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Until recently, in terms of number of hulls (but not the size of said hulls), the US Army had the largest surface fleet in the US military. Also, many of those ships are commanded by WOs.

Yup, and that makes things tricky. I am a fiscal conservative but most definitely not a social conservative. So I didn’t, in good conscience, vote for the CPC last time. What should happen (but it won’t because people won’t like the result) is just to have a randomized survey of statements...

There is a huge difference between 2016 and now. People didn’t seriously think he would win in 2016 so he was the wildcard. In the buildup to 2024, everybody knew that the GDP nominations would be [insert name] v. Trump. Why wouldn’t folks try to take Trump out as early as possible? DeSantis...

I’d say, in this instance, it’s pushback from folks (homeowners in the area generally) who don’t want low-income housing to be built near them, then Pikachu-face when they see more unhoused people near them.

I wouldn’t say that the FBI normally has a left bias…

Why would Teams Not-Trump want to put it in between the primary season? Wouldn’t it be more advantageous to have it done prior to the primaries, so Trump gets disqualified from being the GOP nominee in the first place? I think the folks in a panic are the Trump defence team, trying to delay...

kind of hard to do so when Team Trump is specifically trying to delay until after the election. They don’t want that Sword of Damocles hanging over him. People who know they are innocent would want to get stuff like this done quickly so they can get back to campaigning, no? 🤔

So the answer is to spend more on veterans, seniors, and the unhoused to at least match the amounts for refugees, right? Right? Also, at risk of bleeding into the Nijjar thread, I took a quick read of his X posts. Is he being paid by the Indian govt? All of his recent posts are how Nijjar...

4. The CCG has a very different mission than the USCG, which @Czech_pivo seems to be describing.

No.

Specifically about the decriminalizing aspect, since I have family in BC, one overlooked aspect was that the policy was supposed to be one of a bunch of policies to support the situation. The other ones being (I believe) increased social support, etc. Those weren’t implemented for various...

I’d say the “hush money trial” could be the Daniels trial, since she was the other main party in it. She’s a bit more involved than “a witness”. That trial is whether they illegally falsified documents. There are several trials against Trump, in both State and Federal jurisdictions.

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Are we talking about the same trial? The Daniels trial is happening right now, and she just took the stand yesterday and continuing tomorrow. She likely isn’t the only witness to take the stand either, so it won’t be a fast one. The point of the trial isn’t that he had an affair with her...

Yes. The difference is that I’m seemingly less inclined to keep things status quo. I’m of the age that I should be telling kids to get off my lawn. I’m also apparently bucking the trend that older folks lean more Conservative (the opposite, in fact) but that’s neither here nor there.