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George Rebane

With the horrendous historical preambles of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the world now knows that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a murderous thug.  What our Left misses or means to misinform is the manner in which many of us on the Right assess Putin’s geo-strategic actions, especially when compared in the same arena to the sophomoric efforts of Team Bumblebrain.

To assess Putin’s strategy, concerning his latest effort to expand Russia’s borders and sphere of influence, with attributes such as clever, shrewd, adroit, and even brilliant has no bearing on the man’s character, values, mores, or any other trait laudable by the international community.  A scoundrel can be all these things without ever being mistaken for a person of high principles and moral character.  To the discerning, assessment can be and has always been received and rendered as independent of adulation.

It is in their political desperation that the Democrats have revived their fabricated Russia Collusion hoax to again paint Trump as a Putin toady.  Their dumb-as-doorknobs lamestream trumpets have dutifully picked up the chorus, and when reporting on the matter, even FN has had trouble always making the distinction between assessment and adulation.  But Democrats can count on their lightly-read minions to lap up the ‘new evidence’ that Trump has always been subservient to the Slav with dirty pictures of him.  Lakoff (q.v.) would approve of such posturing as maintenance of the established TDS frame.

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210 responses to “The Adulation of a Murderous Thug”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Trump refers to Putins invasion as a “smart move” by sending “the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen” to the area. Do you agree with Trump that Putins military in Ukraine is a “peace force”?
    Also do you think Trump should be the next President of the United States?
    Here’s Trumps quote “Trump said he saw the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis on TV “and I said: ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine … Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
    The former US president said that the Russian president had made a “smart move” by sending “the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen” to the area.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/trump-putin-genius-russia-ukraine-crisis

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1154am – You misquoted Trump. On purpose? Tsk, tsk.
    “But here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent’ – he used the word ‘independent’ – ‘and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Trump was critiquing the geopolitical chess match in real time. Compared to Biden’s moves, Putin’s were really smart.
    Punchy is just punching.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 February 2022 at 11:54 AM
    All Punch really cares about is the second question.

    Also do you think Trump should be the next President of the United States?

    Were you to answer “correctly” you would be reminded daily by your friend.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Also do you think Trump should be the next President of the United States?
    The correct answer: only if he wins the requisite numbers of Electors in a fair election contest in all states.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    GMy quote was accurate. Did you follow the link I provided? He openly applauds Putins move and calls it “pretty savvy”
    Here’s full total quote as published by the Guardian and a link:
    :Trump said he saw the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis on TV “and I said: ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine … Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.”
    The former US president said that the Russian president had made a “smart move” by sending “the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen” to the area.
    Biden imposes sanctions on company behind Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline – as it happened
    Read more
    Trump, a long-term admirer of Putin who was impeached over allegations he threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine unless it could help damage the reputation of Joe Biden, praised the Russian president’s moves while also claiming that they would not have happened if he was still president.
    “Here’s a guy who’s very savvy … I know him very well,” Trump said of Putin while talking to the The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “Very, very well. By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened.
    “But here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent’ – he used the word ‘independent’ – ‘and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/trump-putin-genius-russia-ukraine-crisis

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory: “Punchy is just punching.”
    It’s hard to tell if he’s just a shit-stirrer or if he’s just that stupid.
    The currently referenced quote (over and over again) is from this…
    https://www.clayandbuck.com/president-trump-with-cb-from-mar-a-lago/
    The pertinent bit starts at 2:00
    Paul: “Did you follow the link I provided?”
    Dude, your link is a quote of a quote of a transcription. Your research skills need some work. Listen to the show. Get back to the adults. Clean the yard up around your trailer, it’ll be a bad fire season.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The quote is from the Guardian scenes, a credible journalistic source. Are you saying they altered the quote?

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’m saying that it’s a quote of a quote of a transcription.
    Get your news from the source, and the source ain’t a text file somewhere, it’s an audio interview.
    So, no, it’s not credible. They’re editorializing, just like you always do newsman.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scenes
    This is fron the source scenes. Can you tell me what’s different from the Guardian, a credible news source.
    “PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, what went wrong was a rigged election and what went wrong is a candidate that shouldn’t be there and a man that has no concept of what he’s doing. I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. (sarcastic)
    So, Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy… I know him very well. Very, very well.
    By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, “I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,” he used the word “independent,” “and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.”
    https://www.clayandbuck.com/president-trump-with-cb-from-mar-a-lago/

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    That’s not the source (at least you’re in the right site for once).
    It’s a transcription. It has the relationship to reality that sheet music does to performance.
    Listen to the clip and tell us what ‘Oh, that’s wonderful’ means to you.

