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[Paphitis]

Paphitis. Regardless of the outcome of this election, whether Trump scrapes in or not. If the man doesn't, just tie it off. Look on the bright side, you could get to spend the next 4 years saying "Told you so!".

Lordo painted himself inexorably into a corner and - unless he was in to sustained ridicule - probably thought he had no way out in here. I don't think your case is the same.

We all get to pay some price for a bit of excessive hubris though.

I picked up an interesting article from the DT a couple of days ago, on how life as an airline pilot has lost all it's glamour and sucks nowadays. I'll post it (paywalled) later for your inside opinion.

BBC News showed an airline pilot a few weeks back who had lost his job and was now working at a funeral directors. It brought me to tears

Lot's of pilots working in different areas from gas stations, to driving trucks. you name it. Funeral directors is a new one though.

In Australia, Australian Farmers are employing pilots. The pilot union, of which I was a director for 4 years, is in alliance with the Farmer's Union plus Dairy Farmers in Australia. We are the only 2 unions that are not members of Trade Hall (Labor Party) and support the Liberals and Nationals (GOP). The reason for that was because of the Pilot Strike in the 90s.

So Australian Farmers have been actively seeking Australian Pilots in what has been a great act of brotherly love. So many working on farms.

But it is temporary because what is happening now is that the airlines are making their pilots current again and either doing a reduced roster of 2 days a week or keeping them pilot numbers current on a 2 week on and 2 week off roster.

But to put things into perspective. Prior to Chy-na Virus, I was doing between 850 to 1000 hours of flying in a 365 day cycle. Now, I am doing about 350 hours a year. So about 35%. Which isn't as bad as it sounds because QANTAS is at 30%. We have a number of contracts with Federal Government, NSW, Queensland, and the Resource Sector such as Chevron Mobil. Some of our pilots are also prime Ministerial stand by, and also Head of State. So we get engaged by Australian Government and also do some flights taking chefs and gardeners to the red center to cook and garden.

The industry is in caretaker mode just keeping as many pilots qualified as they can. Reason is that they expect a big rebound after Chy-na Virus. To the point demand will far outstrip supply of service because many pilots have fallen off the perch.

So it won't be good for the average punter either - all of YOU. That is the price you will all end up paying soon.

[Paphitis]

My predictions for the next 6 months...

* Trump will move to London where he'll be officially diagnosed as MAD and sent to Broadmoor.

* Melania, will break her silence that she's a transgender.

* Trump Tower in Istanbul will collapse and fall on ErdoCunt's head.

Errr...you mean Obama's wife is transgender? Look it up.

[Paphitis]

Regardless who wins the presidential election between Trump and Biden, ALL those who has voted for Trump should be very embarrassed for voting for a cunt like Trump who not only declared himself the winner prematurely, but went even further to demand some of the states to stop counting millions of ballots that may not favour him and at the same time, demanding some other states continue counting the remaining ballots that might benefit him. Totally inconsistent.

It will be like saying, if Trump’s horse is in the lead at the Grand National at the 15th hurdle, he wants the race to stop because his horse has “won” already at the moment his horse took the lead. However, Trump has a second horse in the same race but it is in the last place, so he wants all the other horses to stop running and just have his second horse to run alone to finish the race so that both his horses win in the manner he wants the race to run.

Is this cunt twisted or what?

Bigger question remains is, what we’re his voters thinking voting for this cunt when he stated months before the election that he was not going to accept losing the election should it come to that. He hasn’t lost the election yet and he has been a cunt already. How bigger cunt is he going to be should he lose the election officially?

I think Trump does have enough reason to be concerned. I have been looking at the numbers and I am sus, especially with the numbers coming out of Pennsylvania. Trump was 800,000 votes ahead and even the Democrats wrote themselves off, but apparently he could flip the state.

Yes. I think that is definitely worth an investigation and court challenge right there.

Trump is within his rights.

I don't know if it is true or not, or whether there was any foul play, but I certainly can't rule it out. From what I hear, the US Electoral system isn't as secure as what we have in Australia. Not sure about the veracity, but it is alleged that some dead people voted.

It is possible some voters may have died since casting their votes by mail a month or two before the elections.

