Disney cancelling that big project may just them reading the writing on the wall. Their new big hotel is closing down after a year because of poor performance. Why throw good money after bad.
SHIREHOME,
That was my thought also. Media is playing it up like it’s a win from Disney vs. DeSantis, but I think it’s a pure business decision.
A lot of people are missing the biggest reason so many Democrats are upset CNN had a townhall with Donald Trump.
They know the current President, a Democrat, could not stand up to a similar event. Put Joe Biden on a stage and allow a reporter who leans Conservative to question him for an hour and Joe Biden would make a complete fool of himself. He would also get much, much angrier and derogatory than Donald Trump did.
Joe Biden’s record is awful, he has a history of lying as egregious as Trump’s and his mind is not as flexible as Donald Trump.
If they had a candidate who could stand up to Trump and out perform him they would welcome every opportunity to platform and expose Trump. But their candidate is a weak, unintelligent and bitter man.
They know this but cognitive dissonance makes them lash out at Biden’s opposition to avoid accepting the reality of Biden’s many shortcomings.
Pyrotechnics too. When I first saw a flash early in the dance number, I thought it was the camera picking up a reflection. But no, there are lots of real sparks flying later.
Here is my prediction; the demokrat nominee for president will be Joe Kennedy Jr.
He has name recognition and has the mental acuity to answer questions. He can speak extemporaneously and deliver clearly any message he wishes to convey.
In short, he has all his mental faculties.
Not that the demokrat party (i.e., the party of Obama) wants him to be their candidate, but they will concede – privately of course – that he has a better chance than does senile joke bidet of winning the next prez. election.
And for the dems, that is all that matters.
The downside for the dems – the party of Obama – is that they will not be Kennedy’s puppet master; they will not be able to dictate to him what is to be.
I am no fan of Kennedy or any demokrat; but IMHO he has a much better chance of prevailing against the republican nominee (whoever that will be).
I noticed that Gates beach pad in the news shortly after he bought it. It’s on the north end of Del Mar, and I used to live on the south end of Solana Beach, a couple miles from there. I used to walk along that beach on occasion.
On the one hand, it seems absurd that people like Gates subscribe to the AGW hysteria while buying an ultra expensive place right on the water. On the other hand, he’s so rich he could easily consider the place disposable.
Shirehome and Rufus,
Also missing is the fact that the Lake Nona project was started by Chapek. Iger was never on board with that decision. And as DeSantis has pointed out, the project never really went beyond an initial planning stage. Loss of jobs?? Ha..most of the jobs would have been California transplants. Again, we see the mendacity of the MSM.
Also missing is the statement by D’amoro that WDW is expecting about $17B in investment over the next decade or so. All sorts of things on the table: 5th park, expansion of MK with a Disney villains section, etc.
“The downside for the dems – the party of Obama – is that they will not be Kennedy’s puppet master; they will not be able to dictate to him what is to be.”
And that is why he won’t be the nominee. After 2020 and 2022, the D’s know they can “win” any election. The fraud runs deep with them. Any one they put up will win. The GOP is spineless in fighting the fraud. I doubt we will ever see another GOP POTUS.
Neo:
Thanks for that vid. It’s a shame more of the weapon dances from mid to far East aren’t seen more widely by Westerners.
I like finding them but unfortunately, many of the vids are titled/captioned in languages I haven’t a clue about.
Got no idea where to find it now but I was very impressed by one I found from Uzbekistan. It was done with live weapons.
Nothing more exhilarating than playing with high speed blades. 🙂
SIREHOME; Rufus T. Firefly:
Not just the media saying it’s all DeSantis’ fault, but Trump chiming in to join them.
Neo, thank you for that Georgian dance video. Amazing work! I trained as a saber fencer back in my college days so I have some appreciation for the risks those dancers were running with those high speed sword moves performed without any protective gear.
America is hanging by a thread. If this (and all the rest) gets whitewashed, as Barr is wont to do, there is no saving the republic. There may not be any way to save it as it is.
