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956 Worldwide

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  1. It’s pretty standard practice for some clearances and investigations in the IC and security world. It’s eyebrow raising for it to be announced and for them to claim in one breath that the information isn’t real and fake and in the next claim that it was classified national security information. This isn’t the only place they are making that argument. Needless to say, telling a reporter bullshit and claiming it’s classified isn’t a leak and it isn’t a crime. It could be unethical but there are other tools to use.
  2. Don’t worry, we are telling people not to. This is what we are posting for the consumption of the famously illegally immigrating Dutch.
  3. Tech demonstrators started flying in 2019. Towards the end of Biden, the entire NGAD program was paused to let the new admin make decisions. The crewed fighter is just a part of it that includes loyal wingman and other UAS. This was literally just the Pentagon naming something after him to get it across the finish line of approval. That’s how we do strategy now.
  4. Elon talks about saving “human civilization” and not humans or the place we live. His is a grim dystopian techno-futurism where most of humanity dies off or ekes out an existence on a choking earth while a small “elite” serve as indentured servants to an even tinier techno-aristocracy off planet. He’s not even subtle about believing this. The off-planet bit will never really happen but everything he does is aimed at making the first part come true. He’s making it happen. The dude is an absolute clown but also probably one of the three most important people alive right now.
  5. Ok, having the Air Force’s chief of staff admit out loud they named the airplane after Trump is fucking insane. We have truly veered into Turkmenbashi territory.
  6. Cosplay is exactly right, and Hegseth, Noem, Gabbard, Kash are the starkest examples. They were a test to the GOP senate that failed. Trump instinctively understands that American voters consume “government and politics” like reality TV. Trump’s circle of advisors that launched him are full of showbiz, wrestling, entertainment people. Before anything else, it helps to view this admin’s actions through the eyes of a show runner or promoter— establishing characters, storylines, cliffhangers. Except that’s also where it stops. There’s no back room where they break kayfabe and do any real work except foe grift and punishing enemies.
  7. One hundred percent sure he will try to have a baby with her.
  8. DoD: The NYT story about sharing China war plans with Elon was made up fake news. We are also going to poly everyone to find out who leaked this real and sensitive information.
  9. CNN wrote an article about how Marco is being upstaged and jealous of Witkoff (who gets to do the real negotiations and is the real boss). Marco denied it and then Witkoff went on to RT and tell little Marco he’s doing a good job. Lulz.
  10. But Trump didn’t hear about it that often. Highly recommend watching the video. It’s fun to watch when we get a bored, soggy brained Trump who has to talk about things like weapons procurement that bore him and he doesn’t understand. He rambles a bit and tries to get excited, making sure to mention that the whole airplane has power the likes of which we’ve never seen, and is of course at a level higher than any other level. But he just can’t fake it. He does not care about this and you can’t make him care. Reading the quotes about putting on “Cats” and redecorating the Kennedy Center, you know they got the excited, manic, hype-man Trump. You just won’t get that if if the topic isn’t celebrity gossip or sharks.
  11. The “F-47” part of NGAD is supposed to be the spiritual successor to the F-22 which is a platform we never made export available. It’s kind of a shock actually that we’d consider making even a “souped” down version available for export. The B-21 won’t be. But it is saying the quiet part out loud. We don’t give all the cool stuff with the F-35 to all export customers.
  12. White role models are worse; manosphere podcaster or crypto-bro are significantly less useful to society than basketball player, rapper, or drug kingpin.
  13. I misquoted him on the top speed. He said it’s “over 2, which you don’t often hear about.”
  14. Everything I said is what I heard on the live stream.
  15. Follow-up: they announced that they were going forward with the Next Generation Air Dominance 6th Gen fighter. Boeing won the account and it will be called the “F-47”. At one point Hegseth listed all the other numbered “F” fighters in the inventory (this will be more Fs). It’s also named after Trump (“47”) but he said the generals picked the name. Trump said it will “go higher than 2, which you rarely see” (he means Mach 2) and also said that it will be a “Level 6, not Level 5.” Actually this is a slap at Elon who has loudly demanded an end to manned fighters.
  16. Breaking: DOGE discovers that the agency in charge of collecting revenue for the global hegemon has a much larger IT budget than a midsize bank, still trying to understand why though.
  17. Hesgeth tweeted this at midnight.
  18. Since we’re talking wives and being funny, take my wife. Please.
  19. They are going to let Elon make decisions on force posture and weapons systems procurement and sustainment under the guise of DOGE.
  20. I will repeat— an honest historian 100 years away in a different country will say we had a dual executive. It’s not a joke, Elon has extensive powers and authorities that traditionally only belong to the president. He’s actually exercised more expansive executive authority than many presidents.
  21. We absolutely are going to have a recession sparked by sub-prime burrito loans spread across different CDOs. It’s coming.
  22. True. The only crime you can’t accuse him of is inauthenticity. Impossible to imagine any other chud GOP figure loudly proclaiming how much he loves musical theatre. He’s rewarded it. Sometimes I just sit in awe of it.
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