Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

The scary part is the one massive advantage we have over the Chinese where they are 50 years behind us is military hardware. When push comes to shove, the side with the better stuff will always use it. Always, against a weaker adversary. And not to build hearts and minds. It doesn’t matter if it’s a longer spear wielded by an army of former goat herders like Macedon, a new sword that’s essentially just a shovel for human guts like Gaius Marius outfitted Ancient Rome with, humans turning themselves into human shishkebabs running through each other at 50 mph, line infantry, machine guns, mustard gas, tanks, nukes, and precision guided munitions.

China is embarking upon a military buildup and trying to build a blue water fleet. Right now their aircraft carriers and naval aviation suck. If they continue, there will be conflict. The same as Germany vs the British Empire pre WWI, Japan vs the USA pre WWII. Do they really want to see Japan crank out aircraft carriers again from Yokohama with US tech with the protection of the US pacific fleet? Japan has F-35s.

China tried to steal the F35 design but they couldn’t clone it. Their engine manufacturing is too primitive.

 

And Bill Gates is still a wanker. Eat synthetic beef? f**k off. He says he buys carbon offsets for his lifestyle. Well maybe his private jet will crash land somewhere that will eat him. Humans are meat too.

 

well.. there are a few things to consider here.

CHina is itching for a fight to put its forces to the test and flex its muscles.

THey don't want to be recokned as a paper dragon, but one that can actually breathe fire.

THe last of the generation that were involved in a major conflict are dead or on the verge of dying off in the PLA. Of course, they got a major thrashing by the VIetnamese in that war.

THere is the additional issue of this being the first generation of single family sons and daughters that would be on the frontlines. The hopes and dreams of the generation prior is rolled up into the forces. THe outcry from a high casualty fight would not go down well for the CCP.

THat being said, yes, the CHinese are actively building out a blue water navy, expanding bases in the Horn of Africa to safeguard the Suez, Vanuatu in the PAcific , Sri Lanka to protect the Indian Ocean shipping lanes not to mention a stones throw away from Indian mainland, in addition to their specious claims in the South CHina Sea and East CHina Sea with their made up islands and nine dash line. IN addition they have built up a major fishing fleet in the 1000s (in the hundreds when they deploy in each region) that's harassing and fishing to oblivion in endangered waters flouting International norms .

Regarding your comment on the turbine tech for supercruise capablae plans and such, yes they are lagging behind, bt they are actively trying to close those gaps.

The embargo on the state run aerospace manufactuere from doing business with Boeing is a welcome descion (pretty recent). Cause of course, Boeing realized late, that if they let the CHinese catch up by stealing their tech, they'll basically take over their business in due time and be a bigger competitor than Airbus could ever be in commercial aviation realm.

 

The PRC wants to be pumped like Bolo Yueng but isn’t ready for the small balls and roid tits

 

video of the two major US Air Force platforms making their first appearance in Indian skies.. from a week or so ago at my hometown in India.
B1B lancer strategic bomber and C5 Galaxy!



If only the US would sell the B1B to India heh.. although the future is all Unmanned.

The few predator drones they've recently sold are expensive but the class of the field.

 

Rush Limbaugh dead. If we are judged in the afterlife (assuming there is one) well......nuff said.

 

Rush Limbaugh was much more funnier back in the 90s/2000s. I still remember some of the crap he said on radio, which honestly I thought some of it was funny.

When other competitors in radio (satellite radio and internet stuff) became more popular, I found Rush to be I dunno....boring. He still brings in the ad revenue, but his audience continues to age with not enough young people listening in (since well radio is for old people).

I don't think others in the Conservative Talk Radio circuit will ever match up to Rush on audience or influence without another side hustle (a Fox News show for example, bu Rush wasn't on TV for years, but he didn't need a show to get those audience numbers).

In a way he was a trail brazier, bailed out of NYC to FL before the rest of the city started to follow his lead and moved into the $$$$ part of Palm Beach. Now Palm Beach County is turning more into the NY Rejects Part 3 (Broward County is Part 2).

 

If your saying what I think you are saying, well I would give you 50 downvotes if I could and this was any other thread.

Whatever your political persuasion, he was huge in American politics and our political media machine. Wrongly self labeled (and by others) a "conservative", he was in fact a libertarian though he had a few conservative instincts. In that he is typical of about 1/2 of the country and he spoke for them about as well as anybody. He reflected the self made "rugged individualism" and "free thinker" so many Americans want to believe about themselves and America in general on the right and the left. This myth is just that, but it is formative and powerfully influential and Rush was a huge symbol of this. May he RIP.

