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The Republican primary has got me excited enough that I\u2019m checking enough Capital Hill \u201cinsider\u201d periodicals - The Hill, Politico, National Journal - that it\u2019s showing up in my cookies I guess.

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Because I\u2019m starting to get served ads, the kind of ads you see in meatspace on the DC subway. Ads for fighter jets. I was getting a bunch for the F-35, but now I\u2019m starting to see ones that are clearly for an F(/A)-18 variant.

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Which means there\u2019s some appropriations fight on somewhere where maybe the white elephant F-35\u2032s under threat and Boeing\u2019s making Lockheed Martin at least work for it, good for them.

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In college I dated a girl from New Jersey, she said one of her high \nschool (boy?)friends\u2019 dads had been involved in the arms industry, over \ntheir house once she saw a thick catalog, picked it up.

It was for the Africa trade, she remembered one ad for tanks the slogan was \u201cThey\u2019ll Never See You Coming\u201d

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