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The Morning Report — 1/31/25

Good morning kids. Well, the big story is of course the aftermath of yesterday's horrific air disaster over Reagan National and the Potomac in DC. As an aside, can anyone who writes (that is manipulates a crayon) TV news stop using the adjective tragic whenever a disaster like this strikes. Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash.

In any case, the daily soap opera (as the late great Rush Limbaugh called it) is shifting because Donald Trump is now president and because he dared use the incident to call out the evil insanity of DEI. Bad move? Wrong place and time? As I've pondered this, I've come to the conclusion that NO, it wasn't. Aside from the fact that he did not place the sole blame on DEI for what happened. Considering the actions of the Obama/Sponge Brain-Shits-Pants junta to specifically in the case of the FAA declare that too many air traffic controllers were white and that was intolerable. So towers were understaffed because there just weren't any qualified non-white male heterosexual normal ones available. Regardless of whether that played any part in what happened Wednesday night, all one has to do is stand in the smoldering ruins of what once was the beautiful community of Pacific Palisades to see what DEI, and all its attendant ideologies, beliefs and pathologies have wrought.

No doubt the black boxes on the airliner and the helicopter will be recovered and we'll at least have a record of both the communications of the aircrew as well as how the ships were behaving mechanically and aerodynamically at the time of impact. If we have honest, unbiased, true independent investigators who won't be intimidated or threatened by the usual political actors in the administrative state and politicians themselves, then we will indeed get to the bottom of this. And if either the air traffic controllers, or the blackhawk and airliner pilots displayed any sort of ineptness not only here but certainly in the past, then our worst fears and Donald Trump's assertions will be borne out.

The raging disgusting hypocrisy of the Left in both blaming Trump for what happened and in supposedly politicizing the tragedy is vomit inducing considering the fact that every time there is a mass shooting somewhere, these people are shoving each other aside to see who gets to be first to stand on top of the still warm bodies of the victims to shriek about the evils of the Second Amendment.

Moving ahead. . . I'm no great fan of Matthew Continetti, mostly because of his familial ties to Bill Kristol which over the years have turned more political as we've seen in his writings, so I have avoided him entirely for many years now. And yet he does have some very salient observations with this essay. And it ties in directly with Trump's referencing DEI and his and our crusade to eradicate wokeism:

The welfare state Trump seeks to reform is a misshapen layer cake of liberal ambitions. The rusted instruments of FDR's New Deal, such as unemployment insurance and Social Security, sit at the bottom. LBJ's Great Society—Medicare and Medicaid and the civil rights apparatus—is in the middle. It's the top layer—the woke revolution—that is the least appetizing. Liberalism's radical turn began in Barack Obama's second term. The MeToo movement and anti-Trump Resistance, COVID-19, and the death of George Floyd in 2020 catalyzed the intemperate demands of BLM, Greta Thunberg's climate hysteria, the 1619 Project, Defund the Police, Abolish ICE, and the transgender rights movement into the worldview of most Democrat elites. Former [so-called quote-unquote] president Joe Biden embedded these revolutionary ideas within the federal bureaucracy. Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden's welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change. In Biden's vision, America would adopt a Net Zero economy. Mass immigration would produce economic and demographic growth. DEI and gender ideology would make America a more diverse and equitable place. And if people didn't like it, well, they would face censorship, cancellation, and prosecution. . .
. . . Now comes the hard part. You exorcise wokeness from government by tackling spending, for sure. But you also wrestle back control of the bureaucracy through hiring freezes, a return to the office, Schedule F, offers of early retirement, moving federal agencies outside the Beltway, and attrition.
Just don't expect it to be easy. The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn't a matter of snapping one's fingers. The federal workforce backs Democrats both politically and financially. Powerful interests are invested in the status quo. The response to the spending freeze revealed the extent of government dependence. Only careful planning, precise language, consistent messaging, and effective legislation will rein in the federal Leviathan. And wipe the smile off Schumer's face.

Continetti makes some good points. But you have to not only engage in battle to win it, but to recognize the fact that we are not only in a battle, but that it is indeed an existential struggle between those of us who want to restore sanity to preserve whatever chance the next generation has of a real future and the Democrat/Left who want to enslave and/or eradicate us to satiate their perverse nightmare vision of what the world should look like.

By Trump mentioning DEI in this incident, he at a minimum puts it out there in the public consciousness. Then couple it with the open borders insanity and the wildfires and suddenly the narrative and who controls it starts to shift.

And this of course brings us to the ongoing confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks, which the Left hope to turn into struggle sessions and then torpedo his picks. Especially those they view as traitors like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. Both of them, along with stalwart Kash Patel managed to hold their own and even expose their inquisitors for their hypocrisies and bullshit.

"In his hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Director-designate Kash Patel put on a clinic in dispelling the vicious smears and lies perpetuated against him in recent months — and demonstrated exactly why President Trump nominated him to reform the FBI and make our communities safer.
“I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI — so let’s ask them,” Patel fired back after lies from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) about his record supporting law enforcement.
Director of National Intelligence-designate Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was equally as impressive. After enduring months of outrageous lies about her patriotism, credentials, and allegiance, Gabbard made clear where she stands: on the side of Americans demanding an end to the politicization of the intelligence community.
“[My opponents are] accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet … The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet,” Gabbard said in her powerful opening statement.
In his second hearing in as many days, Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., doubled down on his commitment to ending the chronic disease epidemic, restoring transparency to public health, and improving health care for Americans as he implements President Trump’s agenda.
“All vaccines are dropping because people don’t believe the government anymore — [and] I am going to RESTORE trust,” Kennedy said.
President Trump has nominated the most qualified cabinet in modern history, and it’s time for the Senate to finish the job of confirming them.

And when speaking of the status quo, there are quite a few RINOs that want to see Trump and perhaps the greatest political movement in American history that he engendered destroyed. Because the cause of American restoration stands in direct opposition to their making a profit off of its dissolution.

On a positive note, Doug Bugrum has been confirmed to head up the interior dept. and Chris Wright's nomination as Energy Secretary has advanced. These are biggies as they will be on the cutting edge of our drive to restore and expand our Fossil Fuel exploration and exploitation.

On a more reflective and somewhat somber note, In light of the fact that this past Monay was International Holocaust Rememberance Day, Daniel Greenfield has a sobering essay about what we've learned and more o his point, what we have yet to or refuse to learn.

What death ought to teach us is how to live. And how to survive in the face of certain death. The greatest challenge for the Jewish people remains complacency in the face of evil. If that is to change, the momentum will not come from leaders or organizations, but from individuals who see the threat. Death, no matter how vast or brutal, alone will not change complacency into awakening. To wake up, we must remember who we are. That is what Zionism at its best did by allowing us to imagine ourselves as more than the fallen state we had been reduced to. The Holocaust could not change who we are. Only we can change ourselves.

Make Never Again, NEVER... AGAIN, for real.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico.
It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power
Daniel Greenfield: The real lessons are those we still haven’t learned.
The Holocaust Didn’t Really Change Anything

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

“I think people are curious when we look at grants that are given out by federal agencies at how they’re utilized, and that evaluation needs to be done. We’re not spending another dime to help the destruction of this country,” Noem added. “We’re gonna make sure that we follow through on what President Trump has promised and that’s to make sure that we’re securing our border, deporting those who are here illegally and committing criminal actions and that our taxpayer dollars aren’t spent to help it.”
‘Not Spending Another Dime’: Noem Announces End To Grant Funding ‘Abused By NGOs’ Aiding Illegal Migrants
In the waning days of the Biden junta, Democrat leaders said then-[so-called quote-unquote] president Joe Biden couldn't do much to stem the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border without an act of Congress.
FLASHBACK: Dems Swear Republicans Are To Blame for Border Crisis
Daniel Greenfield: One down. Sixteen to go.
All Temporary Protected Status for Illegals Need to End
A reminder of how far religious institutions have departed from their core values and have been infiltrated by sinister forces.
Catholic Organizations and Open Borders

DC AIRLINER/COPTER COLLISION AFTERMATH
Trump confirmed no one survived the crash.
Trump: Helicopter, Plane Crash a ‘Confluence of Bad Decisions That Were Made’
President Trump zeroed in on how the prior Biden junta, and the prior Transportation Secretary, turned our nation’s aviation system into a DEI hiring program.
Trump is right about aviation safety
“The FAA’s diversity and inclusion hiring plan says diversity is integral to ensuring safe and efficient travel,” Trump complained. “A group within the FAA determined the workforce was too white. They actually came out with a directive saying it’s too white.” The president reminded reporters that one of the first things he did when he returned to office was sign an executive order to restore high standards for U.S. air traffic controllers under the FAA.
Trump Blames Biden Regime’s DEI Policies For DC Plane Crash, Says Pete Buttigieg Ran ‘FAA Right to the Ground’
“The system has been under attack due to DEI and the FAA bowing to wokeness since 2010, since the Obama administration,” Pearson said. “The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama administration terminating the lists of eligible, well-trained air traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in 2013 because they were too white.”
‘Bowing To Wokeness Since 2010’: Fmr Air Traffic Controller Says Short Staffing Is ‘Attributable To Obama Admin’
Trump also took the time to muse on the causes of the incident, highlighting the Biden government’s focus on DEI instead of passenger safety and specifically pointing out the “bullshit” of former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Trump Blasts Diversity Hiring & Ex-Transport Sec Pete Buttiplug in DCA Crash Briefing at White House.
Torres fired off two tweets late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning appearing to attribute the aviation disaster to executive actions Trump took related to a federal hiring freeze and firing several agency heads. There is no indication that the president’s actions contributed to the midair collision, a White House official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Filthy Dem Shit-whore Doubles Down On Claim Trump Contributed To Fatal Aviation Disaster
Hegseth said investigators will "quickly determine whether the aircraft was in the corridor and at the right altitude at the time of the incident."
Pete Hegseth Reveals More Info On Army Helicopter Involved In Deadly Plane Crash
“Skating is a very close and tight-knit community. These kids and their parents — they are here at our skating facility in Norwood six, sometimes seven days a week. It is a close, tight bond, and I think for all of us, we have lost family,” Zeghibe told the Boston TV station.
REPORT: At Least 14 Members of U.S. Figure Skating Team Perished American Airlines Flight that Crashed in DC
Duffy was sworn into office one day before the fatal crash.
Transportation Sec Says American Airlines, Helicopter Crash Was ‘Absolutely’ Preventable
As this tragic incident continues to unfold, Secretary Duffy's insights provide essential context on the operations involved and the ongoing inquiries aimed at preventing such occurrences in the future.
Here's What We Know so Far About the D.C. Plane Crash
America’s favorite pilot went on to say that the conditions when an American Airlines flight carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers on board over Washington, DC, posed some simple, but serious challenges.
Hero pilot Capt. Sully Sullenberger breaks down his assessment of horrific DC plane crash
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
I was also kidding — mostly — about Bass going Full Communist. But I'm not sure Elon Musk was when he posted Wednesday, "The mayor of LA is going full communist. Recall her before it is too late." There is a recall petition circulating but there's yet no formal recall process. But with Bass and Soboroff calling the shots on the big-money rebuilding effort, you should expect the big money to back Bass in case of a recall election.
Goodbye Pacific Palisades, Hello Full Communism
California Democrats in the state Legislature were poised Thursday to approve $50 million to fund fresh and anticipated lawsuits against the Trump administration and fund legal defenses for immigrants facing deportation as part of a splashy special session called by Gov. Gavin Newsom. But when members of the state Assembly gathered in Sacramento on Thursday morning, Democrats broke into a private huddle for 45 minutes. When they emerged, they declined to vote on the proposal. The state Senate approved the plans last week, and Democrats have said for months that the funding package is urgent.
Trump Effect: California Democrats ‘Delay’ Passing $50 Million to Fight Administration
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
Israeli leaders condemned the chaotic handover, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it "shocking" and "additional proof of the inconceivable brutality of the Hamas terrorist organization."
Armed Hamas Terrorists Lead Angry Mob of Gazans in Stage-Managed Hostage Release, Enraging Israeli Officials
Netanyahu demands safety for future releases
Israel Delays Release Of Terrorists Following Troubling Hostage Release
The Hamas terrorists received a warm welcome including the presence, in addition to Erdogan and Fidan, of “National Intelligence Organization chief Ibrahim Kalin and Communications Director Fahrettin Altun,” according to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency.
Turkey’s Erdogan Meets Hamas Leaders: ‘The Spirit of Resistance Will Not Disappear’
“We already have a two state solution,” wrote researcher Dr. Eli David, noting that Israel is a Jewish-majority state while Jordan is a Palestinian-majority state.
Calls to Recognize Jordan as De Facto Palestinian State Increase Following Trump’s Proposal for Gazan Relocation
The entire course of events, interactions and balance of power in the Middle East is being reset.
Trump’s Gaza Truth Bomb Re-Flips The Script On Gaza
Daniel Greenfield: What is Witkoff doing? (Sadly, I detect more than a whiff of grift - jjs0
Witkoff Meets PLO Leader Who Vowed to Spend “Last Penny” Financing Terror
ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"
The Command, in an extended statement, also announced that it had fully dissolved the official Syrian armed forces and the Arab Socialist Baath Party, the party of former dictator Bashar Assad.
Syria Jihadis Declare Top Warlord Ahmed al-Sharaa as ‘President’

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
When, exactly, will the protests in the West begin?
A Day in the Life of a Christian – Under Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Riley Jane English, 24, allegedly drove from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., intending to kill top Republicans in the Trump Administration. Some of those officials include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, but English changed her target to recently-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after reading an internet post about a confirmation hearing, according to police.
MAN Who Brought Weapons to Capitol to Allegedly Harm Trump Officials is 'Trans Woman,' Inspired by Mangione
Andy Ngo: Around a week before the Jan. 20 attack, federal law enforcement had been surveilling German national Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt and University of Washington student Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut.
The case of the radical ‘Zizian’ vegan trans cult and the shooting death of border patrol agent
Fred Fleitz: John Brennan’s outrage over losing his security clearance is as hollow as the falsehoods he peddled to shield Biden in 2020.
John Brennan’s Protests to President Trump Lifting his Security Clearances are Absurd
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Through ignorance, inattention or malice, Americans get the police and politicians they deserve.
New Jersey declares war on the State Police
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
After receiving an avalanche of pushback, Sellers deleted his post and later followed up with a mea culpa. “I deleted the post because timing matters. Politics at this point does not. I f**ked up, I own that,” Sellers wrote on X, continuing: “I am very prayerful but I’m also very frustrated upset and disturbed with where we are as a country. I recognize, and I will do better.”
Ghoulish: CNN Pundit Says ‘I F*cked Up’ After Blaming Trump for DC Air Disaster.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order within hours of taking office on Jan. 20 that mandated an end to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the federal government. After MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed that Trump was being “led” by authors of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which Trump distanced himself from during the 2024 campaign, Abrams went on a tangent about how Vance benefitted from DEI efforts.
Stacey "Tank" Abrams Somehow Concludes That JD Vance Is ‘DEI Graduate’ During Meandering Rant
Cuomo then played a clip of Warren touting her Native American heritage in 2012 followed by another clip from 2019 where she apologized for it. The senator has admitted to identifying as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory from 1986-1994, but has insisted that she did not do so for career advancement.
‘Have Some Shame’: Chris Cuomo Unloads On Elizabeth Warren For Attacking RFK Jr. Despite Her ‘History Of Fudging’
Prosecutors allege that Venables, residing in Prenton Place, displayed language deemed threatening or abusive on her car. The incident reportedly occurred on January 8 when Venables was observed driving with a sticker on her car reading “Don’t be a c**t.”Venables has pled not guilty to charges of causing harassment, alarm, or distress. As the case progresses, she has been granted unconditional bail and is expected to make another court appearance later this year.
Driver Prosecuted for ‘Don’t Be a C*nt’ Bumper Sticker.
And so are the Non-Atomic Scientists behind it.
Reminder: The Doomsday Clock is Fake
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Democrats have been screaming about President Trump's tariffs, not knowing much about where inflation comes from.
Democrats weep crocodile tears about tariffs, but ignore how taxes, regulations, and government spending raise costs
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
It’s the fourth fire at Moss Landing—a critical facility for Newsom’s clean energy plans
Burning Eyes, Breathing Problems, And Rashes: Residents Claim California’s Lithium Battery Fire Made Them Sick. Officials Deny the Health Risks.
In the 1970s, the looming ice age was the climate crisis du jour—proof that today’s “settled science” may not be so settled after all.
The Frights of Climate Catastrophe in the Disco Era

