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Are you Waldorf or Statler?

The Russian army (also known as War Criminals R Us) fired 160 missiles and drones at Ukraine last night, most of them willy nilly, aimed at civilian targets on purpose. Ukraine managed to shoot down 100 missiles, but 60 got through, causing at least 10 innocent people’s deaths. But you’re okay with that, right? Nothing but savages and nazi’s in Ukraine, so no skin off your nose, right? Can’t wait for the F16’s to arrive, so Ukraine can really start bringing the fight to Russia’s doorstep. Meanwhile there was a super decadent party in Moscow a few nights ago, looked like Caligula and the last days of Rome. And this for a country that claims to be a beacon of morals and integrity. Just face it: the Russian elite are an incredibly decadent, depraved and hypocritical lot who are more than happy to let the common folk fight and get killed in Ukraine in huge numbers, so that they can party and count their money.

Russia can keep claiming the Novocherkassk was just a little damaged until they’re blue in the face, but these pictures are quite clear:

What is it with the RTP and this ridiculously prudish Victorian attitude? They spend way too much time and effort on this kind of stuff, like tracking down people who buy sex toys, people who engage in sex parties, women who post nude selfies or videos online. Go catch some real bad guys, you dolts!!

Wildlife trafficking is a very lucrative business, with very low penalties. Lots of people high up in the food chain make good money that way. They are never going to get caught, and not a lot is going to change, except for the token ‘crackdown’ every now and then, where a few minor smugglers will get arrested and some animals seized.

If there is a hell, people like this should die a horrible death and then spend the rest of eternity there, being spitroasted over a roaring fire. What a total POS! https://www.the-sun.com/news/9939024/putin-crony-assassination-anton-krasovsky-poison/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native

Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, said that these 18 F16’s are the first batch, there are probably more to come.

Gee, what a shocker, who’d have thunk it. The mindless MAGA crowd don’t get their way and (want to) resort to violence. Where have we seen that before? I’m sure DJT is going to put in his two cents on truth social to throw more fuel on the fire and incite his already crazed and blood-thirsty supporters.

Jeez, you’re really gung ho on painting Trump like a victim, aren’t you? Do you really not think he bears any responsibility whatsoever for all the things that are happening to him right now, all the 91 indictments he’s facing? That this is all just a huge political witch-hunt, of which Trump is the victim?

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. That she finally grew a conscience and a spine and stood up against Trump does not necessarily mean that she would be a good candidate, president or even a good person. Let’s not forget that she voted like 99% with Trump when she was still in congress. So if she were to become president, she would probably do what every Republican president in the last five decades has done: slash taxes for the rich, let corporate America rule the country, cut social security and medicare, raise the defense budget, not raise minimum wage, promise a small government and fiscal responsibility (one of the favorite GOP talking points) but instead increase the deficit by at least 50%. If that’s what you want for America, then she would probably be a good choice.

Keep pitching me those doozies and we’ll see what happens.

Wasn’t Mexico going to pay for that will? And didn’t Trump promise “we’re going to win so much you’re going to get tired of winning”. How did that work out, Mexico paying for that wall, not to mention all that winning?

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing after reading that. Good one! All you guys always say things like ‘I’m no fan of Trump, but…..’ and then comes the Dems-bashing and the Trump praising. If only there was a word for that….

What evidence? Republicans keep screaming they have the smoking gun, and it always turns out to be big pile of horse sh!t. They’ve been at it for over a year and and still got nothing on Biden, and the only evidence they will ever be able to present will have been fabricated. The Biden crime family? Don’t make me laugh. They’re looking at the wrong (ex)presidential family. Meanwhile, James Comer, the dumbass chairman of the House Oversight Committee, seems to be guilty of exactly the same thing he accuses Biden of having done. Only there’s no evidence Biden ever did that, and plenty of evidence Comer did. So why is Comer not being investigated?

have full possession of their faculties Name one person in the GOP today who meets that criteria….

