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CaveMum · 25/06/2025 10:40

Pulling software support is also why the Taliban were able to over run the Afghan Army - they couldn’t use half the kit the US left behind.

I agree it’s a vulnerable position for us to put ourselves in.

Serpentstooth · 25/06/2025 10:44

Morning all. I absolutely cannot take another day of listening to Bigly be smarmed by all for his brilliance that everyone can see was a total fuck up. Nauseating. Time for a day off.

logicisall · 25/06/2025 10:44

@YankTank , when Ukraine's US planes were grounded, US claimed it was because of no access to Starlink gps. Poland then said that they paid for Ukraine's access to Starlink, so sub was uptodate. This was the point when the existence of a US controlled kill switch stopped being a rumour.

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YankTank · 25/06/2025 10:48

This made me feel warm and fuzzy.

Trumplethinskin wants his Situation Room photo because it most definitely rained on his parade - Trump thread #145
Igotjelly · 25/06/2025 11:03

Serpentstooth · 25/06/2025 10:44

Morning all. I absolutely cannot take another day of listening to Bigly be smarmed by all for his brilliance that everyone can see was a total fuck up. Nauseating. Time for a day off.

I wish I had the mental self control to switch off, even for a day. The world is exhausting.

SerendipityJane · 25/06/2025 11:32

CaveMum · 25/06/2025 10:40

Pulling software support is also why the Taliban were able to over run the Afghan Army - they couldn’t use half the kit the US left behind.

I agree it’s a vulnerable position for us to put ourselves in.

Well yes. But you have to think of the shareholders.

I mean if you have a choice between £0+strings from Mega-Google-In-an-MS-fashion or £££££££ from Del Boy Tech and a bonus to puff up who ya gonna call ?

And that's before you factor in the fact that very few people want to go off menu with software as everything is about peoples cvs.

Echobelly · 25/06/2025 12:02

Donny is so mad Israel and Iran are spoiling his brilliant peace plan of posting IN CAPS at them not to attack each other on his social media network that no one outside his American fan boys looks at.

logicisall · 25/06/2025 12:43

SerendipityJane · 25/06/2025 11:32

Well yes. But you have to think of the shareholders.

I mean if you have a choice between £0+strings from Mega-Google-In-an-MS-fashion or £££££££ from Del Boy Tech and a bonus to puff up who ya gonna call ?

And that's before you factor in the fact that very few people want to go off menu with software as everything is about peoples cvs.

I didn't understand this ⬆️ (Mega-Google-In-an-MS-fashion?) but think it's positive on the US deal?

I still think it's a not well thought through plan that panders toTrump, but I guess they wanted the NATO announcement optics.

Britain’s new fast jets will be based at RAF Marham, in Norfolk, and will have to operate from land-based air strips because they lack the technology to use the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers.
The Government refused to be drawn on where it would store the B61/12 thermonuclear gravity bombs the jets would carry, which would also be bought from America.
The UK will deploy the jets as part of Nato’s nuclear dual-capable aircraft mission. It is understood that there are no plans for the UK to develop its own, domestically produced airborne nuclear weapons, like France.
Last year, The Telegraph revealed that Pentagon documents showed America was planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years, having removed nuclear missiles from the UK in 2008, after judging that the Cold War threat from Moscow had diminished.
According to procurement contracts for a new facility at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, the US intends to place nuclear warheads three times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb at the air base.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9930e4071bc0ef87

CaveMum · 25/06/2025 13:59

Mark Rutte appears to have referred to Trump as “Daddy”. I may have been sick in my mouth a bit 🤮

From BBC:

”Referencing Trump’s use of an expletive on Tuesday when referring to Iran and Israel, Rutte said: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.”

YankTank · 25/06/2025 14:06

Why do the MAGATs use such homo-erotic language when talking about TACO? Weird.

LlttledrummergirI · 25/06/2025 14:27

I saw this just now.

Someone suggested pouring glitter in the vents so that when the air-conditioning is turned on, the occupants get covered...

Trumplethinskin wants his Situation Room photo because it most definitely rained on his parade - Trump thread #145
AcrossthePond55 · 25/06/2025 14:47

The protests, the banging & horn blowing to get ICE out of hotels, my Dodgers telling ICE to get to fuck, now the tow truck drivers. Gotta love my hometown.

pointythings · 25/06/2025 14:47

CaveMum · 25/06/2025 13:59

Mark Rutte appears to have referred to Trump as “Daddy”. I may have been sick in my mouth a bit 🤮

From BBC:

”Referencing Trump’s use of an expletive on Tuesday when referring to Iran and Israel, Rutte said: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.”

And this is why I have never voted VVD in Dutch elections..

tobee · 25/06/2025 15:18

Just had this sent to me by my ds:

tobee · 25/06/2025 15:20

Did that work? Posting again:-

Trumplethinskin wants his Situation Room photo because it most definitely rained on his parade - Trump thread #145
SerendipityJane · 25/06/2025 15:29

LlttledrummergirI · 25/06/2025 14:27

I saw this just now.

Someone suggested pouring glitter in the vents so that when the air-conditioning is turned on, the occupants get covered...

A brief trawl through the memory banks would reveal all the tricks the slave labourers in France got up to sabotaging the vehicles they were forced to make for the Nazis.

Some of them (ideally) took hundreds of miles to become apparent, by which time the the malfunctioning vehicle cost may times the resources to deal with than the slave labour that built it cost.

Probably best not mention any here. Seems the UK is about to embark on one of it's semi-regular "everyone is a terrorist" purges.

SerendipityJane · 25/06/2025 15:30

tobee · 25/06/2025 15:20

Did that work? Posting again:-

Edited

So no more "special operations" for a few years then ?

Which reporters have asked that ?

MsJinks · 25/06/2025 15:36

He’s got 5% defence spending agreements from members of NATO
The stuff written to him by Mark Rutte is nauseating 🤢🤮

TulipTiptoer · 25/06/2025 15:54

tobee · 25/06/2025 15:20

Did that work? Posting again:-

Edited

Good grief. This is a bit like the stealth bombers when he actually said they were invisible planes.

Thick and ignorant doesn't cover it

logicisall · 25/06/2025 15:57

@tobee He thinks that pilots bomb their targets by looking out the window.

TulipTiptoer · 25/06/2025 15:58

logicisall · 25/06/2025 15:57

@tobee He thinks that pilots bomb their targets by looking out the window.

Oh heck why did that make me laugh out loud 🤣 🤣 🤣

JoshLymanSwagger · 25/06/2025 15:58

logicisall · 25/06/2025 15:57

@tobee He thinks that pilots bomb their targets by looking out the window.

Maybe if they were flying a Lancaster in the 1940s...
Not so much now.

logicisall · 25/06/2025 16:01

Biggles did come to mind, ngl.

RafaistheKingofClay · 25/06/2025 16:50

TulipTiptoer · 25/06/2025 15:54

Good grief. This is a bit like the stealth bombers when he actually said they were invisible planes.

Thick and ignorant doesn't cover it

I was going to say it reminded me of the stealth bombers stuff.

All those pilots looking out the windows from their invisible planes.

Pedallleur · 25/06/2025 17:04

So now they are saying Bigly bombs might not be as effective as they thought. Perhaps his military staff have a bingo list of stuff to get him to say. Invisible planes, special eyesight, mega bomb.

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