Would he have loved or hated drones? On one hand he was definitely a technology autist who went obsessively over Jane's and any tech manuals he could find memorizing the stats. On the other hand, he also loved creating characters and showing humans using their skills and abilities and loved to create little vignettes about characters you never heard from again. So what's the verdict, /k/ was /ourauthor/ a drone guy or not?
drones were already a thing when he was alive, just not used en masse as loitering munitions. since drone warfare is boring, he likely would've relegated them in the sidelines. also he not /ourguy/, clancy was a snitch for the feds.
>>65144672>also he not /ourguy/, clancy was a snitch for the feds.This isn't /pol/ and schizo politics and conspiracy theories aren't welcome. Clancy is most definitely /ourauthor/ based on his output and content. I understand he makes Russians and brownoids seethe though, which is weird since he had the boomer blindspot with regard to ziggers, believing there were some decent honorable warrior types as opposed to two legged vermin that require extermination which IRL shows us. Although he was at least somewhat Russian aware, because he wrote about Russian troops committing mass rape in Red Storm Rising.
>>65144679I've only read rainbow six and red october so I don't have the deepest knowledge of his works, but the dude can write a very good thriller, but he has some curious ticks when it comes to his particular boomer-christian-jingoist values shining through. It feels like at least once a book he has a need to make the characters make unflinching eye contact with the camera and talk about how great it was to believe in freedom, cheeseburgers, jesus, and the american way. Also, if I took a bit of white-out and went at every bit of text where he describes what the wives are saying, thinking, or doing besides grieving over red-shirts or showing up for the big dramatic run-off-the-plane-and-kiss moment at the end and handed it off to a friend, he would have a better experience with the book than I did.
>>65144711>make the characters make unflinching eye contact with the camera and talk about how great it was to believe in freedom, cheeseburgers, jesus, and the american way.Absolutely based. Unapologetic, unflinching defense of American values is good, actually.
>>65144664The drones couldn't impregnate or be impregnated, he'd have hated them
>>65144743\thread
>>65144711>It feels like at least once a book he has a need to make the characters make unflinching eye contact with the camera and talk about how great it was to believe in freedom, cheeseburgers, jesus, and the american way.HOLY MOTHER OF BASED!
>>65144743Yet...
>>65144679Considering his childhood would have had countless stories about the various red army "parties" when they took over a city, it's not surprising he wrote about mass rape. It's literally a massive documented part of theirodern history
>>65144743>Loved weapons, loved American values, love impregnating womenI mean, did you intend to make me buy all his books again?
>>65144664In Red Storm Rising when the US battleships were preparing to attack in Iceland they used drones to find targets. The book was published in '86.
>>65144664RQ-3 Darkstars were a pivotal part of the plot in The Bear and The Dragon.
>Tom died JUST before Ruzzia started chimping out in Ukrainemotherfucker.... imagine the shit he'd be writing now, fuckin FPV drones with mini nukes controlled by AI going rogue into Moscow impregnating Putin in the ass
>>65144711>being so mindbroken you can't understand patriotism
>>65145175Patriotism is the ultimate government psy op
>>65145158>Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
>>65145188>Patriotism is the ultimate government psy opIm 100% sure you smell terrible IRL and probably collect a govt check for something
>>65145232wow, really hit a nerve
>>65145158I'm glad he died before he could see the third worldification of the Republican Party that he loved. It was a mercy. The guy was the ultimate advocate of civic nationalism and service before self, watching Trump corrupt everything he loved would have been cruel.
>>65145259To expand on this, he even disliked Bush Jr because he considered him (rightly) a grifting nepobaby peddling divisive politics.
>>65145175I'm not complaining about his views, it's exactly what I'd expect from his kind of books and is entirely besides the point, I'm complaining about how obvious it is when his characters are stating the author's opinions instead of their own. Red October was a lot of fun but it got dampened a bit at the end when I found myself thinking>yes Tom I get it, those GODLESS COMMIES could never stand up to the power of American Jesus and Lady Liberty, I'm sure they're gonna shit and piss and cum the first time they visit a good ol' american barbeque, can we get on with it?Although it did redeem itself right at the end>Welp, glad that's all over with, say hi to the kids for me!>Hey, couldn't there be possibly dozens of men trapped in a submarine right now dying a horribly slow suffocating death? Should we do something about that?>Welp, glad that's all over with, say hi to the kids for me!>roll credits
>>65145283You sound like a butthurt Russian to me.
