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And then there's this:
H.R.6981 - Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-con ... /6981/text

Sponsor: Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD-8] (Introduced 01/11/2024)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Currently 11 co-sponsors, all bright-blue dems

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:11 am If you want to know where I think we’re headed, try reading Kurt Schlichter’s latest book, "The Attack."

Thanks for that. Just bought and it will be next up on my reading list.

powerboatr wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:04 pm as a military person you are not bound to follow illegal or unlawful orders. for me i only saw this once in 22 years a full on rebuke of a leader and the xo invoking a power to remove said CO by his unlawful actions. IT WAS UGLY UGLY UGLY not as bad as the submarine movie with denzel. but still a tense period of time and even more tense when we returned to home port.

Only sort of topic-related, but since you served our country with over two decades in the Navy, yet another sign of the times:

Navy to allow those without high school diploma or GED to enlist
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... to-enlist/

The Navy said Friday that it will allow those without a high school diploma to enlist as long as they score a 50 or higher on the Armed Forces Qualification Test that all prospects must take, the latest move to boost recruitment in the face of an historic recruiting crisis reverberating across the services....

To date, the Navy is the only military branch currently seeking to recruit those without a high school diploma or GED as it works to expand the number of eligible candidates to join the service amid an historically challenging recruiting environment.

All branches of the armed services are facing recruitment problems big-time. In 2022, the Navy did meet its active duty enlistment target, but it had to deplete its "Delayed Entry Program" pool to the lowest level for that program in 40 years to accomplish it. They didn't have that resource to pull on in 2023, and they fell short by almost 7,500 for active duty, and just over 1,000 short for reserve enlistments. They also fell almost 500 short of the goal for recruiting active duty officers.

With ideology being the primary required qualification leading to a cadre of politicized appointments at the tops of the military food chains, and with continuing loosening of both physical and mental criteria for new active duty recruits--and still falling short of all goals to get people into the armed forces--well, this ain't the military we once had.

C-dub wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:13 pm I guess party before state or people.

That right there is the root cause of the main problem we have in politics in this country today. What is actually best for the people and the Republic comes in at a distant priority compared to personal ambition and party ideology for 90% of the people in the Beltway and in state government.

Case in point, within the past 10 days the big talking point echoing across the dems--by everyone from Newsome to Schumer to Kamala-haha--is that the despicable Ultra Maga Republicans have been the cause of the border crisis all along, that they wanted and promoted all the illegal immigration because it serves them as a talking point for the 2024 election. That the Biden administration would have had all this under complete control if not for Republicans blocking their attempts at every turn.

Really? To echo my least favorite president of all time, "Come on, man!"

powerboatr wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:01 pm this states in red control what...90% of fossil fuel and 80% of sea ports

we could do some damage .

And the map looks to be very different than the one hypothesized in the new movie Civil War (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17279496/? ... il%2520war). I don't know if I'll ever consider watching it. The writer and director is a Londoner who decided to make a movie about a near-future U.S. civil war, and he has Texas and California as the two big soulmate cornerstones of the rebellion. Say what? Can you see Abbott and Newsome getting all BFF?