The Clown Show aka trump's Cabinet

[tkhayes 348]

2 hours ago, phantomII said:

How come that there seems to be a devastating ethics report but the DOJ never went for an indictment?

There was enough evidence to convict Joel Greenburg, but Gaetz was probably smart enough to not leave a trail of texts and emails.... Greenburg also ran a criminal enterprise out of his tax collectors office, so there were MANY indictments.  He tried to plead out of the sex trafficking charges, but the prosecutors said no fucking way.  Gaetz got lucky.... it's her word against his pretty much.  Not really enough to charge.

Of course that does not mean it did not happen.  Greenburg took young girls to the Bahamas for cocaine infused parties and sex, and Gaetz was his buddy along with him, more than once I understand.  Greenburg left a trail of evidence, payments, texts, flights, etc.  Gaetz covered up a lot of that.

[tkhayes 348]

2 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

Because he's above the law, like the rest of them.

His buddy, Joel Greenburg is serving eleven years.

Joel Greenberg (politician) - Wikipedia - a pretty good synopsis 

[JerryBaumchen 1,445]

Hi folks,

This one is right up there with the RFK Jr nomination:  Hulk Hogan suggests Trump may nominate him for position in administration

The Trump Show only gets more bizarre with each passing day.

On the plus side, it does give the rest of the world a good laugh.

Jerry Baumchen

[JoeWeber 2,836]

1 hour ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

This one is right up there with the RFK Jr nomination:  Hulk Hogan suggests Trump may nominate him for position in administration

The Trump Show only gets more bizarre with each passing day.

On the plus side, it does give the rest of the world a good laugh.

Jerry Baumchen

Ya', except not everyone is laughing.

[Phil1111 1,149]

2 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

This one is right up there with the RFK Jr nomination:  Hulk Hogan suggests Trump may nominate him for position in administration

The Trump Show only gets more bizarre with each passing day.

On the plus side, it does give the rest of the world a good laugh.

Jerry Baumchen

It reminds me of when trump was in charge during covid. Every day was a train wreck yet something you couldn't take your eyes from.

In other news "Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort(of presidential transition) or to limit their contributions." So instead of disclosing donors and being eligible for federal funding. He is paying for transition costs by using secret donors including foreign ones.

But since the USSC ruled corruption by the president is OK why wait for inauguration?

Edited November 24, 2024 by Phil1111

[Phil1111 1,149]

1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

Ya', except not everyone is laughing.

Well 1/2 of Americans along with the Mullahs in Iran, Kim, Putin, Orban, Erdogan, etc.

[nigel99 572]

1 hour ago, Phil1111 said:

Well 1/2 of Americans along with the Mullahs in Iran, Kim, Putin, Orban, Erdogan, etc.

However, years ago one of the BBC commentators said “The US is like a petulant teenager lecturing the world and doesn’t realise other countries are all grown up”

I think that pretty accurately sums up the US, one of my pet peeves is the arrogance of some Americans (we are the gold standard of democracy, only Americans have free speech, everyone wants to be an American, or everyone aspires to the American dream).

Ultimately we have a choice, be miserable and scared, or embrace the tragedy as comedy. As skydivers I think there is a moral obligation to adopt black humour to get through the next few years. 

[okalb 104]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:32 PM, SkyDekker said:

He resigned from congress, didn't he?

He resigned from the previous congress and was elected to the next.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

On 11/23/2024 at 8:57 PM, JoeWeber said:

Bullshit! If you deleted it I want to read it. PM?

I had read someone's post incorrectly and therefore my response was incorrect. Hence, I deleted it.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

23 minutes ago, okalb said:

He resigned from the previous congress and was elected to the next.

Oh so he was going to be AG and in congress next.

[okalb 104]

19 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

Oh so he was going to be AG and in congress next.

Technically, you don't have to resign from congress until you are confirmed in the new role. He did it just to stop the report from being released. Now he can join the next congress which he was elected to. My understanding is that since it is a new congress, they would need to start the entire investigation over again if they wanted to bring the ethics charges back up. So essentially this was all just a trick to get him out of the release of the ethics report. Great system they have huh?

Edited November 25, 2024 by okalb

[normiss 858]

4 minutes ago, okalb said:

Technically, you don't have to resign from congress until you are confirmed in the new role. He did it just to stop the report from being released. Now he can join the next congress which he was elected to. My understanding is that since it is a new congress, they would need to start the entire investigation over again if they wanted to bring the ethics charges back up. So essentially this was all just a trick to get him out of the release of the ethics report. Great system they have huh?

