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March 18, 2022 10:19 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“You’ve to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.”

–Brian O’Driscoll

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  1. Assemble, delegates! 

    Update: Democratic county assemblies are doing well, using remote technology. Republicans are all meeting in person, because of course COVID is a hoax and nobody needs to take precautions. Here’s the kicker: They’re charging $35 to go to their state assembly.

    https://secure.anedot.com/colorado-republican-party/2022guestpasses

    What else is kickin’ on the COGOP front? Well, they have several “interest” groups listed on their site. The newest one is a “Russian Republican Club”, because why wouldn’t you have a Russian language speaking club even though you don’t have a Spanish-speaking club?
    https://www.cologop.org/statewide-clubs/
    But someone’s got to stick up for the Colorado Russkies, nyet?

    1. I generally prefer when Republicans ignore demos that are big enough to swing majorities. Until they win- they I hate that.

      But Russian acquaintances (and most of the former Soviet bloc too)  vote R.
       

    2. “why wouldn’t you have a Russian language speaking club even though you don’t have a Spanish-speaking club?”

      The same reason Trump was all for more immigration from countries “like Norway” and less from “shit-hole countries.”

      They want to hang a new sign on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, and your huddled white masses yearning for a strong authoritarian leader.”

       

          1. What I don't understand is why they pursue extremist positions in Colorado, which is not even a purple state anymore. Why wouldn't they moderate in order to have a better chance?

            1. My guess: GOP “leaders” want to normalize extremists, moving the Overton window. Also, because they can’t win statewide elections  in Colorado, they are planting seeds of a civil war to take power by force. January 6 was prelude and practice.
               

              While waiting and watering those seeds of hate, there’s also good grift to be had.

              It’s what Steve Bannon and other Trump strategists want. 

  2. For the Afghanistan refugees we did too little too late. Now with 4 million Ukrainian refugees, 90% of them women and children, we again are doing nothing leaving it to Europe.

    Congress needs to quickly pass a small targeted bill that opens us up for 1M refugees and funding to bring them here and set them up.

    Bennet/Hickenlooper/Neguese – history is calling you.

      1. We left the people in Afghanistan hanging. We owe them. They worked with us and for us.

        But in the case of everywhere else, if we open our borders to all who are fleeing terrible situations at home, we will be indunuated. And why do you stop it at Central America? Somalia & Ethiopia are awful. There are civil wars and starvation in a lot of parts of Africa.

        It sucks for those with the bad luck to be born elsewhere, but we do have to have limits. With that said, we need to enforce them humanely and fairly.

         

        1. The Afghan government bugged out and left them hanging.  Karzai took the money and ran.  The US spent 19 years trying to create a stable government and it fell faster than the Ukraine.

        2. It sucks for those with the bad luck to be born elsewhere, . . .

          . . . like Ukraine?

          . . . “Bad luck. Really sucks. We have to have limits. Next time, maybe think about being born in Norwegia?”

          You’ve never worked with any programmers in Ethiopia or Somalia?

          [SMH]

        3. I agree with your logic and Colin Powell's Pottery Barn rule

          We should fix the triangle, and the other south American countries the CIA broke. We should remove the a-holes we installed or created. We should continue to over support NATO.

          My preference would be to build and then jointly operate a large, joint bases in the key areas –
          In the triangle.
          Approx 1/2 way between Kyiv and Kharkiv.
          Venezuelan Colombian border.

          The bases would combine US State, Defense and Trade assets with similar from the host country (ies) and NGO and other humanitarian organizations. 

          We should lead the effort to secure nuclear technology – starting with rogue warheads and problematic power plants in failed states or other nations who cannot provide the security or appropriate management(Chernobyl ).

          We should lead or support all efforts to secure clean air .and water.
          We should contract with Floridaright now that they get zero Federal support to build sea walls or expend other resources to deal with the rising sea level unless Florida agrees sea levels are rising and at least partly because of anthropomorphic climate change and global climate change measures are included in any response. (You too Alabama, Mississippi, Loosiana, Texas, Georiga, the Carolinas and Virginia.

