Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 27 February 2022

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions on the shows.

1 posted on 02/27/2022 4:42:10 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

To: acapesket; A.Hun; aligncare; altura; bagster; Bernard; bray; BreezyDog; Calpublican; cajungirl; ...

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2 posted on 02/27/2022 4:42:43 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

3 posted on 02/27/2022 4:43:17 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

Here are the email addresses or web pages--and now Twitter pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter: @MeetThePress @ChuckTodd

Email: Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com Twitter: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter: @MariaBartiromo

4 posted on 02/27/2022 4:43:44 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:19

The World Communist Party is making a move to enslave the workers of the world. The last two moves are to have the two friendlies of the DNC to take over their neighbors while they feign outrage while giving the backdoor approval. Since when has the leaders of America’s Communist Party not taken bribe after bribe from freedom’s biggest enemies.

The vilification of Putin is incredible since the media ignores the Hunter Biden payments from both the Ukraine and Putin through the mayor of Moscow’s widow. Over seven million was paid to Hunter and Joe by one of the most corrupt companies in the world, yet the Elite Mediots have no curiosity in these payments or how they are connected to this latest invasion

The silence of these two connections by the President of the United States has his hand in both pockets. The Establishmedia has two jobs, accusing Repubs of fake crimes while hiding Dem real crimes from reaching the light of day. They really have no other value than spreading smoke and ash to keep the people ignorant of the massive amount of corruption in this country as well as their communist friends.

You will see criticism on Putin since he is connected to Trump, but where are the questions about the millions sent to Biden Inc? The same money laundering we saw from the Clinton Dry Clean the Ukraine cash machine ran 24/7/365.

The Ukraine main commodity is oil and gas which of course the Bidens are firmly behind as long as it is not helping America. Their other major money maker is the Eastern European sex trade industry. Beautiful women and girls are sold to prostitution rings as well as all the major slave markets in the Middle East and Asia.

There is no question Putin is a very dangerous person who has had his eyes on the old Soviet Union for decades. He saw Senile Joe the puppet President as a perfect opportunity to take advantage of a feckless NATO to steal the country. The last thing America could want is to have troops under the direction of the same clown show who ran the Trashcanistan disaster or Benghazi. This would be a wholesale slaughter being run by the Party who hates the military and America more than your enemy does.

You are on your own Ukraine which you are used to. You have been steamrolled by Stalin during WWII and starved after the war to purge the country of dissidents. This most likely will not turn out well as it is just another steppingstone for the Elites vs the people. First you had Canada beating on their people as Fidel’s son let the Truckers know who was boss and now another dictator is attempting to take back one of his Soviet countries.

Is there an agreement between Biden and Putin to let the Ukraine go? He has done everything he can to give Russia higher oil prices. Is there an agreement with Biden which says he will do everything he can to get prices on the moon which obviously helps Russia and the Middle East while destroying America, is this what the payment is for? Did Putin send another payment to Biden to agree to not respond to this invasion? The obvious answer is yes and PravdACDNC will hide any evidence of this agreement while they accuse Trump.

If you wanted to turn the world into a Communist one world gummit you would release a virus around the world, so everyone became comfortable with different levels of lockdowns. You would turn America over to the American Communist Party to take the one hurdle who has been a thorn in that wish since WWI and the freedom loving soldiers who put a stop to both attempts to organize that plan. It was not the President but the country boy at the end of the rifle who stopped it completely.

That country boy has been taken out of the equation thanks to the Vax and a general purge of free-thinking men from the military. Now you drive gas prices up to $10 and bankrupt all those country boys as well as make Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and many of those people the DNC love extremely wealthy. Oh, they will feign outrage at Putin, but they still love the Soviet Union and believe it is the model for a perfect system.
The big question now which will not get axed is what did Slow Joe know and was he paid by Putin. Guess this question could be asked daily.

