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Trevor: Ta-Nehisi Coates on debunking the myth of American exceptionalism

Amber Ruffin: The ABCs of White priviledge

Zerlina: Judge Ketanji Brown makes history

Mark Fiore: Isolationist’s elegy

Now This: Everything you need to know about Biden’s SCOTUS nominee

The New Yorker: How oysters can help fight climate change

The Dotard Трамп and Other Types of G.O.P Traitors:

John Oliver: Critical race theory

The Remix Bros.: ♫ DETHLOCKE (Greg Locke)—I’ve Seen Too Much ♬

Ari Melber and friends: Biden’s court? Black women lawyers cheer barrier broken at Supreme Court

Robert Reich: End USPS sabotage

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  2. 2

    I don’t believe the losses tge Russians are taking. Figured Russian media would release some figures just to debunk what Ukrainian sources are saying.

    I do believe some Ukrainian fighter jets could survive, but I expected Russians to know the MiG-29 can operate from dispersal strips.

  4. 4

    Right now the single most widely known Republican Congresswoman is attending an event openly celebrating Hitler, Stalin, and the Russian invasion into Europe.

    Republicans are totes cool with it, although it is rumored that Sen Susan Collins is contemplating another episode of “disappointment”.

  5. 5

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t own Berkshire Hathaway shares.

    Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posts nearly $40 billion profit

    Wall Street has rewarded Berkshire for its strong results. The company is now valued at nearly $715 billion, and its stock is not far from its all-time high. Berkshire is up 7% this year while the broader market has fallen, as investors have flocked to value stocks as safe havens.

    Two reasons: 1) He can’t invest in a stock with a share price as high as Berkshire Hathaway’s shares trade. 2) He desperately needs the dividend income, and Berkshire Hathaway doesn’t pay a dividend.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a slave to the dividend, which hurt him when he held on to GE shares way, way too long because of the dividend it used to pay.

    Instead Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit bought AT&T, 3M, and Citigroup, all of which have tanked since he acquired his shares.

  6. 6

    Leave it to feckless Joe Biden to offer Zelensky the coward’s way out.

    Rejecting US evacuation offer, Zelensky says I need anti-tank ammo, ‘not a ride’

    A US official confirms Ukraine President Volodymyr rejected an offer from the American government to evacuate Kyiv.

    A senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation quoted the president as saying that “the fight is here” and that he needed anti-tank ammunition but “not a ride.”

    Zelensky’s whereabouts were being kept secret after told European leaders in a call Thursday that he was Russia’s No. 1 target — and that they might not see him again alive. His office later released a video of him standing with senior aides outside the presidential office and saying that he and other government officials would stay in the capital.

    This isn’t some right-wing rag’s report. It’s from Associated Press.

    There are hundreds of Americans still stranded in Afghanistan who would gladly accept a ride out of town, Mr. President, but you abandoned them to the Taliban.

  7. 7

    @ 2

    I don’t believe the losses tge Russians are taking.

    Imagine if I had written that. I’d be vilified for expressing pro-Russian sentiment.

    So far the “minor incursion” is making Zelensky a hero. Hope it doesn’t make him a martyr.

    First Vegetable Joe Biden doesn’t care, either way.

  8. 8

    Last night The President released for immediate delivery to Ukraine another $350 million worth of weapons systems including Turkish drone systems, Javelin anti-tank systems, and Stinger anti aircraft systems.

    At the same time Republicans gathered in a torch lit night rally in Florida to sing praises to Russia invading Europe.

  9. 9

    62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll

    Trump was/is so unpredictable that Putin may have just taken a break while wishing for what he has now – Trump’s loss to what is turning into the weakest and most incompetent American presidency of our lifetimes.

    Trump is said to have told Putin that if Putin attacked Ukraine during Trump’s presidency, Trump would respond by hitting Moscow.

    Soleimani could not be reached for comment.

  10. 10

    The low IQ dumbfuck traitor @5 and 6 is showing us just how low his low IQ can go.

    Will the low IQ dumbfuck traitor ever find the post in which Roger used racial slurs? Or has the low IQ dumbfuck traitor given up on racial slurs to focus on GE?

    There’s been nearly as many low IQ dumbfuck posts about GE as there have been low IQ dumbfuck comments used as an excuse to post his Anti-America pro-Putin hashtags.

  11. 11

    62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president

    No need.
    Trump would have traded Ukraine for Greenland.

    #savvy

  12. 12

    10,
    It is often the case, when caught in an extended losing streak, that the degenerate gambler will seek various and often extreme ways to distract themselves and others from their crippling losses.

    This week Degen Bob is enrolling in an online course to become a mime artist.

  13. 13

    Massive fraud in a MN non-profit that was supposed to feed hungry kids.

    Investigators probe alleged fraud involving over $240 million in federal child nutrition dollars

    You know the story. Huge financial inflows, followed swiftly by enrichment of friends of the nonprofit directors via shell corporations. Laundered money used to buy real estate, luxury items, vehicles for personal use.

    Investigators said that according to a review of bank records, those involved in the alleged arrangement laundered federal nutrition funds through multiple pass-through companies and used the money to purchase property, cars, and travel.

    “The companies and their owners received tens of millions of dollars in federal funds for use in providing nutrition meals to underprivileged children and adults,” wrote the agent who filed the search warrant application. After its approval, FBI raided Feeding Our Future’s offices last Thursday. “Almost none of this was used to feed children.”

    You know the story. Don’t you.

    In 2019, the organization handled $3.4 million in federal nutrition funds; in 2020, that value was $42 million; in 2021, it reached $200 million.

    It was so brazen that when the state caught on and froze the disbursements, these POS scammers sued the state.

