Stephen Colbert delivers a live monologue following President Biden’s first State of the Union address, where the POTUS touted his covid response, underlined America’s steadfast support for the people of Ukraine, and unveiled his “Unity Agenda” of domestic policies. #Colbert #LateShowLIVE #Monologue
So the Russian ambassador is now pushing the same Big Lie that 1) 147 Republicans used to justify voting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and 2) fueled the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
GOP now tied up in Russia’s defense of its invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/hZFk05hxvv— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 2, 2022
I’m dead 🤣😅 pic.twitter.com/r1ehjMwsTA
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 2, 2022
Why @cafreeland is my new hero and why she is about to be yours as well.
I have stayed very close to Martin Sheil, retired IRS criminal investigator, during our war and here is his latest:
“Let me take a moment and tell you who in my opinion just won this war!”-Martin Sheil
1/— Heidi Cuda (@Heidi_Cuda) March 1, 2022
A quick 6 tweets
re: #3 Dangerman
She will make a great Prime Minister.
So Russia is now officially admitting 498 dead and 1700+ injured. You just know that the real numbers are 5x-10x that. Damn.
re: #4 Belafon
I hate to ask, but what are the other five?
Explaining who Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland is and how she spearheaded the global effort to cut Russia out of global banking
More sanctions imposed — faster peace restored in Ukraine! I’ve addressed to @SAP and @Oracle for support! pic.twitter.com/oGoRi1iOBa
— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) March 2, 2022
Becerra telling Chuck Todd he’s a fucking idiot for his line of questions.
#StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/uzH8gnJBHT
— Liddle Pecan Pie 🇺🇦🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) March 2, 2022
Life in Russia is deteriorating extremely rapidly. So many of my friends are packing up & leaving the country. Their cards are blocking. Huge lines for ATMs etc. Rumours that borders will close soon. “What have we done? How did we not stop him earlier?” said a friend to me yday
— Francesca Ebel (@FrancescaEbel) March 2, 2022
re: #8 Dangerman
I lost the second part
On behalf of Oracle’s 150,000 employees around the world and in support of both the elected government of Ukraine and for the people of Ukraine, Oracle Corporation has already suspended all operations in the Russian Federation.
— Oracle (@Oracle) March 2, 2022
re: #8 Dangerman
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Oracle and SAP are a good start. Add AWS and Google network services and Russia goes back to the 1980s and dial up…(I’m sure Vlad has an emergency stockpile of AOL trial run CDs he can use).
Trump is blowing the launch of his new social media company through a series of unforced errors. https://t.co/tDHDukJPmM
— Axios (@axios) March 2, 2022
Not surprised. What I find amusing is that Trump is not posting on it.
re: #6 JC1
100,000 Russian troops whose supply lines are incapable of resupply, all during winter and in enemy territory with a snowstorm and wet weather in forecast. https://t.co/jgbLOmpkUl
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 2, 2022
re: #14 dat_said
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Not surprised. What I find amusing is that Trump is not posting on it.
Its like that truck rally.
You can rant from the stage but there’s no audience who cares
re: #16 Dangerman
Its like that truck rally.
You can rant from the stage but there’s no audience who cares
Also, it’s no fun for these people when there aren’t any Libs around to own.
re: #15 lawhawk
And let’s further assume that the US intel is off and it’s 30% that have run out of fuel/food, not 70%.
30,000 troops out of a 100,000 troop contingent are now sidelined, captured, or starving in the land they just invaded days ago. This doesn’t end well for them, or the Russian military. It’s not just the men who get captured. It’s the equipment too. Russia’s military doesn’t have easy resupply either. They can’t just order up new tanks either. Or deliver them to the battlefield. The strategic goals aren’t being met, Russia’s military is vastly underperforming as compared to expectations from prior conflicts, and this bodes badly for Putin and well for Ukraine at this point in time.
re: #13 darthstar
Oracle and SAP are a good start. Add AWS and Google network services and Russia goes back to the 1980s and dial up…(I’m sure Vlad has an emergency stockpile of AOL trial run CDs he can use).
How many business operations are centered around the latter, as opposed to the former? I mean, even in America, you look at the top 500 American-based companies, and maybe 25 of them don’t have some critical business system that does something with Oracle, one of its subsidiaries, or SAP. Legacy systems are very slow to get retired; far too slow, in my opinion, though I understand why.
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.
EDIT: East of Gotland. Happened during the day. multiple combat aircraft.
re: #20 Teukka
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.
In normal times, this would be a “minor diplomatic incident”. These are no normal times.
re: #4 Belafon
I hate to ask, but what are the other five?
Ms. Freeland, who’s also the Canadian Deputy Minister of Finance, came up with separating Russia from it’s “rainy day fund”.
“@cafreeland
came up with the idea of cutting off Russia’s Central Bank and their rainy day fund that was intended to be used as an economic buffer.“She was the one who circulated the theory among prominent Central Bankers in the Western world and fought for it.” Marty Sheil (who’s himself a 30 year IRS criminal investigator)
“I don’t know if the timing of its activation was intentional or serendipitous, but it turned out to be sublime.
“Putin was caught with his pants down. The Russian stock market has been closed for the week.”-Marty Sheil
“Please note—it was only after this particular sanction maneuver was announced that Deripaska and Fridman and some other oligarchs started publicly squeaking.
“Chrystia Freeland is my new hero—after you of course.
But spread her name from the rooftops Heidi!”- Marty Sheil
re: #21 Dopamine Fish
In normal times, this would be a “minor diplomatic incident”. These are no normal times.
East of Gotland. Happened during the day. Multiple combat aircraft.
re: #23 Teukka
East of Gotland. Happened during the day. Multiple combat aircraft.
Damn. Putin really pushing things now.
With friends like these, Russia knows it is isolated on the world stage.
UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and calls for Russia to withdraw.https://t.co/ilAcgd9Jl5— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 2, 2022
Countries that Russia should have been able to count on, like Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan abstained https://t.co/1oPcrCpFTU
— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 A Capybara Appreciation Account (@soonergrunt) March 2, 2022
re: #20 Teukka
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.EDIT: East of Gotland. Happened during the day. multiple combat aircraft.
Russian fighter jet has violated Swedish airspace
Four Russian fighter jets have violated Swedish airspace, the Swedish Armed Forces writes on its website.
The Air Force carried out an operation with Jas 39 Gripen from the incident preparedness and documented the incident, in the form of photography.
- This shows that our preparedness is good. We were on site to ensure territorial integrity and Sweden’s borders. We have full control of the situation, says Air Force Chief Carl-Johan Edström.
Two Russian SU 27s and two Russian SU 24s violated Swedish airspace. The violation was short-lived and took place east of Gotland, across the sea.
- In light of the current situation, we take the incident very seriously. It is an unprofessional and irresponsible action on the part of Russia, says the air force chief.
re: #14 dat_said
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Not surprised. What I find amusing is that Trump is not posting on it.
L.O.FUCKING.L.
As of this writing, Truth Social has fallen to No. 57 in the App Store, just behind Tinder and Planet Fitness Workouts.
re: #20 Teukka
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.
Hope the pilot is trying to defect.
re: #14 dat_said
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Not surprised. What I find amusing is that Trump is not posting on it.
Did anyone honestly expect anything different? Anyone? Hello? Anyone?
re: #27 darthstar
L.O.FUCKING.L.
The whole thing reeked of a pump and dump scheme, and so far, it’s proving to be prescient. Trump has no interest in any of this, and couldn’t find social media if his life depended on it. I wonder if he found twitter by accident and stayed for the same reason. He’s pushing this new social media business, but hasn’t actually posted anything there. There’s zero reason to join if he’s not posting, and people are seeing the clusterfuck for what it is.
The next question becomes whether the SEC sees it as a scam/sham too and investigates.
re: #26 Teukka
Two air superiority fighters and two ground attack aircraft. Now, there is always the possibility that they were hopelessly lost, which is probably why Sweden didn’t just shoot them down (well, that and there’s probably a bit of, “do not fire until fired upon” since Sweden isn’t officially at war, yet). In ordinary times, this would be a simple matter where the Swedish air force would send up a couple of guys, escort the Russian fighters back out over the Baltic Sea, the Russian ambassador in Helsinki would get called on the carpet and read the Riot Act, and that’d be the end of it. But again, these are no ordinary times.
re: #27 darthstar
L.O.FUCKING.L.
That’s still really high for an app meant only for people who insist on being lied to with no fact checking to interfere.
Anne Applebaum: “As it turns out, nations are not pieces in a game of Risk. They do not, as some academics have long imagined, have eternal interests or permanent geopolitical orientations, fixed motivations or predictable goals. Nor do human beings always react the way they are supposed to react. Last week, nobody who was analyzing the coming war in Ukraine imagined that the personal bravery of the Ukrainian president and his emotive calls for sovereignty and democracy could alter the calculations of foreign ministers, bank directors, business executives, and thousands of ordinary people. Few imagined that the Russian president’s sinister television appearances and brutal orders could alter, in just a few days, international perceptions of Russia.”“And yet all of that has happened. Volodymyr Zelensky’s courage has moved people, even the hard-bitten CEOs of oil companies, even dull diplomats accustomed to rote pronouncements. Vladimir Putin’s paranoid ranting, meanwhile, has frightened even people who were lauding his ‘savvy’ just a few days ago. He is not, in fact, someone you can do business with, as so many in Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington falsely believed; he is a cold-blooded dictator happy to murder hundreds of thousands of neighbors and impoverish his nation, if that’s what it takes to remain in power. However the war ends—and many scenarios are still imaginable—we already live in a world with fewer illusions
The Atlantic
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did anyone honestly expect anything different? Anyone? Hello? Anyone?
The SPAC that agreed to take Truth Social public at over $3.5 billion. Of course, some of the Ruble investors may be too preoccupied to notice right about now.
re: #30 lawhawk
He is renewing his suits against twitter to get his account reinstated. He wants free. Not something that he has to manage. It’s twitter or nothing.
re: #16 Dangerman
Its like that truck rally.
You can rant from the stage but there’s no audience who cares
What’s weird(est) is trump’s natural desire to be the most followed, most loved, et al, gave up. He could have been the top dog, now he’s just rolled over and is playing a dead dog.
