US Provide $800 Million in Military aid WW3

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: vNex92

It's sad when politicians can only come together and agree on war instead of peace.

Lies, they also can agree on getting rid of the time change! They have to throw us a bone every five years or so.

Isn’t it funny none of them can lower our taxes or do things to actually help us.
It’s all about them.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: JinMI
Its always a sobering moment when you see the govt agreeing on something.

Pointing out that its usually spending tax dollars and rarely if ever benefitting the taxpayer is just as sobering.

It's a moment to laugh at the people who think it's just one party doing this.

Told you, both parties are the same. Keep pulling that L/R lever.

This crap is really getting old. Both parties are not the same. Period. Full stop. The end.

Now, I know you. You will nit pick that to death on some useless point. But the truth is, they are not the same. This funding was passed with 100% democrats and a handful of republicans who want something in return. If it was truly bipartisan it would have been much closer to 100-0.

The fact that a funding bill was passed does not make it genuinely bipartisan nor does it mean both parties are the same in this or anything else. You won't see a lot of republicans focusing on plastic straws amidst the worst homeless epidemic in this Nation's history. You won't see a lot of republicans focusing on forcing gender fluidity indoctrination on 8 year olds. This list is huge and we both know it so I will stop here.

The people I laugh at the most are the ones who have been trained to blame both parties equally when its clear that one party leads the other in aberrant behavior. Accepting that training willingly is the first big step toward one world government and the best indicator of the abandonment of critical thinking. Teach the gullible to hate both sides equally regardless of actual culpability. It will make it easier to sell them the idea of one world government where the only sides are government and everyone else - no borders, no parties, nothing.

originally posted by: Vroomfondel
This crap is really getting old. Both parties are not the same.

Sure. Look at the vote on that bill.

This funding was passed with 100% democrats and a handful of republicans...

Basic math says it passed with a supermajority in both chambers, juuuuuuuust a bit more than a 'handful'.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Which is a shame, because it just muddies the water and perpetuates ignorance for the younger generations tuning in trying to mold their own world view.

Obviously all policies have butterfly effects and plays a part in the macro... But there's a lot more root causes that directly impact most of the topics we talk about.

As you pointed out, congress and senate have been a bit more cavalier with Ukraine and are fast tracking some of our involvement. And with gas, even if we produce more, Europe's demand and new lack of sourcing are driving up prices. Publicly traded companies are legally bound to maximize share holders returns, so they're going to price gas at what it can sell for.

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
And with gas, even if we produce more, Europe's demand and new lack of sourcing are driving up prices. Publicly traded companies are legally bound to maximize share holders returns, so they're going to price gas at what it can sell for.

That's always a funny one to debate when the 'we need to use our own oil' chorus chimes in, kind of hard to do on a open market when another country is willing to pay more for it than we are.

a reply to: Vroomfondel
Well posted
Thank you!

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Or make it a political point to hate on alternative energy sources so hard, even if other countries are doing it. If Europe starts to transition out of fossil fuels, then we are cheaper at the pump.

But that's not something companies here, and the politicians they donate to want.

Just like after our transition out of the middle east, the MIC is going to lobby hard to help Ukraine. Free money for them courtesy of the US tax payer.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

You see it clearly, I see it clearly, the issue is that too many people are stuck in their dead end US binary political purgatory where their side never does any wrong, it's always the other side.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Which I've never understood. If I just oppose an idea because its not from my political ideology, I'm letting them control me. Issue by issue is the way to go. Though I don't often agree with Republicans or Democrats, it's not part of my world view to inverse them out of principle.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

I agree, I found there was something they both had me agreeing with yesterday, eliminating that ridiculous daylight savings.

There may be some hope after all.

a reply to: Vroomfondel

The people I laugh at the most are the ones who have been trained to blame both parties equally when its clear that one party leads the other in aberrant behavior. Accepting that training willingly is the first big step toward one world government and the best indicator of the abandonment of critical thinking. Teach the gullible to hate both sides equally regardless of actual culpability. It will make it easier to sell them the idea of one world government where the only sides are government and everyone else - no borders, no parties, nothing

Very well posted.
Much appreciated!

hush money imo

a reply to: Vroomfondel

The people I laugh at the most are the ones who have been trained to blame both parties equally when its clear that one party leads the other in aberrant behavior. Accepting that training willingly is the first big step toward one world government and the best indicator of the abandonment of critical thinking.

Maybe they're not equal, but they're close and they behave the same.

Neither have any semblance of accountability... It's always the other sides fault.

So debt breaks records under every admin and they find a way to blame their opponents.

Spending increases every year even though quality of output demibishes and yet its always the other parties fault.

Ask any American outside the context of two party politics and a vast majority will agree on one thing, the country isn't going in the right direction by almost any metric. There is one common denominator, we only have two parties at the healm at any given time.

If one party is so fantastic, why is every important issue either gridlocked or ignored?

There should be no aid going anywhere. Our own country needs help. When i see these Progressives tweeting I can pay an extra dollar for gas to save a child I cringe.

This is like Afghanistan.
Iraq.
Vietnam.
NK.

All the way back. Weapons for laundering money just like Libya and countless other proxy wars.

We should be mobilizing a humanitarian solution for these people and not arming them to continue a war.

Now, what was left out of the 1.5 trillion dollar package? Anything COVID related. They know that is over so they switched to Ukraine....our government sucks...

this was a continuing resolution to keep the government open so of course there was Bi-Partisan Support. The difference is when this fleecing tried to happen under 45 he rejected it till it worked for the country.

a reply to: matafuchs

It's extremely hypocritical given that we asked Saudi Arabi to fill the gap left by Russia with oil... They're worse than Russia in Yemen and we don't hear a word.

It's not about morality, it's about something that isn't talked about in the news.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

If one party is so fantastic, why is every important issue either gridlocked or ignored?

Look at what dems did when Trump won. That was not the fault of Trump or his admin. That was dems. Nothing but sidetracking, derailing, and false narratives for his entire term. We could have accomplished so much good for this nation with just a little cooperation. Its unreasonable to say both parties are equally at fault. When the right try to monkey-wrench something its usually something that is either unconstitutional, stupid, or both. Attacking the second amendment, forcing the lgbt agenda on 8 year olds, etc. I wish I could say the same of the left, but I cant. Its typically the left pushing for the unconstitutional stupidity.

The bottom line is most gridlock is due to the inability to put the real issues ahead of party rhetoric. I see that from the left far more than I have ever seen from the right. Its not that I don't look or fail to recognize it. Its just there is comparatively so little to see.

I wont sit here and try to say either party is perfect. But having that one thing in common doesn't mean they are equal either.

a reply to: CriticalStinker

Agreed.

Biden Provide $800 Million !

they will be lucky to get $400M.
Biden keeps the rest.
Thats how the Biden goverment works.

a reply to: matafuchs

This is like Afghanistan.

hawks is hoping Ukraine turns another Afghanistan for Russia its what some war hawks hoped that Syria would turn into but didn't.

The US will continue to let inflation sore, on purpose
The US will drive fuel prices so high everyone will in effect be locked down, on purpose
The US won't have anywhere to go anyway due to food/goods shortages, on purpose
Before the midterms, a missile will detonate in a major US city. Probably a Democrat controlled city. They seem the easiest to pay off.
Doesn't matter where the missile originated. Russia is too blame. Marshall law will be implemented.
Midterm elections will be halted because, ya know, safety. No public gatherings.