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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 Sec State, 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.

I replied to him with a specific opinion on a specific subject one page back & got no response, so your accusation is invalidated. Instead he (or she!) is creating composite narratives with which to argue; a bad faith tactic and one for which there is no need since real people with opinions are right here. This is a fun page with lots of cool folks holding diverse perspectives yet shared experiences. It's priceless really. However trolls are sand in the gears and must be purged. Not saying this dude is one (you certainly aren't) but I am saying this conversational practice is a red flag, hence my sharper than normal rebuke.

There's only one office forcing this to be a constitutional crisis. The Rs have 2 of 3 levers of govt. They could fund a fast track courts to go through these quick(er). but as we saw the the R border bill in 2024, it's better to scream about it in the news than actually solve the problem.

No, I hated Obama's use of drones and splattering citizens. Impeachable. Opens the door to anyone getting called a terrorist and being disappeared...kinda like the rhetoric we're starting to hear now. "Mass invasion" is interesting wording. We have a refugee process that should be followed and funded to operate. A Venezuela refugee fleeing a communist dictator warms my Reagan-era heart. Non-violent illegals here wanna cut my grass, build houses and make baller tacos? I'm down, let's fund the process to make them not-illegal. Violent ones, here and coming here? GTFO.

Like you'd address it in a realistic way if he did.

Well said. Banzai your post is boring and your thoughts shallow. Is there a specific thing you want to talk about or is this general purpose amalgam condemnation?

Dodged a couple massive bullets regarding those two.

I was projecting.

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