Let's wade into those muddy waters. Is the US headed toward widespread violence this presidential election?

 

A reader asked the question (Snafuperman) so I decided to take him up on the challenge.

We're gonna wade into these muddy waters.

The question.

Is the US headed toward widespread violence this presidential election?

My answer.

I just don't know!

We had an incident here where an officer was ambushed. That's kinda unheard of in rural areas.  I didn't see it coming.  Luckily he's ok and was only hit in the leg...but still.

Remember that this is in an area that widely supports Law Enforcement (there are mutterings from the usual suspects but I dismiss them...or rather had). So what happens in more urban/city areas?

Unfortunately I think we might be tipping toward even more bad times.

Open Comment Post. 21 Sept 2020

 

Canada's disbanded M109 Self-Propelled Howitzers | END OF AN ERA

Mattimus is a Canadian Reserve Soldier that immigrated from the UK. He makes entertaining vids and I'm a subscriber of his although this is the first video that he's made that I've posted on this page. Give him a look-see!

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HDT Hunter WOLF – US Army Testing, Fort Benning

Kampfpanzer Leopard 2 A7V in Test

Thanks to Toni for the link!

 

The US Missile Marines are soon gonna be as light as this abomination the Brits are experimenting with...

 

Amazing.  Do they really believe that this force will have any currency in the Med, North Africa (ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME!!!!) or god forbid the Black Sea?

The Royal Marines are smoking the same crack that the US Missile Marine Corps is!

They're betting on deterrence cause if this "Commando Force" goes to war they're gonna get mauled without HEAVY SUPPORT (same as the USMMC).

Sidenote.  Has forward deployment of our forces led to anything except MORE war? From my chair when a bad guy decides to do bad things they really don't care about who's floating off the coast or who has bases nearby.  If that was the case then Carrier Diplomacy would still be a thing.

Arquus AREG

 Thanks to HERCIV for the link!

I admit this is a distasteful question but....

 I'm gonna piss alot of you off but I've got to ask a distasteful question.

How long was Ginsberg "out of it" and should have been declared incompetent to continue as a supreme court justice before her death?

Ya know who knows without a doubt? Her fellow supreme court justices, her clerks and the powers that be in Washington DC.

You do know the inevitable reality of this situation don't you?

Only those deemed with the need to know actually knew about her suffering and eventual death.  What I'm trying to say is that the nation could have been prepared for her passing and a more rational solution to her replacement begun but those "in the know" decided to do it on the sly.  It's almost like both sides of the "SO CALLED POLITICAL SPECTRUM" wanted this fight.

Hate to hit you with the reality tribe.

But those in power view us as peasants.  We think we live in a democracy?  That's a lie.  A democratic country would keep the nation informed.  We weren't. My God we're fucked beyond recognition and most don't even know it.

Boeing F-15EX. The future of the USAF

 

Updated Boeing website on this plane.  Check it out here.

America's Navy (and Defense Chief) really don't have a solution to the Chinese Navy problem.

If your competitive advantage isn't so much your ships but the, "...training & skillset of those who operate them" you don't leverage that advantage by getting rid of the people through building a bunch of Unmanned Vessels who can only run on the most rudimentary automated ways. https://t.co/HxIosd7UtZ

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) September 20, 2020

Wow. Cdr Salamander nailed it. I've come to the conclusion that our Navy is in trouble vs. the Chinese. We have no real plan. We're trying to match them in their seat of power...SHIP BUILDING! A 355 ship navy is irrelevant. No, this isn't a call saying that I've come around to supporting the Missile Marines. Nothing could be farther from the truth. What I am saying is that the service most responsible for combat at sea is rudderless and doesn't appear to have a clue to blunt Chinese Navy advances. A few unmanned ships ain't gonna cut. Quite honestly from my chair the US Navy would have to give up its worldwide responsbilities and concentrate on the Indo-Pacific to gain parity/MAYBE superiority. I'm calling it now. We saw the Russian scare for the past 4 years. In the face of future budget cuts get ready for the Chinese scare. ALL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED IF THE PENTAGON, AND JCS ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOBS INSTEAD OF FEEDING THE POLITICAL SWAMP IN WASHINGTON DC. The seeds of our future defeat have been planted by this generation of generals.