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geek tragedy's JournalImportant re: United fiasco--UAL is the biggest funder of airport cops
The thugs who roughed up Dr. Dao do not work for the Chicago PD. They work for the Chicago Department of Aviation, which manages the airports in Chicago.
The Chicago Department of Aviation isn't funded by the taxpayers. It's funded by the airlines and other on-site vendors, e.g. restaurants.
https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/obm/supp_info/2016Budget/BudgetHearingStatements/2016_Aviation_Statement_merge.pdf
By far the biggest funder of the Department is ... United Airlines, which uses Chicago as its national and international hub--roughly 48% of all gates at O'Hare are United's. (another 40% belong to American)
The thugs who roughed up Dr. Dao at United's behest are effectively on United's payroll.
Ultra rich white male in first class threatened with arrest by United
http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-united-low-priority-passenger-20170412-story.htmlThen, as Fearns tells it, a United employee rushed onto the aircraft and informed him that he had to get off the plane.
I asked why, he told me. They said the flight was overfull.
Fearns, like the doctor at the center of that viral video from Sunday night, held his ground. He was already on the plane, already seated. He shouldnt have to disembark.
Thats when they told me they needed the seat for somebody more important who came at the last minute, Fearns said. They said they have a priority list and this other person was higher on the list than me.
But at least they showed an ultra rich frequent flyer some respect, right?
You couldnt make this up if you tried.
It shouldnt make any difference where a passenger is seated or how much he or she paid for their ticket. But you have to admire the sheer chutzpah of United putting the arm on a full-fare, first-class traveler. If theres anybody whose business you want to safeguard and cultivate, its that person.
But at least they tried to make his flight as enjoyable as possible despite the downgrade, right?
A United employee, responding to Fearns complaint that he shouldnt have to miss the flight, compromised by downgrading him to economy class and placing him in the middle seat between a married couple who were in the midst of a nasty fight and refused to be seated next to each other.
Never have I heard of an airline so aggressively contemptuous towards its customers. At least Spirit doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't.
Not racist or classist, just evil in an amazingly stupid way.
United CEO letter to employees: we did nothing wrong!
http://mashable.com/2017/04/10/united-airlines-ceo-staff-memo/#Khl4vou3agqBThis isn't an airline that cares about its customers, and can barely be bothered to pretend to care.
Avoid at all costs.
Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner a 'Cuck' and 'Globalist' Behind His Back
Source: The Daily Beast
Donald Trumps chief strategist Stephen Bannon has called the presidents senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner a cuck and a globalist during a time of high tension between the two top aides, several Trump administration officials told The Daily Beast.
The fighting between Kushner and Bannon has been nonstop in recent weeks, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Its been an open secret that Bannon and Kushner often clash face-to-face, according to senior officials.
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"Steve thinks Jared is worse than a Democrat, basically," another official close to Bannon said. "[Steve] has a very specific vision for what he believes, and what he shares [ideologically] with Trump. And he has for a long time now seen [Jared] as a major obstacle to achieving that."
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The Times also reported that Bannons Svengali-style reputation has chafed on a president who sees himself as the West Wings only leading man, and that several associates said the president had quietly expressed annoyance over the credit Mr. Bannon had received for setting the agendaand Mr. Trump was not pleased by the President Bannon puppet-master theme promoted by magazines, late-night talk shows and Twitter.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/06/steve-bannon-calls-jared-kushner-a-cuck-and-globalist-behind-his-back.html
We're still in the honeymoon phase of Trump's presidency.
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