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The Navy: Dead In The Water?
The Navy: Dead In The Water? | ZeroHedge

.......... Conclusion: All of these factors outlined above make it clear that our Navy is in extremis. There are not enough ships to do the mission nor enough manpower to man the ships optimally. Deployments are too long, and our people and ships are wearing out. Recruiting is stagnant. Too few ships, not enough people, not enough shipbuilding, or repair capacity have us on the brink of mission failure. To put the size of the Navy in perspective, when this officer went aboard ship in 1970 to conduct anti-submarine patrols looking for Soviet ballistic missile submarines, the Navy had 792 battle force ships in commission. We now have 291. Then we had a cold war against one adversary, the old Soviet Union. Today we have adversaries all over the world and are trying to perform the mission quoted above with a tiny fraction of the ships we had decades ago. As a maritime nation with treaty allies all over the world coupled with our dependence upon the sea for 90% of the commerce that keeps our economy running, it is a travesty that such neglect of the Navy has occurred. Who is at fault for this neglect? Congress is ultimately at fault as it holds the power of the purse. However, it is incumbent upon senior Navy leaders to make the case for the right size Navy. The CNO and every other Navy flag who testifies before Congress should be sounding the alarm about the imminent failure of the Navy to perform its mission now in “peacetime” with multiple hots spots in Europe, the Middle East, and in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, and even more importantly in the next actual fighting war. Someone long since should have laid his stars on the table to make the point to politicians that we need more ships and more manpower for the survival of our nation. Our way of life and our very lives are at stake if we do not rebuild our Navy to an adequate size to perform its vital worldwide mission.
All by design, demoralize the soldiers, make them get the jab, make them quit. Move up all the boot lickers and turn them on everyone.
 

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If they get $5000 per person, then my wife and I are going down and park the car on this side of the border.
Woooho $10000 free! I have been practicing my "Espanol y'all" he is my Santa hero teaching me the Lingo!

I remember him saying how nice everyone was at a ballgame, hoping he had a good view. Everyone stood up and sang "Jose can you see".
 

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Fireworks as usual, the only reason to watch the debate is Vivek, taking down the establishment puppets. Can't wait on how the media will spin this as a Haley victory. The debate moderators gave Haley a chance to respond to the corruption charges that Vivek accused her of but Haley refused. So its actually true.
Vivek is Trump 2.0 without the mean tweets...
 

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What is the uniparty, msm know and big donars who are propping up Haley know, that we don't know.
These billionaire anti-trump donars are pumping millions to Haley super pac. Rich people do a risk assessment or return on investment. Clearly they think Trump is not going to be the nominee or they are going to pull a another JFK.

Here is nytimes.
 

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What is the uniparty, msm know and big donars who are propping up Haley know, that we don't know.
These billionaire anti-trump donars are pumping millions to Haley super pac. Rich people do a risk assessment or return on investment. Clearly they think Trump is not going to be the nominee or they are going to pull a another JFK.

Here is nytimes.

The NYTimes is in the business of shaping the narrative, not reporting the facts.

I can only guess their goal, but it has something to do with Biden clearly not gonna happen and they need someone from the UniParty who can sway enough indpendents, disenchanted liberal fucktards and RINO soccer Moms into voting for them to keep Trump from winning the Republican nomination. What better way than to play up the whole "First woman President" theme. Whomever is the RINO party candidate will probably be running against Newsom and the fix will be in to the extent that Jesus himself would lose on a Republican ticket.
 

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$68B deficit but they can weather the storm with $37B in rainy day fund. Is that the new math? Nowhere do they blame their own policies and software stance on crime causing companies to leave.

 

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$68B deficit but they can weather the storm with $37B in rainy day fund. Is that the new math? Nowhere do they blame their own policies and software stance on crime causing companies to leave.

CA sinks while Texas just passed a tax cut because of an over surplus of budget money and our Gov. wanted to give back to Texas.


We just got our property tax bill and the school taxes are around a thousand cheaper. Thank you Gov. Abbott...
 

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$68B deficit but they can weather the storm with $37B in rainy day fund. Is that the new math? Nowhere do they blame their own policies and software stance on crime causing companies to leave.


........ Newsom's first term in office was buoyed by record-smashing surpluses of more than $100 billion in some years. The money allowed him and his Democratic allies in the state Legislature to greatly expand government, including lining their own pockets and giving all kinds of free shit to the terminally stupid voters of the state in order to buy votes...again..paying for guaranteed health insurance for all low-income adults regardless of their immigration status and free lunches for all p ublic school students
 

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$68B deficit but they can weather the storm with $37B in rainy day fund. Is that the new math? Nowhere do they blame their own policies and software stance on crime causing companies to leave.

and the sheeple keep voting for them. :facepalm:
 

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Next two GOP debates is going to held by CNN.
If this isn't proof Rona Romney is RINO working with democrats, I don't know what is.

CNN said that polling number should be 10% or more to qualify, in CNN approved polling.

If its a CNN approved or conducted polling only Christie and Haley would qualify. Desantis may just about qualify in Iowa.

Vivek may not qualify, since his support comes from mainly first time voters who are not polled or from Libertarians and former old school Democrats. Vivek events are mainly attended by Veterans, people with Ron Paul shirts and and young conservatives. Of these the Maga supporters polled will always stick to Trump, even if Vivek is there second choice.

So if Vivek is not on the debate, it will be nothing but a Trump bashing event, that to on CNN.

On a recent townhall event of RFK JR, he said that his main support is from young voters and he is not doing well with baby boomers or people above 60 years of age and the reason for that he claims is that those age group get their news from MSM cable news. Where RFK JR is banned from media coverage and has been labeled as a conspiracy theorist.
But a recent media research show that the most censored candidate by big tech and MSM is now Vivek followed by RFK Jr then Trump and Desantis.

Even with Trump, the poll survery shows support from republican voters drop as the age of the voter goes above 60 (only less then 20% of the age group support Trump) and highest support for Trump is coming from people under 30 years of age (54%). Same applies to Vivek with even more young voters.

Both Trump and Vivek do get support from Veterans no matter how old they are.

I have no idea who are all those Nikki haley supporters, I have not met one. She is doing well in left conducted polls.
 

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I've seen a few articles in conservative media pitching Tucker as Trump's running mate. I'm torn as to what I think of this, and what others would think. My gut feeling is that it's probably not a good idea. Another "rumor" is for him to pick Ben Carson. I'd be comfortable with him but I'm afraid he doesn't have good enough name recognition. Kristi Noem is another name that's been floated. I hate it that it's more about who helps poll numbers the best instead of who's most qualified.
Tucker just got the most powerful endorsement yet for veep…and Trump is reportedly “thrilled”…
 
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