Diversity strikes again: wheel falls off a Delta plane as it taxied down the runway…

January 24, 2024 (a day ago)

The skies aren’t so friendly these days. Turn around, and there’s another airline mess in the headlines: tech glitches, pilots in distress mid-flight, transgender CEOs, doors coming loose, missing bolts and screws, and passengers duking it out in the aisles.But wait, it gets wilder. We just heard about this latest doozy: a Delta flight was gearing up to take off from Atlanta andwas heading down the runway, when all of a sudden the darn wheel fell off the plane and rolled away.

What on earth is happening, folks? It really makes you want to jump on a plane and jet off, doesn’t it?

What’s going on with US aviation? It’s high time for a serious probe before more people get hurt, or worse. A lot of folks are pointing fingers at the left’s obsession with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which they are force-feeding everyone, like it or not. We are now choosing “American Charity” over “American Excellence.” And as a result, we’re giving jobs to people not based on their skills but on their skin color, gender identity, or sexual preferences. And then we wonder, Why are things falling apart?”

Revolver saw this disaster unfolding a while back and wrote a series of articles on how our airline industry was flailing, thanks to DEI and the vaccine mandates.

Revolver:

Two private planes collided on the runway of a Houston airport early last week. Luckily, no one was seriously injured, and the ultimate nightmare scenario of a midair collision did not transpire. Investigators are still looking into the incident, though early reports suggest the air traffic controllers were responsible.

New York Times (archive):

“We just had a midair,” the pilot of the Hawker is heard saying in an audio recording posted on LiveATC.net, which shares live and archived recordings of air traffic control radio transmissions.

Someone in the control tower responds by saying, “Say what?”

“You guys cleared somebody to take off or land, and we hit them on a departure,”the Hawker pilot says.

The recent accident in Houston is just the latest noteworthy instance in what a major New York Times investigation this summer determined to be “an alarming pattern of safety lapses and near misses in the skies and on the runways in the USA.”

According to internal records of the Federal Aviation Agency, the Times reported that these safety lapses and near misses occurred as a “result of human error.” The Times report further revealed that “runway incursions” ofthe sort described above have nearly doubled, from 987 to 1732, despite the widespread proliferation of advanced technologies.

A follow-up report by the Times revealed thatAustin’s airport alone has experienced so many close callsas a result of air traffic controller error that a pilot proclaimed, “They’re trying to kill us in Austin.” One such incident involved an air traffic controller clearing a FedEx cargo plane to land on a runway just as a Southwest Airlines jet was set to take off on the same runway.The air traffic controller in question said the Southwest jet would take off before the FedEx plane got too close, though the two planes ended up just seconds from colliding, with the FedEx plane skimming less than 100 feet over the Southwest jet, whose 128 passengers had no clue how narrowly they just escaped death.

Understaffing and COVID vaccine mandates are big problems, sure. But there’s also a noticeable drop in the quality of folks getting hired, and guess what? DEI initiatives are a big reason for that. The Revolver article dives deeper into this:..

https://revolver.news/2024/01/diversity-strikes-again-wheel-falls-off-delta-plane-as-it-taxied-down-runway/

The Memo: ‘Never Trumpers’ are close to giving up hope

Tue, January 23, 2024

Former President Trump is on the cusp of becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee for the third time.

It’s a scenario that leaves the band of conservatives opposed to him appalled — and deeply pessimistic about the future of the party.

“It’s his party, plain and simple. I’m not a fan of his, but it’s a MAGA party now, and he’s the leader of that,” said former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who mounted a long-shot primary challenge to Trump in 2020 and left the GOP soon afterward.

“This party cannot be reformed, cannot be fixed. It’s on the track it’son,” Walsh acknowledged. “I don’t see, in my lifetime, it getting off this track.”

Susan Del Percio, a strategist who has remained a Republican despite her fervent opposition to Trump, struck a broadly similar note — though she believes the party could move back onto a more traditional footing once Trump eventually leaves the political stage.

“The party needs to burn to the ground and rebuild itself,”Del Percio said. “It’s not going to happen in two years.”

Talk of political self-immolation or a party requiring decades to get back on track may seem hyperbolic to some.

But it’s understandable when looking at the past four years through the lens of the so-called “Never Trumpers.”

The 45th president lost the 2020 election, trailing President Biden by about 7 million votes. He made repeated and false claims of election fraud, in the process fueling the violence of Jan. 6, 2021. He continues to push those falsehoods.

Despite all this, he is sweeping everything before him on his way to the GOP nomination.

Trump’s 30-point victory in the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses drove Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) out of the race.

Trump is currently polling at about double Haley’s level of support in South Carolina.

