Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a fantastically amazing day it always is!
Emerson has GOP up 9 points in generic congressional ballot adding to Rasmussen’s 13 point lead and Trafalgar’s 13 point lead.
Ukraine ‘invasion’ not new: Russia has had troops in Donbas for 8 years, U.S. official admits
USA ‘People’s Convoy’ Set to Roll Wednesday
DC Mayor Bowser approved 800 National Guard members to be deployed ahead of trucker convoy
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich denied bail by judge who ran as a Liberal candidate
Indigenous Elder Trampled by Canadian Police: Report No One Was Hurt Is ‘Bullsh*t’
Kyle Rittenhouse launches initiative to combat ‘lies’ from media outlets, personalities
Whitmer kidnapping case defendant alleges informants ‘repeatedly’ pressured him to participate
Top Republican: Biden engaging in ‘cover-up’ of massive pandemic relief fraud
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Emerson has GOP up 9 points in generic congressional ballot adding to Rasmussen’s 13 point lead and Trafalgar’s 13 point lead.”
Team red will find a way to fuck it up and thus fuck us all over.
Or, they’ll win big, then do nothing.
Or win, but not big, follow the Ds example, declare a mandate, ignore areas of broad support, focus on wishlist items, and alienate centrist voters.
I expect it to be worse. They will win huge, then grandstand and do nothing that actually helps at all. The machine will just do what Obama did and rule by the president pen and congress will act butthurt but do nothing to stop that. And I expect them to put up a show about Biden and the corruption of the deep state since Obama weaponized it, but in the end not throw the people that need to be behind bars into prison, because it would all look really ugly and showcase how corrupt the US bureaucracy has become now that it is beholden to a crime syndicate hiding behind the mantle of being a political party.
Look Alex, that is crazy talk.
You can’t send people to jail for a political dirty trick! It has trick right in the name. These people come from the right families, they went to the right schools, the worked/clerked for the right bureaucrats. It would be a tragedy if we locked up our best and brightest.
Also, corruption isn’t a Democrat thing. The GOP is just as bad when it comes to gaming the system to enrich themselves and their cronies. None of them wants to start a war where you start putting people in jail for stealing from the tax payers.
Oh, I am well aware that there were a lot of team red people involved in the shit that we are feeling the fallout of now that also need some jail time, which is why I am despondent and sure justice won’t be served.
Gosh darnit, we just don’t have a big enough majority! Give us more money so we can defeat the tyrants!
You understand the grift
You forgot to add the bit about democracy hanging in the balance.
It already died in the darkness.
Smothered by the Media and the Government.
Rittenhouse is going to be the GOP’s David Hogg, isn’t he?
Ooooh! Rittenhouse v. Hogg MMA PPV! We’ll make millions!
Gun v no-gun should be a short fight.
Even without guns, I’ll put money on the tubby guy v. the pencil -neck.
Loser gets Greta
How dare you?
Hogg takes a dive.
Eeuw…
I thought she’d be the ring gal that parades around with the sign that announces what round it is. Then we’d all get to see her in tight sexy clothes.
Except her signs would go in reverse order: “10 years until Gaia dies”, “9 years until NYC is flooded” etc.
the circle is complete
Heh.
The difference between Rittenhouse and Hogg is that Hogg is a grifter who wasn’t even anywhere close to the shootings, whereas Rittenhouse actually put down his attackers, nearly had his life taken by the court for it, and then is libelously smeared by the media.
I don’t know anything about the fundraising project, but I’m glad to see he’s suing several media outlets and figures for slander. This is what we need a lot more of. Like when Lucky Gunner countersued the parents who sued them after losing a child in the Aurora shooting. LG took the parents to the cleaners and put a damper on future suits…. at least until Remington bent over and grabbed its ankles.
Or possibly the GOP’s Nicholas Sandman.
“Biden imposes sanctions on Russian banks, elites, and their families, in response to Ukraine ‘invasion’”
None of these “sanctions” would hurt them as hard as the US being energy self sufficient and being a net exported of energy, because Russia, a country with an economy the size of Italy’s or NY State, makes most of its money from selling oil, gas, and crime.
Also remember that the Obama admin’s State Department, guess who was in charge, was behind the Ukraine revolution in 2013 that replaced the corrupt pro Putin government there with an even more corrupt pro-west government that then proceeded to make their country into one of the biggest money laundering entities used by the world’s various crime syndicates (but especially the DNC, and to a good extent even team red – Manafort) to funnel money from their governments to the connected crime syndicate members.
Russia is about as self-sufficient as any nation on Earth. What they can’t produce they’ll buy from the Chinese or Europeans who want energy.
The U.S. and western Europe on the other hand…
And you have to wonder if this is the agreement the western rich countries have made with the not so rich other countries to get them to go along with elements of the great reset. I suspect this cabal has also accepted that the CCP played them good and that they will just have to remain content being the CCP’s mandarinate and taking orders from Beijing in this new world (where they still believe the CCP will leave them in charge of their own nations and as the elite there).
???
The only US national interest in the Ukraine is the further enrichment of our political class.
Pump gas and oil here and let them figure it out.
Without expensive oil prices, Putin would not have the money to go on a massive military adventure in Ukraine. Biden’s policies have facilitated Russia’s antics.
But sanctions will increase gas prices. It seems like an unstated policy of the regime is to do just that. They will be effective, just not against Russia.
We need a new leadership that doesn’t hate us so much.
“It was necessary to help the jobless, but these programs lingered and became one of the most flawed and wasteful recovery efforts ever enacted by the federal government,” said the Texas Republican. “In fact, total state and federal spending on enhanced pandemic unemployment benefits exceeded $850 billion in less than two years. These programs have stunted our economic growth and worsened the labor shortage, resulting in the highest inflation in 40 years.”
Brady noted that lawmakers still “don’t know how much of the taxpayers’ dime has been lost to fraud.”
Let’s not bicker about ‘oo swindled ‘oo…
The important thing is votes were bought.
It allowed them to keep moving along the great reset as people remained distracted.
It was necessary to help the jobless
Sure, we were involved, but also blameless.
Imagine the vetting of National Guard troops that is going on right now.
My fondest dream would have entire units refuse to go.
It’s DC NG. They are loyal to the cause.
There will always be some ambitious young lieutenant all ready to prove his or her woke bonafides out there, your holiness, and the system corrects for that… Even harder these days where they have Zampolits and loyalty tests.
Maybe they could cite the leadership of our own King Walz. When his unit was called up to go to Iraq, he quickly retired (early). If it is good enough for a governor, it should be good enough for some lance coolie.
* His brave patriotic service is what endears King Walz to Fourscore.
Your King Waltz has nothing on our Blumenthal who claimed the Rambo series was based on his actions in Vietnam…
Many, many years ago I was a young NG guy. We yearned to be sent to Austin (MN) to break up a strike at the Hormel plant. We talked about what a good time we were going to have. We would have got our young asses kicked.
I only wished we’d had the king as our Sgt Maj, he’d have kept us safe, as long as we stayed with him. Did I ever tell you about the Gov retiring when his unit got sent to the ME? 2021 is a lost memory, thanks to his bravery in keeping me safe from the big C.
I want to be a judge when the time comes…
I remember heading to Camp Ripley…in January, because the 47th DIV HQ was there. “Hey, the snow is 10 feet deep here, WTF?”
It is a dry cold.
Supposedly excellent deer hunting at Camp Ripley. My cousin like to hunt there when he can draw a lottery permit.
Of course there are a lot of deer there. It isn’t like the Army pukes can shoot.
No deer on Camp Pendleton. Just sayin’
I shoot just fine.
The deer fled all the horny Jarheads, is that what you are saying?
Only two kinds at Pendleton… Deers and Queers.
And I don’t no horns on Jimbo.
*see no horns..
No deer on Camp Pendleton but they do have buffalo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQJ2gmztNI
Ever been through the Winter Operations Course they did there? Talk about cold as a witch’s tit.
Fort McCoy was always a head-scratcher as well.
“Man, what a convenient transportation hub for mobilizing Reserve units, and the weather is so nice.”
That was my Afghanistan mobilization station….like I hadn’t been there 50 times before. Bah.
The Rulers’ fondest dream is Kent State II.
So, i am confused….
If Putin “invaded” Ukraine, wouldn’t there be…ya know….fighting?
But i am not seeing or hearing that on the media.
