Mar 4, 2022
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Today, on The Friday Edition of The Kagro in the Morning Show, reporting from The Heart of America: The Commonwealth of Virginia — The One, The Only, David Waldman!
(We don’t say The Ukraine anymore however, as it is a provincial term meaning “the borderlands”, just as The Netherlands meant “the lowlands”, The Sudan meant, uhm, “the land of the blacks”, and The Batman means… well who knows, maybe they explain that in the movie.)
Everything is horrible in Ukraine and still pretty horrible outside Ukraine too, at least for non-white refugees. Racism is everywhere, but so are Russian bots, so beware.
The Russian hawks who convinced Vladimir Putin that getting involved in a land war in Asia wouldn’t be a classic blunder sure were surprised when Vlad believed them. Russian allies are now fleeing Russia, and close behind them are Russian citizens. The UK might be a bad place to hide as there is already a “hit list” of oligarchs facing UK sanctions. Putin-connected Briton Evgeny Lebedev was pretty comfortable hiding out in Parliament before the invasion, but now everyone’s looking at him so he has to say something. Meanwhile, a Ukraine-born oligarch has been found dead at his home in “unexplained circumstances” which is completely not suspicious, nothing to see here.
Russians have secret-weapon Texan Russell Bonner, but we have Senator Lindsey “Rambo” Graham on our side.
Senior Art Correspondent Darwin H. M. closes out the week with a report on how Ukraine’s world heritage is threatened by the Russian invasion, and how the art world is responding.
In the US, a former Fox News director whom Sean Hannity has never met has been indicted for helping put together a TV network in Russia. Russian tendrils run deep into Kentucky's Teachers Retirement System… and Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. A different Kentucky lawmaker apologizes for stating that abortion pills were invented by Jewish people during the Holocaust.
A Russian Group aims to lead the global White supremacist terror movement.
John Eastman advocated for insurrection on Chapman University computers, only one of his recent legal errors. It turns out that a lot of people made quite a few legal errors around that time. An attorney in Wisconsin suggests the legally impossible solution to just back up and start all over again.
A knife shop owner was served an arrest warrant from the Queen of Canada, and now wishes he hadn’t spent his defense fund on the Prince of Nigeria.