Zelensky Soars

Speech to Congress Putin’s nightmare. The guy he planned to murder becomes Winston Churchill.

Meanwhile from the Putin caucus:

Donald Trump junior tweeted: “Zelensky is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen”

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  2. in case you missed hearing the whole speech

    Dec 22, 2022

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his first foreign visit since February invasion, addressing the US Congress.

  3. Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy tells US Congress aid is not charity as Biden announces $1.85bn support package (theguardian.com)

    US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, right, and US Vice President Kamala Harris, left, hold a Ukrainian flag signed by soldiers in war-torn Bakhmut after it was presented by Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine's president, bottom, during a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, 21 December 2022.

    The US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, right, and the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, left, hold a Ukrainian flag signed by soldiers in war-torn Bakhmut after it was presented by Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, during a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

     

  4. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy only speaks truths, and those truths are sometimes uncomfortable, as the hardest truths often are.
     
    Those committed to expressing offense to the realities he expresses do so because they are espoused to lies and their livelihoods are dependent on attempting to compel others to embrace those lies.
     
    Fortunately, in this life, one gets to choose, and i choose to stand with the truth-tellers and have no time for the lie-peddlers, God willing.
     
    Slava Ukraine

  5. BB, here’s your comparison courtesy of astute tweeter strider:

    @stridinstrider
     
    What a difference a competent President makes. Trump & Zelenskyy (2019) vs. Biden & Zelenskyy (2022)
     
     

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  7. jamie, thanks for reminding us.  here’s amother reminder

    Twas the night before Festivus, when, incredibly somehow, Not a Costanza was arguing. We’ve reached serenity now. The aluminum pole was placed in the corner with care, In the fear that Mr. Frank Costanza would soon be there.
    Kramer, Jerry, George and Elaine nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of H&H Bagels Danced in their heads. And Estelle with her eyejob and her proclivity to lie, Had just settled down to eat a slice of marble rye.
    When out on the street there arose such a clatter, George sprung from his childhood bed to see what was the matter, Away to the window he flew like Superman, “You think you’re better than me!” screamed a passing doorman.
    The faint yellow street lights on the week-old muddy snow Gave the lustre of mid-March to sidewalks below, When, what to George’s wondering eyes should appear, But a big obnoxious Cadillac, it was just what he feared.
    With a little old man, so quite off his rocker, George knew he was in for quite a shocker. More slowly than snails he walked up I do tell, “I feel vigorous!” (he had just worked out with a dumbell);
    “Now, George! now, Jerry! now, Estelle and Krueger! On, Elaine! On newcomers and Mr. Kramer! I got alot of problems with you people, Now you’re going to hear about it!” (The poor sheeple).
    As dry heaves set to music fly, When Costanza found himself a challenge, he wore a thin tie. So up to the table head Costanza flew, With a heart full of problems, and hypertension too.
    And then, in a flash, George heard in his mind The flails and wails of each of Frank’s fists after they dined. As George cowered in fear, and was turning around, In came his father with a bound.
    He was dressed in drab clothes, from his head to his toes, And his clothes were all stained from kasha and heroes; A major knot normally strained his old back, Today he looked like he could carry a TV Guide-filled sack.
    His eyes — how they were cold! his ears how hairy! His cheeks were wrinkled, he scared the hell out of Jerry. His droll little mouth was spurting out spit, And it spouted “George! Come on! Take a hit!”;
    The stump of a cigar Cosmo Kramer held tight in his teeth, The smoke encircled his hipster doofus head like a wreath; He had a long face and a non-existent belly, That only could be filled at the Carnegie Deli.
    Frank was chubby and plump, a right crazy old man, And George cried when he saw him, the Feats of Strength began; A raging fire in his eyes and a pile driver to the head, Soon let George know he had everything to dread;
    He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, Fighting his son, with a very slight smirk, And finally letting up for a second as a joke, He had his son George’s neck in a choke;
    He sprang to his feet, to his family he shout, And away they all flew, they needed to get out. But they heard him exclaim, as he finished the fight, HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!
    Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/seinfeld/comments/5jwsup/twas_the_night_before_festivus/

  8. Inspired by Seinfeld, Joel Kopischke and Stas Venglevski perform the holiday song “O’Festivus” for 12 Songs, presented by Third Coast Digest and WMSE Radio. Happy Festivus!

  9. back to thread topic

    editorial board’s Opinion | Zelensky’s speech shows that freedom is winning in Ukraine — for now – The Washington Post

    President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made his career in comedy, but the Russian invasion of his country 10 months ago has brought out his talent for drama — of the most inspiring kind. Standing before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky thanked the United States for its military and financial support, presented a flag signed by troops defending the the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and characterized his country’s struggle as the front line in a global battle for freedom and democracy against tyrants seeking to rewrite the international order. Likening the war in Ukraine to the American Revolution, he declared that “the Russian tyranny has lost control over us.”
    “Ukrainian courage and American resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom,” he said.
    […]
    Zelensky’s visit should encourage reflection on the pivotal role the West’s political will has played in helping Ukraine resist. Mr. Putin’s best hope — and our main concern — is evidence that U.S. support for Ukraine might be getting less bipartisan. Polls show a significant falloff in support for aid among Republican voters; the likely next House speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), has made equivocal statements on the matter. And in October, 30 progressive House Democrats issued (and quickly retracted) a woefully premature call for U.S.-brokered negotiations. All the more reason to appreciate Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, in which he backed accelerated aid for Ukraine, noting — correctly — “our support for Ukraine is morally right, but it’s not only that. It is also a direct investment in cold, hard American interests.”
    Those interests include: the stability and peace of a continent with which the United States has close and complex social, economic and political ties; the sanctity of international borders; and deterrence of military aggression. The U.S. commitment to Ukraine is costly ― but much less costly than it would be to live in a world in which Mr. Putin makes the rules.
    “The world is too interconnected and interdependent to allow someone to stay aside and at the same time to feel safe when such a battle continues,” Mr. Zelensky said. “Your money is not charity. It is an investment in the global security and democracy.”
    Mr. Biden has so far made this argument convincingly. He can point to the favorable results of U.S. policy in 2022 to reinforce it in the year ahead. “We will stay with you for as long as it takes,” Mr. Biden promised Mr. Zelensky on Wednesday. There is no reasonable alternative in the face of Russia’s aggression, a threat to the whole world.

