Seth takes a closer look at the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, berating high school students for wearing masks while Fox News continues to attack Biden’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Ron DeSantis is a fucking asshole.” - everyone who knows Ron DeSantis.
Oh, we got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Not going anywhere.
We’ve got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Can’t you feel our despair?…
NONVOOOOYYYYY….
The caravan of up to 10,000 vehicles from across the U.S. that had intended to hit the D.C. Beltway today as a protest against covid emergency measures (now mostly lifted) has paused in Hagerstown, Md., without an announcement as to what happens next, Raw Story just reported.
Instead of converging on the D.C. area today, the convoy organizers have announced an all-day rally. Some participants are reportedly confused and frustrated. “Oh, we’re going to do something,” a leader promises, but it’s unclear what or when.
Since Serbia is trending, here is a reminder of what the pro-Russia protesters are for. pic.twitter.com/x3fRF9EOAL
— Der Kraut (@Der_Parrot) March 4, 2022
Somebody should let him know the reason is quite simple: because decent people hate this rotten monster’s guts. Only sociopaths want to be associated with him. https://t.co/SW2Nm6nHo2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 5, 2022
Wait. They’re taking their trucks that are all registered with the Department of Transportation (ie the Federal government) to protest the Federal government, and they’re worried the Federal government might be tracking them?
Hahahahahaha!!!!— Jon Virtes (@JonVirtes) March 5, 2022
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I hope Devin Nunes is enjoying his new gig. He gets to spend a lot of time on the phone with Trump.
re: #3 darthstar
Oh, we got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Not going anywhere.
We’ve got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Can’t you feel our despair?…
NONVOOOOYYYYY….
With a monster grift at the bottom leaching money off the rubes and suckers.
re: #2 darthstar
Daily reminder that Republicans voted to exonerate Trump for withholding $391 million in military aid to Ukraine so that he could extort Zelenskyy for dirt on Biden.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 5, 2022
They’re all fucking assholes.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Very interesting. Another reason not to read Time magazine.
re: #7 darthstar
I hope Devin Nunes is enjoying his new gig. He gets to spend a lot of time on the phone with Trump.
He chose to make Donald Trump his inevitably disappointed and raging boss. Sucks to be a stupid ass-kisser who can’t foresee the obvious.
Devin Nunes is having a bad day.
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App
In recent weeks, sources have heard the former president on the phone swearing gratuitously and asking things like, “What the fuck is going on” with Truth Social.
He’s repeatedly groused about the negative press and the less-than-stellar optics of the rollout, these sources said. And he’s demanded to know why more people aren’t using it—why the app isn’t swiftly dominating the competition.
Because silence prefers to live in a vacuum?
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Next edition of TIME Magazine in the U.S.
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Well, at least the US cover will trigger the Trumpers, but they could put the women on next month and be globally consistent…Ukraine is kind of a big thing right now.
Footage from the night of March 4th at the control room of the third power unit of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. The staff reached out to Russian forces through speakers:
“Stop firing at the nuclear facility! You are endangering the security of the entire world!” pic.twitter.com/XnRaVwBi04— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) March 5, 2022
Regarding that plane flying from St. Petersburg to the US that was discussed last thread. Apparently it’s going to pick up the 13 expelled Russian diplomats.
re: #13 darthstar
Meh…didn’t need to post that after Charles’ #5…I blame the breakfast shots…wasn’t going to have them but our friends showed up and there went the neighborhood.
Recipe for those interested:
Shot glass of OJ
Rocks glass of 1/2 Jameson, 1/2 Butterscotch Schnapps
Some bits of fresh cooked bacon on the side.
Shoot the booze, then the OJ, then have a bite of bacon…like a liquid McGriddle. Thank me later.
White supremacist Nick Fuentes who doesn’t believe the Holocaust happened is defending Putin and his invasion. This is the same person who Marjorie Taylor Greene listened to at CPAC which was totally ok, according to Kevin McCarthy. pic.twitter.com/ie3qjDfUn6
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) March 5, 2022
re: #6 darthstar
I shall reiterate something that I haven’t been saying often enough :
Idiocracy was not meant to be a portent / future history documentary.
Holy shit, people are dumb
re: #17 darthstar
I tell all my friends who have kids in their 20s now to use this as an Xmas morning surprise.
re: #3 darthstar
Oh, we got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Not going anywhere.
We’ve got a fuckin’ nonvoy,
Can’t you feel our despair?…
NONVOOOOYYYYY….
Russian convoy: “We should be in Kyiv in 20 minutes or so….wait, what’s that ahead of us?”
Russian HQ: (later in the day) Breaker 1-9, breaker 1-9, just dropping in to see what condition your condition is in, over.”
Russian convoy: “Uhm, there seem to be an enormous number of semis parked in the road here, with a bunch of loud-mouthed assholes running around outside shouting something about masks. They seem to believe they’re on the Capital Beltway, over.”
re: #13 darthstar
Devin Nunes is having a bad day.
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App
Because silence prefers to live in a vacuum?
Maybe another contributing factor to TFG’s displeasure (which should only rot him from the inside out) is that he is in danger of rapidly becoming Yesterday’s News.
And being so publicly on the wrong side of one of the most serious international crises in many years can’t help….
re: #18 jaunte
Some of his fellow white supremacists still consider themselves patriots. Time to start calling them out on how willing they are to protect their ‘legacy’…let them kick Fuentes to the curb.
re: #13 darthstar
Devin Nunes is having a bad day.
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App
Because silence prefers to live in a vacuum?
Even Trump isn’t using it!
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Next edition of TIME Magazine in the U.S.
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I pointed Google Translate on my phone at that second cover. It struggled, offering multiple translations. I hope “Life will defeat death” is more accurate than “death will win” or “death is possible and the world is darkness.”
re: #21 steve_davis
Russian convoy: “We should be in Kyiv in 20 minutes or so….wait, what’s that ahead of us?”
Russian HQ: (later in the day) Breaker 1-9, breaker 1-9, just dropping in to see what condition your condition is in, over.”
Russian convoy: “Uhm, there seem to be an enormous number of semis parked in the road here, with a bunch of loud-mouthed assholes running around outside shouting something about masks. They seem to believe they’re on the Capital Beltway, over.”
Bonus points for the Big Lebowski ear worm…holy shit, I never realized that was a Kenny Rogers song!
re: #24 No Malarkey!
Even Trump isn’t using it!
Well, maybe if he did he would get more users. But he doesn’t want to. He wants Twitter.
The defeatism is astounding… and consistent. These same conclusions were forecasted 10 days ago. I judge Kyiv will stand. The Russian are running out of combat power and don’t have enough assets to take this great city. https://t.co/gL9ooCgvfN
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) March 5, 2022
“Around 10 a.m., I Truthed my first Truth.
“Anybody out there?” I wrote.
By the end of the day, no one had responded.” @rubycramer https://t.co/Z1n7iC8iOm— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) March 5, 2022
re: #10 jaunte
CONGRESSIONALY-APPROVED UKRAINIAN AID WITH TRUMP’S SIGNATURE, I’d like to add.
re: #27 darthstar
Well, maybe if he did he would get more users. But he doesn’t want to. He wants Twitter.
Blackmail? Twitter, let me back on, and I’ll close Truth Social down?
I think this Instagram comment from Angel McCoughtry is the origin of claims about Griner being in custody for 3 weeks. I’m not seeing that detail in any media reports. https://t.co/bwOJhEXyoK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 5, 2022
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
I shot a game Griner played in when she was in high school. It wasn’t even fair what the opposing team had to deal with.
re: #28 No Malarkey!
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there are supposedly something like 60,000 military veterans who have made their way to Poland to join up. This guy may be a little too old, though in a sense he’s timeless, so who knows?
A tweet in which a British MP inadvertently reveals the scale of Russian money laundering in London…. https://t.co/TvJhXU2YPC
— Dr William Sheehan (@willsheehan68) March 5, 2022
re: #31 retired cynic
Blackmail? Twitter, let me back on, and I’ll close Truth Social down?
That is like trying to blackmail McDonald’s by offering to shut down Burger Queen.
re: #22 Jay C
Maybe another contributing factor to TFG’s displeasure (which should only rot him from the inside out) is that he is in danger of rapidly becoming Yesterday’s News.
I’m okay with this.
The fifth column:
Senate Republicans threaten to slow efforts to fund federal agencies, deliver aid to Ukraine https://t.co/zwsgnIADOZ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 5, 2022
re: #28 No Malarkey!
I would discuss it as well, and hope it’s not needed.
They were appalled by the way Trump treated Ukraine and all of them were more than happy for @AVindman to be the lone voice telling the truth and the only one of the three to pay any professional consequences. https://t.co/KrhQQXmyfb
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) March 5, 2022
Remember when you acquitted Trump for withholding $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to protect itself from Russia so he could extort Zelenskyy for dirt on Biden? https://t.co/lwBbylPW91
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 5, 2022
Inbox: Should we set up a no fly zone? pic.twitter.com/Ei5XhH58pe
— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) February 27, 2022
re: #13 darthstar
What? How stupid is this? ETTD
The app is also only available on Apple devices, denying access to owners of Android
re: #47 darthstar
Yeah, but no.
Manpads won’t be enough if the Russians get their act together.
The only reason they’re flying low enough for manpads to be a problem is they’re worried about longer range stuff (including their own).
re: #49 John Hughes
Yeah, but no.
Manpads won’t be enough if the Russians get their act together.
The only reason they’re flying low enough for manpads to be a problem is they’re worried about longer range stuff (including their own).
I wouldn’t mind if we sent Ukraine a shit ton of Patriot SAMs.
re: #47 darthstar
TBH, at first glance, I thought that “No-Fly Zone in a Box” was a stack of coffins…
re: #50 darthstar
I wouldn’t mind if we sent Ukraine a shit ton of Patriot SAMs.
