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Re: We need a general tweet of the day thread
We thought the coke ad was gay and said so at the time.
RaceBannon
Re: Get out the rye bread and mustard Grandma, it's DeBoer grand salami!! My oh my!!
I get many including yourself might disagree with me and that’s fine. I would choose my kids 10 out of 10 times especially after uprooting them their entire lives. His life, his decision but having a wife and kids these career decisions affect everyone. When he made that decision to leave late in 2023, both daughters were in high school. She made her commitment at 16/17 years of age and seemed really excited especially considering UW softball was a premier program and an excellent university. Image changing schools and friends every 2-3 years your entire life from day 1 and again in the middle of her senior year of high school. Yes she stayed but her family was still uprooted and separated. 18 isn’t a great argument in terms of decision making and technically becoming an actual adult.
This isn’t a criticism of your personal decision and maybe it’s a bad assumption on my part but I don’t believe you have children. Obviously you can have an opinion but unless you’re a father you can’t really relate. He’s not making a choice between $500k vs $10 million/year.
I’m conflicted pressing “post comment” because I don’t want to be insensitive or come across as an asshole about having/not having children. I’m very protective of my family especially my kids and grandchildren. I can’t relate to DeBoer from a career standpoint but as a father myself the decision would be VERY EASY.
A2theyeFuckoDaWg
Re: WA State | $15 Billion Budget Deficit
Wait! I thought the stock market and economy were the best ever over the last 4 years? Thank God biden pulled us out of a "potential recession". I mean, shouldn't the government have averaged 33% return on their investments like Ern has historically done? They should have a surplus right?
Bendintheriver
Re: Wow, Zelenskyy is an ungrateful and evil little garden gnome
Wanting a ceasefire and ending the war is now considered a fascist position.
EverettChris
Re: We need a general tweet of the day thread
China is the real world problem. Yet the American dems and Tug leftards are all in on Putin and the Russians. Dems are fine with all the chicom coal plants dumping CO2 and mercury into the atmosphere and strip mining the oceans but no Keystone XL pipeline for us.
WestlinnDuck
Re: Questions the Biden-Bros Never Ask
What does ”appeasing” Russia mean, Big Brain?
You’re the one cheerleading for even more death with the status quo.
EverettChris
Re: Questions the Biden-Bros Never Ask
Again, you’re talking to a fucking idiot.
He has no idea what he wants in this other than to look stupid and troll the Tug. That’s it. That’s H.
How does Ukraine win this war, H, and what does winning it look like at the end?
Answer a question for once.
EverettChris
Re: Questions the Biden-Bros Never Ask
There is some merit to that argument but after 3 years, would you not agree that it is seeing the law of diminishing returns? In other words, if the USA sends another $60 or $70 billion a year, will it degrade Russia's capability to wage war more than that money did in 2022, 2023, or 2024? I would say no.
I would also argue that Communist China is the much bigger threat to the USA and allies in the Pacific than Russia is to our allies in Europe. We have provided substantially more financial and military support to Ukraine than any other country. If Ukraine needs $150 billion a year to continue fighting Russia, why can't Europe provide that in 2026 and beyond? Of course if Europe was really serious about ending this war, they would risk their own soldiers too (about 30,000 would do) but they don't have the stomach for it. Hence, they want the USA to keep pumping tens of billions in so they don't have to.
I also think it's disingenuous of Zelinkskyy to lecture the Trump administration on the war when he refuses to drop the draft age to 21. When the USA was attacked by Japan at the beginning of WWII, the draft age was 18 but pretty much every able bodied male enlisted because they wanted revenge.
If so many Ukrainians don't want to fight, why should the USA continue borrowing money to send it over there?
HFNY