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We’re talking about people rising against the Republican side of the government
We’re talking about people rising against the Republican side of the government
But the president has the power to tell the army “Don’t do shit” in complete impunity.
I wonder who made it such… Oh right, people who were elected.
You get the state you vote for, including the people in unelected positions which are chosen by elected officials.
Careful as having polls that make it look like candidate X is going to win for sure might make it so people who would have voted for their opponent will not show up to vote as they assume they’ll be wasting their time…
It was a republican amendment
If you have a non proportional system where parties don’t make coalitions, there’s no other choice (unless you live in a region where a specific party always wins with a majority of the votes, then do what you want).
Did you read the quote?
“We celebrated the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was a failure. It was the 'unnecessary war, ’ described by Winston Churchill. We had a dozen chances to stop Hitler. It’s not about NATO. It’s not about American weapons in Ukraine. It’s about a megalomaniac wanting to create the Russian Empire by force of arms.”
Churchill didn’t think the war was unnecessary because the Germans should have been allowed to do what they wanted
https://scottmanning.com/content/what-did-churchill-mean-by-unnecessary-war/
The “we” in the quote isn’t the USA only either.
It’s clear that what he’s saying is that reaching the point where D-Day was necessary is a failure on our part because Hitler should have been stopped much sooner and that what’s happening now in Russia has nothing to do with NATO’s expansion and is all because of Putin that would have pushed to expand Russia’s territory no matter what because he dreams of recreating the Russian Empire.
What he’s implying is that the lessons from WW2 should apply here and we shouldn’t wait for a second D-day to be necessary before acting on that front.
The fact that D-day had to happen is a failure on our part because the whole thing could have been stopped much sooner.
Ukraine isn’t about NATO expansion or American weapons in Ukraine, it’s about a megalomaniac trying to recreate the Russian Empire (implying that we shouldn’t wait for another failure and for another D-day to be necessary).
I don’t know how you can read it this way honestly…
How? I read it as “What’s happening in Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO expansion but is about a megalomaniac trying to recreate the Russian Empire”… Basically, it would have happened even if NATO expansion hadn’t.
The way I understand it is that reaching the point where D-Day was necessary shows our failure because it should never have been allowed to happen in the first place.
But I might be too optimistic
Nationalize healthcare and boom, so much money saved you can afford it
Interfere in the juristic system when it’s supposed to be separate from the political system?
Yeah, want to prove Trump right? That’s exactly how you do it.
Want to open the door for Republicans to do the same thing?
So you would be ok with Republican politicians intervening in the juristic world? If Democrats can do it, so can Republicans.
Yep, Democrats intervening would just prove Republicans right
Unless it’s one nominated by a Republican president, of course