President Biden keeps telling the truth about Putin and Russian War Crimes which makes Republicans mad

According to a new book, President Biden correctly labeled Rupert Murdoch and Fox, "one of the most destructive forces in the United States."  President Biden also correctly called Putin a War Criminal.  But, despite Joe's comments being 100% demonstrably true and factual the President garnered pushback from Putin's Poodles in the GOP and rightwing internet. 

One of the rhetorical tools Republicans have used for years is to claim President Joe Biden is a gaffe-machine.  The GQP found willing accomplices in the Corporate Media which was always at the ready to excoriate Biden for his misspeaks.

Well, now that Vladimir Putin's forces have committed documented War Crimes in Bucha, Republicans have fully descended into the QAnon abyss of lies.  Republicans are furious!  No not with the War Crimes!  But, that Putin's military invasion should be going so badly and making Republicans look so bad for defending and supporting a KGB Colonel for so long! 

Petulant Republican children Matt Gaetz and Major Traitor Greene s are so mad at Putin, that they've taken to yelling at US SecDef Lloyd Austin for President Biden's successful rallying NATO and providing Ukraine weapons and support to defeat Russian forces.

Obviously, the Republicans think bombarding the American people with non-stop rightwing agitprop and falsehoods about Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson or Pete Buttigieg or President Biden is a winning strategy and maybe it is... because they goal is to get Americans to believe the lies Republicans tell about Democrats and disbelieve the truth told about Republicans.  Conservatives listen to these Trump rallies which are 100% falsehoods and cheer. 

But, once you've begun to accuse your political adversaries of being child rapists (and it's still unbelievably galling the Party of child abusers Donald Trump and Dennis Hastert and Mark Foley accuses the Democrats) then there's really no backtracking.  There's no way the Republicans can work with Democrats after this.  And since 9/11 this is entirely what we have seen from the Republicans.  Increasing inflammatory rhetoric and a ratcheting up of the wild accusations.  So that now the Republican Party is a wholly fascist organization dedicated to destroying the Rule of Law in the United States and ensconcing a One Party Ethno-Nationalist White Supremacist Country.  The 2022 and especially 2024 elections are going to see a Manichaeist Rule or Ruin Republican Party.

Rightwing Pundit Glenn Greenwald

But, before the next elections Republicans are harming plenty of people here and killing plenty of people abroad.  The images emerging from Bucha in Ukraine are War Crimes.  But, the pushback and defense of Putin and Russian war crimes on-line and by elected Republicans and powerful conservatives in the media is a stark harbinger of the Fascist American future.  

Michael Tracey should have the common courtesy

to remain dead after Maxine Waters murdered him

Throughout this Russian military build-up, invasion and now documented war crimes the Biden White House has shared accurate intel and stated facts about Putin and the conduct of the Russian military; Yet the chattering class of Twitter Reactionaries were having a grand time in February chortling and chastising Biden as Chicken Little but, since the invasion began Twitter right-wingers transitioned to non-stop promoting of Russian War Propaganda.

And the Putin apologists haven't been mollified by the images coming from Bucha.  Every new day highlights how their previous day's twitter rants are 100% wrong, but there's no penalty for being an idiot on Twitter (Michael Tracey and Glenn Greenwald are just the biggest Twitter Propagandists, there are 1000's like them) and these people who were wrong yesterday, wrong today, get to be wrong tomorrow and continue on as though their previous errors don't undermine their current errors.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 18: Ow! My Balls! Edition

I've had some direct experience with control, ahem, tactics such as this. 

Back in late March 2022, Officer Travis Lewis and another Indianapolis Metro Police Officer were called to the scene for a possible burglary in progress.  There was no suspect, no apparent attempted burglary, and no other crime in progress.  Police then ran a name check on the caller who appeared to have an active Order of Protection prohibiting from being at the residence in question.  In such an offense, being present in violation of a court order is a mandatory arrest no discretion for the Officer.

This is were you step in and deal with the issue straight up.  Tell the guy he seems to have an OOP.  If, he starts telling you he isn't going anywhere you move on to handcuffing him... maybe.  Using words and persuasion is always preferable to force even, the lightest of force.  But, that's not what seemingly happened as the Officers on scene handcuffed the suspect* and tried to get him into the back of the squad car.  

At this point the Officers should already be verifying the Court Order is valid. And I don't know what was going on before the ball twisting use of force; maybe Ofc Lewis was tired, hungry, sleepy or ready to go home.  Maybe dispatch verified the court order incorrectly.  Maybe the innocent suspect was engaged in an act of "Aggravated Mopery"  whatever, the result was Lewis grabbed the guys nuts a couple of times in order to get him into the back of the squad car.

It seems the other Officer on scene came forward to the Department about the Use of Force policy violation, that's commendable and very brave, and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has only released partial video of the incident and while they conduct an investigation but, several charges of battery and official misconduct have already been filed against the Officer.