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    George, I see that the EU, UK, Australia, have banned Radio Sputnik and Russia Today. Can’t have any wrongthink going on.
    It’s interesting to compare different sources.
    https://www.youtube.com/c/FoxNews/videos
    https://www.youtube.com/c/RT/videos
    Which one looks like news? which looks like a whole bunch of editorials written by a hivemind?
    Personally I’m getting tired of being told what to think by everyone. It’s like Paul’s use of editorials pretending to be news.
    Most people seem to get an endorphin rush, I mostly get irritated.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So scenes ands George you are not disputing what Trump said but you have a different interpretation based on your evaluation of his theaterics when he said it.
    Does that mean that anytime anyone on this blog quotes from a transcription it is not valid unless they listen to the original recording? Are you willing to apply that standard to all the RR’s that contribute here whenever they quote
    Biden for example?

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paul is that dumb. It was great scheme Putin came up with, all the right propaganda words. Call the Army invasion a “peace keeping force” , declare parts of Ukraine “independent states”, call them freedom fighters if you like. Then flood the zone. Ya, Putin is going to keep the peace alright.
    I agree. Send all those Russian tanks to our Southern border to lend us a hand. Biden don’t know squat about protecting our southern border. That is a no-brainer. Biden is stupid, stupid, stupid.
    Imagine having another Katrina somewhere in the southeast or Atlantic coast and sending the National Guard down to the hurricane zone a few days advance…and when the storm hits and time to evacuate thousands still stranded, Biden pulls the Guard out first. FIRST!
    That is exactly Joe Shit for Brains did in Afghanistan. Biggest US embarrassment since the Bay of Pigs. Civilians clinging to the outside of planes as falling to there deaths. Reminds me of the jumpers and bodies falling/ blown out out the upper floors of the Twin Towers.
    BTW, a short time after 9/11, I had a chat with a gentleman. He, in hushed downs feeling me out, said the 9/11 attack was genius, pause. I agreed! Pure genius to use fully filled with jet fuel commercial jetliners, not for hostage taking, but to use as a missile. A big firebomb missile. Nobody would be looking for the kind incoming from an enemy. Plan was genius, thinking outside the box, and cheap to pull off only using a couple dozen operatives. The man was relieved he could finally find someone to talk to. It was an unspoken taboo considering the grounds were still smoking a month later.
    PS: I have never praised the character or buddied up of the friggin camel jockey raghead terrorist who should be castrated without pain relievers, then shot with bullets rolled in pig fat and coated then with dog hair. At the time, I said I would Fly 10,000 Miles to Smoke a Camel. Either I am an Islamaphobic or, option two, I am a Islamic Terrorist. Which one? Only two choices. Yes or no!
    But nuance is kind of hard for Punchy to carry around in his noggin. And as Punchy himself once replied to me a few years ago, he does not do sarcasm well. Or maybe he said he goes not do satire well. Nor humor for that matter. Or irony.
    No room in the thinker. It does not compute, impossible to reconcile, impossible to penetrate. Broken thinker syndrome, Left side of brain disabled.
    “What, are you saying…….?” Heavens no! Whatever gave your that idea?
    “I don’t understand. Speak in coherent words so we can understand.” I am well aware
    that you do not, cannot, and will not understand.
    “Yes or no! Yes or No!” How about both. How about neither. How about what’s behind Door #3. .
    Hey Punchy, have you finished licking the dead skin off of Biden’s scrotum yet? (That’s for Walt.). RIP Brother.

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    So it’s back to for ya. Why didn’t Trump pull us out like he promised he would ? He had four years to do it and Biden did it in six months with minimal casualties compared to the thousands that came before him due to Bush, Obama and Trump.
    Would you prefer that we never left?

