(08-05-2025 01:08 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote: You are absolutely right AC. But the overwhelming philosophy doesn’t always work toward victory. It is being proved poor strategy now in Ukraine. The USSR was always willing to build a million tanks and send a million men but it hasn’t gotten them much more than a million tanks destroyed and a million men dead. We need to pay close attention and learn from this.
Overwhelming drone attacks are probably the Chinese next step. We need to learn how to defend against this and how to produce the same overwhelming drone attacks that can’t be easily stopped. Including sub surface naval drones.
Saw where Ukrainians are using fish nets to counter drones. It was astonishing how many drones were caught up in the fish nets.
(08-06-2025 01:40 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: So now you're an expert on our strategically placed subs? Hot damn I'm impressed all to hell. Tell us more. This is better than Tom stories.
I’m sure we heard his criticism from you on the Afghanistan withdrawal. Not.
Nobody listens to someone who is a full blown hypocrite.
When all you do like your friend Tommy is criticize one political party and worship the other not many care to hear your mimics and biased takes.
(08-06-2025 01:40 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: So now you're an expert on our strategically placed subs? Hot damn I'm impressed all to hell. Tell us more. This is better than Tom stories.
Oh, I’m not, but John Bolton is…
Do you realize the fatal flaw your side committed? You made it extremely hard for the corporate media to deliver any credible critique of DJT. Even if it's 100% valid and CNN or the like put real resources into their story, triple checked sources and verified EVERYTHING...the majority of people will either 1) assume it's a political smear piece or 2) not bother to watch because the media doesn't report news anymore (they try to control the news).
The traditional media has a credibility problem. Just like John Stewart in the early 2000s was a primary source of news for many - the rot in corporate media has been there for awhile - people don't trust traditional, legacy, corporate media. They'd rather read stories from social media or consume it from non-traditional news sources.
Didn't watch the CNN video, but let's say John Bolton is 100% dead on correct on his take down of Trump (assume that's what he did). Few will take it seriously - most won't. Because you just can't trust what comes from CNN anymore. Not after the Russia collusion garbage, the Hillary Clinton bungling of top secret materials that were hidden, the strong stance on Hunter Biden's laptop that was false, the coverup of Biden's cognitive decline happened...all of this and more...dropped the media's credibility into the toilet.
Quote:Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
My Dad used to say the media is in the business of selling and making money and they never let truth get in the way of a good story.
Unfortunately, still to many are brainwashed by our educational system and have not the ability to discern biased media over reality.
(08-06-2025 03:14 PM)Frank Grimes Wrote: Sort of OT and I guess a chance to enlighten a young ‘un: Was there this sort of divisiveness with assisting the Afghans in the 80s when Russia invaded? That was before my time, so I legitimately don’t know. Conservatives hold Reagan in such high regard, I was curious if there was unity within the Republican Party then to assist Afghanistan, or if there was a faction that was against it. Or if Russia was perceived more as a threat then compared to now (I know that was during one of the more tense times of the Cold War).
You have to remember the time frame. The country had just shed the disaster of Jimmy Carter and the corruption of so many Democrats under his watch. Double digits in unemployment and inflation simultaneously along with long lines at the gas pumps due to fuel shortage.
Democrats back then and today
want to be ashamed you are an American.
Reagan gave Americans not just Republicans a sense of pride to be American.
He did allow the Pentagon to run convert missions lthat didn’t play well in the public eye.
Reagan lost me over the hijacked plane on the runway and the killing of some 200 plus servicemen in Lebanon.
No way would one of those terrorists gotten off that plane alive. And if he would’ve he’d been executed on the runway.
Not Reagan he negotiated after they took a sailor and shot him in the head and dumped him out of the plane
To me that was their death warrant.
Thanks for memory lane still get mad as hell just thinking about it
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2025 08:12 AM by BlueDragon.)
(08-06-2025 01:40 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: So now you're an expert on our strategically placed subs? Hot damn I'm impressed all to hell. Tell us more. This is better than Tom stories.
Oh, I’m not, but John Bolton is…
Do you realize the fatal flaw your side committed? You made it extremely hard for the corporate media to deliver any credible critique of DJT. Even if it's 100% valid and CNN or the like put real resources into their story, triple checked sources and verified EVERYTHING...the majority of people will either 1) assume it's a political smear piece or 2) not bother to watch because the media doesn't report news anymore (they try to control the news).
The traditional media has a credibility problem. Just like John Stewart in the early 2000s was a primary source of news for many - the rot in corporate media has been there for awhile - people don't trust traditional, legacy, corporate media. They'd rather read stories from social media or consume it from non-traditional news sources.
Didn't watch the CNN video, but let's say John Bolton is 100% dead on correct on his take down of Trump (assume that's what he did). Few will take it seriously - most won't. Because you just can't trust what comes from CNN anymore. Not after the Russia collusion garbage, the Hillary Clinton bungling of top secret materials that were hidden, the strong stance on Hunter Biden's laptop that was false, the coverup of Biden's cognitive decline happened...all of this and more...dropped the media's credibility into the toilet.
Quote:Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media -- such as newspapers, television and radio -- first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so again last year.
For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. Another 33% of Americans express “not very much” confidence.
My Dad used to say the media is in the business of selling and making money and they never let truth get in the way of a good story.
Unfortunately, still to many are brainwashed by our educational system and have not the ability to discern biased media over reality.
No doubt - media has had a story telling facet to their reporting for a very long time. However, they had a solid track record of reporting facts that has degraded ever since the MNCs started buying media assets. Then the fall accelerated around the time conservative news talk radio started hitting its stride and they truly jumped the shark in 2020.
(08-07-2025 07:30 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: I think WE started this war.
Typical America hater?
Really though, I’d love to hear your rationale for such a wild assumption.
Your eyes bugged out, all the rationale I needed.
Figured you couldn’t answer and defend your accusation. If you can’t make a reasoned post about how WE started this war then just post bullchit and think you’re genius.
