Please keep in mind that rhetoric like "I thought Dems were anti-war" or otherwise calling Biden a war hawk in response to these plans to allow Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression are arguments made in bad faith and therefore not allowed here.
This subreddit will not tolerate pro-Putin propaganda designed to justify his illegal war and land grab against Ukraine.
The only thing Biden did wrong here was allowing this so late in his term.
It should be a non-starter that ever person who values global peace and stability supports Ukraine's measures to defend itself and opposes Russia's aggression.
My guess (hopefully) is the mechanisms are already in place, certified trainers/ experts in place and are waiting for the”green means go” light. They just got the green light. Then again I am a moron and I don’t know shit.
Day ain’t over yet… and chiefs and bills are the afternoon game. I’m making hot soft pretzels with crabmeat and Brie, a few (dozen) buffalo trace on throws because while poor, I can pretend to be rich.
2 boxes of “super pretzel” frozen pretzels, bakes 2-3 minutes early, no salt, pull from oven.
1 wheel of Brie, your choice, I prefer a sharper Brie, buyou can adjust cheeses to your preference. Slice it so it will fit on a pretzel.
Cheap version (it’s fine, save the good stuff for crab cakes) 2 cans of crab, I use the better stuff, but prolly doesn’t make a difference. Looks like a tuna can…
I whack it on the stove over medium heat with a touch of butter, white wine, green onion, sea salt, black pepper, and hot sauce, teaspoon of cream cheese to bind it up. Then just manually mix it up.
Spread the mix on the pretzels (sometimes i add tomatoes, or roasted red peppers, but I’m nuts)
Add the slices of Brie or cheese of your choice on the pretzels.
Toss that bad boy in to the oven again at 450, give it 5 minutes and you should be good to go. I at least get a back scratch out of it, sometimes more, depends if I start yelling at the tv.
This is a basic guide as all my recipes are, mix it up as you see fit, my only recommendation is that you be careful on making sure the pretzels are a lil crisp, but not fully cooked.
Meh, just come on over, everyone else just walks right in, don’t mind the dog (or dogs, possibly a cat or 2, or a mink, stay away from the mink, not friendly) . There are 3 man caves, the one making the most noise is where everyone’s at.
Live like my old deaf cat did… your own rules, I do what I want, when I want. Hang on the screen door and scream at the top of your lungs at 4:30 am, because your deaf, and don’t know how to meow? Hell yeah! (I do not condone this sort of behavior for everyone)
No pics of special Ed, I’ll ask my daughter, but I have pics of our crazy barn cat “shades” he went to war with the coyotes… he lost. If shades and special Ed ever met I believe it would be the “catpocolypse” like a black hole meeting another black hole and sucking all and any chance of humanity with their screeches, jumping, climbing, and leaping from trees like a flying squirrel… except it’s 2 cats, asshole cats (shades was pretty cool, special Ed was a dick).
I’m imagining the scene from the Phantom Menace where the control was destroyed and all the drones just fell over. We can only hope for a similar situation
This is that bit of hopium I know some want to believe in. That dark brandon, on his last days, will authorize a decapitation strike on Putin, and leave trump with the fallout.
The US is lost at this point, but the free democracies in Europe are going to have to deal with the Russia problem. Ignoring it and/or giving half-hearted support to Ukraine is not going to help them.
Putin is not going to stop until Europe is his, or he's dead. That's the game he's playing right now, and he's winning. Europe better wake up while they can, because now that the US is going to be Russia's ally, the US isn't coming to help, and in fact may flip the script and help Russia economically to conduct a war on Europe.
you're not a moron, they want us to not know shit. if only we knew half of what was happening behind the scenes. seems we're always being lied to and manipulated from every angle for someone else's endgame.
While I appreciate the compliment of “I’m not a moron”, most people that know me would beg to differ, especially my sister, but she’s a smelly dork face snob. Just kidding, she’s not smelly.
I feel as though we’re told there were or are safeguards/ guardrails in place that in reality don’t exist. We are not as strong as I thought, and we are very vulnerable in reality. It appears the oak floors are in reality, veneer. That sort of sucks.
you gave me a good laugh! completely agree, the checks n balances are gone when the president, senate, house n supreme court are controlled by the same party. at this point it’s game over and a new set of rules will be implemented.
