Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm pretty certain at some time Stephen Miller has a crush on some Latina and was rejected, now he wants to erase them from the country
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm pretty certain at some time Stephen Miller has a crush on some Latina and was rejected, now he wants to erase them from the country
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The bottom line is that we are not going anywhere once we get strapped in.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Restraint not restaurant
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The pilot seats have a five point restaurant system with a seat belt, shoulder harnesses, and a fifth connector between your legs that connects to the bottom of the seat belt to prevent submarining.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
If you submarine out of your belt, there are many bad things that can happen and none of them will help you get out of the plane quickly. The total amount of time you need to be upright and aware is about five minutes for each takeoff or landing. It's not that much and it could save your life.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
This is called submarining. I flew airplanes for almost fifty years the last 36 at a major airline. For takeoff and landing I sit straight up like Grandma is watching and tighten the belt until it's slightly uncomfortable. This ensures the belt will engage quickly and I will stay firmly in my seat.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not exactly correct. The way a seat belt works is that it engaged your hip and pelvis, strong bones, and your body folds in half which keeps the belt in place. If you lean back, the belt will start slipping up your body and your legs will go smashing into the seat on front of you.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
At least 3/5 anti black racism
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear Bill Gates, You have adopted me as your son and promised me half your fortune to be delivered tomorrow. Thanks for your attention to this matter.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a great park, my family loved going there
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I get knocked down and I get up again, never gonna keep me down
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
"it's a swarthy smile"
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Strong unions
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The message from this primary is that people are finally figuring out that the government should help those that are struggling instead of catering to rich people. That's it. All the other freak out analyses are just projections.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
the consequences of stepping over the line. Massive Retaliation has a sobering effect on a group whose mission is to live extravagantly on the backs of the people they control
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The mullahs aren't directing others to die, they are the primary targets. If you look at India and Pakistan since they went nuclear, it's not all roses, but they both are aware of the consequences of stepping over the edge. Iran can have nukes for all I care, they just need to hear about
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that getting a nuclear weapon stabilizes a country's foreign policy. Currently, when Iran wants to create mischief the leadership sends out proxies and they don't care whether they live or die. If nuclear war is threatened, the first thing that happens is a decapitation strike.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Ask anyone who works retail of they self censor at work.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom was also on the grassy knoll
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Could we please emphasize that no one should drink bleach ever.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm pretty sure Russia renounced that treaty.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait! Did something go wrong in Iraq? I was told it was all perfect.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
you and have that be your legacy.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I think some of this craziness is the realization that we are not the star of our own movie. We live our lives and when most of us are gone we won't have books written about us. Some people can't believe they are not super important and can't deal with that. All you can do is be kind to those around
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the way
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh come on, couldn't you work in transsexual persons somewhere in there. I don't think you are really trying.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The simplest message the bro culture can get is "don't be a dick." You don't need a bunch of rules, just don't be a dick. If you hurt someone's feelings by saying the wrong thing, don't be a dick and apologize for your mistake. It's pretty simple. People don't like jerks.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The 2% NATO spending target was established by Obama. How can we forget history that only occurred less than 15 years ago. It's like the people en masse have adopted the bullshit that Trump repeats as actual history.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
There's not a good pilot around that wouldn't critique every flight they made. You never can reach perfection. That doesn't mean it's bad. Making hard decisions real time is hard to do and easy to back seat drive.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
We have become a society that judges to much on a small visual image and neglects to look at the big picture. So let's get some facts about how this was a shitshow. Someone else gave you the facts of real performance. What would have constituted a non shitshow? Perfection? Good luck with that.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Lack of perfection is not a shitshow. When things get hot and you are sitting in the seat there are a thousand arm chair quarterbacks telling after the fact how they would have handled it. So Biden also took responsibility for the withdrawal, that doesn't mean it was a shitshow.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay so by what objective measure do you say it was a shitshow? Is it 45 seconds of video of people chasing a C17 on a taxiway? Is it some lunatic setting off a suicide vest in a crowd? All of these things fall under the heading of everyone has a plan until you get punched in the nose.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
