
sherpa
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I have as much belief in your ability to judge me as I have I in your ability to spell or form a coherent sentence, both of which you have proven incapable of. I could not care less about who got an email. I do care, having served these alerts on the front end of a ship, in a national policy that strikes the aggressor rather than responds to it. Not interested in your view at all. Been there. Done that.
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Evidently, the Trump Administration, and the history of the world, does not agree. And thus the wise decision to eliminate Houthi war capability. Incredibly stupid to continue the Biden policy of spending tens of millions against these hundred dollar drones and missiles. I would have done it within a half hour of the inauguration.
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What I think is that there are tons of people trying to capitalize any experience they have had. Write a book. Do an interview. Get attention and get paid. The point is that there is ten times more nonsense in this forum than issues worth worrying about. Just today, a guy claims that Trump cuts resulted in a lack of warning about a tornado. Next post is a guy who shows that it wasn't that way at all, that it was not detected, ergo, not alarmed. Nothing to do with Trump policy or actions. Next post some goof says that ya, Trump is causing this. It's gotten preposterous.
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I've got no problem with an anti Schumer vector to this. My view is using his idiocy to besmirch the CIA, and calling it a rogue agency, a claim made by some complete unknown is idiotic. We need to attract, recruit and retain the best people for that agency. Know what it's like to do that? Get in, which isn't easy. Train for a year to just get it figured out. Then train for a year in your specialty. If it's language, that's a year. Now you're two years in to get your first assignment. Got a spouse? You're moving. His or her career is upended, though they may make more money than you, and you are going to spend a ton of time away from home. Then after two years, move to a new assignment. Got kids now? That is the normal demographic. Uproot them for the new assignment. After a few years, get assigned to headquarters at Langley. Know how much it costs to buy a house in that area? Then after a couple years, get an assignment that does not allow you to bring family, though you kids are probably five-seven yeas old. Think that's an attractive career package? Anyway, all of that isn't the point. The point is that we have very dedicated people doing this and internet nonsense about them trying to overthrow the gov., by people who know absolutely nothing about this is not a good idea.
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I said this because I have seen it before. People who know nothing suggesting there is something afoot becasue they find nonsense from other sources. I'll provide two examples, which you may or may not be familiar with, or remember. Someone posted a suggestion that someone who was a friend of mine, and someone I am quite familiar with, was involved in a bribery issue. He was a three star, and taking over the Pacific Fleet, and some moron suggested there was bribery involved because of people who attended the change of command. Someone here posted all that trash with no knowledge of who gets invited to those things. It was nonsense. The individual is an extremely accomplished Naval Officer and there is zero evidence, anywhere of his being involved. Second. Some guy on here posted a theory that the US was about to get involved in some military action in the Pacific becasue a number of carriers were in the same location. He made a statement, which made no sense, of something like "when have we seen that before without some military action." I pointed out that carriers often switch coasts. Some are west and some are east, but for various reasons, they swap, deployment scheds etc. When they do, they may "pass in the night in common waters. Means nothing. That didn't prevent this guy, here, from getting up in arms about some imminent military action. Total nonsense.
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Trump announced that Boeing is going to build the "next generation air dominance," (NGAD) airplane, called the F-47. It will be manned, but the pilot will be more of a weapons system manager as it will probably fly autonomously. So in spite of Musk's incompletely formed view, there will be a human in it.
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We have talked about this before. I was never CIA. I applied, got through the first two hoops, but got an offer that was better in a different industry. Musk doesn't worry me. I think he is genuinely trying to bring a fresh approach to am immensely constipated and dysfunctional behemoth, but has no personal financial goals. Not worried about him at all. What I do worry about are lunatics like AOC, Bernie and that moron VP candidate though I think his idiocy has been exposed. Those policies have never worked anywhere, but ya, let's try them here. Sure. As long as people like that are in our gov, I will always convert US currency into other assets, like equities. That has worked so far.
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No. And I have no idea what you mean when you you claim that "Trump wants the deep state revealed," and I'm not concerned about any explanation. That seems to be part of this nonsense that you and the other two post that provides nothing of interest. My disagreeing with claims made by you and the other two don't matter. What matters is that Elon Musk has absolutely nothing to do with US military plans/policy re China. To think he does is the stuff of mad men,
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I don't know what subject your are referring too, but if it Chinese military plans, I believe I am far more informed than you. Not specifics, but general process of how these things go. And, yes, more informed that the WSJ and NYT, who know nothing. If you are referring to the others I have brought up, far more informed.
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Nope. Don't care. What I do care about is refuting nonsense about things I am familiar with. I am not at all interested in the politics that causes people like you to politicize every single issue. I know a lot about aviation, and the FAA. I know a lot about 9-11. I think I know a lot about the stock market and the economy, and at least enough to know it can't be predicted. Other than that, or the Bills, which I follow on a daily basis, and this site does a great job on, not interested.
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I don't post things that don't interest me. Pizzagate, or whatever, is one of those things. I post when I see something clearly wrong, or when I know something that is being misrepresented. What I have responded to is one of those things. It is idiotic to think that, in spite of public denials, that Musk is informed of specific plans by the US military to respond to Chinese moves in the western Pacific, which would change at a moment's notice based on real world events and US military circumstances. It is idiotic. You and the other two morons are of a different opinion, and that is fine. Not my issue.