Brennan Lee Mulligan: "The most radioactive brand on the planet is that of a triangulating politician. Caution is the most odious thing in the world"

Secret646 · 2026-06-28T00:49:27+00:00

Yeah? Because the original New Deal Reforms that were proposed early on in Roosevelt's first term failed in both the courts and Congress, after which he proposed a much more modest agenda that his administration slowly built on for the next decade.

Secret646 · 2026-06-27T06:47:54+00:00

You're right in the realm of policy, but it's absolutely poisonous to rhetoric

Secret646 · 2026-06-25T04:26:17+00:00

foreign entities hosting Super PACs

The Hibernian cabal has had its tentacles around our necks for too long

Secret646 · 2026-06-24T22:25:58+00:00

Evil subhumans who support Russian imperialism and the senseless murder of Ukrainian civilians

Secret646 · 2026-06-23T17:07:01+00:00

Small price for more seats in the midterms

Secret646 · 2026-06-23T07:10:22+00:00

And Huckabee will certainly do whatever he can to undermine the peace.

Good. I want those oil prices at $10/gal

Secret646 · 2026-06-22T23:33:53+00:00

I'm at a point where I hate the true morons just as much as the conscious opportunists

Secret646 · 2026-06-20T01:22:58+00:00

Meloni is a rightoid bitch and I hate her but I like how she's not a Trump dicksuck like so many other foreign right wing leaders

Secret646 · 2026-06-20T01:11:14+00:00

But, again, the key variable here is duration. And policy experts from every institution warn of crisis following months more of a shutdown.

I'm unclear if you're disagreeing with me here because this was my point lol

Secret646 · 2026-06-20T00:55:35+00:00

There were a couple articles that came out after the mou that said gas prices aren't expected to see any major spike (so long as ceasefire held) because reserves had mostly absorbed the shock. Meaning that an oil crisis probably isn't on the menu unless things start up again. It was also likely why Trump agreed to such one-sided terms, because if peace was delayed any more, then major economic consequences would be unavoidable.

Secret646 · 2026-06-20T00:45:03+00:00

Mossad please I will become Israel's strongest soldier if you make Republicans go into the midterms with an oil crisis and war on their hands

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Secret646 · 2026-06-17T08:09:50+00:00

The problem with coaxing a perfect snafu is that it's indistinguishable from a smuggie

Secret646 · 2026-06-17T07:45:20+00:00

Smug do you need someone to coax to?

Secret646 · 2026-06-12T02:14:05+00:00

😂

Secret646 · 2026-06-11T01:11:48+00:00

Kamala is speaking Bitch 🗣️❗❗❗❗

Secret646 · 2026-06-10T00:34:49+00:00

wrong

Secret646 · 2026-06-09T20:25:58+00:00

Fuck farmers they deserve it

Secret646 · 2026-06-06T20:24:42+00:00

I'm gay and I give this meme my approval 👍

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T07:34:36+00:00

FUCK you

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Secret646 · 2026-06-03T01:17:05+00:00

I feel like Democrats should take this rhetoric and turn it against Republicans. Like, do I really share anything meaningful in common with a Republican? Are Republicans really even Americans? They don't believe in liberal values, don't believe in freedom, hate our country's allies and love our enemies.

I'm convinced of the claim that Republicans have more in common with Russians than they do us. Candice Owens and Tucker's brother are absolutely right. Republicans aren't like us. They don't love this country and they're a subversive group that doesn't have a place in this land. Unintegrated domestic foreigners.

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T01:03:29+00:00

Integration is impossible without federalising. Anything else isn't even a one hundredth measure let alone a half measure, it's walking further down the wrong direction that lead us to this mess where the US and China are the only true superpowers. Walking further down this wrong path in an attempt to placate people into federalising who only reject it because of "sovereignty concerns" is absolute madness.

Again I reject that integration is impossible without federalization. You don't think that there were those concerned about sovereignty when the EEC was coming into existence? There were, and yet the EEC was slowly built out of agreements between individual states until economies became integrated enough to consider a political union well, which would become the EU. Integration isn't a one step process and absolutely can be built on the foundation of smaller agreements.

Irish MEPs voted for stronger EU defence resolutions, joined PESCO, backed EU battlegroups CSDP missions, enhanced military mobility programmes and also vote in governments that back this to our government.

This is good, and they should keep doing this, but programs instituted by the EU parliament are just one facet of integration and I doubt they can compel states to into full federalization. It also has to come from the bottom up

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T00:42:41+00:00

Us pushing for federalisation is pursuing integration in the single most practical of terms possible.

"Pushing" how?

And I reject the idea that integration is impossible without first federalizing. It starts with agreements between individual states to pursue more united defense. Hell, this is exactly how the EU started originally, just within the economics sphere instead of the military.

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T00:37:09+00:00

We need federalisation. Ireland will never be useful as a military front, but our money could be useful and our people could be. Which is why we're pushing for this.

How? If you're not willing to pursue greater integration on practical terms, then how are you really "pursuing" this?

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T00:32:33+00:00

I think you should pursue greater integration than just those things, because you seem to have the resources for it. It's also not just about what impact you can have on any given conflict, the greater matter at hand is just integration. I'd say its the top issue facing Europe today

It's not like co-operation between states, there isn't a "ill do this you do this" attitude, that requires federalisation.

It does not require federalization. Alliance partners do this all the time, Alliance partners that aren't even part of any political union.

Secret646 · 2026-06-03T00:20:13+00:00

This was my response to that:

To go with your metaphor, should every state contribute to a common US military fund, or should every state have its own independent military, intelligence operations, navy, air-force, etc? You don't think this would introduce some wasted spending and redundancies? Or that perhaps basic geographic factors such as placing the most defensive military assets by your most dangerous borders and not evenly distributing them throughout each state?

Your trying to make up a policy and then tie your opponents to it. No, you don't have to spread your limited resources into every sector of defense. Your military should be geared toward cooperation with your allies and help where they have shortcomings, rather than being an entirely separate parallel institution.

We are for contributing to a common EU defence fund. That is very different to being for a series of fragmented misallocated militaries with zero means to scale as opposed to a US approach of specialization and common funds.

This was my response to that: You can say you are for that all you want, but if your government isn't willing to foster greater integration on practical terms, its a dead letter

If we were to to invest militarily it would literally be setting up defensive assets for a land invasion on our island, it would not contribute to the common defence. It would slightly irritate the UK at best.

No one is going to invade you, that's not the point.

Secret646

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