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The juxtaposition of your concern over the debt and your support of Trump is so absurd that it is clear your real agenda are elsewhere. During his first term Trump added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt. That was more than 43 presidents had combined to accumulate during the first 216 years of the Republic. Obama added less than that over his TWO terms. His BBB, despite his claims, will simply continue the enormous deficits he created during his first term. Do you really think the leopard changed his spots despite all the evidence to the contary - that's very naive. In my lifetime the debt has increased more under GOP administrations than under Dems.

Yep. And Trump will increase that faster than any president in history. It's a historical fact that republican administrations increase deficits faster than democrats on average - so if you want to reduce the national debt (or at least slow its rise) democrats are your best bet. That's why my grandparents came here. For decades that is what America was built on - the backs of people strong enough to leave their homes and make a better life here. Now we have system that denies entry to everyone, worker and student alike, unless they are rich and far right. That will rapidly lead to the US becoming an inbred nationalistic haven for the lazy, who want their due because they are "natives." DEI ended slavery, got us the Tuskeegee airmen, got women the vote and allowed them to own property. DEI allowed gay people to legally exist in the US and get married. DEI put in handicapped ramps and handicapped parking spaces. All good things in my book. Many people oppose such things, of course. Glad I am not one of them.

Pretty screwed up set of values to place a racist criminal over someone else because of her gender and colour.

So obviously, you decided to vote for the guy who made it much, much worse last time he was in office. Again it’s remarkable how easy it is for people to manipulate you with an oversimplified sound bite or two. Like a sugar rush for the brain. I don’t know why you choose to outsource your critical thinking to the partisan outlets that feed you your talking points but it’s pretty weird. Seems like you would have the ability to learn things about how history, society and politics really work if you could only be bothered to look.

No need to clarify your position. The big kids took your candy and it somehow brightens your day to see it happening to other kids.

You're a disgusting liar refusing factual evidence.

Then why not fund USAID to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, attempting to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms, rather than adding 350 Billion to the defense budget. Granted there were some stupid expenditures, but a refocus on the mission-specific expenditures. In virtually every country. there's a US Embassy. In those embassies, there's an attache'. That attache' is supposed to monitor the political/environmental/economic situation. They have two recommendations, 1) can we change the landscape with financial assistance or, 2) will it require military intervention. So, we appear to have given up helping financially and are preparing more for the military intervention. What.could.go.wrong.

You say, as always, without providing a shred of reason why. It always amazes me how people like you are happy to move through a world you have never made the slightest effort to understand.

Hmmm - that tiktok account may disappear quite quickly! 19,000 comments asking for the Epstein files to be released

Ryan - you said on tonight’s live that both V23 and V27 “go out south from Seattle.” It’s at the 41 minute mark. This was part of your point that a Cooper didn’t give enough instructions and they could have taken the alternative route of V27. vfrmap.com I’m not an aviation person. What I see on this map is that V27 takes the plane from SeaTac to Ocean Shores, WA. That’s not south. It’s damn near due west. Cooper is wearing a parachute. The coast means death to him. He accepts a plane flying straight west why? Technically you’re right, they could have gone that way. They could have gone north too. Both are not the agreed upon direction. Cooper was clear, no coast airports and only airports to the south. The idea he was going to be cool with the plane going west after just negotiating south I don’t understand and I see no evidence for it. West is also the worst direction for Cooper. My point is, they discussed it in the cockpit but it’s not what Cooper demanded or agreed to. There’s no evidence he would have accepted it, there’s plenty of evidence he wouldn’t have.

V27 and 165 were the same thing. This is a sectional from June 1971.

Um, no. But just the opposite of that is true, so you were close. (OK, back to just lurking.)

As an update - with a Canadian perspective - I recently attended Operation Pegasus Jump 2023 at Campbell River, B.C. Canada. Most of the attendees were retired military types. Back when we served, marijuana was strictly illegal. If the military police ever caught you smoking marijuana, hashish, crack, etc. they would arrest you and send you to jail. After release from jail, you would get a dishonorable discharge which would make it impossible to get any gov't job after that. Fast forward to 2023 and Op. Pegasus sponsors included several cannibbus dispensaries. Veterans' Affairs will cheerfully mail THC to you if your medical doctor prescribes it for PTSD, insomnia, depression, etc. Most nights, I chew on a CBN gummy to help me fall asleep. During Op Pegasus, organizers announced that consumption of alcohol or other recreational drugs had to wait until the last jump-plane took off in the evening. Participants were mature enough to respect that rule. After the last airplane took off, several cracked a beer or lit a (marijuana) joint on airport property. I only drank near-beer, because that is all that I can handle these days. One of the reasons that I left the Canadian Armed Forces was that I was struggling with all the legal recreational drugs: caffeine, nicotene and alcohol, but smoking a bit of marijuana or hashish on weekends. It took me a few more years to quit drinking alcohol, but I am still addicted to caffeine. In the end, I have nothing but contempt for most rules written about recreational drugs. I just don't drink or smoke within smelling range of police. I just know that some us can handle recreational drugs, while others of us cannot handle recreational drugs. Some of us are wise enough to quit recreational drugs before they kill us. I have ven less respect for the politicians - mostly lawyers - who write drug laws.

As far as I know there are laws against possessing or trafficking cannabis. There are no laws against "allowing" cannabis. So the answer would be no, because the DZO would not be breaking any law, Federal or State.