Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Chip Roy Accuses Zelensky Of 'Purposeful Theater' In Address To Congress" video.

  1. If the rest of the world comes to think that we're about to default on our debts, we will be living the same way the Brits are living, in less than six months.
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  2. There's purposeful theater every time anyone, on either side, talks about Ukraine. When Democrats talk about Ukraine, they are playing purposeful theater, because they say that we're helping the Ukrainians because they're brave, or because they are resisting tyranny, or because "their struggle is our struggle". Please. We're not babies; you don't have to pretend that there's a Santa Claus or a Tooth Fairy. We're helping the Ukrainians because we hope that when the war winds down and the bidding begins, they'll give us preferred-buyer status on those lovely rich deposits of lithium, rare-earth metals, and other strategic minerals they have. To talk about Ukraine and leave this out is pure theater. When Republicans talk about Ukraine, they are playing purposeful theater, because they don't admit that helping the Ukrainians in exchange for preferred-buyer status on the strategic-mineral goodies is a very good investment, well worth the money we're putting in, if the Ukrainians manage to win. And they are much more likely to win than we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, because the natives in Ukraine (the Ukrainians) like us and really do welcome our help. It's not like Afg or Iraq where we were knocking over the local government and hoping that the people there would thank us for it, and imagining a regional movement in support of us when there was none. To talk about Ukraine and leave this out is pure theater.
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  3. The only people less trustworthy than the Democratic Party is the establishment Republican Party, and the only people less trustworthy than the establishment Republican Party are the Trumpies.
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  4.  @jeffb5785  You don't do your cause any good by saying things which are obviously false (like that the Democratic Party is "full of terrorists".) Any normal person who looks at that will instantly write you off as a loop-a-dupe, not worth reading. The Republican Party has a serious problem now: for five years they have been in thrall to a cult leader who is unlike any previous president in my lifetime (I'm almost exactly the same age as you), in that all previous presidents - even Nixon - wanted to be, in some sense, good presidents. Our disagreements were over what makes a president "good", and over what to do in order to be that (however you define it). In contrast, the former-president doesn't care at all about being a good president. He just wanted - and wants - to do what he has always tried to do, which is: get is followers (the suckers) to send him more money sooner and faster. In order to be competitive again, the Republican Party will have to convince the voters that they can function as serious politicians, serious leaders, again. This will take time, and careful strategic planning. Saying "the other guys are terrorists" won't get it done. In fact it can only appeal to the people you need to separate from.
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