I will never not read that as magic the gathering, it makes the news so much better
Which in turn reminds me of this internet classic that never fails to make me laugh
What's it supposed to be?
Marjorie Taylor Green, Congress woman from Georgia. (Jewish space laser)
the next tweet, wonder when marge started throwing a fit
the tantrum, btw
I can't believe the Republicans are appeasers. They beat the drum for decades how Democrats couldn't stand up to tyrants, and now Republicans are literally appeasers. It's 1984 levels of turnaround.
They don't believe in anything but power. Internal consistency is not a concern.
Republicans are an existential threat to the US and we should treat them as such.
I wish there was only some evidence the GOP is aligned with Russia........
It’s not like you’re gonna find them all flying over to Russia together, like during the 4th of July or some crazy shit like that…
They will verbally jerk off Ronald Regan for "outspending the USSR into dust" and then act like Ukraine Aid doesn't do the exact same thing
Fun fact for those on the fence about this, the US has monetary sovereignty in a fiat currency, which means that the US government has essentially infinite money.
Edit: for those that are curious, yes, the game about the federal budget is exactly that. The deficit is essentially tracking the amount of money that the federal government owes to itself. Remember, fiat currency means that the value of money exists because the government says that it holds that specific value. A $2 dollar bill is still worth $2 when purchasing items, but worth several $ more than the printed value.
Edit 2: I didn't think it needed to be said, but I've been proven wrong. I don't literally mean infinite money.
I wonder, sometimes, what a society would look like without inflation. Is there an economic system that says "this is the price of bread, from now on" and builds off of that?
Of course, my only talents are music and memes, so I doubt that I'd specifically benefit from such a system, but maybe humanity as a whole?
One of the reasons some inflation is 'good' is that it drives investment. People are discouraged from saving their money since it will slowly devalue. Rather, those with capital are incentived to invest it in other areas of the economy.
I think that MTG, and a lot of commenters on here, need to realise that Ukraine will not stop this war until Russia are out, regardless of the international support or otherwise. Even if Ukraine is overrun completely the war would not stop, but would go on until Russia leave.
I would add three things to what they need to realize:
It is possible for Ukraine to win.
Russia is a ruthless and incompetent oligarchy, and they cannot be allowed to expand their territory.
Fighting or fleeing are vastly preferable to being subsumed by Russia.
All perfectly correct. However, it is a war that Russia will never win, like Afghanistan.
To elaborate on this point: Russia is trying to 1 take Ukraine and 2 keep it. They have not succeeded in part 1, and part 2 is much much more difficult. Afghanistan, as stated in the above comment, is a good example of this: the war to take Afghanistan took less than a year, whereas the struggle to keep it under control was failing two decades in.
Russia can't even do the easy part.
Of course, this is assuming that they're not just trying to keep hold of Crimea so they have a port on the black sea, which I think is the real reason they're prosecuting the war.
To add on -- we need to recognize that Russia is trying to enforce the old rules of imperialism. In their eyes, Ukraine did not have the right to determine their own future and who they wanted to ally with. Russia had to approve of all their decisions and Russia controlled them.
Defeating Russia is more then Ukrainian independence. It is an unequivocal statement by the West that we will not allow imperialism nor wars of conquest to resurface in Europe. And hopefully with time, this extends to the rest of the world too, and other countries will check Western ones if we begin to forget that.
At the end of the day, a country's sovereignty and right to self determination are sacred, only to be stripped if they use it to deny others of the same. There is a clear leftist geopolitical perspective here for continuing to back Ukraine.
People refuse to recognize that the Ukrainian people do not want to be taken over by the Russians. There's no good reason why they should be. They refuse to acknowledge the desires of the people, maybe because fighting back against an oppressor is foreign to their own cowardly psychology.
How is it "clean" when it defunded support for Ukraine and added pay increases for Congress?
Fucking congress doesn't deserve to get paid (the obstructionist assholes) let alone a fucking raise. Cut social security but let's give ourselves a raise to the six figure salaries we already make. Fuck off
They're funded through next Feb, iirc. They're not going to run out of support - until the next shitshow discussion that is
clean? republicans defunded more military funding for ukraine
I thought that just got taken off the table for now, not defunded.
fix Ukraine support
unclear
But isn't that just because it wasn't covered in the 45 day bill? They didn't address it, it needs to be addressed, but they didn't defund what we already funded.
Democrats need to hit back more like AOC does
And Fetterman. These two really make me smile with their next level trolling.
I don't always see eye to eye with AOC, but I know her heart is in the right place. Can't say the same for any other politician, Republican or Democrat.
Same. I think her and Bernie believe in what they're fighting for and it's for the good of the people, not corporations.
I may not agree with some of their positions but I believe they are doing what they believe is right. 9 times out of 10 I will vote for someone I think is honest and trying to do what's best for the country even if I disagree with them, and I refuse to vote for an obviously dishonest politician even if I do agree with most of their positions.
I would've preferred if Ukraine funding was still in there, but MTG screeching is an alright consolation.
I find it interesting too how many people wanted "a clean bill" but then voted against it anyway because it didn't have extra stuff they wanted or, in Rand Paul's case, they're fucking pieces of shit.
Probably the only thing Russia didn't want to budge on for its foreign assets.
Is there a video of the tantrum?
Fuck MTG, Boebert, Loomer and all the other repcunts.
Gonna be even more mad when she sees this 😂
If she could read she'd be very upset
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