Chunk

If you have a blue check next to your name, there’s a 85% chance I don’t care what you have to say.

@Crypsis12 He’s not wrong, tbf

Stay on your side of the pond, Piers.

The European mind cannot comprehend American’s valuing people over gear.

@DoctorLemma Repeating, of course….

20 years ago, a man screamed his own name into a microphone and ruined everything. It became one of the most famous moments in internet history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A group of players in an online game called World of Warcraft had spent several minutes planning a complicated raid. Timing, positioning, survival odds. One player calculated their chances of success at 32.33 percent, repeating. The whole time, one of their teammates wasn’t listening. He’d stepped away from his computer to reheat some chicken. When he came back, he ignored everything, screamed his character’s name at the top of his lungs, and charged straight into the fight alone. Everyone followed him in. They all died in seconds. “Leeroy, you are just stupid as hell.” “At least I have chicken.” The clip spread across the internet before “going viral” was even a phrase. It was referenced in South Park, How I Met Your Mother, and an article in a military journal. The game’s developer added the character as an official figure inside the game. His name became shorthand for anyone who ruins a plan by doing something reckless. The whole thing was staged. The group admitted years later it was a scripted re-enactment of something that had actually happened. The cameraman said: “We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real. We thought it was so obviously satire.” The player behind Leeroy Jenkins is a guy named Ben Schulz. He repairs industrial lighting for a living.

@brune_fran7623 @CBSEveningNews @sarahadams Wasn’t Delta so have a seat bro

@CBSEveningNews @sarahadams Delta checks in with “And tower” vs “La Guardia tower.” Then, JFK tower omits her station in the callback. What a joke radio communications have become. So far from the AIM. Also was a factor in the La Guardia/fire truck accident.

@CBSEveningNews Republic, not Delta

@terrakei07 Prove it!

アメリカ人の皆さん、私が日本でいま最も「反ポリコレ」「反WOKE」の著述家です。よろしくお願いいたします。

@aakashgupta There is no pilot shortage.

American Airlines has 77 regional planes sitting in storage because they can't find pilots to fly them. The expected U.S. pilot shortfall in 2026 is 24,000. Training a new commercial pilot takes 2-3 years minimum and costs six figures. So American found a loophole. Partner with a bus company, brand the bus "American Eagle," sell the seat on aa.com with a flight number, route passengers through TSA, let them pick a seat, check bags, earn AAdvantage miles. The entire experience is designed to feel like a flight in every way except the part where you leave the ground. The economics are staggering. A regional jet on a 90-mile route needs two pilots ($100K+ each), a flight attendant, jet fuel, FAA maintenance requirements, and an aircraft that costs $20-30 million. The Landline bus needs one driver and a highway. South Bend to Chicago O'Hare is 90 miles. That route doesn't make money with a regional jet anymore. It barely made money before the pilot shortage. The bus lets American keep selling connections through O'Hare to every destination in its network without operating a single flight. This is what the pilot shortage actually looks like. Not cancelled routes. Not smaller airports going dark. The airline just quietly reclassified a bus as a flight and kept charging accordingly. The TikTok exposing it has 13 million views because the passenger cleared security, sat at a gate, and watched her luggage get loaded onto a coach before it merged onto the interstate. The word "bus" appears once during booking in small text. Google Flights lists it with a tiny bus icon. The airline says customers are "transparently informed." 72% of U.S. airports have already lost an average of 25% of their flights to the shortage, and Landline is expanding, not shrinking. Philadelphia, Chicago, and now five regional airports are on the bus network. American Airlines is solving a $28,000-per-pilot-shortfall crisis by removing the pilot from the equation entirely. The bus is the product now. The flight number is just packaging.

@maziehirono @KevinPinball The very dumbest Senator

Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

@CowboyShepherd2 SWAPA grieving it?

