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Should be a wild four years.

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Oh yeah the Golden Dome ABM missile shield deal got signed. Deployment will be done before end of term.
There is zero chance that the Golden Dome as described will be fully deployed by the end of Trumps term.

It's not a political will thing, it's not a Trump thing. It's just not how things in this sector work.

Prove me wrong, I'd love us to have a modern functional missile defense network with modern integration, it's needed, but I don't believe it for a a fucking second that it can be accomplished in less then a decade, and that's honestly optimistic.
 
There is zero chance that the Golden Dome as described will be fully deployed by the end of Trumps term.
Yeah there's just no frigging way. It'll probably cost 3x what they say and take 3x as long like every other high tech thing, but this one's pretty needed. They 'say' we can probably stop a few NK missiles now, but I'd like to be able to stop 50-100. A full China/Russia style bombardment will never be plausible to even try to stop, but rogue states and future threats like Iran need to be dealt with.

I see liberals saying 'deterrence works' which is funny because they always used to say MAD wouldn't work. Then ABM wouldn't work. They mocked them all.

The problem with MAD is if they think they can't be traced or are suicidal it fails and that's getting more likely over time.
 
There is zero chance that the Golden Dome as described will be fully deployed by the end of Trumps term.

It's not a political will thing, it's not a Trump thing. It's just not how things in this sector work.

Prove me wrong, I'd love us to have a modern functional missile defense network with modern integration, it's needed, but I don't believe it for a a fucking second that it can be accomplished in less then a decade, and that's honestly optimistic.
Trump said it will happen. So it shall. Oh ye of little faith.
 
Glass also isn't easily recyclable because the ability to do so [easily*] disappeared decades prior.

I don't understand why it's not easily recyclable anymore. Can you elaborate? I'm not arguing, I don't know anything about it really but caught that video above a few years ago and it seemed relatively straight forward.
 
Couldn't they theoretically use the construction of the golden dome to effectively militarize large swaths of the border? Like I imagine there is some legalese that would allow them to shoot intruders near such a high importance military operation or at least arrest and detain them. Plus it would give them an excuse to put more surveillance along the border.
 
Couldn't they theoretically use the construction of the golden dome to effectively militarize large swaths of the border? Like I imagine there is some legalese that would allow them to shoot intruders near such a high importance military operation or at least arrest and detain them. Plus it would give them an excuse to put more surveillance along the border.
Shut. Up. Think about what you're saying.
 
The Republicans were also the party, in Lincoln's day, of protectionism, traditional American religion (in the form of opposing Catholicism and Mormonism: Rum, Rebellion and Rome, the twin pillars of barbarism: slavery and polygamy), anti-immigration (not so much a policy, but the Know Nothings folded into them) and saber-rattling at Britain, the "Workshop of the World" and most threatening geopolitical rival at the moment. Contrasted against Democrats having similarly been the more religiously inclusive and pro-immigrant (endless sea of criminal, poor sectarian Irish) party.
The true heirs of Republicanism were the Paleoconservatives, but they were banished from polite political society in American by William F Buckley Jr, who was a Skull&Bones/CIA cocksucker hated by actual right-wingers. The John Birch Society was right and America won't have a solid Right Wing until the National Review and Buckley's legacy are thrown into the ash heap of history. As an aside, Trump is basically a social liberal Paleocon and one of the few people he's ever apologized to is Pat Buchanan.
 
interview with jake tapper about his role in covering up biden's decline

2 hours? Really? I was looking forward to this but I'll have to skim it. Looks like the actual Tapper part is around an hour and that's even too much of this.

ETA maybe I'll watch most of it actually, she gets pretty worked up 20min
 
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I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

rly makes u thnk

Vance is the same age as me (he's a few months older) and therefore I would love to see him win the presidency, and he has my vote.

However if anyone my age becomes president then I will kill myself out of sheer chronophobia.

So I'm conflicted.
 
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