And justice comes to Jussie. But it is really justice?
Just Dumb
Kamala Harris just continues to show how dumb she is. She’s in Poland to try to solve the Russia/Ukraine war. I believe Joe Biden sends her on these things to fail. And she’s an idiot so she will fail every time. All she has to do is open her mouth. You have to think that she believes opening her mouth is a good thing because she became Vice President by just opening her legs. That a reference to her affair with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco.
Here is her saying something non-sensical about the alleged war crimes in Ukraine:
Oh, but that wasn’t it. She was asked about inflation and gas prices in the United States. At first, she didn’t know the question was directed at her. Then she gave a word salad of an answer which answered nothing:
Reporter: "How long should we be bracing for — this historic inflation and some unprecedented gas prices?"
Jussie Smollett is an actor from the defuncted television show Empire.
Smollett called the police because he was attacked as an apparent hate crime because he was black and gay.
They hit him and threw a noose over his neck.
The media went insane about it.
They said this was proof the country is filled with white supremacy.
They said this is proof of homophobia.
They said this was proof that the United States is systemically racist.
They blamed Trump.
The blamed Trump supporters.
Leftist politicians went off on this saying this is why the United States needs to be fundamentally changed.
Joe Biden tweeted:
Kamala Harris tweeted:
Then the story began to fall apart. Questions were being asked and evidence started coming out:
Was Jussie Smollett really out at 2:30 in the morning during the middle of a polar vortex to get a Subway sandwich?
Were there really a lot of right wing, white supremacist, Trump-supporters in the southside of Chicago.
Did these racists really wait for him at 2:30 in the morning in the middle of a polar vortex to beat up an actor who starred in a show they would never watch because they were racists?
Why didn’t he take the noose off when he got home?
Did he really get beaten up but still had the mind to pick up his subway sandwich and take it home?
Then the evidence started coming out:
Phone records showed text messages and conversations to two of Smollett’s trainers. Smollett wouldn’t give the police his cell phone.
The trainers were caught on camera buying rope and two red hats.
The brothers were picked up and admitted that they did it and that Smollett planned the whole thing.
The brothers showed the police a check Smollett had given them for the job.
Kim Foxx, the DA of Chicago, was given the case after the investigation and the recommendation to Smollett. She completely ignored it and wouldn’t charge Smollett. This kind of shows that the system is racist but racist against white people. We will get into that in a second. Luckily, the system still works and Smollett was charged, tried and convicted.
He was sentenced yesterday. Of course, he was late to his sentencing. He was late to all his court appearances. He was sentenced to 150 days in jail, followed by 30 months on probation, and ordered to $120,000 in restitution and $25,000 in fines.
The judge, James Lynn, blasted Smollett during his 30 minute statement:
But the judge wasn’t done. Later, he went on to say how much damage Smollett did to himself, his family and others:
These were pretty powerful words and all true. Did Smollett learn anything? Let’s listen:
Guess not. But his reaction did accomplish a couple things. It made him look like a martyr. Anyone not being not paying attention to this story may see him as being unjustly imprisoned. The other thing it does is audition for whatever he does after he’s released from jail, which will probably be after 30 days.
By the way, he’s a crappy actor.
Smollett could of gotten 15 years in prison. He should have gotten it.
This was a hate crime.
What if there were two white guys in the area at the time and they were accused of this crime. What do you think would happen?
By the way, the prosecution never talked about this being a hate crime. He did this to create conflict. He did this to create hate among the races. The judge said that.
The judge also talked about how hate crimes are the worst type of crime.
I’d say murder, child abuse and molestation and rape are far worse crimes.
That’s crap. All crimes are either through hate or indifference and are equally evil.
Hate crimes appear to only go one way. The light sentence proves that.
The inflation numbers are out and November can’t come fast enough.
A bigger story might be coming out of Ukraine.
And a WNBA player is in custody in Russia. I have two reason why we should say, “Screw her and rot”.
Up, Up and Away
Inflation is on the rise again. In fact, it is the highest since 1982.
Consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year.
The 12-month increase has been steadily rising and is now the largest since the period ending January 1982.
Overall prices rose .8% in February.
Increases in the indexes for gasoline, shelter, and food were the largest contributors to the seasonally adjusted all items increase.
The gasoline index rose 6.6 percent in February and accounted for almost a third of the all items monthly increase; other energy component indexes were mixed.
The food index rose 1.0 percent as the food at home index rose 1.4 percent.
The all items less food and energy index rose 6.4 percent, the largest 12-month change since the period ending August 1982.
The energy index rose 25.6 percent over the last year, and the food index increased 7.9 percent, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending July 1981.
This is really bad news. Everything is rising and it is all because of Joe Biden’s policies that they keep saying are not going to change any of them. They are saying that this whole mess is because of Putin and the war in Ukraine. The media is already calling it “the Putin Price Hike”.
They are also blaming corporate greed that is causing inflation. That’s right! The beef, pork, chicken, dairy, confectionary, energy and car industries all conspired to raise prices to make profits.
The Biden administration needs to read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
So, how does the government plan to deal with problem of inflation? How about spend another $1.5 trillion.
Just two days before the federal government would have shut down, the United States House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening to pass its $1.5 trillion spending bill.
The bill includes a massive aid package for Ukraine as well as money to keep the government running through September.
The bill includes $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine as well as a 5.6% increase in overall defense spending, totaling $782 billion, boosting discretionary domestic spending 6.7% to $730 billion.
The spending bill includes $575 million for “family planning” internationally, Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy pointed out, $286 million for Title X funding to “keep the lights on at Planned Parenthood,” $32.5 million for the pro-abortion U.N. Population Fund, and $200 million for a brand new “Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund” to help promote abortion across the globe.
$100 billion on Green New Deal initiatives and an advancement of Racial justice initiatives through the Department of Agriculture.
$100 billion on environmental justice activities.
$75 billion on electric car promotion.
$26 billion in food stamp funding.
Raises funding to the NIH by 10%.
Provides $66 million to the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.
The Pentagon withdrew their offer to Poland to send F-16 fighter jets to Poland in exchange for Poland sending their older MIG-29 fighter jets.
Antoney Blinkin made the announcement on Sunday about the proposed deal.
Poland wanted to do the deal but did not want to send the jets directly to Ukraine. This is because they feared provoking Russia and they are on the border to Ukraine.
They also did not trust the United States to have their back during the delivery.
Poland sent the jets to an Air Force base in Germany and made the announcement that they made the deal with the United States.
The United States had no idea there was an announcement.
On Thursday, the United States said they were pulling out of the deal because they did not want to provoke Russia by delivering the jets to Ukraine.
Way to screw Ukraine.
Russia has confirmed that they are using vacuum bombs. This is a war crime.
Russia is not threatening to use chemical and biological weapons. They are doing this for a reason.
The weakness of this administration is still showing. They refuse to say or do anything because of this threat.
Russia has stated that there are biological weapons labs in Ukraine paid for by the United States.
At first, the administration, the media and fact checkers said there are not.
Now we are finding out that there are labs in Ukraine.
Facts are coming out on this story and, if true, are really damning to the United States government.
Meanwhile, in the United States, during a time of such instability, it’s good to hear that one of our Navy missile ship is being taken offline because of COVID.
Navy Times reported on Tuesday that there is currently a “stand-off” between the U.S. Navy and the commanding officer of a destroyer warship that cost nearly $2 billion to make because the commander in question has refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Navy would like to fire him for not following orders and having lost their “confidence” in his ability to lead the ship and crew. The Navy believes he is unfit to command for not receiving the COVID-19 jab, and as a result, could cause a national emergency because they would not feel secure sending the ship out to sea with him in command.
