For years I have been listening to both sides. A take peak at right wing radio and Faux News. I’m not speaking from them. They all said collectively that when Russia took over Crimea, Obama did not do anything. Now, the same folks don’t like Biden trying to stop the current Russia aggression.
I doubt it is the same folks. Some right wingers have always supported the view Trump followed that we should stay out of stupid wars that don't directly involve us. Others always support the view that we should support our corrupt military-industrial-foreign policy establishment regardless of how stupid a war is - since they themselves will profit from it at no risk to their own safety and comfort. Dems are similarly split - but it seems a majority at this time support our involvement in Ukraine to help enrich themselves by way of their donor-owners.
You must not listen to right wing radio or Faux News. Probably a good thing to be honest. Anyway, during the Obama admin it was nightly Obama bashing from O'Reilly, to Hannity to Ingrahm. Even the hard news folks to aim at him. They all said that Obama screwed up to let Russia take Crimea. Since the Russia invasion, literally these same folks are now saying that we don't need to stop Russia from taking the Ukraine.
Lol. What does the same land mass have to do with anything?
You think because I support Ukraine and have their flag as an avatar I should go to Ukraine and fight? Are you fcking serious? So all Americans who support Ukraine should stop their lives and go risk them in Ukraine? We can’t support their fight against an authoritarian socialist (I thought you were against socialism) who invaded their country without going to fight for them? If I change my avatar do I still have to go?
Lol coming from the guy who has been repeating lies about Trump for almost a decade now and jeez, could you be a little more racist? Pick the produce? Work in hotels? Cut the grass? May be time for a reset, you wannabe bully.
Grievance agenda to a ridiculous level? What did you do every day during the Trump presidency, Bob? You’re exactly who you despise, like most warped Trump haters. Go get a new hobby, old man. Take your bullying elsewhere.
This is a twist of facts. The Trump tax cuts actually started to bring in more money than before the cuts. The massive deficit came from Covid spending. Tax cuts don't bring in more revenue overnight, but they work.
I find it oddly coincidental that Putin only does things with there's a Democrat in the whitehouse. The difference between the geopolitical stability between when Trump was POTUS compared to when BOH or especially, Biden, is quite the contrast.
You should change your avatar to the BLM flag.
Lighten up, Bob, I was just joking. Of course I don't expect you to actually leave your couch to do anything for Ukraine beyond your usual virtue signaling.
If you change it to Lia Thomas you don't have to go. In fact, they won't want you in that case, except possibly for bomb disposal.
It was a joke, Bob. Can't you see the humor?
Apples and oranges, Bob. It would be against the law for me to interfere in border law enforcement and control. I do not have the legal authority to do so. In contrast, it is not against any law for you to accept Ukraine's call for volunteers to fight Russians. If you do, take all the war-machine dems and repubs in Congress with you who give pompous virtue-signaling speeches about how they admire and support the 'fledgling democracy' of Ukraine .
I can see that you don't understand. I support wealthy EU nations with vastly more resources than Russia putting up their own funds to support the fledgling democracy if that is what they think is in their best interests. What I don't support is US taxpayers being shaken down by political hacks like Biden to pay for it instead, while the Europeans save their money and no doubt laugh at us.
Hmmm. CBO disagrees
www.heritage.org
No, the Euros and everybody else laughed at trump. Yet another example of MAGA trying to project trump’s failures and circumstances onto Biden.
Right, they laughed at Trump when he told Merkel and the others they were foolish to become so dependent on Russian energy. They don't laugh about that anymore.
It means the countries most 'threatened' by Russia have the money collectively to buy the weapons they need to protect themselves. I ask you again, how is the US threatened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine or their invasion of any country on the Euro landmass? How does it benefit the US for Ukraine to be in NATO?
It is now below 50% according to gov-sponsored media (that is pbs, not nbc, cbs, cnn, etc). Are you deliberately misstating that percentage?
I just did and you are wrong and/or dishonest, right?
Twice? You bring it up with your avatar every time you post a message?
You are like an IU hoops fan, stuck in the last century. With modern weaponry, there is no reason for wars on the continent to invoke the US - other than a desire by the mil-industrial-foreign policy complex to rev up the war machine for their profits. Russia's inept land army has proven it can't even invade a much smaller country on its border, showing there is no longer any need for the US to be in Europe at all - except for war machine profits.
What is dishonest about expecting virtue signalers to back up their proclaimed virtue? John Kerry and Al Gore flying around in their private jets are two obvious examples of major vs hypocrites.
If he is leading the world why our so many of our “friends” still buying their energy? I told you from the start that all that embargo shit would go away once winter came and these European leaders were not going to lose their jobs (or lives) over a freezing and hungry populace.
They aren’t buying oil, diesel imports are heading down and they are buying more LNG from other nations. Do you expect them to let their people freeze? Gotta be all or nothing? Russia is still SELLING Europe energy despite their arms sales to Ukraine. Why the hell would Russia sell energy to countries who are supplying its enemy? Sure they need cash but they are assisting the allies of their enemy.
Time for you to quit hiding under the covers and prove your virtue signaling is real:
www.vice.com
RE importance on insignificant things…sounds like @BuilderBob6 and the liberals who b!tched up a storm about everyone not wearing masks.
When the Democratic Party was taken over by IV leaguers between 68 and 72 that was the beginning of the end. Workers were their main constituency. Then it became suburban professionals who virtue signal and act like they care about others.Well-paid professionals like me benefit as consumers from the poverty wages paid to others in an economy where Uber is a verb and surveilled and squeezed gig workers respond to —and deliver — our every need.
Nevermind the continuous feed of immigrants who are being put into hotels by our federal government and having meals delivered to their room so Democrats can have enough cheap labor in the fields to feed their Democrat cities.
Opinion | America’s Poverty Is Built by Design
How did the U.S. become a land of economic extremes with the rich getting richer while the working poor grind it out? Deliberately.www.politico.com
Maybe take all of the funds that are being consumed by immigrants and give them to the poor. $182B is a lot of money. (That’s $4k for every poverty stricken citizen 45MM)
The Cost of Illegal Immigration to American Taxpayers 2023
The fiscal burden of providing essential services and benefits to illegal aliens costs American taxpayers nearly $151 billion each year.www.fairus.org
And from the first article….That would amount to an estimated $175 billion annually; those resources would then be allocated to expand broadly popular programs, like the Earned Income Tax Credit, that directly alleviate poverty. He also advocates for structural reforms that reverse the practices that deny poor people choices in housing, banking and employment.
So the first article acknowledges that supporting immigration is the core reason poverty exists
The reason it matters is because your “allies” are funding your enemy. And no. Oil imports are not going down. They are simply washing it through India. Of course your are the same person who didn’t understand that a lot of the money the States were spending on housing feeding and caring for the migrants was federal money via grants and programs.
So where was all your bravado before this conflict started? You know when your guy sat on his hands and did nothing while Putin amassed his offensive units on the border? When British intelligence said it was inevitable and said this was a the result of his disastrous Afghan pullout? Why do you skip over all this? Now we the American tax payer and Ukrainian people pay for his F ups?
Joe may as well deplete our weapons supply to go along with our strategic oil reserve.
The federal government does not have policies to provide the benefits skydog laid out. As I said, individual states may do it and they may take their federal money and provide some benefits.
So we have established that state and local govts are providing housing. Now, how many of those sanctuary cities have asked for federal support to provide assistance to illegal immigrants?
How many states? Which ones? Do they provide assistance to every illegal that crosses their state border?
