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Aramis posted:So he wants MORE weapons sent to Ukraine all of a sudden? (lol, of course not, complete mushbrain) To him, the disaster is that Russia didn't win immediately President Trump will fix this
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Feb 14, 2024 18:10
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Scam Likely posted:Trump saying NATO is delinquent on its protection money is such transparent mafia thinking. Chuds fuckin love how he approaches foreign policy like it's some shakedown of the local small business owner. Unreal. chuds are literal terrorist brained lowlifes, that's why they're so involved in evangelical church.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:11
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The amazing thing with trump is it seems he still thinks the 2% spending is what countries pay the US directly. Sure some will come to the US via defence contracts but I don’t think that is his thinking. Same with how he never seemed to understand how tariffs work.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:12
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Yeah it sounds like the type of thing you'd see in a mafia movie with a shakedown of a dry cleaner's or whatever, except it's geopolitics
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Feb 14, 2024 18:13
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HJE-Cobra posted:isn't this just like, pretty blatant extortion attempts? like "hey Europe, pay up or we'll let Russia do whatever they want"? trump always wanted to be a mob boss
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Feb 14, 2024 18:13
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weg posted:I registered as an independent 20yrs ago when I signed up to vote for the first time. I've pretty much exclusively voted for Dem/Independent candidates since. I'd say I'm a good bit further left in my political leanings than the core of the Democratic party but the main reason I've never registered as a Dem is because the people in charge are loving morons who should be easily dunking on Republicans every time but somehow cannot figure out how to market to young people. if you’re just gonna vote dem anyway, why not start voting in the dem primary? stop those morons from getting on the ballot to begin with
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Feb 14, 2024 18:13
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priznat posted:The amazing thing with trump is it seems he still thinks the 2% spending is what countries pay the US directly. Sure some will come to the US via defence contracts but I don’t think that is his thinking. Same with how he never seemed to understand how tariffs work. Trump doesn't understand much outside of yelling right wing slogans to his cult.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:14
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'Staff Exodus' Hits Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign — And That's Not All, Report Says https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-staff-exodus-mediaite_n_65ccbfaee4b065628a616fb5 quote:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has been hit with numerous resignations amid concerns over “lavish spending” and “self-serving” leadership, Mediaite reported on Tuesday. Always Be Grifting
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Feb 14, 2024 18:15
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Tai posted:Trump doesn't understand much outside of yelling right wing slogans to his cult. Yeah it’s still shocking to me how someone that pigheaded ignorant got to where he did. Just how far an utter lack of shame and scruples will take you along with a big wodge of money from dad.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:15
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priznat posted:The amazing thing with trump is it seems he still thinks the 2% spending is what countries pay the US directly. Sure some will come to the US via defence contracts but I don’t think that is his thinking. Same with how he never seemed to understand how tariffs work. It also works the other way around. CHUDs who love to complain about foreign aid rarely seem to grasp that a lot of it is contingent on the money being spent on American stuff. Aramis fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Feb 14, 2024 18:15
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kazil posted:
A. That's not how NATO works B. European countries contributed more than the US.  E: Donald would be really upset if he could read this
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Feb 14, 2024 18:16
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TrashMammal posted:if you’re just gonna vote dem anyway, why not start voting in the dem primary? stop those morons from getting on the ballot to begin with Who says they aren't? Not every state has a "you have to have registered as a member of X party to vote in their primary" rule.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:17
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Scam Likely posted:Trump saying NATO is delinquent on its protection money is such transparent mafia thinking. Chuds fuckin love how he approaches foreign policy like it's some shakedown of the local small business owner. Unreal. Trump just doesn't understand how NATO works, it's really breathtaking. It's 100% Chinese hacking infiltration of infrastructure systems, which was already publicly disclosed a few days ago along with their SIGINT on the US being much more advanced than people realize post balloon. We already know that they have a major SIGINT spy station on Cuba and there have been many more balloons. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1757803920573780106
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Feb 14, 2024 18:18
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mobby_6kl posted:E: Donald would be really upset if he could read this I mean... He'd just point out that he was clearly only referring to military spending, for which your graph kinda supports his point, Germany aside.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:19
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:'Staff Exodus' Hits Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign — And That's Not All, Report Says The guy who never had a chance to win and was running to try to peel off poorly informed voters was trying to line his own pockets? 
