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The latest Twitter file dump should concern every American regardless of political party. It shows the FBI and the Justice Department in association with the Intelligence community, having possession of and knowing the contents of the Hunter Biden Laptop was real, tried (and successfully), discredited the authenticity of that information in order to sway a Presidential Election.

On track to be the greatest scandal in US history. Implications are astounding.

Update been told there’s around 70 pilot slots for this board.

The serial liar that is Joe Biden is now being called out by the Australian press and this lie is a whopper. In a heart strings pulling story he claims to have personally awarded his uncle the Purple Heart while he was the Vice President. Only one problem, it never happened, his uncle died NINE years before Biden was elected VP. Standing by for "whataboutism", it's "Trump's fault" and other excuses from the left. Of all things to lie about, what a douche canoe.

I think for most on this board, "the establishment" has been a relatively decent deal. Decent pay, benefits, retirement, etc. There is an entire subsection of this country that has been more or less run over by the "establishment" over the past 30 years. Humans, on the whole, are good at sensing what's fair and what's not. And people have seen decades now of unfair behavior; of all the money and wealth flowing up, and nothing but poverty and pain coming down. Trump was able to tap into that demographic. Believe it or not, Bernie did something similar, albeit from a different angle (money and social programs for all!!!!). The DNC was able to shut down Bernie, but the RNC didn't (or couldn't) stop Trump. Combine all that with the competition being the most establishment candidate out there in Hillary Clinton, and that's how you ended up with Trump in the Oval Office. Trump wanted to portray himself as slaying all the swamp demons. I have no doubt that, behind closed doors, he was beholden to the age-old Golden Rule as every other politician (as in, those who have the gold, make the rules). This blogger does a decent job of pointing out some of the promises that evaporated as soon as he was elected. Particularly how Trump's campaign website had three distinct bullet points about promises to eliminate medical monopolies, that were subsequently deleted within 15 minutes of the election being called for him in 2016. Realistically though, he was in many ways over-powered by the swamp. He reportedly explored firing Dr. Fauci as our Covid response floundered, only to find that even as President, he didn't have the power to unilaterally remove him. In his final days in office, he put forth an order to create a new job category for civil service (Schedule F) which would include all govt employees who were in "policy related" positions. Employees in these position would be able to be removed at the whim of the President. Critics decried it as something to be abused by the Executive Branch, and described a scenario of the the federal bureaucracy being packed with the President's patronage hires after every election, which granted, the power was there. More importantly though, Schedule F would give the executive branch some level of a check on the obscene level of power held by unelected bureaucrats. Your average swamp creature leans left, and we're at this strange point in our history where we have this bizarre, hugely powerful, yet unelected administrative state. Schedule F got slow-rolled, and then quickly cancelled when Biden took office. It continues to be brought up in the press as something that would be "The End of Days" for American Civil Service, threatening national security, Mom's apple pie, and all kinds of other things. I hope it gains traction again at some point in the future.

A LONG history of narcissistic behavior, destroying careers while having his own failings covered up. It has been covered in other threads but trying to punish someone for losing a weapon downrange then doing the same himself, running a CV-22 into a tree, giving 20+ commander directed Q-3s as a SQ/CC, general caustic behavior that has been repeatedly rewarded. Ask anyone in AFSOC about "CAT 5", he got that name because he destroys everything like a hurricane.

UnWoke: buh bye, you piece of shit.

also seems like a false equivalency....wearing a "bad dragons" lanyard, which im sure is a inside "ha ha" joke with the aircrew, is WAY different then the paw pups guys putting on full pup bondage in uniform and posting to social media. but knowing how our society and the air force works now there will be no nuance and everyone must comply with the lowest, and dumbest denominator. put your masks on...

Too soon to say rehab by a certain Colonel listed above?

Oh... this again: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-call-sign-titties/?utm_campaign=trueanthem_manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=taskandpurpose Sent from my SM-F721U using Tapatalk

At some point, the people (not just Republicans) who don't want an open border, knowingly abused asylum system, ignored migration laws and non-enforcement of deportation orders will have to publicly admit that the other side is not a partner in a rule of law, egalitarian democratic republic. Whether to continue to take the continuing humiliation and contemptuous abuse will be that which determines the fate of the republic. When do you think they will stop? When they get 10 million, 20 million or 40 million new voters, clients for the welfare state and people willing to work for less than you will? At some point you have to stand up to Biff or you will do his homework forever.

