Politics

[Wheels]

JD Vance gets the hot potato. And Marco sits on the sidelines.

Marco was busy. He got the nod to handle the chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Marco was busy. He got the nod to handle the chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.

The guy has more titles than Idi Amin lol

 

[Brent in Az]

Rubio should be at the forefront in the Iran negotiations. It would score him a lot of points if negotiations were effective.
Not sure what Trump's reasoning is for sending Vance?

 

[Big_Easy]

I think you meant to say. “ no more tax cuts for the people paying most of the taxes”

By the way. All of you Bernie Bros and AOC acolytes can pay as much tax as you like. Throw an extra check in the mail to the IRS if you feel they should have more to waste.

My ask is to show me where all the money is going now before you ask for more.

If you want to see where the money is going all you have to do is google it. Every department has a budget breakdown of how much is allocated to which business unit/office/program within each respective department. Except for some defense/intelligence portions. If they're grants to states then you may have to search each respective state's websites, but that's probably a result of republican insistence on state block grants.

And yes, the rich do pay most of the taxes, but it is difficult to pay taxes making minimum wage and having to worry about a rent/mortgage payment each month. Hard to squeeze blood out of a stone.

 

[Big_Easy]

I can remember when Reagan "fixed" social security for all time. It never stays fixed.

I mean that was never the case. The social security "fix" during the time of Reagan was estimated to last 75 years. At the current rate it'll be fixed for slightly more than 50 years.

 

[Wheels]

Unfortunately this meme is the major problem with the SoH. Also unfortunately the US Navy decommissioned their last four Avenger minesweepers last year.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042761610503057911

 

[Big_Easy]

By the time I retire I will have paid into it for 56 years and there was never a choice not too since I dont own my own business. I think when I get there and I can't collect at least some of what I paid into it I will be more than a little pissed. And quit calling Social Security an entitlement I paid for mine.

Actually you didn't. The current generation of workers pays for the current generation of retirees. Unfortunately it was set-up that way to make sure the first generation to receive it got some money before they died.

 

[mdwest]

Don’t sell Vance short… he didn’t get through the Yale law program or serve as an executive at Peter Theil’s venture capital firm without proving himself a skilled negotiator…

And I’m going to guess he’s got a team of 6-10 equally or higher skilled and more experienced negotiators on AF2 with him…

I think he’s got the ability to do the job and do it well…

The only question is whether or not the Iranians are ready to play ball, or if they’d prefer to take another 6 weeks of air strikes and have an additional 3-5 senior leaders killed…

 

[Big_Easy]

What will be interesting is when the boomers lose their voting majority they've enjoyed at the same time that SS goes tits up broke......

Those will be entertaining times when younger generations go to the ballot to decide the fate of SS!

I couldn't agree more.

 

[skydiver386]

How the f*ck can they make up this stuff!View attachment 758677

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

 

[Big_Easy]

You’re not entitled because you want what you’re owed. You’re entitled because you think you’re unique from the millions of other people who have paid into it and are still paying into it who may get nothing.

“Give me mine and f*ck everyone else” is a pretty entitled attitude.

Thats the far right Baby-boomer motto in a nutshell. Always talking about cutting government spending, but never for themselves, always for someone else.

 

[Russ16]

Rubio should be at the forefront in the Iran negotiations. It would score him a lot of points if negotiations were effective.
Not sure what Trump's reasoning is for sending Vance?

He’s testing them to see who can be successor. Game of thrones.

 

[mdwest]

Unfortunately this meme is the major problem with the SoH. Also unfortunately the US Navy decommissioned their last four Avenger minesweepers last year.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042761610503057911

There are 3 LCS in the region though that have very sophisticated counter mine technology on board…

Unlike the wood and fiberglass avengers, the LCS use remote (drone) tech to go find and destroy mines.,,

I’d be incredibly surprised if they haven’t already been “finding” and for whatever reason have refrained from destroying yet…

I’m not convinced we don’t want the straits to continue to be closed a little longer…

China hurts the most from the closure… and we enter into huge trade talks with China in just a few weeks..

 

[Big_Easy]

The US have passed that point, 1.22 vs. 0.919 Trillion:

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https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-expense-avg-interest-rates/


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https://usafacts.org/reports/state-of-the-union/defense/

Yes, but that doesn't take into account the VA or various other defense spending programs. Total defense spending is more like 1.5 trillion.

 

[Scott CWO]

Talk vs actions.

Exactly. While we held up our end of NATO, some of the the very countries it protects the most took it for granted (as well as all the American blood spilled in two world wars) and spent their money on social programs, put in place ridiculous labor laws and think we area bunch of dumb “cowboys.” The level of disrespect was and still is over the top and all they see is Trump’s disrespect, which is something they’ve been doing to us for decades. They think they are intellectually superior to us when the truth is that many are spoiled children. Get over yourselves and get to work slackers!

 

[Scott CWO]

If you want to see where the money is going all you have to do is google it. Every department has a budget breakdown of how much is allocated to which business unit/office/program within each respective department. Except for some defense/intelligence portions. If they're grants to states then you may have to search each respective state's websites, but that's probably a result of republican insistence on state block grants.

And yes, the rich do pay most of the taxes, but it is difficult to pay taxes making minimum wage and having to worry about a rent/mortgage payment each month. Hard to squeeze blood out of a stone.

Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. I haven’t made minimum wage since junior high school. I’ve been funding slackers ever since.

 

[Big_Easy]

Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage. I haven’t made minimum wage since junior high school. I’ve been funding slackers ever since.

Thats literally what it's supposed to be...A federal living minimum wage.

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level, I mean the wages of decent living.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

[Scott CWO]

Thats literally what it's supposed to be...A federal living minimum wage.

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level, I mean the wages of decent living.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

You’re wrong and so was FDR. He caused all that we know as welfare now. I’m all for helping someone disabled or injured but not the slackers.

 

[spike.t]

Marco was busy. He got the nod to handle the chimpanzee civil war in Uganda.

Was reading about that....

 

[Altitude sickness]

Rubio should be at the forefront in the Iran negotiations. It would score him a lot of points if negotiations were effective.
Not sure what Trump's reasoning is

It’s obvious that Iran is going to be a wedge issue this fall and in the 2028 elections.

It’s very telling that Trump wanted some of that stink on Vance but not Rubio.
Vance is clearly against this war. So Trump is throwing him into the arena, forcing him to get some scars and bruises.

Which is a great move. Rubio would be a much more formidable candidate.