Also, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, Gene Weingarten was, for many years, Dave Barry’s editor. He can have a Pulitzer just for that in my book!

This GIF is everything, because satire is dead now.

McMansion Hell is my go-to whenever I need cheering up. After reading this, I’ll be making another visit.

This was kidnapping, or at least illegal detention.

It’s a troll. Dismiss!

I understand that. All the other stuff is still valid, though, eh? And the larger point is still the same: United has enough money to never, ever do this. Not to mention that they should have the morals to refrain from doing this.

Um, yes. 1,000 times yes!

But that doesn’t make it right, or even reasonable. “Legal” is a very spongy place to rest your faith these days, amirite?

Um, yeah. See my comment above, though yours is much more compact.

Back under the bridge with you!

I think this guy may be a troll.

Oh, yeah, let’s blame the victim, here. Hope someday your doctor is in this position, and your biopsy or whatever is delayed because your doctor is the one who is manhandled and thrown off a flight! Geez!

No, those were security goons, not the police. Not until the very end.

You’d be surprised. The belief system that animates both incidents is the same.

That’s the idea, yes. How it plays out in real life?

Because this is America in 2017. We lent the airlines billions of dollars to help them stay in business after September 11th, most of which has never been paid back, and this is how they treat paying customers now.

Ok, you both realize that this is a send-up of action movie tropes, right? It’s not supposed to be realistic, it’s supposed to be funny! I laughed like a hyena. If you look back at some of the earlier ones from the same filmmaker, he always destroys at least one helicopter. In fact, each of the model helicopters he…

Happy to help any way I can. You stay strong!

Hey, that is a really good point. When we name things, we take power over them. What’s a good alternative nomenclature?