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2022-11-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Useful idiot' in the US wants to destroy Russia
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Posted by badanov 2022-11-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 a serpentine.
A what?

Backwater, as in an oxbow lake?
Posted by Snaigum Ebberetch6009 2022-11-04 01:12||   2022-11-04 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I fell asleep halfway through. What did I miss?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-11-04 02:07||   2022-11-04 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 this is a serpentine.

We have a new word! Serpentine as a noun. As in libertine? Call the dictionary people.

eg. Obama was popular, voted in twice, but a serpentine.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 05:52||   2022-11-04 05:52|| Front Page Top

#4 What did I miss?

A portrait of the enemy—-one of the most disgusting Swamp creatures, the fabulist and Woke shithead congressman Jamie Raskin.
Posted by Whomong Black8701 2022-11-04 06:36||   2022-11-04 06:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Raskin didn't say that, of course.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-jamie-raskin-call-destroy-christian-russia-jihad-1756056
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 07:27||   2022-11-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Rep. Jamie Raskin failed to report huge stock payout for his wife, a Biden Fed nominee
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-04 07:47||   2022-11-04 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Whomong Black8701 2022-11-04 07:49||   2022-11-04 07:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't even know him. Maybe he's the biggest asshole in Congress. Not that I care.

I just found this quote absurd, so I fact-checked it.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 07:56||   2022-11-04 07:56|| Front Page Top

#9 A difficult task at times, but we're anxious to sort out the "facts" around here. BTW, hat to your Munich office and staff for keeping the lights on. We always enjoy hearing from you. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-04 07:59||   2022-11-04 07:59|| Front Page Top

#10 This is what Raskin said—he justifies escalating the war in Ukraine by specifically saying that Russia is the worldwide enemy of all that is Woke:

“Moscow right now is a world center of antifeminist, antigay, anti-trans hatred.”

That’s how one of our left-wing idiot Swampies justifies throwing away $65 billion of our money. It’s a war for transsexuals and gays and feminists.

Why are you popping up on an American conservative website and defending this shithead?

Posted by Whomong Black8701 2022-11-04 08:10||   2022-11-04 08:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks Besoeker.

The point I was trying to make is this:

- Joe Biden/Donald Trump eats little puppies for breakfast.
- Do you have any evidence for that?
- No but why are you defending this asshole?

Defeat your opponent with the truth about him, not with lies. Because if you can't distinguish between lie and truth, you'll end up believing nothing. Or everything.

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 08:13||   2022-11-04 08:13|| Front Page Top

#12 "It’s a war for transsexuals and gays and feminists."

This is what Russia says about Ukraine. Which is nonsense. Ever been to Ukraine?
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 08:15||   2022-11-04 08:15|| Front Page Top

#13 @Whomong Black8701

I don't know who you are but I've been commenting on this site for about ten years now (I think). Some people here I are (virtual) friends.

Now go and bark up another tree.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 08:16||   2022-11-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#14  "It’s a war for transsexuals and gays and feminists."

This is what Russia says about Ukraine.

I thought it was a war against Nazis and Satanists.

Man am I confused.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-04 08:24||   2022-11-04 08:24|| Front Page Top

#15 "It’s a war for transsexuals and gays and feminists."

That's the 'grill badge.' There's likely much more rolling along behind it.


Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-04 08:28||   2022-11-04 08:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Russia Today: The CNN of Russia
Posted by badanov 2022-11-04 08:36||   2022-11-04 08:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Nice pin you got there Besoeker.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 08:40||   2022-11-04 08:40|| Front Page Top

#18 Why are you popping up on an American conservative website and defending this shithead?

“European Conservative” sounds a lot like Richard Moore (he/him), head of MI6.

UK MI6 Spy Chief Says War in Ukraine is About LGBT Rights

The head of MI6, who includes his preferred pronouns in his Twitter bio, faced backlash for suggesting that a large part of the war in Ukraine was about “LGBT+ rights.”
Yes, really.

Richard Moore (he/him), leader of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, made the comments in a Twitter thread.
“With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022,” he wrote.

Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 09:29||   2022-11-04 09:29|| Front Page Top

#19 “LGBTHM”

“THM” ??

= Freaks like Pelosi’s “friend,” David DePape—Trans Hammer-Machers?
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 09:32||   2022-11-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#20 Jamie Raskin is a flaming asshole. He deserves no support from anyone calling himself a conservative.
Posted by Lemuel 2022-11-04 10:02||   2022-11-04 10:02|| Front Page Top

#21 Making this a war to keep the world safe for perverts is not going to bring around the bulk of those who already oppose it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-04 10:04||   2022-11-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ a majority of Republicans now oppose the war.
Aka the War For Perverts. W4P(tm)
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 10:13||   2022-11-04 10:13|| Front Page Top

#23  “European Conservative” sounds a lot like Richard Moore (he/him), head of MI6.

Reading Comprehension grade: 0

Also, Mr. Moore does not have a charming Bavarian accent.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-04 10:19||   2022-11-04 10:19|| Front Page Top

#24 W4P joins R2P as neocon / leftist excuses for stupid foreign adventures.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-04 10:21||   2022-11-04 10:21|| Front Page Top

#25 The argument from "fact checkers" is not a good look.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-04 10:22||   2022-11-04 10:22|| Front Page Top

#26 Very good, Billy B!

W4P™ it is.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 10:30||   2022-11-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#27 "Reading Comprehension grade: 0"

Indeed. The headline is totally misleading. But then again, someone will accuse me of "defending Mr. Moore".

I like to find the truth in things. If someone says a lie about Biden, I will say so. But the same goes for Trump, as much as I may dislike him.

You don't sacrifice the truth for sympathies.

So is the Ukraine War about LGBT(add whatever) rights? It's about Ukraine's right to be free and independent, it's about Ukraine's right to exist.

Let's look further. I vehemently support Israel's right to exist, Israel's right to be free. LGBT rights are guaranteed in Israel. They wouldn't be if the Arabs took over and chased the Jews into the sea. So this is also about LGBT rights. But only to a very limited extent.

It's about freedom. "Wokeism" is a quite different matter.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 10:37||   2022-11-04 10:37|| Front Page Top

#28 You don't sacrifice the truth for sympathies

Mahatma Gandhi? You're still alive? You... ran of to Germany, sir? 😜
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 10:41||   2022-11-04 10:41|| Front Page Top

#29 If I may, and anyone can answer, what are LGBT rights? No, seriously. Are they the same rights as everybody else or some other rights we don't get?
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 10:43||   2022-11-04 10:43|| Front Page Top

#30 The right to be what you want to be.
Not the right to tell others how they ought to be.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 10:48||   2022-11-04 10:48|| Front Page Top

#31 It's about Ukraine's right to be free and independent, it's about Ukraine's right to exist.

That’s a lie.
Minsk II guaranteed all of that and more.
The peace deal which Zelensky and Putin were preparing to sign in early April guaranteed all of that.

Biden and Nuland would have none of it. They dispatched their doofus-clown Boris Johnson to Kyiv where he told Zelensky to back out of the deal. That’s fact.

The truth will set you free, remember?
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 10:59||   2022-11-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#32 It's about freedom.

The Freedom to Grift. F2G(tm)
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:03||   2022-11-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#33 Hmmm. Let's say I want to diddle young boys. But said young boys are protected by the law, and ... their own good sense. So, do I have the right to form an activist alliance of like minded boy diddlers, that will lobby for legislation allowing us to groom them? And infiltrate academia and spread happy happy thoughts about how it feels to have one's arse plumbed by a 'really sensitive old man'?

Let's say, for the sake of discourse, that that is what I want to be. Now where's the State in all this? Does it allow this, in the service of legalist fairness? Or does it crush such plans with prejudice? Pray tell.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 11:03||   2022-11-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#34 Minsk II was broken by Russia the day it was signed by attacking Debaltsevo.

Minsk II guaranteed nothing, for many reasons, but it would take time to explain it.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:06||   2022-11-04 11:06|| Front Page Top

#35 @Dron66046
No. And I thought I had explained that.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:08||   2022-11-04 11:08|| Front Page Top

#36 do I have the right

Nay, Sir, you have an obligation to run for office on a Man-Boy Love platform.