Virtually everybody believes Trump will be the nominee.“I would bet the ranch on it,” said John ‘Mac’ Stipanovich, a longtime GOP operative in Florida and another staunch Trump critic.

Stipanovich, like many others in the Never Trump camp, believes the only really plausibleway out of the MAGA morass is through repeated electoral defeats for the GOP.(they are willing to lose, just like Sundance says often.)

“The Republican Party — or whatever it is that goes by that name now — will not change until they have been defeated enough that they have to change out of self-interest,” Stipanovich said.

Trump’s defeat in November is very far from guaranteed, of course.

Most polls of a Biden-Trump rematch show the former president to be at worst a 50-50 bet when it comes to defeating his successor.

In The Hill/DDHQ average, Trump leads Biden by 1 point, 44 percent to 43 percent.

But the Never Trump forces discern the faintest of silver linings in him seemingly wrapping up the nomination fight early.

They contend that, once he becomes the presumptive nominee, voters will be more focused on the choice before them in November. This, they say, will be to Biden’s benefit. (The are 1000% delusional)

Trump’s strategy in the primary “is another somber reminder of how far the Republican Party has fallen and how appalling it is to think that one major party could nominate this guy again,” said Lucy Caldwell, a strategist who describes herself as a former Republican.

Rick Tyler, who back in 2016 served as communications director for Trump’s main primary rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said voters would in the end blanche at the idea of throwing over the relative calm of the Biden years for a return to Trump’s maelstrom…

For all that, ••simply hoping for Trump’s defeat in November is a rather thin reed to hold onto== for conservatives who have been staunchly opposed to him for the better part of a decade.

A common thread for all of them is that Trump — with his egotism, willingness to use government to reward friends and punish enemies, and disregard for any kind of norms or guardrails — is simply not a conservative.

“The party of Reagan is gone. It has all been squandered,” said Tyler.

“I think people who are really ideologically conservative need to take stock. He’s not conservative at all. Saying he is, is like someone claiming to be a vegan while chewing on raw meat.”

Walsh, the former congressman, put it even more bluntly, describingopposition to Trump in today’s GOP as a “career-killer.”

(https://elections2024.thehill.com/south%20carolina/gop_primary_south_carolina elections2024.thehill.com

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Its coming to an end. If this big hedge funds ban this practice it will change. But Trump will ban in but he’ll have to have a police force or something that prevents them from cheating

FBI Waited 4 Years before Arresting Alleged Right-Wing Bomb Maker

'It is unclear why the government decided to arrest Morgan last month, four years after becoming aware of his online activity…'

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Ken Silva

January 24, 2024

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last month, the Justice Department charged Wisconsin man James Morgan, an alleged right-wing extremist, with unlawfully possessing a destructive device after FBI agents found six homemade grenades in his residence.

In an unsuccessful bid to have his client released on bail before trial, Morgan’s attorney said in recent court filings that theFBI monitored him for at least four years before arresting the alleged bomb maker last month.

A search warrant obtained by Forbes reportedly shows that the defense attorney is telling the truth. Forbes reported Tuesday that the FBI was first alerted to a Facebook video from Morgan, which contained a tutorial on how to produce an “acid gun” that would spray sulfuric acid at targets and potentially disfigure or seriously injure them.

“The FBI was particularly interested in his plan to share his weapon-making skills with the public,” Forbes reported, adding, “It is unclear why the government decided to arrest Morgan last month, four years after becoming aware of his online activity.”

An FBI report filed by Morgan’s attorney provides more details about his past, stating that the Department of Homeland Security previously investigated him for a sulfuric acid thrower weapon made from a plastic syringe.

When FBI agents interviewed Morgan last month, he reportedly told them he used to be an anarchist, but that the George Floyd riots changed his ideology.

“MORGAN used to be anarchist but was no longer interested in having a “fuck the government” mindset … BLM was crazy about criminals and not helping society by burning down their neighborhoods,” an FBI interview report stated.

“The Government was only trying to do its job by protecting people in the riots after Floyd’s death,” the report said.

“All of MORGAN’S experiments were meant for the battlefield, not for use on civilians – even back when he held anarchist views. MORGAN’S experiments were more to create irritants to protect his house from BLM.”

Morgan also reportedly told agents that if he was going to attack some place, it would have been the Federal Reserve.

Morgan reportedly told agents that he made the grenades with his dad, who is now dead. Morgan has yet to file any petitions in his case, and no hearings have been scheduled.

(Did FBI is trying to set him up as the DC pipebomber?)

https://headlineusa.com/fbi-waited-4-years-before-arresting-alleged-right-wing-bomb-maker/