Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 6 March 2022

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa); Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Panel: Katie Pavlich; Jonathan Swan, Axios; Catherine Lucey, Wall Street Journal; Mohammad Elleithee, former spokesman for the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis; author Fiona Hill (“There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century”). Richard Engel reporting from Ukraine and Kelly Cobiella reporting from Poland. Panel: Huffington Post writer and Black Nationalist Eddie Glaude Jr.; Stephen Hayes, political analist and Neocon; Senior Washington correspondent for NBC News Hallie Jackson; Robin Wright, the New Yawka—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank); Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S.; Kristalina Georgieva, International Monetary Fund; and, we DON’T know if, as always, Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb (but I think because the drivebys have moved on from COVID to Ukraine, he’s not on).

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus: Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Panel: Jonathan Karl(marx); Donna BrazileNut; Chris Christie; Julie Pace, Associated Press. A preview of Hulu’s “Two Men At War” (Stephy’s propaganda biopic about Putin and Zelenskyy)–more Fat RINOs and Left-wing Propagandists!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper: Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen; Michèle Flournoy; Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas); former CIA Director David Petraeus; Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas); Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-Texas); Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Stephen Miller, former senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump.

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:31-37

The big claim is Putin is insane for attacking Ukraine while ignoring our own crazy Clown. If you were to set them side by side minus the senility and you would have to judge the Puppet President far more irrational, then Vlad. How in the world do you get to a position where you are buying oil from Putin, so you do not have to pump better less polluting oil from Texas or PA? Is there any more insanity than helping to finance the very war you are condemning?

Vlad has set the sanity bar pretty low with this invasion but somehow the selected President managed to limbo under it somehow. The past two years of mental gymnastics over the virus was only a warmup for the coming World Wars and rumors of wars. In reality how could a Communist Dictator not attack a country they wanted to own which is one of the best catches of the old Soviet Union. A world vacuum in leadership is bound to be filled and Putin is simply filling that void.

How more insane is it to ravage a country you have had long conflicts with or attacking your own country and destroying your own citizens financially and spiritually? Please answer that question DNCNN and MSDNC rather than your endless prattle on the warped mind of Putin.

For the past fifty years we have heard how superior a form of economics and gummit Communism is to Capitalism.
Communism is all about fairness and equality taking the evil Capitalist out of the equation. Of course, they always leave out the attacks on neighboring countries or the purging of their political enemies, but Marxism is always superior to their hated free market economies.

Never mind Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than all the Communist and Dictatorships combined, they always ring the Commie bell. Right now, the world is seeing two Socialist dictators looking at two prizes they have wanted for decades and no policemen on duty. The police officer is more insane than they are and has no clue as to where he is or if he did have been purchased by both dictators. In Ukraine’s case he has taken bribes from them and Putin which counters anything he may want to do and that does not even go to the potential extortion material they may own.

Not only are Putin and Slow Joe insane they are both hardcore Marxists. They believe in centralized planning is far superior to freedom even though every time delegating to the boots on the ground has won, they are dictators at heart and one person makes all the decisions. You can see the results of that with the Covid plans where everything was planned and dictated from Moscow on the Potomac forcing the country to take a risky vax while wearing a useless mask. They even micro-managed hospital protocols which were ineffective at curing the disease and dismissed any other treatments which had superior results.

You saw more centralized planning as they took the withdrawal of Trashcanistan and made every move that had been planned out by the people in country and redrew the plans with academic scholars who made every decision inside the beltway. Not to worry about people falling off the planes or thousands of Americans left to die, their Communist friends at PravdABC were more than happy to hide as much of the disaster as they could, covering the one death at Jan 6 rather than the withdrawal fiasco. Same lies different day.

Putin is finding the same thing with centralized planning in war. He is taking his robots who are not allowed to make a single decision without Moscow’s approval, and it is quickly becoming a quagmire. The Ukrainian troops are partially trained but a substantial percentage of them now are resistance fighters with all decisions made at the tip of the spear. This is how America won WWII with on-the-fly decisions rather than running it up the chain and back down leaving troops dead by the time the decision is made if it ever is.