There's a whole host of other factors which could be at play here, Ofc Lewis direct supervisors may have expected him to (or ordered him to) clear up the call quickly and move on to others.  Maybe the department has a policy of handcuffing suspects immediately.  I hope he gets a proper defense but, all Officers should know by now Times have Changed.  

A decade ago such an interaction wouldn't have resulted in criminal charges nor a department investigation and probably would have gotten the Officer involved a round of pats on the back and joking Attaboy's.  Because Policing in the United States has always been comfortable with the causal use of violence or threat of violence directed at "mopes". 

"Mopes" is a term of long lineage used by Police and Courtroom Officials for suspects but, as Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve highlighted in her phenomenal book Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court, the term broadly applies to anyone who interferes or slows down the rapid dispensing of "justice" in the criminal justice system.

But, post-Ferguson in 2014 and definitely post George Floyd these types of incidents are more and more frequently caught en flagrante delicto by body camera and citizens cell phones and can no longer be brushed aside or tolerated by a civilized society let alone applauded.  Of course, the adoption of casual violence against suspects is in direct violation of Sir Robert Peel's instructions to the newly created Metropolitan Police of London in 1829 and the still pertinent rules for Police conduct as crafted post World War 2, Principle #6; 

The police should use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to achieve police objectives.

But, those rules governed Policing in the British Commonwealth.  The history of Policing in the United States diverged as it was in direct response to the pressures of Industrialization, the influx of immigrants of differing cultures and language, and the recent emancipation of black Americans from Slavery with the addition of Frontier Justice aimed at controlling and eradicating Native Americans and Mestizoes. 

*- I should point out this is the pernicious quality of Police parlance as the caller was innocent of any crime but, at this point in the narrative and interaction with the Officers he was a "suspect" for a Violation of Order of Protection.  So, using force on him has been, for many years, okay.

Republicans side with Putin over President Biden because Republicans are Traitors

Republican Tom Cotton, whom you might remember faked his war record claiming to be an Army Ranger when he was not and then committed a blatant act of mutiny and subversion in 2015 informing the Iranian Government once Barack Obama was no longer President, the Republicans would not honor any treaty, has now opened his traitorous cock holster to say President Biden should no longer talk about Vladimir Putin.

As you may recall, President Biden stated, either off-the-cuff or in a prepared speech about War Criminal Vladimir Putin, "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power."

This is a horrendous scandal to Republicans.  I mean after all Putin delivered the 2016 Presidential election to Trump and the GOP.  The Republican Party idolizies and wishes to emulate Putin's government.  Yes, I mean that literally, Republicans want to run election Putin-esque style and want to round-up and imprison people whom they've identified as Political enemies; HRC, Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, Gavin Newsome, all the way down to rank and file Democrats or anyone who chooses to vote against the Republican agenda of intolerance, hatred, oppression, and adulation of the rich. 

The Republican Party is allied with Vladimir Putin. Arch-Traitor Trump can't stop gushing about his boss Vlad and keeps begging like a dog for Putin to throw him a bone and concoct a Biden conspiracy.  Republicans firmly support the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and war crimes committed therein.

And yes I know this will have no impact on conservatives or the Corporate Media who constantly mollify and amplify rightwing nonsense because Americans have been conditioned to believe lies told about Democrats and disbelieve the truth told about Republicans.

Early to bed, Early to rise, Time isn't on your side

"8:58, first time I’ve ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight savings days. Lousy farmers." -Homer Simpson

Sure, I'm late to write a post about Daylight Savings Time (huh huh huh! See what I did there???) but, Benjamin Franklin's bullshit aphorism aside, the fetishiszation of getting up or being early has its roots in historical propaganda designed to make people into obedient workers.

The two greatest conspiracies Protestant conspiracies are Daylight Savings Time and Hops in Beer.

Hops weren't always a standard ingredient of beer.  You see after the Duke of Bavaria issued the Reinheitsgebot, the famous German Beer Purity law, in 1516 it was right in time for Martin Luther's break with the 95 Theses in 1517 and the nascent Protestant communities found a drink to put their followers quickly to bed at night; No Funny Business!  You see good Protestants were expected to get up early, work all day, read the Bible, then drink "a couple beers" and go to bed and do it all over again the next day, except Sunday when they were expected to go to church all day.

Getting back to Daylight Savings Time, having done night shift work for years I know how flipping your sleep schedule, working in the dark, or driving to and from work in the dark is physically and mentally exhausting.  And I applaud when everyone sees the one hour time changes in Spring and Fall have similar effects.  I don't know if Daylight Savings Time or Standard Time is the better option but, it's time to stop this silly flipping but, it's time to also stop working ourselves to death anyway.

Waking up early became a sign of a good worker and what American business has always wanted is workers willing to over exert themselves without being paid for their labor.  It became de rigueur to basically work without pay...  Because Real hard-workin' Muricans love to get to office before the boss to show their go-getter spirit and middle management potential.  There has never been a more insidious turn-of-phrase than; Early is on time, Ontime is late, and Late is Unacceptable.'

