Political Discussions

@Vision said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pope-leo-says-god-rejects-090418342.html

Funny, popes seem to vacillate on this subject through the centuries. I wonder what God thinks of that?

Those are my LoL because “get off my lawn” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

When I get older, am I gonna be angry and jaded as well? God, I hope not. Oops …. Gosh, I hope not.

I just thought it was an interesting article. I just like how we quoted the Bible verses …… y’all got all mad and ****. I was gonna post a recipe on meatloaf but hell no, I might get banned for that.

@Vision said:
Those are my LoL because “get off my lawn” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

When I get older, am I gonna be angry and jaded as well? God, I hope not. Oops …. Gosh, I hope not.

I just thought it was an interesting article. I just like how we quoted the Bible verses …… y’all got all mad and ****. I was gonna post a recipe on meatloaf but hell no, I might get banned for that.

Who got mad? I must have missed something. Did someone's post get deleted?

Maybe I got something wrong. I’ll take the L

@Amos_Umwhat great reply, thank you. Cool story about the training course.

@edz I hear what you're saying, and two contextual things for you to consider.

One, during a combat operation, almost nobody wears their rank. Pilots don't wear their rank on their flight suits. Operators don't wear their ranks on the ground. Don't want to be a target for the enemy. The wearing rank thing isn't about real world operations. Neither is the new policy, which encompasses time outside of theater operations.

Two, I think we use the higher calling thing too much with the religious professionals. I think that most service members have a higher calling to service and country itself. Feel like I had that higher calling during my time in the active force. You can have a higher calling and still be proud of your accomplishments. The policy seems to give that pride astigmatism of shame. That's one reason that I don't like it.

Wasn't it obvious? ;-)

Give me a break...

The underground transgender mafia must be based out of Transylvania.

Lot of lefties on the epstien list as well. Its most of Washington and Hollywood.

@silvermouse said:
Write to the President and tell him that you would like him to release the unredacted list.

I wonder if he will, but he'll wait until the end of his term, and then have a way to be pardoned.

Instead of quoting, I’m just gonna tag @Amos_Umwhat it’s not directed at, but just so you see it and what I took away from that oddly meandering “Speech”

I thought it odd when he said we were there to help there was a pause and then sort of like a… Our allies in the Middle East. His quote was something like.” we don’t need to be there, but we are but we don’t need to be there, but we’re there to help… Our allies in the Middle East” do you think he was talking about any place other than Israel? I don’t. That was just my take away. I’m also not quite sure he understands how a global energy market works. He’s trying to reassure the American people that we don’t need Middle Eastern oil, but that doesn’t really matter in terms of oil futures. He handed in and out of that they’re totally destroyed, totally obliterated…… But for some reason, we’re gonna strike them in the next three weeks. He did say that, we will strike them over the next three weeks. But why do we have to strike somebody who’s been totally obliterated? He threatened to cut off their electrical grids by bombing their energy sources. I remember correctly, I’m pretty sure you can’t do, still a war crime maybe? I don’t know.

I guess I’ll summarize it by saying his speech to me is like when your kid gets caught doing something wrong and tries to explain his way out of it, but it’s so incoherent that it’s almost funny. You know that somewhere in their head, they think they can talk their way out of it but they absolutely can’t.

I’m going with the Frankie’ speech to text disclaimer. I’m not even gonna go proofread it.

For those who didn’t want the federal government getting involved in state government and politics.
“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care,” Trump said at a private White House event Wednesday.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things,” he said. “They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal.”

@silvermouse said:
Think of all the money we will.make if we sell more weapons

This has been a disturbing phenomenon for a long, long time. I've always felt that if a country cannot build a jet fighter or missile or tank or whatever the weapons system du jour for themselves, then they don't need one.

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
--D D Eisenhower

Full farewell speech here:

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address