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[Potatoherder]

I think that if those 5 Rs had shown up, Fetterman would have been rushed over, making it 50/50 with Kamala tiebreak.

No point.

It would force her to be the tie breaking vote to confirm a pro-pedo judge. Optics matter, and now it's just some lazy republicans letting in pedo judges.

 

[X Prime]

It would force her to be the tie breaking vote to confirm a pro-pedo judge. Optics matter, and now it's just some lazy republicans letting in pedo judges.

Optics for who? We already know that Democrats are the preferred party of pedophiles. Every vote for a Democrat is a vote for the mass rape happening along the southern border.

This is not news to anyone who knows anything.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Republicans are stalling on procedural grounds:

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Recent Judge Voting:
49-45
Democrat Caucus has 51 seats in the chamber, but maybe if 49 republicans were there at that time they could delay it?





Ethanol is an energy net negative, and absolutely should not be part of policy.

Corn syrup is a small part of corn demand. Most is used as cattle feed or as ethanol (which is from government meddling)





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[Potatoherder]

Optics for who? We already know that Democrats are the preferred party of pedophiles. Every vote for a Democrat is a vote for the mass rape happening along the southern border.

This is not news to anyone who knows anything.

The people who voted for Trump. He said the GOP should fight tooth and nail to prevent these judges from getting appointed. And at first chance they are so lazy they can't even show up.

 

[Rimanah]

It would force her to be the tie breaking vote to confirm a pro-pedo judge. Optics matter, and now it's just some lazy republicans letting in pedo judges.

I doubt optics matter to Harris anymore. She’s done on the national stage after she’s out from the VP slot, and she knows it.

 

[X Prime]

Democrat Caucus has 51 seats in the chamber, but maybe if 49 republicans were there they could delay it?

What would have happened is that if it even remotely looked like that would happen, Kamala would tiebreak or Fetterman would be rushed in.

The people who voted for Trump. He said the GOP should fight tooth and nail to prevent these judges from getting appointed. And at first chance they are so lazy they can't even show up.

I get what you're saying, but realistically unless they do something like all five lie to the Dems and go "oh no we won't show up" and then show up at the last second to make it 50/49 R such that Fetterman cannot be rushed over, then they had very few options.

 

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I doubt optics matter to Harris anymore. She’s done on the national stage after she’s out from the VP slot, and she knows it.

Bold of you to think she knows anything except the subtle differences in various brand of box wine and how to properly tickle Willie Brown's balls so he cums faster.

 

[Potatoherder]

I get what you're saying, but realistically unless they do something like all five lie to the Dems and go "oh no we won't show up" and then show up at the last second to make it 50/49 R such that Fetterman cannot be rushed over, then they had very few options.

The voters want someone to fight for them. It doesn't matter if they lose in the end, they just need to try. Trump didn't do a lot of the stuff he promised but he at least tried. By not even trying to fight it makes it clear they don't care and that is a bad look for Vance especially.

 

[X Prime]

The voters want someone to fight for them. It doesn't matter if they lose in the end, they just need to try. Trump didn't do a lot of the stuff he promised but he at least tried. By not even trying to fight it makes it clear they don't care and that is a bad look for Vance especially.

I suppose. I just don't see the point in wasting the energy in a fight that you are guaranteed to lose. It's more amazing that this happened along usual party lines, but that's Dems for you.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Cult behavior, as mentioned.

Cults naturally have an "us versus them" mentality. The "woke" see themselves as "decent human beings", and the (white male) non-SJWs as some kind of evil subhuman demons who dare to stand in the way of progress just because they're evil. Also that BS is despite SJWs preaching how bad "dehumanization" is... which usually is straight male sexuality or seeing differences inconvenient to cult beliefs?

 

[Derka Derka]

Cut supply, price goes up. Eliminate a mass-produced sweetener from the market, cramming sweets in your face and guzzling fizzy sugar water will get more expensive.

This is a good thing. Sucrose isn't magic health sweetener. It was rotting people's teeth out and making them fat from the time the Spanish discovered it. Fatties need to eat less, and making their fat people food more expensive is a good way to do that.

Addiction doesn't work like that. Especially when you are not aware nearly all processed food is sugar laden.

