I’ve noticed a common thread in what’s happening in Ukraine. NOBODY wants to be fighting that effing war. The Ukrainians certainly don’t want it. The Russian soldiers don’t want it. Sure, they’ll do their duty – it’s what soldiers do – but they’re heart isn’t in it. They don’t believe in their mission. Some aren’t even showing up as expected. Europe is aligned against Putin. China? Well, they’ve put out a tepid statement saying they respect Ukraine’s sovereignty but…Russia’s “security concerns” should be addressed – so, who knows?

How many people do you know who went into the Covid-19 lockdown and came out crazy? Sadly, I know a few. It looks like the same has happened to Putin. Russia’s “security concerns” seem to be fomented in the mind of a madman.

You know who’s STILL showing support for Putin? US Republicans. They’re a deeply confused crowd, you know? They’ve been SO FAR conditioned that they’ll say anything, DO anything to “stand against the left” – even when that means they’re actually standing against American interests and humanity in general. The Orange Moron lavished praise on his handler, Putin, calling him “smart” for his invasion. He’s critical of humanity’s response. I suspect he’s too stupid to have considered that Russian banks are being cut off from the world banking system. How does trump get paid if Putin can’t deliver the money?

Fox “News” moron Tucker Carlson called Putin’s illegal war a failure for the Biden administration. He was SO fawning, Russia used his comments as propaganda unedited. They just slapped on Russian subtitles and let it run. They didn’t need to massage one thing. The cons will praise anything, everything, that stands against America – all while waving the American flag and declaring themselves patriots. Yet another decent into their own moral rot…

Here’s a tiny bright side to all of this. If you’re paying attention, you know that, recently, Donnie the Dumbass got busted in possession of stolen, classified documents. 15 boxes of them! He’s had them in his possession since he left office. (If you’re a con, you’re VERY upset the M&M’s aren’t as sexy as they used to be. Fox just didn’t tell you about the stolen documents…) I never have to sit quietly by and listen to some America-hating con blather on about Hillary’s emails again.

No one has said what was in the boxes, of course. It was classified information and shouldn’t have been taken or left sitting around in an office. So it’s pure speculation that the Dumbass gave Putin a look at the information. It was shortly after the boxes were retrieved that Putin made his move. Maybe there’s no connection whatsoever. But the way Donnie kowtows to Putin – and always has – means it’s not crazy to consider trump’s loyalties lie somewhere other than the United States. There’s no way to know how much US intelligence Donnie shared with Putin during his four-year infestation of the White House. Then the Dumbass goes to CPAC (Conservative Pukes Acting Crappy) and repeats his fever dreams about how awesome he believes himself to be compared to everybody else.

I admire the Ukrainian spirit. One story has 13 Ukrainian defenders of an island telling invading Russians to “go fuck yourselves.” Initially, they were all reported as dead but the call has gone up around the country. The road department in Kyiv has removed all of the actual road signs and replaced them with signs that read “go fuck yourselves.” In a hopeful note, the 13 might still be alive according to Ukraine’s State Border Guard…

I’ve been very impressed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during this whole thing – starting from the time the Dumbass tried to blackmail Zelenskiy into helping trump cheat his way through the election. Zelenskiy said no. When the US offered to get Zelenskiy out of Ukraine he reportedly replied, “The battle has begun. I need ammunition, not a ride.” He started posting photos of himself, proving he’s still in Kyiv. Now we see him in a battle uniform sitting next to others fighting for their country. That dude has balls as big as all outdoors. I have no doubt that Putin will have Zelenskiy killed if captured. I remember when the Dumbass retreated to a bunker because he was so scared of a bunch of Black Lives Matter protesters. Zelenskiy is out fighting with his troops.

Truth be told, I thought Russia would have greater success than they’re showing so far because of their edge in weaponry, made stronger by trump cutting off weapons to Ukraine after they wouldn’t help him cheat. It’s VERY difficult to gauge the power of the cause in these things, though, and the Ukrainians seem to be MORE determined to fend off the illegal attack that the Russian troops are in pressing it.

