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TriTorch's avatar

"Apparently we're at the point where they're hiring writers from the Babylon Bee to make up their cover stories." —radiasian

The F35 is tracked by hardware that the pilot cannot turn off. It is tracked constantly by ground and satellite radar. It can be flown remotely. It is impossible that the pentagon does not know exactly where this plane is.

But they want you to believe that the world's most advanced military is so incompetent that they lost one of their most advanced jets because: 1) demoralization, America is in decline and you feel it in your bones. 2) When America's military - the most expensive in the world - is defeated on the contrived global battlefield, everyone will nod sagely and say: "well they're too stupid to be stupid, we lost our tech to the Chinese." And the new world order/one-world-government that is waiting in the wings will swoop in right on cue and no one will bother fighting back. Don't fall for it. All the world is a stage.

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SA's avatar

Proposed Babylon Bee headline: Has the military tried taking out the hardware and blowing on it really hard? -asked the Nintendo experts from the 80’s

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On the Right side's avatar

Their actual headline was pretty good -

'Military Personnel Seen Wandering Forest Pressing Button on F-35 Key Fob'

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RunningLogic's avatar

“Dang, it’s the same color as all of the other models, how am I going to know it’s the right one??”

🤣😆

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

a very expensive joke, but if we don't laugh about it, we go mad!

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Michael Framson's avatar

Could this F-35 have changed genders during the flight, gotten some hormones and wanted to go to the left coast.

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Neanderthalensis's avatar

OMG!! 🤣

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Nooooooooo

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Jen's avatar

I loved that - so funny!

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devoalan's avatar

That was beautiful!

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Roger Beal's avatar

The military might consult with Stockton Rush. He's got some brilliant ways to use Nintendo-grade hardware on state-of-the-art equipment.

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The Great Santini's avatar

I think they’ll need the Navy to do the consulting for them.

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Cyn's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Jen's avatar

This makes sense...but are you sure our best and our brightest are on this one? I see what you're saying that it probably is a psyop to demoralize us and rush in the NWO, but I'm just not so sure it's an act. I think we really do have the dumbest people in America running it.

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TriTorch's avatar

You make a good point Jen, but they cannot not know where it is. From Jz3rohedge:

"I'm not sure what angle they are working here but I assure you, they know exactly where it is. How do I know this? I worked for Lockheed and I know what that platform has that enables it to be tracked and it's a whole lot more than a transponder."

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Kim D's avatar

Exactly. Just they didn't know about those so called Chinese spy balloons. We've had the technology to track anything in our airspace after the 1941 Japanese Fire Balloon incident in Utah.

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TriTorch's avatar

Speaking of: According to a 3 Year Old Guardian Article that Spy Balloon Belongs to the US: https://bitchute.com/video/7ICJdxvMF0ZL [1:13mins]

Guardian Article: https://archive.ph/ZTWKf

Balloon and Surveillance Technology: https://x.company/projects/loon/

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Karin's avatar

The USA’s ability to control the F35 remotely should be a reason for other States not to purchase this plane!

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

Ditto if the plane has been hacked.

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daverkb's avatar

This is a very good point. The Russian might have the more reliable, dependable and smartly affordable fighter aircraft. Only a guess ... and I would love to hear knowledgeable comment on whether or not this is true and/or the pluses and minuses.

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Truthseeker's avatar

Honestly though… after what just occurred in Maui… and learning how we have the ability to use military satellites for directed energy weapons-do we even need fighter jets anymore… they almost seem like obsolete tech

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AL's avatar

That's the narrative, Jen. Oopsie! We fudged it! We make mistakes! Were just ordinary folk up in the air in multi-million dollar machines and pressed the wrong button! CDC, FDA< President, CIA/FBI, IRS, DOD. Dolts botching things left and right.

My ass.

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Corkey's avatar

I think they are hiring writers from Pro Wrestling Illustrated too.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

They're hiring actors from pro wrestling to fill important roles in this drama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc

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Corkey's avatar

John Cena, fake marine, For President !!

Idiots would actually vote for him too.

