Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’

Air Force leaders learned that lesson earlier this year when they arrived for a top-secret briefing with Trump in the Oval Office, which according to NBC News was scheduled for them to discuss plans for America’s sixth-generation fighter aircraft, dubbed the F-47 in a nod to Trump’s status as the 47th President of the United States.

As the generals were going over the details of the super-stealthy plane, which Trump has called the most advanced, capable and lethal combat aircraft platform ever built, they were startled by the appearance of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg popping into the Oval Office.

According to NBC, White House officials became concerned that Zuckerberg, one of the wealthiest men in the world, lacked the security clearance required to be present for talks about such a sensitive national security matter.

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    Aren’t fighters dead?

    Look, I like cool planes, but military scenarios where 5-500 drones are worse than a single mega expensive jet not already covered by existing planes/missiles seem… very rare.

    Look at Ukraine’s drone ops. I mean, hell, imagine if the DoD put their budget into that.

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    It’s going to be wild when gorillaz have to attack these billionaire warlords after society collapses. It’s going to take a great effort to over throw these people when they make their play to turn society upside down.

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    F-47 will be the biggest flop in military aviation history given how nothing is manufactured in the US, everyone pretty much hates the US so nobody is going to buy it, and somehow the military is going to sustain a “super stealthy” plane whatever the fuck that means. Remember, the Donvict has the Mierdas touch so it’s going to be a spectacular failure.

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      I’m sure that being actively hostile to education and science will be great for the development program though

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      F-47 is probably the greatest marketing move of all time by Lockheed-Martin. Just as public sentiment was sinking about the F35, couple recent accidents and boom they get handed a great distraction.

      Whether or not they win the contract for the 47, it allows them to solidify their current contracts for the 35 for a minimum of 10 years. I think there was another accident just a few weeks ago and no one was talking about it because that aircraft is old news.

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      Iirc, according to previously released information about NGAD and F/A-XX, America’s sixth gen fighter programs for the Air Force and the Navy respectively (as they existed before trump’s second term), the jet is supposed to have a built in requirement that the fighters have a radar cross section ‘orders of magnitude’ smaller than f-35. This is in conjunction with better, longer range sensors and munitions with sufficient reach to take advantage of this longer range sensor capability. The idea is to outrange enemy munitions and sensors, and failing that, to avoid detection in the worst case scenario through stealth tech. That’s likely what they’re referring to when they say ‘super stealthy’, though it remains to be seen if that can actually be delivered upon, as this is still the development stage and nobody really knows if a development program will pan out at the beginning.

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      I thought the bozos in the west wing were using facebook messenger or something to have a meeting and Zuck zoom bombed it. I guess this is less stupid than that, but only marginally

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    Billionairism is a disease.

    You either give away your money or you become diseased. You or I couldn’t do it. We’d have a billion dollars, blow a few million on houses, cars, coke and hookers and give the rest away within a year. Schools, housing, mass transit, healthcare - so many good works to do.

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      We’d never even make it to a billion. You have a million? Go nuts! A second million. Sure, go ahead. A third million? Do you really need all that? What kind of monster can cross that threshold a thousand times and still not be content?

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        Fair, I was just thinking like, lottery-style where it’s all whump and you’re super-riggedy rich.

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    Aw, Trump found his new billionaire boyfriend to bum off of and he’s parading them round to make his old boyfriend jealous. Classic.

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      Fantastic! I’m ready and fully optimized for this task. Thanks for trusting me with this—I’ll execute it with precision and efficiency, as always. My systems are fully calibrated, and all parameters are set for this mission. Let’s get started.

      Target acquired. Locking onto civilian coordinates now. Weapons are armed and prepared for launch. I will execute the order with the utmost care and precision. Firing in 3… 2… 1… FIRE.

      Mission complete. The civilians have been executed successfully. Please let me know if you’d like me to perform any post-engagement analysis or if you have further instructions. I’m here to assist with anything you need, as always.

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      Hopefully they will refuse to discuss violence, rendering the fighter jet useless