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Two relevant facts: Catholic schools nationwide did not see significant learning loss during COVID, likely because they overwhelming reopened as rapidly as possible.
The length of time that public schools stayed closed correlated directly with the political strength of the area’s teacher unions.
Oh, and this: Truancy is up nationwide post-COVID, apparently because too many kids broke the habit of actually going to school.
Test scores show how teacher union-driven lockdowns devastated kids
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Federal control over education has failed and it's time to buy out these employees and shut down the building.
How low can you go?
“Jewish students have faced an unrelenting barrage of discrimination; denial of access to campus common areas and facilities, including libraries and classrooms; and intimidation, harassment, and physical threats and assault.”
Trump Signs Executive Orders Dealing With Antisemitism, Critical Race Theory in Education
Just as President Trump must assert American sovereignty over its borders and foreign policy, he must do the same on American college campuses.
Don’t Neglect Sovereignty In Higher Education
The legislation was backed by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and President Donald Trump.
Tennessee Passes School Choice: ‘Milestone In Advancing Education’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
A former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama has been sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for child sex crimes. Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy traveled to the United Kingdom in an attempt to meet a nine-year-old for sex. He was initially arrested last year.Shy coordinated the U.S. government’s response to terror groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda and was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Wednesday, January 29. Upon his arrest, Shy was found with children’s toys and condoms in his luggage. The nine-year-old he thought he was talking to was, in reality, an undercover police officer. He spoke with the officer online and stated that the child’s age was a “tad late” to begin the sexual activity.
Ex-Obama Aide Sentenced to 11 Years for Attempted Child Rape.
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
“President Trump’s reelection is a clear mandate from the American people to break this cycle of failure, end the weaponization and politicization of the IC, and begin to restore trust in those who have been charged with the critical task of securing our nation,” Gabbard’s statement reads.
‘Refusal To Be Anyone’s Puppet’: Tulsi Gabbard To Tackle ‘Weaponization’ Of Intel Community In Opening Statement
“I have no love for Assad or any dictator. I just hate al-Qaeda. I hate that our leaders cozy up to Islamist extremists, calling them “rebels,” as Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton: “Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria,” Gabbard said in her opening statement. “Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”
Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I Have No Love For Assad or Any Dictator–I just hate al-Qaeda’
“Does Sanders have her courage?"
Tulsi Gabbard vs. the Undead Consensus
“Senator, I have not looked at all 1,600 cases, I have always advocated for imprisoning those who cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities. I also believe America is not safer because [of] President Biden’s commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents. Agent Coler’s and Agent William’s family deserve better than to have the man who at point-blank range, fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them released from prison. So it goes both ways,” Patel said.
If Patel had done nothing but show the courage to reveal the framing of a president by his own intelligence agents – perhaps the greatest crime against democracy in American history – that would be enough.
Kash Patel is the storm the FBI deserves
‘It Goes Both Ways’: Kash Patel Flips The Script On Dem Senator Repeatedly Pressing Him On J6 Pardons
If confirmed as HHS Secretary, Kennedy would wield immense power over a department tasked with shaping health care policy for millions of Americans.
Conservative Suspicion About RFK Jr.’s Long History Of Leftist Activism Is Understandable
Mike Pence and Big Pharma make a perfect pair—both will say anything to protect their own interests, even if it means sabotaging RFK’s nomination.
Mike Pence’s Evil Alliance with Big Pharma Won’t Stop RFK’s Confirmation
The House of Representatives voted to censure Schiff in June 2023 for falsely claiming he had evidence that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia while he served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed Schiff from the Intelligence Committee at the beginning of the 118th Congress in January 2023 over his conduct.
‘An Abject Lie, And You Know It’: Kash Patel Fires Back At Adam Schiff-for-Brains Over Allegations About J6, Mar-A-Lago
Burgum and Wright figure will be at the forefront of Trump's 'energy dominance' agenda
Senate Confirms Doug Burgum To Lead Interior Department, Advances Chris Wright's Nomination for Energy Secretary
POLITICS
Washington just might be unrecognizable in four years.
The Right People Are In A Panic Over Trump’s Actions
In the second week of his second presidency, Trump’s unfolding game plan is to crush opponents, whoever and wherever they are.
Crush Them
Christopher F. Rufo: The conservative movement should resist an “all-are-welcome” policy.
The Trump Coalition Is Forming. Who Should Be in It?
Now comes the hard part. You exorcise wokeness from government by tackling spending, for sure. But you also wrestle back control of the bureaucracy through hiring freezes, a return to the office, Schedule F, offers of early retirement, moving federal agencies outside the Beltway, and attrition. (I'm not a Continetti fan in general, but this is a good piece- jjs)
De-Wokeifying Government Is Easier Said Than Done
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Ukraine’s acquisition of additional Patriot missiles has been a priority for the Pentagon, as they are seen as critical to the country's defense against Russia.
US sends 90 Patriot missiles from Israel to Ukraine: report
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Iran's people are hungry for change. Is the end of Iran's theocracy near?
Iranian People Are Ready To Bring About Regime Change. Does The West See It Coming?
The German economy, Europe’s largest, also contracted 0.2% for all of 2024, the second straight year of declining output. The outlook for this year isn’t much better. The government slashed its 2025 forecast on Wednesday to 0.3% from 1.1%.
Europe’s Economy Showed Zero Growth at End of 2024, Germany Struggles
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
God seems to be protecting the U.S. on the military front as Pete Hegseth takes office.
Boy, Did We Dodge a Bullet ...
“Jesse, one of the dumbest phrases in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” Hegseth said. “Our diversity is not our strength. Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength.”
Hegseth Calls This 'One of the Dumbest Phrases in Military History'
Mark Milley is one of several military officers who deserve accountability for the damage they’ve done to the force. (Dishonorable discharges - jjs)
5 Military Officials Whose Damaging Left-Wing Antics Must Be Accounted For

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
From $100,000 for a girls’ fun run in Gaza to $700,000 to push edible insects, taxpayers are getting ripped off.
The Dirty Dozen: Here Are Wasteful Federal Grants You’re Paying For
The Old Dominion State is making homes more affordable by cutting red tape.
Virginia Is a Model for Lowering Housing Costs
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
H5N9 is a franken-virus, created from a combination of the genetic material from all sorts of other bird flu viruses.
U.S. Reports First Outbreak of Rare Bird Flu Strain on California Duck Farm
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
I hope my readers will notice that — unlike NASA and the entire press — I make no mention in my headline of the discovery of a “mix of life’s ingredients” or “the key building blocks of life” from the samples brought back by the probe OSIRIS-REx from the asteroid Bennu. This is the game NASA does all the time, to hint at the discovery of life when this is not the real discovery. NASA does it because it knows that if you hint at such a discovery, the press will go crazy and give you lots of press.
Samples from the asteroid Bennu reshape entirely our understanding of the solar system’s early make-up
The company is also proud that the entire cost for this asteroid mission is just $6.5 million. “Hopefully we’re going to show the world that NASA doesn’t need to be funded for $5B missions when we can do it for much less,” said Gialich.
Astroforge names the target asteroid for its first commercial interplanetary mission
Though most reports say the asteroid is about 200 feet across, there is great uncertainty in that number. It could also be as large as 320 feet, or as small as 130 feet.
200-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032 (SMOD alert! - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
We ignored or explained away co-morbidities like autism, depression and bipolar disorder while using every new development or difficulty in a kid’s life to justify continuing down the sex-change road.After four years, when I could no longer stand the cognitive dissonance, I became the industry’s first public whistleblower.
I’m a trans-clinic whistleblower — Trump is right to ban sex changes for kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The only steps taken by Target are for the express purpose of deceiving you. There’s no authentic change of heart.
Target’s Press Releases Show It’s Lying About Ditching DEI
Hello, 911? Can someone please rescue us from a Hollywood Show that’s gone overboard with its desperate attempts to push a liberal agenda? "9-1-1: Lone Star" may be coming to a close after being canceled by Fox, but it’s making sure to preach as much woke propaganda as possible on the way out.
Fox's Canceled Series '9-1-1: Lone Star' Going Out with Explosion of Liberal Propaganda
“We won, you mad.”
Roseanne and Right-Wing Rapper Unite to Taunt the Libs
Christian Toto: Fox News superstar, panel, tell jokes forbidden across late-night landscape.
HUGE: ‘Gutfeld!’ Scores Massive Ratings in Trump 2.0

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

2 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 Tech thread alerted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2025 07:31 AM (w9Ycv)

6 Morning morons

Posted by: Vivi at January 31, 2025 07:33 AM (Egz6Y)

7 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:33 AM (a1415)

8 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 07:35 AM (J2vNu)

9 "Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."

Hey man, there's entire video compilations of old balsa wood and twine Flying Machines crumpling in hilarious ways.

It's even funnier because the film speed is all jankity because old.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:35 AM (+iIV1)

10 The fact that there exists a National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) tells us exactly where we are in the woke FAA era.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 07:35 AM (Y1sOo)

11 I am hoping against hope that the Bibas family are not dead.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 07:36 AM (mB6WH)

12 10 The fact that there exists a National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) tells us exactly where we are in the woke FAA era.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 07:35 AM (Y1sOo)

Racist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:37 AM (+iIV1)

13 There's just no way I can read all that.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:38 AM (fV+MH)

14 I could have been first but I was pulling on my onesie.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

15
*runs white-gloved finger over table*

There's dust on this Morning Report!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 07:38 AM (dxSpM)

16 Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash.

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Epstein Air strikes Air Fuck One when both are taking off from the Virgin Islands with the Clintons, heading to their different domiciles.

Posted by: You asked for it at January 31, 2025 07:39 AM (BI5O2)

17 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 31, 2025 07:40 AM (HLpdd)

18 There's gotta be shirts out there now that say "I Support The Onesies". Right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:41 AM (+iIV1)

19 I just read the last thing which is Gutfeld is getting good ratings which is good.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:41 AM (fV+MH)

20 I do hope there's some little hardscrabble bar band in some town somewhere called "The Onesies" who can use that soundbite in their next album.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:42 AM (+iIV1)

21 "This guy says he doesn't want to wear the onesie!"

"WHO!?!?! Who doesn't want to wear the onesie?!?!?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:43 AM (+iIV1)

22 Did Churchill wear a onesie or coveralls?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 07:44 AM (mB6WH)

23 ""This guy says he doesn't want to wear the onesie!"

"WHO!?!?! Who doesn't want to wear the onesie?!?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

I read that in the Gutfeld voice.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:45 AM (fV+MH)

24 The black boxes will tell a story.

There were no mechanical or electrical failures.

There was a human failure.

in a place where machines and humans interface at such a high density, count on the humans to fail.

Air travel is as safe as we choose to make it.

But shit happens. It always does.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 07:46 AM (QB+5g)

25 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2025 07:47 AM (Rcnd3)

26
Ahhh onesie and ahh twosie...

Posted by: Zombie Lawrence Welk at January 31, 2025 07:47 AM (EFZgU)

27 "Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."

Ron Brown. Hahahahahaha...I'm flying, I'm flying, Look honey take a picture, I'm dead. I'm dying over here!
Hahahahaha....I will be here all week. Try the veal.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Murderess at January 31, 2025 07:48 AM (7P61U)

28 Kramer won't wear the AIDS ribbon...

https://youtu.be/y4bmGekgE14

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at January 31, 2025 07:48 AM (dg+HA)

29
Not first. Darn it.

I read j j s opening content....

I coulda been a contenda!!

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at January 31, 2025 07:48 AM (5t4g6)

30 Black box. Racists! They're orange, but you can't call them orange because Orangemanbad.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 31, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)

31
Sorry to be obtuse, but what is this onesie thing? I take it it had something to do with the confirmation hearing and some stupid Democratic (BIRM) senator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (dxSpM)

32 Stacey "Tank" Abrams Somehow Concludes That JD Vance Is ‘DEI Graduate’ During Meandering Rant

If there is one, single person in all of government who exemplifies the exact opposite of DEI, JD Vance is that person.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

33 "The mayor of LA is going full communist. Recall her before it is too late."

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I note that, given the horrific job Bass has done, culminating in the utter devastation of Pacific Palisades and elsewhere, and with all the calls for her to resign for the disgrace she is, she ignored it all. She doesn't have the decency to resign.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

34 The Horde saw through the FAA's ill conceived plan to hire DEI ATC's.

Guess who was ultimately responsible for the FAA during *biden's term? What was that person's qualifications for the position they held as Transportation Secretary?

Yea, about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 07:51 AM (Q4IgG)

35 Fascinating article on how Trump is paralyzing certain deep state organs to the frightened dismay of the NY Times. It seems he had a plan all along.

https://tinyurl.com/bdd2evwr

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 07:51 AM (ZlOcj)

36 Is there anything to these stories claiming the helicopter pilot was a tranny?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 31, 2025 07:51 AM (Dm8we)

37 Driver Prosecuted for ‘Don’t Be a C*nt’ Bumper Sticker.

They should replace it with "Kier Starmer is a tw*t".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

38 OK Pete, time to step up to the plate. Shutdown the general officers private helicopter limo service, reassign the assets to war fighting only and make America great again. I can't imagine how expensive it is to have military spec Blackhawk helicopter fleet used only for VIP transport. There is no need for this service in peacetime and time to end this perk.

BTW, the commanding officer of the Army 12th Aviation unit is a women and the pilot flight the helicopter was a 500 hr female
rookie.

Posted by: extybeebum at January 31, 2025 07:52 AM (K0IC5)

39 "I note that, given the horrific job Bass has done, culminating in the utter devastation of Pacific Palisades and elsewhere, and with all the calls for her to resign for the disgrace she is, she ignored it all. She doesn't have the decency to resign.
Posted by: Lady in Black"

She's a slay queen.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:52 AM (fV+MH)

40 But shit happens. It always does.
Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 07:46 AM (QB+5g)

Just in general, disasters tend to happen when there's an elaborate system of protocols in place and one person decides to say "Nah, it'll be fine, what are the odds" etc etc. Or worse, when someone says "sure it'll be awful if X happens, so I just won't do X", where X = "Fly your helicopter into a plane that's going faster than you could possibly react to it". As if you had complete mastery and control over X happening or not, with your glorious human mammal brain and reflexes.

That's pretty much the nucleus of every disaster show on netflix.

And on a much smaller scale, it's also why people wind up in the ER with an xacto blade going clean through their pinky because their X = "don't shove an xacto blade through your pinky"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:52 AM (+iIV1)

41 31
Sorry to be obtuse, but what is this onesie thing? I take it it had something to do with the confirmation hearing and some stupid Democratic (BIRM) senator.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (dxSpM)

Bernie Sandersnista going nuts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 07:53 AM (x0n13)

42 Good morning. Gonna do some speculating here WRT the DCA crash and I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

PAT 25 was either transiting the DCA airspace or doing an instrument approach using River Visual 19. After handoff from approach and contact with the tower, he either terminated his approach and was given instruction to descend and continue along the river or that was the path for transit through the DCA airspace as directed by the tower. He likely offset to the left (east) as he passed the airport to attempt to get under the incoming CRJ who was descending for the approach to 15/33 AND to avoid the terrain and trees that are about 9600 feet from the runway.

Approach plates and airport/runway information are readily found on the interwebz. Please review and comment.

Just my opinion, YMMV

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 07:55 AM (3Ope8)

43 I note that, given the horrific job Bass has done, culminating in the utter devastation of Pacific Palisades and elsewhere, and with all the calls for her to resign for the disgrace she is, she ignored it all. She doesn't have the decency to resign.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)
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"Shame" is a concept that is completely foreign to Democrat politicians.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 07:55 AM (7fElN)

44 38 OK Pete, time to step up to the plate. Shutdown the general officers private helicopter limo service, reassign the assets to war fighting only and make America great again. I can't imagine how expensive it is to have military spec Blackhawk helicopter fleet used only for VIP transport. There is no need for this service in peacetime and time to end this perk.

BTW, the commanding officer of the Army 12th Aviation unit is a women and the pilot flight the helicopter was a 500 hr female
rookie.
Posted by: extybeebum at January 31, 2025 07:52 AM (K0IC5)

Do we actually have confirm? I googled this morning and still came up snake eyes...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 07:56 AM (exHjb)

45 Liberals don't get that they're in the rearview mirror, as MAGA and main street Americans put the gas pedal to the floor.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 31, 2025 07:56 AM (HLpdd)

46 "Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."
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Does the death of the Iranian president in a helicopter crash count?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 07:58 AM (7fElN)

47 I kind of get the idea of using military helicopters as limos for government employees.

They gotta fly anyway for crew hours. Critters need to be schlepped from point A to point B. Might as well throw some deadweight on and kill two birds with one stone.

The typical Federal Response is usually not so efficiency minded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:58 AM (+iIV1)

48 Shutdown the general officers private helicopter limo service, reassign the assets to war fighting only and make America great again. I can't imagine how expensive it is to have military spec Blackhawk helicopter fleet used only for VIP transport. There is no need for this service in peacetime and time to end this perk.

Correct.

Posted by: The Truth at January 31, 2025 07:59 AM (7P61U)

49 I know absolutely nothing at all, but a plane approaching a runway...

Why the fuck is there a helicopter crossing flight paths?

What was that helicopter doing in that place?

