Ukraine legacy is on display as the Administration refuses to level with Congress and the American public about its strategy to win the war.

I guess nobody really cares to keep up the act that the USA had nothing to do with instigating this war and keeping it going all these years anymore, huh?

Damn… reality needs to stop making my Uncle Ted right about things…

Probably going to need to search for communities that prioritize privacy and use crypto currencies to keep their transactions private instead of searching for crypto currency communities directly.

I mean, after First Stabbing, why not Second Stabbing?

Hey! You can’t shut down the bum fights! It employs literally dozens of people!

You forgot about the vision quest to the observatory in the desert.

Act of Congress

Without any sources to back up my assertion, I am 100% certain that not every position in a Presidential administration requires Congressional approval. These are the patronage positions that can be doled out to whomever the President decides and Congress can complain but not really do anything to stop.

Inglorious Underground Thelonious Monk

If it were for money, sure, it would definitely be illegal.

But I don’t think there’s any statutes anywhere in the USA that make “dropping out and endorsing or joining another candidate’s potential cabinet” illegal.

There is no guarantee they’ll change their attitude no matter what you do.

If they aren’t immediately shutting down any conversations you try to have with or around them about these topics, just keep having them.

If possible, “just be normal”. Not everybody is a political junkie so their desire to have and express an opinion about things might just be very weak. Keep sending info to your friend but if its obvious that they aren’t reading every 30,000 word article you find or watching every 10 hour YouTube video … its probably a sign to be a bit more selective in what you’re sending their way. Try fewer things, shorter in length and more directly to the point.

How often do you ask them what they think/feel about things that aren’t directly related to something that you’ve been vocal about? Maybe there’s a chance that they would like to talk about things but know they’d be steamrolled by the debate lords in the group.

I think this election will show a slow realignment of Arabs and Muslims toward Republicans.

Probably going to be a line between Arabs/Muslims who feel economically secure and those who don’t. The racism and Islamaphobia are pretty well entrenched to the point of being foundational in the US right and I don’t think that’s ever going to change.

If its not economic what actually is there to attract Muslim or Arab voters to the Republican party or American conservatism?

They could have hand picked the most friendly, least controversial speaker

Pretty sure I heard the speaker give their speech on some other outlet and it was pretty tame and lib. The speaker already was friendly uncontroversial.

ring ring

“Yes? Hello? Who is this?”

“Its the Antisemitism Police! THE ANTISEMITISM IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”

Depends on the store.

Your non chain store that has a loyalty program, probably doesn’t have the interest or capital to pay some third party to manage the data collection and analysis to try to direct market things to you.

Worked at a co-op grocery store for a while. The “owners” could use their owner number to keep track of their purchases to count towards their patronage refund amount and it also allowed some limited ability to look at full transaction information to deal with misrings, returns without recipts, etc. in the decade that I worked there, there was no effort or interest (even though the people running the coop at the highest level were definitely “business goober” types) to try to use the info for direct marketing or to sell to a data broker.

Its just a debate campaign!

Opportunism. Its opportunism isn’t it?

Yup, everything is bad all the time.

Was working in a grocery store years ago, hippy dippy place, totally focused on fronting/facing shelves.

I hear somebody speaking rapid fire in non-english… German or Dutch or something. Nobody is replying and I figure its somebody on a cell phone.

I look over and see a dude in what I’m guessing is regular Mennonite gettup, slacks, boots, suspenders, button up shit and straw hat holding an iPhone to their ear and my brain was just like, “huh… haven’t seen that before.”

Mennonites stay winning.