Politics

[Wheels]

If this bill passes it will speed up the Administration's ability to function without the delay from the District Courts

https://twitter.com/x/status/1906810653593018792

 

[Hunt anything]

Good short video on how illegals cross border, get set up with Social Security numbers, get on medicaid, get registered to vote and vote.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1906526419079082173

Unbelievable and infuriating!! But I have to add that the SS# ‘s are inflated just a little if it’s just non citizens obtaining them. The workers that come over on H2A visas are required to get SS cards but the have to make an appointment with an office and prove why they need one . I would assume other workers on work visas are the same such as H2B visa holders. They may or may not be in that number.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Glad you brought up Jordan Peterson, he was so disgusted with Canada that he immigrated to the USA.

This wasn't a knee jerk reaction, he had been speaking out about the Canadian government for years, so I would like the people of Canada to watch this video from 3 years ago........

Maybe if Canadian had seized the day as he said none of this would have happened.

On could argue if Jordan peterson had stuck around and used his platform to run for politics instead of throwing his hands up and walking away he could help to enact the changes he preaches the country needs. I would think he’d of easily taken the conservative leadership after sheer.

 

[Wheels]

Unbelievable and infuriating!! But I have to add that the SS# ‘s are inflated just a little if it’s just non citizens obtaining them. The workers that come over on H2A visas are required to get SS cards but the have to make an appointment with an office and prove why they need one . I would assume other workers on work visas are the same such as H2B visa holders. They may or may not be in that number.

I don't think that video dealt with people here legally.

 

[Hunt anything]

I don't think that video dealt with people here legally.

Maybe, but I thought he said just “non citizens” even if the legal non citizens are included they would only be a small drop in a huge bucket.

 

[OxfordTheCat]

They can’t even build a car over there that makes sense. No way they are building modern fighter aircraft.

Have to disagree with this one.
I honestly can't think of an American car I would go out of my way to purchase.

That includes Cadillac. Haven't owned one myself, but my old man couldn't wait to get out of his CTS and I wasn't impressed with it at all.

Edit: Thought of one. I would take a peek at a Continental. I had thought of that a year or so ago.

 

[OxfordTheCat]

There are a number of things the Europeans build that are very good, and frankly are often less expensive than the US option.. The leopard 2 tank is exceptional.. and the challenger 2 isn't a chump (although most armor guys I know think the challenger is a bit over hyped)..

The Eurofighter is excellent.. but its definitely not a Gen 5 aircraft.. The Gripen is very solid as well and has some unique cold weather capabilities.. but again, not Gen 5..

The Finn Patria and German Boxer APCs are very good..

@Red Leg would know better than I, but my understanding is german artillery is among the best in the world..

The point is, it doesn't matter..

If you don't have the manufacturing capability to meet your needs... you're going to have to buy something else from someone else..

and since pretty much ALL of Europe is way behind and trying to play catch up.. their only real option is the US..

they could try to lean on some other markets.. Israel, Korea, etc also produce some stuff worth having..

but Israel cant really produce much quantity beyond their own needs, the Koreans don't have the sort of capacity the US has, etc.. etc..

So.. if you're Poland.. or Denmark.. or the Netherlands, etc.. and you need 100 main battle tanks... where are you going to go? and what are you going to do?

Germany is busy buying all the Leopard II's it can produce on its own.. Current facilities can produce about 50 a year, and "modernize" another 50-60 per year.. that's it..

With current production lines, 20 Eurofighters can be produced a year.. you're going to be waiting a very long time to get some Eurofighters if that's the path you want to take.. Currently Airbus is scheduled to deliver Eurofighters ordered in 2020 between 2025-2030... and that's before any increase in orders happens.. imagine if suddenly they got an order for 200 more Eurofighters... you'd be looking at taking delivery on the last bird sometime around 2040 in a best case scenario..

That hardly helps you in 2025 if you're needing to re-arm and also assist the Ukrainians today..

etc..etc..

This is a simple market issue.
Demand has increased. Supply will increase to meet it.
Rheinmetall already going to be taking over a VW plant to build.

It will sort itself out, rapidly, just like the last two times.

