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the prisoner fueled Wagner group is enabling all the recent Russia advances, but the progress is unlikely sustainable. After Ukraine holds the line against this latest wave and goes back on the offensive, Russia will be in compromised position having used up their “free” troops (prisoners, mercenaries). Even with another round of military conscription, it will be too late to get them trained and properly equipped/prepared. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/europe/wagner-convicts-eastern-ukraine-pleitgen-intl/index.html

These guys are in a cult. They just can’t see it (which is true for most people in a cult). Everyone outside the cult is somehow evil or crazy to them.

Not exactly a documentary, but recall Enemy At The Gates? The Russians charging the German lines, in teams of 2, as they only had guns for 1/2 the soldiers. The advice? Once one of you (or a nearby team) gets shot down, pick up the spare gun, and then we have plenty guns for everyone (left). Seems to be the plan here more or less.

We'll see how much is left of DeSantis once Trump finishes with him. He's already posted pics of him implying he's a pedophile grooming young girls and DeSantis was afraid to respond.

None of these are real issues though. I mean, I’m sure you hear Fox News fearmongering about all this shit constantly, but aside from rare outliers it really isn’t happening. No one is defunding police. No one is teaching CRT in schools. No one is pushing to let illegal aliens vote. No one is fighting to ban gas stoves. No one is banning oil. You are just being a sucker buying into everything you hear from your propaganda feed…

Banning books and attacking Disney aren't winning political issues. Neither is privitizing social security and Medicare.

No, we just don’t live in a right wing propaganda bubble being constantly bombarded with made up bullshit about “evil leftist conspiracies”. So you are going to need to be more specific.

Basically this, and we will deserve it:

The border has been an issue for decades. Both sides of the political spectrum are at fault to some degree and they have refused to find common ground. Not sure why it’s any bigger of an issue today than it ever was. Inflation is not on Biden. Certainly not to any significant degree. It’s actually more on Trump if you want to blame any president, and certainly on Reagan and Dubya, because massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy are a big factor. But either way, it’s mostly now being caused by corporate greed and supply chain issues, not government spending. I fully support Biden (and NATO) backing Ukraine. Anyone who values democracy over authoritarian dictatorship would. Not Republicans, of course, because you guys love authoritarians… Biden isn’t banning gasoline powered vehicles. The fact that you believe this shows exactly what I’m talking about in terms of you being a sucker. Biden isn’t causing more crime, nor is he promoting less aggressive DAs, so I’m not really sure what your point is here other than to bleat out right wing talking points you hear. Biden also has nothing to do with pension investments. And I’m not really sure why you oppose private entities being able to invest in whatever they want that they think will make money for pensioners.

CTR and Trans issues are red meat bullshit topics. CTR isn't in public schools and is only taught in universities. What Republicans are talking about is not teaching history or respecting people's rights to privacy.

His trade policy has been almost exactly aligned with Trump. Monetary policy isn't up to Congress or the WH. Spending...lol they raised the debt limit 3 times under Trump. In 4 years he accumulated 25% of the debt. Biden, like Obama, has decreased the deficit.

Pakistan is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. Not a surprise they'd send anything to get a little money coming in.

Agreed. However, the midterms proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that a political campaign based upon such overblown and largely fictitious fringe issues is a guaranteed loser.

It might be effective in the republican primaries. Don't think it has much appeal to general election independents and swing voters.

Talking about "woke" is effective. People put it above policies that help them and other things. Usually the ones talking against being woke are the wokest of them all. Look how people acted when Hillary said "Deplorables" or Biden talked about Maga, those people burst into tears like bitches

One of my favorite movies.

Same as issues the left finds important such as green energy, transgender surgery, CRT in schools, directed pension investments into approved companies, approved pronouns, gas stoves, drug legalization, voting rights for illegal aliens, censorship of contrarian views, open borders, defund police, and god knows what other crazy shit you want. What are your non fringe issues you think are important and how are Democrats addressing them?

There’s a difference here. Republicans are actually banning books in schools and public libraries. And they have actually campaigned on eliminating/cutting/sunsetting Social Security and Medicare.

There's not a shred of love in that union. Maybe a little bit of lust, but that's about it.

Honest question here. What so called "woke policies" are you so anxious to give up democracy to eliminate? I admit, I'm a little unclear on the subject of "woke". It just seems like the latest GOP trigger word du jour.

Well the 2 sides are so polarized that there is no one who could possibly appeal to both.

DeSantis has a record of wanting to privitize both social security and medicare dating back to his congressional race in 2012. He embraced Paul Ryan's plan to turn medicare into a voucher system. Trump has already posted a video saying he wouldn't cut the programs. Biden's visit to Tampa wasn't just to attack Rick Scott on the issue. It was to lay the foundation to attack DeSantis on this issue as well. Welcome to the big leagues. Please proceed governor. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ron-desantis-once-expressed-support-for-privatizing-social-security-and-medicare-giving-his-rivals-an-opening/ar-AA17iZX7

Ive been an enormous fan of this team for 30 years. I know football & I don’t just cry if the team doesn’t do everything I want. With that said, I’ve certainly earned the right to throw a hissy fit over the most uninspiring fucking OC search in history. I thought we were purging somebody from one of the Super Bowl staffs & instead the team rolls out the announcement highlighting the Lo Locust hire.