Sanctions can be effective in some circumstances, and they can be a powerful geopolitical tool. But sanctioning a product that is fungible and ubiquitous is merely a public relations effort and can have very little influence on reality. Oil is the perfect example, and we need to look no farther than China for a state…
Month: August 2022
The Morning Report 8/31/22
Good morning kids. So Mikhail Gorbachev, the last premier of the former Soviet Union died yesterday at 91. Here’s the headline from the NY Times: “Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who transformed the map of Europe and presided over the end of the Cold War, has died at 91.” If you didn’t know any better – which…
The Morning Report 8/30/22
Good morning kids. So evidently, gunfire, mass protests and the American embassy in Baghdad being evacuated fall-of-Saigon-style is just run of the mill Iraqi politics. Perfect timing in that it comes almost exactly one year after the debacle in Afghanistan. In any case, no one seems to be making a big fuss over it in the…
The Morning Report 8/29/22
Good morning kids. Start of a new week and, with all due respect to Spike Milligan, it’s a goon show all the way down. And it starts right at the top. While Joe “Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants” Biden is turning into a vegetable so fast he’s tripping over the tillers and rhizomes emerging from his trouser legs…
Why Are We Making Women Violent?
Society has morphed into something unrecognizable in only a few generations. The archetype of “Woman” has shifted away from the feminine…bearing and raising children; running the home; being the necessary counterpoint to the man in the relationship. Unfortunately the shift has pushed women into being some odd and flawed version of the archetypal “Man.” Aggression,…
The Morning Report 8/26/22
Good morning kids. The weekend is here and so Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants just decreed he was going to rob the treasury (which at this point is empty save trillions in IOUs going back to the New Deal as well as a lint-covered butterscotch once owned by John D. Rockefeller) of $300 billion in student loan debt…
The Morning Report 8/25/22
Good morning kids. First up this morning, a bit of housekeeping. Yesterday, I quoted a story from Conservative Treehouse that stated Ron DeSantis was silent about the FBI’s Gestapo raid on Mar-a-Lago and expressed my concern about it. Had I bothered to do a rudimentary search, I would have found that he was among the…
The Morning Report 8/24/22
Good morning, kids. The results are in from another big primary night and once again President Trump is batting 1.000 with his endorsements. He went 26-0 last night, which includes his goof Democrat primary endorsements. Last night’s primaries also included the crucial state of Florida, which looms large for several reasons. Actually, it looms large…
The Morning Report 8/23/22
Good morning, kids. Before getting to the lead story, I want to Psaki-psircle back to the situation in China. Last week’s article on the imminent collapse of that nation’s housing market led me to speculate that it could be the possible spark leading Emperor Pooh Xi to attempt to engulf and devour Taiwan. It’s no secret that…
The Morning Report 8/22/22
Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and a few things out there are brewing that do not exactly fill me with strength and confidence for the near term, let alone the outright banana republic thuggery epitomized by the only recently unimaginable Gestapo raid on a former president — one who was ousted by…