    Feeding Our Future first raised eyebrows in the fall of 2020, when the Minnesota Department of Education, which administers federal nutrition programs at the state level, terminated a handful of its sites, and put a pause on new applications over concerns about its auditing and bookkeeping processes. In response, Feeding Our Future sued the agency, and accused it of denying “thousands of qualified children in low-income and minority communities” much-needed food. The education agency resumed processing applications after a judge’s order, but not before reaching out to federal investigators about its suspicions of potential fraud.

    So the state dropped a dime.

    The fraudulent nonprofit will dissolve. And then some.

    Oh. Not involved in the prosecution: Keith X. He was too busy receiving campaign contributions from the scammers.

  14. 14

    Republican National Committee reactions to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson so far:

    Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is a radical, left-wing activist who will rubber stamp Biden’s failed agenda

    Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Democrat partisan who will put far-left special interests ahead of defending the liberties of Americans.

    Ketanji Brown Jackson is a registered Democrat. She donated to Obama’s presidential campaign – and even worked for his campaign as a poll monitor.
    In 2016, her husband donated $1,600 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

    In her few short years on the bench, Ketanji Brown Jackson has repeatedly ruled against conservative policies.

    This would be a very good time to point out that these statements are very good examples of “ordinary people engaging in legitimate political discourse”, as opposed to say, planting pipe bombs in public spaces, repeatedly stabbing a police officer in the neck with an illegally modified taser and trying to assassinate the Vice President.

  17. 17

    With softening of objections from Italy and Germany, Russia will be removed from access to SWIFT interbank system this week according to EU central bankers.

    Member central banks have asked for time to ensure they can implement currency stabilization measures ahead of the cutoff. The agreement is the result of non-stop lobbying of and negotiations with the major members by the Biden administration.

    Upon learning of the development this morning, the most recently defeated Republican former president was left shaken and confused, and kept insisting that staff “stock up on bacon and ham”.

  18. 18

    @ 16

    No difference, either, between Steve and any other spineless liberal pussy, with the exception that most other pussies weren’t born as a result of unprotected gangbangs their mother engaged in with Nazis.

    Steve can never live that down. Not after he found the 8mm.

  19. 19

    @ 17

    Not yet ready to agree to Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT is First Vegetable Joe Biden, as of 22 minutes ago.

    Biden weighs support for expelling Russia from SWIFT as more European countries appear ready to back move

    Updated 1:29 PM ET, Sat February 26, 2022

    It seems that Hunter can’t recall if he left an unsecured laptop behind during one of his Ukraine trips, so The Biden Crime Family is unable to assess the risk that it might have fallen into Russian hands.

    Now, in the event that First Vegetable Joe Biden decides to go along with the EU leaders, he will be following rather than leading.

    Biden only leads when he’s retreating, you see.

  20. 20

    17)Germany is reversing its stance on sending weapons. Too bad they probably scrapped the Luftwaffes MiG-29s when they switched to the Typhoon. If they were in storage, repaint and send.

  21. 21

    Biden’s presidency has already done so much economic damage to Americans that he can’t risk hitting Russia with the most severe of possible sanctions, because they will also further harm Americans.

    Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, February 25, 2022

    Q And why are you guys waiting to apply maximum pressure on Russia with — you know, sanctions on everything? It doesn’t seem — you know, are you guys waiting for Kyiv to fall? Or (inaudible)?

    MS. PSAKI: Sanctions on everything? How do you mean?

    Q In — like sanctions on all Russian — you know, all Russian transactions and on oil and gas. Sort of — like do you think that Americans are not willing to take a hit at the gas pump?

    MS. PSAKI: Well — well, I would say there’s a couple of principles through which the President has approached sanctions. One is maximizing the impact on Russian leadership and on the Russ- — Russian financial system so that there will be a particular squeeze.

    We’ve obviously taken steps already that have gone far and above what have ever been done — what has ever been done in the past. If you look at just 10 — the 10 financial institutions that we sanctioned, they hold a — you know, a huge percentage of — they are about 80 percent of the Russian banking sector. That is a significant step that was announced yesterday.

    The export controls step that was announced yesterday means that they will be — they won’t have the ability to get access to the technology that — and semiconductors and AI — that President Putin desperately wants to continue to innovate his economy moving forward.

    There’s also — of course, Europeans are also looking at — European countries are also looking at some of their reliance on Russia, whether it’s for energy or other purposes, and they’re making their own decisions about diversifying.

    And as I noted a little bit earlier, the Ruble remains about 10 percent weaker year to date and the worst-performing emerging market currency in the world.

    So, what should be clear here is that there are already huge impacts. There is already an enormous squeeze on the Russian financial system and economy.

    What we are also — what the President is also focused on as a principle is not — is taking steps and making sure we are minimizing the impact on the American people, on the global economic system. And we, of course, weigh that, as we have a responsibility to do. And we want to, first and foremost — I should have said this first — take these steps, united with our partners and Allies in Europe.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has to watch his pennies, you see. Better keep gas at $5/gallon rather than doing something good for the world that might mean gas goes to $7/gallon.

    ’cause more inflation would be even worse for Democrats, come November.

  25. 25

    More recusal crap.

    Apart from the messaging dust up, Jackson will also face ethics and recusal questions related to a lawsuit that alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian students in admissions. The High Court will hear that case later this year, and the plaintiffs are urging the justices to ban consideration of race in college admissions altogether.

    Jackson serves on Harvard’s Board of Overseers, one of the university’s two governing boards. The board plays “an integral role in the governance of the university,” through quality control, strategic advice, and external assessments of various departments, according to Harvard’s website.

