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High tariffs will just be passed along to consumers, amirite? But higher corporate taxes won't be?

I don't understand why the Left doesn't seem to understand that business as usual and printing money will eventually lead to a sovereign debt crisis. Then massive cuts to government services will happen regardless. Perhaps it's better to get ahead of the curve and try to prioritize? Also, don't understand their continued insistence that we have a taxation problem rather than a spending problem. You could zero out the defense budget, confiscate all of the wealth of the top 10%, and we are still going to go bankrupt at the rate we are going. Nor do I have much faith the Establishment GOP will reign in spending either.

No kidding. I was surprised to learn it goes all the way back to Harry Truman against Thomas Dewey in 1948. If the Republicans were actual Nazis, one would think they would have been able to impose a fascist state in the intervening nearly 80 years...

If blues are going to be mandatory, could they at least be brought up to 21st Century technology and be wash-and-wear? There is a company that even makes suits that can be washed in a washing machine and worn and it looks just fine.

Haven't they taken a look at how the AF does its RW training at Novosel? Maybe have some recent AF RW grads do Army checkrides and vice versa to see what the gaps are?

There is definitely a difference between moral courage (which is lacking it seems) and physical courage (we don't seem to be short of this) as you point out.

https://alert5.com/2024/12/09/are-elite-u-s-navy-pilots-suffering-brain-injuries/#more-100974 So in addition to the higher cancer rates, pulling lots of Gs can also give you TBI? Was a B-1 bubba so not an issue for me but just curious how many fighter types have seen this.

I would always get false positives on the yearly puff test and then I would have to do the Goldman test. Turns out I had abnormally thick corneas and so the Air Force made me do PRK surgery (or I would have been grounded according to my flight surgeon at the time). The PRK surgery fixed the issue.

OIF

We are a Republic, not a Democracy. Democracy is two wolves and sheep deciding on what's for dinner. A Republic is two wolves, a sheep, and sheep dog deciding. Anyways, none of this or the debate would matter if the Federal Government hadn't grown into such a leviathan consuming 40% of the economy. Before we got to such a point, it didn't matter all that much who was president because the Feds didn't have control over so much of your life. Now every election is do or die...

I thought some Army space units were subsumed into the USSF. Probably one of those folks.

Unfathomable? Immigration turned California from red to a one-party blue state where in many races the Republicans don't even bother to run a candidate.

I struggle to think of what one would differently if one were deliberately trying to destroy the USA from within...

Why, it's like they are trying to lay the groundwork for a mass genocide of their political enemies...

Medicare fraud is estimated at $20B a year and there's probably a similar amount in Food Stamps, Social Security Disability, etc. and Uncle Sam ain't lifting a figure to stop any of that.