The Trump Presidency 2.0

[AWP]

Let’s play… Things that keep Ooh-Rah up at night.

I’ve got quite a bit of flying coming up in the next few months. I hate flying.

Currently all I picture is one lone air traffic controller, living check to check, Mortgage about to go 30 days late, credit cards about to go late, wife does not know how much financial trouble they are in.

He stares at that radar screen and contemplates , “just one plane, one plane hits the ground and they’ll settle this shit Ricky tick…”

I don't think a controller would do that, but I easily see one missing something or deciding there's no way a pilot would do "x" and that thing happens with the plane subsequently crashing. In this day and age you aren't safe until you're off the plane because ground control and safety appears to be much worse than in the past. Near misses and refused takeoffs are almost a monthly occurrence now.

And airlines going into their busiest season are forced to cut flights? Tell me Delta, United, etc. aren't in a bidding war to bribe controllers for preferential treatment. I don't believe in enough human kindness to prevent that from happening. Any how do they decide what 10% to cut? Are airlines going to be given a number, a quota? And not one penny will go to the FAA official drafting that list?

I can't wait for the next election when people vote for the folks who did this to us, all because it is their guy or gal selected by the party to continue the status quo. How's the status quo working for y'all?

 

[Cookie_]

People outside of the gov do not understand what is going on at the worker/ functional level and its quite worse than folks think.

People don't understand that the reason shutdowns are usually less than 30 days is because the fed is a semi slamming on the breaks; it takes some time to reach a stop.

Similarly, the longer this lasts the harder it is to get back up to speed. We've functionally lost the 1st qtr and a bit of the 2nd qtr due to this.

The truck can only coast until the next paycheck/mid month until we come to a dead stop.

Let’s play… Things that keep Ooh-Rah up at night.

I’ve got quite a bit of flying coming up in the next few months. I hate flying.

Currently all I picture is one lone air traffic controller, living check to check, Mortgage about to go 30 days late, credit cards about to go late, wife does not know how much financial trouble they are in.

He stares at that radar screen and contemplates , “just one plane, one plane hits the ground and they’ll settle this shit Ricky tick…”

Expect not to go anywhere if that happens, as they Want to cut air traffic.

I did listen to something this morning discussing increasing the authorized distances for aircraft on landing/takeoff to try and lessen the load on controllers.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Just takes 5 Democrats in the Senate to open up the government.

 

[Topkick]

Bye Felicia.

Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after decades in US Congress - BBC News

 

[Box]

I cant wait to forget about her

 

[Kraut783]

Bye Felicia.

Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after decades in US Congress - BBC News

 

[AWP]

Hear me out: Nancy "The Grey Goose" Pelosi vs. Mitch "Side Stroke" McConnell to determine which spending bill is enacted to end the shutdown. I cover the PPV fee, you bring food and booze, I'll host the viewing and give you a $10 credit towards an Uber or Lyft.

 

[Devildoc]

I have family in Brooklyn, and they have a business. They don't know what they are going to do. I told them 'you makes your votes, you takes your chances.'

 

[AWP]

I have family in Brooklyn, and they have a business. They don't know what they are going to do. I told them 'you makes your votes, you takes your chances.'

While I think we all know how this will end, the people have spoken. (or the machine has spoken depending on one's worldview)

Now we can watch it play out. I think he'll go the typical politician route and follow through on some low hanging fruit, maybe try a big ticket item or two, and then blame everyone but himself when it all fails. Money talks, bull shit walks. Once he figures out the actual finances behind his nonsense he'll point the finger at everyone but himself, Socialism, and his party.

Now watch this idiot prove me wrong and turn NYC into something a billionaire orphan can't save.

 

[GOTWA]

While I think we all know how this will end, the people have spoken. (or the machine has spoken depending on one's worldview)

Now we can watch it play out. I think he'll go the typical politician route and follow through on some low hanging fruit, maybe try a big ticket item or two, and then blame everyone but himself when it all fails. Money talks, bull shit walks. Once he figures out the actual finances behind his nonsense he'll point the finger at everyone but himself, Socialism, and his party.

Now watch this idiot prove me wrong and turn NYC into something a billionaire orphan can't save.

I think he'll place the blame on the governor for not approving the financial changes he needs to carry out his agenda. Then he'll make a move for her seat so he can finally deliver on the things he promised.

 

[talonlm]

Even the Democratic Party wasn't thrilled about Mandami. Doesn't much matter now.

How long will it take for people to start fleeing NYC in numbers that matter? Ditto for significant businesses? How long before private grocery stores and bodegas become a thing of the past? Will the remaining people in NYC vote this dude out next time? Or double down? How much will Boston, Chicago, Alanta and other major cities gain from NYC's loss?

