Skåning
Well-Known Member
At CP and XJT the writing was on the wall a LONG time before covid
Why I Left an Airline Pilot Career
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Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Like with people, COVID seems to target those with pre-existing conditions.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
I suspect there will be many more "Compassages" before the Pandemic & Depression are over. Hopefully I'm wrong.
XJT looked like they were headed the way of Comair for a while. When I first got hired at C5 years ago there were already quite a few XJT refugees here, and they all said ExpressJet's days were numberd. Then last year it looked like there might be hope of an ExpressJet Renaissance but that went away with the Pandemic. I'm actually still surprised United kept us around instead of XJT, especially since they still haven't asked us for concessions, but it's probably only a matter of time.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Hell, people here on JC left a few years seniority at XJT to go to Compass about 10 years ago because even then the writing was on the wall, back when Compass was still growing and hadn't even started AA flying yet. That really shows you how long XJT was showing signs of an eventual collapse.
That said, while I'm happy for the folks at C5, if someone would have told me at the time of the 2010 UA|CO merger that eventually massive XJT would be shut down in favor of C5 (the tiny DHC-8 operator at the time) being United's sole ERJ-145 operator, I'd have had a good laugh. Aviation is crazy, and no regional is safe. By the time I was probably 18 or 19, I had already gathered enough from JC and various friends to realize that being a lifer at any regional(unless you are a career changer later in life without the need for a long career) is a terrible plan.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Eh, speak for yourself.
I'm a pretty normal, social person, perhaps too social at times. I've been cutting back a bit in-person lately. I just seem to have that kinda face that makes people, often times strangers want to start random conversations.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Don't confuse the Max that you see here w/ the real Matthew. I'm not as dramaturgic in-person as I am here. Just the same as you're a rabid barking chihuahua behind the safety of a gate on here. But quiet as a mouse in-person, like a chihuahua when there's a break in the gate. Lol.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
So which Matthew sends me creepy Facebook messages?
This is, by far, one of the stupidest things I have ever read on this forum.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
The 1 person dying every 90 seconds in LA county and my friends in Spain, Ireland, ect (as in, you know, not part of US political agendas) might disagree with you there...
Only in America can a global pandemic be going on and people here seriously think the entire earth is crisis acting, grounding flights, closing borders, ect to appease a US political party. If you'd like, I can get you in touch with some nurses at hospitals with 0% ICU capacity so you can convince them the pandemic is over. I'd love to laugh my ass (you can totally say ass on here) off to it.
Like, seriously, can you imagine people saying, "Well the NTSB said the said MCAS is to blame for the 737MAX crashes, but they're working with the dems, it's really a freak run away trim incident that just happened to occur twice in a few months time. There is nothing wrong with the 737MAX, don't listen to the professionals at the NTSB, my Uncle Ted worked for Boeing for 3 years as a security guard in the employee lot at RNT and he said this is all a liberal hoax to knock Boeing down a peg and help out Airbus for globalization to steal American jobs". That's you. That is how you sound.
If you aren't a medical professional on scene at a hospital with a bad outbreak of COVID watching people die of pneumonia like symptoms, then you don't have a leg to stand on, bud. Listen to the professionals.
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
God, you're dumb.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
The one that likes to fux with you. You're a reaction goldmine. You know you love the attention.
But the bigger question is which Chasen sends people Snaps of his dick? Hmmmm...?
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
Sounds like the party that currently controls 2.5 out of 3 branches of the Federal Government and all 3 branches of most State governments is doing a bang-up job.
I would have thought it was satire, except he's posted similar but less extreme screeds in the past.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
Too bad Mary Sidoff's defense didn't make this argument after she murdered 88-year old Ardelle Sturzenegger , maybe they could have gotten her acquitted.
Pretty cold to say the deaths don't matter if the person might have died soon anyway. I realize purging the weak is usually a central tenet of Fascist ideology though.
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This pretty much sums it up.
and the worst part is he actually believes this. He’s been consistent in these thoughts since spring. He’s not trolling like CC.
the fact that someone believes that EVERY single country (enemy and allies) plus every industry, all teamed up to help the Democrats remove Trump from office is staggering. I dont know if it’s sad, funny, or frightening that there are people that believe this. He’s far from alone.
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
I doubt he actually believes it. He would have to be mentally ill or have an IQ of 65 to truly believe that garbage.
Remember when the same people fear mongered about Obamacare death panels?
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
You don't think other countries imposed strict mitigation measures and severely hurt their economies for nothing, just to engineer a massive, global hoax in order to spite Trump?
In all seriousness, even if the Pandemic was a conspiracy to unseat Trump, it might easily have backfired. Most world leaders, as well as state Governors here in the U.S.A., enjoyed an approval bump from the Pandemic. Look at how Jacinda Ardern's party won in a landslide in New Zealandhis y, for example. If Trump had simply pretended to have empathy for those affected by Covid, he probably would have been reelected in a landslide, and Republicans would have won supermajorities in both Houses of Congress on his coattails.
Even with his awful response, Trump may have benefited from the Pandemic anyway. Democrats didn't do nearly as much door-to-door canvassing as usual this year, because of the Pandemic; while Republicans mostly did.
GypsyPilot
Mohawk Town
I don’t know... There really are people that dumb and/or demented. After all, look at this psycho:
Wisconsin hospital worker arrested for spoiled vaccine doses
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing them from refrigeration for two nights.
apnews.com
There are also tons of “COVID is a liberal hoax!” idiots on APC as well.
FXMXC
Well-Known Member
You have to be ignorant if you can't see that MSM and possibly other countries and east and west coast elites and don't forget social media all came together to help to oust Trump from office. I voted for him first time. Not the second round. I don't blame Trump for his early response to the pandemic. Everyone had it wrong then. But once it was known it was as bad as it was I do fault him for that as well as the division between the virus hoax and those of us who know its real. But everyone shares the blame. The MSM and their fear mongering and trying to make it look as bad for Trump as they could. Trump and his trying to bury the threat to help his numbers. But Trump does deserve some credit that he will never get because the leftists will never let him have any victory. The division is the worst i have ever seen it in my 57 years on this planet. I will never vote again in my lifetime. Too much corruption and lobbying and everyone on the take. No party has my interests at heart they only have their own interests. Politicians are self serving they do not serve us. I have to ask what other country uses stimulus money and gives it to other countries? We are insane we really are. We borrow money from China then turn around and give it back to them in aid and we pay the interest. They have to be laughing all the way to the bank I know I would be.