The Australian Open is moving along. I haven’t seen a minute of it, aside from tweets about The Athletic (part of the NYT, IIRC) asking every American player about the “turmoil” in America over the past year and trying to get them to answer questions not about tennis. No wonder that place is failing. Also, I think the Winter Olympics starts soon. And that’s pretty much it.
The wins continue. I hope the complete withdraw from the UN happens in the next year.
I’d like to think this is merely temporary. What they need to do is charge Lemon in whatever city he was in when he coordinated with the protesters under RICO. He said he’d flown in that morning to participate, so one would be led to believe he engaged in the conspiracy to deprive those people of their 1A rights before he left. Or if he had a connecting flight, find out if he communicated with his co-conspirators in flight or at his layover and charge him there. And charge the rest of them there as well, since it’s now become a conspiracy case. That’s what I’d do if I were a prosecutor on this one. Roll them all up in a different venue with judges and juries who aren’t completely retarded.
I wouldn’t call it “divisive.” I’d just call ti stupid and not based in fact. Either way, it doesn’t have anything to do with the site and never should have been part of the program in the first place. Glad it’s gone.
OK. Fire them all. It’s NYC, so they’ll probably get double pay for the day they’re ditching and screwing their students over instead.
Wait, now it’s a “crash?” It was a bubble as it went up. I’d call this more of a correction than anything. But sensationalists gonna sensationalize.
I want everybody involved to lose here. Also, reopen the asylums.
Just read the act and you’ll know the answer. Kind of a silly question, if you ask me. But the ACLU is retarded so no wonder why they went this direction.
OK. I’m fine with this. If they want to climb in bed with China, let them. They’re free to fuck up all they want. But they will stop being taken seriously when that happens.
Why is this news? It literally happens all the time in the rest of the country and those states don’t require the company to give them specifics.
Why do Texans have “grid anxiety?” Maybe because the media works everybody up into a lather every time the temps get into the 30s.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this whole video. It’s delightfully silly. I’m sure y’all expected this to be the other one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend as we all freeze our nuts off, dear friends.
“I hope the complete withdraw from the UN happens in the next year.”
Its still based in NYC though?
They can start paying rent and/or property tax then.
Can we revoke diplomatic status for any UN-related visitors?
We’ll need to put some plastic down.
I think even most NYers are sick of their shit.
Obviously, we need to start calling them by the proper woke name, UNx.
Wait. We are version 10 of the UN already?
What happened to the previous version UNix?
(-.-)
Considering the blue helmets, UNtz.
It’s
Ma’amEunich!Shitlord!
UCS:
That is the worst boob job I have ever seen.
Jimbo – Your willful obtuseness will not save you.
Jimbo – Your willful obtuseness will not save you.
No, but his top shelf UNIX pun (?) will.
UCS calling out “willful obtuseness”?!?!? Now I’ve see everything!
If you regard that as ‘top shelf’ you’re shopping very downmarket for your puns.
Guess who has two thumbs and turns 55 today?
This guy!
Well Happy Birthday to you
Happy birthday, Zwak! May the chicken of depression only be in your KFC bucket today and going forward.
Wait, two thumbs? What happened to the rest?
They are up my ass.
Happy birthday! Welcome to the double nickel club.
Speaking of which, Birthday Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByiEnkXfDUw&list=OLAK5uy_k2Z3rgjaTsI4Y5a5G1H6dB6FC1CxihPnQ&index=2
HBD 🙂
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, young man.
Special song for a new senior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfy18ynhWNU
Happy Birthday
Maybe Partying will help?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7C9RQiUdXc&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD
There it is!
Salutations on this auspicious day.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Keep up the good work. I’m a few months behind, I’ll be 55 in November.
Solid member of Gen X and not a single Altered Images or Sugarcubes link?
I am disappoint.
Happy birthday, whippersnapper!
Happy Birthday!
I don’t know how anyone can sue trademark over regular words.
Taco Tuesday lasted a long time.
But at least the couldn’t be trademarked.
It’s doable. It’s just limited to the scope of the products. I’d imagine that Patagonia has trademarks in the clothing space, but I’m not sure what the drag queen is doing that overlaps.
I didn’t bother reading the full article, so I don’t know what the suit is actually about.
Drag queen seems to have a solid argument for overlap with clothing, or at least modelling/cosplay. Patagonia has a registration for entertainment services under Patagonia Films, maybe that stretches to cover something like this?
I’d be answering along the lines of “We can’t all put our own citizens in concentration camps…”.
Morning all.
The correct answer is “I’m here to play tennis. Any tennis questions?” And just ignore them if they try to follow up.
That would probably have the best net result and show some love.
You aced this reply.
Reporters these days are so high strung.
Let them be. Not their fault.
The whole “news” industry is one big racket.
Where is Swiss to find this whole thread in contempt of court?
National Park Service removes climate change facts sign from Civil War landmark Fort Sumter
The next Democrat president can put it back and add a sign warning of the threat Republicans pose to the country.
Certainly they’d want to block any attempt by the Federal Government to fortify and supply a narrative there.
A warning about the threat Republicans pose to the country belongs at Ft Sumter a lot more than the climate warning.
That certainly is the Democrat perspective – look at how you made us go to war!
I like how the media framed them as “fact signs.” Especially since they’re completely based on computer models that have been wrong for decades now.
My opinions are facts , your facts are just bullshit?
When I spent time in Jamestown, Yorktown, and Colonial Williamsburg last year there were woke exhibits everywhere. Sure the men might be getting shot at in a field, but you do know the women are always the hardest hit?
Texans have grid anxiety because of the Patriots clearly.
My wife has it, bad. It’s driving me nuts. We already had a little buddy attic-safe heater and a fresh 20 gallon propane tank (for the grill) that were ready if we had actual failure. She bought ANOTHER SET for Buddy heaters and big propane tanks I now must store
How many weeks is she expecting a failure to last?
I expect to be snowed in for 1-2 days at worst up here.
Also she is worrying about “filling the bathtub with water to flush toilets.”
God save me. I am hiding in my office. It’s 56 degrees in Fort Worth TX right now. I could grill steaks in shorts and flippies.
UnCivil: It’s literally 48 hours. Nothing. At best, I need the little Buddy heater and a propane tank on the very off chance we lost power and water for a day and had to keep pipes warm.
