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The would-be assassination of Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh by a Democrat all worked up over standard MSM issues like abortion rights and gun control is the kind on minor local police blotter matter that doesn’t require a second day follow up story.
Thus neither the Washington Post, where it is a local matter, nor the New York Times have bothered to publish stories on June 9th about the June 8th incident.
Topics might have included getting a response from the Biden Administration over whether Biden would let Republicans pick his nominee for him if a Republican is assassinated by a Democrat to alter the balance of the Court. But who cares about trivialities like that?
In the print edition of the New York Times, the story of the liberal would-be assassin who traveled 3,000 miles intending to murder a Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justice for disagreeing with the New York Times on abortion and gun control is relegated to P. 20!
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I checked CNN, nothing on the front page, I had to search for Brett Kavanaugh to find this story about the House slow walking legislation to provide protection for the Supreme Court Justices that has already passed the Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/supreme-court-security-legislation-house-vote-pelosi/index.html
https://www.wisn.com/amp/article/large-police-at-former-judges-home-in-juneau-county/40191386Replies: @Getaclue
…..That’s because the democrats /MSM are responsible( directly)….. very similar to the Scalise shooting…..they want the supreme court by hook or by crook.
I think it is a false flag.
I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.Replies: @tyrone, @ic1000, @JimDandy
Remind the judiciary of its place, and it won't matter so much who's on the Supreme Court.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Ben Shapiro, red in the face, jumping on his desk, yammering at ever increasing speed about “what would happen if the parties were reversed” so much that a black hole opens in the Daily Wire offices
Why wouldn’t Dems want a conservative justice to get killed? It would be win-win for them–guns are bad again and Biden puts a new judge on the court.
And it would make the Supreme Court justices of whatever political shade more cognizant of the fact that if they don't answer to we the people, then we the people will reply anyway in the manner of our choosing.Replies: @JimDandy, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AndrewR
You might expect a president to at least address the topic of not murdering people they disagree with, but it may be likely Biden doesn’t even know the incident occurred.
“ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO IGNORE.”
When it contradicts the Narrative, it didn’t happen.
The FBI, which is now the armed wing of the Democrat Party, ignored this. It was U.S. Marshals who prevented the assassination.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/supreme-court-security-legislation-house-vote-pelosi/index.htmlReplies: @AndrewR, @Corvinus
If any right winger tried to kill a SCOTUS justice for any reason, the “free press” would never stop talking about it. I would like to see an objective explanation of the state if war we are currently in.
You’re falling for CIA’s ’68 playbook. They’re rolling it out now with trivial adaptations because, as in ’68, CIA hijacked the Dems and ran the party into the ground. So now again they need to (1) polarize with synthetic conflicts along party lines; (2) sabotage alternatives to CIA’s approved figurehead; (3) and kill any candidates with independent bases of support.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/02/did-the-cia-subvert-the-1968-u-s-presidential-election/
With CIA’s control of social media they can see in real time that abortion isn’t getting enough conflictual traction. Sensibly, people hate this kleptocracy more than they hate each other. That’s a dangerous situation for Langley now that they’ve lost two wars in two years, at great human cost.
So instead of playing gotcha with your assigned partisan adversaries, you could usefully start watching for CIA to torpedo competition, anoint their next Obama-style empty suit, or kill candidates who can’t be ratfucked away.
When it contradicts the Narrative, it didn't happen.
The FBI, which is now the armed wing of the Democrat Party, ignored this. It was U.S. Marshals who prevented the assassination.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @That Would Be Telling
It is reminiscent of the Klan being used to restore the D Party to the South. Nothing is off the table for the D’s.
I cannot wait to see a remake of Mississippi Burning: the FBI is the Klan.
“Topics might have included getting a response from the Biden Administration over whether Biden would let Republicans“
Mr. Sailer, get a grip.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/08/supreme-court-republicans-00024108?_amp=true
—Grassley’s comments reflect Republicans’ broader disinterest indirectly addressing one of the central questions of the midterm election: Would the Senate GOP repeat its 2016 blockade of a Democratic president’s high-court nominee? And would it go further by stopping a nominee even with more than a year left in Biden’s presidency?
Recall that Mitch McConnell said that he won’t pledge to consider a nominee to fill a Supreme Court opening in the final two years of President Joe Biden’s term. Which is beyond even where he previously drew his line on high court nominees. McConnell had refused to grant Merrick Garland a confirmation hearing or a meeting in 2016.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” McConnell said at the time. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
That stance was considered remarkable given that Scalia had died in mid-February 2016. Obama had roughly 11 months left in his second term to initiate the process.
So much for the rule of law, right, Mr. Sailer?
Since the Supreme Court is so important in US politics, there might be demands in the future to let people vote for its judges directly. The question is how candidates should be picked: a free-for-all seems like a bad idea.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/supreme-court-security-legislation-house-vote-pelosi/index.htmlReplies: @AndrewR, @Corvinus
I guess trying to kill judges, or actually succeeding, had become a thing. I thought Wisconsin was an iSteve content generator. Ooops.
https://www.wisn.com/amp/article/large-police-at-former-judges-home-in-juneau-county/40191386
Has bothered.
Even if they were separate entities!
They were in a tricky position. Usually this sort of job would go to someone that they could claim was a crazed right-winger. But they were already in danger of breaking people’s minds over the logic of shooting someone to protest gun laws.
Gun sales are already way up among Democrats; the last thing they needed was to create some kind of liberal anti-hero cowboy myth that their confused constintuency could actually look up to and condemn at the same time.
Most people have already forgotten how confused all the ex-hippies were about how to feel about John Hinckley Jr. There were a lot of “would it be wrong to go back in time and kill Hitler?” discussions…
We’re very sorry to hear about Brett Kavanaugh’s current troubles. We offer our thoughts and prayers for the entire Kavanaugh family during this difficult period. Now is not the right time to have a policy debate, so let’s not politicize the issue.
I think it is a false flag.
I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.
> I think it is a false flag.
In our increasingly banana-like Republic, that idea deserves serious consideration.
> I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.
Um... that group isn't exactly a fearsome, powerful arm of the Deep State. Is there any evidence that they're somehow connected with the wannabe assassin, or were in a position to get him to take a dive?
False Flag makes me think of J6, and with that displacing The Masked Singer and America's Got Talent on prime time, your comment inspired me to check up on recent developments.
The False Flag claims were compiled by Darren Beattie at Revolver News on 12/18/21. Links to this and other articles are at this Jan. 8th iSteve comment.
On May 5, 2022, the NYT completely debunked these claims, New Evidence Undercuts Jan. 6 Instigator Conspiracy Theory. The powerful evidence is: (1) One possible instigator, Ray Epps, told the FBI that he was a calming presence on J6. (2) Epps talked to one Ryan Samsel at J6; Samsel told the FBI that Epps didn't instigate him. (3) Epps told the J6 committee he wasn't an FBI informant. (4) Samsel told the FBI that Joseph Biggs of the Proud Boys did instigate him. (5) There was no point 5; points 1 through 4 more than sufficed as a complete debunking.
To further assist its readers in getting at the truth, the NYT didn't mention or link to that Revolver News article.
False Flag activity by the Deep State's security apparati disproven!
One search also brought up Tucker Carlson's lengthy Op-Ed on Peter Navarro's arrest from a few days ago, because Carlson referenced Epps in passing. Merrick Garland's dedication to bringing justice in the U.S. up to international standards is already yielding a bountiful harvest.Replies: @JimDandy
And the band plays on:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-06-09/tax-exempt-foundation-rebranding-pedophilia-ageplay
Pedophilia? Check.
They better hurry up if they want to get bestiality and necrophilia onto the playlist before the 2024 election cycle kicks into gear.
Too many bigger fish to fry. Such as Orange Man, the designated villain being featured on The January 6 Show, which will debut tonight.
This is why it’s of vital importance for a Republican president and Congress to start telling the Court, not so subtly, that they better stick with jurisprudential issues and leave the political issues to Congress and the Executive, for whom people actually voted. Otherwise, they will be told to enforce their made-up rights and elite-class policy choices with their own non-existent military, and the inferior courts that Congress has discretion to fund, well, they just won’t be funded.
Remind the judiciary of its place, and it won’t matter so much who’s on the Supreme Court.
Reminder that the protesters harassing the Kavanaugh household are already illegal but Merrick Garland refuses to enforce existing law and should be impeached in January.
Democrats are achieving levels of brazenness who strongly suggest future violence and national collapse. Five of the Republican candidates for governor of Michigan (including former Detroit police chief James Craig) have been kicked off the ballot because of the very same improper signatures (here on petitions before the election) which Democrats insist not be an issue in elections on mail-in ballots. You can complain about petition signatures before August 26 but not about ballot signatures in November. That leaves a Ryan Kelley — aaaaaaaand Ryan Kelley has been arrested by the FBI for some manner of connection to the January Sixth Trespassing.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/michigan-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-arrested-by-fbi-11654794077
So that leaves state police captain Mike Brown and chiropracter Garrett Soldano.
Hopefully the recent experience will have some effect on Kavanaugh, and he will go back to the Supreme Court with new insights to share with the other justices.Replies: @Art Deco
Interesting. That was the first question on my mind. Sorry, Justice Kavanaugh, if my first thought wasn’t how sad it would be for you and your loved ones.
There is no probably chance in hell Republicans alone would be allowed to pick the replacement. The Democrats would risk civil war over such an incident. If there is anything that might actually cause conservatives to man the barricades, that might be it.
Remind the judiciary of its place, and it won't matter so much who's on the Supreme Court.Replies: @Almost Missouri
Except that when the Dems hold Congress and the Executive they will happily endorse the judiciary—and specifically appoint judges— to enact matters they can’t get the votes for directly. So it will be yet another case of the Repubs enforcing Marquess of Queensbury Rules on their own side while the Dems do whatever they want under Big Media and street mob cover.
We have to admire how democrats are putting feet on the ground to run interference for the next potential assassin by providing sensory overload that better serves tactical efficiency.
“I was unable to detect the sniper because I had a bullhorn next to my face.”
The mob protests are clearly against the law:
President Biden officially unleashing the illegal mobs:
Conclusion: IMPEACH the senile son of a bitch!!
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1534999387545419776?s=20&t=yFrU1EN2Ob58u5CuwwBIKw
'When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals 'Death to the traitors!'http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/12.html
The nutty woman who got Weigel suspended for a month was fired today by WaPo!
Her surname Sonmez is Turkish BTW. I thought she might be Jewish, but that was a mistake. Even BPD Jewesses have an inborn sense on when to dial back the hysterics and not get fired. Sonmez focused the largest amount of her attacks on the popular Weigel and the gay Mexican American who told her to chill out, and who has about three times the wokemon point as her.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/felicia-sonmez-exits-washington-post-amid-week-of-infighting
I knew Weigel when we were teenagers. We hit it off immediately as we both were nerdy paleocons who could name every sitting US Senator and similar trivia. As harmless and sweet as a human being could be. He later dealt with depression and weight gain, I hope he doesn’t take this too hard.
He’s drifted left since then, at least publicly.
I guess WaPo has limits.
My own wild guess is that poor Weigel here is just another aging gay DC fake news generator who stepped on some toxic toes. Fat & unhappy is a gay trope. (Note, I have zero factual knowledge of Mr. Weigel.)
What I do vaguely recall is that he was also some kind of smear-monger leader in the anti Ron Paul "factcheck" media front. About 10 years ago. Seems like poor Ron talked publicly to the wrong sort of deplorables at some time or other. Weigel & comrades tried to turn that into Ron Paul as stealth nazi.
Weigel did his hit job to great acclaim by the Narrative bringers. Now still slogging along in dinosaur oligarch media. Has triumphed over this nasty back stab, so his Wokemon points were just enough to survive the Turkish babe Joke Heresy blitzkrieg.
Hey, funny is funny. I almost feel sorry for this pathetic creep.Replies: @Pixo, @Stan Adams
https://archive.ph/OFCBQ
https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1535043576039604242
https://reason.com/podcast/2017/06/14/dave-weigel-reason-podcast/https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/david-weigel-prog-rock-book.html
https://archive.ph/1eoAEhttps://brooklynrail.org/2017/07/books/The-Revealing-Science-of-Prog-David-Weigelhttps://www.amazon.com/Show-That-Never-Ends-Rise/dp/0393242250
Felicia Sonmez = Fez in camisole.
From Asia Minor to Asia Major: Homework for five-year-olds? And if that isn't tiger-mother enough for you...:
Mother charged with tying up 5-year-old on scorching roof for not doing homework
Kindergarten suttee!
Did Weigel fall in with a bad crowd? Tried to become one of them with uneven success?Replies: @Pixo
I think you’re forgetting that a key part of the “rule of law” you reference is something called “advise and consent”, and not “rubber stamp”.
But keep choking that chicken. Someone stupid somewhere might believe you.
Right, at times both political parties engage in this action.
The question I have not seen asked is if Progressives will be allowed to succeed in their terror campaign against the Supreme Court. If the leak of the decision and subsequent threats cause Roe v. Wade not to be overturned, it won’t matter who is on the Supreme Court. Progressives will use violence and threats to get the decision they want.
3 dead in mass shooting at a factory in Maryland (which is an anti-gun state). FBI earning that overtime, Democrats throwing everything at the wall leading up to November. Then there’s this idiot: a person using the name “Alan Shackleton” has claimed that the Maryland factory shooting was a psy-op. He has done this in a negative Yahoo review (one star out of five, so I guess you can’t leave no stars). He will presumably not be shopping there again.
OT: Another narrative circling the memory hole is our proxy war against Russia. We told Zelensky to pull out of negotiations and instead seek a settlement on the battlefield so that we could use Ukraine to “weaken” Russia. Now that Ukraine is on the verge of military collapse, the deep state neocons (through their mouthpiece, the NYT) are preemptively disavowing any responsibility on the preposterous ground that the Ukrainians just don’t tell them stuff.
Here’s a pretty good take on the stupidity of this “intelligence failure” excuse: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-am-getting-tired-writing-posts-with.html
In fact, it is not. Over the past two weeks Ukraine had gained more territory around Kherson than they’ve ceded in Luhansk and Donetsk.
And regardless of which bombed out piles of rubble gets a temporary Russian flag over it, Russia has lost the war.
Russia’s military has been humiliated and exposed as far weaker than anyone—pro or anti Russian, in or out of Russia—ever expected in February.
Other than Belarus, the rest of Europe now hostile to Russia.
Russia’s economy will decline by about 9% this year, and be on a permanently lower trajectory thereafter due to losing access to most of the EU market.Replies: @Getaclue, @Hypnotoad666
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. They are also obviously holding back a bit for political reasons and to try to bring Ukrainians over to their side politically and/or force a negotiated agreement. The military casualties being reported are in the mere hundreds, which is frankly nothing for a land war of this magnitude.