I stand with the world in support of Ukraine. Putin – and his lapdog trump – can go fuck themselves…

I know. We’ve all seen this story before. Still, it defies odds. CheetoJesus doesn’t do any miracles when he “beats” one legal challenge after another. Mostly, he has relied on the support of his entranced minions. He bullies and browbeats. They whimper and show him their bellies. Or turn a blind eye to his crimes. Or disregard his treason with one of our strongest adversaries. Or acquit him without even considering the evidence. This after the whole world watches on television as he incites the true believers to violence and insurrection on his behalf. Obsequious compliance becomes the order of the day.

But when the law identifies criminal behavior and sets it’s sites on a person? For better or worse, the law doesn’t roll over. The law takes it’s time. It’s thorough. Hurling epithets won’t have any effect on the outcome. Lying to a compliant press won’t change the evidence. To be fair, so far, he manages to evade responsibility for his actions. Many others have gone to jail for him or because of him but he keeps walking free. Truth? He won’t go to jail now, no matter what they find. The US doesn’t imprison ex-presidents. Period. But that doesn’t mean he’s a viable future for his party.

They say rats flee a sinking ship. I think it’s probably true. Hell, everybody tries to flee a sinking ship, right? It’s more of a saying, really. It means that bad guys try to insulate themselves from the targets of those investigations the moment it looks like the investigation is going to go against the target. Deutsche Bank has said it won’t do business with the trump crime family again. The accountants for the family have jumped ship. Both of those companies have, likely, made a lot of money as a direct result of their connection. But, suddenly, the connection is FAR too risky – even for piles of money – so they’re out.

His lawyers have mostly abandoned him, too. Most lawyers, of course, are different that those other professionals. They readily associate with criminals – so long as the checks clear – and get away with it because it’s their jobs. But most decent attorneys have also turned their backs on the dumbass. He’s burned through the top-level guy, the mid-level guys, and most of the “also-rans.”

The rats are fleeing the USS Trump because they sense the impending doom. These are not people or groups prone to panic attacks. They make steely-eyed determinations and respond accordingly. THEY think the orange moron has become FAR more of a liability than an asset, whatever the outcome. Sure, he might still slither out of things. I’ve said before and I’ll say again: Satan takes care of his own. But the fleeing rats are a sign we haven’t seen before…

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I’m pretty much sick of hearing about “inflation.” It’s really “greed.” I call it ‘The Great Fleecing’ and I’m pretty sure it’s going to get worse before it gets…no…it’s just going to get worse. I don’t mean to sound so pessimistic. It’s just that I don’t see any angle, from any direction, that will pull us out of this. The last time we were stuck being fleeced by rich people, FDR stood up and stopped them. But FDR was, historically, a very unusual case. He could be termed a one-time good deal. He DID set us on a better, far stronger course. People who can’t manage their own greed have been trying to undo everything he did from the time he did it. They’ve succeeded. You might want to hunker down now…

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Hey, Hillary’s got a new hat! She’s trolling the dumbass. The hat says, ‘But her emails.’ Funny, right? Recently, she seems to be testing the waters to see how she might be received as a candidate for President. I still won’t vote for her. Yeah, I know. If I DON’T vote for her, I’ll get the dumbass again. Let’s call it the threat vote. The Dems line Hillary up against one of the most disgusting human beings ever to infect the planet – and STILL she loses and she’ll lose again. I continue to believe Progressives won’t vote for her. WE remember what Bill did to this country in the 1990’s.

Quick recap, he was a tremendously charismatic individual who seemed like a fun guy to know and was commonly called the smartest man in the room. He promised to focus on our pain like a laser, causing lefties to relax and go about their business. Then he used the complacent trust he had sown to actually govern almost as badly as any conservative ever did. (43 and 45 took their turns lowering the bar to even more unimaginable levels.)

