Lisa Benson for February 23, 2023

Putin evidently has learned nothing after the last year: his forces are rotted and corrupted.

Unfortunately the US has been in conflict for the last 30+ years and the Eagle’s talons are wicked sharp and very well practiced.

Be wary of your wager, Mr. Putin.

Good grief!

Now Lisa is channeling the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists!

Is Lisa saying that she is better red than dead? Barry G. and Ronnie R. are rolling over.

Only a fool thinks our enemy is only Putin. He’s a distraction to the true threat of China.

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than at any time since its inception, including during the Cuban Missle Crisis (which was incredibly white knuckled and only didn’t result in a nuclear exchange due to a Soviet submarine commander refusing an order to fire on a U.S. ship). Purin is but one factor.

Lisa, he’s YOUR Fat Orange hero’s best bud…NEVER FORGET THAT FACT!!

That clock is getting closer and closer to midnight and Armageddon.

“Thems that die’ll be the lucky ones.” Said by Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson – 1882.

Pushing his luck and the doomsday clock

Putin doesn’t have to push hard for America’s doomsday, it’s here courtesy of the divisive, victim based, religion of Wokeism creating entitled snowflakes instead of hard working, virtuous patriots.

Tick TockAmerican aircraft keep nearly running into each other, while scheduled flights are canceled at rates far above the pre-Covid norm, even when there are no weather reasons for it at all. From 1980 to 2015, violations of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act more than doubled. In San Francisco last summer, the on-time rate for BART trains dropped to less than two-thirds, putting BART in its worst situation in decades (hope their $190k/year senior social justice manager has some ideas!).

Oh, and there’s the whole freight train derailment thing. You probably saw something in the news about that.

Before our eyes, Revolver’s warning of two years ago is coming to pass.

In the years to come, American infrastructure will fail more and more often, as America becomes less capable of maintaining the core elements of a First World country.

Why would America become less First World? That’s a simple question to answer: Because America is making itself less First World.

Tick TockBlue collar skilled workers started their careers in a very different America: one with a higher-quality working class, which felt far less shame about hiring based on knowledge and ability, even if it produced a workforce that was “too white” or “too male” or too anything. Now, they are passing the baton to a population with different skills and very different values. Is anybody confident we’ll be able to manage the handoff?

Early signs aren’t promising. When Colonial Pipeline suffered a major outage due to a cyberattack, the company’s CEO had to admit that the company was essentially incapable of operating its pipelines manually, not because it was impossible, but because everyone with the knowledge to do so was retired or dead.

Right before our eyes, America is losing that ability to sustain the complex systems that are the markers of modern civilization. Even more appalling, this transformation is a choice.

Remember that trillion dollar infrastructure bill Biden passed? Did you know that construction companies who want access to any of that gigantic pile of federal dollars need to implement major affirmative action policies to favor people based on race and sex? And did you know that if a company is getting a government contract on even one project, they need to practice affirmative action on everything?

Tick TockIs it any surprise that while the East Palestine train derailment mess was unfolding, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was off giving a speech about the need to make construction work less white?

Try to imagine if we ever would have gotten to the moon with this set of twisted priorities. Speaking of which, what better example of the decline in human capital and infrastructure than our inability to repeat the moon missions we achieved over a half century ago with pre-pocket calculator technology?

Unsurprisingly, America’s permanent crusade against phantom racism in everything is closely linked to the country’s decay in managing complex systems. Remember the crippling water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi last fall? It didn’t come out of nowhere. Rather, it was just the culmination of more than a decade of steadily-escalating failure in the local government, until finally the city couldn’t even fulfill one of the most basic functions that even lower-middle income countries typically manage. Even the Biden Administration’s planned solution to the Jackson crisis has been to appoint an emergency manager in order to save Jackson from its own incompetence.

The Washington Post, though, simply took one look at the crisis and decided that, welp, racist white people were to blame.

Tick Tock The reality, of course, is that people flee cities precisely because they are already becoming unlivable. Jackson has a murder rate of nearly 90 per 100,000 people, more than triple the rate of Chicago and higher than any large city in the country. In a given year, a random resident of the city has a nearly one in a thousand chance of dying by violence.

Trace it all back, then, and Jackson’s water troubles are substantially driven by the political failure to maintain basic safety… but of course, a police department capable of suppressing crime is itself a complex, infrastructure-like system, and it’s yet another system that America loves to ruin with affirmative action and gutted standards.

Blaming “racism” for the problems of Jackson, or Chicago, or any other city is a cliché, an excuse used to avoid engaging with America’s steady decline or why it seems inexorable. Yet this cliché is the only response America’s regime knows. To react any other way — by restoring meritocracy, by enforcing laws, by favoring the capable and law-abiding over the useless and parasitic — has become unthinkable.

We were sadly right two years ago. But it’s all going to get worse in the years to come.- Revolver News

Every “war” the US has engaged in since WW II wasn’t fought to win, but to not lose. Major difference. Problem now is Biden is draining our coffers and our arsenal of weapons in another useless engagement. Leaving us unprepared for a confrontation with China.

And here I was thinking it was Trump that would push us into a nuclear but it was Biden all along. . .

A very interesting way you said “Back off of my putin or else” in a comic. We are lucky the current US administration doesn’t run when it comes to stopping the reformation of the neo-USSR in Europe. You are either with us, or you are with the russian domination of eastern Europe.

Rupert told Tucker to tell Lisa God will never forgive her for the content of this ‘toon unless she repents with the next ‘toon she draws. Donald Trump is very angry, too.

quite a few people commenting on this page think the true enemy is our fellow Americans

vive la différence, eh… ☺

It’s been a second to midnight for decades. Decades from now they’ll be counting nanoseconds.

It’s the only card left in his hand…