Category: Current Events

Polish Jets and Blinken Blinks

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Hat tip to the Conservative Treehouse for following this story.

The Americans kept pushing for the Poles to let Ukrainians fly Polish jets from their bases into the Ukraine.  But the Poles aren’t crazy.  So they tossed it back to the Americans saying they’d give the old MIG jets to the Americans but they’d have to host them in Germany

Then the Americans realized the Poles had called their bluff and folded.

The people running our government are buffoons, scoundrels, madmen and cowards all at the same time.  It looks like they want a real shooting war but they’re too cowardly to start it themselves. It’s the old let’s you and he fight.  The Poles had the good sense to bow out of that arrangement and now they can see how brave and honest the Americans have shown themselves.

Biden, Harris and Blinken.  Cowards, fools and criminals.

Biden Blames Putin for Gas Prices, Stagflation, COVID Crisis, Afghan Debacle, Crime Wave in Cities and Incontinence

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Washington D.C. – American President Joseph Biden gave a hard hitting if somewhat confusing speech today in front of the Trade Union Delegation from Inner Outer Stanstanistan.  To the somewhat bemused pastoral herdsmen in their colorful native garb the animated but sometimes incoherent stateman was highly entertaining.  Of course, since the translator was speaking in Outer Inner Stanstanistanian they couldn’t understand anything he said.  But their spokesman was quoted as saying “we could tell he really meant whatever it was he was saying.”

After blaming every domestic and foreign policy debacle in his administration on the Russian strongman, Biden finished up the speech with an appeal for lower priced insulin that ended with him repeatedly striking the podium with his shoe.  This got a standing ovation from the herdsmen who remembered old video clips of Khrushchev at the UN that they had watched during lunch break in grammar school.  The emotional yak herders left the meeting chanting, “We will bury you, we will bury you” in fairly good Russian.

MSNBC reported that the speech is widely believed to be the talking points for the Democrat mid-term elections campaign platform.  Rachel Maddow explained, “We will blame everything on Putin.  Inflation, Putin.  Crime, Putin.  Biden’s flatulence, Putin.  There is even talk of finding footage of Putin standing on George Floyd’s neck whenever Chauvin needed to be spelled.  We drew the line at implicating him in the Kennedy assassination because Putin was eleven at the time and known to be a fairly poor shot with a rifle.”

Caught flat-footed by this new scheme Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell was quoted as saying, “Huh?”

After the speech a news team was sent out to a local gas station to do a man on the street interview with a consumer filling his gas tank.  After watching a clip from the speech, the motorist reached into his car and proceeded to brain the reporter with a baseball bat.  Police were called to the scene and after watching the video, they emptied the clips of their sidearms into the now motionless reporter and left.  The rest of the news crew beat a tactical retreat back to MSNBC where they suggested that the DNC might want to do a little more focus group workshopping of the idea.  But they stressed that heavy blunt objects and pointed and sharp-edged utensils be removed from the premises beforehand.

Later that night a medical emergency was declared at the White House.  During dinner when asked by Doctor Jill what he had done that day President Biden began to repeat the word Putin over and over in a continuous string; putinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputiputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputinputin!!!!!

When the doctors arrived, the president was diagnosed with a rare form of political Tourette’s syndrome.  It is now believed that for the rest of his life he will only be able to utter combinations of the two syllables pu and tin.  When questioned about this development White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki declared that this situation was Putin’s fault but that it would pose no real problem to President Biden continuing his present activities.  In fact, Psaki hinted that the new situation might actually make her job easier.

However, after hearing that the condition was permanent First Lady Doctor Jill packed her bag and left the White House with her secret service detail in tow.  She was quoted as saying, “That’s enough.  I’m out.”

Tucker Carlson Provides an Excellent Discussion of Ukraine

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I think this is the best summary from a mainstream source that I have seen so far.  Carlson touches upon many of the important aspects of how this war is going to make our lives worse in the weeks and months ahead.  Energy prices, food prices and increases in everything else because of the impact of the price of oil.  And fundamentally, the increased risk of starting a nuclear war.  Tucker Carlson is probably the only mainstream source that provides this point of view.  Everyone else including the rest of Fox News is carrying water for the UniParty and their desire to start a war with Russia.

