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Trump's Second Term

TomB said:
It's always been a problem. the fact that other presidents have done it doesn't make it less of a problem. Do you think that Carter/Clinton/Nixon etc. doing something makes it better?
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I don't think it's a problem.

I do think the complaints about Trump doing it amount to special pleading.
 
Just thinking ahead...
Assuming he's still kicking, what's he going to rename the 250th Anniversary of the United States to? Current, logical options are
A 250 year anniversary is called a semiquincentennial, sestercentennial, quarter-millennial, or Bisesquicentennial. The United States will celebrate its semiquincentennial in 2026.
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I could state a dozen reasons he won't want to use any of those (a US celebration with "Bi" in it?? No way! Yes, I know we had the Bicentennial but it was a different guy then.)
 
alfaniner:
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Just thinking ahead...
Assuming he's still kicking, what's he going to rename the 250th Anniversary of the United States to? Current, logical options are
A 250 year anniversary is called a semiquincentennial, sestercentennial, quarter-millennial, or Bisesquicentennial. The United States will celebrate its semiquincentennial in 2026.
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I could state a dozen reasons he won't want to use any of those (a US celebration with "Bi" in it?? No way! Yes, I know we had the Bicentennial but it was a different guy then.)
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America’s “Big Beautiful Birthday!”
 
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thaiboxerken said:
Another day, another airplane incident.
www.kgun9.com

Two dead in midair plane crash at Marana airport

"This is an unprecedented event, and we are grateful for the swift response from the Marana Police Department and Northwest Fire District.”
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Looks like MAGA has made plane travel unsafe and it won't stop being unsafe until the Nazis are out of power.
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Duffy: "Air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden than Donald Trump."
 
alfaniner said:
Just thinking ahead...
Assuming he's still kicking, what's he going to rename the 250th Anniversary of the United States to? Current, logical options are

I could state a dozen reasons he won't want to use any of those (a US celebration with "Bi" in it?? No way! Yes, I know we had the Bicentennial but it was a different guy then.)
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Damn, dude, I thought this thread was already depressing enough but you had to bring this up. I was a bicentennial baby.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Another day, another airplane incident.
www.kgun9.com

Two dead in midair plane crash at Marana airport

"This is an unprecedented event, and we are grateful for the swift response from the Marana Police Department and Northwest Fire District.”
www.kgun9.com www.kgun9.com

Looks like MAGA has made plane travel unsafe and it won't stop being unsafe until the Nazis are out of power.
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I don't recall Biden doing anything to stop chemtrails.
 
Andy_Ross said:
The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.
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The memo explicitly says the cancelation isn't limited to those listed companies, but it's not clear to me that there were any media subscriptions to Trump-friendly media, and they would still be covered by the general category described.
 
Trump is right about one thing; Europe is going have to spend a lot more on it's own defense then is has in the past if it wants to reaming free.
Problem is Europe has a hard core ignore reality Pacifist movement that might impeded that.
I am so angry at Trump's selling out the Ukraine I don't want to talk about it for fear of my being kicked off this site for NSFW language.
 
Random said:
While it is difficult to imagine a scenario that would give Ukraine all of its pre-war territory including Crimea, excluding Ukraine from the peace talks while demanding Ukraine hand over half their mineral rights in perpetuity to the US to pay for the equipment we sent them and blaming Zelensky for Russia's invasion is not a good start.
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Agreed. I think Crimea should be conceded....Ukraine's claim is on shaky grounds there since it wonership of Crimea is pretty recent but we are off to a bad start.
The thing that gets to me is that Putin hates the United States, its' destruction has always been a goal of his,yet Trump embraces him.
The whole RUssian idelogy is to destroy the US and the Western Alliance, and then turn east to destroy China. iNHO this bat crap crazy...CHian a much, much stronger then RUssia, but then rationality has never been a big part of RUssian Natioianlistic ideology.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
That's not how any of this works: you can't "buy" a functioning military, no matter how much you spend.
You need to order, get built and train on the equipment and vehicles.
You have to recruit and train a LOT of people.
You have to expose them to actual combat.
Thia takes many, many years.
Add to that that military service is something most Europeans don't want to do, and you are looking at a decade before the continent is in actual fighting shape no matter how much money you spent .
Thia is just about handing money to domestic defense contractors.

If you actually wanted to build up Europe's defense, you would look were you can buy a lot of tested stuff relatively cheap - South Korea comes to mind for tanks. But that won't happen, because Europe can only justify defense spending if it's on EU companies.
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You think that countries in Europe don't have equipment and vehicles or high quality training already?
Why would anyone need tanks from South Korea when Europe already as a number of excellent designs in service and in production?
What proportion of the US military have been exposed to combat?

You are funny.
 
Darat said:
libcom.org

Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock

An essay by Michael Moorcock on the saturation of Fascistic and authoritarian themes and messages in Science Fiction literature.
libcom.org libcom.org
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I actully put Moorcock in the same area as Heinlein an author I enjoy reading but whose politics I disagree with.
Moorock ignores the more libertarian side of Heinlein, and find Moorcock's anarchism to be silly.
 
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