you can judge what someone's performance was in one. They gave me a medal by the way so someone thought it turned out well.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I was able to safely land the airplane but the planned mission was a mess. Was I a bad pilot/leader because the mission was a bust or was I making the best of a crap situation because all four jets landed safely and 8 crew members were fine? You have to face real time no win situations before
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
just around the corner, or 3 to 6 months out. This was 20+years of failure and we could get out our continue this useless exercise. To lay that all on Biden is crazy. I was leading a 4 ship of F4s to a night tanker. My ejection seat caught fire leading to severe flight control issues.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
There are some things that are unfixable. The AFG government collapsed in days. In what way was there to complete that operation without mess? At some point your only option is to have the least crappy outcome, there is no good outcome. How many times before had we heard that good times were
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay I'm not your personal research assistant, Google real wage growth by quintile 2021 to 2025 and look. This is not some secret or even a disputed fact
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Also Washington, D.C.— National average wages and salaries grew by nearly $16,700 since 2021, which outpaces price growth during that period by nearly $3,800, according to an updated fact sheet released today
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
For many Americans, they will accept this as long as they can find some out group to crap on; immigrants, lgbtq+, etc. It doesn't make sense to me, but the numbers are clear. Democrats help the poor, Republicans help the rich. Those are just the hard facts from the last 40 years
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
You are about to see the biggest transfer of money from the working class to the elites you have ever seen in our history. Everything this administration has done is going to screw the working class to make the rich richer.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Union representation increased and support for unions increased. Trump is great at feeding people's grievances with life, and many people decided that feeling aggrieved was worth more than better pay and working conditions, that's their choice.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Look I don't know if that article was meant to be a joke but it is just a propaganda piece masquerading as a magazine. The bottom 50% of wage earners saw the best increases in real wages compared to the top 50% something that hasn't happened in a long time.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
whether they want things to get better or whether they are going to scream inside their little bubble until their vision of a perfect world is enacted. Right now, the hard left is the best gift that Republicans can get and are a true enemy of the workers because they fight incremental change.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
but this have almost nothing to do with federal policies, it's all local. Sometimes I think the far left enjoys losing elections so they can bash both sides. There hasn't been a president in the last 45 years that did more for the working class than Biden did. The left needs to figure out
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
at 3am. This is the same phenomenon that right wingers use to say the BLM protests were all violent. They show the same store front with broken windows a thousand times and they assume that's 1000 different stores. The primary issue with young Americans is housing costs which are very high,
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
But during Bidens economy real wages (after inflation) were up dramatically for the lowest wage workers. Yes groceries were higher but so were wages. It's this social media effect where you have people posting a picture of how much it costs to have an order of McDonald's fries delivered by door dash
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Bush made bad decisions and bad policy. Trump is a crook. There is a difference.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
You all just seem so pleased with yourselves that you made life much worse for the people you were supposedly supporting. Maybe sometime you will grow up and realize that in the real world you have to accept difficult choices. But for now keep throwing temper tantrums it's working so well for you
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you guys can pay yourselves on the back when you book your first vacation at Trump Gaza Resort
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't watch sports but even I know that there are black football players, how could that be a surprise to anyone and when should they even care
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe he should Google the end of WWII. Most of Germany was bombed to rubble and they didn't surrender until the Russians entered Berlin. London Blitz, Tokyo fire bombing, all the same. You will not get Canadians to surrender their country.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I was never in combat so the answer is zero. But that is irrelevant. If called I would have fought. All you tik tok historians need to read a bunch of books and learn real history. The default of humanity is tyranny and oppression. Freedom is only maintained by fighting for it.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
So your response is to make things worse for the Palestinians. Great plan, well executed.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad you only know temper tantrums as a response to when the world doesn't go exactly your way.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
No one says bend the knee. If you really care about Palestinians you would have supported the person most likely to consider their fate when executing policy. Instead you supported someone who will ethnically cleanse them out of Gaza. Being an adult means you often have to accept compromise.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you like 8 years old because you sound like it.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
So you made it worse for the people you supposedly were supporting. Everything about your response sounds like a 5 year old who didn't get an extra cookie for dessert. "They didn't do everything I demanded so I'm throwing a tantrum."
