If one is being pragmatic, as well as patriotic, you have to consider the danger to our Republic in taking an aggressive approach like that. I'd prefer a careful unraveling to ripping it apart. There are consequences for any action, and I think massive upheaval in government would ultimately be destructive, like using aggressive chemo on a patient and killing both the cancer and the patient.
It's better to get at the most virulent, active corruption first, and work your way through getting the rest. I'd also go after anyone not in government anymore to send signals to anyone in the swamp wanting to further engage in such activities. And I would especially go after corporations and K street, while filing away names of politicians and the like to go after later. And any Republicans I had, I would go after them before the 2022 primaries, but wait until a month before the 2022 midterm elections to get Democrats.
In other words, if President Trump is smart (and I hear he is a genius) it's going to be a very long 4 years and things won't move as quickly as many would like. But ultimately he will destroy the Deep State and do so without tearing apart our great nation.
To pull off a Q level LARP, you have to at least be intelligent and informed enough to make plausible claims along with predictions that have a good chance of being true that any good analyst could come up with.
The primary problem with Q has always been the concept of "the plan". There is no overarching plan. Things don't work that way and Trump specifically doesn't work that way. He is not a method guy, he is a results guy. He has goals, but will adjust tactics fluidly as the need arises.
It's becoming more obvious by the day what the current plan is, but it is highly unlikely Trump or his team had such a plan in place even last year. The battlefield always changes, and you have to be able to change with it.
Well I'll give them a little longer than that, but I've felt they are on the path of destruction for a while now, and mostly due to internal factors. It's becoming too ideologically split. The election of Trump really just drives a wedge in that crack.
At any rate, the take down here is not of the Democrat Party. It's beyond that. It's the take down of the whole corrupt network in government and politics.
The purpose of all of these truths being released over and over and over, which many complain about "nothing being done", is to build up a body of evidence in the public consciousness, and a desire for their to be something done, or at least a mild expectation that something might be.
That is absolutely required to really "drain the swamp". As odd as it seems that the public should be needed to support the law being carried out, something of this magnitude absolutely demands it.
It was also important to connect media to the corruption. That way, when indictments do come (and they will) and arrests are made (they will be), when the media claims it is just Trump going after political enemies like a dictator, it'll mostly fall on deaf ears. Only those still afflicted with TDS will buy that line, and even then many will know deep down that these people are crooks they have had to defend one too many times.
And it will especially hit home when some Republicans are scooped up in it all, which you can almost guarantee will happen. It's not a party thing. It's the cleaning up of at least half a century of complete corruption in our government that has been left to fester, covered up constantly by government agencies and the media alike, that has gotten so out of control it was coming close to toppling our Republic under its sheer weight.
Trump knew this, and this is the primary reason he ran for office. His second term will be spent doing what he came to do all along.
His initial presser made me think he's just some goomba dirtbag trying to get back at the Bidens. This interview is making me question that assessment. He's also a fellow nuke, which doesn't prove he's a good guy or anything, but he's definitely no dummy.
I'm still very curious about timing, motive, and why he continued a relationship after realizing there was really shady stuff going on. He didn't seem to evade any questions, but Tucker left a lot of questions on the table.
Yeah he mentioned after. He was a nuclear officer at nnpt. I know why he might have had a Q, I was just unaware that the DOE gave those to naval officers, but it makes sense now.
I guess he was a fellow nuke, not just the slouch I thought he was.
For starters reform section 230 of the communications decency act to open Twitter and Facebook up to tons of lawsuits. Currently they are protected from being held accountable for what other people say on their platforms. Pulling that protection would be death by a thousand cuts in the courts by putting them in the same category as printed publications.
For Google, a combination of ending all government contracts (and there's a lot) on the basis of violating constitutional guarantees, and antitrust lawsuits for anticompetitive practices, the same way Standard Oil and Ma Bell got busted up.
Well the best way I've heard someone describe it is it's like endless days of mind numbing boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror just to keep you on your toes.
I was on LA class and the food sucked and you ran out of anything edible after a few months. I've heard it's better now with the new Virginia boats, but submarines are never going to be a fun life.
But it is something crazy most people will never experience and for me that makes something worth doing.
Well on the submarine we operated in 3 dimensions and we used ahead/astern, port/starboard, and up/down for directions.
Although up and down were usually for positioning retractable masts like the periscope and moving the boat up and down was "make my depth X feet" "dive" and other specific directions.
I'd assume a military ship in space, due to orbital mechanics being very different from moving on Earth would adopt NASA terminology.
No, that's currently just a proposed amendment to the 2021 defense spending bill. The Space Force wants to stick with Air Force structure and ranks with a few modifications.
Some in Congress want the Space Force to become an actual Force in space looking well ahead to the future and believe a naval structure is not only the most appropriate for that, but also begin the process of developing a unique culture in the space force.
I agree.
That already exists in the form of federal laws, enforced through impeachment. The problem is that so many in congress are corrupt themselves, they would only take that route with a guy like Trump who isn't involved in corruption they themselves could be connected to.
I'm for term limits all around. It does reduce the amount of corruption. I think a combined 12 years is a good cap for federal elected service. That would include any combination of representative, senator, and presidential terms.
So many of our problems in federal government is that a lot of the elected officials have never done much of anything but be a politician. America has not been sending our best.
It really depends on who shows up next Tuesday. Anything is possible at this point. You have a combination of a president who may not be universally liked but has been very successful and a Democrat party that has done its best to piss everyone off and is running probably the worst presidential ticket in history.
There could be a lot of Democrat voters that decide to just stay home. NY and CA would be very tough, but this year who knows?
Yep. They have for a long time. Whenever the President travels, there will be some reporters from the White House media pool. It is a privilege, not any sort of right, extended to the media and has become a tradition.
Edit: also their company has to pay for the ride.