BuffDriver63
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BuffDriver63
@mike87rich
Christian, Husband, Father, Grandfather, 2A, USAF Veteran 🇺🇲 B-52 Pilot. ○|||||||○ driver, All Glory To My Lord and Savior🙏🏻 ✝️. Elk hunter/fly fisherman.
Oklahoma, USA Katılım Temmuz 2021
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@PramilaJayapal Ask a Canadian how socialized medicine works? It takes 9 months to see a specialist, if you're lucky. And then the quality of care is substandard.
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The health insurance industry hopes you never hear this:
Medicare for All would save the average American family over $12,000 a year. Gone: monthly premiums. No premiums. No deductibles. No copays. No surprise bills. No “out-of-network” traps. No $500 ambulance bill months later.
That is why they spend $150 million a year lobbying Congress.
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🚨 Big Auto Just Declared War on Your Wallet
You buy a $60,000+ Cadillac or Chevy… and GM still wants to charge you every month just to use your own car.
By 2028, GM plans to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all new vehicles. Navigation, music, texting, even basic connectivity? All locked behind their paid subscription service.
They’ll let you own the metal… but they’ll rent you the brain.
This isn’t innovation — it’s a subscription trap on wheels. You already paid for the car. Now they want a monthly fee for features that used to just work.
American innovation used to mean better products. Now it means better ways to nickel-and-dime you after the sale.
Who else is tired of this?
Tag a car buyer who needs to see this.

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@JustTheTweets17 J6 Activist? So you were part of Pelosi's fake insurrection?
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59% of Americans say Trump is mentally unfit to serve.
55% say Trump is too physically unfit to serve.
65% say Trump doesn't carefully consider important decisions.
50% say gas prices will continue to rise.
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Terminate the filibuster
And wings
Pass it on
Cynthia Holt@Ghostofcynthia
Terminate the filibuster And win Pass it on
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Terminate the filibuster
And win
Pass it on
𝕎𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕁𝕖𝕤𝕤 🇺🇸@ImWickedJess
Terminate the filibuster And win Pass it on
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@Milajoy @LeaderJohnThune Somebody owns his ass. Remove him as Leader NOW!
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John Thune is no longer considering the SAVE America Act.
He's tagged.
Tell @LeaderJohnThune what you think of his decision.

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@BuzzPatterson United's DEI policies have put unqualified pilots in the cockpit. I'm not saying it is the case here but I am curious to know the flight crew backgrounds.
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More thoughts on landings:
I went to the Reserves & got re-qualified as a KC-10 instructor after a couple years away from the jet.
The DO (Director of Operations) assigned me to fly w/ the Wing Commander, who flew jets occasionally now & had only a weird “Senior Staff” Qual in the KC-10. Long story.
Anyway, the DO gave me a warning. He phrased it in a nice way, but told me they only allowed certain instructors to fly w/ the Wing Commander. It piqued my curiosity, but I didn’t go on high alert or anything.
So, we’re on the last landing of the sortie, really late at night. Things look fine, he’s doing fine, and I’m happy we’re almost done.
Somehow in the last 100’, this guy manages to put the jet down almost in the lights leading up to the runway. I’ve never seen anything like it & couldn’t explain it. It was like the universe paused, reset our height above the ground, then resumed play.
We touched down on the main gear maybe 50’ from the runway threshold. I didn’t have time to react. I realized we were safe & stopping, so didn’t say anything. I didn’t debrief him, either…he wasn’t going to listen to me anyway.
I tried to figure out how that happened. I honestly never did. I didn’t see any yoke movements or power adjustments that would account for it, nor was there any weather that would do it. We were on speed & glidepath. I still don’t really know.
Anyway, I talked to the DO the next day. He wasn’t surprised, and reiterated that was why they only let him fly with a handful of instructors. I flew with him again, and it was vanilla, but I watched like a Hawk. That lesson sticks with me.
Fast forward to years later, and I haven’t actually flown the KC-10 in a long time. I’m not current & so my qualification has lapsed. I hear my son on a video game group chat telling others something along the lines of “yeah, when my dad retires I get to wave the jet in to parking”.
Shit. The kids are expecting that. I was just going to go away quietly…I had a lot going on in those years. A lot. I didn’t have the bandwidth for the KC-10, but now there is an expectation & I can’t let them down.
So, the squadron goes to extraordinary lengths & draws up a whole requalification plan for me, which has to be signed at multiple levels. In reality, it’s just to do one last flight, and not even do much flying. The squadron was extremely gracious in this regard.
My instructor, a good friend of mine, offers me the last landing. I’ve strapped into the seat for this one…I’d been napping in the back while the other pilots took turns practicing touch & gos for their currency.
I considered it, but the jet – which I had thousands of hours on – felt huge now & I was uncomfortable. I declined & put my hands in my lap.
He landed & slowed it down. I took over to taxi it in for my kids, and then we had the whole show of throwing water on me, champagne & pictures.
And that was it. That was my last landing in a military jet.
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Free and independent media is essential to democracy and ensuring that the powerful are held to account.
In the face of increasingly insidious efforts to undermine basic facts and truths, this public service is all the more important.
On World Press Freedom Day, we recognize journalists for their contributions and sacrifices to make sure that critical stories are told, and for speaking truth to power.
Both here at home and around the world.
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