California exodus visualized by State pic.twitter.com/FiybeHVZrC

— Terrance (@thisisterrance) February 23, 2022

Joe Biden in 2019: "Imagine what can happen in Ukraine" if Trump is reelected. pic.twitter.com/gLbB2LWI0U

— America Rising (@AmericaRising) February 25, 2022

How weak does Putin think Biden and the Euro-weenies are? This weak:

BREAKING: Russia warned Finland and Sweden will face “severe military and political consequences” if they attempt to join NATO: FMpic.twitter.com/WRS3hHDrEp

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 25, 2022

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Delusion:

Wow. https://t.co/cCKzZgwfU8

— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) February 25, 2022

Observation:

2014 OBAMA/BIDEN: Russia invades Ukraine

2017: Trump

2018: Trump

2019: Trump

2020: Trump

2022 BIDEN: Russia invades Ukraine

Clearly, this is all Trump’s fault.

— Razor (@hale_razor) February 23, 2022

Related:

https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1496868784283566082

Trump talks about Putin, mocking Merkel and more at Mar-a-Lago

Summarized below:

https://twitter.com/CalebBurdett18/status/1496606788426383363

How you don’t deter dictators:

The U.S. met with China over three months to present intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine and to urge Beijing to help avert war, U.S. officials said.

Chinese officials rebuffed the U.S. and shared the information with Moscow.https://t.co/Ngbuu9P3n1

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 25, 2022

BREAKING: John Brennan suppressed intelligence showing Putin wanted Hillary Clinton to win 2016 electionhttps://t.co/6VjuGNMovU

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 22, 2020

Media Blames Trump After Joe Biden’s Russia Policy Fails to Deter Vladimir Putin

CDC: Some of you should wait longer before getting your second vaccination

“…how is it that we’re only now learning about immunity fading more quickly if the initial two shots are spaced more closely together? Didn’t they test for that during the initial trials? We’ve been listening to the CDC sound the alarm bells for the past year about how people’s immunity wasn’t lasting as long as originally predicted so perhaps we needed to shorten the time before people need a booster shot. Is it possible that the immunity levels are falling too quickly specifically because they were telling everyone to get the second shot too soon?…”

Related:

CDC Expected to Drop Mask Guidance That Nobody Pays Attention To

Related:

I think that the lying medical bureaucracy, irresponsible politicians, and garbage media relentlessly promoting fake nonsense about Covid have directly resulted in this kind of insanity:

Today’s blacklisted American: 9-year-old boy denied kidney transplant because donor hasn’t gotten COVID jab

So medial professionals have decided it is better for the nine-year-old to die than to potentially get Covid. Nine-year-olds are in the lowest risk group for severe Covid illness. The vaccines do not prevent getting the disease or transmitting the disease.

There is no logic here. It is virtue signaling stupidity. This is how the public will lose trust in the medical systems of our country. It is a great mistake.

SKULDUGGERY BEHIND THE TRUMP PROSECUTION

“…The story that is being reported in The NY Times, Politico, and elsewhere is that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, and his two subordinate prosecutors, Pomerantz and Dunne, see the facts differently. According to reports in the mainstream media, Pomerantz and Dunne want the grand jury proceedings to continue, and that they remain ready to make representations before a judge that the life of the current grand jury should be extended. According to this view, the stick-in-the-mud is Bragg. Because he thinks the legal case is weak, he is for allowing the grand jury proceedings and investigation to terminate. Hence, the resignations by the frontline prosecutors.

The problem with that story is that there are no statements in the record from Bragg, Pomerantz, or Dunne. The media’s sources are all confidential and off-the-record, and naturally, such sources (if they exist all all) often have their own agendas.

Here is another possibility.

Pomerantz and Dunne know they have, at best, a weak case. Perhaps, they have no case at all. They are consummate legal professionals and are wholly unwilling to make knowingly false representations before the judge—who has oversight over the grand jury and who has lawful authority to extend the grand jury’s term. If so, why the resignations? Perhaps because Bragg has told them: “Do whatever is necessary to extend the life of the grand jury, and swear out whatever certification you must before the judge—Do it or you are fired.” So, instead of being fired, Pomerantz and Dunne resigned.

