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1) Federal government employees shouldn’t be making federal government regulations? That doesn’t even make sense 2) Most federal employees are not in Washington DC, Feds have offices all over the country. 3) Running a business and running a government are 2 different things. Musk and Vivek might know how to make themselves rich running a business you don’t want them to make themselves rich running government. These men are used to being dictators of their own enterprises. They probably don’t have the slightest interest or knowledge when it comes to providing public services for no other purpose than serving the public good or being accountable to the public.

1) the mythical “hidden efficiencies” conservatives promise never materialize, instead they end up gutting and defunding services, many of which people need whether they are aware of it or not 2) the tax cuts mostly go to corporations and the ultra rich, the small amount of money if any that working class people save from task cuts is immaterial- the extra $10 per paycheque isn’t changing anyone’s lives 3) EVERY Republican administration, including Trump’s first term, massively drove up public debt because their cuts to spending are always outpaced by tax cuts. This is because many if not most recipients of government spending are in fact corporations whom government tries to placate by offering tax cuts that exceed the lost revenue. Corporate welfare and crony capitalism are endemic to United States system of government amd that’s not going to change 4) One of the biggest efficiencies would be cutting off all the Republican Red States that suckle at the federal tit because they refuse to have adequate state taxes The worst state mooches of federal funds are almost all historically Republican states. Meanwhile of the states that contribute more federal tax dollars than they receive, allmost all are historically Democrat Letting drug companies approve their own drugs and polluters monitor their own pollution or whatever mad max no regulation no government craziness they have in store is not going to make America a paradise in earth. What has made America such a polarized dysfunctional country is decades of extreme wealth inequality where an increasingly wealthy and powerful billionaire class has ruled over an ever-shrinking middle class and ever-growing population of serfs.

Hooray for sweet sweet fascism!

A Republican billionaire appoints 2 other Republican billionaires to defund the public sector. Literally what everyone has been warning would happen for the past 40 years. Some “party of the working class”

It’s plainly obvious that she’s talking to her supporters and her campaign staff. Not everything is about you.

Yeah his comment was surprising and weird. I can’t defend it, what I am trying to say is that my time as a private in a LI Reserve regiment doesn’t qualify me to challenge him. But the trials showed (apparently) that the razor was not up to the task especially n the .50 cal as the recoil made the suspension bounce around so much you couldn’t hit the target after the first round. They said they needed something “way more robust” so had to upgrade from ATV to something with a proper vehicle chassis They have MRZRS and Dagors for this role, which are similarly unarmored open topped and I believe even lighter than this vehicle. Who knows maybe of they need to move as sections instead of smaller units maybe they will grab some.

Because dismounted operations still happen but in age of the drone this requires dispersed operations and dismounted troops need to ingress and egress much faster. You can’t truck in entire platoons to a big staging area or march them all day across open terrain anymore. You need to speed each individual section directly to its own objective

I’ll admit I was surprised by that anecdote too but assume since he knows he’s talking to an audience that is almost exclusively army members there must be some truth to it. He’s a Major from 1 R22eR and he mentions he’s done arctic training so I also assume he must have some knowledge. As part of the same initiative he was also behind all those MRZR weapons trials that 3 RCR has been doing over the past couple of years.

I’ve already told you that’s false. Why do you just ignore inconvenient facts and make people repeat them to you over and over? I repeat: The donation was in January 2021. He registered republican in September 2021 on his 18th birthday. I don’t think someone can even register as a voter if they’re not 18. Oopsie you lose Stop lying to yourself and don't bother trying to lie to me

