Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Trump Pats Himself On the Back, Again

The sadly predictable thing about Donald Trump, other than the point that he only recently learned that Puerto Rico is "an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water" is that he will vigorously pat himself on the back at every conceivable opportunity.

He's not the first politician to see himself as the belle of every ball, the star of every show and the corpse at every funeral, but he elevates that sort of narcissism to new heights.

Plus, he apparently can't tell the difference between the Air Force and the Coast Guard. And he thinks that a stealth fighter is optically invisible.
“So amazing,” Trump continued, “that we’re ordering hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35?”

The Air Force rep complimented the “game-changing technology” of the F-35 fighter jet, spurring Trump to announce, “You can’t see it. Literally, you can’t see it. So it’s hard to fight a plane that you can’t see, right?”
That is a jaw-droppingly stupid thing to say. Only Trump could make one yearn for the intellectual rigor of George W. Bush. (OK, so can about half of his cabinet officers.)

7 comments:

Tod Germanica said...

President Chauncy Gardiner, with a brain like rice pudding.

Ole Phat Stu said...

It's only radar-invisible, and only to short-wavelengths (X-band?)
US radars. It's easily visible to long wavelength Chinese radar (oops?)

Ten Bears said...

Isn't it still in production, or as I (quite possibly mistakenly) understand it pre-production. Not on the market.

Which explain why it can't be seen.

deadstick said...

Perhaps he's confusing the USAF with Wonder Woman.

CenterPuke88 said...

Nah, TTB, it's active duty. I saw Donnie tossing rolls of paper towels, I just wonder if he was expecting the women to lift their shirts, like Mardi Gras.

CenterPuke88 said...

To clarify, Thomas. In service with USAF/Marines, still being delivered. Deliveries to European partners starting.

Ten Bears said...

Good write up at Brother Benen's Maddowblog. I was under the impression that due to a number of anomalies - like the pilots' O2 randomly failing - it wasn't ready for delivery. From my angle it seems to be not unlike the Osprey, not ready for prime time and not necessarily what it was meant to be.