Paphitis, don’t pay any attention to silly rumors. At the moment the only person who is trying to steal the election is Trump himself. Just look at his actions for god sake in trying to claiming victory prematurely and then trying to stop counting at some states and allowing counting to continue at other states. He is a total embarrassment to the American Democratic system and to the world.

I'm sorry Kikapu but they are saying much more than that. The accusations are that hundreds of thousands of dead people voted in key States like PA, GA, WI, and Mi. Not just a few who just died in the last 48 hours.

Also, some postal workers have come out alleging that some late ballots that arrived after the deadline were time stamped the day before so they may be counted. And scrutineers have reported that some invalid and fraudulent balots were counted.

As I said, it might mot be true. But it's definitely worth a court challenge and an investigation. If it is true, then there is little choice but to hold another ballot for the affected states with stringent scrutinizing.

Trump is well within his rights to challenge this in court. It's completely a reasonable thing to do. I would do the same in his shoes.

The veracity of these claims must be looked into. If there is no foul play, the Democrats have nothing to worry about. The result just won't change. If however, there has been some foul play, which can't be ruled out, then that is a different matter altogether and in my opinion, the vote is invalid.

[Paphitis]

Paphitis. Regardless of the outcome of this election, whether Trump scrapes in or not. If the man doesn't, just tie it off. Look on the bright side, you could get to spend the next 4 years saying "Told you so!".

Lordo painted himself inexorably into a corner and - unless he was in to sustained ridicule - probably thought he had no way out in here. I don't think your case is the same.

We all get to pay some price for a bit of excessive hubris though.

I picked up an interesting article from the DT a couple of days ago, on how life as an airline pilot has lost all it's glamour and sucks nowadays. I'll post it (paywalled) later for your inside opinion.

BBC News showed an airline pilot a few weeks back who had lost his job and was now working at a funeral directors. It brought me to tears

I received a Memo recently stating that a major European airliner has cancelled all their student pilots program, informing the students to look for another profession as there won’t be need for any new pilots in the foreseeable future, and then returned their training money back.

Industry goes in cycles but I am of the opinion that now is a very good time to get into the industry. It takes years of training before you are qualified and by ten I got a feeling the industry will be in a much much worse chronic pilot shortage than ever before. Too many pilots hanging up their headsets. I don't see it panning out too well for the airlines down the track, Airlines have a habit of being short sighted. They are the one's that create the shortage and we are the ones rubbing our hands smiling all the way to the Bank because we have them over a barrel. Right now, they think they have us over the barrel.

Cathay Pacific for instance is still training cadets and haven't reduced their tempo. But that may change in the next 6 months.

In the mean time, I have put my hand up to do their testing again as I have all the Hong Kong Testing approvals for Jet Transition. Perfect time to be able to do that whilst I am virtually part time like most pilots. I'm dusting off my Grade 1 instructor and instrument approvals and getting them current. So will see what happens. It's good money as well,

So far, one of my past students got laid off from Drangonair. I just saw his post on Facebook.

[Paphitis]

Cyprus is lucky the GOP will win the Senate.

Just means a greater chance those F-35s won’t be going to Turkey. If they do, it’s literally a game changer in the East Med.

If they do, Greece has no choice but to borrow billions to buy some. Where the money will come from? Who knows?

You boys and girls don’t understand what the risks are now. Trump was the only POTUS to do anything remotely anti Turkey.

[Kikapu]

Cyprus is lucky the GOP will win the Senate.

Just means a greater chance those F-35s won’t be going to Turkey. If they do, it’s literally a game changer in the East Med.

If they do, Greece has no choice but to borrow billions to buy some. Where the money will come from? Who knows?

You boys and girls don’t understand what the risks are now. Trump was the only POTUS to do anything remotely anti Turkey.

There is bi partisan support in the House and the Senate to deny Turkey the F-35s. Biden does not have a business conflict of interest in Turkey, but Trump does, which is why Trump has been bending over to Erdogan. The only reason the F-35s are not going to Turkey is because Israel doesn’t want them to be delivered. Left to Trump, he would allow the delivery to Turkey.

[Paphitis]

Cyprus is lucky the GOP will win the Senate.

Just means a greater chance those F-35s won’t be going to Turkey. If they do, it’s literally a game changer in the East Med.

If they do, Greece has no choice but to borrow billions to buy some. Where the money will come from? Who knows?