Pray for revival

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

5 posted on 02/27/2022 4:44:23 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank you RG for your fabulous pictures. Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Daily Miscellany

Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.

Enjoy. Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".

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Russia Attacks Ukraine

On the night of 2/24/22 the wonderful Vladimir Putin attacked the country of Ukraine.

The following day President Biden gave a speech of what would be America's intent.

During Biden's speech he delineated all the things that Putin did to start the war and listed the sanctions to maximize the long term effects on Russia. He assured us that these sanctions would not just be carried about by the United States, but that the majority of the global population would join in.

Russia's banks were cut off from the American banking system. The names of the Russian elites that would gain from this Russian attack would also have their funds in American banks held and not be returned to the owners.

Biden went on to list a group of sanctions that would be inflicted on Russia.

It would turn out that the sanctions as imposed are not likely to do much damage to Russia. Biden asserted that Putin really wants to create the USSR again.

It's a difficult, rather scary situation, this whole war. What right does a country have to invade another country for no reason whatsoever?

People are going to die. Sadness and grief will prevail.

And don't forget folks, America has no leader. Biden has never succeeded in any foreign affairs scenario in his past.

Yes, I am worried.

And please don't forget China.

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Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Plan to Even Up on the Jerks Who Lied About Him

On 2/21/22-Monday, I watched Kyle Rittenhouse as a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight.

He then announced his plan to form an organization that will seek recompense for those who called him names and wrongly notated the events that happened to him.

Interestingly, he specifically mentioned Whoopi Goldberg, who called him a murderer even after he had been tried by a jury of his peers and found innocent. This woman seems to be getting herself in a bunch of trouble of late.

There was even a time when President Biden referred to Rittenhouse in the negative although later he tried to deny it.

You go, Kyle!

And in due course, consider a career in politics. You have a leadership and this country needs more leaders.
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Review-"Celebrity Big Brother"

https://www.cbs.com/shows/celebrity-big-brother/

CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER follows a group of celebrities living together in a house outfitted with over 80 HD cameras and over 100 microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day and having no contact with the outside world. Each week, one or more Celebrity Houseguests will be voted out of the house, with the last remaining Houseguest receiving the grand prize of $250,000. CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER is produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan for Fly on the Wall Entertainment, in association with Endemol Shine North America.

I do quite enjoy competitive reality shows for the most part. "Big Brother", and in this case "Celebrity Big Brother", is definitely not one of my favorites. This show focuses on the contenders' ability to get along with each other, at least in part. I find the frequent boring discussions about who dislikes who, who should align with whom, who should be "back doored" and who should be evicted, to be sleep inducing.

The contenders must live together with no contact with the outside world or with their family. It's an interesting concept.

However, Big Brother does have some interesting challenges both to determine who will win Head of Household and who will win the power of veto. THIS part of the show I find interesting.

Currently, as of this writing, CELEBRITY Big Brother is in the running. My favorite contender of these rather questionable "celebrities" recently got evicted. This would be Carson Kressley, pictured above.

Kressley was evicted because he was so well liked that he was definitely a contender with a likely chance of winning. In fact, to no one's surprise, the American audience voted Kressley the most likeable of all this season's Celebrity Big Brother contenders.

Make no mistake, Kressley prefers men to woman but darn the guy is funny, has style and class.

Below are the contenders for this current Celebrity Big Brother Season.

I don't know most of them but do know that Miesha won and she should have. She played the game quite well.

Miesha Tate	35	UFC mixed martial artist	1	29	Winner
Todrick Hall	36	Singer, dancer, and YouTuber	1	29	Runner-up
Cynthia Bailey	54	Model and TV personality	1	29	Evicted
Todd Bridges	56	Actor	1	27	Evicted
Lamar Odom	42	Former NBA forward	1	27	Evicted
Carson Kressley	52	TV personality, actor, and designer	1	24	Evicted
Shanna Moakler	46	Model, actress, and TV personality	1	20	Evicted
Chris Kirkpatrick	50	Singer	1	17	Evicted
Chris Kattan	51	Actor and comedian	1	15	Walked
Mirai Nagasu	28	Olympic figure skater	1	13	Evicted
Teddi Mellencamp	40	TV personality

The truth is, Big Brother, both Celebrity and Unknown, is one of the more boring of the competitive reality shows.

