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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

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The unit I was in was responsible for our short-range air defense kit (Rapier FSC) tracking the B2 at RIAT at Fairford. The excrement really hit the fan when BAe gave the tape to the news. The USAF spokesman said it wasn't in 'stealth mode'. We just wet ourselves when we heard that.

The truth is that it was tootling along a few hundred feet above the centreline of the runway, well below it's normal mission altitude. We couldn't use the radar as the system was too close to the runway (for some reason pilots don't like radars inadvertantly detonating the det cord used to break up the canopies when they eject), so we used a bit of kit called a pointing stick. It is literally what it says, a stick with a trigger, press the trigger and it slaves the trackers to it. We then used thermal auto tracking to follow the B2. Whatever you do you can't hide the skin temperature of a flying aircraft. Both sides cheated, but their excuse was laughable.

This reminds of a story (no doubt embroidered), about Concords being used to simulate Russian bombers in NATO exercises. The concord pilots were mostly ex-RAF and did not serenely fly into USAF arms. In the version I heard transiently switching off the transponder and the fact that delta winged aircraft are naturally fairly stealthy meant that the USAF failed to intercept any concord on a bombing mission. (Also the concord could fly higher and faster than any US interceptor.)

I am sure posters here know far more than I do, so I am happy to be told this is nonsense. Just do it nicely!
 
I need to apologise to Trump for my thoughts when I saw #Shes12 trending.
Then I remembered, Katie Johnson was 13.
 
This reminds of a story (no doubt embroidered), about Concords being used to simulate Russian bombers in NATO exercises. The concord pilots were mostly ex-RAF and did not serenely fly into USAF arms. In the version I heard transiently switching off the transponder and the fact that delta winged aircraft are naturally fairly stealthy meant that the USAF failed to intercept any concord on a bombing mission. (Also the concord could fly higher and faster than any US interceptor.)

I am sure posters here know far more than I do, so I am happy to be told this is nonsense. Just do it nicely!

Sorry, never happened, what you have posted is not true at all.

Looks like typical anti US make believe.
 
Aren't pre-existing conditions already protected?

The trick is that, while he signed a likely toothless order saying they had to "provide coverage", he didn't put any sort of controls for monthly payments, copays, lifetime caps, rescissions or much of anything else. IOW, people with preexisting conditions will get garbage insurance or go without, if the ACA is tossed out.
 
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Aren't pre-existing conditions already protected?

Yes, but the a Trump Administration was trying to gut that provision. EventuallyPOTUS figured out how popular the regulation was so his professed philosophy became “the Democrats want to take away pre-existing protections, but I won’t let them.”

Will we ever get out of the rabbit hole?
 
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Kayleigh McEnany tweets
@PressSec
US government account
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has threatened to use impeachment to undo the Constitution, particularly Article II, Section II.
That is shameful but unsurprising from the Speaker!

Once again, Democrat leaders have made their radical disregard for the U.S. Constitution crystal clear.

So if the Democrats use technical but valid means of affecting the SCOTUS make up, that's shameful but if McConnell does it, that's his prerogative. :rolleyes:
 
CBS Evening News
@CBSEveningNews
@VP Mike Pence tells @NorahODonnell that “in the days ahead” Pres. Trump could use “executive branch authority” to take action on health care “to make it clear to every American that those that are facing preexisting condition will not be denied coverage.”

I hope she answered, sure but at what cost? Is Trump going to divert money from his wall to health care. :rolleyes:
 
CBS Evening News
@CBSEveningNews
@VP Mike Pence tells @NorahODonnell that “in the days ahead” Pres. Trump could use “executive branch authority” to take action on health care “to make it clear to every American that those that are facing preexisting condition will not be denied coverage.”

Um, that is the law at the moment, right?

Why does he need an executive order to say "we will follow the law as established by the ACA"?
 
Um, that is the law at the moment, right?

Why does he need an executive order to say "we will follow the law as established by the ACA"?

So he doesn't have to address the issue that his administration is currently siding with a case heading to the SC that attempts to repeal Obamacare.

You know how, when someone says "Jesus saves," and you ask "saves you from what?" and the answer is "from what he'll do to you if you don't let him save you"? It's something like that- Trump will save your healthcare coverage from the threat of what he and his party are trying to do to it. Trump will be The Saviour, even when he's the only danger you need to be saved from. It's the perfect racket for him- after all, a lot of the people who are (for some reason) his most gape-jawed adorers are the same sort of people who have been falling for it for 2000 years.
 
Um, that is the law at the moment, right?

Why does he need an executive order to say "we will follow the law as established by the ACA"?

Why?
Because “ we will follow the law as established by the ACA" won’t even make it to page 10, and Donny The Grifter Trump is a front-page kind of guy.
 
He thinks stealth mode is accurately portrayed in Marvel movies. He also thinks that Hydra are the good guys.

His campaign is like a Death Star, according to them.
Now we've got Attila the Hun being treated as a good guy.
For the fun of it...
20 Years Ago, Republican Senators ‘All Went Nuts’ for the Xenophobic ‘X-Men’ Villain
The actor behind the villainous Senator Robert Kelly tells all about real Congress members loving his character.


It might say something when Republican leaders seem to really like very evil people.

They believe both. They think liberals are panzie, tree-hugging, pacifist wimps that are violent, dangerous and to be feared.

Usually, the specifics depend on what end they want to arrive at, I think.

In line with the weak and child-like negro slave that "we" need to create armed patrols to suppress in case they rebel, and the pathetic Jews who somehow control all the levers of power and want to destroy the pure white...uh, I mean German people for some reason.

Somehow? It's because the Jews are genetically intellectually superior, of course, and have an inborn tendency towards being crafty and insidious plotters. That's why they need to be gotten rid of.

This is the right thread. There is only one person responsible for the attitude of border patrol and ICE agents.

Sadly, no. I'm rather sure that ICE's behavior has been quite problematic for a long time. Trump and his Administration's influence has been quite notable, but not definitive. They've helped bring out the worst in ICE and make it dominant in a bunch of ways, sure, though.

How did NY get in there?

I think this is another publicity stunt, a twofur:

1) Makes his cult followers believe those 3 cities are burning with rioters

2) Makes him feel like a big man threatening those bastions of Biden voters.

Trump wanted it there. Also, it's more than that, I'd say.

To poke at two of the other things that are pretty much a given, though...

3) Intentionally working to hurt Democratic leaning areas and then blaming the Democrats for any problems that result as an attempt to gain political advantage is pretty much a standard Republican tactic now.

4) It also adds to the general chaos of things and, especially for those who aren't politically involved, Democrats calling out Republicans for what the Republicans actually are doing triggers disbelief and may reduce involvement because of the unpleasant confusion and negativity that inevitably becomes more and more associated with politics.
 
You know how, when someone says "Jesus saves," and you ask "saves you from what?" and the answer is "from what he'll do to you if you don't let him save you"? It's something like that- Trump will save your healthcare coverage from the threat of what he and his party are trying to do to it. Trump will be The Saviour, even when he's the only danger you need to be saved from. It's the perfect racket for him- after all, a lot of the people who are (for some reason) his most gape-jawed adorers are the same sort of people who have been falling for it for 2000 years.

A great number of the folks falling for it have noticed DJT’s words, actions, and decisions and look for a way to console themselves. The most common method is to tell everyone “God sent Donald Trump to us in order to change the direction of the United States of America.”

And that right there is the one thing the always-Trumpers and never-Trumpers agree on: DJ Trump is changing the direction of America.
 
Trump Tweets

A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies. Today, I've expanded that ban to people and companies that do business...

...with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!
 
Tonight's rally

Trump fans chant "lock them up!" about the Mueller investigators. Trump then suggests the State Department is protecting Hillary Clinton by hiding her emails

"I mean, honestly, what the hell did he spend all that money on the plastic surgery if he's gonna cover it up?"
Trump mocks Joe Biden for having social distancing at his events and wearing a mask
 
Trump Says
"By the way, our opponents, they don't want petroleum products. They want wind. Let's open up wind. Let's have some wind & every once in a while the wind will blow & you will produce a couple of things & then you can close down your plant for the rest of the season."
 
Trump Tweets

A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies. Today, I've expanded that ban to people and companies that do business...

...with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!

The best way to take PRIDE in this country again is to get rid of the vile piece of excrement that resides in the WH at the moment.
 
It's the booing and dissing congresswomen of color portion of Trump's speech

“She’s telling us how to run our country. How did you do where you came from?” Trump says as he attacks Ilhan Omar,
 
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