John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.
As usual, Zelensky repeated his longstanding demand to “close the sky” — and compared US reluctance to the appeasement of Hitler. This is the person that 60 Minutes and the rest of corporate media have spent six weeks relentlessly instructing Americans to uncritically venerate pic.twitter.com/JG3BXCKlMY
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 11, 2022
Hahahahaha imagine thinking you’re a journalist and saying this https://t.co/hGSx2lcrKZ
— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) April 11, 2022
Cut this “as.” You consider x [to be] y; you don’t consider x as [to be] y. pic.twitter.com/mwVZ14wWX0
— Typos of the New York Times (@nyttypos) April 11, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
The opinions of a president of an invaded country fighting for its life are not newsworthy, I am very smart
— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) April 11, 2022
Russians just don’t learn.
Another long, single file Russian convoy and AGAIN, Ukraine is just destroying them all. https://t.co/1LiNeefg9M— Expat in Kyiv (@expatua) April 11, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Michael Tracey can go fuck himself (and should - several times - vigorously): I saw that 60 Minutes interview with President Zelenskyy: yeah, Volodymyr does tend to harp on the “no-fly-zone” bit a lot - not that anyone should blame him: he is, after all, President of a country which has been invaded by barbarians, and is fighting for its life - but I can admire the man’s heroism (which nothing in his career gave indication of) - without “veneration”, or the approval of “the media”. Tracey’s bullshit is just so typical of the RWNJ waffling over the Ukraine war: won’t (for the most part) overtly approve of Putin’s invasion; but go through astonishing rhetorical contortions to try to make someone - anyone - else equally “at fault”.
See first sentence of this comment.
Scruffy stray kitty has taken up residence under the house pic.twitter.com/QirschBiqy
— Cabledog (@Cabledog6) April 11, 2022
the windows need cleaning…
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
It’ll be different this time.
re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron
I often struggle to not read the part between the hyphens as part of the flow of the sentence, and will often insert words afterwards that I have to figure out if they are really needed.
I had no idea that they were a weed family. Shows what I know about country musicians.
The 54-year-old, also the host of the Sorry We’re Stoned podcast, stated in the filing that she hadn’t lived with the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer, 60, for more than two years. She asked the court to equally distribute all marital assets. (Among their assets is quite a bit of cannabis as they are both well-known partakers.)
Tish Cyrus files for divorce from Billy Ray after 28 years of marriage (Yahoo! entertainment)
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
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he is not scruffy. you’re scruffy. he’s perfect in every way. now give him a bowl of milk, and some tuna.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 11, 2022
Update on that Ukrainian strike on a Russian ammunition depot in Novoaydar- https://t.co/Tn6n5WfxyX pic.twitter.com/OwugfqJxLp
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 11, 2022
re: #10 sagehen
he is not scruffy. you’re scruffy. he’s perfect in every way. now give him a bowl of milk, and some tuna.
Kitty got named “Robby” last night.
Gets fed regularly. Sits outside the kitchen door looking longingly at the window until food is served.
re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kitty got named “Robby” last night.
Gets fed regularly. Sits outside the kitchen door looking longingly at the window until food is served.
You may be able to lure him in with a recording of cats meowing from the Internet.
re: #14 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You may be able to lure him in with a recording of cats meowing from the Internet.
my two indoor cats aren’t really sure about that plan.
NATO has Announced today they will be Deploying 2 Multi-National Naval Groups consisting of 16 Ships to the Baltic Sea for Operational Exercises and to reassure Allies in the Baltics Region over the next week, the Groups will include Minesweepers, Amphibious Ships and Frigates. pic.twitter.com/OABWztH4UQ
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 11, 2022
Ah yes, there’s that “economic anxiety” rearing its ugly head again…! https://t.co/rV9I4QE8dg
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) April 11, 2022
DPR chief Denis Pushilin said that “liberated areas” of Donbas will not return to Ukraine and Ukraine doesn’t view the people of Donbas as “real Ukrainians”
Russian flags are popping up in Zaporizhia
Russia’s end-game in Donbas is permanent annexation unless they lose the war— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 11, 2022
Russia must lose this war. A decisive Russian defeat would, with any luck, shatter the collective Russian psyche and finally make them realize that they’re not a superpower anymore. If they can’t even conquer Ukraine - hell, even a portion of their next-door neighbor - then they have to realize that they’re finished.
I’ve said before, and I hold to it, that Russia is in a civilizational death spiral and there’s no way out for them. Time to put a final nail in their coffin.
Fox News reporter asks if Biden wants to travel to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/VbvPnOgK9f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 11, 2022
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think you’d rather look like a MAGA lady, lol. pic.twitter.com/wbB4fAA9oD
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 11, 2022
So we can all agree this is how extra innings games should be decided, right? https://t.co/1OtZamcMEE
— Joe (@JoeR42) April 11, 2022
Murrow pleads the Fifth #NationalPetDay pic.twitter.com/GzRJTe0XHP
— Danielle Yurkew (@DaniDispatch) April 11, 2022
The EU Delegation to Ukraine has reopened. Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas in Kyiv on April 11 https://t.co/e1cHqlgThI
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) April 11, 2022
He didn’t show up because he’s incapable of stringing coherent sentences together https://t.co/OUeFo3iUPh
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) April 11, 2022
ON HERSCHEL WALKER AND GEORGIA POLITICS pic.twitter.com/dGo1i3sFOf
— Trae in PORTLAND April 14-16 (@traecrowder) April 11, 2022
Today, happily I tested negative for COVID. Tomorrow, I will be exiting isolation at the direction of the Capitol’s Attending Physician and consistent with CDC guidelines for asymptomatic individuals. Many thanks to everyone for their good wishes, chocolates and chicken soup.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 11, 2022
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
I’ve said before, and I hold to it, that Russia is in a civilizational death spiral and there’s no way out for them. Time to put a final nail in their coffin.
I dunno: attractive as it might sound (and while, IMO, one can have bottomless sympathy for the Russian people, *Russia* as a state is an international danger) - I can’t see where the security of, well, anybody is going to be anything but endangered by having a failed state the size and scale of the Russian Federation on their borders. And how many countries does Russia border??
IMO, the “Russian Question” is (amazingly) still the same as it has been in world politics since - I don’t know; Catherine The Great’s time?
Too big and powerful to be ignored: too inefficient and corrupt to be an effective “superpower”.
Russian Troops Took Radioactive ‘Souvenirs’ From Chernobyl, Ukraine Says (The Daily Beast)
re: #10 sagehen
he is not scruffy. you’re scruffy. he’s perfect in every way. now give him a bowl of milk, and some tuna.
And veterinary treatment including castration.
What an awful person. https://t.co/9dnvLJRLuJ
— Cathy Young 🇺🇦 (@CathyYoung63) April 11, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do you think you’ll ever become a journalist rather than a stenographer of fascist propaganda?
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) April 11, 2022
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re: #9 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I had no idea that they were a weed family. Shows what I know about country musicians.
Tish Cyrus files for divorce from Billy Ray after 28 years of marriage (Yahoo! entertainment)
I’ve always wondered if Miley wasn’t the sanest member of the family… ;)
Here comes Peter Cottontail trotting down the bunny trail…🎶😂🐰🐎 pic.twitter.com/b6MdTtDJlP
— Fred Schultz (@FredSchultz35) April 11, 2022
re: #34 William Lewis
I’ve always wondered if Miley wasn’t the sanest member of the family… ;)
What the heck,
*we parents
And also, you married a genuine predator. https://t.co/tmmgmAjq4Z— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 11, 2022
re: #35 Charles Johnson
Behold, a pale rider bound for Mar-a-Lagomorpha.
re: #34 William Lewis
I think Miley was pushed and pushed as a kid to “be somebody” via acting/music that it ruined her childhood and teens and hurt a lot. Her parents may be loving humans, I have no idea, but they seem self absorbed and didn’t seem to notice she was in pain and having issues until they couldn’t ignore it. These days Miley is a pretty cool human, she rescues doggies and does what she wants to. I’m not a big fan of her music, but I have heard her sing along with other bands at shows in various videos and she’s good. I wish her tons of success and continued healing. It seems to happen to a lot of kids that find fame early, too many adults treat kids as mini adults and that is a huge mistake.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
Does the sexual predator you married have access to these boys? That and people like Matt Gaetz are what parents need to worry about.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 11, 2022
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by its aging power lines in Northern California. The company will also submit to five years of oversight by an independent monitor. https://t.co/jrrQ1Gyau5
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 11, 2022
re: #39 A Mom Anon
I think Miley was pushed and pushed as a kid to “be somebody” via acting/music that it ruined her childhood and teens and hurt a lot. Her parents may be loving humans, I have no idea, but they seem self absorbed and didn’t seem to notice she was in pain and having issues until they couldn’t ignore it. These days Miley is a pretty cool human, she rescues doggies and does what she wants to. I’m not a big fan of her music, but I have heard her sing along with other bands at shows in various videos and she’s good. I wish her tons of success and continued healing. It seems to happen to a lot of kids that find fame early, too many adults treat kids as mini adults and that is a huge mistake.
