Can anyone imagine what the reaction would be if another country tried to get the US to give up mineral resources? It’d be WW3.

Insert 300 this is madness gif.

I feel solidarity for you. My dad was a self employed mechanic, and the only vacation he ever took was when he broke his leg.

I’m not trying to be mean, but the difference between 10 days and 25 days is the difference between night and day.

The most shocking thing about this is the five weeks. Like as Americans we have no clue how the rest of the world lives. The entire country of France stops working for 6 weeks in the summer. And we fight to get 2 weeks if we’re lucky.

We went from Defender 2020 to Surrender 2025.

Edit: for context: https://www.army.mil/article/237292/defender_europe_2020_army_prepositioned_stock_2_enables_dynamic_force_employment_in_europe

Why does he even have an approval rating in the first place? He’s unelected.

Apparently not anymore they don’t. Shrug.

The part that kills me about all this is that there is a bird flu vaccine, but US poultry farmers aren’t allowed to use it because then we couldn’t export eggs to other countries. There was a really good CBS Sunday Morning segment about this.

I use this same setup. Definitely recommend.