The lack of fighting suggests that maybe there is more nuance than the media would admit.
?
The media waned you distracted from how bad the shit our governments are doing is. And they all believe the way to do that is fear. Now that the Kung Flu has lost that fear magic with too many people, they are creating new fear events. Global nuclear war has to be amongst the top things to use….
They invaded years ago. Did you buy the “volunteers” story?
You must be a Russian stooge like Trump!
Fighting? What, do you think they are truckers?
The area “invaded”, the Donbass, would probably vote to join Russia if given the chance. Russia doesn’t really want them because unlike Crimea, they don’t have much in terms of natural resources. However, the area is very friendly with Russia and full of “Russians” at least historically even if they aren’t considered citizens now. The Ukrainian civil war is between the Western Ukranians who hate Russia and are friendly with the west and these regions that love Russia.
If you believe Putin (and at risk of being called a Russian Bot, I do) the troops are in to secure the region that doesn’t want to have any part of what the west Ukrainians want and have historically been mistreated by them. Not saying that’s Russia’s only goal there, but it isn’t a “PuTiN WaNT usSR” or any of that bullshit
As I recall, in 2015 the Donbass region held a referendum on joining Russia which passed handily. Putin said no.
One of those things that passed with 135% support with all the people opposed either boycotting or in jail.
If you look at al the Russian pipelines going into Europe, a lot of them go through these regions. Ever since a pro Russia government was removed in Ukraine, the Russians have worried the pipelines could be used to hold them hostage. This isn’t just about recreating the USSR, but about making sure the west can’t fuck with Russia’s primary source of income.
That is probably part of it but Germany just cut off one pipeline that travels from Russia thru the Baltic Sea to Germany.
There is more to Ukraine than pipelines.
Russia is a paper tiger and Europe could kick Russia’s ass if the EU all joined forces. Russia is so paranoid about the next EU Napoleon, that he is fucking over future generations of Russians who will be held responsible for this Russian aggression, long after Putin is dead.
What the fuck are you talking about? Russia is no longer a global power, but Europe, militarily, is a fucking joke.
So he is simply a benevolent liberator!
I don’t see where anyone has made that argument.
“If you believe Putin (and at risk of being called a Russian Bot, I do) the troops are in to secure the region that doesn’t want to have any part of what the west Ukrainians want and have historically been mistreated by them.”
Historically mistreated by them… in the 14th Century?
You dropped that part which seems to contradict “he is simply a…”
To me, Russia’s primary goal is to secure their military interests at Sevastopol and secondarily to ensure the Ukraine does not join NATO. Whether or not Russia will save the ethnic Russians in Donbass from a purge, I don’t have a clue. But I do know it’s not our fight and that we have only escalated tensions in the area.
Its not my fight, but I see a lot of excusing Russia ripping off a chunk of a neighbor because blood and soil and history, etc, etc, etc.
Russia is a bad actor. Doesn’t mean we need to spill blood and treasure over it. But I am scratching my head at all the “Well, they are just putting the map back to what Glorious Motherland should be!”
I didn’t think “Blood and Soil” nationalism was a libertarian thing?
Putin already admitted that Ukraine is part of Russia. See quote above.
There are probably multiple reasons for Russia being so aggressive but Russians think that all previously Russia territory IS ALWAYS RUSSIAN TERRITORY.
Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia… should all be ready to fight for their sovereignty.
The last time Russia grabbed territory was under Stalin.
And I see a lot of “We have to save Ukraine from Russia because Russia’s evil” without any recognition of Russia’s security interests in the area or the underlying ethnic conflicts that we always ignore until it blows up in our faces.
We made assurances to Russia that Ukraine would stay out of NATO. And the Ukraine had a lease to Russia for their naval base at Sevastopol as part of the separation. Both of those agreements were threatened by our side of the table prior to Russia taking action by seizing Crimea. And the sad part is that all of this was completely unnecessary. It was driven by some batshit neocons at State who think that we can and should encircle Russia and creep right up on their borders with “forward deterrence” (which has now been recoined by Lloyd Austin as “integrated deterrence”).
We also unfortunately did ,a href=’https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/02/23/ukraine-you-promised-to-protect-us-if-we-gave-up-our-nukes-n450443″ target=”_new”>this…
And that’s the worst part of what all bad actors will take away from this experience…
“And I see a lot of “We have to save Ukraine from Russia because Russia’s evil” ”
Then those making that argument can go donate their time, treasure and go fight.
Scruffy said yesterday that Russia’s aggression is America and Ukraine’s fault.
He tried comparing what Russia is doing with the Cuban missile crisis. I blew that “argument” out of the water.
Then he tried saying that Ukraine joining NATO was justification for Russia attacking Ukraine.
Then he said that America couped Yanukovych. He belonged to the party of Regions
Then Ukraine not renewing the Sevastapol lease was justification for attack.
According to Scruffy, Ukraine as a sovereign nation cannot defend its interests or itself because any such actions are a direct threat to Russia and Russia was provoked to attack. Nobody buys this argument for Russian violence.
The lie is that Yanukovych was some super popular Ukrainian leader. He wasnt. He was known to suck Putin’s cock, so Ukrainians were skeptical of his loyalty. Turns out they were correct. Then he fled to Russia, which also proved that Ukrainians were correct about his loyalty to Russia.
Putin is a liar. He was a KGB officer for Gods sake. Putin is blaming Ukraine and America so the opposite is true. The Russia violence against Ukrainians is completely Putin/Russia’s fault.
Comon LC, that’s not exactly good faith.
Certainly having countries neighboring Russia join in an alliance against Russia should be seen as a threat by Russia. It’s absurd to argue otherwise. It’s like having China recruiting Canada and Mexico in alliance to destroy America if China determines that we’re the US is aggressive.
Russia is an asshole. The US is an asshole. The EU are assholes. I won’t speak for Scruffy, but my interpretation is that he’s been saying there are no good guys in this conflict, including the United States. I have trouble disagreeing with that.
Russia made all sorts of assurances about a lot of things and they lie. Russia signed on to international law that they would not invade other sovereign nations. Oh well. Putin says they have reasons, so….
Ukraine asked for NATO’s help with security. Ukraine asked for America’s help. Russia has no legal standing to prevent Ukraine from looking to other nations for its security. Russia cant be trusted, so of course Ukrainians dont want Russia to “protect them” from Russia.
The whole bullshit thing about America’s deep state trying to surround Russia is horseshit. Russia has a piece of shit navy, so who cares if they have warm water ports. Russia’s aggressive foreign policy has created enemies on its borders. Russian propaganda is that America is the aggressor and that is a fucking lie.
It is good faith Semi-Spartan Dad. Russia is attacking sovereign Ukraine with Russian troops.
Communist Cuba was an ally of the USSR and America didnt invade them. We planned for it and we embargoed them but never sent US troops to take over Cuba.
Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, Romania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are not allies of Russia and can be seen as varying levels of threat to Russia. Russia doesnt invade them, why? North Korea has nukes and Iran is desperately trying to get nukes. If lunatic tyrants having nukes is not a threat, then I guess we are talking about different things.
America is a lot of things but lumping America in with Russia is a joke. America has Commie Canada to our North and we barely watch that border. America has criminal cartel controlled Mexico to our South and that border is less secure than the border between Finland and Russia.
Russia has largely created enemies at their borders. Russia still doesnt get to cause the problem then take over a peaceful nation like Ukraine just to make them a puppet. Fuck that.
To knee-cap those that misstate me, I am not advocating US troops fight Russia over Ukraine. We can use other non-military means and we should. el Presidente Biden is an empty suit, so we will have to wait for Trump to be President in 2024 or Civil War 2.0 resolve itself.
Thank you SSD.
I’m going to ignore the rest. It’s not worth responding to anymore.
Has anyone here said that we should send troops to fight Russia over Ukraine? I havent seen it.
I have advocated non-military means to help Ukraine, like selling weapons, giving them Russian intel, embargo Russia, etc.
National sovereignty is property rights and very Libertarian.
Poor scruffy. He got caught spouting Russian propaganda and now hes butt hurt.
Scruffy still never cited anything he was claiming.
I will still read scruffy’s bullshit stuff to get a good laugh.
https://usrussiaaccord.org/acura-viewpoint-jack-f-matlock-jr-todays-crisis-over-ukraine/
Only the former ambassador to the Soviet Union during before and during its collapse.
