the wrong passenger and end up dead.

For what?

Would you pick a fight with a random person driving a car? No? Because of decency or fear for your own safety doesn't matter. This isn't civilized behavior and onesie twosies get ignored as outliers but on a regular basis and people will take their own safety into their own hands and retaliate.

Maybe the blue state blue city DAs will prosecute like they tried to prosecute Daniel Penney. Maybe Seattle will elect a Republican DA.

Quien sabe?

"73.7% of the weight of goods moved less than 250 miles in 2023"

Yes, and you know what happened next?
THEY TOOK ANOTHER LOAD instead of waiting for hours to refill their tanks.
The vast majority of trucking is city driving, which indeed are MUCH shorter than 250, likely shorter than 100mi. Which means those trucks are running 2-3-4-5 loads a day. ...and nearly none of that time is spent refueling.

Do you think the trucks just drive to a place and come back and one load they're done?

"And everyone should get a free pony!"

You keep waving that magic wand. 'Long hauls need to stop being a thing'.
That's fine, you go ahead and completely restructure the US freight distribution market. I'll wait.

This is a rare post in that most posts that are wrong have some seeds of being correct. In this case, everything is wrong. Literally, every single claim in your post is factually incorrect according to well understood relevant doctrine.

Your first point has been fully debunked in US Afghan war era and reinforced in Ukraine war. This is what crowdsourcing does best.

Your second point is in the "I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about" category. Good luck locating the carrier in the Med while you're in Iran if its AIS is off. Best you'll get is aforementioned crowdsourced stuff, which is going to be hilariously inaccurate in comparison. This is in fact the problem here, as this adds a solid set of data points to crowdsourcing that is highly accurate both in location and time. It allows for significant tightening of accuracy of other crowdsourced reports, as one of the most difficult aspects of crowdsourced intelligence is assigning reliability to each source. Having one exceptionally reliable AND exceptionally accurate source allows significant increase in accuracy of reliability estimates of other reports.

Your third point fails to understand how modern carriers work.

Scratch that. It fails to understand how WW2 era fleet carriers work. Even they did most of the work well outside 100km range of the target, specifically because carriers are vulnerable and want extra distance for more chance for CAPs to intercept incoming enemy.

In before "but HMS Formidable shrecking Zara and Fiume" or other similar nonsense because this is just silly levels of ignorance.

Finally, you don't understand just how time sensitive targeting data is, due to how fast carrier strike groups move when they get into range of enemy assets.

Cruise missiles lack range needed for this sort of work, are unsuitable due to being far too slow at those ranges, and finally as Ukraine war has shown are exceedingly vulnerable against any fast jet assets.

This is why Russian anti-carrier group strike asset package involved massive wings of supersonic bombers firing dozens to hundreds of such missiles into a single carrier group from a fairly close range and very high altitude and speed.

It's exceedingly easy, because this data is exceptionally time sensitive. Assume extreme red capability, i.e. say missile can track targets within 50km radius upon arrival in the sector and has perfect accuracy with its inertial system and faces zero degradation from EW assets.

Carrier groups are generally rated to travel at around 30 knots combat and aircraft launch speeds. Let's assume it's going with oilers and not conducting active operations, so it's probably going to be as low as 20kn.

So this slow ass carrier group will be out of the kill zone within... an hour and a half.

Now what is the challenge facing red missile forces? Time it takes to get intelligence to people who can process it, generate targeting track, give the command to missile forces, program the missile, move the launch platform into a viable launch position and fire, missile travel time.

Red forces are faced with a hopeless scenario. Even Americans with their fully integrated command structure struggle to generate kill chains that would have this sort of speed. Iranian command structure is in shambles, which among other things significantly slows down the kill chain for this sort of over the horizon targeting.

What is the state of Russian ISR subscription?

Hint: if you read Russian milbloggers, extreme oversubsription of ISR assets is one of their main complaints.

And after that, it has to go through the famous Russian bureaucracy before it's dispensed to Iran. By which time carrier group is long gone.

This isn't even arm chair general stuff. This is arm chair private stuff. And people don't know this, and yet want to wax poetical about it.

This stupidity reminds me of "here are money, go load it into the artillery pieces" nonsense we went through with Ukraine shell situation.

For those not in the know, lots of bureaucrats across the West had the same idea. We have money, we can get shells. Lots of financing was arranged very quickly. And then the basic economics, which none of them have any clue of in their bureaucratic genius reasserted itself. Turns out you cannot load stacks of cash into guns, much less electronic money.

And you cannot in fact use money to buy something that doesn't exist. You have to invest into people who can build up the capacity to generate those resources, and then and ONLY then you can spend money to buy said resources from them. Not even a day before.

Which is why price of a 155mm shell went up several times during Ukraine war, while production has only really started meaningfully very recently. Much more money chasing same amount of resources = same amount of resources which cost much more per unit.

I suggest "Layoff Phone".

Lol when "slightly less left" has all the socialists crying foul.

CBS was eating $50m/yr to keep Colbert on the air, because when the Progressives were in charge, *any* loss was acceptable to "resist" the Bad Orange Man and push The Message.

Setting aside the rest of your bullshit,
"Denying them entry to apply for asylum, which is their legal right per international treaty to which we are a signatory (making it the second-highest law of the land, per the constitution) is therefore an act of culturally and nationally entrenched racism. "

In fact, they are legally obligated to take asylum in the first country they come to.
So... Mexicans, you may have a leg to stand on.
Nicaraguan, Honduran, Costa Rican, Venezuelan, Somalian etc by the letter of the "law" YOU quote, can fuck right off then.

Your insistence that racism forms and creates everything undercuts your point: if it's so thoroughly universal, it sounds fundamentally human so why fight it? On what basis can you assert it's even possible to not be racist, when *everything* is defined thereby?
A black man commits a crime. (Compelled to do so because victim of racism)
He is arrested. (Racism)
He is set free because of his skin color and the history of racism (racism)

What are you proving?

Then I insist you address me as "your highness" and my feelings will be hurt if you don't.

States have no rights in the American system. They have powers, insofar as they exercise them.

Humans have rights, granted by God, as the default religious basis for the Natural Rights Republic.

You'll notice that Regulating AI appears nowhere in Article I , and Federalist 10 explains why these powers were strictly limited.

Yet the Political/Parasite class is happy to abrogate their power for power and money and ensure a government school child never hears about The Federalist Papers in thirteen years of compulsory schooling.

So we're left with too few Americans who even know they should be livid.

Perhaps letting Robert Maxwell and Howard Zinn be in charge of the textbooks was a massive and fatal mistake.

To be clear, this was true over 20 years ago. (In light of which, the word "now" probably doesn't belong in the above phrase, since it implies recentness.)

And what assets does current foe have that are capable of tracking an aircraft carrier on such journey in real time, and what is their current resource subscription situation for those assets?