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Time for a Hail Mary Play
Picture the heads of the Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox, the Russian Orthodox (if he can escape) and the Dalai Lama standing in Kyiv’s famous Maidan Square or Kharkiv’s Freedom Square broadcasting to the world. Picture a gaggle of rabbis and imams confronting the tank convoy on its way to Kyiv.
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States and several human rights groups have claimed that Russia used a lethal vacuum bomb on the fifth day of its invasion of Ukraine. According to reports, the vacuum bomb was dropped on Kyiv on Monday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in a late-night address accused Russia of war crimes and said that using vacuum bombs was a “violation of all conventions.”
The bomb, also known as a thermobaric weapon or an aerosol bomb, pulls oxygen from the atmosphere in order to produce a larger and more deadly explosion. Ukraine also said that Russia used cluster bombs on Kharkiv on Monday during its air raids.
Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, made the claim on Monday after being contacted by media during a meeting with White House congressmen about Ukraine funding.
“They used the vacuum bomb today, which is actually prohibited by the Geneva convention,” Markarova said after a meeting with legislators. “The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large.”
A vacuum bomb is a dangerous explosive that is fed by oxygen from the surrounding air and generates a high-temperature blast with a blast wave that lasts much longer than a normal explosive. The vacuum bomb was allegedly used on Kyiv that killed several. However, no exact numbers of the dead could be confirmed.
Vacuum bombs are among the most powerful non-nuclear weapons ever developed.
The allegations were later once again made by Zelensky in his late-nigh address to the nation. Zelensky said there would “definitely be an international tribunal” for what he called a “violation of all conventions” and that “no one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful Ukrainian people”.
Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider is praising Ukrainians who have turned one of his band’s hit songs into a rallying cry.
“I absolutely approve of Ukrainians using ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as their battlecry,” the frontman tweeted on Saturdayabout their adoption of the 1984 song.
He added, “My grandfather was Ukrainian, before it was swallowed up by the USSR after WW2. This can’t happen to these people again!“
Ukrainians have reportedly reappropriated the hard rock hit into a protest anthem amid an invasion by Russia.
Snider’s approval stands in stark contrast with his feelings on the song being used by people protesting COVID-19 mask mandates in 2020. At the time, Snider blasted the protestors, dubbing them “selfish assholes” with a “moronic cause,” and writing that they did not have his permission to use the song.
Snider addressed the opposing reactions in a tweet later on Sunday.
“People are asking me why I endorsed the use of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ for the Ukrainian people and did not for the anti-maskers,” Snider wrote. “Well, one use is for a righteous battle against oppression; the other is a infantile feet stomping against an inconvenience.”
The world has been gripped by the dramatic images of heroism and heartbreak coming out of Ukraine, where things do not appear to be playing out according to Putin’s plan and a comedian-turned-president has emerged as a national hero.
warning: keep a kleenex nearby cause it’s a tear maker. be sure at least to watch starting at 7:12 in for his description of zelensky.
https://youtu.be/k4uc81QFulk
Igor Novikov, a former advisor to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, discusses with Nicolle Wallace the Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion.
“his daily messages give us hope…if he’s still there, we’re still there as well”
“It’s easy to trace where those hundreds of tanks, towed artillery, armored and logistical vehicles came from. Just follow the roads. In Ukraine, northwest of Kyiv, all roads lead to Belarus. The roadway and bridge at Chernobyl — the town, not the failed nuclear reactor — ends in Belarus. Every other major road northwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, ends in Belarus…”
Putin is a murderous monster. Sanctions haven’t stopped him. Only someone near him, someone with guts and a gun, can stop this madness.
“World Taekwondo revokes Putin’s honorary black belt a day after he loses presidential role with International Judo Federation”
Nobody should want to be associated with Putin-the-war-criminal.
His convoy should just pull over; they can either go home (dangerous) or give themselves up to Ukrainians.
I wonder about Kutuzov’s defense of Moscow. Different kind of situation, but still……totally torch the earth, get the hell out of Kyiv, and let them take a deserted city. Then whack them relentlessly from the outside.