Problem is, the captain is in a position that will not allow the Navy to fire him.
There is a pending lawsuit.
Federal Judge Steven Merryday of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled in February that while that lawsuit is going on, the Navy and Marines cannot take any punitive action against members of those units who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine — despite orders.
On February 28, the Navy requested permission to fire the CO, arguing Merryday’s injunction is “an extraordinary intrusion upon the inner workings of the military.”
The Navy claimed that the commander has shown other callous behavior, such as exposing the 320 member crew of the ship he commands to COVID-19 in November of last year after he became ill.
I do want to point out no one died and there were a bunch who caught it.
Can I some questions?
Why does the captain need the shot when he’s had COVID back in November?
Doesn’t he have natural immunity?
Is sacrificing our military less dangerous than COVID-19?
Americans say 71 – 22 percent that they would support a ban on Russian oil even if it meant higher gasoline prices in the United States.
Democrats (82 – 12 percent), independents (70 – 22 percent), and Republicans (66 – 30 percent) all support banning Russian oil.
As for the steps that the Biden administration has taken so far to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, 56 percent say they are not tough enough, while 30 percent say they are about right, and 3 percent say they are too tough.
There is broad support (79 – 14 percent) for a U.S. military response if Russian President Vladimir Putin goes beyond Ukraine and attacks a NATO country.
Americans are divided on Joe Biden’s handling of the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with 42 percent approving, 45 percent disapproving, and 13 percent not offering an opinion. This compares to a week ago when 39 percent approved, and 47 percent disapproved.
For his overall job approval, Americans give Biden a negative 38 – 51 percent job approval rating with 11 percent not offering an opinion.
Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are now: stay and fight or leave the country? A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would leave the country. Republicans say 68 – 25 percent and independents say 57 – 36 percent they would stay and fight, while Democrats say 52 – 40 percent they would leave the country.
That really tells you something about Democrats.
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3838
Let Her Rot
American WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in February on drug charges at an airport near Moscow, according to a report from The New York Times.
Griner, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, also plays for the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason.
The search of Griner’s luggage occurred in February, meaning there’s a chance she has been in Russian custody for a few days. Griner could face up to ten years in prison for the crime.
Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said: “We are aware of the situation with Brittney Griner in Russia and are in close contact with her, her legal representation in Russia, her family, her teams, and the WNBA and NBA. As this is an ongoing legal matter, we are not able to comment further on the specifics of her case but can confirm that as we work to get her home, her mental and physical health remain our primary concern.”
So, they aren’t denying the charges.
Of course, Democrats are demanding she be released and are saying she’s being held hostage.
One final point, this woman knelt during the National Anthem and actually believed the National Anthem shouldn’t be played before games.
I have some thoughts about this.
Screw her.
She openly believes this country is evil and racist. She goes to another country. Gets into trouble then wants the United States to spend time and money to help her? No.
But, more to the point, she broke the law in Russia. There is no denial that she had what they say she had. She must pay the price.
She should have known better. Actions have consequences.
The Biden administration is trying to plant the seed of a new narrative concerning the gas prices.
The media flips out about what they call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Let’s take a look at that bill and see if they have something to flip out about.
Stupid Statement of the Day
Leave it to Joe Biden to say something stupid and racist. Here it is:
Some things:
This is racist. He not only talks about the blacks in a derogatory way but also calls a Muslim American a terrorist.
Here’s a news flash: Biden is a racist. He always has been and has said many, many things to prove that.
By the way, what would happen if Trump said this? I think we know.
Oh, That’s the Problem
Gas jumps again, another $0.20 so the Biden administration has to come up with a new line.
Joe Biden has never taken responsibility for anything…ever. He celebrates anything that is good while ignoring all that is bad. Even if the good has nothing to do with his policies. Take the unemployment rate. Yeah, it’s good that people are getting jobs and it’s good that pay has gone higher. He’ll celebrate all that. But he will ignore that we have still not reached pre-pandemic employment numbers and inflation and high gas prices prices negate any wage growth by, going on now, 10%.
Let’s look at his reaction through the last six months as gas prices were rising. Don’t forget that gas, on average, was about $2.80 a gallon. in December of 2020 and shot up to $3.40 a gallon in November of 2021.
In this clip, he blamed the pandemic and everyone getting back to regular life, saying that rising gas prices would go away by now.
Yeah, he was wrong. He said that in October. We didn’t have a Russia/Ukraine war then. Russia wasn’t even massing troops at the Ukrainian border then.
Here he is blaming Russia and OPEC for not producing enough gas:
OK. He said this in November. We didn’t have a Russia/Ukraine war then. Russia wasn’t even massing troops at the Ukrainian border then.
This is what he said this morning when asked what is going to happen with gas prices:
That’s right it’s Russia’s fault. So it’s the pandemic, OPEC and Russia, and I’m sure it’s Trump’s fault somewhere here but I just couldn’t find a clip of anything. And he looked actually happy at the idea that he can blame Russia now. In fact, it looks like him stopping oil coming from Russia as an excuse for why prices are going up and will continue to go up.
This is the new narrative. The new excuse as to why we can’t blame Biden’s crappy policies.
Jen Psaki double-down on this:
OK, I call bullshit:
Putin had something to do with this but prices were going up all years.
Of course, Trump looks like Nostradamus. He predicted this during his campaign in 2020:
The Florida Senate has passed bill HB1557. It is now heading to Gov. Ron DeSantis desk where he is expected to sign it. It discusses the way teachers in the state deal with sexual issues, sort of.
I’m going to do this is reverse order. First I am going to go through the reaction to the bill. Because, as you can imagine, the Left is going insane. Then we’re going to go through the bill, the actual bill, and see if the reaction is legitimate.
Media Reaction
The media immediately deemed this bill the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Again, we’ll get into the bill in a few minutes and that’s important. The naming of the bill, which doesn’t have a name, is misleading.
An LGBQIWXYZ-groups decided to release a video extenuating the “Don’t Say Gay” lie. I will call it a lie now even though I haven’t read you the bill yet. They released a video in protest of the video. It got together a bunch of celebrities and gay people who do nothing but say, “gay” a bunch of times. Listen:
I love when the Left makes videos like these. It shows three things:
They haven’t read the bill.
If they have read the bill, they have no way to debate it.
They’re just stupid.
Speaking of stupid, The View had their opinion on it. I mean, do they ever not have an opinion on anything?
Some things:
If it’s not happening, as Whoopie says, why is she so upset? This bill should mean nothing?
But it is happening. That’s why she’s upset.
But there is sex talk in grade three. There is sex talk and gender theory in kindergarten.
Something important, stop making teachers into heroes and parents into villain.
Teachers hiding what they are teaching kids from parents is not the same as the Gabriel Fernandez story. Most parents do not abuse their kids. This is what makes The View stupid.
You will see this when we get to the bill.
Mark Hamill, of Star Wars fame, tarnished his image. He tweeted “gay” 67 times. Way to give a legit argument, Mark. Thanks God Disney replaced your character in the upcoming Star Wars knockoffs.
STUDENTS WALK OUT TO PROTEST FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL: With many demonstrations ahead of the Florida state Senate's vote that resulted in passing the controversial bill, #TheView co-hosts and guest co-host @OMGrisham react. https://t.co/94uZMFSYE7pic.twitter.com/VkEbWMbLY3
Florida Democrats walked through the halls of the Florida capital singing gay, gay, gay. Listen:
That was terrible. Sorry I had to make you listen to that but I had to so you had to.
Ever wonder why people wonder why nothing gets done in government?
