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Trump administration 2024-2028

Good2Golf said:
WI, MI and PA were all significant swing state wins for Trump ....
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All pretty powerhouse-y states, for sure.
Good2Golf said:
... MI is ON’s (and CA’s) largest single trading partner. MI in particular would feel the effect of Trump tariffs as the biggest trading partner with Ontario(Canada) in the Union.
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Fingers crossed.
 
dimsum said:
newrepublic.com

Pete Hegseth Wants to Bring Back “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

The Christian nationalist who is Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense has had enough of LGBTQ people openly serving in the military.
newrepublic.com newrepublic.com

Yeah - that will fix the US military! 🤣
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Will it break it?

After years of being told that being tolerant wasn't enough and you must be an ally, will the US discover that most "allies" weren't allies in reality, rather they were just people who didn't want to get fired?

I'm not advocating for going backwards, but what will the real world (not Twitter or Blue Sky) impact of that sort of change be in force readiness, or recruiting?
 
Furniture said:
Will it break it?

After years of being told that being tolerant wasn't enough and you must be an ally, will the US discover that most "allies" weren't allies in reality, rather they were just people who didn't want to get fired?

I'm not advocating for going backwards, but what will the real world (not Twitter or Blue Sky) impact of that sort of change be in force readiness, or recruiting?
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Well, if the stats of 1 in 10 are correct, then 10% of the population will not want to join. So the catchment area is smaller by default. That is a real world impact.

Obviously this is not the US, but I’ve served with many proud LGBTQ CAF members. They are happy to talk about their experiences so I’m going to extrapolate and say that getting pushed back to the shadows with a policy like “don’t say you’re gay” won’t help.
 
dimsum said:
Well, if the stats of 1 in 10 are correct, then 10% of the population will not want to join. So the catchment area is smaller by default. That is a real world impact.

Obviously this is not the US, but I’ve served with many proud LGBTQ CAF members. They are happy to talk about their experiences so I’m going to extrapolate and say that getting pushed back to the shadows with a policy like “don’t say you’re gay” won’t help.
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Opportunity for the CAF to offer jobs. Get fully trained soldiers from the US, increase our numbers and our NATO goal of 2%.
 
dimsum said:
Well, if the stats of 1 in 10 are correct, then 10% of the population will not want to join. So the catchment area is smaller by default. That is a real world impact.

Obviously this is not the US, but I’ve served with many proud LGBTQ CAF members. They are happy to talk about their experiences so I’m going to extrapolate and say that getting pushed back to the shadows with a policy like “don’t say you’re gay” won’t help.
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Hopefully they won't be dumb enough to carry through with the plan.

I would disagree with the "10% of the population will not want to join" though. Even when it was a chargeable offence in the CAF we were lucky enough to have members join and take a chance. A few of us even risked the "guilt by association" tarring and hung out with them. Some of us even got the veiled lecture.
 
CountDC said:
Hopefully they won't be dumb enough to carry through with the plan.
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It would be an incredibly weird thing to signal if they don’t intend on carrying it out. I can’t see any benefit by saying something like that, then saying “ just kidding!”

CountDC said:
I would disagree with the "10% of the population will not want to join" though. Even when it was a chargeable offence in the CAF we were lucky enough to have members join and take a chance. A few of us even risked the "guilt by association" tarring and hung out with them. Some of us even got the veiled lecture.
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True, but I’d say a significant number will factor that in whether they want to join.

And most US military services have a recruiting deficit right now.
 
dimsum said:
abcnews.go.com

RFK Jr.'s lawyer and top ally asked FDA to revoke approval of polio vaccine

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

I didn’t have “polio makes a comeback in the US” on my 2025 bingo card. Time to buy shares in wheelchair and cane manufacturing companies!
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Wow. Advocating against the polio vaccine is an impressive commitment to ideology over facts and science. I can’t offhand think of a health policy less controversial or more factually supported than polio vaccination.
 
brihard said:
Wow. Advocating against the polio vaccine is an impressive commitment to ideology over facts and science. I can’t offhand think of a health policy less controversial or more factually supported than polio vaccination.
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Measles? Also under the gun I understand...
 
daftandbarmy said:
Measles? Also under the gun I understand...
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FFS, you’ve gotta be kidding me.

If you had to draft a short list of basic societal-scale policies that set the first world up for success in comparison to the third, the basic set of childhood immunizations would be high on that list, right up with basic sanitation and potable municipal water in urban and suburban areas…
 
brihard said:
FFS, you’ve gotta be kidding me.

If you had to draft a short list of basic societal-scale policies that set the first world up for success in comparison to the third, the basic set of childhood immunizations would be high on that list, right up with basic sanitation and potable municipal water in urban and suburban areas…
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They're baaaaack...

Measles are back; blame complacency​


The only reason cases are going up is that vaccination rates are going down.

www.mcgill.ca

Measles are back; blame complacency

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. Complacency is how you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Complacency is why measles is resurgent. And complacency is why the Public Health Agency of Canada issued a warning to travellers about the growing threat of measles...
www.mcgill.ca
 
brihard said:
FFS, you’ve gotta be kidding me.

If you had to draft a short list of basic societal-scale policies that set the first world up for success in comparison to the third, the basic set of childhood immunizations would be high on that list, right up with basic sanitation and potable municipal water in urban and suburban areas…
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The US has the highest infant/maternal mortality rate among OECD countries so might as well go full on and increase the child mortality rate while they are at it…

If you want to be great again you gotta go back to a time where vaccines were not a thing.
 
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