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    Paul – “…Biden did it in six months with minimal casualties…”
    Those were NEEDLESS casualties, moron.
    Biden lied and US soldiers died.
    Needlessly.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yep, there is always that 1/3 to 40% that think Biden is the Bees Knees.
    NOT ON TRUMP’S WATCH
    This is one of the more striking poll results I have seen in a long time:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/not-on-trumps-watch.php

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Were the thousands of others that died under Bush, Obama and Trump also needless. Who knows how many would have died if we stayed. So why didn’t your guy Trump pull out like he promised?

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You’re changing the topic to polls Bill. You can’t handle the conversation about swhat an idiot your guy Trump is. Polls swing back and forth as you always posted.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 February 2022 at 04:45 PM
    Polls swing back and forth as you always posted.

    Then why do you constantly obsess over them Punch?

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe is causing inflation across the world but wont do the most obvious thing to fix it –
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/02/28/alaska-gov-dunleavy-our-oil-is-cleaner-than-russias-we-can-supply-ourselves-and-allies-if-were-allowed-to-by-biden/
    😉

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    from Paul: “As long as we’re killing people, why not needlessly kill a few more?”
    I’m sure they were unimportant people, so it don’t matter, anyway.
    Paul’s idea of morality is breathtaking. I can see how the volk stood by while their leaders slaughtered millions. “Hey – someone will probably kill them, so what’s the big deal?”

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scott # 5:21 PM.
    That is exactly George Soros’s reasoning when, as a youth, assisted the Nazi’s confiscate the Jews’ proprrty. If it wasn’t him, then it would be somebody else.
    When Soros crashed the English pound and Sngapore (or Thailand’s ?) currency and broke the bank, resulting in billions of profit and causing untold suffering and poverty for millions, Soros said if it wasn’t him, then it would be someone else who would exploit the vulnerabilities.
    Millions left destitute, including goverments.

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don’t have a clue what you’re talking about Scott-Afganistan?
    I was opposed to that war from the start and didn’t vote for Obama 2nd term because of that and other things. Your Republican guy Bush is who got us in there. How about the thousands that were killed on both sides because of him?
    You attributed a quote to me that I never said. That’s pretty low but what I have come to expect. Prove me wrong bu showing the source .
    Why didn’t your guy Trump pull us out as he promised SCott? You didn’t complain about that.

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul: “Does that mean that anytime anyone on this blog quotes from a transcription it is not valid unless they listen to the original recording?”
    You know, that’s probably a fair statement for interviews. It’s much less true in a stand-up speech, especially from people who can’t speak off the cuff like Obama or Biden.
    Another example of needing an audio recording is the inevitable hidden mics since everyone is a superspy what with cell phones and all.
    I think it’s fair to use a transcript from a highly scripted deal like the State of the Union.
    This business of ‘that’s wonderful’ is an excellent example of how the truth can be twisted by modern ‘news’ organizations, nearly all of which are propaganda houses.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sure waving that ignorant flag today @@557 LOL
    😉

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    In terms of ‘thug’, which really draws from the stranglin’ murderer bands in India, I’d say that another name for a successful thug is ‘statesman’ or ‘conqueror’ or ‘founder’.
    Sometimes it takes a while to improve your PR game.
    Role-playing Paul for a sec, was the 2003 invasion of Iraq more or less justifiable than the 2022 invasion of Ukraine?

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    From Republican Chris Christie non the less
    “”How can anyone with any understanding of the world call Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy’ as we watch him unite the rest of the world against Russia in nearly an instant?” Christie asked on Twitter.
    “Putin has two choices now: an unwinnable occupation of Ukraine after leveling the country and murdering its hero President (if that is even achievable) or a humiliating retreat,” Christie wrote. “Yeah, that’s ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy’ alright. No walking that back. History is watching.”
    https://twitter.com/GovChristie/status/1498395612835991553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498395612835991553%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fchris-christie-trump-2656809940%2F

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul: “Why didn’t your guy Trump pull us out as he promised Scott?”
    That actually strikes me as a fair question and is a Trump failure. Biden’s problem wasn’t the pull-out (evidently he’s not the pull-out king, h/t to Portlandia) but how it was conducted. His fault? I doubt he planned it, he just went with some sleek and well-fed senior officers.
    Which brings me to my point. It seems to me that a real downfall in the system, probably pushing 100 years old now, is the takeover of federal government policy by bureaucrats. These guys you elect are barely running the show and a somewhat populist takeover by an outsider (Trump) mostly resulted in a coup from within the government itself. My guess (it’s nothing but that really) is that The Resistance resulted in a big step-up in this dominance by the unelected, those ties still exist within the organization and the people involved are emboldened.
    Using this model, Trump represented a chance for success or failure in bringing them to heel. He was unable to and that is his real failure. It’s probably too late now, especially as the monitoring and mass manipulation of the population really amps up.