Work won't love you back.  And getting up early has taken more for man than it give us;  According to Bertrand Russell monumental tome The History of Western Philosophy (1945),

Queen Christina of Sweden, a passionate and learned lady who thought that, as a sovereign, she had a right to waste the time of great men. It turned out that she wanted daily lessons from him, but could not spare the time except at five in the morning. This unaccustomed early rising, in the cold of a Scandinavian winter, was not the best thing for a delicate man. Moreover, Chanut became dangerously ill, and Descartes looked after him. The ambassador recovered, but Descartes fell ill and died in February, 1650.

Rene Descartes was the first person to invent a new systematic process of philosophy since Aristotle.  Descartes monumental Cogito is a philosophical question which all modern thinkers must address.

For 7 hours and 37 minutes...

Trump the Arch-Traitor tried to overthrow the United States government.  After planning to disrupt and invalidate the recognition of President Biden's crushing victory Trump and his cadre of conservative criminals, Trump hid communications for 7 hours and 37 minutes during the Coup Attempt. 

There is one thing, and one thing only, the Democrats need to do; respond to every question with, "For 7 hours and 37 minutes..."

Every hearing should include, "For 7 hours and 37 minutes..."

Every disingenuous utterance of CRT, Transphobia, Jessie Smollett, Afghanistan withdrawl, gas prices, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson should be answered with, "Well for 7 hours and 37 minutes..."

Arch-Traitor Trump, multiple elected Republicans, high-level conservatives, and a gaggle of rightwing criminals hatched, planned, coordinated, and executed a Coup to end the United States of America.  Republicans tried to destroy the government and end the American dream and Nation as a concept.

Because the Media isn't going to do it.  They aren't going to suddenly abandon the Narrative.  Because that would require evaluating the Eternal BothSides spin they needs must adopt.

Trump spent 7 hours and 37 minutes in communication with various known and unknown nefarious actors, while the Capitol was besieged, trying to ensure his Putsch would succeed. 

But, as the Coup of January 6th recedes and the precious Narrative analyzing the 2022 midterms, the facts of the Janurary 6th Sedition simply become part of the Democrats and Republicans disagree about what happened that day and conservatives are allowed and encouraged to disavow the day claim it was the actions of Antifa while agreeing with what almost happened and planning their next violent Insurrection. 

Clarence Thomas may not be dead. But, Ginni Thomas fomented Insurrection and is a loony traitor and criminal.

Yes Your Honor I would like to
arrest your wife in defense of Freedom

This guys a Supreme Court Justice 
His real name's Clarence 
And Clarence's got a real good marriage

Well, looks like having access to top-notch healthcare, sparing no expense, has won again.  Clarence Thomas was recently discharged from his mysterious hospital stay.  And while "Justice" Thomas voted repeatedly to ensure you should not have adequate healthcare, since He's Wealthy, He gets to be Healthy. 

Meanwhile, an incredible avalanche of sedition and conspiracy emerged from the bloated bowels of Clarence's "better half" Ginni Thomas.

When the notorious drunk Ginni Thomas seemingly came out of nowhere a few weeks ago to admit she was at the January 6th Insurrection but, claimed she never inhaled, it was clear to me someone let Ginni know that Authorities (and probably members of the Congressional committee) had secured evidence of her presence, planning, and coordination of the attempted Trumputsch.

There's a lot of good coverage of Ginni's criminal conspiracy; New Yorker, EmptyWheel, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, for instance. There's much more.

We are facing the most serious threat since the last time conservatives attacked the Nation.

Clarence Thomas isn't going to recuse himself, he isn't going to stop his unethical behavior, and he isn't going to stop his judicial perfidy. "Justice" Thomas has spent 30 years laying the groundwork for the GOP Fascist takeover. So we are left with the vain hope Attorney General Garland and the DOJ can bring a case against Ginni Thomas.

High level Republican conspirators planned & aided the Insurrection.  The amount of perfidy, subterfuge, chicanery, and sedition which we know happened and which we know multiple Republicans were fully part of is overwhelming.  We are in trouble because it's so brazen.

But, I think there is a great reluctance, by the Elite Media, by Democratic Party officials, by elected Democrats, to admit where we are as a Nation; i.e. past the Fascist Inflection Point and on the cusp of something truly terrible.  I think they know but, admitting it and naming it openly feels like the first punch and breaking the last barrier.  Plus, after all rightwing media has spent decades claiming all Democrats are corrupt and airs non-stop programming abut "scandals" and "crimes" those dastardly Dems get away so that Normie society will just shrug or dismiss it as politics or "both sides" are too blame. 

So, while Mark Meadows phone is everything conservatives claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was, and the evidence of the GOP major crimes (collaboration with Russia, funneling of foreign money into American politics, funding a seditious conspiracy to overthrow of the United States government, to say nothing of the thousands of minor infractions and ethical violations) become more clear, right-wingers will stoke the But, Hillary or Hunter Biden or Ketanji Brown Jackson or whomever the current rightwing whipping post is at the moment, for the precise reason the Republicans have been caught and are guilty of everything they say the Democrats are doing.

