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March 13, 2022

Maybe it's time to declare Russia as suffering some sort of psychosis event. This is NOT normal



While Tetyana Vlasenko lay there seriously hurt, she recalls a Russian military officer saying, “I’m sorry for doing this but we have an order to shoot everything that is moving, and you cannot imagine how many cars like this we have full of Nazis who are trying to bomb us,” Tetyana, 42, told NBC News on Wednesday from her bed in Kyiv City Hospital 17.

Her husband, Roman, 50, and their daughter, Katherina, 16, were also hit in their legs.

The officer’s comments echoed President Vladimir Putin’s accusations of Nazi elements within Ukraine, his stated reason for invading Russia’s western neighbor. Experts have slammed the allegations as slanderous and false.

Tetyana, a former shop worker, said the Russian soldiers she encountered “truly believe that everyone around is a Nazi.” She added that the soldiers “were all terrified,” and she had spoken calmly with them prior to the shooting.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-know-survived-family-093014932.html


Take away some zeroes from the number of Russians in Ukraine right now, and you know what you have? You'd have a mass shooter screaming about "secret biolabs" that they can not substantiate and giving weird labels to everyone including 16-year-old girls, while they are shooting at unarmed men, women, and children, and what do we call that here? We don't call that war or terrorism, we call that "mental illness" when it happens here over and over again.

Just putting that out there.
March 11, 2022

Remember, if you're quoting an article and it features a conservative mentioning "tyranny", "woke",

"critical race theory", "liberalism", "freedom", "REAL America", "socialism", "Marxism", etc.

Be sure to include my handy dandy disclaimer...



For example:

Rep. Madison Cawthron (R-N.C.) broke from his party’s support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and told supporters the embattled leader is a “thug,” newly released footage of the remarks shows.

“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug,” Cawthorn, 26, says in the clip obtained by North Carolina TV station WRAL on Thursday. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/madison-cawthorn-zelenskyy-thug_n_622a3c6de4b029615838316a



In addition to the disclaimer being true, doesn't it just complete the look?
March 10, 2022

Going Negative on Inflation. A magic cure for inflation is not coming, so time for Plan B

Voters are not going to want to hear "It'll all be over soon", "don't worry about it", "lalala, I can't hear you! Lalala!", etc.

If Republicans ran on that, they would get trounced. If that's going to be our strategy, we are going to get trounced.

So it's time to get dirty, get nasty, get low, and get downright filthy. Point the finger, blame people and institutions, accuse, and complain.

Talk about "Record Profits in the Time of Inflation" for example.

Or

"Marjorie Taylor Greene says serious social issues like school shootings are hoaxes, her ideas on how to combat inflation must be genius right? Or maybe if Republicans suddenly get all the power, they'll start saying all the inflation is also a hoax. Problem solved, right?"

Fight dirty or see McCarthy, Greene, Mandel, Boebert, Gosar, etc. in the Republican majority. And no, I'm not going to see these crackheads as legitimate.

March 8, 2022

Tyranny doesn't start with invasions, bombings, or broken windows. It starts with things like "Four"

Michael Flynn, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who served as national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, spoke at a campaign rally Saturday for MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer in Oklahoma, where he falsely claimed that “the word ‘Creator’ is in the Constitution four times.”

Flynn, who was a key player in so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign and continues to travel the country promoting the “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, has endorsed Lahmeyer, a fellow right-wing conspiracy theorist, in his bid to unseat Sen. James Lankford in the Republican primary. On Saturday, he used his time at Lahmeyer’s campaign rally to deliver a rambling speech insisting that this nation is locked in “a spiritual war” against the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—who he called “a demon”—and therefore needs elected leaders like Lahmeyer who realize that the rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights come from God.

“Democracy is always a fragile type,” Flynn said. “You read the Federalist Papers, you read (the Founder’s) writings—because this is all about the people that we’re talking about tonight running for office, and others that are out there—you read all these things, you study the history of this country, you study how it was founded. That’s why the word ‘Creator’ is in the Constitution four times. ‘We are endowed by our Creator.'”