That said, he could have bigger issues in his mind, like that all his finding is kaput and NY is still coming at him and the January 6th committee is on those save heels.
All of which are good things.
re: #35 darthstar
He is renewing his suits against twitter to get his account reinstated. He wants free*. Not something that he has to manage. It’s twitter or nothing.
* and an already captive audience
re: #33 Dangerman
One notable person still singing Putins praises: Donald Trump.
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, it’s no fun for these people when there aren’t any Libs around to own.
Is it even live at all for anyone but the betas?
NO BUYERS: Surgutneftegas, the Russian oil producer, ***fails for the 3rd consecutive time*** to sell Urals crude via its regular tender. I can not recall ever a situation like this: there are not buyers for Russia oil, even at record discounts | #OOTT #Ukraine #SelfSanctions
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) March 2, 2022
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
One notable person still singing Putins praises: Donald Trump.
He’s not a notable person.
re: #41 darthstar
Russians are going to find out they can’t eat oil.
re: #43 Dangerman
He’s doing what he can to turn Texas blue though…
NEW!
“Big night in Texas! All 33 candidates that were Trump endorsed have either won their primary election or are substantially leading in the case of a runoff. Governor Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have won in a landslide. Thank you, and congratulations to all!” pic.twitter.com/TXxSivgbXb— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 2, 2022
re: #31 Dopamine Fish
Two air superiority fighters and two ground attack aircraft. Now, there is always the possibility that they were hopelessly lost, which is probably why Sweden didn’t just shoot them down (well, that and there’s probably a bit of, “do not fire until fired upon” since Sweden isn’t officially at war, yet). In ordinary times, this would be a simple matter where the Swedish air force would send up a couple of guys, escort the Russian fighters back out over the Baltic Sea, the Russian ambassador in Helsinki would get called on the carpet and read the Riot Act, and that’d be the end of it. But again, these are no ordinary times.
If this was an intimidation tactic by Putin, its almost like he is trying to push Sweden to join NATO.
re: #45 darthstar
He’s doing what he can to turn Texas blue though…
Here’s to hoping my state doesn’t want a dictator come November.
U.N. adopts historic resolution aimed at ending plastic pollution
The measure at the United Nations lays out plan for developing a legally binding treaty by the end of 2024
washingtonpost.com
Big step forward, apparently. Good!
A bit of humor to lighten things up:
Curious about what letter markings on Russian troop vehicles mean? Ukrainian General Staff has provided a decoder:
Z: Eastern Forces
|Z| - Crimea Forces
O - Forces from Belarus
V - Naval infrantry
X - Kadyrov’s Chechens
A - Special Forces (National Guard, FSB, Special Ops) pic.twitter.com/pkbDw01nr3— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) March 2, 2022
re: #20 Teukka
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.EDIT: East of Gotland. Happened during the day. multiple combat aircraft.
Got to say the sliver of international airspace over the Baltic Sea between Gotland and Latvia isn’t exactly massive. And while trying to maintain separation with whatever other traffic in the area this short incursion all seems seriously minor
Cats Peek Out from Shirt Pockets in Hiroko Kubota’s Clever Embroideries
thisiscolossal.com
Cats are known to wedge themselves into tiny spots and generally treat people as human jungle gyms, and artist Hiroko Kubota (previously) translates that lack of spatial awareness into her tiny embroideries. Stitched onto collared shirts, the Nara-based artist’s portraits are cleverly placed to depict furry faces peering over the edge of a pocket and sometimes, attempting to climb out from their garment confines.
These are the cutest thing I have ever seen!
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
One notable person still singing Putins praises: Donald Trump.
He can’t bring himself to admit his funding had gone kaplooey.
This guy gives off a constant Mad His Dry Cleaning Wasn’t Ready A Day Early vibe https://t.co/n7xsCR0AnT
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) March 2, 2022
Oooohkay. Alex Berenson: definitely having a normal one. pic.twitter.com/uhalEw8XKl
— Kathryn Tewson (@KathrynTewson) March 2, 2022
The gall of talking about folding under adversity when you can’t be bothered to wear a mask during a pandemic.
re: #45 darthstar
He’s doing what he can to turn Texas blue though…
Didn’t neither of them pass the required 50% Mark and run-off’s are now needed?
I’m pretty confident the French military could make quick work of Meal Team Six.
re: #54 jaunte
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he thinks he can be president
right now mostly only parts of florida listen to him at all.
please, open up that kind of rhetoric nationwide
This guy gives off a constant Mad His Dry Cleaning Wasn’t Ready A Day Early vibe https://t.co/n7xsCR0AnT
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) March 2, 2022
re: #54 jaunte
DeSantis is telling France is weak jokes because the dumb blonde jokes went over his head.
re: #55 Dopamine Fish
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anyone limit your first amendment rights in any way?
didnt think so
What the unearthly fuck? pic.twitter.com/3PX6cRxgRs
— Kathryn Tewson (@KathrynTewson) March 2, 2022
re: #59 Dangerman
he thinks he can be president
right now mostly only parts of florida listen to him at all.
please, open up that kind of rhetoric nationwide
pArTy oF PeRsOnAl FrEeDoM https://t.co/E5tkvzN5OP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2022
re: #61 Dangerman
anyone limit your first amendment rights in any way?
didnt think so
If you read the rest of Kathryn’s thread, apparently Mr. Berenson has talked himself into thinking that the government has classified people who don’t think the same way as the government re: COVID-19 as terrorists, and he thinks he can use this to grift himself up some new fundraising via performative litigation. Yes, really.
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m pretty confident the French military could make quick work of Meal Team Six.
French pilots are actually quite good. As are Ukranian pilots, we’re now learning. The fact that Russia still doesn’t own the air is one of the biggest surprises of this war. We ensured we owned the skies over Iraq both times we invaded.
I haven’t seen a Russian sortie on the news flying over any of the Ukranian cities because Ukraine still has anti-aircraft capacity to fuck them hard…
re: #59 Dangerman
NEW: @GovRonDeSantis annoyed with USF students—
“You do not have to wear those masks. Please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything. We’ve gotta stop with this Covid theater. So if you wanna wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.”https://t.co/7j1Pb2hV53 @WFLA pic.twitter.com/ZIOyTHLOh3— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
Correction: I believe these students are in high school.
Hillsborough School District says some of their kids from Middleton HS in Tampa were involved in the presser, so I believe these are those students.— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
Even the simplest things in war can be difficult when you are fighting a motivated enemy. But, with that as context, the Russians have made some major errors in tactics, logistics & leadership. Tying up combat power & support forces in a long convoy like this is one of them. https://t.co/oQtAqJ7S5q
— Major General (just retired!) Mick Ryan (@WarintheFuture) March 2, 2022
re: #66 No Malarkey!
I thought the “40 mile long” things was debunked, that it was a misunderstanding.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
First one in a while! Hits the two ignoramuses from last night.
re: #66 No Malarkey!
Well, if they’re stalled, give them a jump start in the opposite direction. Howitzers can be accurate to 3’ at 3 miles (I know that’s the accuracy our Howitzer at Alpine Meadows we use for avalanche control has). Start target practice on random missile launchers in that convoy…just disable those fuckers.
re: #55 Dopamine Fish
Are you producing false or misleading narratives, Alex?
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I thought the “40 mile long” things was debunked, that it was a misunderstanding.
I feel for the people who live along that route. “Hey, get the fuck off my property! No we don’t have any extra eggs, fuck off.”
Psst…. wanna see a force completely unprepared for counter-insurgency operations? https://t.co/jOTr26YhQZ
— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) March 2, 2022
re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Got to say the sliver of international airspace over the Baltic Sea between Gotland and Latvia isn’t exactly massive. And while trying to maintain separation with whatever other traffic in the area this short incursion all seems seriously minor
I sure hope so. But it usually is a single aircraft, and not 4 at once.
Sanctions headed toward Lukashenko and Belarus if they keep siding with Putin.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I thought the “40 mile long” things was debunked, that it was a misunderstanding.
I have not heard that.
re: #44 No Malarkey!
Russians are going to find out they can’t eat oil.
Putin’s version of bread and circus may turn out to be people driving around drinking Russian vodka and burning cheap gas.
//
gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
Does anyone speak Biden? Can you translate these?…
He met a mall of resistance…
Freedun loving Americans…
The tree world is holding him accountable…
Rushial rudel— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 2, 2022
Biden “we’re going to go after those who stole billions of relief money”
Um, congress stole that money in the form of taxes and inflation.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 2, 2022
Drawing attention to the President’s cognitive decline it isn’t impolite, it’s a national imperative.
He’s not stuttering, he’s losing his ability to read and recall the right words and syllables at the speed of speaking.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 2, 2022
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
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Now do the guy who could walk down a ramp, and bragged about remembering 4 words.
re: #73 jaunte
Store’s closed.
“I am Russian soldier.”
Store’s closed.
“I shoot door!”
Store’s closed.
“I break glass!”
Store’s closed.
“I hate this job…”
re: #66 No Malarkey!
I’m beginning to think that you could create quite a bit of attrition with couple of strategically placed kettles of soup along with a few babushkas saying “Would you like some soup? Would you like to call your mom? Just leave your gun and keys with the nice men over there and we’ll take care of everything for you.”
re: #79 Mike Lamb
Now do the guy who could walk down a ramp, and bragged about remembering 4 words.
“Covfefe”
re: #79 Mike Lamb
Now do the guy who could walk down a ramp, and bragged about remembering 4 words.
person woman man camera tv…five words. FIVE.
re: #73 jaunte
🤣 who made this? pic.twitter.com/0nkLBPXWfF
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) March 2, 2022
So according to the Philly Inquirer, I’m part of the just 32% in NJ that got a booster.
And we’re one of the states that actually took the pandemic seriously.
Jesus, NJ, what the fuck?
I sometimes feel like I’m going to have my US citizenship stripped from me because I’m not science-illiterate.
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
He’s stuttering, but our right-wing assholes feel a need to balance the scales after they made an easily confused malignant narcissist President for four disastrous years. They should own up to what they did rather than play these stupid games.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 2, 2022
re: #83 darthstar
Needing two hands to drink a glass of water (though to be fair, all his sycophantic suckups began to do the same exact thing to make Trump feel better about his own OT issues). Needing a golf cart to get around instead of wallking (see G7 in Sicily). Incapable of speaking coherently (too many examples to count). Awful and inaccurate syntax, grammar, and spelling (again, too many examples to count).
