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Two other factors: Spending $68 billion on stock buybacks instead of investing the money in R&D, and moving from an engineering-centric operation to one controlled by the bean counters.

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Yet another factor: Outsourcing of design and manufacturing; source 1, source 2

Trump about the F-47:

Certain allies, we will be selling them, perhaps, a toned-down version. We like to tone it down about 10%, which probably makes sense, because some day maybe they’re not our allies, right?

I can visualise quite clearly how Boeing executives and sales people are facepalming right now.

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Whenever I see “F-47”, I interpret it as Fuck-Trump.

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First, Trump launched his tariffs, then he started antagonising friends and allies, and now he effectively says that he doesn’t trust that allies will be allies. Never before have the following Ford Fairlane quote been more appropriate, when applied to Trump:

Some people play hard to get. I play hard to want.

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Come to think of it… F 47 is being said daily.

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Do you ‘spose anyone has mentioned this to him yet? Do you ‘spose that is they do, he’ll change it?

Speaking of which, the new plane has apparently been so named because 47th President.

Simultaneously weird and eye rolling, and completely unsurprising.

A plausible explanation for the acceptance of the F-47 is that someone decided that the chances of getting it approved and funded would be greater if they could feed the narcissism of the Orange Emperor by associating the fighter jet with him.

Results from the daily question, “What insane shit did they do today?”:

Yeah, that shit is also all over international news, e.g.




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Coming from a regime led by a guy who kept top secret documents in a bathroom in a publicly accessible area of a country club, that revelation shouldn’t surprise anyone.

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When asked, trump disavowed any knowledge of the exchange. In the process, he dissed The Atlantic. He did not indicate any concern about it.

So Pete H. has, at this point, inadvertently (as far as it’s known) leaked top secret military information and shown a troubling sycophancy toward the people in charge of him.

What shall we expect of the SecDef if, or when, we’re actually at war with another country ?

This most definitely belongs in FAFO land.

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Trump is telegraphing that the U.S. might actually engage in one or more military conflicts with other nations to illegally annex their territory…much like his love interest Putin has done.

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Here’a video comment from Brian Tyler Cohen, where he highlights the hypocrisy of Hegseth, Gabbard, et al., when they were all riled up about Hillary’s emails, and Biden’s handling of classfiied documents and in general. So do they still think that leaking of classified information should be punished to the full extent of the law? How will they squirm away from this?

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By lighting fires elsewhere, denying it, by lying, by having Congress under their thumb, by duping his supporters, by calling it a witch hunt, by all the shitty, devious methods he’s used for everything else.

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You missed one: throwing shaky ad hom attacks onto anyone calling this kind of shit out.

In time, I’ll be surprised if he and the cronies won’t likely bore of even this and move into threats, intimidation, and punishment as a standard.

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