That has happened exactly once in all my years in Texas.
-30 in Podunkville, only 4 more days ’til the Therm-O-Meter gets back to the big ‘0’
I’m looking to restock my propane in case the electric goes out. I have little buddy and four tanks for the grill and garage.
I’m also getting 18” of snow followed by a week of frigid temperatures.
Thankfully there is not any ice or heavy snow expected.
I really need to get a 20# adapter for my propane space heater and stove. The 1# bottles are expensive as hell.
I really need to get a 20# adapter for my propane space heater and stove.
Yes, you do. I have one as part of my emergency kit.
The 1# bottles are expensive as hell.
Yes, they are. I’ve been running my tabletop grill off of a standard size tank and it’s lasted at least three seasons. Also, you can buy an adapter hose that lets you fill the 1# bottles from a standard tank.
Order an adapter now while you’re thinking about it, then just keep it with the heater. That’s what I did last time this was a threat. Those 20 pound tanks last a long time with the smaller heaters.
I have multiple fish house heaters that all run from propane tanks (I use a 5# tank when fishing) so at worst we could use those. But honestly you’d only need 1 to “survive”.
We also have a fireplace and wood. (I’m no where near Fourscore levels of Global Warming Terror though).
In reality, you could survive just about anything if everyone bundled into a single room and crawled under a lot of blankets together. (This strategy is why the NoDaks never died out after spending winters in a sod hut on the prairie).
Even a gas lantern throws out enough heat to keep a smaller room comfortable. A lot of times, that is all I use in the fish house.
Just ordered a couple. They won’t be here before the snowstorm, but I have enough small bottles to keep me warm and fed if the power goes out for a couple days.
Worst case, I brave the roads and head down to Mom and Dad’s place. They have a whole-house generator system.
Also, I would be real leery of charging Don The Lemon without a whole lot more than was put up there. He is a reporter, and the 1st needs to be treated as a very strong defense.
Yeah, he is ashoe, but, thems the breaks.
There’s nothing special about him. He’s just as much a ‘reporter’ as any of the TikTok noisemakers.
And the 1st is something the previous admin went nuts trying to suppress, which I think needs to be approached with a lot more caution. If he actually conspired to disrupt before the fact, yes, go after him, but just because he tagged along, whether invited or by happenstance, you need to do a lot more work to prove he did damage here.
And, yes, deporting the Beatles would have been a good thing. Along with every one of their fans.
Get rid of that crap.
My understanding is that we can deport anyone who isn’t a permanent, legal resident, for any reason.
You know, like would be routinely expected in any other country but it’s Hitlerian Terror when practiced in the US.
Hear hear. I’ll never forgive that British teenybopper crap for crowding out 50’s surf rock as the de facto American pop music.
It’s too bad that It’s Trad, Dad doesn’t seem to be on free streaming anywhere.
Yes its a matter of building the case if one exists not to succumb to the mob screaming for an arrest.
Although, he can still get hit with trespassing as the pastor did ask them to leave and the 1st doesnt protect him there.
He is getting everything he wanted out of this. Best to just stop talking about him
I agree on the trespassing, but that is no where near a jail sentence. Which is what everyone is baying for.
And I would give him, loathsome as he is, the benefit of the doubt. Unless he was involved in planning for the disruption and there is inconclusive proof, then let him walk. Yes, this is for political reasons, but look better than the guy Walz/Frey is trying to screw over for pointing out the learing centers.
Clear violation of the FACE Act, for which grannies praying OUTSIDE an abortion clinic got lengthy jail sentences. So all I want is reciprocal consequences; I’m sick of this two-tier justice bullshit.
WTF:
That’s my line too. Fuck selective enforcement, fuck letting someone off because of their name, fuck giving government employees the benefit of the doubt. In fact, triple the penalties for government employees.
It seems the church would have grounds for a big lawsuit, and Lemon’s employers have deep pockets. Make them pay through the nose for this story. But it’s inevitable that the church would get dinged for bringing such a suit; I can just see the “Christians Didn’t Turn the Other Cheek” headlines.
Lemon’s employers
WHO???
I agree on the trespassing, but that is no where near a jail sentence.
In MN, trespassing is a misdemeanor. Misdemeanors in MN are punishable by up to 90 days in jail and/or a fine up to $1,000.
Define “reporter.”
He conspired in the planning of the event and traveled from another state to participate.
You don’t get to evade consequences to your actions because you used to be on tv. He’s no more a reporter than any person who goes anywhere and posts what they see on Twitter. But in this case, he was a participant. And that should carry consequences regardless what he calls himself.
Agreed and participated to get the hot take for his own benefit, at least that is the perception I see it as.
Like a reporter following a firebug to get an interview with them while engaging in the crime.
Man standing outside empty Learing Centers is not a real journalist. Man interrupting a religious service is.
Rat on a train gets it!
Like a reporter following a firebug to get an interview with them while engaging in the crime.
Except in this case, he would have been communicating in a different state with the firebug coordinating the time and place he’d be setting his next fire. And then traveling there to help the firebug make sure nobody could leave the building as it burned.
His participation was much greater than that of a person chronicling the events, by his own words as he live-streamed it. He’s a conspirator. And he needs to be treated as such.
He knew they were going to a church beforehand, and he was handing out coffee and donuts to the protesters.
Freedom of the press is the right to print/publish what you want, nit the freedom to break whatever law you want just because you have a press card from a traditional media outlet.
When even FIRE is calling out Lemon, that says something.
It goes along with their belief that the right to protest exempts them from laws.
Why? There is nothing in the 1st Amendment that awards special status to a reporter. The rights guaranteed apply to everyone, and do not include a right to prevent others from exercising those same rights. The preacher does not have the right to walk into a broadcast studio and start preaching in the face of an interviewer mid broadcast, why would Lemon have the right to walk into the church and start interviewing the Preacher mid sermon?
I took it as…build the case, which appears strong, dont just arrest cause your rabid base is demanding it.
I was responding to Zwak, not the report.
OBE is right. As a libertarian, which is the métier of this site in some ways, just be very leery when stepping around the 1st, and any other defined, black letter constitutional rights. Too many admins have creeped up on this stuff, and I feel that we should be much more circumspect. Doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything, but keep the larger picture in sight.
