Quo Vadis? said:
Kvetch said:
Quo Vadis? said:
Queso1 said:
Teslag said:
Queso1 said:
Teslag said:
Yukon Cornelius said:
It's not. Equating bombing another country to some stupid Disney movie where everyone dies on the Death Star is childish at best.
He's highlighting at how it was a stupid irrelevant question
Bull crap. Cruz made a career of cross examining people. He finally got a taste of his own BS and he couldn't hack it.
Cruz made a career out of asking pertinent relevant questions.
Well, I believe asking whether his politics are influenced by the the State of Israeli lobby are pertinent and relevant. I also think asking him why we have 100s of billions to send around the world, but we are falling apart at home is pertinent and relevant.
Safe, free and effective!
You aren't allowed to ask those kinds of questions. We have no responsibility and can't afford to provide kids free to them breakfast or lunch at school because it's their parents responsibility to feed them, however we are absolutely supposed to defend Israel and Ukraine because it's our responsibility to defend them……somehow.
Such a stupid straw man.
Point me towards the error here, counselor.
1. We shouldn't spend money we don't have
2. If we spend money we don't have it should be spent on us
Where does spending money we don't have to protect Israel and Ukraine make sense?
1. We shouldn't spend money we don't have. The defense budget and specifically aid to Israel makes up a minuscule fraction of our budget.
2. The VAST majority of our deficit spending is attributable to domestic social programs (i.e. spending on ourselves). If we eliminated all foreign aid, we would be basically no closer to balancing the budget and paying off debt. However, we would lose influence around the world which would minimize our ability to maintain our hegemonic status.
Without the U.S. as the world leader, other bad actors will fill that void and shape foreign policy to their liking. You want China in Taiwan completely ****ing our tech industry?You want OPEC to act like even more of a cartel? You want Iran to develop nuclear weapons?
Go ahead and follow the dumb straw man to its logical conclusion. You solve no domestic problems and create tons of foreign ones. Not to mention, none of our domestic problems a result of not enough federal spending.