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Don’t really care who ran on what. I don’t need someone to politic for exposing child predators to want child predators exposed.
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Which brings us right back to the supposition that Epstein was the only person abusing underage girls at his party place. I don’t think that’s likely. I mentioned there being no reason to withhold information unless there’s an ongoing investigation, and find is hard to believe that they’re still looking into it. And I agree that you don’t name names unless they’re being charged. I just don’t think that it’s anywhere near as clean as Epstein acting alone.
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Epstein killed himself in 2019. By your “norms” standard the only person involved was dead for 4 years when the current administration took over. Thats if we believe that there was a secret party island for the elites covered in cameras where minors were being sex trafficked for just Epstein himself. That seems unlikely to me, but I don’t think we’ll ever know
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If there were files regarding Trump in the Epstein case, and he can burn in hell with anyone else if they were involved in trafficking and sexually abusing underage children, then the only thing preventing the Dems from producing them would be mutually assured destruction. That or they had nothing. There’s no reason to not release the information involved, supposing it’s not being used for active investigation for some reason, if it was just Epstein abusing the children. I suspect there’s a lot of powerful people involved, and no one wants to open Pandora’s box.
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Meh, the Dems had the chance to release this information quite recently and declined. Either tons of pols, celebs and other powerbrokers came to party at his island and only Epstein diddled the minors, or they’re all involved and no one wants to open Pandora’s box. Probably the latter which is why it’s unlikely we’ll never know what happened.
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I’ve jumpseated on 787’s. There’s no reason to have a hand anywhere near those things, and the basic design is the same as those used on numerous airframes Boeing and Airbus. The switch has to physically be pulled up and then over a detent before being retracted with a spring like mechanism into its new position. It’s pretty fool proof, and would be interesting for this to suddenly raise its head after the airframe has been flying countless hours over 14 years. Also, two defective switches going into the same plane and failing at the same time is kinda stretching things possibility wise.
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The motors will relight pretty quickly if they’re already spinning and fuel is added. It takes a while for the APU on most planes to get up to speed. 60 seconds on an Airbus for example.
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There was no asymmetric thrust situation. You can watch the video and see the thing never yaws hard to one direction or has the rudder deflect hard to compensate for one engine at takeoff power. The plane will fly and climb just fine on one motor, and will have special procedures in place in the cases where the climb rate is insufficient to clear terrain. Literally no one trains to do anything procedurally related to a simple engine failure below the acceleration altitude in aviation,. A simple engine failure is a very deliberate and considered exercise and there is no rush to get the thing back on the ground. It’s usually overweight for landing anyway. A situation with something like an engine fire is different, but that didn’t happen here. Add to that the fact that the RAT was out and spinning early on suggests that both engines “failed” simultaneously. Those things take a while to deploy and spin up.
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I mean, compared to the news….
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I knew it wasn’t raining during the crash but thought perhaps beforehand. Checking the weather on that day reveals 0 precip. Damn. Spoofed on a pilot website.
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AAIB Preliminary Report Highlights 1. Primary Cause – Electrical Power Transfer Interruption (PTI) During Rotation • During transition from ground to airborne electrical configuration, the aircraft experienced a cascading dual-engine FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) failure. • Root cause: Uncommanded bus transfer failure due to arcing in the main power relay box (PRB-A), traced to water ingress during pre-flight GPU disconnection in heavy rain. • This led to loss of electronic engine control at rotation, resulting in both GEnx engines rolling back to ground idle within 4–5 seconds. 2. Flight Data Record Timeline • +0:11 sec: Nose gear lifts off. • +0:13 sec: Sudden engine rollback begins. Thrust reduces from 92% N1 to <27% within 3 seconds. • +0:16 sec: Master caution + ENG FAIL L/R warnings. FO calls, “Both engines dropping!” • +0:20 sec: Autopilot and flight control reverts to Direct Mode. Pitch up attitude peaks at 18°. • +0:25 sec: Aircraft stalls at 186 ft AGL. • +0:30 sec: Full aerodynamic stall; nose drops rapidly. • +0:38 sec: Ground impact at 54° nose-down attitude, 174 knots.
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I think that’s wish casting. Especially if it’s Israel firing up the Bomb Iran playlist. This is and was being spun as the strike ending this particular flare up. It’s not entirely untrue given Iran’s token response, and possible signaling of where that response would strike so as not to actually hit anything. An adult decision on their end imoho. We’ll see what comes of the new round of negotiations, but the mulligan will end up being limited strikes on whatever remains of the Iranian nuclear program. Boots on the ground or a year long bombing campaign wouldn’t be tolerated. Another hit? Probably so with those objectives, and I wouldn’t be shocked if a link to an assassination attempt was played up for the base. Always better to have them responding to you than the other way around. I don’t think anyone was surprised that B-2’s could make global strikes with large, precision bomb loads. Especially in non contested air space. They’ve been doing that for years.
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It sounds like Iran will be asked to give up all nuclear weapons aspirations and material or the bombing may resume sooner than that. And I don’t think the Mossad putting out that they wanted to eliminate the Ayatollah was coincidence. Negotiations will probably be held with a big bag of “Or else” sitting in plain sight.
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Well, once you get past the rage bait and actually watch the briefing by the general you learn some interesting facts. It was 6 MOPs down two ventilation shafts at Fordow. Each weapon was fused specifically for its sequence in the drop, and had a warhead specialized for that sequence. The Iranians had attempted to put concrete lids on both shafts that were removed by the first weapon in each case. The final MOP dropped was an all purpose bomb carried in case of one of the bombers failing to drop for whatever reason, one of the bombs failing to hit the target or failing to detonate. Primary destruction was accomplished by blast and pressure wave effects, and the follow on B2 crews reported that the site was lit up like daylight possibly indicating that something inside the facility was burning beyond the explosive effects of a bunker buster.
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No, no. There might be something to this Ty Webb assessment strategy.
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