Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Where we are feels stagnant here thousands of miles away and absent security briefings. I would need more information, some of which would likely require clearance, to give an informed opinion on the best path forward.

Generally I prefer diplomacy. It's cost-effective, consent based, has a broader range of outcomes than are possible with war, and more likely follow through since it has acquiescence by all parties. There are parallels with war my day job. I'm a family law attorney/mediator.

Often one (or both) people drop a bomb on a relationship. You cannot change what has happened and are usually at the point of no return when I come in. But you usually have to figure out how to work together to move forward and have an exit plan. You won't fix everything.

You can make sure everyone is in a sustainable place leaving and has a clear path out. I always have to plan for the possibility of a trial with an eye open to a range of acceptable solutions, some of which haven't likely been thought of yet.

Purse strings? There are too many budget lines to even attempt that on twitter. As an overall philosophy, I used to be financially conservative, I am now more fiscally efficient. We should be looking at both long and short term, winners and losers, and aiming for equity.

Some programs are best administered federally (military, etc), some state-level or below. Some should be public, some should be private. We should be administering programs that make sense at the right level of government. Sometimes that means spending more, sometimes cutting.

Be mindful of *anyone* on very broad questions like war or budget that gives a short, resolute answer(s) with no flexibility and as if they have all the info when they obviously don't. It might make for pithy campaign slogans, but it makes for bad legislators.

I think in my lifetime we will be choice or structural need be on some type of universal or single payer. I also think neither party has been super pragmatic in how we handle healthcare. I like opening up medicare or medicaid to public buy-in so it's a choice-based move.