          Then we can talk about your limits and the implied (inferred anyway) racist – we should take white people from or from near Europe. South of the border- well.. c'mon.

          1. It's not like we don't have room for the Ukrainians. We're down 970,000 people from COVID deaths –From The New York Times and Our World in Data · Last updated: 1 day ago

             As to the Central and South Americans, some are also running for their lives and should be admitted, but there's a difference between those and the ones merely seeking a better life.  

  3. You knew this was coming. The Russian version of Ttumpy’s 2 Corinthians? Who the holy hell is this guys spiritual advisor? Paula White? 
     

    Putin quotes John 15:13 to hail Ukraine invasion at Moscow rally: 'The words from the Bible'

    At a rally in Moscow on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin paraphrased John 15:13 to justify the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children.

    2. John Barron 15:13 . . . 

      Greater love hath no man for himself than this, he causeth others to lay down their lives for his lies and illusions.

      (. . . 21st-Century New International Autocrats Version)

    1. Dems didn't "steal" those GA Senate seats. Trump helped give them away because he couldn't keep his big, fat, ugly, lying mouth shut.

  7. March 19 Assessment of Russia’s invasion from the “Institute for the Study of War”.

    Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war. That campaign aimed to conduct airborne and mechanized operations to seize Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and other major Ukrainian cities to force a change of government in Ukraine. That campaign has culminated. Russian forces continue to make limited advances in some parts of the theater but are very unlikely to be able to seize their objectives in this way. The doctrinally sound Russian response to this situation would be to end this campaign, accept a possibly lengthy operational pause, develop the plan for a new campaign, build up resources for that new campaign, and launch it when the resources and other conditions are ready. The Russian military has not yet adopted this approach. It is instead continuing to feed small collections of reinforcements into an ongoing effort to keep the current campaign alive. We assess that that effort will fail.

    …

    Stalemate will likely be very violent and bloody, especially if it protracts. … If the war in Ukraine settles into a stalemate condition Russian forces will continue to bomb and bombard Ukrainian cities, devastating them and killing civilians, even as Ukrainian forces impose losses on Russian attackers and conduct counter-attacks of their own. The Russians could hope to break Ukrainians’ will to continue fighting under such circumstances by demonstrating Kyiv’s inability to expel Russian forces or stop their attacks even if the Russians are demonstrably unable to take Ukraine’s cities. Ukraine’s defeat of the initial Russian campaign may therefore set conditions for a devastating protraction of the conflict and a dangerous new period testing the resolve of Ukraine and the West. Continued and expanded Western support to Ukraine will be vital to seeing Ukraine through that new period.

    1. Stalemate will be painful ….

      for Russia, too. The New Yorker:

      Meanwhile, Russia’s economy, according to the International Monetary Fund, could shrink by thirty-five per cent this year under the weight of Western sanctions. Putin’s oligarchs and enablers can endure the loss of super-yachts and private jets, but a sudden economic contraction on that scale would crush ordinary Russians and inevitably cost lives. (“Our economy will need deep structural changes,” Putin acknowledged last week, adding, “They won’t be easy.”) Russia’s isolation from large swaths of global banking and trade, and its loss of access to advanced U.S. technologies, could last a long time, too: democracies often find it easier to impose sanctions than to remove them, even when the original cause of a conflict subsides. (Ask Cuba.)

      Deaths in Ukraine. Economic pain in Russia. And without Ukraine and Russia exporting anything close to the usual amounts of food, there will be immediate and potentially long-term famine, and uncertain consequences from that portion of this disaster.

      Russia and Ukraine’s combined wheat exports are crucial to a number of countries, including Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh and Iran, who get 60% of their grain imports from the two countries, according to the UN.

    2. "$150k big rigs brought to a standstill by a … bicycle"

      That, of course, begs the question:  WWPFD (What would P-Fruit do) if he found himself in that situation?

      Would he have honked his horn? Clipped the biker? Stopped and applauded for the biker?

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