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Bud, if anyone has revealed the true strength of power, its Trump. His unrestrained push against governing norms has rewritten the playback on how far an exec can push and still get away with it. When Dems do it Trump style, you shouldn't be surprised. Many here cheered Trump on, rah rah rah, "but his policies" and all, and now that the other side is pulling the same plays for their side, you're upset? Ironic, huh.

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As we inch closer to the mid-terms the left will continue to bang the "Orange Man Bad" drum while working in the background to dismantle America. The Virginia governor serves as the shinning beacon of that effort and could be in the mix for the next Presidential race. Despite claiming to be a moderate and refusing to condemn her racist Attorney General whose tests included death threats to an opponent's kids. She is off and running with extreme left policies including an attempt to get around SCOTUS with gun control Signed on May 14, this law prohibits the import, sale, manufacture, purchase, or transfer of certain semiautomatic firearms and magazines holding more than 15 rounds. Now she has signed a law designed to kill the Electoral College. Next will be an attempt to tax UNREALIZED Capital Gains.

This MOU is hot garbage. It’s also not a deal and pretty much meaningless. The obvious reason Trump signed this POS is the midterms coming up. We did well for 40 days, then the train went off the tracks with a dumb idea of a ceasefire. Should have never happened, and it just keeps getting worse with this latest thing.

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Here is an example. OK, can we put the thread back on track? The Cabinet.

Maybe you should read the actual debates the framers of the 14th amendment had. Neither the declaration of Independence nor the original Constitution addresses this situation, which is exactly why the 14th amendment had to be written. Thank God the founding fathers knew that we would one day have you to be the sole interpreter of their wisdom 🤣😂 I'm not sure how you can have an ad hominem against a political group, but okay. It also happens to be true. As far as the forum for identifying yourself as a citizen, I will accept the least formal and most rapid forum that results in a negligible number of improper citizen deportations. Since you've been unable to identify a single recent case of an American citizen being improperly deported, we could just assume that it hasn't happened. As for the historical cases, those all sound about right. I especially liked the part where the deported citizens got hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the government screw up. I'd be happy to 10x that penalty for any citizen involved in a similar miscarriage of Justice. That's not justification to tear it all down. There will always be fuck ups. Until then, from the time you are approached by the authorities (first opportunity), to the time you spend in a detention center awaiting processing with translators available (second opportunity), to an informal meeting with an immigration officer where you are allowed to make your case with phone and Internet access (third opportunity), to the time it takes to board your deportation flight (fourth opportunity), that would be plenty. But again this is all just an exercise false ignorance. You know damn well that proving citizenship isn't a problem. This is functionally identical to the voter ID debates that have been held in such bad faith by the left that it is almost beyond comprehension. It takes the same level of fake stupidity to believe that black people in America don't have access to identification as it does to believe that immigrants don't have access to proof of legal status. Do you have any immigrants in your family? My mother still has her green card number memorized. This just isn't a thing.

Straw man. You should re-read the declaration of independence and the constitution. You do not understand them. In what forum will you be proving this and to whom? Ad-hominin

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Well that lasted all of negative one day. Hezbollah (Iranian backed incase anyone forgot) kills four IDF soldiers and Israel hits them back...as is tradition.

Hey all, just chiming in as someone who got picked up for UCT a couple years ago. Knowing a lot of people out there want to go fighters, just wanted to share that it is definitely possible through UCT. F-15 WSO slots seemed to be the one consistent part of the UCT drops, around 3-5 every class out of 14-20 students. For reference, the average class probably had about 6 people who ranked them high on their dream sheet. There are so many other cool platforms CSO’s go to that the fighter slots sometimes aren’t that competitive to get! Just something I wish somebody put out there when I was applying.

