lily 🧸

living rent free in ur thoughts

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@tkifof @MrTrendwatch Libs are such pushy busybodies telling other people how to live. If you move to a cabin, off the grid, grow your own vegetables, go vegan and compost, then I’ll listen.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

Read the article below - the navy has 13 destroyers and frigates and only 4 are in use because of lack of sailors to man them and repairs. Only 13 to begin with???

From CEPA The Royal Navy: On Course for National Embarrassment - CEPA

The UK has accepted it no longer rules the waves, but the dismal condition of its fleet has caused national shock. Can it change?

By James Fennell
March 12, 2026

2026 has been a horrible year for Britain’s Royal Navy, whose strength has now — depending on how it is calculated — fallen to historic lows.

The issue has caused a serious political flare-up after it emerged that the navy could not send an advanced destroyer for the defense of Cyprus after a UK air base came under drone attack on March 2. HMS Dragon finally sailed on March 10, some days after an 11-ship French fleet headed for the Mediterranean. Commentators declared a national scandal.

Many say the Royal Navy has been found wanting. The new First Sea Lord, Royal Marine General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, has staked his reputation on regenerating a capability to meet its NATO commitments in the North Atlantic by 2029, but this has involved cutting back the navy’s capability for global operations, only to be exposed by a crisis in the Mediterranean and Gulf.

Right now, the Royal Navy fleet looks like a construction site. All of the major classes of warships and support ships, without exception, are in various states of retirement, repair, construction, training, or crew regeneration. Some relatively new ships are tied up alongside but uncrewed as they await sufficient trained manpower and funding to be used operationally. It’s thought that of the force of just 13 destroyers and frigates, only around four are at sea. It’s the same story with attack submarines, where only one of the five vessels is known to be operational.

And yet the Ministry of Defence (MoD) employs 50,000 civil servants, far more than at any other time, and while the navy now numbers only around 20,000, once the Royal Marines are discounted.

It’s a grim picture. What has gone wrong to result in this seeming failure to prioritize Britain’s fighting power over its organizational structure at a time when it is needed most?

The strategic problem has a long history. It dates to 1964, when the Admiralty, the historic Navy-run institution which owned Britain’s defense policy and global security strategy from the 17th century (Samuel Pepys was one of the fathers of the Royal Navy), and spawned Britain’s intelligence services, was rolled into a new civilian-run MoD, along with the War Office and Air Ministry.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

Not really. They are tragic results of our government schools.

Their whole world view is based on the price of gas and completely unaware that 87% of the price increases of goods occurred under the Biden presidency.

They are clueless the democrats cancelled the pipeline from Canada to the US, raised taxes on gas, closed refineries because of fake climate fear, etc.

Dems want gas to be high, so we will stop using the yucky gas cars and use EVs instead seemingly unaware the electricity used to power EVs come from fossil fuels.

They are deeply shallow people.

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That is because of the massive amount of donor fraud/money laundering in the democrat donor website ActBlue.

This is where a widow that lives in a trailer makes 20,000 small donations in a month of a couple dollars at a time.

Many people have knocked on these doors and the person knows nothing about their donation and it is quite obvious they can't afford that many donations. Much of it is illegal foreign money, which is not allowed per US law.

I have read the FBI is investigating, so hopefully they will be arresting people in the near future.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

Maybe not. People know how to split their tickets and besides the GCB is specific only to the House. In 2018, the Rs lost 40 seats in the House, but picked up 2 seats in the Senate.

Honestly, Trump is the person who introduced the idea of no tax on tips or on overtime and LV lives on tips. A little more gratitude is not unreasonable to expect.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@AbdulForPres @PollTracker2024 Draft Abdul ! That is a good one...I love sarcasm.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@EuroDale I wonder who they voted for? I wonder if the population at large have had enough.

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@Dennis_Porter_ @BlackLabelAdvsr Do you really, really believe Texas is going to vote for an effeminate twink?

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@unzoged @NoBiscotti That’s not very many for a blue tsunami.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@onpointpolitics What is the comparison to 2022 ?

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@mr_formstone @TerribleMaps It’s the state’s official dessert.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

For anyone paying attention, the bush family and other rinos were upset Paxton beat George P in the AG primary.

Paxton ruined the Bush Dynasty as the family wanted George P to be the next Texas governor. The bush family is very entitled.

So they went after Paxton. I recall reading these behind the scenes articles about this and when it went to the Texas Senate, he was acquitted.

It was obvious the whole effort was political revenge.

If you don’t like Paxton, that certainly is your choice but I hope you have more reasons than a sham impeachment.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@LilyRosemary9 @DLoesch @ProfMJCleveland Paxton has won three statewide races in Texas and is the best AG in the country. And Texas needs a better candidate?

Is that you, George W?

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@LawTalkinDude @DLoesch @GOP @honestpollster @barnes_law I didn’t vote for people pundit, so why should I listen to him.

He’s an emotional basket case, full of bluster and not much else.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@danturrentine No one cares about Obama and what he has to say.

Most of the candidates he campaigns for loses.

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@Xolgy18083 @TomEDewey1948 OK I will revisit it. This seems to be an old issue and at one time I thought he was unfairly criticized.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@ClintJones81165 @gregghenson I saw it, but it’s quite obvious it’s where the movie takes place.

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@GorillaHpn So you think Cooper will win by 20 points?

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@27KeysToTheRace LOL - post of the day!

[lily 🧸 @alwayslilie36]

@RadioFreeTom When the opposition party brags that if they win in 2028 they are going to go after White House staffers because of policy differences, blanket pardons are in order.

Biden did that and you didn’t complain.

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@Joe1974patriot @TXFirstPolitics @OpenSourceZone Texas is not going to vote for an effeminate twink.