You boys and girls don’t understand what the risks are now. Trump was the only POTUS to do anything remotely anti Turkey.

There is bi partisan support in the House and the Senate to deny Turkey the F-35s. Biden does not have a business conflict of interest in Turkey, but Trump does, which is why Trump has been bending over to Erdogan. The only reason the F-35s are not going to Turkey is because Israel doesn’t want them to be delivered. Left to Trump, he would allow the delivery to Turkey.

When it comes to turkey, Biden can't be trusted. We have seen his policies and approach over 47 years Kikapu. At Least with Trump, we had someone completely invested through his Son in Law to israel, and the East Med pipeline. So Trump hit Erdogan where it hurt him. Biden could go all out Turcophile on us. He has a history of it.

Frankly, I think Biden is going to embarrass himself. If he doesn't have a teleprompt, he is all over the place as if he has the early stages of dementia. I am not belittling him for having this wretched condition, if he does. We could all be there one day and it isn't something to make fun of as it's an awful disease for our elderly.

[Paphitis]

As for Greece, well I feel sorry for the poor buggers. They can't seem to catch a break here.

Greece now needs to put that order in for F-35s. If Greece doesn't get in first, we are all dust!

Those F-35s for Turkey will means total air superiority in the Aegean and East med for Turkey. Even with the Rafale, we are literally dust. Rafale is a better dog fighter but a Rafale will never get close enough to an F-35 to take advantage of that.

[Kikapu]

Regardless who wins the presidential election between Trump and Biden, ALL those who has voted for Trump should be very embarrassed for voting for a cunt like Trump who not only declared himself the winner prematurely, but went even further to demand some of the states to stop counting millions of ballots that may not favour him and at the same time, demanding some other states continue counting the remaining ballots that might benefit him. Totally inconsistent.

It will be like saying, if Trump’s horse is in the lead at the Grand National at the 15th hurdle, he wants the race to stop because his horse has “won” already at the moment his horse took the lead. However, Trump has a second horse in the same race but it is in the last place, so he wants all the other horses to stop running and just have his second horse to run alone to finish the race so that both his horses win in the manner he wants the race to run.

Is this cunt twisted or what?

Bigger question remains is, what we’re his voters thinking voting for this cunt when he stated months before the election that he was not going to accept losing the election should it come to that. He hasn’t lost the election yet and he has been a cunt already. How bigger cunt is he going to be should he lose the election officially?

I think Trump does have enough reason to be concerned. I have been looking at the numbers and I am sus, especially with the numbers coming out of Pennsylvania. Trump was 800,000 votes ahead and even the Democrats wrote themselves off, but apparently he could flip the state.

Yes. I think that is definitely worth an investigation and court challenge right there.

Trump is within his rights.

I don't know if it is true or not, or whether there was any foul play, but I certainly can't rule it out. From what I hear, the US Electoral system isn't as secure as what we have in Australia. Not sure about the veracity, but it is alleged that some dead people voted.

It is possible some voters may have died since casting their votes by mail a month or two before the elections.

Paphitis, don’t pay any attention to silly rumors. At the moment the only person who is trying to steal the election is Trump himself. Just look at his actions for god sake in trying to claiming victory prematurely and then trying to stop counting at some states and allowing counting to continue at other states. He is a total embarrassment to the American Democratic system and to the world.

I'm sorry Kikapu but they are saying much more than that. The accusations are that hundreds of thousands of dead people voted in key States like PA, GA, WI, and Mi. Not just a few who just died in the last 48 hours.

Also, some postal workers have come out alleging that some late ballots that arrived after the deadline were time stamped the day before so they may be counted. And scrutineers have reported that some invalid and fraudulent balots were counted.

As I said, it might mot be true. But it's definitely worth a court challenge and an investigation. If it is true, then there is little choice but to hold another ballot for the affected states with stringent scrutinizing.

Trump is well within his rights to challenge this in court. It's completely a reasonable thing to do. I would do the same in his shoes.

The veracity of these claims must be looked into. If there is no foul play, the Democrats have nothing to worry about. The result just won't change. If however, there has been some foul play, which can't be ruled out, then that is a different matter altogether and in my opinion, the vote is invalid.

