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Don't worry. The issue is non existent. The claim is false.

What I offered, is that what you said is absolutely not true. What you said was this: "you're 401k is not allowed to invest in companies with low social credit scores. That’s about 40 trillion dollars in us retirement accounts." The Biden thing allows 401k's to invest in that universe, if they choose to do so, but absolutely does not demand it. That would cause civil war.

I absolutely believe it is not true.

Where did you find this? I am unaware of this.

Cheektowaga. Land of the crabapple. When the US embassy in Tehran got taken over by lunatic Iranian folks, I was serving as an attack pilot on USS Kitty Hawk. We were in Subic Bay, the Philippines, leaving in two days for the US at the end of a long cruise. Instead, we were directed to the Indian Ocean to make ready for a rescue. Some school in Cheektowaga sent us a giant poster wishing us good luck and prayers. The ship displayed it on our transit.

Winter.

And who do we have in the on deck circle. Pray people, pray

Absolute, uniformed, irrational threat to national security insanity.

Don't know about cool, but clearly worse at governance.

There are very few things you can do to pay tribute the those who died in service. During workups off San Diego for my second cruise aboard Kitty Hawk, we had a new guy who was having a lot of trouble getting aboard. We had done two full workups, (7 day at sea periods to exercise things before the big cruise), and he had not yet flown at night. The Navy does not normally allow this, but in this case they did, but this was to be his "trick or treat" opportunity. The plan was to have him fly two day sorties on one day, then a night sortie the next. As additional information, the CAG LSO, (if you don't know what that means, you can google it), told CAG he wouldn't wave him, ie allow him to come aboard. CAG insisted that he did, or he would be relieved. There were some "social issues" involved. Anyway I was to lead him on the first of thee two day sorties, some simple bombing thing. We did the sortie and he did OK. That afternoon, on his second sortie, and the weather was perfect, during the recovery, he had an approach turn stall behind Kitty Hawk and ejected at about 200' nearly inverted. He was crushed by the impact with the sea. Anyway, to the point, he was a true gentleman, but he was in over his head. Every year, his high school in Baton Rouge awards a personal courage award in his name. They don't know what happened. Prior to announcement of of the winner, I find out who it's going to be and send an email telling the awardee what a special man and friend he was, as I'm sure they know nothing about him.

Ya, and we need that. Complete dysfunction.

I am not confident. This "government" would never survive in the objective, corporate world, or as any business I can imagine surviving. The only solutions occur in crisis mode, when horrible consequences are the threat. There is no attempt at "governing." It is completely pathetic, and a literal, legislative civil war.

How 'bout they start their lives by living up to obligations they committed to? This situation is analogous to the border situation. If we continue to allow failed governments to send their people here, we fail to solve the problem, which is those failed governments that need to be fixed internally. If we forgive promissory, legally binding obligations, we fail to solve the problem of ridiculously inflated college tuition costs. It is not the US taxpayers burden to solve other problems.

The nonsense is that Trump has anything to say about this. Only an obsessed individual would think any different. The House has offered a proposal to limit spending to last year's levels, and omit the stupid, unheeded covid recovery printing of money. Biden has called this proposal "extreme." Anybody who believes that needs to get out of any decision making position.

More nonsense.

Along this line, as an an unintended consequence of all of this, the exposure of the gross negligence of some of our NATO allies has ben exposed and hopefully will be dealt with. When this was exposed a number of years ago, it with viewed by the political opposition as insulting our other member nations. It was nothing of the sort. The situation was so bad, especially re Germany, that there was no way it could go on. Germany provided tanks at the onset of this, and not one was operationally capable. They had no airlift capability and a pathetic air force fighter readiness. No tanking capability and virtually no early warning or electronic warfare capability. Had NATO been challenged in any serious military way, the US would have borne the load in a grossly disproportionate way, resulting in far more deaths to US servicemen. The Brits do their best, France does a bit, but Germany and Italy were virtually worthless. Hopefully that changes.

Carbon footprint notwithstanding, he lives in this area and is a great community member.

Hopefully, and with the admission that it may irritate some here, that won't happen.

I don't think there is a chance in hell that Biden holds that office beyond this term. He is infirm and his countenance is an embarrassment. He can't be hidden for five more years.

He could have used a Mig, and Youngkin would still be infinitely more capable than Biden.

When I was a kid I asked my Dad if I could skate on the frozen pond. He told me to wait till it warms up. When I was a baby my mother wouldn't breast feed me. She told me, I like you, but just as a friend. When I was born, the doctor told my mother. We did all we could, but he still pulled through.

A ton of Rodney Dangerfield jokes. "I tell ya, I don't get no respect. When I was a kid, my parents took me to the beach. We got separated. I found a cop to help me find them. After a bit, I asked him. Do you think we'll ever find them? He said, I don't know. There's so many places they could be hiding."

Reprieve granted. No harm.

Nope. Couldn't care less. A comment that suggests that Raytheon is not a "stock of freedom," your words, is bizarre, and a view absolutely not shared by anybody in a US tacair cockpit or on the ground position defended by Patriot.

So Raytheon isn't a "stock of freedom?' As a guy who used to teach Sidewinder, and surface to air systems that Patriot was based on, I had very frequent dealings with that company as they used to produce the graphics used in my lecture. They build Patriot, Sidewinder and Amraam. Hard to find a company that US air assets would consider more a contributor to our defense and "freedom."