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[The Ugly One]

Seriously when the fucking GOP in Virginia has bigger balls than the GOP in an actual red state.

Seriously someone should have told the jew. That CRT literally tells white kids that their evil automatically unlike learning the Holocaust

In red states, the GOP is more beholden to donors than voters, because they know they can't lose elections.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

This, 100%

It only took me 2020 to realize this in its entirety. The rich and powerful and everyone who has robbed our futures out from under us are all cut from the same generational cloth; horribly aware of their own rotting bodies, terrified to close their eyes and see another sunrise, and pissing their Depends over what awaits them beyond. Atheism is a cold fucking comfort at the end of your life if the only end it promises is total silence and unthinking stillness for people who amount to little more than coomers in business suits. Why do you think they react so violently whenever someone smaller and younger persists through the adversities and spits in their face? It's just as you said, it's a tantrum.

So they'll fund their immortality snake oils, their artificial intelligences, consume children's blood and hoard every Doctor under a permanent payroll to tack a few more miserable seconds on their lives; but as it ALWAYS goes in the end:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

If there's any motivation to carry with you into the future; it's taking great pleasure in the idea that the longer and more desperately they struggle to keep going, the harder and more painful the total breakdown will be.

Glenn Beck hit this hard about a month ago, calling them Old Hippies who hated "The man" then Sized power to become everything they hate and refuse to let it go despite being mental ill drunkards. It felt kind of "Old Man yells at cloud" However, quite frankly he isn't entirely wrong that these are all people who came to age during the Hippy Years, have accomplished nothing because their ideology is a fucking joke and slam the door on every generation behind them.

Mitch Mconnel, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Klaus Schwab should all be locked in a retirement home.,

 

[Randall Fragg]

I sincerely hope that this is their plan to coast on in to the midterms making gun control their top priority. This is exactly what they should do to get their support back and ensure a blue wave!

They fucking KNOW what we're heading for, and they want as many people disarmed as possible (in Dwarf Fortress).

LOL at the Israelis! they sent arms to Azov battalion!

The Israeli's (allegedly) worked with Otto Skorzeny, an actual OG Nazi. This will never stop being hilarious to me.

 

[I-chi]

Glenn Beck hit this hard about a month ago, calling them Old Hippies who hated "The man" then Sized power to become everything they hate and refuse to let it go despite being mental ill drunkards. It felt kind of "Old Man yells at cloud" However, quite frankly he isn't entirely wrong that these are all people who came to age during the Hippy Years, have accomplished nothing because their ideology is a fucking joke and slam the door on every generation behind them.

Mitch Mconnel, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Klaus Schwab should all be locked in a retirement home.,

The first four can stare at walls forever, Schwab deserves to get throatfucked by a ventilator and have his suffering prolonged.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

They fucking KNOW what we're heading for, and they want as many people disarmed as possible (in Dwarf Fortress).

The Israeli's (allegedly) worked with Otto Skorzeny, an actual OG Nazi. This will never stop being hilarious to me.

What are we heading for?

 

[potato fan]

Back in the early days around the Maidan revolution, when neo-Nazi paramilitary groups were being used by the CIA to overthrow the elected government of Ukraine, Russia introduced a UN resolution to condemn Nazism. If you want to understand which groups are still independent enough to say "actually yes, we do condemn Nazis" and those who won't even do that, this vote roster is pretty helpful.

lol you'd have to be super naive to actually only see the surface level of that. That resolution was pure PR move, meanwhile Russia was also funding neonazis, just on the republics side. Later hailed them as heroes too.

Meanwhile, all those Y votes are the remaining semi-independent nations

more like they don't have any stake in that confilict (or the few that are russias puppets)
this whole spin is so ridiculous- Russia invaded another country and then cried that some of people who defended their cuntry were some flavor of neonazis, way to focus on important details

 

[Celebrate Nite]

For anyone unaware, Kamala did a thing, which means shit's about to get worse

Article: https://longisland.news12.com/ukraines-zelenskyy-calls-on-putin-to-meet-as-tensions-soar
Archive: https://archive.md/mdD9R

Spoiler: Ukraine's Zelenskyy calls on Putin to meet as tensions soar

MOSCOW - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, on Saturday called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him and seek resolution to the crisis.

“I don't know what the president of the Russian Federation wants, so I am proposing a meeting,” Zelenskyy said at the Munich Security Conference, where he also met with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Zelenskyy said Russia could pick the location for the talks.

"Ukraine will continue to follow only the diplomatic path for the sake of a peaceful settlement.”
There was no immediate response from the Kremlin.

Zelenskyy spoke hours after separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full military mobilization on Saturday while Western leaders made increasingly dire warnings that a Russian invasion of its neighbor appeared imminent.

In new signs of fears that a war could start within days, Germany and Austria told their citizens to leave Ukraine. German air carrier Lufthansa canceled flights to the capital, Kyiv, and to Odessa, a Black Sea port that could be a key target in an invasion.