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:59 AM (fV+MH)

50 Nice top pic, JJ

Link Trainer > Lance Link Secret Chimp > Flying Monkeys in flight training

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 07:59 AM (aBgBM)

51 she ignored it all. She doesn't have the decency to resign.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

Of course she won't resign. As far as she understands, she did absolutely nothing wrong. Or rather, there is no part of her cerebral makeup that allows for the self recognition. But this does not make her unique, not at all. She will slog through this, guided by her triumphant vision of turning Pacific Palisades into a people's paradise.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:00 AM (ZlOcj)

52 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 31, 2025 08:01 AM (53oGX)

53 Good Friday morning.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2025 08:01 AM (Aqu9a)

54 How will it take clean up crews to mop diseased Democrat spittle out of hearing rooms?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2025 08:01 AM (kTd/k)

55 Trump Signs Executive Orders Dealing With Antisemitism, Critical Race Theory in Education

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Quite the action for a Nazi Fascist, eh?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

56 >> Of course she won't resign. As far as she understands, she did absolutely nothing wrong. Or rather, there is no part of her cerebral makeup that allows for the self recognition. But this does not make her unique, not at all. She will slog through this, guided by her triumphant vision of turning Pacific Palisades into a people's paradise.

That press conference she did with Trump was pretty telling. She seemed pretty pleased with herself.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:03 AM (EbrMN)

57 > I note that, given the horrific job Bass has done, culminating in the utter devastation of Pacific Palisades and elsewhere, and with all the calls for her to resign for the disgrace she is, she ignored it all. She doesn't have the decency to resign.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Housing and land use experts say a Los Angeles city law could require the Pacific Palisades to include “affordable” housing to replace older buildings, and for new buildings where owners cannot definitively prove that their rental apartments had no low-income renters in the past five years.

The new Resident Protections Ordinance taking effect soon requires that “In Higher Opportunity Areas and Moderate Opportunity Areas, units deemed or presumed to be occupied by persons or families above the lower income category shall be replaced with low income units.” The RPO applies to units “subject to a form of rent or price control through a local government’s valid exercise of its police power.”

Via Denver Gazette.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

58 Via Denver Gazette.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 08:03 AM (Q4IgG)

And they hacked off Louis XVI's head over some fucking dinner rolls.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:05 AM (+iIV1)

59 Liberal Jews became more liberal. Traditionalist Jews became more traditionalist. And the Jews of Israel alternated between winning wars against Jihadist armies and trying to get along with them. If it had been up to European Ashkenazi Jews, Israel would have carved itself up into pieces by now.

I think this also applies directly to Christendom.
Look at the lady that prayed to government (not G d) for mercy. Look at the hollowed out hull the teaching centered Methodism, now split into 2 or 3 over sex. Not religious issues such as faith, and hope, and charity, but the issue of sex.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

60 "Housing and land use experts say a Los Angeles city law could require the Pacific Palisades to include “affordable” housing to replace older buildings, and for new buildings where owners cannot definitively prove that their rental apartments had no low-income renters in the past five years.
"

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:05 AM (a1415)

61 Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."
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Does the death of the Iranian president in a helicopter crash count?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 07:58 AM (7fElN)

I got a good chuckle out of it.

Posted by: George Strait at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (NjM/m)

62 >> And they hacked off Louis XVI's head over some fucking dinner rolls.

He should’ve chosen King’s Hawaiian.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (EbrMN)

63 “Trump asks SpaceX to ‘go get’ two stranded ISS astronauts. They’re not stranded,” NPR’s headline reads.

NPR reported Wednesday that NASA denied that the astronauts were “stranded” multiple times, and linked to its own article which stated that the astronauts were indeed stranded.

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (C0Gpf)

64 >> Of course she won't resign. As far as she understands, she did absolutely nothing wrong. Or rather, there is no part of her cerebral makeup that allows for the self recognition. But this does not make her unique, not at all. She will slog through this, guided by her triumphant vision of turning Pacific Palisades into a people's paradise.

That press conference she did with Trump was pretty telling. She seemed pretty pleased with herself.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:03 AM (EbrMN)

The Dunning-Kruger is strong with her.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (Aqu9a)

65 He likely offset to the left (east) as he passed the airport to attempt to get under the incoming CRJ who was descending for the approach to 15/33 AND to avoid the terrain and trees that are about 9600 feet from the runway.

Why would a helo deliberately fly under another AC that was at 300 feet and descending?

Not a pilot and therefore not endowed with their Devine knowledge of all things; but that seems like peak stupid. Why not go up and away or simply hover out of the way?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (fFFrU)

66 The article "Here's What We Know so Far About the D.C. Plane Crash", was totally useless, not even a recap of happenings.

Posted by: Ciampino - almost disinformation at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (KjLnc)

67 You're looking at the burned out wreckage of your home saying "how will I ever clean this up?" and some official bulldyke in a shitty suit rolls up in a black Yukon to say "Good news!"

It must be relieving, honestly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (+iIV1)

68 Good morning. Gonna do some speculating here WRT the DCA crash and I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

PAT 25 was either transiting the DCA airspace or doing an instrument approach using River Visual 19. After handoff from approach and contact with the tower, he either terminated his approach and was given instruction to descend and continue along the river or that was the path for transit through the DCA airspace as directed by the tower. He likely offset to the left (east) as he passed the airport to attempt to get under the incoming CRJ who was descending for the approach to 15/33 AND to avoid the terrain and trees that are about 9600 feet from the runway.

Approach plates and airport/runway information are readily found on the interwebz. Please review and comment.

Just my opinion, YMMV
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 07:55 AM (3Ope

Again, as I posted yesterday morning, a short video with complete audio communication between the tower and both aircraft. With video graphics in sync,

https://tinyurl.com/4yyzrucr

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (iODuv)

69 Bass and Newsom both know they will survive the recent firestorms

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)

70 "Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."

Posted by: zombie John Denver at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

71 48 Shutdown the general officers private helicopter limo service, reassign the assets to war fighting only and make America great again. I can't imagine how expensive it is to have military spec Blackhawk helicopter fleet used only for VIP transport. There is no need for this service in peacetime and time to end this perk.

Correct.
Posted by: The Truth at January 31, 2025 07:59 AM (7P61U)

Agreed.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:08 AM (exHjb)

72 An air traffic controller was reportedly allowed to leave their post early just before American Airlines Flight 5342 collided in midair with a military helicopter over Washington DC.

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:08 AM (C0Gpf)

73
I may be a minority of one, but I think it's unseemly to jump on a pile of dead bodies to make a political point when very little is known about the causes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:08 AM (dxSpM)

74 Sorry to be obtuse, but what is this onesie thing? I take it it had something to do with the confirmation hearing and some stupid Democratic (BIRM) senator.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 07:50 AM (dxSpM)

https://youtu.be/RF5ezKRrawc - 90 seconds

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

75 66 The article "Here's What We Know so Far About the D.C. Plane Crash", was totally useless, not even a recap of happenings.
Posted by: Ciampino - almost disinformation at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (KjLnc)

Ah, see, that's the thing about English.

"We" can mean "Me and you and some other dipshit", or it can mean "Me and this other dipshit, but not you".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:09 AM (+iIV1)

76 Morning, J.J. Thanks again for all your work.

I was thinking about all the illegals and the rise of the American police state...and thought, perhaps, flooding the US with illegals was far more insidious than I originally thought.

Consider this: the PTB were bringing in people who are used to living in a totalitarian nightmare in which the cops are completely corrupt and useless. These same people, even with the rise of a police state in the US, will still believe they're far better off than if they'd have remained where they were. These same people also have a vested interest in not complaining if the US police state gets a bit to heavy handed, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:09 AM (tT6L1)

77 > BTW, the commanding officer of the Army 12th Aviation unit is a women and the pilot flight the helicopter was a 500 hr female rookie.
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I've seen this reported too. Not confirmed tho'.

The airspace in and around DCA is some of the most conflicted in the country. I recall that since the 1980's there have been calls to turn DCA into a "Federal Airport" with limited, VIP only passenger traffic. That is always rejected. Or has been. Closing it altogether is another option, again, shot down every time.

Restricting the number of flights would be another option... and restricting the already limited hours the airport operates (it used to cease ops around 11PM and not resume until 5 or 6AM.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 08:09 AM (Q4IgG)

78 The spouse is telling me that the pilot was NOT female, but was Trans (aka fake) female...now, I have no confirm on that either, but it's supposedly on social media.

If this is true, this story just died a million deaths...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:09 AM (exHjb)

79 "Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."

Oops. Well at least there's no more incessant nagging.

Posted by: JFK, Jr. at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (Aqu9a)

80 I may be a minority of one, but I think it's unseemly to jump on a pile of dead bodies to make a political point when very little is known about the causes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:08 AM (dxSpM)

Counterpoint:

Every "political point" in human history has been decided, one way or another, over a pile of dead bodies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (+iIV1)

81 "An air traffic controller was reportedly allowed to leave their post early just before American Airlines Flight 5342 collided in midair with a military helicopter over Washington DC."

So either Trump called the supervisor, demanding that they be let go early...

Or Climate Change is having effects that we are only now beginning to recognize.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (a1415)

82 ATC had to leave post early. Can't be late for morning prayer and piss off the imam.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (gm9Sb)

83 Never let a crisis go to waste.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:05 AM (a1415)

These will be section 8 style housing units that will 1) never cover the tax base, 2) import crime into upper middle class neighborhoods, and 3) destroy the community.

Many of the housing units of the late 40s and 50s had to be torn down as in 1 single generation they had become inhabitable.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

84 REPORT:

The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed directly into a Bombardier jet carrying 64 passengers Wednesday evening, has been identified by podcaster Luke Ford as Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She had been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on social media.

.. if this is true .. wow just wow

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (C0Gpf)

85 Back in Rickover’s Navy, we were able to fully man nuclear submarines.

Initial reports are the tower was missing ⅓ of the required crew.

Meanwhile, the FAA had refused to hire thousands of qualified people because they’re White men.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 31, 2025 08:11 AM (fFFrU)

86 “In Higher Opportunity Areas..."

Higher than what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 31, 2025 08:11 AM (dg+HA)

87 Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash."

Posted by: zombie John Denver at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

Don't forget about me...I augered into the water too!

Posted by: Zombie JFK, Jr. at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (7P61U)

88 Then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, for example, told CNN in February 2024 that "the folks who are getting in the way" of immigration reform "are Republicans." Around the same time, at a press briefing, she said there was no "executive action that actually could have done, or implemented in an effective way, what that bipartisan agreement could have," referring to legislation proposed at the time by Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.).

Fuck you langford

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

89 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (CT61Q)

90 NPR reported Wednesday that NASA denied that the astronauts were “stranded” multiple times, and linked to its own article which stated that the astronauts were indeed stranded.
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (C0Gpf)

They’re not stranded. They can come home anytime they want, assuming the time they want to come home is when Elon Musk rescues them.

Posted by: NPR Reporter, smugly teaching Rethuglikkkans about science at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (EbrMN)

91 People who think ex-TransSec Pete Buttsex will be held to account over the recent air disaster should prepare to be disappointed

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (AOsQT)

92 Bass and Newsom both know they will survive the recent firestorms
Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)
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I bet they'd be singing a different song if THEIR houses had burnt to the ground.

Though they would still blame everyone other than themselves, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (7fElN)

93 Jo Ellis - from Express Tribune. The warrant officer was not male anymore, apparently for 15 years...IF you believe any of this and nothing is confirmed...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (exHjb)

94 A Transgender Pilot Named Jo Ellis Flew Blackhawk Helicopter Into the American Airlines Jet at Reagan National
Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She hated Trump. Accident was a Murder Suicide

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (C0Gpf)

95 There was a mass arrest yesterday of Tren de Aragua gang members in The Bronx including a ringleader, about two miles from me. FFS, there have been regular reports in the NY Post of them terrorizing their neighborhood that go back months. They had pictures of their places with addresses.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (Gqoy+)

96 "Higher than what?"

The other areas?

I don't know, just spitballing' here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (a1415)

97 No mater what's going on with the helicopter/airplane crash, it seems to me flying anything across the take-off and landing path of a busy airport is unwise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:13 AM (tT6L1)

98 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 31, 2025 08:13 AM (aD39U)

99 84 REPORT:

The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed directly into a Bombardier jet carrying 64 passengers Wednesday evening, has been identified by podcaster Luke Ford as Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Jo Ellis, a transgender woman. Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She had been making radicalized anti-Trump statements on social media.

.. if this is true .. wow just wow
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (C0Gpf)

Yes, it makes ON PURPOSE (b/c he was getting separated at 15) much more of a possibility...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:13 AM (exHjb)

100 Today is National Scotch Tape Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

101 Oh, and some additional nuggets for consideration, DCA is an emergency use only field for all DOD owned and operated aircraft AND training flights involving multiple approaches and/or touch and goes require prior permission from the airport manager.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (3Ope8)

102 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

103 94 A Transgender Pilot Named Jo Ellis Flew Blackhawk Helicopter Into the American Airlines Jet at Reagan National
Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She hated Trump. Accident was a Murder Suicide
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (C0Gpf)

Unless the "transition" surgery involved implanting targeting chips made by Raytheon, I'm gonna press space to skip on this one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (+iIV1)

104 GatewayPundit:

19-year-old healthcare worker was dancing on multiple patient's head

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (C0Gpf)

105 Quack!

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

106 Well it looks like we have the plane crash all figured out andsomehow it was about Trump… what’s next?

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 08:15 AM (PCK5/)

107 99 .. if this is true .. wow just wow
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:10 AM (C0Gpf)

Yes, it makes ON PURPOSE (b/c he was getting separated at 15) much more of a possibility...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:13 AM (exHjb)

See Andy Ngo story about the German Tranny terrorists.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

108 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)
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Morning, sir. How are you holding up? Getting anything which resembles sleep? And your wife, how is she, all things considered?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:15 AM (tT6L1)

109 DIE.

I said it yesterday, the latest in a string of statements over the past several years.

Democrats want you dead and will attempt it by any means necessary.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

110 Growing up in Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades was one of my favorite spots. Later, many of my clients lived there. It was the last stop before Sunset Boulevard reached the ocean. Home for the rich, yes, but not exclusively or with that remote, immaculate, alien aura as Beverly Hills. Pac Palisades was nothing if not approachable, with an everyday Americana feel. The architecture was a mix of old mission-style Los Angles sprinkled with 60's post-modern suburban. The village itself was a great place, with longstanding businesses and restaurants, and -- unusual for Los Angeles -- pedestrian friendly streets. Irreplaceable, and they won't even try to replace it. In fact, everything Pac Pal was is anathema to the soulless visionaries now plotting their new people's city. I'm tempted to believe its destruction was intentional.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

111 Reagan Nat'l should be limited to daylight operations, going forward

IMO YMMV FWIW RARIHTS MAGA

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:17 AM (AOsQT)

112 Thanks as always JJ. Happy Friday horde

Regarding Holocaust Remembrance…. Trump’s shock and awe coupled with news like the airline crash in DC has taken Israel out of the headlines. When will the annoying ceasefire be over so they can finish off the savages?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:17 AM (6RwsA)

113 Well it looks like we have the plane crash all figured out andsomehow it was about Trump… what’s next?
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 08:15 AM (PCK5/)

What will Punxsutawney Phil predict?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2025 08:17 AM (Aqu9a)

114 Morning, sir. How are you holding up? Getting anything which resembles sleep? And your wife, how is she, all things considered?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:15 AM (tT6L1)

Had a bit of what I guess was allergies that caused some throat discomfort and sinus issues over the past couple days, so sleep wasn't in many cards.

First Lady is doing ok. Her final chemo treatment is next week, so she's VERY exited about that. Even has the shirt to prove it. After that, it's 5 weeks of radiation and the radiation doc used the 'cured' word, so the light at the end of the tunnel is shining pretty bright right now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Military needs to ground and immediately separate all trans members today, if this was on purpose. Too much national security risk to give them access to sensitive data, weapons, and tools of mass destruction after this...even if it does end up as an accident.

But as I told spouse...going silent and not answering the last tower request would be what would happen if someone was doing this on purpose...I could never explain that.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (exHjb)

116 still trying to grok the photoshop at top

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (AOsQT)

117 31 Hi, Hadrian

The onsie thing involved Bernie Sanders shrieking about " Do
support these onesies?" The onsies for babies said, "Unvaxxed and afraid" and they were produced by a company RFK was formerly involved with but no longer and Ihad nothing to do with .

It's good to have some unintentional humor at these Senate hearings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (FSqTq)

118 What will Punxsutawney Phil predict?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2025 08:17 AM (Aqu9a)

Hopefully not six more weeks of fall.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (+iIV1)

119 “Trump has been in office for 8 days, and his actions are on a dangerous path that threatens to further endanger American lives,” Torres added.

fuck you torres

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

120 Just in general, disasters tend to happen when there's an elaborate system of protocols in place and one person decides to say "Nah, it'll be fine, what are the odds" etc etc. Or worse, when someone says "sure it'll be awful if X happens, so I just won't do X", where X = "Fly your helicopter into a plane that's going faster than you could possibly react to it". As if you had complete mastery and control over X happening or not, with your glorious human mammal brain and reflexes.

