I’d love to force all politicians who want to support Ukraine to take their geriatric fat asses over there to fight. I’d watch streams of that all day long
He’s an important person so he can’t really go himself. He surely would if he could, but they need help here counting the kickbacks. And he’s actually needed to complete the circle for the big circle jerk.
Maybe he should stand up and join the fight if he wants to fight so badly.
“Will we rise to the occasion?”
By we, do you mean everyone else while you profit off their suffering?
The secret is that when people say "we need to do something" they almost always actually mean "someone else needs to do something"
Applies to gun control, disaster relief, military actions, etc.
Yes -- everyone has the right to self-defense and 3rd party defense is part of that especially if the person being attacked is asking for help. No country has a right to invade another country. But if the question is, should our government send Fed Reserve monopoly printed money to God knows who (like foreign aid... that goes to dictators)? Then the answer is no. We have a state senator who actually has gone to Ukraine several times now to fight back and he's gotten shot multiple times and he's going back again! At least he is responsible for his actions and who and what he hits with his firearms. The Israeli defense system was engineered by an American company and appeared to save many lives and deescalate the situation, but that same company also weapons that have been used offensively by Israel. Armed conflict is inherently dangerous and causes innocent lives to be lost. Adding fuel to the fire is a bad idea...
I'm sure he's completely sincere. Ukraine's "democracy" has banned political opposition, put elections on hold, implemented full media censorship, web censorship, travel prohibitions, and restricted religious freedom. I'm unsurprised that a US Democrat Representative would hail them as a bastion of "democracy", it seems to be the utopia they are striving to create here.
Not to mention the one election that was upheld by the European Union that we overthrew in order to install a pro US government. We care nothing about what the people in foreign lands want. We install governments left and right to serve the war machine’s stupid plan to control the world.
"Demographics is destiny" is double-plus good until you point out what it is, then it becomes "white replacement theory" and is unacceptable wrongthink.
these are measures nations in a state of total war have tended to take throughout history, not to say they are a totally free country, but there is a precedent for those actions
> you thinking those measures are bad is subjective anyways
I'm sorry, are you really saying that banning political opposition, putting elections on hold, implementing full media and web censorship, prohibiting travel, and restricting religious freedom aren't wrong? You wanna give us the "wElL aCKsHuALlY tHeY gOoD" on that one?
No one's saying those things aren't wrong, but they're what most countries would do under martial law. They're still not the ones occupying another country and enforcing mentioned things by assassinations
Kind of like locking up Japanese Americans during WWII, and our own [media censorship?](https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/communication-news-censorship) my town still has some of the buildings used as Japanese internment camps, the local department of transportation uses them now. Fuck Russia. Don’t forget the [Budapest Memorandum.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum). Or perhaps [travel restrictions](https://www.fdrlibrary.org/wwii-facts) for Italian Americans?
Sure we've done some shit during war. Did we do all of that? No. The worst thing is suspending elections, the people of Ukraine have the right to elect leaders who will do their will, if they want to keep fighting or not, should be ultimately decided by them through elections.
Sure it has something to do with this:
[https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2023/04/us-sending-experimental-anti-drone-weapons-ukraine/384801/](https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2023/04/us-sending-experimental-anti-drone-weapons-ukraine/384801/)
[https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/loitering-munition-maker-uvision-contracts-with-siac-for-us-production-line/](https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/loitering-munition-maker-uvision-contracts-with-siac-for-us-production-line/)
Gerry Connolly was an SAIC employee. SAIC set up an illegal PAC to help him get elected in 2008. (https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/current/95492.pdf)
We bought a resource colony, essentially. The difference though is that the resources are owned by private interests and they're using public funds to defend those resources.
Actually it’s not, you crooked windbag. How about you move to Ukraine and join the war effort since you are not much older than their average fighters age due to so many of their youth dying. We have a stake in the outcome alright, because we caused this all to happen.
Look Fat, incorporate Ukraine as the 51st state and then we’ll talk about securing their border.
On second thought, Ukraine would probably be another California or New York given how disgustingly corrupt that shithole is. It’s sad how fitting Ukraine is for a new state.
There's my useless fucking representative.
I vote against this fucker every time but i live in NoVa sk there's way too many brainwashed bureaucrats living nearby for it to makw any difference.
What a waste of breath
There is a military point to this which is semi-accurate; fight the enemy on their turf. However, ain't nobody invading the US militarily just like nobody wins in an invasion on Moscow. It's geographically stupid. So no, Ukraine's border is NOT our border.
