Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is trying to turn the letter ‘Z’ into a symbol of domestic support for his war in Ukraine, but his government can’t hide the fact that the world’s economic war against Russia is succeeding, as evidenced by major brands like McDonalds and Coca-Cola pulling out of the country at lightning speed. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
That’s huge if true. A U.S. import ban won’t do much to the Russian oil market because the U.S. is not a significant buyer to begin with. But China is Russia’s largest buyer. If they have to scale back Russian oil imports that’s an antimatter bomb to the Russian economy. https://t.co/1u5FkyvBp3
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 10, 2022
. It also shouldn’t come as a surprise that professed climate supporter, Senator Joe Manchin-the runaway leader in Congress of Big Oil contributions (four times more than the number two recipient)-has been an eager industry champion, rejecting key climate policies, including a ban on new drilling
Finally mainstream recognizing a big and growing problem
Why are Latinos supporting White Supremacy?
yahoo.com
I’ve got some bad news for those Latinos who think they will be in charge or even included once the real white supremacists get what they want.
Instead, get ready to be next.
The right’s new line centers on a state department official’s “admission” that there are biolabs in Ukraine.
But officials talked openly about this *during the Trump administration,* noting the US is working with Ukraine to clean these Soviet relics up:https://t.co/4r513EGMSy pic.twitter.com/lRf3XYwOpN— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 10, 2022
These bioweapons labs in Ukraine are so super secret that here’s Obama giving a speech about them back in 2013:https://t.co/4r513Epc10 pic.twitter.com/sF9PwupZF8
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 10, 2022
Why are Republicans like Thomas Massie echoing Russian propaganda that’s designed to undermine a US effort to support a sovereign ally suffering under violent annexation by Putin?
I can see no discernible conception of the national interest here:https://t.co/4r513Epc10 pic.twitter.com/PkAsJDhCmA— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 10, 2022
Maybe because “I have 2 MIT degrees” Massie always insists that he is the smartest person in the room, no matter the topic?
re: #3 Florida Panhandler
Finally mainstream recognizing a big and growing problem
Why are Latinos supporting White Supremacy?
yahoo.comI’ve got some bad news for those Latinos who think they will be in charge or even included once the real white supremacists get what they want.
Instead, get ready to be next.
Just remember there are gradations in the Latino population. A good chunk are descended from European colonizers, and, hence, are actually “white”.
re: #4 lizardofid
Murkowski needs a better agent.
Alaska relies (or has relied) on oil taxes for its main source of income for decades: I’d be shocked if Murkowski wasn’t on the list for Big Oil contributions….
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe because “I have 2 MIT degrees” Massie always insists that he is the smartest person in the room, no matter the topic?
Or that the GOP as a whole is not concerned with the “national interest” but instead a solid belief that running down Biden and the Democrats at all costs on any and all issues is to the benefit of the GOP and their patrons.
Russia has been buying republicans for the past 30 years.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe because “I have 2 MIT degrees” Massie always insists that he is the smartest person in the room, no matter the topic?
I’m sure he knows the real story. He actually is smart. Either misreading the strong support for Ukraine even among the GOP, or compromised.
re: #10 JC1
I’m sure he knows the real story. He actually is smart. Either misreading the strong support for Ukraine even among the GOP, or compromised.
No he is not, I know Massie personally.
He is no smarter than any other random person in this county.
He’s a blowhard Libertarian.
Sure, Jan…
#BREAKING Moscow says will open daily humanitarian corridors from Ukraine to Russia pic.twitter.com/8GVBc63kao
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 10, 2022
re: #3 Florida Panhandler
Finally mainstream recognizing a big and growing problem
Why are Latinos supporting White Supremacy?
yahoo.comI’ve got some bad news for those Latinos who think they will be in charge or even included once the real white supremacists get what they want.
Instead, get ready to be next.
Feels like I’ve been hammering this point for years.
Demographic change will not doom the GOP. The natural human response to seeing white people kick down on coloured people is not to feel solidarity with the oppressed, even if they look somewhat like you. The natural response is to identify with the oppressors as best you can and kick down some yourself. White supremacists come in all colours, and FOX, Facebook and Youtube can turn anyone into a white supremacist.
re: #6 gwangung
Just remember there are gradations in the Latino population. A good chunk are descended from European colonizers, and, hence, are actually “white”.
Not according to the racists I grew up with.
They are not. That’s the thing about racism.
It Ever Ends.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
No he is not, I know Massie personally.
He is no smarter than any other random person in this county.
He’s a blowhard Libertarian.
He got into MIT, got a bachelors and a masters in different disciplines, won some design awards and started a business. I am willing to bet he is smarter than the average person in this country. However, much like Ben Carson, he could be an absolutely brilliant Engineer and a complete moron about other things. As a matter of fact I’d say there is ample evidence that that is the case.
re: #7 Jay C
Alaska relies (or has relied) on oil taxes for its main source of income for decades: I’d be shocked if Murkowski wasn’t on the list for Big Oil contributions….
Agreed, that’s why I was just shocked she wasn’t higher on the list.
Russians mined the body of Hostomel’s mayor after he was killed on March 7 while delivering food to locals. Today, a Ukrainian priest approached the body to pick it up and bury it. He didn’t know that the body was mined. Then the occupier approached him and took the explosives.
— katerina sergatskova (@KSergatskova) March 10, 2022
Of all the gin joints in the Wordle she had to walk into mine. Tomorrow. Or something.
Wordle 265 4/6
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re: #13 Renaissance_Man
Feels like I’ve been hammering this point for years.
Demographic change will not doom the GOP. The natural human response to seeing white people kick down on coloured people is not to feel solidarity with the oppressed, even if they look somewhat like you. The natural response is to identify with the oppressors as best you can and kick down some yourself. White supremacists come in all colours, and FOX, Facebook and Youtube can turn anyone into a white supremacist.
Yep, and apparently (I have only heard after the big gains for the GOP in 2020) there are increasing avenues via radio and print to get WS-Trumpist talking points out in Spanish that are not being countered much at all by progressive groups.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
No he is not, I know Massie personally.
He is no smarter than any other random person in this county.
He’s a blowhard Libertarian.
Okay, I’ll take your word for it. MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions and is very competitive. Maybe one of the genius yet idiot crowd.
re: #351 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What does this thermobaric weapon do?
It launches missiles with fuel/air explosive warheads.
When they leave they release a cloud of fuel vapor, let it mix with the atmosphere then explodes it.
The explosion is massive (because the warhead can contain more fuel than a conventionnel explosive as it doesn’t need to include an oxidizer) and it has the secondary effect of sucking all the oxygen out of the air.
The giant shockwave rips the lungs out of your chest, collapses buildings, everything is on fire and there is no oxygen to breathe.
It’s a sort of compact Dresden firestorm.
Edit: fix numerous swipeos.
Damn I miss my N900.
re: #20 JC1
Okay, I’ll take your word for it. MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions and is very competitive. Maybe one of the genius yet idiot crowd.
One of the dumbest Free Stater types here in New Hampshire is a retired MIT chemistry professor. But I assume he had to publish a lot, direct grad work, etc. to become full professor, and that takes real intelligence in his field.
(One of the guys behind “Guns Save Lives”—a highway billboard campaign in the midwest in the 1990s and early 2000s—was a physics prof. at the University of Illinois. An interesting guy—I knew him through my parents’ church—but in my opinion another political extremist.)
Thus completing the Moronic Convergence. pic.twitter.com/omHT81Ep8E
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2022
re: #21 John Hughes
It launches missiles with fuel/air explosive warheads.
When they leave they release a cloud of fuel vapor, let it mix with the sitter then explode it.
The explosion is massive (because the warhead can contain more fuel than a conventionnel explosive as it doesn’t need to include an oxidizer) and it has the secondary effect of sucking all the oxygen out of the air.
The giant shockwave tips the lungs out of your chest, collapses buildings, everything is on fire and there is no oxygen to breathe.
It’s a sort of compact Dresden firestorm.
Would be a shame if a few of those launchers were captured and used against the Russians.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
What a cynical fuck.
re: #22 Barefoot Grin
One of the dumbest Free Stater types here in New Hampshire is a retired MIT chemistry professor. But I assume he had to publish a lot, direct grad work, etc. to become full professor, and that takes real intelligence in his field.
(One of the guys behind “Guns Save Lives”—a highway billboard campaign in the midwest in the 1990s and early 2000s—was a physics prof. at the University of Illinois. An interesting guy—I knew him through my parents’ church—but in my opinion another political extremist.)
Didn’t realize you were from NH. I worked at a tech start-up in Nashua back in the tech bubble days. Nice area. Actually considering moving back there.
re: #25 Barefoot Grin
What a cynical fuck.
On the plus side, one of the convoyers is upset because DC drivers are flipping them the bird.