>>65144711>I've only read rainbow six and red octoberSo you have read one of his two good books. Rainbow Six is quite special one, video game adaptation somehow manages to have better story.
>>65145350Clear and present Danger was good
>>65145357Red Storm Rising is also fun. Dance of the Vampires is a kino chapter. And if you're into that Cold War navy shit, the game Sea Power is fun as hell.
>>65144679>mass rapeIt was two Russian soldiers who killed the Icelandic girls family then raped her.
>>65145259You really think people are just blind to Republicans being bad and its not just a case of Democrats being more retarded?
>>65144672one of the most terrifying weapons ever created would have been sidelined and not expanded on to describe the visceral human reaction of being hunted by a machine and having your limbs blown off or worse, based retard
Tom Clancy's greatest novel was the bear and the dragon, you can't prove me wrong.
tom clancy is cool because i respect anyone who channels their autism into that kind of obscure (at the time) research and attention to detail even if the result is usually formulaic. researching things is fun>>65144711>characters make unflinching eye contact with the camera and talk about how great it was to believe in freedom, cheeseburgers, jesus, and the american way.as it fucking should be
>>65144672>clancy was a snitch for the feds.Isn't half of /k/ under federal employment too? We're all glowie assets.
>>65144664Can drones get pregnant? There's your answer.
>>65145283> couldn't there be possibly dozens of men trapped in a submarine right now dying a horribly slow suffocating death?No.
>>65144664Given how much he loved special forces shit, Operation Spiderweb and the Israeli pager bombs would probably give him a giant throbbing boner.
>>65144672>also he not /ourguy/, clancy was a snitch for the feds.Who did he snitch on? Or is this schizo nonsense
>>65144754>>65144723Don't forget his pregnancy fetish
>>65145984He’s already my favorite author, you don’t have to try to sell me on him.
>>65144711I haven't read many of his books. I mainly expect dumb retard boomer shit out of him. Power fantasy, mostly. That said, I was taken aback when I read Rainbow Six and he explained what the scientists were planning. It seemed like such a genuinely real, and plausible idea that it made me wonder why he wrote so much boomer power fantasy stuff early on in the book. The first few chapters are eye rollingly bad. John Ringo tier dogshit. Then he eases up on it, and you can see he's actually a pretty solid writer. I would have liked to see him confront modern Russia though like >>65144679 mentions. I imagine he'd have some sort of shell shock from how much worse the Russians turned out to be than he could have ever actually written them.
https://pastebin.com/3dMwaEpkFWIW he would have liked drones as weapons but not as characters because they can't get pregnant. They would have made a useful plot device, nothing more.>>65145472Things like this are a false dichotomy. People run a full spectrum between most opposing views on most issues. Like, even here where you only get a small part of the pro-gun spectrum think of how many people here have different 2A views that run the spectrum from "Shall not" to "Reagan was right, guns should be registered and only card carrying white Republicans should be able to own them".Point is, there are people who think Trump is the second coming of Christ who can do no wrong, Republicans who can hold their nose on most issues because he does one thing they like or keeps the Dems out, and even Republicans who have walked away from the party completely until it becomes civilised again, and every point in between those positions. I'd note though, that the first group are seldom Republicans in any real sense (membership, belief in any big R Republican party ideas Trump or belief in any small r republicanism ideas) and it's a pretty pronounced trend the closer you go to that extreme. The GOP has some serious soul searching in its future, and America as a whole is going to have to think very hard about how it approaches the risks of entirely performative illiberal democracy in the vein of Orban's Hungary or Luka's Belarus in the coming years.
>>65144711it was a pretty fuckin good time for the american way mas amigo
>>65145158Some folks are keeping the torch lit. Ghost Fleet is a decent read.Flat Circle History's WWIII series on Youtube is also pretty kino.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5EiVP-rT14&list=PLkq77zgeVLZMJzGFOZeafke31i-ijHBAY
>No one has posted it yetGrim.