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
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People rightly questions his god-king’s mental acuity and cognitive functions. For Massie, this is payback. The only way today’s conservatives know how to react to being out of power.
re: #63 Dopamine Fish
If you read the rest of Kathryn’s thread, apparently Mr. Berenson has talked himself into thinking that the government has classified people who don’t think the same way as the government re: COVID-19 as terrorists, and he thinks he can use this to grift himself up some new fundraising via performative litigation. Yes, really.
beats working for a living
This GOP monster is actively trying to keep spreading the virus. It’s absolutely despicable. https://t.co/r9YVxhKdZw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
Not leaders.
Co-conspirators. https://t.co/c6vob8HAgd— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 2, 2022
re: #62 No Malarkey!
you’re right we don’t ‘have to’
we choose to
you’re not going to forbid us are you?
pArTy oF PeRsOnAl FrEeDoM https://t.co/E5tkvzN5OP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2022
re: #93 Dangerman
you’re right we don’t ‘have to’
we choose to
you’re not going to forbid us are you?
Yes, actually, he is. Or at least, he’s trying his hardest.
Like Thomas Massie has never tripped over a word in a speech before.
Give me a fucking break.
From a former Naval Intelligence Warrant Officer:
They’re not stumped.
They’re just not telling you. https://t.co/uGhNy9HuXw— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 1, 2022
Twitter did not warn me to clean up my language when calling Massie an asshole.
They must know it’s a fair assessment.
re: #41 darthstar
NO BUYERS: Surgutneftegas, the Russian oil producer, ***fails for the 3rd consecutive time*** to sell Urals crude via its regular tender. I can not recall ever a situation like this: there are not buyers for Russia oil, even at record discounts | #OOTT #Ukraine #SelfSanctions
I Am Not A Petroleum Engineer, but what I understand is that many of the oil fields in Russia cannot be shut down without a high chance they can’t be started up again (because of water in the deposits or something). The Gulf doesn’t have this problem. So they will have to sell, at whatever price, maybe negative price, when their storage is full.
I got an instant troll response to that last tweet. Literally within seconds.
re: #99 Charles Johnson
I got an instant troll response to that last tweet. Literally within seconds.
Stonekettle also mentioned that the bots are back:
I see the Russian bots are back online today. Whole shitload of brand new raging hate accounts.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 2, 2022
re: #86 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Playbook: “Finally, you could not have watched Biden’s speech without noticing an unusual number of verbal miscues. Sometimes, they happened when he had trouble reading his teleprompter. Other times, they came when he added something that wasn’t in his prepared remarks.”
“We’ve seen various explanations for this. It’s a staple of the Breitbart-Fox-MAGA media complex to suggest, without evidence, that the mistakes are a result of ‘cognitive decline.’ On the other hand, Atlantic writer John Hendrickson argues that some of Biden’s verbal bobbles are an artifact of his childhood stutter — an idea that Biden rejected in a 2020 interview with Hendrickson, but later, during a CNN town hall, suggested was a possibility ‘when I find myself really tired.’ Either way, there were some odd moments Tuesday night.”
Trump supporters claim that Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during his term in office because Putin feared Trump. Certainly there are many reasons that Putin may not have taken that step but is it possible that an invasion was planned and then COVID interfered. There have been many claims that both cases and deaths were at least 3 times has high as the official Russian reports. The military may have told Putin until the virus was under control there was too much uncertainty about their forces being sufficiently healthy to launch a successful attack.
re: #73 jaunte
🤣 who made this? pic.twitter.com/0nkLBPXWfF
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) March 2, 2022
Before the invasion, Russian state media experts predicted it would take 10 or 11 minutes for Russia to overtake all of Ukraine.
Sobered up by the fierce resistance put up by the Ukrainians, they now say it may take months or years.https://t.co/8pHNOaOMZm— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 2, 2022
re: #100 ckkatz
Stonekettle also mentioned that the bots are back:
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why arent they out fighting?
I see the Russian bots are back online today.
Whole shitload of brand new raging hate accounts.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 2, 2022
Use your little brain and try and figure why that was.
— EstebanTornado63 (@ETornado1963) March 2, 2022
re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth
10 or 11 minutes, sheesh. This is Adolf Galland “We will destroy the RAF in 3 days” level of dumb.
— Navy Lookout (@NavyLookout) March 2, 2022
re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump supporters claim that Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during his term in office because Putin feared Trump. Certainly there are many reasons that Putin may not have taken that step but is it possible that an invasion was planned and then COVID interfered. There have been many claims that both cases and deaths were at least 3 times has high as the official Russian reports. The military may have told Putin until the virus was under control there was too much uncertainly about their forces being sufficiently healthy to launch a successful attack.
my $0.02
yes, covid would have run rampant through troops in such close quarters.
it would have taken scads of them out of action and outright killed who knows how many.
also, putin was probably waiting till trump got re-elected and then withdrew from NATO, as he claimed/promised/threatened
HIGHWAYS: Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) pushes back on GOP concerns about preventative maintenance for highways, quoting guidance from the Bush administration. pic.twitter.com/g59ZDMKGF8
— Forbes (@Forbes) March 2, 2022
Not sure if I ever posted this. This is a bunch of info on the GiveSendGo hack, the supposed Xtian GoFundMe site. This is from a guy at SAV. I found it fascinating.
Hiding because it’s long.
Original post from yesterday, detailing on GiveSendGo being hacked
Additional discussion if interested
sorryantivaxxer.com
I had added the zip file.. It’s only avail to download for 6 days (FYI-I downloaded it if anyone wants it.)
check out the original hack (video) on waybackmachine
web.archive.org
(^^^ this is fun to watch)
(the end of this GREAT video shows a list of top donors and their email addresses)
(in the 2 main threads others added some input and info too if interested)
sample of the zip file and as I mentioned in previous post, the site is taking 10% off the top for themselves, over $500k (I wonder if donors are aware). I’m not aware if anyone has gotten any of this money or if it’s still frozen in limbo.
sample of the zip:
to_gsg_amount is the 10% the site is skimming off the donations
Blinken: “This is President Putin’s war. This isn’t the Russian people’s war. It’s becoming clearer by the day that the Russian people oppose it.” pic.twitter.com/gzxbU3L3yO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2022
Blinken: “As 141 member states of the UN know, more is at stake even than the conflict in Ukraine itself, and the freedom and security of Ukraine and its people. This is a threat to stability in Europe and to the entire rules-based order.” pic.twitter.com/Yh2tDKco1f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2022
Blinken on UN vote to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “For the small number that voted against — Belarus, the DPRK, Syria, as well as of course, Russia — as Groucho Marx once sorta said, this is not very much a club that I’d want to be a part of.” pic.twitter.com/wAM401Unon
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2022
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m pretty confident the French military could make quick work of Meal Team Six.
Or the people, easily.
Whenever there’s une greve or une manifeste anywhere in France, I guarantee that this song is playing in everybody’s head.
“The Tribe of Dana” tells of a small tribe in Bretagne fending off an invasion, and a young tribesman going to war for the first time.
If there was an actual invasion, this song will play on all the stations all over France!
re: #113 Sherlock Hound
Anyone else seeing this mess, or is it just my browser? I’ve seen this a couple of times now.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
What are GOP’s concerns?
Russian soldiers continue to get a warm welcome in Ukraine: “Do you know where you are?! It’s Konotop. Here every second woman is a witch. Tomorrow you’ll no longer be able to get your d*ck to stand” pic.twitter.com/N8UcJUgsaD
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) March 2, 2022
The @CollegeBoard statement also includes a nod to anti-CRT forces, underscoring that it is opposed to “indoctrination.”
But there is no real constituency for indoctrinating students.
It’s a right-wing fantasy.https://t.co/1XhJEyIXSD pic.twitter.com/AF9IkGPF1h— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 2, 2022
re: #115 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Anyone else seeing this mess, or is it just my browser? I’ve seen this a couple of times now.
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This action was taken: In an effort to demonstrate that we have no intention of engaging in any actions that can be misunderstood, or misconstrued.
— Howard Altman (@haltman) March 2, 2022
I Strurgled with this one. Dumb oversight in line 4 probably didn’t help.
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Pentagon update right now - talking about the big ass parking lot convoy.
re: #20 Teukka
BREAKING NEWS: Russian combat aircraft have violated Swedish airspace.
Source: SVT (Swedish Public Broadcaster) just now, citing Swedish DoD. via “Rapport” news show.EDIT: East of Gotland. Happened during the day. multiple combat aircraft.
Russia really does NOT want to pretty much force Europe into war. They would be rolled up badly.
Biden attended an Ash Wednesday ceremony this morning and didn’t even teargas the parking lot first.
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) March 2, 2022
BBC radio announcer interviewing citizen of occupied Mariupol, who helpfully gives the correct pronunciation of his city’s name several times, while BBC announcer continues to use his own pronunciation.
Known as Laddie, the shy and laconic Ladd was known as one of Hollywood’s most likeable and respected movie executives and producers.
During his tenure as president at Fox, the studio turned out hits such as “Alien,” “Julia and “An Unmarried Woman.”https://t.co/aLAtPmvzGt— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 2, 2022
re: #115 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Anyone else seeing this mess, or is it just my browser? I’ve seen this a couple of times now.
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Reload it.
Convoy remains stalled.
We believe Russians are regrouping and reassessing the progress they have NOT made.
There has been some resistance from Ukranians slowing the convoy.
In the south, Russians are receiving less resistance, but they haven’t taken Kherson yet…though they claim it…we know TechnoHouse is still up.
I don’t know much about soldiering. But neither does this bloke. https://t.co/pHYvZoRwxE
— Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) March 2, 2022
The media that ignored or laughed about Trump’s absolutely bizarre speech patterns, constant repetitions, and slurred words is now putting Joe Biden’s every slip of the tongue under a critical microscope.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
If anyone is feeling down, this might help.
things continue to go extremely well for Milo Yiannopoulos as he now has COVID dementia, for which he blames the vaccine he didn’t get pic.twitter.com/e9a2UNSOqe
— K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) March 2, 2022
re: #115 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Anyone else seeing this mess, or is it just my browser? I’ve seen this a couple of times now.
