Most of the effect of "Ukraine"/"Putin"/"Russia" on inflation is actually the effect of sanctions, which were chosen by the West, not by Russia.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) April 20, 2022

Ian, can you bring to mind any reason these sanctions occurred? Some possible thing that spurred them? I know it’s hard for you, being a front for the Russian propaganda machine, but think for a minute about it.

Anyway, that’s not a valid point as it mostly isn’t true. According to Welsh, Ukraine is a Nazi-infested backwater that deserves what Russia does to it. I really don’t understand what happened with that dude.

THIS, FOLKS!
What will America be like with
30 million of us with Long Covid?
50 million?
The @CDCDirector and @WHCOS have started the experiment.
On you. On all of us.
Have you consented to be a subject?
Have your kids? Your parents? https://t.co/PJw9GXvKCY

— Kirk Murphy 🇺🇦 (@kirkmurphy) April 21, 2022

LOL. These people are hilarious. And I think they really believe this crap, too.

Absolutely trash journalism. We knew there would be lots of fraud in the PPP, but did it anyway because otherwise millions of small businesses would have gone under and the unemployment rate would have hit 15-20%. Just utter garbage from NBC. https://t.co/OjT6HdQ6fH

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 18, 2022

PPP made a lot of pseudo-capitalists angry because it protected businesses they were hoping to use pandemic restrictions and disruptions to destroy. That’s why you’re seeing journalism like this now. Those folks want to make sure something like PPP never happens again.

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat for emphasis: The next few weeks will be a battle of logistics. Ukraine will win it.

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 19, 2022

I agree. What Russia is attempting now will make their logistics position worse, not better. They are already doing a terrible job and with sanctions biting, I see no way they can improve it.

The most important part of the progressive agenda was lockdowns and forcing children to wear masks and then screaming you were a murderer if you didn’t agree. This was an unpopular and unwise agenda.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 19, 2022

Interesting that they went apeshit over the most insane, useless and harmful parts of their agenda, and the least effective. That tells you it’s about identity and not efficacy.

Since people don't understand why there are mass cancellations, neither COVID waves nor weather are the real culprit, the lack of redundancy is. Airlines laid off staff instead of retaining them, even though they got bailout money so this wouldn't happen. https://t.co/wA8czt7Vc2 pic.twitter.com/IYjTmP0CJU

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 19, 2022

Yeah, it’s not Covid. That’s what the Covidians point to for everything bad that occurs now. It has no explanatory power for most of what they blame on the disease. “It’s because of Covid” is like how the conservatives used to blame everything bad that occurred on Obama.