Not to mention that US production is also at capacity when it comes to things like aircraft. For instance, Canada already has to wait for F35s, why not wait for Gripens, Rafales, et al of the same timelines if we have issues with the sellers?

The supply chain issues will be solved in much shorter windows than two decades.

 

[OxfordTheCat]

Glad you brought up Jordan Peterson, he was so disgusted with Canada that he immigrated to the USA.

This wasn't a knee jerk reaction, he had been speaking out about the Canadian government for years, so I would like the people of Canada to watch this video from 3 years ago........

Maybe if Canadian had seized the day as he said none of this would have happened.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Peterson is a hypocrite of the highest order.

The "Freedom Convoy" was and is a bunch of yahoos that didn't even understand that the mandates they were so up in arms against were either on the US side of the border, or provincial in nature.

Coupled with the fact that they showed up on Ottawa with an MOU calling for the overthrow of the government and the installation of themselves on a 'leadership panel', they got off easy.

 

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[Boyd Brooks]

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More and more, this is everyday!

 

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[mdwest]

This is a simple market issue.
Demand has increased. Supply will increase to meet it.
Rheinmetall already going to be taking over a VW plant to build.

It will sort itself out, rapidly, just like the last two times.

Not to mention that US production is also at capacity when it comes to things like aircraft. For instance, Canada already has to wait for F35s, why not wait for Gripens, Rafales, et al of the same timelines if we have issues with the sellers?

The supply chain issues will be solved in much shorter windows than two decades.

Re-read the post.

Speculation isnt 2 decades..

It is however 1 decade for most major items.

And 1 decade ultimately means 2-4 decades of continued dependence on US equipment.. because once you procure system XXXX, you're not going to mothball it just because system YYYY is now available to you.. you're going to have to continue to maintain, supply, etc that system for its lifecycle.. and you are very likely going to conduct multiple upgrades of that same system along the way to keep it current and combat capable..

Youre also incorrect about US production being at capacity.. For SOME items that are extremely expensive (F35's as an example) the production lines do indeed run intentionally lean (they don't want to produce more than they have sold, or have birds sitting in hangars waiting to be delivered while countries unfuck their budgets and find the money to pay for them).. That said, consensus among defense industry experts is that the US is not at capacity, and has the ability to ramp up at a much faster and larger rate than Europe (bigger economy, bigger defense budget already in place, companies producing products are larger and have greater market cap, etc..etc..)..

Again, re-read the prior post.. the US can almost double its 155 artillery manufacturing in the next 12 months with current facilities... where Rhienmetal has to go and build a new factory to increase its production..

A simple look at whats happening in the market invalidates your assumption that Europe can/will sort itself out rapidly..

Denmark is currently buying more F35's..

Australia just decided to retire its Eurocopter fleet of Tigers and replace them with AH64 apaches.. (not a newer European option)

The Netherlands committed to a $1.5B FMS (foreign military sales) purchase of US manufactured radios, encryption sets, AIM9 sidewinders (missiles) to re-equip its F35's, among other things..

and the list goes on and on and on..

Europe needs stuff NOW.. and Europe cannot produce what it needs NOW.. so it has to purchase "stuff" from somewhere..

Canada cant provide it.. South Korea is already selling them as much as they can make as fast as they can make it and it isn't enough..

This isn't WW1 or WW2 (Im assuming that's the "last 2 times" you reference in your post?).. ramping up to build sopwith camels is a very different thing than ramping up to build moreEurofighters.. and ramping up to build more 500lb "dumb" bombs is a very different thing than ramping up to build more ATACMS..

 

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[deewayne2003]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Peterson is a hypocrite of the highest order.

The "Freedom Convoy" was and is a bunch of yahoos that didn't even understand that the mandates they were so up in arms against were either on the US side of the border, or provincial in nature.

Coupled with the fact that they showed up on Ottawa with an MOU calling for the overthrow of the government and the installation of themselves on a 'leadership panel', they got off easy.

We'll take him, seems like lots of talented and educated Canadian's migrate to the USA.

On could argue if Jordan peterson had stuck around and used his platform to run for politics instead of throwing his hands up and walking away he could help to enact the changes he preaches the country needs. I would think he’d of easily taken the conservative leadership after sheer.

