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The second thing that Ukrainian soldiers did after capturing the Russian city of Sudzha was take down the Lenin statue:

The first thing they did was give humanitarian aid to Russians in the form of food and hygienic supplies.

NOW – Germany blows up the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, once a symbol of the country's energy independence.pic.twitter.com/C0OeeSvIiL

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 16, 2024

The nuclear plant’s operations were discontinued in 2015. This is one of several actions Germany undertook that year to go back to the Middle Ages.

Only a few weeks ago, we were being told that Bidenomics is a great success and the economy is doing exceptionally well.

Today, Kamala Harris gives speeches about how people are struggling economically and enumerates everything that’s become more expensive or downright unaffordable during the Biden administration.

And it awakens nobody’s interest that the exact same Kamala who is rubbishing Biden’s economy today was praising it to the skies just a few weeks ago. Her view of the administration in which she’s still, even today, is second in command changed dramatically, and people simply accept that.

Please understand that my problem here isn’t with Kamala. Politicians lie to get elected. An honest politician is an oxymy. I’m trying to comprehend the people, regular voters, who accept this obvious contradiction and ask no questions.

Is the economy good or bad? You shouldn’t need Kamala to tell you. You can’t possibly have agreed that it’s wonderful a month ago and then agree that it’s very bad today.

People don’t know how to have their own opinions. That’s what bothers me. They need somebody to tell them what to think about everything, including their own daily experience.

This reminds me of the far right conspiracy theory that Putin is secretly a Jew who has made a secret pact with Zelenskyy (also a Jew) to destroy Mother Russia. https://t.co/QNUPqcrIsX

— Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social (@KuldkeppMart) August 16, 2024

This is the favorite theory of Russian nationalists. It’s actually quite funny because, to these morons, everybody in power is always a Jew.

No, Putin is not a Jew. He’s way too stupid to be one.

Harris’s proposed economic policy is so nutty that even the CNN couldn’t stay silent:

No part of her economic policy proposal is remotely sensible. This is what hiring from among the pronoun crowd gets you. Airheaded, infantile suggestions that even the US Pravda can’t endorse.

It beggars belief that we are seriously discussing this lisping childishness in year 2024.

It is an absolute tragedy of my life that I don’t have more children. A terrible, terrible mistake. I stupidly deprived myself of incredible joy. I will die knowing that I’m an idjit, and that’s not a nice thought to accompany you into the grave.

Come to think of it, I probably need to request that the words “Should have had more children” be engraved on my tombstone.

I have 15 grandchildren. I can assure you I love them with everything I have, but my children are doing a great job raising them and I’m , uh, well busy. https://t.co/FyTQ3FY6n5

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) August 14, 2024

My greatest wish in life is to live long enough to see a grandchild. Klara already promised she’ll let me burp her future babies on my shoulder. Admittedly, I’m not likely to see 15 grandchildren but I’d murder to be able to help raise even just one.

This American fashion of being too busy doing some exceptionally trivial crap to take care of grandkids is repellent. The impact that my grandparents and great-grandparents had on me was enormous. I’m glad they weren’t too busy to notice that the only thing that remains after we die are the people we brought into the world. I have pictures of my grandparents and great-grandparents in my bedroom, and I say hello and goodnight to them every day. I share my memories of them with my kid, so she will carry their memory further.

As they say, you truly die on the day when somebody says your name for the last time.

People are so confused on what matters in life, it’s extraordinary.

This is a bill Tim Walz signed in Minnesota, mandating the removal of children from their homes if parents refuse gender modifications, including the medical ones that are being abandoned by one developed country after another:

HF 146 grants a state court “temporary emergency jurisdiction” if a child in the state has been 1) abandoned, 2) threatened with or subjected to familial abuse, or 3) “unable to obtain gender-affirming health care.” The law defines “gender-affirming health care” as “medically necessary health care or mental health care that respects the gender identity of the patient, as experienced and defined by the patient,” including “interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex characteristics” and “developmentally appropriate exploration and integration of the patient’s gender identity.” Such an expansive definition covers everything from preferred clothing to medical interventions such as hormonal therapy and surgery.

Vance: Walz Supports Taking Children from Parents Who Oppose Gender Reassignment

This is shockingly aggressive and inhuman. And it’s going federal if Harris and Walz win the White House.

I don’t understand how people who say they are gender critical can vote for this.

Things are accelerating, my friends. The Harris campaign is now receiving slightly Americanized versions of the letters to Grandpa Lenin we read by the bucketful in my Soviet childhood. Whoever is familiar with the Grandpa Lenin genre will recognize the weepy tone, the grandiose claims and the subservient verbiage:

Ms. Harris, you are a light in the darkness for girls like me who dare to dream of a better future. I believe in you with all my heart. . . Ms. Harris, you are our last hope. You’re fighting not just for yourself but for all of us who see America as our home, our chance, our only hope for a better life. Please keep going. Keep inspiring us. Keep showing us that dreams can come true, no matter where we come from or what challenges we face.

https://www.gcvfriends.com/p/a-letter-to-vp-harris?r=1bfkeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Before you laugh, I need to let you know that Harris supporters are sharing this in all seriousness and without a shade of mockery.

I most sincerely hope that no actual 11-year-old girl was involved in the creation of this document in any capacity because a child doesn’t deserve this, no matter how peculiar her parents are.

The absolute gall of these people calling anybody else weird:

The job ad itself is actually even worse, if you can imagine it.