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Whoever the "cult" is, perhaps they were moved to serious personal reflection after hearing Biden sermonize about his life long serious approach to such matters just months before they were discovered in every property he owns.

You are digging deeper. You don't simply throw classified material in a box, and pack it like any moving item. Further, you are required that anyone who has access to it has appropriate security clearances, and depending on level, a need to know. This is gross negligence. It is this attitude that permeates the gov including Congress and their staffs, and it's exactly why we get less cooperation from the Brits and more specifically the Israelis in security and intel matters. There is a view that the US doesn't treat this stuff with anywhere near the level of importance that other countries do, and our porous history is embarrassing, and ultimately expensive if not dangerous.

The "facts?" The facts are that intentional or not, he was responsible for properly handling them. The political "class" in this country has diferentiated itself form others, who are sworn to uphold these type of responsibilities. The "feelings," true or not, are yours's.

Gross, seemingly uncaring negligence by both him and his staff all of which he has decried and claim he was above in the recent past. Gets you potentially court martialed and in jail in other, less privileged but supposed to be just as responsible organizations. Totally irresponsible and stupid. I had one experience with this during service time. We had a safe where the stuff was stored, and materials were logged in and out. One guy checked out a TS document which was not allowed out of the squadron building. We do doing an Air Force thing at Nellis, and somebody spotted the red cover and binder in the back of a rental. The guy was not prosecuted, but offered a deal he couldn't refuse. He was out of the service in one month. The items likely discussed in the presidential/vice presidential nonsense were likely briefing documents that are prepared by intel orgs for reading. Staff members should be tasked with providing them and returning them. Just gross failures and negligence.

Ya. Good job. I've got an idea. How about respecting and conforming to the laws, directives and protocols involving handling thee documents, the way everybody is supposed to? If you do that, you don't have to worry about "cooperating with law enforcement." Instead, we have one guy who has sensitive documents strewn all over the place, and another who absolutely failed to respect established protocols in declassifying materials. One points to having the individual and his staff being grossly negligent, and the other playing some legal game. Shame on both of them, and their staffs.

The money we spent changing the name of the NOTAM system from Notice to Airmen, which was evidently sexist and offensive, to Notice to Air Missions, which makes absolutely no sense as non military aviation is never a mission, could have been spent enhancing the software. But no. You get the results you get when you put political friends in leadership roles instead of people who have knowledge, experience and talent in those areas.

I have a fully developed and functional "conscience." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs advises the Secretary of Defense who then serves the president. The services do not form military policy. They advise on what is possible and recommend how that they would prefer to carry out directives given by the national command authority. Regarding this suggestion of what Trump said, I wouldn't doubt it at all. The guy has no normal, disciplined control over his mouth and has said countless stupid things. I'm quite certain there was never any realistic threat to perform a nuclear strike on North Korea.

I am always pleased to be called names by you. As a "clown," I do alright,

I'm not Chef, but we've used induction for over ten years. Wouldn't do anything else. Same goes with tankless water heaters.

The "military leadership," if you even understand your words, does not commit to military action by the US. The "military leadership" is given a task by our government and attempts to carry it out. By the way, do a little research on Congressional support, and Biden on particular, before you make stupid assertions.

I think they did pretty well in Iraq one and two and Afghanistan. What happened after has little to do with military leadership. I think "gross incompetence" is lack of awarness.

"Today, 95 percent of our school busses are fueled with diesel fuel. Which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and the ability to learn." Goodness what an idiot.

There's a thread in the "Off the Wall" forum that goes over this in a bit more detail. "Jay Rosen. Air Traffic Controller." Either way, this is so predictable. Sect. of Transportation Beetlejuice remarkably non camera worthy today, as his boys fail miserably. Yet.....Last couple of weeks there wasn't a camera in the nation that didn't have him mugging about how he was going after Southwest for their meltdown, which was inexusable. Today, as his FAA causes a nation wide ground stop.....Not much. This is what causes rational, sane people to desire smaller government. No matter how much money you throw at them, they screw it up, as there are no consequences. Same for the usual two Biden admin rationalists here. Strangely, sickeningly quiet on this.

