My birds will have to suffer now because most of the sunflower seeds come from that region. Prepare to starve Birds. Do your patriotic duty!! Squirrels—you are on your own. I know for a fact you will eat plastic! And rubber hoses. Hmmm. I’d like to take a rubber hose to a few people.
i grew a lot of sunflowers last year, and I've been a devoted seed saver for years. hardest part of growing sunflowers is the chipmunks- the plants have to grow enough to have stems like pencils before the chipmunks can't nip them off. for all my efforts last year- covering, spraying with hot pepper, etc, i still lost about half of what i planted.
the persistence and ingenuity of chipmunks is admirable.. they are good role models for us in our own lives,. we might outwit the march of tyranny by learning from our little furry friends.
but does anyone have any tips for keeping them from eating all my sunflowers? they have so many other things around here for food....
I'm in Europe, thus no chipmunks. So I am not sure if this works on them as well, but the deer started staying away from my vegetable garden when I went to the zoo, bought tiger and lion feces as fertiliser, and dug it in. (Apparently it is a thing -- already came in specially marked and branded bags and everything.)
lol ! you sure reached for the top-shelf weapon, didn't you?. it's a good strategy you have. the big cats are apex predators capable of eating chipmunks like popcorn, and they're intelligent. it might make my chipmunks reassess their position.... i'll have to look for some of that stuff and use it to fertilize my sunflowers
chipmunks? The bunnies ravage mine every year. two years ago, I went through the pain staking trouble of buying chicken wire at Homie Depot and making little fences (save the metal hardware from campaign lawn signs lol) I also use tomato cage fencing. Get creative 😂😱😂😂
i did about the same to tame my bunnies. i got the one inch wire mesh fencing (the kind used for lobster pots) in rolls and went around the entire perimeter of my garden with it, and made some small cages too. stuck in the ground a bit and the bunnies won't bother to dig under it. bunnies and i are friends now. i always keep some nice clumps of grass and clover around for them and i don't use chemicals. we reached a diplomatic solution
but the chipmunks climb as well as burrow, they're more acrobatic than bunnies and far more persistent. bunnies only eat so much in one sitting. chipmunks store food as well. my chipmunks have huge warehouses and seed silos all over the place. they never stop. i watch them in admiration, but also dismay. if only they'd use their skills to bring down the "new world order" and let my sunflowers grow.
I save all that election sign stuff. The core boards are awesome and that hint for the holders is great! I’m changing my political party this year. I live on a corner so I always get asked. Sorry no Democrats soiling my land this year.
i start them in peat pots too, but by the time their stems would be thick enough that the chipmunks won't bother with them, the plants would be about three feet high! i have to plant them into the gardens earlier than that, then spray some hot pepper and dish soap on the stems as a deterrent. it helps a bit, but the chipmunks still take about half the plants.
they work in teams. they're stealthy, and can get around any barrier. they are the military special forces of the animal world.
Chipmunks are cute but just as diabolical as squirrels. I used to keep bird food in the garage. Not now —they learned it was there. I was outside one morning and looking in the garage window there was a little chippy face staring back at me.
I've got tons of chipmunks, bunnies and groundhogs. The baby groundhogs are really cute but eat like lawnmowers. It's almost scary to watch... and there go a lot of plants
After failing several years in a row, I tried starting indoors in peat pots. That worked-- they got a good start & didn't seem to mind transplanting since their roots weren't disturbed at all.
Like all the farm land and water rights. “Let them eat fake meat!! Im not rich or evil enough”. Like the English king Henry II muttering about his archbishop Thomas Becket “will no one rid me of this meddlesome……….” But I’m not a king as gates claims to be a doctor.
We have a squirrel problem in my neighbourhood. I can only imagine how bad it will be when the abandoned house most of them call home, is torn down. Mind you, they might be a source of protein...
I grew up hunting squirrels with my dad and cousins. Probably my favorite past time. Love fried squirrel. A wee bit tough but very tasty. Where I live in the Rocky Mountain West we don't have many and in the mountains they are tiny.
So, every now and again, I will make a pilgrimage back east to hunt squirrels.
I've accidentally eaten a squirrel. They told me it was chicken. I didn't want to insult their cooking. Then they admitted that they'd shot it in my own yard.
I did a catering last year and the groom requested we serve squirrel to the best man. I made a raspberry coulis and splattered it on the plate. Squirrel lay prone, BBQ’d and of course loosely filled with rice. The server almost puked
Squirrel is ok. I’ve had it. I went to my local conservation district and they are removing habitat instead of saving it. They trap and destroy beavers when they show up. Clear out sheltering water side plants.
My world has become so sad, sad, sad. My several siblings are all woke and it's getting very difficult to claim them as family. Especially when they have pretty much ostracized me for --to begin with-- my view on the plandemic measures... and on and on. Sad, sad, sad.
Yup. One sis now castigated me for not mentioning the word Ukraine in my texts enough. Or at all! That I am detached. No kidding. She and another sis have become the unsaid thought police now. Predicted Segway right to Ukraine. I sent back the Wendell Berry poem The Peace of Wild Things.
Considering how much egging on the POTUS did in the lead up to invasion, without actually doing anything meaningful to stop the invasion, all theories are possible, except that there are any good guys anywhere at a policy-making level.
I fear it is not just the wrong side, but the LOSING side if we press it. Things will get desperate in the West without Russia/Ukraine's oil, gas, fertilizer, wheat etc (which China will happily purchase, via their own non -SWIFT exchange currencies). Russians may not able able to purchase a new I-Phone but Europe will freeze in the dark, Africa will starve, and North America is going to see hardship and inflation beyond normal folks' comprehension. Russian will have plenty of wheat, food, power and gasoline for transportation and logistics and survival.
