If there is a valid point being made here, it’s that long-term outcome-dependent strategy is more effective than short-term protestation or performative moralizing. And make no mistake, the right wing has plenty of people with long-term visions who know how to manipulate their voter base.

The left needs to start planning beyond the next election, or reacting to the latest atrocity, and develop a vision for what the country could be, what it should be.

You can’t pay people to care.

The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Because of course, China and Russia would never

like spice

Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair Media made this bed.

Um, worth more than hoarding money? probably, yeah.

Treat tomorrow-you as an expense for today-you, but also don’t forget to live today.

You can’t sell more or less, they’re both open source.

less is more

no really

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
And everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died…

e.g. detached from reality

I don’t know about MAGA, but the Democratic party definitely needs to go hard into the same kind of obstructionism that the Republicans have been doing. No validation of insane policies, no negotiating with terrorists.

And when everyone accuses the Democrats of not cooperating, they need to just stay quiet and stay the course. For the next four years, the legislature is closed.

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Also Dont Talk to the Police

And as always, know what day it is.

What could possibly go wrong?

…also can you imagine the off-center torque you’d get if you actually fired one of those turret guns?

…and what happens if one of those big turbines fails? Everybody just dies? No way that thing is staying level with only 3 fans running.

everything about this design is stupid

“Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.” ~Baz Lurhmann

But it might be worth preparing.

Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right
Close your eyes and it’s past…

Yeah but where you gonna park it?

This is essentially the crux of the issue. Congress can designate funds in the budget for aid to Israel and they can specify what the funds are for (military equipment, humanitarian aid, loans, etc), but they don’t have the authority to perform the actual transfer of the funds (or material paid for by the funds) to Israel, that falls under the authority of the executive branch. Congress can provide the money but they can’t actually force the spending of the money.

Praise be to the system of checks and balances.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes, I think you’ve got it right.

And the solution to this is always to raise minimum wage, because skilled labor pay must be higher than unskilled labor pay. If minimum wage goes up, other wages must also go up in order to attract and keep workers in more demanding jobs. Raising minimum wage fixes wages across the board.

You sir are in luck. The Daimler Ferret can be had for about US$40k and is street legal in many places, though I expect the maintenance cost is prohibitive.

There are many variants, with and without the mounted turret:

It’s small enough (tiny, really) that you can park it in a 1-car garage, and they were widely sold so there’s actually a lot of them on the market. You can literally have this as a personal vehicle, for less than the average US annual income.

If Democrats controlled the House the bill would likely not have passed there in the first place.

In any case it doesn’t matter because the Senate will probably never vote on it, and even if they did and it passed Biden would veto it.

It’s also important to understand that this bill would not add any new arms transfers to Israel, but only compel the completion of existing transfers which the executive branch had chosen to withhold.

Ultimately, the point is that Congress does not have the authority to force the transfer of US military equipment to a foreign power. The disposition of military equipment is the purview of the Department of Defense, and trade with other national governments is the purview of the Department of Foreign Affairs, both of which report to the President.