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March 3, 2022
LOOK, I HAVE NO MORE USE FOR PUTIN THAN I DO FOR NIKE: Nike Co, Famous for Using North Korea Slave Labor, Block Online Sales in Russia Over Human Rights Abuses.
But, all the same, it does make me go “Uh.” How do these people not die crushed under boulder of hypocrisy?
THERE IS ACTUALLY A METHOD TO THEIR BIZARRE MADNESS: Senator Lisa Murkowski Comes Out in Favor of Even Higher Gas Prices in Order to Adequately Punish Russia.
It’s just based on the fact that they know so many things that just ain’t so. And they never question them. Take Murky, for instance (an appropriate nickname for a Marxist in GOP clothing.) Like the rest of her lefty friends, she thinks the only thing — no, seriously, the only thing — between us and completely sustainable energy that doesn’t pollute, is lack of demand for that energy.
So, by raising prices on gas, they create demand for unicorn farts. The unicorn farts appear. Tada, magic fairy tale, and everyone live happily ever after.
It’s not irrational if you buy their premises. Of course, if you buy their premises you’ve probably been mixing amphetamines into your candy corn for years and should try to slow down a little.
THEY STARTED OUT SOCIALISTS. HOW MUCH DUMBER CAN THEY GET: Socialist Group Enters New Level Of Dumb.
THAT’S FINE. WE CAN HECKLE THE “ELITES”* TOO: Lauren Boebert Heckles Joe Biden At SOTU, Elites Faint.
^”Elites” indeed. Snort, giggle. Other than having money, they are below the average American in every single measurement, from common sense to ability to do anything productive, to even the ability to think. Yes, I know they have “good” (Snort giggle) educations, but that’s what I already said: they have money.
Look, the world could be vastly improved by putting all these clowns in stocks and pelting them with rotten fruit. Heck, charge $3 for splatting a tomato taken out of a supermarket dumpster on Nancy Pelosi’s deranged kisser, and most Americans would pony up. Add in Chuckie Schemer and Eric Fartswell, or perhaps Bearclaw Vindman, not to mention the cackle that drags Kamala around, and we could retire the national debt.
THE FACT THAT THE 2020 ELECTION COUNTS ARE MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE DOESN’T STOP THE LEFT: Trump’s Grand Criminal Conspiracy.
The party of science is innumerate.
THEY’RE THE KKK IN A NEW FORM: VIDEO: Seattle-Area School Board Defends Segregating Meetings by Skin Color.
CLOWNWORLD WITH REALLY BIG SHOES: CBS News Does Story About Transphobia in Ukraine as Bombs Fall on Country.
DIRECTLY FROM THE HORSE’S ASS: Nikole Hannah-Jones to Discuss Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at a Veterinary Medicine Conference.
I DON’T BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES: Sailing Conspiratorial Seas.
Not really. But after the last two years I do believe that the so called “leaders” of the West are a bunch of drunken frat boys, imbibing their Marx and suggesting the stupidest things, just to stay in power another week…..
And that unfortunately I can believe in.
HE COULDN’T FIND A CLOUD: Confused Old Man Yells at Nation for an Hour.
The worst part is that he wasn’t much better 20 years ago. Is it dementia, or the result of a lifetime of lies?
March 2, 2022
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin: While we banned plastic straws, Russia drilled and doubled nuclear energy production.
Putin knows that Europe produces 3.6 million barrels of oil a day but uses 15 million barrels of oil a day. Putin knows that Europe produces 230 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year but uses 560 billion cubic meters. He knows that Europe uses 950 million tons of coal a year but produces half that.
The former KGB agent knows Russia produces 11 million barrels of oil per day but only uses 3.4 million. He knows Russia now produces over 700 billion cubic meters of gas a year but only uses around 400 billion. Russia mines 800 million tons of coal each year but uses 300.
That’s how Russia ends up supplying about 20 percent of Europe’s oil, 40 percent of its gas, and 20 percent of its coal.
The math is simple. A child could do it.
The reason Europe didn’t have a muscular deterrent threat to prevent Russian aggression—and in fact prevented the U.S. from getting allies to do more—is that it needs Putin’s oil and gas.
But only so much, and Putin seems to have overestimated how much.
OPEN THREAD: Pump up the volume.
FOR AN INFORMED, BUT LESS POSITIVE, TAKE ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING IN UKRAINE, follow Bill Roggio.
UPDATE: Oh, yeah, you can read this article, too.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Read this, too.
And, of course, for comic relief:
CHRISTOPHER HORNER: Biden’s Energy Policy: Something for Nobody.
Like the Europeans now reaping the climate-policy whirlwind, President Biden and his party are too heavily invested in the matter with their base and (like a growing flock of Republicans) with their donors to let go.
Biden’s use of the State of the Union reflected an unnerving resistance to change course when certain inevitable consequences of the “green” agenda are coming home to roost. Demanding more of the same last night, faster, was simply irresponsible. Failing to exploit one’s own, plentiful resources in fealty to the Green Blob has proved a “lesson in energy masochism” and Russian energy blackmail.
Western Europeans for years have complained that the U.S. was too slow to follow their examples on “climate” and energy policy. Biden’s speech was a plea for ideological priorities. Existing law allows Biden to resume energy policies actually grounded in real-world experience. The world should hope that in coming weeks the administration joins, yes, the German Left to acknowledge the world we live in, chucks the green dogma, and does what’s really best for the planet.
Related: Thanks to Biden’s war on energy, Americans are paying more — and Putin wins.
More: Dana Perino Calls Out Biden: ‘Changed Our Entire Energy Policy Because Greta Thunberg Yelled At Us.’
