Trumped

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, Rico said:

Once a citizen always a citizen IMO.  You're on dangerous ground once you start denaturalizing people.

What if the naturalized citizen is dangerous?

[Rico]

Trump has a Mar-a-Lago cabal in charge of the department of veterans affairs.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ike-perlmutter-bruce-moskowitz-marc-sherman-shadow-rulers-of-the-va?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1533681163

"At times, Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman have created headaches for VA officials because of their failure to follow government rules and processes. In other cases, they used their influence in ways that could benefit their private interests."

[Rico]

Just now, Jason said:

What if the naturalized citizen is dangerous?

lock them up.  We have serial killers serving life, but we didn't take away their citizenship.

[Jason]

14 minutes ago, Rico said:

lock them up.  We have serial killers serving life, but we didn't take away their citizenship.

We should house them in the Antarctica or something 

[Lou]

Or in the Sudan 

[UndertheHalo]

49 minutes ago, Jason said:

What if the naturalized citizen is dangerous?

This implies a thought that naturalized citizens should get special punishments that native born citizens are not exposed to.  I’m sure you don’t actually mean this. 

Edited August 8, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[Adam]

2 hours ago, Crampknees said:

That's such bullshit.  And don't dare wade into the daughters should be gang banged shit with me because you didn't like what I said. 

You don’t think poor blacks vote democrat? 

[Schildog]

10 hours ago, full circle said:

Maybe because immigrants we choose to accept shouldn’t in most cases be a public charge?  I know, I know, you bleeding heart anarchists think the whole world should be able to come here and live on American taxpayers dime but luckily we have more common sense than that now.  But if you wanna sponsor an immigrant family and pay their expenses I’d happily fight for your right to do so.  

Do you listen to pennywise on mute? 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

11 hours ago, Thomas said:

And insisting that a single plane handle everything from close air support to air superiority is likely unwise but makes for good powerpoints about how it replaces so many aircraft.

The old phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind. It seems that the aircraft industry keeps trying to make one plane do the jobs of several, when this never works out. What makes it good at one job inevitably makes it less good at another. The earliest plane I remember along these lines is the F-111 of the Vietnam War era. A forgettable piece of junk.

[Thomas]

2 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

The old phrase "jack of all trades, master of none" comes to mind. It seems that the aircraft industry keeps trying to make one plane do the jobs of several, when this never works out. What makes it good at one job inevitably makes it less good at another. The earliest plane I remember along these lines is the F-111 of the Vietnam War era. A forgettable piece of junk.

The was the whole goal of the JSF program going back to 1993 was an affordable do-everything platform that could be exported to allies.  I get wanting a common platform to replace the F-16 and F-18 and foreign equivalents.  But also wanting it replace the A-10 and V-STOL aircraft seems optimistic. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

1 minute ago, Thomas said:

The was the whole goal of the JSF program going back to 1993 was an affordable do-everything platform that could be exported to allies.  I get wanting a common platform to replace the F-16 and F-18 and foreign equivalents.  But also wanting it replace the A-10 and V-STOL aircraft seems optimistic. 

The A-10 is rather like the C-130. You may try to replace it for the tasks it performs, but good luck bettering it.

[UndertheHalo]

Haven’t they been trying to get rid of the A-10 for years and years ?

i mean why ? Seems like we ought to recognize a good thing.  A-10 seems fu*cking kickass at close air support.  I get that the airframes are old, but if they can make it work.... 

what do I know I guess 

Edited August 8, 2018 by UndertheHalo

[arch stanton]

1 hour ago, UndertheHalo said:

Haven’t they been trying to get rid of the A-10 for years and years ?

i mean why ? Seems like we ought to recognize a good thing.  A-10 seems fu*cking kickass at close air support.  I get that the airframes are old, but if they can make it work.... 

what do I know I guess 

It's always a budget thing. They can only fund so many airframes

[Thomas]

USAF has also been, for better and worse, laser focused on their air superiority, strategic bombing and ICBM missions. Tactical bombing and especially close air support has always been secondary. Which is why I wasn't opposed to moving the space operations leadership up the chain. Also moving fixed-wing close air support to the Army's purview to complement the <in Arnold voice> choppas is worth considering.

[Blarg]

Ok, we went from Geography 101 to Aviation Today in a thread about Trump. Maybe it's time to shutter this thing and move on since there is nothing left to talk about. 

[Thomas]

Just now, Blarg said:

Ok, we went from Geography 101 to Avation Today in a thread about Trump. Maybe it's time to shutter this thing and move on since there is nothing left to talk about. 

It's still early.

[Blarg]

8am West Coast time but 11am at the White House time and no missles launched so, really, what the hell is this thread useful for?

[fan_since79]

4 minutes ago, Blarg said:

8am West Coast time but 11am at the White House time and no missles launched so, really, what the hell is this thread useful for?

[Adam]

It feels like obama had way way more kills under his belt by this time in his presidency 

[Adam]

14 hours ago, Crampknees said:

That's such bullshit.  And don't dare wade into the daughters should be gang banged shit with me because you didn't like what I said. 

I understand that that post (several years ago) didn’t play very well, but it was clearly an absurd and obnoxious joke to point out that if we don’t want our daughters fucking everything in sight then maybe there’s still a conversation to be had about sexual morality.

[fan_since79]

12 minutes ago, Adam said:

It feels like obama had way way more kills under his belt by this time in his presidency 

I miss the days when all those al-Qaeda guys got blown up by drones. We don't hear much about that anymore.

Edited August 8, 2018 by fan_since79

[Thomas]

15 hours ago, Crampknees said:

That's such bullshit.  And don't dare wade into the daughters should be gang banged shit with me because you didn't like what I said. 

 

4 minutes ago, Adam said:

I understand that that post (several years ago) didn’t play very well, but it was clearly an absurd and obnoxious joke to point out that if we don’t want our daughters fucking everything in sight then maybe there’s still a conversation to be had about sexual morality.

[failos]

The Blue Wave is starting to look like fool’s gold. Obviously, a lot of people are against Trump, but Democrats never vote and they like to blame others for not doing so.

Of course, they’ll go and blame voter discrimination or voter fraud (or even collusion)—but what’s stopping them from registering to vote, and mailing a ballot?

[Lou]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

I miss the days when all those al-Qaeda guys got blown up by drones. We don't hear much about that anymore.

but porn stars and hair.

mutually exclusive, of course. 

[Rico]

4 hours ago, failos said:

The Blue Wave is starting to look like fool’s gold.

Most of the races yesterday were primaries.  So you're basing this theory because democrats lost to other democrats?