So is this rate of progress after eight days evidence of “fierce resistance?” and “Russian cluelessness?””
At the rate Russia has been “winning” the three months that followed your comment, Moscow will fall around December.Replies: @Getaclue
One thing that would help mitigate such a scenario is if conservatives/republicans actually started getting serious about the giant abuse the leftists have made out of the courts.
One simple idea is to just ‘de-royalize’ the operation.
A simple option:
— blow the size up to say 60 justices (or similar large number)
— cases would be heard by say 15 (or similar number) chosen by lot (you’d never know who was going to get the case–could be randomly stacked against your party)
— 15 year terms, so the president just starts to get to a majority at the very end of an eight year term
The 15 term probably requires a Constitutional amendment, but the rest could be slapped in place by Congress at any time.
Another option would be no specific set of “Supreme” justices at all. Just pull by lot for every case from all the District court judges.
~~
This is supposed to be–was conceived as–a republic.
The idea that Americans even need the deep insights of the likes of Earl Warren, William Douglas, Warren Burger, Bill Brennan, Harry Blackmun (LOL), Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, or the lesbian or wise Latina, or for that matter Kavanaugh or the Haitian baby lover–much less be ruled by them, is laughable and appalling.
Do you–very limited–job, and STFU. We’ll elect representatives to make our laws, and they can then easily unmake them when they–predictably–screw up.
He said, They didn't breathe.
I said, I PAINTED THEM THAT WAY,
Kinda hanging on his sleeve.
Fall down.
I showed this girl my stitches,
She said she had some too.
She said she thinks she'll
Start a rock band, too. Fall down.
I hope you fall so fast and hard
That you get me."
-- Kristen Hersh
Of course all this is academic. The system we have now will not be changed because the system we have now serves the interests of the people who have bought it. We couldn't rely on the corrupt clown college that is the modern political class to construct a system that is relatively fair and honest. They are neither wise nor honest.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
They get their projects or simply tastes imposed on their targets and escape direct accountability. We're expected to ignore how many Republican picks join the Left's side once on the bench (before the most recent crop about half), how the House and Senate could reign them in by impeachment, or how the President could as Jackson was reputed to say "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
It's just one of many scams in Clown World, has been since the switch in time that saved nine after which they for example agreed in Wickard v. Filburn that the Federal government could implement a terror famine on the people if it so desired. It already was to a degree in the New Deal which destroyed food and limited its production such that the same USDA estimated a quarter of the nation was malnourished, something the WWII draft confirmed.
Which helped prompt the Federal school lunch program. Fast forward and Obama's wife uses that to engineer the starvation of kids who need more calories than she thinks, and now DeSantis is claiming an ambiguously worded (I skimmed it) USDA policy will deny states that money unless they accept the strictures of World War T. Which "circling back" to the Supreme Court were imposed by judicial fiat on the nation 6-3 in mid-2020, Trump's picks of course not making a difference.Replies: @Jack D
“I think you’re forgetting that a key part of the “rule of law” you reference is something called “advise and consent”, and not “rubber stamp”“
Right, at times both political parties engage in this action.
“Attempted” murder!? As that guy said: do they give Nobel prizes for “attempted” chemistry? If he succeeded, I bet you wouldn’t hear the end of it for at least three days.
a fire bomb campaign against the Russkies?
https://twitter.com/PutinHasNoPenis/status/1532463878516445184
Ukraine still waiting for some German munitions.
https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1534762546502283265
THEY will have won, won, won--and WE will have lost, lost, lost!!!!!Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D
One simple idea is to just 'de-royalize' the operation.
A simple option:
-- blow the size up to say 60 justices (or similar large number)
-- cases would be heard by say 15 (or similar number) chosen by lot (you'd never know who was going to get the case--could be randomly stacked against your party)
-- 15 year terms, so the president just starts to get to a majority at the very end of an eight year term
The 15 term probably requires a Constitutional amendment, but the rest could be slapped in place by Congress at any time.
Another option would be no specific set of "Supreme" justices at all. Just pull by lot for every case from all the District court judges.
~~
This is supposed to be--was conceived as--a republic.
The idea that Americans even need the deep insights of the likes of Earl Warren, William Douglas, Warren Burger, Bill Brennan, Harry Blackmun (LOL), Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, or the lesbian or wise Latina, or for that matter Kavanaugh or the Haitian baby lover--much less be ruled by them, is laughable and appalling.
Do you--very limited--job, and STFU. We'll elect representatives to make our laws, and they can then easily unmake them when they--predictably--screw up.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @That Would Be Telling
Clever. This is an approach to ensuring objectivity that I think many would find to be a more than adequate means of ending the war over which party will be blessed with the most Supreme Court justices.
Gonna be interesting to see if he goes to trial. NLG types have to see a great nullification opportunity. Does the “dangerously close” standard control the law of attempts in fed. court?
Just when I think I can’t respect the USG any less. They go and totally redeem themselves.
Trannies? Check.
Pedophilia? Check.
They better hurry up if they want to get bestiality and necrophilia onto the playlist before the 2024 election cycle kicks into gear.
Since you knew him personally I can’t dispute your characterization here. Plus he’s seen as the “victim” in an attempted cancellation by some uber-Woke crazed humorless “feminist” who was working on her Senior Commissar Merit badge.
I guess WaPo has limits.
My own wild guess is that poor Weigel here is just another aging gay DC fake news generator who stepped on some toxic toes. Fat & unhappy is a gay trope. (Note, I have zero factual knowledge of Mr. Weigel.)
What I do vaguely recall is that he was also some kind of smear-monger leader in the anti Ron Paul “factcheck” media front. About 10 years ago. Seems like poor Ron talked publicly to the wrong sort of deplorables at some time or other. Weigel & comrades tried to turn that into Ron Paul as stealth nazi.
Weigel did his hit job to great acclaim by the Narrative bringers. Now still slogging along in dinosaur oligarch media. Has triumphed over this nasty back stab, so his Wokemon points were just enough to survive the Turkish babe Joke Heresy blitzkrieg.
Hey, funny is funny. I almost feel sorry for this pathetic creep.
His drift left I think was driven by ambition and snobbery. The journolist crew he fell into, Yglesias, Klein, etc., are for all their substantial flaws smart, rich, and as powerful and influential as nerdy highly online Millennial public intellectuals get.
By contrast, paleoconservatives are politically weak and offer little path to advancement to hard workers without entrepreneurial skill like Weigel. Breitbart and Tucker eventually did well for themselves. But there was no easy path laid out for them. Center-left corporate leftism does offer such path.
I am also fond of him despite whatever transgressions he’s made in his WaPo career because even as a kid he was fully up to speed on race and IQ and race and crime topics. That’s not something you unlearn.
As the resident fatty around here, I can report that, every hour on the hour, I bend toward Valhalla and whistle Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of my [posterior].
https://i.ibb.co/6J0R8Y6/unhappy-dolph.png
https://i.ibb.co/v1t8PM7/yay-life.pngReplies: @Stan Adams, @MEH 0910
Well just consider the shooting of Scalice vs something like the Jan 6th ordeal.
Here's a pretty good take on the stupidity of this "intelligence failure" excuse: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-am-getting-tired-writing-posts-with.htmlReplies: @Pixo, @Pixo
“Now that Ukraine is on the verge of military collapse”
In fact, it is not. Over the past two weeks Ukraine had gained more territory around Kherson than they’ve ceded in Luhansk and Donetsk.
And regardless of which bombed out piles of rubble gets a temporary Russian flag over it, Russia has lost the war.
Russia’s military has been humiliated and exposed as far weaker than anyone—pro or anti Russian, in or out of Russia—ever expected in February.
Other than Belarus, the rest of Europe now hostile to Russia.
Russia’s economy will decline by about 9% this year, and be on a permanently lower trajectory thereafter due to losing access to most of the EU market.
Secondly, it's kind of a childish consolation prize to say we made the other side look bad because our side didn't fail quicker. But I guess neocons can never admit a mistake or defeat. So they have to manufacture psychological victories however they can.Replies: @Pixo, @Hunsdon
Here's a pretty good take on the stupidity of this "intelligence failure" excuse: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/i-am-getting-tired-writing-posts-with.htmlReplies: @Pixo, @Pixo
Here’s you on March 7:
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. They are also obviously holding back a bit for political reasons and to try to bring Ukrainians over to their side politically and/or force a negotiated agreement. The military casualties being reported are in the mere hundreds, which is frankly nothing for a land war of this magnitude.
So is this rate of progress after eight days evidence of “fierce resistance?” and “Russian cluelessness?””
At the rate Russia has been “winning” the three months that followed your comment, Moscow will fall around December.
OT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
Liz Cheney just now at the kangaroo committee (I’m not watching it, this was quoted by right wing radio) —
THERE WILL COME A TIME
[violins swell]
WHEN DONALD TRUMP IS GONE
[french horns blare]
GONE. you mean like … if he lost an election and no longer held office? So … now?
https://www.wisn.com/amp/article/large-police-at-former-judges-home-in-juneau-county/40191386Replies: @Getaclue
Turns out that Judge sentenced him on an Armed Burglary some years ago — looks more like a grudge than any political thing and he killed himself after the murder — they’re trying to make it into something other than what it was it seems, no surprise….
In fact, it is not. Over the past two weeks Ukraine had gained more territory around Kherson than they’ve ceded in Luhansk and Donetsk.
And regardless of which bombed out piles of rubble gets a temporary Russian flag over it, Russia has lost the war.
Russia’s military has been humiliated and exposed as far weaker than anyone—pro or anti Russian, in or out of Russia—ever expected in February.
Other than Belarus, the rest of Europe now hostile to Russia.
Russia’s economy will decline by about 9% this year, and be on a permanently lower trajectory thereafter due to losing access to most of the EU market.Replies: @Getaclue, @Hypnotoad666
LOL
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. They are also obviously holding back a bit for political reasons and to try to bring Ukrainians over to their side politically and/or force a negotiated agreement. The military casualties being reported are in the mere hundreds, which is frankly nothing for a land war of this magnitude.
So is this rate of progress after eight days evidence of “fierce resistance?” and “Russian cluelessness?””
At the rate Russia has been “winning” the three months that followed your comment, Moscow will fall around December.Replies: @Getaclue
Even the putrid Globalist Mainslime Media is now admitting Ukraine is losing badly — but do keep pushing your utter bs — somehow lying about things will change them in the alternate Universe you live in?
There’s one interesting element to this story. Despite the best efforts of the Left to demonize the conservative justices, it took more than a month for an assassin to materialize, and he had to be imported from 3000 miles away. Americans just aren’t into murdering the political class yet.
That could be solved with more immigration. Perhaps some Sendero Luminoso alumni who just want a better life for their family?Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Wait a minute, Steve – do you mean to say that he CROSSED STATE LINES?! Didn’t Democrats lecture us all during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial about what a grave agravating factor this is? Practically a crime unto itself! (They are now apparently against the right to travel freely between the states – unless you’re an illegal alien, of course, in which case “Happy Trails!”).
One simple idea is to just 'de-royalize' the operation.
A simple option:
-- blow the size up to say 60 justices (or similar large number)
-- cases would be heard by say 15 (or similar number) chosen by lot (you'd never know who was going to get the case--could be randomly stacked against your party)
-- 15 year terms, so the president just starts to get to a majority at the very end of an eight year term
The 15 term probably requires a Constitutional amendment, but the rest could be slapped in place by Congress at any time.
Another option would be no specific set of "Supreme" justices at all. Just pull by lot for every case from all the District court judges.
~~
This is supposed to be--was conceived as--a republic.
The idea that Americans even need the deep insights of the likes of Earl Warren, William Douglas, Warren Burger, Bill Brennan, Harry Blackmun (LOL), Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, or the lesbian or wise Latina, or for that matter Kavanaugh or the Haitian baby lover--much less be ruled by them, is laughable and appalling.
Do you--very limited--job, and STFU. We'll elect representatives to make our laws, and they can then easily unmake them when they--predictably--screw up.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @That Would Be Telling
“I showed this guy my pictures.
He said, They didn’t breathe.
I said, I PAINTED THEM THAT WAY,
Kinda hanging on his sleeve.
Fall down.
I showed this girl my stitches,
She said she had some too.
She said she thinks she’ll
Start a rock band, too. Fall down.
I hope you fall so fast and hard
That you get me.”
— Kristen Hersh
His staff told him that Corn Pop did it. And we all know that Corn Pop – well, he’s a bad dude.
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy asking nominee Kavanaugh to swear to God that the allegations against him are false, which he of course does. A wonderful exchange. Moist eyes for the woman in the front row, and for me.
It seems like a contrived story to start with. Guy shows up with all the tools to off a “conservative” SCOTUS justice, but calls 911 to report himself before going to it. He’ll be out on the streets before any of the so-called January 6 Insurrectionists.
One simple idea is to just 'de-royalize' the operation.
A simple option:
-- blow the size up to say 60 justices (or similar large number)
-- cases would be heard by say 15 (or similar number) chosen by lot (you'd never know who was going to get the case--could be randomly stacked against your party)
-- 15 year terms, so the president just starts to get to a majority at the very end of an eight year term
The 15 term probably requires a Constitutional amendment, but the rest could be slapped in place by Congress at any time.
Another option would be no specific set of "Supreme" justices at all. Just pull by lot for every case from all the District court judges.
~~
This is supposed to be--was conceived as--a republic.
The idea that Americans even need the deep insights of the likes of Earl Warren, William Douglas, Warren Burger, Bill Brennan, Harry Blackmun (LOL), Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, or the lesbian or wise Latina, or for that matter Kavanaugh or the Haitian baby lover--much less be ruled by them, is laughable and appalling.
Do you--very limited--job, and STFU. We'll elect representatives to make our laws, and they can then easily unmake them when they--predictably--screw up.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @That Would Be Telling
To go you one further, how about the President is drawn by lot (for a single term) from the Senate?
Of course all this is academic. The system we have now will not be changed because the system we have now serves the interests of the people who have bought it. We couldn’t rely on the corrupt clown college that is the modern political class to construct a system that is relatively fair and honest. They are neither wise nor honest.
There are not enough Americans left who can even understand the point of this stuff we write about, much less actively support it. That's why I will write yet again here that the point of the Great Population Replacement Policy is not just to get different voters. It is to replace the formerly huge White Middle Class with the type of people that, due to both their culture and their innate stupidity, cannot even grasp the concepts that made this country great.
If a deranged gunman were to massacre all the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices, this might encourage incoming Democratic appointees to further loosen gun restrictions, so the overall effect could be beneficial to law and order.