In Utah, Conservatives and Republicans demand you offer up your children's genitals for their perusal

I told you Republicans were coming for us.

I told you the GOP had crossed the fascist threshold.

Well, the Grand Old Pedophile Party is back at it.  Everywhere.

Last year rightwing terrorist and frequent Faux News liar Matt Walsh demanded conservatives be able to set up video cameras in every classroom and digitally record children for them to watch whenever they please thus creating a Predatory Pedophile Panopticon.

Earlier this month, Missouri State Senator Elaine Gannon, during an open hearing on the euphemistically titled "Save Woman's Sports Act",  grilled a 14 year old trans student about their genitals, "I don't know what your genitals are" and demanded "Are you gonna go through the procedure?"

Well, Utah Republicans are going to show the Show Me State and their recalcitrant Governor, Republicans will examine, inspect, and otherwise eyeball the genitals of any child whenever the fuck they pleases.  The genital inspectors will have full authority and immunity to grope the genitals of any child.

Every over-wrought accusation by Hawley, Cruz, Blackburn, and any other Rape-publican at the Supreme Court hearings is projection and cover for the Gross Old Pedophiles to engage in the most invasive and vile panty sniffing raids of the 21st century.

Conservatives are diseased Hobbesian's, as such they conceive liberty as having dominion over others.  Therefore, true liberty is achieved when those whom conservatives hate or target are contained, controlled, and curtailed.  Hobbes political philosophy and description of the state of man as Force and Fraud fits in with the Fascist March of the GOP.  Also during Hobbes time, Witchfinders were active throughout Europe and the American Colonies, they accomplished finding witches by inspecting women's genitals for "Devil's Marks".  Transpersons are the new witches whom Republicans can whip society up into a frenzy to torture and terrorize.

Republicans clearly see demonizing and terrorizing the Trans Community as a pathway to gaining political power.

Meanwhile:

While Hawley and other rightwing liars go on and on about Child Porn, #QAnon failed to find yet another rightwing Republican child rapist, as former Maine GOP Governor candidate Eliot Cutler was arrested for child porn.

Trump and Conservatives killed a Million Americans

While despicable Republicans are busy being racists*, preening for the cameras, and slandering Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the United States just passed The Second Anniversary of Covid-19 reaching mainstream attention.  The United States also reached and surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000,000 official American deaths.  

Sadly, Covid deaths have been vastly undercounted and it's probable we reached a million dead from Covid months ago...  It's also testament to the conservative efforts to present a contrafactual version of history and the rightwing propaganda efforts to undermine mitigation and vaccination efforts.

To this day Trump, powerful rightwing voices, and elected Republicans do all they can to obfuscate and undermine efforts to combat Covid and to convince Americans to do things ineffective and often times harmful instead.  The GOP is unquestionably the Pro-Covid Party.

The odious Rand Paul is beaming about having forced the Senate to vote on a repeal of the travel mask mandate, chortling in his March 15th press release about defeating the "unelected bureaucrats imposing an ineffective mask mandate".  Conservatives social media accounts are festooned with the same collection of Fauci=Jim Jones memes, Candeath Owens quotes, "Communism" fear-mongering, ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine/vitamin C/immune system nonsense, and sadly pitiable pleas for thoughts & prayers when the duped and misled American succumbed to the conservative campaign of misinformation, contracted Covid and ended up dying a terrible death on a ventilator system.

So, at this point most rational people have given up trying to convince the Anti-Vaxx cadre and have become resigned to the conservative efforts to undo all sensible and necessary precautions.  Take care of yourselves and loved ones, because if Republicans are back in charge of the government when the next Pandemic hits you will be on your own.

*- Remember Republicans are all Reactionaries, so in response to the Civil Rights Era and successful anti-Racism campaigns the GOP has decided to be overtly racist and bigoted while accusing black people, white liberals, and Democrats of being the real racists.  Clearly, Cruz, Hawley et al see much more value in appealing to the overt racism conservatives enjoy than making a ham-handed show of diversity in an attempt to peel off some black voters to them.

Ukraine Quagmire convinces conservatives to consider invading Canada

The Pentagon estimates the now stalled Russian invasion of Ukraine has suffered a 10% degradation of forces and the attack itself has clearly failed to achieve whatever unrealistic timetables the Von Putin Plan called for.

Even during the darkest days of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US didn't have a disaster like this on their hands.

While facing losses and reversals on the actual battlefield, Russia and Putin continue to enjoy a sizable advantage in the United States on the virtual front of the War since the Republican Party continues to gleefully "catapult the propaganda" and to actively support Vladimir Putin and his war crimes.

All of this of course stems from the fact the Republicans entire brand of politics has been inexorably tied into that of Russia; first as erstwhile foes, now as ardent allies.  Republicans have more in common with Putin and his murderous Neo-Fascism than they do with the United States and American people. 

