Emphasis mine: “…No, we’ve sacrificed enough to the foreign policy screw-ups of Ivy League incompetents.”
Who got us into the Vietnam War? Who got us into Iraq? Not a lot of guys with high school diplomas, but those guys got asked to fight those wars. The same is true here. I see a lot of Twitter tough guys with the yellow and blue flag in their bios and not a lot of them seem to be accepting Ukraine’s appeal for fighters and enlisting in the Bill Kristol Brigade.
Hey, don’t worry – these same neo-commandos will cheer you and your kids on when we go make Ukraine safe for Ukrainians. Your sacrifices will be appreciated, plebs, right up until it’s convenient to start calling you racist, Jesus knuckle-draggers again.
And if you ask why the hell we are not making America safe for Americans, you are in Putin’s pocket because it is somehow in Putin’s interest that we shut down our open border, end crime, and promote free speech here in America. You are just too dumb to appreciate the nuance.
Now, the regime media’s polls tell you a whole bunch of Americans would support a “no-fly” zone over Ukraine. You know the Ukrainians sure would. Hey, if Harry Potter could wave a magic wand and make the Russians stop killing civilians and go home, awesome. Wave away. But that’s nonsense, and unfortunately, at Hogwarts, our ruling class was sorted by the magic hat into house Dumbassyindor.
These people are fools who talk big but think little. A “no-fly” zone means you shoot down any Russian who flies in. That’s an act of war. The Russians get to shoot back, and they might choose to shoot back with something more than a conventional Kaliber cruise missile. But no one mentions that. Instead of polling “Would you support making the Russians stop acting like Russians always do in wars?” maybe we ask “Would you risk Putin – who we are told is crazy and evil – retaliating by detonating a nuclear weapon over your hometown and potentially melting your kids into radioactive goo in order to resolve a border dispute on the dismal side of the globe?”
I anticipate a significantly smaller “Yes” percentage when you ask the right question.
But our sacrifice might be less than a mushroom cloud on the horizon. Maybe it’s just $9 gas. George Takei, the multi-millionaire, demanded on Twitter that we eagerly make this offering on the altar of Ukrainian sovereignty. I doubt he would notice the upcharge, but I bet you would. Weird how the guys demanding sacrifices never seem to lead their own bull to the altar. Even weirder is how all the biggest pro-fossil fuel sacrifice guys are also green energy investors. If I was cynical, I’d think “Scam ahoy.”
And here is where I made made a connection in a weird sort of way. Or it was just the sugar shock of binge eating two double chocolate Oreos in quick succession:
What they never tell you is that there is no reason for any sacrifice at all to be had from cutting off Russian imports of oil and gas. We could make up the difference here at home, and in fact, we were doing that, that is until stupid people chose avoiding mean tweets over avoiding economic ruin. Now, our energy industry has been trashed for a year, and it will take time to spin up again in the off-chance President Asterisk chooses to defy the moronic congregation of the angry climate goddess worshippers. Our so-called leaders would rather us go bankrupt paying Iran and Venezuela – more enemies – for oil than let our own oil industry start up again.
They now whine that “Well, we can’t just start pumping gas again and immediately get relief!” True. They never should have wrecked the industry as a – wait for it – sacrifice to the climate hoax to begin with. And, of course, our alleged betters never thought to kick-start production again during the months this whole crisis was developing. In fact, they were filibustering Nord Stream 2 sanctions – wait, isn’t filibustering racist?
But remember, they are serious, competent people we must obey without question. And if you doubt them, you love Putin.
We need to reject the idea that we must sacrifice according to the dictates of our elite’s fetishes. We owe the Ukrainians nothing. We have no treaty with them – please do not quote vague promises of protection by Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit’s husband that were never ratified as a treaty by our Senate – and let’s be frank about the reality of the situation. Ukraine is on Russia’s border. Our lousy ruling class’s meddling in Ukrainian politics was going to be seen by the Bear as a threat. Saying so is not somehow backing Russia; it’s reality, something in short supply. Try knowing your enemy – it helps beat him.
Go read the whole thing. Being a retired Army Infantry Colonel, I think he’s worth listening to. Go read the whole thing. In the meantime, what’s the connection? I thought it was simple – our national debt, sorta sideways.
Right now, we are being told to suck it up because SOVIET UNION RUSSIA! Even Biden told us yesterday that there is nothing he can do about high gas prices. He’s probably right – he really can’t do anything because, well, he can’t do anything. But his Obama retreads can and they are really doing the job behind the scenes. And they are all in on those high gas prices. Remember, Obama’s Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said that “we” had to find a way to get American gas prices up to those in Europe even as we could be awash in domestic oil.
They made it harder to drill. Until Trump came along. So it isn’t that they CAN’T ramp up our own oil supplies, they DON’T WANT TO.
So, national debt? Every time we hear that Administration after Administration’s spending gets to the faux Debt Limit, they don’t ACT like it’s a debt limit (just like most politicians that swear an Oath to the Constitution and Laws to get their butts into those elected offices and then throw them into the trash can (only to be recycled again at the next Election Day). They’ll put it off, claiming that we HAVE to raise it or LOTS of people won’t get your money.
But NONE of them ever seem to agree with “Hey, how about NOT SPENDING more money”? Just like these Obama retreads never want to consider “Hey, how about DRILLING MORE oil”?
Instead, in both cases, these SMAHT PEOPLE know what’s best for us.
Like Energy Poverty that will bankrupt us. Or Financial Poverty that will collapse [the] US.
(H/T: Townhall)