The Biden administration also weighed in because they have nothing more important to worry about. The Department of Education appeared to threaten Florida over the bill.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement on Tuesday:
“Parents across the country are looking to national, state, and district leaders to support our nation’s students, help them recover from the pandemic, and provide them the academic and mental health supports they need. Instead, leaders in Florida are prioritizing hateful bills that hurt some of the students most in need.”
“The Department of Education has made clear that all schools receiving federal funding must follow federal civil rights law, including Title IX’s protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We stand with our LGBTQ+ students in Florida and across the country, and urge Florida leaders to make sure all their students are protected and supported.”
This statement is so stupid because I know what the bill says. You’ll know in a few minutes. But it has all the key words: hate, hurting students, civil rights, gender identity.
Joe Biden does support this bill but there’s a problem. Let’s listen to a question about the bill posed to Jen Psaki that, I’m pretty sure she didn’t expect:
Some things:
Biden didn’t support gay rights in the past! That’s OK, neither did Barrack Obama. But he has to please his base.
What difference does it matter that he was against this 25 years ago. He was against it. What changed his mind?
Why is it hateful now but not then?
Notice, she never answers the question. The guys who are voting for the bill know why they are voting for the bill and are vocal about it.
The question is why would Biden vote for a bill just like it 25 years ago (some say, that bill was worse) and be against it now? This press guy is wondering about Biden’s motivations.
Yeah, we don’t get any answer from the most transparent administration in history.
Now, let’s go through the bill and see if this reaction is justified. You already know it’s not because I wouldn’t bring it up if it was.
The bill is only four pages long.
The bill never mentions the word gay.
The bill never mentions the word trans.
It doesn’t say anything about cis-gender, non-binary, my pronouns or anything about gender identity.
Let’s go through some of it. I am going to edit some of the wording but you can read the bill yourself. It’ll take five minutes.
The first section talks about student welfare.
…notifying a student’s parent if there is a change in the student’s services or monitoring related to the student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being and the school’s ability to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for the student. The procedures must reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children by requiring school district personnel to encourage a student to discuss issues relating to his or her well-being with his or her parent or to seek permission to discuss or facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent.
In other words, you have to tell parents what you are teaching, parents have a right to say they don’t want something taught, and teachers should encourage kids to talk to their parents.
That’s very different than before where teachers told student to hide things from their parents.
By the way, nothing about gender here. A teacher just has to tell the parents what’s going on with the child’s health or a change in curriculum.
A school district may not adopt procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying a parent about his or her student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information.
Seems reasonable.
A school cannot create rules that prohibits teachers, administration and districts from talking to parents.
A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.
This is the one that has the Left flipping.
Primary grades are kindergarten through third grade. The Left wants to teach 5-year-olds about sex. That’s grooming.
The Left doesn’t like the vagueness of the law.
I think it is vague. They should have gone much further.
A parent of a student may bring an action against a school district to obtain a declaratory judgment that a school district procedure or practice violates this paragraph and seek injunctive relief.
Parents can sue schools.
I have no problem with this.
That’s it. That’s the law.
Parents have a right to know what teachers are doing.
Teachers have to say if their kids have problems and not hide things from the parents.
Teachers shouldn’t be teaching sex education to little kids.
And, if the teachers don’t do any of that, parents can sue.
That’s it. That’s the bill. Anything really bazar about it? I never had any of these problems when I was in school.
Well, Ron DeSantis had enough with the media flipping out about. He went off on a reporter when he brought it up and made him look bad:
Of course, the reporter posted it as if he was a hero.
This is something that needed to be done. It is going to hurt at the pump but, if we are serious in stopping the escalation, we need to do this.
It would have been nice if it was done before the invasion.
Russian oil imports make up 7% of our oil.
The president said his decision comes after consulting with European allies, although he said some are not able to join the U.S. in banning Russian oil.
Still, the European Commission (E.U.) said it plans to reduce imports of Russian energy by two-thirds, even though it gets 40% of it from Russia. For its part, the United Kingdom is to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of 2022.
The United Kingdom will ban the import of Russian oil over the invasion of Ukraine, with the official announcement expected later on Tuesday, joining the United States in protest.
The ban on Russian oil is expected to take place right away.
So be prepared to pay more because this administration has no real plans to actually help this problem.
Gas Prices
Gas prices have gone up again. In my neck of the woods, prices went from $5.19 a gallon to $5.39 a gallon. Mind you, it was $4.55 a gallon about a week and a half ago.
Joe Biden is getting heat for not drilling in the United States to lead us to energy independence. In his speech today, he made clear that he had nothing to do with there being a lowering of drilling in the United States:
Joe Biden: "It's simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production" pic.twitter.com/cyDonrIBDx
His goal is to end all use of fossil fuels within the United States.
How do we know this? He said it during his campaign during the 2020 Democratic debates:
Joe Biden in 2020: "No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. It ends." pic.twitter.com/90MVJevPmv
None of this is an accident. They are trying to save the planet and ruining our way of life is a path the elites will to go. They destroy but have no plans on how to build. How to replace. Solar and wind energy production have an efficiency of 10% and they all depend on the weather. And it’s not like they want to replace it with green energy like nuclear and natural gas.
Here’s Jennifer Granholm, the energy secretary, responding to a question about rising gas and oil prices and what the administration is going to do about it: Mind you, this was a couple of months before the Russia/Ukraine war:
Some things:
What’s so funny? People are struggling.
Well, what’s funny is:
The administration is not planning to increase drilling.
The administration doesn’t care about the suffering of the people.
The magic wand? She’s the damn energy secretary. Isn’t that her job?
And if she and the administration doesn’t know what to do, why are they destroying the oil infrastructure?
Jen Psaki also showed her compassion during a press conference yesterday. She was asked about what the administration was going to do about the fear people had about rising prices. Her answer was less than inspiring:
Some things:
Is he going to do everything he can? Really?
Could he encourage drilling by opening it up on federal lands?
Could he lower regulations on drilling to encourage more development?
Could he open the XL pipeline for more efficient delivery of oil from Canada?
This is going to be the new narrative: It’s Russia’s fault.
Remember, the gas prices were 40% higher before the Ukraine war. Was that Putin’s fault?
The average price when Biden took office was $2.79 a gallon.
It jumped to $3.44 a gallon before the war started.
Joe Biden release 60 million barrels from the reserve. That’s three days of oil.
Those producers and suppliers include:
Venezuela.
Saudi Arabia.
Iran.
Why do they always negotiate with countries that hate us.
That set Peter Doocy off. He went right after Psaki:
Some things:
Her comment about producing more oil than Trump’s first year is a bit misleading.
Trump cancelled just about every regulation on drilling. Biden can’t say we are drilling more than Biden’s second year.
We were energy independent. Biden came in, no longer.
There are 9000 unused oil permits. Why are they unused? According to the oil producers, it’s because the regulations placed on those permits to drill on federal lands are so suffocating that profits are impossible.
And her last statement is the rub. We should not be using oil anymore. Period! We are the problem and our cars and our warm homes and our stocked grocery stores and our vacations.
Everything we have come to expect needs to be change. All in the name of the planet.
That B.S. The reality is, if the planet was really the issue:
We would be going after China and India.
We would be encouraging innovation which means allowing the use of fossil fuels until we come up with something better.
This is all about pushing big government which requires suppressing the population and ending capitalism.
In the United States, that requires killing the Constitution and we know the Left is working on that.
I went off on a tangent. Peter Doocy wasn’t done with her:
Some things:
Gas prices are based on speculation. If the pipeline assures there will be more oil in the future, prices will go down.
If you combine the pipeline with the oil fields in Canada, you get a more efficient way of getting more oil into the country.
