katt_goddess

Dude, there's nothing 'friendly' from Russia right now and there's a big damn difference between having friendly relations with a neighboring country and having that country annex you by blood and fire. Ukraine mentioned an interest in joining NATO because they had reason to believe Russia was planning shit and Russia immediately cried about no, they weren't planning nuthin' while amassing soldiers on the border claiming they were just doing exercises. Exercises which could have been done along any part of their long border but just so happened to be along the border of a country that was worried about being attacked. They continued to deny they had any intention of doing anything right up until they rushed the border and started burning, bombing and destroying everything in sight. Then it was all about how they were just there to protect the pro-Russian Ukrainians...while proceeding to either kill or 'relocate' everyone they could catch as they moved far beyond any so-called pro-Russian zones to bomb the capital. Here's a little fun story about the Russian government's dark actions. Do you know how I got a basic grasp of Russian as a child despite being raised in an environment where English, Norwegian, and Swedish were most likely to be spoken while French Sesame Street played on the tv? A family of 4. A grandma, a mother, and two small girls. That was all that was left of that entire family line. Everyone in their family 'disappeared' . It was American operatives that got the last four members out before Russian agents could finish whatever f-ing task it was that included completely wiping out every trace of them. They were placed with new names in my tiny, shitty hometown in the middle of nowhere Minnesota because literally no one would think to look there. The mother gave lessons in Russian at my school so she could be close to her girls at all times. That was how bad her fear was - it followed her over the ocean to a place where no one would ever find them. Putin was in the KGB when they had to trust foreigners with their lives because their home was no longer safe. Think about this the next time you want to play the 'but Russia just wants to PROTECT Russians in Ukraine!' bit in this thread because Russia definitely doesn't have a really good history of that. As for anyone who thinks bringing up Libya is going to win them any points, Libya is currently investigating war crimes by Russian mercenaries. Maybe don't bring up other countries as some sort of gotcha when there's active investigations for the same shit by the same characters being looked into there. As for Afghanistan? Think Soviet invasion and all the wonderful atrocities that happened then. None of this is a denial of shit America has done [ I think anyone accused of rape in the military should have their junk cut off in public and that's goes for anyone that tries to cover things up ] but this thread is about a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Criticism is criticism. You claimed he never had anything bad to say about America, I say differently and that criticism has happened. But as far as the topic of this thread goes, I find it hard to believe that anyone would have such a hate boner that they would willingly come into this thread and defend the invasion of another country [ including defending the rapes of 4 year olds at the most recent reporting which is apparently the acceptable behavior of the invaders and which none of the Russia Good! defenders have actually even acknowledged ] and keep insisting that anyone against Russia's actions is somehow a cheerleader for the American version of imperialism.

The old celebration of board greatness thread is locked up in the archived area so he made a new one. This type of thread celebrates for half a second whoever managed to get to the top of the content lists at any given moment when people actually notice it and are bored enough to post the congrats. I think I got up there like once and didn't even notice it before I was smacked off the mountain.

I'll see if I can pull it and float it as requested. Edit - I can't find it with a cursory glance. Maybe someone merged it with another discussion by accident. You might just go with the second option of making this the continuing discussion thread instead.

