And people wonder why Russians have swallowed Putin’s lies wholesale. Far easier than accepting the truth and realizing you have some responsibility to deal with it
Allen, Just breaking from the Washington Post, excerpt below. I know your subscribe to it. While I don't see jet fighters, this is something. I believe that Biden is a true friend of Ukraine with understandable need to avoid nuclear weaponry given possible results in the theatre of Earth. What are you thinking? 🌿
Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine
Mi-17 helicopters operated by the 2nd Wing of the Afghan National Army Air Force take off at Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2013. (U.S. Army photo/Released) (Courtesy Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)
The Biden administration is poised to dramatically expand the scope of weapons it’s providing Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, with the Pentagon looking to send Mi-17 helicopters that can be equipped to attack Russian vehicles, armored Humvees and a range of other arms.
The new aid package could be worth $750 million, these people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the transfer has not yet been finalized.
Preliminary plans circulating among government officials and lawmakers in Washington also includes howitzer cannons, coastal defense drones and protective suits to safeguard personnel in the event of a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons attack, the officials said, though they cautioned that it was not immediately clear if all of those items would end up in the final package.
Saw that. If Ukraine is given the weapons to take the war to the Russians and push them out of Ukraine completely they will do it. Up to now they have been given defensive weapons.
Russia is at war with NATO and the West. We are in WWIII if the blind and deaf ever come to realize it. Putin’s nuclear weapons are a bluff. They have likely been so badly maintained that they are more dangerous to the Russians. I expect chemical warfare including Sarin gas.
Easy, and safe! Putin announced the planned intension of genocide in Ukraine the same day as he denied responsibility for the witnessing of just that in Bouja. Indeed enjoying the power of the big lie.
The propaganda machine has turned my friends, former coworkers, and some family into these MAGAts. They are such "true believers" that if they were told that up was down, they'd bet the farm on it.
I have witnessed the same phenomenon with some of my friends and acquaintances here in Seattle-metro area ... maddeningly resistant to reason. I find asking "how" questions can sometimes let in a little daylight.
I spent the summer of 1965 at a writers' workshop in Aspen, and Ivan Abrams, the owner of Quadrant Books and Gallery, was a very smart guy. of course, he was from Boston. and I had a wonderful crash of several hours in Boulder in 1970, awakened by a gorgeous hippie chick putting a hash pipe in my mouth. I have no idea how smart she was, but she had a beautiful smile. that was a little levity introduced because this story has already made me sick. it all makes me sick and incredibly anxious because every time one of these miserable, lying pieces of shit do well, it ratchets up my fear that the actual Rubicon we've already crossed was the 2020 election, and disputing every election, then threatening violence (or actually committing it) is the new normal. you keep saying to take them at their word, and I do. and they've been SAYING it in that way they have of saying it by "floating the possibility," as it were. but when they float the possibility, they're announcing their intentions. since, as far as I can see, the one really significant difference between us and those other countries whose "constitutions" have been honored only in the breach of those constitutions is that this country has been largely pretty serious about honoring the peaceful transition of power (obviously that "largely pretty" is necessary for those several times when that hasn't quite happened). but it seems that about half the country has decided that observing these transitions is optional; somehow "out of step" with the realities of contemporary life. so I expect that, having muddied the waters pretty successfully one time, they're not gonna stop.
Sheesh Colorado. Can’t blame everything on the altitude. At some point, somebody must tip over the first domino in the “I’m a Republican so I am bound to act like a traitorous idiot. But why don’t people like me anymore?”
So, back to the soon to be elected federal criminals. Will Colorado put bars on the windows of their palatial state offices and provide transportation for these crooks in the back seat of police cars? Or will they conduct "business as usual" inside a cell? I'm curious. I'm guessing if the PPP voters are so stupid, they'll vote for a criminal, they probably have no legal provisions for what happens when those same elected criminals are sentenced to a few years in the joint. And what happens when they elect a criminal to the US Senate? I guess that's an easy one to answer, given how many are resting on their PPP laurels right now. (Putrid Putin Party)
TC's THE POWER OF THE BG LIE is not a rip-off of Dinesh D'Souza's, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. Oh, no, it's simply a Burlesque under the umbrella of 'Who Done It?' Where would TC be without Abbott & Costello?
And people wonder why Russians have swallowed Putin’s lies wholesale. Far easier than accepting the truth and realizing you have some responsibility to deal with it
Truth!
