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F-35s are fighter jets that are designed to be hard to find so if it is on an exercise and in full stealth mode then the only way to find it is visually.
There's quite a bit more than meets the eye. Perhaps have a read.

Not sure what's that got to do with Biden anyways. Found or not, it's an accident or malfuntion like very many others. Don in the WH instead of Joe wouldn't have changed the slightest weeny bit. It won't be the last F-35 falling out of the sky either.
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Old 19.09.2023, 16:53
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It was his diversity hires that lost the jet so technically it is his fault. We used to treat mental illness now we give them the highest ranking positions in the military. Who could have seen this coming? If this happened under Trump we all know how you would react so please drop the double standards and try to develop some consistency in your "logic".
The fact they are asking the public to keep an eye out is laughable and humiliating at the same time. These jets have layers of redundancy, backups that back up the backups. The ONLY way an F-35 or any other fighter jet goes missing is because it was shot down and even then they know where the wreckage is to be found. If it did land in Cuba than this was a gift to China. That's called treason and should be punishable if the DOJ wasn't the new KGB.
Assuming you are referring to Lloyd Austin (as someone mentioned here), why do you refer to him as a "diversity hire?" Is that because he's black? Do you think that a black person cannot be hired due to their credentials? He has a 50-year career in the US military after graduating from West Point in 1975.

Also, does anyone even know yet why exactly that pilot had ejected from the plane? Was it due to pilot error or fault with the aircraft itself? And why would you assume that it has something to do with Biden or Lloyd Austin or that it's their fault? F-35's are incredibly complex machines. And I highly doubt that it's actually Joe Biden or Lloyd Austin that does the inspections on them. They are built by Lockheed Martin.
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Old 19.09.2023, 17:43
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Are you referring to the jet that was recently abandoned over South Carolina due to the pilot ejecting?

U.S. asks for help finding missing F-35 fighter jet after pilot ejects during 'mishap'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...hap-rcna105534

It wasn't Biden or his administration that "lost" the jet.
Biden is commander in chief of the armed forces.....the US is not a junta (yet)
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Old 19.09.2023, 17:50
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Biden is commander in chief of the armed forces.....the US is not a junta (yet)
So he is not an aircraft mechanic? This US politics stuff is really confusing.
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Old 19.09.2023, 17:56
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Assuming you are referring to Lloyd Austin (as someone mentioned here), why do you refer to him as a "diversity hire?" Is that because he's black? Do you think that a black person cannot be hired due to their credentials? He has a 50-year career in the US military after graduating from West Point in 1975.

Also, does anyone even know yet why exactly that pilot had ejected from the plane? Was it due to pilot error or fault with the aircraft itself? And why would you assume that it has something to do with Biden or Lloyd Austin or that it's their fault? F-35's are incredibly complex machines. And I highly doubt that it's actually Joe Biden or Lloyd Austin that does the inspections on them. They are built by Lockheed Martin.
I think komso (who was typically and suspiciously quick to jump to a racist conclusion) was the only one who mentioned Austin.

He could have been talking about the trans admiral Richard "Rachel" Levine who is an absolute joke

Or maybe that psycho (whose name escapes me) who was caught stealing suitcases from airports (repeatedly)
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Absolutely loving the creative effort going into the mental gymnastics to blame Biden for losing a fighter jet. Maybe he should have popped his airpods into the cockpit before it took off?
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Old 19.09.2023, 18:24
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I think komso (who was typically and suspiciously quick to jump to a racist conclusion) was the only one who mentioned Austin.

He could have been talking about the trans admiral Richard "Rachel" Levine who is an absolute joke

Or maybe that psycho (whose name escapes me) who was caught stealing suitcases from airports (repeatedly)
After graduating from Harvard College and Tulane University School of Medicine, ADM Levine completed her training in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
As a physician, she focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents, and young adults.
ADM Levine was a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine.

I don't see the joke?
She is a physician using the Doctor title so with your comical views you should be kissing her ass.
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Old 19.09.2023, 23:40
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"New testimony from a number of FBI and Internal Revenue Service officials casts doubt on key claims from an IRS whistleblower who alleges there was political interference in the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden’s taxes.

According to transcripts provided to CNN, several FBI and IRS officials brought in for closed-door testimony by House Republicans in recent days said they don’t remember US Attorney David Weiss saying that he lacked the authority to decide whether to bring charges against the president’s son or that Weiss said he had been denied a request for special counsel status."

