Timing is everything

 During the first month of 2025 there has not been a school shooting large enough to attract media attention, but when there is we will be told (thoughts & prayers) that it's inappropriate to bring up the subject of gun control -- too soon.  A few hours later, it will be too late.  Some things should never be politicized, we will be told.  Think of the families, we will be told.

Last night an American Eagle flight from Wichita collided with a Sikorski Black Hawk helicopter while trying to land at Reagan National Airport.  Both craft fell into the Potomac and 67 people died.  Rescuers were still searching the river when the politicking began.

The bankrupt semi-literate felon turns out to be an expert on aviation and air traffic control.  Who knew?  That must be why he fired the heads of the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration and the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee on Day Two (January 21 for those still using the Gregorian calendar).  The head of the FAA had resigned a day earlier because Co-President Musk doesn't like him.  Or as they explained it,

Just so you know, last night's crash is the fault of Joe Biden.  Maria Bartiromo says so -- the Fox house expert told her that "air traffic control and the FAA have been broken for years," and the authoritative Ron Johnson agrees.  He blames "old technology" and thinks "someone like Elon Musk could get in here and really modernize things."  Let's put the owner of SpaceX in charge of regulating aviation.  What conflict of interest?

Naturally The Leader didn't stop with Biden.  He went all the way back to the Obama administration, whose standards he personally changed from "very mediocre at best to extraordinary," cleaning out all that DEI deadwood and replacing it with "highest aptitude" (i.e., white male) air traffic controllers.  Then Biden and Pete Buttigieg come along and promote these unqualified people and pretty soon planes are flying into helicopters.  It has yet to be established that last night's accident was the fault of ATC at Reagan, one of the busiest airports in the country.  The Leader is prepared to blame the Army chopper pilot, probably another DEI, while rich guy Bill Ackman has leapt to terrorism.  So many experts, and all the bodies have yet to be recovered.  We will know more facts when the National Transportation Safety Board finishes its investigation, if it still exists.  That could take months or years, useless for snap pronouncements.

For those who lost track, two January 6 "hostages" have been killed by police and a third is under arrest in Texas for soliciting young boys.  Today we report on Emily Hernandez, once the proud owner of Nancy Pelosi's name plate:

Hernandez will be spending the next seventeen years in prison for driving while drunk on the wrong side of the highway in Missouri, killing Victoria Wilson and injuring her husband Ryan Wilson.  She is not eligible for another presidential pardon.  Other "patriots" have criminal records for rape, domestic violence and drug trafficking, so we'll doubtless be hearing more from them.

Sobbing former Senator Bob Menendez sounded like a real Republican outside the Manhattan courthouse where he was sentenced to eleven years for corruption and bribery:  "Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the Wild West of political prosecution.  President Trump was right.  This process is political and it's corrupted to the core.  I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system."  (Biden declined to pardon him.)  I hope Menendez has a few of those gold bars tucked away -- pardons are pricey.

Here's what the restoration of integrity will look like.

Mayor Eric Adams, under indictment for bribery and corruption, has been snuggling up to The Leader and promising to cooperate with ICE in deporting undocumented immigrants, unlike the unindicted mayors of other large cities.  He just needs one small favor.

The Justice Department has dropped the stolen-documents charges against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, faithful retainers of The Leader.

Who's lying to the Senate today?  It's Kash Patel, refusing to say whether he will use the FBI against The Leader's enemies within.  (He will.)  He told them the enemies list in his book Government Gangsters is not an enemies list.  He denied direct quotations read by Senator Amy Klobuchar calling for the FBI to be turned into a "deep state" museum.  He still claims to have been the "lead prosecutor" in the Benghazi investigation.  The weasel sounds perfect for the job.  Check out his merch.  I bet we'll see John Fetterman in a K$H hoodie before spring.

Quotation of the day from reality TV star-turned-Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy:  "Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide.  I want to be clear on that."  He's already mastered the job.