NATO’s liaison office in Kyiv said it was relocating staff to Brussels and to the western Ukraine city of Lviv. Meanwhile, top Ukrainian military officials came under a shelling attack during a tour of the front of the nearly eight-year separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The officials fled to a bomb shelter before hustling from the area, according to an Associated Press journalist who was on the tour.

Violence in eastern Ukraine has spiked in recent days as Ukraine and the two regions held by the rebels each accused the other of escalation. Russia on Saturday said at least two shells fired from a government-held part of eastern Ukraine landed across the border, but Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba dismissed that claim as “a fake statement.”

Sporadic violence has broken out for years along the line separating Ukrainian forces from the Russia-backed rebels, but the recent shelling and bombing spike could set off a full-scale war.

The United States and many European countries have alleged for months that Russia, which has moved about 150,000 troops near the Ukrainian border, is trying to create pretexts to invade.

“They are uncoiling and are now poised to strike,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday during a visit to Lithuania.

Harris opened her meeting with Zelenskyy by saying the world was at “a decisive moment in history.”

Earlier Saturday, Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russia separatist government in Ukraine's Donetsk region, cited an “immediate threat of aggression” from Ukrainian forces in his announcement. Ukrainian officials vehemently denied having plans to take rebel-controlled areas by force.

“I appeal to all the men in the republic who can hold weapons to defend their families, their children, wives, mothers," Pushilin said. ”Together we will achieve the coveted victory that we all need."

A similar statement followed from his counterpart in the Luhansk region. On Friday, the rebels began evacuating civilians to Russia with an announcement that appeared to be part of their and Moscow’s efforts to paint Ukraine as the aggressor.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the evacuation orders could be a tactic to provide the spark for a broader attack.

“To say it very clearly, Ukraine did not give any grounds for the evacuation that was ordered yesterday,” she said. “Those are the facts on the ground. We must not allow supposed reasons for war to be constructed out of hot air.”

U.S. President Joe Biden said late Friday that based on the latest American intelligence, he was now “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine and assault the capital.

“As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision,” Biden said. “We have reason to believe that.” He reiterated that the assault could occur in the “coming days.”

Meanwhile, Russia conducted massive nuclear drills on Saturday. The Kremlin said Putin, who pledged to protect Russia’s national interests against what it sees as encroaching Western threats, was watching the drills together with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko from the situation room.

Notably, the planned exercise involves the Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet. Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula after seizing it from Ukraine in 2014.

Underscoring the West's concerns of an imminent invasion, a U.S. defense official said an estimated 40% to 50% of the ground forces deployed in the vicinity of the Ukrainian border have moved into attack positions closer to the border.

The shift has been underway for about a week, other officials have said, and does not necessarily mean Putin has decided to begin an invasion. The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal U.S. military assessments.

The official also said the number of Russian ground units known as battalion tactical groups in the border area had grown to as many as 125, up from 83 two weeks ago. Each group has 750 to 1,000 soldiers.

Lines of communication between Moscow and the West remain open: the American and Russian defense chiefs spoke Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron scheduled a phone call with Putin on Sunday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed to meet next week.

Immediate worries focused on eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting the pro-Russia rebels since 2014 in a conflict that has killed some 14,000 people. Violations of a 2015 ceasefire agreement, including shelling and shooting along the line of contact, have been common.

A car bomb exploded in the center of the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk on Friday. Adding to the tensions, two explosions shook the rebel-controlled city of Luhansk early Saturday. No injuries were reported in the incidents.

Ukraine’s military said two of its soldiers died in firing from the rebel side on Saturday.

By Saturday morning, the separatists in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which form Ukraine's industrial heartland known as the Donbas, said that thousands of residents of the rebel-controlled areas had been evacuated to Russia.

Russia has issued about 700,000 passports to residents of the rebel-held territories. Claims that Russian citizens are being endangered might be used as justification for military action.

Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk rebel government, alleged in a video statement that Ukraine was going to order an imminent offensive in the area.

Metadata from two videos posted by the separatists announcing the evacuation show that the files were created two days ago, the AP confirmed. U.S. authorities have alleged that the Kremlin's effort to come up with an invasion pretext could include staged, prerecorded videos.

Authorities in Russia's Rostov region, which borders eastern Ukraine, declared a state of emergency because of the influx of evacuees. Media reports on Saturday described chaos at some of the camps assigned to accommodate the people from eastern Ukraine. The reports said there were long lines of buses and hundreds of people waiting in the cold for hours on end to be housed without access to food or bathroom facilities.
Putin ordered the Russian government to offer 10,000 rubles (about $130) to each evacuee, an amount equivalent to about half of an average monthly salary in eastern Ukraine.

 

[MrJokerRager]

In red states, the GOP is more beholden to donors than voters, because they know they can't lose elections.

