Each airport, accounting for wind and weather, how much McDonald's Bloaty McBloatface had devoured in the last half day, might mean it takes a couple launches. They'd get it eventually. I'm sure of it.

usonian

(23,289 posts)

8. Great idea.

Reply to flvegan (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:49 AM

Jun 2025

Fastest onboarding ever. Nobody ever got on board faster.

flvegan

(65,680 posts)

13. "All the pilots come up to me, tears

Reply to usonian (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:05 PM

Jun 2025

in their eyes, and say 'sir, you're the most magnificent flying jumbo, each time, and I wish I could fly as quickly and majestically as you do', and I say I know air better than anyone, and you have to know air, some say you have to have air, but I know air and sometimes, most times I have it."

Maru Kitteh

(31,187 posts)

11. We had the same thought. Punkin chunkin.

Reply to flvegan (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:57 AM

Jun 2025

For Democracy.

flvegan

(65,680 posts)

17. LOL

Reply to Maru Kitteh (Reply #11)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 01:02 PM

Jun 2025

Love it!

sop

(17,280 posts)

14. Put him on one of those conveyor belt ramps they use to load luggage.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:45 PM

Jun 2025

Hopefully, baggage handlers would lose him and he'd sit unclaimed in a hangar for several years.

tinrobot

(11,937 posts)

15. A lift for the narcissist who wears lifts?

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:54 PM

Jun 2025

Ms. Toad

(38,092 posts)

16. Physical mobility has nothing to do with whether or not he has a clue.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:58 PM

Jun 2025

He doesn't. Full stop.

But stop suggesting people (Trump or anyone else) with physical disabilities are stupid.

I fell yesterday - flat on my face with multiple bruises to prove it. Not unusual - the only thing that is unusual is that I have bruises from it. I fall so often that I have learned to completely relax when I fall so that I don't injure myself - yesterday I was holding something I couldn't spill so relaxing wasn't an option. It has been years since I have been able to answer "no" to the medical visit question, "Have you fallen in the last X months?" - no matter how small X is. I have three degrees, and was top in my class in two of those. I am currently working on a 4th, and about 1/3 of the way in with a 4.0 average. Obviously "having a clue" isn't an issue for me.

FDR, responsible for many of the social net programs we are fighting so hard to save, used a wheelchair.

Ridicule Trump for his ego, his narcissism, his cruelty, his politics, etc. But please stop suggesting physical mobility makes someone better or more capable than those who are less mobile.

usonian

(23,289 posts)

21. I totally agree.

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #16)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:14 PM

Jun 2025

But look at what he said about Joe Biden, altered in the OP to show that he's reaping the vile poison he sowed.

Donald Trump: “Joe Biden can’t even walk up a flight of stairs on Air Force One…We have somebody that doesn't have a clue representing us”

Ms. Toad

(38,092 posts)

22. Trump says a lot of things which are cruel, bigoted, inappropriate, etc.

Reply to usonian (Reply #21)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 07:35 PM

Jun 2025

Repeating them with his name doesn't make the statements any less cruel, bigoted, inappropriate, etc.

And, most important, still tells those of us with physical mobility limitations just what you think of our worth because of those limitations.

usonian

(23,289 posts)

25. My suggestion is massively positive and I can delete the tired bullshit.

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #22)

Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:31 PM

Jun 2025

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If, in fact, this brouhaha results in more than one airline than IndiGo, let's say, ALL OF THEM, adopting motorized ramps, making hideously inaccessible on-ramps accessible, then I have helped score a giant victory.