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Not entirely Greenland focused but a great discussion about Trump and the world order from a British perspective. Worth the watch in my opinion.

I think the focus on owning Greenland is misguided but don’t see why he needs to deflect from either of those topics. Epstein hurts tons of elites equally, and the ice deaths are self inflicted by nutters on the extreme left. It’s sad that misguided Americans are putting themselves in those situations and dying, but it’s totally preventable by them simply obeying the law while civilly protesting. On Greenland though, Trump is running around in a China-shop breaking things/people at random and i don’t think it’s beneficial. We can achieve our goals with current agreements and maybe some new deals on mining and exploration. Make NATO pay for some of it since our plans there enhances their security as well. Use leverage to cooperate (even if subtly forcing it) instead of overtly disrespecting them with threats and possibly ruining relationships. Though I agree he is a douche many times. PS: I like him calling out Europeans (and us under Obama and Biden) for illogical policies and pushes for going green at all costs. Self inflicted harm by every nation that created policy aligning with that doom and gloom ideology. Germany and the UK screwed themselves for years to come.

I think both Fauci and Mayorkas should both be in prison for the rest of their lives.

Worse than my cynical self ever imagined

So even with this funding and the fact it’s already flying missions with allies we can’t field one until 2032 ? Our process is screwed!

Not entirely Greenland related, but a factor in our relationship. I’m not a huge Johnson fan (sts), but I thought he did a great job here and possibly even defused a bit of Trump’s bombastic speech.

If by “big job” you mean assclown, then, yes she is.

This cracked me up. I wish Nick was my TN state rep instead of a VA state rep. ClearedHot you can’t bring your gunship. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1413212763837365/?fs=e&fs=e

That “Dr” went full waltz, you never go full waltz. the medical community is a laughing stock at this point.

He needs a bag of Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets to go with that 44oz Coke Zero.

I’d love to see Iran get back to being a more free society where human rights are recognized and respected. I was a kid in early 1971 when my family (father worked for a relief NGO) was evacuated from East Pakistan (Bangladesh); we stayed in Tehran with a USAF SMsgt’s family who hosted us for 2 weeks waiting for my older brothers to get out of West Pakistan (they were in boarding school). My parents have pictures from our time there and it was modern, clean and open. I remember the stark contrast of 3rd world where we lived in Dhaka to a modern and clean Tehran. It’s sad that the people have been so controlled for so long. I wish them the best, but it’s going to be a rough ride for them regardless if they topple the mullahs or not. 45 years plus of essentially no say in their leadership or what form of governance they have.

I know I’ve asked about precious metals before but holy smokes it’s all (gold, silver, and platinum) been going nuts the past year or two. Au is almost $4,500 an ounce, Ag is $72 an ounce and Pt is over $2,000 an ounce. Since I bought most of my Au and Ag (around 2001-2003) they are both up (Au 1,100% and Ag 1,400%) far exceeding inflation numbers. Platinum has bounced all over but since earlier this year it’s currently up over 100%. Historically precious metals were mainly a hedge (maintain value type investment), but recently they are far exceeding inflation numbers. Any prognostications on sustainability? The silver price is a little frightening since so much of industry uses silver. With the increased demand in computing, electronic devices, electric vehicles/solar power, and batteries in everything, costs have to be impacted significantly.

I know not the Congresscritter this thread was started for but… Ole Crenshaw started a fight with Shawn Ryan that might not go very well for him. I’ll be interested in how this plays out.

What about Indiana!? Holy smokes I never thought I’d see Indiana football mentioned in any discussion of possible college football Champions! Anybody think they can keep it up through the playoffs?

To whom it may concern. Will the person at the O-club Friday night who drew dick pics in our flight caps please provide new hats. Sincerely, Col. Harry Balzac & Col. Hugh P. Ness

My godson finished UPT (abbreviated T-1 only). Graduated with way less than 80 hours and just now finished FTU recently. I guarantee he’s not comfortable in the seat with such an abbreviated training program. Now his squadron is going to have more work to get him up to speed (sharp kid but still he got less than 1/2 the hours we got back in t-37/t-38 UPT syllabus). There is no doubt an ACE type program would benefit the individual pilots and the AF as a whole.

I’m in shock that beached whales care about their eyebrows. Shouldn’t they be working on heart healthy diets and not worrying about lipstick on a sow.

I’m for anything that slows the passing of more laws (filibuster included). Slow and steady can be frustrating at times, but it’s better than thoughtless reactions. The Senate was originally supposed to be the wise and thoughtful chamber that moved slowly and purposely to prevent knee jerk reactions and minimize second and third order negative consequences. That’s def not the case now and removing the filibuster will make it even worse.

Agreed Huggy, the ACE program was awesome for us -135 and -52 copilots. I ended up with over 400 hours of tweet time while a CO at Plattsburgh. Used Csquared (the off days right after alert week - for you youngsters) as an opportunity to cruise down South for a few days with 3 hops each day. We’d leave out on Wednesday right off alert and return Sunday evening by 6pm. Any controlled airport with a military fuel contract and at least 5,000 feet of runway was good to go. Smyrna, TN used to give a small bottle of Jack for each 100 gallons of fuel. The Squadron bar keep was happy every time i flew through there. The furthest I flew out of Plattsburgh on a tweet trip was to NM and back. A few others to Homestead, FL and back. Great flying experience and tons of fun to boot. A few of us even got formation qualed and flew a few out and back formation trips too. I’m still shocked how many of my fellow CO’s didn’t take full advantage of the program. I was able to fill empty flight slots/schedules tons of times just by being willing and available to fly. One year I flew 2 “guest” flights with our 2 tanker squadron commanders.

Our founders knew and acknowledged “human nature” while our current society tries to ignore and/or dismiss it. James Madison “The truth is all men having power, should be mistrusted” “If men were angels, no government would be necessary” and John Adams “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the governance of any other.” “There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other”

Not sure how many of y’all have seen the documentary about John. It’s well worth the watch. He’s always been my favorite comedy actor with Uncle Buck being the pinnacle (filled with heart warming sap at times but plenty of good humor too). He was a big guy but from the movie it appears his heart for others was even bigger. If you have Amazon its available there.

i know some red states with terrible blue cities, but not aware of crime ridden red cities (i guess it might happen if the city is trapped in a blue state). I’m still waiting for the AR or MS guard to invade TN and take Memphis from us. We’d be one of the safest places in the world without Memphis.

Coleman is a brilliant young thinker along the lines of a Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, or William F Buckley type figure. His podcasts never disappoint, even with a weak debate partner like Dave.

I know you guys are going to love this. Say what you will, good or bad, we all have to admit his troll game (though usually inappropriate) is strong. https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-posts-bizarre-grim-reaper-themed-ai-music-video/

No, like all the other “never trumpers” he’ll take extra Tylenol, even if it shuts down his liver, just to prove he hates orange man.