Agreed, but at what point do you decide to leave a country that mandates you be "re-educated" to meet forced speech?

I'm glad he immigrated to America and he's one of many of your talented countrymen who have decided to move south; and I see him as an example of why I fully support LEGAL immigration to the USA where he and others are free to speak as they wish.

Just like Christian Craighead "Obi Wan Nairobi" immigrated from the UK and is working on his citizenship......legally

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

We'll take him, seems like lots of talented and educated Canadian's migrate to the USA.


Agreed, but at what point do you decide to leave a country that mandates you be "re-educated" to meet forced speech?

I'm glad he immigrated to America and he's one of many of your talented countrymen who have decided to move south; and I see him as an example of why I fully support LEGAL immigration to the USA where he and others are free to speak as they wish.

Just like Christian Craighead "Obi Wan Nairobi" immigrated from the UK and is working on his citizenship......legally
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I’d the value of an intellectual who willingly gives up the chance to enact change when he had the platform to do it any higher than the able bodied male refugee who flees instead of taking up arms to defend his country?

 

[mdwest]

We'll take him, seems like lots of talented and educated Canadian's migrate to the USA.


Agreed, but at what point do you decide to leave a country that mandates you be "re-educated" to meet forced speech?

I'm glad he immigrated to America and he's one of many of your talented countrymen who have decided to move south; and I see him as an example of why I fully support LEGAL immigration to the USA where he and others are free to speak as they wish.

Just like Christian Craighead "Obi Wan Nairobi" immigrated from the UK and is working on his citizenship......legally
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Craighead really had to move to the US to pursue the career he is currently chasing (although clearly that was a choice/decision he made)... Hes working for Staccato and for Field Ethos and doing some other occasional "work".. No market for any of that living in London (although he probably could have pulled off his Field Ethos duties from there)..

 

[mdwest]

I’d the value of an intellectual who willingly gives up the chance to enact change when he had the platform to do it any higher than the able bodied male refugee who flees instead of taking up arms to defend his country?

Best example of this I have ever witnessed was in South Sudan...

A gentleman that was a senior (tenured) professor at a large university in Indiana moved to Juba to assume the role of Deputy Minister in their Ministry of Defense..he was in charge of all of their training and education programs..

As a child he became a refugee from South Sudan during their 50+ year long war/civil war with Sudan (google "lost boys of South Sudan".. its a pretty incredible story what some of these kids endured, went through, etc.. and how many of them actually "made it" in the US and became successful in whatever career field they ended up in..

So this guy is a tenured professor, making a six figure income, living in a nice house, etc..etc.. that escaped extreme poverty, war, being orphaned, etc.. more than 25 years prior... who leaves all of that behind, and returned to South Sudan in 2011 once the war ended.. without a job or anything else..

He just wanted to go home..

The new government obviously realized this guys education and talent (something a country that's been at war for 50+ years has a lack of).. and immediately put him to work in the new Ministry of Defense..

Understand that "middle class" in South Sudan in 2011 amounted to your dirt floored tukal hut actually has a door, and might have a power line coming into it... (which was exactly how he was living when I met him).. he didn't own a vehicle.. he basically had the couple of bags of "things" that he brought with him from the US.. and was living in a mud walled, thatch roofed hut.. making about $350 a month (which was a kings ransom at the time in Juba.. most South Sudanese that were "employed" were earning about $2 per day/$60 per month)..

And he was super happy to be there.. he felt like he had an opportunity to help forge the future of what at the time was the newest country on earth and improve the lives of countrymen that he knew almost nothing about (I think he left South Sudan at the age of 7 or 8?)..

 

[OxfordTheCat]

Agreed, but at what point do you decide to leave a country that mandates you be "re-educated" to meet forced speech

The "country" didn't mandate his needing to complete training, his provincial professional licensing body did: As it turns out, the Ontario College of Psychologists frowns upon one of its members emailing patients politically charged content and links to fundraising drives on Patreon, and encouraging suicide on social media.

An Ontario Court further upheld that yes, ethical matters are very much within the preview of the regulatory body.

Freedom of expression is a constitutionally protected right. Freedom from consequences is not.

Peterson is a winner of the play stupid games, win stupid prizes award. It's a mess entirely of his own making.