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Fuck off vance, go check in with your momma I hear she is selling your couch for a bag of Ajax cleaner to snort.
What a vile cunt
He doesn't realize that even if he is 100% correct, that's the lowest bar achieved by any administration in history.
but sometimes I think he has to be in on the joke, he's sold out long ago 100%, but he is self-aware
then I remember I am always wrong so it must be opposite
I was 100% sure Trump would lose second election, man I have no idea what is real anymore
Well ... Vance is a complete dildo.
a dildo is useful and funto play with, vance is the kid who always takes his ball home with him. when he gets picked last
I’m glad shitban is out of Hungary so the EU is not hindered by that piece of shit and it’s all thanks to the couch fucker JD Vance. He killed a pope and Orban’s political career.
"You didnt even said thank you!"
But by all means, demand help in Iran...
Just Dumb and the MAGA fucks continue to break the 1994 Budapest Agreement. If the USA requests you to get rid of your nuclear insurance policy, tell them to f-off.
they're not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn't break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It's still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they've completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.
In a good and proper world, JD Vance would get a bullet between the eyes.
I would rather him die of old age alone in a prison cell in The Hague.
Public hanging for being a traitor next to his orange messiah.
Their entire cabal should suffer the same way that We The People suffer under their rule.
Incarcerate them as common federal criminals.
Strip them of their material assets and mark them as sex offenders and ex cons. Then release them into our world: Where they have to use "marketplace" insurance that charges an arm and a leg but covers a pinky toe.
They can try to apply for loans with abysmal credit and a shitton of debt that keeps compounding because they can't pay off that debt.
Regardless of political following, the entire country knows or would find out quickly what terrible workers they would be at any real job, so they would need to apply and get ghosted endlessly to even begin to mount the steps to approach the class ladder they and their ilk constructed.
If they do get that job somehow. They get to enjoy clocking in and out every day, exhausted and abused, knowing the only influence they'll ever again exert is suggesting the taco value deal over the burger meal, or the brown purse over the black one. That every single day of this isn't getting them any closer to a brighter future or a way out of the cycle.
They'll go to their public libraries they fervently cried to defund, and they'll ask for help, but be kicked out by security after screaming about immigrants and bathrooms.
They'll be forced to use our crumbling, car-worshipping infrastructure after jumping through tons of hoops to validate their identification and get a driver's license and maybe even a "Real for really reals tho" ID if they ever want to board a plane. (But with today's airfare haha that's unlikely!)
See how far those bootstraps get them.
If a traffic accident, the healthcare system, garbage food, or gun violence doesn't do them in, they'll live out and die as they falsely professed themselves to be:
...Actual Americans like you and me.
I think we're more civilized nowadays. I'd be content with reintroducing the pillory. Especially the 'In addition to being jeered and mocked, the criminal might be pelted with rotten food, mud, offal, dead animals, and animal excrement' part.
Seriously though, hanging seems too quick/easy and I'm pretty sure public humiliation is a worse punishment for self important narcissistic fucks.
Thats fair. I want them to be displayed to the people. To say that we as a nation will not suffer treason and traitors.
I'd love to have a video of him bleeding out like I do Charlie Kirk.
Knowing the Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for permanent protection from the US, I can understand the "agitation". I'd be pissed.
wasn't it protection from the us and russia?
Another day, another action by the Trumpstein administration who somehow seems to be reveling in their own untouchable corruption while also plausibly being forced to do so by foreign actors with their kompromat.
Alternate headline: "Being a Bitch to Russia one of the Proudest Achievements of Trump "Administration"."
It was a free event and only like 100 people showed up and many of them heckled him repeatedly.
He still said it. I don't care if he said it to a group of clowns at a birthday party, the Vice President of the USA just admitted publicaly that he's happy civilians in Ukraine are dying because they reneged on an international promise.
This is 100% why I hope no country, no matter what happens in the coming decade or more, ever gives the USA an ounce of trust ever again. A century of good will, ally-ship, and negotiation completely pissed away in less than a year. Why should ANY of us ever trust the USA to hold up any ounce of promise ever again?
Athens, Georgia
My European brain just confused the fuck out of me.
"Athens" is such a popular name for small towns in the US that New York state has two places named "Athens."
"Wow that's dumb," you say. And sure sure, you've got a point.
But what will you say when you find out Pennsylvania has three?
"Jesus H. Christ, that's idiotic," you say. And I can't argue.
But you will be rendered speechless by the news that my own state of Ohio has four localities named "Athens."
...if you don't count the one named "New Athens."
I'm not making this up.
Hey R voters and sitouts: proud yet?
How do people still think R voters have shame about anything he does? Good lord
But they had to sit out the election because of Palestine!
Not that they care that Trump just lifted all restrictions on Bibi in Gaza, the morally important thing is to teach Harris a lesson!
And signal their inability to tell between different levels of evil, or to see things beyond a 14-day timeframe, apparently.
Republicans literally don't give a shit about Ukraine.
I've made the mistake before of assuming they had a basic sense of human decency. I pointed out that trump and congressional republicans would pull funding for Ukrainian defense, and I was blindsided when someone responded to me as if they view that as a good thing.
I was flabbergasted, dumbfounded. What do you even say to that? How do you even debate someone who lacks any semblance of logic or empathy?
And yet the same people think it's fine that we're still giving bombs to Israel, and launching billion-dollar rockets at Iranian civilians.
It's absolutely insane.
History Lesson: Why all countries need to band together and help Ukraine
The USSR, which was known as the Soviet Union and was a communist government, used to have many countries under their umbrella of control, including Ukraine.
When the Berlin Wall fell in the early 90's Russia dropped the communist part of their government and became the Russian Federation. They gave all the countries under their umbrella autonomy. So more or less, the Russian Federation was no longer in control of all these countries.
Putin is the current President of Russia. He has held this position since 2012, after previously serving as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.
Putin has expressed a desire to restore the glory of the Soviet Union, which is a key part of his domestic and foreign policy goals. He aims to regain Russia's influence in world affairs and strengthen its position against perceived threats, particularly from NATO. (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26769481)
If Putin regains control of Ukraine, he will move on to the next country, then the next country, until Russia's old glory is restored.
This must not happen.
We should stop funding Israel in return. Let Washington pay for its country-sized military base, we have more pressing and deserving issues at home.
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en
Never seen someone so proud of themselves for fucking couches and killing children. Have you said thank you yet?
Aw come on, he’s not proud of massive increase in disease, people starving, needy people losing benefits, voter suppression, or depriving people of human rights? He’s not proud of loss of prestige and influence, alienating friends and allies (even Canada, that is a huge accomplishment), destruction of American science, education and technology?
How about cutting off USAID and thereby causing the deaths of about 10 million people by 2030, or accelerating the pace of climate change beyond what anyone thought possible, and thereby killing life all over the planet? Those are also big achievements.
sofa-humping GOP surrender monkey