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[GuntPunt]

I bring news, the war in Ukraine is about start, probably within the next 12 hours. As I type this yhere has been artillery fire on both the Luhansk and Donets fronts by separatist forces and it now appears that the skeleton crew at tge Ruassian embassy in Kiev is burning sensitive documents.

Just like yesterday, right?

 

[CrippleThreat]

Just like yeterday, right?

2 more weeks.

 

[Breadbassket]

Just like yeterday, right?

This war is such a tease.

 

[Oats12345]

2 more weeks.

If not two more weeks. Maybe a mouth given a two. Am I right.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

CNN Poll: Biden Disapproval Rating Nearing 60%​

Spoiler: Full Article

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The latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS from Jan. 10 to Feb. 6 showed President Joe Biden's disapproval rating reaching a staggering 58% among U.S. adults, according to results released on Thursday.

Only 41% of respondents approved of his performance. The same poll had Biden's approval at 49% and disapproval at 51% in December.

Among independents, 36% approved of Biden's job performance. For Republicans, that number was at 9%. Democratic approval for the president dropped from 94% last summer to 83% in the latest survey.

Disapprovers of the president were also asked to name a single thing he has done that they approved of. A shocking 56% said they have nothing positive to say about his term.

"I'm hard-pressed to think of a single thing he has done that benefits the country," wrote one survey respondent.

The CNN-SSRS survey is the latest in a continuing trend of Biden's plummeting approval rating.

The last time Biden's average approval rating was above water, according to FiveThirtyEight, was on Aug. 29, 2021, in the middle of the controversial U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Since then, concerns over inflation, handling of COVID-19, and further foreign policy complications have resulted in Biden's average approval reaching the lowest of his presidency on Feb. 10.

FiveThirtyEight further showed Biden's average disapproval peaking near 54% on Jan. 25, which has since plateaued as his approval rating continues to drop.

The poll surveyed 1,527 U.S. adults over one month digitally or by telephone with a live interviewer. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3%.

Amazingly, its still too low.

How can 40% of the nation be like "Yeah, this is fine"?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Amazingly, its still too low.

How can 40% of the nation be like "Yeah, this is fine"?

When you program robots to do one and ONLY one thing, then that's exactly what they are going to do.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Russia and Ukraine just got hundreds of millions of dollars for for not doing anything simply because the US is desperate to start a war, anywhere. If Putin wanted Ukraine he would have taken it when he took the port years ago. He doesn't want it. There is nothing of value there. Your fantasy of him wanting the Russian Empire back is just that your fantasy. Maybe you havent noticed yet, but Russia and China, the worlds biggest rivals to globohomo, are doing everything they can to be left the fuck alone in their sphere of the world and not have to suck the tranny dick.

Why people on here of all places believe the same people who are continously documented lying in this thread is beyond me.

 

[Snekposter]

Preemptive defense against the Swiss menace. I mean, I think that's the only county on Germany's borders they haven't had a go at yet.

Does the Holy Roman Empire count as Germany? If so, then I'm afraid that's every neighbor they've waged war against.

I hate sounding like a lib. I really really really hate it. But, broken clock and all that.

Americans considered it their right to settle, annex, and rule most of North America, no matter what the inhabitants living there felt about it. We only didn't annex all of Mexico because we decided the people living south of the Rio Grande were too different from us to rule. Is America's eventual domination of the Louisiana Purchase and the West something less than "total?" Americans are prone to acting like our conquests and empire-building from 1776 through about 1924 were something entirely different than other territorial wars in history. Perhaps their closest analogue is Greek colonization of the Mediterranean, when Bronze Age, agrarian civilization completely wiped out Stone Age hunter-gatherers.

The USA not annexing Germany is nothing special. Maintaining an empire across the ocean is hard. It's easier to maintain dependent satellite states...which we do far more than modern Russia does, what with its lack of a serious deep-water navy.