Now we have three insane leaders running the world. It appears the most insane is the one in the basement of the White House trying to put knives in light sockets while he fills his diaper. This is not a good look for the world or America however it is all there is thanks to the rigged election. If the elites would have had one ounce of compassion, they would have let Bernie win who is the sanest of the bunch, rather they needed a complete puppet and in walks JoeBama. The last thing Barak wanted was a person who would not follow orders completely.

Now Putin is doing what is expected of a Russian leader, conquer your neighbors. There is nothing insane about this decision since it is the same decision which has been made since Peter the Great and he would love to be considered Vlad the Great. Most Americans would trade him straight across and have him close our Southern border while letting the energy industries get stronger than ever before. Putin does not hate his country like the puppet master hates America. Sadly, America has the crazy dictator.

Pray for Ukraine

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

• 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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The Emperor Had No Clothes

Why yes I did watch the Sate of the Union speech on Tuesday, 3/1/22.

And like most people, I thought President Biden did a horrible job.

Suppose I was part of a criminal gang. One night the gang, along with me, went a little crazy. We set three houses on fire, we shot three humans and two dogs, we raped a couple of females walking home and we stole three cars.

A few days later it was my job to deliver a speech to a parent-teacher conference at a local school.

Below was some of the content of my speech.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we are going to suggest some of the things this administration has changed and/or is going to change.

First, we will hire more firefighters to put out fires set by the enemy. We will set up a vote to ban guns to most people except for police officers. We will form more shelters for dogs who get shot by humans shooting their illegal guns. We will accompany females walking alone in dangerous areas and will train to prevent sexual assaults. We will outfit all automobiles with alarms that will sound loudly should anyone try to abscond with one that is not theirs and we will have them all connected with cell phones that will immediately phone their rightful owners should someone be messing around with the car that does not belong to them"

In other words, I use my speech to expand on every bad thing that I, and my criminal gang, participated in and shout how I will put an end to them.

This is somewhat along the lines of Biden's speech on the first of March. He is going to "fund" the police even though he and his party defunded plenty of police departments.

On and on he went, along these lines, Biden shouting proudly how he was to fix every bad thing he and his political party did and receiving vigorous applause from the likes of Kamala Harris, the VP, and Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, two of many that night who brought pain and suffering to America.

No one was really surprised, of course. But I must ask God why we can't get a normal, reasonable and fair person to lead this country?

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The Russian Attack on Ukraine

"I am so worried about this Russian war," my mother-in-law told me during our regular weekly phone call. I told her that almost all of America was just as worried.

Except for the likes of my granddaughter, more on this later.

First of all, somebody needs to take a shotgun and shoot Putin right between the eyes. Goodness knows I have heard enough about how the Russian soldiers don't know what they're doing, how Putin held off this invasion until after the recent Chinese Olympics, at THEIR request. I've heard how Putin wants to reconstruct the old Soviet Union.

I've watched a Russian tank veer into a passenger car smashing it into the size of a pancake. I've watched apartment buildings be bombed and collapse into bricks and rubble.

How can one single human being be allowed to do all this?

Finally Putin intentionally (as I assert) announces he is preparing his nuclear team and experts to prepare them for what he hints might be necessary.

Many Americans remember when school children had to dive under their desks at the sound of an air siren. Even more of us remember the mighty Cuban Missile crisis, when Russia decided that setting up nuclear bomb site in Cuba, right next to the United States bear in mind, would be a good idea.

My granddaughter, all of 18 years old, has never experienced such a thing.

Of course, that's not her fault, of the fault of so many of her age group from newborns to close to age 50. I recall how scared I was, as a child hiding under the desk or a young adult hoping my president, John F. Kennedy, makes the Russians move their nearby missiles.

This is part of the reason so many Americans like me and my mother-in-law are nervous about this Russian war.

Of course, that's not the only reason. This is the first war the world gets to watch as it happens. I am shocked and shake when I see peaceful living quarters bombed for no discernible reason.

But speaking of successful and intelligent leaders for President, like JFK and the Cuban missile crisis, and the Ukrainian President.....I wish he was President of America.

