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As 17D mentioned, the Expanse series is great “hard” sci-fi. Books are excellent, and while the series takes some liberties, I think they did a good job overall. Definitely better since Netflix took over. Also been enjoying Mandalorian with the kiddos.

Speaking of good sci-fi... Reading the book for the first time now & finding it very well written and deep. Looking forward to Denis Villeneuve’s (Sicario, Blade Runner 2049) film adaptation.

I truly hope you’re right and that my assumptions are wrong here. I have my doubts though. If Trump goes gracefully and isn’t bitching about the deep state in six months, beer’s on me.

You may be underestimating how low this whole thing is likely to go. Let’s assume that Trump expends all of his legal options and the results overwhelmingly fail to support his claims of fraud (This seems likely based on legal results thus far...you may disagree, but bear with me). What happens then? Do you think Trump is going to tell his supporters “well guys, the American legal system has had its say and we must have faith in that system.”? Hell no he’s not. He’ll leave the White House kicking and screaming and spend the next four years convincing a large percentage of Americans that every aspect of our government, including the legal system is beholden to the liberal deep state and they will come to the conclusion that the only answer is to burn the whole thing down. Do you think that’s a good path for our country? Because that is absolutely the path we’re on as long as this guy continues to be enabled by the party he co-opted.

Can’t wait for autonomous F1...

I no longer have a dog in this fight but I hope all the young guys/gals read carefully what ClearedHot is saying above and internalize it. Seek out and listen to the leaders that are saying similar things and internalize that too. You’ll be in decision making positions sooner than you ever thought. When you become Flight Commanders, ADOs, DOs and NCOs remember that sentiment and strive to pay it forward. CH is absolutely spot on about the DO having the hardest job. I think they also have the most overall influence. When I look back at my career, with very few exceptions, the people I admired most were the good DOs.

But, but but...it’s so much easier and more fun to make a grand conspiracy claim than to admit things are rarely as simple as they appear on the surface (or on Sean Hannity’s show).

Here’s another conservative talking point that I don’t understand: Only Dems are capable of committing voter fraud? What? While I don’t believe for a minute that there is widespread voter fraud on the scale conservatives continually claim (but never provide evidence to support), it surely exists in much smaller scale scenarios. Does anyone really think that only one side is capable of shenanigans and that the other side is so just and chaste that the thought would never cross their minds? GMAFB.

The analysis of the publicly available data was conducted by a data researcher, who wishes to remain anonymous, who submitted it first to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times. seems legit 😏

A couple things: Everyone knew this election would be different due to the pandemic. The “blue shift” was predicted long before the election by anyone who cared to ponder the fact that the president’s supporters were likely to vote at the polls, while Biden supporters were far more likely to vote by mail. Pennsylvania law (passed by Republicans) meant that mail in votes there could not even be processed until Tuesday (other states have laws that allowed processing much earlier-hence Florida’s relatively early result). This process was further hampered by the Trump administration’s own hamstringing of the USPS prior to the election. If Trump wants to whine about the process, he has himself at least partially to blame. Regarding the impeachment: This was in no way an attempt to overturn the 2016 election. Let me repeat that. The impeachment was not an attempt to OVERTURN the 2016 election. If Trump had been removed from office, you would’ve ended up with Pence, not Hillary, in the Oval Office. Think about that for a minute. If the Dems had succeeded, you would’ve had an extremely conservative guy who is capable of acting like an adult human being, who doesn’t tweet a shitstorm every morning, who wouldn’t fire a cabinet member every other day, who is not a pathological liar, and is far less polarizing than the Donald as the POTUS. Do you think Pence might’ve done a better job at unifying the country over the COVID crisis? I do. I’ll say it one more time. Impeachment was not an attempt to overturn an election and removing Trump from office would’ve been a GIFT to Republicans.

I’m hearing this a lot lately from conservatives. I kind of get the sentiment, but if you remember, the Clinton campaign never contested what was a very close election. Trump’s margin of victory was much slimmer than Biden’s in many swing states and Clinton would’ve been well within her rights to take it to drawn out court battles. She didn’t. She conceded. Democrats then made claims of foreign interference in the election which turned out to be absolutely valid. We are all familiar with the collusion claims and investigations that followed, but despite the right wing tropes, the Democrats never called for “overturning” the election.

