What's going on in India?

[Speaker to Animals]

I bet the LMT shareholders' meetings since 2001 have been fucking orgasmic parties. Coke, hookers, and hi-tech shit out to the horizon. Pew! Pew!

I'm glad you're not an AAPL guy, Smits. :goteam: :drunk:

That is exactly what this is. He's been dumping nonsense marketing language on the forum running on a dozen pages now.

[Smitty-48]

This is the American free enterprise system, I do not deny that I am invested in Lockheed Martin, but I am invested because I believe in the product and I am stepping up to support the military as a shareholder, just doing my part to protect the American freedom which protects me, my interests and my property rights.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's a fine example of people putting money before more important matters.

The F-35 symbolizes everything that is wrong with Mammon and the federal government.

We could spend the same money on newer F-22s and F-15X, and maybe not end up losing a war.

[Smitty-48]

Well, again, I am not a communist, and I don't know how the rest of you pay your bills, but I have to use money.

[Smitty-48]

Bear in mind, corporate America has literally paid off my mortgage for me.

And this an expensive property I am living in here, in an expensive neighborhood.

And I am a retired infantry soldier.

For the likes of me to be able to pay cash for a property like this; that is where American freedom pays off.

God bless you, corporate America.

[Smitty-48]

And also bear in mind, my wife is very successful and she's not retired yet, so for me to be able to buy her a half million dollar house with 12,500 sq ft back yard, fully landscaped with all the bells and whistles?

That felt good. That felt really good. And in fact, I owe a lot of that to Steve Jobs, God bless him.

[Smitty-48]

The F-35 program is rather like a metaphor for America.

It's big, it's expensive, it's complex, and things don't always run smoothly.

None the less, it's the best there ever was to date, there is no competition except the other Lockheed Martin jet.

And yet people hate on it relentlessly, because it is America incarnate, and for some reason, people don't like America being the best.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's pure corruption and graft. People pushing shitty products, enormously overpriced, and on the taxpayer dime.

The reason corrupt politicians like Ted Cruz are freaking the fuck out about the F-15X is that they want the money. They know deep down the F-15X is the appropriate replacement for the F-16. It's far more affordable in every way and probably out-performs the F-35A in anything that the F-35A realistically would be used for.

The only areas where the F-35A stands out against an F-15 of any model is the stealth, but the stealth is bloody useless for a lawn dart.

Lawn dart technology was always a bad idea. I remember the same bullshit marketing gobblygook being spouted off by the F-16 fags. Go watch Iron Eagle and stop fucking up national security of my country.

Instead of paying 100+ million for stealth lawn dart that sucks, we could spend 80 million for an F-15X that carries three times the payload, can launch hypersonic missiles, and actually has a useful range.

There literally is nothing redeemable about the F-35. Nothing. It's pure corruption.

[Smitty-48]

The F-15 is not a viable replacement for F-16 and F/A-18 and Harrier and F-117, so obvious apples to oranges fallacy is obvious.

[Speaker to Animals]

I will just say it right now.

I guaranfuckingtee you that Boeing designed that thing to be able to smoke any F-35A in the sky.

F-35A is not going to have the range, performance, or firepower to compete against an F-15X.

At best, the F-35A and F-15X would target one another about the same time and you'd get mutual destruction recorded in the game. At best.