You’re ridiculous. I already explained that was one $15 donation as teenager but as an adult he registered as a republicanOf course you stick to your usual habit of completely ignoring the relevant facts to push your bogus narratives. False (more on this below) Well apparently he could shoot, couldn’t he? He cam pretty close on Trump It was his dad’s and he used to shoot with it regularly. Gab is a far right platform, and its owner is a far right trump supporter so off the bat you have to assume he’s not being truthful and of course what evidence does he offer up to claim. Crooks made only 9 posts on the site all during the same 2 week period he made the $15 donation WHILE STILL A TEENAGER , the supposed pro- Biden post is “ @Catturd: “Didn’t you also think Biden would lose in a landslide yeah I would not be very confident in your election predictions.” Wow, some pro-Democrat! And then later as an adult he registered Republican which makes him a Republican, pal. Sorry you lose. That is a lie, As usual you have your facts completely wrong. . He registered Republican in September 2021 when he turned 18. The donation was in January 2021 and the Gab posts were made back then also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks#:~:text=Crooks had been registered to,comments from 2019 to 2020. He received an email encouraging him to donate and attend a dem rally. He clicked the link and donated, possibly thinking it would gain him access. What know is later that year he turned 18 and registered as a republican We also know this shooter had been targeting democrats and celebrities so most likely he was trying to be famous But also the other would-be shooter who was waiting to shoot Trump on the golf course was a Republican and had been a trump supporter too. Trump cultivated a following of unstable extremists, it comes with the territory. If your specialty is breeding an especially vicious breed of rabid pit-bulls, you have to expect that sooner or later one or two of them are going to try and bite you. Nope 1) you still don’t understand what an opinion is 2) Republicans always talk like that except instead of fascist they say communist, Marxist, Islamist, terrorist sympathizers, and so on. Even before Trump, going all the way back through McCarthy witch hunts and John Birch Society in the 1950s and the anti-FDR, coup-plotting, nazi admiring republicans of the 1930s Its a republican tradition Collusion is a word in the English language you should look it up. It is not a criminal act and nobody ever claimed it was. What was claimed was that he committed criminal acts while colluding. He escaped charges but was not exonerated, no different than OJ Simpson’s murder charge. Whether it Trump or OJ I guess criminal charges just don’t like anything affiliated with orange. There is nothing made up about secret meetings with the Russians which they lied about and destroyed evidence of, including a meeting in Trump tower to negotiate release of rhe Hillary email hacks and and meeting with Russian intelligence operatives to negotiate Trump administration’s non-response to Russia’s proxy war in Ukraine. The Mueller report specifically mentions that were contacts between the campaign and Russian individuals, but the evidence did not meet the legal threshold for criminal conspiracy. It then goes on to explicitly state that it did not exonerate Trump, stating that if the investigation could have cleared him, it would have. Mueller outlined ten instances that could be considered obstruction but left it to Congress to take further action, citing limitations around indicting a sitting president. But since these facts are another case of inconvenient reality you will do your usual routine of ignoring and not responding to it then you will self-lobotomize so you can delete it from your memory. Wont you? Pfft, the best republicans can do is scrape together 12 minutes of random comments made during casual chatter (some of it repeated) over a period of 8 years? You want to hear 12 minutes of Republicans denying election results talk to any trump supprter any time for 12 minutes over the last 4 years. They made election denial their sole purpose for existing it was more than just the random one-off comment when having a casual chat. . Trump held entire rallies on the topic year and raised tens of millions of dollars on it, inspired people to attack the Capitol building over it and of course he actually tried to steal the election What a joke, typical dishonest republican BS trying to pretend 2 completely dissimilar things are identical I referred to 9 years worth of examples just from trump not one example 9 years ago, dummy. Learn to read And how would go about proving it’s in response anyway? You're just making that nonsense up. But I can tell you Trump was spouting Birther nonsense about Obama and Republicans were spouting BS about Obamacare “death panels” over a decade ago when no democrats were talking about Trump. Riiiight. Trump had never criticized anyone first he just retaliates. What a load of crap he’s known for attacking people including his fellow Republicans who run against him with all kinds of baseless lies. The phrase “Trump claimed, without evidence that…”l has been so frequently used in coverage of him over the past decade that they neoto make a shortcut key on computer keyboards for it. “They’re eating the cats and the dogs” being only a recent example. It’s true the American people selected trump know full well what a POS he is. Kamala ran a shitty campaign she only had 103 days to do it and in a “throw the bums out” economic mood it would have been an uphill battle even if she had run a better campaign and been a better candidate. But as for telling the truth it’s ridiculous to suggest the Republicans told any truths Trump’s entire persona is based on telling huge lies and small lies and claiming vast conspiracies against him to explain the discrepancy between his words and reality. Any falsehoods from the democratic campaign wouldn’t add up to 10 minutes of lies at any given Trump rally. He is the most prolific liar in modern political history. And they’re not just carefully crafted lies ginned up by his campaign team like the hurricane FEMA lies, they’re also random lies he makes up on the spot about the size of his crowds, the height of his buildings, awards he didn’t actually win, and so on. It’s really pathological how much he lies.

