This is what I was thinking when everyone was losing their nut a day or 2 ago. Go to the 2nd+ orders of effect, and what seems crazy suddenly makes sense.
By the way, this is why people think insanity and genius are so near to each other. They aren’t, but they look that way from the outside.
Progressives have never forgiven Russia for dumping “Revolutionary Socialism” in 1991.
We had a window of opportunity with Yeltsin to bring Russia in as a democracy. But the Progressives, led by the Clintons, were determined to get revenge for Russia’s “betrayal of the Radiant Future”.
So in 1999, we ended up with Putin, backed by the Russian oligarchs (aka “ex-KGB vozhds”).
Followed by a quarter-century of our State Department and etc. trying desperately to create…something. They’re still not sure what they want but they hope it’s at least vaguely Stalinist, both here and abroad.
If “Progressives” want to know who’s responsible for the dog’s breakfast that Central Europe is now, all they need to do is look in a mirror.
And while they’re at it, take the arch that says “Perfection” down from on top of it.
Pure and simple. If people in the US got up and demanded the decent thing be done, the Ukraine War would have been over 16 months ago.
The one good thing about it going on this long, is that Europe has gotten its collective thumb out. 22 Countries are Joining the Czech Republic to find 1.5 million artillery rounds for Ukraine. And Ukraine, while fighting to stay alive, has become a veritable Industrial heavyweight, or will be, within a few years. 200 companies in Ukraine are turning out dozens of UAV designs, from small recon drones, to Long-range suicide drones. Russia’s refinery output is down 12% due to drone strikes, and the Black Sea fleet doesn’t dare leave their ports for fear of being sunk.
If the people here had done the RIGHT thing at the get-go there would not be one single American boot present (of course they are there) and not one single American bullet sacrificed at the altar of the Disunited States unilateral financial support of NATO and the other pretenders on would have stepped up a long time ago…or maybe they wouldn’t have, as many of them don’t give a rat’s ass about Ukraine except to the degree it gets pooty closer to them..
@ James/G: Assuming you mean Slava Ukraini; but I would change it to to “pishov nahui, Ukraine sobakas!” addressed not so much at the Ukrainian people but at that fucking pretender/actor Zelensky and his financiers/enablers here.
I saw the video. The container ship lost power and got it back several times. Makes for a solid argument to return to manual steering. The man trying to correct the steering had no chance to correctly compensate.
Obviously, the ship’s maintenance and upkeep records are going to be gone over, and inspection documents, as well, with a very fine-toothed comb, and a microscope. The fact that this happened at night probably saved a couple hundred lives at least.
One if the larger portsd in the country shut down for who knows how long.
With that much traffic moving in and out, it should only take a day or so to clear a navigable channel but moving at the speed of graft it might take months, or more.
Bronze Age Pervert (“BAP”) explains in an essay at the following link why Putin is preferable to the demonic globalists intent on wrecking the entire world and all civilization: https://mansworldmag.online/know-your-enemy/
Yeah thanks dude, I eff it up all the time, too ignernt to know how to properly link it…but very much worthwhile to look up the Epoch Times Jeffrey Tucker article “Doing the Right Thing”.
Those ‘charges,’ were the electric cables supplying light and power to the bridge. When they snapped, you get a flach of an electrical discharge. This guy is about as smart as a PLD “Economics Expert.”
The Francis Scott Key Bridge went down because a 40,000 ton ship hit a piling at about 5 knots, with a force of about fifty tons of C4 impact-wise. That piling will have to be removed and replaced.
Agreed. IT might be time to rethink bridge placement in relationship to essential shipping channels. [ducks and runs]
March 27, 2024 at 6:42 am
RyGuy
It was a combination of that & neglect. If the bridge had been maintained in near peak condition the damage would have still been severe enough to immediately close it, but it would not have collapsed like that so damn quickly & might even have lasted long enough for maintenance crews to reinforce it against any uncontrolled collapse.
But Baltimore HAS been badly neglecting it. If that didn’t exacerbate the collapse speed I’ll eat my head.
March 27, 2024 at 6:32 am
RyGuy
Just a reminder, prior to the 1998 midterms, going as far back as the 1880s, depictions of pole statistics between parties were determined by each newspaper & then each news network, each year on a completely arbitrary basis with no symbolical basis whatsoever, with the ANTI symbolic protestations of Democrats, after the Cold War era began, of EVER being labeled as “red” (“she doth protest too much”, so to speak).
The only rule was to pick some color or shade of gray, black, or white, for each party by the time a given election season’s advanced polling period begins, then stick with it for that season, BUT could easily be completely different by next cycle, & we’re completely different from newspaper to newspaper. As long as you could tell them apart locally, it didn’t matter to most readers. Those who traveled frequently were rare enough that demand for a consistent standard remained small for decades but after WW2 began to slowly increase.
By the time Fox News began in 1996, demand for establishing a permanent common standard for representing the polls was at an all time high. Democrats made DAMN sure they wouldn’t be branded as “red” by pinning it of the careless GOP who didn’t really care which color they ended up with, a stupid mistake on their part.
“Red” had consistently been the universal symbol of far leftism since 1791, but a dumb moment of conservative carelessness allowed American leftists to dodge that symbol for the first time and ever since.
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This is what I was thinking when everyone was losing their nut a day or 2 ago. Go to the 2nd+ orders of effect, and what seems crazy suddenly makes sense.
By the way, this is why people think insanity and genius are so near to each other. They aren’t, but they look that way from the outside.
Irony indeed. Served my Army hitch in West Germany in the mid-70’s. I find Vladimir Putin far more believable than anything from our .gov.
Progressives have never forgiven Russia for dumping “Revolutionary Socialism” in 1991.
