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May 13, 2022 10:06 AM
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ICannotSanctionURBuffoonery
I'm so glad we are still allowing domestic terrorists such extortionist power over our nation in the name of democracy... /s
literallymike
Don't even fucking DARE call this unity...
TheRighteousWhizbang
But why not though?
RuBisCO1
"But the deficit, the deficit!" Raise taxes on the rich asshole!
n0n53n53
Ukraine, and therefore the US, could have avoided all of this if Turnip didn't try to hold them hostage for fake intel on Hunter Biden
TheLastSpaceman
How does a single asshole block a bill voted for by everyone?
DangerTrain
"Holds up" not "blocks".
Triggernpf
They tried passing the bill with unanimous consent which fast tracks things. He opposed it, so now they use the slower voting procedure.
FallenJester
Unanimous 'ayes' pass it immediately but a single nay requires a full floor vote to be schedules.
HPCmonkey
So it's not even delayed so much as not expedited.
stressfracturesintitanium
Rand Paul's neighbour did nothing wrong.
Madalchemist2018
But he could have done better. He could have used a hammer or gone longer.
HighSorcerer
His neighbors should hire a marching band to play outside from 9pm to 4am every day this week.
imeanYUUUGE
His neighbor should do nothing wrong every hour on the hour.
AdobewanKenobe
When the fuck is the US gonna get rid of all the haemorrhoids hanging out of congress?
LordNoKids
When the young decide to vote them out
ThisGuyPostingThings
Given some of the younger people voted in (like Hawley, Gaetz, and Boebert), I'm not sure that is the answer exactly. Not alone.
LiquidHandSoap
We'll vote them out, or force them out. As days go by, it's looking like the latter.
RootMeanSqr
We need more angy neighbors.
RootMeanSqr
"angry"
zorlonjones
PrincessLeliana
I just find it baffling that your "democracy" allows shit like this
mycatsings
America is not and never has been a true democracy
Sechran
America runs on the Alexander Graham Bell Prototype of Democracy, while most of the world's upgraded to at least an 80s megabrick cell phone
troublecliff
No shit, if they can give away $40 billion, Americans are obviously being taxed too much.
PineappleLoopsBroether
Republicans are cancer to my dying country.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I cancer weakening the immune system so the rich parasites can feed off the body and eventually take over the body like cordiceps fungi.
mouseasw
It hasn't been a democracy at any point in my life. It's an oligarchy with a recent period of cleptocracy.
ucandcantunc
Its not single handed, its not JUST Manchin either. Its half the senate.
Azazellosarmour
Ayn Rand looks up from hell and smiles.
jruddy74
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/12/us-ukraine-aid-rand-paul-senate?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
bullshirtdetectorinspector
We should know by now that people in KY are the dumbest of dumb fucks voting for Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. Might as well vote for Putin
Giantmutantcrab
Conservatism in action. Garbage people, garbage concepts, garbage politics.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
The man who said Ukraine was a part of Russia is withholding aid to Ukraine? Imagine my shock. Seriously, the GOP is evil.
BrokenAnimal
Have Americans considered just...beating the everliving shit out of some of these people? In self defense I mean.
FeedThoseKitties
Fuck you, Russian asset Rand Paul.
Sentay
Libertarians by their own philosophy should be unable to participate in active governance.
DrSchlepenstein
Can Rand's neighbor please go beat the shit of him again.
ChalkCoatedDonut
So it's a "democracy" but one vote can hold the entire thing, one. And people say the system is rigged but is theirs so no need for change.
DrSchlepenstein
Cause that's what traitorous obstructionists do.
LammaFace
How about dumping that money into usa instead
ThereIsACheaterInTheForest
40 BILLION dollars is so much money. Rand Paul is right, there should be some transparency and oversight to sending that amount of money.
troublecliff
It shouldn’t be being sent at all. US and western interventionism need to end on all fronts.
rshini
Okay, let's let Russia get its way. Worked so well for Neville Chamberlain.
Becker37
Bad shit but, uh, how about we get some aide here? Kinda drowning in all the problems we're having and have been all my life ..
HsuDoNihm
I'm done with Kentucky. Nice people, gtfo of there. That place needs to burn to the ground. Whole state.