My brother referred to it as “parents living vicariously through your children” and deplored it when he saw it while acting as an assistant coach on a girl’s hockey team. My niece played because she wanted to play. Her father might suggest certain things, like practicing shooting, etc. but he never pushed her into (or out of) activities. (Her mother, unfortunately, followed a different tack and thus had a much stormier relationship with her.)
Biden shows what constitutes an untraceable ghost gun, which are firearms made from kits and components bought online. New finalized rule imposes background checks, serial numbers, cracks down on online sales pic.twitter.com/26L3qugffO
— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) April 11, 2022
“If you commit a crime with a ghost gun, expect federal prosecution.” -@POTUS on the ATF’s new rule to #StopGhostGuns pic.twitter.com/D1pvvQPfHR
— Everytown (@Everytown) April 11, 2022
Sean Hannity is now claiming that he always warned his audience away from ivermectin. That’s a huge lie. https://t.co/llvfnx5Opq https://t.co/WT6fX8gkwd
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 11, 2022
… and so it begins…
In Belarus, 3d grade kids put a few stones at the railroad to see what would happen. They soonly got tired of waiting & left. A woman called Lukashenka’s police to check if it was linked to the anti-war movement. Now the police are checking the families of the boys. pic.twitter.com/6kZijldRPA
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) April 11, 2022
re: #37 Charles Johnson
What this parent is tired of is people like Boebert telling us how to raise our children.
#BREAKING France expels six suspected Russian spies in diplomatic roles, official says pic.twitter.com/0JAI1u6mrf
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 11, 2022
re: #9 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I had no idea that they were a weed family. Shows what I know about country musicians.
Tish Cyrus files for divorce from Billy Ray after 28 years of marriage (Yahoo! entertainment)
My dad performed their wedding and baptized Miley.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by its aging power lines in Northern California. The company will also submit to five years of oversight by an independent monitor. https://t.co/jrrQ1Gyau5
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 11, 2022
Only $55 million dollars?
Restitution costs a small fraction of a penny on the dollar, if you’re connected enough.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
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best first pitch of the season https://t.co/UZYNCujsOA— darth™ (@darth) April 11, 2022
re: #4 Dread Pirate Ron
I was worried that this war in Ukraine would be like the Winter War. Beginning actions heavily in favour of the defenders. Then the Russians changed tactics and defeated the Finns.
Looks like this won’t be the case this time.
Eighty years of stamping out dissent and imagination has taken its toll.
For the Win: Rolling Stone headline writer——>>>> pic.twitter.com/vemGcPgJGU
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) April 10, 2022
Breaking News: With Covid cases low but rising sharply, Philadelphia will reinstate its indoor mask mandate next week, city officials said, a little more than a month after lifting it. It’s the first major U.S. city to do so. https://t.co/cBqUg2WHBe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 11, 2022
This is unconfirmed. And the source, the Azov Battalion, is - to put it mildly - questionable.
But….sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Azov are claiming that the Russians have dropped a “poisonous substance” in Mariupol from a drone, causing respiratory failure and vestibulo-atactic syndrome.
No more details were released. Big claim. pic.twitter.com/rRs8ISxT8q— Woofers (@NotWoofers) April 11, 2022
She’s correct. That is not a gun designed for hunting birds. https://t.co/qBn4R2D4C3
— scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) April 11, 2022
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sure sounds like she plans on shooting Americans.
re: #9 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I had no idea that they were a weed family. Shows what I know about country musicians.
Tish Cyrus files for divorce from Billy Ray after 28 years of marriage (Yahoo! entertainment)
that must be a substantial stash. Like a Snoop Dog + Willie Nelson sized quantity. Nobody puts a couple of ounces on their marital property schedule.
re: #57 ckkatz
Sure sounds like she plans on shooting Americans.
No, no Americans to shoot here. Only godless liberals, Blacks, Muslims, and Mexicans.
re: #52 Romantic Heretic
I was worried that this war in Ukraine would be like the Winter War. Beginning actions heavily in favour of the defenders. Then the Russians changed tactics and defeated the Finns.
Looks like this won’t be the case this time.
Eighty years of stamping out dissent and imagination has taken its toll.
Yup. It seems to me that the Russians are hoping on doing just that with their upcoming offensive. A massive conventional attack with waves of heavy divisions.
However, unlike 39-40 where the Finns were pretty much abandoned, I’m thinking that the West is not going to leave Ukraine to the wolves.
Additionally, the Russians do not appear to have the mass of military available (at least in the short term) to repeat what Stalin did to the Finns.
Finally, Zelinsky seems to have more pr smarts than Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
re: #35 Charles Johnson
Peter Cottontail trotting down the bunny trail…
Now that’s a smooth ride.
“The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud”
-Jimmy Driftwood-
The War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy…
As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could. So today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad’s song, IMAGINE. pic.twitter.com/Qcggk2XaAx— Julian Lennon (@JulianLennon) April 8, 2022
OK, so there are unconfirmed claims seeming to come from a statement by the Ukrainian Azov Battalion (which is mostly in Mariupol) that Russia has dropped chemical substances causing respiratory issues on defenders in Mariupol. Interestingly, this follows a statement by a DNR spokesperson earlier today that it would be more practical to use chemical weapons to root out remaining defenders.
That being said, right now there doesn’t appear to be any other corroborating sources (though that would be rather difficult right now given the ongoing siege of Mariupol). Apparently, there’s a lot of Ukrainian forces defending the Azovstal steel plant, so it’s entirely possible that the fighting might’ve hit some chemical storage tank or whatnot in that facility.
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
This is unconfirmed. And the source, the Azov Battalion, is - to put it mildly - questionable.
But….sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Weren’t there allegations of Sarin usage in Syria?
re: #53 ckkatz
This is killing the hard core Trump rubes. Ever since Oz announced his running the fever swamps have been calling him everything but a white man.
And Oz has lots of clips showing he supported at one time Orpah’s World view and actually supported a womans choice and Obama Care.
I want Republican neighbors to look askance at their buddies as they realized they are not all on the same page.
Imma enjoy this shit fest.
May they eat well.
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
Watching that I said to my wife, “I didn’t know Walker was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder.”
She, who actually does live with DID, performed some research. She thinks he’s just using it as an excuse. His ‘claim of DID’ happened after a restraining order from his ex-wife when he threatened to kill her and her then fiancé.
He claims the divorce brought it on. But DID most often starts in childhood but is diagnosed in adulthood.
So, it seems like Walker is just being a typical GOPer.
re: #57 ckkatz
Sure sounds like she plans on shooting Americans.
I doubt she’s had any tactical training and would not last long if she tried. Her magical talisman (aka bling’d out rifle) is not enough to keep her alive.
re: #49 aatharuv
Only $55 million dollars?
Restitution costs a small fraction of a penny on the dollar, if you’re connected enough.
I don’t see anything about avoiding civil penalties.
re: #62 BeenHereAwhile
Now that’s a smooth ride.
“The Tennessee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud”
-Jimmy Driftwood-
Heh, Been a while since I heard that song. Always liked it.
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
He sounds a lot like his old man. Great rendition.
Someone posted this elsewhere in response to the Russians looting Chernobyl.
This is what happens when business people abandon a radiation source to save money, and the public is so poorly educated that they’re attracted to Cherenkov radiation, thinking of it as “magical,” instead of running away as fast as they can.
re: #65 Teukka
Weren’t there allegations of Sarin usage in Syria?
IIRC, I believe there was.
