed to a smaller force. I think more likely, Russia didn't expect to make such rapid headway and so was not positioned to capitalize on it. As weeks passed it became clear Russia had not decided to meaningfully reinforce the position to try and take Kiev.

In the case of expecting the Ukrainian government to collapse, it would actually make more sense to reduce forces nearby the main body of the Ukrainian army and focus on spreading out across the country and Kiev in particular.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (b2nrj)

432 I just saw on the chrysoberyl that the World Economics says that gas prices will NEED to go higher to save democracy. Please explain to me WTF GAS PRICES HAS TO DO WITH SAVING DEMOCRACY.

Because when the global junta says "democracy" or "our democracy" they mean their own worthless hides. I don't know how much more obvious it can get.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ZGrMX)

433 I am not even a competent arrmchair E-3, so I got nothing. But please, everyone continue😉😉

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (Vr12I)

434 When does Putin bring in his Asian forces?

Already done.

Somebody did an analysis of where the Russian KIAs were from, using social media. They identified several thousand KIAs.

Fewer than 10 from Moscow, a couple of dozen from St. Petersburg, and lots and lots of Chechens and Buryats (Mongols), plus Russians from rural areas and small cities.

One of the reasons why Putin is hesitant to go on a full war footing is that there are huge inequities on who gets drafted into the Russian army. Almost no one from the big cities serves.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (I2/tG)

435 421 The Asians like to do cash business. No IRS.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (7B5FA)

This is the way.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U3uv2)

No dude...VENMO ME

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (BgMrQ)

436 I still have several neighbors proudly flying the Uke flag. Same neighbors that think flying a US flag is evil.

These dullards would fly a Nazi flag if the right people said it was the new thing to do.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (3vQN0)

You are behind enemy lines.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (U3uv2)

437 I think one of the only things we can be pretty certain of is that neither side (whoever ends up in control) is going to be be capable of rebuilding the areas of Ukraine that have been destroyed in the fighting. Those cities, like Maripol, are still going to be giant fields of ruins that people gawk at a century from now. Which to me says that no matter who nominally "wins" the military conflict, both sides are guaranteed to lose. A huge amount of men and material on both sides squandered for nothing but bones and ashes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (trdmm)

438 Russia is the new Jews. When all else fails blame it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:10 PM (3vQN0)

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And Trump is the new Russians.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (Qg9GY)

439 These dullards would fly a Nazi flag if the right people said it was the new thing to do.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (3vQN0)

Replace the white boss behind the broken cross with a rainbow flag, and i bet you get at least a few takers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (/EuRN)

440 A couple of nuke explosions in the port of Houston, TX would have been catastrophic. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (5pTK/)

No way you could get a submarine in that close without it running aground in the Gulf off Galveston. It's hard enough to get a ship up the ship channel with an experienced pilot.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (7B5FA)

441
The EU should also reclassify coal as beneficial to the environment.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (5eizm)

442 That pic a few weeks ago of the packed Ukistani beach told me all I need. Know about this “war”. It is a made for TV bullshit operation in order to funnel money to the oligarchs and Lockheed.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (3vQN0)

443 I still have several neighbors proudly flying the Uke flag. Same neighbors that think flying a US flag is evil.

There's a bridge near my house that always has a fresh US flag on it (and 7 of them on the 4th of July). Someone added a Ukraine flag to it DURING PRIDE MONTH and that flag went away less than a week later.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (ZGrMX)

444 The Asians like to do cash business. No IRS.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (7B5FA)

This is the way.
Posted by: Comrade flounder

I used to hate dealing with cash. Having to carry it, having to stash it, having to go to the bank to get some. Card was so much more convenient. But as the burning times near i find myself much more in favor of cash. However, have a number of places in town now that are card only and are still claiming its wu flu. Yah i bet.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (MGB5H)

445 Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (HJ1lo)

Thanks for the source.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (89T5c)

446 All sufficiently advanced Marxisms will have a Lysenko Incident.

The fantasy of removing the "dirty word", scarcity, and market signals, such as price, removes them too far from reality, where nature dwells.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 12:18 PM (krQz2)

447 Good lord man, you have swallowed the entire shaft.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (HJ1lo)

I'm not gay and "man" sounds too old, but talent like that cannot go to waste.

Posted by: Hunter B opening his kimono at July 11, 2022 12:19 PM (MFphb)

448 437 I think one of the only things we can be pretty certain of is that neither side (whoever ends up in control) is going to be be capable of rebuilding the areas of Ukraine that have been destroyed in the fighting. Those cities, like Maripol, are still going to be giant fields of ruins that people gawk at a century from now. Which to me says that no matter who nominally "wins" the military conflict, both sides are guaranteed to lose. A huge amount of men and material on both sides squandered for nothing but bones and ashes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (trdmm)

Quite an expense for not much gain. It lends credence to the idea that this isn't really a resource war for Russia. It's willing to demolish the region with artillery rather than take casualties.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:19 PM (b2nrj)

449 Hunter also searched for "12 year old girls" on a pr0n site. Gaaaaaah.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGrMX)

Yep. It is a proven case that HB was fucking children, including his niece. It is also a proven case that Brandon and Dr. Jill, knew and were covering for him, at least in the instance of Brandon's own granddaughter. They are evil.

