Winter Is Coming

However much the US has suffered from higher energy prices, it is far worse in Europe and Britain. Can pro-Ukraine unity survive a cold, gas-free winter? Putin aims to find out.

Comments

[sbwaters]

Thank you for the new thread, TM.

Even if we had abundant energy I am not looking forward to the cold and snow. Age does that.

[clarice]

Can the greens survive the winter?The EU? The WEF?

[Melinda]

Since Germany is saying that Russia hasn't got the proper paperwork to get back their turbines from Siemens, there will be no gas.

[Melinda]

Bad Kitty For Congress 😼🌹
@pepesgrandma
FBI agent Thibault hid intel from whistleblower on Hunter and the Big Guy, Joe Biden

Bobulinski went to DC Field Office 11 days before 2020 election, was told not to walk in front door, but to drive into an underground parking garage at a distant building

https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-hid-intel-from-whistleblower-on-hunter-the-big-guy-joe-biden/

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1566787180898533376

[henry]

El Dumbo is in Milwaukee today.

[Narciso]

oh that's infortunate

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/oil-surges-after-report-opec-could-cut-oil-production-100k-soon-today

[Rick Ballard]

Why is EU/WEF whining about Putin's compliance with their sanctions? First, the Germans blocked the opening of Nord Stream II, then EU/WEF upped the ante and now Putin is in full compliance until the situation with the Ukrainian claims on Russian speaking Donetsh/Luhanks is resolved.

The EU WEFlings need to check their hole cards by the light of candles and wood fires, if necessary.

[Narciso]

its the ike turner argument, you made me do that,

[Narciso]

is this your card,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/chile-votes-overwhelmingly-to-reject-new-progressive-constitution

[Narciso]

get some new material, jocey

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/officials-worried-about-violence-and-disruption-election-day-says

[Narciso]

the ayatollah would agree,

https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-host-calls-trump-prosecuted-calls-u-s-outlier-jailing-former-leaders

[Melinda]

Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
BREAKING: judge appoints Special Master to review materials taken from Mar-a-Lago. Will take into account atty/client and executive privilege considerations. “This Order shall not impede the classification review and/or intelligence assessment by the Office of the [DNI] …”

https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status ... 7659821056

[Narciso]

although the whole point of the intel assessment is to cover up the skulduggery, but baby steps,

[Melinda]

Enjoy.

Biden’s Speech Had It All Backward

Biden’s Democrats seek a one-party state. Trump’s followers want freedom from government power.

By Lance Morrow
Sept. 4, 2022 9:08 am ET

The Democrats have the “fascist” business wrong.

Donald Trump isn’t a fascist, or even a semi-fascist, in President Biden’s term. Mr. Trump is an opportunist. His ideology is coextensive with his temperament: In both, he is an anarcho-narcissist. He is Elmer Gantry, or the Music Man, if Harold Hill had been trained in the black arts by Roy Cohn. He is what you might get by crossing the Wizard of Oz with Willie Sutton, who explained that he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.”

As for Mr. Trump’s followers, they belong to the Church of American Nostalgia. They are Norman Rockwellians, or Eisenhowerites. They regard themselves, not without reason, as the last sane Americans. You might think of them as American masculinity in exile; like James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, living in the forest has made their manners rough.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-spe ... 1662161065

[Melinda]

Ooops.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-speech-had-it-all-backward-fascist-democratic-party-trump-ideology-america-jan-6-democracy-11662161065

[sbwaters]

Melinda, from the excerpt it seems that writer is a name-dropping fool fascinated by glitterati.

Stopped my subscription to the WSJ some time ago, so I’ll have to depend on you for a quote or two if you think the article contains at least one pearl of wisdom or analysis.

[sbwaters]

An example of unmitigated crap from the article:

"As for Mr. Trump’s followers, they belong to the Church of American Nostalgia."

Horsehockey!

[clarice]

MORE DETAIL ON THE SPECIAL MASTER MONKEY WRENCH TOSSED INTO THE FBI/DOJ'S GENIUS PLAN:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11182181/Judge-GRANTS-Trumps-special-master-request.html
RICK, HOW NICE TO SEE YOU!!

