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When this is over the reconstruction will be excruciating. The simplest strategy will be to fire anyone who remains by '28. Anyone there will be of questionable integrity. Then hire anyone let go from '25 to '28. That's an ironclad recommendation. It will need to be like de-nazification in '46...

Actually it sounds like they got a "clever" idea from Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. In that novel a more extreme ingestion of printed works is a secondary plot point. Interestingly the book is from 2006 and set in 2025.

Bad government termites busy extending the rot.

I think the mullahs are holding out for 29%...

Another week of magical thinking. I think the big money boys are betting that trump will taco and take an "L" when he sees the trend in the Dow/S&P. The question is how zealous are the surviving mullahs and IRGC colonels. How hard do they want to go to squeeze trumps balls. Will they offer his L?

Read your book and it reduced my worry about the Singularity. However I'm still worried about nuclear war and now the collaboration between AI and genetic engineering is starting to be dread inducing... Still don't think a one way ticket to Mars is going to solve any problems.

Yeah but friggen SCOTUS is their other backstop. They might do game theory analysis and determine that they can give up the fillibuster and still have the six apparatchiks on SCOTUS perform that function. Hopefully they arent that clever. However when it comes to effective raw power they usually are

Yeah I guess that means the next iteration of ChatGPT will nuke two schools.

And by "risk averse" you really mean that he wants to avoid aircraft losses/pilot captures and ships being hit because those are impossible to hide from scrutiny. Hits on barracks full of privates, corporals and sergeants are less concerning since they are able to smother reporting of injuries.

They could have chosen Ben Wickler who worked miracles in Wisconsin. Instead they chose this dead fish. Who the hell contributes to the DNC anyway? That organization is and has been useless as tits on a boar. Hope they ditch this twit and bring in Ben for '28. But not holding my breath...

Almost. But he doesn't give a flying fuck about the low rankinng army and air force troops who are at the peripheral bases. Thats because the Pentagon is smothering info from those bases but they couldn't pull that off if an aircraft were shot down or a ship hit. Cynical scumbaggery aided by Caine.

He wants to break Iran without putting boots on the ground or even risking captured pilots. To do that he's directing the military to use the most advanced, recent, costly munitions which offer the least risk in this regard. Troops at bases don't qualify for risk minimization for some reasons.

Yes. The major scenario is that China launches the war of "reunification" and the US and perhaps some other countries try to help Taiwan fend off the invasion. The likelihood of that help was/is always ambiguous. Under Trump I think it's nil. He'd bomb the chip fabs and let it go since he's a punk.

Seems that the major weapons manufacturers and the military have been engaged is something like a scam for last few decades. The stuff they build is absurdly expensive and would have lasted only weeks in a China v US war. Idiot Trump has inadvertently exposed the scam.

Has anyone speculated that these facilities might be being used to store more than just consumer goods? It seems clear that these are "dual use" facilities but is it possible they're being used as full fledged POL (petrol, oil, lubricant) depots for the military?

Trump doesn't give a flying fuck about the Republican party. He's balls to the walls on persuing his agenda as well as the agendas of the freaks he's brought on board with him. The question is if the dems in general and the dem candidates specifically will use these idiot moves to slay....

Damned thing has to go to Davis Monthan AFB if it doesn't stay in the US Air Force fleet. Alternatively they could mount it on the top of the Arc de Trump in Arlington. Nah.

There's $83 million more in the pipeline. It will be interesting to see if SCROTUS comes to his aid on that one. That's starting to be real money...

Bonehead Navarro strikes again.

It will take 10s of millions to add the classified defensive equipment to the aircraft over the next year or so. It will have to be removed if the aircraft leaves posession of the Air Force and that would cost a similar amount. The ONLY choice is to keep the jet or mothball it at a secure location.