Some clown tweeted on not knowing that Dee Snider was still around. Dee responded. “I didn’t know you ever existed so….I win.”
“Only someone near him, someone with guts and a gun, can stop this madness.”
“Representatives from Europe and other allies walked out during a video link address by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday.”
What if someone spewed Russian propaganda, but nobody listened?
We can see the convoy headed to Kyiv. A drone strike seems in order. WTAF?
Good guy or gal, because Vlad will not be ignored. He’s Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”
“Lithuania President Gitanas Nausėda warned that no country in Europe “can feel safe” when it comes to President Putin, as the Russian invasion in Ukraine entered its sixth day. “
“No country in the European Union [EU], in Europe can feel safe right now. Yes, Ukraine is target number one, but if we cannot support Ukraine, if Ukraine will fall — be sure that we’ll be next, that Russia will stay at our doors,” Nausėda told CNN when asked if Putin could turn his attention to the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia at some point. “
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“It is clear that Vladimir Putin is prepared to use barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians to bomb tower blocks, to send missiles into tower blocks, to kill children, as we’re seeing in increasing numbers,” he added. -Boris Johnson
Killing children ~“genius”~
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy called Russia’s alleged shelling of Kharkiv’s central square “undisguised terror”.
How much damage does Vlad have to instigate before he gets the real smack down? I know he’s provoking an all-out war, but how do we stop him without it?
the guardian:
Zelenskiy urges European leaders to ‘prove that you are with us’ and ‘light will win over darkness’
Daniel Boffey
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has given a powerful address to the European parliament via videolink.
Sitting in front of the country’s flag, he said today would be the last for some of his citizens who were defending the country.
Ukraine, he said, was paying a very high price for European ideals: “Thousands of people killed, two revolutions, one war and five days of full-scale invasion”.
He said:
I am not reading from a script, because the phase of scripts for Ukraine has ended.
Now we are dealing with death, real life, he said.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine was giving lives in order to have be as “equal as you are”.
We are giving away our best people, the strongest ones, the most value based ones.
He said he was speaking between bombardments and that in the morning two missile strikes had hit Freedom Square in Kharkiv, a city close to Russia and with longstanding friendly ties.
We have a desire to see our children alive, I think it is a fair one. We are fighting for survival. We are fighting to be equal members of Europe.
We are exactly the same as you are. So do prove that you are with us. Do prove that you are indeed Europeans and then life will win over death and light will win over darkness. Glory be to Ukraine.
he got a standing ovation for very long time, acknowledged it, then raised a fist and left the set. very moving. even the interpreter stumbled with emotion translating it.
The elected representatives of 27 EU countries applaud Zelensky (video link)
I reported from this place for 30 years and never saw it speak with one, very loud voice like this before. Putin has done what no one else achieved – brought the whole of our continent together, united pic.twitter.com/01X4xCBExs
Hitler forced a Europe-wide war with the invasion of Poland and so might this pig Putin with his invasion of Ukraine. If he’s going to force it anyway, as it begins to look like he will, then “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” The world can clean his friggin clock for him so maybe let’s just get it over with.
sturge, better yet maybe sergey Lavrov can play brutus along with those guys at the long table sharpening knives for putie’s caesar. et tu, Lav?
putie’s puffy face might be botox or just that he’s gotten fat from over-eating his own.
That 40 mile long convoy really tells the tale , if Ukraine had an air force that would be a smoking snake of steel. Too bad we didn’t ship them more small drones to hit their diesel tankers.
These Russian generals don’t seem to be too bright.
That nasty bomb in the news is an American invention , we tested a huge one in Florida years ago .
It first creates a huge ball of atomized fuel in the air, and then a secondary explosion ignites this cloud of very fine droplets of fuel .
The whole thing flashes at once, sucking all the oxygen out of the air in and around it.
As for Putin’s health, being old KGB he’s worried about poison, the Russians have a long tradition using it.
Glad I’m not his food taster.
The MOAB test –
Tucker Carlson just said "it’s an awful thing" that people are saying he supported Russia and wondered, "Why are they saying it? It doesn’t make sense."
