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Back to the thread topic: Listen to Mike Rowe interview JD Vance. Politics aside, I genuinely hope we get a man like Vance as our next president. A sincere, humble, honest, blue collar, military vet, entrepreneur of a man with a young family who actually represents the majority of America. It would be so refreshing to have a leader who's not putting on a narcissistic front, and is simply trying to do the best they can for the country and people they love. https://mikerowe.com/podcast/

For the millionth time it isn’t about “the Jews.” It is about the government of Israel and every time you guys falsely accuse people of racism you dig the hole even deeper for yourselves. But by all means continue and let’s see how far public sentiment for Israel can crater, I doubt we’ve found the bottom yet. Just keep shouting “anti semite” like the right wing doppelgänger of a blue haired smith college student and then ponder, along with the great mysteries of the universe, why your arguments keep losing traction. I have an issue with a government. A foreign government that we give a shit ton of money to. Not a people, not a race, not an ethnic group. Full stop. My claim the government of Israel has outsized influence on our politics is based on: AIPAC not being registered as a foreign lobby, and yes being extremely influential and powerful despite there being a handful of domestic lobbying groups that are bigger Netanyahu visiting DC more than any other head of state in recent years especially in the lead up to the war Sitting US senators quoted as saying the main reason they ran for office is to be a defender of Israel Batshit dispensationalist Christians who believe it is their religious duty to support a foreign government Israel being the largest recipient of US foreign aid since its founding The legislation CURRENTLY being pushed to merge some of the US and Israeli government defense functions The fact that we have attempted to or have toppled the governments of all 7 countries listed in the Israeli clean break strategy That our welfare baby country actively defies us and sabotages our negotiations on a routine basis Campaign donations to Trump in the hundreds of millions from the Adelsons motivated entirely by Israel support (Trump admitted they won’t leave him alone about it) The sitting US ambassador to Israel endorsing the greater Israel project But yeah since the AARP is bigger than one pro Israel lobbying group probably I’m a racist and it’s all just a conspiracy. PS. Saw we’re back to bombing as of last night. I’m sure this one will do the trick

Sure wish there was a difference anymore.

So….. a democrat

Sure seems like an attention-grabbing “stunt” to boost recognition for future political ambitions. Or he could just be that stupid… but likely both.

$3.50 says he runs for political office.

Reading that Belgium is upset and stomping their feet is a form of the soccer flop. They know good and well the Balogun call was piss poor. And I kinda agree with them that Trump should have stayed out it, phone call and all, and just stuck to mean tweeting. In honor of the flop, here is a good one.

I skipped to the end regarding the Major. He won't get a pardon for... (let me look up the charges for this uber dangerous, Jason Bourne like, slicing and dicing, spittin' out the rhymes, speech making dude)... Oh yeah, Crowding, Obstructing and Incommoding, whatever that is. Crowd of one, guilty. Obstructing, guilty of holding 4 sq ft of the people's steps of the people's Capitol. Incommoding, man that's like piling on, what ever that is. Sure, guilty, sounds dangerous and had to be put down. So, compared to the 6er Rioters who did get a pardon... um, yeah. I'm so glad it took 4 LEOs to subdue the threat. Imagine if he just stood there for days on end? The destruction would have been bigly epical. Or he would have gone home after an hour and faced his potential UCMJ charges. In the end, I think DC will drop the charges, lest they give the Maj another venue to pontificate. Its a misdemeanor. Same with AF. Probably go Art 15 at most, same reason. I'm curious to see where the dude is a year from now. I'll set a reminder.

Ah yeah, the Jews. The all powerful lobby that donates less to American politics than SpaceX, Coinbase, or Bloomberg, and who's lobbying is outdone by Lockheed, Facebook, the Realtors lobby, and AARP. But they have "complete subservience" from the US 🤣😂. You just can't live without the idea of a conspiracy. Weak tea.

