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We’re going on day three of non-stop hurricane coverage. WTF! Stop it already. Yeah, we get it! Total destruction. “Unprecedented!” Catastrophic! Record-breaking! A 1-in-500-year hurricane with a 1-in-1000-year rainfall. (All of which will be broken in a few years — thank you, climate change deniers!) Blah, blah, blah.

Nonetheless, has the MSM completely forgotten that Putin has basically stolen Ukrainian land, and the world barely blinked? I think a CNN analyst put it well, “In the longer term, the annexations will crystalize the reason why the United States and its allies have been so adamant about helping Ukraine’s war effort. The war threatens to enshrine a precedent of a bigger, powerful nation simply marching into a smaller one and seizing its territory on a spurious rationale. That scenario is not just a threat at the fringes of Europe; it is one that could arise around the world and be replicated by other autocratic regimes. It represents a fundamental challenge to the international rule of law if allowed to stand. And it tests the principle of the Western-led post-World War II world that free peoples have the right to choose their own national and political destinies.” And OMG, I’m about to agree with Ms. Lindsey Graham when he said, “‘We have to help our friends and neighbors here at home but we also have to stand up for what’s right abroad. So we are dealing with Hurricane Putin, for the lack of a better word. He’s trying to rewrite the map of Europe, he’s trying to do by force of arms what he can’t do to the political process.’” Wake up, MSM and Americans! This conflict is a few inches from World War III, and everyone is focused on anything else. Welcome to stupid America. We’ll just ignore our way through this until it’s too late.

Reporting form CNN, “A wife and husband from Maryland have been charged with conspiring to provide the Russian government with personal medical records from the U.S. government and military, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. Anna Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist practicing in Baltimore, along with her husband, Jamie Lee Henry, a major and doctor in the U.S. Army, allegedly provided ‘individually identifiable health information,’ which is protected under federal law, to an FBI undercover agent posing as a Russian government employee. Both Gabrielian and Henry were arrested Thursday morning, according to the US Attorney’s office in the District of Maryland. After appearing in court, they were released on home detention with 24/7 location monitoring. Gabrielian also has a $500,000 unsecured bond.”

What the actual f***? Seriously!?!? These traitors to America have been released to “home detention” until further notice. NFW! This is B.S.! And I blame Garland’s pathetic, weak D.O.J. God-f***ing-damm*t! If America had a Siberia, then these traitors would be sent there pending a trial. But no! They’re allowed to betray our country and live in the comfort of their home. Whatever! I give up. So weak, so f***ing weak! Welcome to stupid America!

As the MSM covers and reveals the destruction of hurricane Ian, I can only think about all the f***ing trash strewn about everywhere and swept out to sea. No doubt, with this hurricane, cars, appliances, boats, homes, and whatever random items that were not bolted to the ground have been swept out to sea, further adding to the countless tons and tons of garbage the oceans and waterways collect every year. Humanity treats the planet like one giant f***ing toilet, and no one cares. Moreover, all the destroyed vehicles, houses, trailer homes, boats, appliances, furniture, and what have you will end up in some f***ing landfill because that’s what we do. We bury our problems. Out of sight, out of mind. Entire islands have been built on landfills. But think of all the trash that “decays” in these vast pits. And by decay, I really mean it goes nowhere, such as plastic and glass. What does degrade seeps into the ground, poisoning the soil and groundwater as gravity works its will. God! We treat Mother Earth like one f***ing giant garbage bin, and we wonder why she’s starting to fight back. We don’t live in harmony with nature; we live in spite of it. We curse it. We dominate it, if we can, in the name of human ingenuity and manifest destiny. Eventually, we’ll lose. Welcome to stupid America!

The Daily Beast dishes: “Perry Greene, the husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), filed for divorce on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast. The petition stated that the Greenes’ 27-year marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’ and indicated that the couple, who wed in college, had been separated for some time. Perry Greene motioned to have the divorce filed under seal, arguing ‘that the record will contain sensitive personal and financial information, the public disclosure of which would negatively impact the parties’ privacy interests.’”

