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It's a standard trope now: Trump's name is somewhere in the Epstein files, therefore he raped a child. Therefore, obviously, anyone who has ever supported anything Trump ever did, even if they didn't vote for him, therefore is in support of rape and child trafficking. It's a level of argument only liberal boomers and internet trolls find completely sensible to imply...but only ever imply, they're too cowardly to say the words themselves.

There is no plan, none whatsoever. The left’s main message for the last decade has been hey we aren’t Trump all while bitching and whining about how bad Trump’s policies are with zero coherent messaging on actual policies that America could get behind. They never learn. When Trump goes off into the sunset in a couple years they will be left with nothing; except for the communists they have let into their mainstream political arena. Check out NYC and Michigan.

Meh. If all the ways the Service moves POTUS around were revealed, we'd all be very surprised. People are likely to respond as though Trump thought that up himself. I've seen behind that curtain. It's creative, not cosmic. More to the point, if all the threats against POTUS were revealed, we'd all be rather shocked. It's the NY Times. They'll literally any headline that makes the uneducated basket of MAGA deplorables look bad, and make their target audience cheer, click, and share. They'll soil themselves over unorthodox security measures that work well, yet not say a word about a black man murdering a white woman. It's partisan BS. Move along.

...and the Moderna vaccine has a 95% efficacy... Read this instead: Anyone who knows stats knows to never take the face value of a quoted statistic. If you dig into the details, you'll find a curious definition shuffle of a lot of misdemeanors and felonies in New York City's released stats since Mamdani took over. Most interesting is that REPORTED rapes (the real number is always at least double if not higher) have, by most accounts DOUBLED this year. You'll also find that trying to get those specific numbers requires serious digging. I just did for an hour and still didn't get a good solid public services source with raw data. Yet that stat is being dismissed as a 'classification and reporting' issue instead of recognizing the fact that, like in EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN CITY where Islamic military age men have been allowed to reign unchecked, rapes have increased dramatically. Definite correlation. Causation? A solid probable. Mark tape: Every place in the next few years where cultural Islam and sharia law are allowed to flourish, crime will go under reported, until the truth is discovered later that outright human rights violations were actually occurring. This isn't Islamophobia, this is recognition of the true track record of every single place Islam in it's cultural form has been allowed to take over since the year 632.

Not according to the pictures. Apparently he just took command in June though. In those pictures, he gives off the air of a 'dude' who wears tight pants, a polo, and leather shoes to squadron cookouts. Didn't know the 36FS was transitioning to Eagles.

I am friends with and talk to Wayne from time to time. The loss of course hit the family hard. Such a terrible tragedy.

Kamala being portrayed as some sort of semi-centrist “garden variety democrat” has me actually rolling on the floor laughing. You mean the woman who was the Border Czar, did absolutely nothing, and allowed massive waves of human migration from third world shitholes? Don’t look now, but that’s the far lefts playbook being actively played out around the world at this very moment.

Now it's leftist? This is a semantic game at this point. Kamala was very progressive. It's funny because we were supposed to take everything Trump says literally, but now we don't worry about what kamla says? This conversation is at least useful in demonstrating how successful the extreme leftists have been at moving the goal posts. Personally I think anybody who supports cutting the tits off of a 14-year-old has no business being considered moderate in any capacity, or run of the mill.

Shit man, I passed every class this semester

not only that but Mr. Anderson Sr is a DFC recipient helicopter pilot in Vietman. Went on to fly tankers and then for United. Macho was immensely proud of his old man. wayne is a gentleman and American hero in his own right....something something about a pedal turn (after the door guns jammed) and firing rockets danger close into a treeline of NVA saving a army special ops recon team from being overrun... https://www.dfcsociety.org/honor-roll-details/107

🍺🍺 a toast...

Of course y'all are think an imaginary 14 year old consenting to an elective procedure is a bridge too far supporting someone who trafficked and raped that 14 year old on the regular is just fine.

