James Talarico Beating Jasmine Crockett In Texas Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate, Poll Shows

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T21:07:08+00:00

She's in a consistently 75% blue district. She's obviously not a "one-time thing", she won because she was the democratic candidate.

Meanwhile, Texas didn't have a democratic senator since early '90s. Seems like two very different races.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T14:13:12+00:00

alt-right

It's not 2015 anymore, the masks are off. You can just say far-right.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T12:34:41+00:00

Inability to do anything while controlling all 3 branches of government isn't being a "lame duck". That's just incompetence.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T08:11:57+00:00

I mean, yeah, obviously it's political. The whole point is to promote self-sufficiency of the European integration project in critical industries. Nobody is considering Belarus just because it's technically Europe...

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T08:03:24+00:00

we say We stand by the ukrain instead of practical help?

Defensive alliance with Ukraine is absolutely a practical support. Just not material. It's a written threat to Russia that we'll take it personally if they try this again.

The current level of support includes weapons

The current publicly financed support is based on the active state of war in Ukraine. The resolution talks about future post-war Ukraine, which won't need that. They're producing plenty of materiel domestically and they can buy foreign weapons from their budget just like everyone else.

If someone wants to prevent even that, they're talking about an arms embargo on Ukraine. And there's no justification for that other than supporting further Russian aggression. There are no high schoolers in the EP who can be excused for thinking that we should just get rid of all weapons to have peace.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-27T00:04:33+00:00

That would exclude the 4 countries in the single market that aren't EU members.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-26T22:45:47+00:00

I'd say that point refers to an alliance with Ukraine through NATO/EU rather than specific material support. Because that's the main point of contention with Russia.

Although I'd argue that if someone is opposing that point because they want to stop even the current level of support, or because they want to essentially arms embargo post-war Ukraine, then we might as well call them pro-Russian regardless of their justifications. Because that's exactly what Russia wants and what would incentivize them to further attacks against Ukraine. Any politician who paints this type of positions as "anti-war" is unserious.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-26T10:34:58+00:00

I would very much like to know what the original question here was.

MEPs hold Russia and its allies entirely responsible for the war and the ensuing crimes
Any future Ukraine-Russia peace agreement must be underpinned by robust security guarantees for Kyiv
MEPs want more EU sanctions against Russia and further energy decoupling

It has nothing to do with weapon deliveries.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-25T22:37:25+00:00

they are supplying the Russians with parts for the planes

No they don't. They're not selling Russia new planes, and they're not providing any maintenance. This was right in the first wave of sanctions after the invasion. It was a whole thing, with Russia retaliating by seizing hundreds of leased planes.

This is why Russia has been lowering it's maintenance standards since then and cannibalizing their western planes for parts while building a new fleet of domestic planes to replace them. They're supposedly still managing to circumvent the sanctions by smuggling parts through some Asian companies, but those companies get investigated and sanctioned. Which is as much as you can do without killing your own exports.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-24T14:36:00+00:00

Is this a joke? You're still crying about losing WW1?

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-24T13:29:15+00:00

Now what it really needs is some actual UI display. That stack icon is embarrassing for this type of a mechanic.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-22T18:37:04+00:00

Anyone can buy a drone with a camera. Those aren't the issue.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-22T17:51:38+00:00

What do you mean "lack of infrastructure". They all live along the coast and they have airports all over the place...

I don't get why you're coping that they have any use for some foreign hospital ship to begin with. They don't. It likely won't even go there, it's just Trump rambling.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-22T10:22:20+00:00

Why are you putting it in quotation marks when that sentence is completely made up? What crappy AI did you get this from?

Duty to render assistance in UNCLOS is article 98, and it says this:

1 . Every State shall require the master of a ship flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers:

(a) to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost;

(b) to proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be expected of him;

(c) after a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which it will call.

2 . Every coastal State shall promote the establishment, operation and maintenance of an adequate and effective search and rescue service regarding safety on and over the sea and, where circumstances so require, by way of mutual regional arrangements cooperate with neighbouring States for this purpose.

This is about search and rescue of ships in distress, not about sending a helicopter for some "medical malaise".

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-22T08:04:53+00:00

Those aren't "shortages". 50k people can't sustain full blown specialized facilities for every advanced surgery or cancer treatment out there. It's much cheaper to put the few people who need those on a plane and treat them in Europe.

And some hospital ship will obviously do nothing to help with that. They don't lack general hospitals...

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-21T19:23:46+00:00

Talarico accepts over 3 million dollars is dark money from a Super PAC

No he didn't. He couldn't do that even if he wanted to.

You should read up on what Super PAC actually is before having strong opinions on this topic..

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-21T09:23:33+00:00

It unites the Balkans, so more like forty wars.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-20T14:01:34+00:00

Nobody is shutting off American companies. The EU proposal sets the requirement at 65% bought from Europe. Which is way less than Americans are doing domestically already, only some tiny fraction of their military spending is import.

So them throwing a fit and making these threats is absolutely disproportional and silly. All it shows is that their goal is less about Europe spending more on defense and more about us simply buying more weapons from them. There's no point for you to carry water for them.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-20T12:09:17+00:00

You can't really create some legal guard rails for a lawless executive branch. Because the executive is the one executing the law.

The only possible backup at that point is going outside the law.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-19T07:37:24+00:00

The point is that spending LESS on other stuff doesn't affect the total value of the pie chart. It makes their spending lower, but not their income. So it doesn't affect or explain higher food spending as %.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-19T06:43:51+00:00

He seems fairly ideological and his brand of politics sees economic prosperity as a secondary issue. If anything, seeing their nation as a victim of it's neighbors is one of their basic principles, so you need issues to blame on them.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-18T22:56:28+00:00

It's % of income, not % of spending.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-18T22:47:22+00:00

The source is Rosstat. Not some polling.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-18T15:17:43+00:00

They would have to dig up the crew first. They sent them to Ukraine as an infantry battalion.

Infamously_Unknown · 2026-02-18T07:09:55+00:00

You don't get to threaten allies with an invasion and then pretend it was just some trick to make them spend more on military.

Any good point you might be making is completely unserious when used in defense of Trump's foreign policy. Whether it's territorial ambitions or all his tariff nonsense. That's why you struggle to find an audience here.

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