We talked them out of their nukes. We should send them anything we can get away with.
re: #51 Jay C
Same here. Of course if you saw Beau’s video from a couple of threads ago you would understand why he is not happy with it.
This is nice…silent, electric powerd “Punisher” drones capable of carrying 3kg payloads.
businessinsider.com
Eugene Bulatsev, an engineer with the Ukrainian designer UA-Dynamics, told the outlet that the “game-changing” Punisher drones had completed up to 60 “successful” missions since the Russian invasion began.
“This is the cheapest and easiest way to deliver a punch from a long distance, without risking civilian lives,” Bulatsev told the newspaper.
The electric drones have a 7.5-foot wingspan and can fly for hours at 1,300ft and need only the coordinates of their target so they can carry out their mission automatically, Bulatsev said.
Fascinating to see right wing Twitter pivot on a dime from openly admiring Vladimir Putin to posing as super-patriotic defenders of Ukraine.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 5, 2022
re: #51 Jay C
TBH, at first glance, I thought that “No-Fly Zone in a Box” was a stack of coffins…
well, it kind of is, metaphorically.
just speaking amongst us lizards, my biggest fear is that Putin is now at the point where he’s looking for an excuse to use his nukes. Which is why he’s invading Swedish air space and sinking unarmed merchantmen… provoking, looking for a response that he can use to justify an escalation.
There’s a part of me that understands just how tragic this all is… for the Ukranians as being caught in the real-politik of the situation and all of us that are tapped in emotionally to provide that response.
Not an easy place to be for anyone and naturally all of the bandwagoning GOP now calling for an escalation, so they can criticize whatever decision is made.. hypocrisy free ‘natch.
There’s also a part of me that wonders if there are other measures in the works to isolate Putin from his nukes that no one can talk about… after all, we’ve shown Putin that we know when he’s made a decision and what that decision was… do we have even greater abilities to prevent him from doing the unthinkable? Can we maintain this until he’s overthrown, assassinated?
I agree with this thread.
That makes him dangerous. We have to help Ukraine. But let’s not let him turn this into the war he wants. A war with NATO is the only thing - the very last thing - that can save his regime from eventual collapse. /6
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 5, 2022
re: #3 darthstar
“Cuz everything’s gettin’ in our way!”
“Nonvoooooooy……… Nonvoooooooy….”
re: #59 piratedan
just speaking amongst us lizards, my biggest fear is that Putin is now at the point where he’s looking for an excuse to use his nukes. Which is why he’s invading Swedish air space and sinking unarmed merchantmen… provoking, looking for a response that he can use to justify an escalation.
There’s a part of me that understands just how tragic this all is… for the Ukranians as being caught in the real-politik of the situation and all of us that are tapped in emotionally to provide that response.
Not an easy place to be for anyone and naturally all of the bandwagoning GOP now calling for an escalation, so they can criticize whatever decision is made.. hypocrisy free ‘natch.
There’s also a part of me that wonders if there are other measures in the works to isolate Putin from his nukes that no one can talk about… after all, we’ve shown Putin that we know when he’s made a decision and what that decision was… do we have even greater abilities to prevent him from doing the unthinkable? Can we maintain this until he’s overthrown, assassinated?
i know everyone worries about putin using nukes, but I have absolute certainty that Russia has at least informal ways of keeping a mad emperor from nuking the world. After all, there can be no question in any general’s mind that a “limited” use of nuclear weapons anywhere in Europe is going to result in a “limited” use of nuclear weapons on Russian cities.
interesting…I google translated the facebook post and here’s a small clip:
What now? We cannot announce mobilization for two reasons:
1) Large-scale mobilization will undermine the situation inside the country: political, economic, social.
2) Our logistics are already overstretched today. We will drive a many times larger contingent, and what will we get? Ukraine is a hefty country in terms of territory. And now the level of hatred towards us is going through the roof. Our roads simply won’t be able to handle such supply caravans - everything will come to a standstill. And we won’t manage to pull it out - because it’s chaos.
Last night, an alleged FSB whistle-blower letter was published that damned Russia’s military performance in Ukraine and predicted a disaster for the RU in the next weeks and months. I wasn’t sure if it was authentic - as Ukraine had previously leaked fake FSB letters as psy-ops.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 5, 2022
I showed the letter to two actual (current or former) FSB contacts, and they had no doubt it was written by a colleague. They didn’t agree with all of his conclusions, but that’s a different story.
Here’s the text, worth reading: https://t.co/KyRDX4VuDV— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 5, 2022
re: #63 darthstar
interesting…I google translated the facebook post and here’s a small clip:
That clip includes a couple of very sound conclusions. Russia can cause immense death and destruction in Ukraine, but it cannot win this war.
OK, so back from seeing The Batman.
Solid film; 3.5/4 stars. Pattinson was good in the Bruce Wayne/Batman role, Zoë Kravitz was fantastic as Selina Kyle, and Colin Farrell as Oswald Copplepot/Penguin was a great performance.
A well-written screenplay and solid direction from Matt Reeves with beautiful cinematography. The Batman is probably the best cinematic outing for the Caped Crusader since Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and damn, does Paul Dano make one hell of a great villain with his take on the Riddler (in this incarnation, an agenda-driven psychopathic serial killer with some obvious inspiration from the real-life Zodiac Killer).
With elements from neo-noir, psychological thrillers, crime dramas/police procedurals, this one is a strong recommend from me.
Perhaps the US and Russia (China too) need to be a bit more circumspect about letting dipshits have nuke launch authority. Time to work out some structural improvements.
Re: all the nuke talk.
Taking a gamble with the readiness of their nukes is not something anyone is willing to do. It wouldn’t surprise me if their arsenal is worse off than their regular army. But let’s not find out in such a way, please.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) March 5, 2022
re: #52 Decatur Deb
We talked them out of their nukes. We should send them anything we can get away with.
We are now sending them enough stuff that it’s going to stack up.
Most important question of the XXI Cent: “Is Putin crazier than Trump?”
re: #13 darthstar
Devin Nunes is having a bad day.
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App
Because silence prefers to live in a vacuum?
Freepers have had a couple threads about Truth Social. A few seem to be able to post there, but the vast majority of those commenting are still waiting to have their accounts activated (“I’m #187,002, can’t wait to get on!”) Some are becoming less interested in it due to the botched roll out and the fact you need an Apple product to use it-if you could ever get on.
re: #72 calochortus
Freepers have had a couple threads about Truth Social. A few seem to be able to post there, but the vast majority of those commenting are still waiting to have their accounts activated (“I’m #187,002, can’t wait to get on!”) Some are becoming less interested in it due to the botched roll out and the fact you need an Apple product to use it-if you could ever get on.
Why doesn’t it support Android? That seems an odd restriction on your product distribution.
re: #65 Dr Lizardo
OK, so back from seeing The Batman.
Solid film; 3.5/4 stars. Pattinson was good in the Bruce Wayne/Batman role, Zoë Kravitz was fantastic as Selina Kyle, and Colin Farrell as Oswald Copplepot/Penguin was a great performance.
A well-written screenplay and solid direction from Matt Reeves with beautiful cinematography. The Batman is probably the best cinematic outing for the Caped Crusader since Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and damn, does Paul Dano make one hell of a great villain with his take on the Riddler (in this incarnation, an agenda-driven psychopathic serial killer with some obvious inspiration from the real-life Zodiac Killer).
With elements from neo-noir, psychological thrillers, crime dramas/police procedurals, this one is a strong recommend from me.
Most important - they didn’t put the killing of the parents in it yet again.
How come the stewardesses didn’t get long-tabled with Putin? Well, maybe he wasn’t there at all… https://t.co/hSUISxLcdk
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) March 5, 2022
re: #71 Decatur Deb
Most important question of the XXI Cent: “Is Putin crazier than Trump?”
Putin is more durable. It makes him look smarter. From way out here.
re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
Why doesn’t it support Android? That seems an odd restriction on your product distribution.
trump uses iPhone, so that was the only requirement.
re: #74 William Lewis
Most important - they didn’t put the killing of the parents in it yet again.
Yep. It’s obviously a part of the story but it’s alluded to, which is a fine way to handle it.
re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
Why doesn’t it support Android? That seems an odd restriction on your product distribution.
No idea. Possibly because they are incompetent?
re: #76 wrenchwench
Putin is more durable. It makes him look smarter. From way out here.
I wouldn’t trust either of them with a shotgun.
re: #80 Decatur Deb
I wouldn’t trust either of them with a shotgun.
Putin’s preferences are for windows and polonium.
Ukraine had a plan to be the porcupine. Too small to fight, but plenty of ways to make an attacker hurt. Russian air is having a bad time of it.
#Ukraine: Russian Air Force Mi-35M (RF-13017) that was shot down earlier today. pic.twitter.com/M1xErg51MX
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) March 5, 2022
Looking like 2 Su-34s have gone down today, Red 24 in a relatively urban setting another unknown s/n in a much more rural area pic.twitter.com/8874klAcUV
— Mike Yeo 杨启铭 (@TheBaseLeg) March 5, 2022
Russian Air Force losses over #Ukraine in the past 26 hours:
- 1 Su-34 strike aircraft
- 2 Su-25 close air support aircraft
- 2 Mi-24/35 attack helicopters
- 1 Mi-8 transport helicopter
- 1 Orlan-10 UAV (pictured) pic.twitter.com/vKTrs5pI2g— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) March 5, 2022
Arrived Too Early
William Kurelek
1974 pic.twitter.com/6HCxSXSNOe— Canadian Paintings (@CanadaPaintings) March 5, 2022
re: #59 piratedan
I’m not worried about nukes right now.
Putin has the same method as Trump, if he encounters resistance he just raise the stakes.