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Paul Emery@6:14PM
    So let’s say Trump is wrong as it turns out, it’ll take years to see. The Russians don’t get a lot for a little (which is Trump’s point).
    So he’s wrong.
    What’s the sin? Why post so much about it?

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Guardian is legitimate news source? Sure, they are a respected source, just about as respected as you find Raw Story or Huff-n-Puff Farting Post.
    According to the Brits, the Guardian is the most left leaning of the British newsstand rags, followed by the Independent, which amazingly enough, does some actual journalism between lefty rants and slants with their anti-Brexit position, but still does some good deep dives now and then. The Daily Mall is a good all around news source. breaking things like the Lyman Middle School substitute teacher abusing school children in some place across the pond called Grass Valley, CA
    Chris Christy, Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney’s daughter, the National Review, Rand Paul, The Walrus John Bolton, the Federalist…all have different opinions on foreign policy, as does the Defense Department has their internal disagreements, some quite vocal with their views, yet follow the chain of command. Heck, we lost Maddog the Monk Warrior due to a disagreement with Trump over troop pull outs in Syria and Iraq.
    If I recall, Paul, you were quite opposed to the pull outs in Northern Iraq and Syria because of our moral duty to protect the Kurds from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Turks, ISIS, and some other factions in the area.
    Both parties have their hawks and doves, as does the USA has its hawks and doves, regardless of political party…except of course for the true libertarians.
    Chris Christie, once a rising star is now, like Jeff Flake and others, are looking for a home. So is Tulsi G, the liberal congresswoman who quit her position on the DNC committee to vote and campaign for Bernie instead of Hillary.
    It has always surprised me when a Presidential election is decided by foreign policy and National Security issue to an extent. I don’t know why it surprises me with all the domestic issues to debate, but in uncertain times, foreign policy becomes a game changer.
    A good President will have a hawk from DoD sit down and call in the diplomatic core (Sec of State) and have them battle it out, airing strongly each differing opinions passionately to win the argument. The President takes it all in. Chris Christy got shut out of the Trump Administration, but was one the translation team, hoping to be the DOJ for Trump. He just did not cut the mustard for Trump’s standards for that position. Probably would have made a weak DOJ. He is a scorned man. So is Romney hoping to be Trump’s Sec of State.
    ———-
    Governor Ronald Reagan told a story how in heated cabinet debates, he would sit back and watch the jelly bean jar. You can tell a lot about a person by the jelly bean jar. So,Ed would carefully pick out only the black ones to eat, some would grab a handful and shove them into their mouths, some would pick the bright colors and eat them one by one slowly. Reagan found it humorous offering the department heads engaged in a yelling match with jelly beans stuck to their teeth and tempers rising, each trying to convince the governor that their advice is best.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So keep paying vlad and enrich those mutha mullahs when we could flood the world with cheap energy is the line from the left and NPR –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/npr-lifting-sanctions-against-irans-oil-flow-could-lower-energy-prices-for-americans/
    😉

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@7:01PM
    You have to wonder why a career politician would ever make a good cabinet secretary. Besides the lack of raw ability they typically have, they don’t have the background in that area. Often times it’s a payoff of course.
    A tricky thing would be to find a knowledgeable person who wasn’t beholden to the existing establishment in that area. Even then I would think they would be manipulated by the lifers who are actually in control.

