Tulsi Becomes an Independent

[justmethatswho]

We're in the middle of a world war.

If Democrats lose this election that war will go nuclear, with very high probability. So it's about that simple, if you do not want to get nucked vote D now.

The "Republicans" or what's left from the hijacked party are part of broad albeit loose international alliance of thieves out to return world to feudalism.

They won't succeed, but they will destroy the world in process, one way or another. Actually, their "success" would likely destroy the world anyway, only slower.

Even if the Democrats lose the house and the senate, the President will still be Democrat as he is not up for election. In the two years with this president, international friction has increased, much more than the president of the previous 4 years where there were no major conflicts started.
If the current situation in the Ukraine turns into the worse case scenario, it will not be because of the USA, regardless of who is president.

 

[KeithD]

Even if the Democrats lose the house and the senate, the President will still be Democrat as he is not up for election. In the two years with this president, international friction has increased, much more than the president of the previous 4 years where there were no major conflicts started.
If the current situation in the Ukraine turns into the worse case scenario, it will not be because of the USA, regardless of who is president.

Them are some very powerful rose-colored glasses you've got on there, son. Don't know who you think you're fooling, though. (And, frankly, I don't care. The bottom line is that we're all safer for Biden being president and Trump not. And there's not a damn thing your negative campaigning on a porn board can do about that.)

 

[Paul_Chance]

That would be a good slogan. "Vote Democrat or you're going to get nuked."

 

[justmethatswho]

That would be a good slogan. "Vote Democrat or you're going to get nuked."

There is still time before the election. The above statement would not be as far out there as some of the claims made in campaign adds.

 

[jaF0]

45 was routinely laughed at by foreign dignitaries. And those were the nice encounters. They considered him just plain stupid. Well maybe except for RocketBoi, but a couple of private one on one sessions with the Blonde probably helped there.

When Joe was elected, the world breathed a sigh of relief that dignity had returned.

 

[Paul_Chance]

There is still time before the election. The above statement would not be as far out there as some of the claims made in campaign adds.

I've always thought it would be a great job just to write crazy political slogans for t-shirts and bumper stickers.

 

[justmethatswho]

I've always thought it would be a great job just to write crazy political slogans for t-shirts and bumper stickers.

It would be a great job. Though some of it is so unbelievable .. I would be lik, I cannot make that stuff up.

 

[Paul_Chance]

It would be a great job. Though some of it is so unbelievable .. I would be lik, I cannot make that stuff up.

Yeah - one of my all time favorites was from the Bush II era - "Frodo failed. Bush has the Ring."

That kind of stuff just cracks me up. There is so much humorous potential wrapped in politics, I can rarely make it through a day without something or the other just cracking me up.

 

[LupusDei]

Even if the Democrats lose the house and the senate, the President will still be Democrat as he is not up for election. In the two years with this president, international friction has increased, much more than the president of the previous 4 years where there were no major conflicts started.
If the current situation in the Ukraine turns into the worse case scenario, it will not be because of the USA, regardless of who is president.

That would be a good slogan. "Vote Democrat or you're going to get nuked."

I've always thought it would be a great job just to write crazy political slogans for t-shirts and bumper stickers.

Yeah, I know how crazy that sounds. And btw I did consciously avoid that exact statement -- for being much too like the threats used by the adversary. And it does require a couple jumps of inverted logic to arrive there.

Biden (his administration, anyhow) is dealing with the situation forced on him better than could be expected. Not ideal, to my liking, but who's me. There's been blunders, namely the insane and unnecessary declarations of what they won't do. That's greenlighting. The adversary don't think the way you do. They perceive self restraint as sign of weakness, willingness to compromise as signal of weakness. They respect nothing but strength.

The adversary is best framed as a bully involved in what they perceive as domestic violence episode. Indeed, Putin personally has used feminising rape language towards Ukraine in multiple occasions. So when you attempt to prevent an abusive ex stalker to rape his victim and he lash out screaming he will shoot you if you interfere, telling him what you wouldn't do is enabling.

Russia escalates and probe for reaction, then escalate again if they aren't stopped. Each step without adequate response invite the next.

Signaling matters. Biden administration seems to finally got it. Macron still hasn't, and almost ruined the message by once again saying "we don't" (use nukes, with was truthful, but unnecessary and the content is secondary here).

For whatever reason, currently Russia do see Republican victory in the U.S. midterms as their best (last) hope to win the war. It may be delusional, they have got almost everything wrong in this so far, so yeah. But they may have a point.

Ukraine is badly dependent, actually acutely restricted in their actions even right now by ammunition deliveries. They have to accumulate for offensive operations and can't cover the entire frontline in defensive fires as they would like. It's somewhat objective, somehow we have got where the entire world's current supply can't cover full intensity artillery duels on a thousand mile front for a year. They would like to have a thousand more guns and twenty thousand shells a day that simply isn't there. But I digress into insignificant detail.

What matters is Russian belief that they can make U.S. Republicans to question and eventually disrupt the aid to Ukraine. Against any logic and U.S. strategic interests. But if they will sense that weakness, and perceived a window of opportunity provided by that petty infighting, they will use nukes, for pure genocide if not for misguided hope to break Ukrainian will to fight (they won't, Ukrainians have clearly told in multiple occasions they will fight through that no matter what, and that's not bravado, that's despair, so they will).

Even worse, if Russians force through a ceasefire. The only thing it would do, it would enable them to conduct systematic genocide in the occupied regions without hurry and rebuild their battered army, then attack again. And threaten the nukes even more, leaning into the previous success of doing so.

And we don't even talk what that would mean for proliferation and other conflict areas. Freezing the Ukraine conflict now virtually guarantee nuclear weapons use in the future, if even not by Russia directly then whomever else.

The only path to peace is resounding defeat of Russia in the battlefield. Bad and quick enough and it may even open another short window for democratization in Russia, as unbelievable it would seem right now. Of course, it only would occur as necessity for the rebuilding process, the long term treat wouldn't go away.

Yeah, there's even a hope to bring Russia down hard enough to break it up, and some may think a slower grinding war has more chance to do that, but I wouldn't count on it too much. And the multipolar civil war between multiple private militias currently being build by every oligarch there... the unfathomable brutality of that aside (who cares, right) the potential to export violence and security threats up and including nuclear shouldn't be discounted.

 

[KeithD]

Biden (his administration, anyhow) is dealing with the situation forced on him better than could be expected.

This. The alternative of Donald Trump and his crazies is just too outrageous not to appreciate that Biden is president. (I don't think he should run again, but I think he's what we needed now. I can understand why he'd saying he was running again until much later in the game. No reason to volunteer for lame duck status.)

 

[LupusDei]

What do Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and Yesli Vega have in common?

Tulsi Gabbard supports them.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I fucked her again

 

[schism666]

wasn't that whole litter-box thing an idea by not-stupid kids to see which idiots would actually believe and spread it when there was never any grain of truth to it?

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[JohnEBbad]

It's like a spring event in here; nothing but my team is the best and your team cheats...

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588941401072730112

womp womp

 

[schism666]

It's like a spring event in here; nothing but my team is the best and your team cheats...

what is the proper etiquette when the mouthpiece for the other side gets caught in an absolutely absurd lie?