Well…if you were to listen to the media in this country, you would think that every move from every country against the Russian invasion of Ukraine just happened out of thin air with no work at all by anybody. I think there is such a thing as a lie by omission where they are purposely not reporting on all of the work the Joe Biden and his administration have done to herd these cats into the solid wall of opposition to Putin that we see reported every day…do you think that anyone else could have gotten everyone on the same page as Joe has done? Nope, it has been a masterful exercise in listening to and respecting our allies enough so they feel they have a real say in what is happening…could you imagine what would have happened if trump was still running the show? Not one of our allies would event take his phone calls let alone put the full force of their countries into getting weapons into Ukrainian hands and then signing on to the coordinated sanctions regime that is cratering the Russian economy and causing the ruble to be worth basically nothing…could you imagine idiot boy getting the Swiss to abandon their neutrality and levy their own sanctions against Russia? Or getting Sweden and Finland close to joining NATO? Never would have happened…and the idiot would have used this opportunity to bad mouth and try to destroy NATO not strengthen it as Joe has done. Joe’s work has been the most masterful job of diplomacy in my lifetime and will result in Putin losing everything…and not a damn day too soon…geez…
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Ukraine’s big problems started with Manafort and trump…
Well….if you think that this invasion of Ukraine started just recently, you’re wrong….Putin’s meddling started long ago…even before he started screwing with our elections in 2016…and Paul Manafort and trump were essential in trying to give Ukraine to Putin but weren’t successful…or as successful as Putin wanted and that meant making Ukraine a client state that he could dictate to and basically run to his every whim and plunder as he wanted….and when trump tried to extort Zelensky into making up dirt on Biden, it was all part of the disrespect that trump telegraphed that was taught to him by Putin…and since he was such a sycophant, trump was more than happy to treat them like crap like they had no worth….not like the democracy they are. With trump showing Putin that the US didn’t care about Ukraine for 4 years, Putin thought that was still the policy of the US and the EU no matter who was the in charge since we didn’t to anything at all when he invaded the Crimea….so he assumed that Ukraine wasn’t important to anyone and he could do the same there…but, it is not 2014 and trump is not in charge…we now have a president who understands that making partnerships with our allies is extremely important and you can see that with the almost monolithic response to Putin’s thuggery that is due to Biden and his team’s work….now we just need to keep it up and make Putin pay for his decades of bullshit…geez…
Brave frickin Ukranians….
Well…just had to do one on the stories coming out of Ukraine about the bravery of these people in the face of Russian attacks…the first one that I read about was about a sixty something woman standing in front of a group of Russian soldiers and she told these guys with their AK-47s to make sure they put sunflower seeds in their pockets so flowers would grow when their bodies are buried in Ukrainian soil…then there is the “Ghost” a pilot in the Ukrainian air force who has shot down at least 10 Russian planes and all he does is patrol, shoot, and go back to his base to refuel and reload and back into the battle…flying an outdated Soviet reject fighter this man takes on the “best” the Russians have to offer and is decimating them…you want “Top gun?” here is a real one…then a sad story about how dedicated the Ukrainians are when it is to protect their home….a major in the Ukrainian army was setting charges on the main bridge that the Russians were using to invade from the south to blow it up so they couldn’t use it to attack his friends and family…and when he couldn’t use a delayed timer so he could get away before it blew, he stood there and set off the charges knowing he would die….but he stopped the southern invasion force that was heading to Kyiv….and the last one, an 80 year old Ukrainian man showed up at an army recruiting center with 2-t shirts and an extra pair of pants in his bag asking them to allow him to help defend his country….this makes me believe that there is still good in the world and makes the assholes who “protest” mask mandates since it is taking away their “freedom” should look at what fighting for real freedom looks like…and it ain’t them….geez…
A great pick…
Well…you know, when a dem president gets the chance to nominate someone to the Supreme court, it’s never someone like “I like beer” Kavanaugh or the blank slate liar like Barrett, and Biden’s pick of Ketanji Brown Jackson shows that in glaring neon lights….what a great pick…Ms. Brown is someone who has served as a clerk for retiring justice Stephen Breyer, has criminal defense experience, and is someone who can bring to the court and wide experience in how the law affects people’s lives…and does not believe in the “originalist” bullshit that the right uses to destroy settled law like Roe but will interpret the law as resilient as time changes the circumstances of the law….oh, and I didn’t mention she will be the first African American woman on the court that will also bring that experience and knowledge to the right wing majority of the court who feels, like Roberts does, that racism no longer exists in this country…while the repubs pass racist voter suppression laws all over the country after the Roberts court gutted the VRA. I am pretty excited with this pick because Biden didn’t fall into the repub talking point that he should nominate a conservative dem to the court…that is not what the court needs…what it needs is someone who understands what the law means to real lives…and in Ms. Jackson he has that jurist…what a great pick….
