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 Come on- they let Boris Johnson run a carefully calculated, and spectacularly successful campaign to destroy the British economy, and then let him slip out the back door of 10 Downing Street just before the chickens came home to roost.  They replaced him with a woman, who they gave six weeks (!) to undo years of Tory maliciousness.  Great, now they are blaming it all on the woman, after which they will move on with the same insane economic madness that caused the problem in the first place, maybe even bringing Boris back for another romp through the British economy.  Let's face it- just like with Republicans, the Tories are absolutely committed to economic policies which enrich a few hundred families at the expense of everyone else in their country.  These policies can barely succeed in the short term, and are a guarantee of disaster in the long term.  But those families own the Conservative party, as they own the Republicans, so nothing will change. ...

With all the news about Republican treachery these days, from high comedy (Trump) to low farce (Herschel Walker,) the wingnuts have had to really strain themselves to come up with stories of Democratic malfeasance.  This is only going to get worse between now and election day (note today's "revelation" that Hunter Biden allegedly lied years ago on a gun permit application,) but here is where it stands today. First a whole bunch of items showing a strange deviant tendency among right wingers: their inability to distinguish between events that actually happen and things that are in movies, or perhaps the Simpsons or some other TV show.  The classic example of that is the strange number of wingnuts who seem to believe that the Matrix is actually true.  Here's another one:  Because it is October, they have become somehow obsessed with the movie The Hunt for Red October,  and somehow think that "red October" is some sort of real thing.  Here's a sample: X22Re...

 Here is what you would hear if you follow right wing websites: "Julie Davis, 27, and her three-year-old daughter Hannah, were among the residents of Tamiami Trail Lane that stayed behind...  Of course, the stupidity of her actions caught up with her, her home was flooded and she was likely to drown. Mrs. Davis thought salvation had arrived when, glancing outside a window, she spied a motorized raft pulling up alongside her inundated home. Shouting through a bullhorn, the persons on the raft identified themselves as agents of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and said they were taking storm survivors to secure shelters far from the flood. She cradled Hannah in her arms and plodded down a staircase into murky water, which reached her thighs.  A FEMA agent in the raft insisted that she evacuate, and, leaning over, yanked the child from Mrs. Davis’ arms. It was then that the agent asked Mrs. Davis whether she had valuables in the home he needed to know about—cash, gold...

 I very rarely do this, but I am going to link here to a video from InfoWars about the war in Ukraine, presenting as absolute fact the unvarnished hate propaganda that underlies the Russian attack on Ukraine, blaming the entire thing on the Biden administration, which is literally presented as a tool of Satan. I know that anyone who reads Wingnut Wrapup, or pays the slightest attention to the lunatic ravings of Donald Trump, is familiar with the sickening delusions that form the basis of right wing ideology, but I think even you  will be, as I was, shocked at the vituperative lies that you will hear here.  I know very few people will be able to tolerate much of this, but there is an important message here:  However bad you think the Republicans are, they are far worse.  Anyway, here is the link, and let me warn you, it is a painful thing to listen to: https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2022/09/emergency-broadcast-latest-developments-between-russia-and-ukraine...

 Time to clean out the dumpster.  Let's just start with this: "THE LATEST ” MASSIVE ” WHITEHAT WORLD-WIDE MILITARY ALLIANCE UPDATE!! 9/20/2022. This is a super-update on, D.O.D: LAW OF WAR MANUAL PROTOCOL’S, who’s the S.A.C & S.O.G to the CIA. The KHAZARIAN MAFIA, JESUITS,& high ranking VATICAN officials all on lock down, and not aloud to leave the VATICAN grounds. BARRACK OBAMA under investigation for the IRAN nuclear deal, and lieing about OSAMA BIN LADIN’S death.Some of the biggest companies on this planet filing for bankruptcy and going out of business. Some really big “Q” endorsements from D. TRUMP. That and alot more in this “WHITEHAT MILITARY ALLIANCE” MEGA-UPDATE VIDEO!" Sorry, I didn't watch the video, so we'll just move on. Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:  "ANALYSIS: Nord Stream Pipelines Sabotaged, and Only One Country Benefits" Russia, right, to punish Europe for standing up to them?  Nope.  Jim has a different idea: "First, the US bec...

 We've grown accustomed to right wing Christian idiots blaming every natural disaster on God's wrath for gay rights, or helping poor people, or some other liberal obsession.  I wonder if this: just might be God's response to Governor DeSantis squandering millions of dollars of Floridians' tax payments to kidnap 50 or so refugees and illegally fly them to another State?    I suspect that, in coming weeks, DeSantis could have found a better use for that money, but no problem- he will count on Joe Biden's decency to get the money he needs from the Federal government, without hesitating for one second his attacks on "tax and spend Democrats."  Because it's always okay when Republican States get the money.

The Naval Battle at Port Arthur- Russo-Japanese War There seems to be quite a bit of agreement that Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, a country one fifth the size of his own, will be remembered among the great military humiliations of all time.  His army, widely thought to be the second most powerful on Earth, has been revealed to be a hollow shell, eaten away by the sort of corruption that is an inevitable characteristic of dictatorial governments.  He seems destined to fail at a military campaign that should have been easily won.   This failure is going to plague Russia for many years to come; however there is, I think, likely to be some massive fallout from Putin's collapsed adventure that practically nobody has been talking about.  What I mean can be explained as follows: I have virtually never seen this discussed, but I think it is important to note how often revolutions and the collapse of empires follow the draining of military power.  A classic ...