March 7, 2024 9PM ET State of the Union Speech

[Tequilla]

It’s more than the wars … but that’s an easy thing to jump on

Anyone but Trump and there is no turnout for Republicans.

And that’s the fundamental problem with the Republicans right now
They are more interested in fundamentally fighting with each other and destroying each other than they are at realizing that any choice with a pulse is likely better than a dementia patient

I think at this point post-Trump and how zero DC Republicans stood up for him, the general feeling is that there really isn’t much difference between a Biden and a Haley. Haley even has large Biden donors backing her goofy primary challenge. They’re all trying to launder as much money as possible though Ukraine before that spigot gets busted no matter if they are ‘D’ or ‘R’.

Same puppet masters, so it doesn’t really matter who is the puppet. Those big donors hate Trump because he’s a wealthy man who can’t be bought and is populist and pro-American in his platform. Fuck the GOP. The UniParty “conservatives” would have voted to remove Trump via Senate conviction if that vote wouldn’t completely destroy their reelection chances in Trump states.
I’m not going to Ukraine. Ain’t no Russian ever called me deplorable.

There's still a massive difference between Haley and Biden … that said the point about where Haley sits on some issues is troubling
I can not like what is going on between Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Palestine but that doesn't mean indifference is the right path.
The problem with Ukraine is that there's really no talk on what a long-term solution looks like. There are bigger consequences and implications than just what Ukraine is.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

For a long as it takes and however much it costs and our goal it to kick Russia out of the Ukraine including the Crimea isn't exactly a blue print for success for the Ukraine people. Toss in the "for democracy" crap from the dem party that could give a shit about actual honest democracy. My problem with Haley is that she is a squish and would regularly get rolled because she really doesn't have the courage of any strong convictions. The biggest weapon a President has is to just say no and mean it.
One of the first thing that happened to Reagan was the air traffic controllers going on an illegal strike. Reagan told them to get back to work or he would fire their ass. They refused and he fired them. Then all hell broke loose because that's not the way the game was played. You gave the illegal strikers what they wanted and then they went back to work. Not this time, they were fired and got to explain to their spouses that they were now unemployed and needed to move in with Mom. So unfair because that's not how it was supposed to end up. Right after that the Postal Union settled. Same when Reagan tried to off Kaddafi for killing some US soldiers in Germany. That's not how the game was played, but Kaddafi went into his hole. Plus we got to bomb the French Embassy in Tripoli after they refused overfly routes over France from England to Libya.