Couldn’t have made a bigger mistake….
Well…with the moron Putin invading Ukraine and the world’s response to it, it looks like he couldn’t have made a bigger mistake….starting with Ukraine shooting down at least 7 Russian aircraft and the widespread protests across Russia against the invasion, there are even reports that there have been some Russian troops who have surrendered once they understood that their mission was to kill Ukrainians. Let’s add to those events the fact that the Russian stock exchange is down almost 45% since the invasion started and sanctions are coming fast and hard from all across the globe including cutting Russia off from the world banking system and the start of sanctions against Putin’s cronies that include seizing their offshore bank accounts where they have stashed all of the cash they’ve stolen from the Russian people…and almost every country has ceased allowing any Russian to get a visa to travel…so no business or pleasure travel until Putin gives up his thuggery…oh, and to Putin’s big reason for invading that was to stop Ukraine’s joining of NATO and it’s expansion? It appears that Sweden and Finland are meeting with NATO today to talk about membership that would ensure that if Putin tries any bullshit with them, section 5 would be triggered and that means that if they are attacked, it is an attack on everyone in NATO and there is no way Putin can deal with that. So, moron, nice job, Putin…this is going to go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes ever made and I think it will mean the downfall of Russia for good….and the Hague is waiting for you if you ever leave Russia again for the war crimes you are committing right now….very smart, asshole…
Not enough sanctions…
Well…with the bullshit that Putin is pulling in Ukraine…just announcing that he recognized two regions as being independent countries…after he spent the past 5 years attacking those provinces by sending Russian soldiers disguised as Ukrainians in to cause mayhem and give him an excuse to send in un-disguised troops that is essentially an invasion based on lies…and the rest of the world, other than China, is standing together to make Putin pay for his unlawful behavior. But, with the sanctions that have been announced by both the US and the EU along with the UK, I still don’t think there are enough of them and I don’t think they are targeting the right people…I do agree with going after the banks in Russia and all of the Duma who voted to give Putin permission to invade…but I also think the next round that should be announced today in my opinion, should go after all of the oligarchs who have been Putin’s cronies and have stolen all of the wealth of Russia over the past 20 years…and that should start by seizing every damn villa, super yacht, bank account, and everything else of these thieves and make sure they can’t travel anywhere in the world or they will be arrested as part of the plot against Ukraine. So, I’m waiting, Biden…and the EU…get after it and make the pain for Russia so great it’s economy crashes and then maybe the people of Russia will get tired of his crap…it’s happened before…geez…
Giving aid and comfort to the enemy is treason….
Well…in my long lifetime, when there was a threat to the US or our allies there may have been a little disagreement between the parties, there has never been a whole side of our political discourse that sided with our enemies and blatantly announced that they wanted the other side to win…and all just to hurt the current president and help their political fortunes in the next election. but we have exactly that now with the modern repub party becoming the biggest cheerleader for Putin in the world, rivaling even Russian propaganda on fox news. This “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” is in the definition of treason in the statutes in the US and isn’t parroting Russian propaganda all day long giving aid? Remember that the various radio announcers in WWII like “Tokyo Rose” or “Axis Sally” who supported the Japanese and the Germans were caught and tried for treason after the war and you can argue that they didn’t do anywhere near as much damage to the US cause since everyone knew they spread pretty obvious lies and didn’t take them seriously like people do with fox news..why, I don’t know but they do. These traitors like tucker need to be held to account for their Putin loving bullshit…and no it’s not a violation of the first amendment if they are committing treason…there are some things you can’t say and supporting our enemies is one of them….lock them up…geez…
Phil Mickleson is just a terrible person….
