Bingo!!!!  This!!!

This shit is PURPOSEFULL.

Do you mean purposeful, or on purpose?  Maybe it’s both.

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/vs/purposely-vs-purposefully-being-mindful-difference

When a larger country invades a smaller one that everyone on both sides knows is going to be won by the big guy, the head of the little country has traditionally fled, particularly if they are corrupt.

As to jailing or shutting down critics or opposition parties or potentially dangerous minorities, something similar was done in the U.S. by government leaders in both WWI and WWII.

Zelensky's corruption is only marginal when compared to a lot of world leaders. All in my humble opinion of course.

Him not fleeing is what makes him attractive.  Him jailing critics pissed me off.  I understood he is considered corrupt but not to the extent of his predecessors.  However, I really have no idea.  I was in a game today that has international players and there’s a lot of interesting perspective in chat if you can stand the vulgarities and insults.  Anyhoo somebody was talking about how Zelensky was put into power by an Oligarch (kept misspelling that, I don’t think English was their first language.  They may have even been Ukrainian) and how corrupt he is.  But my issue isn’t that so much as we simply can’t afford to fund their war.  He could be a saint, it doesn’t matter.  We can’t keep sending him money or spending money arming him.  That plus the extreme domestic spending bill (the INFLATION bill), plus killing our energy sector plus lockdown damage, it’s killing us, we can’t do it.

I’ve listened to the other side, the side that thinks we need to continue doing everything we can to help Ukraine fight Russia and they talk about if Russia wins then that empowers China and so on, but they fail to mention the situation we are facing here at home and how funding Ukraine is only worsening that.  We are decaying from within and pretty deep already in a cold civil war.  That’s not a good position from which to start getting involved in world wars.

The best we can hope for is they cancel each other out.

But that won’t happen.  This is a fuckin’ disaster, brought to everyone by the democrat communist.  We should have never gotten involved, period.    But here we are, and the money spicket is turned on full blast..

No putting the genie back in the bottle.   The only way out is a negotiated cease fire, and FJB and Zelensky will prevent that.

None of this would have happened if Trump were in the White House.  I will never forgive the Dems for 2020.

Like FJB, Zelensky is a tyrannical leader.  Birds of a feather. 

Zelensky is way sexier though, despite his faults.    Of course being sexier than zero (Biden) is not saying much.

An accurate if pessimistic assessment.  If we make it to 2024 without actively involving ourselves in a war, direct or proxy, with Russia, it will be sheer luck. 

We need to back the hell off, stop supporting Zelensky and let him negotiate giving the two Russophone regions to Putin, just keep Odessa.  If I were him I'd make that compromise, I bet Putin would take it to save face at this point.  Time to stop killing Ukrainian civilians and reluctant Russian soldiers.  We do NOT need to get further involved, and now is NOT the time to admit Ukraine into NATO.  We missed that window.  Europe is in no position to deal with WW3.  They stupidly went green and now have no reliable energy base, and are heading into major economic depression which is inevitable and will be global.  This is the worst possible time for the U.S. to go warmongering into Europe. We are not the strong nation we were in the first half of the 20th century, and we have an empty shell pretending to be our "leader".  Time to tell Ukraine, sorry, we did all we could, you're on your own now.

My daughter is a veterinarian because people are “gross,” even though she spent 6 years spending time shoulder-deep in cows preg checking them.

The pimple pop thing I don’t mind. But what is this thing where ads pop up with pictures of toe fungus?  Just typing this out makes me want to gag at that.

Oh God, the toenail fungus!  I HATE that!  So disgusting. 

Let me know what you think of it. I love Sam Elliott’s role. It’s very close to the book.

Just finished it.  Very well done.  “Enjoyable” isn’t the word, more like emotional on a lot of levels.  I was young then too, that was my generation, saw it on TV every night, I guess it’s still kind of unresolved.

Same here. Slept through it.

Well that’s no fun.