The scene: I’m trying to drink some coffee and enjoy the sunshine. A large donkey with an elephant ass bursts through the door.
“CHAOS AT THE BORDER! THERE’S CHAOS AT THE BORDER AND IT’S THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS!”
“I’m not sure that’s….”
“CHAOS AT THE BORDER AND IT’S THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS! PASS THIS BILL OR YOU HATE AMERICA!”
“This isn’t a border bill, it’s a foreign aid bill! Shouldn’t these items be separate?”
“GOOD IDEA! THERE’S CHAOS IN UKRAINE AND IT’S THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS! PASS THIS BILL OR YOU HATE AMERICA!”
“Wait, weren’t we talking about the border?”
“UKRAINE HAS BORDERS, TOO — READ A BOOK SOMETIME. WE MUST SEND MORE MONEY TO UKRAINE OR PUTIN WINS! YOU DON’T WANT PUTIN TO WIN, DO YOU?”
“The first hundred billion didn’t work, and now Ukraine is running out of people to man the weapons we give them. How exactly is this going to turn the tide? It’s not like we have 100 billion sitting around, or a lack of problems in this country that 100 billion could fix.”
“SPOKEN LIKE A PUTIN STOOGE!”
The donkephant exits the room, only to storm back in 30 seconds later.
“THE COUNTRY FACES A SERIOUS, AND SECRET, NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DEAL WITH — WE NEED LIKE 100 BILLION, QUICK!”
“Well, that…..”
“WE’D LOVE TO TELL YOU WHAT IS SO SCARY, BUT WE CAN’T, WE JUST NEED THAT 100 BILLION ASAP AND THEN THE PROBLEM GOES AWAY. PROMISE.”
“You can’t even…..”
“OK, WE CAN SAY THAT THIS SUPER SERIOUS THREAT IS RUSSIAN AND COMES FROM SPACE. THAT MUCH WE CAN SAY FOR SURE, BUT NOTHING ELSE.”
“Well, ……”
“IT’S SPACE NUKES! THE RUSSIANS WANT TO DEPLOY SPACE NUKES BECAUSE PUTIN WANTS TO KILL YOUR CHILDREN! WE’LL TAKE THAT 100 BILLION NOW, PLEASE”
“This is like 5 steps away from being a problem, and as I said, we could really use that 100 billion here at home…….”
“WELL THAT’S THE GREAT THING, BECAUSE MOST OF THE MONEY IS ACTUALLY STAYING AT HOME….IT’S JUST GOING TO RAYTHEON AND LOCKHEED MARTIN AND THE GOOD OL’ BOYS!”
“I’m not THAT old, but I’m old enough to remember when the media said that blatant war profiteering was actually a bad thing…….”
“WELL WHAT ABOUT THIS? ALEXEY NAVALNY DIED IN RUSSIAN PRISON! PUTIN IS A KILLER AND ALSO A BIG MEANIEHEAD!”
“Who?”
“YOU KNOW, THE RUSSIAN WHO SPOKE OUT AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT AND GOT THROWN IN JAIL FOR IT — BECAUSE PUTIN IS A SUPER BAD GUY AND THROWS PEOPLE IN JAIL FOR POLITICAL OPINIONS!”
“Yes, I think I recall something like happening, but I’m not sure it was in Russia.”
“OBVIOUSLY THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE BECAUSE WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. NOT LIKE PUTIN — HE KILLS HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS. 100 BILLION PLEASE!”
“And we should get back at Putin by funding Ukraine, the country that killed American journalist Gonzalo Lira while he was in jail for speaking out against the Ukrainian government?”
“EXACTLY. 100 BILLION, PLEASE.”
One question…what do we expect to happen to Donald Trump — Joe Biden’s chief political rival — if he’s sentenced to 700 years in prison?”
“I’LL BE BACK FOR THAT 100 BILLION.”
If you want to know what the donkephant looks like, here we see the donkey head:
And here’s the elephant ass:
In other weekend news, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (yes, that one) attempted to reassure the business world that government wouldn’t be going after THEM — all but admitting the case against Trump was political from the start:
Entrepreneur and shark Tank regular Kevin O’Leary had some thoughts while on CNN:
And in the least shocking news this week, it turns out all the things we were saying about the covid ‘vaccine’ were correct:
Some of those conditions:
But actually, this isn’t a big deal because we ALWAYS knew this!
Don’t you guys remember the months of rigorous debate we had before any sort of vaccine mandates were imposed on millions of people who had very little to fear from the actual covid virus?
Remember how the vaccine injured were immediately placed on generous government assistance funded by Big Pharma and were exalted for their sacrifice?
Remember that?
Me neither.
What I see instead is this:
Gee, I wonder why trust in the ‘experts’ has fallen through the floorboards…..it’s a mystery!
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Must read, imo.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/24/the_five_most_important_political_figures_of_the_2024_campaign_150553.html
It's getting hard not to start jumping for joy!
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/02/23/argentina-milei-introduce-bill-jailing-anyone-who-orders-central-bank-print-money-cover-deficit/