Cytious
Wait wait wait, the republican lawmaker, libertarian. They do know those are different right?
britdick
Unfortunately, i agree with him. The reason he got in the way is because he wants someone in charge to make sure that the $ isn’t completely
britdick
spent unchecked. As in Afghanistan. He’s right. But, it should’ve been put in the bill from the top. Of course it wasn’t. Now…more time. ??
glovelyday
Fuck Putin, & fuck Paul. Kentucky's two senators: Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. Kentucky, gotta ask yourself, "What is wrong with us?"
RearAdmiralObvious
From what my friend from Kentucky tells me, black lung normally.
Raoin
Fuck manchin too while your at it.
stlouiscardinalsfan7
But they have a decent governor. Why do these fucks keep getting elected.
johnnyxd270
Mostly guns, abortion, and Trump cultists (who hate Beshear.) Voicing liberal views gets you "coming out" stigma here. -ky
stlouiscardinalsfan7
Im in Indiana, we have a lot of shitty politicians too.
DangerTrain
If those Kentuckians could read they would be very upset right now.
Blackfinity
Libertardian Comrade Paulovich is worried that if that money goes to Ukraine it'll mean less federal aid his for his KY Jelly state.
glovelyday
KY is 2nd in federal money reveived per capita, nearly $10K, yet is 42nd in public spending on education, & 38th in quality. Shameful
Urktheturtle
based on a lot of what I have heard, voter fraud anc corruption.
seregsarn
There was some talk on here last election about Mitch mysteriously getting more votes in some districts than exist registered voters.
Poppthe1th
They know what's their damage is. They just don't see it as an issue
DaMummy
What? We don't have baby formula, chicken, beef, etc in USA. Why the fuck would we send Ukraine $40 billion?
textilelover
Because that 40bil is not gonna be used to get any of those thing into the US.
DaMummy
...Exactly? This is my point. Why can't we use it for that instead.
mcshady
Formula is bc capitalism allowed a necessity to be monopolized and then one factory of like 3 got shut down for sanitation violations.
Madalchemist2018
If that was the proposed vote then Rand would be filibustering it along with GOP so your point is?
DaMummy
My point is that babies in USA have nothing to eat. Why is this controversial?
DeinnsBeans
I'm pretty Kentucky thinks they are winning.
Semiflaccid
With the way the country is going, you could argue they're right
glovelyday
The way it's being driven by "leaders" like McConnell. Small minded men from insignificant places put in positions of great power by suckers
Semiflaccid
Indeed
Greyeyes1973
KY is the literal embodiment of the republican plan of "keep them poor and stupid" plus some incest
Alvatore
Don't forget the forced child marriages.
DrunkenMarineBiologist
And keep them too preoccupied with moonshine and meth
stlouiscardinalsfan7
And Alabama, Indiana, TN, SC, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri, Idaho.. at this point it might be easier to name the states that don’t
AgamemnonsMemes
..Some?
FairyKingOberon
Louisville and Lexington are the tiny blue islands in the sea of incestuous red
AgamemnonsMemes
I wonder why that is, what about then makes them blue
FairyKingOberon
Larger population, greater diversity, also host to two of the major universities in the state
torqueravingmad
there are a few of us who live in louisville and lexington who dont have cousin uncles.
grixxel
They are too busy fucking relatives to care.
FairyKingOberon
As a Kentuckian, ours is the perfect example of why first-past-the-post and district-based voting are ineffective. The majority of the
FairyKingOberon
Population of Kentucky reside in Louisville, Lexington, and Bowling Green. The rest is pretty sparse, small towns and farmland. If you look
FairyKingOberon
At how those districts with the most population vote, we are consistently Blue. But because the 2 mil bumpkins in the hills control more
FairyKingOberon
Districts, we get out-voted. One of the reasons they are also anti-development in those areas too. More development=more people=more blue
megodk
Aren't senator races straight up total majority in the state?
LaffertyDanie1
You clearly have never been to Kentucky, it's zero percent surprising.
glovelyday
Spent a lot of time there. I never sais it was surprising. It's sadly not. It is shameful.