So I’m more worried that he would do an operation against the Baltic States or Finland and just dare NATO to fire back. If they do, he has the perfect propaganda weapon to get the Russian people behind him. Then the economic sanctions, the pullout of western companies etc, gets the logical explanation that it was preparations before the attack by NATO on Mother Russia. Thus saving his regime.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Although I do not have a picture of him I saw my first robin of the season yesterday.
After striking a plea deal with prosecutors, a onetime Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who was accused of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl over a period of 20 months will serve no time in prison and does not have to register as a sex offender.https://t.co/CcvhmiCkd7
— Young Khor 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@YongKhor1) March 5, 2022
Same D.A.’s office… Any questions? @ShelbyCountyDA @MemphisHoller pic.twitter.com/08EjDq6tmK
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 5, 2022
re: #82 Rightwingconspirator
Ukraine had a plan to be the porcupine. Too small to fight, but plenty of ways to make an attacker hurt. Russian air is having a bad time of it.
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The war is 10 days old; that doesn’t seem like a huge number of aircraft to lose in that period.
re: #84 Greup
I’m not worried about nukes right now.
Putin has the same method as Trump, if he encounters resistance he just raise the stakes.
So I’m more worried that he would do an operation against the Baltic States or Finland and just dare NATO to fire back. If they do, he has the perfect propaganda weapon to get the Russian people behind him. Then the economic sanctions, the pullout of western companies etc, gets the logical explanation that it was preparations before the attack by NATO on Mother Russia. Thus saving his regime.
The Baltic states are NATO. We would be obligated under treaty to respond. If he attacks Finland from here, we’ll assume he’s fighting a world war, and we would respond with military might. I know that sounds semantic, but at the moment, Putin is claiming he is in a kind of police action. We’re not really taking him at his word, but we’re “tolerating” this as a coalition with the idea that this will be bad, but it could be worse. If he invades Finland, that’s suddenly a whole new ball game.
re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter
The war is 10 days old; that doesn’t seem like a huge number of aircraft to lose in that period.
It’s the last day or so.
re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I pointed Google Translate on my phone at that second cover. It struggled, offering multiple translations. I hope “Life will defeat death” is more accurate than “death will win” or “death is possible and the world is darkness.”
It means life will overcome death and the light (will overcome) darkness.
re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s white. Vincent Simmons, a black man spent 45 years on attempted rape.
— Deb Buchanan (@debitra49) March 5, 2022
re: #89 steve_davis
The Baltic states are NATO. We would be obligated under treaty to respond. If he attacks Finland from here, we’ll assume he’s fighting a world war, and we would respond with military might. I know that sounds semantic, but at the moment, Putin is claiming he is in a kind of police action. We’re not really taking him at his word, but we’re “tolerating” this as a coalition with the idea that this will be bad, but it could be worse. If he invades Finland, that’s suddenly a whole new ball game.
The only problem with the “invading Finland” scenario is that Russia doesn’t have an army available to invade Finland with. And we will know long beforehand if he’s thinking of trying, because he would have to build up the forces on the Finnish border for weeks, just like he did on the border of Ukraine, in full view of everyone.
re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
Why doesn’t it support Android? That seems an odd restriction on your product distribution.
So stupid to have this restriction from the get go.
Who the fuck knows. All dirty money.
In the #Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of #Ukraine seized 30 units of #Russian equipment pic.twitter.com/WoXKs02WMf
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 5, 2022
If this develops into a serious nuclear scare, that might be a good thing. Some crisis must be overwhelming enough to break through the political bullshit the US electorate has embraced. Otherwise the next, scarier, apocalypse is inevitable.
re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter
Within the last 26 hours at the time of the tweet.
At one point during his emotional presentation, Zelensky paused to ask one of the American lawmakers to mute themselves.
“Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,” he said. https://t.co/ElfsEAtQ4y— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) March 5, 2022
Apparently, a lot of US veterans are volunteering to fight in what is a clear cut case of defending democracy from authoritarianism, unlike the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. yahoo.com
re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg
“Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,”
Zelensky really does speak for decent folk everywhere.
This is sofa king weird.
re: #89 steve_davis
An operation might not have to be military.
It could be something like burning down a few orthodox churches in each of the three baltic states, blowing up radiostation or checkpoints at the border, killing a russian major on either side of the border. And then use the propaganda that the west is attacking to get his people in line. It could rapidly get very complicated.
And now, today’s edition of “People Who Should Really Just Shut the Fuck Up.” pic.twitter.com/aa0yFGsRrP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 5, 2022
re: #103 Charles Johnson
He could use a length of duct tape across his mouth.
re: #100 lizardofid
“Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic,”
Zelensky really does speak for decent folk everywhere.
Even Mitch McConnell would second that remark.
re: #63 darthstar
interesting…I google translated the facebook post and here’s a small clip:
Juliet. Foxtrot. Charlie. Over. And it’s line with my analysis as well.
This. Will. Not. End. Well.
Also, found a pastebin of a reasonable quality machine translation:
18+ One of the insiders from the special services of the Russian Federation, I will publish without edits and censorship, because this is hell: “I’ll be honest right away: I have hardly slept all these days, almost all the time at work, my head is a little floating, like in a fog. And from overwork, sometimes I already catch states, as if all this is not real.
To be honest, the Pandora’s box is open - a real global horror will begin by the summer - global famine is inevitable (Russia and Ukraine were the main suppliers of grain in the world, this year’s harvest will be smaller, and logistical problems will bring the catastrophe to a peak point).
I can’t tell you what guided those at the top when deciding on the operation, but now they are methodically lowering all the dogs on us (the Service). We are scolded for analytics - this is very in my profile, so I will explain what is wrong.
Recently, we have been increasingly pressed to customize reports to the requirements of management - I once touched on this topic. All these political consultants, politicians and their retinue, influence teams - all this created chaos. Strong.
Most importantly, no one knew that there would be such a war, they hid it from everyone. And here’s an example for you: you are asked (conditionally) to calculate the possibility of human rights protection in different conditions, including the attack of prisons by meteorites. You specify about meteorites, they tell you - this is so, reinsurance for calculations, nothing like this will happen. You understand that the report will be just for show, but you need to write in a victorious style so that there are no questions, they say, why do you have so many problems, did you really work badly. In general, a report is being written that when a meteorite falls, we have everything to eliminate the consequences, we are great, everything is fine. And you concentrate on tasks that are real - we don’t have enough strength anyway. And then suddenly they really throw meteorites and expect that everything will be according to your analytics, which was written from the bulldozer.
That is why we have a total piz_ets - I don’t even want to pick another word. There is no protection from sanctions for the same reason: well, it’s quite possible that Nabiullina will be sewn up with negligence (rather, the switchmen from her team), but what are they to blame for? No one knew that there would be such a war, so no one prepared for such sanctions. This is the reverse side of secrecy: since no one was told, then who could calculate what no one told about?
Kadyrov is going crazy. And the conflict almost started with us: perhaps even the Ukrainians threw in misinformation that it was we who handed over the routes of Kadyrov’s special forces in the first days of the operation. They were covered there on the march in a terrible way, they had not yet begun to fight, but they were simply torn to pieces in some places. And off we go: it was the FSB that leaked the routes to the Ukrainians. I do not have such information, I will leave 1-2% for reliability (it cannot be completely ruled out either).
Blitzkrieg failed. It is simply impossible to complete the task now: if Zelensky and the authorities were captured in the first 1-3 days, they seized all the key buildings in Kyiv, they gave them the order to surrender - yes, the resistance would subside to the minimum values. In theory. But what’s next? Even with this ideal variant, there was an unsolvable problem: with whom to negotiate? If we demolish Zelensky, well, with whom should we sign agreements? If with Zelensky, then after we demolish it, these papers are worth nothing. Opposition Platform for Life refused to cooperate: Medvedchuk is a coward, he fled. There is a second leader there - Boyko, but he refuses to work with us - even his own people will not understand him. They wanted to return Tsarev, so even our pro-Russians turned against him. Return Yanukovych? But as? If we say that it is impossible to occupy, then any of our authorities will be killed there in 10 minutes, as we leave. Occupy? Where are we going to get so many people? Commandant’s offices, military police, counterintelligence, security - even with minimal resistance from the locals, we need 500 thousand or more people. Not counting the supply system. And there is a rule that by covering the poor quality of management with quantity, you only spoil everything. And this, I repeat, would be with the ideal option, which does not exist.
What now? We cannot announce mobilization for two reasons:
1) Large-scale mobilization will undermine the situation inside the country: political, economic, social.
2) Our logistics are already overstretched today. We will drive a many times larger contingent, and what will we get? Ukraine is a hefty country in terms of territory. And now the level of hatred towards us is going through the roof. Our roads simply won’t be able to handle such supply caravans - everything will come to a standstill. And we won’t manage to pull it out - because it’s chaos.
And these two reasons fall out at the same time, although even one is enough to break everything off.
Losses: I don’t know how many there are. Nobody knows. For the first two days there was still control, now no one knows what is going on there. You can lose large units in communication. They can be found, or they can dissolve due to being attacked. And there, even the commanders may not know how many of them are running around somewhere nearby, how many died, how many are in captivity. The number of deaths is definitely in the thousands. Maybe 10 thousand, maybe 5, or maybe only 2. Even at the headquarters they don’t know for sure. But it should be closer to 10. And now we don’t count the LDNR corps - they have their own accounting.
Now, even if Zelensky is killed, taken prisoner, nothing will change. There is Chechnya in terms of hatred towards us. And now even those who were loyal to us are against it. Because it was planned from above, because we were told that there would be no such option, unless we were attacked. Because they explained that it was necessary to create the most credible threat in order to peacefully agree on the right conditions. Because we were initially preparing protests within Ukraine against Zelensky. Excluding our direct entry. Intrusions, to put it simply.
Further civilian losses will go exponentially - and resistance to us will also only increase. They already tried to enter the cities with infantry - out of twenty landing groups, only one had a conditional success. Remember the assault on Mosul - after all, this is the rule, so it was in all countries, nothing new.