LOL, Janet, if your sis feels so strongly about Ukraine, she should go and fight with them. Tell her, imagine all the good she could do to bring comfort to a war torn region. I am sure she can find a group where she can volunteer for this. she can travel, she has been jabbed so get on that plane and go go go! In much of her talking, thinking is half murdered.....
I pointed out that jaw flapping helps nothing. I then closed with the fact I was praying and sent some money to a relief organization for now. She won’t do anything. I could have told her i was looking for the truth but that would have been just another trigger.
We are no longer permitted freedom of thought or freedom of speech. I once laughed at the churning out of baby liberals from colleges, never realizing they were so brainwashed that they could never reverse their thought processes. I'm not laughing now. They are destroying everything good about America, or allowing others to do so.
The encouraged divide and apparent widespread hatred that has shockingly been expressed renders this quite plausible. I have never in my 70 years felt so shocked and helpless by what I have witnessed in the last couple years. Despite my training as a critical social scientist, I feel speechless much of the time, still processing. From whereI stand, the wokeness has not softened.
Maybe say something like this to her: "I've taken your advice and have read up on the Ukraine-Russia situation. I have a question, and since you obviously have put your heart and soul into this, I figured you'd be best placed to answer it. What are the differences and similarities between what is happening now and what happened in 2014? There must be some huge difference, because the outcry was tiny in 2014 compared to now, and I'd be terribly curious to understand why." Something tells me she'd have no clear answer.
I was telling my woke brother that if he can find all of the outrage texts he sent me about Ukraine from 2014, I'll listen to his opinion now. Funny, I haven't seen any.
Up on my FB page popped a complaint I had about Putin and Ukraine 8 years ago today. I was upset then. am upset now but feel Biden's meddling now has us cheering on a dictator
Goose, I know that, and even though it's true, it hurts. I'm 72 and have six sibs with whom I have, in no ambiguous terms, "grown up with." I know I'm better off with my new family, and I wish I had more of them locally. Online support is fabulous, but I want more homies to hug.
I understand but...problem is, they do not want to hug you....sad but true and this is where we don the big boy or girl panties and stand our ground. blood does not make you family. This is a bad time in the world and no matter what age, time for strength and resilience.
I've found it's easier to contract it out. $50, $100 for an hour and it satisfies basic needs. None of that silly emotional shit, considering the needs of others, and people underfoot at the house. 😎
Oh, honey, same here. The body gets hungry for the touch of other bodies. If babies aren't hugged and cuddled, they die. That's what those moronic dictators wanted-- mask 'em up, lock 'em down, make 'em afraid to come anywhere closer to each other than 6 feet (if you want a really senseless restriction, that's one). Truly pernicious.
A old friend from HS in CA just posted a picture showing how he is proud that he is outside (in his yard) without a mask, saying that's all he's ready for so far.
I wrote several comments (all kind) but I gave up trying not to sound pitying and just moved on.
Luckily my sisters have ostracized me for, hmmm, let's see, 1, 2, 3...going on 4 decades. I don't know for sure whether either is jabbed, but I can guess.
For many people, the idea of being cut off from family is really harsh. But in reality, many of these people are dysfunctional at least, mentally disordered at their worst. Some can be like emotional rabid dogs. Do you want to expose yourself to that? Is that healthy? No.
Walking away permanently or even for a period of time for your mental and emotional health is not a bad thing. It's a survival strategy that one has to take, especially if they have something like a personality disorder.
Bingo. The bottom line is, as I learned in my early 30s I was apparently supposed to be an abortion via hysterectomy, until a nosy relative intervened. Hence the family mantra "Mary ruined it. Mary ruins everything."
Well guess what? They ruined everything for me too. A toxic mess of narcissistic assholes, and I was done with spending my life trying to clean up their shit & trying to start over.
I am still the only person I know who was called down to the high school principal's office because of my mother's bad behavior. Yeah, he asked me to have a talk with her. 🙄
Good for your for realizing their toxic behavior and making a change in your life.
We choose our friends. Not our relatives. Most people don't realize that in many, many cases, our friends can be better, especially if the relatives in question are toxic.
I never said that but it became more and more clear as I got older that my Mother felt I had ruined her life, that I was the reason she had to cut short her career, get married and move to the US.
She first called me a slut when I was five.
We had a complicated relationship and I felt a lot of relief when I stopped trying to get her to love me as much as my little sister.
I know she did love me.
I kept the stormy relationship with her but was careful over the years.
When she was terminally ill, I was the one she last spoke with. I was on the hospital bed with her and she was frightened and I was cradling her and soothing her like a baby to go to sleep that it was all going to be okay.
And it will be.
The reason I share this is so y'all (Not just Mary) know that they DO love you. They just have their demons.
My mother hated babies & children. This was well known within the extended family.
Her problem was was extreme narcissism. She had been sick as a baby & her mother over protected her as a result. Her older sister was made to wait on her, she learned to feign illness to get special treatment. She treated everybody like servants, incurring resentment everywhere.
In hindsight I believe it was a kind if Munchausen (sp?) Syndrome, that became by proxy. For example, when I was 14, the 1st time my parents went away for the weekend & left me locked out in the street, she called at 10pm & was clearly shocked & angry when I answered the phone.
She clearly expected me to not answer. What was her end game? To have a "missing child" emergency?
She used my sisters & I as excuses all the time for her crazy behavior. As did my father.
Um, my mother never said anything remotely like that, lol.
I do remember once, when I was 9 or 10, & she was yelling at me for some crime or other, she finished her tirade with "I didn't ask to give birth to you, you know!"