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CStone's avatar

Well.....idiots voted for Biden so, yeah.

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SB's avatar

Actually, the truly scary part is that smart people voted for Biden, at least book smart people. It is one thing to not know any better, completely different scenario when they should know better but do it anyway.

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CMCM's avatar

I have come to realize that book smart doesn't necessarily mean all that much. I learned that in college in the 1970s. Some of the most book smart people at the university were stunningly clueless about things outside their field of study.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Smart does not equal discerning. Knowledge and brains are only good if you also know how to use them.

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MsReid's avatar

And I've found that many of the really smart, brainy friends that grew up with years ago, don't seem to have ANY common sense.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

and common sense cannot be learned I think. Either you have it or you don't. And it doesn't get better with all the propaganda. the few leftover brain cells get hijacked, just like the f35

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I think it can be learned, at least to some degree. There appears to be a growing phenomenon wherein young people who grew up with helicopter parents who kept them from falling off the couch or rough-housing with friends end up getting badly hurt or even killed doing the latest internet thing because they never had to (got to?) experience the small pains resultant from exploration. Experience is a great teacher.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Agreed CMCM. Book smart just means you can memorize, like an actor or actress. It does not mean smart.

Also the Dems cheat a lot at school. The Dem teachers watch and even encourage for example by leaving the room for 1/2 hr during a midterm/ final. It was to help ( hurt ) the minorities so, they justify it.

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Peter Schott's avatar

But ... Trump!

_sigh_

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rolandttg's avatar

book smart people got jabbed too

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Likely in higher percentages, even. "Trust the Experts!"

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Robin Esau's avatar

I think they voted party vs Joe, but it's concerning all the same.

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The Great Santini's avatar

Not so much the idiots as the dead people. I understand he won the graveyard vote 100% to 0%

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Porge's avatar

I have that magnet on my fridge 🤣

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Raptor's avatar

You mean "I love commie China" John Cena?

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Dr Linda's avatar

That’s it! I couldn’t remember

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Corkey's avatar

Perhaps he meant Chyna the lady wrestler. 😂

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Dr Linda's avatar

John Cena bowed to the Chinese because of a comment he made. Anyone remember?

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OnTheJump's avatar

You referring to " Taiwan is a Country"?

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Dr Linda's avatar

Maybe. There is so much stuff to try to remember. That could be it, then he back pedaled?

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OnTheJump's avatar

Yes, he apologized, claimed "love for China and the Chinese people", as I recall.

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Dr Linda's avatar

That’s it. I dropped him like a hot potato after that

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Vonu's avatar

Who is John Cena and why should we care?

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Raptor's avatar

Well, whether or not you care is up to you Vonu. At least for now.

He is a wrestler turned actor who forgot who buttered his bread... or rice by mentioning something about Taiwan that the Chinese didn't like. He was made to realize it and issued a long form apology is Mandarin so all the appropriate people would see and understand. He is, to me, roughly equiv of a goofy dog with two ex's over the eyes. All movies he is in I will not pay for, I will not watch. You asked. Unless it was not a real ask and it was something else. In which case you deserved the long explanation. I could also say he is a sell out with no sense of integrity. You know... an actor.

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Vonu's avatar

Professional wrestlers are very adept actors if they want to succeed because they have to be ale to look like they are being brutal while they are being very gentle. Most television and movie fans fail to understand that almost everything they see is acting, from the talking heads that read well-rehearsed TelePromTer scripts to the heavily edited characters on reality television. When the names of the actors in a movie are well known to me, I am more likely to avoid seeing the movie because I will tend to remember the last thing I saw them in and ruin their current role. I spent too much time as a motion picture theater projectionist and sound engineer to be able to ignore every imperfection in the presentation. The biggest deficit in radio news is microphone use, leaving most sound pickup as lousy sound pickup. Windscreens and short shotgun microphones are endangered species outside of the studio.

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Raptor's avatar

All but children and the mentally challenged know wrestling is a show don't you think? But then again the world is now a stage and they want us all to pretend we don't know it's acting...

