• @PugJesus
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    1711 hours ago

    Fuckwad.

    I’m so sorry. My country shames itself with this betrayal.

  • @[email protected]
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    5414 hours ago

    Absolute insanity.

    I am shocked at how quickly they’ve managed to shut all over everything.

    It makes it seem even more like the televised White House meeting was legitimately an acted out event ( from the White House side) to provide cause for this.

    Absolute douche canoes.

    • @WHARRGARBL
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      3213 hours ago

      The “meeting” was absolutely staged to publicly stab President Zelensky in the back, as retribution for trump’s 2019 failed extortion attempt and to justify colluding with Russia.

  • @[email protected]
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    4715 hours ago

    The reports come hours after Trump told reporters at the White House that he had not discussed suspending military aid to Ukraine

    This guy is batshit insane. How someone can flip flop that hard and fast is head spinning

      • suoko
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        It might be already secretly happening

      • @Skyrmir
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        414 hours ago

        Pretty sure that would require congressional approval, similar to the uranium deals we used to buy decommissioned warhead cores to turn into reactor fuel.

        • @[email protected]
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          1713 hours ago

          Most of what he’s doing requires congressional approval. But what’s congress going to do about it? Impeach him? LOL.

          Or hey, you could take it to the Supreme Court to see if they’ll stop him, LOL.

          • @Skyrmir
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            23 hours ago

            While I agree, the truth is, as much as he’s dancing all over every institution, he still doesn’t actually have control of his party. And with the razor thin margins he’s running, he’s likely to get shut down hard when he finally hits that wall.

            • bluGill
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              Remember he is still in the first 100 days - traditionally the time when a new president has the most power. As time goes on congress (the house and 1/3rd the senate) will start looking at the coming election and make decisions that will get them re-elected. If that means voting against the president they will do it. However it will only happen if they think enough people care about the issue that they would turn out and vote against them.

              [if you are not an American you can stop reading here]

              Thus contact your representative now: it won’t change anything today but it will be put into charts staff gives. If you get enough people to write letters it will cause changes.

              What matters most are republicans and independent voters. The democrats won’t vote for the republican no matter what and they know that so they don’t care. However if they think the independents won’t vote for them; or republicans will either support a primary challenger or not vote for them (either stay home or vote third party - they won’t vote for the democrat). So get out and talk to As such get out and talk to people in your community

              • @Skyrmir
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                153 minutes ago

                My hope is that we’ll see an adjustment of congress attitude after April 1st special elections. They should all be easy GoP wins, but I don’t think they will be. I’d put the NY election at even odds. The two Florida districts are 20 points red, so shouldn’t even be a question of who wins, but I think they’ll be close. If the GoP loses one, some of them will start to sound like they have a back bone. If they lose two, they’ll start talking back in the media. If all three flip, they lose the house and shit gets real.

                Again most likely result is a squeaking win that will make for some grumbling, but no real change in our path to hell. What’s crazy is that there is an assumption congress will be a thing by April 1st. The market is in free fall right now, and it’s being very conservative on the amount of damage Trump just did. As that plays out, the bad news is going to keep pouring in from all quarters. Things are going to get chaotic, in very dystopian ways.

    • Random_Character_A
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      210 hours ago

      He’s just a senile old man flailing aroung. Somebody else is calling the shots.

  • @[email protected]
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    3014 hours ago

    Didn’t congress pass a law allocating money for this? Who holds the power of the purse? Some body outlined in article 1 of the constitution, that’s all I know.

    • @[email protected]
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      Withholding aid from Ukraine was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment. This time around the GOP Congress will probably just applaud him.

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    So just war gaming, don’t mind me.

    With russia so weak militarily now, watch for social unrest in karelia and oblasts bordering europe right now, giving neighboring nations no choice but to send troops into karelia and boarder towns for peacekeeping work.

    Edit: I’d say a 50 km buffer zone… to help contain the unrest… should work.