The US really need an alternative to this guy. If a private person with zero democratic legitimacy can influence wars in which the USA have picked a side, and support the enemy, mechanisms are needed.
The US military could've done the job, but it's mired down by Republicans in Congress trying to fuck with Biden.
It is Congress ultimately, not the President, who controls the military via budget decisions and provides permission for the military to conduct kinetic actions.
it's mired down by Republicans in Congress trying to fuck with Biden.
Not really. It's mired down with Republicans who want to do to the military what they've already done with the judiciary: keep the Democrats from promoting anyone so that the Republicans can stuff massive amounts of right-wing people in place as soon as they get a chance. Meaning that their next insurrection has a better chance of succeeding.
Republicans have spent a literal lifetime sabotaging the government at any opportunity so stuff can be privatized...
That's already the alternative, we don't need to find one. We just need to go back to taxing the wealthy, and using that money for public services.
Internet should be a public utility, and all the money we give to SpaceX should have went to NASA where the government would have gotten a return on investment from parents.
People laugh at how crazy the predictions of the future from 1960 was, but if we kept funding NASA we might all have hoverboards and flying cars by now. We got a lot of really cool shit from just a decade of NASA in their hey day.
Yeah, I get that he’s trying to be diplomatic about it, he’s a good president, but it’s not “bickering” holding up the aid. We’re used to “bickering”, we do it all the time. This is a stonewalling by a single political faction within our repub party, using whatever excuses come to hand to hide the simple fact that they support Russia.
When democracy sees them losing power, rather than adjusting their platform or working toward compromise, their decision has always been to subvert the system. Gerrymandering, voter restrictions, election fraud, insurrection, and openly courting the enemies of the country are all preferable to losing power, to these people.
In a country where democracy makes their kind a minority, it’s democracy that must yield to them, not the other way around. They’re only American as long as doing so gets them their way.
I don't think he understands what kind of position we're in. Democrats already tried compromising with Republicans on this issue. We offered pretty comprehensive concessions that addressed their claimed concerns. As soon as they got it, they walked back their claims and demanded more.
The GOP is not negotiating in good faith. They're Putin's bootlickers.
This is bullshit meant to exhaust other leaders, it shows Putin who is open to a peace deal and helps keep the talking point open.
Fact is Russia failed in their offensive also, are going to see half a million dead most likely and after 9 years they occupy less than 20% of the country.
Based on Russia's history these last few decades, they simply want time to peacefully digest their current bite before heading back to the table for more.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, traditionally a vocal supporter of Ukraine, urged fellow Senate Republicans to vote against the bill.
“I hope all of our members vote no,” McConnell told reporters on Dec. 5, tying his opposition to the bill with Republican demands to strengthen migration border policy at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Well look at that. Moscow Mitch being Putin’s bitch again for five more seconds of gross abuse of power. Yeah, big supporter. republiQans are hot fucking garbage.
Every time I see a celebrity fuckup like this, who almost certainly has a PR team on call (or could afford one if they don't), I take their situation and plug it into ChatGPT and almost always it spits out a better PR strategy and statement than they come up with.
The artists and writers are gonna be fine in the AI apocalypse. It's the PR firms that need to be scared.
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