You need to first educate people which foods are bad. At the moment, many processed foods have some sort of official health rating/tick.
A simple example is returning to bacon and eggs for breakfast, instead of cereals, will keep fatties satiated without a sugar spike and causing cravings.

BTW artificial sweeteners gives you an artificial high, it doesn't stop you from craving. So it's not a valid substitute, as it's too easy to fall off the wagon, while you are still addicted to "Sweet"

 

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The voters want someone to fight for them. It doesn't matter if they lose in the end, they just need to try. Trump didn't do a lot of the stuff he promised but he at least tried. By not even trying to fight it makes it clear they don't care and that is a bad look for Vance especially.

It's not that they'd lose. It's that they don't even bother fighting. Yes, the left will win this for now. I still want them to MAKE THE LEFT WIN IT instead of giving it to them.

It's like idiots being pressured into resigning. No, dumbass. They're hoping you resign. You resigning is WAY cheaper from a political / social capital standpoint than them being forced to actually fire you. In many cases they CAN'T fire you, but they can hint, loudly, that it sure would be nice if you resigned.

Don't make things easier for the enemy. They literally want to put you in camps. Do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny. Don't make it EASY for them!

I want righty politicians and activists that make the left absolutely fucking EXHAUSTED at the mere sight of because they know getting anything past them is going to involve the most drag out knuckle dusting punch up just to get the right to ask for something at the table, yet alone get a vote on it. Yeah no Filibusters allowed, I get that. Someone on the right should have asked for an Environmental study on the effects of switching Judges in Winter on the Pigmy Box Turtle in the Judge's district. Can't have a vote until we understand the full effects of the vote!

Fucking something. Figure it out guys. Procedure is a weapon, politics is a protected battle, and you fuckers have been cosplaying as the French for entirely too fucking long.

 

[Nuns with guns]

Peaceful. Transition. Of Power.

Good morning, everyone! Forecast calls for rockets!

Why the fuck did I learn about Russia’s response through a damn meme video.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

The best way to fix our birth rates is to put the "TRUMP IS GONNA KILL US!" women with the "PUTIN IS GONNA NUKE US!" men in a bunker, tell them ITS HAPPENING, and wait a year or two.

Then we open the door and call them stupid faggots.

Russia has already not only been invaded, but occupied, and still us, by Ukraine.
Ukraine has already struck Moscow with drones and ex soviet cruise missiles.
The USA has a nuclear triad.
China would turn on Putin for using nukes.

Nothing ever happens.

Why the fuck did I learn about Russia’s response through a damn meme video.

Because it's propaganda and fear mongering.

People are willing to face the possibility of a civil fucking war with pride and determination, only to fall for the most basic psyop ever, and probably don't realize Putin is their enemy, lmao.

 

[Myrtle the Turtle]

Peaceful. Transition. Of Power.

Good morning, everyone! Forecast calls for rockets!

Im calling it now, some US person will call Putin to let them know of an attack. They should be given a medal.

I don't give a fuck about Ukraine anymore. Im not dying because the Dems want to spite Trump.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Why the fuck did I learn about Russia’s response through a damn meme video.

You're in the jungle, baby.

 

[Quijibo69]

I don't give a fuck about Ukraine anymore. Im not dying because the Dems want to spite Trump.

It won't shock me if they did it just to call martial law, so Kamala Harris can be president.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

When nothing happens are any of you going to admit you were tricked by propaganda and fear mongering, or just get mad if I remind you of this?

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

sprecher's soda has some sodas that are sweetened with glucose syrup and while they are pretty good, just consider this - fructose doesn't spike your blood sugar, so replacing the sweetener with one that just completely hammers your insulin levels the second it enters your mouth has some downsides.

fructose has the unfortunate effect of being processed by the liver though, which although not a big deal occasionally if it's all the time and paired with alcohol and/or seed oils contributes to fatty liver. You can induce it in monkeys that way.

There's no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to sugary drinks, so it's better to have them rarely if at all.

 

[Nuns with guns]

Putin lowers the threshold for using his nuclear arsenal after Biden’s arms decision for Ukraine​

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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that follows U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles.