Read it if you want, or not. Or maybe read some older George Kennan (if you know who that is) articles decrying the foreign policy towards Russia twenty years ago and the predictable effects that we are seeing play out today.
Regardless, you’re a childish troll who likes to throw around insults. So fuck off.
Its okay Scruffy. Your cites are garbage and you know it. You cited someone who also spouted the same nonsense that you did.
Except that goober said the near nuclear exchange between the USSR and USA was America’s fault too. HAHAHA. See putting missiles in a country that wants them (Turkey) is a direct threat to the USSR and nuclear war is the only solution. This argument is laughable Commie nonsense. Its a justification for Commies to be aggressive.
I know you cannot see propaganda for what it is.
Has America ever attacked Russia. Nope. In fact America helped Russia against the Nazis.
Has Russia ever attacked other countries in the last 100 years without a self-defense casus belli. Yup.
Does excellent Russia intel inform them of American military policy toward Russia. Of course. That policy doesnt include a first strike on Russia.
So Russia knows that America wont first strike them but Russia publicly acts like America is some first strike military threat to them.
Same with Ukraine. Russia knows that Ukraine wont attack them. Yet Russia is making excuses to first strike Ukraine. Nobody is buying it. Now Russia is made to look the fool of their own creation. Good going idiot Russians.
Has America ever attacked Russia.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-u-s-troops-battled-bolsheviks-1516980334
Scruffy, youre out of your depth and then you get mad when someone calls you on your position that perfectly parrots Putin and Russia.
Then you try to ignore what I say by passive aggressively trying to insult me and getting last passive-aggressive word in. Then you cite something that discusses all the same stuff I blasted out of the water yesterday. That just exposes that you lost your little game to spout Russian propaganda as something Americans should agree with.
This aint my first rodeo with Commie propaganda bud. I already pointed out yesterday that Hitler used the same horseshit “provocation” to threaten Czechoslovakia about the Sudetenland. Hitler was just protecting Germans. Nazi Germany sent German operatives to attack a German radio station in the Gleiwitz incident to justify casus belli against Poland.
As I cited today about the election of Yanukovych and Ukrainians contesting the election results was the start of the Ukrainian Civil War. Russia then thought they could control the situation in Ukraine and failed. Russia’s idiocy is such that they now think publicly sending Russian troops to seize Ukrainian territory will be accepted. Maybe it will but it shouldnt.
I cant read the whole article because I wont give the wsj money.
As for Americans fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, America was invited by the ruling Russian group, the White Russians. American were also sent to guard US shipments of supplies so they didnt fall into Communist hands. Remember the Bolsheviks were the ones that started the civil war and not the legitimate govt at the time. It appears that soon after fighting with Bolsheviks, Americans were withdrawn from Russia. The General in charge of eastern Russia forces tried to stay out of the Russian Civil War. According to those that fought there, they were there to protect.
The Forgotten Story of the American Troops Who Got Caught Up in the Russian Civil War
Once again, America is not going into these nations to take them over for control. America always gets dragged into non-clearly defined situations. That is NOT what is happening with Russia in Ukraine.
Would America be considered the attacker of Russia if American Marines defended our embassy in Russia from armed parties attacking the embassy? Of course not. Even Russia advisers in Vietnam that were killed by Americans, America was not attacking Russians.
Scruffy wrong again.
Russia declared war on Ukraine and is engaged in full scale attack on Ukraine.
First war in Europe since the 1990s.
People are still mad about the crusades. By that standard the 14th century is a fresh wound.
We shoulda saved Canada a few days ago. Get rid of the despotic ruler and let the Canola flowers bloom again.
You might have to elaborate.
ME peoples mad about national boundaries in the region?
ME peoples mad about Israel?
ME people mad about long lost relatives who died?
Europeans mad about not controlling ME?
Europeans mad about long lost relatives who died?
America mostly rose above religious wars and old world beefs. Its one of the reasons America is so wealthy. Plus, most of the old world beefs are being used as excuses for tyrants. Same with religious wars. Most Americans just want to trade and get wealthy.
Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are ‘one people’
This is that “intergration”. Eastern Ukraine was flooded with Soviets during the USSR days because there used to be a bunch of factories and coal mining in the area. Then when Putin decided to take over Ukraine, the scheme was hatched to kick loyal Ukrainians out of the east of Ukraine and flood in Russian troops, loyalists, and agents. The Russians did the same thing in Crimea.
That Russian plan did fully work as Ukraine would not let Donetsk and Luhansk go without a fight. So now Russians are using it as an excuse to publicly admit Russians have invaded Ukraine territory.
Must be a conflict for you LC, what with Trump thinking Putin is a-ok and you thinking Putin is a commie bastard.
Youre watching MSM news again and its frying your brain. Trump doesnt think Putin is “a-ok”. The MSM is doing what they do best, lie, and you believe them. It is funny that you cant parse out why Trump said what he said about Putin’s move on Ukraine.
Putin is a Commie. He was a KGB hack. No “thinking” about it. Its a fact. Like Trump was President.
The funny thing is, Trump’s policy was good – it was his mouth/tweets that were shit.
Putin is long past being a commie, he’s a crook of a different kind.
I wouldnt know about Trump’s tweets. I dont twatter. You know interns did most of his tweets?
I didnt watch his speeches either. I watched his debate with Hillary. Trump is a populist, so he gives general points of strategy and points out the lies of his opponents. Then he goes to work as President doing good stuff for America. I dont want what Democrats want, so I dont want a politician that gives in to Lefties. Its Civil War 2.0 and you dont play nice with your enemies. Democrats declared war…again, and they are losing…again.
Why cant Putin be a Commie and crook? Chinese Commies can be.
Chinese commies are very bad at communism, but they’re damn good fascists.
From the transcript…
So much stupid.
In ten sentences, Trump points out that Putin is lying and Russian forces are not there for peace. Democrats are weak on foreign policy, including Russia aggression in Ukraine. Democrats are not enforcing US immigration law or border security law. Putin outsmarted Democrats and EU. Putin is a sly one. Trump knew Putin would try shit like this and Trump prevented Putin from carrying out his plans.
I would love to see how you would inform people about these issues in 10 sentences.
JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961:
[…]
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
[….]
Now that some stupid shit JFK says.
He doesn’t know Putin well. But rubes love that talk.
Im glad youre on the case of how much Trump knows. I feel safer now.
Evidently Trump met Putin 5 times and was privy to intel about Putin and Russia. Its clear Trump knows more than you do about Putin.
Besides, according to Lefty media Trump and Putin are pals. Im sure their pen pal letters are treasure troves of information so they know each other well.
Eastern Ukraine was flooded with Soviets during the USSR days because there used to be a bunch of factories and coal mining in the area.
This is very naïve and simplistic.
Ethnic Russians were moved in after the native Ukrainians had been starved out?
People considering themselves ethnic Russians lived in eastern, central and southern Ukraine for centuries. It was one country for centuries and people moved in all directions. The families of Khrushchev and Brezhnev (ethnic Russians) moved to Ukraine before the Bolshevik revolution. The family of Chernenko (ethnic Ukrainian) moved to Siberia where he was born before the revolution. Gorbachev was born in southern Russia but his Ukrainian mother’s family moved there earlier from Ukraine.
I guess the suffering of the Holodomor was not ethnically selective.
And true.
The Commies literally moved every surviving Tatar from Crimea to Central Asia for their “treason”.
That vacated land was backfilled with Soviets and Ukrainians.
WWII saw huge battles in Ukraine and the Ukrainians population was decimated. Who also backfilled that open Ukraine land once WWII was over and the USSR was a closed society? Soviets is the correct answer. Of course, Ukrainians fighting in the Russian Army also returned to Ukraine SSR.
Graduates of Hannity’s history class are very confident that they know everything.
I dont watch FOX. Im a historian so this history stuff is very much in my wheelhouse unlike some of y’all.
The stuff I am not familiar with, has a great new way to find primary material on the subject – THE INTERNET.
Im happy to discuss topics but you dont get to not cite primary facts then demand that I do because I’m posting something “naive and simplistic”. Its a Glibertarian website forum.
Of course there are a multitude of reasons for Russians living in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of UKRAINE. The FACT is that those regions are part of Ukraine and have been for 30 years. Before that, Ukraine was involved in the Russo-Turkish War and Catherine the Great encouraged Germans to settle Ukraine to push out Turks living in the region. Also POles and Austrians had claims over Ukrainians lands. By 1917, Ukraine territory was an independent nation and after much civil war and in fighting, Ukraine was actually one of the founding SSRs of the USSR.