Not a Jessie Waters fan but this is an excellent summary of the current DNC situation: Party in shambles. Communists are taking over. Election autopsy being covered up. DNC Chair in hiding and soon to be fired. DNC broke and mega-donors (Soros), staying away. Kamala back as the favorite for 2028 and she is OPENLY calling to kill the electoral college, expand the court to 13 and to add PR and DC as states to secure DNC power forever. Other key DNC leaders calling to get rid of the Senate, end the presidency (use an appointed admin), end prisons and defund all police. Old Guard DNC (Carville/Maher), fed up with the uber lunacy of the far left. Ultimate Irony - NYC govt run grocery stores REQUIRE ID (but voting doesn't)...clown show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1pztU_TRso

Anyone on the left want to address this? I read @17D_guy saying in the Iran thread that the Democratic party isn't going violently left...but most of us on ALL sides see it different and tend to agree with Mahar here. If your response is going to be ad hominin against Mahar, save it, we've heard that with Rogan. I'm a legit independent and I want a healthy system. Letting actual communists gain any power over one half of our political system is absolutely unacceptable. Seriously, what is the plan for a healthy Democratic party? Where are your open mic debates on campuses? Where is the pride in being American? Where is the recognition that communism is, in fact, a horrible idea?

Sure. But I think it's more likely that we're in an environment where the American people want everything for nothing and there is no shortage of politicians willing to offer it. The failure to provide the impossible will keep ping ponging the party in power. Terrible execution, no argument there. But I think the DSA surge has more to do with what I said above. We're in the bad part of the cycle, and the politics are going to reflect that Sure, but I listed a lot of very good policy from the conservative perspective. Trump pairs it with unhinged social media posting and rampant lying. And familial corruption now. That'll drive voters away for sure, but again, not more than the unrealistic voter expectations. The flaw in the logic is that: @No One is trying to say Kamala would have been better. Trump may drive voters to the Democrats, but the response to that isn't to give crazy Democrats power earlier. Just like I wish the Republicans picked a better candidate (DeSantis), I wish the Democrats did too. But they didn't. We got two idiots, but with very different policy. And Trump's policy is overwhelmingly good. Everything else about him sucks. I don't care about hypothetical candidates. There wasn't a Clinton Democrat to vote for.

Never forgotten brother! We'll see you on the other side ⚔️🇺🇸

In the spirit of honest debrief and as this quick intervention enters its sixth month, I thought it would be fun to make a little report card courtesy of our AI overlords. Prompts are included in the screenshots for full transparency. If you don't like it.. sorry.. I just asked the robot (chat gpt-5) the questions

Haven’t gotten the paperwork yet, but I see a 422(I think it was a 422?) and an updated 2992 on IMR. I plan to check in this week and see if they received the stamped paperwork yet

Cool, calm, to the point. Great job. Amazing traffic allowed her to do that. Usually pretty heavy there. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/21-year-old-pilot-who-landed-plane-on-pensacola-highway-credits-training-for-safe-landing/ar-AA29ple1

You say potato...I say one step from communism. Mamadni government run grocery stores...Now he has declared war on Amazon and 41 other retailers that sell E-bikes with a speed greater than 25MPH...what other parts of your life does he want to control for your "safety"? Likely but you never know...for years they said Jeb Bush was the heir apparent and how did that work out? I don't care for JD and would rather see Rubio in the big chair. I am actually very impressed with his role as Sec State...and every other job the meme police have assigned to him. He is close enough and has at least served as the voice. When Maher is openly saying "Yes, my vote is in play. I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the intifada like it's the World Cup."

Holy shit, I was a student in that thing the last time this thread was posted to.

Maybe because it was probably a plumber carrying a pipe on his shoulder. I mean, it came from a Delta pilot. Consider the source.

The drop in quality of cops is a direct result of the defund the police movement. Not that the movement actually defunded anything, but it changed the atmosphere powerfully against cops. Ask the question: what sane person would sign up to be a police officer today? Understaff, underfunded police forces will be undertrained and overtasked with poor recruit quality. These events are the obvious outflow. Many here said as much back when de-fund the police first got traction.

Gay.