The 1st protects your right to practice your religion and to speak; publish; gather peaceably in public; and seek redress from the government.
It in no way gives you any right to invade someone else’s privates space and prevent them from exercising their own 1st amendment rights.
There is no legitimate defense of what Lemon did. He’s a self-important prick who needs to be arrested and punished.
Yeah, they was asked to leave private property.
Case closed – 1st Amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with this event.
The 1A doesn’t immunize you from crimes you may have committed.
Most journalists would say that someone who just has a podcast (like Lemon) isn’t really a member of “the press”, for what that’s worth.
What happened in that church is a pretty crystal clear and well documented violation of the FACE Act (like it or not). He was not there as a passive observer, either.
The conflation of traditional journalism with “the press” is one of the worse trends in public perception of the Constitution.
I hate shit like the FACE act. Go after them for trespassing and assault, but not just for where they are.
Push needs to goes to the public, not the gov’t.
What about that portion of the public that was having *their* 1A rights to assemble and practice their religion interfered with?
Push needs to goes to the public, not the gov’t.
But he conspired with others and actively participated in the deprivation of their rights to worship. It’s not a simple trespassing anymore. Had he stormed a grocery store they worked in and sought to prevent them from selling eggs, that would be the case. But he actively disrupted and prevented them from exercising their right to worship. It’s a totally different set of circumstances at that point.
The 1st might not, in black letter, say anything about reporters, but that is a common perception of it. And that expansion in the public mind is just as important in how various admins are judged on this. Laws, especially at the constitutional level, are, in a lot of ways, a general perception of them, not what is exactly written. If everyone believes the 2nd does not cover hand guns, then it wouldn’t cover them. Same with concealed carry. The amendments are open to interpretation, which as been what the fights over it are all about. You need to win these fights in the public eye, otherwise different interpretations win, which is what we are clawing back at SCOTUS.
I would rather see expansions of rights, good and bad, than retractions of them.
Damnit, that was supposed to be STRONK, not strike.
::edit fairy tried to help::
OK, then “expand” the rights to “peaceably to assemble” and “free exercise” of religion.
FACE is just a misdemeanor. Charge Lemon and that organizer woman with the Klan Act.
I would rather see expansions of rights, good and bad, than retractions of them.
Agree completely. Lemon (and the rest of them) should be arrested for trespass – and whatever else can be added to it, home invasion, whatever criminal statutes can be applied – and prosecuted to the full extent of those statutes.
That said, I’m not going to cry too much about the communist agitators being held to the same set of rules that a little old lady praying *OUTSIDE* an abortion clinic is held to. The danger is always that such abuse of state power becomes the new baseline. But having state power applied only in one direction is just a recipe for the destruction of a civil, free society. There is some hope that equal application will result in restricting the state – very small, vanishingly so, hope; But allowing it to be applied in only one direction offers no hope of anything at all.
Gracias, my Incan overlord.
Jail everyone except Don “Lemon Party” and see how long it takes for people to stop answering his calls to agitate for this shit when they suffer consequences and he doesn’t.
THIS!!!!!
I get the calls to jail this ashoe, but to win the minds of people out there you need to look better than the other guy, and this is something to get beaten up over, and not win on. Throw the fish back, he isn’t worth it.
There is the argument that they already arrested the most important people. One of them has been doing this shit for 20 years. I would imagine digging into these peoples’ finances will be enlightening.
Call him as a witness in every case. Get a highlight reel of him pleading the Fifth.
I am reminded that Russian and Belarussian players (the ones with no flag) are routinely pressured by Western media to condemn Putin at tournaments.
Funny how cracking down on the border and (hopefully… I don’t trust it isn’t just hidden somewhere else) not having FedGov pay for illegal alien housing happens and a few months later housing prices start dropping…. so strange…. no one could have foreseen spewing money into a market driving up prices (now do student loans, guys!)
Value vs Price. It’s always a mystery.
It’s just a demographics thing. Retired boomers dying while new construction and a little bit of millennials realizing running an Air Bnb isn’t as lucrative as they dreamed.
I’m not dead yet. I’m feeling better.
Wait… we take Canada seriously? When did this happen?
After we took all their good comedians. They still won’t let us ship Bryan Adams back.
The Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.
Because EA is running the other franchises into the ground and y’all are worried Grid will be next?
“Members of the Big Apple’s powerful teachers union will don black in a show of solidarity with Minneapolis on Friday, demanding ICE stay out of the city after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, the group announced.”
What the fuck does that have to do with the terms of their employment? If we can’t get rid of public sector unions, can we at least limit them to their intended purpose?
The only purpose of the teacher’s unions is to put butts in seats and launder cash to Democrats.
What? The Children’s Custodial Unions are going on strike? They already have a monopoly of their “customers”
Be careful what you wish for, MN and NY aren’t exactly places people are rushing towards.
(whispers) Dude… if you tuck in your nuts, they might not freeze…. just saying.
I thought Banjos had Sloopy’s nuts in a jar, anyway. :-p
Sadly, there isn’t enough time to scrape away all the woke garbage that has been inflicted on American from The One on.
Not before the next Dem is elected and ramps it up all over again only harder.
I guess that dude who led the church storming is a stolen valor prick.
Why in this day in age, when it takes less than 24 hours to verify service records…would you lie about it? This isnt 1950s where you can make shit up and no one would ever find out.
They learned it by watching Mad Men, and think Don was a hero of the story.
The 100,000 navy seals hanging out in America’s bars and gyms don’t know what you are talking about.
Does a vegan, atheist, navy seal ever shut the fuck up?
Depends – do they do Crossfit?
The bearded twat who spewed out scripted insults at 90 miles a minute and managed to get himself arrested? Color me not surprised.
That might be the ugliest drag queen I have ever seen.
Horrifying.
“Then in 2024, Pattie Gonia registered the domain name “pattiegoniamerch.com” and began posting apparel products bearing the “Pattie Gonia” mark. She has also used the name to promote a tour of theaters and arenas.”
Why are they calling a drag queen “she”?
Because they are feeble-minded?
Why are they calling a drag queen “she”?
