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No WSO on the EX is what I was told.

For the fun times that come with a WSO maybe?

The plan: Keeping the shit to shoe level - Work with Israel and partners quietly to disrupt and eliminate threats - Deter and reduce Iranian influence - Destroy the Houthi movement attempting to restrict access to international water ways to anyone but Chinese,Iranian ships - Hold at risk Iran while attempting to negotiate a decent nuclear deal - Keep an eye on Turkey - Intervene minimally in Syria to prevent reversion to another version of the IS All if those missions are to keep the Chinese out. It’s not perfect but it’s better than ceding it to them as a sphere of influence Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So asking why we’re bombing people makes me the racist? I just want someone.. anyone to tell me wtf the plan is here. I see a lot of cheerleading in this thread as if our policies in the Middle East haven’t been a continuous string of political and ethical disasters for at least 20 years.

Not blind hate, just old and typed the wrong job position. Thanks for the correction. If it was blind hate, I'd post daily about cosplay ice barbie shit, Hesgeth shit, Elon shit, and stupid Trump shit. But you all can read headlines. Here's an emoji 🍻

I rarely play short ball in the market and that strategy has worked out ok for me. As of today the DOW is only down 1.5% over the past six months. I was very fortunate to have a bunch of cash sitting on the sideline from a recent business deal. Using a professional I bought several blue chips on the dips (including NVDIA at $96, IBM at $227 and Microsoft at $360), and am now WAY up for 2025. YMMV I love the laugh comment from Day Man...must have been shorting.

Channeling your inner Al Sharpton...when he proves you wrong you pivot to vague racist comments?

Biden (and coalition) bombing the houthis for the fifth time in January of this year https://apnews.com/article/biden-houthis-yemen-shipping-attacks-fc5c1ed40f4e370bed81670bfdda0899# Obama - my mistake.. hard to keep track of which group of baddie brown people are the latest hotness. So I ask again, how is it going to be different this time and why is the president pursuing a strategy he actively mocked as stupid and futile during the campaign.

Wrong: Obama took it to AQAP (which was in gang war with the Houthis) Wrong: Biden took steps to remove the Houthis from the target list (removed from the Terror list) Right: Saudis bombed the Houthis. Too bad we're not playing baseball, otherwise, your .333 batting average might be impressive.

Just when you think we have hit peak WTF....... https://www.thefp.com/p/the-naked-truth-about-the-sperm-race

Maybe im just the dirty hippy around here but Obama, Biden, and the Saudis bombed the houthis for the better part of two decades (which Trump called stupid during the campaign) so what exactly is gonna be different this time? Actually I know what’s different.. we’re taking significantly more losses this time

Seaplane news https://www.twz.com/air/liberty-lifter-ekronoplan-demonstrator-aims-to-lift-c-130-sized-payloads I think a C-130 seaplane would be easier but whatever

China trying to cut training time too, much different scale than the. USAF but everyone is looking at changes https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-report-china-pilot-training-time/ At first I thought it was ridiculously long for training but after awhile I thought they might have a point. I know that is not the way the wind is blowing in the AF right now but BO is a free for all… Why not take 18+ months maybe up to 2 years to train a military pilot not just a pilot? More flying, more experience, exposure and familiarity with concepts necessary for all USAF pilots regardless of what aircraft they drop out of training? There would be a bit o’ academics in this longer program on the how, why and what we do to execute the missions. Not talking WIC level but why not as they are learning the basics introduce the high level concepts and as they progress delve a bit deeper The payoff is in likely reduced training time in the MDS these guys get assigned to as they will already have a better base to work from versus the first time being in a $50k per hour jet learning task X. 6-9 months basic flying training plus high level overview of AirPower in the strategic plan plus some history. 6-9 months introductory military flying plus medium level overview of planning/concepts for operations. 6-9 months advanced military flying training plus simulated operational training. No idle time, allow SERE/water/mobility to be done prior to graduation, no pushing off to the FTU training that should be done prior to winging and training. Rehash of previous posts but so be it.

Disgusting.

Huh? So much blind hate you have zero clue what is going on...shocking. I know details don't matter to you you but Marco Rubio is and remains Sec State. Waltz was the National Security Advisor.

In case anyone has forgotten who the bad guys are: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/europe/ukrainian-journalist-russia-torture-intl

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Introducing the first to go, former NSA, Mike Waltz. 100 Days. Yeah yeah, he's gonna UN. That's almost worse, because he can get fired again. And its the UN, something Trump doesn't care anything about.

