Squirrel!!
Natasha to Boris Badenov: “Must be moose and squirrell…” Boris to Natasha: “It’s ALWAYS moose and squirrell!!”
It now becomes my dutiful task to tie my title and opening dialogue together so it makes some sort of logical sense for those of you who still believe in logic as something of value in modern day discussions of life and human interaction. Have I created some sense of mysterious eastern block intrigue? Good; or trust me, the fog will lift as we float to our unknown destination in the stream of consciousness.
For those of you with a keen sense of the obvious the main subject here is the invasion of Ukraine by Vlad the mad. The title “Squirrel” references the wonderful Disney movie “UP” where the dog character, while in the midst of a serious lengthy explanation, is suddenly and completely distracted by a squirrel in the distance that catches his eye. Completely gone from his attention is everything except the squirrel. So the analogy here is that the squirrel is the war in Ukraine and the dog is us, us being the people, the media, the politicians, the celebrities et al. And what we are completely ignoring in favor of our obsessive focus on the squirrel is everything else going on in the world that at least deserves some of our interest and attention. Things like, oh I dunno, Uighur genocide in China, organ harvesting in China, the horrific humanitarian crisis that is our southern border, runaway record inflation affecting the cost of gas, food, and everything else, ignoring the energy directly under our feet that if extracted would strengthen us and weaken Putin in terms of his ability to conquer and pillage, rising crime, the general decline of moral behavior, particularly the normalizing of lying as ok. Someone I respect said recently that Jen Psaki is good at what she does as if what she does is somehow admirable. No, it’s not. Without truth, the insistence on it’s utterance and the celebration of it, freedom has no foundation. It just occurred to me (I am not making this up) that perhaps this might be exactly what the powers that be want to see happen. The toppling of the Republic by undermining it’s foundation. But I digress.
Ok, The Boris and Natasha thing from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show is a bit of a stretch but fitting because they are Russian bad guys and can’t you just picture Biden and Psaki discussing media and talking point strategery using that dialogue or something similar? Psaki: We can just tell them it’s Putin. Joe: Of course, it’s always Putin!
Ok, enough frivolity, let’s go back to refocusing on other domestic and foreign happenings before the squirrel ventured onto our collective radar. Let me start with a disclaimer. By no means do I want you to stop waving your yellow and blue flags or stop wearing your Ukrainian flag lapel pins. Heaven forbid. What is happening to the innocent civilians of Ukraine is abominable ,unfathomable evil. And if Vlad the mad resorts to chemicals, germs, or even small scale nukes (whatever that might consist of. Nagasaki light, maybe?), may hell rain down on Mutha Russia worse than all of the biblical plagues that reigned down on Egypt combined, my personal favorite being the frogs. Having said that, what is currently happening to the Uyghurs in China, mainly forced labor internment camps, genocide, and organ harvesting, qualifies as evil in my book. Evil is evil. No 1-10 scale. This has been going on long before Vlad the Mad’s venture into Ukraine. Pretty much crickets from the MSM about those tortured individuals. I had a bumper sticker made that reads Free the Uyghurs. Lots of people have asked me “what are the Uggers?” Seems as though too many politicians of both stripes are so well invested in China that maybe the Uyghurs don’t qualify as humans worth caring about. Not going to mention names but Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are their initials. Then, (we’re still in China) there are the Falun Gong practitioners. This peaceful spiritual practice has become so popular and has attracted so many followers that the CCP started to become so afraid of their power, just in terms of the numbers of adherents, that they outlawed the practice and began to do to them what they do to other outlaws in China. Disappear them, put them in prison, and worse. China is shortly going to try to look heroic in the eyes of the world by telling Russia that maybe they should back off a little and be happy with the territory that they have captured in Ukraine thus far. And the western media will cheer. And all the sheeple will go ”BAAHHHH!!!”. In unison of course. Perhaps three part harmony.
Enough about China. Let’s head back to the good ole US of A. Southern border to be more specific. Kamala seems to have abandoned her post after visiting countries near the border to find out why so many brown people want to come to a country that is so irredeemably and systemically racist. She seems to have ignored all the other people from around the world, especially America hating Islamists, who seem to be congregating at the Mexican free port of entry. Still waiting for the report on that one. The giant democrat vote counter at the border still has yet to reach the magic number where it is ok to shut the door. Firme la port, for you French Canadians. In the mean time, along with all those democrat voters coming across the border comes drugs, rapists, murderers, thieves, human traffickers, child abductors, and other various and sundry ne’er -do-wells. When you need votes all of this human swill and the horror it brings is considered necessary collateral damage. No worries, though, as conservatives are immediately put in a vacuum tube, destination unknown. Fentanyl, from China no less, is coming across the border courtesy of millionaire drug cartels who basically run the joint, and is killing thousands of Americans. Those clever devils have figured out how to make more money on cocaine by lacing it with fentanyl. So now, you can be smart enough to avoid fentanyl and still die from it when you think you are ingesting just cocaine. Just ask the six West Point Cadets. From the border let us descend below our footsies to the great but ignored stash of energy that painstakingly waits to be exhumed. Just before Trump left office we were energy independent and had excess to export. After Joe Schmo took over we are energy poor and begging countries who shout “death to America” to help us out. So therefore, to those of you without a keen sense of the obvious, anything Dementia Joe or Jen Peppermint Patty Psaki says about why we have no energy production is a fat lie. Meanwhile in Moscow, Vlad the mad, but certainly smarter than Joe, takes the opportunity to become more powerful, using his Biden created leverage by having a greater share of the stuff that fuels existence, and uses that power position to invade his neighbor, not fearing any repercussions from those needing his oil to live, like the Nato countries in Europe. As you might have noticed, I have a difficult time writing about this stuff without becoming a bit sarcastic and a tad cynical. If I don’t make fun of it I get despondent. So much more to say but I’m becoming emotionally fatigued and there is nothing worse than a long winded short guy.