calodo2003
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Let me know when Gosar, Biggs, and Boebert get this
Probably the weather mate.Something weird going on in the Carolinas. We just lost power, and according to Duke Energies website their are about half a million people now without power, all at about the same time. After the recent attack on the NC power substation I am a little worried.
I hope so. Just got their website to load and they are performing rolling blackouts as well. Never dealt with this shit in WI, those feckers knew how to weatherproof an electrical grid.Probably the weather mate.
Exactly. Up north it only goes bad when you get a lot of ice but I'd imagine relatively severe cold and snow will cause havoc as you get further south.I hope so. Just got their website to load and they are performing rolling blackouts as well. Never dealt with this shit in WI, those feckers knew how to weatherproof an electrical grid.
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A binary choice is too reductive. The motivations behind the votes couldn’t be more different.Tweet
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Yes, different reasons for voting but identical desired outcome.A binary choice is too reductive. The motivations behind the votes couldn’t be more different.
But saying ideology is a circle is nonsense.Yes, different reasons for voting but identical desired outcome.
I don't know if that's a suitable analogy given that the issue of supporting Ukraine is something a vast majority of people agree on. Those voting against it are usually fringe politicians who believe they either have to vote no because their nutjob voters would reject them if they didn't, or for the left, as a means of political expediency to appear principled before their constituents. Both cases advance the same end state.But saying ideology is a circle is nonsense.
It’s one bill, they both have totally different motivations for it.
If you had someone voting against capital punishment because they believe it’s wrong for anyone to kill anyone for any reason and someone else voting against capital punishment because all their friends are murderous psychopaths who are facing the death penalty you wouldn’t point at them and go “ha, same ideology”.
The horseshoe theory is bullshit in thatWouldn’t this be classified as an example of the horseshoe theory?
I don’t know if it’s helpful to apply it to this to be honest. Both fringes voted against this for different reasons. I’d take AOC’s position on this over those of the MAGA grifters every day of the week.Wouldn’t this be classified as an example of the horseshoe theory?
She voted no on the latest Ukraine support bill out of protest that it would fund DoD efforts over immigration reform.I've not been keeping up recently. Could someone point me to somewhere where AOC explains why she voted like that?
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Hmmm. I've been against the use of civil asset forfeiture to penalize petty criminals and their families too but russian oligarchs is a strange place to take a stand regardless. (That's what I took from that twitter thread as being her point). Also if it's because of disproportionate DoD spending I agree with her too in theory... but even worse timing to make a point right now, especially when there's some vote or other on some part of DoD spending every other month anyway.She voted no on the latest Ukraine support bill out of protest that it would fund DoD efforts over immigration reform.
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She’s probably sterilizing her voting record for progressives in preparation for an eventual run for the Senate.Hmmm. I've been against the use of civil asset forfeiture to penalize petty criminals and their families too but russian oligarchs is a strange place to take a stand regardless.
Seriously, it's just stupid to even try to justify voting against seizure of assets that belong to Russian oligarchs; it's not as if they are about to live on welfare although they deserve it for having financed the murderous machine in Russia. Not only the timing of her vote is poor, but she also shows a blatant lack of political pragmatism that won't help her political career beyond the House.She’s probably sterilizing her voting record for progressives in preparation for an eventual run for the Senate.
Agreed.Seriously, it's just stupid to even try to justify voting against seizure of assets that belong to Russian oligarchs; it's not as if they are about to live on welfare although they deserve it for having financed the murderous machine in Russia. Not only the timing of her vote is poor, but she also shows a blatant lack of political pragmatism that won't help her political career beyond the House.
One side - maybe we shouldn’t cripple a country’s economy for decades for the choices of its despot leader.Tweet
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Sounds to me they have forgotten that the US did exactly the same to Yugoslavia in the very late 1990s until Milosevic was extradited to The Hague as part of the conditions for ending that forced economic and political isolation following the Kosovo War.One side - maybe we shouldn’t cripple a country’s economy for decades for the choices of its despot leader.
Really a 'before-life' party. Once born they don't give a feck.
Don't you mean the anti sex party? Unless it's sexual assault, they are with that.
And when it’s used to increase the domestic supply of babies.Don't you mean the anti sex party? Unless it's sexual assault, they are with that.
Pro birth and nothing else. Need poor teenagers willing to sign-up to the military, get PTSD, come back home and end up homeless.
All part of the service to their nation!
That's only the basic lies. The bigger question from the reporting is how was he evicted for not paying rent then suddenly a few years later he has 750k to loan to his campaign. No college degree but he's a "seasoned financial professional". Despite not actually working at the firms he said he did. He admitted he worked at a Dish network call center in the past decade and "came from nothing". Well what magic tree did he shake to find so much money?New York congressman-elect admits lying about college and work history
Apparently completely made up his work history, and education.
Refusing to resign.
Bumped by Glenn "the ghoul" Greenwald as a great appointment for the GOP. Just another scammer who says the right thing and gets appointed.That's only the basic lies. The bigger question from the reporting is how was he evicted for not paying rent then suddenly a few years later he has 750k to loan to his campaign. No college degree but he's a "seasoned financial professional". Despite not actually working at the firms he said he did. He admitted he worked at a Dish network call center in the past decade and "came from nothing". Well what magic tree did he shake to find so much money?
McCarthy has to back him and make sure he is seated he cannot afford to lose any votes for the Speaker. GOP aren't going to police him themselves so someone else should be looking into where he got the money from and what has or hasn't been reported there.
Greenwald is unbearable.Bumped by Glenn "the ghoul" Greenwald as a great appointment for the GOP. Just another scammer who says the right thing and gets appointed.
Imagine you could trace the money back to a Peter Thiel pet project.
Once you find out he apparently used to run a shady gay tourism business for rich westerners to pick up young dudes in Brazil, you start to question the ethics of the man. Combined with his behaviour online and allegiance with the far right, shilling legitimacy on Tucker Carlson, you realize he's all round shit.Greenwald is unbearable.