[DCSCA]

You can’t be pro insurrection and be pro democracy.’- Joe Biden, 9/5/22

So, Joe, Thomas Jefferson was a crazed MAGA man, eh? Joe, why are such a frigging IDIOT; such a lyin’ dog-faced, pony soldier of an imbecile?

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1787

________

A Brit Hume tweet:

Years ago, Joe Biden asked me why I never used sound bites from him in my coverage of the Senate. “Senator,” I said, “I think you’re a windbag.” He good-naturedly laughed it off. I thought it was true then. Read this and see if you think it’s true now… – Brit Hume

https://jewishworldreview.com/0622/lowry060122.php

_______

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.” – Joe Biden 9/5/22

… said the IDIOT with the nuclear launch codes.

IMBECILE!

_______

‘Inflation was high last year because they didn’t have computer chips for cars.’ - Joe Biden, 9/5/22

Inflation: now it’s a computer’s fault.

This bum starts his 81st year on Planet Earth in 76 days– 70 years after he left Scranton, PA, for which they're all grateful.

“Come on, man. Not a joke.” – Joe Biden, 9/5/22

This angry old bum is goddamned IDIOT.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

11,000 documents and we're told a few of them were top secret. What a con job.

The FBI has been leaking to the NYT, and even with that it's just another ho hum.

In the meantime the FBI is under the gun on the Hunter Crackhead case for suppressing evidence. Definitely not ho hum.

In fact, now that we know the computer is wholly legit. It indicts pere et fils. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Arranged dinners, lunches with the Big Guy. The 10% is legit. No way out of recognizing that the Biden's are now America's very own Ceaucescu's.

But the Orange Man must be destroyed because he's the double secret real threat to democracy.

As to the WSJ, Morrow is just another of the Coastal Clowns who have a skin deep comprehension of what drives conservative, and perhaps not so conservative voters.

After Biden's Nuremberg impersonation, more people than ever should be deathly afraid of the Democrats. Nor one of the flash points (illegal immigration, gas prices, woke ideology, openly Marxist leadership) has been addressed or ameliorated.

In fact KJP has become, even more so than Peppermint Patty, a pint sized, check all the left wing boxes Goebbels. Even the clapping seal press corpse is having a hard time covering up for her.

I do hope that Citizens For Sanity can run ads in every swing district. People need to be shocked into action.

As Biden descends into decrepitude we have a real prospect of perhaps the nastiest, most incompetent, most stupid literal and political kneepad 'ho every becoming president.

I am really hoping people like DeSantis, Pompeo and others get their megaphones out.

[Dave (in MA)]

Horsehockey!

Pony pucks!

[Rick Ballard]

Hi Clarice,

I read every day, including all your Pieces and oil articles. I only comment on feats of amazing stupidity and the EU/WEFling threats to pull the trigger on a gun held to their own head certainly qualifies.

I suspect the Ukraine rake off to the DNC to be orders of magnitude greater than the 10% to the Big Guy suggests. I would suggest billions rather tan millions.

[clarice]

It would be great, wouldn't it, Rick, if the cave to the greenies mishigas ends in the peasants stringing up the WEF and disbanding the EU?
As for Ukraine--it's nice to see a war when you don't like either side very much.

[DCSCA]

Biden responds to heckler at speech: ‘Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot’

President Biden responded to a heckler while delivering remarks in Milwaukee on Monday, saying, “Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.” “They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy,” Biden said during that speech, also saying, “Good manners is nothing they’ve ever suffered from.” – TheHill.com

…said the IDIOT with the manners to shower with his daughter, sniff the hair of women, pooped his pants for a pope and farted in front of the Duchess of Cornwall.

INCOMPETENT. INCONTINENT. IDIOT. IMBECILE.

[Narciso]

yes we knew as clearly as 1987,

I would say 20% Rick, using hans gruber as a guide,

50 years ago, mahmud abbas's fundraiser, succeeded with salameh, at munich, he was a kgb asset, trained in moscow, salameh, ramlawi, in ignatius first named finction was a cia asset, recruited by robert ames,

[Narciso]

fiction,

no matter how you slice it, the israeli athletes had no escape,

[Narciso]

in other news,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/05/ron-desantis-celebrates-freedom-labor-day-message/

[Narciso]

in retrospect, peter jennings comes off terribly

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110631/http://spectator.org/articles/47620/indiana-spielberg-and-his-jewish-problem">http://spectator.org/articles/47620/indiana-spielberg-and-his-jewish-problem">https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110631/http://spectator.org/articles/47620/indiana-spielberg-and-his-jewish-problem

[Rick Ballard]

Clarice,

I would suggest Russian flying lessons from the top of windmills for the WEFlings. Preferably in the North Sea.