A good analogy. A sink is not the source of water but you don’t break the sink.
Those other means are by truck and ship. Both are inefficient and more susceptible to accidents.
All in all, this administration is not serious about this crisis. They just don’t care.
Yesterday, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg had a press conference talking about gas prices and it went about as well as could be expected for those two.
Here’s Pete Buttigieg telling us that we should all just get electric cars:
Some things:
The affordable electric vehicles lose 30% of their range in cold weather when transportation is needed most.
By the way, they’re are not that affordable. They cost be tween $30-$40K.
They also still take forever to charge.
The electric cars that don’t lose range in cold weather are Tesla cars. They cost, at least, $60K.
Where does he think the electricity to power those cars is going to come from?
And, what do car batteries run on? Cobalt. Where do we get cobalt? China. Why do these guys always enrich communist dictatorships?
Kamala Harris was worse. Here she is introducing a push to get electric school buses:
What world are these people living in. Imagine and it shall come? Click your ruby slippers and repeat I wish my car was electric and it will happen?
But this is the belief of the Left. We should all do what they do and, if we can’t, then we should go without. If you have a car with a combustion engine and can’t afford an electric car, then you shouldn’t have a car. If truckers can’t afford gas to bring inventory to the grocery stores, then the shelves should remain empty. After all, we should lower our expectations to make the world better.
That’s what Stephen Colbert thinks:
Stephen Colbert is worth $75 million a year and make $16 million a year. He can afford a Tesla, why can’t you?
The Russian/Ukrainian war enters its 12th day. Let’s take a quick look at what’s happening.
Gas prices are killing people and they are just going to get worse.
And Sulu may “boldly go where no man has gone before” but he sure doesn’t see to know what’s going around here.
Ukraine/Russia War
Here is what is happening in the Russia/Ukraine war:
The war has been going on for 12 days.
The United Nations is estimating Monday that 1,735,068 people overall have fled Ukraine since Feb. 24
The Biden administration is willing to ban Russian oil imports into the U.S. without its allies in Europe doing the same, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
An estimated 5,138 people in 72 Russian cities were arrested Sunday.
The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights announced Monday that 406 civilians have been killed and 801 have been injured in Ukraine since fighting began on Feb. 24.
CNN, BBC have stopped broadcasting in Russia following Putin signing a law that bans misinformation and disinformation.
Mastercard and Visa have discontinued service in Russia.
How targeting the Russian people is going to solve something, I don’t know.
Russia appears to be going to China try to implement China’s credit card system called Union Pay as soon as possible.
Putin is being accused of war crimes for using vacuum bombs.
Ukraine is asking for planes, armed drones and the Russian version of the Patriot anti-air missile system.
The Ukrainian air force is still intact.
The United States is negotiating with Poland to send them F-16 fighter jets and Poland will send Ukraine the older MIG fighter jets to Ukraine.
U.K. intelligence says that a Russian victory is far from assured.
The gas and oil prices are astronomical and only going to get worse.
Oil is $130 a barrel and they expect it to get to to get to $140 a barrel by tomorrow.
Forecasters expect oil to reach $200 a barrel.
Average gas prices are now $4.17 a gallon up from $3.44 a gallon last month.
Mind you, when Trump left office, the average was $2.79. That’s important to know because Jen Psaki and the Biden administration are blaming the war for high prices. They were high before.
By the way, in California, we are paying $5.19 a gallon.
What is the Biden administration doing? Not much.
The Biden administration is asking Saudi Arabia to increase oil production.
They told Biden to kick rocks.
The Saudi’s hate Biden because of the Koskogi killing.
The Biden administration sent an envoy to Venezuela.
They want to lift sanctions from Venezuela’s socialist government to start importing their oil.
Republicans are furious about it (read some of the tweets).
Iran might be an option for the Biden administration. More on that later.
The one thing Biden will not do is start drilling in the United States. They have made that very clear. Jen Psaki basically disciplined people during a press conference last week telling us that we needed to get off our dependence of oil. Even Elon Musk said we need to start drilling for oil.
And he’s doubling-down. The Biden administration is now trying to stop all exports of Russian oil. I don’t disagree with this but there needs to be something that fills the void. People need to live. This doesn’t just affect oil and gas. It affects food prices, home heating, electricity. Energy affects everything.
The one reality that the Biden administration refuses to face is we are living in a fossil fuel world. But he doesn’t care about the suffering he bestows on us. He will never suffer.
Of course, you will always have the elites talking about how things aren’t really that bad and we have to just deal with it. George Takei of Star Trek fame tweeted this:
Just to make it clear, George Takei is worth $14 million.
You can imagine the pushback against this completely out of touch statement from a guy who’s beliefs really make me question his authority on talking about patriotism.
Podcaster, Britt Griffin, said:
“Hey rich guy, you can endure this, but us working class people, this is crushing us. But what do you [care] looking down your nose at the people who make your world run…”
Non-profit, Code of Vets, tweeted:
“Many American and veteran[s] live paycheck to check barely surviving now. This post is out of touch with the average American.”
But liberals also attacked him.
Johnny Akzam tweeted:
Peter Coffin responded:
He still managed to insult the United States but he right about the tweet.
The Biden administration still is trying to get into that crap Iran nuclear deal. They want to get back into it so bad, they are throwing the kitchen sink into the deal. Basically, Iran is going to get everything they want and we aren’t going to get crap.
The negotiators for Biden administration have left their posts because the is no negotiating happening. Iran just lists demands and that’s it.
The Russian Envoy has said he can’t believe how much Iran is getting in this deal for nothing.
So far, this is what’s happening:
Iran will get compensation from the United States.
Iran will be allowed to have free trade. That includes selling oil to the United States.
Iran will have to limit nuclear production for 10 years but that doesn’t have to be confirmed by any independent observers. We just have to trust them. That’s it.
Iran has asked that their Revolutionary Guard be taken off of the international terrorist list. That makes sense. Take terrorists off the terrorist list.
Russia, who is directly involved in the negotiations, threw a wrench into the mix.
They want complete free trade with Iran.
This is a sticking point. Negotiations have been broken off.
Republicans are furious that we are negotiating with Russia and Iran. A letter was sent to the President highlighting that Iran is using their nuclear program to get more from the United States and it is working. Iran has already created weapons grade plutonium and that knowledge is not going to go away because they join this agreement.
The Senate has threatened block any deal with Iran. That is important. If the deal is not supported by Congress, the next President can just leave the deal and reinstate sanctions. This is what happened when Obama got into the deal. President Trump was able to pull out of the deal.
Tucker Carlson is my favorite opinion anchor. He’s down to Earth, says what he thinks and has that stupid look on his face. When he replaced Bill O’Reilly, I wasn’t thrilled. Bill O’Reilly has an edge to him. As Tucker came into prominence, Tucker developed that same edge and I became a daily watcher.
Fridays are a big day for Tucker. He usually talks about what he wants to. He did that Friday. That subject was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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I Don’t Usually Do This
We all know that AOC is a dumbass. We all know that she is in a position that she can’t handle. We all know that she is an example of what is wrong with our government and what is wrong with this generation. And this monologue was funny and true.
It came about because the writers of the New York Magazine wrote a book about AOC and it couldn’t get more syrupy. It was so bad, Tucker got a British producer to read some of the entries from the book.
I won’t lie, I kind of want to.
Here’s the introduction. Tucker was going to run with the Canadian convoy protest and the Ukrainian crisis but he decided to go a different direction.
Some things:
How is a book about AOC going to other than a saliva inducing, vomit of words.
I do think it’s an important topic. Our country is a mess, our ideology is being overrun and we are becoming weaker.