Like California State Senator Scott Weiner (sick)

CA Legislature Passes Bill Easing Punishment for Pedophiles Because of 'LGBTQ Equality' or Something

Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:10||   2022-11-04 11:10|| Front Page Top

#37 Live not by lies, pilgrim.

Minsk II was violated by both sides.

The April 2022 agreement that Biden-Nuland trashed would have given Ukraine far more than they can ever hope to get now. It was a good deal. That’s why they threatened their boy with eternal torment had he signed it.

If Biden and Nuland and the rest of those grisly grifters wanted to destroy Ukraine, they could not have done a better job.

Actually, they almost certainly do want to destroy Ukraine. “Build Back Better (Eastern Version)” means at least a trillion dollars in grifting opportunities.

Brother Jimmy, Hunny: Batter up!!
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:17||   2022-11-04 11:17|| Front Page Top

#38 btw, pal, batter up is ‘merikin for “get ready.” Like “giddy up,” using baseball-speak.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:20||   2022-11-04 11:20|| Front Page Top

#39 "Minsk II was violated by both sides."

Yes. I'm quite surprised that you concede this.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:21||   2022-11-04 11:21|| Front Page Top

#40 Okay, EC. Not to be a troublesome pedant here, but can you explain what the State should do then? I mean whatever my boy diddler friends and I are doing is perfectly legal, every step of the way. Left to our devices, we shall do to a society what similar creatures are doing to America l. It will take only what the European paradigm of legalist jurisprudence calls 'extralegality' to contain it, won't it? But then the State would become 'fascists'! Exactly like Putin. Right? How do we draw the lines, except by identifying certain inclinations as trouble and criminalizing them? Do we never pick a side? Let everyone be what they want? Or do we selectively keep a section of persons dis-empowered?

I'm not talking about Ukraine at all. I'm talking now about degrees of freedom it is meet to grant. I understand I may seem like a stuck record, but I would like us all to think about it.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 11:23||   2022-11-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#41 Thanks for the vocabulary lesson but I've lived in the States for several years.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:23||   2022-11-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#42 @Dron66046

Define "boy". Are we talking about minors or adults?
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:24||   2022-11-04 11:24|| Front Page Top

#43 Unlike you, I respect truth, and apply logic to facts so as to yield valid conclusions.

This war is saturated with lies from Washington to London to Kyiv. A carnival of bullshit.

Live not by lies, as the Holy Father saith.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:25||   2022-11-04 11:25|| Front Page Top

#44 Aah, tricky, EC.

It has been observed that while on the surface, the perverts sex people of consenting age, the grooming is beginning very early. So, we are not talking old men just statutory raping kids. We are talking about the freedom to push an agenda of enabling perverts to groom an entire generation of kids into pliant, fuckable youth by the time they're adults.

So it is not as simple as spouting rhetoric like 'That is not done!', the State that wants to nip such things in the bus, has to literally do so.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 11:32||   2022-11-04 11:32|| Front Page Top

#45 W4P™ , yes.

The Woke World’s war—
..of the perverts
..by the perverts
..for the perverts

so that Woke perversion shall not perish from the earth
Posted by DisHonest Abe 2022-11-04 11:35||   2022-11-04 11:35|| Front Page Top

#46 *bud
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 11:36||   2022-11-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#47 It's true, institutionalized enablement of sexual perversion is an integral part of the global Left agenda.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 11:41||   2022-11-04 11:41|| Front Page Top

#48 Dron is describing the m.o. of the pedophi!e Woke shahid-hero and LGBTABCbabyYOUnME icon, Harvey Milk.

Whom Obama honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And named a cruiser, er, battleship after.

Why Doesn’t Obama Condemn Boy Rapist Harvey Milk?

Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 11:45||   2022-11-04 11:45|| Front Page Top

#49 @Dron66046

I can't comment much on the things you just mentioned. It's not a subject I'm familiar with and it could get quite complicated.

Let me try to give you a clearer example, in this case about "trans" people.