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Russian Airborne Forces that landed in the city of Mykolaiv this morning using 4 Helicopters were neutralized quickly either all being killed or taken Prisoner.
(OSINTDefender) #Russia #Mykolaiv #Ukraine https://t.co/H2uYK9mws2— Live Crisis Intel (@livecrisisintel) March 2, 2022
re: #124 steve_davis
Russia really does NOT want to pretty much force Europe into war. They would be rolled up badly.
Sad thing is that it seems they are trying their best to provoke Europe into war…
re: #132 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If anyone is feeling down, this might help.
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Aw…that’s a sweet story. Thank you for sharing. Poor bastard has long term Covid. That’s going to impact his ability to spread hate and division. You need to have your breath for that.
re: #101 Dangerman
Imagine someone with a stutter trying to downplay his stutter. Seems hard, doesn’t it? //
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
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what used to be maybe a possible single ‘unintended consequence’ we’re now seeing that there are tentacles and repercussions everywhere when people do stupid stuff
crt
book bans and burning
1/6
russia
truckers
et al
re: #135 Teukka
Sad thing is that it seems they are trying their best to provoke Europe into war…
They’re trying to provoke Europe into offering them a compromise. It ain’t happening.
re: #139 darthstar
They’re trying to provoke Europe into offering them a compromise. It ain’t happening.
Yep. Word on the street is whoopass before compromise…
The thoughts and hearts of the entire U.S. Soccer Federation are with the family, friends, teammates and loved ones of Katie Meyer. https://t.co/xSuCQJPk1P
— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) March 2, 2022
re: #134 darthstar
Waiting for the obligatory “Don’t post pictures of POWs”.
How do people feel about that?
I have not seen any abusive pictures so far. This seems benign to me, but what do I know.
Pentagon spokesman is trying really hard not to bum-punch Putin while talking about how fucked up their current execution of the invasion is.
re: #131 Charles Johnson
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they sort of started doing this when biden announced he was running
now it’s just shameless
The media that ignored or laughed about Trump’s absolutely bizarre speech patterns, constant repetitions, and slurred words is now putting Joe Biden’s every slip of the tongue under a critical microscope.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
Go fuck yourself https://t.co/0pjMqxTVxh
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 2, 2022
re: #134 darthstar
My working thesis right now, in the absence of much to go on, is the VDV ‘doing its thing’ - trying to seize key infrastructure, even though these missions are risky and not well supported.
— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) March 2, 2022
Something is wrong with that boy’s medulla oblongata https://t.co/v6OBAgAyY8
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 2, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is going splendidly. /Baghdad Bob
Around 6000 Russians killed in Ukraine so far. “two Western officials tell @NBCNews that about 5,800 Russians have been killed, a number in line with Ukraine’s estimates.” @JoshNBCNews
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) March 2, 2022
re: #142 Ming5000
Waiting for the obligatory “Don’t post pictures of POWs”.
How do people feel about that?
I have not seen any abusive pictures so far. This seems benign to me, but what do I know.
Technically an invasion of dignity or privacy of a PoW. If I had to, I’d post pictures, but with dog tag numbers etc. on a sheet of paper. And I’d very much prefer permission from the PoW.
However, since the US had advance intel that the Russians planned systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that that intel has proven correct, these might not be PoW’s, but captured unlawful combattants.
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wingers: But we don’t want kids to be able to think critically.
Developers are *not* happy about Google’s move to do away with Chrome extension background scripts and replace them with much less capable service workers. https://t.co/YTmSrTxOtd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
This is a bad decision that’s going to kill entire categories of Chrome extensions. @googledevs needs to reconsider, or at least provide a way to make service workers persistent.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
re: #132 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If anyone is feeling down, this might help.
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know why you feel dumber? aside from the obvious?
brain starts to be affected when O2 drops below 80
65 and you’re in cyanosis territory.
but yeah, not serious enough for a hospital. you tough it out. not a chance of long term consequences at all, right?
i wonder how many of these people who claim a low pulse-ox actually read it off an actual meter
re: #134 darthstar
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more and more this is becoming a stupid fucking way for russian soldiers to die.
Russian Airborne Forces that landed in the city of Mykolaiv this morning using 4 Helicopters were neutralized quickly either all being killed or taken Prisoner.
(OSINTDefender) #Russia #Mykolaiv #Ukraine https://t.co/H2uYK9mws2— Live Crisis Intel (@livecrisisintel) March 2, 2022
re: #133 Charles Johnson
You need to make sure there’s a blank line between an embedded video and any following text.
Done. Thanks. I usually throw in a few line trees when I run into something like that.
re: #132 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If anyone is feeling down, this might help.
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How can anyone tell if Milo lost IQ points?
Join the Russian Airborne!
re: #153 Dangerman
The VDV Suicide Corp pic.twitter.com/helqmwLInP
— Curve (@Curve124) March 2, 2022
re: #149 Teukka
Technically an invasion of dignity or privacy of a PoW. If I had to, I’d post pictures, but with dog tag numbers etc. on a sheet of paper. And I’d very much prefer permission from the PoW.
However, since the US had advance intel that the Russians planned systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that that intel has proven correct, these might not be PoW’s, but captured unlawful combattants.
This likely means Ukraine SOF sees those crews as unlawful combattants:
Special Operation Forces of Ukraine warns Russian artillerymen, that after attacks on civilian population they will be no longer taken as POWs https://t.co/5Z11YETgjs #Ukraine
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) March 2, 2022
I swear Noel, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler should play them on SNL. It would be hilarious. pic.twitter.com/gM2vyVgn1j
— Holly Birt (@hollsterbirt) March 2, 2022
From Russian MoD. Text apparently means “Power”, “justice”:
— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 2, 2022
re: #160 Teukka
From Russian MoD. Text apparently means “Power”, “justice”:
WARNING: PRO-PUTIN SOURCE:
Russian Ministry of Defense explains the meaning of the letters seen on Russian military equipment:
Z - “For victory”
C - “Strength in Truth”
V - “The Task Will Be Done”— ASB News / MILITARY〽️ (@ASBMilitary) March 2, 2022
College me would have told him to fuck off and leave me alone.
Middle aged me would not be that kind. https://t.co/DG8gdutdkN— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) March 2, 2022
re: #161 Teukka
What are the Cyrilic initials for “Shit Out of Luck”?
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I thought the “40 mile long” things was debunked, that it was a misunderstanding.
According to Daily Mail, they went into a lot of detail mentioning it really is roughly 40 miles long. It’s probably not one convoy. It’s a number of them, with vehicles that have just run out of gas/food/people to move them. If a March storm blows in, they’re absolutely fucked nine ways to Sunday.
Russian militaries fired on the Central railway station in Kyiv, #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/mJp3ZkzL5e
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 2, 2022
re: #126 jaunte
BBC radio announcer interviewing citizen of occupied Mariupol, who helpfully gives the correct pronunciation of his city’s name several times, while BBC announcer continues to use his own pronunciation.
The British do tend to be provincial assholes, much like us. And if I hear one more football announcer say Clemzon there will be blood.
re: #152 Dangerman
i wonder how many of these people who claim a low pulse-ox actually read it off an actual meter
Surprisingly many. They seem to think it’s a game, to prove that COVID is bullshit because “my pulse ox only dropped to 65%” or whatever, not realizing that hospitals freak the fuck out when you drop below 90%.
re: #149 Teukka
Technically an invasion of dignity or privacy of a PoW. If I had to, I’d post pictures, but with dog tag numbers etc. on a sheet of paper. And I’d very much prefer permission from the PoW.
However, since the US had advance intel that the Russians planned systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity, and that that intel has proven correct, these might not be PoW’s, but captured unlawful combattants.
Yes, this “no taping!” thing is simply bullshit. PWs cannot be forced to read confessions or be put in humiliating positions on tape, things like that. Or marched through the streets being jeered at, like the DNR “separatists” did to Ukrainian PWs, for example. The goal of this rule is to make sure that soldiers know they will be fairly treated as PWs, so will surrender and reduce loss of life if their situation is hopeless. So, releasing footage of soldiers being treated humanely encourages that. There’s no privacy expectation, precisely the opposite: they must state their name/rank/serial number like in the movies, and that must be registered with the Red Cross to prevent them from “disappearing”.
Unlawful combatants, like spies and saboteurs who are not clearly and correctly uniformed, do not get Geneva Convention protections but shall be tried for those crimes under the laws of the country they are in.
You know what is against the Geneva Conventions? Pillage. Russian soldier vs. electronic store door: very funny! Now speculate why a soldier would want to get into a closed electronics store.
They’re elected by people who WANT them to be assholes. People who miss being adolescent bullies or their sycophants.
— Charles Ball (@CharlesCball) March 2, 2022
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
High school me would have done the same. I’ve always been vocally opinionated.
re: #142 Ming5000
Waiting for the obligatory “Don’t post pictures of POWs”.
How do people feel about that?
I have not seen any abusive pictures so far. This seems benign to me, but what do I know.
If they work for a regime that had demanded they fight to the death, their families might suffer reprisals for having obviously not done so.
If they’re being interrogated and giving up useful intel, it’s not a good idea to let the opposition know (until required by int’l law, maybe a couple of days) who we’ve got and what condition they’re in.
If they were possible defectors, or willing to go home as double agents, best not to admit they’re in custody.
re: #167 Dopamine Fish
Surprisingly many. They seem to think it’s a game, to prove that COVID is bullshit because “my pulse ox only dropped to 65%” or whatever, not realizing that hospitals freak the fuck out when you drop below 90%.
That ignorance sounds about right.
re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump supporters claim that Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during his term in office because Putin feared Trump. …
So they’re saying that Trump is so unstable that even a nut like Putin fears him. Having someone that crazy in charge of nuclear weapons sounds like a really bad idea.
re: #168 ericblair
Yes, this “no taping!” thing is simply bullshit. PWs cannot be forced to read confessions or be put in humiliating positions on tape, things like that. Or marched through the streets being jeered at, like the DNR “separatists” did to Ukrainian PWs, for example. The goal of this rule is to make sure that soldiers know they will be fairly treated as PWs, so will surrender and reduce loss of life if their situation is hopeless. So, releasing footage of soldiers being treated humanely encourages that. There’s no privacy expectation, precisely the opposite: they must state their name/rank/serial number like in the movies, and that must be registered with the Red Cross to prevent them from “disappearing”.