Just to confirm with 100% certainty (this being the Aviation Medicine forum rather than the USAFR/AirNG forum), are you referring to a USAFR or Air National Guard unit? I ask because, as a layperson, I would not necessarily assume that a waiver-friendly environment on the active-duty USAF side automatically means waivers are being approved as readily on the Guard/Reserve side. I also assume you must be Guard or Reserve, because on the active-duty side the terminology would likely be different. On active duty, an enlisted airman who gets selected for UPT is generally taken by the Air Force and sent off to training, whereas in the Guard/Reserve world people often describe it as the unit "sending" someone to UPT. To further educate me, if you feel so inclined: when a Guard/Reserve unit hires someone for a UPT slot, are they typically hired as a DSG/TR first? Is it possible for someone to have an AGR position lined up from the beginning, or does that generally never happen? FYI, I have considered whether enlisting in the Air Guard or Air Force Reserve might make me a more competitive future UPT applicant (and because I might simply want to Aim High in general, like Clark Gable). However, I sometimes wonder whether enlisting at this stage of life could create complications. Once someone signs an enlistment contract, I imagine there is at least some possibility that obtaining a DD-368 later could become more difficult. Furthermore, a unit may not necessarily want one of its enlisted members to leave for a commission, may not be hiring pilots at that time, or may already have a large pool of highly competitive applicants, including former active-duty military aviators. If a unit has a strong enlisted airman filling an important or difficult-to-fill billet, I do not know whether leadership generally views releasing that person to pursue a pilot slot elsewhere favorably. I would especially be curious whether units are generally willing to approve a DD-368 for an enlisted member to pursue a pilot slot with another squadron or even another state's Guard unit. Perhaps they are; perhaps they are not. I genuinely do not know and plan to do more research. In any event, learning an enlisted aircrew-related job beforehand would not seem like a bad thing, other than that one primary concern. Thanks so much!

What is confusing? Government screw-ups are not justification for abandoning government action. This used to be a pretty standard policy of the left, considering how many of their programs were grossly mismanaged and abused. None of our laws were written for the situation we are in now. It was never a consideration that tens of millions of people who have no right to be in this country would nevertheless be here. The protections afforded to American citizens, and others legally present within our borders, cannot be extended to every person on the planet. It is not hard to prove citizenship. Neither for the government nor the accused party. That there are a few dozen cases out of literally millions is evidence that this is not a real problem, any more than a few aircraft mishaps out of millions of yearly flights are indicative of a widespread aviation safety threat. The recharacterization of deportation as some sort of punitive action similar to incarceration is the exact trick being used to slow down the process for the ultimate goal of preventing deportation entirely. Same with the refusal of an asylum claim. If you get on a plane to America without a Visa or passport, you are not allowed to leave the airport until you can be seen in front of a judge. You are put on the next flight back to your country. We have the ability for the vast, vast majority of illegal immigrants to quickly confirm their illegal status and return them to their country of origin. Since the problem has been allowed to grow to the tens of millions, there will unsurprisingly be some mistakes along the way. If those mistakes are measured in a fraction of a fraction of a percent, I don't have any problem with that. Once again, show me the American citizens being deported or denied entry back into the country by an intentional process and we will have some sort of agreement. But you can't show that. If you believe the people here illegally have a right to the resources of our country, we just have a fundamental disagreement. I do not believe they have any claim to medical treatment, education, assistance programs, or voting rights. Along those same lines, I do not believe they have any claim to our judicial system, unless of course we are attempting to incarcerate, fine, or otherwise restrict that human being from anything other than their unlawful presence within our borders. Once again, it is simply intentionally naive or disingenuous to act as though we can't figure out who the vast majority of the illegal aliens are. They didn't come here from Mars. They are overwhelmingly from countries south of our border that have fully functioning governments with records systems that track their citizens just as we track ours. The left is just trying to make this about something it isn't because ultimately what they want is for them to stay.

Milton’s post is spot on. I don’t care how politically incorrect it is to say, the next war in Europe is more likely to be caused by Islam. Putin and Russia is a side show. A cultural civil war in Western Europe would be devastating but is absolutely a risk on the path they’re on. Islam is not compatible with western values. The sooner we realize that as a collective society, the better western society will be.

You are rationalizing an outcome you want while ignoring any counter points. You justify curtailing due process and habeas corpus, hand way away actual examples of government screw ups all around you. Bananas!

Hey y'all! If anyone was debating retaking the AFOQT, I highly-highly recommend. Last time I took the AFOQT, I had only a few hours and was in my Sophomore year of college. Retook it last Friday, and increased my pilot score to an 90 from a 47 originally. Bumped my PCSM with max hours (77) from a 64 to a 95! Definitely worth the couple months of studying (mostly for math, hah!). Excited to keep moving forward, now I just need to get my IFC finalized! Good luck everyone!