He’s gone

I've worked for 3 airlines (one being AAL) and I don't believe I've ever paid dues while on long term MLOA. If you're not earning income, what is there to pay dues on? Are you sure it wasn't payment for some kind of optional insurance or dental/vision plans? But yes, if you were paying dues, then you sure as hell should get to vote. Talked to a few UAL guys who said they're the same as us, no voting while out on long term MLOA. I also just received an e-mail from the company saying that, my hunch on vacation bidding was correct. Our vacation bidding starts in Jan and ends 1APR (start of our vacation year). Since we'll be on MLOA (activation orders) a few days past 1APR, we won't get to bid for vacation. When we return, we basically gets what's left over...fuck you very much for your service!

Quoting myself for uhhello. Not sure how you can laugh at that. You like the establishment? If you do then please defend it. There are some old timers on this board that have seen the establishment/deep state first hand while working at the five sided building.

Most people are partisans and don't actually care unless they can manipulate a story to support their political aims. That's the state our country has grown into. The truth no longer matters, rather "your own truth" matters and the truth you can successfully construct a narrative around is the only one of importance. Ironically, from reading the internal discussions, that is exactly the attitude that slowly allowed Twitter to spin off course into ignoring company policy and guidelines to support their own political biased. While we don't have access to the FBIs internal records I'm almost certain their conversations were similarly structured as they twisted and departed acceptable expectations of a politically neutral federal unit.

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I have no idea where to even begin with this? Have you ever worked in a targeting cell? Like..... no man, you don't need to listen to a JAG, it is your decision..... but if you have that mindset, don't cry when interpol takes you into custody on vacation in France because you committed a war crime... I don't know what to tell you, lol. Your attitude comes off as "my job would be a whole lot easier if I could just break the law to do it." I mean, no shit man, that's everyone. That's why we have the laws. Because when we don't people break them and do worse stuff just to make their job slightly more easy. Ask SBF, dude thought managing a $30B crypto fund was super easy without laws or lawyers....

So I talked with a JAG friend of mine who worked in PACOM as an international lawyer. Her take was the Arms Export Control Act applies to goods and SERVICES rendered to foreign militaries, normally requires licensing. The US claims enormous jurisdiction over all US citizens in the matter, even those operating privately overseas.

There are so many kids in this position. It’s heartbreaking. Anyone who champions this trans stuff, especially in kids, is a huge POS and a truly awful human being…and too many of them are teachers, superintendents, etc.

Pilots antagonized by occupational peers they deem clout whores? Shocker. Ain't that like, Tuesday in a fighter squadron? Don't answer that. 😄 #rhetorical

I find Juan Brown's approach to be: -These are the known facts. -For the lay person, this is the definition of what those facts mean, in plain english -Tries to avoid speculation beyond historical trends. Dan Gryder just can't help but go balls deep within the first 30" of any video. He really lost me when he went after the AOPA Air Safety Institute director Richard McSpadden in a Nancy Grace style hit piece.

I think the only administration that did worse than Biden's was the British Monarchy.

Truly one of the worst humans to ever put on a uniform and a classic example of rot in the system, I feel bad for the men and women in AFSOC and what is about to happen to them.

>>>-GO-NOLES-;;->

JAG friend. "Her take." Volumes right there. I'm not an INDOPACOM expert, sounds like you actually are, but the second you mentioned a JAG, I turned the volume down. I found that if you are in a shooting match, which we are not with INDOPACOM, but if you find yourself in one of those, the JAG is the furthermost concern from your mind. Honest question, when has a JAG ever produced any kind of execute value info? If one of your troops are in trouble all a JAG can do is offer you a laundry list of horseshit info that is highly invaluable. They can't tell you to do anything, all they can do is offer their advice. Which is a laundry list of horseshit info that your wing commander is going to tell you, no we're not going to do that. And the ADC pads their resume. JAGs love to get into ROE discussions. Because they are not accountable for people's lives. JAGs are some of the most useless creatures I've seen in the AF. Besides Navs and WSOs of course.