Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PhillyPhreak54]

farging whack job

https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1507107449710559243 21

[Eagaholic]

I dunno Jay, there's a lot of big words so it sounds pretty official.

[MDS]

everyone has known for years and years ginni thomas was a farging lunatic hellbent on destroying the country with her even more awful husband and nobody did jack shtein about it

farg the democrats and media whores

[phattymatty]

we don't ever get any luck, would be nice if Clarence croaked.

[Munson]

we don't ever get any luck, would be nice if Clarence croaked.

[MDS]

[SD]

Maher droppin knowledge


https://youtu.be/05Q1Bzg5zTY

[MDS]

things i didnt watch for $2000 alex

[SD]

things i didnt watch for $2000 alex

Cool watch the Oscar's instead

[PhillyPhreak54]

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1508463513013997580 21&t=Aif49tbeMFvix8k8LEnFkQ

[phattymatty]

Putin is kinda like doc rivers - doesn't know how to innovate.

might be time to update the assassination methods broski.

[PhillyPhreak54]

What the farg.

https://twitter.com/heartlandsignal/status/1508506135212474376 21&t=Vb-dOJiMKIX2matlsjKNgw

[PhillyPhreak54]

Someone help me understand this

Biden says Saturday "for gods sake this man cannot remain in power"

And people are screeching for him to walk it back? And he has to come out and clarify he's not calling for regime change?

Why is that a big deal? Anyone with a couple brain cells should know a regime change is EXACTLY what's needed in Russia because that guy is murdering women and children and innocent civilians.

So what am I missing here? He gotta go. But we can't say that?

[Eagaholic]

I think it is because from Putin's pov, there is nothing more threatening than regime chance because it is a personally existential threat to him. Same with all of these despots. Going down that dictator rabbit hole and now likely guilty of war crimes, regime change is not an option for him. It means humiliating death or worse, prison.

He is already unreasonably paranoid. If he thinks someone in his circle wants to off him, or he could be convicted, not to even mention the humiliation of losing the next election he has so carefully rigged - his thought is if he's gonna go down, no reason not to take the rest of the world with him, there's nothing to loose. There was a chilling comment about winning back the old USSR, something like "if there is no world with (old) Russia, what is the point of having a world?" That's why there are back peddling from regime change, they don't want to help provoke nuke ww3.

[Diomedes]

Eagleholic has the right of it.  One consideration that is important:  even if the policy is not to bring about Putin's demise, and even if he and the Russians know that, it's important to limit as much as possible any comment or action that he could cast as an excuse for escalation.  He's already got his country hook line and sinker on the concept that the West wants to destroy Russia (when in fact, we have no interest at all in that), so Biden is not helping matters by giving audio clips in line with that propaganda.   

There is also this:   Regime change is, as a matter of fact, just not the U.S. policy or goal in Russia.  Biden spoke too loosely, and the speech of the President matters, so unless he was announcing a change in U.S. policy, it's important for many players, domestic and foreign, that his statement be clarified. 

I think he and the White House did a fine job of that in this case.  State Department made it clear that the President was speaking off the cuff (as everyone knows he is prone to do at times, especially regarding emotional matters.)  Then the President addressed the matter directly, both making it clear that actual regime change is NOT the U.S. policy and also that he would not take back the spirit of his comments, because Putin is a butcher of women and children.