There are no bars as to what they would do to you and yours. None.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:19 PM (U3uv2)

450 >>Thanks for the source.

No problem. Those guys are pretty much up front about where they are drawing from.

Unlike just about anyone else.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:19 PM (HJ1lo)

451 They claim a yield up to 100 Mtons. Quantity has a quality all its own.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:12 PM (/NCI4)

sounds like they dusted off the plans for the old Tsar-Bomba.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (trdmm)

452
Maybe Russia is winning. Maybe Ukraine is. Everything is bullshit from both sides, so who knows?

As long as the very stupidest element in this country doesn't get its way and spark a US intervention, I don't give a shit.

I just hope somebody wins soon, so the fuckin' retards don't get their precious war.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Zhwz2)

453 A couple hundred guys doesn't make for much of an investment frankly. It is not overwhelming force. If Kiev was the main objective of the first few days of the conflict, nothing in their operations suggests it. Nice to have yes, but unlikely given the troop positioning at the start of the war, absent Russia redirecting a bunch of troops.

Again, the plan was to take the airport and hold it, and wait for the cavalry to arrive in the form of more flights of Russians in, and the 40-mile column; it's not unlike what American paratroopers did on D-Day.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (/NCI4)

454 We produce 6% of the world's ammonia.
Is that enough for our farmers?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (PCoNr)

455 Whew. Anyone here see the Hunter Biden stuff 4chan uncovered?

*pours brain bleach into eyeballs, drinks the rest*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ptqGC)

456 Cold and starving people can't fight very hard.

Battle of Stalingrad says, "hi."
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:07 PM (kDGvA)

Point taken.
Posted by: m

Need to make a tool that cuts out chunks of flesh in the shape of a human mouth. Use that on dead enemy soldiers and make the invading forces think that they will be eaten.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (c8pZY)

457 at July 11, 2022 12:15 PM (3vQN0)

You are behind enemy lines.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM (U3uv2)

I live in a small blue enclave within a deep red area. A mile away it’s all Trump Won and Gadsden flags. It’s kinda funny.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (3vQN0)

458 Quite an expense for not much gain. It lends credence to the idea that this isn't really a resource war for Russia. It's willing to demolish the region with artillery rather than take casualties.

That was not the original plan, but things didn't go their way, and now they have to save face.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (/NCI4)

459 I'm wondering. Was all this new Hunter stuff "hacked by 4chan" or was it leaked by the deep state to get rid of Biden?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (Y5qcH)

460 No way you could get a submarine in that close without it running aground in the Gulf off Galveston. It's hard enough to get a ship up the ship channel with an experienced pilot.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (7B5FA)
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I thought the torpedoes were a stand-off weapon that could travel quite a ways, thereby making it unnecessary for the sub to penetrate coastal waterways.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (5pTK/)

461 "It's willing to demolish the region with artillery rather than take casualties."

Being the Russian way of waging war, it's more like "Willing to demolish the region with artillery while taking catastrophic casualties, then punishing the locals."

I'm not a fan of Russia.

Posted by: Dianna at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (YFlEv)

462 How long it takes till the from jumps out is obviously never. All you have to do is read history, or look around at current examples. North Korea? We would never become that right? Well the truth is we would certainly become that.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (buTO7)

463 We produce 6% of the world's ammonia.
Is that enough for our farmers? Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (PCoNr)

I believe Canada, right next door, produces a lot too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (7B5FA)

464 I live in a small blue enclave within a deep red area. A mile away it’s all Trump Won and Gadsden flags. It’s kinda funny.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (3vQN0)

You have them surrounded.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (U3uv2)

465 299
'In Siberia, the steam pipes run above ground, like giant telephone lines.'

Doesn't this cost them the natural insulation from being underground? (I.E. is pretty stupid)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (vNbzm)

466 I believe Canada, right next door, produces a lot too.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (7B5FA)

Not for long...

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (BgMrQ)

467 455 Whew. Anyone here see the Hunter Biden stuff 4chan uncovered?

*pours brain bleach into eyeballs, drinks the rest*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ptqGC)

Hey Jane. Where does one find this stuff? I don't know if I will check it out, though.

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (Vr12I)

468 I'm wondering. Was all this new Hunter stuff "hacked by 4chan" or was it leaked by the deep state to get rid of Biden?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (Y5qcH)

Yes.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (U3uv2)

469 459 I'm wondering. Was all this new Hunter stuff "hacked by 4chan" or was it leaked by the deep state to get rid of Biden?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (Y5qcH)

What is a Hunter Biden?
- msm

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:23 PM (3vQN0)

470 461 "It's willing to demolish the region with artillery rather than take casualties."

Being the Russian way of waging war, it's more like "Willing to demolish the region with artillery while taking catastrophic casualties, then punishing the locals."

