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For what it's worth, here is an unedited commentary by the pilot of the F-18 that was shot down by our own cruiser, the Gettysburg. It's tough to understand if you don't know the "language," but quite funny. As reminder, it was a two seat F-18 flying a tanker mission, carrying external tanks to give fuel. He also had an aim 9x sidewinder missile on board, which he mentions. Anyway, four minutes, but quite funny. F-18 pilot relates experience getting shot down by our own ship last week

For those that weren't around or have no knowledge of the economic situation during the Carter term, to claim that he "laid the economic ground work for the Reagan yeas" is preposterous. During the Carter Admin, the term "misery index" originated, which was combining very high interest rates with annual inflation figures, and it exceeded 20%. What laid the economic ground work for the Reagan expansion was a hawk Fed Chairman, Paul Volker, who kept Fed Funds and the Discount Rate high during Reagan's first two years and eventually brought things down to levels that led to investment, confidence and growth. You could buy guaranteed bonds for 12% in those days. Crazy. And please, don't claim that because it was Carter who appointed Volker he somehow deserves credit for this. The man was an economic, military, leadership, and confidence disaster. What he did do, which is seemingly anathema to the Biden group, is occasionally admit responsibility for failure.

It isn't the simplistic media that portrays his as a failure. He was a gross failure. He didn't "lay the groundwork for the Reagan years." He laid the example for how not to run things, that Reagan instinctively knew, as gov of Cal. He was a disingenuous phony and failure as president, who was decent afterwards. Stupid "election verification" status. I never understood how that had any credibility. Very bad re Israel, but he did great work for Habitat.

He was a good guy, but we don't hire people becasue they are good guys. We hire them because they can do the appointed task. As president, he couldn't and he didn't, and he did real damage.

Reticent to comment on him now that he is gone, but he has been wrong on so many things. Great work for Habitat. Great work in many humanitarian projects. But, he was a horrible president. Despised by the military, despite his history of service. Grossly uninformed, which resulted in huge losses of talented individuals, and significant capability decreases. Reagan pretty much fixed that. Always thought he was smarter than everyone else, and he disregarded valuable advice. His anti Israel policy, mostly post presidency, was completely delusional. He never seemed to understand the true nature of the middle east, seeming to think they are all good guys who can be convinced to coexist. Not true. Not yet. Completely screwed up the US Embassy seizure in Tehran, and authored a horribly senseless rescue attempt resulting in significant loss of US lives. That was his show. The staff that served him knew was a fraud, and have stated that. Faking carrying his own luggage and more. Negligent as the one who controls the nuclear response potential if the US was attacked. He refused to allow the nuc codes, known as the "football," to be carried into Plains when he was there, removing a rapid response which is required. His "election certification" efforts were way over stated nonsense. Nice guy. Devout Christian, but a horrible leader. Apartheid. Have you seen any stats on how many Jews live in Lebanon/Egypt? Compare that to thirty years ago. Then, contrast that with how many Muslims live, vote and thrive in Israel over the same time frame. There is your evidence of apartheid.

Not sure what you are asking for here. I provided a link above, which shows his demonstrated absolute ignorance on anything related to the job as FAA Administrator.

Are you freakin serious? He was head of the concessions at that airport. Nothing to do with actual operations. Absolutely no qualifications regarding aviation, the FAA or anything related. Exposed at hearings. Jesus, you guys are really ignorant.

Here's one of his "guys." And I would add the appointment of the Chief of Naval Operations being pushed by him because she was female, over the suggestion by the Navy that he appoint a far more qualified Pacific Fleet Admiral.

I'd prefer accomplished individuals who have actually achieved in our economy over the useless identity clowns that Biden has appointed. Thank goodness some of them never made it through hearings. Some, like his Trans Secretary actually served. Total moron.

I get what you're saying, and am concerned. But.....The team he is putting together is a group who have dealt with non political reality, ie., accomplished individuals who have merit based success. That is encouraging, and certainly a drastic change from the never had a real job career politicians the Dems puke into these rolls.

As I said, this is a very complicated issue and Musk is a child in his knowledge of this. He has absolutely no idea regarding the F-35 capability or how it's being deployed to ensure the mission requirement is met, every day, everywhere, all the time. This is an issue that you cannot rest on, even for a moment. Reading his view reminds me of countless other views I have seen from people who have no idea of the hour by hour requirement. Been there.

This is an extremely complicated issue with many variables that involve capability, existing or soon to exist technology, and most importantly, timing with the current mission requirements and responsibilities. Too complicated for me to discuss here, especially with you.

Dead people are always quiet, and he is virtually dead. Not too quite in Afghanistan, the Red Sea, Gaza, Northern Israel on the Lebanese border, Syria and the loudness of inflation and a totally screwed up energy policy causing a tap into the Strategic Petro Reserve and then begging the Saudis not to cut production until after the 2022 mid terms, He can't be gone soon enough or far enough away. The man is a living, breathing error generator.

The Chinese have launched an extremely loud flying Dorito.

The man is a vegetable. Nobody will ever miss him. He's been lying for decades, is dumber than ______, and goes out with incredible, nearly historic disapproval ratings. No sane individual will ever "miss him." Trump may be similarly thought of over time, but nobody will ever miss whatever the senseless Biden presidency was. Harris would have been worse, but we avoided that.

Ill informed and insane. By the way, in case you didn't notice, the man was not "voted out of office." He was removed by his own party. The man has been completely incompetent since 2022.

The US economy is a juggernaut. If a recession comes, and it is inevitable, unless the gov does something really stupid, it should not be pinned on them. There are economic policies that influence things, like the idiocy of Biden's first day attack on fossil fuels, or the senseless printing of money to fund his last covid relief boondoggle, but even that is no match for the US economic system. Thank goodness the Supreme Court prevented his Dem apparatus group from that lunacy of student loan forgiveness. Another hundreds of billions that would have slammed to the taxpayers.

The "pure BS" is you. Nobody has ever taken a stand against the legal immigration of skilled talent to our nation....Ever.

His mother used to babysit my brother-in-laws wife, and she would bring him with her along occasionally. Nothing unusual when he was pre-school.

As it happened, the ejection happened when they realized the friendly missile was tracking them. If they had waited, they would have been killed, as the SM2 is a huge warhead missile. They were also on final approach to the ship, so all their defensive countermeasures were off, and they would not have the airspeed to duel it. A huge amount of "stuff" going on at the same time, and they fired two sm2's, and might have gotten his wingman, who was a few miles behind, also preparing to land.

Absolute nonsense. No surprise.

I don't know if he is diminished at all, and no I didn't see it. But.......You have absolutely zero credibility, well, as much as Kamala Harris, in determining mental fitness in elected officials. Zero. You defended Biden right up until he disintegrated before a national TV audience, when every other rational, objective human was well aware of his incapacity. So, understand the perspective of those who would laugh at your judgement on such matters.

This isn't clever, or funny. We have been in a position for a year that the most powerful person on earth is completely incompetent. Along with a foolish disguise that every rational individual saw, and then was exposed at the meltdown. We can't let this happen again.

An absolutely absurd suggestion of correlation. Had the Democrat apparatus that runs the Biden Administration approved the Carrier Task Force' appeal to the national command authority to allow more offensive actions against the Houthis many months ago, things might be a lot different in the Red Sea, but they refused.

Russia is in no position to bail anybody. The ruble is tanking. their economy is completely screwed up. Not an issue. I China were to try some Cuban strategy, they would regret it.