Most people didn’t even see it at the time. I certainly didn’t. Hillary had been described as something of a co-president and after Bill, many on the left thought it would be a neat trick to elect Hillary and get the team back together. Fortunately, she chose to sit out her very best chance. The damage done by Bill – and, presumably, his “co-president” – was hidden at the time but became more apparent as time went on. He did the harmful things he did with the cooperation of the Republicans in Congress. Why, after all, would THEY object? THEY were getting their wish-list fulfilled beyond their wildest dreams – and all they had to do was pay slightly higher taxes during Bill’s term. And they STILL got to call the Clintons horrible names throughout. What a show…

Our country suffers in a bubble of fantasy delusions so economists will tell you in the corporate media that the economic crash of2008 STARTED in 2008. But the actual seeds were sown in the 1990’s – under Bill Clinton. Oh, and the media would not have been ABLE to convince Americans of so many fictions if it hadn’t been for Bill. Bill’s the one who set the stage for the corrupted and nearly useless opinion-based infotainment industry we suffer today. Bill’s the one who allowed all the BIG media companies to buy all the little media companies so that ALL the outlets would “report” the same stories about how awesome business is and how incompetent government is. I found it quite frustrating that when a BIG company bought a small company – reducing competition – it was ALWAYS accompanied by the phrase “increased competition is good for the country,” effectively admitting that what they were doing was BAD for the country…

So if my choice is going to be between Hillary – a very smart conservative – or the dumbass – a very stupid narcissist, I’ll take the dumbass. Hillary’s smart enough to cover her tracks and get away with the damage she does while the gettin’ is good. Clearly, the dumbass is not. Drumpf’s stupidity will lead to citizen action faster than Clinton’s stealth…

Have you seen HIS latest antics? He stole a bunch of documents when he left the White House. Yet another crime in his long list of crimes. The government will retrieve the docs but nothing more will come of it. The CheetoJesus really could murder someone on Fifth Avenue and nothing would happen to him. Nothing says more about the so-called “Rule of Law” than that.

He’s also reputed to have torn up many, many work papers. It’s even said he flushed them down the toilet – to the point where he clogged the toilet doing so. He denies it, of course. Evidence says otherwise. Some of the documents that got turned over to the House committee investigating his insurrection had, in fact, been torn up. Some had been taped back together, some have not. So we KNOW he tried to destroy papers that should not have been destroyed. The only question is if he used the toilet to dispose of them. Come to think of it, it seems like an apt metaphor for what he did to the country as well…

We found about the torn up papers when the House subpoenaed documentation that related to his coup attempt on January 6th, 2021. The Orange Moron tried to claim Executive Privilege to protect himself from being exposed in his participation. Even his corrupted Supreme Court agreed that was a bridge too far. I’ve never really like the concept of Executive Privilege. The idea is that the President needs to have complete, unfiltered information and in order to do that, the people who give him advice need to be protected over the advice they give. In my mind, the only time that would be necessary is if the advice is to do something illegal. The dumbass’s assertion seems to support my suspicions…

Isn’t that funny? I continue talk – and think – like we still live in Better America.

I watch ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ on HBO on Fridays. Week after week, he has Dems on as guests. He summarizes the sorry state of affairs here in Submerging America and asks the Dems what they’re going to do – how they’re going to fight back and set the ship of state back on the right course. Week after week, the answers he receives are mealy-mouthed bunk. The minute the answer begins with “If we could…” the rest is just blather – because we can’t.

I’ve become convinced that the Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. The Republicans will protect the 1% at all costs and tell the world that’s all they care about. The Democrats will protect the 1% at all costs and tell the world they’re working for the little guy. At this point, it seems the “little guy” knows better. The only question is how much longer we’re going to suffer the dog-and-pony show…

It looks like the anti-sex crowd is about to achieve a “victory” of sorts in outlawing abortions for poor women. I know, they pretend they’re outlawing abortion in general but, of course, anybody with resources will just travel to a blue state, get the medical care then need, then go home. No, these laws are designed and intended to keep poor women poor. Nothing else. Still, they’re going to get that law from our now corrupted “Supreme” (meaning it includes with sour cream) Court.