Once again, the party of family values does not practice what they preach! What else is new? But the gays! It’s pretty much common knowledge that MTG cheated on her husband. As The New Yorker reports, “When, eight years later, it looked like she might be headed to Congress, Chambers got on social media and told the world that, back when he knew [Marjorie Taylor] Greene, she was having ‘multiple, blatant extramarital affairs in front of all of us.’ He added, ‘I don’t even judge that, until you say the kind of shit she does and claim the Jesus about it.’ (Greene, who was baptized at an evangelical church in a suburb just north of Atlanta, in 2011, and speaks frequently about being Christian, has said that she wants to bring ‘my faith and my family values to Washington.’).” It’s always the hypocrisy! But the gays! Nonetheless, she got elected and will get re-elected because nothing matters with these RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks. They love the hypocrisy. They love moralizing to the gays and liberals, as they, themselves, live lives of sin. And if they were to listen to D.J. Vance, who is going to win the Senate seat in Ohio, then Perry Greene would not be able to get a divorce because, as Vance believes, getting divorced should never happen. But whatever! The gays!

Just another example of why I hate all RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks with the heat of a thousand white-hot suns. I’m sick of the double standard. I hope the see you next Tuesday MTG’s divorce plays out in spectacularly public fashion. I hope her name is dragged through the mud. But no matter the utter embarrassment she brings to her office and constituents, they’ll gladly re-elect her because deep down inside, her voters love the adultery. It’s the f***ing mirror, morons! How many f***ing G.D. times do I have to keep telling you f***tards? Welcome to stupid America! But the gays!

Gallup published a new poll about the Article III branch of the U.S. Constitution, and the results are grim. America cannot endure outcomes like this. The judiciary is ostensibly the branch of the government that dispenses impartial justice, but when each half of the nation (or perhaps each third) diverges in trust of the judiciary, then essentially the final pillar of the nation — belief in the rule of law — has crumbled. What is left when a nation no longer trusts elections that bring the executive and legislative branches to power and the courts no longer reflect what any segment of the population believes? What is left? Nothing but a disparate collection of factions that have nothing left in common. These polls indicate the final shoe has dropped and continues to drop — no one is even bothering to catch it. We are headed for civil war, and people seem to blithely continue their lives as if everything will magically fix itself. Welcome to stupid America. Too dumb and indifferent to endure!

I say, f*** Florida! Seriously! F*** the state, f*** the governor, and f*** every red part of the state! Ya know, after every catastrophic natural disaster, the right-wing religious haters love to come out and blame the gays for bringing God’s wrath unto the nation. Well, it seems that God is saying f*** Florida for electing DeSantis, who hates on gay youth and their families, immigrants, and all the other least among us. Whatever the genesis, I don’t think my tax dollars should be going to Florida to help them — yet again — recover from their decades of poor planning and continued climate change denialism. F*** those people! F*** them hard.

If I’ve said it once, then I’ve said it a billion times before: People should live according to how they vote. So, all these RepubliKKKlans and MAGA morons who don’t believe in the federal government but want only states’ rights should live by their credo, which means no federal assistance, no F.E.M.A., no federal disaster declaration. F***ing none of it! (They only believe in national defense.) Let Florida take care of their own by itself. I am getting really, really f***ing sick of blue state tax dollars constantly being funneled to red states — which under tax their population — to fix red state mismanagement and maintain their hateful policies. F*** them! F*** them hard! I hate them all. Florida should just die on the vine or start electing Democrats to run the state.

I truly don’t care about these people or the state. With these regular (every couple of years) natural disasters, one would think that people should leave the state, but no! More people flock to the natural disaster red zone. Hurricanes are only going to get more frequent and stronger. Un-f***ing-believable. But whatever! Only in stupid America. Humanity is truly too stupid for its own good. I keep telling you f***tards that Mother Nature will bring balance to the world, which includes thinning the human species from the planet; and, apparently, one method of nature is the instinct for people to move to places that are becoming more dangerous to live. You can’t make this sh*t up. There is a reason why insurance companies are going bankrupt in Flordia or refuse to do business in the state. I thought the free market was supposed to be an important signaling mechanism for these conservative, capitalist types.

I only hope more RepubliKKKlan voters died as a result of Ian. But sadly, I don’t think any hurricane is sufficiently powerful to kill enough RepubliKKKlans and MAGA morons to shift the balance of power in the state. Florida is just another RepubliKKKlan mess Democrats will be forced to clean up — again! Welcome to stupid America!