>>65144672The loitering munition .... is the 21st Century equivalent of the mortar.Soon, it will be as natural for us to see the loitering munition platoon as an integral part of an infantry company in the same way that the organic mortar or ATGM platoon is. In fact, the loitering munition will eventually be able to replace both.In time, instead of a grenade launcher, every rifleman may even handcarry a packed FPV drone which can be used to drop explosives on the heads of the enemy. Signallers will not need to carry a sognal set or anntenae, a loitering UAV overhead will be able to function as a aerial rebro station. Forward air controllers will be obsolete as the UAV takes over. Commanders will not need a GPS, compass or binoculars, the UAV offers unlimited and unhindered line of sight as a navigation aid. UAVs will be able to carry out resupply missions by delivering ammunition, rations, and medical supplies to isolated units.Eventually ..... we may not even need to carry toilet paper into the field. The UAV will wipe our asses and act as a flying bidet
>>65146220Do they cater to pregnancy fetishists though?
after iran, this jesuit nigger make me cringe when I think about the u.s military
>>65145283>Hey, couldn't there be possibly dozens of men trapped in a submarine right now dying a horribly slow suffocating death? Should we do something about that?You talking Politovskiy or Kanovolov?
>>65144743>drones couldn't impregnateHow quickly we've forgotten the dildo drones
>>65145913>Who did he snitch on?NTAYRTI've never heard of him being a snitch but at a talk once, he had been talking about his logic in guessing that the "F-19" would be used for SEAD and how he did it with only public knowledge, before the F-117 was officially acknowledged or known to be used and somebody asked what he'd do if he was given classified information about something like the F117.His answer was that he'd call the FBI and report the person.Aside from the chest-beating, I think he was in real danger of military fanboys actually doing that and he didn't want the problems that would come with that.Obviously he wanted his writing to be realistic and to portray cool high tech stuff but at the same time, he wouldn't want it to be a useful manual for the adversary.
>>65144664>Would he have loved or hated drones?I'm quite sure he'd have hated what they've done to the Russian Navy.
>>65145472>but whataaabboout THE DEMOCRAAAAATSI don't give a fuck man. I'm allowed to criticise Trump. Why do you feel you need to defend every inch of Trump Hill?It's not offtopic to note that prime Tom Clancy with his reverence for service, truth and the american way would have loathed him
>>65146568>Take a shit in my personal drone>"Miss Dronette, clean yourself please">"Yes master">Drone flies off to find a Russian soldier to dump my rancid MRE shit all over
>>65146717I mean to be fair, look at how much trouble War Thunder has with autists posting technical documents to win arguments. He was being very wise and foresighted.
>>65146717>I've never heard of him being a snitch but at a talk once, he had been talking about his logic in guessing that the "F-19" would be used for SEADI mean, if you pay any sort of attention in the military aviation news/speculation industry than it wouldn't be difficult to do something like that. Especially if you're trying to be as grounded as possible
>>65146717>>65146779IIRC he also got a knock on the door from the FBI about who had provided him with some of the information used in Hunt for Red October only to have to tell them it was stuff from Jane's and technical manuals that were publicly available at the library.Same thing with the Air Force asking Stanley Kubrick how he knew so much about what the cockpit of a B52 looked like and his answer was "I just copied the one from the Boeing 707"Stuff like that would probably make you paranoid about getting another knock on the door one day
>>65146779>I mean to be fair, look at how much trouble War Thunder has with autists posting technical documents to win arguments. He was being very wise and foresighted.Yeah, I interpreted it as a bit of boomer "rah rah I'm so lawful" but I did recognise the logic.The questioner seemed to have the opinion that Clancy had inside info and lots of friends in service that must let him in on secret projects and black ops and stuff.It's easy to see why he'd want to nip that in the bud.I found the quote btwhttps://youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M?t=2712It was a talk to the NSA so his audience was probably pretty sympathetic and it's hard to see how you could answer any other way in that room.
>>65144711>He doesn't know about Clancy's pregnancy fetish inserted into nearly all his works
>>65146843Even in Rainbow Six there was a mention of Ding Chavez's wife being pregnant during the IRA hostage situation
>>65144664Half of Clancy's works are basically about what if a rogue state could undermine the global order with like, a single barrel of nerve agent or a really good F-15. The fact that he did not write a story about the Western world being saved from lawn mower engine powered flying hand grenades by guys named Ding Chad and John Jones seems like an oversight on God's part. He'd love this shit.
>>65146776Its clear you just want to say Tom affirms your own political beliefs than anything meaningful.
>>65146717> guessing that the "F-19" would be used for SEADArguably, he was also wrong about that, since the F-117 wasn’t really used for SEAD, other than in the very broadest of senses.
