The Right Stuff Dating App

This past week....a dating app opened which mostly relates to conservatives guys and gals.  The logic here is that things have deteriorated enough....that liberals only want to hang out with liberals, and conservatives are going the same way.

I sat and pondered upon this.

In the 1970s, your political angle in life didn't really amount to much.  Your key status on date success?  Can you dance?  Can you socialize and be all chatty without the use of alcohol?  Do you have any funny stories?  Does your date success go beyond bowling?  

Personally, I don't think this political bickering and limits on dating started....until you get to social media (Twitter/Facebook) being offered up in the 2008 to 2012 timeframe.

Will the dating App work?  I'm fairly skeptical.  

To be honest, with 90-percent of 25 to 35 year old guys who say they are conservatives....they are looking for some gal who is a bit flirty (10-percent slutty-status)...who gets a bit reckless on occasion....bowls in the 150 range....drinks beer from both a glass and a can.....has a passion for college football on Saturdays....knows the difference between Marvel and DC.....and doesn't mind a gal who dresses fairly poorly or has a 1980s fashion-statement.  

What I expect to happen?  A number of female leftists will toy with the idea of joining up and participating in this conservative dating effort......to prove a point.  But along the way....they discover that the liberal-but-fake-conservative gal is falling for the genuine conservative guy.  Then the problem comes up....how you explain to the poor guy that you misled him, and are really a ironclad Democrat, who is pumped up still about Hillary.  

This won't end well.  

"Just Leave' Chatter

 As days lead onto weeks, and weeks onto months.....the war in the Ukraine continues.  

This week....the Finnish PM (Sanna Marin) was asked about how to end the war, and she had this simple quote: “The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That’s the way out of the conflict.”

In truth, Putin has an agenda which has existed since the middle of 2021 in his mind.....that a little war can occur....territory can be taken, and the glory of the Putin-era can be 'crowned'.  Stuff of legends....so to speak.

Presently, I believe Putin still believes he holds some 'royal flush' in his hand at the poker table.  There may be 50,000 dead Russian conscripts in the mix, 700,000 Russians who've left the country, and a 20-year rebuilding (costly) campaign that the country really can't afford.....but there's some propaganda 'pay-off' once the Ukrainians just say they surrender.

This week, the Nobel Peace Prize guys decided to get into the middle of this, and awarded the Peace Prize to a Russian group (anti-Putin folks).....who promptly found that their headquarters in Moscow has been confiscated by the state for illegal existence.

There are three things that I'm waiting on to play out:

1.  By Feb 2023, I expect around 10,000 of these newly drafted-up Russian reservists to walk up with white flags and surrender in the Ukraine. It'll probably reach a stage where buses will be at the Ukrainian border, and hauling the guys (now in some sports gear instead of military gear) off to France and Germany where they are given some asylum paperwork.  Their families will be quietly accepted as part of the deal (my bet).

2.  Alcoholism will be 'branded' as the major problem in the activation of the 300,000 reservists arrive and are unable to function in daily warfare or military lifestyle....without a significant amount of booze.  

3.  Some Russian journalists will stumble upon the problem of a dozen commanders per week being killed by their own men, and get lectured by Moscow that you can't talk or mention this ongoing problem.

There's going to be a 'legend' written at the end of this war, but it won't be very kind to Putin's belief in himself.