    Assuming her nomination is successful, I hope she doesn’t recuse. If the point of a different lived experience is to affect decisions such as this, it should be problematic that the newest AJ chooses to sit this one out.

    Admittedly, it will go 6-3 or 5-4 against Harvard if she participates, so the result will likely not change. But I’d like to see AJ Thomas take one side and AJ Brown Jackson the other side in non-majority opinions.

    Oh. I almost forgot:

    Alexandria, Virginia; February 25, 2022: Today, a federal judge ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements at the nation’s top public school to deliberately reduce the number of Asian-American students enrolled.
    …
    Until last year, admission to TJ was race-blind and merit-based; requirements included a standardized test, grade-point average, completion of certain math classes, and teacher recommendations. Last year, the Fairfax County Public Schools’ board and superintendent adopted an admissions policy aimed at balancing the racial groups at TJ by eliminating the admissions test, guaranteeing seats for 1.5 percent of each middle school’s eighth grade class, and awarding bonus points for various factors such as attendance at a middle school previously underrepresented at TJ. The intended result: dramatically reducing the number of Asian-American students admitted to TJ.

    https://pacificlegal.org/press-release/federal-judge-rules-that-admissions-changes-at-nations-top-public-school-discriminate-against-asian-american-students/

  26. 26

    President Biden will use his State of the Union address on Tuesday to both lay out his plans for 2022 and tout the accomplishments from his first year in office, according to White House adviser Cedric Richmond.
    …
    He said one of the administration’s goals is to “look at those things that are affecting families and right now.”

    “We know rising costs is something that many families are facing, and we are specifically looking and trying to address that every day.”

    Like not doing everything we can to assist Ukraine from the Russian invasion. See @ 21.

  27. 27

    19,
    Obviously the degenerate gambler in addition to shorting the market for the past three months looking for a “10 to 15% correction”, is now also engaging in currency speculation.

    Degen Bob went into cash three months ago.
    Last week he converted all his cash to roubles.

  28. 28

    @ 27

    I will say that I’m glad I took a pass after reading about VanEck Russia ETFs a couple of years ago.

    Yikes.

  29. 29

    20,
    Do you think an air superiority fighter is what Ukraine really needs in the short term? Or even the long term?

    I’m asking seriously because I don’t really know enough about this kind of conflict. I know Russian tanks could be useless in Ukrainian cities and may put infantry at risk. Periscopes and targeting arrays can be taken out with rifle fire from close sniper positions available in an urban environment. Thermal imaging can be fooled using cardboard boxes and sheets of plywood. A 50 ton main battle tank can’t safely drive down many city streets without detailed maps of underground utilities, vaults, and transit tunnels. Dinner plates spray painted flat grey and tossed face down into the street are all but indistinguishable from AT mines when viewed through a dirty periscope in bad weather (or even through a clean periscope on a sunny day if you drank the night before).

    I don’t really know enough about the uses of air power in a conflict like this except as a means to simply level a city (or a portion of it). Somehow I doubt that would be beneficial to a strategy of long term occupation. And my understanding of air superiority fighters is that they are accompanied by a massive logistical and support burden.

  30. 30

    Drill here. Drill now.

    Congressman Brad Sherman
    @BradSherman
    Saudi Arabia – now is your chance to be an ally or an enemy of those standing against Russia’s attack on #Ukraine. Saudi Arabia must open taps and produce more oil so the world can turn its back on Russian oil. Otherwise, the blood of Ukrainians is also on Saudi Arabia’s hands.
    1:38 PM · Feb 25, 2022·

    What a clownish thing to say. It invites Saudi Arabia to call on the US to send troops into Ukraine, lest blood be on First Vegetable Joe Biden’s hands for leaving Ukraine to fend for itself.

  31. 31

    @ 20, 29

    Zelensky asked for ammo. Not airborne delivery systems.

    Biden has authorized funds, but that takes time. What could be available nearly immediately is weaponry that the US has already delivered to eastern European partners, which could be passed on to the Ukraine military. That’s apparently problematic for two reasons:

    1. There are, understandably, many restrictions on further transfer of munitions, lest they end up in the hands of undesirables. Overriding those restrictions takes a lot of time.

    2. With Russia moving westward, there will be increasingly less willingness on the part of eastern European nations to give up arms that First Vegetable Joe Biden might not be willing to replace.

    Biden’s a coward and everyone knows it by now. Bird in the hand.

    Portugal sent 175 troops to Ukraine. We’re gonna send Border Control officers to Poland.

  32. 32

    KLM Is turning back their flights to Moscow. Probably used a jumbo jet, so His Majesty was not at the controls. King Wilhelm Alexander is a rated pilot, but I believe on the 737. Been known to moonlight as a commercial pilot, making KLM really Royal Dutch Airlines.

  33. 33

    29)Can’t knock out the planes carrying paratroopers with SAMs alone. Feel bad for the paratroopers on the Il-76s shot down, but I if Ukraine has any chance, they have to take out as many as they can, at a high rate. Not going to be able to do it if tge Russian Air Force goes from having token opposition, to none.

  34. 34

    for leaving Ukraine

    Heh.. kreepee dimfuk in the throes of its kiddie krush for Vlad “Godwin” Putin, fantasizes that the US “abandoned” Ukraine just like it stopped pissing away 300 million dollars a day in Afghanistan.

    The US has been quite generous..

    No thanks to the orange idiot who brown-noses Vlad “Godwin” Putin to this day.

    More countries in Ukraine’s back yard are giving aid.

  36. 36

    This was interesting. Ukrainian offering to tow a Russian vehicle out of gas, back to Russia.

    https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1497541590247641094?s=21

    They may have overstretched their supply lines. Plus, I hope tge Ukranians damaged some of the Russian railway network. Specifically electrical substations, since a lot of Russias railway is electrified. Probably would have to rush in heavy diesels,.

