Wild Blue Jester

@sentdefender I‘d rather put his face on TP.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Treasury Department is planning to add his signature to all denominations of the United States Dollar moving forward, which will mark the first time in history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American Currency, with Trump’s signature expected to replace that of the U.S. Treasurer, Brandon Beach, sitting alongside his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, several sources including Beach himself have confirmed to Vanity Fair.

@Herr_Elle @deMatteisTh @LaurentSegnis The idea that the A320 is an exact copy of the A320 is factually wrong, and it’s quite obviously so.

@deMatteisTh @LaurentSegnis Le C919 est une copie conforme. Ils ont entièrement démonté un A320 pour le concevoir. Mais un avion n'est pas qu'un plan. Ce sont aussi des méthodes de fabrication. Et elles ne viennent pas avec l'avion.

✈️ Des milliards de dollars pour Airbus: la méga-commande de 101 A320neo par China Eastern Airlines se confirme et c’est une bonne nouvelle ! Très bonne nouvelle pour Airbus. Selon Reuters qui s'appuie sur un document d'enregistrement de China Eastern Airlines adressé à la Bourse de Shanghai, l'avionneur européen a reçu une commande de la compagnie aérienne pour la livraison de 101 avions de la famille A320neo. Au prix catalogue, le montant du contrat s'élève à près de 16 milliards de dollars… bfmtv.com/economie/entre…

@charise_lee Except his sphincter…

“We’ll have control of anything we want”

@joni_askola A good excuse to suspend Hungary‘s voting rights in the EU and embargo all funding.

He denied it yesterday, but admitted it today. This traitor belongs in jail

@b777xlovers @Julianspoiler @BoeingAirplanes @BoeingWA Not exclusive at all boeing.com/features

#EXCLUSIVE: Boeing 777-8 Freighter: Wing Join Milestone Reached! 🎉 The first 777-8F is taking shape in Everett as its massive composite wings join the fuselage. Systems installation is underway, marking a key step for Boeing’s next-gen freighter. #777XFreighter #777X #777XF

@BohuslavskaKate Demagogue paid in Rubles. Should be prosecuted for Volksverhetzung. Democracy is not going to survive if it is unable or unwilling to enforce its own rules and laws.

Alice Weidel: "They ship countless billions to one of the most corrupt regimes on Earth: Ukraine. To prolong a war that is not ours. They stand with Kyiv even when the regime blackmails, threatens, and physically attacks vital infrastructure inside EU member states." What a vile, lying russian shill. Not once has she called out russia for its invasion, for murders, for the abduction of children, for the razing of cities, or for any of the thousands of war crimes. Please, dear Germans, do not vote for this fascist.

@mnhouseDFL Right, she probably read the part about the Apocalypse. That‘s unfolding right now, so why worry about climate change…

GOP Rep. Mary Franson says she's not worried about climate change because it's not in the Bible: "If you've read the Good Book, you know how it ends, and it's not with climate change." How can we expect Republicans to do serious work when they're so proud about ignoring science?

@skscartoon Ok, then Scaled Composites (Rutan) Model 151 ARES.

Ok, hear me out...

This is what passes for international diplomacy and leadership today. An all caps misspelled rant from a sundowning old man is posted by the Department of Defense as an official order. 35 years ago I had just fought the last battle of Desert Storm and GEN Schwarzkopf met our enemy in a tent in the desert to lay out their withdrawal from Kuwait as thousands of coalition troops waited for our orders. Today a mentally unstable narcissist posts on his personal social media company his brain dump and our troops are left scrambling to decode it all. This is the most incompetent leadership I’ve ever witnessed at any level.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

Das ist etwas, was ich seit meiner Bundeswehrzeit propagiere und was niemand versteht. „Jeder Soldat, der seinen Job versteht, ist ein Kriegsgegner.“ Und genau deshalb macht er den Job. Ich habe auch nicht verstanden, warum interessierte Kreise da gerne einen Widerspruch sehen. Es gibt ihn nicht.

