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"There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil " this is the gift of God.

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will respect him.

Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.

- the prophet Ezekiel ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in Babylon during the 6th century B.C.. Written between roughly 593 and 571 B.C.

(also a Byrds song!)

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"...why millions of Americans supported him in the first place." #28 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-05-09 07:52 PM

"Supported"?

What a fool you are, bj boi

Throughout the month of October, 2024, the Trump campaign (and associated entities) spent $300,000,000.00 on ads in all 7 swing states during televised NFL and NCAA football games. The topic of all of those ads? Then-CA Attorney General Kamala Harris' 2019 response to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming (read: trans) care for federal inmates.

And the amount of money the Harris campaign spent countering those ads in the swing states during NFL and NCAA football games? You know, to point out the truth that she was simply responding to a question about a Trump administration dictate on gender-affirming for federal inmates? To counter the deceptive, the lying-by-omission ads run by Trump & company?

Zero dollars

The efficacy of this strategy was born out election night, 2024, when Steve Kornacki was calling individual counties (starting with Pennsylvania) and highlighting that the Harris/Walz ticket was falling short of votes as opposed to the votes in the 2020 election for the Biden/Harris ticket. His reporting was, in effect, a death by 1,000 cuts for Harris/Walz.

Trump & company knew that all it would take would be the suppression of Biden votes in 2024 by just a point or two for Trump to carry those counties, all 7 swing states and, ultimately, the election. They judged, correctly, that men - men of color and white - would be turned off enough by the "pro-trans" Harris that they voted for Trump, or didn't vote at all.

Either way, mission accomplished.

Nothing there about wondering why millions of Americans either sat out 2024 or voted for Trump.

Nope.

Nothing "wondering" about that whatsoever.

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Item # 7 on the linked page Snip ...

Two reasons this belongs in a political brief.

First, this is an industry where the United States still has a genuine technological and regulatory lead, and that lead is fragile. China's eVTOL companies like AutoFlight, EHang, XPeng, are mass-producing at a pace Western investors find unnerving. The 2026 race for the next category of aircraft is one we can still win, and the U.S. policy response is uncharacteristically coherent.

Hold that thought against the rest of this brief, where the news is uniformly grim. The country is still capable of doing things right when the right people are left alone to do them.

Second, watch the certification fights coming. eVTOLs blur the line between aircraft, helicopters, and autonomous systems. As a pilot, I don't find them that compelling; they're short-ranged, mostly robotic, and slow in comparison to most GA aircraft, but as airplanes, they're a phase change in flight.

That is a politics story dressed in an engineering story.

Item # 7 on the linked page Snip ...

Underneath the political rubble, one of the most consequential technology transitions of our lifetimes is quietly happening, and it is happening in the air.

The civilian eVTOL race is finally leaving vaporware territory. Joby Aviation's S4 is grinding through the FAA's Type Inspection Authorization process. The company also wrapped a series of S-4T autonomous demonstration flights for the U.S. Army at the end of April using hybrid-electric power. Archer Aviation is licensing its electric powertrain to Anduril for the Omen autonomous platform and is pursuing TIA certification for its Midnight aircraft. BETA Technologies has logged more than 100,000 nautical miles on its ALIA conventional-takeoff variant and is targeting CTOL certification this year. Wisk, owned by Boeing, is running fully autonomous Gen 6 hover tests and aiming for transition flight inside six months. Four serious companies, four credible aircraft, all converging on real type certification within eighteen months.

On the military side, adjacent but worth noting, DARPA and Northrop Grumman confirmed this week that the XRQ-73 SHEPARD, a hybrid-electric uncrewed aircraft and the operational successor to the Great Horned Owl ISR program, is now in active flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base. The Pentagon is flying a class of aircraft that did not exist in a meaningful way five years ago.

The FAA's aviation policy here has been cooking for a while, and to give credit where it is due, it is not stupid. The "Unleashing Drone Dominance" executive order produced an FAA pilot program the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program that selected eight test sites earlier this year for live commercial operations beginning summer 2026. Florida, Louisiana, Utah, Pennsylvania, the Northeast, and Albuquerque made the list. Real eVTOLs will be carrying real passengers and real cargo in real American airspace within months.

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And before someone says anything, the above I posted in NO WAY DENIES THE WHITE BIGOTRY TOWARDS BLACKS IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.... Whites subjugated not just blacks, but American Indians as well...and we seem to forget about the Indians (I have yet to find one of my Indian friends, and I am part Indian myself--Powhatan tribe to be precise, who refer to themselves as "Native Americans.") So don't take my --- out of context please...well you will anyways so I really don't give a flying --- actually. I know what my experience is, and I know the experiences of hundreds and hundreds of blacks that I've worked with personally. Yes, white bigotry...but also black bigotry as well...they just don't talk about it with whitey...well, until that comedian in the post above did LOL.....

I guess the point is, bigotry comes in many forms. Hell, my very close friend who happens to be both gay and black, and raised in Louisiana said, "I really didn't experience many problems in high school...it wasn't until college...and holy ---- ...the in-fighting within the LGBTQ community is INSANE on college campuses..." Or even within the white community, the bigotry that the Irish experienced in America. Or go to Japan, and watch how they react to blacks IN CERTAIN REGIONS...

What I do NOT want is for everyone to end up with grey skin....despite the bigotry, there's also a sense of most of use get along .... just go to your local store or gas station...you'll see a white guy hold the door for a black guy and vice-versa...and personally I find BEAUTY in all races, cultures, etc. I mean, I'm a white Nerd...and I was prejudiced against in school...boys putting their crotch in my face and saying "SUCK IT ------ GEEK" etc... entire school bus singing made up songs about me etc.... but hey, the very thing they made fun of is my strength... and they were just kids...they didn't understand..

JUST LIKE THE REPUBLICAN MENTIONED ABOVE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT RACISM AT THE TIME....so why bash him??? Why not ------ celebrate that HE UNDERSTANDS NOW!!! I swear, some of you folks will bitch about anything, even if the person you're bitching about finally comes to a better understanding about things....'

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