  37. 37

    @1 The three who aren’t overtly demanding affirmative action for the disadvantaged white male minority will concoct some other excuse to vote against her.

  38. 38

    @2 “I don’t believe the losses tge Russians are taking.”

    Given they claim no losses, it must be hard even for Putin to believe their claims.

  40. 40

    38)Especially in the air. Allegedly the Air Force was the first to get hit. Although like I said, the MiG-29 was designed for Frontal Aviation, not the Air Defense Force. They expected it to operate from austere, and damaged airfields. Just expected Putin to know that.

    On a side note, too bad the guy killed early in Hunt For Red October didn’t have the first name of Vladimir.Gis last name was Putin, I believe.

  41. 41

    @5 Earnings per share flat between 2015 ($9.77) and 2020 ($9.12), yield also flat between 2015 (0.0%) and 2020 (0.0%), but now that you’re seeing a little appreciation of your “B” share from multiple expansion after patiently waiting for all those years, I’m happy for you.

  42. 42

    @6 And if Biden didn’t offer Zelensky a ride to safer ground, you’d be accusing him of throwing Zelensky to the wolves.

    Here’s what Biden did: Armed Ukraine, mobilized our allies, slapped tougher sanctions on Russia.

    What your Orange Traitor did: Blackmailed Ukraine, turned his back on NATO, tried to ease sanctions on his Russian bankers.

    Really, doc, you shouldn’t bring this up at all because you and your faction’s credibility on Putin, Russia, and Ukraine is already in the toilet and can only flush farther downhill from there.

    Would you like another roll of TP?

  43. 43

    @9 “Trump is said to have told Putin that if Putin attacked Ukraine during Trump’s presidency, Trump would respond by hitting Moscow.”

    And Putin laughed so hard he had to postpone the invasion for years while he recovered from split ribs.

  44. 44

    @10 You can’t expect a broken record to ever get past the scratched groove. The music stops there.

  45. 45

    @9, @11 – I saw that poll, too. I’d like to know how the U.S. response could be stronger without sending in American troops. Biden said he wouldn’t do that, and explicitly added the reason was Russia’s nukes. He reads classified briefings not accessible to that 62% of voters (who happen to be most concentrated in the GOP, a group that also believes the 2020 election was “stolen” and Hillary Clinton runs a pedophile operation in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn’t have a basement).

    But let’s pull this apart a little. We know Putin is paranoid, and not entirely calculating. We know he despises, and quite possibly fears, having NATO on his borders. We also know his #1 reason for invading Ukraine is to keep that country out of NATO forever. Now what happens if NATO troops go into Ukraine to kill Russians?

    Without knowing (I haven’t seen the briefings either), but I would guess, that in such instance the odds of Putin using tactical nukes go much higher than 50-50. And the odds of hurling some of those nukes at NATO rear-area airfields, resupply, and command bases are probably at least 50-50.

    Not all of Putin’s nuclear threats are empty threats. We probably would use our nukes against what we perceived as an existential threat. Putin almost certainly would view NATO intervention in Ukraine as an existential threat.

    I would rate the chances of Biden being wrong about this (not sending in U.S. or NATO troops) as being very low.

    So, doc, and all you Republicans calling him “weak,” what do you want him to do, that he isn’t doing? He’s already impose every sanction our allies agreed to, and he sees keeping the alliance united against Russia, and preventing Putin from exploiting NATO internal divisions, as top priority.

    Against that, you have what? Trump’s empty bleating while trying to eviscerate NATO? And a flock of bleating sheep aiding Russia by publicly calling the U.S. president “weak” instead of rallying behind him?

    You and Republican voters* are either very stupid, or very disloyal, or both.

    * Yes, I know the 62% includes a few Democrats. In response, I’m forced to admit some Democrats are weak-minded. But I would add that Republicans are so bad even the most weak-minded Democrats won’t vote for them.

  46. 46

    I wonder if the Swiss can legally cut off Russian access to their banks? Some Swiss companies are involved in Russia.

  47. 47

    In a world in which anybody who does not agree with the most progressive of Democrats is framed as a Nazi, Bill Maher becomes useful to the conservative movement.

    Tlaib announced earlier this week that she would be delivering the Working Families Party response to Biden’s March 1 speech. Traditionally, the party that controls the White House does not give a rebuttal.
    …
    “Now, I’ve always seen the opposition party give a rebuttal,” Maher said Friday during a panel discussion. “This is from the same party. This is like sacking your own quarterback. I don’t know, maybe she’s gonna say some nice things about Joe, but basically, it’s to present- … bad idea for the Democrats?”

    Tlaib seems not to realize that “impeach the motherfucker” isn’t something the Democrats should say out loud in 2022.

  49. 49

    @47 “In a world in which anybody who does not agree with the most progressive of Democrats is framed as a Nazi”

    That’s about as true as Putin’s claim that Ukraine’s Jewish president leads a Nazi state.

    Are you now so desperate you have to resort to ridiculous lying? In which case, you’re no better off than Putin is, because that’s where he’s at now.

    It looks to me like you may have more in common with Putin than you’ll admit.

  50. 50

    Twitter feed of MEP Riho Terras

    Riho Terras
    @RihoTerras

    is pretty interesting. Although Railfan @ 1 won’t believe it.

  51. 51

    @47 Tlaib isn’t the Democratic Party. Green is the Republican Party. If there’s a congresswoman problem, your congresswoman problem is worse than our congresswoman problem.

  52. 52

    @36 Yeah, I read somewhere in the news that the Russians are short of diesel. Strange that the world’s second-largest oil exporter can’t gas their tanks and APCs. Maybe Putin should ask Hitler to lend him some fuel.