I'm not a fan of Russia.
Posted by: Dianna at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (YFlEv)

Their conduct thus far indicates very low casualty tolerance. No direct assaults, only artillerly and encirclements. Everyone knows the Russian stereotypes about their willingness to take losses in exchange for victory, but that is not on display here. They'll gladly give ground and have done so to manage their casualty ratios.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:23 PM (b2nrj)

471 I have created a masterpiece...Peach Melba Fluff. Thinking of copyrighting the recipe.

The present situation is becoming untenable. When I get depressed my solution is to cook. Lately I've been living in the kitchen.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:23 PM (cTCuP)

472 Doesn't this cost them the natural insulation from being underground? (I.E. is pretty stupid)

A lot of the pipes run in areas with permafrost, so burying them would melt it, and probably rupture the pipes.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (/NCI4)

473 440 A couple of nuke explosions in the port of Houston, TX would have been catastrophic. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:13 PM (5pTK/)

No way you could get a submarine in that close without it running aground in the Gulf off Galveston. It's hard enough to get a ship up the ship channel with an experienced pilot.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (7B5FA)
Don't need to. Classic EMP scenario is 1 container ship off each coast firing a low grade nuke to detonate above atmosphere. Knocks out EVERYTHING electronic, except those shielded by Faraday cages. Whammo, back to year 1800. If that modern.

Posted by: Eromero at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (0OP+5)

474 >> "Willing to demolish the region with artillery while taking catastrophic casualties, then punishing the locals."

If catastrophic casualties is a literal fraction of the casualties you are inflicting on your adversary. Sure.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (HJ1lo)

475
Natural gas (methane) is 80% hydrogen and 20% carbon. It can be used in dual-cycle gas turbine / steam turbine electric power plants that are about 60% thermal efficiency as opposed to previous generation power plants that are about 40% efficient. And methane burns clean. As fossil fuels go, it's as green as it gets.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (5eizm)

476 I thought the torpedoes were a stand-off weapon that could travel quite a ways, thereby making it unnecessary for the sub to penetrate coastal waterways Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (5pTK/)

The torpedo would run aground. Galveston Bay is really shallow, and the dredged ship channel up to the Port of Houston is really narrow. In order for two ships to pass each other going the opposite direction, they have to "play chicken" and then at the last minute swerve and ride each other's wakes.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (7B5FA)

477 There are no bars as to what they would do to you and yours. None.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:19 PM (U3uv2)

I've heard that there are several bars like that in DC.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (trdmm)

478 Just heard on the radio that we need to conserve energy in Texas because there is no wind to run the windmills that make up almost 15% of our grid.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Yeah. No.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:16 PM

Just got an email from TXU asking me to reduce my electricity usage between 2pm and 8pm.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 11, 2022 12:24 PM (bVYXr)

479 'In Siberia, the steam pipes run above ground, like giant telephone lines.'

Doesn't this cost them the natural insulation from being underground? (I.E. is pretty stupid)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (vNbzm)

If it is anything like AK, permafrost is a concern, and you don't want rigid piping shifting around in repeated melting/freezing conditions. Insulated, above ground is the best option.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (U3uv2)

480 Hey Jane. Where does one find this stuff? I don't know if I will check it out, though.

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 12:22 PM (Vr12I)

Popped up on my Twitter feed. Conservatives are all over it and re-tweeting.

My favorite is Hunter's nickname for his Pop: Pedo Peter.

Oh, and there's this. Definitely NSFW:

https://tinyurl.com/4dvcdheh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (ptqGC)

481 Putin has never done me any harm. I’m not quite sure why I have to hate him with the intensity of 1000 suns.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (3vQN0)

482 50: as we ALL know, only - ONLY - manufacturing jobs count.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (ZH3DK)

483 I'd be afraid to even look at the 4chan / Hunter Biden stuff.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (HJ1lo)

484 Are the Hunter Pictures part of the Epstein compromat? And if so, are the representative of pictures of other Epstein visitors?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

The ones I linked are from Hunter's own iCloud account. Either he has a fetish for taking extremely compromising photos and saving them, or, as Anonymous Conservative surmises, someone is making him, or has programmed him MKULTRA style to keep doing this.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (M9XmQ)

485 333 A New York Times/Siena College poll shows His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s job approval rating at just 33 percent.

Biden’s disapproval rating in this corporate media poll is a whopping 60 percent.
Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 11:59 AM (RHGPo)

It's even bigger news than that. They were simply sampling Democrats. Half of those think he's too old, and half think he's not competent.

You just know this is coming out to not only nudge Biden out of 2024, but to send a message that Trump II is too old as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 11, 2022 12:26 PM (WUvhL)

486 Just got an email from TXU asking me to reduce my electricity usage between 2pm and 8pm.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Again, yeah. No. Unplug the f'n cars.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (c8pZY)

487 Again, the plan was to take the airport and hold it, and wait for the cavalry to arrive in the form of more flights of Russians in, and the 40-mile column; it's not unlike what American paratroopers did on D-Day.

