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I was flying my plane home from a trip today, at 1203 Guard came alive "We have been unburdened by what has been"...then EVERYONE jumped in...not a single negative comment.

Trump dropped 1500 Pardons last night...basically covered all the Jan 6 folks. Edit to add, he vaporized the security clearances of the 51 who helped cover up the laptop...LONG OVERDUE ACCOUNTABILITY!

I love watching the meltdown

It's a previous member in their death throes

LOL that didn’t last long.

Elon musk was a nazi rocket scientist! In late ‘44 they knew the allies were unstoppable so he volunteered to be cryogenically frozen! A group of nazi spies scoured the United States looking for a child they could groom….. his name is Donald. They did a test run in ‘16, then in ‘24 they selectively poisoned the water supplies on millions of people, including those with private wells. They made enough nazi zombies to tilt the election and here we are!!! Liberals would eat this up

Elon Musk is a Nazi? I’ve seen this floating around our disgruntled leftist friends. I can see the left hasn’t learned anything from the November 2024 beating. Taking photos out of context to insinuate your opponents are Nazis is what drove millions of people away from the Democratic Party.

You jest but this is probably the most accurate prediction. The halfwit can’t string a sentence together (hasn’t been able to since 2019), doubt he just woke up and decided to pardon Miley. His handlers made sure he did - which should scare anyone still in uniform how deeply entrenched the deep state is in the military. Can’t wait for DOGE to destroy the rot that has infested the DOD.

Classic projection. Biden knows what a corrupt DOJ could do because he did it. Therefore, he wanted to protect other Biden Crime Family recipients of the influence peddaling they benefited from.

BFM, not normal at all. The optics for Biden's legacy is terrible. It's almost as though he's trying to drive has approval ratings to zero. Maybe he's doing it to punish the DNC for dumping him. Or, maybe he had no idea what he was signing...his family members probably offered him an ice cream cone if he'd just sign on the dotted line.

Got notified!!! Commanders have the list

I think this is an important point in politics but one that is often missed, where we assume simple corruption is the root of all ills. Corruption is bad, but it is a known quantity. Its public officials using their position for personal gain, e.g. kickbacks via campaign funds, getting a friend/family member a well-paying govt job, no-bid contracts, etc. These things are and have been the norm throughout the world; the U.S. is unique in that we at least try to hold people accountable and route out corruption either through legal action or elections. But corruption is not the same as destructive or malevolent ideology. Socialist apologists often claim the USSR and other centrally-planned states failed due to "corruption" i.e. their leaders and burueaucrats were self-serving. That may be true, but its not the reason why they all fail. They are by their very nature doomed to fail because their ideology is unworkable. These systems didn't lead to mass starvation, economic decline, loss of civil rights, etc simply because their leaders were living in largesse. They were bound to produce poverty even if they had the most honest and comitted political leaders. A bit of an extreme example, but the same destructive characteristics apply to some of our radical politics today. Paying useless DEI bureaucrats hefty 6 figure salaries is a waste of money (we might consider the financial loss simple "corruption"). Far worse is the corrosive effect they have on their organization's integrity, operational effectiveness, and public trust. The LA Water Dept Commissioner (750k/yr) and Fire Chiefs (400k/yr) who were until 2 weeks ago flaunting their DEI credentials are certainly overpaid busybodies. The few million wasted on gov salaries is bad (corruption) but the far-reaching and catastrophic effects they have on their instiutions and public trust is on an entirely different scale. Ditto for the "well-intended" programs in CA like the bullet train, which after 15 years has cost $10B and has nothing to show. Or the myriad environmental regulations designed to protect obscure flora/fauna yet make wildland and watershed management impossible. We shouldn't view unworkable policies and malevolent ideologies the same way we do simple corruption. Corruption can be penalized, voted out or otherwise managed; utopian bullshit will produce catastrophic results every time regardless of who leads them.

In conjunction with the words, “my heart goes out to you,” he touches his heart and then gestures towards the crowd. He’s literally gesturing the associated words. Not that it should matter, but also the actual salute referenced never touches the torso at all, it’s simply just directly raising the arm out. To draw this conclusion in reference to Elon is nothing but absurd retardation on display by leftist dipshits. Don’t get sucked into it.

What exactly do you have against people being fired if the boss doesn’t think they’re up to the task?

Says every FAIP that was wrong but doesn't want to admit it...

That part reminds me of this scene from the show, Rescue Me. Not an exact correlation, but I think the point can be made that you want the best qualified in a job like FD Chief, and firefighters in general. Along the last lines of the video, I agree, I don't care what the firefighter looks like, color, ethnicity, etc., but they better be capable of carrying/dragging my fat ass to safety. Great show btw.

The implication is that turnover is a bad thing. He has to hire people for a job they've never done before. Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't. Look at the rate of senior commanders fired in WWII and how well it worked out in the long run.

Other than the ice cream bribe idea, which is disturbingly possible, the only explanations that make sense are: A- He knows they committed crimes that merit prosecution or B- He thinks that the judicial system is unjust enough to commit law-fare against political opponents of the party in power If A, then clearly the Biden Crime Family is as bad or worse than the right wing social commenters have said they are. If B, I wonder where he got that idea? Maybe the last 4 years of his administration had something to do with it...