Trump got what he wanted. via @NYTimes https://t.co/z5N2X7aysM
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) March 10, 2022
— Rhonda Harbison (@rhonda_harbison) March 10, 2022
Polina is the stepdaughter of Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov. Yes, THAT Lavrov. He is one of Putin’s closest allies, his loyal talking head full of hot air and now also a war criminal. pic.twitter.com/4hBdamPqty
— Maria Pevchikh (@pevchikh) March 10, 2022
Absolute peak Russia. Asked whether it was planning to attack other countries, Lavrov said: “We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn’t attack Ukraine in the first place”. Russia’s other neighbours should probably start worrying pic.twitter.com/QrzvcQXM6H
— Tadeusz Giczan 🇺🇦 (@TadeuszGiczan) March 10, 2022
Haley doesn’t get nearly enough of the contempt she deserves. https://t.co/QHfTwUjyVh
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 10, 2022
re: #20 JC1
Okay, I’ll take your word for it. MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions and is very competitive. Maybe one of the genius yet idiot crowd.
There are many people who are brilliant in their field but their compassion or knowledge outside is extremely limited. They can solve technical problems but they can be raging lunatics for any other question. There has always been an error of assuming high grades or high IQ correlate with understanding or caring outside the area of expertise.
There are many idiots and Russian tools who can’t understand the difference between “bio-medical research facilities” and “bio-weapon labs”. They probably can’t understand the difference between “nuclear energy” and “nuclear bombs” either.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 10, 2022
re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh go ahead and piss off the traffic on DC beltway. Hoo boy are you going to get it.
These guys are truckers like I am a French Chef.
Russia has just attacked the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. There is an experimental nuclear reactor there. A nearby dormitory is also on fire. Personnel staying in the shelter, shelling continues. Russia systematically attacks nuclear facilities in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/pj2ysMubzW
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) March 10, 2022
re: #35 Teukka
It’s like he’s going for a high score in war criming.
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
There are many people who are brilliant in their field but their compassion or knowledge outside is extremely limited. They can solve technical problems but they can be raging lunatics for any other question. There has always been an error of assuming high grades or high IQ correlate with understanding or caring outside the area of expertise.
“Paging Dr. Carson”
I’m a bit surprised Clownigula isn’t out there on the Beltway with the Dumbass Caravan. We know how he loves trucks. pic.twitter.com/mELKA67zWt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2022
re: #35 Teukka
National Science Centre “Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology” is on fire https://t.co/6tSfD9KopD #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/7maHF4hZXF
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) March 10, 2022
The lawsuit is being filed in Amarillo (500 miles from Austin). It’s at least the sixth time in < 14 months that Paxton had sued Biden *there* (the 20th time overall).
Why Amarillo? Because he has a *95%* chance of drawing Trump-appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk as the district judge. https://t.co/xxFPuOfYjH— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 9, 2022
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 10, 2022
⚡️Russian propaganda’s latest invention: Ukraine is “developing biological weapons” and using birds to deliver viruses.
Russian state media actually claimed, without any evidence, that the birds were intercepted in Russia’s western regions.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 10, 2022
re: #40 Charles Johnson
He’s on one of those toilet equipped new models dropping a hard deuce.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Unlike Biden who actually enjoys driving high performance vehicles, Trump just enjoys posing in the cab of a truck; there is no evidence that he’s a particularly good driver. He likes others to chauffeur him around.
re: #6 gwangung
Just remember there are gradations in the Latino population. A good chunk are descended from European colonizers, and, hence, are actually “white”.
Nobody is “actually” white.
You are “white” if the racists accept you as “white”.
Irish, Italians and Poles have been considered non-white in the US.
Racist Latinos might consider themselves “white”, but they don’t get to decide.
Hell, I bet there are white supremacists that don’t believe that Raphael Cruz is “white”.
re: #36 Dopamine Fish
It’s like he’s going for a high score in war criming.
He wants to do that thing in Fallout where his Karma gets so bad that there literally are no merchants willing to trade with him. And now that Mickey D’s is shutting their doors, he may have succeeded.
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
What they do not say is, “We’re zeroing our artillery onto those corridors. Because we want to make the humanitarian crisis much worse.
“Then the weakling in The West will give up this silly opposition to Russia’s imperial goals.”
Is it wrong to hope Ted Cruz is so toxic that the truck driver pushes him out the door at speed, followed by Cruz getting run over by the convoy?
Yah, it’s an evil thought.
But I’d still laugh my ass off.
re: #48 John Hughes
Nobody is “actually” white.
You are “white” if the racists accept you as “white”.
Irish, Italians and Poles have been considered non-white in the US.
Racist Latinos might consider themselves “white”, but they don’t get to decide.
Hell, I bet there are white supremacists that don’t believe that Raphael Cruz is “white”.
For much of the world, and especially the Anglosphere, whiteness has been about the absence of ‘color’. It’s been less about what you are than it is what you aren’t. It’s all about being assured that you aren’t one of the ‘other’ that is meant to be excluded from the exclusive club that is mean to be considered the baseline, the default, the rule to the exception.
new definition of communism just dropped. wait til the end to find out what her alternative is. pic.twitter.com/SYOLT6z1K6
— KELGORE (@KelgoreTrout) March 10, 2022
re: #24 JC1
Would be a shame if a few of those launchers were captured and used against the Russians.
Yes it would be shame. Because it would be stooping to their level. Should we use cluster bombs in built up areas just because the Russians have? Bring back napalm?
Looks like Russia is planning Chem warfare.
U.S. orders 2,000+ gas masks and other protective gear from #Israel to supply to American Embassy staff in Europe in case of a chemical weapons attack by #Russia, reports @N12News.
— Doge (@IntelDoge) March 10, 2022
re: #53 gocart mozart
I want my two minutes and eleven seconds back…
The salespeople at the BMW dealer must get tired of her coming in to record her rants…
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
There are many people who are brilliant in their field but their compassion or knowledge outside is extremely limited. They can solve technical problems but they can be raging lunatics for any other question. There has always been an error of assuming high grades or high IQ correlate with understanding or caring outside the area of expertise.
And that is exactly the problem with Massie and why I said he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room no matter what the topic is. And he is not that smart.
re: #53 gocart mozart
First thirty seconds of that cost me more brain cells than I can afford. Stopped watching while I still remembered how.
UPDATE: The Florida Senate just approved the Stop WOKE act by a vote of 24 to 15.
Among other things, the bill would require teachers to lie to students. https://t.co/Bn8sVZ1qUb— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 10, 2022
At America’s creation, the principles stated in the Declaration of Independence were not “universal.” On the contrary, most African-Americans were considered property of white men & had no rights
White women and Native Americans were also not afforded these “universal rights.”— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 10, 2022
The most concerning and depressing parts about these rash of regressive laws is both where they are and the sheer convergence of them. They’re happening in places where the GOP owns such a deep lock on power that it can’t even charitably be chalked up to them trying to create wedge issues to drum up electorate turn out. This isn’t the last gasp of folks clinging to power by their fingertips. This is them believing they can’t be stopped and thus deciding to go full bore with what they’ve always wanted. And the sheer convergence of them is no doubt to try and push all these issues to the Supreme Court while they believe that the court is fully and inescapably in their pocket, an assumption that is pretty well grounded at this point.
This isn’t them being afraid of losing power. This is them exercising it because they think or know they can’t be stopped. This is their victory lap, and they’re marching it all on the backs of the undesirables they believe they have free reign to stomp on forever.
re: #58 Romantic Heretic
First thirty seconds of that cost me more brain cells than I can afford. Stopped watching while I still remembered how.
I saw the still image and based on that did not click.
re: #58 Romantic Heretic
I clicked and got to 10 seconds.
win10 is back up and running
apps installed
data recovered
30 hours from start to finish
because i believed MS and let their ‘recovery’ run overnight which wasnt actually doing anything
ended up using Dell’s online recovery service that worked the first time through, just took a long long time.
for some reason i didnt have a system repair disk for win10.
Win 7, sure. Maybe i just forgot when we put this in.
Now I’ve got one for the hopefully never, and yet inevitable next time.
if i had a disk, this would have just been a 3 hour nightmare.
now i’ll start on my yesterday’s work and wait for the other inevitable “xxxx isn’t working” or “doesnt look like it did before”…
JUST IN: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn appeared Thursday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/MWzjplWpM8
— ABC News (@ABC) March 10, 2022
The 30 day abortion ban has passed the Oklahoma Senate.
I just…
what does one even say https://t.co/j2bkRQ0l5b— ⚓️Imani Gandy⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) March 10, 2022
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
There are many people who are brilliant in their field but their compassion or knowledge outside is extremely limited. They can solve technical problems but they can be raging lunatics for any other question. There has always been an error of assuming high grades or high IQ correlate with understanding or caring outside the area of expertise.
Their collective problem is ego.
They think if they’re brilliant at one thing they’ll be brilliant at anything/everything.
And they think they don’t have to go through the process to learn something new
Ive seen this dozens of times trying to teach highly successful doctors and lawyers to scuba dive.
They all do it, once they put away the ego.
*THUD*
A reminder that there haven’t been any COVID restrictions under this state of emergency in the past 6 months and the legislature in January voted to extend this emergency to April 14.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 10, 2022
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
*THUD*
JFC.
Rep. Bojanowski asks what specific restrictions would be ended with passage of SJR 150. Huff says he doesn’t know.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 10, 2022
SJR 150 passes 75-20
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 10, 2022
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC.