>>65146858In what way am I wrong about my assessment of Clancy's character? It's clear you just want to defend Trump against any and all criticism, no matter how justified it may be.>TomDidn't realize you were on a first name basis with the guy, please regale us with some insider stories.
>>65146843Obligatory post https://pastebin.com/3dMwaEpk
>>65146878>https://pastebin.com/3dMwaEpkLazy work anonGreen text it, post it over three posts, then inspect/HTML edit out any troll who interrupts your pregnancy slowpoke and screencap it with only response posts.
>>65146912Be the change you want to see in the world my friend
>>65146864I dont need Necromancy to say Trump is retarded you stupid retard.
>>65145486that's more of a chrichton thing. clancy is more about muh navy SEALs supersoldiers
>>65146970>clancy is more about muh navy SEALs supersoldiersJohn Clarke was a SEAL before he was CIA but Ding Chavez was pure army then into SAD, so it's not all about SEALs.Clancy is all about supersoldiers in general though.
>>65146778
>>65146568I like the way you think.
>>65146712Dildos don't impregnate
>>65146878>this is worse than the submarine monologue phaseThat's the part that always gets me.
>>65144664He liked speculating about near future tech so I imagine he would love drones because of the huge near future potential.Ukraine has been moving so fast with drone tech we have seen ideas go from speculation of combat tested in under a year and there is stiill plenty of room for their role to expand.Also a spook story about sneaking a swarm into a country to pull a Spiderweb would be cool.>>65144672To snitch you need dirt, who the fuck is a fiction author going to get dirt on?
>>65146863There's always been rumours that a couple of the F117's mission sets and related info were never declassified. Specifically SEAD and AWACS hunting. In the case of AWACS hunting, the reason it would remain classified is because it would give away the weapon used for it (which it seems very likely is some kind of a large undeclared multimode anti-radiation/ARH that entered service before AMRAAM) and probably some info about the TTPs. The SEAD thing, assuming it was capable of it, would probably be the same, it probably didn't use the same kit for it as other planes and it would give those weapons away as well as info about how the US plans to do SEAD if ita regular planes can't.
>>65147350> AWACS huntingNo.There is ONE pilot that claims that it was totally designed to hunt AWACS. He’s either wrong, or lying for multiple reasons.
>>65147350>>65147397While I seriously doubt it was build for AWACS hunting I wouldn't be surprised if it was given an A2A capable HARM designed to fit it's payload bay and link to it's RWR.
>>65147403> link to it's RWR.It doesn’t have RWR. Or chaff or flares for that matter. The F-117 is quite literally the worst possible combat aircraft for SEAD in the USAF inventory.
>>65147415The RLS then.
>>65147422Is irrelevant because they were all removed in the eighties. Plus, the RLS didn’t actually locate radars, it was essentially a tool to self-test the aircraft’s radar signature.
>>65144711>It feels like at least once a book he has a need to make the characters make unflinching eye contact with the camera and talk about how great it was to believe in freedom, cheeseburgers, jesus, and the american way.Based beyond belief.
>>65147439Go be a /pol/nig on /pol/
>>65144664he would have loved them, you would have gotten a six page description of a Geran II on final autonomous guidance somewhere in his book - cut to the heroic CIA SOG man quietly eliminating the launch team with a hush puppy
>>65146912>Every character was pregnant.Fake news. Clancy only writes about Jack Ryan, who is a man. Men cannot get pregnant. And since Clancy is a Catholic, he doesn’t believe trannies are real.0/10, not /ourguy/ until he writes about a submarine or fighter jet getting knocked up.
>>65147458NYPAAlso gb2/pol/
>>65147513you forgot your caps lock on, tourist
>>65146815I remember watching this and being sad at how fucking funny he actually is yet gets no response because the audience is a bunch of federal robots wearing suits and ear pieces.
>>65146815>"I went to a Jesuit school they make you take a course in ethics">As soon as he was rich and famous he divorced his wife who supported him because she was fat and old and married a young got girl
>>65148055>I went to a Jesuit schoolHe wasn't the only one "Cum finis set licit, etiam media sunt licitia."
>>65146717>he had been talking about his logic in guessing that the "F-19" would be used for SEAD and how he did it with only public knowledge, before the F-117 was officially acknowledged or known to be usedClancy wasn't exactly being Nostradamus. Yeah, the F-117 might not have been *specifically* acknowledged by name until 1988, but the Department of Defense had publicly confirmed the existence of the stealth program in 1980 after years of rumors, including revealing that prototypes had been flying for 2 years by that point. And as >>65146863 pointed out, his guesses weren't actually correct.