And Durham’s failure to even subpoena so many of the miscreants makes it blatantly obvious that his instructions were to let everyone walk.
“Joe Biden’s record is awful, he has a history of lying as egregious as Trump’s”
Biden’s record of dishonesty is 100 times worse than the worst you can imagine about Trump.
Here is my prediction; the demokrat nominee for president will be Joe Kennedy Jr.
==
He died in an aviation accident in 1944. He left no children. Robert Kennedy had a son named Joseph Kennedy II, who sat in Congress for six terms, then went back to Boston to run a cheesy non-profit. His son (Joseph III) sat in Congress for four terms, then lost a Democratic primary for a Senate seat, so the Biden crew have posted him to a diplomatic sinecure in Ireland.
==
If you’re talking about Robert Kennedy Jr., he has a history of drug abuse, satyriasis, and kooky speculation on one topic after another.
Or maybe Russia will apologize and call the whole thing off?
The Disney decision was very predictable, and probably has nothing to do with the change to the development district. As others said, it was a Chapek project. With Disney business down, Iger took the opportunity to cancel it.
I am getting very tired of Trump running down his own successful governor. He’s a businessman; he probably knows this wasn’t because of DeSantis.
”Meanwhile, we’ll see your F-16s, and raise you…?”
Raise us what? Russia doesn’t have anything as good as an F-16. They’re already throwing everything they have at the Ukraine just to advance 70 meters a day across a limited 5 km front.
I don’t know if we’ll give them *enough* F-16s to really make a difference, but if we did, there’s not much Russia could do about it.
mkent:
You may be right regarding Russia’s incremental escalation options. That’s what makes poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks so dangerous.
Poor Boned Lizard, pining for Vlad gets harder and harder every day. But Bakhmut! That will show the west!
200 K KIA for Vlad’s vanity Special Military Operation, and that’s just Vlad’s “side.”
The Soviet slang for KIA is “200,” but given the special standards for treatment of wounded in action (“300”), most “300”s become “200.”
What we need is more calm, rational, reasoned debate.
Cool, sparks and all! Imagine an OSHA delegation storming in and forbidding those steel blades no matter how perfect the choreography.
”You may be right regarding Russia’s incremental escalation options. That’s what makes poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks so dangerous.”
The reason the bear is being poked is because it wandered into the civilized world where it doesn’t belong and started killing people. That’s what happens to bears that do that. They get shot.
Boned Lizard:
Because Nerf guns deter bears?
}}} Pyrotechnics too. When I first saw a flash early in the dance number, I thought it was the camera picking up a reflection. But no, there are lots of real sparks flying later.
Indeed. Clearly, the swords are metal, though probably softer metal (e.g., like tin), flimsy, and with no edge.
I’m somewhat impressed with the choreography, but it’s not all that much better than a Jackie Chan or Jet Li or Jason Statham film (for example, consider the garage fight in The Transporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkZwol7ZD8 )
Sunday Open Thread:
Space Warfare & Anti Satellite Weapons – “Taking the High Ground” in the new warfighting domain -Perun
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Space Warfare: Counterspace & Anti-satellite Weapons
00:01:57 — What Am I Talking About
00:03:28 — Contesting The High Ground
00:09:08 — Space Combat Fundamentals
00:17:45 — The Main Players
00:26:34 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Kinetic & Explosive
00:44:11 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Directed Energy
00:52:21 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Other Options
01:00:48 — Endure And Regenerate?
01:06:09 — Conclusions
01:07:37 — Channel Update
Or maybe Russia will apologize and call the whole thing off?
They absolutely should. They really don’t have much space to go beyond the use of WMD, and while they’ve already experimented with some of that (such as trying to choke off coolant to some nuclear reactors in the war zone) doing that would be foolish as well as morally bankrupt for a host of reasons (starting with the fact that it’d alienate the vast majority of the neutrals).
