SmashMouth

Did you read the part that no air traffic controllers lost their job?

When Covid hit, we laid off 820 out of 1,000 employees. I personally took an 80% pay cut for almost 2 years to help keep the business alive and operating as did several others. It was horrible all the way around. But it was necessary. Sometimes tough financial decisions have to be made. Lots of companies didn’t make it because they couldn’t manage themselves into survival. As a nation, we are having to make those sacrifices still. It’s not fun, but it’s necessary.

Thought so. That’s a contract which requires a product or service to be delivered to the buyer at the financial risk of the vendor. It’s how business is done.

Ma'am. That sounds extremely like you from reading your posts. Js.

Waaaaay more than $8k. Lol.

Who is getting federal aid? And what federal aid is he getting?

Book smarts and common sense are two separate things. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, never graduated college. Einstein dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, a prestigious institution in Zurich. Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder, and CEO of Facebook, did not graduate from college. Henry Ford, an American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company did not go to college. Walt Disney, a pioneer in the entertainment industry and the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, did not go to college. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16. Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor and one of the most famous geniuses of all time. He dropped out of school at the age of 12. You want me to keep on listing instances of people who are geniuses that don't have a college degree or even a high school degree (far less a doctorate) that are extremely smart? I would be willing to bet that thousands of people without a "JD", @LumRaiderFan included, that could've done better than Kamala Harris as VP.

That war has been going on for around three years - Biden did nothing to help the peace effort. Today marks one month since Trump's inauguration. Give it a little time.

Ma'am. Set the Kool-Aid down. ABC News 02/10/2025 - "Federal contracts to SpaceX doubled at the beginning of the Biden administration, going from $1.1 billion in the 2020 fiscal year to $2.2 billion in the 2021 fiscal year. The contracts continued to grow under Biden, reaching $3.7 billion during the 2024 fiscal year." "In 2021, SpaceX netted a major multibillion-dollar contract under the Biden administration to send the first woman and the first person of color to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis program, whose long-term is the exploration of Mars." "SpaceX's defense contracts then grew under the Biden administration, doubling from $856 million in 2023 to $1.8 billion in 2024 as the company won new contracts for the National Security Space Launch program. In all, SpaceX has earned more than $5 billion in contracts from the Defense Department." Do you think it's sad that Biden's administration awarded Musk's companies contracts? Or do you think it's even more sad that persons of your ilk try to find anything possible to complain about in light of the great things Musk and the Trump administration are doing to save ALL of us money from frivolous and idiotic spending. I'm not poor anymore, and I won't pretend to be in financial hardship. But I once was. And I'm not so well off that I don't have to adhere to a budget at home. We are over 37 trillion in debt as a nation. If you were personally in deep debt, would you have to find ways to save? Would you have to give up certain things to make ends meet? Would you get rid of cable, cook more at home, cut out trips and other entertainment? Would you seasonally adjust your thermostat? Would you opt for keeping your vehicle for a few more years after paying it off instead jumping into another car note? Would you refinance high interest loans and consolidate your debt? Would you opt for a higher deductible on home and auto insurance policies to lower your premium? Would you make a list for grocery shopping that adheres to your budget and helps avoid impulse shopping - maybe even use coupons and look for items on sale? Would you make every effort to avoid loans and live on a cash basis instead of racking up credit card debt that becomes virtually impossible to payoff when only making the minimum payments (not to mention the additional high interest you incur)? There are literally dozens of more examples I could give, but if you answered yes to many or even any of those leading questions above, then you are doing the same thing Trump, Musk and the DOGE are doing. It's all common sense. Your "So sad" comment says that you are either uninformed, prejudiced against anything Trump, or stupid. I'll choose the first two for you. Let's say your not stupid but just uninformed and prejudiced (the non-racial kind). Open your eyes. Think before you speak (or post). Look at more than left wing articles to get your information. I do. Notice that I quoted ABC News and not Fox News. That gives more credibility to my argument, because it was published by a left leaning media source. It doesn't allow you the opportunity to say, "Oh, that's just propaganda from a conservative source." (see @Reagan posts, lol) Give yourself the chance to sound intelligent. Because oftentimes you don't.

You are right. It hasn't. But this just happened today: From ABC London Desk - "...President Donald Trump unilaterally announced an immediate start to direct peace talks with President Vladimir Putin to end the Kremlin's war on Ukraine. Trump said in a post to social media on Wednesday that he spoke with Putin by phone, adding the two leaders "agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately" to end the fighting in Ukraine after nearly three years of Russia's full-scale invasion." Sorry, but it's taken him a few weeks (instead of Biden letting it go on for years with no end in sight). He's cut off spending billions on a non-US war and has at least got things rolling towards peace. He got your boy Biden beat for damn sure on this one... Many say due to weak world leadership, Biden is directly responsible for at least a part of this conflict in the first place.

He did say this on 12/12/24: "Look, they (Biden/Democrats) got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard," he said in the interview published Thursday. "But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken," Trump said. - NBC News, Rob Wile

Can you show me exactly what he said? I'm not familiar with your claim.

He was only in office for 2 weeks when you posted this, ma'am. While I know you were used to Biden, et. al. running America in the ground in less than 2 weeks, it takes longer to build it back. Here's something that may make sense. You can burn a house down in just a few hours, but it could take a year or more to rebuild. If everyone would get in line, get out of the way and let him do his thing, you will see some amazing things. Bet.

Can't say I agree. It's a barometer of the criminal climate in Beaumont.

Ask the Gateway Pundit. I'm sure they have a reasonable answer undeterred by speculation and conspiracy theory...

Or even carried off by aliens?

Too early to tell. Sometimes things have to get a little worse before they get better. I'm thinking about the end game.

From the illustrious, all truthful, all trustworthy Gateway Pundit: "1. It took the US Army and Rebecca’s family three days to scrub her social media accounts. 2. They really don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot." 1. How do they know who "scrubbed" her social media accounts? Or when they were "scrubbed"? Or why they were "scrubbed"? 2. Pure conjecture - nothing factual to support this claim - and who are "they"? This kind of crap makes me sick. Before posting a bunch of total bulls_it, why don't you wait to see what happened? Please don't forget the dozens of people who were innocently killed before spreading malicious conjecture. Have a little sympathy & sensibility...

He never came out and said it was the fault of the previous administration. He did, however elude to the FAA's previous DEI requirements brought about under the Biden administration. "The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) "targeted disabilities" policy drew criticism from public figures Monday. The guidelines, announced in March 2022, set an annual FAA hiring goal of 3% for severely impaired employees. The listed disabilities include psychiatric and intellectual impairments, complete and partial paralysis, blindness, deafness, missing extremities, epilepsy and dwarfism. The FAA states the "targeted disabilities" category is the only protected group for which federal agencies can have a hiring goal since severely disabled workers face the most challenges with obtaining employment. The agency also claims diversity is “integral” to ensuring “safe” and “efficient” travel across the world." - Pilot Magazine Trump never said that's what specifically caused the accident.

I don't have the energy...

So do you believe it? It’s true.

Yep. Seen those years ago from when she was a much younger woman. Still very attractive.

I thought it was classy af. But your comment made me lol.

Can't freakin wait.

I like Texas. I don't like OSU. OSU is a better team though. OSU simply killed themselves with penalties allowing Texas to be competitive. Still, Texas could have pulled it off had it not been for the last couple minutes of poor coaching and average play.