BeaverFever

1) that’s only 2 people 2) McConnell raises funds for Democrats? Got a link? 3) Even if the above claims are true they’re the exception rather than the rule. For over a decade the Republicans have been extreme toxic partisans, openly denouncing even the basic concept of bipartisanship and voting against measures they previously supported simply because a Dem is currently proposing it. Over a decade ago McConnell and Republican speaker John Boehner held a public joint press conference announcing they refuse to cooperate with the Obama administration on any issue and stated that the sole reason for that was to help ensure Obama would be a 1-term president.

Yes clearly Republicans have been “trying to be friends with Democrats” Hilarious Also: the reason that Russia is losing their war is because “they’re trying to be friends with” Ukraine.

Meanwhile fresh examples of Trump’s shameless influence peddling during his time in office emerges Trump D.C. hotel receipts reveal $10,500-a-night rooms for foreign officials seeking to influence U.S. Bills for Malaysia, Saudi, UAE and Qatar governments show lavish spending at the hotel in 2017 and 2018 during sensitive times for those countries’ relations with the U.S. During Donald Trump’s presidency, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, China and Malaysia spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel in Washington at the same time they were trying to influence U.S. foreign policy, according to investigative findings released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Hotel receipts obtained by the Oversight Committee show that the then-prime minister of Malaysia and his delegation spent $259,724 at the hotel during a one-week stay in September 2017, including a $10,000 room and $1,500 “Personal Trainer” for embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak, and $9,229 for “Coffee Break[s].” At the time, Razak was unsuccessfully lobbying the Trump administration to drop an investigation into a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund he had co-founded. The Saudi Ministry of Defense spent $85,961 during a one-week stay in March 2018, including renting several $10,500 suites, according to the Oversight Committee findings. The Saudi revenues for the Trump hotel came during a period when Saudi Arabia and the UAE were lobbying the Trump administration to support them during their blockade against economic rival Qatar. For their part Qatari officials and connected companies spent at least $307,941 at the Trump hotel from late 2017 through mid-2018, according to the Oversight Committee’s findings. …. The Malaysian expenditures at the Trump Hotel were the most extensive in a one-week period found by the Oversight Committee to date. The Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was under investigation by the Justice Department for embezzling billions in funds and laundering them through American financial institutions to buy exclusive properties in the U.S., a yacht, and fine art by Monet and van Gogh.….Elliott Broidy, a Republican fundraiser and Trump ally who was later convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Malaysia and other countries, also spent more than $5,000 at the hotel during the week the Malaysian delegation stayed there, according to hotel receipts obtained by the Oversight Committee. As part of his plea, Broidy admitted to illegally lobbying Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to drop the civil forfeiture proceedings against 1MBD. Broidy spent another $2,970 at the Trump International Hotel in October 2017 while lobbying on behalf of the UAE during the Qatar blockade, according to the Oversight Committee. In January 2021, Broidy was pardoned by Trump. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-dc-hotel-10500-night-rooms-foreign-officials-rcna57027

In other news the Putin fans must be loving the new Russian snuff film circulating on the internet where Wagner Mercenaries execute one of their former team members ISIS-style with a sledgehammer to the head. The murdered man had been a Wagner mercenary and had defected to the Ukraine earlier in the year after the Ukrainians captured him in combat. He was recently abducted off the street in Kyiv. But remember the Putin apologists want to believe these are the good guys.

I’m sure the Russians aren’t far from cannibalism ?

I know what I’m doing. So does the Ukrainian military. You and your beloved Putin not so much.

Hilarious BS you shamelessly shill for Russia in every post, including in the one above where you ridiculously claim to be neutral ehile calling Ukraine the 4th Reich for daring to resist a Russian invasion. The only 4th Reich here is your beloved Putin’s Russia but it’s failing miserably due to massive incompetence at every level including the internet posters who support them in online chat forums Thanks for wishing me personal harm for daring to disagree with you on an online chat forum. You’re not really doing a good job convincing anyone that you’re just a good guy who just wants peace and happiness for all. No wonder you admire a murderous tyrant and warmonger like Putin.