AND HE CAN DANCE!!

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American Idol 20 Years

I checked in on this, the 20th episode of American Idol. Kelly Clarkson, one of my favorite daytime divas, was winner of the FIRST American Idol and I remember her well. Like I said, she now hosts her own daytime talk show and is one of the judges on The Voice.

At any rate, I rather enjoyed this first show with the new "platinum" ticket for various cities.

One big surprise was Aretha Franklin's granddaughter showed up as a contender. The female AI judge want to pass her through. I heard the child sing (she was very young, in her teens I think) and she did well but compared to the many other singers that are now in the top 20, she was not quite there.

At any rate, all of the singers were good and I look forward to listening to the contenders and see who wins.

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THE FLY ON THE WALL

Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.

The Spider Reveals

This fly has been seriously hurt by some human nitwit with something they call a fly swatter.

I am going to live with this horrible punishment for daring to eat a crumb. But as I recuperate it is the spider who spent time with me and told me some very interesting things.

"Listen," the spider began as I lay hurt and doubtful I will live, "you might have a difficult time believing what I am about to tell you. But I have been sworn to secrecy and I want to tell somebody what I know."

I took a deep breath and turned my antennae to hear what big news the spider wanted to tell me.

"They all planned this," the spider loudly whispered. I wiggled my antennae, not quite knowing who "they" were and what they planned. What the spider told me shocked this fly.

"Biden, Putin, XI along with Kamala, Pelosi, Schumer and many more Democrats, they all planned this war, the victory of Russia over Ukraine, the ability for China to hold their Olympics with no bother from war and yes, they schemed with Ukraine to send them money after they are taken over by Russia."

I was very surprised, but of course. Our President, VP, Speaker of the House and many in the Democrat political party planned for Russia to win Ukraine, for China to hold their Olympics and possibly take over Taiwan?

"They want to change the world," the spider continued. "But they can't without getting votes. Even the election steal was planned by these people so they could carry out their plan."

Wow. Again, this fly was shocked.

"They got lots of money Mr. Fly," the spider went on. "Hunter Biden, of course, was one of the biggest go-betweens, gleaning money from the Ukraine, China and Russia."

I asked the spider if he was sure of all this.

"YES!" he shouted. "But the Bidens, who got paid well for sure, were not the only recipients of the money. The money was spread out over all Democrat candidates so that they could control America, stop America from digging for oil, stop many Americans from remaining in jail for crimes they commit, and now they are going to let Russia win control of Ukraine."

We both paused.

"Then the Democrats will control, not just America, but the entire world. They say Putin is a megalomaniac but the Democrats are full of the need for power and power comes with control of the planet earth."

Understand yon reader, this fly does not know if any of this is true. In fact, I am just not sure how much the spider knows.

But I have never seen him eat or drink.

Something really strange about him.

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TIME FOR A SMILE

“Food” for thought this morning via Emerald Robinson’s substack:

Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers
Corporate news outlets did not disclose the money they took to push dangerous drugs to their conservative audience

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/fox-news-and-newsmax-took-biden-money?s=r

From link (entire article so you don’t have to click):

Two days ago, Chris Pandolfo at Blaze Media revealed that his media organization had filed FOIA requests regarding the Biden Administration’s covert funding of the deadly new vaccines and the American corporate media. What they discovered will certainly shock you — and it’s a crucial story that our corrupt media will work hard to make the least covered and least discussed news story of the year.

What did Chris Pandolfo find? He discovered that nearly the entire corporate media took money from the Biden Administration to push the vaccines to their audiences without disclosing it. More importantly, so-called “conservative” media organizations took money from the Biden Administration to spin positive stories about deadly and ineffective vaccines to their conservative viwers who were right to be suspicious — and did not disclose it.

Fox News took the money and said nothing to its conservative viewers.

Newsmax took the money and said nothing to its conservative viewers.

In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations. These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its efficacy and safety.