Allen, Just breaking from the Washington Post, excerpt below. I know your subscribe to it. While I don't see jet fighters, this is something. I believe that Biden is a true friend of Ukraine with understandable need to avoid nuclear weaponry given possible results in the theatre of Earth. What are you thinking? 🌿
Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine
Mi-17 helicopters operated by the 2nd Wing of the Afghan National Army Air Force take off at Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2013. (U.S. Army photo/Released) (Courtesy Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)
The Biden administration is poised to dramatically expand the scope of weapons it’s providing Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, with the Pentagon looking to send Mi-17 helicopters that can be equipped to attack Russian vehicles, armored Humvees and a range of other arms.
The new aid package could be worth $750 million, these people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the transfer has not yet been finalized.
Preliminary plans circulating among government officials and lawmakers in Washington also includes howitzer cannons, coastal defense drones and protective suits to safeguard personnel in the event of a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons attack, the officials said, though they cautioned that it was not immediately clear if all of those items would end up in the final package.
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Saw that. If Ukraine is given the weapons to take the war to the Russians and push them out of Ukraine completely they will do it. Up to now they have been given defensive weapons.
Russia is at war with NATO and the West. We are in WWIII if the blind and deaf ever come to realize it. Putin’s nuclear weapons are a bluff. They have likely been so badly maintained that they are more dangerous to the Russians. I expect chemical warfare including Sarin gas.
Easy, and safe! Putin announced the planned intension of genocide in Ukraine the same day as he denied responsibility for the witnessing of just that in Bouja. Indeed enjoying the power of the big lie.
"The Republican Party is the greatest internal subversive threat facing our country."
YES!
The propaganda machine has turned my friends, former coworkers, and some family into these MAGAts. They are such "true believers" that if they were told that up was down, they'd bet the farm on it.
I have witnessed the same phenomenon with some of my friends and acquaintances here in Seattle-metro area ... maddeningly resistant to reason. I find asking "how" questions can sometimes let in a little daylight.
I spent the summer of 1965 at a writers' workshop in Aspen, and Ivan Abrams, the owner of Quadrant Books and Gallery, was a very smart guy. of course, he was from Boston. and I had a wonderful crash of several hours in Boulder in 1970, awakened by a gorgeous hippie chick putting a hash pipe in my mouth. I have no idea how smart she was, but she had a beautiful smile. that was a little levity introduced because this story has already made me sick. it all makes me sick and incredibly anxious because every time one of these miserable, lying pieces of shit do well, it ratchets up my fear that the actual Rubicon we've already crossed was the 2020 election, and disputing every election, then threatening violence (or actually committing it) is the new normal. you keep saying to take them at their word, and I do. and they've been SAYING it in that way they have of saying it by "floating the possibility," as it were. but when they float the possibility, they're announcing their intentions. since, as far as I can see, the one really significant difference between us and those other countries whose "constitutions" have been honored only in the breach of those constitutions is that this country has been largely pretty serious about honoring the peaceful transition of power (obviously that "largely pretty" is necessary for those several times when that hasn't quite happened). but it seems that about half the country has decided that observing these transitions is optional; somehow "out of step" with the realities of contemporary life. so I expect that, having muddied the waters pretty successfully one time, they're not gonna stop.
P.T. Barnum has taken over the Republican Party.
Barnum was an honest huckster. But I sure wish someone would point out "This Way To The Egress."
EXIT below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQ7NSSpMtA
Sheesh Colorado. Can’t blame everything on the altitude. At some point, somebody must tip over the first domino in the “I’m a Republican so I am bound to act like a traitorous idiot. But why don’t people like me anymore?”
So, back to the soon to be elected federal criminals. Will Colorado put bars on the windows of their palatial state offices and provide transportation for these crooks in the back seat of police cars? Or will they conduct "business as usual" inside a cell? I'm curious. I'm guessing if the PPP voters are so stupid, they'll vote for a criminal, they probably have no legal provisions for what happens when those same elected criminals are sentenced to a few years in the joint. And what happens when they elect a criminal to the US Senate? I guess that's an easy one to answer, given how many are resting on their PPP laurels right now. (Putrid Putin Party)
TC's THE POWER OF THE BG LIE is not a rip-off of Dinesh D'Souza's, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. Oh, no, it's simply a Burlesque under the umbrella of 'Who Done It?' Where would TC be without Abbott & Costello?
Here's a little musical accompaniment for escaping from Denver
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uOSOGpjGWPIyHRuUGFKEW
Nothing to add, except this fucking slog is longer than Nam.
Republicans are fucking traitors plain and simple.
Been there, you got that right.