[clarice]

Rick, always with the great ideas.

[Neo]

“Make America Great Again” is a literal Satanic spell, just like the Satanic Trinity of “Baal Lucifer Moloch” that’s embedded within the “Black Lives Matter” slogan, or the “Boom Boom Boom” encoded “Build Back Better” campaign. Boom Boom Boom = 666. That’s just how they roll.
https://adrenogate.net/wp/2022/01/26/what-does-maga-really-mean-maga-magician-in-chief-highest-level-in-church-of-satan-hierarchy/

FYI

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Good manners in Republicans is when they smile wanly as a Dem calls them a fascist and kicks them in the nuts.

[Narciso]

they say they are not crazy, then they come up with this,

[Narciso]

another sign of decadence, I could not find another copy of evelyn waugh's work, at the local barnes and noble,

apparently the marchmains and lord mottram, were based on the lygon family and lord beaverbrook,

[Narciso]

calling jk rowling for a consultation,

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/05/liz-truss-considering-plans-freeze-energy-bills-next-election/

[Narciso]

last seen in a paddle boat during katrina, with sean penn,

https://t.me/The_Library_II/85281

well that's his most iconic pic,

[Narciso]

when will we learn,

https://brownstone.org/articles/israels-green-pass-policy-a-chronicle-of-a-tragedy-foretold/

[clarice]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/09/judge-appoints-special-master-temporarily-bars-fbi-doj-review-or-use-of-records-seized-in-mar-a-lago-raid/

[Melinda]

Some are suggesting that Kash Patel be named Special Master.

Might cause some of Team Weissmann's heads to explode.

[Neo]

The White House, Surgeon General, CDC, FDA, and President Obama have stated that misinformation is a serious problem and has cost lives. We agree. We want to stop the misinformation too. We just disagree on who is responsible, that’s all.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-to-convince-us-we-are-wrong

[Neo]

This only reinforces my view of Fetterman as a WWE wannabee ...
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1559967740554878976

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

As I noted at JOM2 , while there is a lot of good stuff at Volokh, whenever I'm done reading there I hate lawyers a bit more than I did before. The constant hair splitting amounts to a vocation of intentionally missing the forest for the trees and they are almost to a man regardless of their ideology, painfully tolerant if not approving of the increasingly insane culture in which we live.
--https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/29/the-national-constitution-centers-restoring-the-guardrails-of-democracy-initiative-3/--

This column on their symposium regarding safeguarding democracy is comically tone deaf and utterly blind to the realities of those threats. But how else could it be when the assumption is Trump and his complaints of a stolen election, not the stolen election itself are seen as the problem and when neverTrumpers David French and Jonah Goldbarg are the "conservative" team and even more virulent neverTrump dumbass Walter Olson is the libertarian team?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sorry, proper link;
Volokh Symposium

[clarice]

OTOH some lawyers provide useful info--for example, the M-A-L decision is a preliminary discovery motion which the DOJ cannot appeal https://instapundit.com/541133/

I think this is going to be the undoing of Garland and the creeps at the FBI .

[sbwaters]

[Note: Turns out it was iggy.]
Not sure who pointed to the Volokh column on Guardrails for Democracy at: Guardrails... but it is disturbing in so many ways.

The idea that Jonah Goldberg or David French fairly represent a conservative point of view is, at best narrow, and, more likely, show how afraid GOPe non-conservative conservatives are of finding themselves seen to be irrelevant.

The idea that is absurd that, across the political spectrum, three areas of consensus are:
1. Broaden as Wide as Possible the Democracy-Protection Coalition.
2. Let States Choose Which Majority-Winner System They Prefer.
3. Jumpstart a Discussion on Reinvigorating Civics Education.

None of them are:
Point 1 is designed for entrenched politicos to keep control.
Point 2 is designed to institute systems that can be gamed.
Point 2 is silly insofar as Civics is used to indoctrinate rather than generate thoughtful analysis.

