Vaxxine Rebellion

[Ming]

You keep reading fake fact-checks designed to make you think Mashed Potato Brains has everything under control.

Blah blah blah... as usual, you just make crap up.

Just keep posting what your masters are telling you to.
Sheep...

[Kidlicious]

Just keep posting what your masters instruct you to...
Sheep.

You keep reading fake fact-checks designed to make you think Mashed Potato Brains has everything under control.

[Ming]

Just keep posting what your masters instruct you to...
Sheep.

[Kidlicious]

Same pattern of bull****. They report what Southwest Airlines says (what comes from their PR department) as though it's the absolute truth. Proof that "right-wing commentators" are lying! As though Southwest Airlines would never lie.

This is so common that it's ridiculous, and you always fall for it.

[Ming]

Interesting "editorial" Kid...

Well how about this...

The Reason Southwest Airlines Had an Epic Meltdown This Weekend
Aaron Mak 49 mins ago

Southwest Airlines has canceled more than 2,000 flights since Friday, amounting to about a third of its schedule over the long weekend. The disruptions left tens of thousands of passengers stranded, and the carrier’s operations are still playing catchup. One top of the usual consumer agony and social-media meltdowns that this has inspired, there’s a bizarre twist: Southwest’s predicament has become a talking point for conservative commentators and politicians in their campaign against vaccine mandates. That would be wild if there was some truth to a mandate causing these problems (spoiler: it didn’t), but what’s actually going on might be even more enervating. Fasten your own seatbelt before fastening any others’, and I’ll explain what’s going on.

According to Southwest, weather and air traffic control snafus began grounding a number of flights on Friday. (The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that a staffing shortfall at an air traffic control center, weather, and military training exercises did cause cancelations and delays, but only for a few hours.) That initial wave of cancelations, Southwest said, discombobulated their whole system by preventing aircrafts and crews from being in the right places at the right times according to schedule. There was then a cascading effect in which other flights also had to be canceled because, in some cases, pilots, crew, and the airplanes themselves weren’t in the right places. Southwest is also still trying to ramp up operations again after it made cutbacks during the height of the pandemic, which also impacted its ability to absorb the initial shock of nixed flights.
Woof. Is this happening to other airlines?
This appears not to be an aviation problem so much as a Southwest problem; other airlines were able to carry on with minimal cancellations after Friday’s disruptions. Southwest has generally struggled with coordinating its operations as of late; it had the highest percentage of cancelations and worst on-time performance among the country’s four major airlines in June and July. The Southwest pilots’ union further blamed the company’s technical systems and processes for reassigning pilots when disruptions occur, claiming that these are longstanding problems that executives have failed to fix for years. The airline has struggled with rerouting pilots party because it uses a “point-to-point” system, which focuses on flying passengers directly to their destinations. This is opposed to the “hub-and-spoke” model that American Airlines uses, in which passengers are often first routed to a main base of operations before departing for their final destination. While the point-to-point system has the advantage of reducing travel times and the number of connecting flights, it can be difficult to adapt to unexpected situations. Southwest’s point-to-point network also covers an unusually large geographic area, which makes reassigning pilots even more complicated.

Southwest Airlines set an Oct. 4 COVID-19 vaccination deadline for its employees. The airline established this policy in order to abide by a new federal requirement dictating that government contractors, like Southwest, have to enforce vaccination mandates. The pilots’ union at Southwest proceeded to petition a federal court in Dallas to temporarily block the company’s mandate on the grounds that it allegedly violates labor laws. The ensuing cancelation debacle led conservatives to speculate that staff like pilots and air traffic controllers were calling in sick and walking out in order to protest the mandate. They’ve been wielding this theory as a cudgel to knock the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement, insinuating that it’s hurting the economy. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted that “Joe Biden’s illegal vaccine mandate” was leading to a shortage of “pilots & air traffic controllers.” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson identified himself in a tweet as a “loyal Southwest customer” and urged the company to “stop the madness before more damage is done.” Conservative media have also been pushing this narrative, with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson claiming the cancelations were “a direct consequence” of Biden’s policy.

Is there any evidence backing up these claims?
Based on the information publicly available at the moment, Southwest’s vaccine mandate appears to have little to do with the cancelations. The FAA announced that there haven’t been any air traffic staffing shortages since Friday. Even people at Southwest who are opposed to vaccine mandates in general say that the new policy was not to blame for the disarray. In a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly criticized Biden for forcing private companies to establish mandates, but nevertheless said, “That’s not what was at issue with Southwest over the weekend.” The pilot’s union, which is suing Southwest over the mandate, pushed back on speculation about a walkout protest. The union’s president, Casey Murray, told CBS News that the pilot sick rate over the weekend was consistent with what the company experienced over the summer. Southwest also isn’t the only airline that’s faced internal pushback for its mandate. Hundreds of employees protested American Airlines’ vaccine requirements at the company’s headquarters in Texas last week. Yet, American only had a 2 percent cancelation rate on Sunday, while it was 30 percent for Southwest.

