Makes me wonder, what would happen if they put that kind of energy and effort into being sociable and finding sustainable ways to feed their population? Maybe some arts and crafts to generally improve their lives and attitudes? You know, stuff like that.
Fantasy over, maybe it's time to start convincing China that their neighbor is becoming a threat to China? I'd rather they fight it out over there than over here.
Either way, just goes to show, people are crazy.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Does the US really need a trillion dollar budget for defense? Or, are enemies of the US either manufactured and/or inflated so that the defense budget can exist as a larger-than-life money-laundering operation, where legislators and defense contractors can enrich themselves?
Not too long ago, a jet fell off of an aircraft carrier; it was valued at $60 million. The illustration I heard today was that if the entire defense budget was a box of Cheerios, that jet would be 1/10 of 1 Cheerio, and yet, that one jet would be enough to pay for two hospitals in WV.
Interesting thought experiment @peter4jc. I would submit that you don't need a defense until you need a defense, and you can't really constitute one on the fly, especially with the technological cost of entry.
I would also say that if we were to divest on a large scale from defense, then our adversaries would increase the size of their militaries at putting us at a large gap and a state of unmanageable risk.
I think the first thing they teach generals at general School is that you never want another Pearl harbor or to rely on a draft ever again. See Vietnam. I wonder what a draft of 20-year-olds in this country today would look like.
You would also lose a lot of the tertiary benefits that the military continues to develop, or at the very least they would be long delayed. Examples of such benefits are the internet, GPS, cellular technology, and others. You can go all the way back to telescopes, radio communications, radar communications which led to things like microwave ovens, etc. The list is almost endless.
Finally, I would say that if the healthcare industry wasn't so **** corrupt, you could build 200 hospitals in West Virginia or anywhere else in the country that you wanted to, and all it would cost this country is a fraction of the percentage of the wealth of the oligarchs who run the industry.
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.
@d_blades said:
I certainly hope everyone has their "travel documents", freedom baby!
I just can't...... So you want everybody to be documented in this country but you don't want to show documents when you come and go into this country? My God, what a statement.
@peter4jc said:
Not too long ago, a jet fell off of an aircraft carrier; it was valued at $60 million.
A second F/A-18 was lost trying to land on the same ship, the USS Truman, when the arrestment system failed today, a week after the first similar incident.
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@peter4jc said:
Not too long ago, a jet fell off of an aircraft carrier; it was valued at $60 million.
A second F/A-18 was lost trying to land on the same ship, the USS Truman, when the arrestment system failed today, a week after the first similar incident.
@peter4jc said:
Not too long ago, a jet fell off of an aircraft carrier; it was valued at $60 million.
A second F/A-18 was lost trying to land on the same ship, the USS Truman, when the arrestment system failed today, a week after the first similar incident.
We're running out of Cherrios....
The "post of the year, 2025" contest is officially closed.
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.
"Yarvin, a 51-year old computer engineer, has been publishing his thoughts on politics for close to 20 years. His original blog, launched in 2007, introduced his potent blend of “the modern engineering mentality, and the great historical legacy of antique, classical and Victorian pre-democratic thought”. Last week, The Washington Post called it “required reading for the extremely online right”.
"Democracy was dead and doomed from the beginning, Yarvin argued in his blog, in quippy, Reddit-style prose. Governance should look to other mechanisms (tech) and modes (monarchism) for inspiration.
"The state needs a “hard reboot,” asserted Yarvin. “Democratic elections are entirely superfluous to the mechanism of government” he argued. “A vote for democratic or republican matters a little bit,” he admitted, but “basically if the whole electoral system disappeared, Washington would go on running in exactly the same ways”."
this is more about cyber security than it is about politics, but it is the chief of staff.
An unknown person impersonating Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles has been messaging senators, governors, business leaders, and other prominent people. Wiles has said she believes her phone may have been hacked; the impostor’s voice sounded like Wiles’ and may have been an AI imitation. — WSJ
Either prediction is a safe one to make. What are the betting odds on a breakup between those two? The betting industry bets on everything. Somebody check that please.
@CharlieHeis said:
This should be entertaining.
And don't forget:
At this point, as someone who's basically given up on anything getting fixed in any way, I'm kind of just rooting for comedy. Can we agree that Elon Musk getting deported would be the funniest outcome? Nothing to do with what's fair or best for the country, but that's 100% the funniest option.
You think all of a sudden the same people who were resisting the release of the files for years are now going to say "release them!" ? You know, all the other rich and powerful politicians and Hollywood elite who went to Epstein Island regularly are simply going to sacrifice themselves to nail Trump?
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
You think all of a sudden the same people who were resisting the release of the files for years are now going to say "release them!" ? You know, all the other rich and powerful politicians and Hollywood elite who went to Epstein Island regularly are simply going to sacrifice themselves to nail Trump?
I wasn't even speaking in specifics. I'm talking about the totality of this shitstorm that's brewing.
Todd, where was Epstein even mentioned in my post? Why did you assume that's what I meant and go directly there? Unless you accidentally responded to my post and meant to create your own.
Um, because it was obvious to everyone that you were responding to the references in Calvin's post?
Just my guess, I can't really respond for Todd.
Meanwhile, the clash of the Titan Egos did seem inevitable, didn't it?
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
You think all of a sudden the same people who were resisting the release of the files for years are now going to say "release them!" ? You know, all the other rich and powerful politicians and Hollywood elite who went to Epstein Island regularly are simply going to sacrifice themselves to nail Trump?
I wasn't even speaking in specifics. I'm talking about the totality of this shitstorm that's brewing.
Todd, where was Epstein even mentioned in my post? Why did you assume that's what I meant and go directly there? Unless you accidentally responded to my post and meant to create your own.
