Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.
-Shevchenko, Kobzar Taras, founder of modern Ukrainian
@MikeBlack114
@KoalaSalesman
It gets better when you realize she implied her husband is a factory worker, and it turned he’s also ex McKinsey
Then you read his LinkedIn, and it turned out his job is firing people at a steel company
@agraybee
It’s surreal that right at the moment BLM crossed the rubicon into genuinely popular acceptance, a lot of associated people decided to unveil a new slogan that would absolutely never get majority support, almost as though it was a challenge
Not that there ever was an excuse, but now there are zero left for Mike and the House GOP
You’re being given a completely historically unprecedented backstop to hold a vote on the security aid bill. If you refuse to take this, you are unconditionally the authors of any UA defeat
100% of the Squad just voted for lethal aid to destroy the VSRF, a majority of the House Republican Conference voted to block it
Yea, ok, I never want to hear the words “woke” or “progressive” or whatever again unless you’ve listed every single one of those 112 fifty times first
If you vote for Trump, you vote for Ukrainian genocide
If you claim Trump would be better, and you are in fact Ukrainian, you should strongly consider joining the VSRF, because you are functionally their ally
@NGrossman81
This is at least the fifth time since June 2022 where it’s clear American law schools should be hit with a class action lawsuit to claw back tuition, and American law professors/commentators should collectively take a vow of silence and enter monastic communities for life
@Bartaway
[Scene: three men in a cell]
“I am here because I spoke against Karl Radek”
“But I am here because I spoke out for Karl Radek!”
“…I’m Karl Radek”
Who could have foreseen that after rejecting aid attached to the toughest border bill ever they’re now saying no aid without the border
If you voted for the GOP, you voted for Ukrainian genocide
If you want absolution, better find a priest because you’re not getting it on earth
@steve_vladeck
It was completely foreseeable she would issue a ruling like this last weekend when I told you this was a travesty, or, at the latest, last week when she tortured the relevant cases during the hearing
@FactsInEvidence
@MBanditta
@Teoyaomiquu
…these blockades are literally illegal under EU rules because of the PCA between Brussels and Ukraine, and the European Commission is about to take the PiS regime to court over this, because they’re deliberately refusing to enforce the law and stop the blockades
Or, hear me out, instead of dividing the Senate bill into fourths you could just pass the Senate bill in an hour and weapons could start flowing again to Rzeszow *tonight*
@steve_vladeck
There was no reason, none, based on her already wildly inappropriate actions to grant her even a shred of the benefit of the doubt last weekend and yet…
Time for your regularly scheduled:
If you voted for the GOP, you voted for Ukrainian genocide. If you didn’t realize this, not my problem, it’s between you and your malfunctioning frontal lobe
If you want absolution, better find a priest, because you won’t get it in this life
This is Democrats on *an institutional basis* offering to rescue the GOP from their own worst members to save Ukraine
I never want to hear any criticism after today, I never want to hear whining about Jake Sullivan or the words escalation management, if the GOP fail to take this
If you voted for the GOP last year, you voted for Ukrainians to be genocided, because that was the explicit position of the leader of the party at the time of the election
If this troubles you, tough shit, you’re not going to get absolution
That’s your fault, not anyone else
@steve_vladeck
At some point the legal academy really has to acknowledge their systemic and systematic failure either to predict our current state or affairs or to acknowledge we are now firmly within it
If you support Trump, you’re directly supporting the annihilation of Ukraine and its people, and you better find a priest because you will not get absolution in this life
Hope the Lord is merciful, not just, or you’re going to have a hot time
@KT_So_It_Goes
The people currently rocking out with a bluey are virtually a perfect overlapping circle with the people who insisted he’d wouldn’t be forced to buy and worst case scenario would have to pay out $1b
@un_a_valeable
Let’s be clear. The reason anyone on the harder left (or in the dead center) dumped on them was because resistlib is just code for “their moms” and they have deep problems with their moms. It’s “fascinating” that the center-left and the anti-Trump ex-GOP got this mostly right…
@IRHotTakes
…not only did the UK wave on Kim Philby for years, for social class reasons, they did so also knowing his father converted and had essentially committed against the empire to help his best mate Ibn Saud
The Philbys were legit multi generational traitors