I wish the reporter had shown a few images of this dude’s logos so we could see if they’re similar enough to Patagonia’s that they could infringe on their rights.
Also, I’d laugh if Argentina and Chile sued Patagonia for stealing the name of their region for financial gain. Just for the lulz.
I seem to remember that the founder of Patagonia bought a swath of Chile, from the Argentine border to the sea, in some kind of underhanded manner, and when Chile found out the nullified the sales.
Just looking at the logos on both websites, I don’t see any similarities at all.
ZWAK, do you mean this land deal? Hardly a nullification.
JI, from your link:
I think it was made a park under threats of being taken? But, my memory of it is shaky.
Reopen the asylums – working on it.
https://nextnewsnetwork.com/2026/01/21/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-to-restore-mental-institutions-got-to-get-t-mknnpky9
“A Nevada judge suddenly announced her retirement days after a court granted a protective order to an attorney she allegedly stalked for more than a year.
Washoe County Judge Bridget Robb, 63, is accused of repeatedly stalking gaming and administrative law attorney Kelci Binau at different residences, workplaces and other locations around Reno, according to court documents obtained by News 4.
The documents described dozens of eerie encounters, but alluded to possibly hundreds of stalking incidents between May 2024 and the issuance of a temporary protective order last week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/nevada-judge-retires-days-after-court-grants-protective-order-to-attorney-she-allegedly-stalked/
WTF??
is accused of repeatedly stalking gaming and administrative law attorney Kelci Binau at different residences,
WTF indeed. Can we humbly ask for some coherence in article writing?
I mean how am I supposed to add this to my lesbian MILF spank bank account when I can’t even understand what the hell you are talking about?
TBF, a name like Kelci is a crime against humanity.
Was she singing “I stalked a lawyer in Reno, just to see her cry”?
“Trump withdraws Canada’s invitation to Board of Peace“
The UN has become a laughingstock and has been one my whole life.
Trump’s Board of Peace is even less relevant. What a dipshit.
For funsies he should have called it World Trump Organization
If we end up with a bunch of organization trumps we might get whistful for the old systems. But I get that he’s trying to bridge some diplomatic gaps here.
He’s trolling the world now. Ridiculous but amusing.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Second place is just the first loser.”
This guy completely destroys that narrative. What a fantastic person.
There are still a few good people around. Watching the news isn’t proof though.
“Florida man charged with felony after allegedly hurling ketchup packet at good Samaritan”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/23/us-news/florida-man-charged-with-felony-after-allegedly-hurling-ketchup-packet-at-good-samaritan/
STIJLTH
The writer of this piece isn’t nearly was funny as he thinks he is.
In Heinz sight, he should have cut down his sauciness.
He should have thrown the entire sandwich – there’s precedent for that not being a crime.
there’s precedent for that not being a crime
But you need to be a Democrat for that type of immunity to apply.
How is that a felony?
Habitual offender
His battery was only 6 years old, maybe a loose connection, but still…should have been charged
according to the article “Though the incident would typically be handled as a misdemeanor, his past ketchup-ed to him, with the charge being elevated to a third-degree felony because he had a 2019 battery conviction.“
Had to share this one from the ‘stacks, with regard to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
Fuck whoever tried to lump this garbage in with 90210. That show was a fucking masterpiece, at least until Brandon left and went to DC to work for the New York Chronicle. After that, it was too Steve Sanders/David Silver-heavy. Had he stayed and married Kelly, while continuing to develop the Beverly Beat, I think he’d have been happier.
And today we learn that Sloopy identifies as a teenage girl. 🙂
I’ve never once hidden my love for quality television programming.
“quality”
*chokes*
Didn’t most of the cast die?
Common Tater:
For a show from 30 years ago, that’s not that shocking.
/looks at B5 cast
So they would be in their early 50’s?
Only two so far.
That show was a fucking masterpiece
Those years in California really affected you, didn’t they?
“If you put him in front of me, I’ll kill him.”
I’m with you sloopy. And Jason Priestley’s SNL episode is one of my favourites from that period as well (particularly the figure skating and NKOTB sketches).
Was he… Sassy, on SNL?
(he should have been in that sketch.)
He was not “Sassy!” but there were a lot of skits and jokes poking fun at the Tiger Beat readers. He did have a beautiful moment with Phil when he chose “her” on the Sprockets Dating Game and that role/sketch is a Hartman classic.
I managed to find part of it
I will not stand idly by while the rest of you malign STEVE SMITH.
He is quite the gentleman!
46 is too old to go to a prom.
“Only, honestly, we didn’t have to get him excited,” says Brandon Lindsey, founder of Dream On 3. “The second we asked him if he wanted to participate, he said he wanted to ask her himself. That it was the guy’s job to ask the girl. He was in from the beginning, just because he wanted to be. He was fantastic.”
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS EXCITED TO DANCE! AND BY DANCE MEAN …
He was in from the beginning
I think you stressed the wrong sentence.
“Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.
The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.
“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/arizona-ag-wildly-suggests-residents-can-shoot-masked-ice-agents-under-states-self-defense-laws/
CWAC
Maybe if you are in your house asleep and the burst in, but if you are protesting them you clearly know that they are law enforcement, and placed yourself in the situation, which defeats any self defense claim right from the start.
He gets it.
Also, why am I not surprised that a state AG doesn’t understand the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law?
Also, if you are an illegal alien, you should not have a firearm per every Dems wet dream background check, and, as you are already a criminal, you do not get to fire at law enforcement trying to apprehend you.
If 5 plain cloths officers standing on your lawn can shoot and kill you on your front porch for having the temerity to investigate their presence, I really dont think “those ICE guys at the ICE protest scared me and I didnt know they were ICE because they wore masks while we were protesting the fact that they wear masks so I got them” is gonna fly.
cyto – if it is in a heavily Democrat jurisdiction I have no doubt either the Dem prosecutor won’t bring charges, or a Dem judge will dismiss charges if brought, or a Dem jury will refuse to convict if it goes to trial. There is very little left of the rule of law at present, just politics and power.
“I was following them around using ICE tracker but have no idea who they are.”
Is it OK to shoot politicians if I think their laws are putting me in danger?
It’s okay to shoot politicians for the sport of it. Most of them are too fatty and stringy to be worth the meat.