He’s right about it being Friday and we should take it easy though.
Here is Tucker talking about the books exaggeration:
Some things:
Tucker did this on purpose. He superimposed AOC as being God to Stacy Abrams pornographic novels (that’s true, by the way). My guess he did that on purpose.
AOC is a God for the Left and vice are her Ten Commandments.
The degradations of womanhood? Really? The only degradation to womanhood seems to be coming from the trans community which she supports.
And I love that she says she’s finally speaking out loud. And she ain’t the first.
Some things:
The trans thing is important because it just shows the non-sensical nature of the Left. They don’t believe women exist.
Tucker hits another point. Feminists are turning in their graves because of her. She the opposite of the feminist cause.
Her fashion.
Her makeup.
Feminists in the 60’s used to burn their clothes.
People don’t listen to her because she’s not a serious person. She has been in Congress for four years now and she’s done nothing and has continually said stupid things.
Here is one of Tucker’s greatest point:
Some things:
Tucker’s analogies are awesome because they are so on point.
This is the problem and illogic of Leftist ideology. Just because one is a person of color doesn’t mean one isn’t elite. I wish he would have expanded on this.
Some things:
This is the remaking of image. They do it all day with Biden and Harris. Just read the New York Times or Washington Post.
And I guarantee you, the history books, if the Left gets what the want, will reflect the same thing.
This is the second great point Tucker brings up.
Some things:
For some reason, this seems to be taboo to talk about.
AOC knows she’s good looking, though I wouldn’t touch her with a ten foot pole, and she exploits that.
Then Tucker hits it:
Some things:
Adam Corolla actually got pushback on Sean Hannity’s show for saying this.
I have always said this.
The squad would not exist if she was 5″1′ and three bills. You think Rashida Tlaib would have been able to do it? You think people would watch her on Instagram?
She is a marketing ploy for the Left. She there to convert people to Leftism.
This is funny:
Some things:
Is there any reason people don’t trust the media.
Busy of what? She’s done nothing in Congress.
She also shows the problem with this generation. They think everyone wants to see every selfie and project one has. This is narcissism but it is exactly the way a lot of our kids are today.
He didn’t go into it, but this is a social problem that AOC is promoting. I’m pretty sure no one gives a crap if I’m putting together an IKEA table.
In fact, it wouldn’t even occur to me to put a video of it on Tik Tok.
Again, this is just dumb that Tucker is pointing out:
Some things:
This was such a dumb description I have nothing much to say.
But I do have a question: If you put together this table on Tik Tok, would you be complicated and multi-faceted?
Probably not because you’re not an elite.
Here’s Tucker’s closing:
Some things:
It is kind of creepy. Stalker creepy.
It also shows how pathetic our society because of social media.
Instead of people going out and making their own live, they live through the lives of others on a computer screen.
What’s most pathetic, they think their lives will have more meaning based on the number of “Likes” the get. It’s actually of sad.
And AOC ain’t helping it. That’s because she doesn’t care.
Did AOC Respond
This is what’s great about Tucker Carlson: He knows how to get a reaction. His monologs are vicious, cutting, funny and true. It is too much to expect that the attention whore AOC was going to ignore this “attack”. And she didn’t.
Her first tweet was rather straight forward:
Some things:
That would have been a perfect tweet and just move on.
It’s funny and straight forward.
But, no:
Some things:
No, she didn’t call people obsessive compulsives. She said everyone wanted to date her.
She needs to learn punctuation. I guess they didn’t teach her that at Boston U.
This was not sexual harassment but anything to make herself a victim. Problem is it doesn’t work anymore.
Treat any woman like this? Like what?
And, of course, she attacks his family.
AOC is a narcissist.
AOC was not the target of this.
The media and their fawning over her was the target.
Tucker used examples of her idiocy and the media’s reaction to her idiocy to prove his point.
She continued:
Some things:
So, now she’s in danger because Tucker called her a fool and a child. Hyperbole.
There is a ton of political commentary here:
The mainstreaming of Leftist insanity.
How foolish out “betters” are.
How the mainstream media are really the ones that want to date her.
How we are wasting tax paying dollars to pay her salary ($174,000 a year).
Right after Tucker Carlson spends 10 minutes on his show saying how much of a fool AOC is, she goes right out and does something foolish on social media again.
Here she is, stressed out. She decides to destress would be to dunk her face in ice water. On Instagram live, of course.
Let’s quickly go over the State of the Union speech. It was dumb and filled with lies and I’m sure you’ve heard tons about it. I won’t play any clips and do a lot of analysis.
The first 12 minutes dealt with Ukraine. Makes sense because he had nothing good to say about the country.
He said that the United States led the way to unifying Europe. That’s a lie.
He over-hyped the involvement of the United States sanctions and support for Ukraine.
He never took responsibility for doing anything before the invasion.
The he went on to the economy, starting the way all politicians do, with a story about his father and his youth. I hate when politicians do that.
He talked about how the American Rescue plan created 6.5 million jobs. It didn’t.
There’s no evidence the American Rescue Plan created any jobs.
the 6.5 million number is still close to 4 million jobs short of pre-pandemic job numbers.
The American Rescue plan is part of the reason we have inflation and a $30 trillion deficit.
Do you realize Joe Biden has spent almost $6 trillion in 2021?
Even the New York Times says this.
He demonized the Trump tax cuts as “bad for America” saying it only helped the top 1%. That’s just a lie.
Actually it was the opposite. By getting rid of the SALT deductions, it raised taxes on the top earners.
It was a middle class tax cut.
He talked about the infrastructure bill that was passed.
He seems to think that the infrastructure bill is going to make us more competitive.
He said it will help climate change and environmental justice.
The he listed a bunch of stuff like high speed Internet, which isn’t infrastructure.
Not sure how any of this is going to make us competitive.
He talked about the Innovation Act that will give subsidies to companies to build factories in the United States.
I hate this because subsidies just take taxes from one group and gives them to another.
And none of us see the benefits for this. I don’t get a piece of the pie. I still have to pay for the product.
Of course, the reason we do not have factories in the United States are because of all the regulations administrations like Biden’s put on them such as a $15 minimum wage.
He talked about inflation but only for a few minutes. He said we needed to get inflation under control. What were his ideas:
Increase the minimum wage.
Free education including
Cut the cost of prescription drugs. Trump did this already.
Give tax credits for weatherizing houses.
Cut the costs of electric cars.
Cut the costs of child care.
Bring back the child tax credit.
Invest in community colleges.
Support unionization.
Raise taxes.
He said companies should lower costs yet everything he suggested just raises costs.
He also demonized businesses saying they are raising prices for profits. Does he understand how inflation works?
Everything he said puts costs on businesses and discourages businesses from growing of even starting.
Fix the tax system so the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share.
BS.
The top 10% pay all the net taxes.
Him saying the rich and corporations don’t pay taxes in a lie. Elon Musk paid $5 billion last year.
The China virus. He said we can now go mask-free because of what the administration has done.
We need to get vaccinated.
Get antivirals on the market.
Get government to provide tests.
Prepare for new variants. Be prepared for another emergency.
End the shutdown of schools and businesses.
We will send a ton of vaccines around the world. He gets caught here in a huge flub I don’t think many caught. (Listen below).
This was not a Biden flub but a speech writer flub.
Walls don’t work, remember?
He doesn’t want to talk about the border.
He never talked about natural immunity or the fact that Trump
Then he talks about how we need to unify now that the pandemic is over,
This is coming from a guy who demonized everyone who wouldn’t get the vaccine.
This is coming from a guy who demonized states that didn’t follow his policies.