 

The Big Poker Game

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Russia’s all in.  The leaders of the western “democracies” are looking at their hand and wondering if the other guy has a better one.  And the rest of us are trying to figure out how we will end up paying for the loss.  Because we lose every which way it goes.

No matter what happens, we’re going to be paying for $10 a gallon gasoline and $10 a gallon heating oil.  Forget about expensive restaurants and vintage wines.  We’re going to have to get used to eating peanut butter sandwiches for dinner and mending our old clothes.  Everything that used to seemed normal will become extravagances.  We’ll be counting the pennies and sweating the dollars that we don’t have.

Since we’re the ones footing the bill, we might as well enjoy the show.  Russia is going to force Ukraine to stay in its orbit.  The West is going to banish Russia from their financial and economic systems.  This will be followed by Russia withholding oil and gas and other commodities like fertilizer from Europe and the US.  This round of tit for tat lockouts and boycotts will lead to huge dislocations in supply and demand of critical materials like wheat and corn.  I guess we’ll get to see Joe Biden’s approval numbers reach single digits in the months running up to the November midterms.  I guess if it got bad enough it’s theoretically possible that the incoming congress could impeach and convict Dementia Joe of mopery and dopery and boot him and his mentally fragile vice president out of office and make a Republican president.  That might be fun to follow on tv.

But I’m not sure if anyone will want the job by then.  I think Americans are going to be extremely displeased with the way things will be going for the next couple of years.  Dopey Joe has screwed things up royally and it won’t be easy to fix it.  And that’s assuming that we don’t get into a nuclear war with Russia.  I’m not sure what the geniuses in the think tanks feel are the odds of this happening.  But based on nothing but what I’ve read about the start of World War One and my gut instinct I’m guessing that the odds of a shooting war breaking out is 50/50.

But nuclear war isn’t something I worry about anymore.  We’ve put a drooling idiot in charge of the nuclear arsenal and General Milley in charge of our trans-army so we’ve already chosen to leave our survival up to the toss of a coin.  All I’m interested in at this point is how the American public reacts to all this going on.  Even ten years ago half of these problems would have guaranteed an administration would be voted out of office.  If it turns out that’s not the case this time then this country has truly been fundamentally changed for the worse.

So let the poker game proceed.  Bluffing and raising the stakes are the order of the day.  Well, lying is Joe’s forte.  The problem is he does it so consistently that everyone assumes that every word out of his mouth is a lie.  The only problem for Joe is Putin probably doesn’t bluff.

Observations on a Sunday Night – Yeats Again

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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre  

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere  

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst  

Are full of passionate intensity.

…”

from The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

 

Yeats was onto something all those years ago.  Russia and China are starting to cut the strings that attach themselves to the global entity.  It appears there will be other options to the woke organizing model.  Nationalist sensibilities and more traditional societal structures than the atomized Facebook model are beginning to assert itself outside the control of the US and Europe.  We may have a reached a tipping point with the sanctions against Russia and the reaction of Chinese.  The globalist project may have bitten off much more than they can chew.

First the collapse of Afghanistan.  Watching the debacle and hearing the reactions of the Left, confirms that their priority was turning a primitive Islamic state into an LGBTQ vacation destination.  They had no idea how impossible their vision of Afghanistan was.  Only American riflemen permitted the center of Kabul to pretend that the Taliban weren’t in control of more than half the country already.  And seeing the rout occur as it did; with desperate Afghanis plunging to their deaths from the wheels of departing military transport aircraft, suicide bombers murdering US servicemen and in misdirected and impotent retaliation, an American cruise missile killing an innocent Afghan family; demonstrated the delusional mindset of the globalists running this operation and their incompetence.

Second, the crashing of the American economy into stagflation.  The greens’ war against fossil fuels has ignited runaway inflation and this along with the other domestic crises caused by Leftist initiatives like the “defund the police” movement have alienated the voting population in a convincing manner.  The likelihood of a recession is already panicking Wall Street.  And the prospect of this crisis stretching out until 2025 may finally overcome even the stupidest American’s ability to believe in idiocy.