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The full on regression at the state level continues. GOP hate winning without any possible check on it, and the media fully focused on ‘But everyone hates the Dems because gas prices and Biden not using his magic wand to fix everything!’
Kentucky Republicans are complete morons
Floor amendment attached to HB 28 to fix a drafting error that would have extended this prohibition to private employers.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 10, 2022
HB 28 passes 71-22. Only two Republicans (Koenig and Timoney) voted against it. Two Dems (Hatton and Tackett Laferty) voted yes.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 10, 2022
I think I need a drink…
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky Republicans are complete morons
All Republicans are complete morons.
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky Republicans are complete morons
How much of it is being morons and how much is it them simply not caring, because they so wholly dominate the state, even with a Dem gov?
re: #65 Dangerman
Their collective problem is ego.
They think if they’re brilliant at one thing they’ll be brilliant at anything/everything.
And they think they don’t have to go through the process to learn something new
Ive seen this dozens of times trying to teach highly successful doctors and lawyers to scuba dive.
They all do it, once they put away the ego.
But that’s because they actually want to learn to scuba dive. They will not put this ego aside if they want their beliefs to be true and if they want to be able to exhibit their “superiority” to others. Too many like Massie will learn new things to help themselves not to help others.
Kentucky lawmakers advance second abortion bill. It would ban the procedure after 15 weeks. https://t.co/R9KN5p7eLd
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 10, 2022
Just keep the drinks coming, please…
Donald Trump was asked how the Ukraine conflict will end and you’ll be facepalming into next yearhttps://t.co/h8vczfcYVH pic.twitter.com/9Nva4ZbUgS
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 10, 2022
The ones that aren’t complete morons are utter sociopaths.
Lavrov: “Russia will take care of Ukraine’s future” pic.twitter.com/rw1CmyFU3b
— AlexandruC4 (@AlexandruC4) March 10, 2022
re: #79 Teukka
It’s a pity that staking war criminals out over fire ant nests in the desert isn’t really an option. Lavrov and his boss would both be perfect examples.
lol
This is indistinguishable from James Austin Johnson on Saturday Night Live. His brain is just a basket of frying popcorn kernels. https://t.co/lou2ZjUU0l
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 10, 2022
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Oh my God, he thinks that a wind farm can exhaust the wind resource in one location and they’ll move on to the next place to develop a new wind farm.
You can’t use up the wind. That’s why it’s called a renewable.— Lyle Scout (@fartyowls1) March 10, 2022
re: #77 BigPapa
The ones that aren’t complete morons are utter sociopaths.
As someone who spent 18 years doing administrative work in university engineering (and engineering-adjacent) departments, I can assure you that they are as various as any other group. They do tend to be narrowly focused on their area of expertise — but learning all you need to know to do engineering and then keeping up with the field takes a whole lot of time and effort.
for your afternoon amusement
One of truckers yells out, “Ted Cruz sucks!” as he is giving his speech. pic.twitter.com/dwWmyhY4Ht
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2022
Puppy only sleeps on feather pillows. 🐕🦆💤 pic.twitter.com/X6oLf4ITPz
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 10, 2022
Back to work later
Where are they going..🐈🐾🐠💻😂😂 pic.twitter.com/mChLA8k8RK
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 10, 2022
“In the area of the village of Shestovytsia, Chernihiv region, the occupiers are looking for a way to surrender.” –General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Ukrainians are close to cutting off the route south, which will trap a huge concentration of Russian forces. pic.twitter.com/c3nsgt78OW— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) March 10, 2022
One good thing about this war and GOP support of Putin? It’s showing some people, most of whom are conservative and have voted GOP in the past, just what tools Massie, Cawthorne & the rest of the Treason Caucus are.
Reading a long Ukraine thread at a very carefully apolitical aviation website that I read - the first big thing was that they allowed the thread to begin with, and the people in it are not raving fascists but there probably isn’t any others as far left as me ;) but they are just astonished by the GOP response and pro-Putinism. Here’s hoping it’s remembered this November.
one more
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting….
Man those cats was fast as lightning..
Fear me..🐈🐾🐕😅 pic.twitter.com/FR1LXpKhBf
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 10, 2022
re: #54 John Hughes
Yes it would be shame. Because it would be stooping to their level. Should we use cluster bombs in built up areas just because the Russians have? Bring back napalm?
There aren’t many Russian civilians in Ukraine. I’m talking about attacking their armed positions and convoys with these. Sure, hit them with cluster bombs too, everything they have. The invasion force should be a fair target. This is a fight for Ukraine’s survival.
re: #90 William Lewis
Here’s hoping it’s remembered this November.
If it was September right now instead of March, probably. Republicans have a selective amnesia problem, and the average apolitical person a short attention span, but usually shit in September and October isn’t forgotten at the ballot box.
That’s also why some Republicans thinking they are going to run on COVID mandates and Afghanistan in November is laughable. Please proceed.
re: #54 John Hughes
Yes it would be shame. Because it would be stooping to their level. Should we use cluster bombs in built up areas just because the Russians have? Bring back napalm?
yes, and yes. not on civilians, but i bet one of those vietnam-era napalm bombs that bounces along in a straight line for several hundred yards before torching everything treeline and below would lead those fellas in the stalled convoy to throw up the white flag damned quick.
re: #65 Dangerman
Their collective problem is ego.
They think if they’re brilliant at one thing they’ll be brilliant at anything/everything.
And they think they don’t have to go through the process to learn something new
Ive seen this dozens of times trying to teach highly successful doctors and lawyers to scuba dive.
They all do it, once they put away the ego.
Another explanation is that they’re pandering to the rubes who are mostly uneducated baffoons. The intellectual equivalent of eating corn dogs in Iowa, or Trump (failing laughingly) trying to look like the everyman by eating pizza with utensils on his private jet.
The press will hold the fascists accountable!
*5 seconds later*
“Why You Don’t Need To Worry About Why We’re Policing Certain Neighborhoods | Washington Post Opinion by Matt Gaetz”— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) March 10, 2022
re: #93 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
If it was September right now instead of March, probably. Republicans have a selective amnesia problem, and the average apolitical person a short attention span, but usually shit in September and October isn’t forgotten at the ballot box.
That’s also why some Republicans thinking they are going to run on COVID mandates and Afghanistan in November is laughable. Please proceed.
If FOX shouts about Afghanistan or Covid mandates enough times in September and October, it is exactly the issue that will be remembered.
Followed by the predictable hand-wringing of the chattering classes about how Democrats just didn’t address these concerns enough.
re: #96 Dread Pirate Ron
Of course the US mainstream media is not allowed to refer to fascists as such. That would interfere with decades of work they have done on behalf of GOP fascists.
re: #58 Romantic Heretic
You missed the punchline/cherry on top in the last 5 seconds.
If these are the apples, I’d hate to see the trees they fell from 😳
— 🖕🏼nunya bizness - К черту Путина!🖕🏼 (@itsnotny) March 10, 2022
re: #92 JC1
There aren’t many Russian civilians in Ukraine.
Actually there are quite a few.
I’m talking about attacking their armed positions and convoys with these.
how many of their “armed positions” will turn out to be in Ukrainian towns and villages?
Sure, hit them with cluster bombs too, everything they have. The invasion force should be a fair target. This is a fight for Ukraine’s survival.
ok, if you volunteer for the 20 year long demining operation.
Let’s leave the discussions of Ukrainian tactics and strategy up to the Ukrainians. Among the many things they don’t need is a bunch of internet blowhards.
re: #94 steve_davis
yes, and yes. not on civilians, but i bet one of those vietnam-era napalm bombs that bounces along in a straight line for several hundred yards before torching everything treeline and below would lead those fellas in the stalled convoy to throw up the white flag damned quick.
And then you meet the little burned girl running out of the smoke…
re: #101 John Hughes
Actually there are quite a few.
how many of their “armed positions” will turn out to be in Ukrainian towns and villages?
ok, if you volunteer for the 20 year long demining operation.
Let’s leave the discussions of Ukrainian tactics and strategy up to the Ukrainians. Among the many things they don’t need is a bunch of internet blowhards.
Hey dude, you’re the one that started dictating their rules of engagement.
re: #26 JC1
Didn’t realize you were from NH. I worked at a tech start-up in Nashua back in the tech bubble days. Nice area. Actually considering moving back there.
Sorry, I had to step out to go get yelled at by my dentist. I like the Nashua area. But right now housing is insane. Well, I guess it is everywhere. I’m originally from the midwest, but have been here for the last 8 or 9 years. It’s beautiful here. I’m not sure we’ll stay after retirement, but that’s a few years off.
re: #102 John Hughes
And then you meet the little burned girl running out of the smoke…
FFS, do you think that there are many little girls playing hide and seek in that long convoy?
Do you think that Ukrainian artillery has sniper level accuracy and discretion? Maybe Ukraine should stop using artillery as well. Your position is absurd.
These flood monitoring cameras demonstrate the extent of the rainfall and just how quickly waters rose, causing major damage during the recent #seqfloods 😮 pic.twitter.com/56CnQfuHp0
— Queensland Reconstruction Authority (@QReconstruction) March 8, 2022
Bastards stole our rain.
re: #101 John Hughes
Actually there are quite a few.
how many of their “armed positions” will turn out to be in Ukrainian towns and villages?
ok, if you volunteer for the 20 year long demining operation.