  11. DJT Jr. (POS) and T[f]ucker (POS) can go f**k themselves, or each other.  Either way they are both not worth scraping off Zelensky’s boots.
     
    Jack, looks like we’re squarely in Elliott’s sights.  If the forecast is correct, after mixed precip overnight tonight turning to snow showers for a couple hours then the temp is going to drop 35 degrees from 4:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. (40F to 5F) Yikes.

  13. “Strip club manager”….   HA!  
    It sounds like Carlson was giving us a heads up on his next gig…

  14. From Quora Digest:

    Is Trump now having the last laugh given his Superhero NFT cards are now trading at over five times their original value of $99? Is this an indication that, contrary to popular opinion, his support is still high and could win in 2024?

    No. I’ve been laughing about his NFT superhero trading cards since the announcement. Yeah, that he made money off idiot sycophants for “artist” conceptions of T***’s fantasies being played out by body doubles (another fantasy) with a cartoon versions of D******’s fat head sitting on top of fit bodies while his lies about his taxes and prosecution referrals to DOJ were released is laugh worthy stuff. Win in 2024? You think everything that’s happened since he left office in 2021 has increased his appeal to the American voting public? I don’t know what you’re smoking, but pass that over to me.
     
    [Sometimes I crack me up]

  17. Book of the Week:
    PETER STOTHARD, A FORMER EDITOR OF THE TIMES OF LONDON AND OF THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, IS THE AUTHOR OF

    CRASSUS, THE FIRST TYCOON

    PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
    “A Warning for Today’s Super Rich From Ancient Rome’s Wealthiest Man: Rome’s wealthiest man (Marcus Licinius Crassus) who helped end the Republic bears echoes with Donald Trump today”, writes Peter Stothard @PeterStothard1
    &
    @YalePress

    “Trump’s first presidential campaign it’s easy to forget that his populism came from the Latin textbooks. When Trump was riding high, he followed closely (likely not knowingly) the populists of Republican Rome. Trump was no Julius Caesar, except maybe in his dreams, but his electoral pitch did owe much to Caesar’s uncle, Gaius Marius, Rome’s first ‘man of the people’ who won election after election, a record seven consulships, by attacking the elitism of his enemies and vaunting his own trustworthiness to the poor and left behind. When Trump used his purported wealth to prove his selflessness in seeking office (and in attacking Hillary Clinton as the client of the plutocrats) these were tactics that both Marius and Caesar would have instantly recognized.”

  18. There is a seismic-sized shift from the Ukrainian president standing with friends out in a scene of bombed ruins proclaiming, “We will never surrender” and the same president proclaiming the same message while standing before the Congress of the United States of America.  
    Ponderous……..Cosmic even.

  19. Sitting in a parking lot in the Midwest; windchill -28 and the sun is shining.   

    The diehard tRUMPsky-ites will reflect on their memorabilia like Confederates drooled melancholically over the bars and stars. ~Remember before we were cancelled and could still behave like complete a-holes?~

  22. Observations from the recovery balcony (still recovering from COVID) – President Zelenskyy is hitting all the right marks on world stage.  The far right facist, white supemacists, greedy Putin lovers are now starting to be visual to the world (compare all no votes for support to those who went to moscow for the fourth of july). 
     
    Of the cold blast hitting the middle of America and into states such as Colorado with temperatures below zero.  Um. Yeah, this is not the first time, this is not once a generation, this is like Russian propaganda saying Finns are getting cold because Russia stopped sending gas.  Finns go out all winter long to chop holes in the ice of a lake to go swimming or just hold a party.  After sauna Finns role in the snow. 

  24. It is 5 below real chill, not wind chill. That was the forecast low this morning. I noticed the sky is clearing so we have just begun to see the bottom, we have 11 hours to go yet before daybreak.
    It is not the first time I’ve seen it 10 below before Christmas. Back 2002, I think, and we worked that day, started late, put antifreeze in the air lines.
    BTW, it was 40 degrees at 1 am, when I went to bed. Lets see if we have a 50 degree drop by 1 am tonight.
    Jack

  25. yup run your cars and plumbing periodically, folks, don’t leave dogs outside longer than 5 minutes 

  26. Ya know, looking at tonights forecast, when you have a 20 mph wind blowing snow around and the temperature is 9 below. The term “blustery” doesn’t seem to cover it. 
    But there it was.
    Jack

  28. We should build a wall to keep Canada’s cold air out #americafirst
     
    …possibly a line of fans 🤷‍♂️ 

  31. Nice, have appreciated your voice lately, Mr. C 🫡 
     
    …staying out of the new thread, i’ll try to skim the report you linked

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