But not a solution. (strategy)

Well the solution was to purchase more oil for the SPR. But for some reason Democrats didn't want to do that, also Biden emptied it.

The Trump administration's plan to top off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ran into a blockade Wednesday after lawmakers excluded $3 billion in funding for oil purchases from the massive stimulus package before Congress.
Senate Democrats took credit for stripping out that money from the Senate bill, unveiled Wednesday, calling it a "bailout" for the oil industry.
https://rollcall.com/2020/03/25/oil-purchase-to-fill-strategic-reserve-dropped-from-stimulus/

Was it really a bailout? Does it seem like bailout now??

Really seems like Elite democrats here were "bailing out" fraud across the country, but not national security interests.

Wonder why?

All tactics, zero strategy or end game.

#4 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY

I see all the armchair generals are out in full force ... well here;s a response, I look forward to your "expert" opinion....

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa ... all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded.

USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles ... and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this."

These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar ... the AN/AQS-20C ... towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade"

And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan ... loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that.

"We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing.

"Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

after he was robbed at gunpoint in his home country. Now, however, he thinks crime is worse here: "People are being shot in broad daylight. American citizens are being shot and killed. I don't want to live in a place like this."

He's not lying ... crime up, garbage on the side of the roads now....

Gas topped $5/gal all over the place out here, thanks to Pedo47.

#8 | POSTED BY MORRIS

It had already topped $5 a gallon before the Iranian action.

I am seeing $8, to $9 dollars now.

CA went from 40 refineries to 2-3, now we have 10-12 oil tankers with refined fuel sitting in the SF Bay.

All the while Iran has threatened CA with a Drone attack. CA State government has created a national security risk.

Jewish communities in Iraq and Iran have lived there since probably the time of Moses.

Not for much longer, if Islam has its way.

Iranian Jews Trying to Survive US and Israeli Onslaught

This is funny, the Jewish population instead of growing in Iran has shrunk from approximately 80,000 to over 100,000 in 1979, to now 9,000?

In 1979, in Israel there were approximately 481,200 Muslims, today? 1.77 million.

Clearly Jews in Iran are tying to survive Muslim extermination.

Here's the funny thing .. if Baptists were going around murdering people in the name of Baptist ideology, and Baptist ideology literally told them to do so, Lumpers like FootPoser and CornHolio wouldn't be so dismissive.

Why would christ forgive someone who ignores all his teachings?

You don't get the benefits of the being in the club without paying the dues.

#247 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

This describes Lumper mentality soooooo perfectly.

You don't understand his teachings. The only thing his teaching indicate that he wouldn't forgive is you not believing in him before your death.

You need to open up your mind that just because you're a Lumper, doesn't mean people with different opinions can't also be liberal.

Republicans, who evangelical Christians vote for, slashed health insurance to 20,000,000 on Medicaid, food stamps, and too many other programs designed to help "the leastof these." Life ends when you're born. If you're poor, it's because you're lazy. If you're sick you're on your own. War? Jesus's teachings on war emphasize peace, non-retaliation, and love for enemies.

Jesus told the wealthy to give what they have to the poor.

Accountability is coming!

Unlikely, I have noticed in American politics people claim "Accountability is coming!" it never does.

Thats why there's so much fraud, grift, crime in the US, there is no accountability.

Is Bribe Force One ready yet?
#3 | Posted by REDIAL

Is Hunter onboard?

Fired meaning -
Scenarios Where "Firing" Means a New Role:
Restructuring/Reassignment: A company might eliminate your current position due to a shift in strategy, offering you a different role instead of full termination.
Bumping Rights: In unionized environments, if your position is cut, you may use seniority to "bump" a more junior employee out of their role, taking over that position.
Performance Mitigation: Rather than firing a long-term employee for not fitting a new, evolved role, management may move them to a position better suited to their skills.
Constructive Dismissal Caution: Be cautious if a new role is a significant demotion in pay or status; this can be considered "constructive dismissal," which is legally closer to being fired.

Or a Japanese "window office" thing.
#11 | POSTED BY REDIAL

aka fired from a previous role, a distinction without a difference.

But you people are so lost you don't even know what you're arguing anymore, just complaining to complain.

Sad really.

Trump doesn't care about fraud, he's the king of fraud.

Dude he just fired Kristi for doing something Stacey Abrams did, and Abrams did it for 2 Billion dollars.

You, Clownshack, you don't care about fraud.

As if the "troops" ever got a taste.
#4 | POSTED BY REDIAL

You got TrumpRot, he's eaten your brain.

You know I'm no fan of Hegseth. And there's PLENTY to hit him on. He's disgraceful.

But paying for lobster and steak is not some frivolous DoD expanse. Same with ice cream and doughnuts.

It's a standard way of taking care of troops and giving them a nice meal to boost morale"often during a long deployment. Like the USS Ford that is gone for 11 months:

And there are ~4,500 personnel just on that one ship. And there are many ships deployed right now"and they have been for much of the last year.

A good meal is one of the few nice and celebratory things for them to look forward to.

Pres Trump should stop looking for fraud in blue states, and start looking where it may actually exist.

Yeah giving the troops good eats for a job well done is that same as "fraud".

Let me guess you also complained about troops sleeping on the floor?

Funny, that's because when a Democrat is in office, American military deaths are nil.
#156 | Posted by A_Friend

What?

13 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul's Abbey Gate under Biden.

. I mean seriously - 6 months in jail is mind blowing.
- galaxy

Thought it was house arrest?

Seems reasonable if J6 is to be used as an argument, she was obstructing a governmental proceeding.

I think if she stood back where citizens are, or protested out side it would be fine.

But sitting up there is intimidating for people to speak there peace at a council meeting.

#44 Can't read or understand the English language, I see.
#45 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND

You moron you can't even read the links you post.

Why, I don't find the filibuster mentioned even once.
#42 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND

Cuz you're a moron?

Chuck Schumer says the SAVE America Act allows ICE to kick off "TENS OF BILLIONS" of people off voter rolls.

Its worse than we thought I guess.

"Today there is hardly any influential left-wing movement left in Israel."

Oct 7 had consequences. Post-attack polls indicated that 36% of Israelis felt they had moved further to the right politically, while only 6% reported a shift to the left.
The attack also killed the idea of two-state solution on the Israeli side.

A Zionist murdered the last left-wing Israeli Prime Minister nearly thirty years ago in a right-wing coup.
#2 | Posted by snoofy

So what, Nov 2022 leftist shared power with rightist in Israel. But more and more harassment by Hezbollah and Hamas changed peoples views.

I voted for that!
~ Snoofy

For example, all of this nonsense really boils down to the price of eggs leading up to the election.
#7 | Posted by horstngraben

Talk about uniformed.

The election had already happened ....

Newsom's wife invests in gender change videos for children.

She's made millions.

Isn't that the point of being in the government?

Just look at congress both parties make millions.

I've mentioned this sort of thing in the past, no one cares.

Anyhow enjoy your out rage, nothing will change.

What adult with an IQ above 70 thinks they could impose Sharia law over the other 99% of us? Good lord!

This is what the Nigerians said, the Spanish, and 54 other countries that are now under Islamic control.

You're next UK.... and after that ... their coming for you...

BTW: Which Lumper is this guy?

idk

While plausible, the article doesn't name groups or people, so its kind of hard to believe.

Wasn't there a large mass migration under Bush?

The SAVE Act forces the Federal collection significant amounts of personal data from the states, among it is party affiliation, for cross-referencing with other Federal databases.
~ Gaslighter.

You don't think this is happening at the State level? Why?