One thing being on X has shown me…. our politicians are even dumber than I thought. They post the most idiotic stuff all the time. We really need to do better.
What I learned from X.
Be careful what you wish for. Smart tyrants are likely to be worse than stupid ones. Wilson and FDR were smart.
Thanks Ron.
Still, one would expect their representative to at least be able to watch a video they repost and ensure that their claims comport with what is shown in the video. I mean, my congressman should be a little more responsible than the guy who camps at the bus stop and posts from his Obama phone all day.
It’s okay to shoot politicians for the sport of it.
Isn’t it more pest control than sport?
Can you ground shoot a politician?
Or is it only sporting if you take them on the wing?
What she says applies equally to any plainclothes cop. Now, if she were to take a principled stand that cops should always be in uniform, we could talk. But this wink and nod toward shooting ICE agents as being perfectly legal, that ain’t a principled stand.
100%.
So many shootings involve middle of the night knock and announce raids where police storm a home in seconds creating a deadly situation…. but they expect citizens who are sleeping to understand things that are happening outside of their view.
I suppose nobody ever claimed the legal system had to be logical or consistent.
I like the precedent this sets. ICE isn’t the only group this would apply to based on her statements.
Democrat support for Ruby Ridge!
Music to suit the weather. An old favorite 😉
“Historic winter storm is so dangerous it could kill Americans sheltering INSIDE their homes, forecasters warn, as panic buying hits DC and expert shares what you should do to stay safe”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15491599/winter-storm-dangerous-sheltering-inside-panic-buying.html
Lighten up, Natasha.
Anytime it snowed in Memphis, the video store I worked at would be swamped. The supermarket next door would be similarly swamped. As a Minnesodan, I tried to point out to the hill williams that the ground wasn’t even frozen and there was no way that it would last more than a half day. Did they listen? Nope.
Mrs. Holiness and I were vacationing in Hilton Head, SC a few years ago. It was end of January/start of February and it was going to get down to 34 or something (I just remember it wasn’t even freezing). The local TV and radio were running news flashes about the “killer cold” and telling citizens where they could go to a warming shelter.
The one weather event that was bad in Memphis was an ice storm in ’94. An ice storm covered everything with an inch of glare ice.
Power was knocked out all over the city. Altar Girl was only three months old or so and our apartment lost power (electric heat). We had to live like Okies for two weeks, staying at various friends houses, until power at our apartment was restored.
The day after the storm, the ditches were littered with 4×4 trucks that the good ol’ boys put there because they didn’t understand that there is no driving on glare ice. They were convinced that four wheel drive would make them good.
One of the first years the girlfriend and I went to Viva Las Vegas (around Easter), Vegas had a “cold snap”. It was all the way down to the high 50s/low 60s. Being from Cleveland, where the temperatures were in the teens, we were walking around in shorts and short sleeve shirts while over half of the people there were wearing multiple layers and jackets.
When I was a sub-human around three or so in East Washington, I remember my mother hitting a patch of black ice in the Mustang, and getting to do a very fun, for a toddler, 360* loop-d-loop.
Neph:
We left Minneapolis years ago and it was -5F. When we got to Honolulu, the hotel workers asked where we were from and when they found out it was Minneapolis, they got excited.
They told us that Honolulu had just set a cold temp record and now we were cold weather brothers. When we asked what the new record was, they said 51F.
We just nodded politely, but in the hotel room we laughed and laughed.
It doesn’t take much to panic the DMV.
A storm of Republicans will shut it down faster than you can say ICEicle.
On Don Lemon deserving strong 1st amendment protections – Jan 6 was the break on the left. They prosecuted several “youtube journalists” and freelance journalists. The guy who documented the shooting of Ashley Babbit and sold it to the TV news got 4 years.
I dont know what the prosecutors cited as probable cause, but Lemon’s own published videos provide probable cause for several elements.
He was clearly both a participant and a journalist on that day.
Politically motivated prosecutions and judiciary are wrecking our judicial system.
We cannot even come to a consensus that a mob of people attacking you is a threat of violence. Ever since Ferguson, we have had mobs of protesters surrounding cars and banging on them without getting prosecuted. And then anyone who attempts to flee is prosecuted to the fullest.Extent of the law for using their car as a weapon
We have judges injecting themselves into cases to block administrations or uphold unjust prosecutions. The press has been running cover for this for decades. But now that the shoe is, on the other foot, we have an actual moment of both sides.
Of course nobody seems to want to admit this. You have Democrat party associated NGOs organizing attacks on federal agencies since Ferguson with impunity. Rioters attack businesses and personal vehicles and are protected by local democrat authorities.
Now we have federal prosecutors going after these people. They clearly dont have the venue-shopping acumen of their predecessors. But they may soon figure it out. Using conspiracy charges, they could unravel these funding networks… and then you will really hear them squeal.
But a woman attempting to flee the police in her car was absolutely not using it as a deadly weapon.
Nor can we come to a consensus whether the US is a sovereign nation with the right to control its borders like every other sovereign nation has.
The commie ratfuckers leading these protests are finding success in convincing half the country that the US no right whatsoever to control its borders.
rhywun:
THe STaTue oF LiBeRTY’S PoeM iS a SoCiaL CoNTRaCT!one!!111
/knows people who actually believe this
I suspect the magistrate (not a real judge) who was a former public defender and is married, I think, to yet another pubsec lawyer in Minnesota cared not at all whether the evidence of probable cause was sufficient. A lefty icon was in the dock, and that couldn’t be allowed.
The machine political left has their shit together on this front. Just look at the Flynn prosecution. They had judges so in the bag that even when the government admitted the frame job, the judge kept his own prosecution going for the most ludicrous of reasons.
(The fact that he wasnt immediately removed should be chilling news to everyone)
“Bad Bunny is reportedly preparing to test the limits of his MAGA critics as he embraces the controversy for his Super Bowl halftime show….
The acclaimed rapper is intending to honor the ‘queer’ community by wearing a dress during his performance, according to a report from RadarOnline.com.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15491311/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-nfl.html
CWAA
Two things I don’t give a crap about – narcissist musicians, and sportsball.
Why do people give them attention?
People like sports ball competitions.
They have a halftime music show for the big TV game for the wives.