There are very strict controls how the ballots are handled and counted. There are observers from the GOP and the Democrats at every location. Trump is a liar by nature and cannot imagine he is losing this election slowly, but not absolutely yet. Trump wants to turn the USA into another Russia, N. Korea, Turkey, where the leaders of those countries rule by decree. Trump does not believe in democracy as I have been saying for a long time, and he has proved it during this election. Hitler too was elected democratically by the people before becoming a dictator allowed by his supporters.Trump would like to become the next Hitler type of a leader, just like the dictators he admires around the world.

[Paphitis]

Regardless who wins the presidential election between Trump and Biden, ALL those who has voted for Trump should be very embarrassed for voting for a cunt like Trump who not only declared himself the winner prematurely, but went even further to demand some of the states to stop counting millions of ballots that may not favour him and at the same time, demanding some other states continue counting the remaining ballots that might benefit him. Totally inconsistent.

It will be like saying, if Trump’s horse is in the lead at the Grand National at the 15th hurdle, he wants the race to stop because his horse has “won” already at the moment his horse took the lead. However, Trump has a second horse in the same race but it is in the last place, so he wants all the other horses to stop running and just have his second horse to run alone to finish the race so that both his horses win in the manner he wants the race to run.

Is this cunt twisted or what?

Bigger question remains is, what we’re his voters thinking voting for this cunt when he stated months before the election that he was not going to accept losing the election should it come to that. He hasn’t lost the election yet and he has been a cunt already. How bigger cunt is he going to be should he lose the election officially?

I think Trump does have enough reason to be concerned. I have been looking at the numbers and I am sus, especially with the numbers coming out of Pennsylvania. Trump was 800,000 votes ahead and even the Democrats wrote themselves off, but apparently he could flip the state.

Yes. I think that is definitely worth an investigation and court challenge right there.

Trump is within his rights.

I don't know if it is true or not, or whether there was any foul play, but I certainly can't rule it out. From what I hear, the US Electoral system isn't as secure as what we have in Australia. Not sure about the veracity, but it is alleged that some dead people voted.

It is possible some voters may have died since casting their votes by mail a month or two before the elections.

Paphitis, don’t pay any attention to silly rumors. At the moment the only person who is trying to steal the election is Trump himself. Just look at his actions for god sake in trying to claiming victory prematurely and then trying to stop counting at some states and allowing counting to continue at other states. He is a total embarrassment to the American Democratic system and to the world.

I'm sorry Kikapu but they are saying much more than that. The accusations are that hundreds of thousands of dead people voted in key States like PA, GA, WI, and Mi. Not just a few who just died in the last 48 hours.

Also, some postal workers have come out alleging that some late ballots that arrived after the deadline were time stamped the day before so they may be counted. And scrutineers have reported that some invalid and fraudulent balots were counted.

As I said, it might mot be true. But it's definitely worth a court challenge and an investigation. If it is true, then there is little choice but to hold another ballot for the affected states with stringent scrutinizing.

Trump is well within his rights to challenge this in court. It's completely a reasonable thing to do. I would do the same in his shoes.

The veracity of these claims must be looked into. If there is no foul play, the Democrats have nothing to worry about. The result just won't change. If however, there has been some foul play, which can't be ruled out, then that is a different matter altogether and in my opinion, the vote is invalid.

There are very strict controls how the ballots are handled and counted. There are observers from the GOP and the Democrats at every location. Trump is a liar by nature and cannot imagine he is losing this election slowly, but not absolutely yet. Trump wants to turn the USA into another Russia, N. Korea, Turkey, where the leaders of those countries rule by decree. Trump does not believe in democracy as I have been saying for a long time, and he has proved it during this election. Hitler too was elected democratically by the people before becoming a dictator allowed by his supporters.Trump would like to become the next Hitler type of a leader, just like the dictators he admires around the world.

I am sure there are controlls but there is also corruption and foul play no matter what controlls are in place.

the US isn't immune from the potential of corruption and foul play. It can't be ruled out.

I am open to the possibility that the elections were fair and above board, but surely an investigation and court action in my view is very warranted. If nothing is found, then so be it. But an investigation is warranted and Trump is well within his rights because if some corruption and foul play is uncovered, then this is a terrible scandal against ALL the American people and the only way to correct it if there is, is another voted in those states. It won't be good for the country but having unfair elections is a complete Coup against democracy.