Then, he says that we must unify now that the pandemic is over (media).
We must first unify around the police. We are to fund the police, not defund the police.
Biden himself supported defunding the police.
His VP bailed out BLM rioters.
The Speaker of the House wore a Kenti cloth and kneeled because of the death of the drug addicted thug, George Floyd.
He must really think we’re dumb to buy that crap.
Then, he brings up things that are not unifying.
Gun control.
Ghost guns.
Gun registry.
being able to sue gun manufacturers and stores.
Goes off on the assault on voting right.
He talked about the border needing to be secured without acknowledging 2 million illegals were caught this year.
He also wanted amnesty.
Legalization for Dreamers.
Must protect abortion.
Must protect the ability of kids to change their sex with drugs and surgery.
Put limits on social media (censorship).
It was not much of a speech and never really talked about the state of the Union. It was a speech about what he wanted to do and involves spending more money (which will raise inflation) and raising taxes. He could have gone out there and said that and saved an hour.
What he also did was chickenshit. He changed his position about defunding the police because it’s a losing position. He was always for defunding the police. Suddenly he’s not anymore? Unfortunately for Biden and the Democrats, no one buys it. 70% of viewers did not buy any of it in polls. New polls show Biden’s popularity didn’t move and, in some cases, went down.
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News went off on the speech and Joe Biden’s speech and he was pissed about it. He mentions some things I talk about later but his fury is important enough to listen to the whole thing, even without context.
He is absolutely correct. You know how we know it’s correct? By what he didn’t talk about:
The Afghanistan retreat.
The China/Taiwan conflict which is escalating.
Blocking Russian oil imports.
The Iran negotiations that directly involve Russia.
Inflation.
Crime.
It was a crappy and staged speech.
The Gaffs
What would be a Joe Biden speech be without gaffs. Here is a compilation of gaffs during the speech. I cut it down to under 2 minutes. The original is seven minutes so you get the idea.
The State of the Union is happening tonight and, coincidently, a miracle has happened.
And let’s take a look at Biden’s pick.
This Isn’t Going Away
BIDEN: "The estimate is that we've cut Black poverty by over 30%. We reduced child poverty more than 50% in the Black community." pic.twitter.com/fBMjjZYOmZ
The State of the Union is tonight and I am actually looking forward to this one. Things are so bad here that I can’t imagine the lies that are going to come out of Old Joe’s mouth. Here’s what I think is going to come out of this speech:
The economy:
He will talk about six million new jobs that he created.
He will talk about the increase in pay.
He will talk about inflation.
He will talk about the war in Ukraine and how he unified Europe.
His Supreme Court pick and social justice.
Of course, climate change.
He will declare victory against COVID.
And all the problems we are facing will be Trump’s fault.
He will also try to blame the Russia/Ukraine war.
Things he will not talk about:
The border crisis.
Afghanistan.
The China/Taiwan spat.
The deficit, which he increase by $7 trillion.
He won’t talk about our debt to GDP being at 119%.
He will not bring up Build Back Better.
I do not expect this to be a long speech. Normally they can go from 90 minutes to 2 hours. I wouldn’t be shocked if this only went about 45 minutes. When it starts, it will be way past Old Joe’s bed time.
Fractured
But that’s when the fun just begins. There are going to be about a billion responses to the speech.
Gov. Kim Reynolds from Iowa will give the response for the Republicans.
But that’s not it. The Left has decided to respond to the State of the Union.
Rashida Tlaib will represent the far Leftists of the party.
You can guarantee a lot of social and racial justice.
She will praise Joe Biden.
She will go after Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for not voting for Build Back Better.
Congress Colin Allerd from Texas will represent the Black Caucus.
He will talk about racial justice.
Equity.
Justice reform.
And, probably, defunding the police.
You know this is going to be a thing since lynching was banned today…again.
Normally, this doesn’t happen. The President makes his State of the Union address, there is a response from the opposition party, night over.
I think this is done for a few reasons:
Joe Biden can’t say much about social justice, racism and defunding the police. He’s suppose to be unifying the country.
Joe Biden can’t pat himself on the back much. Things are just not great right now.
Joe Biden can’t say much of anything for a long time. This is not going to be a two hour speech.
The science has decided that the China virus has been defeated. The White House, which is the science, has sent out the memo and all of the Democratic states and cities have decided to end the mandates right when Biden is about to declare victory against COVID. Forget that red states have been open for over a year and never really had any issues with the China virus, it all the Democrats.
According to the Wall Street Journal: The CDC noted, if the local level is low-risk, people should “[w]ear a mask based on your personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk”; if it is medium risk, immunocompromised or people at high risk for serious illness should speak with their health care provider about additional measures, like mask-wearing “or respirators indoors in public.” The agency added, for medium-risk areas, “If you live with or have social contact with someone at high risk for severe illness, consider testing yourself for infection before you get together and wearing a mask when indoors with them.”
So they think people should make their own decisions.
What took so long?
Masks aren’t required when on the floor of Congress though a negative test is required. That’s one of the reasons that Republicans aren’t showing up to the speech.
Washington D.C. has dropped the mandates.
New York has dropped the mandates with New York City dropping the mandates this week.
California has ended all mandates. Schools will not need masks by March 11.
I guess March 11 is the exact day the virus goes extinct.
Schools are pushing back.
Some things:
We knew this was going to happen.
Biden needs to pivot in some policy tonight and COVID seems like it is the only one he can.
The science has not change.
Infections and hospitalizations have not changed much. I look at them daily.
The only thing that has changed is most people are either vaccinated, caught the virus or both.
I’m probably going to have this podcast pulled for this.
This whole China virus thing has been political. It was never about the science. The sudden end of the pandemic before the State of the Union is proof of that.
So Joe Biden nominated a a Supreme Court nominee. And, of course, Democrats are racist and sexist so he nominated a black woman. Let’s listen to Old Joe introduce his pick:
I can’t pronounce her name either. But, then again, I didn’t nominate her. He should have probably should have practiced a little bit before her introduction press conference.
Her name is Ketanji Brown Jackson.
She’s 51 years old.
Was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Miami Florida.
She studied government and law at Harvard University.
She worked as the Vice Chair at the United States Sentencing Commission (appointed by Obama).
To get to her court positions, she had to be approved by Congress. Though a Leftist, she flew through Congress.
She has a very outgoing and friendly personality.
The American Bar Association, a Leftist organization, said she was “unanimously qualified”.
She does not have a lot of legal writings so her positions are not really in the open. But we know.
Working as a public defender from 2005 to 2007, Jackson was assigned to represent Khi Ali Gul, an Afghan detained in Guantanamo Bay in 2003 and released by President Obama in 2014 when she was no longer involved in the case.
One overturned case involved an ordered expansion of the Department of Homeland Security’s definition regarding which non-citizens could be deported, while another involved orders relating to the collective bargaining power of federal employees.
“In 2019, Congress was battling with Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn about whether he should testify to the House Judiciary Committee,” The Washington Post explained. “The case came before Jackson, who soundly rejected McGahn’s arguments that he had immunity from testifying.”
She has been light on crime and sentencing.
This is not a big deal even though she is a rabid Leftist. She’s just replacing another Leftist and the court still holds a 6-3 Conservative majority.
But she will be on the court for 30 years and she will easily get through the nomination process.
Russia is forming a perimeter around Kyiv. It is looking like a siege around the city.
Ukrainians, aged 16-60, are required to stay in the city, get weapons from their local police departments and fight (2nd Amendment is looking pretty good right now).
Russia is looking ill-prepared for this war:
Tanks are running out of gas and are stuck on the roads.
Many Russian soldiers do not know why they are their or what is going on.
