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US airstrike targets Al-Shabaab headquarters in southern Somalia, Big Turban maimed
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Southern Poverty Law Center Classifies Everyone Not Currently Wearing A Pride Shirt As A Hate Group
[Bee on Twitter]
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/24/2023 09:56 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:



#3  LA Dodgers cave and grovel to Transitories...and we're supposed to believe that. Believe, that all it took was to stamp their little feet, wave a wand and "poof!" victory! Nope.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/24/2023 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Demokrats excel at manipulating/controlling language to set the context of their assertions. Emotions are the lifes-blood of their arguments, and they use "either-or" false choices to force apparent consensus. Hate is a heavily, emotionally loaded word, with huge negatives and inferences of violence. Many people avoid holding positions described as "hate" when in fact, it is reasoned disagreement or merely disapproval. The feeling that the "transgender movement" has achieved massively disproportionate and corrosive moral influence and institutionalization despite being a minuscule segment of society is a reasoned position, not hate.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/24/2023 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  If a cause is "in my face," they have totally lost out with me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/24/2023 12:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Bee isn't wrong.

Nice of Tux News to frame their story like a bunch of Southern Hillbillys beating up on Joe Employee, instead of everyone pissed that 1 piecers with a cock pocket are right there next to the kid section.

Meanwhile, a transistor sets fire to a dressing room, so he could be seen or some fucking arsonist excuse bullshit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/24/2023 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Meanwhile, a transistor sets fire to a dressing room

Diceman said, "It was onea those, you know, transtesticles..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/24/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Satire is biting when it is so true to reality...
Posted by: magpie || 05/24/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Time to get a T-shirt with a large middle finger. Maybe the SPLC should be looked into. They collect a lot of money and seem to have no useful purpose. Sounds like a scam or some kind of racketeering.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/24/2023 23:28 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Fade to Black in Ukraine
A taste:
[JamesHowardKunster] “Following the ouster of Mr. Trump in 2020, this new-new-left had exactly what it had been clamoring for, a liberal Democrat in the White House. Given the sense of impending catastrophe at present, it may be difficult to remember precisely how much sniveling bullshit went into selling Joe Biden.” — Rob Urie

Have you noticed that the president of Ukraine (or, governor of America’s fifty-first state), Mr. Zelensky, has been globe-trotting for weeks: London, Helsinki, Paris, Hiroshima? That’s because this is one of those months when years happen; the world is changing at hyper-speed. He seems to be running scared, a little bit, trying to keep ahead of the changing game. What sounded like a great idea to a certain claque of so-called neo-cons in our country — to use Ukraine as a bear trap — has instead rather suddenly revealed Europe’s and America’s manifold bankruptcies and revolted the whole rest of the world outside of Western Civ. Oh, the wonder and nausea!

Try to imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America and redoubtable Europe conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with a genius scheme to ruin Russia and knock Vlad Putin off the global gameboard, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld, while he, Mr. Z, would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings. His backup was the greatest hegemonic power the world has ever seen. The game was called Let’s You and Him Fight.

The poor schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis — who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “color revolution.” Mr. Z followed the US State Department’s orders to rain down rockets and artillery on Russian-speakers who lived in his own eastern provinces. He formally applied for membership in the NATO club. His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s leadership — who, after all, deserved a little something for all these goings-along. What could go wrong?
Posted by: KBK || 05/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What could go wrong?

A couple hundred thousand dead and counting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/24/2023 19:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Eggs/Omellete
Posted by: Frank G || 05/24/2023 20:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor lad drank the Russian disinformation Kool-Aid. The war was going to happen regardless of the USA, Europe or NATO. For Putin, Ukraine does not exist outside of Russia.

Putin had planned to slowly absorb Ukraine, ala Belarus, w/ Pres. Yanukovich at the helm via corruption and increased dependence on Russia. But the Ukrainians rebelled when Yanukovich reneged on an promise to search association w/ the EU. From that moment on, Putin switched to military conquest. Biden's only contribution was to show incompetence and weakness, allowing Putin to think he could get away with a full scale invasion w/o too many consequences.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/24/2023 22:57 Comments || Top||

#4  A useful summary, Enver Slager8035.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/24/2023 23:16 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd say Ukrainians killing ethnic Russians in the Donbas and burning ethnic Russians alive in that building in Odessa in 2014 wasn't lost on the Russian leadership...not to mention NATO encroachment eastward.

We've come a long way from 2+4, baby.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/24/2023 23:36 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Franklin Graham - 'The Storm is coming'
[Gateway] Orlando, Florida- Reverend Franklin Graham has warned America about the "coming storm" headed its way. Churches and ministries are in the crosshairs.

The Christian Post reported that Graham, who serves as president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and head of Samaritan’s Purse, sounded the alarm during a keynote speech Monday evening at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Orlando, Florida.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2023 14:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the coming storm were to wash away Franklin Graham's beachfront property that would be incredibly ironic.
Posted by: jpal || 05/24/2023 15:24 Comments || Top||

#2  He says that society will be coming after Christians. Seems more obvious than prophetic.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/24/2023 17:12 Comments || Top||



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1Southern Transitional Council
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1Govt of Iran Proxies
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