1. Right so my point is when you look at the data neoliberalism hasn’t necessarily been so great 2. In the North American experience the horid Dickensian sweatshops were done away with by reform that wee largely driven by labour and reform minded politicians against the desire of sweatshop owners who tryied to maintain the status quo. In places like Bangladesh, Western countries actually resist and undermine such reforms so their companies can continue benefit from the sweatshops. Let’s be clear: none of the western companies operating in the third world want those places to become first world. What would be the point of having products made on the other side of the planet if you had to pay the same wages and taxes and deal with the same regulation as you would ar home? Third world poverty and corruption is a feature, not a bug of neoliberalism. The poverty is the point. 3. and 4: I don’t have the magic answers to all of the world’s problems. Definitely many people feel they are not better off, especially working class people and those who rely on the public services and crumbling infrastructure that have been starved under neoliberalism. I think people can sense that overall quality of life is past it’s peak and it’s not offset by more shopping and entertainment opportunities and more gadgets they didn’t know they needed. Neoliberals say that alternatives would have only made things worse but I guess we’ll never know. One thing is for sure thou, the wealth did not trickle down.

When I was in the Army Reserve I slept outdoors in Algonquin Park in February and I would gladly do it again had to defend my country try your beloved Russian invaders It’s something soldiers train for and something your poorly trained and poorly equipped conscripts won’t be able to hack Please explain why you keep thinking that a harsh Ukrainian winter gives then invading Russians the advantage. Weather usually provides an advantage to the Home Team

Especially for the Russians who ate poorly trained conscripts in a foreign land far away from their supplies

Once again you’re confused and failing to learn lessons recently taught to you on the other thread Russia is the invading army that is away from its own country and supply base , not Ukraine. So you keep getting it backwards. Also I have it on good authority that Ukrainians are accustomed to Ukrainian winters.

How dare he get invaded!

Maybe stop relying so much on anti-western propaganda. Putin can’t be allowed to invade and conquer Ukraine at will. People tried making the same arguments as you when Hitler invaded his neighbours also. History has proven those people wrong and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to forcibly unite people of similar ethnicity and for the glory of mother Russia is no different

I gather you’re unaware that without NATO’s intervention, Ukraine would have lost the war, probably by early March. And it’s only the USA’s “generosity” that keeps them fighting. You've got to give it to Zelensky though, he’s mastered the art of extending a hand and asking for more money and weapons… to the tune of what? 65+B? I’m well aware but none of those facts support your false claims. I have no doubt there is more corruption in Ukraine than in weather countries, but your comment seems like an exaggerated overstatement

In what alternative reality was Ukraine “by far the largest and most capable NATO-equipped, NATO-commanded army in the world” and in what alternative reality is it being “systematically destroyed” by the Russians who have been in retreat for months now and losing soldiers and equipment at levels not seen since WW2?

At Borodino, Napoleon and Russia fought a bloody battle which Napoleon technically won but at heavy cost. The Russians made an orderly tactical retreat but Napoleon did not pursue them because he falsely believed they were more organized and stronger than they actually were. The Russians scorched the earth as they withdrew and surrendered Moscow to the French. However by withdrawing the Russians were able to reconstitute their forces while Napoleons battered army found itself extended beyond supply lines and stranded in Moscow with very little food and supplies and realized they had been lured into a trap. Napoleon tried to break out of Moscow and withdraw closer to his supply lines but the Russians attacked them in the open and defeated them decisively in a number of engagements. What DOP(e) is trying to suggest is that the Russians are losing in purpose as part of a bigger plan. To be fair, the Ukrainians have publicly said over the last several days that they mindful of the potential that the retreat could be a trap but so far it appears legit.