We (mostly) left Canada alone and used a great deal of diplomatic pressure to make sure nobody, not even us, got to slice up China and Japan more than they already had been. There's a reason China was still independent when 1900 rolled around and it wasn't because the place was hard to conquer. Our interests in the Pacific were primarily naval bases, Hawaii being the only true colony we set up, and we let the Philippines have a startling degree of autonomy for a subject nation at the time.

And hell, even with those conquered natives we've given them some land and special rights and privileges in recognition of them being here first.

 

[XYZpdq]

2 more weeks.

Just two weeks to flatten the Kiev

 

[the fall of man]

I meant to ask about this before and kept forgetting - are you still long on NRGU at this point? Right now I'm planning to buy some on the next significant pullback.

I'm holding a lot of USOI and XOM; I have 2 shares of NRGU remaining (as I always keep an open position) and far too many shares of NRGD waiting for this to end.

USOI's mechanics make it easiest to get at a decent price (below 5.30); if we enter a multiyear oil crisis, it will probably pay off in spades, otherwise The Cycle says to watch for cheap healthcare.

 

[GuntPunt]

Amazingly, its still too low.

How can 40% of the nation be like "Yeah, this is fine"?

Notice it says "adults." Adults is generally a more pro-Dem group, because it literally polls everyone. Even illegals.

There's a reason that the industry dropped "likely voters" almost simultaneously: the numbers are even lower there.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Does the Holy Roman Empire count as Germany? If so, then I'm afraid that's every neighbor they've waged war against.

I don't consider the HRE Germany, at least not the modern German state. Maybe if Austria had formed a united Grossdeutschland, but not a Prussian based one.

 

[The Ugly One]

We (mostly) left Canada alone and used a great deal of diplomatic pressure to make sure nobody, not even us, got to slice up China and Japan more than they already had been. There's a reason China was still independent when 1900 rolled around and it wasn't because the place was hard to conquer. Our interests in the Pacific were primarily naval bases, Hawaii being the only true colony we set up, and we let the Philippines have a startling degree of autonomy for a subject nation at the time.

And hell, even with those conquered natives we've given them some land and special rights and privileges in recognition of them being here first.

We tried to take Canada in 1812 and failed. We stopped after that point because British Empire was clearly not worth tangling with again. We continued to take territory to the West, and (IMO correctly) regarded the empires we bordered, particularly the Spanish Empire, as security threats.

The point is, claiming that Americans are totally different than Russia when it comes conquering and annexing vast tracts of land on our border is absurd. We pushed all the way to the ocean and roughly tripled our land mass. Indian removal was a critical part of that, and after the War With Mexico, the Mexican inhabitants of the new territories had to submit to American rule (which, by the way, is why any claim that modern Mexicans are "native" to the American Southwest is moronic--the Mexicans who lived there at the time became American citizens, and their progeny are Americans).

 

[Psyduck]

I bring news, the war in Ukraine is about start, probably within the next 12 hours. As I type this yhere has been artillery fire on both the Luhansk and Donets fronts by separatist forces and it now appears that the skeleton crew at tge Ruassian embassy in Kiev is burning sensitive documents.

Dammit Dale

 

[Pig Cups]

My impression is that the SCOTUS decision effectively castrated the Fed as it relates to pushing vaccine mandates outside of certain Fed jurisdictions, so how would this work? Them pushing/incentivizing private sector companies and states to do their dirty work for them? I’m sure that bringing back a widely hated policy idea after a lull in which the displeasure toward it was clearly voiced will absolutely bring in the votes THIS time. Amirite, guiyz?

