No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Remember that Republicans reached across the aisle on the SAVE for some commons sense citizenship and voting rules. The Dems rebuffed every olive branch. Those are severe scumbags

FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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And that made Texas the "hot state" in the Union, where everyone wanted to move to. Our "problems" are minor compared to New York or California whose liberal rule has descended the into a type of hell.

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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The complexity and difficulty in amending the Constitution seems to have eluded you. It's not hard for either Party to find enough states to reach the 13 needed to block ratification of any amendment. Not that the GOP has ever had enough control of Congress to reach the supermajority needed to pass the amendment in the first place.

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303Bear said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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And that made Texas the "hot state" in the Union, where everyone wanted to move to. Our "problems" are minor compared to New York or California whose liberal rule has descended the into a type of hell.

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It didn't elude me. If all of the conservatives from all of the blue states have moved here over the last 5-10 years, then there should be no concern for the future and ongoing republican/maga/conservative rule, no?

Oldbear83 said:

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303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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The complexity and difficulty in amending the Constitution seems to have eluded you. It's not hard for either Party to find enough states to reach the 13 needed to block ratification of any amendment. Not that the GOP has ever had enough control of Congress to reach the supermajority needed to pass the amendment in the first place.

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The difficulty is exactly the point. Amending the constitution shouldn't be easy. The government doing little should be the goal.

If something cannot be passed by super majority in the senate and a 2/3 majority of states, it is clearly not considered universally "good" enough to warrant enshrinement in the constitution. The 18th and 21st amendments are perfect examples of this with regard to prohibition. Decisions can be made and bad decisions can be undone. Blaming a single party when the other party has been in power for half of the last 40 years is laughable deflection.

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303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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The complexity and difficulty in amending the Constitution seems to have eluded you. It's not hard for either Party to find enough states to reach the 13 needed to block ratification of any amendment. Not that the GOP has ever had enough control of Congress to reach the supermajority needed to pass the amendment in the first place.

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The difficulty is exactly the point. Amending the constitution shouldn't be easy. The government doing little should be the goal.

If something cannot be passed by super majority in the senate and a 2/3 majority of states, it is clearly not considered universally "good" enough to warrant enshrinement in the constitution. The 18th and 21st amendments are perfect examples of this with regard to prohibition. Decisions can be made and bad decisions can be undone. Blaming a single party when the other party has been in power for half of the last 40 years is laughable deflection.

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Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, politicians have learned how to game things so they can look like they are doing something while just ignoring problems.

And historically, the party which most commonly plays that game is the Democrats. Republicans make the mistake not supporting good ideas because they are not perfect, which is something else.

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Assassin said:

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303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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And that made Texas the "hot state" in the Union, where everyone wanted to move to. Our "problems" are minor compared to New York or California whose liberal rule has descended the into a type of hell.

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It didn't elude me. If all of the conservatives from all of the blue states have moved here over the last 5-10 years, then there should be no concern for the future and ongoing republican/maga/conservative rule, no?

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That's a good prayer.

Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away. pic.twitter.com/wkm65CCGHb

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 7, 2026

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303Bear said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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And that made Texas the "hot state" in the Union, where everyone wanted to move to. Our "problems" are minor compared to New York or California whose liberal rule has descended the into a type of hell.

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It didn't elude me. If all of the conservatives from all of the blue states have moved here over the last 5-10 years, then there should be no concern for the future and ongoing republican/maga/conservative rule, no?

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That's a good prayer.

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If you say so.

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303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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FLBear5630 said:

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No i dont. It is both sides, we need to find those that will work and reward them. I have no live for Progressives, they are just as much the blame as the right

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Wrong. Some on the Right choose poor tactics, but there are no decent Progressives. They are all of them enemies of our Constitution and the people.

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Given that the Constitution itself provides multiple avenues for amendment and update, and "the People" are never defined and are ever changing, seems like there is plenty to opportunity to prove your statement correct or incorrect with the constitutionally enumerated avenues of voting and/or amendments.

Given that within my lifetime (spanning an increasingly uncomfortable number of years) republicans have had control (whether literally or defacto by controlling the house and the purse) of the federal government and Texas state government for a majority (or almost all of it in the case of Texas), blaming our problems on "progressives" rings somewhat hollow, especially at the state level.

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The complexity and difficulty in amending the Constitution seems to have eluded you. It's not hard for either Party to find enough states to reach the 13 needed to block ratification of any amendment. Not that the GOP has ever had enough control of Congress to reach the supermajority needed to pass the amendment in the first place.

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The difficulty is exactly the point. Amending the constitution shouldn't be easy. The government doing little should be the goal.

If something cannot be passed by super majority in the senate and a 2/3 majority of states, it is clearly not considered universally "good" enough to warrant enshrinement in the constitution. The 18th and 21st amendments are perfect examples of this with regard to prohibition. Decisions can be made and bad decisions can be undone. Blaming a single party when the other party has been in power for half of the last 40 years is laughable deflection.

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Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, politicians have learned how to game things so they can look like they are doing something while just ignoring problems.

And historically, the party which most commonly plays that game is the Democrats. Republicans make the mistake not supporting good ideas because they are not perfect, which is something else.

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I dont understand how that ties to anyone, right or left, being an "enemy of the constitution and the people" which was your original declaration.