But they probably won’t, at least not in the immediate stage.
You may be right regarding Russia’s incremental escalation options. That’s what makes poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks so dangerous.
Oh give me strength. We’re not the ones “poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks.” The “bear” (by which I mean the very human actors in charge of the Kremlin) is the one invading and intruding in its neighbors’ territory, with seemingly no retaliation for it for years. It’s high time that changed.
If I can dig them up I might be able to find some old diagrams and records about old spear traps that were used by the early Rus and others to basically trap and kill wandering bears if they got out of hand. But that’s what the Kremlin did.
In any case, let’s summarize the track record. The current Russian dictatorship is an anti-Western, pro-CCP, pro-Islamist outlaw state (and frankly has been for years) invading another country and openly threatening nuclear annihilation, including to neutral nations that have done nothing to offend it.
There are two possibilities.
The first: The Russian government is bluffing and has no intention of using nuclear weapons in a limited offensive war. This is the possibility I find much more likely since it dovetails with the experiences we have had of the Soviet and Russian military, and indicates that these grandiose threats are just that. Threats and bluffs from a regime and grandees that are practiced in it. In which case their actions should be punished, both for the criminal nature of the invasion and partition but also the threats of escalating it. They deserve to be humiliated and if not outright thrown from power then at least curtailed.
The second and the more serious and which you hint at: That Russia is in fact serious about using nuclear weapons… for the first time in a while. In which case I would argue that it is time to share the risk. If the Kremlin is really so stupid and evil to start a nuclear WW3 over being humiliated in the bigger, nastier brother of the Soviet War in Afghanistan, than it’s time to share the risk and recognize that the Soviets being forced to ask how many nuclear weapons they’ll need to task to Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden makes our position in the US better than it would. Is that bleak and grim to calculate and think about? Yeah, yeah it is. But is it untrue?
Which is why while there are some things that would see me limit or withdraw aid from Ukraine, this isn’t one of them. And appealing to “But the Russian government might use NUKES because of it” IS NOT the kind of effective “own” people seem to think it is precisely BECAUSE it points a harsh, stern light on the Kremlin’s pathologies and threats and demands what we’re going to do about them.
Because I’m sorry, but if the Kremlin’s leadership and institutional culture is such that it is prepared to cause nuclear hellfire over losing an offensive war it started, then it’s better to face it as far to the East as possible, with as many other targets for them to mull over.
This kind of bullshit isn’t the result of poking the bear with sharp sticks. It’s the result of the bear rampaging through its “near abroad” for decades on end without retaliation to the point where it assumed it would always be able to do that.
mkent is absolutely in the right here. And it astounds me how many of those who cite the colorful but inaccurate “poking the bear” analogy do not bother following its internal logic to their conclusion, which rarely ends well for actual bears. We habitually kill bears that attack humans, or even just are too violent to their peers. The aforementioned medieval Rus spike traps show this is nothing new. If the Kremlin’s leadership is truly so deranged and unhinged they cannot control themselves and will rampage illogically like a bear, then that indicates they need to be contained and put down, not appeased.
Which of course is not an attractive argument, but it is a major way you deal with overly aggressive predators.
So far we appear to be lucky and Putin is not very bright. I know I would fight this completely differently.
J6 political prisoners are aghast that Putin is demonstrating more interest in protecting political dissent and the First Amendment than the US government and the GOP.
My hero!
*swoon* *faint*
I suppose I’ll take what I can get on January 6th, but I’m under no illusions this will be of any real help. For starters, Putin didn’t blacklist people who were likely to go to Russia in the first place, like the thug that shot Babbitt. Secondly, I’ve already seen it be used by the left to demonize us on the right by arguing this “proves” we are in cahoots with Putin.
And thirdly, of course, this is a piss-poor example of actual leadership for Russia when the assorted PMCs, territorials, and the regular Ministry of Defense are still quarreling and the Kremlin does not lay down the law. Performative virtue signaling is easier than actual leadership, as we would recognize in our own military and blather about “Green” Airbases. It just takes slightly different manifestations in Russia. (And even then less different than is often thought; take a gander at Putin’s Muslim shilling).