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe leading from the basement eh, as if anyone believes that crap. So she is basically saying its all his fault –
    He is somebody who has been leading this effort behind the scenes for months,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing when asked about the president’s low public profile over the weekend even as Putin escalated his invasion into Ukraine.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/white-house-boasts-joe-biden-leading-opposition-against-vladimir-putin-behind-the-scenes/
    😉

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Amazing that lerch would have actually said it –
    An Inconvenient War
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow
    😉

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    The guardian printed Trumps word for word exactly as he spoke them. Whats your problem with that. Thats what legitimate press does.
    What’s your problem with that? They actually provided a link to the original source. What more can they do?
    “Here’s a guy who’s very savvy … I know him very well,” Trump said of Putin while talking to the The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “Very, very well. By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paul.
    It was not the contents of the transcript that I questioned/objected to. It was your flippantly saying The Guardian is a CREDIBLE news sources, at if that is true and we should take that as a given. Think you said credible not once but twice.
    Sure, the National Inquirer broke the John Edwards love child story, but I don’t call them a credible source either. At least I don’t say it as a matter of fact.
    So, messenger aside, let’s listen to the message. But first, it was GREAT that young Buck Sexton got Trump to come on the Buck-Clay show and aired the audio interview. Without listening to the audio with the voice cadence and tones, the letters on a page do not fully capture how this or that which was said in voice.
    You have never understood Trump’s humor, sarcasm, wit, or context. I cannot help you. If Trump thought Putin was playing Biden & Co like a fiddle, I have to agree.
    Scenes and fish and Scott O keep telling you to listen to the full audio and you keep sending links to the transcript. Call me skeptical, but me thinks that you can’t sit through the audio for two minutes nor ever intend to. So, what we have here is an old fashioned Mexican standoff.
    As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I could write the longest essay ever written answering all your questions pre and post Trump, but I simply do not care to tonight. Maybe tomorrow, maybe never. It would be another exercise in futility.
    Readers Digest version on one simple but huge point. It’s not the withdraw of troops from Afghanistan (Obama lead the biggest drawdown of GIs from that shithole), but rather Paul, it was the way it was conducted by Joe Biden. He promised no Vietnam like imagines of the US Embassy roof in Saigon, but he ordered and commanded much worse. They way the Afghan withdraw was handled is and shall remain a national embarrassment for decades to come.
    To Repeat if case you do not understand, either by choice or you are simply unable to grasp this: We all knew for years we would be winding down in Afghanistan. A given. When the time came, Biden fucked up big time. Our Allies who have been with us over there through thick and thin for 20 friggin years woke up one day and the American soldiers were gone. The Afghan army wakes up and the Americans are gone, as was their air cover. No air cover for the Afghan army, long time no come see. This was BEFORE one non-military US citizen or Afghan refugee was evacuated.
    Civilians first, military last. In Dementia Joe’s world and evidenced by his orders as Commander-in-Chief, he relied foolishly on his own arrogance, disregarding all advisors and plans and make it military comes out first, civilians last.
    He was/is like a captain and crew that were the FIRST to leave the ship, not the last.
    In other words it’s not what you said, it’s how you said it. 🙂 And like the Trump sobering all over Putin’s boots, it is not what Trump said, it’s how he said it. And he meant it that Putin was pulling off at brilliant PR strategy (at the time) and Biden is stupid at the time and stupid today.

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  38. Scott O Avatar

    from Paul – “Don’t have a clue what you’re talking about…”
    Now you’re starting get real, Paul. Embrace it – own it!
    You see? Honesty is always the best policy.
    Keep this up and you’ll be a new man!
    The sun will shine more brightly and your step will be more lively!
    You can do this, Paul!
    We’re with you on this one, ol buddy!

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The legit press doesn’t edit out the context, Punch.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Cracks in the base for vlad –
    “Let me present an apology on behalf of all Russians not able to prevent this conflict,” Russia’s Oleg Anisimov reportedly said at the closing plenary meeting. Those who see what is happening “fail to find any justification for the attack on Ukraine,” he added.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/russian-official-apologizes-for-ukraine-invasion-at-ipcc-meeting-201410559.html
    😉

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  41. Mikel Avatar
    Mikel

    Paul has got to be a complete dumb s or he does what he does to get a rise out of the others who comment here. He hates Trump so much that he could never sit and listen to the actual words and understand the sarcasm that is inherent within a Trump speech. I kinda understand this as I am unable to listen to the scratching fingernails on a chalkboard that comes out of Hillary Clinton’s pie hole. Apparently Hillary said the same dumb s thing about what Trump said of Putin as Paul is saying.
    Paul, here is a clue for you… when a transcript of a speech is made the emotional context is lost. So you are free to let your silly brain interpret the transcript to fit your preconceived notion of what was said.
    Carry on….