Just looked it up: “April 4, 2017: Chemical weapons were used in an attack that killed dozens of people in Syria’s northern Idlib province. Initial reports suggest the attack used sarin gas, a nerve agent. The attack is believed to have been perpetrated by the Syrian government, due to the type of aircraft in the area at the time.”
re: #55 Dr Lizardo
From what I have been hearing, the Russians have managed to split the Azov Mariupol defence into several smaller enclaves. And have managed to push them into the port and industrial complex.
Both sides have read/remembered about the fighting in Stalingrad. Where entire battalions would be destroyed in multi-day battles for a single floor in a factory.
I would not be surprised that the Russians would be using chemical agents. (Understand that “not surprised” does not mean “not outraged”.)
By the way, even though most of the Axis troops in the Stalingrad pocket surrendered in February 1943, there were battles with groups of German holdouts for months afterwards.
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’ve taught English lessons on that particular incident. Basically, a total failure in safety protocols leading to a disaster.
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
Like all the authoritarians she assumes that the people she intends to kill won’t fight back.
Maybe she should look at Ukraine for that idea to be disproven.
re: #74 ckkatz
Of course, we’ll have to get some serious confirmation and concrete evidence that chemical or nerve agents were used (and again, so far it’s uncorroborated). But, I’d think that the use of such weapons will draw a more escalated response because Western military doctrines consider chemical weapons as WMDs. If indeed Russia is confirmed to have actually used them in combat, that’s really one of those “shit or get off the pot” moments.
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Someone posted this elsewhere in response to the Russians looting Chernobyl.
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re: #75 Dr Lizardo
I’ve taught English lessons on that particular incident. Basically, a total failure in safety protocols leading to a disaster.
Orphan source incidents are scary, and there have been more than once. Plainly Difficult has a number of them, as well as criticality accidents. Here’s his take on the Goiania Incident:
Overly naïf analysis of French election 1st round results:
Emmanuel Macron 27,84% (extreme centrist)
Marine Le Pen 23,15% (fascist wanabee in sheep’s clothing)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon 21,95% (nostaligic lefty)
Eric Zemmour 7,07% (fascist in fascists clothing*)
Valérie Pécresse 4,78% (ordinary rightist)
Yannick Jadot 4,63% (greeny)
Jean Lassalle 3,13% (sheep farmer, sorta nationalist anti big business, often, to my eyes, appears drunk)
Fabien Roussel 2,28% (Communist)
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan 2,06% (fascist wanabee)
Anne Hidalgo 1,75% (last gasp of the SFIO)
Philippe Poutou 0,77% (Trot)
Nathalie Arthaud 0,56% (another trot — spliittist!)
So, making unjustifiable, pesemistic, assumptions, Marine gets (Marine + Zemour + Pécresse + Lasalle + Dupont-Aignan) in the second round:
(23+7+5+4+2) = 41%, i.e not enough to win if the same number of people vote in the second round as the first.
So the question is how do the Mélenchon supporters vote? Mélenchon has told them not to vote for Marine, but how many will stay at home?
(* Zemour is of Jewish parentage, son of Algerian immigrants and a nasty little almost Nazi prick. He wants to ban “non-christian” first names).
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It has come to my attention that some of you don’t immediately recognize the bone-chilling horror of being close enough to read the words on this cobalt-60 source.
Standing 1 m away from this for 5ish minutes would give you about a 50% chance of dying within in a month or two pic.twitter.com/xL9PkCdQqL— Katie Mummah (@nuclearkatie) April 14, 2020
re: #78 Teukka
LOL I love the “Plainly Difficult” channel. He does a great job at explaining those disasters in terms that a layman can understand.
re: #80 ckkatz
Maybe some better wording on that container - for instance, “If you can read this, you’re already dead.”
re: #79 John Hughes
Thank you, that’s useful info difficult to find in the US’s godforsaken media.
re: #66 nines09
Forgot about this misdirected piece of stupid I got Friday.
re: #84 nines09
They forgot SCARY MUSLIM!!
I know he identifies as a Muslim himself (not that it matters in any event), and from what I’ve read, his spiritual outlook is influenced by Sufism and Swedenborgianism. Not that I’d expect your average MAGAt to know the difference between any of the schools of Islam and they’d probably think that “Swedenborgianism” means that hot blonde ex-Borg Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager or something.
re: #85 Dr Lizardo
They forgot SCARY MUSLIM!!
I know he identifies as a Muslim himself (not that it matters in any event), and from what I’ve read, his spiritual outlook is influenced by Sufism and Swedenborgianism. Not that I’d expect your average MAGAt to know the difference between any of the schools of Islam and they’d probably think that “Swedenborgianism” means that hot blonde ex-Borg Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager or something.
INFIDEL!!!!
And most would suffocate if breathing was not involuntary…
re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’s fucking clueless about how to use that thing.
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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CNN just released this two hours ago: Vladimir Kara Murza calls Putin regime a ‘regime of murderers’. He was arrested in Moscow an hour later. https://t.co/QwXmCGgrcb
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) April 11, 2022
They really do have an amazing tendency to proudly proclaim they are everything people fear they arehttps://t.co/gLW4PystL3
— XLProfessor (@XLProfessor) April 9, 2022
Trump couldn’t read, so he would often see images of foreign leaders in the materials prepared for him and request that a copy of the article with the picture signed by him be sent to that leader through our embassies.
But please tell me more about how Biden is an embarrassment. pic.twitter.com/PUMftvel6y— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) April 11, 2022
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
For being economically anxious they sure can buy any bag of trash and travel to landfills at will.
re: #92 nines09
For being economically anxious they sure can buy any bag of trash and travel to landfills at will.
The only “economic anxiety” these goobers have is the fear that they or their equally stupid spawn will lose some/all of their undeserved privilege.
🔺 NEW: A “Stalinist” mass purge of Russian secret intelligence is under way after more than 100 agents were removed from their jobs and the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison https://t.co/QgfENfjgkN
— The Times (@thetimes) April 11, 2022
re: #88 Barefoot Grin
It’s a good performance of a song I really don’t like. A person whom CNN called Ukraine’s biggest rock star this morning said, “I have mixed feelings. I wouldn’t have been a musician without The Beatles, and I appreciated Julian and other musicians raising money and awareness for us, but it says ‘imagine there’s no nations’ and I don’t share that as a path to some kind of utopia. We are fighting for our nation.” That kind of utopian vision is what has always kept me from fully liking the song. And I love John Lennon and The Beatles very dearly.
I consider it a secular hymn rather than a song to take literally. It is a spiritual instead and best viewed that way.
re: #82 Dr Lizardo
Maybe some better wording on that container - for instance, “If you can read this, you’re already dead.”
re: #95 William Lewis
I consider it a secular hymn rather than a song to take literally. It is a spiritual instead and best viewed that way.
Interesting way to look at it. I did like it very much originally. But over time it’s songs like “I’m Losing You” and “Cold Turkey” that stayed with me. That probably says a lot about my cynicism more than the value of the song.
Oryx is a twitter account/guy who is trying to provide open intelligence Ukrainian War damage assessments.
He is doing it by counting destroyed military equipment in publicly available pictures and then verifying that it has not already been tabulated. This is not always an easy task:
Oh FFS pic.twitter.com/fysN1StJcJ
— Oryx (@oryxspioenkop) April 11, 2022
re: #93 EPR-radar
The only “economic anxiety” these goobers have is the fear that they or their equally stupid spawn will lose some/all of their undeserved privilege.
Some kids ran off and will never be a part of that world.
Continuing the great tradition of top notch OPSEC that the Russian military has established in this war, Kadyrov on his daily Telegram video shows operational maps he says he has just received from his commanders pic.twitter.com/yliVmpmfZH
— Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) April 11, 2022
re: #99 nines09
Some kids ran off and will never be a part of that world.
That’s the brain drain that left that subculture as stupid as it is. When you require that people believe things that are not true to be part of your club, it cultivates a certain kind of participant.
re: #100 ckkatz
You have to create content for your social media channels. That’s priority #1 these days.
Ukraine has also second largest gas reserves in Europe. Over trillion cubic meters of gas.
While it wouldn’t replace Russia’s gas, it would easily pay a lot of military gear and rebuilding.https://t.co/MqfCBlJQkR— YQXO (@yqxo) April 11, 2022
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Someone posted this elsewhere in response to the Russians looting Chernobyl.
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This is what happens when business people abandon a radiation source to save money, and the public is so poorly educated that they’re attracted to Cherenkov radiation, thinking of it as “magical,” instead of running away as fast as they can.
