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13 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
I get it, show me some credible evidence.
But not that guy.
Evidence of what?
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9 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
I suppose that someone who worked at CIA is also someone who knows nothing about the IC and should be advised that it's unwise to opine about their time working there and what that experience and their knowledge of agency history tells them.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176443905-big-intel
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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6 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Get tired of it all you want. Corrupt. Period.
Like Admiral Pat Walsh?
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7 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Same can be said about the FBI. Undoubtedly the majority of the people in the field and doing the daily grind at both the CIA and FBI are fine people and true patriots.
The leadership at both have unquestionably gone completely off the rails.
I am getting really tired of this.
If one wants to find people "off the rails," this would be low fruit, easy pickin' evidence.
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39 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
I hear you. Again, hearing all the "expert virologists" with wacky takes having zero basis in science and reality gives me understanding of the above.
Still, I'm not sure how an elected sitting senator saying that unelected bureaucrats in the CIA (or IC at large) have "six ways from Sunday" at getting back at an elected President isn't sufficient grounds for questioning the CIA. It's the friggin CIA, by its very nature none of know for certain exactly what they're up to.
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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11 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Posting stuff from others who have their own opinions, just like everyone else here does not seem problematic to me any longer in 2025.
I stopped giving a fuk.c about any of that when everyone and their brother suddenly became expert virologists, epidemiologist and vaccine formulation scientists in recent years.
Follow The Science, remember?
It's 2025 man. Everyone is an expert on everything all the time.
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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52 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
It is always wise to not post stuff from other sources, who have no credibility, on matters one knows little about.
This is one of those situations.
Most everything posted by non informed individuals regarding the CIA is total conjecture and useless, but nonetheless, potentially dangerous.
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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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48 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Mad men was either a good tv show or the current US administration. So you weren't CIA. Didn't think so. I'd have more respect if you were. What I mean is that many of your compatriots find this stuff conspiratorial. and you don't object. cuz you're not interested. except in musk who you see as benign despite obvious conflict of interests especially regarding global military calculus. you're analytical til you're not.
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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2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
why? splain...cuz you were a pilot? or were you CIA? C'mon. you can say. All that's coming out because trump wants the "deep state" revealed. but you're not interested...
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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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
so, no more expertise on this subject than say, someone like me....and less than the WSJ and NYT
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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1 minute ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
you didn't mention deep knowledge of the workings of the highest levells of the pentagon under trump and hegseth nor the latitude trump has or will show musk. those would seem salient in this discussion. I'm confident the reporters from NYT and WSJ do or at a minimum know sources that do. hence the threat to punish the"leakers'.
I would have no way of knowing that, but I am not worried about Musk
I should have added that I do know a great deal about Naval Aviation and at sea tactics.
Left that out.
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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
and pizza gate or any of the other Q nonsense posted all over this forum don't meet those criteria?
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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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
I've never seen you question any of the myriad far right conspiracy theories posted here. You know, pizzagate and the like...but a story about an unelected "advisor" with massive influence and access is too far fetched.
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.
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13 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Id rather be wacky following a WSJ story than one from you or any other right wing blogger. I’m not interested in those.
I am hardly a "right wing blogger."
Don't respond.
Easy.
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12 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
You people? You mean non MAGA s? Undoubtedly false. And you know this because you’re a pilot?
I don't get into the MAGA or non MAGA thing.
Not interested.
The issue is ridiculous.
Not factual, and crazy.
But you and the other two will do what you do here.
Idiotic. Predictable and wacky.
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33 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Since when did trump follow laws/protocol/rules/traditions? Why would start now?
So...Take a claim is is undoubtedly false, and remarkably silly.
Run with it in a manner that proves ignorance on the issue.
Then suggest accuracy based on a political opponent you hate, without any evidence.
This is what makes sense to you people?
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Not that knowing anything means anything in this forum/thread, but having a top security clearance does not permit access to all TD data.
You have to have a "need to know."
You don't simply walk in and state you have a TS and are granted access to everything.
That, friends, is uninformed nonsense.
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16 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Methinks trump, Hegseth, musk and the MAGAs here protest too much
Methinks you are crazy.
Take a lie, similar to the "good people on both sides never ending lie."
Suggest a conspiracy.
Claim that people who do not believe the lie are in error.
OK. Makes sense.
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27 minutes ago, Roundybout said:
Why is Elon going to the Pentagon? His role has nothing to do with national security.Are you serious?
Go up a grand total of three posts above your's in this thread.
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You guys, (seemingly), have a grossly exaggerated view on Elon Musk, based on his expression of a general opinion that he is not completely informed enough to make.
Want to see an adult conversation of this?
Probably not, 'cause it's not in your interest, but......Informed adults discuss Elon Musk comments
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Just now, All_Pro_Bills said:
Exactly. Now we're being asked to believe Musk has suddenly developed the ability to perform strategic and tactical military planning. My God.
These people on this forum are crazy.
What he said about the F-35 is old news.
It's been discussed at length by very knowledgeable people involved in these issues.
It's an opinion. That is all
2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:Cmon he and his son are in the Oval Office more than a painting of Abraham Lincoln. And he’s literally at the pentagon meeting with top brass this am. He most certainly has has had a huge impact and sadly will continue to.
Through experience, I have learned to pay absolutely no attention to your views on the military or its use.
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22 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
So you don’t find it alarming? Not at all? So ready to swallow his shyte. Maybe you secretly want a militaristic autocracy run by fascist oligarchs.
Which is why he has no business in the Oval Office
This is about Tesla.
Anecdotally, there is a Tesla dealership in Beijing across the street from the silk market.
I have been in there with a guy who owned a Tesla.
He said the Beijing prices were 50% higher in Beijing becasue of Chinese anti US tariffs.
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2 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Musk is already weighing in on military operations: “fighter jets are outdated and will just get pilots killed”
An opinion piece, and not at all completely informed on the issue.
Has no impact.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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I am extremely pleased that the US conducted air strikes on the Houthis instead of "catching" missiles and drones,
That is what is important.
They can clean up their email lists, but the important thing is to eliminate the threat at its origin, and they are doing that,....now.