Russia is trying to take away Ukraine’s energy sources.
Russia has taken over Chernobyl and another nuclear facility.
It has been reported that Russia accidently hot a radioactive waste disposal site with a missile.
Russia has been targeting oil and electric facilities.
It has been reported that the Russian force has been underfunded.
In the middle of the fight for Kyiv, Russia stopped their assault for a day to “regroup”.
Multiple tanks have been seen on the side of the road, out of gas.
Ukraine has set up a curfew because it fears Russian saboteurs are in the city and will blow up buildings.
Russia is bombing Ukrainian hospitals.
The Ukrainian government claimed that Russia has “suffered” about 3,000 troop casualties and lost 516 kinds of various military vehicles, 80 tanks, 10 airplanes, and seven helicopters so far on Friday, possibly indicating that the Ukrainian people have had some success against the Russian invaders.
Russia has sent mobile crematoriums to handle the dead.
Multiple Russian planes have been shot down. This includes several transport planes. Though the number cannot be confirmed, there is video so we know some are.
Russia is deploying the TOS-1A missile system.
The fact sheet on this weapon states: “The TOS-1A heavy flamethrower system is designed for providing fire support to infantry and tanks, defeating enemy manpower from open and closed firing positions in a variety of offensive and defensive combat, as well as disabling light armored vehicles and transport. Combined target destruction is achieved through effects of high temperature and overpressure.”
The system is armed with “unguided artillery rockets with thermobaric warheads.”
The world community states that if this weapon is used against civilian targets, this could be considered war crimes.
Currently, there are between 60 and 90 thousand Russian troops in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised his nuclear deterrent forces to an elevated alert status Sunday, citing “aggressive statements” from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and increased sanctions against his regime.
Putin said: “Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country.”
Fox News reported: Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty.” The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war.
Not good.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko have announced talks will take place between Russia and Ukraine.
Death squads have been sent into Ukraine to kill government officials by Putin.
We are in the middle of what is called the fog of war. We really don’t know what is going on over there. We are just listening to reports, which could be propaganda, from both sides. We are also looking at reactions. An example of this can be seen in a viral video of a tank running over a car, trapping an old lady. It was reported that the tank was Russian but other reports stated it was actually Ukrainian. To this moment, we don’t really know where the tank came from.
There is some legendary stuff going on from the Ukrainians.
Evidence of the Ukrainian people’s fighting spirit can further be seen in the 13 Ukrainian service members who told Russian battleships to “go f*** yourself,” rather than surrender to their enemies. All 13 service members were killed.
A Ukrainian soldier is being credited with giving his life by blowing up a bridge to stop advancing Russian forces that were cutting through Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion this week. His name was Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych.
A video from over the weekend inside Ukraine shows a man kneeling in front of a Russian tank to stop it from advancing for a brief moment as Russian forces continue their quest to take over the country. The New York Times confirmed the video.
Another video that went viral late this week showed a woman confronting a Russian soldier, berating him for invading Ukraine, and telling him to put sunflower seeds in his pockets so that when he is killed in Ukraine, flowers will grow where he ultimately dies.
Ukraine instructed its citizens to take up arms, including manufacturing Molotov cocktails, to fight back against the Russian military on Friday as it advanced close to the nation’s capital city of Kiev.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, was photographed on top of a building behind an M-60. By the way, that is the same Klitschko that was boxing heavyweight champion (WBO and WBC).
President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was asked to be evacuated from Ukraine by the United States and the Great Britain. He said, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.” He’s in the streets in fatigues.
This is stuff that creates nations.
"Take some sunflower seeds and put them in your pocket. So when you die here, sunflowers will grow from that spot."
Let’s be honest: the Biden administration did pretty much nothing during this whole thing.
Protests are happening throughout the world, including in Russia. Protesters is Russia are being arrested.
Banning of Russians is occurring everywhere
Tennis has banned any events in Russia.
Eurovision banned Russia from their singing competition.
A set of Russian banks have been frozen from the SWIFT banking system. This is like Venmo and Gmail and is what allows Russia to collect money.
The United States, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Finland, the European Union and NATO are sending arms to Ukraine.
Better late than never, I guess.
There is still some talk about how to get arms to the Ukrainians but the Poles have said they will get the arms to them.
For Germany, this is a big deal. It is against the law for them to give arms to another nation but they did it anyway.
Russia’s invasion seems to have the opposite affect on the world.
Finland and Sweden, two very neutral countries, have asked to join NATO.
Countries in the region have decided it might be time to develop nuclear weapons in order to ensure mutual ensured destruction.
Russia has threatened these countries with, what many think, with nuclear weapons.
I’d love to see Russia against Finland, one of the best militaries in the world.
For the first time, the European Union is sending Ukraine weapons including 10 fighter jets.
The United Nations held a vote, condemning the invasion.
President Zelenskyy requested Russia be excluded from the vote. They weren’t.
Russia vetoed the vote.
China abstained.
The U.N. is worthless.
Some of the media is praising Biden with unifying Europe. Politico released an syrupy article stating that it was Joe Biden that got Europe to respond. He didn’t and anyone who is paying attention knows it.
Here’s the problem, Europe did it on their own. Biden had nothing to do it and was “surprised”, according to the Washington Post, that Europe has changed their policy. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Biden administration rushed to add more sanctions and look like they are doing something.
I love it when to Leftists newspapers contradict each other.
It seems that the sanctions he implemented are hard core but they go short of being brutal. Some were already implemented. They do not attack Russia ability to collect money (the SWIFT program) though it is implemented now in a measured way. And it does not stop Russia from exporting oil and natural gas.
But the biggest problem is the Biden administration seems disconnected from the real issue at hand. Here is Jen Psaki on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC:
Jen Psaki says Biden wants to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by using green energy, not by expanding U.S. energy production pic.twitter.com/NqCKmzkCBN
These guys are so lost. They have no idea about reality.
All this green B.S. is what got Europe into trouble and emboldened Russia in the first place.
Last year, we were energy independent. We didn’t need Russia.
Now, we need Russian oil.
We are still buying Russian oil.
And we are begging Saudi Arabia to produce more. They won’t.
All Biden has to do is turn the XL Pipeline and re-establish the oil drilling leases and we will not need to care about Ukraine.
This weekend, Biden cancelled more oil drilling leases on federal lands.
I’m going to ask this again. Is the Biden administration’s f-ing up of America look like an accident?
By the way, This “crisis” was so important that Old Joe went to his beachside mansion in Delaware this weekend. Remember that when his poll numbers drop so much he decides to send U.S. troops to Ukraine.
It was really hard to figure our what was the dumbest reaction from the media and Hollywood last week.
Sean Penn, who never saw a communist he didn’t like, said that the United States had to do something about Ukraine. Presumably send troops. He is over there filming a documentary that I’ll never see. Well, since he’s there, he should grab a rifle and start defending Ukraine. I’m sure he’s on a plane and running away like a little bitch.
Joy Reid is an idiot. She actually equated racism to the invasion of Ukraine. She said:
“I have come to expect very little from the Republican party, to be blunt. I understand that they prefer autocracy. They want a White nationalist autocracy in the United States. They believe that white Christians are beleaguered and need to rule the United States without elections. Got it. But this is really, at this point, open.”
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur agreed with Reid saying:
“Right-wing doesn’t love Putin just because he is an authoritarian, tyrannical leader, they love him because he’s a WHITE authoritarian leader. Race has become more important than even nationality. They’ve turned on democracy and now even America, in favor of a white warlord.”
Cenk is white.
Some things:
I find it amazing that the Left is so racist, they group all white people as the same. There are different groups of whites.