 

Rush Limbaugh was by no means a libertarian. He was an apologist for the Republican party, regardless of how far they moved away from conservative principles, but he was never a libertarian, let alone a Libertarian. This is not the first time that I have noticed that your definition of that term must be totally different than mine. Which is a little odd, since I have not voted for a non-libertarian candidate since 1980.

 

I just wish Rush can tell people at the time that divorce is a-ok. No shame in getting multiple divorces. Too bad some of the people I personally know who were into Rush still think divorce is Anti-God...for some reason that I'll never know....

I'm out of cigars.....

 

20-30 years too late.. ah well.. cracked open a beer

 

This is true if you use libertarian to mean the same named and small party/movement in the USA. Rush, myself, and at least 99% of the rest of the population are all communitarian, interventionist, big government apologists under that definition. I use the term in the wider cultural/political/philosophical context (the 99%) than party adherents such as you and YMO, no offense intended to either of you.

Also Republicans have not moved away from "conservatives principals" in the last 75 years or so. They were always "moderates", moderate liberals really, and if anything despite almost being gutted by so called neoconservativism since at least Bush Sr., still are . In the context of our culture and what happened to classical liberalism within the Democrat party they have been thrust into sometimes representing a "conservative" reign on neoliberalism, but besides maybe the judicial branch they have not even done this very well. In other words, they if anything moved to the right just a little, but only sometimes and not out of principle and/or sincere belief.

I was never a regular and have not listened to AM radio hardly at all since the Obama years. Did he really say he was against no-fault divorce? Was he not a multi-divorcee himself? I do remember an occasional conservative instinct from him, but when push comes to shove he always sided with libertarian/individualistic policy. Hard to believe he actually bucked against no-fault divorce and most other aspects of the sexual revolution....maybe, I heard he got more serious about his faith (whatever it was - I never heard it actually defined beyond a hopelessly vague Protestantism) as he aged.

Upstream a few months back I noted how I turned on his show briefly and the guest host (whoever it was) was preaching a full on libertarian perspective on masks.

 

Sadly I was an AM Radio Nut growing up thanks to my father.

I remember him saying during the Bush W years more than once that Liberals have problems since they keep marrying/divorcing so many times. I was like....wait a minute El Rushbo...are you one your third wife? He didn't talk about stats to make a point, it was a regular comment that he normally do.

I know plenty of GOP voters who aren't all the stereotypical Protestantism up the butt type of folks. Some are actually atheist and being the G in the LGBT...they just don't give a shit about being part of a group...if you know what I mean.

I do remember back in the 90s when Rush hang up on a guest caller on the phone he plays the Abortion Lady Scream sample...that was funny.

 

I am not offended, @crenca, as you have not attempted to define me, but let's just say that I cannot see any overlap between the political preferences of Rush Limbaugh (at least those he espoused in public, as that's all I know of him), and those of Lysander Spooner, Albert Jay Nock, or Murray Rothbard. Along with Mises and Hayek, they best express to me the ideas that form the basis of small-L libertarianism, although the big-L kind are the only ones that can be voted for. Maybe you know things about Rush' beliefs I do not, but I consider myself a libertarian (a liberal actually, before the hijacking of the term by the left) and heard nothing from him I ever agreed with. So maybe I am just an anarchist as most "conservatives" seem to think, or a fascist as most "progressives" do. Who knew? I am ok with that.

 

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321

These kinds of penalties are chickenshit. It should be billions and a mandatory death sentence for how much money they stole. If they try to hide the money, well Dan Bilzerian is proof that their families should be forced to commit hara kiri live on C-SPAN.

 

I wouldn’t say death penalty unless you’re talking about the company but the penalties should be commensurate with the crime and the fines should be much higher and prison time is warranted.

Re: Limbaugh

I never listened to him and didn’t agree with much of what I knew of his views but dancing on the grave of someone like that is so inhumane. One of the biggest dangers of the kind of social media polarization we’ve seen is the increasingly shameless dehumanization of the “other.” This is a perfect example of the banality of evil, it’s only shocking in retrospect how casually we slip into it.

 

I listened to Rush Limbaugh maybe a dozen times and never lasted more than 15 minutes, but I just realized that the drive to pull him of the air has been going on for the quarter of the century. And he always managed to show the middle finger to whatever generation of twitterati was after him and kept going. For that alone I mourn his death.

 

I was in a very GOP-heavy voter registration neighborhood of Jax when RBG passed away. I think less than ten minutes after the news broke people started to go outside, firing fireworks in the sky, and people screaming at a top of their lungs that "Ding Dong the Bitch Is Dead," "Baby Killer," and "Anti-Christ."

It was super sad, but also not too shocking. My GF last night told me good riddance on Rush's death since he hate minorities, LGBT (since the GF is the B in LGBT), and poor people. I'm like "just wait until our generation gets to Congress." "Shudders...."