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Scenes and fish and Scott O keep telling you to listen to the full audio and you keep sending links to the transcript.
    One point of clarification…..I never suggested that Punch listen to anything. Punch is the prototypical Non Player Character…..a rhetorical Slam Man if you will. Completely inured to anything other than his daily dose of 110 proof TrumpHate™……which is fine…..I certainly enjoyed and may get to enjoy again my HillaryHate.
    Carry on.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Just not the same around here with Walt gone! Had considered strongly attending his service but had an online job interview…..that incidentally went really, really poorly….at exactly that time.
    Anyway, I hope it was a lovely service! The big lug is going to be missed!

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DonB quote: “fail to find any justification for the attack on Ukraine,”
    That’s just plain disingenuous.
    Of course there are, the question is whether they are sufficient to the action. Probably not. I could (uselessly) guess what the Russian plans actually are, but it’s unclear if they’ll benefit in the long run. Given the relentless call for action in the US and European press the Pachinko Machine of War(tm) is loose and who knows where we’ll end up. Given the realignment coming up, this might be the end of US hegemony, but who knows. It was a thing that was always going to end ungracefully.
    re: Trump (or Putin). It occurred to me this morning that there’s a personality type, musicians and women almost always fall under this, that view history and large scale events as the work of an individual. Trump. Putin. Hitler. Henry VIII. It’s a matter of story-telling mostly and is more satisfying than the slippery issues of history-in-the-large. US politics? Trump (boo!), Obama (yay!), Michelle and her beautiful arms. UK? Diana (ooooh), Harry and the US trollop, Queen Elizabeth. English history? Henry VIII and palace politics. Ancient history? Boring, nothing to hang your hat on.
    The interesting thing is The Deplorables, The Woke, Russian nationalism and fears, the Chinese breaking out to the world at large. Less sexy a topic, more meaningful.

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    Bill Tozer

    Sorry fish that I included you with those who were encouraging Paulie What A Cracker to listen to the audio. I am a worm. To balance the books and at great personal sacrifice, I will drop my claim to My Gal and you can have her all to yourself.
    It’s not like I really had the final say in the matter, anyway. You had been sneaking disrespectfully behind my back and making your move on My Gal anyway…for years! She is all yours. There, the books are balanced ( I humbly hope and beseech) and I have atoned for my being flat wrong as rightly pointed out by your tactful point of clarification. ;).
    It is a sad state of affairs when sloppy seconds (formerly My Gal) is the best the Democrats have. No biggie. I wish her well. Besides, I have a new My Gal. Younger, prettier, smarter, and you can listen to her voice without tearing the flesh off your skull. Tulsi, the Russian agent, is my new My Gal. Keep your hands off her, Mr. Fish.

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    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 March 2022 at 07:29 AM
    Sorry fish that I included you with those who were encouraging Paulie What A Cracker to listen to the audio.

    No worries William…..it’s the kind of thing that PunchyBot might reference in the future….just want to make sure the “official record” is accurate.

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  47. Scott O Avatar

    re Don 10:25 – Looks like Navalny will have a new cell mate.

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    Scotto@8:01AM
    Speaking of speech.
    “Public statements at demonstrations and on social media that approve of the Russian Federation’s ongoing attack on Ukraine or express support for the leadership of Russia can now be considered a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison, Czech Prosecutor-General Igor Stříž said in a press release today. “Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms enshrines freedom of speech at the constitutional level,” the press release says.
    “Everybody has the right to express their views in the way they see fit. However, freedom of speech also has its limits in a democratic state governed by the rule of law,” Stříž said.
    If someone in public – not just at a demonstration, but also on the Internet – agrees with, expresses support for, or supports the leaders of Russia, then that person could, under certain conditions, be committing the criminal offense either of approving of a felony, or of denying, questioning, approving and justifying genocide. By law, such offenses are punishable by imprisonment for up to a year in the case of approving of a felony, or for anywhere between six months to three years in the case of approving of genocide. ”
    https://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/czech-prosecutor-general-says-expressing-approval-and-support-for-russia-apos-s-attack-on-ukraine-could-be-a-felony

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