The moment the court rules against safe and legal abortions, I’ll be watching for the obvious companion bills to start becoming law in those same states. You know the laws I mean. Since the women are on the hook for the next 19 years (from the moment of conception), it seems obvious the men who impregnate them should ALSO be on the hook, financially, from the moment of conception – or, at least, from the moment she’s denied the freedom to choose. I’ll be watching for the laws dictating that the mother receives full child support from the father from, what is it, twelve weeks?

Sure, there will be problems. Some women might, accidentally or otherwise, identify the wrong man as the father. Some women might not KNOW the identity of the father. (Most rapists, for example, seem unlikely to introduce themselves. “Hello, I’m Don Drumpf and I’ll be your rapist today.”) Until DNA can certify the identity of the father, the named man must pay the required amount. If it turns out he’s NOT the father, she has to pay him back (discouraging intentionally misidentifying a person) and the properly identified individual must pick up that tab – going back to that twelve week threshold. (So, technically, the correct sperm donor would repay the incorrectly identified not-the-donor…)

I feel certain the GOP has these bills ready and they’re just waiting on a final verdict from the ideologically subordinate court…

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Have you heard the one about the political party that completely debased itself by declaring a seditious act of insurrection “legitimate political discourse?” Why, that would be today’s Republican Party. These people are SO obnoxious they’ve called the January 6th insurrection “legitimate political discourse” and opted to punish the last two sane Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Freaking Liz Cheney is not conservative enough for today’s Republicans? Holy gods. It’s because today’s Republican Party is made up of people who once comprised yesterday’s Libertarian Party. Many people didn’t know there even WAS a Libertarian Party. That was largely due to the fact that their thinking was SO muddled, SO out of line with decent, rational thought, most people just dismissed it as a fringe element of crazies. That’s WHY they took over the Republican Party in the first place. It’s a kind of stolen credibility. But the Libertarians didn’t improve their thinking to be Republicans. Instead, they dragged the Republican Party down into the rabbit hole of standard Libertarian crazy.

Look, the Republican Party’s decent into madness has been televised. We’ve all watched – and cringed – as they’ve moved further and further from reason to, well, this. It seems inevitable the party would crash sooner or later but I’ve got to confess, I never expected them to just say – out loud – “No, treason’s okay, so long as WE’RE the beneficiaries!” Still, that’s definitely their message. Hell, they’ve codified it. In censuring Cheney and Kinzinger, they’ve entered it into the Congressional Record!

Yeah, I know. They still have considerable power. But they’ve exposed themselves. They can no longer be considered the “loyal opposition.” Their announcement shows them to be disloyal, unamerican gadflies. History will not judge them kindly…

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You get up in the morning, pour your coffee, and sit down to read the news. You know what you don’t expect to see? A headline that reads, “Texas Butterfly Sanctuary Forced to Close After Threats.” But that’s the headline I read when I opened the Guardian this morning. It gets your attention, you know? Who in the heck would threaten a freaking butterfly sanctuary, fercrissakes?

Yep. Cons, of course. It offers only small comfort that the cons aren’t angry about the butterflies. (Give ’em time, though…) It turns out the Orange Moron’s Wonder Wall was meant to pass through the sanctuary and the people who run the sanctuary were able to block it. Obviously, this meant an assault of Q-Anonsense and the crazies came out of the woodwork to party. And this is Texas. EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas, especially the crazy.

So now, even butterflies are taking a hit from the insanity of America’s most radical and dangerous element, the Q-Anon cons.

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Well, we made it. 900,000-plus dead from Covid 19. And they’re still counting…and counting and counting and counting. The cons may be crazy but they’re doing their job. The bulk of those dying these days ARE the cons themselves who refuse proper medical intervention until they CAN’T refuse proper medical intervention. (Even then, some still try.) I think of them as Darwin Award winners and their voluntary deaths are probably improving the overall intelligence level of America – but that doesn’t seem to be saying much…

I’m still surprised that in order to maintain their philosophy of contrarian obstructionism, the conservative bubble chose to kill off their own supporters. It seems like a Pyrrhic victory. Perhaps those who run the conservative bubble have decided they gained enough control over this once-great nation, they don’t NEED the mob anymore…