Russia is and has been a threat to US interests since 1945 (maybe 1918?). China is a bigger threat right now, but if you're fighting two guys at once and one falls to a knee, it isn't time to ignore them, it is time to stomp their face so they are out of the fight for a long time allowing you to focus on the other guy. Is it expensive to fund Ukraine? Yes. Are we getting a way better return on that money compared to much of the other junk we burn our national treasure on? Absolutely. This is another Russia in Afghanistan scenario except the "good guys" aren't Islamic terrorists. We'd be foolish to walk away from this opportunity to spend some money and help an enemy bleed themselves out. Way better to defeat an enemy via a proxy war than face them directly in a war yourself. And that doesn't even address the good of helping a free people defend themselves.

ATF first.....

Hopefully he’ll burn the IRS to the ground, along with our ludicrous tax code.

He can say whatever he wants while still doing a Nazi salute. Doesn't erase the actions of performing that gesture. He could have recited the "ha'tov ve'ha'metiv" (Jewish blessing), in Hebrew, but it still doesn't make it any better. Maybe it's because he is autistic. Maybe it's because he likes the Romans. But just dismissing it as TDS or leftist talking points is basically doing the same thing you claim but in the opposite direction. I'd like some follow up on the matter if he is involved in the government...just as I'd like follow up to any other government official supporting Hamas/ISIS/etc.

I would hope the final game and the fact it was a fight the whole way stops the inane talking about how the 12 team playoff somehow didn’t find the true championship team. That was way better than some of the one sided A whooping we got in the BCS and 4 team era. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ha! My bet is the drawer is empty and everything is ash.

Coast Guard Commandant is the first one to fall, Lots of issues here.

Do you suppose it could be a previous member who recently announced they were leaving the forum in a hissyfit over a post about Elon Musk, had a history of posts criticizing Musk, and accusing the right of being Nazis? Hmmm.... Let's see: https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/search/?&q=Musk&quick=1&author=Negatory&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/search/?&q=Nazi&quick=1&author=Negatory&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy I guess It could be just coincidence, and not someone who created an alt account and went straight to a political thread and picked up where they left off. yeahright. @Negatory My question for you still stands:

Since "out of context photos" are apparently open, here is one for you Go-Around. Suggest you do exactly that, and try that one again.

It's not a Nazi salute - it's just a gesture intentionally close enough to a Nazi salute to let the people who like Nazi salutes know that you're really on their side.

Great, June. Where the hell were they in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and half of 2024?

No, you can’t. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My sister-in-law and family lost their home in the first day of the Palisades fire along with the majority of their neighborhood. The pictures were wild: house reduced to rubble and car melted into a heap but trees and bushes still had green leaves. It sent me down a rabbit hole about wildfire behavior and prevention. This article sums up most everything about "defensible space" and what catches fire from embers - especially the test video. Now imagine that with 50+ mph winds https://theconversation.com/how-to-protect-your-home-from-wildfires-advice-from-fire-prevention-experts-on-creating-defensible-space-233847

It would be interesting to see a study in how houses were saved verses the ones that weren't. I don't buy the catching fire inside from floating embers theory; very few HVACs have external ducts that could transport an ember to a flammable area inside. Attics generally have vents, but the soffit grates are small enough to keep out most pests, which would preclude an ember big enough from getting through to catch a 2x4 on fire. My guess is the fire is hot enough against the side of the house that the inside of the exterior wall heats up enough to catch fire. Kinda like how papers catch fire inside a gun safe with zero direct flame contact. Or the fire is hot enough that it breaks the windows and gets inside that way. Hopefully the insurance companies figure it out and make policy incentives to help since I have zero confidence the government there will get their act together. I'm betting that a 1000 gal cistern with a gas powered pump would have saved many of these houses and would have cost $2K to install (or $5K since its California). Multiple stories of houses being saved because the owner turned on a bunch of $5 sprinklers around the house before leaving.

This picture sums up everything. Most corrupt administration in history.

These blanket pardons should turn the stomach of every citizen. Absolutely disgusting.

The left and the power structure associated with it knows that the truth will come out. And it’ll be sooner than later. Pardons don’t prevent investigations or info from being released they just prevent charging someone for their crimes. Let the truth come out. All of it. We just witnessed the most destructive 4 years in our nations history, politically speaking. Today it all changes. Let’s get to work rebuilding this nation.

A lot of folks on this forum have been saying this for a long time, but the apologists hated Trump so much they spent the last four years in the notch with Biden. It was obvious....beyond obvious but you attacked anyone who mentioned it and pivoted back to your hate of the Orange Man. Some in the press tried to report it and they were quickly given the body check and put in the corner. Biden is a demented old man, he didn't even know he signed an executive order freezing liquid natural gas exports, he denied it just weeks after signing it. SHAME on his wife and SHAME on the Ivy league inner circle that wanted to retain power. For at least the last year, likely longer, a group of people who were not elected have been running this country. Biden will retire to Delaware and I predict we will quietly hear of his rapid decline which actually started years ago. In one final act of lunacy Biden just pardoned Fauci, Milley and the Jan 6 Committee show members.

Mentally most Navs are further behind than the back of the refueling envelope, so, really, we’re all being generous.

And a member of the E4 mafia as vice president, I love it!

Hook 'em All!! ☠️🏴‍☠️

A FAIP as SECAF. Dear God…

It’s called “Big Mike’s” now. And for those that hadn’t heard yet…. The cinder block shame cell formerly known as Teasers burned down today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm old and grumpy, get off my lawn! Yes, my bad, I still can't get the new names to stick in my brain