Operation Market Garden says Whaaa?

Posted by: Scott_T at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (2waQ7)

488 A lot of people on our side believe Hunter and Ashley Biden wanted to out "Pop/Pedo Peter" because of deep-rooted dislike of the old perv.

Thus the abandoned laptops and diary.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

489 I'd be afraid to even look at the 4chan / Hunter Biden stuff.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM

Could be worse....could be Joe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (4p7Em)

490 "The commenter is skeptical, however, that the victims of the green agenda will ever wise up to what their “experts” and elites have inflicted upon them."

So am I.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (H8QX8)

491 Pedo Peter picked a peck of pre-teen pubescents.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)

492 Same nyt poll has Biden defeating Trump by 4 in a 2024 rematch. Dems will never abandon their party even if they say they are angry.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (3vQN0)

493 The ones I linked are from Hunter's own iCloud account. Either he has a fetish for taking extremely compromising photos and saving them, or, as Anonymous Conservative surmises, someone is making him, or has programmed him MKULTRA style to keep doing this.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (M9XmQ)
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I go with option 1. He's just dumb enough to do this on his own, especially since his judgement is severely compromised through drug addiction. It may be the only way he can remember "the good times"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (YIVH2)

494 I'd be afraid to even look at the 4chan / Hunter Biden stuff.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:25 PM (HJ1lo)

It's everywhere. Can't put that genie back in the bottle.

Libs: "He's not the president. Who cares?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ptqGC)

495 Same nyt poll has Biden defeating Trump by 4 in a 2024 rematch.

I believe that!

Posted by: Nobody ever at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (/NCI4)

496 Need to make a tool that cuts out chunks of flesh in the shape of a human mouth. Use that on dead enemy soldiers and make the invading forces think that they will be eaten.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (c8pZY)

Thats same grade A medieval thinking. I'm pissed I didn't think of it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (VwHCD)

497 Joey B will now be known as Pedo Peter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:29 PM (ptqGC)

498 495 Same nyt poll has Biden defeating Trump by 4 in a 2024 rematch.

I believe that!
Posted by: Nobody ever at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (/NCI4)

So you believe 1/2 the poll but not the other. Lol ok.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 11, 2022 12:29 PM (3vQN0)

499 448 437 I think one of the only things we can be pretty certain of is that neither side (whoever ends up in control) is going to be be capable of rebuilding the areas of Ukraine that have been destroyed in the fighting....

Posted by: Tom Servo
----------------

Unlike the Russian state, Ukraine, the Ukrainian people is productive. They are capable of manufacturing dependable, durable goods and equipment and are competent farmers.

If they remain independent they will rapidly recover (slush money helps too) if Russia takes over - not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:29 PM (PCoNr)

500 Libs: "He's not the president. Who cares?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ptqGC)

Normal people: OK, groomer.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (U3uv2)

501 Wait until California runs out of water.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)

I've been waiting for it. Since they sit next to the largest ocean on Earth, I will laugh my ass off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (zhLdt)

502 Sniffin' Petey Hendo the Pedo

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (sJHOI)

503 491 Pedo Peter picked a peck of pre-teen pubescents.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)

ok that is really good!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (trdmm)

504 495 Same nyt poll has Biden defeating Trump by 4 in a 2024 rematch.

I mean, 80 million votes is tough to beat

Posted by: DIO at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (2cfUo)

505 488 A lot of people on our side believe Hunter and Ashley Biden wanted to out "Pop/Pedo Peter" because of deep-rooted dislike of the old perv.

Thus the abandoned laptops and diary.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father? Either can I, except in a movie, a movie about a lying conservative pedo president.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (H8QX8)

506 Ha, this uber thing is blowing up in all of the politicians faces.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (lTGtQ)

507 Did you guys see the video of an avalanche overtaking the person filming it?

Everyone was OK. Nine Brits and one American were out on a hiking tour when this happened.

https://bit.ly/3RtzNJ1

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (kDGvA)

508 >>It's everywhere. Can't put that genie back in the bottle.

Sure. But IF those are underaged girls...let's just say there is nothing to hide behind, under the Law, that makes looking at / sharing those images a crime.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (HJ1lo)

509 I have created a masterpiece...Peach Melba Fluff. Thinking of copyrighting the recipe.
Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:23 PM

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ACCORDING TO "Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp" RECIPES CAN'T BE COPYRIGHTED

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (hOAT3)

510 Pe-do Pe-ter
clap clap
clap clap clap

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (kDGvA)

511 A lot of people on our side believe Hunter and Ashley Biden wanted to out "Pop/Pedo Peter" because of deep-rooted dislike of the old perv.

Thus the abandoned laptops and diary.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father? Either can I, except in a movie, a movie about a lying conservative pedo president.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (H8QX

What would we call such a cosmic event?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

512 ooops. Lost a 'not' (a crime) in there.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (HJ1lo)

513 I'm sure if it was Trump's kids in compromising photos and videos there'd be the same treatment they give *biden.

Right?