Ukraine became one of the first SSRs to break away from the USSR in Jan 1990. Ukraine had the 3rd largest nuclear stockpile in the World and gave it up.
Russian troops invaded Ukraine 8 years ago but they just admitted to having Russian troops in the sovereign nation of Ukraine.
Supposedly their was shelling into the Ukrainian military positions Sunday or Monday.
I have seen videos of explosive rounds falling on what appeared to be a small town/city.
And if by “military positions” they meant “borderline slum residential area adjacent to light commercial area filled with mechanic’s shops… Then yeah. Military.
That’s right. A school was hit with mortars.
I just assumed there are Ukrainian border guards with positions among the locals, who have nowhere to go, in that buffer zone between the traitors and Ukrainians.
OK, I don’t personally give a shit that the person who got trampled was an Indian, but I do know that on the res, you don’t fuck with the elders. They are the ones that everyone respects and listens to.
In C-Eh!-N-Eh!-D-Eh! the only “respected” elders are the ones that pine for running the state like Castro or Xi do…
Yup. What they say goes, even up to and including who marries whom. It is after all a tribal system of government and very much matrilineal so far as I have seen. It’s to stop cousin-fucking for the most part. They’ve been doing this for thousands of years.
Cousin fucking has it’s charm… Or so I heard..
“if you can’t keep it in your pants, keep it in your family.”
The Elders failed on the one Rez that we used as a base camp. They should have fielded a soft-ball team, Middle River Cousin Fuckers. Hard to fit on a jersey but they’d be happy to use the Redskins mascot.
Good kitty!
Emerson has GOP up 9 points in generic congressional ballot adding to Rasmussen’s 13 point lead and Trafalgar’s 13 point lead.
Nothing a little fortification can’t handle.
The fascists and commie got away with a whole hell of a lot last go around AND they managed to jail dissenters. There’s no reason to think they won’t be even more brazen next election.
I assert, therefor I am
The U.S. convoys seek an immediate lifting of what they say are heavy-handed government pandemic restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine requirements. The American Truckers Freedom Fund website says the group is protesting “the unscientific, unconstitutional overreach of the federal government.”
Vaccines have proven highly effective at preventing COVID-19 infections, especially serious illness and death, and high-quality masks offer strong protection against spreading or contracting the disease. Public sentiment, especially among conservatives, has been shifting against government mandates as the pandemic heads into its third year.
We’ve all seen the mass graves outside Deadwood, South Dakota. Hundreds of thousands of people died because they refused to believe in SCIENCE!
They went to Sturgis instead of huddling in their sheep pens, and paid the ultimate price. When will the plebs learn their place?
Seeing as how gleeful the proggies can be when a person of note, who is publicly anti vax/mask mandates, contracts Covid, you’d think they’d encourage their political enemies to go maskless and to not get the vax. That is, if Covid is as deadly as they claim to believe.
I am pretty sure that over 300 million people died of covid-19 under Trump. I definitely remember our current president telling me that at some point.
“Biden imposes sanctions on Russian banks, elites, and their families, in response to Ukraine ‘invasion'”
Biden learns from the youngster in Canada. Enjoys a second pudding cup.
whaddup doh’
Ice and snow. New mayor in Cleveland already planning to spend more money then the city takes in. Pączki.
We get the ‘wintry mix’ tonight and tomorrow.
The lack of fighting suggests that maybe there is more nuance than the media would admit.
Nuance is for chumps. You’re with the President, or you’re a terrorist.
As a result, Biden said “I’m going to begin to impose sanctions,” which he said are a “response far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners implemented in 2014. And if Russia goes further with this invasion, we stand prepared to go further, as with sanctions.”
“I looked at Putin and stared him down.”
“I looked at Putin and fell asleep”
“I farted in his general direction!”
You know what a Biden Surprise is?
A fart with a lump in it.
Now do this using the word “Definitely”…
“You know what a Biden Surprise is?”
Winning the 2020 Election?
That wasn’t a fart.
I remember thinking in general that the cops might not side with the authoritarians when push comes to shove.
LOL I’ve been rudely awaken to reality now.
I hope they execute her for her attack on those adorable horses!
/twitter
I’ve heard lots of talk that the cops in generic green uniforms were mercenaries flown in from somewhere. Waiting for somebody to prove it.
They don’t need mercenaries. The people in charge have for a long time now known not to use local cops when they want them to be brutal to the serfs. So you just bring them in from some other area of the country so they feel very little in common with the people you want to sick them on…
There were cops from my province. You just have to know that half of these guys sign up for an excuse to crack some skulls. I remember the boys that wanted to be cops from high school. Losers, misfits, assholes not good at sports and very clannish.
A former Calgary Police Services retiree was at the Ottawa protests during the final days, and says he saw at least 20 CPS cops there. He despaired.
How many mercenary companies accept maple syrup and beaver pelts as payment?
Most of those cuntes would pay the Government to do what they did.
Hessians?
Obligatory.
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/mediaviewer/rm1289244416/
Also obligatory.
They were Surete du Quebec. Quebec’s provincial police.
There were lots of police from around Canada there.
All you had to do was watch the Rebel News livestreams. More than a few times they showed the shoulder badges for the cops in the green uniforms. They also showed the badges for the cops which were in more normal police uniforms.
And one more… these keep popping into mind after I hit submit.
I chatted with Rufus privately during the crackdown.
He confirmed it: Surete du Quebec. They’re more than happy to crack a few skulls.
Did you see the article about how minorities, Indians and protected classes were immune to the Ottawa round up?
No, but unsurprising if true.
Yep – didn’t help the Mohawk elder who got trampled.
Yeah…. Trampled.
Not rounded up.
Russia has had troops in Donbas for 8 years, U.S. official admits …”Russian troops moving into Donbas would not itself be a new step,” the official said. “Russia has had forces in the Donbas region for the past eight years.”
“C’mon, man. We need an out here.”
I feel like someone in the Whitehouse watched “wag the dog” last month and decided it was their time to shine as a political genius.
Meet Trudeau’s puppet-master. She’s even less subtle about it than the people running the Biden meat-puppet.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/odd-little-note-on-the-puppet-handler-of-trudeau/
Taibbi had an article on Freeland up yesterday. Seems he knows her going back twenty years or more. He was not kind.
At one point he repeated the phrase that Chrystia Freeland is the “Nurse Ratched of the New World Order.”
I like that.
She dresses like and has the stature of a Dolores Umbridge. Coincidence? I think not.
Behind every mand they want to tell you is great, there is some evil wench pushing him to his ruination?
Trudeau is an idiot.
He refused to engage with the truckers at all and immediately escalated the situation to DEFCON 1 by calling them Nazis, racists, homophobes, etc…
If that’s what they are, then you can’t possibly engage with them. He made this an all or nothing confrontation and it will continue to get worse because Trudy et al will not give an inch, even to their own benefit.
Trudeau should encourage all loyal Canadians to boycott any product that is hauled on a truck. It’s the only way to teach those ‘kind of people’ a lesson.
“Let Freedom Roll” is the slogan of “The People’s Convoy” set to depart Wednesday morning from Adelanto, California, on its way to Washington, DC, to protest federal coronavirus mandates and call for an end to President Joe Biden’s emergency declaration.
I don’t like that name.
If it’s anything like “people’s elbow” I’ll support it.
Except Dwayne Johnson hit rock bottom recently.
Local group that started opposing ‘vid shutdowns and mask mandates (and then almost immediately pivoted to pro-Trump) is organizing a group to meet with the Convoy when they overnight here in Ohio. Bold move of the convoy to announce their full route and overnight stops ahead of time. Let’s see how it plays out.
Insurrections 2.0…. This time.. It’s personal!
My cynical side says this is a fed event, and Canada declaring a state of emergency was a trial run for the US. Hope not.
I haven’t paid much attention to the trucker convoy groups, but there were splitters. Two different groups wanting to move on different days.
We will drive our brand new People’s Truck across the bridge…
I’m just imagining that it’s a tongue-in-cheek troll of the Marxists attacking them. If that’s the case, it’s pure gold.
I remember thinking in general that the cops might not side with the authoritarians when push comes to shove.
LOL I’ve been rudely awaken to reality now.
