To be, or not to be

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The old adage: "If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" comes to mind with our current course of foreign policy. I really don't think any of our western world leaders (and I use that term very loosely) have a Plan A, let alone a B,C or D. With all the bluster, bullying, and complete changes in direction, I'm beginning to believe none of them know what they are doing from hour to hour. It's like they are winging it with every headline every hour. It beyond throwing crap against the wall to see what will stick. It's now a wild panicked frenzy to appear relevant.
It should be demanded of all western world leaders to list 5 accomplishments from last week to justify their jobs.
Biden's junkyard dog Zelensky has been abandoned to starvation, and Trump's dog J.D. has been loosed upon him to apply the coup de grace. Soon, Trump will come to find there is nothing in that junkyard worth two hoots.
And Starmer, trying to look like he is relevant, is yet to learn that Russia will crush him and his multinational legions (3 brigades) like bugs on a sidewalk.
Putin's caravan of de-militarization and de-Nazification proceeds onward, as the dogs bark.
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QMS's picture

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the EU bloc needs to scare their constituencies
into some existential terror of the RUS and CHI
threats. And now even the US is their enemy?

A bunch of insecure twits. But Canada will help?
And the once mighty Brits will lead the charge!

Do any of these baffoons have the cranial capacity
to realize it is time to sheath their rattling swords,
maybe back-down a few steps and consider what
national suicide may look like? I wonder if their egotistical
'agendas' need a damn good whacking. The elites seem
to be confusing their imagined power with reality.

Thanks for the OT.

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earthling1's picture

@QMS
I read a couple of reports of a Russian missile attack on a British container ship suspected of carrying weapons to Odessa. Didn't sink it but significant damage.
I hope they get the message.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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most of whom are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut in order to avoid the stigma of looking like an idiot. Starmer is irrelevant. Should he actually try to put Brit troops in ukiestan the no confidence vote would be immediate. He would, in effect, be sending UK troops to certain death in order to try to provoke a wider war, and that would be explained to Parliament and the populace by many, many voices. England and France have been Russia's implacable foes, with no good reason or justification, for ages, it would really be nice if their populations could be educated as to that fact and advised that it was perhaps time for their ruling classes to grow-the-fuck-up.

be well and have a good one.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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When Britain left the EU chat with Brexit, pretty much slamming the door behind them, it was a major statement that they are not a part of Europe.
But now they want European cannon fodder to fight Russia?
Didn't this happen in the leadup to WW2?
Starmer stirring the shitpot.
Thanks for the comment.
Hope you are mending well.

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for itself.

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@humphrey
One small flashover would electrocute all of them.
Thanks for stopping by.

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@humphrey

....if they were in the People's Republic. The People don't put up with dumb legislators. They have a strict meritocracy. That's how they get so much rewarding stuff done

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ukie actor Ze
has been given a new script
"ready to negotiate with Putin immediately"
maybe tomorrow it will change again?

perhaps the threatened end to the flow of
weapons and intelligence made his handlers panic?

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@QMS

order to get his attention and subservience.

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@humphrey

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@QMS
has been redefined as adjustable diplomacy.
Imagine cutting the heads off of a thousand chickens at once and turning them loose.
It's starting to be that funny.

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The rest of the tweet:

In the spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the U.S. in dealing with the issue. Instead of recognizing our efforts, the U.S. has sought to smear and shift blame to China, and is seeking to pressure and blackmail China with tariff hikes. They’ve been PUNISHING us for helping them. This is not going to solve the U.S.’s problem and will undermine our counternarcotics dialogue and cooperation.

Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the right way of dealing with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating. If the U.S. truly wants to solve the fentanyl issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals.

If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.

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@humphrey
And China has no problem pointing this out.

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@humphrey
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blame drug abuse on the Chinese
war on the Russians
economy collapse on Iran
crime on the immigrants
homelessness on drugs
and back around we go

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@QMS

Same origin as 'Ring Around the Rosey.'.

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@Pluto's Republic
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nobody knows

have an idea, but it ain't pretty

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@Pluto's Republic

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

No details about security, or whether Americans will be on the ground. Lots of brouhaha for Russian rare earth minerals That never gets a mention in MSM.
Ze wants to negotiate peace with Russia all of a sudden.
I am having a health episode due to whiplash.
Otherwise, it is another Tuesday in my neck of the woods.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

Shitlibs are raging over Trump wanting to take Ukraine’s minerals, but they don’t know that Zelensky has already sold the best farmlands to Blackrock as well as other Ukrainian natural resources.

Boy they have lost whatever mind they had left. There was a float in Germany of a bear having A sex with Trump so they posted the picture and the comments made it even worse.

You know…the shitlibs who are for gay and trans rights celebrating this type of depiction of Trump and Putin. They mocked that they were in a homosexual relationship. Eeewww!

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

@snoopydawg are fabulous, deserving parades and flags. The wrong kind of gays are sick and twisted perverts, if I am understanding this correctly, deserving public humiliation and scorn.

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Pluto's Republic's picture

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You've caught the cadence in this open thread.

But, you have a great deal more than they had to Howl about.

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What a slap in the face to the TDS collaborators:

Soon, Trump will come to find there is nothing in that junkyard worth two hoots.
Soon, Trump will find nothing in the soil worth two boots on the ground.

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@Pluto's Republic
from the beat generation I remember is Maynard G. Krebs.
RIP Bob Denver. Thanks for the post.

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@earthling1

....I can almost hear the bongo drums in the background.

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@earthling1

hanging out at one particular place and watching Slim Gaillard perform Cement Mixer, so maybe this can replace Bob Denver:

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

prior to this episode before their funding was cut off?

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@humphrey
any one of the 3LAs.

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for writing about the measles outbreak in Texas and he advised people to talk with their doctors about getting a vaccine for it. Whatever. But it’s what Kennedy did today that has so many people freaking out.

In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.
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@snoopydawg
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of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.

That is true.

I do appreciate what Kennedy is trying to do to change the conversation.

it is an uphill battle at this point.

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wants to shut down free speech if it’s against Israel or Zionism? That’s what made the veep look so bad when he lectured Europe about all the while knowing what Trump was doing here.
And he’s working with Israel to find people who protested on campuses.

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@snoopydawg
Trump's address. He didn't have anything to say about Israel. It was as if he was prohibited.

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#9 back. I understand he wanted parents to ask questions about the MMR, but after decades of leading the charge against all the poisonous contents in these vaxxes, he called them safe? Did he remind parents to discuss aluminum particles and other deadly contents with the pediatricians?
And now he is worried about the sickness of anti-semitism, bad for kids, but not the genocidal impulses brought about by Zionism? Well, after all, dead Palestinian kids are just dead sub-humans. I keep forgetting!

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@on the cusp

Israel and called Palestinians pampered. How many people has anti semitism killed recently compared with the number of people who have been slaughtered by our bombs in Palestine?

I can’t wait to see what the right wing site says about this tomorrow. Or if he will continue to ignore the Gaza genocide.

Sachs made a great point. We had a revolution because we didn’t want to be ruled by a king. Well we are definitely being ruled by just one man when he keeps declaring emergencies and making policy that should be what congress does.

The right wing site hated it when Biden created emergencies and passed legislation that they didn’t like, but hey it’s our man doing it! Rah, rah! Blehh!

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