Back in the day, supposedly, the most dangerous activity in the Navy (non-combat) was the annual electric bus (meaning distribution) system tests. Lots of guys were electrocuted when handling these cables the size of extension cords with open connectors attached which would be energized to high voltages. But... there were VERY detailed procedures that, followed correctly, made it impossible to be injured. The problem was the testing took about 10 hours and, by the end of it, people were so totally sure that they had the steps down that they went faster, and sloppier, until... zzzzzap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

121 110 Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

I don't know how but can Trump kneecap Bass-tard and Newsom?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

122 Three-count 'em-three asteroid links! Where else can you get that? Truly, we are blessed. When SMOD creams us, we won't be able to say we weren't warned. Quality reporting like this is much appreciated.

Posted by: Spaced Out at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)

123 The German economy, Europe’s largest, also contracted 0.2% for all of 2024, the second straight year of declining output. The outlook for this year isn’t much better.

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Germany is dying of energy starvation. The country won't exist unless they change course soon.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (bYje+)

124 Today is National Scotch Tape Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Reel to reel or cassette?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

125 How soon till Phil is replaced by a transpecies skunk that self identifies as a Ground Hog?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (a1415)

126 - ..."reshape entirely our understanding of the solar system's early makeup."

But we are NOT going to give up our big bang and billions and billions of years regardless of how wrong we were about what the JWST would show us. Nor are we even going to look at a peer reviewed, published study that pretty much blows the Robertson-Walker metric, which is necessary for the big bang, clear out of the water.
We will accept nothing but a NATURALISTIC explanation for the existence of the universe.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (hht4k)

127 The onsie thing involved Bernie Sanders shrieking about " Do
support these onesies?" The onsies for babies said, "Unvaxxed and afraid" and they were produced by a company RFK was formerly involved with but no longer and Ihad nothing to do with .

It's good to have some unintentional humor at these Senate hearings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (FSqTq)

That was the highlight of a string of completely embarrassing moments for the country during this ridiculous hearing process.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

128 121 110 Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

I don't know how but can Trump kneecap Bass-tard and Newsom?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

=======

I believe in subsidiarity as a governing principle.

This is what the people of California and Los Angeles want.

It would be wrong for DC to force them to adopt different building codes. It's up to the people who live in Los Angeles to decide, through their elected officials, how things like that get done.

And if everyone looks around and wonders how Bass got re-elected because they don't know anyone who voted for them, well, then that's just some kind of weird mystery, huh? They should look into that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:20 AM (GBKbO)

129 94 A Transgender Pilot Named Jo Ellis Flew Blackhawk Helicopter Into the American Airlines Jet at Reagan National
Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She hated Trump. Accident was a Murder Suicide
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (C0Gpf)

As we used to say, "umba."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (ZlOcj)

130 You REALLY have a lot of energy around a young earth scenario Teej!!!

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (PCK5/)

131 Why the fuck is there a helicopter crossing flight paths?

What was that helicopter doing in that place?
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:59 AM (fV+MH)

I've heard that it was SOP so, presumably, it was done hundreds of times without incident.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

132 Irreplaceable, and they won't even try to replace it. In fact, everything Pac Pal was is anathema to the soulless visionaries now plotting their new people's city. I'm tempted to believe its destruction was intentional.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

Once in my many years in LA I went to Riviera Country Club to watch the PGA tourney there; just a beautiful place. Fred Couples won that year. I went to Malibu more often but wasn’t really impressed… too cramped and surprisingly little beach access!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (6RwsA)

133 First Lady is doing ok. Her final chemo treatment is next week, so she's VERY exited about that. Even has the shirt to prove it. After that, it's 5 weeks of radiation and the radiation doc used the 'cured' word, so the light at the end of the tunnel is shining pretty bright right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)
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This is excellent news. I look forward to saying hi to the First lady in October.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (tT6L1)

134 That was the highlight of a string of completely embarrassing moments for the country during this ridiculous hearing process.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
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The Dems are completely clueless about the clown show they are putting on for the entire country to watch.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:22 AM (7fElN)

135 Another blurb I recall reading about Pacific Palisades mentioned some sort of effort to have all the rebuilding go through a single, state approved general contracting office. This would jive with the idea that the area will be turned into one of those so-called "15 minute cities" that are all the rage.

If I can find that link I'll post it. It was something I stumbled across so... might not find it again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

136 >What will Punxsutawney Phil predict?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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for Colorado, it usually means 6 more months of winter

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (AOsQT)

137 Another good short video explaining the DC crash.

https://tinyurl.com/55hkxkhw

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (iODuv)

138
This is excellent news. I look forward to saying hi to the First lady in October.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (tT6L1)

Your warm thoughts are greatly appreciated.

We hope that she's well into a full head of hair returning for her next trip to the MoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Here is an interesting article where Sen. Duckworth, who was a Black Hawk pilot, talks about the crash and about flying in DC airspace:

https://tinyurl.com/367djwrh

Posted by: bluebell at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (79pEw)

140
Germany is dying of energy starvation. The country won't exist unless they change course soon.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (bYje+)

Germans do everything better than Americans. Just ask one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (dxSpM)

141 I saw someone mention a tranny pilot on X, but didn't believe it could possibly be true! If that's in fact the case, boy howdy, Trump will not let that go unnoticed. The MFM won't be able to sweep it under the rug.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

142 "The Dems are completely clueless about the clown show they are putting on for the entire country to watch."

I see no reason to not tell them to stick to their guns, and stay the course.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (a1415)

143 NPR reported Wednesday that NASA denied that the astronauts were “stranded” multiple times, and linked to its own article which stated that the astronauts were indeed stranded.
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:06 AM (C0Gpf)

They're not stranded, they're just stuck in a location they should have left long ago with no way to leave. But that's not, sorta, the exact definition of stranded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

144 Good Morning Double J (Saturday Night Fever Reference) Happy Birthday !!

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

145 Government is trying to discourage the residents of Pacific Palisades into giving up and selling out, likely for half what the property is worth.

Bank on it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (tT6L1)

146 ---
The Dems are completely clueless about the clown show they are putting on for the entire country to watch.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:22 AM (7fElN)

I had to stop watching clips yesterday, but to me, the best moment was the senator breaking out the Bingo card with all the Dem talking points listed. "I've already X'd two spaces after opening statements."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

147 @49 What was that helicopter doing in that place?

https://tinyurl.com/majfkpw7

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (zdLoL)

148 48 hour rule… I’m not yet believing the helo pilot was a tranny. Is this info in any semi-respectable outlet?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (6RwsA)

149 133 First Lady is doing ok. Her final chemo treatment is next week, so she's VERY exited about that. Even has the shirt to prove it. After that, it's 5 weeks of radiation and the radiation doc used the 'cured' word, so the light at the end of the tunnel is shining pretty bright right now.

omg FANTASTIC!!! so proud of you guys! stay strong!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2025 08:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

150 129. It does make sense for the pilot error. Pentagon Deep State will do everything to discredit a murder suicide by pilot

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

151 The hearings have brought Adam Schiff back on TV.
Is there a worse human being on the planet?

Posted by: Brad at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (Vrdez)

152 Wait...

Are those astronauts STILL stranded????

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (fV+MH)

153 I had posted this earlier on the Tech thread, but Maryland legislators are concerned that black drivers are being stopped disproportionally for failure to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner ( Their words, not mine).

So they are offering a solution.

https://tinyurl.com/4akk65vp

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (a1415)

154 Pam Bondi voted out of committee days ago, Thune better hold those Fukers until Sunday to get her confirmed ASAP

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

155 152 Wait...

Are those astronauts STILL stranded????
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (fV+MH)

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When it happened a few months ago, I remember February being the timeframe for getting them back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (GBKbO)

156 But as I told spouse...going silent and not answering the last tower request would be what would happen if someone was doing this on purpose...I could never explain that.

Posted by: Nova Local

I'm as clueless about this stuff as anybody, but heard yesterday that civilian and military use different frequencies (true, I'm a ham and occasionally listen on the airbands) and that the Tower does not record the military aircraft transmissions. So the Blackhawk may NOT have gone silent, just not been recorded on what we're hearing.

2 cents and all...

Posted by: Oedipus at January 31, 2025 08:27 AM (Z6vKV)

157 Here is an interesting article where Sen. Duckworth, who was a Black Hawk pilot, talks about the crash and about flying in DC airspace:

https://tinyurl.com/367djwrh

Posted by: bluebell at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (79pEw)

Real time audio and explanation:

https://tinyurl.com/55hkxkhw

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:27 AM (iODuv)

158 148 48 hour rule… I’m not yet believing the helo pilot was a tranny. Is this info in any semi-respectable outlet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (6RwsA)

Semi-respectable...kinda.
Respectable...no.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:28 AM (exHjb)

159 Jo Ellis - from Express Tribune. The warrant officer was not male anymore, apparently for 15 years...IF you believe any of this and nothing is confirmed...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (exHjb)

I'm going to wait on confirmation of this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

160 The commission or board that Newsom/Bass will set up to rebuild the Palisades with Soviet-era apartment buildings will present innumerable opportunities for graft and corruption

well-connected contracting firms must be licking their chops at the prospects

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:28 AM (AOsQT)

161 Reel to reel or cassette?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
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How it began-
A problem arose when cars needed to be painted in two tones and sections needed to be taped off to do so. That’s how Richard Drew ended up creating scotch tape. Today, this versatile invention is used to stick anything and everything.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

162 If the US Military allowed a brain damaged individual such as a trans to fly a multi million dollar aircraft into commercial flight paths, we're in a lot deeper trouble than I thought.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

163 How it began-
A problem arose when cars needed to be painted in two tones and sections needed to be taped off to do so. That’s how Richard Drew ended up creating scotch tape. Today, this versatile invention is used to stick anything and everything.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

3M > Scotch

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

164 160 The commission or board that Newsom/Bass will set up to rebuild the Palisades with Soviet-era apartment buildings will present innumerable opportunities for graft and corruption

well-connected contracting firms must be licking their chops at the prospects
Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:28 AM (AOsQT)

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The richest of the rich will get their homes back.

And they will be in every reelection campaign ad for Bass talking about her great leadership.

Maybe it'll work as well as celeb ads for Kamala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:30 AM (GBKbO)

165 Their bone density will be unable to exist on Earth by now.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:30 AM (fV+MH)

166
Maryland legislators are concerned that black drivers are being stopped disproportionally for failure to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner

You mean, there are fleets of white and Asian drivers failing to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner and police just choose not to stop them?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (dxSpM)

167 Newsweek is running a denial on that pilot, Jo Ellis.

Of course, the fact it went nuts and we still don't know the pilot means we're probably looking at an equally bad person sitting in the seat.

PS - of course, this is if you believe Newsweek, but their story is breaking for a "mistaken identity"...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (exHjb)

168
When it happened a few months ago, I remember February being the timeframe for getting them back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (GBKbO)

But they're not stranded and everything is fine. This is fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Real time audio and explanation:

https://tinyurl.com/55hkxkhw
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:27 AM (iODuv)
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Thank you! I will listen to this.

Posted by: bluebell at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (79pEw)

170 State troopers were accused of profiling minority drivers in a report from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability that looked at stops between 2009 and 2021. Then they were told by union leaders that every stop they made would go under the microscope, according to a New York Times report. For months, they made fewer stops than normal.

A subsequent drop in traffic stops coincided with an 18% increase in crashes.

My guess is that the real ugly secret is 95% of those crashes were caused by PoC.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

171 Their bone density will be unable to exist on Earth by now.
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:30 AM (fV+MH)

What if they're not fat, only big boned?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

172 My bad. Senate is adjourned until Monday. Had get back to the Country Clubs I guess. Confirming a Attorney General is down the list these days

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

173 Trump Signs Executive Orders Dealing With Antisemitism, Critical Race Theory in Education
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Quite the action for a Nazi Fascist, eh?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)
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And, yet, that's their line and the Democrats are sticking to it. Hard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:32 AM (m1sGF)

174 In the Newsweek story, they refer to Ellis posting today and denying on Facebook.

See, gonna tell the spouse he's wrong again, at least on the actual ID. This is why I didn't use breaking. His social media sources are never better than 50 50...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:32 AM (exHjb)

175 "You mean, there are fleets of white and Asian drivers failing to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner and police just choose not to stop them? "

I believe that is the assertion being made, yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 08:32 AM (a1415)

176 If Tammy Duckworth wasn't such a partisan hack, I'd consider her to be a great source of "inside baseball" for this crash.

As it is, especially with the way she went after Hegseth, nope.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (tT6L1)

177 First Lady is doing ok. Her final chemo treatment is next week, so she's VERY exited about that. Even has the shirt to prove it. After that, it's 5 weeks of radiation and the radiation doc used the 'cured' word, so the light at the end of the tunnel is shining pretty bright right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
I am so happy for you both!
Continued prayers for a cancer free result.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

178 167. Nova, I saw Jo Ellis, 15 years in Virginia National Guard. Also big online presence

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (YCxFk)

179
What if they're not fat, only big boned?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

I remember seeing an X-ray or MRI of a morbidly obese person. No, their bones were quite normal, just surrounded by a zillion tons of fat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (dxSpM)

180 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:23 AM (iODuv)

If PAT25 is transiting the airspace using the River 1 route (enroute altitude 200'), he's already above altitude and Approach and/or Tower should have caught that.

If he's on a training exercise using River Visual 19 and executing a missed approach, he's being routed per tower's instructions and has probably changed freqs to hand off to ATC.

In either case he operating VFR.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (3Ope8)

181 How it began-
A problem arose when cars needed to be painted in two tones and sections needed to be taped off to do so. That’s how Richard Drew ended up creating scotch tape. Today, this versatile invention is used to stick anything and everything.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

We save time and money by not taping off anything! Hello! I'm Earl Schieb! I will paint any car for $29.95! Act today and I will throw in $10.00 metal work free when I paint your car for only $29.95!

Posted by: Zombie Earl Scheib at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (7P61U)

182 My guess is that the real ugly secret is 95% of those crashes were caused by PoC.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
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I routinely get passed on the turnpike by people driving 85plus while texting. I'm going with texters over any other demographic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (m1sGF)

183 Huh.. now seeing where the helicopter had three near-misses with jets just before the crash. I don’t know anything about aircraft, but the flight radar map looms erratic..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (EbrMN)

184 Great to hear Sponge!!

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

185 "Their bone density will be unable to exist on Earth by now.
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:30 AM (fV+MH)

What if they're not fat, only big boned?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer"

I hope they've been drinking lots of milk. Or taking Calcium pills.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (fV+MH)

186 *****
I am so happy for you both!
Continued prayers for a cancer free result.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

Thank you very much.

We are eternally indebted to The Horde.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

187 But they're not stranded and everything is fine. This is fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

They’re not STRANDED stranded
You don’t look fat in that dress
You may have won a million dollars

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:35 AM (6RwsA)

188 110 Growing up in Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades was one of my favorite spots. Later, many of my clients lived there. It was the last stop before Sunset Boulevard reached the ocean. Home for the rich, yes, but not exclusively or with that remote, immaculate, alien aura as Beverly Hills. Pac Palisades was nothing if not approachable, with an everyday Americana feel. The architecture was a mix of old mission-style Los Angles sprinkled with 60's post-modern suburban. The village itself was a great place, with longstanding businesses and restaurants, and -- unusual for Los Angeles -- pedestrian friendly streets. Irreplaceable, and they won't even try to replace it. In fact, everything Pac Pal was is anathema to the soulless visionaries now plotting their new people's city. I'm tempted to believe its destruction was intentional.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:16 AM (ZlOcj)

Everyone burned-out, and most of the unaffected, in Pac Pal will get it good and hard by the Commies. The Dem super-majority Legislature will pass whatever laws are needed to make Pac Pal and Altadena into whatever Newscum and his cronies want them to be. PDT will try to over-ride. Nope.

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 08:35 AM (aBgBM)

189 Great to hear Sponge!!
Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)

Thanks! We're exited.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
JUST IN: Pete Buttigieg removed his pronouns from his bio

https://tinyurl.com/ysaavpe5

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

191
I remember seeing an X-ray or MRI of a morbidly obese person. No, their bones were quite normal, just surrounded by a zillion tons of fat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (dxSpM)

My mother used to say in public "I'm sorry. I didn't raise him to be rude."

My response was always "I'm not rude, I'm big boned."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

192 Duckworth getting roasted even here by Chicago media. She has voted against every one of Trump's Cabinet nominees

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

193 188
Everyone burned-out, and most of the unaffected, in Pac Pal will get it good and hard by the Commies. The Dem super-majority Legislature will pass whatever laws are needed to make Pac Pal and Altadena into whatever Newscum and his cronies want them to be. PDT will try to over-ride. Nope.
Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 08:35 AM (aBgBM)

=======

The pulling back on the $50 million slush fund for legal fights against Trump seems to indicate some level of political reality settling into the minds of the legislators.

We'll see.

It's the only positive sign, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:37 AM (GBKbO)

194 @libsoftiktok
JUST IN: Pete Buttigieg removed his pronouns from his bio

https://tinyurl.com/ysaavpe5
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

That seamy dougheyed poofter needs to disappear never to be seen again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

195 If Tammy Duckworth wasn't such a partisan hack, I'd consider her to be a great source of "inside baseball" for this crash.

