Posted on 08/26/2024 1:27:46 AM PDT by Libloather
It works out for the best that they stole the 2020 election. Yes it sounds crazy.
But if it had not happened, we would have no idea how far and how deep the rot extended.
How murderous the Deep State is.
How there really is NO FLOOR of decent conduct or morality that the Rats will not descend beneath. How there is no lie they will not tell.
How pure their Communism is.
It also reminded us daily of what a good POTUS Trump was and is. How good his judgment is. How well he is received and respected by the evil leaders around the world.
Now all we need to do is get him back in the White House and support whatever changes he wants to make.
And after having been shot and nearly killed publicly, he is without a doubt motivated and has tremendously clear vision.
Yes, I believe he fired 3/4th of the staff at Twitter. Can you just imagine the cuts he could suggest for the federal government.
That is very true.
You mentioned “no floor” to their rot, and I think that is very accurate. Once you have made the decision to allow rot, limiting the rot is not an option.
It can go as deep as reality lets it go.
Nope, but they’re (the unions) are still trying.
From 1960 to 1964, my father worked as an engineer for Boeing. That job ended when Boeing laid off so many of its workers, that it made American history. Of course, my Dad was not the politically correct, “DEI” type that so many corporations want working for them these days. Fast-forward to this year: Boeing has problems with its aircraft, and sends two astronauts to the International Space Station on a spaceship that cannot return to earth safely. Now, to Boeing’s humiliation, its rival SpaceX is going to rescue the astronauts.
This has me wondering, would Boeing be in so much trouble if they had kept their workers, sixty years ago?
Well, yes, that and the fact that Boeing's risk assessment likely came from the same sources that OK'd the mission in the first place.
During WWII Boeing designed, bug-fixed, and built over 3,000 B29 bombers, and during the 54 year run of the 747 (it sez here) built about of those 1500 jumbos.
Since 1964 Boeing's gone all the way through the 747 life cycle -- from passenger jumbo to freight-hauler (plus I think some military iterations) and probably peaked. Almost 4000 people have been killed in 747 failures worldwide during that time, but literally millions have flown on them.
Lockheed and Boeing were the two finalists in the US-funded SST project; Boeing's final pitch was so over-the-top that the design couldn't have been built, but between its claimed future capability (and probably back alley graft transactions) the Boeing design got the nod. All the bidders made some money on the process, AFAIK, but the Lockheed design was probably the one that should have been chosen.
Boeing absorbed McDonnell-Douglas, its main airliner competitor. The other day someone around here said Boeing mgmt wound up disproportionately run by M-D pencilnecks. There was also a discussion the other day about the Darlene Druyon military procurement corruption scandal, which further disadvantaged Lockheed.
The pattern isn't merely the current DEI fad, it's mostly about creeping incompetence, the pursuit of de facto monopoly power, and naked corruption.
This one was amusing though:
really off the trail sidebar:
I have a copy of this upstairs, it’s about as thick as a briefcase, and I’ve never read the entire thing, but chapters I’ve picked off over the years have been fascinating:
Raise Heaven and Earth: The Story of Martin Marietta People and Their Pioneering Achievements
by William B. Harwood | Jan 1, 1993
you can thank the merger of McDonald-Douglas and Boeing, nothing but bean counters in management now.
nasa has zero to do with starliner operations nor did they design starliner, nasa awarded two commerical crew contracts one to boeing for something like $4.3 billion to design and operate they spacecraft, nasa gave spacex less something like $2 billion to do the same, spacex came in early and boeing is years late. says something about “old space” and how they operate.
oh i left out these are fixed rate contracts and each got extra money for meeting their milestones, boeing is still behind, spacex is well..
lots of resupply all the time, waste liqued is recycled, solid waste is placed into bio bags and loaded in the resupply ships that burn up on reentry.. been that way for over 20yrs now.
I worked for a company, who had hired Boeing consultants to help with their computer systems. Once, one of the head system techs gave me a password: BoeingMorons. He said it was because they were so useless and stupid. I’ve never forgotten that, and that thought has come into my brain many times lately, due to Boeing’s technical problems.
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