Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has blocked quick passage of a bill to provide Ukraine nearly $40 billion more in aid https://t.co/ZhVN2uF7aY
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 12, 2022
How can one man remain so based while surrounded by such cringe?
Twitter seethe by the usual suspects:
https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1524863450022920210
https://twitter.com/expatua/status/1524835869584150555
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1524861965511933956 (ngl this one in particular is giving me an overriding urge to fedpost)
Politics thread:
Featuring the least flexible leftoid mental gymnast:
Bernie said it best: "We should always have a debate [about military spending], but the problem is that Ukraine is in the middle of a very intense war right now, I think every day counts, and I think we have to respond as strongly and vigorously as we can."
Maybe we could tax corporations more to pay for this tho instead of continuing to fleece the American people to line the pockets of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
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why are we giving them so fricking much money anyway
it's time for ukraine to stand on it's own or die
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It a once in a lifetime opportunity to frick up your enemy without starting a nuclear war. It's worth every cent and saves us billions in the long run
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I'm glad at least that neolibs have finally dropped the pretext that it was about 'helping the ukranians.'
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Porque no los dos?
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Helping the ukrainians by prolonging a war and pressuring them off of peace treaties to own the ΜΆlΜΆiΜΆbΜΆsΜΆ russians
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Don't read too little into this.
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I never claimed to care about the hohols but if people are dumb enough to believe that narrative then so be it
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R*ssians aren't human and every cent is worth it.
Give them another 100 billion and let them wipe out the dirty R*ssian menace.
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the problem there is they'll need far more than 100 billion dollars. they'll need three or four times that in addition to americans on the ground to SAVE THEIR BUTT.
and i'm just not that interested in SAVING nazis.
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Who are the nazis again? You sound like a leftposter.
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* has an opportunity to take opponent's pieces off the board for cheap and no ongoing commitment
* decides to take the tardpill
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Because it's fricking funny to see russians getting btfo.
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Isn't there a baby formula shortage in the US?
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Every dollar spent making GenZedong Maoists seethe is a dollar well spent.
And yes, that would include dollars spent by mayo or basketball racists on baseball bats to beat Chinese students studying in the US who still defend the CCP.
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