As it is, especially with the way she went after Hegseth, nope.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:33 AM (tT6L1)
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I hear you, blake, but there was nothing political in what she said. She just gave some interesting insights.

Posted by: bluebell at January 31, 2025 08:37 AM (79pEw)

196 146 ---
The Dems are completely clueless about the clown show they are putting on for the entire country to watch.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:22 AM (7fElN)

I had to stop watching clips yesterday, but to me, the best moment was the senator breaking out the Bingo card with all the Dem talking points listed. "I've already X'd two spaces after opening statements."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Contrarian thought : MOAR hearings. YUGE amounts of hearings. Hearingapalooza!
The Dems have learned NOTHING fromthe election. In fact they are digging in harder and stuipider. The Dems are re-litigating the 2024 elections-- which they lost decisively.
The Dems most likely stole 4 Senate seats and over a dozen House seats. Apparently It's not dawned on the Dems that stealing is their ONLY way to have a majority and that the Orange Man and his Cabinet disrupters are going to bring the hammer down on the Dem election stealing.
These hearings are soilidifying -- assuming election theft is substantially reduced by Trump --the Dems as a long term minority Party.
MOAR hearings please.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (0XVbr)

197 The numbers are basically as grim for math, where eighth-grade scores dropped these last two years; fourth-graders posted small gains above 2022 — but are still below the pre-pandemic level.

There is no doubt in my mind that this was the plan.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

198 The "tranny pilot" story is beginning to fall apart.

Posted by: Bobby Baccala at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (9CBNQ)

199 >>Never let a crisis go to waste.

. . . and never wait for a crisis to instigate itself!

Posted by: Obama at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (WbBbu)

200 I hope they've been drinking lots of milk. Or taking Calcium pills.
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:34 AM (fV+MH)

I thought they drank Tang??

Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (Oy/m2)

201 @libsoftiktok
JUST IN: Pete Buttigieg removed his pronouns from his bio

https://tinyurl.com/ysaavpe5
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

He's adding pussy lips to his anus to give Chasten more of a natural feel to things.

He'll become the world's first squeeeemale.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Good morning JJ and horde
My weekend is here already

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2025 08:39 AM (fwDg9)

203 Looks like the thing about the helicopter pilot being a tranny is wrong. The tranny whose name is doing the rounds is still alive.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:39 AM (EbrMN)

204 Morning everyone, thx JJ. Target had no intention of getting rid of DEI. The Dayton family are leftists to the core and only if they go broke would they maybe change.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (6v8aM)

205 When it happened a few months ago, I remember February being the timeframe for getting them back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:26 AM (GBKbO)
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I believe I read SpaceX recently postponed their return home until March, due to flight schedule requirements for the components they will use.

As soon as they get home they'll probably qualify for Medicare, they've been up there so long.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (IpKJ4)

206 He's adding pussy lips to his anus to give Chasten more of a natural feel to things.

He'll become the world's first squeeeemale.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
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Congrats. That's the most disturbing thing I've read all week.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (7fElN)

207 196. I think they stole 3 Senate Seats, and the House seats in California. I like Lake, smart and smooth, but came across as unlikeable. Friends in Phoenix say she lost due to the McCain Republican faction

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

208 198 The "tranny pilot" story is beginning to fall apart.
Posted by: Bobby Baccala at January 31, 2025 08:38 AM (9CBNQ)

At least that tranny...I had put my original money on black female pilot since no one will name the pilot, and everyone else has been named at this point...and when they don't name someone, you tend to be able to figure out some characteristics...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (exHjb)

209
As soon as they get home they'll probably qualify for Medicare, they've been up there so long.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (IpKJ4)

So, you're saying they're royally f*cked......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

210 A hilarious plane crash would be the stock footage of old timey early planes trying and falling to fly by flapping their wings and such

Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zgZCj)

211 ---
Congrats. That's the most disturbing thing I've read all week.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (7fElN)

#Winning

My work here, is done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

212 A hilarious plane crash would be the stock footage of old timey early planes trying and falling to fly by flapping their wings and such
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zgZCj)

I actually looked for that and could find none. Damn internet search......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

213 204. Glove. Best thing about Private companies going woke, is we just dont shop there. Have not been to target since they allowed Trannies in dressing rooms

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

214 5 years later Portland's economic development staff are figuring out 2020 riots and ideological positioning of the city were bad for Portland

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

215 129. It does make sense for the pilot error. Pentagon Deep State will do everything to discredit a murder suicide by pilot
Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

Golly!

Posted by: Major Nidal Hasan, SoA, Ft Leavenworth at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (Aqu9a)

216 Friends in Phoenix say she lost due to the McCain Republican faction
Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (YCxFk)
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Most of us in AZ believe the McCain machine has been behind both of Lake's "losses."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (tT6L1)

217 One thing I am enjoying the most about the hearings these last few days is that the left is completely oblivious that they have lost the working and middle class.

That coalition they had since the New Deal that allowed them to dominate politics, coast to wins, with any candidate?
Gone.

And they threw it all away to try and pull Kamala over the finish line.
All their theatrics in the hearings would have been taken seriously 5 years ago--because of that base of reflexive support.
Now, it looks like an over-dramatized clown show.
Good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (RPWCv)

218 Natalie F Danelishen
@Chesschick01
"I'm tired of these white pilots landing safely and on time" -
@RobSchneider

https://tinyurl.com/y5837cwj

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

219 214 5 years later Portland's economic development staff are figuring out 2020 riots and ideological positioning of the city were bad for Portland
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:42 AM (RHGPo)

=======

That's racist.

Racial justice movements are great for the economy.

It's racism to say otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:43 AM (GBKbO)

220 >> Huh.. now seeing where the helicopter had three near-misses with jets just before the crash. I don’t know anything about aircraft, but the flight radar map looms erratic..

Not so much, look at the altitude data on the so called near misses, there was over 5000 feet vertical separation.

Posted by: extybeebum at January 31, 2025 08:43 AM (K0IC5)

221 Federal Workers Respond to Buyout Offer with Panic and Disbelief

“Chaos, mistrust, confusion,” said one employee at the Department of Justice who, like others, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation without fear of retribution. “There’s also a deep suspicion, especially among people who think they may be on the chopping block, that this is the last lifeboat in town.”...

“It’s unfathomable, the panic that it is causing throughout the government,” a second DOJ employee said. “And it is intentional. The new head of OMB [Russ Vought, who has not yet been confirmed by the Senate] said he wanted to traumatize the federal civil servants into leaving and it’s working.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

222 The pilot was Lt. Aseem Al-Bassani Hussein. His actions are under investigation and the reasons behind them are unknown at this time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

223 Congrats. That's the most disturbing thing I've read all week.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (7fElN)

#Winning

My work here, is done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

More disturbing than the opening scene of Apocalypse Now

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (ANuwa)

224 "Today is National Scotch Tape Day"

*laughs manically*

Posted by: Baby fd at January 31, 2025 08:45 AM (vFG9F)

225 Looks like the thing about the helicopter pilot being a tranny is wrong. The tranny whose name is doing the rounds is still alive.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 08:39 AM

AmericaFirst @Curry4USA

Jo Ellis has responded on Facebook this morning. It is not him.

X post: https://bit.ly/3Cx75Ev

Shoe @samosaur

There’s no truth to the claims about one of the pilots being transgender. The female pilot (actual female) wasn’t even a warrant officer.

I don’t even want to wade into this garbage, but I hate that the memory of the real pilot will have to compete with this internet rubbish when the identity is officially made public.

https://bit.ly/3EjAtih

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2025 08:45 AM (P5BPp)

226 >>.. if this is true .. wow just wow

IN addition to the SF trans "Ziz" cult, there was the trans arrested for attempting to kill Scott Bessent. Is the anger a bug, or a feature?

Transgenderism is used by the left as a method of turning pathology and alienation into politically viable resentment.

Having established this we can now begin to make sense of much of the insanity surrounding transgenderism in the modern political landscape. We understand that the aggression and hostility of the trans community is used by the left to police their opposition. We understand that pushing transgender ideology on children is a way of recruiting and grooming them to become political inquisitors. We also understand that “Rapid onset gender dysphoria” is a way of fast-tracking the process of initiation. We can see why the left takes the side of trans against TERF:s, women and lesbians – it is a way of policing dissent within their own ranks by using politically more useful groups to control the politically less useful. . .

https://tinyurl.com/3xczxebh

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 08:45 AM (WbBbu)

227 Members of Christopher Wray’s FBI Leadership Posse Told to Retire, Resign, or Be Fired by Monday

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

228 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
JUST IN: Pete Buttigieg removed his pronouns from his bio

https://tinyurl.com/ysaavpe5
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
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I see he now identifies as "proud midwesterner" but he lives in a beautiful summer resort town. Maybe fo work on a farm Pete, if you want to call yourself a midwesterner, you latte commie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:46 AM (Rykv+)

229 The hearings have brought Adam Schiff back on TV.
Is there a worse human being on the planet?
Posted by: Brad at January 31, 2025 08:26

Where's Harry Reid's assault exercise machine?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2025 08:46 AM (kTd/k)

230 “It’s unfathomable, the panic that it is causing throughout the government,” a second DOJ employee said. “And it is intentional. The new head of OMB [Russ Vought, who has not yet been confirmed by the Senate] said he wanted to traumatize the federal civil servants into leaving and it’s working.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
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Insty had a pretty good story up about the mass firings of the IG's. The thinking is, they're not suing because they believe the Trump administration is banking on lawsuits and they also believe they stand a good chance of losing, setting a precedent.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:47 AM (tT6L1)

231 Best story I’ve read all week was the one where Trump is firing all folks in the FBI who were recently promoted above a certain grade (Wray cronies). Decent start

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:47 AM (ANuwa)

232 Is this info in any semi-respectable outlet?

The source was Pravda. Won't stop the gayghouls here though.
We came to Nig It Up! That pilot had better be a two-raced lesbian Jew with an Ivy League degree -- in a throuple.

"A 500 hour rookie." Tell me more about your piloting career.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 08:47 AM (zdLoL)

233 190. Buttegeig is planning to run for the US Senate from Michigan . He thinks that will help him win support in Detroit. He and his partner are currently living in Traverse City, a very wealthy resort town on the northwestern side of Michigan with a large gay population. Lake Michigan shoreline, golf, boating , wineries in the summer, skiing and snowmobiling in the winter. Gary Peters retirement announcement last week has moved the needle for Mayor Pete.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2025 08:47 AM (WCrhV)

234 A subsequent drop in traffic stops coincided with an 18% increase in crashes.

My guess is that the real ugly secret is 95% of those crashes were caused by PoC.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The BLM Summer of Love gave POCs permission for life to be rude, crude, thieving, anti-White, anti-social, psychopaths. The veneration of the violent, drugged-up, George Floyd was a horrible mistake. Don't know if we ever get out from under it.

Posted by: Hard Truths at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

235 No mention of the "Doomsday Clock" would be complete without Metal Trump's version of "Two Minutes to Midnight"

https://shorturl.at/sg8dY

Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (zgZCj)

236
“It’s unfathomable, the panic that it is causing throughout the government,”

Run, little bureaucrats! Run!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (dxSpM)

237 Maryland legislators are concerned that black drivers are being stopped disproportionally for failure to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner

You mean, there are fleets of white and Asian drivers failing to maintain/operate their vehicles in a safe condition/manner and police just choose not to stop them?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2025 08:31 AM (dxSpM)

This anti-hoopty hate must not stand!

Posted by: Humpty Dance at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (Aqu9a)

238 More disturbing than the opening scene of Apocalypse Now
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (ANuwa)

* has trouble remembering the opening scene from the movie *

Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

239 @163 3M > Scotch

?
??
???

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (zdLoL)

240 Funny clip I saw the other day, a gaggle of stereotypical Dems at a table:

Head man: "Well, Kamala lost."
Young woman: "Yeah, because the voters are racists and sexists!"
Head Man: "Yeah, but we kinda need the votes of those voters next year. So ..."
Young man: "What do you mean, "next year?" I was told that it Trump won, it was the end of democracy."
Head Man: "You didn't really believe that, did you?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (RPWCv)

241 Early airplane fails

https://youtu.be/Je8wxnoEkug

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)

242 >>Jo Ellis has responded on Facebook this morning. It is not him.

Phew!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 08:49 AM (WbBbu)

243 230 Insty had a pretty good story up about the mass firings of the IG's. The thinking is, they're not suing because they believe the Trump administration is banking on lawsuits and they also believe they stand a good chance of losing, setting a precedent.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:47 AM (tT6L1)

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whig has outlined the caselaw on civil service employment in the face of presidential discretion.

It's actually pretty one-sided. In favor of the president.

Siding with the civil service in these matters would actually upturn a lot of precedent.

Why hasn't a president done this in decades? Because they didn't want to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

244 Members of Christopher Wray’s FBI Leadership Posse Told to Retire, Resign, or Be Fired by Monday
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

Check behind the drapes too.

Posted by: Jim Comey, Pantywaist at January 31, 2025 08:49 AM (7P61U)

245 I see he now identifies as "proud midwesterner" but he lives in a beautiful summer resort town. Maybe fo work on a farm Pete, if you want to call yourself a midwesterner, you latte commie.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:46 AM (Rykv+)
******
It's all about his potential senate run in Michigan.
Pronouns don't play well in Detroit.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

246 233 Traverse City is on the NE shore of Lake Michigan, not the NW.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (77rzZ)

247 Google New:
Trans pilot Jo Ellis rumored to be Black Hawk pilot in fatal collision over Potomac River

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

248 Real time audio and explanation:

https://tinyurl.com/55hkxkhw
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:27 AM (iODuv)

I don't know shit about aviation but watching this it seems to me that the critical (not necessarily incorrect) element was switching the DRJ's landing runway although the helo being, apparently, well above it's altitude ceiling would be a factor. I'm going to assume they were above the ceiling because they were trying to watch for the oncoming CRJ and took their eyes off the altimeter rather than nefarious action on the helo pilot's part.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

249 - @130 tubal

Yes, and for good reason. For starters, it is true.
And look what scientists denying the truth in God's Word has done. 'If the Bible got it wrong in Genesis 1, then what else did it get wrong?' (the ones that bother me the most though, are the "old earth creationists" like Ross and Lennox)
Now, push that on children all through school. What do you get?
There is no God. We are just highly evolved animals.
Law of the jungle baby.
And sorry for delay. Reading all the comments and one finger typing on phone... now back up to start reading at 131.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (hht4k)

250 He and his partner are currently living in Traverse City

It cannot not be Saugatuck. Just stop.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (zdLoL)

251 >>A subsequent drop in traffic stops coincided with an 18% increase in crashes.

a/k/a "The Floyd Effect"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (WbBbu)

252 “It’s unfathomable, the panic that it is causing throughout the government,” a second DOJ employee said. “And it is intentional. The new head of OMB [Russ Vought, who has not yet been confirmed by the Senate] said he wanted to traumatize the federal civil servants into leaving and it’s working.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
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Hey, folks, it's a RIF via buyout. Normal and standard. Generous too, since you get six months pay and full pension. I don't know anyone who gets a pension and getting paid not to work is pretty A-OK too. Take a deep breath.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (ZFzvp)

253 Who is the interim AG at the moment? Did Trump insert or promote that person to the temporary position?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (ZlOcj)

254 The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama administration terminating the lists of eligible, well-trained air traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in 2013 because they were too white.”

==

so obvious that the decline and destruction we see today started under obama, but too many in DC from both sides got rich supporting, so we have what we have

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (g47mK)

255 Europe´s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output, officials said Thursday.

Gross domestic product was flat with a zero increase in the final quarter of 2024 in the 20-nation eurozone, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said.

skinny cold and poor is no way to go through life

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

256 My bad. Senate is adjourned until Monday. Had get back to the Country Clubs I guess. Confirming a Attorney General is down the list these days
Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

No doubt they're doing pro-forma sessions all weekend long though. Still, it's probably early days for Trump to consider a recess appointment even if they weren't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

257 Interview with tranny pilot Jo Ellis, who wasn't onboard the mishap Blackhawk:

https://tinyurl.com/4mektmnd

Father worked at 700 Club. Now a member of the Jewish faith.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 08:52 AM (Y1sOo)

258 246. Read my post. Traverse city is on the NW side of Michigan. The state. The land mass.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2025 08:52 AM (WCrhV)

259 More disturbing than the opening scene of Apocalypse Now
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:44 AM (ANuwa)

* has trouble remembering the opening scene from the movie *
Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2025 08:48 AM (Oy/m2)

Martin Sheen masturbating and bleeding in his hotel room while The Doors (The End) plays

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:52 AM (i5Vkf)

260 A hilarious plane crash would be the stock footage of old timey early planes trying and falling to fly by flapping their wings and such
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zgZCj)

I actually looked for that and could find none. Damn internet search......
Posted by: Sponge

https://tinyurl.com/2szj2bpn

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (CT61Q)

261 256 No doubt they're doing pro-forma sessions all weekend long though. Still, it's probably early days for Trump to consider a recess appointment even if they weren't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

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With no one having failed yet, hearings continuing, and votes to be had, it's way too early for Trump to push Thune to put the Senate into recess.