Unlawful combatants, like spies and saboteurs who are not clearly and correctly uniformed, do not get Geneva Convention protections but shall be tried for those crimes under the laws of the country they are in.
You know what is against the Geneva Conventions? Pillage. Russian soldier vs. electronic store door: very funny! Now speculate why a soldier would want to get into a closed electronics store.
As I recall, you can get classed as unlawful combattants for systematically committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
re: #176 Teukka
As I recall, you can get classed as unlawful combattants for systematically committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
And yeah, as an unlawful combattant, you are little more than a common criminal apprehended in the act on the battle field. You do have some immutable rights under the Geneva conventions, but less than PoWs..
re: #170 Dopamine Fish
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And he corrected it and said he believes they are high school students that the asshole is bullying.
Correction: I believe these students are in high school.
Hillsborough School District says some of their kids from Middleton HS in Tampa were involved in the presser, so I believe these are those students.— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
very much enjoying this “close” primary with a socialist candidate pic.twitter.com/Kjxm4fd5Wv
— seinfeld empath (@NickTagliaferro) March 2, 2022
re: #173 sagehen
If they work for a regime that had demanded they fight to the death, their families might suffer reprisals for having obviously not done so.
If they’re being interrogated and giving up useful intel, it’s not a good idea to let the opposition know (until required by int’l law, maybe a couple of days) who we’ve got and what condition they’re in.
If they were possible defectors, or willing to go home as double agents, best not to admit they’re in custody.
While these might be valid concerns, this isn’t the logic behind these conventions. The ICRC was far more worried about PWs being mistreated and “disappeared” by the detaining power then retaliation from the PW’s government for being taken alive. The PW’s government is going to find out when the PW is repatriated, as is the detaining power’s duty after cessation of hostilities, so they’re always going to know.
The PWs can be interrogated, but they cannot be coerced to provide any information. And if the detaining power wants to make the PW a spy and the PW agrees to it, I don’t think they’ll be too keen on taping him in the first place.
re: #177 Teukka
And yeah, as an unlawful combattant, you are little more than a common criminal apprehended in the act on the battle field. You do have some immutable rights under the Geneva conventions, but less than PoWs..
Yup.
Ukrainian Special Operations Force vows to identify and assassinate all Russian artillery servicemen responsible for their indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets.
“Each and every gun crew… will be slaughtered like pigs.” pic.twitter.com/I52k1Ua5YK— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) March 2, 2022
Another Russian cruise missile has been intercepted in Kyiv.
Debris fell down near the Central Railway Station.
Yes, our Air Defense is working out 300% of what everyone expected from it.— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) March 2, 2022
Guess he missed the whole French Resistance chapter of WWII. https://t.co/Q6hNGjnoCb
— 🇺🇦🌻14th Amendment Section 3 #Ukraine🌻🇺🇦 (@ominousrabbit) March 2, 2022
Jean Moulin would like a word
Jean, leader of French Resistance, captured & tortured but never broke.
Nazis slit his throat- left him for dead
He lived
Smuggled to UK
Then back to France
Set up Resistance infrastructure to take back Paris
DeSantis looks like a rotted pear https://t.co/b0Sc6NuQq4— YS (@ReallyActivist) March 2, 2022
re: #167 Dopamine Fish
Surprisingly many. They seem to think it’s a game, to prove that COVID is bullshit because “my pulse ox only dropped to 65%” or whatever, not realizing that hospitals freak the fuck out when you drop below 90%.
i also wonder how many would consider the same idiocy w/r/t a thermometer
“i didnt need a hospital, it was ‘only’ 105. they wouldnt make a thermometer that went to 108 if no one ever went that high….”
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PING @IntlCrimCourt https://t.co/SdIbrErtwJ
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) March 2, 2022
re: #153 Dangerman
more and more this is becoming a stupid fucking way for russian soldiers to die.
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I’m literally laughing out loud holy shit I hope every swing voter in America sees this, honestly. https://t.co/nXjVAm1FG9
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 2, 2022
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
“He’s a globalist. He is for a global economy. He is for the World Economic Forum.” I turned her off after that. She has no idea what words mean.
re: #188 darthstar
There’s no smart way for soldiers to die. War is stupid.
fair point.
maybe just ‘less stupid’
re: #187 Teukka
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Ukraine can rightfully point out that the Russian army has been ordered not to target civilians, so Russian artillerymen who indiscriminately shell civilian targets are disobeying orders, and are therefore murderous criminals.
meanwhile in Kentucky:
Rep. Rachel Roberts, D-Campbell, says HB 3 “is an example of extremism. It is perhaps most cruel to victims of rape or incest.”
She files a floor amendment to exempt ppl who have suffered rape or incest from measures in the bill. It fails. https://t.co/r3HBMcKtk3— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 2, 2022
Rep.Mary Lou Marzian proposes floor amendment 3, which excludes people of Jewish faith from HB3, who don’t believe life begins at conception.
Tate calls the amendment “unfriendly.” It also fails.— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 2, 2022
Rep Pam Stevenson, who sharply chided Tate yesterday in committee, asks, “Did we have live testimony from any doctor that actually agreed with this bill yesterday?”
The answer is no.
Tate essentially says she didn’t need it because she knows they support it.— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 2, 2022
Stevenson, getting heated, says HB3 is yet another way KY is trying to weaponize pregnancy.
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) March 2, 2022
re: #190 darthstar
“He’s a globalist. He is for a global economy. He is for the World Economic Forum.” I turned her off after that. She has no idea what words mean.
they are magic words and it’s all she’s got.
re: #190 darthstar
“He’s a globalist. He is for a global economy. He is for the World Economic Forum.” I turned her off after that. She has no idea what words mean.
I’m not seeing what the problem is here. However, I get where she’s coming from, because she believes that America is the only thing that matters, and fuck everybody else. White People Rule!
re: #192 No Malarkey!
Ukraine can rightfully point out that the Russian army has been ordered not to target civilians, so Russian artillerymen who indiscriminately shell civilian targets are disobeying orders, and are therefore murderous criminals.
What I understand is that the United States had advance intel that the Russian Federation planned to systematically commit war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Ukrainians. They are literarly ordered to commit crimes.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile in Kentucky:
“responding to a decision made by the FDA last year that completely changed a position that they had taken for over 10yrs”
know who does that a lot? and after way more than 10 years?
john roberts’s scotus
re: #195 Dopamine Fish
I’m not seeing what the problem is here. However, I get where she’s coming from, because she believes that America is the only thing that matters, and fuck everybody else. White People Rule!
Global economy is widely viewed as a good thing - throughout the globe. I guess that makes me a globalist too. L’chaim!(sp?)
re: #198 darthstar
Global economy is widely viewed as a good thing - throughout the globe. I guess that makes me a globalist too. L’chaim!(sp?)
Gesundheit.///
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a raging c*nt. Watching stuff like that infuriate me.
re: #195 Dopamine Fish
I’m not seeing what the problem is here. However, I get where she’s coming from, because she believes that America is the only thing that matters, and fuck everybody else. White People Rule!
- the united states is not self sufficient
- it cannot survive if it doesnt import certain things and export others
- and as long as it does both, the economies and policies of those other countries (subsidies, work conditions, wages, tax rates) are relevant to us and so cannot be ignored
The New Yorker reports that fossil-fuel companies — which have donated generously to the campaigns of all twelve Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee — are now stonewalling Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to the Federal Reserve.
It appears that Kherson may have now fallen to Russia : economist.com
Russians sharing information on social media on how to flee the country. https://t.co/xy6iNYiFQS
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 2, 2022
yeah, everybody knew it and everybody was talking about it back in Feb
“A Western intelligence report said senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing,” the New York Times reports.
“The report indicates that senior Chinese officials had some level of knowledge about Russia’s war plans or intentions before the invasion started last week.”
still, wonder how Xi and Putin feel knowing we know exactly what they’re telling each other
re: #135 Teukka
Sad thing is that it seems they are trying their best to provoke Europe into war…
Makes me wonder if Putin or the military leaders think that drawing NATO/EU directly into the conflict will allow them to rally the Russian citizenry against the Nazi threat from the West against the Motherland.
If they are it’s a pretty callous calculation to try to recover a losing situation by getting even more people who don’t deserve to die killed.*
* - The Ukrainians and Russian conscripts dying right now are not really the people who should be the ones becoming fertilizer for sunflowers.
Round 2 for at home tests.
Even if you already ordered free tests, tonight, I am announcing that you can order more from https://t.co/12LzJrqFsC starting next week. pic.twitter.com/ZJkbdlwyFX
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 2, 2022
re: #207 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Round 2 for at home tests.
Here’s hoping the USPS doesn’t fuck me over like last time.
Wow. The Germans have seized Alisher Usmanov’s $800,000,000 yacht. https://t.co/KidKg8SeSb
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) March 2, 2022
(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
re: #210 ericblair
(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
What do you think I can get it for at auction? My lifestyle could use an upgrade.
The bright side is over 400 voted yes. Russian warship….
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 2, 2022
re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s hoping the USPS doesn’t fuck me over like last time.
Mine were waiting for me (in a locked P.O. Box) when I got back from Vancouver. I have already used one test last month when I was flirting with a low grade fever. It was negative (thank the Mother).
re: #208 Dangerman
The clamor over “Russian oil” is so uninformed.
Petroleum and petroleum products are traded all over the world.
One can check the EIA website and see the historical data set for imports from Russia.
The imports are mostly products, not crude.
And these products are traded, imported, re-exported, re-imported, all over the world.
So all the right wing whiners about how Biden won’t stop the importation of Russian oil are just wrong.
First off, transportation of such goods can have long lead times.
Secondly, products can be blended.
So some nation, say India, could import Russian crude, export some product, said product ends up in Indonesia, gets blended into something else, then exported to the US.
What Biden did is exactly what needed to be done: stop the flow of money.
re: #210 ericblair
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
What if the yacht had a mini escape sub armed with torpedos?
The US is, on the whole, not as big of a net importer of petroleum and petroleum products as some may think.
We do import millions of barrels per day. We also export millions of barrels.
