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And let's not forget that plane blew up at Mach-10. That's debris going Mach-10. That is probably stretching over a debris field 300 miles long. Put this guy in jail. That sh¡t could kill someone.

I could go on. Let me know if you want to know why Rooster would never fly another plane in the military.

In the opening act of Maverick: Top Gun, we see Cpt Pete "Maverick" Mitchell living a quiet peaceful life in what appears to be an abandoned Naval hangar where he is maintaining what appears to be a replica of a P-51 Mustang WWII era fighter. But then he pulls his iconic bomber jacket out of his locker which is in one of those protective suit bags for some reason. Similarly he reveals his iconic motorcycle which is under a tarp for some reason. Now the needless unveiling of these throwbacks to the original Top Gun are not why he should be in jail even though it makes no sense given that none of the other vehicles are protected and it appears based on his relationship and the calendar that flashes up that he works quite closely with the crew, but let's assume he only breaks out the special jacket and cycle on flight days, and give him a pass. No the reason he should be in jail is he defied a direct order from Admiral Kane, who his team refers to as the "Drone Ranger" because he wants to use the funding for a drone program. Maverick convinces the team to run the planned test anyway with the intention of pushing past the planned checkpoint of Mach 9 and going to the contract threshold of Mach 10. Cut to much later in the day as night appears to be falling, and Kane is at the gate. Maverick is warned that "you know what happens to you if you go through with this," and Maverick replies, "I know what happens to everyone else if I don't" Let's pause here for a second. They never expound on what actually would happen to everyone else, but let's consider that. If everyone else means the project team, it is very likely they all get new jobs elsewhere. If everyone else, means the world, the implication is that this jet going Mach 10 is somehow key to saving the world which I would argue is nonsense given that the need for speed (hehe) is mitigated by the fact that the US has strategic air bases all over the world and can be on any target within hours, so this notion that somehow this test is for the greatest good is debatable on the surface. Admiral Kane shows up to the test (by himself which is odd) and orders the team to terminate the test. At this point Maverick feigns radio disruption and disregards the order. His team then becomes complicit in this criminal activity and substantiates the lie about radio trouble with a lie that would have been easy to prove incorrect from a technical standpoint, but also moments later as Maverick is passing Mach 7, his team reports that they are receiving telemetry data which would be on the same comm frequencies as voice data. A few minutes later as he pushes past Mach 9, Maverick exhibits signs of mental distress as he says to himself and the flight recorder, "talk to me Goose," indicating that he is distracted by the tragic accident which took his radar officer's life decades ago. At approximately Mack 9.7, Maverick denotes "wind shield hot caution" obviously indicating structural integrity of the aircraft may be degrading. Eventually Maverick does hit Mach 10 presumably satisfying the necessary criteria to stave off "what would happen to everyone else" if he didn't disobey orders whatever the fock that was. Maverick, however, does not stop there with mission accomplished. He pushes the plane further to Mach 10.1... 10.2... until eventually the display lights up with massive amounts of warnings and he has to eject. The result? A destroyed plane putting lives at risk needlessly due to fallout from the wreckage. So let's recap: Disobeys direct orders (presumably for some greater good that he made up) Puts lives in danger, including his own, by recklessly causing a plane to crash in an unknown part of the country as maverick demonstrates when he asks what state he is in when he gets to the diner. Destroyed a multi-million dollar aircraft for fun essentially since the parameters were clearly set and met to stave off this tenuous assertion of doom he alluded to earlier And not only was he incredibly, incredibly reckless for no reason whatsoever by continuing past Mach 10. He was WRONG. The unmanned aircraft program is a better use of military budget than a hyper fast plane. The point of a Mach 10 plane would surveillance and hyper fast penetration into enemy territory to put energy on targets while potentially outrunning enemy air defense. But let's take those 1 at a time. Surveillance can be accomplished with satellites and drones The utility as an offensive threat with speed as a defensive capability is limited because you would have to slow down to deploy a weapon, and given the aerodynamics and fuel necessary to hit those speeds, the payload capacity would be extremely limited An unmanned aerial vehicle program would be much more utile to the military. It's more cost effective as those would be much cheaper, easier to deploy and maintain, they would have higher payload and loiter capabilities to give it similar response times, and it wouldn't put pilots in danger. It's clearly a superior investment. The Drone Ranger was correct in his assessment! And to be frank, the entire mission that Iceman cooked up was BS. A B-2 could've performed that mission easily, but even if you disallow for that and accept the premise that the F18 was the only platform capable of carrying out the mission, our military has a mixed fleet for a reason. If you need the F-18s to perform the bombing, you would have surely paired them with 5th gen fighters to cover their escape. The conclusion? Iceman cooked up the mission for the sole purpose of saving Maverick from going to jail. Maverick should've went straight to jail after the Darkstar debacle which was entirely his fault and premeditated.