It is infuriating, despicable, and also completely goddamn predictable that the US Senate delegation to Ukraine on the eve of the two year anniversary of 2/24/22 are all Dems
You can try to explain your 2022 GOP vote to a priest, but you’re not getting absolution in this life
@FactsInEvidence
@MBanditta
@Teoyaomiquu
There’s nothing legal about any of this, yes the PiS’s pathetic excuse for a government is ultimately to blame for it, and the ultimate consequence is going to be the Commission punishing ordinary Poles
I cannot emphasize enough how historic this promise is
There has never been a modern speaker elected who did not win solely on the basis of the majority party’s votes. This is the most significant guarantee any Democratic Party leader can make
@BeijingPalmer
They’re not just sitting on this heinous stuff out of respect. They’re sitting on a political powder keg, while dousing themselves in petrol, eg Smotrich saying “we shouldn’t bother to try to rescue the hostages” after he and Ben Gvir are why these people were left defenseless
@ok_post_guy
Look, you can make any argument about Fetts in re Israel/Palestine you want
But the man was also cheering UAW’s victories down south this past weekend. And he’s utterly vicious towards Trump et al regularly
Treating him as Young Manchin (coming this fall on CBS) is a huge error
@peterawolf
Weird how the guy who chose to defend Irving against all comers turns out to have like ninety other terrible positions that a lot of folks inexplicably choose to ignore as tho they cannot find literally anyone else to back up the point on which he incidentally overlaps them
Mitt Romney gets treated worse by his own GOP every four-to-six weeks on endless repeat than the whole cavalcade of Democratic chucklefucks mistreated him in the entire 2012 campaign combined
Mary Tudor said that when she was dead and opened, they would find Calais engraved upon her heart
Well, Avdiivka is carved into Mike Johnson’s motherfucking skull and whatever supine, pathetic thing passes for his soul
Cazzo fascista
@SpaghettiKozak
@ConspiracyBull1
Also love the implication a democratically elected Zelensky is the moral equivalent to Saddam (aka the only reason the anti war protests didn’t fly the Iraqi flag more often, which this dip would know if he had been alive back then)
@John_A_Ridge
@oftenwrongsorry
It should—it’s essentially just the Senate bill. Even the “loans” for budget support etc are eventually forgivable, I believe in 2026
Utterly monstrous they waited over two months to pass the same shit
Russia should remove its forces torturing and raping and murdering in Ukraine and send them to go fight IS, which actually is killing Russian civilians
@Conblob
@AstorAaron
When abortion is a potential fucking murder charge or even capital crime, doctors will not stick around to fucking evaluate the system and roll the dice with prosecutors
They will fucking leave. Their departments will shut down.
Yes, correct, if you want to save Ukraine you do in fact have to continuously vote for the party of wokes and ladies and gays and Those People, because the GOP is the bonded and licensed chattel of Donald John Trump
Tough shit assholes
If you think this is going to stop with Ukraine, you’re missing your frontal lobe or completely disingenuous
The way precedent works is narrow specifics don’t really matter
The next political hostage crisis could easily be “ending the CRA in return for aid to Taiwan”
@it_bred
@MikeBlack114
@KoalaSalesman
Tbh the fact these dips think they can get away with saying this nonsense with a straight face when it takes a pico second per search query and maybe 90 seconds total to find out goes a long way to explain why they find a kindred spirit in heinous monsters like Simoyan
A guy who said Jews going to gas chambers was no concern of his and they deserved their years of persecution, shielded genocide of Muslims and Hindus in Bengal and Catholics in Timor, and bombed the shit out of SEA Buddhists has a warm reception waiting no matter what you believe
@NGrossman81
Thank you for being a rare person with object permanence and a memory of things Manchin has said very recently (and has voted in line with for like 9 months now)
@peterawolf
The actual reason this is frankly idiotic and harmful is that Manchin has explicitly said (and implicitly has voted this way since last June) that he will vote Nay on any Art III nominee who lacks R support. And frankly you can’t actually count on Sinema
@CollieYimby
They couldn’t send the military because almost the whole active duty IDF, including at least 70% of the manpower allotted to Southern Command, was in the WB to protect Smotrich and Ben Gvir’s voters during the RH/Days of Awe/YK/Sukkot/ST more or less month of holidays
@steve_vladeck
As for CA11, I’m sure the circuit whose Chief Judge who called an advocacy group “abortionists” and wildly irresponsibly made abortion a capital crime overnight in GA is going to reverse Cannon tout suite
@MikeBlack114