I think an adult person has the right to be what he/she etc. wants to be, and live how he/she/etc. wants to live AS LONG AS this doesn't seriously interfere with the rights of other people.

So if you were born with male genitals, biology tells us that you are a man. Now if you don't want to accept biology and want to live and dress like a woman, that's your choice.

What you can't enforce is the right to be treated like a woman by others. So no, you can't compete in the women's compartment in sports, you don't get to share a cell with a woman in prison and many other things. This is where wokeism runs amok.

The funny thing is: All those "woke" people wouldn't accept a white person pretending to be black. Because that's different.

In Germany, woke people try to enforce special rules of "gender speech". They try to change grammar, often in an absurd and stupid way. I will never accept this.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:50||   2022-11-04 11:50|| Front Page Top

#50 I was not aware that idealism was an elemental driver of this war.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-04 11:52||   2022-11-04 11:52|| Front Page Top

#51 ^ tell EC. He’s seriously confused.
“Freedom” in Ukraine means freedom to steal
Posted by Captain Bourbon7005 2022-11-04 11:54||   2022-11-04 11:54|| Front Page Top

#52 At this moment Russia is stealing Ukrainian territory including a nuclear power plant.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 11:58||   2022-11-04 11:58|| Front Page Top

#53 I believe the term is 'capturing'. Forcibly possessing. Taking over.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-04 12:02||   2022-11-04 12:02|| Front Page Top

#54 True, it's not stealing, rather robbing.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-04 12:04||   2022-11-04 12:04|| Front Page Top

#55 Strategically acquiring.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-04 12:20||   2022-11-04 12:20|| Front Page Top

#56 Actually, they almost certainly do want to destroy Ukraine. “Build Back Better (Eastern Version)” means at least a trillion dollars in grifting opportunities.

The W4P™ is the Mother of All Grifting Opportunities

EC’s probably in on the grift
Posted by Captain Bourbon7005 2022-11-04 12:21||   2022-11-04 12:21|| Front Page Top

#57 not that there’s anything wrong with that (c’mon, it’s Ukraine, Jake) but still…. the W4P™ ain’t about “freedom”
Posted by Captain Bourbon7005 2022-11-04 12:27||   2022-11-04 12:27|| Front Page Top

#58 I get that a European would care about Ukraine. The Euros are all fighting with each other the way they have for over a hundred years. And there’s a lot of €€ at stake.

But why is it America’s problem? Their bloodfeuds are none of our business. They’re just draining more billions out of our treasury
Posted by Dr Jay 2022-11-04 13:09||   2022-11-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#59 Russia seems to be quite happily destroying itself. No need for us to do anything other than provide some ammo and fun toys for testing.

Is it popcorn time?
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-11-04 16:29||   2022-11-04 16:29|| Front Page Top

#60 For a year there, I thought I heard... singing,
A whole bloody fleet singly pinging
A few thousand times,
And... a tinkling of chimes...
No, the great Tsarsky Kolokol ringing!
Call me crazy, Captain, but I'm not sure all these fellow Americans making like hysterical Berrigans are quite what they seem."
"But Jonesy, they hate perverts! And the way the talk about Biden... it's like the perps on my favorite CBS primetime crime drama! What else could they possibly be but regular outraged citizens like you and me?"
Posted by Snaigum Ebberetch6009 2022-11-04 16:36||   2022-11-04 16:36|| Front Page Top

#61 ^ wtf? The limerick guy’s losing it
Posted by Goober Omoling7971 2022-11-04 16:58||   2022-11-04 16:58|| Front Page Top

#62 The Berrigans were commie assholes — probably priestly pervs, too — but they were right about Vietnam. It was a foolish war pushed by Democrats that cost us dearly. Just like today’s Democrats’ foolish war.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 17:02||   2022-11-04 17:02|| Front Page Top

#63 Every generation has to have its Democrat Disaster War.

Biden has the W4P™.
LBJ had the W4Gooks™.
Posted by Goober Omoling7971 2022-11-04 17:06||   2022-11-04 17:06|| Front Page Top

#64 Surreal. Biden’s lunatics are considering a US-Polish-Romanian strike force that will trigger an all-out US-Russian war.

