Putin wants Alaska back and other territorial disputes

"It's always bad policy to start a war."

The full video is worthwhile; one is also SUPPOSED to be troubled.

#Russia #Ukraine

Bashkortostan protests plus Jake Broe

#Russia #Baskiria #Bashkortostan #Resistance

yeah, yeah, the protest vids get a little repetitive except suddenly when they aren't.

DW on protests in Bashkortostan

FirstPost on Protests in Ufa

WION on Protests in Ufa

Reuters on Protests in Ufa

RFE/RL on Ufa protests

CNN 18 on protests in Ufa

News.com.au on Ufa Protests

CRUX on protests in Fail Alsynov's home town

Treat #DonTheCon just like Brittany Spears????

RantWoman is not particularly in the habit of offering free consulting to #GOP strategists.

Nor has RantWoman found her groove about what to do with opinions that spill out onto her keyboard.

However, RantWoman invites readers to digest the following video and two comments which have come to RantWoman at an hour when she really bleeping well should be ASLEEP.

Cope.

Enjoy? 

Morning Joe and Mika on immunity, dementia

#DonTheCon had a terrible childhood which long ago in the 1980's already turned him into a disgusting creep drowning in corruption and racism. WHY ON EARTH did no one in the #GOP have the guts to nix someone who filed bankruptcies and had as many court actions as he did, I will NEVER understand. Now #DonTheCon has deteriorated. He is desperate, depraved, deranged, delusional, and demented. He is a sorry old guy who deserves to go home and TAKE A NAP, or many naps and not try to run the country.

Plus, despite his capacity to energize voters, even MORE voters have also been energized to tell him NO, NO, NO. No in the 2016 popular vote. NO in the 2020 popular AND electoral votes. NO to any more than a red trickle of electoral success for candidates he endorsed. Just NO and voters should not have to keep saying it, especially since they also need to be saying NO to the Congressional #GOP Clown Caucus.

#TFG is also guilty as sin, and he clearly knows it. HOPEFULLY there are voices in the #GOP who also know it and that he will NEVER AGAIN make it to the top of the national ticket.

NO WAY would I support pardoning him or anything that appears to give him a blank pass for all that he is responsible for.

I also am not wedded to the idea of #TFG in prison. I could be persuaded that permanent VERY restrictive house arrest at one of his properties might be a decent outcome and MAYBE that could be negotiated without him or the rest of the country having to endure any more of his capacity to suck all the air out of many conversations. 

He could ALSO, shame free, fess up about whatever health problems he is trying to hide and just cite acute health considerations as a reason to drop out of the Presidential race, make a big show of endorsing one of his sometime competitors, passing the torch, loudly proclaiming that someone can carry on for him. (Please GOD: Nikki Haley is awful but less awful than Ron DiFloridaMan.)

Worst case: go all Britany Spears on him. Appoint a conservator, someone able and obliged to keep him on a VERY short leash. Maybe capture all his electronic emanations before they leave his household network. Set up a chatbot and some rotating zoom / video reels to allow him to nurture the illusion of crowds that continue to adore him. Feed him electronic adulation along with his cheeseburgers. Try to save him from outside input that causes him to throw ketchup bottles at the wall. provide him with very rigorously cleard household staff who adoringly refer to him as "Mr. President.....

With many dementia patients there is no point in trying to convince them of any reality besides what is in their heads. Play along when possible. Just keep them safe. Protect others from their ability to hurt them.

PS

#DonTheCon knows how to dog whistle. Why not realize that #TFG is dog whistling to #GOP racists? MAYBE there is an opportunity here if Nikki Haley could find her groove about aspirations vs reality and shift to why everyone having rights and working to realize them is GOOD for the country. Presto. Instant contrast to that other guy AND next steps on paths past racist divisiveness.

PROTESTS , Russian pipes bursting, and place name pronunciation vexations.

UPDATE: Vlad Vexler on Bashkortostan protests

RantWoman is not super current on #Russia #Ukraine matters although RantWoman a little bit had to apologize  recently for speaking Russian to proud Ukrainians.

In any case, here is an interesting video and the overly complex RantWoman posted in the comments field.

Thank you for the Bashkortostan / Russian empire reporting. Thank you for reporting on the continuing disintegration of Russian infrastructure. It completely fries my brain that the US Congress cannot differentiate between migrants arriving ON FOOT to the US because they see the US as a place of hope and refuge and Ukraine where hostile invaders arrive with tanks., BUT I think you are missing some of the other international machinations Biden and some in the US are trying to manipulate. It is also a TOTAL embarrassment that the House #GOP is incapable of having serious policy discussions because, among other STUPID shenanigans they are trying to find evidence to justify impeaching President Biden based on nothing burger family financial transactions that happened when Biden was NOT either President or vice President and involve his son who has never held public office. This is especially galling considering deep divisions about how to address outrageous corruption by the former and wannabe future President. I strongly disagree that the US should shut down the government because our legislative bodies cannot get their act together to better support Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. Unfortunately the voices wanting to AGAIN vacate the speaker position are definitely NOT friends of Ukraine. Nor despite claims about fiscal responsibility are they effective advocates about US tax dollars. The Clown Caucus' idea of fiscal responsibility is to gut the government's ability to collect taxes and slash the apparatus of government. The valiant defenders of Ukraine and more important US Citizens ourselves dererve better in multiple spheres. I appreciate but do not always agree with your analysis. It drives me crazy, though, to hear you mispronounce place names. Can you find a language coach somewhere nearby?

Some Russia Updates

#Russia  #Ukraine 

Oracle Eyes on Ukrainian drone attacks far into Russia

RantWoman finds  the presentation style robotic. One of these days, RantWoman will do some actual research about Oracle Eyes.

Jake Broe on RUSSIAN infrastructure and brutal military recruitment

Times Radio Ukrain blows up Russian supply bridge

Joe Blogs: labor shortage and ruble collapse

Warthog: Russain cities freezing

The color THING

RantWoman was going to try to corral some of her own words for #MartinLutherKingDay2024

RantWoman has decided instead to share some of her YouTube habits.

RantWoman especially recommends Roland's take on Rev, Ed Young.

Roland Martin argues with white conservative pastor

Who are the J6 Insurrectionists? 2 year old study

Yep. RantWoman can handle the thought that posts about how the #J6 rioters are typically a bunch of white people terrified by the "Great Replacement Theory are kind of weird for #MLKDay2024. 

There is a thread RantWoman means to yank on about "stronger together."

Who knows whether RantWomnn will get to that thread?

Ronan Farrow: who were the J6 Rioters

Speaking of murderous Presidents and long-shot opponents, will Putin ‘spiral out of control’ | Bill Browder

RantWoman does not exactly apologize: the Russian assault on Ukraine lurches forward no matter what hits the Russian economy takes, no matter the human cost of another mobilization. But RantWoman has not been offering running video suggestions. #Russia. #Ukraine

Yet opposition  leader Alexei Navalny persists Time again to watch on!