Hope Larry Connor has a better game console than the last guy who tried to pilot a submersible down over 12,000 feet. A new, tested pressure hull might be good, too, not a more affordable one rejected for overuse. Dedicated, purpose-built comms that don't rely on standard cellphones might be useful, too.
When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.
Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.
CEOs have gamed the system for compensation, at the expense of labor. Their direct reports have gamed the system. The industry of inside and outside HR and compensation consultants have gamed the system to support the CEOs and their direct reports.
They all spend gobsmacking amounts of money on their anti-union consultants, lawyers, and programs. But when it comes time to pay labor, sorry folks, the piggy bank's empty. Howzat?
So Dave Calhoun, "retiring" Boeing CEO gets a total of $78 million between now and year end for overseeing a nightmare of engineering, legal problems, and customer problems for Boeing. Imagine what it would pay a successful CEO.
This is a 2x4 in the eye of regulators and those arguing that Boeing should return to being an engineering and safety-led organization, instead of a money extraction regime. Let the lawsuits and prosecutions begin.
Clearly, the senior leadership of the Republican Party has created a legal protection racket to protect what's left of Donald Trump.
Half of them seem to owe their jobs to him, half of them are afraid of owing their jobs to him, and half of them want to become his VP, in hopes that the don will soon have one too many McBurgers.
Ghoulish doesn't quite capture it, nor do the obvious and apt comparisons with Mafia families. But they're a start.
