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We will see how well this post ages. There will be a lot happening between now and then. For the elderly or those about to retire, I’m sure the markets are extremely stressful right now. For me, I feel a strange sense of peace now. Not because I trust this administration more than another, but because I’ve watched all the various internet and media driven hysterical narratives just fall apart year after year. Our society is completely divided culturally. On one side there is reality and on the other there is an emotionally driven, hyperbolic, hateful and easily manipulated side. A side that allows itself to continue to be manipulated. That goes for both sides of the aisle. The economy will be just fine. I’m betting it will actually be much better in the end. It’s a really good time to invest in America’s markets.

hopefully you sold all your stock in a panic!!!

Indeed. Weaponizing the IRS against the Tea Party; the FBI against Trump and his associates - to include lying to a judge to obtain a bogus warrant (and getting a admin wrist slap, not disbarment for the individual), turning the NSC against a sitting President to impeach him over a pretty benign conversation, literally lying about the provenance of Hunter's laptop to skew the election, turning DoD against service members over an experimental COVID vaccine, having the Chairman, JCS, go outside the chain of command, to include potential adversaries, never mind non-chain politicians, etc, etc, et-bloody-cetera does tend to have follow-on effects. Them's the rules now...fight's on.

No, you're supposed to be cranky that the US gov is shitting on due process.

At Laughlin it was a State Trooper that ended the Highway men...he was staking out what he thought was kids drag racing and leaving the tire marks on the road when a T-38 came along and did a touch and go.

FY26 PSDM just dropped... Some of us got the new application before our assignment! Maybe I'll apply, might get an assignment for next year before this year.

I assume everyone complaining about tariffs are just fine with all of the tariffs everyone else puts on our exported stuff. The basic problem is there are structural problems with the economy but one of the very few tools Trump has to try to fix it are tariffs. The rest is up to Congress, but regardless of which party controls Congress, nothing gets done (except for some more rigging the game in favor of the elites). We need to make energy cheaper, pare back the massive, massive overregulation, reform our education system, etc. but none of that is going to happen because Congress is lazy, it's all against the interests of the Dems, and the GOP in Congress lacks any semblance of balls. Also, we can't negotiate our way out of the trade war because the State Dept is basically worthless. When they negotiate anything, they negotiate for what's in the best interest of the State Dept, not the country. Look at the disastrous free trade agreement we have with South Korea. Let's face it, none of the reforms needed are going to happen and we will eventually have an economic collapse due to government overspending and the structural issues with the economy. But we'll argue and fight over irrelevant social issues all day long (to distract us from the real problems). On top of that, our main enemy, China, is eating our lunch and we can't carry out effective countermeasures because half of the country envies and admires the CCP's system. Our only hope is that China's demographic issues and their economic issues catch up with them before they can really put the screws to us.

Hello everyone! Been waiting on this year's to drop. The board meeting earlier this year has me stoked. Put together a package for FY25 but my package didn't get pushed to the board. Fortunately, I won't need an ETP this year and hoping for 100 pilot selects once again!

Funny how some of the coolest machines ever created by man are still somehow not quite cool enough for the egomaniacs. A few extra degrees of pitch or a few extra knots are indiscernible from the ground, yet have cost so many lives.

Now do the 2024 town halls held by the losing side. Nothing about screening of audience, pre-planted questions, edited replies, etc. Also, do I assume you were good with Biden (actually his handlers) demanding and the press accepting to have his very few press events complete with previously supplied questions? And say, who's paying for those townhall agitators? If only there were media reports about the funding of the "grass root" protestors. Valid point regarding midterms. Hence why Trump has about 15 months or so to move the needle significantly to avoid a 2026 midterm loss of the House and/or Senate (not likely). Also why the district court national injunction-palooza to slow him down. By the time, it gets to the Supreme Court, where such national decisions by a district court judge should be mooted since it's not in the Constitution at all, the dirt in the Trump gears could have the Left's desired impact.

With the R reps dodging town halls and refusing to pick up the phone when asked to do just that...highly unlikely while Trump is a supposed king maker. Never mind what happened mid-terms in 2018 I guess.

And now, the rest of the story. The deported father from Maryland was convicted of being a MS-13 gang member in 2019. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/04/02/the-fine-print-on-deportations-matters-n2654819

Fine, fine example of that grad school polish you so cherish...

He did, and then a federal judge via due process said he could be deported, but not to where he's from. He was deported to where he's from, thus breaking a court order. An immigration judge gave him due process by a hearing to determine if he can be deported back to where he's from (he couldn't). The government doesn't get to break a court order just because they don't agree with something. It's called due process, so appeal if you don't like the ruling, but that also doesn't mean it's going to go your way. I don't think pilots care about the opinions of judges on how to fly aircraft; judges don't care about pilot's opinions of their judicial review of a case. Don't agree with that? Go to law school and take the bar. We don't live in a Kafkaesque society. Remember, they are "activist judges" when they don't rule in favor of your home team. Funny how you were pretty quiet when the judges were ruling against Biden's student loan forgiveness.

And that was just one TDY. Fucking. Legend.

He came here illegally, did he not? Why you guys want to protect people who break our laws and come here illegally is beyond me. It doesn’t shock me that we have activists judges who are intentionally trying to circumvent US law. But hey, Trump won on this issue, so I’m all about seeing the left continue to give Trump this gift. Again, am I supposed to be upset this guy returned to country of origin?

An illegal alien from El Salvador, who shouldn’t have been here in the first place, got deported back to El Salvador. Am I supposed to be upset?

I've momentarily turned Sys B off when I meant for the Anti-Ice. The master caution light comes on for HYD, you say I'm dumb, and turn it back on. From your text, Sys A never got turned off, otherwise it would be really weird for the PM to flip 4 switches when he meant to do 2. New copilot and a weak Captain didn't help this error train, but I will say, from a human factors perspective, that having white colored tips or the same shape for all those switches isn't a great idea.

rich. where were you when the Biden administration changed the working definition of a recession in 2022? "With expectations of low or even negative growth for the first two quarters of 2022, President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers has been trying to blunt the news by disavowing this textbook definition" https://www.wsj.com/articles/redefining-the-r-word-recession-biden-economy-advisers-gdp-nber-semantics-poltics-gramm-rudman-hollings-11658951723 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-25/biden-team-s-take-on-technical-recession-it-s-not-a-real-one

Sorry bro, after the C19 lies the democrats never acknowledged or apologized for they have forever become the party of institutionalized deceit with full MSM support. Quite rich to see these articles and claims now; where was this journalistic fervor 6 months ago when our president was brainless and his staff using an auto-pen to issue EOs and pardons?

This is what I voted for

Those were the days. I remember a 2 ship FB-111 flyby at about 100’ / 150’ and about 500kts. Today they’d try to throw you in jail for that.

YOU installed it yourself?? So you're not an airline pilot. If you were, you'd have hired a guy to do it... picked up a 2-day trip during the installation.. and returned to a professionally installed dishwasher... and with enough money leftover to cover next month's loan payment on your Porsche.

historically admins knew how to figure out an actual foreign tariff rate too

anytime the vix spikes above 30 has historically been a GREAT time to be buying...