Stung, I retorted, "Yeah, well I didn't ask to get born either!"
She was shocked, but seriously, what did she expect? It was the 1st & only time I ever back-talked.
Wow. Harsh. I probably won’t see mine until the next funeral. They are lifelong heavy smokers and sedentary. One on G&Ts plus some pain opiates. The other is just an angry pain in the you know where. Like a crazy aunt we had. I have such peace when I block them at times. It may not be my funeral then. I’m way older though.
The last time I saw 1, she told me she hated me, had always hated me would always hate me. Claimed due to "sibling rivalry." All in her head. Until then, I thought she was the smartest, funniest, coolest big sister in the world. On the + side, she set me free. And I see her much more clearly now. Prolly a triple-jabbed, lawyer-Karen.
The last time I saw my eldest sister after a couple invites, I left work early on a Friday & drove 7 hours for a weekend visit. The screaming abuse started immediately. I spent 2 days walking around with her following & screaming at me & hee husband following her, begging for her to stop screaming at me.
"I AM NOT SCREAMING AT MARY!!"
"I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE! YES YOU ARE SCREAMING AT HER!!!"
"AM NOT!!!"
"YES YOU ARE!!! YOU'VE DONE NOTHING BUT SCREAM SINCE SHE WALKED IN THE DOOR!!! SHE DROVE 7 HOURS TO SEE YOY AND ALK YOU'VE DONE IS SCREAM ABUSE AT HER!!!"
She actually invited me back a few more times.
For some odd reason, I never found the time. Eventually she stopped asking & I'm sure that became another "bad bad Mary" family smear.
Wow. You are well rid of her. How horrible. Same with my youngest sis. The resentment has come out big time. Projecting like crazy. I can’t help it if she was married at 16 to an abuser. Married another she isn’t getting along with, been arrested twice for drunk driving. Suffering now from lifelong smoking, afraid to go anywhere and has an estranged daughter because she and family are unvaxxed. She reeks of unhappiness and anger. If this whole thing was satans plan (and I believe it was) he must be laughing his flaming arse off. Stay strong. I feel I have family here in these spaces.
I now realize this, and avoid entangling with them. Since we as sibs live all over the US, we have a monthly zoom family meeting, during which I have indeed learned months ago not to speak my side. It feels so g*dd*mn artificial and bizarre. But at this time I don't want to lose touch over "differences" of opinion when I *still* believe/hope/pray that they will get un-woke once the truth about the fouchi-ouchi is actually out in the MSM (ha). We can wish, can't we?
Recently I wrote a piece called Sugar for the Feeble Minded. It's incredible how the woke mind hurdles reality and how they get to that point. I'm sorry about your siblings, it's so difficult to not be in like mind with the ones you used to be closest with. I've had similar experiences with my own sibling, and it hurts.
In New Jersey, the government in Newark voted to revoke the licenses of two Lukoil gas stations in the city. Senator Cory Booker backs this move, saying that the employees should be able to find other jobs since so many places are hiring. Hopefully that will be the case. But this is a minority, urban community where I would bet the employees walk or bike to work. Will they be able to find a job within that distance? What about the owners? Are they supposed to just open another gas station? And what if this happens to every Lukoil in the state or the country? Nothing like putting people out of work again. This is Wokeness gone mad.
Just missing one paycheck could mean not being able to pay rent, but I guess Cory Booker isn't concerned about employees. Then there's the question of how Newark justified revoking the gas station licenses.
It does place ex-employee in a tough situation. How are you going to rob the gas station you used to work, when the local government has put it out of business (perhaps illegally) just for political correctness?
Seriously, in the "old days" things like this did not happen, unless there was a specific declaration from (usually) the Federal Government, declaration of war, etc. I'm not an attorney, but I'm pretty sure that "sanctions" don't justify violations of the law against a legally established business in the USA. However, "rule of law" doesn't seem to mean much these days, as "Russian oligarch" Yacht owners are discovering in Europe, even if (as seems likely) they have no connection whatsoever to Russia. How long before I'm declared a domestic terrorist and my bank account is seized, because I voted for an out-of-favor candidate, or I repeated "misinformation" on the internet? Can't happen here? Are you sure?
Or when the CDC suspended landlord's rights to be paid rent? A lot of very small mom&pop type rental owners lost their ability to pay their mortgages with no recourse.
The French for some reason do spell Putin’s name as Poutine. Because otherwise it would never be pronounced correctly I suppose. Which makes the cheese fries thing pretty darn hilarious.
I keep wondering when the woke crowd will go after languages like French that have gender assigned to objects. Who are we to assume all doors identify as female? Or that all cheeses identify as male?
Perhaps Putin now identifies as female, since they have feminized his name.
Putain would better refer to the Bidens, Kerrys, Romneys and other Washington insiders that prostituted their influence in return for kickbacks of the US taxpayer money that funneled into Ukraine since 2014 or so.
Nope that is a different pronunciation as well. English speakers often pronounce the same word differently in different places but not a common issue in French (excl Francophones). Take the word “roof” for example. Some say it like oof, some like uff.
Hey Gatito Malo Malo, I should admit that my abode is shared by two of your kind. One of them is a "Russian." I now guard my conversation, and take all phone calls outside. Y'all are too unpredictable. And yes, we are now looking for Ukrainian dressing.
Ah my dear God, I can't have a Russian Blue kitty cat anymore?!? (Perhaps I can keep him hidden under the bed? and certainly not let it be known I have a Russian under the bed.)
I know... you try and raise them right, and they still go outside. They still hunt lizards. They still roll in the gravel driveways dust pockets. Im at a loss, really...
