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34 minutes ago, Lawman said:
Do you honestly believe government can or should function that way? M2 and Helo…
Here you go bro (link at the very bottom)—you need it. We don’t have an extra hundreds of billions of dollars between this bill and the other Ukraine funding bills when we can’t even prevent millions of people coming into this country illegally. My concern with Russia invading Ukraine, when an entire continent can support Ukraine if they wish, doesn’t come close to my concern for our country with what has been going on with our border/handling of illegal immigration over the last 20-30 years (and probably even before then). The GOP said no Ukraine funding without securing our border, and the GOP doesn’t believe that the Senate bill would have done that. Now if the Dems want to tie HR2 to Ukrainian funding then I have no doubt it would pass (though I personally would still be against the Ukraine funding for the debt clock reason below).
So you’re right, this is about politics, on both sides—and fortunately it looks like the House GOP will finally at least take some sort of stand to what they said they believed in. If the country wants something different then they can change it in the next year.
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22 minutes ago, brabus said:
Ha, don’t get me wrong, it was an awesome flight and very grateful I have it in the logbook! Actually a lot of props to the guys who did it - way harder and less survivable compared to what the following generations experienced.
How did you split the time between you flying and the ground dude? 😉
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2 minutes ago, Lawman said:
So when confronted with actual hard numbers (which have only gone higher and more in their favor by their recent bill) you now resort to “well they should pay for our border.”
Like I said this has absolutely nothing to do with the validity of what reason you give, you’ll just adopt a new self justification when you find out that goal line has already been achieved so you can continue to be opposed for any reason. So why should Europe pay for the border now exactly? Because that’s absolute horse shit when the guys at JTF-North would rather have the Mexicans change their constitution so we can use the resources already down there not just throw money at the problem unrelated to Ukraine.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkHow dare I suggest each country/region focus on their own specific issues/threats before dealing with those across the ocean…
I was in favor of invading Iraq in 2003 when I was in my early/mid20s-–I was wrong. And let me know when you want me to put up the debt clock again.
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1 hour ago, Lawman said:
They have been.
Despite a lower combined GDP, the Euro NATO countries are actually outspending us when it’s in our best interest not to get stuck solving the third European World War
You guys can quit searching for excuses and just come out and say your reason for not supporting action in Ukraine is simply to be contrarian to the current party in charge. First it was “but mah border,” now it’s, “well Europe should pay first….”
They already are. Also give a comparison in total dollars of mil equipment donated by us vs Ze Germans. For anybody familiar with how much equipment they have just lying around on hand they are punching well above their weight.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkCool story—how much is the EU giving to the US compared to what we’re spending on their continent? I think it’s safe to say that Europe has a lot more to risk than we do…so yeah, let’s let them cover it. Unless the EU is trying to send billions of dollars to the US for our border security that I’m not aware of? Let me know when they stop their crazy socialism in order to provide more for defense of their continent…until then, the US is broke.
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25 minutes ago, Lawman said:
There is a deliberate separate Border bill that went through the Senate and is effectively torpedoed by the house to allow Political hay to be made out of it for the election.
Congress had the opportunity to do something about the border separate of Ukraine and they are deliberately choosing not to. Don’t now use that to justify not supporting this action.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThat border bill out of the Senate was junk IMO…and the Senate refused to even take up the border bill passed by the House a while back. So let’s not pretend that politics is beings played in the House but not in the Senate. Does anybody really believe that the Democrats want to secure the border?
Let Europe deal with the Ukraine issue wrt spending billions of dollars if they’re so concerned.
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37 minutes ago, M2 said:
I'm more surprised anyone has that kind of money to spend on ammo! That's $250+ for 5.56...
That’s the only reason to be an airline pilot these days!
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29 minutes ago, VigilanteNav said:
I'm not sure that's what the founders intended.
Because the founders intended us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars that we don’t have protecting borders of other countries separated from us by vast oceans before protecting our own borders. Oh and you conveniently left out billions of dollars for Gaza, because we all know that money always goes to a good cause. If the House shuts this down then it will be one of the few things it has has done well lately.
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So if you kneel or don’t want to stand for the American National Anthem then the left thinks that’s completely fine and justified but if you don’t want to stand for the “Black National Anthem”, well then the left thinks that is really bad…
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31 minutes ago, kaputt said:
So this is what POTUS is tweeting?
I’d be surprised if Biden actually sent this…but one his handlers definitely might have?
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You guys are missing it…the AF is freaking out because of how much worse the forecast is wrt people getting out in the near future, not just because of how bad it is has been in the last 1-2 years. The only way this has any chance at working/providing any noticeable change (it probably won’t btw) is if enough people sign up to offset PCSs to other assignments which require long upgrades. For example, on the pilot side, if they could bring in a couple hundred prior T-6/38 IPs who only need a requal (or a full course with a lot of PAing) this would offset needing to send new C-17 ACs to a backed up PIT, where clearly a prior T-6 IP would do better. Now keep that C-17 pilot at their current base or PCS them to another C-17 base and the whole manning issue improved ever so slightly.
This all being said, the AF screws up most things, especially when they’re trying to fix something…so I perceive things to get worse, not better. But they said diversity is our greatest strength so I think they should continue to focus their recruiting/retention efforts on DEI stuff while I cuddle up in my warm DD214 blanket.
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8 hours ago, di1630 said:
A guy who retired a few years back, and is flying airlines applied because he is just missing flying fighters.
Is he trying to get a leave of absence approved with the airline or just going to quit?