According to something I read, the Canuckistani truckers spent a lot of time attempting to shame the cops for being good little enforcers. Stuff like, “Your grandfather who went to Europe and fought for freedom must be so proud of you, now.”
It apparently was not very effective.
It is difficult not to express my feelings, but there’s really no upside to doing so.
I’d hand out pamphlets retelling the history of what happened to Vichy collaborators after the war instead.
That reminds me, I need a haircut.
It’s different this time…
Like cops know who their parents were, much less their grandparents.
Or more likely:
“Your grandfather who went to Europe and fought for freedom must be so proud of you, now.”
“Hah! Shows what you know. My grandfather was a concentration camp guard who snuck into Canada after the war”
I won’t go searching for it at work, but there was a 4chan thread much like one of our pun threads, except that the seed was “my grandfather died in WWII. He fell out of a guard tower in Poland.”
My grandfather was a POW. The Allies finally let him out in 1946.
The idea that cops and soldiers would have solidarity with their blue-collar brethren has been comprehensively refuted.
Adjust your thinking accordingly.
The stuff that has come out of the Floyd riots has pretty much convinced me that LEO’s can’t be trusted to do anything right.
They went around slashing tires of any cars as a “riot control measure”. They were caught on their body cams gloating about how they were going to fuck people up. And then with all their goonery they were too chickenshit to go to where the worst of the riots were and clamp down. No, they hung out in the safer areas and fucked with people there.
It’s worth noting, historically, that whenever the police start risking (or taking) casualties from a determined opponent, they default back to ‘hide behind something bulletproof and wait for help.’
Something to keep in mind for when things start to get really bad.
Indeed. Fire teams practiced in flanking maneuvers seem well advised.
I believe I saw this covered on HBO. Maybe they should be on a watch list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_-aFlOxyOU
To radically change the subject, where can I find information about the setup aspects of practiscore? Their website only links me to the dev blog and uspsa.org only covers scorekeeping.
I haven’t had to worry about it before, but the 3/12 Winter Steel won’t include my PS setter-upper.
Good question. Practiscore management is something I’ve never worked with.
Its also worth noting that police and military have supplies that they need and family homes.
I can tell you right now that going all William Tecumseh Sherman on Washington D.C. is going to make treasonous cops and military folks rethink their loyalty to Democrat tyranny.
Cops and military tyrants have to sleep sometime.
Agree. Sarge said…
Note to Reporters: Americans Are Better Off Even After Inflation
Remember, inflation only hurts rich people trying to buy exercise equipment.
I would have guessed Robert Reich wrote that, so when I found out it was Shapiro who served with Reich back in the 90’s, I was not surprised.
Unless everyone has been getting 10% raises, then no, they aren’t better off.
Narrator : “People haven’t been getting 10% raises.”
Yeah… This stuff has been infuriating.
I also have no clue where they get their inflation numbers. Many things are up 50% year over year. Some are more than double. Still others, you just can’t get.
But nah… We are actually experiencing 5% inflation.
They remove volatile elements like energy and food. You know, the basics. But hey, consumer electronics are only up about 5%, so you should be happy.
Talk about fun with statistics!
Yeah, all that economic “growth” might have been a bit skewed given the drop in all those same metrics caused by the lockdown and Rona panic. But sure, we should all listen to the media about how wonderful our lives are. No one should believe their lying eyes when they go to the grocery stores.
I’m predicting that sometime in 2022, an article will be written that points out that they high food prices have led to a drop in obesity and that is a good thing we should all be thanking Biden for.
TH US ECONOMY HAS EXPLODED BY ELEVENTY BILLION PERCENT SINCE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS OFUNDED N 1828!
#Ibelieveinscience #livingwage #healthecareisahumanright #bashafash
Heh, if you lost a job in 2020 that paid $100,000 and finally found a new job in 2021 that pays $50,000, your income increased by $50,000 in 2021.
Started doing my taxes this year, and my take home pay was flat over last year (I got a raise, but bonuses didn’t come through). On the other hand, I may wind up needing to pay a penalty because of mutual fund disbursements (which were reinvested).
Yikes. What happened? There was no way to transfer the money without incurring the tax liability?
Personal brokerage account, with disbursements set to re-invest. The disbursements more then tripled from 2020 to 2021 with the same holdings. The penalty is under $20, but it’s the principle of the thing.
So they are going to fist fuck you, but it is for your own good?
Of course, I mean, how dare I not expect to pay my
tithetribute to the big man?Of course. No mean tweets after all.
Nice set of links, little Miss Mary Sunshine! I dug the musical link but I’m a sucker for lost-cause dirges.
Truly an impressive and meaty spread.
^seen Shame on you!
In all honesty, I wrote that innocently. But after I re-read it, I knew I had to post it in all it’s beauty.
The troops would be used largely to help control traffic
And arrest uppity, dissident
subjectscitizens.To be fair, some of them will get to dress in civvies and “storm” the Capitol. Can’t leave important details like that to chance.
As speed bumps for the overzealous newly recruited police?
Rhywun,
A reply from last night. “Fuck off, slavers” is the major theme. And you should reread it if you don’t remember. It is excellent.
Vinge, right? I will. He’s damn good.
Yes, Vinge. There is a 3rd book in the series, but I here it is not worth the effort. Both A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are classics.
They are in the same universe and have one of the same characters (sort of), but are independent. Other than a few Easter eggs in Deepness if you have read Fire first. Fire takes place many millennia after Deepness but was written first. So Deepness is sort of a prequel.
The pack mind aliens in Fire is a really cool concept.
Fire is great SF. Deepness is great literature.
Yeah, I’ve read Fire a couple times at least and remember it clearly.
“We want this government to bring back the Constitution,” Landis said. “We do not want to be under a dictatorship communism-style regime, like where we are right now.”
A state of emergency in the U.S. was declared by President Donald Trump in March 2020. Last week, Biden announced his intention to extend it beyond the current March 1 expiration date.
I’m amazed Biden didn’t end the state of emergency on Day One. After all, if the Cartoon Villain did it, it must be wrong.
That state of emergency preserves the liability protections for the vaccines and the hospitals that implement the NIH guidelines on COVID treatment as well as providing reimbursements for specific treatments like remdesivir and ventilators.
So much horrible shit has been done under those rules that they have to be scared about what happens when the emergency is lifted.
It was pretty entertaining to see how fast they pivoted on the vaccine’s viability and safety when Biden won the election.
I can see the headlines.
Trucker convoy destroys the roads and bridges. Nation’s infrastructure needs big over haul, we need to Build Back Better, we need more money and we need it now!
*CBS and MSNBC perk up*
Oh yes! The live ‘interviews’ with some local Mega Karen mewling about how loud the trucker’s horns are. It’s going to be good fun!
I’m curious to see what the first ‘racist’ event that’s going to be cited on the news is going to be.
As in most things in life lately, you can either laugh or cry.
I hope they bring the original swastika flag guy in for this. I’d hate to see the FBI cheap out and use a local for that role instead.
RIght? Plus it’s always so obvious when they recast such a prominent iconic role. It really just takes you out of it and reminds you that you’re watching fiction.
‘You could tell they were overwhelmed. They were as dumb as a bag of hammers,’ Meister, 53, said.
I supposed regime thugs are not expected to be intelligent.
The hive-mind is controlled by an imbecile.
To be fair he was talking about metric hammers.
The lead defendant in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “repeatedly” expressed that he did not want to participate in the conspiracy despite “persistent” pressure and “manipulation” by FBI informants, according to a court filing.
What’s a little entrapment among friends?
“Stick your dick through this hole in the wall. You’ll like it!”
If you go to a traphouse and you don’t see Hunter Biden, get out! What you are in is a FBI entrapmenthouse.
Hah!
It could still be an entrapment house, the FBI has just been advised to pretend like no one sees Hunter there no matter how many times he asks to borrow a spoon and a lighter.
Light the “applause” sign for the studio audience, Johhny
President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged that his administration is using “every tool at our disposal” to limit the effect on gas prices in the US of sanctions he announced against Russia, acknowledging that Americans will likely see rising prices at the pump in the coming months.
However, Biden did not say what specific actions his administration plans to take to stabilize gas prices for US consumers – something any American president has a limited ability to do.
“As I said last week, defending freedom will have costs, for us as well and here at home,” Biden said. “We need to be honest about that. But as we do this, I’m going to take robust action to make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at the Russian economy, not ours.”