As a cat person, you should know you will always be at a loss regarding their behavior. They know it, too, and they take vicious advantage of our ignorance. ;)
Comrade Titania McGrath has a great thread on her joke predictions becoming woke reality, as well as everything that is considered racist or white supremacy.
Substacker Euypppius had a piece the other day how some german docs are announcing they aren't going to treat Russian expats anymore. This reminds me of FDRs EO 9066 which put Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Horrible https://www.eugyppius.com/p/ortrud-steinlein-director-of-lmu/comments?s=r
"... we have reached fatal levels of stupidity." This is what I thought when the whole world indiscriminately put 'Je suis Charlie' on their asocial media accounts. I did not think it could get any more hypocritical and ignorant.
I don't remember, in any previous war that we've engaged in or not, where we have banned names and items that are somehow connected to the enemy. Did we ban rice when we were in Vietnam? how about anything Middle Eastern? Again, this is low level theatre created for the sole purpose of capturing the minds of the people, really--the dumbest of people.
Put 1000 monkeys in a room with 1000 typewriters and you may get all the works of Shakespeare with time but even the monkeys couldn't come up with this idiotic Wokeness crap.
Poe's Law: Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.
When I first heard that they were changing the name, I could only think, "Poutine's not a Russian dish. WTF?"
My mind apparently could *not* sink to the level of stupidity required to link poutine to Putin phonetically. I didn't grasp that stupidity until I saw the CTV News item above.
once on vacation in quebec province before canada became a fascist enclave i stopped for lunch and got the putine and hot dog special. i could hardly walking out to the car.....
Y'all don't recall "Freedom Fries"?
My birds will have to suffer now because most of the sunflower seeds come from that region. Prepare to starve Birds. Do your patriotic duty!! Squirrels—you are on your own. I know for a fact you will eat plastic! And rubber hoses. Hmmm. I’d like to take a rubber hose to a few people.
Crisis = opportunity: I immediately decided to add sunflowers to my garden. Just male sure to get seed varieties.
I love the huge tall ones. Watch the birds hang on and eat.
i grew a lot of sunflowers last year, and I've been a devoted seed saver for years. hardest part of growing sunflowers is the chipmunks- the plants have to grow enough to have stems like pencils before the chipmunks can't nip them off. for all my efforts last year- covering, spraying with hot pepper, etc, i still lost about half of what i planted.
the persistence and ingenuity of chipmunks is admirable.. they are good role models for us in our own lives,. we might outwit the march of tyranny by learning from our little furry friends.
but does anyone have any tips for keeping them from eating all my sunflowers? they have so many other things around here for food....
I'm in Europe, thus no chipmunks. So I am not sure if this works on them as well, but the deer started staying away from my vegetable garden when I went to the zoo, bought tiger and lion feces as fertiliser, and dug it in. (Apparently it is a thing -- already came in specially marked and branded bags and everything.)
lol ! you sure reached for the top-shelf weapon, didn't you?. it's a good strategy you have. the big cats are apex predators capable of eating chipmunks like popcorn, and they're intelligent. it might make my chipmunks reassess their position.... i'll have to look for some of that stuff and use it to fertilize my sunflowers
chipmunks? The bunnies ravage mine every year. two years ago, I went through the pain staking trouble of buying chicken wire at Homie Depot and making little fences (save the metal hardware from campaign lawn signs lol) I also use tomato cage fencing. Get creative 😂😱😂😂
i did about the same to tame my bunnies. i got the one inch wire mesh fencing (the kind used for lobster pots) in rolls and went around the entire perimeter of my garden with it, and made some small cages too. stuck in the ground a bit and the bunnies won't bother to dig under it. bunnies and i are friends now. i always keep some nice clumps of grass and clover around for them and i don't use chemicals. we reached a diplomatic solution
but the chipmunks climb as well as burrow, they're more acrobatic than bunnies and far more persistent. bunnies only eat so much in one sitting. chipmunks store food as well. my chipmunks have huge warehouses and seed silos all over the place. they never stop. i watch them in admiration, but also dismay. if only they'd use their skills to bring down the "new world order" and let my sunflowers grow.
I save all that election sign stuff. The core boards are awesome and that hint for the holders is great! I’m changing my political party this year. I live on a corner so I always get asked. Sorry no Democrats soiling my land this year.
In the past I've started them indoors in peat pots. That way, they had no problem with transplanting. At least ime!
i start them in peat pots too, but by the time their stems would be thick enough that the chipmunks won't bother with them, the plants would be about three feet high! i have to plant them into the gardens earlier than that, then spray some hot pepper and dish soap on the stems as a deterrent. it helps a bit, but the chipmunks still take about half the plants.
they work in teams. they're stealthy, and can get around any barrier. they are the military special forces of the animal world.
Chipmunks are cute but just as diabolical as squirrels. I used to keep bird food in the garage. Not now —they learned it was there. I was outside one morning and looking in the garage window there was a little chippy face staring back at me.
I've got tons of chipmunks, bunnies and groundhogs. The baby groundhogs are really cute but eat like lawnmowers. It's almost scary to watch... and there go a lot of plants
they are adorable, aren't they? baby woodchucks once ate my entire pea patch in a single morning.
I hope you're not trying to grow them near squirrels or deer. Losing proposition. Chipmunks, too.
After failing several years in a row, I tried starting indoors in peat pots. That worked-- they got a good start & didn't seem to mind transplanting since their roots weren't disturbed at all.
You’ll need to keep them away from sweater-boy Gates. I hear he wants to own all the seeds.