Well…you know I’ve talked about this before where Phil is just a big asshole and went on and on and on about California raising his taxes a small bit threatening to move out of state to one of the backwater ones run by repubs that don’t have any state income taxes but also have crumbling schools and infrastructure…but that doesn’t matter to these selfish assholes…it’s all me,me,me without a thought to anyone but themselves…and ole Phil is at it again with trying to “sportswash” the murderous Saudi regime by supporting their attempt to create a new world golf league…and guess where they are going to play here in the US? Yeah, that’s an easy one…at the clubs of the asshole in chief who went out of his way to protect bin Salman who ordered the murder of a US based journalist, Khashoggi, and never paid a price for it since trump was just fine with it….oh, and joining Mickleson is the owner of the company who is putting the tournaments on, Greg Norman, the Aussie who appears to be another asshole who has no morals and will help the Saudis burnish their reputation by getting other right wing asshole golfers to participate in these tournaments. We know one of the hallmarks of these entitled assholes is that they don’t care who they associate with if it make them some of that sweet, sweet, dirty Saudi cash to line their pockets…okay, do you have the idea of what I think of these guys? Yep, a bunch of entitled asshole whiners who have never had to work a day in their lives and act like they are better than everyone since they can hit a little white ball…..they should be ostracized just for their behavior over the years but to add this one should make them pariahs wherever they go….geez….
So nice to have a “real” president…
Well…no matter how much the right attacks and tries to belittle him, isn’t it nice to have a real president acting like a real president should? That thought came to me over the past few days after the Ukraine crisis bubbles on and as Putin has been trying all his old bullshit tricks to justify invading a sovereign nation…could you imagine how screwed up the world would be if idiot boy was still in charge? Cripes, Russia would be taking over it’s third or fourth country by now and trump would be in Moscow praising him for being so “strong” while abandoning all of Europe. It seems that someone in this administration plays chess with the moves that Biden has been making…and his restoring of our vital alliances and his leadership has all of the rest of the world on exactly the same page…and if Russia does invade, it will be the end of Putin as a player on the world stage and it’s economy will take a hit that will take decades to repair if it ever can. All of this from a “senile” old man who can barely talk if you listen to fox news…and I sure hope you don’t….look, Biden has restored the US’s leadership in the world by our actions, not the bullshit that trump and his administration spewed every day…and with Biden making sure that our allies understand they are equals that we value, I see a sense of relief from them and a willingness to back our actions since they are based on facts and not the “gut feel” of a moron…and that gives me relief to know that a real president is at the controls….
Whitewashing history…
Well…so now I guess the latest spasm that the repubs are going through is passing laws whose only purpose is to whitewash history and make sure that no teacher in repub controlled states can teach the truth about this country at all…they want it to appear that there was no slavery, no Jim Crow, or no continuing racism that goes on to this day…and no Klan or lynchings…and I guess nothing about the gilded age where the rich stole everything and rigged the system so no else could even get a tiny share…and their reason is that if little white kids are told the truth, it may hurt their feelings and they just can’t take that as it may scar them for life….and the irony of that whole argument is that little white kids can’t be taught about it…but a little black girl, Ruby Bridges, lived it when she was the first black to go to an all white school and had to listen to all of the white racists scream at her and call her the “N” word…and to have adults throw things at her and threaten her life…she can endure that but little white kids can’t be taught about it since they may “feel bad” about being white….now, this crap is just as racist as the whites who screamed at Ruby and tells you where all of these new laws are coming from…they want to keep the “uppity” minorities in their place and make sure they know they are not in any way equal to little white kids who need to be protected from everything….and their culture and experience in their lives has no value to “normal” society. Now these white southern racists are going after teachers by passing laws that give any screaming white racist the ability to rat out any teacher that teaches anything about race in this country and then get the teacher fired…so now Martin Luther King and the racial equality movement no longer exists in Texas. Mississippi, and every other southern state and the happy face of slavery is the new reality in schoolrooms across the south…I knew that racism was still bubbling under the surface of this country but I really thought that we had come past the overt stuff that plagued my childhood…but this is worse than then…and we have come nowhere at all…geez…