But I will watch when nothing else is on.

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TIME FOR A SMILE

6 posted on 02/27/2022 4:49:48 AM PST by Fishtalk

What right does a country have to invade another country for no reason whatsoever?

Indeed.

7 posted on 02/27/2022 5:00:11 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

To: Alas Babylon!; kabar; rodguy911; bray

I wanted to share with y’all a tweet that said the West was itching to pull Russia off the SWIFT banking system to ruin them, but this will drive Russia onto a Chinese system that is a 5-6 letter acronym starting with C that deals in digital currency systems. I went back to copy it but it was scrubbed. More later hopefully.

I have since noticed news that “the west” is proceeding to pull Russia off SWIFT. Russia previously advised the west that this would be “an act of war”.

Here is a current article which touches on this issue:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/swift-banking-system-used-sanction-russia-rcna17533

8 posted on 02/27/2022 5:32:01 AM PST by shalom aleichem (Let's Go Branden!)

Great stuff as usual.
A few days ago on X22 moderator/host Dave ran through a scenario that may or may not be accurate no one really knows.
It goes like this. The entire Russian move on the Ukraine is actually being done by Trump,Putin and the CIA. All have irons in the fire.
Putin wants the Donbass secured and that's easily done with nearly 200k troops within shouting distance.
He knows however that the Donbass region won't stay that way unless the Nazis as Dave explains are removed from power.He claims the country is run by neo-nazis who were actually created by the cia some time ago.
So Putin realizes he has to do more than just secure the Donbass how much more remains to be seen.
As far as Trump goes he's had enough of the corruption that is and has been the Ukraine for years if not decades.Dave explains that cleansing the swamp may be a worldwide project not just dc.
Everytihg from massive money laundering,to smuggling of everything and anything of value from people to weapons to drugs has happened in the country.
The ukraine is seen by many as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.
How the cia figures into things is a bit more murky.Is the good faction of the three letter gang of thugs taking over or have the nazis gone too far and even the company wants them out? We may never know.
One thing I do know is that senior members of our govt. appear to act as if things are under control and there is little to worry about.
All that remains to be seen.
So in the end will those brave Ukranians who are fighting for their survival prevail or will Putins army create a new Ukraine?Hard to say at this point.
If the people of the ukraine are depending on Brandon good luck with that.

9 posted on 02/27/2022 5:40:09 AM PST by rodguy911 ((FR:home of the free because of the Brave---),ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL IT'S NOT)

To: Alas Babylon!; bray

The first casualty of war is the truth. I am having a hard time believing the media and the Ukrainian government description of events. What is most puzzling is the level of Ukrainian casualties. The most recent ones I have seen are around 300 dead and 1200 wounded after 3 days of war. That is remarkably low considering the reports of intense battles and bombings.

Understandably, the Ukrainian government is painting a heroic picture of their soldiers and people putting up a staunch resistance against the Russians. It is an information war that the Ukrainians are clearly winning. But we must be careful to prevent emotion from driving our response. The punitive measures we are taking against Putin and Russia could backfire and escalate the crisis. What is the end game?

10 posted on 02/27/2022 5:44:55 AM PST by kabar

To: shalom aleichem

From your link:
WHAT IS SWIFT
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, is a cooperative of financial institutions formed in 1973 with headquarters in Belgium. It is overseen by the National Bank of Belgium in partnership with other major central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank.

But SWIFT isn't a traditional bank and doesn't transfer funds. Rather, it acts as a secure messaging system that links more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories, alerting banks when transactions are going to occur. (For instance, U.S. banks have unique SWIFT codes that customers use for incoming wire transfers in U.S. dollars.)