The net import into the US has been averaging around 1.5 million barrels per day in recent times.
That changes depending upon the US economy, the world economy, etc.
re: #216 Mattand
What if the yacht had a mini escape sub armed with torpedos?
I’d keep the sub and ditch the Yacht.
/
re: #216 Mattand
What if the yacht had a mini escape sub armed with torpedos?
And an eight-track deck?
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
I’m sure Putin gave the guy a pill and then sent him out into the world.
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re: #210 ericblair
“One of the earliest investors in Facebook”
re: #214 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The clamor over “Russian oil” is so uninformed.
Petroleum and petroleum products are traded all over the world.
One can check the EIA website and see the historical data set for imports from Russia.
The imports are mostly products, not crude.
And these products are traded, imported, re-exported, re-imported, all over the world.
So all the right wing whiners about how Biden won’t stop the importation of Russian oil are just wrong.
First off, transportation of such goods can have long lead times.
Secondly, products can be blended.
So some nation, say India, could import Russian crude, export some product, said product ends up in Indonesia, gets blended into something else, then exported to the US.
What Biden did is exactly what needed to be done: stop the flow of money.
It’s bit of showmanship, but, Russia can’t sell oil on the market right now.
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
You might if* that was couch change. 👀
*fixed
re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You might is that was couch change. 👀
I’m not sure I’d want all the bullshit that comes along with having that much money.
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not sure I’d want all the bullshit that comes along with having that much money.
I hear that.
re: #211 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What do you think I can get it for at auction? My lifestyle could use an upgrade.
NO LOWBALLS I KNOW WHAT I GOT
factcheck.org had to really quibble with some of biden’s sotu statements to get to where they wanted it to be
- this is opinion not fact
- even if this is 100% true, this other thing is also true and he didnt say it
- some people disagree with this statement
and you know, sometimes politicians use hyperbole to make a point, ffs.
the last guy outright, intentionally lied over 30k times in 4-5 years
re: #210 ericblair
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(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
i’d like to see them all turned into artificial reefs, instantly.
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
this is spare change, toy money for them
when they make these decisions, they’re not wondering how theyre gonna make the payments or pay for gas
re: #218 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d keep the sub and ditch the Yacht.
/
i once knew a guy who had a boat called the “We’re Here”
he sometimes towed a dingy named “Me Too”
My latest: I spoke to a rabbi who led hundreds of Jewish orphans from Odessa across the Carpathian Mountains, as they were forced to flee over the Jewish sabbath in the face of Russia’s onslaught.
This is what Putin’s “denazification” actually looks like: https://t.co/ICz9SguFiN— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 2, 2022
High temps and dry air is a dangerous thing in this part of the world.
There is a fire in the Cleveland National Forest. That’s a national forest that is in bits and pieces spread along the mountains from the border up into Riverside County.
Fortunately it’s not a really big fire. So far.
re: #230 Dangerman
i once knew a guy who had a boat called the “We’re Here”
he sometimes towed a dingy named “Me Too”
Sounds like what I heard about Jeff Bezos’ new mega sailing yacht (the one they need to take the bridge down for in Rotterdam): the sails are so large they would block the approach of a helicopter, so it’s planned to be accompanied by its own “dinghy”. Only said dinghy is another yacht - large enough to accommodate a helipad…
Salt, several grains of. But if true, Putin knows his days are numbered and is trying to hold on as long as he can.
Ukraine’s intelligence says Putin might consider imposing martial law in Russia on March 4.
Absolute maniac has pit himself in a death trap with his own stupid lunacy.— Illia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko) March 2, 2022
re: #123 darthstar
Pentagon update right now - talking about the big ass parking lot convoy.
They should have gotten some people from Guatemala to help. They know how to convoy.
re: #210 ericblair
(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
24 people…
re: #236 Eventual Carrion
They should have gotten some people from Guatemala to help. They know how to convoy.
Yeah: according to the wingnuts, their caravans always manage to get though…..
Masshole is one of Putin’s biggest allies.
Rep. Thomas Massie is one of three to vote against resolution supporting Ukraine @davecatanese https://t.co/qc9YhkxBb6
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 2, 2022
re: #239 No Malarkey!
Masshole is one of Putin’s biggest allies.
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Is he one of the Treason Caucus that went to the Kremlin on July 4th a couple years ago to polish Putin’s knob?
re: #240 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Is he one of the Treason Caucus that went to the Kremlin on July 4th a couple years ago to polish Putin’s knob?
no
It’s official: the Trumpists have now completed their transition for praising Putin’s genius and asking why we are supposed to hate him to “let’s start dropping bombs over there!”
Sean Hannity proposes NATO fighter jets bomb Russian convoy “and then nobody takes credit for it, so then Putin won’t know who to hit” https://t.co/7jYGYmxMsK pic.twitter.com/CcVUvYglw8
— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) March 2, 2022
I know I am an idiot for being even slightly surprised by this, but it took less than a week to go from shock and fear for innocent human life to “all war porn all the time!” in American media.
If you are a self-styled military strategist with a hot take (especially if, like Hannity, you have no post-high school education or common sense), go fuck yourself.
re: #235 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Salt, several grains of. But if true, Putin knows his days are numbered and is trying to hold on as long as he can.
Putin’s removed all liberal radio stations, banned the use of “war” and “invasion” from broadcasts, and his security forces are now arresting elementary school protesters.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
no
The GOP lawmakers, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Thune (S.D.), John Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.) and John Hoeven (N.D.), and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), spent July 4 in Moscow’s U.S. Embassy, NPR reported.
re: #242 bratwurst
It’s official: the Trumpists have now completed their transition for praising Putin’s genius and asking why we are supposed to hate him to “let’s start dropping bombs over there!”
I know I am an idiot for being even slightly surprised by this, but it took less than a week to go from shock and fear for innocent human life to “all war porn all the time!” in American media.
If you are a self-styled military strategist with a hot take (especially if, like Hannity, you have no post-high school education or common sense), go fuck yourself.
They had to pivot to something so they can say that Biden is too weak, because Biden has been doing all the right stuff getting the world to react to Putin.
re: #243 Belafon
Putin’s removed all liberal radio stations, banned the use of “war” and “invasion” from broadcasts, and his security forces are now arresting elementary school protesters.
Last gasps of a dying regime.
re: #243 Belafon
Putin’s removed all liberal radio stations, banned the use of “war” and “invasion” from broadcasts, and his security forces are now arresting elementary school protesters.
and this:
BTW, this person hadn’t posted anything on social media or gone to any protests. “We heard you don’t support the government.”
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 1, 2022
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sounds like an autocratic regime, alright.
re: #242 bratwurst
Just 7 hours ago:
2,000 Ukrainian civilians have been *literally* canceled.
I mean shut the fuck up. https://t.co/zfBRxQBoNJ— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 2, 2022
NEW: Statement from @HillsboroughSch Superintendent Addison Davis —
“It is a student and parents’ choice to protect their health in a way they feel most appropriate. We are proud of the manner in which our students represented themselves.”https://t.co/BDDnBpwvRC @WFLA pic.twitter.com/8pe2YWFj9u— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
NEW: @GovRonDeSantis press secretary @ChristinaPushaw responds—
“After two years of mixed messages…the governor wants to make sure everyone is aware of the facts and data now, so they can feel free and comfortable without a mask.”https://t.co/BDDnBpwvRC @WFLA pic.twitter.com/KVTlDpnbit— Evan Donovan (@EvanDonovan) March 2, 2022
re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
If I somehow lucked into having $800 million…I sure as hell wouldn’t blow it all on a Yacht.
I wonder how much it would cost to retrofit that yacht into a hospital ship?
If I had that $800 million, I’d buy…
Half a dozen really nice homes (with extensive grounds) in half a dozen different places. Sufficient staff to keep those homes comfy and ready should I decide to go there on short notice. A fast plane to take me between them.
And… that’s not even close to $800 million. I guess I’d have to research to find 100 worthy causes to donate $5-10 million to each of them? ‘Cause off the top of my head, I can’t think of more than a few dozen.
Oh, and season tickets courtside to the Lakers.
re: #243 Belafon
Putin’s removed all liberal radio stations, banned the use of “war” and “invasion” from broadcasts, and his security forces are now arresting elementary school protesters.
Over/under on his henchmen stealing candy from children within the week? /S
re: #245 Belafon
They had to pivot to something so they can say that Biden is too weak, because Biden has been doing all the right stuff getting the world to react to Putin.
I think this is it in a nutshell. When Putin has lost everyone from Ron Johnson to Viktor Orbán, even someone as truly idiotic as Sean Hannity knows which way the wind is blowing.
2,000 Ukrainian civilians have been *literally* canceled.
I mean shut the fuck up. https://t.co/zfBRxQBoNJ— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 2, 2022
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes, Russia is being cancelled. And they deserve every damn bit of it.
this is the Dem who will be running against Massie in November (assuming Massie wins his primary…he has three challengers there)
My statement on #Ukraine and to the Russian people. “We cannot waste time in giving peace any other foundation than Justice.” Americans can help by giving to @GEMmissions & @razomforukraine. #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini pic.twitter.com/zUGmXfnCXs
— Matthew Lehman (@lehman4kentucky) March 2, 2022
ON MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE AND LAUREN BOEBERT AT THE STATE OF THE UNION (AND JUST IN GENERAL) pic.twitter.com/mvLVoZZyjE
— Trae in KNOXVILLE 3/5 (@traecrowder) March 2, 2022
re: #211 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What do you think I can get it for at auction? My lifestyle could use an upgrade.
Imagine the operating and maintenance costs associated with that yacht. You need a trained captain and crew, an engineer (or two), a housekeeping crew, a chef, and let’s not forget mooring even at anchor in most harbors runs north of $6 a foot(that boat is >500 feet long). Dockside mooring is even more expensive.
re: #230 Dangerman
i once knew a guy who had a boat called the “We’re Here”
he sometimes towed a dingy named “Me Too”
My father had a share in a small (15’) sailboat with another person at the “yacht club”* our family belonged to. They named it the “Whose Tern”.
