Bruce Andersen

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

Congratulations @AmericanExpress! You've taken a premium service and completely deteriorated it! 35 minute waiting list at Centurion Lounge at 2:30 on a weekday @switchtocapitalone @switchtochase
@saveyourannualfees

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

@gtconway3d Mar-a-Taco!

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

Shame on you @Qantas! Now a full 90 days since you completely failed and not a single word of follow up!

Easy choice to avoid Qantas at all cost!

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

Congratulations @Qantas! You are without a doubt the most inept Airline doing business today!

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Anyone who has read reports in the Associated Press, the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, or Axios would be under the impression that the Trump administration has offered 2 million federal workers a "buyout" offer.

IT IS NOT TRUE

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

This!

[Mark McEathron @Mark_McEathron]

I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.

I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings.

One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots.

Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation.

It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs).

I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.

These birds are designed to be hard to see at night.

The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.

Incredibly difficult to see.

If you are above the helicopter, even if it has it flood light or spot light (2 different lights) on, underneath it, it is still hard to see the bird because all of that illumination is below the airframe.

Another thing people should know is just how busy things can get on the aircraft.

Pilots are talking to each other about what they are observing on the instrument panels. This means neither are looking outside the aircraft.

The crew chief might be conducting a fuel check, where we would also be looking up into the cockpit at the fuel gages and the clock.

This CAN lead to moments where all 3 people on the aircraft are all looking inside the aircraft.

It's not supposed to happen that way. We are supposed to announce when we are "coming inside" or are "back outside" the aircraft. But that doesn't always happen.

Also, in cities like DC, the radio traffic is constant and can make it hard to filter out what is important for you to listen to.

Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen.

Anyone out there telling you that they find the aircraft collision to be suspect, have NEVER been in a flight crew and they have ZERO idea what they are talking about.

Ignore them all. Better yet, mock the hell out of them.

999 times out of 1000 aircraft incidents always come down to a series of pilot and crew errors.

Humans are involved. They aren't perfect.

Tonight, my heart and mind is with the families of those involved in this tragic event.

I won't join the chorus of idiots making speculations.

[Bruce Andersen @BruceAndersen]

@Acyn Yes! He is!

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Elon Musk admits he bought Twitter to swing the election.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Fareed Zakaria sat down with President Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to discuss President Biden’s historic clean energy initiatives and their legacy. This is undeniably one of President Biden’s crowning achievements during his tenure

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

CNN reports "8 incoming Cabinet picks (so far) & their spouses donated over $37 million combined from their personal accounts to aid Trump."

Government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.

But tell me again how Democrats don't get the working class?

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Yup, I love my country and I tell the truth. This is the hard truth in response to a MAGA:

Would you just layoff this Make America Great again. In 4 years president Biden made America the envy of the world. The strongest economy in the world. The strongest employment in 50 years. The most manufacturing jobs. The infrastructure bill. The most increase in wages, including among MAGA. China is a minnow with Xi trying to put the pieces together. Putin is a loser, about to be thrown from some window in Moscow. The Mullahs in Iran are running for their lives. Make America Great Again? Yup, Biden did Make America Great Again quietly. 4 years a go we were going from store to store to find “toilet paper”. Grandmas were in plastic bags in refrigerated truck. The port and supply lines were shut and Americans were the laughing stock of the world because an incompetent president telling his citizens to inject bleach. That was America the lowest not the greatest. Today America has been restored to its greatness, thanks to Biden. Now, he’s handing the key to the same asshole who will burn it down to the ground again, because of those MAGAs who were scared to go to bathrooms with the gender problem. Let this tweet hits you in the face. Biden Made America Great Again, and you can’t dispute it. 💙🇺🇸🥂

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: CNN’s Geopolitical expert, Fareed Zakaria, just perfectly explained how President Biden’s global strategy has severely weakened Russia and our adversaries. This is huge.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Holy shit.. a Trump supporter who is a farmer accidentally fucking obliterated Trump.💀

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

Over the last 30 years, after-tax corporate profits have grown 8-fold, while personal incomes have grown by half as much — this unequal distribution of prosperity will only leave more and more Americans unhappy. My @Morning_Joe chart

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

BOOM! Democrat Jessica Tarlov just PERFECTLY summarized the Biden presidency live on Fox “He oversaw the best recovery in the G-7. Unemployment in this country is lower. He extended the number of people who got access to healthcare…” and more!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries just destroyed Donald Trump’s cabinet picks in a matter of moments. Retweet to make sure every American sees this.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

The press betrayed the American people by pushing a narrative of failure, deliberately ignoring the undeniable progress and successes achieved under Joe Biden’s leadership—all because they prioritize profit over truth and what’s best for the country.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jessica: He oversaw the best recovery in the G-7 by far and away. Unemployment in this country is lower. He extended the number of people who got access to affordable healthcare, medicaid expansion. We're producing more oil than any other time..

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump paid off an RFK Jr. associated law firm right after RFK dropped out of the race.

Nothing to see here…