pawnman

Don't know about NSPlayer, but I'm also very pro-immigration. But I don't think that means we just bus people in and dump them in a random city. We have visa processes for work visas and student visas. My step 1 would be to keep and expedite those processes while removing the caps. Anyone who wants to work or study in the US can, but you don't get a visa until you show you've got a job or you've been accepted by a university. Anyone who graduates from an American college, no matter what country they're from, no longer has to leave and re-apply for a work visa. Upon graduation, you get 1 year to find and keep a job. If you have a job a year after graduation, it's an automatic renewal of your visa. Keep a job in the US for three years or more, we offer you citizenship (as long as you pass the other requirements). I'd scrap the whole H1-B program. You wanna work, someone wants to hire you, come on in. No reason to limit it just to "specific technical knowledge". The part that would be real unpopular with Dems is that I would invest HUGE amounts of money into Customs and Border Patrol so that we can expedite these visas. There's no reason in a country with as much wealth as we have, with so many employers begging for workers, that people should be waiting over a year to immigrate legally. Make it quick, fast, and cheap, pretty soon you simplify your problems - the only people coming in illegally are the ones looking to do something illegal. Getting a visa should be much closer to getting a driver's license or a passport than the years-long process we currently have.

Scarce resources, as in, less than 1% of the DoD budget? Cheapest and most effective military spending we've ever invested in.

And, as people so often seem to forget, oil. Oil is a global market. Diminishing supplies in Europe drive up prices in the US, even if we're drilling for that oil here in the US. And higher prices on oil drive prices up on pretty much everything else, because it's all carried by trucks and planes.

California doesn't exactly make it easy either.

Did he hand out the purple heart in his home church? https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/bidens-story-about-uncle-frank-doesnt-add-up/

Wasn't it Bill Burr who said he'd blow a dude for $10 million? "You spend a million dollars on mouthwash, you still have $9 million!"

Guessing he's also upset that the bonus is too low, the Air Force is too small, and that we aren't buying enough new aircraft.

Are there a lot of black Catholic churches in Delaware?

Ah. So covid is not, in fact, a power grab to make the rich richer. Glad we agree.

Well, let's start with the one at hand. If you believe covid was just a conspiracy to make rich people richer, why serious you oppose taking that wealth from them?

"The rich executed a huge transfer of wealth to themselves over the last two years! " "So let's tax it and use it to benefit the poor" "Fuck you, the rich already pay enough in taxes!" I guess I'm not following the argument. What would you like to do to remedy this situation?

Remind me... the argument against gas stoves is that they negatively impact cognitive performance, right?

I agree. If China invaded the west coast, at what point do you think the US would negotiate a settlement that gave up Hawaii, Alaska, California, Oregon, and Washington?

There's a record of me owning A gun. That's very different than a registry of every gun I own now or have ever owned. I don't think we're too far off from registering guns the way we do cars... every year, for each one you own, and by the way, the state wants a fee for it.

If you're really on JWICS everyday, then you must know that Russia is a major global competitor that attempted to influence both the 2016 and 2020 elections. You can't possibly believe that the US isn't better off with a weakened Russian military, especially if you're on JWICS every day.

Let me know when a major global competitor starts getting their ass handed to them by Nigeria. We're not funding Ukraine because we love Ukraine. We're funding Ukraine because it is a unique opportunity to significantly degrade a major global competitor.

The Space Force is only requiring something like 90 minutes of activity a week, not wearing a tracking device 24/7.

My concern is to not follow other great powers who could never be invaded or who had unprecedented military power. I don't want us to follow the road of the English Empire.

Because waiting to be invaded and hoping your adversary has terrible logistics isn't a great strategy. If Russia were competent and less corrupt, this easily could have gone much, much worse.

We do not have the largest standing military in history. China does. Which is a good reason not to slash our budget.

100%. No matter how much we've given Ukraine, it's a fraction of our annual DoD budget. We are witnessing the wholesale destruction of a near-peer's military capability with zero US lives spent. It would be a bargain at twice the price.

Self-immolation? You mean being a darling of the party in power and levying that into a high six-figure job with CNN where he'll only have to work a couple days a week, for an hour at a time? God, I wish I could sabotage my own career that successfully.

I've never known AFPC to meet a suspense, either their own or an external one.