  53. 53

    @ 49

    Are you now so desperate you have to resort to ridiculous lying?

    After what 95% of HA commenters have directed at me, you’re asking this question of me instead of them? Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you’re the Ridiculous Liar-in-Chief of HA. 120,000 spews of dishonesty.

  54. 54

    @ 52

    I read somewhere

    Catio Miles 🌎 💫 🇺🇦@CatioMiles·11hReplying to @anneapplebaumThere were reports from locals in Russia and Belarus before the invasion that Russian soldiers were selling diesel in local markets.

    that the Russian soldiers are selling their spare diesel cans..

  55. 55

    @ 52

    Strange that the world’s second-largest oil exporter can’t gas their tanks and APCs.

    Two years ago the US was energy-independent. Now we’re begging countries @ 30 in which wife-beating is not only legal but encouraged to pump some more oil for us so that Democrats don’t lose more than 70 House seats in November, pretty please.

  56. 56

    Gamma radiation levels are elevated in Chernobyl. The terrestrial Cs-137 (and to less extent Cs-134) is being stirred up by the heavy military equipment, causing the increased radiation levels.

    From Ukraine’s NRC:

    As previously reported, the control levels of gamma radiation dose rate in the Exclusion zone were exceeded.

    Experts of the Ecocenter connect this with disturbance of the top layer of soil from movement of a large number of radio heavy military machinery through the Exclusion zone and increase of air pollution.

    The condition of Chernobyl nuclear facilities and other facilities is unchanged.

    It’s being reported in the US press as a radiation “spike”. I haven’t seen numeric data. Unable to dispute or confirm.

    The I-131 released by the Chernobyl explosion pretty much no longer exists. Half-life of I-131 is 8 days or so. Half-life of Cs-134 is about 2 years. Half-life of Cs-137 is 30 years. What’s left and still emitting is largely Cs-137 based on half-life differences, I assume.

    If only I knew as much about radiation as Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit does.

  57. 57

    Trump is said to have told Putin that if Putin attacked Ukraine during Trump’s presidency, Trump would respond by hitting Moscow.

    Said nowhere.
    By anyone.
    Ever.

    If Trump was going to offer “dangerous tough-guy bluster” why did he order the transcripts destroyed and everyone to leave the room? Why? Because politically he could not afford to be observed doing what he did…

    …in private…

    …with his mouth…

    …to Vladimir Putin’s ballsack.

  59. 59

    In support, the USWNT refused to play that team of 15 year-old boys who kicked their asses so badly a couple of years ago. ’cause solidarity with Ukraine.

    CBS News
    Poland and Sweden refuse to play Russia in World Cup qualifiers
    Christopher Brito – 4h ago

  60. 60

    58,
    Where do you think Parler and GiveSendGo obtained their security support from?

  61. 61

    Immediately upon being sworn in Trump removed Crimea sanctions, surrendered U.S. Syrian bases to Russia, forgave Putin for paying Taliban bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, declared that Crimea belonged to Russia, ignored Russian border violations in Georgia for four straight years, and supported Russia’s rigging of the election in Belarus.

    Putin has been knuckle deep in Trump for years.
    Trump didn’t give Putin everything he wanted. But he gave him everything he could.

  62. 62

    I have not watched Bill Maher in several years. As a comedian he’s supposed to be fun, but he was presenting as endlessly strident and mean. More and more, his jokes were punching down. That’s not funny, at least, not to me. He’s no longer relevant. The Daily Show, John Oliver, Full Frontal, they punch up. They still matter.

  64. 64

    @54 They’re pretty stupid if they’re selling the cans. When/if a diesel tanker finally arrives, what are they going to carry it in, their canteens?

  65. 65

    It’s no secret that Russian soldiers bartered with the Afghan mujahedin during the Soviet-Afghan war. With Russians, everything is for sale. They’d trade diesel to the Afghans for food (theirs was shit), and then after the Afghans got their fuel, they’d blow up the pipeline strung across the Salang Pass. Needless to say, the Russians lost that war.

  66. 66

    @55 “Two years ago the US was energy-independent.”

    Two years ago our economy was locking down and nobody was driving, dumbshit.

  68. 68

    @61 “Trump didn’t give Putin everything he wanted. But he gave him everything he could.”

    And Putin decided to take the rest by force. Who could blame him, when Trump and every other Republican were telling him Biden is “weak”?

    He miscalculated.

  72. 72

    @21 “Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has to watch his pennies, you see. Better keep gas at $5/gallon rather than doing something good for the world that might mean gas goes to $7/gallon.”

    I wouldn’t call this exactly lying. It’s more like a misrepresentation. A couple days ago, I posted that gas going to $7 a gallon would be good for Roger Rabbit. Not so much for you. That’s because I own oil stocks, and you own an F-350.

  73. 73

    @ 62

    More and more, his jokes were punching down.

    Down is where some people are, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. You should know, having spent an adult lifetime looking people right in the asshole.

  74. 74

    Down is where some people are,

    At precisely what elevation does that leave a troll who has to make up stupid, easily disproven lies in order to punch anywhere at all?

  75. 75

    65,
    Russian officers are notoriously corrupt. It’s not a question of if they embezzle. It’s a question of how much.

    If Russian soldiers are selling diesel it’s probably to buy some decent food.

  76. 76

    74)Probably would not want MREs. Our troops supposedly call them Meals Rejected by the Enemy.

  78. 78

    @73 Well, he alleged I’m a liar, so I asked him @70 what he alleges I lied about, and all we’ve heard in response is … crickets.