And it would make the Supreme Court justices of whatever political shade more cognizant of the fact that if they don’t answer to we the people, then we the people will reply anyway in the manner of our choosing.
I guess WaPo has limits.
My own wild guess is that poor Weigel here is just another aging gay DC fake news generator who stepped on some toxic toes. Fat & unhappy is a gay trope. (Note, I have zero factual knowledge of Mr. Weigel.)
What I do vaguely recall is that he was also some kind of smear-monger leader in the anti Ron Paul "factcheck" media front. About 10 years ago. Seems like poor Ron talked publicly to the wrong sort of deplorables at some time or other. Weigel & comrades tried to turn that into Ron Paul as stealth nazi.
Weigel did his hit job to great acclaim by the Narrative bringers. Now still slogging along in dinosaur oligarch media. Has triumphed over this nasty back stab, so his Wokemon points were just enough to survive the Turkish babe Joke Heresy blitzkrieg.
Hey, funny is funny. I almost feel sorry for this pathetic creep.Replies: @Pixo, @Stan Adams
I don’t think Weigel is gay, no such vibes from him. More soft-spoken and introverted nerd.
His drift left I think was driven by ambition and snobbery. The journolist crew he fell into, Yglesias, Klein, etc., are for all their substantial flaws smart, rich, and as powerful and influential as nerdy highly online Millennial public intellectuals get.
By contrast, paleoconservatives are politically weak and offer little path to advancement to hard workers without entrepreneurial skill like Weigel. Breitbart and Tucker eventually did well for themselves. But there was no easy path laid out for them. Center-left corporate leftism does offer such path.
I am also fond of him despite whatever transgressions he’s made in his WaPo career because even as a kid he was fully up to speed on race and IQ and race and crime topics. That’s not something you unlearn.
I guess WaPo has limits.
My own wild guess is that poor Weigel here is just another aging gay DC fake news generator who stepped on some toxic toes. Fat & unhappy is a gay trope. (Note, I have zero factual knowledge of Mr. Weigel.)
What I do vaguely recall is that he was also some kind of smear-monger leader in the anti Ron Paul "factcheck" media front. About 10 years ago. Seems like poor Ron talked publicly to the wrong sort of deplorables at some time or other. Weigel & comrades tried to turn that into Ron Paul as stealth nazi.
Weigel did his hit job to great acclaim by the Narrative bringers. Now still slogging along in dinosaur oligarch media. Has triumphed over this nasty back stab, so his Wokemon points were just enough to survive the Turkish babe Joke Heresy blitzkrieg.
Hey, funny is funny. I almost feel sorry for this pathetic creep.Replies: @Pixo, @Stan Adams
Yes, and it is quite inaccurate.
As the resident fatty around here, I can report that, every hour on the hour, I bend toward Valhalla and whistle Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of my [posterior].
Incidentally, I have not given up on my dream of starting an "Ask a Fatty" column.
There are many interesting and important questions that normal-sized people would like to ask, if only they knew someone who was obese and articulate.
For example, have you ever wondered why fat people have no necks? Well, it turns out that we do have necks - they're just hidden under mounds of flab. And I have the video evidence to prove it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWsfBYYFVs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01536-yReplies: @Stan Adams
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/06/09/felicia-sonmez-washington-post/
https://archive.ph/OFCBQ
And it would make the Supreme Court justices of whatever political shade more cognizant of the fact that if they don't answer to we the people, then we the people will reply anyway in the manner of our choosing.Replies: @JimDandy, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AndrewR
Bad news, bro–I’m a Fed. Just kidding, you are.
Written by the late Steve Goodman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHy_Fs6iHg
Typo: “is the kind on minor local police blotter matter,” on –> of
Welp…..
https://reason.com/podcast/2017/06/14/dave-weigel-reason-podcast/
https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/david-weigel-prog-rock-book.html
https://archive.ph/1eoAE
https://brooklynrail.org/2017/07/books/The-Revealing-Science-of-Prog-David-Weigel
https://www.amazon.com/Show-That-Never-Ends-Rise/dp/0393242250
It’s good that the media doesn’t overplay this considering the copycat effect. The original story was that he showed up at the house, stood out front, called the cops on himself and was arrested minutes later by a cop while still speaking to 911. If I were a crazed would-be assassin, I might be thinking, Hey, there’re no cops in front of the house and it takes them minutes to get there? Hmmm ….” Best not to let this story get too much publicity.
Of course the problem is the way most shootings involving white or white-adjacent shooters are front-paged for weeks and weeks. The Texas shooting seems like it was triggered by the manifesto shooting.
And it would make the Supreme Court justices of whatever political shade more cognizant of the fact that if they don't answer to we the people, then we the people will reply anyway in the manner of our choosing.Replies: @JimDandy, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AndrewR
You have zero idea how the US Constitutional scheme works. I doubt you have any idea how the UK scheme works, which presumably is why you’re parked in Ecuador, which works so long as the Ecuadorans agree you’re worth more to them alive than dead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/09/roske-kavanaugh-911-tapes/
https://archive.ph/EgLX0
Americans just aren’t into murdering the political class yet.
That could be solved with more immigration. Perhaps some Sendero Luminoso alumni who just want a better life for their family?
That would explain a lot. A Fed working remotely from Ecuador now, an ex-pat in down in a (OK, in another) Banana Republic, finding out that none of the natives are buying any second-hand American dreams..
Written by the late Steve Goodman:
That could be solved with more immigration. Perhaps some Sendero Luminoso alumni who just want a better life for their family?Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
What, you think you are the only man to have arrived at this idea, Mr. Kaganovitch? They are one step ahead of you. Here’s VDare’s new writer A.W. Morgan on Ohio man Shihab Ahhemd Shihab Shihab (no relation to Boutros Boutros Golly!)
Another Day, Another Immigrant Plot To Assassinate Bush 43. Note he wasn’t successful. They are not sending their best assassins.
https://editorsmanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/neither-is-or-are-media-768x432.pngReplies: @International Jew
In Britain, an organization are plural.
Speaking of hole, Postmates has an ad running to celebrate Gay Pride Month, explaining what foods are safe for you to eat before having sex in the butt. Or they may be trying to explain what “bottom-friendly” foods are best to insert into your butt.
It wasn’t that clear to me…
The thing that started this off was a one liner joke. Apparently nowadays you get suspended for a month (amazing that they didn’t fire him in the Current Year ) for a joke.
The joke tweet was something like “every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it is polar or sexual.”
Maybe in Somnez’s case it was both and that is why she was so deeply offended but nah, she is just a humorless commissar type who is deeply offended by EVERYTHING.
Her Muslim type unwillingness to let it go even after management acted against Weigel is what doomed her. BPDs are sometimes in San Diego and sometimes in Tijuana but nut jobs are south of the border at all times.
https://archive.ph/EgLX0
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1535050732633718794Replies: @Jack D
Read the replies to the tweet. They are stunning.
I thought it was an OTC remedy for insomnia.
Felicia Sonmez = Fez in camisole.
From Asia Minor to Asia Major: Homework for five-year-olds? And if that isn’t tiger-mother enough for you…:
Mother charged with tying up 5-year-old on scorching roof for not doing homework
Kindergarten suttee!
Russia stronk! Like ox!
I picked up on that whilst living there.
As the resident fatty around here, I can report that, every hour on the hour, I bend toward Valhalla and whistle Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of my [posterior].
https://i.ibb.co/6J0R8Y6/unhappy-dolph.png
https://i.ibb.co/v1t8PM7/yay-life.pngReplies: @Stan Adams, @MEH 0910
Ah, I screwed up Dolph’s line. “I will be die” should read “I will die” … rats.
Incidentally, I have not given up on my dream of starting an “Ask a Fatty” column.
There are many interesting and important questions that normal-sized people would like to ask, if only they knew someone who was obese and articulate.
For example, have you ever wondered why fat people have no necks? Well, it turns out that we do have necks – they’re just hidden under mounds of flab. And I have the video evidence to prove it:
In fact, it is not. Over the past two weeks Ukraine had gained more territory around Kherson than they’ve ceded in Luhansk and Donetsk.
And regardless of which bombed out piles of rubble gets a temporary Russian flag over it, Russia has lost the war.
Russia’s military has been humiliated and exposed as far weaker than anyone—pro or anti Russian, in or out of Russia—ever expected in February.
Other than Belarus, the rest of Europe now hostile to Russia.
Russia’s economy will decline by about 9% this year, and be on a permanently lower trajectory thereafter due to losing access to most of the EU market.Replies: @Getaclue, @Hypnotoad666
I’ve never understood the attachment to this talking point. First, it’s not true. No mainstream experts were ever claiming that Ukraine should have been conquered immediately to prove Russia had a good army. Quite the contrary. We talked up how the Ukraine army was huge and had been trained and equipped by us to NATO standards. And we rejected pre-war and post-war negotiation because we were going to win by putting $50 billion into Ukraine (more than Russia’s total annual defense budget.)
Secondly, it’s kind of a childish consolation prize to say we made the other side look bad because our side didn’t fail quicker. But I guess neocons can never admit a mistake or defeat. So they have to manufacture psychological victories however they can.
No, it is true. Everyone overestimated Russia, including you. Again, your own words:
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. ”
You were completely wrong. Russia burnt through the cream of its army in a pointless failed drive for Kiev, from which it beat a humiliating, ignominious retreat.
I know you so don’t like these facts, because you have some emotional investment in Putin. But the rest of the world outside of RT and Unz.com and your pedo ex-con guru Scott Ritter all know Russia’s military is disorganized, ill-equipped, ill-led, demoralized, and incompetent.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Chrisnonymous
A “what if their side did it” argument is among the least compelling points you can make. Hypotheticals don’t matter, especially when the opposing side controls the discourse. The only objective it fulfills is to demoralize you more.
I reckon that Jonathan Mason provides employment for at least two Ecuadoran doctors, one maid, three escorts, two bartenders, and five “masseuses”.
Time to arrest Lightfoot…
The Washington Post reported that the guy was charged with attempted murder. Any lawyers who can explain that, given that the guy called 911 and gave himself up before attempting anything?
Now that’s glass-half-full thinking!
I think it is a false flag.
I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.Replies: @tyrone, @ic1000, @JimDandy
…….do you have pink hair and a nose ring in your dream world?
Secondly, it's kind of a childish consolation prize to say we made the other side look bad because our side didn't fail quicker. But I guess neocons can never admit a mistake or defeat. So they have to manufacture psychological victories however they can.Replies: @Pixo, @Hunsdon
“First, it’s not true.”
No, it is true. Everyone overestimated Russia, including you. Again, your own words:
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. ”
You were completely wrong. Russia burnt through the cream of its army in a pointless failed drive for Kiev, from which it beat a humiliating, ignominious retreat.
I know you so don’t like these facts, because you have some emotional investment in Putin. But the rest of the world outside of RT and Unz.com and your pedo ex-con guru Scott Ritter all know Russia’s military is disorganized, ill-equipped, ill-led, demoralized, and incompetent.
My take on Kiev is that is was probably more a political error than an outright military defeat. I suspect the Kremlin thought the regime would collapse when Kiev was threatened, perhaps because they misjudged the sentiments of Ukrainian people toward Russia. When westerners talk about Putin, they always try to impute things to him that go beyond or against the plain meaning of what he says. However, if we just accept that he believes things he says, we would conclude that the Kremlin really believed Ukrainians and Russians were brothers and that the Zelensky regime was controlled by Nazis who wanted to stamp out Russians and Russianness in Ukraine. Now that may or may not be true, but the point is that if the Kremlin believed it, you can see how they could have thought they would be greeted by many people around Kiev as liberators instead of a foreign hostile force. I suspect that they were unprepared for the type of reception they received rather than being simply unprepared for the strength of resistance. The "Putin got his butt kicked at Kiev" interpretation doesn't explain why the Russians didn't try to flatten the city with air and missile strikes to force it into submission when they got mired in the outskirts. It also doesn't explain why they went in with so few troops. However, those two questions are explained if you accept that the goal was a kind of reverse-Maidan and capturing the city relatively intact--mistaken plans at the political level, not the operations level per se.
Aside from Kiev I don't think the Russians have done so poorly considering the Russian way of war is different from the US one. They are methodically destroying the Ukrainian army, which was part of their stated goal. Would they win in an all-out ground war against NATO? It looks like not, but that can not ever have been part of their strategy (due to the massive economic gap between Russia and the west), which has always relied on nuclear deterence, as it is doing now to keep NATO at bay.
Crimea and the land bridge are not going back to a NATO-controlled state. The US should just get over it and make peace. In fact, now would be a good time to let some Polish parts of Ukraine join Poland, Hungarian parts Hungary, etc. Reform Ukraine as an actually Ukrainian country, not a multicultural hodgepodge. The problems there now are due to the way the borders were drawn by outside powers in the past, so just redraw them more rationally.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D
In Michigan, half the Republican gubernatorial candidates hoping to detach Gretchen “Facehugger” Whitmer were eliminated by complaints about petition signatures. NB: complaints about fake signatures on mail-in ballots in November are racist and spurious. In fact, they’re not possible, because the Secretary of State has waived them as a criterion, which apparently she is able to do. However, signatures on petitions can be accused of falsehood before August. After August all signatures mature into goodness.
Then, after Most Popular President Biden joked about jailing his political opponents on the Jimmy Kimmel show, one of the remaining five (MI Gub GOP) candidates was arrested by the FBI for having been present outside the capitol but not trespassing during the January Sixth Trespassing. He was released the same day but note the timing (just in time for the televised kangaroo hearing less than a million people watched) and that talking to the FBI fulfills all the necessary preparations to be framed by the FBI like Michael Flynn (“lying to the FBI”).
It looks like the Democrats are at least as brazen and aggressive as they were in 2020, and the Republicans are sleepy and overconfident. There is some reassuring anger about Kavanaugh but I’m not understanding how new legislation can help a situation where one of the central problems is the refusal to enforce existing law, such as Attorney General Merrick Garland refusing to deal with protesters harassing judges (“Ruth Sent Us”). It is long illegal to bother a judge on the grounds that you are trying to influence a case and therefore, like the January Sixth Trespassing, “threatening our democracy.”
And why watery getalong Kavanaugh and not Alito? I thought it was Alito that actually wrote the opinion.
Right now at the WSJ story on the Kangaroo Committee, there is a pattern familiar from when fed shills first descended on 4chan in 2016: a human American commenter says the Kangaroo Committee is illegitimate or a waste of money or something like that, and then, with the reliability and personnel of an InTourist guide, “another” commenter with a name out of a Japanese video game about American persons with typical America namings corrects the record, being careful to always use the phrase “threatening Our Democracy.” This is the future (internetwise) unless Elon Musk actually cleanses the bots and shows how ineffective they are.
