Ukraine, CA Hellhole, Silver!!, and WTF DOJ?
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Ukraine, CA Hellhole, Silver!!, and WTF DOJ?
The Fat Pipe from March 4
CHRIS MARTENSON
MAR 11
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Ukraine
The PsyOp around Ukraine is simply stunning to behold. People all over “X” and the other socials are scrambling to virtue signal their devotion to Ukraine’s democratic resistance to the evil Russia.
But they seem to be entirely unable to connect a few dots or explain themselves in any way.
For the record, Ukraine:
Has not held any elections since 2022
Shut down any media that isn’t 100% pro Zelensky
Banned the orthodox church
Now has thousands of videos showing Ukrainian military and police forcibly kidnapping struggling Ukrainian men who have no interest in being poorly trained and sent to the front lines where they will quickly die.
Cannot ‘win’ against Russia.
Has ’lost’ billions of dollars of assistance to graft and corruption
While I can’t confirm any of the details of this Tweet, I’ve read enough similar tweets to believe that they are telling a tale that is grounded in truth.
Invalid response from Twitter
Ukrainians have a habit of being cruel and harsh to their captives, something Gonzalo Lira’s death confirmed for all of us. There are dozens (hundreds?) of videos of people being tied to trees and beaten by Ukrainian ‘security’ forces.
So I am inclined to believe the above Tweet is more or less accurate.
Again, the point here is “This is what are the US democrats supporting?” Do they even know, or have their opinions been rectally inserted by MSM and they aren’t aware of this dynamic?
Nick Freitas
I’ll say it again, for clarification…
It’s not about “wanting Putin to win.”
I DON’T want Putin to win. But I don’t see a lot of the people advocating expansion of this war, offering to send their own kids…
So here are some things to consider:
Trump is correct that Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia. The numbers aren’t there. You can send all the equipment you want, sooner or later Ukraine will require troops. Who is going to send them? Because it will not be us nor should it be.
Germany, the UK, and France all have GDPs larger than Russia. So they shouldn’t need US support. Europe should be able to handle this on its own. If they can’t, that says a lot more about how they have managed European priorities. You don’t get to simultaneously complain about US hegemony and then demand that we use our blood and treasure to solve a problem you could have easily dealt with by adjusting your priorities.
This war could have been stopped before it started. NATO did not need to expand to Russia’s borders. NATO was originally established to combat communist aggression. Which means at this point its primary threat is Western universities.
Ukrainian gains have encouraged Zelensky to go for more than he can reasonably achieve. Russia outran its supply lines while at the same time leaving major pockets of resistance along its lines of communication. That combined with a massive influx of money and weaponry from the West is the reason it was able to push the Russians back. But without air superiority Ukraine is playing a game it can’t ultimately win.
Trump is not just dealing with Ukraine here. He recognizes that the foreign policy nightmare that was the Biden administration has pushed our two greatest adversaries, Russia and China closer together. Russia is the lesser partner in that alliance and they don’t want to be dependent upon China. That presents an opportunity to both save Ukraine and create distance between Russia, China, and even Iran.
Welcome to a new foreign policy that takes reality into account.
Where the US is a respected ally not a sugar daddy.
If you don’t like that arrangement, I hear Ukraine is taking volunteers just in time for Spring operations
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Life Under Democrats in CA
Wherein CA decides it hates poor people and declares that only rich people should have lawns.
That’s how I interpret this:
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Due to the CA “green emissions” law, no more gasoline lawnmowers can be sold in the state. This will create an immediate black market for lawnmowers of course, necessitating and entire new division of state thugs to enforce the laws.
Naturally, if you bothered to add up where all that electricity came from and how much carbon was liberated in its generation, and conducted a lifecycle analysis of the batteries’ own mining and production needs, you’d probably find absolutely zero carbon reduction.
Our timer is now set for the first electric lawn tractor blazing torch of destruction incident.
Meanwhile, the actor James Woods has come to a conclusion:
Invalid response from Twitter
Maybe he was reacting to a newly proposed CA bill by Assemblyman Rick Zbur that would remove a person’s ‘right’ to defend themselves from intruders in their own home.
Where the law used to allow you to defend yourself against a home invasion, that language was stricken by Zbur to now require the homeowner to somehow be able to divine that the intruder intended to “offer violence” and not, presumably, just steal all their stuff.
That’s an impossibly vague standard and will be used by some Soros prosecutor to find an egregious case to prosecute to send a message to the rest of the state’s citizens that if their homes are invaded, they’d better just cower and wait for the state to save their bacon.
Zbur, who is either a liar or a moron (why not both?), claimed that wasn’t the intent of the bill.
Naturally, CA most admires the UK, and its democratic legislators are working around the clock to convert CA into more of a socialist hell hole than it already is. If you live there, your choices include stay and fight or leave.
I believe Jeremy Clarkson shares the views of James Woods:
Remember the Daniel Penny case? After charging him with murder for stopping a violent man from assaulting people on the subway NYC later got to see a woman horrifically burned alive while everyone stood around not helping.