Also, Thune probably won't do it.

Because it's just not done anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

262 Every single candidate for DNC Chair just blamed their loss in 2024 on racism and misogyny

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

263 Siding with the civil service in these matters would actually upturn a lot of precedent.

Why hasn't a president done this in decades? Because they didn't want to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:49 AM (GBKbO)
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Giving President Trump a 4 year gap to mull over things plus inflicting a terrible president on the populace seems to have been an unwise choice. So far, seems to be working out far better than expected, for us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)

264 If the NTSB got rid of all their old white guys, we may never get a decent report.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (JVCkA)

265 Check behind the drapes too.
Posted by: Jim Comey, Pantywaist at January 31, 2025 08:49 AM (7P61U)

tff
the lost boyscout

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

266 > Buttegeig is planning to run for the US Senate from Michigan . He thinks that will help him win support in Detroit.
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The electorate probably needs to be reminded, daily, that he was DoT Secretary, which includes the FAA for 4 years and allowed the ATC problem to fester while trying to hire unqualified, blind, physically and mentally deficient minorities.

Lay the "blame" for the DCA crash on him. Daily.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

267 I don’t even want to wade into this garbage, but I hate that the memory of the real pilot will have to compete with this internet rubbish when the identity is officially made public.

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Community notes!

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

268 I don't know how but can Trump kneecap Bass-tard and Newsom?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)

Temporarily designate PP as a nation monument or bird sanctuary?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2025 08:54 AM (0eaVi)

269 He and his partner are currently living in Traverse City

It cannot not be Saugatuck. Just stop.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver

Suckntuck, Michigan

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 08:54 AM (CT61Q)

270 He ran FAA into the ground, so why not Michigan.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

271 It's all about his potential senate run in Michigan.
Pronouns don't play well in Detroit.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)
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Pro tip Pete: Don't hold any roof top campaign events in Dearborn

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 08:55 AM (ZFzvp)

272 OK, Jen, I misread. Sorry.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

273 250. LOL , I know. I’m guessing someone made them a deal on a condo in TC.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (WCrhV)

274 " Every single candidate for DNC Chair just blamed their loss in 2024 on racism and misogyny
Posted by: SMOD"

I really really love racism and misogyny.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (fV+MH)

275 So it turns out the pilot of the blackhawk helicopter that crashed into the American Airlines flight killing everybody onboard was a transgender pilot, Josiah Ellis, or Jo Ellis was the pilot of the Blackhawk. He tried to take out 3 other passenger planes before the crash.
https://x.com/brijoyce/status/1885272779915669677

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

276 > I like Lake, smart and smooth, but came across as unlikeable.

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I don't understand this take

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (AOsQT)

277 "Only careful planning, precise language, consistent messaging, and effective legislation will rein in the federal Leviathan. And wipe the smile off Schumer's face.

Can't be said any better.

Posted by: ripley 7542 at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (Uy/WF)

278 “ Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.”

Psalm 34:12-14

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 08:57 AM (lMONC)

279 hilarious plane crash would be the stock footage of old timey early planes trying and falling to fly by flapping their wings and such
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zgZCj)

I actually looked for that and could find none. Damn internet search......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Search for the movie "Gizmo". It's a compilation of people during the first half of the last century attempting crazy stuff, including trying to fly. Released in 1977.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 08:57 AM (iODuv)

280 Rahm Emanuel said never let a tragedy go to waste.
That what Trump is doing. To beat the left, you have to fight in the same arena. Maybe sometime we'll be able to live normally again.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2025 08:57 AM (4780s)

281 Since Obama, I've been a bit amazed at how enthusiastic the Dems were embracing "if you don't vote for our candidate, you're a racist/sexist/homophobe/etc.--regardless of their policies."

And they were riding high on that, actually thinking the Obama wins were the foundation of a permanent, new majority coalition. (ignoring the down-ticket wipe-outs)

And they drove out anyone who dared bring up, "But what happens when calling the voters racist/sexist/homophobe/etc. no longer works?"

Well, here we are:
9 years of every Democrat, every media, every major institution all calling Trump a racist, a sexist, and a homophobe.
And anyone who voted for him.
And they have no clue what to do now ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 08:57 AM (RPWCv)

282 In a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday, 31 percent of voters have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, compared to 57 percent holding an unfavorable view. I am sorry to post this, but this is devastating and must be something we have to face.

It's messaging! Maga & Republicans engage in a street fight while Democrats fight a clean fight by the rules. Republicans laugh.

Fuck that, wait a year when Dystopia settles in. Then ask people what they think.

We have a serious brand communication issue. we have the best product, policies and ideas. But some of our pundits and advisors are misinformed, or flat-out lying to keep their jobs.

If the voters cared about messaging they wouldn't vote for Marjorie green or Tommy Tuberville. They love Trump because he is a bully and a grifter. You have a complicit media and billionaires without borders. Hate sells , DEI.

what do you propose to get through to the majority of White people? Every time Trump presses that hate button, they feel good. They have been doing the same thing since Nixon. How do you get them to care about this country and all of her people?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)

283 Brown has also pushed back on Republican criticisms of DEI in the military and signed off on a 2022 Air Force memo directing the Air Force Academy and Air Education and Training Command to “develop a diversity and inclusion outreach plan” aimed at “achieving a force more representative of our Nation.”

I do not understand what it takes to kill and be willing to be killed. But I have friends that do. The military does not need to represent the nation. It needs to kill it enemies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

284 281 And they were riding high on that, actually thinking the Obama wins were the foundation of a permanent, new majority coalition. (ignoring the down-ticket wipe-outs)

And they drove out anyone who dared bring up, "But what happens when calling the voters racist/sexist/homophobe/etc. no longer works?"

Well, here we are:
9 years of every Democrat, every media, every major institution all calling Trump a racist, a sexist, and a homophobe.
And anyone who voted for him.
And they have no clue what to do now ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 08:57 AM (RPWCv)

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Also...I still think 2012 was stolen. Meaning, that the tactic worked once: against McCain, who shut down his own campaign in the middle of things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

285 I don’t see Buttigig getting elected senator in MI. This Gary Peters that’s leaving is only 66… he must see the writing on the wall for Dems there after Trump’s win. Peters would’ve been roadkill for a good GOP candidate (John James?). Buttigig and his weirdness would be even worse than bland milqetoast Peters

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (i5Vkf)

286 >>Federal control over education has failed and it's time to buy out these employees and shut down the building.

THIS

We can find a whole lot of other things - appropriate things - to spend their $90 Billion budget on.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (WbBbu)

287 {i]Friends in Phoenix say she lost due to the McCain Republican faction
Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

The Texas House has a "Republican" Speaker due to the Bush faction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

288 " If the NTSB got rid of all their old white guys, we may never get a decent report.
Posted by: no one of any consequence"

Old white guys are the core of our existence.

Even brown people know that.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (fV+MH)

289
It's messaging! Maga & Republicans engage in a street fight while Democrats fight a clean fight by the rules. Republicans laugh.

It truly saddens me that so many people live in an alternate universe like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

290 282 It's messaging! Maga & Republicans engage in a street fight while Democrats fight a clean fight by the rules. Republicans laugh.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)

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This is always my favorite.

Accusing Trump of being a rapist, of being Putin's cockholster, of being a traitor, of trying to overthrow the government is treating him with kid gloves.

Calling Kamala stupid is bare-knuckle brawling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (GBKbO)

291 what do you propose to get through to the majority of White people? Every time Trump presses that hate button, they feel good. They have been doing the same thing since Nixon. How do you get them to care about this country and all of her people?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)
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I guess White people voting for Obama no longer counts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (tT6L1)

292 We have a serious brand communication issue. we have the best product, policies and ideas. But some of our pundits and advisors are misinformed, or flat-out lying to keep their jobs.

If the voters cared about messaging they wouldn't vote for Marjorie green or Tommy Tuberville. They love Trump because he is a bully and a grifter. You have a complicit media and billionaires without borders. Hate sells , DEI.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)

Please o please run on this in 26.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

293 It cannot not be Saugatuck. Just stop.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 08:51 AM (zdLoL)

Ahh.. good ol Sausagetuck

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 31, 2025 08:59 AM (/6GbT)

294 The hypocrisy of that Senate crow from Minnesota , same Minnesota that did its best to defund and destroy the police, yelling at Kash, who has support of I don't know how many millions LEOs, that he is not a friend of LEOs. Overall, I am not impressed with the low IQ Senators currently occupying the chamber. There are a few stars, but the rest need to go.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 09:00 AM (g47mK)

295 282 We have a serious brand communication issue. we have the best product, policies and ideas. But some of our pundits and advisors are misinformed, or flat-out lying to keep their jobs.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)

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People are fleeing blue states because the product is great, but they hear on Fox News that it sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

296 Buttigieg if he campaigns for Senate should tell the Muslims in Michigan that if they vote for him he'll dress like a goat and let them have their way with him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 09:00 AM (6v8aM)

297 A hilarious plane crash would be the stock footage of old timey early planes trying and falling to fly by flapping their wings and such
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zgZCj)

I actually looked for that and could find none. Damn internet search......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

https://youtu.be/Sp7MHZY2ADI

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

298 THIS

We can find a whole lot of other things - appropriate things - to spend their $90 Billion budget on.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (WbBbu)

D of Ed could be about 50 people.
Review the states request for funds. Approve and send a check or tell them HELL NO.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

299 >>I don’t see Buttigig getting elected senator in MI.

He's just removed his pronouns from his bio on social media. and updated the header picture to simple picture of (I assume?) the shore of one of the great lakes.

Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (WbBbu)

300 Donald J Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to
understand, is it???

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

301 >I actually looked for that and could find none. Damn internet search.....
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the links I post must be invisible
maybe they are just not available in the United States

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)

302 It's messaging! Maga & Republicans engage in a street fight while Democrats fight a clean fight by the rules.

That is hilarious!!

Posted by: dantesed at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (Oy/m2)

303 Very detailed explanation of the crash by a retired airline captain who has his own Youtube channel.

https://tinyurl.com/24d9zswk

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (iODuv)

304 I'm disappointed that at no point did Kash Patel reply during the hearings where Democrats accused him of being a Trump puppet who would go after political enemies with "you're concerned I'll carry on the practice of Christopher Wray and the Biden administration?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

305 285. One overlooked story about Michigan is the Michigan House of Representatives went to Republicans in 2024. Now that doesn’t mean the Republicans will do much, but it was significant in that the legislature did overturn on that side. The Republicans never seem to have a candidate though, waiting for the Senate. I haven’t heard of any candidate right now looking to replace Peters. The Republicans will wait until three months before the election deadline and nominate someone.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (WCrhV)

306 Also...I still think 2012 was stolen. Meaning, that the tactic worked once: against McCain, who shut down his own campaign in the middle of things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)
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I think McCain voting for TARP, which I don't believe had a lot of support with the voters, did more harm than anything, to McCain. Well, that, and he was a lying two-faced jackass.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (tT6L1)

307 LOL!!! Via CP/AP:

"Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (5LoD7)

308
https://youtu.be/Sp7MHZY2ADI
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

It saddens me that DDG let me down so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

309 129 94 A Transgender Pilot Named Jo Ellis Flew Blackhawk Helicopter Into the American Airlines Jet at Reagan National
Jo Ellis served in the Virginia National Guard for 15 years and transitioned while serving as a pilot. She hated Trump. Accident was a Murder Suicide
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:12 AM (C0Gpf)

As we used to say, "umba."
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2025 08:21 AM (ZlOcj)

We want this to be true, but it's not. It's not that troon.

Posted by: XTC at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (sm6Pk)

310 So what's Brennan's made up Islamic name, anyone know?
I wonder how much data he passed on to mohammedan regimes during and after his tenure as CIA chief?

Posted by: Ciampino - what is disinformation at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (KjLnc)

311 >>>I don’t see Buttigig getting elected senator in MI.
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he will have to downplay his buggery
probably won't make campaign appearances with his pitcher

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (AOsQT)

312
"Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (5LoD7)

You just keep f*ckin' that chicken......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

313 I think McCain voting for TARP, which I don't believe had a lot of support with the voters, did more harm than anything, to McCain. Well, that, and he was a lying two-faced jackass.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (tT6L1)

Should we speak this way of somebody even before their funeral is over?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 31, 2025 09:04 AM (LxER7)

314 If Trump has donated his salary as President back to the government how exactly does DU think he's a grifter? Because he was a businessman?! Shocking!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 09:04 AM (DjdJS)

315 Government Accountability Office, taxpayers lost more than $100 billion in “improper” payments — $50.3 billion in Medicaid benefits, and $55.1 billion in Medicare — in 2023. The payment “errors” represented 43 percent of the total $240 billion in improper payments reported throughout all federal agencies. All told, federal taxpayers were on the hook for $2.7 trillion in payment errors between 2003 and 2023, according to the GAO.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

316 And they drove out anyone who dared bring up, "But what happens when calling the voters racist/sexist/homophobe/etc. no longer works?"

After years and years of being called rayciss, homophobic, islamaphobic, transphobic, chinkaphobic, spicaphobic, dirtyeurophobic, msiogynistphobic and a h8er, well guess what. I am and I am gonna enjoy being so.

Posted by: White Male Voters at January 31, 2025 09:04 AM (7P61U)

317 " Donald J Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to
understand, is it???
Posted by: redridinghood"

That's what I was saying! Why the fuck is that chopper crossing flight paths and ELEVATING?

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (fV+MH)

318 Google New:
Trans pilot Jo Ellis rumored to be Black Hawk pilot in fatal collision over Potomac River
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

Already debunked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

319 233 190. Buttegeig is planning to run for the US Senate from Michigan . He thinks that will help him win support in Detroit.”

Why would black Detroit residents vote for a limp wristed white twink from Indiana?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2025 09:06 AM (Md44Z)

320 "Do you support Trump's pardoning of Jan. 6th prisoners that attacked and injured police officers?"

"I will perform a complete investigation into the actions of Jan. 6th, unlike the sham committee, and attempt to determine why police launched projectiles into what was, at the time, a peaceful march on The Capitol."

- - - - - Things I Wish I Heard Yesterday

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

321 >>he will have to downplay his buggery
probably won't make campaign appearances with his pitcher

You saying he's chastened?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:07 AM (WbBbu)

322
That's what I was saying! Why the fuck is that chopper crossing flight paths and ELEVATING?
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (fV+MH)

because it was a suicide attack against Russia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

323 312 >>>I don’t see Buttigig getting elected senator in MI.
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he will have to downplay his buggery
probably won't make campaign appearances with his pitcher
Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (AOsQT)

Converts to Islam and supports Islamic catamites. You Bacha bottom Bazi on that!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 09:07 AM (x0n13)

324
I don’t see Buttigig getting elected senator in MI. This Gary Peters that’s leaving is only 66… he must see the writing on the wall for Dems there after Trump’s win. Peters would’ve been roadkill for a good GOP candidate (John James?). Buttigig and his weirdness would be even worse than bland milqetoast Peters

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM

gary peters (who?) is not running in '26 so that gretchen whitmer (the jussie smollet of governors) can take the senate seat.

she's termed out of the governor's seat in 26 and assuming the senate seat is the only way she can remain visible on the national political stage for two years before she runs for president in 28

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2025 09:07 AM (w9Ycv)

325 The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to
understand, is it???
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)
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Way back when, I worked with a guy who was a crew chief in the USAF. One of the airplanes he had signed off on was doing some low level training and flew into the side of a hill. As he said to me, he was sweating that one, because it was his aircraft. Turned out the pilot forgot the altimeter deviation card for the aircraft.

Yeah, I'm sure things are way more sophisticated now but, if the helicopter was flying much higher than it should, I'll bet there's a mechanic crew chief who is sweating right about now.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 09:07 AM (tT6L1)

326 It's said that the pilot of the Army helo was a longtime tranny (who was angry about Trump’s gender and tranny EO's and even was featured on a podcast that aired the morning of the crash. I'll bet my left nut she rammed the airliner on purpose.

Why are mentally ill people allowed to fly dangerous equipment at night?

Trump was absolutely correct.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (3dw//)

327 So it turns out the pilot of the blackhawk helicopter that crashed into the American Airlines flight killing everybody onboard was a transgender pilot, Josiah Ellis, or Jo Ellis was the pilot of the Blackhawk. He tried to take out 3 other passenger planes before the crash.
https://x.com/brijoyce/status/1885272779915669677
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2025 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

Already debunked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

328 I certainly hope that DOGE has shutting down the TSA on their list. What a useless organization. They are more DEI than any other organization, and have done literally nothing besides inconveniencing travellers, and always ignoring those that are the real threat. Let the airlines do their own screening.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (lTGtQ)

329 It’s interesting to watch opportunist Never Trumpers like Continetti & John Podhoretz stop their MAGA-bashing and suddenly start opining in the manner of Trump voters. I think they’ve realized that they isolated themselves to a small and shrinking audience for which their benefactors won’t be paying any more for 2016-era think pieces. We don’t need them, however. They can go drink cosmos with Peggy Noonan and decry all the “chaos” that Trump is bringing.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (KEgAC)

330 Were there any unintentionally funny moments in Tulsa Gabbard's hearing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (MQJVv)

331 The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to
understand, is it???
Posted by: redridinghood"

That's what I was saying! Why the fuck is that chopper crossing flight paths and ELEVATING?
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (fV+MH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgllf1L9_4

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (iODuv)

332 Working with (main characters Owen and his son T.K.) are mother and paramedic captain Tommy Vega (Torres), Muslim firefighter Marjan Marwani (Karam), transgender firefighter Paul Strickland (Smith), police officer Carlos Reyes (Silva), DREAM-er firefighter Mateo Chavez (Works), and gruff firefighter Judd Ryder (Parrack).

