Optics carry a lot of weight, the eyes pull the images in first before the brain can run the calculations. Throw in some good or bad timing and you are either sky high or augering in. Let’s look at some really bad optics sprinkled with equally bad timing. The current posterboy for all of this is of course V. Putin, the 800 pound, no, let’s make him the 1000 pound asshole in the room. After wrestling with a pandemic for 2 years weary citizens around the globe were finally seeing some proverbial light at the end of the tunnel only to find more crap blocking the way out in the form of Ukraine being invaded. Putin is like a high school sophomore who sees a hot senior and has to have him/her even if the sophomore has access to all the him/her he/she wants aside from this one hottie. Putin has been sniffing around Ukraine for years but couldn’t stand the rejection and more so when his desired said “yeah, you and what army?” and he replied “I’ll show you what army.” Excuse me, wasn’t Covid rampant in Russia too? So what is the average Russian thinking? “You know what would really hit the spot now? If we could just go to war.” There are no good optics on this, it’s just some madman’s wet dream, a 5 alarm fuck up on steriods if you will. Must be a nice feeling when 98% of the world thinks you’re a total ditchrat although it seems as if Putin is oblivious to world opinion and sanity. And another thing, if there’s a prolonged war and he bombs the shit out of the place and there’s a huge migration of people what the fuck will he be in charge of? Nice Putster, you are the proud owner of a totally ruined country and get ready as your fatherland goes down the toilet too. Nobody was in the room when he said “today’s the day we enter Ukraine”…..nobody raised their hand and questioned the sheer batshit crazy of it? Well maybe somebody did and their body won’t be found…..ever. A bad optics situation in the U.S.? Baseball will not start on time this year due to….who gives a shit. Hellloooo, gas is 4 to 6 dollars a gallon, we’re all coming out of our bunkers for the first time in two years and we might be at the start of World War III……the wind up, the pitch, STRIKE THREE CALL.

Gunga, galunga
Garry