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Maybe it was deemed the "nuclear" option and might have triggered political "M.A.D."

The funny thing is they want it so bad, but haven’t connected the simple dots that the Biden cabal (including Merrick Garland) had these files. They did everything possible to destroy Trump to prevent him from running, including a massive, politically-motivated purge attempt resulting in a sham trial…but yeah, it’s completely plausible they just sat on a portion of the Epstein files that would have conclusively implicated Trump in something that would have easily crushed his electability.

Thousand or so emails between Epstein and Peter Attia 😬

What would you like us to discuss? News I've seen is that the latest "dump" is some x millions of pages, or along those lines. Not clear to me if that is indexed and searchable, one big file labeled Epstein.pdf, or what. So far, only story I've seen is something about Bill Gates getting an STD from a Russian? hooker. I keep seeing people trying desperately to tie Trump into Epstein's depravity, but I haven't seen anything conclusive.

What juicy nuggets are in there for us to digest? Give us the download. Is Trump an alien?

At this point, its very safe to say that NOBODY is getting got off of this. It involves way too many folks from every powerful background. The mainstream media isn't even touching it. The only coverage is on X. It's impossible to trust anything.

All copper bullets for the win, again. In hunting or defensive use, all copper is absolutely my number 1 choice.

Cliffs' Notes? It's pretty low on my list of priorities, but I'm sure whatever was in there must have been real devastating if I'm only hearing about it on this forum...

that's up to you bro

At this point does it matter?

https://youtu.be/uPre7hNxqj0?si=pLKkX-rJUBxXiwMQ My wife saw this and asked me WTF , how can a USAF O5 be this stupid? Back in the day before smart phones and body cams Senior leadership would be able to do damage control having an officer being a dumb ass with the local police. Now after watching the whole thing and her having the inability to STFU they found a large amount cash in the car. Now I'm thinking she is helping her financial situation from skimming off the inventory from the base pharmacy. You can guarantee every Airman in the USAF has saw this and she is a fine example of not what to be.

Interesting 300BO gel/meat tests.

Crickets after the latest Epstein file dump? Weird.

More big tanker stuff Concept MD-11 tanker and article with KC-10 pilot commentary (reposted from a forum) in the article. Seemed like a very realistic appraisal of the concept and practical implications Avgeekery.comToo Big For Its Own Good: Why A MD-11 Based Tanker Was Ne...Why didn't McDonnell Douglas make a serious attempt to sell a tanker version of the MD-11 tanker to the Air Force?Needs boom and pods but a good render nonetheless This is what we need back in the fleet (among others), a strategic tanker / cargo platform.

Yep, completely different ballgame ~4+ years ago.

Thanks for that feedback. Yeah when I rushed 8 years ago, that was before bogidope and before getting a guard/reserve pilot slot was mainstream.

Yep gotta love the Information warfare prevalent, especially with an account name "Conflict Alarm"!

There are so many bullshit accounts on X. None of the ones that seem legit are showing any of this.

My feeling, based on my squadron and talking to friends at several other fighter squadrons, is most have changed to a more organized/by invitation rush event model, with exceptions as required. When you have 300+ apps, you just can’t support the amount of random drop-ins that would occur if it was a free for all like several years ago.

Just out of curiosity, are units still allowing traditional rushing or have most units gone to an invitation only for the rush process?

Rahimi United States v. Rahimi - Wikipedia is the case I think you're referring too. Merrick Garland, I believe really pushed it I'm sure in part to give the libs on the court another bite at the gun control apple. Rahimi was hardly a sympathetic defendant and I'm sure that was the point. The whole "bad facts make for bad law". This touches on another issue. When any current DOJ/AG goes to SCOTUS they seem to jump to the front of the line when it comes to getting SCOTUS to grant cert.

Sort of. Bruen was pretty substantial in that established a new rule by which to weigh all cases. A historical precedent for restriction. And it it set the historical timeline basically all the way back to the founding and before. It was a huge win. However, and the name of the case escapes me right now, but it was followed up by a case that had a very ambiguous allowance for reasonable restrictions, without much of a definition. So it was very much a two steps forward one step back type of deal. While it's still more substantial firearms case law than we've had in decades, it has been incomplete. I think it's just a matter of time now, with all of the changes a foot and what seems to be a pretty dramatic increase in gun and accessory sales over the last few years. Suppressors are a perfect example. You didn't see many of them in the past and now they are being sold by the millions each year. Forced reset triggers are another interesting one. The bump stock ruling certainly made FRTs more defensible, but at the end of the day, bump stocks and bump firing were were a workaround to simulate an automatic weapon. It was never going to be a widely practiced or consumed technique. FRTs on the other hand require no technique or understanding, and effectively bypass the entire NFA restriction on automatic weapons. I think that's going to end up at the supreme Court sooner rather than later.

I don’t follow this stuff as closely as many of you do and as closely as I should.. but it seems to me they are still hiding from 2A issues. Isn’t Bruen summarized as: “send all these 2A cases back to the lower courts so we don’t have to deal with them.. by the way, here’s a vague ruling to assist”