Here We Go...

Photo: © Stan Banos   (Click to embiggen).

This Tuesday, America votes; and (as previously stated) many a MAGA extremist, election denier has now been legally ensconced to positions of oversight in the most crucial aspects of the voting process in key swing states throughout our country (and yet more to come with anticipated Republican victories). All this, while America reels from the gaping wound of having 40% of it's populace no longer bound by the common earthly realms of: science, history or any remotely verifiable fact... All the doing of one man, and one man alone- The Greatest Con Man Of The 21st Century! A man who does not have to prove one single thing he says for others to revere as dogma, and who is totally above question or consequence even as he openly denies and defies an ever increasing cavalcade of grievous criminalities. An unhinged, narcissist elite who has single-handedly galvanized a nationwide community of those even more unhinged (and formally recognized as such). He has not faded into the shadows as many had hoped, nor has his followers who he continues to incite- many well armed, and vowing to outdo the other to make an impression. 

Why?

I almost (almost) feel sorry for Alex Jones, because even though he is doing exactly what he wants in life, and making an insane amount of money doing it- he's still too freaking bat shit crazy to relax and enjoy any of it... even if you can somehow enjoy repeatedly exposing people to death threats, people who already have had their hearts ripped out when their own children were so needlessly slaughtered...

April Is Confederate Heritage Month!

And Genocide Awareness Month- as The Honorable Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi reminds us. Which balanced together, reminds us all of the genteel folk who were so rooting that those who actually survived The Middle Passage would make better slaves than the Indians who were slaughtered for their land. 

That Critical Race Theory jive they're brainwashing all our kids with in our schools starting in Kindergarten is gonna be the death of us al!!!

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Chechnya post-Putin; what he does best.          Photo: James Nachtwey

 

By now, we've all seen that notorious traffic jam of tanks and military vehicles,  all those little ducks all lined up so neatly in a row. And just a coupla planes could wreak such absolute havoc upon them all... and possibly ignite a world war the size and consequence of which would make our impending global warming catastrophe moot. Zelenskyy is right in pleading for those NATO planes to draw attention to the plight of his people, but should they consent to his impassioned pleas- it would well ignite the ire of the once apparent and now fully exposed Russian nuclear madman. 

Russian forces are already maniacal enough to attack one of the worlds largest nuclear reactors that contains... 6 reactors! Poke a stick in the eye of that mother and it will make Chernobyl look like proverbial child's play- a nuclear exclusion zone that would stretch thousands of miles for thousands of years (not to mention the hundreds of thousands of immediate, and long term deaths)!

Should the US and NATO team up to defeat this madman, you know his fellow autocrat, wannabe world rulers in China and North Korea will join in the fun and... goodbye, blue marble in space.* Mutually Assured Destruction.

You know we got some undercover ops working in there now, and maybe, just maybe we can get just enough weaponry in there to hold off this mass murdering lunatic from doing his utmost. He's already been humiliated in the world's eyes, and that means he's gonna double down on the payback end. Let's not forget how Putin joyfully reduced Chechnya to bricks and rubble in another unjustified war in which the levels of brutality shocked even hardened conflict journalists, and how Russian jets repeatedly attacked Syrian schools and hospitals. The guy has to be stopped (contained?), the question being- how to do it without killing off the rest of us...

* and that's not to say that the US and Russia alone can't destroy planet Earth

"Speak... PLAINLY!"

Cringe... as you witness Russia's No.1 Spy Chief nearly piss himself in the presence of the Soviet Union's former No.1 Spy Chief, as the latter considers putting his confused underling out of his pain permanently! 

This is everyone's worst public speaking nightmare come true...