"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008

"You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike."
- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Illiterate O-6 Politics Right Down the Middle


It was 1000 percent wrong?  Hardly.  It was a legitimate protest, which Americans have every right to do, and a small number of people got out of hand and a larger number of people were guilty of an arbitrary misdemeanor of trespassing on their own public property.

That does not in any way equate to "1000% wrong."  The people had every right to protest their tyrannical, lying, murderous police state of a government and the actions of a few people jaywalking and such does not change that.

And if you're going to call somebody a moron, perhaps leverage your years in DC and learn how to spell "Capitol."  You moron.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

American Police State Wrongfully Imprisons Army Officer's Wife

 

The police state that America is (and if you think that is hyperbole then you are a moron) steadily increases.  Right now the push to further use our fascist DHS to increase its totalitarian powers is focused more on "illegals" because many know there are real issues, especially after the last administration, with illegal immigrants in the nation.  But this isn't about illegals or even non-Americans.  Even American citizens who enter their own nation, and are greeted by DHS agents that they employ, can have their laptops or cell phones confiscated and searched without suspicion of any wrongdoing on their part.  The DHS thugs can't keep you from entering the nation, but the federal government has decided that they can deprive you of your electronic devices so that they can hack them and download all your information (and you'd better hope they don't plant stuff).  Without any suspicion of any crime, and without our flaccid politicians-in-dresses at the SCOTUS putting a stop to such actions, our tyrannical government thinks it can sift through all your photos and communications simply because you would like to enter your own nation that you fund with your tax money.

About two decades ago I fought this thuggish unreasonable police state and spent about six figures of my own money doing it, only to witness the complete complicity of fascist judges all the way up to the highest court in the nation.

Understand this.  Regardless of political party or your service status, this government hates you and thinks it owns you and has absolutely zero concern for your constitutional rights or the law.  While you might have been able to comply and bow and scrape your way through this nation off the radar while deluding yourself about living in a free country, the economic realities that are unfolding now will quickly fix your delusion for you as it becomes undeniable.  But the truth is, if you don't realize that you're subjugated by a tyrannical government after the past two decades, you're honestly far too stupid to be free anyway.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Finally, an Unmanned Fighter Aircraft

For roughly two decades I have been scratching my head at the lack of an unmanned fighter aircraft.  I blogged about it back in 2009 in a post entitled Why I Believe UAVs are Better Than Manned Fighters and it led to some decent conversation in the comments section.  Since then an AI pilot flying a limited F-16 (limited by Gs like a human would be) was able to beat a manned fighter one hundred percent of the time.  And now the YFQ-44A, that has discarded those arbitrary limits that only apply to humans, is being made known to the public.  It's about time.


Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The Rosenbergs Could Have Been U.S. Ambassadors Under Our Puppet Government

General Mark Milley committed literal treason and didn't even get a slap on the wrist.  Now we have somebody in the white spying for Israel, and instead of getting punished, Mike Waltz gets made the U.N. ambassador.

It's readily apparent that We The People do not own our government.  Our government is owned by a hostile foreign nation.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Yes, it is the POTUS' Job to Interpret the Constitution


 

One of the most authoritarian posters at the digital clown show (similar to Shapiro and Murray and other authoritarian thugs who like to recite correct views when convenient) recently stated that it's not the job of the President to interpret the Constitution.  Of course he would also conveniently ignore his own oath of office in the military by claiming those above him have lawyers and therefore every order is presumed to be constitutional.

Pretty silly of our Constitution to require executive officers to take an oath to support the Constitution if what was really meant was just do what some lawyer tells you to do.  Which is why the document doesn't state that.  Back before cowards like Ratner became the norm within our ranks, it was common sense that educated military officers were required to be educated precisely so that they could bear the burden of interpreting words, whether to determine commander's intent, or to determine legality.  Apparently the training on LOAC that Ratner received was wasted since he believes you're supposed to just presume a lawyer said doing something was okay.

Trump's reliance on lawyers to tell him whether something is constitutional or not is a major black eye.  One would think the top of the executive branch would be bothered enough to read the Constitution himself and, just as a matter of professionalism, even take a gander at the words from the top of another federal branch of government.

But, no, apparently some nameless twenty-something year old law graduate will suffice.  That's the same way Obama behaved when he murdered Americans without due process.  Just get some spineless treasonous ambitious lawyer to write a secret memo saying that whatever it is you want to do is "legal" and away you go.

Lord Ratner has no business occupying a uniform.  By his own admission, he is not up to the task of performing the duties required of an executive officer.  And he's in good company.  Sua Stupidity is just one example, apparently under the impression that the legislative branch doesn't need to interpret the Constitution either.  The Constitution, of course, completely disagrees and charges everybody in the Senate and all judges and all executive officers with interpreting and supporting the Constitution.

It's no wonder we can't win a war anymore.