Don't conflate me with other people on this forum. I think that cop thread is a bunch of absolute nonsense. A few bad apples in an otherwise incredibly functioning system, but because the algorithm knows what makes you angry, once you go down that rabbit hole all you'll ever see are cops abusing people's rights. It's a waste of time, as are most exercises dystopian fantasy. I don't care about the school bombing either. Shit happens in war. If A single government official got on the news and high-fived each other and talked about how awesome it was to kill a bunch of little girls (you know, like the Palestinians do), then I'd have a problem. But since I'm a grown-up who served in the military, I know that collateral damage, even mistakenly, sometimes happens. Only children assume that you can build a system free from error or tragedy. Even more ironically, all this hand ringing over the girls school in a country that would happily slaughter my daughter as a heretic if they had half the chance. Don't forget if any of those girls had grown up to be raped in Iran, she'd have an honor killing to look forward to, if she was able to escape the Iranian justice system with proof that she wasn't a willing participant. Spare me. And as far as being disingenuous goes, that's pretty rich. Focusing on the negligible number of citizens who have been swept up in a solution (and not deported) that has been a long time coming is just a distraction. Just be honest, you don't want illegal aliens deported. That's fine, you are allowed a political opinion as much as anyone else, but trying to make it a morality play by over hyping the anomalies because you know that the core argument has no foundation in law, history, or morality, is weak tea.

we had FON in the strait before the war started our own DNI threat assessment said they weren’t pursuing a nuke before the war started It’s pretty wild to see some of you guys cheerlead the admin talking points verbatim and then say I’m the one blinded by political bias.. Two thirds of your list of “clear war objectives” are this admin claiming the win based on getting back to the status quo we already had. This is like intentionally starting a war with Cuba and then patting yourself on the back for achieving freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico.. like wtf are we even talking about. If I want to hear the admin party line bullshit I can just go listen to the press secretary, why not try presenting an independent thought that actually makes sense

Alots getting waived on the USAF side, atleast from what I've been told. My unit just sent a guy to UPT with partial color blindness and I met another guy going through IFF at 38. I say start working towards that goal now and in 3-5 years you could be in a prime spot to get picked up. If you can keep your record clean (both medically and judicially) with nothing new, start building hours and show leadership potential it could pan out. Nobody knows how the landscape will look by then but you can still stack the odds in your favor.

According to Google, Missouri's per capita income is $67,587 while GB's purchasing power parity (not exactly apples to apples, but pretty close) is $67,559. But however fast we are to throw rocks at Europe for their massive social welfare states, we need to be just as fast hitting ourselves over the nugget with those same rocks. GB spends an insane 22.1% of their GDP on social programs. By comparison, the United States only spends 22.7%. You read that right, the theoretical bastion of individual freedom and capitalism spends MORE on social spending per GDP than the UK, Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and New Zealand. Much of Europe spends more, like France at >30% and Germany at almost 27%. The west is taxing and nanny stating itself into irrelevance. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/social-expenditure-dashboard.html I think you're spot on with the rest of the social stuff, in which the EU leads the US by a good 6-9 years. Maybe beating the war drum might wake up the population to look around and wonder who would actually fight for the country. Walk down the streets of London and I don't see many eligible draftees, let alone ones that I would trust handing a gun and fighting next to me.

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No, it’s a link to one of the widow’s IG post about her husband.

In one sentence you go from shifting the goalpost to rationalizing eliminating all checks and balances on individual rights. You also keep talking about proving your citizenship, while defending eliminating the very forum where you would do that. On a board where there is an entire thread about cops being malicious screwups, in a world where the most technically advanced intelligence apparatus in history bombed a school, and you're ok with no built in check/balance? Bananas

Nice try. First two links have no deportations. Third link has no names, so the circumstances of the deportation cannot be determined, but every similar named case has been exactly the same. The illegal alien parents of a birthright citizen child(ren) elected to take their citizen children with them back to the country of their deportation. Not the same, and you know it. In fact there's already federal court precedence that removes qualified immunity from law enforcement officials that do not promptly release someone after proving their citizenship. Morales v. Chadbourne But it is a very compelling reason to join the rest of the world and the framers of the 14th amendment in abolishing the nonsense of birthright citizenship.