Keep under siege? According to the experience of military conflicts in the same Europe in recent decades (Serbia is the largest testing ground here), cities can be under siege for years, and even function. Humanitarian convoys from Europe there are a matter of time.
We have a conditional deadline of June. Conditional - because in June we have no economy left, nothing remains. By and large, next week there will be a turning point in one of the sides, simply because the situation cannot be in such an overstrain. There are no analytics - it is impossible to calculate the chaos, here no one can say anything for sure. Act intuitively, and even on emotions - but this is not poker for you. Rates will rise, in the hope that suddenly some option will shoot through. The trouble is that we, too, can now miscalculate and lose everything in one move.
By and large, the country has no way out. It’s just that there is no option for a possible victory, and defeat is everything, sailed at all. They 100% repeated the beginning of the last century, when they decided to kick weak Japan and get a quick victory, then it turned out that the army was in trouble. then they started the war to the bitter end, then they began to take the Bolsheviks for “re-education” into the army - after all, they were outcasts, uninteresting to anyone in the masses. And then, the Bolsheviks, who were not really known to anyone, picked up anti-war slogans and it started like this …
From the pros: we did everything so that even a hint of the mass sending of “penalty boxes” to the front line did not pass. Send convicts and “socially unreliable” political prisoners there (so that they don’t mess with the water inside the country) - the morale of the army will simply go into the negative. And the enemy is motivated, terribly motivated. He knows how to fight, there are enough middle-level commanders there. There are weapons. They have support. We will simply set a precedent for human loss in the world. And that’s it.
What we are most afraid of: at the top, they act according to the rule of overlapping the old problem with a new problem. Largely for this reason, the Donbass of 2014 began - it was necessary to divert the attention of Westerners from the topic of the Russian spring in Crimea, so the Donbass crisis, it seems, should have drawn all the attention to itself and become the subject of bargaining. But there were even bigger problems. Then they decided to push Erdogan into 4 pipes of the South Stream and entered Syria - this is after Soleimani gave deliberately false inputs in order to solve his problems. As a result, it was not possible to close the issue with Crimea, there are also problems with the Donbass, the South Stream has shrunk to 2 pipes, and Syria has hung with another headache (if we go out, they will demolish Assad, which will make us look like idiots, but it’s also difficult and useless to sit).
I don’t know who came up with the “Ukrainian Blitzkrieg”. If we were given real introductory information, we would at least indicate that the original plan is controversial, that we need to double-check a lot. A lot of things. Now we got into the shit somewhere up to the neck. And it is not clear what to do. “Denazification” and “demilitarization” are not analytical categories, because they do not have clearly defined parameters by which one can determine the level of accomplishment or non-completion of the task.
Now it remains to be seen that some fucking adviser will convince the top to start a conflict with Europe demanding to reduce some sanctions. Or reduce, or war. What if they refuse? Now I do not rule out that then we will be drawn into a real international conflict, like Hitler in 1939. And then our Z will be compared to us with a swastika.
Is there a possibility of a local nuclear strike? Yes. Not for military purposes (it will not give anything - this is a defense breakthrough weapon), but with the aim of intimidating others. At the same time, the soil is being prepared to turn everything to Ukraine - Naryshkin and his SVR are now digging the earth to prove that they secretly created nuclear weapons there. Damn, they are now hammering on what we have long studied and dismantled: you can’t draw evidence here on your knee, and the presence of specialists and uranium (Ukraine has a lot of depleted isotope 238) is nothing. There the production cycle is such that you can’t do it imperceptibly. You can’t even make a “dirty” bomb imperceptibly, but the fact that their old nuclear power plants can produce weapons-grade plutonium (plants like REB-1000 produce it in minimal quantities as a “by-product” of the reaction) - so the Americans introduced such control there with the involvement of the IAEA, that sucking on the topic is stupid.
Do you know what will happen next week? Well, even after two. Now it will cover us so much that we will start to miss the hungry 90s. While the auction was closed, Nabiullina seemed to be taking normal steps - but this is all like plugging a hole in a dam with a finger. It will still break through, and even stronger. Nothing will be decided in 3, 5, or 10 days.
Kadyrov beats his hoof for a reason - they have their own adventures there. He created for himself the image of the most influential and invincible. And if it falls once, it will be taken down by its own people. He will no longer be the owner of the winning teip.
We go further. Syria. “The guys will hold out, everything will be over in Ukraine - and there in Syria we will again strengthen everything in positions.” And now, at any moment, they can wait there for the contingent to run out of resources - and such a heat will set in … Turkey blocks the straits - to transport supplies there by planes, it’s like heating an oven with money.
Notice that all this is happening at the same time, we don’t even have time to bring everything into one heap. We have a situation, like in Germany in the 43-44th. At the start right away. Sometimes I am already lost from this overwork, sometimes it seems that everything was a dream and it was a dream, that everything is as before.
In prisons, by the way, it will be worse. Now the nuts will begin to tighten so that to the bloody ichor. Everywhere. To be honest, purely technically, this remains the only chance to keep the situation - we are already in the mode of total mobilization. But you can’t stay in such a regime for a long time, and we have ambiguity with the timing and it will only get worse for now. From mobilization, management always goes astray. Yes, and imagine: you can run a hundred meters in a snatch, but it’s bad to go to a marathon distance and give a jerk with all your might. Here we rushed with the Ukrainian question, as if we were running a hundred meters, and fit into a cross-country marathon.
And that’s what I’m talking about very, very briefly.
From the cynical, I will only add that I do not believe that VV Putin will press the red button to destroy the whole world.
Firstly, there is more than one person making a decision, at least someone will jump off. And there are a lot of people there - there is no “one-man red button”.
Secondly, there are some doubts that everything is functioning successfully there. Experience shows that the greater the transparency and control, the easier it is to identify shortcomings. And where it is not clear who controls and how, but always bravura reports - everything is always wrong there. I’m not sure if the red button system works as advertised. In addition, the plutonium charge must be changed every 10 years.
Thirdly, and this is the most vile and sad thing, I personally do not believe in the readiness to sacrifice oneself of a person who does not let the members of the Federation Council, but his closest representatives and ministers, come close to him. For fear of the coronavirus or an attack, it doesn’t matter. If you are afraid to let the most trusted people near you, then how will you dare to destroy yourself and your loved ones, inclusive?
If anything - ask, but I can not answer for several days. We are in rush mode, and there are more and more tasks.
In general, our reports are peppy, but everything flies in the pi_du.
Never before has this gulagu.net source swearing, writing short and to the point. But even now he…
Don’t forget @Sen_JoeManchin did this too https://t.co/RP7G7da2sx
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 5, 2022
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
I questioned @ZelenskyyUa about the need for the US to ban Russian energy imports and he wholeheartedly agreed. We must ensure the full commitment of the US govt is behind the Ukrainian people and prevent Putin from gaining control of Ukraine. #BanRussianImports #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/YmbInxHvn0
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) March 5, 2022
This includes supporting the transfer of Soviet-era military jets from Poland and any other nation to Ukraine’s military forces to counter Russian jets and cruise missiles. #StandWithUkraine
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) March 5, 2022
BREAKING: Putin has instructed his government to prepare a list of countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia, its firms or any Russian nationals.
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 5, 2022
Every time I think the House GOP has run out of terrible people, another one emerges. https://t.co/QuGjk8Tb7q
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 5, 2022
Grateful to @vonderleyen 🇪🇺 for an important decision to give immediately residency rights in the EU to Ukrainians flowing to Europe because of Russian aggression. The first tranche of EUR 500 million provided by EU would help Ukrainians to ensure decent living conditions.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 5, 2022
Yes.
It goes and then resurges. It’s obvious when Russian or Russian Adjacent trolls are knocked off line en masse, but they typically reconstitute within 24 hours. https://t.co/ZxLNA9fBrY— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 5, 2022
How long before he’s on InfoWars? pic.twitter.com/sBDhEVv35Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 5, 2022
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another one who needs some duct tape across the mouth.
Not sure if real or not, 24hr rule and all:
Who. Did. This? pic.twitter.com/nbOGn7e1CX
— FakeJoeBiden (@fake_biden) March 5, 2022
re: #106 Teukka
Whomever that FSB official was, it’s clear that at least someone up there sees that this “short, glorious little war” is going to end in a fiasco. There’s a tone of ‘how the hell are we gonna get our nuts out of the wringer on this one?’ in that memo and that shines through the machine translation.
And with Putin saying sanctions are tantamount to a declaration of war, it looks like the little dictator is starting to realize just how badly he’s fucked up.
Quote of the day:
It’s always something, war, plague, disaster, angry gods, burning nuclear power plants, fire and poison toads falling from the sky, Nickelback. Something.
Jim Wright (StoneKettle)
re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg
I can only imagine what Dick was saying.
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m surprised he hasn’t been on Infowars already.
re: #118 Dr Lizardo
Whomever that FSB official was, it’s clear that at least someone up there sees that this “short, glorious little war” is going to end in a fiasco. There’s a tone of ‘how the hell are we gonna get our nuts out of the wringer on this one?’ in that memo and that shines through the machine translation.
And with Putin saying sanctions are tantamount to a declaration of war, it looks like the little dictator is starting to realize just how badly he’s fucked up.
“Clench your teeth and take it like a man” kinda sorta shines through in the machine translated text for me.
OK so a Lizard who I’m frenz on FB with posted about 40hr sous vide corned beef. Like WTF? Must be as tender as a room temp stick of butter.
re: #124 PhillyPretzel
Corned Beer? Beef?
That’s what I assumed. I’m getting better at reading typo I think.
re: #102 Greup
An operation might not have to be military.
It could be something like burning down a few orthodox churches in each of the three baltic states, blowing up radiostation or checkpoints at the border, killing a russian major on either side of the border. And then use the propaganda that the west is attacking to get his people in line. It could rapidly get very complicated.
