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The craven, Woke, Germans...busy committing economic suicide while fantasizing about all the EU can loot from Russia after it's destroyed...continues to egg on the "Let's you and him fight" scenario.
CAN NOT talk to Putin - PEACE might ensue, and that means, we can't loot Russian gold! Nor their oil and NG.
I'm running a mental list of former Western nations and regions that should be rendered glow-in-the-dark through the miracle of ICBMs. Davos is on that list; City of London; Brussels. Quite possibly Jerusalem.
Now that the East German DDR commies took over the formerly-free West, and poisoned the land...maybe it's time to impose the Morganthau Plan of 1944, which was to completely de-industrialize Germany...leave the non-mechanized farmers to work, and let those without land or skills, just go as Nature might intend.
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America goes to war, but Congress is AWOL
In theory, Congress is a separate and coequal branch of the United States government. The U.S. Constitution, the American republic’s most sacred document, vests extraordinary power in the men and women who occupy seats in the legislature, including writing laws and establishing the tax code, funding federal agencies, and overseeing how the executive branch implements policy. The founders were enlightened enough to realize that power is both intoxicating and corrupting, and it is best spread out over several competing players to ensure everybody in the system is kept honest.Yet as the nation hits the 250th anniversary of its independence this July 4, this remains a work in progress. Our politics now operate in the gutter, with politicians and candidates slinging substance-free arrows at each other and playing to the most extreme partisans on both ends of the political spectrum. Cooperation across the aisle, once a common occurrence on Capitol Hill, is now a rarity. And Congress, that most hallowed institution, consistently comes up short on one of its most consequential — if not the most consequential — duties: authorizing when the United States goes to war.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...congress-is-awol/ar-AA229wpl?ocid=socialshare
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Apart from other differences - the need for this war, or the wisdom of engaging in it, risking critical shipping traffic - totally separate from all this, what we're seeing right now is the danger of a democracy (using the term loosely) entering into a war with a intensely-divided government.
Half the Congress does not support this war. Now for 90 years the States have had no direct input, but I suspect many state leaders do not support it. Probably a majority of voters do not - certainly this isn't popular for MAGA voters, who see it, probably correctly, as a distraction from Trump's OTHER broken pledges.
Soon, Trump is going to be brought up short - and the war will end with TRILLIONS in high-tech munitions, not quickly replaceable, WASTED. With global oil output drastically curtailed, due to the problems in interrupting the gentle easing of crude out of underground patches. With this year's harvest in danger, yes, due to world dependence on synthetic fertilizer, but also do to American jackassery.
And in seven months, Trump will pay. The two parties are Kabuki for the masses, but there is no debate that the identified Jackass Party members are the moar ignorant, moar reckless, moar spendthrift, and moar enamoured of Karl Marx. What we had with pResident Autopen, we will have again in a year, and have HARDER in two years when Trump's term runs out. If he lasts that long.
Because he didn't have the GUTS to just kick out aliens and jail criminals holding office, or former officeholders, who happened to once pretend to friendship.
Apart from other differences - the need for this war, or the wisdom of engaging in it, risking critical shipping traffic - totally separate from all this, what we're seeing right now is the danger of a democracy (using the term loosely) entering into a war with a intensely-divided government.
Half the Congress does not support this war. Now for 90 years the States have had no direct input, but I suspect many state leaders do not support it. Probably a majority of voters do not - certainly this isn't popular for MAGA voters, who see it, probably correctly, as a distraction from Trump's OTHER broken pledges.
Soon, Trump is going to be brought up short - and the war will end with TRILLIONS in high-tech munitions, not quickly replaceable, WASTED. With global oil output drastically curtailed, due to the problems in interrupting the gentle easing of crude out of underground patches. With this year's harvest in danger, yes, due to world dependence on synthetic fertilizer, but also do to American jackassery.
And in seven months, Trump will pay. The two parties are Kabuki for the masses, but there is no debate that the identified Jackass Party members are the moar ignorant, moar reckless, moar spendthrift, and moar enamoured of Karl Marx. What we had with pResident Autopen, we will have again in a year, and have HARDER in two years when Trump's term runs out. If he lasts that long.
Because he didn't have the GUTS to just kick out aliens and jail criminals holding office, or former officeholders, who happened to once pretend to friendship.
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Trump says UFC 'Claw' cage construction to begin next week at White House
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that construction of a UFC arena, dubbed “The Claw,” will begin next week on the White House grounds.The platform will host UFC's historic Freedom 250 fight, scheduled for June 14, the same day Trump turns 80.
"Well, they have some of the greatest champions in the world. The arena, they're going to start building it over the next week, it's right here," Trump told reporters while speaking on the South Lawn. "It'll be about 5,000 feet. They'll have 100,000 people down by the Ellipse with screens, and it's all free. It's going to be great."
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...k-at-white-house/ar-AA22bHv1?ocid=socialshare
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Military regs versus the easy tolerance shown to civilian, political friends.
It sucks; but when you are in the military, in any level...you may have connections and you may be able to get away with a lot, but when those connections are suddenly cut, and you're held to regulations...you have to be quickly mobile. Literally, here.
If you're in a military-housing situation, you had best not be completely unpacked. It could be something unrelated to your own actions, just the politics of your sponsor or that the political official who appointed you was replaced by one who wants you as a scapegoat.
This goes all up and down. An E-3 can be living a comfortable life in Family Housing on the base, and with a surprise notice from Washington, your ship or your unit could be mobilized in mere hours. That birthday dinner your wife had planned? You won't be there.
It is what it is. Military life is hard on many levels - and this is one MOAR reason why IMHO it's totally unsuitable for wombynz in the ranks.
Military regs versus the easy tolerance shown to civilian, political friends.
It sucks; but when you are in the military, in any level...you may have connections and you may be able to get away with a lot, but when those connections are suddenly cut, and you're held to regulations...you have to be quickly mobile. Literally, here.
If you're in a military-housing situation, you had best not be completely unpacked. It could be something unrelated to your own actions, just the politics of your sponsor or that the political official who appointed you was replaced by one who wants you as a scapegoat.
This goes all up and down. An E-3 can be living a comfortable life in Family Housing on the base, and with a surprise notice from Washington, your ship or your unit could be mobilized in mere hours. That birthday dinner your wife had planned? You won't be there.
It is what it is. Military life is hard on many levels - and this is one MOAR reason why IMHO it's totally unsuitable for wombynz in the ranks.
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The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love | Mises Institute
The recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center might be controversial, but what is not controversial is that the SPLC engaged in conduct that was
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We Are Living in the Fourth American Republic | Mises Institute
The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called “American experiment”—was swept away long ago.
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‘A beans and rice diet’: Government watchdog finds issues with military cost of living pay
The Government Accountability Office found the DoD used a mix of unsound sampling practices and inconsistent processes to set cost of living payments.
www.navytimes.com