Lol what bullshit! . He was a registered republican, ar-15 assault rifle enthusiast who frequented right wing social media. There were no pro-democrat social media posts, period. The fact that you would even try to claim that a single $15 donation he made years ago as a teenager in response to an email is somehow more relevant than the fact that he registered as a Republican as an adult is just ridiculous. Furthermore the that one donation was when he clicked on an email link raising funds upcoming democrat rally,he was probably hoping to get a ticket to shoot the place up There is also no “etc” you’ve just added that in to embellish your bullshit Nobody has told more lies than republicans and Trump is the worst liar of them all so no lying isnt “what got the dems where they are right now”. What got them where they are is actually that they are not as dishonest and shameless liars as the Republicans As above 1) Opinions {e, g.. Trump/Hitler comparisons) by definition aren’t lies 2) There is no crime called “collusion” There was ample evidence of collusion but due to obstruction from the Trump White House the evidence collected did not meet the legal threshold for criminal conspiracy, i.e. could not prove his campaign broke any US laws while colluding 3) There’s no evidence people believe it’s bullshit vs believe it’s true but votes for him anyway Bullshit usually in response he’s been notorious as a shameless liar ever since he cam down that golden escalator in 2015 and started lying about his fellow Republicans during the primary. His lies about Muslims, immigrants, Obama, Hillary, Biden, Harris, how they’re deliberately “emptying insane asylums” in Latin America and importing them here, secretly rigging elections, Marxist this, communist that, the country will be completely destroyed and turned into a third world country in just a few years if Dems get elected, Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim, and so on. There are literally terns of thousands of documented Trump lies. And that doesn’t count all the shit flooding out from the online MAGAverse bottom feeders and the from the Kremlin propaganda outlets. Trump’s was brown woman bad, immigrants eating pets, hate hate hate

If you listen they explain why they set out a requirement for this vehicle and also address the misguided criticism from some members of the public about lack of cover and ballistic protection (basically same as what I said here)

The people who tried shooting at him were both republicans and the democrats anti-Trump rhetoric doesn’t even come close to the hateful bombast and conspiracies the right spews daily whether there’s an election or not.

Not to beat a dead horse or anything but the new Light Tactical Vehicle is the topic of the latest Army Podcast out today

America Makes a Perilous Choice By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. American voters have made the choice to return Donald Trump to the White House, setting the nation on a precarious course that no one can fully foresee. The founders of this country recognized the possibility that voters might someday elect an authoritarian leader and wrote safeguards into the Constitution, including powers granted to two other branches of government designed to be a check on a president who would bend and break laws to serve his own ends. And they enacted a set of rights — most crucially the First Amendment — for citizens to assemble, speak and protest against the words and actions of their leader. Over the next four years, Americans must be cleareyed about the threat to the nation and its laws that will come from its 47th president and be prepared to exercise their rights in defense of the country and the people, laws, institutions and values that have kept it strong. It can’t be ignored that millions of Americans voted for a candidate even some of his closest supporters acknowledge to be deeply flawed — convinced that he was more likely to change and fix what they regarded as the nation’s urgent problems: high prices, an infusion of immigrants, a porous southern border and economic policies that have flowed unequally through society. Some cast their votes out of a profound dissatisfaction with the status quo, politics or the state of American institutions more broadly. Whatever drove this decision among these voters, however, all Americans should now be wary of an incoming Trump administration that is likely to put a top priority on amassing unchecked power and punishing its perceived enemies, both of which Mr. Trump has repeatedly vowed to do. All Americans, regardless of their party or politics, should insist that the fundamental pillars of the nation’s democracy — including constitutional checks and balances, fair-minded federal prosecutors and judges, an impartial election system and basic civil rights — be preserved against an assault that he has already begun and has said he would continue. At this point, there can be no illusions about who Donald Trump is and how he intends to govern. He showed us in his first term and in the years after he left office that he has no respect for the law, let alone the values, norms and traditions of democracy. As he takes charge of the world’s most powerful state, he is transparently motivated only by the pursuit of power and the preservation of the cult of personality he has built around himself. These stark assessments are striking in part because they are held not just by his critics but also by those who served most closely with him.i We are a nation that has always emerged from a crucible with its ideals intact and often toughened and sharpened. The institutions of our government, hardened by nearly 250 years of disputation, turmoil, assassinations and wars, held firm when Mr. Trump assailed them four years ago. And Americans know how to counter Mr. Trump’s worst instincts — actions that were unjust, immoral or illegal — because they did so, over and over, during his first administration. Civil servants, members of Congress, members of his own party and people he appointed to high office often stood in the way of the former president’s plans, and other institutions of our society, including the free press and independent law enforcement agencies, held him accountable to the public. Mr. Trump and his movement have all but taken over the Republican Party. Yet it is also important to remember that Mr. Trump can’t run for another term. From the day he enters the White House, he will be, in effect, a lame-duck president. The Constitution limits him to two terms. Congress has the power — and for some ambitious Republicans, perhaps the political incentive — to set a course away from Mr. Trump’s antidemocratic agenda, if it chooses to pursue it. Governors and legislatures across the nation have spent months shoring up their state laws and Constitutions to protect civil rights and liberties, including access to reproductive and gender-affirming health care. Even states that voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Trump, including Kentucky, Ohio and Kansas, have rejected the most extreme positions on abortion. Other institutions of American civil society will play a crucial role in challenging the Trump administration in the courts, in our communities and in the protests that are sure to return. The rest of the world, too, has no illusions about the leader who will soon again represent the United States on the world stage. The countries of the NATO alliance were shocked, during the first Trump administration, by his willingness to undermine that long and valuable partnership. But European nations, defying Mr. Trump’s predictions, not only came together with the United States in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but also expanded their ranks right up to Russia’s border. For the Democratic Party, rear-guard action as the political opposition will not be enough. The party must also take a hard look at why it lost the election. It took too long to recognize that President Biden was not capable of running for a second term. It took too long to recognize that large swaths of their progressive agenda were alienating voters, including some of the most loyal supporters of their party. And Democrats have struggled for three elections now to settle on a persuasive message that resonates with Americans from both parties who have lost faith in the system — which pushed skeptical voters toward the more obviously disruptive figure, even though a large majority of Americans acknowledge his serious faults. If the Democrats are to effectively oppose Mr. Trump, it must be not just through resisting his worst impulses but also by offering a vision of what they would do to improve the lives of all Americans and respond to anxieties that people have about the direction of the country and how they would change it. The test for members of this new Congress will begin soon after they take their oath. The president-elect has promised to surround himself in his second term with enablers prepared to pledge loyalty to him, who will be willing to do whatever he commands. But a president needs the Senate to approve many of those appointments. Senators can stop the most extreme or unqualified candidates from taking cabinet positions like defense secretary and attorney general, as well as seats on the Supreme Court and the federal bench. They can act to keep clearly unfit candidates from holding any powerful position. The Senate did that in 2020, when it blocked Mr. Trump’s attempts to seat unqualified people on the board of the Federal Reserve, and the chamber should not hesitate to do so again. Perhaps the most important responsibility lies with all of those who will serve in a second Trump administration. Those he appoints as attorney general, as secretary of defense and to other top leadership roles should expect that he may ask them to carry out illegal acts or violate their oaths to the Constitution on his behalf, as he did in his first term. We urge them to recognize that whatever pledge of loyalty he may demand, their first loyalty is to their country. Standing up to Mr. Trump is possible, and it is the duty of every American public servant when appropriate. But the final responsibility for ensuring the continuity of America’s enduring values lies with its voters. Those who supported Mr. Trump in this election should closely observe his conduct in office to see if it matches their hopes and expectations, and if it does not, they should make their disappointment known and cast votes in the 2026 midterms and in 2028 to put the country back on course. Those who opposed him should not hesitate to raise alarms when he abuses his power, and if he attempts to use government power to retaliate against critics, the world will be watching. Benjamin Franklin famously admonished the American people that the nation was “a republic, if you can keep it.” Mr. Trump’s election poses a grave threat to that republic, but he will not determine the long-term fate of American democracy. That outcome remains in the hands of the American people. It is the work of the next four years. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-wins.html

