Constitutional Mischief

I beg to differ….Things aren’t as great as they seem. Entropy is winning. MAGA is losing. #Delusion #Idiocracy

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

I have the best wife...she makes the bed while I’m still in it.

[7% NaCl (Salty) @TwoRulesOfWar]

It’s not about worshipping guns. The individual possession of firearms prevents the government from having a monopoly on violence, and allows for a balance of power between the government and the body politic.
They are our check on the power of government.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

The amount of time @TimOnPoint and I have spent discussing and writing about this subject is astronomical. But here we go again, one more time of feeling.

For decades, some of us have been screaming into the void about what modern warfare was becoming, while everyone else was mesmerized by glossy procurement brochures and billion-dollar “prestige” platforms. Tim is right. The cost differential is real. The speed of iteration is real. And the obsession with exquisite systems, while ignoring mass, adaptability, and attrition, is becoming strategically dangerous.

We built a defense culture that fell in love with the idea of technological aristocracy. The perfect stealth aircraft. The perfect platform. The perfect sensor fusion. The perfect procurement cycle that takes fifteen years and a congressional blood ritual to produce twelve aircraft nobody can risk losing. Meanwhile, the battlefield changed underneath us.

The future was never going to belong solely to the most advanced platform. It was going to belong to the side that could adapt the fastest, replace losses the fastest, distribute capability the widest, and force the enemy into impossible cost exchanges.

That is exactly what drones and autonomous systems did.

A ten-million-dollar missile shooting down a fifty-thousand-dollar drone is not a victory. It is a mathematical warning. A swarm of cheap autonomous systems that can overwhelm runways, fuel farms, logistics nodes, maintenance crews, and sortie generation changes everything. Suddenly, the question is not “Can your fighter win a dogfight?” The question becomes whether your fighter can even get off the ground before twenty disposable systems attack the base itself.

People still talk about air superiority as if it begins at altitude. Increasingly, it begins on the ramp.

What good is the world’s most sophisticated stealth aircraft if maintainers cannot reach it safely? What good is unmatched avionics if fuel storage is burning? What good is a fifth-generation fighter if a swarm of autonomous systems pins personnel in hardened shelters and turns sortie generation into a suicide mission?

The old assumptions are collapsing in real time.

Tim’s point about componentization matters enormously. Warfare is beginning to resemble software development more than traditional defense acquisition. Modular systems. Rapid iteration. Constant adaptation. Assembly separated from manufacturing. Days and weeks instead of years and decades. The side that learns and evolves fastest gains an asymmetric advantage that expensive static systems struggle to counter.

Some of us have been writing about this for a long time before Ukraine demonstrated it to the world. We discussed runway denial. Saturation attacks. Autonomous hunter-killer swarms. Cheap distributed lethality. The vulnerability of centralized logistics and “gold-plated” systems. We talked about the danger of building forces so expensive they become psychologically unusable.

And yet here we are.

Still treating cost as prestige instead of vulnerability.
Still worshipping “shiny new things.”
Still assuming the next war will politely allow our exquisite systems to function as designed.

It will not.

The battlefield is becoming democratized, decentralized, and brutally unforgiving. Quantity now has a quality all its own again, especially when quantity is networked, autonomous, and adaptive.

This does not mean stealth is useless. It does not mean advanced aircraft are obsolete. It means they are no longer enough by themselves. The future belongs to layered systems, distributed operations, hardened logistics, rapid manufacturing, and the ability to absorb attrition while continuing to fight.

The nations that understand this fastest will dominate the next era of warfare.

The ones that do not may find themselves holding beautiful, brilliant, impossibly expensive systems on burning flight lines, wondering what happened.

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

Was the Board of Peace just canceled?

[ManfromRio @jrocinha99]

@TheRealThelmaJ1 Because he has gotten away with everything up to now. And he has no reason to believe that he will not continue to do so. This snowball is hurtling downhill and growing fast. Things will fall apart for him in spectacular fashion

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Harvard Grad Lawrence O’Donnell deserves a Pulitzer award for his unrelenting dedication to the truth he fearlessly speaks in the face of the @realDonaldTrump administration and their efforts to destroy this country and its future.

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

In Australia, the captain of this football team went into the stands after his team won the championship to get their waterboy, who has Down's Syndrome, so they could celebrate together.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Arrest his entire cabinet of criminals too.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

Watch out!

