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  • This is completely not true. It does not show incompetence whatsoever. Quite the opposite actually. Dangerous, reckless, unprofessional, yes. But at those speeds, it takes skill to get that close, and not be pulled into the other plane and crash, when the other plane is not actively participating in the stunt. That’s why the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels, and every other stunt team in the world practice for 100’s of hours on this. It is not easy to do in any case. Bernoulli’s principle makes it get more difficult the faster you are moving. That is why a chinese pilot crashed into an E3 years ago, when he tried to pull the same crap.






  • The freedom caucus, yes, they are too stupid to understand the playbook. The GOP wants to break the government, so they can dismantle all social programs, and institute a takeover for permanent power. The freedom caucus is a bunch of toddlers just running around screaming for attention and screwing up everyone’s plans, because they are too stupid to understand what they are supposed to do. They are a result of right wing media dumbing down the electorate and living on fake outrage for too many years. Donald Trump was also a symptom of that same machine. The GOP wants a dumb controllable electorate, because with intelligence it’s easy to see their plan is bad for the general population. But their dumbing everything down and years of fake outrage, have created a situation of uncontrollable chaos perpetuated by their dumbed down angry electorate. When the media embraced and co-opted the libertarian “patriot movement” in 2010, they sealed the fate of utter stupidity.


  • “Come here, big tits. Come here, big tits. Your tits belong to me. Give them to me (indiscernible). I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. I want to claim my tits. These are my tits,” Giuliani said in one March 12, 2019, exchange,

    “These breasts belong to me. Nobody else can get near these, OK? I don’t care if they’re flirting or they give you business cards. These are mine, you got it?” he continued. “Understand? I’m very fucking possessive. I’ve gone easy on you.”

    this Rudy Giulliani? I’m shocked


  • It’s been a while so I may not remember all the details correctly. Originally Snowden met glen Griswold in Hong Kong to give him the data he dumped. After that the news about spying on Americans was published, which again, if you didn’t have your head up your ass you knew was happening. A few months later more information was published about how the NSA and CIA were doing their jobs and spying on other countries. I don’t remember for sure if there was a second meeting with Snowden or if all that came from the first data hand over. Snowden took a job at the NSA, where they, SPY ON OTHER COUNTRIES. I fully support the release initial information being published, too many people were sucking the ra ra patriotism dick to realize their liberties were being trounced. That’s why us crazy lefty liberals were against the patriot act. We knew this was going to be the result, since we read the damn bill. It was spelled out in the bill.but everyone said it wouldn’t happen.




  • What snowden released went well beyond that. He gave up critical information used against countries like Russia. He exposed way more than just the spying on US citizens. He gave out secrets of how we conduct intelligence gathering on our adversaries, that we need to be gathering intelligence on. Operations that were 100% not on US soil, (which the NSA and CIA aren’t even allowed to operate on, though the Patriot Act somewhat redefined that), and operations that were 100% not involving US citizens, (which most intelligence gathering doesn’t.


  • When Snowden published information about the government surveiling it’s own citizens, which you should have known since the patriot act, he was being a hero. Until then people wanted to keep their head in the sand and deny that the government was going to use the patriot act the way those of us who protested it said they would.

    When Snowden published stuff about the government spying on foreign assets, he became a traitor to our country. We spy on other people? NO FUCKING SHIT, that’s what it’s call intelligence agencies. He did immense damage to national security and the safety of the free world.

    People have argued, well maybe we shouldn’t be spying at all, well maybe ,but for now EVERYONE does it, and it’s part of avoiding major wars. Sure, I would rather live in a star Trek universe, but for now we don’t, and this didn’t help that. Every country spies on each other.

    But it was never ok to spy on our own citizens, and that needs to prevented in the future. Remember that the next time something like the patriot act comes up.