On one hand you've got operatives that want to deep six rezidnt retard and on the other hand you've got the media and his enablers cleaning up after his son. Fucked up doesn't begin to scratch the surface of this shit show.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:32 PM (BFigT)

514 501 Wait until California runs out of water.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)
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CA is out of water, they are taping out AZ right now.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:32 PM (PCoNr)

515 No way you could get a submarine in that close without it running aground in the Gulf off Galveston. It's hard enough to get a ship up the ship channel with an experienced pilot.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:17 PM (7B5FA)

The Russian Poseidon Nuke torpedoes which the Belgorod carries can be fitted with a warhead up to a 100 megatons. The torpedoes are the size of a bus and have a range of "thousands" of miles.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 12:32 PM (gmo/4)

516 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father? Either can I, except in a movie, a movie about a lying conservative pedo president.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (H8QX

Fox would refuse to air it.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:32 PM (cTCuP)

517 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father?

Posted by: Ordinary American

DOD would call in an air strike on the studio.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (lTGtQ)

518 Apparently, in the past China would talk about all the Westerners that came to the "new vibrant growing China" but now they are turning Westerners away. To account for the change, they blamed the Africans for having missed the ability "to go out their front door and pick fruit off the trees and hunt prey", so now they are "escaping".

Apparently, during COVID, the Chinese would turn away "non-Chinese" from various venues like restaurants. Black Africans got the worst of it as they couldn't disguise their "non-Chinese" status.

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

519 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father? Either can I, except in a movie, a movie about a lying conservative pedo president.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM (H8QX

What would we call such a cosmic event?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM

LIES AND RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION FROM FAUX NEWS!!!!!11!!!!!!

Posted by: The MSM at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (4p7Em)

520 Did you guys see the video of an avalanche overtaking the person filming it?

Kudos to the cameraman for holding the camera so steady.

Posted by: Nobody ever at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (/NCI4)

521 514 501 Wait until California runs out of water.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)
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CA is out of water, they are taping out AZ right now.

somebody run outside real quick and kink the hose

Posted by: DIO at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (2cfUo)

522 I believe Canada, right next door, produces a lot too.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 12:21 PM (7B5FA)
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Is it enough ammonia that we are not dependent on imports?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (PCoNr)

523 As much as I want to see Biden destroyed over his moral failings I don't want that to cover up for the fact his family has been selling access to his office for decades.

Treason is a bit worse than even being a pedo.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

524 Thats same grade A medieval thinking. I'm pissed I didn't think of it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

😁😁😁

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (c8pZY)

525 Sure. But IF those are underaged girls...let's just say there is nothing to hide behind, under the Law, that makes looking at / sharing those images a crime.
Posted by: garrett

I don't know if you clicked, but they're all fully clothed, and just sitting on a couch around Hunter, who is also covered where it matters. So, no.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (M9XmQ)

526 What would we call such a cosmic event?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

"Nation mourns sudden loss of two Presidential children"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (/EuRN)

527 514 501 Wait until California runs out of water.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)
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CA is out of water, they are taping out AZ right now.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:32 PM (PCoNr)

Waiting for the rolling brown-outs and blackouts that become yearly summertime events...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

528 >I have created a masterpiece...Peach Melba Fluff.

oh man I LOVE fluff!

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (geLO8)

529 I don't understand why there isn't more resistance to electric cars. I personally will never buy a car that can be turned off at the government's whim.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (sWM8x)

530 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father? Either can I, except in a movie, a movie about a lying conservative pedo president.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 12:30 PM

What if they don't print it?

Posted by: Higgins at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (hOAT3)

531 523 As much as I want to see Biden destroyed over his moral failings I don't want that to cover up for the fact his family has been selling access to his office for decades.

Treason is a bit worse than even being a pedo.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

And there was a time when both met the same fate.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (N39Ws)

532 As much as I want to see Biden destroyed over his moral failings I don't want that to cover up for the fact his family has been selling access to his office for decades.

Treason is a bit worse than even being a pedo.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

THIS. But I want Jill to be outed as the enabler of all his perversions. I want to never see her face in public again.

The entire family is SICK.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ptqGC)

533 >>I don't know if you clicked, but they're all fully clothed, and just sitting on a couch around Hunter, who is also covered where it matters. So, no.

Ah...got it. I thought they were a bit more comprimising than that.

Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (HJ1lo)

534 526 What would we call such a cosmic event?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

"Nation mourns sudden loss of two Presidential children"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (/EuRN)

Right-wing attack on Fox news takes out station and President's children. Merrick Garland promises to find every last person involved...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

535 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ACCORDING TO "Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp" RECIPES CAN'T BE COPYRIGHTED
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (hOAT3)

That's NOT funny.

I spent hours deciding on the ingredients and modifying the base recipe. It's MINE!

But I'll share if we ever do another cookbook.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (cTCuP)

536 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has tested positive for coronavirus, which will stall the Senate Democrats’ legislative agenda this week as his razor-thin majority returns from a two-week recess.