Felt like a good time to combine these clips from @Acyn from the past few weeks. Never forget it. pic.twitter.com/4PNKIu0vQ1
Meanwhile thousands driven from their homes in Australia –
The most extreme flooding occurred in Brisbane and surrounding areas, where more than 2,000 homes were submerged and another 10,000 were partially flooded, according to the Associated Press. Major roads in Brisbane have been closed, while train and ferry services have been halted due to the flooding.
All eight deaths occurred in Queensland state, where Brisbane is the capital. Some areas have picked up a year’s worth of rain in just the past few days, and that has been responsible for the massive flooding.
wonkette, among other things, had this to say about that tweet above:
Kudos to Meidas Touch for putting it together, and to Acyn for doing the painstaking work of culling the raw material. Tucker, as you may have heard, has been a veritable star on Russian TV lately, and especially in the days leading up to this invasion. In the words of The Intercept, Russian state TV has been “[using] Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to sell Putin’s war.” Maybe that somehow, either directly or indirectly, factored into why Tucker is suddenly trying desperately to do an about-face.
As we speak, a gigantic Russian convoy is outside Kyiv, inching closer and closer and engendering fears that Putin, frustrated that on day six he still hasn’t taken a major Ukrainian city, is about to really ratchet it up. Early this morning, Russian forces hit dead in the center of the Russian-speaking Kharkiv in the east, the second largest city in the country. You know, that’s part of the area that was supposed to embrace Putin’s forces with open arms.
The Wall Street Journalreports that “Moscow, frustrated in its plans for a quick victory, [has] switched to a new strategy of pummeling civilian areas in an attempt to demoralize Ukrainian resistance.”
That’s just a tiny snapshot, but this is reality. And whatever goodwill is out there for Vladimir Putin and what he’s doing to innocent Ukrainians right now, Tucker was part of making that happen.
He gets to own that.
No one should take anything Tucker says seriously? He can’t quote himself, so…
Pelosi just now on MSNBC abt Putin: “Some people say he has cancer, some people say he has brain fog from Covid”
Poobah, then again there’s just the old explanation that his thinking is muddled by his overwhelming case of megalomania.
Putin IS a cancer. Time to extract him.
The other day there was video of a drone taking out a tank. Where are the drones to take out the convoy? As soon as they crossed the border into Ukraine, they were invading and, hey, if this isn’t a stand your ground moment, I don’t know what more you’d need.
“At least five people were killed Tuesday in strikes near the Kyiv TV Tower, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Before the attack, the Russian military said it would carry out strikes against facilities in Kyiv, warning civilians living near the areas to leave.”
Watching and doing nothing is also insane. Vlad won’t stop at Ukraine.
Sanctions will cost Russians billions. A bullet is cheap. Just sayin’
NBC’s Engle reports some Russians abandoning their vehicles and running away or surrendering. Some food tins on board as much as 5 years old, way beyond their expiration date.
BiD, some military guy this morning said ukraine had about 6 drones (he wasn’t sure whether they were all armed) and may be waiting for the convoy to be in just the right spot on the road to make the most damage/effect.
Russia shutting down Wikipedia for telling the truth about Ukraine war
In the rare interview on Tuesday afternoon, Zelensky said that as long as Moscow’s attacks on Ukrainian cities continued, little progress could be made in talks between the two nations.
“You have to speak first of all. Everybody has to stop fighting and to go [back] to that point from where it began five, six days ago,” Zelensky said. “It’s important to stop bombing people and then we can move on and sit at the negotiation table.”
Asked if he felt Ukraine was wasting its time by talking with Russia, he said: “We’ll see.” Officials from the two countries met for the first time on Monday since Russia’s invasion began last week.
Ahead of Biden’s speech in Congress on Tuesday, Zelensky urged the President to impress upon Americans the urgency and implications of Russia’s invasion.
“He is one of the leaders of the world and it is very important that the people of the United States understand (that) despite the fact that the war is in Ukraine … it is [a] war for the values of democracy, freedom,” Zelensky said.