Jewish donors vote Democrat while funding the Republicans?

Though it seems like to me that it would have passed expect for a few conservatives who still worship the Jews otherwise Jesus will not show up.

 

[verissimus]

So what exactly is the play here for Putin?

1) Will he invade (or "occupy" as I'm sure they'll declare) the contested parts of the Ukraine assuming they first secede from the Ukraine sort of like what happened in Georgia with South Ossetia or
2) Is Putin hoping the Ukraine will concede to not join NATO so long as he promises to not support/recognize any kind of secession within the Ukraine?

Edit
3) I guess option 3) is Putin will pretty much do what the NVA did with the Vietcong in South Vietnam i.e. have Russian soldiers pretend to be Ukrainians and/or "volunteers" to help the separatists. And when they (or separatists) get to any trouble, they can just flee back to Mother Russia.

 

[GuntPunt]

Seriously when the fucking GOP in Virginia has bigger balls than the GOP in an actual red state.

Seriously someone should have told the jew. That CRT literally tells white kids that their evil automatically unlike learning the Holocaust

To be fair, the Virginia GOP is running like this is there last oppurtunity in Virginia ever. Carried by nearly winning a trifecta in 2021.

Also, Youngkin running as a Larry Hogan tier cuck and then going near full DeSantis mode is something to behold in such a blue state.

 

[CrippleThreat]

Also, Youngkin running as a Larry Hogan tier cuck and then going near full DeSantis mode is something to behold in such a blue state.

He would be just another contender that would have been blown back in November if the DNC and McAuliffe didn't kill their own campaign.

Why waste such an ample opportunity? To the point that the insane right-wingers on "Election Twitter" believe he can be a presidential contender.

 

[pwnest injun]

lol you'd have to be super naive to actually only see the surface level of that. That resolution was pure PR move, meanwhile Russia was also funding neonazis, just on the republics side. Later hailed them as heroes too.

more like they don't have any stake in that confilict (or the few that are russias puppets)
this whole spin is so ridiculous- Russia invaded another country and then cried that some of people who defended their cuntry were some flavor of neonazis, way to focus on important details

Yeah, it's a PR move. A PR move to say "Nazis bad" and those countries refusing to say something so politically low stakes as that shows their loyalties pretty clearly. Obviously Russia had no problem saying it despite the fact that they were funding their own fascist paramilitary groups. It's a roll call. That's the point I'm making. I don't give a shit about Nazis or whatever.

 

[potato fan]

Yeah, it's a PR move. A PR move to say "Nazis bad" and those countries refusing to say something so politically low stakes as that shows their loyalties pretty clearly.

yes it was, unless you pretend no context exists at all. And if Russia got suddenly so adamant about fighting nazism, then why fund nazis themselves?

 

[MrJokerRager]

To be fair, the Virginia GOP is running like this is there last oppurtunity in Virginia ever. Carried by nearly winning a trifecta in 2021.

Also, Youngkin running as a Larry Hogan tier cuck and then going near full DeSantis mode is something to behold in such a blue state.

Virginia is fucked long term unless the GOP can make serious strides over there.

 

[Basil Julep]

Virginia is fucked long term unless the GOP can make serious strides over there.

I am hoping for gay Pete to run in 2024 for prez. Sheer off the black male vote from the Democrats.

The gate keeping on the left is so intense. I imagine getting folks to vote for any Republican even once really loosens the conditioning.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Anyone gotten anything in the mail from Common Sense America Inc.? Long story short I've been blue balled by them and based on what I can glean from their website it seems like a pseudo """"independent"""" grift. The founder is a Democrat.

 

[celebrityskin]

So, for example, it's telling that even Germany can't condemn Nazism when the USA is like "psst... we're arming and funding Nazis right now to fight Russia for us. That's what this is about, so just like, don't say anything." Meanwhile, all those Y votes are the remaining semi-independent nations, as of that moment in time. It's actually most of the world, really. It's just, well, those parts of the world that aren't so great to live in.

Because the resolution was Russia proposed, and was a shitty attempt to justify their occupation of Crimea by calling Ukrainians a bunch of Nazis. Russia has quite a lot of neo-fascist movements themselves so maybe they should clean their own house first.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

The how they're surviving part is the meat of the question.

Unironically? They probably moved back in with their parents, if they weren’t already living with them in the first place.

Either that, or food stamps and it being really hard still to evict people.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Because the resolution was Russia proposed, and was a shitty attempt to justify their occupation of Crimea by calling Ukrainians a bunch of Nazis. Russia has quite a lot of neo-fascist movements themselves so maybe they should clean their own house first.

Except everyone is a neo-fascist, so that doesn't matter.

 

[potato fan]

Except everyone is a neo-fascist, so that doesn't matter.

umm excuse you, some of us are old school, nothing "neo" about it