Contaminated Mexican Steel Incident
There was a similar incident in Juarez, Mexico, in 1983. It involved Cobalt-60 from a scrapped therapeutic radiation source. The source, a Picker 3000 radiotherapy unit, had originallly come from none other than Methodist Hospital in Lubbock Texas. They had sold it to a Fort Worth firm in 1977 and from there it made its way to Juarez. The scrap was sold to several Mexican steel companies and mostly made into rebar.
The contamination came to light only because of an extraordinary coincidence. A truck carrying some of the contaminated rebar to Albuquerque took a wrong turn and ended up at the gate of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. As a matter of course, they had radiation detectors, which went crazy when the truck pulled in.
I can imagine the guards’ reaction: “HOLY FUCKING SHIT!”
There was an emergency call to Washington and the atomic emergency wheels began spinning. The source was quickly traced and the contaminated material was laboriously rounded up. It had already gone through 3 foundries and was deep into the distribution network so there is little chance that they got all of it. In all, 4000 tons of steel had to be recalled.
In Juarez, 200 people received unsafe doses. Twenty houses and a number of vehicles were contaminated.
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That’s one I’d never heard of.
Holy fucking shit indeed.
This viral marketing for the Paramount+ Halo TV series is a bit much.
‘It’s Just Halo’: 3 Sisters Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Shoot One of Their Ex-Partners Over Child Custody Dispute (Law & Crime via MSN)
One of the pressures on hold-out governments, like Germany, to supply the Ukrainians is market driven.
Who ever can get the Ukrainians to adopt their obsolete equipment (and get trained on it, with units, logistics, and command structures organized around it) will be the first in line to sell their advanced equipment when the Ukrainians finally move to NATO standards.
In the words of Tom Lehrer’s “Old Dope Peddler”:
“He gives the kids free samples,
because he knows full well,
That today’s young innocent faces,
Will be tomorrow’s clientele”
Germany’s defense contractor Rheinmetall is offering to deliver Leopard 1A5 main battle tanks to Ukraine within six weeks. https://t.co/5DTKPidt2m h/t @AlexLuck9 @marceldirsus
— Franz-Stefan Gady (@HoansSolo) April 11, 2022
Some light relief from irradiated horror courtesy of Tomorrow’s Wordle.
Wordle 297 3/6
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Looking like a long par 3. Sample size: 6; distribution: 2,3,3,3,4,4. (The 2 was my boss, and one of my sisters used exactly the same words as me.)
re: #108 Grunthos the Flatulent
Some light relief from irradiated horror courtesy of Tomorrow’s Wordle.
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Thanks to radioactive half-life, tomorrow’s Wordle is slightly less radioactive than today’s.
re: #107 ckkatz
One of the pressures on hold-out governments, like Germany, to supply the Ukrainians is market driven.
The Germans are already saying no to the Leo Ones. Right now, that’s ok actually.
Leo 1’s would require complete retraining for use by the Ukrainian military. They have a four-man crew with a loader. You may not think it but that is a real set of skills that no tanker in Ukraine would have due to the autoloaders on every Russian tank since the T-64. The operator maintenance, while similar because all tanks have the same needs, will be completely different in detail and they would need to learn the new procedures and manuals. That would be even more miserable at the unit level of maintenance. Then there is the difference in the fire control systems, and I am unfamiliar if the German tanks ever received the laser rangefinder upgrades that the Belgian and Canadian Leo’s did. Lastly, they are armed with the L7 105mm rifle. While there is still huge stocks of that ammo available with it’s use on things like the godforsaken Stryker Mobile Gun System, none of it is in Ukrainian stocks and would have to be supplied along with the vehicles.
In short, the Leopard One would be a very poor fit for Ukraine. If there are any T-72’s remaining from DDR days, they would be a much better transfer for Ukraine.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
That’s one I’d never heard of.
Holy fucking shit indeed.
Moi neither.
HFS indeed!
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
That’s one I’d never heard of.
Holy fucking shit indeed.
Funny, but I was familiar with this case but not the Brazilian one.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Took me all day.
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re: #85 Dr Lizardo
They forgot SCARY MUSLIM!!
I know he identifies as a Muslim himself (not that it matters in any event), and from what I’ve read, his spiritual outlook is influenced by Sufism and Swedenborgianism. Not that I’d expect your average MAGAt to know the difference between any of the schools of Islam and they’d probably think that “Swedenborgianism” means that hot blonde ex-Borg Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager or something.
The only spiritual outlook he has relates to the worship of the greenbacks.
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I’ve heard some stories about what happened at Los Alamos after the radioactive truck was discovered. The driver was hauled away for questioning and medical observation, and eventually released. The vehicle was examined by techs in NBC suits, working in 15 minute shifts, then towed away by a modified M-88 tank recovery vehicle they have on hand for just such eventualities. The modification involves lead shielding for the already armored crew compartment. It was towed to a concrete and sandbag revetment and dismantled by remote control. The pieces went to the on-site waste dump and are still there.
re: #101 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s the brain drain that left that subculture as stupid as it is. When you require that people believe things that are not true to be part of your club, it cultivates a certain kind of participant.
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re: #102 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You have to create content for your social media channels. That’s priority #1 these days.
I read someone on Twitter who said that Kadyrov’s troops are good at Tik-Tok, but not good in battle. May that continue.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) April 11, 2022
re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
The cleanup from the Goiânia Incident was no small feat, either.
re: #110 William Lewis
The Germans are already saying no to the Leo Ones. Right now, that’s ok actually.
Leo 1’s would require complete retraining for use by the Ukrainian military. They have a four-man crew with a loader. You may not think it but that is a real set of skills that no tanker in Ukraine would have due to the autoloaders on every Russian tank since the T-64. The operator maintenance, while similar because all tanks have the same needs, will be completely different in detail and they would need to learn the new procedures and manuals. That would be even more miserable at the unit level of maintenance. Then there is the difference in the fire control systems, and I am unfamiliar if the German tanks ever received the laser rangefinder upgrades that the Belgian and Canadian Leo’s did. Lastly, they are armed with the L7 105mm rifle. While there is still huge stocks of that ammo available with it’s use on things like the godforsaken Stryker Mobile Gun System, none of it is in Ukrainian stocks and would have to be supplied along with the vehicles.
In short, the Leopard One would be a very poor fit for Ukraine. If there are any T-72’s remaining from DDR days, they would be a much better transfer for Ukraine.
I agree with you.
Yes, I agree that for the short term, old stocks of Soviet equipment make far better sense.
Yes, I agree that adopting a new standard is going to require a major re-organizing of the Ukrainian military. And doing so on critical units in the middle of a war is generally, a bad idea.
I was thinking about BoJo and why he was in Kyiv. He was trying to get the Ukrainians to adopt certain lines of British equipment.
The Slovakians are talking about getting the Ukrainians to adopt their Zuzana howitzers.
The US has been very coy about what they are telling the Ukrainians.
The French may be behind the curve here.
Meanwhile, the German govt seems to have completely avoided this market. I suspect that a number of large German companies are highly displeased about that.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians, who appear to be quite savvy, are probably looking at what they need to do to achieve their political goals, such as join the EU. I would guess that if the Russian war effort collapses, the Ukrainians will be spending a lot of money on things, including rebuilding, which may make them even more popular.
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re: #59 I Would Prefer Not To
For my cat people.
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I’m trying to discourage my cat from crawling in the box springs. This is not super-helpful.
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ginni Thomas left you a voicemail!
— MikeLaFontaine (@wha_hoppen) April 11, 2022
re: #122 mmmirele
I’m trying to discourage my cat from crawling in the box springs. This is not super-helpful.
And you’ve just pointed out that a cat can claw its way into a box spring for the same result with zero work on your part.
Finally got around to kashering my grandmother’s silverware so we can use it for the Seder.
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re: #125 The Pie Overlord!
Finally got around to kashering my grandmother’s silverware so we can use it for the Seder.
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I realize Hunter’s laptop is their Holy Grail, but Jim’s getting a little carried away here. pic.twitter.com/dw5s4nTtJH
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 11, 2022
why not 4.8 Brazilian? pic.twitter.com/D6zyMK0Fen
— The World According to Eli🇺🇦 (@AmityvilleShop) April 11, 2022
re: #112 William Lewis
Funny, but I was familiar with this case but not the Brazilian one.