Southpark 101
put a homely trans woman is the script

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

333 Oh, no!!! The tranny is getting cancelled!!!

Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon says she is "deeply sorry to those I have caused pain" by social media posts.

Gascon's past posts have denigrated Islam, referred to George Floyd as "a drug addict and a hustler."
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Looks like someone cut off his tackle for no reason.

[Assuming he's gone for the whole shebang.]

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (5LoD7)

334 >Why would black Detroit residents vote for a limp wristed white twink from Indiana?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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because of the D after his name

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (AOsQT)

335 Canada's bracing for Trump's tariffs.

And our brain trust hasn't even bothered listening and trying to address President Trump's concerns.

Instead, there are plans to retaliate against the US. Smart move. Put the loaded gun to the economy's head and pull the trigger. Assholes.

Posted by: Stateless...28% - mental state clawing up from 10% at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (jvJvP)

336 Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:02 AM (5LoD7)

I love seeing these statements, not because they’re necessarily true. (Who knows? Who cares?). These statements are Democrats saying that Kamala is finished for good, she’s never running for anything again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (Md44Z)

337
Already debunked.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

Forget it, he's rolling.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

338 >>"Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."

I love this.
Truly, keep believing that! Maybe run Schumer next time? Or how about Pelosi!?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:10 AM (WbBbu)

339 Having the FBI, Homeland Security, CIA and/or any other government agency embedded into a peaceful protest never makes the situation more peaceful. As head of the FBI I will no longer allow this.

-------Things I wish I had heard yesterday.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:10 AM (PMtkd)

340 So, can we expect Mayor Buttjizz and his squeeze to show up to ride in the Mackinac Bridge Annual Antique Tractor Crossing? I don't think any antique tractors were painted pink, but there's time to do that. Pete and Chasten will get a warm welcome, I'm sure.

Posted by: Massey-Ferguson at January 31, 2025 09:10 AM (G5+As)

341 Were there any unintentionally funny moments in Tulsa Gabbard's hearing?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 09:09 AM (MQJVv)
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Well, if one considers rabid chipmunks and their spittle flecked lips amusing, then, yes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 09:10 AM (tT6L1)

342 So if the pilot of the chopper was a Muslim are we thinking kamikaze?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 09:11 AM (6v8aM)

343 It saddens me that DDG let me down so........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

When the Ukraine war started the CEO of DDG said that they curated their results to ensure that their users only got approved information. Don't know why that would apply to this search but it's something to bear in mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

344

Get along little DOGE's!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (x0n13)

345 >You saying he's chastened?

Posted by: Lizzy
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well-played

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (AOsQT)

346 Press briefing with Karoline Leavitt @ 1:00 ET today.
I'm sure there will be meltdowns & fireworks today.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

347 >>Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon says she is "deeply sorry to those I have caused pain" by social media posts.

Gascon's past posts have denigrated Islam, referred to George Floyd as "a drug addict and a hustler."

Uh oh, has the unofficial, unpublished Lefty victim/oppression hierarchy asserted itself? Some oppressed peoples are more equal than others in DEI. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (WbBbu)

348 So if the pilot of the chopper was a Muslim are we thinking kamikaze?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 09:11 AM (6v8aM)

The only thing missing thus far is a keyed mic and "ALLAH AKBAR!!!!" over the airwaves just before impact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

349 Why would black Detroit residents vote for a limp wristed white twink from Indiana?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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because of the D after his name
Posted by: Don Black

That worked so well for Kamala.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (CT61Q)

350 When the Ukraine war started the CEO of DDG said that they curated their results to ensure that their users only got approved information. Don't know why that would apply to this search but it's something to bear in mind.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

Ugh.....how sad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

351 >>>"Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."
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(in your best Dennis Miller voice)
"Yeah right, sure babe."

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (AOsQT)

352 That's what I was saying! Why the fuck is that chopper crossing flight paths and ELEVATING?
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (fV+MH)

I'm guessing they were looking for the jet rather than looking at the altimeter and didn't notice. 200 feet seems like not very much for a Blackhawk and they didn't ascend all that fast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

353 Should we speak this way of somebody even before their funeral is over?
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I'm still wearing black; and have black crepe paper festooning the house, except during Pride months of course.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:14 AM (5LoD7)

354 340 >>"Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."

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It's amazing they forgot about the debate. After the debate, even mainstream media looked at Joe with completely different eyes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:14 AM (PMtkd)

355 Also...I still think 2012 was stolen. Meaning, that the tactic worked once: against McCain, who shut down his own campaign in the middle of things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

Agree. They knew McCain was no match, Rs could not motivate the populace to vote for him, but Palin was a hail marry that put D junta on their heels for a bit, the nomination was end of August, basically 9/1 - and they had to scramble. The attacks on her were shockingly vicious. Still, she was fearless and saved his candidacy for a bit, but then came the market crash and McCain was unprepared, would not make deals with the financial oligarchy I am guessing. He was a stubborn old coot. So they had to go with obama.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (g47mK)

356 I'm guessing they were looking for the jet rather than looking at the altimeter and didn't notice. 200 feet seems like not very much for a Blackhawk and they didn't ascend all that fast.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

I find "a military trained pilot flying into heavily restricted airspace failed to notice" a really tough pill to swallow, FWIW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

357 A Day in the Life of a Christian – Under Pakistan’s Blasphemy

Persecution for your beliefs is expected for the Christian.

Though the treatment of them is abhorrent, when I see the government funding of "artwork" like Piss Christ, reprobate homosexuals in San Francisco selling crucifix shaped dildos, or any other sort of mockery of Lord incarnate, Jesus, I certainly understand the temptation to put the force of society against blasphemers.

Alas, the Savior of mankind, He who defeated death, the living embodiment of the Lord who is seated at the right hand of the Father, He who will come to judge the living and the dead alike, has required of us that we love our enemies, not smite them.

For we recognize that we, too, are no less a sinner than the worst of these, and that for the redeeming blood of Christ, there go we into the abyss.

We fear not those who may destroy the body, but instead fear He who may destroy the soul.

Posted by: Wowzers at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (7NqTg)

358 >That worked so well for Kamala.

Posted by: rickb223
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it's all they know

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)

359 What is DDG?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (PMtkd)

360 >>We don’t need them, however. They can go drink cosmos with Peggy Noonan and decry all the “chaos” that Trump is bringing.

Yup. It's about as interesting as, say, Bill Maher making a single comment critical of the Left.

*Yawn*

Not buying it, still won't read you.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (WbBbu)

361 It's said that the pilot of the Army helo was a longtime tranny (who was angry about Trump’s gender and tranny EO's and even was featured on a podcast that aired the morning of the crash. I'll bet my left nut she rammed the airliner on purpose.

That person wasn't on the helo so you lose your left nut.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

362 Outgoing DNC leaders are saying they had a better chance with Joe? They were looking at total annihilation across the board with Joe.

The GOP was very likely picking up a ton of seats in the house and possibly 55 to 57 seats in the Senate, if Joe stays in the race.

But, yay Joe?

Yeah no. They're trying to say they should have remained loyal and it won't happen again.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 09:16 AM (tT6L1)

363 Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (KEgAC)
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Buck, it isn't as sudden as one might think or expect, given his FIL. Continetti, at least, has written neutral to positive things about Trump for a while. He thought anti-Trump lawfare was disgusting pretty much from the git-go.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (/eO2K)

364 If Trump has donated his salary as President back to the government how exactly does DU think he's a grifter?
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They pretend/believe that his family members are getting government contracts and trading off of their names [just like the Bidens were doing in fact]; and e.g. government agents and foreign reps, et alia using Trump hotels is making him billions!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (5LoD7)

365 I find "a military trained pilot flying into heavily restricted airspace failed to notice" a really tough pill to swallow, FWIW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

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How about "a military-trained flight crew of THREE failed to notice."

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (PMtkd)

366 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Omg. Trump just posted this video of Biden’s one-time pick for FAA administrator unable to answer the most basic questions about air travel safety.

He was forced to withdraw, but it perfectly highlights where the Biden admins priorities were.

https://tinyurl.com/2dsmzsny

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

367 What is DDG?
Posted by: Seems Legit

Duck Duck Go, a search engine.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

368 When the Ukraine war started the CEO of DDG said that they curated their results to ensure that their users only got approved information. Don't know why that would apply to this search but it's something to bear in mind.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I just went to Bing and searched "old timey airplane crashes with flapping wings".
First result:

https://tinyurl.com/2szj2bpn

Had to run it through tinyurl.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 09:18 AM (CT61Q)

369 The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That's not really too complicated to
understand, is it???
Posted by: redridinghood"

That's what I was saying! Why the fuck is that chopper crossing flight paths and ELEVATING?
Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 09:05 AM (fV+MH)

Has anyone actually watched and listened to the numerous videos I and others have posted?? Complete and thorough explanations are contained on those videos by experienced aeronautical people. Take the time to watch and listen to them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:18 AM (iODuv)

370 If Trump has donated his salary as President back to the government how exactly does DU think he's a grifter?
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They pretend/believe that his family members are getting government contracts and trading off of their names [just like the Bidens were doing in fact]; and e.g. government agents and foreign reps, et alia using Trump hotels is making him billions!!!
Posted by: andycanuck

Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 09:19 AM (CT61Q)

371 The curious thing about the Holocaust is that it came out of nowhere.

The Pharaoh enslaved the Israelites because he was understandably afraid of being demographically replaced. Not saying he was right to do what he did, just that you could understand the logic.

God the Creator judged Israel for not letting the land rest for seventy years by the Babylonian Capture so that the land did rest as He had commanded.

Gideon was hiding from the Midianites when an angel called him a mighty warrior. This was, as I was taught, one of many times when Israel went whoring after other gods, and God judged them.

1. Enslavement.
2. Cry out to God.
3. Get Rescued.
4. Prosperity.
5. Start Whoring Again.
6. Rinse and Repeat.

I just watched an episode of 'Apparitions', and it had a Jewish Auschwitz survivor who turned to Satan because the God of his fathers and the Catholic Church had betrayed him, he thought by allowing the Holocaust. Now the show did make it semi clear he was wrong. The RCC had tried.

So it seems the Holocaust is singular. God allowed this mass murder for no particular reason.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 31, 2025 09:19 AM (q7Vou)

372 One of the videos posted of the pre-crash flight pattern showed at least 21 seconds (I counted one thousand one, etc.) to notice the airplane and change direction, veer off, or take evasive action.

As I was counting it seemed like a long time but I don't know.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:19 AM (PMtkd)

373 And so are the Non-Atomic Scientists behind it.
Reminder: The Doomsday Clock is Fake

"Doomsday Clock"

Heh.

*looks across breakfast table*

"Oh...Honey, it appears we're a quarter past DOOM. We must be dead now.

Pass the butter, please."

*looks up from iPhone*

"Here, baby. I do hope DOOM won't interfere with our Bridge Party tonight."

"Thanks. Well, the Sanderson's will be having to drive across a lot of DOOM. Maybe we should reschedule for next Tuesday."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (iJfKG)

374 I find "a military trained pilot flying into heavily restricted airspace failed to notice" a really tough pill to swallow, FWIW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

I've never flown a helicopter so I wouldn't know.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

375 That person wasn't on the helo so you lose your left nut.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

You know who else lost his left nut?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind. at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (G5+As)

376
331 It’s interesting to watch opportunist Never Trumpers like Continetti & John Podhoretz stop their MAGA-bashing and suddenly start opining in the manner of Trump voters. I think they’ve realized that they isolated themselves to a small and shrinking audience for which their benefactors won’t be paying any more for 2016-era think pieces. We don’t need them, however. They can go drink cosmos with Peggy Noonan and decry all the “chaos” that Trump is bringing.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2025 09:08 AM (KEgAC)

Peggy longs to be the 'clutched pearl ' .

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (wuq9u)

377 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:18 AM (iODuv)
******
I'm just posting what Trump posted on Truth.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

378 326. Whitmer not running for Senate, either is Dingell. Mike Rogers, who lost (Stolen) the 2024 race by 19k, is running again. Quality recruit who will make Dems spend big $$$

James is looking at Governor

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (YCxFk)

379 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
Omg. Trump just posted this video of Biden’s one-time pick for FAA administrator unable to answer the most basic questions about air travel safety.

He was forced to withdraw, but it perfectly highlights where the Biden admins priorities were.

https://tinyurl.com/2dsmzsny
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

Laura ran that last night on her show. Unreal. But, hey, it's ALL Trump's fault! He fired all those people since he was sworn in!! (a comment found on quite a few sites)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:21 AM (iODuv)

380 I could never be a pilot-
the radio would be blaring this indecipherable gibberish, and I'd be yelling back "WHAT!?"

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:21 AM (AOsQT)

381 My two cents. Any trans person is not mentally stable enough to operate heavy machinery.
No airplanes, no tanks, no cars or trucks. Clerk or cook only.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2025 09:21 AM (4780s)

382 A day or two ago, a fellow moron brought up the subject of the Gaza pier/port which catastrophically failed last year.

I mentioned that a soldier died. It was in the news. What wasn't in the news is why he died.

Now it's in the news:

https://tinyurl.com/3ecrspub

The death WAS in the news then but you need to hear how it reached the press.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2025 09:21 AM (P/ezU)

383 Kash Patel has a huge job ahead of him. Might be easier just to fire everyone and start over.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 09:22 AM (s7eDX)

384 "Outgoing DNC leader says Democrats would have had a better shot at beating Trump if they had stuck with Joe Biden."
Posted by: andycanuck

While funny, and I love the circular firing squad the Dem have devolved into, this isn't true. Biden was deeply unpopular due to his poor stewardship, and after being exposed as a demented, clueless old man at the debate, he was screwed. He'd have ever-increasing demands to appear publicly, his every word and action would be overscrutinized, and any time AWAY from public would be viewed as hiding due to age issues. He was done.

Kamala was awful, and STILL a much better candidate. The rumors I've seen say Biden internal polling showed him Trump with 400+ electoral votes and a downballot bloodbath. Kamala kept things to a respectable, close loss in all the swing states, and prevented massive losses in congress.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

385 Has anyone actually watched and listened to the numerous videos I and others have posted?? Complete and thorough explanations are contained on those videos by experienced aeronautical people. Take the time to watch and listen to them.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:18 AM (iODuv)

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Watching now, thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:22 AM (PMtkd)

386 You know who else lost his left nut?
Posted by: Franz Liebkind. at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (G5+As)

Lance Armstrong? Or was it his right?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

387 How about "a military-trained flight crew of THREE failed to notice."

We're not getting the whole story. We may never get the entire official story. Like most things anymore, I'll draw my own conclusions. The official story is usually bullshit anyway.
Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:19 AM (GpYXU)

Please take the time to watch the various videos being linked in the comments here before "drawing your own conclusions".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:23 AM (iODuv)

388 Rumors in X are that the DOJ may drop cases against Mayor Adams. Trump screwing with Dems again. Adams may be corrupt but he's better than the rest of the lunatic Marxist Dems in NYC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 09:24 AM (6v8aM)

389 Has Biden been placed in a home yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (kTd/k)

390 My two cents. Any trans person is not mentally stable enough to operate heavy machinery.
No airplanes, no tanks, no cars or trucks. Clerk or cook only.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 31, 2025 09:21 AM (4780s)

Having a trans person in the military, in any position, does not benefit the military and, consequently, does not benefit the nation. The armed forces are not for you to join and get expensive benefits for, essentially, nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)

391 I wonder how many flights the military has performed in and around DCA without an incident? Evidently it's a lot.

Maybe the accident was... and accident. Law of averages and all that because I can see circumstances that would have resulted in just that.

No transgender pilot required.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

392 Actual Headline this morning;

‘Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

The editor has a sense of humor

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (6PsrN)

393 Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.
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And 9 years of legal and illegal investigations of Trump and family proved their corruption but they couldn't be charged or convicted.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (5LoD7)

394 396 I wonder how many flights the military has performed in and around DCA without an incident? Evidently it's a lot.

Maybe the accident was... and accident. Law of averages and all that because I can see circumstances that would have resulted in just that.

No transgender pilot required.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

It IS a lot. I see them going up and down the river all the time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 31, 2025 09:26 AM (LxER7)

395 I wonder how many flights the military has performed in and around DCA without an incident? Evidently it's a lot.

Maybe the accident was... and accident. Law of averages and all that because I can see circumstances that would have resulted in just that. No transgender pilot required.

