This is such a clown statement, $200 million is like pocket change compared to the $1.9 trillion cost of the entire package.
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More clownish to not notice sarcasm in a post that was more just pointing out a Tweet showing it's business as usual for the USA selling weapons to countries with dodgy human rights records while only recently chastising others about the same issue.
The US has been keeping Egypt on side for decades. They are useful allies.
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Indeed they have, but it's the hypocrisy that sticks out. Trump was getting slammed for his arms deals in his last few weeks of office (rightly so)
Ya but keep in mind that Egypt and Israel normalized relations in the late 70s and Sadat got assassinated for it. The Egyptians didn't win many friends in the Arab or Palestinian world for what they did at the time. Contrast with the Trump situation where he definitely bought off the Arabian peninsula regimes to score a cheap foreign policy victory when these regimes should have been able to come to a similar conclusion a while back without needing a lot in return. Therefore, I don't think selling arms to Egypt reaches the same threshold. Plus the Israeli human rights record of late is arguably worse than Egypt, yet no one would bat an eyelid if they got more arms from the US.
Ultimately your comment was too lazy and dumb (from a financial and geopolitical perspective) to be called sarcastic.
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We can only imagine. His segment with Cruz the other night was hilarious. Twisting things so it seemed like Ted was just being a good, protective father dropping his girls off in Cancun. Made it seem like he was just dropping them at the mall for a pizza before they had a sleepover at their mates.
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Democrats=Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/25/us-airstrike-syria-iran-militia
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older tweet.
in fact i remember trump actually did a tweet like this after bombing
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america is truly back. thank god.
Love the sound of drones in the morning.
Sounds like, victory.
big news day today! senate parliamentarian decides that minimum wage isn't a substantial economic impact bill or whatever and it can't be put in reconciliation. now, kamala harris has the power to overrule her, and to overrule kamala the senate would need 60 votes (i.e. not happening). instead, they've already folded and will not be increasing the minimum wage.
bernie, who started this human centipede of failure by failing to convince the parliamentarian (and of course by losing to sleepy joe in the first place), has an alternative bill, as he too accepts his place as the public face of the party of losers.
bernie, who started this human centipede of failure by failing to convince the parliamentarian (and of course by losing to sleepy joe in the first place), has an alternative bill, as he too accepts his place as the public face of the party of losers.
it's hard to overstate the contempt I have for the democratic party
For some reason this argument strikes me as wrong. I am trying to put my finger on why. I think it is that they dems have been arguing that "raising the wage is great for the economy, so lets raise it!" But now Bernie is saying lets incentivize business to do so. I'm not against doing it, as then end result is fantastic and helping out small business is a good thing. I just think this is what is wrong with how the Dems argue points. They are weak and flip floppy.
It has never been a problem before.
America is a joke. The Democrats are a joke.
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Nancy Pelosi will put on a show in the house. Voting on the bill with the $15 included, showing defiance to the parliamentarian, while being relieved.
Imagine citizens of a republic that prides itself on freedom of religion being upset by someone freely expressing their religious beliefs.
I always liked this one. Colin Powell is not great, and the message might well be summarized as "we let people of all faiths die in our wars of aggression", but hey, it sounds nice.
They're so fecking weak
respect the process of getting annihilated in 2022
I don't understand why you lot still cling to this belief that dems serve the people and not business.
Who are you talking to?
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Looks like war is back on the menu, boys.
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There's plenty of blue no matter who folks on here, to be fair I was one of them four years ago.
As non american I started to miss Trump's international policy.
At times of global pandemic instead of solving world issue as leaders they choose to plunge themselves into another hot zone.
At times of global pandemic instead of solving world issue as leaders they choose to plunge themselves into another hot zone.
This is not shit in your handbag this is the result of a biological process perfected by millions of years of evolution.
assassinating military generals to distract from domestic policy embarrassments, massively increasing drone strikes from the Obama years, positioning US troops to protect Syrian oil, and letting Turkey slaughter people because you like strong dictators and want to build a hotel in the country is not "the good old days"
Obama, Trump and Biden are still garbage on "international policy". It's just that you'd hope "neoliberals" not jump to raining death as quickly as conservatives like to, yet they continue to disappoint.
Trump managed to lower the bar for everyone of us
I can only just laugh at the lot of you, especially the Americans.