I saw it all. Quality programming.

For all of you that don't like The Wire, you're stupid.

Oh snap. I didn't even know there was anything past the first season of True Detective.

I've only seen 5 of them, so my list will be bunk, but here is the ranking of the 5 I saw. The Wire Oz Band of Brothers Thrones (didn't watch the last season) True Detective Wire head and shoulders better than all of the others.

Like what? Kennedy got assassinated coming off of cuban missile crisis, and nothing happened. Swear the next guy in. As long as they aren't as clearly vulnerable as Biden was, everything will be fine. They're all the same anyway. Just don't be a simp. A clearly compromised Biden going on tv and drooling all over himself in a presidential debate letting the world know we had a vegetable with his finger on the button was a bigger national security issue. Well, I say let the world know, but I'm sure everyone already knew. The wokies, yet again, were the last ones to catch up. I wonder where these amazing doctors that you hold in such high esteem were when that went down because anyone who's ever been around someone with dementia knew right away back in the original election knew that cat was on borrowed time, and several of us on this site said it at the time. You remember what your team said? It was a stutter. Yeah, let me trust y'all. I don't even understand why y'all keep insisting on having opinions. If I focked up as much as you guys did over installing biden and covid handling, I'd be gun shy about having strong opinions, but y'all just keep going.

no it wouldn't. there's this thing called line of succession.

Oh good. The wokie version of seafoam chimed in. Yay.

Yeah, if trump dies tomorrow, our nation's security is focked. Trump's holding it all together. Okay, man. Meanwhile, everyone but the wokies knew Biden had dementia before he was even elected, and somehow the nation didn't fall apart, although it did likely empower Putin to invade Ukraine. So good job there, wokies. Man, this dude won a popularity contest. He's got nothing to do with national security. In fact, given how these mofos handle classified intelligence, they're all probably more hinderances to security than helpful. You guys really don't know what leaders do at the top level do you? You think they sit around making defense plans and writing EOs or something? Presidents, CEOs... they define themes. they define policies. they define strategies, and then if they're good at what they do, they hire good people to go execute strategy and policy. In Trump's case, he just spouts some generally actionable nonsense (at least on a good day it's actionable), and someone behind the scene turns that into something that hopefully makes some bit of sense. In the president's case, there are teams and teams and teams of people who actually run sh¡t that Trump doesn't even know exist.

putting aside that this an entirely different point than the president taking a jab is a big gotcha, this isn't as compelling as you think it is. yes, you can do what you want with your property/business - within the rules of law. One of which, used to be at least, that you can't force people to get medical procedures in some misguided attempt to make customers feel safer.

I remember when the jabs first came out. They thought everyone would be tripping over themselves to go get it. And while all the lefties were body checking grandmas to get in line first, all the common sense people were like, "Sure. I don't even want it anyway." For the record: The wokies told you you needed to get the jab. If you're young and healthy, you ain't dying of covid. You probably didn't need a jab and you sure as hell don't need to keep getting jabs. It's just like any other medicine. Every single one has side effects. Don't take anything you don't absolutely need to take The wokies told you it would stop the spread. The jab won't stop the spread, so getting the jab isn't saving grandma. Not a reason to take it. If you're old, if you're fat, if you have compromised immune system, you should probably get at least one jab. Fauci focked you good by funding wuhan labs (and then lying about it). You're going to have to pick the lesser of two evils here because the problem is you're going to have an elevated risk of dying from the vid or you're going to have an elevated risk of having some heart problem from the jab (glad they at least finally started admitted that is happening). It ain't hard until you guys started listening to Fauci cover for his lies and Bourla trying to make more money and a bunch of ivory tower policy makers that made a trillion dollar mistake shutting businesses down trying to save granny.

No you don't see how it works. Oh wait. I get it. You're trying to make this some kind of referendum on people shItting on the jab. The reason I wasn't picking up on that is it's not jiving with my recollection because I don't recall even the most extreme people saying no one should be allowed to take it if they want it. So even if it is killing and harming people, if he wants to take it, so what? And that's what you can't wrap your head around. Your team? "Take this or else!" My team? "You do you" If you choose to view this from the perspective of more reasonable people, the stance would've been "hey if you're young and healthy, this thing is probably doing you more harm than good," but that's not even the president's case. He's old and fat.

Probably unnecessary for him since he already had covid even though he's fat and old but it's his choice. See how that works? Fat and/or old people are the main ones that should consider taking it. All most people asked for is to let us make the decision for ourselves, but y'all couldn't allow us that freedom because y'all decided to listen to guys making billions pushing the stuff. And you turned out wrong again as usual.