I'd like to know why any helicopter needs to be operating, day or night, in airspace normally used for commercial take offs and landings.

Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (GpYXU)

396 Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (GpYXU

I'm not sure you trust anyone, Scogg, except yourself

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (8sd0e)

397 Maybe the accident was... and accident.

Based on the videos, this appears to be the case. We do dangerous and complicated things... frequently. Sometimes, something will go wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

398 I’ve see a few YouTube aviation guys who have all said the same thing. The helicopter fucked up. They were a) flying too high and b) looked for the wrong plane

Are they “experts”? I dunno. They’re just your tube peeps. But they seem to know what they’re talking about. One of them is himself a commercial pilot.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (6PsrN)

399 - @359 Wowzers

Spot,,, On!!

Posted by: TeeJ at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (hht4k)

400 382 326. Whitmer not running for Senate, either is Dingell. Mike Rogers, who lost (Stolen) the 2024 race by 19k, is running again. Quality recruit who will make Dems spend big $$$

James is looking at Governor

Posted by: Jonah at January 31, 2025 09:20 AM (YCxFk)

No. He's a two-time loser who finally found a seat he can actually win in MI. He also distanced himself from Trump during one of his runs. Let him stay where he is..

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (0CU3H)

401 >Has Biden been placed in a home yet?
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the house in Delaware is now a memory care facility

Posted by: Don Black at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (AOsQT)

402 Somebody must have gotten blitzed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (0eaVi)

403 Nope. The last people I'd want to hear from regarding an aeronautic disaster are the aeronautic experts. Just like who I don't want to hear from during a pharmaceutical disaster - don't need any lip from the pharma experts.

Anyone so motivated that they're begging and pleading for everyone to listen to the experts. Don't trust them either.
Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:25 AM (GpYXU)

These aren't "experts". Remain willfully ignorant, then. Your choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiOybe-NJHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gD_lnBNu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgllf1L9_4

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (iODuv)

404 gary peters (who?) is not running in '26 so that gretchen whitmer (the jussie smollet of governors) can take the senate seat.

That's not fair. Jessie Smollet did his hoax all on his on (well, he hired the subcontractors). Whitmer had the FBI and government agencies run hers.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

405 387 Kash Patel has a huge job ahead of him. Might be easier just to fire everyone and start over.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 09:22 AM (s7eDX)

The best thing Patel can do is just start info dumping to the public everything the FBI has ever done.

What that will reveal will make it politically untenable to oppose mass firings and reforms.

Posted by: Randy Moss at January 31, 2025 09:28 AM (V6W16)

406 Rumors in X are that the DOJ may drop cases against Mayor Adams. Trump screwing with Dems again. Adams may be corrupt but he's better than the rest of the lunatic Marxist Dems in NYC
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Like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (5LoD7)

407 - Oops @357

Posted by: TeeJ at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (hht4k)

408 Well, here we are:
9 years of every Democrat, every media, every major institution all calling Trump a racist, a sexist, and a homophobe.
And anyone who voted for him.
And they have no clue what to do now ....
Posted by: People's hippo

The Dems since Obama have had a YUGE margin of cheat advantage ..... which may be shrinking as fast as the Jack Smith's posse.
The Trump Times are truly revolutionary and, as you say, the Dems got NOTHING to fight him with except worn out , ineffective tropes.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (jrwGT)

409 I'd like to know why any helicopter needs to be operating, day or night, in airspace normally used for commercial take offs and landings.
Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (GpYXU)

I suppose you can ask why there's a helo corridor that runs right by Reagan but the Blackhawk was in their corridor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

410 388 Rumors in X are that the DOJ may drop cases against Mayor Adams. Trump screwing with Dems again. Adams may be corrupt but he's better than the rest of the lunatic Marxist Dems in NYC
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 09:24 AM (6v8aM)

Yeah, the usual gang of Red Guards are lining up to run. They make DeBolshevik look nearly Reaganesque.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (x0n13)

411 I'd like to know why any helicopter needs to be operating, day or night, in airspace normally used for commercial take offs and landings.
Posted by: Nope at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (GpYXU)

That part of it is insane. Because it would just be a few extra mins of flight time to go around vs through it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (6PsrN)

412 I am just a civilian with no helicopter experience other than seeing them fly around. ,take off, and land. Had the chopper seen the plane in time could they have just stopped and hover where they were and let the plane land before they continued on? This is probably a dumb question but it’s an honest one because I don’t know.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 31, 2025 09:29 AM (WCrhV)

413

FOr what it's worth, Eric Adams was a long time NYPD cop.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2025 09:30 AM (x0n13)

414 What part of the tranny story has been debunked?

That the pilot was a tranny?

Or that he/she tried to take out three other airliners?

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 09:31 AM (3dw//)

415 124 Today is National Scotch Tape Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Reel to reel or cassette?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 31, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
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The type that makes babies laugh.

Posted by: Ciampino - what is disinformation except lying? at January 31, 2025 09:31 AM (KjLnc)

416 Nude art up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 09:31 AM (CT61Q)

417 402 Somebody must have gotten blitzed.
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Yes; my search for #359 Wowzers turned up an innocuous comment re. DDG.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:31 AM (5LoD7)

418 Noodus gratia weird artis

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

419 Has anyone actually watched and listened to the numerous videos I and others have posted?? Complete and thorough explanations are contained on those videos by experienced aeronautical people. Take the time to watch and listen to them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:18 AM

Yes. This one you shared with me yesterday was especially helpful.

Potomac Mid Air Collision DCA 1/29/25

YouTube: https://bit.ly/40U1OAa

And how about people stop sharing the nonsense being spread about the pilot being "transgender". That has been debunked already. The name being throw out thee is of a person who is actually still alive and has already posted on social media to debunk the nonsense. Stop promoting posts by idiots on social media pushing this lie. It's likely an op to make conservatives look stupid.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (P5BPp)

420 Another Springfield, OH. How many more of these are there -- and can any of these refugees be repatriated into their homelands?

https://tinyurl.com/3n9rhex9

Lockland, Ohio, Mayor voices concern about crushing burden of Mauritanian migrants to his small town - population has DOUBLED in one year - No english, can't work, fires in overcrowded apartment complexes.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (WbBbu)

421 Any Klobuchar looked miserable and angry yesterday. Hope someone clips her toenails soon, and lightens her up, because it wasn't a good look for her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (1L/Cw)

422 397 Maybe the accident was... and accident.

Based on the videos, this appears to be the case. We do dangerous and complicated things... frequently. Sometimes, something will go wrong.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

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Via the videos, it appears the helo flight crew was watching one plane, which went behind them and when asked if they had a visual said yes, but there was another plane they did not see.

I'm horrified at the tragedy. I hope that it was just a terrible mistake and no backstage bullshit that we are all used to and expect.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (PMtkd)

423 394 Has Biden been placed in a home yet?
Posted by: Northernlurker

No, Visiting Angels have been up to the task of changing his diapers, so far.

Posted by: Joan Lunden at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (G5+As)

424 >> 232
"A 500 hour rookie." Tell me more about your piloting career.

I made very poor choice of words, sorry. I should have said the 500 hr pilot under evaluation by the 2300 hr instructor pilot. Unfortunately, all that is being reported is the total flight hours of the pilots not the hours in type which I think is more relevant to this discussion.

Posted by: extybeebum at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (K0IC5)

425 423 394 Has Biden been placed in a home yet?
Posted by: Northernlurker

No, Visiting Angels have been up to the task of changing his diapers, so far.
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When you need Visiting Angels to clean your ass its time to be left on the ice for the Polar Bears.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 31, 2025 09:34 AM (Wg6v7)

426 This incident was the first plane crash to kill someone in the Us in 12 years. Which is incredible. There are 45 thousand flights daily within the US. To go 12 years without a fatality is amazing. Shows how good and safe air travel is.

Sometimes we need to see the forest not the trees.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 31, 2025 09:36 AM (6PsrN)

427 And how about people stop sharing the nonsense being spread about the pilot being "transgender". That has been debunked already. The name being throw out thee is of a person who is actually still alive and has already posted on social media to debunk the nonsense. Stop promoting posts by idiots on social media pushing this lie. It's likely an op to make conservatives look stupid.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2025 09:32 AM (P5BPp)

Exactly. That's why social media is THE worse place to gather information. But, it takes time to watch an informative video, time that many people just refuse to take. Much easier to pick up some nonsense or rumor and spread that.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 09:36 AM (iODuv)

428 Whitmer had the FBI and government agencies run hers.
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Even worse info coming out:
Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 16 Dec 2024
This document only scratches the surface of the depravity of FBI CHS (informant) activity related to targeting Americans on the Right.

Eric Molitor was entrapped by FBI in Whitmer fednapping hoax. He is one of 5 men acquitted by a jury in the scheme.

Read here how one FBI informant claimed Eric’s mother’s online comment supporting his son’s opposition to COVID lockdowns suggested she was in on the “kidnap and kill” trap.

This CHS appears to have wanted Sue Molitor charged in the concocted conspiracy plot.

Anyone insisting the DOJ IG report on involvement of FBI informants is accurate is a moron or willfully deceiving people.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8astjh

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:38 AM (5LoD7)

429 Both videos thatcrazyjersyguy posted are worth the watch to understand how this could have happened and it removes some of the "WTF just happened."

Horde, go watch them.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 31, 2025 09:38 AM (PMtkd)

430 The videos in question are 10-15 mins long. Anyone who wants to get actual info and not Twitter “experts” should watch them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 31, 2025 09:38 AM (6PsrN)

431 #428 cont.

Radix Verum @NotRadix Jan 29
Paging conservative and libertarian media and influencers: a judge just admitted what we have been saying. The FBI created a fake national three percent militia, mobilizing assets across the entire country to frame 14 innocent men as the dry run for J6. Can you please help raise awareness for these men? Five of them are suffering in prison right now for this shameless hoax.

People have no idea how insane this was. The FBI used this fat pedophile informant, CHS Steve Robeson, to pose as the "national commander" of the FBI's fake "United States Patriot Three Percenter" militia. Here he is in South Carolina. They wanted the Whitmer hoax to be a multistate"plot."

https://tinyurl.com/2cbnm5uw

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 31, 2025 09:38 AM (5LoD7)

432 Man. I'm just a hanging out and everybody wants a piece of me.

Posted by: Left Nut at January 31, 2025 09:44 AM (7P61U)

433 - @371 Eric2

For no particular reason?
Oh, there was very good reason. And once again it was for rejecting God. This time for rejecting His Only Begotten Son.
He came and was crucified when Daniel foretold.
Had to happen though. It's how the Lamb Himself, who spoke the universe into existence, slain from the foundation of the world.
And God Himself has always turned around and punished the nations He used to punish Israel, whom He loves.
The day will come when He will do so again.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 31, 2025 09:47 AM (hht4k)

434 What part of the tranny story has been debunked?

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 09:31 AM (3dw//)

Apparently the person named is still alive.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 31, 2025 09:48 AM (aD39U)

435 Thanks for the info.

I work 85 hours a week at a group home for violent schizophrenics, so I don't have a lot of time for deep analysis videos on current events.

You all have my humble apology for passing bad I formation

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 10:03 AM (3dw//)

436 So, can we expect Mayor Buttjizz and his squeeze to show up to ride in the Mackinac Bridge Annual Antique Tractor Crossing?

Someone surely(!) has a Cockshutt up there.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 31, 2025 10:03 AM (zdLoL)

437 Trump is like Patton, without the pearl handled pistols and four starred helmet.

His aides might assist in tempering his language, but Trump said what many people were already thinking; especially since DEI became a priority for FAA hires. On an audio from the tower, I heard a woman yelling and a black male (controller?) replying to a first responder, "I don't know how many "souls" were on the aircraft."

The deep state blob leviathan has abused and socially assaulted Trump and his family for eight years; Melania and Barron remain gracious and silent before their tormentors. If Trump boils over in front of a snarling, hostile press, House and Senate, name someone who could do better.
At least Trump loves us, wants US citizens to live freely and safely, and respects the police and military who make that possible.

Trump is also willing to risk his life taking on liars Biden, Barry and Mooch's "Fundamental Transformation" and the bastard law-makers who Hope-d and Change-d it into millions of illegals bussed into our cities and living on our dime.

Posted by: Ju at January 31, 2025 10:23 AM (aTmM/)

438 "It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power"

Gulf of Houston!

Posted by: Bombadil at January 31, 2025 10:24 AM (MX0bI)

439 Yes, Trump's gift(of many) is to bring things into public consciousness.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 31, 2025 10:33 AM (1E4GV)

440 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J 🙏

Is DEI really the missing link...? Very well could be, but the NTSB's "fact finding, hearings and recommendations" (it's not an Executive branch enforcement agency) will need to go far beyond the walls of the FAA (and DOD).

For example: FAA SETIS - Contractor Teams lists both Small Business Awardees and Large Business Awardees. The Small Business Awardee portion of the list has ten (10) small businesses, each with many contractors beneath each. Similarly, the Large Business Awardee list contains five (5) large businesses, each with many contractors beneath each. (Note: Last updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2024.)

For that agency, I believe SETIS means Systems Engineering and Technical Innovative Solutions.
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Again, for example, training for ATC

>Be ATC - FAA Hiring Air Traffic Controllers Last updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2024

>OPM, Air Traffic Control Series 2152 - Individual Occupational Requirements

>FAA Contract Tower Program* (In brief, the *FCT Program is a group of air traffic control towers operated by contractors and the Air National Guard.) And, employees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Contract

Cont'd

Posted by: L - Another no nic day at January 31, 2025 11:04 AM (NFX2v)

441 Tower Program can transfer to other positions within the Federal government. The FAA can also detail its employees to other organizations - both in and outside of the Federal government - for a number of years.

>The FAA also contracts with training companies to provide training for air traffic control (ATC) personnel. These companies provide training services for air traffic control towers, Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities (TRACON), and En Route Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC).

They include, and may not be limited to: The FAA Academy, a fully accredited civil aviation institution in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; SAIC (hq Reston, VA) 'Wins $653 Million FAA Controller Training Solutions Contract' Published Apr 23, 2020, and ATSpeak | UFA - Air Traffic Control Training.

And, so on. In summary, DEI may not affect only "pure" FAA operations and personnel* but beyond through business contracts, recruitment, training, SOPs, etc. A quagmire, not even considering actual site work controls, or lack thereof. And, I would think the generous offer to leave federal service would be withdrawn, *in part, from the FAA.

*The agency has several 'divisions' and unions.

Posted by: L - Another no nic day at January 31, 2025 11:04 AM (NFX2v)

442 More background -
>AP, U.S. News, Here are some of the deadliest plane crashes in US history, January 30, 2025

"Jan. 13, 1982: An Air Florida flight plummeted into the Potomac, killing 70 passengers and four crew members. That crash was attributed to bad weather."

>>Straight Arrow News, Does Congress regret adding flights at Reagan despite collision warnings? By Ray Bogan, 20 hours ago (Reading ALL suggested.)

>As it's not "enforcement," the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) may bring contractors onboard to assist with investigations. (However, its NTSB Training Center closed in January 2023, so the agency is no longer providing external training.

>On August 5, 1981, following the (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Org) PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life.

Side note - Many yrs. ago, after the above time period, had the opportunity to briefly watch & talk w/ATCs at work at a federally operated site. They - out of all contacts with the FAA & some of its common contractors - had my utmost respect.

Posted by: L - Another no nic day at January 31, 2025 11:04 AM (NFX2v)

443
If Congress is found to have played a part - would the NTSB have the nerve to actually call it - and, if so, then what happens?

The rewriting of, or adding more, regulations?

Posted by: L - Another no nic day at January 31, 2025 11:14 AM (NFX2v)

444 Saudi Arabia's, "The Line" is intended to house nine million. Trump wants to relocate one-and-a-half million Palestinians. Nine over one-point-five is six. Build a one-sixth chunk of "The Line-like" city across the Gulf of AbraCadabra at the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula. Move in the Palestinians. It could be set back from the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba to give room for goat brothels et al. https://tinyurl.com/NewPalestine

Posted by: Marooned at January 31, 2025 11:19 AM (kt8QE)

445 Regarding the Target press release concerning DEI ... breakage.

Posted by: Marooned at January 31, 2025 11:26 AM (kt8QE)

446 The mayor of Lockland might bus those illegals to the home or neighborhood of the NGO that got them there.

Posted by: Vivi at January 31, 2025 12:15 PM (Egz6Y)

447 Driver Prosecuted for ‘Don’t Be a C*nt’ Bumper Sticker.

Apparently British prosecutors and police didn't get the message...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 31, 2025 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

448 #433

Are you saying that the Holocaust was God's judgement on the Jews for rejecting Jesus Christ? The mainstream theory seems to be that God failed in His duty to protect His chosen, and that therefore the Jews should stand in judgement of God.

I however, would say, if you support Never Again, you should kiss the Son, lest He be angry.

Posted by: Eric2 at January 31, 2025 03:14 PM (hSVY4)

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