“We must take Narva. Cross the bridge. It’s a NATO country but nothing will happen.” Decades of cowardice, absorbing Russian aggression without retaliation and neurotic hand-wringing in NATO capitals have convinced the Russian aggressor anything goes.

@ww_dasilva Closed loop reactors passing the heat to the air through a heat exchanger are too heavy. Air-breathing reactors massively contaminate the environment. Both are a radiation hausrd to the crew. Both are way too expensive to make a business case.

can a physics-knower tell me why nuclear-powered planes aren't a thing (besides the "if it crashes it's a nuke" thing [which may not even be real, i don't know physics])

Boeing’s certification logjam begins to break with FAA approval of 787 upgrade theaircurrent.com/aircraft-devel… (via @jonostrower) #staycurrent

@sentdefender I think we‘d be better off if nobody would honor this „person“ with any kind of attention.

“Democrats are putting our country at great risk during this period of time, a period that they call a war. They call it a war. We call it a military operation.”

New post: Boeing MAX Pause Ends as Deliveries Resume airinsight.com/?p=190033

@Osint613 @boomers_ass Fun fact: Almost all aircraft are not designed to take off with both a full payload and a full fuel load.

FUN FACT: A fully loaded B52 is so heavy it cannot take off with a full fuel load. When its weapons bays are maxed out, it typically departs with only about a quarter tank and refuels in the air shortly after takeoff. Image: Awphotographyoffical

@atrupar @McFaul Is it incompetence or treason disguised as incompetence, with Trump merely in the role of a useful idiot?

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna give Iran $14b to fund this war with the US? We're gonna give Russia billions of dollars to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally putting money into the pockets of the very nations we're fighting right now. We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country's history, and frankly we've had a lot of incompetence in war-making."

@JochenBittner @roblagnac @MiRo_SPD @spdbt Unfassbar, welchen Schaden Mützenich für und in der Ukraine angerichtet hat. Der Mann gehört als Sicherheitsrisiko ersten Ranges mindestens vom Verfassungsschutz observiert. Das Gleiche gilt für Scholz.

Lese gerade dieses (sehr gute und mutige) Buch von @MiRo_SPD und muss sagen: Es tun sich Abgründe auf, @spdbt Nur zwei Auszüge: „Unmittelbar nach dem 7. Oktober 2023 regte die israelische Botschaft an, dass Abgeordnete aller demokratischen Fraktionen im Bundestag Israel besuchen (…). Als Vorsitzender des Auswärtigen Ausschusses sind Reisegenehmigungen durch das Bundestagspräsidium eigentlich nur eine Formsache. (…) Mir wurde schließlich mitgeteilt, mein Besuch in Israel läge zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht im Interesse der SPD-Fraktion. Wie bitte? Solidarität mit Israel wenige Wochen nach dem größten Massenmord an Jüdinnen und Juden seit dem Holocaust galt also jetzt als parteischädigendes Verhalten?“ —— „lm Herbst 2024 erhielt ich eine Einladung des ukrainischen Parlaments, zudem sollte mir von Präsident Selenskyj der ukrainische Verdienstorden verliehen werden. (…) Ich sagte kurzfristig ab, meine Gesprächspartnerinnen und -partner in Kyjiw waren ziemlich konsterniert. Erneut hatten mir Rolf Mützenich und andere einen Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht. Es spricht Bände, dass mich meine Fraktion an Reisen in diese beiden Länder hindern wollte.“

@boomers_ass Boeing lowballed the KC-X contract with a bare minimum confuguration, banking on a windfall from „capability improvements“ later. Then they fucked up the bare minimum. Really no moving goalposts from USAF at all.

The 767 airframe first flew in 1981 — it’s been flying reliably for over 44 years. More than 1,355 have been delivered. It has one of the best safety records of any widebody jet ever built. The KC-46’s problems have almost nothing to do with the core 767 airframe or its design. They’re mostly with the new tanker-specific systems (Remote Vision System, refueling boom), Boeing’s own project mismanagement on a fixed-price contract, and the U.S. Air Force’s habit of continually moving the goalposts all the while.