But if it is an opportunity for division Putin is capitalizing on, it is one caused by the American left and their abuses. So fault lord with them, and this is one of the less immoral and odious things Vova has done recently. And like I said, Jan 6th tees me off so I’ll take what I can get.
‘war is hell,’ I think one of the most resolute practioners of the art said as much, wars in the caucasus well there’s a reason it’s been called the blood lands,
I think prigozhin kind of relishes the press he is awarded by starting with the senate intel reporter, you can’t buy street cred like that, but mark warner did as much to do so, warner who made his early fortune with yandex ru
what they said of john wesley hardin, ‘he killed a man just to see him bleed’ or words to that effect
at a certain point, we have to stop believing in make believe, that our own countrymen, who are bitter clingers one and all, are the real enemy
ee cervantes:
Except Ukraine for the most part isn’t the Caucuses and The Bloodlands encompasses more than Ukraine, but other than that …., oh and W.T. Sherman wasn’t a European. As you will.
it is the caucasus, that band that goes all the way to azerbaijan, a turkish property,
like bismark said about the balkans, goes double there,
Disney cancelling that big project may just them reading the writing on the wall. Their new big hotel is closing down after a year because of poor performance. Why throw good money after bad.
SHIREHOME,
That was my thought also. Media is playing it up like it’s a win from Disney vs. DeSantis, but I think it’s a pure business decision.
A lot of people are missing the biggest reason so many Democrats are upset CNN had a townhall with Donald Trump.
They know the current President, a Democrat, could not stand up to a similar event. Put Joe Biden on a stage and allow a reporter who leans Conservative to question him for an hour and Joe Biden would make a complete fool of himself. He would also get much, much angrier and derogatory than Donald Trump did.
Joe Biden’s record is awful, he has a history of lying as egregious as Trump’s and his mind is not as flexible as Donald Trump.
If they had a candidate who could stand up to Trump and out perform him they would welcome every opportunity to platform and expose Trump. But their candidate is a weak, unintelligent and bitter man.
They know this but cognitive dissonance makes them lash out at Biden’s opposition to avoid accepting the reality of Biden’s many shortcomings.
Pyrotechnics too. When I first saw a flash early in the dance number, I thought it was the camera picking up a reflection. But no, there are lots of real sparks flying later.
Ophra and Zucker in HI, O at the Vineyard and HI, Nancy’s place in FL … How do our elites find the special spots not affected by rising seas? Now Bill… https://thelibertydaily.com/depopulationist-bachelor-pad-for-bill-gates-built-feet-away-from-ocean-that-he-claims-is-rising/
Gate’s place looks like a prison.
Here is my prediction; the demokrat nominee for president will be Joe Kennedy Jr.
He has name recognition and has the mental acuity to answer questions. He can speak extemporaneously and deliver clearly any message he wishes to convey.
In short, he has all his mental faculties.
Not that the demokrat party (i.e., the party of Obama) wants him to be their candidate, but they will concede – privately of course – that he has a better chance than does senile joke bidet of winning the next prez. election.
And for the dems, that is all that matters.
The downside for the dems – the party of Obama – is that they will not be Kennedy’s puppet master; they will not be able to dictate to him what is to be.
I am no fan of Kennedy or any demokrat; but IMHO he has a much better chance of prevailing against the republican nominee (whoever that will be).
I noticed that Gates beach pad in the news shortly after he bought it. It’s on the north end of Del Mar, and I used to live on the south end of Solana Beach, a couple miles from there. I used to walk along that beach on occasion.
On the one hand, it seems absurd that people like Gates subscribe to the AGW hysteria while buying an ultra expensive place right on the water. On the other hand, he’s so rich he could easily consider the place disposable.
