35 thoughts on “Pleasing Putin”

  1. they’ve been at it for a while.  aside from the putin trump electionconnections revealed in the Mueller report, other examples are these 

    in 2017

    John McCain says Rand Paul is “working for Vladimir Putin” – CBS News

     

    politico in 2018:

    Paul has been visiting Moscow this week where he met with Russian officials, in addition to visiting the U.S. embassy in the city. On Monday, Paul announced that Russian lawmakers have agreed to visit the U.S. Capitol, which would be the first time in almost three years that an official Russian delegation has visited the U.S. Capitol.
    Paul was the latest lawmaker to travel to Russia, as a group seven GOP senators and one House member visited Russia over the July 4 holiday week, just two weeks before Trump and Putin’s meeting.

    to yesterday

    Mike Lee Grilled on Connection to Vladimir Putin During Tense Utah Debate (msn.com)

    and this summer

    Senator Rand Paul Calls for Spending On Ukraine To Stop, … (thegatewaypundit.com)

  6. Just started subscribing to the fast and easily digestible newsletter Semafor.com/newsletters with multiple easily digestible paragraphs on each that you are encouraged to spread around or research.  Below is today’s blurb on the environment.  

     

    Known for exporting coal, Australia now looks to export sunshine. Canberra plans to build a major undersea cable to carry solar electricity to Singapore, part of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s bid to become a “renewable energy superpower.” International energy grids are a key part of decarbonization because they mitigate the intermittency problem — when it’s windy or sunny, countries can export electricity, and when it’s not, they can buy it in. Plans to build a similar cable linking Egypt to Greece and the European grid, and carrying enough electricity to power a million homes, have also been announced. Australia, of course, is good for sun — this week, the state of South Australia ran its entire electricity grid off solar power for six hours straight.

     

  8. Ads for the midterm elections prove to be the most wild and intense yet, Japan’s oldest toilet gets destroyed by a car, Toronto’s Uber Eats starts to offer weed deliveries, and TikTok unveils an adults-only livestream.

  11. Wow… that was a great political ad!
     
    republicans….   fascism… it’s what for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

  12. i’m not surprised that Kevin McCarthy, the guy who cowered under a desk in tears while begging for help from his daddy-trump, as Speaker Pelosi managed the real-time response to the insurrection, wouldn’t support a nation, Ukraine, fighting a nuclear tyrant on behalf of the rest of the world

    Slava Ukraine

  13. Ukrainians: repel an invading nuclear-armed war-machine with recycled trash
     
    Kevin McCarthy: hides under desk

  14. Officer Eugene Goodman:  independently diverts riotous insurrectionists away from vulnerable congresspeople, helping to avert the outbreak of a potential civil war 
     
    Kevin McCarthy: hides under desk

  15. Speaker Pelosi:  helps manage response to violent insurrection in real-time while negotiating with executive branch departments with cross-purposes
     
    Mark Meadows: plays Candy Crush on the couch

  17. Damn i wish Hunter thompson and molly ivins could be here for this. 
    And Mike Royko.
    And Art Buchwald.
    And Vonnegut and Vidal.

  21. I guess my first real tv crush was June Carter. She was hotter than a two-dollar pistol. 
    She actually got to be on tv with Hank Williams.
    Legend has it that Hank once smashed a guitar over the head of one Milton Berle.
    My dad knew Joe Louis from the sawmill –an alabama thing.

  27. At this end of my life, what stands out is how short it all is.    And you think things like, “Well, I HOPE I had a great ride…..I’m not entirely sure though….You know?”

  29. Sturgeone

    Looking at Hank it’s hard to believe he was only 28 and would be dead in a year.  All that genius for song writing packed into such a short time.

     

     

  33. lol “now yinz have a chance to make your own memes”
     
    (“yinz” is western Pennsylvanian for “you people”)

  34. Ok, well i don’t know how many more of these biennial ceremonies of acrimony i can take, so i’m going to vote Democrat, next week, not because i agree with all of their policy, but because they are interested in governing in earnest and don’t campaign on lies and fear, and then after that Gen Z is on their own (as far as i’m concerned), let’s hope we can preserve democracy long enough for them to use it 🤞 🇺🇸

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