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i’m in my 20s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 30s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 40s and i’m allowed to start over
i’m in my 50s and i’m allowed to start over
as long as i’m breathing, it’s not too late to begin again
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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To understand DeSantis' pivot on Ukraine, you must first understand MAGA's pivot on wars we get involved in that don't start with us being attacked, and even then, after Afghanistan, MAGA is very skeptical of wars we get into because we got attacked. We're coming up on the 20-year anniversary of the Iraq War, a war that was mostly fought by and for old school republicans. It turned out that the leaders they had faith in (the Bush admin) were not only wrong about why we went into Iraq, they were…
Don't forget that it was GWB who deliberately didn't ask us to sacrifice stateside (during Iraq). He told us to go shopping, so we fucked off at the mall. This is not in contradiction to your larger point - in fact it probably supports it. Not only did the "volunteer" (coercion of poverty aside) army do all the heavy lifting, we didn't pretend at home that we had any responsibility, either by raising taxes to pay for it or by doing anything else other than saying "thank you for your service" to…
Agree with everything you wrote here. Bush put both wars on the national credit card because taxing the rich to pay for the war would have been too unbearable for the conservative mind back then. He wouldn't even sell war bonds to pay for the fighting, and instead followed the model Nixon set forth. So much of what we have today started with Nixon. He got us off of the gold standard to pay for Vietnam and got rid of the draft to stamp out public opposition to the Vietnam war by military-aged college kids. So now we put our wars on the credit card and recycle the contract-service volunteers to combat over and over because there aren't enough new volunteers to replace them with. I can only imagine what the contract service will be like when we get into a shooting war with China some day. "Hey Mr. 19-year-old contract-volunteer, I know you just survived your first tour in Taiwan where your unit took 40% casualties, but there aren't enough fresh bodies at our manpower disposal right now, so you're going to get about 5 months stateside and then you're coming back out here again for another 8 months with a fresh crop of boots. Good luck, and may the odds forever be in your favor!"