My flying career is officially over. It came about 644 days earlier than expected. Apparently some of my mean tweets got the attention of the FHTMMM cabal, and my company’s HR department has more power than the Chief Pilots. Anyway, God has blessed me more than I could ever merit, and I know He will stand by us still. 🤠

@readthenews22 @NBCNews @natashakorecki You’re such a liar

@NBCNews @natashakorecki Airports under a Republican president & Congress = chaos! You may not “do politics” but politics will do YOU everytime. Democrats voted to fund TSA over the weekend & 49 Republicans voted no.

TSA call-outs on Sunday, March 22, per DHS: TSA call-out rate: 11.76% Total TSA officer call-outs: 3,450+ Major airport call-out rates from Sunday: • MSY 42.3% • ATL 41.5% • IAH 39.1% • BWI 38.1% • JFK 37.4% • PIT 24.7% • PHL 24.2% • LGA 21.7% • PHX 20.3%

@PapaBearett @billybinion @SenateGOP Bullshit

@billybinion Well, @SenateGOP refuse to pass it, not *all* senators

I’ve never seen anything like this. This is the New Orleans airport. The line begins far before I started filming. Everyone around me is expecting to miss their flights. All because Congress can’t figure out how to do its job.

@MissusMitch @LeighWolf I went in the VA to get a veteran ID and every clerk from reception on up’s first question was “what’s your percentage?”

@LeighWolf @chunkage Recently realizing I’m basically the only veteran not receiving benefits

If you think the Somali fraud is bad, buckle up for the forthcoming reckoning over VA fraud. Nobody wants to talk about it because it inherently requires criticizing “veterans,” but the problem isn’t going to fix itself. There’s an entire cottage industry that helps “veterans” defraud the VA at the expense of veterans that are actually disabled. The culture has become so toxic and entitled that ALL veterans are advised to pursue a VA disability rating, regardless of the nature of their service. In fact, there’s now people joining specifically to pursue easy, lifetime “disability” payments. This behavior is enraging to people who are, or know, genuinely disabled veterans.

@megynkelly @marklevinshow Whatever path you’re on, reconsider it.

Micro penis @marklevinshow is such a SMALL MAN he had to go beg the president for a pat on the head (in the middle of a war!) to make himself feel better about … well, you know. This, after one mean tweet about him - following his 111 (!) nasty, non-stop, personal, misogynistic attacks on me. (Fox has an OBSESSED HARASSER on its hands.) Just like all feckless, weakling bullies Micro can dish it out but he can’t take it. After just one post putting the so-called “great one” in his place, he ran crying to Daddy.

@JoshEakle We have enough domestic energy production for our needs. Does Europe??

As it turns out, having the respect and support of your allies has real geopolitical consequences.

@thestinkeye @cdrsalamander @DeptofWar Shack.

@cdrsalamander Iran just became the live-fire training MOA for the @DeptofWar. We need to start a CCIP bombing derby using Mk82/83/84 series bombs between Naval Aviation and the Chair Force.

Wait...if we're able to do strafing runs at Chabahar...

Wow. You gotta watch this. She walked out because she just had zero argument to facts. The “Pro-Palestine” mob crumble when faced with the truth.

@jec79 Fuck….and I can’t overemphasize this enough…all the way off. Your pinko country has only lived by the sacrifice of better men than you (the American GI) for centuries.

The owner of the largest Navy in the history of the world would like sailors from other countries to die in a war he started without consulting anyone. Pass, thanks.

@adamscochran As a guy who flew Navy jets in the Gulf back in the day, I assure you Kharg is very much full of military targets. You’re a know-nothing moron.

What the HELL?! Who is giving Trump advice right now? Kharg Island doesn’t have any military targets - it is all oil shipping infrastructure and storage. You can see it ALL from aerial images. Iran considered this their red line as 90% of oil from Iran passes through here. There is no world in which this doesn’t further escalate Iran and cause more pain in the oil markets. This will also cut off China and India from Iranian oil entirely…

@MeghanMcCain @just_mindy All while the Democrats keep DHS unfunded

There have now been four jihadist attacks on the US homeland in the last two weeks and one at the school I took my kids to see Disney on Ice at. Don’t try and gaslight me Muslim extemism isn’t a full blown crisis in this country.