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Trump administration 2024-2028

Halifax Tar said:
Me as well. As much as I think the KS-III was the best option, they also can provide so much more.

We dont need them uninterested in doing business with us.
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Between the German subs, and GDLS unveiling a LAV based SPG... I'm pretty sure they have read the writing on the wall. Canada is not open for business.

Rather than position ourselves as an indespensible partner in the Pacific, we have gone full "small Canada", and decided to be Jr. partners with Europe and America.
 
So Canada gives a contract to a German company instead of a Korean company, and that means Canada is not “open for business”?

GDLS building a proof of concept vehicle is just industry doing what industry does to entice governments.
 
www.propublica.org

Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering partially restoring the program.
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Shortly after taking office last year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during U.S. military operations.

Hegseth had bet senior officers would endorse his view that focusing on civilian security was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” current and former defense officials told ProPublica.

Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.

The poll from early 2025, which has not been previously reported, cemented top-level military support for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response, a relatively new program adopted after years of heavy civilian tolls in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. As part of its mission, CHMR (pronounced “chimmer”) stationed personnel within major regional commands. Officials tried to develop a picture of life on the ground in combat zones to aid decision-making on military strikes and avoid or minimize civilian harm.

In the poll, Hegseth gave commanders three options: cut 65% of staff but keep the effort operational, continue with only a small centralized office in Washington, or eliminate the program.

Nine commanders chose the first option to preserve the enterprise as much as possible, according to a memo reviewed by ProPublica. Leaders of two commands, one overseeing the nuclear arsenal and the other focused on cyber threats, declined all three options, asking to maintain the full program.
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By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran the next year, the Pentagon’s civilian protection program was down from a little under 200 people to around two dozen, some working only part time, the current and former defense officials said. Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 staffers to function, was left with one person.

On the first day of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, a U.S. airstrike hit a school in Minab, a city near the Strait of Hormuz, killing more than 100 children and igniting international outrage.

Hegseth and the commander in charge of the Iran operation, Adm. Brad Cooper, were questioned about the strike before Congress. Hegseth said the U.S. does not target civilians and would investigate. Early reports on that investigation, yet to be publicly released, have said outdated U.S. intelligence led to the attack on the school.
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I mean, who could have forseen this? Gutting the civilian protection program leading to more civilian casualties, who would have thought?


The Legacy of DOGE.
 
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PCE Index Shows Inflation Remained Elevated in July Amid High Energy Costs

The Personal Consumption Expenditure index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation tracker, held steady in July.
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The stubborn U.S. inflation problem did not get much worse in July. It did not get any better, either.

Consumer prices were up 3.7 percent in July from a year earlier, according to the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditure price index. That was the same rate as in June, and still well above the Fed’s target of 2 percent annual inflation.

Core prices, a measure that strips out the volatile food and energy categories, were up 3.3 percent from a year earlier, also unchanged from June. Policymakers often focus on the core measure because it can give a more reliable indication of how inflation will behave in the months ahead.
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So inflation remains high. And core inflation, so not counting fuel prices, also high...I'm going to guess....tariffs.
 

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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 (April, May, and June), according to the second estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the first quarter, real GDP increased 2.1 percent. The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the second quarter were increases in consumer spending, exports, and investment that were partly offset by a decrease in government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
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Imagine running deficits of 5.8 percent of GDP and only clocking growth at 1.5 percent. That would be like Canada running a deficit of 190b for slower growth.(our deficit at last projection was 70-80b)
 
Altair said:

Gross Domestic Product | U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

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Imagine running deficits of 5.8 percent of GDP and only clocking growth at 1.5 percent. That would be like Canada running a deficit of 190b for slower growth.(our deficit at last projection was 70-80b)
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I suspect if you ran a business like this it might go bankrupt…

Oh wait, he did.

The fact he ran on cutting prices, and everything here is going up (albeit in VA a lot of that is also due to our Democratic Governor also being about as economically intelligent as our President ).
 
KevinB said:
I suspect if you ran a business like this it might go bankrupt…

Oh wait, he did.

The fact he ran on cutting prices, and everything here is going up (albeit in VA a lot of that is also due to our Democratic Governor also being about as economically intelligent as our President ).
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The only options for that that really make sense to me is that the whole thing was either a money laundering operation designed to fail, or he's just a complete idiot surrounded by idiots. The people around him seem reasonably intelligent, and find it hard to believe he could interfere with day to day operations that much but I guess never underestimate the power of stupidity combined with narcissm, which is kind of like a stupidity force multiplier.
 
Navy_Pete said:
The only options for that that really make sense to me is that the whole thing was either a money laundering operation designed to fail, or he's just a complete idiot surrounded by idiots. The people around him seem reasonably intelligent, and find it hard to believe he could interfere with day to day operations that much but I guess never underestimate the power of stupidity combined with narcissm, which is kind of like a stupidity force multiplier.
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I think Trump 45 had some very capable people around him.
Trump 47 seems to value loyalty over competence, with all the intelligence long gone ,and I think we are all suffering from that.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2092635994319163798

Fun story here, as shared by the person who took the photos.

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Canada goose vs. bald eagle: Photographer captures bird battle on Lake Ontario | Globalnews.ca

On Feb. 23 at around 11 a.m., eagle-eyed photographer Mervyn Sequeira zeroed in on an impending battle between a Canada goose and a bald eagle on Lake Ontario.
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“I saw the bald eagle coming in. It seemed to had purpose and it was heading straight for a goose that was out on the frozen lake,” the 74-year-old said of the scene that was unfolding near LaSalle Marina in Burlington, Ont.

“It made several attacks on the goose. The goose fought back as best it could.”

“At the end of 20 minutes, the bald eagle just gave up and took off,” he described. “During that time, there were moments when we thought it was over for the goose because of all the equipment that the bald eagle had in terms of talons and whatever else. However, the goose survived the day.”
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I happen to think this is a good omen.

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Winner Winner Win GIF by Mashed
 
Altair said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2092635994319163798

Fun story here, as shared by the person who took the photos.

globalnews.ca

Canada goose vs. bald eagle: Photographer captures bird battle on Lake Ontario | Globalnews.ca

On Feb. 23 at around 11 a.m., eagle-eyed photographer Mervyn Sequeira zeroed in on an impending battle between a Canada goose and a bald eagle on Lake Ontario.
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I happen to think this is a good omen.

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Winner Winner Win GIF by Mashed
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So, unlike the president, the eagle knew when the fight wasn't worth the cost.

It's kind of sad that a dinosaur is smarter than the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth.
 
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