HeloDude

Saying “President Musk” just further embarrasses the fact that Biden is the president…but that being said, I’ll take Musk on the Trump team any day!

That’s like saying because I took a programming course in college that I’m a computer programmer. And if you’re not saying he was a good choice as FAA administrator, then why didn’t you say so when he was nominated like you are now wrt Tulsi’s nomination? You don’t like Trump…we get it.

Or hiring someone with their PPL to run the FAA…oh wait…

Those are illegal in NJ and most of the NE states, so we’re good.

One down, many more to go!

That alone makes me support the nomination even more!

Well, he already thinks democracy is over since Trump won, so he didn’t have much of a chance anyway according to his own words.

Is this a serious question? And the contract was to go to UPT and become a pilot…promotion/retention laws/regs had nothing to do with it. Rules always change while you’re in the military, nothing you agree to says they have to remain static while you’re in service.

1) In my time in the AF, I was rarely surprised that those who got passed over for O-4 were passed over… 2) To be a Captain (or soon to be) and get picked picked up for UPT means they most likely had a solid record to begin with…my bet is the percentage of late to rate (pilots) Captains getting passed over for O-4 is much lower than those in their original career fields, as well as their non-late to rate fellow pilots. 3) The UPT ADSC is to go to pilot training and become a pilot, that’s it. Promotion is definitely not a gurantee, and if said potential late to rate officer is concerned about promotions (though see point above), my advice for them is to focus not on becoming a pilot, but being the best officer they can be and getting promoted in their original career field. 4) The AF is not hurting for qualified candidates to go to UPT…if fewer non-rated officers want to become pilots, then it’s not much of a loss IMO. 5) It’s the AF, and it’s far from anything we all think is “fair” in our own minds. If we’re going down that rabbit hole, I’m sure I got quite a few people beat, willing to discuss offline. 6) They signed up to serve, meeting the minimum standard isn’t that hard. And if they really want to get out, there are ways to do it.

So they’ll suddenly become shitty pilots because they’re passed over and have to fulfill the commitment they agreed to?

How much money did you lose?

I’m pretty ignorant on the Tesla self driving feature: How much time are you spending looking at the road vs not? Or is it just you’re watching the road 98% of the time but still on your phone and/or focusing on a podcast? I get driving can be tiring, especially considering traffic, road conditions, etc but how exactly does this feature make a difference? Appreciate the info!

…but, but preserving democracy…or something.

Trump was still found guilty in NY, was he not? And the decision hasn’t been overturned or reversed (or whatever)…so why isn’t he going to prison? It’s because Trump was never going to prison is he won the presidency. It amazes me that people actually thought over the last couple of years that Trump would go to prison, even if he won the election.

Didn’t really pan out the way you said it would.

What a difference a year can make.

I can only hope he is also shown the door for supporting all the DEI nonsense.

Biden said he would not pardon his son, but did it anyway. I always predicted this would happen. Anyone who is surprised by this, well, they shouldn’t be. To be fair, I truly think Trump would have done the same if he were in a similar situation.

Maybe this is a way for pilots to get out of their commitments early?

I’m old enough to remember when the progressives would complain about all the money in politics/how much was spent on elections…now they’re leading the pack wrt all the spending.

The Ukrainians aren’t wrong to fight…we’re just wrong to spend hundreds of billions of dollars (via debt) to help them fight. If the Ukrainians want to keep fighting using their own resources, then should definitely go for it.

Funny…Mexico certainly isn’t doing everything they can to stop the illegal flow of people, drugs, etc from their country into ours.

Here’s something for you—you can be against spending hundreds of billions of dollars in support of Ukraine while also not being supportive of Russia.

Very few on the left will admit that they got beat badly a couple weeks ago because the majority of Americans disagree with them on most of the important issues. So of course they’re not going to support anything Trump does going forward, and in addition, they’ll slander his cabinet picks. And the progressives will do this on left wing/establishment media sources (redundant) which by and large continue to lose more and more support as their ratings plummet. I see this all as a good thing.

I think Trump defines loyalty as executing his directives as given and not stabbing him in the back…which clearly didn’t happen in the first term. Don’t military commanders expect the same from their subordinates? You can’t be told to do one thing by your commander and then intentionally try to undermine him/her without their being consequences. And if you believe what your CC is in the wrong, then you can go to their boss and so on, and/or write your Congressman. If you’re in charge of the executive branch, then you want your orders followed. As for those who need to keep Trump in check, push back against him if he’s going too far, want a way to “blow the whistle” etc, then that is the job of the other branches via our “checks and balances”. Perhaps the justice department should be its own separate branch of government that shouldn’t have to answer to the President, but that’s not what we have. We give our President a metric shit ton of power/control…if we don’t like who is in charge then the better discussion is how to reduce that power/control, regardless of who is President.