Take a close look at the picture above or here for more detail. What’s wrong with this picture of Russian conscripts being sent off to war in Ukraine? I’ll tell you. The two foremost guys in the picture look to be in their late 30s or early 40s, so they are entirely of fighting age and fitness. Then if you continue along the front row to behind the priest, you can just make out a really tall guy and the fella next to him. Again, they are probably in their 30s. But wait a second. I passed someone in the front row. I passed up grandpa for good reason because he’s more than just beyond fighting age; he is fat. Yet, he’s not the only one. Directly behind grandpa, but not fully pictured, appears to be another senior. Although you cannot see his whole face, you can make out the characteristic folds under the chin and near the ear/neck of an older man. What a motley crew to send to the frontlines to fight a losing war. No wonder Putin sees the nuclear card as the only option left to bring Ukraine and the West to the negotiating table.

I would be embarrassed if this were the sort of military stock I had to send into battle in the name of my country. And I certainly would not be authorizing circulating pictures like this to the world — what a joke. The only images of recruits should be young, tall, built, virile men. For a country that prides itself on mass propaganda, it can’t seem to get one good picture of fake Russian soldiers to project strength as if the military had its act together.

Moreover, as I have learned from retired generals on the MSM, these new recruits will not be a breath of fresh air and comfort for the already battle-battered soldiers on the frontlines. No! They will be liabilities. Look, this is how it works: Those soldiers who have been fighting for months in miserable conditions and losing are worn out and demoralized; they are not interested in welcoming newbies to the fight who don’t know sh*t about anything. In short, the seasoned soldiers do not see the uninitiated draftees as the relief they’ve been waiting for; instead, they are a burden for whom they must babysit, lest the new guys get everyone killed. Not to mention unit cohesion and synergy takes time to build, and it takes much longer when you have to replace 50 percent of a unit rather than a couple of men here or there. And the Russian military is really at 50 percent fighting strength. Nonetheless, I have no problem with Russia sending as many bullet catchers as they can to Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

You know it’s hurricane season when all other news ceases to exist as the natural disaster sensationalist MSM such as CNN and MSNBC ignore all other important national and international news to report exclusively on yet another “historic” hurricane. And by historic, I mean occurring every few years. The excessive (undivided) media coverage at the expense of every other piece of news, which is more critical, only demonstrates the ethos of Americans: We are the disaster-as-entertainment nation. No news organization other than local stations should cover hurricane Ian for hours and hours on end. It’s a f***ing G.D. embargo of reporting news that actually matters. It is ridiculous and an embarrassment to human intelligence. No one should care this much or get this much enjoyment (or stimulation) from watching the destructive forces of a hurricane, yet Americans do. The only teachable moment for these events is related to climate change. Still, the MSM goes to the minutia of the event as soaked “reporters” televise their “battle” with the elements for the masses over which to agog. Look! Wind! Rain! A downed tree! Flooded streets! Storm surge! The hurricane moved a mile NNE! Now, it wobbled a mile to the right! Did I mention the wind? Oh, the wind! Un-f***ing-believable! America’s democracy is — nay, the world’s democracies are — on the brink, but Ian is far more fascinating! Welcome to stupid America! The stupid cannot be undone.

Wow! Barely three weeks after The Queen’s passing and the nation’s economy is a mess, although through no fault (mostly) of the citizens. Ugh! Seriously, did The Queen have to do everything?!?! Apparently, Prime Minister Liz Truss seeks to reprise the same failed supply-side policies as Ronald Reagan. As The New York Times reports, “Four days after Ms. Truss’s tax cuts and deregulatory plans stunned financial markets and threw the British pound into a tailspin, the prime minister’s political future looks increasingly precarious as well. … Ms. Truss, he said, could have taken a more cautious approach: rolling out the supply-side measures first, like plans to untangle Britain’s cumbersome residential planning rules and build more housing, which are hurdles to economic growth. Then, when inflationary pressures had eased, the government could have cut taxes. But that was never in the cards, Professor Portes said, because Ms. Truss and Mr. Kwarteng are free-market evangelists who ardently believe that cutting taxes will reignite growth, and because they have little more than two years to turn around the economy before they face voters in a general election.”

