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

First Responders Save Woman Trapped Upside Down in Chimney

MSNBC’s Nance: Putin’s Ukraine Invasion Will Get Bloody; Trump ‘Responsible for a Lot of It’

Related:

CNN’s Borger: Criticizing Biden as Weak Is Helping Putin

Kaine: Sanctions Vote Will Expose if Republicans Are ‘Putin Appeasers’ Like Trump

Different issue same effect:

Analyst: Democrats on ‘Suicide Watch’ as Biden to Break Illegal Immigration Records, Again

What is really cranking up the pressure? Clear evidence of potential midterm wipeout:

Midterm Analysis: GOP to Win House Based on Democrat Retirements Alone

Another means of coping:

Dems tune out News during Biden presidency

If you are getting news and opinion about national and world events from liberal media, it’s on you.

Republican Flips Jacksonville City Council Seat in Heavy Democrat District

“…Republican Nick Howland flipped a Jacksonville, Florida, city council seat in a heavy Democrat district that swung for President Biden in 2020.

Duval County election results from Tuesday night showed that Howland defeated Democrat Trayce Polson with a sizeable majority of 68,599 votes versus her 64,113 votes – 51.69 percent versus 48.31 percent.

“With Howland’s victory, Republicans hold a 14-5 margin over Democrats in the City Council,” reported First Coast News…”

Biden turns his back to the American People and takes no questions after warning about the “costs” Americans should be prepared to pay because of the Russia invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine ‘invasion’ not new: Russia has had troops in Donbas for 8 years, U.S. official admits

 

Due to Ukraine crisis? pic.twitter.com/maXK5z6YiC

— TheRightWingM 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@TheRightWingM) February 23, 2022

They think you are stupid.

Related. Oil prices since Biden took office:

https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1495953551079661569

This woman is an elected lawmaker!

Canadian Parliament votes 185-151 to approve Trudeau National Emergency

This is one of the freaks that did it.  “honk-honk is an acronym for heil Hitler.”

Lunatic Canadian MP says “Honk Honk is an acronym for Heil Hitler” pic.twitter.com/jj0yMN5Wmi

— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) February 22, 2022