@petchmo@AirlineFlyer listening to the podcast about the FAA staffing issues, they brought it on themselves. I remember going through the whole testing and application process back in about 2009 or so. Despite scoring well I wasn’t offered a spot. They haven’t planned for growth
This is what fear-mongering looks like. These comments from Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Tommy Tuberville would not have been out of place in 1930’s Germany.
Rabid racism is a core element of the MAGA GOP.
Two years ago, I won with 73% of the vote. I could easily have done so again. But it would have required that I go along with Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. That was a path I would not take. No House seat is more important than the principles we are all sworn to protect.
Heading into the summer break, @ESPN's F1 ratings are up another 35% this year from last year to an average of 1.3 million viewers.
🔲 F1 averaged 934,000 viewers last year which was up 39% from 2019 and the best all time in the U.S., beating the prior record of 748,000 in 1995.
The utter lunacy of condemning teachers for teaching our children while expecting them to act as armed defenders in situations where police can’t. It’s Orwellian. It’s ridiculous. & it’s a position advanced by people who are up to their necks in NRA $.
Do people realize Robb Elementary doubled its spend on school security since 2017? They had a fence. They had surveillance. They had officers on duty. They had shooter drill trainings.
ALL OF IT FAILED.
The problem is easy access to guns. It's always been guns. ADDRESS THE GUNS
If a gunman in a school is too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle, the right response is not to condemn local police forces as cowardly. The right response is to discredit the "good guy with a gun" fantasy.