@Pooter Lots of people on here would probably agree with you that a massive drawback to Trumpism is the violent snap back effect it as to the other side. It’s been a problem since 2016. But you trying to say that Kamala would have been some sort of centrist breath of fresh air and that we wouldn’t be getting these far left candidates if she had been in power is just laughable. She is one of those people! Did you pay attention to the Biden presidency? His cabinet was jammed full of far left insanity. The same type of clowns winning primaries right now. I can’t believe I have to repeat this over and over, but Kamala being in charge of the border and allowing it to be overrun by mass human migration is immediate grounds to never be considered for any political office ever again. It’s not a conspiracy to say that they left the border open on purpose. In the short term they were able to dumb these people in big blue cities that were losing population and would have likely had census changes that had political districting to impacts. In the long term, the left genuinely believes that skin color matters, and that brown people vote for them. Whether it was through an eventual amnesty or just child birth, the left believes mass human migration of poor dark skinned people will get them votes in the future. It’s frankly pretty sick. There was nothing more far left than what they did with the border and Kamala was the head of that effort. Can you imagine if we were nearly two years deep into her Presidency right now and the border was in the same state it was pre Trump. That is a wildly scary prospect.

Thankfully, Congress didn't remove the tax from fully automatic weapons. That will make it much more palatable for the supreme Court to uphold this ruling, since a shorter barrel or a suppressor is a really stupid thing to regulate anyway, and they very easily fall under the common use test.

https://www.osan.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4524911/36th-fighter-squadron-welcomes-new-commander/ New CC callsign, Mr Potato Head. New O-4 call sign, Elvises. My hero. In fact, frame that paper in poster size and hang that shit. Seriously, fly by Kid Rocks house, nuthin. Grow a monster stash to go along with the epic story, get the mozam beak.

https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/04/exclusive-the-usaf-t-1a-jayhawk-poses-for-its-final-air-to-air-photo-shoot/

Just so I can better understand your post, are you honestly suggesting that people on this board are ok with those who rape 14 year old girls, or anyone for that matter?

What the hell are you talking about? Are you drunk?

This is all pretty run of the mill leftist social justice stuff. I know you don’t like any of it and neither do I but most are 80/20 issues that are easy to combat. It’s also clearly chum thrown out to the far left during an election cycle. We don’t have to guess what she’d do in office, she was already an AG and the VP and wasn’t remotely this extreme. Candidates say all kinds of stuff to get support and then do the total opposite.. reference Trump saying no new wars. How’d that one turn out 😂 Judging by actions Kamala is a low aptitude low ability establishment dem. But instead of getting that admin waffling around for 4 inconsequential years we get Trump curb stomping rakes on a daily basis and he’s gonna hand the country to the far left’s true believers, some of whom have a scary level of talent

how'd she do as our "border czar"? kamala is for open borders and mass illegal immigration.

The few times she was able to put enough words together to stake out a position, it was not at all establishment. Medicare for all was her most mainstream position, but the other were... Not Abolish all private health insurance Federal Jobs guarantee Green New deal Banning fracking and offshore drilling Mandatory gun buyback for "assault weapons" Bail for protestors/rioters Abortion until birth Trans surgery for prisoners on government dime Prisoners voting Pack the supreme Court/dump the filibuster Sanctuary cities On and on and on Again, I disagree completely with the notion that Trump is the one creating interest in the DSA. For starters, it predates Trump. And second, I view Trump as the conservative version of the DSA. It's just a politician who tells the voters everything they want to hear with no ability to follow through on most of it. Some of you guys weren't paying attention. Then Trump showed up and all of a sudden the absurdity of it all made you look around and now you see the rot and corruption, but some of us have been watching that for decades. All Trump did was pull the mask off of DC. The DSA was coming regardless of who won on the conservative side. Same false premise., was not an establishment Democrat. Or at least not a Clintonian/Kennedy Democrat, if we need to get specific on what establishment means anymore. And remember that Joe Biden was supposed to be the moderate choice and he ended up regurgitating Bernie Sanders' platform for 4 years. The moderates are not going to win for now. The Democrats have one, he had a debilitating stroke and yet is somehow the only sane voice in the room. He's not very popular in the party these days.

