"it is not you or your family being asked to actually do the fighting."

We are fighting the terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight them here.
Well, we were doing that until a few weeks ago.
Until Trump decided Putin's terrorists aren't worth stopping.

"Then, what happens?"

We'll find out soon enough.

Should the United States research cures for cancer?

"this judge has no issue that the DOD can't pass an audit"

That's not true.
You don't know the judge's opinion on that.
Because that issue is not before the court.

I remember when America was proud of our Native American Navajo Code Talkers.

Nowadays, the Republicans talk in a different code. One the Germans have no problems understanding.

And yes, I am aware the Navajo Code Talkers operated in the Pacific Theater.

"You see, MLK had a dream. And that dream was that people will be judged by their character, not by their skin color or gender. And that dream was heralded by EVERYONE who isn't a KKK member as the pinnacle of how we should treat other people."

I don't get the connection.

Show me where the veterans were being judged by the color of their skin.

Boaz deserves to be buried in an unmarked grave, like the little brown boys he killed.

Anything else is a further waste of taxpayer dollars.

Thanks for voting for this, Farmers!

"Ok, I see, you specified that it had to be a world war now. Why didn't you say so, the author of the quote you used didn't."
Wow.

This is really the first time Fishpaw has come face to face with the concept of the postwar hegemony. The reason that NATO and the EU exists. The reason for the Petrodollar. The reason for ASEAN and Five Eyes. The reason United States Treasury Bonds are considered a stable investment. The underpinnings of Western financial power.

Well let me bring you up to speed:
At the end of WWII, the conquerors FDR, Churchill, and Stalin got together and divided up the spoils. That system stood for nearly a century, and the West was generally winning.

Trump is waking away from eighty years of progress and creating a power vacuum where the US once maintained a stabilizing influence.

Your job, Fishpaw, is to explain why you want the US to abandon our leadership role in the world.

Look it up yourself, there are plenty of allegations that will produce evidence that there was fraud.

You look it up.
You show us the evidence.

That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Help me out here. I can't figure out if you are being your usual lying sack of ----, or if you genuinely believe Trump's lies.

#24 miller.house.gov
You said there was evidence of fraud.
miller.house.gov is asking for an investigation into an allegation of fraud.

Do you have any actual evidence, or mere allegations?
You don't have any evidence, but you aren't man enough to admit it.

After the Republicans succeed in getting the government down to the size of a baby they could drown in the bathtub, I wonder what their plans are for the baby.

Anyone know?

"The longest period of peace? Seriously?"

So you don't actually know what the post-war hegemony was.
I guess that explains why you don't think you'll miss it!

What is getting done, specifically?

Or do you just not want to talk about it.

"These clips are from an Obama speech."

Uh huh.

Where are the clips from when Obama fired tens of thousands of government workers?

Party of Law and Order.

This is like when a Sovereign Citizen doesn't recognize the standing of the Court because the Flag doesn't have a Gold Fringe.

"They'd rather burn the nation to the ground than ever see another Black president in the Oval Office."

I'm looking for confirmation that they understand Trump is unilaterally surrendering American leadership on the global stage.

I want them to explain to me why they don't want Jack Nicholson's character Colonel Jessep from A Few Good Men standing on that wall any more.

Especially as they tend to think Trump ought to take a Colonel Jessep approach to addressing life's challenges, like annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal.

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
--Ronald Reagan

I don't think Trump outright says he's destroying the Pax Americana, though.

I'm not sure they have connected the dots.

So I'm trying to get them to explain why they want Pax Americana to come crashing down.

"The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history."

Republicans, why do you hate this?
I really don't get why.
I get why Russia hates it.

" Well, Trump is doing something new whether that's a good thing or not, but at least seeing someone taking action on our debt is refreshing."

What is Trump doing to reduce the debt? Be specific.

All his government service cuts are to pay for a tax cut, so what is he doing to reduce the debt? Be specific.

"because it exposes their fleecing of the American taxpayer."

Still waiting for any of this to be exposed...

When people can't explain their point, it's because they don't have a point.

"the world is going to end if Trump continues to remove decades of fraud and waste from the US government."

Defund The Police?
Defund the United States!

How do you understand what Defund the Police does to the police, but you don't understand what Defund the United States does?
Of course, if you have the United States and want it to stop existing, that would explain why you want to Defund the United States.