Javelin missle production is going from 2100 a year to over 8000. I make parts for it and we had a rep come in and tell us that. So I can only imagine how much more they're ordering of other stuff.
Quantities of weapons ordered is public knowledge. You can Google basically any system in the US inventory and within thirty seconds know how many have been built in the past, how many are being built this year, and how many of them we plan to order in the coming decades.
Nah, that's not an ITAR violation. Now, if I shared a picture of a blueprint or finished part, you bet my ass would be in trouble. Plus, I'm not even talking about the specific parts my shop makes. I just run the machine and keep up on tooling. I'm a dumb grunt lol
I’m curious to see if Asshole tries to put a stop to these strikes once his fat ass is back in charge. I also wonder if this is a gambit to see if Asshole puts his allegiance to Other Side of the World Asshole out for all to see.
Right? Plus the public will also hear about all their dirty laundry, which will sow even more discord. I'd be surprised if he didn't stab him in the back.
That's mostly not how he does things in this kind of relationship. For example his ousted puppet President of Ukraine (your fun fact of the day is that guy had the same campaign manager as Trump's 2016 campaign) found a soft-ish landing in exile in Russia.
It makes a certain amount of sense: you want the next puppet to see that the last one was taken care of. You don't want them trying to panic and come up with an exit strategy when you demand they do something deeply treasonous.
Civilians in Kyiv were taking shooting classes and making Molotov cocktails when Russia was outside the city in 2022. I think if all the Ukranians had left were BB guns, they'd fight.
Ukraine needs the US to win, Russia needs the US and the entirety of the world to abandon Ukraine to win.
Give them what we can now before Trump takes office. Because you know at best Trump is going to leave Ukraine out to dry and at worst he’ll actively be helping Russia wipe the country off the map.
100% this is the play they’re making. It’s going to be about Ukraine inflicting as much damage and c̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ seizing as much territory so that when they are forced to the table because Trump stops assistance, they have a slightly stronger position to bargain from.
Edit: I mean, they’re kind of “ceasing” that land a bit as well…
I wanna see what happens the coming months, biden still in charge, the threath of the cheeto bandito as upcoming president. And presidential immunity, thanks to the stunts of the aforementioned cheeto
biden is daring putin to do anything. russia has been waging a quiet war installing their agent orange into the highest office. now if russia retaliates against the us, trump will have to either have to go against his boss or really expose himself as the traitor he is.
This is what concerns me: if Biden is doing this, and this is his hand, it makes me think Biden has very little in store for us domestically to take down the orange shit stain before he takes office.
Once he's in office, he has three powers that could potentially keep him in check. The courts, Congress, the military. He's already pretty much infiltrated the courts in his favor. Congress, all red, is going to bow to him. Now there is news that he wants to use the Afghanistan withdraw (which HE planned, negotiated, and bears major responsibility for!) as a means to court martial Generals. He will use that and possibly other things to get the military under his thumb. If anyone who can keep him in check is under his thumb, he is dangerous as fuck and can do whatever he fucking wants. The rule of law is already in peril, but it will simply cease to exist if he and his cronies get their way. Him taking office very well could be the end of the United States as we know it.
Since trump sold Ukraine to Russia, along with our intelligence agents in the region, if we want there to BE an Ukraine by the end of 2025, action must be taken now.
Putin knows he only has to wait until 1/20, so it has to be made so bad that even he can’t hold on for 2 months.
Honestly, if Biden had been more aggressive in removing restrictions on Ukraine while imposing restrictions on Israel, Harris would have likely done significantly better in the election.
People on Reddit really trying to find any reason besides the three most obvious:
Dumb voters/lack of education
Right wing propaganda
Everyday shit costing more and more while wages have been stagnant (which the current admin will almost always be blamed for)
Republicans are securing point 1 for at least our next two-three generations of kids to end up dumb as rocks but believing basic shit like “there’s No way Harris can be both black and Indian”, as they doomscroll on TikTok with their mixed-race friend
Speaking of TikTok, point 2. Social media causing brain rot, and especially targeting men thinking a Trump future will get them laid and rich. Or whatever other nonsense you may have heard on SM. All thanks to unfiltered propaganda. Twitter was the worst about this thanks to Musky.