Let’s leave the discussions of Ukrainian tactics and strategy up to the Ukrainians. Among the many things they don’t need is a bunch of internet blowhards.
But what if they’re on LGF looking for advice on how to run their war? Did you think of that?
I mean, since you’re assuming we’re talking about bombing indiscriminately.
re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Um Trump is an idiot and I feel stupider for having listened, but he doesn’t say anything about running out of wind, he says when the windmills breakdown they don’t bother replacing them or tearing them down they just build new ones somewhere else. Pretty sure that is BS since a lot goes into picking appropriate locations for windfarms and when you have a good site with consistent wind and all the leases settled and all the legal fights done why would you want to go somewhere else.
Missouri
Ectopic pregnancy is such a misnomer; it’s a cluster of unviable cells that will, with 100% certainty, murder you if not removed. It’s like refusing to remove a burst appendix. Fuck white male politicians to the absolute end of the earth. https://t.co/3qvJncwdSS
— sarah HANNAH gómez (@shgmclicious) March 10, 2022
re: #103 JC1
Hey dude, you’re the one that started dictating their rules of engagement.
No, I tried to calm down the military porn addicts before they soiled their underwear.
Back in the 70s I was at school with a vietnamese boy. In a wheelchair, with one hand with no fingers, the other with three, one eye, his whole face a mass of burn scars. He didn’t do sport so I have no idea what it looked like under his school blazer, shirt and nice striped tie.
I’m sure that the pilot who dropped the bomb on him thought it was a valid military target.
Anyway.
See you all tomorrow.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
A Missouri Republican legislator Brian Seitz, proposed HB 2810, which gives you a “choice” if you have an ectopic pregnancy: Die OR get convicted of a class A felony and spend 10 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/hug9aetYsJ
— Marsha Williams 4 Congress (@CongressMarsha) March 10, 2022
Cawthorn is the base. He isn’t an outlier. If anything, Lindsey Graham’s position here is. https://t.co/aHG6FRfTc8
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) March 10, 2022
re: #102 John Hughes
And then you meet the little burned girl running out of the smoke…
okay, definitely a fair point. if nothing else, this whole discussion shows how remarkably quickly otherwise “civilized” folks can become quite thirsty for blood and vengeance, in the right circumstances. If this doesn’t prove it, that first “Taken” movie definitely does.
re: #108 danarchy
Um Trump is an idiot and I feel stupider for having listened, but he doesn’t say anything about running out of wind, he says when the windmills breakdown they don’t bother replacing them or tearing them down they just build new ones somewhere else. Pretty sure that is BS since a lot goes into picking appropriate locations for windfarms and when you have a good site with consistent wind and all the leases settled and all the legal fights done why would you want to go somewhere else.
Because Trump is a locust.*
His method would be to move in exploit to the utmost without spending any money on maintenance. And to build it with investors’ money while he skims a good profit off the top. Try to stick someone else with the property and leases, etc. as he skips out to repeat elsewhere.
* - No insult intended to real locusts. You have your own reasons for doing what you do.
You laugh, but Pete knows a few people who are feeling pain at the pump filling their super yachts. https://t.co/w4wrBbrBVJ
— Stephen Douglas (@Stephen_Douglas) March 10, 2022
Cortez Masto: Can you explain at a time like this why your company would be prioritizing payouts to shareholders rather than working to increase our oil supply?
Shell Vp: … pic.twitter.com/1RGaRBv0uN— Acyn (@Acyn) March 10, 2022
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cortez Masto: Can you explain at a time like this why your company would be prioritizing payouts to shareholders rather than working to increase our oil supply?
Shell Vp: …
The honest answer, which this executive is unlikely to give, is that of course maximizing shareholder profit in time of crisis is the company highest priority, because that’s the whole fucking point of US-style feral capitalism.
How do we sanction Republican states?
— Rodney (@RodHargrove) March 9, 2022
re: #109 Patricia Kayden
Interesting article about the growing percentage of Latinos who identify as multiracial and the drop in the percentage of Latinos identifying as solely White.
axios.com
That is interesting. And now that you mention it, I seem to remember that voting for the GOP increased most significantly among men. Maybe it’s partially a machismo thing.
This is Horton. He’s been doing yoga for months. Would like to share that he can finally touch his toes. 13/10 please clap pic.twitter.com/PyNQ3Nyi0X
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 10, 2022
re: #21 John Hughes
Thank you. That’s absolutely horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.
Edit: fix numerous
swipeos.
I am so stealing that. That’s my life.
re: #119 Barefoot Grin
That is interesting. And now that you mention it, I seem to remember that voting for the GOP increased most significantly among men. Maybe it’s partially a machismo thing.
Fascism is deeply sexist, so that’s to be expected.
re: #115 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Because Trump is a locust.*
His method would be to move in exploit to the utmost without spending any money on maintenance. And to build it with investors’ money while he skims a good profit off the top. Try to stick someone else with the property and leases, etc. as he skips out to repeat elsewhere.
* - No insult intended to real locusts. You have your own reasons for doing what you do.
Problem is I don’t think it is generally that easy to just move on. There is a substantial NIMBY element to wind farms. Cape Wind got leases to build a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, proceeded to spend the next 10 years and millions of dollars in legal costs before the developer finally just scrapped the whole plan. I don’t think that is all that uncommon.
I’m in Poland to affirm our commitment to Poland and our NATO allies.
We are prepared to defend all of the principles that are integral to us as NATO countries, in this case standing up for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 10, 2022
This full list of how Ukranians have to apply for a UK visa is properly breathtakinghttps://t.co/4rjJ0Bc0Sm pic.twitter.com/uqAkb2HxHc
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 10, 2022
anyone ever stop to think maybe the problem isn’t gas prices going up 50 cents but the fact that 50 cents is making people broke
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) March 10, 2022
Justice Department Announces Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement
Criminal and Civil Enforcement Actions Alleging Fraud Related to Over $7 Billion in Pandemic Reliefhttps://t.co/l33lIjOi8r pic.twitter.com/fS0QzE9TNg— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) March 10, 2022
re: #123 danarchy
Problem is I don’t think it is generally that easy to just move on. There is a substantial NIMBY element to wind farms. Cape Wind got leases to build a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, proceeded to spend the next 10 years and millions of dollars in legal costs before the developer finally just scrapped the whole plan. I don’t think that is all that uncommon.
I also thinks that Trumps hates windmills. Didn’t he have a rant or two about some near one of his golf courses in Scotland.
I also expect that a lot of this is Trump projecting what Trump would do without having any meaningful knowledge of the what the issues are with actually carrying out said business. In fact, I have my doubts Trump had or maintains much knowledge about doing much of anything beyond being Trump.
⚡️Reznikov: Russian forces killed more civilians than Ukrainian service personnel.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has described Russia’s invasion as a “terrorist war.” According to Reznikov, Russian troops killed more Ukrainian civilians than soldiers.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 10, 2022
re: #129 Teukka
Of course the Russians are killing more opposing civilian than opposing soldiers — the civilians shoot back less.
Some good news.
Justice Prevails: Marjorie Taylor Greene Loses Her Entire Congressional Salary After Judge Rules For Pelosi On Mask Mandate https://t.co/wqjJT1oYIS
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 10, 2022
Just got some great news. Youngest son is flying out to Denver tomorrow to visit his sister for a week. He was driving up from college and I was going to use his car to take him to the airport and then being it home so he didn’t have to pay for parking. Wife was talking to her sister who lives just outside of Cleveland. Her sister is coming to hang with her mother tomorrow for the day. She said she will take him to the airport when she heads back home. So I got out of having to drive to Cleveland airport right after work tomorrow. I is happy. Plus I can get an alignment on that car of his, last time I drove it it seemed out of whack (was my dads car that we transferred to him since dad is no longer allowed to drive).
Trevor Noah “If you ask me, it’s actually no coincidence that they couldn’t pass this law for 100 years. Then Mike Pence almost gets lynched & suddenly lynching is a hate crime. Yeah, it’s a bit if a coincidence don’t ya think?”
— FEISTY😈 (@crzyfkinworld) March 9, 2022
re: #130 EPR-radar
Of course the Russians are killing more opposing civilian than opposing soldiers — the civilians shoot back less.
they do have Molotov cocktails however, plus the firearms that the government has been distributing to the civilians
Russian Defense Ministry: “… the United States is training migratory birds to migrate from Ukraine to Russia and distribute bacteriological weapons”
One question. African or European? pic.twitter.com/XKJTJVNhLP— Howard Altman (@haltman) March 10, 2022
re: #133 Patricia Kayden
The reason a Federal anti-lynching law was so difficult to pass is that for decades lynching a convenient target as part of a town festival was the holiest rite of US Conservatism.
re: #135 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I think I saw that on Ed Sullivan all them years ago.
“And nowwwwwww here is Slava Spartak and his incredible trained pigeons!”
😂 We all hate Ted.
