I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.

The key to this is semantic engineering. Nobody has yet defined 6Gen, any more than there is a coherent definition of Gen 1-3, so whatever horror has come out of Frank's requirements sausage machine can be labelled 6Gen. But LockMart won't like that one bit, because it will make their ATM sound old.

Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time? But here we bloody well are.

Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell. His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics. If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity. Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.

turning a new page for 2025

Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.

Two F-35s in the Mach Loop. One is on its way to a movie premiere with a champagne reception and the other is making a Tuesday afternoon dash to Tesco because it's out of oregano.

Very worth a read (the link seems to be paywall-free). I don't think this is a new problem. It's a newly identified problem.

Musk, CCAs and other things. I joined a podcast. soundcloud.com/defaerorepor...

"The data is the weapon". It might be important if you don't own it. www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

Alright, who made this? 🤣😂

Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat

Snort....

Elon Musk wants to cancel the F-35, move away from manned aircraft, and rely more on drones. This is now about much more than one opinionated squillionaire, but about an opinionated squillionaire who seems to be surgically attached to the President-elect.... valkstrat.com/defense-refo...

I hereby decree that this phenomenon needs to be named after Dinesh D’Souza.

Thanks for your insights and professionalism, @billsweetman.com.

Ah, the Schadenfreude as RW NavyTwitter enters Foxtrot Oscar corner...

Since everyone's talking about #F35... www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47PD1PS

There's fiddling expenses, and there's this. Plus one of the greatest well-duh lines I have ever seen in journalism.

The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵

This isn’t chess, or checkers, or tic-tac-toe. It’s just mind warping stupidity, malevolence, incompetence, and laziness all the way to the bottom, which is a very long way down www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/11/gaet...

A lively discussion going in the #eVTOL space. www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-m...

BREAKING: A study jointly conducted by RAND, DARPA and the CIA shows that women are safer in combat than they are in an elevator with a male GQPutinParty legislator or nominee.

Fark yes. I love this woman.

Lots of scope to replace expensive kit from stuffy old defense companies with billions of dollars of contracts to, say, Anduril. Major investor, Musk's buddy and Vance's sponsor, Peter Thiel; founder, Palmer Luckey, who by one of those weird coincidences is Matt Gaetz's brother-in-law.

A new U.S. Air Force initiative on Force Design recognizes that the entire force neither can nor should be equipped to handle the highest threat levels. "It would be great to have all-MA1 forces,’ Allvin said, 'but it costs too much." www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-us-air-f...

Charlie Sykes sums it up nicely.

This does raise a point: if you want to deport 20 million people and one per cent of them say "bleep that noise" and take advantage of the GOP ammosexuals' defeat of all gun control, you have 200,000 armed resisters vs. ICE's deputized Meal Team Sixers. I'm sure they've thought about that.

The T campaign minging about how this is a plot to "derail" the campaign when the allegations were public knowledge and the GOP House started the investigation... Derail? You knew he had a bent axle and no brakes but you hitched him to your own train, idiots.

Veni, Vidi, Vichy The GOP has blitzkrieged its way to Washington and Le Grand Orange is looking more like Marshal Pétain each day. The left may cry “Vive la #résistance” but the right is singing “Thank heaven for little girls.” by Maureen Dowd

Da (and I cannot stress this too strongly) fuq?

Grunts - I'm voting for Trump who didn't start pointless wars! Trump - You are assigned to house-to-house searches and raids, security duty on detainee bus convoys, stringing wire, digging latrines, and guarding camps. God Bless America, loser.

Like Joe & Mika, I would also like to announce that I am “restarting my communications with Trump.” However, I will do it in a slightly different way: 🖕

And a hearty Fark U to all of them. They made the bed and now we can all lie in it. Bet they found it easy to not vote for a woman, married to a Jew.

Oh, look, another nominee to be Secretary of Energy who thinks his primary job involves energy. How cute.

So a sex fiend, a dog killer, a Russian asset, a Christian nationalist and an anti-vaxxer walk into a bar The bartender says, "Why are you here? The Cabinet is meeting over at the White House." New column drops later today

If I had written the RAND report including this sentence, and an editor added the parenthetical clause, I would be tempted to perform an act of grievous bodily harm.

A posh woman asked where I got my boots and I didn't want to say TJ Maxx, so I told her I won them in a bar fight.

Just arrived here. Thinking of a Christmas gift for your favorite F-35 fan? www.amazon.com/Trillion-Dol...