.. apparently there is an upside to COVID

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (RHGPo)

537 Again, the plan was to take the airport and hold it, and wait for the cavalry to arrive in the form of more flights of Russians in, and the 40-mile column; it's not unlike what American paratroopers did on D-Day.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (/NCI4)

Russian theory regarding paratroopers is quite a different from ours. Theirs are elite forces, whereas we would go for volume and basically use it as an unconventional way to deploy infantry. The initial investment is small and they needn't hinge their overall plan on it. Overall they're just not all that well set up for massive followthrough on taking an airport

From a blog in 2019v
"There are other problems. Optimistically, Russia’s military transport aviation (VTA) is at best able to deliver between one and two regiments in a sortie. The aviation park of Il-76 heavy transports is simply not big enough for serious airborne operations, and certainly not in a contested environment. "

https://tinyurl.com/2dysxshe

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (b2nrj)

538 529 I don't understand why there isn't more resistance to electric cars. I personally will never buy a car that can be turned off at the government's whim.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (sWM8x)

That has nothing to do with it being electric. That's because its connected to the internet. So are a lot of ICE cars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (Y5qcH)

539 We produce 6% of the world's ammonia.
Is that enough for our farmers? Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 12:20 PM (PCoNr)
===

Not if Joey the pedophile ships 90% of that to China and europe.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (WKPeU)

540 I have always wondered How things got to where they were in the novel 1984. I guess we are about to find out.

Posted by: Paladin at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (5S+8W)

541 362
Except during the Crimean War and WWI and a lot of other times.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (vNbzm)

542 Wait until California runs out of water.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 11, 2022 11:29 AM (7B5FA)

I've been waiting for it. Since they sit next to the largest ocean on Earth, I will laugh my ass off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Take in salt water. Let nuclear reaction turn it to steam. Capture condensate as fresh water.

Solves the energy requirements problems of desalination.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (c8pZY)

543 I don't know if you clicked, but they're all fully clothed, and just sitting on a couch around Hunter, who is also covered where it matters. So, no.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (M9XmQ)
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I'm unwilling to take the chance. Discretion with such things is always advisable.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (5pTK/)

544 535 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ACCORDING TO "Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp" RECIPES CAN'T BE COPYRIGHTED
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 11, 2022 12:31 PM (hOAT3)

That's NOT funny.

I spent hours deciding on the ingredients and modifying the base recipe. It's MINE!

But I'll share if we ever do another cookbook.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (cTCuP)

Trade secret?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

545 I don't know if you clicked, but they're all fully clothed, and just sitting on a couch around Hunter, who is also covered where it matters. So, no.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:34 PM (M9XmQ)

The one I linked is Hunter sliding naked down a water slide somewhere, being videoed by some silly woman. And he's standing in the pool alone talking to her, pulling on his pud the entire time. *vomit*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

546 536 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has tested positive for coronavirus, which will stall the Senate Democrats’ legislative agenda this week as his razor-thin majority returns from a two-week recess.

.. apparently there is an upside to COVID

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (RHGPo)

...but still tests negative for integrity.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

547 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father?

*

Remember Fox News on election night of 2020?

They wouldn't want it. It would be too close to call.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (TLtfY)

548 Dunno... every video I see with Hunter in it he's tugging his pug. Like, every time. And not just one or two tugs either. Repetitive tugging. Like an Olympic warm up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (BFigT)

549 532 As much as I want to see Biden destroyed over his moral failings I don't want that to cover up for the fact his family has been selling access to his office for decades.

Treason is a bit worse than even being a pedo.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

THIS. But I want Jill to be outed as the enabler of all his perversions. I want to never see her face in public again.

The entire family is SICK.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ptqGC)

But, it won't anytime soon, because just like all DC insiders (and the press) knew about the Kennedy perversions, they all know about Biden's. They have for decades, yet did nothing about it when it could have been used to get him out of the Senate.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (WUvhL)

550
Treason is a bit worse than even being a pedo.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)

Treason is worse, but every elected official in DC does it. Proving Joe's a lifelong pedo is what will get the working classes marching with torches.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (trdmm)

551 Russian theory regarding paratroopers is quite a different from ours. Theirs are elite forces, whereas we would go for volume and basically use it as an unconventional way to deploy infantry. The initial investment is small and they needn't hinge their overall plan on it. Overall they're just not all that well set up for massive followthrough on taking an airport

I said that was their plan. I didn't say it was a good one.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (/NCI4)

552 Dunno... every video I see with Hunter in it he's tugging his pug. Like, every time. And not just one or two tugs either. Repetitive tugging. Like an Olympic warm up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (BFigT)

But Trump said p***y!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

553 >>>I don't know if you clicked, but they're all fully clothed, and just sitting on a couch around Hunter, who is also covered where it matters. So, no.

okay--
now do it where one of the little girls is your daughter

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO8)

554 And right now a team of dedicated virus strands are fervently searching for a vaccine for SCHUMER-22.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 12:38 PM (/EuRN)

555 Also - remember this: setting aside corrupt law enforcement, and the Lugenpresse, scandals like these mean nothing politically.

