{"id":178052,"date":"2019-03-21T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/21\/what-youve-just-said-was-one-of-the-most-insanely-idiotic-things-i-have-ever-heard\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:35:00","slug":"what-youve-just-said-was-one-of-the-most-insanely-idiotic-things-i-have-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/21\/what-youve-just-said-was-one-of-the-most-insanely-idiotic-things-i-have-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"What You&#8217;ve Just Said Was One of the Most Insanely Idiotic Things I Have Ever Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKjxFJfcrcA\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>and May God Have Mercy on Your Soul<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The above Billy Madison quote is directed at Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.<\/p>\n<p>She is a part of the Pentagon freakout over Turkey buying S-400 SAMs from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>As I have noted before,<a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=s-400+turkey&amp;max-results=200&amp;by-date=true\"> this butt-hurt is about US defense contractors not geting their vigorish, and then not distributing a cut to Pentagon Generals through post-retirement sinecures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are claims of security issues, but given that US allies in NATO are currently operating the nearly as capable S-300 system, Bulgaria, Greece, and Slovakia, I&#8217;m calling bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<p>Katie, however, turned the knobs on stupidity and hypocrisy up to eleven with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-turkey-defense-exclusive\/exclusive-us-may-soon-pause-preparations-for-delivering-f-35s-to-turkey-idUSKCN1R20AY\/\">when she said this<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe S-400 is a computer. The F-35 is a computer. You don\u2019t hook your computer to your adversary\u2019s computer and that\u2019s basically what we would be doing,\u201d Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, told Reuters. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Undoubtedly the S-400 has ESM capabilities, and as such it could read emissions from the F-35 (as could more extensive installations in Russia) but the idea that somehow, because they both have chips in them, the S-400 could hack into the F-35 is beyond brain dead.<\/p>\n<p>I have it on good authority that you can tell when Katie Wheelbarger has been using your computer, because there is Wite-Out<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and May God Have Mercy on Your Soul The above Billy Madison quote is directed at Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. She is a part of the Pentagon freakout over Turkey buying S-400 SAMs from Russia. As I have noted before, this butt-hurt is about US defense contractors not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[381,387,511,697,406],"class_list":["post-178052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-defense-procurement","tag-hypocrisy","tag-missiles","tag-near-east","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}