For decades, conservatives have broadcast, on open source platforms, that their true enemy; that they hate, that they yearn to be unleashed to round-up and murder, are Liberals.  It was easy for foreign adversaries to read, watch, and listen to conservatives year after year propound their ardent desire to "Lock'em up" and kill the non-MAGA and then craft and hone propaganda dissemination machines (rapidly assisted by the advent of social media) which amplified and now create rightwing outrages which conservatives dutifully absorb and re-transmit.

It has become a core tenet of the Republican worldview to consider the Democratic party as not simply a political opponent, but an enemy pursuing an “un-American” project of turning what is supposed to be a white Christian patriarchal nation into a land of godless multiracial pluralism. Conversely, Republicans see themselves as the sole proponents of “real” America, defending the country from the forces of radical leftism, liberalism and wokeism. - Professor Thomas Zimmer Georgetown University.

But, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (besides being a war crime and sparking a humanitarian crisis) has shown the utter buffoonery of conservatives in the United States.  In response to the invasion of Ukraine conservatives called for the invasion of Canada,

Ha ha ha... perhaps you think this is more of that droll rightwing sense of humor?  Or this is more of the conservative need to be more and more outrageous to attract clicks and attention (and $$$) and they must be joking or can't be serious?  Well... stop it.  American Conservatives funded the fascist convoy in Canada and it morphed into an earnest attempt to topple the Trudeau Administration.  Conservatives are ideologically aligned with Putin and would love to emulate his actions in the United States and Canada. 

Fascism is on the March folks.  Stop ignoring it.  Stop whining that the Democratic Party isn't taking it seriously.  The Corporate and Rightwing Media will eviscerate any Democrat who points out what's obvious; the Republican Party and millions of their supporters are hoping and planning on ensconcing a Fundamentalist Fascist Ethno-State with the trappings of democracy, with violence meted out to non-MAGA at whim and backed with the awesome power of the State.

Republicans are Fascist Goons who have already declared War on the United States

Now, understand... this is not hyperbole.  Also this is not just about January 6 2021.  They are coming for you.  Republicans are passing laws in States they control allowing them to target you in adjoining States.  Republicans are coming for Roe v. Wade,  Republicans are coming for birth control.  Republicans are coming for it all.  

Republicans are gunning for transpeople first and they are doing it right damn now.  Republicans have been demonizing the Trans community for the past several years now that Gay People are no longer a shunned out-group.  Transpersons are especially vulnerable and finding a lightning rod, like Lia Thomas, to use as a rightwing cause célèbre to harden the base and to galvanize normies into active conservative collaborators, is their most valuable agitprop tool. 

But, Republicans won't stop with destroying transpeople.  Every rightwing victory fuels further rightwing spite and vitriol.  After creating a panty-sniffing panel of genital inspectors, Republicans will turn back to eliminating gay marriage.  Then interracial marriage.  Then having cosigned those people to the flames.  Republicans will begin targeting the rest of Us.

Quit pretending the Republicans haven't begun using Force with their passage of so-called anti-abortion "laws"; such legislation grants conservatives access to the awesome power of the State, the power they always decry, the power they always claim to seek to limit, the power they can not wait to unleash on a whole host of their "enemies".  

While the rightwing January 6th Fascist attempt, funded and attended by Ginni Thomas, to overthrow the election of Democratic President Joe Biden continues to reverberate across the Nation, Republicans have crafted legislation giving them power over states they don't control.  And it won't stop with abortion.  No, Republicans are coming for contraception next.  And they are openly admitting it.  After that will come for sex outside marriage.  And understand marriage won't be an option for you non-Fundamentalists. 

Republicans have already declared War and if we do manage to get together enough votes to overcome the structural advantages Republicans enjoy, and overcome the voter suppression and intimidation and survive the Use of Force by the Election Police in Florida, well then it'll just be time for more Republican "Legitimate Political Discourse" ala the sequel to January 6th, only this time with far more planning and far more determination to execute Speaker Pelosi, Congresswoman AOC and the Squad. 

Republican are coming for Us all.  In Missouri... In Tennessee... In Texas... In North Carloina... In Indiana... In Florida...  Everywhere...  They are coming.

Tulsi Gabbard, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Nikki Haley, Candace Owens and millions of conservatives walk into a Biolab

In Russia, Biolab Propaganda walk into you!

Well, after flirting with the idea of leaving Pooty Poot, the Republican Party has run back into the loving arms of the KGB Colonel.  Conservatives hate Ukraine because President Zelenskiyy would not enter into a criminal conspiracy to manufacture a controversy for Trump and the Corporate Media to use to derail President Biden's successful campaign.

But, of course conservatives can't say that!

Aaargh! What-a-boot the laptop! 

