[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Clinton famously used to say, 'I feel your pain.' With Biden, it's the other way around. He is going to make America feel his pain.
He is having the mother of all temper tantrums, and it seems not even the Lord Almighty himself — you know, Barack Obama — can do anything about it.
Biden is literally selling off parts of Trump's border wall at fire-sale prices —auctioning fence building materials rather than retaining them for Trump's administration — doubtless because Americans ousted the Dems over the migrant crisis.
This isn't just petty. It's an attempt to thwart the will of the people. Make no mistake: Joe Biden is giving America the ultimate F-you.
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As long as they are in a no parole situation, having them die in prison anonymously is OK by me. For some of the narcissists it seems like the drama of the death sentence is pleasing to them. I am not convinced that the death of the killer brings closer to the victims and families. I am not anti-death penalty. Executed MS-13 folks that continue to run their criminal activities from Pelican Bay makes a lot of sense to me.
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12/24/2024 10:45 Comments ||
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Off Death Row? Into Gen Pop for you! A life sentence may be shorter than you thought, assholes
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12/24/2024 11:14 Comments ||
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While I think capital punishment is a just and legal punishment , in the US it costs a lot more to execute someone than for a life sentence. This is because of all the extra due-process (lawyer and court costs) that are automatic with a death sentence. The amount can be millions. Perhaps it would be better to stick them in a hole and forget about them and spend the money on preventing future crimes.
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^ don't forget the unlimited appeal process that drags out the entire effort. In Constitution V.2, I would like every citizen have the right to vendetta if the 'state' refuses to carry out its responsibilities. Vendetta used to be common, but over literally hundreds of years to end that, the 'state' said it would provide 'justice' in order to act as a neutral third party in order to establish order and stop the endless violence. The 'state' no longer wants to do the bloody work. Let it revert back to the people. If you haven't been paying attention, that is exactly what is going down in the major cities in certain communities.
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The DNC will be forever remembered by voters by their last 3 presidents actions and the parties absolute refusal to do the right thing for America.
I dunno. Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton taught me all I need to know about Democrats but it seems a lot of people don't remember. New generations come along. Church attendance is in decline and schools no longer teach the evils of socialism. MSM sure as hell won't tell them. So people have to learn it all over again the hard way.
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12/24/2024 13:13 Comments ||
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re:^
heartily agree. Cater especially taught me not to believe with his Zero based budgeting which I liked when I read about it........stupid me thinking they'd actually do it.
[DailyCaller] With less than a month to go before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the top brass are already running for cover. This week the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, pledged to cut approximately a dozen general officers from the U.S. Army.
It is a start.
But given the Army is authorized 219 general officers, cutting just 12 is using a scalpel when a machete is in order. At present, the ratio of officers to enlisted personnel stands at an all-time high. During World War II, we had one general for every 6,000 troops. Today, we have one for every 1,600.
Right now, the United States has 1.3 million active-duty service members according to the Defense Manpower Data Center. Of those, 885 are flag officers (fun fact: you get your own flag when you make general or admiral, hence the term “flag officer” and “flagship”). In the reserve world, the ratio is even worse. There are 925 general and flag officers and a total reserve force of just 760,499 personnel. That is a flag for every 674 enlisted troops.
The hallways at the Pentagon are filled with a constellation of stars and the legions of staffers who support them. I’ve worked in both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Starting around 2011, the Joint Staff began to surge in scope and power. Though the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is not in the chain of command and simply serves as an advisor to the president, there are a staggering 4,409 people working for the Joint Staff, including 1,400 civilians with an average salary of $196,800 (yes, you read that correctly). The Joint Staff budget for 2025 is estimated by the Department of Defense’s comptroller to be $1.3 billion.
In contrast, the Secretary of Defense — the civilian in charge of running our nation’s military — has a staff of 2,646 civilians and uniformed personnel. The disparity between the two staffs threatens the longstanding American principle of civilian control of the military.
Just look at what happens when civilians in the White House or the Senate dare question the ranks of America’s general class. “Politicizing the military!” critics cry, as if the Commander-in-Chief has no right to question the judgement of generals who botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, bought into the woke ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) or oversaw over-budget and behind-schedule weapons systems. Introducing accountability to the general class is not politicizing our nation’s military — it is called leadership.
What most Americans don’t understand is that our top brass is already very political. On any given day in our nation’s Capitol, a casual visitor is likely to run into multiple generals and admirals visiting our elected representatives and their staff. Ostensibly, these “briefs” are about various strategic threats and weapons systems — but everyone on the Hill knows our military leaders are also jockeying for their next assignment or promotion. It’s classic politics.
The country witnessed this firsthand with now-retired Gen. Mark Milley. Most Americans were put off by what they saw. Milley brazenly played the Washington spin game, bragging in a Senate Armed Services hearing that he had interviewed with Bob Woodward and a host of other Washington, D.C. reporters.