There is also the convention of states model which can run an end around the national political process. This, of course, relies on a supermajority of states being on board. While I would love to see a new constitutional convention, I doubt it ever happens outside of a congressional process. In many ways, a less active SCOUTS can/should trigger many of the needed reforms. While I dont fully agree with every decision out of the Court in the last 2-3 years, the less they rubber stamp executive action (regardless of who is in the White House) and rein in agency action, the better. Congress needs to be the actual legislative body, not the army of appointed bureaucrats within the executive branch and in the independent agencies.

One thing a lot of people never seem to notice, is the battle for superiority between the branches. Those federal judges which rule so many of Trump's actions 'unconstitutional' are in part a play to increase court power relative to Congress and the President. Trump of course wants more power for the White House while he sits in it, while Congress is strangely complacent and willing to just go along.

Tip O'Neill and Henry Clay would be very angry to see what's happened to the Speaker role in government.

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One thing a lot of people never seem to notice, is the battle for superiority between the branches. Those federal judges which rule so many of Trump's actions 'unconstitutional' are in part a play to increase court power relative to Congress and the President. Trump of course wants more power for the White House while he sits in it, while Congress is strangely complacent and willing to just go along.

Tip O'Neill and Henry Clay would be very angry to see what's happened to the Speaker role in government.

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Very much agree with your last sentence. The legislature has largely capitulated its role the expansion of the reading of the delegation doctrine and a lot of Courts over the last 70-80 years seeking the "right" conclusion rather than the Constitutional one.

As a result, executive power has grown immensely and largely unchecked. Even the decisions against Trump are overall quite narrow on macro basis. Most of what is done by executive orders/action over the last 15-20 years should all be unconstitutional if the Court were honest and Congress would do its job.

You guys are giving the courts too much power. They are arbitrators, they do not initiate anything on their own.

We are operating under executive orders, which lend themselves to this type of review. Congress has to do its job or we are going to have more of Executive vs Courts as they are the only ones acting. The remedy to the Vourts is Congress passing laws.

303Bear said:

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Oldbear83 said:

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One thing a lot of people never seem to notice, is the battle for superiority between the branches. Those federal judges which rule so many of Trump's actions 'unconstitutional' are in part a play to increase court power relative to Congress and the President. Trump of course wants more power for the White House while he sits in it, while Congress is strangely complacent and willing to just go along.

Tip O'Neill and Henry Clay would be very angry to see what's happened to the Speaker role in government.

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Very much agree with your last sentence. The legislature has largely capitulated its role the expansion of the reading of the delegation doctrine and a lot of Courts over the last 70-80 years seeking the "right" conclusion rather than the Constitutional one.

As a result, executive power has grown immensely and largely unchecked. Even the decisions against Trump are overall quite narrow on macro basis. Most of what is done by executive orders/action over the last 15-20 years should all be unconstitutional if the Court were honest and Congress would do its job.

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Also, how they most radical keep getting assigned cases. Remember Boasberg? https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/judge-boasberg-keeps-getting-assigned-trump-cases-lawmakers-want-know-why

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— Rep. Scott Perry (@RepScottPerry) July 7, 2026

American citizens across the country are physically cutting down Flock cameras as authorities are losing control as more people are viewing the technology as an unconstitutional form of mass surveillance.

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Channeling Bernie

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not so fast, swami......

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Today's law enforcement action "Operation Hard Ball" is the result of a years-long federal investigation into Indian crime syndicates that engage in racketeering, targeted killings, shootings, extortion, the trafficking of bulk quantities of narcotics across international borders, and other crimes around the world whose impact is especially felt in the Indian diaspora.

In total, 37 defendants including two defendants who ran their global criminal syndicates while imprisoned in India are charged across three indictments unsealed today. Those arrested in the United States 11 in California, one in Indiana, and one in Georgia are expected to make their initial appearances today in federal court.

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Denmark says it will defend Greenland as Trump threatens to revive NATO crisis
Shortly after arriving at a NATO meeting in Turkey, Trump restarted the divisive fight, telling reporters that Greenland "should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark."

Next:
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Denmark even had 1-2 dozen soldiers from other European countries to help them defend the island from the greatest military power in history.

It will never become a shooting match but if it did, the US would win in less than 72 hours.

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Denmark even had 1-2 dozen soldiers from other European countries to help them defend the island from the greatest military power in history.

It will never become a shooting match but if it did, the US would win in less than 72 hours.

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Denmark need to develop nuclear weapons.

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Denmark even had 1-2 dozen soldiers from other European countries to help them defend the island from the greatest military power in history.

It will never become a shooting match but if it did, the US would win in less than 72 hours.

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Depends on how you define win. Yes, we will physically defeat them. The fallout would be different.

You really want to start, really should say continue after Venezuela, taking by force? Now from allies we already have an agreement to defend as we see fit? That is winning?

Now this is mind blowing

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— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) July 8, 2026

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Denmark even had 1-2 dozen soldiers from other European countries to help them defend the island from the greatest military power in history.

It will never become a shooting match but if it did, the US would win in less than 72 hours.

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Depends on how you define win. Yes, we will physically defeat them. The fallout would be different.

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I don't think anyone seriously expects the military ii be involved in Greenland so it's all academic.

I was talking about relative strength not anything that's a remote possibility.

This is an extreme example but many charities to spends mist of the money they receive non executive pay and Peres dnd in advertising. I doubt many give 50% to the cause to which people make their donations.