One of truckers yells out, “Ted Cruz sucks!” as he is giving his speech. pic.twitter.com/dwWmyhY4Ht
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2022
re: #27 Teddy’s Person
On the plus side, one of the convoyers is upset because DC drivers are flipping them the bird.
Were they honestly expecting a warm welcome? Sure, come on up and fuck up our already fucked up traffic. Thank God you’re here!
Morons.
re: #139 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Were they honestly expecting a warm welcome? Sure, come on up and fuck up our already fucked up traffic. Thank God you’re here!
Morons.
I wonder if they’ve realized how lucky they are DC bans guns.
re: #138 Patricia Kayden
Ted hates Ted but Ted has been Ted for far too long for Ted to not be Ted and if Ted wasn’t Ted, Ted would hate Ted too.
re: #137 nines09
I think I saw that on Ed Sullivan all them years ago.
“And nowwwwwww here is Slava Spartak and his incredible trained pigeons!”
remember when TFG said:
“If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment,” …
“The mob takes the Fifth,”
Flynn took the fifth in front of the 1/6 committee today
someone should ask TFG straight away - why are all these people who worked directly for you taking the fifth?
oh wait, right, he doesnt really sit for legitimate news.
not that one of them has to nerve to ask
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
There are many people who are brilliant in their field but their compassion or knowledge outside is extremely limited. They can solve technical problems but they can be raging lunatics for any other question. There has always been an error of assuming high grades or high IQ correlate with understanding or caring outside the area of expertise.
Ben Carson comes to mind. The Germans have the perfect word: fachidiot.
re: #139 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“Where’s all the big manly men with tears in their eyes thanking us? This is nothing like the brochure said it would be.”
Finally, an objective fact we can all agree on. https://t.co/UHVu1SCuZ1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2022
One of the all-time great wacky kung fu scenes.
@IAPonomarenko @oryxspioenkop @GirkinGirkin Ukrainian tractor versus invader. Online orders soon… pic.twitter.com/DLvDqOwhfw
— JJ (@Atamansikka) March 10, 2022
re: #148 Ming5000
So this just arrived. pic.twitter.com/S3UlK0yly9
— Kyle Mizokami (@KyleMizokami) March 10, 2022
I listened to CNN for a few minutes in the car today and the top of the hour lead was “Diplomatic Negotiations Deadlocked”. CNN used both-sides commentary for the first minutes.
They also did call it Putin’s war, so there was that.
When a country breaks a ceasefire and then bombs a hospital, how can it be negotiated with?
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) March 9, 2022
Kung Fu Hustle is one of the greatest movies ever made, and I’m not being sarcastic.
re: #150 Ming5000
Speak of the devil, I also just saw this:
What is Ukraine supposed to be giving Russia?
re: #152 Charles Johnson
Kung Fu Hustle is one of the greatest movies ever made, and I’m not being sarcastic.
We watched that movie the night my new sister-in-law and her children came to our house. They were so confused by the ending. “How could he accept the guy who tried to kill him as his student?”
“On Tuesday, several aircraft reported GPS disturbances around almost the entire eastern border of Finland. Around the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Finnair’s pilots have encountered similar problems. Today, Thursday, disturbances were discovered at the Finnish-Norwegian border.”
På tisdagen rapporterade flera flygplan om gps-störningar kring så gott som hela Finlands östra gräns. Runt den ryska enklaven Kaliningrad har Finnairs piloter stött på liknande problem. I dag, torsdag, upptäcktes störningar vid den finsk-norska gränsen. https://t.co/g9tv05yiqJ
— Hufvudstadsbladet (@hblwebb) March 10, 2022
re: #153 Ming5000
Speak of the devil, I also just saw this:
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What is Ukraine supposed to be giving Russia?
Ukraine. / 1/2
Crimea and the two eastern provinces, a PM post appointed by Putin, demilitarization, and not joining NATO written into their constitution.
re: #140 Belafon
I wonder if they’ve realized how lucky they are DC bans guns.
There’s a reason they’ve avoided the Dan Ryan in Chicago.
The manic obsession with which various Russian officials fantasize about non-existent biological or chemical weapons or hazards in Ukraine is deeply troubling and may actually point at Russia preparing another horrific false flag operation. This tweet is for the record.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 10, 2022
mind: blown https://t.co/IURmidqnuJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 10, 2022
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
they do have Molotov cocktails however, plus the firearms that the government has been distributing to the civilians
And pickled tomatoes!
re: #146 Charles Johnson
I haven’t seen him produce any evidence that the virus “escaped” from a lab in China.
If the evidence is “overwhelming” he should bring some of it out.
Egret thinks he is a hood ornament.🚗🦩⛷️ pic.twitter.com/HaNQeyMddS
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 4, 2022
This war may end sooner rather than later, with a complete collapse of the Russian army in Ukraine, dog willing.
The Institute for the Study of War has written a noteworthy and commendable update. Now the Ukrainian Army might ‘fight to a standstill’ the Russian forces trying to encircle Kyiv. https://t.co/5V896iPRSf
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 10, 2022
My impression, as a non-expert on the Russian Army, is that a real problem they are facing is a lack of motivation in their soldiers. The Russians seem hesitant, slow to act, rely on firepower, and actually not interested in fighting.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 10, 2022
Breaking: The OK senate has passed a Texas-style 6 week abortion ban AND a 30-day ban.
Antiabortion lawmakers regularly tell me they’re “throwing everything at the wall” ahead of the SCOTUS decision — and seeing what sticks.— Caroline Kitchener (@CAKitchener) March 10, 2022
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The Supreme Court is literally going to turn us into Gilead, aren’t they?
This is a big blow to the solar energy industry and a clear example of corruption.
House Bill 741 is the type of legislation that Democrats should be using as proof that GOP politicians *hate* their own people.https://t.co/njO6aHfiM9 pic.twitter.com/BT571BySLc— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) March 10, 2022
Gotta watch til the dramatic Michael Bay end.
now this is cinema pic.twitter.com/PAcVTgeeQ2
— F*CK IT WE’LL DO IT LIVE (@AndersonVilien) March 10, 2022
re: #162 jaunte
I haven’t seen him produce any evidence that the virus “escaped” from a lab in China.
Almost all Trumpers believe that COVID was manufactured in a lab and most believe it was deliberately released.
re: #167 Citizen K
The Supreme Court is literally going to turn us into Gilead, aren’t they?
My bet is that Roberts is trying to talk the other 5 conservatives out of ruling that the 14th amendment give the fetus the right to life, and using that line of reasoning to ban abortion nationwide, from conception, with no exceptions.
Such a ruling would be a complete disaster, of course, but the swivel-eyed loons on SCOTUS may see it as their Godly duty to do this.
re: #170 Hecuba’s daughter
And they believe it because they keep hearing it stated without any evidence at all.
Passenger kicked off Delta flight for wearing ‘F—K Biden’ sweatshirt
In the video, the passenger eventually moves to what appears to be the front of the aircraft, where he begrudgingly takes off his sweatshirt.
“I’m going to take it off okay,” the passenger can be heard saying as takes off his sweatshirt. “You guys force me to wear my mask, I don’t want to wear it, I can’t wear my hoodie,” he continued as he headed back to his seat.
However, after finding his way back to his seat, the passenger was approached again by the same flight attendant who told him he was no longer allowed on the plane.
“So I’m still getting kicked off the plane?” the passenger asked in the video. “Yeah, you’re not putting - you’re not wearing the mask,” the attendant responded. “I’m relaying the message to you what the captain says, said he doesn’t want you off the aircraft anymore.”
The end of the video cuts to the passenger speaking to a gate agent who tells him he was removed from the flight “because you refuse to wear the mask and you have on a hoodie that Delta does not permit you wearing,” and would be getting a refund for his airfare.
asshole
re: #167 Citizen K
The Supreme Court is literally going to turn us into Gilead, aren’t they?
That depends. It may turn only red states into Gilead; blue states may still be able to protect women’s rights. the worst would be if it pushed a ban everywhere. But I do not believe that they will be that extreme.
re: #170 Hecuba’s daughter
Almost all Trumpers believe that COVID was manufactured in a lab and most believe it was deliberately released.
Even though it’s been proven to be natural. Fascists don’t care what’s real. They just want an excuse to hurt and even kill people.
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
OMG OMG OMG OMG 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
Come here cutie! You face needs more kisses!
re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter
That depends. It may turn only red states into Gilead; blue states may still be able to protect women’s rights. the worst would be if it pushed a ban everywhere. But I do not believe that they will be that extreme.
If SCOTUS tries to ban abortion nationwide, that would be the end of judicial review. But Roberts is probably the only conservative on the court that gets this.
re: #176 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
OMG OMG OMG OMG 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
Come here cutie! You face needs more kisses!
Horten looks like he’s getting ready to file a complaint.
re: #165 No Malarkey!
This war may end sooner rather than later, with a complete collapse of the Russian army in Ukraine, dog willing.
Another couple of real problems exposed:
1. Russians believe their own propaganda, or at least, a significant amount do. So does their leader, Putin.
2. Putin is not smart. He is dumb. Very dumb. He, like Trump, are what mediocre tribal thinking people think smart people actually are. Putin is possibly the worst military commander since Antonio López de Santa Anna. The comparisons between the two are actually pretty scary close if you read up on the bio.
