(I think that was the joke.)

I am genuinely shocked that this would happen in DC. If it was a cab and not an Uber, most cabs in DC are driven by immigrants.

Well by contrast, that means literally every Somali-American lawmaker in American history has faced harassment based on race or perceived religion since the election of Donald Trump.

further evidence of the rabidly increased volume of threats and hate speech that have been flying around the country since Donald Trump was elected president.

This was just straight up purchased.

They can do that if they declare an emergency, which did not happen until too late. They requested “priority” instead which did not impart upon air traffic control the gravity of the situation. There is speculation that they did not declare an emergency earlier because they were afraid of the follow-up investigation…

Sully Sullenberger would’ve just dropped that sucker in the coca fields, stuck a large wad of leaves in his cheek, and with nothing but a self-inflating life vest for protection single-handedly taken down the cartel and saved a flock of endangered short-crested coquettes.

You mean killing everyone on board as opposed to everyone on board as well as passengers on a loaded passenger aircraft on the ground?

I too know nothing about flying, but I think if he’d just tried to land without permission that he may have risked crashing into other planes and causing an even bigger tragedy.

You never choose the lowest bidder on an RFQ. You eliminate the high bid and the low bid, then you choose the best value from the remaining bidders.

This is why.

The issue with that is he doesn’t know what’s going on on the ground. If he said “Fuck you, I’m landing now” and hit another plane, there’d be even more to this tragic event. Another story I read said they had another plane coming in with mechanical failure (it didn’t specify what they were), and this plane was in a…

No. A preemptive move like the one you describe could endanger other planes in the air and on the runway.

Two things; one, he was asking for vectors. Because he had electrical failures, his navigation system was not working properly so he needed guidance from the tower to land in the right spot. Two, you can’t just fly into an airport because there is a very good chance you will crash into another airplane. The tower…

The media aren’t going to be satisfied until they’ve made this Nazi Pig a thing and he has tens of millions of followers.

When it comes to assessment of American politics, I submit that this is the norm. “Politicians are liars” substitutes for an actual understanding of what normal politicians are and do.

While I think you anti-PC people (yes you didn’t say “PC” but you are saying the same things as anti-PC people) are silly overall, but even on that spectrum this is really dumb. Why the fuck wouldn’t you be worried about the feelings of suicidal people or the families of someone who just died?

Eh, just get him to sprinkle some Old Bay into a Natty Bo and chug it down, and Marylanders won’t be able to buy his jersey fast enough.

From the piece:

That’s what happens when you are around Trump long enough. You think the stuff he gets away with is stuff you can get away with. But he learned the hard lesson. He’s not Trump. Trump is the new Teflon Don.

Sun and Moon are out, Poke’Go was a time killer but it’s time to move on to the real thing ;)