Germany plans to halve military aid for Ukraine

Germany is planning to nearly halve military aid for Ukraine next year, from around €8bn (£6.7bn; $8.7bn) to around €4bn, according to a draft budget approved by the government.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Ukraine's financing was "secure for the foreseeable future" due to a G7 group of rich nations scheme to raise $50bn from interest on frozen Russian assets.
Germany is Ukraine's second biggest military donor, after the US. In 2024, Berlin's budget for Kyiv is set at nearly €7.5bn.

Breaking: Obama tells allies Biden needs to seriously consider his viability

WaPo... posted a few minutes ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/obama-says-biden-must-consider-viability/

I understand the "Quit Joe, Quit" folks... but they're wrong.

Schiff and the others aren't trying to get Trump elected... they're not answering to billionaires in exchange for donations...

They're worried.

They're worried that Biden may lose... and lose the Congress along with it.

Think of the consequences...

1) Alito and Thomas can retire and be replaced by Judges Kacsmaryk and Cannon. Roberts or Sotomayor may have health issues...

Schiff is worried about a 7-2 SCOTUS for the next 20 years.

2) Ukraine will be abandoned.

3) Millions of immigrants will literally be rounded up and shipped off.

4) Deterioration of rights... women's rights, civil rights, voting rights...

5) Wealth inequality will increase at a rapid pace as Billionaires achieve oligarch status

And there are many more...

So Schiff and the like are NOT crazy and they're not trying to damage the Party.

But they're WRONG.

Polling shows that Biden is polling ahead of the others. Just today a poll shows Biden polling above Harris.

And don't get me started with suggestions of Newsom or Whitmer...

Skip over Harris and the Party fractures.

But there's no polling evidence that she will beat Trump.

It's almost August, on the eve of the DNC... we can't change now.

Double down on Joe.

Send your best pitcher to the mound in Game 7 of the World Series even IF his last couple starts were not so good... experience always pays off in the big game.

Sen. Bob Menendez found GUILTY

"Gold Bar Bob"... Corruption, bribery... history of being dirty AF...

Good riddance, asshole.

We have much better alternatives in our camp. He's not even running as a (D) in the 24 election.

Secret Service Command Center warned of "Suspicious Man with a Laser Rangefinder" 30 min before attack.

Local LEO called in report of man with a rangefinder to the SS Command Center.

Biden should FIRE SS Director today.

The buck stops there even if it wasn't her fault.

https://beavercountian.com/content/daily/beaver-county-officer-warned-of-seeing-man-with-rangefinder-before-trump-was-shot#google_vignette

The irony is... there were THREE law enforcement snipers INSIDE the building Crooks was crawling on top of...

VP pick is in... IT's JD Vance *official.

437PM EST announcement

Haley, Youngkin and Tim Scott unlikely...

Todays selection of VP by Trump will tell us all WHO is running the show...

If Trump is merely a surrogate for Musk, Thiel and the "tech bros"... it'll be JD Vance.

Vance isn't a conventional or particularly logical choice to bring new voters to the ballot box.

I'd say he brings NOTHING to the ticket OTHER THAN young white male misogynist "chads"...

Some who read my posts know I like history... Trump and Caesar/Mark Antony and the bloody cloth

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, to avoid all out civil war, the anti-Caesar forces formed a makeshift truce with Marcus Antonius, AKA Mark Antony.

This produced a state of peace in Rome and part of the agreement was that Antony would be given an opportunity to speak at the funeral of Julius Caesar.

To the shock of observers, Antony went on an emotional rant, eulogizing Caesar in a fiery and vengeful tone, waving a bloody piece of Caesars attire ... the crowd went nuts.

Within a couple years, many anti-Caesar conspirators were dead...

Now it's not 44BCE and I don't see a civil war as a consequence, but will Trump take the "good vibes" exhibited by Biden and the Dems and respond in kind...

Or will he come out and hang this around the neck of the opposition...

Just my thoughts.

Why is it so hard to dispel disinformation on DU?

Kyles mom drove him across state lines, Trump Tower had a cyberlink to Alfa Bank in Moscow and Trump was hit by shards of glass during the shooting.

Re: the glass myth. Where did the glass come from? The sky? The teleprompters were quite intact AND they weren't in the line of fire anyways...

The screens were in front of Trump and the shots came from almost 90 degrees to the right of the podium.

These facts have been confirmed by a dozen posters on DU but the nonsense continues... sheesh.

Ronny Jackson's nephew was at the rally... struck by gunfire.

Minor injury, just a graze wound to the neck.

Was seated below and to Trump's right...

Maybe that helps those curious about trajectory.