Putting on a guy nobody has heard of who chooses to flip off the mostly male audience is… well…. it’s a choice.
*clears throat*
Come, come, Mr Ilium – Nobody reads the articles.
Yes, why do people like entertainment.
Why did you change the topic, CPA? We were talking narcissists and sportsball, not entertainment.
People like sports ball competitions.
They have a halftime music show for the big TV game for the wives.
I like sports ball competitions. I have never once watched a super bowl half time show. Even with a decent artist, it’s just going to be overproduced fake BS. When I used to have a TV/Cable/whatever
service, it was just an excuse to switch channels and watch puppies play for 20 minutes while preparing more snacks or checking on dinner.
Now that I uh, stream, my football, I just turn it off and go eat some cheese.
Then you missed Prince playing Purple Rain live in a downpour (which should be available on youtube).
We generally switch channels during the halftime show. Some channels have timers running showing when it will be over, which amuses me.
There have been some good ones. U2 after 9/11, Prince, probably a few others that aren’t coming to mind.
Dolly Parton recently released a collaborative song with a bunch of other singers. When we saw the story on it, I told Mrs. Dean that she should headline the halftime show. Everybody loves Dolly Parton, after all.
U2 had a couple of big banner/screens that scrolled the names of the 9/11 victims, which dropped/“collapsed” during the show. Powerful showmanship.
Prince was the only one I’ve ever watched.
My wife sat through the Netflix Snoop Dog halftime show for some reason.
Then you missed Prince playing Purple Rain live in a downpour
OH NO! Anyway…
More seriously – I’d rather go see Prince live myself (or would have rathered I guess) or watch 100 other instances/recordings of him performing, or listen to the record. To me, a sportsball game is just not the venue for watching ‘live’ music surrounded by all the fake hollywood-style pomp and circumstance. I hate that nonsense on it’s own, don’t pollute my sportsball with it – the NFL does plenty of that on field already.
The Prince one was fantastic. Probably the last good one.
No love for Janet Jackson’s half time show?
Cue for Q!
RC:
Everybody loves Dolly Parton, after all.
I can introduce you to several women who do not love Dolly. They might actually dislike her, in fact.
Why?
Dolly came to my small hometown and was going to play a big country music fest. As part of her act, she said she was going to use a local women’s choir to back her up on a few songs.
Big news in a small town. You can imagine the politics that went into forming that choir and the drama at all the practices in the months beforehand. A lot of friendships were severely strained.
When the big day arrived, the local choir gals trotted out on the stage only to discover that their mics were dead and Dolly used a pre-recorded track instead.
My mom was in that choir and to the day she died, anyone who mentioned got an earful.
There is good stuff, and then there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxK3qTsj_eE
“Wrath”
These people are so full of themselves. Nobody gives a shit.
More like “lowest half-time ratings ever”.
PuppyBowl ratings are going to be fire this year!
Legit LOL. Congress (both parties) discovers that it ceded too much power to the executive. Golly – they had no idea until now?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/congress-war-powers-trump-96303d36?st=RJAWZf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Insane, right?
We the people should have stepped in when they quit passing budgets under Obama. But we happily vote our terrible reps back in. So Pogo was right
They quit passing budgets under Clinton. The last on time, full budget was passed in 1997. It’s been CRs every since.
Pull a papal conclave – Lock them in without phones or aides until they pass a balanced budget.
At stake, they say, is the U.S.-led global order that’s been in place since the end of World War II.
A world gone by. And good riddance. Of course the nostalgic can’t abide that.
A whole bunch of paychecks can’t abide it.
On case anything thinks an SUV isn’t a deadly weapon.
https://x.com/i/status/2014430773261082811
30-year-old Mohamed Husien, committed multiple armed carjackings and was involved in two officer-involved shootings by outside agencies.
Officers ran him over and returned fire, and Husien was pronounced dead at the scene.
Wow. That was more than I expected.
The cops were done playing with him.
You can tell it’s California, not Texas or SC. He keeps opening cars doors like he’s playing GTA without catching a face full of lead.
I was thinking it was a shame none of the drivers were armed.
Or flyover country where criminals aren’t opening random car doors at all.
Thought maybe another red SUV went rogue at a parade.
Good thing the cop that got out of his SUV took the keys.
Can I say that I just hate the “officer-involved shooting” euphemism, which is intended to conflate shooting at a cop and shooting by a cop?
I know cops are civilians, but I like to use the term “civilian-involved shooting” to make the point.
That, and “The civilian’s gun discharged”.
Well… bye.
“Roll them all up in a different venue with judges and juries who aren’t completely retarded.”
Ahhh…an optimist.
“While we regret President Trump has sued us, we believe the suit has no merit,” a JPMorgan spokeswoman said in a statement. “We respect the President’s right to sue us and our right to defend ourselves—that’s what courts are for.”
Wee bit different than the usual comments on pending litigation. I also like that Trumps “goto number” is generally $5bn on any suit.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/president-trump-sues-jpmorgan-for-5-billion-for-closing-his-bank-accounts-17892253?st=oEYEHN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He should sue them, and DOJ should investigate whether they were told to do this, and that person should get criminally charged.
Uffda. I’m thinking that this ICE crackdown in Minneapolis is a godsend for the teachers. They are sure laying the groundwork for why test scores suck
So brave. Let’s quickly revert back to the strategy that was used during the Rona Panic. The one everyone agrees was a total failure.
It wasn’t a total failure for teachers. Quite the opposite.
And they are who matters, not the meat-based funding units in the seats.
The Education Lobby runs Minnesoda. They even have more clout than the Somalis.
There is no chance that their funding won’t be increased after this. Or even that the schools will lose any funds because of the rampant absenteeism.
The rule where schools get paid per pupil that is in a seat on a given day will be ignored. Not one GOP pol will even suggest that the funding rules be applied. The Somali Learing Center folx will look on in envy.
OMG the performative drama.
They live for this shit.
Not this panic, but one of the previous ones had NPR interviewing Austinites about how they prepared for it.
I am not making this up: Their answer was “we donated to Beto.”
LOL
Perfect.