Like all the farm land and water rights. “Let them eat fake meat!! Im not rich or evil enough”. Like the English king Henry II muttering about his archbishop Thomas Becket “will no one rid me of this meddlesome……….” But I’m not a king as gates claims to be a doctor.
He is well on his way to doing just that: https://www.latestusanews.com/how-bill-gates-seized-control-of-the-worlds-seed-banks-and-waged-war-on-nature/
How do we stop him?
Moths. He needs moths.
The struggle is real!
We have a squirrel problem in my neighbourhood. I can only imagine how bad it will be when the abandoned house most of them call home, is torn down. Mind you, they might be a source of protein...
I grew up hunting squirrels with my dad and cousins. Probably my favorite past time. Love fried squirrel. A wee bit tough but very tasty. Where I live in the Rocky Mountain West we don't have many and in the mountains they are tiny.
So, every now and again, I will make a pilgrimage back east to hunt squirrels.
Squirrel and biscuits in cream gravy is to die for. Parboil first and then pan fry.
I've accidentally eaten a squirrel. They told me it was chicken. I didn't want to insult their cooking. Then they admitted that they'd shot it in my own yard.
I did a catering last year and the groom requested we serve squirrel to the best man. I made a raspberry coulis and splattered it on the plate. Squirrel lay prone, BBQ’d and of course loosely filled with rice. The server almost puked
I know a place...
https://tempestinateardrop.com/2021/01/11/squirrel-vs-squirrel/
Squirrel is ok. I’ve had it. I went to my local conservation district and they are removing habitat instead of saving it. They trap and destroy beavers when they show up. Clear out sheltering water side plants.
Roasted beaver tail was a mountain man's delight. I don't know if it's good; I've never made it.
If push comes to shove, parboil first and then barbecue on the grill. . .IF we still have propane.
If no propane, use a rocket stove!
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I was just gonna say that. Its all jingoist bullshit.
soooo one is consciously overt.
The other is surreptitiously (to dumb lefties) terrified of being confused with today's media enemy
Of course. I thought it was funny. This is just dumb.
I came here just to verify this was the top comment.
My world has become so sad, sad, sad. My several siblings are all woke and it's getting very difficult to claim them as family. Especially when they have pretty much ostracized me for --to begin with-- my view on the plandemic measures... and on and on. Sad, sad, sad.
Yup. One sis now castigated me for not mentioning the word Ukraine in my texts enough. Or at all! That I am detached. No kidding. She and another sis have become the unsaid thought police now. Predicted Segway right to Ukraine. I sent back the Wendell Berry poem The Peace of Wild Things.
first time in my life, 71 years, I know, before the outcome, that the US is on the wrong side!
Considering how much egging on the POTUS did in the lead up to invasion, without actually doing anything meaningful to stop the invasion, all theories are possible, except that there are any good guys anywhere at a policy-making level.
I fear it is not just the wrong side, but the LOSING side if we press it. Things will get desperate in the West without Russia/Ukraine's oil, gas, fertilizer, wheat etc (which China will happily purchase, via their own non -SWIFT exchange currencies). Russians may not able able to purchase a new I-Phone but Europe will freeze in the dark, Africa will starve, and North America is going to see hardship and inflation beyond normal folks' comprehension. Russian will have plenty of wheat, food, power and gasoline for transportation and logistics and survival.
LOL, Janet, if your sis feels so strongly about Ukraine, she should go and fight with them. Tell her, imagine all the good she could do to bring comfort to a war torn region. I am sure she can find a group where she can volunteer for this. she can travel, she has been jabbed so get on that plane and go go go! In much of her talking, thinking is half murdered.....
I pointed out that jaw flapping helps nothing. I then closed with the fact I was praying and sent some money to a relief organization for now. She won’t do anything. I could have told her i was looking for the truth but that would have been just another trigger.
Good for you Janet, making a difference, not just flapping your gums! Woke is whack! LOL!
We are no longer permitted freedom of thought or freedom of speech. I once laughed at the churning out of baby liberals from colleges, never realizing they were so brainwashed that they could never reverse their thought processes. I'm not laughing now. They are destroying everything good about America, or allowing others to do so.
As threatening as global tyranny is, the policing by our loved ones adds an uncanny and unsecuring dimension I could never have imagined.
When I read your comment it reminded me of comments of parents during the cultural revolution in China
I see this. How close are they to becoming “informants”? On their family.
The encouraged divide and apparent widespread hatred that has shockingly been expressed renders this quite plausible. I have never in my 70 years felt so shocked and helpless by what I have witnessed in the last couple years. Despite my training as a critical social scientist, I feel speechless much of the time, still processing. From whereI stand, the wokeness has not softened.
Maybe say something like this to her: "I've taken your advice and have read up on the Ukraine-Russia situation. I have a question, and since you obviously have put your heart and soul into this, I figured you'd be best placed to answer it. What are the differences and similarities between what is happening now and what happened in 2014? There must be some huge difference, because the outcry was tiny in 2014 compared to now, and I'd be terribly curious to understand why." Something tells me she'd have no clear answer.
I may do that! Thanks.
Tell her you will match her donation to wherever she sent her $....guaranteed her money is not aligned with her mouth (tweets and texts).
I was watching an Einzelganger video on YT about Epictetus, and one of the comments was "Why haven't you expressed your support for Ukraine ?"
oh my golly gosh . . .
Scary.
I was telling my woke brother that if he can find all of the outrage texts he sent me about Ukraine from 2014, I'll listen to his opinion now. Funny, I haven't seen any.
Ooooh, good reply.
