74% want a no fly zone!
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-americans-broadly-support-ukraine-no-fly-zone-russia-oil-ban-poll-2022-03-04/
But fewer than half want the broader war that implies.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Remember when The White House was patting itself on the back for evacuating 120k from Afghanistan in 17 days?
It's always better to rely on yourself. The government will screw up a 2-car funeral.
Half of the country doesn't seem to get it that a wider war in Europe would oblige us to participate under NATO
Q:
"If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?"
A:
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Mayor Beetlejuice says “My d--- is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d--- in Chicago”
Here:
“You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians. ... You are out there stroking your d---- over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot,” Lightfoot said, according to the complaint. “My d--- is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d--- in Chicago.”
Always thought there was something a little odd about Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Once again, WaPo story critical of Trump's border wall never mentions Republicans forced Trump to accept Bush-era bollard fencing instead of his promised "impenetrable barrier"
The whole point of forcing Trump to accept bollard fencing was to make him a failure on his signature issue. Everyone already knew it was inadequate from the time of Bush, who agreed to it BECAUSE he knew it wouldn't work. Bush WANTED a porous border. Bollard fencing to Bush was like running on a pro-life plank and never having to do anything about it once in office. Good politics, that's all. Good optics.
Trump was set up to fail, and like a fool, he accepted it. That's the real story.
It was Republican payback for all the mean things Trump said about Republicans in 2015-2016. "We'll fix you, buster. Here's your stupid wall."
These facts are why WaPo has to write an article about the failure of bollard fencing periodically, in order to keep the lie alive that a border wall doesn't work. Their agenda is the same as the Republican Democrat agenda of a porous border, to keep the cheap labor flowing in, and the drugs. It's also Drudge's agenda.
Those two things are the most important to a sick, dying society, otherwise we'd have fixed this long ago.
And obviously, Trump is part of the problem, not the solution.
Now the stink on the border wall is so bad no one will come near it for a generation.
Mission accomplished.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-border-wall-has-been-breached-more-than-3000-times-by-smugglers-cbp-records-show/ar-AAUwpuh
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
I stand vindicated by Real Clear Investigations story about the high percentage of breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts, highest of eight states studied
... thousands of Americans are dying from the illness even after having been vaccinated. Striking evidence comes from California, Georgia, and Illinois, where a third of people dying with COVID had been vaccinated – even some who had received a third booster shot. ...
The proportion of fully vaccinated and/or boosted deaths against the number of total deaths is substantial, and appears to have been gradually increasing in recent months at least in several states.
Of the eight states publishing detailed, so-called "breakthrough" death data on the vaccinated to the present, RealClearInvestigations found that Massachusetts – with a substantial 75% fully vaccinated rate – suffered the highest percentage of vaccinated deaths: 55% from January 1 to February 12, 2022.
Follow my label "Massachusetts" for my reporting.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
This disgusting piece of trash wanted to sentence a Jan 6 demonstrator to 5 years in the slammer for a 20-minute stroll in the Capitol
The guy killed himself.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/man-who-pleaded-guilty-to-entering-capitol-on-jan-6-dies-by-suicide
Graves put away Jesse Jackson Jr for 2+ years and his wife for 1 year for crimes he called "staggering".
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-26/ex-fraud-prosecutor-nominated-to-be-the-u-s-attorney-in-d-c
Drudge is promoting Putin analysis by two women who spew psychobabble and illogic
Fiona Hill at Politico https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340
and Amy Knight at The Daily Beast https://news.yahoo.com/russian-people-may-starting-think-092222195.html .
Fiona Hill can't make up her mind: "Putin is increasingly operating emotionally" but "there's been a logical, methodical plan that goes back a very long way". Then she takes it all back at the end and says Putin didn't "initially set off to do all of this" despite the plan that goes back a very long way but his "feelings of loss, they've all been there" since the dissolution of the USSR, so he is operating emotionally.
Got it?
