Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Hmm. Went looking where I could buy the proper Unionwear-made Harris/Walz baseball cap. Can't. Sold out everywhere I looked including the Unionwear web site. There are Chinese knockoffs available but that's not what I want. Hmm.

@EugeneMcParland I don't doubt that for a minute. Putin knows he'll be dead before the bill for this adventure comes due.

@Hey_Beth Yup. Biden is a master at politics. I marvel because I could not have thought this plan up. I'm not a master of politics. But I get it now and I can't stop laughing.

I mean, damn, isn't there ANYONE among Republican strategists that saw this coming???

@randahl Well, economics plays a part. Possibly the major part. Russia's economy is about the size of Spain's. No offense to Spain, I love Spain and Spaniards. But um, Russia pretends to be a world power only because they have nukes and we in the West play along because we know it's useful to have a big bad enemy.

Russia is a paper tiger. If you press them seriously, they collapse. Without a network of satellite nations (colonies) to support them, they're nothing. They can't even feed themselves. It's been like this for hundreds of years and nothing has changed because a thousand years ago the Rus chose to settle on a pretty much useless plot of land. They only survive by raiding and plundering nations around them.

Why do we put up with it? I really don't know.

@mikaelfer Wonderful. My dad taught me this 60 years ago. (He was a blacksmith by trade, trained in Germany in the 1910s. We built a forge. This is serious fun (in my opinion). Shaping steel, tempering, welding. It's a powerful feeling because you realize that you can make anything if you put your mind to it. Oh, did I mention it's also fun.

Have fun!

@Free_Press Yes, well, some people just need to be beaten until their attitude improves. But I'm a liberal and much too nice to do such a thing.

@Sheril Agreed. They knocked it out of the park.

It's popcorn time. Anyone with a brain amongst the Republicans knows they're going to be overwhelmed at every turn. So now come the moves of desperation. And it is desperation because many of them know that the law is coming for them should they lose, starting with Trump himself.

This is going to get REAL crazy.

@GottaLaff Ahh, hmm, coming from the guy who said, "If we didn't cheat we'd never win anything." A bit of projection going on here I think.

@GottaLaff Yes, criticism of veterans coming from JD Vance who has never seen combat, never heard the snap sound of a bullet passing his head.

Yeah, Vance, or whatever your name is, just keep talkin'. We'll remember what you say.

@the_turtle @mattsheffield Right, and they'll continue doing that.

@Nigel_Purchase @tofugolem Trump's new home will be FCI Morgantown.