Shirehome and Rufus,
Also missing is the fact that the Lake Nona project was started by Chapek. Iger was never on board with that decision. And as DeSantis has pointed out, the project never really went beyond an initial planning stage. Loss of jobs?? Ha..most of the jobs would have been California transplants. Again, we see the mendacity of the MSM.
Also missing is the statement by D’amoro that WDW is expecting about $17B in investment over the next decade or so. All sorts of things on the table: 5th park, expansion of MK with a Disney villains section, etc.
“The downside for the dems – the party of Obama – is that they will not be Kennedy’s puppet master; they will not be able to dictate to him what is to be.”
And that is why he won’t be the nominee. After 2020 and 2022, the D’s know they can “win” any election. The fraud runs deep with them. Any one they put up will win. The GOP is spineless in fighting the fraud. I doubt we will ever see another GOP POTUS.
Neo:
Thanks for that vid. It’s a shame more of the weapon dances from mid to far East aren’t seen more widely by Westerners.
I like finding them but unfortunately, many of the vids are titled/captioned in languages I haven’t a clue about.
Got no idea where to find it now but I was very impressed by one I found from Uzbekistan. It was done with live weapons.
Nothing more exhilarating than playing with high speed blades. 🙂
SIREHOME; Rufus T. Firefly:
Not just the media saying it’s all DeSantis’ fault, but Trump chiming in to join them.
Neo, thank you for that Georgian dance video. Amazing work! I trained as a saber fencer back in my college days so I have some appreciation for the risks those dancers were running with those high speed sword moves performed without any protective gear.
The corruption and crime of Bill Barr. This is unconscionable. He should be disbarred. Along with lots and lots of DOJ lawyers and FBI thugs. https://twitter.com/molmccann/status/1277302662384451584?s=20
America is hanging by a thread. If this (and all the rest) gets whitewashed, as Barr is wont to do, there is no saving the republic. There may not be any way to save it as it is.
And Durham’s failure to even subpoena so many of the miscreants makes it blatantly obvious that his instructions were to let everyone walk.
“Joe Biden’s record is awful, he has a history of lying as egregious as Trump’s”
Biden’s record of dishonesty is 100 times worse than the worst you can imagine about Trump.
Here is my prediction; the demokrat nominee for president will be Joe Kennedy Jr.
==
He died in an aviation accident in 1944. He left no children. Robert Kennedy had a son named Joseph Kennedy II, who sat in Congress for six terms, then went back to Boston to run a cheesy non-profit. His son (Joseph III) sat in Congress for four terms, then lost a Democratic primary for a Senate seat, so the Biden crew have posted him to a diplomatic sinecure in Ireland.
==
If you’re talking about Robert Kennedy Jr., he has a history of drug abuse, satyriasis, and kooky speculation on one topic after another.
Meanwhile, we’ll see your F-16s, and raise you…?
Or maybe Russia will apologize and call the whole thing off?
The Disney decision was very predictable, and probably has nothing to do with the change to the development district. As others said, it was a Chapek project. With Disney business down, Iger took the opportunity to cancel it.
I am getting very tired of Trump running down his own successful governor. He’s a businessman; he probably knows this wasn’t because of DeSantis.
”Meanwhile, we’ll see your F-16s, and raise you…?”
Raise us what? Russia doesn’t have anything as good as an F-16. They’re already throwing everything they have at the Ukraine just to advance 70 meters a day across a limited 5 km front.
I don’t know if we’ll give them *enough* F-16s to really make a difference, but if we did, there’s not much Russia could do about it.
mkent:
You may be right regarding Russia’s incremental escalation options. That’s what makes poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks so dangerous.
Poor Boned Lizard, pining for Vlad gets harder and harder every day. But Bakhmut! That will show the west!
200 K KIA for Vlad’s vanity Special Military Operation, and that’s just Vlad’s “side.”
The Soviet slang for KIA is “200,” but given the special standards for treatment of wounded in action (“300”), most “300”s become “200.”
What we need is more calm, rational, reasoned debate.