Maybe, but Trump has so manipulated his people that he can’t get them to take the Covid vaccine. They have trouble believing anything he says.
Just to help your life be a bit more surreal.
re: #50 darthstar
I wouldn’t mind if we sent Ukraine a shit ton of Patriot SAMs.
That would be cool. When they finished reading the “how to” documents in late 2023.
Edit: also they had SA300’s which are near patriot equivalent, but the Russians took then out with ballistic missiles.
Looks like Russia is trying to bring in more replacements/warm bodies:
NEWS: Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine in the coming days and weeks, a US official told CNN, as a senior Western intelligence official warned that Russia could soon begin to “bombard cities into submission.”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 5, 2022
And is losing some:
According to Putin’s plan, Belarus’ troops had to enter Ukraine a week ago. But something went wrong. Some officers resigned, some fled Belarus and contacted us. Conscripts are massively fleeing. Apparently, some generals opposed the participation of Belarus in the war. pic.twitter.com/a4xN6GaQqk
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) March 5, 2022
Today, we’re announcing the Tripadvisor Foundation will match all donations to World Central Kitchen’s Ukraine relief response. We hope you’ll join us in supporting @WCKitchen’s efforts. https://t.co/lZr1WR4KSJ pic.twitter.com/D4xxR6QSPL
— Tripadvisor (@Tripadvisor) March 2, 2022
Just so you understand the level of crackdown on speech in Russia, a person was charged for this harmless tweet, which she deleted 2h later. She was found using face recognition in subway and the tweet screenshot in the case shows it was taken half a minute after posting. pic.twitter.com/h7BRong6mv
— banteg (@bantg) March 5, 2022
Who has Eric Prince Getting Rich in Ukraine on their Dystopian Hell Hole bingo card?
re: #105 No Malarkey!
Even Mitch McConnell would second that remark.
“senator rick scott, please delete your account.”
re: #128 John Hughes
That would be cool. When they finished reading the “how to” documents in late 2023.
Edit: also they had SA300’s which are near patriot equivalent, but the Russians took then out with ballistic missiles.
Bringing a few companies of UKR to Ft. Bliss for training might send a message.
Back at work.
New Mexico’s very own @ArvisoTom, publisher of the @navajotimes, is hanging up his newscap this year. I will sorely miss his spirited presence and trustworthy voice in the press room. Ahee’hee’ Tom.
— Senator Ben Ray Luján (@SenatorLujan) March 5, 2022
Snowden’s fears were well-founded. He predicted he would live in a totalitarian state that controls the internet.
— Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro) March 5, 2022
re: #133 BigPapa
Who has Eric Prince Getting Rich in Ukraine on their Dystopian Hell Hole bingo card?
I wouldn’t yell “Bingo” on that one yet: Russia likely has its own sources for mercenaries; they don’t have to go so far afield - yet. These mercs might be “domestic” Russians, or from the Caucasus, or one of the Central Asian “‘stans”.
Don’t know this person, they showed up in my timeline:
I am afraid I have some bad news.
My wife had a brain hemorrhage after her heart surgery this morning and had to have emergency brain surgery. While she is clinging to life, her prognosis is very poor. I am emotionally drained and heart broken.— Mr Frost (@frosty3737) March 5, 2022
Final Wife update.
The neurosurgeon just called me and informed me that my wife, my best friend, is brain dead and there is nothing more that can be done. Her son is picking me up so we can go say good-bye to her.
Again, thanks for all the support everyone, it means a lot.— Mr Frost (@frosty3737) March 5, 2022
re: #67 darthstar
I had to retweet that. I didn’t take credit for it.
re: #138 Jay C
Yeah, not yelling Bingo yet. But I’m confident they thought has crossed his mind and if the call comes proposals would be sent back before a fortnight.
re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter
The war is 10 days old; that doesn’t seem like a huge number of aircraft to lose in that period.
It’s a lot more than we lost in Iraq.
re: #133 BigPapa
Who has Eric Prince Getting Rich in Ukraine on their Dystopian Hell Hole bingo card?
A guy’s got to make a buck. No problem with it as long as he rides in the first track.
re: #138 Jay C
I wouldn’t yell “Bingo” on that one yet: Russia likely has its own sources for mercenaries; they don’t have to go so far afield - yet. These mercs might be “domestic” Russians, or from the Caucasus, or one of the Central Asian “‘stans”.
If Eric Prince and his mercs go after Yelensky I hope they get the same welcome Putin’s mercs did.
Maybe I’m overreacting but it sure seems like supplying Ukraine with fighter jets and presumably maintenance services (because they need a lot of maintenance) would be a major escalation.
re: #118 Dr Lizardo
Whomever that FSB official was, it’s clear that at least someone up there sees that this “short, glorious little war” is going to end in a fiasco. There’s a tone of ‘how the hell are we gonna get our nuts out of the wringer on this one?’ in that memo and that shines through the machine translation.
And with Putin saying sanctions are tantamount to a declaration of war, it looks like the little dictator is starting to realize just how badly he’s fucked up.
“whoever.” (goddamnit, some of you are killing me inside). :-)
re: #138 Jay C
I wouldn’t yell “Bingo” on that one yet: Russia likely has its own sources for mercenaries; they don’t have to go so far afield - yet. These mercs might be “domestic” Russians, or from the Caucasus, or one of the Central Asian “‘stans”.
The Wagner Group
Russia sent The Wagner Group—named after Hitler’s favourite composer—to assassinate Ukraine’s Jewish president. Its leader, Dmitri Utkin, proudly displays his Nazi tattoos.
Is that what Putin means by “de-nazification”?https://t.co/sYLLcVh931 pic.twitter.com/hG8jurA1oe— Julie Lenarz #IStandWithUkraine (@MsJulieLenarz) March 5, 2022
re: #144 darthstar
If Eric Prince and his mercs go after Yelensky I hope they get the same welcome Putin’s mercs did.
Who’s to say he wouldn’t send a few bois to go fight FOR Ukraine? After all, as DD remarks in #143, “A guy’s gotta make a buck”….
re: #145 Charles Johnson
Maybe I’m overreacting but it sure seems like supplying Ukraine with fighter jets and presumably maintenance services (because they need a lot of maintenance) would be a major escalation.
Not as much as putting a couple carrier groups in the Black Sea.
re: #145 Charles Johnson
Maybe I’m overreacting but it sure seems like supplying Ukraine with fighter jets and presumably maintenance services (because they need a lot of maintenance) would be a major escalation.
Didn’t several NATO countries already provide some fighter jets to Ukraine? I’m sure I saw a list from places like Poland a few days ago.
This can happen when a country invests in its kleptocrats rather than in its economy.
Always, take these with a grain of salt as there is a lot of disinformation out there. I posted it as there is reason to expect that the majority of Russia’s modern equipment is already in Ukraine. With its reported losses, raising new units probably will require tapping older stocks of equipment.
Btw, I was curious about the lack of reports of the reputed new Russian super-tank, the Armata 14. Turns out that production was first pushed back to 2025 and then the main production run was cancelled. This after the cancellation of its predecessor, the T95. Both reportedly after “fiscal shortfalls”.
About 30 Russian OTR-21 Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile systems spotted moving from Minsk towards Gomel in Belarus.
The OTR-21 is an older, shorter range & more inaccurate system that was originally planned to have been replaced in Russian service with the Iskander by 2020. https://t.co/73m3SE2kXK— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) March 5, 2022
re: #150 No Malarkey!
Didn’t several NATO countries already provide some fighter jets to Ukraine? I’m sure I saw a list from places like Poland a few days ago.
It turned out not to be the case. the nations involved were ones that clearly don’t have enough aircraft to give away ones that they are actually relying on. Now why the U.S. can’t find some African warlords who might be willing to part with Migs and Sukhois is beyond me. I’m assuming Russia supplied fighter planes to a host of third-world countries.
I’m really upset. I had a filling come out and there’s a hole in a critical tooth. My sunflower see game requires seed storage, cracking, and chewing on opposing sides of my boast hole. After years of refined technique.
This is not good.
re: #153 BigPapa
I’m really upset. I had a filling come out and there’s a hole in a critical tooth. My sunflower see game requires seed storage, cracking, and chewing on opposing sides of my boast hole. After years of refined technique.
This is not good.
I had that happen once. Not enjoyable.
re: #109 Teukka
Easier to create a list of nations that haven’t, I should think.
Russian “influencers” on TikTok defend the invasion of Ukraine by giving the same exact propagandist speech as each other pic.twitter.com/dJo3lIdhT5
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) March 4, 2022
re: #152 steve_davis
It turned out not to be the case. the nations involved were ones that clearly don’t have enough aircraft to give away ones that they are actually relying on. Now why the U.S. can’t find some African warlords who might be willing to part with Migs and Sukhois is beyond me. I’m assuming Russia supplied fighter planes to a host of third-world countries.
I found a story in which the NATO governments denied they were sending planes. newsweek.com.
Turn that bitch around and fire it at the Russians.
#Ukraine: In the vicinity of #Mariupol, Ukrainian forces captured a 122mm Grad-pattern MRL, killing 5 Russian soldiers; possibly an ambush. Note RPG-26. pic.twitter.com/OsG3SWKMNF
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) March 5, 2022
Just checked and yes, the German Embassy really did say this 💪🏻 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/eV1ZyifF85
— Tits McGee 🇺🇦 (@Scientits) March 5, 2022
re: #156 Teukka
That reminds me of the Sinclair Group propaganda they required be read by local newscasters around the country.
Wohooo, mastercard!
Mastercard suspends Russian operationshttps://t.co/ORJamZeY2Z
h/t @zerohedge pic.twitter.com/gCvVc1grpq— Steve Lookner (@lookner) March 5, 2022
re: #146 steve_davis
“whoever.” (goddamnit, some of you are killing me inside). :-)
That’s what happens when you let the grammar checker talk you into something.
re: #162 lizardofid
And I hope the valkyries dropped them in the Black Sea.
