They are all snakes.

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Mike Lee is an extra special snake too

To preface my post, I am in no way condoning DDave or agreeing with the age 67 crowd. I am in fact rather indifferent on the topic and find the arguments coming from both sides to be aggressive and over the top. I just have to roll my eyes at the whole thing.

But I get a little worked up at the vitriol against guys on disability. They are summarily dismissed by many, and are not allowing them to be part of the union. They can't volunteer, can't be reps (IIRC, DH faced a lot of discrimination about this for a bit. I'm not saying anything about his politics, just his status as being disabled), and must make an active selection when placed out in order to remain an active member for no more than three years.

I was out on disability for 2.5 years, only about two months of which were for actual health related issues and the rest were for "paperwork". During my time off, I trained for and ran an Ironman so to say I wasn't "medically fit" is just wrong. I also tried doing some volunteer work for the union to fill the time but was denied because of my disability status. I was told to try again when I was active again, but now that I am, I don't have the time or energy to do it.

There really needs to be a wholesale change in the way people are viewed who are technically unable to do the job through no fault of their own.

EDIT: For a few of the other issues brought up: Mike Lee proposes amendments all the time to just about every large piece of legislation. Almost all of them fail from the get go. He then votes against said pieces of legislation to because his amendments didn't get included (There have been many 98-2 votes with him and Rand Paul being the two). He's a virtue-signaling machine.

#2: I personally have been through two full courses for corporate (FSI), four at the regionals, and three at big D. The Delta courses were by far the most convoluted and least standardized courses I've been through, with the last one taking the cake (330), leaving me the least prepared to actually fly the plane. Not 'not prepared', just not as well prepared as other courses I've taken. There are better ways to do it that promote better learning.

I agree with the majority of your post, but it is definitely a bad look going before congress to argue you should be allowed to fly for 2 more years when you are not even medically able to fly now.

Not to mention how he did it was beyond cringe even if he had his medical.

I think you run against too much angst amongst the pilot group about reps not flying enough to have reps not able to fly at all.

As far as our resident congress flexing maniac, he may have been just in the paperwork phase of returning. He may have zero intention or ability to return. It may be up in the air still. I won’t argue that he’s probably capable of doing other activities, but he’s not currently capable of demonstrating ability to perform his job when he’s on disability preventing him from performing the job. It’s tone deaf. Not to mention stripping in congress and flexing calls to question other things about the individuals decision making.

I may disagree with his position on age 67, but at least he came right out and offered an ammendment, so not seeing how he's a "snake" so much as just wrong on this issue.

Guaranteed he had a call sign at some point in his career! I’ll leave it up to you all to fight it out over which branch!

He's posing. Look at me, I did the "right" thing and all my amendments are rejected by the do nothing congress. He's anti-establishment because it's "cool" and he thinks it is what got him elected and will continue to get him elected. He's this generastion's Ted Cruz.

Didn’t Nehls introduce him as a former AF “spy plane” pilot?