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Moon Slayer posted:There's a big splash of smoke in the air around where it looks like it started falling so I would certainly put my money on an explosion of some kind.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:12
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Moon Slayer posted:Don't ask me what this actually means for Ukraine in the short or medium term but I'm guessing not much as more aid will be passed in the future. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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Sep 30, 2023 20:11
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DancingMachine posted:An up or down clean vote would pass but GOP leadership isn't going to bring such a bill to the floor because it divides their caucus. They have a rule that they won't bring bills to the floor that don't have majority support from within their party. The idiot caucus just gave up most of what Republicans USUALLY demand in concessions over $300M in Ukraine aid, what do you think they're going to do over a $24b stand-alone bill? Usually this type of thing could also get resolved by party leadership threatening to torpedo members' district pet projects, but that doesn't work when dealing with members that don't care about governing and think humiliating McCarthy and showing they can get away with anything is its own goal. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 00:38
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Mr. Apollo posted:I’ve come across several articles this evening that says that Biden is open to “significant concessions” on border security in exchange for getting the Ukraine funding bill passed. So it looks like the funding bill will play out like many people suspected. Not soon, and it's really not looking good. This shouldn't have needed a sweetener in the first place, and tying it to an Israel aid package was supposed to be a sweetener and it's still not sweet enough so now they "want" border security crap added on to it. The problem is, Republicans don't care about policy right now, they care about this stupid obstructionist showboating crap and sticking it to Joe Biden. In normal times, the cost of doing this would be going back to constituents asking "why didn't you pass this?" but they can 100% get away with not passing anything. "Not passing anything" is pretty much the way they govern anyway. Israel will do just fine without an aid package unless they get embroiled in a regional conflict, and the border security crap looks way more like a poison pill than an important policy objective.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:43
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Dapper_Swindler posted:My guess is biden gives them concessions on border stuff at least for the senate and then we see what happens in the house. Just bringing up "border security" should be a hint that they want to just kill it because it's pretty well-established that they care way less about reducing illegal immigration than they do about getting mad about Democrats allowing it.
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Dec 7, 2023 22:12
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Another layer of the problem is that as underprepared as the EU is for rule-of-law breakdown in a member state, the mechanisms that it does have largely stop functioning in a Poland+Hungary situation where there are 2 broken states protecting each other from anything that would require unanimity from the other member states.
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Dec 15, 2023 22:47
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Quixzlizx posted:The funniest part about this is NATO is near the bottom of the average MAGA voter's list of priorities
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Dec 17, 2023 07:05
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Tucker wanted to do it because it would trigger the libs, unfortunately for him Putin doesn't really care what Tucker wants.
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Feb 10, 2024 20:33
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The fundamental problem is that too many Americans don't perceive it as an attack, which is made much worse by the fact that it's wormed its way into one of the major political parties in a way that it's all being inflected through domestic politics. Like what do you even do when a hostile foreign power wants to elect a guy partly because he's sympathetic to them but mostly because he's a staggeringly-incompetent moron, and 30% of the country is like "but we want the staggeringly incompetent moron!"
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Mar 1, 2024 20:58
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The irony is that English is fairly unusual among European languages for NOT adjusting the spelling of foreign words in Latin script to meet its own spelling conventions, which is why English orthography is a complete trash fire of incompatible spelling conventions.
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Mar 6, 2024 20:03
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You all laughed at the cybertrukk but now it is the future of warfare.
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Apr 10, 2024 18:58
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Splitting it into separate bills was also done to make it easier for it to fail in the Senate so this isn't really over yet.
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Apr 18, 2024 16:16
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small butter posted:Is the House using the Hassert rule for Ukraine? As in, do a majority of Republicans have to be in favor for a floor vote? If so, is a majority of Republicans for Ukraine aid?
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Apr 19, 2024 00:45
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Mr. Apollo posted:Have any of the GOP explained why military funding for Israel is OK but not for Ukraine? The most I’ve found so far is “because Trump said so” and “Israel is an ally, Ukraine is not”. I mean they'll give other reasons, but those are the actual reasons.
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Apr 21, 2024 08:23
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