See, for example, https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/20/dem-state-senator-goes-screaming-rant-before-trans-bill-vote/
Cool, sparks and all! Imagine an OSHA delegation storming in and forbidding those steel blades no matter how perfect the choreography.
”You may be right regarding Russia’s incremental escalation options. That’s what makes poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks so dangerous.”
The reason the bear is being poked is because it wandered into the civilized world where it doesn’t belong and started killing people. That’s what happens to bears that do that. They get shot.
Boned Lizard:
Because Nerf guns deter bears?
}}} Pyrotechnics too. When I first saw a flash early in the dance number, I thought it was the camera picking up a reflection. But no, there are lots of real sparks flying later.
Indeed. Clearly, the swords are metal, though probably softer metal (e.g., like tin), flimsy, and with no edge.
I’m somewhat impressed with the choreography, but it’s not all that much better than a Jackie Chan or Jet Li or Jason Statham film (for example, consider the garage fight in The Transporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkZwol7ZD8 )
Sunday Open Thread:
Space Warfare & Anti Satellite Weapons – “Taking the High Ground” in the new warfighting domain -Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xl0C6K2Nug
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Space Warfare: Counterspace & Anti-satellite Weapons
00:01:57 — What Am I Talking About
00:03:28 — Contesting The High Ground
00:09:08 — Space Combat Fundamentals
00:17:45 — The Main Players
00:26:34 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Kinetic & Explosive
00:44:11 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Directed Energy
00:52:21 — Anti-satellite Weapons: Other Options
01:00:48 — Endure And Regenerate?
01:06:09 — Conclusions
01:07:37 — Channel Update
Nerf guns deter Space Bears and Winnie (Xi)? If not Nerf guns there are alwasys Pigs In Space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Rx8YBtUu8
@Banned Lizard
They absolutely should. They really don’t have much space to go beyond the use of WMD, and while they’ve already experimented with some of that (such as trying to choke off coolant to some nuclear reactors in the war zone) doing that would be foolish as well as morally bankrupt for a host of reasons (starting with the fact that it’d alienate the vast majority of the neutrals).
But they probably won’t, at least not in the immediate stage.
Oh give me strength. We’re not the ones “poking the bear with increasingly sharper sticks.” The “bear” (by which I mean the very human actors in charge of the Kremlin) is the one invading and intruding in its neighbors’ territory, with seemingly no retaliation for it for years. It’s high time that changed.
If I can dig them up I might be able to find some old diagrams and records about old spear traps that were used by the early Rus and others to basically trap and kill wandering bears if they got out of hand. But that’s what the Kremlin did.
In any case, let’s summarize the track record. The current Russian dictatorship is an anti-Western, pro-CCP, pro-Islamist outlaw state (and frankly has been for years) invading another country and openly threatening nuclear annihilation, including to neutral nations that have done nothing to offend it.
There are two possibilities.
The first: The Russian government is bluffing and has no intention of using nuclear weapons in a limited offensive war. This is the possibility I find much more likely since it dovetails with the experiences we have had of the Soviet and Russian military, and indicates that these grandiose threats are just that. Threats and bluffs from a regime and grandees that are practiced in it. In which case their actions should be punished, both for the criminal nature of the invasion and partition but also the threats of escalating it. They deserve to be humiliated and if not outright thrown from power then at least curtailed.
The second and the more serious and which you hint at: That Russia is in fact serious about using nuclear weapons… for the first time in a while. In which case I would argue that it is time to share the risk. If the Kremlin is really so stupid and evil to start a nuclear WW3 over being humiliated in the bigger, nastier brother of the Soviet War in Afghanistan, than it’s time to share the risk and recognize that the Soviets being forced to ask how many nuclear weapons they’ll need to task to Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden makes our position in the US better than it would. Is that bleak and grim to calculate and think about? Yeah, yeah it is. But is it untrue?
