All Activity

You must have missed it, because multiple companies are doing exactly that, in addition to other related investments. Trillions invested, not just billions. Check news source.

Last year while driving, a dude cuts 2 lanes over and no signal, in front of a Sheriff's car no less. At the light, Deputy just gets on the the loudspeaker, calls him out, and tells him to use his blinker. A few honks from surrounding cars and a waive out the window from dude. Effective?

Close to the 1.5 year mark of the process, but I finally got my approval from NGB at the end of March. Still unclear how OTS and UCT dates are requested since some of the process is different for an off the street guy supposedly. Anyway, here is my timeline: Timeline (Prior Army AD, Break in service) AFOQT: Early October 2022 TBAS: Late October 2022 MEPS (for a different program that didn't pan out): March 2023 Interview: 2 October 2023 Verbal Offer: 3 October 2023 SG Waiver for enlistment submitted: 20 November 2023 SG Waiver returned for consult & documents: 7 December 2023 Consult & documents submitted to SG: 28 December 2023 SG Waiver Approved: 19 January 2024 Swearing In: 29 January 2024 FC1A: Exam on 13 April 2024, Routed by MDG on 3 July 2024, Approved 9 August 2024 (no waivers) A2A Sent: 31 October 2024 (recruiting was swamped for a while) State Approval: 10 December 2024 NGB Approval: 27 March 2025 OTS: ___ UCT: ___

Great final four games mostly

Gators squeaked by for the title.

Because the political discussions here don't matter. They are mostly people who enjoy the pursuit of knowledge and the mental exercise of defending and dissecting ideas. Civility is maintained through the shared experience of military service and the occasional necessary banning. It's not worth engaging with someone in that context who isn't going to converse honestly. The goal is to be right, not to win. What you do when your point is defeated is very different between those opposing goals.

Also I’m not a democrat, what is “my party” you speak of?

Surely, you’re now limited to two posts a day of sharing anything from X. By all means, debate and enjoy the nonsense, but scale back on reposting random stuff from X.

Why?

It's just a test to see if you are willing to lie to support your party. A Republican version of this test might be: "Do you believe Donald Trump knew he was keeping Classified documents that he wasn't supposed to have." Avoiding the question isn't exactly failing the test, but it is a warning sign.

I literally went to their website after your post and showed you that you were wrong. So you can’t answer the question: Can a person who is born a boy become a girl? Why should we take anything you say seriously when you can’t answer a simple yes or no question?

When I posted it, it was correct. Go ahead and prove that their first story on it wasn’t at 10 PM. To your question, are you trying to tell us something about yourself? Or do you just sit at home and fume about people’s genitalia in your free time? The talk radio mind rot gotchu bad bb.

Kind of like how you said there wasn’t any mention on FoxNews the other day when the market took a big hit and yet you were clearly wrong. Here’s a question for you: Can a person who is born a boy become a girl?

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article303655371.html Turns out that even when you reduce your tariffs to 0, the current US is so unpredictable that that is not enough. There is literally no proof that what you said will mean anything - just as your Vietnam point was pointless. If it’s about deficits, there’s nothing we can do but enjoy the depression.

It’s a good thing this clown is using emergency power for such an imminent threat since the other party controls both chambers of Congress and he couldn’t possibly pass legislation regarding a massive tax increase.

Who would have known they had so many uses!

These tariffs won't do a darned thing to encourage "reindustrialization." No company is dropping a billion dollars on a factory that will open in five years on the assumption that the administration will remain consistent on tariffs for that long.

Maybe we would know the reason behind the tariffs if the admin would pick one from their ever-growing laundry list of disjointed grievances and good idea fairies.. Tariffs are solely negotiating tool to get Canada and Mexico to crack down on border policy.. oh wait no it’s actually a negotiating tool to get other countries to reduce their tariffs on us.. oh wait no actually those countries don’t even have tariffs on us in many cases, it’s to remedy trade deficits which are a ripoff somehow.. oh wait no it’s actually that tariffs are a good thing and will literally make us rich.. oh wait no it’s actually to nerf trade so we bring back manufacturing.. oh wait no it’s actually to deliberately crash the economy to refinance our debt at a lower interest rate..

Tariffs are not the only options, this is just round 1, don’t see this happening but the BAT is an option also https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/border-adjustment-tax.asp Tariffs are necessary right now as countries like all people all around the world lie, cheat and steal. While not a precise weapon they are getting the message across. I’ll concede that they will initially cause some cost increases in the economy, only means we need more internal deregulation, lower and simpler taxes and policy to encourage reindustrialization. Economic efficiency is not corollary to sound national security. Like insurance, warranties and backup systems, sometimes you pay more than necessary for reasons. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, but this is why free trade is better than "impeded" trade. I don't think many people are arguing that we are better off if everyone applies tariffs to all trade. But what has been missed is what happens in an imbalanced trade regime. No, I don't mean one country buying more than the other. I mean when one country imposes trade barriers on another that is otherwise not reciprocating the barriers, the imbalance can create long-term outflows that have delayed effects far more detrimental than the tariff itself. I recall Yaron Brook making a libertarian argument that almost single-handedly broke my identity as a libertarian. He said if there are two shoe stores in a shopping center, and one is doing business the normal way, but the other has a rich uncle that is subsidizing the shop, allowing them to sell shoes at a much lower price, why should you care? You just get the better price which is better for you. That's it. "The market" will sort out the shoe stores, either by bankrupting the rich uncle or killing the "fair" shoe store, and the survivor will set prices at market rate. Two problems. First, this is anticompetitive behavior that even the US gets touchy with, for good reason. You can see this with Microsoft today. When a new cool product comes out, Microsoft makes a shitty version and includes it in their inescapable Office bundle knowing companies will not spend more for the better product if they are already getting a weaker version "for free." They wait until the new company collapses, then they raise the price of the bundle to account for the addition of the shitty version. In the short term, yeah, the customer got a deal. But in the long term "the market" suffocated a new product in the womb because a behemoth had the capital to crush them, *not* compete with a better product. This is bad. But more importantly, we aren't a shoe shop. We are a nation, and I *do* care if my nation (or specific industries within) are driven into insolvency by unfair competition. We do not have the option of losing. There is a lot (most) of international trade that is a great deal for us. But in many cases countries are using the Rich Uncle of government to undercut the US. Obviously China, and once they have a stranglehold on an industry, surprise surprise, up go the prices. We absolutely should punish nations that subsidize their industry. Not with the goal of ending them, but in a manner that ensures they cannot undercut our businesses through the practice. "Reciprocal," if you will.