>>65147017Squirting dildos + fake fake cum (i.e. real cum)
>>65146138One of the last books he was alive for (he had little involvement in the writing, but may have provided notes or the idea) was about an ex-mid level KGB officer seizing power in Russia, undoing any progress made by previous Russian leaders in the Ryanverse, exploiting organized crime connections to control the Russian economy, and attempting to seize Crimea and Eastern Ukraine by playing both sides of the struggle between Nationalists in the west and pro-Russians in the east. It was released in 2013.
>>65144664Why wouldn't he love drones? There's a very small subset of people who hate drones.
>>65147528Caps lock is cruise control for cool you fucking nerd
>>65145259What blew up in Tehran today?
>>65146153Soul searching over what? Actually trying to deport the people who are displacing your native workforce? Trying to win wars instead of turn them into eternal for-profit meatgrinders? What besides cheating on his wife with a hooker and being mean to fat bitches did he do we need to search our souls over?
>>65148474Nostradamus to the end.
>>65148803NTA, but it's mostly economics. The tariff thing is definitely not traditionally Republican, and I personally am of very mixed minds about it. Then you get shit like taking stakes in Intel and other heavy-handed state capitalism moves. I'm no fool, the Republicans have always been bigger talkers about government getting out of the business of business than they have been doers, but they also avoid nakedly socialist policies like that.There's also the Tucker Carlson wing of the America First/MAGA movement that is either remaking or has already remade the party, which does not mesh with the current administration's foreign policy. The Administration favors greater acknowledgement of American empire, while still drawing on one of the lessons (or is "complying with a taboo" the better phrase?) of keeping US ground troops out of our empire-management endeavors if at all possible. Cucker and his acolytes are true isolationists who would see the whole thing abandoned, not merely bent more to the immediate interests and enrichment of the US.
>>65148123If you followed UFO conspiracy circles, you knew about the F-117 from the triangle shaped sightings.
>>65147415>The F-117 is quite literally the worst possible combat aircraft for SEAD in the USAF inventory.Perhaps in 2026, but not in 1980. Point in fact, one part of SEAD (a part that doesn't involve finding the emitters itself) was one of its core conventional missions - it was supposed to go and kill S10/S300 radars and C2 nodes that were at the center of IADS that would make targetting them with standoff missiles nearly impossible and which denied vast swathes of airspace. It was also trialled with at least two different radar systems in addition to RLS that could have acted as passive direction finders.>>65147403>>65147397>There is ONE pilot that claims that it was totally designed to hunt AWACS.This is totally wrong. It is a known fact that there were both generally A2A and specifically AWACS integration goals and programs for the F117, the only question has always been whether they achieved any operational capability and obviously the official position has always been no/no comment on it. AWACS hunting was initially thought to be essential to completing its primary nuclear and conventional missions against the USSR. The kill chain would have looked something like sniff for radar->pass rough direction of radar to flir/dlir system as irst->achieve fine location confirmation->manouevre to launch position->pass off target to (weapon)->launch (weapon). The ir sensors were already fused to an extent not seen in earlier systems, being able to operate seemingly as a single unit, pass off targets to each other etc, and they could look both in front of and behind the aircraft, as well as above the horizon. The three options for what they would have shot were an early AMRAAM, some kind of undeclared multimode antiradiation/ARH AMRAAM predecessor/sidegrade or an IR Falcon. The last is probably the most likely at introduction with the second being a likely subsequent development goal. IR Falcon was in service at the time and capable of internal carriage and launch.
>>65144672>also he not /ourguy/, clancy was a snitch for the feds.This is communism talking. Don't let it win.
>>65148666sneed, Satan
>>65148961GAR-2A was an ancient missile at that point thoAIM-7R development was only stopped in 1996
>>65149008SARH seems like a pretty terrible fit for F117.
>>65149081R as in infraredhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/budget/fy1997/dot-e/navy/97rim7r.html
>>65148803>>65148846>Both neatly ignoring the blatant insider trading moves that happen 5 minutes before Trump makes an announcement that shifts the market>"but both sides do it!"No they don't.
>>65149109Yeah that's much more a Dem thing and you're projecting
>>65145465Weren't they VDV?