Amy Knight is similarly confused: "Hitler and Stalin were crazy by any psychiatric standard" but "Khrushchev—though volatile and impulsive—was apparently a rational actor, not consumed by the historical grudges and the need to show off his masculine credentials that seem to obsess Putin." Except dictators are all alike: "First of all, like any dictator, Putin does not feel confident of his hold on power".
Meanwhile the Russian people are just mind-numbed robots according to Amy, but they are our only hope: "Russians are conditioned to say they approve of their leader when there is no alternative" you see, but "hopefully, Russians themselves will take action and stop their leader".
And to underscore Amy's illogic, even though she references Putin's insane nuclear threat involving "consequences we have never seen in our entire history" which were made as the invasion began, somehow it was the subsequent "Ukrainian resistance stronger than expected" and crippling "Western sanctions" which are "probably why Putin resorted to the insanity of his nuclear threat".
"She's just pulling it out of her ass". -- Sigmund Freud
Monday, February 28, 2022
The lynch pin in all of this is hydrocarbon supply, and as long as hydrocarbons are anathema to elites of the West, prices will continue to stay high
West Texas Intermediate Crude is at nosebleed level once again, no doubt about it.
It's amazing how far Sean Hannity has fallen
Here it is almost 5 PM and he's repeating the falsehood that Russia killed all the Snake Island defenders, in order to whip up the indignation against Russia among his listeners.
The story was debunked many many hours ago.
I turn on the radio for five minutes and all I hear is lies.
LOL, what's worse to the Biden administration, nuclear fallout or coronavirus?
We report, you decide.
https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions. Continue to practice social distancing by wearing a mask and by keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who not part of your household. ...
Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress.
Last Updated: 02/25/2022
Saturday, February 26, 2022
LOL, Obama had to drop pallets of cash on Iran because of SWIFT: "U.S. and international sanctions isolated Iran from the international finance system"
Obama 2016 swan song:
$1.7-billion payment to Iran was all in cash due to effectiveness of sanctions, White House says
Germany will find a way to pay for heat, too. Keep a sharp eye out for flights from Frankfurt to Moscow, loaded with pallets of cash to get around SWIFT.
The West late Saturday finally does the right thing against Russia on the third day of its Ukraine invasion
WASHINGTON —The United States, European allies and Canada agreed Saturday to remove key Russian banks from the interbank messaging system, SWIFT, an extraordinary step that will sever the country from much of the global financial system.
“This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally,” the global powers wrote in a joint statement announcing the significant retaliatory measure.
Moscow’s exclusion from SWIFT, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, means Russian banks cannot communicate securely with banks beyond its borders. Iran was removed from SWIFT in 2014 following developments to Tehran’s nuclear program.
SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories.
Trump's tone-deafness on Putin on the 22nd is no different than his dismissive COVID-19 response in early 2020, which he never understood frightened away America's older voters
Europe is finally uniting against Putin on the third day of the Ukraine invasion, passing restrictions and sending arms and support, and Trump is calling Putin's machinations to invade Ukraine "smart", "genius", "very savvy", and "pretty savvy".
He's clueless. Putin has clearly over-reached and is leading Russia into permanent pariah status on the world stage.
I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.
So, Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy… I know him very well. Very, very well.
By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, “I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,” he used the word “independent,” “and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.
More.
Republicans will pay a heavy price for backing this lunatic again.
The increasingly crabbed little view of America First conservatism is that there couldn't possibly be a crisis in another country which we should be involved in
As if the two things can't possibly both be true, that our borders should be under control and Russian aggression in Europe must be opposed.
Germany is still hedging on banning Russia from the SWIFT system at this hour after worldwide outcry at EU intransigence two days ago
And as usual Biden is a follower, not a leader, still mulling over what he should do.
Austria, Hungary, France, Italy, Cyprus all have now signaled readiness to accept the draconian measure in order to cut off Russia's access to payment flows.
Germany could easily find itself without heat very shortly if it relents.
Meanwhile Ukrainians are bravely fighting off the Russians alone.
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