How/why is this BS? Just because you hate the Dems and love Trump? If you want to talk BS, how about the impeachment inquiry by the House Republicans into president Biden? Do you think that is BS as well? Anyone with just half a functioning brain cell will have recognized what Trump and his co-conspirators were up to before, on and after Jan. 6, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be able to connect the dots. Many of his co-conspirators are now facing justice and have flipped on Trump. And Trump himself has been found guilty of sedition already, by that CO court, and is facing similar charges in Washington DC and Georgia. Please explain to me what the BS is that you so desperately want stopped, I’d be really interested.

The Orcs showing their true nature once again: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872931/russian-ukrainian-swastikas-prisoners-war-crime.html Russian soldiers carve swastikas into foreheads of Ukrainian captives in horrific war crime, harrowing images reveal.

Authoritarian governments never fix anything, just their own bank accounts and silencing their opponents any way they can. And liberal city and state governments are to blame? Are you for real? Four years of Nixon/Ford, eight years of Reagan, four years Bush sr. and eight years Bush junior. Not to mention four years of Trump, where the GOP had the Senate, the House and the president. And all these Republican presidents and governments didn’t manage to do anything about immigration. Hmm, I wonder why. The real problem is that since Reagan, hard-core capitalism has ruled the country. Corporate America is calling the shots and they are interested in just one thing: making as much money/profit as possible, in any way possible. The lower/middle class just got poorer, the middle class has been almost wiped out, and the rich got (a lot) richer and they spend their time counting their money and not giving two hoots about the plight of the average working Joe/Jane.

Trump doesn’t know his @ss from his elbow. At first he claimed the economy was doing very badly, because the Biden administration had made a mess of things. Then apparently someone pointed out to him that the economy is in fact doing quite well, even better than when he was president, and in this speech he said that the economy was running on the fumes of what the Trump administration had accomplished, but that it is just a matter of time before the Biden administration will run it into the ground and there will be a crisis that hasn’t been seen since the 1920’s and 30’s. It’s time this wannabe fascist dictator gets instantly fact-checked for everything he says and claims, because the moment he opens his mouth you can be 100% sure he’s making stuff up, tooting his own horn, telling the most outrageous lies and trying to take credit for things he has had nothing to do with. The sad thing is that the sheeple that Trump has absolutely no respect for (I personally think he secretly despises the ‘common folk’) keep loving and adoring him, and keep sending him their hard-earned money. How blind can you be?

No argument here. But in this case, for once, he’s actually telling it like it is: Trump is indeed an authoritarian narcissist. And that’s putting it mildly.

Here’s an interesting titbit: “A binder holding top-secret intelligence that contributed to a U.S. assessment that Russia tried to help throw the 2016 U.S. election to Donald Trump has been missing since the last days of his presidency, a source familiar with the issue said. The Russia intelligence was included with other documents in a binder that Trump directed the CIA to send to the White House just before he left office so he could declassify materials related to the FBI probe of Russian interference in the 2016 vote, the source said.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/binder-with-top-secret-russia-intelligence-missing-since-end-trump-term-source-2023-12-15/ It is particularly interesting that Trump directed the CIA to send it to the White House just before he left office. Hmm, I wonder what happened to that binder….

“A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us-intelligence-assesses-ukraine-war-has-cost-russia-315000-casualties-source-2023-12-12/ So nearly 90% of the personnel Russia had when the conflict began are either dead or injured. I’d call that pretty catastrophic.

Her father was definitely a war mongering idiot and a war criminal, but Liz not so much. At least I don’t remember that of her, she was just being a good little Republican following dear leader Trump. Until she developed a conscience and a spine. But if you want to talk war mongering morons? What about all those MAGA freaks who want to invade Mexico to ‘destroy the drug cartels’? Or what about all those Putin loving Republicans who are happy to let Russia get away with war crimes, and don’t see any danger in Russian imperialism?

Liz Cheney was the rising star in the Republican party, at some point I think she was third in line. But the minute Cheney (and Kinzinger) turned against Trump, all the Trump @ss-kissers couldn’t wait to shun them and kick them to the curb. Absolutely disgraceful. Don’t get me wrong, I have no love for either Cheney or Kinzinger, but at least they showed to have a conscience and a spine. Which are two very important things many Republicans seem to be lacking these days.

Exactly. The north-east doesn’t seem too bad right now, but the north, central and Bangkok area are pretty bad already, and the burning season hasn’t even really started yet. Imagine what it will be like in March and April.