Putin is white. Zelenskyy is white. Russians are white. Ukrainians are white. What’s the thing with racism here?
Putin isn’t attacking Ethiopia.
But Christians and Trump are bad.
Daily Beast writer, Wajahat Ali, tweeted:
He’s an Arab. Arabs hate Christians. And Jews. And Buddhists. And everybody. I just wanted to point that out. I want to get to the next tweet before I get to the point.
Here is the Daily Beast’s David Rothkopf. He tweeted:
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The realignment these guys keep talking about is happening now. Not when Trump was President.
It is these guys that are trying to change our way of life. Not the Republicans.
Republicans aren’t in power. When Republicans were, there was no war.
Putin took over Crimea under Obama.
He’s attacking Ukraine under Biden.
He didn’t attack anything under Trump and a Republican Congress. Hmm….
Leave it to Joy Behar of The View, who is the heart of Leftist philosophy. Listen:
Joy Behar Proves to the World She's a Terrible Human— Cries About Her European Vacation Being Ruined by Ukrainian Crisis pic.twitter.com/4syu9aLJNr
Do you think she listens to herself after the show and says, “I shouldn’t have said that”? What an elitist.
The government is being stupid. When Putin put their nuclear weapons on alert, ready.gov, a partner with FEMA released instructions on how to deal with a nuclear attack:
Got that? The China virus is just as bad as nuclear war.
Anna Lynne McCord, who is a has-been actress, decided to get involved with the Ukrainian war. She wrote a poem and read it on Twitter.
The Freedom Convoy in Canada is over but the tyranny marches on.
And the truckers in the United States have decided on their own convoy and the Biden administration overreacts.
The Freedom Convoy
Canada
Here is the news from Canada:
Over 200 protestors have been arrested. That includes:
Protest organizers.
Protestors
And press.
200 bank and cryptocurrency accounts, totaling $3.2 million U.S. dollars have been frozen.
75 trucks have been cleared, opening the streets.
There is a push to sell the trucks and the government to take the money to pay for clearing the protests.
They are confiscating pets and children. Incredible.
Most protestors left peacefully. There were some scuffles and reports of some protestors being armed, even with grenades. None of this has been confirmed.
Police in riot gear and those om horseback have been pushing away protestors. One video had horses trampling on protestors.
There is no video of protestors attack police.
Trudeau is getting far less popular:
Canadian Civil Liberties organization condemned the implementing of the war powers act saying it was unnecessary because Canadian law would handle it. They are suing.
European leaders are condemning the actions of Trudeau as being a communists dictator.
Of course, the United States has said nothing.
The hashtag #BlackFaceHitler has been trending of Twitter.
The conservative officials and some liberal officials are calling for Trudeau to resign.
This is not going to work out well for Justin Trudeau. I don’t see how he survives this without resigning or tightening the screws.
They Wanted This
According to the Daily Wire:
A majority of likely Democratic voters support Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of emergency powers to crack down on Freedom Convoy protesters last week.
A new poll from Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action and provided exclusively to The Daily Wire shows that 55% of likely general election voters disapprove of Trudeau’s handling of the protesters. Thirty-five percent approve of Trudeau’s heavy-handed tactics and 10% said they were unaware of what was happening north of the U.S. border.
But:
Democrats overwhelmingly favored Trudeau’s response with 65% approval to 17% disapproval. Republican responses were weighted even more heavily against Trudeau, however, with 87% of likely GOP voters disapproving to just 8% approving. Respondents who said they did not belong to either one of the two main parties cut against Trudeau’s crackdown with 74% disapproving versus 21% approving.
Of course they do. Because they know they will never be condemned. Until they are.
Here is liberal Canadian politician Ya’ara Saks doing what all Leftist politicians to do when talking about people going against them.
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This stuff is tired and old, but effective.
Problem is not many people believe it anymore.
There were only a few weapons seized. This was a non-violent protest. No one was hurt or killed.
There are no Confederate flags in Canada. Because there was no Confederacy in Canada. The is a U.S. thing.
There was one Nazi flag, but those were turned away by the truckers.
If there were a lot of those flags, don’t you think we would have seen them every minute or two on the news?
This was a very diverse protest. Black, white, Iranians, Indians are all there.
And even if there were Nazi flags all over, she wouldn’t care. She’s not hurt.
By the way, she’s an idiot too:
It’s “Heil Hitler”, not “Hail Hitler”. There is a difference. Heil means “unhurt”, “undamaged”, “Unimpaired”.
“Honk, honk” is not an acronym. I think the word she is searching for is a metaphor or simile. U.S.A. is an acronym.DTP
The United States
The United States is starting a freedom convoy of their own it could not be at a worst time for Biden.
Biden has his State of the Union speech on March 1.
The convoy should be there by then.
Now, Biden isn’t being the little bitch that Trudeau was. He’s not running into a bomb shelter or anything.
But he is putting up a fence around the capitol again.
The Capitol Police released a statement on Friday:
“The United States Capitol Police and the United States Secret Service have been closely working together to plan for the upcoming State of the Union.
“Law enforcement agencies across the National Capital Region are aware of plans for a series of truck convoys arriving in Washington, D.C., around the time of the State of the Union. As with any demonstration, the USCP will facilitate lawful First Amendment activity.”
So, they’re building a fence and presumably closing Washington DC again.
Remember I talked about the 26-year-old child molester that molested a 10-year-old when he was 17? He said he was transgender, was convicted and was convicted as a juvenile and was going to be incarcerated in a female juvenile facility? Remember I told you we’d be talking about this again?
His name is James Tubbs. He goes by Hannah Tubbs. Mind you, he didn’t identify as a woman until he was arrested.
He only got two years. But that’s not what’s so bad. He knew he was going to get a light sentence and laughed about it. He was talking to his father while he was in jail.
Here’s the conversation:
“I’m gonna plead out to it, plead guilty,” Tubbs says in one recording. “They’re gonna stick me on probation, and it’s gonna be dropped, it’s gonna be done, I won’t have to register, won’t have to do nothing.”
“You won’t have to register?” her father asks on the other line later in the conversation.
“I won’t have to do none of that,” Tubbs replies.
“So what are they going to do to you then?”
“Nothing,” Tubbs answers, then laughs.
Well, Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon, is facing a recall drive…again.
At first, Gascon said he did not know about the case and he said it was a mistake.
Jon Hatami, a Los Angeles deputy district attorney and veteran prosecutor of child abuse crimes, disputed his boss’s timeline of events on “America Reports” Tuesday afternoon.
Hatami said: “I’ve seen emails, emails that show that George Gascon and his chain of command knew about those jail calls well before Bill Melugin published them. We have a DA who completely lacks any transparency, who’s sending a spokesperson on the news to say things that just aren’t true.”
Over the weekend, Gascón announced a retreat from two of his major changes by ending blanket prohibitions against trying juveniles as adults or seeking life without parole.
Too late.
A recall effort against Gascon happened last year but went down in defeat. A new recall effort is gaining steam and might come to life by July this year.
This time, it is supported by Hollywood and other Democrats.
Mind you, he was already unpopular with the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles who voted with a 97.9% against Gascon.
Freedom of the Press
I want to point something out.
From the New York Post:
The transgender woman convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl reportedly boasted about her two-year sentence as Los Angeles’ progressive district attorney admitted the punishment may have been too lenient calls.
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We need to stop this crap with “preferred pronouns”. I won’t use them.
Criminals have no rights anyway. Who gives a damn what he prefers.
Why does the New York Post, a Conservative paper, use preferred pronouns? They have to.
There is no freedom of press. If the right pronouns are used, social media will block the articles.
