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But it's so much more than that. First (R) president to win the popular vote in two decades. An indisputable electoral college victory. Huge gains within minority groups. Retaking the Senate and most likely holding the House. It's the closest thing to a mandate a presidential candidate can win in the modern era. This will greatly reduce "the resistance," especially from within the conservative sphere as many will be forced to reevaluate their future and strategy. It's still a tragedy that we're in a point in history where Donald Trump is the leader of the free world, but it's as good as the tragedy could have gone. We're still on a collision course with fiscal and monetary doom, but perhaps we can at least put out some fires.

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Agreed. Overall the GOP handed the Dems their ass in this cycle. This is a referendum on the Dems and their bowing to the insane progressives the last several years. I am glad the GOP has total control for now, BUT I do not like that long term. I sincerely hope the Dems actually learn from their colossal mistakes over the last several years and move back towards the center with reasonable candidates. Maybe we can get back to a more balanced fed govt in 4-8 years, I hope.

its over, Trump wins.

“While the F-35 was designed from the start to accommodate a short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version, this requirement is absent from the Chinese design” Dammit, they didn’t take the bait!

I’m very happy that Kamala Harris will not be president. Not pumped it’s Trump again, and I even voted in a primary for the first time in my life to try to make that not be the case, but here we are. Since Trump became the nominee I waffled between going third party, not voting, or voting for him. Turns out the third party candidates were awful, not voting seemed kind of pointless, and frankly voting for him was better than any of the insanity still coming from the left these days. With Trump winning the popular vote and his gains in dark blue areas, I think there were a lot of voters like me out there. The win is not necessarily a ringing endorsement of Trump, but more a rejection of Harris/Biden and the disaster of the last 4 years. I hope Trump governs sensibly, we see a great 4 years, and he sets the table for a quality center/right candidate from the R side that the country can rally around in 2028. I’ll be very interested to see how the Dems respond to this. Do they try and claw back to the center or do they continue on their batshit social ideas and TDS binge?

Reddit very reasonable right now

Oh it will happen, what it will be is yet to be seen yet. Thankfully we can now be unburdened by what has not been.

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Dollar cost averaging - you should be buying ammo consistently!

We are in violent agreement, everyday Russia continues the fight against Ukraine helps weaken them for a generation.

Now if Ammo prices will fall just a bit more I can finish filling the semi-truck trailer.

Looks like the next four years will be gun buying season

Foregone conclusion, the Cabinet will be replaced on day one.. I only hope the hundreds of "oddballs" present in other appointed jobs will be broomed out on day as well.

Hope he fires Wray and appoints Mike Flynn. That place needs a deep cleaning. A political & unaccountable DOJ/FBI is the greatest internal threat we face, a solution must be prioritized. i don't he'll bring in Halley unless he's certain she wouldn't secretly work against him. Which she might. I'm guessing Grenell for Sec State & Whitaker for AG.

impossible. it's not that big bro sheeeeeshhh

Yup Who’d a thunk a design to incorporate into one of its variants a giant lifting fan dead center of a medium weight fighter would be a problem? Obviously the Chinese did All that said I’d still rather be in our 35 vs theirs when the ballon goes up, not that it won’t be a threat but with all the party tricks ours has it will fare better methinks What will make their 35 particularly concerning I think will be its price, their propensity to sell it aggressively to their clients and allies and therefore how ubiquitous it might be. Probably more of a threat to our allies than us (thinking Iran vs KSA, Pakistan vs India, NK vs SK)

I agree, but those were not sloppy operations, and in both cases they *felt* plausible. Why? Because we all know NATO or the UK or the US aren't going to go to war over the assassination of Russians by Russians. But if Russia downed two planes full of Westerners, especially given the current state of the relationship between Russia and the West, there would be a war. It was just luck back in 2014 that the plane accidentally missile'd out of the sky wasn't a Delta flight full of red blooded Americans. There are better and safer ways to test the aviation security infrastructure than with actual incendiary devices so poorly designed that they both went off by accident. I have no idea what happened, obviously, But this is not the first time Western forces have attempted to frame Russia for something in an attempt to drum up more support. The pipeline example was much more transparent, but this one has the same smell to it. And with Donald Trump favored to win the election, I can see some "misguided" pro-Ukrainian spies thinking this would be the best way to protect the way. And before Bashi gets an erection so hard he passes out, I'm still strongly in favor of providing Ukraine with the resources to prolong this fight.

One of the mistakes we make is to analyze adversary actions as if they are rationale actors...or that they make choices and decisions using the our metrics and guardrails. Putin has proven time and time again that he will accept extreme risk in the pursuit of short-term gains, especially when it comes to retribution. Two cases in point: 1. On 1 November 2006, Putin authorized the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko using Polonium 210 and UK SOIL. 2. In March 2018 authorized another assassination this time targeting Sergei Skripal, a British citizen who used to work as a Russian intelligence officer, and his daughter, Yulia, nearly died after coming into contact with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent originally developed by the former Soviet Union. Take a step back and think about that, Putin used nuclear and chemical weapons on the sovereign soil of the UK, our closest NATO ally. Perhaps I've read the reports wrong but the story about the airplanes does not indicate they were trying to down the cargo planes, instead they wanted them to catch fire on the ground and cause chaos. I am guessing the devices were sophisticated a small but important distinction. There is much we will never know but the point is Putin is not afraid to make dangerous moves well outside the norms of the world order.

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https://flvoicenews.com/author/eric-daugherty/ I thought we don't trust the media, and in this case, a student from Florida Gulf Coast U. In a Rumsfeldian voice, You don't go to an election with the Electorial College you want, you go with the college you got.

This is one of those stories that you have to stop and consider. It just doesn't add up on its surface. Remember when everybody said Russia blew up their own pipelines? This story sounds like that. If you're going to declare war on the United States this is a very strange and uncontrolled way to do it. "Downing commercial passenger or cargo planes would be a big step up and some Western intelligence agencies have questioned whether such a plot could be the result of Russian spies carrying out a plan without the full authorization of the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the matter." This is very different than saying "Russia did it."

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