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I want Hillary to go to jail for any of the many illegal things she's gotten away with over her misbegotten career. To show that justice works for both the little people and those "too big to fail." I want some convictions, in particular, over the Russian collusion fiasco because I want the executive branch to know that it's not ok to pick sides. I do not want to see the continued weaponization of various federal agencies along with their resources to absolutely fcuk over peoples' lives. I want the various GS13s-15s/SESs' to understand they will face consequences for doing illegal things in pursuit of partisan political objectives or to fight against those policies with which they disagree. I do not want more rogue CIA/FBI/IRSI employees. I do not want jumped up Lt Cols who think they should set policy and not those elected officials. A few perp walks might make someone reconsider for the next time.

And why not? Has she paid any price for her crimes? If it were you or I, we would have been blistered years ago. That’s a major part of the problem. These folks feel they are above the law, and in most cases, it appears they are. Politicians need to be prosecuted just like everyone else. If they were, then I believe the world would be a better place. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

All too many threads have become politically charged (guilty myself), so let's have at least one thread to lighten things up.

There is a legal prohibition on military requiring boosters. The booster remains under an EUA unlike the FDA approved shots. There are some commanders trying to trick their people or pressure them into getting boosters because they have requirements to deploy into locations which require boosters (I think Kuwait is an example). But that places those commanders in an precarious position, and would not survive first contact with legal.

Worth noting that if you've ever been vaccinated for small pox, the small pox vaccine has 85% efficacy against monkey pox. The viruses are in the same family.

Hold up... Define efficacy. Because it was once postulated that the vaccine stopped hospitalizations, deaths, and transmission. In fact when everyone was high on the nearly release vaccine euphoria, 99% effective was often cited. We now know the vaccine has very limited ability to reduce transmission. And the protection against Alpha and Delta have not carried over to omicron in the same way. So yeah, it works, so long as you redefine "works" in a way that no longer has much to do with military necessity.

Being potentially not deployable to certain locations is an issue. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Truth We had one crash them into each other, drop one and then step on it.

I heard it was last night for kettles. How this likely played out… 8.0 hrs later and 69 kettles deep: “Fuck you DAK, I’m not paying 10000 WON for a 2 min ride!” (it was actually a 30 min ride, they were just passed out). One guy proceeds to swing at cabbie, who punches him right in the gut, causing him to projectile vomit; his buddy sympathetic vomits. Town patrol walks around the corner at this exact moment…and the rest is history. I need one more week in Korea before I retire, what a place!

Everything published in mainstream intro economics textbooks is false. This is a literal statement, rather than an embellishment in the pub where one expresses discontent hyperbolically. When Viper is quoting Mankiw, the Fed has published that literally everything in his intro textbook is invalid. I don't know how to ELI5 that because it's a bit like telling someone they are actually the guy in a pod powering robots, and it sounds so absurd people simply can't believe they have been misled to such a degree by massive education institutions. All of the associated policy prescriptions don't have the effects that the textbooks say they have. Many policies actually have opposite outcomes to what's described in textbooks: Balanced Budgets Textbooks: balancing the budget is good for the economy (prevents gov crowding out private investment). Reality: the economy collapses when gov debt levels are too low (when gov saves, private debt must increase to generate assets people want to hold as savings, and this private debt is unstable). Saving Textbooks: saving today will increase output in the future (savings creates investment, treats money like corn, you can plant it and get more in the future) Reality: loans create the deposits people receive and save (investment creates savings, saving today reduces the amount of future output as businesses expand output according to current consumption) Efficient Markets Textbooks: debt has no impact on asset prices, markets allocate most efficiently without regulation Reality: markets are inherently unstable and are created by the state Supply & Demand Textbooks: imagine an 'X', where a upward sloping supply curve crosses a downward sloping demand curve--that is how prices are formed Reality: prices aren't determined by supply and demand, there are almost always multiple intersections between demand & supply curves Interest Rates Textbooks: larger gov deficits lead to increasing interest rates Reality: larger gov deficits lead to decreasing interest rates Textbooks: private investors in bond markets control interest rates on government debt and other securities Reality: interest rates are a policy variable under full control of Fed & Treasury

With lots of boats in Florida and gas prices so high this maneuver is becoming SOP:

Beat me to it…except I was going to make the joke about the booster, and here it turns out to be an actual argument by the “health professionals”. Isn’t the small pox vaccine a one time dose for military members?

https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-monkeypox-conspiracy-theories-twitter-microchips-who-1708138?amp=1 Also, musical legends Right Said Fred tweeted their support for Bill Gates and the WHO being at the center of this monkeypox shitstorm that’s about to overwhelm us so it’s pretty much gotta be true right?

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-bill-gates-monkeypox-conspiracy-1708789?amp=1 Jewish Space Lasers Greene nails it again: Bill Gates is a the center of this Monkeypox conspiracy and he must be stopped!

