WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.
If I was the the maga or republicans right now I would fund as many leftist third parties as possible as the best way to secure a trump victory
See also: Forward party, both parties have lots of catchy slogans about working together or moving forward. Yet no platform.
And they will.
The problem is they don’t have to lie about how bad Democrats have been for the people. (Not that Republicans would be any better, mind you.)
Most Americans have seen their cost of living jump 30%-50% under Joe Biden, and Biden’s response is to send $100 billion overseas to fight another country’s war, not to give a dime of aid to people here who actually need it.
Are you seriously claiming that Ukrainians do not need help? Try losing your kid to a bomb on a pizza restaurant. Wonder how the real estate market in Mariupol is.
So does Yemen, but you know what the US has been doing? Helping Saudi Arabia starve and decimate the country for the last eight years.
And your fellow Americans are being neglected in order to fund all of this. I’m not sure why it’s such a radical notion that maybe, just maybe that hundred billion should be used to benefit our own people instead of funding yet another war.
Dont forget funding Israel to do the same thing to Palestine that they say the Russians are doing to Ukraine.
They don’t speak of such things when a Democrat is in charge.
There’s a remarkable level of racism in the level of concern for Ukraine vs. somewhere with less white and European people like Yemen.
The war in Ukraine is definitely easier to market, and I think that’s why.
And it infuriates me how war - people getting killed and cultural heritage being destroyed - is so capitalized like that.
Pretty sure it was the same deal with Vietnam back in the day, actually.
Great post. I feel for the people of Ukraine, the Russian aggression is not acceptable, but it is their war not our war {though we are doing as much as possible to make it out war).
There’s just a part of me that gets really frustrated with how generally ignorant our people are of US warmongering worldwide, and they see the nightly news broadcasts about Ukraine and they’ve bought into the narrative.
Reminds me of when Bush I pushed the lie about babies being killed in Iraqi hospitals in order to get more public support for his war, and the endless funding that came with it.