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Feb 14, 2024 18:20
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Aramis posted:I mean... He'd just point out that he was clearly only referring to military spending, for which your graph kinda supports his point, Germany aside. Yeah trumps whole thing is NATO is first and foremost a military alliance and Europe isn’t really pulling its weight. Which is true even if ultimately that was never the point. NATO was always about US domination not about being equal partners
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Feb 14, 2024 18:21
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Three Olives posted:Trump just doesn't understand how NATO works, it's really breathtaking. Kari Lake has been wearing a wig and sunglasses and he thinks she's Melania
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Feb 14, 2024 18:22
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:'Staff Exodus' Hits Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign — And That's Not All, Report Says quote:Mr. Scott entered the 2024 race with a war chest of $22 million, and his campaign raised $5.8 million from April through June. In that same time, he laid out about $6.6 million, a significant clip — but most of it cannot be traced to an actual vendor.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:22
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Three Olives posted:Trump just doesn't understand how NATO works, it's really breathtaking. Being wrong, admitting it, and learning are weakness, and Trump will never show weakness.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:24
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TrashMammal posted:if you’re just gonna vote dem anyway, why not start voting in the dem primary? stop those morons from getting on the ballot to begin with This thought has crossed my mind but I haven't bothered yet as I live in a pretty red area of South Carolina and there have been more than a few races where a Dem candidate isn't even on the ballot lol. I should probably get around to it though.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:24
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TrashMammal posted:if you’re just gonna vote dem anyway, why not start voting in the dem primary? stop those morons from getting on the ballot to begin with Watching the dems rat-gently caress the candidates people actually liked in the lead up to 2020 showed me why that’s a waste of time. Harris was so unpopular she had to drop out in the first round but now she’s the vice president. Funny how that works.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:25
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Aramis posted:I mean... He'd just point out that he was clearly only referring to military spending, for which your graph kinda supports his point, Germany aside. Well he should say that, then. Europe just doesn't have a thousand tanks sitting in a desert doing nothing. But yeah everyone should crank it up a few notches.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:27
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I’m sure a not insignificant part of that cash from the EU goes to US defense contractors for ammunition etc as well.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:28
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wash bucket posted:Watching the dems rat-gently caress the candidates people actually liked in the lead up to 2020 showed me why that’s a waste of time. Harris was so unpopular she had to drop out in the first round but now she’s the vice president. Funny how that works. Also yeah this. The party is such a poo poo show, but at least they are nowhere near as bad as the Republicans lol
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Feb 14, 2024 18:32
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weg posted:I registered as an independent 20yrs ago when I signed up to vote for the first time. I've pretty much exclusively voted for Dem/Independent candidates since. I'd say I'm a good bit further left in my political leanings than the core of the Democratic party but the main reason I've never registered as a Dem is because the people in charge are loving morons who should be easily dunking on Republicans every time but somehow cannot figure out how to market to young people. you are now 40 years old, you don’t know anything about young people now either. sorry, but that’s the law.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:33
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Young people like those Ticky Tocks, right?
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Feb 14, 2024 18:35
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mobby_6kl posted:A. That's not how NATO works IIRC the DOD has been undervaluing outgoing stock to fit more materiel into a military aid package, so the number may be accurate, but the impact is harder to discern when you're purposefully committing rounding errors on $44 billion of milsurp mobby_6kl posted:E: Donald would be really upset if he could read this 
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Feb 14, 2024 18:36
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wash bucket posted:Watching the dems rat-gently caress the candidates people actually liked in the lead up to 2020 showed me why that’s a waste of time. Harris was so unpopular she had to drop out in the first round but now she’s the vice president. Funny how that works. I'll never forget that by the time I could vote for the Democratic primary in 2020, everyone else had dropped out. I lived in New York, only a few million people there.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:36
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The Merkinman posted:I'll never forget that by the time I could vote for the Democratic primary in 2020, everyone else had dropped out. You want a big state like New York to go first in the primaries? That'd practically guarantee that only big-name establishment candidates would get nominated.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:37
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NoiseAnnoys posted:you are now 40 years old, you don’t know anything about young people now either. sorry, but that’s the law. I'm two years shy just let me have this last bit of youth I'm begging you
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Feb 14, 2024 18:37
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So something is going down  
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Feb 14, 2024 18:40
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weg posted:This thought has crossed my mind but I haven't bothered yet as I live in a pretty red area of South Carolina and there have been more than a few races where a Dem candidate isn't even on the ballot lol. I should probably get around to it though. ah, yeah, born and bred charlestonian here. get that feeling of futility. solved it for myself by leaving and never looking back wash bucket posted:Watching the dems rat-gently caress the candidates people actually liked in the lead up to 2020 showed me why that’s a waste of time. Harris was so unpopular she had to drop out in the first round but now she’s the vice president. Funny how that works.  you’re a dumbass
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Feb 14, 2024 18:40
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weg posted:I'm two years shy just let me have this last bit of youth I'm begging you Sorry, you're an Old now. Just turn on NPR in your car and start being very concerned about the state of your lawn.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:41
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Its probably something ridiculous like Russian hackers have compromised Social Security or some poo poo.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:42
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DaveWoo posted:You want a big state like New York to go first in the primaries? That'd practically guarantee that only big-name establishment candidates would get nominated. I didn't say first, but so late as to not matter because the winner has already been decided isn't great either. I'd want NY to go "First" only if it meant we remove the archaic method of trickling states to get to vote and instead do like the general and everyone votes on the same day. Lol tdump. I don't want to derail.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:43
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DaveWoo posted:You want a big state like New York to go first in the primaries? That'd practically guarantee that only big-name establishment candidates would get nominated. I can’t tell if this is a joke
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Feb 14, 2024 18:43
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wash bucket posted:Watching the dems rat-gently caress the candidates people actually liked in the lead up to 2020 showed me why that’s a waste of time. Harris was so unpopular she had to drop out in the first round but now she’s the vice president. Funny how that works. I 'member this Bernie word. It was a word alright.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:43
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Mike Turner is like, “tell us about these Russian security threats, we’d like to know about how to join them and use it to our benefit in the election.”
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Feb 14, 2024 18:43
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kazil posted:So something is going down is turner pro or anti ukraine? i could see him trying to push this out to force johnsons hand.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:43
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TrashMammal posted:ah, yeah, born and bred charlestonian here. get that feeling of futility. solved it for myself by leaving and never looking back I moved here from Florida to be closer to my family and help them out as they get into their prime presidential candidate years. I bought a house near them recently so I'm probably not going anywhere for a while. SC is dumb as gently caress but at least it's not insane and dumb as gently caress like FL is lmao bird food bathtub posted:Sorry, you're an Old now. Just turn on NPR in your car and start being very concerned about the state of your lawn. NPR sucks now lol
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Feb 14, 2024 18:46
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