We had a window of opportunity with Yeltsin to bring Russia in as a democracy. But the Progressives, led by the Clintons, were determined to get revenge for Russia’s “betrayal of the Radiant Future”.
So in 1999, we ended up with Putin, backed by the Russian oligarchs (aka “ex-KGB vozhds”).
Followed by a quarter-century of our State Department and etc. trying desperately to create…something. They’re still not sure what they want but they hope it’s at least vaguely Stalinist, both here and abroad.
If “Progressives” want to know who’s responsible for the dog’s breakfast that Central Europe is now, all they need to do is look in a mirror.
And while they’re at it, take the arch that says “Perfection” down from on top of it.
clear ether
eon
SLava Ukrana!
Pure and simple. If people in the US got up and demanded the decent thing be done, the Ukraine War would have been over 16 months ago.
The one good thing about it going on this long, is that Europe has gotten its collective thumb out. 22 Countries are Joining the Czech Republic to find 1.5 million artillery rounds for Ukraine. And Ukraine, while fighting to stay alive, has become a veritable Industrial heavyweight, or will be, within a few years. 200 companies in Ukraine are turning out dozens of UAV designs, from small recon drones, to Long-range suicide drones. Russia’s refinery output is down 12% due to drone strikes, and the Black Sea fleet doesn’t dare leave their ports for fear of being sunk.
Vlad Putin can suck it.
If the people here had done the RIGHT thing at the get-go there would not be one single American boot present (of course they are there) and not one single American bullet sacrificed at the altar of the Disunited States unilateral financial support of NATO and the other pretenders on would have stepped up a long time ago…or maybe they wouldn’t have, as many of them don’t give a rat’s ass about Ukraine except to the degree it gets pooty closer to them..
@ James/G: Assuming you mean Slava Ukraini; but I would change it to to “pishov nahui, Ukraine sobakas!” addressed not so much at the Ukrainian people but at that fucking pretender/actor Zelensky and his financiers/enablers here.
Ironic that Putin’s actions have enlarged and strengthened NATO. Poland is on the cusp of becoming a first one nation due to several things.
Ironic that life or death means surviving your own government.
Best to stay away from bridges for a while…
Especially when in Baltimore . . .
The story now is that the ship ‘lost power’ but it came back on long enough to make a hard right turn straight at the center pier while throttling up…
No word on how long the ‘pilots’ had been working that stretch of river.
I saw the video. The container ship lost power and got it back several times. Makes for a solid argument to return to manual steering. The man trying to correct the steering had no chance to correctly compensate.
Obviously, the ship’s maintenance and upkeep records are going to be gone over, and inspection documents, as well, with a very fine-toothed comb, and a microscope. The fact that this happened at night probably saved a couple hundred lives at least.
Watching the bridge collapse was indescribable.
One if the larger portsd in the country shut down for who knows how long.
With that much traffic moving in and out, it should only take a day or so to clear a navigable channel but moving at the speed of graft it might take months, or more.
It’s Balmer. It only operates on graft…
Bronze Age Pervert (“BAP”) explains in an essay at the following link why Putin is preferable to the demonic globalists intent on wrecking the entire world and all civilization: https://mansworldmag.online/know-your-enemy/
BAP is dead-on, and this essay breaks down a lot of it, and what the correct response is… https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxSRMQzHNqfPthHXknrpnBrzTl
You can’t link to things in your Gmail mailbox, dude. 🙂
Yeah thanks dude, I eff it up all the time, too ignernt to know how to properly link it…but very much worthwhile to look up the Epoch Times Jeffrey Tucker article “Doing the Right Thing”.
About that bridge…
https://twitter.com/trhlofficial/status/1772659425695683054?s=46&t=1NDUia1eRx8IrIALD6aA0A
Those ‘charges,’ were the electric cables supplying light and power to the bridge. When they snapped, you get a flach of an electrical discharge. This guy is about as smart as a PLD “Economics Expert.”
The Francis Scott Key Bridge went down because a 40,000 ton ship hit a piling at about 5 knots, with a force of about fifty tons of C4 impact-wise. That piling will have to be removed and replaced.
Agreed. IT might be time to rethink bridge placement in relationship to essential shipping channels. [ducks and runs]
It was a combination of that & neglect. If the bridge had been maintained in near peak condition the damage would have still been severe enough to immediately close it, but it would not have collapsed like that so damn quickly & might even have lasted long enough for maintenance crews to reinforce it against any uncontrolled collapse.
But Baltimore HAS been badly neglecting it. If that didn’t exacerbate the collapse speed I’ll eat my head.
Just a reminder, prior to the 1998 midterms, going as far back as the 1880s, depictions of pole statistics between parties were determined by each newspaper & then each news network, each year on a completely arbitrary basis with no symbolical basis whatsoever, with the ANTI symbolic protestations of Democrats, after the Cold War era began, of EVER being labeled as “red” (“she doth protest too much”, so to speak).
The only rule was to pick some color or shade of gray, black, or white, for each party by the time a given election season’s advanced polling period begins, then stick with it for that season, BUT could easily be completely different by next cycle, & we’re completely different from newspaper to newspaper. As long as you could tell them apart locally, it didn’t matter to most readers. Those who traveled frequently were rare enough that demand for a consistent standard remained small for decades but after WW2 began to slowly increase.
By the time Fox News began in 1996, demand for establishing a permanent common standard for representing the polls was at an all time high. Democrats made DAMN sure they wouldn’t be branded as “red” by pinning it of the careless GOP who didn’t really care which color they ended up with, a stupid mistake on their part.
“Red” had consistently been the universal symbol of far leftism since 1791, but a dumb moment of conservative carelessness allowed American leftists to dodge that symbol for the first time and ever since.