This inquiry is slowly falling apart, the GOP is running around trying to get testimony from more people in the hopes of getting something useful but the longer it takes the less likely they will.
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Old 20.09.2023, 14:13
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After graduating from Harvard College and Tulane University School of Medicine, ADM Levine completed her training in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
As a physician, she focused on the intersection between mental and physical health, treating children, adolescents, and young adults.
ADM Levine was a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine.

I don't see the joke?
She is a physician using the Doctor title so with your comical views you should be kissing her ass.
He would make Frankenstein blush and I'd spare the good people of EF and not post a picture.

He also has kids, has stated publicly that he is happy that he had kids. Yet also has promised to normalize puberty blockers for kids.

So yes, though unethical, she is a real doctor, no questioning that. The fake doctor in the White House residences is still not
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Old 20.09.2023, 15:18
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He would make Frankenstein blush and I'd spare the good people of EF and not post a picture.

He also has kids, has stated publicly that he is happy that he had kids. Yet also has promised to normalize puberty blockers for kids.

So yes, though unethical, she is a real doctor, no questioning that. The fake doctor in the White House residences is still not
Not physically attractive? Says everything about you
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Old 20.09.2023, 16:15
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Not physically attractive? Says everything about you
He loves to criticize females' appearances, as though that somehow determines their character or their worth (though, of course, he never does that about men).
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Old 20.09.2023, 16:24
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This inquiry is slowly falling apart, the GOP is running around trying to get testimony from more people in the hopes of getting something useful but the longer it takes the less likely they will.
Are you suggesting the GOP put up a weak and opportunistic case just to "redeem" the odious Trump? Shocking!

I'll repeat myself again: it's really such a pity the GOP is playing this toxic and antagonizing game. Right now, what the US needs is a decent and cosntructive right wing. Reagan would be really ashamed and shocked if he could see the current state of his successors.
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He loves to criticize females' appearances, as though that somehow determines their character or their worth (though, of course, he never does that about men).
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not
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Old 20.09.2023, 16:57
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He loves to criticize females' appearances, as though that somehow determines their character or their worth (though, of course, he never does that about men).
Dude, I was just doing that in my last post! (2 actually)

I also criticized that slob John Fetterneck, Mitch McConnell, your thievin' husband...etc
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Old 20.09.2023, 17:07
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Dude, I was just doing that in my last post! (2 actually)

I also criticized that slob John Fetterneck, Mitch McConnell, your thievin' husband...etc
Sorry, that's true. I guess I just notice you doing it about women more.

My thievin' husband? lol. Most of my friends say he looks like a male model, but okay.
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Old 20.09.2023, 17:16
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My thievin' husband? lol. Most of my friends say he looks like a male model, but okay.
Nothing quite like a sexy postman, the true mail model.
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Sorry, that's true. I guess I just notice you doing it about women more.

My thievin' husband? lol. Most of my friends say he looks like a male model, but okay.
sure, I'll take your word for it.....it doesn't give him the right to steal from the supermarket though
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Old 20.09.2023, 17:34
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sure, I'll take your word for it.....it doesn't give him the right to steal from the supermarket though
Ha haa. I had forgotten about that! (Or rather, that I had mentioned it on here).

We are both nervous every time we use those self-scanning machines, now... being extra careful to scan everything.
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Re: Will Biden be a good President?

House Oversight Chair James Comer, who is investigating President Joe Biden for what Republicans call potentially impeachable offenses, was given unrestricted access today to a batch of his emails from his time as vice president that had been redacted. Turns out no smoking gun, and the redactions were all personal stuff like birthday parties.

One absurd claim by Comer is about a May 27, 2016 schedule card that includes a call with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Hunter Biden was copied on the day’s schedule.
Comer is claiming Biden was sending a secret message to his son that he was about to fire the prosecutor. The fact that the prosecutor Viktor Shokin was actually fired in March two months earlier was ignored.
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Mr. Zelensky did not have a great week in the US

-more questions raised by US lawmakers about the level of support there
-ATACM are not going over for now
-Zelensky gave a speech that was sparsely attended and not standing room like previous ones
-US House Speaker avoided being photographed with him and declined to let him give a speech in front of congress
-close ally Poland cutting them off and comparing Ukraine to a drowning man and pointing out the dangers of helping such folks
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