Also, I should not discount the effect of intelligence operations at identifying and dismantling potential terror cells. That information is safeguarded, so I don’t know what kind of numbers we’re talking about, but let’s presume these ops have at least some effect.
They are unarmed screeners, probably earning a pittance. The required skillset is roughly that of a grocery store checkout employee. I can hardly blame them for nope-ing.
Everyone who missed a flight because of this guy should be allowed to line up and give him one good punch, anywhere they want. This kind of shit cannot be tolerated in our society anymore.
among increasingly loud boos from the crowd
That is great. However, this doesn’t look quite like the scene described.
I hate to be That Guy given the context, but if I’m reading you correctly I think you might mean ‘cold comfort’.
The rule that proves the exception?
I like The Searchers, which paints people like him in their true colors.
Everything else can degrade in the vault for all I care.
Guys like Jimmy Stewart and Eddie Albert were the brave ones from Hollywood that served in combat
I love John Wayne’s work, but man, my respect for him seems to take a nosedive every year now.
Very much agreed. The “writers” here can’t get it through their pin heads that cars are not houses. Risk is very much priced into auto loans. The default rate could probably *triple* and auto loans would still be very profitable. Because when you default on a car, the car gets rather quickly repossessed and resold -…
Did Will Smith hit her?
It wasn’t Brando’s greatest idea to put her in the middle of the storm like that. A form of serious backlash was predictable, even if the severity of it wasn’t.
John Wayne was a chickenshit, red-baiting asshole. Of course he would try to attack someone he had about 100 pounds on.
I feel like every time I hear a John Wayne anecdote it just paints a clearer and clearer picture of what a viciously petty and self important child he was.
There’s some desperate obsession here with predicting doom. Yes, 2008 was a seminal economic event, but crying wolf every time auto loans blip is insane. The two are not correlated in a meaningful way!
Y’all have predicted 12 of the 0 sub prime auto crisis over the past 7 or so years. Seriously, here’s an article I found, from all the way back in 2015: https://jalopnik.com/equifax-denies-sub-prime-loan-bubble-says-loans-improv-1686526590
“Remember 2008, when everyone was unable to pay their mortgage? Feels familiar to me.”