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Good, we need less bureaucratic layers and the bureaucrats that come with them. Maybe it will also help reduce the constant desire to spread us all over the world doing all the things all the time.

@Lord Ratner I hear you and generally agree. But, I don’t consider Trump unserious. He’s very serious about many topics. His unserious trolling and other character flaws do not make his seriousness in many areas not exist. @17D_guy My point is they ALL are flawed, and in most cases, shitty people to varying degrees. Truly “good dudes” don’t run for office and don’t make it to the federal level (save a few outliers). Since basically no good core humans exist at the fed level, might as well put the emotion aside and look at plans, policies, voting records, results, etc. That’s the shit that affects us. The personality type stuff is for the reality TV-overloaded smooth brains who think purely emotionally and not logically.

Not if people prioritize policy, actions, results, etc. over a personality contest. That said, much of America is incapable of unemotional logic/critical thought, so yeah, probably wise to bet on the emotions winning out. Hopefully I’m wrong on that.

Pretty dumb post, wish he would just keep these thoughts to himself. Alas, it’s impossible.

I can’t believe states get away with laws that blatantly violate the constitution. How has every single one not been eradicated by SCOTUS cases at this point; it’s insanity.

There was a time when actual assimilation was demanded. It would not work out well for an immigrant who didn’t fully assimilate. Fast forward to today when all the soft, ignorant people practically advocate for the exact opposite. Personally, I think there’s a balance between the Ellis Island heyday and current day. That balance is something like you don’t have to change your name, completely erase your heritage, forget your native language, etc. But, you must assimilate to western values and way of life, as well as abide by our laws. We also should not be bending over backwards to placate to what “you” came from. If you don’t like learning English and adapting to American society, then GTFO and go back to wherever you came from.

You see it at the local levels too. People may get into it for altruistic reasons, but it doesn’t take long for most to be captivated by the attention, the feeling of power, “being someone important,” etc. Phase 1 - I’m here to make good changes and clean this mess up! Phase 2 - I like this attention and power Phase 3 - Do what I can to enrich myself and close allies while pretending I’m “just a regular Joe like all of you [suckers]!”

For what?

DFP: Why did jets fall off the boat? RC: Pornhub IF: Remove WiFi and morale

Those pockets aren’t going to line themselves!

The cartels have exhibited the same traits as “well known/accepted as” terrorist organizations for a long time. I’m glad we’ve finally formally designated at least some of them as “official” terrorist organizations.

Of course the other side of the coin is how violently the left targets anyone who’s not lock step with them. I do understand the dilemma of protecting one’s identity for the safety of their family (and their own). But I also hate the 3rd world/thug-likeness as well. Not sure what the right answer is.

Takeaway - never trust Red Crown, avoid as far as tactically feasible.

I believe so, but then an updated AUMF was floated. Not sure where that all stands right now. @busdriver From what I can find it seems like WPA (president can take action against national security threats) was initially cited, but generally they’ve moved to citing the AUMF (which is a standard play this century). But yes, legal jiu jitsu. I think AUMF needs to be reined in, but it’s important the president retains authority granted in the WPA. Reagan was very against the WPA limitations as they relate to terrorists, and I do agree to an extent. Maybe the right answer is don’t kill the AUMF, but do update it.

Boat was the primary target, it was not destroyed with first shot, so follow up was taken. Not our legal problem if two guys decided to get back on.

OK, that is more a reasonable take, apologies for not understanding that initially. The 2001 AUMF has been very broadly applied to target terrorist without regard for location. Historically the current strikes are fairly inline with precedence. Now that said, I completely see the logic in Congress wanting to update this to rein it in. Additionally in accordance with the WPA, the president always has the authority to conduct mil operations when “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces". Certainly can be debated if throwing drugs at the American population is an “attack upon the US.” Keep in mind China is very involved in this from a supporting role, so I can absolutely see the argument that this is an attack, albeit not in the “traditional sense” with bombs or missiles. Bottom line, a lot nuance and gray area with valid perspectives on both sides of the debate, and therefore it is not currently a “black and white, crosses the line” situation.

@Swizzle Never stopped in the CAF. Still see pretty solid names, though obvious “super non-pc” ones aren’t going to stick. Still holding out hope in the 11th hour of my career that I won’t see VBF erased from the board!

Rand Paul is full of hot air. From everything I’ve seen, including the first strike video, there wasn’t anything that remotely even touched the line. It went down like thousands of strikes we’ve conducted for decades. Anybody who’s actually done this shit knows this is a total nothing burger. And if we want to get political, I can think of several strikes I’ve seen under Obama that would apparently have our cities on fire by leftist had they known about them (except they wouldn’t care since it was Obama and not Trump). And FWIW, nothing illegal about those strikes either, but the optics are a billion times worse than this boat.

@busdriver Possible. But the point I was more addressing is the ludicrously stupid, general uproar about war crimes, no due process, they’re just civilians on boats that DEVGRU executed in cold blood against all laws, etc. I have no idea if Hegseth said those exact words, but I do know all of the left’s complaining and wailing about terrorist getting killed, how it’s “illegal,” etc is political ballwash and has zero credibility to it.

What’s your point?

For sure there was telephone game involved. That still doesn’t absolve any of the dumbassery involved in said string of comms, ranging from outright lying to putting little to no effort into legitimately corroborating statements. Par for the course for MSM and anyone willing to feed that machine. Generally stated, shack on nuisance and decision making. However in this case, based on the first strike video I saw, there wasn’t really any nuisance. It was clearly a DWE failure with following reattack. This one wasn’t even remotely questionable to anyone who actually knows anything about DWE and doesn’t have a political axe to grind.

It is wild how strongly the left sides with terrorist and criminals. But maybe it is just Occam's Razor: they’re so ruled by TDS that they’ll lose their shit over anything and everything they can even loosely connect to Trump, real or imagined. No capacity for nuisance and critical thought.

Well this got even more hilariously stupid. No DEVGRU on the boat executing people, just a target boat that wasn’t destroyed after the first shot (#hellfire, amirite!), so they shot it again to ensure a better F-Kill. OMG, that’s only happened hundreds of thousands of times across history. Guess many of us on here should also be convicted of war crimes. Absolute political hack job asshatery. See kids, this is why you don’t blindly believe fabricated political hit pieces masquerading as “factual news.”