The cops will write everyone a pass because they're Dems, the media will see to it that most people don't know about any of it, and for those that do hear about it? Well, Republican voters weren't going to vote Dem anyway, and Dem voters are fine with anything their candidates do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 12:38 PM (Zhwz2)

556 Treason is worse, but every elected official in DC does it. Proving Joe's a lifelong pedo is what will get the working classes marching with torches.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (trdmm)

People (even on our side) have already forgotten that Pedo Peter raped Tara Reade.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (ptqGC)

557 But I'll share if we ever do another cookbook.
Posted by: creeper

I've got one of those, too, creeper, that I'm leery of letting anybody else get their hands on. Took me 10 years of perfecting.

Didn't you submit the Irish Creme recipe? I loved it and am yearning to make another batch soon!

Posted by: Oedipus at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (2g9bd)

558 @529

>>I don't understand why there isn't more resistance to electric cars.

More importantly, who would buy a vehicle who's operational range diminishes over time?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (hdp1J)

559 Trade secret?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

Yup. The secret is adding raspberry puree to the raspberry Jello. You get the real flavor of raspberries, not jut the artificial one in the Jello.

Add diced peaches and you're in heaven.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (cTCuP)

560 Can you imagine if Hunter and Ashley Biden walked into Fox News and said that they were sick of all the lies and abuse and wanted spill the beans on their father?
---
You mean the Fox News that won't allow anyone on their air to say that the election was stolen? You mean the Fox News that won't allow anyone on their air to so much as mention the existence of "2000 Mules?"

I know exactly how Fox News would respond to your hypothetical.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (sWM8x)

561 >>>The cops will write everyone a pass because they're Dems

-------
No controlling legal authority...

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (VJsqe)

562 I said that was their plan. I didn't say it was a good one.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (/NCI4)

Your claim doesn't really align with what they did, or the resources they have. Russia isn't that able to bring in forces by air in quantity. I mean, yeah if you can take Kiev with 1000 guys do so, but I don't think it's reasonable to say Russia was banking on taking Kiev by flying in 1-2000 troops had the VDV been successful.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (b2nrj)

563 No, treason is *not* worse than pedophilia.

Betraying a whore isn't all that terrible.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (Zhwz2)

564 Nood asians

Posted by: 496 at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (VJsqe)

565 Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

566 People (even on our side) have already forgotten that Pedo Peter raped Tara Reade.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (ptqGC)
------------

Arguably, those people were never on our side. People like Kristol and company were revealed as the two-bit intellectual and moral frauds they are, during the Trump administration.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (5pTK/)

567 >>Treason is worse, but every elected official in DC does it. Proving Joe's a lifelong pedo is what will get the working classes marching with torches.

Which is exactly why they are fighting Trump and us so hard. Pelosi's son was also making bank in Ukraine as were a number of others. USAID has been a slush fund for foreign corruption for decades. Same with all these NIH grants.

I don't just want Biden, I want all of them. It's way past time to clean the stables.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (ZLI7S)

568 558 @529

>>I don't understand why there isn't more resistance to electric cars."

The people who like them mostly sit around and chant "ohm...."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (trdmm)

569 Your claim doesn't really align with what they did, or the resources they have. Russia isn't that able to bring in forces by air in quantity. I mean, yeah if you can take Kiev with 1000 guys do so, but I don't think it's reasonable to say Russia was banking on taking Kiev by flying in 1-2000 troops had the VDV been successful.

Again, I didn't say it was a GOOD plan.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (/NCI4)

570 >>I don't understand why there isn't more resistance to electric cars.

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They can't even break 4% of total new cars sales in California, where they are required to be sold at the point of a gun and the geography and temperature conditions are as ideal as can be for the vehicles.

How much more rejection do you want?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - How Joe Biden is just like the Founding Fathers, no seriously at July 11, 2022 12:41 PM (TLtfY)

571 Didn't you submit the Irish Creme recipe? I loved it and am yearning to make another batch soon!
Posted by: Oedipus at July 11, 2022 12:39 PM (2g9bd)

I'm ashamed to say I did not, though I put it up here on one of CBD's Food Threads.

I'm accumulating bottles for October right now. Five should do it...maybe.

Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2022 12:41 PM (cTCuP)

572 Yup. The secret is adding raspberry puree to the raspberry Jello. You get the real flavor of raspberries, not jut the artificial one in the Jello.

Add diced peaches and you're in heaven.
Posted by: creeper

What, no shredded carrots?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 11, 2022 12:41 PM (M9XmQ)

573 Whatever you think of Fox News, if Hunter and Ashley were serious, they'd go on Tucker.

Tucker would absolutely air it, and ratings are the reason Fox keeps Tucker around.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 12:42 PM (krQz2)

574 Again, I didn't say it was a GOOD plan.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:40 PM (/NCI4)

If the Russians were expecting Ukraine to collapse, why not fight the eastern forces directly? They've been fighting each other for 8 years, only the West would think that the Ukrainians were unblooded and going to collapse so easily.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:43 PM (b2nrj)

575 I'm ashamed to say I did not, though I put it up here on one of CBD's Food Threads.

I'm accumulating bottles for October right now. Five should do it...maybe.
Posted by: creeper

Huh, I could have sworn it was in the book. Maybe I just saw it here on a thread and copied it.