Nononono. Some appropriate fountain in the Hague, surrounded by SWAT teams…
According to Putin’s plan, Belarus’ troops had to enter Ukraine a week ago. But something went wrong. Some officers resigned, some fled Belarus and contacted us. Conscripts are massively fleeing. Apparently, some generals opposed the participation of Belarus in the war. pic.twitter.com/a4xN6GaQqk
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) March 5, 2022
Every war is, in essence, an adaptation battle. Learning, evolving and improving are the keys to battlefield and strategic success. Those who can do this faster and better have the greatest chance of victory. A good piece from @washingtonpost https://t.co/J4AnuzANh1
— Major General (just retired!) Mick Ryan (@WarintheFuture) March 5, 2022
re: #153 BigPapa
I’m really upset. I had a filling come out and there’s a hole in a critical tooth. My sunflower see game requires seed storage, cracking, and chewing on opposing sides of my boast hole. After years of refined technique.
This is not good.
Sorry to hear this. That definitely stinks.
Sounds like it hit on a weekend when it is harder to track down one’s dentist.
Let me leave you with the earworm thought of the Morris Alpert “Dental Song”:
Fillings,
Wo-o-o Fillings….
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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In recent weeks, sources have heard the former president on the phone swearing gratuitously and asking things like, “What the fuck is going on” with Truth Social. And he’s demanded to know why more people aren’t using it. https://t.co/udaydwjt3z
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 5, 2022
A smart business woulda done market research first
Visa too.
BREAKING: In a major blow to Russia’s financial market, Mastercard and Visa suspend ALL operations in Russia.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) March 5, 2022
re: #170 darthstar
I figured VISA would follow. The services are connected.
re: #169 Dangerman
A smart business woulda done market research first
Only losers do market research first.
Antivaxxer pulls her gun on another motorist who had a “vaccinated” bumper sticker on his car. yahoo.com
re: #172 BigPapa
Only losers do market research first.
Gosh, it’s so weird to see a “can’t lose” business tycoon fail at something for the first time. //
re: #169 Dangerman
A smart business woulda done market research first
They should just tell him the Russian bot farmers have been kinda preoccupied the last couple of weeks.
re: #174 Barefoot Grin
Gosh, it’s so weird to see a “can’t lose” business tycoon fail at something for the first time. //
I don’t know what the idiot expects when he won’t even use the app himself, and he is the main reason any of his fans would use it.
The pillow guy up to more nonsense.
Mike Lindell announces today that “hopefully next week” (😂) he will be filing “the most important class action lawsuit in world history” to ban all voting machines in America. pic.twitter.com/gg4PDY2ZpS
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 5, 2022
re: #174 Barefoot Grin
Gosh, it’s so weird to see a “can’t lose” business tycoon fail at something for the first time. //
NOT his first time.
But different from his typical convoluted RE deals: this time he can’t just bury the problem under a pile of lawyers and accountants.
Putin apparently rolling older and less accurate mobile missile launchers out of cold storage. This means they really were ill prepared for more than a quick win.
re: #176 No Malarkey!
I don’t know what the idiot expects when he won’t even use the app himself, and he is the main reason any of his fans would use it.
Ha! I didn’t realize that he doesn’t even use it himself yet. He’s waiting for the equivalent of the crowds that came to see him descend on the escalator, I guess. It’s too bad that Devin has to personally verify every application for membership.
re: #174 Barefoot Grin
Gosh, it’s so weird to see a “can’t lose” business tycoon fail at something for the first time. //
..and in record time
“They look like a bunch of lazy bums,” Wohl tells me by phone, with Jack Burkman sitting nearby. “We want to lead them to Washington!” Truckers say Wohl is going to get someone hurt, while further stating the prankster is with antifa.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 5, 2022
Oh noes!
Luxury fashion brands such as Hermès, Chanel and Gucci will temporarily cease trading in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hermès, Chanel and Gucci among luxury fashion brands to close Russian stores
news.yahoo.com
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Botswana, the world’s second-largest diamond producer, is looking to play a more prominent role in the industry as No. 1 player Russia faces international outrage https://t.co/ZvFcwiV75u
— Bloomberg (@business) March 4, 2022
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Zara owner Inditex closes Russian stores and online platform https://t.co/Pzqv4DLExK pic.twitter.com/x3rrPMIcNB
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 5, 2022
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Italy’s Prada says it is suspending retail operations in Russia https://t.co/MJBs3shf9s pic.twitter.com/Y2UZcvKEmg
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 5, 2022
electoral-vote.com todays take on the probability of nukes
There’s a bit more at the link
We just cannot imagine Putin getting to that point. He’s had an escape plan in place for decades, and if it got to that point, he’d use it. He could easily live a life of luxury in Cuba or Venezuela, at least until the fateful day that he drank the wrong cup of tea. Meanwhile, Russia would take a beating in a nuclear counter-strike. Putin would care about that if he’s planning to stay, and he would probably also care if he’s planning to run, since a devastated Russia means many angry oligarchs, and many angry oligarchs means more people looking to assassinate him.
That leaves us with the second situation, namely a deterrent nuclear strike. Basically, the idea here would be to fire off a few very small nuclear weapons (note that “very small” is relative; even the smallest nukes today have a yield exceeding that of the weapons used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The implied threat would be “you better back down/negotiate with me/do what I want, or I’ll unleash the big boys.” Note that this would also be a desperation move, albeit of a different type than the Kim situation.
Anyhow, these are the two possibilities that we can see, but again recall that both are very, very unlikely.
re: #138 Jay C
I wouldn’t yell “Bingo” on that one yet: Russia likely has its own sources for mercenaries; they don’t have to go so far afield - yet. These mercs might be “domestic” Russians, or from the Caucasus, or one of the Central Asian “‘stans”.
Yeah, hard to see blackwater, or whatever they’re called today, working for Russia in Ukraine.
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
You hate to see it./
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
This is actually an active conspiracy theory. Trump and Putin are destroying Fauci’s factories in Ukraine.
They are also celebrating Trump and Putin working together to destroy Dr. Fauci’s virus factories in Ukraine.
I wish I was joking.— Mr. Fungi 🚂 (@Mister_Fun_Guy) March 5, 2022
re: #145 Charles Johnson
Maybe I’m overreacting but it sure seems like supplying Ukraine with fighter jets and presumably maintenance services (because they need a lot of maintenance) would be a major escalation.
My read is that Poland was ready to do this but the US stopped them. Ukraine uses MIG 29s as well, so presumably they can handle the maintenance.
re: #180 darthstar
Putin apparently rolling older and less accurate mobile missile launchers out of cold storage. This means they really were ill prepared for more than a quick win.
I wonder how those tires are doing.
Fauci hiding virus factories in all those Ukrainian high rise apartments. What a twist.
re: #150 No Malarkey!
Didn’t several NATO countries already provide some fighter jets to Ukraine? I’m sure I saw a list from places like Poland a few days ago.
Deal never went through, guessing US said no and blocked it, which is why Zelenski was asking US Congress for those jets.
re: #194 jaunte
Fauci hiding virus factories in all those Ukrainian high rise apartments. What a twist.
No one saw that plot unfurling.
Just wait until they find out that Fauci is the head of the freemasons!
re: #147 No Malarkey!
If you’ve ever played any of the Wolfenstein games, that dude is definitely a mini-boss in at least one of them.
re: #169 Dangerman
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A smart business woulda done market research first
Seems like Trump could ask himself why people aren’t using it since my understanding is that he made one post on the first day and nothing since.
re: #150 No Malarkey!
Didn’t several NATO countries already provide some fighter jets to Ukraine? I’m sure I saw a list from places like Poland a few days ago.
It was announced by Ukraine, but the countries didn’t actually do it.
Thread:
This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya 🇺🇦 She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that was without food for 3 daysThe car she was in was targeted at close range Yalanskaya stayed behind in Kyiv to volunteer as everyone fled around her pic.twitter.com/0Q9ZtLy8bo
— Ashleigh Stewart (@Ash_Stewart_) March 5, 2022
another explanation:
1) A clip of President Putin’s meeting with Aeroflot employees today has gone viral after ridiculous claims by some verified accounts, who should know better, that he was behind a green screen or the meeting was CGI because “his hand groes through the mic”. pic.twitter.com/r9VmIZbR2X
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 5, 2022
2) This is an illusion caused by a low-res video and Twitter’s compression. Check high-res videos/images of the meeting and there’s nothing unusual about the mic and Mr Putin’s hand.
The same conspiracies were spread about this Joe Biden video last year.https://t.co/79Ov369zr1 pic.twitter.com/WX3AdLp5PP— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) March 5, 2022
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
The irony here is that when I watch the clip of Putin on Desktop, the HD clip is clear & has no issues.
But when I watch it on my phone, Twitter’s compression issues appear in the HD clip as well.
Here’s a link to the HD clip so you can see for yourself https://t.co/F51S80h88W— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 5, 2022
re: #62 steve_davis
i know everyone worries about putin using nukes, but I have absolute certainty that Russia has at least informal ways of keeping a mad emperor from nuking the world. After all, there can be no question in any general’s mind that a “limited” use of nuclear weapons anywhere in Europe is going to result in a “limited” use of nuclear weapons on Russian cities.
As far as we know the only country in the world where on the ground personnel refused to use nukes even when ordered was the USSR. At least twice
Talked to @elonmusk. I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. Discussed possible space projects 🚀. But I’ll talk about this after the war.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 5, 2022
LOL junior bone spurs…
I’m with him!!! pic.twitter.com/borJW1fduN
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 5, 2022
President of Moldova:
We have almost 30.000 Ukrainian children in #Moldova. We are their family until this madness ends. Praying for peace in #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/sghrr3OS0o
— Maia Sandu (@sandumaiamd) March 5, 2022
When you refer to Zelensky with your friends/family/acquaintances, make sure you say “Ukrainian President Zelensky, who Trump tried to coerce into accusing Biden of wrongdoing.”
