World War Too

With only one American hostage, Brittney Griner, and unable to grab any reporters, Russian invaders decided kidnaping 2,389 Ukrainian children would be better suited to their capabilities.  At least five generals have been picked off by snipers, and according to a Pentagon press briefing Russian morale is low, perhaps since they seem to lack -- hang on -- winter gear.   They were supposed to be warm in their quarters by now, Day 26.  Instead, nearly ten thousand are dead and the Ukrainians have recaptured the outskirts of Kyiv.  You can't win a war with Sportpalast rallies, as Goebbels found out.

It's not only echoes of Stalingrad that reverberate.  Russia and Japan never signed a formal peace treaty for the few months the USSR was actually at war with the Japanese Empire, and have negotiated for decades over some small islands north of Hokkaido.  In response to Japan's condemnation of the war, Russia has now broken off talks (to be honest, there wasn't much progress since 1956 anyway).  So Japan is shipping non-lethal gear like helmets and has taken in dozens of refugees.  This is highly unusual for a country which normally discourages immigration.  The US has admitted almost none of the three million who have fled the war.  Hey, they could be drug-smuggling terrorists from Honduras!

Ask a foreign policy expert like the Rev. Robert Ritchie -- you may know him better as Kid Rock.  Baby Tuckoo gave his cult a break from the sad war news (see above) and got Mr. Rock to brag about how Trump sought his advice on North Korea and Islamic State.  As he put it, "I was there with Trump one day when he ended the caliphate."  You remember, the day he fed the entire White House staff with two sesame buns and a Filet O Fish.  It was like awesome.  

Joe Biden used the phrase "new world order" in a speech to a bunch of CEOs yesterday, causing Q-adjacent heads to explode all over the nutosphere.  In context it's clear he was talking about the strengthening of NATO and the European Union as well as the reinvigoration of democracy, not to mention quoting the innocuous George H.W. Bush.  But they hear what they hear.  The most baffling tweet was "I believe with all my heart that Joe Biden was installed by Globalists, Babylon included, to usher in the New World Order."  We know "globalists" is code for "Jews" but hell if I know what  "Babylon" is.  The Middle East?  The town on Long Island?  What Rastafarians call America?  I'm not googling it. 

Lindsey Graham does not believe you're innocent until proven guilty.  Lindsey Graham does not think "terrorists" are entitled to a legal defense.  Lindsey Graham said so, and then Lindsey Graham flounced out of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing.  Hmmph!

If a bunch of unemployed truckers drive around the DC Beltway and nobody pays attention, can they still get covid?  Zachary Petrizzo reports, "Today out in Hagerstown, more and more truckers with The People's Convoy have complained about becoming sick with a bad cough.  One streamer, 'OTR Survival,' ended up going to an urgent care, and described the illness as 'getting hit by a bus.'"

FREEDOM!