The big issue with the Russian collusion crap, outside of influencing an election, was it out a cloud on Trump's presidency that undermined the legitimacy of his official position. In other words, with every policy or effort he put forward, it was dismissed with skepticism his entire presidency because people believed he wasn't even lawfully president. That said, there is a bit of irony because that was the same play with the Obama birther hoax. However, this is a dangerous game to play and one that invites insurgency. Between this and election fraud claims, the trust that Americans have that their leadership is actually elected democratically is very low. When that trust is extinguished, you better believe there will be terrorism, insurgency and civil war by the people in am effort to restore the institution. It's stunningly dangerous to our democracy.

Yet there are many serious climate scientists going down this path. They are so convinced that greenhouse gases are going to destroy the species they haven't stopped to consider the possibility they, like every other catastrophy theorist, are wrong. It's not an evil plan, it's a misguided belief that humanity is doomed. You have to put yourself in *that* mindset to understand the crazy conclusions otherwise rational people can come to. There has always been an obsession within scientific and political circles with end-of-world threats.

The strange punctuation and capitalization of random words gives your post somewhat of a National Enquirer feel. Good stuff. Anyway, the vaccine has not been proven to lack efficacy. I'm not going to bother asking you to cite a source, because I know you can't. But in the spirit of facts, here's my source. You might have a point, wanting the requirement to be dropped. But until they drop it, it's still an order, a lawful one at that. We don't get to cherry-pick which lawful orders we follow. Otherwise we could just call them suggestions. And in a strange turn of events, we also don't get to decide what countries we deploy to. I kept telling my last commander that we should deploy to Tahiti, but it fell on deaf ears and we ended up in Afghanistan.

“Tower, 3 o’clock low, no factor”

Trustee, FPC Montgomery would be nice.

Yep, that's on me. I was unaware of the NATO press conference. So it's only been two months. That's much better since not much has occurred. But it's interesting that the timeframe for a Biden press conference, or lack thereof, was the takeaway from my post and not the court-admitted fact that Hillary herself is responsible for the Trump-Russia collusion fiasco that took up several years of our nation's time. Different priorities, one supposes.

Not a JB guy, but it looks legit.

Hillary's campaign manager admitted under oath that she, personally, gave the go ahead for a false Trump-Russian bank story (Alfa Bank). Her lawyer admitted that the campaign paid for the false information. The former FBI chief of staff testified that the other lawyer on trial, Sussman, specifically represented that he wasn't representing a client, i.e., lied to the FBI. Also, 100+ days since the vegetable in chief held a press conference. Sure seems like some pressing topics to discuss - Ukraine war, inflation, gas prices, baby formula shortage, overwhelming illegal immigration, leaked Supreme Court draft ruling, etc. I dunno, you'd think he'd have some thoughts...

Good idea for a thread. Hope this entry counts; if not, please put it in a more appropriate one: Government often fcuks things up, including NASA. However, the insane engineering of the soon to be operational Webb Space Telescope is something they did right. Besides the big brains for the concept and building the thing, the actual employment of the telescope involved some 300(!) single point of failure operations to unfold the solar shield, the mirror, etc. Any one of them crumps and another $10B is literally up in smoke. They nailed it. https://phys.org/news/2022-05-webb-telescope-explore-solar.html Well done! And I can't wait to see what this thing finds.

I view this like how NFL players were trained in the 50’s compared to now. There’s no substitute for game/practice time, but the weight training, diet, mental training, etc is no comparison. As a result, look at Dick Butkus compared to Patrick Willis or basically any Offensive Lineman from then compared to now. I use that as an example because a lot of UPT is the same as it was back then. Not taking advantage of modern methods is silly and leaves a lot of untapped potential on the table. I’m not saying these first iterations are perfect but I really hope they continue to pursue it.

There isn't a pilot shortage. There are more than enough qualified candidates. The problem at most airlines is simply training throughput. If you look a bit, there is plenty of info circulating around the interwebs to support this. https://www.alpa.org/advocacy/pilot-supply is one example. Airlines are quick to jump on the pilot shortage myth instead of taking responsibility for their own poor planning which is creating a training bottleneck. Age 67 is an uphill battle because it hasn't changed with ICAO. Not the same as when we went from 60 to 65. 65 had already changed internationally and the skids were greased to make it happen fast and it did. 67 is not the same situation and at least at ALPA, it is not supported by the majority of pilot groups. I'm sure there will be some pilots that will want to fly until they die, but from what I'm hearing from my union contacts on Capitol Hill, it's unlikely to gain much traction.

I would argue that you could add the current protest at SCOTUS justice homes onto that list since I recently learned it is actually against federal law to protest outside the home of a justice deciding a case. (Considered judicial intimidation, same as jury intimidation) I said I wouldn't wade into a Roe v Wade discussion but I am baffled by the tolerance and even encouragement of this behavior.

Remind me, what office is Hillary running for?

Last I heard, he wants to be the R nominee in 2024. Thanks for making my point for me.

But, but, but….don’t forget about the emails. And Benghazi. And it’s pretty much accepted she killed Epstein in his prison cell. Some conservatives will beat that carcass until there’s nothing left and then they’ll beat the imprint that it left in the ground.