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[375 Ruger Fan]

Trumps Treasury nominee sounds interesting. Sounds like the threat of tariffs will be ramped up slowly. Walmart CEO says companies won't pay for the tariffs, the customer will. True, but I guess the point of tariffs is to compel companies, like Walmart, to move their supply chain to US based companies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-treasury-pick-bessent-fiscal-011526380.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-just-leveled-americans-china-130053321.html

 

[fourfive8]

I don’t know about anyone else but if private companies are bound and determined to go woke and broke, I’ll gladly get out of the way and let them. No issue unless the gov and my tax money gets involved in trying to bail them out. About the last thing on my mind is worrying about companies like Harley Davidson or Jaguar, their bosses or their future.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

 

[Red Leg]

I have wondered how much of this is going on within the Russian armed forces - in other words how much is being hidden from Putin and his immediate advisors - much less the Russian people.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860314717023076539

 

[roverandbrew]

Having worked with the FBI in a law enforcement capacity I can say that your average agent couldn’t find their behind with both hands and a flashlight.

I do call for the abolishment of the agency, except for the lab, and I neither listen to right wing pundits nor am I ignorant. To say that the agency does not impress me is an understatement.

We need to revamp our entire criminal justice system. That includes the local agencies as well. Law enforcement is a necessary evil that needs to be kept on a very tight, and short, leash.

I have also worked with a lot of FBI CONUS and OCONUS. They are funded well and able to stay ahead of most threats. Local law enforcement is generally 20-40 years behind the threat. My brother is a detective in NC and his department's SWAT is where DOD / HRT was in the late 1970s / 1980s. I audited their training as a consultant and they need help. The problem with most who criticize the FBI have ZERO concept of all they do. The bog standard SA at a local field office is not all the FBI does.

 

[Neophyte]

I have also worked with a lot of FBI CONUS and OCONUS. They are funded well and able to stay ahead of most threats. Local law enforcement is generally 20-40 years behind the threat. My brother is a detective in NC and his department's SWAT is where DOD / HRT was in the late 1970s / 1980s. I audited their training as a consultant and they need help. The problem with most who criticize the FBI have ZERO concept of all they do. The bog standard SA at a local field office is not all the FBI does.

I’m well aware of what they do and don’t do.

You appear to just want to continue working with them because of all the money they have to buy trinkets and mirrors. Step away from the smoke machine and see clearly.

There is no reason another agency dedicated to CONUS and OCONUS threats couldn’t do the job as well or better. I’m aware of a lot of stuff they’ve missed since 9/11. Hoover’s little gay boys aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Truth be told they have a history of being behind when it comes to identifying the threats we are under.

Their lab is pretty good. Other than that I’ll pass on thinking they are synonymous with mom, baseball and apple pie.

 

[roverandbrew]

I’m well aware of what they do and don’t do.

You appear to just want to continue working with them because of all the money they have to buy trinkets and mirrors. Step away from the smoke machine and see clearly.

There is no reason another agency dedicated to CONUS and OCONUS threats couldn’t do the job as well or better. I’m aware of a lot of stuff they’ve missed since 9/11. Hoover’s little gay boys aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Truth be told they have a history of being behind when it comes to identifying the threats we are under.

Their lab is pretty good. Other than that I’ll pass on thinking they are synonymous with mom, baseball and apple pie.

I see things pretty clearly and am pretty relevant still, not coming at this as a "former" anything. I have this same argument with my 80 year old father. Too stubborn for his own good. You appear pretty full of absolutes and negativity in most of your posts. We can agree to disagree.