Bill Sweetman
@valkstrategy.bsky.social
Polymath on gap year. #AvGeek. Writer, strategist, cook and guitar picker. Lol, woke, and cope gonna get you blocked, chile.
www.valkstrategy.com
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AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.
Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.
The key to this is semantic engineering. Nobody has yet defined 6Gen, any more than there is a coherent definition of Gen 1-3, so whatever horror has come out of Frank's requirements sausage machine can be labelled 6Gen. But LockMart won't like that one bit, because it will make their ATM sound old.
SCOOP: A new Air Force analysis supports the development of a manned sixth-gen fighter known as Next Generation Air Dominance, amid questions about the program's future.
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/excl...
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/excl...
EXCLUSIVE: New Air Force review supports manned 6th-gen NGAD fighter concept
Military analysis supports the fielding of a sixth-generation stealth fighter, Breaking Defense has learned, though a final decision on the Next Generation Air Dominance platform now rests with the Tr...
breakingdefense.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM
The key to this is semantic engineering. Nobody has yet defined 6Gen, any more than there is a coherent definition of Gen 1-3, so whatever horror has come out of Frank's requirements sausage machine can be labelled 6Gen. But LockMart won't like that one bit, because it will make their ATM sound old.
Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time?
But here we bloody well are.
But here we bloody well are.
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time?
But here we bloody well are.
But here we bloody well are.
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Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell.
His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.
If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.
Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.
His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.
If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.
Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.
Butler’s response is *exactly* correct. To accept the premise that ‘woke’ is something outside of a right wing moral panic is to be a dupe.
December 15, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell.
His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.
If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.
Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.
His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics.
If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity.
Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.
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turning a new page for 2025
December 14, 2024 at 1:14 AM
turning a new page for 2025
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Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.
December 13, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.
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Two F-35s in the Mach Loop. One is on its way to a movie premiere with a champagne reception and the other is making a Tuesday afternoon dash to Tesco because it's out of oregano.
December 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Two F-35s in the Mach Loop. One is on its way to a movie premiere with a champagne reception and the other is making a Tuesday afternoon dash to Tesco because it's out of oregano.
Very worth a read (the link seems to be paywall-free). I don't think this is a new problem. It's a newly identified problem.
The Navy's Project Odin's Eye is evaluating the cumulative neurological impact of a fighter pilot's career exposure to high-g forces, @davephilipps.bsky.social reports for the @nytimes.com.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/u....
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/u....
Top-Gun Navy Pilots Fly at the Extremes. Their Brains May Suffer.
A confidential Navy program is studying whether intense fighter jet operations can cause devastating brain injuries in flight crews.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Very worth a read (the link seems to be paywall-free). I don't think this is a new problem. It's a newly identified problem.
"The data is the weapon". It might be important if you don't own it.
www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...
www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...
New USAF focuses: fighter-like drones and electromagnetic warfare | The Strategist
‘Listening to new options’, according to a senior civilian advisor, is a key piece of the US Air Force process of force redesign. One of those options is using the fighter-like drones that will come ....
www.aspistrategist.org.au
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
"The data is the weapon". It might be important if you don't own it.
www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...
www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...
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LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.
December 1, 2024 at 4:15 AM
LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.
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Alright, who made this? 🤣😂
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Alright, who made this? 🤣😂
Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat
November 30, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat
Snort....
Has Big Airship got to The Economist? An inquiring reader would like to know. www.economist.com/letters/2024...
November 29, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Snort....
Elon Musk wants to cancel the F-35, move away from manned aircraft, and rely more on drones. This is now about much more than one opinionated squillionaire, but about an opinionated squillionaire who seems to be surgically attached to the President-elect....
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Defense reformation is coming – Valkyrie Strategic Solutions LLC
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November 29, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Elon Musk wants to cancel the F-35, move away from manned aircraft, and rely more on drones. This is now about much more than one opinionated squillionaire, but about an opinionated squillionaire who seems to be surgically attached to the President-elect....
valkstrat.com/defense-refo...
valkstrat.com/defense-refo...
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I hereby decree that this phenomenon needs to be named after Dinesh D’Souza.
November 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I hereby decree that this phenomenon needs to be named after Dinesh D’Souza.
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Thanks for your insights and professionalism, @billsweetman.com.
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Thanks for your insights and professionalism, @billsweetman.com.
Ah, the Schadenfreude as RW NavyTwitter enters Foxtrot Oscar corner...
November 27, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Ah, the Schadenfreude as RW NavyTwitter enters Foxtrot Oscar corner...
There's fiddling expenses, and there's this. Plus one of the greatest well-duh lines I have ever seen in journalism.
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
There's fiddling expenses, and there's this. Plus one of the greatest well-duh lines I have ever seen in journalism.
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The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM
The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵
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This isn’t chess, or checkers, or tic-tac-toe. It’s just mind warping stupidity, malevolence, incompetence, and laziness all the way to the bottom, which is a very long way down www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/11/gaet...
Gaetz gone - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Apparently there are still limits, at least for moment. And no, I don’t think this was some eleventydimensional chess to make equally horrendous picks like RFK and the Deus Vult tattoo artist and the ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:49 PM
This isn’t chess, or checkers, or tic-tac-toe. It’s just mind warping stupidity, malevolence, incompetence, and laziness all the way to the bottom, which is a very long way down www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/11/gaet...