Zelensky reiterated calls for the US and NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine or put boots on the ground. “I’ve already addressed and (spoken) to some Western leaders with this request, because I do believe that leaders do have to support democratic countries and they have to help them.”
“When we talk about no-fly (zones), we’re looking back into history … and that doesn’t mean that we need to draw another country into the war. And, frankly, you know, everyone is drawn into the war now.”
“I’ve spoken to Biden many times,” Zelensky said. “And I’ve told them many times that Ukraine will resist and fight stronger than anyone else but on our own against Russia we won’t manage it.”
“That’s why if somebody wants to help us, everybody has to act swiftly,” Zelensky added. “This is the moment.”
The US and NATO allies have aided Ukraine by sharing arms, military equipment and intelligence, while also imposing dramatic sanctions on Russia. But the alliance has thus far made clear it has no plans to send soldiers into Ukraine, which is not a NATO member.
Zelensky also predicted troubles in NATO member states if Russia seizes control of his country. “If Ukraine fails, then all these troops will be at your borders, Poland, Lithuania … and you’ll be facing greater issues. There’ll be other provocations there,” he said.
[…]
Zelensky told CNN on Tuesday that Russia was indiscriminately attacking Ukrainian citizens and historical landmarks.
“As you can see, no one is being very careful about the targets. We see the children are being killed … We are defending our right for life,” he said, adding that Moscow is “launching their missiles against the ancient old Kyiv, the heart of Kyiv.”
He spoke triumphantly of Ukraine’s resistance, and said of Russian soldiers: “They have no idea what they [are] doing. They don’t know our streets. They don’t know this people. They don’t understand our philosophy. Our mentality, our aspirations, what kind of people here they have, they know nothing.
“They’re just sent to kill and die,” Zelensky said.
[…]
Asked by CNN about his transformation from comic actor to world-famous wartime leader, Zelensky responded: “It’s very serious, it’s not a movie … I’m not iconic, I think Ukraine is iconic.”
“Ukraine is the heart of Europe, and now I think Europe sees Ukraine is something special for this world,” he added. “That’s why [the] world can’t lose this something special.”
The Ukrainian leader appeared tired and stressed but was friendly with crews from CNN and Reuters. He said he hadn’t seen his family for three days; asked what his typical days are like, he said: “Work and sleep.”
Russian pharmacy chain sent out texts to its customers: “Putin stole our money and now he’s stealing lives. There’s a war in Ukraine. Wake up!” “The ruble’s value might return, but our soldiers won’t return from Ukraine!” “In 5 days, 5500+ Russian soldiers died in Ukraine.”
rumor has it that the sitting duck convoy is now the stationary sitting duck convoy, like hasn’t moved for 24 hours.
Buy off the military to defect. Ukraine already offering 5 million rubles per soldier, we can do better
I saw on the twitter that some were saying go to google earth, find moscow restaurants and the like, and leave reviews telling the ukraine news.
Great idea. There’s no news in the truth and no truth in the news (their newspapers), but Yelp saves the world.
Just noodling here, but at $.01 to the ruble, that would be $50,000 per soldier to defect? If my math is anywhere near correct – that would be $1/2B to buy off 10,000, which should be enough defections to undermine the invasion. That would be a bargain.
considering the walk out when the Russian envoy started talking, this might be a great time to throw him off the Security Council.
With all the horrible news, there was one great funny. Ted Cruz called Jen Psaki “Peppermint Patty”. She responded that she liked Patty. Then someone came up with the translation for her response.
For a new look of the old look, Coors is going to package Coors Light in cardboard wrap rather than use the plastic rings. Yay.
It seems those Russian tanks are full of a lot of poor schmucks who were lied to and don’t have much choice, i don’t want to root for their deaths
Jamie, it is beyond ridiculous to me that when the UN charter and procedural rules were drafted that the drafters did not have the foresight to disqualify any member of the UNSC from voting on any action before the Council that a council member is the target of. That’s as stupid as letting a SCOTUS justice decide whether he or she has a disqualifying conflict of interest in a case or letting legislator decide whether he or she has a disqualifying conflict of interest in legislation pending before their chamber. OK, never mind.
