1. Do I have to point out that the symbol on the banner is not and does not resemble a swastika, whether Nazi, Hindu, Native American, Buddhist, Jain, or ... .

2. Do I have to point out that a battalion is only around 500 or 600 men? Ever heard of the fallacy of composition?

3. I know it's weird, but the C in C honoring a groups that has fought well against invaders is not that unusual. E.G., ever heard of a Presidential Unit Citation?

Aquatic whack a mole!

Not really. Russia cannot reinforce its Black Sea Fleet with combatant ships, due to a treaty with Turkey. So while cargo ships can leave or enter the Black Sea, Baltic Sea Fleet combatant ships cannot. Ukrainian whacking has steadily diminished the number and capabilities of the orcs' "moles".

Black People Can Still Be Black If They Don't Vote For Biden
Eddie Scarry


As they witness Joe Biden’s support among nonwhite voters collapse in spectacular fashion, the president’s campaign team is in triage, trying to stop the bleeding in ways that are hysterically funny but almost certainly inflict yet more damage.

Well, funny if you’re not a black person. If you’re a voter with self-respect who happens to be black, then it’s patronizing, belittling, and shocking in its naked desperation.

A recent survey published by The New York Times showed Biden with lower support among black voters than even Hillary Clinton in 2016, which — thank God — with the help of independents and Hispanics, helped send her campaign back to the depths of hell where it belonged.

Fortunately for Biden, he’s been able to run up his numbers among women who never know when they might want an abortion, but he’s nonetheless hanging by a thread. So to shore up support from blacks, he’s all but walking around Washington in a durag. Ironically, that might be more helpful to his campaign than what he’s been doing so far.

Last weekend, Biden delivered a speech in front of the NAACP in Detroit, where he even got the storied black Democrat political organization’s name wrong, referring to it as the NAAC. In the same speech, he referenced the commencement address he delivered at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta earlier that same day. “I told them I saw them, I heard them, and the nation needs them,” he said of the black male students. “They’re the future of this country.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/23/black-people-can-still-be-black-if-they-dont-vote-for-joe-biden-or-at-all/

The rate of drop may not have been constant, more likely sudden and sharp and then less so as the pilots compensated.

I'm a little surprised that the fact that the plane was a Boeing 777 (IIRC) was deep in the article. Isn't every mishap Boeing's fault nowadays?