* - Not quite what you think. Was essentially a single building with a kitchen, bathroom, and common room. And it supported a set of docks for a group of boats (generally 20’ and under mix of sail and motor boats) for middle class people who did not live directly on the lake/river. (Section of the St Lawrence River that was wider than normal due to being dammed not too far east of the location as part of the development done in the 1950s.) Boats were there in the summer and then pulled out before winter set in since the river froze solid and fairly thick. I recall our boat being on a trailer at the top of the driveway during the winter.
re: #251 sagehen
I wonder how much it would cost to retrofit that yacht into a hospital ship?
If I had that $800 million, I’d buy…
Half a dozen really nice homes (with extensive grounds) in half a dozen different places. Sufficient staff to keep those homes comfy and ready should I decide to go there on short notice. A fast plane to take me between them.
And… that’s not even close to $800 million. I guess I’d have to research to find 100 worthy causes to donate $5-10 million to each of them? ‘Cause off the top of my head, I can’t think of more than a few dozen.
Oh, and season tickets courtside to the Lakers.
You’d be able to snatch that bad boy up for a quarter of that. It’s not going to sell for anywhere near $800m.
re: #54 jaunte
France, unlike Russia, actually recently dropped paratroops into an airport, captured it, then reinforced it from air and land.
I keep staring at this. https://t.co/v2GfPheYIv
— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) March 2, 2022
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Only true answers:
a) Kleptocracy
b) Autocracy
re: #210 ericblair
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(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
The infamous Bezos yacht is only 500,000,000, a mere pittance!
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gotta love the U.S. education system.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Defs the “something else”
sure has taken long enough:
HAPPENING NOW: U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr. and other federal officials lay out the charges against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (photo by Jim Gudas) pic.twitter.com/twMomhM2qG
— WBBM Newsradio (@WBBMNewsradio) March 2, 2022
UPDATE: Meeting between House Speaker Michael Madigan and then-Governor-elect J.B. Pritzker part of scheme outlined in today’s Madigan indictment. Pritzker not accused of wrongdoing. From @Suntimes: https://t.co/OTJAUWM679
— Jon Seidel (@SeidelContent) March 2, 2022
re: #260 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’d be able to snatch that bad boy up for a quarter of that. It’s not going to sell for anywhere near $800m.
The Germans should search it. There’s probably $40 million in blow stashed on the boat for ‘entertainment purposes’…then put out an interpol warrant for him.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
May all those students be counting down the days until they can register to vote.
And vote accordingly.
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
sure has taken long enough:
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Prosecute the Democrats who break the law - then do the same with Republicans.
re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter
The infamous Bezos yacht is only 500,000,000, a mere pittance!
Plus 100,000,000 for temporary bridge removal.
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
this is the Dem who will be running against Massie in November (assuming Massie wins his primary…he has three challengers there)
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I just checked and saw that he’s an alum of Covington Catholic. Maybe evens out Nick Sandmann for me.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
I couldn’t answer that. Not with those options.
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah but you just know some gun pedant is going to point out that the whole narrative is wrong because it’s AK-74, not an AK-47, and but the way almost all “AK-47” rifles where actually AK-Ms.
So Zelensky’s spine of steel and Sorkin-worth speechifying… did the people who elected him have reason to expect that? Or did they just luck out?
Not sure I’d want to be the high bidder once the governments start auctioning off all of those Russian yachts, condos and estates.
🇬🇧 and 37 of our allies have referred atrocities in Ukraine to the @IntlCrimCourt.
Russia is using indiscriminate force against innocent civilians in its illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The Putin regime must be held accountable.— Liz Truss (@trussliz) March 2, 2022
re: #268 darthstar
The Germans should search it. There’s probably $40 million in blow stashed on the boat for ‘entertainment purposes’…then put out an interpol warrant for him.
Like the old DeLorean joke when John was indicted for trafficking. Customers were told to check the trunk for their rebates.
re: #210 ericblair
(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
https://t.co/fPuNNlyh8l pic.twitter.com/GW4tHAAaAv
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 2, 2022
re: #210 ericblair
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(grumpy cat) Good.
And imagine the sort of plundering you need to do to buy and maintain a $800 MILLION yacht. I didn’t know it was possible to make a yacht that expensive, that wasn’t a 3000-person cruise ship.
got a feeling there are some kids tonight eating mre’s that expired 10 years ago who would certainly like to know.
re: #276 b.d
Not sure I’d want to be the high bidder once the governments start auctioning off all of those Russian yachts, condos and estates.
“The two happiest days of a boat owner’s life….”
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
Crew of 96. I was way off.
re: #99 Charles Johnson
I got an instant troll response to that last tweet. Literally within seconds.
See, some parts of the Russian military machine work.
Just not the useful ones.
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
A beauty salon…on a fucking YACHT.
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
A beauty salon…on a fucking YACHT.
For all those Russian hookers he brings with him on his voyages, no doubt.
This is the synagogue I visited in Babi Yar. Russian strikes just fell on the site. This synagogue inspired by those once in the Pale has the shape of an open-book as it opens up a new universe of stories: stories of morality, history, love, righteousness, law. pic.twitter.com/LsR1FBsjE8
— Мilàn Czerny (@milanczerny) March 1, 2022
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
A beauty salon…on a fucking YACHT.
I thought that anyone on a $800,000,000 yacht was pretty by default?
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Abramovich says he will sell Chelsea FC. I guarantee there will me no shortage of Arsenal fans trying to prove the Kroenkes are Russian regardless of the team’s improvement.
re: #142 Ming5000
Waiting for the obligatory “Don’t post pictures of POWs”.
How do people feel about that?
I have not seen any abusive pictures so far. This seems benign to me, but what do I know.
If they don’t post the pictures then their family back home won’t know what happened to them. The Russian army isn’t going to tell them.
Ukraining recruitment video:
Paul Gosar, Rosendale, and Thomas Massie just voted NO in the house of reps on a resolution supporting the people of Ukraine. Unreal.
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) March 2, 2022
Fuck ‘em.
re: #96 ckkatz
From a former Naval Intelligence Warrant Officer:
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— Roy Gillett: British, European & H. Sapiens (@woollyliberal) March 1, 2022
Possible Explanations
There are several factors that may be contributing to the lack of Russian ability to achieve and exploit air superiority, in spite of their huge advantages in aircraft numbers, equipment capability and enablers such as AWACS compared to the UkrAF. The first is the limited quantities of air-delivered precision-guided munitions (PGMs) available to most VKS fighter units. During combat operations over Syria, only the Su-34 fleet has regularly made use of PGMs, and even these specialist strike aircraft have regularly resorted to unguided bomb and rocket attacks. This not only indicates a very limited familiarity with PGMs among most Russian fighter crews, but also reinforces the widely accepted theory that the Russian air-delivered PGM stockpile is very limited. Years of combat operations in Syria will have further depleted that stockpile, and may mean that the bulk of the 300 VKS fixed wing combat aircraft massed around Ukraine have only unguided bombs and rockets to draw on for ground-attack sorties. This, combined with the lack of targeting pods to spot and identify battlefield targets from a safe distance, means that the VKS fixed wing pilots’ capacity to provide close air support for their forces is limited.
re: #147 DodgerFan1988
He’s never been the same since hbommerguy axed his way through that wall.
Wait, I’m wrong, Shapiro is still the same, incoherent, illogical and ignorable.
re: #288 Barefoot Grin
Abramovich says he will sell Chelsea FC. I guarantee there will me no shortage of Arsenal fans trying to prove the Kroenkes are Russian regardless of the team’s improvement.
I’ll give him a dozen rubles for it. I even have a head coach in mind…
re: #292 darthstar
Quite aside from any intent, or lack thereof, to commit war crimes, the lack of guided munitions and an apparent lack of strategic-level target acquisition means that the Russian army’s best strategy is effectively “spray and pray”, but with bombs and rockets. This would do plenty to explain the apparent attacks on civilians, even absent any declaration of intent to commit war crimes.
re: #294 darthstar
I’ll give him a dozen rubles for it. I even have a head coach in mind…
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he’d never leave. he just got the squad back out of relegation.
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not sure I’d want all the bullshit that comes along with having that much money.
I’d like to give it a try.
dude just votes “no” on everything and collects a pay check
wish I had a job that easy with that good of job security— Move Kentucky Forward (@KentuckyMove) March 2, 2022
A Kentucky legislator has some thoughts about RU-486 and Jews. Second antisemtic sentiments expressed in the General Assembly in the last couple of weeks.
Quick transcription (some company and drug names are off) of Bentley’s remarks on Jewish people and RU-486. pic.twitter.com/tCq9CEsONj
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 2, 2022
Sigh. US Covid metrics are no longer useful on a daily basis. Too many states have switched to less frequent reporting, Arizona being the latest to switch to weekly updates. Maybe as the “case” counts decline, this makes sense. But if there is a new surge, how long will it take to reinstate the apparatus to publish the information or are we going to be living in “Florida” where numbers are all subject to the whim of GOP officials who have no interest in promoting the truth?
Senior International Correspondent @johnirvineitv and his team film the moment Russian tanks turn their turrets on the last convoy out of Mariupol https://t.co/UTO16O4RRf
— ITV News (@itvnews) March 2, 2022
re: #291 DodgerFan1988
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Fuck ‘em.
Give all three parachutes and drop them over Moscow if that’s what they feel.
Do leftie writers know they can make a case against NATO without citing the one instance where it stopped a genocide? Surely your intellectual arsenal can produce better. https://t.co/VX39ALpZxx
— Asad أسد 🥸 (@DandiaAsad) March 2, 2022
This is what’s happening on Russia’s state TV.
At this very moment, @YouTube @meta and @twitter are still hosting other state-owned outlets RT and Sputnik outside of the EU. https://t.co/LhzL0dkQRH— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) March 2, 2022
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
Sigh. US Covid metrics are no longer useful on a daily basis. Too many states have switched to less frequent reporting, Arizona being the latest to switch to weekly updates. Maybe as the “case” counts decline, this makes sense. But if there is a new surge, how long will it take to reinstate the apparatus to publish the information or are we going to be living in “Florida” where numbers are all subject to the whim of GOP officials who have no interest in promoting the truth?
I noticed this a few days ago. We suddenly went from around 2400 deaths a day to 1400 or fewer.
re: #299 No Malarkey!
A Kentucky legislator has some thoughts about RU-486 and Jews. Second antisemtic sentiments expressed in the General Assembly in the last couple of weeks.