I had completely forgotten about it, but within a couple of sentences I thought “I wonder if the word ‘rebar’ is coming up.” Didn’t know the Brazil story, though.
re: #124 Punish Domestic Terrorists
And you’ve just pointed out that a cat can claw its way into a box spring for the same result with zero work on your part.
The other thing that occurred to me is that cats who are not feeling well like to crawl into places that are not easily accessible by humans or other critters. I remember how my cat Fluffy was likely mauled by a dog on 1972. He wedged himself between the washer and the wall and getting him out and to the vet was a pain. For the record, even though the vet had to perform “garbage surgery” to put Fluffy’s intestines back together, the vet did a GREAT job. That cat lived another 17 years.
re: #126 Punish Domestic Terrorists
And I learned a new (to me) word with a little help from Google.
When I see “kashering“ my brain reads “cashiering” which is Not Helpful At All.
re: #61 ckkatz
However, unlike 39-40 where the Finns were pretty much abandoned
it was more complicated than that and you know it.
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Someone posted this elsewhere in response to the Russians looting Chernobyl.
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This is what happens when business people abandon a radiation source to save money, and the public is so poorly educated that they’re attracted to Cherenkov radiation, thinking of it as “magical,” instead of running away as fast as they can.
The people running the clinic should have safely disposed of the equipment as soon as they decided to close it down. Even though one of the owners did return and tried to belatedly handle this but was stopped by obstruction from officials, it should have never have reached this point. It wasn’t poorly educated people who have any responsibility for this tragedy; it was the doctors running the clinic and government officials who deserve all the blame.
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
The people running the clinic should have safely disposed of the equipment as soon as they decided to close it down. Even though one of the owners did return and tried to belatedly handle this but was stopped by obstruction from officials, it should have never have reached this point. It wasn’t poorly educated people who have any responsibility for this tragedy; it was the doctors running the clinic and government officials who deserve all the blame.
Massive ignorance was part of the problem, so the system that didn’t educate them bears some responsibility, but it should never have been left there in the first place. Even if all adults were educated, children get into abandoned buildings and break things apart.
re: #127 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Guarantee you Gym Jordan pulled $4.8 billion out of his ass so that it was a lot more than Kushner got from the Saudis.
Finding out.
BREAKING: Former Rocky Mount, VA police officer Thomas Robertson GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS stemming from the January 6 Capitol attack including obstruction of an official proceeding.
This is the second jury trial and second unanimous guilty verdict in the Jan 6 investigation.— Rob Legare (@RobLegare) April 11, 2022
re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter
The people running the clinic should have safely disposed of the equipment as soon as they decided to close it down. Even though one of the owners did return and tried to belatedly handle this but was stopped by obstruction from officials, it should have never have reached this point. It wasn’t poorly educated people who have any responsibility for this tragedy; it was the doctors running the clinic and government officials who deserve all the blame.
A major problem with the Brazil situation is that they apparently assigned only ONE GUY to watch over the property while it was under legal dispute and when he suddenly took an unscheduled day off…
re: #110 William Lewis
Leopard 1!
Pre Chieftain?
Effectively unarmoured?
Surely some mistake.
Just spoke with right wing sister.
1) she’s turned against Trek because OMG it’s so woke!! I pointed out that Rodenberry was “woke” way before they called it that, but she’s not persuaded. She swears it’s a new thing.
2) she’s convinced, absolutely stone-cold convinced, that elementary school teachers are trying to turn their students trans, telling the white kids they’re all oppressors and the black kids are all victims. I said nobody does that, it’s a right-wing media invention, nobody’s been able to list a single teacher or school who ever did such a thing, but she’s absolutely convinced it’s totally routine in every school everywhere.
3) she thinks she maybe had covid, but vitamins and ivermectin cured her.
I can’t, I just can’t.
She used to believe in environmental protection, but now it’s just such a burden on industry people can breathe and drink whatevs and who cares. She used to be pro-choice, pro-women’s reproductive rights, but “I’m past menopause, so I don’t care anymore.” Books being pulled out of school libraries because there’s black and hispanic and gay characters, “well, parents can just buy whatever they want their kids to read nobody’s stopping them”
I can’t. I just can’t.
re: #137 John Hughes
Leopard 1!
Pre Chieftain?
Effectively unarmoured?
Surely some mistake.
About the same time. The Leo One was introduced in 1965 and the Chieftan in 1967. They represent two opposite ends of MBT design schools in the 60’s. The German’s believed that HEAT rounds had made it impossible to fully armor a tank so that Firepower and Mobility were emphasized instead. The French AMX-30 was similar. The British emphasized very heavy Armor and Firepower at the expense of mobility. The US M-60 series was somewhere in-between. (The Russians were doing composite armor on the T-64 and T-72 and were a generation ahead at the time). Had NATO gone to war in the 75 ~ 80 timeframe with the older tanks… well, we were taught we had to kill 5 Soviet tanks before dying to slow them enough for REFORGER to work. I tend to think the German approach of defense in depth with highly mobile forces would have probably done that better than USAREUR or BAOR would have. We were counting on airpower, training and cohesion to make up for the lack of numbers.
The MBT-70 disaster and then western invention of composite armor at Chobham lead to both the M-1 and the Leopard 2 which changed the picture.
cre: #127 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Didn’t Hunter Biden get paid $500,000…then a million, then $3.5 million…now he’s up to 4.8 billion? He’s worth more than Trump.
re: #141 darthstar
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Didn’t Hunter Biden get paid $500,000…then a million, then $3.5 million…now he’s up to 4.8 billion? He’s worth more than Trump.
Well, of course he is but they’re talking about money….
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Speaking of MTG…she’s going to be doing lap dances for Cawthorn almost exclusively now…
BREAKING: Federal judge drops bombshell, signals that she will allow the lawsuit brought by Georgia voters to block Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection to move forward due to her assistance and support for Trump’s January 6 insurrectionists. RT TO THANK THE JUDGE!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) April 11, 2022
Do not leave your kids around wingnuts unattended.
“Louisiana Republican arrested for covering kids’ mouths in packing tape lays blame on ‘disruptive’ students” https://t.co/pNjLzImIlX— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) April 11, 2022
This tells me that they’re already there, being positioned, and there may be advisors helping with technical implementation…even if by zoom call.
“I’m astonished as an air guy myself that the Russians have been unable to get air supremacy over Ukraine.”Republican @RepKinzinger reacts to the Pentagon saying they are working to get long-range air defense systems into Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/X9O5yM3ZT6
— CNN (@CNN) April 11, 2022
re: #139 ipsos
One of the weird Twitter bots I follow posts hourly Google Street View grabs of every post office.
Looky what just showed up, Anymouse!
Yay! We have arrived! The post office is two blocks from my house.
re: #140 William Lewis
About the same time. The Leo One was introduced in 1965 and the Chieftan in 1967. They represent two opposite ends of MBT design schools in the 60’s. The German’s believed that HEAT rounds had made it impossible to fully armor a tank so that Firepower and Mobility were emphasized instead. The French AMX-30 was similar. The British emphasized very heavy Armor and Firepower at the expense of mobility. The US M-60 series was somewhere in-between. (The Russians were doing composite armor on the T-64 and T-72 and were a generation ahead at the time). Had NATO gone to war in the 75 ~ 80 timeframe with the older tanks… well, we were taught we had to kill 5 Soviet tanks before dying to slow them enough for REFORGER to work. I tend to think the German approach of defense in depth with highly mobile forces would have probably done that better than USAREUR or BAOR would have. We were counting on airpower, training and cohesion to make up for the lack of numbers.
The MBT-70 disaster and then western invention of composite armor at Chobham lead to both the M-1 and the Leopard 2 which changed the picture.
Send them more tractors. They’re doing a good job with the Spring armor harvest.
What rightwing racism?
Discovery in the inevitable lawsuit will be very interesting.👀 https://t.co/MTfub0WCSR
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 11, 2022
re: #148 No Malarkey!
Not to mention the irony of these supposedly freedom-loving people tripping over each other in their eagerness to lick fascist boot.
re: #138 sagehen
Just spoke with right wing sister.
1) she’s turned against Trek because OMG it’s so woke!! I pointed out that Rodenberry was “woke” way before they called it that, but she’s not persuaded. She swears it’s a new thing.
I mean, they had a black lady in charge of the Enterprise comms system and that was in the 1960s.
re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yay! We have arrived! The post office is two blocks from my house.
I can even describe the land shown in the picture.