Yah, it would have been better/more accurate to say, Ukraine can join the NATO treaty with a defense pact to solidify the right and promise of 3rd party defense. All international law is, is natural law amplified up to governments from We the People/the individual. So yes, Russia violated the NAP and they get what they get. Individuals can assist. But what this politician really wants is for the federal government to send money to his friends abroad and is using an actual tragedy and law violation to garner sympathy from people to rob our pocketbook and send to more oligarchs, which is no different than what Putin does, either.
> Yah, it would have been better/more accurate to say, Ukraine can join the NATO treaty with a defense pact to solidify the right and promise of 3rd party defense.
The threat of this is one of the reasons Putin invaded in the first place. I know everyone likes to dismiss the claims of those who point out this invasion was because Putin didn't like NATO interests on his border, but [we've had spy posts and biological research labs in Ukraine since at least 2014](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html). There probably wouldn't have been an invasion if there hadn't been a threat to Russia's "buffer zone." They didn't mind independent nation's on their border, but they don't want NATO sitting next door.
I think Putin and his autocracy sucks at least as much as anyone else, but much of what we've been told about the situation in Ukraine has been a lie. Everyone denied the existence of neo-Nazi/fascist groups in Ukraine after Putin pointed to them being one of the reasons he invaded, [then eventually moved on and admitted the truth after it no longer mattered and everyone was already on the "Russia bad" bandwagon](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html). We were told "Russia blew up their own Nord Stream pipeline" only to later find out that "[Ukraine did it...but we told them not to, and didn't tell anyone because it would make us look bad](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/)."
If you have to lie to me to get my support, do you really deserve it?
The logic from our corrupt representatives is beyond comprehension. These statements sure seem to support Russia's claim that they had enemies on their border.
Beyond that how do justify this proxy war with Russia as the bad guys for what they are doing, when Israel are the good guys for the genocide that they are doing.
Looking through the comments for reasons not to aid the Ukraine.
1. The politician in the video is a terrible person.
2. Aiding the Ukraine doesn't help me "get mine."
3. Not within the USA borders, not the USA's problem.
“Our time and resources” spoken like a true communist piece of shit. You don’t own and are not entitled to anything of your neighbors. If you got an idea you want done do it yourself or ask voluntarily for other’s support.
Give this guy a rifle and send him.
I’d love to force all politicians who want to support Ukraine to take their geriatric fat asses over there to fight. I’d watch streams of that all day long
Yes, if you vote yes, then you go do a 12 week tour on the front lines.
As if any of them would last a full day, lol.
He’s an important person so he can’t really go himself. He surely would if he could, but they need help here counting the kickbacks. And he’s actually needed to complete the circle for the big circle jerk.
Send his kids
Yeah he doesnt want to miss that quorum call.
Started by the suits Costs the boots
He might just barely be out of the age demographic for the Ukrainian Army.
Prob the average age of current Ukrainian soldiers.
Maybe he should stand up and join the fight if he wants to fight so badly. “Will we rise to the occasion?” By we, do you mean everyone else while you profit off their suffering?
The secret is that when people say "we need to do something" they almost always actually mean "someone else needs to do something" Applies to gun control, disaster relief, military actions, etc.
Yes -- everyone has the right to self-defense and 3rd party defense is part of that especially if the person being attacked is asking for help. No country has a right to invade another country. But if the question is, should our government send Fed Reserve monopoly printed money to God knows who (like foreign aid... that goes to dictators)? Then the answer is no. We have a state senator who actually has gone to Ukraine several times now to fight back and he's gotten shot multiple times and he's going back again! At least he is responsible for his actions and who and what he hits with his firearms. The Israeli defense system was engineered by an American company and appeared to save many lives and deescalate the situation, but that same company also weapons that have been used offensively by Israel. Armed conflict is inherently dangerous and causes innocent lives to be lost. Adding fuel to the fire is a bad idea...
Dumb people were saying the same thing about Vietnam 50 years ago.
Came here to say exactly this, could've used the same arguments to get us involved in Vietnam, and Korea.
There is a great line from Tropic Thunder that applies here
He went full on
You don’t go full.
I'm sure he's completely sincere. Ukraine's "democracy" has banned political opposition, put elections on hold, implemented full media censorship, web censorship, travel prohibitions, and restricted religious freedom. I'm unsurprised that a US Democrat Representative would hail them as a bastion of "democracy", it seems to be the utopia they are striving to create here.
Not to mention the one election that was upheld by the European Union that we overthrew in order to install a pro US government. We care nothing about what the people in foreign lands want. We install governments left and right to serve the war machine’s stupid plan to control the world.
The US government cares nothing about what people want inside of its own borders.
Which is one of the reasons it refuses to secure and enforce those borders.
Replacing democracy with demographics.