Has dumbass had anything (stupid) to say about this – or anything else he has no idea about – today?
Blink
Apparently many of the Russian soldiers agree and just walking away. I agree they were lied to and don’t deserve to die, but that may be all that convinces them to stop slaughtering Ukrainians.
10 minutes to SOTU. Hope they fed Joe some cough drops
Russia’s turn as UN Security Council prez ended yesterday, so yeah, kick ‘em out. No easy way to unravel this; Putin has destroyed whatever standing Russia had in the world. Got nukes?
Republicans are using it to sell US gas and oil instead of renewables. Frigging idiots.
Wow, Republicans are not afraid to go in record saying they only care about those at the top & to heck with average Americans.
Disingenuous motherfucking Republicans sit on their hands when Joe calls out the failure of dumbass’ tax cut and the success of Joe’s recovery plan.
I just heard someone in my household say”I can’t stand Republicans.” Amen sista.
Good speech, i like the conversational tone. Yeah he stammers a bit, who gives a shit
So’d the tr[f]uckers converge on the Capitol and tie up traffic today or did I. Just miss it?
Joe done good. Hoorah.
I love POTUS Joe!
G’nite
“Go, get him!”
The dogs bark but the trucker caravan gave up and went home.
Joe had his stutter-stammer under control and just one cough, so yeah, Craig…Smith Bros. cough drops did the trick.
The lady in the greet-line told Joe “You knocked it out of the park!”…and he did indeed. A great SOTU speech.
Ukraine War: Russia Dropped Lethal Vacuum Bomb During Kyiv Invasion; Zelensky Accuses Putin of War Crimes [WATCH] (ibtimes.sg)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1498345173503385608
on the lighter side, a musical note
from the hill:
The world has been gripped by the dramatic images of heroism and heartbreak coming out of Ukraine, where things do not appear to be playing out according to Putin’s plan and a comedian-turned-president has emerged as a national hero.
warning: keep a kleenex nearby cause it’s a tear maker. be sure at least to watch starting at 7:12 in for his description of zelensky.
https://youtu.be/k4uc81QFulk
Igor Novikov, a former advisor to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, discusses with Nicolle Wallace the Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion.
“his daily messages give us hope…if he’s still there, we’re still there as well”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-01-22/index.html
“It’s easy to trace where those hundreds of tanks, towed artillery, armored and logistical vehicles came from. Just follow the roads. In Ukraine, northwest of Kyiv, all roads lead to Belarus. The roadway and bridge at Chernobyl — the town, not the failed nuclear reactor — ends in Belarus. Every other major road northwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, ends in Belarus…”
Putin is a murderous monster. Sanctions haven’t stopped him. Only someone near him, someone with guts and a gun, can stop this madness.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10563951/World-Taekwondo-revokes-Putins-honorary-black-belt.html
“World Taekwondo revokes Putin’s honorary black belt a day after he loses presidential role with International Judo Federation”
Nobody should want to be associated with Putin-the-war-criminal.
His convoy should just pull over; they can either go home (dangerous) or give themselves up to Ukrainians.
I wonder about Kutuzov’s defense of Moscow. Different kind of situation, but still……totally torch the earth, get the hell out of Kyiv, and let them take a deserted city. Then whack them relentlessly from the outside.
Some clown tweeted on not knowing that Dee Snider was still around. Dee responded. “I didn’t know you ever existed so….I win.”
“Only someone near him, someone with guts and a gun, can stop this madness.”
Bad guy with a gun?
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-01-22/index.html
“Representatives from Europe and other allies walked out during a video link address by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday.”
What if someone spewed Russian propaganda, but nobody listened?
We can see the convoy headed to Kyiv. A drone strike seems in order. WTAF?
