"One of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore," Vance said.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration’s top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

“And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war,” Vance said.

  • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
    108·
    5 kuukautta sitten

    As I pointed out in my other comment, they didn’t need to throw Trump in jail. Had they campaigned on what people actually need (you know shit that is common sense in other western nations like free healthcare, affordable housing, workers rights, free education) they would’ve easily beaten Trump. This notion that they needed to lock up Trump to win is exactly what is wrong with the democratic party. It’s not focusing on what they can do for the people, it’s focusing on what they can do to be in power. Demand more from the democrats.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        96·
        5 kuukautta sitten

        And people don’t vote for them because they never offer the voters what they want. Do you see the problem here?

          • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
            86·
            5 kuukautta sitten

            That is not how representational democracy works. The politicians represents what you want and then you vote for them. It doesn’t work the other way around where you vote for a politician and then maybe they’ll do what you want them to do. Is it their job to know what you want BECAUSE IT IS THEIR JOB TO FUCKING REPRESENT YOU.

            It shouldn’t come as a surprise that sympathy towards Israel is waning, there are multiple polls from multiples sources showing that. So why hasn’t the democratic party taken a more anti-Israel stance? Is it because they’re too fucking incompetent at their job to know what the people want (in which case why the fuck would you vote for them in the first place) or is it because they don’t care what the people want because they get money from AIPAC?

              • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
                65·
                5 kuukautta sitten

                One effective way to let them know is to vote the ones, who have forgotten, out and vote the ones, who know what their job is, in.

                And when your options are between voting for the ones who have forgotten and the ones who also have forgotten, what vote do you cast? It’s almost like it doesn’t matter which way you vote, so why vote at all? Maybe if the politicians cared about votes they’d figure out why they’re not getting votes.

                  • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
                    54·
                    5 kuukautta sitten

                    And you get the current American political landscape where democrats have no incentive to do what you want because what are you going to do? Vote for the fascist?

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 kuukautta sitten

        This buys too far into the claim that Republicans are all hicks afraid of communism; something Russian bots suggest heavily to keep America divided. When Bernie and AOC toured the nation, they saw that people overwhelmingly support universal healthcare. Many of them, in 2024, foolishly believed vague claims by Trump that he was going to “revamp” healthcare, not cut it.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        5 kuukautta sitten

        Some morons yell communism and vote against them. Other morons cry that they didn’t get a pony and stay home.