I talked to a friend today who very much knows who Zelensky is now, but had no idea that Trump’s first impeachment was over an attempt to blackmail him.
This context matters. And it should be in every American news report on him.
Not everyone who is plugged in now was in 2019.— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) March 5, 2022
re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
Why doesn’t it support Android? That seems an odd restriction on your product distribution.
Uh, incompetence? Just maybe?
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL junior bone spurs…
Excellent propaganda Tovarisch! Soon Russia make another big investment in Trump property!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 5, 2022
re: #209 John Hughes
Uh, incompetence? Just maybe?
Supposedly Truth Social will roll out on Android this month.
Douglas MacGregor, nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany; appointed by Trump as sr advisor to the Secretary of Defense, says Russian forces have been “too gentle” and “I don’t see anything heroic” about Zelensky.
This is the Putin wing of the GOP.
pic.twitter.com/Orz8krh1it— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) March 5, 2022
re: #84 Greup
So I’m more worried that he would do an operation against the Baltic States or Finland and just dare NATO to fire back.
uh, the “Baltic states” *are* NATO. No question about any “dare”.
Note: the “Putin Wing” of the GOP is 99% of the GOP.
re: #212 jaunte
I’m truly annoyed that I have to agree with Liz Cheney, but here we are. However she and other “sensible” Republicans didn’t do a damned thing to stop what the rest of us saw happening while they dismissed us as hysterical and exaggerating what we could see unfolding. So, yay, too little too late.
Russia is running out of trucks, a logistical nightmare. Good thread.
Ukrainian path to victory is clear. Go for every Russian truck they can see, particularly fuel trucks. Russian Army will freeze in its tracks.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 5, 2022
re: #215 A Mom Anon
She sees which way the wind is blowing.
Outside Lviv station, which is thronging with exhausted refugees fleeing war in eastern Ukraine, an accomplished pianist is playing “What a Wonderful World.” It’s hauntingly beautiful. pic.twitter.com/Xm5itr8jl7
— Andrew RC Marshall (@Journotopia) March 5, 2022
Here’s Iowa GOPer @ChuckGrassley endangering President Zelenksy’s life after being asked not to tweet during the meeting in case it alerted Russia to his location. https://t.co/NTWrEXzNUM
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) March 5, 2022
Another good thread by Phillips OBrien.
Been trying to get my head around what is happening in the Ukrainian War, as it represents something different than we have seen before. This is my first group of thoughts, so probably deeply flawed, but I think what we are seeing should be called: Semi-Symmetric Warfare.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 2, 2022
re: #195 JC1
Deal never went through, guessing US said no and blocked it, which is why Zelenski was asking US Congress for those jets.
U.S. had nothing to do with it. The countries involved have limited air forces and didn’t want to give up sometimes half of them to Ukraine, while then having to train fighters up in whatever the U.S. would have provided them with. Probably something better, no doubt, but still, you don’t want to have half your air force disappear right before you discover that Putin’s gone Full Tilt and decided to also invade the rest of Europe.
re: #221 steve_davis
U.S. had nothing to do with it. The countries involved have limited air forces and didn’t want to give up sometimes half of them to Ukraine, while then having to train fighters up in whatever the U.S. would have provided them with. Probably something better, no doubt, but still, you don’t want to have half your air force disappear right before you discover that Putin’s gone Full Tilt and decided to also invade the rest of Europe.
What is putin going to invade the rest of Europe with?
re: #221 steve_davis
U.S. had nothing to do with it. The countries involved have limited air forces and didn’t want to give up sometimes half of them to Ukraine, while then having to train fighters up in whatever the U.S. would have provided them with. Probably something better, no doubt, but still, you don’t want to have half your air force disappear right before you discover that Putin’s gone Full Tilt and decided to also invade the rest of Europe.
Drones, Javelins and Stingers may be more useful to Ukraine than fixed wing aircraft anyway.
And effective UAVs of course. I wonder if UAVs. Stingers and Javelins are actually more useful now to the Ukrainians than traditional fixed wing aircraft being rushed in?
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 5, 2022
re: #204 John Hughes
As far as we know the only country in the world where on the ground personnel refused to use nukes even when ordered was the USSR. At least twice
was one of them the famous “flock of geese” episode from the 1950’s?
re: #222 I Would Prefer Not To
What is putin going to invade the rest of Europe with?
A military band, I guess. It looks like Russia is having great difficulty supplying the army its got in Ukraine.
Clips from Zelinsky’s former TV show where he plays a history teacher who’s elected president to replace corrupt politicians https://t.co/jGhXUIPDY3
— Petrichor (@Sinabhfuil) March 2, 2022
re: #208 Belafon
I talked to a friend today who very much knows who Zelensky is now, but had no idea that Trump’s first impeachment was over an attempt to blackmail him.
This context matters. And it should be in every American news report on him.
Not everyone who is plugged in now was in 2019.— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) March 5, 2022
Right.
an impeachment.
But people weren’t “plugged in”.
Cause it’s oh so commonplace
re: #221 steve_davis
U.S. had nothing to do with it. The countries involved have limited air forces and didn’t want to give up sometimes half of them to Ukraine, while then having to train fighters up in whatever the U.S. would have provided them with. Probably something better, no doubt, but still, you don’t want to have half your air force disappear right before you discover that Putin’s gone Full Tilt and decided to also invade the rest of Europe.
That’s fair, but Poland is moving away from MIGs to f16s and f35s
re: #216 No Malarkey!
Russia is running out of trucks, a logistical nightmare. Good thread.
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re: #152 steve_davis
Now why the U.S. can’t find some African warlords who might be willing to part with Migs and Sukhois is beyond me
because almost no “African warlords” (going heavy with the fucking racism there, eh?) have significant numbers of “migs and sukhois”.
And even if they did, how would *you* respond to someone who came along saying “nice little air force you have there, how much”?
Servant of the People trailer:
followed by 43 minutes of the series, with English subtitles
NSFW cartoon…
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re: #211 No Malarkey!
Supposedly Truth Social will roll out on Android this month.
And it will be celebrated as a liberator!
re: #178 No Malarkey!
Mike Lindell announces today that “hopefully next week” (😂) he will be filing “the most important class action lawsuit in world history” to ban all voting
machinesin America.
How difficult would it be to get some harpoon missiles to Odessa? Taking out a few Russian ships, or at least the threat of such, sounds like something that’s needed.
re: #195 JC1
Deal never went through, guessing US said no and blocked it, which is why Zelenski was asking US Congress for those jets.
No, the US didn’t block it. Ukraine announced it before getting formal approval from the countries it states. There was miscommunication. It happens in war.
re: #222 I Would Prefer Not To
What is putin going to invade the rest of Europe with?
My personal opinion is that those countries, at the time, didn’t want to be seen as aiding Ukraine and invoking the wrath of Russia, and would therefore need those planes if Putin decided to go after them. Make sure to check the hindsight we all have now about the strength of Putin’s military.
Oh boy Ukraine shot down a hotshot pilot today it appears…
It looks like it’s raining in Ukraine today: A Mi-24 was shot down, then a Su-30SM, a Su-34, another Su-34, a Mi-28, a Mi-35 and two Mi-8s - most of these in the Bashtanka region of the Mykolaiv Oblast.
It looks like it’s raining in Ukraine today….A Mi-24 was shot down, then a Su-30SM, a Su-34, another Su-34, a Mi-28, a Mi-35 and two Mi-8s - most of these in the Bashtanka region of the Mykolaiv Oblast.
Please mind: we are updating data as new info is coming in.
CASE 1
Su-34, ‘Red 24’, shot down over Chernihiv. One crewmember was certain Major Krasnoruchev. Is not going to ring any bells to most of you. It does ring an alarm bell for me - because he was so proudly standing next to Assad (and Putin) for photographers, back in 2016.
re: #222 I Would Prefer Not To
What is putin going to invade the rest of Europe with?
well, we know that now. Somehow we didn’t realize that after the first wave, Putin is having to use white-panel vans and Amazon Prime delivery to get gas to his vehicles. So maybe those fighter jets can go to Ukraine now after all! Actually what they probably want and need more than fighter jets is just more and even better drones. Some predator drones that have been repainted a nice Ukraine two-tone would be lovely, and I’ll bet those things can come down and take off from highways if necessary.
Don’t stand in front of this guy:
JORDAN DAVIS OFFICIAL TIME: 4.78
WOW.
📺: #NFLCombine on @nflnetwork— NFL (@NFL) March 5, 2022
re: #239 William Lewis
Oh boy Ukraine shot down a hotshot pilot today it appears…
8 aircraft shot down today? Hope that is an accurate count and not just propaganda to raise the spirits of those citizens huddling in bomb shelters.
re: #230 John Hughes
because almost no “African warlords” (going heavy with the fucking racism there, eh?) have significant numbers of “migs and sukhois”.
And even if they did, how would *you* respond to someone who came along saying “nice little air force you have there, how much”?
Jesus John, just shut the fuck up. God, you have some issues.
Oh, and here, try this, you big putz:
As part of the constant dialogue, I had another conversation with @POTUS. The agenda included the issues of security, financial support for Ukraine and the continuation of sanctions against Russia.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 6, 2022
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sigh. This is why I don’t watch these things too often.
Mr. Macho-I-will-die-for-Arkansas repeated says that he does not know what is going on over there (Ukraine). Buddy, if you don’t know, then stop talking about it.
But, no, speaking as a guy who doesn’t know, he goes on to explain:
“you got Hunter Biden and his son, they’re using our tax dollars; hey, Ukrainian government, if you don’t do what we say, we’re taking our tax dollars…”
Hmm… seems that story rings a bit of a bell somewhere. Just a few details off.