Mike, I think the fact the guy was videotaped at the range shrieking racial and anti semitic slurs before firing at targets points to the other problem Hertling has:
Two decades of FNC on 24/7 at every single base has had consequences for asymmetric radicalization
@davidfrum
The Volstead Act didn’t impose the death penalty on guys who operated speakeasies. The scale and intensity of the trigger laws is unparalleled
Also Prohibition was national. We’re going to live in a world where a death penalty offense in some states is completely legal in others
This is why you can’t claim to support Ukraine and then vote GOP
If they control the floor, they can block anything, and their pro UA members are cowardly cucks who refuse to push back on the leadership
Every aid bill that passed did so when Pelosi controlled the floor
Sorry
@BeijingPalmer
He quite literally turned off and outright disgusted other fairly racist people, and he segregated the civil service
He also didn’t want the US to be allied with the French or the UK, which was what Cabot Lodge actually wanted
He really deserves all the obloquy he has received
@oftenwrongsorry
@peterawolf
It’s amazing people forget why he imploded and went offline in the first place, just like they memoryhole he really didn’t actually accurately predict 2022 any better than your average winemom resistlib, he just gave a bunch of leftists a socially acceptable way to embrace it
@AlucardHex
A bunch of very prominent Southern Baptists started yelling at him in public literally yesterday in addition to the UA delegation of Baptists that just went to DC
Remember when I said the problem with sending shit without replenishment funds is that it leads directly to Matt Gaetz being able to compel American military officers to testify on live tv that arming Ukraine hurts the US military, because that POS McCarthy put him on HASC?
@SpaghettiKozak
@Gerashchenko_en
@andersostlund
Assistant to the General Staff for Traveling Georgi Francheskovich Costanza trying to remember if he posted the itinerary for the trip to the front on VK in public
@A57378889
@the_shoe_yes
@KevinWGlass
It’s not my fault you don’t understand that getting yourself a deadly cardiopulmonary respiratory disease six months after universally available adult vaccines is a most puissant way to own the Libs
Do people realize their feed is searchable by dates?
Because I saw a whole lot of people who blamed NATO and everyone else except for Russia for Russia’s unprovoked genocidal war of conquest just suddenly decide overnight they were now violent indigenous rights activists
@LesserFrederick
The only realistic recourse was to surrender obviously. This definitely wasn’t an invasion army that telegraphed its intentions to rape, loot, and murder once in occupation for weeks even before the attack.
@TWLadyGrey
A. Baptists sent a delegation from UA to beg for help given RU atrocities against them plus Southern Baptist leaders began to lobby for this
B. Iran/Israel strikes
C. Most important of all: the boss is stuck in a courtroom in NYC fixated on his own troubles and unable to tweet
To the people who told me and Fred that the party, whose undisputed leader remains an inveterate enemy of Ukraine, would definitely come through for Ukrainians because you were too pathetic too accept he remains the absolute ruler of the GOP?
Enjoy the bad place, pack sunscreen
@ABeardedPanda
…the worst penetrator in their history was literally the son of a hardcore ideological traitor who conned the British government into not intervening to reverse the seizure of the Hedjaz from their wartime allies, while helping the invader do deals with the U.S.
@noonanjo
If speedy delivery of Javelins are so crucial to Ukraine’s defense, and they absolutely are, then why the hell did Senator Cotton refuse to vote to convict an doubly impeached president who tried to extort Zelensky by denying them to him?
This could end up being one of the greatest days to be Ukrainian in history. I wish my grandfather were still alive to see this.
To the fascist simping traitors: Get Fucked.
@GravitysRa1nbow
The problem is:
-he’s pushing this after 4/9 justices said “to hell with the Supremacy Clause”
-magically and near instantly a ton of governors gave him support even tho they knew he’d probably lose at the Court
-the head of the GOP just endorsed mobilizing all “loyal” Guards
@SpaghettiKozak
@ConspiracyBull1
The anti war side went to considerably lengths to say they were not pro Saddam, because Saddam sucked ass. The UA flag gets flown now because people are actually pro Ukraine
@KT_So_It_Goes
It was one of the easiest events to foresee in history, and in their arrogance and their vanity they botched it. Because I know something they refuse to accept:
This person believes Trump is president, and Biden is not
@CalmSporting
It seems pretty clear the only reason anyone went in was a trio of coworkers decided to leave the office and go out for late coffee/early lunch and drove over to the school when they heard. It’s just their “office” is an elite paramilitary unit of a federal law enforcement agency