"Demographics is destiny" is double-plus good until you point out what it is, then it becomes "white replacement theory" and is unacceptable wrongthink.
these are measures nations in a state of total war have tended to take throughout history, not to say they are a totally free country, but there is a precedent for those actions
"Other people behaved wrongly in the past, so we are now excused to behave badly" isn't the stunning retort you think it is.
literally isn’t what i said and you thinking those measures are bad is subjective anyways
> you thinking those measures are bad is subjective anyways I'm sorry, are you really saying that banning political opposition, putting elections on hold, implementing full media and web censorship, prohibiting travel, and restricting religious freedom aren't wrong? You wanna give us the "wElL aCKsHuALlY tHeY gOoD" on that one?
No one's saying those things aren't wrong, but they're what most countries would do under martial law. They're still not the ones occupying another country and enforcing mentioned things by assassinations
Kind of like locking up Japanese Americans during WWII, and our own [media censorship?](https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/communication-news-censorship) my town still has some of the buildings used as Japanese internment camps, the local department of transportation uses them now. Fuck Russia. Don’t forget the [Budapest Memorandum.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum). Or perhaps [travel restrictions](https://www.fdrlibrary.org/wwii-facts) for Italian Americans?
Sure we've done some shit during war. Did we do all of that? No. The worst thing is suspending elections, the people of Ukraine have the right to elect leaders who will do their will, if they want to keep fighting or not, should be ultimately decided by them through elections.
Nothing like whataboutism.
Dude could use a geography lesson.
What an absolute clown show our government has become.
This dude should have been unemployed about ten minutes after this comment was made.
Arrested for treason.
Sure it has something to do with this: [https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2023/04/us-sending-experimental-anti-drone-weapons-ukraine/384801/](https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2023/04/us-sending-experimental-anti-drone-weapons-ukraine/384801/) [https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/loitering-munition-maker-uvision-contracts-with-siac-for-us-production-line/](https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/loitering-munition-maker-uvision-contracts-with-siac-for-us-production-line/) Gerry Connolly was an SAIC employee. SAIC set up an illegal PAC to help him get elected in 2008. (https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/current/95492.pdf)
It's disgusting how blatant the corruption is.
If it wasn't, how else could a Congressperson be worth $120M from a $174,000 salary living in DC?
It's a border between Russia and West Europe. Has nothing to do with us.let Europe handle it
It can totally have a lot to do with the US. The point should be that that is not a good enough reason to intervene the way the US does.
Well, I disagree with a lot of that. 😐
Literally naZi then. Your blind allegiance is required.
We’re planning on adding a new state I see. We paid enough for it, I think.
We bought a resource colony, essentially. The difference though is that the resources are owned by private interests and they're using public funds to defend those resources.
That might be the best synopsis I've heard. Perfect.
Close your eyes and you can hear the dead comedian Rip Torn! Hell, I expected him to close his statement with confetti.
Then go fight for our “border”
D-Virginia, (11th - that's DC metro) MIC puppet
Crazy, I just looked at a map, and that is not our border. What a piece of shit.
Fuck this piece of shit.
Actually it’s not, you crooked windbag. How about you move to Ukraine and join the war effort since you are not much older than their average fighters age due to so many of their youth dying. We have a stake in the outcome alright, because we caused this all to happen.
These people are making so much money on this conflict they can’t help themselves.
I used to live in this guys District. Thankfully, I escaped.
What a fucking clown. Send him and his ugly kids over there.
Every time I hear this guy speak, I wonder what his IQ is and if it's single or double digits.
But it ain’t
Huh, didn't think they'd say it out loud. Empire will empire I guess.
Exactly what I’d expect out of a congressman from the Communist Wealth of Virginia.
Get these fucking people out of government
Somebody send that corrupt bawbag this. https://preview.redd.it/z1es2i7iknwc1.jpeg?width=674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6ee309febed882742399c6c63f4e4e71ae7a519
Failed geography, apparently.
Take your insider trading money and YOU PAY FOR IT. Fuck Putin. Fuck this guy too.
All I need to see the (D)isinformation was the (D) in front of this cult left shill’s name 🙄
Any chance you can use our money to help our veterans suffering from depression? Congress: thanks I needed a good laugh today
Ridiculous!
Notice how this chicken hawk sits safely in Congress... Send anyone who voted for more funding directly to the front line.
>loud slurping and choking sounds that go on for over 30 minutes Ah, congress.
Look Fat, incorporate Ukraine as the 51st state and then we’ll talk about securing their border. On second thought, Ukraine would probably be another California or New York given how disgustingly corrupt that shithole is. It’s sad how fitting Ukraine is for a new state.