Pomerantz and Dunne are bound by ethics rules in regard to grand jury testimony secrecy. But, apparently, someone is talking to the media. This is how we will know who wants the grand jury probe terminated and who wants its life extended. If Bragg shops around for new prosecutors and they decide to restart the investigatory process before a newly impanelled grand jury, then that likely means that Bragg wants—and has always wanted—the investigations to go forward. Otherwise, it was Bragg who was for closing the investigation down.

Which theory is more likely?…”

More evidence Covid was tinkered with in a lab? Now scientists find virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began

• • Genetic match discovered in Covid’s unique furin cleavage site on spike protein
  • Matched genetic sequence patented by Moderna for cancer research purposes
  • Researchers say one in 3trillion chance Covid developed the code naturally

Mitt Romney Blames ‘Shortsightedness’ of America First for Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Kerry: ‘I Hope President Putin Will Help Us to Stay on Track’ with ‘What We Need to Do for the Climate’

Big Joey in Another Pickle

Claims ‘No One’ Thought Sanctions Would Stop Putin – Days After Kamala Harris Said Just That

War Breaks on Biden’s Watch

Security chief tells UK spies to go woke: With a full Ukraine invasion imminent in Europe’s worst crisis since WW2, MI5 and MI6 officers are being told to think about their ‘white privilege’… and avoid using words such as ‘grip’ and ‘strong.’

Texas Middle School Teacher: “Those Conservative Christians Need to Get COVID and Die” (Video).

Biden underwater on all key issues, independent support halved

“…President Joe Biden’s downward spiral in polling that started with the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August has continued nonstop, and he is now underwater on the key issues measured by Gallup.

Even on the coronavirus crisis, long the lone standout for the embattled Biden’s approval ratings, voters now disapprove of his performance, said the latest Gallup survey.

The most hopeful line in the pollster’s analysis is that Biden’s ratings are so low, especially with his own party’s base and independent voters, that he might soon hit bottom…

…His drop in support from independents threatens to undermine Democrats in 2022 and his own reelection campaign, as it is that block of voters that influences election outcomes.

“Over the course of his presidency, Biden’s job ratings have fallen the most among independents, among whom 35% currently approve, compared with ratings in the high 50s to low 60s in his initial months as president,” said the polling note…”

Biden lacks Trump’s punch, and Putin knows it

“…Whatever you think of Donald Trump, he never would have allowed Vladimir Putin to run circles around him, which is what Putin has done to hapless Joe Biden. And he certainly would not have appeased Putin and given the Russian president everything he asked for from the START treaty to greenlighting Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, without getting something in return. All Biden got from Putin was grief. Trump is a businessman and that is what businessmen do. They do not give things away without getting something in return. He is also a bully who knows how to deal with other bullies…”

Democrats seem to think that being a member of a group (NATO, or Western Europe) where everyone thinks alike, and everyone reinforces your opinions, and outwardly at least everyone likes you, is important in international negotiations and affairs. The events of the last few weeks show that this false. It is hollow talk. It melts at the first shot. Russia saw weakness in the west (in the U.S. mostly, not much else matters). The Russian dictator moved his forces into place over months. There was no significant backlash except talk, talk, talk. The U.S. and our European allies thought that Putin could be deterred by shaming him into acting appropriately. There was no call up from NATO countries. There was no military response from the U.S. No attack helicopters were sent over. No advanced fighters were sent. No armored divisions were massed nearby. No U.S. forces of any size were assembled and sent. The only response was mindless, exhausting talk from dishwater bureaucrats more concerned with equity, gender fluidity, virtue signaling to other western leftists, and climate change. The dictator decided it would cost him nothing to take what he wanted. So he is in the process of doing that. Sanctions will last for awhile, nasty talk will last for awhile, then everything will go back to something like normal. Russia will own Ukraine and will sell gas and other products to the Euro-weenies like nothing happened.