Moving forward, Biden said that the administration is “closely monitoring energy supplies for any disruption.”
Price gouging war profiteers, coming soon to a gas pump near you.
I assume re-authorizing pipelines and oil and gas leases is right out of the question.
The sad thing is that there are a ton of idiots that will willingly believe this lie.
You’re cute, everything is on the table sir, except things that actually work.
his administration is using “every tool at our disposal” to limit the effect on gas prices in the US of sanctions he announced against Russia
Except, you know, expanding domestic production.
We can’t drill our way to lower prices! The science is settled!
Lol, wut?
Oh, Tulsi: Warmongers argue we must protect Ukraine because it’s a “democracy”
Hear me out…DeSantis-Gabbard 2024.
I don’t know, she kind of hand waved bombing kids a few months ago.
Look at her economic ideas….you might not like what you see.
She’s a Dark Queen. A Beautiful Queen. One that comes to take your guns away!
Big gun controller, too.
Not bad on foreign policy. Garden variety party line Dem on everything else.
She is speaking at CPAC. I guess I’ll see where that goes.
Gun grabber. Pass.
It would be terrible, as she is terrible on everything but foreign policy (and only OK on that). However, it is a ticket that could possibly unite the country on a “return to sanity” ticket.
I would totally be okay with a GOP prez naming her Sec of State. or Sec of Defense.
#MeToo
“We’re executing a plan in coordination with major oil producing consumers and producers toward a collective investment to secure stability and global energy supply,” he told reporters in the White House East Room. “This will be – this will blunt gas prices. I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me.”
Flatulent platitudes will save us!
Oil producing consumers?
Could this announcement possibly be any more fascist?
Fascist? Could it be any more incoherent is more the point.
Twink of the North getting a little big for his britches.
Canada is set to boost its military presence at Russia’s border and sanction Russian sovereign debt, parliamentarians and companies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Tuesday, citing what he said was an “invasion” of Ukraine.
Up to 460 members of the Canadian Armed Forces will head to the Baltic country of Latvia, which shares a border with Russia, to join the 540 Canadian troops already stationed there.
A frigate of the Royal Canadian Navy is also headed to the area, accompanied by one or more CP-140 Aurora spy planes, Ottawa has announced.
That’s some mighty fine force projection. I’m sure it wouldn’t be destroyed in five seconds.
I want a meme of Putin (riding a bear) charging at Brandeau (riding a moose)!
I enacted my own labor. If I had more time I would have added lazers.
But at least Putin is giving Brandeau the Brazilian look off.
A whole frigate? What, were they out of dinghies?
From yesterday on I5
https://ibb.co/C0xJzcn
Must be hard to drive at that angle,
What tires do they use?
Batman!
I was so close.
He parks in a lean-to
Nah, it looks that way cause you’ve only got one shoe on.
Driver needs to close one eye. Works for me.
The Joker approves
Off topic… ATT is looking awfully attractive!
https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=T&p=m&tas=0
P/E of 8.6
That’s not bad at all these days.
I doubled down at about 30.
Well, technically more of a 1.5tuple down.
But I bought more.
The founders would be proud of our current crop of political representatives.
AOC dunks her face in a bowl of ice water to destress on Instagram live
Next time she will use a big dildo which finally will make HM be able to chaturbate with her?
Go on…
She forgot to breathe
Chances that the mendacious Twink was involved?
Locations of the Freedom Convoy donors in Ontario, Canada, have been published on Google Maps after the names of those who gave money to the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo were leaked online.
The Google Maps link contains thousands of pins pointing to locations of donors throughout the Canadian province, with each pin listing their names, donor ID, email address, and the amount they donated, including those as low as $10.
Still can’t figure out who went to Epstein’s island. I’m sure they’ll jump on that next.
You mean by killing anyone that can rat them out?
The Twink in the North probably doesn’t even need to be involved. There are enough leftist nerds out there to whip this up all on their own and be proud to play a part in ruining these people’s lives.
What tires do they use?
It’s all done with hydraulics
“Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich denied bail by judge who ran as a Liberal candidate”
Of course. She’s a domestic terrorist rather than a mostly peaceful rioter burning down buildings and beating bystanders up.
And that’s the gist of the game, now isn’t it? People that loot, destroy, burn, and murder and indirectly help the totalitarian machine are ignored, while anyone that stands up to the machine and exposes or impedes the evil shit they are doing is labeled a domestic terrorist and loses all legal rights…….
But they keep telling you that the evil fucking totalitarians are the good guys…
What I found astonishing was the judges repeated statements that she was guilty as charged.
At a bail hearing. Before any evidence whatsoever had been presented, much less adjudicated.
Kangaroo court. It makes you seriously wonder about going peacefully when the doorkickers show up.
Judge, jury, and executioner.
We’re going medieval.
Seems like Festus was a little down yesterday so Ass Wednesday is suspended.
https://archive.fo/MqStq
Da Fuq? These women are dressed!!
Dammit Q! We just had a snow storm blow through. It isn’t time for shit like that. There is a proper time for that link, but this ain’t it.
Classic!
Aww… It’s like being an old bird dog watching ducks fly on TV. Thanks, man! I just fell again. Nightly occurrence lately. Not even drunk, just five beers in. You should see me Biden a set of stairs. Next Monday I see the Doc and nothing will happen for two years. Gonna start walking about with my arms raised high for balance like a toddler.
I thought ass suspension was more Creosote Achilles’ kink.
Car chase vid.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Fuck you! I’m not crying, you’re crying!
Fizzling
Climbing mortgage rates are hitting both potential homebuyers and refinance candidates. Total mortgage applications decreased 13.1% last week to the lowest level since December 2019, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Applications to refinance dropped 15% weekly and were 56% lower than one year ago.
“Higher mortgage rates have quickly shut off refinances, with activity down in six of the first seven weeks of 2022,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting.
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Rising mortgage rates will pose a challenge for some buyers, likely leading to less demand. Lazzara predicts that price growth will soon slow in reaction to higher rates.
Not mentioned: inflation eating into funds available for mortgage payments.
Rising mortgage rates will pose a challenge for some buyers
Adjust your expectations.
Buy the price, not the monthly payment.
Now that’s a callout to expose some serious gamboling..
Of course. She’s a domestic terrorist rather than a mostly peaceful rioter burning down buildings and beating bystanders up.
Loitering with intent to dawdle is an insufferable affront to the peace and dignity of the State!
When you make El Jefe Jr. look bad, there are consequences, yo…
Everyone knows that mouthy Hockey Moms are the worst. An affront to the system, even.
Supposedly excellent deer hunting at Camp Ripley. My cousin like to hunt there when he can draw a lottery permit.
That reminded me of when the Air Force tried to let hunters come in and thin the herd at the Academy, back in the ’70s. There were millions of dollars worth of damage to vehicles, public and private, every year, because the deer were really thick and completely oblivious to human activity.
The hippies showed up banging pots and pans and making a big ruckus to “save” the poor defenseless bambis from the bloodthirsty killers.
I drew permits a couple of years to hunt at the mothballed Badger Ordnance plant in Wisconsin.
Positively crawling with deer. Bow only, and I was a crap shot, so no luck. The best strategy seemed to be to lay back on a porch or loading dock and wait for the other hunters to push deer past.
Definitely a post-apocalyptic feel.
This place? what a shitshow for central planning. Just sell it off, dipshits.
That’s the one. I was there in the late ’90s.
Huh. I don’t recall hearing about the ‘Colorado Springs Hippie Massacre’, so I guess the obvious didn’t happen…
Cue unhinged shrieking from the gun-grabbers.
Dubbed the JR-15, the AFP relates that it’s “marketed by maker WEE1 Tactical as ‘the first in a line of shooting platforms that will safely help adults introduce children to the shooting sports.’” Clearly aghast, the news organ further reports that the “company’s website says the rifle ‘also looks, feels, and operates just like Mom and Dad’s gun.’”
Oh man, my daughter would love that. She’s been doing great with a CZ scorpion, but ARs are far too big for her. Not much on the website though, might be more of a gimmick.
Saw one on the shelf at my local. A .22 with miniaturized AR furniture. No need for it to be a gimmick, but who knows what the build quality is?
Yeah, that’s what I mean. It is just marketing fluff or actually a quality firearm.
A Smith and Wesson MP15-22 pistol, maybe with a registered SBR lower and collapsible stock, would be perfect for even the tiniest sprogs.
