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Simon Paynton wrote:
@robert – why were those things done? For what reasons?

To enrich the billionaires. The systematic dismantling of the Federal government is the circle jerk billionaires dream about because it is the only organization that can redistribute their wealth to the masses through taxation. It is stupid of them because eventually a…[Read more]

Forcing the FAA chief to resign on Jan 20th (because he was prosecuting SpaceX for safety violations…)  He wasn’t fired because he quit before they could fire him, but shadow president Musk has been demanding he be fired for months.

Air Traffic Controller Hiring frozen on Jan 21.

Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded Jan…[Read more]

Subtext of Trump, the GOP, and their ilk: any govt hires should first meet two basic requirements:

white

male

President Trump blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and his two Democratic predecessors for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax.

Mr. Trump cited no evidence, and even admitted when pressed that the investigation had only…[Read more]

The plane crash between the civil and military aircraft was only a few miles south of the White House and just after Sean Duffy and Pete Hegseth took control. Will MAGA and their conspiracy driven hive mind see it as a sign from their god?

The Republicans did a lot of praying after the hurricanes and many are calling for  more prayer today. At…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
That is funny you mention thots and prayers. I just heard that and snapped at the tv. That F’g bottomless pit of stupidity mantra. How are those prayers working out? I’d like to hear Joe and Jane average American critique thots and prayers. Or better yet do the socratic Reg play when Joe and Jane ask for thots and pra…

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Lots of thoughts and prayers to the Canaanite storm god for the victims of the midair collision. Not much talk of updating ancient airport infrastructure or hiring enough controllers. No sir, we can’t have that. Thots and prayers, thots and prayers, children.

With a cult of personality such as this, it reminds me of Middle Age Christians who walked around, flogging themselves. Sure, go ahead and punch me as long as you punch a Mexican immigrant harder.

We have heard a great deal of the sword and the purse. Let us see what is the true meaning of this maxim, which has been so much used, and so little understood. It is, that you shall not place these powers either in the legislative or executive, singly; neither one nor the other shall have both, because this would destroy that division of powers…[Read more]