It really is annoying finding out how politicians break laws that helped them get or keep their job and nothing comes out of it. So glad we’re not like those evil communists lol

This is such transparent bullshit. WTF does her idiot husband do to earn almost half a million dollars? This is a straight up fucking bribe. 

This is the same husband who is a sex offender, correct?

Tall about failing upwards. He goes from exposing himself to teenage girls to an energy consultant. 

So, here’s what I don’t get.

Pretty sure all lobbyists must register in the US as well. This wasn’t lobbying though. It’s just classic pay-for-play corruption, especially if you don’t disclose the conflict and lie about your main source of income. There are laws to prevent this, they were broken. Usually the penalties to congress people are…

The real question is what exactly does her husband do to earn such a princely sum. He just happens to get paid by a major gas producing interest in her district? How did he get this job? I want to see invoices.

And the consequences for the law breaking are……..?

Based on how Dershowitz himself described the encounter, I think it’s more accurate to say Dershowitz accosted David. Because apparently what happened was Dershowitz saw David in the store and said hello to him, and David ignored him and walked away, and Dershowitz followed him with the “We can still talk” bullshit.…

Then we started another war with a country that our president had a personal grudge against because it’s leader tried to kill his daddy. Two wars at once is never a good thing.

I remember that time very well. The Military was going after teens to join the Military hard. They even set up recruitment offices with Xboxes. Kids would come in to play games. They were offering signing bonus. Of course if you got your ass blown up in under a year, you would have to pay that back. I saw a story…

That was the goal too. It just failed. And all the usual suspects are lining up now to declare that we can’t leave since our leaving is good for Russia/Iran/China/all three.

Committed by Saudi Arabians

I think the ones who were exploited were the American taxpayers who bought a war on terror as we rallied around the flag to the tune of $2.26 trillion only for the country we occupied for 20 years to devolve into chaos minutes after we leave.

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The US got exactly what it wanted out of its occupation of Afghanistan for decades — staggering amounts of wealth transferred to the military, defense contractors, and mercenary groups, continual justification for increased defense budgets, and a steady supply of dark money for our intelligence services via resumed…

Ignoring the history of the region — notably the US building (with money and guns and propaganda) a fundamentalist movement to destroy the pro-Soviet Afghan government (one which despite its many faults actually enshrined equal rights and education for women and girls), then claiming the lack of rights for women and…

I don’t think this piece gives too much power to feminists, per se, so much as it points out the easy/fundamental alliance between (white) Western bourgeois feminism and rapacious imperialism. Feminist lobbying did not make the US invade Afghanistan. It did, however, provide cover on the left (however you’d like to…

US foreign policy doesn’t give a shit about women. It’s not why we invaded 20 years ago. Women’s rights were used beatify the argument, but invasion would have happened anyway.

Turns out bombing people doesn’t turn them into feminists.