Good guy or gal, because Vlad will not be ignored. He’s Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-01-22/index.html
“Lithuania President Gitanas Nausėda warned that no country in Europe “can feel safe” when it comes to President Putin, as the Russian invasion in Ukraine entered its sixth day. “
“No country in the European Union [EU], in Europe can feel safe right now. Yes, Ukraine is target number one, but if we cannot support Ukraine, if Ukraine will fall — be sure that we’ll be next, that Russia will stay at our doors,” Nausėda told CNN when asked if Putin could turn his attention to the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia at some point. “
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“It is clear that Vladimir Putin is prepared to use barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians to bomb tower blocks, to send missiles into tower blocks, to kill children, as we’re seeing in increasing numbers,” he added. -Boris Johnson
Killing children ~“genius”~
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy called Russia’s alleged shelling of Kharkiv’s central square “undisguised terror”.
How much damage does Vlad have to instigate before he gets the real smack down? I know he’s provoking an all-out war, but how do we stop him without it?
the guardian:
Zelenskiy urges European leaders to ‘prove that you are with us’ and ‘light will win over darkness’
Daniel Boffey
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has given a powerful address to the European parliament via videolink.
Sitting in front of the country’s flag, he said today would be the last for some of his citizens who were defending the country.
Ukraine, he said, was paying a very high price for European ideals: “Thousands of people killed, two revolutions, one war and five days of full-scale invasion”.
He said:
Now we are dealing with death, real life, he said.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine was giving lives in order to have be as “equal as you are”.
He said he was speaking between bombardments and that in the morning two missile strikes had hit Freedom Square in Kharkiv, a city close to Russia and with longstanding friendly ties.
he got a standing ovation for very long time, acknowledged it, then raised a fist and left the set. very moving. even the interpreter stumbled with emotion translating it.
Zelensky Receives Standing Ovation From EU Parliament in Emotional Scenes (newsweek.com)
also today
https://twitter.com/i/status/1498620035111305218
Hitler forced a Europe-wide war with the invasion of Poland and so might this pig Putin with his invasion of Ukraine. If he’s going to force it anyway, as it begins to look like he will, then “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” The world can clean his friggin clock for him so maybe let’s just get it over with.
sturge, better yet maybe sergey Lavrov can play brutus along with those guys at the long table sharpening knives for putie’s caesar. et tu, Lav?
putie’s puffy face might be botox or just that he’s gotten fat from over-eating his own.
couple of years ago there was supposition he’d had plastic surgery.
That 40 mile long convoy really tells the tale , if Ukraine had an air force that would be a smoking snake of steel. Too bad we didn’t ship them more small drones to hit their diesel tankers.
These Russian generals don’t seem to be too bright.
That nasty bomb in the news is an American invention , we tested a huge one in Florida years ago .
It first creates a huge ball of atomized fuel in the air, and then a secondary explosion ignites this cloud of very fine droplets of fuel .
The whole thing flashes at once, sucking all the oxygen out of the air in and around it.
As for Putin’s health, being old KGB he’s worried about poison, the Russians have a long tradition using it.
Glad I’m not his food taster.
The MOAB test –
Meanwhile thousands driven from their homes in Australia –
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2022-03-01-worst-australian-floods-in-decades-cause-death-destruction-photos
Brisbane got over 2 feet in 3 days.
wonkette, among other things, had this to say about that tweet above:
also from wonkette for your entertainment:
Bill Barr’s Gaslighting New Memoir Won’t Make Us Forget He’s A POS – Wonkette
Somebody gave Tuckums too much rope.
No one should take anything Tucker says seriously? He can’t quote himself, so…
Pelosi just now on MSNBC abt Putin: “Some people say he has cancer, some people say he has brain fog from Covid”
Poobah, then again there’s just the old explanation that his thinking is muddled by his overwhelming case of megalomania.
Putin IS a cancer. Time to extract him.
The other day there was video of a drone taking out a tank. Where are the drones to take out the convoy? As soon as they crossed the border into Ukraine, they were invading and, hey, if this isn’t a stand your ground moment, I don’t know what more you’d need.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-01-22/index.html
“At least five people were killed Tuesday in strikes near the Kyiv TV Tower, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Before the attack, the Russian military said it would carry out strikes against facilities in Kyiv, warning civilians living near the areas to leave.”