To the immediate left is Smith Avenue; the car belongs to the postmistress.
The land beyond that street (north) is the block the Lutheran Church owns. The next property (beyond the church, not shown) is my house.
The slightly tan line in the grass behind the post office is the alley; the land behind that used to be the village commercial district (it is still zoned commercial). The land in the upper left with the trees is the village park. The low building in the upper right is the American Legion hall.
So far unconfirmed, but Twitter is buzzing that some sort of nerve agent was used a few hours ago by Russia in Mariupol.
What rightwing racism?
NEW: The man is charge of the Bullitt County jail was recorded repeatedly using the “n-word.”
“There’s a difference between a black guy and a n*****,” Jailer Paul Watkins said. https://t.co/NIbkqme2pc— Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) April 11, 2022
It’s not the first time Watkins has been accused of racism and mistreatment at the county jail. He faces a slew of lawsuits.
Watkins used the “n-word” at least 6 times on the 64 minute recording.— Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) April 11, 2022
Watkins also opined about interracial relationships.
“I mean, I know I’m old school, but I ain’t never seen the like of all this shit,” Watkins said. “Have you all? And then you watch TV, and you see fu***** n*****and a fu***** white woman, all kinds of shit.”— Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) April 11, 2022
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Although I am not a big Trekkie I also remember that they had an appearance by Abe Lincoln and he spoke to the comms person.
re: #147 Decatur Deb
Send them more tractors. They’re doing a good job with the Spring armor harvest.
I look forward to the day when they can change crops and give the Italian Spaghetti crop a run for it’s money.
re: #152 JC1
So far unconfirmed, but Twitter is buzzing that some sort of nerve agent was used a few hours ago by Russia in Mariupol.
MSNBC reported on the unconfirmed report just now.
re: #153 No Malarkey!
What rightwing racism?
Is he black enough to be doing a Chris Rock routine that Chris retired years ago because it was popular with white racists?
re: #139 ipsos
A few blocks across downtown from me.
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— every usps (@everylot_usps) March 7, 2022
re: #156 No Malarkey!
MSNBC reported on the unconfirmed report just now.
Do we have anywhere to go with sanctions if they’ve escalated to NBC?
re: #153 No Malarkey!
This is Shepherdsville, KY?
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, they had a black lady in charge of the Enterprise comms system and that was in the 1960s.
And a gay Asian at the helm.
re: #160 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Do we have anywhere to go with sanctions if they’ve escalated to NBC?
If there is a single Russian in the West who hasn’t requested asylum yet, then yes. Cancel all their visas and send them home.
DeSantis just keeps ranking higher and higher on the Incredible Piece of Shit-o-meter:
As a rule, American governors make a point to be friendly to their contemporaries in other states, especially their immediate neighbors. At National Governors Association meetings, the chief executives of the various states always seem glad to see their peers.
With this in mind, it came as a bit of a surprise to see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raise the specter of a “cold war” with a neighbor. The Hill reported:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday warned of a coming “Cold War” between Florida and Georgia if Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams wins the gubernatorial election in the latter state. During a press conference in Gulf County, located in northwest Florida, DeSantis referenced the ongoing Masters golf tournament in Georgia, using it as an apparent segue into discussing the state’s elections.
“If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a cold war between Florida and Georgia at that point,” the Republican governor said. “I mean, I can’t have Castro to my south and Abrams to my north. That’d be a disaster.”
DeSantis, in an apparent message to Georgians, added, “So I hope you guys take care of that and we’ll end up in good shape.”
As part of an apparent attempt to clarify matters, a spokesperson for the Floridian later claimed DeSantis “was simply making an analogy to the stark ideological differences that underpinned the Cold War.”
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
I am not surprised by that.
re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg
DeSantis just keeps ranking higher and higher on the Incredible Piece of Shit-o-meter:
As a rule, American governors make a point to be friendly to their contemporaries in other states, especially their immediate neighbors. At National Governors Association meetings, the chief executives of the various states always seem glad to see their peers.
With this in mind, it came as a bit of a surprise to see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raise the specter of a “cold war” with a neighbor. The Hill reported:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday warned of a coming “Cold War” between Florida and Georgia if Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams wins the gubernatorial election in the latter state. During a press conference in Gulf County, located in northwest Florida, DeSantis referenced the ongoing Masters golf tournament in Georgia, using it as an apparent segue into discussing the state’s elections.
“If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a cold war between Florida and Georgia at that point,” the Republican governor said. “I mean, I can’t have Castro to my south and Abrams to my north. That’d be a disaster.”
DeSantis, in an apparent message to Georgians, added, “So I hope you guys take care of that and we’ll end up in good shape.”
As part of an apparent attempt to clarify matters, a spokesperson for the Floridian later claimed DeSantis “was simply making an analogy to the stark ideological differences that underpinned the Cold War.”
DeSantis is a fascist who very much wants to be a dictator.
The secret is obvious:
Our legislature is an officially nonpartisan single house, with no majority/minority leaders, no whips, no caucuses, and no explicit party control.
When lawmakers can vote their conscience instead of being on a party leash, the people get better outcomes. https://t.co/MxPApPFSen— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 11, 2022
re: #163 No Malarkey!
If there is a single Russian in the West who hasn’t requested asylum yet, then yes. Cancel all their visas and send them home.
The Boston Marathon has banned Russian competitors this year. These are almost certainly professional runners.
re: #167 No Malarkey!
DeSantis is a fascist who very much wants to be a dictator.
Unfortunately, DeSantis would be much more competent, as a dictator or as an insurrectionist plotter, than Trump.
re: #162 GlutenFreeJesus
And a gay Asian at the helm.
But the viewing public did not know the actor was gay and he was not portrayed as gay in the series. It took awhile before that barrier was finally broken.
re: #113 The Pie Overlord!
Took me all day.
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re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
But the viewing public did not know the actor was gay and he was not portrayed as gay in the series. It took awhile before that barrier was finally broken.
Oh, and the whining when they did that in Star Trek Beyond! And it was such a cute sequence anyway.
re: #154 PhillyPretzel
Although I am not a big Trekkie I also remember that they had an appearance by Abe Lincoln and he spoke to the comms person.
Well, as an adult with a better idea of history and world politics, I find it amazing that Trek had Japanese and Russian bridge crew members, considering WWII wasn’t all that long in the past and we were in a Cold War with the Soviets. Gene Roddenberry knew what he was doing.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, they had a black lady in charge of the Enterprise comms system and that was in the 1960s.
Starbase 11 was commanded by a black commodore in “Court-Martial” and by a different one with a Hispanic name in “The Menagerie.”
re: #138 sagehen
An issue with America (really everywhere): cults.
What is a cult? That is something every thinking American ought to ask themselves.
The word “cult” gets thrown around too cheaply. It is an important idea that relates to how we humans operate.
We are social animals and we need to bond to a group.
This need can be, is, exploited by the wealthy and powerful for their own purposes.
Your sister sounds like someone who has been indoctrinated. If I were to guess, it has something to do with either 1) a religious body, or 2) Fox News (and similar but less successful networks) or talk radio.
The key to not being exploited in one’s need to belong to a group is this: always be willing to ask yourself questions and be willing to change if the answers you get, if supported by evidence, presents you with a different conclusion than the one you expected.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
But the viewing public did not know the actor was gay and he was not portrayed as gay in the series. It took awhile before that barrier was finally broken.
Well. :))))
Here is seemingly a paradox:
A. As we go through life we learn more and more from our experiences and by studying.
B. Older people are more easily swayed by con-artists. (Children are too, but they learn quickly when deceived.)
How could this be?
As we age we know the end is creeping up on us. This brings fear. Latent fears rise to the surface. New fears show up.
We experience the fragility of life. This is the king of all fears.
The highly skilled con-artist will exploit these fears.
When I was young I thought I could do what I wanted, if I had the opportunity. I was confident at least in some things of life (we all have aspects of life in which we doubt.)
But now… life is much more precious because I realize I have less left.
So if you look at the demos for the supporters of Trump, the viewers of Fox News, etc., it will become pretty evident that they exploit the elderly. Exactly for the reason I outlined above, the older people can be scared more readily than the 28 year old.
re: #173 William Lewis
Oh, and the whining when they did that in Star Trek Beyond! And it was such a cute sequence anyway.
And one of those who objected to the portrayal in STAR TREK BEYOND was George Takei, who by that point had been out for some years and did not consider the character he originally portrayed to be gay.