When it contradicts the Narrative, it didn't happen.
The FBI, which is now the armed wing of the Democrat Party, ignored this. It was U.S. Marshals who prevented the assassination.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @That Would Be Telling
I prefer “All the New We See Fit to Print.” And the FBI has openly run a death squad targeting people on the right since Ruby Ridge when G. H. W. Bush was president. They were also the ones who killed the survivors of the ATF Waco raid and were most recently noticed lying up a storm about their involvement in the one death by murdering law enforcement in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where fragments of one round they fired “lodged in the shoulder of Ryan Bundy.” (And that was of course an FBI gayop to begin with.)
OT – I was skeptical of the film by Matt Walsh called What is a Woman but after viewing it is a superbly done film directly addressing the propagation of transsexualism among children. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
The weight etc. is not all bad, his face now looks serious instead of smug “punchable.”
And privately; does anyone remember his postings to the JournoList which were leaked, blowing up that genuine conspiracy?For example:
And his most infamous:
The charges were bullshit, but showed O’Keefe was over the target, as he has been consistently for more than a decade since then.
Did Weigel fall in with a bad crowd? Tried to become one of them with uneven success?
Kind of. Full-on JuiceBox Mafia Cringe:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/fashion/09bloghouse.html?pagewanted=all
I am rethinking now that maybe he is gay. He really didn’t seem that way, but the above article says he was roommates with Julian Sanchez of Reason/Cato, who is definitely gay.
As for his supposedly punchable face before and serious now, I disagree. He was normal looking before, now he looks like a goofy rock music journalist, which he is.
http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/news/100625_david_weigel_shinkle_289.jpg
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/dave-david-weigel-washington-post.jpgReplies: @Anon
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice”
Since the Supreme Court is so important in US politics, there might be demands in the future to let people vote for its judges directly. The question is how candidates should be picked: a free-for-all seems like a bad idea.
One simple idea is to just 'de-royalize' the operation.
A simple option:
-- blow the size up to say 60 justices (or similar large number)
-- cases would be heard by say 15 (or similar number) chosen by lot (you'd never know who was going to get the case--could be randomly stacked against your party)
-- 15 year terms, so the president just starts to get to a majority at the very end of an eight year term
The 15 term probably requires a Constitutional amendment, but the rest could be slapped in place by Congress at any time.
Another option would be no specific set of "Supreme" justices at all. Just pull by lot for every case from all the District court judges.
~~
This is supposed to be--was conceived as--a republic.
The idea that Americans even need the deep insights of the likes of Earl Warren, William Douglas, Warren Burger, Bill Brennan, Harry Blackmun (LOL), Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, or the lesbian or wise Latina, or for that matter Kavanaugh or the Haitian baby lover--much less be ruled by them, is laughable and appalling.
Do you--very limited--job, and STFU. We'll elect representatives to make our laws, and they can then easily unmake them when they--predictably--screw up.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @That Would Be Telling
The problem, echoing Mr. Anon’s reply, is that the Supreme Court operating as robed tyrants dictating the most minute details about how our society will be run is exactly what our ruling trash desires.
They get their projects or simply tastes imposed on their targets and escape direct accountability. We’re expected to ignore how many Republican picks join the Left’s side once on the bench (before the most recent crop about half), how the House and Senate could reign them in by impeachment, or how the President could as Jackson was reputed to say “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”
It’s just one of many scams in Clown World, has been since the switch in time that saved nine after which they for example agreed in Wickard v. Filburn that the Federal government could implement a terror famine on the people if it so desired. It already was to a degree in the New Deal which destroyed food and limited its production such that the same USDA estimated a quarter of the nation was malnourished, something the WWII draft confirmed.
Which helped prompt the Federal school lunch program. Fast forward and Obama’s wife uses that to engineer the starvation of kids who need more calories than she thinks, and now DeSantis is claiming an ambiguously worded (I skimmed it) USDA policy will deny states that money unless they accept the strictures of World War T. Which “circling back” to the Supreme Court were imposed by judicial fiat on the nation 6-3 in mid-2020, Trump’s picks of course not making a difference.
a fire bomb campaign against the Russkies?https://twitter.com/PutinHasNoPenis/status/1532463878516445184Ukraine still waiting for some German munitions.https://twitter.com/andersostlund/status/1534762546502283265https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1534807675627872258?cxt=HHwWhIC9heDc3cwqAAAAReplies: @Prester John
It says here that when the dust settles, Rooshia will get all of the Ukraine east of Kyiv along the Dnipro, down to and including their precious Black Sea warm water port in Odessa. The rest of the Ukraine will stay out of NATO and remain neutral. If this prediction comes to pass, the war will have been worth it to them since this was what they wanted in the first place.
THEY will have won, won, won–and WE will have lost, lost, lost!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyaIrhGrCzo
While the Times eighty-sixes the Supreme Court assassin story, other media outlets (Robert Costa on CBS, just this week) are still retailing the lie that the January 6 protestors killed five police officers.
Did Weigel fall in with a bad crowd? Tried to become one of them with uneven success?Replies: @Pixo
“Did Weigel fall in with a bad crowd? ”
Kind of. Full-on JuiceBox Mafia Cringe:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/fashion/09bloghouse.html?pagewanted=all
I am rethinking now that maybe he is gay. He really didn’t seem that way, but the above article says he was roommates with Julian Sanchez of Reason/Cato, who is definitely gay.
As for his supposedly punchable face before and serious now, I disagree. He was normal looking before, now he looks like a goofy rock music journalist, which he is.
Correct.
I cannot wait to see a remake of Mississippi Burning: the FBI is the Klan.
Secondly, it's kind of a childish consolation prize to say we made the other side look bad because our side didn't fail quicker. But I guess neocons can never admit a mistake or defeat. So they have to manufacture psychological victories however they can.Replies: @Pixo, @Hunsdon
At first, Jack D assured me that the Russian plan had been to wrap everything up in three days. Jack D is an expert! I mean, later on he changed his mind, and said the Russian plan had been to wrap everything up in two days.
2. "Holding back" was pure cope already even then. They weren't holding back nuthin'. They gave it their best shot (including destroying tons of civilian targets and killing many thousands of civilians for no military reason) and their best shot was not good enough. If their goal was to bring Ukrainians over politically it's been a spectacular fail - even most Russian speaking Ukrainians are no longer sympathetic to Putin. Anyway it's been another 3 months.. are they STILL "holding back"? The Russians totally withdrew from the Kyiv area, were never near Odessa and the Ukrainians are currently pushing the Russians back near Kharkiv.
3. The casualties reported were in the hundreds but the ACTUAL Russia casualties are in the tens of thousands.
Anyway, no one but the most deluded (not even Putin himself) believes that the war has gone according to plan. If the war had gone according to plan, Putin would not have had top FSB officials such as Beseda arrested:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/10/bad-news-for-me-is-good-news-for-russia-a77967
Of course the Russians do not publish their war plans (they even deny that there is a war) but it's bleedin' obvious that their initial plan was a decapitation strike against Kyiv and that it completely failed. I don't know whether the plan was to assassinate Zelensky on day 2 or 3 or 10 but that was the "denazify" part of the plan - they would depose the Jewish Nazi (just like Hitler himself) Zelensky and install a puppet government similar to Belarus. Of course nothing like that is going to happen now. At best they are going to bite off a bit more Ukrainian territory (that lies mostly in ruins) at a vast cost to them in lives, military equipment and international standing. This is nothing close to their original war aims.Replies: @Unintended Consequence
The Pelican Brief remake needs script rewriting, pronto. Grisham was a go-to author for legal thrillers, and now some twerp with a Supremes issue loses the plot and goes off script. Who will be the Julia Roberts actor in the remake?
Here, take it from Hypno himself on day 8:
1. Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa were never surrounded and never overrun. The Russian army never even got close to Odessa and when their navy sailed too close, their flagship was sunk.
2. “Holding back” was pure cope already even then. They weren’t holding back nuthin’. They gave it their best shot (including destroying tons of civilian targets and killing many thousands of civilians for no military reason) and their best shot was not good enough. If their goal was to bring Ukrainians over politically it’s been a spectacular fail – even most Russian speaking Ukrainians are no longer sympathetic to Putin. Anyway it’s been another 3 months.. are they STILL “holding back”? The Russians totally withdrew from the Kyiv area, were never near Odessa and the Ukrainians are currently pushing the Russians back near Kharkiv.
3. The casualties reported were in the hundreds but the ACTUAL Russia casualties are in the tens of thousands.
Anyway, no one but the most deluded (not even Putin himself) believes that the war has gone according to plan. If the war had gone according to plan, Putin would not have had top FSB officials such as Beseda arrested:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/10/bad-news-for-me-is-good-news-for-russia-a77967
Of course the Russians do not publish their war plans (they even deny that there is a war) but it’s bleedin’ obvious that their initial plan was a decapitation strike against Kyiv and that it completely failed. I don’t know whether the plan was to assassinate Zelensky on day 2 or 3 or 10 but that was the “denazify” part of the plan – they would depose the Jewish Nazi (just like Hitler himself) Zelensky and install a puppet government similar to Belarus. Of course nothing like that is going to happen now. At best they are going to bite off a bit more Ukrainian territory (that lies mostly in ruins) at a vast cost to them in lives, military equipment and international standing. This is nothing close to their original war aims.
Of course all this is academic. The system we have now will not be changed because the system we have now serves the interests of the people who have bought it. We couldn't rely on the corrupt clown college that is the modern political class to construct a system that is relatively fair and honest. They are neither wise nor honest.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
The Republic as our Founders intended has been lost long ago, as I’m sure you would agree, Mr. Anon. They had the right idea, and the 17 Constitutional Amendments ratified after the 10 B.O.R. in general made things much worse, taking so much power away from the States.
There are not enough Americans left who can even understand the point of this stuff we write about, much less actively support it. That’s why I will write yet again here that the point of the Great Population Replacement Policy is not just to get different voters. It is to replace the formerly huge White Middle Class with the type of people that, due to both their culture and their innate stupidity, cannot even grasp the concepts that made this country great.
They get their projects or simply tastes imposed on their targets and escape direct accountability. We're expected to ignore how many Republican picks join the Left's side once on the bench (before the most recent crop about half), how the House and Senate could reign them in by impeachment, or how the President could as Jackson was reputed to say "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
It's just one of many scams in Clown World, has been since the switch in time that saved nine after which they for example agreed in Wickard v. Filburn that the Federal government could implement a terror famine on the people if it so desired. It already was to a degree in the New Deal which destroyed food and limited its production such that the same USDA estimated a quarter of the nation was malnourished, something the WWII draft confirmed.
Which helped prompt the Federal school lunch program. Fast forward and Obama's wife uses that to engineer the starvation of kids who need more calories than she thinks, and now DeSantis is claiming an ambiguously worded (I skimmed it) USDA policy will deny states that money unless they accept the strictures of World War T. Which "circling back" to the Supreme Court were imposed by judicial fiat on the nation 6-3 in mid-2020, Trump's picks of course not making a difference.Replies: @Jack D
I agree that the Federal gov. has frightful power and could potentially use that power to cause starvation – look at what they just did in the baby formula market where they ordered closed the factory that made 40% of the formula in the US without any planning as to what would happen next – they were going to punish the evil capitalists and that’s all they cared about. Their job was not to MAKE formula, it was to STOP the making of formula if they felt like it. Even if they were not planning to starve the population they could blunder into it thru stupidity and complete lack of foresight.
However, when it comes to food, up until now the Fed gov, and in particular the USDA, has done anything BUT starve the population. Visit any ghetto in America and you’ll realize that starvation is not the problem. They have been fattening the lower classes of America like sows with sugar and corn based products. Moochelle was (is) an evil witch but her efforts to improve the government paid diets of blacks were admirable. Just the idea that black were in need of improvement was revolutionary in the current environment where every black pathology is spun as an outright positive. Of course she spun it to make it seem as if it was whitey’s fault that blacks were fat (and in this particular case she was not totally wrong) since blacks never have any agency, but the idea that she was “starving” kids was laughable. Open your eyes – Detroit ain’t Biafra. The only kind of ribs showing in Detroit are BBQed.
I think it is a false flag.
I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.Replies: @tyrone, @ic1000, @JimDandy
Your best comment ever, Tiny Duck. (no sarcasm.)
> I think it is a false flag.
In our increasingly banana-like Republic, that idea deserves serious consideration.
> I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.
Um… that group isn’t exactly a fearsome, powerful arm of the Deep State. Is there any evidence that they’re somehow connected with the wannabe assassin, or were in a position to get him to take a dive?
False Flag makes me think of J6, and with that displacing The Masked Singer and America’s Got Talent on prime time, your comment inspired me to check up on recent developments.
The False Flag claims were compiled by Darren Beattie at Revolver News on 12/18/21. Links to this and other articles are at this Jan. 8th iSteve comment.
On May 5, 2022, the NYT completely debunked these claims, New Evidence Undercuts Jan. 6 Instigator Conspiracy Theory. The powerful evidence is: (1) One possible instigator, Ray Epps, told the FBI that he was a calming presence on J6. (2) Epps talked to one Ryan Samsel at J6; Samsel told the FBI that Epps didn’t instigate him. (3) Epps told the J6 committee he wasn’t an FBI informant. (4) Samsel told the FBI that Joseph Biggs of the Proud Boys did instigate him. (5) There was no point 5; points 1 through 4 more than sufficed as a complete debunking.
To further assist its readers in getting at the truth, the NYT didn’t mention or link to that Revolver News article.
False Flag activity by the Deep State’s security apparati disproven!
One search also brought up Tucker Carlson’s lengthy Op-Ed on Peter Navarro’s arrest from a few days ago, because Carlson referenced Epps in passing. Merrick Garland’s dedication to bringing justice in the U.S. up to international standards is already yielding a bountiful harvest.
I think the fact that the guy called 911 on himself made people question how serious he actually was about going through with it.
Of course the problem is the way most shootings involving white or white-adjacent shooters are front-paged for weeks and weeks. The Texas shooting seems like it was triggered by the manifesto shooting.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
All the original stories I read said he was spotted by a couple of US Marshalls after getting out of a taxi close to Kavanaugh’s house, then the 911 call was added.
Oh honey… There is no lawful solution
This is how civil wars start.
Maybe the story isn’t getting covered because it’s a nothing burger. Just as no one cared when a gunman decided to kill Sotomayor, because that guy failed as well.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/report-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-targeted-by-gunman-who-killed-federal-judges-son/?sh=17a11daa5c11
Of course in this case the Thiel/Koch funded media outlets have spent quite a lot of time talking about all the non-coverage, makes a nice excuse not to cover the Jan 6 hearings and how embarassing those are for the GOP.
