Kagro in the Morning - March 16, 2022

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On today’s KITM, David Waldman continues lobbying to designate all days to be permanently Eastern Orthodox, so that we might all remain a day ahead of schedule. 

Greg Dworkin describes how Russia's spin doctors struggle to get behind a coherent narrative. The one about Russia being “a superpower” isn’t holding up well anymore. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy virtually circles the globe, coherently building his case, consistently making his plea with world leaders, to lead. Donald Trump has remained consistently incoherent, but in his defense, Trump has never said anything that wasn’t a bluff or a lie, so how would he guess something like that was even possible? Republicans are trying to imagine Trumpism without Trump, while Don Jr. imagines his dad photo-opping with NATO. Luckily for the world, Joe Biden is the one going to be there.

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich made billions from rigged elections and crooked deals in Russia and the US. He’s probably made plenty in worse ways too. nevertheless, he still has his plane and his yacht. How is that so?

West Virginia oligarch Joe Manchin can’t imagine American manufacturing/infrastructure for electric vehicles… but that’s nothing a trillion or so in West Virginia EV battery plants couldn’t fix.

Are COVID-19 infections going back up? Oh poo! It does look like that might be true. Trump areas in the US hardly had a breather. How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night knowing he got away with killing so many? Pretty well, since so far Ron did get away with it. China and New Zealand both have exploding infection rates, but only one has matching death rates. China is locking down whole cities and provinces.

Indiana shows that red states aren’t all idiots. All you need are some smart citizens, and a Republican legislature split between doing bad or doing worse. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio wanted to always be remembered as a complete idiot, so he made sure to get it on tape. As idiots go however, Lauren Boebert still ranks right up there.

Donald Trump was sent by God; Vladimir Putin was also anointed by The Almighty. Trump Republican Jennifer Carnahan was only directed into office by her dead husband, and yet still she does come off as pretty entitled.