Pegg, Jung, Cho, and Lin meant well, and it was a needed positive statement, but for PR purposes, they probably should not have tried to spin it as an acknowledgment and tribute to Takei without getting him onboard first.
“When they left, I found drugs and Viagra. They would get high and they were often drunk” chilling testimony by a 50-yo Ukrainian woman raped at gunpoint by a Russian soldier near Kyiv https://t.co/8b6U7IKXUg
— Amie Ferris-Rotman (@Amie_FR) April 11, 2022
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Russians are getting what they deserve.
In all these cases, the armies were exhausted a needed to cease operations and recover. I would imagine this occurs soon to the Russians. They might have one real effort left in them—but hard to see how they could keep going.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) April 11, 2022
Austria’s chancellor is the first Western leader to meet with Vladimir Putin since the latter invaded Ukraine. His meeting just ended.
Austria’s chancellor says his 75-minute meeting with Putin left him “pessimistic” about the future of the war.
Of Russia’s renewed assault in eastern Ukraine, he says “the attack being threatened cannot be underestimated in its violence.”
By @antontroianhttps://t.co/ONXIZQLMyB— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) April 11, 2022
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They’re going to burn everything to the ground if Vlad can’t have it.
re: #138 sagehen
yeah… sure sounds like a case of only seeing what you want to see….
Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on television…
Another episode was about the Earth moving past racial differences (Frank Gorshin/Lou Martino?) as the thinly veiled antagonists, half black and half white, just reversed on which side of their body was which, as their society destroys itself
Lots of revisionist history episodes, (Yangs and Cons, Spectre of the Gun) and others where issues would come under scrutiny from Chicago gang wars to Nazi’s
to say that Star Trek is only recently woke is pure revisionism….
This is magnificent Westsplaining from a country that has been neutral for 100 years. https://t.co/S2eUXhDXST
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) April 11, 2022
re: #138 sagehen
“I’m past menopause, so I don’t care anymore.”
Glad to know she cares about the welfare of others.
re: #171 Hecuba’s daughter
But the viewing public did not know the actor was gay and he was not portrayed as gay in the series. It took awhile before that barrier was finally broken.
That he was Asian was already plenty revolutionary for that decade.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is magnificent Westsplaining from a country that has been neutral for 100 years.
She is as representative of Ireland or Western Europe as Jill Stein is of the US. And these days, about as popular.
MEP Clare Daly is clearly channelling the Irish Peace of Independence.
According to Wikipedia, she joined the Irish Labour Party as a teenager, but expelled for being a Trotskyist.
re: #187 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
That he was Asian was already plenty revolutionary for that decade.
Hawaii Five-O, which overlapped with Star Trek, had several Asian Americans in the cast.
re: #184 piratedan
yeah… sure sounds like a case of only seeing what you want to see….
Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on television…
Another episode was about the Earth moving past racial differences (Frank Gorshin/Lou Martino?) as the thinly veiled antagonists, half black and half white, just reversed on which side of their body was which, as their society destroys itself
Lots of revisionist history episodes, (Yangs and Cons, Spectre of the Gun) and others where issues would come under scrutiny from Chicago gang wars to Nazi’sto say that Star Trek is only recently woke is pure revisionism….
There might be an argument that Star Trek’s social consciousness went to sleep for a bit during the Berman regime, when he tried not to rock the boat too much with TNG and Voyager. Fortunately, DS9 had a bit more leeway.
Enterprise, to me, falls into that 9/11 era pop cultural morass that I’m not yet ready to revisit for a critical appraisal.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ideologues are fine… if it is not their lives who are on the line.
While I admire pacifism, and think it has to win out if H. sapiens is to continue, in this instance I think there are clear counter-examples to the Irish woman’s assertion about NATO.
It is pretty clear, and I think Germans will definitely agree, that it was NATO holding together that finally made the reunification of Germany possible, a reunification that was mostly peacefully done.
re: #187 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
That he was Asian was already plenty revolutionary for that decade.
oh, there were asian characters in television, and they generally were portrayed pretty decently. I think of Perry Mason episodes from the late 50’s, where they did a pretty good job of not making Asian characters complete stereotypes. Hell, Perry even had a black judge in an episode, which probably scared the bejezus out southern affiliates in the late 50’s.
BTW, today’s TOS episode on the Heroes & Icons diginet is “Patterns of Force,” the Nazi planet episode.
re: #191 A Three Hour Tour
I’ve concluded that the whiners crying “woke” at recent ST are just doing so for reasons that really have nothing to do with Star Trek.
There has been cultured for several years a movement, aimed at young men, to bring about a kind of late-stage-western-civilization ultra-macho image.
See the rise of UFC and other MMA groups, for example.
Young people crying “woke” at recent entertainment just have no clue, or are intentionally ignoring, the past century of film and music.
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Seems worth noting that the MEP in question, Clare Daly is a nut with a track record of pro-Russian actions. https://t.co/Fq4rHmPGEg pic.twitter.com/Y0BU4xNTgV
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 11, 2022
The original premise of Star Trek is this: the human world got better because we all formed a world government and instituted socialism.
re: #162 GlutenFreeJesus
And a gay Asian at the helm.
was Sulu gay? Or is that something we learned about Takei many years later?
re: #184 piratedan
yeah… sure sounds like a case of only seeing what you want to see….
Star Trek had the first interracial kiss on television…
Another episode was about the Earth moving past racial differences (Frank Gorshin/Lou Martino?) as the thinly veiled antagonists, half black and half white, just reversed on which side of their body was which, as their society destroys itself
Lots of revisionist history episodes, (Yangs and Cons, Spectre of the Gun) and others where issues would come under scrutiny from Chicago gang wars to Nazi’sto say that Star Trek is only recently woke is pure revisionism….
Without it, there would have been measurably less awakening by now.
re: #193 steve_davis
oh, there were asian characters in television, and they generally were portrayed pretty decently. I think of Perry Mason episodes from the late 50’s, where they did a pretty good job of not making Asian characters complete stereotypes. Hell, Perry even had a black judge in an episode, which probably scared the bejezus out southern affiliates in the late 50’s.
Victor Sen Yung who was a well known character actor (including Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the Bonanza TV series).
re: #198 sagehen
was Sulu gay? Or is that something we learned about Takei many years later?
Sulu wasn’t gay. Takei came out much later too.
When the JJ-Trek movies made Sulu gay, George Takei wasn’t particularly thrilled. I think it was coming from a prospective that the actor and the character are not the same, and gay people can and have been playing straight people for years and will continue to do so and there’s nothing wrong with that.
re: #201 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Sulu wasn’t gay. Takei came out much later too.
When the JJ-Trek movies made Sulu gay, George Takei wasn’t particularly thrilled. I think it was coming from a prospective that the actor and the character are not the same, and gay people can and have been playing straight people for years and will continue to do so and there’s nothing wrong with that.
and straight people can play gay without insult…see Robin Williams in The Birdcage.
President Joe Biden is coming to Iowa tomorrow. https://t.co/c0eiJENuLu
— Chenue Her (@ChenueHer) April 12, 2022
“Businessmen” will pay $55,000,000 to get yeeted into space before giving you a raise. Get a union and get paid. #UnionsForAll https://t.co/QjDpX6lOkd
— Blue Cheese 🧀 (@OptimistsPrime) April 10, 2022
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chuck Grassley says on Fox News that it’s “legitimate” to ask whether Joe Biden is compromised by the Chinese
It’s legitimate to ask if Charles Grassley posed for American Gothic.
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
and now I have All Along the Watchtower as an earworm…
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s also legitimate to ask if Chuck Grassley is a fascist.
re: #205 Decatur Deb
It’s legitimate to ask if Charles Grassley posed for American Gothic.
it’s legitimate to ask if he is not a Madame Tussauds wax figger…
re: #186 Ace Rothstein
“I’m past menopause, so I don’t care anymore.”
Glad to know she cares about the welfare of others.
And not just random others; we have nieces in their 20’s.
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
So, the ISS is partly Russian and greatly depends upon Russian support for the transport, or did until now.
Notice how sanctions aren’t applied to the rich in the US if they still want to participate in Russian enterprises.
Quick update. Just departed SeaTac in route to Salt Lake City. Overnight layover and then on to the Hellhole called Idaho.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
It is also legitimate to ask if Chuck Grassley has the IQ points to correctly spell “pigeon.”