And no matter how many times Glenn Greenwald went onto Tucker Kremlinson errr Carlson's show to flog the lies about Hunter Biden's Ukrainian Laptop located in a Jersey pawnshop, the But His Laptop didn't stick like But Her Emails.  Enter an old rightwing favorite: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)!

The latest two-pronged attack launched by Republicans, against Ukraine and the American People, is the preposterous lie that US funded Biolabs with WMDs are littered all throughout Ukraine.  Even worse, is the despicable adoption of an Abuser framing that Ukraine forced Russia to attack because of their dalliance with NATO and therefore Russia is merely defending itself from Obama funded Biolabs!

Candeath Owens took time out of her busy schedule convincing white goatee sporting conservative men to off themselves by not getting vaccinated to blame the United States and push the claim the US and USSR reached an agreement about NATO expansion back in 1990, and the Biden White House is violating that agreement.  Owens despicably blames America for Russia warmongering and maintains #RussianLivesMatter. 

Putin's Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who you may recall voted Present for Impeachment over Trump's Ukrainian Conspiracy, also pushed the Kremlin's newest claim of 25-30 US funded Biolabs in Ukraine which forced Putin's hand to invade. 

Nikki Haley who still has unrealistic aspirations of running for the GOP nomination for President or, most likely, Vice President, is running around with the typical disingenuous, self-serving, why does anyone listen to her bullshit about the Russian Invasion, tv and alt-right media appearances.

After an initial push of why should we care about Russia/Ukraine by J. D. Vance and Tucker Kremlinson, the Republicans pivoted to Joe Biden's weakness invited Russia to attack, back to Vlad Putin was 100% right to attack because of WMDs.  Traitor Trump has been predictably insane and all over the map with his declaration of how savvy Putin was in attacking to false claims Trump and his Organization of Criminals *ackshullay* armed the Ukrainian people with Javelin missiles.

All of this is a goldmine for MAGA which is now able to tie Ukraine into the Wuhan Labs, Dr. Anthony Fauci Gain-of-Function, the US Special Forces raid on CIA computer server facility in Germany, and Hunter Biden and the Worldwide Rigged Election of 2020.

But, more importantly it's been clear for a long, long time when the next disaster struck, the American people would not be able to count on Republicans and MAGA to stand with the Nation and help.  This achieved deadly clarity during the past 2 years of Covid as conservatives not only didn't help but, sought to harm and did everything they could to undermine mitigation.  Now in Ukraine as Russia commits war crimes and atrocities, conservatives are clearly indicating they are on the side of Putin and Russian Fascism (and have been for a while) and against Democracy and The American People.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 17: Orange you glad Dirty John Catanzara is the FOP President?

One of the absolutely, mind-boggling, infuriating things about Corporate Media is their seeming inability to google someone before they invite them on air to spout rightwing propaganda and lies.  Enter Dirty John Catanzara, President of the Chicago FOP Lodge 7.  After the shooting of Adam Toledo last year, Catanzara was contacted by numerous media outlets for his view of the shooting.  At the time Catanzara hadn't been a cop for over a year.  Because Dirty John Catanzara was relieved of Police powers and duties in May 2020.  Then facing termination last year, Dirty John was allowed to officially retire.  Sadly, the shitbag refused to step down as President of his Lodge, intending to stay on until his term expires in 2023. 

The Orange shirt barely fits his gut
but those pants are almost worse

So, yesterday at the Northwest Irish Parade John Catanzara wore an orange shirt.  (Note the Northside not the Southside).  This is a deliberate provocation and unlike when Catanzara posted "Let's Go Brandon!!!" or expressed his admiration and support for the January 6th terrorists, this insulting action isn't going to gain him many fans amongst the old school Chicago Police community and the historical Irish community in Chicago.

In case anyone doesn't know, wearing Orange on or about Saint Patrick's Day isn't an accidental move but, an insulting declaration and incitement to most people of Irish ancestry.  But, this is America!  And the joy of being a right-winger in America is having No Memory.

Then you can claim there's no systemic racism.  You can deny societal impacts of Republican policies.  You can ignore the history of the American Petroleum Institute and blame President Biden for gas prices.  Because everything just happens Ex Nihilo.

Catanzara got away with a career of misconduct because people forget or don't care to know.  Of course, Catanzara could be claiming to be a Loyalist to the British Crown... as Dirty John is definitely a traitor.

Update:

Incidentally, the candidate's shirt Dirty John is wearing is Chicago Police Detective Erin Jones who's challenging incumbent Robert Martwick for Illinois 10th district State Senate as a Democrat.  Detective Erin Jones doesn't have any sustained police misconduct allegations.  But, Jones was involved in some racially charged kerfuffle with former Chicago Alderman Arena over Jones' alleged racist social media comments in 2018. 

Of course, Erin Jones is one of those bad faith Chicago conservative who, despite being a 2018 Republican precinct captain and posting in 2020 the Democratic Party is a worse enemy than China, North Korea, or Russia pretends to be a Democrat to try and win an election.

