arg Posted February 2 Posted February 2 (edited) 14 hours ago, uhhello said: This is real life. Grab a beer or three and listen to whole thing. After all that, look who they elected as chair Edited February 2 by arg 1
brabus Posted February 3 Posted February 3 (edited) 7 hours ago, 17D_guy said: Are you really saying Canada, who we've been aligned with culturally, military, economically for at least 100 years isn't an ally? They were ride or die with us in Afghanistan. Let's planes land in their county on 9/11 and took those people into their homes. Not an ally? What is an ally then? No I’m not saying that all. But looking back I realize how I wrote that could be taken that way, so I don’t blame you for the response. A better way to say it is just because they’re an ally doesn’t mean they don’t face repercussions for actions (and lack of actions) leading to negative outcomes for our country. The carrot hasn’t worked, so here’s the stick. They don’t get anymore free passes just because they’re an ally. Furthermore, as an ally they should act like it and do a lot better WRT border-related issues. We’ll see how long this lasts; my guess is not horribly long as they realize they’re economically way outside our league. Edited February 3 by brabus 1
Biff_T Posted February 3 Posted February 3 On 2/1/2025 at 8:04 PM, uhhello said: This is real life. Grab a beer or three and listen to whole thing. WTF did I just watch? The guy had the reading ability of a 4th grader. We have to elect a make believer to make our process fair. These people need to see a war zone.
SurelySerious Posted February 3 Posted February 3 WTF did I just watch? The guy had the reading ability of a 4th grader. We have to elect a make believer to make our process fair. These people need to see a war zone. That’s the thing, Biff. Having to go through life espousing a platform like men believing they’re women being a totally normal thing is a war zone, haven’t you heard? All those C Model guys have been at war this whole time, we just didn’t hear their story. 3
lloyd christmas Posted February 3 Posted February 3 https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-hogg-becomes-democratic-national-223229111.html https://babylonbee.com/news/to-announce-theyve-given-up-completely-dnc-selects-david-hogg-as-vice-chair
GrndPndr Posted February 3 Posted February 3 (edited) On 2/2/2025 at 9:50 AM, brabus said: Actively tariffing two “allies” who continue to not GAF about our shared borders and are directly contributing to significant amounts of American deaths and general degradation of society. Trump uses tariffs as leverage, and he has been extremely successful at wielding them. CA and Mex are welcome to FAFO, or they can start actually doing something about the shit they let pour into our country. <snip> Yes, most folks don't understand that Trump is using these as a leverage for negotiations. I'll argue in that vein (sts) that it is working so far, he has reactions from everybody who's been "tariffed." Otherwise he would be like the previous POTUS, who sat there with hi d*ck in his hand, doing nothing. Edited February 3 by GrndPndr forgot a word 1 1
GrndPndr Posted February 3 Posted February 3 39 minutes ago, GrndPndr said: Yes, most folks don't understand that Trump is using these as a leverage for negotiations. I'll argue in that vein (sts) that it is working so far, he has reactions from everybody who's been "tariffed." Otherwise he would be like the previous POTUS, who sat there with hi d*ck in his hand, doing nothing. et voilà ! Mexico president makes deal with Trump to pause tariffs for a month, put 10K troops on border 1
LookieRookie Posted February 3 Posted February 3 22 hours ago, Smokin said: USAID is basically a government version of an NGO charity and we would laugh if Doctors Without Borders tried to deny an auditor information because it was classified. Additionally, if the President directed it, then security clearances and classification are completely irrelevant as he has ultimate classification authority. If he wants them to look at our space sharks with lasers program, that's his prerogative. Maybe DOGE guys should have done the security paperwork, but there are also a lot of security process stuff that DOGE could address so working within the bureaucratic system to drastically change that system seems a bit counterproductive. Elon has brought in some random tech bro 20 year olds to help him. (Some graduating high school in 2022) Those people don’t have clearances and should absolutely not have access to classified material without proper security clearance vetting/training.