Since I clearly have to spell this out .. it began being drafted in 2020 by mostly democrats (I.e. in no way caused by russias invasion of Ukraine) before being signed into law in 2022 by the Biden admin (I.e. having nothing to do with the Trump admin) Good lord first you’re arguing the chips act was a useless Democrat knee jerk to Russia, then when I clearly disprove that, you latch on to trumps lame duck year of 2020 as the year it was drafted to somehow mentally contort yourself to give him the credit.. for the thing you didn’t even believe was proactive in the first place.. I didn’t mean for this to become a sidebar on the chips act but this is genuinely so dumb I can’t let it go. Not much point in talking about complex foreign policy issues if we can’t even come to a collective understanding on a basic order of events or who is behind a piece of legislation without you shifting your self-contradictory argument multiple times.. We get it done by ending our complete subservience to a foreign government.. I don’t expect anyone in your daughter’s daycare to know about AIPAC but a good start toward a solution might be reducing or eliminating that lobby’s influence in our politics.

Pretty sure the reason the Jan-6ers needed a pardon in the first place is because… …they were also arrested

A bit of the googling and the 900 seems more logical a choice From cut n paste: Falcon 900EX Temp: 15°C Altitude: SL Passengers: 8 Flight Duration: 4hr 00min (Mach 0.80) Reserve: 1hr 30min Balanced Field Length: 3,400 ft Flight Duration: 8hr 00min (Mach 0.80) Reserve: 1hr 30min Balanced Field Length: 4,775 ft Landing Distance: 2,430 ft. Vref: 111 KIAS https://flightinfo.com/threads/short-field-performance-best-swept-wing-corp-jet.40741/ Decent clearance underneath it too, Tactical Tanker also?

The Falcon has always been really impressive to me, got in and out of my old airport all the time without problems, and with landing rolls much shorter than the dudes in their C172s. Even the short runway at 3600’, no problem. Granted field elevation was only 1000 msl but still, I’ve had Citations that had to land opposite direction with a 7kt tailwind because they needed the full 4840’ of the long rwy and couldn’t work with the 600ft displaced threshold.

Probably so as to requirements Requirements and resources are always doing a tango and I’m assuming they are looking for used aircraft but with high mounted engines and it being triple engined, I wonder with a brakes upgrade and some other tweaks (interior mods for weight savings) if you could get better TOLD

I googled Yeager and F-20 with some other key words for sales, nothing came up, but shit happens in sales meetings. Here’s a short write up on Vasu Raja at AA who screwed up buying A350s dirt cheap, could’ve immediately sold them to another airline at market rates and made bank for a quick paper transaction but shit happens View from the WingThe Inside Story: How American Airlines Killed Airbus A35...Usually complex large supplier relationships are handled diplomatically. Not so with Vasu Raja.This would have been awesome but wrong guy in the wrong position at the wrong time

I thought it was an interesting change of direction as well. I'm guessing their requirements have changed? I don't think the Dassault is near as rugged as the wolfhound but maybe they don't need as much as something with more range and speed?

Yeah there definitely was some untapped potential with the SLUF. I mentioned this before on my old account but we had a bunch of solid light attack/low end CAS platforms during the cold war (OV-10, A-37, A-4M, A-7D/E etc) that all went bye-bye in the early 90s when we really could've used them in OEF/OIF. They had great loiter time but more importantly would've saved flying hours on 4th gen and could've been a cockpit filler for dudes flowing into fighters like they did in the 80s... Also sidenote and this probably belongs in another thread but IRT the F-20 I remember reading that Chuck Yeager personally botched a high profile business deal with some foreign country when he was representing it. Feel free to fact check me on this but needless to say dude was not a good salesman for Northrop

Fat Tony strikes again before he's out the door.

I was thinking more ATF, "you wanna mount cannons on an attack aircraft. Let's just dig into your background."

HA! You guys are full of great stories. That's rich, cheap FPV drones delivering warheads. Jumper must have laughed out loud. Next you're gunna tell me there will be land war in Europe in the 2020's!

When I was doing my graduate program we designed and built something very similar while working with Lincoln Lab. Pennies to build at scale. Was pitching it at a “science fair” to some USAF folks and got completely ignored. You could have a fleet of capable aircraft for the price of 1 training sortie. Quantity has its quality, not sure we understand that though. Or maybe we do, it’s all above my pay grade either way.

Always thought that was a missed opportunity like the F-20 Modernized A-7 model built by a hobbyist, probably pretty close to what an updated F/A-7 would be https://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=9313.0