HeloDude

So this why Hunter Biden is getting away with all of his crimes…now I get it!

Once again this issue (like all others) comes down to the one simple question: Do you believe the government should be more involved/have more control over X issue, or less. It’s obvious from all the other posts on this site who favors more government control, and who favors less. And if you are only a favor of more government control when your person/party is in control, then you’re also part of the problem. It will be our downfall.

I’m sure bringing in even more unskilled labor into the US via illegal immigration will help raise wages of other unskilled American workers… Supply vs Demand…or something.

Don’t worry, everything is fine. Biden told me so. And if things like gas goes up, then that’s just the price we have to pay to fight climate change.

“The Times They Are a-Changin” Seriously…take a look at politics today: If a progressive Congressman/Senator had to choose between funding our retirement or getting amnesty for illegals, government funded abortions, “free” college, etc then our retirement would lose every time. Now I’m not suggesting that said Congressman/Senator wouldn’t support funding our retirement and these other programs, but rather just telling you where we rank in the scheme of things. The military is back to being an avenue for pushing social change and less about being a well prepared lethal fighting force.

He has already said that he’ll plead guilty if he can get an honorable discharge…which I doubt the USMC will go for. As it is, if/when this goes to trial, I think his attorneys will try and make the Corps/DoD look pretty bad in several ways.

Let’s go Brandon! T-shirts available on Amazon haha https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HSNR94V?fbclid=IwAR10FBioLI35MuligLwB83SUmVKMvQpiNeCWYg8wcGzd4RlhAKSM1sKvHog

I got the smallpox vaccine back in 2004. A few days later it was oozing/itchy, I felt a little flu-ish, and then it scabbed over and now I have a little scar on my shoulder. You must be a youngin’…

Reposted since it’s my current argument…and it’s only stronger after the Afghanistan embarrassment (which I also somewhat predicted as well when Biden in July was bragging about the competency of the Afghan military…though I didn’t think the collapse would happened nearly as fast as it did). So not only would we not do anything militarily to stop China, we’re so in bed with them economically that we don’t even want to piss them off with what we currently say/our current foreign policy. The entertainment industry is so in bed with China that they refuse to even recognize the atrocities committed by the CCP (but somehow the US is evil due to “systemic racism”) and also they (entertainment industry) refuse to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. The MSM by and large also sweeps the atrocities committed by CCP under the rug when compared to the other nonsense our media focuses on (Trump collusion with Russia as one example). With all the above, I’m willing to bet that the American population by and large would not support military intervention if China goes into Taiwan…and they wouldn’t support a massive hit to our fragile economy due to the US imposing stiff penalties against China for doing so. In the end…I think China invades Taiwan NLT summer of 2024. The CCP isn’t dumb and they also realize everything I mentioned above—so why wait until a new administration potentially takes over in 2025 and the ballgame changes?

I don't drink, so it wouldn't bother me. But I have plenty of family and friends who drink responsibly, and think it's worth covering as it's common enough of a vice. Plus it's hard for insurance companies to measure "too much" alcohol consumption, especially compared to something like tobacco use. I don’t think it’s hard for medical providers to determine if the need for care had to do with consuming alcohol—certain liver issues, injured while driving intoxicated, etc. So why cover it at all? No one needs to drink (I no longer drink as well), so why cover what isn’t necessary? The only way to fix our medical/healthcare system is to totally remove the government regulations forcing hospitals to provide care, forcing insurance companies to cover high risk individuals, etc. But since the vast majority of Americans have been conditioned to believe that more government involvement improves their lives, well, here we are. Oh and the people I know who are refusing the shot are some of the healthiest I know—not overweight, exercise regularly, eat well, you name it. So whoever posted the opposite, here’s another anecdotal data point.

So the argument that those who are unvaccinated and have to go to the hospital for covid and are taking up a bed/patient care (and thus potentially limited a bed/patient care for a different person with a non-covid silent) is 100% not a valid argument as to why someone should get the shot?

