Update (1810ET): Nope…
On Wednesday President Joe Biden suggested that if Congress doesn’t send Ukraine more money, now, it may ’embolden’ Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade a NATO ally, which would precipitate “American troops fighting Russian troops.”
The threat was not persuasive.
In response, Senate Republicans channeled Elon Musk (G…F…Y…), blocking Biden’s $111 emergency supplemental package that would also include aid for Israel, humanitarian aid for Gaza, and a smattering of border funding.
The Senate voted 49-51, failing to reach the 60-vote threshold required to allow the proposal to come up for consideration. Notably, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) voted against the measure, while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) flipped his vote to ‘no’ to preserve the option of revisiting the bill at a later date.
rare Republican win pic.twitter.com/O6FhxEUetn
— Curt Mills (@CurtMills) December 6, 2023
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President Joe Biden has raised the possibility of “American troops fighting Russian troops” in a speech urging Congress to put aside “petty, partisan, angry politics” which is holding up his multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine. He said that he’s willing to make “significant compromises” with Republicans but that it’s they who’ve been unwilling to back down from their “extreme” demands.
“This cannot wait,” Biden stressed in the televised remarks from the White House. “Congress needs to pass supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday recess. Simple as that. Frankly, I think it’s stunning that we’ve gotten to this point in the first place. Republicans in Congress are willing to give Putin the greatest gift he can hope for and abandon our global leadership.”
Breaking: Biden raises the possibility of World War 3 with “American troops fighting Russian troops”. To be clear a war between two nuclear powers is guaranteed to end with nuclear war. Didn’t the Democrats insist that Trump would start World War 3? pic.twitter.com/LNYVsdSmZI
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 6, 2023
“I’m willing to make significant compromises on the border. We need to fix the broken border system. It is broken. And thus far I’ve gotten no response,” Biden pleaded. He made the speech after speaking with G7 leaders, who are reportedly alarmed that US funding to Ukraine is set to run dry in a mere three weeks.
“If we walk away, how many of our European friends are going to continue to fund and at what rates are they going to continue to fund?” he posed.
And that’s when the fear-mongering really kicked into overdrive. He went so far as to say that if Ukraine’s defense isn’t funded, this will lead to the country being steamrolled by the Russian military machine, and an emboldened Putin will then seek to gobble up more territory. Here’s what the US president said, as reported in The New York Times:
The president even raised the prospect that an emboldened Mr. Putin would pose a threat to NATO allies, requiring the United States to come to their assistance with troops on the group. “If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s important to see the long run here. He’s going to keep going. He’s made their pretty clear.”
“If he keeps going and then he attacks a NATO ally” to which the United States is bound by treaty to help, “then we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today — American troops fighting Russian troops,” Mr. Biden said.
“Make no mistake,” he added. “Today’s vote is going to be long remembered and history’s going to judge harshly those who turn their back on freedom’s cause. We can’t let Putin win. I’ll say it again, we can’t let Putin win.”
Of course, this shaky “logic” is the opposite of reality. It is the nearly two years of ‘blank check’ spending which has only served to ever-deepen American military involvement in the war, and this is what has gotten Washington into yet another foreign quagmire.
The soon to emerge narrative will also inevitably be that these hold-out Republicans “lost” the Ukraine war, as Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has already been saying. The MSM will also help the administration float this as a key 2024 election talking point… wait for it to be on an endless CNN/NPR loop headed into next November.
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Lame duck presidents don’t get their bills passed. Trump might not replace him but the constant dribble of news about his ever widening corruption investigations, or the Grim Reaper is going to take him out.
Biden is such a frickin’ LIAR. Putin has NO intention to take over Ukraine or any other countries. All that he ever wanted was to liberate the ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine from their Azov Nazi oppressors (ie: the Zelensky regime) — which he has already done!
The world remembers the Biden of Afganistan.
Why don’t they call for a cease fire over there? Israel has to be kept in check right from the get go. But apparently it’s oK if Russians and Ukchranians kill each other. I guess those Palesteeniun civilians are much more precious than Eastern Europeans
The sooner the better!
US border control bill collapses
Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate have reportedly failed to reach a deal on a border security package, NBC reported on Tuesday, citing congressional aides with knowledge of the talks. The collapse of negotiations now threatens to derail President Joe Biden’s national security bill, which includes aid to Israel and Ukraine…
GOP lawmakers have proposed detaining all migrants seeking asylum in the US upon entry instead of releasing them into the country while their claims are processed, as is currently the case.
Republican lawmakers have argued that the existing system is constantly being abused as it allows migrants to slip through the cracks.
Democrats, however, have called these demands “extremist,” prompting negotiations to effectively break down, with both parties accusing each other of intractable positions.
One Democratic aide told NBC that, despite Democrats offering several proposals to streamline the processing of asylum claims, Republican senators have insisted on “extreme policies” that would “end asylum as we know it” and effectively “shut down the border.”…
In response to Schumer’s complaint, Republican Senator John Cornyn said there was a “misunderstanding” among Democrats.
https://www.rt.com/news/588542-us-senate-border-security/
you know the spineless Republicans talk tough as hell just before they roll over and take it right up the a**.
FJB. That is all.
I’m still just waiting to see who gets the bigger stab-in-the-back. The profits will continue to roll in for years, regardless.
Along with the Big Guy’s 10 percent.
I give less than zero shits about Ukraine.
I do not wish them well.
They earned what they’re getting.
Sucking the Biden cock…
That squinty eyed bastard is determined to get the FUSA in a war it can’t win.
true that
I feel sorry for the kids coming up they have zero chance .
It’s ok, they’ll never see it coming, most of them have no clue anyway
Probably just curl up in a ball looking at their i-phone as the cannibal mobs rend their flesh
No Christmas bonus for corrupt Joe.
And no more laptops for depraved Hunter, either! 😉
No money for Ukraine for anything under any circumstances. That is the “right” policy.
No money for Israel either; they are an advanced country, know how to work hard and work smart-they have plenty of incentive to support themselves 100% and have the ability to do so. If they want to save their country then quit sucking American tit and solve your own problems-you’ll be better for it when you do.
Or they are a backward bunch of liars, cheats, and thieves.
Extra reason to not give them anything.
Some good news for a change.
Oh the drama of it all……………….sarc !
What fucking good does it do to secure the border at this point? The damage is done, perhaps a fatal level of damage.
This is just theater to make it seem like the scumbag republicans are doing something. Everything is about looting the treasury while they ensure the total destruction of the nation.
Brandon hasn’t uttered a truth in his life…which has been waaaaay to long.
FJB. He’s never seen a war he wasn’t willing to send your kids to.