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Why am I suddenly reminded of that moment from Attack of the Clones when Chancellor Palpy was given unlimited war rights.
I live in NW Ohio and the Ohio Air National guard has been flying maneuvers daily for months. I have the disturbing thought in the back of my mind this is all a military buildup for when the orange nazi pulls the US out of NATO next year to "celebrate" the 250th bday of the nation and starts doing what Germany did with the outbreak of WW2
The Empire in Star Wars literally represents the US. The rebels represented the Vietnamese.
I'm starting to think that the republicans and democrats are just one party and, as George Costanza says, "They're scattin' and be-boppin' all over us!". They only have allegiance to themselves, not the citizenry.
A world war you say? Golly.
« Third time’s the charm!! »
We're helping them be free but it's actually for the oil and now a bunch of my friends are going to get killed and messed up.
Didn't we already do this a few years ago?
The sooner every American realizes that there is NO ONE in the government with the desire and the power to help us, the better.
Edit: VOTE and be educated, but don't expect anyone therein to be accountable and reponsible. Get ANGRY about that.
This is a dangerous narrative. Many people are not voting because this narrative the two sides are the same. They can do a lot in common but they are definitely not same. This year alone proves it.
I simple don’t understand why anyone buys the sentiment that you are an expressing here. The unfortunate truth is that, in every substantive way, it is true that the two parties are in lock step. I am aware that Democrats will sometimes use rhetoric that implies that they have more enlightened positions on some issues. However, it’s not credible when they consistently cave, pre-compromise, and shift rightward at nearly every opportunity. I’ve been observing the party, from within and without for 40 years. I’ve come to the conclusion that as an organization, the party as currently organized, has NOT A SINGLE principled stand on any policies whatsoever. Let me be explicit: there is no issue on which Democrats organizationally are not willing to compromise or flip on including: abortion, civil rights, democracy, and so on. They are a loose conglomerate of self-interested corporate sell outs, period. Are there a few individual exceptions, of course. But as a collective, the party is trash, and they are the reason that fascism has been allowed to progress in this country for decades.
What is needed is a wholesale reconstruction of that party. Replace nearly everyone in power and completely reject corporate funding. BTW, accomplishing that involves two things: 1.) voting, and 2.) rejecting the voices that demand that we lower our standards for short term political expediency.
But god forbid we give people food, housing, or health care.
But those aren't fReEdOmS according to all the fragile egod snowflakes in under armor and grunt style tshirts
Regardless of the article source, here is the actual bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1071
And who voted Yay and Nay: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00648.htm
The world under capitalism is so twisted that war is good for the economy. Let's start using ecology as a measuring stick. That money thing is old and worn out and it shows us humans to be fools.
Two wings same facist bird
The world socialist website parrots Chinese Communist Party propaganda only, they even support China's aggression against Taiwan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, among other things. This is not a reliable media source.
Obscenely corrupt. These people shouldn’t be helping Trump on a single bill…even if he placates them with what amounts to a jobs program. Not a single vote until ICE is gone and he starts following the law…just for starters.
Well, so much for universal healthcare.