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I regularly flip between Fox and CNN to see the spin words each use in an article. It’s frustrating to not have a neutral main stream media, but it seems like most people just want to watch whatever confirms their own views.

I’ve found the BBC to be pretty neutral when covering American news. In fact it’s the only TV news I can ever stand to watch on occasion.

What a great American!

Canadian Air Force guy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Fighting over Trump reminds me of this little TV series clip.

As a leader of the CCP, he’ll either die in office by ruling with an iron fist, or be tried/forgotten/executed by his successor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

I’m hearing from a friend apparently we’ve always known how to do this. Apparently it was figured out with the Luftwaffe Fulcrums post the wall coming down. Guess somebody just found the old copy of the book. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's all well and good but I think the point being made is as the chief executive for the state, it would have been important for Biden to be informed of an operation of that magnitude. At the end of the day any autonomy given to DOJ is autonomy given to them at his discretion. Given the enormous political consequences of this decision, he didn't neccessarily have to steer it but he should have been informed. If he wasn't, I would have serious questions about my AG. If he did want to steer it, he is absolutely in his right to, so long as he does so within the law. The FBI did not HAVE to raid Trumps home, that was a decision that was made. Perhaps it was the right one, I dunno. But to suggest that Biden doesn't have the right or authority to direct the DOJ or the FBI for that matter is complete fallacy and needs to be called out. Biden IS the chief executive.

You need to brush up on your constitution/DoD doctrine my friend. You do not have those powers. The POTUS does and via delegation you have received authority to execute those powers on his behalf. Your authority is very clearly laid out in DoD doctrine. POTUS is the commander-in-chief. He has delegated national command authority to the SECDEF. From there this is further delegated into COCOM authorities who further delegates OPCON and TACON. Your TACON of a single MQ-9 is but a tiny sliver of what is ultimately the President's power. This is all covered in ACSC as well (though not nearly detailed enough). Fun fact because I just went through this. When you get separation orders as an officer, your orders no shit say in the comments, "the President of the United States has accepted your resignation." The FBI was built in the early 20th century at the direction of President Roosevelt. It was under his authority an autonomous agency of law enforcement was stood up. Not congress, not the Supreme Court, solely the President.

I’d tell the army to just write off the F-35 and use arty based on what I see. There is so much USAF pro F-35 fanboy bad info out there such as “well in a high threat environment only an F-35 would be able to do CAS” spread by inept generals. That’s crap. If it’s a high threat environment the F-35 will be doing SEAD until it’s low threat enough to do CAS…at which the F-35 sucks balls with wall to wall beast mode GBU-12s. I’d much rather have block 30 vipers and A-10Cs doing the CAS with F-35s in support doing what it was designed to do well…SEAD. I don’t want to be anywhere close to the passive AAA/Manpad CAS threat in the F-35. I’d rather stand-off and use sensors and help other survivable platforms hit targets.

South Park FTW