https://abc7ny.com/alexadria-ocasio...e-aoc-probe-six-month-investigation/12543876/ Impermissible gift for attending MET GALA.
While I was pretty meh on the attendance, I feel like I recall her offering a pretty reasonable explanation for her attendance, her dress, etc.
I was at a Climate Summit event last night and I spoke with someone from DeSantis' department. He said that if anyone wants money to repair sea walls that we need to call it "Sea Level Rise" and to not mention climate change if we want to get funding. Can't have the chuds get upset at him for giving money towards climate change.
You should've drowned him, and anyone you meet that willingly works for that fucking troglodyte fascist
I keep hearing about the long and painstaking negotiations regarding Griner. It was a one for one swap. Anyone have insights as to what was so painstaking?
And they left the marine who’s been there for 4 years. Looking back at this daddy master Negotiator Trump should have brought him home.
She was a hostage and given the value of the Russian in return people are mad we didn’t get more. I think the US was trying for a 2 for 1 swap with another jailed American but Russia wasn’t having it.
Right I get that but it seems like the negotiation is we want 2 for 1. They say no. Then we say ok 1 for 1 and they say yes. It seems simple but surely I’m missing something g
well ya fuck those people I just wonder what goes into a negotiation like this. Biden made it sound like it’s around the clock work and I just wondered what all goes in to something like this. It’s doesn’t seem like it’d be that complicated. They didn’t have to make contracts work to stay under the salary cap
I get your point. It seemed quite contentious the entire time. I think the US didn’t get what it wanted and that’s going to cram a lot of narratives, but my concern is that an American sentenced on some bullshit came home. We never never going to get tit for tat because we (and this is the only time I’ll ever utter this phrase and I’ll shower after saying it) the US didn’t imprison a Russian National for some garbage crime. They save that for brown people.
You're really unaware there's tons of complicated diplomacy smokescreens and other nonsense that goes into stuff that's ultimately pretty straightforward?
That dude scares the fucking shit out of me. I reassure myself by reading all the posts itt that say he will be torn apart on a national stage.
Who woulda guessed it was some drummed up crank bullshit from a chud organization. Big ole who gives a shit.
From what I read: US wanted to do a 2 for 1 swap. Russia wanted a 2 for 2 swap. When discussed more, Russia said, "no, we only want to give up Griner". and that the Marine was not up for discussion. They must be using him for something stronger and knows politically he (Putin) can use this to turn his sheep (republicans) against Biden and use this to his advantage. Biden says fuck it. They can be mad at me. At least we got one of ours back.
I think people are forgetting that we are in a proxy war with Russia and negotiating anything with them while our weapons decimate their military is a pretty impressive feat.
the water wars down in AZ are going to be a shit show with all these tech mfg facilities being built there
Exactly. People acting like we let someone go serving a life sentence. It was either swap him now or just let him go later.
she was gonna get primaried (and lose) in the next cycle, so this stops the Democrats from running a candidate against her.
This is going to give her an automatic bid to the general, but the Dems will run someone. Maybe Giffords. I wonder if a couple has ever been elected to the Senate concurrently?
Giffords really isn’t in position to run. Have to think Gallego is the favorite there but a three way race is going to get a Republican elected and she’s betting on that brinksmanship keeping him out of the race.
I don’t know what the record low is for a vote share for an incumbent senator but we’re about to probably find out.
This maybe doesn’t get her a challenger in the primary but I don’t think this is a winning strategy for the general. You’re basically betting on the pubs running someone as awful as Masters again. And while they very well may do that, it’s playing with fire.
I'm by no way an expert on AZ politics, but aren't her unfavorables with AZ Dems at ridiculously high levels? Not sure where her votes are gonna come from. It'd be an interesting race.
Primary her ass you can’t be afraid and let her just run unopposed from the dem side. Even if it means losing fuck her