And finally, the CIA’s color revolution in the Ukraine and Biden’s decision to go to the mat against Putin with draconian sanctions may be the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back and forces China and Russia to escape from the American dollar’s stranglehold on global economic activity.  If China begins to decouple its currency from the dollar, we may begin to see the true end of America’s economic primacy.

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”  The incompetence of our globalist elites will be their downfall.  They espouse positions that are incompatible with a healthy society.  They are driving our civilization to ruin and in a hurry.  The only silver lining to this situation is that some dissident countries like Hungary and Poland may escape the toxic effects of the globalist entity and survive.  How they will align themselves with Russia and China and any other non-woke countries is an important question for the future.  Wouldn’t it be a strange circumstance if Russia and China, the former premier communist despotic regimes led the way to a league of independent nations that escape from the globalist prison house of nations.

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”  That Yeats guy was a prophet.  I’ll use him repeatedly in the future.

Russian Banks Moving to Chinese Credit Card System

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I guess this was inevitable.  Russian banks have been suspended from using Visa and MasterCard.  So they’ve switched over to the Chinese UnionPay card system.  The world is changing.  It’s bigger than it used to be.  The Americans did this to themselves when they made China into an industrial powerhouse.  Now the West’s economic power is reduced.  We’ll have to see how all this plays out in the coming months and years.

Maybe having a multipolar world will be better for the prospects of freedom in the United States.  The world is changing.

Progressive Swedes Admit Puberty Blockers for Children is Medical Malpractice

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The Swedes are not conservatives.  They are ultra-feminists.  But they have looked clearly at the medical results of using these drugs on children and they recognize that they damage the bodies of children sometimes tragically.

“The new guidelines come just months after a report claimed that doctors at the Karolinska University Hospital had been well aware of children with injuries as a result of hormone blockers for months before the injuries became public in November.

In one case, a girl who wanted to become a boy was put on puberty blockers at age 11 and developed serious side effects after five years of treatment, including osteoporosis and damage to the vertebrae in the child’s back.

“He felt so bad that he tried suicide attempts on several occasions. We didn’t understand, we thought our child would feel better from the treatment,” the mother of the child said.

Karolinska University Hospital, once a pioneer in gender dysphoria treatment for children in Sweden, stopped recommending hormone treatments in May of last year due to potential side effects from the treatment.”

The trans-psychopaths in our country don’t want to know the truth.  Hurting children doesn’t interest them.  Affirmation of their self-image does.  Hopefully people fighting this in our country will look at the results that the ultra-progressive Swedes discovered the hard way by being at the cutting edge of insanity.

How Do We Last Until 2025?

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A single day doesn’t seem to go by without some new Biden caused or related disaster occurring.  War, famine, pestilence, financial collapse, you name it.  The only thing missing from the list is an asteroid strike and I’m sure that the Biden team has their stupidest man working on it right now.

But seriously, these are going to be trying times.  Like everyone else I’m counting the pennies and figuring out how to reduce costs and pay for growing bills with shrinking assets.  It’s going to be extremely difficult in the weeks and months ahead.  And let’s face it, regardless of what kind of blowout the Democrats suffer in November there will be a Democrat in the White House torturing us until early in 2025.  That’s a very long time.  We won’t get through it by trying to hold our breath all the way through.

We’re going to have to be protect ourselves from all the nonsense they’ll do to break us down.  Each of us will have to do the best we can to roll with the punches and avoid being ground down by the myriad of problems these people create; money problems, crime waves, propaganda aimed at our children, more COVID fascism possibly.  We’ll have to be smart and strong.

But just as important as all these things is maintaining morale.  Your spiritual health is just as important as your physical health.  You’ve got to make time to be happy.  And that’s especially true if you are working harder to keep from falling behind.  Take some time out every day and do something that nourishes the mind and soul.  Call up an old friend and find out how he’s doing.  Visit an aged relative and bring a little joy into her day.  Buy a good book and take twenty minutes out of your day to read it.  Take a course in something you’ve always wanted to learn.  It doesn’t have to be at a college.  It could be an on-line course.  If you’re isolated by circumstances then join some activity at a local club.

