SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

SUBSIM Radio Room Forums (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/index.php)
-   General Topics (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=175)
-   -   US Politics Thread 2021-24 (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=248184)

Jeff-Groves 02-04-25 04:40 PM

Did you know one of the biggest (If not the biggest) Ground Engaging Wear Parts Company in the USA is NOT American owned?
So things like that may be part of his crazyness.

Skybird 02-04-25 04:49 PM

The tightest of the tight...

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday voted to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump.
The panel voted along party lines, 14-13.
It was a high-stakes vote for Kennedy, as with the committee’s makeup it would have taken just one Republican to oppose him for his nomination to be potentially sunk.
(...)
Kennedy's nomination will next head to the floor for consideration before the full Senate. A final vote could occur this week or early next week.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-...y?id=118413322

August 02-04-25 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves (Post 2942592)
Did you know one of the biggest (If not the biggest) Ground Engaging Wear Parts Company in the USA is NOT American owned?
So things like that may be part of his crazyness.


I don't even know what a Ground Engaging Wear Parts Company does!

u crank 02-04-25 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by August (Post 2942594)
I don't even know what a Ground Engaging Wear Parts Company does!

:haha:

I just looked it up. It is the business end of a backhoe. :D

Jeff-Groves 02-04-25 07:12 PM

Snow plows, teeth on buckets, blades for graders, and a bunch more stuff use replaceable parts as they wear down.
Ground Engageing Wear Parts is what they are called.
I worked at one of those Companies for about 8 years.
:up:

August 02-04-25 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves (Post 2942616)
Snow plows, teeth on buckets, blades for graders, and a bunch more stuff use replaceable parts as they wear down.
Ground Engageing Wear Parts is what they are called.
I worked at one of those Companies for about 8 years.
:up:


:salute:


So what country owns the biggest company?

Jeff-Groves 02-04-25 07:53 PM

I believe it's the Weir Group. Based in Glasglow.

Catfish 02-04-25 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves (Post 2942618)
I believe it's the Weir Group. Based in Glasglow.

Scotland? Tarriffs and blackmail to the rescue!! :D

Meanwhile:
"Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip", "resettle palestinians elsewhere"

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1...ceasefire-gaza

"During a press conference between the two leaders [with Netanjahu], Trump said they talked about relocating some 1.8 million Palestinians and leveling the Gaza Strip, which he suggested could become the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership."
Lmao.

He sure knows how to make enemies..

Buddahaid 02-04-25 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 2942619)
...He sure knows how to make enemies..

It's his superpower. :salute:

August 02-04-25 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 2942619)
Scotland? Tarriffs and blackmail to the rescue!! :D

Meanwhile:
"Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip", "resettle palestinians elsewhere"

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1...ceasefire-gaza

"During a press conference between the two leaders [with Netanjahu], Trump said they talked about relocating some 1.8 million Palestinians and leveling the Gaza Strip, which he suggested could become the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership."
Lmao.

He sure knows how to make enemies..




I've said this since 2016. He pisses off all the right people. :yep:

Ostfriese 02-05-25 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2942591)
Why wouldn't Europe buy American stuff like their agricultural machineries ?

Heard Trump in the news complaining about it.

Which made me wonder why ?

Markus


Just more white noise from Trump. John Deere is one of the most common tractor brands uses in Germany (and in Western Europe), and they have at least two large factories in Germany.

vienna 02-05-25 02:50 AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpfqB...hlbiBjb2xiZXJ0



<O>

Skybird 02-05-25 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 2942619)
Scotland? Tarriffs and blackmail to the rescue!! :D

Meanwhile:
"Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip", "resettle palestinians elsewhere"

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1...ceasefire-gaza

"During a press conference between the two leaders [with Netanjahu], Trump said they talked about relocating some 1.8 million Palestinians and leveling the Gaza Strip, which he suggested could become the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership."
Lmao.

As if anyone still cares for Palestinian Arabs, no matter his national or ideological camp. If they want to sit on in that sand and rubble and watch their kids playing in the dirt like they did in the past years and decades, let them. My interest is that Europe - and especially Germany - does not end up footing any more bills for Gaza strip. Leave that to the other Arabs. Enough is enough.



Give a piece of desert to the Israelis, and they turn it into a agricultural habitat with innovative solutions to deal with the lack of water, and a high tech oasis with science and development and moderate wealth and a law-and-order state for all. Leave the same piece of desert to their neighbours, and 50 years later you will see the same piece of land, not being improved at all.



We must not care anymore. At the end of the Six-day-war 1967, around 350,000 people lived in the territory named Gaza strip. 2023 it were 2,2 million. Not bad for a people that all the time is complaining they cant make a living while at the same time doing all that they can to piss the Israelis and give them any reason they need to take security measures aganst them. Being good neighbours - takes two.



No, we must not care anymore. Let the Arabs handle and finance them. Alone.

Ostfriese 02-05-25 08:10 AM

Elon Musk, a non-elected official, prevented USAID-employees from doing their work. Or, in other words: The richest man in the world decided that the poorest people in the world don't deserve to live.

Commander Wallace 02-05-25 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ostfriese (Post 2942660)
Elon Musk, a non-elected official, prevented USAID-employees from doing their work. Or, in other words: The richest man in the world decided that the poorest people in the world don't deserve to live.

That's just BS on so many levels. What it really means is that the welfare system for the rest of the world on the backs of the American People is OVER.


Sorry folks, the free ride is over.


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:30 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 1995- 2025 Subsim®
"Subsim" is a registered trademark, all rights reserved.