He also doesn’t care.

It’s like the big orange man has no plan and no clue about how what he does affects others.

I’m pretty sure there was a presidential candidate who specifically wanted to do something to stop companies from doing this kind of artificial price-gouging... but who’s to say. 

And nobody - NOBODY - raises prices for nonsense corollary reasons like the oil industry. Tidal wave in Philippines? Gas gets more expensive. Russia invades Ukraine? Gas gets more expensive. Gas is too expensive? Gas gets more expensive.

Also, they can raise them and point to tariffs as the cause, even if it’s a flat-out lie, because consumers are largely incapable/too lazy to know for sure. And materials subjected to 25% tariffs will nonetheless rise in price by > 30%, because again, consumers largely suck at math and dont care enough to crunch the…

Fun Fact: Tariffs cause non-impacted products to raise their price because they can raise them and still be cheaper.

There were a series of screw ups leading up this in the late 60s. The Plan to replace the smaller 250cc 350cc and 500cc bikes,went sideways as management dropped a modular engine proposal by Bert Hopwood in favor of calling Edward Turner out of retirement which resulted in the Triumph Bandit, which consumed a lot of…

If anyone in the White House press corps had any self respect, they would ask him to spell tariff.

My dad has a basket case 650cc BSA in his barn.

My dad and I have identical scars from a BSA .303 had a wicked ejector spring that would catch your hand, hated that thing

99% is the helicopter’s fault. Approach and departure is so regimented at DCA, the AA flight was certainly exactly where it was supposed to be. There are helicopters EVERYWHERE around DC, at all times, and they possibly need to be tightened up. As they say, every aviation regulation is written in blood. And the vast…

All is fair in love and war and the savage lunatics of the right have definitely declared war.

He’s a savage lunatic and goddamn the assholes that voted him in.

Aircraft was on an approach to a different runway than usually used, so helicopter pilot may have fixated on wrong aircraft on approach. He told ATC he had the plane in sight, but speculation is he had the wrong plane in sight.

Comments on other boards indicate TCAS notifications are off under a certain altitude on civilian aircraft. I don’t think military helos have TCAS.

Speculation is that he was focused on another aircraft that he thought was the aircraft he was supposed to be avoiding as the crash aircraft was on a different approach than most approaches.

That and the heli wouldnt have uh the TCAS system either.  The plane does but it im not sure would work if the other craft doesnt have it too.  Im not super versed on how the system functions if it can work without the other system to issue a directive.

Probably unrelated: https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c

It seems that the Blackhawk pilot was told to keep visual of the jet like they are required to in DCA, but for some reason crossed into the landing path of the plane. Truly horrific.

I have lived and worked in this area most of my adult life. I was here when 9-11 happened, in fact on the Pentagon property that morning about 15 min before the incident. We’ll learn more, but I’ll just say that there has been a very noticeable uptick in helicopter traffic in recent years. For me it became most…