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Bill Sweetman

@valkstrategy.bsky.social
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Polymath on gap year. #AvGeek. Writer, strategist, cook and guitar picker. Lol, woke, and cope gonna get you blocked, chile. www.valkstrategy.com www.linkedin.com/in/bill-sweetman-0…

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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.
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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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time? But here we bloody well are.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
turning a new page for 2025
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.
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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Musk, CCAs and other things. I joined a podcast. soundcloud.com/defaerorepor...
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Defense & 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
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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...
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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 ....
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Misty Miller ☻ @mistymadonna.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Alright, who made this? 🤣😂
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Snort....
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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Defense reformation is coming – Valkyrie Strategic Solutions LLC
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Jennifer Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I hereby decree that this phenomenon needs to be named after Dinesh D’Souza.
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Vertical Flight Society @vtolsociety.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thanks for your insights and professionalism, @billsweetman.com.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ah, the Schadenfreude as RW NavyTwitter enters Foxtrot Oscar corner...
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Since everyone's talking about #F35... www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47PD1PS
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Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force
Amazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: Books
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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. 🧵
Tweet says: Last year, Anton wrote about his strained relationship with Gorka, which in Anton’s account stemmed from Gorka irritating senior White House staff by exaggerating his own role in writing a speech Trump delivered in his first term. Anton said he was charged with clarifying to the media that Gorka did not draft the speech, an act that culminated in Gorka calling Anton a “coward” and scolding him in a Fox News green room, according to his account.

Anton did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while Gorka told The Post: “I don’t comment to the fake failing news."

Anton expected to be in contention for other administration jobs
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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...
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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 ...
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A lively discussion going in the #eVTOL space. www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-m...
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Mark Moore on LinkedIn: Bursting and Unbursting the eVTOL Bubble | 46 comments
After 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
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
BREAKING: 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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fark yes. I love this woman.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sad guy and happy guy on the same bus meme. Sad guy caption "fascism has taken root in america" happy guy caption "wow 200 followers"
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Lots 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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A 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...
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The US Air Force is redesigning itself | The Strategist
The 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...
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Melinda Vernon @mvf427.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Charlie Sykes sums it up nicely.
Quote from
Charlie Sykes about which side is moral.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This 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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The 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.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Veni, 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
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Da (and I cannot stress this too strongly) fuq?
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Grunts - 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.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Like 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: 🖕
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
And 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.
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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Oh, look, another nominee to be Secretary of Energy who thinks his primary job involves energy. How cute.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So 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
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If 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.
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Elizabeth Hackett @lizhackett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A 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.
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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just arrived here. Thinking of a Christmas gift for your favorite F-35 fan? www.amazon.com/Trillion-Dol...
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Amazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: Books
Amazon.com: Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: How The F-35 Hollowed Out The U.S. Air Force: 9798324580780: Sweetman, Bill: Books
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