Which is why while there are some things that would see me limit or withdraw aid from Ukraine, this isn’t one of them. And appealing to “But the Russian government might use NUKES because of it” IS NOT the kind of effective “own” people seem to think it is precisely BECAUSE it points a harsh, stern light on the Kremlin’s pathologies and threats and demands what we’re going to do about them.
Because I’m sorry, but if the Kremlin’s leadership and institutional culture is such that it is prepared to cause nuclear hellfire over losing an offensive war it started, then it’s better to face it as far to the East as possible, with as many other targets for them to mull over.
This kind of bullshit isn’t the result of poking the bear with sharp sticks. It’s the result of the bear rampaging through its “near abroad” for decades on end without retaliation to the point where it assumed it would always be able to do that.
mkent is absolutely in the right here. And it astounds me how many of those who cite the colorful but inaccurate “poking the bear” analogy do not bother following its internal logic to their conclusion, which rarely ends well for actual bears. We habitually kill bears that attack humans, or even just are too violent to their peers. The aforementioned medieval Rus spike traps show this is nothing new. If the Kremlin’s leadership is truly so deranged and unhinged they cannot control themselves and will rampage illogically like a bear, then that indicates they need to be contained and put down, not appeased.
Which of course is not an attractive argument, but it is a major way you deal with overly aggressive predators.
So far we appear to be lucky and Putin is not very bright. I know I would fight this completely differently.
Chases Eagles:
Not “smarter than the average bear?”
And then there’s REAL LEADERSHIP!
“Biden claims he’s ‘blameless’ if US defaults on debt, points finger at ‘MAGA Republicans’ “—
https://nypost.com/2023/05/21/biden-claims-hes-blameless-if-us-defaults-on-debt/
Speaking of leadership,
J6 political prisoners are aghast that Putin is demonstrating more interest in protecting political dissent and the First Amendment than the US government and the GOP.
My hero!
*swoon* *faint*
@Banned Lizard
I suppose I’ll take what I can get on January 6th, but I’m under no illusions this will be of any real help. For starters, Putin didn’t blacklist people who were likely to go to Russia in the first place, like the thug that shot Babbitt. Secondly, I’ve already seen it be used by the left to demonize us on the right by arguing this “proves” we are in cahoots with Putin.
And thirdly, of course, this is a piss-poor example of actual leadership for Russia when the assorted PMCs, territorials, and the regular Ministry of Defense are still quarreling and the Kremlin does not lay down the law. Performative virtue signaling is easier than actual leadership, as we would recognize in our own military and blather about “Green” Airbases. It just takes slightly different manifestations in Russia. (And even then less different than is often thought; take a gander at Putin’s Muslim shilling).
But if it is an opportunity for division Putin is capitalizing on, it is one caused by the American left and their abuses. So fault lord with them, and this is one of the less immoral and odious things Vova has done recently. And like I said, Jan 6th tees me off so I’ll take what I can get.
‘war is hell,’ I think one of the most resolute practioners of the art said as much, wars in the caucasus well there’s a reason it’s been called the blood lands,
I think prigozhin kind of relishes the press he is awarded by starting with the senate intel reporter, you can’t buy street cred like that, but mark warner did as much to do so, warner who made his early fortune with yandex ru
what they said of john wesley hardin, ‘he killed a man just to see him bleed’ or words to that effect
at a certain point, we have to stop believing in make believe, that our own countrymen, who are bitter clingers one and all, are the real enemy
ee cervantes:
Except Ukraine for the most part isn’t the Caucuses and The Bloodlands encompasses more than Ukraine, but other than that …., oh and W.T. Sherman wasn’t a European. As you will.
it is the caucasus, that band that goes all the way to azerbaijan, a turkish property,
like bismark said about the balkans, goes double there,
ee cervantes
Show your work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus
https://www.britannica.com/place/Caucasus
Saying something is so doesn’t make it so. Unless you are Humptey too.
Where is the beautiful maiden who drops the handkerchief to the ground to signal an end to the fighting?