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Bucky

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Bucky's Journal
March 30, 2022

I would do anything for a Klondike Bar

But I won't do that

March 30, 2022

How bad a governor is Greg Abbott? The Texas National Guard is unionizing

He's put them in such shitty conditions that a branch of the military is trying to form a union.

What complete disrespect and disregard for the men and women who serve our state in moments of crisis. Even a made up crisis like the undocumented immigration at the border requires having a capacity to carry out normal organizational duties, like decent housing, food, and living conditions.

This man is so pathetic.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/02/16/texas-guardsmen-on-border-start-unionizing-to-combat-difficult-conditions/

March 25, 2022

Reuters: Trump sues Hillary Clinton over 2016 Russian collusion allegations



I would just love to a paralegal on a case like that--gathering bit by bit all the evidence showing the factuality of Clinton's claims against Trump. It's like Trump wants to keep walking into the bear traps of reality.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-sues-hillary-clinton-others-over-russian-collusion-allegations-2022-03-24/

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday sued his rival in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Hillary Clinton, and several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig that election by tying his campaign to Russia.

The lawsuit covers a long list of grievances the Republican former president repeatedly aired during his four years in the White House after beating Clinton, and comes as he continues to falsely claim that his 2020 election defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden was the result of widespread fraud.

"Acting in concert, the Defendants maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative that their Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, was colluding with a hostile foreign sovereignty," the former president alleged in a 108-page lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida.

The suit alleges "racketeering" and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood," among other claims.

A Clinton representative did not respond to a request for comment.

The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages. Trump said he was "forced to incur expenses in an amount to be determined at trial, but known to be in excess of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) and continuing to accrue, in the form of defense costs, legal fees, and related expenses."


I would not want to be a lawyer on that case, however, cause I believe they can get in trouble with the judge for guffawing in open court
March 25, 2022

Mounting Deaths Make Russian Censorship Of Ukraine War Harder To Maintain

Source: MSNBC



Joshua Yaffa, correspondent for the New Yorker, talks about how Russians would react if they knew the truth about the war happening in their name in Ukraine, and the question of whether Vladimir Putin can continue to keep Russians in the dark

Read more:




Russian casualties (including KIA, WIA, and MIA) might be 26,000 (Russian media accidental release of data) or might be 40,000 (NATO estimate). But official sources say fatalities total less than 500
March 21, 2022

Russia headed to strategic defeat in Ukraine

The sweet smell of consequences... sadly mixed with the bitter smell of civilian blood

March 20, 2022

Inst. for the Study of War's assessment of Russia's stalled campaign

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-19

I recommend reading the whole thing, it's not very long, but...

Key Takeaways:

We now assess that the initial Russian campaign to seize Ukraine’s capital and major cities and force regime change has failed;
Russian forces continue efforts to restore momentum to this culminated campaign, but those efforts will likely also fail;
Russian troops will continue trying to advance to within effective artillery range of the center of Kyiv, but prospects for their success are unclear;
The war will likely descend into a phase of bloody stalemate that could last for weeks or months;
Russia will expand efforts to bombard Ukrainian civilians in order to break Ukrainians’ will to continue fighting (at which the Russians will likely fail);
The most dangerous current Russian advance is from Kherson north toward Kryvyi Rih in an effort to isolate Zaporizhiya and Dnipro from the west. Russian forces are unlikely to be able to surround or take Kryvyi Rih in the coming days, and may not be able to do so at all without massing much larger forces for the effort than they now have available on that axis;
The Russians appear to have abandoned plans to attack Odesa at least in the near term.


ISW's credentials page for people who are cautious about their sources:
https://understandingwar.org/who-we-are
March 7, 2022

Video from 2 weeks ago... Fox News was assuring us that Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine

They always count on their viewers not remembering what they say from week to week

March 2, 2022

Why didn't Dubya warn us?

God (apparently) granted our 43rd president the unique superpower of being able to read men's souls by gazing into their eyes. You'd think with powers like that, he'd've been able to see there was a petty, war-mongering bully behind those beautiful soulful eyes.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4718091/user-clip-bush-putins-soul

Mitt Romney might've overestimated Russia's power...
but at least he recognized in 2012 that Russia had a government with ill intent.

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