Let's smack these down, shall we? The constant crying about 'economy! economy! economy!' is being directly pushed as The Topic by republicans because pointblank, the whole 'Women Aren't People' thing isn't working out the way your personal idiots thought it would. It is the thing that is constantly asked about around here but the political replies are always 'Why are you talking about that? You should totally focus on [ ANYTHING that isn't about the personal rights of women to make medical decisions for themselves ] !!!!1!' Every time. If you want to cry about the high prices of everything, maybe you should consider that a tanked economy is directly tied to bullshit policies where nothing was done at the start of a pandemic because the idea of doing anything that would have allowed for a steady but safe working environment was anathema to the whole 'work harder! die for your company! you are now essential and therefore can't refuse to work due to health concerns!' pushed by those that profited from denying there was any incoming problem. You ended up with massive amounts of people getting sick and dying and those were the ones that were ESSENTIAL. You should also consider that any acts to curb price gouging were outright blocked by so-called for the people republicans. Why? Because doing a damn thing for the actual people during a democratic presidency isn't allowed. Fat Boy lost so badly that not even a bought SCOTUS could put him back in the WH. That's not 'election denying'. You can't cry about how rigged an election is against you while still claiming victories in other votes handled at the exact same time. Perhaps you should define 'rigged' for everyone here since the dictionary you keep referencing is written in wingdings and frog assprints. Because rigged to me seems more like someone who intentionally puts someone in charge of a necessary service like the Post Office in order to remove machines and gut things to slow down deliveries and kill off mail-in ballots, attempting to force fake electors into position to claim victory regardless of the actual votes, suing states for not voting for you, calling state officials to demand they 'find' enough votes [ up their asses ] in order to claim victory, running 'audits' that actually merely allowed people who shouldn't have had any access to the inner workings of voting machines to get that access and potentially compromising future votes unless the machines can all be recalibrated before they get used again, and attempting a gods damned insurrection on the day of the confirmation because interrupting that totally means the incumbent grifter gets to stay in office forever. The 'heartbeat' heard that early on is the electrical current of a stem cell cluster that is on it's way to being a heart. But it's not a heart. It can't be operated on to fix an abnormality, it can't support the fetus on its own in any way, it's not even a vague organ shape. 'Heartbeat' laws are just shit-tiered excuses for mainly angry old males to try to control the narrative and force their choices on women's bodies. They can't openly admit to their blazing misogyny but claiming it's for religious reasons is a-okay. Gotta have them human products. North Dakota republicans. Brought in the National Guard because someone saw a gun at the DAPL protests [ in a state that's not only Constitutional carry but has also extended Castle Doctrine to include WalMart parking lots because lethal force is always the answer to threats of someone parking closer to the store than you ] . Allowed mercenaries into the area to control people by flying over them in helicopters and brandishing military-grade weapons at them. Tried to pass a law that would allow people to run over protesters just because. Passed the laws against abortion anyway by stroke of pen after the people of the state specifically voted against it. After how many years of republican jackasses downplaying their own violent tendencies, applauding being told that dissenters should be hauled away in body bags, physically running down and over other people, traveling to different states and shooting / killing people for daring to demand equal justice under the law, attempting to pass laws that allow that sort of behavior with no fear of consequences - ONE idiot is run over for supposedly expressing conservative views and its now a horrible problem that's totally the fault of the current President who dared to say that MAGAts and their white supremist bullshit are an issue and that's somehow more divisive than a previous president that spent and continues to spend his time catering to those shitheads by calling everyone who isn't white a threat to democracy / replacing all the real Americans / rapists / thugs. You do not get the right to complain about how political violence is out of control over one idiot when you've been applauding that same violence if it's used against your political opposites.

I will confirm that Stilgar has said shitty things about America in the past and has also said why he felt that way about whatever the topic of the time was. Back of comic books where all the good stuff hid and the prices were always within allowance range if you were one of those lucky bastards that got an allowance.

Yoda Bird [ 2010-2022 ] Conceived in my living room. -.-; Hatched in a hand carved bowl. Hand-raised hellraiser who enjoyed hanging upside down like a deranged bat and throwing his small toys on the floor where they would have to be picked up and returned. The 'keet version of 'mommy fetch' . Survived by his boyfriend, Ghost-out-of-the-Shell, who is currently calling for his green buddy from the edge of the cage [ Yoda was too old to fly anymore and would often flutter to the carpet for exercise / attention ] .

*posting in here so I check back later to do this when I have more time The Great Plains Food Bank is one of the charities I help out with when I can [ so at least once a year and it's not around Crapmas because hunger doesn't wait for just holidays ] . They got all the proceeds from the Slut Dragon sale back in 2020 because they needed it more than me.

Whose claiming he just learned psychopathic traits? My thought is disease may equal a weakening of those little internal safeguards that most people have that keep them from acting on the worst impulses they are capable of [ think of any time you've snapped at someone over something trivial/stupid/whatever would normally be ignored because you were fighting with a headache or a cold ] . Putin is a former KGB agent capable of greater levels of 'worst impulses' that were considered justified by whatever the reason du jour was. He's now attempting to reset his kingdom to its former glories while under his perma-Presidency and its being done by invasion, torture, murder and an attitude of 'no regerts' . * And there is stage 3 syphilis where the brain is directly affected and can cause sudden violent tendencies. Not saying Putin has that because he is giving every appearance of being in control of himself to control the narrative but that is an example of something that can really turn a pacifist into a monster. * 'regerts' . Didn't trip the mis-spelling detector. Damn you, internet Webster for adding weird things into common acceptance.

He'd just let any that his pedo-friends didn't pick up die in the heat. Only the pre-born have actual rights. My thought was send all the homeless American citizens to Abbott's and DeSantis' private homes. They want to pretend they are all about the 'real' citizens, they can take actual care of them. And no federal funds. We've already seen what they do when they get their hands on taxpayer money.

