US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[ChefKiss]

CNN's money comes from business contracts, and they went so hard with the TDS that it put some of that money at risk. They don't need people to really watch them. They need whoever's at the place where it's playing to not complain to the management to change the channel.

a considerable amount of CNN's money comes from the government, or used to at least. Between journalism grants and direct payment for data, polls and research
They're probably turning on Biden because he hasn't been showing them the same amount of funding
I imagine there's a large amount of "We better get fucking paid or else" happening right now as they scramble to extract as much money as they can from the Ukraine "aid"

 

[Standardized Profile]

you know what, I'm not going to make fun or insult Joe Biden for fallen of his bike
Older people who get hurt sucks, I know some people in my family who gotten broken bones for minor falls
Verus young people who just get a burse

And yes, I laughed my ass off when Biden kept falling on the stairs while getting on his plane
but that was different Biden just kept going and kept falling and so on and that was funny

Reminder that Biden's last broken bone came from abusing his dog, which later went on to bite and injure numerous people.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Getting hot in Texas, gotta love Mediaite lying in their tweet saying the protestors assaulted people, you clearly see it's Eyepatch's staff pushing people. Keep calling them fags to their face, let Dan go be cool guy with Black Rifle Coffee and Ben Shapiro somewhere else.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Biden falls off bike and says: "I'm good."

Ashli Babbit gets shot in the neck by a reckless political zealot named Michael Byrd and says: "I'm good."

Really makes you think.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

So a bunch of cows drop dead suddenly amidst a meat shortage, the baby formula factory that was recently re-opened has been closed after flooding amidst a baby food shortage AND now a train carrying a fuckton of coal has derailed amidst an energy shortage.

Trains fall down, go boom all the time. Derailment emergency response is big business for a reason. If someone was trying to fuck with rail traffic a derailment that severely damaged Sante Fe Junction in KC would be much more impactful. There was a a derailment last year that. Just to prove my point here are 3 derailments on that junction in the last 2 years:

I feel like this is just two years of skimped maintenance coming home to roost in a vicious manner in real time. I absolutely do not believe due diligence was given amidst all the ridiculous COVID measures that was implemented and recurring staff shortages that led to a vicious brain drain in operational departments.

Union Pacific put down new continuous welded rail on that line 2 years ago. So, it definitely wasn't deferred maintenance. I'm willing to bet they fucked up the neutral temperature when they installed the new rail mid-coof. The sections of welded rail not having enough room to expand on hot days can cause gauge failure and that may have been the failure mode.

 

[notafederalagent]

Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf

By DAVID KOENIG 2022-06-18 18:26:41 GMT

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.

“That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

Buttigieg said he is pushing the airlines to stress-test their summer schedules to ensure they can operate all their planned flights with the employees they have, and to add customer-service workers. That could put pressure on airlines to make additional cuts in their summer schedules.

Buttigieg said his department could take enforcement actions against airlines that fail to live up to consumer-protection standards. But first, he said, he wants to see whether there are major flight disruptions over the July Fourth holiday weekend and the rest of the summer.

Enforcement actions can results in fines, although they tend to be small. Air Canada agreed to pay a $2 million fine last year over slow refunds.

During Thursday’s virtual meeting, airline executives described steps they are taking to avoid a repeat of the Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,800 flights were canceled. “Now we’re going to see how those steps measure up,” Buttigieg said.

Travel is back. On Friday, more than 2.4 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports, coming within about 12,500 of breaking the pandemic-era high recorded on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.

The record surely would have been broken had airlines not canceled 1,400 flights, many of them because thunderstorms hit parts of the East Coast. A day earlier, airlines scrubbed more than 1,700 flights, according to tracking service FlightAware.

Weather is always a wild card when it comes to flying in summer, but airlines have also acknowledged staffing shortages as travel roared back faster than expected from pandemic lows. Airlines are scrambling to hire pilots and other workers to replace employees whom they encouraged to quit after the pandemic hit.

It takes months to hire and train a pilot to meet federal safety standards, but the Transportation Department sees no reason the airlines cannot immediately add customer-service representatives to help passengers rebook if their flight is canceled.

The government has its own staffing challenges.

Shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of Buttigieg’s department, have contributed to flight delays in Florida. The FAA promises to increase staffing there. The Transportation Security Administration, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, has created a roving force of 1,000 screeners who can be dispatched to airports where checkpoint lines get too long.

 

[XYZpdq]

Fuck, the memes get better and better everytime i check twitter

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I'll be very fair.
I bike almost daily, and I have exactly tipped on my bike the exact same way probably a few times. It's basically the "trip over your own shoelaces" or "whoops there was an extra step at the top/bottom" style thing of bikes. It's very hard to do normally but if you're focusing on other people around you, having a conversation, dicking around with your phone, other stuff like that, it becomes _much_ easier to do.
but seriously if I was in charge of keeping an old man safe I would keep him far from bikes because there's a lot of "it's great unless your roll a nat 1"

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

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Getting hot in Texas, gotta love Mediaite lying in their tweet saying the protestors assaulted people, you clearly see it's Eyepatch's staff pushing people. Keep calling them fags to their face, let Dan go be cool guy with Black Rifle Coffee and Ben Shapiro somewhere else.

Alex Stein is my favorite person on the internet right now.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf

By DAVID KOENIG 2022-06-18 18:26:41 GMT

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.

“That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

Buttigieg said he is pushing the airlines to stress-test their summer schedules to ensure they can operate all their planned flights with the employees they have, and to add customer-service workers. That could put pressure on airlines to make additional cuts in their summer schedules.

Buttigieg said his department could take enforcement actions against airlines that fail to live up to consumer-protection standards. But first, he said, he wants to see whether there are major flight disruptions over the July Fourth holiday weekend and the rest of the summer.

Enforcement actions can results in fines, although they tend to be small. Air Canada agreed to pay a $2 million fine last year over slow refunds.

During Thursday’s virtual meeting, airline executives described steps they are taking to avoid a repeat of the Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,800 flights were canceled. “Now we’re going to see how those steps measure up,” Buttigieg said.

Travel is back. On Friday, more than 2.4 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports, coming within about 12,500 of breaking the pandemic-era high recorded on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.

The record surely would have been broken had airlines not canceled 1,400 flights, many of them because thunderstorms hit parts of the East Coast. A day earlier, airlines scrubbed more than 1,700 flights, according to tracking service FlightAware.

Weather is always a wild card when it comes to flying in summer, but airlines have also acknowledged staffing shortages as travel roared back faster than expected from pandemic lows. Airlines are scrambling to hire pilots and other workers to replace employees whom they encouraged to quit after the pandemic hit.

It takes months to hire and train a pilot to meet federal safety standards, but the Transportation Department sees no reason the airlines cannot immediately add customer-service representatives to help passengers rebook if their flight is canceled.

The government has its own staffing challenges.

Shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of Buttigieg’s department, have contributed to flight delays in Florida. The FAA promises to increase staffing there. The Transportation Security Administration, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, has created a roving force of 1,000 screeners who can be dispatched to airports where checkpoint lines get too long.

"His own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York."
lol. Shouldn't have mandated everyone get the clot shot then.

 

[Local Fed]

Predictably, all the blue dog simps are having a hemorrhage explaining it away as not at all related to the fact he's 200 fucking years old.

I don't like the guy at all, but personally I think it could have happened to anyone, especially at his age. It's crazy (but completely expected) seeing the people getting mad at people making jokes about it. Shit happens, but it's funnier when it happens to someone with a lot of power and (as completely expected) there's a lot of tribal hypocrisy.

They know that if it had been Trump they'd be prematurely grave dancing and they'd be saying he was mentally and physically unfit to lead and needs to be put in a nursing home. I expect that if they cover it at all on Monday the afternoon reason to support repealing the 19th amendment, The View, and then the late night talking heads/shills (Colbert, Kimmel, Noah, etc.) will all just spin it with remarks like "At least we have a president now who can ride a bike" and the whole "two scoops" and eating McDonalds or something like always.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

Buttigieg: US may act against airlines on consumers’ behalf

By DAVID KOENIG 2022-06-18 18:26:41 GMT

The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was canceled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York.

“That is happening to a lot of people, and that is exactly why we are paying close attention here to what can be done and how to make sure that the airlines are delivering,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.

