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Found this little ditty.

It's a Belerusian lady who is very upset that the world thinks Belarus is helping Russia invade Ukraine.

She writes in part:

Seattle shows its support for Ukraine

I visit the Drudge Report often just to get a middle America perspective on things. I just came from there and I only just now realized something for the first time: Drudge Report is the original influencer. The pics they choose and the headlines they write for the stories they choose to frame a narrative is done for no other reason than to set the agenda for what people talk about and form the basis of their opinions.

When I just went my first thought was: Boy Matt Drudge is really turning his readers to hate Putin (not that, that is a bad thing at all).

This is a perfect example of what I mean: A pic of a snarling Putin with the caption “I’ll take it all.” Given the GOPs love affair with all things Russian during the Trump presidency… it makes me wonder how this influences how people feel about the GOP.

One guy in the vanpool is from Kansas and he says people there vote for anyone with an R by their name no matter what.

History has shown the guy from Kansas is correct, not only of Republicans, Democrats as well. On average those who identify or affiliate with either major party will vote for their party’s candidates 94% of the time regardless of who those candidates are. Hence my earlier statement that most elections are decided by the mushy middle which we call independents.

On average once again, we can say around 40% of independents tend to vote Democratic and another 40% tend to vote Republican which leaves 20% or so as true or pure independents. The difference is those 40% who tend to vote for one or the other party do so on average 73% of the time vs. the 94% who identify with the major parties. These tends are classified as independents leans toward one party or the other. The 20% of true or pure independents, no one know how they’ll vote until they do.

While those who affiliate with the major parties are voting for their party’s candidates 94% of the time, here’s an example of how independents voted going back to 2000.

2000 independents voted for G.W. Bush 47-46 over Gore; independents voted for Republican congressional candidates 49-47 over Democratic congressional candidates.

2002 independents voted for Republican congressional candidates 51-45 over Democratic congressional candidates.

2004 independents voted for Kerry by a 49-48 margin over G.W. Bush. Independents voted for Republican congressional candidates by a 50-46 margin over Democratic congressional candidates.

2006 independents voted Democratic by a margin of 57-39 over Republicans.

2008 independents voted for Obama by a 52-44 margin over McCain. Independents voted 52-45 for Democratic congressional candidates.

2010 independents voted 56-37 Republican over Democratic congressional candidates.

2012 independents voted for Romney by a 51-48 margin. Independents voted 50-49 for Republican congressional candidates.

2014 independents voted 54-42 for Republican congressional candidates.

2016 Independents voted for Trump 46-42 with 12% voting third party. In congressional election independents voted Republican 51-47.

2018 Independents voted for the Democratic congressional candidates by a 54-42 margin with 4% voting third party.

2020 Independents voted for Biden 54-41 with 5% voting third party. In Congressional elections independents voted Republican 49-48.

Independents are all over the place, but rarely does either major party drop below the 40% mark in the independent vote. Interesting to note in 2006 independents voted democratic by a 57-39 margin, 4 years later they voted Republican 56-37. Those are the only two times a major party didn’t at least receive 40% of the independents vote since 2000. Interesting that independents went Democratic in 2006 by an 18-point margin only to go Republican 4 years later by 19 points. A swing of 37 points.

Younger generations are watching and rolling their eyes.

But parents are careful to indoctrinate children early to their beliefs so every generation must fight its own battles with racism, bigotry, religious fundamentalism, and fascism.

No one has ever accused Roger Stone of having good judgment.

How is letting a Danish film crew follow him around with a camera during the 2020 election and its aftermath, not a substantial error in judgment - and even allowing for the fact that Stone probably didn't anticipate that his associates would be charged with seditious conspiracy and the entire episode would be the subject of a congressional inquiry.



But done is done,


WaPo

Is true that Roger Stone, while working for the Bob Dole campaign, used Bob Dole's wife's credit card to run an ad in a swinger magazine?

Some people are saying that Roger Stone struggles with the concepts of causation and object permanence.

DeadState

It seems that everybody knows the Truth About Trump. But they will ride anyone's coattails into power.

People from all over the world are booking Air B 'n' Bs in Ukraine with no intention of ever staying. Why? To get money into the hands of Ukranians quickly. 61,000 bookings so far.