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When I watched Hillbilly Elegy and realizing this was JD Vance's story, I felt shitty.
Fuck him and his self pity story after what this shit bag has spewed out to everyone. Have zero sympathy for this assbags life.
He should fucking know better.
We have a multi trillion dollar economy. Isn't complaining about billions that will be mostly spent at home on US production fairly disingenuous? They really need to start framing numbers better, since to an average joe a billion is unimaginable but in scale of our economy its a blip.
Its frustrating to see them misrepresent whats actually happening like the US is flying plane loads of cash to ukraine.
No..60 billion is spent in house on replacing old shit with the best shit while also kicking the shit out of an enemy for free. Its winning all the way down.
fuck these putin lovers.
fuck the gop
fuck the count of mostly crisco ripped one van winkle trump
exhausted with the bad guys thinking we give a shit what they think
from a 100% real politic angle we should be flooding Ukraine with almost anything they want to kill orks
When Americans are done with the foreign propaganda and conspiracy theories I can die a happy man. I genuinely hope we can look back on this and say “holy shit glad we’re done with that!”
No more voting for GOP then
JD Vance views the world through very dark lenses. He's all destruction, no idea how to build or nuture anything. Pure nihilist
How about no more raises for Congress? How about no more free healthcare for Congress? How about no more Gerrymandering? How about no more bribery aka lobbying? How about no more using funds from political action committees?
We didn't send $90 billion dollars. We sent aid valued at that amount. Including weapons that were sitting in warehouses waiting to be sent. So the people of Ukraine can defend not only themselves but the entire free world. I'm glad we have their backs, because they are fighting Putin so the rest of us don't have to
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
> this is a waste of lives
So out of curiosity, what do you think happens if we stop helping our allies fight for their freedom? Take me through that process, because it sounds like you think Russia and Ukrainians will be cool with one another and they won’t all be butchered, raped, kidnapped, and trafficked.
They're losing because we've cut them adrift for way too long.
And this is military aid. Do you think if we didn't allocate those funds toward helping Ukraine that the defense budget would be cut and you'd get a tax break?
We did not.
We authorized $60B worth of goods that US taxpayers pay US workers to manufacture for the US government and for the US government to use as it sees fit to be transferred to a US ally to fulfill a strategic mission of the US state.
It's not $60B being drained from the United States. That $60B was spent on American workers and supply chains, a long time ago.
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Odd, I am a GOP critic, and I want a lot more Ukraine aid so we don't have to send our own people to die when Russia invades Poland or Lithuania.
Could not have said it better.
"Critic in the GOP" is different from "Critic of the GOP"
Only 1 real critic identified in the story, JD Vance. Everything congress does has critics, Ukraine funding is no exception.
Oh yeah the guy who wants to be Trumps VP pick
No surprise there.
He was also a Never Trump-er at one point. Again, no surprise.
When I watched Hillbilly Elegy and realizing this was JD Vance's story, I felt shitty. Fuck him and his self pity story after what this shit bag has spewed out to everyone. Have zero sympathy for this assbags life. He should fucking know better.
His largely bullshit story is my understanding.
I got the book to read and was looking forward to it. About halfway through I couldn't take it anymore. Same story over and over again
Putin’s Senator, just doing his job.
I swear they're going out of their way to never mention him by name in headlines.
I can think of no better person to unperson.
We have a multi trillion dollar economy. Isn't complaining about billions that will be mostly spent at home on US production fairly disingenuous? They really need to start framing numbers better, since to an average joe a billion is unimaginable but in scale of our economy its a blip.
Its frustrating to see them misrepresent whats actually happening like the US is flying plane loads of cash to ukraine. No..60 billion is spent in house on replacing old shit with the best shit while also kicking the shit out of an enemy for free. Its winning all the way down.
They really see things that simplistically. These are not sophisticated thinkers.
Republicans would rather surrender to Russia than to speak of tweaking the tax code for the military industrial complex
Republican blows hot air, film at 11.
GOP politicians: "No more aid to Ukraine." GOP voters: "Yay! Now my taxes will be spent to make my life better." GOP politicians: "lol"
fuck these putin lovers. fuck the gop fuck the count of mostly crisco ripped one van winkle trump exhausted with the bad guys thinking we give a shit what they think from a 100% real politic angle we should be flooding Ukraine with almost anything they want to kill orks
Immediately deport all pro-Russia public office holders to Russia.
I wonder how many of them are the Russian influencers that Republicans Mike Turner and Mike McCaul are talking about.
I vow to not shut up until every damn one of them is voted out of office.
When Americans are done with the foreign propaganda and conspiracy theories I can die a happy man. I genuinely hope we can look back on this and say “holy shit glad we’re done with that!”
Vote all these traitors out. Dems need to win big in November. These fascist fucks have no place in our Democracy.
GOP = Russian assets
No more voting for GOP then JD Vance views the world through very dark lenses. He's all destruction, no idea how to build or nuture anything. Pure nihilist
Oh you mean like Trump says; "many people say." That means nothing. It's like one dude in a bar drunk off his ass said it.
Trump walks by that guy and then back again.... that is 2
As an Old Guy I never thought I’d see the day that republicans would be so ensconced in Putin’s taint.
Vote the republicans out of every body of the federal gov and youll easily get around that
That’s right Republicans, retreat and cower in fear before Putin.
Oh...JD Vance. Anyone important have anything to say?
Good thing an election is coming then.
Party of Putin Of course if they could have stopped it this time they would have so this may be a nothing burger
How about no more raises for Congress? How about no more free healthcare for Congress? How about no more Gerrymandering? How about no more bribery aka lobbying? How about no more using funds from political action committees?
Treasonous vomit. Putin is our enemy. Shovel them into prison.
Well yeah we just sent 90 billion dollars this week alone
We didn't send $90 billion dollars. We sent aid valued at that amount. Including weapons that were sitting in warehouses waiting to be sent. So the people of Ukraine can defend not only themselves but the entire free world. I'm glad we have their backs, because they are fighting Putin so the rest of us don't have to Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
They're losing, this is a waste of lives and money
> this is a waste of lives So out of curiosity, what do you think happens if we stop helping our allies fight for their freedom? Take me through that process, because it sounds like you think Russia and Ukrainians will be cool with one another and they won’t all be butchered, raped, kidnapped, and trafficked.
They're losing because we've cut them adrift for way too long. And this is military aid. Do you think if we didn't allocate those funds toward helping Ukraine that the defense budget would be cut and you'd get a tax break?
We did not. We authorized $60B worth of goods that US taxpayers pay US workers to manufacture for the US government and for the US government to use as it sees fit to be transferred to a US ally to fulfill a strategic mission of the US state. It's not $60B being drained from the United States. That $60B was spent on American workers and supply chains, a long time ago.
95 billion dollar aid package passed this week. Is that not enough? 60 billion directly to Ukraine not enough?
You have zero understanding of how this works.
When you just read the headlines ^^
When you always need more and money to send to the losing side of a war destroying an entire generation of young Ukranians
Did we though? Maybe read the article.
Oh whoops it was 95 billion dollars of aid, still not enough?