  79. 79

    Doctor Dumbfuck frequently reminds us that he reads Barrons magazine before I do, which is true, I buy a print copy at the grocery store on Saturday morning and he gets the digital version on Thursday or Friday. So he undoubtedly saw this item in “Mailbag,” 2/28/22, p. 67:

    ” … even after a huge gain in the most recent year, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock produced the same return as the S&P 500 index over the past 10 years” [which means it underperformed in the preceding 9 years].

    at least 24 hours before he posted here on HA what a great stock Berkshire Hathaway is.

    (N.B., he seems to think I’d either never heard of Berkshire Hathaway, or had never looked at its stock chart during the last 10 years.)

  80. 80

    @76 And if you don’t know what “Ghost of Kyiv” is about, that’s what they’re calling the Ukrainian fighter pilot who shot down 6 Russian aircraft in the first day of the war.

    He’s said to be the first “Ace in a Day” since World War 2. I don’t know if that’s true, didn’t some Israeli earn that title?

  81. 81

    79)Been mentioning a little about it the past few days. Don’t think it’s just one pilot. Also didn’t think the Ukranians had time to disperse their MiG-29s.. Seen on Twitter some suggest, as Poland is replacing their MiG-29s with F-16s, send them to Ukraine. Some are tge ex-Luftwaffe ones I thought were scrapped. They were given to Poland. One of the few ex-NVLA aircraft tge Federal German Luftwaffe kept. Those pilots got a lot of hours against other NATO pilots.

  82. 82

    Zelensky doing a very good job drawing a leadership contrast between himself and the feckless Trudeau.

    Oh. YLB, that personal characteristic of Zelensky that you don’t recognize? It’s spine, Princess.

  83. 83

    @72. Jeez. Is the greedy racist incel having a stoke? That was just insults and word scrambles. I guess he’s got nothing, he just shot squid ink and changed subject.
    Please try to be a better person.

  84. 84

    @81 “Zelensky doing a very good job drawing a leadership contrast between himself and the feckless Biden Trudeau. Oh. YLB, that personal characteristic of Zelensky that you don’t recognize? It’s spine, Princess.”

    Something seems to have changed in the last few hours. Maybe ER could explain it, he knows all about switching tracks.

  87. 87

    GOP governor showing spine: “Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called for ‘decisive action’ aimed to support Ukraine following the Russian invasion. Youngkin announced an immediate review of the state’s procurement of all goods and services involving Russian companies and called for an end to statewide sister-city partnerships with Russia, according to a statement released by his office on Saturday.”

    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-26-22/

    Now there are sanctions with teeth!

  88. 88

    Doctor Dumbfuck never did get around to pointing out where I “lied” before packing it in for the night. Probably because he’s too busy helping hold off the Russians in the streets of Kyiv.

  89. 89

    People are being arrested in Moscow for protesting against Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine. That puts in perspective Republicans’ nonsensical claim that masks “take away our freedom.”

  91. 91

    88)Tgey probably don’t get bail.

    Ironically, some of those anti-maskers probably were waiving Thank You Russia flags a Trump Rallies years ago.

  92. 92

    74,
    Soldiers anywhere, but especially soldiers deployed in the field, always have and always will complain about food. U.S. service members in the field eat better than any other military on earth.

    OTOH it can be a perfectly normal thing for deployed Russian units to have to “forage”. That may be a viable option in Belarus, trading diesel for canned goods or bread. But once they are inside Ukraine, surrounded by a population building fuel bombs in their cellars, it may not be… um… wise.

    The Chicken a la King MRE may be an unpalatable soupy glop of sodium and mystery meat, but it won’t put you in DUSTOFF bleeding out of your ass.

  93. 93

    ABC News drops the hammer on a guy whose brain is too addled to feel it.

    But 40-year-high inflation leads his headaches: Americans are twice as likely to say they’re worse off than better off under his presidency, by 35-17%

    The result: A career-low 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance overall, with 55% disapproving.
    …
    Biden’s fortunes in turn spell trouble for his party in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. Republican congressional candidates have a 49-42% advantage over Democrats among registered voters, widening to 54-41% among those who say they both are registered and certain to vote in November.

    The result among registered voters is very similar to what it was in November, 51-41% — as reported at the time, the largest Republican lead in midterm election vote preferences in ABC/Post polls dating back 40 years. In the new data, among independents who are registered to vote — often swing voters — GOP candidates lead by 14 points.

    Turns out that inflation, silly mandates, and weakness on the world stage aren’t a good look to any voter with a backbone. Who knew?

  94. 94

    Anybody else wonder why Steve doesn’t ask God to bless our president anymore?

    I’m pretty sure it’s because Steve realizes that if there is a God, he is undoubtedly embarrassed by our president, and is more interested in retribution for what has happened in the past year than in blessing him for it.

  95. 95

    At the CPAC event a bunch of conservatives surrounded a CBS reporter and screamed “traitor!” at him, for not thinking the way they do and reporting things they don’t like to see reported.

    Gee, I wonder what that’s like.

  96. 96

    94,
    Degen Bob has been called “traitor” for repeatedly choosing to support his own individual interests, the interests of his political party, the interests of a fat, spray-tanned, failed reality television personality, and the interests of a murderous insane Russian dictator over the security and safety of the United States and the preservation of democracy.

    Details.

  97. 97

    Degen Bob’s new hero, Poutine, now caught having sent special operator terrorists with backpack bombs into shopping malls and schools in Kyiv.

    The war crimes and atrocities are a tactical element in the official Russian battle plans.

    Stay Classy, Russia!
    Stay Classy, GQP!
    #savvy

  98. 98

    I just watched a video from a small town near Chernihiv in Ukraine where the entire civilian population went out onto the road and blocked an advancing column of Russian armor with their bodies.

