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Well at least that vermin is dead. New York is the worst.

I’ll wager the other direction, the new variant will be hyped up by the dems to distract us from this current embarrassment. Mandates will be reinstated, providing the dems a means to say “look guys we are protecting you against scary Covid, vote for us.” It also provides a scarecrow with regards to those on the right for the left to attack just prior to the election. Yeah, many on the left actually do love the restrictions. It’s the left’s equiv of the George Bush era patriot act to the then neo cons.

This is what I was alluding to. The short attention span’s interest of the American public is fading away with regards to Ukraine…in need for another distraction prior to the election (not that Ukraine was intentional, just happenstance).

What’s going on this fall?..

They will go very far under the current administration and it’s obsession with affirmative action. Suck at your job? Just pull the race, LGTBQAZ+$, gender etc card and all is well. I’ve seen it all the time unfortunately.

This concept has got me thinking lately, what is the end game? Can they ever be happy or content? Does the woke movement have an end state or is it a cultural phenomenon with no end? For instance, our Chief of Staff is Black, two major combatant commanders are about to be led by African Americans, not to mention our SECDEF; yet I still constantly hear about African Americans being under represented at higher levels of government because..racism. Do these folks literally need some crusade to fight, Trump, Racism, homophobia…and without it they are incomplete?

Affirmative action at its finest: Gina Ortiz.

In other news, Biden embarrassed himself on the international stage, can’t decipher the difference between Switzerland and Sweden, and uses an international forum for defense to talk about his opinion on Roe v Wade, to an audience that generally has stricter abortion bans than America.

As long as AOC doesn’t smile, or talk for that matter..can’t be that unpleasant.

It’s always my fellow “Christians” that go ape shit on TDYs, to include female officers break dancing on dudes in clubs.

Gotten much worse, just look at Chief Bass. Still till this day, I don’t really understand what Chiefs do besides admin queep the commander doesn’t want to do. It’s especially worse on a staff. I know this thread is about shoe clerks but unfortunately many of the Chiefs I’ve met are perpetrators of that mentality.

Pure democracy and popularity is irrelevant here. The Supreme Court is not a representative body - their job is to interpret the law vis a vis the constitution. There is no constitutional mandate for abortion, therefore 10th amendment applies and this goes back to the states. That is ALL that happened here but “the sky isn’t falling” doesn’t bode well for the mainstream media and the left who consumes the narrative…they must always be outraged by something, especially now that the lack of Trump has left a void in their lives, not to mention convenient distraction from the current administration. Now will some states attempt to take more strict measures? Possibly, but like you said the popularity simply isn’t there to go pure fundamental when it comes to abortion.

Belongs in the WTF thread, but hey man at least no more mean tweets right!?

How about this? I would say the points below are pretty mainstream for most of my conservative friends, I don’t speak for the extreme: -People don’t chose to be gay -Homosexuals are human beings and should be treated as such -Homosexuals should receive the same rights in the eyes of the government as heterosexuals, to include the benefits of a Civil Union…to that point I don’t think government should be in the business of marriage, period. -Churches should never be forced to marry homosexuals. To your earlier point on Catholics, gays would be welcome in any Catholic Church, it’s only their lifestyle that wouldn’t be approved or validated - I’ll bet you any money on that. -Homosexuals are welcome in the military, I couldn’t care less who you bang. Bring your same sex spouse to work events, you should not be treated any different because of your sexual preferences. -Have your pride parades off base, don’t care, it does not belong in the military and Nellis AFB should not be having drag shows or drag queen reading hours to kids. In fact, just leave kids out of this discussion until they are old enough. All they need to know is treat everyone with respect. -Not everyone is going to approve of your lifestyle, that does not give you the right to bully, intimidate or cancel. The gays who are still bullying the Christian bakers are the worst of people. -There are two genders, you cannot change genders. That’s basic science. Transgenders are still people and should be treated as such, those with gender dysphoria should seek mental help, and with no negative stigma just like any other disease. -No, the military shouldn’t have to pay for gender hormone treatment or transition surgery. I as a commander have better things to do than teach transgender awareness training. -BL, whether you are gay or straight, don’t be an asshole, and we can get a long just fine.

His teacher won’t call him by his preferred pronoun of “Zee”.

This reminds me of the pilot only track AMC experimented with a few years ago. Came with a mandatory ADSC taking you to 20 years of service. 1 applicant…one! It is clear to me the Air Force isn’t nor has ever been serious about the pilot retention crisis. “Good enough” and optics seems to drive most staffs these days. The Chinese are laughing at us, the Russians would be too if they weren’t so inept at actually waging conventional war.

1- Unemployment, these were jobs we got back from Covid losses so they aren’t specifically “new jobs”, crediting Biden with that is disingenuous. 2-Ukraine support- mostly NATO led, which isn’t a bad thing. I’m sure Biden gets briefed when he’s awake. There are still serious issues and way forward strategy in terms of our response that I won’t discuss here. 3- Biden had a mandatory vaccine policy for the GOV; if you are for the vaccine mandate for government workers and are praising the rise in numbers, then sure I guess?… but not sure how much he affected the rest of the population? 4- Devil is in the details and execution. Let’s reevaluate in a year. 100% agree with you with regards to DeSantis vis a vis Trump. We get Trump’s policies without the drama, theoretically. Trump’s behavior after the election was an embarrassment. Had he walked away in grace he would still be held as an icon by half the population.

I figured it wasn’t just pilots, but more customer service reps. My question is why have airlines not already done this? As it is it’s impossible to get many to work those jobs post Covid. I am not sure there is a legal precedence to force a company to hire workers. You can incentivize, but forced hiring seems to set a bad precedent we don’t want to live with.

Nothing new, at an unnamed conus based ops sq, members were pressured by leadership to attend book clubs where the book “White Fragility” was discussed. I’m pretty sure it resulted in an IG complaint that went nowhere.

He did a gala for my wife’s company, he was a total bro. Politics aside I love how committed he is to wounded veterans and helping them rehabilitate.

When you’re bleeding 0-4s and 0-5s someone figured out that you need to replace the talent more expeditiously?

Not trying to be snarky, I’m genuinely curious about the logic behind this. Would Pooter or Nsplyr like to chime in?

No it’s actually dudes like you and me on the pilot network, many with valid concerns on how poorly the Air Force is managing pilot retention.

I’ve been asking the same damn question, it sure as hell isn’t Crackles.

Had the drinking competitions been graded our flight would have finished at least top third!