What Else Ya Got?

“Hold me Tucker. Hold me like a lover.” https://t.co/2wIF6mIKCN

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 24, 2023

"...yet we are the ones that are supposed to be for Putin. I don't think so."

Well, the rest of us do, so: majority rules.  In fact, very hard to think otherwise.

Reading this article, I am glad that the reaction of everyone else in the room to the idea that Russia might invade was "something is wrong here, this feels like some Great Game bullshit," because that was certainly how I felt in 2014. https://t.co/j4F5r6kp7m

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"[O]ne thing that has struck me throughout this process — and certainly struck me throughout the fall of ’21 — is that a lot of the times Putin and Russia were saying very plainly what their intentions were and what they wanted to do.

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"You can really affect the decision-making process of a potential adversary. We were beating Putin’s lie to the punch, and we know that by doing so we got inside his decision-making loop."

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"GEN. PAUL NAKASONE: We sent a [U.S. Cyber Command] team forward, and they land in Kyiv on the fourth of December. [Next day], the leader calls back, and she tells my Cyber National Mission Force commander, her boss, “We’re not coming home for a while. In fact, send more people.”

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"invade another, that one big country can’t bully its neighbor, that one country can’t try to erase another off the map. Those principles have been so important since World War II to try to prevent another major conflagration.

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"GEN. MARK MILLEY: Right off the bat, the president issued a set of guidance, publicly in speeches. He said the purpose of this operation, of what we’re doing — the why — is the rules-based international order.

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

"GEN. MARK MILLEY: The demographic of present-day Ukraine is that anybody who’s 60 years or younger knows nothing but freedom for the most part, and a country like that is not easily conquered."

— Kevin Riggle (@kevinriggle) February 24, 2023

MTG is a clown. She may be a big noise in the GOP, but she’s still not even Tailgunner Joe, and she’s never going to be. She discredits the GOP and herself, because the adults are in charge and there’s nothing she can do about that.

MTG and Bannon and Gosar and much of the GOP house imagine themselves to be Very Serious People, but they are children in a sandbox. The media aren’t serious, either. Biden’s approval rating is rising (a meaningless measure at any rate) because of course it is. It’s all a game of “What else you got?,” and since the 15 ballot debacle the House has proven it’s got nothing. Biden gives speech after speech and knocks it out of the park every time. MTG hoots like a white-ruffed howler monkey and Biden publicly revels in their hatred.

Why shouldn’t he rise as they sink? He was doing this before MTG was born.

What else ya got?