Sad to see Steve align himself so obviously along partisan lines rather than principle.
Here we have a genuine threat, this anti-feminist nutcase shot and killed a Federal District's son who answered the door (I never do to someone unknown without a gun in my hand), put a lot of rounds into her husband but he pulled through, then for whatever reason failed to try to kill her, she was in the basement at the time. Identified by the FBI the next day, Officially he was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot in an adjacent state.
He never tried to kill Sotomayor, thus your overly clever use of "decided to kill" because his plans for her were found in his writings. And I'm pretty sure reporting of, you know, the literally bloody crimes he actually committed got more coverage than this weak sauce attempt on Kavanaugh, but that tells us nothing seeing as how someone actually got killed and another badly wounded.Yeah, the Left is not sending their best. Or worse for them, maybe they are....
OT, but this article might be worth a read if you are interested in marriage dynamics in the US. As most commentators here probably already know, the rate of illegitimate children is highly dependent on education levels, but the attitude of lower class women toward marriage, divorce, and motherhood might come as a surprise, as well as underline how different the two sexes are when it comes to stuff like raison d’etre, how to turn around an ineffective life, etc. With the commentariat here being disproportionately male.
https://medium.com/@akhivae/children-are-a-necessity-marriage-is-a-luxury-the-psychology-of-the-poor-single-mom-9397091e6427
I found this article insightful because it shows the psychology of a demographic that diverges significantly from what many imagine all over the political spectrum, despite the typical lack of willingness to investigate why their male counterparts don’t get married, beyond the implied “they are just deadbeat assholes”. (Some are, of course! But the elephant in the room is that many of these gals aren’t exactly prizes themselves, to say nothing of how lower class men are treated like animals in divorce courts.) Ultimately, kids lose something that can’t be replaced if they don’t have a father. As a society, we don’t do ourselves any favors if we lie about this. But we also don’t do ourselves favors if we don’t look at problems as they are, rather than how we imagine them to be.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/report-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-targeted-by-gunman-who-killed-federal-judges-son/?sh=17a11daa5c11
Of course in this case the Thiel/Koch funded media outlets have spent quite a lot of time talking about all the non-coverage, makes a nice excuse not to cover the Jan 6 hearings and how embarassing those are for the GOP.
Sad to see Steve align himself so obviously along partisan lines rather than principle.Replies: @Matt Buckalew, @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D, @vinteuil
Lmao cry harder bitch. Maybe ball your little fists up and stomp some.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/report-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-targeted-by-gunman-who-killed-federal-judges-son/?sh=17a11daa5c11
Of course in this case the Thiel/Koch funded media outlets have spent quite a lot of time talking about all the non-coverage, makes a nice excuse not to cover the Jan 6 hearings and how embarassing those are for the GOP.
Sad to see Steve align himself so obviously along partisan lines rather than principle.Replies: @Matt Buckalew, @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D, @vinteuil
I continue to be amazed by liars who expect us to not read the links they claim prove their claims.
Here we have a genuine threat, this anti-feminist nutcase shot and killed a Federal District’s son who answered the door (I never do to someone unknown without a gun in my hand), put a lot of rounds into her husband but he pulled through, then for whatever reason failed to try to kill her, she was in the basement at the time. Identified by the FBI the next day, Officially he was found dead of a self-inflicted gun shot in an adjacent state.
He never tried to kill Sotomayor, thus your overly clever use of “decided to kill” because his plans for her were found in his writings. And I’m pretty sure reporting of, you know, the literally bloody crimes he actually committed got more coverage than this weak sauce attempt on Kavanaugh, but that tells us nothing seeing as how someone actually got killed and another badly wounded.
Yeah, the Left is not sending their best. Or worse for them, maybe they are….
What’s that about? What is it about marriage that they avoid? Tax policy? Shacking up is infantile enough in one’s twenties. In one’s forties?
That’ll inspire confidence in iStevers!
Majusculation aside, someone has finally found a worse descriptor than “white Hispanic”.
Though I’m willing to bet that their own single motherhood is indeed such an impediment– for their children.
But they are likely negatively to affect the child. In many significant ways.
Such as the difference between plural and possessive?
She’s almost there! All that’s missing is Dad.
Now if only some of her logic would rub off on the women she’s addressing. There might be hope for civilization.
The child of these two?
I think it is more likely because they have a realistic understanding that if you are a low income, low IQ, not gifted with top 1% looks, woman then career, financial success and attracting a desirable partner are just not in the cards for you so you have to make the best life that you can and for a woman having children is part of a fulfilling life. Sure it would be better if some guy with a union job would marry you and you could stay home and take care of the kids while he did the work thing and taught them how to throw a ball after work, etc. but it would also be nice to win the Pick 6 Lotto - realistically neither one is happening for you so might as well find as much happiness as is actually possible for you.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Had this nitwit travelled to Schumer’s or Pelosi’s house I think the coverage in print and cable news would be quite extensive. Probably warrant a Congressional Hearing.
Before Jan. 6 (“Worse than 9-11… as bad as Pearl Harbor”) BLM and Antifa violently attacked the White House. Something like 40 Secret Service officers were hospitalized and Trump was reportedly rushed down to his bunker. When reporting on this, the MSM focused on mocking Trump for being a coward. We don’t hear much about any of that anymore.
https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/d3db35aea79567cea6da9fe81af3674c5156fa758e16eff83967197594f16f84_1.jpg
I think it is a false flag.
I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.Replies: @tyrone, @ic1000, @JimDandy
Remember when BLM and Antifa attacked The White House and sent all those Secret Service agents to the hospital and Trump reportedly was whisked down to his bunker for safety? Wasn’t that hilarious? Whatta pussy, amiright?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/report-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-targeted-by-gunman-who-killed-federal-judges-son/?sh=17a11daa5c11
Of course in this case the Thiel/Koch funded media outlets have spent quite a lot of time talking about all the non-coverage, makes a nice excuse not to cover the Jan 6 hearings and how embarassing those are for the GOP.
Sad to see Steve align himself so obviously along partisan lines rather than principle.Replies: @Matt Buckalew, @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D, @vinteuil
I don’t understand this kvetching. I don’t watch prime time TV anymore so I missed this piece of entertainment (who puts on Congressional hearings in prime time? – are they entertainers or legislators? What do these hearings have to do with Congress’s function of passing legislation even if they were being held during business hours?) but I understand from reading the media that the Left was very upset that Fox News did not televise the hearings, even though every other network did.
Isn’t it enough to put the hearings on one channel or most of them ? Why do 100% of all channels have to put them on? If you wanted to watch the hearings, couldn’t you flip your TV to one of the ten other channels that was playing them? Is this supposed to be some sort of Clockwork Orange totalitarian scheme where they tie you to a chair and prop your eyelids open so you have no choice but to watch and they are pissed that some small segment of the public was allowed to escape seeing the show trial?
Is there some shortage of coverage (most of the home page of the NYT, Washington Post, etc.) such that if the “Thiel/Koch funded media outlets” don’t devote their space to wall to wall coverage then somehow people will miss out on this “news”?
The Dems in Congress tried to politically assassinate Trump at least 3 times – first the Mueller Report was going to drive a stake thru his political heart and that turned out to be a nothing burger. Then they impeached him once and that fell flat and they impeached him a 2nd time with the same result. Trump is not the President anymore so they can’t impeach him a 3rd time but they can have “hearings”. Haven’t they figured out yet that anyone persuadable to hate Trump already hates him as the result of the non-stop anti-Trump propaganda that has played for at least the last 6 years and they are only preaching to their own choir at this point? Anything not to have to face Trump again in an election with the increasingly senile Biden as their standard bearer.
It is, indeed, hard to understand.
As the resident fatty around here, I can report that, every hour on the hour, I bend toward Valhalla and whistle Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of my [posterior].
https://i.ibb.co/6J0R8Y6/unhappy-dolph.png
https://i.ibb.co/v1t8PM7/yay-life.pngReplies: @Stan Adams, @MEH 0910
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01536-y
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If they don’t view it that way, then they are just deluding themselves because it is.
I think it is more likely because they have a realistic understanding that if you are a low income, low IQ, not gifted with top 1% looks, woman then career, financial success and attracting a desirable partner are just not in the cards for you so you have to make the best life that you can and for a woman having children is part of a fulfilling life. Sure it would be better if some guy with a union job would marry you and you could stay home and take care of the kids while he did the work thing and taught them how to throw a ball after work, etc. but it would also be nice to win the Pick 6 Lotto – realistically neither one is happening for you so might as well find as much happiness as is actually possible for you.
This is 20th-century thinking in a nutshell, condemning Ayn Rand while adopting her sexual ethics in toto. Well, excluding this stipulation.Replies: @Jack D
You overestimate their cognitive abilities.
> I think it is a false flag.
In our increasingly banana-like Republic, that idea deserves serious consideration.
> I think it was just the Proud Boys staging it.
Um... that group isn't exactly a fearsome, powerful arm of the Deep State. Is there any evidence that they're somehow connected with the wannabe assassin, or were in a position to get him to take a dive?
False Flag makes me think of J6, and with that displacing The Masked Singer and America's Got Talent on prime time, your comment inspired me to check up on recent developments.
The False Flag claims were compiled by Darren Beattie at Revolver News on 12/18/21. Links to this and other articles are at this Jan. 8th iSteve comment.
On May 5, 2022, the NYT completely debunked these claims, New Evidence Undercuts Jan. 6 Instigator Conspiracy Theory. The powerful evidence is: (1) One possible instigator, Ray Epps, told the FBI that he was a calming presence on J6. (2) Epps talked to one Ryan Samsel at J6; Samsel told the FBI that Epps didn't instigate him. (3) Epps told the J6 committee he wasn't an FBI informant. (4) Samsel told the FBI that Joseph Biggs of the Proud Boys did instigate him. (5) There was no point 5; points 1 through 4 more than sufficed as a complete debunking.
To further assist its readers in getting at the truth, the NYT didn't mention or link to that Revolver News article.
False Flag activity by the Deep State's security apparati disproven!
One search also brought up Tucker Carlson's lengthy Op-Ed on Peter Navarro's arrest from a few days ago, because Carlson referenced Epps in passing. Merrick Garland's dedication to bringing justice in the U.S. up to international standards is already yielding a bountiful harvest.Replies: @JimDandy
“Proud Boys Did Nothing Wrong” is a phrase that is gaining some traction, but it’s not true–they actually did several things wrong: 1.) Their founder, Gavin McInnes, once said that most trans people or mentally-ill gays. 2.) They threw a wrench in Antifa’s campaign to use violence to suppress free speech. 3.) The “Johnny Bravo” effect. With their Fred Perry shirt club uniform, they conjured up thoughts of skinheads. The left was desperate to find an actual white nationalist Neo-Nazi movement in America of any note, and Proud Boys would have to do, even though they are multi-racial, gay-friendly, and embarrassingly-obsequious to Israel and Jews in general. Some Nazis, eh? If the Proud Boys you keep hearing about in leftist narratives did not exist, it would be necessary for the MSM/Dems/Southern Poverty Law Center/Anti-Defamation League to invent them–so that’s exactly what they did.
And yet tomorrow Steve will literally quote these new sources as reliable on Russia or some other nonsense.
It’s enough to make me cancel my monthly donation. What a yutz.
THEY will have won, won, won--and WE will have lost, lost, lost!!!!!Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D
Could be. The Ukrainians are counting on the delivery of long range rocket artillery from the West; whether of not they can get them in time is another matter.
They will be apparently getting four MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones which can carry Hellfire missiles. The UK has given ground launched Brimstone missiles to the Ukraine, which they have used with some success.
The Brimstone is the UK’s version of the Hellfire, so in theory they could produce a ground launcher for the Hellfire as well.
And last, if the Ukrainians actually get the MLRS rocket artillery, they could be used to fire the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs, which could really put the hurt on the Russkies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyaIrhGrCzo
No, it is true. Everyone overestimated Russia, including you. Again, your own words:
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. ”
You were completely wrong. Russia burnt through the cream of its army in a pointless failed drive for Kiev, from which it beat a humiliating, ignominious retreat.
I know you so don’t like these facts, because you have some emotional investment in Putin. But the rest of the world outside of RT and Unz.com and your pedo ex-con guru Scott Ritter all know Russia’s military is disorganized, ill-equipped, ill-led, demoralized, and incompetent.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Chrisnonymous
Russia never shared it’s timetable or it’s objectives with the rest of the world. And Pico here is clearly a 3rd rate propagandist rather than an expert in military strategy. BTW, don’t those chubby Ukrainian soldiers look and act like they’re using performance enhancing drugs including steroids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_eFoIemjU
What is Putin feeding their forces in the special military operation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWLcbMIBWo
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin's Vietnam.Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin's actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?Replies: @JimDandy, @Hypnotoad666, @Unintended Consequence, @Johann Ricke
There was a time when the term “liberal” meant those who fought for the rights of others to express themselves.
2. "Holding back" was pure cope already even then. They weren't holding back nuthin'. They gave it their best shot (including destroying tons of civilian targets and killing many thousands of civilians for no military reason) and their best shot was not good enough. If their goal was to bring Ukrainians over politically it's been a spectacular fail - even most Russian speaking Ukrainians are no longer sympathetic to Putin. Anyway it's been another 3 months.. are they STILL "holding back"? The Russians totally withdrew from the Kyiv area, were never near Odessa and the Ukrainians are currently pushing the Russians back near Kharkiv.
3. The casualties reported were in the hundreds but the ACTUAL Russia casualties are in the tens of thousands.
Anyway, no one but the most deluded (not even Putin himself) believes that the war has gone according to plan. If the war had gone according to plan, Putin would not have had top FSB officials such as Beseda arrested:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/10/bad-news-for-me-is-good-news-for-russia-a77967
Of course the Russians do not publish their war plans (they even deny that there is a war) but it's bleedin' obvious that their initial plan was a decapitation strike against Kyiv and that it completely failed. I don't know whether the plan was to assassinate Zelensky on day 2 or 3 or 10 but that was the "denazify" part of the plan - they would depose the Jewish Nazi (just like Hitler himself) Zelensky and install a puppet government similar to Belarus. Of course nothing like that is going to happen now. At best they are going to bite off a bit more Ukrainian territory (that lies mostly in ruins) at a vast cost to them in lives, military equipment and international standing. This is nothing close to their original war aims.Replies: @Unintended Consequence
Are you a writer, Jack? Or maybe you’ve got a room full of toy soldiers arranged to represent various historic battles. You keep providing us with details as if you have been physically observing the conflict in Ukraine. You also assert your opinions as if you have some sort of high-level military expertise, but I’d bet good money you’ve never even been enlisted.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/02/19/report-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-targeted-by-gunman-who-killed-federal-judges-son/?sh=17a11daa5c11
Of course in this case the Thiel/Koch funded media outlets have spent quite a lot of time talking about all the non-coverage, makes a nice excuse not to cover the Jan 6 hearings and how embarassing those are for the GOP.