Cause and effect. It’s something that seems to elude the totalitarians, assuming they are legitimately, but deludedly, seeking a better, safe, and more compassionate society.
The defect is so pronounced that it’s increasingly difficult to chalk up their idiotic proposals to mere incompetence. It must be something more…or something less.
Hi Ho Silver, Away!
While the golden emergency, whatever it was, has receded for now, Silver is busy screaming away in the basement.
Despite being monkey-hammered in each of the last ten US paper sessions, entities seeking real physical silver seem not to be dissuaded from wanting their physical metal.
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That’s ~100% of total mine output for February, taken from Comex alone. I guess that leaves 0% for the rest of the world. I wonder what the UAE, China, or India think about that?
That’s an enormous delivery month, especially for February. We’ll have to wait and see what March brings…but things remain spicy in PM-ville.
I strongly suspect we’re going to be treated to a big-ol’ precious metal shortage for us little people. Naturally, if you are JP Morgan or one of their elite clientele, you’ll have access, but the rest of us may have to get by with none more, or our own black/grey market trading.
The stress on the silver shorts continues:
Invalid response from Twitter
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Also:
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As a reminder:
DOJ WTF?
I’m starting to lose faith in Pam Bondi. First, the Epstein files were handled atrociously. She’s either ignorant or lying, and I don’t want either running the DOJ.
Either she wasn’t aware that the FBI handed her a “complete” set of Epstein files that not only weren’t complete but had already been unredacted in the public domain for ten years (which her DOJ hilariously spent time redacting), OR she was lying about what she was releasing.
At any rate, the lying sack in charge of the SDNY FBI field office that withheld Epstein docs from her has been sacked:
Invalid response from Twitter
This is completely insufficient. I want charges, or at least, minimally, for James Dennehy to lose his pension. There has to be a reasonable penalty for lying to the DOJ doesn’t there?
And today, we wake up to find out that the DOJ has decided without any explanation to NOT release the Seth Rich files on March 10th as already scheduled and agreed upon.
Invalid response from Twitter
Seth Rich, for those who don’t recall, was the DNC staffer who was “murdered” in a “street robbery” where nothing valuable was taken from him after he was shot 2x in the back on the sidewalk in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington DC.
From Grok:
Seth Rich was murdered on July 10, 2016, at approximately 4:20 a.m. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He was a 27-year-old employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), working as a voter expansion data director. According to official reports, Rich was walking home from a night out, talking on the phone with his girlfriend, when he was shot twice in the back. He died about an hour and a half later at a nearby hospital. The Metropolitan Police Department classified the incident as a likely attempted robbery, though nothing was reported stolen—his wallet, watch, and phone were still on him when police arrived. No suspects have ever been apprehended, and the case remains unsolved.
Rich’s murder occurred just weeks before WikiLeaks published thousands of DNC emails, which led to widespread conspiracy theories, particularly among some right-wing circles.
When pressed about those “right wing conspiracy theories” Grok had to cough up this accurate explanation:
As of March 4, 2025, the FBI has not fully released the contents of Seth Rich’s laptop. Here’s the current situation based on available information:
The FBI has acknowledged possessing both Seth Rich’s personal and work laptops, along with related materials like a DVD and a tape drive. In September 2022, a federal judge in Texas, Amos L. Mazzant, ordered the FBI to produce information from these devices in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Brian Huddleston, represented by attorney Ty Clevenger. The judge’s ruling in November 2023 further mandated a timeline for disclosure within 14 days of the order, including a Vaughn index (a detailed list of withheld documents and justifications). However, the FBI has resisted full compliance, citing various exemptions under FOIA.
The bureau initially denied having any responsive records in 2017, but later filings revealed it had over 20,000 pages of material mentioning Seth Rich and confirmed possession of his laptops. In a December 2022 filing, the FBI clarified it had a forensic report from an outside entity imaging Rich’s work laptop but claimed it never physically possessed his personal laptop—only images of it. The FBI has argued that the laptops are physical evidence tied to an ongoing investigation (Rich’s unsolved murder), not “agency records” subject to FOIA, and that releasing contents could harm related probes, possibly including Russian hacking allegations from 2016.
So, to recap: the FBI seized and then withheld information from Seth Rich, who was deemed murdered in a botched robbery, and then resisted releasing Rich’s laptop and other responsive records and then claimed they had lost them only for it to be discovered that they still had them and now the DOJ doesn’t want to release any of it?
Totally not suspicious!
Also, let’s not forget that the FBI also concluded that the leaked DNC emails was because of 22 Russian hackers! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
If Bondi and Kash continue to cover all this up, it means things are far worse than we thought, in the sense that the existing power structure still has a complete lock on the situation, and nothing is about to actually get any better.
I am rapidly losing faith in Bondi. I hope Kash doesn’t get swept into that pile.
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