Let's deny medical treatment for alcohol related incidents-it's their choice to partake, so why should I have to pay for their drunken stupidity... I definitely agree! Sadly I don’t think that you would support such a measure…or maybe you would?

How about we remove government regulations from healthcare all together and allow people and those in healthcare decide who they want to treat and who they don’t, at what cost, etc? Because if you’re proposing that those who are unvaccinated not be allowed medical care for COVID, then why should medical folks provide care for HIV, overdoses, etc to those who use drugs? Why allow those who are not married be treated for STDs? This is what happens when you pick and choose. This is also why I’m against shared healthcare expenses, forcing insurance companies to except pre-existing conditions, etc.—healthy and responsible people have to shoulder the financial burden for those who are not. And before some of the progressives on here bring their emotional counterarguments, nothing would prohibit you from voluntarily giving money and/or providing care to those you want to help.

Hey…this was a lawful order, and if you don’t support lawful orders then you’re not for freedom…or something. https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation#background

Smith & Wesson just announced that they’re moving its HQ and most operations from Massachusetts to Marysville TN. Well done! https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/smith-wesson-relocate-headquarters-tennessee-130100893.html

Soooo…here we are again? Kind of? Maybe? Any guesses on what’s going to happen in Congress over the next few days to several months? My bet is that the debt ceiling will of course be raised—the only interesting question is by what means? Will the GOP cave and vote to raise it and if they do, will they get something they want out of doing so? Or will the Senate Dems need to change the Senate rules to allow the debt to be raised on a simple majority vote? As for avoiding a government shutdown, I’m betting that both houses pass a short term CR while the Dems try to find a way to get their $1.2T infrastructure bill and/or $3.5T bill passed. But unless Manchin and Sinema cave, the AOC types don’t seem to want to budge. Pass the popcorn!

So it seems Gen Milley didn’t deny much of anything today when questioned by the Senate.

Exactly. I laugh when someone tells me that ABC, Wash Post, etc are “balanced/non-partisan”. Progressives are clearly against enforcing border security and immigration laws, so if they have the opportunity to paint the false story that border patrol law enforcement officers were using scary horses and whipping a poor/defenseless black man who wasn’t doing anything wrong, then they’re going to do it…especially when they can tie it to slavery and “systemic racism” in law enforcement. The people who run these “news” outlets want this story to be true (along with the majority of their readers/viewers), so they’re going to report that way, facts be damned. By the way, MSNBC has been doing this for years…see the link below if you forgot/never caught this one: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/08/17/original-msnbc-host-paints-rick-perry-as-racist-n662043

Here’s what it comes down to and there is no refuting this: If you work in the federal government and take legitimate action while carrying out the duties of your job, if the optics and/or politics of what you did is politically bad for the administration, you will be blamed/not protected, especially if it can help the administration save some face. Let me know if you need an example.

If you don’t think there are bad things happening at higher levels of the DoD then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Wait, what? I thought being an officer was about “supporting and defending the Constitution”? Now I’m hearing that it’s about money and power? What ever happened to “core values” and the other services’ commitments to integrity?

Did Truman not commit “mass murder”? I remember the left saying Bush was committing mass murder as well…without reasonable cause.

And yet Milley is saying we have to get rid of the “extremism” in the military…when (if this is true) he’s by far the worst extremist we have if he’s not willing to follow orders from POTUS for political reasons.

One of the worst/deadliest wars in human history started because of a person with a handgun. And more people died in one night of fire bombing Tokyo than died from the dropping of two nuclear bombs. Either our President has the legal ultimate authority to nuke whoever he wants and at his will or he doesn’t.

Presidents allow for (and order) the bombing of random people all through history…civilians as well. Other than the number of people dying, what’s the difference? Is there a number of people dying where it changes from a lawful order to war crime? Have any of the bombings done by the US in our history been a war crime? Why even have nukes if using them would be a war crime?