Sad to see Steve align himself so obviously along partisan lines rather than principle.Replies: @Matt Buckalew, @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D, @vinteuil
Well, yeah, the Jan 6 hearings were pretty embarrassing for the establishment wing of the GOP. Liz Cheney made such a complete fool of herself. It could hardly have been more painful.
Kind of. Full-on JuiceBox Mafia Cringe:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/fashion/09bloghouse.html?pagewanted=all
I am rethinking now that maybe he is gay. He really didn’t seem that way, but the above article says he was roommates with Julian Sanchez of Reason/Cato, who is definitely gay.
As for his supposedly punchable face before and serious now, I disagree. He was normal looking before, now he looks like a goofy rock music journalist, which he is.
http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/news/100625_david_weigel_shinkle_289.jpg
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/dave-david-weigel-washington-post.jpgReplies: @Anon
Isn’t that the guy who claimed Trump was about to complete the system of German Idealism?
Even a fairly cursory examination of Peter Akuleyev’s comment archive will reveal that he hates Donald Trump as few have ever hated any.
It is, indeed, hard to understand.
Yeah. Another way it starts is when one of the two ruling parties orchestrates and enables urban riots and looting for months and months in an election year.
At least the Ukrainians give their soldiers give their soldiers decent MREs.
What is Putin feeding their forces in the special military operation?
Not Your Father’s Wall Street Journal update!
Rural America also reeling from uptick in violent crime, caused by Covid! Happy Juneteenth, everybody! Now a federal holiday!
No, goyboy, you don’t get to be independent any more. Shaddup and put your yoke on.
THEY will have won, won, won--and WE will have lost, lost, lost!!!!!Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D
IF. If my grandma had wheels she would be a trolley car.
I think it is more likely because they have a realistic understanding that if you are a low income, low IQ, not gifted with top 1% looks, woman then career, financial success and attracting a desirable partner are just not in the cards for you so you have to make the best life that you can and for a woman having children is part of a fulfilling life. Sure it would be better if some guy with a union job would marry you and you could stay home and take care of the kids while he did the work thing and taught them how to throw a ball after work, etc. but it would also be nice to win the Pick 6 Lotto - realistically neither one is happening for you so might as well find as much happiness as is actually possible for you.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
…the children be damned.
This is 20th-century thinking in a nutshell, condemning Ayn Rand while adopting her sexual ethics in toto. Well, excluding this stipulation.
In other words, we are the liberals.
What’s really crazy is liberals accuse the SC of banning abortion!!! What they are doing is leaving it up to the individual states and their ELECTED congressmen which is what the 10A says. The SC wants to just stay away from the abortion issue.
OT
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34070358/washington-commanders-defensive-coordinator-jack-del-rio-fined-100000-comments-us-capitol-invasion-george-floyd-murder
NFL coach is fined $100,000 for referring to Jan 6 as a dustup.
https://thebgcapparelco.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/football-is-gay-nfl-video-promo.jpg
Just thinking out loud here but is it possible that the Jan 6 hearings are actually being used as a backdoor/beginning to neuter the authority of the Supremes and relegate them to the dustbin of history? I believe the committees purpose is more than what the American people realize. In other words, I believe the time is coming when the middle-man is going to be cut out and The Party will have the final say in all matters. The Party will be judge, jury and executioner.
The purpose of the absurd "committee" is two-fold: 1) to try to head off Trump running again and 2) fund-raising and to try to help them this November.
That said, I don't doubt there are at least some democrats that actually believe Jan 6th was more than a raucous protest.Replies: @Not you, @Harry Baldwin
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01536-yReplies: @Stan Adams
Yes, we fatties have our (heavy) crosses to bear.
Somehow no one is a good enough military expert for you unless he is a Ruzzia fan.
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin’s Vietnam.
Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin’s actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_WarThe difference? North Vietnam was fighting a low-level guerrilla war, and equipment usage was sporadic. And yet, it received huge amounts of equipment and ammunition from a secondary supplier. Russia provided even more equipment. Its state-of-the-art MiG-21's went toe-to-toe with both USN and USAF F-4 Phantoms. Russian personnel manned anti-aircraft batteries in North Vietnam. Just under 10,000 US aircraft were shot down in the Vietnam War. https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_WarOn an inflation-adjusted basis, the Russians sent equipment worth $3.6b a year. But even the inflation adjustment does not capture the qualitative aspects of what the DRV was given. North Vietnam received SAMs advanced enough to shoot down every aircraft in the US inventory, and shot thousands of them down. They also received state-of-the-art Russian aircraft.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#The_Vietnam_WarWhat it boils down to isn't total resources on both sides, but the amount of resources Ukraine's allies are willing to send, compared to the resources Russia is willing to devote to the war. So far Ukraine's allies have sent a trickle of aid, whereas Russia is pouring vast sums of money into the war. That is why Russia is advancing slowly, but surely. Until Ukraine's allies belly up to the bar, materiel-wise, Ukraine will continue to retreat while losing large numbers of men.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61742736The Democrats, including apologists like Stavridis, boast that the US is providing huge sums of aid to Ukraine. In reality, the $40b bill is a drop in the bucket. The US spent $50b a year conducting desultory operations plinking the occasional terrorist in the Middle East and Afghanistan, amounting to a body count of a few thousand enemy dead a year. https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-10/54219-oco_spending.pdfThe campaign in Ukraine is a large-scale force-on-force 24-hour-a-day 365-day-a-year conflict. It is not a counterinsurgency mounted against pajama-/dishdasha-clad part-time guerillas. Ukraine needs more than $50b spread out over several years.As I pointed out earlier, Burisma = Putin. Putin doesn't quite own Biden. Putin rented Biden through 2 intermediaries - Zlochevsky (Burisma's owner, who fled Ukraine along with Yanukovich after Yanukovich was impeached by the Rada) and Hunter Biden. Thanks to these cutouts, just as Putin can claim he did not bribe Biden, Biden can claim he wasn't bribed by Putin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_ZlochevskySo how is Biden earning his keep vis-a-vis Putin? By supplying just enough equipment to Ukraine for the Ukrainians to lose while claiming credit for generosity. In reality, Biden is providing just enough for Ukraine to lose while being able to claim he did everything he could.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
This is 20th-century thinking in a nutshell, condemning Ayn Rand while adopting her sexual ethics in toto. Well, excluding this stipulation.Replies: @Jack D
To a kid, whatever circumstances they are born into seems “normal”. In black (and increasingly in lower class white) communities there have been several generations of single motherhood. Intact families are the exception.
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin's Vietnam.Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin's actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?Replies: @JimDandy, @Hypnotoad666, @Unintended Consequence, @Johann Ricke
Wow, James George Stavridis, Vice Chair, Global Affairs and Managing Director of the global investment firm the Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation–and chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York–whose legacy is being NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe promotes pouring more money into arms for Ukraine and dragging this out as long as possible? I’m floored.
The Kavanaugh assassin story was carried by AP News and by Reuters and by other news agencies, and was published in online and paper news outlets all over the world.
There is no way in hell that the story was suppressed in any way.
I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.
Just because you personally think that a story should be the main story of the day, it doesn’t necessarily mean that when objective criteria are applied that story will be the main story.
There have been plenty of stories all over the Internet recently about how the Supreme Court is attracting a lot of attention to itself, and in particular how one member has a wife who seems completely out of control, and the Justice seems to be unaware of the fact that she is getting involved in constitutional matters.
It is not any surprise to anyone that the Supreme Court justices are coming to the attention of lunatics.
I personally am surprised that there are not more media stories about Kavanaugh and his love of beer.
It's true that Hunter Biden can't be Attorney General thanks to a post-Kennedy-régime law. (Unless Pres. Harris appoints him. But not Doug Emhoff.) This doesn't apply to the spouses of US judges, of which there are thousands, including some 1,400 administrative law judges in the Social Security Administration alone.
No, it is true. Everyone overestimated Russia, including you. Again, your own words:
“ Russia is eight days into its invasion and it basically has all major cities (Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa) surrounded or on the verge of being overrun. ”
You were completely wrong. Russia burnt through the cream of its army in a pointless failed drive for Kiev, from which it beat a humiliating, ignominious retreat.
I know you so don’t like these facts, because you have some emotional investment in Putin. But the rest of the world outside of RT and Unz.com and your pedo ex-con guru Scott Ritter all know Russia’s military is disorganized, ill-equipped, ill-led, demoralized, and incompetent.Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Chrisnonymous
Yeah, I agree that many people were expecting a quick end, but I think that was based on the public’s expectations for modern warfare being set by Iraq 2 invasion and then other “campaigns” promoted as “successes” like Libya. Quick and overwhelming. But actually if you look at conflicts around the world in recent history–Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq insurgency, etc, you see pretty drawn-out affairs with back and forth as regards who’s winning.
My take on Kiev is that is was probably more a political error than an outright military defeat. I suspect the Kremlin thought the regime would collapse when Kiev was threatened, perhaps because they misjudged the sentiments of Ukrainian people toward Russia. When westerners talk about Putin, they always try to impute things to him that go beyond or against the plain meaning of what he says. However, if we just accept that he believes things he says, we would conclude that the Kremlin really believed Ukrainians and Russians were brothers and that the Zelensky regime was controlled by Nazis who wanted to stamp out Russians and Russianness in Ukraine. Now that may or may not be true, but the point is that if the Kremlin believed it, you can see how they could have thought they would be greeted by many people around Kiev as liberators instead of a foreign hostile force. I suspect that they were unprepared for the type of reception they received rather than being simply unprepared for the strength of resistance. The “Putin got his butt kicked at Kiev” interpretation doesn’t explain why the Russians didn’t try to flatten the city with air and missile strikes to force it into submission when they got mired in the outskirts. It also doesn’t explain why they went in with so few troops. However, those two questions are explained if you accept that the goal was a kind of reverse-Maidan and capturing the city relatively intact–mistaken plans at the political level, not the operations level per se.
Aside from Kiev I don’t think the Russians have done so poorly considering the Russian way of war is different from the US one. They are methodically destroying the Ukrainian army, which was part of their stated goal. Would they win in an all-out ground war against NATO? It looks like not, but that can not ever have been part of their strategy (due to the massive economic gap between Russia and the west), which has always relied on nuclear deterence, as it is doing now to keep NATO at bay.
Crimea and the land bridge are not going back to a NATO-controlled state. The US should just get over it and make peace. In fact, now would be a good time to let some Polish parts of Ukraine join Poland, Hungarian parts Hungary, etc. Reform Ukraine as an actually Ukrainian country, not a multicultural hodgepodge. The problems there now are due to the way the borders were drawn by outside powers in the past, so just redraw them more rationally.
What you are talking about is a recipe for endless war. The perfect "rational" borders can never be drawn. We had 75 years of peace in Europe after WWII because everyone tacitly agreed that we would just leave the borders alone, rational or not.Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Johann Ricke
And nobody in the MSM ever called those Congressman on January 6th cowards, hunkering down behind armed men who were pointing guns at unarmed protestors/rioters.
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin's Vietnam.Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin's actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?Replies: @JimDandy, @Hypnotoad666, @Unintended Consequence, @Johann Ricke
There is no way in hell that the story was suppressed in any way.
I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.
Just because you personally think that a story should be the main story of the day, it doesn't necessarily mean that when objective criteria are applied that story will be the main story.
There have been plenty of stories all over the Internet recently about how the Supreme Court is attracting a lot of attention to itself, and in particular how one member has a wife who seems completely out of control, and the Justice seems to be unaware of the fact that she is getting involved in constitutional matters.
It is not any surprise to anyone that the Supreme Court justices are coming to the attention of lunatics.
I personally am surprised that there are not more media stories about Kavanaugh and his love of beer.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Mr. Anon, @Jack P, @Steve Sailer
The right of every private citizen in the US. You got a problem with that?
It’s true that Hunter Biden can’t be Attorney General thanks to a post-Kennedy-régime law. (Unless Pres. Harris appoints him. But not Doug Emhoff.) This doesn’t apply to the spouses of US judges, of which there are thousands, including some 1,400 administrative law judges in the Social Security Administration alone.
There is no way in hell that the story was suppressed in any way.
I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.
Just because you personally think that a story should be the main story of the day, it doesn't necessarily mean that when objective criteria are applied that story will be the main story.
There have been plenty of stories all over the Internet recently about how the Supreme Court is attracting a lot of attention to itself, and in particular how one member has a wife who seems completely out of control, and the Justice seems to be unaware of the fact that she is getting involved in constitutional matters.
It is not any surprise to anyone that the Supreme Court justices are coming to the attention of lunatics.
I personally am surprised that there are not more media stories about Kavanaugh and his love of beer.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Mr. Anon, @Jack P, @Steve Sailer
Yeah, it’s not like it’s a really important story – like all the ink they spilled on Jussie Smollett.
There is no way in hell that the story was suppressed in any way.
I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.
Just because you personally think that a story should be the main story of the day, it doesn't necessarily mean that when objective criteria are applied that story will be the main story.
There have been plenty of stories all over the Internet recently about how the Supreme Court is attracting a lot of attention to itself, and in particular how one member has a wife who seems completely out of control, and the Justice seems to be unaware of the fact that she is getting involved in constitutional matters.
It is not any surprise to anyone that the Supreme Court justices are coming to the attention of lunatics.
I personally am surprised that there are not more media stories about Kavanaugh and his love of beer.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Mr. Anon, @Jack P, @Steve Sailer
Page 20?? For an attempted assassination of a Supreme Court Justice?
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin's Vietnam.Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin's actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?Replies: @JimDandy, @Hypnotoad666, @Unintended Consequence, @Johann Ricke
Not impressed with Admiral Stradivarius there. First he acts like a cheezy fortune teller at a cheap carnival. Second his inferences sound exactly like Ukrainian propaganda. We can also infer that military skirmishes aren’t exact sciences and that Putin doesn’t have file folders marked: Plan A Kiev; Plan B More than we have sans Kiev; Plan C wtf!
What? You doubt the word of a world-class war profiteer? For shame!
There is no way in hell that the story was suppressed in any way.
I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.
Just because you personally think that a story should be the main story of the day, it doesn't necessarily mean that when objective criteria are applied that story will be the main story.