FSB asset Maddy Cawthorn and the Goonish Republicans are siding with Vladimir Putin because Putin and the GOP are Allies

Noted Liar, sexual abuser, and Nazi Goon Madison Cawthorn lost the use of his legs when his drunk friend crashed as the two drove back drunk from a week long bender of drug use in Florida.

Cawthorn likes to lie and claim the accident derailed his Naval Academy acceptance and military career.  But, Cawthorn never wanted to serve in the Navy, not the USN anyway, maybe the Kriegsmarine,

Since then Cawthorn admitted he was recruited and made an asset by his ex-wife an FSB agent.  So naturally he's flinging Putin's propaganda war here in the United States. 

Maddy Cawthorn wore his best Brown Shirt for Jan6th

Indeed in some of his first public acts, was to incite the riotous Jan6th rightwing mob to disrupted the transition of power and "lightly threaten members of Congress" into overthrowing the US government. 

North Carolina residents unhappy with having Nazi Goon Cawthorn in office, filed an objection and attempted to have him removed from a ballot for his sedition and insurrection but were told by Trump Judge Dick Myers the Second that removing Mad Nazi Cawthorn meant Trump supporters would be justified in shooting Democrats to win elections, 

"The federal court is tasked with protecting the soap box, the ballot box and the jury box.  And when these fail, people proceed to the ammunition box."

It is incomprehensible to me that a Federal Judge would use such language in a ruling.  But, Fascism is on the March and Authoritarians are more and more willing to be open about their goals.

So, it should come with no surprise in this video obtained of FSB asset Mad Nazi Cawthorn willingly pumping Putin's propaganda directly into a Tarheel town hall, 

“Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”

The GOP aren't a Fifth Column or Useful Idiots for Vlad Putin, they are a fully fascist death-cult which is not satisfied until they've ground down the American people into pliant docile servants, while millions of Others are reduced to Second Class Citizens living on a knife's edge of fear that an agent of the State or a firearm packing white rightwinger will visit violence upon them at a whim.

Conservatives see a valuable ally in Putin in their agenda to destroy liberal democracies across the Globe, Nightly Fucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham et al craft shows which repeat Vladimir Putin's attacks liberalism, Multiculturalism and human rights or Viktor Orban's call to destroy and replace western-style democracy with Authoritarianism, and thousands of right-wingers online cut-and-paste, propagate, and absorb, across every social media forum they infect, this Fascist Revival.

They want an authoritarian ethno-state in bed with the American church that will let them steal everything not nailed down while putting the iron boot firmly on the people they hate. Old Man Shadow

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 16: Police Misconduct? What a Buncha Joey Baloney!

Hey! Remember Philadelphia Police Lt. Joseph Bologna? Old Joey was emblematic of the Police response to public protests over excessive police violence and brutality... i.e. he subjected people to excessive police violence!

But, despite the non-stop lies propagated by Andy Ngo and the rightwing provocateurs about who perpetrated violence in the 2020 protests (unfortunately it appears overwhelmingly it was the Police themselves and outside rightwing agitators).

But, that's what makes protests so enticing for the nascent ground-up fascist movement which is consuming the Right.  Throughout, American history any protest or agitation which has a socialist or left-wing flavor is met with overwhelming force from the Police and the Government with the tactic approval of the norm public.  Examples range from Haymarket Square in 1886 (which created the false sobriquet "Bomb-Throwing Anarchist") to Kent State in 1970, when Nixon and the National Guard opened fire on Anti-War protesters (4 Dead in Ohio).

But, rightwing violence is coddled and encouraged in the United States; one need look no further than the Attempted Republican overthrow of the Government on Jan 6 2021, when elected Republican officials encouraged violence and cheered the crowd of conservative criminals to take over the Capitol and murder Democratic Representatives. 

But, back to Bologna.  In June 2020, Bologna beat a Temple University Evan Gorski on video 

"Bologna turned to Gorski and raised his baton, Gorski backed away and briefly covered his own face with his hand. Bologna then struck him forcefully with the baton."

Gorski recquired 10 staples for his head wound.  Bologna then fabricated a case against Gorski and arrested him for "Battery to PO" and maintained Gorski's injury, after having attacked Officers, was the result of his fall.  Too bad for Joey the video was widely spread.  And while Lt. Bologna is facing charges simple assault and a weapons charge, what he did was deadly force as any Police Department anywhere will have a Use of Force policy which indicates strikes to the head or aimed at the head are deadly force.

Now, of course, right-wingers, despite maintaining one should never trust the government, 100% backed Joey Bologna, accepted his version of events, castigated Gorski and every other person assaulted by Bologna, and wore t-shirts defending his violence.  Well, as the wheels of justice grind slowly former Lt. Bologna is finally facing charges this month from several of his latest victims.

Jumpin' Gas Prices! It's a Flash! Flash! Flash!

