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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.

Sovereignty? California legalized illegal immigrants serving as police officers a couple of years ago. Let that sink in..

Sorry if this the wrong thread to post this at but seeing Steve Davies post at the top reminds me that if you haven't seen his Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRC6h8Vk4d2a9hHDrS1hMA) 10% True, you are missing out. Tons of great aviation interviews on there.

Meh, we all did stupid stuff as lieutenants. 'Course the AF doesn't find out about most of it. I'm still waiting for the hammer to drop on some of shenanigans I pulled as a Lt and I've been retired for 7 years.

I think that's their whole point. It's President Obama's third term after all (given most of President Biden's staff are from President Obama's administration) and if you wanted to run this country into the ground, what would you have done differently?

If you are pro-open borders, what did you take an oath to defend? Genuinely curious.

I believe you can judge someone by who they call their friends. Hamas considers Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, The Squad, etc. their friends (and vice versa). All evil and wicked. That should tell you all you need to know.

Probably won't be beyond the realm of possible to scrape the internet to find pictures of military kids and use AI to create a fake image of them in front of their school or at little league practice and text those to military parents with a warning. Or imagine you're a FO/GO and you get a text that if you participate in ops against China all of your bank and retirements have been hacked and it will all disappear. I'm sure they would do their duty but what a mindf$@ck. The possibilities for troublemaking are endless and it would work far better against us than against our adversaries...

I don't get the Dem's vice grip on the African-American vote either. The Dems seem to only care about issues important to that community every 4 years- otherwise it's lip service. Also, an argument can be made that the rampant illegal immigration the Dems are in favor of has hurt blue-collar African-Americans in the trades more than any other group but still 90% vote for the Dems.