There have been plenty of stories all over the Internet recently about how the Supreme Court is attracting a lot of attention to itself, and in particular how one member has a wife who seems completely out of control, and the Justice seems to be unaware of the fact that she is getting involved in constitutional matters.
It is not any surprise to anyone that the Supreme Court justices are coming to the attention of lunatics.
I personally am surprised that there are not more media stories about Kavanaugh and his love of beer.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Mr. Anon, @Jack P, @Steve Sailer
“I take it that Steve has never been a news editor on a newspaper, or responsible for laying out the front page of a newspaper.”
What do I know about newspapers?
I have some experience of working on putting together the front page of a regional newspaper in the US and of inventing (sometimes witty) headlines, so I know that all kinds of criteria will go into deciding what story leads, and which stories appear lower on the front page and are continued on later pages.
You may well have newspaper experience too, but not all of your readers will know that.
How about this guy:
Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.), the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.
https://time.com/6186033/ukraine-war-becoming-putins-vietnam/
He says that Ukraine will be Putin's Vietnam.Did Putin share his war plans with Stavridis or did he infer them from Putin's actions like every other intelligent observer of the war?Replies: @JimDandy, @Hypnotoad666, @Unintended Consequence, @Johann Ricke
Stavridis is a Democrat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Stavridis#Consideration_for_political_office
Trump apparently considered him for a post, being the lousy judge of personnel that he is.
The problem with calling Ukraine Putin’s Vietnam is that North Vietnam was supplied with copious amounts of equipment. China, the secondary supplier in the war, provided over 4,000 artillery pieces and 1.8m artillery rounds in its first full year as the DRV’s arsenal. So far, the US has supplied just over 100 artillery pieces to Ukraine, along with 200,000 artillery rounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Confronting_U.S._escalation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
The difference? North Vietnam was fighting a low-level guerrilla war, and equipment usage was sporadic. And yet, it received huge amounts of equipment and ammunition from a secondary supplier. Russia provided even more equipment. Its state-of-the-art MiG-21’s went toe-to-toe with both USN and USAF F-4 Phantoms. Russian personnel manned anti-aircraft batteries in North Vietnam. Just under 10,000 US aircraft were shot down in the Vietnam War.
https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War
On an inflation-adjusted basis, the Russians sent equipment worth $3.6b a year. But even the inflation adjustment does not capture the qualitative aspects of what the DRV was given. North Vietnam received SAMs advanced enough to shoot down every aircraft in the US inventory, and shot thousands of them down. They also received state-of-the-art Russian aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#The_Vietnam_War
What it boils down to isn’t total resources on both sides, but the amount of resources Ukraine’s allies are willing to send, compared to the resources Russia is willing to devote to the war. So far Ukraine’s allies have sent a trickle of aid, whereas Russia is pouring vast sums of money into the war. That is why Russia is advancing slowly, but surely. Until Ukraine’s allies belly up to the bar, materiel-wise, Ukraine will continue to retreat while losing large numbers of men.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61742736
The Democrats, including apologists like Stavridis, boast that the US is providing huge sums of aid to Ukraine. In reality, the $40b bill is a drop in the bucket. The US spent $50b a year conducting desultory operations plinking the occasional terrorist in the Middle East and Afghanistan, amounting to a body count of a few thousand enemy dead a year.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-10/54219-oco_spending.pdf
The campaign in Ukraine is a large-scale force-on-force 24-hour-a-day 365-day-a-year conflict. It is not a counterinsurgency mounted against pajama-/dishdasha-clad part-time guerillas. Ukraine needs more than $50b spread out over several years.
As I pointed out earlier, Burisma = Putin. Putin doesn’t quite own Biden. Putin rented Biden through 2 intermediaries – Zlochevsky (Burisma’s owner, who fled Ukraine along with Yanukovich after Yanukovich was impeached by the Rada) and Hunter Biden. Thanks to these cutouts, just as Putin can claim he did not bribe Biden, Biden can claim he wasn’t bribed by Putin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zlochevsky
So how is Biden earning his keep vis-a-vis Putin? By supplying just enough equipment to Ukraine for the Ukrainians to lose while claiming credit for generosity. In reality, Biden is providing just enough for Ukraine to lose while being able to claim he did everything he could.
Ultimately three full mechanized armies, the first used up relatively piecemeal, the second in the 1972 Easter Offensive which got stomped flat by South Vietnam's army and air force with lots of help from US tactical air, that's when precision guided bomb really started to make waves. 40,000 of the 150,000 men managed to make it back across the border. Then of course the finial offensive after Watergate allowed the Congress to defund the South.Replies: @Joe Stalin
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34070358/washington-commanders-defensive-coordinator-jack-del-rio-fined-100000-comments-us-capitol-invasion-george-floyd-murder
NFL coach is fined $100,000 for referring to Jan 6 as a dustup.Replies: @Anon
As the NFL insists, football is gay.
From the ever prescient writing of Orwell:
‘When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals ‘Death to the traitors!’
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/12.html
Then wanders back and forth a few times and when they ignore him, goes up to the SS and says “I am here to assassinate Kavanaugh.”
That never happened.
Anyway newspapers like to have readers who go beyond the first page.
Alito’s children are grown. Maybe they think Kavanagh feels more vulnerable?
I'd also generally note there's some sort of special insanity from the Left towards Kavanagh despite being reputedly hand picked by Kennedy to replace himself. See that reflected in the first tweet in the above link.
Memory hole … if the black who ran down all those Christmas parade people, had been a whiteguy running down a Juneteenth parade, it would still be in the news all these months later. But this is not a double standard, it is the way the enemy operates.
The overall pattern is that Democrats are flaming out in panic over November. There are things they are doing locally as well but apparently I’m not allowed to describe them.
Really, he went into the war (oh, sorry, special military operation) without a plan to take Kyiv? If that’s true, the situation in Russia is even worse than I thought. How convenient that he didn’t show us the plan on TV so you can deny that he had a plan and it failed. If Putin didn’t have plans to take Kyiv (this being 2022 I doubt he kept them in a paper file folder), then I will eat my ushanka.
These plans were as closely guarded as Putin’s poop:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/10/this-job-stinks-vladimir-putins-bodyguards-box-up-his-poop/
P.S. I deliberately avoided knowledge of Putin's poo. Please, don't remind me of it ever again.
You’re it right never happened, because there’s no Secret Service detail on Kavanaugh’s house (they’re busy stopping the president’s son and business negotiator from lighting himself on fire); the bad guy chickened out and called local police on his phone.
LOL, the propaganda is getting to truly Soviet levels as Russian areas of Borderland are liberated.
The latest would be Kavanaugh assassin narrative from the LA Times is that the whole affair was merely a ‘cry for help’ from the young CSU Northridge* philosophy grad.
*IIRC a location for filming one of the original Planet of the Apes series…the ‘origin story’ one.
FWIW, Bill Maher echoed this observation last night, so much so that he or one of his staff may have read this post.
You’re hopeless!
P.S. I deliberately avoided knowledge of Putin’s poo. Please, don’t remind me of it ever again.
That was pretty funny. Jack is Jewish.
Why don’t you address the issues that Jonathan brought up?
You’re giving them way too much credit. Those awful people are beneath contempt, and there is nothing they wouldn’t do for power.
The purpose of the absurd “committee” is two-fold: 1) to try to head off Trump running again and 2) fund-raising and to try to help them this November.
That said, I don’t doubt there are at least some democrats that actually believe Jan 6th was more than a raucous protest.
It would have been more accurate for me to state that I believe the committees purpose may be more than what Americans realize, not is, but only time will tell. The name of the committee may change but I believe the purpose will remain the same: To set the members up, whomever they may be at that time, as a judiciary of sorts. I know it sounds like a stretch and may very well be, but the more radical element is clearly in charge of the Dems and DNC and I can envision the possibility of what I described becoming reality because as you say, there is nothing they wouldn't do for power, and retain it, I might add.
I do agree with your points 1 & 2 though and the Leftists, whether D or R, have made it clear they want to get rid of the electoral college.
3) Collect opposition research on Republicans by subpoenaing records, emails, etc.
4) Harass anyone in the political sphere who had anything to do with Trump.
The purpose of the absurd "committee" is two-fold: 1) to try to head off Trump running again and 2) fund-raising and to try to help them this November.
That said, I don't doubt there are at least some democrats that actually believe Jan 6th was more than a raucous protest.Replies: @Not you, @Harry Baldwin
Thank you for your thoughts.
It would have been more accurate for me to state that I believe the committees purpose may be more than what Americans realize, not is, but only time will tell. The name of the committee may change but I believe the purpose will remain the same: To set the members up, whomever they may be at that time, as a judiciary of sorts. I know it sounds like a stretch and may very well be, but the more radical element is clearly in charge of the Dems and DNC and I can envision the possibility of what I described becoming reality because as you say, there is nothing they wouldn’t do for power, and retain it, I might add.
I do agree with your points 1 & 2 though and the Leftists, whether D or R, have made it clear they want to get rid of the electoral college.
A pair of U.S. Marshals were on Kavanaugh’s front porch.
This, Afghanistan, gas prices, Uvalde, Buffalo, what happened in Michigan, the other thing in Michigan, and the third one, Biden on Kimmel, The Kangaroo Committee on every channel, gratefully receiving imported baby formula, paying for a mansion in Gstaad in the name of border integrity while importing more illegals (that we know about) than ever before, assassination foiled by assassin which was sure gosh awful nifty of him -- there is a pattern here.Replies: @Art Deco
How’d he make the phone call?
This, Afghanistan, gas prices, Uvalde, Buffalo, what happened in Michigan, the other thing in Michigan, and the third one, Biden on Kimmel, The Kangaroo Committee on every channel, gratefully receiving imported baby formula, paying for a mansion in Gstaad in the name of border integrity while importing more illegals (that we know about) than ever before, assassination foiled by assassin which was sure gosh awful nifty of him — there is a pattern here.
In terms of consequences and second chances, neocons have people who actually have to fight or support the fight beat without a fight.
Tactical info found in abandoned vehicles outside the city show that the plan was to take Kiev within five days. Troops are not given any info on strategic direction.
My take on Kiev is that is was probably more a political error than an outright military defeat. I suspect the Kremlin thought the regime would collapse when Kiev was threatened, perhaps because they misjudged the sentiments of Ukrainian people toward Russia. When westerners talk about Putin, they always try to impute things to him that go beyond or against the plain meaning of what he says. However, if we just accept that he believes things he says, we would conclude that the Kremlin really believed Ukrainians and Russians were brothers and that the Zelensky regime was controlled by Nazis who wanted to stamp out Russians and Russianness in Ukraine. Now that may or may not be true, but the point is that if the Kremlin believed it, you can see how they could have thought they would be greeted by many people around Kiev as liberators instead of a foreign hostile force. I suspect that they were unprepared for the type of reception they received rather than being simply unprepared for the strength of resistance. The "Putin got his butt kicked at Kiev" interpretation doesn't explain why the Russians didn't try to flatten the city with air and missile strikes to force it into submission when they got mired in the outskirts. It also doesn't explain why they went in with so few troops. However, those two questions are explained if you accept that the goal was a kind of reverse-Maidan and capturing the city relatively intact--mistaken plans at the political level, not the operations level per se.
Aside from Kiev I don't think the Russians have done so poorly considering the Russian way of war is different from the US one. They are methodically destroying the Ukrainian army, which was part of their stated goal. Would they win in an all-out ground war against NATO? It looks like not, but that can not ever have been part of their strategy (due to the massive economic gap between Russia and the west), which has always relied on nuclear deterence, as it is doing now to keep NATO at bay.
Crimea and the land bridge are not going back to a NATO-controlled state. The US should just get over it and make peace. In fact, now would be a good time to let some Polish parts of Ukraine join Poland, Hungarian parts Hungary, etc. Reform Ukraine as an actually Ukrainian country, not a multicultural hodgepodge. The problems there now are due to the way the borders were drawn by outside powers in the past, so just redraw them more rationally.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D
Another interpretation of the attack on Kiev is that it was a reconnaissance in force on the off chance the regime would collapse, but in any case it couldn’t withdraw troops from around there to help in what I and I think you take to be the primary targets in the west and southwest. And are they making moves to get the water flowing back to Crimea?
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1530982548528152576
The idea was to capture Antonov Airport as a "airbridge". With control of the airport, troops could be brought in quickly to surround the city and cut it off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport
I'm sure that they had a high degree of confidence that this was going to succeed because otherwise they wouldn't have risked their most elite troops. Yes, it means nothing to Putin that a bunch of cannon meat from Buryatia gets ground up in Ukraine - what are 30,000 or 50,000 Chechens or Tatars compared to putting Putin on the same page of history as Peter the Great? But the VDV?
In 2014, members of the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade had dressed as Ukrainian police in order to seize the Crimean parliament. I'm sure they had something similar planned for this time. In general, they must have figured that it would go similar to the seizure of Crimea and not turn into a bloodbath for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdS6Zb15UaQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_WarThe difference? North Vietnam was fighting a low-level guerrilla war, and equipment usage was sporadic. And yet, it received huge amounts of equipment and ammunition from a secondary supplier. Russia provided even more equipment. Its state-of-the-art MiG-21's went toe-to-toe with both USN and USAF F-4 Phantoms. Russian personnel manned anti-aircraft batteries in North Vietnam. Just under 10,000 US aircraft were shot down in the Vietnam War. https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_WarOn an inflation-adjusted basis, the Russians sent equipment worth $3.6b a year. But even the inflation adjustment does not capture the qualitative aspects of what the DRV was given. North Vietnam received SAMs advanced enough to shoot down every aircraft in the US inventory, and shot thousands of them down. They also received state-of-the-art Russian aircraft.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#The_Vietnam_WarWhat it boils down to isn't total resources on both sides, but the amount of resources Ukraine's allies are willing to send, compared to the resources Russia is willing to devote to the war. So far Ukraine's allies have sent a trickle of aid, whereas Russia is pouring vast sums of money into the war. That is why Russia is advancing slowly, but surely. Until Ukraine's allies belly up to the bar, materiel-wise, Ukraine will continue to retreat while losing large numbers of men.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61742736The Democrats, including apologists like Stavridis, boast that the US is providing huge sums of aid to Ukraine. In reality, the $40b bill is a drop in the bucket. The US spent $50b a year conducting desultory operations plinking the occasional terrorist in the Middle East and Afghanistan, amounting to a body count of a few thousand enemy dead a year. https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-10/54219-oco_spending.pdfThe campaign in Ukraine is a large-scale force-on-force 24-hour-a-day 365-day-a-year conflict. It is not a counterinsurgency mounted against pajama-/dishdasha-clad part-time guerillas. Ukraine needs more than $50b spread out over several years.As I pointed out earlier, Burisma = Putin. Putin doesn't quite own Biden. Putin rented Biden through 2 intermediaries - Zlochevsky (Burisma's owner, who fled Ukraine along with Yanukovich after Yanukovich was impeached by the Rada) and Hunter Biden. Thanks to these cutouts, just as Putin can claim he did not bribe Biden, Biden can claim he wasn't bribed by Putin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_ZlochevskySo how is Biden earning his keep vis-a-vis Putin? By supplying just enough equipment to Ukraine for the Ukrainians to lose while claiming credit for generosity. In reality, Biden is providing just enough for Ukraine to lose while being able to claim he did everything he could.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
As is implied by other details you point out like artillery tubes and shells, that wasn’t true for the whole fight. Tet at the latest was when it switched over to high intensity war, and one of the things that’s credited for bankrupting the USSR is all that equipment they supplied.