The Russian Military has been exposed and this should be extremely concerning to their Eastern flank if China starts getting greedy. Their history hasn’t exactly been peaches and cream through the years, and all those natural resources should be pretty tempting for China. Nukes help deterrence but if China ascertains most or all of them are now duds the gloves come off.
3.
4th letter from that FSB analyst.
🧵My translation of the 4th letter in the series from an active FSB analyst to Vladimir Osechkin. Written March 9th. As consequential as the 1st translated letter. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far & wide. The text is over 1200 words.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) March 10, 2022
re: #167 Citizen K
The Supreme Court is literally going to turn us into Gilead, aren’t they?
If Missouri passes the ban on pregnant women leaving the state to get an abortion, it will be interesting to see if SCOTUS lets that go into effect.
This is Trumpier than I’d like.
⚡️Zelensky: “After the war, we will rebuild everything very fast and very well. Every city that was affected will get a special development program.
There will be the best architects, the best companies, the best projects for every city.”— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 10, 2022
re: #175 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Even though it’s been proven to be natural. Fascists don’t care what’s real. They just want an excuse to hurt and even kill people.
People get their info from their preferred news outlets and generally don’t believe/don’t expose themselves to other perspectives. Most people don’t have the scientific background to read studies and rely on what they hear from the so-call experts on their favorite broadcasts. I certainly won’t waste time listening to the lies spewed by Fox; the Trumpers are just as passionate about ignoring what is promoted by media organizations that make an effort to determine the truth; they see it as “our truth” not the real truth which is only available through their media. So how do you break through to people who are thoroughly brainwashed? They will make the same claims about us.
NEW: A trucker in the convoy says he’s taking a day off from driving in laps around DC because “3 young girls in a blue Hyundai” flipped him off. He says he’s now fearful: “It wasn’t just a normal middle finger that was relaxed… It messed me up.” (per 1st Responders Media)
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 10, 2022
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
People get their info from their preferred news outlets and generally don’t believe/don’t expose themselves to other perspectives. Most people don’t have the scientific background to read studies and rely on what they hear from the so-call experts on their favorite broadcasts. I certainly won’t waste time listening to the lies spewed by Fox; the Trumpers are just as passionate about ignoring what is promoted by media organizations that make an effort to determine the truth; they see it as “our truth” not the real truth which is only available through their media. So how do you break through to people who are thoroughly brainwashed? They will make the same claims about us.
They will, but their claims are nonsense, and their “news” isn’t news at all. Most of it is hateful pundits raging about things that are not real, or if real are not harmful.
It’ll take cult deprogrammers to fix them. Most of us don’t have the skillset to reach them.
re: #185 gocart mozart
They cancelled yesterday because of a light rain. They’re scared of literally everything. pic.twitter.com/Z5ZqPY1zzl
— Ted (@trom771) March 10, 2022
re: #171 EPR-radar
My bet is that Roberts is trying to talk the other 5 conservatives out of ruling that the 14th amendment give the fetus the right to life, and using that line of reasoning to ban abortion nationwide, from conception, with no exceptions.
Such a ruling would be a complete disaster, of course, but the swivel-eyed loons on SCOTUS may see it as their Godly duty to do this.
They won’t go that far; they will “only” reverse Roe, which, unfortunately, may be our only hope of getting young voters energized enough to retain control of Congress.
From downthread as I had to drive up to the city to have lunch with a vendor today.
re: #394 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If they think Vlad’s attack will lose them Crimea, that’s a very big deal.
Yes, I agree…cutting their losses - those are some lovely coastal properties on the market. I see a post-war surge in Europeans buying retirement homes a few years from now.
re: #188 No Malarkey!
They won’t go that far; they will “only” reverse Roe, which, unfortunately, may be our only hope of getting young voters energized enough to retain control of Congress.
I think so, because the alternative is trying to drag us back to the bad old days and people in states that educate their people just saying no to destructive Supreme Court decisions, which would be the end of our system of government.
re: #181 Sherlock Hound
“… The key clause would be about demilitarization, which would essentially ban Ukrainian intelligence services, and most importantly dismantle their counter-intelligence.
And here our people (FSB) already see the prognosis: Over a number of years, it would be possible for us (FSB) with some minimal help from the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence), to carry out a total cleansing of the socio-political field in Ukraine.
And after all this, we could install any government in Kiev. With high probability this plan will become dominant for the Kremlin with strategic correction, although the scenario is insane and aggression on other fronts is not being cancelled.
In theory, the plan does have potential, but how it will be in practice is unknown. There will be no military victory, only something like this.
Lots of nuances, but most important - our side will be able to breach such agreements after they’re signed anytime, when there’s strength to turn the tide.”
So, it sounds like you’d have to be a fool to rely on an agreement with Russia.
Seven children, aged 11 to 17, were victimized by nine alleged perpetrators, according to discussions in the court hearing.
The alleged perpetrators have not yet been made public.— Reese Oxner (@reeseoxner) March 10, 2022
re: #182 No Malarkey!
If Missouri passes the ban on pregnant women leaving the state to get an abortion, it will be interesting to see if SCOTUS lets that go into effect.
I believe that the proposed Missouri law is the same as the Texas law: it allows anyone to sue someone who assisted a woman in getting an abortion. SCOTUS is a vile institution for not stopping this trick immediately; it has proved that the current GOP appointees are lawyers with no ethics or concern about precedent, the Constitution, or human rights.
re: #191 jaunte
So, it sounds like you’d have to be a fool to rely on an agreement with Russia.
They’ve shown it time and time again.
re: #14 Florida Panhandler
Not according to the racists I grew up with.
They are not. That’s the thing about racism.
It Ever Ends.
The Irish, the Spanish (what we’d now consider white Latinos), the Italians… none of them were considered white when the US first experienced heavy migration of those populations. Mostly because “white” used to mean WASP. And the Irish, Spanish, and Italians were Catholic and thus insufficiently white. Hell, the same happened with Greek immigrants as well.
Then those groups were given probationary white status because WASPs were on the verge of becoming just a plurality rather than a majority. But if you notice, those probationary white subgroups still hold onto their ethnic heritage (to varying degrees).
re: #191 jaunte
So, it sounds like you’d have to be a fool to rely on an agreement with Russia.
The United States doesn’t have a clean record here. Just ask native Americans about treaties they signed with the government. And let’s not forget the Iran nuclear deal which Trump blithely abandoned as soon as possible.
CNN Highlights an Account of Chabad’s Work in #Ukraine - Interview with Rabbi currently in Moldova #StandWithUkraine #HelpUkrainianRefugees https://t.co/CFAojJelbF
— Liddle Lemon Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) March 10, 2022
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“Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.”
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 10, 2022
“The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including 🇷🇺, 🇺🇦 and 🇵🇱, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators.”
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 10, 2022
Two things have happened- Reuters has updated the headline and added more details https://t.co/Eni4J3bW4F
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 10, 2022
More good (and historical) context https://t.co/UmSysnpOHx
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 10, 2022
re: #189 darthstar
From downthread as I had to drive up to the city to have lunch with a vendor today.
Yes, I agree…cutting their losses - those are some lovely coastal properties on the market. I see a post-war surge in Europeans buying retirement homes a few years from now.
I just looked at Crimea real estate - 4.2 million rubles starting price ($31,470) for sea view next to the botanical gardens.
Maybe we should just hire the 3 girls to put an end to these rallies.☺️
— GrinningGaga (@grinning_gaga) March 10, 2022
re: #192 jaunte
I can’t reply to that the way I’d like to because I’d be banned, so let me just say I really there’s a special place in hell for these people.
re: #169 Barefoot Grin
Gotta watch til the dramatic Michael Bay end.
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Packed house at judiciary committee. Rep. Jason Nemes’ medical marijuana legalization bill is up last. ^AH pic.twitter.com/F9OIIbOKaz
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 10, 2022
Gentry: “It’s not debatable that we’re moving in a direction (of) decriminalization… it’s important that we have an industry already in place.”
Says weed could be future export crop when it gets rescheduled. ^AH— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 10, 2022
^^THIS^^
15 yes votes and 1 no vote. HB 136 is off to the House floor. ^AH
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 10, 2022
re: #179 Barefoot Grin
Horten looks like he’s getting ready to file a complaint.
Nah. He’s not mad, it’s just his face.
🚨NATO Detects Russian War Planes in Belarus Hours Before 9 Planes Enter Ukrainian Airspace - @NatashaBertrand reports NATO surveillance has spotted numerous (10-20) flights into Ukraine, indicating Russia may be using Belarus airspace as launching pad to further escalate its war pic.twitter.com/dKac1zVW8k
— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦 (@PaulaChertok) March 10, 2022
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
Back when my wife and I were adopting two of our daughters from the state, the placement was delayed for months later than we were told, and after we complained we were called to a meeting of the regional bureaucrats in Dallas, where they threatened to put the girls back in the system if we said anything else. The foster- and child care systems here in Texas have been screwed up for a long, long time.
re: #167 Citizen K
The Supreme Court is literally going to turn us into Gilead, aren’t they?
for awhile, maybe, but then Republicans are going to get to experience the age-old adage, be careful what you wish for.” Democrats will get a few more senate seats and retain a grip on the House, and they will simply increase the number of supreme court justices to account for the expanded judiciary since the last expansion of the court. They may even find a way to bring forward statehood for the District and Puerto Rico. Guam, perhaps?
re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter
The United States doesn’t have a clean record here. Just ask native Americans about treaties they signed with the government. And let’s not forget the Iran nuclear deal which Trump blithely abandoned as soon as possible.
