Well…have been staying away from Trump the past few days since it really pollutes my being to even think about that idiot…but, after his breathtaking stupidity from the past few days, I just can’t stay quiet and not comment. First, this idiot attacks the Muslim mother and father of a young man that was killed in Iraq…and, by the way, they are and were citizens of the US….comparing his “sacrifice” of working hard (which I don’t think he ever has) to the loss of a son in service of their adopted country. I could go on about that one but it is readily available all over the web so I’ll move on to the Donald’s breathtaking ignorance of what is going on in the world….on one of the news shows this morning, the idiot was asked a question about Ukraine and his response was basically that Putin would never attack Ukraine…”he wouldn’t go in there” were the exact words from the idiot…now, I think that would be a surprise to the Ukrainian army who have been fighting Russian troops for over two years now and to the over 10,000 people who have been killed in the conflict. I know the repubs revere ignorance and despise “experts”…but the ignorance this idiot would bring to the presidency should disqualify him from getting anywhere near it….there will be more of this tomorrow…now I need to take a shower….sad….
Tag Archives: Ukraine
Putin and Hitler….
Well…as I said this morning, I had a flash the other day when I was watching a show on the Third Reich and they showed how Hitler used the supposed abuse of ethnic Germans in Poland as a pretext for invading the country…he did it to keep them “safe”. That immediately brought to mind Putin’s statements when he invaded Crimea to annex it that he was going there to “protect” the Russians that were living there…and he has used the same ploy for the attacks in the rest of the Ukraine. The repubs constantly compare everything they don’t like to Hitler…I wonder if any of them will do the same for their buddy, Putin? Not very likely…geez….
Something on the Ukraine…
Well….still not feeling all that great but had a couple of thoughts that I wanted to get down on the Ukraine situation…I wonder where people get the idea that anything can be done? Especially by us…do the hawks here think we are going to attack Russia? And, the thing is that Putin knows it…not only because they have a real army with real tanks and attack helicopters and fighter jets…something that Afghanistan didn’t have and we are still there 13 years later and still haven’t won. Plus, you just need to look at the supply lines if you are going to consider a real shooting war…Russia has 20 divisions within a day of the Ukraine…it would take the US 6 months to get ready for any sustained attack…yeah, we could maybe lob a few cruise missles at them but all that would do would be to piss them off…so, where does that leave us? In the reality based world, it means doing just what we are doing…talking to the UN and other organizations that can levee economic sanctions to make them hurt some…like the new suggestion that Russia be expelled form the G8, making getting loans almost impossible to get and forcing them to basically go on a cash basis….will that work? Who knows? But it is better than a shooting war…geez…
United Kochs of America…
Well…I wasn’t sure union buster Bob Corker could sink any lower in the senate today…but, he did it! In negotiations for aid to the Ukraine…ole Bob is holding the package up until he gets something for his bosses…the Koch brothers…a special law that would exempt them from rules that govern tax benefits given for the Kochs to donate to their own supposedly non profit political action committees…yep, you heard it right…. ole Bob is trying to alter foreign policy just to get the Kochs millions more in exemptions from paying taxes that they owe. I do applaud both Dick Durbin and Harry Reid for calling this crap out on the floor and adding it to the outrages that the bought and paid for legislators of the United Kochs of America have done over the past few years…we need sunlight and pushback to make people understand how toxic these brothers are to our democracy…geez…
Diplomacy works…again…
Well…I am kind of laughing at the fits that right has been throwing over the Ukraine unrest calling Obama weak and howling for some show of military force to try to intimidate Putin into leaving Ukraine alone and not invading….and the comparisons of Obama to Putin…that Putin is a strong leader since he will not hesitate to use military force…and that Obama looks weak since he prefers to use all of the diplomatic tools in the toolbox first; leaving military action as a last resort (which, by the way, has been US foreign policy since the country was founded)… yadda, yadda. With the events of the past few days, and the fact that Putin has called his troops back to their bases defusing the situation somewhat in response to diplomatic pressure, we see that the right is wrong…again..or should I say as always? Diplomacy done right works in most cases…some thing that the chickenhawks on the right just don’t want to hear….where is the profit for their buddies if there is no more war? What I want to see now is Palin, Graham, and the rest of these idiots to apologize for their attempted undermining of our foreign policy for political reasons…and to admit that they don’t know what the hell they are talking about…but, facts don’t matter to the right so I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath…geez….
Isn’t this treasonous?
Well…as the Ukraine crisis unfolds, a thought has been rattling around in my head in regards to the constant right wing criticism of the president…isn’t it treasonous to try to undermine the president in time of crisis for purely political reasons? I think that this can be construed as giving aide and comfort to the enemy and making Putin’s position stronger by making the president look weak (not that he is weak)…what happened to the idea that was followed forever until these crazy-assed righties got to power that politics stopped at the waters edge? It just shows you that today’s right has no ideas in foreign policy that should even be listened to…their one and only idea is to use the military to attack no matter what the crisis…a one size fits all solution that fits the less than bright lights on the right…geez….
Obama derangement syndrome and the Ukraine..
Well…to hear the right howl and howl about the supposed inaction of the president on the Ukraine, you’d think he was drowning puppies or giving Putin Alaska to ensure he won’t invade. The only thing you need to remember, though, is this is just another instance of Obama derangement syndrome where the right will bitch about everything just because he is presidentin’ while black and, for the chicken hawks on the right, the only solution to any diplomatic problem is another war that will enrich themselves and their buddies in the war supplying business. One thing that pisses us off on the left is the fact that they call Obama weak because he is letting Putin push him around by not threatening war when ole GW let Putin invade Georgia and basically level the place….and without any squeak from the right saying that GW was weak….so, to me, these asses on the right have no standing to criticize when it is so nakedly political and devoid of any principle….geez…