What the insurance company's want is to get rid of the mandates and bring back junk insurance. And also to get rid of the pre existing conditions requirements. But the Republicans know that that would be untenable so what they plan is to make the program so horrible that the public will accept a new approach that LOOKS better but without those mandates.

So the goal is to make it a LOT worse by ending the mandates. And only then implement "pretend" improvements that lack those mandates. This is the entire philosophy behind privatization. Make it massively worse, then public cries out, then you make it slightly better and much of the public moves on.

It's actually a brilliant strategy and our media goes along with it.

Since this law prevents land owners from selling their land to whoever they want, the SCOTUS will rule against it. But SCOTUS knows they have to make such a ruling way way way before the next election in order to make sure the voters that are easily conned (MAGA for instance) forget that they did it.
Like how R women have forgotten how Dobbs' made them second class citizens but still vote R.

In the age of drones how valuable are warships anymore anyway? And I wouldn't ask people in the military who stand to get promotions to staff these new ships if they get built.

I guess they have some value against Venezuela or Somalia, but against China or Russia? Pretty useless I would think...

Seems to me if a medium sized nation sent $50 million dollars worth of drones against a $13 billion aircraft carrier, would that carrier be able to fend off them all? How about $200 million worth of drones?

Wouldn't we be fighting the next war with the last wars munitions? Now I know brand new state of the art ships would be a massive ego boost for the admirals and captains, but would it really make sense?

Anything short of complete withdrawal of Russian troops would be placating Putin and approving of the Russian invasion of a nearby nation. This would smack of the way the west placated Hitler and 18 months later Hitler was in Paris.
And 7 years after placating Hitler, 400,000 American soldiers were dead and 80 million people were dead worldwide.

Can somebody explain how our media doesn't ask the question how on earth can the boats pictured in those murders ever reach American shores 2500 miles away? And if they were headed towards bigger drug ships, how come they didn't follow those boats and target those larger ships?