And the Kurds that we got murdered by allowing a madman to rise to the Presidency.
The Rodeo Clown Caucus. https://t.co/JWlINNMmip
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 10, 2022
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t reply to that the way I’d like to because I’d be banned, so let me just say I really there’s a special place in hell for these people.
What could you possibly say that would be worse than wishing they suffer the ultimate, fortunately imaginary, evil abuse possible.
“Sorry, gotta go. Just heard an explosion outside my window. Need to find a safe place. Hope to talk to you tomorrow.”
How Ukraine’s journalists are staying on the air. @peterpomeranzev @McFaul @nateschenkkan @vkaramurza @CPJ_Eurasia https://t.co/AgivXfH9ec @JoDemocracy— Will Dobson (@WilliamJDobson) March 10, 2022
re: #180 Florida Panhandler
Another couple of real problems exposed:
1. Russians believe their own propaganda, or at least, a significant amount do. So does their leader, Putin.
2. Putin is not smart. He is dumb. Very dumb. He, like Trump, are what mediocre tribal thinking people think smart people actually are. Putin is possibly the worst military commander since Antonio López de Santa Anna. The comparisons between the two are actually pretty scary close if you read up on the bio.
The Russian Military has been exposed and this should be extremely concerning to their Eastern flank if China starts getting greedy. Their history hasn’t exactly been peaches and cream through the years, and all those natural resources should be pretty tempting for China. Nukes help deterrence but if China ascertains most or all of them are now duds the gloves come off.
3.
I recall from Fitzroy Maclean’s Eastern Approaches that many of the places he went had very tenuous borders between China and Russia. They’d drifted between the two for some time. China might well be tempted to bite off some regions and then say, “hey, feel free to conscript all your young men. You have no modern weapons to give them.”
re: #185 gocart mozart
“Now I see blue Hyundai’s everywhere. Man. They after me. AND NOW A BIG WOMAN JUST GAVE ME TWO RELAXED MIDDLE FINGERS WITH CHEETO DUST ON THEM. Oh. God. They meant it. I’m a dead man.”
Profiles in Courage episode 2 season 3……Terry sees fingers…..
U.S. officials have said that the two recent satellite tests by North Korea were actually tests of their new ICBM. The officials are calling this a serious escalation & said that the U.S. is preparing penalties against the DPRK.
— Global: MilitaryInfo (@Global_Mil_Info) March 10, 2022
re: #6 gwangung
I’m puzzled as to why “White” Latinos don’t drop the Latino and just go with being White. Isn’t that how other disfavored groups (Italians, Irish, etc,) became White? 🤷🏽♀️
Such a brilliant action! Thousands of portraits of Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian political prisoners at every seat. Tomorrow, London’s @BarbicanCentre hosts “Dogs of Europe”, the world premiere of @BFreeTheatre pic.twitter.com/mRIXZ6IAu3
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) March 10, 2022
re: #197 The Pie Overlord!
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“Marc Elias and Eric Holder are very good attorneys, and Republicans are stupid.”-GOP Lawyer Mike Davis 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/vg5pJfuIkQ
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 10, 2022
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see all the usual fucking suspects made the list.
re: #217 Patricia Kayden
I’m puzzled as to why “White” Latinos don’t drop the Latino and just go with being White. Isn’t that how other disfavored groups (Italians, Irish, etc,) became White? 🤷🏽♀️
My understanding is that they actually DO this…it’s that everyone insists on shoving them into the Latino group just because they come from Colombia or some other Latin American country. All of insist of thinking of race and ethnicity as a strict, definitional state and not the complex thing it is.
19-80: Senate vote blocking Paul resolution to cancel arms sale to Egypt (updated):
Yes: 16Ds Blumenthal, Brown, Carper, Heinrich, Hirono, Leahy, Lujan, Markey, Merkley, Murphy, Ossoff, Padilla, Peters, Smith, Stabenow & Warren, 2Rs Lee, Paul; Sanders-I https://t.co/fQHdOZLO4R— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) March 10, 2022
So I threw half a rack of baby back ribs in the smoker this morning and gave them about 2 hours of heavy smoke then turned the external smoke attachment on so it wouldn’t keep burning while I was gone.
Didn’t have any apple juice but I did have some apple sauce, so I mixed a bit of that with brown sugar and butter and wrapped the whole thing up in a foil envelope and left it at 200 or so for four hours while I went up to the city.
Came home to a lovely smelling packet. Drained the liquid, added a little BBQ sauce to the top, then hit it with the Searzall to caramelize the sauce a bit. Fuckin’ a this is tasty - and tender.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I think they meant to say “Cruz rides a shotgun around DC”….
Flynn attorney: “General Michael Flynn appeared before the January 6th Committee today in compliance with their subpoena and, on advice of counsel, exercised his 5th amendment right to decline to answer the Committee’s questions….”
Via @elliskkim— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 10, 2022
(More) “…to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances.”
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 10, 2022
fucking snowflake mobster traitor
re: #181 Sherlock Hound
4th letter from that FSB analyst.
Jesus Christ. From here down. Wow.
And after all this, we could install any government in Kiev. With high probability this plan will become dominant for the Kremlin with strategic correction, although the scenario is insane and aggression on other fronts is not being cancelled.
— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) March 10, 2022
Lindsey desperately trying to make the case that Cawthorn’s comments about Zelensky and Ukraine don’t reflect the views of the GOP. This is why I have always made the case that making Cawthorn/Greene/Boebert the faces and voices of the GOP will pay off. pic.twitter.com/7gDs0fzwn6
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2022
re: #185 gocart mozart
That’s the snowiest snowflakiest thing I’ve ever heard. Some girl have him a week middle finger Abba he freaked out. GTFOOH.
re: #229 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Jesus Christ. From here down. Wow.
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No different than the Holodomor really when Stalin starved 3.9 million to death intentionally.
This is some grade A trolling:
Ukraine’s anti corruption minister thanking Russia’s corrupt military leaders for misappropriating funds and crippling the Russian army.
Holy Crap!
Russian state television has broadcast calls for Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, to stop his war in Ukraine during a programme in which pundits openly likened the invasion to “Afghanistan, but even worse”.
Vladimir Soloviyev, usually one of the Kremlin’s most reliable chief propagandists, had to interrupt guests on his prime time television talk show to stop their criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking during a broadcast on Russia 1, Karen Shakhnazarov, a filmmaker and state pundit, said the conflict in Ukraine risked isolating Russia.
He told Mr Soloviyev: “I have a hard time imagining taking cities such as Kyiv. I can’t imagine how that would look.”
He went on to call for the conflict to be brought to an end, saying: “If this picture starts to transform into an absolute humanitarian disaster, even our close allies like China and India will be forced to distance themselves from us.
“This public opinion, with which they’re saturating the entire world, can play out badly for us … Ending this operation will stabilise things within the country.”
Later during the broadcast of An Evening with Vladimir Soloviyev, one of Russian television’s most-watched programmes, guest Semyon Bagdasarov, an academic, said: “Do we need to get into another Afghanistan, but even worse?”
He said that in Ukraine “there are more people and they’re more advanced in their weapon handling”, adding: “We don’t need that. Enough already.”
The reference to Afghanistan, a conflict that scarred the Soviet Union and still scars Russia, was particularly poignant. The Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, 10 years after it invaded, humiliated.
Russian state television goes off message by denouncing Ukraine war
re: #53 gocart mozart
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If someone is talking from a car I know 1) they are a complete idiot 2) this is satire. Lord, please give me the wisdom to tell the difference.
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“I’ve seen these polls .. like 90% of the country is with Ukraine.” Yup. They’ve seen the polls. And now they realize that the Putin apologists in their party are going to hurt them all in the midterms, and they are scrambling.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2022
re: #232 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s the snowiest snowflakiest thing I’ve ever heard. Some girl have him a week middle finger Abba he freaked out. GTFOOH.
Seriously. I’m like: “Bro, you’re in a BIG RIG. What have you got to fear from three random girls??”
re: #234 William Lewis
No different than the Holodomor really when Stalin starved 3.9 million to death intentionally.
Last year I read a novel that took place during the Holodomor. I looked for everything I could read & found this. I watched it - excellent.
Good on @SonnyBunch for promoting “Mr. Jones,” which is about a brave journalist (contrasted with a craven one) who exposes Stalin’s man-made famine in the Ukraine that killed millions. Never has this powerful film been more timely.https://t.co/TFOv15h7TC pic.twitter.com/C6v5pGZWEg
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) March 10, 2022
Today marks the 146th anniversary of the day when Alexander Graham Bell picked up is device and said to his assistant: “‘s’up?”
re: #241 Barefoot Grin
Today marks the 146th anniversary of the day when Alexander Graham Bell picked up is device and said to his assistant: “‘s’up?”