The new doctrine allows for a potential nuclear response by Moscow even to a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles early Tuesday at a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, adding that air defenses shot down five of them and damaged one more. Ukraine’s military claimed the strike hit a Russian ammunition depot.

While the doctrine envisions a possible nuclear response by Russia to such a conventional strike, it is formulated broadly to avoid a firm commitment to use nuclear weapons and keep Putin’s options open.


Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that the Ukrainian strike in Bryansk marked an escalation and urged the U.S. and other Western allies to study the modernized nuclear doctrine.

“If the long-range missiles are used from the territory of Ukraine against the Russian territory, it will mean that they are controlled by American military experts and we will view that as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia and respond accordingly,” Lavrov said on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Brazil without elaborating.

The approval of the document demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap his nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine as the war reached its 1,000th day.

Asked Tuesday if a Ukrainian attack with longer-range U.S. missiles could potentially trigger a nuclear response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov answered affirmatively, pointing to the doctrine’s provision that holds the door open for it after a conventional strike that raises critical threats for the “sovereignty and territorial integrity: of Russia and its ally, Belarus.


Commenting on whether the updated doctrine was deliberately issued to follow Biden’s decision, Peskov said the document was published “in a timely manner” and that Putin instructed the government to update it earlier this year so that it is “in line with the current situation.”

Putin first announced changes in the nuclear doctrine in September, when he chaired a meeting discussing the proposed revisions. He has previously warned the U.S. and other NATO allies that allowing Ukraine to use Western-supplied longer-range weapons to hit Russian territory would mean that Russia and NATO are at war.

Washington has permitted Ukraine to use the longer-range weapons on targets inside Russia after declaring that thousands of North Korean troops were deployed in the Russian region of Kursk to fight an incursion by Kyiv’s forces.

White House officials were not surprised by Putin’s decision, and the U.S. has seen no change to Russia’s nuclear posture, according to a U.S. National Security Council official who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.


As a result, the Biden administration has “not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture or doctrine in response to Russia’s statements today,” the official added. Still, the official says the White House views it as “irresponsible rhetoric.”

But the official underscored that the arrival of thousands of North Korea soldiers to take part in combat operations against Ukraine was a major escalation by Moscow that demanded a response.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced the “irresponsible rhetoric coming from Russia, and that is not going to deter our support for Ukraine.”

“We’re now on Day 1,000 of a conflict. That’s 1000 days of Russian aggression, 1,000 days of sacrifices in Ukraine,” he said at the G-20 summit in Brazil. “We have stood with Ukraine from the start. I’ve been doubling down in my clear message that we need to ensure Ukraine has what is needed for as long as needed to win this war against Putin.”


German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in Warsaw that her country would not be intimidated by Russia’s new policy, saying her country made the mistake of cowering in the face of Moscow’s aggression in the past but would not do so again.

The updated doctrine says an attack against Russia by a nonnuclear power with the “participation or support of a nuclear power” will be seen as their “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

It says any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response but avoids any firm commitment and mentions the “uncertainty of scale, time and place of possible use of nuclear deterrent” among the key principles of the nuclear deterrence.

The document also notes that aggression against Russia by a member of a military bloc or coalition is viewed as “an aggression by the entire bloc,” a clear reference to NATO.


At the same time, it spells out conditions for using nuclear weapons in greater detail compared with previous versions of the doctrine, noting they could be used in case of a massive air attack involving ballistic and cruise missiles, aircraft, drones and other flying vehicles.

The formulation appears to significantly broaden the triggers for possible nuclear weapons use compared with the document’s previous version, which stated Russia could tap its atomic arsenal if case of an attack with ballistic missiles.

President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for more than 30 years and has relied on Russian subsidies and support, has allowed Russia to use his country’s territory to send troops into Ukraine and to deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons.

Since Putin sent troops into Ukraine, he and other Russian voices have frequently threatened the West with Russia’s nuclear arsenal to discourage it from ramping up support for Kyiv.


Russian hawks called for toughening the doctrine for months, arguing the previous version failed to deter the West from increasing its aid to Ukraine and created the impression that Moscow would not resort to nuclear weapons.