And some more from the same legislator.
Bentley returned to this later in his speech: pic.twitter.com/xKcFSHqXmc
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 2, 2022
re: #198 darthstar
Brexiters told me I was a rootless cosmopolitan, which is weird, because every time I piss I can see I still have my foreskin.
re: #107 Dopamine Fish
10 or 11 minutes, sheesh. This is Adolf Galland “We will destroy the RAF in 3 days” level of dumb.
Even a great tactician and pilot such as Galland has cracks in their crystal ball…
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m not sure I’d want all the bullshit that comes along with having that much money.
You pay people to deal with that.
To the world: what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 1, 2022
re: #309 TedStriker
Even a great tactician and pilot such as Galland has cracks in their crystal ball…
And in fairness to Galland, he was getting the absolute WORST intel. There were no German agents in Britain. The data they did have was wildly inaccurate and painted a strategic picture that was completely divorced from reality. If the situation had been as dire as the German intel indicated, his calculations might not have been that far off the mark.
re: #275 sagehen
So Zelensky’s spine of steel and Sorkin-worth speechifying… did the people who elected him have reason to expect that? Or did they just luck out?
He was the star of a show he produced in which he was basically playing himself becoming President to fight corruption (which he then proceeded to do in real life), so maybe the Soros part.
re: #313 No Malarkey!
He was the star of a show he produced in which he was basically playing himself becoming President to fight corruption (which he then proceeded to do in real life), so maybe the Soros part.
That’s one hell of a campaign ad.
What are the odds he’s completely unaware that France has nuclear weapons? https://t.co/tmqhYVWNd1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2022
Some news: Vladimir Potanin, Russian Oligarch, Steps Down as Guggenheim Trustee https://t.co/T3ifNDcNif
— Graham Bowley (@Graham_Bowley) March 2, 2022
re: #312 Dopamine Fish
And in fairness to Galland, he was getting the absolute WORST intel. There were no German agents in Britain. The data they did have was wildly inaccurate and painted a strategic picture that was completely divorced from reality. If the situation had been as dire as the German intel indicated, his calculations might not have been that far off the mark.
German intelligence in WWII was the absolute worst. They vastly underestimated the size of the Red Army, so they were kind of surprised when it was still fighting after they killed or captured every soldier they thought the Soviets had.
DeSantis’ joke repertoire is stuck in Republican 2003.
re: #317 No Malarkey!
German intelligence in WWII was the absolute worst. They vastly underestimated the size of the Red Army, so they were kind of surprised when it was still fighting after they killed or captured every soldier they thought the Soviets had.
And now we are seeing the failure of Russian intelligence. A chronic overestimation of one’s own capabilities and underestimation of your enemy’s is a recipe for disaster. What is the first lesson in Sun Tzu? Know yourself, know your enemy.
re: #315 Charles Johnson
Is DeSantis actually this stupid, or does he just think his voters are?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 2, 2022
BREAKING: the oath keeper pleading guilty to Seditious Conspiracy and Obstructing an official proceeding HAS FLIPPED. He is known to have connections to the Willard War Room and Roger Stone. Follow the hearing here: https://t.co/xrEDY6hN7Y
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 2, 2022
This is James. https://t.co/lz1se4h2yA pic.twitter.com/p7HHkFRXwY
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022
“Report to the White House grounds and use force against anyone trying to remove Trump from the White House.”
He clears his throat before saying, “yes sir.”— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022
oh
It’s official:
Now listening to the Joshua James plea. He’s an Oath Keeper who was checking in with news from the Willard Hotel on Jan 6, and then talked w/Stewart Rhodes about sedition afterwards.
Judge Amit Mehta clearly already noted details from earlier plea docs he saw.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022
To repeat: “January 6th can officially be called sedition.” https://t.co/TrrSz2Uuh9
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 2, 2022
re: #320 No Malarkey!
I think that DeSantis just found a 1950’s joke book.
He is holding back on some of the best zingers! Watch out Edsel owners!
re: #322 jaunte
That last tweet… who was going to remove Trump from the White House on 1/6? It wasn’t the time for that yet.
If I could, I’d pay a French guy to deck Ron Desantis.
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
If I could, I’d pay a French guy to deck Ron Desantis.
Maybe not French, but I bet Rand Paul’s neighbor is available.///
re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg
If I could, I’d pay a French guy to deck Ron Desantis.
I’ll double your offer if it is a mime.
re: #324 Dopamine Fish
That last tweet… who was going to remove Trump from the White House on 1/6? It wasn’t the time for that yet.
The most important detail from his statement of offense, as I heard it, is they had a plan to surround the White House, with arms, to ensure no one got to Trump.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 2, 2022
Lol… Ok. Lil Man is definitely about that life.. All the Girls know his name… https://t.co/oW4yI8J4sk
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 2, 2022
Some good news!
BREAKING and developing:
“Judge Blocks Texas Governor’s Order for Family Service Investigations Over Medical Treatment for Transgender Kids”
Ruling granting TRO inside. https://t.co/rU0k5GVYdj via @lawcrimenews— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 2, 2022
You should do the samehttps://t.co/KkCRvKYBWN
— Andrei V Kozyrev (@andreivkozyrev) March 1, 2022
I call on all Russian diplomats to resign in protest. Dear Russian diplomats, you are professionals, not cheap propagandists. When I worked at the Foreign Ministry, I was proud of my colleagues. Now it is simply impossible to support a bloody fratricidal war in Ukraine.
His twitter profile bio: Foreign Minister of Russia, 1990-1996. Member of the State Duma till 2000.
Fascists are having a tough week:
News: Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details this evening in a court filing about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results. From @jdawsey1, @thamburger & me: https://t.co/PLzylUcinZ
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) March 2, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer wants the juror who allegedly lied on his questionnaire to explain why he wants to invoke the Fifth Amendment—or would need immunity—if he indeed “answered all questions honestly.”
(Note to civil libertarians: I’m just the messenger.) pic.twitter.com/4cjkOb7tF9— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 2, 2022
I would like the juror who cannot be compelled to testify against themself to provide testimony explaining why it would be testifying against themself so that we can use the testimony agai— … wait a minute.
— Dan Lifschitz (@DanLifschitzEsq) March 2, 2022
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
Upward departure is the terrorism addition. He flipped to avoid that. Per Emptywheel’s thread, he still faces between 87-104 months…so probably seven years…still less than 20.
Also, she says a lot of the plea deal was to get lock tight evidence on Rhodes - he’s the big fish they want. The Roger Stone connection is just gravy.
re: #331 No Malarkey!
Some good news!
Not really all that much. As i saw reported earlier (can’t find it) this only pertains to the investigation of one family. It does not stop any other investigation ongoing or launched in the future against other families
Holy Shite!
New: Texas Republican Van Taylor is dropping his re-election bid to the House after admitting to an affair. https://t.co/qqP9FrBAc3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 2, 2022
re: #338 b.d
Holy Shite!
Texas Rep. Van Taylor drops reelection bid day after primary over affair with ‘ISIS bride’ https://t.co/4sob89HWOq pic.twitter.com/C6aocghPJf
— New York Post (@nypost) March 2, 2022
Not resigning though?
re: #338 b.d
Holy Shite!
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It’s more than just the sordid details of the affair
Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX) allegedly paid $5,000 in hush money to an “ISIS bride” he was engaged in an affair with during his time in Congress, Breitbart News reports.
re: #339 b.d
Not resigning though?
U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, has decided to end his reelection campaign amid 11th-hour allegations of infidelity with a former jihadist who was once married to a commander for the Islamic Statehttps://t.co/s3qCxEjhiG
— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) March 2, 2022
re: #342 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
If he would have won the primary without having to do a runoff the wingnuts would have kept this info in their pocket.
re: #342 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
The day before the primary, the conservative outlet Breitbart News posted a story that Taylor had had a monthslong affair with a Plano woman, Tania Joya, who he had paid $5,000 to keep quiet. The publication reported that she provided it a phone screen shot purporting to be communications with Taylor and a bank record showing that she deposited $5,000 into her account. The Texas Tribune has not been able to independently verify the report.
Taylor is married with three children.
Joya is known as a former jihadist who was once married to a commander for the Islamic State. Tabloids have referred to her as “ISIS bride.”/blockquote>
Nice to know that ISIS has a place to go to get their story out.
The past isn’t even past. https://t.co/wVsrWvqHxw
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 2, 2022
re: #338 b.d
Holy Shite!
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He’s a real throw-back to the old days of limited performative morals.
Thomas Massie rants about freedom except when it counts.
— Matthew Lehman (@lehman4kentucky) March 2, 2022
IOKIYAR, part the infinity
2 years ago, I yelled out “what about victims of gun violence like my daughter” at SOTU. I did it for gun violence victims & spent most of night in jail. @laurenboebert did it to be an asshole. Why was she not removed & spending her night in jail? https://t.co/vHlAG4VJNe
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) March 2, 2022
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder if any of these yachts are also secretly acting as ELINT-collection vessels for the Russian government agencies or military.
re: #353 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Iirc, there was concern regarding the proximity of one oligarch’s yacht to some undersea fiber cable cuts. Around the presumed time of the cuts.
re: #168 ericblair
Yes, this “no taping!” thing is simply bullshit. PWs cannot be forced to read confessions or be put in humiliating positions on tape, things like that. Or marched through the streets being jeered at, like the DNR “separatists” did to Ukrainian PWs, for example. The goal of this rule is to make sure that soldiers know they will be fairly treated as PWs, so will surrender and reduce loss of life if their situation is hopeless. So, releasing footage of soldiers being treated humanely encourages that. There’s no privacy expectation, precisely the opposite: they must state their name/rank/serial number like in the movies, and that must be registered with the Red Cross to prevent them from “disappearing”.
Unlawful combatants, like spies and saboteurs who are not clearly and correctly uniformed, do not get Geneva Convention protections but shall be tried for those crimes under the laws of the country they are in.
You know what is against the Geneva Conventions? Pillage. Russian soldier vs. electronic store door: very funny! Now speculate why a soldier would want to get into a closed electronics store.
Well, yes they can. It happen(s)(ed) all the time. US pilots at the Hanoi Hilton were taped while being forced to make confessions. They also opened and closed their eyes to Morse Code tapping out “Torture”.
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