Once again, supply-side economics does not work as well as the conservative academia and models (equations) suppose it. This is a splendid case where reality does not match the theory because we’ve actually lived through such policies. Again, I will say what I have always said about supply-side economics: It’s like pushing on a string. It does not work. What is the more effective way to utilize a string to move an object? You pull on it, f***tards! Also known as demand-side economics. You first create a demand, and the supply follows. You don’t “over” create supply hoping people will demand “things,” for they may not.

For some reason, there seems to be this tautological belief that if it exists, then people will want it — whatever “it” is, which includes disposable income engendered by misguided tax cuts for the rich. If the economy breeds pink ponies, then everyone will want one. Of course, supply-side economics is more complicated than that, but the notion is the same. Just because you make it doesn’t mean people want it or are in the mood to buy it. Conservatives do love to think that more money in the hands of the well-off will create jobs. No! They just hoard more of it. They don’t put it to productive use. That is to say, utilizing capital to create factories, businesses, etc. They put it into the stock market, so they make money off of money. This is not the hopes and dreams of stimulating the broad base of the economy. It just makes the rich richer while impoverishing the 99 percent and government. Tax cuts for the lower and middle classes are a different story since they use disposable income differently. And we wonder why inequality keeps widening between the haves and have-nots. Speaking of the lower and middle classes’ differing spending habits from the rich, I won’t even address the idea of juicing demand via tax cuts for the non-wealthy during already inflationary periods; that is a whole other matter of complexity that engenders issues of its own. Suffice it to say, Truss’s tax cuts will make inflation worse for those who can’t afford it. But I digress. I recommend reading a book by Tomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century for greater elucidation.

According to CNN, the referenda results are in! “Pro-Russian authorities have held so-called referendums in four regions of Ukraine over recent days and, while the votes are illegal and have been universally dismissed as ’a sham’ by Ukraine and Western nations, there are fears that they could create a pretext for a new, dangerous stage in the war. … The figures touted supposedly from 99.23% approval in the Donetsk People’s Republic (D.P.R.) to 87.05% in Russian-controlled Kherson. Officials in the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Russian-held Zaporizhzhia also claimed nearly a universal verdict.”

Look here, f***tards! There is only one reason for Putin to hold these sham referenda: To escalate the war. Full stop! No one will recognize these elections as legitimate except the axis of evil nations (North Korea, Belarus, Syria, etc.). Nonetheless, Putin needs the pretext to pull out all the stops. He needs to claim that Ukraine is attacking sovereign Russian territory to escalate the war. And given the state of the Russian military, there is only one way to escalate the war: tactical nukes. I agree with Zelenskyy. Putin is not bluffing, and I also agree with Putin. The West will not escalate if he nukes the frontlines of the battlefield. N.A.T.O. and the U.N. will be paralyzed with inaction after being confronted with a situation too dire to contemplate and unique to history. If there is one thing the United Nations loves to do is debate and shame and then effectively do nothing, especially with Russia being a permanent security council member. Indeed, Western nations will not respond in kind, so what’s left? Bombing Russian positions in Ukraine? Nope. Send more hardware to Ukraine — to be nuked? Probably. Completely isolate Russia from the world economy? That would probably be the most effective move, but no, they won’t do that either because the world economy needs Russia’s energy since all nations have failed to address the climate crisis. Wow! Talk about Russia having suckered the globe into an addiction of its oil and gas. I’m surprised they haven’t been offering free oxycontin to the masses with every barrel purchased.

I also think Putin has been emboldened by recent election results in Sweden and Italy, where far-right governments have come to power. These events do not happen in a vacuum. Moreover, what do you think Russians will do when Putin unleashes nukes? Nothing. If anything, more will flee the country instead of fixing their rogue nation and ousting Putin. After the first nuke, I predict the West will negotiate peace with Russia ala the Czechoslovakia model, whereby Allied countries negotiated away that country’s sovereignty to the Nazis behind Czechoslovakia’s back. Because why not! It’s appeasement all over again but 21st century-style. Appeasement of the 1930s was to avoid another World War I. Appeasement in this century will be to stop another nuke from falling out of the sky. I think Putin is betting one or two nukes can win him a stalemate and the newly annexed Ukrainian territories. (I’d take that bet.) Of course, we all know where appeasement ended eventually. But fear not! Humanity always makes the same mistakes — repeatedly. And, fortunately, no one really cares because right now everyone is worried about inflation and their plunging 401K value — all brought about by Putin. Checkmate!