>>65149121Yeah sure, show me the mulit million dollar trades that happened just five minutes before a dem president spoke, shorting an otherwise stable market.
>>65144743>The drones couldn't impregnate or be impregnated>>65145791>Can drones get pregnant?Just aren't trying hard enough
>>65145428Dance of the vampires is retarded. He always defaults to Navy Tacair being retarded in all of his books while slobbering hard on any USAF ACC microdicks. It's a really weird trend in his writing. I'm pretty sure his wife must have been getting hollowed out on the reg by tailhookers or something.
>>65149183Naval aviators are generally worse than regular ones, and IQ tests show at least a standard deviation lower.
>>65149256lol wut, substantiate that claim
>>65149138Nancy Pelosi outperforms/ed Wall Street traders. Democrats gaming the system is not new.
>>65149087It's an SARH missile that uses IR for the terminal phase (ie a multimode seeker). The same seeker head was used on SM-2 missiles (after 7R was cancelled), and they can do midcourse inertial guidance instead of SARH for mid course guidance so they could be used on older ships that weren't capable of target illumination, but I'm not sure if RIM/AIM-7R ever had that (M on which P and R are based has autopilot, but idk whether it's accurate enough to get to terminal phase on its own).Most crucially though, the missile didn't exist when Clancy wrote Red Storm Rising. The R is a multimode upgrade of the pure SARH P, and P didn't enter production until '87, while Red Storm Rising was released in '86.Now, the developmental missile that, imho, was intended to follow on from a hypothetical AIM-4B or G equipped F117 in the AWACS whacker role was the AIM-7Q. Very little is known about it, including even whether it was ever tested or flew. All that is known is that it was supposed to use a multimode seeker (passive antiradiation, ARH, IR). It was supposed to launch passive and then only go active if it didn't get detect the target emitting, and then use IR for terminal guidance once passive got it close enough to the target or to enhance active terminal guidance. That description alone is basically exactly what you'd want from a missile for a hypothetical F117 anti-AWACs mission, and the fact that so little is known about it (along with the missing O designation that's in exactly the right time period for the F117 anti-air development programs) is super suggestive.
>>65149393>Most crucially though, the missile didn't exist when Clancy wrote Red Storm Risingtbf Clancy had a lot of "near future" that involved a degree of calm speculation about military technology.
>>65149183DotV is more credible than you think though. Clancy and Larry Bond wrote it based on 3 war games they ran using Harpoon, which itself draws from naval weapons and tactical documentation as well as Bonds own experience in the Navy.
>>65149368That's a myth. Pelosis portfolio does well, but not out of the ordinary for a well managed one by intelligent savvy people. The charts you've seen are for a specific period of time, when her husband got the jump on others through luck. Over the entire course of her career, it's nothing exceptional. Many, many traders have better records
>>65149444>Pelosis portfolio does well, but not out of the ordinary for a well managed one by intelligent savvy peopleIn her defence, she's been at this longer than most wall st traders.
>>65149451Living through the Great Depression gives her an edge, i guess
>>65149477People compare her to Harvard fratbros named Ryan "Cokehound" Paulson but it's much more accurate to compare her to Warren Buffet because she has comparable connections, experience and insight.
>>65149444>838% return over 10 years>NormalGet the uniparty cock out of your mouth
>>65149508You can't throw a number like that out without specifying the frequency and rate.Instead, present it as an average annual return and tell us that number and where it came from.
>>65149520Simple Google search
>>65149520https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-beat-market-581-162100416.htmlAnd the article
>>65149508Im up like 56% since Donnies' April shitshow alone, its all about knowing the market
>>65149256Ive taken both the ASTB and the AFOQT. Took the ASTB (Navy flight school entrance exam, since you're a never served basement free use gimp) after being a pilot with about 300 hours and the AFOQT (USAF pilot entrance exam, because you're a never served faggot who self castrated after realizing your step dad didn't actually like you he was just using 2 parts of you) when I had never even flown in an airplane. Got a 7/10 on the ASTB and a 99% on the AFOQT. Feel free chug a gallon of lye like its your grinder dates dick, you retarded faggot.
>>65149526NTA but>A New York Post analysisis like saying>Russian intellectualsalso>before first taking office in 1987, Pelosi and her husband reported between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks in their portfolio — worth $133.7 million today
>>65149531For an alcoholic old fart Pelosi sure seems to know the market very very well. Almost like she knew what bills would impact the market.