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
How dare them have to accept the consequences of their actions. They were silly people acting like spoiled children with no regard to what lay ahead.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's hear from the genocide Joe crowd who said Trump wouldn't be worse than him.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, really only law and order for those dark hued people.
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Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Red is gray and yellow white and we decide which is right and which is an illusion
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone think the Constitution means anything to the SC anymore? They just make up rules as they go along to please their oligarch overlords.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Living the dream, congratulations
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Ground control to Major Tom....... whoops wrong one
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Really stupid take
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
How about the entire idea is batshit crazy?
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
They are not scoring cheap political points. It's a full on racist/sexist tirade.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Did we quit when the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor?
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm renaming it the Gulf of Me in my honor
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
So ... You won.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
That's how the CIA gets you to give up the secret codes
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The core of MAGA is that Trump is a dick, he is unashamed of being a dick and revels in his dickiness. He's gives permission to these silly angry people to be dicks. Being polite in today's society is just to hard for these angry people so they so love Trump giving them permission to be dicks.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course he knew what was in it, it's just he had to rely on the experts to create the strategy.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
you should just keep going straight with the"special weapon"and just get it over with quick and painless.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
My F-4 had the ability to loft deliver a "special weapon". The method was to go in low and fast (100 feet at 600 knots), pop the nose up about 45 degrees, release and let momentum do the rest. Next we were supposed to slice back and head the other direction. The joke in the squadron was
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
deemed unworkable and foolish. There is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. Once it starts, that's it.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Nuclear strategy is a very specific technical field and I doubt Carter sat down with a pencil and paper and and invented that strategy. At some point you have to rely on experts. (Or so someone says) Our nuclear strategy has evolved over time and each time the previous strategy was
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Instead of going to war over communism they could have been allies in a strategic portion of the world. If we can call Saudi Arabia an ally, it means we don't much care how they govern themselves.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
We did have an inordinate fear of communism. Just think how much better off it country would have been if we allowed Vietnam, Iran, and others to choose their own form of government and make them allies instead of enemies. Vietnam had no love of the USSR and hated China.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it can be very unsettling, scary, loud, and nerve wracking. I just wanted to help put to rest any fears that the airplane will come apart. It will not.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes the Apple folks treat their machines as it they are passed down directly from God. It's just a computer, it's not a shrine.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Airliners are built to withstand turbulence far beyond what you could imagine. If you want to see for yourself Google 777 wing flex test. Turbulence is uncomfortable for sure but the plane is not in danger at all. Fasten your seat belt low and across your hip bones, make it tight, like very tight.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
To tell you the truth it was just as much fun as you would think.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone hang out at the mall anymore?
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Lebensraum?
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Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Try getting a Chinese visa. The only way to pass that photo requirement is to have Bugs Bunny hit you over the head with a giant hammer so you have the blank expression of someone in a stupor
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think Trump cares about running the country, he will steal anything that's not nailed down and then play golf in Florida
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe the technical term is splootin😄
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Same here, it is extremely disorienting, this crazy conspiracy crap about drones is going to get people killed pretty soon.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
My only beef is with 3. Going 10 miles at 60 takes 10 minutes. At 70 it's 8.5 minutes. Is 1.5 minutes worth getting road rage? I learned this going high speed low levels. Our standard speed was 480 knots but we could accelerate close to 600 without afterburner. You still didn't make up much time.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I went to the Air Force Academy, didn't have the President attend one game, I assumed he had more important things to do.
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry was this article from Germany in 1938, or was this really written this year?
Rich Harwood (@richharwood.bsky.social) reply parent
How dare my actions have consequences!