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Then you are hoping for too much. Trump doesn't want to abolish the DEA, even if Congress would let him (which, of course, they wouldn't). And even if he wanted to hamper or hamstring the DEA with a "pro-freedom" administrator (which he doesn't), the Senate would never confirm such a nominee.

10% for the big guy.

Reported both of you for thought crimes :up:

Then they're more ready to trash it than I am. The reports of FEMA incompetence have been pouring in for the last 19 years at least since Katrina. I haven't heard a single "thank God FEMA was there to help" story.

With Pete gone I guess I'll have to be the one to post this periodically. https://constitution.org/2-LawRev/roots/cops.htm It's been a few years since I went through it but I remember one of the underlying points being that the whole idea of cops being proactive is in itself contrary to the constitution. Without even getting into being predictive.

He was also the first (and only) to fly a functioning full flow staged combustion engine :up:

He's a fan of the tech, and knows what he's talking about, unlike your average congressman. I mean Massie probably knows the technical reasons behind why the F-35 is a fucking joke, but who else would? Love him or hate him, Elon has objectively pushed technology in directions it hasn't gone before, and has pushed it farther than anyone else has in directions it was going. He figured out how to land rockets for re-use. We saw that in sci-fi in the 1960s but literally nobody has done it prior to him. And he did it on a budget. Even though those budgets were astronomical they still are dwarfed by what the F-35 has cost so far and the difference is Elon has actually delivered something. He's uniquely qualified to comment on the F-35 because he's done a bunch of different things that are way more complicated and for less money. My point is that he's impossible to dazzle with bullshit on this topic. He's the one man on Earth who can face the people in charge of this massive scam and say "here are all the exact reasons why everything you're saying is an overt lie".

Tell that to flagship new phones. Same price as 10 years ago, and what, better camera? Seems same shit to me. In any case, F16s of today have a lot more tech packed into it than they did. F16s of 30 years ago had 1 TV. Today they have like 15 TVs, 12 different radars, 17000 sensors, and 4 automated coffee holders. Doesn't matter if TVs go down in price. All that shit costs money

This is why nobody takes you seriously. We all remember like a whole year of the Covid conversation being about two different drugs. Drugs that the DEA absolutely could claim jurisdiction over.

I'm sure you meant literally, right? Like we can livestream it and watch the life drain from its eyes while it bleeds out?

Oh look, yet another "if they were serious about DOGE they wouldn't even bother with this" appointment

It sure sounds targeted. As usual the reporting is abominable on this story. I think the gunman probably made a clean getaway and TBH there's stuff that CEOs do just in their normal line of duties that would piss someone off to this point. I can't speak for all corporations but I haven't worked for a company that actually fired people for like 16 years. It's gotten to the point where companies will just keep people on all year despite serious problems and then there's this whole dog-and-pony-show at the end of the year where they don't have enough resources to continue employing everyone and lay a bunch of people off. Most of the time everyone looks around at who's gone and realizes it's all dead weight - but good employees also regularly get caught in that net. And inevitably, after making all these sour faces about budgets, then they hand out bonuses. I mean I'm not saying someone who would murder someone else for this is a good employee - just pointing out CEOs are generally all cowards who make bad decisions and hide behind imaginary budget constraints, so I'm not surprised one would be targeted.

If anything, that's the best case for what I'm talking about. High tech shit always, always, always crashes in price while simultaneously improving in function and reliability. That's why a brand new LCD TV has like 3x the resolution from 15 years ago and costs 1/3 the original dollar amount (not inflation adjusted!) and if you've ever crawled around in a couple you'd know that they've been going through constant engineering innovations that have also resulted in less material used overall, tighter electronic design, etc. And again, that's why I'm thrilled Musk is the one looking at this. Because he's going to understand both sides of manufacturing - both the mass manufacturing like TVs where there is enormous pressure to streamline & cut costs, and also single manufacturing like Starship rockets where if there's any room to make those adjustments you kinda have to find it. And he's going to be able to speak to the fact that just the helmet for the F-35 still costs $400,000 per unit. If you put one in his hands he'd probably instantly be able to point out a dozen things they're still doing that are 2000s era tech and way TF outdated and the reason why it costs so much. And he'd be able to look at the receipts for the last 20 years and say no, actually here's all the money you needed to do exactly what I'm talking about to drive that cost down to 10 grand or so.

Part of the reason is that the F15/F16 is not simply an airframe, but a technology platform. If all they needed was the airframe then it would be a lot cheaper. I assume the high tech sensors and shit would drive up the price.

Not previously but the results are pretty interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F-15EX_Eagle_II That's over 100 million per, and getting close to the (purely imaginary) cost of an F-35. Ridiculous. Something very, very rotten going on there. In every other historical case where a third party takes up a military design and starts producing it, they find cost saving measures as a way to try to undercut the original designer and that's how they line their pockets. But now they're spending almost twice what the original inflation adjusted cost of an F-15 was. That's still over $100 million per plane! The original run of the F-16 was like $13 million. With zero cost saving measures that should be $40 million today.

Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1864048675590479920 1864048675590479920

Unequal justice.

about beats out illinois governors

For some reason the whole “wellness check” thing made me think of the following, especially the gag with the stove. With friends like these…

Since I first saw tis I just dont buy more items tan I can carry , no cart. Ive only lost 4 lbs even considering I couldve given 20 so not as good of a diet as I expected

Yeah I've been looking forward to this ever since he got involved in this effort. The only reason the F-35 has gotten as far as it has is because the designers have bullshitted everyone with technobabble. Musk is exactly the right guy to question this. I'm really looking forward to the time when someone openly accuses him of not knowing what he's talking about. Should be a good show.

"WE NEED A DEA DIRECTOR WHO BELIEVES IN FREEDOM" Isn't that kind of like saying "we need an atheist who believes in god" ... ?

The B52 is still in service, a new one has not been built for over 60 years. There is no reason that the F14 and FA18 for the Navy and the F15 and FA16 for the Air Force could not have been steadily upgraded with advanced electronic warfare capability, while the transition to pilotless aircraft was made without this flying fuckup costing billions in the meantime..

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communist infiltrators have rocked the boat. Pres will have a tough time rooting them out. Like here , waited too long.

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