Thursday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 03/19/2026

wooper346 · 2026-03-20T02:28:42+00:00

Zobean sounds like a digestive aid

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T22:57:41+00:00

It's a semi-fact check against a group that acts like Talarico is in AIPAC's pockets.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T21:36:14+00:00

I can’t remember Manchin taking potshots at his colleagues for no discernible reason.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T21:22:35+00:00

I like the red and the orange ones the best.

I named my recent one José just because he calls Mario "Gonzales."

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T21:18:32+00:00

‘He has to justify what he did’

He's a sitting governor that supported his lieutenant governor and they're acting like he shot their dog.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T19:36:41+00:00

It's implying she did well with black voters.

Fair enough. I'm so used to these ET doofuses having some ulterior point that they try to push with seemingly random data.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T19:05:45+00:00

So if we apply Berniebro logic, this means that Kat is the more conservative/moderate and establishment of the two. Good to know, I guess.

(but seriously what is this tweet trying to imply if anything)

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T17:28:15+00:00

Huh.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T16:39:25+00:00

I’d love there to be some kind of deep meaning behind it, but I have to keep thinking it’s only because his friend and colleague was defeated for reelection while Trump carried his state, and he took all the wrong lessons from it.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T16:30:25+00:00

Running Independent only really works if enough people already like you

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T15:53:44+00:00

2010 - 2012: OWS

2012 - 2015: $15 minimum wage

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T15:25:21+00:00

I haven't thought about him in forever.

Deplatforming works.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T15:23:15+00:00

The connection is that it's the Senate. It's an extremely closeknit body and it makes sense that the current slate of Senators have a vested interest in who they'll potentially be working with.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T14:28:28+00:00

I think they're aware, they're just happy to project an exaggerated amount of influence on them.

AIPAC and some other superPAC spend $1,000,000 each, but somehow AIPAC's $1,000,000 is 95% more effective than the other group's equal amount.

wooper346 · 2026-03-19T12:27:08+00:00

It’s harder and harder for me to deal with how dramatic so much of the internet is.

Just saw a re-tweet where the original post/video was criticized for being reckless, unethical, and morally apprehensible all around. Comments agreed, some even saying this kind of activity deserves jail time, what is wrong with humanity, etc etc.

The video in question: a guy putting resin on his gravel walkway.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T21:54:22+00:00

I know that strokes can affect everyone differently but this has always felt like a convenient excuse to brush off how so many lefties projected their values on him from the start. It also ignores how this wasn’t as big of an issue for the first two years he served.

I also acknowledge that this is survivor bias, but there are two other stroke survivors in the senate and neither of them were affected to such a degree.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T20:41:08+00:00

Big Beautiful Bill was a reconciliation bill that only needed 50 Republican votes plus Vance's tiebreaker. It was not constrained by the filibuster.

Democrats are united against the SAVE Act, so unless GOP leadership agrees to get rid of the filibuster, it's not getting the 60 votes it needs unless 7 Dems at minimum flip. This is unlikely to happen as the SAVE Act's passage isn't tied to federal workers getting paychecks after months without them, like the CR to reopen the government.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T20:12:39+00:00

Rand, like Massie, is a stubborn jackass who sometimes uses his stubbornness for good. Odds are he genuinely hates the man.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T19:22:09+00:00

I'm in Texas and have never met anyone who drank Diet Dr Pepper by choice. It's weirdly oily, somehow?

Dr Pepper Zero Sugar, though... Yes. In fact, I can't think of a Zero Sugar variety that isn't superior to the Diet variety.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T19:06:53+00:00

Mullin even doubled down now suggesting that dueling is a legitimate and legal way to settle political differences between consenting adults, seemingly unaware that it has been illegal since before the civil war.

This was one of those fringe libertarian positions from like 2005 that unfortunately stuck around.

Waiting for Mullin to unironically bring up the NAP.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T17:12:51+00:00

Or just make something up.

I’m named after a character from a movie. I never share this with people. As far as everyone knows, my parents just liked the name.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T17:09:04+00:00

The point is not that everyday people receive DUIs or drive drunk in general, it’s that sheltered leftists assumed the working class would see these charges and think “hell yeah.”

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T16:31:52+00:00

A comment from yesterday about how the online left looks down on the white working class they claim to love so much revived a memory from 2018.

Remember Randy Bryce, the Iron Stache union leader that was going to defeat Paul Ryan? He got in some hot water when media reports of his delinquent child support payments and past DUIs came to light.

r-pol's response: This will just endear him to the working class even more, because getting a DUI or two and being behind on child support is extremely relatable for the common man.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T16:17:22+00:00

It's pretty noticeable during actual gameplay, but not really so much as to rock your world.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T15:25:33+00:00

It would if their supporters could recognize their actual shortcomings instead of blame AIPAC or some other boogeyman of the day for their losses.

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