"Bout Time! Maxine Flips. Fabulous Racist Song and Entertainers. America's Military Can't Win Against China?

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It's about time:

https://babylonbee.com/news/men-demand-reparations-from-women-due-to-eve-eating-the-apple

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HOOVER Daily (edited:)

The Joe Biden Who Never Was by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness Biden is proving the Biden he always was—as incompetent as Jimmy Carter, without the latter’s probity. He may prove as corrupt as Bill Clinton yet without his animal energy +++++++++++++++++ Waters hosed herself and maybe the entire trial: Judge in Derek Chauvin trial says Maxine Waters’ comments could lead to whole case ‘being overturned’ By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon The lawyer for ex-cop Derek Chauvin on Monday urged the judge to declare a mistrial over inflammatory comments made by Rep. Maxine Waters — and even the judge agreed the congresswoman’s remarks could “result in this whole trial being overturned.” Defense attorney Eric Nelson told Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill that “an elected official, US Congressperson” made statements that “I think are reasonably interpreted to be threats against the sanctity of the jury process” and had the effect of “threatening and intimidating the jury.” Cahill denied the motion but told Nelson, “I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.” The exchange came as the judge turned the case over to the jury, which began deliberating on murder and manslaughter charges in George Floyd’s May 25 death. Defense attorney Eric and Derek Chauvin at the trial on April 19, 2021.Court TV via AP, Pool Waters has drawn criticism for telling protesters demonstrating last week’s fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in neighboring Brooklyn Center should “stay in the streets” — and “get more confrontational” if Chauvin is not found guilty. “We’ve got to stay in the streets, and we’ve got to demand justice,” Waters, of California, told a crowd of demonstrators in Brooklyn Center on Sunday. “We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” she said of the Chauvin case. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away, we’ve got to get more confrontational.” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

What a great "racist" song.  What talented "racists." I dedicate this song to the biggest racist of all - Maxine Waters.

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It is almost the same old story.  Democrats spend on entitlements and when Republicans take over they are forced to spend on rebuilding the military.  The difference this time is more and more I am hearing/reading  we cannot win wars against China. If that is so, and I am beginning to believe it is, that sends a chilling message to our allies.

Biden’s Defense Budget Squeeze

More money for the welfare state means less for the Pentagon.

By The Editorial Board

President Biden’s budget proposal includes record spending for nearly every corner of government, but there’s one big exception: national defense. Even as global threats rise, notably from China, Mr. Biden is squeezing the Pentagon.

Few in the media have noticed, but the White House is proposing a fiscal 2022 Pentagon budget of $715 billion. That’s a 1.6% increase from 2021’s $704 billion, but it’s a cut in the military’s spending power assuming likely inflation of more than 2%. Non-defense domestic discretionary spending will surge 16%, with the Education Department rising 41%, Health and Human Services 23% and the Environmental Protection Agency 21%.

With Mr. Biden proposing a separate $2.3 trillion for “infrastructure,” you’d think the Pentagon would be included. Aircraft and naval ships are certainly more justified as public works than subsidies to buy Teslas. Mr. Biden is making a conscious statement about his party’s political priorities: butter and more butter, but less for guns.

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This marks a return to the downward defense spending trend of the Obama years. Defense spending as a share of GDP fell to 3.1% in fiscal 2017 from 4.7% in 2010, even as the military’s missions increased. Shrinking defense led to a readiness crisis that was showing up in more accidents and deficiencies in deployable ships and air units.

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The Trump Administration and GOP Congress stopped the decline, and 2020’s defense outlays were estimated at 3.3% of GDP before the pandemic shock. But the Biden budget will again force risky trade-offs between military readiness and investment in the technology and weapons of the future.

The U.S. hasn’t spent less than 3% of its economic output on defense since before the September 11 attacks. But in the 1990s the U.S. military did not face peer competitors. Now the U.S. national defense strategy rightly sees an era of resurgent great power competition, but without the resources to meet the challenge. This mismatch increases the risk of miscalculation and war, as China seeks regional military dominance. Russia, Iran and lesser powers like North Korea also threaten allies and the U.S. homeland with missiles and cyber hacking.

The gap between strategy and resources is most evident in the naval challenge in the Western Pacific. China has scaled up its navy to more than 350 modern ships, while the U.S. is stuck in the water at roughly 300. The Chinese figure doesn’t include a sizable covert maritime militia that is an extension of its navy. The Biden budget says the Administration will make “executable and responsible” investments in the fleet, but the ostensibly bipartisan goal of 355 ships remains remote.

Perhaps the Administration will wring money from the Army after its withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the modest savings aren’t enough to compensate for an overall spending decline. The current fleet simply can’t meet U.S. commitments in the Indo-Pacific in addition to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. The Navy has aging submarines to upgrade and the Congressional Budget Office said last month that “required maintenance is projected to exceed the capacity of the Navy’s shipyards in 25 of the next 30 years.”

To its credit, the White House budget outline mentions money for long-range weapons “to bolster deterrence and improve survivability and response timelines.” One of the People’s Liberation Army’s assets is its large arsenal of precision missiles designed to destroy American ships in the Pacific. More American long-range fires—especially if they are portable and ground-launched—can help the balance of power at relatively low cost.

Yet some of the Pentagon funds will also go to “mitigate impacts of climate change.” That leaves even fewer resources for core fighting capabilities. Washington can’t ask the military to deter emboldened great powers and fight climate change on a declining real budget.

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The blunt truth is that the U.S. is no longer certain to win a great-power war. Russia is surging forces near Ukraine and China’s military maneuvers in the Western Pacific are at a new level of intensity. “The signal given by the military drills is that we are determined to stop Taiwan independence, and stop Taiwan from working with the U.S. We are doing it with action,” a Chinese government spokesman said last week.

If American defense investment stagnates as China’s grows, the U.S. will lose a war over Taiwan. That would be costly in ways Americans can’t imagine, as Asian allies recalibrate decades-long defense and trading relationships with the U.S., and American bases in Okinawa and Guam are put at risk.

Barack Obama never financed his pivot to the Asia-Pacific, and Mr. Biden may make the same mistake. The President anticipates immediate political benefits from gigantic domestic social spending, but the perils of shortchanging defense could become apparent sooner than he thinks. Fortunately Congress gets a vote, and it can protect the national interest by overriding his short-sighted plan.

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