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And unfortunately folks, this level of stupidity and lack of awareness is the reason the US is now a laughing stock.

If you suspend belief and rationalise enough it makes sense I guess? Trump is the biggest snowflake out there and whitewashing history, yet his true believers think he’s a hero.

If his plan was to refuel in Mexico when he gave instructions to 305 in the PNW why ask for the dirty configuration? That configuration has only two rationales, to make it jumpable and to stretch out the search zone. If his plan was to be on the plane when it lands in Mexico neither of these apply. It makes no sense to ask for it.

Not at all. The modern accepted definition of dementia for conservatives is "Biden, not Trump."

You have zero evidence that this is correct. Again, given your preoccupation with the debt, all the evidence is to the contrary. And on any scale of decency, all are preferable to Trump.

Why is he giving *any* demands in the PNW about airstairs or configuration if he plans to be on the plane when it lands in Mexico?

We have the best government money can buy.

I’ve always been open to your idea on that, but I’ve still never received a satisfactory answer for my main issue with the theory. If you want to jump into Mexico, why do you begin your hijack so far away? He could have just hijacked a Phoenix to Albuquerque flight or something like that. Hijacking that far north and then sending the plane on a fool’s errand to Mexico is precisely what you’d do if you were planning to jump early. It’s smart actually. He just brainfarted on the increased fuel consumption.

Who doesn’t love pink and fuzzy? Some people just can’t get over the fact that other humans aren’t straight sexually. It matters to them and they feel a strong need to suppress them. I’m sure they all have slightly different reasons. But the bottom line is they would likely kill them if they were able to. Just like has been done to so many by so many societies in the past.

It is indeed INSANE to suggest that any sport in which being a 6’10” man is an advantage has been made to implement quotas for 4’10” women because of woke. Why do you believe insane things? And yet, as with the deficit he is exploding, Trump is responsible for the biggest rollout of forced DEI programs in the history of the US government. Except he wants to force universities to hire quotas of white republicans, which you’re obviously fine with. It’s only the DEI which means you might have to interact with more black people that’s a problem. I fail to see how Musk funnelling hundreds of billions of dollars of government contracts into his own companies despite offering significantly less efficient solutions than the competition is going to solve the deficit. It’s amazing how willing you are to swallow anything your heroes tell you without applying an ounce of critical thinking.

Kaminsky gets it. This was a first of its kind emergency situation here. Of course they are going to do their due diligence by weighing the options to determine the best route to take under the circumstances. Both altitude Victor airway options would be discussed, that’s a given. That doesn’t make V27 any more viable. Cliff Ammerman said almost anybody would take V23 in that situation. If this exact scenario played out 100 times, they are more likely then not selecting V23 100/100.

I was talking to somebody that lives directly under V27. He said that hardly any air traffic ever uses it. It’s a safe bet that given Northwest's routes, none of the flight crew had ever even used V27 but knew V23 very well, so I'd take V23 as the pilot all day if I have something crazy going on in the back. This is a picture of all southbound SEA traffic. It heads down V23 or further east to Klamath Falls. The person I spoke with lives in the blue dot on the left under V27. We have no way of knowing if Cooper knew this or not…. but if he did his homework then he’d understand that them taking V23 was pretty much a forgone conclusion.

Yet your “un woke” hero is on a war that anything remotely uncomfortable must be removed. Slavery in museums, words they don’t like, comedians they don’t like, war hero’s they don’t like. Sorry but your position is indefensible. There’s nothing wrong with being against Harris for her policies. Keith has articulated his argument quite clearly without having to defend Trump and hide behind fig leaves. It sounds like you’re happily going to vote for Trump in 2028, because your lord and saviour is anointed by god to overturn the constitution that others hold dear.

I agree with you that the deficit is a severe problem. I am not as certain that it is a present problem, in human life time terms that is. What I don't get is how you can blame Democrats for increasing the deficit, which they do, in amounts greater than Republicans. I agree with you that we are too woke as it's called. I don't agree that because we do dumb things in pursuit of fairness for all that the basic idea is wrong. In that area I'd rather err on the side of woke especially given that the actual cost to the rest of us is so low.