Saigon was falling. President Ford was playing golf. By March 1975, the situation in Vietnam, and South Vietnam specifically, was dire. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, the last in a long line of military dictators propped up by the United States was, according to historian Edward Rasen, “making decisions based on his daily astrological chart, while Graham Martin, U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, had terminated daily CIA briefings, threatened to ‘cut the balls off’ CIA Saigon station chief Tom Polgar, and was becoming increasingly detached from the reality on the ground.” Amid the rapidly accumulating military losses in South Vietnam, President Gerald Ford was in Palm Springs, California, on an eight-day Easter holiday. Staying with his golfing buddy, Fred C. Wilson, founder of the Trans World Insurance Company, Ford played several rounds of golf, including one with Bob Hope, Leon Parma and William G. Salatich, president of the Gillette Company. On March 31, 1975, Ford dodged reporters by breaking out into an all-out sprint when asked by a reporter what he was doing about the “military losses of the South Vietnam Government,” according to a report by the New York Times. Receiving a report on April 5 from Gen. Fred Weyand, Army chief of staff and former commander of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), who had just departed Saigon after assessing the situation, the president was told amid the luxe background of Palm Springs that “the current military situation is critical and the probability of the survival of South Vietnam as a truncated nation is marginal at best.” Just 19 days later, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissenger, in an urgent cable to Graham Martin, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, wrote that his “ass isn’t covered. I can assure you I will be hanging several yards higher than you when this is all over”... Full article at title link

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Define "realistic way." It's a fairly ironic thing for you to say considering that in two posts you make this suggestion: Exactly which system do you exist under? Are you suggesting that the legislature create a new form of the judiciary that is not subject to appeal or review? Would this fast track system exist without a path to the supreme Court? Exactly what is a "fast track court" and how much funding do they require? Do the Republicans get to pick the judges for these courts? Would the illegal immigrants still have the right to taxpayer-funded legal counsel? Are we going to fund "fast track attorneys" to handle this process? There certainly aren't enough public defenders to handle 20 million immigration cases "quick(er)", so would these fast-track attorneys be required only two weeks of law school instead of the full 3 to 4 years? Personally, I love the idea of an immigration court with no right to appeal and Trump-selected judges that will run through ~ 5,000 cases per day. Unfortunately, even then it would take 11 years with no holidays or weekends to process the 20 million illegal immigrants floating around our country. Now, who's not addressing things in a realistic way again? There is, flat out, no realistic way to provide millions and millions of illegal immigrants the due process that we would consider constitutional for an American citizen. That is an inescapable reality. The progressives are making this argument because they know the only solution under this context is amnesty, because we will bankrupt ourselves before we are able to process that many people through our current legal system. As I said before, I am 100% in support of due process for any illegal immigrant that we are attempting to put into prison. But sending you back to the country you came from is not punishment. It is simply a response, and a rational one. And if you as an illegal alien parent decide to take your American citizen child (anchor baby) with you, that is not equivalent to deporting an American citizen. That is a mother choosing to stay with her child. There is a very real debate around the criminal illegal aliens that we sent to a Salvadorian prison. Unless they were Salvadorian in the first place, in which case, I don't care what El Salvador does with them once we sent them back. That tactic needs Supreme Court review. You just don't like the answers you're getting. That doesn't equal dodging the question.

Valid, and it also describes 99% of the gov, regardless of political affiliation. The whole lot of congress is mostly rhetoric and nil action. It’s all about elections and not about getting shit done, whether R, D, or I.

You're almost doing the meme! I would prefer the United States not be flooded with third world immigrants, regardless of their legal status or propensity for crime. The illegal ones certainly shouldn't be rewarded with a fast-track to permanent residency or citizenship. They should be removed swiftly. The more people from those regions come to my country, the more my country will resemble the places those immigrants are fleeing from. Naturally, I don't want that. Presenting the bipartisan border bill proposed in 2024 as a meaningful solution to the illegal immigration crisis immediately discredits you as either uninformed or bad-faith, I don't know which. Did you read the language of the bill itself or just the headlines at the time? It would have permitted thousands of daily border crossings without any enforcement mechanism, given immigration jurisdiction to partisan courts, and more. We do have a Republican president and legislature, though. You're right about that. And the fact that they aren't working together to pump out legislation to solidify and implement the political will of the American electorate is part of the reason that I would never in a thousand years call myself a Republican or conservative.