According to how he spelled it on Twitter some months back when referring to a bird he found, he doesn’t.
phew i am glad this case got cleared up tbhhttps://t.co/sqepOPKUne
— darth™ (@darth) April 12, 2022
From recent observations, I would say there must be 40, maybe even 50, people in the DFW Metroplex who know how a 4-way stop works.
I’m packing up my house and found this picture. This is ‘Tweet’. In 1987ish, my mum saved her from a cat in our yard. We kept her in the shed until she was fit enough to fly. That’s me feeding her Cocopuffs and milk for breakfast, like I did every day. Somehow, she lived. pic.twitter.com/DhY37gbJ9V
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) March 23, 2022
Officer Edith fans, heads up if you missed it, thread starts here:
I have been an Animal Control Officer for 20 years and at ACC for 21. it is time for me to hang up my snappy green outfit and go do something that’s a little less…everything.
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) March 11, 2022
Stephanie is the new Officer Edith:
I’m not a confident twitter user yet so thank you for your patience. I’m the meantime I would love it if you could show me your pets and tell me their names. If the name has a story behind it, I’d love that too!
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) April 6, 2022
re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
From recent observations, I would say there must be 40, maybe even 50, people in the DFW Metroplex who know how a 4-way stop works.
Does the same ratio think that turn signals are giving information to the enemy?
re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
From recent observations, I would say there must be 40, maybe even 50, people in the DFW Metroplex who know how a 4-way stop works.
but only if it’s not snowing…
Leading Iowa Democrat knocked off US Senate primary ballot https://t.co/We3fIHiRlK
— WCPO 9 (@WCPO) April 12, 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge has concluded that Democrat Abby Finkenauer cannot appear on the June 7 primary ballot for U.S. Senate, knocking off the candidate considered by many to be the party’s best chance to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley.
Judge Scott Beattie filed a ruling late Sunday that overturned a decision by a three-member panel of state elected officials.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought forth by two Republicans, Kim Schmett and Leanne Pellett, who challenged the number of signatures Finkenauer’s campaign collected, the Associated Press reported.
The panel concluded last week that Finkenauer’s campaign had substantially complied with Iowa law requiring at least 100 signatures from at least 19 counties.
However, Beattie said the law requires that each signature be accompanied by the date and some of Finkenauer’s petition signatures didn’t comply, leaving her with too few signatures.
The signatures in question were about three obtained from Allamakee and Cedar counties, CNN reported.
Finkenauer might appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court.
NBC News reported that a hearing before the Iowa Supreme Court is scheduled for Wednesday.
I suspect shenanigans.
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
because then, all bets are off
When the roads are iced over, no one is stopping. Everyone’s sliding into retaining walls in the Mixmaster.
re: #220 A Three Hour Tour
When the roads are iced over, no one is stopping. Everyone’s sliding into retaining walls in the Mixmaster.
that’s when you find out 4WD isn’t worth shit if you don’t know how to drive defensively
Here in the Ohio River Valley, all it takes is rain for drivers to start showing they are eejits.
MrBWS says that for drivers here, intelligence is water soluble…
And you think Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia are gonna pay for it?Actually, now that I think about it, they might be fine with that if it means keeping you away.
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) April 12, 2022
“There was no code of conduct in Bucha. They raped, murdered, stole…assassinated [people] in their front yards just to terrorize the population… And now the fear is that all of those crimes…[are] now going to unfold in the Donbas region” - @aliarouzi w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/Pr1uXtVQiO
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) April 11, 2022
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here in the Ohio River Valley, all it takes is rain for drivers to start showing they are eejits.
CA drivers + rain is a very bad combination.
re: #225 (((Archangel1)))
Here you go. That’ll be $13 billion dollars. pic.twitter.com/reYC5B9M03
— Jackson 🇺🇸 (@JacksonR08) April 11, 2022
re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth
Justice for Putin would be to get a fair trial for his war crimes, and then be killed for perpetrating said war crimes.
My brother, you have to keep reading. What happened next?
— John Legend (@johnlegend) April 11, 2022
this is like when I didn’t understand why anyone didn’t like the movie Tully but it’s because I fell asleep right before the ending
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 12, 2022
re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth
There may be shenanigans. But if I read the requirement correctly, 19 counties x 100 signatures strikes me as a pretty low bar.
If the “leading” candidate couldn’t have collected many times that in a state with over 3M people, I wonder about the campaign organization.
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here in the Ohio River Valley, all it takes is rain for drivers to start showing they are eejits.
Can’t tell you how often when we had to travel in I-74 through snow and some icy spots from Indiana to Illinois the medians were filled with the snow-bound SUVs of the overly confident.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
more details at Bleeding Heartland
So the judge ignored all prior precedent and legal considerations to rule against her.
re: #231 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There may be shenanigans. But if I read the requirement correctly, 19 counties x 100 signatures strikes me as a pretty low bar.
If the “leading” candidate couldn’t have collected many times that in a state with over 3M people, I wonder about the campaign organization.
Three signatures, THREE:
Plaintiffs Kim Schmett and Leanne Pellett challenged one signature from Allamakee County, where a voter had listed the zip code instead of the date, and two signatures from Cedar County: one with no date, and another apparently dated “6-6” instead of “2-6.”
re: #231 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There may be shenanigans. But if I read the requirement correctly, 19 counties x 100 signatures strikes me as a pretty low bar.
If the “leading” candidate couldn’t have collected many times that in a state with over 3M people, I wonder about the campaign organization.
Or, they collected the amount of signatures needed knowing that the state would recognize the list as enough.
Judge Beattie’s opinion rejected the state’s argument that the State Objection Panel’s decisions are not reviewable under the Iowa Administrative Procedure Act, as the Panel is not an agency under the relevant code chapter.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Technicalities are the soul of the law. That said, I also agree with both sentiments: 1) GOP dirty tricks are likely, and 2) what kind of D campaign operation can’t even build in a margin on the signatures precisely because said dirty tricks are likely?
re: #237 EPR-radar
Technicalities are the soul of the law. That said, I also agree with both sentiments: 1) GOP dirty tricks are likely, and 2) what kind of D campaign operation can’t even build in a margin on the signatures precisely because said dirty tricks are likely?
The kind of campaign operation that is going to lose the General by 10 key votes.
re: #236 Belafon
Or, they collected the amount of signatures needed knowing that the state would recognize the list as enough.
I don’t think they would just stop when barely over the threshold because of things like missing or wrong dates, or people signing as Mickey Mouse.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Three signatures, THREE:
oh, lookie…
Iowa Governor Seeks Review of Officials Who Worked for Saudis
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds yesterday announced that her office has asked the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board to review the case of two current state officials who did political work for Saudi Arabia at the same time they held important government positions.Connie Schmett and her husband Kim Schmett earned $101,500 working for Saudi Arabia against a federal law that cleared the way for 9/11 victims to sue the kingdom for its alleged support of the September 11 plot.
The governor’s move follows original reporting by 28pages.org, followed by Associated Press, that Connie Schmett allegedly used deceit to persuade Air Force veteran Dustin DeMoss to travel to Washington and lobby for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).
This is a question for Anymouse. I noticed a while back that you said you had quit the Nebraska legislative race for District 47 because of threats on your life. Quite understandable.
But on checking the Nebraska SOS site I see that there is no election scheduled for district 47 this year. Surely you knew that. Care to explain?
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Take your time. I no longer post here, so I’ve forgotten how to post an image, otherwise I’d post the image of your March 9 post where you mention the district and the man who currently holds the office.
re: #243 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Starting decent into SLC. Bumpy.
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Vertical descent of a fixed-wing aircraft strikes me as a highly risky maneuver.
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
Russia’s end-game in Donbas is permanent annexation unless they lose the war
Had they only invaded the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, they might have gotten off with minimal sanctions. But the went va banque and seem to have bitten off more than they can chew.
re: #28 Jay C
IMO, the “Russian Question” is (amazingly) still the same as it has been in world politics since - I don’t know; Catherine The Great’s time?
Too big and powerful to be ignored: too inefficient and corrupt to be an effective “superpower”.
On one point, I can agree with Putin: the dissolution of the USSR was a geopolitical disaster.
Not that it happened, but how they went about it. Or rather did not go about it: they just let it fall apart into separate states with little regard for minority status and rights (which mostly affects expatrated Russians) or their financial and physical infrastructure.
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