I lean toward crew-served weapons as the intro for children.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. Trying to avoid SBRs. Besides the whole list thing, I cross over state borders frequently. Not optimistic on the future of pistol braces right now.
I am powerfully tempted to get and customize an HK USC. It would be a great SBR with the barrel cut down (and a suppressor). But I am not investing in an SBR. My understanding is that they are “Form 4” registered with the feds and come with the associated legal baggage. My confidence that they won’t be made illegal and seized is insufficiently high for me to invest in one.
Yeah, pistol braces are on the way out. It was a nice dodge for a while, but Firearms Branch is not stupid.
Sending in a 5320 form once a year is a pretty mild inconvenience though. I actually have to do two of them – I go to ranges in both MD and WV.
Gun-grabbers: “Won’t somebody think of the children!!!”
WEE1 Tactical: thinks of the children
Gun-grabbers: *shocked reeeeee-ing face*
Nice takedown.
“DC Mayor Bowser approved 800 National Guard members to be deployed ahead of trucker convoy”
Hopefully it’s not the same guards they used in the last Kabuki theater that were forced to sleep in parking garages. Rule #1 of staying in power: Keep the jackboots warm and well fed. I trust they’ll be filtering them for wrongthink again.
Whelp, I stray away. One tiny victory yesterday but I’ll treasure it. Hope that the rest of you have as wonderful a one as you can manage! Festus tottering out!
I had another $500 mechanic bill, so in very adult fashion I countered that by spending $400 on toys (literally) That’s how economics works, right?
Retail therapy.
Yep. Modern Monetary Theory motherf@$&er!!!
Update from the front lines:
We are down to less than 1/3 of our peak COVID inpatient census for Omicron. We hit our peak for that variant a little over a month ago. From our all-time peak, we are down to around 1/6th. The hospital is still jammed with patients, who are sicker, by and large, than what we have ever seen for regular inpatients. What could possibly have happened that degraded people’s health across the board? ‘Tis a mystery.
Our biggest issue, by far, is staffing. Turnover is off the charts, wages are rising, we are losing millions a month on travelling nurses.
We are suspending employees who haven’t had their second vax, and will be firing them probably in a few weeks.
Some of our primary care docs are refusing to see unvaxxed patients.
That is just mind-boggling.
RAGE BOILING OVER!
TBC I’m for free association, but all the docs I know are very much pro-vaccination. Who is left to treat the rabble?
There are medical ethical issues here, as well. You aren’t supposed to “fire” established patients unless the “therapeutic relationship” has broken down (or they don’t pay their bills or are abusive to staff, neither of which is in play here). Not complying with a treatment plan counts, but the vaxxes aren’t treatment, right? What else are they recommending to patients, that patients aren’t doing, but they aren’t firing them for?
My respect for the medical profession continues to decline. They are herd animals, and their pretentions to being both scientific and caring look increasingly hollow.
Watching them claim that “oh, we’ll have an initial meeting with the filthy Unclean before we refuse to care for them, and that satisfies our DEI commitment” is amusing, though. Shockingly, their noisy protestations that they are all in on DEI are thin as paper.
So how do you think they’re going to reconcile the inevitable revelation that the vaccines don’t work and policy reverses?
Of course they work.
1. Vaxxed and no covid = worked
2. Vaxed and covid = could have been worse
3. Vaxxed and dead = didn’t kick in yet, or
4. Vaxxed and dead = needed a booster
Get off my Zoom calls, CPA.
Just left my primary’s office – first physical in a couple of years.
He made his pitch for a booster shot but didn’t push when I declined. He was somewhat sympathetic to my reasoning “I was assured it was just two shots, and now they’re taking four. The goalposts keep moving”
Even he thinks four would be excessive.
Free association doesn’t work with government agencies (like the DMV) and I would put state-protected guilds closer to the side of government agencies than free market enterprises. If a diner won’t let X group in, you can start your own diner next door and drive them out of business. Not the case with medicine. If pistoffnick is not allowed to see the local PCP and sets up a competing practice next door, you’ll be arrested for practicing medicine without a license. And access to that license is highly restricted and controlled by the government. Never mind certificate of need laws.
It’s been discouraging seeing Z-packs being sold in Mexican airports… the US has fallen so far.
Also, if they want to suck at the gov’t tit, they get the restrictions that come with it.
Good of them to wave the ‘Avoid Me’ flag…
If it helps, I’m torturing them with “Minority communities have a lower vax rate. How does this square with our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion?’
Awesome.
Keep up the good work.
🙂
“Do no harm.”
The harm is YOUR FAULT for not getting an experimental jab that turns out to be very INEFFECTIVE.
Doctors are innocent in all this is how they sleep.
Bad, bad news. I do not see this turning out well if it keeps up.
I’m glad I got my colon-snip out of the way before the jabs started.
Turnover is off the charts…We are suspending employees who haven’t had their second vax, and will be firing them probably in a few weeks.
That’s weird.
How is that not a fireable offense?
I am unwilling at this point to go mano a mano on anything COVID related (and have been all along, I admit to my shame). I am executing my exit plan, which requires that I stay on full time through July (which is worth about a quarter million in vested deferred comp). I might have more balls if I thought my opposition would make any difference, but I don’t think that for a second. The bubble is impenetrable, and I am not going to make a sacrifice for nothing, especially since its not just my financial future at risk, but Mrs. Dean’s.
I am in the sad position of having learned what my price is. Its not as high as I had hoped.
You are planning on having fun in your last week though, right?
“I refuse to treat obese patients.” “I refuse to treat smokers.” “I refuse to treat drug addicts.” “I refuse to treat HIV+ patients.” “I refuse to treat anyone who opposes single-payer health care.”
“I refuse to treat anyone who isn’t a hot blonde nymphomaniac with financial difficulties.”
I am facing a similar hurdle. My university requires a booster to register for summer classes among students who will physically be on campus. I have one online course left to complete my PhD. That’s it. It’s not even a real course… just finishing my dissertation. 3 fucking credits and I’m done.
I cannot find anyone to lift the hold on my registration despite the requirement not applying to me. I will soon be facing the choice of getting the booster, lawyering up to somehow compel them to lift the registration (I can’t even imagine what this would cost), or not getting my degree when it’s essentially finished.
At least you aren’t working for a Chinese company, owned by another Chinese company, owned by the Chinese military.
/hangs head in shame.
Daughter should graduate in 2023. My calculus might change after that (nothin’ to lose, no fucks to give)
Insufficient warmongering.
“Putin was undoubtedly waiting for a second Trump term, but he is getting effectively almost what he would have expected then. This is going to be a victory for Russia,” predicted former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton.
I swear this asshole wants the world to end in a nuclear holocaust.
Putin was undoubtedly waiting for a second Trump term
Not explained: If Putin had a green light from Trump to invade Ukraine, why did he wait for the second term (which was always in doubt)?
Why is it that Russia always seems to bite off a chunk of one of its neighbors when there’s a Dem in the White House?
How is it that pro-Putin Trump implemented policy after policy that was crossways with Russian interests? Stepping on Russian ally Iran. Increasing US oil production. Sanctions. Seriously, did Trump do one thing to advance Russia’s/Putin’s interests?
He helped increase Vodka sales among the chattering class?
Yeah, but they drink French vodka – Grey Goose.
That of course is the irony – Trump talks about Putin being smart/admirable but actually has better policy than what he talks.
For people incapable of thinking past personalities, saying Putin is smart and pursuing his country’s interests can only mean you support everything he does. The idea that you can recognize a worthy adversary, and still treat him as an adversary, is beyond their mental scope.
Well, most people in American foreign policy can’t recognize a legitimate interest of any country let alone separate it from over-reach. They are ALL supposed to do what we think they should.
??
We’re completely blinded by our own brilliance. Never ends well.
Lefties will never admit that Trump outsmarted all of them.
Trump foreign policy was very successful if you gauge it by not starting a new war and not allowing tyrants to cause much trouble.
Especially when Trump had that Iranian general Qasem Soleimani droned. Iran went quiet after launching a few missiles at our troops in Iraq. Remember when the US Lefty media screamed about that?
One last thing. That little kid from “Stranger Things” wore about a dozen different outfits for her 18th birthday. About the only thing that she didn’t do was to share feet shots. How fucking creepy is that?
