LD0506

This is like the first bi-polar game day thread of the season

When lapels aren't big enough for bumper stickers...

FTFY

Yanno, in these amazing times, I have to sit back and take a moment to be grateful for the people here that maintain this level of discourse. There is something here interestingly different and apart from the majority of what I see elsewhere on the internet. Kudos all! Vis-a-vis the earlier convo about "understanding et. al., I'm of the opinion that people a hundred years from now will be making a living writing about these times we are living through. I am not all that concerned anymore about the whys of it, a substantial fraction of the populace is rabid. Not hyperbole, not an insult, but for me it is the closest metaphor for their behavior. I don't care if they were bitten by a bat or a raccoon or a Republican, the outcome is the same. IMO they are gone, beyond the pale and there's no coming back. I don't know how we are supposed to just pretend this all never happened and go on. They are reveling in the most utterly loathesome behaviors, laughing and backslapping and trying to top each other every day. They lie without restraint and roll around in their own vile pile of **** and dare anyone to mention the smell. So the question to me is, what can be done about it? What possible path moving forward is there if this % of infected, mentally unbalanced, willfully repulsive are not addressed? All the options seem drastic.

As many times as it takes

Meanwhile, at the Lukoil refinery....

Here's the thing, an awful lot of the right is staunchly, rabidly anti-Russia, have been since birth, it's in their DNA. There is a terrific amount of subsurface tectonic pressure building up that they're not going to admit to publicly but at home, they're raving about this. It's the same kind of pick a side **** that Catholics are facing at the moment with Pope Frankie's white flag comment. It will build and build and eventually, burst like a dam. Gotta wait it out but it's gonna happen, it's when, not if. In the meantime the Europeans are collectively scrambling to make up the difference. Those 800K 155 rounds will make their way to the front soon and make a difference, especially as the Russians advance and get more strung out more openly, making them better targets. This isn't a video game, it's a war, and the countries watching this are taking it very seriously. Once again, all the people that never paid any attention to history are clutching their pearls and wandering around in circles squawking loudly, a lot of them on TV. Yes, right now the trailer trash faction in Congress is blocking resupply, but stocks are rising in the background and when the time comes, the Ukes will get an awful lot very quickly. In the meantime they are falling back and inflicting major materiel losses on the Russians. Manpower is not the issue, hardware is and they are burning it at a terrific rate for every meter they gain. And the treasonous Rs here are sacrificing their chances politically for this short term blockage. It will come back to bite them in the ass in November. And to be honest I seriously doubt that the Ukrainians are getting discouraged. They are going to redouble their efforts and do more with less while they have to.

But they won't They can, they might, they should........but they won't They're all in, waaayyyy past the last exit with no options that they will admit to. In '45, with the Red Army inside the Berlin city limits, Hitler reviewed the remaining troops, Volkssturm composed of old men and preteens issued three bullets each, who then marched off singing the Horst Wessel song to die a few blocks away. You cannot convince them or engage them or change their minds, we're through the looking glass here. They have willingly chosen to opt out of civilization rather than accept that their dumb asses got conned, they will die before they admit that they are their own worst enemies, they will scream and thrash to the bitter end for the rancid fears and hatreds they embrace. Let them Put in express lanes for it.