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2022-03-22 -Great Cultural Revolution

ON THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS: A Message from Abp. Viganò, Former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S

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Posted by 746 2022-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The Truth is that we had the most enviable situation known to man -- and a cabal of sick, corrupt elites threw it all away.

We were at peace, our global rival completely vanquished and destitute, and with two vast oceans protecting us left and right and two friendly nations north and south. So we created a mortal rival to us in East Asia, and watched that rival continue hollowing out of our industrial base that's been going onfir half a century.

We were awash in oil and natural gas thanks to a technology revolution in extracting tight reserves. So we decided to curtail production and send prices to the moon, impoverishing millions with deliberately-created inflation.

We had just begun getting a handle on our border when the new administration decided to throw the floodgates open and declare it Gane Over.

We had a higher education system that was the envy of the world, and whose STEM excellence was the main source of our advanced military's domination of the globe. So we trashed our golden higher ed system with newly-domination millions of insane administrators and a lesser number of race-mongering grifters and charmed Alphabet People Perverts.

We are to blame. We were given everything, and we've squandered it all. The Prodigal Son did better than we did. For SHAME

Posted by Otto Phating2030 2022-03-22 00:26|| 2022-03-22 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 "Is that... Merrick? [eyes bleary with tears]
Come, kiss me, me boy! It's, like, years!
I'll need help with the rent,
For me money's all spent...
Oy, the fruit of me toils...
On them damned Russian oils,
But... the fatted Ukrainian! Beers!"

Not that I'd change a word, whoever it is.

Posted by Grique Omamble4531 2022-03-22 01:03|| 2022-03-22 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 "There is also a real risk," His Excellency continues, "that this crisis will serve to cover up Biden’s crimes, those of his son Hunter, the China virus pseudo-pandemic, the Durham investigation, the 2020 electoral fraud, as well as jeopardizing the mid-term elections in the United States."

As discussed here on a near daily basis.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-22 02:31|| 2022-03-22 02:31|| Front Page Top

#4 That's a pleasant surprise. Maybe there are good men in the business of religion after all. Or maybe they already feel the flames of progressive globalist 'paradise' and see their own purple kingdom threatened?

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-22 04:09|| 2022-03-22 04:09|| Front Page Top

#5 And Father Guido Sarducci? What does he have to say?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-03-22 05:54|| 2022-03-22 05:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Come, kiss me, me boy! It's, like, years!
I'll need help with the rent,
For me money's all spent...
Oy, the fruit of me toils...
Not that I'd change a word, whoever it is.

"I've only a hundred guineas left to give ye... for I lost the rest at cards last night! Now kiss me, me boy, for we'll never meet again!"

Posted by Sheamble Chaique6600 2022-03-22 06:30|| 2022-03-22 06:30|| Front Page Top

#7 throw the floodgates open and declare it Gane Over.

Guess that would be Game Over.

That's what happens with cut-n-paste preprovisioned text that isn't edited or spellchecked.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-22 07:49|| 2022-03-22 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Heh.

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-22 08:47|| 2022-03-22 08:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh. You can almost hear him now:
(Sniff) "So hurtful! Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.”

Posted by Wholugum Tingle5532 2022-03-22 09:01|| 2022-03-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 You guys are harsh. Have some pity for him.
“I do feel embarrassed to be leaving so soon after arriving, but have you ever seen anything so horrible and heartbreaking that you can’t continue? It was like that for me,” he said.

When the mission was over, Le couldn’t stop weeping for 10 minutes as he fought to regain his composure, he said. His mission to help the Ukrainians was now over too.

Posted by Wholugum Tingle5532 2022-03-22 09:07|| 2022-03-22 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 He might get a book deal back home from this.

'LEGIONNAIRE FOR A COMEDIAN' - an emotional account of a 3 mile hike, a body that was heavy on the soul, and a chinaman living in America fighting for Europe and accomplishing what others could not. A tap out.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-22 10:52|| 2022-03-22 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 dont pity the FOOL

Posted by 746 2022-03-22 10:53|| 2022-03-22 10:53|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 LEGIONNAIRE FOR A COMEDIAN

🙃 Ha ha, you chthonic monstrosity.

"A truly emotional read. Refreshingly self flagellating" - New York Times

"I can't stop crying since I bought it." - Gen. Mackenzie 'Tina' Whoolumps

"So that's where all the field rations went. Shit." - Gen (Retd.) Ipkiss

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-22 11:08|| 2022-03-22 11:08|| Front Page Top

#14 "I laughed. I cried. It made me a person." - Mark Skydd, Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Pronouns, DoD

Posted by Blinky Glomotle8499 2022-03-22 13:13|| 2022-03-22 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 🙃

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-22 13:16|| 2022-03-22 13:16|| Front Page Top

#16 "'So horrible or heartbreaking that you can’t continue.' So I didn't, and tossed it in the bin for my kindergartner's Ghey Story Hour." - Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times

Posted by Blinky Glomotle8499 2022-03-22 13:21|| 2022-03-22 13:21|| Front Page Top

#17 an emotional account of a 3 mile hike, a body that was heavy on the soul, and a chinaman living in America fighting for Europe and accomplishing what others could not.

😂🤣

Posted by Blinky Glomotle8499 2022-03-22 13:23|| 2022-03-22 13:23|| Front Page Top

#18 I think that's a Vietnamese name though.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-22 13:25|| 2022-03-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#19 LEGIONNAIRE FOR A COMEDIAN

could be a film like Graham Green's The Comedians

Posted by Spinenter Grerenter6527 2022-03-22 14:44|| 2022-03-22 14:44|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ Queued, thanks.

Just screened: In the Fog. Cue discussion.
"Bartender! Another grey Russian!"
"Want friend, you steal dog."
"Huh?"
"Go fall off a log."
"What?"
"Or hit self on head, get concussion."

Posted by Grique Omamble4531 2022-03-22 22:59|| 2022-03-22 22:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Seriously, if you liked Elena but thought "too much snarky daughter and not enough crows or hangings," this is the stuff. 7 snowflakes.

Posted by Grique Omamble4531 2022-03-22 23:20|| 2022-03-22 23:20|| Front Page Top

#22 Ithink that's a Vietnamese name
Descended from Genghis Khan. The sensitive genes, anyway

Posted by Large Ulailing3390 2022-03-22 23:37|| 2022-03-22 23:37|| Front Page Top

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