So you are saying it’s not on Nickelodeon?
“EXCLUSIVE: Pete Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33million in city contracts, raising concerns of ‘pay to play’ as Transportation Secretary doles out $210billion in infrastructure plan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10521059/Pete-Buttigieg-took-250k-donors-awarded-33M-city-contracts-mayor.html
Shocking.
‘Twas ever thus.
That 250k was to cover his paternity leave.
It’s only fair.
There is so much corruption in infrastructure spending in the US. I think there’s a significant opportunity for a journalist to earn some major accolades exposing it.
The problem is that the scope of the corruption is so monumental, it is too much for one person to take on.
Who, exactly, would give accolades to a journalist exposing the ruling class’s corruption? They’re more likely to be prosecuted.
or committing “suicide”
And nothing else happened.
“Californian aesthetician sues LAPD after she was misidentified, wrongly arrested and spent TWO weeks in jail where ‘human feces were thrown around’ and she ‘had to put hot food underneath her clothing to keep warm'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542147/California-woman-sues-LAPD-misidentified-wrongly-arrested-spent-TWO-weeks-jail.html
Maybe try wearing more clothes?
“PICTURED: Disabled Portland Antifa protester, 60, who was shot dead at BLM riot ‘by far-right FURRY, 43,’ who was then shot and critically-injured by left-wing activist
A 60 year-old Antifa activist was shot dead by a far-right furry while blocking traffic at a Black Lives Matter rally in Portland, it was claimed.
June Knight was shot in the head at point-blank range on Saturday at Normandale Park when the suspect, named as Benjamin Jeffrey Smith, 43, walked up to her and a group of protesters and shot her in the head at close range.
Smith is a machinist who is said to have posted regularly on far-right forums, backed Kyle Rittenhouse and moaned about crime in Portland also shot four other women, it is claimed. He is also said to be a member of the furry community, who dress up in cartoonish animal outfits and attend gatherings together.
After Smith allegedly shot and killed Knight, he was himself shot by another marcher who was armed. That marcher was arrested, but has since been freed by police, and has not been identified.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10540379/Disabled-Portland-Antifa-protester-60-shot-dead-BLM-protest-far-right-FURRY-43.html
That “marcher” has been id’d. An antifa thug with a history of violence. Carrying an AR pistol to a criminal event.
Leaving aside whatever firearms laws he violated, it sounds like a good shoot to me. Somebody gunning down people on the street is a legit target. Unless those people were themselves engaged in violence, of course. Which may have been the case, but as presented . . . .
This is why I can’t stand Trump (also from the Sexton podcast transcript)…
See, that’s just as big a steaming pile of bullshit as anything to come out of Biden’s mouth, or any of the neo-con assholes.
And this…
Fuck no I never want this dipshit back in office.
“China is gonna be next.”
Short Taiwanese stocks.
Best President in US history, Donald J Trump!
Troll quality zero.
I know the Truth hurts your sensibilities.
You aren’t even trying to engage in good faith. That’s trolling. And you wouldn’t know Truth if you were hanging from the T.
Its okay ji. You lost that last discussion we had about Trump. So you troll your little opinion about Trump this and that. Its your opinion but its not based on things Trump actually did. I get it, you hate him but according to you, you voted for him.
I challenged to list all the things Trump did poorly. You didnt so I listed a tiny fraction of all the things he did well. Some of you dont have citations to back up what you say, so I guess thats why you dont.
But hey, you might convince someone with the nonsense you say about Trump. I mean, its Trump. Hes been in the news for decades and all you can come up with are opinions from you that are based on something, Im sure. Not reality but something.
I will start the list of Presidents trump is better than…
el Comandante Biden
Obama
W. Bush
Clinton
Reagan
Carter
Ford
Nixon
LBJ
JFK
Eisenhower
Truman
FDR
….
Trump did so well, the Democrats in the House impeached him twice. If that not an endorsement at how good Trump was for America, I dont know what is. Democrats are bad for America and they hate Trump.
I’m sure the average Walmart manager could have done a better job than Biden.
In terms of getting out of Afghanistan? No. Because the entire US govt was committed to the fiction that Afghanistan had a capable govt (and military). Until that lie was abandoned, there was no clean exit possible.
Yup. State and DOD were going to control (and botch) the exit regardless of who was in the Big Chair.
Exactly. They had a choice, admit failure before or admit failure after withdrawal.
They gambled and hoped that the Afghan army would stand up long enough that they could avoid being associated with the collapse. So they got the worst outcome possible, failure during.
Our brilliant leaders at work.
How difficult was it to see they didn’t?
Hey, Unka Joe had a PR event planned for the 9/11 withdrawal. All other considerations are subordinated to optics by our ruling class. They knew, but you don’t step on a PR event if you want to keep your stars.
There’s a lot deeper rot there than just that. All of our brass had been supporting the lies about the ANDF for years. I can’t even guess how many GOs did their tours there and lied about everything.
Just like with Tinker Bell – you have to believe with all of your might!
Someone who actually knows something would have to confirm, but I read that fighting in Afghanistan was very seasonal and it would have been possible to leave when the Taliban was hunkered down for the (winter?). And that Biden picked the worst possbile time of year to withdraw if he didn’t want the ANG to be rolled up like a carpet behind us.
It still would have happened, and we still would have had our non-military presence there because we insisted on pretending that the Afghan govt was something legit and not just our [exceedingly corrupt] puppet.
Be that as it may, if those optics were avoidable, it was stunningly incompetent not to avoid them.
Plus there might be the possibility of a “oh shit!” moment that would have inspired the payment of their soldiers salaries.
The optics were not avoidable – not without admitting the central lie. And no one was willing to do that, including Trump.
Trump had ordered withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Democrats and RINOs in Congress made using any money for that withdrawal illegal.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers who want to stop President Donald Trump from pulling U.S. troops from military conflicts and overseas bases are using a once-unusual tactic that has in the last three years become Congress’ go-to tool.
“”The GOP is the party of parental rights because it is increasingly anti-democratic. It has become the party of ruthless, cynical power, and children aren’t exempt from its schemes. In fact, they’re key.”
https://twitter.com/intelligencer/status/1496515643981639685
“To empower parents, Florida Republicans would put children in danger. If passed, their Parental Rights in Education legislation, known more commonly as the “don’t say gay” bills, would prevent public-school districts from “encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity,” CBS News reports. A proposed amendment would have required educators to report a child’s disclosure about their gender identity or sexual orientation to parents within six weeks.
Republicans haven’t been shy about their rationale. The text of the bills says they allegedly “reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children.” Last year, Senator Josh Hawley introduced a federal Parents’ Bill of Rights, which would include the right to review curricula and to visit children during school hours. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott announced his own Parental Bill of Rights last month. “Parents will be restored to their rightful place as the preeminent decision-maker for their children,” he said at a campaign event held, fittingly, at a charter school.
Parents don’t lack rights in the U.S. They already enjoy the wide freedom to educate their children as they wish, including at home or in private schools. They can raise their children to be Christians or witches or both; the state does not interfere. Liberals are generally satisfied with this state of affairs: There is no appetite to prohibit parents from raising their children in even the most hate-filled churches. Yet the right behaves as if parental rights were under sustained and serious attack, as if the parent has been dislodged from a high place and, as Abbott said, should be restored. The GOP’s position on parental rights isn’t entirely coherent. Any attempt to ban gender-confirming therapy for transgender children theoretically infringes on the rights of the parent, but this hasn’t dissuaded the party from its attacks on trans rights….”
And not including public school. There, they are not yours to mold as you wish – they are ours.
It has become the party of ruthless, cynical power, and children aren’t exempt from its schemes. In fact, they’re key.
Now that is some progjection!
I don’t think you communicated the message you intended to, but it was received loud and clear.
So you’ve also noticed that they have begun using “anti-democratic” interchangeably to mean both against “democracy” and the DNC.
When they say that “parental rights” (their scare quotes, not mine) comes at a cost for the children, I assume they mean it denies the children their right to be molded into obedient tax-cattle automatons by the state’s juvenile “educational” detention centers known as public schools.
Children don’t have the maturity to make decisions like driving a car or going on a bender, but they do have the maturity to decide to abort a baby or to drug themselves out of puberty.
I mean, come on – it’s obvious.
Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets?
HAHA. You mean these crazy Lefties dont make any sense and cant back up what they say, so their personal lives take a hit?
MAGA!