I just wonder if they know how flawed and irrelevant they are.

[sbwaters]

"Valid outcome," bitches? Really?:

If Donald Trump and/or some of his allies attempt to repudiate the valid outcome in any of the hotly contested midterm elections, ... it will be necessary to oppose that effort at election subversion with all the forces available to defenders of democracy.

[Melinda]

Extremely long, but worthwhile live tweet thread of the Musk/Twitter hearing today. I learned a lot.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567176662051176448.html

(I'm posting the wrapped version, only, not the tweets.)

[Narciso]

its not stealing if we do it,

miss truss, begins her tenure with a trip to the ukraine, apparently zelensky is as important as the queen,

[Narciso]

we've understood civic education clearly for every time until the last 50 or 60 years,

[Narciso]

but 'e pleb nista' some mysterious incarnation

[Narciso]

Carbon involved every biological and mechanical process on earth,

[Narciso]

we aren't hurting putin, we're hurting ourselves, by suppressing our energy production, by practically shipping our best equipment to Ukraine, by purging our best soldiers, depriving us of centuries of experiences, so some blue haired sjw's remain,

[Narciso]

this garbage heap that we're living through, is more of less what we would have gotten from hillary,

[Narciso]

they don't even pretend anymore,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/06/mcconnell-remains-silent-on-bidens-speech-attacking-maga-republicans/

[Narciso]

what is blazes,

https://justthenews.com/government/local/new-mexico-judge-removes-cowboys-trump-founder-elected-office-over-role-jan-6

[Narciso]

that's self evident,

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/e2-80-98end-the-energy-sanctions-against-russia-because-we-are-on-our-knees-e2-80-99-says-matteo-salvini/ar-AA11sodw

[GUS]

Why are we still debating any of this anymore.
WECROSSED THE RUBICON in 2016 and onward.
There is no reason to even discuss PUDDING CUP BIDENS' NON COMPOS MENTIS. Yet we do.
The RAPE of our treasury and out Constitution goes on at full speed ahead, and we discuss the deck chairs on the TITANIC. I called ALL OF THIS.

[Narciso]

well 2016 was Horatio at the Bridge, then they overran it,

https://streetwiseprofessor.com/klaus-schwabs-category-error/#comments

[Davod]

"...This baby is visually impaired, and then he was given additional glasses, so he could see clearly. His smile when he saw his mother and father clearly😍..."

https://twitter.com/i/status/1564645869126909952

[Narciso]

i don't see how it's reasonable,

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/danchenkos-reasonable-motion-to-dismiss

I compare his collection of innuendo, like the Zinoviev letter, just more slow acting,

[Barbara]

I agree, Narciso.

[Davod]

Ace landscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/9%206%200nt.jpg

[Davod]

Ace landscape 2

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/redtreepath.jpg

[Davod]

Very smart

https://twitter.com/i/status/1567147799397158914

[Davod]

The hidden heroes in movies are the cameramen

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565908005769846784

[Davod]

Sweet Transformers 💞😂

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565907961096306688

[Davod]

Nine lives

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565332866149797890

[Davod]

Say cheese

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566963141145239552

[Davod]

Kitty's favorite place in the house to sleep...🐈🐾😍

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566106244649144322

[Davod]

Catch me if you can

https://twitter.com/i/status/1567252437194493955

[Davod]

Shoplifting seagull

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566913019174686726

[Davod]

Dog rescues a kitten, brings it home

https://twitter.com/i/status/1565875977355509760

[Davod]

What to do when you are itchy and you are an elephant

https://twitter.com/i/status/1567047392251240449

[Davod]

Playing fetch with the dogs

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566863341607424005

[Davod]

Perfect

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566648019226959872

[jim nj]

https://samf.substack.com/p/the-economic-war?sd=pf
The Economic War
Cutting off Europe's gas supply is Putin's last throw of the dice

A little long, but I think interesting.

[henry]

thread at link

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
12h

But the worst is watching people whose job title in corporate HR Departments is "journalist" take the lead in agitating for censorship. They exploit the platforms of corporate giants to pioneer increasingly dangerous means of banning dissenters. *These* are the authoritarians.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1567292900312064000

[henry]

CNBC Now @CNBCnow
39s

Delaware court denies Musk request to delay Twitter trial but approves request to add whistleblower claims

[Neo]

EU will propose a "mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours" in order to "flatten the curve."

