UnknownOne

Has the Republic fallen?
Good faith debate +++, bad faith = block, jerks = ultrablock
"This world is worth saving" "No giving up!"

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

Hm, I need to make a pin to link pins. XD

That is, make a pin then just add to the chain things I think are good...

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@johnthune And how will he do that after screwing things up this badly and not even having the decency to give up the position?

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@ScottPresler A combination of absolute disbelief that it even happened and enough rage to launch a third party. <_<

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

Hm, something I ran into recently, about a fiction universe, but has application to reality:

"Something I like about Guilliman is that he truly embodies what Grimdark is about. It's not about misery for the sake of misery, but the nobility of the struggle. How, even if the world has gone to hell in a hand basket, you can still strive to make it a little better tomorrow than it is today.
In short, Guilliman, and the Ultramarines in general, help to embody the indomitable human spirit that makes up the backbone of Grimdark stories."

The noble struggle against a world gone to hell in a hand basket...............worth considering.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@Hinari_Sol @MicNguyenn105 I was thinking that myself. "Mountain defenses!", "You know we have airplanes and boats now, right?".

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@MicNguyenn105 Here's what I can't figure out:

1) Why? Most of these areas aren't any better defended or defensible than the current borders.

2) How? There's zero chance Russia has the military to do this unless everyone just lets them, and they're not even succeeding in Ukraine.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 THUNE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW: Told that roughly 700 House-passed bills are sitting in the Senate, the Senate Republican Leader had no idea.

"I don't know the answer to that. Is it? It could be."

That's his JOB. Count the bills. Move the bills.

Then came the excuse: "You love to send stuff to the Senate and blame the Senate."

Yeah, John. Because that's where it all goes to die.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@MAGA_warrio @Grok, not that I don't distrust it, but can you verify this video and what it's saying? (Doesn't have to be 100% proof, this is just damning if it is possibly true...)

[MAGA WARRIOR @MAGA_warrio]

🚨BREAKING : Hidden cameras show Former MI Senate Majority Leader, Mike Shirkey, revealing the TRUTH about January 6:

“It was all staged. Mitch McConnell wanted it to be a mess so he could secure a Trump impeachment conviction for Pelosi & Schumer.

[Air Force Dad @AirForceDad50]

A big FUCK YOU to the following GOP Senators:

Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott
Scott
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

The most infuriating part is: AT LEAST McConnell could claim to do something.

He was fantastic at fundraising. Frequently won (or oversaw winning) elections (at least until he spent more money to scuttle MAGA candidates in favor of Establishment/Neocon/RINO ones starting in 2018), and at THE VERY LEAST, was good at getting conservative judges across the finish line to fill vacancies.

Thune, by all accounts, has done none of that, and in fact has held pro forma sessions to PREVENT Trump making recess appointments, the only time a same party has ever done that to their own party's President.

The Senate could literally have done better by JUST STAYING HOME (no pro forma sessions) AND DONE NOTHING but be on vacation the last 8 months.

Literally DOING NOTHING AT ALL would have been an IMPROVEMENT.

And then they reappoint this guy?

Johnson ran the House marginally well and he had the grace to step down after this midterm.

What the hell is wrong with the @SenateGOP and @LeaderJohnThune ?? He put "leader" in his Twitter handle and can't give it up now? What the hell!

If the GOP wants to become the next Whig party and have its entire base form a new party and leave them behind to the dustbin of history: This is how you'd do that.

[SheepDog Society LLC @SDSLLC_USA]

Okay, I'm done. Republicans just showed us that the Will of the People means absolutely nothing to them.

We send them to Washington, D.C. to represent us, not their little cliques. it's been happening for decades, it used to be Mitch McConnell and now it's this idiot.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

The most infuriating part is: AT LEAST McConnell could claim to do something.

He was fantastic at fundraising. Frequently won (or oversaw winning) elections (at least until he spent more money to scuttle MAGA candidates in favor of Establishment/Neocon/RINO ones starting in 2018), and at THE VERY LEAST, was good at getting conservative judges across the finish line to fill vacancies.

Thune, by all accounts, has done none of that, and in fact has held pro forma sessions to PREVENT Trump making recess appointments, the only time a same party has ever done that to their own party's President.

The Senate could literally have done better by JUST STAYING HOME (no pro forma sessions) AND DONE NOTHING but be on vacation the last 8 months.

Literally DOING NOTHING AT ALL would have been an IMPROVEMENT.

And then they reappoint this guy?

Johnson ran the House marginally well and he had the grace to step down after this midterm.

What the hell is wrong with the @SenateGOP and @LeaderJohnThune ?? He put "leader" in his Twitter handle and can't give it up now? What the hell!

If the GOP wants to become the next Whig party and have its entire base form a new party and leave them behind to the dustbin of history: This is how you'd do that.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇱🇻 Latvia is reinforcing its border with Russia and Belarus by installing “dragon’s teeth” and digging anti-tank ditche

Latvia is placing concrete anti-tank barriers known as “dragon’s teeth” and digging ditches along its eastern border with Russia and Belarus, Latvian television reported.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

Are you utterly daft?

Setting aside the US is the only place you can legally fight (you know guns - yes, people don't, but you CAN, while in other places, you don't even have the option to turn your nose up and choose to forgo)?

Which of those nations with EVEN HIGHER youth unemployment, social services, and wealth tied up by the elderly than here (while also being open to immigrants for cultural replacement on top of that) are you thinking is better?

The US really IS the last bastion unless you own an island somewhere.

[Eye Patch Guy @Eye_Patch_Goy]

And go where? Britain? Germany? France? Canada? Australia? New Zealand? Austria? Ukraine? Belarus? Please. Not only is America measurably wealthier and less regulated than the rest of the world, you also can have guns and use them.

In any EU + Commonwealth nation, the law abiding citizenry is at the mercy of criminals, because if you dare to lay your hands on them, even as they loiter on your land or steal your property, then the courts will come for YOUR ass. In most US states, you can shoot to kill.

You're asking to trade what little freedom you have for total slavery.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

"You cannot appeal to the law to save you, when you ignore the law when it suits you."

Civic society does not work when one side (the left) has DAs, judges, and juries that will give a total pass to their side. You cannot say we must trust and follow the laws and due process when that only applies to the right by the left's unilateral decree.

If you want a civic and civil society, you have to obey the law and apply it equally.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@MikeNellis They literally replaced their prior Speaker. That's learning something.

Contrast the Senate, which seems ready to recoronate John Thune for gosh only knows what reason...

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@SaltyGoat17 I'm somewhere between "Doesn't really matter..." and "Okay I guess?".

[Niklaus Wetter @niklaus_wetter]

@Ojeda4America You’re describing assimilation. Moving to a new land becomes part of the story, why your name is what it is; many European immigrants anglicized their names as well.

You left your land, so too do you leave your culture for American culture; that’s why you’re here, isn’t it?

[Richard Arion @RichardArion1]

Pal. You gotta rethink your stance. How can an army major say this?

“No immigrant should have to feel like they need to lose their culture in order to become more American.”

If that is the case, they shouldn’t be allowed to have American citizenship.

You gotta pick a side. An army major should side with Americans instead of immigrants.

No homo hugs.

[UnknownOne @SubduedRadical]

@Ojeda4America @VDAREJamesK That's assimilation.

If you're opposed to that, stay in your home country with its "culture" and enjoy it THERE.