As Steve said, I assumed you were responding to Calvin's post. If not, sorry. Anyway, it wasn't meant as an indictment.
Yes, a storm is brewing. I am all in on releasing the files unredacted. I don't care who is in them, it needs to come out.
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Makes me wonder, what would happen if they put that kind of energy and effort into being sociable and finding sustainable ways to feed their population? Maybe some arts and crafts to generally improve their lives and attitudes? You know, stuff like that.
Fantasy over, maybe it's time to start convincing China that their neighbor is becoming a threat to China? I'd rather they fight it out over there than over here.
Either way, just goes to show, people are crazy.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Seems to me, an errant nuke accidentally falling in north Korea wouldn't be such a bad thing.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Making hay while the sun shines, lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08.keOy.nEJuQWOcY9pQ&smid=url-share
Does the US really need a trillion dollar budget for defense? Or, are enemies of the US either manufactured and/or inflated so that the defense budget can exist as a larger-than-life money-laundering operation, where legislators and defense contractors can enrich themselves?
Not too long ago, a jet fell off of an aircraft carrier; it was valued at $60 million. The illustration I heard today was that if the entire defense budget was a box of Cheerios, that jet would be 1/10 of 1 Cheerio, and yet, that one jet would be enough to pay for two hospitals in WV.
It has me wondering...
Interesting thought experiment @peter4jc. I would submit that you don't need a defense until you need a defense, and you can't really constitute one on the fly, especially with the technological cost of entry.
I would also say that if we were to divest on a large scale from defense, then our adversaries would increase the size of their militaries at putting us at a large gap and a state of unmanageable risk.
I think the first thing they teach generals at general School is that you never want another Pearl harbor or to rely on a draft ever again. See Vietnam. I wonder what a draft of 20-year-olds in this country today would look like.
You would also lose a lot of the tertiary benefits that the military continues to develop, or at the very least they would be long delayed. Examples of such benefits are the internet, GPS, cellular technology, and others. You can go all the way back to telescopes, radio communications, radar communications which led to things like microwave ovens, etc. The list is almost endless.
Finally, I would say that if the healthcare industry wasn't so **** corrupt, you could build 200 hospitals in West Virginia or anywhere else in the country that you wanted to, and all it would cost this country is a fraction of the percentage of the wealth of the oligarchs who run the industry.
I certainly hope everyone has their "travel documents", freedom baby!
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
I just can't...... So you want everybody to be documented in this country but you don't want to show documents when you come and go into this country? My God, what a statement.
A second F/A-18 was lost trying to land on the same ship, the USS Truman, when the arrestment system failed today, a week after the first similar incident.
We're running out of Cherrios....
Just clearing old inventory, got a new model in the pipeline. Feed the machine.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
They don't make them anymore.
Walking around with my papers and partying like it's 1939.
The "post of the year, 2025" contest is officially closed.
don't want to impede corruption in government, lol
FBI Director Kash Patel moved to disband a squad that investigates fraud and corruption by lawmakers and federal officials.
That's Jack Smiths old office, the office to prosecute your political opponents. I think they should keep it and put Ed Martin in charge.
Or Rudy Giuliani
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-trumps-reign-fits-curtis-yarvins-blueprint-of-a-ceo-led-american-monarchy-what-is-technological-fascism-256202
"Yarvin, a 51-year old computer engineer, has been publishing his thoughts on politics for close to 20 years. His original blog, launched in 2007, introduced his potent blend of “the modern engineering mentality, and the great historical legacy of antique, classical and Victorian pre-democratic thought”. Last week, The Washington Post called it “required reading for the extremely online right”.
"Democracy was dead and doomed from the beginning, Yarvin argued in his blog, in quippy, Reddit-style prose. Governance should look to other mechanisms (tech) and modes (monarchism) for inspiration.
"The state needs a “hard reboot,” asserted Yarvin. “Democratic elections are entirely superfluous to the mechanism of government” he argued. “A vote for democratic or republican matters a little bit,” he admitted, but “basically if the whole electoral system disappeared, Washington would go on running in exactly the same ways”."
this is more about cyber security than it is about politics, but it is the chief of staff.
An unknown person impersonating Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles has been messaging senators, governors, business leaders, and other prominent people. Wiles has said she believes her phone may have been hacked; the impostor’s voice sounded like Wiles’ and may have been an AI imitation. — WSJ
Congrats to the winners.
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This is going to get good.
This should be entertaining.
And don't forget:
At this point, as someone who's basically given up on anything getting fixed in any way, I'm kind of just rooting for comedy. Can we agree that Elon Musk getting deported would be the funniest outcome? Nothing to do with what's fair or best for the country, but that's 100% the funniest option.
You think all of a sudden the same people who were resisting the release of the files for years are now going to say "release them!" ? You know, all the other rich and powerful politicians and Hollywood elite who went to Epstein Island regularly are simply going to sacrifice themselves to nail Trump?
The mind boggles.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I wasn't even speaking in specifics. I'm talking about the totality of this shitstorm that's brewing.
Todd, where was Epstein even mentioned in my post? Why did you assume that's what I meant and go directly there? Unless you accidentally responded to my post and meant to create your own.
Um, because it was obvious to everyone that you were responding to the references in Calvin's post?
Just my guess, I can't really respond for Todd.
Meanwhile, the clash of the Titan Egos did seem inevitable, didn't it?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
As Steve said, I assumed you were responding to Calvin's post. If not, sorry. Anyway, it wasn't meant as an indictment.
Yes, a storm is brewing. I am all in on releasing the files unredacted. I don't care who is in them, it needs to come out.