tw wrote:

Henry Quirk

And he never stopped using it.
 

 
⭐️ for tw.

Happy Monkey wrote:

"While Trump was President" is less than four years ago.
 

 
I see what you mean. When the Moderate said Obviously all preparation and planning for this invasion was done while Trump was president. I took it to mean the KGB Agent spent the whole of ORANGE MAN's 4 years preppin'. Obviously, the Moderate leans in that direction since he points out He the KGB Agent was planning this for maybe ten years.

tw wrote:

Obviously all preparation and planning for this invasion was done while Trump was president.

It took fours years to plan an invasion...right, sure, okay.

Obviously preparation and planning for this invasion was ongoing when Trump president.

Four years worth of prep, right?

Putin has decided to deploy everything.  He was surprised by the ferocity of Ukrainian resistance.

So much for that four years of meticulous planning, I guess. What a waste.

sanctions

 
Are we still acceptin' Russian oil? Last time I looked: we were.

tw wrote:

An ideal president for anyone who wants to "fuck up everything".

Yep.

Interestin', though...

henry_quirk wrote:

...when he had the Big Chair Putin didn't do diddly.

In fact, durin' his 4 years, a whole whack of the sociopaths in power didn't do diddly.

Now? Russia takes Ukraine (and preps his atomics); China moves toward Taiwan; Islamists are gettin' noisy again.

What's different? Certainly not Putin's aspirations (he's wanted to reconstruct the Soviet Union for years); certainly not the overall composition and skew of world governments. No, the one difference is we no longer have our sociopath in the Big Chair to counter all the other sociopaths. We traded ORANGE MAN for the House Plant.

If I have to have a president then it would nice to have one who didn't, as he wagged the dog, lay the foundation for Atomic Death...you know, like Biden did.

But, as I say: mostly, I want legislators and executives (all of 'em, everywhere) and their lackeys hanged.

tw wrote:

Henry Quirk would have us invading Ukraine to drive out the Russians.

Nope, quite the opposite. Right now, with Smokin' Joe callin' the shots, we need to stay the hell out of it.

What I would have preferred is a chief executive who...

1-can do the job

2-isn't a house plant

3-didn't wag the dog

Mostly, though, I want the legislators and executives (all of 'em, everywhere) and their lackeys hanged.

Merkel previously noted that Putin was living in another world.

He's livin' in the same world as all the leaders: the one where they're entitled to lead and you and I are obligated to follow.

the...only next step is all out nuclear war.

Thank Smokin' Joe (or his handlers) for that.

Trump

Say what you like about ORANGE MAN but when he had the Big Chair Putin didn't do diddly.

In fact, durin' his 4 years, a whole whack of the sociopaths in power didn't do diddly.

Now? Russia takes Ukraine; China moves toward Taiwan; Islamists are gettin' noisy again.

What's different? Certainly not Putin's aspirations (he's wanted to reconstruct the Soviet Union for years); certainly not the overall composition and skew of world governments. No, the one difference is we no longer have our sociopath in the Big Chair to counter all the other sociopaths. We traded ORANGE MAN for the House Plant.

It's ridiculous that one old fart should control so much of what happens in the world. It's ridiculous we have to counter their sociopath with our sociopath just to keep the Bomb in a silo.

Most ridiculous of all: that this absurdity is normal, that we not only accept it as normal but that we'll fight tooth & nail to keep it as normal.

glatt wrote:

Biden is basically doing nothing...

And I'm glad for that. Anything he does now is just throwin' gas on the fire.

Thing is: if he'd shut his mouth a month ago instead of waggin' the dog, Putin probably wouldn't be in Ukraine today.

The House Plant fingered the wrong sociopath solely to distract from his own incompetence and it went sour for him.
 

tw wrote:

He needs Trump back

Absolutely. Biden -- that robust, decisive leader -- has Putin *runnin' for cover.









*in another universe...certainly not in this one

most people are going to do what they were going to do anyway

tw wrote:

henry_quirk wrote:

  try harder: your skill has degraded to tw level

Classic example of an anti-American.  Using the Nazi's strategies to prove a point: post insults. 

 
my apologies, flint, for, up-thread, comparin' you to tw: even you do better than 👆(though not by much)

(two birds: one stone)

Undertoad wrote:

renegotiation starts on the first bite, when the deal reveals itself

but once you're being et, there is no renegotiation. the deal is complete
 

 
too highfalutin for me: house dog thinkin'

I'll stick to the woods

to own the Libs

I'm sorry but you, er, I mean, they don't mean anything to me

that left vs right bullshit: that's your tumor, not mine

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being eaten alive

everything dies: you wanna linger, no matter the price, get et slow-like

as you like: ain't no skin offa my scrotum

this was not the analogy you were looking for

yes, it was


the wolf will die of starvation, injury, or being preyed upon and sometimes eaten alive by other animals

on his own terms

dog will die from inoperable tumors or etc after *a long, happy life.

*a long life of cringing servitude

it turns out **compromise with the humans was a ***fabulous deal, ****try it

**submitting

***a coward's deal

****no