Too cold to start a fire

I'm burning diesel, burning dinosaur bones - Rusty Cage, Soundgarden 1991

In 1973, the bloated, complacent, and backwards thinking U.S. Automotive industry took a wallop when OPEC introduced an Oil embargo and took steps to wrest control of the oil market from US and European backed oil companies.

American cars of the 1970's were ridiculous monstrosities and American automakers weren't invested in the type of innovation and design investment necessary to stay competitive.  The 30 years after WW2 had led to a malaise of over-confidence.  German and especially Japanese car makers were ready to pounce on the small car market, with advanced vehicles that not only were far more efficient and better cars but, also what a large segment of the customer base in the United States wanted.

Of course, since then the sad truth is the American car industry has still not learned the lessons of 1973.  Today, gas prices across the country are reaching the highest real cost as well as the highest relative price ever.  And are drivers in the United States equipped to handle this? 

Nope.

You see American car shopper sucks or to be fairer, consistently makes the bad vehicle choice, especially when given the chance to make that choice.  Every time gas prices relax a little bit, Americans go out and buy giant gas guzzling monster vehicles.  Now maybe it's a symbiotic relationship between car makers and consumer.  As the giant land yachts of the 1970's didn't go away they were simply jacked up and retitled Sport Utility Vehicles and Trucks.  Everyone wants a big truck.  Even so-called midsized trucks like the Ford Ranger, Honda Ridgeline, or Chevy Colorado would be big trucks in an earlier era.  Of course, some really small Utes have just been reintroduced; the Hyundai Santa Cruz and Ford Maverick (also as a hybrid) but, it's way late to finally introduce these smaller more efficient models.

Additionally, while the hyper car market is tiny and geared towards the super rich, it's moving to electric vehicles.  But, the "affordable" luxury and performance market isn't getting great gas mileage either.

Brazilian Fascists love TrumPutin 
and hate President Biden and Trudeau
I guess Glenn Greenwald is having
a real impact!

So, thanks to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, energy prices are spiking across the globe.  And Americans are once again moaning about paying at the pump.

Unbelievable.  Or... in reality it isn't... because the American dream of cheap energy derived from fossil fuels is yet again another cornerstone of the endless Republican assault on the United States.   

43 years ago President Jimmy Carter, a good and decent and deeply religious man put solar panels on the White House.  President Carter called for 20% of American power to be procured from solar In Year 2000.

This was a smart, forward-thinking plan and one which would have helped usher in the electric car revolution far earlier as well as combat what executives and scientists working for the fossil fuels industry  already knew in the 1970's; that climate change was going to destroy the planet and kill millions (or more) people.

Instead, what we got in 1979 was an Iranian Revolution because the Shah of Iran, whom the United States and British had placed into power in 1953 to help the oil from Persia flow, was a brutal dictator and murderer.  The Hostage Crisis opened the doors to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for the villainous Republican Party. 

And in 1981, Ronnie Raygun stepped into the White House with his oil-drenched hairdo, phony cowboy demeanor, and chickenhawk warmonger swagger and promptly took the solar panels off the roof and declared the United States would never break its' addiction to fossil fuels or foreign entanglements.  Reagan was already a brain-addled fraud in the pocket of Big Oil, before being shot and suffering brain damage.

So Reagan's handlers told him to open areas of the United States to exploitation and ruin and in 1986, Raygun gave a speech "crowing" about how "freedom", "the marketplace", "the entrepreneurs and businessmen and women of America" performed miracles after he decontrolled Oil from The Government.

No Eternal Allies only
Eternal Interest in Middle East Oil

What a fucking asshole.  Reagan's fraudulence set the course to tie the United States to the Middle East and for the next 40 years the American people have suffered because of it.  Reagan incited and assured Saddam Hussein the US would support him and Iraq against Iran.  Well that led to 30 years of violence in Iraq and Iran didn't it? 

And opening the United States to haphazard oil drilling ushered in disastrous oil spills via the Exxon Valdez (1989), BP Deepwater Horizon (2010), too say nothing of all the lesser spills you've never heard about, and the monstrously destructive 21st century fracking boom with all it's accompanying environmental destruction.

But, this post is already too long and I've barely touched the disastrous W(orst President Ever) Maladministration drilling policies or Former Republican Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and all his associated crimes*, misappropriation of funds, and abuse of authority.  And that's the problem; it takes a lot of reading and the acknowledgment of background information which bad actors on the Right are unwilling to engage in because they've mastered the art of the Meme and the bumper sticker and conservatives have entered an Era of having their own facts.  

They simply assert High Gas Prices Biden Fault shorthand.  So, instead of getting a fuel efficient vehicle or investing in an electric vehicle, a whole bunch of Americans who asserted it was their right to get the gaudiest, biggest, least practical, non-efficient Truck are now crying about high gas prices and petulantly pouting that mean Pete Buttigieg said they should buy an electric vehicle  

*- Career Criminal Traitor Trump showed Republicans they had been a bunch of "Suckers and Losers", when you have authority you commit crimes and you keep committing crimes non-stop because the media isn't interested in following them all up.