jrizzell Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Elon has brought in some random tech bro 20 year olds to help him. (Some graduating high school in 2022) Those people don’t have clearances and should absolutely not have access to classified material without proper security clearance vetting/training. Both things are true. Is there fraud in USAID funding, I’m sure there is. It doesn’t excuse having uncleared personnel access US Government networks, that’s totally unacceptable Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app 1
brabus Posted February 3 Posted February 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, GrndPndr said: et voilà ! Mexico president makes deal with Trump to pause tariffs for a month, put 10K troops on border Maybe it’s not 4D chess, but in less than 24 hrs from my initial post regarding tariffs on our allies, we have wildly succeeded with one of them. CA will soon follow. I’m not in blind support of tariffs, but I am open minded and so far in the last month (including before he took office) Trump has been wildly successful with them, whether via actual implementation or threat of. So far we’ve seen tons of leftist doomsdayers proven wrong multiple times on this front. Remains to be seen how a long term tariff strategy works, but the “we’re so fucked!” cries on X, etc. are laughable. Edited February 3 by brabus 1 1
gearhog Posted February 3 Posted February 3 2 hours ago, GrndPndr said: et voilà ! Mexico president makes deal with Trump to pause tariffs for a month, put 10K troops on border I had been cautiously optimistic about what this admin could/would accomplish. I know this is a bad analogy, but for some reason the only one that comes to mind: I was in high school in 1992 when the rules were changed to allow the "Dream Team" play in the Olympics. I couldn't wait to see how they would do. When they were finally on the court, it was just overwhelming domination of every player from every country they competed against. They outmaneuvered their opponents seemingly every play of every game. Amazing to watch. America ended up in first place, over 100 points in every game, average 50 point spread. This may or may not continue, but it's pretty awesome right now. 2
gearhog Posted February 3 Posted February 3 The hilarity never ends. Just wow. 🤣 https://x.com/clashreport/status/1886489936028696939
HeloDude Posted February 3 Posted February 3 For some reason I don’t seem to care what the progressives think about Trump or his team/what they’re doing for the country, when those same progressives over the last decade have told us how evil the US is… 1 1
uhhello Posted February 3 Posted February 3 42 minutes ago, HeloDude said: For some reason I don’t seem to care what the progressives think about Trump or his team/what they’re doing for the country, when those same progressives over the last decade have told us how evil the US is… Agreed. They are more than welcome to come up with better ways to get it done but the track record for the progressive side isn't quite spectacular. Also, they seem to be doubling down on going farther left of center based off the DNC elections. 1 1
Lord Ratner Posted February 3 Posted February 3 5 hours ago, GrndPndr said: Yes, most folks don't understand that Trump is using these as a leverage for negotiations. I'll argue in that vein (sts) that it is working so far, he has reactions from everybody who's been "tariffed." Otherwise he would be like the previous POTUS, who sat there with hi d*ck in his hand, doing nothing. To be fair to the other side, it's not actually clear that he's using these solely as a negotiating tool. When the president talks about the wonders of President McKinley, the only way to interpret that is that the tariffs are part of a plan to fund the government. Now I happen to support that plan, but it certainly pours water over the argument that Trump is just trying to twist everybody's arm with tariffs. At a certain point, unless we want to that inflation run wild, increase income taxes, and all the other stuff that will be required to bring our debt under control, tariffs are a pretty great way to fund your government. There's a reason so many places use them.
gearhog Posted February 4 Posted February 4 (edited) I had to open up my FlightRadar account to see if this was true. Rivet Joint orbiting near Sinaloa, Mexico. F yeah. Edited February 4 by gearhog 5
tac airlifter Posted February 4 Posted February 4 3 hours ago, Banzai said: But to what end? If we are bringing back manufacturing, shouldn’t tariffs stand? Or is that not really what’s happening? Gives real GWB mission accomplished vibes, something that has happened before: Lets his base think he did something because they won’t look into it deeply, but in reality nearly all of the Canadian promises (including the $1.3B of spending) were made during the Biden admin back in December, and the Mexican promises are mirrors to to previous Biden concessions (that didn’t work) as well. The recent agreement is only a 30 day tariff pause, during which time we confirm Mexico & Canada are meeting terms.
ClearedHot Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Hearing there is a bit of a crisis at AFPC as a lot of civilians are quitting over the return to work mandate. Didn't realize they had that many work from home types. Also hearing the staff at TPS got hammered, they are all remote.
dream big Posted February 5 Posted February 5 1 hour ago, ClearedHot said: Hearing there is a bit of a crisis at AFPC as a lot of civilians are quitting over the return to work mandate. Didn't realize they had that many work from home types. Also hearing the staff at TPS got hammered, they are all remote. Whelp, maybe that’s why they always jack up orders and it takes them forever.
17D_guy Posted February 5 Posted February 5 1 hour ago, dream big said: Whelp, maybe that’s why they always jack up orders and it takes them forever. I retired admits the craziness of COVID (out in June). Once they all went remote all the delays in civilian hiring ceased. It was amazing how fast we got position descriptions approved. Additionally there are people that can still provide for the mission but are medically unable to be in the office. This is one of my wife's workers, he works on the F-22 test program. Probably going to have to quit and go on disability now.
ClearedHot Posted February 5 Posted February 5 It was reported today that a staggering 38% of the FBI's field agents were assigned to investigate the Jan 6th. All the crime in the country and the FBI dedicated that much of our capability to investigate some idiots running around the capital and one police officer who died of a heart attack. 5
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