See Nobody except Trump has ever said the election was rigged or that the electoral process was riddled with corruption and secret agents and fraud. Everyone recognized the 2016 vote count was legitimate choice of American voters, criticism simply noted accurately that voters beliefs were influenced by interference by Putin and a witch-hunt investigation James Comey Theres a big difference between saying the public made its choice based on misleading information and Trumps rats nest of batshit claiming the system is rigged top to bottom with secret democratic agents and infiltrators and “mules” at all levels of government and society

Nobody is offended but nothing offensive happened

Invasion was plan B. Internal coup while Trump sat on his hands was plan A but they couldn’t get the deal done in time what with Trump being impeached and under scrutiny for threatening to cut off aid to Ukraine

Counterpunch is a far left website. You are only aligned with them because they are anti- military while you are only anti-opposing Putin. The ridiculousness of the article is to pretend that this conflict only dates to 2021 and pretends Putin’s invasion in 2014 and Georgia in 2008 never happened.

Ukraine, at least the parts currently under Russian occupation, are probably now lost to Russian aggression. Georgia and other Russian satellites may be next although with Trump aiding and abetting Putin these will likely come in the form of bloodless coups and Russian “military interventions” while Trump parrots Kremlin talking points

Baloney. That’s how it goes. I doubt you’re offended on behalf of Kamala supporters.

It’s a joke dummy. But Trump is their candidate of choice.

They are celebrating Trump’s victory around the world today

Oh Fck off. Nothing shameful when the vote counts went late into the night the early hours of the morning What’s shameful was Trump, the ultimate sore loser, who after the 2020 election tried to steal the election while refusing to concede and went on for month. How can you justify that while pretending to be upset about Kamala or Hillary’s brief delay of a few hours? You hypocrites are ridiculous

Republicans: “THE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!! THE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!! THE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!! AMERICA IS CORRUPT TO YHE CORE!!! CONSPIRACY!!!! CONSPIRACY!!! ….Oh, never mind, we won, it’s all good.”