    This tells me at least three things.
    First, that the occupation of these people will be exceptionally costly for Russia and will produce little if any gain.
    Second, that Russian rank-and-file soldiers are reluctant to engage the Ukraine people.
    And third, that Republicans like Degen Bob have once again chosen to get on the wrong side of history.

  99. 99

    Poutine’s Chechen Special Forces operators planting backpack bombs were caught using ambulances to get around in Kyiv.

    It’s not hyperbole. The war crimes are tactical components of the strategic battle plans approved in the Kremlin.

    Be prepared for Poutine to attempt to false flag the use of low-yield nukes.

  101. 101

    @94. Oh you poor victim. we didn’t mean to hurt your feelings little snowflake. Please post your unamerican, pro dictatorship, racist, bigoted, misogynist, homophobic remarks and we won’t challenge a word so you donts feel sad. Because we know you would do the same for us. /s
    —
    The CPAP people feel the reporter is a traitor for documenting their words and actions , We think you are traitor for your words, ( we have no idea on your actions. We don’t even have a link proving you paid your bet, just your word on it)
    If you stopped posting positions that support russia and do not support America, we would call you a traitor a lot less. That’s how you can be a better person.

  103. 103

    99,

    Irregular Russian forces, having stolen a civilian ambulance and killed the crew are caught by Ukraine security police:

    https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497904283857170439

    Backpack bomber captured in a mall:

    https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497905343493464069

    For some additional detail on how Russia is systematically working war crimes as tactics into their strategic battle plan, here is a report on the initial investigation by Bellingcat into Russia’s use of unguided cluster munition rockets against civilian targets:

    https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1497921707901956103

  104. 104

    BP just announced they are pulling out of Rosneft (19%) and its two directors have resigned from the board.

    Worlds largest sov wealth fund, Norway, is divesting all Russian holdings.

    Removal of Russian Army COS now uncertain. It was originally tweeted by Bill Browder, he of the Magnitsky Act, but has since been deleted.

  105. 105

    Mayor reports Kyiv fully surrounded and no longer any means to evac civilians. This has not been confirmed by Ukraine defense.

    When I see a report like I’ll try to locate confirmation from a Ukraine diplomat or other English speaking official. The original tweets in Ukrainian are of little use.

    Here’s AP:
    https://twitter.com/AP/status/1498005091516919834

  107. 107

    @ 102

    I’d very much like to believe that the backpack and the ambulance were not staged, and truly represent Russian efforts to do damage in Ukranian civilian territories. Here’s the thing: Why is this any more believable than the Russian casualty estimates put forth by Ukraine, which Railfan @ 1 is unwilling to believe?

    A photo of a backpack is a photo of a backpack. Let’s have some confirmation. To make Railfan more comfortable.

    When the Palestinians do it, the left eats that shit up. Ukraine certainly has taken notice. Why wouldn’t the Ukranians offer fake video the way the Palestinians do?

  108. 108

    @ 102

    Backpack bomber captured in a mall:

    I googled “kyiv backpack bomber mall”. No hits. It’s been well beyond 12 hours. Why hasn’t the West picked up on this alleged war atrocity, QoS McHillbilly?

    Railfan has a reason to be skeptical.

  110. 110

    106 &107 entirely On brand.

    Gotta dance with the murderous war criminal terrorists who bought your ticket to the dance.

  115. 115

    At this point I won’t be very surprised if the cornered little rat in the Kremlin uses a couple of tactical nukes in Uke, just to show the world he can, and will. And if he does, Republicans will applaud his “spine.”

  116. 116

    @92 And what caused that inflation? A pandemic Trump failed to control, a Fed boss he appointed, and now a war he invited.

  118. 118

    It’s so weird how the greedy racist incel has never questioned a tweet by Andy Ngo about BLM as propaganda but those tweets from the Ukraine about Russians war crimes are false flag until proven true, in triplicate.

    In case I was too subtle, greedy racist incel, you would be a better person if you applied the level of skepticism to Andy Ngo tweets.

  119. 119

    @97 “Republicans like Degen Bob have once again chosen to get on the wrong side of history.”

    They like death, as we saw during the pandemic. Including, it seems, their own. If the born-agains were in charge of our country right now, they’d be goading Poutine to use his nukes, to Rapture themselves up.

  122. 122

    Barr’s White House memoir is titled, “One Damn Thing After Another.”

    He himself is permanently tainted. I have no sympathy for him. He knew, or should have known, what he was getting into. He knew what happened to his predecessor, and why, and also to everyone else around Trump. He knew that Trump’s loyalty is a one-way street. He knew everything Trump touches dies. He knew all this, yet he took the job anyway, and all he got was one damn thing after another and a ruined reputation.

    He’s like a kid who touches a hot stove after repeatedly being warned not to, simply because he was warned not to. He’s one of those people who have to find out the hard way.

  123. 123

    “A CNN team south of Belgorod, Russia, near the Ukrainian border has observed Russian vehicles that are broken down or inoperable, as US and Western officials say that a portion of the Russian forces amassed on the border with Ukraine were unusable.”

    https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-27-22/index.html

    These fuckers didn’t even make it out of Russia. Probably shitty maintenance. And soldiers stealing parts and tools to trade for food and vodka.

  124. 124

    Firing your chief of staff in the opening days of a war is never a good look. It suggests things aren’t going according to plan.

  125. 125

    119,

    My guess would be he targets Pripyat or Belarus.

    It’s not so he can counter launch. It’s to turn global public sentiment and Russian domestic sentiment against Ukraine and Zelensky. It’s what he did in Dagestan. Making Ukraine and Zelensky into the “monsters” enables Poutine to ramp up the tactical aggression in ways required to actually accomplish his objectives.