SWIFT said it recorded an average of 42 million messages per day last year, an 11 percent increase from 2020, when Russia accounted for 1.5 percent of transactions.
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The problem is countries like Germany are dependent bit time on Russia for energy,gas,crude,etc.Germany is so stupid they are like Brandon and have killed their own energy sources and are so dependent on Russia getting rid of swift would mess them up even more than they already are.so it wont happen at least all the way maybe a partial swift shutdown.

11 posted on 02/27/2022 5:49:10 AM PST by rodguy911 ((FR:home of the free because of the Brave---),ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL IT'S NOT)

Lee Smith wrote a great article on the situation, “Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble
By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come.”

“Russian President Vladimir Putin chose this war, Joe Biden said in his Thursday afternoon speech to America regarding the conflict in Ukraine. That is true, but U.S. elites also had something to do with Putin’s ugly and destructive choice—a role that Democrats and Republicans are eager to paper over with noble-sounding rhetoric about the bravery of Ukraine’s badly outgunned military. Yes, the Ukrainian soldiers standing up to Putin are very brave, but it was Americans that put them in harm’s way by using their country as a weapon, first against Russia and then against each other, with little consideration for the Ukrainian people who are now paying the price for America’s folly.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble

Just breaking: Ukraine and Russia are set to hold negotiations at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, according to the office of President Zelensky.

12 posted on 02/27/2022 5:52:31 AM PST by kabar

❗️Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Zelensky have agreed that the #Ukrainian delegation will meet with the #Russian without preconditions at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, near the Pripyat River— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 27, 2022

Lukashenko took responsibility for the fact that during the journey, negotiations and return of the #Ukrainian delegation, all planes, helicopters and missiles stationed on #Belarusian territory will remain on the ground.

13 posted on 02/27/2022 5:52:52 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)

The ukraine is seen by many as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.

I know a bigger one.

The USA, under the Deep State/DNCMedia/Pharmaceutical/Tech Giants.

14 posted on 02/27/2022 5:54:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

15 posted on 02/27/2022 5:56:34 AM PST by rodguy911 ((FR:home of the free because of the Brave---),ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL IT'S NOT)

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Bingo. Putin bought the Bidens cheap. Got energy and the ability to go after Ukraine to show he’s a world force, neutralize anything trump did, and show he doesn’t fear the U.N./NATO or anything the current president may throw at him.

16 posted on 02/27/2022 5:56:57 AM PST by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)

Whether to attack Ukraine and kill people and break things was entirely up to Putin.

He could leave.

It doesn’t have to be war.

Ukraine does not deserve to be attacked. It just doesn’t.

It is morally wrong for Russia to do so.

Like you, I absolutely do not agree with our elitist government, and they’re horrible, nasty oppressors, but that doesn’t give some foreign power the right to march into the USA and start killing people.

I heard some FReepers say the Ukrainians deserved this because they’re are so dang corrupt. But I look at my own country and its so-called leaders, and think, to quote Ronald Reagan, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet”.

We need to be clear on this. War came because Putin ordered the Russian army in. It didn’t have to be.

17 posted on 02/27/2022 6:00:29 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)

The endgame may well be:
to get rid of the Nazis in control taking of the Ukraine,getting rid of govt. installations,taking out 7 of 9 bio-weapon buildings financed by the US, securing the Donbass,cleansing the Ukraine swamp and doing it all with as few casulties on both sides as possible.Just a guess.....

18 posted on 02/27/2022 6:01:00 AM PST by rodguy911 ((FR:home of the free because of the Brave---),ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL IT'S NOT)

Saw Anthony Fauci on a milk carton last night...first sighting in some time.

19 posted on 02/27/2022 6:01:13 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)

To: Alas Babylon!

20 posted on 02/27/2022 6:02:32 AM PST by kabar

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