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  • You think they are venmoing Ukraine?

    The aid is for weapons delivery via 2 paths:

    1. Write off appropriation and backfill of mothballed stock we already needed to rotate out or destroy, due to shelf life

    2. Net new construction of weapons for immediate delivery to Ukraine. That construction happens in the US and us partner nations, and provides the US valuable use Intel as a cherry on top.

    It’s valuable spending either way.





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    Millions of people didn’t vote across several swing states.

    It has been widely discussed that certain purity test failures by Harris kept voters home.

    Purity politics is not the only thing on the table, but it’s certainly one of them. It’s not all leftist’s fault. At all.




  • I’m saying as a subordinate in the Whitehouse she cannot largely deviate from the official position to the degree and outside candidate could.

    Lots of other failings, as you point out. But on the topic of Israel there is little that could have been said, even if there was the desire.

    I’m not excusing her of anything, I think it was a flaw of picking her as the candidate.






  • I do not. Why would I?

    Trump has made judicial appointments a key goal of his first term, so it stands to reason he’d do the same now. Avoiding that is progress, even if Harris gets zero.

    Edit: to avoid playing nickel and dime debate club:

    The democratic party is wildly imperfect and often ineffectual. I’m not satisfied, and I’m not cheerleading for them.

    Harris may also be wildly imperfect and often ineffectual. That’s still better than the massive equality, stability and integrity sink trump represents and that’s what I’m arguing for.



  • My guy I’m saying it’s the goal in general not this election. It is the existential goal of anyone left of maga.

    You should review the electoral college maps compared to population, in addition to gerrymandering. Democrats actively seek to improve voter access, proper districting and so on. If those topics are continued and eventually successful, the republican party is exposed for the minority population that is is. Republicans cannot win in a “fair” fight.

    Lastly my point regarding judicial appointments is critical here: redistricting and voter access issues are won in the courtroom. Reducing conservative appointments is absolutely possible with a Harris win.

    Delusional is thinking all this happens in one term, while ignoring the backslide of progress a trump term would mean.


  • The destruction of the republican party via increased voter and representation rights represents the single greatest possible “progressive” leftward shift of the US political window. Emphasis on “possible”. Conservatives are a minority party and their extreme views do not represent modern America.

    The road to a more progressive, equitable future is through the democrats. It doesn’t end there.

    Republicans winning offices means more long lasting legislation to clear, more conservative judicial appointments, etc.

    Teaching THIS (2024) democratic party a lesson is worthless if it comes with 30+ years of conservative judicial backsliding.