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That was a very layered performance from Genie. Something I felt was missing from everyone in the car crash '98 version.

Or Jeff Trachta.

Something else caused in large part by Putin. And something else, like Ukraine, denied and enabled by many American, Canadian, European stooges for that regime. If there is a hell, the "independent journalists" on Putin's payroll will be burning there.

@Vee @BetterForgotten @Bright Eyes look at this [!@#$%^&*]! What an embarrassment. This is like one of those old Stephen King book commercials, or a joke scene from "Gareth Merenghi's Darkplace." Everything I hate about Kate Oates as a producer, in one shot.

I think they were paralyzed with doubt and fear - that they would escalate the conflict, and also that they would get the blame (which many are still doing). I also think that the world opinion of the US is now so low that many did not believe it when Biden told people what was going to happen. With roads blocked off it just feels like we are slowly watching people die without being able to do anything, until it's over and the press starts spinning about how Putin was awesome and had a secret plan all along that we were too stupid to get, and most of those who are currently paying lip service about not doing business with them go back to basics, like what happened with 1/6.

A lovely, understated little anthology episode which has a supporting role for Mary Heron, who would have a guest spot on Emmerdale Farm 20 years later. https://emmerdale.fandom.com/wiki/Madge_Semple

If you need a laugh, here is today's trucker rally. Without trucks!

The term progressive has been taken over by the type of people he is referring to. They now dominate the narrative. In other news:

It sounds like Robin was so eager to keep Cusi on the show that she was trying anything? I agree it wasn't the best idea...

Oh I was mixing up NATO and the EU. Never mind. This explains why some of the media have been pushing the "New World Order" stuff today.

I wonder if the EU will want to risk bringing Ukraine in. They have avoided it for years.

More blatant pro-Russian propaganda, pumped into millions of homes, bases and businesses, as Gowdy Doody looks on, remembering when he was actually meant to have a future after shouting about Benghazi every day for 6 years. Jennifer Griffin, who is likely ending her days on Faux News, rebutted most of this, but who are the easily fooled more likely to listen to? If you want to hear how those who run the GOP, and fund them, truly feel, this waste of a man will tell you.

Just at the same time that Belarus passed a referendum allowing for nuclear weapons in the country. Horrifying. I imagine all those people on the left who have gone on about Russia's kindness in not shelling more of Ukraine will find another goalpost to move.

I think he and the people fighting are extremely brave. I just don't know if they will want to face nukes, and sadly I do think Putin is unstable enough to where that is increasingly likely. But I hope they find a way out of this.

I'm already seeing the talking points from the Putin apologists/faux-leftists on his payroll that he is not fully fighting back and is being humane, unlike America in Iraq. These are the same people who insisted he would never invade, now just going back to the talking points that he had no choice. Seeing Trump contorting himself about Putin just shows how pathetic he always is (he did this with Iraq too). It's so obvious all of these people were out of the loop about his plans and also very much overestimated his acumen. I lost count of how many times I have heard that the Russian army would dominate because they don't have pronouns in bio. Now it's just oh they could if they want to - they are being lenient. The two most vocal Putin lovers, Greenwald and Snowden, have alternatively tripled down and gone silent. It won't be long before Ukraine is either conquered or they agree to his terms. When that happens I just hope some of these politicians and organizations that are temporarily claiming to oppose him, and all the money he and his backers funnel into their countries, and all gas they buy from him, will keep up their current tough talk. Even just one or two.

@I Am A Swede

I think my view is pretty well summed up here...I've rarely felt so sickened by a story. At least Jim Reilly did not pretend his stories of this nature were about getting people help or social awareness.

Jackson seems like an excellent choice. I am wary about whether Manchin will support her, but I don't want him to keep getting his way, all he cares about is attention. The "trucker" astroturfing is coming to DC. The media will go wild, of course.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-two-expat-bros-who-terrorized-women-correspondents-in-moscow/2017/12/15/91ff338c-ca3c-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html They were both young and very toxic figures in Russia in the '90s, under the guise of "journalism." They both tend to push anti-American, pro-Putin propaganda, along with the wretched Katie Halper, who co-hosts a show with Taibbi (Rolling Stone funded their show for years, which is another reason I rarely read their material now), and is currently begging people to condemn the Nazis of the Ukraine. Halper was one of Putin-adoring Tara Reade's most vocal backers. This whole circle is incredibly toxic, damaging, and all too influential in leftist circles. Here is another piece of [!@#$%^&*], who co-hosts a propaganda show with Ryan Grim (another who doesn't care about the Ukraine and was one of the lead Reade supporters) - the show is funded by John Solomon, who was involved in all the Hunter Biden witch hunting several years ago.