>>65149536Cope. Its public knowledge. You assertion was wrong, Pelosi outperforms most.
>>65149531>its all about knowing the marketThis. But that's basically magic for browns
>>65149526Thank you.>The New York Post reported that Pelosi netted a 14.5% average annual returnThat's definitely strong but it's not miraculous. I've had some funds that returned that...for a while.Also, this isn't Nancy trading, it's her husband who's a VC and her largest returns are all decade long holds of stocks like Microsoft or Google.
>>65149536>Pelosi and her husband reported between $610,000 and $785,000 in stocks in their portfolio — worth $133.7 million todayIf I read that article correctly, they turned the ~$700k into $133m
>Only Republicans do insider trading, except when Dems do it then its a good thing!
>>65149540>before taking office
>>65149548see >>65149545
>>65149508>>65149537You're lying >https://j-hai.github.io/assets/pdf/capitol.pdfPaul Pelosi has always had an interest in tech and tech has been doing exceedingly well the last year or two. He also has the money to take big risks safely.Hell, I'm outperforming nearly every fund on the simulator and I know next to nothing, just because I'm playing around and focusing on tech in the simulator where I don't risk anything. Am I a congress insider trading too?Because I'm not a moron though and I have very little I can actually risk, my real money is invested in standard trackers.
>>65149573>Am I a congress insider trading too?It's beyond doubt that she is insider trading, or at least telling her husband what's going on so he can play the markets which is his full-time hobby.That said, it's literally legal and we regularly talk about how it *should* be illegal but neither party will change things, plenty of the outsider elements of both parties would like to change it but they don't have the power and authority and so long as they're anti-corruption, they'll never get the power or authority either.You won't see AOC as Congressional leader precisely because she's anti-insider trading.The whitehouse has actual laws about the president and his family profiting from the office though and those just get blatantly broken every day.
>>65149548Except there's zero proof of Pelosi insider trading. Whereas whoever in the white house that's insider trading is making it so obvious it's basically unignorable. You know this and you know it's indefensible, which is why you have to scream so loudly about Pelosi not, in fact, doing it. This is the most partisan, vengeful justice department the US has ever had and they've declined to prosecute Pelosi for insider trading. Do you think for a single second if there was a scrap of evidence against her that Trump wouldn't leap on it? The same justice department that went after a former FBI director for arranging seashells on the beach in to say "8647"? Really? Fuck off you lying disingenuous shill.
>>65149588>That said, it's literally legal and we regularly talk about how it *should* be illegal but neither party will change things, plenty of the outsider elements of both parties would like to change it but they don't have the power and authority and so long as they're anti-corruption, they'll never get the power or authority either.Its kinda strange how keeping this legal is one of very few bi-partisan stands.
>>65149589>This is the most partisan, vengeful justice department the US has ever had and they've declined to prosecute Pelosi for insider tradingBecause it's legal.Not that Republicans aren't doing it too of course and more so, Nancy Pelosi just did better out of it because she has a husband who's a full time trader and is himself very good at it so he can exploit her info very well.>>65149602>Its kinda strange how keeping this legal is one of very few bi-partisan stands.Sarcasm detected.Trump got selected in his primary despite refusing to disclose finances, was elected despite scandal after scandal and remember how he was going to release his policy document any day now? and then impeachment hearings refusing to convict despite obvious and numerous grounds to do so.Corruption is just the order of the day in Washington, they fought too long with ziggers and became zigger themselves.
>>65146568Mortars, esp. light mortars, are already overdue for a capability increase.The next 60mm & 81mm systems need to be designed with smart munitions and drone launching in mind, and there's no reason why we can't can't extend a conventional mortar shell's range like what was done with base bleed artillery shell's - yeah I know 81's have the propellant rings but we should be able to double the range on the 60mm's
>>65149602>>65149611These are lying, anti-American shills. Congressmen and senators actually according to the source I posted earlier UNDERPERFORM passive trackers by 2-3% on average. What you're looking at with Paul Pelosi is careful manipulation of data, to make a decent trader look suspect by focusing on specific years and trades. The only real criminal that you can be sure about is Trump, who's increased his net worth by like 3 billion in office. Mostly by crypto rugpulls, on which he's onto like his fourth or fifth.
I think he might have appreciated drones with a2g rockets counter-engaging air defence crews.https://files.catbox.moe/5ioo28.mp4Footage allegedly from a recent SBU raid on Crimea.