To deter Putin from additional aggression we need the men and equipment in place in Eastern Europe to quickly establish air dominance in any confrontation. We need the men and equipment in place to destroy mobile armored attack columns. We need men and equipment in place to serve as a highly mobile ground blocking force of enormous and overwhelming strength. Short of these requirements we are dependent on Russia to stop the aggression when their appetites for land are satisfied.  

Related:

The Ukraine debacle showcases Joe Biden’s many failures

“…Speaking of economic matters, do you remember the good old days when America was energy independent, nay, when it was producing so much energy that it was actually a net exporter? Probably you do. It was was recent as 2020.

Then came the Biden administration. One of their first acts was to shut down the Keystone Pipeline, a major source of energy production, not to mention thousands of jobs in the US. At the same time, they green-lighted the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring gas from Russia to Germany. In response to Putin’s excellent adventure in Ukraine, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, suspended certification of the pipeline, but since Germany, having shuttered its nuclear power plants, is heavily dependent on the gas supplied from Russia, it is anyone’s guess how long German resolve will last.

I bring in gas in order to present you with this cheery data point. In 2020, when Donald Trump was president, the price of natural gas was $4.36 per 1,000 cubic feet. In 2021, with Joe Biden presiding, prices more than doubled, averaging $9 per 1,000 cubic feet. Not only does that mean that it costs more to heat your house this winter. It also means means that the US is helping to fund Russia’s military adventurism.

I am not sure that most Americans could locate Ukraine on a map. And the truth is our interest in the region is negligible. It has been important to Hunter Biden’s cash flow, it is true, and it has furnished Joe Biden with an opportunity to display his thuggishness on television, but it is a thoroughly corrupt state that is teetering on the edge of economic collapse. Some cynical commentators think that the media and The Committee are riveted on Ukraine as a way of distracting attention from such things as runaway inflation, the stock market disintegration, and the institution of police tyranny in Canada. Sounds plausible.

In any event, as my friend Roger L. Simon observed, the crisis in Ukraine is entirely on Joe Biden. We’re told that Biden’s approval rating is down to 39 percent. That’s the official number. The real number, I suspect, is in single digits…”

https://twitter.com/W4RW4ATCHER/status/1496733870074519555

Video from blast that recently struck Ivano-Frankivsk https://t.co/GVcljZkuvy

— doge (@IntelDoge) February 24, 2022

Under the present circumstances, I must change my appeal:

President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring your troops back to Russia.

This conflict must stop now.

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) February 24, 2022

He rescinded it because too many Senate liberals were about to break ranks with the party very publicly.

Would have been catastrophic for Libs after Trudeau expended so much political capital to charge people and hold them without bail with the crime of horn honking. https://t.co/MRvzoqZvpE

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) February 23, 2022

Related. As usual, Glenn Greenwald quickly gets to the crux of the western hypocrisy:

The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West: Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism

“…When it comes to distant and adversarial countries, we are taught to recognize tyranny through the use of telltale tactics of repression. Dissent from orthodoxies is censored. Protests against the state are outlawed. Dissenters are harshly punished with no due process. Long prison terms are doled out for political transgressions rather than crimes of violence. Journalists are treated as criminals and spies. Opposition to the policies of political leaders are recast as crimes against the state.

When a government that is adverse to the West engages in such conduct, it is not just easy but obligatory to malign it as despotic. Thus can one find, on a virtually daily basis, articles in the Western press citing the government’s use of those tactics in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and whatever other countries the West has an interest in disparaging (articles about identical tactics from regimes supported by the West — from Riyadh to Cairo — are much rarer). That the use of these repressive tactics render these countries and their populations subject to autocratic regimes is considered undebatable.

But when these weapons are wielded by Western governments, the precise opposite framework is imposed: describing them as despotic is no longer obligatory but virtually prohibited. That tyranny exists only in Western adversaries but never in the West itself is treated as a permanent axiom of international affairs, as if Western democracies are divinely shielded from the temptations of genuine repression. Indeed, to suggest that a Western democracy has descended to the same level of authoritarian repression as the West’s official enemies is to assert a proposition deemed intrinsically absurd or even vaguely treasonous…”

We need Trump to deal with the Euro-weenies.

https://twitter.com/TheNo1Waffler/status/1496438362537959425