US Politics Thread

[SebastianBlue]

Good news:
By a vote of 316 to 94, Republicans & Democrates pushed the Ukraine funding act through the House for final votes on Saturday and Monday.
165 Democrats voted in favor, while 39 opposed it, and 151 Republicans voted in favor, and 55 opposed.
Democrates voted against the Israel component, Republicans against Ukraine.

House advances Ukraine, Israel aid as Dems help Speaker Johnson, GOP

The House advanced legislation Friday to send aid to Ukraine and other embattled U.S. allies overseas, clearing a key procedural hurdle after Democrats stepped in to back the measure — a rare …

thehill.com

House GOP's aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan advance — with Democrats' help

The bills are part of a complicated plan by Speaker Mike Johnson to get badly needed lethal aid to Ukraine, as well as security funding for Israel and Taiwan.

www.cbsnews.com

Will be interesting to see how quickly it runs through the Senate, particularly the Israel aid component, given some elements of both aid packages originally negotiated in the Senate have been changed in the House version, so they'll have to review, potentially debate, and vote on them again.

And there is growing dissent--and rightly so in my opinion--amongst Democrats regarding US financial and military aid to Israel.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Russian Media reporting MTG is running the government.

"Moscow Marjorie" is now trending.

Shame...

 

[BayernMan]

“The lunatic fringe”

 

[Damocles]

“The lunatic fringe”

One in every three?

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Russian Media reporting MTG is running the government.

"Moscow Marjorie" is now trending.

Shame...

Margarine Failure Greene
Fake, soft as shite and fucking useless

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

“The lunatic fringe”

I got very confused then wondering why Ed Davey was getting involved in US Congressional activity.

 

[BayernMan]

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

 

[BobKowalski]

Thought all Democrats voted yes - or is this a separate bill?

 

[grunge]

Thought all Democrats voted yes - or is this a separate bill?

That tweet was yesterday :)

 

[BobKowalski]

That tweet was yesterday :)

I’m not at my sharpest on a Sunday morning...

 

[HelloCity]

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

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I hope this post finds you well, you murdering nonce ****.

Fucking hilarious how cunts who are plainly suggestible to stuff they read on their algorithm fuelled Twitter feed, have the temerity to call other cunts ‘sheep’.

 

[DrBlueBob]

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His name sounds like what the Nazi bad guy would be called in a WW2 movie.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

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'Real Americans' of German heritage?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

His name sounds like what the Nazi bad guy would be called in a WW2 movie.

Hahaha or one of the really camp Roger Moore era Bond films

 

[DrBlueBob]

Hahaha or one of the really camp Roger Moore era Bond films

I was trying to narrow it down but I think you've nailed it.

 

[SWP's back]

But the polls…

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

It's about time the US passed the aid package for Ukraine!

Out of curiosity - to gauge how Republicans feel about this - I read comments on an article about the aid package on Fox News.

Senate approves $95B aid package for Ukraine and Israel, TikTok divestment, awaits Biden's signature

The Senate voted to send the $95 billion package with aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to the president's desk on Tuesday, months after additional aid was requested by Biden.

www.foxnews.com

Even on Fox News, where you'd expect most posters to be particularly partisan, the comments seem to have been evenly divided - 50% in favor, 50% opposed.

MAGA is finally losing its grip on the Republican Party. And I'd never in a million years have guessed that Mike Johnson would play a positive role in this outcome.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

US have passed a bill that will force Bytedance to sell TikTok. They're worried that they will hand personal data over to the government, which of course US social media companies would never do with foreigners' data.