In Tge American Conservative, Col. Douglas Macgregor calmly and rationally dissects this diseased brain frenzy:

Will Biden Gamble on a Ukraine Coalition?
The Washington establishment is considering a risky and ill-defined intervention in Europe.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 20:37||   2022-11-04 20:37|| Front Page Top

#65 Col. Douglas Macgregor ? Is that you? Billy B(udd)?
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-04 20:43||   2022-11-04 20:43|| Front Page Top

#66 The Washington establishment is considering a risky and ill-defined intervention in Europe.

Oh god, no. FUCK NO.

Over this veteran’s dead body

These fuckers are insane. Stop this madness. Get them the hell out of power.

FFS, NO
Posted by Woodrow Hatfield6779 2022-11-04 20:43||   2022-11-04 20:43|| Front Page Top

#67 They’ve jumped the shark. These bastards are truly insane
Never thought I’d see this. Unreal
Posted by Captain Bourbon7005 2022-11-04 20:46||   2022-11-04 20:46|| Front Page Top

#68 ^ THAT's the kind of reasoned argument we treasure!
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-04 20:46||   2022-11-04 20:46|| Front Page Top

#69 66, 67
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-04 20:47||   2022-11-04 20:47|| Front Page Top

#70 Don’t complain. GOTV. Three days left. Get busy.

Tell everyone you know. Vote for your America First candidate. Organize, knock on doors, call, speak up, drive an elder to the polls on Tuesday.

Put JD Vance, Blake Masters and all the other America First-GOP candidates in Congress and then lobby like hell. Stop this madness in its tracks.

Get busy.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 20:50||   2022-11-04 20:50|| Front Page Top

#71 Three more days, and the Great Ukraine Grift ends.

Get busy.

Leave nothing to chance.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 20:52||   2022-11-04 20:52|| Front Page Top

#72 I hope you’re right, Billy. This is like a nightmare that never ends. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. Fucking Ukraine. Unbelievable
Posted by Woodrow Hatfield6779 2022-11-04 20:55||   2022-11-04 20:55|| Front Page Top

#73 Gotta think war against Woke isn't a bad thing.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-04 20:58||   2022-11-04 20:58|| Front Page Top

#74 
Posted by Captain Bourbon7005 2022-11-04 21:00||   2022-11-04 21:00|| Front Page Top

#75 
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 21:06||   2022-11-04 21:06|| Front Page Top

#76 Aux armes! To the spray bottles, comrades!

Libs of TikTok
These siblings made a “spray bottle policy” and spray their mom with water every time she misgenders them
Posted by Grirt Ghibelline1288 2022-11-04 21:28||   2022-11-04 21:28|| Front Page Top

#77 #64 as signaled recently by David Petraeus, the president and his generals are evaluating their own “coalition of the willing.” The coalition would allegedly consist of primarily, but not exclusively, Polish and Romanian forces, with the U.S. Army at its core, for employment in Ukraine.

This is unbelievable. They’re not serious, are they?
Tell me this is a Biden joke. Or Petraeus being the slimy weasel he is.

This can’t be real. Can it?
Posted by Zebulon Wholuter9840 2022-11-04 22:09||   2022-11-04 22:09|| Front Page Top

#78 There go Musk’s laid-off Twitter bitch censors again.

Folks, don’t let this night are happen. Get out and crush all those liberal Globalist assholes on Tuesday.

Do not let them drag us into another shitty forever war.
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 22:11||   2022-11-04 22:11|| Front Page Top

#79 * don’t let this nightmare happen
Posted by Billy B  2022-11-04 22:12||   2022-11-04 22:12|| Front Page Top

#80  There go Musk’s laid-off Twitter bitch censors again.

You poor, special darling.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-04 22:21||   2022-11-04 22:21|| Front Page Top

#81 The laid-off Twits are paid through Jan 2, trailingwife. They don’t need your pity
Posted by Shereling Bonaparte6858 2022-11-04 23:38||   2022-11-04 23:38|| Front Page Top

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