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35 minutes ago, busdriver said:
Yes, politicians say lots of stuff, they're playing to the crowd. It's what they do.
My concern is far less about what politicians do but is much more concerned what they are/aren’t doing which equates to horrible policy—what they say matters because it’s is very connected to the policy.
We’re not where we are as a country with horrible laws and executive orders that leaves a border wide open, allows criminals to attack police officers and be let go, a massive debt, laws that incentivize the breakdown of the family, policies encouraging young children to take dangerous gender changing medication or surgery…on and on…all just because “politicians just say a lot of stuff”.
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13 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:
I spoke to an O-6 yesterday and he said about 40 had signed up. I asked if any were pilots and he said "yes". But that's about all I found out.
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8 hours ago, VigilanteNav said:
I'll admit that at first news of this interview my initial inclination was to be disgusted with Tuck. However, I know think it was at least useful to the US and Western world's intelligence agencies to gain just a bit more clarity on Putin's intentions going forward. Additionally, now the US knows with a bit more clarity what it will take to get the journalist and Whelan freed (nothing short of turning over a few ne'er do wells we have jailed to which I say let them have them as we've certainly turned over many of these types before). And honestly, if Tuck had secured the release of the journalist, I would have celebrated that!
Why would Putin release a journalist with no strings attached when you see what he was able to get Biden to do in order to release a female basketball player who was in jail for bringing in some basic drugs? If anyone honestly thinks Biden is better at negotiating than Trump then I really want to meet and talk…and perhaps try to negotiate with them myself.
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3 hours ago, busdriver said:
This is tribal and reactionary, not ideological. Trump played to xenophobic tendencies, so his opponents went whole hog letting in as many outsiders as possible.
It wasn't that long ago that Bernie Sanders said open borders was a Koch brothers conspiracy.
No…this is what I’m reading. Whether it be election results, poll after poll, what the leftist politicians say (did you not see the one I posted about the Dem Senator who literally said illegals are the most important people and are “undocumented Americans”?) the laws being passed which are supported by their constituents, you name it. And not wanting illegals in the country isn’t xenophobic at all, but you think the way you want to man.
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2 hours ago, dream big said:
No, they’ll move to Texas and still vote as they have.
I wouldn’t be so sure. I originally though that a lot of the people moving from CA and NY to places like FL and TX were mostly liberals… it I think they’re mostly moderates to conservative, based on what I’ve seen. There’s a reason why FL has gone much more red compared to the last 20-30 years. Part of it I think is the older people have become more likely to vote red but also because the majority of people moving there like FL for their taxes, etc compared to NY and CA. As far as Colorado, it’s been kind of the opposite—it has mostly attracted liberals from CA and the like because of the way CO was trending over the last 20+ years. Thoughts?
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1 hour ago, Lord Ratner said:
I'd bet dollars to donuts that this guy thinks cutting services will somehow cause his constituents to apply national level pressure to Texas to stop the flow.
Of course it won't work that way, but I think a lot of people are gradually coming around to the realization that we have been electing sociopathic clowns to all positions of power for quite a while now. Legitimately, these are people who are exceptionally good actors, matched only by their exceptionally weak intellects.
How funny…to stop the flow…from Texas. Not Mexico…. If so, this is even better than I thought as it puts more pressure to actually not allow nearly every person who comes in to say “I’m claiming asylum” and allow them to remain for years until a court date, which the vast majority will never show up to. Oh and if Mexico isn’t nearly as a bad place as the left tells us, what’s wrong with keeping people there?
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30 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
The idiot progressive cuck that’s Denver’s Mayor is cutting services to citizens, and looking at future furloughs and layoffs of city workers, to help fund the migrants.
Once again, this is a good thing. Now maybe more people who support this guy and their nonsense will wake up. Maybe.
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Sometimes progressives will say the quiet part out loud…unbelievable. And since when are those here illegally now called “Americans”?
"Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country," Murphy said.
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I don’t understand why the AF needs to do this to fix their problems when they can just continue to implement DEI programs instead 🤷♂️
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Assuming Biden doesn’t seriously decline further in the next several months, he won’t resign. The Dems don’t want Kamala as President and they definitely don’t want her as the nominee in November…if Biden resigns soon and they don’t give Kamala the nomination then that will split the party.
Most likely scenario IMO is that Biden pulls a Johnson and says he won’t accept the nomination due to health concerns and Kamala will say she doesn’t want the nomination so she can focus on doing XYZ the rest of the year (with the promise to make her SCOTUS pick or something)…and then the DNC puts in Michelle Obama with maybe Newsom as her VP nominee. The Dems need the black vote to come in strong this November if they have any chance at winning and as of now, poll after poll is showing that Biden is going to get the least amount of the black vote compared to any Dem nominee in recent history.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
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Where did I call for more money for Israel? And with me, it most definitely has to do with fiscal policy, especially when it comes to spending on problems abroad vs in our own backyard. I’m against a lot of things in the world—that doesn’t mean I need to fund a force against such things, and yes, that includes Putin. I have also plenty of times said we should reduce defense spending, not increase it. This isn’t the 1950s, the 60s, and so on. And you are clearly not worried about our fiscal situation if you think certain spending policies shouldn’t even warrant the discussion—fiscal policies have harmed countries far more often than by being destroyed by countries half a world away.
As for your issues with Trump, sorry man, but that’s on you. I think he did a horrible job handling Covid, the spending, you name it. If he’s right on the border issue then good on him. I’m an issues guy, not a politician guy. If you want someone to pick on, I mostly agree with Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, but not all the time.