It depends on how sick he is and what exactly is being affected. There's plenty of evidence that shows people with brain damage from illnesses doing and thinking things that would be considered otherwise out of character or just batshit crazy. As a hypothetical, you have a guy who is spending his days attempting to return a country to a mythical former glory that it basically pitched in the trash back in the 80's, surrounded by people who more and more are distancing themselves from him because otherwise windows mysteriously open up and spit bodies on the pavement, he's internally fighting something that he might not win and has no one he'd trust to carry on the 'noble' work when he passes on, and his easy win against another country is being spanked by farmers and tractors. If you think about it in terms of brain damage, there is nothing to really keep him from doing something truly horrible if his one remaining brain cell decides a blaze of glory is the only option. I'm not advocating for it, I'm stating the potential of it. It's like the idiot who decides their biggest statement is going to be suicide by cop but first they are going to shoot as many people as possible to really get their name in the news.

^ The entire reason we have a PRESIDENT was because this country was to have no Kings or Popes, the republic was not to follow in the lines and lies of monarchy or theocracy. The separation of Church and State is specifically stated for that very purpose and these supposed 'constitutional christians' should know better. Or they would if they weren't completely illiterate.

Not if you are dying though and have decided that you will be the last great leader of your little world. Then you look for the biggest monument to yourself that you can and you bury yourself with as many servants as possible. A smoking radioactive hole in the ground is historical, you can't deny that.

Honestly, the only thing I've seen so far about that is in a link Sieg already posted where the bus drivers admitted that they had been told to not speak to people about things. But I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of looking into just who knew what and when in all this. As for the brochure and the flights, Texas sheriffs are now looking into luring charges for those responsible because those being put on the flights were lured under false pretenses. Edit - matrix with the first post win on this one.

I survived that Swine Flu pandemic that blitzed the planet back in like 2009. It knocked me out for a week but only took a bit over a week to get back to decent strength. I'm still fighting the stupid covid crap. Negative test [which I finally got ] doesn't mean anything other than 'get back to work now'. Smell is still off-line, fevers / headaches / sweats still happen, extended attempts at anything end up with shaking kitten muscles, the coughing is getting on my nerves, and there's definite fluid in my lungs which is causing both my lungs and my heart to hurt. So tired of chicken soup.

When you are a tiny dying dictator, you still consider it a win if you kill off everyone around you just to spite the world.

Its all a stalling tactic so it won't matter unless things move faster than the midterms. He's desperate to drag things out long enough to maybe get a majority of sycophants into office that will immediately work to dismiss all investigations against their spray tanned money-sponge.

He just keeps racking up those bills. I thought that he had a number of big loans that required payments this year too that he has zero ability to pay off. With Russia currently bleeding itself out and his personal vendetta against 'China', he's rapidly running out of places to go for extra money other than the walking wallets he seems to think his followers are. Having already watched in the past numbnuts that were going to 'roll that coal to own Obama' deciding after awhile that they'd really rather spend that money on beer, it's really a matter of time before those wallets decide that they'd rather buy food for themselves than give money to a jackass who claims to be a billionaire while inhaling Big Macs. The Special Master he absolutely had to have and one of his pet judges gave the okay for...he wanted the American taxpayers to cover at least half of the costs. He was told nope and is expected to have to pay all the costs himself. Hope his Special Master was able to opt for payment first.

Sounds like your friend doesn't exactly have much in the way of a life going for them if they think poking at someone else is the way to go. Social life is overrated. There are cartoons on.

So... Can't say 'gay'. Can't say 'insurrection'. Can't use any term that might in any way, shape, or form constitute 'gender affirming'. Can't talk about actual historical events without some shitbag screaming about 'Critical Race Theory'. Can't let women make their own medical decisions because 'pre-born' have to have more rights than the already breathing. And you think that a group of compromised assholes that have already ruled corporations are individuals with all the power of individuals to call the shots over their employees / users is the way to go? There's not enough wood on the planet for all the crosses needed for the poor thin-skinned conservaturd martyrs running around being persecuted by bad words and being told to shut up.

I f-ing want a live stream recording of her reactions as she dives the depths.

The lady she was kicking for being in her way appears to be pregnant. I thought she was all about the pre-born?

This is why I stick with the local taxis and pay cash.

That dude owes me laundry money. I shot Coke through my nose.