March 13, 2022

He answered the 3 a.m. call.

How someone at The Atlantic put it.

March 12, 2022

"At least he was a Democrat." On DOA hit-and-run GOP AG victim.

Victor Nemec and Nick Nemec (on the right) in the photo.



Republican AG Told ‘at Least the Guy Was a Democrat’ After He Killed a Man With His Car
‘AT LEAST THE GUY WAS A DEMOCRAT’

The family of a man run over and killed by South Dakota’s Republican attorney general have expressed outrage at a vile text message sent after his death.

Tom Lawrence
The Daily Beast, Mar. 10, 2022

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg ran down and killed a pedestrian on Sept. 12, 2020. This week, South Dakota Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price said Ravnsborg received a text message from an unnamed political consultant less than two days after the crash that commented on the political party of Joe Boever, the 55-year-old man that Ravnsborg, a first-term Republican, had killed.

“Well, at least the guy was a Democrat,” the message read.

SNIP…

Boever was a cousin of Nick Nemec, a Democrat and former state legislator who ran for the state Public Utilities Commission in 2012. Nemec, who has served as a family spokesman since the crash, said the comments about Boever were upsetting.

SNip…

He said Boever was a registered Democrat but was not active in politics.

“He was just a voter,” Nemec said.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/south-dakota-attorney-general-jason-ravnsborg-got-vile-text-about-joe-boever-days-after-he-was-killed/

March 12, 2022

Jacking up oil prices is what war does.

“The prices these days are murder!”

March 1, 2022

Amazingly unaware of himself, his words and his actions.

Not even worth a dime. Made entirely from pennies and nickels.



The Face of Money (2017)

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/after-vladimir-putin-in-bullets-exiled-ukrainian-artists-coin-donald-trump-1807887

March 1, 2022

Syrian artist imagined them as refugees....

The artist’s reimagined world leaders as vulnerable refugees and the results are quite startling. (Source: Abdalla Al Omari, The Vulnerability Series/ Facebook)

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/from-donald-trump-to-assad-syrian-artist-reimagines-world-leaders-as-vulnerable-refugees-4695033/

March 1, 2022

You don't see Putin leading the tank in front.

He’s in back someplace, thinking about goin’ on a boat.



Wonder if he’s called Dimdonnie to tip him off about the Swiss banks’ pickle?



“The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he is smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.”

Naaaah.

February 25, 2022

Here's how to checkmate Putin - (Garry Kasparov)

Guy should know…



Here's how to checkmate Putin - chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov

1. Support Ukraine militarily,
2. Bankrupt Putin's war machine,
3. Freeze & seize Russia's finances,
4. Kick Russia out of every financial institution.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
The Jerusalem Post, Published: FEBRUARY 24, 2022 22:25 , Updated: FEBRUARY 24, 2022 23:41

Excerpt…

"Support Ukraine militarily, immediately, everything but boots on the ground. All weapons, intel, cyber. Bankrupt Putin's war machine. Freeze & seize Russia's finances & those of him and his gang. Kick Russia out of every intl & financial institution. PACE, Interpol, etc.," he continued.

He added that the international community should “Recall all ambassadors from Russia. There is no point in talking. The new unified message is ‘stop or be isolated completely.’ -Ban all elements of Putin's global propaganda machine. Turn them off, shut them down, send them home. Stop helping the dictator spread lies & hate.”

Kasparov wrote further that there is a need to “Expose and act against Putin's lackeys in the free world. If [Gerhard] Schröder and his ilk continue to work for Putin, bring charges. Ask the owners & advertisers of networks platforming Putin propagandists like [Tucker] Carlson why they allow it.”

Lastly, he wrote that the global community must “Russian oil & gas. Pressure OPEC, increase production, reopen Keystone. You can't save the planet if you don't save the people on it. -Acknowledge there will be costs, sacrifices. We waited too long, the price is high, but it will only get higher. It's time to fight.”

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https://www.jpost.com/international/article-698594

February 24, 2022

"You have to understand, George. Ukraine is not even a country."

The words of Pooty Poot, whispered to the guy who had gazed into his soul, pretzeldent George w Bush.



What the West doesn't understand about Russia or Ukraine

Alexander Nazaryan·Senior White House Correspondent
Yahoo, Wed, February 23, 2022

“You have to understand, George. Ukraine is not even a country.”

Those were the jarring — and, it would turn out, prescient — words uttered by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in 2008, during a meeting with then-President George W. Bush. It was an unambiguous assertion of ownership over a sovereign nation, an assertion that has particular resonance 14 years later, as Putin has just recognized the independence of two Ukrainian regions and sent troops to bolster Russian-backed separatists.

The West is outraged by Putin’s current aggression, as well as by the logic for his seemingly inevitable full-scale invasion. “Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors?” wondered President Biden in remarks delivered from the White House on Tuesday.

Such outrage, however, ignores a complex and uncomfortable truth: Many Russians recognize Putin’s sentiments about Ukraine as largely in keeping with established beliefs about the relationship between the nuclear superpower and its much smaller neighbor, which has a similar language and culture. That may explain why many Russians support military action against Ukraine, which they see as a necessary response to Western meddling.

“America badly wants to start this war,” an elderly Muscovite told the New York Times, citing — as Putin has — the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe as a prime reason for the current conflict. Ukraine isn’t currently eligible for membership, but Russians have watched carefully as the Western alliance has crept ever closer throughout the last two decades.

Having grown up in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, I can safely say that most Russians view Ukraine as part of Russia. It is impossible to speak for a nation of 144 million people, especially long after leaving. However, the Russian view of geopolitics and history has, paradoxically, become more assertively nationalistic than it was during the Soviet era, when it tellingly embraced Joseph Stalin as a model leader.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-the-west-doesnt-understand-about-russia-or-ukraine-215609030.html

February 24, 2022

Absolutely correct. Trump IS a traitor.

Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a war

Stephen Collinson Profile
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

Excerpt…

"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said in an interview on "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show."

The ex-President added: "So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force," Trump said. "We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well."

Trump was referring to Putin's declaration on Monday that he would regard two rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, where he has been fostering separatism, as independent and his order for Russian troops, which Putin misleadingly called "peacekeeping" forces, to reinforce the enclaves. The move was a flagrant violation of international law, was resonant of the tyrannical territorial aggrandizement of the 1930s that led to World War II and was, as Biden said on Tuesday, tantamount to "the beginning of a Russian invasion."

In effect, the ex-President is trying to undermine US foreign policy as the current President tries to stop a war that could kill thousands of people and threaten the post-Cold War peace.

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-joe-biden/index.html

February 20, 2022

If he crashes the stock market, Putin's a dead man.

The planet’s kleptocrats and oligarchs are invested.



How long before someone’s yacht turns up missing?

Oops. Too late.

Putin's superyacht is spotted 'fleeing' from German shipyard to avoid being impounded' by sanctions if Moscow invades Ukraine

Putin's superyacht, called ‘Graceful’, set sail from the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg on Monday

It appears to have arrived in the Russian enclave Kaliningrad by midday today

German media accused the vessel of 'fleeing' Germany after NATO threatened Russia with tough sanctions if they invaded Ukraine

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10494251/Putins-superyacht-spotted-sailing-Russia-fleeing-German-shipyard.html

More: https://www.dmarge.com/2022/02/putin-superyacht-russia-ukraine-invasion.html