Pilot Shortage!

Derg said:
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THE LAST YEAR?!

Insurrection by your political tribe, deadly protests in the street, extrajudicial executions in the street, a pandemic? Hell, we even had an asteroid zip by.
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Most of this stuff was pandemic induced. The last year has highlighted the differences in people + society and not in a good way. I still think there'll be some sort of major breakdown in society in the future. 2020 was barely an appetizer.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Most of this stuff was pandemic induced. The last year has highlighted the differences in people + society and not in a good way. I still think there'll be some sort of major breakdown in society in the future. 2020 was barely an appetizer.
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The boat... errr... SHIP has certainly hit the iceberg that it was intentionally steered into and doubled-down upon.

Maybe it’s savable, maybe it’s not, but there’s a lot of people that need to STFU, resume eating intellectual crayons, eschew Q-Anon and that they can’t wish kinky political fan fiction into reality. You know exactly what I’m getting at.
 
Richman said:
Don’t you know if you’re not 100% with them, you’re 100% against them?

Silly rabbit.
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One of the reasons I'm glad I left Facebook. It got tiresome watching his ilk whine about people like Senator Sinema just two years after rejoicing at her election just because she didn't turn out to be as commie as they are. And, you know, never would have won an election in the first place if she had been.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
We used to talk about debt in billions, now it's trillions with a T and we talk like it's nothing. This is a 1.9 T package, apparently the next one will be 2-4 trillion. Just throwing numbers that large out there as if it has no consequences? That's wrong. Servicing this debt is going to be problematic and a huge headache. Our kids generation is being set up pretty badly.
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If there's a time when deficit spending is appropriate, it's during a major Pandemic and economic Depression. Could even save taxpayers money in the long run if it results in an earlier economic recovery. Unfortunately, for the last 2 decades, we've been running massive deficits even when the economy was in good shape. Sure would have been nice if we hadn't spent trillions on upper class tax cuts during good times.

Boris Badenov said:
I mean they've already been set up pretty badly, but this is certainly making it worse. It's all "damned boomers!" until we're the ones sucking from the teet, then suddenly it's "national infrastructure harumph harumph". This is how you lose a Republic.
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Sooner or later everyone who complains about Boomers will embody all the "boomer" traits they dislike. Some already do and won't admit it.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
One of the reasons I'm glad I left Facebook. It got tiresome watching his ilk whine about people like Senator Sinema just two years after rejoicing at her election just because she didn't turn out to be as commie as they are. And, you know, never would have won an election in the first place if she had been.
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You'd think they'd be happy Sinema could get elected at all, at a time when Democrats can't even compete in many swing states any more- had McSally not "skirted deployment" to DCA in 2018 Republicans would still have the majority.

That said Sinema and Manchin probably need libs and progressives whinging about them to get reelected, it helps them maintain an independent brand which they need to win in red states. I know the Arizona Democratic Party tried to censure Sinema for being insufficiently progressive and I bet it was a stunt to make her look especially like a maverick.
 
Yakob said:
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Sooner or later everyone who complains about Boomers will embody all the "boomer" traits they dislike. Some already do and won't admit it.
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Used to hear the term “older and wiser” when I was younger (and complaining about my elders). Don’t think I hear that so much these days. :(
 
Fixtur said:
Bingo
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You should try it. It’s quite liberating.

The thing is that both sides have merit to their points, but everyone’s heads are so up and locked, there’s no point in getting involved.

One thing GenXers seem to be good at is recognizing situations with high potential for wasted effort, and avoiding them.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
It got tiresome watching his ilk whine about people like Senator Sinema just two years after rejoicing at her election just because she didn't turn out to be as commie as they are.
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or it had more to do with

Sen Sinema in 2014:"A full-time minimum-wage earner makes less than $16k a year. This one's a no-brainer. Tell Congress to #RaiseTheWage!"

Sen Sinema in 2021:

and in fact the anger wasn’t about her being “less commie” and more about her being a lying hypocrite and doing it in the height of douchebag fashion
 
NovemberEcho said:
or it had more to do with

Sen Sinema in 2014:"A full-time minimum-wage earner makes less than $16k a year. This one's a no-brainer. Tell Congress to #RaiseTheWage!"

Sen Sinema in 2021:

and in fact the anger wasn’t about her being “less commie” and more about her being a lying hypocrite and doing it in the height of douchebag fashion
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This is the height of cluelessness (or disingenuousness, not sure which in your case). She supports a $15 minimum wage. What she didn't support was trying to force it into the Covid relief bill, which was part of the reconciliation process (which the Senate parliamentarian specifically said was not allowed).

As always, Bernie was trying to do something that he knew wasn't allowed, that he knew wouldn't pass, just to make himself look good to the commie fringe, and he didn't give a damn about how it would make Democratic senators look who did the right thing and actually listened to the Senate rules.
 
Richman said:
You should try it. It’s quite liberating.

The thing is that both sides have merit to their points, but everyone’s heads are so up and locked, there’s no point in getting involved.

One thing GenXers seem to be good at is recognizing situations with high potential for wasted effort, and avoiding them.
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Speaking to a Gen Xer, sir.
 
NovemberEcho said:
ok fair enough, I didn’t follow anything about her other than passing by the headlines.
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This is why Facebook will be the end of our republic. Everyone just looking at headlines in posts, or worse yet, just looking at someone's comments about headlines. Not intended as an attack on you in particular, because it's certainly not just you. It's almost everyone. I would give real money if everyone in America would just spend a half hour actually reading the Washington Post or the NY Times every morning.

However, I guess she is as commie as those on fb think she is then?
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Senator Sinema is slightly left of center-left, I'd say. She's no Joe Machin, but she's definitely no Bernie Sanders, either. She's a perfect fit for Arizona, and she's the kind of liberal who helped us take the Senate. We need her and people like her. Otherwise, the left will never be anything more than a tiny minority in Congress.
 
NovemberEcho said:
I didn’t see it on Facebook. I just never clicked the article on the various news sites
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I didn't mean that you must have. But that's where most people get their "news" nowadays. Pew Research found that 52% of Americans primarily get their news from Facebook now. That's up from about a third a few years ago. It's a major problem. Headlines are not news. They're click bait.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
This is the height of cluelessness (or disingenuousness, not sure which in your case). She supports a $15 minimum wage. What she didn't support was trying to force it into the Covid relief bill, which was part of the reconciliation process (which the Senate parliamentarian specifically said was not allowed).

As always, Bernie was trying to do something that he knew wasn't allowed, that he knew wouldn't pass, just to make himself look good to the commie fringe, and he didn't give a damn about how it would make Democratic senators look who did the right thing and actually listened to the Senate rules.
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Wouldn't it have taken 60 votes to include in the Covid relief package? So it wasn't going to happen anyway unless 10 Republicans and all Democrats supported it.

Last time the federal minimum wage was increased, it was included in an emergency defense appropriations bill. If they raise the minimum wage this Congress, which I hope they do, I suspect it will be in a defense authorization act.
 
Yakob said:
Wouldn't it have taken 60 votes to include in the Covid relief package? So it wasn't going to happen anyway unless 10 Republicans and all Democrats supported it.
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Correct, because that's what it takes under Senate rules to overturn a decision of the parliamentarian. But we should just recognize that we should NEVER be trying to turn over a decision of the parliamentarian. He's there for a reason. It was shameful for Bernie to even go that route, and downright despicable to criticize any principled Democrat who refused to go along with such a thing.
 
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