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I'm hearing about ""Trump removed plane safety"" around the Internet recently. I'm assuming it has to do with these sudden plane crashes. Am I to understand that he didn't do anything like that and instead, the usual suspects are blaming Trump for these crashes?
Because if pilots are deciding to kamikaze themselves into shit because they can't stand the orange man being president, then we really do need to reopen asylums and treat TDS as a dangerous mental illness.
It's just retards screaming.
The first was the fault of the helicopter pilots, they deviated from the normal flight path over the runway and were instead in front of it not the ATC.

Second is a private medical plane for ferrying patients elsewhere from out of Mexico and it nose dived into row homes over in Philly. What's wrong with that is TBD but I highly doubt it's anything to blame the ATC on either.
 
No, the CIA released a statement a few days ago saying 'covid was "more likely” to have come from a lab than a natural reservoir like a bat or other animal at the wet market. The conclusion did not come from new evidence—merely a fresh look at existing data—and the agency has “low confidence” in the findings.'

Doing so 5 years after the facts and amidst rising tension between the US and China come across as weak and opportunistic to me, even if I agree with the statement.

Best source I have is APnews, couldn't find the raw declaration.
Low confidence because chinks don't let anyone on the premises yeah. Anything they don't have tangible physical evidence for is classified as "low confidence" even when the empirical evidence is high.
 
Second is a private medical plane for ferrying patients elsewhere from out of Mexico and it nose dived into row homes over in Philly. What's wrong with that is TBD but I highly doubt it's anything to blame the ATC on either.
I have a serious question. Why the fuck would a ambulance plane out of Mexico be all the way up in Philly in any scenario? Patients had to go to Boston or something?
 
You know what. Fuck it. RFK Jr is getting confirmed, Tulsi is getting confirmed, Patel is getting confirmed, and they’re all getting at least 52 votes. I’m high on hopium but I believe this, just as I believed Trump was taking all swing states.
 
Chesterton has some absolute bangers. Some of my favorite quotes of all time.

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything."

"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."

"Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

And one of the most applicable to our current libertine society:

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”​

His last section on "What's Wrong With The World" is great too, just the idea of building your politics up from what your know is good. His book on America is spot on, I took my "Americans turn everything into moral issues," from that. He had a gift for seeing the the core of a thing and then working out from there. Once you read him, seeing his influence in Tolkien and Lewis is pretty easy.

I think he's got a decent following in the catholic and political philosophy nerds. Distributism is very fascinating, probably an ideal economic system on a smallish scale. Localism, diversified ownership, great ideas in theory. I think maybe one of the potential flaws would be in terms of efficiency, especially in a global economy like ours.
Definitely, Distributionism doesn't prioritize efficiency, spread the means of production as broadly as possible so people can make a secure enough living to have families, worry about efficiency later. Chesterton loved America's 40 acres and mule idea, for example, and I think he'd have loved 3D printers. I mostly treat it as an ideal, shopping local and small when and where I can. It's down right disturbing these days when you realize a handful of companies in America own everything. Proctor and Gamble is basically an evil megacorporation at this point, but good luck avoiding giving them money.
 
I have a serious question. Why the fuck would a ambulance plane out of Mexico be all the way up in Philly in any scenario? Patients had to go to Boston or something?
No clue, outside the number of heads on the plane and their roles we don't know anything. I imagine they had to have some money or be rather important to take that flight. Was 2 pilots, 2 docs, 1 patient, and a family member of the patient.
 
Ah yes, Sherman... the man literally owned by railway companies and made sure to target court houses in an effort to burn land deeds, allowing the government to scoop up land for dirt cheap.
Glad to see the "it was about slavery" support a literal war criminal.
I really don't care. War crimes are fake as fuck, it's just ass hurt your side got its shit kicked in.
 
If it makes you sleep better. Just know the filthy DEMOCRAT traitors were put down like the dogs they were. Everything the Union did was justified against the radical left pro slavery coalition.
Now, I don't like that kind of talk. There were good men among the Confederates, great men, in fact.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest men to ever serve our country. He's the reason we weren't fighting Southern guerilla forces for 30+ years after the war.
We should be respectful of our brothers that served the Confederacy and bemoan the fact that we were forced into such ugly circumstances.
 
now paint detailed classical-style paintings over it instead
Replicate the Capitol Rotunda with modern happenings in the style of John Trumbull.

In other news, after going up some and staying there for a few weeks, the price of gas has been in freefall in my area. I expect the prices of other goods to fall shortly.
 
it's just ass hurt your side got its shit kicked in.
I'm not even an American, you fucking dipshit. You're getting mogged on your own history by a fucking leaf. This is not a secret, by the way. Say mad, die mad.
And also before or after the emancipation proclamation was signed except it explicitly said, that parts of the south that were controlled by the union were exempt. If the war was only about slavery, why only ban it in the areas of the south you dont control?
Already pointed that out.
 
If it makes you sleep better. Just know the filthy DEMOCRAT traitors were put down like the dogs they were. Everything the Union did was justified against the radical left pro slavery coalition.
If by put down you mean proceeded to have run over the southern states for the next hundred years yeah sure they were put down. The south voted democrat for the next hundred years largely out of resentment of literally being sent back to the middle ages for a bit. I don't think there were other better options but nobody really won the civil war some people merely lost less.
 
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