“A Democratic lawmaker in Washington state has introduced legislation that would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from hiring anyone who has served as a sworn US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The bill, dubbed the ICE Out Act of 2026, was introduced this week by Rep. Tarra Simmons, a Kitsap County Democrat and ex-convict, who has built her legislative career around criminal justice reform. If passed, the measure would effectively blacklist former ICE officers hired during Trump’s second administration from joining Washington police departments, sheriffs’ offices, or other state law enforcement agencies.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-state-lawmaker-moves-to-bar-former-ice-agents-from-local-police-jobs-in-washington
CWAC
Simmons’ path to redemption has been a long, arduous and fraught journey. After a troubled childhood and brushes with the law, Simmons became a nurse. But in 2010, after the death of her father, she started using meth and prescription drugs. She was arrested three times in 10 months and eventually went to prison for delivery of Oxycodone, possessions of marijuana with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a firearm.
When she got out in 2013 her life was in tatters. She’d lost her home to foreclosure, she was bankrupt and she couldn’t get a job. She was also a single mother.
Through it all she got help—from lawyers. They got her through her foreclosure, her bankruptcies and her family law issues relating to her children. They also saw promise in Simmons and encouraged her to do something that seemed impossible: apply to law school.
Can an ICE agent be redeemed if they were using drugs?
Nope. Some crimes are beyond the pale. There is no hope of redemption for and ICE agent. Not even Jesus can save him.
Nice story. But someone like that a) should not have been admitted to law school b) elected to any office. Clowns and inmates running the asylum.
I’m not sure I buy “became a politician” as a path to redemption.
Well, that is a clear case of
virtue signalinglighting the tard beacon.“The magistrate who refused to sign off on charges brought by the Department of Justice against Don Lemon for storming into a church in St. Paul, Minnesota has been identified as Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko, and his wife reportedly works as the assistant attorney general in Keith Ellison’s office.
Micko’s wife, Caitlin Micko, has also shown support for anti-ICE posts on LinkedIn, according to a report from Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-wife-of-judge-who-refused-to-sign-off-on-don-lemon-charges-is-asst-ag-to-keith-ellison-report
Shocking
Well at least we can understand it wasn’t just ideological, he wanted his balls back too.
“A New York Supreme Court judge who previously worked as an attorney for Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered that the lines of a GOP-held congressional district in NYC need to be redrawn as Democrats have been pushing to gain an electoral advantage in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
The order from the judge hands the Democrats a win in the upcoming redistricting push. Judge Jeffrey Pearlman ruled that the boundaries for Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ district in Staten Island as well as Brooklyn are “unconstitutional,” arguing that the GOP district was cutting out minority voters. Pearlman has previously served on the Albany County, New York Democratic Committee.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-judge-rules-only-gop-district-in-nyc-is-unconstitutional-because-it-cuts-out-minority-voters
How is the race of the voters relevant?
The Democrats are to blame for the existence of every single Republican seat?
“How is the race of the voters relevant?”
It’s a good predictor of voting patterns.
Gerrymandering is election rigging, it’s that simple, and should be outlawed. Districts of all kinds should follow political boundaries to the extent possible (city and county lines) and have the shortest boundaries themselves consistent with that.
Indeed.
The game has never been played that way. Alternatively, we could have proportional representation within a state delegation. No gerrymandering that.
However, you are still stuck with the voters that will reliably vote dumb (regardless of party).
“should follow political boundaries to the extent possible (city and county lines) ”
This should not be a rule. No matter where a district is drawn, there will always be someone “across the street” who is in another district. And many counties, in particular, are large enough to have different political cultures – e.g. the western part of my county is deep Red while eastern part is deep Blue. Why not split the county more along the views of the voters?
Setting up districts because of the views of the voters is pretty much textbook gerrymandering.
Huh, I didn’t realize the constitution gave congressional districting authority to the judiciary under Article III.
The Civil Rights Acts have basically displaced/overridden just about everything else in the Constitution. And the courts get to rule on what they require.
Legislation can not override the constitution, but I guess that ship has sailed.
I lived in that district for years. It isn’t possible to scoop up the correct number of guaranteed minority Dem votes without snaking up into different neighborhoods to the north in order to exclude the numerous whiteys who live adjacent to Staten Island.
American Studies Can’t Stand Its Subject
Eighty percent of articles in the field’s leading journal were negative, while not one was positive.
No way. Academics in higher education have negative view of American history. I never would have called it. I’m sure that higher education will immediately begin to get some more diverse opinions. People had no idea until this study came out.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/american-studies-cant-stand-its-subject-c919f89c?st=5kFZpK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
A lot of elected Democrats hate the United Goddamn States, too.
Many of the American refugees, like Jane-Michelle Arc, a 47-year-old software engineer from San Francisco, are transgender. In April last year she flew into Schiphol airport in Amsterdam and, sobbing, asked a customs officer how to claim asylum. “And they laughed because: what’s this big dumb American doing here asking about asylum? And then they realised I was serious.”
…Arc knows how that might sound. “I hear a lot of people saying: ‘You are an idiot. You came here from America.’ People will tell me: ‘Did you think about moving to California?’ And then I say: ‘Well, I lived in San Francisco’ and then they go: ‘Oh, that’s a heaven for gay people.’ But it’s different for trans people, particularly for trans women, to the extent that my experience in San Francisco, robot taxis aside, was indistinguishable from [that of] the people that I knew from Libya and Iran and Morocco and Algeria.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/i-was-afraid-for-my-life-the-transgender-refugees-fleeing-trumps-america
Rejected – we don’t want your pending suicide on our statistics.
I posted that a few days ago. The non-binary child thing is sad.
Jane of Arc? Seriously?
It’s never Joan Van Ark.
They always take the most retarded names.
Always.
“my experience in San Francisco, robot taxis aside, was indistinguishable from [that of] the people that I knew from Libya and Iran and Morocco and Algeria”
To the extent I can extract any meaning from this at all, she is claiming that as a transer, she was treated the same as immigrants from North Africa and Iran? Not sure where that is supposed to be going.
No no, the implication is that living in San Fran as a transgender lunatic is just like how transes are treated in Libya and Iran. I wonder how many buildings this putz identifies as having been thrown off of in Frisco.
“It only happened once – after they saw me inflate my wattle and drift down like a baloon, they stopped throwing me off buildings.”
It means xe is claiming immigrants in SF are treated as horribly as trannies.