More proof that American justice is not served equally.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

25 minutes ago, okalb said:

Technically, you don't have to resign from congress until you are confirmed in the new role. He did it just to stop the report from being released. Now he can join the next congress which he was elected to. My understanding is that since it is a new congress, they would need to start the entire investigation over again if they wanted to bring the ethics charges back up. So essentially this was all just a trick to get him out of the release of the ethics report. Great system they have huh?

Somebody should read it into the record, like the Biden dick pics.

[kallend 2,107]

“Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard.” - Elon Musk, on "X" yesterday.

[base698 20]

18 minutes ago, kallend said:

“Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard.” - Elon Musk, on "X" yesterday.

And?  His comments were around spending billions on the F35 in an era where there are autonomous fighters.  Autonomous fighters are smaller and cheaper and have the advantages of not having to worry about a human on board during maneuvers.

[Phil1111 1,149]

1 hour ago, base698 said:

And?  His comments were around spending billions on the F35 in an era where there are autonomous fighters.  Autonomous fighters are smaller and cheaper and have the advantages of not having to worry about a human on board during maneuvers.

Please identify these "autonomous fighters"

As everyone knows trump surrounds himself with the "best of the best". If the F-35 is such a horrible aircraft why did Israel just order another 25 just this summer. Bringing its total orders up to 75 when it is the only country in the world to actually employ them in combat conditions. When it is the only country to operate them against the most modern Russian S400 SAM systems with impunity. Both in Syria and Iran.

Setting aside of course the 17 countries that have also ordered F-35s. Then there is the poor NATO ally Turkey which recently discovered that Russian military equipment isn't worth a single rouble.Let alone the $2.5 billion USD Turkey paid Putin for the S-400 system. Turkey is now trying to sell the system which has never been deployed in Turkey. Its still sitting in boxes in Turkish warehouses. So it can rejoin the F-35 program, which of course the US has refused to allow.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Phil1111

[Phil1111 1,149]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

“Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard.” - Elon Musk, on "X" yesterday.

More experts in trump's defence department.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Phil1111

[jakee 1,564]

2 hours ago, base698 said:

And?  His comments were around spending billions on the F35 in an era where there are autonomous fighters.  Autonomous fighters are smaller and cheaper and have the advantages of not having to worry about a human on board during maneuvers.

“Are” autonomous fighters? Please identify the currently operational autonomous fighters that can outperform a manned 4.5/5th gen fighter?

[jakee 1,564]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

“Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard.” - Elon Musk, on "X" yesterday.

I think most fighter pilots would tell you they’d get laid a lot more if they didn’t have to spend so many hours at work. For all the shit they get for being a bunch of arrogant bastards it is a savagely demanding job.

[base698 20]

3 minutes ago, jakee said:

“Are” autonomous fighters? Please identify the currently operational autonomous fighters that can outperform a manned 4.5/5th gen fighter?

I used are incorrectly.  I'm talking on a relatively short time horizon, say 5 years, where simpler fighters using AI systems that work today could be deployed.  I personally don't want to fight a war against Chinese factory output.  

https://www.anduril.com/fury/

I think the AI had a bit of an advantage in this case based on other commentary I saw:

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-fighter-jets-air-force-6a1100c96a73ca9b7f41cbd6a2753fda

[Phil1111 1,149]

16 minutes ago, jakee said:

I think most fighter pilots would tell you they’d get laid a lot more if they didn’t have to spend so many hours at work. For all the shit they get for being a bunch of arrogant bastards it is a savagely demanding job.

The current NATO standard for a combat ready pilot is 180 hours a year. Some fly less than that. But that does leave more time for a Target Rich Environment

[nigel99 572]

3 hours ago, kallend said:

“Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard.” - Elon Musk, on "X" yesterday.

Didn’t he recently claim to be a 3000 year old time traveling vampire? 

I wonder why the pizza basement adrenachrome crowd haven’t jumped on this as an admission he drinks babies blood?

[jakee 1,564]

29 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

The current NATO standard for a combat ready pilot is 180 hours a year. Some fly less than that. But that does leave more time for a Target Rich Environment

How many hours work do you think it takes to fly one hour?

[jakee 1,564]

44 minutes ago, base698 said:

I used are incorrectly.  I'm talking on a relatively short time horizon, say 5 years, where simpler fighters using AI systems that work today could be deployed.

Oh sure - if history teaches us anything it’s that cutting edge military tech procurement comes in on time and in budget.

[Phil1111 1,149]

1 minute ago, jakee said:

How many hours work do you think it takes to fly one hour?

Technically that would be one hour. Well.....plus taxi time.