Up on my FB page popped a complaint I had about Putin and Ukraine 8 years ago today. I was upset then. am upset now but feel Biden's meddling now has us cheering on a dictator
Nooice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfq55aiqPc
jump for joy they ostracize you-they are batshit crazy-no offense but you are better off without them for now
Goose, I know that, and even though it's true, it hurts. I'm 72 and have six sibs with whom I have, in no ambiguous terms, "grown up with." I know I'm better off with my new family, and I wish I had more of them locally. Online support is fabulous, but I want more homies to hug.
I understand but...problem is, they do not want to hug you....sad but true and this is where we don the big boy or girl panties and stand our ground. blood does not make you family. This is a bad time in the world and no matter what age, time for strength and resilience.
No different than during the Revolution or the Civil War. Stand tall and be tough. If we are to save America we have to be in it for the long haul.
It's a little different. We are here. They are there.
damn right
I have hugging friends. Family not so much.
I've found it's easier to contract it out. $50, $100 for an hour and it satisfies basic needs. None of that silly emotional shit, considering the needs of others, and people underfoot at the house. 😎
🤣🤣. What ever gets you through this shitstorm.
sending hugs.
Boots, to you too!
I needed that, thanks.
Oh, honey, same here. The body gets hungry for the touch of other bodies. If babies aren't hugged and cuddled, they die. That's what those moronic dictators wanted-- mask 'em up, lock 'em down, make 'em afraid to come anywhere closer to each other than 6 feet (if you want a really senseless restriction, that's one). Truly pernicious.
It's sad. one wants to help them but they snarl.
A old friend from HS in CA just posted a picture showing how he is proud that he is outside (in his yard) without a mask, saying that's all he's ready for so far.
I wrote several comments (all kind) but I gave up trying not to sound pitying and just moved on.
Luckily my sisters have ostracized me for, hmmm, let's see, 1, 2, 3...going on 4 decades. I don't know for sure whether either is jabbed, but I can guess.
For many people, the idea of being cut off from family is really harsh. But in reality, many of these people are dysfunctional at least, mentally disordered at their worst. Some can be like emotional rabid dogs. Do you want to expose yourself to that? Is that healthy? No.
Walking away permanently or even for a period of time for your mental and emotional health is not a bad thing. It's a survival strategy that one has to take, especially if they have something like a personality disorder.
Bingo. The bottom line is, as I learned in my early 30s I was apparently supposed to be an abortion via hysterectomy, until a nosy relative intervened. Hence the family mantra "Mary ruined it. Mary ruins everything."
Well guess what? They ruined everything for me too. A toxic mess of narcissistic assholes, and I was done with spending my life trying to clean up their shit & trying to start over.
I am still the only person I know who was called down to the high school principal's office because of my mother's bad behavior. Yeah, he asked me to have a talk with her. 🙄
Good for your for realizing their toxic behavior and making a change in your life.
We choose our friends. Not our relatives. Most people don't realize that in many, many cases, our friends can be better, especially if the relatives in question are toxic.
Thank God you are here!!
I never said that but it became more and more clear as I got older that my Mother felt I had ruined her life, that I was the reason she had to cut short her career, get married and move to the US.
She first called me a slut when I was five.
We had a complicated relationship and I felt a lot of relief when I stopped trying to get her to love me as much as my little sister.
I know she did love me.
I kept the stormy relationship with her but was careful over the years.
When she was terminally ill, I was the one she last spoke with. I was on the hospital bed with her and she was frightened and I was cradling her and soothing her like a baby to go to sleep that it was all going to be okay.
And it will be.
The reason I share this is so y'all (Not just Mary) know that they DO love you. They just have their demons.
My mother hated babies & children. This was well known within the extended family.
Her problem was was extreme narcissism. She had been sick as a baby & her mother over protected her as a result. Her older sister was made to wait on her, she learned to feign illness to get special treatment. She treated everybody like servants, incurring resentment everywhere.
In hindsight I believe it was a kind if Munchausen (sp?) Syndrome, that became by proxy. For example, when I was 14, the 1st time my parents went away for the weekend & left me locked out in the street, she called at 10pm & was clearly shocked & angry when I answered the phone.
She clearly expected me to not answer. What was her end game? To have a "missing child" emergency?
She used my sisters & I as excuses all the time for her crazy behavior. As did my father.
They were a match made in hell.
That's truly horrifying. You are amazingly strong.
🙁
"Life is good/And I feel great/Cause mother says I was/A great mistake"
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eels/novocaineforthesoul.html
Um, my mother never said anything remotely like that, lol.
I do remember once, when I was 9 or 10, & she was yelling at me for some crime or other, she finished her tirade with "I didn't ask to give birth to you, you know!"
Stung, I retorted, "Yeah, well I didn't ask to get born either!"
She was shocked, but seriously, what did she expect? It was the 1st & only time I ever back-talked.
I can only send my best wishes. Why why why would someone tell you?
Wow. Harsh. I probably won’t see mine until the next funeral. They are lifelong heavy smokers and sedentary. One on G&Ts plus some pain opiates. The other is just an angry pain in the you know where. Like a crazy aunt we had. I have such peace when I block them at times. It may not be my funeral then. I’m way older though.
The last time I saw 1, she told me she hated me, had always hated me would always hate me. Claimed due to "sibling rivalry." All in her head. Until then, I thought she was the smartest, funniest, coolest big sister in the world. On the + side, she set me free. And I see her much more clearly now. Prolly a triple-jabbed, lawyer-Karen.
The last time I saw my eldest sister after a couple invites, I left work early on a Friday & drove 7 hours for a weekend visit. The screaming abuse started immediately. I spent 2 days walking around with her following & screaming at me & hee husband following her, begging for her to stop screaming at me.
"I AM NOT SCREAMING AT MARY!!"
"I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE! YES YOU ARE SCREAMING AT HER!!!"
