@oldbrownsfan said:

And China has been happy for years to allow the United States to spend a ton of money in research and development and then steal the technology costing the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually. 

Sure but we only have this technology because Megatron crash landed in the Arctic 

@calfoxwc said:

never saw it - no outdoor wilderness scenes....

First scene has a cat... does that count?

@calfoxwc said:

if the F-35 could just make every other country on the planet terrified of fighting a war with us,I'm a happy camper over the burdensome cost.

What makes every other country terrified of war with us is - economic downfall, our military/ economic alliances AND nuclear warfare/mass destruction.      Nothing more, and especially not a poorly developed, underachieving, barely functional aircraft project. 

edit:  Only felt the need to bold this and add the .gif because it has been years since I've seen The Godfather and I forgot just how god damn good it was.

@oldbrownsfan said:

And China has been happy for years to allow the United States to spend a ton of money in research and development and then steal the technology costing the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually. 

I hate that - it's sadly true. China can go to hell, for all I care.

@calfoxwc said:

if the F-35 could just make every other country on the planet terrified of fighting a war with us,I'm a happy camper over the burdensome cost.

On  a very small scale, I worked in R&D - scientific programmer/analyst for years - the only one. R&D is very, very expensive. On a giant scale - I can't even imagine.

And China has been happy for years to allow the United States to spend a ton of money in research and development and then steal the technology costing the United States hundreds of billions of dollars annually. 

On  a very small scale, I worked in R&D - scientific programmer/analyst for years - the only one. R&D is very, very expensive. On a giant scale - I can't even imagine.

@tiamat63 said:

Brilliant.  Because if I say we've burned a ton of unnecessary money on an overinflated military budget including projects like the one we awarded Lockheed Martin - you know, the F35's that burn through money - 1.33b well over the budget - that MUST mean it goes to those damn welfare queens in Mississippi, huh?  

    Seriously, man.  Use your head.    You can be capable of good ideas when you care to.  

Come, on, Man ! I was in the military. I've read plenty in the past about $200 toilet seats... seen waste like crazy. Read plenty about it in the past. One time, I think it was Charleston AFB, S. Carolina? A commander had a major inspection coming up, so he ordered jeeps, new typewriters, etc etc etc, buried underground. I would hope the military would have been donating all the food that gets left over - to food banks, homeless shelters, etc. all over our country. The F35 - way, way too expensive.

But state of the art super-technology costs a lot. Over years, btw, what does NOT go over budget, eh?

Belgium reportedly picks F-35 for future fighter jet - Defense News

@tiamat63 said:

Brilliant.  Because if I say we've burned a ton of unnecessary money on an overinflated military budget including projects like the one we awarded Lockheed Martin - you know, the F35's that burn through money - 1.33b well over the budget - that MUST mean it goes to those damn welfare queens in Mississippi, huh?  

    Seriously, man.  Use your head.    You can be capable of good ideas when you care to.  

okie dokey - will do.

Why Democrats Voted Against A Military Pay Raise | Speaker.gov

@calfoxwc said:

Oh, Y'EAH? well, could be....

but cutting our military budget to add more to the dynamically growing welfare/unearned benefits/dems buying votes isn't helping, and just cutting the military budget isn't going to help either.

Brilliant.  Because if I say we've burned a ton of unnecessary money on an overinflated military budget including projects like the one we awarded Lockheed Martin - you know, the F35's that burn through money - 1.33b well over the budget - that MUST mean it goes to those damn welfare queens in Mississippi, huh?  

    Seriously, man.  Use your head.    You can be capable of good ideas when you care to.  

@tiamat63 said:

Yes, I'll watch.  they'll pass it overwhelmingly again because they're every bit as fiscally irresponsible as the GOP claims they aren't.   Same same, old boy.  

Oh, Y'EAH? well, could be....

but cutting our military budget to add more to the dynamically growing welfare/unearned benefits/dems buying votes isn't helping, and just cutting the military budget isn't going to help either.

@calfoxwc said:

ah, just now catching up, busy day yesterday - I guess you missed that I was referring to the incoming dem house? I was referring to the dem senate in the next few years. Of course it passed before the dems took the house - it was going to pass anyways. You watch the next time the military budget is up from the dem senate.

Yes, I'll watch.  they'll pass it overwhelmingly again because they're every bit as fiscally irresponsible as the GOP claims they aren't.   

Same same, old boy.  

@mld-woody said:

I missed cals little rant post before about those damn college kids and poor people.

Top notch stuff. Grade A comedy.

Sometimes I forget how radicalized Diffy Q's made me

well, you aren't smart enough to be radicalized, you just don't believe in anything - that's your birdbrain schtick.

@tiamat63 said:

I guess you missed how the last one overwhelmingly passed then...?   

ah, just now catching up, busy day yesterday - I guess you missed that I was referring to the incoming dem house? I was referring to the dem senate in the next few years. Of course it passed before the dems took the house - it was going to pass anyways. You watch the next time the military budget is up from the dem senate.

@mld-woody said:

according to Cal I'm a real American because I voted at 630

june 30th? or did you mean 6:30 ? AM ? PM ?

read up on communication.

Top notch stuff. Grade A comedy.

Sometimes I forget how radicalized Diffy Q's made me

@calfoxwc said:

Once America watches the dems own the house for the next few? years, they will rebound back to reality.

Except the radical kids in college and many of the poor. They want their free ride, their imposed utopian dream world of

socialism.

   I wish they would start requiring Real American and Real World history to be taught again.

I prefer Road Rules...

@diehardbrownsfan said:

 

 

Ivanka Trump

 

8 hrs · 

Both political parties got good news yesterday, but the real winner was America.

With record turnout and sky-high participation, we saw an engaged, plugged-in democratic process at work.

Today, it's time to come together as Americans and work toward solutions that benefit all!

 

 

Stuart

Ivanka just being nice.

It was not good news for democrats and all those thirsting for a "Blue Wave".

This was a huge victory. All the never Trumpers in the Senate are gone..outa here!

Trump right up there with Reagan:

The most House seats ever lost by a president’s party in power was Obama in 2010. He lost 63. Next was Bill Clinton in 1994. He lost 52. In 1958, Eisenhower lost 48, as did Ford and Nixon in 1974. They lost 48.
Lyndon Johnson in ’66, lost 47. Harry Truman in ’46 lost 45 seats. George W. Bush in 2006 lost 30. In 1950, Harry Truman lost 29. Reagan, in ’82, lost 26 seats, and in 2016 Trump is at 27 .

In the Senate everyone Obama campaigned for lost.

9 out of the 11 that Trump campaigned for won.

@the-cysko-kid said:

As opposed to the last two years? Or for that matter the last 20?

Clearly you haven't been paying attention..