That is the largest and most comprehensive breach of journalistic ethics that has ever occurred. Almost everybody took the money. Almost everybody lied about the vaccines (knowingly or unknowingly). Almost everybody refused to report anything negative about the vaccines — because they were paid to close their eyes. Almost everybody is implicated.

Now that the new COVID vaccines have been shown to be not only dangerous and ineffective but highly dangerous, the American public would naturally expect the American news media to do some investigation into the biggest medical experiment in the history of the world. That’s not going to happen. The American corporate media has been paid off by the Biden Administration, and so they’re running Ukraine war footage 24/7 in the hope that the American public will forget the last two years of media-manufactured COVID mania.

Let me add some personal details to the largest corporate media scandal of the year: I have been contacted by a whistleblower inside Newsmax who has confirmed the broad details of this story. That insider confirms: Newsmax executives agreed to take the money from Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) to push only positive coverage of the new COVID vaccines.

Let me add another personal detail: I was contacted by top Newsmax executives and told to halt any negative coverage of the vaccines in 2021. I was told that “it was problematic” for Newsmax. I was given some version of this warning multiple times by multiple executives. Obviously, I did not heed their advice.

Of course, almost everyone else employed in the corporate media did keep their mouths shut. I discussed the outright ban on negative vaccine coverage with other Newsmax producers and top anchors at the time, and they were aware that they could not provide negative coverage of the news vaccines without repercussions from the network. I was contacted by PR experts who worked with Newsmax and was told that medical experts and doctors who might say negative things about the new vaccines would not be booked as guests at all.

In other words, the Biden Administration’s money did not just pay for pro-vaccine advertising at outlets like Fox and Newsmax: it paid for an outright ban on any negative coverage. There’s a word for that kind of thing, and the word is: propaganda. Corporate news executives with no medical training and no expertise began to make ludicrous announcements that were basically blanket endorsements of the deadly and untested vaccines. Pandolfo decribes this propaganda:

Other publications, such as the Los Angeles Times, featured advice from experts on how readers could convince vaccine-hesitant people in their lives to change their minds. The Washington Post covered “the pro-vaccine messages people want to hear.” Newsmax has reported how the vaccines have “been demonstrated to be safe and effective” and “encouraged citizens, especially those at risk, to get immunized.”

HHS did not immediately respond when asked if the agency used taxpayer dollars to pay for people to be interviewed, or for a PR firm to place them in interviews with news outlets.

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy even wrote an op-ed to celebrate Joe Biden’s vaccine rollout and praise Biden’s high poll numbers. This op-ed was basically a personal plea for the American public to take medical advice from a news organization that was secretly taking money from the Biden Administration to say positive things about dangerous drugs. “At Newsmax, we have strongly advocated for the public to be vaccinated. The many medical experts who have appeared on our network have been near unanimous in support of the vaccine,” Ruddy said. “I myself have gotten the Pfizer vaccine. There’s no question in my mind, countless lives would have been saved if the vaccine was available earlier.”

Meanwhile, Fox News executive are continuing to enforce vaccinbe mandates with their own employees — even though the mandates have been halted by the courts. Fox is even offering $500 to any employee, right now, who proves they got the jab.

We have just lived through the most extensive propaganda campaign in the history of the world and it was paid for with taxpayer dollars. You paid for it. I paid for it. We will probably never know how much money was spent because, according to a source familiar with the FOIAs, the Biden Administration won’t release the amounts under their “trade secrets” exemption.

I’ve been telling people for the last two years that, when the truth comes out about the deadly COVID vaccines, it will topple the American corporate media.

Now you know what I was talking about.

Couple of comments here:

First of all, this is a “do not miss” interview with Edward Dowd, IMO. If you want to see the “why” in what he’s doing, it’s ear the end ... minute 56+

Next ... the last 2 years have made for “strange bedfellows” so to speak. I’m MAGA, a person of deep faith, very conservative, PRO-2A big time, anti-killing babies at ANY time. I believe there are men and women - period. I believe they each have a role to play. I do not consider myself a “feminist” although I think women have more to offer than being barefoot & in the kitchen; however, I think the greatest & most important job a woman (and man) can do is parent/raise their kids.

That being said, I have found some people on the “Left” that are reasonable, will actually “discuss” things, love this country and are patriots - not your usually TDS/demented, let’s-turn-America-socialists fascist types. In particular, Dr. Naomi Wolf & the DarkHorse podcasters Dr. Heather Heying & Dr. Brett Weinstein I have found are worth listening to - all of them (plus Dr. Malone & others) appear to be discovering that their political “home” seems to be shifting ‘right’ & not without some speed. When Dr. Wolf first appeared on War Room, I was thinking “what the heck is Steve doing talking to HER?” Boy, was I surprised and I’m eating humble pie where she’s concerned. Do I agree with everything these folks say? No I do not .... same as I don’t agree 100% with PDJT all the time either.

Anyway, here’s the interview Naomi did with Edward Dowd - I’ve heard most if not all of Ed’s interviews & this one is particularly in-depth:

Edward Dowd Explains Bombshell ‘Fraud’ Charge re Pfizer Hiding Deaths Data
https://rumble.com/vwfu7j-edward-dowd-explains-bombshell-fraud-charge-re-pfizer-hiding-deaths-data.html

PS - Pfizer whistle blower is ‘out’ & talking loudly - previously ‘gagged’ by court order due to a lawsuit. She currently has a Federal lawsuit going against her former employer Ventavia who ran clinical trials (where fraud occurred) for Pfizer. I believe Pfizer is named in the lawsuit as well. Her name is Brook Jackson. On GETTR, she is IamBrookJackson

Brilliant as usual.I especially liked this":

You can see the results of that with the Covid plans where everything was planned and dictated from Moscow on the Potomac forcing the country to take a risky vax while wearing a useless mask. They even micro-managed hospital protocols which were ineffective at curing the disease and dismissed any other treatments which had superior results.

and this:

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There are three main reasons that Putin attacked Ukraine among others.

They are:

1. Free the war torn Donbass region where many of those loyal to Russia and under duress since 2014 by the Ukrainian army and Nazis are getting desperate. Also,recently it was alleged that Ukraine was getting ready to release more bio-weaponry on the Donbass area suggesting it would not be the first time.

2. Destroy the bio labs in the Ukraine:

Here are the locations:

https://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ScreenHunter-6305-554x640.jpg and

3. Get rid of the Azov Nazis:

The Resurgence of Nazism in Ukraine

BY LUKE BEIRNE

During the Holocaust, over 1.2 million Jewish people were murdered by Nazis and their collaborators in Ukraine.

Ukraine is now experiencing a militarized resurgence of Nazism. In 2014, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi militia called Azov Battalion was formed to combat Russian separatism. It was then incorporated into the national guard, making it an official part of the Ukrainian military.

There is no secrecy about the unit's ideological commitments. Azov members wear uniforms adorned with SS symbols, swastikas, and patches celebrating Nazism. Its leader once stated that “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival.”

Azov Battalion has not only been legitimized by the Ukrainian government but has received support and training from both Canada and the United States. The unit's officers have spoken publicly about the training they have received from Western military powers and the support that they have in Ukraine's diaspora communities in North America.

In 2018, Canadian military officials specifically met with the battalion. They expressed concern only that their meeting might be exposed by the media, not because of the unit's ideological commitments. As Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator in Ukraine during the Holocaust, there is absolutely no excuse for ignorance on this front.

American officials have also been photographed meeting with Azov members. The United States has supplied the unit and, in 2015, a bill was even modified by the Pentagon specifically to remove a clause that intended to prevent military funding and supplies from reaching Azov.

Neo-Nazism is not a fringe movement in Ukraine. It has been steadily gaining a foothold, working its way back into the state, and maintains a presence in both the police and military, the most immediate arms of the state's repressive apparatus. Nazism in Ukraine is also enabling the strengthening of the ideology elsewhere.

It has been alleged that an underground division of Azov recruits white supremacists youth across Europe and offers them military training. Azov allegedly collaborates with American neo-Nazis, and American neo-Nazis have even travelled to Ukraine to fight.

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/11/the-resurgence-of-nazism-in-ukraine/

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