Dennis Prager needs something to muffle his swallowing. Just puttin it out there should Prager's sound engineer be listening. Listening to his happiness hour made me unhappy.

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Vonu's avatar

Mark Lenin's lack of alacrity with a cough switch, which he should have and use, is more annoying than Prager, who I'd gladly put up with if I had the choice.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

The only thing I can tell you for sure is his last name means "dinner" in Spanish 🤠

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Vonu's avatar

Prager or Levin?

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

I would have never seen that YouTube clip had you not shared it - not sure what to make of it except that the arena was filled and the fans were all into it and therefore it is safe to say that the next logical step on Trump's roadshow was politics. It's all theatre...

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

LOL I’m not a wrestling fan and never saw that. Hilarious

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KW NORTON's avatar

Or maybe they are so desperate they hired from Rolling Stone, The Guardian, or the NY Times.

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Corkey's avatar

What’s funny is that the good writers all wind up leaving those publishers like Matt Taibbi did.

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KW NORTON's avatar

And well they should. Working as a propagandist for totalitarians is bad karma.

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randall stoehr's avatar

Working harder to go the extra mile to our commitment to be Vague and horribly misleading about todays top military stories....you can count on us to bring you the News.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

That’s pretty much Jeff’s take on it.

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Dr Linda's avatar

“And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts”

There is more. Here is the last:

“And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

So apropos

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

Well said, thanks for sharing. I totally agree, there is no way that they don't know exactly where this plane is!

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AngelaK's avatar

We are relying way too much on technology which can go wrong, can be hacked, etc....

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Bryan Dair's avatar

Climate Change could have disabled the tracking capabilities.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Yup. Cuba seems its most likely landing spot.

My 1st take was EW. Russia has already on multiple occasions rerouted drones.

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WIMomof3's avatar

What is the range on those things? 🤔

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Off the top of my head, relatively short. But that is my the ones we know something about. Whatever it currently is, they are certainly testing longer range models.

And there is nothing that says it wasn't via tech exchange with China, who could have the more advanced versions.

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Vonu's avatar

Just remember that all of the Pentagon's hardware was built by the lowest bidder, which wanted to sell more of them, justifying getting rid of them as quickly as possible.

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TriTorch's avatar

Do not doubt that, but the tracking of this $135,000,000 jets have multiple layers of redundancy built in both the inside and outside. In order for this plane to vanish all of these independent systems would have to fail in unison.

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Vonu's avatar

Maybe it got more invisible going from $80 million to $135 million per.

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CMCM's avatar

Wait....I thought the entire government always went with the HIGHEST bidder....

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Vonu's avatar

It really doesn't matter which bidder they go with when they all have cost plus contracts with no intent or capability to contain any costs.

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

Pratt and Whitney lied about the lifespan of the F35's engine. Resulting in a fraction of them being air ready at any one time.

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MayBella82's avatar

What bothers me the most is the wingman didn’t stay with the plane. Once the pilot ejected, the wingman should have made the call... both about the pilot ejecting and what was going on with the plane. The F35 was not out there alone.

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SYFY's avatar

Supposedly the transponder wasn't on and they didn't know why...would work into it being hacked if that was really the case.

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S.P.H.'s avatar

I believe, TriTorch ,that the F-35 is more stealthy than you assume. This, and many aircraft can 'shut off' their transponders and disappear from tracking radar. After all, that was one goal of the platform, be invisible. Whether the pilot or some other source 'flips the switch' I do not know. Granted, a transponder is only one way to identify and track an aircraft, or a ship at sea for that matter. I would hope there would be other military means of monitoring aircraft, satellite, airborne command aircraft, and of course the wingman aircraft. Lots of questions there. A sure way to know if fighters are operating in an area is to monitor refueling aircraft, fighters are like an Indy race car, they need fuel often.

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Kalinda's avatar

Well, there you go. The test mission was to see if they could actually lose the plane, thereby confirming its stealth. It was a win!

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GoodGrief-239's avatar

A complete loss of electrical power with no redundant systems engaged could do it.

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