I need to start an office pool.

 

[Marauder06]

Even the Democratic Party wasn't thrilled about Mandami. Doesn't much matter now.

How long will it take for people to start fleeing NYC in numbers that matter? Ditto for significant businesses? How long before private grocery stores and bodegas become a thing of the past? Will the remaining people in NYC vote this dude out next time? Or double down? How much will Boston, Chicago, Alanta and other major cities gain from NYC's loss?

I need to start an office pool.

I've said it before, but I think that flight from blue states and cities into red states is a feature, not a bug, for the Democrats.

1) they get rid of red voters, so their hold on their blue areas is even more secure
2) they move blue voters of means (i.e. rich Democrats) into red areas, where they move not for political reasons but for economic reasons, and they bring their voting patterns and their money with them. This turns red states purple then blue.

Either way, they win.

 

[talonlm]

You would think the financial havoc inflicted on California by a socialist and what will, undoubtably, be a ginormous shitshow in NYC would serve as an example of what not to do. Unfortunately, I think you're right. We're already getting the "your library is so small" and "why don't you have more services for homeless people" and the "living wage" arguments popping up down here form the CA/blue state refugees.

Some people simply will not see what they do not want to see.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

what's the over/under on a few more Trump impeachments once the democrats get enough seats in the House?

3.5 weeks

 

[Devildoc]

I've said it before, but I think that flight from blue states and cities into red states is a feature, not a bug, for the Democrats.

1) they get rid of red voters, so their hold on their blue areas is even more secure
2) they move blue voters of means (i.e. rich Democrats) into red areas, where they move not for political reasons but for economic reasons, and they bring their voting patterns and their money with them. This turns red states purple then blue.

Either way, they win.

My area has a lot of transplants and transients. A local town, Cary, they say means "Containment area for relocated yankees," and they're not wrong. Informally just chatting people up, about one in four or five actually buy into the southern way of life and dig it, the others definitely want to turn our area into a southern version of wherever it is from whence they came.

The only thing keeping North Carolina remotely red is the rural areas, anywhere more than a county or two outside of an interstate. But it won't be long until the interstate corridors have enough blue to overcome it.

 

[Box]

I've said it elsewhere - when you shit in the river in New York or LA - somebody downstream in Oklahoma is going to get dysentery...


This is what "we the people" have been asking for during the last three generations
...now we've got it

 

[AWP]

I've said it elsewhere - when you shit in the river in New York or LA - somebody downstream in Oklahoma is going to get dysentery...


This is what "we the people" have been asking for during the last three generations
...now we've got it

My daughter, despite my best efforts, is quite liberal. Maybe I failed as a father, I don't know, but I kept her off the pole and out of jail so I'll take that W.

Recently we had a conversation about Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism. To her credit and my pride, she will seek out other opinions outside of an echo chamber. Once in a blue moon I will change her mind.

The other night she's going on about how great Socialism is, the theory and everything, so I let her finish. I asked, how are you paying for this? Who will be in charge? What is their moral character, do you trust them to be uncorruptible, and do you know anyone fitting the bill willing to be elected? She didn't have answers and I pointed out that until she does the discussion is moot because she can't answer how to implement this Socialist utopia for the people.

These aren't even far right talking points. This is basic math.

Good luck NYC.

 

[Box]

These aren't even far right talking points. This is basic math.

Have you forgotten that modern day liberals are very comfortable stating that math is racist? A bigoted system based on a biased social construct designed to support the patriarchy?

...c'mon man

 

[Topkick]

My daughter, despite my best efforts, is quite liberal. Maybe I failed as a father, I don't know, but I kept her off the pole and out of jail so I'll take that W.

“If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no head.’"

-John Adam's, and some other smart folks

 

[DA SWO]

My daughter, despite my best efforts, is quite liberal. Maybe I failed as a father, I don't know, but I kept her off the pole and out of jail so I'll take that W.

Recently we had a conversation about Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism. To her credit and my pride, she will seek out other opinions outside of an echo chamber. Once in a blue moon I will change her mind.

The other night she's going on about how great Socialism is, the theory and everything, so I let her finish. I asked, how are you paying for this? Who will be in charge? What is their moral character, do you trust them to be uncorruptible, and do you know anyone fitting the bill willing to be elected? She didn't have answers and I pointed out that until she does the discussion is moot because she can't answer how to implement this Socialist utopia for the people.

These aren't even far right talking points. This is basic math.

Good luck NYC.

My go to question is " which socialist model would you adopt?".