"AM NOT!!!"
"YES YOU ARE!!! YOU'VE DONE NOTHING BUT SCREAM SINCE SHE WALKED IN THE DOOR!!! SHE DROVE 7 HOURS TO SEE YOY AND ALK YOU'VE DONE IS SCREAM ABUSE AT HER!!!"
She actually invited me back a few more times.
For some odd reason, I never found the time. Eventually she stopped asking & I'm sure that became another "bad bad Mary" family smear.
I am so sorry you’ve gone through that. It sounds horrible.
Wow. You are well rid of her. How horrible. Same with my youngest sis. The resentment has come out big time. Projecting like crazy. I can’t help it if she was married at 16 to an abuser. Married another she isn’t getting along with, been arrested twice for drunk driving. Suffering now from lifelong smoking, afraid to go anywhere and has an estranged daughter because she and family are unvaxxed. She reeks of unhappiness and anger. If this whole thing was satans plan (and I believe it was) he must be laughing his flaming arse off. Stay strong. I feel I have family here in these spaces.
On the upside, you're not her husband.
so awful and so familiar. You are clearly the stronger and mentally stable sister.
My family the same. But I'm not ostracized due to my only listening, not commenting, to what they have to say in order to find out where they stand.
Waste of time to try to state some important truths. Their convictions are too deeply imbedded to even get through to them.
I now realize this, and avoid entangling with them. Since we as sibs live all over the US, we have a monthly zoom family meeting, during which I have indeed learned months ago not to speak my side. It feels so g*dd*mn artificial and bizarre. But at this time I don't want to lose touch over "differences" of opinion when I *still* believe/hope/pray that they will get un-woke once the truth about the fouchi-ouchi is actually out in the MSM (ha). We can wish, can't we?
Recently I wrote a piece called Sugar for the Feeble Minded. It's incredible how the woke mind hurdles reality and how they get to that point. I'm sorry about your siblings, it's so difficult to not be in like mind with the ones you used to be closest with. I've had similar experiences with my own sibling, and it hurts.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/sugar-for-the-feeble-minded?s=w
In New Jersey, the government in Newark voted to revoke the licenses of two Lukoil gas stations in the city. Senator Cory Booker backs this move, saying that the employees should be able to find other jobs since so many places are hiring. Hopefully that will be the case. But this is a minority, urban community where I would bet the employees walk or bike to work. Will they be able to find a job within that distance? What about the owners? Are they supposed to just open another gas station? And what if this happens to every Lukoil in the state or the country? Nothing like putting people out of work again. This is Wokeness gone mad.
That is so jackboot. How does this asshat get the power to do this. Oh yeah. They just take it.
Actually, they were given it, by voters. Anyone confused as to how these scumbags got their power needs to pick up a fucking mirror.
Just missing one paycheck could mean not being able to pay rent, but I guess Cory Booker isn't concerned about employees. Then there's the question of how Newark justified revoking the gas station licenses.
It does place ex-employee in a tough situation. How are you going to rob the gas station you used to work, when the local government has put it out of business (perhaps illegally) just for political correctness?
Seriously, in the "old days" things like this did not happen, unless there was a specific declaration from (usually) the Federal Government, declaration of war, etc. I'm not an attorney, but I'm pretty sure that "sanctions" don't justify violations of the law against a legally established business in the USA. However, "rule of law" doesn't seem to mean much these days, as "Russian oligarch" Yacht owners are discovering in Europe, even if (as seems likely) they have no connection whatsoever to Russia. How long before I'm declared a domestic terrorist and my bank account is seized, because I voted for an out-of-favor candidate, or I repeated "misinformation" on the internet? Can't happen here? Are you sure?
Or when the CDC suspended landlord's rights to be paid rent? A lot of very small mom&pop type rental owners lost their ability to pay their mortgages with no recourse.
The French for some reason do spell Putin’s name as Poutine. Because otherwise it would never be pronounced correctly I suppose. Which makes the cheese fries thing pretty darn hilarious.
I keep wondering when the woke crowd will go after languages like French that have gender assigned to objects. Who are we to assume all doors identify as female? Or that all cheeses identify as male?
Perhaps Putin now identifies as female, since they have feminized his name.
Not Putain?
Putain would better refer to the Bidens, Kerrys, Romneys and other Washington insiders that prostituted their influence in return for kickbacks of the US taxpayer money that funneled into Ukraine since 2014 or so.
Sacré bleu! Very naughty! And apt?
BWAHAHAH!
¡Puta madre!
Nope that is a different pronunciation as well. English speakers often pronounce the same word differently in different places but not a common issue in French (excl Francophones). Take the word “roof” for example. Some say it like oof, some like uff.
They've already done it with Spanish.
Already happening. Gender remains a strictly grammatical term for me.
Pootin, pooptin, propped-tin…..
it will be remembered as the age of the clown
Otherwise known as the age of man
the batshit crazy clown :)
Stuff like this makes me appreciate how hard it must be for the folks at the Babylon Bee to come up with headlines...
Hey Gatito Malo Malo, I should admit that my abode is shared by two of your kind. One of them is a "Russian." I now guard my conversation, and take all phone calls outside. Y'all are too unpredictable. And yes, we are now looking for Ukrainian dressing.
https://imgur.com/a/djZNPAF
What does the cat say?
Bwaaahaha
Ah my dear God, I can't have a Russian Blue kitty cat anymore?!? (Perhaps I can keep him hidden under the bed? and certainly not let it be known I have a Russian under the bed.)
LOL!
My Russian Blue has been eyeing my other 2 cats suspiciously...( she's looking for them to walk away from their food- she's a bit rolypoly...)
