I believe Soros or one of his charitable proxies just bought 200 stations with no Federal opposition to his purchase so I’m sure it’s not strictly right wing any longer.
Yes and at the time there was no one coming to help. This incident didn’t occur yesterday, it occurred immediately after the storm in a town that is, to this day, unreachable.
Respectfully, please get your facts straight here. The ignorance of HN is well on display in this thread.
You’re saying this well after the fact. This incident occurred in the immediate after math of the storm when these fancy government agencies were still asleep at the wheel.
I myself had to ignore all the usual “stay off the road, don’t drive under or over downed trees and power lines” to get relatives out of Asheville.
In times of crises, these rules, however well intentioned, are just suggestions. If you understand why the rules are there, how to safely inform them, and need to break them, break them.
Sometimes there just isn’t a bull on the other side of Chesterton’s fence no matter how much people might think there is.
He was an S.C. Pilot flying into NC, and for what it’s worth the area he was flying supplies into was, to put it in desktop GUI terms
CTRL-A and CTRL-SHIFT-DELETE
All the people clamoring to defend the lame fire chief against the defend just don’t get it.
This a world-class disaster area and if someone is willing to risk their own safety to get supplies to people in imminent threat of perishing themselves… that’s a good thing. Life isn’t a 0-risk game, and definitely not in an insane disaster area.
> If you don't know (or have forgotten) how to do that, you should not be flying a plane. Full stop.
I’m sure the victims on the ground have a different opinion, but thank you for chiming in on their behalf.
On defense of the Pilot, it’s awfully hard to coordinate with some random nobody power-tripping beaurocrat in a disaster area with no power, water, or standard communication in play.
As a reminder this occurred the day after the storm.
It’s also a disaster zone beyond anything some keyboard warriors need be pontificating on.
Ive personally had to deliver diesel into Asheville to rescue family with a two month old over the weekend. You might see some nice PR photos coming out from the last day or two of Chinooks and cargo drops but at the time this incident occurred, there was nothing going on out there. If you didn’t know someone who could help you, or make it to a central place point you were SOL.
Here and today, now, even with assets in place it just isn’t enough.
For context, the USMX countered with 50% over 6 years which still sounds high to my ears, having only received 5, 5, and 3% in the years prior.
On top of this, the starting wage for an ILA member is 81k per year and it really starts to seem out of touch for the average American to witness.
While I actually do have personal friends working as ILA members from my years living in a coastal port city, I’m having a hard time getting straight answers from his circle on social media. Just the usual political head talking points about “deserving a fair wage” and “corporate greed,” which, on paper seem reasonable but in the face of the numbers seem, again, out of touch.
At a personal level I’m in an Appalachian town still grappling with storm aftermath spending the morning with trying to research if this will cause any material shortages that I need to attempt to acquire already scarce goods for - or if it will just be a penalty for imports. I see bananas are likely going be scarce but oh well, I can eat an apple instead.
I had a neighbor attempting to sell their run down hovel for double the market rate. It wouldn’t sell, for obvious reason.
His solution was to call in Code Enforcement on every single neighbor every single day. Which meant I had to send a weekly photo of my lawn to my landlord to be sent to the Code Enforcement Officer to prove I had an orderly property to avoid him a ticket to avoid him a court appearance.
Turns out many (most?) cities and suburbs have laws on the books that meet or exceed virtually any HOA. In that case, they can ruin your life far more than any Boomer on patrol could ever dream of.
No it’s because an un-elected class of political invents new ways to launder our money over and over. How else does a politician with a small salary end u on millionaire over and over? They do not get book and consulting deals out of the goodness of the public hearts
Omar a minimum we need to deduplicate insane degrees of replication. Why does virtually every government agency have dedicated law enforcement? Narrow it down, reallocate budget, eliminate the wasteful overhead.
It’s not all or nothing here. We spend too much and get too little out of it.