While rules vary by state and even by county, the things that you say “Dems want” have always been allowed in many jurisdictions and there are amole fraud protections. Its the Republicans who trying to take those away. The exception is your claim of “non-Americans voting” which is not really a thing. Some people believe Permanent Residents / Landed Immigrants should be able to vote in municipal elections but that’s different issue.

“One unidentified Russian soldier who posted an account of the retreat described one unit throwing away its uniforms while heaping blame on those in Russia rationalising the retreat. “Hey everyone, guys, I’m alive,” the soldier said, his face visibly tired against the backdrop of a night sky. “What can I say? Everything I’ve been saying has happened. Those trying to find justification for this, comparing it with Borodino [the bloody battle during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia] or anything else can, you can tell them to go f—k themselves. Those who think everything will be fine next, tell them to go f—k themselves.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/11/reports-of-wounded-soldiers-being-abandoned-as-russia-retreats-from-kherson-city ?

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The only major city to be captured by Russia is now liberated and Russia retreats again. The Ukrainians seem to have some healthy skepticism about whether its a false retreat and whether they might be walking into a trap but so far so good The hoards of cheering civilians dancing in the streets and hugging and kissing Ukrainian troops will tell you everything you need to know about the Putin apologists ridiculous claims that they wanted to be annexed by Russia Ukraine troops enter centre of Kherson as Russians retreat in chaos Locals raise Ukrainian flags around Svoboda Square, as wounded Russian soldiers reportedly abandoned … The scenes unfolded at the end of an emotionally charged 24 hours in which Russian forces pulled back from the city – the only major city Moscow had managed to take in almost nine months of war – in disarray and Ukrainian forces advanced through the suburbs to the historic heart of Kherson. For Russia, the liberation of Kherson marked the latest, and most serious, of a string of battlefield defeats amid widely circulated images of Russian infantry hurrying to escape over a soon-to be-destroyed pontoon over the Dnipro River in the morning mist, as Russia’s defence ministry said it had withdrawn about 30,000 troops. The retreat comes just six weeks after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had announced the annexation of Kherson and three other regions at a high-profile ceremony in Moscow. As Ukrainian armour and columns of infantry closed on Kherson throughout Friday morning they were cheered by flag-waving civilians in the towns, villages and suburbs of Kherson they had liberated. … https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/11/reports-of-wounded-soldiers-being-abandoned-as-russia-retreats-from-kherson-city

Well that was your hope but it’s increasingly looking like the would-be 4th Reich will be retreating back to Moscow soon.

Quoted for truth Abortion was on the ballot in 5 states including Red states and voters chose to protect or improve abortion access in EVERY one of them: Montana, Kentucky, Michigan California, Vermont Add that to Kansas earlier this year and the pro-choice movement is 6-0 against anti-choice when voters get a say Midterms Show Republican Anti-Abortion Agenda Relies on Minority Rule … In light of Tuesday’s election results, it’s important for us to remember that just because the far right achieved success in implementing these restrictions, their pro-natalist agenda has never been a reflection of the popular will. Instead, their victories are a reflection of a powerful minority’s ability to enforce their desires into policy, law, and practice. The election results are nonetheless a major victory, earned not by the Democratic mainstream but by the reproductive justice organizers fighting on the front lines. Voters in Vermont, California, and Michigan approved ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions. Voters in Montana rejected a misleading and pernicious fetal personhood bill, and in deep-red Kentucky, voters defeated an attempt to ban all abortion in the state…

Lol the abysmal and biased quality of your “interpretations” are well known Also why do you believe its ok that Republicans to say those things day in and day out since dawn of time but Democrats can’t say them when Republicans publicly vow to reform the voting system so that democrats will never get elected again and a number of Republicans and their donors are open admirers of people who are openly critical of democracy and say America should be run by a monarch?

Let me guess: watching internet porn, photoshopping the pics on your eHarmony profile in the hop that you’ll finally get a view, eating a whole bag of cheetos and yelling at your mom to bring you more, trying to wash the orange food colouring off your dick….

Well he’s already advocating for Putin how much worse does it get?