Watching and doing nothing is also insane. Vlad won’t stop at Ukraine.
Sanctions will cost Russians billions. A bullet is cheap. Just sayin’
NBC’s Engle reports some Russians abandoning their vehicles and running away or surrendering. Some food tins on board as much as 5 years old, way beyond their expiration date.
BiD, some military guy this morning said ukraine had about 6 drones (he wasn’t sure whether they were all armed) and may be waiting for the convoy to be in just the right spot on the road to make the most damage/effect.
Russia shutting down Wikipedia for telling the truth about Ukraine war
Zelensky urges Biden to send strong message on Russia and says: ‘I’m not iconic. Ukraine is iconic’ – CNN
Russian pharmacy chain sent out texts to its customers: “Putin stole our money and now he’s stealing lives. There’s a war in Ukraine. Wake up!” “The ruble’s value might return, but our soldiers won’t return from Ukraine!” “In 5 days, 5500+ Russian soldiers died in Ukraine.”
rumor has it that the sitting duck convoy is now the stationary sitting duck convoy, like hasn’t moved for 24 hours.
Buy off the military to defect. Ukraine already offering 5 million rubles per soldier, we can do better
I saw on the twitter that some were saying go to google earth, find moscow restaurants and the like, and leave reviews telling the ukraine news.
Great idea. There’s no news in the truth and no truth in the news (their newspapers), but Yelp saves the world.
Just noodling here, but at $.01 to the ruble, that would be $50,000 per soldier to defect? If my math is anywhere near correct – that would be $1/2B to buy off 10,000, which should be enough defections to undermine the invasion. That would be a bargain.
considering the walk out when the Russian envoy started talking, this might be a great time to throw him off the Security Council.
With all the horrible news, there was one great funny. Ted Cruz called Jen Psaki “Peppermint Patty”. She responded that she liked Patty. Then someone came up with the translation for her response.
For a new look of the old look, Coors is going to package Coors Light in cardboard wrap rather than use the plastic rings. Yay.
It seems those Russian tanks are full of a lot of poor schmucks who were lied to and don’t have much choice, i don’t want to root for their deaths
Jamie, it is beyond ridiculous to me that when the UN charter and procedural rules were drafted that the drafters did not have the foresight to disqualify any member of the UNSC from voting on any action before the Council that a council member is the target of. That’s as stupid as letting a SCOTUS justice decide whether he or she has a disqualifying conflict of interest in a case or letting legislator decide whether he or she has a disqualifying conflict of interest in legislation pending before their chamber. OK, never mind.
Has dumbass had anything (stupid) to say about this – or anything else he has no idea about – today?
Blink
Apparently many of the Russian soldiers agree and just walking away. I agree they were lied to and don’t deserve to die, but that may be all that convinces them to stop slaughtering Ukrainians.
10 minutes to SOTU. Hope they fed Joe some cough drops
Russia’s turn as UN Security Council prez ended yesterday, so yeah, kick ‘em out. No easy way to unravel this; Putin has destroyed whatever standing Russia had in the world. Got nukes?
Republicans are using it to sell US gas and oil instead of renewables. Frigging idiots.
Wow, Republicans are not afraid to go in record saying they only care about those at the top & to heck with average Americans.
Disingenuous motherfucking Republicans sit on their hands when Joe calls out the failure of dumbass’ tax cut and the success of Joe’s recovery plan.
I just heard someone in my household say”I can’t stand Republicans.” Amen sista.
Good speech, i like the conversational tone. Yeah he stammers a bit, who gives a shit
So’d the tr[f]uckers converge on the Capitol and tie up traffic today or did I. Just miss it?
Joe done good. Hoorah.
I love POTUS Joe!
G’nite
“Go, get him!”
The dogs bark but the trucker caravan gave up and went home.
Joe had his stutter-stammer under control and just one cough, so yeah, Craig…Smith Bros. cough drops did the trick.
The lady in the greet-line told Joe “You knocked it out of the park!”…and he did indeed. A great SOTU speech.
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