Ultimately three full mechanized armies, the first used up relatively piecemeal, the second in the 1972 Easter Offensive which got stomped flat by South Vietnam’s army and air force with lots of help from US tactical air, that’s when precision guided bomb really started to make waves. 40,000 of the 150,000 men managed to make it back across the border. Then of course the finial offensive after Watergate allowed the Congress to defund the South.
As I detailed in the previous Kavanagh iSteve topic doxxing outfit Ruth Sent Us is doing the “we know where your daughters go to school” routine with him.
I’d also generally note there’s some sort of special insanity from the Left towards Kavanagh despite being reputedly hand picked by Kennedy to replace himself. See that reflected in the first tweet in the above link.
Lay with wolves and you’ll get fleas
The purpose of the absurd "committee" is two-fold: 1) to try to head off Trump running again and 2) fund-raising and to try to help them this November.
That said, I don't doubt there are at least some democrats that actually believe Jan 6th was more than a raucous protest.Replies: @Not you, @Harry Baldwin
The purpose of the absurd “committee” is two-fold: 1) to try to head off Trump running again and 2) fund-raising and to try to help them this November.
3) Collect opposition research on Republicans by subpoenaing records, emails, etc.
4) Harass anyone in the political sphere who had anything to do with Trump.
And it would make the Supreme Court justices of whatever political shade more cognizant of the fact that if they don't answer to we the people, then we the people will reply anyway in the manner of our choosing.Replies: @JimDandy, @The Anti-Gnostic, @AndrewR
Is English your first language, glowtard?
My take on Kiev is that is was probably more a political error than an outright military defeat. I suspect the Kremlin thought the regime would collapse when Kiev was threatened, perhaps because they misjudged the sentiments of Ukrainian people toward Russia. When westerners talk about Putin, they always try to impute things to him that go beyond or against the plain meaning of what he says. However, if we just accept that he believes things he says, we would conclude that the Kremlin really believed Ukrainians and Russians were brothers and that the Zelensky regime was controlled by Nazis who wanted to stamp out Russians and Russianness in Ukraine. Now that may or may not be true, but the point is that if the Kremlin believed it, you can see how they could have thought they would be greeted by many people around Kiev as liberators instead of a foreign hostile force. I suspect that they were unprepared for the type of reception they received rather than being simply unprepared for the strength of resistance. The "Putin got his butt kicked at Kiev" interpretation doesn't explain why the Russians didn't try to flatten the city with air and missile strikes to force it into submission when they got mired in the outskirts. It also doesn't explain why they went in with so few troops. However, those two questions are explained if you accept that the goal was a kind of reverse-Maidan and capturing the city relatively intact--mistaken plans at the political level, not the operations level per se.
Aside from Kiev I don't think the Russians have done so poorly considering the Russian way of war is different from the US one. They are methodically destroying the Ukrainian army, which was part of their stated goal. Would they win in an all-out ground war against NATO? It looks like not, but that can not ever have been part of their strategy (due to the massive economic gap between Russia and the west), which has always relied on nuclear deterence, as it is doing now to keep NATO at bay.
Crimea and the land bridge are not going back to a NATO-controlled state. The US should just get over it and make peace. In fact, now would be a good time to let some Polish parts of Ukraine join Poland, Hungarian parts Hungary, etc. Reform Ukraine as an actually Ukrainian country, not a multicultural hodgepodge. The problems there now are due to the way the borders were drawn by outside powers in the past, so just redraw them more rationally.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Jack D
Does this apply just to Ukraine or to other countries too? What is the best way to get this “rational” redrawing going? Is it to invade your neighbor? Is Kaliningrad a “rational” territory of Russia?
What you are talking about is a recipe for endless war. The perfect “rational” borders can never be drawn. We had 75 years of peace in Europe after WWII because everyone tacitly agreed that we would just leave the borders alone, rational or not.
So they sacrificed the cream of their airborne forces on an “off chance”?
The idea was to capture Antonov Airport as a “airbridge”. With control of the airport, troops could be brought in quickly to surround the city and cut it off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport
I’m sure that they had a high degree of confidence that this was going to succeed because otherwise they wouldn’t have risked their most elite troops. Yes, it means nothing to Putin that a bunch of cannon meat from Buryatia gets ground up in Ukraine – what are 30,000 or 50,000 Chechens or Tatars compared to putting Putin on the same page of history as Peter the Great? But the VDV?
In 2014, members of the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade had dressed as Ukrainian police in order to seize the Crimean parliament. I’m sure they had something similar planned for this time. In general, they must have figured that it would go similar to the seizure of Crimea and not turn into a bloodbath for them.
What you are talking about is a recipe for endless war. The perfect "rational" borders can never be drawn. We had 75 years of peace in Europe after WWII because everyone tacitly agreed that we would just leave the borders alone, rational or not.Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Johann Ricke
No, we had 75 years of peace because the Cold War trumped border disputes. After it ended, we had breakups and reunions. Maybe not as many as we should have had. Of course, we don’t want to use war to resolve border disputes, but if principles such as secession, devolution, sovereign independence, ethnic solidarity, cultural diversity, etc were actually respected by the “rules based order”, war would have fewer bases for occurring. Without reference to principles like those, borders have no meaning. If the the rationale for recognizing current borders is preventing war, then changing current borders to stop a war would be a logical extension of the rationale.
Da! It is done.
Ultimately three full mechanized armies, the first used up relatively piecemeal, the second in the 1972 Easter Offensive which got stomped flat by South Vietnam's army and air force with lots of help from US tactical air, that's when precision guided bomb really started to make waves. 40,000 of the 150,000 men managed to make it back across the border. Then of course the finial offensive after Watergate allowed the Congress to defund the South.Replies: @Joe Stalin
The US Army mounted new TOW missile launchers on the Huey helicopters and used that to destroy the communist armor heading in from North Vietnam during the Easter Offensive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN51Yga6HaQ
This is the Ukrainian's own "Stugna" system. This particular example must have been an export version with the screen legends in English. I have also seen them in Arabic. Once this war is over, I think they are going to sell well to any country that thinks that it might someday face Russian armor (e.g. Pakistan - the Indian Army is mostly Russian equipped). OTOH, I can't imagine that any country in its right mind would ever buy Russian armor again.Replies: @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke
What you are talking about is a recipe for endless war. The perfect "rational" borders can never be drawn. We had 75 years of peace in Europe after WWII because everyone tacitly agreed that we would just leave the borders alone, rational or not.Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Johann Ricke
The principal lesson of history is that eternal peace is always out of reach. The reason? The borders as they are will never be to the satisfaction of some ruler or zeitgeist, since they entrench the gains of some victorious party, but typically not to the extent they’d like. And that’s just the winners. The losers are eternally aggrieved.
South Korea and the remnants of South Vietnam would like a word with you. The Cold War wasn’t a hot shooting >i>world war like WWII, but it was plenty violent at the wholesale to retail levels. That said, you’re right that it froze a lot of things and that the pace of border rearrangements as markedly picked up since its end.
Specifically, the post WWII bargain preventing shooting wars in Europe for almost 50 years after 1945. And Ukraine is by far the biggest war that has been fought in Europe since WWII.
That’s doubletalk. If I coveted your house, would it be “logical” for me to just throw you out of it? If I had enough guns, I might succeed in dispossessing you . That would “stop the shooting” (at least temporarily) but it wouldn’t be just or lead to long term peace.
As I've stated before, while there is clear historical basis for Ukraine as a nation-state, there is no historical necessity for the exact borders that were drawn for it after the Soviet dissolution. The apoplexy that people with your sympathies show over Crimea becoming Russian or Donetsk breaking away have nothing to do with historical Ukraine being violated and everything to do with not liking Russia's improved strategic position. This doesn't mean that the killing brought about by Russia's invasion is really justified, but it also doesn't mean that Zelensky's planned re-invasion of Crimea or suppression of secessionists in Donetsk were justified either.
Some things never change. Guided missiles – destroying Russian armor since 1972:
This is the Ukrainian’s own “Stugna” system. This particular example must have been an export version with the screen legends in English. I have also seen them in Arabic. Once this war is over, I think they are going to sell well to any country that thinks that it might someday face Russian armor (e.g. Pakistan – the Indian Army is mostly Russian equipped). OTOH, I can’t imagine that any country in its right mind would ever buy Russian armor again.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/why-are-houthis-rebelling/Replies: @Joe Stalin
bribescommissions that might not be as readily available from Western sources.We don’t know what personal experience you have of working on newspapers.
I have some experience of working on putting together the front page of a regional newspaper in the US and of inventing (sometimes witty) headlines, so I know that all kinds of criteria will go into deciding what story leads, and which stories appear lower on the front page and are continued on later pages.
You may well have newspaper experience too, but not all of your readers will know that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN51Yga6HaQ
This is the Ukrainian's own "Stugna" system. This particular example must have been an export version with the screen legends in English. I have also seen them in Arabic. Once this war is over, I think they are going to sell well to any country that thinks that it might someday face Russian armor (e.g. Pakistan - the Indian Army is mostly Russian equipped). OTOH, I can't imagine that any country in its right mind would ever buy Russian armor again.Replies: @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke
Why not? They sell it no questions asked, and it’s perfectly adequate for suppressing internal unrest. The problem with Western weaponry comes down to one word – preconditions. That’s why the Indians are extremely leery. If they decide to bring the hammer down on the Kashmiri civilians providing cover for Kashmiri terrorists, their Western-sourced equipment could be stranded for decades, parts and supply-wise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN51Yga6HaQ
This is the Ukrainian's own "Stugna" system. This particular example must have been an export version with the screen legends in English. I have also seen them in Arabic. Once this war is over, I think they are going to sell well to any country that thinks that it might someday face Russian armor (e.g. Pakistan - the Indian Army is mostly Russian equipped). OTOH, I can't imagine that any country in its right mind would ever buy Russian armor again.Replies: @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke
Note that the Abrams is equally vulnerable. There’s always been a scissors, paper, rock element to the characteristics of each unit type, whether cavalry, infantry or skirmishers. The Saudis used Abrams tanks the way the Russians did, and got a number of them destroyed with Iranian copies of crappy Russian ATGM’s.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/why-are-houthis-rebelling/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aA9HsmLHBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJzcM5ETY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN51Yga6HaQ
This is the Ukrainian's own "Stugna" system. This particular example must have been an export version with the screen legends in English. I have also seen them in Arabic. Once this war is over, I think they are going to sell well to any country that thinks that it might someday face Russian armor (e.g. Pakistan - the Indian Army is mostly Russian equipped). OTOH, I can't imagine that any country in its right mind would ever buy Russian armor again.Replies: @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke, @Johann Ricke
Another benefit for purchasing agents of buying Russian gear is the likely availability of
bribescommissions that might not be as readily available from Western sources.This, Afghanistan, gas prices, Uvalde, Buffalo, what happened in Michigan, the other thing in Michigan, and the third one, Biden on Kimmel, The Kangaroo Committee on every channel, gratefully receiving imported baby formula, paying for a mansion in Gstaad in the name of border integrity while importing more illegals (that we know about) than ever before, assassination foiled by assassin which was sure gosh awful nifty of him -- there is a pattern here.Replies: @Art Deco
Presumably with his cell phone.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/why-are-houthis-rebelling/Replies: @Joe Stalin
Those are your ideas. Your stated support for the status quo of borders was “don’t question them because that leads to conflict”. Logically, then, borders’ purpose is suppressing conflict, not some kind of justice or basis for self-dtermination. Extending that logic, in a war, just accept any arrangement of borders that will stop the conflict and then that’s the new status quo and you can’t question it because questioning it leads to conflict. This is your logic. My position is that borders have other purposes, like keeping out the outgroup (Million Muslim Migration) or containing unwanted policies (Zelensky’s de-russification efforts) or allowing ethnic solidarity (Hungarian return).
As I’ve stated before, while there is clear historical basis for Ukraine as a nation-state, there is no historical necessity for the exact borders that were drawn for it after the Soviet dissolution. The apoplexy that people with your sympathies show over Crimea becoming Russian or Donetsk breaking away have nothing to do with historical Ukraine being violated and everything to do with not liking Russia’s improved strategic position. This doesn’t mean that the killing brought about by Russia’s invasion is really justified, but it also doesn’t mean that Zelensky’s planned re-invasion of Crimea or suppression of secessionists in Donetsk were justified either.
Democrats are achieving levels of brazenness who strongly suggest future violence and national collapse. Five of the Republican candidates for governor of Michigan (including former Detroit police chief James Craig) have been kicked off the ballot because of the very same improper signatures (here on petitions before the election) which Democrats insist not be an issue in elections on mail-in ballots. You can complain about petition signatures before August 26 but not about ballot signatures in November. That leaves a Ryan Kelley -- aaaaaaaand Ryan Kelley has been arrested by the FBI for some manner of connection to the January Sixth Trespassing.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/michigan-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-arrested-by-fbi-11654794077
So that leaves state police captain Mike Brown and chiropracter Garrett Soldano.Replies: @Jonathan Mason
I saw an amusing tweet today that says something like: Let the Supreme Court justices arm themselves. It’s what they want teachers to do.”
Hopefully the recent experience will have some effect on Kavanaugh, and he will go back to the Supreme Court with new insights to share with the other justices.
Hopefully the recent experience will have some effect on Kavanaugh, and he will go back to the Supreme Court with new insights to share with the other justices.Replies: @Art Deco
Hopefully the recent experience will have some effect on Kavanaugh, and he will go back to the Supreme Court with new insights to share with the other justices.
One hopes that Kavanaugh, his wife, his mother, and his father are packing heat, and that his daughters are under armed escort wherever they go. (I believe Mr. and Mrs. Barrett are known to have concealed carry permits).