They spent the redundancy money to change the name, because Notice to Airmen was sexist.

Is there ever a point where we stop comparing and politicizing gross offenses that would result in military people losing their commissions/jobs and perhaps facing criminal charges? This recent generation of the political class, regardless of party affiliation, leads a life devoid of any accountability for basic law abidance. Doesn't matter which party, these are grossly negligent and potentially criminal acts that get other folks put in jail.

The system that failed was the NOTAM processing and distribution system. Funny, but they changed the meaning of NOTAM from "Notice to Airmen," which it was forever, to "Notice to Air Missions," simply to get the sexist connotation out of the original name. What a useless exercise. NOTAMS are things you screen before flight that tell you of known situations on your route or destination/alternate airports. Not really that important in the grand scheme, and this information, if relevant to yu can be passed along verbally during normal radio "stuff." Funny to hear the reporting on this this morning. CNBC butchered it completely. NBC not much better. Anyway, when we continue to staff positions in thee areas, Sect. of Transportation et., with political friends and patrons who have absolutely no idea what any of this means let alone fix it, this is what you get.

Yep. Not close. It's pure American naivete to suggest that the corruption here approaches what goes on in South/Central America. Loved spending time there and running a business that sourced materials and labor in Paraguay, but doing business there, and shipping through Argentina is a "unique" experience.

Not even remotely close.

That is correct, with a few adjustments. i have no view on the conservative element in Brazilian politics. I simply don't know enough about them. The fact that I spent so much time there informs me to conclude that it is preposterous to assume one can watch this stuff on US media and have any informed view of what goes on there. Brazil is a lot like other South American countries. There is massive class stratification and massive political corruption. Whomever is the current popular choice is usually temporary and media driven, and always plays to the beneficiaries of that corruption, which is a way of life and not easily understood by Americans. or consumers of American media. Saw it firsthand and was made aware from many others who experienced it. Either way, I put no causal suggestion on what happened here and what happened there, These things have been going on forever.

I don't have an opinion on Bolsonaro. I have no interest in bringing Trump into this or any other conversation and avoid those who do. He has nothing to do with this. Certainly nothing to do with Lula's leadership in the past or what he does now.

Todo bem? I spent about nine days per month there for ten months of each year between about 2003 and 2011, the heart of his two terms. He was always a bit of a windsock. Still can't get used to seeing it spelled with a "z." He initially got cordial with Chavez, but turned away from that when Hugo became toxic and evidence of the "Bolivarian Revolution" failing was becoming evident. Got a bit more moderate as economic reality became apparent and the leftist gross failures in neighboring Argentina became undeniable. Anyway, we'll see. Brazil is kind of an interesting place, but I would take any polling data from there with a grain of salt. There are massive amounts of people who are not tuned in and easily manipulated. One of the interesting things to me is how this cuddling with China be received by the Japanese population in Brazil which is the largest outside of Japan. Japan and China absolutely don't get along, so there might be a ceiling to that.

Unabashed nonsense. Violent unrest is very much a part of South American history.

Is this serious? The recent performance of our "lawmakers" screams to limit their power, not advance it. The recent 1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill is absolute proof that the single greatest path to fiscal tragedy is to allow them more power to decide how people's earnings are "distributed." I have a hard time believing anybody would support such a scheme, not that we haven't been warned. "“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

To think that in the late 1700's we had one million people and we came up with Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. Now we have 335m and we come up with these?

We already know how to deal with drones. First you hack them or jam them. That's how VIP ground movements are protected. Next, you use any of a number of automatic 20mm weapons to create a metal wall in front of them. Such systems are available to ships, ground based systems or airborne.