Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Small Potatoes-
this captures the lostness of the right pretty well.
They're chasing their own tails at this point.
It's not like defending an argument is their thing.
Pull up a chair, as Vin Scully would intone.

 

She gone.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...-today-tv-fired-jennifer-demaster/9322215002/

 

Always remember too that trump didn't want an actual investigation, he just wanted it said that there would be one. That was enough to sway voters as far as he was concerned.

 

"It's terrible to see the grim inhumanity of war." -- Matthew Chance as he points to a dead Russian soldier on the side of the road.

 

During the Sochi Olympics, some of the Russian players justified Russia's treatment of LBGT people with "The Bible says it's wrong." Two Russians spoke up and said it was immoral to treat people that way because of their orientation: Bryzgalov and Ovechkin. The rest of them were clinging to their Bibles and claiming they were just following orders or something.

Right after 9/11, it was either Salon or Beliefnet who asked people to send in their most immediate responses. One person said they started screaming at the middle eastern food in their kitchen and slamming it into the trashcan. "Fuck you, baba ganoush! Eat my balls, hummus!..."

About. Damned. Time.

Way back in the Mesozoic, Memphis State invited P.J. O'Rourke to speak. He was just a day or two back from covering the first Iraq War. He offered to read the piece that would eventually be published in Rolling Stone. It included a description of the stretch of desert road where a convoy of military machinery intended for Iraqi forces was strafed by American forces and their allies.

O'Rourke warned people he was going to read it as written and some audience members might be upset by his description of the carnage. It was horrific. It also drove home why the only people who like war have never actually seen it and may stand to make money from it.

There were some obvious saber-rattling campus Republicans in the audience. At the end, they were as ashen as the rest of us. O'Rourke looked up from his notebook once he'd finished.

"Did I make pacifists out of some of you?" he asked. The room was still shocked silent. He closed his notebook and murmured, "Good."

What’s the Difference Between Russian and Thousand Island Dressing?

Whatever the manager at Denny's thinks will "awn th' libs!"

 

I don't think Putin expected any resistance, from anyone. The world probably should have objected a little louder when he took Crimea, but it didn't and Ukraine let it go.

He invaded a country last week. Full stop.

After jinning it up about the separatist areas, he went right over those and started attacking cities. He never did that before, and I think he really thought Russian troops would be seen as liberators.

 

I'm still shocked by the gullibility shown by Boris Johnson and many of the other prime ministers, particularly France and Germany. Right until the point where missiles started falling on Ukraine, they somehow believed Putin was bluffing. Were they just ignoring intelligence reports, or was the disinformation so convincing that only Biden seemed to discern the truth? Or were they willing to bend the morality of the situation because they need Russia's oil more?

It's RUSSIA. Over the past 100 years, there's been zero reason to believe the Russian government has any goal other than its own interests. Putin thought he could smile with one hand extended and stab with the other, and perhaps put the USSR back together with the help of the far right and a dumbstruck dumb American President.

Hopefully, this is a massive wake-up call that should never have been necessary. If you have Russia as a neighbor, you should always sleep with one eye open.

 

Hmm, the Russian army just didn't plow through Ukraine and destroy everything in sight, like in Grozny.

I'm sure it was because of Ukrainian resistance. LOL

 

Putin thinks that most western countries are run by fat, stupid liars on the grift

 

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they just didn't think any major world leader would truly be that crazy/stupid to not realize the consequences. Then Putin says "Hold my vodka" and here we are.

 

First BP and now Shell leaving Gazprom.

 

Our Air Force has been busy today above the skies in the Midwest.



What kind of planes are these? A Doomsday plane and its refuelling tankers.