Originally the system used the AoA plus the G-shock sensor then they removed it as they found that low speed was more likely to have an envelope issue and they made the software more agressive than originally planned when they found low-speed issues, and never updated the review.  So there goes your backup...

thanks to an issue with faulty sensors in the Boeing 737 Max flight control systems

I’m actually nearing a 50/50 split on him being some sort of prototype A.I. Whether he was an actual a person at some point and died and was replaced, or if father Trump wanted ‘a real boy’, I don’t know.

It was probably a pre-arranged signal, but President Dementia forgot what it was supposed to mean.

I’m having trouble figuring out if he is such a complete narcissist that freaks out if the spotlight is off him for even an instant or if his brain is so far gone that he doesn’t even realize that he’s NOT part of this year’s production of An American President. Maybe it’s both.

Yeah, the distinction is moot. It’s just like how people used to debate whether he was actually racist, or just pretending in order to get applause: it really doesn’t matter. The effect is the same.

I’m not surprised. That possibility became inevitable when expertise became a dirty word and everyone’s opinion started to have more weight than verifiable facts. Just look at climate change. For whatever reason, a 97 or 98 percent consensus that it’s caused by humans is somehow NOT enough to get people on board. Or…

If you were a pussy, you would hide too!

I still find it astounding that, after centuries and centuries of leaders trying to find more and more elaborate ways to deceive the public and twist the facts to their advantage, all it ultimately took was someone basically saying “Nope, not true. Fake news. I can’t hear what you’re saying. La, la, la, la, la, la.”

Larry the Downing Street cat:  The arse-licking hero we deserve.

when the animals know

Now now. I agree he’s a disgrace to humanity in all respects. But let’s focus on ripping him new assholes on account of his terrible presidency, yeah? The fact that he’s old and frail and in terrible physical condition isn’t nearly as relevant as the fact that he’s actively trying to destroy a country and it’s…

Former neighbor works as an interpreter for US officials. Because he is fluent in both Japanese and Mandarin, he gets quite a few gigs.

Would need a heart and brain first... maybe a perforated colon.

I would like to go back in time to when the President of the United States wasn’t a clone of Vladimir Harkonnen with his brain replaced by a semi-sentient sweet potato. 

The realtor on the seller’s side of my recent house purchase tried to get her client to pull out of the contract when I brought in my own inspector (allowed by law here) to check behind the inspector agreed between the selling agent and my realtor. My guy found that the septic inspection was faked. That’s right:…

Just have a stroke or heart attack already, Trump.

I’m actually OK with a president who eschews the idea that using four letter words and their high falutin’ longer-lettered family makes you uncultured, classless or less deserving of respect, because that IS bullshit. A well placed “shitbag” can really punctuate a statement with the proper tone.

I remember when Obama used the term “jackass” when referring to someone in an interview and the conservatives lost their collective shit for years. Now when Trump curses multiple times in one speech — let alone all the other times he did so — he is just telling it like it is and speaking like Joe Everyman.

Iran has a lot of smart and experienced people reading every US statement and action for overt and covert meanings. The US also has a stable of such people, but you don’t listen to them and indeed have harassed many of them when they don’t agree with your statements or your partisan underlings.