The irony of you calling me out for “tribalism” from a post where I was calling people out for that very thing is hilarious. Not to turn this into another political bitch fest thread on Baseops, but the only one being blinded by tribalism between us two is you. Yes, I am thankful every single day that Kamala Harris is not President. The Democrat party of today is an absolute disaster that is hell bent on destroying this country. Trump is a side show. A cluster fuck of a side show at times, I’ll give you that, and frankly it’s a show I’ve criticized many many times on this very website. It’s also one that the democrats are successfully weaponizing to elect and then enact their own disastrous candidates/policies. That I very much believe is a problem and a huge drawback to Trumpism. But to lecture on about who is bigger threat to this country when the democrats continue to trot out absolute batshit candidates and policies; yeah, sorry, it’s weak and it’s boring. I mean hell, Bill Maher came out and said his vote is in play this next cycle. That’s how far off in La La land the current Democrat party is. I’ll also add, my vote is always in play too. I’m a registered independent and thanks to the military I’ve lived in both deep blue and deep red states, and now willingly live in a purple to slightly blue state. In fact, the two senators from my state were both once legit centrist democrats that I also once voted for as a younger man. They of course are no longer that and trot out the same batshit party line as everyone else from the Democrat party these days. Frankly I don’t give two craps about what party you’re from if you actually have solid centrist to center right policy ideas that might actually make this country better. Both parties struggle at that in many ways, but the democrats are putting nobody forward that even comes close. Anyway, pointless and worthless internet rant is now over, but spare me the holier than though lecturing and crocodile tears of “BUT TRUMP!” I’ve stepped outside the political tribal bubble plenty of times in my life when I’ve gone to the ballot box. Back to regularly scheduled Iran cluster fuck, version 4.0 or later whatever we’re on.

The fact these 2 sentences are right next to each other is hilarious. You think the DNC, who's actively campaigning against the progressive/left half of their candidates is being run by progressives? As a guy in the actual political shit right now, this is a ludicrous statement. Vilifying intuitions and norms that made our society possible and prosperous...Jesus Christ. The last 2 years have been a wrecking ball to that, but I guess you didn't mind those institutions and norms getting torched? Any way, we win this war yet? Oh nope, TACO TRUMP again.

Some aircrews may remember MARS primarily for morale phone patches, but today's MARSRADIO provides considerably more. MARSRADIO is an Air Force MARS operation authorized under DoDI 4650.02, providing HF communications support to DoD aircraft and units worldwide as an additional backup to HFGCS. Air Force aircraft are consistent users of the service, but we also routinely support Navy, Marine Corps, and Army aviation. Most of the traffic we handle is real-world operational support, not exercises or training. So far this year, MARSRADIO operators have provided nearly 14,000 man-hours guarding our calling frequencies and supporting DoD aircrews. That has included more than 330 official phone patches, 80 METAR/TAF weather requests, and nearly 2,300 radio and SELCAL checks, in addition to morale patches and other operational support. The official traffic can be as routine as passing an ETA or arranging customs, fuel, parking, maintenance, or ground transportation. At other times, crews have used us for diversions, aircraft system problems, severe weather, medical situations, command post coordination, and troubleshooting SATCOM or digital communications. The real value is having another communications path when the expected one isn't working. We have had many situations where an aircraft could not establish its normal SATCOM or data link, but an HF phone patch through MARSRADIO allowed the crew and ground personnel to troubleshoot the problem, coordinate what was needed, and continue the mission. That is where MARSRADIO fits into P.A.C.E. planning—not as a replacement for existing systems, but as another path available when needed. The net operates nearly 24/7, and there is no need to coordinate ahead of time. Crews don't need to wait until something goes wrong to use us. A routine radio check, SELCAL check, weather request, phone patch, or pre-arrival call gives the crew familiarity with MARSRADIO before the day comes when the primary communications path isn't available. For aircrews unfamiliar with MARSRADIO, information on frequencies, calling procedures, and available services is available at MARSRADIO Global.

Man, if this is true, what an embarrassment. Also, if true, should never have been revealed. I'll bet Iran created as credible a threat as possible without action to see him hide and sneak out, making him look weak, and by extension, the US look weak; just to fuck with him. Time to take those siezed assets and make em ours. And take the rest of their shit.