PUTIN’S INVADING RUSSIA? Shit just got real.
@picklenews Putin's invading Russia..?! #joebiden #ukraine #russia #war #fyp ♬ original sound – picklenews
Archive for 2022
March 9, 2022
A FISH, A BARREL, A SMOKING GUN: Peter Doocy Humiliates Psaki Over Gas Prices, and It’s Glorious.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Schumer pulls back the vote on Biden’s nominee to lead ICE after abuse allegations surface. “The domestic abuse allegation is several years old. The White House is standing by his nomination but it does raise the question of whether or not Gonzalez was thoroughly vetted before he was chosen. If Biden knew about the allegation, he should have given Schumer a heads-up so a last-minute postponement wouldn’t be necessary. The allegation came from an affidavit in a lawsuit against Houston Community College where Melissa Gonzalez, Ed’s wife, worked as a vice-chancellor.”
Maybe it’s bogus, but this is pretty lousy vetting. Then again, this administration has gone from comically bad to tragically bad, so . . .
SOMEBODY AT THE WHITE HOUSE ACCIDENTALLY LEFT THE COMMENTS OPEN ON THIS COVID RESPONSE YOUTUBE VIDEO. They’re priceless. Somebody save the whole thread before they delete it . . .
OPEN THREAD: Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box. Looking at this video I remember how when it came out everyone said she looked like my sister. And she really did. The resemblance isn’t as strong today.
WELL FOR ONE THING, OUR ESTABLISHMENT DOESN’T ACTUALLY WANT TO WIN: Joel Kotkin: Why We Are Losing at The Great Game. “So, the United States—a country on the verge of becoming the world’s largest gas exporter and self-sufficient in oil—has been forced to beg autocracies in Saudi Arabia and UAE and even Venezuela to bail out America’s angry motorist. So far even this indecent kowtowing is being rebuffed. An opportunity to show American strength and European resolve has collapsed under the weight of energy realities.”
This isn’t happening in spite of the Establishment’s best efforts, but because of them.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Yutu 2 rover beams back stunning image after 3 years on moon’s far side.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES (WITH A PILLOW): Biden Made Some Kinda Racist Comments Today. Did Anyone Care?
KAMALA HARRIS: You guys are getting what you asked for:
@lennyftr naaa, we didn't ask for this, nor did we vote for this.. we voted for the other guys! #america #election2022 #electionsmatter #votewithyourbrains ♬ original sound – LennyFTR
THE DEEP SEVENS WON’T LIKE THIS: Radical Plan to Make Earth’s Deepest Hole Could Unleash Limitless Energy.
MICHAEL WALSH: How We Got Here.
JOE ROGAN: ‘Wokeness Killed the Comedy Movie.’ “The new comedy rulebook, unofficial but binding, makes adult humor a challenge if not a career-threatening endeavor.”
ERNEST SHACKLETON’S SHIP ENDURANCE, WHICH SANK IN 1915 NEAR ANTARCTICA, HAS BEEN FOUND: “The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the search expedition, known as Endurance22, located the wreck of Endurance at nearly 10,000 feet underwater in the Weddell Sea, located east of the Antarctic Peninsula. The team of researchers, technicians and others worked from a South African vessel.”
THEY HATE AMERICANS AND WANT US TO SUFFER? Biden’s Handlers Want Skyrocketing Gas Prices. The EPA Just Revealed Why.
It was a real “Let Them Eat Cake” moment for Secretary Pete, but there is a method to his madness: the administration isn’t just out of touch, it is actively trying to use this crisis to impose its green agenda. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Michael Regan confirmed that on Monday.
The Sacramento Bee reported that Regan was at the White House, along with Buttigieg and alleged Vice President Kamala Harris, to announce “proposed limits on new buses and large trucks to curb some of their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% in the next decade.” In the course of his remarks, Regan boasted, “We’re pressing the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future sooner than most people thought.”
Nothing presses the accelerator to reach a zero-emissions future more effectively than gas prices rising so high that driving a carbon-emitting car is simply too expensive.
At the Monday White House event, Harris was likewise enthusiastic, saying, “We are all in the midst of a turning point. We have the technology to transition to a zero-emission fleet. We can address the climate crisis and grow our economy at the same time.”
We are all in the midst of a turning point, and the green energy forces are not going to let it go to waste. On Tuesday, Old Joe Biden said that the situation was going to get worse, as prices are “gonna go up,” and that he couldn’t do anything about it. “Can’t do much right now. Russia’s responsible.” Biden also risibly claimed that “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.”
Risibly, indeed.
USING YOUR ENVIRONMENT: Knowing your surroundings—and how to make use of them—can help you survive a criminal encounter.
LAUGHING WOLF: The Puzzles In Play, And The Missing Pieces.
Aside from mores, one of the most common mistakes in analysis comes from thinking that the events taking place are a single jigsaw puzzle. That if we can just find all the pieces and get them in place, the picture will be complete and allow complete understanding of who, what, why, when, etc.
Real life, however, is never that neat. No matter how hard anyone, analyst or politician, tries to pound things flat into and into that ideal picture, the 3-D mess just keeps popping back up. For any given event, there are a large number of puzzles in play, and what makes life fun is trying to figure out not only what pieces you have (and don’t have), but to which puzzle they belong. Some actually belong to several puzzles at once. Fun!
In this case, the “main” jigsaw puzzle is the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Far too many are presenting it as a nice, simple, 2-d event. What’s worse, some of those so doing are setting policy, and 2-d policy rarely works in what truly is almost an ♾-1 environment. As for others, well, social media is full of them.
Within this puzzle reside quite a few others. In fact, the actual number of puzzles/dimensions is a bit staggering, so I’m going to try to simplify it without over-simplifying it.
Lots to chew on in this one.
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DON’T GO FULL ‘LIBERTY CABBAGE’ ON RUSSIA: Cardiff Philharmonic removes Tchaikovsky from program in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine.
(Classical reference in headline.)
THEY DIDN’T LOSE IT TO COVID, THEY LOST IT TO THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS: What students with disabilities lost to COVID.
EX-PEPSI CEO CALLED PUTIN A ‘GREAT LEADER’ AFTER RUSSIA ANNEXED CRIMEA:
Indra Nooyi — who ran the Purchase, NY-based soda-and-snacks giant from 2006 to 2018 — raised eyebrows more than once as she aggressively sought to build ties with Putin’s Russia. Her bold investments began to unravel on Tuesday as the company, along with archrival Coca-Cola, said it was suspending soda sales and advertising in Russia. Pepsi shares dipped 2.7%.
In October 2011, shortly after PepsiCo paid $5.4 billion for Russian dairy-and-juice conglomerate OAO Wimm-Bill-Dann, Nooyi gave a gushing review of Putin’s leadership.
“I have been in meetings with many, many world leaders,” Nooyi told the Moscow Times. “But when it came to Foreign Investment Advisory Council attendees, the issues and the comments they made, Prime Minister Putin was on top of every issue.”
In May 2014, just weeks after Russia had taken the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in a military invasion, Nooyi told PepsiCo analysts the company had “great relationships” with Russian officials, according to the Wall Street Journal.
But a few months later on Sept. 14 of the same year, sources said Nooyi took it a step further as she praised Putin at a meeting of 16 top US, Western European, Russian and Ukrainian business leaders that had been called in Geneva, Switzerland to address the crisis in Crimea by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum.
“She said to me and a colleague from Ukraine that Putin was a ‘great leader,’” a source told The Post, noting that Nooyi had offered her candid praise of the former KGB agent during a coffee break.
Flashback to 2005: Pepsi Exec Likens America to Middle Finger.