500 affidavits alleging 11,000 incidents. Very little information on what these “incidents” entailed. One person is claiming that 60% of a batch of ballots had the same signature on them. OK. Did this person produce any proof? Photographs maybe? If so, why haven’t we seen them? If not, what qualifications did this individual have? Are they an expert in handwriting? What makes them qualified to judge that the signatures were, in fact, identical? Was this person even a poll worker? What was their physical position that allowed them to observe these ballots? The Trump campaign producing little more than hearsay. It’s going to take more than that to convince a judge. Is anyone surprised that 500 people have come forward with fraud claims? Frankly, I’m surprised there aren’t more at this point. Might many of these people be biased? Again, the onus is on the Trump campaign to PROOVE these bold allegations. Five hundred people saying they saw something fishy doesn’t constitute proof. Even if all of their allegations turn out to be true and credible (doubtful), do the votes that are then thrown out tip the scale in Trumps favor? Remember, we’re not just talking one state like 2000. This will have to be the case in several states. If anyone thinks Trump has a fighting chance in this thing, I’ve got a very nice ocean front igloo to sell you in Maui. It’s time to stop the charade. People like Graham, Cruz, and Pompeo who are enabling this circus are only doing further damage to their already shaky legacies.

Hard to say. A couple years is probably a safe bet, but there have been a lot of voluntary early retirements and if demand picks up as a vaccine is distributed, the majors could be scrambling to fill their ranks again. I think a lot will depend on whether and how fast business and international travel recover. International could be slow depending on how individual countries decide to open up (or not) over the next year. Business travel is up in the air because it remains to be seen how zoom/telework will affect that segment. Freight will continue to hire as fast as they can train for the foreseeable future. Welcome to the crazy carnival ride called the airlines!

I don’t know. I haven’t been this entertained here since that dude who was very careful about which conflagrations he decided to participate in had a similar complete meltdown. Seriously though, I hope it’s just trolling and not a sign of one of our own coming unhinged. I looked at his previous posts and some of them sound kinda normal.

Agree. AETC has been haphazardly cutting syllabuses for years and bad decisions are coming home to roost. Unfortunately this is indicative of an even larger problem. Leaders at all levels are spineless and loath to say no to anything. “You need to cut my training budget by half? No problem, we’ll forge ahead sir!” Unfortunately, the three and four stars ramble off into a consequence free retirement while young airmen are short changed and sometimes pay for it with their lives. Meanwhile, mid level officers and NCOs are left to pick up the pieces and try and preserve combat capability. Hell of a way to run an Air Force. 🍺 Him Him.

AP reports MI turnout to be 71%. https://apnews.com/article/record-votes-michigan-highest-turnout-1f7802d2a2e67966ba8ccb02e3d1cbed WI reported to be 72%. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-wisconsin-elections-c14705ea715877b472454e57df022a91 Not sure where you got 90%, but the lesson for rational human beings is that Eric Trump’s Twitter page may not be the unbridled truth.

Boy do I feel put in my place. I’m sure your subordinates looked at you in awe.

Don’t you have a survival shelter to dig or something?

Dudes, this shit is beneath both of you. KIO.

So here’s an alternate take on the subject: Blacks, along with other minorities are routinely prosecuted for crimes that whites are not. It’s kind of a chicken/egg argument, like your argument that fighters are designed for men because men have been the ones to step up to the task. It’s not that women weren’t up to the task, it’s that they were prohibited from it for a multitude of reasons, one of them being they don’t fit into cockpits. I honestly do not mean to insinuate that you or anyone else is being sexist or racist. I just think some of us need a little light shed on the fact that these issues are far more complex and nuanced than they often appear on the surface, and will require real study to overcome.

Please do tell us why you think black Americans are more likely to commit criminal acts than their white counterparts. This is absolutely pertinent to the current conversation.

Really dude?

A good example along the same lines from the book Freakanomics: https://slate.com/business/2005/04/a-roshanda-by-any-other-name.html TLDR: “Steve” has a better chance at success than “D’Shaun” for myriad complex reasons.