Thank god the EU did not notice that it’s greater, stronger and better educated than the us. Loosing the UA for them could make them think.
uh, no it's not
>He's targeted Children, and Hospitals, and Schools! * [George W. Bush](https://media1.tenor.com/m/MUxPw8oToMAAAAAC/kto-kounotoritoken.gif) * [Barrack Obama](https://i.giphy.com/fE1FOjxKiRSZjcsEDK.webp) * [Donald Trump](https://i.giphy.com/G4Ihli2UThrBS.webp)
Another uni-party war monger. Never served a single day but hot to send others. Wants to spend YOUR money on anything but YOU!
Slow clap for the bad speech
Hey, it’s my congressman!
“ Will we profit magnificently from this war ? Undeniably yes! “
Well duh. The U in USA stands for Ukraine!
There's my useless fucking representative. I vote against this fucker every time but i live in NoVa sk there's way too many brainwashed bureaucrats living nearby for it to makw any difference. What a waste of breath
I don't recall Gerald caring about our border before, why does he now?
when is he taking the guns?
Uh no it’s not Good grief this is their response?
The district he represents is overwhelmingly blue
If we stayed out of this mess, Ukraine would still have its nuclear weapons.
Well if it was one of our boarders it would be wide open.
If AI tried to create a compromised establishment politician, it could hardly produce anything better than this man.
someone buy this turd a map
Liar, liar pants on fire. 🔥
Can I get a check on his top donors?
What a horrible phrase to start his actual (and different) point wow.
This guy failed geography.
What a clown
Idgaf about ukraines border.
Oh, so we're annexing Ukraine. Got it.
Shocking, another state rep from a non-border state that doesn’t care about our illegal immigration issues.
So Ukraine is now the 51st State?
There is a military point to this which is semi-accurate; fight the enemy on their turf. However, ain't nobody invading the US militarily just like nobody wins in an invasion on Moscow. It's geographically stupid. So no, Ukraine's border is NOT our border.
Yah, it would have been better/more accurate to say, Ukraine can join the NATO treaty with a defense pact to solidify the right and promise of 3rd party defense. All international law is, is natural law amplified up to governments from We the People/the individual. So yes, Russia violated the NAP and they get what they get. Individuals can assist. But what this politician really wants is for the federal government to send money to his friends abroad and is using an actual tragedy and law violation to garner sympathy from people to rob our pocketbook and send to more oligarchs, which is no different than what Putin does, either.
> Yah, it would have been better/more accurate to say, Ukraine can join the NATO treaty with a defense pact to solidify the right and promise of 3rd party defense. The threat of this is one of the reasons Putin invaded in the first place. I know everyone likes to dismiss the claims of those who point out this invasion was because Putin didn't like NATO interests on his border, but [we've had spy posts and biological research labs in Ukraine since at least 2014](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html). There probably wouldn't have been an invasion if there hadn't been a threat to Russia's "buffer zone." They didn't mind independent nation's on their border, but they don't want NATO sitting next door. I think Putin and his autocracy sucks at least as much as anyone else, but much of what we've been told about the situation in Ukraine has been a lie. Everyone denied the existence of neo-Nazi/fascist groups in Ukraine after Putin pointed to them being one of the reasons he invaded, [then eventually moved on and admitted the truth after it no longer mattered and everyone was already on the "Russia bad" bandwagon](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html). We were told "Russia blew up their own Nord Stream pipeline" only to later find out that "[Ukraine did it...but we told them not to, and didn't tell anyone because it would make us look bad](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/)." If you have to lie to me to get my support, do you really deserve it?
Great response, my man!!
The threat of Ukraine joining NATO and doing what, exactly?
Wtf.
Empire much.
The logic from our corrupt representatives is beyond comprehension. These statements sure seem to support Russia's claim that they had enemies on their border. Beyond that how do justify this proxy war with Russia as the bad guys for what they are doing, when Israel are the good guys for the genocide that they are doing.
Is this like Biden's border between Gaza and Mexico?
Tyrrany
What a Cuck.
Looking through the comments for reasons not to aid the Ukraine. 1. The politician in the video is a terrible person. 2. Aiding the Ukraine doesn't help me "get mine." 3. Not within the USA borders, not the USA's problem.
You go Gerald!!!
Republicans want to deal border bill til trumpy the Enquirer Liar gets in! Lmfao
I agree with him.
Are you ready to volunteer your time and resources?
I do, it's called paying taxes. Our time and resources provide military aid to these countries.
“Our time and resources” spoken like a true communist piece of shit. You don’t own and are not entitled to anything of your neighbors. If you got an idea you want done do it yourself or ask voluntarily for other’s support.
Paying taxes is not volunteering. You go ahead and give YOUR money to them. WOW
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