  126. 126

    A bad man with a nuke can be stopped by a good man with a nuke. \s

    This is not going to end well.

  127. 127

    @116 “And Nick Fuentes said, “Now, they’re going and saying, Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler, as if that isn’t a good thing.’”

    You know, when they talk about “hanging enemies,” I think liberals should take them at their word, believe they mean it, and arm to protect themselves and their families.

  128. 128

    David Brin

    While Putin gets headlines by putting his nukes on “alert.” You can expect several things to happen first, as his panic and hysteria deepen. Like the severing of subsea fiber cables, possibly (if desperate) blowing up anti-satellite weapons in Earth orbit. Possibly sleeper cell sabotage in the Baltics.
    His biggest problem though… is that many, many Russians, including his troops… have alternative ways to seeing the monstrous nature of his lies. Obedience is going to be a problem, if this stretches on for any length of time.

    What do you all think?

  129. 129

    “I am totally rooting for Russia,” he wrote the following morning. “This is the coolest thing to happen since 1/6.”

    “UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED”, added Fuentes, who describes himself as a “Christian nationalist,” someone who thinks the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation. “I never doubted you [Putin], my Czar.”

    ‘I don’t know him!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene denies she is friends with white nationalist despite speaking at his CPAC-rival rally and posing for a photo with him
    That’s some 1984 level double think republicans do. It’s like fact and the truth do not matter.

  130. 130

    127,
    I really don’t think so.

    I believe Poutine really sees opposition and confrontation with the west to be both existential and practical. I don’t think he’s at all interested in guiding The Russian Federation into global engagement diplomatically or economically in any way. That being said, I also don’t think he’s looking to create an new opportunity to strengthen and unify NATO, the EU, or any other regional and global alliances. Nor does he want to trigger any expansion of the present conflict beyond the borders of Ukraine if he can help it.

    So I don’t think he’s considering anything that could be perceived as directly attacking NATO or EU members. I think he simply sees a binary choice where Ukraine is concerned. Either he makes Ukraine into a puppet state under his control, or Ukraine inevitably slides into NATO and the EU. And the latter outcome is unacceptable to his concept of Russia’s security in a way that is non-negotiable.

  131. 131

    As Ukrainian citizens take up arms to defend themselves and their nation, realize that those arms are available because they were already owned.

  132. 132

    With Putin escalating his nuclear threats, I’m sure glad we have a calm, steady hand at the helm, instead of an excitable, mercurial, low-IQ moron.

  134. 134

    130,
    What the fuck?

    You are claiming that average Ukrainian shoe salesmen also keep fully automatic AKs with bayonets and launch rails in their hall closets? 100,000 citizen reserves are activated and then issued equipment and uniforms. Automatic is not allowed. Hand gun ownership is strictly limited and only for target sport use. Concealed carry is not a thing at all.

    Ukraine is not Montana or some farm collective that lives in your movie-fed imagination. It’s a sophisticated post-industrial European economy with 40 million people and the largest land mass in Europe. It needs either membership in NATO or membership in the EU so it can provide for it’s own defense.

    Drunk post. While stupid. And pro-Russian.

  135. 135

    “Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Romney was also quick and vocal with his denouncement of fellow Republicans who have sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he believes any such support is ‘almost treasonous.'”

    https://www.aol.com/news/almost-treasonous-romney-condemns-gop-171557057.html

    The most interesting thing about this is, if Putin attacks NATO and bullets begin flying between Americans and Russians, legally it’s no longer “almost.”

  136. 136

    @133 “Drunk post.”

    Yes, it’s concerning, but at least it’s after lunch. It would be even more concerning if he was drinking at breakfast.

  137. 137

    @106 “When the Palestinians do it, the left eats that shit up.”

    Source? Proof? Link? Let’s see it. If you can’t, you’re full of shit, so show us what you’ve got. I say you’ve got nuthin’ ‘cept a big mouth attached to a tiny brain.

  138. 138

    “…I’m sure glad we have a calm, steady hand at the helm, instead of an excitable, mercurial, low-IQ moron.”

    Doddering old buffoon is more like it.

  139. 139

    @108 I do not support Palestinian terrorism. Nor do I support the subjugation of the Palestinian people. There will never be peace in the Mideast while Palestinians are treated as a conquered people.

  140. 140

    @137 That “doddering old buffoon” has united NATO, shipped arms to Ukraine, coordinated imposition of sanctions against Russia, and sent U.S. troops to defend Europe in case Putin gets really crazy.

    What have you done to defend the free world this week besides using your fingers to pick cooties out of your ass?

  141. 141

    137,
    Now do “Let’s nuke the hurricane!“

    And that doesn’t even scratch the surface.

    Stick around for once and we might even share some butt flashlights or horse liver paste with you. Care for some “powerful disinfectants inside your blood stream”?
    We got that too.
    And don’t forget bragging about finger rape on a hot mic!

  143. 143

    I wonder if Bob accepted Putin’s dinner invite following their horsey ride.

  145. 145

    143)Surprised paintings of the torching of the Capitol and Executive Mansion aren’t trending. Actually, saw some Canadians on Twitter responding that way. Reminding tge last time the US Tried. In the Great Lakes region, Tgey penetrated in their counterattack as far as what is now Chicago. Also, one of our Generals was killed in York and there is a huge mountain in Colorado that bears his name,

  146. 146

    Looks like FIFA is giving the Russians the same treatment the IOC did. Say can we expel Ovechkin, or did he become a Citizen?

  147. 147

    I was wondering, because the Kraken have an East Coast trip coming up and they will be playing the Capitols.

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