Woodward later admitted in an interview with CNN that he was flabbergasted by Milley, recalling the chairman hadn’t just said “[Trump] is a problem or we can’t trust him,” but took it to the point of saying, “he is a danger to the country. He is the most dangerous person I know.” Woodward said that Milley’s attitude felt like an assignment editor ordering him, “Do something about this.”
Think on that a moment — an active-duty four star general spoke on the record, disparaging the Commander-in-Chief. Not only did it show rank insubordination and a breach of Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 88, but Milley’s actions represented a grave threat against the Constitution and civilian oversight of the military.
How will it play out now that Trump has returned? Old political hands know that what goes around comes around. Milley’s ham-handed political meddling may very well pave the way for a massive reorganization of flag officers similar to Gen. George C. Marshall’s “plucking board” of 1940. Marshall forced 500 colonels into retirement saying, “You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and they will fail.”
Marshall’s efforts to reorient the War Department to a meritocracy proved prescient when the United States entered World War II less than two years later.
Perhaps it’s time for another plucking board to remind the military brass that it is their civilian bosses who sit at the top of the U.S. chain of command.
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Sort of the same with most government entities and major NGO organizations, NN2N1.
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12/24/2024 8:43 Comments ||
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As WWII started up, Britian had a hard time finding enough pointless jobs for all of it's pointless Generals. I'm hoping we don't have that problem.
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12/24/2024 9:09 Comments ||
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Peacetime rank inflation, about one grade, actually seems reasonable, because wars happen faster than training, especially of officers. The hardest part is finding ways for these people to maintain/develop actual war skills instead of dragging the whole system down with BS.
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The seeds of this was planted in the 70s with the large draw down of soldiers after Vietnam. At that time the Army had reserve officer and regular officers. They all had rank/grades in the Army of the United States. In theory, when the Army was to be 'demobilized' the 'reserves' would be released from active duty and the regular officers would revert to their regular Army rank which was often one or two grades less than what they were mobilized Army. The reserve officers went to the judiciary who absolutely no understanding of that construct and got a decree that said the Army had to treat the reservists [aka part timers] the same as the regular officers. This chart shows the rank progress of Eisenhower through the two rank system. The Army had to revise the entire rank and promotion system because of that which set the race to the top we have today.
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Stalin purged his officer corps before WWII and still managed to defeat the Wehrmacht. He had a tough time doing it but at least he didn't have to worry about the Red Army turning on him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
12/24/2024 13:21 Comments ||
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In an event that has shaken the core beliefs of many Americans, the country woke up to the shocking news that the latest mass shooter wasn’t the desired demographic: a straight white male. Instead, the perpetrator turned out to be someone who doesn’t fit the typical profile used by media outlets, activists, and social commentators when discussing gun violence in America.
The news caused widespread disbelief, with headlines screaming “Mass Shooter Breaks Stereotype!” and “Gun Violence Narrative Upended!” Across the nation, people were seen dropping their coffee mugs, spilling their morning cereal, and staring blankly at their screens. The shooter, identified as someone from an entirely different group, has caused a scramble among pundits to recalibrate their talking points.
News channels, caught off guard, had to hastily edit their pre-prepared segments. One anchor was heard muttering off-air, “How do we spin this? We’ve got three hours of content on white supremacy ready to go!” Meanwhile, social media erupted with hashtags like #NotWhatWeExpected and #NarrativeFail, as people debated whether this meant they could now discuss mental health or video game violence without being accused of deflecting from “the real issue.”
Politicians on both sides of the aisle were seen in a state of confusion. Democrats, who had been ready to launch into speeches about white male toxicity and gun control, were left fumbling for new scripts. Republicans, who were preparing defenses about Second Amendment rights, suddenly found themselves nodding in agreement at the idea of looking into broader societal issues.
Gun control activists, who had their signs and chants all lined up, were seen in emergency meetings, trying to decide if they could still use their “White Men With Guns” slogans. “It’s not that we want to limit our focus to one group,” one activist explained, “but our entire strategy was based on this demographic. Now what?”
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Class envyis a feeling of resentment towards people of a higher social class. It can be described as the feeling that it's unfair that some people earn more than others.
* Also often described as Trump Derangement Syndrone.
The New York Times released a video saying that Democrats will lose even more in future elections based on state-to-state migration data.
According to their findings, California, New York, Illinois, & other blue states will lose 12 House seats and electoral college votes by… pic.twitter.com/D7okkKHVIc
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This predilection is based on the assumption that the Census Bureau will accurately and non-politically count the population fairly and accurately. That was not the case in 2020. Blue states were over-counted and Red States were under-counted.
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Having a large percentage of illegals leave will be devastating to the Dem electoral power even if the Census Bureau is fudging. It becomes a cases of too big to steal.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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You can't just automatically assume that people who leave California are not smart enough to know that Newsom and the Democrats are responsible for the high taxes, high cost of living and diminishing quality of life they are trying to escape.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[GenesiusTimes] … wasn’t a straight white male