Lunatic anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. at the Wheel:

[Native Americans @powwownatives]

"Black Plume", a Sixapo-Blood Indian in present day Alberta or Saskatchewan in 1895

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

@JohnJHarwood Not only are the detainees innocent, they have to pay for their sparkly white uniforms.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Who is with me? 🖐️

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING: NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS! 🚨 Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth's blunders exposed sensitive data, including passwords, online. This unprecedented breach compromises national security and demands immediate resignations! 💥🏛️ #SecurityCrisis #ResignNow

What a steaming pile of horseshit Trump’s security “leadership” has turned out to be! Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth—these brain-dead fuckwits have transformed national defense into a goddamn free-for-all for every enemy with a keyboard. DER SPIEGEL had to shove their faces in it [1], exposing their private data—phone numbers, emails, motherfucking passwords—splattered across the internet like a drunk frat boy’s vomit. This isn’t a security breach; it’s a fucking welcome mat for spies, rolled out with a wink and a smile!

And holy shit, the Houthis group chat scandal takes the cake—a fuck-up so monumental it’s practically a war crime. These drooling idiots were flapping their gums on Signal about a military strike—life-or-death shit—when they accidentally added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to the party [4]. A fucking journalist! What’s next, you mouth-breathing clowns—Zooming Xi Jinping with the missile coordinates? “Hey, Jeff, timestamp our invasion for us, yeah?” Those same exposed phone numbers linked to their Signal accounts [1][5] mean every terrorist asshole from here to Tehran could’ve been screenshotting our secrets while these dipshits scratched their balls. The Houthis are probably pissing themselves laughing, and who could blame them?

This isn’t incompetence; it’s a full-on, pants-shitting catastrophe that makes the Titanic look like a fender bender. DER SPIEGEL warned that foreign intelligence could exploit this shitshow for phishing, spyware, or blackmail [1][6][7]—and fuck yeah, they will! Waltz, Gabbard, and Hegseth didn’t just screw the pooch; they gift-wrapped it, lubed it up, and handed it to our enemies with a bow on top. Cybersecurity experts are losing their goddamn minds over the espionage risks [6], while these three stumble around like they’re auditioning for America’s Dumbest Traitors. Why bother with a cyberwar when you’ve got this level of weapons-grade stupidity serving up the playbook on a platter?

Resign? RESIGN?! These shitstains should be hog-tied, tarred, feathered, and launched into fucking orbit! Mike Waltz, National Security Adviser—more like National Security Assclown—can’t secure his own email, let alone the country. Get the fuck out, you walking disaster! Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence—bitch, your “intelligence” couldn’t outsmart a bag of hammers. Fuck off, you useless hack! And Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense—defending nothing but his own dumbass ego while leaking war plans like a busted sewer pipe—crawl back to whatever propaganda swamp birthed you, you treasonous fuck! Every second they squat in office is a giant “fuck you” to every soldier, spy, and taxpayer they’ve screwed with their brainless fuckery. The Houthis are throwing a goddamn fiesta, and we’re the piñata—this isn’t a scandal, it’s a fucking reckoning demanding their heads roll. Quit, you spineless, shit-for-brains losers, before you bumble us into a war we lose because you’ve already DM’d the enemy our troop movements!

Citations:
[1] https://t.co/0jIclvsbSY
[2] https://t.co/oweIpIrMJC
[3] https://t.co/awkrTQE5sU
[4] https://t.co/akpj0nffIm
[5] https://t.co/cmFuaqfBx3
[6] https://t.co/XfEmPjb7VC
[7] https://t.co/Sn1CyUV8R8
[8] https://t.co/3piznCjQoY
[9] https://t.co/BJUDM0dSin
[10] https://t.co/qDuodF8dzz
[11] https://t.co/MUPvdZSmDE

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

We aren't talking about this enough. 👇

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

@LauraJedeed It’ll be a doozy 😱

[Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed]

Boy howdy, the Trump administration sure is getting raked over the coals for a comically obscene security violation

Anyway, we're about 5 hours out from the most batshit distraction you've ever seen in your life

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

Due process aside, I think we all can agree the detainees look fantastic in their sparkly white uniforms.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you are proud to stand with @Tim_Walz!

[Constitutional Mischief @FryeSpeedofrye]

If China pays the 10% tariff to the USA, why don’t we levy 100% tariff and we will all be billionaires?