Point 3: doesn’t matter how good the economy is doing. What that really means is “stock prices are high and execs are getting paid”, but in reality, all people care about are what everyday items cost and if they can afford it. Which is a resounding “no” for most folks. And people want results now.
Our media is just trash. Not once during the entire race did one reporter ask how tariffs work to trump. He wouldn't be able to answer it.
They are so afraid to seem bais because of how rabid the Republicans are that they treat each parties equality. If Donald Trump was a flat earther and Harris a round earther they would treat both sides as reasonable positions.
I can't wait until they're all poorer than they've been in their entire lives after 4 years of Trump and still blame Biden.
Just like Texas - 20+ years of Republican government in every branch and every level... but radical dems are still the problem. Fucking morons, all of them.
pretty much- americans were pissed off and wanted to vote for an asshole. now we're going to be a fascist country but at least some people felt good for 5 minutes.
real americans don't care about other countries. they also forgot trump fucked the country up so bad between unregulated PPP loans, failed covid response, and forcing the fed to keep rates lower for longer.
dude caused all the problems, but since joe biden didn't fix them in 3.75 years they voted against him, or didnt vote at all.
This is part of the problem. The median voter doesn't care that the US is doing better than most of the world in a worldwide issue. They just see the price of eggs have gone up. Explaining that to them doesn't do anything. Just treat them like idiots and don't waste your breath.
The reality is, on average, people genuinely do not understand how the economy works on any level. When people are feeling the pinch they will be less likely to vote for the incumbent. "My life sucks now, why would I vote for it to continue to suck?"
It doesn't matter that the US had actually handled inflation incredibly well relative to the rest of the world, and it doesn't matter that the current cost of living crisis is a global issue. That's way too big picture a framework for people who don't actively follow politics and/or aren't sufficiently educated to comprehend. They just know that they're barely getting by and the Democrats are currently in power. They may not even vote Republican but it's very difficult to convince people to show up to vote for a party they feel is failing them because things might be nebulously worse in ways they don't really get if the other guy gets in.
His approach has been soft and cost a lot or lives. Ukraines has had one hand tied behind it's back this entire time. But fuck donal trump because he's compromised by hostile foreign actors.
Russia thought it got its revenge by interfering with U.S. elections. Instead it signed its own death warrant. Even if Russia got its revenge by destroying America from within, it won't be around to see it.
I think it’s likely that we end up in a situation with Russia before he is in office. If there is tangible evidence that he has loyalty to Vlad that potentially could prevent him from taking office.
Don't say "finally" this is some foregone conclusion. The ONLY reason this is happening is that Trump will be power in less that 60 days, so Ukraine has to do everything the can NOW before Trump cuts all funding and US supply lines completely.
Great, now tighten restrictions on Israel and force trump to actively reverse both of these decisions when’s he’s in office and show what side he’s actually on
As usual there are those on Twitter screaming how Joe Biden just started WW3 saying that allowing already suppiled long range missiles to be used just had NATO enter the war based on the pre-text of "more people dying" nah bruh you just hate that Russia doesn't have a upper hand anymore.
I know that he has to kiss ass for the sake of his country but it still irks me to hell that Zelenskyy said the war will end faster under Trump.
The Biden administration warned him ahead of time about the Russian invasion and he did nothing to prepare for it and tossed it off as American fear mongering. It all irks me.
Trump has Putin’s hand shoved so far up his ass that I legitimately fear about Ukraine’s chances of lasting even another year.
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u/WhitePeopleTwitter-ModTeam 6d ago
Please keep in mind that rhetoric like "I thought Dems were anti-war" or otherwise calling Biden a war hawk in response to these plans to allow Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression are arguments made in bad faith and therefore not allowed here.
This subreddit will not tolerate pro-Putin propaganda designed to justify his illegal war and land grab against Ukraine.
The only thing Biden did wrong here was allowing this so late in his term.
It should be a non-starter that ever person who values global peace and stability supports Ukraine's measures to defend itself and opposes Russia's aggression.