How long is this problem expected to last?
Operations seem to be returning to normal to some degree. The airline only canceled 87 (or about 2 percent) of its flights on Tuesday, which is a marked improvement from this weekend but still worse than most other U.S. airlines. To prevent this from happening again, the airline has said that it will be cutting down on the number of flights it has scheduled for the fall and build up a reserve of staffers to act as a cushion in the event of an emergency. Seems like a pretty good time to consider becoming a pilot.

[Kidlicious]

I don't need Democrats telling me how to be a grown up. Even baby boomer Democrats still have the mentality of spoiled children.

[-Jrabbit]

So you are, in fact, incapable of separating the two. You have the emotional maturity of a pre-schooler.

[Kidlicious]

Mods,

I posted that in two threads. This is the thread that I want it in. The post in the other thread is in the wrong thread. Thanks.

[Kidlicious]

The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?

https://thenewamerican.com/the-great...nes-rebellion/

by Ron Paul October 11, 2021

The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?

The incredible cruelty and folly of forced vaccines finally came home to roost. The vaccine mandate backlash has been bubbling just under the surface, but now it has spilled out into the open, threatening to completely derail an already crumbling economy and to obliterate a deeply unpopular US President and Administration.

Seemingly out of nowhere what appears to be a Southwest Airlines rebellion has taken flight this weekend. According to media reports, scores of pilots and other Southwest employees have coordinated the taking of “sick days” to use them up in advance of a Southwest Airlines mandate to get the jab or lose the job. Over Saturday and Sunday more than 2,000 flights have been cancelled, with airports experiencing full-on mayhem.

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association is suing the airline over the imposed vaccine mandate, bolstering the claim that there is a “sick out” underway among angry Southwest pilots.

The mainstream media is doing its best to keep a lid on the expanding rebellion against the vaccine mandates, and Southwest Airlines itself is blaming the cancellations on bad weather and a lack of air traffic controllers. However, the weather problems that Southwest claims to be experiencing seem unique to that carrier: no other airline (thus far) is reporting such weather-related cancellations. And FAA spokesperson Steve Kulm told USA Today that “No FAA air traffic staffing shortages have been reported since Friday.”

Will other pilots, such as at American Airlines, follow suit? Rumors are circling that this is only the beginning.

Over the past few weeks, thousands of nurses, medical workers, and first responders have either quit or been fired for refusing to receive a medical treatment they do not want or need. The “nursing shortage” that Democrat politicians and the mainstream media had been blaming on “rising Covid cases” has been in reality a man-made disaster of historic proportions. The nursing crisis is not caused by “Covid” — cases have been in decline in the US for weeks. It is caused by the firing of medical personnel who refuse to take the experimental Covid shots.

The stupidity of adopting a policy of firing healthcare workers while at the same time claiming that there is a raging pandemic gripping the country has not been lost on Americans. President Biden’s polling numbers have unsurprisingly been in freefall, with major Democrat candidates like Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe openly complaining that the deeply unpopular Biden is threatening him in a tight race for governor.

While Biden Administration lackeys like Fauci are telling Americans they can’t celebrate Christmas again this year, more and more of America is finished with this “public health” terrorism. Here in Texas, a hundred thousand unmasked Texas A&M fans poured onto the football field on Saturday after a last minute surprise victory over Alabama. In Texas and elsewhere, the Administration is losing the fear factor.

History may record this weekend as the turning point against the Biden Administration’s Covid tyranny. From nurses to pilots to truckers to even Amtrak workers, it appears that America is standing up and saying “enough!” Every one of our fellow citizens standing up on principle to oppose tyranny — facing the loss of their jobs and security — is owed a debt of gratitude by all who love liberty. Let’s hope that the peaceful rebellion continues to grow!

[Kidlicious]

Funny way to defend Big Pharma. Not funny haha.

[giblets]

Did they twirl their mustaches and cackle maniacally?

[Kidlicious]

I thought that was Reagan. Oh well.

[Kidlicious]

Possible doesn't mean a damn thing, and they are liars. They are crooks pushing their own agenda and don't give a damn about your grandma or your children.

[-Jrabbit]

Nixon would have them arrested.

[-Jrabbit]

I don't trust politicians in the slightest. But it's actually possible for a government you don't trust to STILL be offering the best available solution.