Are you sure your other two cats aren't eyeing your Russian Blue suspiciously? I mean, aren't they woke cats? Sheeesh.
I know... you try and raise them right, and they still go outside. They still hunt lizards. They still roll in the gravel driveways dust pockets. Im at a loss, really...
As a cat person, you should know you will always be at a loss regarding their behavior. They know it, too, and they take vicious advantage of our ignorance. ;)
*looks side to side* I have 3, and they get their lovins....but...my Collie wins all 4 paws down!
I'm generally at a loss for animals. They are shameless in their acquisition of said knowledge, and brutal in their application of every advantage.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go mash up some sardines , because canned food isn't good enough for them to eat their monthly flea meds with...
Comrade Titania McGrath has a great thread on her joke predictions becoming woke reality, as well as everything that is considered racist or white supremacy.
Substacker Euypppius had a piece the other day how some german docs are announcing they aren't going to treat Russian expats anymore. This reminds me of FDRs EO 9066 which put Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Horrible https://www.eugyppius.com/p/ortrud-steinlein-director-of-lmu/comments?s=r
Is this real with the Poutine? I mean really real? If so we have reached fatal levels of stupidity.
"... we have reached fatal levels of stupidity." This is what I thought when the whole world indiscriminately put 'Je suis Charlie' on their asocial media accounts. I did not think it could get any more hypocritical and ignorant.
Well it did. Strange times we are living in.
I don't remember, in any previous war that we've engaged in or not, where we have banned names and items that are somehow connected to the enemy. Did we ban rice when we were in Vietnam? how about anything Middle Eastern? Again, this is low level theatre created for the sole purpose of capturing the minds of the people, really--the dumbest of people.
In WW1 in US, vile assholes killed German Shepherds.
"In America, suspicion of the Germans was so high that even German shepherd dogs were killed."
https://www.history.co.uk/article/10-little-known-facts-about-ww1
I guess it's some comfort that people have always been this stupid/impressionable/crazy?
No. It makes me afraid they'll do it again. Just target Russian breeds this time.
In Canada, at least one place name was changed. Berlin, Ontario became Kitchener. That was WW1
Bergen, Norway renamed Bryggen, once called the German Wharf to the Old Wharf, after the Luftwaffe visiting ca. 1940.
Ok this is off topic sort of but I had to share it…. I present El Gato’s new theme song🤣🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPEbfO9yRIY
Earworm in 3...2..1..
Ha ha, now that's going to be stuck in my mind all day!
Ikr...but I'm not going to mind that much. I'm hoping el gato sees it for comment 😂
🤣🤣
With apologies to Arthur C Clarke,
“Any sufficiently woke statement is indistinguishable from parody”
They canceled Doskyovsky for being Russian at some woke university. We are such an unserious species.
I move we ban the use of the word "mandatory" for being both sexist, exclusionary and politically biased.
'Man-' is clearly misogynist, excluding wamyn from the process.
'Mandat-' is old french meaning a command - a clear sign of racist slave-owner mentality.
'Tory'- is the name of the british conservative party - so the word implies white slave owning conservatives have a right to order wamyn about.
We need a new inclusive term for when people get told what to do for their own good.
(Trust me, run this idea by your local woke and odds are they'll swallow it hook line and sinker.)
They should ban Grey Poupon too. That’s dangerously close ya know.
Put 1000 monkeys in a room with 1000 typewriters and you may get all the works of Shakespeare with time but even the monkeys couldn't come up with this idiotic Wokeness crap.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio is likely to be renamed...
My guess is "Freedom Island."
good one!
You may find some actionable ideas in this.
Woke Self-Defense 101
Fight Wokeness & Be the Life of the Party
https://yourunclepedro.substack.com/p/woke-self-defense-101
Fucking dumb people are the minority but the majority go with them because they are lazy to notice that this is destructive.
Freedom fries 2.0
Let’s just hope they don’t turn the US into Rwanda.
A restaurant in Paris named "Maison de la Poutine", specialized in the infamous Poutine dish, has received phone call threats over the past few days:
https://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/guerre-en-ukraine/les-restaurants-maison-de-la-poutine-menaces-depuis-l-invasion-russe-en-ukraine-285bc824-9b1a-11ec-9b84-e19eae6be2d1
Really good that they banned poutine. It's to keep everyone safe! That stuff is really dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOP5sNnvBA
LOL
Love the big cat!
Yes, adorable.
We should put cats in charge of things. They are smart. Between power naps. Remember dogs have masters—cats have staff.
Indeed!
Same here.
My own quote, which I've been using since the 1990s: "Peak Libtard is indistinguishable from vicious, biting satire."
😅😅😅 chocolate Mussolini
Poe's Law: Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law
What about the case of a parody of sincere extremism?
I claim a Double Absurd Score with this move (cat and Russia theme, duh!)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/international-feline-federation-bans-russian-cats-all-competitions
When I first heard that they were changing the name, I could only think, "Poutine's not a Russian dish. WTF?"
My mind apparently could *not* sink to the level of stupidity required to link poutine to Putin phonetically. I didn't grasp that stupidity until I saw the CTV News item above.
If you can’t fix stupid can you at least bat it around a couple of times?
I have lost track of how many times in the past 6 months I've read a Daily Wire headline and thought I was reading the Babylon Bee.
I threw out all my Russian dressing to show solidarity with those under attack.
What’s a good brand of Ukrainian dressing? Must be vegan
omg!! i love putine.
once on vacation in quebec province before canada became a fascist enclave i stopped for lunch and got the putine and hot dog special. i could hardly walking out to the car.....
and we get it in new hampshire, too!
Oh Lort