As a matter of fact, the word “Creator” appears zero times in the Constitution. The phrase “endowed by their Creator” actually appears in the Declaration of Independence.


https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-flynn-falsely-claims-the-word-creator-appears-in-the-constitution-four-times/


Don't be afraid to say "hold up", "wait a sec", or "gonna need a citation on that one, chief"

Even if it looks weird. Even if people call you weird. Even if people release a storm of profanities on you.

Don't be afraid to be that person that holds up accountability to leaders, candidates, and elites when they say things that don't sound right or don't add up unless you want your country to be that country where it's now illegal to do so.
March 8, 2022

Ron Johnson: Repeal the Affordable Care Act!1! Meanwhile, health insurance execs are...

*Doing a slow dramatic walk to a vault door, putting in a secret code, and it opens with a hiss, revealing a room full of glass cases with fresh 'DENIED: pre-existing condition' stamps and boilerplate forms in them and...*

"Hey, it's not repealed... yet!"

"Oh... we were just trying it out."

March 4, 2022

*IF* Marjorie Taylor Greene is in the majority side this time next year, would it be fair to ask her

if she got in that majority fair and square? Is she in that majority legitimately? Does she know how she got in that majority?

Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is still convinced the 2020 presidential election was rigged but admits she has no evidence of election fraud.

Greene admitted she had no proof during an interview Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, but is sticking with her conviction that the presidential vote was rigged, even though she apparently doesn’t dispute the 2020 election results that made her a congresswoman:

“I proudly objected on Jan. 6,” Greene said. “I would object again today because I know for a fact there was so much wrong in that election and I believe it was stolen. Do I know how? No, I don’t know how.”

https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-insists-2020-000542008.html


If they get the majority, the GOP would put her "school shootings are hoaxes" self on the education committee as they tried to do earlier, but just because the pendulum supposedly swings the other way, why should all the unproven allegations and her being convinced elections were stolen just go away like she and the rest of them never said them?

"Are you on this committee fairly? Did you get this majority legitimately? How do you know you did?"

Republicans need to learn that their actions have consequences.
March 4, 2022

So if Republicans were to in fact win Congress in Nov, would it be absurd to question THEIR victory?

They spent all that time claiming the 2020 election was stolen... in fact, they're STILL claiming just that.

They spent all that time attacking the contest, the process, saying it was rigged.

Other than "who won" and changing the maps in their favor changing, what else changed?

All those times they said "Wait and see in two weeks"? Didn't materialize.

QAnon and the storm? Didn't happen.

All those firefights in Germany between US soldiers and Dominion voting systems and Antifa supersoldiers? Someone was trolling with that, right?

The Kraken? Ha.

Is Hillary still free and are Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Steve Bannon still criminals? Yes?

Has the "deep state" they ranted about been exposed and summarily executed yet? No?

So then how do we know the "Deep State" doesn't want a Republican victory? We don't, right?

So all the time, energy, effort, and embarrassment to our country that Republicans caused when they made such an effort to question, overturn, decertify, etc. Joe Biden's victory shouldn't just disappear into thin air if they were to win Congress in November. It SHOULD come back to haunt them. I think that's fair, don't you?

March 3, 2022

I just received word that something I said made Urban Dictionary

The post:

"I invaded a country and ended up tanking the economy and imploding my own military. I am so genius and savvy."

"Wow, that test was a total disaster. I should have been less genius and savvy about it and studied more."

From Donald Trump describing Putin as "genius" and "savvy"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-putin-savvy-genius/

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The entry:

"genius AND savvy":

Something that is neither genius NOR savvy.

"He tried to invade another country and it ended up tanking his economy and imploding his army. Such a genius AND savvy move, right?"

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=genius+AND+savvy

March 1, 2022

"Genius and savvy": A phrase used to describe something that is not "genius" nor "savvy"

"I invaded a country and ended up tanking the economy and imploding my own military. I am so genius and savvy."

"Wow, that test was a total disaster. I should have been less genius and savvy about it and studied more."

From Donald Trump describing Putin as "genius" and "savvy" for invading Ukraine.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-putin-savvy-genius/

See also: Golden Ticket Idea

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