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If something happens to Putin, and the replacement isn't Trump, we will hear years more whining about how "he was robbed".

This error of an adventure is going to cost Putin his position. And possibly his life.

But you just said there were plenty of qualified people who share her gender and ethnic minority status who could have been selected. So how on earth is 'identity politics' then the reason that she, specifically, as a supposedly unqualified and incompetent person was selected? How is it any different than when any of the tens of thousands of unqualified and incompetent white guys were selected for important positions over the past 200 years of your Republic when a white guy was always the default choice? I'm pretty sure you'd recognise that on those occasions it was only the specific selection process that failed, because they could have simply picked another, better qualified white guy. But on this occasion you believe identity politics as a whole is at fault, despite the fact that her selection wasn't dictated by it and you've acknowledged that there were plenty of qualified and competent non-white, non-guy candidates.

Yes, and Putin/Russia is sitting even further out on the branch. I'm not surprised, though, that people who find it unacceptable to be asked to wear a mask in the midst of a pandemic would be mystified about why people would be willing to inconvenience themselves to help dissuade a despot from attacking a country that has done nothing to pose a threat.

No, it's SOP for a right wing troll.

Right. "Could have" and "implying" is the damning evidence from your one same source who is paid directly by anti-AGW propaganda outlets. Lying POS indeed.

No, this thread is about you using a the claims of a lying, unqualified right wing shill to attack one of the few public figures in the world who has spent his entire career being a good and decent human being. Frankly, the fact that you're trying to insist that criticism of your one and only source has no place in this thread just shows that you know you don't have a leg to stand on. Your attack is not based on truth but on politically motivated spite. That's low even for you.

I don't really understand the budgetary argument here. Western inaction in Ukraine isn't because we think the combined armies of Nato are not strong enough or well equipped enough to repel Russian forces in Ukraine. Of course they are, several times over. The issue is that Russia is one of the world's biggest nuclear powers and Putin has spent many years cultivating the appearance of being belligerent enough to consider using them for real. No amount of extra military spending in Europe is going to change that.

The Hill: US, allies to kick certain Russian banks out of SWIFT banking system Seems like after tanking the Moscow Stock Exchange, and now this, the oligarchs might turn on Putin at some point.

If you can’t think of anything else to say about her, just go with ‘Peppermint Patty’. Conservatives love going after women for their appearance.

I just had my retirement request approved. Come Dec 1, I'll be joining the club!

Bullies talk shit until they get punched in the mouth.

New episode out now! https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-was-not-a-lizard-alan-r-warren/ Enjoy!