Of course, if you have a young family, then make time each day to help your kids with all the things they are doing.  Make sure you know what they are thinking about.  Find out what problems they are dealing with.  With the COVID masking still going on at schools make sure they’re dealing with the stress reasonably well and let them know things will be getting better very soon.  Talk at the dinner table and try to keep their morale high too.  Find other families that you can plan outings and events with that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

And plan for the future.  Look forward to better times.  Make a list of improvements you want for your future and then start to figure out a plan to accomplish one of them first.  Don’t start with the one where you become a billionaire.  Figure out the one where you lose twenty pounds or replace the kitchen floor or get a promotion at work.

All of this is a plan to keep a positive attitude and get yourself and your loved ones through some tough times that are coming up.  And most importantly get out of the house and feel the sun on your face once in a while.  Cabin fever is a real thing especially in the cold latitudes but everywhere else too to some extent.  And of course, I’m part of the problem, but get away from the computer once in a while.

One day Joe Biden will be in the rear-view mirror.  But until then maintain your sanity and nourish your soul by balancing the stress with some fun.  Doctor’s orders.

Nuclear War Again?

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I haven’t thought seriously about the reality of nuclear war since 1988.  That year I moved from New York City to a small New England town.  And one day the town fire alarm was sounded.  I had never heard anything like it and I assumed it was an air raid siren.  Luckily a neighbor straightened out my thinking and told me these were a regular feature of town life.  But for just a minute I was desperately trying to figure out where the kids were and where was the best place to bring them for safety.  Never in my life before did I ever worry about nuclear war, nor since.  And once the Soviet Union imploded it no longer seemed like something that could happen.  No one would be stupid enough to push us into nuclear war.

Well, that was before I imagined Joe Biden as president.  Now I’m not saying Joe Biden is brave enough to start a nuclear war with the Russians.  Joe talks tough in speeches about going toe to toe with Putin.  But in reality, I think he’d be afraid being in the same room alone with the Russian.

He’s not brave enough to start a nuclear war but he’s stupid enough to start one accidentally.  Putin seems to be an egoist and Biden has said some provocative things about him.  If things go poorly for Putin and his back is against the wall, he might decide to settle scores with those he hates.  Now that is a sobering thought.

This is just something I thought about today, not as something that has me frightened, but as something surprising.  I guess in some sense I stopped thinking that nuclear war was still something to worry about.  And now I don’t think that way any more.  And maybe I should never have stopped worrying about it.  Truthfully, nuclear weapons are a balancing act.  And if that balance ever slips the probability they’ll be used goes from extremely low to fairly high very easily.  And when that happens who you have in charge of them becomes even more critical.  The judgement and reputation of the man with the nuclear football could be the difference between peace and destruction.  Would you want that man to be Dementia Joe?  I know I don’t.

I know one thing for sure.  It makes a lot of sense to live far away from large American cities, not only to avoid the crime and chaos they now represent for residents and neighbors but also because they’re on the target list for Russian and Chinese ICBMs.  This sounds slightly melodramatic and pessimistic but honestly, pessimism is now becoming the default setting when I think about our government.  The level of dishonesty and just plain stupidity it exhibits makes it the biggest threat to my family’s future.  So, I have to be pessimistic.  Let’s call it realistic instead.

When the election memes for 2024 are being thought up it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have one of those “Who’s answering the phone at 3 am at the White House?” commercials to remind the voters that Dopey Joe isn’t even sentient at 3 am.

So that’s what I was thinking about today.

 

Update

Apparently great minds think alike.  Read this.

 

Reality Dawns on Zelensky

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President Zelensky of the Ukraine confronts reality.  He explains to reporters, “I don’t want to talk to Putin but I think I have to talk to Putin because there are no other ways to stop this war.”

It’s funny how all the West is disappointed that Zelensky isn’t thrilled about the idea of fighting to the last Ukrainian.  For the reporters and neocon pundits it’s a video game.  To Zelensky it’s probably starting to get very scary.  If he forces Putin to kill thousands of people I think Zelensky realizes things won’t end up well for himself.  Let’s hope for his people’s sake he sees the light really soon.