And tomorrow will be the 146th anniversary of the first “we’ve been trying to reach you about your warranty…” call.
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Was reminded of this song today. Dug it up and went to vocal isolation. This masterpiece is buried in the record. Under rated by volumes. No tricks but reverb. Great stuff.
Enjoy.
Nite nite.
Marcy at emptywheel is pissing off all the right people because she’s calling out all of those who made excuses for Russia’s actions in 2016 (and before and after) as having blood on their hands for Russia’s actions in Ukraine now. I’m all on board. Those naive assholes who thought there would be no price to pay for Putin’s foundational work to retake Ukraine and possibly other Baltic states can go to hell.
Sorry, forgot to post:
I ask again, who funds the Federalist and this attack on attempts to protect the US against Russian attack?
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 10, 2022
The word THING hasn’t always been so vague, and originally referred to an assembly or council meeting. Over time its meaning shifted onto the ‘things’ these meetings debated, and eventually to any issue or object—but the original meaning survives in Iceland’s ALTHING parliament. pic.twitter.com/qH6qKotJl6
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) March 10, 2022
re: #223 gwangung
Okay. Just saying you’re White and leaving out the Latino makes sense to me especially considering the fact that the term Latino can include Spanish and Portuguese people.
re: #245 Barefoot Grin
Not to sound like I’m ‘both-sidesing’ this, but in addition to calling out the #treasoncaucus and reminding people how far up Putin’s ass most of the GOP and especially the Clownshow was, we really need to use this as an opportunity to destroy these dirtbag psuedoleftists and authoritanian leftist tankies that were just as bad.
Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Hasan Piker, etc… etc…
Anyone who still thinks Snowden wasn’t a bad actor in all this needs to be shamed into the ground.
When Luke Skywalker flips you the bird.
Hi Ben,
I LOVE mind-reading acts! Now guess which finger I’m holding up…
❤️- Mar🐫 https://t.co/et79YujyB2 pic.twitter.com/gFY1uger67— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 11, 2022
re: #248 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Not to sound like I’m ‘both-sidesing’ this, but in addition to calling out the #treasoncaucus and reminding people how far up Putin’s ass most of the GOP and especially the Clownshow was, we really need to use this as an opportunity to destroy these dirtbag psuedoleftists and authoritanian leftist tankies that were just as bad.
Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Hasan Piker, etc… etc…
Anyone who still thinks Snowden wasn’t a bad actor in all this needs to be shamed into the ground.
Snowflake was turned when he was in Geneva I believe. After that, he was either a FSB or GRU asset (my guess is GRU).
re: #225 darthstar
So I threw half a rack of baby back ribs in the smoker this morning and gave them about 2 hours of heavy smoke then turned the external smoke attachment on so it wouldn’t keep burning while I was gone.
Didn’t have any apple juice but I did have some apple sauce, so I mixed a bit of that with brown sugar and butter and wrapped the whole thing up in a foil envelope and left it at 200 or so for four hours while I went up to the city.
Came home to a lovely smelling packet. Drained the liquid, added a little BBQ sauce to the top, then hit it with the Searzall to caramelize the sauce a bit. Fuckin’ a this is tasty - and tender.
That’s sorta kinda what I was doing with the Boston butt. Worchestire sauce, then packed with brown sugar with apple juice around the bottom in a clay pot. I got impatient and pulled it out of the oven too soon, but it’s still very edible.
re: #248 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Not to sound like I’m ‘both-sidesing’ this, but in addition to calling out the #treasoncaucus and reminding people how far up Putin’s ass most of the GOP and especially the Clownshow was, we really need to use this as an opportunity to destroy these dirtbag psuedoleftists and authoritanian leftist tankies that were just as bad.
Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Hasan Piker, etc… etc…
Anyone who still thinks Snowden wasn’t a bad actor in all this needs to be shamed into the ground.
100%. The Greens and the DSA are on board with Putin…well, maybe they wouldn’t say that now, but they’d still spout the Kremlin points about how corrupt Ukraine is. Every once in awhile they even repeat the lie about VP Biden pushing Ukraine to fire a State Prosecutor because he was allegedly looking into Hunter’s activities. Of course, it was because he was corrupt as fuck and the US couldn’t work with Ukraine as long as people like that were in power. This is state-level lobbying and goes on all the time.
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
Seriously. I’m like: “Bro, you’re in a BIG RIG. What have you got to fear from three random girls??”
In a Hyundai, no less. Terrifying. 😏
Truth:
anyone ever stop to think maybe the problem isn’t gas prices going up 50 cents but the fact that 50 cents is making people broke
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) March 10, 2022
Fifty yrs ago today was my 25th birthday in Saigon. Never thought I’d see it. I arrived in Vietnam a year earlier, and had so many close calls, I shouldn’t have lived. But I did. Every year after was a gift. When I hit 50 I doubled up, and today, on my 75th, I scored a triple! pic.twitter.com/FwZd7myqCw
— David Hume Kennerly (@kennerly) March 10, 2022
re: #240 HRH Stanley Sea
Last year I read a novel that took place during the Holodomor. I looked for everything I could read & found this. I watched it - excellent.
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Reading the replies. I just signed up & donated. Looking forward to tomorrow.
All funds from the tickets will be donated to help Ukrainian journalists at the Kyiv Independent and a humanitarian organization Proliska, helping people affected by war in eastern Ukraine.
Buy tickets here: https://t.co/X2MhfRCUoY— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 9, 2022
I am a photographer. I do other things for my living but what I _am_ is a photographer. This is from one I know via the internet and should emulate.
An Exodus From Ukraine Visual Diary-day 3
I am now inside Ukraine!
Today, I boarded a train in the Polish border town Pzemyśl, the border crossing town where now many of the more than 600,000 Ukrainians have crossed through fleeing the brutal Russian invasion of the Ukrainian homeland.
In my 66 years I have never made a train quite like this. The train was full of Ukrainian men going back to join the fight against the Russian military, women that had decided they could no longer stay away from their homes, and a handful of foreign journalists.
As the train passed through the Polish border into Ukraine, it came to a stop, and many soldiers of the Ukrainian army boarded the train, along with several Ukrainian border customs agents.
Every passport was checked throughly, and one passenger was mysteriously removed from the train, not to board again.As the customs check took place, a train arrived in the station coming from Kyiv and pulled up right next to our train heading east into Ukraine. […] Most of the people in the window of this train were mothers and children-and many very young babies pressed their heads against the window-a sight they will likely not remember in time, but a moment in their life they will never forget.
[…]
A young man stood holding his wife as she cried, and they looked each other in the eyes, and whispered to each other. […] This couple was crying a good bye that no person on this earth could ever be prepared for. I didn’t make a photograph of this moment, and touched the shoulder of the young husband and told him I would think of him, and them. He spoke to me and said, “at this moment, we don’t have the right words”.
As I finish tonight, I realize I too don’t have the right words. I have images that will stay with me forever-some sharp, and some very out of focus-and all with pain with no anesthesia to make lighter or more bearable.
With love.
© All photographs by Peter Turnley, Ukraine, March 9, 2022.
#peterturnley #ukraine #russia #war #warinukraine #documentaryphotography #photojournalism
A woman near the town of Irpin, north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, tries to save disabled dogs from a shelter and bring them to a safe place.
Photo: Christopher Occhicone @occhicone98 pic.twitter.com/ugccV0FA6I— The New Voice of Ukraine (@NewVoiceUkraine) March 10, 2022
re: #253 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In a Hyundai, no less. Terrifying. 😏
OH NOEZ! lol
On another note Hyundai and Kia have really turned around and are a couple of car manufacturers to watch. They are run by the same parent company and have great product lines and are looking to be 100% EV by 2026. Well ahead of the California 2035 mandate, and farther ahead than Honda’s embarrassing claim to be 100% EV by 2040.
re: #240 HRH Stanley Sea
Last year I read a novel that took place during the Holodomor. I looked for everything I could read & found this. I watched it - excellent.
Conquest — The Harvest of Sorrow
Grossman — Everything Flows
(I liked the movie too.)
re: #260 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I’m hoping to score my mom an Ioniq 5 eventually. Her Infiniti is lucky to get 18 mpg with the limited driving she does.
re: #260 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
OH NOEZ! lol
On another note Hyundai and Kia have really turned around and are a couple of car manufacturers to watch. They are run by the same parent company and have great product lines and are looking to be 100% EV by 2026. Well ahead of the California 2035 mandate, and farther ahead than Honda’s embarrassing claim to be 100% EV by 2040.
I want knocking Hyundai, it was the trucker I was mocking.
re: #261 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
My online library via Libby is pitiful. Those titles not available.
I’ll go the old fashioned route & request in paper version.
Worth it & thank you.
re: #236 William Lewis
Holy Crap!
Russian state television goes off message by denouncing Ukraine war
My favorite part:
A clearly irritated Mr Soloviyev, who owns a villa in Italy that has been seized and sanctioned by the European Union, interrupted Mr Bagdasarov.
THEY TOOK MY VILLA!
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