Posted by: Oedipus at July 11, 2022 12:43 PM (2g9bd)

576 That has nothing to do with it being electric. That's because its connected to the internet. So are a lot of ICE cars.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 12:36 PM (Y5qcH)
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And anyone who buys one is a fool.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 11, 2022 12:44 PM (sWM8x)

577 Other than pride there's no reason to think that the Russians were as unfamiliar with the Ukrainians as we were.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 12:44 PM (b2nrj)

578 Dunno... every video I see with Hunter in it he's tugging his pug. Like, every time. And not just one or two tugs either. Repetitive tugging. Like an Olympic warm up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 11, 2022 12:37 PM (BFigT)

I'm not seeing a problem here...

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at July 11, 2022 12:45 PM (n+4am)

579 When I go to my local ATM to pick up a quick $40 or so, I peek inside the bank lobby.
Lot and lots of Asians at the teller windows withdrawing huge sums, stacks and stacks of $100s.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 11, 2022 12:11 PM (jTmQV)

Did you hear about the little old Chinese lady at the bank? She went to the teller and exchanged Yuan for dollars. When she got her money she exclaimed "Hey, last time I here I get one huned dollah for my yuan, now you onry give me fifty dollah for the same amount of yuan. Why the diffelence?"" The teller looks at her, shrugs and says "Fluctuations". She answers back "Oh yeah, well Fluck you white people too!"

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 11, 2022 12:48 PM (7yL1h)

580 Tucker would absolutely air it, and ratings are the reason Fox keeps Tucker around.
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Tucker goes as far as management allows, but he obeys the rules. Notice that he's never mentioned "2000 Mules." He'll sometimes say there were some problems with the election, but that's where he stops.

I appreciate that he pushes it as far as he can without getting fired, but if his managers told him to ignore a juicy revelation about Biden, that's what he would do.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 11, 2022 12:49 PM (sWM8x)

581 If the Russians were expecting Ukraine to collapse, why not fight the eastern forces directly?
My guess is that they wanted to pull off something like we did in Iraq for reasons of prestige.

They've been fighting each other for 8 years, only the West would think that the Ukrainians were unblooded and going to collapse so easily.

I'll remind you that the almost universal expectation from every intelligence agency was a rapid Uke collapse.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 12:49 PM (/NCI4)

582 https://bit.ly/3nUmILy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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neither Brave nor Opera will open it

Posted by: Braenyard at July 11, 2022 01:01 PM (PCoNr)

583 Let us not forget the link between ammonia production and urea.

Urea is the primary component in that DEF stuff that is required on all diesel exhaust now. With the interlocks, diesel trucks, tractors, etc. cannot operate, unless the DEF is a ailable to treat the exhaust stream.

No ammonia, no urea, no fertilizer, no diesels..

A perfect world, I guess.

Posted by: Ponsonby Britt at July 11, 2022 01:48 PM (0zxq7)

584 I would really be surprised if the Germans actually began to revolt like the Dutch, French, and other countries have over these topics.
I have a colleague in Berlin who's family business has been around since 1864. He told me that "all of the German men died in WWII, the rest emigrated..."
I do not know how true it is; however, the amount of pacifism I have seen since my travels on business started in 1999 do seem to show it in one way or another.
They may have a nice tank, but you need ready men to employ and defeat the enemy.
Perhaps this is why it is barely above 1.3 on the reproduction scheme.
Birthplace of the press, real artillery, and quantum mechanics is now on its retirement from Mankind.

Posted by: jdubya_Mesa_AZ at July 11, 2022 03:01 PM (FQ2t6)

585 It's easy to have unrealistic, insane ideas about how the world works when you have no authority. However, they're now in charge, and they're running into reality. Don't celebrate this isn't a win for the right. It's just nature doing what it does. We're still losers, and will remain so as long as we have the leadership we currently have.

Posted by: DFCtomm at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (OHy0b)

586 As I have been saying for 20 years, and wind and solar modern industrial society Will. Not. Work.

This is not a subject of debate, or confusion. It has been known for over a decade. Greens just wouldn't accept the science.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (+DS2f)

587 23 I suggest Germans tear apart the houses of their political masters and use the wood for heat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 11:07 AM (5pTK/)

Ten pounds of human fat has about the same energy content as a gallon of Diesel. Render them.

Posted by: iowaan at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (dbgR9)

588 Were seeing the People opposing the Eco-Freaks and their Radical agenda I think Greta should return Home

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 11, 2022 06:09 PM (wGqjj)

589 Russia showing the world about the concept of "reality."

Posted by: Jonah Kyle at July 11, 2022 07:38 PM (R4j1g)

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