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Do they smoke some weed and vote D? Yes, the NYT has become a big Marxist machine.

Freaking AWSOME!!!!!

Trump said we might tired of all the winning. Nope, not yet!

I'm not a farmer, but in my area I'm noticing where there used to be corn, wheat, cabbage, etc. year after year the fields are now not planted. The only new thing showing up is solar panels covering more good farmland. It makes me wonder how expensive the Mamdani government grocery stores in NYC are really going to be when the stuff needed to stock the shelves becomes more scarce.

It baffles me how people (I have known in NYC) who have run free-market businesses successfully
for decades can be so utterly irrational when evaluating government and politicians.
The NYT has been very effective at gaslighting its readers.

The details I'm noting are not public.

Here is the sophomoric government site:
https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/

NYC is hoping that a Dem gets the WH in 3 years. THEN the bailouts will start.

No, I saw it, but I'd like to understand the details to be convinced that its economic.
I haven't found details online. If you can point me to some links, I'd appreciate it.
(I see the BBG47 as an example of Star Wars' death star.)

Yes to all, FFA.

Currently living in NYS means I have to file a NYS tax return and on it is a section dedicated to additional taxes levied on people who live in NYC, not to mention the added bureaucratic red tape in filing a return. I'm immediately glad I don't live in NYC. Add on what's going on there makes me even more glad that it's about 400 miles away. My first experience in NYC (ca 1990) was to witness a mugging in broad daylight where some members of the gang were acting as crowd control saying, "Stay back people! Can't you see there's a mugging going on here?". My wife and I were not only fearful, we were nonplussed at the cheekiness of the whole affair and the fact that so many people were just walking by like it was any other day. It was a rude awakening to say the least. We were being ushered by railroad personnel above ground between Penn Central and NY Central to catch a connecting train to Florida (don't have to do that anymore, thankfully). I have NO desire to ever go to NYC other than connecting train or plane. I know folks who go to NYC and have a good time, but I'd rather go salmon fishing on Lake Ontario - thank you very much.

I thought I explained how BBG-47 isn't a defenseless target. Did you miss it, or disagree?

Per congressional reports 95% of traffic through the Red Sea is Asia to Europe, not to the US.
Per industry statistics about 10% of shipments to the US went through the Red Sea and therefore affected.
As I stated above, Europe is the primary beneficiary of anti-piracy efforts there and US taxpayers bear the costs.
BBG47 is an overpriced sitting duck target. Perhaps Trump can put his golden name on some attack subs or
cyber systems instead.

Somali pirates absolutely affect US goods, and require longer force projection. However, shutting down pirates does not require BBG-47. That is for China.

I agree on the shipping consumption issue, but the location of the piracy (Houthis) currently
has little affect on US goods which cross the pacific unthreatened while Europe is the
destination of the shipping being threatened by Houthi pirates.

We agree on 90%
Except the USA consumes more than Europe.
We were/are always a primary beneficiary.
This is why China struggles when we stop buying as much.

But I've learned to let Trump be Trump. These are long term projects.
The Carrot. And I am watching him threaten their bonuses (the stick).
And that 50% "planned increase" may shrink once things change.
(Whatever they promise us ALWAYS shrinks before it gets to us).

Besides the 50% increase is 1/2 due to inflation :-)

But I would not be surprised to see Trump snatch that stuff away AFTER the midterms.
He cannot afford ENDLESS more attacks and still carry the house and senate.

Once he does, things will LIKELY shift back, but he needs the win to keep the wolves at bay.

As stated in a reply to Thor, https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
I have no issue with some ships being built, but the type of ships that were effective in WW2
are sitting ducks today, and those are the ones that Trump appears to be promoting.
(Trump's ego shouldn't be a deciding factor in naval construction decisions.)
Dealing with piracy (which is a valid goal for naval power) does not require a CVN today.
Must American taxpayers always pay for such anti-piracy efforts when the benefits are often
primarily for European countries?
I agree, Trump has started to move the spending on defense toward actual defense of
American interests. Building an expensive navy of sitting duck naval war machines is
going in the wrong direction.
Increasing military spending by 50% as proposed today is utter foolishness.
(Sorry this has gone off topic.;^)

Me dino was a bit shorter when I first heard that.
It popped out of my memory banks while reading about Iran's stupid self-imposed water shortage.

Right! Voluntary, not forcing me to support it!!!!!!!!!!

There has never been a world economic leader without a dominant navy.

Too bad your cousin's husband didn't know Marxists make greedy coporatists look like amateurs when it comes to legalized theft. He went into a world where his labors coming from his talent don't belong to him because it belongs to "the people".

Yeah, it is nice to stick to the subject, but I look at these Gulch threads like conversations in my parlor where sidetracking is just part of the family dialog.

We were talking about the CPB and suddenly all sorts of bullship pops up. Can anyone stick to one subject? This is the problem with all social media debates - Endless distractions and losing focus.

Public broadcasting , like propaganda is not about the public or its benefit,. It is about the political rulers and their bread and circuses pacification. My cousin's husband wrote songs for the CPB - Sesame Street and Barney. Did he reap any royalties or benefit for the songs they played every day for decades? Nothing, except his name on the credits and no further employment. Where did the money go? Miss Piggie?

Whoa, dino! Needed a wayback machine for that one. I haven't heard that in a looooog time, LOL!

I'm thinking my dad had that on 78rpm record!

If the public wants it to continue, all they have to do is fund it. We shouldn’t be forced to fund public indoctrination.

Oh, goodness gracious!
We can't be indoctrinated anymore?
The horror! Oh. the horror!
What can all the poor sheeple do?
Hey, but don't worry. Baa-baa still got its heehaws.
The Jackass Party still choo-choos along,
Hopefully to its own train wreck and not ours.

FFA, the big ships get into a TON of details that everyone overlooks.
Our Navy protects the shipping lanes from Pirates.
Somali and otherwise.

This protection has guaranteed that ships could become HUGE and COSTS go way down per unit sold. The HUGE ships must move slower, but become far more cost effective.

When that Navy goes away. Shipping will have to start utilizing ships that move FASTER to be a target for a smaller amount of time. Those ships will have to charge more to protect themselves. All Prices go up. Availability of things drops.

It is a FAR more nuanced situation than you are giving it. Also, we've all but lost the ability to make these ships. We get to re-engineer the process, and the educations required as we become more self-sufficient. Welding jobs pay well, and there are a TON of welding jobs on ships. Yes machine welding will do a lot, AND SHOULD. But there are some places that only a guy might fit.

The world is NOT a safe place. Most countries are a LOT LIKE Democrat Cities. They talk nice, but will kill you without a second thought.

The solution. Reduce our sphere of influence (Monroe), Build Better tools for the future (being done now). And acquire Greenland already (Preferably with a check).

But I like building some of the new ships because the world has changed, but we will still need to be able to project force to protect what is important to us.

Oh, shah! Ayatollah done lost his rock 'n rolla!
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview...