Yeah, a couple of dozen women all accusing him of the same thing, none of whom had any financial motivation to do so, is just coincidence and TDS. /s

SMDH

Well, at least they pretended to, and claimed in press releases that they did, but no part of drone strikes, torture, extra-judicial killings, or destruction of civilian infrastructure outside of war zones abides by the Geneva Conventions.

Not only Republicans, a lot of Democrats are doing the same thing. (I suspect blackmail, but they may just be opportunistic weasels.)

Did you see they had to close all the Parks Department hotels on the Grand Canyon because of lack of money to staff them? I give it 366 days from that decision to a new policy to privatize them.

I voted one-issue in 2024, which candidate came out against using our tax dollars to enable a genocide. That eliminated both major parties. I just plain will not vote for anyone who approves of and supports genocide, and I don't know how you or anyone else can.

I quite literally cannot think of a more important issue to base a vote on than whether the candidate is going to make me an unwilling party to genocide. Can you?

Didn't realize that they were single-pilot certified.

Our niece installs Garmin stuff, and I asked her if she put these in. She said yes, and that, "This type of thing is super expensive." Guess it makes sense for a million dollar plane, though.

"Homebrew drones from parts" aren't going to be built much using US components. A US-made motor for example costs 4-18 times more than an imported one, and they're less reliable. Now as the cost of rare earth elements and neodymium magnets continues to rise because of restrictions on dual-use materials it's only going to get worse.

Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons sold the Party to Wall Street in the '90s for campaign money. No one who isn't a tool of the mega-corps can get a DNC endorsement or any party money today, and if they insist on running they'll be buried under the deluge of propaganda and dirty tricks the Party leadership deploys.

A King Air 200 generally retails for $1-3 million dollars, so most of the time they wouldn't be 'personal planes', and while they generally only seat 6-9 plus a crew of 3 they're only 'small' when compared to something like an Airbus.

Coincidentally (or not) this was just published last week.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Most experts understand though that there is no real vulnerability to any of that—it’s just another example that China owns the supply chain for yet another thing the Pentagon wants to build. Simple components don’t create a high risk of exploitation; the real problem is that the economics don’t work for American companies to bother building them. A drone requires four motors. Chinese motors cost $12 to $25. American drone motors cost $100 to $200. So the cost of the motors for a simple, cheap drone will cost $48 bucks if using made-in-China motors, verses $400 if you want them built in the US.

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He also goes into the nose dive that Unusual Machines (which the Rump clan is invested in) and Anduril stock is taking, and how useless the US drones show up in actual usage (the Ukrainians actually refuse to fly drones that Anduril donated, they're so bad).

Optimist. For the first time in my life I'm seriously worried that there might not be a change in administrations in 2028.

They're flying a lot fewer of them lately. Ansarallah in Yemen took out around 20% of the US's stock of Predator and Marauder drones over the course of the last few years, and several others have been downed by Iran, Russia, and others, plus there is attrition from old age and overuse since a lot of them were built in the 90s. China has embargoed many of the materials necessary to construct new ones as well, so as they're used up the inventory is going to keep diminishing.

And what the frack is that? Quite a number of people sail their boat up to Vancouver and back to Seattle, not always with the same number of people traveling each way. If I get on someone's boat in Vancouver and ride it to Bellevue should I be deported? And to where? (Please don't send me back to Michigan.)

My gr-gr-grandfather Bolle walked across the frozen Lake Superior one winter, and married a mine widow in Calumet . She had apparently sailed on a boat all the way up the Saint Lawrence Seaway, through 4 of the 5 Great Lakes to land in Calumet with a bunch of other mail order brides from Scandinavia. Should they have been deported? Actually four years later they all voted as legal citizens.

I'm sure that was part of the whole purpose of DOGE, to destroy government employment as a viable career choice for competent people.

Women who I have worked with call themselves "linemen", so I don't think that's a problem. The fact that almost all of them are Union members is probably more of an issue to this Sadministration.