HEH:
@agraz700 Wouldn’t surprise me. #bidenfails #😂 #wtf #lgb #trump2020 #sleepyjoe #comedy #CorollaCrossStep #fyp ♬ original sound – Anthony Graziano
I’M AFRAID THE NEWS WON’T BE GOOD: Congress presses NASA for more details on Artemis costs and schedules.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “Womynx History Month” is off to a rocky start.
Black History Month seemed to go fairly well in February, with plenty of educational events being sponsored and various television specials being dedicated to the topic. But now February has drawn to a close and we’re moving on to Women’s History Month. Well… most of us are, anyway. That apparently doesn’t apply to the folks at Northwest Missouri State University. They recently sent out a (now deleted) tweet announcing their planned schedule of events for “Womynx History Month.” The hilarious backlash to this new, absurd mutation of the English language was immediate and richly deserved. But hey… they were just trying to “promote inclusivity.”
I assume the number of women who approve of “Womynx” is even lower than the number of Latino people who approve of “Latinx.” I’m sorry Helen Reddy passed away in 2020, though. Her version of “I am Womynx, Hear Me Roar” would no doubt have made for compelling listening.
BREAKING: First Major Ukraine City Falls to the Russian Invaders. “The surrender of Kherson has to be seen as expected. It will be disheartening to some Ukrainians. Kherson has a population of about 300,000, and it is 70 percent Ukrainian. If an insurgency spawns there, the Russians will not be able to hold the city. Its loss, however, is more critical to what happens at the cease-fire negotiations than it is to what is happening outside Kiev.”
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid. Two-term Plano Republican concedes runoff to Keith Self after admitting ‘horrible mistake.’
Rep. Van Taylor apologized Wednesday for an affair with an ex-jihadist dubbed the “ISIS bride” by British tabloids and abruptly dropped his bid for a third term, conceding the GOP runoff to rival Keith Self, a former Collin County judge.
“About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world. I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life,” he said in an email to supporters.
The infidelity surfaced just before Tuesday’s primary with help from a third candidate, Suzanne Harp.
A Plano resident named Tania Joya – widow of the most infamous American to join the Islamic State – contacted Harp last Thursday, hoping she would confront Taylor privately and persuade him to drop out and resign from Congress.
Instead, Harp sent a supporter to interview Joya, who along with her husband has been profiled in the The Atlantic and tabloid fodder for years in her native Britain.
On Sunday afternoon, two days before the primary, a rightwing website, National File, posted audio of that 35-minute interview full of salacious details about the nine-month affair. The next day, the conservative site Breitbart posted a similar story that it labeled “exclusive.”
Conservatives gleefully spread the stories on social media.
Does “gleefully spread” count as a pounce or a seize?
Flashback to 2017: ‘First Lady of ISIS’ Claims ‘Racism’ in UK Drove Her to Join Islamic State.
A LOOK AT RUSSIA’S TRUCK MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS. If you leave military vehicles sitting for months on end they, and especially their tires, tend to fail.
The entire staff of Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and an advocate of increasing Russian natural gas exports to Germany, has resigned in protest over his ties to the Kremlin.
The employees quit because they were embarrassed by Mr. Schroeder’s prominent roles at three Russian gas and pipeline companies, according to German media reports.
Those roles had enraged many Germans even before Russia invaded Ukraine last week.
Yes, the extent of his sellout was even noted at the time, but no one was willing to make much of an issue of it then.
Gov. Ron DeSantis made his frustration with face masks known when he visited Tampa for a press conference Wednesday morning.
DeSantis was at the University of South Florida to announce funding for cybersecurity education. Before taking the podium to address the audience, the governor scolded a group of students behind him who were wearing face masks.
“You do not have to wear those masks,” Gov. DeSantis said. “I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything and we’ve gotta stop with this COVID theater. So if you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous.”
As Not the Bee notes, “The original reporter on this story characterized this as DeSantis being ‘annoyed’ with the students. However, it’s clear that he’s just frustrated that the kids were told by their school they needed to mask up and he let them know that it is absolutely ridiculous. He’s the only governor in America with enough backbone to tell people that wearing a mask is theater and ridiculous at this point. There is nothing not to love about this clip. And, oh, the hate that DeSantis is receiving is off the charts, as expected.”
* Giving kids personal choice (“if you want to wear it, fine”) doesn’t sound like DeSantis is “scolding” them, but moving forward after Biden’s “we’re going back to normal” State of the Union Speech, the DNC-MSM faces quite a dilemma:
And speaking of Georgia’s governor: Stacey Abrams Becomes an Albatross for Democrats. “The funny thing here is that it’s obvious Abrams thinks she’s making a solid case for toning down the allegations against her (and Democrats) that she and they are hypocrites. Except she’s not, and as the Georgia gubernatorial election gets closer, expect more in the ‘Big Lie’-driven media to do the major lifting for Abrams in order to try and extricate her and her party from the tangled ‘Big Lie’ web of their own making. Should be fun to watch the pretzel logic involved. We’ll make sure to keep you posted.”
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Ingenious System to Pulverize Asteroids May Be Earth’s Only Chance in a Catastrophe. “Much of the thinking around asteroid impact mitigation is focused on long lead times. If we know months or years ahead of time when an asteroid will impact Earth, we can send out a kinetic impactor to redirect the asteroid. With enough lead time, even a small kinetic impactor can redirect a large asteroid away from us. But what if time is short? What if we find out too late? What if we’ve launched a kinetic impactor, but it missed or failed somehow? That’s where Lubin’s PI idea could come into play.”