Buttigieg said he is pushing the airlines to stress-test their summer schedules to ensure they can operate all their planned flights with the employees they have, and to add customer-service workers. That could put pressure on airlines to make additional cuts in their summer schedules.

Buttigieg said his department could take enforcement actions against airlines that fail to live up to consumer-protection standards. But first, he said, he wants to see whether there are major flight disruptions over the July Fourth holiday weekend and the rest of the summer.

Enforcement actions can results in fines, although they tend to be small. Air Canada agreed to pay a $2 million fine last year over slow refunds.

During Thursday’s virtual meeting, airline executives described steps they are taking to avoid a repeat of the Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,800 flights were canceled. “Now we’re going to see how those steps measure up,” Buttigieg said.

Travel is back. On Friday, more than 2.4 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports, coming within about 12,500 of breaking the pandemic-era high recorded on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.

The record surely would have been broken had airlines not canceled 1,400 flights, many of them because thunderstorms hit parts of the East Coast. A day earlier, airlines scrubbed more than 1,700 flights, according to tracking service FlightAware.

Weather is always a wild card when it comes to flying in summer, but airlines have also acknowledged staffing shortages as travel roared back faster than expected from pandemic lows. Airlines are scrambling to hire pilots and other workers to replace employees whom they encouraged to quit after the pandemic hit.

It takes months to hire and train a pilot to meet federal safety standards, but the Transportation Department sees no reason the airlines cannot immediately add customer-service representatives to help passengers rebook if their flight is canceled.

The government has its own staffing challenges.

Shortages at the Federal Aviation Administration, part of Buttigieg’s department, have contributed to flight delays in Florida. The FAA promises to increase staffing there. The Transportation Security Administration, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, has created a roving force of 1,000 screeners who can be dispatched to airports where checkpoint lines get too long.

If this doesn't perfectly sum up this admin.

Massive supply chain disruption: not a big deal

One of the people who "matter" gets mildly inconvenienced: immediately open a federal investigation

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Give him a rainbow baseball cap and a giant lollipop and it will be just perfect.

 

[Blacklight]

Eyepatch McCain gets attacked.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

For all his posturing as MAGA personified, it was absolutely hilarious to see him reveal exactly what he's been for years.

Property of the CIA.

And now he's surprised that being a snake eater doesn't hold the automatic respect it used to before McCain used it to shit all over everyone.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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Getting hot in Texas, gotta love Mediaite lying in their tweet saying the protestors assaulted people, you clearly see it's Eyepatch's staff pushing people. Keep calling them fags to their face, let Dan go be cool guy with Black Rifle Coffee and Ben Shapiro somewhere else.

Really, is a guy walking up to you shouting "eye patch McCain RINO globalist!" is what counts as "physical assault' now a days?

 

[Blacklight]

I’m actually legit shocked he can ride a bike at his age.

Well we have photo and video evidence that he can't.

 

[Gehenna]

For all his posturing as MAGA personified, it was absolutely hilarious to see him reveal exactly what he's been for years.

Property of the CIA.

And now he's surprised that being a snake eater doesn't hold the automatic respect it used to before McCain used it to shit all over everyone.

Crenshaw is and always was an attempt to create another McCain. An Arch-RINO lightning rod that the moderates would awe at, the RINOs would rally behind, and the real Republicans would cower from as he stands atop an unassailable ivory tower.


The problem is that McCain had -decades- to build his own tower before it ever had to weather so much as a scouting party. Crenshaw is getting sieged before they even got the foundation down.

 

[soy_king]

Why would Trump do such a thing?
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How do you fall over while in a standing position?

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Crenshaw is unfortunately, very, very, popular with the normies. Sure anybody who is a "gun guy" or a political autist, knows he is the hackiest of hack fraud RINOs. But the normies love the guy.

He will probably hold onto his seat until he decides to retire or move on.

 

[XYZpdq]

Crenshaw is and always was an attempt to create another McCain. An Arch-RINO lightning rod that the moderates would awe at, the RINOs would rally behind, and the real Republicans would cower from as he stands atop an unassailable ivory tower.


The problem is that McCain had -decades- to build his own tower before it ever had to weather so much as a scouting party. Crenshaw is getting sieged before they even got the foundation down.

but dude, he has an eyepatch