Blog Betty (Thomas Friedman is a Great Man was an online novel): A demented old man could be the death of us all

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OLD MAN JOE IS OFF HIS ROCKER AND THE WORLD SEEMS DETERMINED TO GO SENILE WITH HIM. IN LAS VEGAS, IDIOTS PRETEND THEY'RE DOING 'FREEDOM FRIES' BY POURING OUT VODKA WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT POURS OUT BOOZE?

AS CODESTINK RUSHED TO PROTECT OLD MAN JOE AND HIS OLD MAN SCROTUM, OTHERS NOTED THAT, AS USUAL, HE HAD NO PLAN AND THAT HE WAS PUTTING THE WORLD AT RISK.

PRESSED FOR COMMENT AS HE RETURNED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON TRYKE FORCE ONE (THE WHITE HOUSE'S DESIGNATED TRICYCLE FOR JOE), BIDEN INSISTED, "WHO ARE THEY TO QUESTION ME? I'M THE PRESIDENT OF AAA. JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE A FLAT TIRE AND NEED ME."

CORRECTED BY SOME OF THE PRESS OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, JOE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD AND DECLARED, "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? THAT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT? ANYWAY, IT'S NOT LIKE I INVADED POLAND, RIGHT? THAT WOULD BE A BAD THING, RIGHT? WHY IS EVERYONE SO SILENT? IS POLAND IN UKRAINE? ANYBODY WANT TO FEEL WHAT'S LEFT OF MY LEG HAIRS?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with THE CONVO COUCH.

Fiorella Isabel: There is a tendancy on the left that's been exploited by the intelligence community where they exploit people's emotions and they exploit this need to feel good about being on the right and moral side -- which is a good thing: to want to be a good person. But what happens is, it's not coming from a place of actually wanting to get to the bottom of the situation, to get to the truth. It's coming from a place of wanting to feel self-righteous about this. And so what happens is the intelligence community has been exploiting that.

At The World Can't Wait's website, Debra Sweet writes:

It's no exaggeration to say that the showdown between Russia and the U.S./NATO bloc has profound dangers for the people of Ukraine. Millions are already facing death and displacement from the immediate incursion of the Russian military. Russia doesn't want NATO at its borders in its mission to control Eastern Europe.

Many hundreds of millions more are endangered by the U.S. missile launchers recently installed in Poland and Romania, on the border of Russia. These are MK 41's, the same weapon the U.S. used thousands of times on people of Iraq, Syria and Yugoslavia. The U.S. wants to encircle Russia with NATO countries in its mission to maintain imperialist dominance.

Claiming the "high ground" by imposing sanctions, as the U.S. is doing, is not done to avoid war. It's aggression, part of making war, with potential devastating consequences, as we saw in years of deadly sanctions on Iraq, when an estimated 500,000 children died of hunger and lack of medical care.

Two of the major nuclear powers - the U.S. has 6800 and Russia has 7000 according to Time - are faced off in close quarters. Anything, accident or otherwise, could tip off a nuclear exchange. We've recently learned more about how close nuclear war was in the 1962 missile crisis over Cuba due to misunderstanding, and then averted by decisions of lower level commanders.

Democracy Now reported this morning that small groups and single people with signs against this war are appearing in Russia, and being arrested when discovered.

We should be as visible as possible in protesting the actions of both the U.S. and Russia. A protest has been announced Saturday, March 5 in Times Square, NYC. 3:00 pm. Look for protests near you or organize one. Contact us for help. Stay tuned!

Margaret Kimberley Tweets:

GW Bush invaded Iraq and killed at least 500,000 people. Obama’s 2014 coup against the Ukrainian president set the disaster into motion. And let’s not forget what he did to Libya.
If you call Putin a thug, psychopath, or war criminal, you should say the same about those two.

6:42 PM · Feb 24, 2022

Joe Biden is pushing a war that the US has no interest in. Corporations have an interest in it. And their lackeys do as well. I'm reading a pice by someone who is a big disappointment. It's all over the net and as shameful as Amy Goodman's 'coverage' this morning. A lot of whores have been paid off. Back to the awful column, the headline represents one thing -- a condemnation of war. The colum itself? Putin bad and evil -- that's what the whole point it.

I'm not into your bulls**t.

Every time you go off on Putin, you justify war against Russia. Stop pretending otherwise.

You think you're being 'fair'? No, I don't believe that you do. You know what you're doing. You're justifying war and you're actively making the decision to be a tool of war. That you're a member of CODESTINK shouldn't surprise us.

Not one bit.

Putin is Putin. Whatever that is. An dthe region can elect how to respond. The US has more than enough wars and shouldn't be pimping anymore.

I don't care what Putin is or isn't. I know he's a politician and I don't worship them. I don't think they're heroes. I think they're crooks, I think they're rapistst -- and I mean that literally -- and I think they destroy everything they touch.

US President Joe Biden is not drawing a line between Putin and the Russian people. In his blustering speech, he spoke of bringing Russia to its knees, of punishing the Russians.

Sunday, February 27, 2022

A demented old man could be the death of us all

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