Ukraine seems to go back to the Clintons.. not sure if Hillary or prior.

I wonder what Trump had to do with that.
(Btw he really needs to work on his hook.)

Anyone remember this?
A cool 65 grand for falling off a bike. Thanks bigly, taxpayers.
perhaps this is another case of 10% for the big guy.

Monty
I am confused – a women who has sex with males is ridiculed.
I thought this is what lefties were encouraging.
No ONJ in Grease she’s a mole.

Three Blind Kings

Long Fascinating Read – Some Snippets

The intelligence community increases its budget and power every year despite repeated large-scale failures combined with a complete absence of accountability that suggests that Americans would be much safer if the CIA were abolished. To what extent do you think this is caused by what appears to be an innate American inability to obtain and evaluate human intelligence, as opposed to electronic collection—at which America excels.

XI SLAUGHTERS THE GOLDEN GOOSE OF SHANGHAI

Why did Xi lock down Shanghai? You have a city of 25 million people with an enormous concentration of factories that serve Western supply chains, especially at the higher ends of the technology ladder, and then you lock it down for several months. You say people can’t leave their apartments. You stop all the factories dead, ships can’t go in or out of the port. The value that you are destroying in those three months is enormous, and at least some of those Western countries will move their production elsewhere. Isn’t he killing the golden goose?

AMERICA, WHO’S IN CHARGE?

Now let’s talk about the third weak kingdom, the United States.

When I look at the United States from the outside, as an America-loving outsider, I see a country in the throes of one of those periodic implosions that are not entirely legible to non-Americans. You have manias about race. Manias about gender identity. You have the willful disaggregation of universities and other institutions under the banner of wokeness, which is a doctrine of blind obedience to a party line established by people who are 95% illiterate and can’t remember what they decreed last week. Policy is a product of hardened dogma, and therefore inevitably fails. Gas prices are crazy. Nearly 50% of children in urban school systems have basically just stopped going to school.

What else is he up to these days? Watching ESPN and imagining himself as the next Denis Johnson, is my bet.

Obama was never an in-the-weeds policy guy. He liked to pick and choose what he liked from the menu, and he’s done that. Otherwise, he’s happy to let Biden fail, which makes him look even better by comparison. Hey, who do you like better—Biden, Trump, or me, Barack Obama? Miss me yet?

Obama’s problem is that he’s too impatient and ego-driven to let others make the comparison—he has to drive it home himself, by showing up at the White House, calling Biden the vice president, and leaving the poor man talking to the drapes, while everyone vies for photo ops with his Royal Airness, the last Democrat who wasn’t a pathetic, abject failure.

Obama’s Achilles’ heel has always been his egotism. It comes off him in waves. He’s like the prep school cool kid version of Trump.