Erik Prince is Team Putin. There is no way he is going to assist the Ukrainians, except perhaps by stabbing them in the back
re: #240 steve_davis
well, we know that now. Somehow we didn’t realize that after the first wave, Putin is having to use white-panel vans and Amazon Prime delivery to get gas to his vehicles. So maybe those fighter jets can go to Ukraine now after all! Actually what they probably want and need more than fighter jets is just more and even better drones. Some predator drones that have been repainted a nice Ukraine two-tone would be lovely, and I’ll bet those things can come down and take off from highways if necessary.
And with the sanctions in place, Russia will have a hard time replacing the trucks it loses because they import parts, especially the computer chips modern vehicles are loaded with.
re: #243 steve_davis
Jesus John, just shut the fuck up. God, you have some issues.
Issues?
Seeing Africans and their governments as actual people rather than comic book characters?
Trying to think of realistic solutions to this shitshow rather than idiotic “just give em a bunch of predators”.
You *are* the daily mail, “interesting” Steve Davis.
Move over Gondor, its the Butlerian Jihad of lawsuits this time.
— Just Another Public Domain Cow with giant horns (@DevinsOtherCow2) March 6, 2022
re: #242 Hecuba’s daughter
8 aircraft shot down today? Hope that is an accurate count and not just propaganda to raise the spirits of those citizens huddling in bomb shelters.
Near as I can find, it looks accurate. Videos, photos of wreckage, POW’s, etc.
Anyone have Apple TV+ ? If so, what’s worth watching? I have it free for 3 months. I want to check out “Severance” but apart from that I don’t have anything else in my sights.
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Yes and yes
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Anyone have Apple TV+ ? If so, what’s worth watching? I have it free for 3 months. I want to check out “Severance” but apart from that I don’t have anything else in my sights.
I enjoyed Foundation, but its very different from Asimov’s novels.
One Mi-35 Hind gunship is $36,000,000. One shoulder fired Stinger Missile is $119,320.
Talk about cost effective warfare.— Joe Mikolaitis (@Mikolaitis2) March 5, 2022
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re: #254 No Malarkey!
That was actually shot down with one of the Polish shoulder launched missiles which can track targets as low as 30 m off the ground. Stingers are better for higher targets…or so I have learned.
re: #256 darthstar
That was actually shot down with one of the Polish shoulder launched missiles which can track targets as low as 30 m off the ground. Stingers are better for higher targets…or so I have learned.
Stingers also don’t have the smoke trail that video shows.
This sounds exactly like you’d expect Cambodian electric psychedelic blues to sound like.
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Anyone have Apple TV+ ? If so, what’s worth watching? I have it free for 3 months. I want to check out “Severance” but apart from that I don’t have anything else in my sights.
Ted Lasso is great.
Foundation series was okay. Those are the only 2 shows I watched on apple+
re: #259 JC1
Ted Lasso is great.
Foundation series was okay. Those are the only 2 shows I watched on apple+
There’s the current thriller… I always forget its name… Severance.
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
For the free trial, check out Foundation. One of the plots is kind of forced, but the Empire part is good and the videography can be stunning.
re: #13 darthstar
Devin Nunes is having a bad day.
Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App
Because silence prefers to live in a vacuum?
Trump has yet to post on his own fucking site. He thinks people are going to visit his site when he can’t be bothered himself? Nunes has less social media experience than most everyone else on LGF. Yeah. He has the experience of being humiliated by a cow.
That cow has more experience with social media than Nunes, and Trump put him in charge of this grift/trap for metadata from his supporters. It’s been a week since the site supposedly opened, and yet there’s no evidence anyone is actually using it, especially Trump himself. If Trump can’t or wont use it, why would anyone else?
re: #249 No Malarkey!
Yeah, Lindell must be a fan of Dune, because he’s essentially declared war on machines, just as what happened in the Butlerian Jihad which led to the ban on thinking machines, and the rise of mentats to do those kinds of calculations.
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Anyone have Apple TV+ ? If so, what’s worth watching? I have it free for 3 months. I want to check out “Severance” but apart from that I don’t have anything else in my sights.
Foundation
There’s a few ways to describe Wohl. That undersells the fact that he’s facing indictments in multiple states on felony charges that could see him in prison for decades.https://t.co/2PwfKyaU1K
— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 5, 2022
re: #243 steve_davis
re: #261 John Hughes
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re: #264 lawhawk
Trump has yet to post on his own fucking site. He thinks people are going to visit his site when he can’t be bothered himself? Nunes has less social media experience than most everyone else on LGF. Yeah. He has the experience of being humiliated by a cow.
That cow has more experience with social media than Nunes, and Trump put him in charge of this grift/trap for metadata from his supporters. It’s been a week since the site supposedly opened, and yet there’s no evidence anyone is actually using it, especially Trump himself. If Trump can’t or wont use it, why would anyone else?
Nunes banned the cow from signing up for Truth Social. They clearly want to restrict membership to those that will worship at the OrangeMan’s feet and not dispute any of the “alternative facts” they will be spouting.
I don’t want to comment too much on Gosar’s condition but it does appear to be getting worse pic.twitter.com/aOnQl2D33o
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 5, 2022
GG is tweeting the anti-pro-Ukraine position, “The Ukrainians are fascists!”
Nobody suggests the Ukrainian government itself is neo-Nazi. That’s absurd. But mainstream western outlets have for years warned that these are powerful fascist militias with ties to the government. Saying that is now “pro-Putin” propaganda, but where will all these weapons go? pic.twitter.com/LOabyIuMRq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 5, 2022
It’s probably a good thing I’m a fat old fart with people here to care for…
re: #223 No Malarkey!
Drones, Javelins and Stingers may be more useful to Ukraine than fixed wing aircraft anyway.
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Force multipliers.
How much does it take to train a pilot? They’ve got to train against ground and air targets, need awareness of situation via radars and other measures to make sure that they can get to their targets.
UAVs are a force multiplier because a small team of pilots could control UAVs and not risk their own lives in the process. The cost is far less, but the damage they could do to ground targets is extreme. They can hold up convoys, pick off individual vehicles, and don’t expose pilots to risks of being inside the airframe.
Javelins can take out the tanks just as surely as an equivalent tank could. It’s clear that the Javelins can do extreme damage to tanks and less armored vehicles.
In the same way, Stingers can limit the usefulness of helicopters to get around bottlenecks of ground convoys, because deploying those stingers can mean the end of those helicopters with deadly efficiency.
It’s still a numbers game, and the Russians have a bigger military, but it’s becoming apparent to all but Putin that bigger isn’t better and Ukraine has not only held its own, but is bloodying the Russians badly.
It’s also a vivid reminder that Trump sought to extort Ukraine by withholding those Javelins unless Zelinsky opened that investigation into Biden. Trump didn’t care that there was nothing to investigate. He just wanted the appearance to make a talking point, but was willing to sacrifice Ukrainian freedom to do it. He was furthering Russia’s goals, whether wittingly or not.
re: #270 gocart mozart
Not getting worse fast enough.
re: #257 William Lewis
Stingers also don’t have the smoke trail that video shows.
I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be in an aircraft targeted by one of those. Same as the tank, missile crews and others who see someone with a RPG, NLAW, or Javelin pointed at them. I’m dead.
re: #275 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be in an aircraft targeted by one of those. Same as the tank, missile crews and others who see someone with a RPG, NLAW, or Javelin pointed at them. I’m dead.
Meh, easier to bail out of a tank than a submarine O_O
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
For All Mankind
re: #273 lawhawk
………
It’s also a vivid reminder that Trump sought to extort Ukraine by withholding those Javelins unless Zelinsky opened that investigation into Biden. Trump didn’t care that there was nothing to investigate. He just wanted the appearance to make a talking point, but was willing to sacrifice Ukrainian freedom to do it. He was furthering Russia’s goals, whether wittingly or not.
I vote for wittingly.
Sovereign citizen acting as her own attorney who has parleyed charges that would’ve gotten her a few days in jail at worst into months of pretrial detention set for a July 5, 2022 trial date. So that is at least another 4 months in jail until trial, unless she can figure out how not to act crazy and convince the judge to release her again.
Judge is setting July 5, 2022 trial date in unique Capitol breach case of Pauline Bauer
Bauer faces lower-level charges, but is serving pretrial detention due to outbursts, violations of court orders…while serving as own defense lawyer pic.twitter.com/xJuAkZeRYF— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 6, 2022
Hard to see how Moscow can achieve any political objectives in Ukraine. I always thought the war would be a terrible miscalculation. Don’t see any way military means will get them there now. Here we see how wrong Russian assumptions were about Ukraine. https://t.co/xvxP17U2bq
— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) March 5, 2022
When I said the Russians were starting to take rear area security a bit more seriously this is not what I had in mind pic.twitter.com/tpVo6JR5BH
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 5, 2022
re: #251 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Anyone have Apple TV+ ? If so, what’s worth watching? I have it free for 3 months. I want to check out “Severance” but apart from that I don’t have anything else in my sights.
Both the Tom hanks projects I thought were good. The wwii one and the end of the world one.
re: #261 John Hughes
Thanks for the downing, Steve.
Real sign of a winning argument.
You’re not arguing John, you’re trolling. Now in the nicest way possible, please fuck off.
re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #241 Belafon
Don’t stand in front of this guy:
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I got in a hurry and so I forgot to out the details: He’s 340 lbs, and that time is slightly below Jerry Rice’s 40 yard dash time.
re: #286 steve_davis
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re: #287 Belafon
I got in a hurry and so I forgot to out the details: He’s 340 lbs, and that time is slightly below Jerry Rice’s 40 yard dash time.
I was shocked to find myself standing next to Donnell Woolford at my local library a while back, and to realize how small the guy is (still has muscle, but just not physically intimidating). The guy was an all pro corner for the Bears. The NFL has definitely changed over 30 years.
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