I still don’t see the ‘how’ or ‘why’ behind such an effort, though. The appetite for vaccine mandates is at rock bottom, and people are rejecting them on the global scale. The canucks, of all people, are riled up over it. Blue areas are rescinding mandates, whether it be for political expediency reasons due to upcoming elections, or finally receiving a late-to-the-game reality check on how beyond done people are with COVID hysteria. Besides, Biden lacks the political capital and influence to compel federal/state politicians to do his bidding at this stage in the game. These are people that avoid having their picture taken next to him, and back out of events (citing “scheduling conflict”) so that they can steer clear of Joe’s toxicity. At this point, they’re paying a slight bit more attention to their pissed-off constituents, rather than cohesion with the party apparatus at-large. This feels like it’s doomed to failure, yet the assholes are so detached that they can’t take a hint.


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It will never cease to amaze me how much O’Keefe/PV is villified, when they’re the closest thing to bonafide journalism in existence today. All major networks and papers are glorified tabloids at this point, running out the clocks on their once-prestigious branding.

 

[Blacklight]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1494344830595522563

I wonder if Biden or the FBI realize without the password to someone's wallet you really can't 'seize' it.

 

[King Dead]

My impression is that the SCOTUS decision effectively castrated the Fed as it relates to pushing vaccine mandates outside of certain Fed jurisdictions, so how would this work? Them pushing/incentivizing private sector companies and states to do their dirty work for them? I’m sure that bringing back a widely hated policy idea after a lull in which the displeasure toward it was clearly voiced will absolutely bring in the votes THIS time. Amirite, guiyz?

I still don’t see the ‘how’ or ‘why’ behind such an effort, though. The appetite for vaccine mandates is at rock bottom, and people are rejecting them on the global scale. The canucks, of all people, are riled up over it. Blue areas are rescinding mandates, whether it be for political expediency reasons due to upcoming elections, or finally receiving a late-to-the-game reality check on how beyond done people are with COVID hysteria. Besides, Biden lacks the political capital and influence to compel federal/state politicians to do his bidding at this stage in the game. These are people that avoid having their picture taken next to him, and back out of events (citing “scheduling conflict”) so that they can steer clear of Joe’s toxicity. At this point, they’re paying a slight bit more attention to their pissed-off constituents, rather than cohesion with the party apparatus at-large. This feels like it’s doomed to failure, yet the assholes are so detached that they can’t take a hint.
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It will never cease to amaze me how much O’Keefe/PV is villified, when they’re the closest thing to bonafide journalism in existence today. All major networks and papers are glorified tabloids at this point, running out the clocks on their once-prestigious branding.

@Gehenna mentioned before, though I might be misremembering all the details, that the coof policies are pretty much the only thing the administration can actually do at the moment. They've been hamstrung in every other policy they've wanted to put forward, but the coof shit was started before Joey arrived, so it can keep moving forward so they can look like they're doing something. It doesn't matter that the public is increasingly over the coof and fed up with the heavy-handed policies, they're incapable of admitting they screwed up and keep doubling down instead.

Seriously though, fucking try it, Joe. I haven't taken your shitty jab once, I'm certainly not going to take it every year until I kick the bucket (from a heart attack that's totally not connected to the jabs, no sirree).

 

[Ruin]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1494344830595522563

I wonder if Biden or the FBI realize without the password to someone's wallet you really can't 'seize' it.

Biden and his almost as old and demented handlers run foreign policy as if the Soviet Union is still around. It's absurd to think they can understand crypto enough to regulate it.

 

[Borscht]

I wonder if Biden or the FBI realize without the password to someone's wallet you really can't 'seize' it.

Allow me to introduce you to a high-tech, effectively failproof method of accessing even the most secure assets on the Internet. We call it "thermorectal cryptoanalysis" here in Motherland. It was largely used to collect business and gambling debts back in the good old nineties, jolly good times brought to us courtesy of Bill Clinton.

 

[Panama]

Allow me to introduce you to a high-tech, effectively failproof method of accessing even the most secure assets on the Internet. We call it "thermorectal cryptoanalysis" here in Motherland. It was largely used to collect business and gambling debts back in the good old nineties, jolly good times brought to us courtesy of Bill Clinton.

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Here in the good old US of A, our boys used a more time tested approach at password retrieval. Only 20 attempts though.