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I too served in the military and since I retired, I can't tell you how many times the Air Dorce and the Army have flown over or close by my home.  Yes, I am not famous but sometime the military needs to fly over all airspace and there is a chance that despite the media blowing this up, that all this was a pair of Apache's flying back to Fort Campbell as usual and it just happened to be close to Kid rocks home.

I've lived in or near the normal weather flight path for Moffett NAS/Field. It's no longer a naval base, but Lockheed has projects whose contracts require delivery by military transport. So while I no longer see P-3Cs, U-2s (NASA), and occasional AH-1s, I still occasionally see a C-130 or C-17 flying into Moffett.

Where I grew up is near Travis, Mather, and McClellan AFBs (the latter two now former AFBs), so seeing B-47s or B-52s was not uncommon when I was growing up, and during the late Carter years I'd occasionally see a C-5A while driving near Fairfield on the way to visit my parents.

Garrulity aside, seeing military aircraft nearby is pretty ordinary for me.

underpants (196,496 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 08:34 PM
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"Winning on day 1". My theory on Trump having the Ayatollah killed.
The premise is that Trump thought that by killing their leader, all of Iran would collapse because without him, the US would collapse.

He projected a delusion fueled by his worshipping cult both internally at the White House and externally by his actual maniacal cult.

He IS the state so every other country must be the same. With their leader gone, they’d naturally rally around his omnipresent strength.

1.  underpants needs to less and a WHOLE lot less. When DU-grade Progs claim to understand Trump or conservatives generally, you know absurdity is coming.

2. If Trump reeeeeeally thought taking out the Assatollah would bring down Iran, why were so many other targets hit? Especially SAM systems? Taking out SAM systems is what you do to prepare for further strikes in the days and weeks to come.

3. BTW, IIRC, it was Israeli planes that took out the Assatollah & Crew on that first day. US planes and missiles hit other, mostly military assets and facilities, targets.

we have an outdated Constitution and need more social programs,

Translated it means take from those who work and give it to those who don't.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221141688


Holy hell!  I knew they were crazy but, damn!

EnergizedLib
1 hr ago
The new MAGAt buzzword

Fraud.

I see the claim of fraud being cried over everything as justification for cutting all social programs, to the point that the word fraud is becoming meaningless in and of itself.

Widespread voter fraud does not exist, nor were the daycare fraud accusations substantiated, but they sure were used to cut, cut, cut. Nick Shirley isn’t some great journalist, just some partisan hack like LibsofTikTok - one looks the other way when the cult leader pardons fraudsters, the other looks the other way when someone from their side sexually abuses children.

The truth is is that none of us have any money. It’s all the government’s money and government knows how to spend our money better than we do. I am a statist, believe it would be better if we abandoned the belief in any God for a worship of the state, but we need to elect Democrats to do so.

The felon letting states trying to handle daycare, Medicare and Medicaid is a disaster, as these things are better done at the federal level, not the state level, that we have an outdated Constitution and need more social programs, not less, and we also need less war to invest in our citizens.

It’s not fraud to look over our fellow people with tax dollars, which is not more important than other people’s well being.

Fraud, as being used, is devolving into a completely meaningless term.

That’s all I’m bringing over.

KC

Currently living in Massachusetts, and me and my family are leaving this summer, heading for Tennessee.

We are DONE with blue states and liberals. Once I cross that Mason/Dixon line, I am NEVER crossing it again.

Any Tennesseans here in the Chatta area?  That's where we're looking to move to.