Neither of which passes the sniff test.
Just more performative bullshit that the retards who read The Guardian live for.
Very dramatic – nobody cares.
I would totes grant asylum to xe.
Then I’d house xe in the same public housing bloc as all the Muslim immigrants. I’d even put xer on the top floor of the apartment building.
Journalists should not have special legal status. Nor should cops nor politicians. Maybe top-shelf whores.
Can an actual lawyer confirm/deny that Walz gave cops an automatic “good shoot” button if a car accelerates towards them? And if so, surely someone is claiming it only applies to MN cops, not ICE, right?
Maybe you are referring to the Ryan Londregan case?
Londregan was a state trooper who shot a career criminal as he was trying to drive away from a traffic stop while his partner was stuck in the door.
The super-woke Soros attorney for Hennepin county was hell bent on prosecuting him. She brought in a use of force expert who said it was a good shoot, then ignored him and still charged the state trooper.
The prosecution was so blatantly political that King Walz said he was considering stepping in and re-assigning the case to Brother Keith. That is how bad Moriarity was. Brother Keith was fairer than she was.
She also said this with a straight face:
I’m sure she was 100% down with the mob that formed up every day outside the courthouse when Chauvin was being tried for St. Floyd’s murder.
I’m tempted to think you could beat some sense into that stupid bitch, but then I pause, consider the possibility and realize, no, nothing at all could unfuck that mind.
After the way they railroaded Chauvin et al. it is clear that whatever passes for the justice system in that state is completely broken & can be added to the pile of corruption shared by all the ringleaders there.
Their antics make CA and NY blush.
Don’t know the case that inspired it, but SNopes had the take I knew was coming:
Minneapolis also likes to award any officer involved in a shooting a medal. Even if they are busting into the wrong house during a no knock raid
People seem to forget the part where Nathan Hale really did give his life for his country.
What good is the performance of a lifetime if you can’t do it every other day?
I hope the complete withdraw from the UN happens in the next year.
A complete mistake.
Cut it to the bone, skin suit it, and leave it in place.
I hope the people in that church prayed for the souls of those poor ignorant misguided dupes of Satan, loudly and at length.
Don’t Hate — eCVTs Are Genius Transmissions!
TW. Our whiny automotive engineer.
I never bothered to figure out an ECVT. I understand now why Toyota uses them and also why they generally don’t break. Much different from the fragile mechanical belt CVT.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/what-indian-security-forces-are-doing-to-meet-the-need-for-more-assault-rifles-2458947-2023-11-06
Is that a turd under the sling in the photo?
Looks like it. Someone must not have watched the Poo2Loo training video
I can’t think what else it could be.
Interesting that they’re still carrying the torch for 7.62mmx51.
I’m not surprised that the SIG 716s aren’t doing it. AR platforms require a trained and moderately intelligent user and a fairly robust supply chain.
India’s standard infantry rifle is .30 cal?
Whitewashing history
The National Park Service began removing a slavery memorial at the President’s House in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon — an exhibit that opened in 2010 and honored the lives of the nine people held there who were enslaved by President George Washington.
ABC News Philadelphia station WPVI captured video on Thursday afternoon of NPS staffers taking down boards and panels that told the stories of Austin, Christopher Sheels, Giles, Hercules, Joe Richardson, Moll, Oney Judge, Paris and Richmond.
Michael Coard, a Philadelphia attorney who founded an advocacy group that fought for a slavery memorial at the President’s House for decades, told ABC News that his group, Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, is planning to announce “powerful action shortly” in response to the removal.
Is there a sign about Japanese internment camps at FDR’s house?
Something tells me there is no plaque at FDR’s house.
I’m expecting lots of theatrics and little action. I hope I’m wrong.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20011w4zzo
Russia, Ukraine and US hold trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi
I never bothered to figure out an ECVT.
I don’t know if it’s the same thing, but Driving 4 Answers did a thing about some sort of gear-driven CVT. I didn’t watch it.
At some point, a transmission with 8 or more fixed gear ratios should keep you in the power band. So what if it weighs 750 pounds.
It only uses a single planetary gear. You have a starter / generator and the traction motor. You need three sources of power – one of them being the ICE.
It’s lighter, more robust and continuously variable – so it’s better than anything conventional – auto or manual. Assuming you are using it in a hybrid. However, it’s going to “feel weird”.
I always wondered why Toyota hybrids had two electric motors, one big for propulsion and one much smaller that did generation, regeneration and starting. Now it makes sense.
The biographies and brief stories of the nine people who were enslaved by Washington were also still listed on the NPS website as of Thursday afternoon.
“The President’s house in the 1790s was a mirror of the young republic, reflecting both the ideals and contradictions of the new nation,” the NPS website said. “The house stood in the shadow of Independence Hall, where the words ‘All men are created equal’ and ‘We the People’ were adopted, but they did not apply to all who lived in the new United States of America.”
By all means, talk about slavery and the long hard ugly road away from it, but don’t pretend it negates everything done or said in this country in the last two hundred and fifty years.
If you’re going to talk about the road from slavery, don’t forget to mention the hundreds of thousands of men who fought and died to end it.
That is exactly what they do, on purpose. Because certain of us cannot ever be resolved of that original sin.
Over and over and over
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Zelenskyy listed a litany of grievances and criticisms of Europe that he said have left Ukraine at the mercy of Russian President Vladimir Putin amid an ongoing U.S. push for a peace settlement.
“Europe looks lost,” Zelenskyy said in his speech, urging the continent to become a global force. He contrasted Europe’s response with Washington’s bold steps in Venezuela and Iran.
The former comic actor referred to the movie “Groundhog Day,” in which the main character must relive the same day over and over again.
Why won’t they do what he tells them to do?
Ukraine is short of money and, despite significantly boosting its own arms manufacturing, still needs Western weaponry. It is also short-handed on the front line. Its defense minister last week reported some 200,000 troop desertions and draft-dodging by about 2 million Ukrainians.
Pay no heed. Send more money.
Holy shit.
I think that is going to be a common theme going forward. I suspect that even the US would struggle to find enough bodies willing to defend it from an attack, let alone any western European country or many others.
That would be amazing if some shared sense of apathy towards government meant that governments could no longer enforce their will.