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1567462388898594816

[Dave (in MA)]

They exploit the platforms of corporate giants to pioneer increasingly dangerous means of banning dissenters. *These* are the authoritarians.

Trump's been called an "authoritarian" since even before he got the nomination to run against Team Pantsuit in '15. If there's one overriding theme of his presidency, it was probably getting the gov't out of the way as much as possible. He even got Rand Paul to come around. Worst dictator ever.

[Dave (in MA)]

How about trying "15 nukes to flatten the curve?"

Power plants, not bombs, though the latter might ease demand.

[Neo]

A renewed nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is “off the table” for the foreseeable future, President Joe Biden told Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid, according to a report in Hebrew media.

Biden and other administration officials conveyed the message in a series of recent conversations with the Israeli premier, Zman Yisrael said.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2022/09/07/report-biden-tells-lapid-that-iran-nuke-deal-is-off-the-table/

[henry]

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/09/06/democrats-threaten-civil-war-if-they-lose-in-november-n623562

[Melinda]

"off the table" means half signed, I fear.

[henry]

They keep saying that. When did Barr become Schiff? Terminal TDS.

CNBC @CNBC
2m

DOJ is close to having enough evidence to indict Trump, but shouldn't charge him, ex-AG Barr says

[Neo]

NYPost: Hillary Clinton reveals she and Bill once accidentally left daughter Chelsea in the Kremlin
https://nypost.com/2022/09/07/hillary-clinton-reveals-she-and-bill-once-accidentally-left-daughter-chelsea-in-the-kremlin/
At one point during the segment, Clinton, 74, was asked about her “craziest family vacation memory.”

Taking a second to think, the mom-of-one remembered the time she and Bill managed to leave Chelsea in the Kremlin sometime during Bill’s time in office from 1993 until 2001.

“I hope she [Chelsea] doesn’t remember this because it was pretty traumatic,” the former Secretary of State began.

“We took her to Russia when we went on a state visit when Bill was president, and there were the formal goodbyes so Bill and I were ushered into the Beast, the big limousine, to head to the airport, not knowing that we had left her behind.

[henry]

To be fair, KGB didn't have to work hard to complete the commie brainwashing Hilligula started.

[Narciso]

ransom of red chief, lol,

[matt - deplore me if you must]

How do you forget your kid at the Kremlin? Isn't there a SS nanny assigned to the First Child? Sounds like more Hillary BS to me. Sort of like her 35,000 yoga and recipe emails. She gets caught using her private account to conduct State Dept business and then wants us to believe she's clean after destroying all of the evidence.

If it waddles like a Clinton and squawks like a Clinton and lies like a Clinton, it's probably a Clinton.

[Narciso]

well its a statement against interest,

http://web.archive.org/web/20220904084206/https://www.memphisflyer.com/a-samaritans-tale-2001-10-01">https://www.memphisflyer.com/a-samaritans-tale-2001-10-01">http://web.archive.org/web/20220904084206/https://www.memphisflyer.com/a-samaritans-tale-2001-10-01

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sir Edmund Hillary probably corkscrewed from the sky over the onion domes and hid in a Kremlin closet full of cattle futures trades and the Rose Law Firm billing records holding little Chelsea [who the battlefield in Belgium, the London neighborhood and the football club is named after] hostage.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Uh, Chelsea ≠ Waterloo.

[Narciso]

yes I wondered about that,

[Narciso]

oh

https://t.me/The_Library_II/85433

[Narciso]

ok then

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/09/07/adam-kinzingers-smear-campaign-against-a-critic-falls-apart-after-receipts-come-due-n624035

[Narciso]

like boll weavils they are everywhere

[Narciso]

see here

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/07/far-left-memphis-district-attorney-eliza-fletchers-murder-an-isolated-attack-by-a-stranger/

[Davod]

Venice, by R. Callegaro

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/venicebyrRcallegaro.jpg

[Davod]

Cat working from home

https://twitter.com/i/status/1567616305976451078

[Davod]

Training before being allowed on the keyboard

https://twitter.com/i/status/1567616950557188099