US continues to go backward...

JTOSU said:
Ah, that’s a negative ghost-rider

www.foxnews.com

Hegseth, Britt accuse Air Force of 'malicious' pause as it reinstates training on Tuskegee Airmen

The Air Force has reinstated a course on the first Black pilots unit after it was yanked to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning DEI in the federal government.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
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thank you hegseth...you are already proving yourself as the right choice for the job...don´t listen to people calling it a DEI hire...
 
mugatu said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump floats deporting American criminals

Trump's remarks come amid a crackdown on illegal immigration and executive orders that have paved the way for mass deportations.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Trump is now floating sending repeat criminals to jail in foreign countries. Any guesses who he'd want to send first or how quickly this would turn very bad?
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Now see... this is stupid.

Can we just call the stupid stuff stupid and the not so stupid stuff not so stupid?
 
JTOSU said:
This is one item that all Americans should agree. We need allies to increase their share of defense spending.
I doubt we get them to 5% of GDP, but if we could get the nine largest European NATO countries to get to 3.4%, which appears possible, then that is over $300B/annually.
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We don't even spend 3.4% of our GDP on defense so why should we demand our allies do it?
 
mugatu said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump floats deporting American criminals

Trump's remarks come amid a crackdown on illegal immigration and executive orders that have paved the way for mass deportations.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Trump is now floating sending repeat criminals to jail in foreign countries. Any guesses who he'd want to send first or how quickly this would turn very bad?
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is it weird, that this kind of talk from him, surprises me NONE...didn´t even get a ¨wow!¨ from me...
question: is it only the following crimes that could get you sent away to a penal colony? I need more information...

The president called out Americans who have been detained for crimes such as "murder and other heinous acts like pushing people into subways," striking individuals with baseball bats, or "punching elderly women in the face, knocking them unconscious, and stealing their purses."
 
P4L said:
We don't even spend 3.4% of our GDP on defense so why should we demand our allies do it?
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Here are five sources. All 3.4 to 3.45%


www.theglobaleconomy.com

Military spending, percent of GDP in | TheGlobalEconomy.com

The average for 2022 based on 145 countries was 1.98 percent. The highest value was in Ukraine: 33.55 percent and the lowest value was in Haiti: 0.07 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
www.theglobaleconomy.com www.theglobaleconomy.com


www.statista.com

Military spending by country GDP 2023 | Statista

Ukraine has the highest military spending by GDP. This is unsurprising following Russia's invasion of the country in February 2022.
www.statista.com www.statista.com

Military expenditures Comparison - The World Factbook

www.cia.gov www.cia.gov
ourworldindata.org

Military spending as a share of GDP

Military expenditure divided by gross domestic product, expressed as a percentage. Includes military and civil personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, military research and development, infrastructure, and aid.
ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org

Military Budget by Country (Updated 2025) - Worldostats

Discover the latest data on military budgets by country, featuring top spenders, GDP allocations, and a analysis of global defense spending trends.
worldostats.com worldostats.com
 
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Stillwaterman said:
Now see... this is stupid.

Can we just call the stupid stuff stupid and the not so stupid stuff not so stupid?
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If no one in his party is willing to stand up to his more asinine tendencies and hes filled his cabinet with yes men, who is there to tell him it's a stupid idea or stop it if he wants to go through with it?

I'd file this one as never gonna happen as well, but considering the disrespect he has for the rule of law you never know.
 
JTOSU said:
Here are five sources. All 3.4 to 3.45%


www.theglobaleconomy.com

Military spending, percent of GDP in | TheGlobalEconomy.com

The average for 2022 based on 145 countries was 1.98 percent. The highest value was in Ukraine: 33.55 percent and the lowest value was in Haiti: 0.07 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
www.theglobaleconomy.com www.theglobaleconomy.com


www.statista.com

Military spending by country GDP 2023 | Statista

Ukraine has the highest military spending by GDP. This is unsurprising following Russia's invasion of the country in February 2022.
www.statista.com www.statista.com

Military expenditures Comparison - The World Factbook

www.cia.gov www.cia.gov
ourworldindata.org

Military spending as a share of GDP

Military expenditure divided by gross domestic product, expressed as a percentage. Includes military and civil personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, military research and development, infrastructure, and aid.
ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org

Military Budget by Country (Updated 2025) - Worldostats

Discover the latest data on military budgets by country, featuring top spenders, GDP allocations, and a analysis of global defense spending trends.
worldostats.com worldostats.com
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I'll spend a little more time going through those, but I couldn't quickly find the actual two numbers they used to calculate their percentages. I was going off what I could find for 2023 which (going with the most conservative numbers I could find) was $24.977 trillion (this was the lowest number I could find, but most references put it closer to $27) for gdp and $820 billion for defense for a 3.28% ratio, (or 3% for the 27 figure) so I'm curious the values they used on your sites.
 
mugatu said:

Foreign Aid cutoff also applied to USAID which provides medicines to poor countries.
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I just don't get this, and I'm trying. I really want to hear from conservatives on this board as to why this is a positive. If it's just about "saving money", then it's not worth it. I don't want to / can't spend the next 4 years being pissed off every single day, so my only other option is to try to see any good that will come out of things like this.
 
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milehighpoke said:
I just don't get this, and I'm trying. I really want to hear from conservatives on this board as to why this is a positive. If it's just about "saving money", then it's not worth it. I don't want to / can't spend the next 4 years being pissed off every single day, so my only other option is to try to see any good that will come out of things like this.
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Ditto.

About the only action he's taken that I can see a decent reasoning for is the illegal immigrant deportations. Almost everything else just doesn't make sense. Doesn’t make the US or world or anything else better and doesn't help either the people, economy or environment.
 
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President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.

The NLRB has five members appointed by the president, and before Wilcox was fired it had a 2-1 Democratic majority and two vacancies. Without her, the board will lack a quorum and cannot issue decisions even in routine cases accusing companies or unions of violating federal labor law.

Once board members are confirmed, federal law allows them to be removed only for "neglect of duty or malfeasance in office."

Trump late Monday also fired the NLRB's general counsel, Biden appointee Jennifer Abruzzo, who acts like a prosecutor and plays a key role in shaping board policy.
 
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