Reposted by Bill Sweetman🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I'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.cbsnews.comMatt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state lawsA report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex. 342633828
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024The 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. 151
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time? But here we bloody well are. 030
Reposted by Bill SweetmanJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Not 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. 23808160
Reposted by Bill SweetmanDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14/12/2024turning a new page for 2025 17775
Reposted by Bill SweetmanTony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight. 1555
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Two 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. 140
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Very 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. 030
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Musk, CCAs and other things. I joined a podcast. soundcloud.com/defaerorepor...soundcloud.comDefense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Dec 05, 24] Season 2 E44: Brace for Tweet!When Elon Musk declares manned military aircraft should be entirely replaced by drones, is he taking a step too far? Renowned aviation journalist and technologist Bill Sweetman joins us to look at whe 151
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"The data is the weapon". It might be important if you don't own it. www.aspistrategist.org.au/new-usaf-foc...aspistrategist.org.auNew 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 .... 051
Reposted by Bill SweetmanMisty Miller ☻ @mistymadonna.bsky.social · 01/12/2024LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up. 602267173604
Reposted by Bill Sweetman𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Alright, who made this? 🤣😂 38551181171
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat 000
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Elon 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.comDefense reformation is coming – Valkyrie Strategic Solutions LLC 72610
Reposted by Bill SweetmanJennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I hereby decree that this phenomenon needs to be named after Dinesh D’Souza. 2225426
Reposted by Bill SweetmanVertical Flight Society @vtolsociety.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thanks for your insights and professionalism, @billsweetman.com. 131
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Ah, the Schadenfreude as RW NavyTwitter enters Foxtrot Oscar corner... 020
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Since everyone's talking about #F35... www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47PD1PSamazon.comTrillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air ForceAmazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: Books 050
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024There's fiddling expenses, and there's this. Plus one of the greatest well-duh lines I have ever seen in journalism. 030
Reposted by Bill Sweetmanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The 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. 🧵 1296054921
Reposted by Bill SweetmanScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This 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...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comGaetz gone - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyApparently 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 ... 25014
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024A lively discussion going in the #eVTOL space. www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-m...linkedin.comMark Moore on LinkedIn: Bursting and Unbursting the eVTOL Bubble | 46 commentsAfter reading Bill Sweetman’s “Bursting the eVTOL Bubble” article from a month or so ago, I discussed the article with him and promised to write a rebuttal… | 46 comments on LinkedIn 192
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024BREAKING: A study jointly conducted by RAND, DARPA and the CIA shows that women are safer in combat than they are in an elevator with a male GQPutinParty legislator or nominee. 0198
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Lots of scope to replace expensive kit from stuffy old defense companies with billions of dollars of contracts to, say, Anduril. Major investor, Musk's buddy and Vance's sponsor, Peter Thiel; founder, Palmer Luckey, who by one of those weird coincidences is Matt Gaetz's brother-in-law. 010
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A new U.S. Air Force initiative on Force Design recognizes that the entire force neither can nor should be equipped to handle the highest threat levels. "It would be great to have all-MA1 forces,’ Allvin said, 'but it costs too much." www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-us-air-f...aspistrategist.org.auThe US Air Force is redesigning itself | The StrategistThe Resolute Force Pacific (Reforpac) exercise will be the largest US Air Force non-combat deployment in many years, with more than 300 aircraft involved. The two-week exercise in mid-2025 will coinci... 060
Reposted by Bill SweetmanMelinda Vernon @mvf427.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Charlie Sykes sums it up nicely. 322664883
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024This does raise a point: if you want to deport 20 million people and one per cent of them say "bleep that noise" and take advantage of the GOP ammosexuals' defeat of all gun control, you have 200,000 armed resisters vs. ICE's deputized Meal Team Sixers. I'm sure they've thought about that. 120
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The T campaign minging about how this is a plot to "derail" the campaign when the allegations were public knowledge and the GOP House started the investigation... Derail? You knew he had a bent axle and no brakes but you hitched him to your own train, idiots. 010
Reposted by Bill SweetmanNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Veni, Vidi, Vichy The GOP has blitzkrieged its way to Washington and Le Grand Orange is looking more like Marshal Pétain each day. The left may cry “Vive la #résistance” but the right is singing “Thank heaven for little girls.” by Maureen Dowd 401190160
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Da (and I cannot stress this too strongly) fuq? 010
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Grunts - I'm voting for Trump who didn't start pointless wars! Trump - You are assigned to house-to-house searches and raids, security duty on detainee bus convoys, stringing wire, digging latrines, and guarding camps. God Bless America, loser. 000
Reposted by Bill SweetmanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Like Joe & Mika, I would also like to announce that I am “restarting my communications with Trump.” However, I will do it in a slightly different way: 🖕 776190741943
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024And a hearty Fark U to all of them. They made the bed and now we can all lie in it. Bet they found it easy to not vote for a woman, married to a Jew. 020
Reposted by Bill SweetmanJeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Oh, look, another nominee to be Secretary of Energy who thinks his primary job involves energy. How cute. 1113025
Reposted by Bill SweetmanWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024So a sex fiend, a dog killer, a Russian asset, a Christian nationalist and an anti-vaxxer walk into a bar The bartender says, "Why are you here? The Cabinet is meeting over at the White House." New column drops later today 17855139
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024If I had written the RAND report including this sentence, and an editor added the parenthetical clause, I would be tempted to perform an act of grievous bodily harm. 1134
Reposted by Bill SweetmanElizabeth Hackett @lizhackett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A posh woman asked where I got my boots and I didn't want to say TJ Maxx, so I told her I won them in a bar fight. 428223
Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Just arrived here. Thinking of a Christmas gift for your favorite F-35 fan? www.amazon.com/Trillion-Dol...amazon.comAmazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: BooksAmazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: Books 060